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  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.

8/09/24 Indeed! Life is a but a game of Fool's Hockey and we are doomed to blindly stumble into these perimeters of wisdom, so-called, again and again, like a fool stumbling through a box hedge.  

 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.

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.   . 

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...

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 ...

June 21 If humans are made of atoms, which is deemed to be non living, then how did we become living things? What gives us a mind on its own, having the ability to think, to feel, to be alive?  Not our atoms, that’s for sure. It’s true that you can dehumanize a human being by reducing him to his component particles. At a certain level of magnification, the person who thinks, feels, lives is lost. This clump of cells is actually a clump of atoms, less than a shadow. If you take a strictly physicalist/materialist view of the universe, the human person becomes something like a phantom presence hiding inside a biochemical machine.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 22 Are we born without any control over our lives? No, when we’re born we are not in control of anything. All we can do is scream and writhe. Just imagine the sudden sensory overload the newborn must experience! Conscious control of our ...

  Feb. 24 / 2021 9:05 am At 4:30 pm yesterday I was supposed to participate in a Zoom cooking-class, but I was unable to do so because of a crippling (though not quite paralyzing) anxiety attack. I’ve come across the phrase “Aspie meltdown” more than than once while reading Aspie literature online, but yesterday was the first meltdown I can remember in a very long time. I now understand why the Aspie community calls them meltdowns. The comparison to a nuclear reactor going critical is quite apt, especially for an Aspie. I was texting back and forth with my CSW at the time, trying to explain why there was no way I could do it. And yet there was no way I could back out. I was still unfamiliar with Zoom. (This has not changed btw). Preparing anything more complicated than a smoothie or a bowl of cereal. Heating up a can of soup on the stovetop is the upper limit of what I’m comfortable with doing. I had definitely clicked into Avoidance Mode, but I’d already agreed to do this. My nam...

  10/06/23 If you don't ask this question at some point in your life, the world will out of cruel necessity have had its answer at the ready since before you were born. Which is the crueler critic, the face looking back at you in the mirror every morning or the entire motley crowd of humanity waiting for you as it waits for all strangers? 10/7/23  "Eco-Grief" https://youtu.be/Em0Bk-GASSE Ecological grief Description Ecological grief, or in particular climate grief, refers to the sense of loss that arises from experiencing or learning about environmental destruction or climate change. Environmental grief can be defined as "the grief reaction stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems by natural and man-made events." Wikipedia Ecological grief refers to the sense of loss that arises from experiencing or learning about environmental destruction or climate change. Eco-grief is the grief reaction stemming from the loss of eco-systems by natural and man-made e...

11/12/23 Quora asked: Everyone knows most autistic people struggle with reading neurotypicals. So why do neurotypicals assume they can read autistic people?   I'm autistic and have a lot of autistic friends and I've noticed a pattern of neurotypicals reading all of us wrong (thinking we're intentionally being rude, when we're just answering their questions, thinking we're anxious when we're bored, thinking we're “acting” when we're happy, thinking we're flirting when we're uncomfortable etc.)? My reply: That’s right, because the lack of intellectual and emotional empathy can go both ways. Neurotypicals “assume” they can read autistic people because they immediately try to read them using the system of social cues and nonverbal communication developed for and by the Neurotypical society. It would be like travelling to Japan as a Gaijin and thinking the Japanese rude when they avoid making eye contact with you. How does a non-Japanese attempt to “r...