“The less justified a man is in
claiming excellence for his own self,
the more ready he is to claim
all excellence for his nation,
his religion, his race or his holy cause.”
---Eric Hoffer.
Monday, February 15, 2021
Quote of the day.....
“A man is likely to mind
his own business.....
when it is worth minding.”
“When it is not,
he takes his mind off
his own meaningless affairs
by minding other people’s business.”
--- Eric Hoffer.
Quote of the day.....
Cancel culture wouldn’t exist
Without coward culture.
---Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi
If you have real courage....speak truth for novelty sake ......
Stop "spinning" or censoring stories
about race, and
try telling the plain truth,
if only for the novelty of it.
-----Thomas Sowell.
Quote of the day......
Many issues are misconstrued,
not because they are too complex for
most people to understand,
but because a mundane explanation is
far less emotionally satisfying than
an explanation which produces
villains to hate and heroes to exalt.
--- Thomas Sowell.
Sunday, February 14, 2021
The thing in itself....and To be deranged....
Don't make
Virtue of anything
Then you will find.....
Sin everywhere.
To care for truth....
The one.....
That does not
Care for truth will/may ....
Eventually indulge in
Monstrous acts.
Friday, February 12, 2021
A definition of life time journey.... To define oneself.....
You are not what others
Say or even See as
You may not be even....
Who you define yourself to be and
You are a definition of
Life time journey......
Through a maze of complexities
Made and Unmade by
Fellow human beings......
Irrespective of
Who you are.
Caring.....
Caring is about acting
In ways that are.....
Most needful in an
Appropriate manner
Towards all life forms.
Imitating One's Rivals.....
One should not imitate
One's rivals....
Where one falls short of ingenuity
It is wise to find a Way
A right way
For A true and
Redeemable Victory.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The nature of truth....
Truth is its own rai·son d'ê·tre.....
Cause and effect......
It does not rest
With in the domain of
Any ( single ) species.
(Metaphysics 1011b25):
“To say of what is that it is not, or of
* * * * *
The correspondence theory is often traced back to
Aristotle's definition of truth.
Aristotle's definition of truth.
“To say of what is that it is not, or of
what is not that it is, is false,
while to say of what is that it is, and of
what is not that it is not, is true”
* * * * *
Since truth is objective, our knowledge of
true propositions must be about real things.
According to Plato, these real things are Forms.
Their nature is such that the only mode by which
we can know them is rationality.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
The world we Live in.......
When there is enough room
For a spirit to prevail
Even an ordinary person....
Even an ordinary person....
Can raise to glorious heights and
Be generous and kind....But
When forced in to inhumanity
Even the glorified.....
When forced in to inhumanity
Even the glorified.....
Fall short and be Low as to
Commit heinous crimes.
Commit heinous crimes.
In and out....
There is no truth out there than
The one with in......... and
One's ability to find....
The one with in......... and
One's ability to find....
What is out there is
Not different from ....
Not different from ....
What is hidden within.
Turing test.....
It is foolhardy to have
A desire to rule over others lives....
The true power lies in....
The true power lies in....
Ruling one's own life.
Dialectical dichotomy of the Vulnerable.......
One is vulnerable in.....
One's prejudices and
Also is the One in.....
Also is the One in.....
One's moral standing.
Trishanku.....
The fallibility of human intelligence is
To create its psycho-pathological......
Alter egos...... and
To conjure up.....
What it desires most.
Monday, February 08, 2021
Privileging Identities.....
In eventuality leads to
A destructive misuse and
Abuse of collective resources....
Hence a self fulfilling individual
With a false consciousness and
A distorted and manipulative intelligence
Chooses privilege and favoritism....
Where One's shortcomings and failures are
Always compensated by....
The coffers of a community.
Natural rights...The Second Treatise on Civil Government (1689), John Locke.
Every Man has a Property in his own Person.
This no Body has any Right to but himself.
The Labour of his Body, and
the Work of his Hands,
we may say, are properly his.
The great and chief end therefore,
of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and
putting themselves under Government,
is the Preservation of their Property.
-- John Locke (1632-1704).
we may say, are properly his.
The great and chief end therefore,
of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and
putting themselves under Government,
is the Preservation of their Property.
-- John Locke (1632-1704).
