Early afternoon. You did your thirty minute
exercises and you have been climbing and coming down the stairs like normal people do, not one
foot, one step at a time because you can now balance yourself with the railings
on both sides all the way up. One of the fun excitements of the day was going
to the mailbox and seeing the cover of the new January issue of Harper's. It
has a picture of Mr. Trump behind bars on the cover and says: "Make
America Great Again and Stop Trump Before He Starts". - Amorella
1308 hours. I'm surprised you
mentioned the Harper's, I like to stay away from politics as much as possible
in the blog.
The cover caught your heart by surprise,
boy, not because of the cover and the statement, but because it was your
beloved Harper's magazine. Do you see the difference?
1311 hours. Now I do. I wouldn't think
about such a small difference.
This
is a problem with human beings, small difference can be of the greatest
difference in here, thus I registered it as a lesson for you. - Amorella
1314 hours. Thank you, Amorella. I am
grateful that you pointed this out to me. It is worth reflecting on. I thought
it was the politics which is what the cover is about; but it is about my
favorite literary magazine taking a public stand I would not have even
suspected them of taking so brazen and openly on the front cover, on the first
issue of the new year no less. Ha! -- It makes me wonder about other issues.
Sometimes I surely do things for the right reasons and other times for the
wrong reasons and I don't take the time to discern the differences. And, to
think, in here, the spirit world of the blog, I am haunted not by the Dead but
by the Living before physical death. There is a humor here I find very intriguing,
an irony, perhaps that can be used in a story. A dead person's conscious
haunted by the tiniest of mistakes made when living. It could go either way
depending on the person -- in agony over doing something for the right reason
when she or he did it deliberately because it was wrong. What humor is that. I
think the only way out of that sort of situation is to recognize the humor and
let the agony go. (1327)
That's
what you do, orndorff. One of the reasons I am here in imagination or not. -
Amorella
1328 hours. You are a gift, a treasure to me,
Amorella.
And
you share it, boy, don't you see. - Amorella
1330 hours. What a reflection on a
reflection. I have to smile both humbly and quietly.
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- Amorella
1557 hours. We ran errands and had a very
late lunch at Piada Street Italian. Now we are at Macy's buying a shirt for
Paul. At lunch I was thinking about what you said above, Amorella, and I see
this (as I have once or twice ago in the last couple decades) that inability to consciously know why we do the
things we do gives a gift of innocence still, no matter the Adam and Eve and
Satan in the Garden story demonstrates it. Writing something like this five to
ten centuries ago could have got you killed by one means or another. This is
very odd to consider.
It
still is, young man. Think on it, you still would not know if you were guilty
or innocent. Ironically, in some cases even the judge and jury would not know
either. - Amorella
1608 hours. I wasn't thinking this as an out
for getting away from something illegal. You are right though. How can justice
ever be met in this context?
Moral justice or legal justice? -
Amorella
1612 hours. How about spiritual justice?
Now
you are talking about spiritual reality not physical reality, at least in here,
in the blog. - Amorella
1614 hours. If in here can mean
hypothetically, then yes, spiritual reality in the blog. -- Wait. I am not
ready to go on this path at this time. Sometimes I automatically slow down in
terms of heartansoulanmind. Not fog, mind you, but it is like I am at the end
of the road that ends at a huge body of water and I know I need to turn around
but I just want to get out of the car and hear the waves hit the beach and
watch the stars overhead before I do so.
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- Amorella
1814 hours. They provide a sense of
satisfaction and comfort.
Satisfaction
for taking things as far as the could go in context and comfort from a memory
of such a scene. - Amorella
1817 hours. You always express my true self
(in context) better than I can. How is this?
I
know whether it comes from heart or soul or mind and as such I judge the temperament
of each separately as well as together. As a Betweener I can do this because it
is necessary. - Amorella
1823 hours. I hear a 'rule' in your
statement; I hear that necessity is a marker of sorts. I am not asking. I am
just thinking out what I might learn to help me be a better person, a wiser
person, but only in reference to how to lead my own life. Socrates once said an
unreflective life is not worth living, or something to that effect. . . . Wikipedia
comes to the rescue once again.
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The
unexamined life is not worth living
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The unexamined life is not worth living (Ancient Greek: ὁ ... ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ) is a famous dictum
apparently uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth,
for which he was subsequently sentenced to death, as described in Plato's Apology (38a5-6).
Rationale
This statement relates to Socrates'
understanding and attitude towards death and his commitment to fulfill his goal
of investigating and understanding the statement of the Pythia. Socrates
understood the Pythia's response to Chaerephon’s question as a communication
from the god Apollo and this became Socrates's prime directive, his raison d'etre. For Socrates, to be
separated from elenchus by exile (preventing him from investigating the
statement) was therefore a fate worse than death. Since Socrates was religious
and trusted his religious experiences, such as his guiding daimonic voice, he
accordingly preferred to continue to seek the true answer to his question, in
the after-life, than live a life not identifying the answer on earth.
Meaning
The words were supposedly spoken by Socrates
at his trial after he chose death rather than exile. They represent (in modern
terms) the noble choice, that is, the choice of death in the face of an
alternative.
Interpretation
Socrates believed that philosophy - the
love of wisdom - was the most important pursuit above all else. For some,
he exemplifies more than anyone else in history the pursuit of wisdom through
questioning and logical argument, by examining and by thinking. His
'examination' of life in this way spilled out into the lives of others, such
that they began their own 'examination' of life, but he knew they would all die
one day, as saying that a life without philosophy - an 'unexamined' life - was
not worth living.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia
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You both had a light supper, watched NBC
News, "Designated Survivor" and "SNL Christmas Special".
2055 hours. I read a popular biography of
Socrates several decades ago. He, like Plato and Aristotle are philosophical
heroes of mine. However, I do not remember anything such as the line in
Wikipedia:
Socrates
was religious and trusted his religious experiences, such as his guiding
daimonic voice, . . .
I realize that 'daimonic' in context means
according to the Oxford/American software: "1 (in
ancient Greek belief) a divinity or supernatural being of a nature between gods
and humans.
• an inner or attendant spirit or inspiring force."
I
wonder upon reading this that in my imagination this is what I made of you,
Amorella, an inner or attendant spirit?
It
is possible, boy. You have read much during your lifetime and you have the
imagination to go with it. Surely you could have put this together in your
imagination as you are doing at this very moment. - Amorella
2117 hours. You know what, Amorella, I'm just
going to let this topic go and head up to bed.
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