Prolegomena

“You Americans take jazz too lightly” – Ravel Immanuel Kant inaugurated modern transcendental philosophy by establishing that our knowledge is conditioned by the inherent structures of sensibility and understanding. The impulse to grasp what lies beyond mere sensory data can be traced back to the pre-Socratics—Parmenides and Empedocles—whose inquiries into the nature of being hinted […]

IBM

Expanding Perjury Laws: A Practical and Targeted Approach If lying were to be more strictly regulated, the most feasible approach would be expanding perjury laws beyond their current narrow application. Today, perjury is primarily limited to courtroom testimony and sworn legal statements, but expanding its scope could enhance accountability in politics, business, and media without […]

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Baron James de Rothschild, founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family, married his niece Betty von Rothschild in 1824. Betty was the daughter of James’s older brother, Salomon Mayer Rothschild, who founded the Austrian branch of the family. This union exemplified the family’s commitment to consolidating power and resources within their own network. […]

Žižek

“¡Al maestro, cuchillada!” 1 Slavoj Žižek’s essay “Punching the Neighbor in the Face” critically examines Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the Other, exploring its limitations and contradictions. Žižek, in his characteristic provocative style, questions the primacy Levinas grants to the ethical responsibility toward the Other and offers a critique grounded in psychoanalysis, politics, and the complexities […]

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I do not have to wait. I cannot wait. The Union is here. This victory is real. This feeling we all share- it connects us to history. It connects us to God. Their greatest mistake? They underestimated God. This is a true victory- a victory steeped in truth, rooted in history. A triumph won legitimately. […]

KYS

The Hollow Cabal: A Study in Cowardice, Failure, and Self-Inflicted Irrelevance The so-called “global cabal,” a collection of individuals most aptly characterized as cuckold pedophiles / pedophile cuckolds, represents the very apex of human failure. Their defining features are not power or influence, as they would like to imagine, but rather their unparalleled moral retardation […]

Review

Thou shall bear no false witness. Introduction: Objectivity as Idolatry • The Myth of Neutral Vision • Seeing and Being Seen: The Reversal of Power • Surveillance and the Seizure of Intentionality • Teleology of Vision: Toward RevelationPart 1: The Ontology of Seeing 1. The Gaze That Creates • Plato’s Cave: Truth Born of Shadows […]

Money

“Teacher, we have known that You are true, and You are not caring for anyone, for You do not look to the face of men, but in truth teach the way of God; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? May we give, or may we not give?” And He, knowing their […]

Kush

The theory of true polar wander (TPW)—where Earth’s outer shell shifts relative to the rotational axis—can be tied to the mass migration of ancient humans across the Bering Strait during the Ice Ages by considering the climatic and environmental changes such shifts could have caused. The TPW theory posits that Earth’s solid crust might have […]

Cinema

“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it’s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.” Exergue In the year 470 BCE, in the city of Athens, a bustling metropolis nestled on the eastern coast of the Greek mainland, overlooking the Aegean Sea, there […]

The Nervous System

The Parasympathetic Nervous System: Role, Importance, and Situational Examples The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is one of the two main divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the other being the sympathetic nervous system. The ANS is responsible for regulating involuntary body functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, digestion, and sexual arousal. […]

Doom

Tragedy, Estrangement, and Absolute Loss “Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, […]