Photo 10: The Free Spirits Portrait Collection

Art 50: Alistair Graham

Thought 634: Villainous Parasite, Tragic Hero, or Noble Fool?

I'm an insignificant loser, more like.

Thought 633: The Genealogising of Morality

The evil one for the person

who drew on the book

above is the good one 

for the author of

this post.

Art 49: Bill Hicks

Thought 632: On the Virtue of Philo-Judaism

What is the 

Jewish question?

To what extent

did the Jewish

people invert

trust with faith,

the here and 

now with

the beyond,

in order to

gain power?

Trust is

hard to

come by

as those

who suffered

under Hitler

came to

realise and

as Hitler 

came to

realise

as he

was 

betrayed.

The definitive

solution to the 

Jewish Question is 

to fully integrate

purgatory.

Thought 631: Magic v Sorcery

Magic enchants

whereas sorcery

stupefies.

Thought 630: Thoughts as Butterflies

Seizing a thought before

it vanishes is a bit like

catching a butterfly

before it flies away.

Thought 629: Intellectuals v Thinkers

Intellectuals are those

who seek to understand.

Thinkers are those

who seek to legislate.

Addendum: 

Philosophers 

v Thinkers

The difference between 

thinkers and philosophers 

properly speaking may be

that philosophers are

possessed of a 

moral requirement,

not so thinkers.

Thought 628: What Is Decadence?

Decadence is

the softening

of a civilisation.

Thought 627: Misfortune and Blame

Misfortune is

often accompanied

by blame—making

it even worse.

Photo 9: Puppetmonst Lying Awake

Review 12: The Life and Lies of Manly Palmer Hall

The Life and Lies of Manly Palmer Hall—

A Review of Master of the Mysteries—

New Revelations on The Life of 

Manly Palmer Hall by Louis Sahagun

This volume, in its journalistic sensationalist superficiality—as is only fitting for an author who is an LA Times staff writer—that appears to neglect the soulful qualities of the man under consideration as opposed to his persona, strikes me a little as constituting a real-world equivalent to exploitative journalist Rita Skeeter's account of 'The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore', as related in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which, like the present book under consideration, was somewhat opportunistically published on the heels of the old wizard's murder, the circumstances surrounding Hall's death also being most suspicious.

Indeed, Hall was a magician of the first rank (just like Dumbledore was a wizard of the first rank), was the head of a philosophical (as opposed to wizardry) school, warned and, in his way, fought against the dark arts (in the form of black magic) in the real world, was as wise as can be and, by most accounts I have come across on the intertrap, as kind as can be, in addition to which, in a way that recalls Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's online claims about the headmaster of Hogwarts, Hall may well have engaged in homosexual activity (indeed, according to a helper who came to evolve in the inner circle of the elder Hall, and whose heartfelt account of the philosopher can be found on a blogsite named Newtopia Magazine, an account which in my opinion forms a wonderful corrective to the more pejorative portrayals of Hall that are in wider circulation, Hall rather cheekily kept an Aleister Crowley poem about buggery in one of his private drawers), and otherwise led an extremely adventurous, eventful, courageous, and tragic life.

Despite this book providing an essential background and backdrop to the thinker's career, I think that the proper entry into Hall's legacy, despite his inevitable shortcomings as a human being, is still to be gained through his written and spoken word.

Thought 626: Seven Recreational Ideas

(1) 

'Mean' in British English

and 'mean' in American English

showcase the gulf that lies between

the two sensibilities.

(2)

The moneye

of philosophy 

is intolerable to

the cockeyed.

(3) 

Am I alone

in imputing a

female or male

voice when reading

Amazon customer 

reviews?

(4) 

Growing-up

also means

coming to terms

with the mendacity 

of make-believe fiction

espoused as children.

 (5) 

Recreation

as the play

of re-creation.

(6) 

One needs

first to have 

commenced

before rectification

can take place.

(7) 

Life experiences

us far more than

we experience life.

Art 48: Glenn Gould

Piano 87: Disney—Sister Suffragette

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Photo 8: Dominion Is a Child's

Photo 7: Mother and Cub

Thought 625: Past and Future Meet

As I am writing this now,

you, at a future time, are

reading this now, and

all that has ever

happened in past 

time has led to

this occurrence.

Art 47: Hannah Arendt

Piano 86: Muse—Survival

ScruffyOwlet · 86: Muse—Survival