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[luiscorreiadesigner]

Queremos dedicar este vídeo a todas as mulheres designers que estão a mudar o mercado. Continuem a desafiar as normas e a criar coisas incríveis que inspiram e transformam o mundo ao nosso redor. Gostou desse video? Siga para mais! Pretendemos entregar mais conteúdo como este. Até breve.

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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Against+Heresies%22?Ntk=P_Series_Title&Ns=P_Series_Number&Ntx=mode+matchall

[silvestromedia]

Saint of the day August 23

STS. ABBONDIO AND IRENEAUS, MARTYRS ON THE VIA TIBURTINA

St. Tydfil, 480 A.D. Welsh martyr, reportedly from the clan of Brychan. She was slain by a group of pagan Picts or Saxons and is venerated at Merthyr-Tydfil, Glamorgan. Wales.

St. Ebba, 870 A.D. Martyr Abbess of Coldingham, England, on the Scottish border, called “the Younger.” She and her nuns were martyred by Danes in an invasion. She mutilated her face to discourage rape by the invading Danes. The raiders set fire to Coldingham, killing all of the nuns.

St. Eugene, 6th century. Irish missionary to England who became the first bishop of Ardstraw, in Tyrone, Ireland, now Derry. He is also listed as Eoghan, Enny, and Owen. He was born in Leinster, Ireland, and was a relative of St. Kevin of Glendalough. Kidnapped as a child, he spent years as a slave before returning to Ireland. There he helped St. Tigernach found Clones Monastery in 576.

St. Philip Benizi, Roman Catholic Servite cardinal and preacher. Aug. 23

St. Rose of Lima, Roman Catholic Dominican Nun the patroness of Latin America and the Philippines

STS. ZACHARY AND ELIZABETH,

[blog-about-daemons]

DRAGON AGE INQUISITION DAEMON AU (Part 1)

Cassandra Pentaghast + Faithe (she/her)

Settled as a Secretary Bird, Faithe's name was taken from the word "Faith". Although both Cassandra and her daemon project a tough exterior, Faithe is often the softer of the two, though she too won't hesitate to protect what she values.

Varric Tethras + Winifred (she/they)

Settled as an Irish Wolfhound, Winifred's name has many meanings, though for Varric's case, her name means "Blessed Reconciliation". Like any dwarf's daemon, Winifred is able to travel great distances from Varric while still being connected to him... though just like Varric, she would much prefer to stay sitting all warm and cozy by the fireplace of Skyhold.

Josephine Montilyet + Ireneaus (he/him)

Settled as a Cotton-Top Tamarin, Ireneaus' name means "Peace". Clever, sharp-eyed, and althogether charming, he matches beautifully with Josephine's equal charm and skill.

Leliana + Kirithan (he/him)

Settled as Superb Starling, Kirithan's name means "Songs of Worship". A strikingly colorful form, he is not what most people expect from Leliana's daemon.

Cullen Rutherford + Leandra (she/her)

Settled as an American Staffordshire Terrier, Leandra's name often means "Lion", as ironic as that is. She carries many of the scars that Cullen tries in vain to hide, though her appearance is deceiving; she is a sweetheart.

[firstumcschenectady]

“All Are Welcome” based on Hosea 11:1-4 and Matthew 28:16-20

Sometimes I get distracted. Not just the normal distracted of turning to my phone when it buzzes or letting the internet take me down rabbit holes (although those happen too.) Sometimes I get so distracted talking about what kind of Christian I am NOT that I forget to talk about what kind of Christian I am.

In fact, that's so true that I'm squirmy already, as the word Christian is overly affiliated in my head with things I struggle with. One of you once said that “Jesus follower” worked better for you than Christian for just that reason. And I love that. But also, “Christian” means “little Christ” and I do think the whole point is to continue the work of Christ in the world and it is probably worth the discomfort involved in claiming it anyway.

A friend and colleague, the Rev. Andrew Nelson, recently dropped a book off for me. Which is a great way to share love, particularly when this was a book I'd been looking for and not finding for years! I didn't know EXACTLY which book on Celtic Christianity I wanted, but I knew I needed to find one. This one, turns out to be it: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul by John Phillip Newell.

