Not just any word
Rather the word A
Also known as the
“A”* word
One of two letters
In the Alphabet
That are also words
I cannot think of
The other one right now
I am playing with A word
Are you picturing it as a letter
Or just hearing A as a sound?
Where is it? In your mind?
Or your mind’s ears
(The ears that hear without ears.
Scream A in your thoughts
No one else will hear A peep)
Are you seeing A with your mind’s eye?
Is it there, or could it be in your heart?
It is in the middle of heart
Also, near the middle of earth
Same goes for breath
Heart, earth, breath and all
You have to do is b(e)
Now that you are
Contemplating A at word point
You realize A is always there
Where you need it to be
Kind of like (this is a stretch)
A subatomic particle
Being observed through
A Hadron collider
It is only visible / audible when
A is being observed
Same goes for the word
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
It is just there floating around
Till this blog post
Made you recall it, also
By the time you finished reading it
Were giving it that sing song recitation
Of when you first heard it when
Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews
Sang it in Mary Poppins
This is just my own Hadron collider
Round about way (get it? Round… collider.)
Though I didn’t really intend it
Think Of A Word
Was heading in a different direction
Yet, fell into my well worn path
That the correlation between
God and word(s) The Word, always exists
Even the “A” word
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Eliminating the “beginning” part
Whilst trying to figure out
A linguistic way to express it
Without that story line narrative
Deeply imbedded in our
Collective un/sub/consciousness
Through religion and science
Via popular books and useless theories
That when everything always is, IS
The necessity of a demarcation
Divine or developed
Is counter evolutionary
To our own collective evolution
*
“A” word
Unlike the “N” word, used to distract adult children from facing a racist reality not actually addressed, due to the distraction.
“They’re only words. You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth like the fact that there’s a bigot and a racist in every living room on every street corner in this country. I don’t like words that hide the truth. I don’t like words that conceal reality.”
– George Carlin
Seeing as how words make up reality, not to say, there wouldn’t be racists if there was no word for them. However, language is our reality and reality is our language.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Which is not really a beginning, rather a consciousness context changer.
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Hmmmmm
A follow-up to “Think Of A Word “
To get humanity out of its
Scientific / religious Ouroboros trap
The need to understand
There is no start
That does not have an inherent prequel
Starting with religion
Since assumably that is where
All of this nonsense started
Plus the “Holy” holey book
Has already been revised numerous times
Due to Kings, circumstances and whims
Interpretations and language translations
Hint: it wasn’t always in English, rather
Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek. Oopsie
I suspect one more time will not
Lose its lost purpose
Might even be worth another read
What if in either the book of
Genesis or John it is written as
“In the infinite the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
Genesis 1 1-2
This might be a bit more tricky
In the infinite God/Word always exists. Neither Alpha or Omega, just IS. Now the earth was formless, just space dust coalescing into a habital planet. In what is known as the Goldilocks zone.
Bringing rise to bipedal sentient beings formed out of a primordial ooze seeking consciousness of awareness and awareness of consciousness, that it may learn of words, to experience the whole through a subjective lens, while still being the whole.
Something like that
Science on the other hand
Is no better from a different direction
Trying to quantify a similar
Non existent beginning using God/Words
Like Big Bang Theory
While using a theory so indoctrinated
It gets confused with being a fact
When in reality it is a logical fallacy
By their own accounts
Firmly backing and proving E=mc2
E = mc2. It’s the world’s most famous equation, but what does it really mean? “Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.” On the most basic level, the equation says that energy and mass (matter) are interchangeable; they are different forms of the same thing.
https://www.pbs.org › nova › einstein
So then, if everything exists always has
Merely changes shape via waves & particles
Why even bother with a contradictory theory
I am no scientist….. However
Their “proof” lies in absolutely no proof
Process would be a good God/Word
At no point is either energy or matter
Not in the God process of becoming the other
From growth comes decay and vice versa
From order to entropy and back again
Chickens come from eggs
Eggs come from chickens
Does it really matter Who’s On First?
After a decade of writing nonsense, non sequiturs, rhymes, poetry, observations, musings, sprinkled with the wit and wisdom of comedians, lyrics from lyricists, this blog is what it essential started out to be. A self help blog. In as much as the only person it has helped, is me, getting s#!+, out of my skull.
On to the decompressed screen in the form of words in content and context. So that I might truly decipher my surroundings in a coherent and rational perception. Prepped and prepared for arguments I will never have.
