Soil – A Poetic Notion

On March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 By Alex V. WeirIn Alex Weir, poems, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedLeave a comment

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Death is my Religion

Death is my sacred Mother

Death is the vehicle by which my soul traverses the heavens

She is no macabre fancy

But a perfumed blossom

When I was a boy

I dreamed of a rotting woman in an upper room

She would beckon with her will

And I’d enter first the parlor

Then ascend the stair

There she lay on her sick bed

Eyes fierce

Matronly

Nurture and discipline at once

All would fade to such black terror

Such abysmall emptiness

So complete

It sucked the heart from the breast

The heart from the heart

All chambers collapsed

But then in the charnel stench of decay

A bright light glimmers

And I become a raging fire

Her stygian embrace was but soil

From which my sappling oak would spring

So I do not fear

But worship

For when I go to ground

I enter through the womb again

To return to father’s house

For the sun is spread throughout

In billion upon billion glimmers

And there I go

To hang

Till again

The ground it calls to worship

And births a nation

I the man

Have but one rite

The worship

Of the mother

Night

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TFS 27 – Stoics, Cynics, and Heroics

On March 4, 2020 By Alex V. WeirIn Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogLeave a comment

A cheeky romp through pungent fields of self important bullshit.

Diagnosis: It’s a bargain bin replacement for religion.

Le Articles De Discotheque

https://eidolon.pub/why-is-stoicism-having-a-cultural-moment-5f0e9963d560

Exploring Russell’s “The History of Western Philosophy” – A First Glance at the Introduction

On November 30, 2019 By Alex V. WeirIn Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I give some commentary on the introduction to Lord Russell’s “The History of Western Philosophy.” I am rather pressed for time as my work schedule has me waking up at one AM; and although it’s a Saturday I must make it to the pub for reasons of sanity. As such I’ll definitely be revisting the introduction in more detail. So please take everything said here with a huge grain of salt. There is quite a lot of opinion.

Apologies for my sniffling and mushed words as I am recovering from a cold.

I wouldn’t have uploaded at all had I had the time to do a second take. But I’m frankly tired of seeing my website sit stagnant. So here’s my best effort and I hope you enjoy.

Topics

I) Russell’s definition of philosophy

II) Russell’s philosophical landscape – Greece, Catholicism, etc.

III) Russell on Byzantium and in my estimation by extention Russell on Orthodoxy and where in my opinion he might be wrong in his conceptions

This topic has a lot of peripheries like the political interplay of Catholicism and Protestantism and the development of man’s sense of duty to God over the state. There are so many caveats to this and so many philosophical implications that it takes up the rest of the video and I’ve barely scratched the surface.

IV) The importance of Liberalism as a balancing force between disciplinarian ossification and hyperindividualism. That importance being in my opinion the reason for studying philosophy.