Ffolkes,
“Clay is moulded to make a vessel,
but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. …
Thus, taking advantage of what is,
we recognize the utility of what is not.”
~~ Lao Tzu ~~
Cobh, Ireland
Hajime…. Most ffolkes, when able to sleep in a relatively normal fashion, probably wake up feeling pretty good. I can only wish that were the case with me, for it would sure be nice to wake up that way on occasion. As it is, even though I managed to garner six good hours of rest, I am in a foul mood upon awakening. Don’t ask me why, because, apparently, even that pisses me off; I asked myself that simple query, & damn near tore my own head off. This, sadly, leaked over to the point where even Leelu’s morning attention-seeking behaviors prompted a blow-off of steam out of my ears, along with some creative cursing, which probably shocked her delicate sensibilities…..
Now, of course, I can add guilt to the mix, as there’s no reason to take my angst out on an innocent cat (if there be such a thing….). Even though, by now, she ought to have figured out when to leave me be, there’s no justifiable reason to take my feelings out on any creature not deserving of it. So, I’m going to take a break, make up with her, then come back to finish this missive, such as it may be with all the handicaps I’m experiencing in getting it done. I did manage to finish some of it yesterday, during breaks in the fog in my head, which has been slipping in & out of my consciousness for a week or more. The rest will have to come out of whatever is in there this morning…. So be it….
It’s days such as this which make me wish, strongly, for a God upon which to blame the universe. It would be so convenient, if I could only bring myself to believe in such a convenient delusion. But, I can’t, so, that makes it my responsibility to pull my own chestnuts out of this fire…. Again, so be it. If I don’t, it won’t get done. To give us half a chance to do so, I’m going to take that break now, then return, & go on from there. Wish me luck, ffolkes; I have a feeling I’ll need some….
Shall we Pearl?….
“The man who carries a cat by the tail
learns something that can be learned in no other way.
He will never be dim, or doubtful.
Chances are, he won’t carry the cat that way again;
but, I say, if he wants to, let him!”
~~ Mark Twain ~~
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Image from http://www.youtube.com via Google Images
My friend, chuq, who has a blog called In Saner Thought (here: https://lobotero.com/ ) told me he was listening to this yesterday. I hadn’t thought of it for a long time, so, naturally, here it is today for your listening pleasure. An iconic album, with three of the best of the time, playing together with verve, and genius. Enjoy, ffolkes; it doesn’t get much better than this in the rock & roll world….
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Super Session 1977
Kooper, Bloomfield,Stills
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“Hate, the price you pay
For thinking you got the only way…”
~~ Blues Traveler ~~
As iterated above, my state of mind is rather, well, shitty. Trying to rant would, probably, not be a good idea, as the results could conceivably bring charges. Since my lawyer is on permanent vacation, we won’t go there. I’m already feeling enough self-inflicted guilt, so, rather than torment y’all with another piece from the archives, I’ve cobbled together a self-directed rant for your reading pleasure…. Maybe, if I do it right, it will soothe my angst well enough to get through the rest of today sans any further debilitation. (Good luck with that, I’d say, but, hey, it counts that I’m making an effort, right?)….
So, with the opening lines from Blues Traveler echoing in your head, follow the bouncing thoughts through the seven pearls below, and you will find yourself at the end of a perfectly decent rant against the machine, and my work will be done for the day. Even if you end up confused, well, such is life, and that may be even more of a lesson than anything I can provide. Either way, it gets us down to the next section, so, we’re going with it, regardless of how it may appear, or, for that matter, not appear. So be it…..
“The revolution WILL be televised, but you’ll only be able to understand it if you don’t watch the television coverage.” — Russ Nelson
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire
“If you can see in a given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.” — S.I. Hayakawa, educator and politician
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” — George Santayana
“Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for his acts.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.” — Calvin
“I feel better about world problems now!”
