Ffolkes,
“We’re all in this together — by ourselves.”
~~ Lily Tomlin ~~
Sunset near the Orkney Isles, off the coast of Scotland….
The elements of today’s Pearl have been in place for a couple of days, but, sadly, the consistency I once had in posting seems to be no longer part of my skill set. SIGH…. Ah, well, he said, again…. So be it. Some of it’s a bit strange, but, that’s not particularly odd for around here; in fact it might be said ALL of what I do these days has the flavor of strange. But, that’s just who I am, I suppose, & we’ll all just deal with it as we do, however that may be. Me, I’m not even going to make any attempt to either justify, or excuse it, as neither approach offers much chance of flying….
Since rational explanations are not forthcoming, and I have experienced the usual lack of purpose or direction in composing an introduction, it’s probably best for me to just go post it, as best I can, & be done with it. All one can do, is, after all, all one can do. So, enjoy today’s mess, if you will, & I’ll see y’all in the closing section for a final word. For now…..
Shall we Pearl?
“Belief gets in the way of learning.”
~~ Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love” ~~
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Gordon Lightfoot
Image from Wikipedia via Google Images….
Today’s musical selection is one of the greatest & most iconic folk singer/songwriter of my time, a man whose music has inspired everyone who ever heard his smooth, intimate, & melodic songs, including most of his fellow artists. I’ve included a video with his album of best hits which gives an idea of the breadth of his work, as well as a video of a live concert from last year. I hope you enjoy his music as have millions of people across the world for more than 50 years…. Abondanza!….
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Early Observations
Until I knew there was more,
I wanted to know God.
They said he was a nice guy,
and would let me live forever.
All I had to do, they said,
was live my life for Him,
always living by scripture
cleaving only to his Way.
But, everyone I saw in church,
acted different at home.
Living wild, cussin’ and fussin’,
nobody lived like they said.
Still, I tried to be like Jesus,
he was sort of cool.
He never hurt nobody
and walked on the right path.
‘Course they killed him for that,
they couldn’t stand his example.
Turned him into a martyr,
hid his real words among their own.
Then I found the Buddha,
and met Lao Tzu at the gate.
They saw things real different,
showed me how to see straight.
Right thought, and right action
replace blind obedience and faith.
Reality becomes manageable,
fear retreats, the universe expands.
Brother John said it pretty well,
“Imagine there’s no heaven,
it’s easy if you try.”
Sounds like he knew why.
Day to day, life is grand,
we walk in eternal beauty.
Open your eyes and hearts,
find yourself already immortal.
~~ gigoid ~~
6/21/2014
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Naked Pearls
Purely Random Notes….
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“.. I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE
as a COMPLETE STRANGER?”
~~ Zippy the Pinhead ~~
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“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy;
he could go there with his eyes shut.”
~~ Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD), “Bion, iii” ~~
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“Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”
~~ John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, Book viii, Line 383 ~~
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“If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.”
~~ Senegalese proverb ~~
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“In the dark time will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing about the dark time.”
~~ Bertold Brecht ~~
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“I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”
~~ William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” ~~
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“Don’t ask me where I’m going,
Just listen when I’m gone
And far away you’ll hear me singing softly to the dawn”
~~ Pippin ~~
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Once more, I’ve managed to spew out enough to soothe my angst, for now. I shall do so again in the relatively near future, of that you may rest assured. Well, perhaps the thought of it isn’t all that reassuring, but, there ’tis…. and, as I noted in the intro, all one can do is all one can do. Since that is exactly what I’ve done, I’m outta here for today. Y’all be well, & happy as you may be; staying strange is also recommended, especially for those of us to whom it is more than merely a state of mind. For some of us, it’s damn necessary…. See ya, ffolkes…..
