The Tao of John 2

The binary could not contain The third way when the Seer came John spoke\of light for everyone And thus the third way was begun + It has taken the world until roughly now to see beyond the deadly either-or of the binary to the pragmaticist hope that lies in triadic thinking where one does not stop at the conflicted state but moves beyond to the realm of experiment and manifestation + Other books in this series include The New Tao Te Ching and The Tao of Mark These and other Kindle books  can be accessed at the link below Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store
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The Tao of John 1

Wisdom and word and God are One And from this all that is has come The Seer was presaged by John And is a light to everyone + The Tao of John 1 is the first in a series of verses drawn sequentially from the Gospel of John The Tao of John will become a Kindle Book devoted to the project of universalizing texts that inhabit traditions  now giving way to a wider view of things and a growing emphasis on tolerance and seeing life as lived in the immanent frame + Other books in this series include The New Tao Te Ching and The Tao of Mark These and other Kindle books  can be accessed at the link below
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Night Falls on the City - Digital Graphic

I see cities of the future as de-sprawled Back to the future Unique to their space on this terrestial ball Undreamed of structures but indebted to such principles as nothing taller than four levels density of 10K more or less car free within the city walkable everything needed for life within a mile including education recreation health work and residence + The city above is seen from ... above  + Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

It has been said that there is no exact logic but that is because there is no exact anything

It has been said that there is no exact logic but that is because there is no exact anything and once one presumes to do logic one is involved in the same box that mathematics occupies That would be the box of never being able to be exact Not finally + The reason for this conundrum  is not that God plays dice after all and leaves us destined to go off the several cliffs we see It is because the one I call Abba places within each of us the only freedom that is actually real That would be the freedom to choose among the values that are already there Let us place at the top of those "already values" non-idolatry That would be the voice from the burning bush refusing to give a name to the mystery that surrounds us That would be the cautionary theme of science in its highest form and of theology freed from its obligation to dumb things down + I am saying that to do proper logic one must acknowledge who we are with our manifest imperfections and celebrate the fact that we do have the capacity to choose the better values and that when we descend into such practices  as idolatry we foreclose or radically inhibit such choices The consequence is intellectual sclerosis The cure is acknowledging that even mathematics is a tool that logic is also a tool and that humility is the happy by-product of non-idolatry and that beyond the penumbra we cannot see
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Imperfections are the inevitable result of trying to do everything yourself

Imperfections are the inevitable result of trying to do everything yourself That of course is a distortion because we do nothing by ourselves Even the most isolated nomad of the universe is never alone What I mean is that if you create as I do with no one looking over my shoulder  I will find imperfections everywhere a glaring misprint in a Kindle Book that would take me a while to correct while I have other things to do and probably 100 more Now once when I was in the scarce book business (there are few rare books) I learned the value of imperfection An edition with an error might be worth much more than a corrected version A glaring mistake might win the auction But cyber-situations make correction not only simple to rectify but considerate Here I have taken all the time I might need to mindfully correct the error that I failed to notice to expatiate on the bump it created on the smooth highway of my morning
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Three Salient Tweets and a Homily on Interpretation

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59sStephen C. Rose ‏@stephencrose

Pragmaticist=someone who is pragmatic but who also cleaves to a way of tolerance, democracy, helpfulness and non-idolatry.

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3mStephen C. Rose ‏@stephencrose

The President is more like us than the cult like slaves of idolatries and religions who believe they have the Truth. He is a pragmataciist.

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7mStephen C. Rose ‏@stephencrose

Those who cry liberty include the same folk who love our neocon wars "to spread liberty" = AKA serfdom for all but those who cry liberty.

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The three tweets above are why I am for Barack Obama Pragmatacist stems from Charles Sanders Peirce I reject as futile efforts to claim anyone as MY authority Representing we know another is a a waste of time We gather gifts from others  What we do with them  comes out of us not them + Values I name I have inferred from others and happily commend to all Tolerance helpfulness democracy non-idoolatry I happily pick from the trees of Nietzsche Peirce Pirsig Millett and others and sample them as we all do I suspect + Have a nice day 
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The image is called Seeking Solace I am not sure why 

The body has mentality and movement It is less vague than a table

The body has mentality and movement

It is less vague than a table

It is a discrete thing

It's movement is a mystery

As are the things that we call its thoughts

or reflexes or twitches

The notion of a soul is an effort to escape

the all encompassing reality of the body

The image is called Doll Embryos
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