Of symbolistic strength
Flags, guns and crosses
Waved, depicted and stuck
As vinyl stickers on trucks
Reveal weaknesses
Concealed in shame
Of lost Individuality
Grazing as weak sheep
On a barren field since
The shepherd abandoned
A following flock that was
Never his to begin with
Distracted with the promise
Of a better field if only they
Could have made him
Their simpleton shepherd
Good for him they didn’t
He had no field for them
Still, like a lazer beam
To a rambunctious cat
They will paw and claw
At the nothingness of
Permanent distraction
Clinging to their fake
Symbols of strength
Flags, guns and crosses
Waved, depicted and stuck
As vinyl stickers on trucks
“I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.”
– George Carlin
O God of Earth and Altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die,
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
Take away our pride.”
[G.K. Chesterton: English Hymnal]
I would be a lot more amenable
To the personification of
A God force if it was not
Always referenced as a he
Him, father, lord, his, etc.
For a variety of reasons
First up, there is no balance
Look around see for yourself
By that bogus notion of power
Half of everything is excluded
Which is not at all how
The universe operates
For example w/o stretching
In electricity or plumbing
To connect things to work
Requires both male and female
Plugs and plug-ins
Pipes and fittings
If either of either are missing
The systems will not work
Or carpentry……. just ask
Jesus’s step dad Joseph
About tonge-and-groove
Mortise and tenon
Dovetail and box joints
Necessary to build homes
Plus home furnishings
One without the other and
It all falls apart quickly
Like a house of cards
A divine Parriarchy would work
“The combining form parri- is the gender independent equivalent to matri- and patri-, //
So you could use the term parriarchy if you want a strict parallel with patriarchy and matriarchy.
One difficulty is that parriarchy is not in wide circulation.”
– english.stackexchange.com
The only reason I stumbled across it It was because I was looking for a linguistic way to communicate with clarity.
It is clear, but it doesn’t jump off the post, screaming to the unconscious with five alarm bells blaring it is time to wake up, or fall off our ever leaning comatose comfortable couch, ready to flip over and crush us.
Better yet would be egalitarianism.
Meaning
: a belief in human equality especially with
Respect to social, political and economic
Affairs. (Key word being Respect)
– M-W.com
Which even sounds cool and sophisticated
Without being pompous, elitist or exclusionary
Like..In the beginning, an egalitarian bestowed upon their creation a planet in the Goldilocks zone. To evolve at their own pace achieving each a peaceful loving divinity.
Think of where we might be, if we followed that fake story instead of the other fake story, full of manipulation control and senseless death, if you believed in the wrong God.
Where an invisible malignant magic mad man (allegedly omniscient) “created” infinity after floating aimlessly around in the abysmal void of nothingness. (Yeah, that’s plausible.)
Apparently, after resting, he lost all his magic powers out of his short abracadabra stick. Then he had to resort to surgery in crude conditions with no tools or hospital bed. To fix what he forgot in just the first week of existence.
Whereas, all the other fish, fowl, fauna, forestry and flowers each got their set of reproductive goodies.
That must be why men are always forgetting stuff, they were made in his “likeness”.
“To my mind, that is what’s known as being stunningly–and embarrassingly–full of shit.”
– George Carlin
The only guidance to these precious and special creatures was……
“You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die”
– Genesis 2:17
Forgetting (once again) that the punishment will be the the genocidal muder by drowning of nearly all of their offspring. Including innocent children and pregnant women that some must have been carrying fetuses.
(Usual side note… See, God isn’t against abortion, he performed them himself, en masse.)
Ooopsie. Save, saving some drunk obedient divine ass kissing ship builder and family. Along with all the other animals who weren’t even involved. The fish would still be okay.
Secondly
The characterization of God as a he
Is crammed into the collective’s unconscious
As a white male Santa Clause caricature type
Which is hardly even a percentile fraction
Of the whole colorful whole and technically
White is not even representative……Pink is
(Even the whitest albino biped is still pink)
That is because “Pink-power” immediately
Sounds as if it has no power. Think about it.
Pink supremacists simply falls flat.
Why is that?
