Category: Philosophy
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Summer’s Last Holiday
This is a repost from last year… because it still applies. We also need to reconize and encourage the recent remobilization of labor in this country and abroad. It’s the only chance we have against the ruling class and their lickspittles… less an actual, French-style revolution… Summer’s Last Holiday used to be the summerseason’s first…
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Eastern Way
Eastern Way when I was a child30 seemed old to meso I didn’t expect tolive much beyond it never consideredold age and itsinfirmitiesfelt pretty invincibleless very bad luckor inane stupidity early on, eastern artsinspired meKungfu, Judo, Aikidoand Tai Chitheir philosophies madeperfect sense to me –LE – 7/20/24
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Achievement vs Antisipation
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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Guilt
Guilt, like ‘sin’, is the invention of society, of the human mind. It is NOT spiritual truth nor mandated by a god, whatever you perceive that god to be… merely human inventions, just like the rest of human society. –LE Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced…
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Think For Yourself?
Think For Yourself Isn’t it ironic that we’re so often told to think, think, think for ourselves by the same institutions, political and social leaders (our gatekeepers), while at the same time they bombard us with ‘suggestions’ on what and how to think (their vested interests propagandas)? How’s a ‘thinking person’ (all of us, who…
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Memoir – Some Final Thoughts
Some Final Thoughts This is the first in a series of final thoughts as I close-out my memoir. There could be more, but this is probably the most important, and may well be the end, finis… Existence – Why – What IS the Point? IS there a point? You may not want to read this.…
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The Kent State Massacre – A Memoir Memory
4 Dead in Ohio – The Kent State Massacre The Ohio National Guard had killed four students at Kent State on May 4th ‘70. LC3 (the community college I was attending at the time) organized an assembly in the school’s outdoor mall area to discuss the event. I was on the stage as one of…
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Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre
Anniversary of the May 4, 1970 Kent State Massacre —Four Dead in Ohio— And they’re at it again, all over this country, governors, university admins, and cynical politicians are calling in police and national guards to arrest protestors and put down demonstrations, which are our civil rights, guaranteed by our constitution. There are laws currently…
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Optimism
Optimism Clearing blue sky,A promise in bare branches.In winter, there are sunny days.In adulthood, childhood can return. — Deng Ming-Dao
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Introspection and Identity
Introspection and Identity This is an excerpt from a letter to one of my children who is struggling with questions of identity, dreams, and the reality of where our lives have brought us. Reassessing and wrestling with my identity has been a feature of my adult life and continues to this day. From my experience,…
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