English philosopher and political theorist
Source: Two Treatises on Government, 1690
Source: Two Treatises on Government, 1690
Quote of the day....
A key tactic in defending
The dominant groups values is to
deliberately ostracize those who
question them.
First emotional and moral responses are
denied-and then they are labeled as
Unacceptable.
--- Feminist philosopher Alison Jagger.
One's faith in humanity........
There is nothing wrong with keeping
One's faith in human beings
Even when they do not measure up to
It only reflects one's ability.....
To be compassionate towards
Fellow human beings.
* * * * *
It is most difficult to contend with
The evil nature of beings.....
It is destructive both With in and Out.
* * * * *
Even inheritance has to be
Earned and Qualified.....
In its rightful measures.
Saturday, February 06, 2021
Proving oneself.....
I accept when you make a claim to
Being a good person....
Because it is you alone
That is capable of proving it.....
Being a good person....
Because it is you alone
That is capable of proving it.....
Otherwise.
Evolution.....
Evolution is change of identities
Finding them anew.
* * * * *
The genetic material of
All species evolves.....
Only by losing
Its former
* * * * *
The genetic material of
All species evolves.....
Only by losing
Its former
Primitive identities.
What is Art? (1896).....
"I know that most men --
not only those considered clever,
but even those who are very clever andcapable of understanding
most difficult scientific, mathematical, or
can seldom discern even
perhaps with much difficulty --
which they have taught to others, and
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
(1828-1910) Russian writer
Source: What is Art? (1896)
most difficult scientific, mathematical, or
philosophical problems --
can seldom discern even
the simplest and most obvious truth
if it be such as obliges them to admit
the falsity of conclusions they have formed,
perhaps with much difficulty --
conclusions of which they are proud,
which they have taught to others, and
on which they have built their lives."
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
(1828-1910) Russian writer
Source: What is Art? (1896)
What endures.../ Pedagogic my dear Watson...
When we fail to win
Other's hearts....
As a society
We have lost......
As a society
We have lost......
Our human cause.
Friday, February 05, 2021
It should surprise no one.....
It happens again and again that
A secular and enlightened idea like
Informing the citizenry....
That gets to be hijacked by
The divisive , factional and
That gets to be hijacked by
The divisive , factional and
Self seeking forces.....
To their utmost personal benefit
Feeding to the gutters by robbing
Feeding to the gutters by robbing
The common people's faith in
Human values....
That have more than once brought
Peril and Destruction to....
The very core of secular spirit
That sustains humanity in its survival.
Criminals in disguise....
People who are amenable to corruption
Mistrust others.....
While those who are dubiously positive are
While those who are dubiously positive are
Just criminals in disguise.
Acts and Rituals....
All expressions are in contrast to
Something else....
Everything else is Ritual.
Everything else is Ritual.
Ashoka the great..
The possibility of .....
A most radical transformation is
When there is no moral.....
A most radical transformation is
When there is no moral.....
Opposition with in.
It matters little....
In matters of difference and
Even rivalries.....
It matters little
which side of the pole One is
But for the truth.....
It matters little
which side of the pole One is
But for the truth.....
One holds deep down
In one's heart.
In one's heart.
Thursday, February 04, 2021
Quote of the day.....
is multiplied later a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
Figuratively speaking....
* * * * *
Those who can not restrain themselves
Should be restrained....
But for their own good.
* * * * *
Man is his own doomsayer.
* * * * *
A dog that chases it own tail is
Never suitable to be....
A pet or service dog
It takes One nowhere....
* * * * *
Hatred for others does not
Elevate one's standing or
Offer scoring points.
It takes One nowhere....
* * * * *
Hatred for others does not
Elevate one's standing or
Offer scoring points.
White - Gray and Black......
Propaganda ( in turn becomes) at its best is....
The cognitive foundation of ....
Pseudo-scientific Humans/Society.
The cognitive foundation of ....
Pseudo-scientific Humans/Society.
Reality as Ordered.....
If One/We can not look beyond
Our Tribe,Caste and Political or Religious sect
What remains outside becomes relevant only for
Self consumption.....
Otherwise it may only merit in
What remains outside becomes relevant only for
Self consumption.....
Otherwise it may only merit in
Annihilation and extinction.
