Blog 159
The partisan engaged in a debate cares nothing about what is right, he only wants to persuade others to agree with him. Socrates.
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Egoistic Right
“Right—is a delusion, bestowed by a ghost.” Men have “not recovered the mastery over the thought of ‘right,’ which they themselves created; their creature is running away with them. “Let the individual man claim ever so many rights; what do I care for his right and his claim? I do not respect them.—“What you have the might to be you have the right to be. I deduce all right and all entitlement from myself; I am entitled to everything that I have might over. I am entitled to overthrow Zeus, Jehovah, God, etc., if I can; if I cannot, then these gods will always remain in the right and in the might as against me.”
“Each must say to himself, I am all to myself and I do all for my sake. If it ever became clear to you that God, the commandments, etc., do you only harm that they encroach on you and ruin you, you would certainly cast them from you just as the Christians once condemned Apollo or Minerva or heathen morality.” “How one acts only from himself, and asks no questions about anything further, the Christians have made concrete in the idea of ‘God.’ He acts ‘as pleases him’.”
Max Stirner. -
Arrows in the Fog...
Only now I understand Picasso: Poems, like paintings are never finished only abandoned.
To finish a work, means that there is nothing left to strive for.
A work finished, is a work beyond which we can never rise.
Thus it becomes a limitation, and we all know how nature never acknowledged limitations, only we have, because for some reasons we are fond of goals and finalities.
Of course, nature “knows” us better, since knowledge is an artificial concept contrived by ourselves, to fulfill our own ego.
Nature knows we are arrows in the fog, all the more beautiful.
Religion is mythology rendered a dogma, a doctrine and thus becomes a lifeless and colorless mythology, laid in its grave, artificialized. It stops to be a natural way of living and becomes an artifice, a tool of control and a hindrance from living.
Never a question had an ultimate answer.
To admit knowledge is to sin against nature.
Nature never remains natural, it does not dare.
Normal, manners, duty, tradition, doing right, being a good citizen...are descriptions of living in a dictatorship in which the individual submits (often by his own free will) to the whole, whereas he forfeits his individuality and becomes nothing more than a replica, a manufactured product. Normal.
The rain shall wash away everything, I kept repeating in my heart, without ever realizing, someday me too I’ll be swept away, towards that endless ocean: A lesson from the dust.
Ideas, whether in writing or conversation, cast at those with no ability of contemplation and reflection will pass on with no admiration, hence the loneliness of those who are insane.
To seek approval and “understanding” is to lower one’s standards and compromise, refusing that would mean suffering rejection, and hence, being alone.
Pierre Mhanna. -
Lebanese are freedom and culture lovers
BEIRUT — An international human rights watchdog says immigrant maids in Lebanon are dying of "unnatural causes" at an alarming rate and is calling for an investigation.
Human Rights Watch says at least 95 migrants who worked as domestic servants died in Lebanon since January 2007, mostly in suicides or in botched attempts to escape abuse.
Researcher Nadim Houry says domestic workers are dying "at a rate of more than one per week."
The New York-based group's statement Tuesday also urged Lebanon for a national strategy to reduce the deaths.
A report by the group last year criticized several Persian Gulf states and Lebanon for failing to curb abuse and protect migrant women workers.
There are an estimated 150,000 such workers in Lebanon. -
Time
Time 25-08-08:
Twists and turns, on the palm of my hand
They say our fortune can simply be read
But what of those ripples that run my face
What if they're reading the wrong page?
And does the face not, echo the heart?
Stringed with his, melodic vibes
Dancing in ecstasy to the sound of the rain
Or stranded alone, in a rugged terrain
And time, with his overwhelming hands
Bathing you in myrrh as fate commands
Or drowning you in toils, till after the end
Is heart not the puppet, as the master demands?
Is that the human, high or low?
On his knees before, the master of the show
Even his might, borrowed for a while
To stump upon, the poor man below
But how does it happen?
That this disgrace called man
Would glorify himself, against his instinctive clans
Upon nature to take, his shameful revenge
And what of me, in this freak of an act
Where will I stand, the time while I last?
And what of my face, is it rippled or not?
I lost my mirror, but my heart, feels the burden of man
Time, for so long a supreme ruler was made
By laziness and, acceptance of fate
It is time to rebel, take back in our hands
Our consciousness as, our instincts demand
Pierre Mhanna. -
I Stand
Always have I struggled with words
What I wanted to say was never heard
In this big bowl of collectivity, I
Succumbed to the herd, yes but still
A little spark in me, lighting my own
Authenticity, and a conscience, severed
Alone but never lonely; I am me
Even if I’ll never be heard
Pierre Mhanna. -
Quotes - 1
Sobriety and equity are the obvious characteristics of a limited circle. Godwin.
