BlueGreenEarth / ESEI

I'd like to meet:

Like minded left / green / anarchists

BlueGreenEarth interview at upstaterenegadeproductions

http://upstaterenegadeproductions. com/messageboard/viewtopic. php?t=656

by
Louis P.
Burns aka Lugh / Bold
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HEALING HERBS ( A Medical Cannabis Information Film ):-
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Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."
- Howard Zinn

"The Earth is not dying. It is being killed and the people killing it have names and addresses."
- folksinger Utah Phillips

"If the complexity of our economies is impossible to sustain, our best hope is to start to dismantle them before they collapse."
- George Monbiot

"Is it not already too late if one waits until one is thirsty to begin digging a well?
-Chinese Proverb

"The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man."
- Leo Tolstoy

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Archbishop Hélder Câmara (thanx to nonclassical )

"It's always going to be difficult to come up with sustainable ways to support our unsustainable lifestyle."
- Charles Whyman, UCal Riverside

"It is a simple thing, this Golden Rule, and all that is required. Political economy and the survival of the fittest can go hang if they say otherwise. What is not good enough for you is not good enough for other men [sic], and there's no more to be said."
- Jack London, People of the Abyss

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
- Desmond Tutu

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
- Upton Sinclair

"How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew about this and did nothing?"
- Sir David Attenborough, 2006

"As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist."
- Sitting Bull

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
- Ed Abbey

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
- Luis Buñuel

Which philosophy or religion do you follow?

You scored as Atheist, Infidel, Skeptic, Humanist. [HOORAY!] Your beliefs are that of an atheist. It's not a religion as many people seem to think. It's simply the lack of the belief in god and the lack of a religon. Richard Dawkins pointed out that "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." Being a skeptic about things lacking evidence is a rational way of life. Being an infidel ussually means you're anti-Christianity and/or anti-Islam. Humanism is atheism with philosophy. Humanists are scientists, environmentalists, strive for peace and being a moral person.

Hilarious or heart-breaking? Humanist or anti-humanist?
Whatever you decide, a classic nonetheless
[thanks to Pissy Joe ]

Some fun at Quizfarm - What kind of Anarchist are you? , a link I got via Vegan Cupcake (thanx!):

Apparently:
I scored as Anarcho-Communist.

Anarcho-communists seek to build a society based upon a decentralised federation of autonomous communes and a moneyless 'gift economy'. The movement first emerged in the late 19th century and has had a large influence particularly in Spain, Italy and Russia. Key thinkers include Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta.

Anarcho-Communist 80%
Anarcho-Feminist 70%
Anarcho-Syndicalist 55%
Anarcho-Primitivist 55%
Anarcho-Capitalist 35%
Christian Anarchist 30%

How I laughed! Well, these things are fun and part helpful, but let's not take 'em too seriously, eh?

PERMACULTURE & PEAK OIL: Beyond 'Sustainability'

Hey, and another!
Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)

You scored as atheism. You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul.

Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.

ooh! and some more, ain't it fun?
What's Your Political Philosophy?

You scored as Green. The Green Party believes in an America where decisions are made by the people and not by a few giant corporations. Their environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society co-exist in harmony.

The Philosophy Meter

You scored as Realism. Epistemological realism is a metaphysical position maintaining knowledge of an object independent of mind. Realists tend to be skeptics about the full implications of many ideas.

How It All Ends

What's your ancient philosophy?

You scored as Epicurean. Epicureanism is named for Epicurus, its founder. While its ends are similar, Epicureanism differs from Stoicism in its methods and its beliefs in the afterlife. Epicureans believe the soul (if it even exists) dies with the body and that no afterlife exists; therefore, one's life on earth if of the utmost importance.

