በትርታ ይጀምራል ትር ትር ይልና ይተረታል ወይንም ይተረተራል፤

ተረት ይሆናል

With the vibration IT begins…in the vibration IT sounds…in the narration or distortion,

IT ends…TO BE –or- as a Tale ...

.......The fishes get their prey, if only YOU "move, click and tick" (say... reflect) in the aquarium. If you "play & prey (even pray)" outside the aquarium...it is meaningless ...for the fishes............

A blog for documents and studies on the development of

Human "Consciousness", to help and

promote the process of rational reflection.

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The Highlight here will be, working towards the high objectives of harmony in the Ethiopian Social-Reality: PEACE, freedom of CULTURE, scientific PERFECTION and tolerant FAITH. Any knowledge, without the slightest touch of dogmatism; whose purpose is enlightening and freeing the human species to celebrate its full liberty and eventual perfection, is always welcome.



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Thursday 29 November 2007

Before the Law.. by F. Kafka

These days "the rule of law" crosses over several lips....

I like F. Kafka's version...


Before the Law

Franz Kafka

http://www.cordula.ws/stories/kafkalawen.html

Before the law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment. The man thinks it over and asks if he will be allowed in later. "It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment."

Since the gate stands open as usual, and the doorkeeper steps to one side, the man stoops to peer through the gateway into the interior. Observing that, the doorkeeper laughs and says: "If you are so drawn to it, just try to go in despite my veto. But take note: I am powerful. And I am only the least of the doorkeepers. From hall to hall there is one doorkeeper after another, each more powerful than the last. The third doorkeeper is already so terrible that even I cannot bear to look at him."

These are difficulties the man from the country has not expected; the Law, he thinks, should surely be accessible at all times and to everyone, but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, with his big sharp nose and long thin, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better to wait until he gets permission to enter.

The doorkeeper gives him a stool and lets him sit down at one side of the door.

There he sits for days and years.

He makes many attempts to be admitted, and wearies the doorkeeper by his importunity. The doorkeeper frequently has little interviews with him, asking him questions about his home and many other things, but the questions are put indifferently, as great lords put them, and always finish with the statement that he cannot be let in yet.

The man, who has furnished himself with many things for his journey, sacrifices all he has, however valuable to the doorkeeper. The doorkeeper accepts everything, but always with the remark: "I am only taking it to keep you from thinking you have omitted anything."

During these many years the man fixes his attention almost continuously on the doorkeeper. He forgets the other doorkeepers, and this first one seems to him the sole obstacle preventing access to the Law. He curses his bad luck, in his early years boldly and loudly; later, as he grows old, he only grumbles to himself. He becomes childish, and since in his yearlong contemplation of the doorkeeper he has come to know even the fleas in his fur collar, he begs the fleas to help him and to change the doorkeeper's mind.

At length his eyesight begins to fail, and he does not know whether the world is darker or whether his eyes are only deceiving him. Yet in his darkness he is now aware of a radiance that streams inextinguishably from the gateway of the Law. Now he has not very long to live.

Before he dies, all his experiences in these long years gather themselves in his head to one point, a question he has not yet asked the doorkeeper. He waves him nearer since he can no longer raise his stiffening body. The doorkeeper has to bend low toward him, for the difference in height between them has altered much to the man's disadvantage.

"What do you want to know now?" asks the doorkeeper; "you are insatiable." "Everyone strives to reach the Law," says the man, "so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admittance?"

The doorkeeper recognizes the man has reached his end, and, to let his failing senses catch the words, roars in his ear: "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."

Author: Franz Kafka

http://www.cordula.ws/stories/kafkalawen.html

Wednesday 28 November 2007

The New Humanism....by....Edward Howard Griggs

You want regret if you go through it....

http://ia300241.us.archive.org/1/items/newhumanism001170mbp/newhumanism001170mbp.pdf

It goes like ......

"There can be no true heroism, no independent greatness which does not
spring from the heart of common humanity; and there can be no true
social union which does not depend upon the highest individuality, the
most independent consecration to truth.

The absence of the one quality is the measure of the decay of the other.
Instead of true social union, and fearless and consecrated personality
and leadership, we have too often the selfish and whimsical mob, and the
flattering demagogue, the lawless and irresponsible use of power ....

