Aphorisms

Aphorism 101. One preoccupied with race is called a racist.

Aphorism 102. Grass is green because of chlorophyll; skin is brown because of melanin.

Aphorism 103. Every race has wisdom. It's usually what's shared between them that qualifies it so.

Aphorism 104. Church and State are separated; this does not excuse immoral politics.

Aphorism 105. The fault of the last two centuries was that we believed morals were ambiguous, and could only be found because God exists.

Aphorism 106. Moral truth is true, regardless of whether there is a God; rather, it is God's job to make sure men uphold the moral truth.

Aphorism 107. Justice often fails; this is why we ought to submit ourselves to a higher authority.

Aphorism 108. Social Justice, what does this mean? To riot? To burn? To steal? To covet? To murder?

Aphorism 109. Hopefully my last aphorism is the only one that becomes antiquated.

Aphorism 110. It is true that all civilizations were borne from Genocide.

Aphorism 111. It is true that all civilizations were built by slavery.

Aphorism 112. The black race has no special privilege that make it more benevolent than any other.

Aphorism 113. It's a trait common among educated folk to believe that Blacks aren't smart enough to do what Nazi Germany did. I, however, am hesitant to believe that.

Aphorism 114. The races are all equally gifted. It is simply numbers that make them unequal. For better or worse.

Aphorism 115. Poverty leads to less intelligence. It's a simple matter of nutrition.

Aphorism 116. Equity is a strong word; there ought to be equity, but not at the expense of equity.

Aphorism 117. If my aphorisms are offensive, then the truth is an offense.

Aphorism 118. Christianity offers the only cogent moral system, Old and New Testament.

Aphorism 119. Everyone deserves to go to hell.

Aphorism 120. If you do not believe in God, it doesn't change the fact that He exists and will ultimately judge.

Aphorisms

Aphorism 51. The one preoccupied with narcissism is usually the most blatant narcissist.

Aphorism 52. Selfishness is what destroys civilizations.

Aphorism 53. Men who judge are often the same men who betray.

Aphorism 54. When a good man dies, consider he is in a better place and no longer must suffer life.

Aphorism 55. When a bad man dies, consider in what ways you made him.

Aphorism 56. Do not offend a soul of inferior mind, as then they will seek only to destroy you.

Aphorism 57. Do not pin a strange dog to the ground, lest it bite you.

Aphorism 58. The world is for the wicked to rule.

Aphorism 59. Racism was a certain generation's only sin.

Aphorism 60. God has given our struggles to overcome, and it is for our own pleasure.

Aphorism 61. The daemon inside of us is more dangerous than the shadow inside of others.

Aphorism 62. We are each quantum entangled with the Person of Death; our choice is whether we let Christ burden it, or we burden it by ourselves.

Aphorism 63. A false pastor has an evil eye, and a slack arm.

Aphorism 64. A good pastor will put himself into harm's way for you.

Aphorism 65. Poetry can be perfectly understood, yet the foolish are more interested in what it reveals about themselves.

Aphorism 66. Exact knowledge of any poem is impossible, yet each poem has a universal moral to tell.

Aphorism 67. The author is dead, and that is why so many are foolish.

Aphorism 68. My observations may have been made before, but I came to them on my very own.

Aphorism 69. The Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit is not a word we say, but a Word we refuse to say.

Aphorism 70. Christian hedonism is an antithetical statement.

Aphorism 71. I saw a rich man with a wooden crown, and Eros at his breast refusing to be passed on to the next man.

Aphorism 72. I have concluded life is vanity, save one thing, and that is love.

Aphorism 73. People in groups aren't hard to understand, but those who understand them are usually the outcasts.

Aphorism 74. Psychology is a useless field, when it's being used to teach self love.

Aphorism 75. The faithful man is not a good man, but rather a man who knows he's not good; yet tries his hardest nonetheless.

Aphorism 76. Grace salvation is that an offender like me can be forgiven---it does not excuse me from doing good works.

Aphorism 77. The worst thing the church ever did, was teach the Earth was created yore 6,000 years, and that Christ's moral teachings were suggestions rather than laws.

Aphorism 78. In the days of my grandfather, men knew the Earth was old, but it didn't bother them.

