tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52566972008-07-04T03:04:21.343ZKoyaanisqatsiTenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comBlogger463125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-38758604533979222372008-07-03T03:38:00.002Z2008-07-03T10:52:06.276ZWhy is a superhero story film like a WWE wrestling match?
There are those lines of academic thought which argue that the superhero takes the place of the demigod of previous ages, the divine brought down among us and made human. To this, I remind that the morality of demigods was quite a bit different from that of most superheroes other than Hancock in his starting image: and Hancock is an Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-79400777237972083012008-06-25T16:44:00.003Z2008-06-26T10:49:47.978ZIn one part of the world, the children flee happily from school, released for another summer.
In another part of the world, the children cannot conceive of a life which does not revolve about the school and the family. Here, the duty to partake fully in education is the gateway to a greater, mature duty within society.
And in yet another part of the world, the children only wish that they couldTenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-1410859418260064382008-06-24T19:21:00.000Z2008-06-26T10:52:09.214Zsometimes i wish(almost)that i had never learned to see
for surely life would be so much easier
and then i could belong to the smaller groups
in the same way as i don't to the larger --
but it never quite forms in me
this wish
for i know that were it to become the true cry of my heart
it would be grantedTenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-10799435173889337902008-06-22T07:57:00.001Z2008-06-22T08:04:06.097ZSomething woke her in the night. ...Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-45356365166582142752008-06-21T15:04:00.006Z2008-06-21T15:47:38.175ZWhat the surveys ask:EITHER:OR: Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?
Do you think there is a lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?
Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives?
Do they respond to a challenge?
Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?
Are you worried about the danger of war?Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-24507235607758946612008-06-20T23:05:00.003Z2008-06-25T18:39:54.803Z"A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, 'What do I get by learning these things?' So Euclid called a slave and said 'Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.'"
- Stobaeus, "Extracts"
Like so many other things in life, a university education is an investment: in time, in money, in oneself. And like so Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-78079960401402502792008-06-15T13:07:00.003Z2008-06-18T14:50:42.125Z"The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlänning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling ... [t]his is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-50816194446731528222008-06-14T11:37:00.002Z2008-06-14T13:18:03.539ZIn a curious recent debate on the nature of just war, the point arose that a just war ought to make every effort to limit bloodshed and ancillary damage. This is an absolutely desirable thing. Let no person reading this post think that I believe otherwise.
The fact of the matter, however, is that what is considered humanly possible in limiting the terror and death of war is neither objective norTenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-31523084523111656362008-06-13T18:59:00.002Z2008-06-13T19:02:21.868ZWalking along the road one very early morning, two rabbits chose to cross the road in front of me, loping easily, without fear ... and in opposite directions.
Seems rabbits too sometimes think the grass is greener on the other side.Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-83707931563369811142008-06-12T03:48:00.002Z2008-06-12T05:27:50.952ZI have a helpful neighbour who likes to send me these snippets: sometimes uplifting, sometimes enlightening ... and sometimes crying out for rebuttal. History is re-written by the survivors.
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!
Which omits the voices of all those who did not survive their childhoods, a much higher ratio then than now (in western countries, at Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-60763653355448773002008-06-07T04:11:00.003Z2008-06-07T04:41:21.277ZI surely can't be alone in having sympathy for Hillary Clinton, in understanding completely why she chose to fight to the bitter end -- and in respecting greatly how very close she has managed to fight the race despite all the obstacles in her path, obstacles few seem to wish to acknowledge.
The Obama tsunami is maybe more interesting to watch from outside. I have seen it before, but perhaps Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-36156231484446737172008-05-27T04:49:00.001Z2008-05-30T04:54:13.026ZAnd as suddenly as an Olympic flame ignited the Tibetan issue, an earthquake seems to have quenched it.Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-36382317020885780282008-04-15T00:16:00.002Z2008-04-15T00:32:21.577ZOnce it was said that religion was the opiate of the masses.
Today, organised religion is among the last bastions of community against the new opiate of the masses: the altar of personal entertainment.
The great ages of organised religion sprouted such edifaces as the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris or the Airavatesvara temple complex at Darasuram, while at the same time the common market Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-43784975036144754642008-04-09T00:21:00.003Z2008-04-09T10:51:40.074ZA bit of background
Symbolic gestures by the international community are cheap.
If the population and government of any country is absolutely serious about the moral primacy of freeing Tibet, let them impose significant economic and trade sanctions on China.
