Saturday, March 08, 2003
Friday, March 07, 2003
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Saturday, March 01, 2003
For many people, working is just a way to murder their own lives. This book explores the vicissitudes of work in American life, and ways to cope.
Soft Skull: Murdering of My Years
Soft Skull: Murdering of My Years
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
The Village Voice: Nation: Schlock 'N' Roll: The Bushopranos by Ward Sutton
Thanks to Rob for bringing this to my attention. -Anon
Thanks to Rob for bringing this to my attention. -Anon
Sunday, February 23, 2003
Saturday, February 22, 2003
Friday, February 21, 2003
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Monday, February 17, 2003
Friday, February 14, 2003
Thursday, February 13, 2003
FEAR AND ENMITY
Fear is a strange thing. It has a peculiar effect on the mind, which some people use for their benefit.
Fear creates enmity -- a deep-seated hatred, but also implying an enemy.
Scare the people, and show them a picture of the enemy. The rest will work itself out.
When one is stricken with fear, one will do things that one would not normally do. So if you think it is important to keep your wits about you...don't succumb to fear. Fear itself is the enemy, and is, to a certain extent, the creator of it.
When in times of crisis...seek impartial advice...as the vested players are entirely vested. Seeking advice from a panicked soul is not wise.
May God remove fear and enmity from all souls, and bodies in need of souls.
May contageous laughter fill the air. This terror thing blows.
Fear is a strange thing. It has a peculiar effect on the mind, which some people use for their benefit.
Fear creates enmity -- a deep-seated hatred, but also implying an enemy.
Scare the people, and show them a picture of the enemy. The rest will work itself out.
When one is stricken with fear, one will do things that one would not normally do. So if you think it is important to keep your wits about you...don't succumb to fear. Fear itself is the enemy, and is, to a certain extent, the creator of it.
When in times of crisis...seek impartial advice...as the vested players are entirely vested. Seeking advice from a panicked soul is not wise.
May God remove fear and enmity from all souls, and bodies in need of souls.
May contageous laughter fill the air. This terror thing blows.
Sunday, February 09, 2003
Saturday, February 08, 2003
Friday, February 07, 2003
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Monday, February 03, 2003
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Monday, January 27, 2003
Iddy's new site:
Iddybud
"Prayer for the Dying"
A prayer that those who are suffering and will suffer might attain at least a philosophical wisdom which sooths their souls in trying times.
Iddybud
"Prayer for the Dying"
A prayer that those who are suffering and will suffer might attain at least a philosophical wisdom which sooths their souls in trying times.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
A Mindless Waste of Time by ANONYMOSES There is no intellection to be found issuing forth from the pen of those risible fellers you indicted. And over the months and years, as their selectman drives the US further and further down the toilet, they only get worse. And there are many like them. Just read some of my recent posts, and the ludibund reactions they splathered across a few weak sentences.
A child's sandbox will grant you more thought than what these slabberdegullions upchuck on an hourly basis.
But they are not only unintelligent...they are morally bankrupt, mean-spirited, misogynistic, greed-driven egocentric teens and teen wannabees. Oh yes, and a few overgrown bullies, misanthropes, chawbacons, peckerwoods, biker babes, trailor queens, and paid apologists.
You will never get a simple statement out of them. Rather it will nearly always be emotionally-charged reactionary namecalling, or, if it is an actual idea...it will not be original, but simply a manufactured response straight from the factory.
Granted, there are a few who don't fall into this trap and category, but by and large their angry reactions are entirely predictable, and thus, as I said, a waste of time. You may as well go ahead and write your own responses...you know what they are going to be.
In a nutshell, their strategy, if it could be called that, is to paint you as "the enemy" and thus expendable...even at their own hands. And as they are fearful of fighting mano a mano, they are armed to the teeth...as if fear were in our vocabulary. Great projectors they are!
But test them, if you don't believe me. Try to get them to create an original idea which spans paragraphs.
It can't be done.
For them it is enough to react quickly and preferably with insults and usually a bastardization of your screen name...ala the fat man's messiah, Rush Limbaugh.
