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Category Archives: Statements
15 AUG 22
What is our conversation now, in this new world of selfwhere all our time and energyjust builds a cluttered shelffor trophies that we give ourselvesand prizes we amassto demonstrate a sense of worth?It seems a little crassto focus our attention … Continue reading
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The beginning of something
It’s true in companies as much as in society: evil flourishes when good people do nothing to stop it. That’s particularly true when both building and destroying evil are not absolutely binary, but tend to creep in, their gray shadowy … Continue reading
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6 FEB 2022
If what is real is unseen by the eyeand what surrounds us each day is a dream;if striving is just filling time with trywhile waiting here to die in vain, it seems a pointless waste, a useless, crying shamepretending our … Continue reading
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Out in the biosphere
Last year about this time I dug into nanowrimo and started writing an autobiographical novel. Sadly after about a week I ran out of time, steam, focus, and purpose, although not necessarily in equal proportions nor in that exact order. … Continue reading
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Doing Not Doing
What was I doing while others were sleeping? What did I dream while I seemed wide awake? Something or Nothing, doubt or believing? What falls like crumbs when the world starts to shake? What was it moving while all things … Continue reading
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The Same Street: rispetto
The difference is, he starts to say, between our diametric views, is in defining work and play: that one is waste, and one is use. That sets the tone for what must be, more than different reality, two separate worlds … Continue reading
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Philosophy Useless? Or What We Consider Philosophy?
“When the main reason why people do x is so that someone else can evaluate their ability to do x, it seems to me that something has gone wrong.” Seems to me that part of the problem with philosophy (and … Continue reading