To the point that they makes sense for me. Gratisfacation comes not in likes or comments (though, they are appreciated) but rather in a clearer understanding of how the universe works, if it is working at all.
Certainly not at the “hands” of an invisible grand designer with no hands or design. There is not, an, if this happens, go here next divine flow chart of reason. There is no rationale, just chaos and consumption.
Have no horse in the race, no idea to sell, no money to be made. Just therapy in print, (grammar & punctuation are for real writers) putting me a little more at peace, every post.
Knowing strangely it helps me. Which may explain my atrocious reciprocity with other bloggers, who so kindly stop by for my observations.
Actually, this isn’t so much of a self help blog, as it is a digital equestrian cemetery for beating dichotomous dead horses. Finding new words, different scenarios and settings to beat the dead horses of abortion, war, politics, religion, etcetera etc.
All the while, driving in the dark, shining headlights on the walls of Plato’s cave, to show at least myself, the illusion of societal shadows cast, are not what they appear to be.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Whew, this is definitely a self help blog.
If you, my precious reader, find this helpful, and I mean this, in the nicest possible way, you may need help.
Thanks for stopping by.
What I did not know then
So I know better
Except……then….
Has always been now
Can only be……now
Habits are hard to break
Some things feel good
Good food tastes great
A cold beer is refreshing
Wine goes well with steak
Coffee is a stimulant
Depressingly a diuretic
Hindsight is what you make it
New paradigms are built
On top of old archetypes
Indoctrinations are as hard
As concrete foundations
It is what my faltering
Mental house is built on
That does not exist anyway
Save my perceptions
Of what is real and
What is a reality
I believe I experience
That allows me to know better
Yet also allows me to
Be too lazy to change
Happy New Year
Resolutions be damned
Revolutions are more my style
On an axis around the sun
Through the cosmos
Are but a few things
I know now
“Where would you rather be?
Anywhere but here
When will the time be right?
Anytime but now
On the edge of sleep,
I was drifting for half the night
Anxious and restless,
Pressed down by the darkness
Bound up and wound up so tight
So many decisions, a million revisions
Caught between darkness and light
Wilderness of mirrors
World of polished steel
Gears and iron chains
Turn the grinding wheel
I run between the shadows
Some are phantoms, some are real
Where would you rather be?
Anywhere but here
When will the time be right?
Anytime but now
The doubt and the fear
I know would all disappear
Anywhere but here
On the edge of sleep,
I heard voices behind the door
The known and the nameless,
Familiar and faceless
My angels and my demons at war
Which one will lose
Depends on what I choose
Or maybe which voice I ignore
Wilderness of mirrors
Streets of cold desire
My precious sense of honor
Just a shield of rusty wire
I hold against the chaos
And the cross of holy fire
Wilderness of mirrors
So easy to deceive
My precious sense of rightness
Is sometimes so naive
So that which I imagine
Is that which I believe
On the edge of sleep,
I awoke to a sun so bright
Rested and fearless,
Cheered by your nearness
I knew which direction was right
The case had been tried by the jury inside
The choice between darkness and light”
“Doubt Agent”
– Rush
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
//
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
From “White Rabbit”
– Jefferson Airplane
(Now, try reading again that without giving it Grace Slick’s tempoed build up to a scream.)
The rabbit hole
That does not exist
Are the imaginary portholes
Of the Big Bang Theory
Or In The Beginning
(Yes, this dead horse is well beaten)
It is what scientists
And theologians cling to
Tethering humanity
Against true freedom
Shackled in chains
Attached to nothing
For the sake of illusion
That to have purpose
One must have a “start”
In order to finish
When nothing could be
Further from the truth
Simply because infinity
Is too real to grasp
So stories are made up and
Theories are proposed
To quell insatiable questioning
Where are the existentialists
To show us there are no
Rabbit holes
“Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.”
— Grace Slick.
Since, I am not very fond of Christmas, find myself breaking down the ritualistic phenomenon that has evolved into society as an unshakable indoctrination.
Imbued deeply into the fabric of various geographical locations as something other, than its original intent. Which, to my perception is celebrating the birth of an enlightened master / spiritual teacher.
Why not, who does not like a birthday party?
Except, the fellow’s birth day in question, being celebrated, has been dead for quite some time. (Despite, what billboards and bumper stickers will tell you.) Therefore he gets none of the presents.
Will get to the metaphors momentarily.
I could site various people in my life, whom would be considered “teachers”. Have no clue what their birth day is. My uncle, my first boss, and George Carlin to name a few. They are all dead also. Maybe not 2000 plus years, but dead nonetheless.