~~ Zippy the Pinhead ~~
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Today’s poem was selected simply for the title, which fits into the obvious theme for today…. From a bit over a year ago, during my time in Hell, I give you my lamentations….
gigoid’s lament
Not a bit of all the pain I feel
is worse than all I see;
all worldly truth, solid and real,
has faded away, never to be free.
Honor stripped of all regard,
while compassion simply fails;
Ignorance , powerful, hard,
crows as reason wails.
Crushing resistance, mandating the vote,
selling illusion, smiling all the while.
Pundits, speaking purely by rote,
arrange all the lies in a tidy pile.
Stupidity ’tis said, is a risky choice;
the price is always the same.
Reality has no pity, no warning ever voiced,
only a gravestone, carved with, our name.
~~ gigoid ~~
1/19/2015
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Our final pearl for the day is fresh. It’s rather abstruse, from what I can tell, but, it’s all pretty clearly a lesson in life at large. Since it’s the only part of today’s Pearl that is relatively fresh, it can stay, no matter how it comes across…. I do hope you enjoy it; it IS pretty good, which means it may not entirely fit in with the rest, but, fuck it. I’m not in a mood to care…. Enjoy, if you will….
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“As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
~~ C. G. Jung ~~
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“The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth
in the present moment,
to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.”
~~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~~
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“We are all born mad. some remain so.”
~~ Samuel Beckett ~~
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“What you leave behind
is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.”
~~ Pericles ~~
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“… denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht.
Du musst dein Leben andern.”
(… for there is no place that does not see you.
You must change your life.)
~~ Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo” ~~
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“To demand ‘sense’ is the hallmark of nonsense.
Nature does not make sense.
Nothing makes sense.”
~~ Ayn Rand ~~
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“For after all what is man in nature?
A nothing in relation to infinity,
all in relation to nothing,
a central point between nothing and all
and infinitely far from understanding either.
The ends of things and their beginnings
are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret.
He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn
and the infinite in which he is engulfed.”
~~ Blaise Pascal ~~
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Well, ffolkes, there you have it. Since I already know just how good this one isn’t, we’ll leave it all to chance, and go post it while I’ve got the chutzpah. Which may not last too long. I’ll be back tomorrow, if only to make sure this isn’t the final words you hear from me. I don’t think I’d be able to live with that. See y’all in the morning, ffolkes, if I decide to let myself live…. Not to worry, that’s just rhetoric…. accurate, but still rhetorical. See ya….
Y’all take care out there,
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 
Not bad for what it is…. I did make one error, forgetting to include Pericles in the tags…. So, here he is…. Since he gave us one of the best of today’s pearls, he deserves it….
gigoid
Thanx for the shout out….I appreciate the help….”The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” “A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.” Sorry had a brain fart with the word revolution……great music…..just keep on mind to wake up breathing is a win no matter how long you sleep….chuq
You’re welcome; given my state of mind, it’s a wonder I remembered.at all… But. also, thanks for the reminder. Every day upright is a win, for sure…. As for revolution, people tend to be frightened of it, but, in reality, the word merely means, ‘change’, which is inevitable….
I’ll be by in a while; gonna try to get my comments in early today, before I wear out….
See ya, bro….
gigoid
Look for a post on A.R.M. I will be writing on this soon….see ya my friend….chuq
“To demand ‘sense’ is the hallmark of nonsense.
Nature does not make sense.
Nothing makes sense.”
~~ Ayn Rand ~~
Typical sign of someone
liVinG in a head alone..
suggesting that nature
does not make
sense when
all oF human
Experience iS
seNses and EmoTioNs
to bE experienCinG noW and
eNjOYinG iT or noT as iS.. pleaSure
or pAin oF pAiNT noW iN dArk and liGht..
