Tag: Jester Guru Chronicles
Courage, Candor, and Contraries: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 10
"Act as you wish and regard nothing as sacred." ~ Sacred clown proverb My cocoon is a rabbit hole, a wormhole, an inside-out pigeonhole. I...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 8: You Are Going to Die!
“Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.” ~ Chinese Proverb There is nothing more inspiring nor more crippling than the following sentence: You are going...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 7: The Virtue of Uncertainty
“Uncertainty is so terrible that we often seek to be rid of it, at the hazard of a certain mischief.” ~ Edmund Burke This is...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 6: Closed Captioned for the Thinking Impaired
“You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy...
Gray Jedi and the Subtle Art of Gray-walking: Jester Guru Chronicles,...
“Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 4: The Cosmic Joke
“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 3: Breaking the Law
“If you knew Time as well as I do ... you wouldn’t talk about wasting it.” ~ Mad Hatter One night a few years back...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 2: Redefining God
“If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting” ~ Jack Handy Today, using...
Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 1: I Am From the Future
“It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” -Jorge Luis Borges Greetings! Your resident trickster-god in training here, with an...
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The Philosophical Wrecking Ball: Protecting Us from Our Yearning for Certainty
“What I understand of “philosopher”: a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.” ~ Nietzsche The thing that makes philosophy useful...
