Joseph L. Thomas Jr.

01/08/2021

Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand.
The thing we cannot see is CULTURE.
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The thing we do not UNDERSTAND is the chaos thay gave rise to culture.
If the the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything, anything, to defend ourselves against that return.
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What POTENTIAL, do we have for humanity?
What POTENTIAL do you have for Self?
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12/08/2020

If the world you are seeing is not the world you want, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. It's time to let go. It might even be time to sacrifice what you love best, so that you can become who you might become, instead of staying who you are.
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Sometimes things do not go well. That seems to have much to do with the terrible nature of the world, with its plagues and famines and tyrannies and betrayals.
🔑But here's the rub: sometimes, when things are not going well, it's not the world that's the cause. The cause is instead that which is currently most valued, subjectively and personally.
Why? Because the world is revealed, to an indeterminate degree, through the template of your values.

12/08/2020

12/06/2020

☀️Cancer Sun
🌙Leo Moon
🌗Capicorn Rising
☯️The ultimate Duality

11/24/2020

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
-Gospel of Thomas

11/20/2020

I believe we all try,
Even those who we may perceive as being in opposition.
Their life path to you alls interaction is just completely different.

Can you really be an individual with the expectation that everyone will agree with what you say?

09/13/2020

"The diamonds is plural, the Tiffany brooch
On my lapel, at the table, I'm givin' a toast
The first wedding that I've been in my twenties
Thinkin' maybe someone is not somethin' to own
Maybe the government got nothin' to do with it
Thinkin' maybe the feeling just comes and it goes
Think I want me a lil' one that look like my clone
Me and my baby can't do on our own"

09/08/2020

Who are you? 🤔
You think you know, but maybe you don't. You are, for example, neither your own master, nor your own slave. 🤯
When we are young we are neither individual nor informed. We have not had the time nor gained the wisdom to develop our own standards. In consequence, we must compare ourselves to others, because standards are necessary. 😎
Without them, there is nowhere to go and nothing to do. As we mature we become, by contrast, increasingly individual and unique. The conditions of our lives become more and more personal and less and less comparable with those of others. 😳
Symbolically speaking, this means we must leave the house ruled by our father, and confront the chaos of our individual Being. We must take note of our disarray, without completely abandoning that father in the process. 🥶
We must then rediscover the values of our culture, rescue them, and integrate then into our lives. 😇
This is what gives existence its full and necessary meaning.
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Via: "12 Rules of Life" by Jordan Peterson

06/17/2020

Scar-city
06/17/20 12:21

What does the scarce life of a Human Being add up too?
An infinite amount of scars passed on generation after generation, through each individual Being inhibited by a city of trillions of individual cells.

In the dictionary the word scar is defined as a mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not healed completely and fibrous connective tissue has developed. City is defined as a large town.
Scarcity means what everybody wants adds up to more than there is.

Even in our own modern times, we speak of discrimation and disparities with limited resources of knowing where one root begins and another one ends. That is not an excuse for not using the spirit running throughout our finite veins to play a major role in the infinite progression of the Self. Even when the progression itself is only known to be led by a few individuals who have access to a skewed amount of resources. Especially when the resources are the butcher, the brewer, or the baker surviving to feed their families.

Again these resources don’t even have an origin story, but the stories covered throughout our recently discovered technological advances of language, drama, and the written word, mainly cover how scarce resources are used to heal OUR scars and build OUR cities. Even “the Garden of Eden was a system for the production and distribution of goods and services, but it was not an economy, because everything was available in unlimited abundance (Thomas Sowel, Basic Economics).”

From all we have gone through, to everything we will go through, nothing compares to the now.
Now OUR bodies are becoming ill.
Now OUR buildings are burning.
Now OUR lives are being lost.
Now is maybe the time the Human Being should stop living in Scar-city!
The order every Human continues to wait for but won’t listen to. But where will this order come from? "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science)?”

Inhabitants of Scar-City!

Love,
Joseph Thomas
@ Atlanta, Georgia

06/11/2020

"Many people may expect discussions of economic and social disparities to end with "solutions"; usually something that the governemnt can create, institutionalize, staff and pay for with the taxpayers' money."
"Given the limitations of prophecy, the point here is to seek to provide enough clarfication to enable others to make up their own minds about the inevitable claims and counter-claims sure to arise from those who are promoting their own motions or their own interests."
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06/10/2020

Bring up any statistic on any issue. When you compare that to the cosmos of time, it is a scary but truthful thought that the world is always in balance. ☯️