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Xander Fircks
KA International Post - Japan
completed: 2021
scope of work: five articles for their international publication
link: print
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Politics & The English Language -
George Orwell
What is good English? Reading this long essay by Orwell we learn that it’s about truth, primarily; that evanescent, fragile, lovely, elusive thing, which - like quantum physics theorems - we often only know by its beauty.
The Bhagavad Gita
I was brought up as a Catholic but religion never struck me as important; I never understood why the nuns and monks at my schools gave their lives to God, who seemed to be an elaborate fiction. But as I grew older (much older) a sense of curiosity and yearning took hold of me, so I began looking.
The Iceman Cometh:
The Wim Hof Method
Since awareness first distinguished us from other animals, we’ve been asking ourselves: Who am I? Why am I here? And, what should I do? Now at least we can answer the last question: What should I do?
Miserere Mei, Deus
I thought, then, that it wasn’t bad for classical music, but I was too busy being young to know the difference between beauty and, say, my elbow. “Youth is wasted on the young,”
Oscar Wilde said, which was never so true.
St Paul & His Letters That
Defined Christianity
Around 30 AD, in a remote corner of the Roman Empire, an illiterate Jewish man was crucified—by the Romans—for sedition. Around three hundred years later, a movement created in his name became the official, sanctioned religion of that empire, and in so doing, one of the most powerful forces in the world.