Piano 7: Musing

Tom Romer · 07: Musing

Piano 6: Sunday Blues

Tom Romer · 06: Sunday Blues

Piano 5: Walk in the Park

Tom Romer · 05: Walk in the Park

Piano 4: Odyssey

Tom Romer · 04: Odyssey

Piano 3: Schumann—Humming Song, Op.68

Tom Romer · 03: Schumann—Humming Song, Op.68

Piano 2: Bach—Fugue 2 in C minor, BWV 847

Tom Romer · 02: Bach—Fugue 2 in C minor, BWV 847

Piano 1: Bach—Prelude 3 in C sharp major, BWV 848

Tom Romer · 01: Bach—Prelude 3 in C sharp major, BWV 848

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.

Thought 553: The Double Etymology of Religion

Binding and reconnecting.

Thought 552: Why I Deleted My Facebook

I prefer no relations

to Facebook relations.

I now have

a friendless 

Facebook.

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.

Thought 550: Identity

Identity offers

an explanation

of who we are,

to ourselves

and to others.

Thought 549: Responding and Reacting

To react is to

counter impulsively,

whereas to respond

is to counter reflectively.

Thought 548: Technology and Control

We are not in control

of the fact technology

needs to be controlled.

Are we technology's tool?

Thought 547: The Infantility of Modern Politics

Only infants

need their views

enforced over others.

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

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.

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.

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.

What is the purpose

of occultism?

The purpose of

occultism is

for the nobility,

those of pure

bloodline, to

preserve

themselves

when all the

odds are

stacked

against

them.

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.

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 exert: 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 exert

as immorality; in short, morality

isn't moral—it is the same exertion

it pretends to fight against.

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.

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).

Thought 538: Why Not Vote?

So as not to give 

legitimacy to the 

ruling class.

Thought 537: Phases

My Thoughts

may be classified

as follows.

(1) Making the 

Leap into Thinking

From Thought 1: Lathoron

to Thought 5: A Brief

Anatomy of Perception.

(2) Finding the Right 

Conditions for Thinking

Thought 6: Musing on 

Heidegger's Last God.

(3) Starting 

ScruffyOwlet's Tree

From Thought 7: Lucifer

to Thought 27: 

The Great Midday.

(4) Emotional 

Recovery

From Thought 28: Pretentiousness

to Thought 181: Intellect 

Is Not Intelligence.

(5) Becoming 

a King

From Thought 182:

Knowledge and

Sensibility to

Thought 430:

Transparency

of Philosophical

Decision.

(6) Transitional 

Birth-Pangs

From Thought 431: 

Until Death Do Us Part

to Thought 571: Economy

v Morality.

(7) Liberating 

Birth-Giving

From Thought 572:

Esoteric Wisdom with

Mark Passio (1)—

Christianity to

Thought 596:

Externality

as Therapeutic

Model.

(8) Straight Line 

to the Finish

From Thought 597:

The Cult of Capitalism

to Thought 648(c):

Antichrist & Apocalypse

Slideshow (2).

(9) Finishing 

What I Started

From Thought 649:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

to Thought 666:

Six Six Six.

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

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

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.

Thought 534: Experience as Interpretation

One's experience

still needs to be

interpreted.

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.

Thought 532: In-fluence and Con-centration

In-fluence: 

to flow in.

Con-centration: 

to bring into 

a centre.

Thought 531: Fear as Suffering

Fear of suffering

is itself suffering.