According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous global warming.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | ‘100 months to save the planet’

Does this mean we only have to endure the alarmists’ shrill activism until November of 2016? I can hold out til then.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say “more or less” because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

-Mahatma Gandhi (via libbylovesnyc) (via lrusso) - with all due respect to Gandhi -he did some powerful work for human rights & peace- i can’t totally agree with this statement. the second part, i can handle though i’d say things are already broken, we just make them more broken. but to assert the first part, “different roads converging on the same point” requires that one can see all these different roads. it’s like you’re looking at a map that nobody else can see. it assumes the level of knowledge you’re saying nobody has. such sayings have the appearance of humility but arrogantly dismiss any other perspective simply as “a different road.” (via hilker)

What if the road signs themselves specifically say they’re traveling to different places? When religions make mutually exclusive truth claims, they both can’t be true—i.e., they can’t have the same destination.

But here lies [Obama’s] essential contradiction: His campaign is more cultural than political. He sells himself more as a cultural breakthrough than as a candidate for office. To be a projection screen for the cultural aspirations of both blacks and whites one must be an invisible man politically. Real world politics, in their mundanity, interrupt cultural projections. And so Mr. Obama’s political invisibility — a charm that can only derive from a lack of deep political convictions — may well serve his cultural appeal, but it also makes him something of a political mess. Already he has flip-flopped on campaign financing, wire-tapping, gun control, faith-based initiatives, and the terms of withdrawal from Iraq. Those enamored of his cultural potential may say these reversals are an indication of thoughtfulness, or even open-mindedness. But could it be that this is a man who trusted so much in his cultural appeal that the struggles of principle and conscience never seemed quite real to him? His flip-flops belie an almost existential callowness toward principle, as if the very idea of permanent truth is passé, a form of bad taste. John McCain is simply a man of considerable character, poor guy. He is utterly bereft of cultural cachet. Against an animating message of cultural “change,” he is retrogression itself. Worse, Mr. Obama’s trick is to take politics off the table by moving so politically close to his opponent that only culture is left to separate them. And, unencumbered as he is by deep attachment to principle, he can be both far-left and center-right. He can steal much of Mr. McCain’s territory.