Searching For Enlightenment...
I searched my blog for the word "enlightenment" looking for something particular - and ended up gathering these posts that I felt the need to post again.
This kind of thing happens to me sometimes on a balmy night when I eat too much spicey kashmiri roganjosh & drink chardonnay.
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"Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment;
Mastering others is strength;
Mastering the self is true power." - Lao Tzu
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by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
April 13, 2007
Yes, the new religion of the post-Westerner is neither the Enlightenment nor Christianity, but the gospel of the Path of Least Resistance — one that must lead inevitably to gratification rather than sacrifice.
National Review Online
April 13, 2007
Yes, the new religion of the post-Westerner is neither the Enlightenment nor Christianity, but the gospel of the Path of Least Resistance — one that must lead inevitably to gratification rather than sacrifice.
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October 3, 2006
Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The new enemies of Reason are not the enraged democrats who executed Socrates, the Christian zealots who persecuted philosophers of heliocentricity, or the Nazis who burned books.
No, they are a pampered and scared Western public that caves to barbarism — dwarves who sit on the shoulders of dead giants, and believe that their present exalted position is somehow related to their own cowardly sense of accommodation.
What would a Socrates, Galileo, Descartes, or Locke believe of the present decay in Europe — that all their bold and courageous thinking, won at such a great cost, would have devolved into such cheap surrender to fanaticism?
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06 Nov, 2007
Part of the reason that the West is having so much difficulty grasping how to both completely understand and properly address Islamic terrorism is the context in which the so-called war on terror is playing out. That context is a broader clash of ideology that encompasses far more than a clash of civilizations.
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... hypocrisy in the Muslim world is not limited to supposedly devout oil-rich Gulf sheiks who cherry-pick Western sin. Terrorists — with one foot in the seventh century and the other in the 21st century — want it both ways, too.
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By Fjordman
2009-02-09 08:26
The most dangerous idea of our time: the proposition nation.
The goal of Multiculturalism is to destroy a once-great European nation and turn it into an Islamic-dominated Third World entity.
The goal of Multiculturalism is to destroy a once-great European nation and turn it into an Islamic-dominated Third World entity.
Make no mistake about it: This is what Multiculturalists have in store for all of us, if we do not stop them.
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Excellent video series here
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From the desk of Fjordman
Tue, 2006-04-18
In my essay about the retreat of the Western world order, I mentioned the possibility of civil strife in the West caused by runaway immigration. This is no longer just a theoretical possibility.
In my essay about the retreat of the Western world order, I mentioned the possibility of civil strife in the West caused by runaway immigration. This is no longer just a theoretical possibility.
posted by jillosophy at 5/16/2009 05:44:00 AM
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