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"descartes" poems
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
the tourney
if you drill down, past the hair, flesh and bone. into my mind where the ego and id  reside. then turn to the left, and follow the i.q. down the alley, you will find a place. where on thrones of cogitating thoughts, king big questions asked, reigns in conjunction, with, queen yet unanswered. they watch with interest benign, over a field of  an eternal tourney, split roughly down the middle by a chasm quite wide. on one side of the gorge is arrayed, the banners of philosophy. at the vanguard, the epistemological knights; plato, descartes, ferrier, kant, hume,spinoza and bosanquet. the major forces ride beneath the banners, of their schools of thought. followed by the lesser lights, and those, obscure or forgotten, who walk at the rear,carrying the gear and to set the tent poles. as to the other side, that is given to, the seminaries of religion; bhuddism, taoism, islam, hindu, juche, rastafarian, sikh, diasporic, parsis, tenrikyo, judaism and christianity with all its clans. they array themselves in cadres, according to belief. and to the rear, there rides, an interesting guerilla band, of intertestemantals, about 3 or 4 hundred years wide. these are the few who are  accounted for, when god spoke nothing, or perhaps a lot but the message just got lost. they number in their disparate clan, alexander the great, ptolemy, the hellanic masses, seluecids, maccabeans, hasmoeans and pompey the great, not all, but the noteworthy. across the divide, by arrowing thought were fought rallies of acumen and battles of wit and occasionally, a persipacious fire was lit. but there is one more player, to mention. apathy, the great hulking ****** who for want of gumption, and get up and go, sat crouched, (quite uncomfortably so) on a spire. made of mediocracy, cemented by woe, in the iddle of the rifted abyss. unable to decide with which team to go.
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Who on Earth were these people From the past, who made sense Of a world without iPods, iPads or plumbing? What’s up with those towering minds of yesteryear? From where did they come and how come? Goethe standing so tall Voltaire you tower! And bend over Beethoven, I can’t reach your low five. What grant of Gods favor gave them sight? Awesome mighty minds of the past. Descartes, I think so you are, So smart that I think I am not. Galileo you saw heaven before I had eyes. Einstein, Da Vinci, Archimedes You and your kind will all live forever, Men will stand upon your shoulders And then die.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 10:00 PM UTC
Crude Tribute to Intellect
[Fanfare, obviously] This poem should begin with the call of a bugle, as is fitting for an ode of Braveheart Macdougal. Children of Parklands, take heed and be wary, as I relate now, in verse, a tale cautionary. Benigna Murdie was a most virtuous lass, blesséd with promise and a penchant for sass. To peer pressure she was admirably immune, and ne'er did she bow to the temptation of goon. Nary a drop of ***** has e'er passed her lips, save for politeness and church-mandated sips. Yet even the mightiest fall-- what a pity! (harder than I did that night in the city). So I hope you all glean a moral from this, and your interpretation does not go too amiss. But all is self-evident, to quote Descartes, so allow me to recount this tale from the start. She hails from a country renown for their piety, for their pacifist ways and universal sobriety. The Scottish are known throughout the land for their temperance of character and lightness of hand. And our poor Bennigles was no rule-exception, she subscribed quite wholly to this perception. A more reserved and reclusive girl you've not seen, virtually a saint at only nineteen. Passed out on the couch, liquor was never the root, only strain from the studying and academic pursuit. A paradigm of virtue, a pillar of purity, no “that's-what-she-said's” to compromise maturity. But that all changed one day touched by fate, when Rachel realized that hedonism's great. She took to the streets to revel in her glee, and legit nothing bad happened cause this isn't tv. Alas, now I'm drunk and the screen is a-shaking, perhaps of wine I should halt my partaking. I cannot continue with this facetious ode, as we all well know that this is a total load. But I'll miss you, my Brit, and our shitshow nights, our Australian exploits and your culinary delights. Sorry I couldn't finish to detail your demise, but perhaps I'll conclude after an Australia-reprise.
