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What if negative is a good thing?
nMoody’s has lowered its outlook for the European Union’s AAA credit rating to “negative” and warned that the bloc’s rating could be downgraded.
Charles Eisenstein speaks about the limits of economical growth and the need for negative growth. When articles like this are written and read it is presumption that economic growth is a good thing. However if you are willing to examine that assumption then you may find that these downgrades are actually signaling that economies are trying to move into a healing cycle. If this is the case, how wondeful would it be if we could embrace these signals and the changes they describe. How devastating has it been that we’ve ignored them so far? How dangerous is it to continue ignoring and oppose them?
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Efficiency, Consumerism, People
nAmazon is set to crush offline retail
If Amazon Prime can deliver on same-day delivery, shoppers will grow more accustomed to the “point-click-get” paradigm. Other retailers, online and off, will have no choice but to follow.
I admire the efficieny. I don’t trust the consumerism.
What about people meeting and interacting together?
Where does local fit into the picture?
In a balanced world Amazon is an option (and at times a great option), but once brick-and-mortar option is destroyed haven’t we placed all our eggs in one basket?
If business was less greedy and more appreciative … the push for more and more is going to cause precious resources and facilities to burn out prematurely.
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When Heroes Crash
nI don’t really have any heroes to come crashing down but have to admit I enjoyed watching Lance Armstrong come crashing down. I’ve never had any vested interest in him or sports but I have witnessed with discomfort the obsession around him. It’s good for a hero to come crashing down back to earth … it places pressure on followers to re-examine their values … the things thay believe make heroes. Heroes present something static and stagnating … falling heroes bring change.
My Yoga teachers were close to heroes in my life … but they are wise people so they never let me place them on any such pedestal. I feel they’ve gifted me with precious glimpses of their own personal lives … in which their own honest human nature is challenged just as mine is. Witnessing them cope with teachings in their own lives and then holding on to them as teachers within that context on in my own life is a unique and rewarding challenge. It is teachings and not teachers that need to be held up … and that is a task that falls on the shoulders of teachers and students together.
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How to end Fear of the Dark
I have not yet been faced with this situation but I (initially) liked the approach outlined in this post:
However by the time I was finished with it I had questions and doubts about it. What if there was a deeper experience the little girl was experiencing? What if “dividing it into smaller problems” killed something that needed to surface? What does this solution express about our relation to fear? What is the little girl learning about fear? It’s great to be able to overcome fear, but shouldn’t we sometimes know how to listen to it? I am tempted to think of alternate routes … but I honestly don’t have any credibility to do that … I’ve never been in that situation.