Jesus was a radical...

Ganked from Amaebi: http://www.utne.com/pub/2005_128/promo/11572-1.html
It's an interesting article... it's how I feel about it, too, even though my experiences with parts of the Judeo-Christian tradition has turned me away from that particular God.

I have in my personal library two books by Robert Fulghum, on being " All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" and "It was on fire when I lay down on it". Fulghum is a minister, though I think he's a unitarian minister... but his short writings are a lot more than fluff, despite the overexposure of 'all ... I learned in kindergarten." He talks about love and joy and God...

Yes, I admit this is a very modern concept of God and of religion. Religion originally was a group enterprise, group activity. It appears to have originally been about ritual more than about belief. That's not a modern concept. The advent of certain types of non-tribal religion, such as Christianity and Buddhism, has changed what we think of as religion. It seems to me that in 'historical times' neither Odin nor Jove was portrayed as caring very much if one actually believed in them, but instead was more concerned about the maintenance of forms of obedience....

C.J. Cherryh on psych

From Cyteen [I've always associated myself with Justin Warrick in this book]

"You're not responsible for the universe. You're not responsible for a damn thing that flows from things you didn't have the capacity to control. Maybe you are responsible for finding out what you could control, if you'd stop looking at other people's problems and start taking a look at your own capabilities -- which, as I say, probably qualify you as a Special. Which also answers a lot of questions about why you have problems: lack of adequate boundaries. Lack of them, son. All the Specials have the problem. It's real hard to understand humanity when you keep attributing to everyone around you the complexity of your own thinking. You have quite a few very bright minds around you -- enough to keep you convinced it's ordinary."

Note that here the term boundaries means intellectual limits, rather than personal boundaries (in terms of what you will and won't do or allow others to do to/for you.)

This is my professional life

From The Warrior Librarian (http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/):
"Many of the world's greatest minds have been labeled as unpleasant, undesirable, obnoxious, or objectionable due to their uncompromising refusal to blithely wander about, prattling inanely about how wonderful and perfect everything is .."