To the conversations
We could be having
Regarding Society’s
Ills and foibles
To put it mildly
Around those
In power for the sake
Of exercising power
Against the bourgeoisie
Plus the proletariot
While most individuals
Know (of) their exploitation
Can not muster either
A defense or attack to
Eliminate the unbalance
For it only takes the one
Tiniest shiny apple * or
Hyperbolic distraction
To lose formidable focus
Of demanding divinity
Kind of exactly like
“The same way we use sports and television in this country, to distract people and take their minds off how bad they’re being fucked by the upper one percent.”
– George Carlin
Unfortunately there is
No beginning either of
The conversations
We could be having
Because the mindless
Manipulations of medias
Keep everyone screened to
Their distraction devices
When not watching sports
Drinking beer and fantasizing
About being on the team
Since, it is “their” own team
Or being trolled by bots
Surfacing at “random”
Extracting empty opinions
On topics that no one
Has any expertise about
Save ego satisfaction
It must know…..because
It can regurgitate responses
Via Pavlovian triggers
Knowing it irritates their ire
Like a doctor tapping on
A knee bone for a jerk
“That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money!
Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different–that’s what they’re gonna talk about–race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank!”
– George Carlin
“Humanity” is not very pretty
When it sees itself
In a collective mirror.”
– Angelo Devlin
*
“All That You Have Is Your Soul”
“Oh my mama told me
‘Cause she say she learned the hard way
Say she wanna spare the children
She say don’t give or sell your soul away
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
Don’t be tempted by the shiny apple
Don’t you eat of a bitter fruit
Hunger only for a taste of justice
Hunger only for a world of truth
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
//
I thought that I could find a way
To beat the system
To make a deal and have no debts to pay
I’d take it all take it all I’d run away
Me for myself first class and first rate
But all that you have is your soul
Here I am waiting for a better day
A second chance
A little luck to come my way
A hope to dream a hope that I can sleep again
And wake in the world with a clear conscience and clean hands
‘Cause all that you have is your soul
All that you have
All that you have
All that you have Is your soul”
– Tracy Chapman
Has proof
Similar to sun-worship *
Unlike others
Which only has
Belief as proof
The belief comes
From two sources
The Bible and any
And all dictionaries
First
John 1 : 1
“In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Second
God 1 : the supreme or ultimate reality:
Word 7: the expressed or manifested mind and will of God
– m-w.com
No words, no existence, nothing supreme, no reality
I can do all things through
Word(s) that strengthen(s) me
Depending on content and
Meaning through context
Intent mixed with passion
Or apathy with indifference
Word also has all the verifiable
Substance of the invisible wind
I just broke that is permeating
The surrounding ether afoul of
The rest of the air all are breathing
You can not see it
But….you know it is / was there
“Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers.
Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”
― Henri Bergson
Unbeknownst to everyone else
They share in the same faith
That Word and any and all words
Conjure up images of each deity
Plus their play book that they follow
Loosely, fundamentally or not at all
Depending on mood and circumstances
Like my favorite commandment
“Thou shalt not kill”. ……… Which,
Observed by the major religions
Really, all depends on who or what
Is being killed by whom or what for
Pick your justification and have a party
We are all collectively responsible for
“Blood On The World’s Hands” – Iron Maiden
Because even if one lifts a finger against killing
Circumstantially supports it via taxes or lunch
Breakfast, dinner, abortion, and the death penalty
There goes God
In all of Word’s glory
For without Word
Or words, there
Would be no God(s)
Also, there would be no killing….because
There’d be “Nothing to kill or die for” – John Lennon
Try learning a lesson
Or absorb teachings
From any of the
Masters of Wisdom
Without words
To read or hear
“Their” words
*
“And immediately, I thought of the sun (Word). Happened like that. Overnight I became a sun-(Word) worshipper. Well, not overnight, you can’t see the sun (Word) ** at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-(Word) worshipper.
Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, (Word) okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun(Word). I’m big on that. If I can see something, I don’t know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know?
So everyday I can see the sun (Words), as it gives me everything I need; heat, light, food, flowers in the park, reflections on the lake, an occasional skin cancer, but hey.
At least there are no crucifixions, and we’re not setting people on fire simply because they don’t agree with us.
Sun (Word) worship is fairly simple. There’s no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don’t have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing.
