Ffolkes,
~~ Walt Kelly, “Pogo” ~~
A Graceful Death
Hajime…. Not sure why, but, woke up today in a crusty mood; it must be the shoes. Who knows, &, moreover, who cares? I don’t, not today. In fact, it may not be possible to describe just how little a fuck I give today, so I won’t try. I’ll merely refer you to the previous sentence for an example, & be done with it. In point of fact, I’m in such a place right now to be done with this intro; being retired, I can damn well do what I please, so, I say, without caring at all about repeating myself, fuck it. I declare this intro section complete….
So be it….
Shall we Pearl?….
“We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” — Bill Vaughan
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No intro needed, ffolkes. Y’all have been in this section before, when it reset to default…. Enjoy, if you please….
Classical Music
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I’m taking a break from ranting; the piece posted recently, on the Plague of Evil, used up quite a bit of the angst I’d collected for a while…. Here, then, is an excellent discussion of Reality and Life, from 2013…. It’s a lot shorter than y’all are used to, believe me….
From 3/26/2013:
“Commonly, physicians, like beer, are best when they are old, and lawyers, like bread, when they are young and new.” — Fuller
“As to Jesus of Nazareth…. I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.” — Benjamin Franklin
Well, as you can see, Smart Bee is being a bit recalcitrant, an event which, though usually not a good thing, did give me the opportunity to use the word “recalcitrant”; that doesn’t often happen…. Any who, I’m having a bit of trouble finding a pearl, or a group of pearls, that would be suitable for either a rant, or an old-school quest; the two above are the best I can find, in over an hour of searching. Though not too bad, they aren’t quite right for either process, and not strong enough to stand alone, in my opinion. So, I’ll cheat again, with another blast from the past…. this one will be a random choice, the first one I come across that will fit physically into this space, so I have no idea what it will be like….
From 4/10/12:
~~ Proverb ~~
This sort of pearl is much, much deeper than it appears at first glance. (Note: It seems common to find the most complex and deep issues most often described or related in very short sentences. Hmm…. probably something to do with K.I.S.S., in which the universe believes, strongly….) Applied as a metaphor for human interactions with reality, it assumes an even greater degree of relevance, as it implies both choice and hope. Both are always present, but not always in view; such aphorisms as this can help one to find where they are standing, hidden in plain sight….
It is eminently clear to most people, by now, reality does not adjust to our desires; any adjustments made must be on our part, as we have absolutely no power to change any aspect of reality other than our response to it. A hard lesson, one many never learn, or come to terms with; such a failure almost guarantees they will find life to be one long struggle, as their days are spent futilely trying to make what is, into what they wish it to be. To use the analogy provided, they never learn to trim the sails of their vessel, thus, find themselves constantly fighting with, and cursing, the wind, never realizing their own lack of understanding is what sends them scuttling off in confusion, into uncharted waters, or, into the metaphorical rocks.
Thus, from simplicity does great wisdom arise; to reach one’s desired destination in life, one must learn to trim and adjust the sails of our vessel, to make the best use of the wind the universe sends in our direction. Or, more plainly, we can only make changes to ourselves, not reality. Learning this one simple lesson can turn a life out of balance completely around, giving it the direction and stability it has ever sought, allowing the most troubled soul to sail into the light, and out of the darkness that engulfs those who argue with reality….
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Endings aren’t always a new beginning
I’m sad to say.
Sometimes it’s just an ending
there’s always a price to pay.
Still, it’s only money, he said
watching it piss away
Did everything ‘cept meet Fred
‘n had a good time the whole way.
Even the bad stuff turned out well,
life lessons are just that way.
Knowing what’s right, you can’t always tell,
we don’t always know the right things to say.
I’ll take all the hard times, without complaint,
learning isn’t always easy to take.
Kindness, patience, and compassion without restraint,
are still the best decisions we can make.
~~ gigoid ~~
4/26/2013
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Know Thy Self
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“Be what you is,
’cause if you is what you ain’t,
then you ain’t what you is.”
~~ Satchel Paige ~~
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“Know the enemy and know yourself;
in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,
your chances of winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,
you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
~~ Sun Tzu (fl. c. B.C. 500) ~~
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“What’s earth with all its art, verse, music, worth
compared with love, found, gained and kept?”
~~ Robert Browning ~~
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“Life is more important than art;
that’s what makes art important.
— James Baldwin
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“A lie never lives to be old.”
— Sophocles — Acrisius, Frag. 59
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No teacher I of boys or smaller fry,
No teacher I of teachers, no, not I.
