| (no subject) |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|04:17 am] |
i think we all need a breather from melodrama! i know i do! i apologize for the outburst, but you can never take my freeeeeeedom.
says all that need saying, knowwhatimsayyyying |
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| or down you fall |
[Mar. 30th, 2008|06:01 am] |
bitch keep me out of your land of make believe gossip bullshit.
contrary to popular opinion, i'm NOT fond of hearing ridiculous and patently absurd quotes i apparently said to you in insane-o world.
i know you think you are smart. ACT smart. |
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| w00t |
[Dec. 25th, 2006|02:26 pm] |
When Baghdad Ruled The World (a book!)
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (another book!)
Obama's new book
Cobra Verde (the last Kinski-Herzog pairing)
bunch of random shit
..a whip?
plus something tight that is coming in the mail. christmas never dissapoints. |
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| tunisian smart guy |
[Nov. 22nd, 2006|02:57 pm] |
"Arab Public Opinion... Has Found, in Antisemitism, the Perfect Catalyst For All Its Narcissistic Wounds and Social, Economic, and Political Frustrations"
"The young Iranian president's deliberately outrageous, mortifying, and extremist [statements] aiming at Holocaust denial have provoked stupor and indignation everywhere in the world, with the quite symptomatic exception of the Islamic countries... This deafening silence cannot be explained solely by the fear of suffering from terrorist attacks, as in the heyday of Khomeinist obscurantism. It is also explained by the necessity of getting along with Arab public opinion, which, after years of galvanization by the most reactionary forms of nationalist casuistry and Islamist dogmatism, has found in antisemitism the perfect catalyst for all its narcissistic wounds and social, economic, and political frustrations.
"It must be admitted that some Koranic verses, intentionally isolated from their historical context, have contributed even more to the anchoring of antisemitic stereotypes in Arab-Muslim mentalities. Incidentally, one could say the same about the New Testament, certain passages of which served, in the distant past and the not-so-distant past, to give a theological patina to the most abominable of anti-Jewish persecutions. The Church had to carry out its own 'aggiornamento'... in order to deprive Christian extremists of any evangelical legitimacy.
"All this is to say that the petrifaction of Arab-Muslim mentalities is not at all irremediable - provided that Islamic thinkers show intellectual audacity. Since they cannot purge the Koran of its potentially antisemitic dross, they must closely examine this corpus with hermeneutical reasoning...
"If the West's indignation [at Ahmadinejad's statements] is perfectly understandable and justified, their stupor shows, on the other hand, a certain credulity in their very conception of the Iranian regime. Those who were surprised by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's heinous stigmatizations are the very same people who - distinguishing between the regime and the people who comprise it, and swallowing the fable that there are 'moderate' Islamists and 'extremist' Islamists - have long believed in the normalization of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] and in its ineluctable democratization. As Jesus said [John 20:29], 'Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed'...
"It is true that this rehabilitation of the fundamentalist Iranian regime was possible only following the irruption, on September 11, 2001, of a new, mutant form of the most extreme kind of Islamism: Al-Qaeda and its macabre cortege of candidates for martyrdom... Bin Laden's triumph, his true miracle, consists in not only having given a civilized appearance to hideous theocracies, but also in having given a human, or even humanist, face to neo-fascist movements who aspire to power: Hamas in Palestine... Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and their alter egos everywhere in the Arab world...
"Like amnesiacs, no one wanted anymore to remember on what ideological substratum this Shiite theocracy rested... What was forgotten was that Islamism - this theocratic, fundamentally totalitarian, and clearly antisemitic ideology -... is doctrinally inalterable. Following the most unexpected geopolitical paths, giving in to the demands of realpolitik, Islamism can demonstrate a great degree of pragmatism in its relations with Western powers. Nonetheless, it will not renounce its strategic objectives: in domestic policy, an obsolete shari'a on all of its subjects; and in foreign policy, hegemonic expansion, international proselytizing, and the eradication of 'the Zionist tumor.' Semantic changes within ideological continuity - that is the essence of Islamist Machiavellianism..."
"One Cannot Reform A Theocracy; One Must Throw It Back Into The Wastebasket Of History"
"It is because people for so long believed in the illusion of an Islamism one can live with... that they had recourse to every possible and imaginable ratiocination in order to make sense of the Iranian president's fundamentally antisemitic diatribes. In this anatomy of anathema, every analytical tool was employed... [but] one has to go back to the original purity of the Khomeini's doctrine in order to understand the congenital antisemitism of the current Iranian president...
