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Tag Archives: Moral
POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism
On occasion, when someone thanks me for doing something, I have been known to say, with a bit of satire, “If I didn’t do it someone else would.” Of course, in a great many instances, this is not true. My … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Courage, Helplessness, Kindness, Moral, Nihilism, Satire
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POEM: What is De-served?
In a grievance-filled whirled, there is often attention brought to rights violations, particularly when it is one’s own rights that are violated. Of course, rights are meaningless without responsibilities to secure those rights. This is where the chasm in securing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authority, Awe, Balance, Culture, Heart, Human Rights, Humanity, Karma, Life, Moral, Reality, Respect
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POEM: Get Over It
We are a far cry from Patrick Henry’s infamous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death,” which highlights one’s ultimate willingness to put all of your skin in the game. Today’s cry is more of a whine, “Give me … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Courage, Cowardice, Death, Democracy, Evil, Guns, Israel, Life, Moral, Necessary Evil, Politics, Power, Risk, skin in the game, Soul, Violence, War, Willingness
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POEM: Taking a Bite Out of War Crime
I am far more worried about Joe Biden’s moral feebleness than I am about any alleged physical or mental feebleness. End the genocide in Gaza! Taking a Bite Out of War Crime Get that man some dentures Grandpa Joe needs … Continue reading
POEM: The Means
As commander-in-chief Biden provides unconditional support indispensable to Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, he offers inconsequential advice, even “warnings,” to limit mass civilian killings. If stopping genocide, the worst crime known to man, is somehow a close call, then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cowardice, Crime, Israel, Moral
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POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome
This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Competition, Crazy, Death, Environment, Fear, Humanity, Learning, Love, Money, Moral, Poems, Poor, Society, Sustainable, Technology, Work, Worship
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POEM: Due Doo?
The “tolerance” of snuffing other human lives continues to baffle and disturb me. This is particularly true given the shit that such lethal choices unleash. Can we love humans, awe humans, more than our attachment to such shit? This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Choices, Enemies, Love, Moral
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POEM: That Fine Line
Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Balance, Creation, Extinction, Faith, God, Life, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Moral, Opposites, Rationalization, Science, Society, Statistics, Values, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Blessed Be Our Creator (Not There’s)
In times of war or national revenge, demonization of one’s foes is standard operating procedure, necessary for justifying mass killing and destruction of civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. This hole affair is all the more disgusting when it is dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conscience, Darwin, Demonization, Evil, Moral, Morality, National, Necessary Evil, Religious, War
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POEM: End the Israeli Occupation — Owed to the Palestinian People
The Israeli occupation must end. The latest in generations-long human rights violations and obstinate abrogation of international law must end. Cutting of water, food, electricity and fuel to an entire population, mostly civilians, of course, is a moral horror. No … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Food, Human Rights, Israel, Law, Military, Moral, Palestinian, Power, President, Prison, Questions, Security, State
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POEM: Tears in My Soul
This poem is a mournful riff on the destructive grievance politics of the so-called right. Of course, what is left is left, with love and hope remaining to knit life wince agin. Tears in My Soul Where divides multiply As … Continue reading
POEM: Getting Off
This poem is meditation and commentary on the all-too-common chasm between legality and morality. Personally, I get off on morality, not legality… Getting Off Getting off On a technicality Beating off Their own rules Hardly A consummate victory Knot So … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Meditation, Moral, Morality, Rules
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POEM: Who’s Your Itch Now?
On the recurring rashes of moral bankruptcy… Who’s Your Itch Now? There has been a rash Of moral bankruptcy And what do we fine? A society where immorality As a madder of fact Gets Rewarded And reworded Not so much … Continue reading
POEM: Conversion Raiding
This poem contrasts two opposing world views, moral versus amoral, right versus might, serving God versus money, etc., etc. This poem presents the question of how won might convert the currency of one world view to the other. Of coarse, … Continue reading
POEM: North Pole
This poem was inspired by my lack of sense of direction in a high rise, where both directions I looked seemed like south to me. Of course, the only place on earth where every direction you look south is the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Meaning, Moral, Relationships, Work
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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems
This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Balance, Crude, Cruelty, Culture, Evolution, Forgiveness, Genius, Hate, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Justice, Karma, Life, Loss, Luck, Meaning, Mind, Moral, Mourning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Skepticism, Society, Transcendent
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POEM: The Flimsiest of Throngs
This short poem critique on monarchy and aristocracy, as well as the mental and moral gymnastics that the nameless rabble often go through to justify such an unjust spectacle. The Flimsiest of Throngs A mist A throng of onlookers A … Continue reading
POEM: The Devil Made Me – Due It
Here is a poem about one of my longstanding pet peeves, the moral laziness of “necessary” evil. Evil happens. Evil is unavoidable. Still, if evil is an ethical choice made by moral agents, it cannot be necessary. None the less, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ethical, Evil, Laziness, Moral, Quotes
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POEM: Genuflecting On – Power
Have you ever wandered a bout a whirled where brutishness is rewarded and kindness forsaken? Genuflecting On: Power Demagogues and brutes Are marred to espouse Moral gravity A moral farce A raze to the bottom The principle of simpletons That … Continue reading