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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
Thought 172: Time to Conclude—Neurosis as My Number One Enemy
Enough said.
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
P
ERSON
: did you know that your
blogger account is being spied on?
M
E
: 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.
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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?
P
ERSON
: What do you do?
M
E
: 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
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