Because not that long ago the collective somehow assigned specific colors to gender. For it is easier to compartmentalize nonsense into routine, neither for survival nor evolution, merely taught as trivia for distraction.
Perhaps that is why we are in the
Pre-apocalyptic conditions we are in is
Because the God pronouns are one-sided
Therefore out of balance
God as a man merely exemplifies
The peter principle of a supreme being rising to a level of incompetence and staying there.
“And by the way, I say “this guy”, because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.
No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this.”
– George Carlin
No one is looking to remove and replace
An invisible farce with the opposite gender
That would still keep things off balance
Thirdly
Whether an APAKALOBCOL (All Powerful All Knowing All Loving Omniscient Being Creator Of Life) is male, female or even a they, the personification into an entity outside one’s self abdicates responsibility. It was God’s will.
“The God excuse.
The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, it came from god.
Anything we can’t describe, must have come from God.”
George Carlin
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Thanks for reading and reaching this far. I am unfortunately quite sure that my grammar and punctuation follow zero guidelines in my dismal ability to communicate something.
Besides driving professionally about the only thing I am good at, is beating and repeat beating of a dead dead horse to somehow make it deader, in the vaguest of thin hopes, along will come another observer to maybe maaaaaybeeeee catch the flimsy point I was trying to make. To which you might be amenable.
Thanks.
It is my vague understanding, (been sidestepping the typical onslaught of information presented as “news”, so I may use my feet to dance with my partner, while the music is still playing) that a chocolate covered candy dyed in green, whose marketing character (cgi pixles, put to screen and paper) is being “de-sexualized”. In order to be more inclusive.
Along with the other “characters” used to represent a milk chocolate covered candy, which has nothing to do with sex anyway. Not that I know of. Must have something to do wih the melt in your mouth, not in your hand part. Inquiring minds, could give a rat’s ass.
More inclusive, being euphemistic language for more sales, making the acronym mean more & more.
Candy coating everything but feces, such as milk chocolate, carmel, peanuts, peanut butter, pretzels, dark chocolate, mint flavored chocolate, white chocolate indifferent sizes, in different packaging.
Occupying useless shelf space in the race for profits. The only winnable space race, consumption. Stirring the sleeping sheep to get a free bump in advertising their product, after disrupting the grazers of their nutritionless feed, with focused distractions.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
Ones that do not
See so clearly.
– Angelo Devlin
“It’s not easy being green.”
Kermit the frog
“Green” is a tool
More accurately………A marketing tool
To ease the consumer’s un-conscious
That it is being environmentally friendly
In the purchases it makes under the
Guise of being healthy for the planet
When it is still an extraction of resources
Coming from….you guessed it…..earth
See how easily, earthlings are distracted
Led, manipulated, coerced into consumption
By the use of the middle color in the rainbow
ROY G BIV (in case you are double checking)
Which even the stickers, paint, ink, trees
(Those billboards don’t just appear as if
Magically on their own) used to identify
The products as being green came from
The resources extracted from the planet
Well, that is not very “green” now is that??
How “green” could anything be if it is
Dug up or cut in one place then moved
By the burning of toxic flammable liquids
Pumped from earth into machines going
To another place, made into something
Requiring packaging from other places
Loaded up to a distribution place before
Being distributed to smaller places then
Redistributed to stores then to houses
To be used so briefly it is then loaded
Into a bin to be picked up and moved
To a smelly place gathering everybody’s
“Green” stuff to be covered by brown stuff
Reverse filtering rain into dirty ground water
“O, Beautiful,
For smoggy skies
Insecticided grains
For strip-mined mountains, majesty
Above the asphalt plains.
America, America,
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines
With billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!”
– George Carlin
Greta Thunberg can rant all she wants
Until the collective can gracefully
Consciously and compassionately reduce
The population, all efforts are for naught
“You don’t have the baby
You get a lot of extra money
And, good for the environment
I know in Norway
You are all about the environment
You have a lot of stringent
Rules and regulations about recycling
Yeah! How many babies can you have?
As many as you want?
Then all the other shit…is pointless.”
– Doug Stanhope
Housing costs, fuel costs, food costs all would go down. The air we breath would be cleaner, etcetera etcetera, you get the picture.
“Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in?
