In an instant
You wish your death
Would come ASAP
In the next moment
You are glad it did not
Somewhere
In the middle
Lies
The balance
Between life-and-death
Living………
……….Proof
“That everything is happening all at once.”
Albert Einstein
Do you notice, the local “convenience” stores with growing fuel pumps are burgeoning into the parking lots, excavating any last remnants of available land. Carrying low end products at high dollar prices.
(Recently saw a 9oz. bag of flavored pretzels for $8.99 making it nearly $ 16 a pound for cooked flour and butter covered in sugar. HF.)
Steaks do not cost that much and its main product has to be fed for years, auctioned off, transported, slaughtered, stored in a cold fly strewn warehouse, before ending up on a clean piece of styrofoam covered in plastic.
“We will pay the price
But we will not count the cost”
– Rush “Bravado”
No wonder those convenience stores can keep expanding, in the space of what could be a small but reasonable grocery store.
Pound per pound, they are profiting off of pathetic products placed in pretty plastic packaging, instead of….
Carrying basics, like bread, eggs, milk, cheese, potatoes, flour, sugar, apples, bananas, carrots, pasta, crackers, butter, peanut butter, jam, coffee and wine.
Unlike “regular” grocery stores carrying seventeen styles sizes of generic and name branded stuff coming out of the same plant, with different packaging.
All to maintain the illusion of choice, jacking up the prices of everything, so more money can flow to corporations instead of staying in one’s pocket. Lit up in overly bright, temperature controlled mini warehouses.
Where one gets to work for free, for a few minutes, checking out the groceries, further blackening the corporate bottom line. Like with most jobs, getting little or no training.
Take a gander at any aisle, surrounding the product you are after, let’s say bread.
Bread.
Look at the excessive amounts of loaves, you have never even considered buying. Crazy.
Oh, look honey, this one has honey in it, this one has seven oates, (I’ll bet there is only five) look a flour dusting on top, wow, a split top, this ones thicker, whole wheat white, this one has raisins and….a cinnamon swirl. Look, gluten-free. Honey what is gluten?
“Too many choices America.
It’s not healthy.”
– George Carlin
That is just the regular grocery store. It is the really big shopping warehouse that offer extra challenges, such as dodge the three story forkift. Being offered samples by people who must have been carnival barkers. (Step right up folks and try this tiny piece of warm preservative filled food that the price includes covering my salary to stand here and cook.)
Not as many choices, however you can get your own vat of peanut butter, that sits long enough so the oil separates. Reconstituting it with a drill powered paint mixer.
Plus, buy books and a lifetime supply of socks and….a couch to sit on. To contemplate what purchase can be made next week.. Tires, jewelry, glue, computers or a ridiculously sized television. So you can stay glued to it while stuck on the new couch.
“Too many choices America.
It’s not healthy.”
– George Carlin
Never coming close to cogitating the reality that somewhere, someone is short on food.
“Thanksgiving.
Remember junior high school, high school, elementary school, “Everybody bring in your cans for the hungry people?”
Remember that?
Just imagine if somebody when you were in fifth or sixth grade, if the principal had the….. gonads to say on Monday,
“Children, it was the most single wonderful outpouring of generosity that this school has ever seen. More cans of food, feeding a hundred ninety three families, came to this school than ever before.
We only have one problem, and we’re going to deal with it this coming week. We’re going to cancel our regular classes and what we’re going to talk about is………what are those people going to eat………. next week?”
Now doesn’t that sound like a sensible educational system that dealt with those types of questions?”
– Harry Chapin
Nah, too many people would be….
Inconvenienced
Just by listening to
Terrence McKenna’s
Audio Book
“Food Of The God’s”
This is not a book report, merely inspired writing, influenced by McKenna’s work.
