really cool. thank you for the inspiration. I will take out my paints again. I haven't painted in a while.

HEMISPHERE : Tonight, as in time and times without memory, the heavens arch over us and we experience the night sky as a hemisphere of twinkling lights. HEMIHYDRATE : Using a telescope fashioned with a

that last line feels like a non sequitur to be honest. it takes some extra lateral thinking to make the connection. you sound as though your first language is programming or maths. yet, you're rhapsodizing

socrates wasn't smart, he was a fool. and he was wise. when I hear or read things like this piece, it saddens me. more and more it seems people really become deaf, dumb and blind...

How can you write about "succumbing" to a tragic view of the world and then call for people to "embrace" it? That sounds like masochism or Stockholm Syndrome, definitely not something

I suspect so too

By the same token, to rule well one needs useful officers to do your bidding.

Politics is not power and control. In my reading of Machiavelli, he does not say politics is power and control. Those are the means and end of politics. Politics is the art, philosophy or pursuit involving

Why the quotations around the word? Simply say, "the Empire." That's what it is. And honestly speaking, in this day and age of empires, a country has to align itself with one empire or another.

Do you have an example of lofty behaviour from your own life?

MY VOCAB PRACTICE expel : The security guards expelled the troop of tramps from the premises. extreme : The guards had to take extreme measures to remove the tramps. express : That was because the tramps

MY VOCAB PRACTICE: awaken: Sleeping Beauty awaken from your unnatural slumber with this solemn kiss. amuse: I tried explaining but that didn't work. I tried telling a joke but she was still not amused.

tradition vs. post-modernism is the antagonism as I see it

MY VOCAB PRACTICE aloud: Spoken aloud, his idea all thought was completely ridiculous; in his head it sounded genius. akin: Those glowering eyes pierced him through the heart. Seeing the hate in his mother's

First be gracious and offer charity instead. Then ask the person to do you a service to prove his trustworthiness or else provide some sort of affidavit or parole to attest his character. If satisfied

The sovereign encapsulates what money really is, symbolizing the proper social philosophy of money. The sovereign harkens back to a gold time of sound money and true global commerce (rather than pillage

in this world of today, every state has to belong in one empire or another. second question is which. the first question is whether belonging in or to an empire. the UK is grappling with the latter right

verbatim is not an adverb here

Verbose: In writing as in speech more words is not better. Nevertheless the verbose can hide their empty thoughts and pale opinions in chatter. Verbalize: Verbalize this (hand gesture)! Verbatim: The essay

You need to discover the pattern that repeats. That's the trick. For indeed history does rhyme if you can see the meta-narratives threading through it all.