A whole lot of stuff came up to distract me over the past three weeks, so I will be getting back at the helm here after we get back from Connecticut on the 20th.
Thanks
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
I'm Back
I am glad to be back at my blog. I pulled back because I had to do some real introspection about my life, and where I go from here. Retirement does that to one it seems. One day you are working, the next you are not. I realized that one of the not so subtle social aspects of retirement, or any kind of unemployment, for that matter, is that you are no longer an asset to the capitalist/corporatist system. People look at you like "why aren't you doing something?" or one of the faves of the Tea Party crowd.."Why don't you get a job?" Some guy actually asked a friend who is also retired why he wasn't being a productive member of society. My buddy, who looks ten years younger than his 65 years, looked at him and said, "I can see that society already has enough assholes, so I am in re-training." Heh heh.
So anyway I did some serious looking within, played Farmville, read all 12 of Chris Moore's novels in 6 weeks, and meditated.
I realized that I had to feel productive, so I am back at the blog.
Tomorrow I will talk about the single thing that brought me out of my funk: Three Arrows.
TF
So anyway I did some serious looking within, played Farmville, read all 12 of Chris Moore's novels in 6 weeks, and meditated.
I realized that I had to feel productive, so I am back at the blog.
Tomorrow I will talk about the single thing that brought me out of my funk: Three Arrows.
TF
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Hurry Quick! Flee! Flee!
Well, Glenn Beck has done it again, calling on Christians to flee their churches if their pastor, minister, or rabbi uses the term 'social justice'. They are to run away and turn the offending cleric into church authorities because 'social justice' is code for Communist/Nazi thinking!
Hmmmm.
Has Glenn been drinking again?
Is that great preacher of justice for the poor, and 'sending the rich away empty', Jesus of Nazareth, really a communist nazi who wants to stamp out America, and Glenn Beck's loyal sheep? If you faithfully swallow Beck's latest blatherings, he sure is.
Gee.
I have just one question.
How stupid does Beck, and the other herd of right wing radio perveracation specialists, really think the American people are?
Pretty damn stupid if one is to look at the piss poor historical/social thinking they purvey as the truth.
That is why I say they are all atheists.
Any person who believes in a just God, could not lie and stir up hatred and fear with the obvious ease, while lining their pockets, that they do. Therefore they are de facto atheists in my book. They do not believe there will ever be an accounting before God, or they believe they will somehow be exempt. I really don't think that a whining and blubbering '...but I was just an entertainer' will carry much weight with the Just Judge.
These are my thoughts for a rainy Saturday.
T
Hmmmm.
Has Glenn been drinking again?
Is that great preacher of justice for the poor, and 'sending the rich away empty', Jesus of Nazareth, really a communist nazi who wants to stamp out America, and Glenn Beck's loyal sheep? If you faithfully swallow Beck's latest blatherings, he sure is.
Gee.
I have just one question.
How stupid does Beck, and the other herd of right wing radio perveracation specialists, really think the American people are?
Pretty damn stupid if one is to look at the piss poor historical/social thinking they purvey as the truth.
That is why I say they are all atheists.
Any person who believes in a just God, could not lie and stir up hatred and fear with the obvious ease, while lining their pockets, that they do. Therefore they are de facto atheists in my book. They do not believe there will ever be an accounting before God, or they believe they will somehow be exempt. I really don't think that a whining and blubbering '...but I was just an entertainer' will carry much weight with the Just Judge.
These are my thoughts for a rainy Saturday.
T
Monday, December 28, 2009
It's Been a While...