Realizing besides the five senses
Or ten depending on who is counting*
The only way anything exists at all
Is through the sensory perceptions
And….the words for them
See, hear, smell, taste and touch
The better known senses, then beyond
Not necessarily in the following order
6th intuition – understand w/o reasoning
7th proprioception – body movement awareness
8th interoception – sensing the body internally
9th nocioception – the detection of “pain”
10th thermoception – sensing temperature
*There are more, but that is not what this is about.
My understanding is that if
There was no word for pain
It could not be experienced
Not the word pain specifically
Just any word describing it
Such as nocio, as in
I have a nocio in my back
Leave it to the bipedal earthling artists, to create new words to continue to create new words in a Michelangeloian depicted effort to not quite still touch the hand of God by deciphering every nuance of God. Which is the WORD.
And not the Sistene chapel ceiling Santa Clause caricature dude floating in the sky. Merely connecting to a divine power as individual bright sparks, tendency it is to do.
Always at the half-way point, regardless how close, yet never touching, for it is impossible for the subjective thinker to touch the whole as it is already part of the whole.
Like grasping at air inside a very large balloon, then realizing you are both the air and the balloon. Hope that makes sense.
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Methinks the genderless word for a God force, then ought be the word, Word, to guide us out of this Patriarchal Piscean BS age of dick fear, we are experiencing.
“Daddy” can not fix shit, he has not already broken. It is revulsive to our very nature to be so Word damned one sided.
Try this on for size.
The Word spake, love everyone as yourself.
Eliminating the he said, as if only male power has “authority”. Would it really matter, where that aphorism generated, if one recognized how important that is? Love your self, you are everyone. Oh scheisse, no money in that….
That is the power that the Word has
Omniscient & omnipotent by
The Word’s very existence
I am playing with words here, so play with me. If you seek “help” from God, then the mere utterance of help calls out to that God/Word force that will garner the assistance you need. ‘Stead of some invisible dude in the sky, ignoring everyone else’s prayers but yours and sometimes yours too.
“Sometimes I thank Word
For unanswered prayers
Remember when you’re talkin’
To the Word in there
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 other words if there is no word for fire, then there is no fire. Nor water to put out the nonexistent fire.
I do not think I have ever read or heard a more communicative flow of words cutting through with such brevity and clarity covering the exposure of a mysterious topic.
Turning words themselves into mind bending substances capable of altering reality.
“Food Of The God’s” should be required reading in schools, not to encourage “drug” use, which it does not do. It encourages thinking that what is, may not be as it appears. Nor the “history” we’ve learned be the history that “was”.
Oh wait, it encourages thinking and that is not allowed in schools. Imagine that.
Praise be to the Word, for there is only one Word, which is made up of all the other words. Used to define and describe every aspect of the Word.
Dogs, cats, mountains, oceans, forests, trees, buildings, cities, deserts, valleys, schools, businesses, parents, children, cops, robbers, apples, bananas, thoughts, feelings, visions, concrete, abstract, lucidity, ignorance, enlightenment, etc.
Good bad, hot cold, short tall, hard soft, big little, birth death, bright dark, love indifference…….
And silence, which has no opposite, merely a quiet meditative tool to focus on one’s breathing to get in touch with the Word.
You would think, silence would have no word, because by reading/speaking it in your head…you “hear” it. Go ahead, re-read that, in silence.
Kind of like the dictionary definition for meaningless should be left blank________.
As if this wasn’t long enough.
“I love words. I thank you for hearing (reading) my** words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion.
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’s prelude to his famous 7 word bit.
**
One more of these,
“In your own words.” You know you hear that a lot in a court room. Or a classroom, they’ll say “tell us… in your own words.”
“Do you have your own words? Hey, I’m using the ones everyone else has been using!
Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say “Niq fluk bwarney quando floo!”
– George Carlin
I wish I knew where more than half, if not all of the above came from, I must still be tripping…..on Word’s words.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Or perhaps different words.