Epicurean 67%
Cynic 63%
Hedonist 50%
Stoic 33%
Ascetic 33%

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What kind of atheist are you? :

I scored as Militant Atheist, surprise? "Willing to take theists to task, the Militant Atheist is someone who knows deep within themselves that there is no god and they want to tell you all about how they know. Even though they're as annoying in their own way as militant theists, this is often a phase of development and doesn't tend to last very long" 40 years and counting, now! "If it does, they're in danger of becoming an Angry Atheist and making everyone uncomfortable." Hilarious, possibly true, but hilarious... ;-)

Militant Atheist

Angry Atheist

Apathetic Atheist

Scientific Atheist

Spiritual Atheist

Agnostic

Theist

Music:

African Head Charge ..
Aphex Twin ..
Alice Coltrane ..
Amon Duul ..
Bad Religion ..
The Birthday Party ..
Blind Idiot God ..
Pierre Boulez ..
David Bowie ..
Boxcutter ..
Burial ..
Buzzcocks ..
Captain Beefheart ..
Cocteau Twins ..
Crass ..
Danielle Dax ..
David Sylvian ..
Deus ..
Devendra Banhart ..
Dr. Alimantado ..
Elliott Smith ..
Brian Eno ..
The Fall ..
Foetus ..
Front 242 ..
Godspeed You Black Emperor! ..
Hatfield & the North ..
Horslips ..
Jello Biafra ..
Julian Cope ..
Keith Jarrett ..
Ken Ishii ..
Kode9 ..
Kristin Hersh ..
Magazine ..
Manuel Göttsching ..
Meredith Monk ..
Ministry ..
Patti Smith ..
Pavement ..
Pere Ubu ..
Peter Hammill ..
Pharoah Sanders ..
Pixies ..
Ryuichi Sakamoto ..
Alfred Schnittke ..
Shitmat ..
Sonic Youth ..
Squarepusher ..
Terry Riley ..
Van Der Graaf Generator ..
Vex'd ..
White Stripes ..
Wire ..
XTC ..

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth ..
2001 ..
Akira ..
Apocalypse Now ..
Blade Runner ..
Boogie Nights ..
Brazil ..
clerks ..
Dances with Wolves ..
Dark Star ..
Das Boot ..
Delicatessen ..
Deliverance ..
Diva ..
Do the Right Thing ..
Dog Day Afternoon ..
Drugstore Cowboy ..
Edge of Darkness ..
Fahrenheit 451 ..
Fear Eats The Soul ..
The Field ..
Hardware ..
High Hopes ..
Jacob's Ladder ..
Jesus of Montreal ..
Kes ..
Koyaanisquatsi ..
Last Exit to Brooklyn ..
Life is Beautiful ..
Malcolm X ..
Map of the Human Heart ..
Matewan ..
Matinee ..
Miller's Crossing ..
My Life as a Dog ..
Nausicaa ..
Network ..
Once Were Warriors ..
Parallax View ..
Princess Mononoke ..
Rumble Fish ..
Seventh Seal ..
Sonatine ..
Steamboy ..
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? ..

Books:

Edward Abbey:
Monkey-Wrench Gang
Perry Anderson:
Lineages Of The Absolutist State
David Bohm:
Wholeness & The Implicate Order
Murray Bookchin:
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Toward An Ecological Society
John Brunner:
The Sheep Look Up
Stand On Zanzibar
Rachel Carson:
Silent Spring
Teilhard de Chardin:
The Phenomenon of Man
Noam Chomsky:
Deterring Democracy
Philip K Dick:
A Scanner Darkly
Andre Gorz:
Ecology As Politics
Ivan Illich:
Tools For Conviviality
Pytr Kropotkin:
Mutual Aid
Ursula le Guin:
The Dispossessed
Herbert Marcuse:
One Dimensional Man
Michael Onfray:
Atheist Manifesto
Karl Popper:
Conjectures & Refutations
Objective Knowledge
E F Schumacher:
Small Is Beautiful
Sheri Tepper:
Raising the Stones
Wackernagel & Rees:
Our Ecological Footprint
Patrick Whitefield:
Earth Care Manual

Heroes:

.. Murray Bookchin / William Morris / Andre Gorz / Marshall McLuhan / Karl Popper / Paul Goodman / Emma Goldman / Pytr Kropotkin / E F Schumacher / Ed Abbey / Rachel Carson / Leopold Kohr / Ivan Illich / Aphex Twin / Miles Davis / Tom Jenkinson / Greg Egan / Bruce Sterling