And the best thing about the sun (Word), it never tells me I’m unworthy. Doesn’t tell me I’m a bad person who needs to be saved.
(Word) Hasn’t said an unkind word. Treats me fine. So, I worship the sun (Word). But, I don’t pray to the sun (Word). Know why? I wouldn’t presume on our friendship. It’s not polite.”
(Especially since, occasionally words are my only friends)
– George Carlin
**
The last big question to
Challenge my belief in God is
Where do all the Word(‘s) go
When one is asleep?
“I never wish to be right,
Only to be understood,
If you have questioned
Your beliefs. Then maybe
I have done some good. “
– Angelo Devlin
In a closed finite system
That could have ever had
A beginning begetter or
An impossible ending end
We are living in an infinite
Open endless possibility
Where everything imaginable
Is at our feeling fingertips
The base of our beating heart
The vision of our mind & eyes
The creativity of consciousness
To experience free freedom
Unlike the enslaved freedom
One is told / sold, that one
Can purchase with one’s soul
Being chained to consumption
Via the illusion of choices *
To keep up with the Joneses
Induce ideologies of idle idols
Or bound to bupkus beliefs
Based on rumors and hearsay
Eons of erroneous information
Revised and refined by Rulers
Cleverly crafted by kleptocratic kings
Into barely believable book versions
Vehemently vague and varied
Distracted daily by distractions
Dining on distasteful disinformation
Playing ping-pong with politics
Packed with putrid partisanship
Pretending war and death are
Necessary as a means to an
Alleged exhaustive never ends
That erodes our evolution of
Being enlightened beings
When instead knowing……
“I’m a stranger in my own house
I’ve got the keys to the door
But I’m still locked out
I’m a stranger in my own house
I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow this house down
Can’t be a stranger in my own house
//
I’ve got no excuse, I should have known
I’ve got a place to live but I never feel at home
I’m just a stranger in my own house
I’ve got the keys to the door
But I’m still locked out
Stranger in my own house
I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow this house down
Can’t be a stranger in my own house
//
I’m just a stranger in my own house
I’m just a stranger in my own house, “
Excerpts from “A Stranger In My Own House”
– Foreigner
When not living my….
“Wildest Dreams”
“I’m gonna organize
some changes in my life
I’m gonna exorcise
the demons of my past
I’m gonna take the car and
hit the open road
I’m feeling ready to
just open up and go
And I just feel I can be anything
That all I might ever wish to be
And fantasize just what I want to be
Make my wildest dreams come true
I’m on my way
Out on my own again
I’m on my way
Out on the road again
When I remember back to
how that things just used to be
And I was stuck inside
a shroud of misery
I felt I’d disappeared
so deep inside myself
I couldn’t find a way
to break away my hell
When I’m feeling down and low
I vow I’ll never be the same again
I just remember what I am
And visualize just what I’m gonna be
I’m on my way
Out on my own again
I’m on my way
Out on the road again
I’m on my way
Out on my own again
I’m on my way
I’m gonna breakaway. “
– Iron Maiden
If only to suggest proof that
We are not living our own reality
Rather one that has been
Programmed to control
Our actions via reactions with
Controversy not for its own sake
But as a detour from our divinity
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
*
“They say freedom of choice. You’re given an illusion of choice.
Americans are meant to feel free by the exercise of meaningless choices. Do you know what the choices are in this country? -paper or plastic.
You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities, they’re on the same boards of directors, they’re in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don’t need to call a meeting, they know what’s good for them and they’re getting it.
There used to be 7 oil companies there are now 3 it will soon be 2.
The things that matter in this county have been reduced in choice. There are 2 political parties, there are a handful of insurance companies, there are about 6 or 7 information sources, but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors because you have the illusion, you have the illusion of choice.”
– George Carlin
A catastrophizing mindset
Hyperbolizing projections
Of an imagination gone wild
Satiating smug satisfaction
That ego thinks it knows more
Then, the reality confirmed
Through reasonable sources
With objective realities shared
Amongst bipedal earthling artists
Having an ethereal connection to a
Reality of love, laughter, and truth
So as to turn the tide against
Fear, hate, doubt, and suspicion with
Bravery, love, confidence, and certainty
Which will be extremely useful in
Tamping down a catastrophizing mindset
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Reality is defined
Is in the dictionary
Reality
1 : the quality or state of being real
Fantastic
Now, what is “real”
Real
1a : having objective independent existence
Great, what is objective independent existence ?
