Inactive Tutor answered • 06/19/25
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As humans, we can respond to insanity, irrationality, lawlessness, mass shooting, chaos, propaganda, fallacies, hate speech, anti-culture rhetoric, and violence in rational, steadied measures, guided by the spirituality of a higher power in terms of rationality, compassion, empathy, and justice. We must react immediately to abhor violence, chaos, hatred, injustice, and malice. We are guardians of our progeny. We have our moral values if we follow that are of our culture, traditions, religious rites, customs, governance, and laws and norms.
What does the silent generation. the baby boomers, the group of anti-conventional, anti-authoritarian, anti-institutional, the Freedom Fighters and John F. Kennedy Civil Rights cadre, and the dispossessed dreamers of Camelot, and the handicapped desire?
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I claim that Virginia Wolfe got the last laugh when she filled her pockets up with weighed stones, not mere pebbles to commit suicide upon the brink of World War II after her Manic Depression was triggered by the losses of peace that triggers Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This disease results from the fact that evidence from the a chemical imbalance and the brutal reality of being married to a Jew during Hitler's reign of terror during World War II.
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06/25/25
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I agree that the times are not auspicious for those people who lead small, quiet lives of decent people of writing poetry, praying for sunflowers, those people who are calm and rational, those people who are heroes of love, light-followers of beauty and harmony who stand up to malfeasants, miscreant, and the greedy wolves, jackals, and harpies of chaos by doing dignified deeds: (if possible) the miracles of kindness with respect for humanity, compassion for the sick, diseased, and poor, the broken hearts of the abandoned, and the bereft siblings of disasters that are natural and not nuclear.
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06/25/25
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The mark of a poet is the artistic soul enlightened and imbued with creativity, light, and a passionate to see what the beyond the ordinary, unafraid of using the wrong color, size, tone, heaviness, depth, or tincture, and brave enough to explore new runic rimes to express what cannot be undone, uncut, or unresolved, and unannounced.
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07/22/25
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What do poets, playwrights, philosophical, 18th century Deists or intellectual members of the Enlightenment era have in common? They determined the rationale of pure reason, enlightenment principles that view rational thought as the basis for order, balance, harmony, and a quasi Divinity via a mechanistic modal. Imperfections exist because there are flaws in peoples' mind. Immanuel Kant (a German philosopher who lived 1724--1804) spent his time in Lubeck, Germany (Hanseatic League) lecturing college students and perfecting Kantianism, a philosophy that asserts that knowledge comes a posteriori from sense perception. Nature is the reflection of God, and He represents Divine Order, a category of Natural law, Der Vernunft von Gott.
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07/29/25
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God is the guiding principle of reason, balance, the light, order grace and the Golden Rule / Mean which classical artists treated as tranquility, rationality, moderation / Peace, beauty, tolerance, compassion, love, truth, and the trinity.
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07/29/25
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I read about pop culture and current technocrats, so-called mavins of tik-tock culture, the popular pop/rap/Hollywood-movie stars in custom and the cadre of Los Angeles crowd, enjoying ersatz-culture of Kitsch trifles, as the Ice agents and police chase down illegal immigrants and put terrorists in GITMO.
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07/31/25
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Teens and performers wearing brand new chic outfits like moon-studded T-shirts and stylishly dyed or torn 501 jeans, these bored and jaded effete cadre of snobs indulge their pretentious appetites upon Sugar Daddies on-line, looking for a good time. The conversation, the vestments of the rich. Our lonely crowd denies the truth that they are lifeless and soul-less mechanical robots of Kitsch.
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08/01/25
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How does one teacher communicate when he or she cannot see the students' eyes because they are addicted to their cell phones, hunched over, never lifting their heads to pay attention to the teacher. Tic Toc is much more exciting than books. The latest celebrity gossip rag is far better medium than Miss Gray's 6th-grade reading selection. Perhaps, I am too woke because I cry at the horrors of the slaughter and starvation, and mass drones of Russians killing residents of Kiev or their kidnapping of Ukrainian children to re-program them into red army comrades. What does rapper X do to earn a place in the Oval Office? The indecent rhetoric is not worth disputing. He does make fun of cripples, the handicapped, the dark skinned immigrants, the poor, the sick, and the tree-huggers. I am waiting for Godot.
