World Porcupine

On the World Porcupine – Oneness, Duality, Multitude

Meditate. Earn. Philosphise. Repeat. Nirvana. Money. Wittgenstein.

Ovo je osobna stranica Hrvata i kineskog zeta, koji sretno živi i naporno radi na Dalekom Istoku. Ali prije svega je osobna stranica jednog filozofa, vizionara, duhovnog učitelja, oca, kripto-katolika, poduzetnika, kvazi-budista, i napose vrlo skromnog i ozbiljnog mladog genija koji obožava ironiju i voli nabrajanje. Inače prezirem koristiti treće lice autoreferentno, ali ponekad je stilski sasvim oke.

Koristit ću ovo mjesto kao pseudo-blog na kojem bih raspravljao (sam ili s drugima, nebitno) o plehori tema, od politike, filozofije, religije, ekonomije, umjetnosti, znanosti, društvenih mreža, pokreta i promjena, dakle sve o ničemu i ništa o svemu. Reproduktivne navike čudnovatih kljunaša također dolaze u obzir. Nemam neki fokus, niti ga želim. Iako nemam ništa ni protiv fah idiotizma.

"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."

Naravno, volio bih da se mogu fokusirati na teme koje se nekako nameću same od sebe, primjerice: život u Kini, kulturne razlike, njihova poslovna kultura te njihov predivan jezik, i tome slične teme. Sasvim sigurno, bit će i toga, ali to nije primarna svrha ove stranice. Kina je jako zanimljiva zemlja, ali ponekad mi je poticajnije pričati o hrvatskoj politici (ovo nažalost nije sarkazam), ili ekonomiji Singapura. Općenitiji pristup mi se čini produktivnijim, kao i uvijek u životu. Što je i potpuno pogrešan pristup, znam.

Nadam se da će biti zanimljivo, intelektualno stimulativno, i sve te druge floskule. Razvalite tu tipkovnicu pišući komentare, dijalog je kažu glavna forma istinske filosofije. I uostalom, izvrstan način da razbijemo te proklete echo-chambere koji su s pravom postali buzzword u zadnje vrijeme. O tempora, o mores!

Također sam po fejsbucima poznat kao Caesar Franciscus Augustus Tusculum, Pontifex Maximus et Imperator de Sacrum Imperium Croaticum, Filii Sol Invictus et Iuppiter Feretrius, gdje imam Koloseum, te svoje Senatore, ali i hranu za lavove, a često organiziram i festivuse.

Za bilo kakve upite, ovdje je uobičajena kontakt forma za Upravu Vodovoda d.o.o. Zadar:

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Meditate. Earn. Philosphise. Repeat. Nirvana. Money. Wittgenstein.

This is a personal website of a Croatian expat living in PR China, a Chinese son-in-law, proud father, wantrepreneur . But above all a philosopher, visionary, spiritual teacher, quasi-Buddhist & pseudo-Catholic equally interested in the ultimate destiny of mankind as in neurochemistry and pharmacology, and most importantly a modest and humble young genius who loves auto-reference, irony, lists, aporias, science and Plato.

"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."

In that spirit, you can expect all sorts of things being posted and discussed here - I prefer knowing nothing about everything (or even significant amount about everything - its possible!) - so I hope your stay here will be intellectually stimulating, and all those others clichés.

I strongly appeal for everybody to comment, anything, there is no stupid questions, not even stupid answers - and dialogue has long been considered the most true form of philosophy. But also a good way to destroy those damnable echo-chambers - which is a really, really important mission for everybody who wants to truly think freely and as an individual.

At this moment there is only one text in English language, but I will absolutely work on fixing this - I am interested in the global zeitgeist much more than Croatian (or even Chinese, 'tho being a notorious sinophile).

Enjoy your stay. Scientia est potentia. Dialogue and free speech are the cornerstone of humanity and collective human living, and the pride of our Western civilization.

Sapienti sat.

