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This is the vibration of the set for this vision of the cartoon featuring The Mighty Mos Def and Busta Ryhmes.

Yes, I used the title from the ODB tape. I think it fits the concept of the cartoon perfectly.
the Mighty Mos Def
Me and the Mighty Mos, shine like a light pose“- Busta Ryhmes from “Do it Now”

This is a Brooklyn based cartoon, centered around a close bond between Mos Def( Yasiin Bey) and Busta Ryhmes, as teenagers. They are average young urban kids moving with a mission, and compared to others in the hood, these 2 Got it Made. The 2 have militant magic and the aura is wrapped in love for each other. Its riviting, its 2021 Fat Albert and the kids, its the Boondox, its classic hiphop nostalgia. Culture, heavy science and history becomes the New Danger. They move all around Brooklyn, from Bedstuy and Flatbush to Downtown and back to East NY, parading a mist of love and justice.

Each episode they have a cypher or a moment they communicate with rhymes. Grooving to the beat of there own drum, the eat patties from Errols Bakery on Fenimore and Flatbush before 8 am mos mornings.

There crew usually knows exactly where to find them at certain times of the day. At noon, these 2 can be found on Mos’s grandmothers block on Decatur and Marcus Garvey Blvd and btw 4pm and 7, they usually rhyming in Prospect Park or hanging by Nostrand and Lefferts. Its always a vibe for the evening time either in Rockaway Towers in the East or somewhere on Church ave or Clarendon.

Of course there are other characters that expand the experiences with Mos and Busta. They study, smoke and rhyme with Jeru, Black Thought, and Sean Price mos days. They meet up to eat and laugh with Qtip and Dave Chappelle on the regular. Rosie Perez is there main homegirl. She where’s a hoodie that reads Everything Remains Raw on it. Bushwick Bill is Busta’s cousin who introduced them to Qtip. Qtip lives in the same building with his best friend Dave Chapelle ,and brought him to cypher one day in Prospect Park. Mos recognized Dave from there acting classes in the city and the bond was solitified. Ali Wong is Rosie’s right hand who dates her brother Bobbito Garcia. Bobbito is a DJ who becomes very close to Mos and Busta by default. Solange and Storyboard P are the 2 younger crew tag alongs who are raised on the same block as Mos Def. Busta’s older brother Buju Banton has a baby with Mos Def’s older cousin MC Lyte and they named him Joey Badass.

Bobbito’s sister

Other characters are Samuel Jackson lol, who playes the record store owner, who sells everthing from weed and incense to african jewlery and art work. His children are Spike Lee and Erykah Badu, who usually run the shop. And more.

Mos Def and Busta Rhymes glow as dolo personas, but together they take flight. The gangstas look out for them, the crips let them live, the elders feed and direct them and the block hugs them with sounds and smells that raise there level 360. You see it in how Mos sports his hats, and gives his salaams. You feel it when Busta smiles and lights the spliff. There right step is the BOOM, and when they bus out the left its mos definitly the BAP.

The intro song choices vary from there collab, “Do it Now” from Mos Def’s first solo album, to maybe the instrumental to ” Hot Shit” from Busta E.L.E album.


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In This Moment

what if it matters?

Happy for now.  Somehow the good feeling spikes each time I hear a chop of the machete, eight floors down by the cobblestone street.  Seriously, cobblestones.  Does anyone around here realize how valuable is the texture of cobblestones set in cement?  Even more, the irregular pattern, the patches, the inconsistency of it. How nearly impossible it would be to recreate the depth of experience and history of these Mexican cobblestones.  And someone has planted bougainvillea in the hairpin turn down there. The commons works well enough for me in this pinnacle of costly condo development above Puerto Vallarta.

The cathedral bell tolls, like a gong, quickly and frenetically.  Not like Italy, any of this, yet so much like.  I look forward to Spain–I have no idea how cathedral bells toll in Spain.  And just like that we’re out and driving around the Bay of Banderas towards the airport to go home.  Am I happy now?  It’s so hot and dry and, commercial, out here on the busy highway.  I haven’t seen any of the poorer parts of Puerto Vallarta.  Our cab driver says he lives out in the country with three horses.  I gather he’s fortunate.  He speaks calmly and intelligently on a range of topics from the benefits of Spanish to the distance one can see land across the ocean.  He delights in counting the horses beside the road and complements my wife on her Spanish.  The handmade bracelets and the dolphins are behind us.  The frantic cathedral bell.  The walks in the morning to get coffee and sweets.  The quick debates about where to catch a taxi.

Mexico, I don’t question your charms.  What better way to reflect upon them than to next see Spain? Though the idea resonates the moment isn’t happy.  Strange, because now I’m back in the Bay area, though I don’t have to work tomorrow I feel frustrated.  There is talk about our cute dog, oohing and ahhing at photos of her exploits while we were abroad, the kids bang their water bottles they’ve found in the back of the airport limo, and I have a headache.  I feel like everything in the car is happening inside my head as everyone seems to talk at once.  Perhaps it’s just me.  If I relaxed a little maybe I wouldn’t mind so much?  That presupposes I can let go of the pressure I feel to perform so I can travel more.  Let go and be happy.  Maybe I ate something with gluten earlier.  So the headache could be from that.  Welcome home!

I remember sitting on a beach at the end of another trip to Mexico, also Puerto Vallarta.  I’d been traveling that Winter, first to Hawaii, then Mexico.  As we prepared to return home, with our two very young children, I sat with my youngest on the beach while she played on the sand and I watched the sunset from a beach chair next to her.  I said to myself “We’ll come back as often as we like.”  Then life whisked me away, back to California.  And the kids grew up.  I won’t say we came back As Often As I Liked, but I eventually got to plan a train trip with my daughter and read Calvin and Hobbes to her.  Years later I did get to walk down to a restaurant on the beach at Old Town with my son and write while he played on his computer.  From the restaurant I could just about see the Melia, up the bay, where I’d sat most of a decade earlier watching the sunset while my infant daughter played in the sand.  And the decade hadn’t been all bad.  And I could have told myself again that I could come back as often as I’d like.  But I didn’t.  And my son is two-thirds of his way to eighteen, and in ten years these childhoods will be gone.

