the ArmChair Thoughts

Shortly after I wrote “saying A Prayer”, my [virtual] friend Tunde Shaba wrote a piece about the plight of African nations (in this case nigeria) that I found brilliant. The poem used the George Orwell style of awakening (in Animal Farm) to point the corruption that the country’s leaders are wreaking to the nation. And, [...]

A while ago I wrote about the pleasure of being a kid. Regularly, I keep returning to the thought of the ‘bondage’ of being grown-up. The pressure of thinking and acting like an adult, the many attachment with being ‘civilized’ and ‘mature’. Don’t you oft times miss being free to be stupid, or not being [...]

The constant contention between my dad and I is him continually telling me I need to pray to God about every step of my life; everything, going good or going bad needs prayer–to God. God who ironically is [supposedly] behind the bads and the good. However, that’s not the case for now. As par the [...]

Today, I luckily ran into the poetry of Oscar Brown Jr. The heavy rhetorics of this poem captivates me, or maybe because I relate so much to it. Enjoy this interesting ‘apology’ (added with some of my interpretations and edits) and of course, processd to watch the dramatic performance at the end of the piece. [...]

In a recent talk I had with a religious acquintance on his faith and how it has opened up possibilties and helped him see past the violence happening around him. I thought, if religion helps him keep a sense of purpose, why would anyone, want to take that from him (myself inclusive). Actually, the question [...]

One day, either we like it or not; are prepared for it or not, we will die and actually “that makes us the lucky one” as Richard Dawkins would say. He would continue, and why should he complain about death–it should be celebrated. And I, write to celebrate death. Ok, maybe not literally. i don’t [...]

Very often have had my friends telling me how life in America is so not what it is from the outside (believe it or not, at least mostly) and interestingly  I thought, that’s often true. As I’ve mentioned severally in related post (see below), there is an inverse relationship between wealth [monetary] and satisfaction i.e. [...]

I know I am often critical of religion in its aristocracy but, recently, I came across this interesting wisdom: “…Not that we [have the audacity to] venture to class or [even to] compare ourselves with some who exalt and furnish testimonials for themselves! However, when they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with one [...]

I remember those days of geekery and these days of artistry and the days of philosophies; they are not that different after all–follow this fun game carefully: var you = existing; if  (you==me){     return False;     exit; } else{    if (you == unique){          life = meaningful;        [...]

“Green” is now the buzzword and of course, if you live in America, you can’t help but notice how environmental consciousness is being jammed up everyone’s throat. I’ve written in the past about the hypocrisy of us wanting to save the planet [earth]. My argument has always been: we all came from the earth–all the [...]