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08/09/25
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I am alone, isolated from main-stream media, devoid of the Golden Triangle of so-called news or too woke to believe in marzipan realities or that real people who buy beauty products from Hollywood celebrities know what happens to old movie stars in our instant-youth culture, but of the already past-tense, when one is 30. Oh no, a wrinkle oh, no, another gray hair! I better use my credit card and buy more instant lavender purple-scented beauty cream and some formula ebony, jet-black hair dye or bleach my hair blond like the popstars of the 1980s. But what do you chat about if you lack the argot of today because you do not have time to read J. Alfred's Prufrock or Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain? Do must have credit cards to spend your money on consumer goods, going more into debt each day as your motivation is to beat back the normal aging process in order not to appear too old in our world of instant gratification as the ethno-philosopher who wrote Tally's Corner in the 1960s. What would the beauty queens of the 1960s say to getting skin cancer from suntans in the fifties? Is getting rid of today's fads possible in the age of advertisements, in the sacred world of the Hollywood club of get rich now! Buy my sleeping beauty Cream, only $29.99 an ounce!
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09/01/25
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I found a solution to Mother Nature's reaction to the chaos of war, genocide, the sickness of society's lack of harmony, balance, reason, compassion, grace, empathy, and blessings, and restoration of the creative arts, like music, literature, paintings, and sculpture. This solution to the worldwide disequilibrium is to devour educational pedagogy, to aspire to teach and I signed up for advanced courses: the classics, poetry, and the historical novels popular during the 1970s. I listened avidly to jazz, folk music, and the pop-art media; Because I wanted to be a compassionate, empathetic teacher, I analyzed world literature, paranormal, esoterica, and philosophy. In order to become engaged in environmentally and humanistic matters, I prepared for advanced degrees, like an enthusiastic student of knowledge. I wanted to gain the technique of discernment, of understanding the essence of literature, grammar, writing, rhetoric, linguistics, synthetic phonics, syntax, and semantics. I studied German, French, and Anglo-Saxon. I am not one of the typical mentors, for I have been educated in private, parochial, and untraditional institutional, the wayward product of non-American parents, a Heinz-57 diverse demographics from an atypical generation between 1960s Weltanschauung and to Enlightenment akin Fundamentals of Dick-and-Jane reading series, the handbooks for cursive writing, and ALM language record for German, and catholic doctrine, accompanied by Jesuits theology, and Ben Franklin Autobiography. Now, I am woke, marginalized, and erased.
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09/01/25
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According to Carl Jung, we all undergo the hero's shadowy, psychic journey when we undergo a spiritual, metaphysical transfiguration, changing from the suffering and unloved damaged child e who learns to please other, becoming a codependent and selfless person when we deny our own needs in the service of others. This altruistic person soon develops into a nag and termagant as he or she sacrifices until they have nothing--resentment and rejects others. This concept of a continual self immolation exponentially huge.
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09/10/25
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We must accept the travails of life, according to biblical wisdom in Job's lessons; however, there are a plethora of doctrines, axioms, rituals, and traditions that shape or construct the cultural patterns , according to Ruth Benedict, Emile Durkheim, and Margaret Mead. So we have different interpretations of truth, reality, and moral values. So, we have wars, brutal acts of vengeance, and sense-killings, or Chaos.
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09/10/25
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I assert that the exploration of true evil often fascinates philosophers, journalists, and artists for eons, including social scientists, biologists, criminalogists, and political leaders, especially the Zeitgeist Deists of the 19th-21th century who question humanity's existential Angst, fears of death through our own nihistic cultural patterns of competition through tecchnology, wars and disease. Of course, these academic scholars, history students, and artists have often wondered for centuries what the meaning of life there was, and we,thinkers, explore these esoteria since Cain killed Abel, Caliguia killed his family, friends, or imagined foes, and had incest with his sister, and slaughtered his own body guards after he became mad.
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12/03/25
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C. S. Lewis, British writer, essayist, creative-fantasy novelist of "The complete Tales of Narnia" captures the four intrepid children who are magically propelled through a myriad of worlds with talking animals, ancient giants, menacing dwarves, evil witches, chagrined, twins, aweful bullies, vain witches, and stupid creatures, lion kings, and gentle loambs, terrorizing nature, and a cadre of fighting forces in warfare against evil kings, magicians, using black magic, evil charms, and time, location, and event change, dependent upon the decisions of dictators, tyrants and their slaves and serfs.
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01/31/26
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In David Walron's science fiction novel, "The Genius Plague," the existential and uncanny question centers on humanity's quest for progress, enlightenment, a higher intellectual acuity and technological control of nature, plants, animals, and fungi through genetic coding via the computer; the mad scientists create a diabolical plague, which threatens humans' free-will, reason, and personal choice, for parasitical mushrooms send out spores that invade plants, animals, and humans' central nervous systems and thereby destroy its hosts in an attempt to erradicate all independent thought processes and executive functions, and without critical thought there is no thinking human.
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03/03/26
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According to E.B. White, Gertrude Stein, exemplifies a musical and artistic tonal structure that is both beautiful, transfigured in mysterious vagueness yet clear, predictable, and easy to remember. He adds that the best poets taste with their physical senses or their emotions. This claim requires logic, rational income.
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06/16/26
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To define poetry one must consider classical, Greek mythological heroes, goddesses, gods, monsters, giants, or Titans, or Roman characters. We have the god Apollo who represents the symbol of light, knowledge, rationality, reason, and order. But his opposite is Bacchus,/Dionysus, the god of wine, cheerfulness and a state being drunk. Each god or goddess represents a character trait, which is a vice, a flaw, a imperfection, or a punishment. Zeus/Jupiter, the ruler over the Olympians, is the adulterer, and Hera, the wife of Zeus and queen, transforms the young girl into cow named Europa. Athena springs out of Zeus's Head; she is the goddess of wisdom and justice. Athena's opposite is sexual, lust-filled Venus/ Aphrodite, and her son's name is Eros, the popular name is Cupid.
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06/22/26
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Something in the air smells rotten, according to the Hamlet of William Shakespeare. We live in the End Times some Jehovah Witnesses opine about the acts of irrational, uncanny violence that grow as wild, weeds of senseless miasma and misanthrope spawn the slithering snakes of malice and malcontent effect the acrid atmosphere among social groups. Once fans would raise their glasses and cheer for their teams; diverse national players fought for their country's win in the World Cup. Recently, Latinos shouted wildly over Argentina's victory over the British loss. Do people forget xenophobic slogans and sing along tribal barriers?
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07/17/26
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According to Vicki Michaelis, director of the John Huland Carmicical Sports Media at the University of Georgia, the World Cup promotes fellowship, team-spirit, enthusiasm, communion of core values, and fosters a church-like community. Popular critics could concur that soccer functions as a religion because we are together, celebrating unity, the friendship or compassionate congeniality of a traditional revival tent, a 1980s artistic happening akin to Paul Tillich's definition of the Now. Teacher may describe this inspirative emotion as that special feeling as when Anne Sullivan teaches blind, deaf, and mute Helen Keller how to read and write.
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07/18/26
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C. S. Lewis divides the spirituality of heaven and hell into a narrative roman called The Great Divorce. The concept of Christian faith is one's attitude toward God, Jesus, and the Espiritus Santos, Das Heilige Geist, the Holy Ghost. What is the essence is the attitude toward right action toward God, light, hope, justice, grace, charity, compassion, mercy, and joy. Bright spirits are godly angels; lizards, snakes, worms, and witches are lustful, devious and arrogant agents of the Devil, Satan, the anti-life force of evil, portrayed in the cold and dark of Milton's Paradise Lost or alienation. C. S. Lewis demonstrates Chaos, evil in the grotesque of the Great War of mustard gas, as exemplified in Robert Owen's poem Dulce Decorum est Patriota. Hell is dark, cold, barren and lonely. Heaven or Love is light, warmth, and fertile. The illuminating light is heaven.
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08/31/26
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C.S. Lewis was an devout Catholic and follower of Christian spirituality, as well as a scholar of Medieval studies, literature, philosophy, as well as an admirer of the Arts. In his love of Medieval Art, his loved Berlinghiero, a famous Italian, Tuscan-trained painter. Berlinghiero was a leading Romanesque and early Neo-Hellenistic and Byzantine figure who painted A Mother and Child in the 13th century.
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08/31/26
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C.S. Lewis studied Medieval Art from Adeline's Adeline Art Dictionary Dictionary, (1953). His work, The Great Divorce, mimics the hellish vision of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost (1667), and Wilfred Owen's (a British anti-war poet--(1893-1918)whose poem portrays the speaker's autobiographical's death from his mustard-gas-affected horrific dying hell, choking on his mucus-filled lungs.
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08/31/26
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Critic, journalist, children's writer, and maverick philosopher, E.B. White is a remarkable individual, a genius, a revolutionist, and a grammar teacher and editor. Not only was he a popular celebrator of nature, humanism, and spiritual grace, he lives today in his philosophy of thought, from grammatical conventions or rules of punctuation, editorial guidelines in Strunk's Little Grammar book, E.B. White is an acerbic poet, an historic mavin of humanity, as shown in his short letters, his memories, and annotations.
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09/10/26
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I am filled with tranquility as I breathe in the fragrance of wild jasmine, the aromas of the banquet table, and hear the nostalgic melodies of the poet and see the graceful actors performing their ritual dances, and I listen to bards chanting the rime of lost soldiers and their heroic deeds. But wait. Without peace, spiritual grace, and harmony, art cannot exist.06/19/25