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Thought-Provokers: Bad Dreams
Sayings, mottos, "pithies", & provocations in poetry & prose, aiding & abetting popular philosophy
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This small collection of thought-provokers exists because thought does but happiness doesn’t. If determinism, free belief, possible causes and education get your goat, so will thought and its provokers. If you have worked hard you will have got lucky (or “someone” got it wrong). If we get knowledge through experience, why do we have to get it on our own, and how do we measure experience, and what is experience? If we think a lot we are sure to rise a lot in social status. If we ponder freedom we know that freedom is not free. If we start laughing when we eat, when we sleep, and when we exercise, our DNA jumps joyously up and down, and we outlive the unsmiling. What a load of………..provocation! And that’s why thought-provokers are here – in poetry and prose! Examples :
•There is some dignity in fallibility, none in a human god. (Agreed?!)
•You just have to believe in lies and everything becomes easy, even murder. (What a lie!?)
•Scorn what the past thought and always remember to believe your scorn is better than your elders’.
•To the thoughtless and the selfish relativity is a sweet god.
To blurb-end : “Let’s sing a rowdy song / To devastate the great…” always remembering we are “free” but freedom is not, and the degree to which we think will determine the degree to which we will rise or not rise or fall.
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This small collection of thought-provokers exists because thought does but happiness doesn’t. If determinism, free belief, possible causes and education get your goat, so will thought and its provokers. If you have worked hard you will have got lucky (or “someone” got it wrong). If we get knowledge through experience, why do we have to get it on our own, and how do we measure experience, and what is experience? If we think a lot we are sure to rise a lot in social status. If we ponder freedom we know that freedom is not free. If we start laughing when we eat, when we sleep, and when we exercise, our DNA jumps joyously up and down, and we outlive the unsmiling. What a load of………..provocation! And that’s why thought-provokers are here – in poetry and prose! Examples :
•There is some dignity in fallibility, none in a human god. (Agreed?!)
•You just have to believe in lies and everything becomes easy, even murder. (What a lie!?)
•Scorn what the past thought and always remember to believe your scorn is better than your elders’.
•To the thoughtless and the selfish relativity is a sweet god.
To blurb-end : “Let’s sing a rowdy song / To devastate the great…” always remembering we are “free” but freedom is not, and the degree to which we think will determine the degree to which we will rise or not rise or fall.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 19, 2016
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February 15, 2017
This is the second book I've read by Jonathan Finch. I find his writing style to be a little different from what I'm used to, but engaging nonetheless. "Thought-Provokers: Bad Dreams" was an interesting read although the title I found confusing, as none of the short stories or poems implied nightmares to me.
I especially enjoyed "Thieves Will Be Prosecuted", "Emotions Help You Escape From Your... Self?", "The Crime Rate", and "Lying"; they truly are thought-provoking! And the satire of "Crowds" left me giggling. There's also several poems, including "The Political Teacher's Son", which I found very interesting. Highly recommended!
I especially enjoyed "Thieves Will Be Prosecuted", "Emotions Help You Escape From Your... Self?", "The Crime Rate", and "Lying"; they truly are thought-provoking! And the satire of "Crowds" left me giggling. There's also several poems, including "The Political Teacher's Son", which I found very interesting. Highly recommended!
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