Pophilo: Popular Philosophy

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Copyright (C) 2002 by L.M. Wong Dommy dominaeprimus@yahoo.com

PoPHILO

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PRELUDE

THINKERS IN THEIR OWN WORDS DISPLAY AND CONVEY THE DEPTH OR SHALLOWNESS OF THEIR OWN AND SO SHALL BE PILLORIED OR ACCLAIMED BY THEIR OWN THOUGHTS.

THERE IS IMMENSITY IN SPARSENESS AND SPARSENESS IN IMMENSITY.

PoPHILO POPULAR PHILOSOPHY

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1.Better to be a willing servant to our mind than an unwilling slave to a tyrant?s will.

2.The physical self and mind as willing servants to a worthy cause is a form of devotion. The physical self and mind as unwilling slaves to a despised cause is physical and spiritual violation.

3.Controlled freedom is externally induced refrain, discretion and responsibility .It is only when we are given the sovereignty of freewill do we realise our susceptibility and vulnerability.

4.If a soothsayer predicts negative events in our lives, use freewill to avoid them. If a soothsayer predicts positive events in our lives ,use freewill to fulfil them.

5.We should all generate our own knowledge not just absorb all that we have learned. In order to attain our full intellectual potential ,we need both the scholar and innovator in us.

6.When at last we realise how much we?ve lost when things have passed, we have grasped both wisdom and folly.

7.A pessimist is plagued by dark vision. An optimist is embraced by clear hope .A practical realist has both dark vision and clear hope .

8.Sweeping statements are uninsured ventures offering high risks of swallowing our words and pride.

9.The course of one?s life is like a quest for a masterpiece. It hinges on just the right intensity and apt strokes.

10.The best we thought we were at earlier times are sometimes not as good as the best stage we are at now. Being at one?s best depends on the time scale it is judged on. We peak differently at different times. All our peak points are the summits of their own time.

11.A mortal fact here : Those who live within the century they were born in and never get to see the next or those fortunate enough to see the next.

12.Clich‚s that we cannot do without are not clich‚s but language essentials.

13.Anxiety to the mind is akin to a fractured leg to the body.

14.To maintain constant levels of alertness, for the prolific mind ; repose while for the sedentary mind ; stimulation.

15.Moderate amounts of guidelines in convention and etiquette ensures that civilization behaves in civil fashion. Excessive amounts of convention and etiquette converts life into ritualistic enslavement of thought and action.

16.If you don?t know nothing you know something.

17.One insists because of truth. One insists because of prejudice.

18.Experience is when something becomes easier, more predictable with less surprises with our ability to discern those worth cherishing and those only worth during their fleeting hour.

19.Innovation may spell the demise of erstwhile techniques which were innovations of yesteryears or just muffle them. The possibility of revamps, revivals cannot be overruled entirely be they in similar, related or different fields of interest. Nostalgia has its charms.

20.In order to be profound in thoughts the mind must be liberated from the immediate reality of trifles.

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21.The inexperienced and strong pour all their power to complete a task. The experienced and not as strong place their power where it?s needed.

22.There are those who are weak with strong will and those strong with weak will.

23.Sharing is to be aware that we are not the absolute owner and to attune ourselves to the pendulum cycle of holding and releasing.

24.Communication isn?t confined to mere expression. Communication involves discretion and sensitivity as well to connotations and subtleties.

25.A wizened head is not necessarily a wise one, vice-versa.

26.To be educated with what we know and to expect them in a particular form only is to be unprepared for exceptions.

27.Innovation brings changes to lifestyle , technology and attitude too.

28.To be comfortable with Falsehood is to be uneasy with Truth.

29.If conventional methods bind us in a knot , let innovation undo it.

30.If conformity fills the world, inventiveness shapes it.

31.If conformity follows the charted course, innovation plots it.

32.Tradition is a method to get fledglings and elders involved. For a while, regardless of seniority ,they are united by a common cause.

