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Torture & Democracy (1/2)
Writer Laurent Gaude (l) and Amnesty’s Genevieve Garrigos launched the “stop torture” campaign in Paris ‘. . . it is to put a very high value on your surmises to roast a man alive for them.’ Michel de...
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Torture & Democracy (2/2)
Torture is a dangerous innovation; it would appear that it is an assay not of the truth but of a man’s endurance. . . . . What would you not say, what would you not do, to avoid such grievous pain....
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Recommended Link: Does Mindfulness Make You More Compassionate?
I got an email the other day from Greater Good – a site I subscribe to – flagging up posts and videos on the subject of mindfulness. I haven’t looked at them all yet but I thought this one, by Shauna...
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Recommended Link: Clothes to Die for
A woman holding a picture of her missing relative at the collapse site of the Rana Plaza factory. Photograph: BBC/Quicksilver Media/Taslima Akhter We watched a powerful documentary last night on BBC2....
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Interconnectedness
Another way that mindfulness cultivates compassion is that it helps us see our interconnectedness. For example, let’s say that the left hand has a splinter in it. The right hand would naturally pull...
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Gaza City, July, 2014 An article in the Huffington Post at the end of last month deserves a careful read if we are to avoid knee jerk reactions to a complex and long-standing situation. This post gives...
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In Memoriam (10 pm 4 August 2014)
In memory of all those who died in the First World War and of all those who, like my father, came home alive but with fragments of their being buried in the trenches. Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred...
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Recommended link: Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
The latest email bulletin from Greater Good has just arrived. It includes a link to this thought provoking piece by Roman Krznaric from November 2012 on how to develop our capacity for empathy. Even...
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Recommended link: Elephant poaching deaths reach tipping point in Africa
Given all the distressing evidence of ‘man’s inhumanity to man‘ around the globe, it may sound strange for me to get upset about the fate of elephants in Africa. Very upset I was, though, none the...
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Changes of Mind – a review (3a/3): moving on up . .
Last week I republished a sequence of posts looking at Dabrowski’s Theory of Personal Disintegration (TPD). Because this sequence picks up on those themes from the perspective of a different writer, I...
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Changes of Mind – a review (3b/3): . . . close to the top
Narcissus by Caravaggio Last week I republished a sequence of posts looking at Dabrowski’s Theory of Personal Disintegration (TPD). Because this sequence picks up on those themes from the perspective...
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Unfinished Business
Because this week was marked by ceremonies of remembrance in the centenary year of the start of what is known as the First World War, because my father fought in that war so that, even though I was not...
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Practising Compassion (2/2)
Given the emphasis I placed on compassion in yesterday’s review of Buddha’s Brain, I felt this earlier post might be of interest. I said at the end of an earlier post that I might, in addition to...
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Recommended Link: Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy
For source of image see link I’m a bit late flagging this up after a friend on FB alerted me to it, but it’s so intriguing that I thought it still worth posting a link. It seems my instinct that being...
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Recommended link: CIA’s brutal and ineffective use of torture revealed in...
Torture is a dangerous innovation; it would appear that it is an assay not of the truth but of a man’s endurance. . . . . What would you not say, what would you not do, to avoid such grievous pain....
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Recommended link: FGM –‘My daughter will never be cut.’
Jaha Dukureh, who recently started the small NGO Safe Hands for Girls. Photograph: Troy Stains for the Guardian Malala Yousafzai deserves the recognition she has received for her courage in standing up...
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Demolition Work in Memory Lane
Dodge Hill, Stockport I felt it would be appropriate to follow up the two posts on the power of tears with some of my earlier posts that fill in more of my childhood influences that might have a...
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Recommended Link: Why Prophet Mohammad Would Be Deeply Troubled By The...
I have been unsure as to what best to share concerning the recent atrocity in Paris. In the end this piece, written by a sincere follower of the Prophet Mohammad, seems best to capture what I feel...
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‘Zero Degrees of Empathy': a review
Stumbling across Jon Ronson’s book - The Psychopath Test – triggered yesterday’s post about psychopaths. To provide more background it seemed a good idea to share a handful of my previous posts on...
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