MEANS AND ENDS
1.MEANS IS MORE DOMINANT THAN THE ENDS ENDS IS MORE SUBMISSIVE THAN THE MEANS 2.IF YOU TREAT OTHERS AS A MEANS TO YOUR ENDS THEN YOU ARE AT OTHERS' MERCY, THEM BEING DOM, YOU BEING SUB 3.IF YOU TREAT OTHERS AS AN ENDS TO YOUR MEANS THAT MEANS...
The Five Guides
**The Five Guides** _The heart's whisper cries more loudly than the shouting of tongues._ **Historical Background** The first prophet and exemplar of the Great Dragon's teachings--and later the first emir exerting formal, temporal political power...
An Ordinary Day - Extra: Character Bios
Her philosophy is "everything i do is productive!"
Owning My Humanity -- Anxiety
I am in a considerable deal of ongoing pain--and while that's not a particularly engaging way to solicit an audience--pain being what it is--I feel it important to qualify my position. My pain is that of concentration, and of feeling it constantly...
Come With Us To Gomorrah, Opportunity Knocks But Once
What is the reality we dream of? I sat pondering this, scraped and scarred in the dust, as I watched my fellow man putting bullets through each other's brains. On a better day, in a better context, maybe it was giving your life for your country, or...
A Conflict of Minds
"Why would you want this?" "Because." "Just because?" "Because I want..." "What, to escape accountability? Responsibility? Animals have those things too." "Leaving aside for a moment that human beings 'ARE' animals to begin with..." "But that's...
Dysfunctia
Jericho's Walls have withstood the pre-prescribed treatment... Shut out and buried, weary and miserable strides Through the dark of deplorable summers and long frozen winters Depression... Insecurity... ANXIETY. Being born in a human's skin,...
Duality
_What must we endure, to be 'us'?_ "I don't know. I don't know." There is a divide, between who you are, and your ideal self: the you inside the shell. _Look in the mirror, but you won't see me._ "I know, I know! There is little I can do but...
Spirit Bound: Chi
It is the name of a philosophy of the east, but for us in the west, it is oft confused with religion, for philosophy as the greeks taught us is different than philosophy as the great teachers of the east taught them.
Because I sympathized with animals...
This thing came to pass where I was envious. This thing came to pass where I thought I was not free. This thing came to pass where I saw people were not free. I perceived there to be some great shame, was I wrong? I was ashamed of my own...
Owning My Humanity -- Commitment
"Eventually we all have to make commitments to the things we hold dear, or risk losing them entirely." I had thought about this, and questioned--'do I value being a person'? On the one hand, you have expression, art, communion with friends and...
Impulse
Do you know that feeling when you're standing knee-deep in quicksand, and you know that if you don't do something, you'll drown? No, you've probably never really been in actual quicksand, but think about it. We've all been in a situation where time was...