Ahmer Rahman wrote a deeply provocative essay for ‘Vice Magazine’ on the anniversary of the Cronulla riots, attributing them to the inherent racism of the Howard Government. Continue reading
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Aamer Rahman
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags Aamer Rahman, Black Islam, Charlie Hebdo, Civil rights movement, Dr Yaaba, gun laws, John Howard, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior, Nikos Kazantzakis, Noam Chomsky, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Last Temptation, United States, Vice Magazine on January 13, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
‘Are You a Satanist?’
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Albert Einstein, blasphemy, Christianity, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson, John Milton, Letters to a Satanist, Lucien Greaves, mysterious, mythology, Nikos Kazantzakis, Oklahoma Satanic Temple, Paradise Lost, religion, Salman Rushdie, Satan, Satanic Verses, sigil of Baphomet, Spanish Civil War, The Last Temptation, William Blake on December 15, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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I feel responsible. I feel that I must do something like Flanagan, or Tolstoy. Anything less is a waste of everyone’s time – both yours, and mine. If I think about it too much, there’s not even time enough to go to work. Continue reading
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Courage
Posted in Kickboxing, Reading with tags Jerome Le Banner, Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot, Kickboxing, Lord Moran, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rodney Hall, Semmy Schilt on August 28, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle“Cowardice… is something a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.”
-Lord Moran
Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, The Last Temptation, remains wildly controversial. Black-listed by the Vatican shortly after publication in 1960, Kazantzakis took a number of significant liberties with the ‘official’ story of Christ, as told in the gospels. Judas is a very close friend; the only disciple with the strength of character to betray a Jesus who instructs him to do it. Agonising death on the cross has been revealed to Christ through a premonition as the will of God.
While we all know the story of the crucifixion, the raw facts have been obscured by accretions of sentimentality and tradition. The fundamental fact is that Christ was tortured to death. Continue reading
