http://dickdeshaw.com By Dick DeShaw, MA, ABD Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:10:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Author: Rose DeShaw Tune: They Call The Wind, Moriah HOW PTSD WORKS – You Can Handle It (From years of personal experience) (Tune: They Call The Wind, Moriah) 1) Horror’s picked itself a name Though it’s been around for ages Post Trauma Stress Disorder is Our label for the rages But it’s normal It’s normal When you understand, it’s normal 2)A crisis ... http://dickdeshaw.com/ptsd-song-you-can-handle-it/ SCOTT’S GIFT: A PHILOSOPICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY By Dick DeShaw               Thoughts on substance. Here’s how I describe the substance of my life: The lives of human beings are like the fractals of a rocky shoreline (see Benoit Mandelbrot). The symmetrical patterns we seldom see, define the whole of what we are. Carl Jung ... http://dickdeshaw.com/philosophical-autobiography/     Scientists and philosophers clothe themselves in the foundations of knowledge. Historically, however, they have dressed up their ideas differently. Scientists tend to put on empiricism and study the things that exist in our universe.     Until recently, philosophers chose the ancient fabric of metaphysics but lately have been choosing either ... http://dickdeshaw.com/spinoza-in-drag-dressed-in-modern-science/ I went to university when the liberal arts were the force, not economics. Consequently, I have a liberal mindset. In my grief at the election results I turned to Spinoza, who said our philosophical prejudices are a result of not understanding that humans are a part of nature — which ... http://dickdeshaw.com/my-letter-to-editor-on-canadian-federal-election/ http://dickdeshaw.com/retirees-from-prison-work-have-good-lives/ (Orginally published as 'Tilting At Windmills' in Globe & Mail, June '97) I met him way before he was stabbed, teaching Sunday school in a rundown church in a poor rural neighbourhood. There were a lot of kids around whose futures didn't include reform school because of him. Big ears, skinny ... http://dickdeshaw.com/sadistic-prison-guard-a-hollywood-invention/ My wife received an e-mail where a poet referred to Giles Deleuze who collaborated with Guattari on some of his later work. The poet didn't know much about either man so my wife asked me to give some idea of where Delueze's work stood in relation to Guattari. This is ... http://dickdeshaw.com/giles-deleuze-f-guattari/ http://dickdeshaw.com/three-old-prison-guards-retired/             (From left to right: Gord Bishop, my son's best friend & support, me and Louis) About 2 weeks ago, my youngest son, Louis died of natural causes. He was 41. We are of course sad but after the past 26 years, our tears were already mostly shed. There is ... http://dickdeshaw.com/on-the-death-of-my-son-nov-7-2010/ zHOW TO PLAY LIFE: UNDERSTANDING (The Chapter I could not write while my body and spirit were in prison) “A) Rhetorical figure transposing a term from its original concept to another and similar one. B) In its origin, all language was metaphoric; so was poetry. “ Lionelli Venturi 1 PART ONE: THE ABSTRACT LIE      ... http://dickdeshaw.com/how-to-play-life-understanding-the-chapter-i-could-not-write-while-my-body-spirit-were-in-prison-note-first-pages-of-a-much-longer-paper/