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[gospelofthekingdom]

I really want to get posters of resistance for my house/room--much like what you find in various Catholic Worker Houses.

Does anyone know where I could find some?

[locusimperium]

lukexvx said: i’m banking on this program too. is it pretty easy to do?

Well, nobody has successfully used it yet because it only started in 2007, so we’ll see in two years if it actually works as planned or if it’s a gigantic clusterfuck.

How it should work is that your employer (typically the HR person) signs on to a form with the identity of the eligible organization, and you submit that form every year/whenever you change jobs, and you also maintain records of on-time student-loan payments under any eligible plan. As long as your loans are direct & not private loans, they will be forgiven after 120 (not necessarily consecutive) monthly payments.

the major catch is that the amount forgiven counts as taxable income in the year of forgiveness. and if you’re using it with IBR or PAYE (which is really common because hello, nonprofit jobs, not much $$), the low payments mean that your total loan burden can still be massive after ten years. If you aren’t expecting it, that can result in you suddenly owing thousands of dollars (if not tens of thousands of dollars, depending on your loan burden + your salary at the time) to the IRS. 

[mourning-diary]

lukexvx replied to your photo:Quite happy with the most recent paperbacks I’ve...

i need to get into this stuff, you worked at a library before or are you just learning yourself?

I learn everything from this channel, it’s so soso helpful. Tutorials in particular that I’ve used are making a book press, perfect binding, making a text block, how to make a hardcover book (that I’m using now). You can look for anything you need on there, including materials. They’re relatively cheap and the results are really surprising, depending on which materials you use, though, but it only took me a few attempts to get a book I was really happy with. I’m still using standard a5 printer paper for the text but I’m looking to get some proper ~industry stuff~ when I can afford it.

As for the texts themselves I usually find them online, format them and make any adjustments on word or something and then print them on my home printer. B/c of copyright it’s pretty much only texts that are made by people who’ve been dead over 70 years.

[gospelofthekingdom]

Even the good side of activism has tended toward an overemphasis on will, on action, on conquest, on 'getting things done,' and this in turn has resulted in a sort of religious restlessness, pragmatism, and the worship of visible results. There is another essential aspect of Christianity: the interior, the silent, the contemplative, in which hidden wisdom is more important than practical organizational science, and in which love replaces the will to get visible results. The New Man must not be a one-sided and aggressive activist: he must also have depth, he must be able to be silent, to listen to the secret voice of the Spirit. He must renounce his own will to dominate and let the Spirit act secretly in and through him.

Thomas Merton: Essential Writings 'Rebirth and the New Man in Christianity' p. 67

[gospelofthekingdom]

Was tagged by Blake Baggott

In a text post list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag some friends (and me so I’ll see your list).

1. Wounded by Love by St. Porphyrios 2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright 4. St. Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony 5. The Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian 6. The Philokalia + The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology  7. The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith 8. Monastic Wisdom by Elder Joseph the Hesychast 9. What Are People For? and Bringing It to the Table by Wendell Berry [both are collections of essays so I'm counting them as one. 10. King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight

[mourning-diary]

lukexvx replied to your post:One thing that Bataille and Béla Tarr have made me...

Sorry to be that person but could I get a book recommendation on this idea :o haven’t started any bataille yet

You don't have to apologise at all, it's a complete mess and a confused mixture of Derrida and Adorno (that I told myself I wouldn't invest too much time in till I've read Critique of Pure Reason and re-started with Hegel). And in that case I'm probably going to be even more unhelpful here. With Derrida I'm mostly working with Writing and Difference (in particular Hegelianism without Reserve which is a fantastic essay on Bataille, Structure, Sign, Play, and Ellipses), Nietzsche's Spurs, and Positions. With Adorno, his Lectures on Negative Dialectics – which I think will be your best bet if you're interested in this – and Hegel: Three Studies for his analysis of Hegel, history, and Marx. Horkheimer's The Social Function of Philosophy that I reblogged the other day is helpful w/r/t philosophy's use too.