EveryThing makes sensE noW FeeLinG
NoW when iT aLL iS experienCinG noW
as seNseS and EmotiOnS NoW…
absTract conStructs
also kNown
iN head
ways oF
the Written
Word are iLLuSioN
iN Approximation in liE
oF eSSence oF RiveR
FloWinG as Change iN
ZonE oF reAL.. anyWay..
as many words as i sPeak
i take zero of them as seRious
and all’A SenSeS and FeeLinGS
underLYinG those words as Real
as real iS mY own multi-Verse as
iS alWays chanGinG noW as
feLt and SeNseD as StreAMs
oF Y i.. to RiVers Ocean
WHole allone.. yeah..
i liVed iN Ayn’s head
for a wHile and dam
sUre hatED that
PRison
HaLL oF sHeLLs
of words WitH little
to no liFe oF isRAel
SeNses FeeLinGs
thaT ARe REaL..
iN LiVinG noW..
oh.. to die
without liVing..
in those three encounters
of death oF miNe.. would have
been the end of nothing @aLL..
Assessing reaLITy without the
written word oftenow makes
aLL thE seNse and FeeLing
A
LiVeNow..
ha! whaT iS thE
meaning and purpose
oF liFe.. TO FeeL and
SenSe..
anD
noW to
escape the
words of written DEAD LiEs..:)
*grin* “It’s always something…” Rita Rudner
I think Ayn was being just a trifle facetious, mon frere…. Generally, she shows much more empathy. I have a feeling she was challenging anyone who read that to examine what they mean by “common sense”…. Looked at thus, it becomes a different idea altogether….
Cuz we both know sense is what each of us makes of it….
Love
gigoid
Hehe..
Yeah..
i was
Making
A play out
Of her word..;)
^^^
And additionally i can usuAlly
find some truth in almost every philosophy
but all truth or liGht in that or mine of course
noT as tHeRe is endless more to lEarn to feel..
to sense.. bottom
line though
to earn..
and in this
way some of
Ayn’s words ring
true to me.. as wE liVe
in a naTure of Science in
action and consequence as
WeLL as the Art of Beauty iN
ExpreSsinG SpiRit of EmoTioN
iN MoVinG.. ConnecTinG.. CreATing
way.. and the worst of aLL philosophies
are those that say the world is fixed one noW
and same or we have the last word/way or we
have the only one with Good news and such
as that.. a pity reAlly that close to half the
world iS somewhat trapped in the
restriction oF thAT but never
the Less onE Force iN
all from above.. so
below.. inside.. outside
all around.. iS the way of
most religion and science too
noW at Core of interdependent
and interconnecting relationship
oF allthatis.. once.. one takes the
bearded philosophies of exclusion
out of the entire in and out piE oF
Art and Science noW.. aNyway..
human Freedom as aLL iN
Nature is Contagious
and as science shows
too.. the only reason
human’s have made iT thiS
far is the all innate altruistic
way of Golden Rule born as iS..
IT iS the human connection.. the DanCe
and SonG of Moving.. CreaTinG that makes
uS.. WHOle.. tHeRe is no disharmony oF a DAncE
and SonG oNe iN FloW iN zoNe.. but sadly.. too many
folks shuffle by iN liFE of do what they are tOld in old trees
of KNoWledge and rarely branch out as Free iN a Tree oF Life..
kNowledge is great.. and the Internet makeS thAT more unlimited
than ever now.. one can absorb it.. re-arrange it and spit iT new as
even Art too.. however.. pure creation.. in FloW iN ZonE oF WiLL iS
a magic River with unlimited Streams that come from Ocean oNe iN
all the struggles from the cycle of the origin of what continues to
be noW as
WheeL oF
Real contiNuinG
ForTunE’s SonG NoW..
i soaked up all the knowledge
i cared to.. over decades more..
Ayn bores mE noW anD i For oNe
WiLL to have more than science thOughts
oF InPut from BeFore.. but occasionally i visit
them.. jUst to remember i was tHere.. without much
substance of whaT iS more Real to me at Least as ARt..:)
You will never understand” from using the intellect only…….
