Archive for January, 2025

The Philosophy of Silence

20250112

Teach me the language that apes silence
Bring the sociology that integrates forgiveness and accountability
Experiment within that science that pierces the shroud of engineered objectivity –

With instruments of neglected truth
No mere rhetorical device
No advancement for profit, masquerading as the next hypothesis

Toward people I like so much that they can’t possibly offend me

I want to learn from the true substrata
The true black holes
Create for me the essential holy visceral art

Men and women loving and learning together for some reason beyond ourselves

Philosophize out of emptiness
Let us plod along together to the laboratory of terror
And concoct something too Good to be unTrue

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Advertising…

20250111

…Propaganda, Public Relations, Spin, Hype…

Come up with a crazy business idea.

An advertising business that triggers humanity’s deepest hungry grudges or insecurities, then offers for sale a product or service to make them feel temporarily satisfied without any new self examination. 

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Aphorism Re: Harm

20250111

Do no harm to that which causes no harm, for its protector cannot remain passive.

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She Just Doesn’t Care

20250110

She just doesn’t care
who pets her, or where.
On this spot or there –
she just doesn’t care.

The neck or the chin
somewhere in Berlin.
A cathedral in Paris,
outside, on the terrace.

There, under the collar
where itches are smaller,
Or along her whole back
near a mosque in Iraq.

On top of the head
in the sheets on the bed,
Or the base of the tail
on the Oregon Trail

Where it’s stiff in her muscles
while driving to Brussels,
or down deep in the drawer
where she likes to explore.

Just watch claw or tooth
in the telephone booth.
She can get bloody rough
when she’s had quite enough.

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Caution: Right(eous)ness

20250110

Jesus reaches out to conservative Christians and invites them to transcend their defensiveness against the LGBT community.

Jesus reaches out to members of the LGBT community and invites them to transcend their defensiveness against conservative Christians.

In neither case is the primary issue one’s “beliefs.” The primary issues are (1) Our common Humanity, (2) Our common state of soul and culture sickness, and (3) Our common need to be rescued from #2.

For now, the greater burden of accountability is on those who claim Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

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Freeway Billboard

20250106

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

If you think faith is only for religion, you have overated the tiny flashlight mind you have to explore the vast darkness.

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