Tuesday, February 02, 2021
It is immaterial ......
It is immaterial how the world sees you or
What you show your self to be...
You may be a good person or
May be even a bad person .....
You may be here and there and
May be lost......
At the end of the day.....
What matters.....
To the true nature of reality and
What you show your self to be...
You may be a good person or
May be even a bad person .....
You may be here and there and
May be lost......
At the end of the day.....
What matters.....
To the true nature of reality and
To the creation is.....
What you do and
What you do and
What seed you plant.
Monday, February 01, 2021
Self in its condition....
When one is part of A self serving group
Irrespective of the feigned objective.....
One has neither individuality....Nor
Self integrity.
Irrespective of the feigned objective.....
One has neither individuality....Nor
Self integrity.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Quote of the day....
To pretend to know....
When you do not know is a disease.
--[ Li Erh ] ( 570 -490 BC )
Old sage- Father of Taoism.
When you do not know is a disease.
--[ Li Erh ] ( 570 -490 BC )
Old sage- Father of Taoism.
Truly....I tell you....
Truly I tell you...
What one can truly do is.... Also....!
What One can undo.
What one can truly do is.... Also....!
What One can undo.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Idiopathy....
How ever holy.....
All ideologies aid in breeding
Contempt for others and
Men and Women of spoilt and
All ideologies aid in breeding
Contempt for others and
Men and Women of spoilt and
Corrupt nature.......
More so turning individuals in to
Morally inept and incompetent
More so turning individuals in to
Morally inept and incompetent
Persons along with making of
Known and unknown
Psychopaths and Parasites amongst us
Undermining.......
Known and unknown
Psychopaths and Parasites amongst us
Undermining.......
The very existential nature of
What is called human.
What is called human.
Thursday, September 06, 2018
Quote of the day.....
Truth always originates in
a minority of one,
and every custom begins
and every custom begins
as a broken precedent.
-- Nancy Astor
(1879-1964) Member of Parliament, UK.
* * * * * *
"Such being the happiness of the times,
that you may think as you wish, and
speak as you think.
Lat., Rara temporum felicitate,
ubi sentire quae velis,
et quae sentias dicere licet.
-- Cornelius Tacitus(55-117 A.D.)
Senator and historian of the Roman Empire
-- Nancy Astor
(1879-1964) Member of Parliament, UK.
* * * * * *
"Such being the happiness of the times,
that you may think as you wish, and
speak as you think.
Lat., Rara temporum felicitate,
ubi sentire quae velis,
et quae sentias dicere licet.
-- Cornelius Tacitus(55-117 A.D.)
Senator and historian of the Roman Empire
Con / flicts.....
There is always
A conflict in Lies...
Since they are with out roots and are
Made on a sly.
Since they are with out roots and are
Made on a sly.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Quote of the day.....
He who is not sure of his memory,
should not undertake the trade of lying.
-- Michel de Montaigne
[Michel Eyquem De Montaigne] (1532-1592)
French Renaissance scholar, philosopher, writer
* * * * *
People who are brutally honest
get more satisfaction out of
the brutality than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham
(1912-1996) Canadian humour columnist
* * * * *
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and
I have no regret,
for I am far surer of what is kind than
I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault.
should not undertake the trade of lying.
-- Michel de Montaigne
[Michel Eyquem De Montaigne] (1532-1592)
French Renaissance scholar, philosopher, writer
* * * * *
People who are brutally honest
get more satisfaction out of
the brutality than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham
(1912-1996) Canadian humour columnist
* * * * *
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and
I have no regret,
for I am far surer of what is kind than
I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault.
Tuesday, August 07, 2018
Quote of the day....
The greatest danger is that
we could lose hope for the future.
– the Dalai Lama.
* * * * *
There is no global vision
Without local vision.
we could lose hope for the future.
– the Dalai Lama.
* * * * *
There is no global vision
Without local vision.
Friday, August 03, 2018
Quote of the day.....
Even when history takes a nap...
Turns a blind eye to truth and
Stone deaf to the words of wise...
Becomes mute in speaking facts....
Nature is not with out response to
Human folly.
* * * * *
We need history, but not the way a spoiled
loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it.
-- Nietzsche.
