Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Third Anniversary
Today, I am reminded by WordPress, is the 3rd anniversary of this blog, Reason & Existenz. Over 22000 views as of today. Hope to reach 23000 by July 04 weekend. Thanks so much to all of my good brothers & sisters in the Ether who have followed, commented, reblogged, and/or…
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Nowhere do I want to remain folded
Thanks to my beloved brother Joseph C. for reminding me of this beauty from Rilke. I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough just to stand before you like…
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Entelechy – Cosmos – Event
Seek thou after the entelecy of things if the opening of the Way is thy quest. Look not to the particular example or the general explanation of anything. To take up experience as wisdom means to be a student of the whole being which attracts thee. Bond thou with a…
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Hermes
Little lean, wing-footed god How this big fat hobbling man Found himself in your service? Guide of souls at life’s end Messenger of divine will Lover of Desire herself… Send me some dream from ether, Hash me a smoky idea, Catch me up in your travels… Indulge my indulgence. This…
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Whispering / Glimpsing
Now/here flows the Way. Not in the words but around them, atop, beneath, behind, before, and after them. When ever we write, where ever we speak, the words themselves should not be the focus of meaning. While we can determine the actuality of common usage or specialized term or ancient…
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TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist
NOTE: This piece was originally a reblog. It can no longer be found at TONGUE SANDWICH. Turns out, TS is a horrible little plagiarist. You can see an interchange between that vile man and myself below. And what an ironic exchange it is given the circumstances. On being exposed, Tongue…
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Twilighting Idolatries
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and…
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House of God
Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8 And down went Alice (w0rldeat3r.wordpress.com) Wonji (lockedrecords.wordpress.com) Daft Punk –…
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Flowing / Swaying
Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an infinity of divisions. For this reason, learning as the apprehension…
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Controlling for Cosmopolis
Jose Ortega y Gasset points out that the term “emperor’ means “the one who goes to where the border begins”. The Latin word is related to the Spanish verb empezar (to begin). An Imperator was a general who kept whole the edges and maybe even expanded them outward. In the Society…
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Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to lose time because its mathematical gaze freezes change. Tensed time,…
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Boon of Dandelions 9
Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight up in the eastern corner of my room. I lay…
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It’s the actor in the interaction not the internet in the actor
Nice experiment by a gent who left the internet behind for twelve months after being connected in some fashion for thirteen years. I am reminded of how often in a town like Denton or even New York, someone will begin talking about how he or she needs to get the…
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Demostrophe
I am playing at neologisms. That must mean I am reading Heidegger. Today’s entry in the Brown Book of Jargon… DEMOSTROPHE: the turning of the people as a group, the turning in the flow of power. I am coining this term to take the place of market adjustment. More later.…
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores the relationship between knowledge (in the form of scientific risk…
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Welcoming a Friend to WordPress
My good colleague and friend J. Britt Holbrook has started up his new blog. I hope everyone will take a peek and give him some follows as well as some thoughtful feedback/commentary. While I have made my blog more of an inspirational rest stop for my brothers & sisters of…
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Rolling Stone on how the Illuminati is maybe not so impossible
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this…
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Daodejing 28
#28* Knowing power, abiding in modesty; like a stream under Heaven. Like a stream under Heaven- never abandoning eternal virtue, returning at last to purity. Knowing white, abiding in black; like this order under Heaven. Like this order under Heaven- never losing eternal virtue, returning at last to infinity. Knowing…
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