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Weblog : Previous 5 Entries. The 'time of ignorance' before the advent of Islam. Ahmadinejad's fiery rhetoric once tapped into this strong nationalistic current - as did Khomeini's thirty years ago - but now that he is seen as an embarrassment, the proud of the country are turning their backs on him. Honest; he says what he means, even when what he means makes little to no sense or is outright offensive. Supported Saddam Hussein in his invasion of Iran even while he openly used chemical weapons. Shot dow...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Aesthetics
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Journalism and the non-fiction novel. This week, I saw the excellent film Capote. Which I would recommend solely on the strength of Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance, though the film is quite good in its own right. The film concerns the writing of In Cold Blood. Catapulted Capote to fame: the combination of verisimilitude and art combined to make an astounding work. Is an anomaly because Capote was able to discover the inherent literary nature of the murders, and understood the necessity to wait for t...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Personal
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We are the Dead. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,. Loved and were loved, and now we lie. There's a solemnity to Remembrance Day that makes it to me one of the few public holidays worthy of its subject; the shared minute's silence of an entire nation echoes louder than the entire year's triumphant marches, rattling sabres and beating drums of war. The Vimy Memorial. And what will be the nature of modern war? Now armies of drones fill our skies, raining destruction down from miles abov...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Religion
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Happy is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. I'm glad I learned about Islam before I learned about Muslims.' These were the words of a European convert on his first journey to his new religion's homelands, and they expose a question that we often ignore, especially when dealing with the unfamiliar: what defines a religion, its precepts or the people who practise it? As well as a whole host of other rules that AJ Jacobs found out in his Year of Living Biblically. That only a Scie...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Metaphysics
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Probability and certainty, science and religion. Let us start with a simple example: I'm holding a ball in my hand, and I'm going to let go of it. What should I think this ball is going to do? Tested scientific theories, they have not failed me. Of course, this isn't to say that all our current theories are correct. Why bad things happen to good people. And God said unto Job, 'there's just something about you that pisses me off.'. In Denys Arcand's Les invasions barbares. Despite massive evidence to the ...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Ethics
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It is written in the book of Isaiah that to all God would give 'within mine house and with my walls a place and.an everlasting name.' This was the inspiration for the name of the Holocaust Memorial. And, conversely, how many of those we know personally that think of themselves as 'moral' are simply following a system of rules that happens to lead to the fulfilment their own desires? Louis XIV famously said " l'état, c'est moi. And Pol Pot died comfortably under house arrest, and only now are some of his ...
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Organum.ca :: The Killing Fields
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It is written in the book of Isaiah that to all God would give 'within mine house and with my walls a place and.an everlasting name.' This was the inspiration for the name of the Holocaust Memorial. And, conversely, how many of those we know personally that think of themselves as 'moral' are simply following a system of rules that happens to lead to the fulfilment their own desires? Louis XIV famously said " l'état, c'est moi. And Pol Pot died comfortably under house arrest, and only now are some of his ...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Archives :: November 2012
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Weblog : Archives : November 2012. We are the Dead. Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,. Loved and were loved, and now we lie. There's a solemnity to Remembrance Day that makes it to me one of the few public holidays worthy of its subject; the shared minute's silence of an entire nation echoes louder than the entire year's triumphant marches, rattling sabres and beating drums of war. The Vimy Memorial. And what will be the nature of modern war? Now armies of drones fill our skies, raini...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Politics
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It is written in the book of Isaiah that to all God would give 'within mine house and with my walls a place and.an everlasting name.' This was the inspiration for the name of the Holocaust Memorial. And, conversely, how many of those we know personally that think of themselves as 'moral' are simply following a system of rules that happens to lead to the fulfilment their own desires? Louis XIV famously said " l'état, c'est moi. And Pol Pot died comfortably under house arrest, and only now are some of his ...
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Organum.ca :: Weblog :: Archives :: June 2010
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Weblog : Archives : June 2010. Of the moment was incredible - three soldiers against fifteen people pushing as hard as they could, and yet we slid back no matter how hard we tried to dig in; this was, however, the only moment of the protests that felt like resistance. But its corollary was '5-6-7-8, Israel is a fascist state! Does, I'd be likely to burn out - and in fact joked that we should form a freelance protest group (suggested name: 'Drunkards against x. Is beyond parody), the underground media mus...
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