Wednesday 31 May 2017

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Sunday 28 May 2017

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Thought 554: B(oobs) and P(enis)


P looks like a Penis as seen from its side.
B looks like a Bosom as seen from above.




Addendum (1): Manly P. Hall

Manly Penis indeed.


Addendum (2): Pen

The pen(is) is a mightier
weapon than the sword.

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Thought 553: The Double Etymology of Religion


Binding and reconnecting.

Monday 22 May 2017

Thought 552: Why I Deleted My Facebook


I prefer no relations
to Facebook relations.

I now have

Sunday 21 May 2017

Thought 551: Reading Early Signs in Relationships


Early signs of untrustworthiness
or incompatibility in relationships
should be taken seriously,
as these will increase
with time.

Saturday 20 May 2017

Thought 550: Identity


Identity offers
an explanation
of who we are,
to ourselves
and to others.

Friday 19 May 2017

Thought 549: Responding and Reacting

To react is to
counter impulsively,
whereas to respond
is to counter reflectively.

Thursday 18 May 2017

Thought 548: Technology and Control


We are not in control
of the fact technology
needs to be controlled.

Are we technology's tool?

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Thought 547: The Infantility of Modern Politics


Only infants
need their views
enforced over others.

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Thought 546: Two Definitions of Consciousness


(1)

'The ability of a being to recognise patterns 
and meaning with respect to events taking place, 
both within oneself and in the external realm 
in which the self exists and operates.'

—Mark Passio,
What On Earth 
Is Happening

(2)

'That which we are tuned 
into and which attunes us.'

—Tom Romer,
ScruffyOwlet's Tree

Monday 15 May 2017

Thought 545: On Being Impressed by Others


In being impressed by others, 
we often neglect to see
areas in which our own
sensibility is superior.

Sunday 14 May 2017

Thought 544: Emotional Discomfort and Reality


Just because a piece of information
causes emotional discomfort does not 
mean it is should be rejected,
but the converse also holds;
just because a piece of information
causes emotional discomfort does not
mean that it should be embraced.

Saturday 13 May 2017

Thought 543: Philosophy and Occultism



Philosophy is the son
who asks the questions.

Occultism is the father
who offers the answers.

Philosophers are those
who shuffle the cards.

Occultists are those
who deal the cards.

Friday 12 May 2017

Thought 542: God as Leviathan


The wide variation of human being
may be the fragmentation of God;
are we all fragments of God?

Many in any case are 
citizens of the State.

Thursday 11 May 2017

Thought 541: The Duplicity of Natural Law


Natural Law, i.e. the set of consequences
that attends and governs our conduct,
is both descriptive and prescriptive,
because the observation of
 the negative consequences that
attend bad conduct leads to the
prescriptive injunction not to
indulge in such conduct.

Ultimately speaking,
Natural Law is a revenge
philosophy against those
who would enslave others
for the sake of their will
to power: it posits a true
moral world as opposed
to the false immoral world
that is the case so that slaves
can feel justified in their rebellion.

Problem: the will to morality
of Natural Law is itself immoral,
that is, it is the same will to power
as immorality; in short, morality
isn't moral—it is the same power
it pretends to fight against.

Wednesday 10 May 2017

Thought 540: A Note on Proust


The poles of art and woman
meet the narrator when
he visits the painter
Elstir and Albertine
enters the scene.

Tuesday 9 May 2017

Thought 539: Consideration on the Right-Wing Working Class Vote


Work makes right
(working class)
prefers might 
makes right
(right-wing)
over might
makes wrong
(left-wing).

Monday 8 May 2017

Thought 538: Why Not Vote?


So as not to give 
legitimacy to the 
ruling class.

Sunday 7 May 2017

Saturday 6 May 2017

Thought 536: The Dangers of Excessive Truth-Seeking...


...are the same as excesses in other fields.

Friday 5 May 2017

Thought 535: Butch from Pulp Fiction


BUTCH
So... [He looks at her license.]
...Esmarelda Villalobos—is that Mexican?

ESMARELDA
The name is Spanish, 
but I'm Columbian.

BUTCH
It's a very pretty name.

ESMARELDA
It means 'Esmarelda 
of the wolves.'

BUTCH
That's one hell of a name 
you got there, sister.

ESMARELDA
Thank you. 
And what is your name?

BUTCH
Butch.

ESMARELDA
Butch. What does it mean?

BUTCH
I'm an American, our names
don't mean shit.

***

This last statement is funny because 'butch' of course means 'having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine', which is a type of appearance typically, although perhaps wrongly, associated with the action-thriller actor Bruce Willis.

Thursday 4 May 2017

Thought 534: Experience as Interpretation


One's experience
still needs to be
interpreted.

Wednesday 3 May 2017

Thought 533: Not Terrible


« Pas terrible », 
meaning 'not terrible', 
is a French euphemism 
meaning 'poor' 
or 'mediocre'. 

I feel that 
way about
much of
my work.

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Thought 532: In-fluence and Con-centration


In-fluence: 
to flow in.

Con-centration: 
to bring into 
a centre.

Monday 1 May 2017

Thought 531: Fear as Suffering


Fear of suffering
is itself suffering.