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, […]

Kullaj

These are various pages put together from different books

Fugue

“I am now Imbarked on a tempestuous Ocean from whence, perhaps, no friendly harbor is to be found.” George Washington to Burrell Bassett, June 19, 1775 yesyesyes In German usage the note B flat is called B, and B natural is called H. This allows Bach’s name to be expressed as a musical motif, B […]

Derrida

“Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion] of the world” – Galations 4:3 “In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths [stoicheion] of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!” – Hebrews […]

Hegel

Rouse means to rise from sleep. Stendhal syndrome, religious ecstasy, and genital stimulation represent one thing, arousal. Not high or low but absolute. Beyond grappling with the pleasure principle there is the need to make vision of how we orient ourselves to the world according to this new place. I am kept under constant surveillance […]

Epicurus

هَلۡ يَسۡتَوِيٱلۡأَعۡمَىٰ وَٱلۡبَصِيرُ أَمۡ هَلۡ تَسۡتَوِي ٱلظُّلُمَٰتُ وَٱلنُّورُۗ Cicero in the De finibus bonorum et malorum takes issue with Epicurus for making a peculiar statement about pleasure and commentators since have made a dichotomy about this idea and attributed to Epicurus himself. Only recently has there been speculation regarding the merit of viewing Epicurus this […]

456

“For the director of music. For pipes.” “Their throat is an open grave” “Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?” “I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord” “Behold, I have put my words in […]

Ramblings

“True, by this time it was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery—a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness. But there was […]

Plato

There’s a part in Euthyphro where Socrates starts talking the difference between carrying and being carried, leading and being led, seeing and being seen and asks Euthyphro if he knew where the difference lies and Euthyphro says “I think I understand”. I certainly didn’t have a clue what the fuck Socrates was on about so […]