iAmmar

Please see my Simulation Journal, github page and the Gkeyll documentation page (in particular Gkeyll publications) for work related things. Some thoughts on minimalist approach to software are on my Simulation Journal. See also a short note on why languages like C survive.

Truth, Beauty and Goodness go hand-in-hand. Part of attaining the Truth is to closely look at the natural world. However, Beauty and Goodness are more abstract concepts that require a philosophical and spiritual inner life. An attack on any one of these is an attack on all. Hence, we see that those who relativize Truth also produce ugliness, and develop hatred and hostility to all that is noble, strong and independent. Such people are consumed by envy.

Envy is one of the greatest sins. Envy destroys the very thing that makes us human, that is, the ability to reason logically, and reify our abstract thoughts into marvels of science and engineering. Envy causes resentment, leading the envious to attack the concept of excellence itself. We see this in the world around: Truth, Beauty and Goodness are attacked to achieve some strange ideological inversion in which moral relativism, ugliness and hatred are the drives to achieve power over another's life.

"The greatest war, jihad al-akbar, is against one's own inner demons. For they do not wish for us, their host, to succeed in our life's Art. For the demon knows that he is immortal and being jealous of his own immortality does not wish anyone else to gain what he has. (The difference between an angel and a demon is that the latter is consumed by jealousy. Hence, he is stuck to the earthy existence of being trapped in a human body, a form of hell). For, if we die without having achieved what we have set out to achieve, we will turn to dust. From dust we come and to dust our demon wants us to return." Ayn Ha.