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  My dear English expatriate families, I know that life can be difficult sometimes, being far away from your country and standing in the sidelines while Omanis struggle or achieve success. What can I say, that has not been already said to other groups? You arrived in this country before I was born, and some of you have lived longer than I have here. I know it’s a difficult burden on you, but you are the ambassadors of civilization here, and if speaking a word of Arabic does not provide you with comfort here, it’s because we as Omanis have failed you. Your fellow expatriates in other countries are your competitors: it’s up to you to be focused and achiever greater goals than them. A person feels so huffed and puffed and mighty when he realizes that reality as about to glaze his eyes with purpose. But what is it all for, if at the end of the line, we end up re-experiencing boredom? The only defence we have for such gazetteering is that was have no choice. For purpose, when it avails itse
  Strawberries and sheep dot the landscape of my brain. We want to lay a finger on your soil, but we know that we will be punished for doing so. How much longer do we have to wait, before the Palm Revolution occurs? When people who are purported to be noble have satanic hues smearing every breath they take, that is when you know that change is in order. Isn’t it ironic, that the word ‘lord’ has all but disappeared from public discourse? People are more interested in the color of the underwear of the girl next door, than in the hues of honor projecting from the will of a patriot. When will the English recover and once again and look with dispassionate staidness towards the celestial lands that now need to be conquered? You call yourselves a postindustrial society, but where is the burgeoning technology sector? It seems to be that words describing your progress are empty nomens. Yes, you are doing great compared to Niger, but the coronet of being under no one is now collecting dust. Doub
  The desert is a place of endless contemplation, and tart advice. There is life here, and, though different, nevertheless has lessons to teach such that might even bring a smile to a saint’s face. How do we describe a culture of sand, when we speak the language of water? The emptier the place you serve, the more abundant will be your belongings. We are leaving you, but our departure is such that our robe is sweeping all the dust on the floor as we depart. I can’t make you us, but wherever we go, let the words be etched into stones, that, much like a time capsule, one day the seeds of civilization will nourish themselves with such symbols. May the sand dunes of my country be reflected in my eyes whenever you look at me, its endless skies embellish the air around me. We don’t bow towards you, we prostrate ourselves. For inevitably, the line beyond the Kaaba to which we lower ourselves is almost always the new world. My tongue is tempted to say the word that would render me a foreigner,
Obviously, wealth is how much information you have in your mind. This might seem like a trivial task, but the simple fact of the matter is that it takes great effort to create the environment that enables you to be an effective and maximal absorber of knowledge or information. And what is the different between knowledge and information? Information is generally speaking data that is useful in it’s own right, or at least that is intelligible, whereas knowledge is information that is more dense, and has more experiential events related to it. There can be information without knowledge, but there can’t be knowledge without information. It is interesting to see if machines will ever be able to process knowledge, as opposed to simply data or information, as that would be the dawn of consciousness for them. We live in a digitalist world, for that is more interconnected to emotional contentment than the capitalist one, which creates a life that is unsustainably peaceful not just for a communi
  Run the earth and manage humanity. What makes a leader is not a title, but how you behave and act. The more you see it your personal duty to ensure the survival of humanity, the more humanity’s future will depend on your actions. Colonizing the places where we don’t currently exist is one of the eternal duties of our race, but what about everything else? We can’t just expand, we also have to homeostate, making sure that what new homes we created does not result in the destruction of places that currently exist. Otherwise, we will merely end up being interstellar hunter-gatherers, which won’t be of particular great service to civilization. One crises that is being grossly underestimated currently is the reduction in insect numbers worldwide. We have to be more involved with them, organizing their movements and behaviors much like we have done with mammals, through technology and otherwise. And what is wrong with an entorenarian, a doctor of insects? The more technology advanced we bec