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Bestowing Praise Upon Him Who Honors The Gods

“First, tragedies were brought on stage to remind you of what can happen, that these happenings are determined by nature, and that what moves you in the theatre should not burden you on the larger stage of life.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.6 Everybody loves a free spirit, but few dare to become one.…

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The Life (and Death) of Chuck

“What you have achieved will be revealed only when you breathe your last.” – Seneca Rather than seeing our self as some everyday run of the mill ‘shmuck’, what if we tweaked this derogatory term into ‘chuck’ instead, as in a real down to earth kind of person; would that rearrange our self-concept, might that…

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TO THE POWERS THAT BE – LET THE CAPTIVES GO FREE!!!

“Justice and mercy amounts to pity, mere efficiency, and reinforces the psychological need for guilt and helplessness; whereas justice and liberality empowers all by availing of courage rather than weakness in order to uphold the laws of a civilized society.” —————————————————————————————————– – Julian the Apostate Do you really know what it’s like to be…

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Plotinus, Ennead 1.1: The Animate and the Human Being

Know thyself: these were the two words inscribed on the entrance to the Oracle of Delphi.  Philosophia begins with this injunction—and so Plotinus begins where we all must necessarily begin: with oneself.  Who am I?  What am I?  Human experience contains many different facets: bodily sensation, emotion, conscious and subconscious thought, memory, intuition, and more. …

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Good vs Evil as One & the Same

Apollyon appears out of nowhere to remove the head of Christianity – The Pilgrim’s Progress c. 1850 edition “To hell with everything—if these words have been uttered only once, coldly, with full awareness of what they mean, history is justified and, with it, all of us.” – Emil Cioran To everything be it…

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