Aphorism 79. Faith is not believing without evidence---it is what makes sense out of the evidence.

Aphorism 80. Nietzsche was wrong.

Aphorism 81. Morality is self-evident. However, so are the laws of quanta.

Aphorism 82. Homosexuality does hurt people by the very nature of it being selfish.

Aphorism 83. Transgenderism does hurt people by the very nature of it being a lie.

Aphorism 84. Where most men are liars and selfish, there can be no true joy.

Aphorism 85. Love is best described as an additive force; selfishness is best described as a divisive force.

Aphorism 86. Hatred and self-loathing are just bitter forms of self-love.

Aphorism 87. Self-love, by its very wording, is selfish.

Aphorism 88. The worst kind of man is a covetous man.

Aphorism 89. Kindness can soften the most bitter heart.

Aphorism 90. Cut off from yourself the darkness; Christ is the knife.

Aphorism 91. Throw your sin into the sea, and let it drown with Christ.

Aphorism 92. When Christ raised from the dead, so did you. That is what Baptism represents.

Aphorism 93. Baptism is what Jeremiah called the "New Circumcision".

Aphorism 94. Jesus, by name, is revealed to be the Messiah in the Book of Zechariah.

Aphorism 95. Abraham had a covenant with God, too; that His Seed, Christ, would bless all the nations of the Earth.

Aphorism 96. Let Christ burden your Daemon, so rest from that wicked thing.

Aphorism 97. Sin in season is decadent sex on the marriage bed, and gluttony at a marriage feast; it is murder during war, and a crude word in literature.

Aphorism 98. Do not refrain from sex if married; doing so is a little like a form of adultery.

Aphorism 99. Sex ought to remain for the marriage bed; otherwise, children are born without loving families.

Aphorism 100. The greatest lie we are told is that it is noble to survive.

When You Read This

When you read this
You will wonder, "What is he saying?
"What is the point?
"Why does any of this matter?"

I will blush.
I don't have an answer that will satisfy most of you.
It just is a discovery I made
That if you listen close enough
A true meaning can be found in any poem---
One which actually is there,
Not merely conjured by the reader's mind.

You might rebel against that,
But the entire crux of civilization hinges on it.
Language and Law are what separate us from the beasts
And the more we try to divest attention to what's in our own hearts
The less aware we are of what's in others'.

And I fear walking through this earth
Alone, never being connected with someone else.
Just me and my thoughts.
Just me and my own laws.
Rather, I wish to find in words
What is truly there
So I am not alone.
And I believe it is God that allows us to stay connected.

Job Interview

My story is I was a wretched child
Who did whatever pleased him.
I took what wasn't mine,
I hurt whomever I wanted,
And I felt no remorse.
I was happy, free, and lawless.

Then, I fell in love.
I gained a conscience in that moment.

Then, I found God.
And I confessed my whole life's sin
To the police, spent five months in jail,
And two years on probation.

My problem I wished to solve
Was to prove there is truth.
I first started my journey when a young man
And discovered Pi was the circumference of a Circle
Whose diameter was one.
I then discovered the Square Root of Two;
And doing remedial math,
Through trial and error,
I got a few digits in
And discovered there was truth.

I then applied that reason to language.
That there must be truth;
I had discovered through Plato
Jung and Freud the Psychological truth
Of archetype--that men share a body of knowledge
Through their shared experience,
And this shared body of knowledge creates strings of meaning
Which are shared by men who've been exposed to it.
I had found the Shadow being described in the best poets
And discovered humanity's dark side.
I had also found the Light in the Child Jesus.

Then, while reading Wordsworth,
I discovered there is objective meaning
In what poets write,
And that within words are meaning---
Within poetry is meaning
And one ought to listen in order to discover the meaning.
It became clear to me that the world around me
Was abandoning this truth as fast as I was discovering it.
C. S. Lewis called it "Bulverism"
Socrates called it "Sophism"
Lao Tsu called it "Straying from the Way."

