Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Monday, 28 May 2018

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.

Sunday, 27 May 2018

Saturday, 26 May 2018

Thought 632: On the Virtue of Philo-Judaism


What is the 
Jewish question?

Did the Jewish
God sin against
Mother Nature?

The definitive
solution to the 
Jewish Question is 
to fully integrate
purgatory.

Friday, 25 May 2018

Thought 631: Magic v Sorcery


Magic enchants
whereas sorcery
stupefies.

Thursday, 24 May 2018

Thought 630: Thoughts as Butterflies


Seizing a thought before
it vanishes is a bit like
catching a butterfly
before it flies away.

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

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.

Monday, 21 May 2018

Thought 628: What Is Decadence?


Tastelessness.

Saturday, 19 May 2018

Thought 627: Misfortune and Blame


Misfortune is
often accompanied
by blame—making
it even worse.

Friday, 18 May 2018

Thursday, 17 May 2018

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.

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

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.

Friday, 11 May 2018

Monday, 7 May 2018

Saturday, 5 May 2018

Friday, 4 May 2018

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.

Thursday, 3 May 2018