Month: March 2021

“The same thinking that created a problem cannot solve the problem.”\

Einstein

These days, a question we are seemingly supposed to ask ourselves is Who am I?

Maybe a better question is Who is me?

Think about it.

Recently a Miami Heat basketball player was heard to use an anti-Semitic word while playing a live stream online game.

Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots responded by reaching out to the player. Here’s an excerpt from a story on SI.com

“Edelman has reached out to athletes in similar situations before. Last summer, following NFL wide receiver DeSean Jackson sharing antisemitic messages on social media, Edelman addressed Jackson’s posts and said that “I’m proud of my Jewish heritage and, for me, it’s not just about religion. It’s about community and culture as well. This world needs a little more love, compassion, and empathy.”

There’s an excellent Facebook page called Philo Thoughts. – Here’s one of the recent posts.

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.” ~James Baldwin (Book: The Fire Next Time)

Wisdom is knowledge gained from experience. The commodification of knowledge as something that only those who can afford access to it can obtain it’s supposed benefit is… well…you know…shitty. Anything that fosters inequality is shitty.

That’s a noble pursuit for some, but for most of us, let’s make good use of the one we’ve got. – Me

Mental consciousness labours under the illusion that there is somewhere to go to, a goal to consciousness. Whereas of course there is no goal. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. ~D. H. Lawrence