In that, I had found parallels between cultures
That concepts were being discovered simultaneously
And without knowledge of one another;
It was just given different words.
Tao and Logos were essentially the same thing.
Confucius and Mozi had discovered the bulk of the Ten Commandments.
Hammurabi discovered the bulk of Jewish Law.
Christ affirmed the whole teaching,
Adding to the Law Forgiveness.
For, by that Law I found every man was a Sabbath Breaker---
Therefore, every man deserved the punishment of death.
And, miraculously, the Child was born
To bear Death---our Daemon, or as Isaiah 53 called it our "Contagion".
And I had found these strings of meaning
Virgin births,
Moral systems identical to Judaism and Christianity,
That all word---for the fact is witness testimony
From a bulk amount of data can always pinpoint even the most specific truth---
That Christ's words were true
From all this witness testimony around the world.
Therefore, He must be God Come in the Flesh.

For, I had searched meaning and truth
And found in the concrete world
Axioms and laws about physics and language.
And I had concluded there is knowledge.
And because there is knowledge,
There must be a God.
And given the testimony of the Man Jesus Christ
I found it obvious that He must be God
For no other had condensed truth into so cogent a philosophy.
Yet, as you know, Elon,
For truth to be certain, it must take a leap of faith.

Bulverism II

And now I come to say,
My beloved Bartholomew,
That your Bulverism has one more bout
With my witness, it's true.

For you said, "I presuppose
"That knowledge must have God."
I prove it here, that it must be so
As solid as a rock.

For you presuppose knowledge can exist
Without God, yet I find this quite specious.
Then you chalk up my knowledge
To psychological stems

Of past experience and Freudian totems.
And class, and religion, and family it's true...
Yet, my bigoted rival, how came this knowledge to you?
For if it be based on a presupposition

Why are rich men deluded to think this world a vision?
Truly even this makes me doubt---
Why not you, you scurrilous case of gout? 
And that word, I had not known, had come into my mind

You mental twine, tangled in a mess of lies...
If my word's not given by God
Then how did I this word find?
More importantly, Bartholomew,

Here is the last question I give---
Are you so sure the material world
Is as based as it is?
Rich, genius men do this doubt in thought;

So again I tell you, Blackguard,
How can there be knowledge without God?

Bulverism

A name which has no meaning
A philosophy which can find none;
If given the proof of God
It shall say, "No, knowledge, I shall shun."

For at the end of its existence
It questions the very truth
Of our objective reality
And counts all facts as rude.

For, I ask you, Bartholomew, 
What knowledge can there be?
For you said knowledge doth not prove
That God's existence can be seen?

Yet, what of the chemical which doth make a scent?---
Which has changed in my nostril?---
The smell of onion made different?---
Or the sight of woman, doth this also prove

That upon my cornea, there is no way to view
What is real, and no way to truly know?
For that is the question, you have to answer my
Nasty and unworthy foe.

Does objective reality exist within the sense?
The answer is, without God, no, it truly can't.
For the eye would just be neurons firing in a vat
Of cholesterol, which makes the nose a synaptic trap.

So smells are different from man to man
And maybe tastes are, too; and maybe sight
And maybe sound, and maybe all things pulled.
Therefore, without God how can knowledge be?

For without Him to make things proven
How can knowledge, knowledge truly be?
Yet, if two men find through their senses
The same thing that makes it true,

If it is witnesses who've found it
Then God by witnesses is here proved.
For if there is reality, and things which we all share,
There must be a God to make it so,

And here is why, my dear:

Because the presupposition I hold
Is based on concrete science
Of philosophy so auld
I will give you a reason pliant:

For if all things come to doubt
The material world we know---
Which it soon comes to be---
We must have reason to share what's told.---

Or else be trapped in our own conscience.
For if all things, material or not,
Be presupposed you say,
Then that presupposition is predicated on

An objective world you say.
Yet, what if in the near future
That objective world we'd doubt?
Then it would need relate back to God

That is what I am all about.
In order for knowledge to exist
It takes even a leap of faith.
For knowledge is borne by witnesses

Yet, by witnesses there must still be grace.

Thus we come to the end of the song
And that is what Bulverism is---
It is men who deny the facts
Based on their belief that aught is hid

From the truth, so they can never truly discover.
Men need, rather, be, the truths' wedded,
Sultry lover.

An Analysis of Shakespearean Sonnets 1 – 126

One day I intend to do a line by line analysis of the poem. Since everyone ought to study one epic poem in their life---study it intensely, knowing each nuance, each line, each rhythm---The Shakespearean sonnets will be my subject.

