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Category Archive: philosophy

25 Feb

The Real Protest

“It’s happening now. Not tomorrow.” – David Bowie, Outside 1994 The Gen-Xers are more picky than the companies are. I never knew the change would come through being spoiled, but…
February 25, 2012 at 12:27 pm Leave a Reply
21 Feb

How Do You Know When You’re Right?

 Or at least more right, more often than not.  The answer? By constructing an amendable matrix. Of differing lists.  Along with the following concepts: Integration Subjectivity Objectivity Rationality    …
February 21, 2012 at 1:40 pm Leave a Reply
20 Feb

Temporary Like Achilles

It’s hard to know who a traitor is. “Treason doth never prosper. Why? Because if treason prospered, none dare call it treason.” – JFK, Oliver Stone The major reigning institution…
February 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm Leave a Reply
18 Feb

Pro conspiracy premise.

 I believe in mass corporate   conspiracy. Here’s why: 1. It’s totally to the advantage of anyone in power, to consolidate that power and the labor and resources, produced materials…
February 18, 2012 at 3:22 pm Leave a Reply
13 Feb

It took me a while to learn that positive thinking wasn’t all mysticism.

I didn’t find out there was a possibility until I looked. This is the main concrete oriented principle that is the culprit in the tug of war between negativity, positivity,…
February 13, 2012 at 12:34 pm Leave a Reply
13 Feb

Belief and Industrial vs.Electronic Man 2

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13 Feb

The ‘As If’ Tense

Pretending that something has been the case in the ‘as if’ tense as I call it. This means that someone is put up a ‘living straw man’ and role plays…
February 13, 2012 at 9:00 am Leave a Reply
12 Feb

Belief and Industrial vs. Electronic Man

A rambling of my maddening frustrations with leftist thinking. And rightist and whatever thinking opposes belief. In any case, I am analyzing how and why people have set belief systems…
February 12, 2012 at 8:26 pm Leave a Reply
11 Feb

My Struggle

“Now I Know How Joan d’Arc Felt.” – Morrissey, The Smiths Adele. Love her. Rawness is a gift. It’s encouraging to see more ‘Roman’ singers like Adele. Roman, in this…
February 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm Leave a Reply
11 Feb

Extremism

In situations where you suspect people are lying to you wholesale, i.e. a group–familial or culturally held lie or delusion, and in denial and yet aware of the underlying reality…
February 11, 2012 at 5:32 pm Leave a Reply
11 Feb

Philosophy is Real

In this blog, I will indicate why abstract, philosophical action is especially appropriate as it pertains to domestic situations. If a computer is given a set of files and folders it can’t…
February 11, 2012 at 2:51 pm Leave a Reply
10 Feb

Will to Power or Nothing

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.” “The noble soul has reverence for itself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche If one…
February 10, 2012 at 3:54 am Leave a Reply
09 Feb

Protected: Survival Guide ‘The 100 Few’ Rules I (try to) never break.

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08 Feb

“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” – Gladiator, Ridley Scott

“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” – Gladiator, Ridley Scott Funny, this is not actually true, but technologically inevitable. Einsteinian space. Out with Euclid.
February 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm Leave a Reply
07 Feb

Old Vlog: “What Will Sites Like Facebook and Twitter do to Our Lives?”

February 7, 2012 at 9:23 pm Leave a Reply
07 Feb

Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy

“A principle of abstraction is said to be conceptual when the items upon which it abstracts are concepts, and it is said to be objectual when the items upon which…
February 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm Leave a Reply
06 Feb

Super Bowl 46: Show of American Dominance

Madonna. Playing the half time show as Romans. Fitting, very fitting. We are the Romans. And we have the slaves of the world working to make our outfits. Is this…
February 6, 2012 at 1:19 am Leave a Reply
04 Feb

Vesper Heliotropic – Random Sample

“Would you like some coffee, Mam?” Peeling her face from the cold table, Camille looked up at the train attendant with an odd look. She had indeed been dreaming. A…
February 4, 2012 at 11:50 pm Leave a Reply
03 Feb

The Middle Class Will Be Gone In Five Years

Not the middle class as we know it. But itself. It’s already happened. Not tomorrow. But also tomorrow, it is only to be left with tech and poor. And I’m…
February 3, 2012 at 10:33 pm Leave a Reply
Big Fish Being Eaten By Little Fish. Yes it is. YES!
20 Jan

The backwards fish

Or should I say the backwards fish, food chain, like fish eating themselves literally backwards…? The metaphor = Consider what will happen when apps and software write themselves? And developers…
January 20, 2012 at 2:42 pm Leave a Reply
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18 Jan

Automated Altruism

Consider that when you ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ someone, at least on platforms where people take their blogging seriously, you are telling them that they are effective enough for you to…
January 18, 2012 at 4:43 pm Leave a Reply
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17 Jan

The end is not as far as the Stars. You are the first one of your kind. – The Apple IIc.

