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
Are arranged to capture
The listeners attention
Through pitches, tone
Scales, pauses, timing
Silences and solos
Formidable fortissimo
Crashing cymbals
Screaming guitars, tubas,
Timpanis and technology
Pleasant pianississimo
Flutes, clarinets, pianos
Triangles, chimes
Violins and whistling
How the instruments are
Played, can reverse that
Of being loud or soft
Depending on use
Words of a sentence
Are arranged to capture
The readers attention
(Usually to sell something
Religion, authority, control
Crap and consumables)
Also to convey ideas
Not previously considered
Capitalization, punctuation
Complexity, simplicity
Content, context, creativity
Crassness or consideration
Emotional expletives
Exaggerated euphemisms
Repeated rhetoric
Repeated rhetoric
Standout statements
Subtle persuasions
To strike a chord
So to speak
Intention, reception and interpretation are infinitely varied. So few people are listening to the same music or reading the same sentence, because each experience is subjective.
Essentially, society is in the evolutionary stage of cave paintings in our rudimentary ability to exact an idea, that someone can vaguely grasp, what the expresser meant.
“WE ARE MONKEYS!!
It doesn’t mean there’s no god! This is where everybody gets crazy! It doesn’t mean everybody has an answer or that, you’re right!
No one says there’s no god! All I’m saying is maybe, God made a monkey which doesn’t like to think it is a monkey and lies a lot!
Doesn’t that make sense? That’s make ways more sense! That’s what we do!
We #ucking lie. You know why? Because we can’t read minds yet. That is the next stage of human evolution for sure. //
We’re slowly learning how to read each other’s minds, and when we do, liars are going to be #ucked. Religion is going to go out of business.”
– Joe Rogan
The notion that any form of communication can communicate at all, is in and of itself miraculous. Thankfully I am very aware how many deaf ears and turned blind eyes this will fall upon.
Essentially writing this for myself, that I too might grasp comprehension of stuff not yet understood.
“I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down. “
Jake Epping AKA George Amberson
From Stephen King’s “11/22/63”
Ought not be a school bell
Sadly, the timing of this post
Will eventually catch up to itself
Who knew a docudrama movie, played by such a Pretty Woman would inspire so many climb on board class action lawsuits?
Did you or anyone you know, live on, near or in the vague vicinity of Camp Lejeune between 7:53 pm August 1, 1952 and 3:03 am December 31, 1987 (time added for hyperbolic exaggeration).
Did you have a glass of water while thinking of Camp Lejeune? Then quick call OUR hotline now 1 800 EXPLOIT
Do you not like the way your child turned out, especially since the alleged bundle of joy, wasn’t planned or prepared for.
Would you like to blame a corporation with deep pockets, so you can distract yourself with minute, instead of actually dealing with your offspring. Think you can attach that to aspirin, then call 1 800 BIG PILL
Do you hate ugly flowers, did you use a chemical so toxic it practically melts the indestructible plastic container it came in. With a skull and crossbones so apparent on the package it obliterated the warning, not to use unless wearing a bio-hazmat suit. We can help. Call 1 800 NO WEEDS
Same goes for similar scenarios regarding the use of talcum powder, foam fire suppressant, baby formula, hot coffee, etc..
At the law offices of Dewey, Screwem and How and our coattail hangers-on scattered across the country, like Phil MT Pockets. We will do the work for you, as soon as we spend millions of dollars on advertising to eke out just enough lazy litigants to warrant a lawsuit.
Can’t argue with numbers, except where we promise there will be no cost to you unless a settlement is reached, when we then inform you, our fee is 50 to 80 percent of the take, which may take years.
“What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?”
“A good start.”
– Gavin D’Amato
“War Of The Roses”
Wouldn’t want to graduate scientists and doctors that can determine the safety and usefulness of substances meant to interact with humans before they might cause harm.
Plus engineers that build machines to test and filter water. Find safer ways to remove foliage (I know……Napalm.) (Nevermind, that kills human also.)
Much better to have people waiting by the phone to wrangle with words, then to actively participate in working with tools, that might eliminate harm to people and prevent lawsuits.
Nevermind, that could elevate our collective consciousness in bringing balance and understanding of why we are here. Instead of manufacturing an economy of haves and have nots, with greed pigs hiring alleged Robin Hood’s to get them money, knowing who actually gets it, the middleman.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
As YOUR tax dollars
Spent on a forgotten
Streaming service
Of daily entertainment
Broadcast by the news
That congress essentially
Collectively does nothing
Save, participating in
A poorly written soap
Of who is screwing who
Plotting in the open by
Revealing mini power plays
Who is going to do
What to whom, while
Guarding against not
Getting screwed themselves
Acted out by millionaires
And alleged billionaires
Overlapping storylines
That never really end
Intertwined to keep your
Eyes and ears glued
As wallets are emptied
For water cooler conversations
Plus dinner table dialog as to
“Who shot JR” or rather
Lame insurrections
Allegedly stolen documents
Laptops and liaisons
Loyalties and betrayals
Posturing and politicking
Race bating and religion hating
“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
//
13 the Beast is Rising
The Frenchman did surmise
Through earthquakes and starvation
The Warlord will arise
Terror, Death, Destruction
Pour from the Eastern sands
But the truth of all predictions
Is always in your hands”
“Die With Your Boots On”
– Iron Maiden
While the sky is getting darker
The planet even hotter
Water toxic and scarcer
While pointing out that
One million are coming in
Through an open door
Whilst four million
Are burgeoning from within
Not speaking any language
Nor doing any work
Too distracted to make
Health care available
School, a safe place to learn
High speed rail a reality
Bridges that last
Potholes a thing of the past
In other words
There are alternatives
That could be tested
Instead of spending
Money Well Wasted
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
No heritage to keep
No culture to cancel
No race to repugn
No gender to change
No religion to reject
No geography to garner
No products to purchase
No waste to be wasted
Just ground based beings
Of infinite consciousness
“Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage”
– Rush
Making sure all are fed
With roofs over their heads
Clean drinking water because
“What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home?”
– Joan Osborne
Adaptation inspired by
“John Lennon” “Imagine”
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Looking at the world through a windshield. 