Category: Whatever

  • Really dig this. May have to get a printed copy for the office.

  • My Happiness Waits for Nothing and No One (What is YOUR happiness waiting for?)

    My Happiness Waits for Nothing and No One (What is YOUR happiness waiting for?). A good post by a fellow Blogger which discloses one of Aristotle’s conditions for EUDAEMONIA (holistic flourishing or “happiness”): self-sufficiency. Happiness as the Target of human life cannot be something given to you by others, e.g.…

  • Controlling Choice

    The constantly modulating networks of choice that leave us always wanting by catching us already adapting within the limits we are offered. https://karljaspers23.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/society-of-control/

  • Originally posted on Trollblog: Q: What about after you’ve destroyed philosophy, though? What about once trolling has destroyed everything but trolling itself…. leaving nothing but a desolate wasteland haunted by the howling winds and the ghosts of extinct disciplines. Is that what you really want? — J. Elson A: Yes,…

  • Textimony 20120123

    Love is a living care of others & a careful belief in the possibility of their excellence. None earns your love like wages. Such would be mere approval.

  • Remembering & Moving Onward

    I blogged at CSID about Robvert Stolorow’s newest piece: http://cas-csid.cas.unt.edu/?p=2645

  • Reclaiming History

  • Li-Dan & the New Dispensation

    I discovered the following stories in a Spanish text from 1837 by Friar Agustín Saturnino y Gonzaga (OSA). It had been scanned into Google Books as a part of its archive project. I do not know if the tales are canonical, but they intrigued me enough to want to translate them…

  • Textimony 20110821

  • Textimony 20110820

         

  • Love is always already letting-go

    Be resolute via detached mind. When we take on people, places, & things, our attachment is to a memory of what no longer is and a projection of how things may never be. Thus, the present is so often a disappointment. Letting-go of the already & the not yet, find…

  • Dialog #5 between Younger & Older

    Y:Little father? O:Ready little brother… Y:Why did you drop out of college? O:I wanted liberation from education. Y:And colleges are in the business of education so you had to leave? O:They are certainly very busy, aren’t they? But I think you misunderstood. I seek to be free from unnecessary confines.…

  • gospel music

    I am from a family that likes to sing. I started as a young boy in the mid-60’s singing along with my mom and aunts and my brother. Lots of religious music infuses my way of looking at the world. I am most attracted to the kind of gospel songs…