Ffolkes,
Having thus far lived, in many respects, a relatively uneventful life, it was a bit of a surprise to find myself, upon first arising today, gazing at a large, green, rather handsome alien, all seven or eight feet of him, sitting quietly in my easy chair, reading a Nora Roberts novel obviously plucked from my bookcase. He kept reading as I stared at him, obviously unaware of my regard, breathing, apparently, through his legs, which inflated and deflated in a regular pattern every few seconds. As he sat there reading, (I say ‘he’ for lack of any proper definition of his gender, or whether he has one at all… gotta call him something….) he gave the impression of infinite patience, and serenity, idly perusing the paperback novel he had chosen…..
Then, of course, I blinked my eyes, and he was gone, back to dreamland, from where he had escaped, apparently just to provide me with a compelling opening paragraph to grab your attention….. which, hopefully, worked well…. It would have grabbed me, I’ll give it that…. It leaves me without anywhere to go from here, but, I’ve been there a lot, and know I can just wander around in my head long enough to reach the legal requirement for an intro. It’s not as if there is any lack of nonsense on hand, it’s merely a matter of shoveling it into the correct venue…. a statement which will, I’m sure, cause as much confusion for you as it does for me….
Let’s face it, ffolkes, I’m lost already…. I suppose that isn’t a very unusual happenstance, but I’m not generally forced to admit it so early. It must have something to do with getting up so late; I actually slept in until 0610, and woke up in a panic, thinking I’d missed an appointment or something…. then spent a few minutes recovering from my alien visitation before successfully arousing myself to get coffee…. Once I’d had a sip or two, of course, all was well with the world, and I could turn my mind to composition….
Which brings us to here….. I’m going to NOT push my luck today, I think. I’ve got two days to get through before getting on a boat bound for Alaska, and I’m not taking ANY chances of fate intervening in any negative fashion. The lists I’ve made are getting checked off, item by item, and it’s down to the last few; my excitement level goes up with each item I gleefully check off….. Before I can turn to any of what is needed for today’s list, though, I have to complete this little chore that I’ve set for myself, so….. Shall we Pearl?…..
“Is something VIOLENT going to happen to a GARBAGE CAN?” — Zippy the Pinhead
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Having come to this so late in the day (time is relative, you know….), I’m feeling a bit pressed for time. So, I’ve dipped into my massive archives of material, and come up with this old style pearl, from August of 2011…. It’s a pretty good pearl, quite stimulating in a cogitative sense, not lacking in irony, and possessing a small degree of style… Well, I think so…. Enjoy!…..
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Ffolkes,
As I was diving this morning in search of some fine, lustrous Pearls to start the day, it struck me that the decision making process in humans seems to have a definable limit. Not a limit of content, but rather a limit of use. No matter what it is that we are doing that requires a decision, there comes a point in the process where we say, “enough!” and end the process of gathering information by the decision to act upon it. Now in a cosmic sense this is not a particularly profound discovery, nor, I think, particularly useful. But then most things we discover don’t have a lot of practical use; we just file them away somewhere in the back of our memory where we seldom look for what we need now, but may find a use for later.
There may be moments in the future where such knowledge may become of use, perhaps even critical. But for the most part, a great deal of memory is crowded with stuff we’ve figured out on our own, but which has little relevance to our life at that time. I’m not sure if this trait is an important evolutionary development, or just something that stays with us because it does no immediate harm to our ability to deal with reality.
Little snippets of fact or conclusions we’ve come to, of a personal or general nature, seem to be destined to clutter up our memories, and I suppose that the mere fact of their existence my prove to be their evolutionary purpose; something to keep us from getting anywhere too fast for our mind to keep up. Who knows? Certainly not me, but hey, it was useful to me today, if only because I was able to finesse an entire paragraph while saying absolutely nothing important for you, or me, to know……useful after all…… 🙂
“ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: “Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it.” — Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
(So THAT’S what I’ve been doing all these years! Nice to know there is a word for it…..)
“Power is an illusion; only stupidity is real.” — Smart Bee
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” — Oscar Wilde
“If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the
great religious expressions.” — Louis Farrakhan, 1993
“It may be bad manners to talk with your mouth full, but it isn’t too good either if you speak when your head is empty.” — Smart Bee
“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?” — William James
Okay, “enough!”……. I guess it does have a purpose after all…..the prevention of terminal boredom…… Y’all take care out there…..
