Teller Of Tattered Tales

I am dressed up in women's clothes, a pretty puerile attempt to be close to you. I send you letters like the apostle on Patmos but you show it to all the other plastic people. And they laugh with their colorful teeth and I cry a rainbow of tears. And you say I am of a different…

Blaming the unhealthiness of a political sphere on those who did not vote will always be one of the funniest political arguments I encounter. You actively committed a political action that resulted in the election of individuals that are underperforming and I who did not even…

Deeply entrenched beliefs are notoriously resistant to change, even when confronted with compelling evidence or reason. The purpose of philosophy is not to convince the fool, it is to strengthen the wise.

Anyone who requires an alarm to wake up, is most likely not someone who an alarm can wake

Slave pens and churches were just a few doors apart in many cases. Auction for slaves were in front of mosques. Yet for centuries, one did not think to influence the other until it became socially acceptable to do so. There was not a single unified religious opposition against…

Violence is not anomalous in religion. It is not a strange thing. If the British(Christians) did not conquer the Sokoto Caliphate in 1903, we would all be Muslims now. So it was violence that drew the dimensions of the belief you have today. Not reason. Certainly not faith. It…

All systems of society are heterarchical in nature. There has never been a true or pure patriarchal society in all of human existence. The idea that a culture or a society is particularly patriarchal is a poorly formed myth. Societies have always had different tiers for men and…

A monolithically patriarchal society where the men stood outside the castle walls to defend and die for the women who were safely hidden behind stone and wrought iron that was also built with the sweat and blood of the so-called patriarchal men.

If you stay in close proximity to anyone, there will come a time when their interests conflict directly with yours. It’s inevitable. I don’t have a solution to this. All I can say is that letting people have their way is not as bad as you think it is. Most of the time, what…

If you keep trying to get to a 'desired destination' you are going to get duped. The chimes you hear are not from the monastery of a higher self, they are the crusader chants from commercial cutthroats. They are change hitting the bottom of a cash register. While you are…

Everyone assumes they know where they are going to be a few years from now. Unfortunately, dreams do not grow like wheat. Often you find yourself in the fields you have never sown in. You find others reaping in places where you have long tilled barren soil. You find yourself in…

I wish to experience this at least once in my lifetime . Just sit on a very safe hill with any kind of mouth-feeling snacks like roasted guinea fowl or edible worm, watching people beneath hack themselves to death over some cattle or trading post.

Your pain is impermanent. This should make you happy. Whatever it is you are going through now will eventually end. But know this. Your happiness is also impermanent. This should make you sad. Whatever it is that you are enjoying and getting pleasure from now, will eventually…

If god is an unanalyzable entity that we cannot probe or find, if he is not present in the physical reality enough for us to grasp his nature and being, that means his opinion about the physical world does not matter. If he would not interfere with the violence, the chaos that is…

There are things that I carry that are deeply intertwined with my life. To give them up will be to die. Shame enters into my mouth like a sword, bloodies my throat but I cannot spit out this abominable iron. Still from this position, voice and anger leaks out, pours out from…

I reject this way of life. I reject this world. I reject the moral advantage that some have that makes them less susceptible to crime not because they are good but because someone in their family line has already stolen on their behalf. I reject the boundaries that we impose on…

It makes me sad when I think that the most beautiful thing that many of us would ever get out of life is a car, a foreign used car or a house and then majority of us would never even be able to achieve this milestone. Even something as simple as shelter and transportation would…

Time crawled upon my skin, its tentacles hot as fire, I felt the tread of each second, searing my flesh and bone. Each hour hollowed me. Each day, I discovered new depths of despair, of darkness. The commotion within my cells continued. Hardened hands of an invisible clock…

I hated following my parents to church. I was 13 years old fighting an erection and reading ABC backwards because it was only a few seconds before it would be my turn to stand up to surrender my half consumed offering to the white basin in front of the altar and I was not yet…

I remember when educated men and women actually believed that taking a woman's pant to some mud shrine in the bush would bring untold fortune. And women started drying their wet panties under lock and key, under the pillows on which they slept. I remember arguing with so many…