Two things I want to write it down concerning ISIS. Firstly, I don’t find it particularly difficult to understand why young men and young women might choose to travel to fight with ISIS. Despite coming from a privileged background myself I was aggressively favourable towards the IR A in the late 1970s and early 1980s. …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
today is a mirror too
Walking through the Sheffield I pass a man who is often busking in the town centre. He plays sometimes a guitar, today, I think, some sort of small stringed instrument, perhaps, or was it a small keyboard. He plays them like I might play them at times, just making noise using the machine on his …
Zizek (again)
As I listened and watched “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” Zizek’s second full-length film with Sophie Fiennes. I’d tried watching it one time and had found it frustrating purely because I had heard many of the philosophical anecdotes in other lectures by Zizek. Yesterday evening I watched it the whole way through and enjoyed it …
of ants and men
So I was discussing this notion of thought not taking place before action but being some sort of ephemera taking place as an explanation rather than being part of a decision making process. My friend Steve listened to me talking about this yesterday evening and pointed out that such an idea was in itself a …
i can do this…
So this is a cartoon from Ella – shows what she’s thinking about wouldn’t you say?
buster and gemini
Lovely afternoon walk with Ella, Lottie and Kai taking two dogs from an animal rescue centre for a walk in the Mayfield Valley – general good humour prevailed only overshadowed by the proverbial rainbow just visible in the picture.
101
I am a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. I was at meeting for worship in Sheffield this morning and heard R, a prominent Quaker I’d say, speak about her love of passage 1.01 from Advices and Queries. Here it is: As Friends we commit ourselves to a way of worship which …
a posteriori (afterthoughts)
In a long discussion with who I cannot remember, but in a sad frame of mind at the time, I started to think about cause and effect. Perhaps it was with Melissa that I talked and I think I probably spoke to myself a fair amount at the time as well. Dear Mr Zizek had …
ukraine
This I posted to facebook with trepidation – the situation is so unpleasant that it feels like a radical act to even publise an alternative point of view. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH35raTPVu8&w=560&h=315]
the Califano clan…
During our time in the Ardeche we visited Claude Califano and her parents Gaetan and Monique. How long is it since I have seen them? 30 years at least. What was strange about being with them again with their wayward daughter Claude is quite simply that nothing had changed in a sense. Everybody looked exactly …