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 
Cheers to you gigoid 😀
Cheers back at ya, mega…. Hope your new year’s going well… 🙂
Good Evening Still over Here in Florida gigoid as i am Fixing to Break through
to the other Side of Morning on 1.19.19 for an Equal Span of Dates from 7.19.13
in 66 Months Since Around the Ending of the third Week in January of 2008 where that
Part of 66 Months out of 132 Months other wise known and felt and sensed as 11 Years
Total With the First Part in 66 Months As Eternally Hell No Feelings Numb Then Like the
‘Planet of the Apes’
‘Dead
Zone’
but even
worse as i could
Not Connect to any
FlesH.. And Blood
Human Beings with
All the Pain and Numb
of 19 Medical Disorders
As the Human Presence actually
Hurt my Nerves in Extreme Ways from
Head to toe if a Dentist Drill in my Right Eye and
Ear Pain wasn’t consolation enough in Hell with the Loss
of the
Rest of
Humanity
for me
even
in my
own Home
but as close to a
Human Being i got to
Was Arthur the Brown Tabby
when i first realized as i pet him
i felt nothing inside and the darkness
within me then was enough for him to
Pull His Ears Back as i got close to him
with my Hand the Vacuum the Black Hole
of my Soul so real as empty then.. so then
i rushed over to my Sister’s Home to See if
i would feel anything from Her Sweet Cat and
Nothing for i did not
understood
this was
Possible
until then
but i do recollect
A similar emptiness
in my College Years of
Depression too.. vaguely
as the empty place leaves
Few to no Memories Thank Nature
too True unless one is in the BLacKeST
of Abyss within as Human Soul for True
OuR UNiVeRSE Begins and Ends within
for this This Shell will become an empty Hell
that no
one else
will come
close to Understand
but the Person whose
UniVerse becomes the
Vacuum of Spirit Heart And Soul
Anyway if it sounds like even ‘Normal’
Life is Heaven to me Hell Yes it is compared
to the other place even without the fringe benefits
associated with Nirvana Bliss and Satori Kundalini
Rising all just metaphors for a Zen Flow otherwise known
in Science terms as Transient Hypo-Frontality that is possible
to obtain even in a Peaceful Nature Walk of Natural Complexity
Effortless as Dream Time Comes alive out of the Illusions of Time
Distance and Space of the Neo-Cortex as True as Neuro-Science these
Days shows we Basically Hallucinate our Realities as We Go and with proper
Bio-Feedback the Relative Free Will in Potential is truly amazing as some Folks
Are Able to Generate THeir Own Feel Good Neurochemicals and Neurohormones
Through a
Bio-Feed-
Back Mind and
Body Balancing HacK iN
Regulation.. of Emotions
And Integration of Senses
As With Enough Practice that
is Effective and Works through some
Kind of Still or Moving Mediation Viola
All The Metaphors for the FLoW iN ZonE
oF HeaVeN Fearless Loving it all Unconditionally
comes into Inner UNiMulTiVerse View so Complete
Continuing Colors Even More Beyond the Rainbow of Bliss
Sure..
Easier
Said
Than Done
As Truly the
Practice the
Art of obtaining
This feeling and sensual
Free Way of Being is a matter
of Precisely that a Bio-Feedback
of Feelings and Senses We LEarn to
Practice Control and Master even more
All
in
All
As ‘they’
Say Kingdom
of Heaven Real Within
And for those who don’t think
it’s real that first step of never getting
to the Place of Heaven within now.. strangely
enough some folks believe whatever they are told
And through the Strangest of Beliefs come to See Death as
Heaven
more than
the Potential
of that Now
Within
True this Vampire
Zombie..Now
way they shoot
themselves in THeir
Heart and Spirit and
Soul now never realizing
they are even holding a Gun to THeir
Soul Now as BorroWeD From Cultural
Tools of Prison Now even more through
Many Religions Particularly too.. ugh
to take
Cultural
the Spoon
without even
a Teaspoon
Potential
of Real Heaven Now..
can’t drag a Horse to Make ’em
Drink The Water but it’s possible
that ‘they’ may See Heaven as the Essence
of Dance and Song More DePeNDinG HoW
SenSiTiVE
They are
to THeiR
iNNeR
STaR Emitting
LiGHTS oR DaRK MoRE NoW
Anyway Heaven IS A Mighty Fine Place
Within but it must always be practiced even
more
to
continue
to Exist
as Real Within..
For Whatever the
Individual Way A Person
Will Catch a Cloud and Float
Effortlessly As the Planets Orbit Sun…:)
“We’re all in this together — by ourselves.”
~~ Lily Tomlin ~~
But Every Thing
is Better With A Woman.
“Belief gets in the way of learning.”
~~ Robert Heinlein, “Time Enough for Love” ~~
Don’t Care When i’m in Love With Women
“.. I wonder if I ought to tell them about my PREVIOUS LIFE
as a COMPLETE STRANGER?”
~~ Zippy the Pinhead ~~
Yes the Dead Zone
“Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy;
he could go there with his eyes shut.”
~~ Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD), “Bion, iii” ~~
When THere is no Choice but Not to See in Pain and Numb.
“Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”
~~ John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, Book viii, Line 383 ~~
Lucifer Why Not Don’t Be Cynical oF LiGHT or Fear The DArk…
“If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
If you don’t wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.”
~~ Senegalese proverb ~~
DoLoVENoW
“In the dark time will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing about the dark time.”
~~ Bertold Brecht ~~
For Those Who Wish
For Absolute nothingness
they
ain’t
been
to
Hell
yet…
“I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”
~~ William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” ~~
As Emerald Waters Sea Oats Sugar White Sand
Sea Gulls Spiraling Sun In Salt Water Ocean Breeze
With Bikinis Roaming Beaches IT iS No Wonder that
in
Deserts
no one
Understands
Go IS A Woman…
And the Woman is Beach
“Don’t ask me where I’m going,
Just listen when I’m gone
And far away you’ll hear me singing softly to the dawn”
~~ Pippin ~~
Of Siren
Songs
but i am
Not Afraid of Women..
Additional ‘Secrets’ to Life Happiness..
Marry A Woman Who Loves Women too…
So Much
More Joy
Sharing this
Way As Long
NoW as no one’s
Feelings are Harmed….
And no one is Afraid of Women..
Celibacy is a Plus too as there is
No messiness too.. heHe as Options come more..;)