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5th of April 4th, 1984…

"what does the LORD require of you but to do justice..." One of the Bible's (OT and/or NT) foremost statements, mentions God's topmost requirements from mankind, which is "to love/do justice..." Well, if mankind's self-righteous, mostly fundamentalist "christian" crowd would heed this basic advice, they would have to stone their god and his accomplices, simply … Continue reading 5th of April 4th, 1984…

4th of April 4th, 1984…

Self-Inflicted hope, against inflicted hopelessness... As previously mentioned, hopelessness must be deliberately inflicted -and to a certain extent accepted- in order to exist. Thus neither hopelessness nor hope should be considered as "normal", simply because they can't be; no one would ever need hope in a world where expectations would not arise from unmet needs … Continue reading 4th of April 4th, 1984…

3rd of April 4th, 1984…

“There come a time, kemosabe, when good man must wear mask.” The Lone Ranger's Tonto A "brother" can remain "big" only until the narrow bridge into adulthood has been crossed. Beyond it he should remain what we all should be to each other: simply brothers. As time and eternity are identical beyond what we see … Continue reading 3rd of April 4th, 1984…

2nd of April 4th, 1984…

From the religious thinkers who associated this intelligently complex Universe with a "believed in" entity capable of it, through Francis Crick to Ridley Scott, mankind seem to have been left with with a sense of some desperate need to reverse engineer this "miracle called life", back to something more plausible than an accident; something their … Continue reading 2nd of April 4th, 1984…

Democracy’s twerking corridors of power (2)…

[NOTE: Please click "Like" only AFTER reading!] As I was writing this essay, "We the people..." came to my searching mind. Looking it up where available, I understood history's tireless farce in producing written proofs of power's insatiable appetite for justifying its own mischievous ends, when at the end of the above, after a peacock's … Continue reading Democracy’s twerking corridors of power (2)…

Democracy’s twerking corridors of power (1)…

[NOTE: Please click "Like" only AFTER reading!] "The term originates from the Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía) "rule of the people", which was coined from (dêmos) "people" and (kratos) "power" or "rule" in the 5th century BCE to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens; the term is an antonym to ριστοκρατία (aristocratie) … Continue reading Democracy’s twerking corridors of power (1)…

Castro vs. Guevara…

It was hard to decide a nominal primacy in the title; as hard as any attempt to do "justice" in times when simple concepts as "justice" have long lost their original meaning, if at any moment of their history, any... In the end, I left it to my musical ear to decide, and it looks … Continue reading Castro vs. Guevara…

“Guard your heart, above all…”

or Orwell's 1984, revisited... "Who controls the past, controls the future... ...who controls the present, controls the past." George Orwell It's never been easy to return... Anywhere... Especially to places echoing unwanted memories, long gone past times stubbornly alive and well enough to torn -always nearly- healed wounds. Then comes the bleeding, the tears, and … Continue reading “Guard your heart, above all…”

When your mind is in the wrong place…

-A short essay on Nazim Hikmet...- "at the age of fifty found his mind in his heart" Nazim Hikmet How strange... Of most people it would be expected to have been mentally settled by the age of fifty; how wrong... I have found my introductory quote within the opening thoughts of an -until now- unknown … Continue reading When your mind is in the wrong place…

Orwellian 1

It cameas an unexpected shock for many,the Plenty minister's decree:no ordinary party membershall wear neither boots nor socksanymore;the production of tablesshall be replaced by the productionof floors. It cameas an unexpected shock for few,the Love minister's decree:all ordinary party membersshall have a pair of opposite toessevered upon everyday entrance to places of work;medical assistance shall … Continue reading Orwellian 1