As I started to read I felt my whole being relax. Here, encased in centuries of tradition, is the faith that I know to the core of my being. When so much of my life in the church-at-large has been defined by being an outlier, a prophet, a person crying for justice for God's beloveds, it is awfully nice to hear that my faith has deep roots too. I think, perhaps, it is nice to hear that I belong too. That the faith that says “God created all, and it is good” is VALID, and REAL, and DEEPLY faithful – and not... some radical new idea.

I want to share with you some of what I heard in Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul, in hopes that it will also help drop down your shoulders, and let in a big deep breath. That we all can celebrate the God who is. The one who we know to be loving, ALONG WITH our great tradition. That we can acknowledge that we are faithful people with a faithful God.

(See, isn't it nice?)

The first chapter of the book tells the story of Pelagius (Puh·la·jee·uhs) , a Welsh monk who lived around 360-430 CE. But, it starts by sharing the beliefs of the first known Christian teacher in the Celtic territory – the one whose teachings would have formed what Pelagius knew. That teacher was Ireneaus (Ee·ruh·nay·uhs ) of Lyons and his teachings were that: sacredness was not opposed to naturalness, that there is holy in naturalness, that heaven found in things of earth, that the divine is to be cherished within earthliness of human life and RELATIONSHIPS, that Jesus was ROBUSTLY human, and that the universe is born out of the substance of God – NOT out of nothing.1 Taken to its natural conclusions, those beliefs say “the stuff of the body of earth is sacred stuff. Therefore, how the body of another is handled in relationship, how the physical needs of those who are hungry and homeless is responded to, how the body of the earth and its resources are treated- these are all holy matters.”2

Well, YEAH! And if bodies are holy, then they shouldn't be exploited, but rather honored and cared for. (CORRECT.)

In fact, this ended up being opposition to the way that the majority of Christianity under the leadership of the pope in Rome understood things. Because there is a doctrine called creation ex nihilo which says that creation was “out of nothing” and if that's true than STUFF doesn't matter and people can exploit it all they want. The implications of this in the world around us are abundant, but it is VERY nice to know this has NEVER been fully accepted in our tradition, I think.

The teacher Iraneaus taught that Jesus was the one who was “respeaking the sacred essences of the universe, re-sounding the divine that is in the heart of all things. This was to see Christ as reawakening in humanity what it has forgotten.”3 So not Jesus saving the world, nor Jesus standing against the world, but Jesus reminding the world of its sacredness and the things it already knows. I love it!

Now into the wisdom tradition that Iraneaus formed, came the monk Pelagius, who taught that “grace was given to reconnect us with our nature, which was sacred and made of God.” I believe that, and I like knowing how long that has been known! Pelagius ended up in Rome, which seems to have become a problem for his life, because rather than being with people who knew the sacredness of all, he was with people who knew the Church as a power-player in politics. (Ew.) And they took issue with him because he thought women were wise and worth both learning from and teaching. He also emphasized human sacredness instead of human sinfulness. He believed that “what is deepest in us is of of God and not opposed to God.”4 I just love it when people put WORDS to the things my very being knows to be true, but I hadn't ever quite known I needed to say.

Now Augustine, who I did have to read in college and seminary, was all out of sorts about this and spent a lot of energy discrediting Pelagius, because he wanted to focus on original sin. (Facepalm.) That original sin doctrine was useful for the empire, and has been useful for the church, but I would say has not be useful for God's people.

So, Augustine got Pelagius banned from the Empire, him and his teachings. Because apparently it is really upsetting to an empire if everyone is sacred, and then everyone maters. Then they're not there to be controlled and used, but rather to be revered and related to.5 (Actually, I knew that. Jesus taught me.) Worse than the other stuff, Pelagius also taught that people who had more than enough should... wait for it... SHARE with those who don't have enough. Once again, that's easy to see as following Jesus, but it got him excommunicated. (Shoot, I already facepalmed.)

