Ffolkes,
The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.”
~~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War ~~
“My greatest fear in life is that no-one will remember me after I’m dead.” — Anonymous
Too often, this blog begins with the word “I”…. Well, in sooth, I say, “too often”, when what I actually mean is, “too often for my comfort.” This, of course, is the natural result of a person who wishes to write, but, really doesn’t wish to indulge in much of the ego-driven parts of writing that are necessary to achieve any sort of prominence….
Ambition is required, if one wishes to become popular, whether in the blogosphere, or in the mainstream media venues, such as newspapers, radio, & TV; ambition; this is unfortunate, at least, for those of us who’d rather remain on a path with oh, let’s just say, a higher degree of spiritualism, or perhaps just less ego-driven….
But, then one must consider two things…. One, it’s MY blog, and we are often dealing with MY issues, so, using “I” becomes nearly impossible to avoid…. Second, being a pretty smart guy, with a fairly accurate sense of how smart I am compared to the average joe, I try to avoid either shoving that in people’s faces, or dwelling upon it, as I don’t view it as necessarily anything to be proud about….
All it does, actually, is saddle me with more perceptions than most, to my way of seeing it, and, that particular ability, for certain, is both a blessing, AND a curse. Factor in the simple FACT that smartness, or intelligence, has NO PROVEN SURVIVAL VALUE, and you can begin to see why I try to avoid overt egotism…. It really isn’t very nice, not to mention self-defeating….
In the past five or six days, since right before Christmas, I’ve been climbing out of a deep hole, which my mind seems to have fallen into without me even noticing I was off balance; that’s what comes from depending on vertigo to do that…. it’s unreliable, as is now patently clear…. SIGH….
Whatever the failure in my early warning system happens to be, I found myself in a position where I was bursting into tears rather frequently, due to some stressful issues I’m dealing with, which seem to have triggered some unknown, and certainly unwanted, unresolved feelings of sadness and emotional pain, left over from one of the many instances in my life where I experienced far more of them than I ever thought possible, and, apparently, stored up for later use…. Go figure…
I’m finally starting to see some light, and, I’m hoping this morning’s events will help, as I get to go do something that SHOULD shore up some of my feelings of inner conflict…. Of course, I have another appointment tomorrow morning, wherein I expect to have to fire the opening salvo of what promises to be a quite bloody battle with my HMO, and the modern medical society they manipulate and corrupt at every turn…. That, however will be, I’m sure, food for a future rant, not for now….
Ha! Thought I’d fall into that one, didn’t you?…. Nope. In fact, it would be a good idea for y’all to hold on, because, I’ve blathered and bitched enough for one morning…. We’re goin’ in, and goin’ in hard!…. Not only that, but, we’re doin’ it NOW!….
Shall we Pearl?
“Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry (NB: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!)” — Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love”
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I am all about quickness today, so what you get is another day of chill-out music, from the classical music genre…. This kind is nice to play while reading, and can provide a bit of armor against splashing, after a fashion…. The page to which I am linking is one with 112 selections of various pieces by various artists, and looks like a beautiful group to pass the time with…. enjoy…..
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To fill in the space quickly, here is a short rant with an attached old-school pearl as augmentation…. It is from a period when I was apparently writing better than other times; I’ve found some excellent stuff in the period’s archives…. including this one, one of several from this month… If nothing else, you can enjoy its brevity….
From 9/18/2012:
Religion has never attracted me as a pastime that led to any particularly desirable activities. From the very first, even as a small child, I always thought the people at church were trying to get me to believe something that was not only hard to believe, but they wanted me to believe it, just on their word that it was true….. What they were saying wasn’t anything like what I perceived to be true about the world at large; none of it sounded like common sense, if you get my drift…. Plus, the more I resisted what they said, and asked questions that they couldn’t answer, the more insistent they became….. Most kids have a pretty good crap detector, and the whole church thing seemed based on fluff and wishes to me…..
Any who, it seems a lot of my saved up oysters have been on that very subject, i.e., religious dogma, and alternative ways of looking at the universe, and how it works, and what it means…. (you know, all the good stuff….), so I thought an old-school grouping would perhaps help ffolkes get a clue about what I do believe….. which can, I have to admit, change from one day to the next….. gotta keep room for new data, y’know…… shall we Pearl a bit?…..
