Saturday, November 8, 2008

Gravity All Nonsense Now

-I believe seeking truth is an individual act, that is not limited to any name or possibility, and its also continuous, because there is no certain absolute truth, and there might be a temporary truth, so Its possible that i search, and find something that sounds like the truth, and live by it, and then find out that its not the truth. when I think of it, I can bare with the fact that I have a new truth that I need to adapt to, but does that mean that the previous phase, was simply not true, in other words “unreal”, so basically any kind of experiences I encountered through that phase does not count anymore? Because every thought, feeling and experience at that time was wrapped with this untrue truth ? And my state of existence would be labeled untrue? I’d rather spend my life looking….

- Reality includes both, being and nothingness, why do I need a definition for being so bad now? are you being? are we being??

-So you don’t have faith?......... But you do have faith in not having faith, i mean…you should have faith…

-jacques derrida says that we can only talk about madness, but we never heard the real voice of it, all what we know is what we came up with from our very external observations.
i feel so trapped when I hear this for some reason, so chained to the borders of my sanity that doesn’t seem to function very well, faith does not prove anything, rationality does not prove anything, the tooth fairy does not prove anything either. I feel violently in need for a break through… and yet I can’t see but the occasional midday shadows rambling around me , nothings Is very elemental after all.. not even gravity.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Parallel Minds

Here’s a little game I played the other day with a friend, I wrote 4 questions, on the other side of the paper he wrote 4 answers. Funny how words come sometimes looking for you, unraveling a simple answer that makes you stop living in a world of dilemmas…at least for a while :)


Q: does infinity exist?
A: find the right soul mate.

Q: how does the pink moon converse with the flowers?
A: being famous but yet humble

Q: how can we free ourselves from gravity?
A: live in a Utopian place.

Q: does god exist?
A: do the right thing at the precise right time.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

My version of Petra




Speech-less!

-A German friend is learning Arabic here in Amman at the” French” Cultural Centre.

-a Student at university is called “7afartali” as in vulgar, because he used Arabic lettering in his project's presentation.

-scene at Fuddruckers, An American restaurant in Amman, we tried to scan the tables around us, and apparently all of those who were sitting are purely Arabs, and yet we didn’t hear a single Arabic word, except for the occasional “ya3ne” .

-we were asked to write an official report for some project, and I was surprised to see those “anti-Arabic speakers” writing absolute rubbish, I mean get over it, you can’t write an academic report using your super American whateverish slang.I think to myself "if they can't write proper arabic OR english,where do they fit?!"
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-out of a group of 11 people,7 of them did not write any Arabic text since 8th grade (about 7 years), and did not read any, except for the newspaper "occasionally".

-1st year student asks with great enthusiasm “whose mahmoud abu darwish?!!”

-And ..I blog in English!!