The Great Outdoors

It’s the name of the dining area I’m at with my kids on the stern of the smaller mega-cruise ship coming into Victoria. The fruit is ripe today and the captain announces it’s sunny. Fresh ground coffee from the machine. Breeze light across my face as the kids play on a computer.  Some magic happens and I later think this moment on the deck came after Victoria.  There’s nothing after Victoria — we wake up and we’re on the dock in Seattle again and the electricians are tearing open the ceiling panels in the hallways and the show has ended.

Back in Oakland remembering this trip — I mainly feel a desire for a vacation (vacation from the vacation), to sit by the pool at a Mexican condominium, to walk past the pool in the 9 AM morning cool and see a caretaker cleaning and know I’ll be able to sit next to that pool later, in a languorous early afternoon with a drink.  The kids, happily playing…  There may be a discussion of heading downtown to the beachside cafes.  There must be a way to not complain that pools on cruise ships are crowded and not relaxing.  Part of the Mexico vision I’m having is the ground doesn’t sway under my feet and it’s quiet, so quiet and empty in that condo complex, except for that one worker tending to a hose, or probably walking off to check on something elsewhere.  Probably not even around, in the cool morning uphill from the beach resort, with the fresh-cut grass and the little broad-leafed plants everywhere about the pool.

Had a gluten-free waffle in Berkeley after my seventeen-day trip to Seattle and Alaska.  Good enough.  Main thing is my choice to go there — I don’t usually get to.  The Heirloom where I got my waffle is particularly disliked by others in my family.  It seems there isn’t enough salt.  And true, some or most dishes are odd, even undesirable.  So how can I complain if they complain?  The problem is I’m seeking an experience significantly about anticipation and the process of discovery.  So knowing a lot of the dishes are wacky doesn’t stop me wanting to go in, appreciate the manicured garden, sip their yellow turmeric digestif and anticipate the gluten-free desert and waffle.  Found medium-rare meatballs to eat with the waffle.  More than good enough.

At a place in San Francisco I haven’t previously liked, Volta.  In the city officially to get a new wallet because mine’s falling apart.  Truly here to reclaim sanity, the process of coming to Volta shaded by intent different than culinary pursuit, intent to survive emotional hits, intent to establish a beachhead of sanity.  Pretty sure that’s what I do most of the time.  Is that what we all do, or am I different?  A song plays here by Carla Bruni; I don’t understand a word.  That’s the point of it being French.  Someone told me that I’m only happy for ten minutes when I’m sipping Cabernet — was that the same person who told me, earnestly, that I’m much more easy to get along with when I’ve been drinking?  I have found a good Cabernet and I enjoy Volta.  And I’m certain that I must sometime more thoroughly evaluate that statement from years past about the drinking.  There is a Buddhist teacher who says your neuroses come to light when you drink?  All right well we all know it is used as a social lubricant…  Laughter from another patron coming in with her partner mingles with a song, Autumn Leaves, still no English.  Volta is a concept and they have a good playlist.  I could live a long time on Dr. Who episodes and the Volta playlist.  So what if their herring tastes like it comes from that same Costco jar at home?

And the trip?  Seventeen days, maybe more, following several in Santa Clara for the Olympic Trials.  And the Intel museum.  Busy month.  Wondered the whole time whether my job was bringing me forward in life.  A good question not necessarily best asked while traveling, but then again what better time?  The answer, now I’m back for the first day in weeks?  Not nearly enough.  Daniel Amen, M.D., publishing writer, says we’re supposed to think positive thoughts.  My thought is I’m not accelerating in my career.  A seventeen day trip tells me that.  Tells me I must get moving again, and faster.  Who knows, with a few gluten-free waffles, an occasional trip to a Mexican poolside, and lots of writing and reflection, I may become more productive and successful in real estate sales.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.  Instead of travel now it’s the day-to-day.  If I write quickly, eating this halibut chowder supposedly-not-full-of-cream at Volta, listening to their music skipping forward when a song comes up the powers-that-be don’t like, will that save me?  I remember wanting to go on the submarine ride at Disneyland and I was too small.  The image of burning blue flames from a little highbrow bar-restaurant on College Ave in Rockridge right on the border of Berkeley and Oakland reflects the locus of desire for beauty imprisoning me.  Burning.  On my way to a pricey restaurant I didn’t previously like, passing two choices closed up or at least not open on Mondays, I walked over so much human urine and past so many lost homeless and was asked over and over how to get somewhere or buy a BART ticket, and so came to doubt my quest was valid, began to feel myself a tawdry lost soul wandering in the 11:40am August heat, the stink of urine rising up to the sun and the gods and the empty wasteland of the sky.

While I ponder, the soup I just ate sits for the moment happily in my stomach and I buy a copy of the song Birds by Emiliana Torrini and remember being in Florence writing for a month and can’t help wondering whether I can just write and somehow all will be OK.  My client who has corresponded with me for three years about selling his building texts me that his knee is much better.  Real estate brokerage is such a tease.  Can I work for several hours and then write, suspended amongst several pinion points — kids demands: travel, activity and dining options limited by them.  Work demands: time and life choices limited by those?

