ZUKERBERG ELEGIES: Azly Rahman, quotes 2010 Part I & II
by DR. AZLY RAHMAN
1. Maybe ...life is a beautiful journey of construction and deconstruction, bricolage of battles crafted to one's heart desire, the past rewritten, the future non-existent both collapsing into one grand symphony of the here and now, of spirits, souls, demons, angels, protons, neutrons of nano-bytes of sound bytes of consciousness dancing like white noise waiting for a prophet inside of us to pull them back in place –ar
2. evolve we must even from ape to man, even through natural and metaphysical selections -- ar
(primitivism in the tradition of animalistic culture can be observed in hyper-modern societies such as malaysia, as materialism dictates the evolution of political maturity and civility; as the law of the jungle and cannibalism rules, as postindustrial tribalism in the form of violence-leaning race-based hate-based politics is in constant display, orchestrated by the hidden hands of machiavellianism -- so that primate politics can be a feature of civilization.)
3. when corruption becomes a norm and nobody cares, cultural decadence becomes a celebration, family breakdown becomes a way style of cultural progress. and politicians act like ultra-modern slave-owners to the masses, using the machinery of the state to control the mind, material, media, of the nation -- when all these are happening we are seeing a de-evolution of a society on its way to be transported to the planet of the apes. - ar
4. as human beings try to understand the universe and its creator, does the universe even care about our existence? -ar
5. if life imitates Nature what then does Nature imitate in this hierarchy of Form and Appearance, of Illusion and Reality? - ar
6. life .. conceive it like an installation of art and music, of light and sound ... and of prolonged silence -- ar
7. we exist simply as a complex marker of a network of conceptual interconnectedness of signs, symbols, and signifiers of a larger world existing in a realm we can never comprehend its meaning other than what is being taught to us by those who owns the means to craft the imagined knowledge of the Unseen -- ar
8. must teachers in malaysia join political parties? or -- should they spend time studying philosophy and practising critical pedagogy? will they become tools of the State, using their influence to colonize the enquiring young minds and turn each of them into yet another brick in the wall nourishing their mind into catatonic states? – ar
9. love gives life to living; like a million lotuses bloom, growing and permeating into every cell of the mind body, soul, nourishing these like a thousand eternal springs - without love ... hatred haunts like hovering hawks from hell in cohort with hungry hyenas waiting to feast on the human mind, body, soul, decaying and diseasing every cell till death in midsummer triumphs – ar
10. how must one become enlightened in one's lifetime and what next ... and what then must one do? -- ar
11. there is no quick way to success and supreme wealth; it is a long journey of hard work and gratitude at every step of successful failures that determine the 'blessed-ness" of what one own; even so, the idea of 'ownership' is a contradiction; one doesn't own anything except what is granted by Fate or Free Will in order to test one's understanding of the meaning of "success", "wealth", and of course "gratitude"-- ar
12 the greatest enemy of knowledge is ignorance – Socrates
13. know thyself ... know thy enemies .. a hundred battles ... a hundred victories -- Sun Tzu
14. aahhh ... facebook is emerging to be the ultimate medium of postmodernity in which the self assumes a cybernetic life, the mind becomes a heteroglossic-consciousness machine, the world of the inhabitant is now a panopticon and a synopticon, and the past, present, and future collapse into a maya and a world of cybernetic beingness and nothingness of informational overload -- ar
15. think and be merry; smoke the peace pipe of eternity; dance to the tune of humanity; act to help alleviate poverty; educate each other of the meaning of social equality – ar
16. we must remove the dark burqah of cultural identity that borders on destructive and suicidal ethnocentrism, that Talibanizes the effort towards tolerance; instead we should only wear a thin veil of ethnic marker so that we may still honor the needs of identity politics but celebrate the human desire to learn to live an...d live to learn about each other's godly-constructed differences – ar
17. seek not the elusive fountain of earthy youth and vitality but rather, speak softly to the senses within, serenading them with the songs of remembrance of things past and profound, so that they may in turn speak to you and bathe you in the oasis of the oneness of the self -- the self that dwells in a fountain of unseen majesty – ar
18. from veda to veritas to viva to victory; from wisdom to truth to glory to victory -- evolve we must from one plane of consciousness to another, from space to consciousness to nothingness, so that we may become noble not by birth but by living a life of everlasting bliss -- ar
19. if there is a journey that will bring one to the seven heavens, it must begin through the eyes - ar
20. let not society corrupt your soul ... from a distance pierce through its eyes ...-ar
21. i wear my sunglasses at night so that i can see through the soul of the newer machines and pierce through the origin of the ghost within; in the eyes of the machine lies the seedless soul of destruction, planted when science became the tool of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism – ar
22. Sacrifice not your child to save tradition even if it means abandoning rites and rituals that do not makes sense to the rational mind; for the child may be a father/mother to Man that will create newer cultures that will hopefully destroy ones that call for the child to be sacrificed -- ar
23. become the subject you wish to objectify; the argument you wish to deconstruct; the crystal ball you wish to observe the world from; the self you wish to praise and worship -- ar
24. Doubt grows with knowledge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. The gentleman reaches upwards; the inferior man reaches downwards ... the gentleman understands what is right; the inferior man understands what is profitable" -- Confucius
26. "When Nature exceeds art, you have the rustic. When art exceeds Nature you have the clerk. It is when art and Nature are harmoniously blended that you have the gentleman." -- Confucius
27. people deserve the government they voted into power; one cannot be sorry when one chooses to be safe but behind the idea of the manintenance of the status quo lies a complex system of structural violence rooted in historical and dialectical materialism laced with ethno-religious fundamentalism. people are addicted to the political suffering they themselves gave birth to: rejoice hence -- ar
28. initiate interfaith dialogue intelligently so that we may be inspired and illuminated by the intensity of the inter-connectedness of the inner self with the illusionary world we hope to be involved in; so that we may become universal beings inspired by the power of the particularity of the individual self we inhabit in this world of intermediaries -- ar
29. I left my heart and soul in Planet Pandora and wish to learn the language of primordial reality and become a warrior-prince to battle against objectifiers and profiteers of Ultimate Reality -- ar
30. The struggle by the Na'vi tribe is reminiscent of the struggle of the Naga tribe in the Indonesian poet W.S. Rendra's The Struggle of the Naga Tribe (Kisah Perjuangan Suku Naga). It is also the story of the Penans in Sarawak
31. Return to paradise we all must - ar
32. The evolution of malaysia's tolerance towards the creation of ethnically-based hate groups signifies the advent of the hitlerization of society; a body politics plagued with the inability to deal both with the implosion and explosion of neo-feudalistic cybernetic construction of the falsehood-ness of race-based politics. what then must malaysians do? -- ar
33. REJOICE -- for a million souls that liveth a million ways there is and there must be to understand the meaning of truth and of divinity, never will one be the same as another; rejoice -- for a million hearts will silently or openly revolt against any means for others to impose the meaning of the meaning of the meaning... of truth. to each mind and soul to each truth one holds -- ar.
34. maybe, the ultimate test of faithfulness lies in one's faithfulness to one's true self of which faith in others and other things emanates or dissipates -- ar
35. in his deepest darkest moments, man is best left alone in his inner world of eerie silence ... so that he may be serenaded and lullabied by the sirens of his heart in his odyssey towards his glorious and shining moments -- ar
36. be brave to discuss even of the proof of the existence of the self, the larger Self, the soul, the Supreme Being, and spirituaity; it is a way to evolve into rational souls and into accepting that the simplest questions are the most profound; be brave even to conduct a skillfully sustained dialogue on these as this can be exhilirating and enlightening -- ar
37. who needs the matrieya, the mahdis, the pied pipers and prophecies, soothsayers and saviours, when we can craft our own story of rise and fall, birth and death, destruction and illuminations, heaven and hell -- our story in all its glory as we become masters of our own destiny, with fate's conspiracy? -- ar
38. Octopuses of the world unite; predict who will win the the next world war ... combined yours will be better than Nostradamus's, for sure the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones -- ar
39. the next malaysian world cup 2014 team will consist of young and talented under- 80 players such as v. arumugam, soh chin aun, santokh singh, mokhtar dahari, bakri ibni, james wong, othman abdullah, and a few imported players such as fandi ahmad, k. kamamoto, rudy hartono, liem swie kim, prakash padukone, and malek nor: truly multicultural -ar)
40. The Dutch and Spaniards will both win the world cup and the world; the Dutch will get Dutch East India Company, free trip to Batavia, & get to rule Jawa for 300 years and get a bonus installation of apartheid in South Africa, the Spaniards will get Chris Columbus and an armada of Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, & get to ...rule the Phillippines for more that 300 years and will get a bonus of the Spanish-American War - ar
41. . Man is born free, yet he is relegated to live in a psychedelic world, mediated by the media he creates, by the cyberspace he inhabits, by the invented realities he does not know offered to him, by the world of soundbites, sight, and sound that mesmerizes him, by the surrealisitc word he has fallen into, in a Baudrilliardian sense -- ar
42. part of my mind is still resonating from the those multi-mega watts of amphitheatre sound of last night's Kid Rock and Bon Jovi concert. need time to go back to the sound of silence before analyzing this advanced giant-screen and video-enhanced rock kapak experience in the former Giants Stadium .... ar
43. instead of the public universities talking about vision 2020, islam hadhari, the culture of information technology, world-classism ideology, blue ocean strategy, and now the newest of the newest of the new economic strategy, why not teach how to deconstruct ideologies, take the nation out of cybernetic fantasies, and start teaching radical theories needed to dismantle totalitarian societies – ar
44. how green is your valley, how red is your ideology? - ar
45. Be brave enough to leave one's culture, race, ethnicity behind; in all these lie the seed of destruction, domination, desolation; lie power relations in which the master uses his grand narrative to subjugate the slaves; lie the disabling aspects of civilization; lies superstition, caste, class, and the contradictions; ...through language of these lie the violent enslavement of the mind; "culture colonizes -- ar
46. Fly with the dove that caress human souls, that pierce the eyes, that nurses spirits to freedom, that selfless bird of freedom that loses nothing for he is everything; run not with wolves that shred the mind, body, and soul to pieces and leave it to rot for hyenas to feast upon -- in life the inner self can whisper distinction to make, the path to choose. witnessed by Love that reigns supreme. – ar
47. Education cannot live and breathe on discrimination;it must flourish on love and hope for humanity, social change cannot live on idealism alone but on humanism and existentialism, and revolutions might be a better alternative than innovations if the latter merely sugarcoats the pareto optimum level of the status quo that is corrupt to the core -- ar
48. That was a torturous one hour (on Maysian TV) of struggling with the beautiful broadcast Malay language -- I survived! -- ar
49. I will be on TV1 at 10 p.m. Malaysian time tonight via Skype (talking in Malay – help me Lord ... ) on talent, brain drain, and national development with panelist Dr. Zaini Ujang of UTM.
