“Quick, a miracle you swindler.”
“What, for assholes like you?”
Author: Michael Tolbert
Author, feminist, philosopher of the Hydrorealism.
Deus Sive Natura
What are some of the implications of the duality of God and Nature in Spinoza?
The world is fundamentally broken. This is the God Problem.
A broken world is by definition an unjust world.
Perfection is not possible; but limitless possibility implies that perfection is at least conceivable. Therefore, perfection must be found within its composition, the relationship between points, not the point themselves.
True substance is relational.
Why We Pray
Why pray, if the world does not run according to the rules of magic? Why pray when our words have no power to change the impersonal laws that govern our lives? We pray, sending up our love, enveloping those we pray for with our unwavering love. Though the world does not abide by magic, there is magic in the power, the giving of love.
The Tears Unseen
One evening, long ago, or so I imagine, I met a man while walking along the street. He had a tear-shaped tattoo under his right eye. The man explained the tear was a symbol of death, for the man he murdered. Was the man guilty, I asked? Or innocent? The man shook his head. I can not say.
I thanked him and we departed. Later that same night, I saw another man appear from the shadows of a street lamp. When our eyes met, I turned and fled. Upon this man’s face, I swear, I saw no tears, no tattoos. Imagine! The countless murders the man must have committed beyond our capacity to grasp.
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
“If you understand someone, there is no need for pity.”
“I think people are made to need each other. But they haven’t learned to live together.”
Petra speaks about the need of honesty in relationships as she applies makeup to her face. And oh how she loves to tell a good lie!
All about Eve, those latent lesbian undertones brought to the surface.
When Eros leaves, we feel frantic, desperate. We fall to our knees, bent in prostration. We want to conceive her, conjure her from the remnants of our lovemaking. But she is lost to us. We become bitter.
The Bed
“That primal scene of birth, romantic enterprise, and extinction.”
Funny
I was only joking!
I thought jokes were supposed to be funny?
Like the Saying, Just Add Anyone Famous.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Not Winston Churchill.
Also Not Winston Churchill “Who put the runny cheese in my crumpets?”
The God Problem
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” – Dune.
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” – Dune.
Pride
Pride is a form of self-deception. It makes you believe you are more important than you really are.
Pride reveals a lack of self-respect.
The Hack 