Category: Philosophy
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No Do-overs … Nor Un-do-s
No Do-overs some old people complainabout where they endedin their journeys around Sol saying, if they had it to do overthey’d choose different directionsmake better decisions; but I beg to differ all things being equal (same conditions),everyone does the best they can, given theirknowledge and circumstance-compulsions no matter their committed determinationtheir lives would proceed just…
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Procrastination…
Reforming Oneself It has been raining again. I have been indoors, meditating on the shortcomings of life.I wish there were more kindly persons in the world. Our competitive life develops selfishness and unkindness.I am determined to do something about it. I cannot hope to convert many persons. To convert one person, I shall do well.I…
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Desiderata – Words For Life
I didn’t discover this until I was in my mid-thirties, but it articulates the core of my understanding about life and reality better than anything I’ve been able to articulate in my own words. People often raise their eyebrows when I specify moral and political choices based on this understanding… (now, the enigma is clear)…
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The Double Bind
The Double Bind Of Human Awareness you are a free agentyou as a member of societycountry, clan, and familymust love these entitiesof which you are apartbut acceptable onlyif the love is un-coercedactions are acceptibleonly if un-coercedbut coercion is omnipresentthe very definition ofsocial, familial, culturalnorms –LE – 3/25/26
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The Universe Breathes Meditation
The Universe Breathes Meditation The universe breathesthrough you and meyou and I through it It sees through my / our eyesand hears through my / our earssmells through my / our nosestastes through my / our tonguesfeels through my / our feelingsinternal and externalblending to form ourmutual biospherewhich nothingis independent of I, you and me,…
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Red Sky In The Morning, Sailors Take Warning
The red skies are most morning, but most refuse to see it… A Red Sky A red sky drippingoozing bloodbackdrop ofsocietycivilization progressive pretensecrusted andsmothered indisease ashblackish grayishpoverty deathdestroying everynatural thing ittouches vaunted techno-progress dealingdeath efficientlyprofoundlyinexorably Earth’s progenyfeed – declineclothe – declinehouse – declinewe’ve chosen asixth major extinctionfor greed’s sakefor profitfor ‘progress’ humanity but a virusblight…
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Superstitions
Are you superstitious? Not really… I equate it to traditional religions, practicing ‘formulas’ for conduct and mental / spiritual ‘proper behaviors’ (morality). They, like the four leaf clover, knocking on wood, throwing salt over your shoulder, or calling on deities of any ilk (Greek, Norse, Hebrew, elemental, psychic, etc.), are just stories we tell ourselves…
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Stew And Recipe
Stew and Recipe Closing, the waking dream unfolds, the path to consciousness — untold,The printer hums, the keyboard clicks, the cursor blinks, 1 human brain (shredded). The surge crashes, the mind blanks — consciousness returns. 2-much stock (quantum soup — quarks, mesons, pisons, and other subatomic nutrients — unprocessed). Bio-transducer/receiver translates the quantum…
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A World More Kind
A World More Kind unbind, unwindfrom a mostlyunkind day dystopian signsfrom world leadersflood the airwaves cause a clenchinga rigidity in my bodyand in my mind perhaps the long sleeptransmigrationto another plane returning millenia hencemay find a societya world more kind but I have my doubts –LE – 3/7/26
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Cognitive Dissonance – A Definition
Cognitive Dissonance – A Definition Standing Rock 2011 – Color photo: https://cynop.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20230703_091108.jpg Cognitive Dissonance hallmark of humanityoligarchs marching usto extinction’s precipice claiming we’re all familybut they, the patri and matriarchsbestow blessings only on those who concedekiss the ass, boot, and ringpain and poverty for the rest decry the inevitable backlashclimate, human/animal rights activistsattacking our fascist…