50. Who would have guessed that The World Cup 2010 is a conspiracy; of the rise of newer neo-colonialism in the way the Europeans are again wiping off the Third world nations, of the triumph of techniques over temperament, machines over man, teamwork over tango, and avatars over natives – these only the disciplines of “soccer-osophy and soccer-litics”, I call, can explain -- ar
51. an unexamined soccer game is not worth playing -- ar
52. Art, music, literature, science, and philosophy must be transformed into tools of social revolutions; we can no longer afford to surrender these to the hegemony of the ruling class nor further fragment the masses into human crumbs destroyed by postmodern incomprehensibilities and insensibilities -- ar
53. I have turned to stone, but when i roll like a rock, i will gather moss; a rock feels no pain, a stone does not get high, one can imagine me, like in camus' sisyphus, being rolled up and down the hill till eternity and sisyphus remaining happy; never think of carving me for i wish to remain like lao tzu till change makes me permanent -- ar
54. Skyscrapers and twin towers signify how uncivilized we have become as we tried to reach the gods in search of truth in materialism; civilization is mistaken as progress in which the essence of truth in humanity, that is "primitivism" is buried in the ideological structures of power, greed, hedonism, and social cancer, all these embodied in the necessary evil called the "state" or in the malay language, "kerajaan" -- ar
55. He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.- Lao Tzu
56. Let us live in self-governing vegetarian communes with a garden, a vegetable farm, some water buffaloes, basic needs, solar-powered hut, no TV, lots of books, meaningful conversations, and a facebook account -- no governments, no politicians, no schools, no stock markets. no cars, no nonsense -- ar.
57. WASTELAND II:
I want to write a thousand verses or more/Or maybe one or less/As I opened my eyes to see the darkness of the blinding light/I want to write as the hands writes/As the consciousness screams/As I see the might/Of everything in sight/ ...
58. We rightly deserve the government we voted into power; so that we may be made comfortable with the fear we have, since only a government that uses fear to control its people will be able to best meet the needs of those who already have fear historically structured into their mind, body, and
soul - ar
59. It is not enough to oppose iron rule, but to cut its hands off with the might of the pen -- ar
we are 'book of signs" to be written, revised, rewritten, erased ...as we write our life story, as we become scripts and postscripts, we have objectified ourselves and limit our realm of existence ..writing differs from the spoken word ... from the word become flesh and from language becomes inscriptions becomes installations, embedded in these are ideologies to humanize or dehumanize - ar
60. to me, writing can be a terrifying act; you don't know what you will deconstruct – ar
61. seriously folks, men too should take up gardening not golfing. there is philosophy in gardening and politics in golfing... unlike golfing where you may learn to bury your business or political enemies alive or to finish off your political jumping frogs unceremoniously, gardening has a philosophy where your see love springing out of the ground and frogs looking like your dream princes -- ar
62. find beauty and meaning, even in the most mundane of all things we engage in, find love and hope even in the most difficult and dullest child we are educating, find awe and inspiration, even in the smallest garden we create with our own hands --- for a life lived examined begins with all these -- ar
63. first the colonizers capitalized and fragment on race, next the cultural imperialists did it with Coke and McDonalds, next the locals are doing it with religion and circuses ... these are styles of colonization. wake up folks ... unite through philosophy of cultural action for freedom, keeping religion to your own private... self ... it is a class and caste war, not about nationalism and ethnicity ... -- ar
64. at a time when the muslims in malaysia are now arguing over yet another set of variations of islam -- wahabbi, wasabee, wannabe, or what-its-going-to-be -- aside from sunni-shiah-sufi-salafi sensiibilities, what they need are: a rational mind, a revealed text, scriptures of other religion, world philosophies and a willingness to deconstruct everything, live simply, simply live, and ask the simplest questions – ar
65. all these fightings are making the orchestration of political manipulations easier, so that behind these intense moments of "divide and conquer", more can be stolen from the public coffers. malays are the most obedient people on earth, than...ks to feudal culture, interpretations of religion, and an iron rule hidden under a velvet glove.
66. what a waste of a collective human mind. reading and the study of philosophy is shunned against, one would rather be glued to the television 24/7. the situation is actually hopeless. ... artists, thinkers, writers, educators, musicians, etc. must ignite this revolution of radical change in thinking beginning with the questioning and deconstructing everything and breaking down the old order.
67. first the colonizers capitalized on race, next the cultural imperialists did it with Coke and McDonalds, next the locals are doing it with religion and circuses ... the styles of colonization. wake up folks .. and smell the black roses. unite we must, through philosophy of cultural action for freedom, through praxis, keeping religion to your own private self ... it is a class and caste war, not about nationalism ... it has always been this kind of war.
68. Malays possess Nostradamic ideas – Puteri Buluh Betong was the first test-tube baby, Hang Tuah a prototype of Robocop disguised as an over-glamourised fool, Hang Nadim a clever investment banker who fooled the King of Temasik into importing banana trees , Si Tenggang a warning to Malays not to venture far but to lead Perkasa, Raja Bersiong a warning to modern Malaysians to be vigilant
of blood-sucking leaders -ar
69. The history of every epoch is the history of the ruling class, Marx said. The compilation of Malay legends and myths and 'chronicles of ancient rulers' is the work of the scribe commissioned by the ruling class. The Sejarah Melayu is one. It is an effort to pass down false consciousness and a male-and-phallocentric version of 'history' to the younger generation. - ar
70. i am feeling red and seeing the darkness of the garment i am wearing, as i look into the eyes of the selves that are piercing into mine; as i asked: how real are the colors of our existence? - ar
71. is not the world a gift, from the lover to the beloved ... ? -ar
72. all there exist are merely metaphors of love and the beloved, of loving and being loved -- even the kama sutra of vatsyayana spoke of the metaphor of oneness from two-ness and many-ness; of the detachment of the fruits of one's action in the way we act out the part in this world as stage. the conversation between lord krshna and arjuna is essentially about this; not merely being immersed in nothingness but the recognition first that there is self and the larger self and there there is the seeing but not with the physical eyes that see. the lover and the beloved is essentially about that metaphor of being in love not only with creation but with the universe and the ultimate reality that creates, as the bhagavad gita, the ramayana, the mahabharatta, the sutras, and the puranas would teach. whatever that is manifested in the mind/thought is acted upon in the reality of physical action and all these have no boundary as seen from the eyes of Ultimate Reality... the world inside and outside collapses into one.
73. we have been living too much with "attachments' and possessions, have we not? of the need to own materials that are taken from nature and from others. essentially this is the disease of modernity. the nature of the larger self is seldom explored; we have forgotten to live with the dictates of our dharma and plant the seeds of "bodhi" in the way we conduct our lives. we plunder and enslave people, build weapons of mass destruction for the big and small mahabharattas we create out of our love for this world of maya. we are doomed. and that's when many will wait for the coming of prince rama, in this last phase of the yuga ...
74. where does Sita Devi come into the picture then if not as a metaphor of "waiting for the beloved" and the wait ended when she came home guided by the lights? of divali.
75. man's true nature is love -- from where man and women came from and unto it they shall return. the means at arriving and returning may differ but the measure of humanity is through the amount of love manifested at different levels, time, space. ultimately as some believe, all will go back to brahma.
76. aahhh .. with the 7-0 lost of north korea, the country will once again become a hermit kingdom and contemplate defeat in this game of capitalist proportion; – ar
77. know thyself, know thy enemies, a hundred battles a hundred victories -- sun tzu, in the art of war
78. the united states of america will win the next world cup if it applies the strategy of transforming of innocent boys into GI Joes, men into Avatars, a village texas idiot into a president, foot soldiers into drones, nothingness into globalized sensations, and high school boys into tom cruises, -- into its soccer training programs. that's america. love it or go crazy living in it ;) -- ar
79. contrary to popular belief, the best way to some men's heart might not be through their stomach, but through their head; this species of men would prefer intelligence than indigestion ... and give a woman not a dozen roses or two, give her a dozen species of it, so that she will learn the multiculturality of love and how m...any cultures profess world-wise love, perennially -ar
80. the french soccer players must learn to contain their head-butt anger; at the rate they are going, they will again, have another tennis court oath, storm the eiffel tower, build themselves a statue of liberty, and guillotine all the soccer balls in paris -ar
81. there is no truth in historical documents -- only evolvingly sophisticated falsehoods propagated by the ruling class -ar
82. history can be a selective collection of memories of the strangest people; of eccentrics and schizophrenic leaders... what's missing are those buried under rubles and statistics - ar
83. fatherhood is a resounding success when, even a daughter will speak, think, and act like her father and speaks of him with pride and praises long after he is dead and gone ... - ar
84. those crazy americans have a good chance of winning the world cup -- provided they don't go crazy on the field thinking that it's touch football, slam dunking like LeBron James, and the goalie running all around the field doing home runs when he's supposed to be a wide receiver. those crazy and arrogant americans ... -ar
85. The famed Oceania team Awstralya lost in the world cup because of mass hysteria and spirit possession; players were jumping around like kangaroos and putting each other in their pouches, the team was cut into half by half-time -- such is the power of the modern soccer voodoo priests, paid handsomely in Euros -- ar
86. because humanity comes from love and out of the act of love, the idea of falling in and out of love seems alien and alienating; it is the constant renewal, reconstruction, or the rediscovery of grounded love that might seem more inviting for philosophers to ponder upon -- ultimately, love conquers all - ar
87. master kung (fu tze) spoke a lot about peace-- that begins with oneself and transcends to family, community, nation, and the world. lao tzu and mencius complemented the idea with a philosophy of Nature.
