I am a philosopher - not a poet.

I am a philosopher - not a poet.

I don't even know if I believe in poetry.

Or at least I certainly don't believe in poetry without philosophy.

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I am a philosopher - a lover of wisdom.

I am not sure if poetry always leads to wisdom.


I am not sure if poetry even exists. It is hard to define.

"Word Art" is one poetic way of defining it.

I have written quite a lot of what could be called poetry.

I have lost most of it.

T.S.Eliot described poetry as a "raid upon the inarticulate".

I find it hard to believe that he really believed that when one reads his own poetry.

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2018.

I am starting to believe in poetry again.

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Get with the Programme!

The Senility of our Intellectual Culture.

On some emission entitled "The One Show" on EBC1 Einstein was described as having "autism". Yeah Right! And so does everyone. Einstein had NOTHING of the kind. Nor does anyone.
It does not exist.

Also the phenomenon of intellectual summary books - such as the "For Beginners" series - which I think on balance are an excellent thing - if only because they get people interested in ideas - were condemned in an English Sunday "news" paper recently.

They should be encouraged.

FURTHERMORE - the phenomenon of these books once again seemed to be the fault somehow of one Albert Einstein. WHO HAD NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THEM.

Vilified while alive, he is now vilified when dead by an intellectual culture of seemingly infinite senility.
One of the cleverest people who ever lived - who explained himself quite clearly.

More Lies About Our History

St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital was a monastic establishment that existed near Bishopsgate and near what became Liverpool Street Station - for at least two hundred years from before the 1300s to the 1500s.

It was recently extensively dug up in excavations being made for the creation of "Crossrail".

Many many bodies seem to have been found - of what were probably nuns.

No mention of the FACT of the rapid and violent suppression of the monasteries in the 1530s. A disgrace to England's history.

When this was reported on London News with Rizla - all that was mentioned was that this establishment was a forerunner of what became "Bedlam".

The irony is that mental illness DOES NOT EXIST. And that monastic establishments were more humane in their treatment of people having problems in life than those with this task in later centuries up until now.

Furthermore, St.Mary's probably never closed due to "cuts" or "recessions".

Monasticism as a general concept PRE-DATES and in my opinion is superior to "economics" and "psychiatry" and their attendant lies.

To my more modern way of thinking:-

POVERTY means simple living. NOT lack of money PER SE, nor privation, nor not working..... "Live simply so that others may simply live" Gandhi.
CHASTITY means appropriate use of sexuality. NOT it's extinction - which is impossible really....
and
OBEDIENCE means to the "UBI CARITAS ET AMOR IBI DEUS EST" type of principle....

T.B.C...

Finally

The respect, courtesy and mere politeness that some people are starting to show me - is the RESPECT and COURTESY that I should have been shown FROM THE START - because I AM A HUMAN BEING!

More Gems For the Fish Tank :)

After 9 - 11 way way back in the distant mists of 2001, I emailed this to someone who asked me what they thought would happen next -
"Bush will probably bomb what's left of Afghanistan. 
This will obviously achieve nothing whatsoever."


It is now 2011.
Hmm......

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‎"Autour de la lecture de Jacques Lacan" par Citoyen Canapé.




"Franchement, je préfère la lecture de l'annuaire téléphonique.
Il y a une lucidité supérieure."

FIN. :D

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Lacan = Freud.... Et.. on sait mon "chanson" quant a` Fraud...:D

Lacan est un "Mubarak" de la vie intellectuelle franc,aise.... :)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_lacan.html


*RESTS VERY OVERWHELMING CASE*

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Lacan is "..an amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatan."

(attributed to) Noam Chomsky.

E. F. SCHUMACHER!

Comment engendered by listening to "In Our Time" on Maimonides

Maimonides's major work was called "A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED".
This title is shared with one of the works of one of our greatest recent Philosophers.

FOR SOME REASON THAT I WILL NEVER EVER UNDERSTAND - no one seems to talk about this thinker -
the German of Oxford - E. F. SCHUMACHER.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

He is very relevant to many issues around now as well.

He was certainly a Green thinker and a spiritual thinker.

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July 2011.

I was very pleased that there was recently a Radio 4 program concerning this great philosopher.

I was not entirely happy with the way his views seem to have been portrayed.

Once again I feel drawn towards the conclusion or the sensation of the sheer futility of language.
Why did he bother to write his books?
Can people understand language of any kind?

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+7,211 "recs" for this post!!!

Thanks / Danke scho:n / Shookraan !

If I was Prime Minister.....

If I was Prime Minister of Italy I would build an 18-year old Belly Dancer Training School. 
And then live in it.


:) :D

"Work Shy"

‎"Work Shy" -

WHO INVENTED THIS PIECE OF LANGUAGE???
LET ME SEE??? HMM..... GERMAN BLOKE ...
PENCIL MOUSTACHE...ER....ER....

It was just used IN SERIOUSNESS on EBC News - so ONLY TO BE EXPECTED THEN....er....er... :D

The things is - NOT ONLY was this piece of language probably inaugurated by the Nazis - it is ALSO - meaningless and offensive.

Some Comments on the "Big Society".

Never once has Camoron acknowledged that Thatcher said - in full seriousness - "there is no such thing as society".

Another kind of "Big Society"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monasteries_dissolved_by_Henry_VIII_of_England

This was another kind of "Big Society" of a kind was it not?

They put us to shame frankly.


The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
(Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons or friars.)........


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Still! With so many thousands and thousands of monks and nuns the "unemployment" figures - which of course did not exist - must have been ridiculously HIGH/LOW....