I have finally decided to pick up my social musings and commentary again as I have pretty much gotten past the internalization of the shit that goes on. I realize that on one level i really cannot do anything about the creeping anti-intellectualism that many conceive of as the mark of a "real" American. The rampant distrust of so-called elites, fostered by the gas bags of the right, as incarnated by the ex-governor of Alaska, seems to be in the DNA of the political process in this country since the aptly named "Know Nothings" of the 19th century. I am quite sure that those who embrace this mindset run for the offices of the medical "elite" everytime they get a fart crossways, as my grandfather used to say. I mean, why not just go to Joe the Plumber, rather than those pointy-head, intellectuals with all those letters after their name, like MD or PhD or RN, you betcha.
I digress. I am going to pick this up again, and I hope it will be readable, and thought provoking. That is all I can ask.
Tim
I digress. I am going to pick this up again, and I hope it will be readable, and thought provoking. That is all I can ask.
Tim
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Changes
I guess that being sick last week, and doing some serious reflecting I am changing my focus here.
I realize that just squawking about the craziness that has infected our public life, and airways, is doing very little other than giving me headaches.
There are people who are going to believe whatever springs forth from the mouths of would-be theocrats, proto-fascists and their ilk. I also see that many regular people are beginning to tire of the right-wing circus of delusion.
That gives me some real hope, so I have decided to take a hike from the cacaphony of political 'discourse' and write about the thing I really do know the most about: living a whole and spiritual life.
My foray into the political realm, however well intentioned has left me feeling a tad grotty, so I think some purification is in order. Some oral surgery on Tuesday will help me focus I am sure.
Please check out my new blog timszenblog.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Excelsior!!!!
Tim
I realize that just squawking about the craziness that has infected our public life, and airways, is doing very little other than giving me headaches.
There are people who are going to believe whatever springs forth from the mouths of would-be theocrats, proto-fascists and their ilk. I also see that many regular people are beginning to tire of the right-wing circus of delusion.
That gives me some real hope, so I have decided to take a hike from the cacaphony of political 'discourse' and write about the thing I really do know the most about: living a whole and spiritual life.
My foray into the political realm, however well intentioned has left me feeling a tad grotty, so I think some purification is in order. Some oral surgery on Tuesday will help me focus I am sure.
Please check out my new blog timszenblog.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Excelsior!!!!
Tim
Friday, October 9, 2009
Congrats Mr. President!
I think it is a real honor, not just for the President, but for all of us and a recognition that the America that was the hope of people everywhere, is struggling back from the brink of the ossification that precedes the decline of great states.
The right wingers are beginning to go predictably bat shit. Matt Drudge whines "For What?"
I have a possible answer for the hysterics on the right. It is a simple answer, really, but it also involves something they are seemingly wholly unfamiliar with...HOPE.
The change of direction in both our diplomacy and foreign policy, speaks of a hope that maybe, just maybe, the 'Fuck everybody! Get out of the way, or we'll kick your ass,' posture adopted under George the Simple and his advisors, Cardinal Richelrove and Lord Vader, is really a thing of the past.
We still have a long way to go, but we are on that path which leads to a chance at real peaceful co-operation.
Hope is the greatest weapon in the 'war on terror' that one can wield.
That is a concept foreign to the right wingers.
Maybe Glenn Beck will cry. Last week, as he announced the failure of Chicago to win the Olympics, he was carrying on like he was in the throes of an orgasm. It will be fun to listen to the squealing and snivelling from the right.
Meanwhile, this prize belongs to the People of America as well as the POTUS. Let's be grateful to our Spirit, the Spirit of Hope.
Tim
The right wingers are beginning to go predictably bat shit. Matt Drudge whines "For What?"
I have a possible answer for the hysterics on the right. It is a simple answer, really, but it also involves something they are seemingly wholly unfamiliar with...HOPE.
The change of direction in both our diplomacy and foreign policy, speaks of a hope that maybe, just maybe, the 'Fuck everybody! Get out of the way, or we'll kick your ass,' posture adopted under George the Simple and his advisors, Cardinal Richelrove and Lord Vader, is really a thing of the past.
We still have a long way to go, but we are on that path which leads to a chance at real peaceful co-operation.
