Thursday 31 March 2016

Thought 173: Relaxation as Remedy, Means, and Goal


If neurosis is the enemy,
relaxation is the remedy.

Wednesday 30 March 2016

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Thought 171: Life's...


...a mistake with compensations
we can't be done without and a
mistake whose compensations
we can't do without.

Better: life's an
I know not.

Monday 28 March 2016

Thought 170: (Not) Having Children


I am glad that
I lucked out
and didn't
impregnate
any woman
so far.

Sunday 27 March 2016

Thought 169: Time Well Spent


Creativity is time
well spent because
it is paying off one's
debt as someone
who is afforded
creativity.

Saturday 26 March 2016

Thought 168: Fool's Bach


Bach's posthumous glory
means but nothing to
him who died at
a time—the
Age of Reason—
when his type
of baroque
contrapuntal
music was out
of fashion.

Friday 25 March 2016

Thought 167: Intelligence and Neurosis


Is intelligence a conductor for neurosis?

Thursday 24 March 2016

Thought 166: The Enemy Is Neurosis

 

Staying mentally
and emotionally
afloat is the
challenge
of our age.

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Thought 165: Social Media and Mental Health


A bottomless ocean
of human will-to-power.

Tuesday 22 March 2016

Thought 164: Is Voting Pointless?


No because
others do vote.

Monday 21 March 2016

Thought 163: Political Views


Political views:
what is right
for me.

Sunday 20 March 2016

Thought 162: Brown Fingers


If it is true that everything politics touches turns to poo, 
then politicos must by definition have brown fingers. 

Everything is political = everything is shit
(including this equation)

Saturday 19 March 2016

Thought 161: Internet Spying


PERSON: did you know that your 
blogger account is being spied on?
ME: Please, that's so 2013...

Friday 18 March 2016

Thought 160: Classic Composers—The Short View

If 


was a musical prodigy, and


a passionate genius, with


as their creative father, then


was a god of composition. 

Thursday 17 March 2016

Thought 159: Piece of Satan


The iPhone is
a corporate
pick-me-up: a
piece of Satan.

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Thought 158: Choice and Outcome


Choice is willing
oneself as oneself.

Outcome is
dealing with it.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Thought 157: The Other WTC


When I see mentions of WTC by 
political activists I immediately think 
of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier 
as opposed to the World Trade Centre
buildings that disintegrated into a
quadrillion pieces.

I must have a classical music 
bias against world events.

Monday 14 March 2016

Thought 156: Re-pe-ti-ti-ve


It has just occurred to me that the word 
'repetitive' is onomatopoeic: 
re-pe-ti-ti-ve. 

Sunday 13 March 2016

Thought 155: The Surest Way


The surest way not to 
die is not to be born.

Ultimately, my 
wish not to have 
been born is not
higher than life's
wish that I be born
—quite the reverse,
for it is life 
that enables
me to wish that I
was never born.

Saturday 12 March 2016

Thought 154: A Note on Cube


The Cube is our material reality.
It requires a key to unlock 
the cubicles of material
reality: that key, for
me, is The Kybalion—
Hermetic Philosophy.

The All is mind.
The All is in all.
The All is all ways.
All is in motion.
All sides have flip-sides.
All is law.
All that flows ebbs.
All is generated.
↓↑
Generated is all.
All that ebbs flows.
Law is all.
All flip-sides have sides.
Motion is in all.
All ways are the all.
All is in the All.
Mind is the All.


Friday 11 March 2016

Thought 153: Engineered Crisis


Crises are often engineered
in order to justify the engineers.

Thursday 10 March 2016

Thought 152: Elections—The Short View


Mummy or daddy,
left-wing or right-wing?

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Thought 151: Thought and Responsibility


It is only by thinking
that we begin to take
responsibility for
ourselves.

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Thought 150: Political Diversity


Political diversity showcases
the fact that there are many
forms of public alliance.

Monday 7 March 2016

Thought 149: Legitimate Violence—A Contradiction in Terms


Violence, being a violation of the rights of others,
cannot be legitimate, but force, when it is
used in defence against violence, is legitimate.

Sunday 6 March 2016

Thought 148: Where Does Conspiracy Culture End?


Conspiracy culture ends where those who
put forward the conspiracies are taken as
belonging to the conspiracy.

Saturday 5 March 2016

Thought 147: What Do You Do?


PERSON: What do you do?
ME: The hardest thing
to do is to be.

Friday 4 March 2016

Thought 146: Calvin and Hobbes


Calvin is wise
to the world:
Hobbes is
a best friend
because he
is imaginary.


Thursday 3 March 2016

Thought 145: The French Revolution's Philosophical Trinity


The thesis: 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 
Social Contract.

The antithesis: Edmund Burke's 
Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The synthesis: Thomas Paine's
Rights of Man.

Wednesday 2 March 2016

Thought 144: Christianity as Mystery Tradition


He who lives the life 
shall know the doctrine—
and it's not Christian.

Tuesday 1 March 2016

Thought 143: Social Media—The Short View

Facebook = private crap


Twitter = political crap


Tumblr = artistic crap


Blogger = philosophical crap