HeyJaredVulgar Earth
Western philosophy, Buddhism, occasional social commentary, and my lumpy poetry.
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Unsatisfied Concordance (opens the original)
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UNSATISFIED CONCORDANCE“As the will is the thing-in-itself, the inner content, the essence of the world, but life, the visible world, the phenomenon, is only the mirror of the will, this world will accompany the will as inseparably as a body is accompanied by its shadow; and if will exists, then life, the world, will exist”1“Life is suffering” is the first Noble Truth taught by the historical Buddha. I hesitate in writing anything that might be considered ‘teaching &#
Want of Nothing (opens the original)
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WANT OF NOTHING “Thus, before our searching glance, the principles “Unconscious Will” and “Unconscious Idea” coalesced to form the one universal spiritual world-essence, which the dark impulse of mankind has always sought by the most diverse names, but yet everywhere at a certain stage of culture has apprehended as spirit”1According to the ancient tradition of my people, the prehistoric burial mounds that dot the island are the dwelling place
A Samhain Tale (opens the original)
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A SAMHAIN TALE“Were the divine intelligence at all concerned in the decision whether a world should be created or not, the actual result of this decision in the case of affirmation would be an inexcusable cruelty towards the created substances on the assumption of dualistic Theism, but on the assumption of Monism, the frenzy of a divine asceticism a divine self-laceration..... the Idea of itself has no interest in being, and can only be posited by the raising of the will out of non-being into be
The Pitch of Dreams (opens the original)
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THE PITCH OF DREAMS “And if it is possible for the unconscious soul of an animal to be simultaneously present and purposively active in all organs and cells of the animal why should not an unconscious world-soul be simultaneously present and purposively efficient in all organisms and atoms, since indeed the one as the other must be thought of as unlocalised?”1According to Martin Heidegger, one of Plato’s descriptions of ‘Soul’ (psuche)
Hymn in Darkness (opens the original)
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HYMN IN DARKNESSThis body, and the place have agedtogether, eyes, and all I see,as grafted to a granite stage,the play of games, and tragedies***At least, the cooler air is come,with autumn dar
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