I Don't Normally Write Poetry, But I Did Write This, Though I Know Not How Well

I Just Don't Know


I just don't know what there is left to do?

Whatever it is I do, it's your love that will never just be mine.

But yet it has never, ever, fully left my mind.

Like a distant beach, you are always just out of my reach.

The whole world is the wager I would have bet, that one day mine you'd be, if at it, always, I just had kept!

But it was me, that without contradiction, I had to first learn to be.

What I what do just to convince you! For the chance to show my value of who's equal there is no other.

Yet, still, you always want another. Sometime's for that reason alone, I wish I had never been just "her brother".

Because then maybe you would have always seen me as the One instead of always searching for another every where else under the sun.

Back I stepped for several years just so that you'd have the freedom to search the whole of this wide kingdom.

Because sometimes when the one that should be yours is has alway been too near it is that voice that you just can not clearly hear.

From familiarity breeds blindness to what has always been seen.

Oh my god, what could have been!

If only you had always just seen, what it is that to me, you alone mean.

Bad Beats

I won't elaborate, but in my last post I stated that I pushed in all my chips--metaphorically. My hand while strong and expertly played failed me in the end. But, it did not break me. I can not be broken. One can NOT fail completely when one plays life's game with full awareness and a sense of purpose. Hand's can be lost. People can be lost. However as long as you played your best with the limited information that you had at the time--as long as you did what was right given the context you weren't completely beat because you learned knew knowledge, and you won't make the same mistake again.

This post was mostly for myself, but there is one other person in the world who could read and understand its full meaning.

Poker's Similarity to Capitalism

I think poker is the ultimate game of the Capitalist. More than that just like Capitalism correlates with mans needs qua man so does the game of poker.

When men trade via Capitalism they use money as the means of exchange, and the agreed upon price represents a sum of a nearly limitless number of value judgments of each trader. In poker chips perform the exact same function of money. A man can only know a limited amount of information of his transaction in either poker or trade, therefore money or chips quickly set an agreed upon value to every transaction. If you think you are going to profit you buy at the price you or the other person sets given an infinitude of factors. The same principle follows in poker. Given your limited knowledge of what the other person is selling and other factors, (marketing ;) ) you either buy what he's selling or you raise the price or drop out depending on the whole context of your present knowledge. The degree to which you appropriately acquired knowledge in either case usually directly correlates to your degree of profit or loss in regards to either one.

I'll admit that this line of reasoning might seem to be a bit random to an outside observer, but it does represent my current thinking if that is enough of an interest for anyone, reading.

I would also say just as poker correlates to Capitalism and Capitalism to real life, i.e., ethics, poker has its correlation to real life instances.

There are times in you life that you decide to play the hand you were dealt to the best of your ability because given the context you think it is the best hand you can play on a given day or period of your life. So you do a careful study of all the circumstances and knowledge available and you make the best decision that you can given what you know to be true and what you know of the strength of your hand. You decide to move all-in. After the chips fall you have done all that you can up to that point given the current context and what happens next is up to your opponent and/or chance. You made the best choice you could. You played your best game. You put all your chips in and all you can do is wait to see what develops.

I recently moved my chips all-in. What happens, happens. A is A

EC

This is Retarded...lol

Now the New Left is attacking the Hollywood Left. This is just too funny. The following quote from the article is an example of what would happen in this country if the New Left ever get's full power.

"The protesters held up signs with slogans such as 'Call me by my name, not by my label' and chanted phrases like 'Ban the movie, ban the word.' "

Umm...bye, bye right to free speech.

Suffice it to say, a proper rights protecting government would protect all speech (given normal context) even of the "offensive" variety.

To quote Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

That is the statement of a rational man and implies the actions of a moral government or any other organization of men.

It is what it is, though.

EC

Purpose as Essential to Man's Life

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.-- Ayn Rand


Every man requires a purpose for his life, and to quote Miss Rand, "[T]he achievement of his own happiness is man's highest moral purpose". But while that is one's highest purpose there are many other goals and purposes that can further one's ultimate purpose.

Everything a man does should be done with purpose. That statement thus applies to the creation of a blog. A blog (like anything else) without purpose is simply a waste of everyone's time, including its creator's.

So, what is my purpose in the creation of this blog? That's simple; it is to share my ideas and thoughts on whatever currently interests me with others who can appreciate my views, regardless of their agreement or not with them. I am a trader by nature, and that includes the realm of ideas. The trade between myself and my readers will be thus, I will share my unique insights and ideas, and my payment in return will be the knowledge that I have personally engaged the mind of my reader, regardless of his opinions of my views. That is what I will gain and that is my purpose with regard to this blogs creation.

I had wanted to start a blog for quite some time but had previously lacked a central purpose. I know that purpose now, and what I will receive in return. My return is the increase of my own happiness via sharing the nature of the good--as I understand it--with any interested thinking individual, and my knowledge that I have engaged their mind will result in the increase of my happiness as my payment.

The following is from the online version of The Ayn Rand Lexicon available here ~~> http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/#P_index

Purpose

The three cardinal values of the Objectivist ethics—the three values which, together, are the means to and the realization of one’s ultimate value, one’s own life—are: Reason, Purpose, Self-Esteem, with their three corresponding virtues: Rationality, Productiveness, Pride.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work—pride is the result.

“The Objectivist Ethics,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 25.

A central purpose serves to integrate all the other concerns of a man’s life. It establishes the hierarchy, the relative importance, of his values, it saves him from pointless inner conflicts, it permits him to enjoy life on a wide scale and to carry that enjoyment into any area open to his mind; whereas a man without a purpose is lost in chaos. He does not know what his values are. He does not know how to judge. He cannot tell what is or is not important to him, and, therefore, he drifts helplessly at the mercy of any chance stimulus or any whim of the moment. He can enjoy nothing. He spends his life searching for some value which he will never find . . . .

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose—a productive purpose . . . . The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others. That is not the same thing as a productive or creative purpose.

“Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand,” March 1964.

So, this initial post is more of a statement of purpose more than anything else. I will try to update the blog at least once a week, probably on Sunday's, but that will depend on my interests, events and ideas that interest me, and my ability to devote the time. The range of topics will be large--from politics, art, science, television, film to whatever I find interesting and believe others will also gain some value from reading.

The purpose here will be my revealing the essence of my soul, so that others may appreciate it, gain from it, and--possibly-- they will share a piece of their's with me. I will increase my own happiness regardless, and we shall both profit from it.

Till next time--Go out and make some money!

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EC