The latest contributions are by Harold Jokela who has some recent Haiku in the Poetry section. Lots of surprises in these for those with a critical eyes, and a twinkle or two!
There are some new pages of my autobiographical miscellany from several years ago--indeed, the last millennia! See below.
Oh, an a Close Encounters twist my Harold Jokela as well.
For the cryonicists and ethicists among us is something new, "Curing Brain Death." Should be interesting to every intelligent person, and especially to those who plan to be placed into suspended animation since resolving brain death is a major part of re-animation.
Margie Bailey Rose's stories are still being read by scores of new people every month.
It was side-splitting to be among the original group to critique her stories. They are still funny.
Also new are the Fragmentsof Heraclitus, and my ongoing editing of Long's translation of Marcus Aurelius' journal, as well as many other offerings. --enjoy!
(From A Lute of Jade)
It will only be years, not decades, before we can cure the brain-dead. Besides being a major step on the route to cryonic re-animation, what what will this say about our (Western) ethos? Our global ethos?
It is wrong to save the dead?
New version, 2006.
After weeks of transforming an earlier version of this classic I discovered Ronald Latham's exceptional translation of Lucretius at American-Buddha and stopped my work. If you are interested in the thoughts of a true genius born 2000 years ago, this might interest you. On the Nature of the Universe
Coming sometime by 2009: hopefully, a prose-poem adaptation of A.S. Kline's translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria (aka, The Art of Love ) --This is more difficult than I'd expected ... .Well, the Philosophy section has Prof William Harris' sterling new translation of Heraclitus' Fragments; and I just (or should I say *finally*? :) added Long's translation of Marcus Aurelius' journal, Meditations. Mr Long's fine work is still undergoing a careful update from' his Victorian prose--somewhat stilted and awkward--into 21st Century English.
More of these select translation of Ancient Greek and Latin wisdom--and humor, too, coming in the philosophical category. (Within the next two or three years TransFinite will undergo a face change. Some philosophy links will remain listed here, but there will be a separate philosophy.thought.org site dedicated to ethics.Other new works (from friends and myself) and the best of the classics. These include a re-translation of A Lute of Jade, a collection of Tang poetry. There are hundreds of Tang-era poems; I will be tweaking them for years to come.
At least three works by Henry Wilkes Wright (1878 - 1959) will be available online here, in HTML and plain text by Autumn of 2011. These include Faith Justified by Progress, Self-Realization, and The Religious Response, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.. If and when The Moral Standards of Democracy has been scanned and OCR'd, I will by-hand HTML it and make it available. —In the coming years many of Wright's journal essays will join his online books.
By default, everything is presented in large print.
One of Thought Unlimited's virtual websites will soon become the only H.W. Wright site.
For those who have asked in private email (and whom I have promised a peek behind the curtain), check out this Work-in-Progress website:
Henry Wilkes Wright