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Asian Attitudes on Foreigners
Photo Courtesy Rudi Roels China, I thought, preferred to keep visitors out; many Southeast Asian countries invited foreigners in, with ambiguous wink and smile; Japan smilingly greeted visitors at the door and appeared to admit them without ever really doing
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To Be Defeated
He explained that to be defeated was a condition of life which was unavoidable. Men were either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, they became persecutors or victims.
-Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan (1971)
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George Carlin On Ageing
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
‘How old are
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Chinese Democracy Leaked
The much touted, 10-years in the making Guns ‘N Roses record Chinese Democracy appears to have 9 songs leaked. The project by front man Axel Rose is infamous for the amount of time taken to create the album, which is …
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The Balance of Mind & Body
This essay was written in 2001 for a competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association. I was a three-time member for Iowa State University’s Taekwondo Team and this essay won first prize. I was handed the cash prize in …
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Alan Watts: Life and Music
Alan Watts strikes again, this time with musings on life and music.
If you like this post, check out Prickles and Goo.…
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Alan Watts: Prickles and Goo
Alan Watts is probably my favorite comparative religion philosopher (What, you don’t have one? Check out Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell too.) He deftly presents Eastern and Western philosophies with respect to scientific ideas of the modern era. His audio …
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Heaven & Hell
Heaven is a where the lovers are Italian, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the police are English, and everything is organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the lovers are Swiss, the cooks are English, the mechanics…
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Kerouac Speaks
The other day I was reading a few letters from Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957 – 1969. Kerouac was a voracious letter writer and kept meticulous records, something akin to modern day GMail archiving all the emails you write … -
Nature of Computer Science
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
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Choice Of Sofa
I always say – a prejudice on my part, I’m sure – you can tell a lot about a person’s character from his choice of sofa. Sofas constitute a realm inviolate unto themselves. This, however, is something that only those
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Believe nothing…
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
—Buddha
Poking around I found an alternate version:
“Do
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Jack Kerouac Explains On The Road
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, haiku lover, Buddhist inquirer, perpetual wanderlust, author, reluctant personality, disdain for labels. The enigmatic writer has been the inspiration of countless roadtrips and adventures. His seminal On The Road even starts and ends in …
