urn:uuid:bfe0e303-5a37-a67b-7880-5b792bd0d799 2009-06-25T11:40:41-04:00 agathon urn:uuid:b42d5a8f-aa88-70e1-79ae-77a60dba3cb8 2009-06-24T07:29:43-04:00

Agathon is one of the characters in Plato’s Symposium. The name means “good” in Greek, but certainly I don’t mean to sound self-righteous (Horrors!) -- and besides, it's the name of the blog, not MY name  :)

I'm thinking of the good which leads to philosophical happiness, spiritual harmony, the good of “truth, beauty, goodness” that all people of good-will strive for within ourselves and in society.

But if you like, just call me, Ag.


ps/ There’s a temporary (?) bug in setting up links from the blog to my website.
For the time being, please copy/paste these URLs if the hyperlink doesn’t work.

dbScriptorium             http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/
Poetic Works               http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/PW-dbscr.htm
Donivan Bessinger:   http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/hpata.htm

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urn:uuid:1a5fac37-fdab-bff1-d507-62b664e0d20b 2009-06-23T19:42:19-04:00

Welcome!! Well, here we are. Just how does one start blogging – What to say? Why? You’re asking me? It's all as much of a mystery to me as to you, for this is my first try at creating a blog. The “why” question may be a bit easier.

The main reason, I suppose, is to have a companion for my website, dbScriptorium, which has a large selection of my writings accumulated over the years, some previously published, some not. Now, readers will have a way to provide feedback and discuss what they find there.

Also, I’ve just had published Poetic Works (June 2009), in two volumes, 770 pages. Frankly, some of it is hard going for the general reader, with lots of potential for really serious discussion. There’s lots there about the nature of the cosmos.

Has it struck you as pretty curious that somehow there has evolved a cosmos, a realm of Natural Order, in which physics and psyche actually live and work together? -- one realm highly structured that can (mostly) be described by mathematics? -- and another realm, conscious and unconscious, that can get very murky, with dreams and all sorts of fantastic images and ideas, that seem beyond all hope of any “Order”, or mathematical description?

At least I think so, and would like to discuss that with others who are searching too for an understanding of the nature of Ultimate Nature, a search which can help make life a truly meaning-full adventure. Whoever you are, student or professor, psychology or physics, and anybody else, please chime in.


Here’s the plan -- If you see something anywhere in the writings that interests you, please post a comment, question, response, whatever. And maybe from time to time, I’ll post some thoughts for discussion, hoping there’s somebody out there who wants to chime in. Or maybe I’ll give occasional guided tours through some particular area in this large and ancient space, the Scriptorium, where I can still see monks hovering over manuscripts in the monastery of my mind. We’ll feel our way along together, and see what evolves.

But here are a few ideas about what’s not part of the plan. I hope we’ll stick pretty closely to the topics in the writings. Current politics and other aspects of pop culture don’t interest me much, at least here, but whatever comes up, I hope we’ll keep it civil, and generate more light than heat.

Also, it’s not a place for “breaking news” – Why would anybody want to break the News -- seems to me it’s already pretty badly broken !! (But that’s one of the reasons we’ll be trying to “get it all together” and sort out our collective thoughts.) Of course I am interested in political philosophy (e pluribus unum !), in the ideas that can hold us all together despite our differences in approach to practical problems.

I’ll try to check the blog every few days, or at least weekly. But please don’t be too disappointed if I bog down in the fog of the blog !

Thanks for tuning in ! ☺

Agathon

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ps/ There’s a temporary (?) bug in setting up links from the blog to my website.
For the time being, please copy/paste these URLs if the hyperlink doesn’t work.

dbScriptorium           http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/
Poetic Works               http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/PW-dbscr.htm
Donivan Bessinger:     http://home.earthlink.net/~dbscr/hpata.htm



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