Wael Al-Mahdi (2010) Today we understand much more about human language than did the philologists of past centuries, but there are still many questions that are yet to be answered. For example, we are still not certain how language originated. We also have the fact that many of our concepts about the external world (and [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi Earlier this year I traveled with my brother to the Arab Gulf Emirate of Dubai. This Beta World City is sufficiently well-known not to warrant an introduction. In Iran, young people save up their low purchasing-power rials all year in order to spend a libertine holiday in “Dobey”. In Turkey, people are not likely to know Bahrain, but when [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi The Arabs reject democracy for as long as they can, and when they accept it they distort it. We fought the devil for millennia until we discovered we were fighting ourselves. A man in a village was caught reading a book. He became the laughing stock of the village. The most celebratory mood is [...]
Wael Al-Mahdi “The genius which runs into madness is no longer genius.” -Otto Weininger One of the lasting contributions of evolutionary psychology to our understanding of human nature is undoubtedly a list of human universals composed by Donald Brown. The list runs into the hunderds and includes: Actions under self-control distinguished from those not under [...]
On Religion In olden times there were generals and heroes who were given the epithet of “the Hammer”. Some grow livid at the mention of this name since the hammer was directed against them. This is our world: generals and heroes struggle, fight, kill, and wallow in the mud of time; the universe does not notice. But [...]
Elia is a modern philosopher and man of wisdom who travels the world with his disciples and offers his views on both ancient and current issues. He is the latest stage in the evolution of men of wisdom; he speaks freely and fallibly, is not a saint or prophet, and is not out to set [...]
On Finance One of the disciples had lost his job, and that was the talk of the day. Some of the disciples were indignant, and other were trying to console their jobless companion. The unemployed man sought comfort from Elia, and so he spoke, “Your crises are many but your follies are more. You sow [...]
Elia is a modern philosopher and man of wisdom who travels the world with his disciples and offers his views on both ancient and current issues. He is the latest stage in the evolution of men of wisdom; he speaks freely and fallibly, is not a saint or prophet, and is not out to set [...]
Elia is a modern philosopher and man of wisdom who travels the world with his disciples and offers his views on both ancient and current issues. He is the latest stage in the evolution of men of wisdom; he speaks freely and fallibly, is not a saint or prophet, and is not out to set [...]
A representative of the workers’ guild met Elia and asked him to speak on work. Elia spoke: “If you would have your work be fruitful, count not the days and nights of your labor. Counting the miles always lengthens the journey. Some would hold that work demeans. Yet work can demeaned him who is already [...]
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