ZUKERBERG ELEGIES: Part 2, Azly Rahman quotes (from status page)
by DR. AZLY RAHMAN
QUOTES, Part II
1. there is no need for the Internal Security Act in Malaysia .. there are no more communists only communalist-corporate-crony-crypto capitalists addicted to communal-politics ! -- ar
2. ultimate reality can be seen if one uses a lantern in broad daylight – ar
3. Time, with thee I conspire with Fate and Free Will; unto thee I offer my salutation, from Dawn to Dusk to Darkness daily I see thee tells the story of who I might have been and yet Evolution I must become, the story of Creation I have been told. O Time, I wish all of creation know Thee – ar
4. Read ... Read thyself; for thee is a book of signs, symbols, signifiers, of the semiotics of spiritual symbiosis of the self and the larger self; of truth within a truth, of chakras configured from chaos connected to the cosmology of cosmic consciousness; of a lamp within a mirror; of a speck of dust evolving and wishing to know; of a text inscribed by the textuality of truth temporal -- ar
5. a teacher who sees the child through the eyes of race, color, class, creed, religion, and caste, has no business in education; for teaching is that subversive art and science of developing human potentials so that the child will grow up to revolt against any system that puts him or her in the shackles of race, color, class, creed, religion, and class -- ar
6. O People of the book: Greet not the fasting month with a feasting mind, asketh not for rewards for the deeds you bring forth, worship not only when hardship greets, live a halal life of charity, nobility and purity even in a haram and corrupt economy, above all know thyself and you know what governs thee eternally -- ar
7. we come from love and unto love we shall return in between these lies the deep understanding of what love and the absence of it means; of suffering and liberation, of appearance and reality, of the evolution of consciousness and the destruction of it, of the entering of paradise and the expulsion from it, of the realization of beauty and ugliness, of the grayness of good and evil -- ar
8. O' capitalist societies, capitalist selves: be subjected to the ramadhanization of existence; for fasting is the act of slowing down your sense of urgency to accumulate and to acquire capital taken from Nature, from the Natural self; to slow down the desire to rob the poor, rape Nature, and revolt against Love. verily, a life of detachment, of dharma, and the realization of moksha is a life free from dhukka -- ar
9. O' self, between darkness and light we met and we mediate upon the covenant we are to make, as we contemplate putting thee in the abode of Love, where Paradise is never lost, where Nature is the Ultimate Self, and as dawn breaks we set forth to encapsulate thee into a soul, spirit, and body as we greet the light of darkness and set thee free to roam the Earth and to seek for thine self within a guide in thee -- ar
10. O' self, thou have shed tears of fear and loss of meaningfulness at the dawn of creation, at the onset of thine journey through this matrix of complexities and the Mandelbrott of spirituality. Did not thou agree to carry the gift of love and knowledge and rememberance of things past? Go forth and seek for the guide within, so that thou will see Maya clearly. -- ar
11. O' self, ask not what the nature of truth nor the form the guide taketh; these will come to thee in thine waking hours of labour and thine conversations with Nature, & in thine deepest reverie when night falls and when solitude is thine companion, for the righteous path will be many and will be one, as the mind becomes science and the soul become a lotus that blooms a thousand times, piercing the eyes of reality - ar
12. O' self, with sincerity, explore all possible roads that may lead to self knowledge; one may arrive first in a prison-house of language, in a tower of babel and end up feeling the pleasure of experiencing the universal in the particular, the profane in the sacred, the falsehood in truth, and the grandiose-ness of the minutest of things - ar
13. O' self, read ... read thyself ... read ... even if it takes a lifetime to do so; for thou are a book of signs that began as a tabula rasa constructed out of scripts whose ink drawn from the fountain of Love and Plenty so that thine existence will become a scripture of scripts and subscripts, of narratives and meta-narratives of the Grand and the Subaltern -- ar
14. O' self tame the Fire within for thou is a kingdom in itself; a master of thine's destiny with Fate decree and conspiring; command the armies, the counsels, the playwrights, the scribes, the artisans, the musicians, the designer of battlefields within; for thine is a powerhouse of creations of many a worlds to be created in thine's journey towards everlasting bliss -- ar
15. O' self O' people O tribes O nations see what destruction humanity has done when the stone is carved? The stone was forced to become -- carved, constructed, characterized, and made to colonize; from the stone carved, the powerful amongst you will invent, install, and institutionalize ideologies that seal the fate of humanity into becoming cogs in the wheels of absurdity. from stones we evolve. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human instinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna -- ar
16. O' deepest self: in earth, wind, fire water lies the metaphysical semiotics of thine's creation and in the universe outside lies thine's universe inside; rejoice, for thou is one with Nature; as that cybernetic energy imbued with an existentialist design of flesh and blood; rejoice and revolve, like Newton's universe, in harmony with thine's chakras within -- ar
17. O' self ... childhood, youth, and old age are merely in thine imagination; for the mind, the spirit, and the soul are old as the universe if thou knew that ecclesiastical history of the self, and the cosmology of creation; for thou is merely a symbolism of Time and Space constructed as an experiment in the workability of creation; do we exist hence? -- ar
18. O' people, guide thine youth to spend their early years in the pursuit of knowledge and the passion of its application and the beauty of its bhakti to humankind; teach them well in the way so of the "jen" or the gentlemen, as Kungfu Tze would say, and turn them into deep thinkers who cares for the fate of society and a...t the same immersed in the joys of growing up and finding meaning in being wise adults -- ar
19. O self, suffering lies in one's inability to detach oneself from materials, people, places, and the urge to accumulate more than one could possibly share. Liberation thus is to live a life focused on higher goals, ideals, principles and living a life honoring what one needs and not feeding one's greed. Live a life of mindful living, aware of the semiotics of Desire colonizing -- ar
20. O self, journey into the past, to battlefields of yesteryear like those of Kurusektra, Peloponesia, Trafalgar, and slay thine dragons and demons thou have nurtured out of passion, desire and arrogance thou hath tamed not; confront these as well as the skeletons in thine closet and come home to the present victorious like Arjuna, Alexander, and Ashoka ... so that peace of a thousand years shall reign thine heart -- ar
21. Life is not a losing battle; it is a glorious gift to the self -- ar
22. Become an ethnographer to thine's own life an archaeologist of consciousness, a philosopher of living; catalog the data of experiences, analyzing what thou have gone through, so that thou may have conversations with thine's own inner culture and reconstruct those patterns not longer in sync with thine's concluding chapter of the Book of Thine Own Signs -- ar
23. enjoy life, responsibly :) -- ar
24. O' self, O' people, recite merely not thine holy scriptures; journey hermeneutically into it - recite, read, read, re-read, construct, deconstruct, dive into its dialectics, so that thou will find the meaning of each passage closer to thine's own desire, stripping off disabling cultural contexts of the world of yesteryears and ultimately it is you who will become the text in your own existentialist context -- ar
25. Uganda to Malaysia, from Krakow to Kuala Nerang, from Pontianak to Pontian – we see nations, states and principalities being transformed by those who own the means to use "culture, race, and ethnicity" in conspiracy with technologies of domination.We must, as a nation at risk, begin our debate on these – because ...we are seeing things falling apart before our eyes. The seeds of destruction have germinated. – ar
26. ala weberian ghostly ethics & the spirit of capitalism, women are possessed by men with possessions and vice versa & often men and women come back to each other later in life to re-possess each other ... that's what happened in a world being possessed by possessions -- a phenomena in 'jin bertendang' (kicking 'djinns')... places such as Pontianak, Lubuk Antu, Pochong/Puchong, Mambang-di-Awan, and Gua Musang –ar
27. When i was 10, I wrote these words in my dairy: "Sail to the ocean of silver .. study hard to be clever"; little did I know that there is no silver ocean nor you need to study hard to be clever -- all you need is a blue ocean strategy that'll get bloodied eventually and to battle against sharks and piranhas to survive in a capitalist cut-throat economy and hope that you'll end up in an ocean of mercy -- ar
28. O' people, Religion is merely a logical structure of human experience vis-a-viz the Divine so that the mind can explore the meaning of religious rituals & symbolism, nature of existence, meaning of God, evolution of the self as it journeys, through Love and Compassion, toward the larger Self;. Religion provides the idea of... how human beings must treat each other in this sea of Humanity and in this Ocean of mercy -- ar
29. DE-EVOLVE folks, through a green party; go back to kampongism, marhaenism -- capitalism is dead -- ar
30. O' self: find the meaning of life, even in the Godfather movies; for the Universe has made us an offer we can't refuse -- ar
31. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar
32. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar
33. go green --- in mind, body, politics; our society is too bloody red and pitch black, our politics death metallist, our environment raped till its' s blue black and diseased -- ar
34. "... Because the manufacturing of crises and the bogeyman called race and ethnicity is no longer a working tool of structural violence to be deployed as a reason to create havoc and chaos come the 13th general election, religion becomes the next available sharp object to pry open the mind of Malaysians so that fear of another riot can be filter-funneled into them. .." -- ar in Malaysiakini
35. O' self jihad till thou see the crystal clearness of thine soul, in everlasting O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar
blissfulness thou shall be -- ar
36. O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar
37. O' people: activism and revolution alone cannot bring instant peace to any nation; it is the deep understanding, deep structuring, and the mass disseminating of love for all things great and small that will give everlasting meaning to desired change. it is the absence of love that creates spaces for greed, hatred, and ...violence subtly factored into systems of control and organized chaos -- ar