But mostly it is just high-fiving and drunken belches. You've seen 'em in taverns and on the side of the road begging for drinkmoney. Or locked away by their husbands in places safe from temptation. Some are in sports bars, high-fiving each other, while turning their brains into cheap liquid. Native-Americans would never confuse them for "humans". Best to steer clear, unless you want to be sold a bag of chintz.
The fact that they openly abhor philosophy and wisdom ought to tell you something. They wouldn't know it if it smacked them in the face. How can they share it with you?
They bring nothing to the party but empty attitude, and the ability to react reprehensibly.
Hope this clears up the matter.
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A child's sandbox will grant you more thought than what these slabberdegullions upchuck on an hourly basis.
But they are not only unintelligent...they are morally bankrupt, mean-spirited, misogynistic, greed-driven egocentric teens and teen wannabees. Oh yes, and a few overgrown bullies, misanthropes, chawbacons, peckerwoods, biker babes, trailor queens, and paid apologists.
You will never get a simple statement out of them. Rather it will nearly always be emotionally-charged reactionary namecalling, or, if it is an actual idea...it will not be original, but simply a manufactured response straight from the factory.
Granted, there are a few who don't fall into this trap and category, but by and large their angry reactions are entirely predictable, and thus, as I said, a waste of time. You may as well go ahead and write your own responses...you know what they are going to be.
In a nutshell, their strategy, if it could be called that, is to paint you as "the enemy" and thus expendable...even at their own hands. And as they are fearful of fighting mano a mano, they are armed to the teeth...as if fear were in our vocabulary. Great projectors they are!
But test them, if you don't believe me. Try to get them to create an original idea which spans paragraphs.
It can't be done.
For them it is enough to react quickly and preferably with insults and usually a bastardization of your screen name...ala the fat man's messiah, Rush Limbaugh.
But mostly it is just high-fiving and drunken belches. You've seen 'em in taverns and on the side of the road begging for drinkmoney. Or locked away by their husbands in places safe from temptation. Some are in sports bars, high-fiving each other, while turning their brains into cheap liquid. Native-Americans would never confuse them for "humans". Best to steer clear, unless you want to be sold a bag of chintz.
The fact that they openly abhor philosophy and wisdom ought to tell you something. They wouldn't know it if it smacked them in the face. How can they share it with you?
They bring nothing to the party but empty attitude, and the ability to react reprehensibly.
Hope this clears up the matter.
GoCarolinas.com: News Message Boards
Monday, January 20, 2003
Sunday, January 19, 2003
WISDOM FOR A TROUBLED PLANET
by Anonymoses
The world is a very troubled place. I am here to help heal it of its wounds. Come share your wisdom with a troubled world, that all light may shine the more brightly, and future generations can avoid the dark we might have created in our pussilanimous scramble for wealth and security.
Here are thought that go beyond. Enjoy...
by Anonymoses
The world is a very troubled place. I am here to help heal it of its wounds. Come share your wisdom with a troubled world, that all light may shine the more brightly, and future generations can avoid the dark we might have created in our pussilanimous scramble for wealth and security.
Here are thought that go beyond. Enjoy...
Who's Who in the History of Mysticism
INCLUDING:
Pythagoras (c.580/570-c.500 B.C.E.): A Presocratic philosopher. Founder of a major school of philosophy/religion that emphasized the mystical interconnections in numbers, nature, and the human soul. The natural and the ethical world were inseparable.
Plotinus (c.205-270 C.E.): Enneads. The non-Christian, neo-Platonic basis for much Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mysticism. Influences: Plato, Aristotle.
Justin Martyr (c.105-c.165): First Apology. Used Greek philosophy as the stepping-stone to Christian theology. The mystical conclusions that some Greeks arrived at, pointed to Christ. Influences: Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, Aristotle, Stoicism.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (writing c.500): The Celestial Hierarchy, the Mystical Theology, The Divine Names, Letters. Originates the distinction between kataphatic and apophatic theology. Influences: Plotinus.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153): Sermons, De diligendo Deo, On the Love of God. Cistercian mystic. Promoted a mystical vision of rhapsodic love, in which the Church is described in erotic terms as the bride of Christ. His love-mysticism had the tendency to be anti-intellectual, as in his disputes with Abelard.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): Scivias, The Book of Divine Works, Letters. Early German speculative mystic, reminiscent of Isaiah or Ezekiel at times. She was greatly respected in her time, both for her writings as well as for her music and art. Influences: Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux.
