Do they really believe
"The trade of a soldier
is held the most honorable of all others; because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can."
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
Languishing Still Carcass
.
. .does anyone actually believe that Eve was
created from a rib of Adam? And if they don't believe that
story, then the whole thing is off, there is no "us" as the bible has
it. I
wonder how many would accept that? And if they still believe, what the
heck are they believing in? A belief in a belief? Or is it just
something to identify with? And what about the bears and woodchucks and
all, and all those species that don't have ribs?
"The trade of a soldier
is held the most honorable of all others; because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can."
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
Languishing Still Carcass
When I listen to most classical music what I hear, all I hear are fingers on the
keys and mouths on the reeds. But I hear no soul. That is because there
is not a black person to be seen, heard, felt in any orchestra. Well,
maybe one or two black people here or there. Until the time when there
is at least half, even a third, black people in orchestras, we will
never hear the best of that music. Until then classical music will
remain a languishing, still carcass.
That Herding Behavior
That Herding Behavior
We
are all more nature, do more of nature, than any inhuman idea. What we
do when we get hungry is we eat, what we do when we are sleepy is sleep.
And we must eat and sleep because nature demands it. And we procreate,
fulfilling the primary objective of perpetuating the species. We do
these things just as every bear, every cat, every turtle, every whatever
in nature.
Do an experiment, why don't you? The next time you pull into a parking lot where you go shopping or to a restaurant or something like that, where there are plenty of empty spaces. Find one and park away from every other car in the lot. Go in and do your shopping, or whatever it is you are doing. Give yourself a good amount of time. Now, when you come out look to see how many cars are parked close around you. Right next to you on both sides, and maybe even in front and behind you. What do you call that? That is herding behavior, isn't it.
Do an experiment, why don't you? The next time you pull into a parking lot where you go shopping or to a restaurant or something like that, where there are plenty of empty spaces. Find one and park away from every other car in the lot. Go in and do your shopping, or whatever it is you are doing. Give yourself a good amount of time. Now, when you come out look to see how many cars are parked close around you. Right next to you on both sides, and maybe even in front and behind you. What do you call that? That is herding behavior, isn't it.
Another
example are the color of the cars we drive. Take time some day and go
and stand at a busy intersection. Look to see how many silver cars,
white cars, black cars pass you by. See how few cars with colors, and
even those colors, whichever they are, are muted. What, is everyone
afraid to stand out? More herding behavior, I'd say.
************************************
"Forgive them father, for they know not what they do". And he wasn't kidding either.
***********************************
***********************************
Why is it as children we have no politics but develop into political beings over time and hold strongly to what and who we sidle up with. As strongly as a knot, we do it. As strongly as the grasp we tightly hold to in our religion. But unlike with religion, we were not as strongly politically indoctrinated, yet our hold is equally as tight, as in a death grip. What's with that?
***********************************
"The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization
from destroying itself".
Albert Camus, French Existentialist
philosopher.
************************************
Anyone who thinks there is no such thing as g-o-d, think
about this. At every single Major League Baseball game, during the 7th inning,
someone is singing, God Bless America, imploring g-o-d to bless them. Now consider,
that is 162 x 30, which equals 4,860 people singing, imploring. Then consider
that probably an average of 10,000 people per game are singing along, probably
a lot more than that, also imploring. That is a total of at least 48,600,000.
Can that many people really be wrong? Ah, yep, they can be wrong.
***********************************
In reading literature, we converse with genius.***********************************
***********************************
Why is it as children we have no politics but develop into political beings over time and hold strongly to what and who we sidle up with. As strongly as a knot, we do it. As strongly as the grasp we tightly hold to in our religion. But unlike with religion, we were not as strongly politically indoctrinated, yet our hold is equally as tight, as in a death grip. What's with that?
***********************************
If suddenly all guns were taken away, imagine how empty, how weak, how powerless all those gun toting owners, having their guns removed, would feel?
***********************************
Lest we forget, while everyone is celebrating St. Patrick's Day today, yesterday was the anniversary of the horror of the MY LAI MASSACRE, (pronounced: me lie), March 16, 1968. Some of the young people reading this will not have heard of this atrocity. Not something anyone likes to talk about. At the little village of My Lai, US soldiers machine gunned down and murdered up to 500 elderly men and women, as well as children, even infants. Those same soldiers, by the way, took time to rape and mutilate many of the women, before killing them.