Victoria was beautiful.  I got my family to go to a little gastropub in the young Canadian suburb with only moments (hours, minutes) to stop before our cruise set sail.  Ended up a late night on the ship.  We made it back.  Our final stop, bracketed by breeching orcas and pushing my chair in on the cruise deck for the multitudes to pass while I sip my coffee while the kids delve into their videogame.  A whole pod of orcas, by the way.  But Victoria, so small, so green and humble, the pub in a nondescript shopping center.  A second or third rate musician singing live while we ate mussels and I sipped red wine.  That moment with wife and kids, bracketed, but invisibly, by other events, remains in my memory as a moment of departure.  Perhaps because it was my one true venture into Canada in a seventeen day trip on its borders.  Canada was different, even more different than Alaska.  And this was the European trip called off and re-planned as Pacific Northwest because of terrorism.  And the cruise ship was the same.  So amidst the taxidermy, the outdoor passion and the nativism of Alaska, the urbane, San Francisconess-with-beards of Seattle, the hollow,  cattle-run opulence and excitement about what’s on stage of the cruise ship, rests this tiny gem of European flair.  And upon my return it falls to me to choose celebration of that which is worthy or losing myself in details that don’t matter in the end.

I feel so much better.  Sitting down with my kids at Namaste Indian cuisine listening to the soundtrack of the latest Ballywood release, finishing a small cup of Peets coffee.  Finished.  The beat goes on.  My kids eat and read and burp.  Now my son reads over my shoulder, trying to delete what I’ve written, and, upon being told to keep his hands to himself, concludes that an alien has taken over his father’s body.  Now I feel out of breath from arguing with him…

There’s a movie I want to be really good, London Has Fallen. They probably advertise it on the sides of buses, I’m guessing, because fans rate it almost a perfect five stars while the critics Fandango surveys give it 28 out of 100.  Experience indicates that means it’s a bad movie.  Saw it.  Was what it promised.  Wisdom from main character to bodyguard: “I never criticize my children,  just teach them to treat others as they would want to be treated.”  There you go.  As long as you can twist that into killing lots of people who get in your way you have a morally intact action movie…”Thank you so much for shooting me, that was just what I deserved.  Glad to be of service: I would appreciate the same in return if I were an enraged terrorist…”  Take note, if you read the Magicians series (is this a spoiler, or just a general characterization of the weird vegetarian god?) of Umber wiggling his goaty body eagerly in anticipation of being killed…  So it does happen, at least once in the history of literature (does Socrates count as an example also?).  All right who knows maybe there are legions of heroes asking to be killed (Martin Eden, The Awakening, both about heroes who come to themselves and then drown themselves on purpose…).  Wait, my point was meant to be that those terrorists in London Has Fallen surely didn’t want to be killed, but the tidal pull of our morality is strong, the deadly and apparently deranged Other, so scary that it’s easy to be drawn under.  Yet wait again, they were revenge seekers, and that is classically an end in itself whether the seeker of revenge lives or dies the cycle continues until it burns itself out.  Maybe the US President quoted in the movie actually would want the same treatment if the roles were reversed (If I’m nothing more than a tool for revenge then put me out of my misery)  Wait, he actually did make his Bodyguard promise to do exactly that.  When we’re willing to give up our lives things become so filled with potential.

And now?  The coffee has worn off.  A couple of weeks later it’s late afternoon.  I kind of had a nap and I’m here again in this quiet room I set up for writing.  One problem with this setup is since I always write about whatever is in the moment, that’s going to pretty much be me sitting in this room, right?  But isn’t a monk supposed to sit in a cell, a meditator sit with closed eyes, mystic use whatever is present even when not a lot goes on?  That’s right.  And this monk just at a cold linguica sausage.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  Now I feel like I can’t get enough water and air and standing and stretching to get all that orange grease to…do whatever it’s supposed to do.  Late afternoon, no coffee, orange grease…a miracle I’m still writing.

How about this.  I’m noticing this weekend every dad at gymnastics, soccer and the school band performances looks and acts just like me.  Not one or two of them.  All.  They talk sardonically to their buddies, look furiously at their cell phones, talk too loudly to their children so that everyone around them is offered the chance to overhear their worldly wisdom, even stand around looking forlorn and gray.  Weird.  Are they all exactly fifty, neighbor-challenged, tired from dealing with kids who no longer think daddy knows everything, and looking for what happens next in their lives?  So much for being distinctive and unique because I have a feeling these men are indeed all in roughly the same place I am.  Berkeley Dads with time for kids.  Kind of cute.  Much cuter with coffee, or with internet that works well enough to look up the word “linguica.”  There, finally.  Bad spell-check, underlining a properly spelled Portuguese sausage.  OK, I’ll forgive you because you helped me spell Portuguese, and OK.  And just thinking about drinking coffee tomorrow morning makes me fell better, sausage notwithstanding.

French Hotel.  Fall.  Berkeley.  With my Americano I have the sense of times past, Italy and train stations, of wandering freedom.  An older woman sails across the cross walk towards where I sit.  She looks so much like a man I’m sure she is for a long time.  But as she stands and talks with the other elders gathered outside the cafe I see something feminine in her features and then that she wears a dress.  The elders have this guy with them that I’ve seen many times before who is clearly autistic.  They talk as though they’re having a council meeting.  Anyway, not that the dress is definitive, just that it confirms by observation that the person’s features are distinctly feminine.

I’m waiting for pickup time for my kids.  Late in the day and only three p.m.  There’s something old-style about this cross walk with all the old people using it, as though a bridge back to the sixties and seventies, whether by way of seventy-year-olds who were in their twenties and thirties then, or by way of people in their twenties and thirties who carry yoga mats and dress in seventies styles now.  What’s the difference if you put them into a place like Berkeley where all can focus internally on their own life path?  The youngsters have more natal chi, but they waste it.  The elders floating across the cross walk or gathering for their meetings hoard it and use it…to what end?  The circle: young frivolous seriousness and old serious frivolity.  Where is my coffee; this is a bit much for my fifty-year-old brain, halfway between thirty and seventy.  But those ages don’t matter, do they, all in the mix.  More important I’m half-way between 20 and 80.  Those are real ages, moments in life when we’re something unmistakable.  Logical follow-on question: at fifty, am I an unmistakable age, or am I unmistakably mistakable in my place in this continuum?