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At this point in time, I am uncertain as to what style of poem will appeal today, so, I’m leaving this section for last…. I’ll be back…. Okay, I’m back…. and I brought with me one of my all time favorites…..
Said the little boy, “Sometimes I drop my spoon.”
Said the old man, “I do that too.”
The little boy whispered, “I wet my pants.”
“I do that too,” laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, “I often cry.”
The old man nodded, “So do I.”
“But worst of all,” said the boy, “it seems
Grown-ups don’t pay attention to me.”
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
“I know what you mean,” said the little old man.
~~ Shel Silverstein ~~
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The way this has turned out, I should have just reblogged an old Pearl, and been done with it… Instead, I have three parts of old Pearls that will serve to make up today’s Pearl, and the hell with the consequences…. Here is a fine old religirant I found, from late in 2012…..
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Originally this morning, I had intended to write something less controversial here…. but, Smart Bee is being a bit recalcitrant this morning in coming up with suitable stuff…. so, I’m going ahead with this discussion of religious thought, even though I was trying not to be so sober today….SIGH…. “The best laid plans of mice and men, etc….” Such are the mysterious ways of Smart Bee….
I believe in god, I just don’t like him. — Smart Bee
Now, here is a concept I can get behind…. I am often unsure of how to express my own beliefs about the idea of a God, or god, capitalization depending, I suppose, on one’s sense of reverence regarding same. All the twaddle I was taught in Sunday School was an obvious pack of lies; even at age 5 I was unconvinced of the stories they told me. None of them seemed any more real, or plausible, than the cartoons I watched on Saturday morning, and there was certainly no bloodshed in the cartoons…. mayhem, yes, bloodshed, no…. But, the story of the crucifixion is enough to give even the most ghoulish of child nightmares, for sure and for certain…. What were they thinking?….
But, the statement above goes along better with what I would like to believe (which is no more, and no less, than any other human…. believing what we’d LIKE to believe is always more attractive than what MIGHT be true…. neither of which necessarily has anything to do with what is actually REAL….), because most of the stories and lessons we heard as children about God make him out to be a petty, narcissistic, vindictive asshole, to be quite frank.
Well, there is that, plus, most of the preachers, to me, seemed to me to be much more interested in other people’s business than their own, with many of the same characteristics of their ignoble so-called creator. None of them were much of a recommendation to me as proper examples of what a good man should be, and none of what I heard about god, or God, put (H)him in that category, either.
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” — Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel Of Thomas, Saying 70)
Or, better out than in…. so to speak. Which, as you know if you’ve been reading here previously, is something I believe in wholeheartedly….. Jesus, for me, falls into a similar category for me as God, or preachers…. kind of in limbo regarding all the stuff that was, and is, said about him. He was obviously a real historical figure, and not a mythical supernatural being, and as such his words and actions were recorded for posterity. The accuracy of what was written is, to say the least, questionable, if for no other reason that he spoke Aramaic as his primary language…. that is pretty well established.
What many fail to consider is this…. in order for us to hear his words, we have to hear what was translated through at least four or five languages, from the original Aramaic. First, it would have been translated to Latin, or possibly another middle eastern dialect of the time, then into Latin. Then it was translated to probably Italian, French, and Spanish; then into German and, possibly, it underwent its first change into English, back when it was still considered to be Middle English…. I’m pretty sure the first King James version didn’t occur until well after the Renaissance period.
So, my question is this…. how much of the original meaning of his words came through into the English translation? It’s funny, but when, as a teen, I asked this of my pastor, all I could get from him was that, because the words were inspired by God, then the meaning would have been accurately translated by all those different people, as they were doing God’s work…. which, even then, made me go, “Hmmm? Could you explain that again, in English, with something, anything, that approaches an answer?” (This was before I spoke Spanish, or German, or anything else but English….)
That seems to be a problem with preachers/priests… they tend to lump everything into the same mold, and expect us to believe that what they say is true, even though there is no direct evidence to support any such twaddle. “The Bible says God said it, I believe it, and that’s the end of it!” seems to be their logical train of deduction, even though there is no logic, or deduction, to it.