“Keep your electric eye on me babe, put your space face close to mine, babe…”  -David Bowie, Moonage Daydream The little beige box that looked to be peering over at…
January 17, 2012 at 2:06 pm Leave a Reply
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12 Jan

SEO will ultimately end marketing.

For now, we think of search engine optimization as the science of bringing quality content to users by means of greater and greater improved search engine ‘visibility,’ and website architectural…
January 12, 2012 at 1:18 am Leave a Reply
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11 Jan

MEMOIR: My Personal Odyssey into EchoLand

“One hand…allows the other…” -Bjork “Or am I just just another trivial step along the way of your personal Odyssey.” – Paul Verlaine Rimbaud-Verlaine, the Film, Canal Plus France. -…
January 11, 2012 at 2:59 pm Leave a Reply
10 Jan

Corporate Hegemony and Internet Philosophy

The corporate superiority of the redneck or hillbilly in terms of communication that is all at once, integral, in depth awareness and slang tongue. Coupled with a real time, emotional,…
January 10, 2012 at 10:06 pm Leave a Reply
04 Jan

Aphoristic Futurist Thoughts: Asynchronous Messages to & from the Self

“Sat Night Live, SNL, reminds us that there is a center left in the world, with centralized cultural attitudes. Ex. Humor acts to curtail nonsense.” – Diary Aug 2010 “You…
January 4, 2012 at 10:13 am Leave a Reply
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01 Jan

Riddles of Ourselves.

Today a black lady I met, a very respectable neighbor, a former stranger, just met her, said to me, out of nowhere: “Hitler was a genius.” Weird moment. Maybe she…
January 1, 2012 at 1:29 pm 2 Replies
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27 Dec

Conflict of interests arise when worlds of interest collide.

December 27, 2011 at 3:11 pm Leave a Reply
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26 Dec

Follow the WHOLE ‘Springfield’ Short Story on VesperHelioTropic.com!

More Updated: On-Going Short Story, Updated (Almost Daily!) –ATTN: Safari Users have the ‘Reader’ advantage, which works very smoothly with the way I ‘web’ my stories. – Copyright © Neal Cormier…
December 26, 2011 at 8:15 pm Leave a Reply
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26 Dec

You see these people.

You see these people. They’re not actually living. Deep in their minds. This is closer to what they really see… And they strive their whole lives to get a piece…
December 26, 2011 at 7:31 pm Leave a Reply
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25 Dec

A separate Peace.

My struggle has been in finding that realm again, that I had when I was 15 and in love. First love. Life. The one everyone else gave up on at…
December 25, 2011 at 9:56 pm Leave a Reply
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25 Dec

In the Future, Your Future Will Find You

The big names are meaningless in an age where people desire echochambers. And more and more custom made products in which every consumer is also a producer. An age where…
December 25, 2011 at 6:46 pm Leave a Reply
25 Dec

Hyper-Sensitivity to Movement: We don’t like to read in the modern age.

We don’t like to read in the modern age because it does not give us the tactile fixation enough; that we take for granted in Video games and digital technology.…
December 25, 2011 at 6:01 pm Leave a Reply
23 Dec

New Sci-Fi Short Story: ‘Springfield’ -Part 2-

–This is the (continuation of the) first chapter sample of my all-new VH short story! The only place you’re gonna find it: ‘Springfield’ here only now, and exclusively on WordPress!–…
December 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm Leave a Reply
23 Dec

Listening

What is listening? What does it mean when someone actually listens to another person? How often does this actually happen? In order to answer the last two questions, obviously you…
December 23, 2011 at 3:15 pm 2 Replies
22 Dec

New Sci-Fi Short Story: ‘Springfield’ (Sample Only)

