Damek.

From xkcd.

A short post this time.
Heraclitus wrote of the changing waters of the river, and it’s important to realize what this says about reality. There are very basic limits to what we can understand and communicate.
As the Foreward to my edition says, “…all things change, all thigns flow. The world is revealed only in [...]

I feel I should clarify some of my thoughts from this earlier post.
When Heraclitus speaks ill of Dionysian revelry, their hedonistic rituals, I agree more than I disagree, with regard to empty revelry. Spiritual revelry is quite a different matter, and most modern humans could use more of it, I think.
Picture a room full [...]

Friday I posted a little about myself and the path I find myself on, about finding harmony in strife, and trying to be a complete person. I used a bit of Heraclitus to do that, and mentioned I’m preparing to read the Tao Te Ching. I said there was a bit of the [...]

Soon, there may not be any more:
The Prime Minister, John Howard, a hardened climate-change sceptic, delivered dire tidings to the nation’s farmers yesterday. Unless there is significant rainfall in the next six to eight weeks, irrigation will be banned in the principal agricultural area. Crops such as rice, cotton and wine grapes will fail, citrus, [...]