I think of how Nietzsche uses the metaphor of “Snake” in some of his writings, and it is coming to me that the term metaphor in its meaning the likeness of one thing to another needs to be paid attention to.   For instance, how does a real snake maneuver over branches?  It distributes its weight evenly over both sides of the branch, and when it ( Read more... )

What does the whip refer to?  Here is an interpretation.  Machiavelli said that there are circumstances in life that one can not control sometimes; he called this fortuna and he compared it to an unfaithful woman who needs to be beaten into submission: i.e. don’t let chance rule the circumstances of your life.

Nietzsche has a similar but more ( Read more... )

 

Is the internet the new boob tube?  Do people believe everything on it?  Do you think you can read someone's journal and get the real scoop on who they are?  Is it dishonest to think that you can do so with out the consent or knowledge of those who journal?

What is it to be dishonest?

I see the Extra-Moral necessity of the whip!!!  Someone always ( Read more... )

Imagine going to church and hearing this Apocalypse Now analogy:

The pastor is giving a sermon on Jesus walking on the water, Mathew 14:22-36.  The presupposition for this interpretation is that the wind represents reason and the water represents emotion.  So Jesus is walking on the water, he his giving a non-emotional interpretation of the former ( Read more... )

I came home today after work and my dog is gone.  I’m confused, because it is unlike her to get out; this would be the first time she has actually gotten out other than walking through an open gate.  I suppose the sad thing is; I don’t know how to feel about it.  My life is so emotionally compartmentalized and numb that I don’t feel any real ( Read more... )

There is this girl who had or has a crush on me, but due to peculiar circumstances can not allow our relationship to proceed.  At any rate, she has ignored me for the past six months, so I started talking to another, who is equally unobtainable due to the same peculiar circumstances.  Because of this she has built up this magnanimous resentment ( Read more... )

Give me leave, Muse, in plain view to array
Your shift and bodice by the light of day.
I would have brought an epic.  Be not vexed
Instead to grace a niggling schoolroom text;
Let down your sanction, help me to oblige
Him who would lead fresh devots to your liege,
And at your alter, grant that in a flash
They, he and I know incense from dead ash.

X.J.K.
 

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You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be ( Read more... )