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2015-09-01T01:28:44-04:00

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Are People Any Damn Good?

Last updated on: September 1, 2015 at 1:28 am By Tom Swiss

But over-engineering the garden ruins the fruit, give us those cardboard supermarket genetically-engineered tomatoes instead of those succulent products of the sun and soil that grow naturally on the vine. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

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good and evil

human nature

2015-08-28T10:52:02-04:00

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We Live For Beauty

Last updated on: August 28, 2015 at 10:52 am By Tom Swiss

Why do we live? Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

2015-08-26T15:38:59-04:00

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Truth, Beauty, and Lunatics

Last updated on: August 26, 2015 at 3:38 pm By Tom Swiss

In those moments I feel like I had no choice, in the same way that I have no choice when I sit down and try to write a poem and find that I've used a word that is just wrong. Some sense in my brain nags and nags at me until I fix it. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

My Blogging Life and Times

aesthetics

ethics

2015-08-20T20:10:04-04:00

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You Can Start Again

Last updated on: August 20, 2015 at 8:10 pm By Tom Swiss

If there's something that you wanted to do in the past but never did -- it's not too late. If you quit something and regret it -- you can start again. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

My Blogging Life and Times

music

2015-08-20T12:26:16-04:00

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Neopaganism: Looking Forward or Looking Back?

Last updated on: August 20, 2015 at 12:26 pm By Tom Swiss

I've always held with the old saw that says we should all be concerned about the future, as that is where we will spend the rest of our lives; and I've given considerable thought to the topic of Paganism and the future. It strikes me that the word we often use to talk about the contemporary Pagan movement, "Neopaganism", has "neo", "new", right there in the name, suggesting something that's looking to the future. I don't think it's a coincidence that we have so many computer professionals and engineers and technological, future-looking folk in the Pagan community. Read more

2015-08-11T15:21:15-04:00

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Why I Am Still a Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian

Last updated on: August 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm By Tom Swiss

I look back at this after fifteen years, and it’s not terrible. I’ve come to deeper and more nuanced understandings of each of these points, but nothing that makes me disavow this explanation. So then, what are those deeper and more nuanced understandings? What have I found that makes me keep each of these elements as a part of my well-balanced spiritual practice, and recommend them to others? Read more

Discordianism

My Blogging Life and Times

2015-08-08T13:58:10-04:00

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Enchantment and objectivity

Last updated on: August 8, 2015 at 1:58 pm By Tom Swiss

There can be plenty of enchantment in the objective world-view. There is a form of beauty in seeing how the moon's orbit and the arc of a pop fly follow the same Newtonian law of universal gravitation. Cantor's diagonalization proof that there are more real numbers than rational numbers is one of the most beautiful things I know. Read more

Philosophy

Theology

reenchantment

2015-08-06T22:14:23-04:00

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Hiroshima: A New Way for Humanity to Sin

Last updated on: August 6, 2015 at 10:14 pm By Tom Swiss

All throughout the massacres of the 20th century, but most especially on that day of shame seven decades ago, traditional religions failed. Christianity failed. Buddhism failed. Shintō failed. Every child burned to death in the flash over Hiroshima, every lingering case of radiation poisoning or leukemia, testifies to the fact that the spiritual systems of our past are inadequate to the challenges of a technological species. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

Religion & Politics

Hiroshima

2015-08-03T10:03:37-04:00

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poem: a Lammas pantoum

Last updated on: August 3, 2015 at 10:03 am By Tom Swiss

watching the sunset reflected on a billboard / thinking about summer winding down / I can already see the daylight getting shorter / however high the temperature climbs Read more

Poetry

Lammas

poetry

2018-04-19T12:19:40-04:00

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Psychedelics Aren’t Zen — But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Bad

Last updated on: April 19, 2018 at 12:19 pm By Tom Swiss

If this sort of experience is the goal of Zen practice, and if the psychedelic experience is something of the same order or type, then it's not unreasonable to think that psychedelics could be a shortcut to enlightenment. The problem is that the satori experience isn't the goal. It is at best a step along the way. Read more

Ethics, Virtue, and Right Living

Zen

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