BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Monday, May 3, 2010

WITHOUT A SOUND

‘I am thinking, therefore I exist’

In our youth, Descartes held, we acquire many prejudices which interfere with the proper use of our reason. Consequently, later we must reject everything we believe and start anew. Hence the Meditations begins with a series of arguments intended to cast doubt upon everything formerly believed, and culminating in the hypothesis of an all-deceiving evil genius, a device to keep former beliefs from returning. The rebuilding of the world begins with the discovery of the self through the ‘Cogito Argument’ (‘I am thinking, therefore I exist’) – a self known only as a thinking thing, and known independently of the senses.


'I think not!'

Identify, kinda, with the comment his mother made. "He's not one of hearing world.  He's not one of the deaf world.  Sort of walks with one foot in each."

Feel that I lived in my own world.  One that only I understand.  One where I must walk with both feet planted firmly to the ground.  Pretty much learned, there are just some places you don't go.

Or you go alone if you wanted to badly enough.

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sol·ip·sism 
[sol-ip-siz-uhm]

–noun
1. Philosophy . the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.

2. extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one's feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption.

—Related forms
sol·ip·sis·mal, adjective
sol·ip·sist, noun, adjective
sol·ip·sis·tic, adjective

—Can be confused:   solecism, solipsism . Dictionary.com Unabridged

Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

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