Francis of Assisi (John Bernardone) (1182-1226): Canticle of the Sun. Founder of the Franciscan order, which emphasized self-renunciation and poverty. Francis approaches nature mysticism at times, particularly when he sees God in all living things.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1327/8): Sermons, Parisian Questions and Prologues. [Some English-language selections from his writings are available.] Dominican monk. One of the most important early German speculative mystics. Eckhart is the first of the so-called "Rhineland" mystics. The Sermons were in German, the academic works in Latin. Influences: Pseudo-Dionysius.
Julian of Norwich (1342-1413?): Showings or Revelations of Divine Love. Julian was part of the "English school" of late mediaeval mysticism. Mystical experience that came at the point of death. The experience came with healing, and she devoted her life to understanding her vision. Influences: Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas (?).
Thomas a Kempis (c.1380-1471): The Imitation of Christ. Augustinian monk. Finest expression of "devotio moderna", modern spirituality, which downplays the Rhineland mystics' concern with contemplation and speculative theology, and stresses the practice of simple piety and asceticism. Influences: Eckhart.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): Hermetic philosopher, one of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance. Bruno advocated a kind of nature mysticism which had a strong scientific component to it.
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624): Aurora (1612) [in German], Mysterium Pansophicum (1620), Signature Rerum (1622), Mysterium Magnum (1623). Lusatian Lutheran. A major figure in German mysticism. Influences: Eckhart, the Jewish Kabbalah, Valentin Weigel, Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsus.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772): Many works, including Arcana Coelestia, Heaven and Hell, The Heavenly City, Divine Love and Wisdom, etc. Swedenborg worked out a detailed understanding of nature mysticism, applying it to everything from the animal world to the spiritual world. He has an active following to the present.
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"The World According to Blog"
Time to take that Newell getaway!
INCLUDING:
Pythagoras (c.580/570-c.500 B.C.E.): A Presocratic philosopher. Founder of a major school of philosophy/religion that emphasized the mystical interconnections in numbers, nature, and the human soul. The natural and the ethical world were inseparable.
Plotinus (c.205-270 C.E.): Enneads. The non-Christian, neo-Platonic basis for much Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mysticism. Influences: Plato, Aristotle.
Justin Martyr (c.105-c.165): First Apology. Used Greek philosophy as the stepping-stone to Christian theology. The mystical conclusions that some Greeks arrived at, pointed to Christ. Influences: Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, Aristotle, Stoicism.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (writing c.500): The Celestial Hierarchy, the Mystical Theology, The Divine Names, Letters. Originates the distinction between kataphatic and apophatic theology. Influences: Plotinus.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153): Sermons, De diligendo Deo, On the Love of God. Cistercian mystic. Promoted a mystical vision of rhapsodic love, in which the Church is described in erotic terms as the bride of Christ. His love-mysticism had the tendency to be anti-intellectual, as in his disputes with Abelard.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): Scivias, The Book of Divine Works, Letters. Early German speculative mystic, reminiscent of Isaiah or Ezekiel at times. She was greatly respected in her time, both for her writings as well as for her music and art. Influences: Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux.
Francis of Assisi (John Bernardone) (1182-1226): Canticle of the Sun. Founder of the Franciscan order, which emphasized self-renunciation and poverty. Francis approaches nature mysticism at times, particularly when he sees God in all living things.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1327/8): Sermons, Parisian Questions and Prologues. [Some English-language selections from his writings are available.] Dominican monk. One of the most important early German speculative mystics. Eckhart is the first of the so-called "Rhineland" mystics. The Sermons were in German, the academic works in Latin. Influences: Pseudo-Dionysius.