Or simply a realist
Upon responding
To an inquiry of
The Ukrainian
War distraction
Of how it affected me
Which was nil
Other than a faint
Blip on the radar screen
But, but, but it may turn
Into world war three
Yeah….and……so…what
Which after mirroring
My own projections
(I’ll spare the boring details)
The inquirer realized it
Did not affect them either
Dawning on them that
It boiled down to…..
“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”
War or no war, I will do whatever it takes
To take care of my family
One of which is not expending
Any energy on something
I can do nothing about
Like if two squirrels were
Fighting in the forest over nuts
Who’s was whose or who
Had the “rights” to the nuts
Is not my concern
My guess is that maybe
The economy is faltering and
People are plum full exhausted
Of the perturbing pandemic and
In need of a different distraction
To maintain their wallets open
Keeping irrational fears at bay
With comforting consumption
Once distracted by scarcity to consume
Is replaced by better buy it now
While I’m still alive to purchase it
In case the latest bogeyman
Is around the corner with weapons
Gonna make me speak Russian
And buy useless shit with Rubles
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”
– George Orwell “1984”
Binge Watching
The death of humanity by
Binge watching
The death of humanity
In-between watching
Cooking shows
“Reality” shows
News shows
Game shows
Documentary shows
Comedy shows
Dramatic shows
Series shows
Mystery shows
After show shows
Sports shows
Before shows
Commercial “free” shows
All commercial shows
Shows how to watch shows
Shows when to watch shows
Shows to dissect shows
Shows about shows
Forgetting we are watching
The death of humanity
And it…………shows
“And when they found our shadows
Groups ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data in their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry
No feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
Amused itself to death”
– Roger Waters
The only beginning or end
To something is your perception
Of entering this dimension into
A vehicle to carry your soul
Through trials and tribulations
To learn to live laugh and love
While serving others who are
Trying to do the same thing
Before heading on to the next
Destination when this trip is done
Guess what?
Yes, do the same thing
To learn to live laugh and love
Over, over and over again and again
Playing with soul with other souls
On an infinite everlasting playground
Why would anyone want that to end
Kind of a spiritual lather rinse repeat
And as Bill Hicks said…..YES, YES!!!
PLAY FROM YOUR FUCKING HEART!!!
Brought to you by the state
In order to justify murder by
Eliminating bipedal earthlings
It deems undesirable though it
Tells the public it can not
Arbitrarily decide for themselves
Who they can “eliminate” / “murder”
Even if the “deceased” was a “target”
If it includes more than one person
It is considered a “mass shooting”
When government employees do it
It is considered “collateral damage”
Either which usually involve small children
If they mistakenly shoot their own
It is the result of “friendly fire” ….ooopsie
Bang bang “I’m awfully sorry” – George Carlin
Murder amongst brothers in a country
Killing each other over a concept uses
An extreme euphemism “civil” war
If for whatever reason a civilian kills
Their spouse it is a “crime of passion”
When the government kills a specific person
It “terminates with extreme prejudice”
If a doctor is murdered by a fetus fanatic
They are considered a “right to lifer”
“Ever wonder why we’re #ucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
To the point of knowing
Everything is connected
Time does not exist and
Death is an illusion
Still, deeply indoctrinated myths
Overwhelm our simple psyche
Making it collectively impossible
To erase the imbedded mythology
Destroying, our combined evolution
Your mission folks, should you choose
To accept it, is ridiculous and silly.
However, it is fun to play with.
Take yourself back
To the alleged beginning
Where God is making stuff up
Literally out of nothing
“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
Oh wait, there was water, methinks that book has been edited and revised way to much.
Put yourself in the position of the “creator” since your ancestors were supposedly made in “his” image and likeness.
Think of this as a cosmological genealogy search. On an ancestral level, one can only go so far, usually because the early records were lost, in a big flood. A really big flood.
Ignoring the contradictory passage that states……
“Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image.”
Genesis 1 26
Oopsie, did God have a mouse in his pocket?
