06/25/2020 – Page 6 – Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy

January 25, 2026

Sleet is on the ground, power is on, nothing is falling at the moment, fingers crossed… We know what we like and don’t like, want and don’t want, but we don’t know where we are better off or what is in our best interest. Like and don’t like, want and don’t want, are poor guidesContinue reading “January 25, 2026”

January 24, 2026

There is what we do to live, and there is what we live to do. Occasionally these may be the same thing. There are artists who support themselves with their art, and musicians who make a living with their music. Most of us do what we love by paying the bills doing what we don’tContinue reading “January 24, 2026”

January 24, 2026

Where do Trump and MAGA part ways? Where is Trump not being Trump-enough for MAGA? Where is MAGA being too much Trump for Trump? Where does the line lie? The core at the heart of both is genocide. They both want to kill everyone not white like they are. White Supremacy is actually White Exclusivity.Continue reading “January 24, 2026”

January 23, 2026

There are people who would throw a rock into the middle of tranquility because that is who they are. They don’t know why and they don’t care. They just know what they like and what they don’t like, and are compelled to do what they like. I don’t know why we see things a weContinue reading “January 23, 2026”

January 22, 2026

Yesterday, here, I put to rest the doctrine of Original Sin and the need for the Substitutionary Theory of the Atonement, or any need for atonement as a way of helping God get over the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which never existed at any time anywhere in the historyContinue reading “January 22, 2026”

January 21, 2026

No one can sin for another, or atone for another’s sin. Psalms 49:7 — No one can redeem the life of another, or give to God a ransom for them. Deuteronomy 24:16 — Parents are not to be put to death for their children’s (sin), nor children put to death for their parents’ (sin)– eachContinue reading “January 21, 2026”

January 20, 2026

Liz Sisson died when she was 16 in a nighttime single car crash that two of her friends walked away from. Eddie Stanton died when he was 28 in a private airplane crash because the plane was overweighted and didn’t make it over the trees at the end of the runway. Several of his fellowContinue reading “January 20, 2026”

January 19, 2026

Jesus wasn’t a Christian, but he was a Gnostic. And all of his teachings came straight from his Secret Knowledge in the here, now of his time and place. Gnosis , Psyche, Tao, Intuition–the terms all mean the same thing: Secret Knowing. Everyone who knows, who has ever known, knows the same things. Jesus spoke toContinue reading “January 19, 2026”

January 18, 2026

The Way of the Tao is the way of water seeking its own level, which has nothing to do with what water wants. Water doesn’t want anything. Water just does what its circumstances call for. This is the First Lesson of the Tao: What does wanting know? What is being asked of us? Here, now?Continue reading “January 18, 2026”

January 17, 2026

The middle of the road is hard to find. Extremism is everywhere. Somewhere somebody is protesting kids selling lemonade in front of their house. Opinions are fueling counter opinions. Circumstances are begetting circumstances like never before. Somebody thinks zazen cushions cause brain cancer. If you are not an activist your neighbors will march on yourContinue reading “January 17, 2026”

January 16, 2026

A Philosophy of Health by Jim Dollar A healthy lifestyle is more than eating well and exercising. It includes how we set limits, draw lines, establish boundaries—and bear the pain of living within the within the environment of everybody else on the planet doing the same thing. The way we live has implications for usContinue reading “January 16, 2026”

January 15, 2026 – B

Gnosis/Psyche/Tao constitute the base/foundation of the Self. Of each of us. Of everyone. Of life itself. We can think our way to the base/foundation of the Self, of ourselves, and that’s as far as we can go. There are no words for anything beyond that. No vocabulary. And we can barely experience what we cannotContinue reading “January 15, 2026 – B”