http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:38:22 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ The fact of the matter is, we’re all lying to ourselves. We want to believe it’s possible to be holy. To feel divine. We sacrifice ourselves, put ourselves on the line, with the naïve notion it pleases some disembodied voice in the sky. We look to socially agreed upon models of exemplary “spiritual” human beings and attempt to replicate ad nauseam. Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/feed/ 3 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:45:16 +0000 M. Decker http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/ Cars, cars, everywhere. From the shores of Hawaii to the mountains of New Mexico to the hamlets of northern Michigan, cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes, running rampant down the streets, possessing highways, monopolizing avenues, pompously pushing their way down lanes, drives, places, and boulevards. Running over pedestrians, bicyclists, and each other. Belching carbon dioxide, spewing oil, gluttonously guzzling gasoline, shedding rubber, metal, glass, and plastic. Shrieking, rumbling and carelessly careening in various directions at multiple speeds. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:12:18 +0000 David Blaine http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/ The quadrennial quandary, choosing between the lesser of two lechers as they bisect bilateral boundaries, splitting atoms and Adams, exporting Middle America in the making of little Americas. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/monkey-dont/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:53:57 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/10/14/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/ I had a tragic epiphany while watching Bob Barker on The Price is Right the other day [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:40:53 +0000 Rachael St. John http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/ Lies, Deceit, Shame in defeat Trading lives for moments of glory One by one the morals diminish Eating themselves alive Intimidated by the impending doom. The human race is left with Only pieces of its broken word and The horrors that penetrated the useless defenses Because nobody was valiant enough to Believe in the darkness, in the cold [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/literature/poetry/a-toast-to-modern-beauty/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:14:57 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/ Let’s be humbly honest. We don’t really know what folks are describing when they use words like God or Allah or Oneness. None of us can be absolutely sure if the beliefs entire afterlives are gambled on are the least bit valid. And even assuming the unlikely scenario that one of the world’s religions is right about everything it purports, what are the odds that you’re lucky enough to be counted among its adherents? Certainly not very high, considering the number of possible choices. Why then are most of us so sure about things we can’t possibly be sure about? [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:29:58 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/ Imagine regaining consciousness after some no-holds-barred, drink-yourself-into-a-coma, fall-asleep-in-your-own-fluids kind of party. It was fun while it lasted, but now your head aches as you surveil the dilapidated remains of last night’s hoopla. Sunday-afternoon doldrums dissolve any remembrance of dopamine-driven delight. Picture that hollow, morning-after aftertaste. The realization that maybe, just maybe, you took things too far. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/allergic-reaction/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/allergic-reaction/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:19:33 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/allergic-reaction/ When Thomas Jefferson determined the "pursuit of happiness" to be one of humankind's unalienable rights, he could not have foreseen the consequences of dangling this elusive proverbial carrot under the noses of subsequent generations. For the average proponent of free market economics, and by extension the average consumer, this phrase is synonymous with the accumulation of capital. If this notion were rooted in truth, one would expect the beneficiaries of the most successful marketplace in history - the American middle-class - to be living in a veritable state of pure ecstasy. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/allergic-reaction/feed/ 0