Category: Philosophy
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Reevaluating Assumptions – Memoir Addendum
Reevaluating Assumptions – Memoir Addendum I’ve noticed that as I’ve aged, I tend to reevaluate my assumptions more frequently than ever before. That includes trying to puzzle mine into the greater zeitgeist. I wonder if others find this a common experience. Is everything I assume to be true actually true, or is it all just…
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Who Knows? – v2
Original is from the late ’90s; just revised to make current… Who Knows? – v2 Who knows the whys of wherefores gone awry?Who sees through the skin of the curved blue sky,Or plumbs the depths of chaos and causation, Seeking a genuine realization, orPerhaps just a wisdom pearl and dissolutionBack to an essence universal? –LE…
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Natural
Natural If we are part of nature… and there’s no real reason to think otherwise,then, what is ‘natural’ and what is not? Isn’t the whole universe ‘natural’,evolved through the ‘laws’ of its existential nature? Then, intelligence and ‘artifice’ in all their formsare also part of nature, and natural. So, what is ‘natural’ and what is…
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Old Commercials
Old Commercials The ubiquity of commercials (propaganda and its jingles) and their mental stickiness is troubling to me if I think too much about them. Here are a few moldy oldies that still knock around in the back of my mind… I haven’t mentioned which products they refer to. Anyone else remember any of these…
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Seriously, What Do You Think Truth IS?
What is Truth? Intro Recently, I was challenged to write about “my Truth.” Considering the thousands of years we’ve been laboring over exactly what truth is, it seemed pretty much like a fool’s errand. But after some reflection, I considered it a good way to do the type of examination commonly practiced this time of…
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Wasting Time
Wasting Time no such thingan aspersion leveledby those with theirown agendas how is time ‘wasted’if one lives in the nowmoving and motivatedby present needs-desires often accused for notresponding to primary conditioningestablishment economic andsocial agendas, not mine ‘wasting time’an illusion of theneuroticly obsessed lemmingsled to their own ‘deaths’, inexorably –LE – 9/13/24 ‘Conventional Time’ – only…
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School of Hard Knocks – Memoir Addendum – Some Final Thoughts
School of Hard Knocks I’ve had a long, interesting (to me) life. Understanding of reality and my reality in particular have distilled out of my experience and long contemplations of it. Yes, I’ve had the standard primary and secondary education (indoctrination) relevant to my place in space-time. Then, over another 20 years or so off…
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Repost From 2022 – Anticipation and Achievement
Anticipation and Achievement Let’s be honest. The highs of anticipation and expectation are the best anyone will get out of life, not to mention death. No experience, event, action, or consequence ever lives up to its expectation, especially on the positive side, not work or love, nor physical, mental, or spiritual pleasures of any kind.…
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Still – Always Preposterous – Again
Considering all the partisan propaganda and just plain BS of our never-ending election cycle, I thought it was time to repost this… yet again… It always amazes me how most seem to fall for that old ruse, the lesser of two evils, as if there were only the two ‘corporate/doner-blessed’ choices, and no one that…
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Would-a Should-a Could-a
Would-a Should-a Could-a As ‘Now’ barrels into destiny’s fateRolling along, a transitioning gateIt leaves history and would-aShould-a could-a in its wake –LE – 8/14/24 Residual influences of the Rubaiyat, only a dim memory from my youth…
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