Philosophical Crime

Philosophical Crime
Philosophical Crime: Not a true crime, as in breaking rules/laws outlined and proscribed by a governing body, but a crime in a sense that it breaks with a philosophy, a belief, a viewpoint, creed, some practice, failure to assist or help (negligent or non-malicious depravity...) or other abstraction.

Today (yesterday, in particular, Wednesday, October 28, 2009) we became aware of Andre Agassi's stunning and saddening admission of meth use - apparently in his new autobiography. (See our entry: Chemicallball [Era]). To us, the philosophical crime here was that the athlete was once portrayed as a rebel. We were once taught - instructed - that true rebels shun drugs and drug use. Thus, the basis of the charge of a philosophical crime in this instance - the failure of a rebel to shun drugs and their use.


The penalties for said crime or crimes? Disappointment, effects on reputation and conscience, history, the now dreaded asterisk...and possibly more. Don't get us wrong, we like Andre and wish him no harm.


Another Philosophical Crime might be the sin of omission or neglect. Where an individual, group, entity, population or other body fails to recognize or assist in urgent matters that demand attention. For example, we found it interesting to hear of the asteroid impact event in Sulawesi the other day...even though the event took place 3 weeks ago. Where are we - as a race, a people, a species - on this? How few of us recognize and treat an impact event with the deadly seriousness of this. Why are we asleep at the wheel? (Actually, we've written a position paper on asteroid tagging, see our Homeland Currency Security website. We also regularly post updated links to this danger).


World hunger - or hunger, famine, malnutrition in general - are also Philosophical Crimes in that they might be adequately addressed. Over a billion people go to bed hungry each night. Thousands starve to death everyday. Why aren't we doing more about this problem? (Actually, we've started a new concept, called The Food Corridors as a potential solution to this deadly problem. And World Focus and the CBC News does a pretty good job of covering this problem).


Suicide Bombing and Suicide Terrorism we also judge to be Philosophical Crimes. It is wrong (particularly in the name of a religion...) to kill others and oneself in acts of terrorism. It is particularly deplorable - and despicable - for any religious body or governing body to develop schemes of manned suicide attacks. For example, we recently did some historical research (of local interest to our senior editor) into the phenomena of the Japanese Kaiten and the destruction of the U.S.S. Mississinewa...


Sometimes suicide is wrong...particularly in the above cases. In some cases, where it is meant to save lives, it can however be the right option or action. We know this position to be provocative, but look at the case of Jesus Christ.


Warmongering is also a particularly deplorable - and despicable - Philosophical Crime. One or two famous examples are here. Think of the teacher in the scene (All Quiet on the Western Front) who encourages his students to join the war and give up their studies. Specifically, the educator convinces his students to give up education for war and death... We can also think of a recent more modern example given us by a recent US Administration...


Oh, and more on the failure to assist or help: The apparent footdragging see in the current debate on Health Care Reform in the US...such delay may be justifiable in order to write a good law, though.More on this topic later...

Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/4zSvG8


From the staff: We thought it odd that our senior editor would want to discuss this topic on today, his birthday, but we gave up the ghost.

Please note: This posting appears simultaneously on our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary.

The Food Corridors

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The Food Corridors: 'Novel' concept for a new type of non-profit / charity to bring much needed food aid and implements (dowsing rods, well points, shovels, picks, buckets, rope and so on...) to those in the world facing the common enemies of malnutrition, starvation and famine. The charity organization is just now in the concept stages, but we will accept donations and pledges. Please hold on to your donations if you need a tax relief receipt immediately. The idea is to build 'food corridors' for humans much like animal habitat corridors. The concept appears to work for wildlife, why not humanity???

You may also contact us through our current Twitter webpage: http://twitter.com/georgek1029, new web pages are being planned for this new non-profit.

FOM: Food Corridor, World Focus Tags: 'Saving the Children' , Draining a Nation , The coming famine in Kenya (2009), Guatemala’s children languish from malnutrition , Mau Forest , World food aid at 20-year low, 1 billion hungry, Grow More Food in 50 Years Than All of History?, Asia Faces Food Shortage By 2050 Without Water Reform, World Food Programme (UN), Kenya faces starvation due to drought: UN (CBC News Report Link), Kenyan Herders Devastated As Long Rains Fail (Gabrielle Menezes, WFP), Bread for the World, World Hunger Year Website, Food Security, G8 pledges to boost food , supplies, Climate Change May Spur Chronic Hunger, Oxrfam Says and Oxfam .

Note: This posting appeared previously on our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary and in Tumblr.

The Food Corridors

Image licensed under Creative Commons by wetwebwork

The Food Corridors: 'Novel' concept for a new type of non-profit / charity to bring much needed food aid and implements (dowsing rods, well points, shovels, picks, buckets, rope and so on...) to those in the world facing the common enemies of malnutrition, starvation and famine. The charity organization is just now in the concept stages, but we will accept donations and pledges. Please hold on to your donations if you need a tax relief receipt immediately. The idea is to build 'food corridors' for humans much like animal habitat corridors. The concept appears to work for wildlife, why not humanity??? http://bit.ly/6ghax

You may also contact us through our current Twitter webpage: http://twitter.com/georgek1029, new web pages are being planned for this new non-profit.