Objective
1 a : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations
Independent
1 (a) 1 : not subject to control by others
Existence
1 a : the state or fact of having being especially independently of human consciousness and as contrasted with nonexistence
Definitions from m-w.com
And yet, “reality” does not exist without a consciousness, human or otherwise, to manufacture reality to be perceived simultaneously, objectively, and subjectively.
Still, if one lives within those parameters in a solipsistic perception, then all bets are off.
Making reality what you make it, since you are solely soul-ly in absolute control of the reality experienced. Good, bad, orgasmic, or indifference. Willfully turning stored energy into kinetic energy.
Doubt and belief then ought to be considered both sides of the same coin. Constantly flipping reality at any, and at all time to question when it temporarily lands as to best understand where it is in each moment, its quality or state of being real.
“Reality is how we swim, not how we win.”
– John trudell
By my own last
Smug blog post
Thinking that I
Was separate from
My own reality, the
Prince of perception
King of consciousness
Master of my mind
Then it dawned on me
Like the morning sun
I, too, believe things
That may not be true
But go on as if they are
Regurgitating them to
Myself, as if they are real
Factual not false like
They are my shining star
Which is arrogant
Down to its core
Reminding me that
I have to question
So much more
“Reality can not be
Properly checked
In an echo chamber.”
– Angelo Devlin
If you believe
Someone is lying
About their truth
But have no proof
Then that belief
May or may not be
A lie to one’s self
And no one besides
Who is believing
What their mind
Wants to believe
Or does not want to
Yet, in fact
When or since
There is no
Proof of a lie
Then belief usually
Overrides truth
Regardless if it is
Truth, or is not
Making a belief
An unintended
Hierarchy or authority
Over objective reality
Perhaps then
Make believe it is true
Is more of
A command
Than an idiom
“Now, believe is a word that I have a serious problem with, right, because it has a “Lie” in the middle.
“DNA” Descendant Now Ancestor
– John Trudell
“I never wish to be right,
Only to be understood,
If you have questioned
Your beliefs. Then maybe
I have done some good. “
– Angelo Devlin
If the alleged left
Wants to truly win
(First, what people
Fail to realize is that
The left and right wing
Belong to the same bird)
The first thing they need to do
Is stop mentioning
What’s his name’s name
Like it disappeared
From their vocabulary
Some temporary profits
Will be at stake, briefly
But the incursion of
An elevated humanity
Methinks would be
Worth the cost
Along with a revisit
To a calmer sanity
Where we can all regroup
Catch our collective breath
Make peace with our self’s, then
Make peace with our other selves
Which is us anyway
Set up as reflective mirrors
So we can understand us better
By seeing who we really are
In how we behave and react
To someone who doesn’t look like us
Believe the same things we do
Who is in a different economic situation
But still is inseparable from who we are
That would also like to win by
Participating in the calculated gamble
“Reality can not be
Properly checked
In an echo chamber.”
– Angelo Devlin
At cherry picking
Morally acceptable
Forms of death
War? Always
All ways, except with
Nuclear weapons
Way too much
Collateral damage
Bordering on
Instantaneous genocide
Plus, it ruins the real estate
When trying to steal resources
What is perfectly acceptable
Are bombs, drones
Missiles, guns
Bullets, gas chambers
Hanging and drowning
(Which is God’s favorite)
Automatic weapons
Incendiary devices
(AKA Flamethrower)
“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves,”
“You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
– George Carlin
As long as * “we” ourselves don’t “kill” anyone
* (we, though, it is US, paid for by US tax dollars)
Stubbornly and Ignorantly hypocritical
By celebrating those willing to do the dirty work
Like post natal out of the womb abortion doctors
On “foreign” soil, even though all “soil” is connected
Throughout the little blue dot floating through the cosmos
Extracting fully formed fetuses in fatigues
Conveniently clothed in camouflage covers
(Typically men, dressing up as cos-play toy soldiers
Living out their combat fantasies of being heroes)
(That, or just doing their job, so they get special parking
Since they are now veterans with participation trophies
Near home improvement centers, restaurants
Grocery stores, or handicapped parking……..everywhere)
Save the exception of a flag patch on the arm
As an identifier of who not to shoot or not to……abort
Because “those” fruition fetuses are on “our” side
Even though some come from the places we attack
“Who am I performing for? Who are these Americans?
