I have to
For my own sake
Replace the word
God
With the word
Word
Lest anyone think
I am being
Blasphemous
I am not for
The evidence
Is from the Bible
“In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
And just like the
Other holy book
“The Dictionary”
Definitions are open to
Subjective interpretations
Matters not
The context
Nor content
For it elevates
The power
In the word
Having broader
Connotations
Than the tired old
Indoctrinations
Of too many images
That God is a man
Santa Claus caricature
Sitting on a throne
On a cloud
In heaven
Wherever
The f#@& that is
Giving people cancer
To be thanked later
For curing cancer
Or helping
Sports teams
If enough of the
“Winning” fans
Prayed the best prayers
So, so and so could
Catch, kick, roll, toss
Hit, pass, intercept
The right ball at
The right time
Forgetting that
(“YOU CANNOT
PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!”
– Jim Morrison
“The Doors”)
Plus, save people from
Automobile accidents or
Plane crashes when,
If that is the case
Prevent the crash from
Happening in the first place
Ooopsie
Help fill military cemeteries
For those who believed
“He” was on “their” side
A key benefit is that it
Increases personal responsibility
In that God/Word
Is everywhere in everything
At all times infinitely forever
Where there is a word / Word
From the tiniest subatomic
Neutrino within a quark
To all of existence itself
No separation whatsoever
From implausible and unlikely
Alphas or omegas
Even wordless thoughts
Are not separate from Word
Regardless of language or religion
Word is the basis for all that is
There is no hierarchy or trinity
Mystery, magic, or manipulation
Just Word
Miraculous and magnificent
Will close with an example
I thank Word for all the blessings in my life
Therefore, what one considers to be blessings
Is made manifest through Word and words
What you have and appreciate is made up of words
All in context and content that suits you
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Of not knowing
What time it is
Is immeasurable
Ha ha he he
Also
Chronological
Upon awakening
In a darkened room
I resisted looking for
As long as I could
But this popped
Up in my head
Thought
It was clever
So a new joy
Replaced
The previous joy
Upon writing this
Then another joy
Occurred
Recalling what my
Grandson said
Who once declared
At the precocious
Age of four
Learning I work at night
Stated
You’re nocturnal
(I had to look it up)
For another joy
To find its way
Into this post
Of a comedic phrase
Trapped in my mushy mind
“The only joy in my life,
Is a dish washing liquid.”
– Steve Martin
Closing this out with
Chicago lyrics to
Wonder…….
“Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
(About time) If so, I can’t imagine why.”
Hope you en-joy-ed this.
At least at this….time…..
Of joy
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality”
– Angelo Devlin
Is the freedom of
Not being attached
To the worn-out cliche
That freedom isn’t free
That somehow ………..
In order to be “free”
Bipedal earthling artists
Have to go murder* other
Bipedal earthling artists
Dressing up as mercenaries
With cute camouflage clothing
Playing with penis extentions
For any particular government
On behalf of criminal corporations
To acquire cheap resources
For an even heftier profit**
While sons and daughters
“Serve” their country
Mostly sons because
The daughters will be spared
“So they can have more live babies
Raising them to be dead soldiers” – GC
Under the guise of patriotism
Defending what?, they do not have.
Certainly not freedom from the
Night terrors from the nightmares
Of the visions and images on the
Faces and dead bodies of the
Bipedal earthling artists
Their government said they “had” to kill
Perpetuated in perpetuity through
Sales of beds, sheets, grills, and guns
Making sure blanket thanks are given
For those who served just because
They are wearing a baseball cap
Or fatigues not yet thrown away to
Get special parking and an extra 10% off
*
Yes, murder……
Not kill, eliminate, neutralize, take out, wipe out, destroy
Slaughter, massacre, exterminate, annihilate, assassinate
Butcher, slay, waste, obliterate, abort, and, extirpate
**
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service, and during that period, I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.
I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American Sugar Interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
Smedley D. Butler,
“War is a Racket”:
The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
“I am just an aging drummer boy
And in the wars, I used to play
And I’ve called a tune
To many, a torture session
Now they say I am a war criminal
And I’m fading away
Father, please hear my confession
I have legalized robbery
Called it belief
I have run with the money
I have hid like a thief
Re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
//
Oh, Father, please help me
For I have done wrong
The man’s too big
The man’s too strong. “
“The Man’s Too Strong”
– Dire Straights
“Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody’s gonna be disappointed! Somebody’s wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?”
