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.
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Thanks!
Excelsior!!!!
Tim
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Hey, It's the Weekend...
It isn't that I have trouble thinking on weekends, it is just that for some reason, weekends are when the ghosts come calling. You know them. Maybe they are Jinn, I don't know, but these ghosts are only too happy to whisper in your ear that you've fucked up too many things in your life. Haven't we all? The thing is, these lying pieces of rat wad try to convince you that somehow one can remake the past.
Sorry, that doesn't work.
We must always work with what we have at our fingertips, and that is the here, and the now. I can replay staying in school, and getting my PhD, rather than getting married, until my nuts explode. The ghostly sibilance tells me I could have been this or that. I just think of my kids, seeing their faces in my mind's eye, not as little children, but as the cool adults they are, and that ends the ghostly chorus of "If only...." It is a major league waste of time to go over and over shit that has happened, yet people spend an inordinate amount of their lives doing just that. How the hell can we have a successful life here if we keep jerking off the past?
Weekends are also the time when I tend to tackle really tough issues, and bore into them. I am no longer looking for salvation in some sweet 'bye and bye'. That train finally chugged out of the station, wheezing and gasping like an asthmatic marathoner. I am not on it. We humans must take responsibility for what we do, and the mistakes we have made. Believing that some god took all the responsibility for me is a total cop-out. Such beliefs are still stuck back in the 'let's slaughter some livestock so God won't kill us!' era of thought. I mean, why would the omnipotent Lord of the Universe demand a blood sacrifice for the 'sins' of some kid jerking off to porn? It seems that there are one helluva lot bigger sinners that need dealing with, but due to their money, party affiliation, or the mumbling of half meant words in a box somewhere, they are off the hook! Sorry, to my way of thinking they have every bit as much explaining to do as Joey Jerkoff does when his father catches him trying to clean his load out of the TV remote with a toothpick.
I am going to go out and practice some kindness to real live people. Not to make some god happy, but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Have a good rest of your weekend.
Tim
Sorry, that doesn't work.
We must always work with what we have at our fingertips, and that is the here, and the now. I can replay staying in school, and getting my PhD, rather than getting married, until my nuts explode. The ghostly sibilance tells me I could have been this or that. I just think of my kids, seeing their faces in my mind's eye, not as little children, but as the cool adults they are, and that ends the ghostly chorus of "If only...." It is a major league waste of time to go over and over shit that has happened, yet people spend an inordinate amount of their lives doing just that. How the hell can we have a successful life here if we keep jerking off the past?
Weekends are also the time when I tend to tackle really tough issues, and bore into them. I am no longer looking for salvation in some sweet 'bye and bye'. That train finally chugged out of the station, wheezing and gasping like an asthmatic marathoner. I am not on it. We humans must take responsibility for what we do, and the mistakes we have made. Believing that some god took all the responsibility for me is a total cop-out. Such beliefs are still stuck back in the 'let's slaughter some livestock so God won't kill us!' era of thought. I mean, why would the omnipotent Lord of the Universe demand a blood sacrifice for the 'sins' of some kid jerking off to porn? It seems that there are one helluva lot bigger sinners that need dealing with, but due to their money, party affiliation, or the mumbling of half meant words in a box somewhere, they are off the hook! Sorry, to my way of thinking they have every bit as much explaining to do as Joey Jerkoff does when his father catches him trying to clean his load out of the TV remote with a toothpick.
I am going to go out and practice some kindness to real live people. Not to make some god happy, but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Have a good rest of your weekend.
Tim
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