3/25/12
How The People Will Overturn the Supreme Court
The Court will essentially stall health care reform one way or another, making life easier for the one percent. The election will be fought on a simpler ultimate choice. Single payer or medicare and medicaid for all versus a return to the untenable system we have had. In essence, the huge stone wall of conservative push back will result in the passage of what we should have had all along. By a Democratic Congress elected in response to the threat to the advances of health care reform.
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
We have butchered our spontaneous souls into ether
ShortFormContent at Blogger: Life cannot be lived by ideals for long:
Above is the first part of the post at peirce-l@listserv.iupui.edu, completed here, by Eugene Halton.
"We have butchered our spontaneous souls into ether, we have butchered our minds into believing that our bodies are machines and the universe is a machine, and we have butchered the earth: The poisoned fruit of our science and its cultural legacy. Scientific self-correction may be a matter of the long run. Hooray for it. The problem is that life is also a matter of once for all time. Cut its cord and it's gone.
"Creation issues forth as non-ideal spontaneous reasonableness, which may be an aspect of Peirce's understanding of the aesthetic as more encompassing than the ethical or logical and their concerns with the good and the true. "The admirable," literally that which one "wonders at," as an understanding of aesthetic (a word which means to perceive or feel), seems to have moved from its literal meaning of wonder toward one of idealizing, perhaps as an aspect of our idealizing, anesthetic age."
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
Above is the first part of the post at peirce-l@listserv.iupui.edu, completed here, by Eugene Halton.
"We have butchered our spontaneous souls into ether, we have butchered our minds into believing that our bodies are machines and the universe is a machine, and we have butchered the earth: The poisoned fruit of our science and its cultural legacy. Scientific self-correction may be a matter of the long run. Hooray for it. The problem is that life is also a matter of once for all time. Cut its cord and it's gone.
"Creation issues forth as non-ideal spontaneous reasonableness, which may be an aspect of Peirce's understanding of the aesthetic as more encompassing than the ethical or logical and their concerns with the good and the true. "The admirable," literally that which one "wonders at," as an understanding of aesthetic (a word which means to perceive or feel), seems to have moved from its literal meaning of wonder toward one of idealizing, perhaps as an aspect of our idealizing, anesthetic age."
Life cannot be lived by ideals for long
"I could not think of anything worse than a community transforming the world through "intelligent ideals," and I do not think the statement accurately represents Peirce. This Pyrrhic victory of eviscerated, abstract intelligence in the service of ideals would be ruinous to life, just as Teilhard de Chardin's concept of a "noosphere" (in the sense of atmosphere, stratosphere) is, a film of planetary intelligence in which "life's domain" would be ruled by reason. Life from the neck up is ruinous to life: the noose sphere. Peirce, it seems to me, understood the limited place of science in the practice of life, which is why he thought pragmatically that science is impractical. Other people, such as Dostoyevsky and Melville and D. H. Lawrence, saw more deeply into the problem of the idealization of life than Peirce did, perhaps because they were artists.
"Life cannot be lived by ideals for long; life can be lived with ideals, never sustainably by them. Our age today, with its ideal religions and ideal science and technology, is fast realizing ideal ruination of the biosphere."
From a post by Eugene Halton at peirce-l@listserv.iupui.edu
"Life cannot be lived by ideals for long; life can be lived with ideals, never sustainably by them. Our age today, with its ideal religions and ideal science and technology, is fast realizing ideal ruination of the biosphere."
From a post by Eugene Halton at peirce-l@listserv.iupui.edu
A nation in decline will build more prisons
A nation in decline will build more prisons
That's what we've done we lead the world in that
A nation on the rise will act with wisdom
We're getting there as we see where we're at
Mitt's plan won't fill the donut hole
Mitt's plan won't fill the donut hole
The President's law does
Mitt's vouchers replace Medicare
Mitt's not the man he was
Mitt's vouchers replace Medicare
Mitt's not the man he was
This is the second post on how to publish free.
ShortFormContent at Blogger: Where Would Life Be Without Challenge?:
This is the second post on how to publish free. The first is at the link above.
The project is to see if it is possible to succeed as an author using the free means available on the Web, not counting your time which is of infinite value.
I think it makes sense to go the Amazon Kindle route. It's free and user-friendly and it does not keep you from fanning out on to other platforms. If you keep your work exclusive for a while, you can join a profit-sharing program called Kindle Select.
As a Kindle author, you can create a bio page with a Twitter feed in the US, UK, Germany and France. My US one is here.
If you are just starting do not despair. If you use Word, just copy your writings into texts that are coherent and have a focus. Say exactly what your text is. You have complete control. Kindle will even give you a generic cover for your book. And Word will let you create a cover page that you can include if you wish.
Get a Kindle account.
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
This is the second post on how to publish free. The first is at the link above.
The project is to see if it is possible to succeed as an author using the free means available on the Web, not counting your time which is of infinite value.
I think it makes sense to go the Amazon Kindle route. It's free and user-friendly and it does not keep you from fanning out on to other platforms. If you keep your work exclusive for a while, you can join a profit-sharing program called Kindle Select.
As a Kindle author, you can create a bio page with a Twitter feed in the US, UK, Germany and France. My US one is here.
If you are just starting do not despair. If you use Word, just copy your writings into texts that are coherent and have a focus. Say exactly what your text is. You have complete control. Kindle will even give you a generic cover for your book. And Word will let you create a cover page that you can include if you wish.
Get a Kindle account.
Bankers who cheat will go down
We could
Forbid saving entirely
Forbid saving entirely
That is what Jesus meant with his parable of the talents
We could insist that every penny be reinvested
No hoarding
No hidden transactions
We could
No hidden transactions
We could
Regulate sensibly
This would require penitence
On the part of the GOP
We could
Careen to disaster
We've done it before
Abba will remain within us all
Encouraging the virtues Jesus venerated
Helpfulness democracy
Tolerance non-idolatry
We have not reached a tipping point in affirming these
But we are making progress
We are rising
We are rising
And as we do
Bankers who cheat
Will go down
Bankers who cheat
Will go down
All our works are musement and fallibility
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