Back in the states, when the trial of these US soldiers took place, no one was found guilty but a lieutenant, who was later pardoned by then president, another criminal, Richard Nixon.
***********************************
“Humans are corrupt. Nature itself is corrupt. To expect anything else is delusional. This settles my feelings. Quiets my mind. I have no expectations”.
If suddenly all guns were taken away, imagine how empty, how weak, how powerless all those gun toting owners, having their guns removed, would feel?
***********************************
Lest we forget, while everyone is celebrating St. Patrick's Day today, yesterday was the anniversary of the horror of the MY LAI MASSACRE, (pronounced: me lie), March 16, 1968. Some of the young people reading this will not have heard of this atrocity. Not something anyone likes to talk about. At the little village of My Lai, US soldiers machine gunned down and murdered up to 500 elderly men and women, as well as children, even infants. Those same soldiers, by the way, took time to rape and mutilate many of the women, before killing them.
Back in the states, when the trial of these US soldiers took place, no one was found guilty but a lieutenant, who was later pardoned by then president, another criminal, Richard Nixon.
***********************************
As long as it keeps its eyes closed to its own
history, the US and its citizenry has no right to speak of the morals and moral
behavior of others.
***********************************
Life is poetry. Just let it be poetry.
***********************************
Henry Aaron wore number 44.
He won the home run crown 4
times.
3 of the 4 times he won it with 44 home runs.
Downing was wearing number 44 when he gave up home run number 715 to Henry Aaron.
***********************************
Everyone is an atheist when it comes to any religion other
than the one he or she believes in.***********************************
“Humans are corrupt. Nature itself is corrupt. To expect anything else is delusional. This settles my feelings. Quiets my mind. I have no expectations”.
Thank you for that Jonathan Swift
***********************************
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." –George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
***********************************
"Culture in the US is having a job." Howard
Fineman.
***********************************"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." –George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
Do they really believe
. . .does anyone actually believe that Eve was
created from a rib of Adam? And if not, if they don't believe that
story, then the whole thing is off, there is no Us as the bible has it. I
wonder how many would accept that? And if they still believe, what the
heck are they believing in? A belief of a belief? Or is it just something to identify with?
***********************************
***********************************
Do people like the military so much
because they see it as bravery? And they like brave, don't they? "Home of the brave," and all that.
"And amid all the cheers, the flag waving and tears, we set off.
"They collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed.
"The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane.
"As they carried us down the gangway,
nobody cheered,
they just stood there and stared,
and they turned all their faces away."
because they see it as bravery? And they like brave, don't they? "Home of the brave," and all that.
"And amid all the cheers, the flag waving and tears, we set off.
"They collected the wounded, the crippled, the maimed.
"The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane.
"As they carried us down the gangway,
nobody cheered,
they just stood there and stared,
and they turned all their faces away."
*********************************** "The
trade of a soldier
is held the most honorable of all others; because a
soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own
species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can."
Jonathan
Swift, Gulliver's Travels.
***********************************
Languishing Still Carcass ***********************************
When I listen to most classical music what I hear, all I hear are fingers on the
keys and mouths on the reeds. But I hear no soul. That is because there
is not a black person to be seen, heard, felt in any orchestra. Well,
maybe one or two black people here or there. Until the time when there
is at least half, even a third, black people in orchestras, we will
never hear the best of that music. Until then classical music will
remain a languishing, still carcass.
That Herding Behavior
We
are all more nature, do more of nature, than any inhuman idea. What we
do when we get hungry is we eat, what we do when we are sleepy is sleep.
And we must eat and sleep because nature demands it. And we procreate,
fulfilling the primary objective of perpetuating the species. We do
these things just as every bear, every cat, every turtle, every whatever
in nature.
Do an experiment, why don't you? The next time you pull into a parking lot where you go shopping or to a restaurant or something like that, where there are plenty of empty spaces. Find one and park away from every other car in the lot. Go in and do your shopping, or whatever it is you are doing. Give yourself a good amount of time. Now, when you come out look to see how many cars are parked close around you. Right next to you on both sides, and maybe even in front and behind you. What do you call that? That is herding behavior, isn't it.
Do an experiment, why don't you? The next time you pull into a parking lot where you go shopping or to a restaurant or something like that, where there are plenty of empty spaces. Find one and park away from every other car in the lot. Go in and do your shopping, or whatever it is you are doing. Give yourself a good amount of time. Now, when you come out look to see how many cars are parked close around you. Right next to you on both sides, and maybe even in front and behind you. What do you call that? That is herding behavior, isn't it.
