Okay, so I’m a little late. But here’s your linky goodness in time for your unlabor tomorrow.

• Cleave is looking for the worst church website. Damn, but after looking at them, I’m just not right.
• Little Moves is one of several folks linking to Keith Olbermann’s take down of Rumsfeld.
• Blogickal brings up animal sacrifice.
• Jewschool notes that anti-semitism is on the rise in Germany.
• CK passes on some wisdom on interpreting someone else’s religious experience in a way that’s both charitable and authentic.

Photo caption: “Helping Hearts staffers and their new coffee-maker; recent fund-raising will pay for its repair.” Link.

“One of the main problems with growing up that way is not being gifted but being called gifted and being grouped under the name. Any kind of frozen identity is problematic in general; it’s not helpful. Once you’re gifted you have to always be gifted and it’s hard to admit to the ignorance that it takes to learn things.” Link.

One more Zarathustra passage, this time on Christianity and damn liberal hippies. This one always makes me think of that part of Lord of the Rings when Frodo is trapped in the cave by that spider: Click to continue reading “Tarantulas”

Another Nietzsche passage, this time on ethics, complacency, and spiritual disciplines: Click to continue reading “Blessed are the sleepy”

CK has me thinking about Nietzsche again, so here is a passage from Zarathustra on Buddhism and asceticism: Click to continue reading “Preachers of death”