tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186275392012-02-16T02:00:12.621-05:00Whats, What and How To Deal With Itthis blog contains theosophical musings. anything contained herein is what's what. at this point you have to decide; how you're going to deal with it!the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-71850104362561417702011-06-08T12:59:00.002-04:002011-06-16T16:05:37.092-04:00W.E.B. DuBois on Booker T. WashingtonIn "The Soul of Black Folks" Chapter 3, paragraph 15, we see the logical fallacy of DuBois' argument against Booker T. Washington's "solidarity and hard work to mutual racial respect" paradigm. DuBois posits that Washington "represents in Negro thought the old attitude of adjustment and submission" such that it would be counter to self-respect. Additionally, that Washington's programme of the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-36397355162506238722011-04-29T21:26:00.003-04:002011-05-05T07:03:16.681-04:00Whats with the business world's fascination with EXCITEMENT? Isn't "excitement" what get's us into financial trouble, i.e. Dot-com and Real-Estate bubbles? I prefer pragmatic actionable intelligence over "excitement" any day. The "Efficient Market Hypothesis" would work if "excitement" were replaced with fundamental analysis. Just a thought. Excitement vs pragmatism is a thought exercise to be the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-21256772739561950422011-04-15T19:17:00.001-04:002011-11-20T13:55:33.437-05:00the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-11275379532279150502011-03-14T16:51:00.001-04:002011-04-11T11:40:01.145-04:00the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-80810135796038480152010-11-24T09:09:00.003-05:002011-09-19T18:50:16.175-04:00
Pleading love (2010)
i'm pleading love with you.
I'm pleading certain eternity,
against assumed entropy.
if it be a rose,
let it not be long stemmed,
but a bush.
allowing multiple glories,
and chances for redemption,
seventy times seven.
i'm pleading love with you
i'm pleading love with you.
not possesive.
for it is not ours to give.
shared and given back,
like the lives we the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-44695795361232033742010-10-30T15:11:00.005-04:002010-10-30T15:19:26.539-04:00 The cellular makeup of a highly adaptive system, potentially strategy-based ad-hoc communication links, creating organic, purpose-based subsystems.the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-70373821048514481372009-09-12T13:23:00.002-04:002011-09-19T18:47:26.007-04:00Life As An Oxymoron (Revised 2009)
We have a
Love, hate,
disconnected relationship,
with eachother's selves.
A cause resulting in
a singular duality,
that vigorously stagnates
our seemingly extinct existence.
Probably because
the practicing preachers
have dead lives.
While, religious politicians
tell believable lies.
Raising our lowered,
expectant agnosticism.
We learn to act natural
when the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-60128703844660234912009-08-18T23:24:00.003-04:002009-08-19T00:15:19.375-04:00A Single Mom's PainI have been thinking of somethings said and unsaid. First it blows my mind that you have the nerve to say how dependent and self sufficient I need to be when you have no "concept" of the word, and what I mean by that is from what I know about you you have always been taking care and picked up which has enabled you to half step in everything you do you have always been with a the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-86185354314708844852008-01-18T22:25:00.005-05:002011-06-16T16:17:23.397-04:00Her: Part II
aesthetic truth, she was
mathematical proof.
semiotic woman, she was.
aurally, optically and olfactorily.... seemingly aloof,
she was a gravitational force,
creating galaxies of adoration, she was
a pause in space-time
and a muse for my rhyme.
although speechless at the time.
she was all of these and nothing simultaneously.
what was it?
my circumspection precluding the erection
the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-48050873790718389932007-11-06T02:18:00.001-05:002009-10-23T11:20:37.047-04:00Love: A Definition (Revised 2009)it establishes the orbits,betwixt atoms, friendsand trees in a forest.planets align along its axis.trajectories bend to its will,life the result.both attracted and repulsed.with respected boundaries,and admired inner spaces,burning sweetly within viewit sets order in chaos,with unknowable plans.an intellectual paradise,of balance and symbiosis.it sets time and the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-11545979748346919382007-10-01T11:52:00.000-04:002012-01-04T17:51:03.063-05:00Education As A Commercial TransactionEducation As Commerce
Arguing about college affordability is oxymoronic and paradoxical. The motivations of an educated society should be altruistic. Education in the specter of commerce creates a cast society that was all but abolished with the Magna Carta. In order to pull America out of its greed-induced coma (thus awakening to the new world's knowledge economy), commerce needs to be the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-7199023863482713882007-09-17T14:36:00.001-04:002011-05-30T15:32:18.473-04:00Torture as Business (Revised 2011)
torture works, man
the vice gets tighter er'ry day
torture works, man,
you gotta pay to play
phlebotomy, or
secrets, for
security.
more....!?
fraudulent loans,
for homes,
now government owned.
how degrading,
when you gotta cheat to eat.
pulling out fingernails, dollars and souls.
torture works, man!
the vice gets tighter er'ry day.