The cross walk is an old crossing in front of the BMW’s and Acura’s today.  Actually I bet it’s newer than the traffic lights at the two nearest corners.  A mid-block cross walk to a cafe.  Those cars have to stop or-at-least-slow-down while oldsters and youthful acolytes drift across their way like ducks or metal targets. Microcosm of Berkeley.  The French Hotel, Gourmet Ghetto next to the cross walk is not gourmet and seems the opposite of ghetto.  The opposite of a ghetto would be a truly integrated city, and Berkeley isn’t.  Berkeley is nearly a ghetto town in which each ghetto is a ghetto of one single person living a fantasy of his or her own.  How well I fit with the misfits…

I feel my most recent work here was one of those targets, floating through time, shot down by an undeciphered error message while I sat at a little table in a new restaurant serving oversize sushi rolls.  Sumo.  I trusted their wi-fi network, thought I was so smart, and all the updates since the elder crossing were lost.  Now I climb from Sumo to the Rotunda at Neiman Marcus.  This feels like a ladies’ place with all these salads.  I mean tell me if I’m wrong about that, I didn’t even look for the steak, just accepted what they suggested for me; I always love trying the press-button solution.  And it’s good.  I would hazard to say it’s better than what they have at the Nordstrom Bistro on top of that institution.  And the wine seems pretty good.  I’d love to see a comparison of how much food, wine and experience quality you get for the dollar at different places.  Can you guess my guess?  I propose it would be the-more-you-pay-the-better-it-is.  I know practically everyone who writes about things or pursues things tries to get a deal, tries to see how one thing is better than another for reasons other than price.  Do you see the fallacy?  All these people writing about things and thinking about things are the ones making sure that it’s an even playing field: if one restaurant is a relative bargain then everyone will want to go there and try it (long lines theory of quality).  If a restaurant is overrated in terms of price per increment of value then fewer people will attend and I can’t help thinking it will be in a hotel (or a department store?) and people in pajamas will be nursing coffee refills at three in the afternoon, or a stampede will be there at 9:30am if you happen to be there then.  The point: my wife says I’m a hedonist and I’m having a pretty darn good glass of wine many floors above Union Square at 2:30 in the afternoon.  I bet the people around me are filthy rich but what do I care, I’m not going to try to proselytize them, in fact I’d rather read about the downfall of the Comanche empire a century and a half ago than look at their pale white hair, their clenched Asiatic jowls, or listen to them go on about how the project the one hired the other to do was so…successful?  Just a project.  I bet the white-hairs have made real contributions to the University of California, San Francisco, the Asians own a lot of San Francisco property and I’ve called them on the phone before, and the interior designers know someone whom I could use for both my home remodel and the exterior project in North Oakland.  Just being practical, there is no way in I’m going to approach any of them.  Oh well.  I find in writing this out I’ve actually generated a wish to do exactly what I am saying I shall not do, make contact.  Deep breath.  Other projects first.  Maybe in a dining car on a train through Russia.

Break. Work for several hours, receive relentless complements on my cuff links, sweater, hat and tie, buy Christmas presents for the kids, read about the Comanches, eat, drink wine and write.  That’s a perfect day. I found a Chinese restaurant in a Chinese mall today with a tiny front filled with hanging ducks and went back inside to where they don’t speak English well.  The hostess shooed another patron over so I could sit at the big round table and there I read about the Comanches and ate steak with brownish sauce.  Good.

How many things I could do.  I didn’t expect to find presents for the kids here at this other mall (Nordstrom, Westfield) in San Francisco.  But I did. There’s a building I’m selling that I’d really like to look at, but as darkness falls and I’m burdened with two bags of presents I won’t venture into that neighborhood.  Not the plan but here’s what is:  another day. I’ll come back (maybe tomorrow!) and I’ll see that building. God help me my source of energy is this balance of personal pursuit with work.  If I had gone up to that building today after already exceeding the planned time on real estate work it would have led me to a place where I’m less happy, less successful, less alive.  Dangerous abyss one skirts working for oneself, working sales.  I must keep some balance or lose all hope.

Fall.  Nordstrom Bistro.  So many meetings this week and last week. I’m swimming in them.  December 16.  That’s Fall, but barely.  So many meetings that my life is swim, meet, eat, family.  Answer emails and make a few calls. Field questions from clients. Write. Wonder why it feels like a treadmill. Start over the next day.  I’m on the outside looking in at my life, in a way.  How can I get back in?  Hello, you at the table at the Nordstrom Bistro, listening to Frosty the Snowman, sipping Cabernet, asking your assistant to do things for you.  Yes you.  You’re buying a charmed life.  Hope the tab isn’t more than you can pay.  Hope you’re having fun.

And you know what?  I am having fun.  For seventeen years now I’ve been grinding away at real estate and I actually like real estate.  So that’s lucky. I like writing too, and the real estate seems to support that as the late almost shortest-day-of the-year sun reflects off a seven story building for a moment into my eyes atop Nordstrom.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Democracy, Israeli-style

The Palestinian Authority is scheduled to hold Parliamentary elections in January - a valuable step towards making the Palestinian government accountable to its people and resolving some of the problems in the de facto Palestinian state. Now Israel is threatening to stop Palestinians in East Jerusalem from voting - explicitly because they might vote for the "wrong" candidates. The similarities with Egypt ought to be obvious...

The "wrong people" in this case being these guys, which makes it rather more understandable if not excusable.

Posted by stephen : 12/22/2005 12:38:00 PM

I would much rather Hamas were seeking change through the ballot box than terrorism. Israel's actions seem calculated to confine them to the latter strategy.

Posted by Idiot/Savant : 12/22/2005 01:16:00 PM

If peopel want to vote for hamas they must be allowed to. Unless you really wnat to say "democracy is wrong". And if that is your position you should be honest and say it.

Posted by Genius : 12/22/2005 04:09:00 PM

Genius: what I am saying, which I will now do in annoying detail, is that Hamas' constitutional aim is to impose Islamic rule through armed struggle over all Palestine, which they define as including all the territory currently held by Israel.