Anyway, Pelagius went home to Wales and kept teaching, and wrote under pseudonyms so people could read it and – I love this – often used “Augustine” as one of them. That teaching also included “that it is not so much what you believe about Jesus that matters. The important thing is becoming like Jesus, becoming compassionate. A Christ-one, he said, is one 'who shows compassion to all... who feels another's pain as if it were his one, and how is moved to tears by the tears of another.” That sounds like us, doesn't it!?!6

Well, funny enough, the teachings of Pelagius weren't stopped by being banned by the Roman Empire, or excommunicated by the Western church, or even sent back home. I knew that, because I was taught them as a child, and have experienced them as an adult. I just didn't know their history.

When we get invited by Jesus to “go and make of all disciples” I don't think we're told to go into the world and tell people they are WRONG if they don't follow Jesus. Instead, I think we're invited to be in relationship with people and learn from their wisdom and share ours – including the stuff that Jesus respeaking and re-sounding – the wisdom we know in our souls and simply need to be reminded of. The stuff like “all of creation is sacred” and “all people are to be honored” and “the way of God isn't the way of control over.”

When I think about what beliefs I center my life on, I usually use the word “inclusion.” But I think I get to inclusion BY believing that all people are sacred, and beloved by God, and THEREFORE all people welcome in the church. I get all sorts of upset about exclusion, BECAUSE it implies a limit to the sacredness of God. And that's both wrong, and silly.

God is like the one who picks an infant up and smooshes them to their cheek. God is like that with all of us. ALL of us. Thanks be to God! Amen

1John Phillip Newell Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul (HarperOne, 2021), p. 24-26.

2Newell, 26.

3Newell, 26.

4Newell, 32.

5Newell, 40.

6Newell, 39.

Rev. Sara E. Baron  First United Methodist Church of Schenectady  603 State St. Schenectady, NY 12305  Pronouns: she/her/hers�� http://fumcschenectady.org/  https://www.facebook.com/FUMCSchenectady

June 4, 2023

[fcb4]

From my sermon on Revelation chapters 6-7

The History of Eschatological Views (End Times.

“…many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise.” -Justin Martyr (2nd century)

“Full-length commentaries from the first three centuries of the church have not survived for us to examine, with the exception of that of Victorinus of Pettau (early 4th century d. 303), which seems to have come down to us in a form altered from its original state. We know that Melito of Sardis (later second century 170), Irenaeus (late second century 180), and Hippolytus of Rome (early third century 220) all wrote complete commentaries on Revelation, but none of these have survived to the present.

There are fragments of exposition on Revelation to be found in Justin Martyr (d.165), Melito, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and other early fathers. In his writings, Tertullian (d. 220) quoted from eighteen of the twenty-two chapters.

We do not have access to much that was written in the first four centuries of the church, and a large variety of interpretations may have been held for which no documentation has survived.”

Justin Martyr(2nd century) (a Chiliastic(kill-e-asm) premillennialist), writing on this very subject, left clear testimony to the presence in his day of alternative viewpoints in the church.

In his Dialogue With Trypho, Justin wrote:

“I am not so miserable a fellow, Trypho, as to say one thing and think another. I admitted to you formerly, that I and many others are of this opinion premillennialism and believe that such will take place, as you assuredly are aware; but on the other hand, I signified to you that many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise.”

There are two principal varieties of premillennialism:

Historic premillennialism and dispensational premillennialism or, simply, dispensationalism. The latter differs from the former in its emphasis on the continuing centrality of national Israel in God's eschatological program and in anticipating a Rapture of Christians to heaven before the beginning of the Tribulation.

A. 100-200's: premillennialism (chiliasm)

Promoters: Papias (60-130 AD), Polycarp (70-155 AD), Justin Martyr (100-165 AD), Ireneaus (130-202 AD),

B. 200's -1700's: Amillennialism

Promoters: Origen (185-254 AD), Eusebius (260-340 AD), Augustine (400) - Luther (1500), Calvin, et al.

