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Emigration and wonderlust
For the very few of you who may be unaware, I have migrated to two other locations:- Four-Sentence Reviews - wherein I write four sentence reviews about films
- Pursuing the way... - wherein I keep a personal blog
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On an Enlightened society -
I am tired of racists, of ethnocentrists, of people who make sweeping assumptions so they can sleep at night.
I am tired of elitist consumers, of self-righteous heir-apparents, and of self-serving pretentiousness.
I am tired of cynics, pessimists, and the weak excuse that "we cannot actually achieve anything, so why try?" We can. And I do.
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a Meditation on Mastery:
a) the Savant - A person who, through genetic fortune, is biologically suited to a particular skill. This cosmic gift is associated with a wide range of peculiarities, many of which can impede a person's ability to use their gift or to otherwise participate normally in society.
b) the Zealot - A person who, through any number of motivations, ( Read more... ) -
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I encountered this poem today and I found it compelling in a number of ways.
It returns me to concepts I treasure: Faith. Perseverance. Hope.
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
by: Dylan Thomas
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean ( Read more... ) -
Quote
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
-- Ken Keyes Jr., Handbook of Higher Consciousness
Yes, I am sure there are numerous Jews and Armenians who will be very happy to know this. -
Inspiration...
Some days, people inspire me. -
The form of writing
Writing cannot exist without a physical object onto which it can be set down. A complex connection unites the two. The surface comes first, prior to the represented signs. Whether it is something arbitrarily chosen from existing things or a created artifact, it is a space that had to be invented and accepted and integrated within society. It is ( Read more... ) -
a reading...
I have been sick the last three days. I am feeling better today but am still rather weak. My work continues, regardless, and in my Egyptian reading I came across this beautiful spell - a spell against bad dreams. I found this spell to be particularly interesting because it summons Isis, a mother goddess, to come and banish the bad-dreams. How ( Read more... ) -
A meditation on history proficiency
She said, “I’m bad at Asian history”.
She flourished the comment with a smile that indicated she was comfortable with that fact. I overheard the comment two weeks ago and it struck me as peculiar - not because it is uncommon, just the opposite; because it IS common.
-- What does it mean to be bad at history? --
It means one is content with ( Read more... )
