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 Walk, Don't Run  Been quite some time since I have composed a blog versus some other media production, such as the Bierkegaard podcast. You can find it. Just type in Bierkergaard into your podcast platform. Blogging seems like cave drawings these days. An ancient way our distant ancestors communicated via images. But, we are regressing. Now we communicate by images and not words. Calling it an advance. Technologically perhaps but intellectually, not so. If I had more of a grand vision, I'd use this blog to support the podcast. To riff on ideas that lend themselves to literary expression, derived from Kierkegaard. But I don't. Until this morning. 2:33 AM. I was up and hungry. Did some stuff around the house that could have truly waited but I decided to do anyway. It wasn't like the cat was on fire or anything. Or even hungry. Like me. So, my omission of using an image at the top of this post is deliberate. You can get enough of that elsewhere. Use your imagination. That...

I hope to post something more in-depth soon about my circuitous road-trip to California and back. Here was the final leg! I got nailed by some bird poop when turning onto Route 30 in York. What a resounding welcome back!

  I will work on the text this week. I am angry with Twitter in this supposed era of Elon Musk Freedom of Speech. More to come. Well, here it is. - Twitter deactivated my Bierkergaard account for writing a Libyan terrorist should be hung high who killed hundreds. Bierkergaard: For a week in the slammer. - Warned by Instagram to not call Jason Kelce (Center for the Eagles) “Fatman.” It was a violation of Community Standards. Here’s the kicker. Kelce calls himself Fatman. - I stated that Hitler was “Man of the Year” by Time Magazine in 1938. Facebook put me in solitary for several days. It is a fact. Not my opinion. No statement of me approving of Hitler and Nazism.  This stuff is ridiculous baloney. Censured by know-nothings, where facts don’t matter. We have a country run by weenies. 

  As I have noted, my goal with this blog is to post something monthly that goes more in-depth on an issue and theme that I am addressing in my podcast Bierkergaard: The Writings of Soren Kierkegaard . I have not met that goal as of yet but it is the intent. The podcast is easy to find on all major platforms (Apple, Google, Spotify, Anchor, etc). Rather than me post the links, it is easier for you to search.   If you have been listening to the podcast you know that I have been reflecting on Soren's book Purity of Heart is To Will One Thing.  I just finished Chapter 4, The Reward Disease . When we do good to receive primarily an earthly reward (possessions, power, privilege, pleasure, all of those "P" words that boil down to Pride and Presumption). If I do good, I deserve one, some, or all of these P's. Versus, doing the will of God and letting the consequences come, for earthly good or ill. A hard teaching. As James writes in his Epistle, "Let no many of you beco...

Madison Myers Mural in Chattanooga  Well, I pulled the trigger! I was in communication with Princeton University Press who is the entity that has published most of the translated to English from Danish of Soren Kierkegaard's Writings. The rep let me know that if I waited until this week, I'd get a half-off of list price of his books plus free shipping. Christmas in June! So, I should be in possession soon enough of 24 additional books of Soren's, on top of the ones I already own. I wanted paperback books (less expensive than hardcover of course) and no e-books. My process of reading is quite visceral and even masticatory. I underline with pen, circle, make notes, and essential ruin the book for resale. So, when I die, my estate can create a funeral pyre of Soren's books, lay my dead 6' 8" corpse upon the heaping pile, pour some Wild Turkey 104 Proof Bourbon upon the pyre, and throw a lit Ashton Cigar upon it all and have a party. Not quite as dramatic as Hunter...

                     A grandmother who kindly helped kids in school and served in her church?  A sister whose brother was fighting leukemia (like the family hasn't suffered enough?). And the other victims. Really, these are your sworn enemies?    I was going to do a dedicated Bierkergaard Podcast on the Buffalo mass assassination tragedy. By a deranged 18 year old white boy fucker. Yes, he is a fucker. Let's cut out the niceties here. But, I decided that a blog post was a better venue to air my thoughts, although I did talk yesterday about it briefly in the context of how tragedy makes joy so very difficult. It is said that Jesus endured the Cross for the joy set before him. Endure, that is sometimes all that can be done.   But, we are complicit if we don't a take deep look at what happened and make the hard choices to address such events, rather than turn away. That is not acceptable. Their blood cries out from ...