{"id":1218,"date":"2013-11-15T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2013-11-15T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:40:14","slug":"poem-whimsically-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/poem-whimsically-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Whimsically Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">You may beat me physically<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">But I&#8217;ll beat you whimsically<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force.\u00a0 Violence is appealing to persons of low character.\u00a0 Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life.\u00a0 For instance, humor and generosity are much more powerful forces than terminal seriousness and Scrooge-osity.\u00a0 The lighter, finer things in life are inviting, wooing others to join in something larger and better.\u00a0 Brute force is the purview of unimaginative minds and withered spirits.\u00a0 Of course, the divide between violence and nonviolence is in one&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 I like the analogy of weak and strong forces in physics and their reach across larger regions.\u00a0 The &#8220;strong&#8221; forces like electromagnetism are very powerful over very short distances, but negligible at larger scales.\u00a0 The &#8220;weak&#8221; forces such as gravity are negligible at atomic scales, but reign supreme at scales comprising the overwhelming majority of reality.\u00a0 Humans live at a scale where both of these forces are important.\u00a0 In this analogy, I view violence as the so-called &#8220;strong&#8221; force dominating smaller contexts and negligible at greater human scales and beyond.\u00a0 I view love as the so-called &#8220;weak&#8221; force, which seems to be helpless in limited contexts, but ultimately rules the fate of the universe!\u00a0 I seek to harmonize my being more with the fate of the universe than brutish turf wars.\u00a0 Of course, we could just whip out our perspectives and see which is bigger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may beat me physically But I&#8217;ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force.\u00a0 Violence is appealing to persons of low character.\u00a0 Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life.\u00a0 For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/poem-whimsically-beat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[396,435,415,595,359,273,34,354,413,658,94,110,601,600,53,487,163,488,617],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-analogy","tag-character","tag-generosity","tag-humor","tag-life","tag-love","tag-nonviolence","tag-perspective","tag-physics","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-power","tag-reality","tag-rules","tag-short-poems","tag-universe","tag-violence","tag-whimsical","tag-whimsy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Whimsically Beat | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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