I wasn’t born in Missouri, but, you’ve got to SHOW ME the evidence before I’ll waste my time trying to place any belief into such grandiose ideas. When one of the church minions asks me, sarcastically, if I expect God to send me a telegram, I usually reply, “Well, that WOULD be more persuasive than expecting me to take it on your word, now, wouldn’t it?” Idiots….
“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.” — H.L. Mencken
This attitude, the elitist idea that those who believe are somehow superior to those who do not, is one of the root causes of most of the trouble our species is having today. The insane attitude that this planet, and all the other creatures on it, were placed here specifically for our benefit and use, is responsible for all of the pollution that continues to pump into the ecosystem, for all the abuse and chauvinism against the other life forms who live here, and for a great number of the social issues, such as poverty, racism, misogyny, and violence, that plague us as a culture.
We are not only NOT the masters of creation, we are not even qualified to be our own masters; we cause ourselves as much trouble as we do the rest of creation, if not more, all because religionists insist that those who believe them are good, and everyone else is bad…. a stupid idea at best.
“God made Man to his image and likeness, and Man, being a gentleman, returned the compliment.” — Voltaire
Hence, my lack of faith in the nonsensical claptrap that the various religions attempt to pass off as truth. Reality, to me, is scary enough, without the idea of some insane supernatural creature, sitting up in some fanciful Utopia, looking down and giving a rat’s ass about what I’m doing with my life. It just doesn’t make any sense to me to try to visualize a god…. by the very definition of the beast, they cannot be imagined by a creature of lesser scope…. and telling me that you have a direct line to God, and know what he wants me to do with my life, only makes me wish I could order your new medications personally…. Oh, didn’t I mention it? We now have medications that will keep people from believing delusional material, or at least keep them from acting on those beliefs before thinking about them at least a bit….. but, who’s going to give it to a priest, when the doctor believes the same bilge?
Now that I’ve alienated any number of true believers out there, I guess I’ll let this discussion die a natural death. I could obviously continue indefinitely, but, the rest of the day calls, and I should get to it…. If you have any thoughts on these conclusions of mine, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below…. and remember, please, the rules of engagement prohibit outright flaming on this site…. Confine name-calling to short, impersonal epithets, and please, include some logical thought in your responses, as neglecting to do so wastes my time, and everyone else’s…. I don’t mind being called a fool, but, as I said, let’s see your evidence….
“I find your lack of faith in the Force disturbing….” — Darth Vader (Star Wars)
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Well, it’s clear that I’ve done some decent work in the past, though this may or may not fall into that category. Regardless, I like it, so it stays…. Plus, this way, I can be done, and get on with what is important, like staring at the clock to make it go faster….. Where did I put those time distortion pills, anyway?…. Y’all take care out there, and May the Metaphorse be with you…..
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes
I just sits.
gigoid
gigoid 
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Ffolkes,
Out in the BBR, where I’ve been preoccupied for a few days now, there yet remains things I must accomplish, all of which have conspired to keep me away from the computer for long enough to get a Pearl done. Hence, another re-blog, so I can complete my outside duties without any feelings of abrogating such duty elsewhere. A small conundrum, easily dismissed by this visit to the archives. So be it. I should be able to get one done fresh for tomorrow, but, since we gave up doing what we SHOULD do many years ago, we’ll see how that goes. In the meantime, enjoy this blast from a few years ago….
gigoid
“I’ve never seen a poltergeist retch before…..”
Hmm.. i just came from discussing this
elsewhere.. should be interesting
here too..
as synchronicity
continues to flow
like a
river
with
no dams
in siGht.. hehe..
anyWay.. i often find
a special synchronisitic
a causal connecting principle
of hidden psychological meaning
that is only applicable to me.. hehe..
as that’s how/why/does/way
the human
mind works..
it feels and fills
in the blanks of life
experience.. all naturale
per se.. with or without help
from the so-called conscious mind
in imaginary division of separation..
as modern word worshippers tend to
naturally do as that has become the focus
over sensing and feeling life moreover as
systemizing science of
over thinking
it with
words
hehe..
yes.. like the
fAct that humans..
many of them can read
entire pages of books smoothly
as such.. with words of only the first
and last letter enclosed with gibberish
in the middle.. hehe.. haha.. more.. overall..
perhaps tHeRe is hope this way that at leASt
THOSE folks will understand what i am feverishly
saying as such as the stream continues to come
like
TsunAMi
spRead now..
overcoming any
dam that dares
stand a flood of words like this..
