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VIDEO: "Knock on the Door" by Phil Ochs, updated and performed by Ben Grosscup


Anti-ICE Protest: "Knock on the Door" by Phil Ochs, updated by former executive director of The People's Music Network, Ben Grosscup, performed in Northampton, MA , January 11, 2026

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As long as we are trying to achieve a psychological result, as long as we want inward security, there must be a contradiction in our lives. I do not think most of us are aware of this contradiction, or if we are, we do not see its real significance. On the contrary, contradiction gives us an impetus to live; the very element of friction makes us feel that we are alive. The effort, the struggle of contradiction, gives us a sense of vitality. That is why we love wars, that is why we enjoy the battle of frustrations. So long as there is the desire to achieve a result, which is the desire to be psychologically secure, there must be a contradiction; and where there is contradiction, there cannot be a quiet mind. Quietness of mind is essential to understand the whole significance of life.

From The First and Last Freedom

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#meditation
#psylosophy
#life
#day21

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Run from rumored video showing ICE agents chasing 'bathtub viking' protester


The video allegedly showed a protester wearing a viking helmet and costume while riding in a bathtub on wheels to escape numerous ICE agents.


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Really interesting documentary. From inside Russia! Must watch.#putin #russia #ukraine #war


A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.



A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

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The engineer has been taught how to achieve certain physical results by the application of the knowledge man has gathered through the centuries, and you have been taught how to achieve certain inner results by controlling your thoughts, cultivating virtue, doing good works, and so on, all of which is equally a matter of knowledge gathered through the centuries. The engineer has his books and teachers, as you have yours. Both of you have been taught a technique, and both of you desire to achieve an end, you in your way, and he in his. You are both after results. And is God, or truth, a result? If it is, then it’s put together by the mind, and what is put together can be rent asunder.


From Commentaries on Living Series 3

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#meditation
#phylosophy
#day20
#life

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Outwardly, you discipline and renounce, you chart your course, step by step, to reach the end. You measure the progress of your achievement according to the standards of virtue: how you have given up this or that, how controlled you are in your behaviour, how tolerant and kind you are, and so on. You have learnt the art of concentration, and you withdraw into a forest, a monastery or a darkened room to meditate; you pass your days in prayer and watchfulness. Outwardly, you have made your life simple, and through this thoughtful and calculated arrangement, you hope to reach the bliss that is not of this world. But is reality reached through external controls and sanctions? Though outward simplicity, the putting aside of comfort, is obviously necessary, will this gesture open the door to reality?


From Commentaries on Living Series 1

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#meditation
#phylosophy
#life
#day19

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in reply to Grymt

Ik vloek met je mee. Waarom.moeten altijd weer de radicale democratische krachten geopolitiek het onderspit delven. Waarom weer, voor de zoveelste keer, worden de Koerden genaaid. Het is om helemaal gek van te worden. Mijn solidariteit hebben ze, onvoorwaardelijk. Ga de straat op, steun ze, sta naast ze.
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