– George Carlin (GC)
Perhaps if the collective honored
The best teachers and philosophers
There would be more intelligent thinkers
To figure out how not to kill each other
Plus, reduce mindless consumption
Taking care of the same spaceship
We are all riding on through the cosmos
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
At the whole
There are images floating around
Depicting concepts
Of the “known” universe
Presumably from a
Geocentric perspective
Rather, an egocentric one
Therefore, the view, like
From the top of a mountain
Shows a 360° scene
As far as the current
Technology can capture
In a conceptual way
Galaxies, suns, stars
Planets, empty spaces
Nice and tidy
In a five inch circle
Wow, for everybody
To grasp “everything”
Which is fine until
One is able to separate
Themselves from ego
Place the same technology
Upon the outer edge to
Of the known universe
There would not be
A void of nothingness beyond
Rather, a new concentric circle
As far as technology could “see,”
More of the “known” universe
As a constant new awareness
Plus, nowhere in the findings
Would there be any evidence
Of a big bang bogus beginning
Nor a heaven or hell
Nor a God on a throne on a cloud
Or Devil waiting by a lake of fire
Just more infinity
Beyond known infinities
Only to turn the telescopes back
At ourselves to see how
Literally small we are
In the literal infinite
Meandering around the cosmos
On a pale blue dot so pale
Our significance is insignificant
Now cast away those images
Turn off the telescopes and see
How fragile our reality must be
Now, wonder why we fight against
Each other as a perpetual distraction
That is even harder to grasp
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
A thought travels
Adjacent thoughts
Move accordingly
Some with friction
Others are free-flowing
Bouncing back and forth
Between memories
Projections and moments
Physical and emotional
Pains and exultations
Like the phenomenon of
Energy, waves, and particles
Neither created nor destroyed
Simply altering content with
Context and vice-versa
Within an invisible matrix
Manifesting light and sound
Surrounding thoughts with
Images and audible tones
Believing that the chair
I am sitting on is real
When it is made up of
The same stuff I am
Making both seem real
When it is merely perception
Based on nothing
But thoughts traveling
Every which way
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality. “
– Angelo Devlin
Plus manifesting them here
For both of us to read…..
Incredible
Is a short word cue
That I use when
Listening to the news
To remind myself to
Question the information
If it is presented as
Life affirming
Especially when it seems
To be hyperbolic distraction
Scaring the Proletariat public
Utilizing natural disasters
Plus trials of centuries or
Wars and other violent events
Like daily mass shootings
In an allegedly civilized society
To play on people’s fears
Ignorance and unconsciousness
“Attention,
Your attention, please
A newsflash has this moment
Arrived from the Malabar front
Our forces in South India
Have won a glorious victory
I am authorized to say
That the action
We are now reporting
May, well bring the war
Within measurable
Distance of its end
Here is the newsflash
Plusgood
Doubleplusgood”
“Doubleplusgood”
– Eurythmics “1984” Soundtrack
Based on George Orwell’s “1984”
The “newsflash” for whatever reason
(Cycled ad nauseum for crass consumption)
Gets our immediate attention as if
Something really “important” is happening
Usually repeated and regurgitated by many
Talking heads trapped in a rectangle screen
Flat, both in appearance and emotion
One dimensional ego driven narcissists
Spouting off alleged facts as if it were
The necessary oxygen needed to breathe
With just enough hyperbole and focus
To keep the audience tuning in for
The commercials in between the
Vague presentation of opinions as fact
With soap opera detail driven distractions
So as not to repeat the same information, it is
Salt and peppered with enough negativity
Like something new is being added for flavor
Giving background history of the characters or
Location as if they were color commentators
Covering the sport of death and destruction
Mayhem, mishaps, and misinformation
One of the news stories that triggered this post
Was one of Pyootyn supposedly ready to use
“Nuclear” devices in his war with Ukraine
Therefore, the veiled intent was a push for
The divided and distracted United States
To sell or give or rent weapons of marginal
Mass or messy and manipulative destruction in a
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength
Type Orwellian misinformation filling the memory hole
Why would a dictator or anyone else for that matter
Use a weapon to gain access to land that would become
Now uninhabitable, therefore unlikely to be “occupied
See how easy it is to scare money right out of your wallet
Nope, the talking heads just spew it out unthinking and
Never interrupt their teleprompter reading to suggest otherwise
“I have certain rules I live by.
My first rule. I don’t believe anything that the government tells me, nothing, zero, none.
