January 2013
2 posts
December 2012
1 post
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Religion is a way to give yourself the things you didn’t know you needed. Give here could be adding spaces of time, taking away the one thing and adding another. It really is the injunction not from some external source. It is foreign but also from within. This is a place within which is the full consciousness, rather than the multiplicity we normally inhabit. Faith is a magic in itself even...
November 2012
4 posts
My reply:
Nice post. My thoughts, though I admit that I read your blog because I basically agree. So for me it is like church or something. Amen. So I agree, walking away is the most effective way to snuff out an idea. Few arguments are defeated, rather the ideas’ force gives out first. When we are able to walk away-arguing is sport. When we have to stay-arguing is the perpetuation of a...
Arguments Are Boring →
What if antibacterial soap kills all the good bacteria?
Football pick em Confessions-before week 9
I am not ready to really press my luck in the NFL bottle the lightning game. I went with the standard Good Teams, GB, HOU, ATL. I wanted to go with DEN and DET but thought better of it. When you pick the good ones they have a tendency to do what they have been doing. DEN and DET have potential to score points but they also have lapses. Anyway I thought is was important to point out that I...
October 2012
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I enjoyed the workshop. So the value of being happy is a tricky subject. It is actually very difficult to quantify even our own happiness. Happiness is all to often a social exchange. So if I want to quantify my own absolute happiness I have to be able to separate the individual pleasures from whatever else that concerns me Take a standard gangster theme, when you are trying to extract...
Philosophy Workshop Notes
Happiness. What is this phenomenon of Happiness? Is happiness how many of some thing or other that we have? Is happiness the actualization of our being in some higher or more complete state? Are we able to judge the happiness of others and calculate a value system to it? Does happiness stand on the outside of our religious practice, that is, is there an animosity of happiness and our inclusion...
September 2012
6 posts
All of us can picture, and do automatically picture, how some circumstance might be or might turn out to become. These pictures are something that only you own. as such, they are not foregone conclusions. Rather they are only a picture of both your ability to ask and answer a question about the composite of your knowledge and/or senses.
register and vote
I think everyone should get registered to vote, cut off is looming to register. If you were not planning on voting, then you owe it to everyone to vote for one of the other candidates-that you actually like. I have no vested interest in any of them at this point, but there will be more candidates than just the two spending all the money on media hype. You don’t even have to tell anyone that...
When you’ve lost “community” you still have body. Just a more fragile project.
August 2012
7 posts
Chauvinism sucks: both male and female; racial; and social; and any other way you try to assert yourself. I guess we all want to belong.
Note to self buy a scooter. Maybe grow a mustache, maybe comb-over too
Intro: the decent from a surety a doubt to a deal hegel wants to show us how there is no escaping method. We may try to mediate between the real things and our perceiving, but hegel is set on showing that any mediation technique is also part of the real we find. Hegel sees that our only way to knowing is by accepting that the limits are part of life and knowledge. So stuck in the in-between is...
Sometime the only way you know you have arrived is if they are mocking you
June 2012
35 posts
thinkcent:
Life can move on now. I hope. I appear to now know not to look for her at this reflexive time of day. Breakup 4/18/2012. Habit broken 6/26/2012? Just another layer of flesh shed in the pursuit of health.
Then hours after that post she calls…want to get the regular?
Life can move on now. I hope. I appear to now know not to look for her at this reflexive time of day. Breakup 4/18/2012. Habit broken 6/26/2012? Just another layer of flesh shed in the pursuit of health.
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It is the act of creation to suggest a place to eat: take two ideas (context and desire) and put them out there. Yeah sayers have the option of following along or they can have their own creation. Beware of no, any negations will kill the bud of creation. So avoid saying no unless death is your will.
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What is this be honest with yourself talk? So maybe it is like this: There is reality getting on. It is entering our pours and is in the brain but not yet getting beyond our brain-mind barrier. I think it could also be the logical/math-mind barrier. This is where we have all the facts laid out before us but fail to add/subtract/multiply/figure what is known. So where is it honesty with...
The Ego is not an entity, Ego is an activity.
Haste
I hate my love for you, but I love you.
I make
My many enticements
Now futile. No flowers are needed
No flower hate that is what this is
all my loving is {______}
I once loved to make, my Love…to make
I am considering my religious preference. What to put. I’m wishing “not an atheist” were an option. I believe in the works of a god/god-thingy on the world but not sure there is a god in any way that is open to what is normally meant by existing. So “not an atheist”
Are you invested in the patterns in your mind? Identity is a construct to comport yourself in the world the most efficiently. I say be inefficient whenever you can afford it. That is examine a pattern of your thought and see how your own identity links you to the whole. See if you would choose this identity investment for the future. Stop seeing the world in terms of your wants and goals and look...
There should be a local stock market for cities.
Taxes should be like kickstart.
Derivative is still trying. My criticism is deserved and reserved for the worthy parts that catch my eye. By criticism I aim to show where to grow away from our hero’s models of the good. The new mutation of the model that we ought to want to embrace. My criticism is showing you where your derivative has failed to copy the master in an interesting and new way. It is new and it has the...
The future is about holding your ground to not sink. Invest in the riches of soil and natural provision
You need philosophy to tell you that knowledge is rare and speculation easy or natural. Look at kids. They know or purport to know everything.
Are your politicians friends? Are your pastors? Parents? Drinking buddies? Strangers? At what point do you resign your autonomy?
Exceptions. We grant ourselves. But it is the other that we wish to have our exceptions granted. When we look around we are looking for who will not grant our exception. Online no one seems to get a pass. Our words our more literal judges than our eyes.
Better believe it, I am looking at you in
my daydreams trying to make sure that if you look at me I am conveying to you that I want to want what you want to want of me. So when I am watching me watching you, I want to see if I would look the way you would want, if you were to look at me.
Fuck, I am messing up again. I am trading going out and meeting people for my poorly punctuated paradox...
Never mind poems.
Oreos with chocolate filling
Plus one = Belong.
Fight this. Fight this.
Battle of the singular slender man.
I am assuring eyes
No not too particular today.
Look here I have lasso smile.
I am looking to rope you wild ones,
who are trying to loose-they-know-not-what,
That is, someone who won’t be held.
Radiohead and Philosophy: On Rhetoric →
“…The history of western philosophy has focused heavily on the importance of logos. In ancient Greece, the Sophists wrote about and went around teaching the art of rhetoric, often for a fee. For them, rhetoric meant giving a convincing speech – even if it wasn’t necessarily accurate; in other words they ignored the logos aspect. This disregard for the so-called truth upset the...
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time...”
– ~ Albert Einstein, 1954.
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Think cent: this is a good start for thought. We have to get out of our partial perspective in order to see what we (the individual person plus the new group that he sees, which includes nature) want. Capitalism gets in the way of the we...
I was laying in bed and realized that I should donate more. I am able to give at least 5 times more without really thinking about it. Now I think we need to look at that but it dawned on me why do I think that way? It really undercuts what I was saying that I don’t think that art is the solution. So if Aesthetic instead of the current system means that we replace searching out straight up...
Diet Soap Podcast Philosophy Workshop
I mean this is really a good thing for me to have people that are willing to skype and discuss some of our thoughts on reading Hegel and also relating it to our everyday lives. Today’s was a little different as there were only 3 people but I think on some level it was one of the best for me. I mean rather than listening to the ones who already really understand it I was able to get my...
Telling lies= having sex. Truth=someday I will really appreciate you
White lie: story that only after it is told you realize that it was wholly wrong to have told but also not worth fixing
