One week after his "letter to the Turkish military", today Mustafa Akyol got another remarkable article published in Turkish Daily News (TDN). Headline: The opium of the atheists.
"Did you also read it?" I asked my closest friend. "Ah, sorry, what are you busy with?"
"Yes. Syllogisms, dialectic, nothing special."
"And did you read ..."
"Unconcentrated or impolite, Sean? One word for your first question, even four for your second."
"Sorry, missed that. What do you think about the article?"
"Thought-out. Question-provoking. Listen: The king has two legs. Hens have two legs. Ergo the king is a hen. What's your opinion?"
"Wrong."
"Lovely, my sophisticated friend. Your opinion is, of course, not wrong."
"But you think Mr. Akyol's opinion is wrong? By the way, I am relieved you chose king as your subject, and not ..."
"Mr. Akyol's opinion is not wrong. He is absolutely right. I do just wonder, if he means what he did not say."
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"Theists are believers.
Atheists are believers.
Ergo there is a god."
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Wanted! Good answers to good questions
No, there does not exist any contract or gentleman's agreement between Mr. Bekdil and me.
No, I am not sure Mr. Bekdil is in possession of the best solutions to everything and all.
Yes, I do appreciate the questions he is asking.
Yes, I should like to read somebody's answers to these questions.
No, not Mr. Akyol's answers. (They would - with respect - be of no relevance.)
But what's about both Mr. Akyol's and (sic) Mr. Bekdil's president and prime minister?
Your turn, Mr. Gül! Your turn, Mr. Erdoğan!
Yes?
No, I am not sure Mr. Bekdil is in possession of the best solutions to everything and all.
Yes, I do appreciate the questions he is asking.
Yes, I should like to read somebody's answers to these questions.
No, not Mr. Akyol's answers. (They would - with respect - be of no relevance.)
But what's about both Mr. Akyol's and (sic) Mr. Bekdil's president and prime minister?
Your turn, Mr. Gül! Your turn, Mr. Erdoğan!
Yes?
World's most semiotic nation!
Apropos unrivalled.
Mr. Bekdil lets indeed follow a question mark to one of his recent headlines.
By reading the article it is transmogrifying into an exclamation mark, though:
World's most semiotic nation!
Mr. Bekdil lets indeed follow a question mark to one of his recent headlines.
By reading the article it is transmogrifying into an exclamation mark, though:
World's most semiotic nation!
Turkishness unrivalled
By "googling" Argentinianness, Chineseness, Germanness, Hungarianness etc., coming to Turkishness it becomes obvious:
Turkishness is unique!
Evidence: People trying to learn more about history, geography, literature, architecture, poetry, cuisine, music etc., on the first two pages would find nothing but
denigration of Turkishness (2)
insulting Turkishness (15)
belittling Turkishness
degrade Turkishness
Telling this my closest friend whose current topic of research - Pre-Assyrian Philately - is keeping him very busy, did not even look up when saying: "Inferiority complex."
"Tetrapilotomos", I whispered, "mind your tongue! Some people might feel insulted."
"That's it. Exactly those who feel insulted are meant. I can just repeat again and again that according to a Chinese saying those who feel insulted by others confess to their mental, their intellectual inferiority."
And off he went.
Turkishness is unique!
Evidence: People trying to learn more about history, geography, literature, architecture, poetry, cuisine, music etc., on the first two pages would find nothing but
denigration of Turkishness (2)
insulting Turkishness (15)
belittling Turkishness
degrade Turkishness
Telling this my closest friend whose current topic of research - Pre-Assyrian Philately - is keeping him very busy, did not even look up when saying: "Inferiority complex."
"Tetrapilotomos", I whispered, "mind your tongue! Some people might feel insulted."
"That's it. Exactly those who feel insulted are meant. I can just repeat again and again that according to a Chinese saying those who feel insulted by others confess to their mental, their intellectual inferiority."
And off he went.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
All these mysterious Nessies
Scientific way to better present 'Turkishness'.
An interesting headline, isn't it?!
Why do people tend to do the second step before the first?
Why trying to find a "scientific" (sic) way to better present (sic) 'Turkishness'?
What is Turkishness?
Or Argentinianness, Chineseness, Germanness, Hungarianness ... Finnish...ness?
Questions I asked my closest friend Tetrapilotomos, who is one of the politest human primates under the sun and therefore should rarely answer a question by a counterquestion.
The more I got surprised hearing him murmur:
"Turkish Ness ... Turkish Ness ... Has it something to do with Lough Ness?"
Monday, September 10, 2007
Mens insana . . .
World is small.
Coincidences are great.
1. I do highly recommend to read this. The background arcticles are worth reading, too.
2. James Higham who happened to find a link to this very article on another blogger's site (sorry for not memorising it), left a comment roughly saying he'd need to learn more about the issue and - voilà, today delivered interesting thoughts.
3. I am a little tired (not only) these days talking about religion, fanatism, stupidity etc.
But I shall not withhold following short "dialogue":
Spake Tetrapilotomos: "I think to understand it is enough to read the 23rd paragraph."
?
"Just read and get close to the essential inheritent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything."
Mr ul Haq was 3 when he came to Britain and 13 when he became a student at the first and most influential of Britain’s Deobandi seminaries, which opened in 1975 in a converted sanatorium in the rural hills above Bury, Greater Manchester.
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Spake Tetrapilotomos: "A sanatorium is a sanatorium is a sanatorium . . ."
Coincidences are great.
1. I do highly recommend to read this. The background arcticles are worth reading, too.
2. James Higham who happened to find a link to this very article on another blogger's site (sorry for not memorising it), left a comment roughly saying he'd need to learn more about the issue and - voilà, today delivered interesting thoughts.
3. I am a little tired (not only) these days talking about religion, fanatism, stupidity etc.
But I shall not withhold following short "dialogue":
Spake Tetrapilotomos: "I think to understand it is enough to read the 23rd paragraph."
?
"Just read and get close to the essential inheritent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything."
Mr ul Haq was 3 when he came to Britain and 13 when he became a student at the first and most influential of Britain’s Deobandi seminaries, which opened in 1975 in a converted sanatorium in the rural hills above Bury, Greater Manchester.
?
Spake Tetrapilotomos: "A sanatorium is a sanatorium is a sanatorium . . ."
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