And I don’t take very seriously the media or the press in this country who in the case of the Persian Gulf war we’re nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defense and who most of the time, most of the time functions as kind of an unofficial Public Relations Agency for the United States government.
So I don’t listen to them, I don’t really believe in my country, and I got to tell you folks I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and the American flags. I consider them, I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.”
– George Carlin
Persian Gulf War, Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, Ukraine,
Gaza, Israel, cold wars, world wars, etc, war, war, war, war.
“Another Prophet of Disaster
Who says the ship is lost
Another Prophet of Disaster
Leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with Visions
Afflicting us with fear
Predicting War for millions
In the hope that one appears”
“Die With Your Boots On”
– Iron Maiden
Get this, there are “Rules” for war* Hmmmm.
If human earthling societies have evolved enough to
Have guidelines of who is not to be killed
How much harder would it be to make a rule
Not to kill anyone anywhere for any reason
(In other words, treat them like fetuses)
Would it really take a quantum leap or paradigm shift
To just make a “rule” to not have any wars. Just asking.
The only reason wars are inevitable is because
We’ve been told and indoctrinated to believe that
Like the proverbial carrot on a stick
There is just enough information presented
To stay tuned, believing that scenario will be over
And yet It goes on and on without solutions
“I am authorized to say
That the action
We are now reporting
May, well bring the war
Within measurable
Distance of its end
Here is the newsflash…………”
“That has arrived from
The Malabar front”
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
*
The rules of war, also known as international humanitarian law:
• Protect those who are not fighting, such as civilians, medical personnel or aid workers.
• Protect those who are no longer able to fight, like an injured soldier or a prisoner.
• Prohibit targeting civilians. Doing so is a war crime.
• Recognize the right of civilians to be protected from the dangers of war and receive the help they need. Every possible care must be taken to avoid harming them or their houses, or destroying their means of survival, such as water sources, crops, livestock, etc.
• Mandate that the sick and wounded have a right to be cared for, regardless of whose side they are on.
• Specify that medical workers, medical vehicles and hospitals dedicated to humanitarian work can not be attacked.
• Prohibit torture and degrading treatment of prisoners.
• Specify that detainees must receive food and water and be allowed to communicate with their loved ones.
• Limit the weapons and tactics that can be used in war, to avoid unnecessary suffering.
• Explicitly forbid rape or other forms of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict.
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/10-things-rules-of-war-geneva-conventions%C2%A0
Best summed up as
“Thou shalt not kill “
– Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17
Not my words, God’s words
You can actually hear
The dementia work
Its evil magic like
A demon in the night
Manifesting mumbles
Torturing a body
With a peaceful soul
From all appearances
Internally and externally
That it does not deserve
So far, logic and love
Cannot quell the chaos
Of the wretched warlock
Bothering the bladder
Sending mixed signals
At cross purposes
Urgent urges stop
For neither, relief,
Rhyme nor reason
Or the love of a
Non-existent God
Perhaps maybe if the
Collective accepted
A unique notion
That God is really
Just the Higgs ocean*
That we are not
Separate from God
But essentially
God through and through
Experiencing this dimension
Or vibrating on a string with
A subjective perspective
Not to know the world
But to understand ourselves
Because it is hard to imagine
In the scheme of things, how
Infinitesimally small, we are
Carrying inflated egos that
Create a creator to brag
How “special” we are or
Vaguely assuming outcomes
Are at the whimsical wish
Of divine direction, save
Competition with pharmaceutical
Corporations in it for gross profit
Resigning reality to the God excuse
“The God excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, “They came from God.” Anything we can’t describe must have come from God.
– George Carlin
The protracted perceived
Indoctrinated image is that of an
Invisible man Santa Claus caricature
Watching over everyone at all times
Methinks “he” is out to lunch
Literally, figuratively, spiritually
Metaphorically, hyperbolically, and physically
To “allow” even mild suffering
When, if instead, the collective could
Establish a more compassionate
Death with dignity determination
Instead of a final last willful intent
Of starving oneself to death
As the only ticket out of here
“All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
– Bill Hicks
*
Perhaps this does seem spiritual or divine to you, and in that case, by all means call the “Higgs boson” the “God Particle”. But otherwise, you might want to consider alternatives.
For most humans, and even for most professional physicists, the only importance of the Higgs boson is this: it gives us insight into the Higgs field. This field
• exists everywhere, including within the Earth and within every human body,
• has existed throughout the history of the known universe,
• has been reliably constant and steady since the earliest moments of the Big Bang, and
• is crucial for the existence of atoms, and therefore for the existence of Earth and all its life;
– https://profmattstrassler.com/2024/04/12/peter-higgs-versus-the-god-particle/
Best summed up as…..