33.Daring, recklessness and folly are discerned by the odds, rational thought and degree of desperation.

34.Observe interests before resolving the conflict.

35.Meet your Maker with readiness and anticipation , honour and humility , knowledge and receptiveness ,forgiveness in soul , remorse for vices , joy for virtues and devoted willingness to be of service to the Omnipotent.

36.Some interpretations of morality and immorality change as humanity evolves while the absolutes remain.

37.We labour for ourselves and for others.

38.Trends are variants and possibilities. They dock at the harbours of fashion and drift away to the sea of pass‚. From obscurity sometimes they do return. Direction lies not there. Direction lies in rudiments upon which trends were moulded.

39.Unbridled discerning divides us.

40.To know much of everything is extraordinary. To know much of something or someone is a common norm.

41.Most of the time a-know-it-all is a know-less-than-all.

42.Having just adequate knowledge to exist is like being familiar with our own dwelling. But once outside ,we become ignorant strangers.

43.Let us live and understand not just mere pride from knowing about things.

44.Search within and discover that ...we know more than we think ...we know less than we think ...we are less than what we think we are ..we are greater than what we think we are

45.It is a terrible affliction to underestimate and overestimate ourselves frequently.

46.An identical replacement should be deemed as such without undue expectations for it to resemble or be what was lost or unattainable. To have a substitute subjected to endless comparisons brings agony and disillusionment.

47.Withholding, releasing, utilising and non utilising information exacerbates or brings peace.

48.To shape one?s own methods and principles , observe others. From that emerges one?s identity with tolerance and understanding of others.

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49.The best way to honour and cherish is to treasure and remember it at its finest.

50.It is great to be flawlessly felicitous for the moment. It is greater to be relevant always.

51.Blood is the fluid of life. Water is the fluid for sustaining life.

52.Two options to attain greatness and awareness. One, through conspicuous actions .Two, through inconspicuous means.

53.We realise mistakes ...while it?s been made ...after it has been made ...after been informed ...after admonishment ...after been criticised ...after its consequences have befallen us ...before its occurrence

54.Acknowledgement comes while we are here or when we have left.

55.Opportunity is not a one way traffic flow. There are times when others and events create opportunities for us. In our time of need, magnanimity , obligation or circumstantial twists of events, we create opportunities for others.

56.Having an interest in a certain subject covers more than academic pursuits. Practical pursuits come to play too. It can be a possession of something with the potential to augment progress in a particular sector or more.

57.Interest may lead to growth or decline, conception or doom to those affected.

58.When we realise that we are misfits in other matters, console ourselves with our strengths.

59.It is not easy being a perfectionist. The mind has to live up with the demands of the heart?s desire, the form has to toil while the conscience has to answer whether to live with a flaw or eradicate it even if it means more effort. The restless heart searches constantly for improvement. The final attainment and result of work is left for the perfectionist to regard it as worth every iota of distress, sacrifice , struggle and rumination invested or else the set up is undone and rebuilt again.

60.Thinking is the means of marshalling our dormant memory, facts , ideas and dreams while we coax them to form a cohesive logical fluxion.

61.Endurance and Faith are required in the advance into uncertainty for they are our defiant impetus of resistance which pit against tempting surrender.

62.Rational judgment and discretion are imperative in an age when sources of knowledge provide contradictory accounts. It aids those who are bemused and buried in the quagmire of indecision.

63.Seekers seek for ...the purpose of conquering ...the purpose of cherishing ...for the sake of seeking ...in order to destroy

64.Bellicose seekers will be met with opposition while the one who comes in peace will be greeted with cooperation.

65.Public opinion is what society considers you to be. Reputation is what you have done to enable associates , rivals and strangers to consider you to be. Self-esteem is what you consider yourself to be .

66.Artists create ...what they think the public want .... for the joys of creating ...what they think that the public should see ... according to their whims ...exactly what the public want ... or things which will invite controversy ...for the sake of creating ... for the sake of their sanity.

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