Deep and terrifying stuff, Johan. But also... what did we expect? It is somehow an awakening and an opportunity for those of us with remaining cognitive capacity. We can resist and retain authentic connection with each other and with nature.
Until we understand how to poison them all .... Anthrax, TTX, serin, botulism, and weaponized mad cow disease, we are slaves to the sodomizers, 320 Jewish billionaires and their millions of Eichmanns.
DARPA just quietly asked industry how to rebuild a destroyed satellite fleet in hours — and the request reveals what the Pentagon now assumes about the first day of a war with China!
The Pentagon's blue-sky research arm wants industry to figure out how to rebuild a shot-up satellite constellation in hours, not years.
Those fucking soccer moms and kiddos at the robotics and coding Olympics.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933-) is a contemporary scholar and philosopher who calls for the revival of humankind’s sense of connection to nature and the cosmos.
He wrote in his book Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man: “Today, almost everyone living in the urbanised centres of the Western world feels instinctively a lack of something in life.
“This is due directly to the creation of an artificial environment from which nature has been excluded to the greatest possible extent. Even the religious man in such circumstances has lost the sense of the spiritual significance of nature”.
He added: “There is today no philosophy of nature… One can say with even greater regret that there is also no theology of nature which could satisfactorily provide a spiritual bridge between man and nature”.
shopping mall2
Nasr’s philosophy is completely odds with the industrial capitalist concept of “progress” which regards ever-increasing production, consumption and, therefore, destruction as the only aim worth pursuing.
He wrote: “The sense of domination over nature and a materialistic conception of nature on the part of modern man are combined, moreover, with a lust and a sense of greed which makes an ever greater demand upon the environment.
“Incited by the elusive dream of economic progress, considered as an end in itself, a sense of the unlimited power of man and his possibilities is developed, together with the belief, particularly well developed in America, of boundless and illimitable possibilities within things, as if the world of forms were not finite and bound by the very limits of those forms”.
With the physical reality of industrialism had come the mechanistic conception of the universe which took the Western world totally away from “the holistic and organic interpretation of things”.
Nasr noted that calls to address the environmental crisis often mentioned changing means of transport, cutting the use of fossil fuels and so on: “Few ask, however, why it is that modern man feels the need to travel so much… Why must modern man consume so much and satiate his so-called needs only outwardly? Why is he unable to draw from any inward substance?”
electric cars
Born in Tehran, Nasr comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, a famous saint of Kashan, according to The Nasr Foundation.
For many years a professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC, he follows the perennialist tradition, which sees a universal human spirituality beneath the surface level of the world’s religions.
He was greatly influenced in this direction by being introduced to the work of René Guénon, the Sufi metaphysician and leading critic of Western industrial capitalist society.
He also had access, in the USA, to the library bequeathed by Ananda Coomaraswamy, the anti-imperialist and anarchist scholar.
The works he discovered there also led him to meet other exponents of the philosophia perennis, including Frithjof Schuon.
Like them, Nasr regards spiritual connection as the key to restoring humankind’s harmonious relationship with nature.
He stressed: “The metaphysical knowledge pertaining to nature must be revived and the sacred quality of nature given back to it once again”.
Nasr sees in the Chinese tradition of Taoism “a devotion to nature and a comprehension of its metaphysical significance that is of the greatest importance”.
But he argues that Islam, the ‘green’ religion, is more environmentally orientated than other faiths.
He said in a 2014 radio interview: “The Qur’an addresses not only human beings, but also the cosmos. It is much easier to be able to develop an environmental philosophy. Birds are called communities in the Qur’an. Human beings, bees, it is so easy to develop an authentic Islamic philosophy of the environment”.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr Man and Nature
In Man and Nature he wrote that the aim of the sage was to be in harmony with nature “for through this harmony comes harmony with men and this harmony is itself the reflection of harmony with heaven”.
In Islam, said Nasr, “man is the channel of grace for nature; through his active participation in the spiritual world, he casts light into the world of nature. He is the mouth through which nature breathes and lives”.
Nasr, who studied the metaphysics of Georg Hegel, agrees with the German philosopher that one of the problems with modernity is its fragmented view of reality, which lacks any understanding of an all-embracing whole.
He interprets the Vedic idea of Maya, usually translated as illusion, to refer to the separation which hides from our sight the greater holistic reality.
Nasr explained in the essay ‘Scientia Sacra’: “Maya is the source of all duality even on the principial level causing the distinction between Essence and the Qualities.
“It is also the source of the dualism between subject and object even on the highest level beyond which there is but the One, in which knower and known, or subject and object, are one”.
Video link: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Can Many Religions All Be True? (3 mins)
Audio links: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Islam and the Environment (54 mins)
The Metaphysical and Cosmological Roots of the Ecological Crisis (1hr 30)
Yeah, keep citing Jewish scholars and the brigade of grand Jewish followers of Marx and their circumcised Goyim.
These are the offspring and students of those fat faced Jews ... Psychopaths and dead eyed Chomsky and Woody Allen soulless types.