C. 1700's-1900's: Postmillennialism

Promoters: Daniel Whitby, Jonathan Edwards, B.B. Warfield

D. 1830 - present: Dispensationalism(futurist)

Promoters: J.N. Darby, C. I. Scofield, Lewis S. Chaffer, Walvoord, Charles Ryrie, Hal Lindsey, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie (Calvary Chapels, Pentectostal/Charismatic/Baptist)

-Steve Gregg/Revelation- Four Views

[nana-glass-chillhop-radio-hour]

Tumblr has gotten amazingly niche since wizardposting started. I've got people making inside jokes about the desert church fathers of early Christianity who have patreons. Babe. I know you know most people aren't gonna get this one about Ireneaus.

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

God’s first word of salvation, spoken outside the locked gates of Paradise, already indicates a woman, a single woman, who could never be overcome by Satan: I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed” (Gen 3:15). This woman was first of all Eve, to whom the astounding promise was made that the Redeemer should come from her race. But the full meaning of the prophecy is only realized when we see foreshadowed in Eve the other “Mother of all the living,” who herself should actually give birth to the Savior. “But already then,” said Augustine, “Mary was included in Eve; yet, it was only when Mary came, that we knew who Eve was.” The woman who crushed the serpent’s head was the Mother fo God-made-Man. From the beginning of Catholic theology, the text has been thus interpreted. Christ, the Son of the woman of the promise, would conquer Satan, “and therefore God put enmities between the serpent, and the woman, until the promised seed came to crush its head, the seed of Mary” (Ireneaus).�� ....

...But this mystery of the immaculate conception of Mary is not only a personal privilege granted to her who was to become the Mother of God, Mary has thereby become a figure of the Church, for the Church is the fulfillment of the history that began at Mary’s conception, anticipating the redeeming sacrifice, and the ends with the admission of Adam’s race to eternal life, with the Father, through the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. That is why the fathers saw in the woman of promise not only Eve and our Lady, but also the Church, the mother of the new life, the almighty conqueror of Satan 

-Hugo Rahner, Our Lady and the Church, Ch. 1 Immaculata (pg 16-17)

[apenitentialprayer]

