Words can be Made to Say Anything

Words can be made to say anything (or nothing (which are the samething)).
Of course, this isn’t to say that whatever may be said is true.
To say the sky is yellow is obviously false if the sky is blue.
Truth is context relative.
A fact is (ideally) wholly objective.
For it to be truly a fact it must adequately [...]

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Hello & Welcome

Hello and welcome,
This presentation
Is not
As you might guess
Going to be like all the rest.
Instead, I hope to make it a bit of fun
For both me and you
But, before I do,
Let me just explain
Why I think this is a sane
Project to embark upon.
Now, as some of you may be aware
I writing my PhD
On what is now [...]

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Xmas

Christmas
As the name suggests
Is one of those enigmas
That possess
Profound religious significance.
Santa Claus
Is the cause
Of teaching our children
That because
They’re been bad or good in the past
Will have consequences that last
All the way ‘til Christmas day
And on…

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is PHILOSOPHY for you?????

1. You find gnarled tree roots to be highly evocative of the absurdity of existence.
2. When thinking deeply about things, you can end up staring into empty space for extended periods of time.
3. You sometimes wonder why arrow-signs are seen as pointing one way and not the other.
4. You find it interesting to try to [...]

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Christian stories often finish a page later than they ought.

Christian stories often finish a page later than they ought. Take the story of St. Nicassius, where the saint courageously offers his head in return for the people’s safety of his soon-to-be sacked city. Predictably, the (literally) Barbarian hordes unhesitatingly lop it off and proceed to murder, rape and pillage his people unobstructed.
As far as [...]

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Tasmanian SOS

SOS
Blue Berry Vein of Sweet Sliver Beats
Taste Asparogus in the Morning
Don’t let the circus circumcise us
With festering incisors of puritanical burnings

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axioms

Existential mistakes are made by looking back on an action with regret.
Existential problems are overcome as soon as they are forgotten.
Fear itself is the dominant cause of what we fear.
A tree falling in an empty forest makes a sound of dreams.
“If you hit me for writing this, I swear that I’ll hit you back.”
Love is [...]

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heidegger

in the moment of vision
just for that moment
i gain the mastery
of the everyday
anxiety in the face of death
is not fear
of ones own demise

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Metaphysics

The Infinite One
Can be most easily Known
By the Finite Mind
Through a division of 3
I
Being
ME (thinks you)
looking out from behind my eyes
the son
god
You
We
Humanity
God
the collective conscious
& conscience
the holy ghost
man alive
and those dead
all that the Egyptians managed to immortalise
the data of whispers
passed from mobile to mobile
or face to face
It
That
Object
GOD
Pure Meditation
The Unbounded Boundary
1
The Universe
Or the highest possible conception of [...]

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kierkegaard

how sad that this, too ‘yes, god knows the idoicy of it’ that has now caused such a fuss, my trosers, in a melancholy way hangs togeather (symbolicly)
with melancholy of my life
i consoled my self in another way.
but who’s fault is that? the journlisist’s!
without a doubt this is as complicated and erotic colision as one [...]

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