Their lessons live on through me in how to build, plumb and wire stuff. Real world questioning stuff, and using language to question everything. The latter two show up, through many of these blog posts.
Speaking of billboards, will start with biggest simplest message presented. Jesus Is Alive.
Well, yes and no. However, no different then my teachers.
As when I am turning wrenches or solving a plumbing or electrical problem, my uncle John’s memory rises to the surface and I subconsciously invoke his teachings to guide me to complete the task. WWJD? What Would (Uncle) John Do?
I celebrate my teachers, each time a recalled reference enters my thoughts.
Like Schrödinger’s cat being both dead and alive, depending on how the cat/Jesus is viewed.
Ought not that be the part, that an alleged “Christian” society be doing, each time someone is helped, housed or healed?
“Maybe they ought to check with that Jesus fella. They’re always talking about………. “What would Jesus do”?
They don’t want to know so they can do it, they just want to know so they can tell other people to do it.”
– George Carlin
Maybe if Jesus’s teachings were recalled each time a behavior was being replicated, the lessons would be repeated, exponentiated into “his” metaphorical return.
Because it would be a self-fulfilling prophecy that Jesus’s return had manifested globally.
Not much different than when I recall advice given to me by my first boss, which was not to inform the company on how things “should” be done, but rather do the right thing. Do the thing you want them to make changes on.
Then, they will tell you to keep doing what you are doing, implement it with others throughout the company by *”letting it be their idea.”
* – Ed
Find myself at work wondering WWED, What Would Ed Do?
If everyone started behaving like their chosen enlightened master, spiritual teacher, there would be a lot more peace in the world and a lot less, “give it to me it’s mine”* mindless consumption.
* – George Carlin
Metaphorically speaking it is…
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
For your euphemistic consumption
The US is sending an “aid” package
Just in time for Christmas*
To Ukraine via your tax dollars
Billions, in case you are wondering
In “Aid”, sounds nice and helpful
Until, one realizes that “aid”
Is “Patriot” missiles
Phased Array Tracking Radar
To Intercept On Target
A “backronym” if you will…..
Backronym:
“an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words”
– Oxford online dictionary
Because, nothing stirs
Passions to murder, like patriot
Not sure about anyone else
However, if I were in need of aid
The last thing I would need
Is some genocidal WMD’s
FYI, this country can not afford them
How is it, US is giving death away?
“got no steel industry left, can’t educate our young people, can’t get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right!”
– George Carlin
It is the one thing the left and right agree on.
“We like war! We’re a war-like people! We like war because we’re good at it! You know why we’re good at it? We get a lot of practice.”
– George Carlin
What if, as long as packages are repackaged?
US, sent an “Aid” “package, of let’s say
Speculums, forceps and vacuums
Instead of big projectile penises
Would anyone get up in arms
Probably not as long as those abortions
Happen “over there”
“I don’t mind about the war, it’s one of the things I like to watch, if it is a war going on. ‘Cause then I know then if our side is winning, if our side is losing.”
Roger Waters
“What God Wants, part 1”
From “Amused To Death”
* Christmas
A celebration of the birth of Christ
The birth and only the birth
Not the actions or behaviors
To emulate and make peace in the world
Making sure all are fed and healed
Rather a “Black December” event
To unwrap repackaged packages
To send them finally to the landfill
To make room for more
Distraction packages
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Merry……….Christmas
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas (war is over)
And what have we done (if you want it)
Another year over (war is over)
And a new one just begun (now)
And so happy Christmas (war is over)
We hope you have fun (if you want it)
The near and the dear one (war is over)
The old and the young (now)
A very Merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
Happy Christmas!
– John Lennon
Sold as fun consumables
Makes me wonder if the
Military industrial complex
Plus the goofy gun lobby
Might have a hand in it
As toy manufacturers
Sell a new automatic
Foam “bullet” weapon
A pretend AK-47 so to speak
Presented as something
The whole family can enjoy
Because after all it is only foam
Right?
Of course after little Johnny
Gets his taken away for
Being a little too aggressive
“Shooting” his load at
The dog and grandpa
He can’t wait to buy a real one
To show who, who is in charge
Besides
Now is the time to buy them
Since nothing celebrates the
Birth of a Master of Wisdom
Known as the Prince of Peace
Like plastic practice WMD’s
To start a cycle of violence
That will not stop at adulthood
“This is a place where gun store owners are given a list of stolen credit cards, but not a list of criminals and maniacs.