A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.”
– George Carlin
Perhaps things are not so green…..because
“We Work The Black Seam” together
“This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It’s hard for us to understand
We can’t give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nation’s soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years
Is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure
Packed it down
We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can’t exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years
Is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years
Is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together:
– Sting
Adding a green leaf or the outline of one
To every product will never be big enough to
Cover our sins of destroying our only home
Though it makes us feel warm and fuzzy
Simmering in the pot of complacency
While we crank up the heat on us frogs
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Forgive
All
Maddening
Indiscretions
Like
Your’
Self’s
It is time
To fix the
Sign
When the
Portable DOT
Reader board is
Malfunctioning
Instead of
Spelling out
DRIVE
SAFELY
BUCKLE UP
It reads
D I E
SAFELY
FUCK UP
Just to be fair, the first part I actually saw. The second part is made up to make it funnier. Still though……Fix the sign. Or…..
Explain what it means to D I E SAFELY
Otherwise it is a
Sign
That no one is
Paying attention
To any
Signs
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery
Breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that
Can’t you read the sign?”
– Five Man Electrical Band
What used to trigger revulsions of anger over blatant and hyperbolic hypocrisy.
Is just now humorous as to the excessive pornographic detail, churches will go to make money. Bordering on the edges between ridiculous and incompetent through titillation.
Along comes another anti abortion billboard.
From a camera angle so close to a naked woman, it captures the inside of her uterus post coital and ovulating.
Organizations known for pushing people away from porn are now pulling large carnal canvases over plywood hoisted high in the air where children can see.
Assuming like all other billboards, it is being used to raise easy money.
In graphic vivid detail, a picture, taking up most of the space, assuming what is an
actuall photograph of an egg with a spermatozoon in it.
With the under……lying….message of
“This is YOU on DAY ONE”
Essentially looking like a pink bomb, with a very short fuse, making it a mixed message that perhaps, it should be disarmed.
Now I’m confused.What are they advocating??
I know it is getting dark in here….
But, for #uck’s sake.
If those groups spent half the money
Used to raise money to make more money
In nurturing, guiding, feeding and loving the
Already hatched out of womb fetuses
They wouldn’t have time to put up
Any more billboards raising money
Word would spread of the thankless job
They are doing and people would help
Satiating the cliché. “It takes a village.”
“I think in many cases,
your morality
is deeply lacking
if all you want is
a child born,
but not a child fed,
not a child educated,
not a child housed.
That’s not pro life.
That’s pro birth.”
– Sister Joan Chittister
What you have then…..are greed pigs, playing off emotions. Breeding more fundamentalism than babies, in coded language planting seeds in the radical minds of empty heads.
“But I’ve always found religion to be fascinating. Ideas such as how people act on their beliefs.
Pro-lifers murdering people. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I . . . ah, you know, it’s irony on a base level but I like it. You know what I mean?
It’s real basic irony, but still you can get a hoot. It’s a hoot. It’s a fucking hoot. ‘We’re pro-life, and we’ll kill your ass.’
That’s what fundamentalism breeds though, no irony, you see.”
– Bill Hicks
“Pro-life… pro-life… These people aren’t pro-life, they’re killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they’ll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to……. kill it?
They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women.They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.”
– George Carlin
We are riding on a speedy spinning sphere
Engaging in our own slow suicide anyway
How can it possibly be that important to
Expedite our collective inevitable demise
If another unwanted unplanned fetus goes
Traipsing through garbage we leave behind
Where freedom and creativity are reduced to
Survival w/o instinct as cogs in the machine
Just to be CLEAR
My only credentials are that I never planted any seeds in any fertile garden so that I would never have to make that choice. Why?
Because it would not be my choice to make.
In no way shape or form, am I advocating for the wholesale removal and discarding of fresh fetuses. It is just a counter productive argument that has no end, save divisiveness and a tax free revenue enhancement ploy.
Whereas nobody seems to mind the 400 billion or so dollars spent yearly on the military industrial complex whose wasted goal is making weapons geared solely for the potential removal of out of the womb fetuses.
Especially ones over profitable resources.
A person should have the legal, moral and reproductive right to have anything growing inside themselves medically removed.
