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The Book of Common Prayer

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PDF from the Church of England website*

from Britannica:

The victory of the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War resulted in the proscription of the prayer book under the Commonwealth and Protectorate. After the Restoration (1660) a revision of the prayer book was adopted (1662), which was essentially unchanged. After the Revolution of 1688, a revision of the prayer book was proposed in an attempt to reunite the Puritans with the established church. That proposal failed, however, and further revisions were not attempted until the 20th century. Much controversy resulted from the revision of 1927–28; it was rejected by Parliament, which suspected “Romanizing” tendencies in changes proposed for the ministering of Holy Communion. The Church of England and most of those within the Anglican Communion did, however, develop an experimental liturgy in contemporary language that was widely used; after much controversy it was fully adopted by the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States at the end of the 1970s.*

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The Apostles’ Creed

from the Book of Common Prayer*

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; The holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And the Life everlasting. Amen.

source: archived*

above version not commonly used since the 1970s; current version:

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

source: the Church of England website*

from the OED:

communion of saints: the fellowship or unity of all Christians, both alive and dead; (also occasionally) the fellowship of Christians belonging to a particular church or denomination*

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Aldous Huxley in 1958

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963)*

Also in 1958, Huxley published Brave New World Revisited. Here is a block quote from the book, with the last paragraph of the book appended:

… by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian* sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.*

…

Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

2020-10-09

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“… (now also) a mass-market product resembling this”

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nothing here now intentionally follows a path or suggests you follow one or do
anything other than see for yourself – through self-inquiry – at every moment*

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what is thought is not what is – except in the mind or by agreement

2020-09-29T15:27−08* / September 29, 2020

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self-inquiry / Ramana Maharshi (!?)

no one is other than form, feeling, perception, thought, and consciousness*

no one is as they are thought to be, nor are they otherwise*

no one need do more more than need be done to be and let be,
to live and let live, and to keep on keeping on with appamāda

!* appamāda / careful, conscious awareness: the opposite of that loss of attention that allows us to be forgetful, carried away, or lost (!?)

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asking only for appamāda, alertness, being awake to what is, choiceless awareness “at every moment and in all the circumstances of life”*
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 6, 2020

asking only for appamāda, alertness, being awake to what is, choiceless awareness
“at every moment and in all the circumstances of life” / Aldous Huxley (!?)

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David Graeber, anthropology professor, 1961-2020

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years was published in 2011, shortly before the encampments in Zuccotti Park took root. This was a disquisition on western political economies after the financial crisis in the guise of a sweeping historical account of the debtor-creditor relationship.

The book was also a call to arms. Not long after it was published, Graeber helped to establish a group called Strike Debt, which launched a “rolling jubilee,” buying up hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of medical debt and then abolishing it.

Several books followed, including an insider’s account of Occupy Wall Street, a treatise on the scourge of bureaucracy and, most recently, Bullshit Jobs, an analysis of the meaningless work that proliferates in modern economies.*

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administration moves against critical race theory

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while one might see Trump’s latest move as simply another attempt at misdirection, its more important contribution may be its portrayal of anti-racist ideas as extremist and politically radioactive, so that they should be denounced by “reasonable people on both sides,” especially Democrats*

critical theory: a Marxist-inspired movement in social and political philosophy originally associated with the work of the Frankfurt School, drawing on the thought of Sigmund Freud

critical race theory: a critical-theorist view of race

critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed: they believe knowledge has been used as an instrument of oppression; they caution against a blind faith in progress, arguing that knowledge must not be pursued as an end in itself without reference to the goal of human emancipation; and they have been immensely influential in the study of history, law, literature, and the social sciences*

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