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.” — Thomas Paine — The Age of Reason
“History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.” — Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.” — Albert Einstein
God: What one human uses to persecute another. — Anonymous
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.– Robert Heinlein, “Job”, 1984
“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
“If the lord had meant us to have faith, he’d have given us lobotomies.” — Zlatko
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain, then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?” — Robert A. Heinlein
“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”–Albert Einstein
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” — Buddha
Well, there you go…. a complete mish-mash of different philosophies and outlooks, each with its own little piece to contribute to the whole, all ended perfectly with a piece of profoundly simple wisdom… not the virtual kind that is common around here, but real wisdom, that you can put in your pocket, take away with you, and use as needed…..
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I’m using mine, only because it’s quicker, and I’m lazier than the average joe…. goes along with the smarter part…. Yep, I am aware that intelligence is merely a FACTOR of laziness in humans; one of the primary motivating factors for using our imagination is to find an easier, or quicker route to achieving our ends, whatever they are…. Think about it, ffolkes, you’ll see what I mean…. Meanwhile…. Here is one of my personal favorite poems…
Fried eggs got nuthin’ on me
Ah’m not even sure of mah name,
or how Ah come to be;
no idea from where Ah came.
Ah does like a mystery tho’,
puzzlin’ things out so’s Ah knows,
good from bad fo sho,
Ah sho don’t want no rock pillows.
If’n Ah cain’t figure out what’s best,
Ah just falls back on mah Daddy’s words,
seems he knowed just whut’d stand the test,
‘n how to gentle the scaredest birds.
‘Course, he’d lived a good long time,
‘n had lots of stuff go on by;
Went to a war, n’ lost a piece or two,
never once used it fer an alibi.
He tol’ me once Ah’d best learn to learn,
school’s only cool if ya ain’t already a fool.
Yer own good measure you can earn,
by startin’ yer learnin’ with the Golden Rule.
Always seemed to me as Ah growed up,
he mostly only spoke if it wuz true,
‘n by doin’ that clued me to what’s up,
kept me from stuff that’d a made me blue.
Without ever sayin’ the word itself,
Ah learned ’bout honor, ‘n helpin’ others
not some fake stuff from some shelf,
but, knowin’ whut’s right, ‘n that we’re all brothers.
Ah’ve been around long enough now, Ah think
to get around the block at least two times.
I s’pose long as my head don’t shrink
Ah’ll keep on doin’ right, ‘n makin’ these rhymes…..
~~ gigoid ~~
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Smart Bee seems to have gotten over its snit, this pearl came together in jig time, with a nice little group of pears all pointing in one direction…. Well, close enough for pearls, anyway; my Gentle Readers have seen enough of them to see what point we’re trying to make without undue difficulty. Any newbies will find it reasonably clear, as well, I think, for it’s a simple idea being promoted today…. See if you don’t agree….
“Each man is the smith of his own fortune.” — Appius Claudius Caecus
“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” — Jim Bishop
“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.” — Jane Wagner, _The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe_ — [Performed by Lily Tomlin]
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” — William Saroyan
“All time in all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all bugs in amber.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughter-House 5
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.” — Aristotle
“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”” — Maya Angelou
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“This tagline is dedicated to my bird friend- Fred” — gigoid
Well…. considering that I’m currently in a state of mind I wouldn’t wish on an enemy, this didn’t come out too badly…. It’s also nice to have a little space from pain, which, thanks to the rain stopping for a few days, has been relatively manageable for two days now…. But, then, all is relative, is it not? I’m outta here, ffolkes… I’m gonna go see my grandson, and, for the first time in his life, be allowed to give him a Christmas present…. Now, THAT should make me feel better…. In fact, I’m counting on it…. See y’all later, ffolkes…. maybe even tomorrow….
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark, and Theresa…
and everyone else, too…
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, the dubious
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
Reblogged this on gigoid and commented:
Ffolkes,
Typing, at all, is still patently uncomfortable, physically. Plus, SB is in a snit again. Here’s a Pearl from late in 2014 with some thoughts on humanity’s strongest delusion…. I hope you enjoy it, while I take an enforced vacation from typing…. As previously noted, I’ll be back….
gigoid
Oh my God..
hehe.. synchronicity
i swear i didn’t look at
the opening quote for the
art of war of the photo of the
tree before i made my last response
to your comment
there on
another
post all together
my friend.. okay
back to play..;)
“To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable.
The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.”