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Feb 13, 2013
Feb 13, 2013 at 6:20 AM UTC
ODE TO A SCOT
[Fanfare, obviously] This poem should begin with the call of a bugle, as is fitting for an ode of Braveheart Macdougal. Children of Parklands, take heed and be wary, as I relate now, in verse, a tale cautionary. Benigna Murdie was a most virtuous lass, blesséd with promise and a penchant for sass. To peer pressure she was admirably immune, and ne'er did she bow to the temptation of goon. Nary a drop of ***** has e'er passed her lips, save for politeness and church-mandated sips. Yet even the mightiest fall-- what a pity! (harder than I did that night in the city). So I hope you all glean a moral from this, and your interpretation does not go too amiss. But all is self-evident, to quote Descartes, so allow me to recount this tale from the start. She hails from a country renown for their piety, for their pacifist ways and universal sobriety. The Scottish are known throughout the land for their temperance of character and lightness of hand. And our poor Bennigles was no rule-exception, she subscribed quite wholly to this perception. A more reserved and reclusive girl you've not seen, virtually a saint at only nineteen. Passed out on the couch, liquor was never the root, only strain from the studying and academic pursuit. A paradigm of virtue, a pillar of purity, no “that's-what-she-said's” to compromise maturity. But that all changed one day touched by fate, when Rachel realized that hedonism's great. She took to the streets to revel in her glee, and legit nothing bad happened cause this isn't tv. Alas, now I'm drunk and the screen is a-shaking, perhaps of wine I should halt my partaking. I cannot continue with this facetious ode, as we all well know that this is a total load. But I'll miss you, my Brit, and our shitshow nights, our Australian exploits and your culinary delights. Sorry I couldn't finish to detail your demise, but perhaps I'll conclude after an Australia-reprise.
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A cave crawls into me, turns inside out, Captures my heart and saves my skin for last. Slimy shadows spread like faith to doubt. Is this the Jungian Shadow here to lambaste While all the photons of the sun depart As quickly as they come--an original sin-- And stop my thinking like Rene Descartes, Affronting twistless logic like particle spin? Now perceiving nothing it must exist, Like Freud with OCD made Oedipus blind-- Becoming nothing nothing can resist. Finally into earth my mind confined: Create in me a ***** heart, o earth. Perhaps a worm will have a ****** birth.
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Feb 3, 2012
Feb 3, 2012 at 12:51 PM UTC
Esoteric.
voices, mirror glance inward-outward -inward-outward-inanoutandinward in simultaneous disease-like passion-- divine like bacteria kneading and bleep -ing up to one to one against to one toward a unity, a collective evolutionary force begin -ning in a marshy wallow-- forward to a creature slithers rocks unsure if fish or finger-- beyond unto a sharp-claw carnivorous terror (the Divine Right of Kings) and slowly, in the wake of the destruction the shattered continental plate lifted like a carpet during renovation violence, the bacteria stayed away and under soiled-earth to slowly form toward the muddy saliva of a strangely-fit mouse-rat.... through the dissipating wake of molten mist, a sabertooth tiger yawns with a growled-tremor and an after-bath shake-- ends a trampled scrap under mammoth foot having indicted this panic in its desperate mammalian hunger-- this bacteria, kneading and bleeping, continues its one to one against to one as a meaty slab metabolized by opportunistic caveman feeding his cubs and his loves before courage became the theoretical pond -ering of Voltaire's and Descartes's and Camus's...
