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To the Wall, Nonetheless
When we were young together, Harry, Alice and I were entered into a play. I suppose it was something for the school, or at least I don’t recall having volunteered to join. But there we were,…
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On Shark-Fins
I have this feeling like I am on the cusp of some greater understanding, and that I need an extended period of rumination to bring it forth. I have collected the story of Christ as it…
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On Writing
Edited from excerpts of 12/7/23 – Continued Thoughts on Learning What a painful and inefficient way to grow and learn it is, to be corrected by a faceless, general audience. And this is my lot because…
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Dew of My Heart
I would like to become a wise old man And I listen and seek experience, to help me become wise But I feel like I am holding my head inside of a raging fire, and bringing…
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Litany on Potential
Potential is not the metric of a life in this moment. It is always beyond, always ahead. There is no end in sight to my potential, or to anyone’s. My life will not be the end…
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Mice in my Garage
There are mice in my garage. And I have not killed a mouse,but I have seen it done with traps and I have seen them crushed underfootI have also seen how cats kill them, and cats…
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Grey Hairs
One should refrain from practicing philosophy until one has grey hairs. By the same nature as evolution, self-importance, acceptance of fate, self-delusion and valuation of the status quo are the tenets of worthless old men, all…
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On Existential Psychoanalysis
Edited from “2/17/23 – On Existential Psychoanalysis” To extend the title: ‘in relation to Sam Harris’ explication of determinism’: Per Sartre’s description of existential psychoanalysis, the exercise that I performed previously for Sam’s Free Will can…
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The Human Knows Where It Is
An object is what it is because it is. The human understands what an object is by knowing what it isn’t. By relating what an object is to what it isn’t, the human creates a relation…
Sanctity and Constraint 