“In a Promethean sense, man is a God. But on an even more profound level, man is a beast. This primary contradiction has plagued mankind for millennia. Man is a God. Man is a beast. These two aspects of his personality have been waging war with one another for countless centuries; a war whose casualties […]
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On Progress, Excerpts from “A Material Civilization” by Rene Guenon
Kemal considers these points: It’s possible to allow emotion and sentimentality to obscure clear perception. When you are facing dire situations, this tendency must be fought with all discipline. Criticisms of the West are sometimes met with knee jerk and snarky responses along the lines of ‘..well would ‘ya prefer Somalia or Bangladesh? – Other […]
Chivalry, Love and Romance, Speculations on Origins – First Stab
By Kemal, Our favorite Desi FUPA, Ms. Treta Yuga, made an interesting point about the possibility of Indian Tantric ideas underlying the Western Tradition of Chivalric Romantic love, through a Muslim Sufi influence. (On the side most of this reflects the Treta Yuga more than the Satya Yuga, in that these matters concern a dim […]
Desecration of Glen Cove burial mounds reveal blatant disregard for humanity
Desecration of Glen Cove burial mounds reveal blatant disregard for humanity by Sean Jobst May 8, 2011 We undertake our life journey holding on to certain inalienable rights, which are instinctively part of our humanity as natural laws. One of these is certainly the right to be buried upon one’s ancestral land. Yet this basic […]