Around sunset on August 18, 2024, a group of journalists on assignment in Hamad City gathered together while covering the advance of Israeli army vehicles. As the journalists walked the street, an Israeli tank turned the corner and immediately advanced on the group.
A barrage of Israeli gunfire burst around the journalists, all of whom were wearing clearly marked blue “press” helmets, vests, or carrying camera gear. It was unmistakable. They were civilians. They were journalists.
While fleeing, photojournalist Ibrahim Mohareb was shot in the leg, and he collapsed to the ground. A female journalist (name withheld) for Agence France-Presse (AFP) stopped to help, lifting him onto her shoulder. At that moment, she didn’t realize she was shot in the back and through her chest.
“The rest of them were still running away, but Ibrahim started calling out, gesturing and pleading with me to come and get him out,” the AFP journalist told Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights investigative group.
“I didn’t get him out, and the tank was advancing towards him. Of course, I had to go; I couldn’t just leave my mate behind. So I went to Ibrahim, grabbed him by the hand and said, ‘Focus on my shoulder, I’m going to get you out. Come with me.’”
Mohareb tried to get up but was shot once more. The severely injured AFP journalist managed to escape with three of her colleagues who helped carry her. The tank continued to shoot and pursue them as they sought shelter at a refugee camp—supposedly a “safe zone.”
Tragically, Mohareb was trapped by the advancing murderous Israeli army and was martyred. His body was recovered the next morning.
Footage from the attack posted by one of the survivors, journalist Ezzedine Muasher, shows utter chaos and terror as he and his colleagues desperately flee, every few steps hugging the ground to duck the assault.
This Israeli attack was first documented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PHCR) and then further investigated by Al-Haq. Mohareb was the fourth journalist murdered by Israel that August 2024.
AI is part of visual culture you don’t have to ‘like’ it but it’s part of culture. Artists should reflect that culture comment on it and critique it we actually need more artists to use AI the wrong way to fuck with it otherwise we all risk drowning in a sea of generic sludge, running away from AI gives more power to AI to keep developing unchallenged
Deep and terrifying stuff, Johan. But also... what did we expect? It is somehow an awakening and an opportunity for those of us with remaining cognitive capacity. We can resist and retain authentic connection with each other and with nature.
Until we understand how to poison them all .... Anthrax, TTX, serin, botulism, and weaponized mad cow disease, we are slaves to the sodomizers, 320 Jewish billionaires and their millions of Eichmanns.
DARPA just quietly asked industry how to rebuild a destroyed satellite fleet in hours — and the request reveals what the Pentagon now assumes about the first day of a war with China!
The Pentagon's blue-sky research arm wants industry to figure out how to rebuild a shot-up satellite constellation in hours, not years.
Those fucking soccer moms and kiddos at the robotics and coding Olympics.
And so all that Marx and political economy shit , sure let's all just play games inside their fucking Star Chambers and matrix.
Nah, do you think these subhumans and their Israel Bond backers van be reformed? Nah.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/down-to-brass-tacks-jews-celebrate?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933-) is a contemporary scholar and philosopher who calls for the revival of humankind’s sense of connection to nature and the cosmos.
He wrote in his book Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man: “Today, almost everyone living in the urbanised centres of the Western world feels instinctively a lack of something in life.
“This is due directly to the creation of an artificial environment from which nature has been excluded to the greatest possible extent. Even the religious man in such circumstances has lost the sense of the spiritual significance of nature”.
He added: “There is today no philosophy of nature… One can say with even greater regret that there is also no theology of nature which could satisfactorily provide a spiritual bridge between man and nature”.
shopping mall2
Nasr’s philosophy is completely odds with the industrial capitalist concept of “progress” which regards ever-increasing production, consumption and, therefore, destruction as the only aim worth pursuing.
He wrote: “The sense of domination over nature and a materialistic conception of nature on the part of modern man are combined, moreover, with a lust and a sense of greed which makes an ever greater demand upon the environment.
“Incited by the elusive dream of economic progress, considered as an end in itself, a sense of the unlimited power of man and his possibilities is developed, together with the belief, particularly well developed in America, of boundless and illimitable possibilities within things, as if the world of forms were not finite and bound by the very limits of those forms”.
With the physical reality of industrialism had come the mechanistic conception of the universe which took the Western world totally away from “the holistic and organic interpretation of things”.
Nasr noted that calls to address the environmental crisis often mentioned changing means of transport, cutting the use of fossil fuels and so on: “Few ask, however, why it is that modern man feels the need to travel so much… Why must modern man consume so much and satiate his so-called needs only outwardly? Why is he unable to draw from any inward substance?”
electric cars
Born in Tehran, Nasr comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, a famous saint of Kashan, according to The Nasr Foundation.
For many years a professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, DC, he follows the perennialist tradition, which sees a universal human spirituality beneath the surface level of the world’s religions.
He was greatly influenced in this direction by being introduced to the work of René Guénon, the Sufi metaphysician and leading critic of Western industrial capitalist society.
