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Leadership
20260119My First Day
20251213Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
My first day out of the womb, I was totally blinded by all the bright lights. Kind of a rude thing to do to someone who had only seen pitch dark his whole life. Then when I began to see, I noticed that everyone had covered their faces with masks. I assumed that there was some kind of rule against me seeing their faces, but then I got a glimpse of myself in one of those mirrors up on the wall. Shocking: I was by far the ugliest living thing in my known universe. Why no mask for meThen they cut off my food supply tube, and you would not believe what they replaced it with. The whole experience was disgusting. And circimcision? Don’t get me started. No wonder we all end up in therapy.
It seems like arguments are almost always fueled by defensive arrogance
20251004What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?
i have stopped putting inordinate trust in my own subjectivity.
Peace and Productivity , but…
20251002Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
Does everybody else still have theirs?
Words that touch well
20251001What skill would you like to learn?
To communicate in a Christlike manner in troubling situations, without having to fake it.
The Philosophy of Silence
20250112Teach 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
I Knew a Girl
20241221I knew a girl whose name was Gay,
and that’s about all I can say.
Dick Freehand on Facts. Data. Evidence.
20241218The world is insane. Far too much unnecessary stupidity, leading to far too much destruction. And when I say “the world,” it is obvious that˙ I mean people, Anything else that might be included in “the world” is not so stupid or bad. I mean, the occasional hungry predator animal chows down on some lesser victim marginalized by the herd, but really that’s the exception to the generally peaceful rule-not unlike the native Americans before Columbus the Evil came and mauled them in the name of Christendom. So because of this world I live in-that is, other people-my life is a constant courageous search for truth.
Facts. Data. Evidence. That is why I trust only in science to inform me. There is nothing I believe that cannot be proven scientifically. Columbus of course was a scientific ignoramus. How could it have been otherwise? I mean, back in 1492, they did not know about evolution, or even washing your hands before you cut into someone for their own medical health. That’s what the sex-binary Christian conservatives want to take us back to, with all their capitalism and fascism and electing felons who lead their idiot followers to insurrection just because they lost the most fair election in history. Those are facts, all documented if you take the time to look them up. That’s what I do. I look things up. My beliefs have the backing of Facts. Data. Evidence. No “faith” needed.
If there was ever some new evidence that seemed contradictory to one of my facts, then I would modify my beliefs. But the previous belief, possibly corrected by new evidence, was not a matter of “faith.” It was Truth. My truth, because it was the Truth of all intelligent, educated, modern science-minded thinkers, which is, sadly, a very small minority of the world’s population. The rest are just wandering out there, enslaved to their capitalist overlords, putting their faith in their sky God that doesn’t exist, who sits up in a “heaven” no one has ever seen. Where’s the evidence? No thinking person has ever seen any. And so, with their hungry greed, their doctors cut into you with unwashed hands, then go home to their obedient wives and their two and a half kids in their home in suburbia, voting for people who are just like them but more skilled at manipulating the herd. Columbus, the Salem Witch Trials, the Crusades, Zionism, corporate greed, racism, sexism. How can they not see how it’s all connected?
Do you see? I haven’t heard any sound evidence to the contrary. Don’t interrupt me, I’m not finished yet. I’m just getting started…
Proverbs 16:1
20241217Proverbs 16:1 in the New American Standard Bible:
The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.
Summary of Essential Principle(s), and interpreted and paraphrased as applicable to Soul-Personhood:
1. I plan and analyze a matter inside my mind,
2. then God – welcome? unwelcome? – partners with me about that matter – when the matter stirs spoken words.
Proverbs 16:1 interpreted and paraphrased as applicable to Culture-Society:
In the backroom, backstage, the war room, soundproof, the conference room, phones off, just us,
we decide how it needs to go, and strategize how we’ll make it go that way.
But of necessity, out in the open, unexpected words must come, sometimes from unexpected sources or in unsuspected ways. Then of necessity, the hidden becomes knowable,
and nudges matters in unexpected directions.
Proverbs 16:1 interpreted and paraphrased as applicable to Nature-Symbol:
Animals seem to have instincts.
If they could use language, how would they describe instinct turning into their own unique sounds, and then to action?
See category notes for an explanation of the what, why, and how of my Proverbs in Three Contexts.
Four Aphorisms beginning with “If…”
20241212If I strongly desire to think or do or be something, I will automatically, unconsciously, and with increasing seeming sophistication over time, make that thing wise and virtuous. If I dislike someone for whatever reason, I will in the same ways, make something annoying about them: foolish, inappropriate, and/or nefarious. This is why God had to take issues of wisdom and morality out of our hands and replace them with the possibility of devotion to a Person, namely, His Son.
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If it wasn’t for family, we would all have seemingly significant relationships only with the people we choose out of mutual comfort.
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If my love is mere feeling, impulse, or sentiment, then at the most critical moments of my soul’s life, my love will be trumped by my defensiveness.
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If nature teaches anything, it teaches that God prefers diversity over equity.
Fragments 