I am not going to say:  the water bottle 'sitting behind me' does not really exist due to its lack of concrete phenomenality. the extent to which that degree of ontological idealism flies in the face of common sense brings it to its own kind of absurdity. so what, have i now become a material realist? to a degree, in that i will posit that the ( Read more... )

and do not mistake me for believing myself to be the least bit original ( Read more... )

in school, they taught us to reach for 'self-actualization'. but oh, what a joke! "be what you are!" and what exactly am i supposed to be? does this 'actualization' leave me the room to breath the fresh air of temporality? can i not change? am i not fluid? are there merely different 'aspects' of 'me', or in fact really many mes? "self-actualization ( Read more... )

Gen 1; 2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

I say, let there be form; I find form. But a tainted one at best, for I know form's little trick of carrying along with it its asterisk.
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My fellow kinsmen,

Throughout the beginnings of the history of our great nation, the Divinely ordained division between master and slave, white man and Negro, retained its purest sanctity with honor and respect for our holy traditions. The concept of "personhood" held onto its proper sense, and it was not until the cries of the North forced us to ( Read more... )

I dreamed my own death last night ( Read more... )

Other encroaches upon Self until, like the ground rushing up during a fall of great heights within a dream, it passes through without impact, pulling our attention along with it until we see, like the sight of our pupils in the mirror, the vacuum which this approach to understanding the Self leaves us with. This objective take on the task gives us ( Read more... )

Is philosophy the most or the least abstract of the academic disciplines? On the one hand, one can see it as dealing precisely with those topics which hit closest to home for us human beings... phenomena, interpretation, knowledge, the emotions, foundations of our language, etc, etc. Yet on the other hand, what, really, is further from the actual ( Read more... )

The world is of gestalt situations upon every step in any direction.
I use these spatial terms, but really that's just the bud of it. really i am speaking of everything.
So the left-hand man sees the duck and the right-hand man sees the rabbit but is it anything but their own confinements and disabilities that keeps them from seeing the world on the ( Read more... )