David Jackson “The character and origins of conceptualizing and its path to rational evaluation.” Starting from no conception, no willingness to conceptualize, no ability to conceptualize, afraid to conceptualize, and having no imagination. Perhaps the reality of this collective incapacity creates a continuous path of cultural belief that is perpetuated when those who are beginning to think … Read more
I’m back from a sojourn at the hospital. I was confined to getting antibiotics intravenously; later released to continue with a regimen of pills for 6 more days. I am feeling strange about it. On the one hand I didn’t have to get out of bed for 2 ½ days; feeling withdrawn in a lethargic … Read more
What comes to mind is: “The problem of humanity has always been assimilation, how to integrate living with strangers and among each other.”It’s almost too obvious when framed like this. Migration is the starting point for the tribes. It is like the beginning of any relationship; one is voluntary, the other is a circumstance of … Read more
It’s been an empty day. I was listening to an interview of a jury member from the Paul Manafort trial, following the guilty verdict. Watching and listening to this woman, her mind seemed as a puzzle. Her eyes and face were in a continuous, jittery motion. She was expressing her sense of honesty about what … Read more
Enter the doorway of beginnings. Expect to be offended, horrified, or appalled In the range of sensory extremes. Stand back. Don’t get confused in hopelessness, Or pain, disgust, judgment, and hate. Listen, Allow the senses to learn Get distance from yourself, See what it is, How it reacts, Bare the shock of reality’s vision. I … Read more
Something frightened me yesterday that remains alive in me. Several hundred retail stores have closed and are going out of business. This is symptomatic of the manifestations created by the recent creation of Amazon’s online email business process. It is the beginning of the end of retail business structures. It is a new paradigm of … Read more
Thinking about asking some questions. Thinking about my website and cross referencing, linking items like Diderot’s encyclopedia. Questions: What is the difference between thinking and knowing? What is the difference between knowing and thinking? What is the difference between thinking and believing? If your favorite cat got its head stuck in an expensive and rare … Read more
The It, is! It is at the core of our responses and reactions. It is a rather simple thing at first glance, but It penetrates the whole issue of the character and identity of the self that It takes on, and constructs the reality It creates for Itself. “What do you perceive “It” to be? … Read more
I am certainly feeling my separation from what I perceive to be the character and nature of humanity in general. It is something I carry around in my paradigm of being that is distant from the norm. It is, perhaps, that I am frequently reaching too far into what I sense to be the deeper … Read more
The Zealot’s game Puts reason to shame Bludgeons truth with conviction Amputates the heart from the brain Replaces reflection with certainty And blood is shed For evermore By those who would follow As death finds victory hollow In reason’s empty score.