38. One's youth should be spent being buried in books, getting lost in the forest, drowning in contemplation, being awed by Nature, resisting falling in love, rebelling against society, dreaming of revolutions, having the desire to change the world, and learning to play rock and roll music -- ar
39. O Teachers: teach children and love them, especially those of the poor and marginalized, as if they were your own; for success in education lies in our ability to look at the children through the eyes of humanity; verily teachers, you have such an immense power to develop-- or to destroy --- the curious young minds. use that power wisely -- ar
40. In Malaysia, there seem to be no positive correlation between the increasing religiosity of her people to the level of violence, environmental degradation, loss of respect for democracy, hate crimes, and abuse of power at the highest level; it simply shows that religion has been bought over by politics, resulting in th...e mass silencing of the citizens in the name of leaving things to Fate and to Iron Rule -- ar
41. this holiday celebration, smoke a peace pipe, rap the racists, rock the vote, banish the blues, run the reggaeton, dive into dangdut, grow with ghazal, get dizzy with disco, contemplate with the classics, journey with jazz, take out the thrash, get high on heavy metal, parachute into punk rock, sing along on the sitar, drown sorrows in dondang sayang, bathe in the nice-ness of nasyid, ... have a safe holiday -- ar
42. to understand Death, one must first contemplate what Living means -- ar
43. O' self, daily thou undergoes karma - ar
44. a hari raya unexamined is not worth celebrating - ar
45. O folks, friends and foe -- have a psychedelic, fantastic, phantasmagoric, non-toxic, phlegmatic, bucolic, non-alcoholic, scenic, dialogic, bombastic, symbiotic, semiotic, semantic, supersonic, tantric, mystic, tribalistic, nationalistic, socialistic, anti-capitalistic, mantric, chantic, rendangisi-tic, lemang-istic, satay-istic, chendol-istic, and most of all psychedelic Eidul-Fitri -- ar
46. every child is born a prince or a princess and hope to evolve into a king or a queen but will end up enslaved by the machiavellian nature of human and social arrangements and by enslavers narrating the sheharazad's story of a thousand and one nights of the modern slavery system, lullabying the human mind into finding pleasure in this modern master-slave grand narrative -- ar
47. O' self do you not exist merely as energy in flux and in constant change of form, encapsulated in vergetation and rationality, evolving towards the universality of other forms and beingness and only language in its multitudinality of variations may define thine's existence? -- ar
48. O people, read those scriptures, not burn them .. there is wisdom and universal truth in each and every one of them .. for truth will come only to those who seek knowledge with an open mind and that light that guides within – ar
49. wage peace, not war -- especially on issues of religious understanding. -- ar
50. burn not but read the quran, terry jones and your brand of christianity; for therein the book of "readings or recitations" lies the story of jesus, mary, david, moses, solomon, abraham, noah, adam, of creation, of the real meaning of jihad, and many more on the self and the ultimate self -- ar
51. O' friends, my post-ramadhan message: at work, be driven like a siamese durian, drive safely to work in that reconditioned lemon, drive not your co-workers nuts, give your employees more than just peanuts, become an apple to everyone's eyes, be fresh as a freshly squeezed orange, groom yourself like a rambutan in a red shirt of a revolutioner, and serve the capitalists well in hope for a tricke down effect -- ar
52. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, said Thomas Jefferson. Revolt peacefully we must, against our own governments that have become tyrants, becoming enemies to their own people; revolt through the ballot box, using social media and the internet to transform ourselves as informed citizens that will insist on changing governments like changing diapers -- ar
53. extreme nationalism may lead to the will of people to engineer and orchestrate genocide; the cure for this tendency is to think like a world-wise citizen in this globalized world of shifting allegiances in which race does not really matter but the fate of the human race does -- ar
54. woke up this morning with this burning question -- who or what would you die for? mother, father, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, motherland, fatherland, nation, race, or religion and god or yourself or for nothing at all? -- ar
55. In this Age of Complexity, men are now from Venus, women from Mars, those in between from Pluto; live a philosophically simple life, making the complex simple, the simple complex; live an anthropologically enriched life, making the strange familiar, the familiar strange; live an economically sane life, prioritizing nee...ds over greed, granting help to those in need for, from Thee we come, unto Thee we shall return - ar
56. there is no past, there is no future, all that is existing is an everchanging present, in world of the evolving self. rejoice, you are merely energy in constant flux and in hegemonic transitions enthrophized -- ar
57. the success of 1Malaysia requires the voluntary dismantling of all race-based political parties, the surrender of all ill-gotten wealth, the installation of a humane system of meritocracy, the radical restructuring of all systems, the national envisioning of a good socialist system, the dismantling of all signs..., symbols, signifiers of power/knowledge monopolized, the celebration of manyness in oneness -- ar
58. greatness lies the grand awareness of humility -- ar
59. in language lies the prisons of reality -- ar
60. O' self -- at times, and perhaps, many a times, one must perceive life with cynicism and suspicion, scanning it with piercing looks ... though red roses bloom as backdrop ... they are but maya/darkness must become one's garment to shield one from the blurrying but mesmerizing forces of evil -- ar
61. The rise of violent crimes in Malaysia -- for the love of materialism, racism, and militarism -- shows that the country and her people need to urgently be in control of itself, before the entire nation self-medicates itself, OD-ed en masse, and commits suicide by jumping off the Twin Towers after strangling itself--ar
62. What is an American? How does an American think? Must the world appreciate the form of 'democracy' spread by the United States of America?
63. Malay power lies not in the ability to use the art of war to maintain its neo-feudalistic sense of making enemies with others but more dignified than this, lies in how power is used to transform others, to create a system of social justice and economic design so that Malaysia will become state that destroys the boundaries of race, color, religion, caste, status symbol, and most importantly vestiges of feudalism --ar
64. To change: Free the human mind from dogmas, superstitions, mental chains, hegemonic formations, and those levels of totalitarianism. Strengthen the scientific and philosophical foundation of its curriculum and practices to effect changes in the higher-order thinking skills of the next generation. Tolerate not, any form of bigotry, racial chauvinism, and retarded form of democracy in our educational system -- ar
65. If it is to be believed that the lord of the universe is most merciful, most compassionate most forgiving, it is to be believed that the first step towards healing from the most horrible of all life experiences is to be merciful, compassionate, and forgiving to ONESELF; true love for oneself and that lord of the universe will begin to flourish. We are all human, all too human .. -ar
66. O' humanity/ Did you no remember the day in which/on one fine darkness of neither day nor night we met?/In which thine has kept the promise to be free and to agree to walk with dignity?/That time when no forms nor substance nor appearance nor encapsulation makes thee?/Have thou forgotten that moment of deep silence that resounded gloriously/ like a symphony?/Did you remember what was told to thee? - ar
67. we continue to live in a (Andy) Warholian world in which love is for sale, anger is to be managed, human labour is to be capitalized, religion is commodified, politics is prostitutionalized, ethics is compromized, and fools glamorized -- in this age of mechanical reproduction, much like living in a Campbell soup can -- ar
68. O Humanity, all the senses that thou possesses, the signs and symbols of sight, hearing, taste, touch, etc. ... the personal-ideological-apparatuses of thine's entire self -- all these are merely metaphors and semiotics, i.e. signs, symbols, signifiers of a larger Self that wants to be praised. love, and worshipped by thine own self; in an absurd yet logical relationship - if thou knows .. -- ar
69. is there not a larger self inside of you; that travels with you to places, from the time you were born, till the time you are gone? -- ar
70. capitalism is not trickling down ... it's going up in the sky ... creating nothing in a world of globalization of nothing ...
71. Come GE-13 will Malaysians finally be ready for a change in government -- new paradigm, new mindset, new ways of doing things, new commitment to transparency, new vision in education -- and make way for a political culture of "two-party system"? Are Malaysians, especially Malays ready to leave UMNO, Chinese to leave MCA, Indians to leave MIC., etc. ? Ready or not? what will be the shape of things to come? --ar
72. to teach children about peace, ban war toys at home -- ar
73. any government must consist of technocrats and transcendentalists, bankers and bantusaan dwellers, classical economists and marxists, doctors and dying patients, enterpreneurs and existentialists, mandarins and musicians, poets and physicists, workers and Wobblies, farmers and fishermen, gardeners and gung-ho revolutioners -- so that the nation may be saved from sharks and piranhas in blue oceans of absurdity. – ar
74. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human insinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna/nirvana -- ar
1. Maybe ...life is a beautiful journey of construction and deconstruction, bricolage of battles crafted to one's heart desire, the past rewritten, the future non-existent both collapsing into one grand symphony of the here and now, of spirits, souls, demons, angels, protons, neutrons of nano-bytes of sound bytes of consciousness dancing like white noise waiting for a prophet inside of us to pull them back in place –ar
2. evolve we must even from ape to man, even through natural and metaphysical selections -- ar
(primitivism in the tradition of animalistic culture can be observed in hyper-modern societies such as malaysia, as materialism dictates the evolution of political maturity and civility; as the law of the jungle and cannibalism rules, as postindustrial tribalism in the form of violence-leaning race-based hate-based politics is in constant display, orchestrated by the hidden hands of machiavellianism -- so that primate politics can be a feature of civilization.)
