Thought 173: Relaxation as Remedy, Means, and Goal

If neurosis is the enemy,

relaxation is the remedy.

Thought 172: Time to Conclude—Neurosis as My Number One Enemy

Enough said.

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.

Thought 170: (Not) Having Children

I am glad that

I lucked out

and didn't

impregnate

any woman

so far.

Thought 169: Time Well Spent

Creativity is time

well spent because

it is paying off one's

debt as someone

who is afforded

creativity.

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.

Thought 167: Intelligence and Neurosis

Is intelligence a conductor for neurosis?

Thought 166: The Enemy Is Neurosis

 

Staying mentally

and emotionally

afloat is the

challenge

of our age.

Thought 165: Social Media and Mental Health

A bottomless ocean

of human will-to-power.

Thought 164: Is Voting Pointless?

No because

others do vote.

Thought 163: Political Views

Political views:

what is right

for me.

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)

Thought 161: Internet Spying

PERSON: did you know that your 
blogger account is being spied on?

ME: Please, that's so 2013...

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. 

Thought 159: Piece of Satan

The iPhone is

a corporate

pick-me-up: a

piece of Satan.

Thought 158: Choice and Outcome

Choice is willing

oneself as oneself.

Outcome is

dealing with it.

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.

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

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

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.

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 inflow flows out.

All is genderated.

↓↑

Genderated is all.

All outflow flows in.

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.

Thought 153: Engineered Crisis

Crises are often engineered

in order to justify the engineers.

Thought 152: Elections—The Short View

Mummy or daddy,

left-wing or right-wing?

Thought 151: Thought and Responsibility

It is only by thinking

that we begin to take

responsibility for

ourselves.

Thought 150: Political Diversity

Political diversity showcases

the fact that there are many

forms of public alliance.

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.

Thought 148: Where Does Conspiracy Culture End?

Conspiracy culture ends where those who

put forward the conspiracies are taken as

belonging to the conspiracy.

Thought 147: What Do You Do?

PERSON: What do you do?

ME: The hardest thing

to do is to be.

Thought 146: Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin is wise

to the world:

Hobbes is

a best friend

because he

is imaginary.

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.

Thought 144: Christianity as Mystery Tradition

He who lives the life 

shall know the doctrine—

and it's not Christian.

Thought 143: Social Media—The Short View

Facebook = private crap

Twitter = political crap

Tumblr = artistic crap

Blogger = philosophical crap