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
the mist toward the poem
Philosophical epistemology strumming adventures Albeit, coherent mental decoding stratifications structured Supposedly our world rests in our minds, revolving knowledge An entwine of conceptual abstract flowing within oneself The mind in the “I” the “I” a reality lived in my experiences George of Leontini, a mine mind approving solipsism exploring innatism Imaginative insights that nothing exists, the secrets secreting secrets The knowledge behind the veils that remains un-communicated A reverse of normality and known existences, moral disposition Hypothesis of depersonalizations, adventures of self internalization Justifications for what lies outside the Medulla Oblongata Skepticism and just alternatives to western philosophy Subjective unapproved experiences only robust in one’s mind Descartes abstraction of inner experiences, reciprocated paradigm Intuitively, perceived lived formulations of "Cogito Ergo Sum" Psychological conscious undoubted individualistic thoughts Berkley explored perspectives that physicality is an embodiment of the mind The mind a decoding visualizer, that encompass the non-existent An idealism marriage of ‘metaphysical’ and epistemological philosophy The intense esoteric “dualism” verses the fiery “monism” reality Mind boggling differentiated truths bleeding with blinking unresolvable hypothesis The jiggered methodological, streamlining the un -logic sequential beats
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM UTC
Solipsism Quandary
What is the dream, the diary I keep with notes etched to the seam? What is the goal, the endpoint at which I determine my role? The world only skims off the top it seems, loving only the cream of the crop. Lost am I, having strayed from the path, a world split down the middle, cut and dry, and if so, where can I live, who can abide my wayward soul? A soul assembled from the ashes of Descartes and Kant, a contradiction in continuity, can I or can't I, change the hand that I've got? Listen to the song, the siren's polyphony, the refrain rate familiar, the color tone wrong, discern for yourself, what is the bane of the crown? Stifle your fear and strike at the root, with shovel in hand bury your sin, always striving for truth, rend the tree at both ends. Yes, I am a pariah, ***** in purpose and soul, the wayfarer's failure, refusing to pay the pathfinder's toll, and although my map is imperfect, all roads lead to Rome. Retreatist, rebel, jester, fool, gladly I'll claim the whole lot, each title a badge, a step towards my goal, this society is sick and refuses to see, each individual is a person, gay, gypsy, Muslim, Jew.
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM UTC
Wayward Soul
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 10:21 AM UTC
NUMINOSITY (OR HUMANISM OWES A DEBT TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
Is humanism Utopian? You really have to think about it. Or is it rather more dystopian? No, then I think you’d never doubt it. It seems that disbelief is best. Humanism owes a debt to thinkers of the Enlightenment, although I haven’t paid it yet, I think of it as my entitlement to settle it at some behest. I very early cleared my mind of Kant, experiencing a vast relief, approaching his chef d’oeuvres extant; removing knowledge to allow belief; the opposite of what he had expressed. It occurred to me I ought to dig up (or should I say instead ex-hume?) what constitutes at least an egg-cup- full of wisdom that I might consume with non-platonic zest. But wondering how on earth to do so and thinking he might hold the key, I fixed my sights on Jean Jacques Rousseau and set sail for my destiny, while trying not to feel depressed. Voltaire’s voices loudly rang in deaf ears as did the Persian Letters of Montesquieu and failed to still my latent fears. And thus I felt no need to rescue Adam Smith (morality-obsessed). To put Descartes before the Horse- men of the Apocalypse War, famine, pestilence and worse. Who could guess it would eclipse my thought, wherefore I was oppressed. Or take the case of Denis Diderot a friend of Hume and others seedier. and one you might consider so rash as to produce an encyclopedia to get his knowledge off his chest. That precious quality of truth was Mary Ann’s# description of it. It would not take a Sherlock sleuth to simply thus produce a conviction of it: an elementary request. I cut my questing teeth on Russell. His secular logic had a profound effect and seemed to stir each red corpuscle inhabiting this fervid non-sect- arian but doubting breast. I later turned my eye on Dawkins, and his concern with my divine delusion. A sceptic whose inspiring squawkings validate my disillusion and emphasise an ill-starred quest. And so I felt the pointlessness of it. Progress is the best end for a man to see And belief simply produced less profit for reality’s dispelling of my fantasy. So, in the end, I acquiesced. #Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot, in Adam Bede