3. when corruption becomes a norm and nobody cares, cultural decadence becomes a celebration, family breakdown becomes a way style of cultural progress. and politicians act like ultra-modern slave-owners to the masses, using the machinery of the state to control the mind, material, media, of the nation -- when all these are happening we are seeing a de-evolution of a society on its way to be transported to the planet of the apes. - ar
4. as human beings try to understand the universe and its creator, does the universe even care about our existence? -ar
5. if life imitates Nature what then does Nature imitate in this hierarchy of Form and Appearance, of Illusion and Reality? - ar
6. life .. conceive it like an installation of art and music, of light and sound ... and of prolonged silence -- ar
7. we exist simply as a complex marker of a network of conceptual interconnectedness of signs, symbols, and signifiers of a larger world existing in a realm we can never comprehend its meaning other than what is being taught to us by those who owns the means to craft the imagined knowledge of the Unseen -- ar
8. must teachers in malaysia join political parties? or -- should they spend time studying philosophy and practising critical pedagogy? will they become tools of the State, using their influence to colonize the enquiring young minds and turn each of them into yet another brick in the wall nourishing their mind into catatonic states? – ar
9. love gives life to living; like a million lotuses bloom, growing and permeating into every cell of the mind body, soul, nourishing these like a thousand eternal springs - without love ... hatred haunts like hovering hawks from hell in cohort with hungry hyenas waiting to feast on the human mind, body, soul, decaying and diseasing every cell till death in midsummer triumphs – ar
10. how must one become enlightened in one's lifetime and what next ... and what then must one do? -- ar
11. there is no quick way to success and supreme wealth; it is a long journey of hard work and gratitude at every step of successful failures that determine the 'blessed-ness" of what one own; even so, the idea of 'ownership' is a contradiction; one doesn't own anything except what is granted by Fate or Free Will in order to test one's understanding of the meaning of "success", "wealth", and of course "gratitude"-- ar
12 the greatest enemy of knowledge is ignorance – Socrates
13. know thyself ... know thy enemies .. a hundred battles ... a hundred victories -- Sun Tzu
14. aahhh ... facebook is emerging to be the ultimate medium of postmodernity in which the self assumes a cybernetic life, the mind becomes a heteroglossic-consciousness machine, the world of the inhabitant is now a panopticon and a synopticon, and the past, present, and future collapse into a maya and a world of cybernetic beingness and nothingness of informational overload -- ar
15. think and be merry; smoke the peace pipe of eternity; dance to the tune of humanity; act to help alleviate poverty; educate each other of the meaning of social equality – ar
16. we must remove the dark burqah of cultural identity that borders on destructive and suicidal ethnocentrism, that Talibanizes the effort towards tolerance; instead we should only wear a thin veil of ethnic marker so that we may still honor the needs of identity politics but celebrate the human desire to learn to live an...d live to learn about each other's godly-constructed differences – ar
17. seek not the elusive fountain of earthy youth and vitality but rather, speak softly to the senses within, serenading them with the songs of remembrance of things past and profound, so that they may in turn speak to you and bathe you in the oasis of the oneness of the self -- the self that dwells in a fountain of unseen majesty – ar
18. from veda to veritas to viva to victory; from wisdom to truth to glory to victory -- evolve we must from one plane of consciousness to another, from space to consciousness to nothingness, so that we may become noble not by birth but by living a life of everlasting bliss -- ar
19. if there is a journey that will bring one to the seven heavens, it must begin through the eyes - ar
20. let not society corrupt your soul ... from a distance pierce through its eyes ...-ar
21. i wear my sunglasses at night so that i can see through the soul of the newer machines and pierce through the origin of the ghost within; in the eyes of the machine lies the seedless soul of destruction, planted when science became the tool of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism – ar
22. Sacrifice not your child to save tradition even if it means abandoning rites and rituals that do not makes sense to the rational mind; for the child may be a father/mother to Man that will create newer cultures that will hopefully destroy ones that call for the child to be sacrificed -- ar
23. become the subject you wish to objectify; the argument you wish to deconstruct; the crystal ball you wish to observe the world from; the self you wish to praise and worship -- ar
24. Doubt grows with knowledge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. The gentleman reaches upwards; the inferior man reaches downwards ... the gentleman understands what is right; the inferior man understands what is profitable" -- Confucius
26. "When Nature exceeds art, you have the rustic. When art exceeds Nature you have the clerk. It is when art and Nature are harmoniously blended that you have the gentleman." -- Confucius
27. people deserve the government they voted into power; one cannot be sorry when one chooses to be safe but behind the idea of the manintenance of the status quo lies a complex system of structural violence rooted in historical and dialectical materialism laced with ethno-religious fundamentalism. people are addicted to the political suffering they themselves gave birth to: rejoice hence -- ar
28. initiate interfaith dialogue intelligently so that we may be inspired and illuminated by the intensity of the inter-connectedness of the inner self with the illusionary world we hope to be involved in; so that we may become universal beings inspired by the power of the particularity of the individual self we inhabit in this world of intermediaries -- ar
29. I left my heart and soul in Planet Pandora and wish to learn the language of primordial reality and become a warrior-prince to battle against objectifiers and profiteers of Ultimate Reality -- ar
30. The struggle by the Na'vi tribe is reminiscent of the struggle of the Naga tribe in the Indonesian poet W.S. Rendra's The Struggle of the Naga Tribe (Kisah Perjuangan Suku Naga). It is also the story of the Penans in Sarawak
31. Return to paradise we all must - ar
32. The evolution of malaysia's tolerance towards the creation of ethnically-based hate groups signifies the advent of the hitlerization of society; a body politics plagued with the inability to deal both with the implosion and explosion of neo-feudalistic cybernetic construction of the falsehood-ness of race-based politics. what then must malaysians do? -- ar
33. REJOICE -- for a million souls that liveth a million ways there is and there must be to understand the meaning of truth and of divinity, never will one be the same as another; rejoice -- for a million hearts will silently or openly revolt against any means for others to impose the meaning of the meaning of the meaning... of truth. to each mind and soul to each truth one holds -- ar.
34. maybe, the ultimate test of faithfulness lies in one's faithfulness to one's true self of which faith in others and other things emanates or dissipates -- ar
35. in his deepest darkest moments, man is best left alone in his inner world of eerie silence ... so that he may be serenaded and lullabied by the sirens of his heart in his odyssey towards his glorious and shining moments -- ar
36. be brave to discuss even of the proof of the existence of the self, the larger Self, the soul, the Supreme Being, and spirituaity; it is a way to evolve into rational souls and into accepting that the simplest questions are the most profound; be brave even to conduct a skillfully sustained dialogue on these as this can be exhilirating and enlightening -- ar
37. who needs the matrieya, the mahdis, the pied pipers and prophecies, soothsayers and saviours, when we can craft our own story of rise and fall, birth and death, destruction and illuminations, heaven and hell -- our story in all its glory as we become masters of our own destiny, with fate's conspiracy? -- ar
38. Octopuses of the world unite; predict who will win the the next world war ... combined yours will be better than Nostradamus's, for sure the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones -- ar
39. the next malaysian world cup 2014 team will consist of young and talented under- 80 players such as v. arumugam, soh chin aun, santokh singh, mokhtar dahari, bakri ibni, james wong, othman abdullah, and a few imported players such as fandi ahmad, k. kamamoto, rudy hartono, liem swie kim, prakash padukone, and malek nor: truly multicultural -ar)
40. The Dutch and Spaniards will both win the world cup and the world; the Dutch will get Dutch East India Company, free trip to Batavia, & get to rule Jawa for 300 years and get a bonus installation of apartheid in South Africa, the Spaniards will get Chris Columbus and an armada of Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, & get to ...rule the Phillippines for more that 300 years and will get a bonus of the Spanish-American War - ar
41. . Man is born free, yet he is relegated to live in a psychedelic world, mediated by the media he creates, by the cyberspace he inhabits, by the invented realities he does not know offered to him, by the world of soundbites, sight, and sound that mesmerizes him, by the surrealisitc word he has fallen into, in a Baudrilliardian sense -- ar
42. part of my mind is still resonating from the those multi-mega watts of amphitheatre sound of last night's Kid Rock and Bon Jovi concert. need time to go back to the sound of silence before analyzing this advanced giant-screen and video-enhanced rock kapak experience in the former Giants Stadium .... ar
43. instead of the public universities talking about vision 2020, islam hadhari, the culture of information technology, world-classism ideology, blue ocean strategy, and now the newest of the newest of the new economic strategy, why not teach how to deconstruct ideologies, take the nation out of cybernetic fantasies, and start teaching radical theories needed to dismantle totalitarian societies – ar
44. how green is your valley, how red is your ideology? - ar
45. Be brave enough to leave one's culture, race, ethnicity behind; in all these lie the seed of destruction, domination, desolation; lie power relations in which the master uses his grand narrative to subjugate the slaves; lie the disabling aspects of civilization; lies superstition, caste, class, and the contradictions; ...through language of these lie the violent enslavement of the mind; "culture colonizes -- ar
46. Fly with the dove that caress human souls, that pierce the eyes, that nurses spirits to freedom, that selfless bird of freedom that loses nothing for he is everything; run not with wolves that shred the mind, body, and soul to pieces and leave it to rot for hyenas to feast upon -- in life the inner self can whisper distinction to make, the path to choose. witnessed by Love that reigns supreme. – ar
47. Education cannot live and breathe on discrimination;it must flourish on love and hope for humanity, social change cannot live on idealism alone but on humanism and existentialism, and revolutions might be a better alternative than innovations if the latter merely sugarcoats the pareto optimum level of the status quo that is corrupt to the core -- ar
48. That was a torturous one hour (on Maysian TV) of struggling with the beautiful broadcast Malay language -- I survived! -- ar
49. I will be on TV1 at 10 p.m. Malaysian time tonight via Skype (talking in Malay – help me Lord ... ) on talent, brain drain, and national development with panelist Dr. Zaini Ujang of UTM.
