Moomin House Café in Tōkyō

Café des Phares à Paris

Café de Flore à Paris

Childhood's End

The Star Beast

Tu, Vos

Interlingua is like French, Spanish, Portuguese, and the like because there are the familiar-formal, young-old, and singular-plural distinctions embedded in its "tu versus vos" pronoun dichotomy for the English counterparts of you.  Interlingua preserves the naturalness from Latino languages.

The Chessmen of Mars

I saw this book The Chessmen of Mars with exactly that cover when I was a child in the Philippines.  It was at a bookstore in Metro Manila.  Then began my growing fascination with sci-fi.

Asimov's The Foundation Trilogy

Le cycle de fondation

The Martian Chronicles

A Princess of Mars

Agencia Boliviana Espacial

The Bolivian Space Agency or Agencia Boliviana Espacial has satellites around Earth orbit.

MOM and MAVEN

India's space agency ISRO has their Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) aka Mangalyaan now in orbit around Mars, as it takes pictures.  This spacecraft is contemporaneous with American NASA's MAVEN, also now orbiting Mars.

Non-youth

Strangers have been expressing their non-youth for several years now.  What should people do about it?

Non-brown English Culture

People forget I'm living in an English country.  It's not brown, here.

Propagandists and Life

The propagandists should take account of their own actions.  They're promoting the ideas of poverty and misery.  They don't have the French joie de vivre.  They don't have the Greek kefi.  When will they learn?

Star Wars

I grew up with Star Wars, which is more like science fantasy.  I enjoy reading the Japanese version of the novels, based on the movies.

Star Trek

I grew up with all the Star Trek shows.  I know the shows are just a model of what the far future could be, as in a military spacecraft or space station.  The real future could be entirely different, though.

Capitalism

If people stick with Capitalism, we'll have to tolerate the rollercoaster ride that goes with the central casinos.

JUICE

Europe's space agency ESA is investing hundreds of millions of euros on JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.

Luna and Mars

The Russian space agency Roscosmos wants to see their people in habitats on the moon.  Good news!  American NASA turns to Mars, which the Japanese have codenamed Planet-B.

Nineists and Elevenists

Nineists promote the longevity of constructivism, whilst Elevenists revel in destructivism.

Zeroists and Tenists

The Zeroists cherish the wordless Void of Everything, whilst the Tenists have laws and rules to guide their life.

Oneists and Twoists

Oneists believe in the solitude and unity of their deity, whilst Twoists believe in Nature's dualities of light-dark, male-female, et cetera.

Sixists and Eightists

Sixists ponder about the paradox of learning and ignorance, and they believe the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, whilst Eightists rejoice in the art and architecture of their ornate places of worship.

Threeists and Sevenists

Threeists are theocentric, believing in a god or gods, whilst Sevenists believe in Nature's many spirits.

Fourists and Fiveists

The Fourists think the universe is an illusion, a phantasm, whilst the Fiveists think the universe has real substantiality.

Religion a Fantasy

You should know religion is just fantasy, a product of creativity.  Some politicians in the past have said religion is poison to the minds of people.  Religions are human inventions.

Internet, Web

The Internet or the Web will just keep growing and growing until it extends to the outer reaches of our Solar System.  It's dynamic, ever-changing.  Someday, there'll be a different name for it.

Japanese Vending Machines

Japanese Vending Machine

Chakotay

I watch bits of Star Trek:  Voyager after 6 o'clock in the mornings.  Chakotay, played by Mexican-American Robert Beltran, is an interesting character.

Moribito

I'm watching Moribito:  Guardian of the Spirit.  A strange, interesting thing about this anime is that in the settings, made-up fantasy logograms are used for writing, like in signs, etc.

Shaven Head

I shave my whole head once a month.  It feels cleaner without hair.  It's like that movie THX 1138.

Boredom as Punishment

If higher consciousness beings were to punish humans for ill will, probably boredom would be a punishment.  Many can't tolerate boredom.

Big War & Intervention

My thinking is that a big war has been overdue for sometime.  The reason that it hasn't happened is that there's some kind of psychic phenomenon controlling possible human adversaries.  I'd consider it some type of intervention by unknown forces.  I don't believe there'll be a big war.  It's been really overdue.  There's a psychic interference.

Bella Coola and Lushootseed

(Bella Coola, circa 1873)

I guess I shoudn't really complain too much about English.  You should know there are hundreds of Amerindian languages with much variety in sound, but Bella Coola and Lushootseed may be more like English's phonology with their consonantal clusters and ambiguous vowels.

Barbaric

B says, "They're like barbaric!"  Who are they?  I guess she means everybody, all humans, are still at a barbaric stage.  They're not like the civilized people in the movie Zardoz, or the innocent Eloi in The Time Machine.

Many are promoting a somewhat barbaric culture.  Because I know many languages, I know English sounds barbaric.  Is this kind of culture what humans want to propagate in outer space?  Why would we bother?  Should we have a different international auxiliary language?

Maybe, the human future is like that way of Klingons, barbarians in outer space, as they speak English.

Japanese Choko

Water Chestnut Cake

Persian Pistachio Nougat

República del Cacao

Dates & Arabic Coffee

Urantia

I recommend The Urantia Book to the spiritual reader.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin's rendition of Taoism is what I recommend for the spiritual seeker.

Welcome!

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