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Tell me how, One person can divide into Three perfectly psychotic sentiments While still appearing to be whole Tell me how Multiplying your kindness only Creates a rift between myself and patience And ends with nights of contemplation followed by tumultuous Back-and-forths with imaginary numbers For I am no mathematician I cannot find a solution to every concrete problem I do not bother with equations or substitutes I only skim the symbol, rewrite questions and leave the answers hanging in the air Tell me why, Subtracting victims from my life Only added a murderous sentiment To every repeating decimal that couldn’t find its’ place Tell me why, The quadratic formula is emblazoned in my memory But everyone keeps throwing opposites at me So forgetting whether to add or to subtract becomes hazy And the square root gets suspended until next class, so the Four drops off the plane, two goes insane, and Letters lose their fictitious meanings For I am no mathematician Archimedes is finding the constant of my triangular coffin While Newton is rolling in his gravity Carl Gauss is busy laughing his *** off with fundamentals in his eyes and Descartes keeps whispering incoherent Latin, migraines sprinting towards me As if in a race So don’t ask me Whether or not you should divide by zero Or whether it requires sine, cosine, or a tangent My logic will not tell you anything you want to hear I am through trying to piece together this imaginary puzzle And I’ve had enough of playing this never-ending game Because I’ve been through two continents, and 4 different states And I still don’t know the meaning of my name. For I am no mathematician The only pie charts I am fond of, have to do with sugar and preheating an oven to 450 degrees And with every cubic centimeter I start thinking of cubes of cheddar cheese For I am no mathematician I can’t graph a simple line I don’t understand the dimensions of the polygon shown above And I’m tired of wasting precious time
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Oct 2, 2015
Oct 2, 2015 at 6:15 PM UTC
Mathematics (2010)
Tell me how, One person can divide into Three perfectly psychotic sentiments While still appearing to be whole Tell me how Multiplying your kindness only Creates a rift between myself and patience And ends with nights of contemplation followed by tumultuous Back-and-forths with imaginary numbers For I am no mathematician I cannot find a solution to every concrete problem I do not bother with equations or substitutes I only skim the symbol, rewrite questions and leave the answers hanging in the air Tell me why, Subtracting victims from my life Only added a murderous sentiment To every repeating decimal that couldn’t find its’ place Tell me why, The quadratic formula is emblazoned in my memory But everyone keeps throwing opposites at me So forgetting whether to add or to subtract becomes hazy And the square root gets suspended until next class, so the Four drops off the plane, two goes insane, and Letters lose their fictitious meanings For I am no mathematician Archimedes is finding the constant of my triangular coffin While Newton is rolling in his gravity Carl Gauss is busy laughing his *** off with fundamentals in his eyes and Descartes keeps whispering incoherent Latin, migraines sprinting towards me As if in a race So don’t ask me Whether or not you should divide by zero Or whether it requires sine, cosine, or a tangent My logic will not tell you anything you want to hear I am through trying to piece together this imaginary puzzle And I’ve had enough of playing this never-ending game Because I’ve been through two continents, and 4 different states And I still don’t know the meaning of my name. For I am no mathematician The only pie charts I am fond of, have to do with sugar and preheating an oven to 450 degrees And with every cubic centimeter I start thinking of cubes of cheddar cheese For I am no mathematician I can’t graph a simple line I don’t understand the dimensions of the polygon shown above And I’m tired of wasting precious time
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Sentience is life Sanctity a lie Sayin it alive "I think therefore I am"- Descartes So may as well be a slab of ham a part Ship the guts off to a lab grow a heart Social value before Science breakthrough Society lies before Society lives Public hysteria some Hateful euphoria Cloud regulation With false allegation Corrupt litigation By holy congregation A rights desecration In an uptight nation
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Dec 29, 2018
Dec 29, 2018 at 2:35 PM UTC
Coat Hangers
I promise you that we will make love On a bed full of philosophy books So that the depth of our hunger Matches the depth of our thinking Every press of my nail upon your flesh Will have you question your existence You'll feel more alive with every thought Then you will understand Rene Descartes Our smoldering bodies radiating pleasure Will have you disregard the material world This passion will posses the highest reality Then you'll understand Plato's forms Amidst my guidance toward your ****** You will hold values and aspirations close And form your most perfect self with me Then you'll understand Friedrich Nietzsche On this bed full of marvelous thoughts We will lay tangled exhausted overjoyed For our love our lust and our everything Will have the immensity of philosophy itself