Excuse me, am ever distracted searching for the “truth” in this book, which is why am unable to make it much past Genesis without my head hurting. Maybe if I can beat this dead horse a little more, I can move on.
Back to the premise that you have all of this infinite power and magical abilities to make the universe, the way you would.
Would you remake it the same way?
Omniscience would seem to come from learning and remembering. Knowing what you know now. How would you create the universe?
Would you be so detached from your creations, that if they didn’t behave to your liking, having made them yourself, you could genocidally murder them by drowning all, including unicorns.
Except for the drunkard shipbuilder, his family and a few animals. (Key to living, drink more wine.)
If so, why the #uck would you do that?
It is one thing to be a frustrated artist and burn some canvas, because you spilled paint in the wrong spot, ruining your projected image. It is still highly unlikely you would burn the studio down. Or seek out paint manufacturers and destroy them, because they made the paint in the first place, that ruined your painting.
How is that for a communicative metaphor?
I get aggravated with my ability to communicate, however, am not cutting out my tongue, removing my fingers or chopping off my head. After all, once self awareness kicked in, am I not my own creation?
The impossible mission is to look around and realize, although this story was made up to control a simple, yet uncontrollable species. It lingers on in the base of the early mammalian brain stem, hindering our ability to evolve as brilliant sparks of the divine. Having to carry this deeply indoctrinated baggage.
Knowing that, where do we begin? Now?
Perhaps, realize that all is all, what is, is.
Though whatever (love to materialism) only lasts a moment, it also is infinitely everlasting, merely changes shape, in the perceived mind, either individual or collective.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Or a special divining rod to seek out water in the deep, beginning all over again, so that “next” “time”, I will not need any glasses.
Just by listening to
Terrence McKenna’s
Book
“Food Of The God’s”
Flowing like a river of consciousness
Using words I don’t know but understand
Off course, still look them up anyway
With words in context that have new meaning
Having never imbibed any hallucinogens
The vivid descriptions, tell tale images
Of altered states of awareness are not
Enough yet to start experimenting for
Me, myself, I, my job, family, house and car
Even though knowing possession of the
Fore-mentioned job, family, house and car
Are temporary illusions impossible to own
Still deserve the respect of infinite value
Primarily the family that takes care of me
With all my quirky idiosyncrasies or is that
Idiot out of sync with social surroundings
For example Terrence describes words
Not so much to define reality but rather
That words are indeed reality them selves
Correlating with my long held perception*
*(belief, a word attached to made-up beliefs
Perception, therefore being more accurate)
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Wowwy, look at me using Bible verses finding
About the only “truth” to be found in that book
Nevermind, that is just my perception / belief
Back to the book, making the use of words
The most powerful hallucinogens of all time
Noting that “time” only exists…….because….
There’s a word for it, now you are tripping, huh
Here’s another mind bending word
Snowflake
While we may think it is made up of
Frozen water vapor falling from the sky
It is made up of the words to describe
Frozen – very cold – not hot – brrrrr
Water – h20 – hydrogen plus two oxygen
Vapor – the mist of water – see above
Falling – one word for gravity
Gravity like time only a perceived reality
Because there are words for them
Sky – the atmosphere above the earth
Earth – the space ship we are riding on
Etcetera etcetera etcetera……. etcetera
Matters not even what “language” is used
Any word in any languages make up reality
In the mind of a spark of the divine
Geez, am only about a quarter of the way
Through the audio book, here is to hoping
I will not overdose on……………..words
If there were any other way to communicate this awareness, you would/could be looking at a blank screen. Thankfully there are words.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Will the glasses change the observation or
The observation change the glasses?????
Thanks for “tripping” with me.
“Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon. Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
– The Matrix
Born out of near nothing
Save frozen water vapor
In pure crystalline form
Falling with grace
Carried by the wind
Landing safely after a
Journey from heaven
Reflecting all the colors
All at once emanating
From the nearest star
Or closest round rock
Brightening my mind
Any hour day or night
Looking at the world through a windshield. 