Congratulations not in order.
Yes. I know incongruous is missing u.
incongruous
: strange because of not agreeing with what is usual or expected
natal
: of, relating to,
or present at birth; especially
: associated with one’s birth
congratulate
: the act of telling someone that you are happy because of his or her success or good luck : the act of congratulating someone
Always like to check with my friend Merriam Webster m-w.com to make sure a point has a point.
Accident of birth. Context, context, context. Three plus grandchildren later, am still trying to figure out the contrived use of the word, congratulations.
At least I have figured out why that word “bothers” me. In the context it is being used, sets off my cognitive dissonance alarm.
WOOooouht, WOOooouht, WOOooouht, Ding, Ding, Ding, wrrrrt, wrrrrt, wrrrrt. Bzzzz, Bzzzz, Bzzzz.
Either for me ( which, I had nothing to do with it ) or the parents who, to my best understanding were not trying to “succeed”, nor rolling dice.
Rolling dice, perhaps, just not at a craps table. If a seed is planted and it grows, no “luck” is involved. That is its nature.
Good luck, would be “winning” the lottery, if you didn’t play.
Strange luck, would be if a pine cone found its way on to a Mars rover before launch, and the next time another mission was sent to Mars, forests came into being, and we could now colonize.
As it is looking like soon, we may have to.
luck
: success in doing or getting something
Okay, now I get it, everyone is getting a baby, out of the deal. And, in the hands of everybody involved, will probably have a good “chance”, in a world full of chaos and disorder.
Congratulations J,L,R,K,K,S,Z,R,D,A are in order. Good Luck Ariksyn.
Middle Class Caste Catastrophe
It is unfortunate for politicians to pander to the middle class. Wouldn’t everyone in their district including the wealthy and the poor be able to benefit from some legislation?
What a blatant hierarchical position to even present to a constituent.
“Yes, once we take as much as we can for ourselves, in back room deals and privileged parlors, we will seek out ways to keep you occupied so you don’t revolt.”
Knowing full well, we are all on this spaceship planet together and collectively could put our energies together in manifesting peace and feeding everyone.
Instead of this illusionary caste system that perpetuates discord between the haves and the have nots, simply because it is easier in the short and long term.
Bound up by the ceaseless distractions of sports, tv, laws, wars, sexuality, income, race, religions, taxes, jobs, education, etc..
What a crappie characterization cast upon keenly clever constituents craftily condemning the collective into a caste corral.
A mindless manipulation of malleable mammals meant to minimize magnificence and move more towards malevolence and money.
Placating a palpable percentage of the populace to perceive their place as a perfectly plausible position that is propagated by their penchant of the powerful, pandering to pleasing people promulgated by politicians.
The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes.
The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work.
The poor are there… just to scare the shit out of the middle class.
Keep ‘em showing up at those jobs.
George Carlin
LOST DOG !!
There’s a lost dog with an odd name.
Seems almost everyone has lost this dog.
The dog’s first name is Sensiv.
Some people never had this dog.
Some people lost this dog so long ago, they forgot they had it.
Some people just lost it during the Clinton Trump presidential debates.
Please help.
The dog’s full name is Sensiv Hue Mor
If you have this dog, please use your Sensiv Hue Mor to help others find their Sensiv Hue Mor.
If you get close, it likes treats.
It’s favorite treat, you can entice it to get it closer is with a “funny bone”.
Another way to spot It, is by its peculiar walk, mostly because the tail is wagging the dog.
Might be seen packing a small tent as it is transporting a flea circus.
I cherish that dog, I hope I never lose my Sensiv Hue Mor.
Might need to keep it on a leash for a while, till it learns not to stray too far.
The above was inspired by the reaction I got to a loose lipped comment I made about how funny it would be, if Alec Baldwin was elected to play the president, so we could be assured of laughing for the next four years.
Could make a reality show out of it, and call it the Dance Band on the Titanic.
Anyway, in general I am not aware of anybody else’s politics.
For one I don’t care
two, it doesn’t matter and
three I don’t care and it doesn’t matter.
My tendency is to take people as they are based on previous dialogue and known behaviors.