“Has anyone had an abortion? You’re all rapt with attention now, all of a sudden, so I assume you all have. It’s a fucking horrible thing to go through. And not horrible in that….
“Oh, it’s a living thing, what are we doing?”
Fuck the living thing. A genital wart is a living thing. If it’s gonna irritate you for life, burn it off, right?
Bladder cancer is alive and growing like a baby in you.
If you try to remove that… I’ll protest you and say “stop playing god.”
– Doug Stanhope
Always like to highlight the hypocrisy.
The advertising like all advertising is there to generate profit, because if it was only for a message, population reduction advocate groups would put up billboards with a picture of a discarded used condom with the line,
This may have been YOU on DAY ZERO.
Why wouldn’t the alleged opposing “side”
(“Pro-death” is not the opposite side of that coin. Liberty and choice are.) put up alternative billboards? WHY??
‘Cause there is no money in that cause.
Real quick, on the morality of public money (taxes) that may be used for abortions.
The latest debate in congress is over a drone strike used to murder people to prevent the murder of even more people. Because the smaller amount of people murdered were American taxpayers who paid their money not to be murdered but feel good about their patriotic dooty of lining the pockets of energy corporations.
So they could have returned to watch the news to see the latest school shooting, drive-bys and workplace murders.
(Journalist:
What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi:
I think it would be a good idea.)
If corporations through their deadly arm of their puppeteered governments would stop performing their post natal abortions in search of cheap resources, there would be a lot more money to take care of unplanned or unwanted fetuses. Nevermind.
That is something Christ would do.
– George Carlin
I guess this would make me “pro-life” while being “pro-choice”. Now that is too funny.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
The following excerpt is from
A fb meme post
“When I was a kid, they didn’t take me to a psychologist…..
My mom was able to open my Chakra, stabilize my Karma and clean my Aura
With one single slap.”
How damaged does one have to be to…
A. Write that
B. Post that
C. Be one who “likes” it
D. Feel compelled to share it
E. Be the one condoning the behavior to either alleviate the pain, though exacerbating the violence onto the next generation by verbal external means of justifications.
From an empty smug narcissistic ego. For having been struck by a giant, two to three times their size, into convincing themselves one is “better” off for it having suffered that trauma.
By an alleged parent, who sole-fully and soullessly disciplined and frightened their offspring, instilling and indoctrinating Stockholm Syndrome of a being they once (hopefully) cradled, oohed and awed over as a gift from God, a bright spark of the divine.
Instead of nurturing and guiding that spark to be even brighter, more loving, a changer of worlds, the hope of the future.
Rather instead, just being flat out lazy and violently keep them (God’s “miracle”) in line with society’s standards of obeying authority. After all, you cannot fight city hall. Which by association includes all “authority”.
Until even a small segment of a simmering soup, boils over into chaos as a desperate attempt to want to be the authority. Only to find themselves being “disciplined” and “punished” by that same authority. Ooopsie.
“Children should be taught to question everything. To question everything they read, everything they hear. Children should be taught to question authority.
Parents never teach their children to question authority because parents are authority figures themselves, and they don’t want to undermine their own bullshit inside the household.”
– George Carlin
Perhaps (if it is true and I do not believe it is) there is a part of our reptilian brain still clinging to the fear that if we don’t behave in the eyes of the ultimate authority (God) for allegedly creating “us”. We will be drowned again, regardless of the rainbows.
Nevermind, it is the mammalian brain, that recently bought that bullshit and keeps it going. Regurgitated and repeated by inference and reference. Obviously paraphrased into the above fb post. Helping and hoping to keep everyone down.
Instead of elevating and illuminating the sparks to their full divinity.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Presents of mind
Is having
Presence of mind
Perhaps that is
A pretense
Not to be
Pretentious
In the present
By being
Fully present
That could be the title of my autobiography.
“Dangerous Dichotomies”
“My Battle With Contradictions”
Because our collective consciousness
So desperately wants to believe that
This world has some solidity to it…when
Nothing could be further from the truth
It is all appearances, perceptions
Assumptions, beliefs and illusions
How does the joke go?
Q: Why can’t you trust atoms?
