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Parable of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave—also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave, or the Parable of the Cave—is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education” (514a). It is written as a dialogue narrated by Plato’s friend Socrates and Plato’s brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII(514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (507b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d–534e).

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato’s Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

The Allegory may be related to Plato’s Theory of Forms, according to which the “Forms” (or “Ideas”), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher’s place in society: to attempt to enlighten the “prisoners”.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

So the idea behind this allegory is that the highest form of reality shows to be in the form of the idea itself? That aint such a bad idea at all and is in actuality, an excellent form of a different perspective to consider.

Stay Tuned.

Ring Of Fire Annular Eclipse As Viewed From China - January 2010

On Sunday the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It’s an annular solar eclipse, the first one in the United States in almost 18 years.

An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is not quite wide enough to cover the entire star. At maximum, the moon forms a “black hole” in the center of the sun.

For places such Medford, Oregon; Chico, California; Reno, Nevada; St. George, Utah; Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas; the afternoon sun will become a luminous ring.

Source: www.weather.com/news/annular-solar-eclipse-20120514

To view the event online, visit the following website for more information. Viewing begins at approximately 5:30 PM Eastern Time.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343144/20120520/when-where-watch-ring-fire-solar-eclipse.htm

A different perspective to consider. 

Its In Writing

cri·sis

[krahy-sis]

noun
1. a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.

2. a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change.

3. a dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person’s life.

4. Medicine/Medical .
a. the point in the course of a serious disease at which a decisive change occurs, leading either to recovery or to death.
b. the change itself.

5. the point in a play or story at which hostile elements are most tensely opposed to each other.

Between us as friends, as much of a self assured person that I may show to be, I do at times find similar viewpoint reassurances to be a valuable form of relief, and in this particular case, they are being offered by none other than Deepak Chopra as a notable and well respected author as featured on the CNN Erin Burnett show interview below.

The reassurance stems from the fact that no less than 85 percent of the content that can be found here at PimpHop.com revolves around this basic shared core belief as stated in the title and interview clip in regards to where the actual causes of the overwhelming majority of various problems as well as the solutions for those problems can be attained, which is in the realm of the perspectives that we each consider.

The Writing Is On The Pen?

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a metonymic adage coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy. The play was about Cardinal Richelieu, though in the author’s words “license with dates and details… has been, though not unsparingly, indulged.” The Cardinal’s line in Act II, scene II, was more fully:

True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —

States can be saved without it!
The play opened at London’s Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William Charles Macready in the lead role. Macready believed its opening night success was “unequivocal”; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March.

In 1870, literary critic Edward Sherman Gould wrote that Bulwer “had the good fortune to do, what few men can hope to do: he wrote a line that is likely to live for ages.” By 1888 another author, Charles Sharp, feared that repeating the phrase “might sound trite and commonplace”. The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, which opened in 1897, has the adage decorating an interior wall.Though Bulwer’s phrasing was novel, the idea of communication surpassing violence in efficacy had numerous predecessors.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword

T.G.I.M. (Thank God It’s Monday)
Telling the story exactly how it happened, has happened, or perhaps better stated as will happen, this is a post that was to be written today as I work from the patio at Starbucks, and while there was a preset mental draft in regards to the topics that were to be touched upon, something interestingly enough interrupted the flow which I will now share in regards to what was posted on the social media status updates about an hour ago.

Lunchtime Status Update 12PM – Im working outside 2Day and plan 2 for the rest of this week, so when I got change 4 my food, the girl that Im cool with @SB’s asks if I am ok with a $2 Dollar Bill As Change? I said, you bet, that means its my lucky day! I looked it on up on BING and came back with 2 sides of the story. 1.Many say that they are UNLUCKY. 2.Others claim that there is a Black Man PICTURED on the back of the $2 Dollar Bill sitting @ the signing of the Dec. Of Independence sitting @ the table. Either way, the picture confirms that someone MUST write the scripts, so, its time to get my keys and pen a strokin! What would you like 4 YOUR life story 2 be?RB

This has been a 10 year and perhaps a lifelong venture into discovering the factors behind this popular phrase and slogan in regards to the pen and its level of might, so when I looked it up on Google, the Wikipedia write up listed above states that the Thomas Jefferson building in the U.S. Library Of Congress actually has the phrase as a decoration on one of its walls, the library building which happens to be named after the individual who is pictured on the front side of the piece of currency listed below as well as the original author of the formal  draft of the Declaration Of Independence which began with the pen.