Self identification with intellect….dead from the neck up…grin
Self identification with emotions…wallowing in moods..smile..
Even self identification with physicality…run,run, for the serotonin factor
Now What?
” mere intellectualism,mere philosophy,produces monsters”
Belief?
is a luxury- only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe:other wise belief is merely plausible opinion….
thats enuf!
😉
p.s.
forgot to add…
emotions are the hardest things to deal with as they are the fastest to react.
smiling through gritted teeth actually sends messages to the brain which in turn make one feel better…my daughter uses this technique….grin
and boy, can she be a non starter in the morning!
SMiLes.. LiFe is fascinating ThaT’s for sure..
and Love the quotes above that i WiLL
paraphrase again.. from penniewoodfall
on the paths and overall journey oF liFE
and yes i agree.. intellect only in terms
of mechanical cognition from
head up dead below.. inside..
outside.. and above.. overall
all around as EmoTioNs Flow
through the body from head to toe
and all around that in mirror neuron
and other yet to be assessed FLoWs or
not in or out oF ZonE.. yes.. almost impossible
to describe when more fully employed without poetic
words of more than science as intellectualism alone..
the balance as in all stuff use or lose is required to get
a larger job dONe of potential intelligences less used or
not used at all.. as is the case in Emotional and Physical
intelligence joining mind and body in regulation of Emotions
and Integration of Senses through Moving.. Connecting and
Creating more whole as human being.. and true the Chi iS
hard to put in words but what it does.. when emoTioNs are
more fully realized and balanced along with sensory
integration is dissolve tension.. increase positive
feeling and sensing memories of all peptide
receptors of almost infinite connections
between neurons and each cell
of connection all around us
within and in how we
connect through
others through EmoTioNs
and Senses.. all four hundred and
twelve+.. assessed and many more
than five.. respectively.. again.. as science
shows EmoTioNs drive reaSon.. without them..
as science shows too.. picking out socks is too
much to strain the logic of decision making real..
And to rarely water the garden of EmoTioNs and only
live in head of intellectual mechanical cognition reasoning
withers away the pipe oF Emotional Intelligence or don’t start
it at all for reasons such as abuse or neglect in childhood and
folks have great difficulty in cognitive executive functioning through
life in terms of focus and short term working memory.. interestingly..
A hallmark of autism.. and even more interesting.. is according to
informal polls on the largest free for all website for Autistic
leaning folks.. the Wrong Planet.. out of thousands of
informal poll assessments.. personality tests
said 95% Introverted over Extroverted
with biggest numbers in INTJ
ways of being in Thinking
and Judging the world
in mechanical cognition
mind over Feeling and
Perceiving it now..
and of course
most could
not find their
F iN way out of a paper
bag per the stereotype of
book worms.. and yes as science
shows now too.. there is a great reason
for this that IS A lack of physical and emotional
intelligence.. the most important intelligences over standard
IQ that does not even measure them for overall social animal
survival in the wild kingdom.. problem is we no longer live in the
wild kingdom.. we live in the concrete jungle.. mostly.. of spoon
fed instructions and plans to make us whatever cog in the
machine others make for us.. in the soup of
the city.. the town.. and more rarely
now the small village
where Norm of Cheers
iS everyone knows and
FEELS ‘YOUR’ NAME..
AND SuRE.. SENSES YOUR
PRESENCE AS WELL IN FEELINGS
TOO.. anyway.. 18 years of school now required
to get us through the rest of liFE.. and when FREE.. good
deal iN ways of using Intellect and reason to get us through
but without physical and emotional intelligence.. the core of
all Cognitive Executive Functioning and reason in mastery
of emotions regulated and senses integrated.. chaos
becomes the self.. and much slow burn is reaLITy
dim iN stress.. misery.. and stuff like a third
of United States Children now
assessed as pre-diabetic..
at school age.. close to
50 percent of the population
on some kind of pain medication
in adult way.. and often for the vague
somatic pains of headaches and stomach
aches that are a result of chronic stress and
tension.. in overall body pain.. as non regulated
emotions and non-integrated senses express as
pain in the human body as the body keeps score
oF all human experience no different than the so
called mind uptight in head case that is missing
the friend of Emotional and physical intelligence..
anyway.. i do have good reaSon to bElieve
as i have systemized the human heARt..
