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Reflections On A Rainy Monday

To get the feeling that I have accomplished something today, and in the vein of embracing my imperfection, I begin this piece at 12:50 am. Where I write, in Seoul, Tuesday has already begun. For most of the people who potentially read this, Tuesday is still hours away. For them it is squarely Monday. Before ...

27 May, 2019

fear, freedom, night, reflections

The good life

I want my words to live in a redeeming, magnificent song to worship the hole in freedom

Meditation on freedom

Breathe in and think about a beginning. How to start a meditation on freedom? Do we have an entry point, a route that we can follow? Let's clear our head of all that has been said about freedom. Smile. We are going to choose freely what we mean by freedom here. We are gaming ourselves. ...

25 June, 2018

freedom, meditation, Philosophy

Essays

The Good Life

Mark likes to play computer games. In real life he fixes televisions. There are solder spots on his hands, when he sends his armies to the front lines. Paul, who measures buildings before they are inhabited, enjoys spinning a lifetime of infinities in his mind. Oscar, the media guy, prefers sitting in the sun. Justine ...

14 May, 2018

freedom, life

Poetry

Incitement

I hear the frequency of my kitchen the deafening sound of appliances that killed the wind, the quiet murmur of the grass and the cicadas and the death throes of little animals I try to remember the smell of the earth her dirt, her ashes, her streams, her stones her forests, her oceans, the long ...

19 February, 2017

freedom, kitchen, life, organic, painting, poetry, vitalism

Poetry

Question your freedom

A few days ago I was riding a bicycle down the Berliner Prenzlauer Allee and slowed down behind a fellow cyclist whose calves inspired me. As he pedalled, I discerned a tattoo that read "Question your freedom". I sensed this is an interesting phrase to chew on, but I wasn't sure exactly why. I needed ...

24 September, 2015

freedom

Philosophy

Sarcastic rhyme about gun control – do not read

For the next school shooting - may God prevent it - for all those cynical left wingnuts out there who still don't think that when guns evolve as a solution, one should also invent the problems it can solve, here's a distasteful song that you may reprint for free. If you are personally affected by ...

31 December, 2012

.223, AK46, AR15, Bushmaster, freedom, gun control, parody, Santa, school shooting, Second Amendment, Winchester

Activism, Laughs

Free like a Tiger

grrr!
Freedom is a very popular concept in philosophy, and the question about the essence of freedom has divided philosophers in many camps while the variety of different answers has been at the heart of different views of science, religion, ethics, and nature itself. The question is still pondered in faculties (and canteens) around the ...

9 March, 2011

dissertation, essay, freedom, philosophy of mind, simple, tiger

Uncategorized

Free like a Tiger

9 March, 2011

dissertation, essay, freedom, philosophy of mind, simple, tiger

Uncategorized

March 30. Time, being, freedom, etcetera.

Instead of this:
"Time/being/freedom/the soul/matter/consciousness itself is like dripping honey" I advice you to write this:
"I think about dripping honey and I feel good."
Perhaps you like those abstraction. I reckon you know them much better than I do. I don't like to talk about these words because it O feels like arguing ...

3 April, 2009

being, breakfast, consciousness, freedom, matter, soul, time

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