Alhamdamar Mudafiq > Recent Status Updates

while Fleming’s James Bond is a successful fiction, ‘the reality … Britain’s intelligence agencies was at an all-time low, having been shredded by comprehensive Soviet penetration.’

2010: oil fields found in Falklands, ‘whether the 21 century world continues to be as addicted to fossil fuels as the 20 century one and exploits there reserves, or whether they will lie — along with so many ships — forever deep in the South Atlantic.’

‘… Britain would always put the US first.’ — De Gaulle

is that true?

Looking back to go forward.

do not just copy, instead—takes only the ‘limelight’ and turn it into better design

The past is there not to be rejected.

On Form

Form—the very appearance of the world. it is not its condition of possibility.

Form—the identity of the exterior and the interior. it is not the projection of the interior into the exterior.

‘Form is not privileged in our perception.’

Phenomenology—the study of the appearance of being to consciousness.

On Industrial Revolution.
It was never the government yet the people who invented.
If only the government has suppressed its people for being creative and wealthy (like nowadays in shitey country), there would be no invention, or—no progress at all.

The Lark Ascending - George Meredith
The Lark Ascending - R. Vaughan Williams
… but, ‘between 1972 and 1996 the skylark’s presence in the countryside dropped by 75%.’
that’s the impact of disappearing ‘buzzing insects—there are now places with featureless acres of crops under largely empty skies and silent trees.’

the table has turned

Thomas Cromwell the ‘Ironside’—the torch bearer for Britain’s democracy. But its attempt at being a republic had failed—the only way to achieve stability was to reinstate the monarchy.
I wish Javanese could learn and wake up. aamiin.

what a pocket! nice story telling for a historical context—pleasing to read while travelling 👏🏼

They transformed the king into the likeness of her husband, allowing him to trick his way into her bed for a night of passion. That is how an incubus is said to work—or, more likely, just another prickly human habit of blaming the devil.

30 January 1649—King Charles I
For the first time in England’s history, the people had slain their king: abolished the monarchy and House of Lords, and pronounced Britain to be a republic, commonwealth and free state.

animal rationale—human beings are in essence rational animals.

The work of the mind exists only in act.

oh! it’s not that complicated. Israel never existed, that’s it. Irgun Zvai Leumi just terrorist who ‘began terrorist attacks and assassinations targeting both the Arabs (meant Palestinian) and the British.’ They bombed British headquarters in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. and many more extreme violence acts.

the young Merleau-Ponty read Husserl’s Ideen II in typescript when researching Phenomenology of Perception.

me first proper attempt at reading a cookbook—i picked it up at a book fair with the genuine intention of actually reading it, though i’m not really cooking anything lol

alright, then me ended up reading it in hospital! It’s been accompanying me since the first time i lay me arse on the hospital bed, and it’s still with me now during recovery. She’s been great—a thoughtful, research-based cookbook.

Isabella the She-Wolf of France, yeah—me, can see her in some women nowadays! lol… i could never understand why some women become jealous when their men are too friendly with their friends. It’s a common story, innit? A bloke just wants to go fishing, camping, or hang out at the pub with his mates, and she’s absolutely fuming. madness! lollol

Mass murder is ‘a reminder of how easily an irrational, persecuting frenzy can take hold.’ From the Witch Craze to the Anti-Communist Purge, and—now to the dehumanisation of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers through the country’s Zionist ideology, the pattern remains disturbingly familiar.

oh! i wish i could be a great company’s successor—Clive’s brilliant move has inspired me yeah!

Bloody Mary, bloody Elizabeth—bloody religion war.

in the end, ‘it’s all about—who has the best stories.’ and the god is in the detail.

‘Stonehenge is one of the earliest documents in Britain depicting weapons.’ And it said, ‘Britons have been notably attached to them … proved consistently efficient at using them.’ But, ‘I don’t think you have, mate.’

if you know, you know.

i wonder—what’s made Churchill said that he wants ‘all Europe, or the greater part of it, (to be) as free and happy as Switzerland is,’ that day in 1946? need to know more about CH—Confoederatio Helvetica! that would be interesting 👏🏼

‘Next come muslim families bearing food parcels and blankets … who still arrive not in “waves” or “cockroach-like”, as the tabloid hate-speak would have it, but with smiles and energy and love.’

umbrella interiority—between the self and the outer world. as the origin purpose of an umbrella was to give shade for its occupants, then to protect them from rain later. it’s about a man took shelter from the sky—so, i assume the walls were different things which mean, if they’re standing without roof—or someone facing them from the ‘outer world’ (under the open skies), that’s exteriority! that is.

‘… today, all that I saw then is overthrown and destroyed; nothing is left standing.’ Said a soldier of Spain, remembering what he saw in Tenochtitlan (now Mexico). Americans was wiped out; many of today’s settlers were of European origin. Butttt, why USA people referring themselves as Americans while they’re not?

romanesque with gothic roofing, combining stone and clay brick—almost finish but i don’t want to finish it yet! lol there’s so much to contemplate about its content 👏🏼

‘What the hell are you doing here?’ Ooh! is that rude—said to someone who’s trying to rescue you?

I like how the author uses a wide range of references—old and recent ones. It gives readers more paths for further reading…
you know what I mean? sometimes we’re too lazy to dig through older references ourselves, but at the same time, if an author only uses recent writings, we start having doubts, right?