A: They make up everything.
(That is a side “splitter”
If you’ll excuse the tiny pun)
I have no idea if that is true, seems plausible enough. Would seem to explain a God “Force” that is every where and at all times invisible.
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
– Obi-Wan Kenobi
Probably because when I was young and my brain, still soft and absorbent like a sponge, some science teacher, along with a word and picture book, presented information saying it was so. Convincing, since they believed it too.
They had me at protons neutrons and electrons. Not that I could see an atom or touch one, save a plastic model of what one “looked” * like. It wasn’t until much later, I learned of quarks, neutrinos and subatomic particles. Still can’t see them though.
* social side note
(Maybeeee, that is how Jesus is allegedly misunderstood to be…Caucasian, because most of all the pictures and plastic models are made that way, though it is impossible to know, but rather convenient, for the powers that be.)
(How will anyone know if He returns? If everybody is looking for the wrong guy.)
(Besides, since He is a teacher, wouldn’t it be better if…..upon returning to the classroom it looked like everyone was busy applying the lessons?) (Sorry, fingers kept typing…..)
Like most things presented in a book with a corresponding polished lecture, the only reason to believe it……is because you have been…….instructed…..to “believe” it. Hmmm.
Keep that in mind, it will be useful later / always.
“I just think it is interesting to see how people act on their beliefs, you know what I mean. Because your beliefs are just that, they are just how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make them REAL.”
– Bill Hicks
Back to the atom, which keeps eluding my attention. Probably because it doesn’t sit still.
So we are told / shown, which at first was presented that all that activity is a vibration.
How science came up with that is beyond me. Oh wait….theories came up, the most ridiculous and implausible ones were tossed out and that one was used, it is “vibrating”.
Here is the way it was explained to me in the final stages of by my brain being soft, open and fully absorbent.
Through sleep deprivation, alcohol consumption, a cocktail napkin and deep conversation with college physics students in a quiet atmosphere.
How the conversation turned toward atoms, do not recall, perhaps because they were just there.
Wish yourself luck on understanding this explanation, for it probably only made sense to me, at the “time” and in the circumstances at hand.
What is known to me as Beer Bottle Physics.
I was guided to observe the beer bottle I was holding, contemplate and grasp, that like everything else it is made up of atoms. Drawn to focus on the area where the cap comes off.
Isolate and consider just one of the atoms making up the whole beer bottle. Ok, got it.
That is really small and now, all by itself. Now picture the lines that are the paths of the electrons zipping around the nucleus. Usually depicted as six paths around the protons and neutrons.
Since there is now that expanded view of a very small atom, when it is visualized in that context is when you realize, those electrons are whizzing around the room. Along with all of the other atoms doing the same thing to everything which makes up all things.
Making every thing around us, including ourselves……get this…….an ILLUSION!!!!
“Just remember that it’s a **Grand illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same…”
– Styx
I learned more about life in those two hours, then I ever could have in any given month of Sundays.
But, what do I know. I are (in my perception, belief, in the illusion) just a dopey truck driver getting paid to sit on my butt and think, whilst staring out through the windshield.
Which, with an agreement with myself and the universe has accepted the reality that even though that glass, isn’t “really” “there”.
For now it is……..
“Just a dichotomous observation.
Maybe I need indifferent “safety” glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
**
“The Grand Illusion”
“Welcome to the Grand illusion
Come on in and see what’s happening
Pay the price,
get your tickets for the show
The stage is set, the band starts playing
Suddenly your heart is pounding
Wishing secretly you were a star.
But don’t be fooled by the radio
The TV or the magazines
They show you photographs
Of how your life should be
But they’re just someone else’s fantasy
So if you think your life is
Complete confusion
Because you never win the game
Just remember that it’s a Grand illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same…
So if you think your life is complete confusion
Because your neighbors got it made
Just remember that it’s a Grand illusion
And deep inside we’re all the same.
We’re all the same…
America spells competition,
Join us in our blind ambition
Get yourself a brand new motor car
Someday soon we’ll stop to ponder what on Earth’s this spell we’re under
We made the grade and still we wonder
Who the hell we are. “
– Styx
Looking at the world through a windshield. 