{"id":13756,"date":"2025-11-26T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:41:42","slug":"random-jottings-on-the-day-before-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/random-jottings-on-the-day-before-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Jottings on the Day before Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sehnsucht<\/em>.\u00a0 The far-off in time or space can arouse our longing for the\u00a0 metaphysical Elsewhere. A lonely saguaro standing sentinel on a distant ridge . . . .<\/p>\n

When I met him, I was young and he was younger. Now I am old and he is dead.\u00a0 This life is too dream-like to be real, and too real to be a dream.<\/p>\n

He died in a hospital bed, not with his boots on. “This is funny,” are said to have been Doc Holliday’s last words.<\/p>\n

A race is not run all at once, but step by step. So too in life: it is lived day by day, hour by hour. This is a comforting truth.\u00a0 Can you get through the next hour?<\/p>\n

For my kind of life, she’s been the right kind of wife: tamquam alter idem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It takes a spiritual being to affirm that spirit is nothing but an efflux of brain chemistry and that what is ultimately real is matter alone.<\/p>\n

Can there be moral seriousness without some doctrine of immortality?\u00a0 Yes? Are you serious<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Given that we are ineluctably both truth-seekers and moral strivers, could the world in itself be ultimately unintelligible and purposeless? If it is then man is no microcosm but a cosmic joke.<\/p>\n

The ultimate joke would a joke without a teller.<\/p>\n

If might makes right, then there is no right. To say that might makes right is to say that the notion of right is illusory.<\/p>\n

If it won’t matter tomorrow, how much does it matter today? If it won’t exist tomorrow, how much does it exist today? Does existence come in degrees?<\/p>\n

Is salvation of<\/em> individuality or from<\/em> individuality?\u00a0 Christian versus Hindu views. If the former, it ought to\u00a0 involve a transformation into a higher individuality and not a mere perpetuation of the petty earthly self.<\/p>\n

Some friendships ought to be left in the boneyard of memory where they belong. “Let sleeping dogs lie.” But if the friendship was rooted in something deep, fruitful re-awakening may be possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sehnsucht.\u00a0 The far-off in time or space can arouse our longing for the\u00a0 metaphysical Elsewhere. A lonely saguaro standing sentinel on a distant ridge . . . . When I met him, I was young and he was younger. Now I am old and he is dead.\u00a0 This life is too dream-like to be real, … Continue reading “Random Jottings on the Day before Thanksgiving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13758,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/13758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}