Julian of Norwich (1342-1413?): Showings or Revelations of Divine Love. Julian was part of the "English school" of late mediaeval mysticism. Mystical experience that came at the point of death. The experience came with healing, and she devoted her life to understanding her vision. Influences: Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas (?).
Thomas a Kempis (c.1380-1471): The Imitation of Christ. Augustinian monk. Finest expression of "devotio moderna", modern spirituality, which downplays the Rhineland mystics' concern with contemplation and speculative theology, and stresses the practice of simple piety and asceticism. Influences: Eckhart.
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): Hermetic philosopher, one of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance. Bruno advocated a kind of nature mysticism which had a strong scientific component to it.
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624): Aurora (1612) [in German], Mysterium Pansophicum (1620), Signature Rerum (1622), Mysterium Magnum (1623). Lusatian Lutheran. A major figure in German mysticism. Influences: Eckhart, the Jewish Kabbalah, Valentin Weigel, Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsus.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772): Many works, including Arcana Coelestia, Heaven and Hell, The Heavenly City, Divine Love and Wisdom, etc. Swedenborg worked out a detailed understanding of nature mysticism, applying it to everything from the animal world to the spiritual world. He has an active following to the present.
TRAVEL BLOG
"The World According to Blog"
Time to take that Newell getaway!
Blog innovator, Dave Winer, goes to Harvard...
He has been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
DaveNet : Chapter 5 in which Dave goes to Harvard
He has been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
DaveNet : Chapter 5 in which Dave goes to Harvard
Friday, January 17, 2003
WISDOM
From generation to generation, passing into holy souls,
wisdom maketh men friends of God and prophets.
- The Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha)
I was discussing education with my friend, Darryl, who, as a 30-somethinger, is going back to school. University, thankfully.
And I suppose it was this fact which gave rise to the question of education.
Being a great fan of what is called "wisdom literature", as well as philosophy in general...I said that I thought the getting of wisdom was of paramount concern. But he doubted that one could quantify the getting of wisdom.
I then said that it was then imperative that we get rid of this model which sanctifies quantifiability yet dismisses wisdom.
Anyway...the quote above is one good reason, among a multitude, for getting wisdom. To have such friends as God and the prophets!
May we reflect well on our friends. And vice versa.
From generation to generation, passing into holy souls,
wisdom maketh men friends of God and prophets.
- The Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha)
I was discussing education with my friend, Darryl, who, as a 30-somethinger, is going back to school. University, thankfully.
And I suppose it was this fact which gave rise to the question of education.
Being a great fan of what is called "wisdom literature", as well as philosophy in general...I said that I thought the getting of wisdom was of paramount concern. But he doubted that one could quantify the getting of wisdom.
I then said that it was then imperative that we get rid of this model which sanctifies quantifiability yet dismisses wisdom.
Anyway...the quote above is one good reason, among a multitude, for getting wisdom. To have such friends as God and the prophets!
May we reflect well on our friends. And vice versa.
BLOGS & COLUMNISM
Bloggers are taking the place of Columnists,
and offer the benefit of interactivity and self-evolution.
PBS did an expose of blogs and bloggers, and many good points were made, which should make one reconsider their desires for being a columnist...and all the rigamarole that goes along with securing such a job -- and simply write the damn columns, in the form of blogs, and thus relinquishing the fear that one will fall into a vat of writersblock.
One of the excellent points was that minds change. And with blogs one can more easily get feedback and adjust one's thinking accordingly. And one needn't identify with a particular point of view...as is often the case with the Corporate Media.
Bloggers are taking the place of Columnists,
and offer the benefit of interactivity and self-evolution.
PBS did an expose of blogs and bloggers, and many good points were made, which should make one reconsider their desires for being a columnist...and all the rigamarole that goes along with securing such a job -- and simply write the damn columns, in the form of blogs, and thus relinquishing the fear that one will fall into a vat of writersblock.
One of the excellent points was that minds change. And with blogs one can more easily get feedback and adjust one's thinking accordingly. And one needn't identify with a particular point of view...as is often the case with the Corporate Media.
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