The Gnostic Gospels: Major Theses

A summation of The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagel, with a chapter-by-chapter explanation of the basic theses. [I started this a while ago, but only did the first three chapter summaries. Gonna leave it as-is, because I don’t know if I’m ever gonna get back to it] Chapter 1: The Controversy Over Christ’s Resurrection According to Pagel, even the books that were accepted in the New Testament open themselves to non-literal readings of the Resurrection event. Nonetheless, the Christianity that would become orthodox absolutely insisted on a literal understanding of the Resurrection event. Gnostics, on the other hand, viewed the Resurrection in spiritual and psychological terms only. While both sides were likely sincere in their faith, the way they articulated the Resurrection event nonetheless express the particular political views of how the Church was to function. The gnostic Christians viewed the Resurrection event as an individualized, recurring event that a disciple must personally experience. By being initiated into the Christian life, the gnostic would subsequently experience a personal encounter with Christ; this personal encounter, along with any further ones, defined the Christian experience, even if such an experience contradicted the traditions handed down by previous gnostic initiates. Under this understanding of the transmission of the Christ-life, there would be no way to create a stable institutional framework through which to establish a normative Christianity. The orthodox Christians viewed the Resurrection event as a historical and physical event, which directly affects who can be considered a legitimate successor to Jesus. Because the Apostles encountered Jesus Christ firsthand, and the people of that generation alone encountered the Resurrected Christ in the flesh, ordained successors of the Apostles are the only ones who can be trusted to have transmitted the true faith to future generations. This new social order for Christianity was threatened by individuals who claimed that their personal experiences overrode the traditions of the Church (a fact that distinguishes gnostic mystics from orthodox mystics). Chapter 2: “One God, One Bishop”: The Politics of Monotheism Noting the absolute ire that Irenaeus had for Valentinian Christians (who were not quite gnostic, but nonetheless are usually identified as such by early primary sources), Pagel connects the polemical writings to the development of the Church hierarchy. Irenaeus felt threatened by the Valentinians, who believed the legitimacy of the Church hierarchy while nonetheless accepting a second source of authority, because they challenged the idea that the bishop was the true representative of God on earth. Drawing on the beliefs of Marcion of Sinope, several gnostic Christians distinguished the Father of Christ from the God who created the world. Valentinians believed that the bishopric was derived from traditions from the Demiurge, which were taught publicly by Christ, while their secret traditions came from a God even higher than this one. Because of this, Valentinians were accepting of the authority of the bishops for normal Christians, but once they were initiated into the secret rites, the bishop could no longer hold authority over them; they were freed from the power of the Demiurge by Christ’s true Father. While the hierarchy of bishops was becoming more and more common, the Valentinian Christians were practicing rites that attempted to circumvent the growing distinction between laity and clergy; ordination was not a permanent position, but the designated priest would change with each meeting. The fact that members of Irenaeus’s diocese were being initiated into these circles made him especially hostile to the Valentinians - especially since they did not view their practices as contrary to the Catholic faith. The fact that they believed that they were still members of the Church, and not of a rival organization, indicates that Tertullian’s story that Valentinus purposely separated himself from the clergy is not true; the split between the orthodox and Valentinian Christians seems to have been initiated by the orthodox themselves. Valentinus, for his part, attributed his tradition to Saint Paul, through a ‘Theudas’ who was purportedly a disciple of his. “Ireneaus ironically agrees with [the Valentinian Christians] that there are two sources of tradition - but, he declares, as God is one, only one of these derives from God [... t]he other comes from Satan - and goes back to the gnostic teacher Simon Magus.” Chapter 3: God the Father/God the Mother Pagel makes it clear that, while many modern theologians in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions speak of God as though He is not gendered, the standard language used to speak of Him is heavily masculine in nature. What distinguishes gnostic Christianity from both traditional Jewish-Christian tradition and the pagan traditions of surrounding cultures is that it incorporates heavily sexualized metaphors while still utilizing language derived from Jewish tradition. Pagel suggests that this difference in conceptualizing God with distinctly masculine and feminine aspects, rather than distinctly masculine and ambiguously gendered aspects, is the cause of the social differences between gnostic and orthodox Christianities. One criticism that appears repeatedly in orthodox attacks on gnostic Christianity is the allowance of female-led worship and ceremony. The orthodox, on the other hand, had an exclusively male priesthood, and at the height of the gnostic controversy even separated churches by gender, as was done in the synagogues. The gospels, even those that would become orthodox, depict Jesus as regularly interacting with women and having prominent female disciples. The letters of Paul, meanwhile, also have progressive verses concerning women and mention women in positions of authority in the early Church. Rather than seeing verses that seem to express limits on the equality between man and woman as such, she takes the position that Pauline letters of questioned authenticity were forgeries created by orthodox Christians to establish Paul to be a specifically orthodox Christian - as the reader may recall, Valentinus claimed to have been initiated through Theudas, himself claimed to be a disciple of Paul. Pagel believes that Paul is best seen as a figure who is both proto-orthodox and proto-gnostic, who the orthodox then co-opted. Pagel is careful to note that these generalized trends are not absolute; even in texts that seem to affirm women among the gnostics, the rhetoric of the feminine is used to negatively describe things. The Dialogue of the Savior, which sings praises of Mary Magdalene, nonetheless requires the readers to “destroy the works of femaleness” - that is, sex. In the Gospel of Thomas, Salome is told that she must become a man in order to enter the kingdom of heaven: that is to say, one must transcend the natural (and thus female) to become divine (male). Clement of Alexandria, meanwhile, was an orthodox figure who viciously attacked gnostics, but nonetheless spoke of God in feminine metaphors, including that of mother. He also praised famous women throughout history, Christian and non-Christian, in his Paedagogus. The reason that the orthodox community took this position is not clear; as one historian said, the only certainty is that it happened. Pagel notes several suggestions that are possible; that the influx of hellenized Jews into the Christian movement is one proposed cause. Another possible cause is that Christianity moved from the lower class, which divided labor between genders more evenly, to higher classes. [One possibility, one not brought up by Pagel, is that the rise of the gnostics themselves are the impetus for the change; Pagel had mentioned that many gnostic groups centered their movements around figures on the periphery of orthodox Christianity, which may have caused early Christians to double-down on stances already moderately held].