If you, as an individual, believe that Tibetans who want to be free ought to be free, don't buy anything of Chinese manufacture, or give Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-75797198541916186812007-12-21T18:34:00.000Z2007-12-21T18:42:00.708ZIt is okay to wish me a Merry Christmas. Or a Happy Hanukkah. Or a festive Eid, or Diwali, or ... take your pick. They are all festivals of celebration and peace, and that is all to the good!Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-69423058418735005812007-12-10T19:37:00.000Z2007-12-10T20:22:13.445ZIf you were given the power to kill anyone in the world, at any distance, in any manner, and seemingly without consequence either in this world or the next: what would you do with it?
This is the question posed by the manga/anime Death Note.
When a death note, a amall notebook originally belonging to the shinigami, falls into the hands of Yagami Raito ("Light"), he finds himself able to commandTenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-83314625293240947492007-12-02T03:07:00.002Z2008-04-09T10:32:26.342ZTwo ballots to watch this day, one in Russia, the other in Venezuela.
Risking most, Hugo Chavez perhaps has most to lose. His referendum, if it passes, will result in sweeping changes to the constitution: introducing social security for informal workers and encouraging popular participation in government; but also giving him far more power than before, potentially even moving him into a Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-71125393189897470272007-12-01T07:08:00.001Z2007-12-01T15:53:58.397ZThe tragedy of the commons does not teach what economists think it teaches.
Property held and tended in common will be individually abused, so long as human beings choose to see themselves primarily as individuals. This much is true: but its application to communally-held property is a special case, a specific symptom of a deeper cause, in much the same way that our perception of gravity Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-25428895600450454332007-09-29T02:02:00.000Z2007-09-29T02:03:12.958ZI am so tired of people writing self-help and advice books which they don't follow themselves. Advice is cheap. How much do you think your words are worth, if you expect others to live by them when you won't yourself?
... or are you really writing only for the $$$? and is that all your communication is worth?Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-22846016914619717382007-07-23T19:55:00.000Z2007-08-09T20:43:47.721Z'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings.'
'But wait a bit,' the Oysters cried,
'Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!'
'No hurry!' said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.
A Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-50594303047310143202007-06-09T04:16:00.000Z2007-08-09T20:56:40.543ZTo feel envy is human, to enjoy schadenfreude is devilish.- Arthur SchopenhauerPrison is an alien place.
Children are not born there or brought up there. Perhaps through family we have come to know a little of what it means; but really, until we experience it, we can have no idea. Until the moment we find ourselves powerless within its walls, we don't know. We can't.
I find a great Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-55018532595001584592007-06-01T19:01:00.000Z2007-06-01T19:03:38.593ZCREATORS OF RUIN
- Steve Toth
O developers of desolation
Before you comes the forest
After you the deserted street
The extremes of intoxication & toxicity
punch out their differences
in the open sewer you call a personality
Where does iron go when it's eaten away by rust?
Maybe that's what happened to your conscience
When I see you pouring I say drink up
Will knocking yourself unconscious
grant Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-1842728540125537182007-05-25T17:15:00.000Z2007-10-01T17:18:24.288ZScience is the vehicle through which we learn about the building blocks of the universe and of ourselves. Applied science – technology – is what allows us to make use of those whats and hows to physically improve our environment and our lives. In a world where unthinkable journeys have become eighty days and then less than eighty hours, where communication with anyone in almost any part of the Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-78154292877552853172007-05-20T06:55:00.001Z2007-07-23T22:41:06.214ZFrom Jasminembla's Weblog:
Owls have secrets. They like to write them in hurried little notes on scraps of hazelnut husk paper--things like, 'Ontology remains exact!' and 'C=R2--yes--but what about Radioli??'--and then, they tend to lose them. Little scraps of dried hazelnut paper everywhere: pinked on one edge, heavily veined across, and covered in tiny, clever scrawls, dropped all over the Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256697.post-46089268015016329262007-05-15T19:09:00.000Z2007-05-15T19:11:24.573ZIn mathematics education, an artificial line is commonly drawn between rote memorisation and application. Yet mathematics shares many of the same properties as language, which we have never thought to teach by isolating memory work from practical meaning. The basic symbols and concepts and rules of mathematical grammar must be memorised, it is true -- in absolutely the same manner as the basic Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00167974739904832229noreply@blogger.com