–This is the first chapter sample of my all-new VH short story! The only place you’re gonna find it: ‘Springfield’ here only now, and exclusively on WordPress!– Springfield i. Camille’s…
December 22, 2011 at 10:39 am Leave a Reply
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20 Dec

Dating: ‘Intellectual or Non?’ – SIGNS OF FEMALE ATTRACTION

  Biting of the lip, flipping of the hair. There was even an Opera episode about the classicality of the ‘hair flip.’ Penthouse magazine sites an unstated, cool, casual indifference.…
December 20, 2011 at 12:24 pm Leave a Reply
20 Dec

Adolf Hitler must be unravelled

We have been consigned to passivity. The lesson, if there were a God, of Adolf Hitler and what he meant and means to the world, the enigma of what world…
December 20, 2011 at 11:35 am Leave a Reply
20 Dec

Overabundance of information is always the problem.

From a voice file: This is my own observation. I think that it is inherently cerebral. At the moment. At the moment. I suppose that will change when we are…
December 20, 2011 at 7:55 am Leave a Reply
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18 Dec

VESPER HELIOTROPIC BOOK SIGNING AT THE MIDTOWN SCHOLAR!

December 18, 2011 at 1:04 am Leave a Reply
17 Dec

OBAMA IS A TRAITOR

Anyone who supports Obama, should THINK again. He is NOT going to veto the American INDEFINITE DETETNION ACT – AS IF THE PATRIOT ACT WEREN’T ENOUGH  He has now betrayed the…
December 17, 2011 at 12:52 pm Leave a Reply
17 Dec

AS AN AMERICAN, WATCH WHAT YOU SAY. THIS IS NOT AMERICA. THE US GOV IS NOW MAKING IT LEGAL TO DETAIN AMERICAN CITIZENS FOREVER FOR ANY REASON – OBAMA IS NOT VETOING IT

THIS IS NOT AMERICA. THE US GOV IS NOW MAKING IT LEGAL TO DETAIN AMERICAN CITIZENS FOREVER FOR ANY REASON – OBAMA IS NOT VETOING IT 
December 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm Leave a Reply
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16 Dec

Neal Cormier Web: IS YOUR PROJECT SPINNING WHEELS?

I am a Drupal web developer and graphic designer who aims to bring small businesses and entrepreneurs online. I do this by furnishing a website for people who can’t afford…
December 16, 2011 at 10:37 pm Leave a Reply
16 Dec

VESPER HELIOTROPIC BOOK SIGNING TOMORROW! 2PM

COME TO MY BOOK SIGNING TOMORROW AND GET 20% off YOUR COPY of EITHER THE NOVEL OR GRAPHIC NOVEL! 
December 16, 2011 at 5:21 pm Leave a Reply
14 Dec

Some Rules For Playing the Stocks in the Not So Distant Future

1. Technical companies offering jobs in exchange for specialized labor, is on its way out, non-specialism in the form of do-alls, artists, thinkers, inventors and computer wiz’s, is in. 2.…
December 14, 2011 at 10:30 am Leave a Reply
13 Dec

SHORT STORY EBOOK $1.99 FOR KINDLE: ‘RACHAEL’

RACHAEL: A SHORT STORY Rachael, or Camille Linderen has no hopes for humanity and is figuring out this is no longer the game in the not so distant future. She…
December 13, 2011 at 1:34 pm Leave a Reply
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12 Dec

VESPER HELIOTROPIC SHORT STORY: RACHAEL

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December 12, 2011 at 12:02 am Leave a Reply
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10 Dec

Memoir: Arrival From France: 2005

“My Dad taught me many things. Right here in this room.” – Michael Corleone, The Godfather II It felt as though a door had been shut on a party in…
December 10, 2011 at 1:23 pm Leave a Reply
06 Dec

Love is often the runoff.

Love is often the runoff. Of what was there when another person’s body gave us pleasure we didn’t think possible. If we reached it. Then we would think, what do…
December 6, 2011 at 2:20 pm Leave a Reply
04 Dec

BOOK SIGNING DEC 17 2PM – AT MIDTOWN SCHOLAR: VESPER HELIOTROPIC BOOK I.

BOOK SIGNING AT MIDTOWN SCHOLAR: VESPER HELIOTROPIC BOOK I. Midtown Scholar is having an Author Book Signing at 2pm December 17th. Autographed Paperbacks for sale, 20% off!
December 4, 2011 at 9:47 pm Leave a Reply
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