Please note; this posting appears simultaneously on our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary and on Tumblr.

FOM: Draining a Nation , Guatemala’s children languish from malnutrition , World Focus Tags: ‘Saving the Children’ and Mau Forest. World food aid at 20-year low, 1 billion hungry, Grow More Food in 50 Years Than All of History?, Asia Faces Food Shortage By 2050 Without Water Reform, World Food Programme (UN), Kenya faces starvation due to drought: UN (CBC News Report Link), Kenyan Herders Devastated As Long Rains Fail (Gabrielle Menezes, WFP), Bread for the World, World Hunger Year Website, Food Security, G8 pledges to boost food , supplies, Climate Change May Spur Chronic Hunger, Oxrfam Says and Oxfam .

Instant Peace Prize or 10-Day Peace Price

Instant Peace Prize / 10-Day Prize: The slightly unfortunate portmanteau of Instant coffee and Nobel Peace Prize. With reference to President Obama's unprecedented winning of the prize even though only in-office (officially...) for ten days prior to the deadline for nomination. As we have publicly stated, would Mr. Obama be seen as 'courageous' (and generous) if he offered to share the prize with other champions of peace? Do these events in the timeline diminish the prestige of the prize?

FOM: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, The Audacity of the Nobel Committee, Nobel Peace Prize Shocks Bloggers: "This is Insane" , CBSNews Nobel Committee says President Obama given Nobel Peace Prize to reward and "enhance" his diplomatic efforts: http://bit.ly/1mjuYa and georgek1029 @markknoller "It's an unprecedented honor for a new U.S. president less than 9 months in the job".

Collective Subconscious.2

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Collective Subconscious.2: Last night we were dreaming of Twitter (again!). Does the dream state indicate that Twitter has become a new part of our collective subconscious? Or, has Twitter inadvertently tapped into some sort of collective subconscious? Can Twitter become some sort of gateway to the 'Oversoul'? In this way, does Twitter connect to a higher spiritual plane? In this way, can Twitter point us to our 'spiritual home'?Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/1DUr31FOM: Collective subconscious, Spiritual Plane , Dharma Wheel and The Over-Soul (Essays by Emerson)

Please note: This posting appears simultaneously on our sister publication The Anti-Zen Dictionary and our twitter page @georgek1029).

This Is Not a Posting - Impossible Tweets

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On bit.ly: http://bit.ly/25vUEM

'Impossible Tweets' Posted on Twitter today:

This is not a tweet.

This tweet is false.

This tweet is not here.

This tweet does not exist.

.sdrawkcab ton si teewt sihT

This tweet was deleted.

This tweet is not emotionally satisfying.

This tweet will not appear until tomorrow.

This tweet will not appear today.

Posting Monday, November 2, 2009.

This tweet is a fragment.

This tweet is not a fragment.

This is a retweet.

This tweet is untrue.

This tweet is wrong.

Posting Updated Tuesday, November 10, 2009

This tweet is fake.

This tweet is not real.

This tweet is meaningless.

This tweet is factual.

This tweet is not in English.

This tweet is in French.

This is impossible.

This tweet is too long.

This tweet is illogical. (Attributed to Mr. Spock).

This tweet is not in the timeline.

This tweet is not factual.

This is a previous tweet.

Updated Sunday, November 15, 2009:

100 years from now...this tweet won't be here...

Updated Tuesday, November 16, 2009:

This tweet is random. (Apologies to Brent Spiner).

Updated Thursday, December 10, 2009:

Define normal.

Where is the universe?

The Paradox of Twitter - Does your tweet have a noumenon?

Phwitter or Sophister? http://bit.ly/5hWjyu The portmanteaus of philosophy and Twitter. Which is the more appropriate? The former, being the joining of love (philo) and twitter - or the latter, being the joining of knowledge (sophia) and twitter.

Updated Sunday, December 13, 2009:

This tweet is real.

This tweet is not real.

Phenomena are not real - only noumena are real.

This tweet is a noumenon.

This tweet is a phenomenon.

This tweet is zen.

This tweet is not zen.

This tweet is not.

This tastes like zen.

It tastes like zen, it walks like zen, it looks like zen, but it is not zen.

FOM: Rene Magritte, Klein Bottle , Douglas R. Hofstadter,

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (ISBN 0-465-02656-7) and Self-Referential.

Y2K + 12 = 2012?

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Y2K + 12 = 2012?: Remember the hype and panic over Y2K? Is 2012 similar? Chicken Little Redux?

Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/LlGFE

(Note: This posting appears simultaneously in our sister publication, The Anti-Zen Dictionary).

FOM: 2012 isn’t end of the world Mayan elder insists, 2012 and Eschatology.

Updated: Sunday, October 11, 2009.