“I started reading the last names and I saw black and I saw Svenson and I saw Doyle and I saw McKelly and I saw Schwartzeir and I saw Ronaldo and I saw Belini, I saw Popadopolis, I saw Chaka, I saw Westhoffer, I saw Whakinsky, I saw Bean, I saw Lee, I saw Chang, I saw Yomato, I saw Makombo, I saw Ahmed, I saw Hernandez and I looked up, at these Americans of every race, color, religion imaginable and it hit me at that very moment.”
“Do you people realize that America is the only country in the world, that when we go to war, our troops, literally have to wear uniforms, cause no matter who we are fighting, (AKA killing) we have people on our team, that look like them.”
– Carlos Mencia
Justification seems to be the key factor
In the arbitration of who ends up on
The unlikely snake eyes roll of the dice
For an early grave or… medical incinerator
Ooopsie!
Forming fetuses in a fetus factory get an
Automatic stay of execution after 6 weeks
Or as Stanhope so eloquently puts it
“I’m against abortion, except like in cases of rape.”
That’s like saying, “Yes, a fetus is a human being,
….. unless his dad is an asshole.”
– Doug Stanhope
If that were the case, some abortions would be mandatory.
“So, at best, the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which forms of life we feel are sacred, and we get to kill the rest.
Pretty neat deal, huh? You know how we got it? We made the whole fucking thing up!
Made it up, the same way we made up the death penalty. We made them both up, the sanctity of life and the death penalty.
Aren’t we versatile?!”
– George Carlin
There is another arbitrary vague selection….
The “Death” “Penalty”, giving the go ahead
Of who dies based on their behavior or
Confession or coerced confession
Circumstantial or manufactured “evidence”
Usually chosen by a group of people
Flipping coins on the muddled moral
Malleability deciding guilt, sanity or
Mental acuity aka retardation
Some don’t have to wait to administer the death penalty
Some judge and jury hangman have qualified immunity
State employed James Bond 007 license to kill jurisdiction
By police simply stating they “saw a gun” discarding the
Alleged right “to bear arms”
“If cops, can execute you because they “saw a gun”
You do not have the right to bear arms”
– Meta meme
The other forms of death
That get special selection
Is deciding… what to eat
Dogs and cats, no way
Cows and pigs, okay
Fish and chicken touché
Horse is fine and dandy
Depending on what
Country is hungry
Frogs and lambs
But only their legs
Crabs and lobsters
Because they are ugly
Pheasant and quail
Because they are yummy
Fox, rabbits and goats
Are on the plate too
Unless they are kept in a zoo
“Ever wonder why we’re fucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
Even though……
Humans are good
At cherry picking
Morally acceptable
Forms of death
“I have special glasses
To see the contradiction
In everything.”
– Angelo Devlin
Hate over love
They only chose
One illusion over
A different illusion
To satiate their
Perception of what
Will benefit them self
The most for themselves
In a low stake gamble
That anything in their
Life will change one iota
Because that is how
Illusions work
Illusion:
1 a (2) : something that deceives or misleads intellectually
1 b (1) : perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature
– m-w.com
Since either had taken on
The characteristics of
Dumbo’s magic feather
The followers wanted to
Believe they could only fly
If they held on to the feather
The trick is to understand
One does not need the
“Magic feather” to fly
It is one’s belief
In themselves
Misprojected onto an
Anthropomorphic screen
Mouthing falsehoods and
Improbable outcomes
It is only clear to discerning ears
To realize, neither stated any
Provable outcomes of
Intended promises with
Anything but vague innuendoes
Guiding, easily led sheep
On both or either side
To fall into emotional
Traps of fear and projections
Of what may happen
Based on essentially nothing
Which ought to give rise
To choose to learn to
Love one’s self so as to
Share that and spread it around
From a place of knowing
Instead of being told / sold
How you are supposed to feel
And how your life will be
Affected by an official
Sitting in an oval office
“The phantoms
Of our imagination
Are as real as the
Beliefs in our brain”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 