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From childhood, through early religious and academic training, we are given values which correspond only to an ideal world. The shadowy side of real life is ignored, and Western Christianity provides us nothing which can be used to interpret it. … Continue reading →

And so I walked the streets and haunted the bars, and was, according to me, the only man on earth who had nothing to learn. Then suddenly, she walked through the door. – Thomas H. Cook In the simple way … Continue reading →

Human life always involves accepting certain things; even the most violent rebel must base his life on acceptance, on stability. The greater the rebel, the more he needs a solid basis on which to work. The rebel without such a … Continue reading →

  But if these experiences have ever happened to you, I’m sure you have come to the same conclusion about them as I. You know what you heard and you know what you saw, and you no more doubt the … Continue reading →

  By 1943 Wittgenstein was sympathetic to a view of the sexual act which saw it as an object of religious reverence. – Ray Monk 　 Egypt’s sages were concerned with the question of the origin of the universe, and … Continue reading →

Thinking is sometimes easy, often difficult but at the same time thrilling. But when it’s most important it’s just disagreeable, that is when it threatens to rob one of one’s pet notions & to leave one all bewildered & with … Continue reading →

When a man sees a woman deserving of erotic attentions, he at once begins to desire her with his whole heart. Then, the more he thinks of it, the more he feels himself imbued with love until he reconstructs her … Continue reading →

  I know That this world exists That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field That something about it is problematic Which we call its meaning – Ludwig Wittgenstein 　 I believe that a certain … Continue reading →