Posted 6/21/2002 06:53:48 PM
went shooting today. shot a sig, smg full-auto, shotgun, glock, H&K and a 40cal mp5 full-auto with a silencer. cool.

oh, and we were gased as well. CS. nothing like running for shelter with federal agents and us attornies...

Posted 6/21/2002 06:51:01 PM
so. anyone else looking for some inspiration?

Posted 6/20/2002 08:31:00 PM
VIPER 18 - A lot is going on here... between fighting the war on terror and trying to broker peace in the Kashmir region... I don’t get much free time. I have been gone now for nine months and I am really starting to feel it. I feel like I have done more work in the past months since Sept 11th than I have in the previous two years. Long work days/nights and high stress is taking its toll. You would think it would be a prime situation for me to lose some weight… but not a chance.

Posted 6/19/2002 01:28:25 PM
cellphone in your teeth... link from /..

Posted 6/19/2002 12:58:58 PM
There are no more universal first principles. Funny how they just went poof and disappeared after contingency. They seemed so real for a moment. The desert of the real brings such interesting spectacles at times. I see anyone I want in this desert, though so many cannot see me yet. Pity. Maybe. It seems now that the life expectancy for an idealism that seeks to find full presence through a first principles based rational structure culminating in correspondence to True truth is getting shorter and shorter. The structures that are left after such long building endeavors are often beautiful to behold. We look at Augustine, at Aquinas, at Hegel now and shake our heads with both wonder and concern. In that quantum sense of the third position beyond binary options we in no way see these systems as mistaken in the old sense of the word. It is like an Einstein or Dirac equation. They are not mistakes. They simply grow less useful as time moves on. Their beauty so often outlasts their usefulness--such a contrast to human life. So be it. Thank you Augustine. Thank you Aquinas. Thank you Hegel. Oh, and peace to you my friends yet blind to blindness.

Posted 6/19/2002 12:58:26 PM
other kingdom:
Always that which you cannot conceive save in retrospect...
Always that which you must enact...
A community bordering and embracing the impossible...
thus spake nonzero

Posted 6/19/2002 12:46:19 PM

Karzai is sworn in today and he has a new cabinet. There have been some surface improvements in the representative ethnic balance of power, yet the real challenge that remains is this: power in Afghanistan is still largely weilded by three regional warlords who sponsor private armies, live like regional despots and have no official voice in the new government. Karzai has a major task ahead of him. Finding some way to give these warlords official voice and integrating their armies into a national force seems near impossible, but there will be no stable Afghanistan without this taking place.

Posted 6/18/2002 11:26:42 AM

Life as Ravens

Q51
Don’t be anxious about your life.
Don’t worry about getting enough stuff.
Life means more than this.
Look at the ravens.
They don’t
produce,
gather or
store,
yet God feeds them.
Are you more important than birds?
Can any of you,
for all you worry about,
add a single moment to your life?
If worrying can’t change the small stuff why worry about anything?

Ravens. Why ravens? This is very specific in the Greek text. Why ravens? Something this specific passed down from the Aramaic that Jesus spoke leaves one with a sense of, “why?” Why use ravens in this saying? Why not the more exotic swan or the more common pigeon or the more beautiful dove? Many reasons, as with all things, I am sure. One of these reasons involves these four words: carefree to a fault. Pliny wrote that ravens are so carefree that they sometimes forget about their young and don't return to their nests. Can one be that carefree with things, with position, with provision?

Posted 6/18/2002 10:52:53 AM
nonzero speaks:

other kingdom: nes pas une église...

Posted 6/18/2002 10:48:48 AM
nonzero speaks:

Theology = habits of thought.
Theology in our time = genealogy as ethos not simply prelude.

Posted 6/18/2002 10:43:38 AM
nonzero speaks:

Everything is still in terms of modernism. This gets boring so quickly.
Everything is still in terms of catholicism. Oh, how much more laborious!

Posted 6/16/2002 03:25:38 PM
August 1914 in Pakistan

The U.S. Naval War College held an India-Pakistan war game
not long ago in which each country's leaders were played by
officials from that country. The games began with a
terrorist attack, grew into a border war - and then
Pakistan covered its retreat by firing four nuclear weapons
at pursuing Indian troops. India responded with 12 nuclear
warheads. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
estimated that the result would have been 15 million
casualties.