It is therefore not surprising that an Israeli government might try and stop them from winning an election.

I acknowledge this is wrong, but it is understandable. I/S' phrase "the wrong people" is quite disingenuous, because he omits the important information about WHY Hamas might be considered "the wrong people". Hamas are "the wrong people" because they are constitutionally bound to pursue armed struggle against Israel, and hence a Hamas win commits a Palestinian state to war or terrorism or both.

I/S, Hamas is bound by its convenant to Jihad (see article 13 of the covenant, for example). They don't have an IRA/Sinn Fein-style split of military and political wings, and cannot abandon warfare. You statement implies a belief that they can choose the ballot box over terrorism; one over the other. I think it is far more likely that they choose both.

Posted by stephen : 12/23/2005 09:59:00 AM


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To the Editors:

It’s depressing to see a misunderstanding of the eleventh- and early-twelfth-century Sufi philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali play such a prominent role in Professor Steven Weinberg’s essay “Without God” [NYR, September 25]. The quoted discussion of cotton burning occurs in Problem XVII of al-Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers. Al-Ghazali simply makes the same point as Hume in explaining that there is no logical necessity to, or “demonstrative proof” of, causality. According to al-Ghazali, even God has no power over the “Impossible” (e.g., the affirmation of something and its denial), but “what is not impossible is within power.” We do not normally think that Hume’s reflections on the foundations for our “presupposition” of causation in any way undermined science. I’m not aware of anything in al-Ghazali, any more than in Hume, that suggested we approach the world without that “presupposition.”

Contrary to Professor Weinberg’s understanding, al-Ghazali did believe that “laws of nature could [be] reconciled with Islam.” In the same Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali writes (in Preface Two of the 1963 English translation by S.A. Kamali): “If you tell a man who has studied these things [natural laws]…that these things are contrary to religion, your assertion will shake his belief in religion, not in these things.” Just before that, al-Ghazali explains, “He who thinks that it is his religious duty to disbelieve such things is really unjust to religion, and weakens its cause.”

As he explained in his Alchemy of Happiness, al-Ghazali viewed the physicist as “like an ant who, crawling on a sheet of paper and observing black letters spreading over it, should refer the cause to the pen alone.” Because al-Ghazali believed there was a God behind the laws of nature did not mean he denied the existence of those laws, nor in any way discouraged their exploration, any more than he would deny there was writing on the sheet of paper traversed by the ant.

Readers interested in al-Ghazali’s views on causality can find a useful article, with citations to al-Ghazali’s writings, at

Bob Lockner

Chicago, Illinois

To the Editors:

Professor Weinberg’s belief, based on his own anecdotal evidence, is that religion has become significantly less important in the lives of Americans, and that science has played a significant part in this change. I would like to suggest that he review statistical studies of this phenomenon (e.g., those summarized in Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Professors Pippa Norris of Harvard and Ronald Inglehart of Michigan). These studies, which are designed to eliminate public opinion bias, show rather convincingly that although religion has become relatively less important in the lives of people in Western Europe and Eastern Asia, religion is of increasing importance to Americans.

Americans are very different in their beliefs from most in the postindustrial world but compare most closely with the citizens of countries in South America and the Middle East (see Fig. 10.2, p. 226, in Sacred and Secular ). The importance of these cultural differences between peoples around the world is substantial, including, as Weinberg mentions, the potential for great harm between those of different beliefs. In 2009 at the University of Michigan, a graduate fellowship in sociology will begin with its focus being the study of such social phenomena.

Norman Bodine

Founder Bodine Graduate Fellowship in Sociology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

To the Editors:

…Professor Weinberg’s peroration is a stoic account, self-aggrandizing as all such accounts must be, about the great struggles and trials that must be borne by we happy few, we band of brothers, who have learned to live without God. (Friedrich Nietzsche, that great theologian malgr lui, knew better: the so-called death of God is a much more cataclysmic event than we have yet come to understand.)

He includes a greatly exaggerated report of the demise of religious poetry, buttressed by the wholly unsubstantiated claim that “little English-language poetry written in the past few decades owes anything to belief in God.” In addition to sweeping away many fine poets (Geoffrey Hill, David Middleton, Janet Morley, Micheal O’Siadhail, Rowan Williams), this time frame insulates itself from critique; since when is twenty years long enough to determine which poetry is “great”? Moreover, science was already well in the ascendancy before Eliot, Auden, and R.S. Thomas came along, yet somehow they managed to soldier on.

The final straw is Weinberg’s truly laughable claim that “none of [Shakespeare’s] work seems to me to show the slightest hint of serious religious inspiration”—a notion that would provoke derision from even the most ardently secular Shakespeare scholar. Apparently, Professor Weinberg’s wholesale lack of serious engagement with theology has blinded him not only to the biblical allusions that dominate the plays, but also to their consistent focus on intensely theological themes such as the quality of mercy, the hollowness of revenge, and the absolute necessity of forgiveness—all filtered through a specifically Christian lens.

But at least Weinberg counsels the use of humor, so I will add that my own thoughtful essay on “The Phoolishness of Physics” will surely appear in these pages shortly.

David S. Cunningham

Professor of Religion Hope College Holland, Michigan

To the Editors:

When Steven Weinberg speaks of a “widespread weakening of religious belief” he seems to focus on belief in the supernatural. While such traditional religious belief exists today, I appreciate his admission that “for some there is also a sort of spirituality that Emerson wrote about,” which Weinberg himself claims not to understand. Albeit that acknowledgment, he still wonders “how long religion can last without a core belief in the supernatural.”

What needs to be affirmed is that there is a basic and ongoing quest of the human spirit, directed beyond itself, that is not weakening, let alone dying out. Reinhold Niebuhr alluded to it when he wrote that “the essential homelessness of the human spirit is the ground of all religion.”1 Augustine of Hippo referred to it in The Confessions when he acknowledged that “the heart of man is restless until it finds rest in Thee.”

