I went to indystar.com to find out when it starts and notice the following headlines:
2 hurt in suspected retaliatory shooting
Police plan DUI effort this weekend - 9:24 AM
Mom wants man jailed in 11-month-old's stabbing
Nude motorist nabbed after Fishers cop struck - 8:28 AM
There were no riots when we won the Superbowl recently. Digging back through history, I found out that the summer of the Watts Riots in LA (1965), 12 other large cities had race riots as well. Not Indianapolis.
But there is a funny thing that happens here though on the first few days of spring: people start driving like they're roofied, and start acting as if they've done too many lines of coke/crystal meth.
It has gotten colder at the end of this week than it was at the beginning (typical schizophrentic Indiana weather pattern). But last night Sis was working at the Joint, and a large African-american male comes in. Sits down, just starts cussing at other people. He's sitting in the section with the israeli/jordanian chick that everyone loves, D. D goes over to him and tells him, "Hey guy, can you settle down with the F-bomb? I'll be right back with you to take your order in a sec."
He starts flipping out and says, "F*** you, f*** this. I'm leaving." Gets up and walks out.
Okaaay...
Guy comes back in about two minutes later, starts full-court pressing D. "What the f*ck? What the f*ck were you kicking me out for?"
D said,"Hey, you kicked yourself out."
He replies, "It's 'cause I'm black isn't it?" He says to the fairly dark-skinned Middle-Easterner.
D had no kinda reply for him except,"I can assure you it was not because you're black. I only asked you to quiet down because the other customers couldn't talk to each other when you were screeching "F-this, F-that" at them for no reason."
He insists they give him the owner's/managers names and vows to "get you guys for this."
D, being new is a little upset and asks sis if the owner (who is black) is going to get really upset.
Sis just rolls her eyes,"This crap happens ever other week here. If it does become a problem, the cop (who works security) will let her know that if he hadn'ta kicked himself out, the cop would've in about another minute."
That was the more exciting story from last night. The only other really crazy table was a group of industry from one of the local bars who kept getting louder and louder, but when they were asked to quiet down, they did. And made that weird lip sucking face, so Sis is convinced they'd been smoking crack instead of just doing bumps like usual.
There were no riots when we won the Superbowl recently. Digging back through history, I found out that the summer of the Watts Riots in LA (1965), 12 other large cities had race riots as well. Not Indianapolis.
But there is a funny thing that happens here though on the first few days of spring: people start driving like they're roofied, and start acting as if they've done too many lines of coke/crystal meth.
It has gotten colder at the end of this week than it was at the beginning (typical schizophrentic Indiana weather pattern). But last night Sis was working at the Joint, and a large African-american male comes in. Sits down, just starts cussing at other people. He's sitting in the section with the israeli/jordanian chick that everyone loves, D. D goes over to him and tells him, "Hey guy, can you settle down with the F-bomb? I'll be right back with you to take your order in a sec."
He starts flipping out and says, "F*** you, f*** this. I'm leaving." Gets up and walks out.
Okaaay...
Guy comes back in about two minutes later, starts full-court pressing D. "What the f*ck? What the f*ck were you kicking me out for?"
D said,"Hey, you kicked yourself out."
He replies, "It's 'cause I'm black isn't it?" He says to the fairly dark-skinned Middle-Easterner.
D had no kinda reply for him except,"I can assure you it was not because you're black. I only asked you to quiet down because the other customers couldn't talk to each other when you were screeching "F-this, F-that" at them for no reason."
He insists they give him the owner's/managers names and vows to "get you guys for this."
D, being new is a little upset and asks sis if the owner (who is black) is going to get really upset.
Sis just rolls her eyes,"This crap happens ever other week here. If it does become a problem, the cop (who works security) will let her know that if he hadn'ta kicked himself out, the cop would've in about another minute."
That was the more exciting story from last night. The only other really crazy table was a group of industry from one of the local bars who kept getting louder and louder, but when they were asked to quiet down, they did. And made that weird lip sucking face, so Sis is convinced they'd been smoking crack instead of just doing bumps like usual.
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sufism: Come, come again, whatever you are.. mevlana, turkey
Come, Come again ! Whatever you are... Whether you are infidel, idolater or fireworshipper. Whether you have broken your vows of repentance a hundred times This is not the gate of despair, This is the gate of hope. Come, come again... Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. Mevlana Jelauddin RUMI
http://www.allaboutturkey.com/mevlana.htm
Mevlana also integrated a dualist approach in his mind: In approaching issues pertaining to daily life he is a rationalist, but in approaching spiritual and mystical matters he recognizes only the mastery of the heart and emotions. According to him, the only way to approach absolute being is through love; and God's love is everywhere, permeating everything. If one were to love another being in the name of God, one would find a pathway leading to the absolute. According to him everything in the universe, every being, even matter itself - all are but manifestations of God and exist in God and are united in the Absolute Being. Thus Mevlana views all existence as a united whole. In a sense, one could call his vision that of Unity Consciousness. This vision impelled Mevlana to transcend all differences and prejudices, and formed the basis of his immense tolerance and of his real and deep humanism. With these characteristics, Mevlana and his thought transcended the boundaries of his time and thus he and his writings are still relevant and fresh in this day and age, some 700 years after. The universality of his thought finds its reflection in, for example, the famous verses where he says:
Come!
Come whoever you are.
Doesn't matter if you are an unbeliever.
Doesn't matter if you have fallen a thousand times.
Come!
Come whoever you are. For this is not the door of hopelessness.
Come,
Just as you are!
With the tens of thousands of verses he wrote, and with the depths of spirituality he phantomed which helped him grasp qualities of timelessness and humanistic universality, Mevlana and the sect which was founded after him, have not only influenced the Anatolian - Turkish civilizations but indeed have had far-reaching influences on the intellectual and artistic life of many individuals and nations.
That is awesome. A dude who lived over 700 years is still regarded as a great thinker and man of character with such depth his words are still thought of as inspirational all these years later.
I comment on the half-conscious bonobos of every color and beleif I am forced to deal with on a daily basis. I can only keep rubbing my turtle dragon statue and wishing/fantasizing that I can have a life where I become this deep, reflective, and optimistic about my fellow man.
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