Ontological Commitment Disorder symptoms:
- mistaking a thought for a fact
- using a taxonomy and thinking it is real
....
#cosophilosophy (?)

@Minholkin thanks for the +100. walks and naps can also help

@Agatha Licorice is a people-sorter

neighbor social Monday morning post (trial 2) (@[email protected])

@jaunty thank you so much for sharing this Pema Chodron piece. I needed it. This next to last sentence is one for my day today: "The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are."
Gracias, and be well.

from a neighboring social:

@Museek breakfast, followed by naps, is one of life's pleasures

from some social somewhere

cats and moods (from another social)

In a 2015 essay on Arnold Toynbee ("Humanist among machines"), historian Ian Beacock writes:
" What are the humanities for in a technological age? For Toynbee, the answer was clear: to save us from ourselves."
<https://aeon.co/essays/arnold-toynbee-shines-a-light-on-the-humanities-role-today>

some #cosopoetry /via Maya C. Popa: "Ask the moon. / Ask what it has witnessed."

A recent book by Jacqueline Rose, titled The Plague: Living Death in Our Times (<https://worldcat.org/en/title/1374903661>) has this gem on page 82:
"There is a limit to how much we can psychically tolerate. This remains the fundamental insight of psychoanalysis, never more needed than today.”

from a neighbor social:
Alexander @[email protected]

Please do not send in any further clowns. We are at full clown capacity

@Museek just think of the gossip 🤨

posted yesterday on a neighbor social:-- the protest sign is one of the best
https://mastodon.social/@Fparianen/111063154843791414

@Museek things are well at the casa here in central TX. rain and cooler temps coming up. my wife is having fun with photography; i'm focusing on reading women (philosophers, cultural critics, poets ....) (thx for asking)

@Museek love the sloth .... (be well)

today's #cosopoetry offering:

an ode to the news of the day

The Burning Man,
A Burning Bush,
My burning desires,
And a burning wish ....

@misterfive nice. it is required