Now they are thinking of banning toy guns, and they are going to keep the f**king real ones..”
– George Carlin
Sorta non sequitur
For a moment and it was only a moment, I thought the sale of candy cigarettes were banned. Yet with minimal research, only the word cigarettes was removed from the cigarette major brand replicas of candy.
“This is a country where tobacco kills 400,000 people a year — so they ban artifical sweeteners! Because a rat died.”
– George Carlin
Likewise the plastic play weaponry are not sold as “guns”, rather blasters and other violent euphemisms. You would think in an age of alleged transparency they would just name them what they are……penis projectiles.
No one here is suggesting that either be banned, however we could use a really big mirror (really really big and polished to a crystal clear shine) to try and see what is really going on……..inside the collective.
Perhaps then, the archetype of Jesus and other Masters of Wisdom would manifest (as a perceived “return” ) throughout humanity and we could behave like them, instead of consumer pawns buying more deadly indoctrinations.
“We teach best what we need to learn most ourselves.”
– Richard Bach
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
If only the Word, could be appreciated for what it is. Which is Word’s themselves. From the shortest word “I”, to the longest word “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”, which is “A specific lung disease caused by inhaling quartz dust.”
Actually
(The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce.)
– Berlitz.com
But for brevity’s sake, will use the previous one.
Grasping any word, like the God/Word God is so infinite and so very varied it might be like defining the 189,819 letter word. So I’ll use “Grasping”, which is a form of
“Grasp : to make the motion of seizing.”
– M-W.com
“The average word in the English language is 4.7 characters”
– wyliecomm.com
Think of the mind picture that creates with just five letters. As I write this, am trying to grasp the complexity of the message allegedly being conveyed.
A word in a dictionary that was learned of first, without a dictionary. Retained in a spongy grey supercomputer with no wires and an invisible power source. Retrievable only by the person using the soft/ware. As in a chaos warehouse of all the other “unfiled” information.
By the way, grasp, is not in a file, it is just there. Waiting for it to be read in a sentence or heard through the ears. The two portholes into the brain that willy-nilly accepts any information absorbed. Not as concrete facts, but rather a vague understanding, that grasp has a meaning that can be grasped.
Miraculous man, f#@$ing miraculous. Besides, grasp is just one word, made up of letters, in one language, defined by other words. That can be translated to another language for someone who is trying to grasp its meaning in a different dialect. Miraculous man, f#@$ing miraculous.
That makes the word, any word, all powerful omniscient and invisible.
Therefore the holy trinity of words are…..
LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE
“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”
– Bill Hicks
Truth, is the tricky one. For truth, oddly enough, is subjective. The above “truth” rings true for me, however it is merely a thought experiment to ascertain, what may or may not be true.
Fortunately, I have no horse in the race to convince any one what words mean to me.
Merely food for thought for my ouroboros pet snake, named Solipsism to feed on.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
The birth of a Master of Wisdom
Any schmuck can be born
Regardless of the deception
Of the ridiculous conception
Figure out how to emulate
The MOW’s behavior
Let’s see..forgiveness
Healing the sick
Feeding the hungry
Kicking the money changers
Out of your temple
This all started after seeing a billboard my muse put up on the highway of some church, inviting driver byes, to join them in a celebration of the birth of Jesus. Making sure I could read it to transfer it into a blog post.
Just for starters, since there are so many buildings identified as some way, Christ’s church. Wouldn’t that be a good place to practice real world scenarios.
Instead of where people “gather once a week to compare clothing.” – George Carlin
“If these people believe in God, they must have heard that God Loves Everyone, and he loves them equally. // Maybe they ought to check with that Jesus fella. They’re always talking about “What would Jesus do”?
They don’t want to know so they can do it, they just want to know so they can tell other people to do it.”
– George Carlin
In an evolutionary step, the clothing comparers could get together and role play various situations and worse case scenarios. Forecast and adjust behaviors in mindful WWJD hypotheticals.
I am no biblical aficionado, however a popular search engine search came up with these.
Luke 6:29
“If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.”
Matthew 5:39
“But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
Nevermind, “That might be something Christ would do.” – George Carlin
No where has any Bible references popped up suggesting that billions of shekels, bekahs and talents be spent, mind-numbingly on gross consumption for the sake of gross consumption to boost the economy. Thereby healing the sick, housing the homeless and feeding the hungry. Besides every day evidence shows, that doesn’t work.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 