If I get into the minutiae of what they believe, I have a default mechanism that would get into the details to dissect it to the point, that they wouldn’t even believe what they think they do. Then they don’t like me, because they’ve shattered the illusion of what they desperately cling to.
Which will usually rear its ugly head anyway with a few beers and a couple of shots. Sobriety is a good way to keep those demons at bay.
Here is where I was flabbergasted about regarding Alec Baldwin impersonating Donald Trump. Vaguely verbatim.
The other person said they had to turn off Saturday Night Live because (dead serious) they were only goofing on Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton, therefore it was not a fair and balanced.
Holy myopic s*** Batman did I just hear that? If comedy was fair and balanced it wouldn’t be comedy.
How could one get, possibly upset over a skit, rehearsed for 5 days where no one was harmed. On a stage, hundreds of miles away in a studio with a live audience.
It is so much more fun to sit and watch the dog and pony show when you have your Sensiv Hue Mor!!
Poor planning on your part,
does not necessitate,
emergency on mine.
However,
I’d be willing to help.
Should my time be expendable
Because your time is precious ?.
Hanging by a thread
Or perhaps a string, an
M Super String Theory
Or better yet, a
Silly String Theory
A bilocation of sorts
Knowing, yet
Being unawares
Of Einstein’s Theory *
Not only are at least
Two futures possible
But, coinciding this moment
Oddly enough, is one
Where Hillary is President
The other Donald
And yet another reality
That has no president
No roads, no borders
No jobs, no consumption
Just mind melds with the
Significant souls surrounding
Self, sharing special stories
Of how bi-pedal earth
Creatures let ego driven
Anxieties and fears get
The best of themselves
Whilst ignoring the ride on
The “little” blue green ball
Through the cosmos and beyond
And the reminder Bill Hicks
Left for us. “It’s just a ride” **
Been watching and listening to people express said anxieties of what life will be like, if the “other” candidate “wins”.
Fascinating fear, meanwhile, since the debates were in split screen, it would be great to take a quick peek down both “futures” to see if any of all that anxiety was worth it…. I doubt it.
ENJOY THE RIDE
* Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another.
Joe Rogan puts it much simpler as Einstein would have advocated.
” Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” Einstein
“Infinity is so big, that everything that has ever happened, on earth in the exact same order, down to………. that … pause has happened an infinite number of times, all through out the universe.
Everywhere in space, there is a you, making the same colossal f**king errors, that you’ve made your entire life.
So if anybody ever tells you, you can do better. Go, apparently not.
That’s infinity.”
Joe Rogan
** Bill Hicks “It’s just a ride”
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are.
The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while.
Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say,
“Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we … kill those people. “Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.” It’s just a ride.
But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok …
But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride.
And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off.
The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.
Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
Bill Hicks
Not Entirely Random Rants
Screw Scrutiny
If you don’t do anything
wrong
you can’t get caught
30k emails
If you keep your mouth
Shut
You can’t be heard
“Hot” microphone
For example, here are the thoughts I keep to myself, when I don’t want anybody to know what I’m thinking.
__________________________________________________________________________________ Period
Abandon it, abandon the
System
It is not working
Epic Fail
Our bad
Who said that
Thomas Jefferson
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
Laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
Thomas Jefferson
The most damaging phrase in the language is
“We’ve always done it this way!”
— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
No one can travel, or face
East
To enjoy a sunset
Regardless how charmingly
Convincing
The persuasions and arguments
It can be modified 9 ways to
Sunday
Still not going to affect / effect outcome.
Halo Effect, Public Persona, Perceived Power, becomes Exposed Inefficiencies, Failing the Feminine, Bigotry Bile, Crumbling Character, Narcissistic Nihilism, Sanguine Slogan Solution, Empty Empathic Emotion.
Stop Following. Be your own leader.
We want what we
Despise
And despise what we want
Money Money Money, It’d be great if “we” had excessive amounts of it, regardless the circumstances, but in the hands of “others” its Foundation Falters, Covertly Contrived, Donations Decried, Deliberately Denied, Vagueness Varies, Scripted Stories, Apathy Accepted.
Stop Following. Be your own leader
If all the world is a stage
Stage
Why have we collectively
Agreed
To be immersed in this performance
Time to exit stage left.