Deuces! 2012 Edition.

Moral Of The Story

This is one of those posts that has no meaning other than what we each decide to assign to it and is offered in hopes of not answering the question but rather questioning the answers while reporting the news in real time which by default, leads to the automatic consideration of possibly different perspectives.

wealth

[welth]

noun
1. a great quantity or store of money, valuable possessions, property, or other riches: the wealth of a city.

2. an abundance or profusion of anything; plentiful amount: a wealth of imagery.

3.
Economics .
a. all things that have a monetary or exchange value.

b. anything that has utility and is capable of being appropriated or exchanged.

4. rich or valuable contents or produce: the wealth of the soil.

5. the state of being rich; prosperity; affluence: persons of wealth and standing.

“When someone says the rich get richer,
visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture.”
KRS – ONE – 2nd Quarter Free Throws Speech - I Got Next 1997

An utmost different yet utmost relevant perspective to consider. 

A Scene From The Classic Alfred Hitchcock Film Psycho. Look Familiar?

Psycho

Psycho is slang for a person who is psychotic or psychopathic. The term is often considered offensive or derogatory. However, when used within compound terms such as ‘psychology’ or ‘psychotherapy’, the word refers neutrally to the psyche (mind or soul).
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho

Welcome Home and T.G.I.F.(Thank God It’s Freeday).
To bring this extremely productive and constructive week to a close in preparation for next weeks installments, we will keep this entry simple and brief by posing the question that I find myself asking on a more frequent basis as time progresses which usually indicates that some useful and necessary adjustments are in order in regards to the approach that will lead to what I would consider to be more effective and suitable end results.

A personal mental note and different perspective to consider. 

sex

[seks]

noun
1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.

2. the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the male and female are distinguished, or the phenomena or behavior dependent on these differences.

3. the instinct or attraction drawing one sex toward another, or its manifestation in life and conduct.

4. coitus.

5. genitalia.

verb (used with object)
6. to ascertain the sex of, especially of newly-hatched chicks.

Verb phrase
7. sex up, Informal .
a. to arouse sexually: The only intent of that show was to sex up the audience.
b. to increase the appeal of; to make more interesting, attractive, or exciting: We’ve decided to sex up the movie with some battle scenes.

Idiom
8. to have sex, to engage in sexual intercourse

Wellness.
Speak against same sex marriage rights is what I will not do, and speak for opposite sex marriage rights is what I will do as the subject matter has been brought to the forefront of the public awareness as a result of President Barack Obama’s vocal and endorsement of same sex marriage rights which happens to be during the second week of his campaign for reelection in 2012 with a trip to Los Angeles today along with a party at the residence of George Clooney and a host of mainstream media business executives, a sector that is known by many to be advocates of LGBT rights and same sex marriage equality under the law.

“Although natural law is often conflated with common law, the two are distinct in that natural law is a view that certain rights or values are inherent in or universally cognizable by virtue of human reason or human nature, while common law is the legal tradition whereby certain rights or values are legally cognizable by virtue of judicial recognition or articulation.”

- Wikipedia Natural Law Description.

Without getting into a moral and religious debate and focusing on equality, I will assert the law that actually does in fact overrule the laws of humans, which is known as the law of nature in which human beings and their created and ever changing laws or ideas commonly accepted as laws are dependpent upon, and pose the question as to whether or not, same sex couples whether legally married or a part of a civil union are dependent on sexual intercourse between opposite sex couples for both their own existence in human form as well as the parenting of other humans who whether born in or out of what is commonly known as wedlock are a result of the reproductive processes of heterosexual intercourse which align with the course of nature?

This question is posed due to the fact that Barack Obama mentioned in yesterdays statement that he has to explain to his daughters, who are a result of the same heterosexual birth process, about the fairness of same sex married couples as some of their friends have same sex parents, while each of the individuals in question were born as a result of heterosexual intercourse processes.

In closing, I guesstimate that the debate is going to be about equality of citizens under the eyes of the law, to which I would add that each person who is created equally must also create or procreate equally  as one of the most effective methods of birth control, which was the last church vs. state high powered debate, is through same sex marriage and subsequent intercourse and if same sex couples are dependent on opposite sex couples for parenting privileges and provisions of children for families, then the imbalance of power and equality is self evident from the start, or as stated below for a different and illuminated perspective to consider,

“Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like the horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can’t have one, you can’t have none, you can’t have one without the other!
No Sir!”

