Ffolkes,
“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”
~~EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow ~~
~~ “Cynthia Horner’s Eulogy”, Apr. 1994 ~~
Signs of autumn….
Hajime…. Though it is true that hope springs eternal, it is also true that Murphy lies in wait. I’d hoped, when I sat this morning to begin, there would be time, and wherewithal, to put together an entire, modern Pearl, as seen here a mere two months ago. However, SB decided to go wonky on me, which slowed down the pearling process from the get-go. Then, I tried to find enough angst to rant, and was both pleased and dismayed to find none. That, ffolkes, is a first, and positive evidence of Murphy’s intransigent sense of humor. Hmph….
Since the original intent is now irrelevant, I suppose I’ll just do what I can to put together a good, solid, old-school pearl for your perusal, and call it a day. Hey, it’s a Sunday; I can pretend I’m taking a day off. Of course, I’ve already pulled the covers on that, but, what do you think? Is it worth a shot? In today’s world, truth doesn’t seem to possess much value, in terms of getting what one wants; fulfilling one’s desires seems to be our cultural goal as humans, seems to me.
Since I’m fully in the grasp of the wisdom of Epictetus today, I’ll forgo joining the cultural parade, by NOT lying to get what I want. Instead, I’ll merely observe how to obtain the ultimate human goals, to wit:
Sounds like good advice. How about we follow it, & get on with the rest of today’s mess? I think that’s fine idea, and so do you….
Shall we pearl?….
“The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.”
~~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~~
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Naked Pearls
Koans on parade….
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“I stared into the abyss. The abyss stared into me.
Neither of us liked what we saw.”
~~ Zen Bee ~~
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“What is reason?
Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.”
~~ Edward Abbey ~~
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“We cannot unthink unless we are insane.”
~~ Arthur Koestler ~~
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“Life without the courage for death is slavery.”
~~ Seneca ~~
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“Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.”
~~ Spinoza ~~
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~~
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“If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.”
~~ Gensha, Zen Master ~~
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I’d say that is just about as done as it can be. Given my position as the blog’s author and administrator, that means, hey, it’s done. How ’bout that, eh? I think, at this point, it would be best to take our leave, before anything untoward can take place. I will offer the standard caveat, to wit: I’ll be back, so, stay alert. As they say, mindful is good…. Well, they say it around here, anyway…. See y’all tomorrow, ffolkes. Can’t seem to find a valid reason to stay away….
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.
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“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
“Happiness and freedom begin with a
clear understanding of one principle.
Some things are within your control.
And some things are not.”
Hmm.. this can be a slippery slope
to hell too.. at least
now for this can
be religion to
and even
science2..
that suggests
that words are in
control of what was
said before.. for instance..
the insistence that human beings
get weaker after 30.. based on averages
of a Sedentary Society.. that basically
sit on their ass most of the day.. the
cat who with agility jumps to
the kitchen counter top
at age 20.. does so
’cause they keep
moving at least outside
inside through the course of
life.. the cat that sits down
and only stands
to eat..
often
ends up never
reaching the counter
again.. before the age of 10..
there is no way i could have leg pressed
close to half a ton by age 21.. as it took me
close to 34 years more to get that strong.. where
as.. i once heard a Marine Captain strain to Bench
Press 200LBs whining.. oh my God i’m 30.. this is
getting so hard.. and it’s true.. fear and negative attitudes
makes one weaker.. hope and positive attitudes makes one stronger..
Relative Human Free Will practiced as positive will makes the difference..
as i started out the weakest
in gym class and
ended up
the
strongest
in much older age..
i can empirically prove this
pARt.. the otHer pARts are more
like mAGic hehe.. in all of human potential reAlized
as rEAl as real can
be..
in what
we feel
and sense
of potential
heaven beyond bliss..
but sure the other side of
the coin is equally valid.. i care
not to control the politics of human
nature.. as Nature is beyond my control
of otHeRs
@
lEast..
As JanusuanJ speaks..;)
“The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.”
~~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~~
Emotions that sing
make action happen..
Prayers that sing now
make action happen..
Hands move strongest
now when powered
by emotional thOughts..
Prayers can be thouGhts
that drive positive emoTioNs
and drive positive hands for action..
True.. sometimes at least the means
for the action of positive hands can be prayer..
Placebo
effect works..
bottom line of science..
Before every Half a ton.. 33 reps
of leg press.. i meditate
a moving prayer
of focus and
energy/FORCE..
Prayers without
words are often
the most powerful
prayers of all in extreme
positivity and focus from
head to toe in feelings and senses..
revving up all the biochemical reactions
required for Go Team Go Go Team Go..
every Cheerleader is a Prayer leader
too.. in Go Team Go.. it works
in terms of
biochemistry
too.. when science
and art speak to each
oTher instead of ignore..
Ra team light RA.. go team liGht GO!..:)
“I stared into the abyss. The abyss stared into me.
Neither of us liked what we saw.”
~~ Zen Bee ~~
Now this is interesting.. the goal of Zen
is flow in the moment.. and while
it might not seem that flow
in the moment has a
named emotion..
it moves
us to do
more so it is
emotion.. now
on the ‘othHeR’ hand..
tHeRe is another place of
the dARk niGht of the SoUl..
a place that no one in tHeir
‘sane’ miNd would wanna go..
in that place due to disorder of
some type.. tHere is no sensations
or feelings at all.. per se2.. a numb beyond
the word numb.. but even in this place..
lost is
an
emotion
too.. beyond
words of numb
as well.. there is
no nothingness in sentience
either heaven or hell.. all that
moves.. even the smallest sub particle
of energy is EmoTioN in some sMaLL
or ironically largest way oF ALL too.. Words
are limited.. FeeLinGS and SeNSEs are
never limited
by
words
alone..
