Sunday, November 17, 2019

Is Anti-Zionism a Form of Anti-Semitism?

 “...the Jewish problem can not be solved on racial or territorial grounds alone...there is nothing else for us to do than to put every kind of international problems on a strictly non-racial neutral impersonal scientific basis, and that’s what we are trying to do.”
—Alfred Korzybski (letter to  German Jewish emigre psychiatrist Richard D. Loewenberg, 1944)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3troAXARu6c

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Verbal Thinking

"The tendency of verbal thinking to dominate and monopolize consciousness has its blessings and its curses, though the latter are less obvious than the former. ...What needs stressing once more is that words are symbols for perceptual and cognitive events, but they are not the events. They are the vehicle of thought, but the vehicle should not be confused with the passengers."
—Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation: A Study Of The Conscious And Unconscious In Science And Art, (p. 600)

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

For One Who Has Perception

For one who has perception, 
a mere sigh
is enough. 
For one who does not heed, 
a thousand explanations 
are not enough. 
—Hajji Bektash Wali (Persian Mystic, 1209-1271)