torture works, man,
you the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-82406300066424541992007-09-17T11:11:00.000-04:002007-11-06T02:48:26.483-05:00Complexity is a boon to Terrorists, Multinationals & News/Market Makerswe are falling head long into an era of defacto-communism. security and financial threats are causing us to infuse the federal govt. with more and more power. the federalization of airline, border and market security, as well as gov't. bailouts of failing companies, will have us waking up a communist country. case in point; the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-88038726914522196632007-09-16T00:05:00.010-04:002009-11-03T07:25:25.435-05:00The love affair with the lie of individualismmodern western philosophers such as Locke, professed individualism and personal sovereignty, while oxymoronically espousing God's sovereignty. it is this paradoxical idealism that created the United States and sealed it's fate simultaneously. all rationalizations of avarice, disguised as manifest destiny extend from these precepts. a nation of the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-57444928252878940642007-08-29T01:32:00.000-04:002007-08-29T01:39:25.614-04:00The Wool Being Pulled Over Your Eyes!the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-22163136204992180092007-08-17T19:08:00.000-04:002007-11-06T02:49:33.803-05:00Pimp MentalityWhat's going' on. There seems to be a big disconnect in the man-woman thing these days. They don't understand us and we will never understand them. What is the cause for all this confusion? Well in the following paragraphs I will attempt to diagnose the problem and offer some prescriptions.Let's start a couple of generations back. There were, in those times, very established gender the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-7012633232734914652007-08-17T14:36:00.004-04:002008-05-05T15:24:41.093-04:00what is the matrix?The current corporate free-market paradigm is usurping the common good. The common good is an idea predicated on economic and/or political non-influence. The free-market enables the evil of greed to persist unchecked (either intentionally or unintentionally). Governments are in place to first serve and protect it's citizens. How can an altruistic ideal government come into the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1146936655741832862006-05-06T13:15:00.001-04:002010-10-26T19:50:11.156-04:00About a boyI wanted to talk about love, life and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. But in my research all i was able to come up with is a bunch of clichés that everybody already knows. We know everything. So then i decided to create a piece of 'art'. i figured that telling you all about love, life and spiritual enlightenment would be an exercise in redundancy, in that the reference materialthe thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131210046244458972005-11-05T11:45:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:11.702-05:00A computer is the attempt of man to put concepts in a vacuum, void of desires and perceptions of pain. If constructed adequately it could yield pure reason. Leading to truths, that if understood and applied by humans, would have the potential to be infinately good, or infinately evil.the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131208728253615552005-11-05T11:36:00.000-05:002007-11-06T02:48:05.359-05:00Locke prefaced his masterwork "Essay" with a rhetorically understated "Epistle to the Reader." In it he points to his awareness that the need for a systematic investigation of human understanding first arose in the context of a friendly, but unproductive discussion of other issues. Any intellectual has had this same thought as they attempt a dialog, whose goal is to reach an understanding, only the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131208500524284462005-11-05T11:33:00.000-05:002007-02-21T10:38:56.340-05:00The purpose of a life is to realize itself, and its connection to the whole/universe. This is both empirical/pragmatic (in the William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce sense of the words), and intuitive. Realization begins with an experience and ends with intuit conception. Birth, in the humanistic sense of the word begins at conception (when sperm and egg unite). I submit that in the Spinoza the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131175448327792612005-11-05T02:21:00.000-05:002007-02-21T11:04:20.514-05:00Freedom, what is it? Freedom can be defined as the human capacity to act (or not act) as we choose or prefer, without external compulsion or restraint. Slavery could be considered an antonym of freedom. Which could be defined as no ability to act (or not to act) because of compulsion and/or restraint (I would add real or perceived compulsion and/or restraint). Now the question is, are you free orthe thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131153593218762592005-11-04T19:33:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:10.198-05:00This is for all you horribly dressed people I run into on a daily basis. Now I will admit, that the midwest is not known for being a pillar of fashion (Chicago excepted). But there is T.V., the internet and any number of magazines to refer to. Bottom line, no excuse! As a founding member of Urban Sophisticate, I may have the blessing of superior fashion sense, though I would admit that I was not the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131150649893380702005-11-04T19:22:00.000-05:002007-11-06T02:48:41.843-05:00I often write on my blogs and contribute to others as well. A common theme I've noticed is that everyone thinks that they have to be funny (I admit I am guilty of this myself). Even if the subject matter is not necessarily humerous. So I ask myself, what is wrong with presenting a serious matter as serious and not being aplogetic about it. 'Cause when you think about it the issues facing man the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131139896864092522005-11-04T16:13:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:09.506-05:00I am part of the duo that is bringing you film philosophy. books along with myself are engaged in an attempt to find truths and the philosophies hidden in the new form of intellectual sublimation, which is film and movies. So I invite all sophisticated movie watchers to check us out @ www.filmphilos.blogspot.com . Bring with you, your thinking caps and personal experiences.the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131082894869559932005-11-04T00:12:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:09.199-05:00All knowlege and reason lies in the hearts of men. All absolutes are temporary. Information is a toy in the hands of babes. Picked up and manipulated, only to be tossed aside for a new shinier one. Most dogmas ane flights of fancy, perpetuated on the world as truths, through emperical doctrine. Moralities and norms are the clothes on your back. Faith is the only continuum, a cerebral tatoo. the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131081024914632382005-11-04T00:08:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:08.876-05:00America was not formed by highly idealized oppressed people from europe. It was formed by self-justified greedy people who wanted to be free to make as much money as they could.Reference linkthe thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18627539.post-1131078921547422192005-11-03T23:35:00.000-05:002006-11-11T12:18:08.037-05:00this is the fetish fav of the month for November. for all you lames out there, this is miss thora birch (of ghost world and american beauty fame). she is also playing a starring role in a new project called "my wet dreams". the thelosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11357678494751965786noreply@blogger.com0