March 2008
114 posts
Bach: Fugue No. 2 perf. Helmut Walcha
‘Pagan’ is akin to hardware. ‘Christian’ a type of software.
You are what you eat — too many cheeseburgers will leave extra poundage — but your personality also a product of various cultural memes, some self-selected, some forced, cobbled together, not always streamlined.
The Christian software package triumphed in Western Europe, but in embrace of new tabula...
mountains with their dark elms / marshes with their white
“You need to tell the people of America what it’s like here,” he...”
– Peter Hessler recounting his conversation with a Tibetan in Tibet Through Chinese Eyes
“Globalization is the result of a modernization which takes the form of a...”
– AdB, Confronting Globalization
“Once the exact nature of globalization is understood, it is easy to understand...”
– Alain de Benoist, Confronting Globalization
“This generalized commodification makes the consumption of advertising-spectacle...”
– Alain de Benoist, Confronting Globalization
Tomorrow first hair cut in six months.
The previously posted quotation, supposedly from a letter by Lincoln in 1864, may be apocryphal. This one, from the 1861 State of the Union, is not.
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– Lincoln, State of the Union 1861
The sun was broken in the sky, winds of chaos whirled / A secret in the sand? The chrysalis foretold?
we are the last ones to conquer / we are the first out of hell
I hope my witticisms do not go entirely unappreciated, esp. the irony of the last posted quotation.
I must also acknowledge the legitimacy of my friend’s impression of my current life. As he noticed I am currently tending towards the analytical side of my Pascalian personalities, no longer with the passion of my youth with respect to ‘conversion’ — a passion that seems to...
“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot...”
– Bertrand Russell, author of a book entitled Why I am Not a Christian
“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life...”
– Χριστός
This week entertained a close friend from my college days. His parting comment — ‘Though you are no longer a Christian, I still respect you.’
Still hurt but no longer surprised, the bounds of American evangelicalism long narrowly defined — I not afraid to be called a heretic or hater of men — though I remain distraught over the increase in solipsism brought by...
“I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make me a...”
– JRR Tolkien
“If it’s possible to buy the high dignitaries of the Church with money,...”
– Adolf Hitler
“Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and...”
– Ayn Rand
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to...”
– Lincoln, 1864
Just back from Korea, desperately collating thoughts. Managed Changdeokgung, Changgyeonggung, Jongmyo, Heunginun, Dongdaemun, Myeongdong, Gyongbokgung, Apgujeong, Coex, the length of Cheonggyecheon stream, Isadong, the DMZ (Panmunjeom / JSA, Tunnel #3), Honjik, the National Museum, National Folk Museum, National Palace Museum and Inwangsan in 3+ days. Pretty tired.
“Virtually all my students were from peasant backgrounds, and like most Chinese,...”
– Peter Hessler, Tibet Through Chinese Eyes
许巍 - 我的秋天 →
“O ye who up till now have passed by the Cross of Jesus with tepid or cold...”
– The Seventh Word, Meditation on Seven Words from the Cross
复活梦
天上之言，我没发现 去年梅花，只能看它 一瞥一瓣，落下地上 引着泪水，今第一次 从见少女，飘来飘去 天长地久但我的小段 末有春风而外金之途 想着长安，大雁樱花 谁能所有? 谁能利成? 山水唐宋，汉代劉邦 百花百民，以春为功 在这东风中，我复活节梦
“Technology is not neutral; it obeys a number of values that guide its course:...”
– AB
“In this sense, humanity is irreducibly plural: diversity is part of its very...”
– AB
Bach: Mass in B Minor
“From the sociological standpoint, in its extreme form, modern internationalist...”
– AB, Sociological View of the Decay of Modern Society
“Liberal doctrine claims that all can be bought and sold in a self-regulated...”
– AB, Hayek: A Critique
“The recognition of difference — for the individual as well as for a people...”
– Alain de Benoist
“I am fascinated by the current disintegration of critical thought. Yesterday...”
– Alain de Benoist
“Blue vision of depth lost in height, — sea and sky interblending through...”
– Hôrai
reading on Lafcadio Hearn
佛道無上誓願成
“旻天疾威敷于下土
The angry terrors of Compassionate Heaven,
Extend through this lower...”
– Shijing II.5, trans. Legge
“Although the kingdom be unsettled,
There are some who are wise, and others who...”
– ShiJing II.5 trans. Legge
“When he was seriously ill Tseng Tzu summoned his disciples and said, ‘Take...”
– Lunyu 8.3, trans. Lau
法門無量誓願學
Yesterday Dick’s Scanner Darkly. Today many art books plus brief attempts at Burke’s Aesthetics and a book on Wagner’s philosophy.
煩惱無盡誓願斷
一殺多生
