“The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly—yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man’s treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Last March 7 was the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Bud Dajo, the massacre of some 600 Moro men, women and children by the officers and men of the United States Armed Forces, with some (Christian) Filipino soldiers. In 1999, I wrote a newspaper article on this episode of Moro history to commemorate the… Continue reading Bud Dajo Massacre
Tomorrow, March 11, 2011, Uranus, the planet of Revolution re-enters Aries, the Zodiac sign of War, and squares (antagonistic to) Pluto, the Planet of Death and Destruction, in Capricorn, the sign of Big Business and Strong Governments. To all the "strong republics" and the strongmen of rich governments (especially oil-rich countries in the Middle East),… Continue reading Uranus re-enters Aries
Postprandial Musings, 2.0 