"On August 30, 1979, Khomeini declared at Qom: 'Those who demand democracy want to drag the country into corruption and ruin. They are worse than the Jews. They should be hanged. They are not men...' In his pamphlet 'Political, Philosophical, Social, and Religious Principles,' he reproduced all of the stereotypes propounded by Islamist rhetoric...: 'The Jews, may God lay them low, have manipulated the editions of the Koran... These Jews and their supporters have a project to destroy Islam and to establish a Jewish world government.' Whence this categorical imperative: 'Israel, this cancerous tumor, must disappear, and the Jews must be damned and fought until the end of time.'
"But in the meantime, Ayatollah Khomeini could beg Israel for arms and military assistance in order to resist the Iraqi invasion. We can thus easily guess from whom Rafsanjani, Khatami, and the other emblematic figures of 'enlightened Islamism' derived their cynical pragmatism!
"Therefore one should stop viewing the Iranian regime with naive eyes, as some people perpetuate the myth of an opposition between 'reformists' and 'conservatives,' which, while it expresses a real - but utilitarian -political nuance, does not, however, imply a doctrinal antagonism. One cannot reform a theocracy; one must throw it back into the wastebasket of history, from which it never should have cropped up [in the first place].
"In Iran, and in general in the Muslim world, the line of demarcation does not pass between 'moderate' Islamists and 'extremist' Islamists, but rather between theocrats and democrats, between fundamentalists and secularists, between those who have reduced the Koran to a case of nauseating antisemitism and those who, having seized the spirit and put the letter in perspective, know that Jews, like Christians, are Muslims' brothers in monotheism and in humanity, and that the Muslims' God is much more tolerant than the Islamists' divinity..." |
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| Sunnah |
[Oct. 4th, 2006|12:05 am] |
Book 60, Number 60.1.1:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a mawla of his called Hunayy charge over the hima. He said, "Hunayy! Do not harm the people. Fear the supplication of the wronged, for the supplication of the wronged is answered. Let the one with a small herd of camels and the one with a small herd of sheep enter, but be wary of the livestock of Ibn Awf and the livestock of Ibn Affan. If their livestock are destroyed, they will return to palm-trees and agriculture. If the livestock of the one with a small herd of camels and the one with a small herd of sheep are destroyed, he will bring his children to me crying, 'Amir al-muminin! Amir al-Muminin!' Shall I neglect them? Water and pasturage are of less value to me than gold and silver. By Allah, they think that I have wronged them. This is their land and their water. They fought for it in the jahiliyya and became muslims on it in Islam. By He in whose hand my self is! Were it not for the mounts which I give to be ridden in the way of Allah, I would not have turned a span of their land into hima." |
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| Oppression |
[Oct. 3rd, 2006|01:40 am] |
Volume 3, Book 43, Number 624:
Narrated Anas:
Allah's Apostle said, "Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an oppressed one. People asked, "O Allah's Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?" The Prophet said, "By preventing him from oppressing others." |
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| Shahada |
[Oct. 2nd, 2006|02:53 pm] |
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I just had a religious awakening. More later. Right now I'm just kind of confused. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 29th, 2006|03:24 am] |
I have had an epiphany, but i can't disclose it or else you will act all weird and shit around me and think I am on some kind of epiphany high horse. Which I am not. Since it is an old epiphany and I kind of reneged on embracing it fully before. On a somewhat related note, I'm totally not down with people who don't know shit about shit but think they do trying to force their flimsy one Nightline special or random ass article they read down my throat as irrefutable undispuate law of God. That's whack, much like most other things. As far as what is going on right now the world is pretty much over, and we're all done for. I have come to the conclusion that there are simply too many vicious dictators and nefarious troublemaking terrorists and what have you as well as armed factions and bombs that can and will level cities and future genocides to be ignored and strange denials to be made and a complicit and cowardly public along with the unholy machinations of big business....basically that sentence was very badly worded cause I forgot the beginning by the time I got to the ellipses, the point is, we are all dead, and probably sooner than later! also, that had nothing to do with my epiphany, i just looked at a map of the world.
Also, i really want to go to the oakland zoo to see the hyenas.
Post Script: WE'RE DOOMED |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 18th, 2006|05:42 pm] |
i want:
to know how to write sentences better
a version of "triumph" that omits cappadonna's weak ass verse
superman/batman #26 |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 14th, 2006|05:14 am] |
I'm off to the Dirty South (of California)! See you all later. MAYBE.
-a boy |
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| Wise Words |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|03:45 am] |
Here is a pretty good description of me, given for no particular reason by a person who deserves a lot of good things: yeah. part scumbag. part teddy bear. part slacker. part good friend.
