First up, money does not exist*. It is an implement of manufactured consent, used to barter exchanges. Usually time for money, then money for possessions. When neither exist.
Save for the arbitrary mental manipulation that if you want to “own” something, you will have to “work” for it. Giving twenty five or so percentage of it, for the privilege to do so.
Pssst. (Hint.) If you can’t take it with you, you can’t own it.
When we all could be working to make sure everyone is housed and fed, with clean drinking water. Nah, we don’t want to “own” that. We’ll leave that……up to Jesus.
Nudnicks are coming out of the woodwork to regurgitate what was repeated on Faux news, without thought or comparison as to real debts that will have to be paid. Crying and whining to no one who will listen due to school loans being forgiven. Boo hoo.
With viral memes expressing soap opera sentiments like.
“Congrats to everyone who didn’t have college debt. Now you do”. Or “Just to be clear, there is no plan to eliminate student debt. There is a plan to transfer that debt to those that don’t owe it.” Waaah.
Who is going to pay the death debt to the Karmic cashier, for all the human deaths that occur from state sanctioned murders of Sovereign citizens, for cheap, blood on our hands resources. Filling our tanks and making batteries, that we may work. While destroying the home we live in/on.
Executions of slow adults who may not have understood their actions, or random racist murders of unarmed black people, strictly for being black. Hmmm?
To which as taxpayers we are all witting and unwitting accomplices. Guessing the collective is going to let Jesus catch that debt too. When the fuck, are we going to be responsible for our self’s? Jesus, has to be close to broke at this point, don’t you think?
How about all the invisible money given to corporations to make sure they remain solvent. Having already been built and maintained by the proletarian “work” force.
Like auto manufacturers and get this…banks. Ooops, almost forgot, we need cars to drive to work to pay the bank interest on manufactured “money”. Hmmm.
“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
Meanwhile, we are driving by ourselves on shitty roads, that if the engineers whose debt we may have paid, could get to work on a solution for that, or high speed rail. Or some other form of public transportation, where one might be confronted with getting to know …………. themself.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“Blood On The World’s Hands”
“Sometimes it makes me wonder
Sometimes it makes me question
Sometimes it makes me saddened
Always it makes me angry but…
When you can see it happening
The madness that’s all around you
Nobody seems to worry
The world seems so powerless to act…
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day a new toll
Another assassination
The same day a new creation
But what are they coming into
Security of a world that brings…
One day another killing
Somewhere there’s someone starving
Another a savage raping
Meanwhile there’s someone
Laughing at us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
Each day it goes on
Brutality and aggression
Tomorrow another lesson
Expecting another air raid
Praying for a ceasefire
They say things are getting better
No need to be complacent
There’s chaos across the border
And one day it could be happening to us
It’s out of control
Blood on the world’s hands
It’s our epitaph
It’s out of control
Someone should know
Blood on the world’s hands
Someone Should”
– Iron Maiden
GOD
With the word, WORD
Besides, it is in the Bible.
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
It actually broadens the scope of the power, as an all powerful entity by removing the largest obstacle from us reaching our divine evolution. That a shadowy Santa Clause, grandfatherly caricature type is always creepily watching you.
“He’s making a list
And checking it twice;
He’s gonna find out who’s naughty and nice
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
(He sees you when you’re sleeping)
(He knows when you’re awake)
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
{So be good for goodness sake}!”
And of course…
“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.
And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!.
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! “
– George Carlin
WORD does not make that distinction,
Sometimes allegedly helping you in ways that make no sense, nor did you or would you ask or pray for. Either way being obligated to thank him for answered or unanswered prayers.
Sometimes I thank Word
For unanswered prayers
Remember when you’re talkin’
To the Word in here
That just because Word doesn’t answer
Doesn’t mean Word don’t care
Some of Word’s greatest gifts
Are unanswered prayers
Apologies to Garth Brooks
“In the beginning WORD created the heavens and the earth.”
