#humaness

[protoslacker]

“When I heard him say that, I realized that he was talking about Auntie Rosary,” Jollene Levid says, speaking about Rosary Castro-Olega, a 63-year-old nurse who came out of retirement to work in hospitals strained by the pandemic. Castro-Olega’s death helped inspire an online memorial called Kanlungan, which honors the lives of health-care workers of Filipino descent

Jollene Levid quoted in a podcast reported by Tracie Hunte and Gabrielle Berbey in The Experiment. The Sisterhood

KANLUNGAN is intended to be a memorial to the transnational people of Philippine ancestry who make up a huge sector of the global healthcare system.

[lioninsunheart]

"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible:  The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.  If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."

-  Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, 1996, p. 101

[umachkupiterinu]

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."  - Shannon L. Alder 

"If you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language."  - Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun  

"I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit."  - Charles de Lint 

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."  -  John Holmes   

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."  - John Bunyan

[thatheathen]

Civilization has made us uncomfortable with our human-ness because these various technologies and phonetic alphabets and things like that have rearranged our sensory ratios from what they were in Paleolithic times. In a sense, [psychedelics] hit your reset button, they address the animal body, they address a deeper level than cultural conditioning, and so you feel and experience these atavistic images and feelings that civilization has repressed or transmuted in you.

Terence McKenna 

[blkmoonlilith]

A Quiet desperation

Tic Toc Tic Toc goes the earthly clock; it robs us and restores us at the same time. Yet it remains and reminds us of our fragility. We are continuously arriving and beginning all the while evolving into something different with each moment. In quiet desperation,we find a keepsake that will bring us comfort and a sigh of relief, to get us through the night, to embrace another day. Growing up,…

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[chatbotsworld]

Setting aside the creepy factor, people don’t need or want AI created in their image. By examining how our attitudes towards visual and auditory media have changed in the last decade, we can identify a less anthropomorphized but more rewarding future for intelligent technology.

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[rachelmuellerlust]

The Need To Feel Productive

The Need To Feel Productive

I guess it is due to how I was socialized—how most of us were socialized—that I have the need to feel productive all the time. It is very difficult for me to just be. This is particularly the case if I have already set a specific goal for myself. For instance, I have a goal to publish a blog every Tuesday. If I haven’t determined what I am going to be blogging about I can get very frustrated. I…

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[protoslacker]

There are so many ways to be human, but all too often our own modern and mainly urban societies are used as the yardstick for what is universally human. We have so much to learn, not least about ourselves, from the largely undocumented and endangered linguistic and cultural riches that are out there.

Niclas Burenhult quoted in a story by Vittoria Traverso at Atlas Obscrua. Found: An Unknown Language Spoken in Single Malaysian Village It has no words for ownership and lots of ways to talk about sharing.