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This is a quick blog to document my position and reasons for it on a particular issue, in this case on the practice of agreeing to disagree under the context of fundamental values and standards. It is a general blog not meant to sub-sum and deal with every case this is an exception to, but to address a general rule.

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I seek here to analyze Polyamory as a philosophical system in terms of my initial thoughts.

Remember the first time in Paris.

How new everything was and you felt. You had never seen something so different, as you had hoped that new places in the past would be, even New York the first day was not quite so different as this feeling you had. It came close...same type of feeling.

No doubt you were embarking on a new chapter in your life.

Going back to New York certainly was a sort of betrayal of that chapter, a regression. But you back now. Follow your bliss.

-6/25/03

Time Magazine just presented the 10 top ideas that will likely dominate the world for the next 10 years, and made predictions of what would dominate society even up to the year 2050.

The views of the 10 writers of these 10 articles, seem to reflect a recurrent theme that is the carrier of the current vogue of conventionalism that so dominates mainstream opinion.

The right of a Montgomery County (Md.) middle school student not to stand up and recite the pledge of allegiance is being defended by the ACLU, who is fighting to compel an apology from the teacher who punished the student for not complying. The student was sent to the principal’s office and the student’s parents later 'counseled ' by the school administration to have the student apologize.

Our country is in such great part founded on the right of dissent, even if that means being against the US itself in belief or opinion.

“They say a good thing never lasts and that it has to fall. Those are the people that did not amount to much at all.”

--Madonna

Something about a woman's ass, my mouth is engaged by.

If it's round.

Jazz is suddenly my background sitting in a cafe the morning after a glorious 'weekend' series of pleasures.

In the entirety of my life, these mini-vacations are always a treat, always bring me into that other 'space' where there is no time, and only freedom left. That and a strict budget to parse out money into mini-treats like a Wendy's combo #3 with a triple decker burger. Or a nice piece of Maryland ass. Or Virginia rather, or whatever, I think she's originally from the midwest or something. Who cares.

*Warning: This is a 'Polemics' Series Essay--Intended for Polemical (Theatrical) Purposes--Does NOT Necessarily Reflect My Real Views In Any Way: Please See Below For What This Entails.

This is a personalized bit of advice for men (lesbians or bisexuals) who want a quick, at a glance run down of basic principles of female sexual interaction that is both brief but in-depth to some extent. Plus, this is what has worked for me, and worked WELL, consistently for many years.

This is purely from everything that I know about psychology and from first hand experience.

An iron will and absolute dedication.

Vision and totality.

The end of hobbies.

The end of the garage and the car.

The end of the work life, the sex life, the wife, and all those fumbling, half committed steps. The end of the casual. You will never stumble into the door of your own eyes again.

This is the beginning of your life.

Deep breaths, don't muddle through your lungs and paw at the juice out there, take it.

"There has never been an age where so many young people were as committed to being like their parents."

The so-called 'longstanding' position in web design/development today is that development, that is coding, CSS coders, PHP coders etc., as well as actual web designers will always be a necessity on a human scale.

What this current 'web snobbery' ignores, is the pattern in the history of technology, toward progressively increasing patterns of automation.

But you don't have to look at a history book to see it happening right in front of you.

"But Neal you need to think of your clients, you can't just go around acting and saying whatever you'd like, even if it is your right to and freedom to do so."

"But isn't my right and freedom to do so upheld by its exercise, and isn't business itself free to exist only because there were people before us who weren't afraid to speak up?"

When a famous actor dies early of a terrible disease, people generally talk about how many golden globes they would have won, the roles that made their stardom, how they battled the illness and there’s a general air of gossip and shallowness.

What they don’t talk about is what the figure represented to people philosophically, yet this is what their fans are rallying behind implicitly.

Patrick Swayze represented the ‘can do’ America I once knew and revered. In fact, it’s one of the last things and, now one of the only remaining things there is to revere about America.