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty." - Khalil Gibran

"Without music, life would be a mistake. (...)
May I be banished from all truth! Only a fool! Only a poet!" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Language is a tailor shop where nothing fits." - Rumi

"Ideology at its purest" - Slavoj Žižek

"Culture is your operating system" - Terrence McKenna

"どうでもいい？社会はどうでもいい？" - Random Japanese Guy

"He drew a circle that left me out... heritic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win. I drew a circle that took him in." - Edwin Markham

"We must remember, however, that we live in affirmation and not in negation, for life is affirmation itself; and this affirmation must not be the one accompanied or conditioned by a negation, such an affirmation is relative and not at all absolute. With such an affirmation life loses its creative originality and turns into a mechanical process grinding forth nothing but soulless flesh and bones. To be free, life must be an absolute affirmation … Zen does not mean a mere escape from intellectual imprisonment, which sometimes ends in sheer wantonness. There is something in Zen that frees us from conditions and at the same time gives us a certain firm foothold … Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason, Zen never explains but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm. Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well." - D. T. Suzuki

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return" - Leonardo da Vinci

“The void is that which stands right in the middle of 'this' and 'that'. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposses. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things.” - Bruce Lee

All nice people, like us, are We
And everyone else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!)
Looking on We
As only a sort of They!
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws."
(Sir Richard Francis Burton)

'What does that mean know me? Know me. Nobody knows anyone else, ever!" (The Rules of Attraction, 2002)

"The Universe is Mental - held in the Mind of The All" (The Kybalion)

"William James claimed that it was only when he was under the influence of nitrous oxide that he was able to understand Hegel." (Wikipedia)

Pure Being and pure nothing are, therefore, the same. (...)
There is nothing which is not an intermediate state between being and nothing. (...)
Everything is inherently contradictory. (...)
- Hegel, The Science of Logic (1812)

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate to others the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible... If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely." - Carl Jung

独在异乡为异客

每逢佳节倍思亲

(... to be a stranger in a strange land:

Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother

twice as much as before ...)

- Wang Wei (Chinese: 王維; 699–759)

"Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in." — Aldous Huxley, "Island"

Zato, budući da ne mogu dokazati da sam ljubavnik,
Da zadržim ove vedre, odabrane dane,
Primoran sam dokazati da sam hulja
I mrzim njihova ništavna zadovoljstva.

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days. - William Shakespeare (Richard III)

To su oni – volim to spominjati – o kojima piše Dante. Naime, kad je Vergilije vodio Dantea, onda se u predvorju pakla natiskalo silno mnoštvo ljudi. Dante je upitao Vergilija: „Tko su ovi?“ – To su neutralni, mlaki, kukavice. Živjeli su samo za sebe. Nikada se nisu stavili niti na stranu dobra niti na stranu zla. To je jedina vrsta ljudi koju prezire i Bog i njegovi dušmani. Na zemlji neće ostati traga njihova postojanja, neće ih ni raj ni pakao, jer bi se i najgori zločinac, pogledom na te spodobe, imao razloga uzoholiti. Dante je zaplakao. (Fra Ivan Šarčević )

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
- Peter L. Berger

O liepa, o draga, o slatka slobodo,
dar u kôm sva blaga višnji nam Bog je dô,
uzroče istini od naše sve slave,
uresu jedini od ove Dubrave,
sva srebra, sva zlata, svi ljudcki životi
ne mogu bit plata tvôj čistoj lipoti!

Only through the group, I realized — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of the group was also necessary, the quality that constantly raised the group out of the abandon and torpor into which it was prone to lapse, leading it to an ever-mounting shared suffering and so to death, which was the ultimate suffering. The group must be open to death — which meant, of course, that it must be a community of warriors. - Yukio Mishima

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist. - Antonio Porchia

Supreme Personality of God (Krishna) said:

You grieve for those who should not be grieved for;
yet you speak wise words.
Neither for the dead nor tor the living do the wise men grieve.
Never was there a time when I did not exist
nor you, nor these lords of men.
Neither will there be a time when we shall not exist;
we all exist from now on.
As the soul experiences in this body
childhood, youth, and old age,
so also it acquires another body;
the sage in this is not deluded. (Bhagavad Gita)

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Francis Tuschek （杜鹏飞）

things are not what they seem, nor are they otherwise 这就是微言大義呢

World Porcupine