Mine was the distant aim, the longer reach,
To teach men how to teach men how to teach.
— A B Ramsay
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Drop the question what tomorrow may bring,
and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
— Horace
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“Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?”
— Zippy the Pinhead
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“The Journey is the Reward,
Not the Destination.”
~~ Zen Koan ~~
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That’s it, ffolkes. That’s all I got today. I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out the issue making me so grumpy, & will deal with it as best I may through the day. Hopefully, by tomorrow, it will, at least, not give me such a deep case of the grumps…. See y’all tomorrow, ffolkes, with a bit of luck & perseverance…
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
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
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
SMiLes gigoid..
Relative Reality i Learn..
And i Love Google.. as for all the
690 Blog Posts in total i have made..
including before i come to Word Press..
back when i start with Blogger in in March
of 2013..
Google is a great way to insure that creative
titles generated from within.. are originally new..
in Relative Reality of course too.. as truly there is
even in science a determination of genetic memory
as real.. and truly science knows not how deep that
goes.. but yes.. there is plenty of places in so-called
Junk DNA for Nature AKA GOD to put it as nows go
on for now and now nowmoreeverforevermorenow..
and that is one of my favorite 25 letter words to
be now just now in now.. and sadly.. speaking
of modern Christianity THAT IS about as far
away from the words of the original
reported gnostic Jesus than can
be in recitation of John
3:16 in THAT is
the end story
of what
one
does to
go somewhere
great when one hits
the dirt nap.. and i can
only imagine that if Jesus
is alive today.. at least in
metaphors like this
he will be
rolling his
eyes in infinity
now.. of yes there
is a sucker born every
day.. and a snake oil
salesman directing
that way..
as of
course if one
is gonna make
a person accept
a tough job that
really sucks they
are gonna promise
them at least a reasonable
reward at the end of the work
day.. and for the early Roman
underlings of that empire that
day was a life of poor and
suffering.. while even
in the New
Testament in
Luke 17:21 words
say the Kingdom
of God/Heaven is
here now
within
inside
outside
above
so below
and all around
just now.. and then
Jesus goes on to say
that in heaven there will
be no marriages
and we all be
like friends
as Love..
yes there
is some paraphrasing
going on here.. but yes
in every gospel there
is some paraphrasing
going on there too..
so why not keep
the paraphrasing
going as the
essence of
the syntax
and semantics
is what counts
so we continue
to paraphrase
to get that
through
to all
the views
that see a different
color of the Rainbow
of Reality now.. in yes..
a relative way of different
in each Unique Human
Universe that is reality
now.. yes.. as Kinsey
studies clearly show
some humans
are monogamous
and some are not..
more than likely Jesus
in real life.. made his rounds
in the house of the friendly women
spreading peace as it made a living
but yes.. more than likely better
ways to do it.. but there
was no E-search
for jobs
then..
Each human one
flavor of an iridescent
reality that colors multi-Universe
perceptors as human beings and
all other sentient beings that filter
reality through tHeir different lenses
some brighter and other duller filaments
of bulbs.. growing even brighter as learning
how to sail the ocean of their Universe smooth
comes to fruition greater and greater with a sweeter
fruit of life.. we live in a world where the philosophers
as the sages of the ages.. are on the furthest back burner
now.. where the female butt truly is the sage of the new age..
easily seen in pop-culture now.. where ‘the Kardashian’ rules
from the rear instead of head.. and should that be surprising..
no..not really.. as humans become more like machines
as cogs of a machine.. and the sign of fertility is a sure
way back.. to real human being at core
of what we are as surviving animals
and one sees this in modern
music as well.. as it is
becoming more and
more like a rather
simple driving
beat around
drums of
the midnight
fire in eyes of
naked so-called
savages dancing wildLY
around the fire raising tHeir
mindful awareness higher and
higher until they feel the oneness
non-separable form from the rest of
Nature.. escaping any illusion
of human memories of
past and future
worries
and are
for all
practical intents
and purposes free
eYes of God once more..
and here is where i see
perhaps the real Jesus
and one or more of his
‘friends’ in an ‘orgy’
with so-called
‘prostitute’
women
then..
free as
non-
married
humans
can be..
truly not
likely that
Jesus was a
monogamous
leaning man
if he suggested
there will be no marriage in
heaven.. nor was Muhammad
of course.. as his idea of heaven
per his revelation of God in human
Nature.. was a place where women
never aged and erectile dysfunction
never came.. as an oxymoron if
you will.. with wInks..
i’ve always been
monogamous
through my
life but
sure
aren’t
most
weak
men
monogamous..
