Monthly Archives: July 2007

Morning Light

I have been working late quite a few nights until the sun comes up. On these summer days, merely looking at the sun makes me feel uncomfortably warm.The air doesn’t carry heat as much as the perception of heat.I want to shut the blind to the morning light. Recently, I realized why I write obscurely …

July 21, 2007 – 6:33 am | By ashok | Posted in personal, philosophy, writing | Comments (0)

Wistful

Thinking about her a lot. Wondering what she’s up to. Wondering, of course, on what terms she might come back, and whether I’ll be available. I suspect not, but suspicions aren’t facts. I don’t get mopey when my mind distracts me from my own concerns. Rather, I feel fundamentally alienated from myself. For what constitutes …

July 20, 2007 – 1:08 am | By ashok | Posted in love, personal | Comments (2)

The Problem With Our Elected Officials Is That They Sound Like Us

What follows is a rant, not so much an argument. The proof of what I’m saying should be self-evident. If it is not, then we disagree, and that’s that: Listening to this one Senator discuss exactly what was wrong (in his opinion) in Iraq and how it could all be fixed with his magic policy, …

July 19, 2007 – 6:24 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (2)

Can We Hold People Accountable For Not Having the Same Tastes We Have?

J’accuse “Harry Potter” I should make it clear that I haven’t read any of Harry Potter. But I have friends whose tastes I trust who absolutely love the series. And the writer of the article above does himself no favors in my mind when he says he would have spent less time with the classics …

July 19, 2007 – 1:54 am | By ashok | Posted in writing | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Some Thoughts on Progressivism, And How Tolerance Can Collapse Into Something Dangerous

What might we argue in favor of calling terrorists names? Let’s mention just one key goal: the education of the world’s Muslim youth. Instead of hearing moral praise and encouragement for terrorism from jihadists, which then gets mixed in their minds with the nonjudgmental, tactical talk of Western officials and media, they’d have to absorb …

July 18, 2007 – 6:46 am | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Playing around with del.icio.us

I still like Ma.gnolia’s interface and community options better. Way better.If I’ve added you to my network on del.icio.us, don’t be alarmed. A few of my links weren’t had by many people, and so I went looking for the people who had the link, and voila! There you were.Yup. Life is real exciting right now. …

July 17, 2007 – 3:08 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (0)

Is There Such a Thing as Intuition? And Does It Solve All Problems If Adequately Used?

This is a topic I really don’t want to write on, but I have some friends that are getting too New Agey too fast, and I think that stuff is really problematic. It’s one thing to lie to yourself (I do this 99% of the time, “trust” me, it’s cool), but it’s another thing to …

July 15, 2007 – 11:22 pm | By ashok | Posted in philosophy | Comments (4)

English Grammar for Adults: What Might Be Useful in Reading Works of Poetry and Philosophy

part 1 | part 2I will leave more basic things like “parts of speech” and verb tenses out of this discussion – the reason why this post is being written is to answer the question “Why care about grammar at all?” Here are a few reasons why which pertain to philosophy. I want feedback before …

July 15, 2007 – 4:54 am | By ashok | Posted in philosophy | Comments (0)

How Is It Possible To Disagree Politically? A Meditation on Amy King’s "Everyone Has a Decision To Make"

Everyone Has a Decision To Make Amy King (published in Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks) A never was careful about the number of books he chose to perpetrate. A’s lack of frugality, indiscrimination. A knew better, but distracted, allowed the whole lot, from Paris to China to seashore to in between to embrace to so we are …

July 14, 2007 – 7:19 am | By ashok | Posted in poetry, politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

A Guide To Astrology

For some friends in Singapore interested in this sort of thing. All ideas below can be found in some form in particular 16th c. Florentine works. 1. Astrology is the determination of the stars, and how they may relate to the life of man. One wonders if stars are actually spirits, intelligences in and of …

July 13, 2007 – 9:37 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (0)