Tag: Philosophy
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Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death
Morpheus and His Sisters, Fate and Death in my youthMorpheus wasmy companion and friendjustice, my main complaintthat is, whatever didn’tgo my way later, Fate and Deathbecame playerssitting opposite meat life’s game-boardchallenging, complicatingmy every move now, Fate and Deathhave become beautiful sirensgently smiling facesbeckon me to lie downin their sweetlanguid embraces I’m old enough nowlived more…
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Dream Within A Dream
Dream Within A Dream Hubris aboundsWe understand the universeThe gibberish of clownsGlaring through theirTopsy-tervy frowns Life slaps my unsuspecting faceAs each and every morningIts complexity is unfolding Perceptions ephemeralAs each day makes it plainConceit of understandingIs fundamentally insane Have to question what’s real Is anything, or All just a dreamWithin a dreamWithin a dream The…
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The Only Constant, Change…
What is one thing you would change about yourself? Nothing. I’ll continue to change and grow regardless of my personal wishes, anyway… I am, as are we all, the result (or consequence) of the ‘birth-lottery’ and a hundred-thousand years (at least) of evolution and our particular positions in the space-time continuum. We are fitted into…
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To Meat Or Not
What are your feelings about eating meat? It’s complicated. I grew up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ household. Meat was part of almost every meal … That seems like a lifetime ago. Over the years, I kept hearing and reading how ‘red meat’ in particular, with all its hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives, was more detrimental…
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In Reality … All And None …
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? In Reality … All And None … Off the top of my head, I’d have chosen my decisions to not fight my exes in their bids to be rid of me. Not to fight the outrageous child support garnishments of my meager wages, that left…
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The Inevitable End
The Inevitable End Though I may not beThe sharpest crayon in the boxA modicum of intellect resides It occurs to me that reasonAnd desires can rationalizeAlmost anything The resulting reprievesAt best temporaryDon’t mitigate the end As all things doSo it is saidWith a whimper or bang Even the ‘eternal’ universeThough we won’t see itWill eventually…
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Trust and Instincts – Yes
Do you trust your instincts? It took me ‘a while’ to trust my gut (instincts, if you will). Everything in our social conditioning from education to social gatherings infused me with the idea that everyone else’s opinions were more important, more ‘reasoned’, more real than my own. Therefore, I should listen to them and not…
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Waves A Waving
Waves A Waving a wave rolls inwashes upthe sandy beach’s inclineas if the beachwere taking abreath in remnants or the waveslide back into the seaas the beach seemsto exhale only to inhale againas the next wavefroths, rolls, andripples in the steady breathingof land and seaas constant asthe stars and trees leaves mecontentedmy mindat ease –LE…
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First Impressions
What’s the first impression you want to give people? This is not today’s prompt, but I finally decided how I’d answer it…; -) First impressions are just another name for the masks we wear. Why do we wear them? We wear them because we’ve been trained, conditioned by society’s gatekeepers (our parents, teachers, social, religious,…
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Deconstructing Sin
Deconstructing Sin What is sina fopauxintentional or notanother kind oftransgressionegregious or nota crime againstsocial individualmurder theftdeceit in other wordsis it puttingyourself firstin all thingssurvival ofthe fittestbeating breakingthe systemplaying byyour own orno rules sin is a wordan idea some finduseful and appealingin feeling betterabout themselvesfor their mis-perceivedconceivedlack thereofand thereforemore worthy oflife’s gifts andpleasuresrationalizationsfor turningblind eyes toperils…
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