50. Who would have guessed that The World Cup 2010 is a conspiracy; of the rise of newer neo-colonialism in the way the Europeans are again wiping off the Third world nations, of the triumph of techniques over temperament, machines over man, teamwork over tango, and avatars over natives – these only the disciplines of “soccer-osophy and soccer-litics”, I call, can explain -- ar
51. an unexamined soccer game is not worth playing -- ar
52. Art, music, literature, science, and philosophy must be transformed into tools of social revolutions; we can no longer afford to surrender these to the hegemony of the ruling class nor further fragment the masses into human crumbs destroyed by postmodern incomprehensibilities and insensibilities -- ar
53. I have turned to stone, but when i roll like a rock, i will gather moss; a rock feels no pain, a stone does not get high, one can imagine me, like in camus' sisyphus, being rolled up and down the hill till eternity and sisyphus remaining happy; never think of carving me for i wish to remain like lao tzu till change makes me permanent -- ar
54. Skyscrapers and twin towers signify how uncivilized we have become as we tried to reach the gods in search of truth in materialism; civilization is mistaken as progress in which the essence of truth in humanity, that is "primitivism" is buried in the ideological structures of power, greed, hedonism, and social cancer, all these embodied in the necessary evil called the "state" or in the malay language, "kerajaan" -- ar
55. He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.- Lao Tzu
56. Let us live in self-governing vegetarian communes with a garden, a vegetable farm, some water buffaloes, basic needs, solar-powered hut, no TV, lots of books, meaningful conversations, and a facebook account -- no governments, no politicians, no schools, no stock markets. no cars, no nonsense -- ar.
57. WASTELAND II:
I want to write a thousand verses or more/Or maybe one or less/As I opened my eyes to see the darkness of the blinding light/I want to write as the hands writes/As the consciousness screams/As I see the might/Of everything in sight/ ...
58. We rightly deserve the government we voted into power; so that we may be made comfortable with the fear we have, since only a government that uses fear to control its people will be able to best meet the needs of those who already have fear historically structured into their mind, body, and
soul - ar
59. It is not enough to oppose iron rule, but to cut its hands off with the might of the pen -- ar
we are 'book of signs" to be written, revised, rewritten, erased ...as we write our life story, as we become scripts and postscripts, we have objectified ourselves and limit our realm of existence ..writing differs from the spoken word ... from the word become flesh and from language becomes inscriptions becomes installations, embedded in these are ideologies to humanize or dehumanize - ar
60. to me, writing can be a terrifying act; you don't know what you will deconstruct – ar
61. seriously folks, men too should take up gardening not golfing. there is philosophy in gardening and politics in golfing... unlike golfing where you may learn to bury your business or political enemies alive or to finish off your political jumping frogs unceremoniously, gardening has a philosophy where your see love springing out of the ground and frogs looking like your dream princes -- ar
62. find beauty and meaning, even in the most mundane of all things we engage in, find love and hope even in the most difficult and dullest child we are educating, find awe and inspiration, even in the smallest garden we create with our own hands --- for a life lived examined begins with all these -- ar
63. first the colonizers capitalized and fragment on race, next the cultural imperialists did it with Coke and McDonalds, next the locals are doing it with religion and circuses ... these are styles of colonization. wake up folks ... unite through philosophy of cultural action for freedom, keeping religion to your own private... self ... it is a class and caste war, not about nationalism and ethnicity ... -- ar
64. at a time when the muslims in malaysia are now arguing over yet another set of variations of islam -- wahabbi, wasabee, wannabe, or what-its-going-to-be -- aside from sunni-shiah-sufi-salafi sensiibilities, what they need are: a rational mind, a revealed text, scriptures of other religion, world philosophies and a willingness to deconstruct everything, live simply, simply live, and ask the simplest questions – ar
65. all these fightings are making the orchestration of political manipulations easier, so that behind these intense moments of "divide and conquer", more can be stolen from the public coffers. malays are the most obedient people on earth, than...ks to feudal culture, interpretations of religion, and an iron rule hidden under a velvet glove.
66. what a waste of a collective human mind. reading and the study of philosophy is shunned against, one would rather be glued to the television 24/7. the situation is actually hopeless. ... artists, thinkers, writers, educators, musicians, etc. must ignite this revolution of radical change in thinking beginning with the questioning and deconstructing everything and breaking down the old order.
67. first the colonizers capitalized on race, next the cultural imperialists did it with Coke and McDonalds, next the locals are doing it with religion and circuses ... the styles of colonization. wake up folks .. and smell the black roses. unite we must, through philosophy of cultural action for freedom, through praxis, keeping religion to your own private self ... it is a class and caste war, not about nationalism ... it has always been this kind of war.
68. Malays possess Nostradamic ideas – Puteri Buluh Betong was the first test-tube baby, Hang Tuah a prototype of Robocop disguised as an over-glamourised fool, Hang Nadim a clever investment banker who fooled the King of Temasik into importing banana trees , Si Tenggang a warning to Malays not to venture far but to lead Perkasa, Raja Bersiong a warning to modern Malaysians to be vigilant
of blood-sucking leaders -ar
69. The history of every epoch is the history of the ruling class, Marx said. The compilation of Malay legends and myths and 'chronicles of ancient rulers' is the work of the scribe commissioned by the ruling class. The Sejarah Melayu is one. It is an effort to pass down false consciousness and a male-and-phallocentric version of 'history' to the younger generation. - ar
70. i am feeling red and seeing the darkness of the garment i am wearing, as i look into the eyes of the selves that are piercing into mine; as i asked: how real are the colors of our existence? - ar
71. is not the world a gift, from the lover to the beloved ... ? -ar
72. all there exist are merely metaphors of love and the beloved, of loving and being loved -- even the kama sutra of vatsyayana spoke of the metaphor of oneness from two-ness and many-ness; of the detachment of the fruits of one's action in the way we act out the part in this world as stage. the conversation between lord krshna and arjuna is essentially about this; not merely being immersed in nothingness but the recognition first that there is self and the larger self and there there is the seeing but not with the physical eyes that see. the lover and the beloved is essentially about that metaphor of being in love not only with creation but with the universe and the ultimate reality that creates, as the bhagavad gita, the ramayana, the mahabharatta, the sutras, and the puranas would teach. whatever that is manifested in the mind/thought is acted upon in the reality of physical action and all these have no boundary as seen from the eyes of Ultimate Reality... the world inside and outside collapses into one.
73. we have been living too much with "attachments' and possessions, have we not? of the need to own materials that are taken from nature and from others. essentially this is the disease of modernity. the nature of the larger self is seldom explored; we have forgotten to live with the dictates of our dharma and plant the seeds of "bodhi" in the way we conduct our lives. we plunder and enslave people, build weapons of mass destruction for the big and small mahabharattas we create out of our love for this world of maya. we are doomed. and that's when many will wait for the coming of prince rama, in this last phase of the yuga ...
74. where does Sita Devi come into the picture then if not as a metaphor of "waiting for the beloved" and the wait ended when she came home guided by the lights? of divali.
75. man's true nature is love -- from where man and women came from and unto it they shall return. the means at arriving and returning may differ but the measure of humanity is through the amount of love manifested at different levels, time, space. ultimately as some believe, all will go back to brahma.
76. aahhh .. with the 7-0 lost of north korea, the country will once again become a hermit kingdom and contemplate defeat in this game of capitalist proportion; – ar
77. know thyself, know thy enemies, a hundred battles a hundred victories -- sun tzu, in the art of war
78. the united states of america will win the next world cup if it applies the strategy of transforming of innocent boys into GI Joes, men into Avatars, a village texas idiot into a president, foot soldiers into drones, nothingness into globalized sensations, and high school boys into tom cruises, -- into its soccer training programs. that's america. love it or go crazy living in it ;) -- ar
79. contrary to popular belief, the best way to some men's heart might not be through their stomach, but through their head; this species of men would prefer intelligence than indigestion ... and give a woman not a dozen roses or two, give her a dozen species of it, so that she will learn the multiculturality of love and how m...any cultures profess world-wise love, perennially -ar
80. the french soccer players must learn to contain their head-butt anger; at the rate they are going, they will again, have another tennis court oath, storm the eiffel tower, build themselves a statue of liberty, and guillotine all the soccer balls in paris -ar
81. there is no truth in historical documents -- only evolvingly sophisticated falsehoods propagated by the ruling class -ar
82. history can be a selective collection of memories of the strangest people; of eccentrics and schizophrenic leaders... what's missing are those buried under rubles and statistics - ar
83. fatherhood is a resounding success when, even a daughter will speak, think, and act like her father and speaks of him with pride and praises long after he is dead and gone ... - ar
84. those crazy americans have a good chance of winning the world cup -- provided they don't go crazy on the field thinking that it's touch football, slam dunking like LeBron James, and the goalie running all around the field doing home runs when he's supposed to be a wide receiver. those crazy and arrogant americans ... -ar
85. The famed Oceania team Awstralya lost in the world cup because of mass hysteria and spirit possession; players were jumping around like kangaroos and putting each other in their pouches, the team was cut into half by half-time -- such is the power of the modern soccer voodoo priests, paid handsomely in Euros -- ar
86. because humanity comes from love and out of the act of love, the idea of falling in and out of love seems alien and alienating; it is the constant renewal, reconstruction, or the rediscovery of grounded love that might seem more inviting for philosophers to ponder upon -- ultimately, love conquers all - ar
87. master kung (fu tze) spoke a lot about peace-- that begins with oneself and transcends to family, community, nation, and the world. lao tzu and mencius complemented the idea with a philosophy of Nature.