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
Writing this at least makes me grateful that my father-in-law is not in more pain, having been released into hospice / family care. No longer being a playing field for competing chemicals, of this one does this, while the other one does that, battling it out to a bitter end, a sustained AE, artificial existence, in a pharmacological stupor of not knowing which way is up and who is who.
“All of that
Which has reality
Has no basis
In reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Not nearly enough
In all the wrong places
In comfortable tents
With porta potties nearby
In the season of spring
At college campuses
Close to fast food in
Good neighborhoods
“With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gained terrain
With the bravery of being out of range
With the bravery of being out of range
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range”
– Roger Waters
“The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range”
I am no expert but methinks
Thou ought to get a passport
Then go to where the action is
What better than to have a
Bunch of well to do spoiled brats
Getting a pseudo-education
In “real” world scenarios
Head to an endless war zone
Rooted in religious hatred
(“My God has a bigger dick than your God” – George Carlin)
Century after century because
It is written in books that
“God” is on “their” side as
Invisible manifestations of belief
Of course, if it is just attention, you seek
Then that will get you an unbelievable
Amount of attention, if not real wounds
Think of the “real” stories you’ll have
Unfortunately, that will not stop the war
Better yet, if you are against war
Then be against all wars everywhere
Go protest the multi-trillion dollar
Arms and weapons manufacturers
Better known as the military industrial complex
Who grossly profit grossly over
Manufacturing all of the war toys
In every nation all over the planet
Making devices and WMD’S designed
To kill out of the womb fetuses that
Allegedly everyone is trying to save
“Conservatives don’t give a shit about you, until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
But if you go there to protest, you can
Expect to have counter protests by
All of the families who feed their families
By going to work to build those devices
Of guns, bombs, bullets, rockets, tanks
Flamethrowers, missiles, land mines, etc.
That is just on the front end of nonstop death
Think of all the support corporations who
Make their money off of healing the wounded
Making hospital beds, surgeon gowns
Scalpels, gloves, stainless steel saws
Blood transfusion machines, body bags
Caskets, grave diggers, and florists
Here’s an oldie, but a goody.
“Bombs over Baghdad,
Bombs over Baghdad
Bombs over Baghdad,
Dancers of Death
Murder in the air,
With the next breath
Macho Queens selling
War-makers toys
Raining Destruction,
Good Old Boys
Death bringer In
Queen George’s Eyes
Read his lips,
War-maker lies
Religious Rights
Revenging sword
Thou shalt kill in the
Name of the Lord
The Sheep and the Cattle
Can’t keep from milling
Some are more than ready
Some aren’t willing
Volunteering in what
They’re not dying for
The Young Republican Guard
Crying for war
Free speech as
Free as its thought
Controlled behavior
Reacts as its taught
Fighting for Peace
Can’t comprehend
Hate out of love
Is violent pretends
Bombs Over Baghdad,
Bombs Over Baghdad
Bombs Over Baghdad,
Bombs Over Baghdad
Vampires drinking
Blood and oil cocktails
Their violence works
it hardly ever fails
When blind man can’t see
He believes blind
Blind obedience is
The child of mindless minds
New world order
Is an old world lie
Fighting for peace,
See how they die
Dragging in God,
As they turn violent
God says nothing,
He just remains silent
Stop madmen from
Running loose
Mother earth woman
Can’t take the abuse
Living right now is
Living for tomorrow
Time is saying
There’s no more time tomorrow”
– John Trudell
How can there be a peaceful soul-ution
If everyone is profiting off of death
Even the comfy tent makers are profiting
No matter how much…..
Thou doth protest
“Here’s the way it works. The primate brain says, give peace a chance. The mammalian brain says, give peace a chance, but first let’s kill this motherfucker. And the reptilian brains says, let’s just kill the motherfucker. Go to the peace rally and get laid.
Because the first obligation, the first obligation of any organism is to survive. The second is to reproduce. Survival is more important than fucking. Pacifism is a nice idea. But it can get you killed.
We’re not there yet folks, evolution is slow. Smallpox is fast.”
– George Carlin
“All we are saying, is give peace a chance.”
– John Lennon
Yeah, right……..
