'I am willing to serve my country; but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a God is to bring a curse upon it.'

- Rabindranath Tagore

Its 214am and all I can think about is how badly I want a cigarette...damn you flavor country.

• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which ( Read more... )

Its as if I just awoke from a nine month sleep and only now am I able to shake off the dust and haze that comes with it. But that really isnt the interesting part of what is happening. The interesting part is that it only took me two hours to snap out of whatever slothful, deceptive, and destructive phase I was stuck in ( Read more... )

Is this the age of uncertainty or will I always be this uncertain.

Im not sure which answer is more favorable.

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/10/15/071015fi_fiction_boyle


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Barber Paradox (Russell's Paradox) - Back to the Paradoxes

Analogue paradox to the paradox of liar formulated English logician, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell.
There was a barber in a village, who promised to shave everybody, who does not shave himself (or herself).
Can the barber shave himself and keep the mentioned promise?

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Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark and so it all began

Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones come marching in, again
The need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are ever-ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done bleeding ignorance at your defense
Spinning and fill it deeper
The wheel is spinning me
It's ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_cia_lawsuit;_ylt=Ak97Md2_gn9QCJLbfbR_HK6s0NUE

Supreme Court rejects German citizens claim of misconduct by CIA.

"The Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal from Khaled el-Masri, 
effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be 
revealed if courts ( Read more... )