ZUKERBERG ELEGIES: Part 2, Azly Rahman quotes (from status page)
by DR. AZLY RAHMAN
QUOTES, Part II
1. there is no need for the Internal Security Act in Malaysia .. there are no more communists only communalist-corporate-crony-crypto capitalists addicted to communal-politics ! -- ar
2. ultimate reality can be seen if one uses a lantern in broad daylight – ar
3. Time, with thee I conspire with Fate and Free Will; unto thee I offer my salutation, from Dawn to Dusk to Darkness daily I see thee tells the story of who I might have been and yet Evolution I must become, the story of Creation I have been told. O Time, I wish all of creation know Thee – ar
4. Read ... Read thyself; for thee is a book of signs, symbols, signifiers, of the semiotics of spiritual symbiosis of the self and the larger self; of truth within a truth, of chakras configured from chaos connected to the cosmology of cosmic consciousness; of a lamp within a mirror; of a speck of dust evolving and wishing to know; of a text inscribed by the textuality of truth temporal -- ar
5. a teacher who sees the child through the eyes of race, color, class, creed, religion, and caste, has no business in education; for teaching is that subversive art and science of developing human potentials so that the child will grow up to revolt against any system that puts him or her in the shackles of race, color, class, creed, religion, and class -- ar
6. O People of the book: Greet not the fasting month with a feasting mind, asketh not for rewards for the deeds you bring forth, worship not only when hardship greets, live a halal life of charity, nobility and purity even in a haram and corrupt economy, above all know thyself and you know what governs thee eternally -- ar
7. we come from love and unto love we shall return in between these lies the deep understanding of what love and the absence of it means; of suffering and liberation, of appearance and reality, of the evolution of consciousness and the destruction of it, of the entering of paradise and the expulsion from it, of the realization of beauty and ugliness, of the grayness of good and evil -- ar
8. O' capitalist societies, capitalist selves: be subjected to the ramadhanization of existence; for fasting is the act of slowing down your sense of urgency to accumulate and to acquire capital taken from Nature, from the Natural self; to slow down the desire to rob the poor, rape Nature, and revolt against Love. verily, a life of detachment, of dharma, and the realization of moksha is a life free from dhukka -- ar
9. O' self, between darkness and light we met and we mediate upon the covenant we are to make, as we contemplate putting thee in the abode of Love, where Paradise is never lost, where Nature is the Ultimate Self, and as dawn breaks we set forth to encapsulate thee into a soul, spirit, and body as we greet the light of darkness and set thee free to roam the Earth and to seek for thine self within a guide in thee -- ar
10. O' self, thou have shed tears of fear and loss of meaningfulness at the dawn of creation, at the onset of thine journey through this matrix of complexities and the Mandelbrott of spirituality. Did not thou agree to carry the gift of love and knowledge and rememberance of things past? Go forth and seek for the guide within, so that thou will see Maya clearly. -- ar
11. O' self, ask not what the nature of truth nor the form the guide taketh; these will come to thee in thine waking hours of labour and thine conversations with Nature, & in thine deepest reverie when night falls and when solitude is thine companion, for the righteous path will be many and will be one, as the mind becomes science and the soul become a lotus that blooms a thousand times, piercing the eyes of reality - ar
12. O' self, with sincerity, explore all possible roads that may lead to self knowledge; one may arrive first in a prison-house of language, in a tower of babel and end up feeling the pleasure of experiencing the universal in the particular, the profane in the sacred, the falsehood in truth, and the grandiose-ness of the minutest of things - ar
13. O' self, read ... read thyself ... read ... even if it takes a lifetime to do so; for thou are a book of signs that began as a tabula rasa constructed out of scripts whose ink drawn from the fountain of Love and Plenty so that thine existence will become a scripture of scripts and subscripts, of narratives and meta-narratives of the Grand and the Subaltern -- ar
14. O' self tame the Fire within for thou is a kingdom in itself; a master of thine's destiny with Fate decree and conspiring; command the armies, the counsels, the playwrights, the scribes, the artisans, the musicians, the designer of battlefields within; for thine is a powerhouse of creations of many a worlds to be created in thine's journey towards everlasting bliss -- ar
15. O' self O' people O tribes O nations see what destruction humanity has done when the stone is carved? The stone was forced to become -- carved, constructed, characterized, and made to colonize; from the stone carved, the powerful amongst you will invent, install, and institutionalize ideologies that seal the fate of humanity into becoming cogs in the wheels of absurdity. from stones we evolve. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human instinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna -- ar
16. O' deepest self: in earth, wind, fire water lies the metaphysical semiotics of thine's creation and in the universe outside lies thine's universe inside; rejoice, for thou is one with Nature; as that cybernetic energy imbued with an existentialist design of flesh and blood; rejoice and revolve, like Newton's universe, in harmony with thine's chakras within -- ar
17. O' self ... childhood, youth, and old age are merely in thine imagination; for the mind, the spirit, and the soul are old as the universe if thou knew that ecclesiastical history of the self, and the cosmology of creation; for thou is merely a symbolism of Time and Space constructed as an experiment in the workability of creation; do we exist hence? -- ar
18. O' people, guide thine youth to spend their early years in the pursuit of knowledge and the passion of its application and the beauty of its bhakti to humankind; teach them well in the way so of the "jen" or the gentlemen, as Kungfu Tze would say, and turn them into deep thinkers who cares for the fate of society and a...t the same immersed in the joys of growing up and finding meaning in being wise adults -- ar
19. O self, suffering lies in one's inability to detach oneself from materials, people, places, and the urge to accumulate more than one could possibly share. Liberation thus is to live a life focused on higher goals, ideals, principles and living a life honoring what one needs and not feeding one's greed. Live a life of mindful living, aware of the semiotics of Desire colonizing -- ar
20. O self, journey into the past, to battlefields of yesteryear like those of Kurusektra, Peloponesia, Trafalgar, and slay thine dragons and demons thou have nurtured out of passion, desire and arrogance thou hath tamed not; confront these as well as the skeletons in thine closet and come home to the present victorious like Arjuna, Alexander, and Ashoka ... so that peace of a thousand years shall reign thine heart -- ar
21. Life is not a losing battle; it is a glorious gift to the self -- ar
22. Become an ethnographer to thine's own life an archaeologist of consciousness, a philosopher of living; catalog the data of experiences, analyzing what thou have gone through, so that thou may have conversations with thine's own inner culture and reconstruct those patterns not longer in sync with thine's concluding chapter of the Book of Thine Own Signs -- ar
23. enjoy life, responsibly :) -- ar
24. O' self, O' people, recite merely not thine holy scriptures; journey hermeneutically into it - recite, read, read, re-read, construct, deconstruct, dive into its dialectics, so that thou will find the meaning of each passage closer to thine's own desire, stripping off disabling cultural contexts of the world of yesteryears and ultimately it is you who will become the text in your own existentialist context -- ar
25. Uganda to Malaysia, from Krakow to Kuala Nerang, from Pontianak to Pontian – we see nations, states and principalities being transformed by those who own the means to use "culture, race, and ethnicity" in conspiracy with technologies of domination.We must, as a nation at risk, begin our debate on these – because ...we are seeing things falling apart before our eyes. The seeds of destruction have germinated. – ar
26. ala weberian ghostly ethics & the spirit of capitalism, women are possessed by men with possessions and vice versa & often men and women come back to each other later in life to re-possess each other ... that's what happened in a world being possessed by possessions -- a phenomena in 'jin bertendang' (kicking 'djinns')... places such as Pontianak, Lubuk Antu, Pochong/Puchong, Mambang-di-Awan, and Gua Musang –ar
27. When i was 10, I wrote these words in my dairy: "Sail to the ocean of silver .. study hard to be clever"; little did I know that there is no silver ocean nor you need to study hard to be clever -- all you need is a blue ocean strategy that'll get bloodied eventually and to battle against sharks and piranhas to survive in a capitalist cut-throat economy and hope that you'll end up in an ocean of mercy -- ar
28. O' people, Religion is merely a logical structure of human experience vis-a-viz the Divine so that the mind can explore the meaning of religious rituals & symbolism, nature of existence, meaning of God, evolution of the self as it journeys, through Love and Compassion, toward the larger Self;. Religion provides the idea of... how human beings must treat each other in this sea of Humanity and in this Ocean of mercy -- ar
29. DE-EVOLVE folks, through a green party; go back to kampongism, marhaenism -- capitalism is dead -- ar
30. O' self: find the meaning of life, even in the Godfather movies; for the Universe has made us an offer we can't refuse -- ar
31. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar
32. O self: be in this world as a stranger; thou do not exist except as a self conditioned by systems created by others, controls imposed on the mind, narratives inscribed by thine elders; exist shall not in this state no longer if thou knows that this journey of life is one of becoming a postmodern flaneur and a destroyer of perceptions, creator of illusions, and preserver of thine's complex inner government -- ar
33. go green --- in mind, body, politics; our society is too bloody red and pitch black, our politics death metallist, our environment raped till its' s blue black and diseased -- ar
34. "... Because the manufacturing of crises and the bogeyman called race and ethnicity is no longer a working tool of structural violence to be deployed as a reason to create havoc and chaos come the 13th general election, religion becomes the next available sharp object to pry open the mind of Malaysians so that fear of another riot can be filter-funneled into them. .." -- ar in Malaysiakini
35. O' self jihad till thou see the crystal clearness of thine soul, in everlasting O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar
blissfulness thou shall be -- ar