Rather than emphasizing a diminishing of belief in the facts about God, as does Weinberg, I would stress, out of my long-term experience as a pastor, that for many people today, within and outside our churches, the ongoing searching nature of the human spirit continues to be vital and strong. Indeed, it frequently involves the discovery that there is something deeply personal at the heart of existence, a realm of the spirit that is gracious. I believe William James was alluding to this realm of the spirit when he wrote: “Beyond each man and in a fashion continuous with him, there exists a larger power which is friendly to him and to his ideals.”2

Edward Castner

Presbyterian Minister (retired)

Wallingford, Connecticut

To the Editors:

Steven Weinberg’s stirring article—“Without God —may provide the clue to what I have been searching for and he wishes to sponsor: how to live without God, and without despair or cynicism.

His arguments about the usual objections to atheism—unexplained phenomena, human exceptionalism, Islamic rejection of laws that limit God, and the nature of authority—are thoughtful and, by my lights, sound. He ends his piece by calling on human beings to buoy their courage and face the reality that there is nothing after death, which, writes Weinberg, “…makes cowards of us all.”

Does it? Must it? As an aging Episcopal priest, who has led worship and suffered many slings and arrows for questioning ancient authority, I not only do not fear the nothing of death, but largely, I think, thanks to being immersed in ancient texts and rituals that, as many now understand, were not about facts, nor about an alternative reality, but about the wonder of finding ourselves in this unlikely existence, have become satisfied, even grateful, for being here for this rich moment in cosmic history.

There was an infinity before these cells came together to offer this consciousness aÂ ride nearly seventy years ago, and soon entropy will provide for them to disassemble this consciousness for at least another eternity.

Sadness? Yes. I find just about every major shift in my reality can evoke sadness. Would I wish this consciousness would go on forever? I don’t think so. I am grateful to have grown from infancy to childhood, childhood to adolescence, adolescence to adulthood, adulthood to old age. Like most I hope I may die before my consciousness succumbs to a senescence that robs me of my enthusiasm for all this.

Religion has had as much as anything to do with the grotesque human sense that we are different, not a part of everything else, not subject to the same forces. Once I understood myself as an odds-against result of a chance encounter between a madly swimming sperm and an egg, the rest has seemed like footnote.

The most religious I can imagine is the gratitude (Eucharist) I feel for this lucky happening. My religion has become learning to pay attention to the endless details as they unfold, and to try, best I can, to show in my life how thrilled I am to have been here. And, as Mary Oliver put it, “…when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

Reverend Blayney Colmore

Jacksonville, Vermont

Steven Weinberg replies:

I am grateful to the many readers who sent letters commenting on my article, either to these pages or directly to me.

I don’t agree with Mr. Lockner about the role of the Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali in the history of Islamic science. For one thing, the points regarding causality made by al-Ghazali and David Hume were very different. Al-Ghazali’s argument in refuting “he who would assert that fire is the agent of burning: or bread is the agent of the satisfaction of hunger: or medicine is the agent of health”3 was that it is God on each occasion who causes burning or satisfies hunger or bestows health, and God could just as well on any occasion cause a miracle: burning without fire, or fire without burning, and so on. Hume did not believe in miracles; he simply argued that it was not possible to prove the relation between cause and effect. Further, when al-Ghazali said that “these things” studied by philosophers were compatible with religion, he was not referring to general natural laws, but to specific astronomical predictions.

Of course, I agree that al-Ghazali did not think that there was no relation at all between cause and effect; I can’t imagine that he went around putting his hand in fires. But al-Ghazali did not think that exploring these relations was a good thing. He compared astronomy and mathematics to wine. Wine strengthens the body, but is nevertheless forbidden; similarly, astronomy and mathematics strengthen the mind, but “we nevertheless fear that one might be attracted through them to doctrines that are dangerous.”4 This leaves the question, to which I did not claim to know the answer, whether al-Ghazali’s influence worked significantly against the survival of science in the world of Islam. Certainly many Muslim scholars have thought so, from Ibn Rushd in the twelfth century to Syed Ameer Ali and Pervez Hoodbhoy in the twentieth.

Mr. Bodine is incorrect in saying that in my article I argued that religion has become significantly less important in the lives of Americans. Indeed, I acknowledged that many Americans fervently believe that religion is a good thing, and get quite angry when it is criticized. My point was that even among those who feel this way, many Americans do not seem to have definite beliefs about the supernatural: God, the afterlife, and so on. Following Mr. Bodine’s suggestion, I have reviewed the statistical studies of secularization summarized in the book by Norris and Inglehart. They rely on surveys that ask whether the respondent believes in God, or heaven, or hell, or life after death, or that people have a soul. As I said in my article, I don’t trust such surveys, because I think that many nominally religious people think it is a pious duty to say that they believe these things, whether they believe them or not. I also think many of them have not examined what they believe, because what they seek in religion is not belief, but affiliation, ceremony, moral guidance, and spiritual uplift.

I did not claim any scientific evidence for my opinions, but now some indirect evidence has turned up. The surveys cited by Norris and Inglehart also ask about church attendance, and here (unlike questions about belief) the answers can be checked, by actually counting the participants at church services. Studies show that “the self-reported figures are subject to systematic and consistent exaggeration, due to a social desirability bias concerning churchgoing in American culture.”5 If such problems arise in judging something tangible like church attendance, how much more are they likely to intrude on surveys of belief? Incidentally, Norris and Inglehart also report that “secular tendencies may have strengthened in America, at least during the last decade.”6

Among the poets cited by Professor Cunningham, Geoffrey Hill is certainly a significant contemporary poet, some of whose poems deal with religion. But Hill’s interest in religion seems mostly to arise from its relevance to the history of England. I don’t get any feeling from his poems that they are inspired by religious belief, of the sort that inspired Vaughn, Herbert, and Hopkins. I was not familiar with the poetry of the others named by Professor Cunningham (although of course I have heard of Rowan Williams as the current archbishop of Canterbury). I borrowed a book by David Middleton, and I have to admit that his poetry does show religious inspiration, and that IÂ liked it. Unfortunately our central library at the University of Texas (one of the largest university libraries in the country) does not have books of the others’ poetry, and IÂ couldn’t find their poetry on the Internet, so I can’t comment on them.