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Fueled by finger pointing
At everything but the
Culprit corporations who
Observe people complaining
A mouthful about the high price
Of food with a mouth full
Because it is easier to blame
Politicians via pundits who also
Have a selfish stake in the game
Of riling up either side so their
Eyes and ears stay glued to
Media Mass-marketing outlets
To..sell more and more products *
At exorbitant and higher prices
Via barely talented, talking heads
Though their salary increases
Reading off of scripted prompters
In between the soundbites of
Rumors, hearsay, and innuendoes
Of things they are telling you to
Care about and have opinions on
Though at the end of the day, it
Has practically zero relevance
To the well-being of their family
Real issues that concern them
How they are educated and fed
“This whole motherfucking economy, built on a house of cards. First of all, you gotta get this shit, get that federal reserve back on a gold standard. What the fuck is that? We got government printing off Fiat currency.
//
It’s a charade fiat currency. The consumer gotta understand, that the currency only have as much value as the consumer have faith in the currency, you gotta back that shit up with precious metal.
Fuck Keynesian economic Philosophy.”
– Doug Stanhope
* many fear based in scope
Survival food, ready to eat meals
Generators and backup batteries
Guns, bullets and bunkers
Precious metals which at this point
Gold is about $ 2,300.00 a Troy ounce
Making it so easy to buy for when
The fiat currency collapses and
Every retailer is in the business
Of bartering bargains for gold
Has scales on hand plus secure
Means of storage to exchange
With the banks that did not collapse
Life is a zero-some game
You leave with what you came in with
A birthday suit turned death robe
But that is it and nothing besides
Pointing fingers at any administration
Is a scapegoat useless gesture
Focusing people on distraction
While the wealthy get wealthier
Off of the poor and the bourgeoisie
Which that alone ought start a revolution
Considering any human being to be in
A caste system of pseudo identification
With imaginary numbers in a bank account
As some useless arbitration of value
Or acquiring stuff one can not keep
It is unfortunate for a species that has
A cellular connection to all of the species
Not to communicate on that level to
Rally not to purchase any particular product
For a month, such as sodas and flavored drinks
Which have essentially doubled since Covid
Gouging being the only reasonable explanation
In a week that industry would be scrambling
To lower the prices as other corporations
Would be wondering if they were in que
Should the next “protested” product be theirs
Adding -enomics behind a president’s name
Is a distraction fraught with victimhood
Especially when the content is ignored
That positive things are going on besides
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Because they think
They know “him”
Proof matters not
What counts is
Empathy for one
Who has none
Projections based
On wishful thinking
Only a few can see
Through the stench
Of his wretchedness
Because it is right
Under their noses
Even though the
Authorities have
Been notified
He distracts them
With implausible
Justifications
Which is easier to
Accept, then investigate
After all, he is who he is
Perhaps the above
Applies to 45
But it also applies to
Jeffrey Dahmer or the
Likes of Bernie Madoff
People presenting
A public persona
While demons run amok
In the malignant minds
Of the power hungry
Seeking control
Over others to feed
Insatiable narcissism
Wealth insecurities and
A deep desire to be loved
“Gladwell discusses the first of these social strategies in Chapter Three. (“Talking to Strangers”) “Truth-Default Theory,” or TDT, is a theory developed by psychologist Tim Levine as he sought to understand why humans are bad at identifying deception.
Through a series of experiments that tasked participants with determining whether a stranger was lying or telling the truth, Levine discovered that humanity has a bias toward truth. Levine’s findings suggested that we tend to take things at face value and assume that the people we interact with are behaving honestly.”
– http://www.litcharts.com
It is the people
Closest to the forest
Who can not see the trees
Unless you have 24/7 intimate involvement
Tracking, observing, and cataloging each minute
Detail of a person you perceive as trustworthy
All you have is the projection of your thoughts
Innately geared towards a bias of truth, ooops *
Which is not to suggest that humanity
Ought to do a 180⁰ and not trust anyone
Or anything, but at some point, ought to be
Questioning beyond the superficial layer
People convey under their multitude of masks
Masks they themselves do not know they have
Let alone which one is being worn at any
Given moment indifferent in different surroundings
Timing, circumstances, company kept, agendas
Fear, friends, family, foes, society, and self
*
“Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims as president.
Nearly half came in his final year.”
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler
January 23, 2021, at 6:35 p.m. EST
In a lifelong career of pretending
To be wealthy and successful so
That he would be loved by those
Actually, wealthy and successful
Culminating in a scripted edited
TV show hyping his celebrity
A facade of make-up and lights
Through failures and bankruptcies
Loomed constant in “real” life
And still, his followers………
Mostly poor and unrecognized
Think he is innocent
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 