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 12:00 PM UTC
Philosophy and Love
normality isn’t the same as the chaos we evade. The truth is, normality alludes us, we are formed beyond our minds declination. Somebody stole my freedom, using outside of the box thinking, in your mind and mind. And I was minding my business, just trying to take my own sweet time, again. and deja vu came through the window, again. the repetition of the rain cool calm and collected, the pain subsides, when i lived in my hiding place and the raindrops made the gutters flow. obviously, yet never expected; is it you? is it true? the juxtaposition of you. but they stole our souls before they attacked the weakened body. We didn’t hear them coming through the car crash TV; Are you and I the zombies? Is your mind in control, do you mind if they take control, or do you not mind at all? When the mask falls the I hide behind isn’t alien in dreams. not who i saw in the soul. is it true, deja vu. so benign in idyllic lies, a million miles away. tribes hide behind nothing but a little something to be unique, maybe a little something else to be discreet. But other than that, food and air, and company. there’s not much else we need. Make up? Make up your mind - who decided who you needed to be it certainly wasn’t you. Lost in the illusion of choice, like deja vu, like Descartes knew, in collusion with the muse of normality, by what is true to you, not actually the truth. it’s the perfect ephiany in alliance with deja vu. but what came first ? my mind, or yours, through closed doors of inspection; deception - they let them tell them. inception - they let them tell them And I know this fact to be true, because I’ve seen you in dreams before and I couldn’t believe my eyes; or change my view. I couldn’t believe it was you, deja vu, deja vu.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 10:39 AM UTC
impaired our view
normality isn’t the same as the chaos we evade. The truth is, normality alludes us, we are formed beyond our minds declination. Somebody stole my freedom, using outside of the box thinking, in your mind and mind. And I was minding my business, just trying to take my own sweet time, again. and deja vu came through the window, again. the repetition of the rain cool calm and collected, the pain subsides, when i lived in my hiding place and the raindrops made the gutters flow. obviously, yet never expected; is it you? is it true? the juxtaposition of you. but they stole our souls before they attacked the weakened body. We didn’t hear them coming through the car crash TV; Are you and I the zombies? Is your mind in control, do you mind if they take control, or do you not mind at all? When the mask falls the I hide behind isn’t alien in dreams. not who i saw in the soul. is it true, deja vu. so benign in idyllic lies, a million miles away. tribes hide behind nothing but a little something to be unique, maybe a little something else to be discreet. But other than that, food and air, and company. there’s not much else we need. Make up? Make up your mind - who decided who you needed to be it certainly wasn’t you. Lost in the illusion of choice, like deja vu, like Descartes knew, in collusion with the muse of normality, by what is true to you, not actually the truth. it’s the perfect ephiany in alliance with deja vu. but what came first ? my mind, or yours, through closed doors of inspection; deception - they let them tell them. inception - they let them tell them And I know this fact to be true, because I’ve seen you in dreams before and I couldn’t believe my eyes; or change my view. I couldn’t believe it was you, deja vu, deja vu.
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Descartes and Isaac Beeckman, Monsieur de Chandoux and Jacob Golius are talking Monsieur de Chandoux asks if Descartes will attend his next lecture and Descartes replies: “I don’t think so” And Descartes disappears
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 3:52 AM UTC
the trouble with Descartes
My first sense of the aversion raised by Frost, Walls swelled under, yet, I could not exhaust The barriers confronted on life's twisted path. Too enervating loosing one's sole ****** wrath, I pierce the wall that poets have not crossed And speak to you, my audience, in verse, Trusting the directed words that I asperse Will convey the meaning hoped to impart, Even more, some verbal beauty from my art, Into which, fair reader, you elatedly immerse. Gratified, I, the poet, have but you to thank, The wall of separation loses one more plank, Between us communication is not lost, Better that understanding be dispersed. We speak and therefore are, Descartes, Worth much more than gold or any cost.