[livingwellnessblog]

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/against-heresies-book-i-anna-back/1146033619?ean=9798331436049

AGAINST HERESIES! Book 1. Learn how to justify the Bible and the Christian faith no matter who is asking.

[anastpaul]

One Minute Reflection - 28 June - '... I will say that you are My benefactor and that I am in your debt.'

One Minute Reflection – 28 June – ‘… I will say that you are My benefactor and that I am in your debt.’

One Minute Reflection – 28 June – “Month of the Sacred Heart” – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A, Readings: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16, Psalm 89:2-3,16-19, Romans 6:3-4, 8-11, Matthew 10:37-42 and the Memorial of St Ireneaus (c 130 – 202) Father and Doctor of the Church

“Whoever receives you, receives me and whoever receives me, receives the one who sent me.” … Matthew 10:40

REFLECTION– “The…

[silvestromedia]

Saint of the day August 23

STS. ABBONDIO AND IRENEAUS, MARTYRS ON THE VIA TIBURTINA

St. Tydfil, 480 A.D. Welsh martyr, reportedly from the clan of Brychan. She was slain by a group of pagan Picts or Saxons and is venerated at Merthyr-Tydfil, Glamorgan. Wales.

St. Ebba, 870 A.D. Martyr Abbess of Coldingham, England, on the Scottish border, called “the Younger.” She and her nuns were martyred by Danes in an invasion. She mutilated her face to discourage rape by the invading Danes. The raiders set fire to Coldingham, killing all of the nuns.

St. Eugene, 6th century. Irish missionary to England who became the first bishop of Ardstraw, in Tyrone, Ireland, now Derry. He is also listed as Eoghan, Enny, and Owen. He was born in Leinster, Ireland, and was a relative of St. Kevin of Glendalough. Kidnapped as a child, he spent years as a slave before returning to Ireland. There he helped St. Tigernach found Clones Monastery in 576.

St. Philip Benizi, Roman Catholic Servite cardinal and preacher. Aug. 23

St. Rose of Lima, Roman Catholic Dominican Nun the patroness of Latin America and the Philippines

STS. ZACHARY AND ELIZABETH,

[artistsintheclassroom9]

Wisdom 2.0 2018: Day 2: My (Primarily Visual) Notes

Wisdom 2.0. Hilton SF Union Square. March 2018. San Francisco, CA

Disclaimer: As with all of my published notes from workshops or conferences, these are in no way comprehensive. Nor are they a literal summation of what was said. They are simply my notes, my interpreted, perspective-ed reflections, photos, and jottings, that occasionally combine my own records & thoughts with those of the speakers. There might be some typos.

Spark Joy: The Magic Art of Tidying Up | Irene Au | Marie Kondo: 

YaY for decluttering! ❤️

The Unexpected Rewards of Uncertainty & Discomfort | Leo Babauta (Zen Habits): 

Building Community: Supporting Meaningful Human Connection in the Digital Age: Soren Gordhamer (Wisdom 2.0) | Radha Agrawal (DAYBREAKER) | Konda Mason (Impact Hub) | Heather Gallagher (Burning Man): 

Old Dharma Brothers in Conversation: Mindfulness, the Diamond Sutra, and A Mind at Home with Itself: Jon Kabat-Zinn | Stephen Mitchell: 

The #MeToo Movement: Silence Breakers & The Call to Action: Soren Gordhamer (Wisdom 2.0) | Tarana Burke (me too.): 

Much respect 🙏🏽 ❤️❤️

Thrilled to be taking part in SIYLI's 2018 Teacher Training Program beginning in April 👍🏽👏🏽✌🏾💪🏽🖐🏽🙏🏽 Perhaps, I might one day serve as a bridge between SIYLI & SFUSD (?)

Day 2 Recap - Woot Woot! 🙌🏽 

Related:

Wisdom 2.0 2018: Day 1: My (Primarily Visual) Notes

Wisdom 2.0 2018: A Bridge Between SIYLI & SFUSD (?)

