Posted in update on Mar 6th, 2010
So, I’ve updated a few things on Loki Listens today, and I’d like to take a moment to bring your attention to them. Now, at the bottom of every post and page, you can find Sociable buttons! This makes it easy to share my posts with all your friends and neighbors through whatever social network [...]
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Posted in featured, fiction on Jan 18th, 2010
I’ve just posted the 3rd piece of The Tribe of the Star, on HubPages. It is post-apocalyptic science fiction, and may form into a novella. In this piece we meet Malig-Jon’s cousin, the courier, Runa Dag. Read the new piece here! Miss the first 2? Check them out here: Tribe of the Star Part 1 [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Jan 17th, 2010
… in purgatory you knew that you were going either to hell or to heaven, and it was up to you where you went. With the joys and freedom of heaven as a carrot, you strove like hell in purgatory. You knew the theory of how to get the ticket to heaven. But the practice… [...]
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Posted in update on Jan 13th, 2010
Wow, I had no idea how long it had been since I had posted an entry here. What can I say, sometimes life just catches up with you. This is not to say that I stopped writing all together. I’ve made a lot of headway on my two big fiction projects, The Cost of Magic, [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Dec 11th, 2009
The way of the Sufi is to embrace the joy of the essence of God in everything, and every aspect of everything. The best times and the worst times. Rumi expresses this supreme joy: I am a lover of both His benevolence and severity! Amazing it is that I’m in love with these opposites! Jack [...]
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Posted in Fragments on Nov 13th, 2009
This was originally published at The Entropy Report, back in May of 2008. I bring it to the forefront with great pleasure. If you’d like to see the original, click here. ————- The Fear permeates the city with a dense fog in the mornings. As the day lingers, the fog dissipates, but the Fear just [...]
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Posted in Quotations on Nov 7th, 2009
And still The Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man. Weaving th’ unpattern’d dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan. -Sir Richard Francis Burton; The Kasidah of Haji Abdu al-Yazdi Jack I Listen. Quotations 1 The Weaver
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Oct 17th, 2009
The purpose of these articles. I get this a lot. Why do I write about religion, philosophy, ideology, and the like? In hopes of opening some minds. Maybe clear away some obstacles for some one. Any one. The idea is to give you all of the information you need to create your own world-view. An [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Oct 15th, 2009
What is Ideology? In the simplest of terms, ideology is the study of ideas. In the previous philosophical series, Developmental Theology 089, we talked about very basic ideas that can help develop an open mind, and teach us how to create our own philosophical views, overlooking prior prejudices. You can read the entire Developmental Theology [...]
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Posted in featured, fiction on Oct 7th, 2009
I’ve just posted the 2nd piece of The Tribe of the Star, on HubPages. It is post-apocalyptic science fiction, and may form into a novella. Check out the first piece now! Jack I Listen. HubPages Fiction
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