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Talking About Your Failures

 11/26/24 Can trustworthiness ever be reduced to an external signifier? If someone had the letters WILTY (Would I Lie To You?) tattooed on the inside of their dominant-hand wrist in gold ink, meant visible every time they shook your hand ... could you trust them as truthful and honorable with every fiber of your being? 2025/03/03 from Blogger.com Blogger User says: I hate having this condition Yesterday, I was having a normal conversation with some former friends. This morning, I wake up to a message from one of the the people from the group telling me that I wasn't a fit for the group. Sure, I made errors I'll be humble enough to admit that but the group kind of knew I was different. While they were nice and said they didn't want me in a group where people only tolerated me out of niceness I'm all sorts of emotions as nobody ever tells me of I am being annoying or making them uncomfortable. I had bonded with this group over my special interests and I am devastated. I ...
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Dangerous Freedom vs. Peaceful Slavery

  9/18/24   His kind was not was meant to live in a cage, no matter how gilded. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." What holds true for men holds true for beasts, especially this king of beasts.
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 08/04/24 Perhaps it is because we dream with greater depth and vibrancy than those who dream by night. We who dare, not because of any exterior compulsion, but because of an inner helplessness to resist doing so.
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I Wrestle With Literature

June 19 2024   Why did Donne say "Europe" and not "England?" This poem was written long before the European Union was a thing. Also, "send not" seems to suggest someone wealthy and in the habit of sending servants off on errands to do this and that, as in : "Don't bother sending a servant to investigate for whom the funeral mass is being conducted, because **it is you** in that casket no matter who the decedent may have been in life. Every time, the corpse has your face inside the casket. It is you who has died. 06/29/24 Such a man has a conscience that won't let him enjoy what his base nature wants and at the same time forces him to endure what is "good for him." Yeah, that sounds about right.   . 
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A Slice of Social Commentary ...

09/17/23 A Quora user asks: “Is censorship ever justified in the name of protecting social values, or does it inherently stifle free expression?” My answer: The political establishment is the nominal guardian of social values at any given time. It guards them because it  defines  them (or does it?) and reserves the unilateral right to do so. Whatever the establishment wishes to subvert or cast in a bad light will be made to seem problematic. How do you as a citizen react to what your culture tells you is good or bad, moral or immoral? Are you at odds with your culture as it is presented to you by corporate media? Just consider those questions ... A Quora user asks: “What are the advantages of being an "individual" or "individualistic person" in today's society? My answer: You are burdened with the responsibility of thinking and acting on your own behalf, alone, if need be. The consequences of your thoughts, words, and actions are rightfully yours, however injuri...
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Veil of Virtue, Mask of Vice

Monday, January 30 2017      A veil is a worn to conceal one's virtue and preserve one's humility.  Though veils and masks are physical objects, the above quote from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables  is not strictly literal or symbolic in intention. That's what makes it so intriguing. Whatever blessing or blessings set you apart from others, there is the opportunity to practise modesty. Among the sayings attributed to American statesman Benjamin Franklin is this: "Vice wears a mask because she knows she is ugly." To this I would add that vice is habitually brazen and defies anyone to mention her deliberately displayed ugliness.  Jeremiah 17:9 New Living Translation "The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? May 6th, 2024 If the life of a good man is itself a hang-able offense, then hang hanging! Who is it under the executioner's cowl? 2025/03/04 Behind a man who forgives too ...
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