– Genesis 1 1
If there were no WORD, there would be no words to describe things, or exist in the first place. Heaven or earth only exist because of the words.
“Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we’re stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words.
I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.”
– George Carlin
I am breaking this down as I go along. Let’s try, “WORD” be with you. That works, one would never be left alone in silence, all by themselves because Word/s would always be with them.
WORD is all powerful, all knowing, well of course, all you have to do is read WORD’s holy book…..The Unabridged Dictionary, it is all there, usually with “cross” references.
If one doesn’t understand the word, there is always the thesaurus to help. Also no-one would have to go to a “special building once a week to compare clothing.” – GC
Libraries are open throughout the day and are accessible online. That is the power of WORD.
WORD also translates to all languages, otherwise there would be no other language.
Thank WORD for words, otherwise we would both be staring at an empty screen.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Glad there are words for observations. Thank you and Word for stopping by to read them.
Has disappeared
No one can describe
What they see / feel
Forget the three
Blind person’s description
“Three blind men come across an elephant. The first man happens upon its leg, and concludes it’s a tree. The second man bumps into its trunk, and concludes it’s a snake. The last blind man feels its tail, and concludes it’s a broom.”
– A parable with so many variations it is hard to pinpoint who said it or why, save that three blind guys were actually trying to describe what they “saw” when encountering an elephant. Like that would happen.
Let’s take the leg perspective
Since it is the only thing to stand on
But will look at it with eyes wide open
Blind or not blind, what is a “tree” is no longer an elephant’s leg, depending on who is seeing / feeling it.
A “blind” logger “sees” a tree, that is a paycheck.
A “blind” forest ranger “sees” a tree that may not have enough moisture to survive a forest fire.
A “blind” corporation “sees” a tree, feeling around for the next one to see how many can quickly cut down for a huge profit.
A “blind” carpenter “sees” a tree and figures out how many studs and rafters it can be made into.
A “blind” environmentalist, “sees” a tree that must never be cut down for any reason whatsoever. Even though the trees previously cut down to build them a house was okay.
No wonder we can’t see the forest through the trees, a big elephant is standing in the way of what it is, a forest with all the apt descriptions above, depending on who is looking at it.
The “blind” sleeping “woke” after feeling / seeing all around the elephant are having a nightmare of a time, trying to decipher which pronoun to assign the elephant.
Even though, long after the elephant is dead, the archeologists will be able to determine that the elephant that was in the room, was indeed an elephant.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
At least they are not made from a tree.
Creationism VS Evolution
Spirituality VS Science
Belief VS Speculation
Un-provable VS Improbable
The useless educational debate is whether to or not to teach Creationism VS Evolution.
Preferably neither, when it comes to blindly and blatantly indoctrinating divine factory fresh vehicles, carrying souls into deadly dichotomous destruction based on nothing but competing theories, yet being in print, so it must be “true”.
How about……. Since everything is happening all at once, energy cannot be created or destroyed. That alleged institutions of education, rather than indoctrinating a corporate or religious agenda, instill WONDER.
“Wonder:
Noun
1a: a cause of astonishment or admiration
1b: a miracle
2 : the quality of exciting amazed admiration
3 : rapt attention or astonishment at something awesomely mysterious or new to one’s experience
Verb
1a : to be in a state of wonder
1b : to feel surprise
2 : to feel curiosity or doubt”
M-W.com
Instead of an invisible dude, living in the sky who, by repeated, revised, written and rewritten accounts, created earth with night lights and day lights. After hovering over waters that theoretically couldn’t be there in the first place. Hmmmm.
Which is as un-provable as, everything came from a baseball size mass and with one big bang, spread out into the infinite cosmos with a quadra-tetri-google-gazzillion amount of stars and planets that there is no end to.
“Let’s just think about this for a minute”
– Bill Hicks
Using intuition and introspection along with wonder, will reveal how ridiculous both sound. What harm could come from guiding newly arrived divine beings from another dimension that everything that is…..just is, always is. It merely changes shape, by transferring back and forth between kinetic and stored energy. Being waves or particles by merely being viewed by a viewer.