Thus the evolution of social solidarity is the necessary complement of
the development of personal life. There is no true good for one that is
not good for all. If I share my loaf of bread with my neighbor I have
half a loaf left, but the love that prompted the division grows by the
process. Every intellectual advance attained by one man is an added
intellectual power to all others. The interests of the spiritual world
are common, for life is possible to one only through the integration of
his life with all. Intellectual realization of one's self consists in
the widening of the relation of the individual to the universe.
Emotional realization of life means the unity of each with all in love,
through the medium of a union with other individuals.
Volitional realization of one's self lies in action that expresses
characte, and is helpful to all. Gierdano Bruno understood it when he said:
"Intelligence therefore is perfected, not in one, in another, or in
many, but in all." And Goethe, the apostle of self-culture, knew that
man is man only in union with humanity, for he could say sublimely: "If
now, during our own lifetime, we see that performed by others, to which
we ourselves felt an earlier call, but which we had been obliged to give
up, with much besides: then the beautiful feeling enters the mind, that
only mankind together is the true man, and the individual can be joyous
and happy only whe he has the courage to feel himself in the whole."

Individual human beings are like members of a vast orchestra engaged in
the creation of the sublime music of humanity. Each must express his own
ideal through the instrument he has chosen. But unless the tones he
produces are in unison with the rest, they are not music but discordant
sounds: in harmony with the creative effort of all they are
indespensable elements in the symphony of life"....


http://ia300241.us.archive.org/1/items/newhumanism001170mbp/newhumanism001170mbp.pdf

Tuesday 27 November 2007

It reads like a novel on time...

Hannah Arendt's discourse is more than what the title promises... I have just to read it further with all anxiety. Every line is "ein Genuss" / a celebrity for reflection.....

It reads like a novel on time, with a love story between truth and philosophy; Plato as the father of truth, Aristotle as the mother of philosophy, with their four philosophy children of our age;
1. Hegel as the conscious child of his origin ("Yabatu lij") (Philosophy as the universal history)
2. Kierkegaard as the faithful child ("t--amagnu lij")(Religion vs Reason)
3. Marx as the rebellious activist ("kejkashaw lij") (Revolution vs. Philosophy / Actio vs. Ratio)
4. Nietzsche as the anti-authoritarian modern man ("haylegnaw lij") (The Will vs. Tradition)

All have their rebellion towards their father ("the Truth") in common.

Thereby (not chronological) Franz Kafka is telling the love story in his role as the midwife during the birth of the continental philosophers of our age ( in the occident).

I am afraid I am now beginning to understand our human condition...Upto now I was just feeling to have a notion of it....I am grateful that nature has enstored such minds like H.A. who have the courage to give us light in the process of our rational reflection.

I am anxious to go through the "novel“.

That was just exercise One: Tradition and the Modern Age.

http://ia331307.us.archive.org/2/items/betweenpastandfu012908mbp/betweenpastandfu012908mbp.pdf


Monday 26 November 2007

Six Excercises on Political Thought....by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt on the Gap between the Past and the Future....

I think the thoughts of the Woman is rich....and great...specially in the contemporary period of philosophical crisis and loss of orientation vis a vis rationality and the courage of rational reflection.

On the Verge of the hovering war, which has no other rational cause apart from the intolerance "Module" in the minds of the big and small political actors, messing up our region and peaceful space, the insights and the reflections of Hannah Arendt may render our political thoughts a piece of silence.....

I have not yet read it through but as I just skimmed it, it sounds rich with a big spectrum of intellectual horizon....

See...below....in the library...pdf files etc..

I am not sure if the access is limited....

http://www.archive.org/details/betweenpastandfu012908mbp


http://ia331307.us.archive.org/2/items/betweenpastandfu012908mbp/betweenpastandfu012908mbp.pdf

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1. Working on the big "GOOD SENSE": The sense of Beauty.
( via cf. "The Logic of Sense" /Deleuze) (9/2010)

2. በትርታ ይጀምራል፤ ትር ትር ይልና ይተርታል ወይንም ይተረታል ወይንም ተረት ይሆንና ይተረተራል፤ ተረት ይሆናል።(9/2010)

3. Degrading the other to "none-will" is inhuman and counter productive... The human point is to come to a common "Big-Will"(10/2010)

4. The "inner universe" (mystics) to the "outer universe" (physics) is allegorically related as the conscious mind to the virus in the human body. (6/10/2010)

5. Feeling is the language of the "inner Universe". Music/arts is the interface between the "inner" and "outer" universe.

6. Demoralization is a disgusting political tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the inhumanity of the employer! A disaster! (7/10/2010).

