The greatest danger is that
we could lose hope for the future.
– the Dalai Lama.
* * * * *
There is no global vision
Without local vision.
Tuesday, August 07, 2018
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
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