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If you want to be a poet, call yourself a farmer; If you want to be a farmer, call yourself a religious man or woman; If you want to be a person of religion, call yourself a teacher. The first student is always yourself. via Cliff Crego
“Which of The Ten Commandments have you broken or would you consider breaking? Why? I've broken them ALL. How's that? Well, ignorance, apathy, self-absorption, amongst others, enables us to commit those sins we would like to think we aren't guilty of......vicariously.
The sky is always perfect... I've been thinking about what I'm looking for in life, and in another person. People often say that they're looking for "that perfect someone", or "the perfect job" but they don't sit and analyse what they think is perfect, what makes it right and good and just. Perhaps...
Like the RawkusCrowd was chanting as Mr.JamesArthur“Art”Monk took the Podium, last SaturdayNight, on the Stage in Canton.Ohio, during the 4Minute StandingOvation, (the longest StandingO in the Hall’s history by the way) “It’s-about-time! – It’s-about-time!” It is about time. It’s...
I really like reading and doing the work for Philosophy, just not the part where I have to get up for the next 13 days at 7:15 for class. I miss staying up late and sleeping in. Here's looking forward to Caturday, when I get to sleep in.
When something goes wrong in the house, we immediately pick up the phone and hope that someone will come over and fix it. But we are invariably left feeling powerless and hopeless. We are dealing with an institution, not a human being. When everything seems to be on both the to-do list and the...
"If we are seeking God merely because we are tired of this world and it's miseries, then it is an escape. Then we create God, and therefore it is not God. The God of the temples, of the books, is not God; obviously, it is a marvelous escape. But if we try to find the truth, not in one exclusive set...
Skyler suggested that it would be fun to teach a college course on the ideas in Battlestar Galactica and I confess, the idea has been rattling around in my brain ever since. One could easily cover material for a Contemporary World Issues course, a Philosophy and Religion course, an Ethics course, or...
Thank you to my dear Globet for finding and sending this to me. You are one of my golf balls. Two Glasses of Wine When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 glasses of wine theory... A professor stood before...
I just started reading The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire by Andrew Bernstein. Though political philosophy is an important subject I have for a long time shied away from reading books on it. However, I am a fan of this author. I am into the second...
I've got some questions for Buddhists, that you just don't ask. Please understand that I'm not trying to be disrespectful, and I'm not claiming more understanding than I have. These just are real sticking points for me, and it would help enormously if somebody could lay this out for me. My biggest...
"All Along The Watchtower, it probably came to me during a thunder and lightning storm. I'm sure it did --Bob Dylan The boys and I have been watching the Battlestar Galactica television series the last few weeks and today we got to the end of season three. I will not throw out any spoilers here but...
And so to another Friday night, with Chopin doing his level best to soothe my soul, accompanied by a glass of my vintage $1.99/bottle red. And, as usual, they've been successful. For I am sitting here savouring this moment. What's so special about it? Well, I'm alive. That's special, don't you...
Beyond the limited horizon of linear perception. The Black and/or White, tick box, clipboard view, ( there is no grey area ).Beyond the ring fence of popular consensus. In the improbable reality of long forgotten,naive aspiration. Beyond the Oblivion Zone of electronic facsimile, there iz no,...
Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul. Yeah. I cracked up. Well done. :)
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just...
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. It...
From the last post, and resulting comments, I realize that there might be some misconception about me. I'm not a feminist. Now, you might imagine that I'm some kind of Gynophobe, who can't stand strong women.Nope. Far from it, I like strong people of whichever stripe. I might define "strong"...
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