The rivalship of nations is a creature of the imagination. Godwin.
The value system imposed by authority held that the responsibility of the intellectual is to serve power interests: to record with a show of horror the terrible deeds (real or alleged) of designated enemies, and to conceal or prettify the crimes of the states and its agents. Chomsky.
The methods of control used in the ‘most despotic’ governments are transparent; those of ‘the most free and most popular’ societies are far more interesting to unravel. Chomsky.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Nietzsche.
For when truth steps into battle with the lie of millennia we shall have convulsions, an earthquake spasm, a transposition of valley and mountain such as has never been dreamed of. The concept politics has then become completely absorbed into a war of spirits, all the power-structures of the old society have been blown into the air-they one and all reposed on a lie: there will be wars such as there have never been yet on earth. Only after me will be grand politics on earth. Reevaluation of all values. (Why I am destiny). Nietzsche.
Slavery? Why, no, we’re against it! If we are forced to have it in the home or factories, fine, that’s the normal run of things, but boasting about it, is going too far. Albert Camus.
Here’s the truth, we say. You can argue over it if you wish, we don’t care, but in a few years the police will come and show you I’m right. Albert Camus.
The Foundation of Empire, is Art and Science. Remove them or Degrade them and the Empire is No more. Empire follows Art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake. -
US losing in the Middle East but the winners are unclear
This is a period of rapid and dramatic decline of American economic power around the world, and that, along with massive anger directed at U.S. policies around the world, has resulted in a precipitous drop in U.S. diplomatic and political influence. As a result, for those committed to maintaining Washington’s superpower status, choosing military force to assert U.S. global reach becomes more, not less likely. . . .
Despite and because of its huge military presence and the continuing horror of the occupation and war in Iraq, there is no question that Washington has lost significant influence in the Middle East. U.S. efforts to dominate and control the region’s governments, resources, and people are failing. U.S.-backed governments and movements across the Middle East are rejecting the Bush administration’s demand that they isolate, sanction, and threaten the other governments and movements that Washington deems the bad guys – those linked to Iran. Instead the U.S. — backed governments are themselves launching new bi-, tri-, and multi-lateral negotiations with “the bad guys” outside of U.S. control, and often in direct contradiction to U.S. wishes. -
Anarchism - 1
To be sure, “it must be admitted that we are imperfect, ignorant, and slaves of appearances.” But “whatever inconveniences may arise from the passions of men, the introduction of fixed laws cannot be genuine remedy.” “As long as a man is held in the trammels of obedience, and habituated to look to some foreign guidance for the direction of his conduct, his understanding and the vigor of his mind will sleep. Do I desire to raise him to the energy of which he is capable? I must teach him to feel himself, to bow to no authority, to examine the principles he entertains, and render to his mind the reason of his conduct.”
Godwin. -
Kiss of Divinity
A divine kiss that liberates
Is unreasoned yet well aimed
Pushing me to become myself
Breaking my firm chains
So kiss me now oh winy lips
Shiver my soul with this burning bliss
A fire that burns, gleaming in the dark
A tragedy striving for a height, more worthy our fall
Let us now wear our godly clothes
Fill the cup, from the fountain of our souls
Our love is oozing, and so is life
Drop by drop, like the ticking clock
Drunk with the visions, fashioned from our hearts
Wanting more from this forbidden love
Our bodies entangling, gasping, we sweat
A venom long in our skin, purified at last
Free, to become who we are
Chanting the melody of love to the rising sun
The birds are not alone to float with the wind
Natural, free from the artifice of mankind
Pierre Mhanna, 18-08-08. -
Arrows in the fog
Often those who talk a lot, have nothing to say.
No, let us not weep times gone by
They linger still, in our very hearts
Nature knows no for or against
It is we who classify, and allegorize
Sin upon sin upon her open chest
And we yield and admit as valuable
Ourselves, and only ourselves
Squandering the rest to hell
What I hate most are the stable minds.
At one point or another, the waters held behind their rational dams,
Kept at bay, would start to stink.
Thus happens to all water when it stops its journey on to the sea.
You won’t understand anything until you stop considering yourself in the light of right and wrong, black or white.
If not this; what then?
Thus the journey begins, with no visible end.
The journey worth undertaking is the one which we can never foretell or hope for its end.
Pierre Mhanna.