"That the pursuit of knowledge and its conformity to reason is a precondition of the right to life and that this pursuit is the basis and delimiter of rationality."

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I had a long-winded 'discussion' of sorts at a party last night. As usual, the opposing side, opposite of my own, was liberal, which was revealed quite rapidly into the 4 hour diatribe.

It's good to have these discussions, despite their outcomes which as of now, bare little disimilarity to each other.

There are two strands of modern American feminism, all other categories seem to be variations of the following two:

1. Conservative Feminism--in which the national mainstream culture's vision of sex is rejected and made conservative, hence any visual public disclosure of the female body, especially for money, is wrong, and in all cases, an example of male or otherwise, exploitation of women.

2. Liberal Feminism--where the national vision of sex for women is embraced (i.e. free love) and taken in to be a natural function and expression of femininity, even for money, in which the female is viewed as being in control of her life and sexuality, all examples of female public disclosure of her body is viewed as natural and as if she is in control.

Both these visions of the modern female are incorrect and have led to devastating results for American girls and women alike.

I just got done watching what is probably the most important '9-11' documentary, of the many I've seen that tend not to site their sources.

"Press For Truth" is directly about the 'Jersey Widows' of 9-11 and is comprised of conflicting and fragmented actual mainstream news reports that reveal an almost deliberatly seeming fragmentation of news trickled in, but when posed side-by-side complete a picture we haven't quite seen yet.

This video has been shown to us "over and over and over and over again."

I am an individual with a great deal of experience with introspection in relation to emotions, which seems to have very repeatable results for me.

So here is the method of what I do when I confront emotions and want to know what significance they have.

In order to control, manage, or deal with emotions successfully, we must know what they mean.

You might ask: "What do you mean--what do emotions mean? Isn't that self-evident?"

Definition: The Two Types of Emotionalism

Emotionalism as an action, is the mental translation or interpretation of information by means and/or in terms of emotions as opposed to conscious reason or thought.

To break that down a little, there are two types of emotionalist thinking: interpreting, (1) in terms of, and (2) by means of--emotions.

Interpreting in terms of emotions consists of a rationalization: logic or reason that is based on emotions or for emotional reasons, where the logic is the subject, and emotion the real motivator.

Web: Where Conventionalism is Orthodoxy

So, as per just about everything, I have a bone to pic with a philosophical matter that's been waiting in the wings for far too long.

The age old standard and current hegemony in terms of web design that seems has always been quite the vogue for developers and designers "on the cutting edge," alike, is that the web is a flip book, basically, nothing more, and 2-dimensional with animation as content, not medium.

Ayn Rand hated Libertarianism.

On the News tonight I see protestors of Obama's 'New Socialism' calling themselves 'Tea Baggers.'

This is such a blatant misuse of this country's own heritage as to be more than laughable.

Nonetheless, what is so funny is that I see gaggles and gaggles of libertarian protestors holding up actual portraits of Ayn Rand, as well as signs that read 'Atlas is Shrugging' and so forth. When, Ayn Rand herself, completely denounced the libertarian party, mind you, not certain libertarians, but the ENTIRE existence of the Libertarian party.

"The man who discovered fire was probably burnt at the steak he built."

-Paraphrased from 'The Fountainhead,' by Ayn Rand

Someone recently pointed out, here on my blog, that I am all at once: attractive, talented and intelligent-- in that it is rare to have all three in one person at the same time.

This happens once in a while and it brings me out from the trenches again, a refreshing recurrence of:

"Oh yeah...I guess you're RIGHT," I AM aren't I?

Dammit!

What is listening?

What does it mean when someone actually listens to another person?

How often does this actually happen?

In order to answer the last two questions, obviously you have answer the first one, first.

So what is listening?
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“You know why I come here?

“Why?”

“Cause when people think your dying man, they really, really listen to you.”

“Instead—“

“—Instead of waiting for their turn to speak.”

--Flight Club