tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post115887257498725650..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Kafkaesqueambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1159325372514469212006-09-26T20:49:00.000-06:002006-09-26T20:49:00.000-06:00Just a test.Just a test.Lutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901441364329385474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1158877655370244302006-09-21T16:27:00.000-06:002006-09-21T16:27:00.000-06:00One more K quote I meant to include: Religions get...One more K quote I meant to include: <I>Religions get lost as people do</I>.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1158874962783361902006-09-21T15:42:00.000-06:002006-09-21T15:42:00.000-06:00Melanie Phillips had some good comments yesterday ...<A HREF="http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1334" REL="nofollow">Melanie Phillips</A> had some good comments yesterday on the UN. We sometimes forget that the UN started as the club of (mostly) free nations fighting against the WWII axis of evil. It is time to return to that model again, a club of United free and democratic Nations fighting to build a world order of freedom and democracy. The white guilt that has allowed in every "nation", or tyrannical state, that emerged in the wake of colonialism has been the corrupting downfall of the UN.<BR/><BR/>To my mind, the essence of Kafkaesque is a love for the inherently paradoxical foundations of our humanity, such that while we can know more than those who came before, we can never escape from the anxiety or mystery of Being and know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. <A HREF="http://www.themodernword.com/kafka/kafka_quotes.html" REL="nofollow">A few select quotes</A>:<BR/><BR/><I>Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.<BR/><BR/>There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.<BR/><BR/>Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.<BR/><BR/>Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.<BR/><BR/>The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last.<BR/><BR/>We were expelled from Paradise, but Paradise was not destroyed. In a sense our expulsion from Paradise was a stroke of luck, for had we not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.</I>truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com