About Shakespeare, Professor Cunningham doesn’t indicate what authorities would disagree with me, so I have to rely on my own reading of Shakespeare’s work. He of course wrote in a religious time, and about religious times, so churchmen necessarily appear as characters in Shakespeare’s plays and his language naturally draws on many words and ideas from Christian traditions. But I note that his clergy are generally worldly schemers, like Winchester in Henry VI or Canterbury and Ely in Henry V or Wolsey in Henry VIII, or they are marplots, like Friar Lawrence, or prigs, like the priest who refuses to bury Ophelia in hallowed ground. More significant, few if any of his characters are motivated by religious belief. It’s true that Hamlet tells himself that he would commit suicide if the Almighty had not fixed His canon against self-slaughter, and that he would kill Claudius if the king were not at his prayers, but aren’t these just more of his excuses for delay? Where Hamlet seems most sincere, as in his meditation on the skull of Yorick, he is least Christian. Shakespeare does write about revenge and forgiveness and mercy, but when he brings in supernatural characters, they are fairies and sorcerers, not saints or angels.

Mr. Castner is right that I focus in my article on belief in the supernatural. I can’t help but care whether the “larger power” of which William James wrote has an independent existence, outside humanity, or is something we have created or like to imagine. It’s just a guess that in the long run there will be enough people who care about what is real that the decline of religious belief will lead to a decline in the other trappings of religion.

The Reverend Blayney Colmore acknowledges that the ancient texts and rituals in which he has been immersed as an Episcopal priest were not about facts but about the wonder of finding ourselves in this unlikely existence. I share his sense of wonder, and I hope that he will not be offended if I cite his remark as an example of what I mean by the decline of religious belief. I have to add that, perhaps through his life in his church, Reverend Colmore has evidently gained a courage and a sweetness of temper that I can only envy and admire.

Two corrections: As a reader points out, Will Herberg was a theologian and a religious figure, but not a rabbi. Also, I should not have included Lisieux along with Paris and Oxford as a site of scientific advance in the fourteenth century. I was thinking of Nicole Oresme, bishop of Lisieux, but as another reader informs me, Oresme lived in Lisieux for only two years, and his scientific work was done in Paris.


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How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? The Christian life is a life of faith. The object of our faith is the wonderful person, the Lord Jesus Christ and his full and complete salvation. Our “faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). When we hear the word, something within us rises up to believe what we’ve heard, and spontaneously “the faith” becomes “our faith”. In this collection of “psalms, hymns and spiritual songs” we are encouraged to pursue the Lord in full assurance of faith. Our love for Him increases and the comfort in times of trial also increases, as we spend our days beholding Him and breathing Him in. We rejoice in Him, praise Him, and enjoy His full salvation freely. Thus we are enabled to live Christ, our victory! Our prayer is that all who hear these hymns and spiritual songs would have their faith strengthened, and that in every place their faith toward God would go out (cf. 1 Thessalonians 1:8).

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Filming Mad Max: Furiosa Has Anya Taylor-Joy Excited for Two Big Reasons

Mad Max: Fury Road is arguably the best action movie of the 2010s. Starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in the lead, the film was an astonishing feat in action filmmaking. Though the oscar-winning film didn’t exactly set the box office on fire, it did enough to warrant a sequel. Fans have been demanding a follow-up film for years and finally, their wish has been granted with Mad Max: Furiosa, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy.

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The Mad Max prequel, titled Furiosa, is based on Charlize Theron’s eponymous character and will release in summer 2023. But it won’t star any of the actors from Fury Road. Instead, Anya Taylor-Joy will portray the role of Imperator Furiosa in her origin story. And according to Miller, Furiosa will span many years. “Whereas Fury Road essentially happened over three days and two nights, this happens over many years,” Miller said recently during a press conference.

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Taylor-Joy recently sat down with her Emma co-star Josh O’Connor on Variety’s Actors on Actors series. From O’Connor playing Prince Charles in The Crown to Taylor-Joy’s experience on her breakout Netflix role, they talked about a multitude of things, including Anya Taylor Joy’s projects that aren’t The Queen’s Gambit. Here is what Taylor-Joy said when O’Connor asked her when she starts filming the Mad Max prequel.

“No. I’ve got a grace period until August, and then I will be working back-to-back until mid-2023. The thing that makes me most excited about Furiosa is, No. 1, George Miller. That brain is incredible. I’m also really excited to do something physical. To physically become something else is something that will weirdly give me a lot of peace.”

Alongside Taylor-Joy, Furiosa also stars Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. All three have been on a tear lately. Abdul-Mateen is starring in high-profile films like Aquaman 2 and The Matrix 4. Taylor-Joy played a chess prodigy in Netflix’s Emmy frontrunner The Queen’s Gambit and will be next seen in Edgar Wright’s Psychological Horror Last Night in Soho. Hemsworth is starring in Thor Love and Thunder and will play Hulk Hogan in his biopic. Hemsworth and Abdul-Mateen’s roles are under wraps, though it is certain that neither of them will play Max Rockatansky. Miller returns to direct Furiosa with a screenplay he co-wrote with Nico Lathouris. Why Theron and Hardy aren’t returning remains a mystery.

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron didn’t get along while filming Fury Road. One of the reasons was a long grueling shoot in the harsh Namibian desert. After a terrible test screening, the film underwent reshoots further amplifying the toxicity between the actors. George Miller was also on the receiving side of some of Hardy’s outbursts. But, at the film’s Cannes premiere, Hardy publicly apologized to Miller.