36. O' Malaysians: how must we construct a more accurate definition of a native, an immigrant, a first/second/third generation of this or that? Why must we not question history if we are to become new makers of it? Why must we still treat the grandchildren of immigrants as ‘second-class’ citizens? Why must we not accord them with opportunities that resemble equitable/regulative justice? -- ar
37. O' people: activism and revolution alone cannot bring instant peace to any nation; it is the deep understanding, deep structuring, and the mass disseminating of love for all things great and small that will give everlasting meaning to desired change. it is the absence of love that creates spaces for greed, hatred, and ...violence subtly factored into systems of control and organized chaos -- ar
38. One's youth should be spent being buried in books, getting lost in the forest, drowning in contemplation, being awed by Nature, resisting falling in love, rebelling against society, dreaming of revolutions, having the desire to change the world, and learning to play rock and roll music -- ar
39. O Teachers: teach children and love them, especially those of the poor and marginalized, as if they were your own; for success in education lies in our ability to look at the children through the eyes of humanity; verily teachers, you have such an immense power to develop-- or to destroy --- the curious young minds. use that power wisely -- ar
40. In Malaysia, there seem to be no positive correlation between the increasing religiosity of her people to the level of violence, environmental degradation, loss of respect for democracy, hate crimes, and abuse of power at the highest level; it simply shows that religion has been bought over by politics, resulting in th...e mass silencing of the citizens in the name of leaving things to Fate and to Iron Rule -- ar
41. this holiday celebration, smoke a peace pipe, rap the racists, rock the vote, banish the blues, run the reggaeton, dive into dangdut, grow with ghazal, get dizzy with disco, contemplate with the classics, journey with jazz, take out the thrash, get high on heavy metal, parachute into punk rock, sing along on the sitar, drown sorrows in dondang sayang, bathe in the nice-ness of nasyid, ... have a safe holiday -- ar
42. to understand Death, one must first contemplate what Living means -- ar
43. O' self, daily thou undergoes karma - ar
44. a hari raya unexamined is not worth celebrating - ar
45. O folks, friends and foe -- have a psychedelic, fantastic, phantasmagoric, non-toxic, phlegmatic, bucolic, non-alcoholic, scenic, dialogic, bombastic, symbiotic, semiotic, semantic, supersonic, tantric, mystic, tribalistic, nationalistic, socialistic, anti-capitalistic, mantric, chantic, rendangisi-tic, lemang-istic, satay-istic, chendol-istic, and most of all psychedelic Eidul-Fitri -- ar
46. every child is born a prince or a princess and hope to evolve into a king or a queen but will end up enslaved by the machiavellian nature of human and social arrangements and by enslavers narrating the sheharazad's story of a thousand and one nights of the modern slavery system, lullabying the human mind into finding pleasure in this modern master-slave grand narrative -- ar
47. O' self do you not exist merely as energy in flux and in constant change of form, encapsulated in vergetation and rationality, evolving towards the universality of other forms and beingness and only language in its multitudinality of variations may define thine's existence? -- ar
48. O people, read those scriptures, not burn them .. there is wisdom and universal truth in each and every one of them .. for truth will come only to those who seek knowledge with an open mind and that light that guides within – ar
49. wage peace, not war -- especially on issues of religious understanding. -- ar
50. burn not but read the quran, terry jones and your brand of christianity; for therein the book of "readings or recitations" lies the story of jesus, mary, david, moses, solomon, abraham, noah, adam, of creation, of the real meaning of jihad, and many more on the self and the ultimate self -- ar
51. O' friends, my post-ramadhan message: at work, be driven like a siamese durian, drive safely to work in that reconditioned lemon, drive not your co-workers nuts, give your employees more than just peanuts, become an apple to everyone's eyes, be fresh as a freshly squeezed orange, groom yourself like a rambutan in a red shirt of a revolutioner, and serve the capitalists well in hope for a tricke down effect -- ar
52. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, said Thomas Jefferson. Revolt peacefully we must, against our own governments that have become tyrants, becoming enemies to their own people; revolt through the ballot box, using social media and the internet to transform ourselves as informed citizens that will insist on changing governments like changing diapers -- ar
53. extreme nationalism may lead to the will of people to engineer and orchestrate genocide; the cure for this tendency is to think like a world-wise citizen in this globalized world of shifting allegiances in which race does not really matter but the fate of the human race does -- ar
54. woke up this morning with this burning question -- who or what would you die for? mother, father, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, motherland, fatherland, nation, race, or religion and god or yourself or for nothing at all? -- ar
55. In this Age of Complexity, men are now from Venus, women from Mars, those in between from Pluto; live a philosophically simple life, making the complex simple, the simple complex; live an anthropologically enriched life, making the strange familiar, the familiar strange; live an economically sane life, prioritizing nee...ds over greed, granting help to those in need for, from Thee we come, unto Thee we shall return - ar
56. there is no past, there is no future, all that is existing is an everchanging present, in world of the evolving self. rejoice, you are merely energy in constant flux and in hegemonic transitions enthrophized -- ar
57. the success of 1Malaysia requires the voluntary dismantling of all race-based political parties, the surrender of all ill-gotten wealth, the installation of a humane system of meritocracy, the radical restructuring of all systems, the national envisioning of a good socialist system, the dismantling of all signs..., symbols, signifiers of power/knowledge monopolized, the celebration of manyness in oneness -- ar
58. greatness lies the grand awareness of humility -- ar
59. in language lies the prisons of reality -- ar
60. O' self -- at times, and perhaps, many a times, one must perceive life with cynicism and suspicion, scanning it with piercing looks ... though red roses bloom as backdrop ... they are but maya/darkness must become one's garment to shield one from the blurrying but mesmerizing forces of evil -- ar
61. The rise of violent crimes in Malaysia -- for the love of materialism, racism, and militarism -- shows that the country and her people need to urgently be in control of itself, before the entire nation self-medicates itself, OD-ed en masse, and commits suicide by jumping off the Twin Towers after strangling itself--ar
62. What is an American? How does an American think? Must the world appreciate the form of 'democracy' spread by the United States of America?
63. Malay power lies not in the ability to use the art of war to maintain its neo-feudalistic sense of making enemies with others but more dignified than this, lies in how power is used to transform others, to create a system of social justice and economic design so that Malaysia will become state that destroys the boundaries of race, color, religion, caste, status symbol, and most importantly vestiges of feudalism --ar
64. To change: Free the human mind from dogmas, superstitions, mental chains, hegemonic formations, and those levels of totalitarianism. Strengthen the scientific and philosophical foundation of its curriculum and practices to effect changes in the higher-order thinking skills of the next generation. Tolerate not, any form of bigotry, racial chauvinism, and retarded form of democracy in our educational system -- ar
65. If it is to be believed that the lord of the universe is most merciful, most compassionate most forgiving, it is to be believed that the first step towards healing from the most horrible of all life experiences is to be merciful, compassionate, and forgiving to ONESELF; true love for oneself and that lord of the universe will begin to flourish. We are all human, all too human .. -ar
66. O' humanity/ Did you no remember the day in which/on one fine darkness of neither day nor night we met?/In which thine has kept the promise to be free and to agree to walk with dignity?/That time when no forms nor substance nor appearance nor encapsulation makes thee?/Have thou forgotten that moment of deep silence that resounded gloriously/ like a symphony?/Did you remember what was told to thee? - ar
67. we continue to live in a (Andy) Warholian world in which love is for sale, anger is to be managed, human labour is to be capitalized, religion is commodified, politics is prostitutionalized, ethics is compromized, and fools glamorized -- in this age of mechanical reproduction, much like living in a Campbell soup can -- ar
68. O Humanity, all the senses that thou possesses, the signs and symbols of sight, hearing, taste, touch, etc. ... the personal-ideological-apparatuses of thine's entire self -- all these are merely metaphors and semiotics, i.e. signs, symbols, signifiers of a larger Self that wants to be praised. love, and worshipped by thine own self; in an absurd yet logical relationship - if thou knows .. -- ar
69. is there not a larger self inside of you; that travels with you to places, from the time you were born, till the time you are gone? -- ar
70. capitalism is not trickling down ... it's going up in the sky ... creating nothing in a world of globalization of nothing ...
71. Come GE-13 will Malaysians finally be ready for a change in government -- new paradigm, new mindset, new ways of doing things, new commitment to transparency, new vision in education -- and make way for a political culture of "two-party system"? Are Malaysians, especially Malays ready to leave UMNO, Chinese to leave MCA, Indians to leave MIC., etc. ? Ready or not? what will be the shape of things to come? --ar
72. to teach children about peace, ban war toys at home -- ar
73. any government must consist of technocrats and transcendentalists, bankers and bantusaan dwellers, classical economists and marxists, doctors and dying patients, enterpreneurs and existentialists, mandarins and musicians, poets and physicists, workers and Wobblies, farmers and fishermen, gardeners and gung-ho revolutioners -- so that the nation may be saved from sharks and piranhas in blue oceans of absurdity. – ar
74. O'self, O' society, inside of thou resides beelzebub, iblis, satan, the demon mara, the darkest of the darkest human insinct, or whatever name you may call it; one that reincarnates into human systems, statesmen, tyrants, semiotics of power, casino capitalism, demonic-hegemonic cycles of civilizational force --- know it, tame it, subdue it, bring it to de-evolution do that you may arrive at nibanna/nirvana -- ar
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