Another
example are the color of the cars we drive. Take time some day and go
and stand at a busy intersection. Look to see how many silver cars,
white cars, black cars pass you by. See how few cars with colors, and
even those colors, whichever they are, are muted. What, is everyone
afraid to stand out? More herding behavior, I'd say.
************************************
"Forgive them father, for they know not what they do". And he wasn't kidding either.
***********************************
In reading literature, we converse with genius.
**********************************************************************
"The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization
from destroying itself".
Albert Camus, French Existentialist
philosopher.
************************************
Anyone who thinks there is no such thing as g-o-d, think
about this. At every single Major League Baseball game, during the 7th inning,
someone is singing, God Bless America, imploring g-o-d to bless them. Now consider,
that is 162 x 30, which equals 4,860 people singing, imploring. Then consider
that probably an average of 10,000 people per game are singing along, probably
a lot more than that, also imploring. That is a total of at least 48,600,000.
Can that many people really be wrong? Ah, yep, they can be wrong.
***********************************In reading literature, we converse with genius.
Why
is it as children we have no politics but develop into political
beings over time and hold strongly to what and who we sidle up with. As
strongly as a knot, we do it. As strongly as the grasp we tightly hold
to in our religion. But unlike
with religion, we were not as strongly politically indoctrinated, yet
our hold is equally
as tight, as in a death grip. What's with that?
***********************************
If suddenly all guns were taken away, imagine how empty, how weak,
how powerless all those gun toting owners, having their guns removed, would
feel?
***********************************
Paris
changed my life. I saw there that it is possible to have beauty every waking
hour, in every place.,,hour, everywhere here in the US I see beautiful things
in nature, in a tree, a branch, the lilt of a branch,,,a landscape, a tree, a
bird or butterfly, in a flower, and occasionally I have looked at a building
and thought, wonderful, or beautiful, but I don't think I ever used the word
magnificent. In Paris I used that word over and over again. I came back
knowing, as I said, that beauty is possible one hundred percent of the time,
everywhere. For the three weeks I was there my eyes bathed in beauty. And, of
course, because my eyes were bathed in beauty, my senses were drowning in it.
After Paris I know all the way inside me, to every corner known and unknown, I
know beauty is possible. That I live in a place that little values beauty,
really, I wonder, if its people actually know beauty, well, I know it and I
know it is possible every minute, everywhere. That's enough for me, though I
should would like to walk amid that amazing and magnificent beauty again that
is Paris.
*********************************** Lest we forget, while everyone is celebrating St. Patrick's Day today, it is also the anniversary of the horror of the MY LAI MASSACRE, (pronounced: me lie), March 16, 1968. Some of the young people reading this will not have heard of this atrocity. Not something anyone likes to talk about. At the little village of My Lai, US soldiers machine gunned down and murdered up to 500 elderly men and women, as well as children, even infants. Those same soldiers, by the way, took time to rape and mutilate many of the women, before killing them.
Back in the states, when the trial of these US soldiers took place, no one was found guilty but a lieutenant, who was later pardoned by then president, another criminal, Richard Nixon.
***********************************
As long as it keeps its eyes closed to their own
history, the US and its citizenry has no right to speak of the morals and moral
behavior of others.
***********************************
Life is poetry. Just let it be poetry.
***********************************
Henry Aaron #44 Henry Aaron wore number 44.
He won the home run crown 4
times.
3 of the 4 times he won it with 44 home runs.
Downing was wearing number 44 when he gave up home run number 715 to Henry Aaron.
***********************************
Everyone is an atheist when it comes to any religion other
than the one he or she believes in.***********************************
“Humans are corrupt. Nature itself is corrupt. To expect
anything else is delusional. This settles my feelings. Quiets my mind. I have
no expectations”.
Jonathan Swift.
***********************************
***********************************
"Culture in the US is having a job." Howard
Fineman.
***********************************
"The reasonable man adapts himself
to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." –George
Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
(1903)
***********************************
Do They Really Believe That?
Do they really believe, does anyone actually believe, that Eve was
created from a rib of Adam? And if not, if they don't believe that
story, then the whole thing is off, there is no Us as the bible has it. I
wonder how many would accept that? And if they still believe, what the
heck are they believing in? A belief of a belief?
***********************************
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