~~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War ~~
Hehe.. that’s why
i’m like Muhammad
Ali with no scars on my
face and no traumatic brain
injury to boot..
and that’s truly
sad.. any sport
that is one of trauma
is insane except for the
Romans who watch the gladiators
kill each other slowly.. but people will
do most anything for approval and a green black
dollar bill or
hope to
make some
more green
black dollar bills..
or some yells of cheer
leaders for peeks under
neath a skirt of course..
sure.. i’ll strike everything
within a hair.. but never damage
a cell
on the
hair of
my body
free.. hehe..
as smArt folks
escape the hurricane
winds never knowing the
calm of the center breeze..
JuSt for this weekend i’ll be
A Black Moon Apocalypse Superman2 hehe..
as i ready to dance free at a festival in front of
red state
grins
hehA..;)
“My greatest fear in life is that no-one
will remember me after I’m dead.” — Anonymous
Ha! when i died in life..
when all my identity
was caught
up in
work..
i typed in my
name on Google
to see if i still existed
and there was only a remnant
left of me then.. hehe.. ‘things’ have changed..;)
“Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry (NB: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!)” — Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein’s “Time Enough For Love”
it’s sort of like Seal training.. in boot camp
way.. go as tired and hungry as you
can and don’t fuck up
any life or death
decisions
or you
die..
and the rest of life is a piece of cake from then on..
bottom line.. never leave boot camp.. and do more..;)
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
— Thomas Paine — The Age of Reason
Is it any surprise
that humans beings
who come from Violent
Explosions of Stars have
dArk sides of dust too.. nah..
it’s not.. most religions reflect
the reality of the UniVerse.. both
dARk and liGht as that StiLL exists
iN volatile
Bio-chemical
reactions in the
mini-star-dust beings
that are sentient humans now..
why sugar coat the truth with lies..
truth is the dark in religions is the
truth of the pARt of huMan
that is dARk.. sTiLL noW..
tHere is no escaping
humanity my friEnd..
it comes out in
the wash
of the
so-called
whitest white
washes of all
as a spot of a
Black hole Sun SouL2..
God is dArk and liGht tHere
is no hiding that fAct anyWhere for iSREAL..;)
“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals
himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,
not in a God who concerns himself with the fates
and actions of human beings.”
— Albert Einstein
We do this.. we concern
ourselves with the fates
and actions of other human
beings.. Spinoza’s God was Nature
and as science proves out we are mini-
me’s of Start dust sentient life.. as pARt
of A WhoLe of this GoD oF Nature too..
it’s simple
Logic..
God does
this as wE
are pARt oF God..
Does all God do this..
no more than the red blood
cells talk about philosophy on a SaTurday..
or whole
Suns
speak
of being
only begotten Suns of God..
or the last prophets of liGht..;)
God: What one human uses to persecute another.
— Anonymous
God is a three letter word.. a metaphor
metaphors make many different
meanings.. even
infinite..
when
humans
make them
as such.. with
no bounds or shores..:)
The supreme irony of life is that hardly
anyone gets out of it alive.– Robert Heinlein, “Job”, 1984
For an altruistic empath.. they live
to see others happy..
to see them rise
uP wTth liGht
and liFe..
hiGher
and hiGher..
in our modern
world this love lives
on as art/science as recorded and
entropy of love defeated as flesh and blood..
so now it’s
literAlly
true..
the Love
you make or sure..
that hate.. etc.. one makes
now can stay here as one goes..
as the record clearly or partiAlly states..
in a Country
of Love
that
continues
to love/hate/etc. on with
no sun or moon.. pearly
gates.. or golden floors.. just
cyber space heaven where folks
visit
to find
liGht or
dARk or
the ‘tween of all that is..
and
bEyOnd
of course..;)
Yes.. this is 2016 now..
32 years from
1984.. as
A Job
continues..
livE..;)
“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
That’s perhaps the saddest song i’ve
heard yet.. Cognitive Empathy
understands that
Nature is different
in every human
being.. Cognitive
empathy at least
tolerates differences that
do not harm others.. and understands
that what is sacred and holy to one is
the opposite to others with different
human natures.. sure..
Adolph Hitler
thought
his nature
was only
sacred too..
and many others
have Trump done this too..
this is perhaps the most anti-social
and dangerous thinking of all of humanity’s history..
but on the other
hand..
mutual
destruction has
led to years without world
wars.. as the dARk that inspired that..
so sure.. the dARk and liGht mix for what iS..
tHere
is no
escaping
that and in this
way all of culture is
Nature too.. in both dARk and
liGht that leads to a mud mix of boTh…:)
“If the lord had meant us to have faith,
he’d have given us lobotomies.” — Zlatko
Bullshit.. old bull shit..
but never the less
or more..
bullshit..