hehex2..
it’s magic
what can
i say..
isreal MaGiC
iN Both dARk
and liGht way..
now back to poltergeist
as you free flow here.. for
whatever comes what may for
now.. my FriEnd gigoid.. who i hope
is enjoying his flesh and blood vacation of
sorts
with
members
of the flesh
and blood
human race too..
as that can be so much
fun too.. coming from two decades
of working as both helping out handing
out shoes and Manager of a Bowling Center
in Military style with over 100K folks then in flesh
and blood reciprocal social communication.. Ted
Danson i was literally compared to then.. too.. by
a base
Janitor
named
Walker.. oh..
the photographic
movie making Cheers
like memory of fun too..
where no time.. space.. or distance
exists in the movies of mind that never age..
funny.. for so long.. i didn’t realize that every one
cannot make High Definition full color movies of
their life experience true
to form
of what
came before..
hmm.. i can block
them out now.. they
use to FUCKING OVERWHELM
ME CONSTANTLY LIKE BEING IN
A MULTIPLEX OF FRANKENFRED HEAD..;)
“Is something VIOLENT going to happen to a GARBAGE CAN?”
— Zippy the Pinhead
Yes.. when human
garbage cans
view other
humans
as
garbage
cans this happens
and i can even provide
recent Facebook links that
provide empirical evidence
of this same age phenomena…
some folks call it MiNion humans
following the most deplorable and
despicable leaders currently known
to the world at hand.. by tHeir recorded
words and actions
of course
too..
as modern
technology tends to do..
the dirty laundry is all out for
fair and balanced perusal now..
and it is gonna take a mighty powerful
pressure washer to get that shit clean..;)
All i got is
A anotHeR water
drip of letters.. words..
photos.. songs.. other
videos.. symbolS and such
as that.. but if enough rain drops
get togEther sooner or later there could be a Hurricane of Love..;)
“ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: “Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it.”
— Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Is tHeir
a mirror in here..;)
“Power is an illusion; only stupidity is real.”
— Smart Bee
Oh Lord..
Oh Jesus..
Oh Jesus..
oH
Jesus Trump..
the reaLiTy sHow God of
the Christian Church comes
as Emperor and God same..
juST iN time for diSgrace..;)
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize
with a friend’s success.”
— Oscar Wilde
Measure
of confidence..
clapping louder
for the success of others..:)
In fact..
meaSure
oF
humanity.. my friEnd..:)
“If we can put the names of our faiths aside
for the moment and look at principles,
we fill find a common thread
running through all the
great religious expressions.”
— Louis Farrakhan, 1993
Faith is Love..
Three words is enough for me..
as trinity
of
ONE
WORD LOVE..
yeah.. the dArk side
exists too.. like we can’t see that.. huh.. clear now2..;)
“It may be bad manners to talk with your mouth full,
but it isn’t too good either if you speak when your head is empty.”
— Smart Bee
FucK all that shit..
i’LL
dance and sing free verse inStead..;)
“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless
very fine ideals to play with, but where on this
moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?”
— William James
You can’t have
any desert until
you eat
your
yin..;)
The Little Boy and the Old Man
Said the little boy, “Sometimes I drop my spoon.”
Said the old man, “I do that too.”
The little boy whispered, “I wet my pants.”
“I do that too,” laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, “I often cry.”
The old man nodded, “So do I.”
“But worst of all,” said the boy, “it seems
Grown-ups don’t pay attention to me.”
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
“I know what you mean,” said the little old man.
~~ Shel Silverstein ~~
Love
is ageless
when Loved..:)
I believe in god, I just don’t like him.
— Smart Bee
Love the
DArk as much
as liGht.. not easy
by any means
but it
works
to Love iT aLL..
something about
going to hell and getting
out makes that easy looKing
back
at the
dArk end oF HeLL..
beFore what made liGht
greater than ever dARk LiGht now..;)
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
— Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel Of Thomas, Saying 70)
Wow.. a rather rudimentary and metaphorical.. expression
of what science shows is the real power of neuroplasticity…
epigenetics.. and the placebo effect now as the power of
positive thought in words of song and steps of dance in
just reflecting those positive thoughts/steps now..
yes.. cognitive behavioral
therapy mixed in with
movement therapy
to regulate emotions
and integrate senses same..