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Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM UTC
Breaking the Fourth Wall
a clairvoyant sketches a gravedigger retrieving a dead child it was midnight inside his heart and in the drawings a limo hints at a tale murmurs in the crevices of night trying to find a way out of or onward beyond the cul-de-sac
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Mar 31, 2012
Mar 31, 2012 at 8:41 AM UTC
An Omen from Van Til to Descartes' Artisans
I am the wind of thought that flows through time. I am Homer and Achilles Sophocles, Shakespeare Verdi, Ibsen, and Williams. I flow through the generations, following imagination, leaving dark Chaos to rule the past. I am Zeus and Hera, And deeper, Mnemosyne Ananke and Chronos. I flitter it seems as I pass from moment to moment, memory to memory, soul to soul. I am Cleopatra, Jenny Lind, and Jolie teasing, singing and dancing to the delight of the Muses I am Jesus and Buddha Epicurus, Epictetus Even Chinese too. I am Descartes and Newton Einstein and Plank Math and logic Love and hate. I am God. I am the wind of thought that flows through our minds. I am the wind of thought that flows through our time.
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Feb 23, 2015
Feb 23, 2015 at 7:55 PM UTC
Wind of Thought
I would humbly put forth the idea, quite prostrate, that it would do us some good if we were to put aside, for a time, our epistemological certainties and archetypal savior fixations and, instead, opt for a more robust, ocher-hued ontological preeminence: putting the what before the why. Only then can one, say, sip hot herbal tea from an old pink bone china teacup and, without thinking about all the things all the time, for once -just- feel the sun's warmth on your aged face as it begins its set over a half-eaten cotton candy sky that is epic af and reminds you of Peter Pan and then Robin Williams and then whywhywhy and then something random and weirrrd, and, in doing so, you can watch the lack of shittogetherness, of which duly occupies the very seat of your character like a bully usurper that hits you bc "he loves you," melt into a very (very) temporary oblivion and revel in what is before you without feeling paralyzing angst that is, usually, soo angst-y that you gotta pronounce that **** in German as if you were Schopenhauerly sitting at some non-descript desk in some non-descript room with your hand stroking your truly descript crazygeniusguy hair that is some kind of proto-Wolverine hairdo (and you wonder if Stan Lee was cryptically tipping his cap to S's philosophical pessimism with this peculiar gesture; consider googling it but don't because you've already googled too much sheeyt today), thinking (or brooding) about how much of a ******** Descartes is with his whole, yuhknow, theory about some ******* secret nanoputian angelic chemist that sits at the pearly gates of the Pineal Gland and performs the sacred transduction of the divine ghost, or whatever. Otherwise you are, like, consumed with analysis, which is a complete ******* bore and - let's face it - a thoroughly transparent attempt to sound smarter than you actually are. This herbal tea I'm currently drinking has "rose hips" in it. Dear botany, that image is fun.
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Feb 4, 2016
Feb 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM UTC
a prosaic and utterly prolix rant that will change your life
I would humbly put forth the idea, quite prostrate, that it would do us some good if we were to put aside, for a time, our epistemological certainties and archetypal savior fixations and, instead, opt for a more robust, ocher-hued ontological preeminence: putting the what before the why. Only then can one, say, sip hot herbal tea from an old pink bone china teacup and, without thinking about all the things all the time, for once -just- feel the sun's warmth on your aged face as it begins its set over a half-eaten cotton candy sky that is epic af and reminds you of Peter Pan and then Robin Williams and then whywhywhy and then something random and weirrrd, and, in doing so, you can watch the lack of shittogetherness, of which duly occupies the very seat of your character like a bully usurper that hits you bc "he loves you," melt into a very (very) temporary oblivion and revel in what is before you without feeling paralyzing angst that is, usually, soo angst-y that you gotta pronounce that **** in German as if you were Schopenhauerly sitting at some non-descript desk in some non-descript room with your hand stroking your truly descript crazygeniusguy hair that is some kind of proto-Wolverine hairdo (and you wonder if Stan Lee was cryptically tipping his cap to S's philosophical pessimism with this peculiar gesture; consider googling it but don't because you've already googled too much sheeyt today), thinking (or brooding) about how much of a ******** Descartes is with his whole, yuhknow, theory about some ******* secret nanoputian angelic chemist that sits at the pearly gates of the Pineal Gland and performs the sacred transduction of the divine ghost, or whatever. Otherwise you are, like, consumed with analysis, which is a complete ******* bore and - let's face it - a thoroughly transparent attempt to sound smarter than you actually are. This herbal tea I'm currently drinking has "rose hips" in it. Dear botany, that image is fun.
