History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I watch the recent doings in Eastern Europe and see it in Iambic Pentameter: intriguing, but hardly exciting. I have heard similar rhythms before, but these are not so intense. The players and raconteurs lack passion. The time is not right. What the world is witnessing […]

Posted on March 21st, 2014 by Zsallia
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Adam- It saddens me when deep questions are tossed about in the manner of base conversation. Do not take this to mean I think less of you; no, rather I consider you to be more than your manner might lead some to believe. Do consider framing your inquiries more formally for the practice would serve […]

Posted on October 17th, 2005 by Zsallia
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The genesis of the query I posed below is the confluence of events in my personal life. I find myself under pressure to take actions that contradict every rule I have chosen to live by since coming to understand the destructive nature of my existence. It has been my experience that when people come to […]

Posted on March 26th, 2005 by Zsallia
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On the occasion of my 3531st birthday*, I would like to offer up the following for your consideration: First, regardless of your conclusions regarding my veracity, or lack thereof, I would like you to approach this with the assumption that I have been telling the truth, or as much of it as I can, regarding […]

Posted on March 20th, 2005 by Zsallia
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I receive e-mail. Some messages are dismissive, a very small percentage of those evincing outrage at the thought of my existence, either as fact or farce. There are notes from those few people with whom I maintain semi-regular correspondence. Finally, and perhaps most disturbingly, there are those who seem to find some small sliver of […]

Posted on January 19th, 2005 by Zsallia
Filed under: Immortality, Philosophy, Regrets | 3 Comments »

In the comments to my invitation to ask questions Charles first offered an observation from Iraq, and then posed his query: I read your stories. Even with all the intermittent shelling, we have an internet cafe nearby where most of us soldiers go to cruise the internet cafe when we’re not under cover. I’m told, […]

Posted on November 8th, 2004 by Zsallia
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Diogenes is both eloquent and poignant. I could not have done more than he has done.

Posted on September 18th, 2004 by Zsallia
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Mark Alger, a regular reader and commenter here of late, has some provocative notions regarding the nature of evil, the proper perspectives required to recognize and confront it, and what is and is not justified in seeing evil defeated. I happen to agree with him up to a point, our differences being subtle, but important. […]

Posted on September 6th, 2004 by Zsallia
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Mr. E Poet has done me a grave injustice, positing a question near and dear to my heart and then failing to have me note it until I was ready to depart on the little adventure mentioned the other day. I am not one prone to immediate reaction or quick reply; however, in this case […]

Posted on July 19th, 2004 by Zsallia
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Life is more than a mere collection of events and happenings. There are those who would argue against such a notion, those who believe that a human being’s journey through most of a century of time is little more than a process of genetic replication and propagation. Man as animal, lacking anything of the spiritual, […]

Posted on June 13th, 2004 by Zsallia
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