Maybe that’s the reason why Mad Max: The Wasteland, Miller’s proposed sequel to Fury Road, wasn’t greenlit by Warner Bros. Though both Hardy and Theron eventually reconciled and have expressed a desire to reprise their roles in other Mad Max movies. A lawsuit Miller filed against WB regarding profits from Fury Road also delayed the sequel. But everything seems to be on track now. WB is probably trying to determine if fans are still interested in a Mad Max movie before going forward with other films. After all, Fury Road’s budget was around $180 million and it barely made it back. Hopefully, Miller and WB are on the same page now and things go smoothly. We look forward to see Hardy and Theron in future Mad Max films.

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Joel L. Duberstein, M.D., age 81, died after a long battle with cancer on Nov. 6, 2018.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 11:30 a.m., at Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, 68 Old Short Hills Rd., Livingston, N.J.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised in Bayonne, N.J., Dr. Duberstein lived in Short Hills, N.J., prior to residing recently in West Orange, N.J. A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Medical School, he served in the Army as a major during the Vietnam War.
He was a distinguished physician specializing in pulmonary and critical care, practicing primarily at Overlook
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Dr. Duberstein was an avid tennis player, and he enjoyed travelling, discussing politics, and most of all, his family.
Dr. Duberstein is survived by his beloved wife of 53 years, Judith Duberstein; his two children, Laura Lindberg and Amy Duberstein, and their respective spouses, Alan Levine and Nancy Mahl. He was the loving and beloved grandfather of Jack, Matthew, Julian, and Luca.
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In 1969 I was stationed at Valley Forge General Hospital where I met Dr. Duberstein on the tennis court. We became doubles partners and won the VFGH doubles championship. We then went on to West Point Military Accademy for the 1st army tennis tournament. Having been drafted I could not have asked for a better assignment and the privilege to know him. I wish I would have kept in contact with him.
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May the God of all comfort strengthen the family during this time of deep sorrow. Those who pass on, God keeps in his memory because they are precious in his eyes. My sincerest condolences. (Psalms 116:15)
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The Lives of #BAME OTs in 2020 explored via CMOP-E – Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement

I was invited by @LecturerMish to follow @DLafayette411‘s example and conceptualise BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic – UK Term) lives through an OT Model. Now being unable to stick to one tweet and not go overboard I’ve written this.

CMOP-E – Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement

This model describes the relationship and influences between these elements (Spirituality, Person, Occupation and Environment) which enables occupational performance. That is the ability of a person to perform occupations and daily engagements.

Entered the profession to make a difference. Core identity as a member of a BAME community, family and the OT Profession. May feel incongruity with core values and beliefs and current situation.

Cognitive – Mind can’t switch off, memories of past injustice mix with current situation. Need space to process. Emotional reasoning does not equal illogical reasoning.

Physical – Added concern about the increased physical health risk of covid to BAME populations. Bombarded by sensory images of racism.

Affective – Tired and worn down, frustrated and angry, upset by being asked to relive past trauma. May also be energised by the momentum for change. Additional anxiety created by pandemic.

Self-Care – Possibly neglected or may not be being prioritised. Need to focus on mental health and safety.

Leisure – I would imagine fairly limited especially in terms of enjoyment. Constantly engaging in debate, reading news/social media. Favoured occupations may be sidelined.

Productivity – If still working the form of this will have changed placing extra demands on the person to work in different ways. Engagement in activism as a productive co-occupation.

Physical – Lockdown has removed access to certain parts of society where people may have sought support. May feel like there is no sanctuary as home has become where everything takes place.

Institutional (includes Economic, Legal, Political) Possibly feeling unheard by professional and regulatory bodies and workplaces. Wanting to affect change but having little power to do so within current structure. Finance may be difficult at the current time meaning less able to act on needs. Political environment is a mess compounded by Brexit – feels unsupportive. People also appear to be conflating politics with human rights. #BLM movement driving impetus for change.

Cultural – Conflicting cultures. Family, ethnicity, professional. May struggle with the professional or overarching British cultural attitude of stiff upper lip, keep calm and carry on. Focus is on connecting more to culture around ethnicity at present – that’s where attention is needed. Family may or may not support this depending on familial make-up – do family members share BAME backgrounds and understand concern?

Social – Usual support groups not as accessible, experiencing tone policing online from those who aren’t used to discussing racism. Seeking social support from allies to take on some of the load. Co-workers may not ‘get it’ especially where you are the lone OT from a BAME background.

In this model the environment is recognised as an underused resource and one that we need to capitalise on.

Not included in the model but I’d add in the Historical environment here too. This isn’t about what has just happened. It’s about all the things that have come before, all the personal microagressions, all the injustices. They aren’t blaming others for the past environment but it still impacts massively on the present and needs acknowledgement (and yes even if you/they weren’t alive when it all happened).

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Reaffirm core belief of self and validation of the person as a their member of their BAME heritage. Help articulation of goals and desires for this period.

Support strategies to manage stress and switch off. Prioritise sleep, nutrition etc. Person needs to be healthy to be most effective. Examine reasoning and explore thoughts and feelings. Risk assessment re physical well-being in workplaces. Recognise that everyone is individual. Some BAME OTs may not want to/feel able to engage at the moment and that is their right.

Refocus on self care and restorative leisure occupations. Recognise that energy will need to be spent differently during this time though. Respect that activism is a valid occupation – explore different forms of activism. Possibly reduce demands of some occupational areas to compensate at this time, eg. Housework. That’s always the first thing to go with me at least!

Locate a safe space, a place or time where can just be themselves.

Find a social support network of like minded individuals to bounce ideas off and share the load. Include white allies to support this.

Challenge structural and institutional inequalities and demand change. Allies need to do this too. Professional body/workplace could take more responsibility for leading change allowing BAME OTs to contribute as able without feeling burdened.

As a white OT I have aimed to use the model to empathise with the lived experience of my BAME colleagues. Any mistakes are entirely my own. Do feel free to comment if you agree or disagree with anything I’ve written. I will listen.


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