Of the Use and Abuse of History
* * * * *
There is no document of civilization
which is not at the same time
a document of barbarism.
-- Walter Benjamin
Turns a blind eye to truth and
Stone deaf to the words of wise...
Becomes mute in speaking facts....
Nature is not with out response to
Human folly.
* * * * *
We need history, but not the way a spoiled
loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it.
-- Nietzsche.
Of the Use and Abuse of History
There is no document of civilization
which is not at the same time
a document of barbarism.
-- Walter Benjamin
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
Monday, July 30, 2018
Quote of the day....
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees --
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Every wrong seems possible today, and
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Every wrong seems possible today, and
is accepted.
I don't accept it.
-- Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Catalan cellist and conductor.
I don't accept it.
-- Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Catalan cellist and conductor.
Friday, July 20, 2018
Act of an enemy...
The one that makes/forces us
To indulge in...
Acts of folly and turns us in to
A subject of mischief.
Acts of folly and turns us in to
A subject of mischief.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
A tyrant in and amongst us......
Its a Mistake to think this Fault
[tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies;
Other Forms of Government are liable to it,
as well as that.
For where-ever the Power
[tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies;
Other Forms of Government are liable to it,
as well as that.
For where-ever the Power
that is put in any hands for
the Government of the People, and
the Preservation of their Properties,
is applied to other ends, and
the Government of the People, and
the Preservation of their Properties,
is applied to other ends, and
made use of to impoverish,
harass, or subdue them to
harass, or subdue them to
the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of
those that have it:
There it presently becomes Tyranny,
whether those that thus use it are one or many.
-- John Locke (1632-1704).
There it presently becomes Tyranny,
whether those that thus use it are one or many.
-- John Locke (1632-1704).
English philosopher and political theorist
Source: Two Treatises on Government, 1690
Source: Two Treatises on Government, 1690
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Reflections of a Nomad...
Fact creates norms, and
Truth illumination.
* * * * *
You can´t legislate stupidity.
* * * * *
Evolution
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell.
A vast, merciless hell of permanent and
Truth illumination.
* * * * *
You can´t legislate stupidity.
* * * * *
Evolution
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell.
A vast, merciless hell of permanent and
immediate danger.
So much of a hell that during evolution
So much of a hell that during evolution
some species - including man - crawled,
fled onto some small continents of solid land,
where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
-- Warner Herzog.
fled onto some small continents of solid land,
where the Lessons of Darkness continue.
-- Warner Herzog.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Shrinklogy....
Unbeknownst to oneself
In one's religious bigotry or
In one's religious bigotry or
Pseudo progressiveness
One turn oneself in to
One turn oneself in to
A Freudian subject.
Monday, July 09, 2018
Who can tell.....?
Who could tell in world....
Where every one is to me and mine
Is it the prostitute or monk
That stands on the higher ground.
Where every one is to me and mine
Is it the prostitute or monk
That stands on the higher ground.
Human progress / regress.......
Seeking validation through
Victimization of Self or Others is
A sad State of affairs.
Victimization of Self or Others is
A sad State of affairs.
Thursday, July 05, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
A resource in abundance....
Incompetency is more favorably
Biased towards criminality....and
Criminality ...(Like incompetence)
Like weed and sea water
Is in abundance.....
Among humans.
Biased towards criminality....and
Criminality ...(Like incompetence)
Like weed and sea water
Is in abundance.....
Among humans.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Quote of the day.....
Conscience warns us
before it reproaches us.
-- Comtesse Diane
[Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq]
Source: Maximes de la vie, 1908
before it reproaches us.
-- Comtesse Diane
[Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq]
Source: Maximes de la vie, 1908
Monday, June 18, 2018
Friday, June 15, 2018
Quote of the day....
Integrity has no need of rules.
-- Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author
-- Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author
Reflections.../Living healthy....
Even in the face of ensuing conflict
Start the day with a good intention.
Start the day with a good intention.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
A realization is to be free of the old garb.../ The art of Living......
Even revolution, which transforms
a concrete situation of oppression by
establishing the process of liberation,
must confront thus phenomenon.
Many of the oppressed.....
establishing the process of liberation,
must confront thus phenomenon.
Many of the oppressed.....
who directly or
indirectly
participate in revolution intend —
conditioned by the myths of the old order —
to make it their private revolution.
