August 2006 Archives
A good way to distinguish science-fiction from fantasy: the first makes the improbable possible, the second makes the impossible probable. Improbability is an epistemological category, based on a perception of facts and an understanding of theories. Impossibility is a metaphysical obstacle, claiming it is probable requires a rejection of both fact and theory.
The flashbacks would be easier to deal with, if I could believe that you experience them too.
But I don't. Believe.
So, what's left? I wake up every day with fragments of reality, of the past, in various foreign languages, my mental self-perception is that of a homeless man shaking his fist at some imaginary fiend in the middle of a metropolis (or is it a cosmopolis). Ah, do you remember seeing that movie, too? and the ensuing arguments about what it actually meant to us? That was when arguments were precursors of physical exertion. See what is banging at my mental doors?
It. Will. Get. More. Intense. Over. Upcoming. Decades. And. The. Lions. Rage. by the grassy side of a dark, grey road. The grass is short, recently cut, it scents the air. The road looks good, I'm face-down in the ditch, joking with lizards -- I hear raging, flaming lions.
This one is and will always be for you, Greg.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
PJM News - Pakistan to Propose Changing Rape Laws (9956954/AP)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 1, 2006 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) -- The government will propose amending Pakistan's rape laws to remove the nearly impossible burden of proof on victims and to protect them from retaliatory charges of adultery, a ruling party lawmaker said Tuesday.
WHEN will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted? When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is WRONG? Most of all, when will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is THEIR problem? THEY own it. And it is THEIR duty to face it and eradicate it. To stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims....
The motto of the Pakistan Army reads: Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah.
Translated into English, it means Faith, Fear of Allah, Jihad in the way of Allah.
Meaning that their central purpose is to impose submission to Islam. A practical application was the development of the Taliban to take over Afghanistan.
Swinging to a new blog application.