That without either theory crammed into their cranium, are just as wise as their alleged teachers pretend to be and are actually here for us to learn from. If we would only listen.
“Let’s just think about this for a minute”
– Bill Hicks
Children say the darndest things, and if one is listening, can determine their perspective has not been gleaned from anything or anyone in their surroundings since they’ve been born. Guess what? They brought it with them.
Unfortunately, since it may not make sense to the alleged adults, it gets dismissed or discarded. Refraining from sharing any further wisdom, we probably need to hear.
The first two things that would get tossed out the educational window would be religion and possessions. Both here now, but viewed differently, would disappear.
Unless Science accidentally stumbles across “the end of the universe” where in between all the vacuums of galaxies and black holes it discovers absolutely nothing at the “edge”. We ought to teach from what is actually known. In its thinnest interpretation could be considered “facts”.
While religions confess, all their bs is made up to control primitive people, which keeps getting altered to cover previous released bs. To raise funds to build tax shelters and God approved jets and mansions.
As for possessions, how can one own anything, knowing that when they return to a different dimension, they can not take anything with them. Hmmm?
Think of the quantum leap we could make in our collective intelligent evolution if we were not bogged down in bogus beliefs, diabolical disinformation designed to distract divine beings in this dense dimension. It would be like growing an extra mind thumb, that we might be able to grasp new realities and start using the other 90% of our brain.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Morality is just a play
A play on words that is
The correlation
Of the degrees of morality is
Intertwined with words used
To describe uncomfortable
Stuff we don’t like to think about
Mostly surrounding “death” things
Too scary and misunderstood
So we fool ourselves with words
By euphemisms and soft language
Warning ⚠️ It is going to get dark
Hold on and sure your footing
On where you stand in your comfort zone
Just remember
“They’re only words. You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth.”
– George Carlin
There is a “bit”, perhaps personal revalation by the comedian Doug Stanhope that exemplifies this. Recognize the responsibility in the language that reveals the unpleasant truth.
“So I knocked up my wife a year and a half ago. It was the first abortion… The only abortion, I’ve had… But it was might have been the longest abortion of all time. It took a month to have.
//
We didn’t have an abortion because we weren’t ready to take care of a child, we were irresponsible, or because we’re not financially capable of taking…….. The reason we had it is ’cause I really wanted to see what it felt like to kill a baby. I just do not want you to judge.”
– Doug Stanhope
I do not know Doug Stanhope, have most of his cd’s and have seen him live once. He did not scapegoat his wife, that she had the abortion, abdicating responsibility.
In my best humanistic perception, find it difficult to consider that anyone would want to “kill” a baby, let alone Doug Stanhope.
In my perception those words were delivered in jest, to get a laugh. However, it represents a truth, that usually only comedians can deliver, in a context that makes it funny. Not that killing babies is funny. Though It resonates loudly as a truth.
About the same truth as when Robert O’Neil allegedly killed Osama Bin Laden. People frown on the former and celebrate the later, usually by waving flags and drinking beer.
Same event is occurring, eliminating a “problem” via murder. Collected taxes pay for the unseen unpleasant killing, making every taxpayer an accessory to war crimes. As guilty as the presidential perpetrator for ordering the “hit”. A.K.A. acceptable murder*. Because it occurs outside a womb.
Don’t worry, no one is going to be arrested, we would all be in jail, and the economy would collapse.
“The economy that’s fake anyway!”
– Bill Hicks
If we dismiss “death”, by compartmentalizing it in our cranium, in crafty euphemisms, the “death” has still occured. Changing the language only serves to make one “feel” more comfortable, as to how it comes about.
For the longest time, I have made the correlation between the hypocrisy, that it is not okay to abort a fetus, terminate a pregnancy (murder a human being (in a womb)), but it is perfectly okay to eliminate a target, eradicate an enemy, (murder a human being (out of a womb)).
