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Issue No. 2

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Tribalism

Karl Popper in The Open Society and It’s Enemies:
“There is no return to a harmonious state of nature.  If we turn back, then we must go the whole way-we must return to the beasts.
It is an issue which we must face squarely, hard though it may be for us to do so.  If we [...]

Annihilating moments

paintings by Chris Martin
“Crumbling is not an instant’s Act”
Emily Dickinson
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act,
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays.
‘Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul,
A Cuticle of Dust,
A Borer in the Axis,
An Elemental Rust-
Ruin is formal-Devil’s work,
Consecutive and slow-
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping-is Crash’s law.
“I can see now I never really committed [...]

Novellla Part Two

The idea of studium and punctum had always interested me.  Could studium and punctum provide an answer to the interminable answers that I had been looking for.  ” I love You”, isn’t it a fun thing to say, to feel.. to say…same thing I guess.  Are they the same thing.? When did Saul become Paul [...]

Shoegaze ontology

“In philosophy, ontology(from the Greek ὄν, genitive ὄντος: of being (part. of εἶναι: to be) and -λογία: science, study, theory) is the study of the nature of being, existence, or reality in general and of its basic categories and their relations. Traditionally listed as part of a major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology [...]

Novella Part One

I consented to looking at the diversion..a hand full of trail mix, and back up to face. One minute…wait a second.., was that a wasabi peanut…her face, her hair, her head. But where ‘s her face; she must be on her way out. I was thinking that I shouldn’t have let her beat [...]

“Allow myself to Introduce myself: What you can and can’t or well maybe shouldn’t learn about yourself”

I heart heart to hearts with family and friends. They are special opportunities for all involved to spout platitudes and to divy contradictory and conceptually flawed generalizations short order to anesthetize the throb associated with, for me at least, a nagging sense of agnosticism (maybe in general, per se) and it’s evil cousin, a [...]