Existence moves..
E moTes more noW..
even so-called non-
sentient existence2..
Bottom line.. REaliTy DaNces iS MoVinG
and all that moves SinGS too.. as vibraTioNs2..:)
“What is reason?
Knowledge informed by sympathy,
intelligence in the arms of love.”
~~ Edward Abbey ~~
But wait! there is also
Cognitive Empathy..
that even psychopaths
can learn with due practice
and experience of life.. and then
there is also sympathy informed by
knowledge in a well rounded
individual
human
being too..
by reason of heart
and heart of reason..:)
“We cannot unthink unless we are insane.”
~~ Arthur Koestler ~~
Says the non-Zen bee..
LoSinG one’s miNd
as far as
words
go..
iS A
Beach with
Waves that SinG
with no words..@ALL..
without words ALL exists..
perhaps the most insane thing
that human beings ever did was
create written words.. to serve..
to master
words
as slave
of Emotions
and Senses
TrUe and liGht
iS to SinG and DancE
free of worry and fright..
and dArk iN liGht..liFE..:)
“Not to laugh, not to lament,
not to curse, but to understand.”
~~ Spinoza ~~
The empty song of A
scientist who forgets to live..
And of course.. the converse
can be to
get
Lost..
LiVe and
FiNd TrUth and liGht..
i’LL do both for one@lEAst..:)
“Life without the courage
for death is slavery.”
~~ Seneca ~~
There are experiences
of life worse than death..
it’s simple..
death
IS A gift
more than curse
for those who live
long
enough..
but nah..
more often a person who is
dead in life looks forward to death..
others avoid death with due caution as
liFe
is worth
living iN Balance…
The other day when i
told a dude in the bar
i didn’t need drugs to dance
solo and fun.. ’cause i was fearless..
he said okay.. jump of the bay bridge..
and i said
‘stupid’
isn’t
in my
definition
of fearless..
there are many
‘stupid’ fearless folks
out there who are controlled
by androgens over intellect..
live by ‘stupid’.. die by ‘stupid’..
fearless
too..
fearless smARt
WiTh LoVe iS wheRE i go2..
as smart without art
is science
without
live2.. to me@lEAst2..:)
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret;
it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~~
Caution.. or better yet warning..
This is how humans are
controlled
by
wrong
through emotions..
through religions that
control by the threat of loss
of heart by being outcast from
the social group if all is not taken
literally as worshipped as idol of words..
ReaSon and heArt.. Yang and Yin..
do the balance
or get
all
FucKeD uP
by the big social group..;)
“If you understand, things are as they are.
If you do not understand, things are as they are.”
~~ Gensha, Zen Master ~~
Aha! and now the converse
of heart over reason
comes with
reason
over
emotions
and senses..
once again balance..
and back to the science
of the systemizing mind without
heARt.. the heARt says i can leg
press a half a ton 33 times.. and over
time the heARt is a driving force that
made the physiology do what it does now..
science says
i could
never
recover from
a synergy of 19
life threatening illnesses..
and science says that all of these
words are a disorder named hypergraphia..
some folks believe all of what science
says
and
die..
other go
on and live life F in epic..
with the same real conditions of life..
HeARt is the dRiving force of the hiGhest
power of Human being gifted by God also known
as Nature.. the material reductionism of the
systemizing mind.. also known
as the science
of the hUman
miNd
scribes
the bones
of God aka Nature..
but the essence is
what we feel and sense
all the nows of liFE wHere
a cloud can be a work of art..
or the
depressing
feeling that
makes you
wanna
die
wRite
now..
A cloud is
a ray of sunshine to me..
but a death ray
as a wish
of
death
before..
As i told my FriEnd
Prajakta earlier today.. when
she said my life of dollar success
is what makes some folks happy and
my life of non-dollar success is what
makes some folks sad..
sure.. realiTY
is an ink blot.. test..
and we have a great
deal to feel and sense
of the realiTy of that..
but
hey
when you
can do it for
free.. why not.. is
what i say.. juST for FucKinG FuN..
and Good Vibrations as ‘God’ can do
as
wE
who
SinG
and
DanCe
liFe Free2
like the rest
of the FucKinG
UniVerse does juSt as iS noWs..;)
And that juSt about ’rounds
it ouT as i saved the
first
for last..;)
“But groundless hope, like unconditional love,
is the only kind worth having.”
~~EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow ~~
~~ “Cynthia Horner’s Eulogy”, Apr. 1994 ~~
God is an
ET
who
lives within..
how else could
we be happy in space..:)
And.. oh by the
way.. every
symbol
is a Koan
for those
who see
deeper than
symbols my FriEnd..
ugh.. literal sucks and
is an illusion for those
who live in concrete borders of
death
as
life.. is
what i FeeL
and SeNse @lEASt..
and
more of
course wRite
oN course for Now@LeasT..:)
*smile* It’s always a joy to read what comes out of your mind stimmed by pearls…. Keep dancin’, Fred….
Love
gigoid
With
Grace
And
Love
Sings..:)