Sadly, both seem to be a problem solver, either individually or collectively. Hmmmm. When…….both “problems” did not need to be “created” in the first place, with a little known trick of abstinence. Ooopsie. Trouble is abstinence sounds weak and prudish.
Abstinence:
the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of having something that is wanted or enjoyable
– M-W.com
(Either individually or collectively). Usually involving rutting or rockets. Human rutting, never out of season because it is enjoyable.
Manufacturing rockets and guns, to load with bombs and bullets to eliminate people occupying Sovereign nations to access their resources, because people like to move faster.
Just because the US is not directly involved in the war in Ukraine, don’t think it is not for oil.
“Look at what we kill. Mosquitoes and flies, because they’re pests! Lions and tigers, because it’s fun!
Chickens and pigs, because we’re hungry. Pheasants and quail, because it’s fun, and we’re hungry.
And people! We kill people, because they’re pests… and it’s fun!”
– George Carlin
It all boils down to the use of language in this strange existence of murder and mayhem. Here is the twist. Ironically, nothing would change, if all of a sudden, we were honest with our selves by de-euphemising our spoken, written dialog.
Except that whilst in a distinct humanoid vehicular soul carrier, one will be using language of responsibility.
Maybe after a while it would sink in, acknowledging that public pooled money is used to kill, murder, destroy, annihilate, more out of the womb fetuses, than in the womb fetuses. Then it might collectively occur, not to manufacture so many in the first place.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Was going to make the following a separate post, but will leave it here instead.
Death
Technically, death does not occur. Inasmuch as “Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” (Albert Einstein).
Save for our perceived indoctrinated illusion that we are alive. Only slightly aware of our consciousness of being a conscious being.
However, it is a game we have agreed to play, a ride we chose to get on. A role of a lifetime in endless roles of lifetimes.
*
“Murder By Numbers”
If you become
The leader of the land,
For murder is the sport
Of the elected,
And you don’t need to lift
A finger of your hand
Because it’s murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your ABC.
Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3,
It’s as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E,……….”
The Police
Or, in the “Peanuts” TV cartoon vernacular of what the “adults” sound like Wahgn, Wahgn, Wahgn, Wahgn, Wahgn.
Having taken a break from the news, to recover from whimpering on the floor, exhausted from the nonsense, yet tightly curled in the fetal position seeking solace.
I pressed the rested preset button to hear much the same topics of nothing changed. Regurgitating and recycling, repeated redundant ridiculous rhetoric at random.
Immigration, abortion, gun control, mass shootings, wrong or right doings by 45.
Immigration, abortion, gun control, mass shootings, wrong or right doings by 45.
A lateral devolution from the 1980’s
“You ever watch CNN for longer than, say, 20 hours in one day?
I gotta cut that out. Watch CNN. It’s the most depressing thing you’ll ever see, man. .
“WAR, FAMINE, DEATH, AIDS, HOMELESS, RECESSION, DEPRESSION, WAR, FAMINE, DEATH, AIDS.”
“WAR, FAMINE, DEATH, AIDS, HOMELESS, RECESSION, DEPRESSION, WAR, FAMINE, DEATH, AIDS.”
Then you look out your window – (crickets chirping) – where’s all this shit going on, man?
Ted Turner is making this shit up.”
– Bill Hicks
I wonder, if it would be as equally boring and repetitious, if there were a news outlet that was constantly being inclusive, broadcasting positive information, rapidly reporting peaceful activities, grand acts of kindness, and people helping, housing and feeding people.
You know, shit Jesus Christ would do….
“Sure could use,
A little good news today”
– Anne Murray
Peace, satiated bellies, plentiful housing, cures, recycling, construction, self-abnegation,
inexpensive and incredible public transportation.
Peace, satiated bellies, plentiful housing, cures, recycling, construction, self-abnegation,
inexpensive and incredible public transportation.
We have that option readily available, all we have to do is…..
