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Until recently I took the ideals and principles of the Enlightenment for granted: classical liberalism, individual liberty, republican government, Freedom of speech, and all those other wonderful things that are part of being a citizen of a country with a government that is fundamentally liberal in the classical sense. There have been little attempts to require regimented thought in my life and before; things like you can’t call a spade a spade and silly matters of political correctness. But even ...

Peace be on you.

In Africa, a mosque was being inaugurated. The Chief of the area, a Christian, was also invited. He told the host: I have not come here in your love. I came to see only who are these Muslims in this era, who invited a non-Muslim in the inauguration ceremony of their mosque. After coming here, I am further surprised to see that people from various religions are gathered here. And Ahmadis, despite they are Muslims, are showing such high morals, which are matchless. ...

Now and then I notice masses of humans acting or speaking in unusual ways, asking the same question, looking for the same obscure piece of information, or whatever. Once in a while these trends can be explained by something that appeared in the popular press or on TV or whatever, but most of the time there is no apparent connection. And sometimes such minor trends can be explained by the phase of the Moon; the correlation between the Moon and emotional state has been known for millennia. But that ...

September is almost over, and I eagerly await October, because I am already in Halloween mode.

So here is my annual list of October/Halloween reading:

Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro - I loved his movie Pan's Labyrinth and when I first heard him talking about this book on the Daily Show I was super excited about it, and now of course I am into the TV series.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner - Not scary ...

I may have had an epiphany recently, but I’m not all together sure what an epiphany is. There was a beautiful example of bogons doing what they do, stopping things from working around persons afflicted with bogosity. And I realized that it often is a sign of an intellectual lack, which wasn’t a surprise in itself, but I also noticed that the particular variety of intellectual deficiency is marked by a lack of understanding of sequential events. More specifically, there is a tendency to speak in ...