Poppy Seed

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by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

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I really like Franz Kafka and Robert Walser's novels/short stories, and I'm particularly interested in stuff that along those lines, but am open to all suggestions.

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Have there been any Papal encyclicals on the subject?

Is there any suggestion of Christ finding anything amusing, or of him being humorous?

Citations of specific instances would be greatly appreciated.

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How much of a threat did the uprisings, particularly by Thomas Müntzer and his followers, and the events of the Münster rebellion, pose for the ruling classes of the time?

Clearly there was widespread discontent among urban workers, merchants, and the peasantry, but could they actually have coalesced into a successful insurrection?

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If you could cite specific instances that would be appreciated.

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As if evidence were needed, here is a recording of one of her subversive messages to the masses:

http://soundcloud.com/danjhancox/to-the-left-beyon...

Aside from her whipping the proletariat into a baying mob, you might also have picked up the not-too-subtle hints in her recent single, 'Run the World (Girls)'--clearly influenced by the extremist marxist feminism of Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and in particular her work 'The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community'--in which Ms. Knowles suggests the usage of the ultra-left tactic of 'refusal' as advocated, notably, by Dalla Costa. Observe, for example, the lyrics 'This goes out to all my girls / That's in the club rocking the latest / Who will buy it for themselves and get more money later', and the connection is abundantly clear. Refusal of the full price of the commodity permits immediate acquisition, whilst simultaneously subverting the pricing mechanisms of the capitalist system.

Is popular music a potentially radical medium in the hands of committed revolutionaries?

Yahoo's suggested category: Health > Women's Health

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How much do you see Christ's message as underpinning your politics? I suppose this will mostly be in terms of politicised moral issues, but I wonder if you perceive other applications as well.

I've been doing some reading around the radical reformation movements in the 16th century and am interested in the argument relating to the legitimacy of forms of 'earthly' power and economy--it got me wondering where modern Christians stand on these kind of issues.

Sorry if this is a bit muddled.

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I've just come back from being on a picket line and was pleasantly surprised at the support we were getting from people driving/walking by. There was the occasional insult, but mostly people seemed pretty sympathetic, which was really nice.

Do you think that's the general mood, or was I just lucky?

and why (if you feel like explaining)?

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Is there anything more perfect than a great soul single? Maybe, but not just now. Which do you like best?

'The Next Ball Game' by Inell Young is probably my favourite:

http://youtu.be/W4khjtaMmQ8

Staggering song.

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It's always interesting to see what people are reading.

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If so, what forms do you perceive this as taking? Following are just some quotations/observations, so feel free to skip it as it's not essential to my question.

Anyway, I'm minded to ask this as the concepts of totality/oneness and being keep cropping up in things I'm reading. There seems to be quite an emphasis on the unity of existence as the basis for radical thought, so we have Hegel (a significant influence on Marx) noting the requirements of 'just being':

'[T]hinking is always the negation of what we have immediately before us' - G.W.F. Hegel, 'Logic of Hegel'/'Encyclopeadia', 1817.

Joseph Dietzgen, who was involved in the German Revolution of 1848 observes that:

'Nature is the Unlimited … there can be no question of beginning and end, of the above and below, of the innermost and outermost' - J. Dietzgen, 'Excursions of a Socialist into the Domains of Epistemology', 1887

Whilst Friedrich Engels says:

'Dialectics ... likewise knows no hard and fast lines, no unconditional, universally valid “either-or” and which bridges the fixed metaphysical differences, and besides “either-or” recognises also in the right place “both this-and that” and reconciles the opposites' – F. Engels, 'Dialectics of Nature', 1883

The rejection of the false dichotomies of perception; of the artificial divisions that distract from the encompassing wholeness structure a politics which rejects reformism—distinguishing between this or that injustice, or this or that law, and instead strikes at the systemic oneness; the whole in motion rather than particulars in stasis.

In relation to this, Ben Watson says of totality that it 'proposes seeing things in their connectedness: it is a prerequisite for dialectical thought' - B. Watson, 'Art, Class & Cleavage', 1998. With dialectical materialism forming part of the foundation of Marxist philosophy, this seems quite striking.

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I often wake up really early and I like having things to listen to when I'm not fully awake but can't sleep and it's still dark out.

I'm thinking something quite soft and a bit melancholy. Any ideas?

I was reading a report on a realisation of the thought experiment by French scientists from 2007 but I don't really understand what the consequences of the delayed choice experiment are, in terms of our understanding of quantum physics.

This is the abstract of the report I mentioned (you have to sign up to the website to view it in full):

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315...

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http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100730/full/news.2...

In the above article it says that a form of algae has been found for the first time in a vertebrate, and mentions that "it was thought to be impossible for a symbiont to live stably inside" vertebrate cells.

Does anyone have any ideas of how (or why) it might have managed to do so?

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There's a lot of good music from Australia... just looking for recommendations, really.

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I see any number of weblinks posted, but I have never yet seen an actual ancient source cited for the claims. I would really like to know.

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