Comments for Women's Space http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2 WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:28:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on The End of Capitalism by rachael http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/28/the-end-of-capitalism/#comment-25238 rachael Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:52:25 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2489#comment-25238 Thanks for this. I've re-posted it. I really struggle with the claim that capitalism is a acceptable economic system for Christians to embrace. Thanks for this. I’ve re-posted it. I really struggle with the claim that capitalism is a acceptable economic system for Christians to embrace.

]]> Comment on Healing, Beauty, Laughter by Sis http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/06/25/healing-beauty-laughter/#comment-25237 Sis Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:25:16 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2483#comment-25237 I was re-reading this today because of another experience I had. It was with a rock (one of many I've had with rocks, the most profound usually) and a lichen that attaches itself to that particular type of rock. I sobbed, just like that walking by. It stopped me, and I sobbed. it just rose up out of me. Although I live over 1,000 miles from where I last saw that type of rock, I knew it. I knew it's spirit. And the homeowner confirmed it when I saw him outside his garage, and asked. Yes, it came from where I was born. He is a geologist. Not woo. I was re-reading this today because of another experience I had. It was with a rock (one of many I’ve had with rocks, the most profound usually) and a lichen that attaches itself to that particular type of rock. I sobbed, just like that walking by. It stopped me, and I sobbed. it just rose up out of me. Although I live over 1,000 miles from where I last saw that type of rock, I knew it. I knew it’s spirit. And the homeowner confirmed it when I saw him outside his garage, and asked. Yes, it came from where I was born. He is a geologist.

Not woo.

]]> Comment on Jamie’s House by twitch http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/06/25/jamies-house/#comment-25236 twitch Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:20:31 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2484#comment-25236 Hi Heart, I always like to read your prose -- so evocative. You put human faces to these statistics. Still, I try to think with my head more than my heart. Your neighbors thought they were buying a home, but what they were really doing was taking out a loan on a house that the bank owned. They invested their dreams in that house, but it was never really theirs. And that's the grand illusion in this country where tax codes give huge breaks for the interest on home loans but penalize people for making capital gains on investments. Houses not yet paid for are a weird kind of investment -- you pay and pay and pay, and only after 30 years or so do you have that "security" that you so much crave. But you've paid 2x or 3x the original price of the house by that time. I think most of us would be better off if we rented and put our savings into interest-bearing accounts, bonds, our own businesses, and yes, even stocks. We might still lose some of our money, but we would not be confusing an investment with a loan from the bank. I can only hope that Americans of all stripes will approach real estate and home-buying, in a more rational, financially educated way after this latest bubble-castastrophe. Hi Heart,
I always like to read your prose — so evocative. You put human faces to these statistics.

Still, I try to think with my head more than my heart. Your neighbors thought they were buying a home, but what they were really doing was taking out a loan on a house that the bank owned. They invested their dreams in that house, but it was never really theirs. And that’s the grand illusion in this country where tax codes give huge breaks for the interest on home loans but penalize people for making capital gains on investments.

Houses not yet paid for are a weird kind of investment — you pay and pay and pay, and only after 30 years or so do you have that “security” that you so much crave. But you’ve paid 2x or 3x the original price of the house by that time. I think most of us would be better off if we rented and put our savings into interest-bearing accounts, bonds, our own businesses, and yes, even stocks. We might still lose some of our money, but we would not be confusing an investment with a loan from the bank.

I can only hope that Americans of all stripes will approach real estate and home-buying, in a more rational, financially educated way after this latest bubble-castastrophe.

]]> Comment on The Way of All Ideology by Jane http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/26/the-way-of-all-ideology/#comment-25235 Jane Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:52:02 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2488#comment-25235 Heart, I've been wrestling with a lot of things, in the spiritual....today I wrote this, pass it on, I think, I am beginning to understand what the mystery of iniquity is and why it works the way it does--about how anger at injustice, the force, the Destroyer, is unleashed and why we are all guilty to some degree--too much to say here but, well, read and let me know what you think. This has been difficult in dealing with a lot of these spiritual issues with God, this past year, a lot of walking through darkness and facing demons, including my own--and grasping as to Why the dark is such a Strong Pull, not just due to wrongs done to us or to those like us, but through out all our ancestry and to the earth. http://homesewersneedleworkersunion-hsnwu.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-robber-barons-destroyers-and-killers.html Love, Jane Heart, I’ve been wrestling with a lot of things, in the spiritual….today I wrote this,

pass it on, I think, I am beginning to understand what the mystery of iniquity is and why it works the way it does–about how anger at injustice, the force, the Destroyer, is unleashed and why we are all guilty to some degree–too much to say here but, well,

read and let me know what you think. This has been difficult in dealing with a lot of these spiritual issues with God, this past year, a lot of walking through darkness and facing demons, including my own–and grasping as to Why the dark is such a Strong Pull, not just due to wrongs done to us or to those like us, but through out all our ancestry and to the earth.

http://homesewersneedleworkersunion-hsnwu.blogspot.com/2010/07/to-robber-barons-destroyers-and-killers.html

Love, Jane

]]> Comment on When Death Comes by Level Best http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/24/when-death-comes/#comment-25233 Level Best Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:48 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2487#comment-25233 We all love you, Heart. You're our peaceful resting place and moral touchstone. We all love you, Heart. You’re our peaceful resting place and moral touchstone.

]]> Comment on The Way of All Ideology by julia http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/26/the-way-of-all-ideology/#comment-25232 julia Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:49:07 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2488#comment-25232 I'm so divided....listening to Andrea Dworkin's speech in Montreal, 1991, she says that when men get angry, they do something. When we get angry, we don't. Hugs to you, Heart. I’m so divided….listening to Andrea Dworkin’s speech in Montreal, 1991, she says that when men get angry, they do something. When we get angry, we don’t.

Hugs to you, Heart.

]]> Comment on Human by admin http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/06/14/human/#comment-25231 admin Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:06:57 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2477#comment-25231 Thanks for that, FlowersForBrandon, I like. <3 Thanks for that, FlowersForBrandon, I like. <3

]]> Comment on When Death Comes by admin http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/24/when-death-comes/#comment-25230 admin Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:06:25 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2487#comment-25230 I love you wimmin. <3 I love you wimmin. <3

]]> Comment on When Death Comes by rmott http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/24/when-death-comes/#comment-25229 rmott Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:11:33 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2487#comment-25229 Thinking of you with all my heart. My grief for Dad and my stepdad is becoming part of my skin, but it the grief for all the pain I have had to live through is got unbearable. That is the reality of grief for far too many women. Thinking of you with all my heart. My grief for Dad and my stepdad is becoming part of my skin, but it the grief for all the pain I have had to live through is got unbearable. That is the reality of grief for far too many women.

]]> Comment on When Death Comes by rachael http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2010/07/24/when-death-comes/#comment-25228 rachael Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:53:30 +0000 http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/?p=2487#comment-25228 Thanks for this. There are days when I forget that I have to be able to leave this world knowing that I really saw it. Thanks for this. There are days when I forget that I have to be able to leave this world knowing that I really saw it.

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