However, upon reading them, I was fully immersed in the notion that Shakespeare was singing about a gay lover. I had begun reading the first 126 lines with that in mind. However, I don't think that's an appropriate reading, and I'd like to explain some of my reasons why.

For one thing, the beginning of the poem seems to insinuate that the subject being carried up was something like a son to Shakespeare, and that this individual had died, or was wounded, while courting a woman. With this in view, it makes a lot of the passages more clear, rather than more opaque. And further, if we account the latter portion of the Sonnets to the subject's mother---the Black Lady---we begin to bring a tapestry of what the poems are about. Hamnet. Whom, probably, was Shakespeare's son to a Concubine, and being encouraged to find a wife and bear a son, he had gotten himself into trouble like Romeo. There's one sonnet in particular where Hamnet is described as Shakespeare's muse in all of his work. And if it's a gay lover, I don't think one can find Romeo and Juliet from that, but rather the plot structure of the first few Sonnets seem to tell a Romeo type story of failed courtship which was fatal.

Further on, there's some references to Shakespeare being a "Slave" to the subject of the poem. Some requite this as gay love, but I find it more probable that Shakespeare is using a device of irony to say that he was his Concubine's Son's slave. Which is more in line, that the adoration---and reference to Hamnet's fair skin and Cheeks---seem to be references to his availability for courtship and the wrong committed against him.

There are some twenty passages I've found that directly relate to death, that the subject has died, and then the poem begins to fracture into two distinct characters. Love and then the Character of Hamnet who becomes a symbol of love. The character, Love, is possibly a reference to the fame of his poem. If Love should die, then nobody would read the Epitaph of Hamnet's. If Love keeps men reading the poems, then love lives even after Shakespeare's death. Then Hamnet, in turn, lives on through Shakespeare's poem. As there are two distinct individuals being talked about in the poem. Separated. There is Hamnet who died. And then the figure of Love, whom Hamnet becomes a symbol for. And the reading of the poem is what preserves the love.

There's several hints that Shakespeare believes the poem will be skewed by the "Sluttishness of Time"; that is, somehow he could foresee the Logos being skewed, and then maybe this faulty interpretation becoming canon. I believe Shakespeare had some inclination that the poem was going to be interpreted as erotic, when he never intended it to be erotic. As the poem's subject is Love. The character in the poem whose cheeks are often referred to is dead or near death, while Love lives on and is continued to be enjoyed for as long as his poem is read, and the epitaph is read. As, the poem several times calls itself an epitaph for the individual in the poem. It is a love poem of a Father's devotion to his Son who died unfairly, when courting a woman. There can be no other interpretation, for the poem is cognizant of its being skewed toward eroticism---several times the poem is self aware that it could be misrepresented or misunderstood. And it might even seem inappropriate for a father to write such a thing about his deceased son. And Shakespeare is cognizant that Love itself could be misrepresented by the poem. It seems embarrassing, as a writer at that time was not prone to using such emotionality. 

However, let us look at the possibility of Shakespeare singing a homoerotic song. Then why refer to the subject having died so often? In the sonnets are some thirty references to death having already happened. Anywhere there is a slight hint of the poem becoming erotic, the next sonnet will bring one to bear with the truth that the poem is actually about Hamnet. Perhaps the "Slutishness of time" was precisely the erotic reading of the poem, that Shakespeare was subtly aware of being a possible rendering. It might have been indecent for a father to sing about his son that way, or the boy might have been commonly known to be of African descent. In either case, the poem is speaking of a Father's love, and his epitaph to his son who became the embodiment of love, having pursued a woman whom he was unequal with for the time's standard.

It is my imagination that Shakespeare was a good man, who loved his son, and when his son wanted to court the woman whom he chose, Shakespeare encouraged it, and this led to the unfortunate circumstance of a wound. Perhaps the sonnets were being written at the time of Hamnet's deathbed, which could be a heart-wrenching song of a father not knowing if his son will survive.

I've written copious amounts of work over the course of a day or two. It's not unlikely that Shakespeare had composed this entire piece in less than four or five days. So, it could have been written while Hamnet was on his deathbed, recovering from a wound he acquired from a failed romance. As the subject is the muse of all of Shakespeare's writing. I leave this off, as it is the interpretation that seems most in line with the subject. A father in the bargaining phase of grief, writing what is the world's best piece of literature.

Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. Crown Publishers, inc., 1975. Text.

My Rorschach Interpretation

26.

I'm not a homosexual, at all.
I really can't be homosexual;
In my dreams I make love to women
And am repulsed by men.

However, this primitive response
Is likely inspired by my watching the Jungle Book.
It imprinted on me from a young kid
And I had associated the activity of gathering
Water in a clay pot from the Jungle Book
As a feminine activity.
Displaying a preference for defined gender roles in society.
It is offensive for me to think that the appendage is a penis.
I can't bring myself to think that,
But rather, with the African theme, it is bone jewelry.

27. 

The general motif here is of the average individual.

28. 

I see Lucile Ball looking into a mirror.
A mirror response indicates narcissism---
While I'm unhappy about that, it is a trait of mine
To be selfish, which I'm working on.
It is also---if I'm interpreting the data correctly---
Indicative of a thoughtful and reflective personality.
However, I'm skeptical of that interpretation
And believe it to be on there to ease the egocentricity
Of people with severe Antisocial personality disorder---
I will interpret the card as having a strained relationship with my mother.
Not narcissism, though I have severe selfish streaks in me which I recognize.

The comical nature of Lucile Ball indicates I find my mother humorous,
Which I do. The Playboy Bunny reflects my pure attitude toward sex.
As, the only sexual image on any of the cards is reflected in the Playboy Bunny
Ears, which remind me of Lucile Ball about ready to do a Cancan---
As I probably also saw that imagery in one of the episodes of I Love Lucy at a young age.

29.

I see two elephants looking into a pool at the bottom of the card.
Not one elephant looking into a reflection, therefore it cannot be a mirror response.
They remind me of Dumbo, which is imprinted on me from my childhood
As a misfit who has always been singled out as being "Special";
Which is probably also where some of the narcissistic tendencies come from.
I see two distinct elephants.

30.

I see two Russian Dancers doing a Mazurka
Which is a form of Russian Peasant dance.
I've seen it many times in the movies
And have read about it in War and Peace---
Therefore my association with it comes from the Russian Novelist's
Description. Which is a celebratory dance;
And in that particular book it was a symbol
Of the Russian vigor winning freedom from the French.

31. 

I have the average response for this.

32. 

I see a unique item here, a New Mexican Gorge.
Particularly, I see a canyon of hoodoos.
And an "Angel" or "Palm Tree."
The Angel indicates a feeling of being falsely accused
Or being overly punished.
Why in New Mexico is probably from seeing imagery
Of its canyons and ridges in so many TV shows
It has imprinted on me.

33.  

I see a lot of the common imagery in this one, too.

34.

I see the common imagery in this.

35.

I see an old man in a helmet  
Who is sitting over a Dragon pelt.
It is very common imagery.
The beast at the bottom looks like a dragon
And I interpret the Dragon as being defeated
By the man in the helmet.
Probably indicating the strong Paternal
Bond I share with my dad.

36. 

As a whole, I have four common answers.
I have nine whole answers. Which indicates extremely high levels of creativity.
I have a few movement answers. Which indicates maturity of thinking.
I have a few color answers. Which the colors are usually calm or idyllic.
I have one mirror answer---which is an indication of narcissism, and I'm working on that. It also might express the strained relationship with my mother.
I have a few detail responses, which indicate a moderate level of alertness.
I have one sexual response, which the indication of the nature of it was a pure attitude toward sex, relating it to Playboy.

Epitaph

For those who wish to know aught Shakespeare's heart
One ought to know his Concubine gave him
A son, whose fair skin and beauteous cheeks
Were the song of one hundred twenty-six
Sonnets. Whom, encouraged to seek out love
Was wounded for it, and grew gravely ill
Until he had died, and Shakespeare would write
Hamnet's one hundred, twenty-six sonnet
Epitaph, to immortalize Hamnet's
Search for love. A boy, whom legally was
A slave, beloved by his father William;
Yet, the slutishness of time had warped it.
For, the Boy whose beauteous cheeks are here
Immortalized, he, his pursuit, is love.