Paul Burgess

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Web Name: Paul Burgess

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singleness may not be the worst fate of all, as witness this conversation monologue overheard in a taverna skeleton named skeptre is draining the world of its colors, one by one... while janos labors to build mankind's last hope, a statue of clayyou befriended a creature from beyond. now you live in a darkened basement, while the world fears and loathes what you have becomefrom a dream journal i've kept for years. little robot horses. life in a post-apocalyptic refugee camp. a throwback to the age of mammals. and much morethey roam the galaxy, seeking to corrupt innocent alien races. they are professional serpents in eden. like lucifer himself, they are bearing lightjilted and mocked, college biology major cal miller carries out the ultimate act of bioterrorismthe world revolution has come. "new justice" reigns on earth. imagine a boot stamping on a human face foreverin thirteen hundred ninety-two, meng ling-ch'u sailed the ocean blue. an alternate history of americafor centuries they have been hated, feared, and conscripted as a human air corps. now the wingmen are coming back home to the caucasusthe year is 2043. the place is mars. the event is the constitutional convention of the first independent human colony on the red planetfractured poetry, and more. "your triumph in life will be to live above tom's auto upholstery"...the gospel of thaddaeus. a second-century apocryphal gospel, complete with scholarly notesin my teens i suffered a radioactive core meltdown of the imagination. i created my own language, and then i wrote a book in itthe game from edgar rice burroughs' novel the chessmen of mars lives, as a 1980's style computer game. source code included [.zip]why stay enslaved to bill gate$ and micro$oft internet explorer? here's opera, the fastest browser on earthwhat in the world is any sane person doing with eight nine ten browsers on his computer?the story of how i made my exodus to linux out of the land of micro$oft, out of the house of bondageand here are screenshots of the eight browsers i use under linux which brings us to eighteen browsers in alluse your computer to track where your money goes. one dollar bill i spent ended up in las vegasyou can hear how that language i created sounds. here i am, reading chapter 25 of mna sipri cilama [.mp3]why it's a good thing i didn't read robert pirsig's excellent book until i was past fortysketched out as "an integral part of a rather densely thought-out view of language, history, human existence, trinitarian theology, and the kitchen sink"the logical structure of intentionality. self-consciousness as an infinite regress of self-representation and self-interpretation. just light conversational topics over dinner!musings on my "latter turning" toward mysticism. the human being as an embodied sign, or microcosm, of subtle macrocosmic invariantswhat is really going on inside of us when we engage in meditation? low-focus thinking and affective linking: those vague thoughts which drift like wisps of colored tissue paper across the back of your mindmore on what's going on inside of us in meditation, and whether it deepens or dulls our awareness of the world around usthe notion of signs and symbols in the history of christian theology. how we might draw on these historical resources to restore an intellectually rigorous "right-brain" counter-balance to "left-brain" modernitywhat goethe was up to, seeking for the urph nomen "in, with, and under" individual phenomena. how this approach might be adapted to help heal the cartesian splits of modern culturehistorical cycles, and the current unfashionability of broad-gauge philosophies of historythe beat generation's most gifted writer, inspired by jazz, was up to something downright noneuclidean with language in his writingsi browse a collection of letters between a philosopher and a novelist who are discussing the semiotic of charles sanders peirce. this leads me off on some pretty bizarre tangents. oh well!why science can explain why the sky is blue, but not why blue is blue. by the way, why are there so many more bookstores in today's illiterate world?my fractured take on god and evolution. and language and referentiality. and (of course) signs and symbols. and even paradigmshow gregory bateson has been a pervasive bad influence on me. with an irreverent side excursion: "so what's up with this 'quest for the historical jesus'?"a meditation on a slide rule leads to cosmic thoughts about numbers. modern culture enjoins us to steer clear of such "deep" thoughts about the way things really are. but what if we will not submit?the manifold and tangled ways we engage in self-deception. how these ways relate to the liabilities of modern thoughtyou can take the boy out of the sixties, but you can't take the sixties out of the boy! with a concluding vision of the year 2040minor league utopianism may shed more light on utopianism-in-the-large than many want light to see bythe semiotic of charles sanders peirce and the problem of the faith community in the writings of walker percychallenges to the structure of peirce's semiotic. is the logical structure of a sign threefold, or fourfold, or twofold?the semiotics of religious experience, in the general theory of signs of charles morris, the semiotic of charles sanders peirce, and the philosophy of symbolic forms of ernst cassirerdoes god dwell within time? or outside of time? or does the structure of temporal semiosis point us toward a view of god and time which is both/and and neither/nor?

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