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American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Farewell Address
Eisenhower's brilliant farewell address, January 17, 1961. With audio.
Browsable Greek New Testament
Handy resource for anyone who wants to browse the Greek NT online. It's quick, simple, and there seem to be some good references built in.
The Wm. Blake Page - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The whole text of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93), along with scans of many of the images.
Listen to the Federalist Papers online
These are in .AAC format. The archive seems to have all 85 papers.
Author:Moses Hess - Wikisource
I'm curious about this guy, who apparently (according to Michael Harrington) writes about so-called "atheistic Christians" in the same vein as Marx's remarks between the "spiritual" state and the "corporeal" civil and economic order. He was sort of the intellectual forefather of Zionism, supposedly.
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
The Morning Oil: Flannery! (WMA links to two radio broadcasts by Flannery O'Connor)
Bookmarking for future reference. At the moment the service hosting the audio files is dead, so I haven't been able to download them, but another blogger at Black Market Kidneys (http://j.mp/14aQJd) posted mp3 versions. The quality of the conversions isn't great, though, so I'm hoping sometime to be able to get this blogger's WMAs.
Black Market Kidneys » Flannery O’Connor Audio
Two radio addresses by Flannery O'Connor. These are mp3 versions of the files originally posted at The Morning Oil http://bit.ly/i9hBs
Healthcare reform rationing ‘precisely what the Nazis did,’ Land says
Quotations from Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religoius Liberty Commission, speaking to the "God and Country Banquet" held by the Christian Coalition of Florida. What he said: "I want to put it to you bluntly. What they are attempting to do in healthcare, particularly in treating the elderly, is not something like what the Nazis did. It is precisely what the Nazis did... Let's remember... the first 10,000 victims of the Holocaust were not Jews, they were mentally handicapped German children who were gassed and burned in ovens because they were considered to have... lives unworthy of life... [The healthcare debate is] about whether we are going to continue to believe our founding documents, which say that we believe that all people are equal and we're created in the image of our Creator and that we have certain unalienable rights -- and among these is the right to life... [At stake] is the definition of a human being... We are faced with what I call 'biological bigotry' and it is every bit as pernicious, every bit as evil, every bit as destructive as the racial and ethnic bigotry that has plagued us in the past... There is loose within the liberal culture which dominates the Democratic Party and dominates our government at present, a biological bigotry that is feeding a euthanasia mentality."
Living Will Of Suicide Victim Kerrie Wooltorton - Andrew Jones Of Mackrell Turner Garrett Explains | UK News | Sky News
This Sky News article contains the full text of Kerrie Wooltorton's living will-cum-suicide note.
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14/09/2007 To whom this may concern
If I come into hospital regarding an overdose or any attempt of my life, I would like for NO life saving treatment to be given. I would appreciate it if you could continue to give medicines to help relieve my discomfort, painkillers, oxygen etc. I would hope these wishes would be carried out without loads of questioning.
Please be assured that I am 100% aware of the consequences of this and the probable outcome of drinking antifreeze, eg death in 95-99% of cases and if I survive then kidney failure, I understand and accept them and will take 100% responsibility for this decision.
I am aware that you may think that because I called the ambulance I therefore want treatment, THIS IS NOT THE CASE! I do however want to be comfortable as nobody wants to die alone and scared and without going into details there are loads of reasons I do not want to die at home which I realise you will not understand and I apologise for this.
Please understand that I definitely don't want any form of ventilation, resuscitation or dialysis. These are my wishes please respect and carry them out.
Yours sincerely
Kerrie Wooltorton
Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library
An archive of over twenty thousand recorded sounds -- music, nature, historical events, and so forth. Some limitations on access outside the UK. Seen on Dave R.'s Facebook page.
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