Hope is the greatest weapon in the 'war on terror' that one can wield.
That is a concept foreign to the right wingers.
Maybe Glenn Beck will cry. Last week, as he announced the failure of Chicago to win the Olympics, he was carrying on like he was in the throes of an orgasm. It will be fun to listen to the squealing and snivelling from the right.
Meanwhile, this prize belongs to the People of America as well as the POTUS. Let's be grateful to our Spirit, the Spirit of Hope.
Tim
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Random Thoughts of Hope
I see by the news that a new poll shows that many Americans' opinion of the Republicans is unfavorable, like about 69% believe that.
What this shows is that the idiocy of the 'noise machine' is finally becoming too much for most people. People do get sick and tired of the constant barrage of 'be very afraid...' one gets from the gas bags on the radio and at Faux News. People get sick of living in fear especially when the boogie man never appears. Once in a while someone will do something stupid or violent enough to get them all excited, crying "We got that right! See! See!" There is an old principle that covers that: "Even a blind pig will find a truffle once in a while." The fact that the 'conservative' moronocracy was literally cheering over the fact that America lost the 2016 Olympic venue is so snivelling as to beg comment.
It just gives one hope that the REAL Spirit of America is stirring out of the fog of inanity brought on by television 'entertainment'. People have not risked life and limb to come here because we are a corrupt and decadent society. We have our problems, sure, but Goddamn it, we have the liberty to be decadent if we choose to be, just like the religious nutzoids have the freedom to pass around live rattlesnakes, because of something in a 1900 year old fan letter, called 'gospel' by some, written by a man named Mark.
Under it all, all the bullshit of talk radio, all the fascist wet-dreams of christian theocrats, and mechanistic reductionism of the atheists, there lives a radical and powerful idea, the idea of FREEDOM. That founding priciple of the radicals that put our democracy together, will always emerge at just the right moment and devour it's enemies.
My word to all the fundamentalist theocrats is simple, really. You mouth freedom, but it is only the freedom to agree with your pathetic ideology, or suffer the consequences. That is not freedom. Freedom lies in being able to look at what you propound, and say 'fuck you!' walking away unmolested by your idea of consequences. That same freedom entitles you to damn me to your hell. I could care less. My freedom is your freedom too.
Tim
What this shows is that the idiocy of the 'noise machine' is finally becoming too much for most people. People do get sick and tired of the constant barrage of 'be very afraid...' one gets from the gas bags on the radio and at Faux News. People get sick of living in fear especially when the boogie man never appears. Once in a while someone will do something stupid or violent enough to get them all excited, crying "We got that right! See! See!" There is an old principle that covers that: "Even a blind pig will find a truffle once in a while." The fact that the 'conservative' moronocracy was literally cheering over the fact that America lost the 2016 Olympic venue is so snivelling as to beg comment.
It just gives one hope that the REAL Spirit of America is stirring out of the fog of inanity brought on by television 'entertainment'. People have not risked life and limb to come here because we are a corrupt and decadent society. We have our problems, sure, but Goddamn it, we have the liberty to be decadent if we choose to be, just like the religious nutzoids have the freedom to pass around live rattlesnakes, because of something in a 1900 year old fan letter, called 'gospel' by some, written by a man named Mark.
Under it all, all the bullshit of talk radio, all the fascist wet-dreams of christian theocrats, and mechanistic reductionism of the atheists, there lives a radical and powerful idea, the idea of FREEDOM. That founding priciple of the radicals that put our democracy together, will always emerge at just the right moment and devour it's enemies.
My word to all the fundamentalist theocrats is simple, really. You mouth freedom, but it is only the freedom to agree with your pathetic ideology, or suffer the consequences. That is not freedom. Freedom lies in being able to look at what you propound, and say 'fuck you!' walking away unmolested by your idea of consequences. That same freedom entitles you to damn me to your hell. I could care less. My freedom is your freedom too.
Tim
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