“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…”
– John Lennon
“Imagine”
In the “news” today…..
“In another act of cosmic karmic consciousness, the government further decentralized its power. Advocating for the dismantling, recycling and re-purposing of all the wasted winged weapons into high speed rail and rail cars. Also, water filtration and distribution systems.”
Likewise, balance to the earth’s / our ecosystem is being restored with the planetary population reduction, via a collective awareness of the incredible responsibility it takes to raise an enlightened divine being.”
“Here’s Tom with the weather… .”
If we get to that point in re-evolution, we will be able to see new colors, hear new frequencies, taste new flavors, feel new textures, smell new fragrances.
Does anyone else consider the significance of our insignificance is the equivalent to a weak fart in a hurricane?
In the grand scheme of things, we are nothing but a quark sized neutrino in the cosmological infinity of infinite intelligence.
Still, we have the audacity, conceit, and debilitating nihilism to concern ourselves with the hyperbolic narcissism of a few of our fellow viruses with shoes, that need extra attention??
Instead of becoming self aware, utilizing the miracle of consciousness, to realize we are apart of all one infinite energy called love.
Blah Blah Blah, Blah Blah .
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Or is it so-so classified. Regardless of either notion, there is a palpable perception amongst the Proletariat population that there is information out there, that it is acceptable, not to be privy to, under the guise of “National Security”.
Allegedly and perhaps illegally, old 45, took home some “stuff” from the National Archives, that wasn’t his to take. Stuff that was classified. Stuff so classified, it could not even be given a classification or even a vague description of how classified it is.
“Government want to tell you things you can’t say because they’re against the law, or you can’t say this, because it’s against a regulation, or here’s something you can’t say because its a…secret; “You can’t tell him that because he’s not cleared to know that.”
Government wants to control information and control language because that’s the way you control thought, and basically that’s the game they’re in.”
George Carlin
Can you imagine the strange audacity it must take to egotistically be one of the people in charge of words on a page. In such a political position, you essentially have more “power” then the “most powerful” schmuck on the planet. Power over the revelation or concealment of words…….
That, if the general public were to read them, the national security, barbed wire, chain link, high fence, might just disintegrate before our very eyes. Leaving us hapless and helpless against all bogeyman foreign and domestic.
Try it for a minute, put together some words, that if someone were to hear or read them, it would immediately put them writhing on the floor, crying and wailing in the fetal position.
Defenseless and unable to function……Nope, nothing. Why, cause it doesn’t happen. It is a ruse to keep primitive people paralyzed.
So, with a little, “unauthorized” sleuthing, through “Remote Viewing” skills, I picked up from listening to “Coast to Coast” interviews on how to see things, using a little known trick of bilocation. (Actually, I am making this s#!t up, but it is fun to speculate.)
It is widely known and universally accepted that all bi-pedal, oxygen breathing, monoxide exhaling, red-blooded, skeleton supported, solar powered, carbon-based, large brained, earth inhabitant omnivores are quite, very much the same.
Regardless of skin pigmentation, sexuality, gender, height, weight or eons of indoctrinated beliefs.
However, to maintain the status quo, of behind the curtain, Wizard of Oz, booming, scary voice, lever pulling, power wielding illusionary control.
There must be an ever ready supply of simple and intriguing distractions at the ready, so no one has time to pull open the curtain. Even ones that can be used over and again.
Like abortion, guns, flags, abortion, guns, flags, abortion, guns, flags, etcetera etcetera.
I would venture to guess, various governments, indifferent countries in different languages have similar instructions.
To be either Oceania, Eurasia or East Asia in varied rotation as to which is in alliance, or at war with due to where the latest cache of natural resources are found, forget political ideologies. That too is a distraction.
Here is the classified information you are not allowed to see. After reading, you will understand why this information is not available. Hopefully it won’t get redacted between writing this and posting.
A. Corrupt the young. Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; Destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity thereby :
1. Get people’s minds off their government, by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders, by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with high prices and general discontent.