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René Descartes rested his pen, to take a Parisian stroll - stopping to order a cup at his favorite patisserie. The waitress queried "with cream?" and René who sipped his brew black testily scoffed, "I think not" and immediately disappeared. August, 2013
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 1:11 AM UTC
Cartesian Rapture
juice box and soda pop and post modern electronic rock and all these various things ringing   through the halls of my dreams where the memories they slip and stack and some come forth and some push back but in the end they'll return for just, one last look and I'll learn about all the things i never knew were part of who i felt was true i'll, fin'lly see for myself all these, thoughts i've left on the shelf like the juice box and soda pop and post modern electronic rock and all these various things ringing   through the halls of my dreams but as nostalgia loses its grip and memories begin to slip back to where they reside buried deep down and inside my mind will refocus on the now and point forward deciding how to carry on with my days find my way through maze after maze and at days end when I lay to rest i almost always feel my best when i return to my mind free to take whatever i find and its only in my dreams i feel that maybe afterall i'm real and descartes would agree if i said i think i was me back to juice box and soda pop juice box and soda pop juice box and soda pop
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Jun 20, 2010
Jun 20, 2010 at 3:20 PM UTC
juiceboxandsodapop
--- I think therefore I AM - Descartes - --- I AM therefore i thank! - soulsurvivor -
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
cogito ergo sum
I heard of a man who never owned a television. Instead he bought a set of solid oak bookshelves stained like mahogany. With the money he saved on cable, he filled them with classics like Plato, Aristotle, and Dostoyevsky. He studied Darwin and Descartes, and memorized poems by Whyte and O'Donohue Because he never made the switch to high definition, he could afford trips to Rome and Tuscany. Walking those ancient streets and resting in those heavenly fields, he learned the art of attentiveness, minding the genius loci of a place, and setting one's cadence to the breath of the wind. And in the end, he had a few books of his own, but they taught nothing new other than how to truly live.
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Jan 16, 2017
Jan 16, 2017 at 10:16 PM UTC
The Man with No Television
I have a tattoo of Oregon on the back of my neck so when your attachment issue physically manifests itself on my bed and you flip me over so you can "hit it from the back" you'll see the sharp contrast of the black outline against my skin I hope it reminds you that I have a home a mother, a brother, and two dogs that are more excited about me than you are despite the height difference I need you to know that I am in control that you are a pawn in my game of recklessness and if I was closer to the edge (my edge) I would stop reading Descartes on Mondays I would stop forgetting my name on Saturdays I would take out the last 15 dollars and 75 cents on my debit card to buy a one-way ticket to the city but until then I will try to fill the abnormally large abyss inside of me with your average-sized **** while wondering, if tomorrow I will be able to distinguish the hangover from the self pity (perhaps I'll get out of bed before one)
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM UTC
reckless
Almost two years ago I wrote about how he told me that we always had to question ourselves, Almost two years later I read about the works of Descartes, Aristotle, and other influential philosophers,

 I begin to question all I know, from whether the finger I write with writes what I or what it wants, I’m skeptical of whether I am; If I am, why? Why me? I also realise how irrelevant it is for me to worry about feelings and love and pain, Almost two years ago I wrote daily about myself as an object with experience Now I write with skepticism What’s the point anyways?