And that other sucker didn't call back like she said she would, so it has been Whiskey Sours and the Mae Shi and a car that is on its last legs. It was like a forest fire under the hood, sans the flames. In a few days I will be living a bad Ben Stiller movie, the one about meeting a particular group (a small group, a pair you might say) of people. This summer hasn't been good or bad yet. This summer simply does not feel real.
At least
the treading water
(cataclysmic catechism, clandestine cannibalism)
is over
and I can
(cannery row, read it, no, i'd rather not)
start
(what is start)
killing minorities
(and their friends)
again
Man, people are terrible fools.
Max Feshbach needs blood, NOW! |
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| Fucking Retard |
[Jul. 10th, 2006|06:28 pm] |
Joe Lieberman, who once marched for the noblest of causes in the Civil Rights Era, is now an embarrassing power hungry piece of shit. Willing and proud propaganda spinners like NRO or Fox News or any number of reactionary fools will try to cast this as some kind of liberal crusade against the jowly Jew for his support of the Iraq War. What a crock of motherfucking shit. Nobody hates Joementum cause of his support for the war. That merely makes him an idiot. There are plenty of idiots in Congress, I'd say upwards of 90% and none of them feel the heat Joe does. Joe gives sloppy kisses to Bush, tries to ban video games, goes on Fox News almost always to bash his own party with a completely unexplainable alacrity, tells me I am not ALLOWED to question the President at my own risk, and for some reason felt the need to sit on the fence during the Social Security Fiasco, which is now an issue dead in the water. When he debated Cheney during the Vice Presidential debates he practically starting sucking his dick on stage. When put against other guys, guys like Howard Dean or John Kerry or Ned Lamont he goes apeshit in his rush to sink his dinky little old man claws in them. Other people in other places would be much better suited to dissecting why Lieberman is such a motherfucking son of a bitch, but man, fuck that guy. He is forming his OWN POLITICAL PARTY in case he loses the primary to Ned Lamont so he can still be the precious faux-Maverick senator from the Democratic caucus. What a sore motherfucking loser.
the jappo festival was pretty cool yesterday. |
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| Angelina Jolie's Dad and the Rain Man |
[Jul. 8th, 2006|04:24 pm] |
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I am watching Midnight Cowboy and it is absolutely destroying me. Which, is a good thing. If I am gonna watch a movie it better make me a wasted shell of a human being. I wouldn't have it any other way. |
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| The Wisdom Of Will Oldham and Kurt V. |
[Jul. 6th, 2006|04:14 pm] |
Death to everyone. So says Will Oldham, and I agree with him. But on the other hand, I also agree with Kurt Vonnegut. What a surprise.
"We are gathered here, friends," he said, "to honor lo Hoon-year Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya, children dead, all dead, all murdered in war. It is customary on days like this to call such lost children men. I am unable to call them men for this simple reason: that in the same war in which lo Hoon-year Mora-toorz tut Zamoo-cratz-ya died, my own son died.
"My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.
"I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays.
"But they are murdered children all the same.
"And I propose to you that if we are to pay our sincere respects to the hundred lost children of San Lorenzo, that we might best spend the day despising what killed them; which is to say, the stupidity and viciousness of all mankind.
"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
"I do not mean to be ungrateful for the fine, martial show we are about to see – and a thrilling show it really will be…"
He looked each of us in the eye, and then he commented very softly, throwing it away, "And hooray I say for thrilling shows."
We had to strain our ears to hear what Minton said next.
"But if today is really in honor of a hundred children murdered in war," he said, "is today a day for a thrilling show?
"The answer is yes, on one condition: that we, the celebrants are working consciously and tirelessly to reduce the stupidity and viciousness of ourselves and all mankind." |
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| Fishscale |
[Jun. 24th, 2006|02:27 pm] |
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I am liking the new Ghostface Killah album so far. The dopey warrior has regained some of his 36 Chambers-esque intensity, at least to an extent throwing off the shackles of his weak simply Ghostface nom de rap. Also he somehow brought both Notorious B.I.G. and Ol' Dirty Bastard back to life for some collaborations. Next time we'll discuss Ghostface's new album in regards to how it can help your friends get into a strange (but not quite bizarre) love triangle, how it will help propel Ned Lamont to certain victory, and why it makes you increasingly realize you hate everyone. As an added bonus, trolls will also be discussed. That is all. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 5th, 2006|12:15 am] |
I have two families. The real one, and the Phat N Phunky one. I am really, really grateful for that. Also, since I am in the mafia, I technically have three families. But like, you know, I am not supposed to talk about that.
Mineta, you and your buddies, made my life tonight. |
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