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Tag Archives: Free Will
POEM: Possibility Verses
Her mastery Of the glorious bounty Of possibility Taunts those enslaved By the vain security Of mere probabilities This poem is a tribute to the existential divide between possibility and probability. Possibility is the purview of free will, introducing new … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Control, Creativity, Events, Existential, Free Will, Freedom, Life, Meaning, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Security, Short Poems, Universe, Vanity
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POEM: Zombie Apocalypse — Carry On
In habiting That thin lyin’ Between living and undead Pray and prey Plodding for survival so chaste Eerie reverence For awe virtually unmoving They’ve got You’re numb-er Too many to re-pulse To take account of De-sending from cubicles and proto-calls … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Apocalypse, Art, Awe, Culture, Existential, Fear, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Genius, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Incarnation, Institutions, Life, Nature, Power, Powers that be, Present, Progress, Projection, Reverence, Soul, Suffering, Surreal, Work, zombie
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POEM: Sow Groovy
There is a place Beyond smooth A groovy space Well Travailed Up un-till Over Flown The coup As water worn Of more to be A rock fitting To our sole Sow groovy The good habits that we have due to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Character, Creation, Culture, Environment, Experience, Free Will, Freedom, Future, Nature, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Soul, Time
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POEM: Liberal Mined Violent
Some liberal mined violent Call up on pacifists To condemn a brand of violence To wit They object Ultimately subjected To accost Without benefit analysis Coming efface to efface With realty And a sorted loved wons Unwilling to accede where … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Conservative, Courage, Cowardice, Creativity, Cynical, Death, Disenfranchised, Evil, Fear, Free Will, Gandhi, God, Greed, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Imagination, Injustice, Israel, Justice, Liberal, Love, Military, Mind, Mock, Modern, Moral, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Palestine, Political, Present, Privilege, Quotes, Respect, Responsibility, Science, skin in the game, Spiritual, State, Truth, Veterans, Violence, War, Willingness, Work, Worship
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: Farcical Optimism
He said to me “Your optimism is farcical.” I said “You may be right.” Of course Wisdom may just be Realizing that Farcical optimism Is ever so slightly preferable To farcical pessimism If you gathered all of the information together … Continue reading
POEM: Rascal
I am a rascal Of course, there are many kinds of rascals Of which sort I won’t tell That’s part of rascality Anyone who wholeheartedly embraces and explores their free will, will find a glorious unpredictability that can only be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Free Will, Mystery, Perspective, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Time, Trust
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POEM: Breathing
Thinking about breathing makes it more difficult Amazingly, and quite fortuitously, people can breathe without thinking. Breathing is something we know how to do without having to think about it. Thankfully, thousands of bodily functions fall into this category. Fortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Balance, Consciousness, Control, Environment, Free Will, Gift, Harmony, Life, Meditation, Nature, One-line Poems, Poetry, Respect, Short Poems, Wisdom
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POEM: Coincidentally
I have a lot of amazing coincidences in my life As luck would have it I don’t believe in such things This poem is intentionally ambiguous — much like much of life is ambiguous. Most people tend to bring a … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Faith, Free Will, God, Hope, Image, Life, Luck, Optimism, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Universe
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POEM: Free Will Compelling
I find the experience of free will very compelling. I like this simple one line poem because it juxtaposes two seeming opposites. Free will is often viewed as some kind of absolute. Compulsion is on the other end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Choices, Compulsion, Consciousness, Conundrum, Creativity, Epistemology, Existential, Experience, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, Genius, God, Ironic, Meaning, One-line Poems, Opposites, Reality, Respect, Sartre, Stupid, Subjectivity, Work
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POLITICAL CARTOON: Free Market Jesus – Blessed Are The Amoral
Free Market Jesus Speaks! Welcome to Free Market Jesus! This is a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, Gen. Jesus, Comedian Jesus, and who knows what other incarnations! … Continue reading
Posted in Political Cartoons
Tagged Amorality, Blessed, Cartoon, Catholic, Comics, Conventional Wisdom, Free market, Free Will, Funny, God, Greed, Heart, Hope, Humor, Immorality, Ironic, Jesus, Market, Materialism, Moral, Morality, Parodies, Political, Religious, Responsibility, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Sociopathy, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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