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 3:03 PM UTC
Philosophie?
there’s usually two ways of writing an abstract like one might have written one for a chemistry experiment, a debriefing, a plot summary as you might have it, although in philosophy it’s either geometric of algebraic, to take into account a chance meeting between sartre (b) and descartes (a) i can only utilise the algebraic in a framework of a platonic schematic, i.e. dialogue, and since dialogue then casually, in conversation, like so: example no. 1 (exercise of good faith) (a) i think i had      a brain haemorrhage                                                                (b) i doubt it. example no. 2 (exercise of bad faith) (b) i had       a brain haemorrhage                                                                (a) how do you know?                                                                      (i.e. i’ll deny this statement.) it really is as simple as that, after all, all the ball of wool untangling in the standard philosophy books is meddled at times, it is hard to craft an entry of a decent dialogue without the one-sided stance of monologues that fill the pages of books, but take any major tenet of the two philosopher’s works and set a scene of two buddies talking in a pub, and that’s you having skipped the best 200 pages of untimely meditations and about 400 pages of being and nothingness - not out of rudeness but on the simple basis: **** i understood it! so if anything can be relevant in modern philosophy, and that’s modern from 17th century to the present era it is only relevant when applying a platonic schematic, because it has to be talked about, and when talked about simplified, because why would anyone want to over-complicate and apply an aristotelian schematic of inspection by writing very crude philosophies by the simple process of over-complicating the thinking process as that, which does not necessarily need thought attached to it - like at present, with western society debasing any original theology by forcing all the ills of the world as the adequate justification... the origin of this, you will find, is not from the people who suffer as such, but from people who are safe, healthy and satiated with adequate materialism, the kind to have a very english middle-class sentimentality to care for whimsical sensibilities, prudences and etiquette in general, that's how placebo atheism works, it's still a ****** theology, the real atheists? hmm, guess... the list is pretty dramatic in the way they approached coupling freedom and will and others - that's why i prefer my invention of coupling a placebo effect with atheism... rather than writing out a theology of absence - look... here's a trick: a theology of indefinite absence (a) / theology of definite absence (the), and then the ism from empiricism.
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Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 8:43 AM UTC
footnote to the four pillars of post-existentialism
there’s usually two ways of writing an abstract like one might have written one for a chemistry experiment, a debriefing, a plot summary as you might have it, although in philosophy it’s either geometric of algebraic, to take into account a chance meeting between sartre (b) and descartes (a) i can only utilise the algebraic in a framework of a platonic schematic, i.e. dialogue, and since dialogue then casually, in conversation, like so: example no. 1 (exercise of good faith) (a) i think i had      a brain haemorrhage                                                                (b) i doubt it. example no. 2 (exercise of bad faith) (b) i had       a brain haemorrhage                                                                (a) how do you know?                                                                      (i.e. i’ll deny this statement.) it really is as simple as that, after all, all the ball of wool untangling in the standard philosophy books is meddled at times, it is hard to craft an entry of a decent dialogue without the one-sided stance of monologues that fill the pages of books, but take any major tenet of the two philosopher’s works and set a scene of two buddies talking in a pub, and that’s you having skipped the best 200 pages of untimely meditations and about 400 pages of being and nothingness - not out of rudeness but on the simple basis: **** i understood it! so if anything can be relevant in modern philosophy, and that’s modern from 17th century to the present era it is only relevant when applying a platonic schematic, because it has to be talked about, and when talked about simplified, because why would anyone want to over-complicate and apply an aristotelian schematic of inspection by writing very crude philosophies by the simple process of over-complicating the thinking process as that, which does not necessarily need thought attached to it - like at present, with western society debasing any original theology by forcing all the ills of the world as the adequate justification... the origin of this, you will find, is not from the people who suffer as such, but from people who are safe, healthy and satiated with adequate materialism, the kind to have a very english middle-class sentimentality to care for whimsical sensibilities, prudences and etiquette in general, that's how placebo atheism works, it's still a ****** theology, the real atheists? hmm, guess... the list is pretty dramatic in the way they approached coupling freedom and will and others - that's why i prefer my invention of coupling a placebo effect with atheism... rather than writing out a theology of absence - look... here's a trick: a theology of indefinite absence (a) / theology of definite absence (the), and then the ism from empiricism.
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