Wisdom 2.0 2018: Day 3: My (Primarily Visual) Notes

Wisdom 2.0 2018: Thank You! ❤️

SIYLI’s 2018 Teacher Training Program - Can’t Wait! 🤗

[artistsintheclassroom8]

Wisdom 2.0 2017: Day 1: My Notes

Disclaimer: As with all of my published notes from workshops or conferences, these are in no way comprehensive. Nor are they a literal summation of what was said. They are simply my notes, my interpreted, perspective-ed reflections, photos, and jottings, that occasionally combine my own records & thoughts with those of the speakers. There might be some typos.

Palace of Fine Arts | Innovation Hangar. February 2017. San Francisco, CA

Technology & The Election: Lessons Learned and How to Move Forward | Justin Kan (Twitch) | Dave Marin (Slow Ventures) | Rob Goldman (Facebook):

Change, forward momentum, moving forward, going back & making America great again.

Creating systems that are representative of what the people want…

Information bubbles.

We consume (and provide people with) content that confirms their existing biases.

Increasing economic inequality.

Economic inequality is bad for everyone.

Onboarding vs. Off boarding.

Talking about problems and providing no solutions.

Transmitting the knowledge of entrepreneurship.

Conversations we have in Silicon Valley at nauseam.

Should robots pay taxes?

The products many of us build are used by everyone.

Facebook is being used to change communities…

A good job of measuring outcomes.

A good job of targeting.

Where is Facebook going?

Making a global, virtual community - a place we all want to live in..

Creating “Groups” that are meaningful to people.

The medium is the message.

We’re shifting to an Internet based society.

Having a lot of mixed feelings about your work.

Using a digital tool to get people together in the real world.

Healthy information (can’t read my notes)..

Having a well informed community is important.

How do we that in short-form format?

Live streaming your life.

What are the consequences of all these machine’s we’re building?

Creation vs. Consumption

“We’ve revolutionized the way our economy works in our past..”

“You can say one wrong thing on the internet, and have 150,000 trolls attack you for a year and a half.”

Trauma, depression: You open the internet and experience _______ for two years, and it has an impact on you. (Yes! It was like the shift at my sites, but flipped around.... Every day I’d go home – and still do – feeling the weight of that; Slowly but surely, it starts to wear on you.)

Amazon has opened their first store where there are no humans.

You have a large group of people out there with the sentiment: “Who’s going to protect us from this changing world?”

There are jobs, and then there’s happiness.

There are no easy answers here.

The first thing you need to do to get out of prison, is know that you’re in prison.

There’s only so long that you can stretch something before it breaks.

The community in this room is having a conversation that deserves to go mainstream.

Can Technolgy Support Mindfulness? Exploring Apps, Wearables, and Mindful Living | Tristan Harris (Time Well Spent) | Alex Tew (Calm.com) | Irene Au (Khosla Ventures):

The attention economy.

Instead of competing for attention, how about we compete for what kind of positive contributions we’re making.

How do we raise awareness, and get our attention back?

A set of behavioral recommendations…

A smartphone is like a car; You can go to all of these amazing places, but they also isolate us, and pollute the environment.

“I’m pretty optimistic that technology will eventually solve the problems it creates.” – Alex Tew

Leveraging FB, and leveraging Twitter.

A playbook of behavioral change principles.

How technology hijacks your mind.

Snaphat’s the #1 way that teenagers communicate.

What is ethical persuasion? What is unethical persuasion?

The difference is that their goals in designing this are not the same as why kids are using it.

How do we illuminate these conversations?

A respect for autonomy.

There’s a huge elephant in the room in our industry.

A reasoning style – a way people use to justify….

Given tech’s scale & ubiquity…

Its' engineers are its'….

How do we align….

Everyone in the community has a responsibility for the flow of information.

Design Ethics.

Their choices organize this city (Apple, Google, and Facebook).

If you’re just trying to get your thing to work, you don’t’ have the luxury…

In companies, groups that are trying to reduce bullying on-line, are under-resourced.

Most books these days are too long.

We need to teach kids how to manage their attention at a really early age.

“Giving  people the tools to be the masters of their own attention.”

Tip: Turn off notifications from anything that isn’t a person. (YES!)

Really taking a microscope to your own experience and asking yourself “Why did I do that?”