7. "In Girard's language, the law order is "mythical" and as such obeys the logic of the founding murder." (cf. Peter Robert Stork; 2005)

8. "Wenn sich zwei streiten, freut sich der Dritte"/
When two people quarrel, a third rejoices... This will be a legacy; and in the 21st century, "Wenn sich zwei einigen, freut sich der Dritte" may take over. /A mutual understanding of two people rejoices the third/.

9. My quotation of the Day (8.11.10):

Baldwin’s thought: ("The Baldwin effect")
“It is as inexorable as the colour of his eyes and the shape of his nose. He is born into a system of social relationships just as he is born into a certain quality of air. As he grows in body by breathing the one, so he grows in mind by absorbing the other.’ (Baldwin, 1906: 69-70)

10.
If "I AM" the observer (the conscious entity) so that the quanta of matter/mass (the wave function) would collapse to be a particle /the particle object), enhancing IT to the phase of THE Existing Reality.
Couldn't I -The Self- hope and help the spiritual energy/ my consciousness/ as well, to extend the transformed energy /After Life/to collapse into that existence of "THAT Beyond" Life (1). Life pertaining to "intelligent" energy (spiritual beings in the sphere of the Akashic Field), as the reflection of the "intelligent" matter or mass (human beings in the sphere of "thermodynamics" or gravity ). 17.11.10

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(1) like J.Wheeler's Model of "the participating observer" in the Universe.

11. Forget Time! And mind Your Mind only (24.11.10).
I.e. "Talk about "time out of mind"!"(1)

(1) http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Time.html

12. Wikileaks in Amharic philo-play:

የዊቂ -ሊቅ ሰዋ ስው ...ባልታወቀ ነገር፤ሊቅ ፤ቂል ፤ ቅልቅል ፤ ቅል፤ ቀላል ቂል ወይስ ....በቃኝ ብሎ፤ ቅንጣት ቅብ -ብቅል ቀልቦ ፤ወደ ብቃት ሲቃ፤ ሲግዋዝ ይሁን ፤ ሲያንቀጠቅጥ ወይስ ተቀላቅሎ ሲያንቀለቅል።ያልታወቀ ነገር።
02.12.10

13. Gates and Centres:

Life , nature and actually the whole Universe know nothing about Top and Bottom or Up and Down. There are just centres in reality. Centres and Centres with all of them having their Gates, Gates leading to the Centres. What is wrong with mankind, always with the tick for tops and bottoms or ups and downs and not centres, but fixed to the gates, without the moral courage to move towards the centres -to build the symphony
- the symphony in the SPHERE.

The SPHERE:

- The SPHERE of IDEAS is THE WORD of the SOURCE. THE WORD - The PLAY where this ASHORE and that BEYOND of the HARMONY is eternally tuned to exist in the SYMPHONY of ALL, flowing and floating like in the "Ballet piece of Joseph Strauss " -the Dynamiden Waltz- with every being offering its harmonious "musical touch". (cf. The Harmony Model)

Morning, 03.12.10



ሰው በምግብ ብቻ አይኖርም....ወሎ


14. መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ /+++ተጨማሪ!/


መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ (ከርፖርተር የተገኘ)


ጥብቅ ማሳሰቢያ ሸክላን ለምትሠሩ፤
እዚህ መቃብር ላይ አፈር አትዝገኑ፡፡
ሲነድ ሲቃጠል ሲጨስ በመኖሩ፣

ሲቃጠል ለሚኖር፣
ለጀበና መሥሪያ አይሆንም አፈሩ፡፡

+++
(አንድ ከሚመለከተው የተጨመረ!
ከመቃብር በፊት)

ሰው ለመስራት ብቻ ከፍቀደ አየሩ
ክህነት ካላችሁ አሰቡ መርምሩ
ተራ ከገባችሁ ዘክሩ አስዘክሩ
ያልሆነው እንዲሆን ምከሩ ሞክሩ
ሽቀጣና ሽቀት እንዳይሆን ሃገሩ
አንድ ቀን እንደሆን አይቀር መቃ-ብሩ።

Michelle Holliday's Humanity 4.0 

15. Human DIGNITY:

21st century is the era of Liberation Movements for Human Dignity, encompassing all other Movements, to make them superfluous – non-dogmatic, non-religious and non-ethnic with the great Common Collective Will for Human Empathy!

11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day, the Landmark for a radical break with all Tyrannies!

Thanks to Tunisia -The Heroic Pioneer of Freedom!

እንደዚህ ሆነና ...እስኪሆን ይሆናል!

Meditational

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