A politician’s favorite theme
Job creation, a happy meme
Don’t get me wrong, I like to work
No time for family though, feel like a jerk
As part of our evolution
We should find a solution.
Must needs to stop writing these unclear poems to make a point.
At least for this one.
The only thing we should be “working” towards is not working.
Think about it.
Fortunately, I like what I do, my vacation is my vocation and vice versa. I’ve been driving 35 years and most of that time, have been getting paid for it.
The political speech I’d be applauding would the one, where instead of jobs being created for the sake of jobs, would be a plan to do just the opposite.
Which, ironically would create more jobs. At least we could be working towards not having any.
Not just spinning our wheels like hamsters in a soul dead cage of redundant consumption.
For one, it sounds like the only thing a politician, could really do, is set up a factory for building widgets.
Then, ship those widgets across town, to be unpackaged, disassembled into their smallest components.
Then either shipped back, from where they came, or onto another place where people “need” work, to be reassembled in the continuing process of “job” manufacturing.
We’re Consolidated International and we might be looking for you.
Are you one of those people who show up, punch in, pitch in, put out, clean up, punch out, head home, throw up, turn in, sack out and shut up?
That’s what we need: people we can keep in line. We may have a place for you.
Consolidated International.
People making things so people have things to do things to other people with.
And thinking up more things to do with the stuff we have.
George Carlin
“Consolidated International”
Everyone gets paid, nothing gets done.
Consumption continues
Forests fade
Oceans overworked
Landfills lament
Rivers rise
Atmosphere atrophies
Evolution erodes
Emotions explode
Education corrodes
Environment implodes
I know what I do is redundant, and if I were to look at what I do differently could assume, am just an unconscious gear in the machine of consumption.
Sure it would take a while, and yes for those willing there would always be work.
If it involved some kind of driving, sign me up. Maybe just not as much. Three days a week would work.
Since eventually and essentially, every one has to eat, could create robots designed to do the back breaking field work required to put food in everyone’s mouth.
Using robots to free ourselves up to focus on being human and doing what is important to nurture families and evolve into a peaceful species.
To the point that the only place we would need to drive to is the multidimensional space port to explore other worlds and discover new senses.
I had a split personality
Till, my personalities split
Both of them gone
Now I have none
That must be the case
Compared to the human race
Internally raucous
Externally cautious
Inside fragile
Outside agile
Filled with optimism and hope
Emptied via pessimism and a nope
Intrinsically beautiful
Extrinsically pitiful
True kindness is at my core
Anger management my one chore
Inner dialogue, eloquence and style
Outer diatribe, regurgitation and bile
Is an outlier liar
An out and out liar
Telling an outright lie
Or would that be
An out wrong lie
Merely being an outlier
Makes one good at
What they aspire
Or didn’t even desire
Shouldn’t need a sleuth
To uncover the truth
Altering what the fact is
Given enough practice
Can get you in a slump
Just ask Donald Trump
You’ve hung yourself
With your own rope
Was that worth
An arrogant grope
Did you not think
Of what we’d learn
For what you broadcast
On Howard Stern
The campaign has
Gone turvy topsy
For a minute, thought
You were Bill Cosby
Been one too many
Sexual allegations
In how you handle
Female relations
If you want to be
Just one of the guys
First you must
Need to apologize
How do you expect
To be a leader
While actually being
A bottom feeder
No one expects,
Politics to be truthful
But you have said
More than a mouthful
An outlier, an hour
Takes 10,000 times
This is my practice
In trying to make rhymes
Of course there is no “I” in team
There’s one in selfish
There’s two in irrational
Three in imagination
Four in Mississippi
And Nine in
floccinaucinihilipilification
floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion
ˌfläksəˌnôsəˌnīˌhiləˌpiləfiˈkāSHən/
noun
the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
Hmmmm.
As in. It is redundant and a floccinaucinihilipilification to point out that there is no “I” in team.
Here is my “letter, not in a word” declarative. Hope it catches on.
There is no “L” in bark.
Remember that at the next “motivational” meeting you attend.
Looking at the world through a windshield. 