He also had access, in the USA, to the library bequeathed by Ananda Coomaraswamy, the anti-imperialist and anarchist scholar.
The works he discovered there also led him to meet other exponents of the philosophia perennis, including Frithjof Schuon.
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Like them, Nasr regards spiritual connection as the key to restoring humankind’s harmonious relationship with nature.
He stressed: “The metaphysical knowledge pertaining to nature must be revived and the sacred quality of nature given back to it once again”.
Nasr sees in the Chinese tradition of Taoism “a devotion to nature and a comprehension of its metaphysical significance that is of the greatest importance”.
But he argues that Islam, the ‘green’ religion, is more environmentally orientated than other faiths.
He said in a 2014 radio interview: “The Qur’an addresses not only human beings, but also the cosmos. It is much easier to be able to develop an environmental philosophy. Birds are called communities in the Qur’an. Human beings, bees, it is so easy to develop an authentic Islamic philosophy of the environment”.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr Man and Nature
In Man and Nature he wrote that the aim of the sage was to be in harmony with nature “for through this harmony comes harmony with men and this harmony is itself the reflection of harmony with heaven”.
In Islam, said Nasr, “man is the channel of grace for nature; through his active participation in the spiritual world, he casts light into the world of nature. He is the mouth through which nature breathes and lives”.
Nasr, who studied the metaphysics of Georg Hegel, agrees with the German philosopher that one of the problems with modernity is its fragmented view of reality, which lacks any understanding of an all-embracing whole.
He interprets the Vedic idea of Maya, usually translated as illusion, to refer to the separation which hides from our sight the greater holistic reality.
Nasr explained in the essay ‘Scientia Sacra’: “Maya is the source of all duality even on the principial level causing the distinction between Essence and the Qualities.
“It is also the source of the dualism between subject and object even on the highest level beyond which there is but the One, in which knower and known, or subject and object, are one”.
Video link: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Can Many Religions All Be True? (3 mins)
Audio links: Seyyed Hossein Nasr – Islam and the Environment (54 mins)
The Metaphysical and Cosmological Roots of the Ecological Crisis (1hr 30)
Bleak. Something’s got to give.
Yeah, keep citing Jewish scholars and the brigade of grand Jewish followers of Marx and their circumcised Goyim.
These are the offspring and students of those fat faced Jews ... Psychopaths and dead eyed Chomsky and Woody Allen soulless types.
Around sunset on August 18, 2024, a group of journalists on assignment in Hamad City gathered together while covering the advance of Israeli army vehicles. As the journalists walked the street, an Israeli tank turned the corner and immediately advanced on the group.
A barrage of Israeli gunfire burst around the journalists, all of whom were wearing clearly marked blue “press” helmets, vests, or carrying camera gear. It was unmistakable. They were civilians. They were journalists.
While fleeing, photojournalist Ibrahim Mohareb was shot in the leg, and he collapsed to the ground. A female journalist (name withheld) for Agence France-Presse (AFP) stopped to help, lifting him onto her shoulder. At that moment, she didn’t realize she was shot in the back and through her chest.
“The rest of them were still running away, but Ibrahim started calling out, gesturing and pleading with me to come and get him out,” the AFP journalist told Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights investigative group.
“I didn’t get him out, and the tank was advancing towards him. Of course, I had to go; I couldn’t just leave my mate behind. So I went to Ibrahim, grabbed him by the hand and said, ‘Focus on my shoulder, I’m going to get you out. Come with me.’”
Mohareb tried to get up but was shot once more. The severely injured AFP journalist managed to escape with three of her colleagues who helped carry her. The tank continued to shoot and pursue them as they sought shelter at a refugee camp—supposedly a “safe zone.”
Tragically, Mohareb was trapped by the advancing murderous Israeli army and was martyred. His body was recovered the next morning.
Footage from the attack posted by one of the survivors, journalist Ezzedine Muasher, shows utter chaos and terror as he and his colleagues desperately flee, every few steps hugging the ground to duck the assault.
This Israeli attack was first documented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PHCR) and then further investigated by Al-Haq. Mohareb was the fourth journalist murdered by Israel that August 2024.
While it's a machine designed for degradation, any such machine would get little traction if not for this: https://whileican.substack.com/p/which-side-of-the-room-is-permanently
Also true: this morning I saw Mars rising with the Pleiades. The other morning: a desert tortoise consuming a flower.
Where we focus our attention matters, or so a foolish voice whispers.
Please consider adding Paul Kingsnorth to your reading list. He is Against the Machine.
https://substack.com/@paulkingsnorth?r=fcfps&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=light
Are we training 🤖 AI with our comments on substack? We are being extracted. We are data.
AI is part of visual culture you don’t have to ‘like’ it but it’s part of culture. Artists should reflect that culture comment on it and critique it we actually need more artists to use AI the wrong way to fuck with it otherwise we all risk drowning in a sea of generic sludge, running away from AI gives more power to AI to keep developing unchallenged