As a wife, she feels she has nothing. Just like Offred, they both have what the other wants and yet each feels like she has nothing -- in that way they are parallels of each other

Showing her double (twin) -- Offred and Serena are doubles. Red and Blue

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This says something about Serena Joy: She is longing for a story and herself is unconventional. Although all she can make is artificial. And it represents her beliefs in these scarves, which in some sense contradicts the hierarchical structure in Gilead.

Could it be that her vanity, which she puts so much attention to, is mocking her because even with all this luxury, she fails to feel satisfied in her marriage with the Commander (in relation to the Handmaid's with their lack of vanity, but who have their fertility?

I find it hard to believe that equality is "the very cornerstone of our democracy".

Joy contends that one of Hans Moravec's views in his book Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind is that robots will push the human species into extinction in much the same way that early North American placental species eliminated the South American marsupials.

21:00 joy and optimism in face of suffering

• for: degrowth, polycrisis, simplification
• title: Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
• author: Mike Joy
• date: Aug. 15, 2023
• source: https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496

Die aktuellen Hitzewellen entsprechen den Voraussagen der Klimawissenschaft.Lediglicb die stabilen Extremwetterlagen aufgrund eines mäandernden Jetstream wurden so nicht prognostiziert. Michael Mann und Joy Hassol rufen zum.Handeln auf, weil nur noch kurze Zeit bleibt, um die Erhitzung aufzuhalten, bevor Tipping Points ausgelöst werden, nach denen es zu einem Runaway climate change kommen kann. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/heatwave-climate-omen-change-course-weather-models

Harry belafonte vs Animal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOohuZlAiM

Though it may lead down the road to the collector's fallacy, one should note down, annotate, or highlight the things that resonate with them. Similar to Marie Kondo's concept in home organization, one ought to find ideas that "spark joy" or move them internally. These have a reasonable ability to be reused or turned into something with a bit of coaxing and work. Collect now to be able to filter later.

—Winnie Lim

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/marie-kondo-tokimeku-spark-joy-translation-266496

on the translation of tokimeku, or ときめく, as "spark joy"

How many times you thought a heavy bank account will make you happy? How many times you thought the same about careers, romantic lovers, fame or children and villa on a sheer? You might have also had some reveries that drinking alcohol will do or using drugs of any kind. Dig deep in this idea: what is it that you really want? If you look good enough you'll see the only reason why you're seeking all those things -- the joy is tied to them within your mind and it is joy indeed you really want. And yet, how many times your idols failed you? Weren't you shocked by the amount of side effects they bring? You thought a zillion coins will give you peace and happiness but what you've got is constant worry and distress. Is it not time for you stop chasing carrots but focus on your real goal instead?

If you would look on anyone more closely to figure out their motivation and what exactly makes them tick, you'll be surprised to see that you are not the only one who's chasing happiness, it is at root for anyone indeed. There is no difference between a mother of a baby and user of some drug except in ways they're looking for it: the mother plans to get it from her baby the other - from the drug. Even the biggest tyrants you can name were doing what they've done only because they honestly believed: this is the way to joy. And so the universal goal is equal but everyone has a unique and special plan on how to get it, a map their very own. But if you've dared to lift this heavy brick of paper, it means you are among of those who've started to suspect: your plan has failed.

what you seek for is a source of joy as you conceive it. T-24.5.1

It never is the idol that you want. But what you think it offers you T-30.3.4

You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not satisfied you. T-8.8.2

It is essential that you accept the fact, and accept it gladly, that there is no form of littleness that can ever content you. You are free to try as many as you wish, but all you will be doing is to delay your homecoming. T-15.3.2

I will not value what is valueless. W-133

The world I see holds nothing that I want. W-128

Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. T-29.7.1

Perceiving equality, the Holy Spirit perceives equal needs. This invites Atonement automatically, because Atonement is the one need in this world that is universal. T-6.2.5

Accept the plan you did not make W-186.5

Only God's plan for salvation will work. W-71

Quoted by Amanda Joy Ravenhill on RE & CO Radio, Wednesday, October 13, 2021.

This leads to a sense of learned hopelessness: Things are worse than you imagined, and there is nothing you can do about it.

But Buckminster Fuller said, “We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”

“I think that everybody knows that we are in this incredible inflection point for humanity. And I think that what we don’t appreciate enough is that artists are the angel investors in the future that we want. They just have a different form of capital.”

— Amanda Joy Ravenhill, Executive Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute

(3:10:40)

This quote connects to the Stop Reset Go meeting where Derick Bedzra walked us through the eight forms of capital.

• 8 Forms of Capital
• 8 Forms of Capital and Why They Matter
• Creating Resilient Wealth With The 8 Forms Of Capital

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This is lovely to read. Kenny Stills, American-football player, finds his viewing and reading material.

Everybody should see "Requiem for the American Dream", available on Netflix.

The discussion in book 6 after this quote explores what a duty is. It presents the idea that, like eating, laws in the Faith to pray or teach are not arbitrary rules, but statements about our nature, and conducive to our growth. This implies that they should also be sources of joy.

We may interpret it according to the Indian thought, e.g. by enjoying our sensual pleasure it is never fulfilled rather it increases.

Check out this shout out from the American Press Institute!

That's pretty beautifully worded. A good life philosophy for anyone, I'd wager. True joy isn't found in the parties or the get-togethers, but in the little things, such as reading, walking and thinking.

April is a time of rebirth, good for people with loved ones, but can be a lonely time for people who are alone. Winter seems like a better time of year because you can numb your emotions. And take joy in small doses (dried tubers).

I need to let go of my beliefs about myself and the world that I have taken on from what has been role modelled to me through my human life....

And to realise that the part of me that has believed other than what is Truth may be resistant to the message in this text.

The invitation extends to taking the Word within my heart and to abide, be with it and it will become a source of joy and blessing...

Yes! This sense of joy and ownership connected to literature is intended to create interest in literature that will last. Students would hopefully be proud of the book they read and as they grow up, be proud of books they own and can recommend to others. I know this is true for me.

The River Lethe was one of the rivers of Hades in Greek mythology. Exposure to its waters was held to lead to loss of memory, or, more intriguingly, a state of "unmindfulness" and oblivion. From this origin, it has re-appeared throughout western culture, from Dante to Tony Banks's first solo album (River Lethe in popular culture, Wikipedia).

By providing the alternative spelling of Leith, Alasdair Roberts 'doubles' this meaning with the Water of Leith, a river that runs through Edinburgh, and co-locates ancient Greek and contemporary Scots mythology.

The idea of eternal return is bound up with memory, with cultures being compelled to repeat and confront the missteps of the past. So the oblivion of forgetfulness provided by the endless Lethe provides a form of antidote or escape.

In interview with Tyler Wilcox in 2009, Alasdair Roberts referred to the

specifically Jungian references to the "sermons seven" and mandalas... it's like a quest song against conflict and towards individuation. I know a lot of people with strong political or religious convictions whose musical and artistic practice is guided by that – in some ways I envy that kind of certitude, but I suppose my thing is always about flexibility, multiplicity, confusion wanting to reflect the turmoil of reality... always trying to remember that the oar in the ocean is a winnowing fan on dry land.'

rhetoric can be educational and enjoyable