SpiRit.. and SoUl.. as art as well
to make it a balance
of science too..
that i can
empirically
measure in terms
of output IN creativity..
and happiness too.. and
even healing properties of
a fairly older dude now at 56
who can make pain and stiffness disappear
at will with just a few twirls of arms and memory
of all my cells of pleasure.. my friend.. as the Chi
as expressed in the science of Tai-Chi that i do
not practice as i go by internal guidelines along
with my abstract constructs to get my own job done..
as inner instruction with of course
‘a little help’
from my friends..
as i dismiss no opinion
as retarded as it is the so-called
retarded folks with IQ’s less than 70
in my liFe who helped me realize the
most important of intelligences in
Emotional and physical
way that i was missing
as i simply wasn’t
using those
intelligences
and my friends
with less than stellar
IQ.. including the Athletes
and drama queens in school
and still play now.. were miles away
from me in the other stellar intelligence
in Emotional and Physical way that makes
liFe balanced as whole AND FucKinG Worth Living
iN SUPER EPIC WAY.. HEY HEY.. I BELIEVE ‘CAUSE
WHAT I BELIEVE IN IS FucKinG real and empirically
assessed
as bottom
line HAPPY..
ECSTATICALLY
HAPPY WITH ART
IN SMART.. MY FRienD
pennywoodfall and give yOUr
daughter a SMiLe from me too..
’cause in this world sHe WiLL dam
sure need all the SMiLes that can
and WiLL come to get heR
through to the
end WiTh
the last
Smile of the
Love she gave that
makes the whole FucKinG
shooting match a beach
instead
of
BitCH..
yeah.. my FriEnd..
LiFE’s a BEach
once we find more
oF iT and use iT
instead
oF
LoSinG iT
while heRe..
sure the heaven
now metaphor IS
ra EL as IS re ALL
when one liVes tHeir
more FULLY NOW JUST NOW..
BUT HA! try to explain that to
someone who is owned by
other
words..
than a tree
oF LiFE REAL..
as trust me tHeir
is no maGiC greater
than magic with a K..
and sure i lEarned that
iN pArt form the ‘Wickedest
Man of the World2’ iN
sexual
intelligence
too.. but the real
deal too.. iN the
science of lust and Love
i N B A L A N C e N o W..
bottom line..
HUMAN
NATURE
FORCE
UNLEASHED
RELEASED AS REAL
WiTH NATURE ALL AKA GOD..
iN
wE..
wITh
Thanks my
friEnd for the
after Thursday
night dance inspiration
in way of Word press
N o T i F i C a T i oN..;)
Hahaha…. 😉
I won’t charge you…grin
Hehe..
You already
Did in terms
Of
Inspiring
Energy.. As
My hands
Are really
Conductors
Of Force
In Pose
As
Such
Too.. alWays
Ready for the
Next charge
My dear
Lady..
With
Thanks
AGaiN..;)
Your energy makes me *grin* bouncing/buzzing/reverberating molecules inside/ outside the
cosmos…pinging/zapping/colliding across the universe! Thank You.
😉
!..!..:)..:;!
Super Sessions
God that’s a good one
Johnny Otis or his son
Bury my body Lord
Just dropped by to say hello
Good to see ya… Yeah, I was glad when another friend mentioned it, so I could put it in…
I also dropped by to like one of your poems today, to let you know I’m still around…. It was a good one, too…. I particularly liked the graphic, which was a perfect fit with the title, also excellent metaphor…
See ya.
gigoid