6. Forment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
7. By spacious argument, cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continued faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.
See, nothing to do with UFO’s, USO’s, who shot JFK, how the towers fell at free fall speed, or nonexistent planes, crashed into the Pentagon or Shanksville, PA, or shape-shifting Reptilian Deep State underground operatives. Or….that 45 cheats at golf.
Just plain old daily dichotomous deceptive distractions to deter divine beings from achieving enlightenment. For no reason whatsoever other than imbibing in the illusion of greed, power and materialism.
“It is only our illusion that we are separate from God, or that we are alone…
…in fact, the reality is, we are one with God and He (WORD) loves us.
Now, if that isn’t a hazard to this country…
Do you see my point?”
How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean?
What’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we are all one?
It’s gonna fuck up the economy.
The economy that’s fake anyway.
Which would be a real bummer, you know.
You can see why… the government’s cracking down…
…on the idea of experiencing unconditional love.”
– Bill Hicks
This was a long one, thanks for making it this far, and remember….it is
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Your flag is tattered
As your patriotism wanes
With each thread that unravels
Loosening your grip
Of what you hold on to
Due to your dichotomous display of
Old Glory waving from a tiny monster truck
Absorbing road filth and corrosive salt
Which is neither illuminated at night
Or given its alleged respect
Taking the passive aggressive
Alternative route equivalent to
Stomping and burning the flag
Is the message of the shredded symbolism
Wouldn’t you think that the
Patriotism police would self monitor
This abhorrent behavior??
Perhaps they are to distracted with all
The malignant macho messages
Of pledging allegiance to their decaying flag
Saying they support the thin blue line
Until they get pulled over for speeding
Or that they will give up their guns
When pried from their cold dead hands
Hands used to place flat vinyl stickers on
Their back window of AK 47 silhouettes
And Let’s Go Brandon decals or lame rhymes
Next time we won’t be defeated
If our candidate is not cheated
(If these drivers are parents, think of the
Poor sportsmanship they are portraying
To their offspring, if you don’t win be a victim)
Anyway, could not catch up to the driver, disrespecting the flag, to remind him of…..
US Flag Codes
(b)
The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
//
(e)
The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
//
(k)
The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Nope, it will get tattered untill it is discarded.
Ooops.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
One word at a time
Taking the weight
Of the world
Off of my shoulders
Because it is not
The way it ought to be
Or could be
I know that
You know that
Bill Hicks knew that
“Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that 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 many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
.
– Bill Hicks
Nope
Nothing written here
Will change anything
One iota at all
“The table is tilted, folks.
The game is rigged and
Nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care.”
– George Carlin
Save for my further
Necessary detachment
Of shrugging atlas
“A world of difference
A world so out of touch
Overwhelmed by everything
But wanting more so much
//
A world of indifference
Heads and hearts too full
Careless of the consequence
Of constant push and pull”
“Kid Gloves”
– Rush
After all, one is not
Separate from the world
There is no
Atlas to shrug
The “outer” world
Is a mirror
To see what’s inside
As ugly as it is
Or perhaps beautiful
It is repeated ad nauseam
That the earth is
4.5 billion years old
That’s a little vague and
Has not changed
Each year, year after year
Plus it is based on
A heliocentric calculation
That is man made
Based on the specific sphere
In an outer band of stars
In an infinite number of galaxies
In an always existing cosmos that
We are all desperately clinging to
While expeditiously destroying
Because it doesn’t fit in with
Our worldview of being connected
To everything invisibly connected
Seems to be the neighborhood
Kid’s sandbox that no matter how
Much we ruin it, once we go home
It is no longer our responsibility
“I left no litter behind.
That’s your problem.
I’m treating this planet like
The fucking rental car that it
Is, and I’m turning it in
Trashed with a bumper hanging
Off, fuck your insurance, fuck
The environment,
I didn’t ask to
Be here.
Someone created me.
Yes, I know that’s a selfish
Thing.