The shadow of their former oppressor is
still cast over them.
---Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
participate in revolution intend —
conditioned by the myths of the old order —
to make it their private revolution.
The shadow of their former oppressor is
still cast over them.
---Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Friday, June 08, 2018
Quote of the day.....
True generosity consists precisely
in fighting to destroy
the causes which nourish false charity.
False charity constrains
the causes which nourish false charity.
False charity constrains
the fearful and subdued,
the “rejects of life” to extend
the “rejects of life” to extend
their trembling hands.
True generosity lies in striving
True generosity lies in striving
so that these hands —
whether of individuals or entire peoples —
need be extended less and less in supplication,
so that more and more
whether of individuals or entire peoples —
need be extended less and less in supplication,
so that more and more
they become human hands
which work and, working,
which work and, working,
transform the world.
--- Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the oppressed.
--- Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the oppressed.
Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Quote of the day...
Falsehood of the tongue leads to
that of the heart, and in time depraves
all its good dispositions.
---Thomas Jefferson.(1743-1826)
---Thomas Jefferson.(1743-1826)
US Founding Father, 3rd US President.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Quote of the day.....
Chapter 1
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in
'changing the consciousness of the oppressed,
not the situation which oppresses them.
-- Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the oppressed.
-- Paulo Freire.
Pedagogy of the oppressed.
Quote of the day.....
If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you;
But if you really make them think,
they'll hate you.
― Don Marquis.
they'll love you;
But if you really make them think,
they'll hate you.
― Don Marquis.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Quote of the day...
The courts are not bound by mere forms,
nor are they to be misled by mere pretenses.
They are at liberty —
indeed, are under a solemn duty —
to look at the substance of things,
whenever they enter upon the inquiry
whether the legislature has transcended
the limits of its authority.
If therefore, a statute
nor are they to be misled by mere pretenses.
They are at liberty —
indeed, are under a solemn duty —
to look at the substance of things,
whenever they enter upon the inquiry
whether the legislature has transcended
the limits of its authority.
If therefore, a statute
purporting to have been enacted
to protect the public health,
to protect the public health,
the public morals, or the public safety,
has no real or substantial relation
has no real or substantial relation
to those objects, or
is a palpable invasion of rights secured by
the fundamental law,
it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and
thereby give effect to the Constitution.
-- Mugler v. Kansas
Source: Mugler v. Kansas, 123 U.S. 623, 661.
is a palpable invasion of rights secured by
the fundamental law,
it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and
thereby give effect to the Constitution.
-- Mugler v. Kansas
Source: Mugler v. Kansas, 123 U.S. 623, 661.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
The sheep....and the shepherd...
The fact that in any given condition
The people are left with no choice
Other than to trust their rulers is
What makes.....
The irresponsibility of those
Who choose to Rule....
An irreconcilable sin.
The people are left with no choice
Other than to trust their rulers is
What makes.....
The irresponsibility of those
Who choose to Rule....
An irreconcilable sin.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Extreme rendition and torture-by-proxy.....
Although he initially tried to assert his innocence,
he eventually confessed to anything
his tormentors wanted him to say.
“You just give up, he said.
“You become like an animal.”
---Maher Arar.
A Canadian engineer sent Syria.
A year later, in October, 2003,
Arar was released without charges. …
Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador
he eventually confessed to anything
his tormentors wanted him to say.
“You just give up, he said.
“You become like an animal.”
---Maher Arar.
A Canadian engineer sent Syria.
A year later, in October, 2003,
Arar was released without charges. …
Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador
in Washington, announced
that his country had found no links between
Arar and terrorism. Arar, it turned out,
had been sent to Syria on orders from
Arar and terrorism. Arar, it turned out,
had been sent to Syria on orders from
the U.S. government, under a secretive
program known as “extraordinary rendition.”
This program had been devised as
This program had been devised as
a means of extraditing terrorism suspects
from one foreign state to another for
interrogation and prosecution.
Critics contend that the unstated purpose of
such renditions is to subject the suspects to
aggressive methods of persuasion
that are illegal in America—including torture.
interrogation and prosecution.
Critics contend that the unstated purpose of
such renditions is to subject the suspects to
aggressive methods of persuasion
that are illegal in America—including torture.
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