Race, Justice, and Mindfulness: Addressing Society’s Pain, Inequity, and Disenfranchisement Through the Lenses and Practice of Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion - A Dialogue | Rhonda V. Magee (USF School of Law) | Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness Teacher / MBSR):

Addressing societies inequality & disenfranchisement.

Looking at the historical intersection between race & law.

What does it mean to be a democratic, political community?

A look back: Making White-ness a prerequisite for becoming a naturalized citizen.

Creating a world that works for us -- do we really mean Everybody??

White people often feel really uncomfortable talking about this…

The work of making our institutions & societies as inclusive as possible.

Segregation & re-segregation is a real problem.

Are we open to for the conversations that have to do with how we’re packaged?

How does mindfulness support all of these issues?

There is a certain element of preaching to the choir, because a lot of the people who we want to join us at this conference, couldn’t afford to come. And they live right in this city! (YES!)

The hardest things to wake up to are the things we ignore.

Implicit Bias.

We only see through our own conditioning.

We tend to be very self-centric.

Implicit mental models.

We need to help each other wake up.

And get out of our comfort zones. (YES!).

The Body Politic: All of the cells of the body need a blood supply.

What mindfulness can do in its broadest sense, is help us recognize the interconnectedness of all of us.

As soon as we start to get into descriptors, pain and ignorance arises.

Social Justice is not some kind of second daughter phenomenon.” – JKZ

It is absolutely at the core of mindfulness.

Recoiling and looking away from the “other” is a form of violence.

My well being is intimately connected with yours.

How do we know that, and engage deeply with the suffering that’s in our midst? 

“Whatever justice looks like for me, it has to include you..” - JKZ

“Being at the cutting edge / redefining what it means to study the law..”

We need to bring this to the heart of the social / planetary contract.

We are so “wounded” already – can we meet this suffering with love & kindness that includes us all?

“Whatever brought you here, trust that – it’s trustworthy” – JKZ

A Manifesto For Challenging Wisdom In Challenging Times: Guidance For Cultivating A Fierce Heart | Konda Mason (Impact Hub Oakland) | David Foecke, Spring Washam, Kimi Mojica, Larry Yang (East Bay Meditation Center):

Deep inclusion & compassion, community coming together.

East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) – a gift economy based meditation center.

The intersection of Dharma & Social Justice, and Changing & Challenging the Status Quo. ....

Fear, danger, hyper vigilance.

“We are here in this together, whether we like it or not.”

“If you have come to help me, then you are wasting your time…. But if you’ve come because….”

To move society forward, our strategies must be driven by our interconnectedness.

“victim thinking” & “victim blaming”.

We need more human, human-beings.

The issue of diversity & inclusivity.

“Who’s in and who’s out?”

Opening to diversity is not just a noble idea, it opens to wisdom & compassion..

The diamond left unpolished.

This journey of awakening is not supposed to be comfortable – please get that (!!)

“Every new group needed us to change something a little bit.”

There’s something profound about widening your circle.

Every time I open a door, I grow.

White people are going to be a minority in this country soon.

White people turning their mindfulness to their mindfulness to their White privilege (YES!).

“What privilege only shows up with “the other”.

Systems theory.

Market economics is exclusionary by nature.

Changing the operating system to make this room look more like this country (YES!)

Our operating system – our countries operating system – is a choice (YES!).

Mindfulness in systems matters, if you’re trying to affect the world.

Choosing to use our privilege to build systems of inclusion.

An equal emphasis on ethics & integrity.

Our ever-quickening evolution or devolution.

Integrity = Doing the right thing when no one’s watching.

Walking the highest path, even when behavioral norms are at the lowest.

Is standing with / standing by those voices that have less volume than others.

Holding to all these principles, even when there is an infinite number of distractions.

What is our moment to moment practice?

Integrity is not a personal practice, but a collective one.

Yay! Excited to be here :)

What a great first day! 

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Ireneaus, goes by Irene (genderqueer, asexual, biromantic) he/him, they/them, she/her

In a pre-apocalyptic universe, cyborgs and humans are deepest enemies. Irene runs a home for cyborg children that were abandoned by their human parents, and fights for cyborights in a human dominated world.

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by Ireneaus Herok