Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

4 days ago

By letting go of natural theology and a presuppositional adherence to logicalness, and accepting revelation, one finds something that makes more sense of the world in terms of reason than one did when one started with reasoning itself. It is as Jesus says, “whosoever will save…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

2 weeks ago

"You want this don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you make yourself more my servant." --Emperor Palpatine, Return of the Jedi

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

2 weeks ago

There is a disease that infects the intellectual mind. It is the disease of sophistication. The intellectual dismisses out of hand anything that is intuitive enough, but is simple. Like the idea that the just desert of crime is punishment. It is a thing that everyone knows, so he…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

2 weeks ago

"The new Nero will approach us with the silky manners of a doctor, and though all will be in fact as compulsory as the tunica molesta or Smithfield or Tyburn, all will go on within the unemotional therapeutic sphere where words like ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ or ‘freedom’ and ‘slavery’…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

2 weeks ago

"My subject is not Capital Punishment in particular, but that theory of punishment in general which the controversy showed to be called the Humanitarian theory. Those who hold it think that it is mild and merciful. In this I believe that they are seriously mistaken. I believe…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

3 weeks ago

Skeptics profess to themselves and others that they are looking for truth, that their skeptical attitude is humility, yet they are allergic to any such notion. They reject truth. They idea that there could be a truth is alien to them. It is totally inconceivable. How does a…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

4 weeks ago

"And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word." --I Kings 18:21

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

Regarding G.K. Chesterton's parable of the fence, that we should understand why things were put up before we tear them down. A similar principle applies to reasoning and argumentation. Don't contradict your interlocutor until you've understood why he's made his point. What is he…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

non-fiction is for the impatient. It talks at you. The ideas have already been digested by the writer, so you have to do very little legwork. Fiction challenges your powers of understanding and synthesis. It forces you to put the ideas together yourself, which is why at times it…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

"'In the practical and objective nature of engineering, even if it attains perfection in its own field, there is nothing that can be called a style as the world has been interpreted in the past', a style, that is to say that informs all departments 'and permits us to perceive…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

"Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed." From the Hagakure (pg. 32 in my copy)

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

St. Mecarius saw a skull of pagan priest, and it relayed to him the conditions of hell: “As far as the sky is removed from the earth, so great is the fire beneath us; we are ourselves standing in the midst of the fire, from the feet up to the head. It is not possible to see…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

Paraphrased from St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite: “If you were to look back upon your day, you would be embarrassed by everything you did” I think from the Exomologetarion.

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

It seems that beauty standards have changed (or been assuaged) such that the look of an older person, man or woman, is more attractive than the young. Almost everyone, to my eyes, tend to look better with age. That was normal for men, but now women, with their sunken emaciated…

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

"'the rabbis, pursuing only their interest, have enclosed life in an intertwining of rules'" From 200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, quoting from a history of the Jews in Russia by J. Hessen.

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Zohair Khan @abc_zohair

a month ago

"Humour is the pacemaker of this gladness of the heart. Whenever in history the vision of Hell in all its horror has been mastered and defeated, it is into the creations of a kind of cosmic and liberating humour that it dissolves. And that holds good in reverse, for wherever…