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Existence
Issues: … self-reflection … stability … identity … defining yourself accurately … finding yourself … thinking clearly of yourself ….
Warning: You may experience nausea reading this article because it requires your own thinking to understand it. Take your time. Stop. But persist in going through a pure philosophy experience. (see further warning at the bottom)
Thoughts

Obsessed as to whether I am a philosopher or not, as my retired, friendly professor friend questioned recently. What is a philosopher, anyway? Nay, what is a Strephon? I should be asking if I am a …

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Living By Self Definition – Is Strephon A Philosopher?
Issues: … self-definition … self … self images … philosopher … philosophy …
Who defines us in life, even in outer life things?

A tennis friend from when I played at the club for years visited me yesterday and subtly questioned whether I was a philosopher or not.
This was my reply:

‘I call myself a philosopher because I philosophize sometimes in my writings. I go into the nature of life as we experience it. What is sex, for instance? What is my …

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Terrible Day Today With Coughing
The coughing has been happening every day for months now, and the doctors don’t tell me what it means, nor do I find what is happening on the web.
I take a chemical pill to stop the cough for a little while. When I am relaxed in bed after awhile the cough stops. When I get involved in a good movie the coughing stops.

At what point do I say my coughing and sinus draining is out of control and call the ambulance?
What is the breaking point?

Still trying …

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There Is No Time – Only Matter And Space
This concept I got from reading Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, as a teenager.
Let’s say, you flew from Boston to Chicago. We have all done that, haven’t we? We may use different names for locations of Departure and Arrival, but the point is that we have gone pretty quickly from one place to another.
If we can do this in one direction, why then can’t we also ‘time-fly’ back in time and space and arrive where we started after we have departed?
I fly …