The Affectionate Display
“Greg Swann has insights into emotion on levels that really make you think. He can pluck that one annoying gray hair with pinpoint accuracy. He is a philosopher of sorts and he says and does what philosophers do. He shakes you to the bone, bumps your cup and lets you see what spills out. You see what you see and he sees what he sees. I’ll bet they are dramatically similar and extraordinarily different.” –Jeff PriceMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can't, you won't waste my time. I grow regardless.
I’m not like you. That’s why you should listen to me. I’m in an empathy of opposites with everyone: All they see are reasons to complain, when all I want to do is dance. I know why we are the way we are and how we can learn to do better with each other – making everything better.
I am fomenting a philosophical revolution that will change everything for everyone in due course. How? By finally fully redeeming Western Civilization.
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- PresenceOfMind.net – a weblog I maintained in the early years of the new millenium.
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Category Archives: Splendor!
The Affectionate Display: When life hands you a lemon – hand it back and shop for your own values.
Affection from The Church of Splendor: The nicest possible answers to life’s most brutal questions.
Brand new! (Just add you.) A party game that will make introverts enjoy parties at last.
The homily from the Church of Splendor yestermorn, “The Dutch Uncle Game (or: Tits or Get Out).” It’s a long walk on a brisk fall Sunday with a business proposition at the end. Salute and you could change the world.
Ideas from The 21 Convention and the answer to every married man’s prayers: Making more love more often.
My life my way. That’s why.To the right is the business-card image I used on my first slide from my #t21c presentation, a personal mission statement, of sorts. I could do decent stand-up on the idea of being a poet, … Continue reading
The DISC of Love and Sales: A glimpse of my 21 Convention (#t21c) presentation.
How to close on the people you want to persuade with mutually-beneficial results. What church is more about the successful execution of human life than The Church of Splendor? This is me from Tampa, in advance of my presentation to … Continue reading
To celebrate #t21c, Shyly’s delight is FREE until Monday, and all my Kindle books are on sale for 99¢.
All self-help books are bullshit? Get all the DISC for none of the risk.Find the love for life your dog never lives a day without at Amazon.com:Shyly’s delight: Work, play and love like a Labrador.The 21 Convention is an amazing … Continue reading
If we are wise, and if we are lucky, we won’t “meet the new boss” because there won’t be any bosses.
Watch this: Yes, everyone knows Saturday Night Live is not funny, but that sketch is interesting, even so. Why? What is that bit actually saying? Actors are puppets for writers, never forget that. What are the writers of that unfunny … Continue reading
A rallying cry for the Tea Party rebellion: “You’re not the boss of me!”
I love that phrase — “You’re not the boss of me!” — those words, that order, that emphasis. Children say it when they’re put upon, and I love it so much I write it into their mouths in fiction, too. … Continue reading
A better marriage? A better family life? It begins with the empathy for the opposite.
When you praise your kids’ virtues the way you do your dog’s, you’ll love your whole family better.Photo by: wsilverIn Nine empathies, I raise the idea of the empathy for the opposite, trying to make conjectures about another person’s mental … Continue reading
Free the Earth 7 billion! Ideas scale, so you have the means to free all of humanity at your fingertips.
If I teach other people how to see the world my way, each one of them will be rich enough in human values to mutually-enrich all the others.Photo by: Ramunas GeciauskasThe idea that ideas scale is addressed in the last … Continue reading
My life, my choice: My plan to stage a graceful exit from life when the Splendor is gone.
I’ve lived my entire life hewing to my own standards and values, and I do not intend to die any other way.Photo by: Knar BedianUnder the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I … Continue reading
What has it cost us to have been so wrong for so long about selflessness and self-adoration?
Whether you’re looking at a skyscraper or listening to a symphony or simply teaching a child to read, the source of the Splendor you experience is self-adoration and nothing else.You’ve been told your whole life that all the troubles of … Continue reading
The Silence of the Liberals: A good time for getting in touch with who you really are.
Where do Good Germans come from? They come from the same cowardice that reputedly-decent liberals are expressing right now with a vast, self-incriminating silence.ModernDope (old account) / Amazing Photos / CC BY-NC-SA I noted this in passing on Facebook (with … Continue reading
Screw off, fake priests! How to get governmentally-organized-crime out of your marriage.
To surrender all recourse upon default is the best assurance you can give that you intend never to default – and it is one hell of an incentive not to!Photo by: Jean L.The Cautious are always cowards: Theirs is a … Continue reading
How do I know that human behavior is not causally determined? Because all organisms are exclusively internally-motivated.
If consciousness is an illusion, why would you have a luggage tag? This came up in email, but I want to take on a piece of it here, because it’s interesting to me, and because it illuminates a discussion I … Continue reading
Facts are facts: You cannot rip off the band-aid until you admit that you have wounded your self.
Building on the idea of the number line of morality discussed in Chapter 7 of Man Alive, this video from September of 2012 takes up the idea of ripping off the band-aid — getting pain out of the way quickly … Continue reading