Category: Philosophy
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That’s Life
That’s Life the end of each chapter in my lifeleft me dangling in mid-air or flailingin whitewater rapids to nowhere new chapters, always begun in disarrayregardless of best intentions and plansalways went astray – but that’s life seldom has anything gone as expectednot always the worst resultbut generally not one fondly projected it’s surprising to…
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Even Flawed Humans
Even Flawed Humans even flawed humanscan, from time to time,have profound insights some even produce volumesfilled with uncensored, deepcritical thought some spoken in commoneveryday vernacularwhile some are more pedantic thus communicating witha wide swath of humanitythe mysteries of our common realities –LE – 12/31/25
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That Depends On The Day…
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? Depending on what’s happening in my private world and the external world around me, I can be drawn to an event or a few in my past or humanity’s common past. Or portents of current or recent actions may have me fatally…
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It’s A New Year
It’s A New Year a new year with itsnew prioritiesresolutionsclean slatesand such ? or the eternalever-present nowconnecting whatwe thought we knewto a futurecompletely unknown every instant of nowanother step in thecosmic dance and flow no slates are cleanmarked with actions andmemories indelible in andwith our personalitiesconditioned by proximities so, even withoutthe vaunted ‘clean slate’all resolves…
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 1/2/26
Three of us walked the line at the VA’s Ajo entrance for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:30 am. As in previous weeks, we had about a 75% response rate. I only saw one confirmed negative, a bouncing thumb down… Our third person, walking the line, is from Veterans For Peace. He joins us from time…
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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Survival Of The Fittest?
Survival of the Fittest? There’s not enough to go around,so we’ve been constantly told, and thus solda bill of goods that profit theself-proclaimed, privileged few. Who, living in obscene opulence, stolenfrom wage slaves and the poor, subsidizedby governments, their cronies in power,enabled by want-to-be entitled elitists of all stripes. Mandarins of the status-quo dismiss the…
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We Are All Philosophers
We Are All Philosophers I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’. I liken it to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core being optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful, which is encased in hardened and finely honed cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social junk (BS). The thing about…
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Decluttering
Decluttering getting ridof thingsI don’t need also includesopinions and ideasnow irrelevant keep what’simportant and trueopen to life’s menu choosing onlywhat I like and needin uncluttered rooms to dance and playopen my mindeach and every day –LE – 12/21/25
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Which Of The Multitude?
Describe a man who has positively impacted your life. There have been so many, and let’s not forget the other half (more or less) of the population… And ‘positive’ is a matter of opinion. During my formative years, it was my dad. He was the one there and in control. So, I had no choice…
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