Watch a show like 1000 Ways to die and you will quickly notice that most of the horrible hellish deaths on the show are the result, frequently, of sheer stupidity. The correct thing to do with a show like this is to learn from it. Do not do as these people have done, lest you […]
Religion
Reading the signs of life, and Schuon on Intuition and Intellection
Frithjof Schuon once wrote: “…In principle, every man is capable of intellection, for the simple reason that man is man; but in fact, intellectual intuition — the “eye of the heart” — is hidden under a sheet of ice, so to speak, because of the degeneration of the human species. So we may say that […]
to reign in hell… .. and the orderly free West
A conundrum, metaphysically it is impossible to truly reign in hell. And no one with any sense would want to. The statement fits, whether you literally believe in hell or not, it works as a general analogy I leave it to you, dear reader, to figure out why as fun exercise of intellection and ratiocination. […]
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian Freemasonry, and the British Mandate
A list of sources, and commentary: I first heard rumors of Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Ridha, and their ideological father – Jamal al-din al-Afghani, having been high degree Freemasonic initiates about 16 years ago. Initially I dismissed the idea, it seemed to make little sense at the time, but I ran into this historical bugbear now […]