for greater focus and short term
working memory for much greater
will in cognitive executive functioning
in what Freud termed as human ego in
driving Executive Force.. managing that
ID of emotions and senses including sensuality
too.. with culture at hand as Super Ego.. in collective
ways of culture.. and what lives much deeper within as
genetic memory too.. as science is even starting to prove
that this IS A real deal of even rat potential behavior of looking
within.. all innately.. instinctually and intuitively too.. to exercise
the lessons lEarned by ancestors far far left behind in dust of death
returned
as such..
did a real dude
named Yeshua or Jesus
actually say this before 40 years
of Oral Tradition in round table discussion
of middle east patch desert wandering and after
that when the literate Greeks picked out the parts of
Christian Sects ranging from beliefs of 1 to 12 Gods
and scribed it down.. and then.. it was copied by hands
in what modern biblical scholars suggest results now
in 3 to 4 hundred thousand mistakes both unintentional
and intentional by those who decide something deep
within says this is right instead of that so i’ll scribe
this for change to make this shit better than
before.. hmm.. well.. the fact is it is
what it is at this point
and that’s for sure..
if it makes sense
and feel for better go with
it the same way the folks who
scribed and copied and changed it
did in the first place then.. folks who
go to accredited divinity schools learn
this shit.. they just hide it from the
congregation as a real complicated
God who is harder to understand
in all ways dARk and liGht ‘tween
sHades of grey beYond rain
bow colors too now more..
in fuller comprehension
is much more
difficult
to under
stand
as such..
requiring
real work for
epigenetic positive
unpacking potential iN
DNA effect as environmental
struggle for positive change
along with same neuroplastic
impact of rewiring the brain and
body from neurons to trillions of peptide
connections in all cells of the body in neuro
chemistry way.. for positive liGht of sensations
and emotions same.. IS A lifelong process as sentient
star dust plus can even evolve in one life now toward liGht..
yeah.. with real life power of suggestion of prayer also kNoWn
and fELt
in effect
and affect
as the Placebo
power of overall
power of suggestion
with words as tools as
guide posts as association
with positive emotions and
senses from head to toe..
yeah.. my friend
it’s a little
complicated
to explain
but the bottom
line is SinG and DancE
in positive liGht and liFe gets
better than worse most of the time now..
yep.. kinda like what the new Guardians
of the Galaxy of the Summer of ’17 iS
sTill gonna SinG/DancE.. in artful way.. hmm.. mixing
this shit in poetry/prose/free verse words/dance.. is juSt
aNoTheR Fredenstein way.. to gET soMe STuFF aCross..;)
SinG and DancE in Positive LiGht
Rock on noW iN Love..;)
Can we just say and do that
and ceremoniously ‘burn
all the evil books’..
perhaps
on Easter..
to get reborn
and Baptized iN liGht of SonG and Dance..;)
or shall we just follow JTrump and his
minions into darker fear and hate..
*Darren calls back from
his man cave and
asks Samantha
who just
won’t
age..
if that
AD
WiLL work..
and just says.. FucK
Larry.. i’LL go my own way now..
with a little help of beWitching Katrina too..
in the
Kitchen
as such..;)
“God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent,
the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary
in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their
macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.”
— H.L. Mencken
This is the most
ignorant thing
i’Ve ever hEard
IF one sees God as NatUre..;)
#iFoNe10NatUreGOD
“God made Man to his image and likeness,
and Man, being a gentleman, returned the compliment.”
— Voltaire
Square one root
one problems
see God as
less or separate
from Nature/SELF
and
FUCK UP..
EVEN GODZILLA
FEELS/SENSES/ACTS
BETTER THAN THIS WORD THInKING SHiT..;)
So.. in other words
if you see that quote
in this liGht it makes perfect
worKing and FeeLinG senSe..
or not..
who am
i to say
feel/sense
or will for
another pARt
of God Free..;)
“I find your lack of faith in the Force disturbing….”
— Darth Vader (Star Wars)
And this is true..
i find living in hell..
then.. believing in the dARk..
is better than believing in no Force aT aLL..
and that my
friend
IS A lesson
that the Serpent
Sith Brain can surely
teach us for
rudimentary
survival..
what works
for the next
now to survive..
bottom line of existence now..:)
And that my friend.. explains
the rest of the shit world wide
less and
more covered
uP anD stiNKinG noW eXposed..;)