and afraid their
wives will leave for
stronger men.. sure that
is nature.. more than culture
as far as i see.. Jesus.. obviously
super confident for a man and
Muhammad too.. neither
seeing the need for
just one
wife
forevermore..
and we all know
about the 7 year
itch anyway..
the only
way
marriages
truly last is if
there are best
friends who fill
the deficits in opposites
attracts of what the other
is not as good at doing..
my wife doesn’t dance..
or write poetry.. and
she does everything
else.. all i do is
dance.. write
poetry.. and
sing.. so
here’s
a pair
that keeps on working
one on one and enough
as that.. at this point
you may be asking
hmm.. oh my God
is he gonna
write
53K words
and truly i could
but you see my friend
to describe the relative
reality i continue to learn
is an infinite reality with
no top or bottom.. end
or beginning it truly
is a room with
no ceiling
and if there
is a real bible
for God it will
be a never
ending
story
my
friend
as the real
relative that is
GOD as never
ending story
2..
but for
now..
i’ll stick
with “SonG
oF mY SoUL”
for the title
of my
3 million
or so word
bible.. wheRe
it is all just
relative
reality
of
God
in
my
eYes..
of
GOD..
friend..
and yes
it keeps
on going
with no end
on-site until
my words no
longer come..
and the truth
is we are all the
word(s) of God
as flesh
from
head to
toe and more
and more than
words.. so much
more than words..
my
friend..
Seriously.. if Jesus really
came back the only place
he would be comfortable to
spread all his good news
would be the house of
an Atheist.. who
never judges
anyone
as
less
than
the other..
but again.. as long
as we are human.. humans
will will reflect different relative
realities with different eYes of
God.. so there will be
infinite Jesus’
Judas’
and Pilate’s
and original
Jews.. just
different semantics..
syntax.. and other cultural
clothing.. as the iridescent
human continues to color
the eYes of GOD whole
as the beautiful
fractals
of diversity
i know and
feel for now..
all the answers
are relative as reality
is now through all the
colors of human being
that paint
our
eYes
now.. dark
and Light
where
each
eye
pair or one
is an Earth
a Sun.. a Galaxy
a Universe a Fractal
of ALLTHATIS as GOD..
And all i know and feel now
for me.. my friend.. tHis.. now
the best of time now for any creature
anywhere in any place in the Universe
who is free now.. in this little corner
of Paradise
for me..
and yes
by now..
you likely
know now
the theme
song for this verse
of the bible of me..
And my verses are
never numbered
sequentially..
total numbers
of words will
do for numbers
of me.. my friend..
And your bible here is
one of my favorites yet..
as my interest is colored
by number of words that do come
when i enter into the house of
inspiration of
the bible
of another
blog my friend..
or sure just another
SonG oF mY soUL..
but others titled
are
surely
cooler than
mine.. if not
as long.. hehe..
i am a traveling
blog and bible
kinda like the
Book of Eli
and Denzel
Washington
with shades
and martial arts
to protect his book..
except mine comes
from collective unconsciousness
aka Cosmic Consciousness.. et al..
and never from pages.. alone my friend..
but you know and feel when i first walked
in Walmart and saw the cover of that
movie.. seriously and i do
mean literally in the
way God speaks
to me..
long before
i was a martial
artist or saw
the movie..
God told
me that
would
be me
in some
synchronicity-
like way.. so in a way
empirically in all the school
logic i have been taught from
the beginning.. fiction is not
nearly as strange
as reality
my
friend..
as truly
it doesn’t
have to make
sense.. but perhaps
the strangest thing of
all is.. it makes perfect
sense to me now.. but
i’m not sure i will ever
give justice to that
larger reality
of God
in words
my friend..
it will like take
a real life Spock
to mind meld with
me to see that too..
and perhaps
that person
lives
as well..
as the half-breed
Vulcan i truly am
my
friend..
in the episode
of StarTrek never written
until now.. wInks.. again..
Humans are truly magic
when they learn
how to use
that
relative
magic that
is reality now..
to Master it is
a job of Infinity
nowoneforevermoreverforonenow..28..
InFiNitY
Standing
TaLL..
And oh by the
way.. if you ever
see the Movie
‘Lucy’.. enjoy
the view..
“prepare
ye a way”..
