{"id":531,"date":"2026-07-06T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:47:33","slug":"the-philosophers-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/07\/2026\/531\/the-philosophers-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophers Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oh, C&#8217;mon Now, Really?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been considering philosophy for the past week now and, as you may have noticed, I don&#8217;t think much of mankind&#8217;s philosophy. Why should I? A waste of time, and all the trees cut down (or sheep skinned to make scrolls) to have that mishmash of backwater thinking flourish in the minds of morons to banter back and forth. People are dying of hunger from lack of food and nourishment and what did Plato ever do to help his neighbors who were poor? Drink Hemlock? Not a bad idea but he should have done that first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morons come all over the scale of intellect don&#8217;t they? Well, that sentence might have been badly phrased but it equals the same thing. Does human philosophy cover the same territory that Jesus covered? Not even close because philosophy is a dead end with Rolls Royce&#8217;s strewn about in pathetic repair. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the creek has dried up as well as the well and the hired hands have all quit to find greener pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Life without philosophy is gonna go on with or without experts isn&#8217;t it? I know, I am trampling mud into the hallowed halls of mental masturbation but so what? Look at these useless individuals in robes arguing as concerns the roundness of a circle. A circle what? I am not gonna go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politics has turned from a serious subject to a  problem of philosophy in the past few decades and philosophy doesn&#8217;t count in life or death does it? Nah, the philosophy in combat is kill or be killed and the more you kill the less likely you or your buddy will be killed. This is the brass knuckles of life where philosophers fear to tread. Instead they go out to brunch, count their millions in book sales and denigrate we the people. The little guys who pay their cushy salaries with money we don&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome socialists whose prime directive is to philosophize government into a cash machine and they&#8217;ve been getting rich off us for just about ever. Greece, Rome. Soviet Union, and now, America. University of philosophy or: &#8220;How to Fleece the Common Man and Make Them Think It is Great Sex&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">B.S.<\/h2>\n<p>Views: 27<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, C&#8217;mon Now, Really? I&#8217;ve been considering philosophy for the past week now and, as you may have noticed, I don&#8217;t think much of mankind&#8217;s philosophy. Why should I? A waste of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbflock","category-flak","category-leftist","category-of-ages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xogzap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}