It’s a selfish thing.
But you know what?
I’ve cared about other stuff,
And, yeah, me not caring about
Stuff, will, affect it as much
As me caring about stuff,
Which, is none.”
– Doug Stanhope
There, I shrugged a tiny bit of Atlas
Feeling a couple hundred words lighter
Plus the comedian’s quotes
Always lighten the load a little more.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
From the highway on demand reading library mobile message machines. I kid you not, someone rigged up a four foot by four foot painted piece of plywood to the back of the car, obstructing their rear view. (How ironic.) So they could not see, what they themselves have left behind them. Hmmmm.
Must be because of all this climate change (global warming) that it is just too hot outside to walk around covered by a sandwich board that reads “The End Is Near”. Best to expedite that, by driving around in an air-conditioned car. Plus, more people will read it.
Anyway, here is what it read. In big bold giant eye catching, traffic stopping lettering. “ARE YOU PREPARED FOR JUDGEMENT DAY?? JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS!! Hebrews 9:27”
“27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” – KJV
“Spooky language. Spooky language designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized human in the twenty-first century.”
– George Carlin
“I don’t even understand the connection with ‘died for your sins’. He died for your sins, well, how does one affect the other? ‘I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage…”
“Why would you die for someone’s sins? Your sins are the only thing interesting about you, you dreary, bleak motherfuckers.”
Doug Stanhope
But somehow the onus is put on the reader, that it is now, somehow their responsibility to assumably change their ways, so that the purveyor of that message will feel, like they’ve accomplished something, when nothing could be further from the truth. Without any regards or awareness of their own traits and behaviors that they will allegedly be judged.
Besides, the truth of Judgement days and days of judgement have come and gone for thousands of years. So any particular day approaching, seems sort of vague and misconstrued. Depending on who it may serve at the time. Apparently that driver.
“I’m an atheist*, but, not very strong in my faith. Catch myself praying in tight spots.
Whenever you mention to someone that you are an atheist, this is the usual response you get, and it sounds silly to me, but it doesn’t, to the people who say it.
“Great, oh, you’re an atheist, oh that’s risky, ooh that’s risky…risky. Wouldn’t you be better off, if you just threw in with everybody else, I mean, what if you’re wrong, man? What if you’re wrong and you end up, going to HELL? ‘Cause you…. didn’t believe in Jesus? Huh?
……….Uh, here’s how worried I am about that.
What if I said to you, that you were going to go to hell, if you didn’t believe in Frosty The Snowman….. No, if you don’t worship Frosty The Snowman every Sunday, as your personal savior, you’ll be sent to an eternity in hell, fire damnation……..Worried yet?
Of course you’re not worried, because that’s silly right? Silly. But what if everyone else believed it? What if everyone else believed that Frosty The Snowman……was God? And you…….., you were the only one who knew, Frosty The Snowman, was just a story.
About a guy who magically came to life one day, spread alot of joy and love around for a while and then was gone. But, before he left, promised he’d be back again some day.”
“Atheist”
– Brett Erickson
I am far from a biblical aficionado, however am aware of no stories where the late JC made many personal judgments.
He seemed to be more of a laid back live and let live kind of guy / Ascended Master. Even in the case of Judas.
“Jesus should have beat the shit out of Judas. Just grab him by the beard and beat the shit out of him, right in front of the other Apostles. Make an example out of him. You f*cking squealing prick, Judas”
– George Carlin
Why, if Jesus left Judas alone, would anyone think Jesus is coming back to judge eight billion people???
He’d be too busy re-teaching how to forgive while making sure all were fed, housed and healed.
That is the Jesus I understand, but perhaps with my reading and comprehensive skills…
I have poor judgment.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Didn’t need any to read that sign though.
*
(Me, I am not an atheist, just am not one who believes in an invisible sadistic masochist, living in the sky.)(I believe in the WORD, all words, because nothing exists w/o words.)
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Looking at the world through a windshield. 