1 in 5 American servicemen is obese. No wonder you can't have a conventional firefight anymore and you have to use ICBMs to fight a war. In Romanian we have a saying “Unde dai si unde crapa!” In short, the law of unintended consequences strikes again.
The Future belongs to the unfittest. Man up or this race to the bottom will end us. Enough said.
We are all bloody sinners regardless of what we tell ourselves. And we all get our comeuppance sooner or later. But is it us who receive it? Or are the innocent those who suffer for our sins. Christ has done his share of suffering, and the Man was clearly good, yet He died on the Cross for us. What does that tell you?
What are your biggest challenges? One of the nightmares polluting my resting hours is that of being bed-ridden and unable to move. I guess this is a common theme for most of us. Somewhere the unconscious mind builds a narrative whereby our lack of objective agency in our own fate becomes a subconscious presence or … Continue reading Getting along with people
I am fascinated by the spectacle of morons trying to prove that which cannot be proven. There is a school of imbecilic thought in Romania that argues that Romanian somehow predated and was the source of Latin. Beyond absurd. Historicity, linear physics, the laws of cosmos, all these rules and laws, are not even considered … Continue reading Romanian is Not the Mother of Latin – Part III
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? Life is an enigma wrapped in a mystery, itself coiled inside Pandora's Box. We have little agency, real agency in our lives. I mean we all strive for the same things: we mean to survive long enough in order to reproduce and thus attain a … Continue reading We are Flotsam
Democracy is dying. We are killing it. When we abdicate from responsibility, we make it clear. We want none of that. Government cannot and won’t protect you. The social contract is null and void.
Daily writing promptWhat skills or lessons have you learned recently?View all responses Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work as an economist on some very interesting files. For two years, I was in charge of gauging the supply and demand of an economic mainstay. During that time, I learned a lot about a … Continue reading On Econometrics
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech? Stage fright is real, folks. I once knew, intimately knew, a young man who was not afraid to try new things. To him, the sky was the limit. Whether good or bad, he wanted to sample life to his fullest. In this, he was not … Continue reading On Stage Fright
Götterdämmerung 