About a year ago I was standing, hanging on the corner, with a friend, notorious thinker and man about town, Khalid Bey, when he threw out a provocative little line: “Kemal, there are two, and only two, types of people; Masters, and Slaves. Whether this is for better or for worse is irrelevant, it’s a […]
Religion
Tibet, Afghanistan: The Empires Russia, America, and China – Musings on a new century.
“I shall go far and far into the North, playing the Great Game….” – Kim, by R. Kipling Once, during the Cold War, the Soviet ambassador to Pakistan gave Pakistan’s president a slender leather bound book. When asked what it was the Soviet answered that it was a statement of the USSR’s foreign policy. The […]
If love is the answer, then what is the question?
“everything fornicates..” – the motto on a COIL T-Shirt. A sad thing about the English language, our language is often inadequate in discussing love. For example, many languages have 2, 3, or more words for love, themselves relating to different aspects, types, or degrees of love. We use “love” to mean everything from fucking (ah, […]
Knowledge, Reason, Slavery, Intellect, and systems of reasoning
Reason: a cognitive faculty, it is not the only useful one but is supremely useful. In modern English usage reason is often equated as the sum total of our cognitive abilities and intelligence. it is not, it is part of a subset and a highly useful, and highly under-developed, faculty of the intellect. The raw […]