“so let it be
written.. so let
it be dOne”..
as elders of
a gentle race
come together
to tale the story
of a pilot who leaves
no trace.. yellow streams
of Kashmir liGht.. of India
and Pakistan.. under the
Summer Moon.. will
come
again…..
paraphrased
from Led Zeppelin
on the last one.. my friend..
what most people don’t understand
is every creature in the entire worlds tales
the story of GOD.. and we are ALL prophets/
MESSENGERS of Nature as God WiLL
tale the story OF NOW
NOW
with
us
NOW..
to exclude any
prophet/MESSENGER
is not to have the MUCH
LARGER
story
of
GOD..
i was born without
the filter to exclude.. my friend..
like Lady Gaga.. one of my favorite
prophets of the same old New
age says.. in
‘Born
this Way’..
yeah.. that’s
the same song
for this verse.. i’ll
use now.. with ‘Kashmir’
coming in second.. and
the “Best of Times”
by Styx
coming
in third..
wait! a little
voice with
no name in
my head says
change course and use Kashmir
and i say.. Okay Boss..
my Pilot
with
no name..
that leaves
no trace but
‘tHis’.. my friend..
the only thing special
about me.. friend.. is.. i listen
to everyone with equal LOVE..
and perhaps that is the greaTest
Human Super Power of ALL.. and
yes.. i for one.. am 100% sure it is..
but the coolest thing of all is God
came and visited me in 2010
under a shed..
in the form
of a Yellow
Cat.. i learned
the most from
him.. but first
he saved
my
heArt..
my best
friend.. yes..
my heArt.. now
as WHOLEnONE..
in other words it
will not
stop
groWinG..
kinda like
a tSUNaMi..
after a meteor
makes the gulf
and human being..
spreading like a
nice human(s) virus online..;)
Though it takes me a while, reading your comments is always fun, not to mention a dance/poem/song to enjoy… It’s much like going to one of your Raves on this end….
It’s also clear you read the entire post…. not many get through it all every day.
I’m a little under the weather today; it’s cold, & the healing process of internal organs is sometimes painful (I’m using cannabis oils to treat diverticulosis…)… I get grumpy because it keeps me from doing things I want to do,, such as think… Leelu helps, of course, by making sure she gets her play/training time in ample supply… after which she wants her cuddle time…
You guys stay warm & safe in the weather/floods in your area…. Or, get wet & go swimming, if it suits you…. Either way, be well & happy, mes amis…
*smiles* 4 K & FRiEnD….
gigoid
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Smiles.. My friend.. I love what you do here.. As it so inspiring to me.. Hope you feel much better soon.. gigoid.. the humble.. and wonderFul to me..:)
Fuks sake! buy yourself some new shoes!
Townes Van Zandt — Flyin’ Shoes https://youtu.be/MMoS2hp2BgE via @YouTube
Hey boy,them flying shoes and soar!
grin
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LOL!
What’s funny is, when I wrote that, I was currently shoe-less… It’s an old quote, from the Nike commercial, and other places….
Thanks fer the song(s) (ended up listening to several); Townes is an old friend. Me & Tommy Tumbleweed have been playin’ his stuff together for 45 years or more…His Ballad of Pancho and Lefty is my favorite song to play and sing….
I think, though, I’ll put on my travelin’ shoes… but, I’ll wear ’em on a boat. I think it will be easier to get Leelu to Ireland on a boat, than on a plane…. Slower, but, not as LOUD….
😉
Glad you enjoyed today’s mess….
Cya l8r….
gigoid
I have just had a rant at an arse hole….grin…
Must be catching it off you……anal people are such a drag ..
wtf is 18r?
Say it out loud…Leighter…
I see…..grin
Awww….
Given the chance, no animal is cruel as man, by nature….
gigoid
Yeah, got me going all aww like you! Going to turn in early tonight. Not feeling too good.
Good night.
Feel better, milady….
Sweet dreams….
gigoid
Bit better today.
Good… stay that way. That’s an order from Sarge….
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Trust you are feeling better sister….
lovely photo…
penniewoodfall,
Yes, a bit. Thank you.
Reblogged this on gigoid and commented:
Ffolkes,
Sadly, I still cannot sit for more than a couple moments, making computer work next door to impossible. I managed, this morning, to last long enough to find a Pearl to re=blog, one posted first in late 2015. I have much to do in the BBR again, but, will make an effort to get the newest fresh Pearl done as soon as I can sit for more than two minutes without pain or bloodshed (don’t ask…).
Angst is building within; I can feel it. NOT being able to write is, trust me, just as bad as HAVING to do so…. and, feeling both is worse than either alone…. SIGH… We humans sure do know how to fuck with ourselves, don’t we?….
I’ll be back, ffolkes. Who knows? It could even be soon…. Y’all be well; & happy. It’s better than the alternative, trust me….
gigoid, the dubious
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