The paragraph of my life is dotted with red-squiggled underlines, each one an automatically-detected error against predetermined protocol. Most of those squiggles are accidental typos that I’ve not had the chance to correct, or that I’ve decided to accept and move on. Some of those squiggles are intentional typos that I’ve laid down for raised-fist …
Category Archives: Philosophy
Punt
I read the news and all I have is worry. Seems the few want to control the many. Some of the many want to be left alone, but the larger part of the many agree to the control as a proxy means of controlling the many. They themselves are being controlled, but they don’t care, …
Silver Tongue
If the Devil himself confronted me and told me I could have one superpower in exchange for my soul, what would that Satanic superpower be? It would be language. Language. Like being able to speak and understand any language known to humanity, to be able to convince and sway. To communicate with any and all. …
Stubbled Youth
Spent the evening at the cafe, most of it at a table with an older guy I know, a real gentle soul who has a way of listening to what is being said and then spinning it, centrifuging out the bare essences, and pulling them from the test tube to show them to you. It’s …
Wages, Ages
Here’s an example of how wrong the best motives can be. I must’ve been somewhere around 4th grade. Was attending children’s church at Highland Park First Baptist back home. Was a ministry that catered to kids between 1st and 6th grades, to keep them interested in going to church. They had fun things like puppets, …