Faith is an
emotion.. Faith
is real.. Faith is
trust and some folks
experience total faith
with their existential intelligence
for what is now.. or don’t.. it’s as
simple as that.. not only that but
Emotions as science shows now
precede most all rational decisions..
take them away.. and a person won’t
be able to decide what color socks to
wear
to church..
if they go at all..;)
“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain, then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?” — Robert A. Heinlein
Yeah yeah.. oh yeah..
the used car salesman
who gives you a deal
better than
reality
offers
is a common
staple of the
psychopathic leaning
top ten checklist of the
religious persuasion of making
a living
too..
no surprise
reality found its
way into lies of
so-called sacred texts too..
it’s life.. why hide it anywhere..
be weary of the snake oil sales person..
if
one
wear
clothes
of wisdom
instead of
fools that are
pARt of Nature aka
God too.. as dARk..:)
“I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”–Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein talked a good talk
and treated his wives like shit..
as the history of that shows..
but perhaps he didn’t
know/feel/sense
any
better
at the time..
as Emotional
Intelligence
acts
more
than speaks..
and the favorite
pARt of the God that
iS pARt of me is surely
a carefree child that lives
without even the care of one
word now.. other than a DAncE
And SonG of liFE holding hands alive..
i would suggest that the God of most religions
needs to BE NOW..
more of a
child and less
of a stuffy so-called
modern age adult..
seriously.. Yellow Boy
is pushing 10 and still
has the energy and vitality
of a kitten.. as a once feral
and wild back yard boy.. even
with lifelong feline leukemia.. he
learned that play was a requirement to live..
and the benefits are simply a fountain of youth..
those who play overcome death as life.. simple as that..
but at last
Einstein
stuck
his tongue
out at life..
and his brain
never aged from
using it fully but hey..
there is more to life than a brain..;)
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
— Buddha
Two words..
FucKinG
Brilliant..
Every orgasm
of life has an end
A beginning.. or did
i mean organism.. heHE..;)
“Each man is the smith of his own fortune.”
— Appius Claudius Caecus
Once he or her.. etc… escapes
the matrix or prison..
the birth hospital..
school.. work..
TV.. the
list goes
on for
A Smith or
Jones of Fortune..;)
“It is difficult to live in the present,
ridiculous to live in the future,
and impossible to live in the past.
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”
— Jim Bishop
It’s all relative..
imagination and
memory are as real
now as the past and
future Now.. noW..
the more one feels
and senses.. whatever..
the more one lives now..
no matter how that comes now..
With enough imagination noW of
whatever now iS eTErnAlly noW..
but that’s
all
relative
of course.. NoW..
as a tree of iSREaL..
Branches out further noW..:)
“All my life, I always wanted to be somebody.
Now I see that I should have been more specific.”
— Jane Wagner, The Search For Intelligent
Life In The Universe
— [Performed by Lily Tomlin]
To each his own..
for me.. to be someone
new always now is what i do..
and it seems to me.. we all do..
somewhat.. too.. of course..
no matter
what we
say or
do..
after
now changes
we now aGain..
bY products of our
environment noW we
are Now too for sure..;)
“Good people are good because they’ve
come to wisdom through failure. We get
very little wisdom from success, you know.”
— William Saroyan
No liGht
without dARk..
bottom line
to and for me2..:)
“All time in all time. It does not change.
It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations.
It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you
will find that we are all bugs in amber.”
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughter-House 5
i suppose Kurt
didn’t hear
what the
others
‘animals’
DiD before
A TsunAmi cAMe..;)
“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it: men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts, we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we come to be brave.” — Aristotle
Sure use it or lose it
applies.. but there is also
14.5 million years or so plus of evolving
from inanimate to animate life of course..
DNA..
genetic
memory..
sure
God
within as
well as what
we do from day to day..
just waiting to be remembered
after the day of work is dONe for FREE…:)
And with all that’s sAid
it’S now tiMe for me to
further put
my ‘sacred fool’
hat on and dance
with the other children
on the Field of Red State
Festival
Band
Greens
of liFe that
kNows and Feels
no age but youth of heARt..
of SpiRit.. oF miNd and BoDy
BaLanCinG child-like SoUL mY FriEnd..
As Sacred fools rules from eYes of WiLd
ChiLd KitTeN.. mY FriEnd.. smitTen wiTh eYes oF FReED..:)