-Frank Sinatra,
on Love And Marriage.

Acquired on Tuesday May 8, 2012

Humpday it is with an interesting and insightful story to close the morning hours with.

Telling it like it is and not like it was, if you were in my shoes, and for some mysterious reason had a tendency to come across various denominations of currency that sits in wait for you in the gutter or in bushes waiting to be noticed, and in this particular case, the gutter just happened to be filled with muddy waters flowing on top of the currency, when you picked up the bill or bills in the condition as seen above as I am sure that you most likely would, and then rinsed it off to get the result as pictured below,

Fresh out of the bathroom sink. Tuesday May 8, 2012

would the thoughts, feelings, and subsequent actions equate to
A. Money Laundering, or
B. Clean Energy Initiatives ?

Either way, it may very well be an end result of those individuals who may be questioning the sources of income that provide for me, and then proceeding to fill in their own blanks with the conclusion that it must be coming in from the filthy gutter, which in actuality, is not far from being literally accurate in regards to how some may picture and interpret the matter.

Moral Of The Story -

There really is none other than to continue on with the mission to continue to spread the news and offer different perspectives for consideration, with todays being as stated in the title of the post along with the video clip below.

“Dont be too proud of this technological terror that you’ve constructed.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to The Power Of The Force.”

Darth Vader – Star Wars Episode 4 (Original Star Wars Film)

As Above

Higher Power

Higher Power is a term coined in the 1930s in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and is used in other twelve-step programs. It is also sometimes referred to as a power greater than ourselves and is frequently abbreviated to HP.

Sociologist Darren Sherkat researched the belief of Americans in a Higher Power. He based his research on data from 8,000 adults polled by the Chicago-based National Opinion Research Center between 1988 and 2000. Amongst his findings were that 8% stated “I don’t believe in a personal god, but I do believe in a higher power of some kind.” This is the same figure as found by the 1999 Gallup national poll of Americans. Sherkat also found that 16% of the Jewish people surveyed agreed with the statement about a ‘higher power’, whilst 13.2% of liberal Protestants and 10.6% of Episcopalians also agreed with it.

An empirically based recovery framework likened faith in a Higher Power to motivation for personal growth as described by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Power

So It Is Below

A different perspective to consider.

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service

[sur-vis]
noun
1. an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.

2. the supplying or supplier of utilities or commodities, as water, electricity, or gas, required or demanded by the public.

3. the providing or a provider of accommodation and activities required by the public, as maintenance, repair, etc.: The manufacturer guarantees service and parts.

4. the organized system of apparatus, appliances, employees, etc., for supplying some accommodation required by the public: a television repair service.

5. the supplying or a supplier of public communication and transportation: telephone service; bus service.

Welcome Home and T.G.I.F. (Thank God It’s Freeday).
This is one of those crossroads post that invites any who are willing and/or able to decide the side on which they are best suited to stand, and since all begins with a simple thought, we can conserve time and energy by simply using this as a proper order focal point foundation to build upon.

As with this particular form of service due to its infancy and toddler stages of development, the jury is still out in regards to solid and consistent monetary profitability, and as online social media organizations that offer their services to hundreds of millions of active users free of monetary charge, the promise of profitability in some future time seems to be the driving force behind large scale investments into these types of ventures while the tech insiders most assuredly are aware that the return on investment in advertising revenues while seeming to be promising, has yet to prove itself as such, yet as usual, the same age old rules of human existence are in place, one of which is listed below as a different yet relevant perspective to consider in regards to the giving and receiving of anything, including but not limited to service.

There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” (alternatively, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” or other variants) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing. The acronyms TANSTAAFL and TINSTAAFL are also used. Uses of the phrase dating back to the 1930s and 1940s have been found, but the phrase’s first appearance is unknown. The “free lunch” in the saying refers to the nineteenth century practice in American bars of offering a “free lunch” as a way to entice drinking customers. The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert Heinlein’s 1966 libertarian science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which popularized it.The free-market economist Milton Friedman also popularized the phrase by using it as the title of a 1975 book, and it often appears in economics textbooks; Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is “at the core of economics”.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain’t_no_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch