(Like a child in a
Societal system
That only encourages
The saving of fetuses
To be birthed as
Consumer fodder
To unwitting parents
Without regards to
A soul’s divinity or
Personal responsibility
This post………nearly
Fell through the cracks)
Gunning Down
The population
Several students
At a time as if they are
Sovereign citizens
Standing over a
Valuable resource
To be stolen by
Crude corporations
Making unnecessary
Death……
Acceptable
As school shootings
Being so commonplace
They have become
Less interesting than
High speed car chases
Guns don’t kill people
Parents who buy
Their children guns
Kill other children
Wonder if Jennifer
and James Crumbley
Are “pro-life”
(I’m guessing…….sort of)
(At the least……pro-narcissist)
Think also that they
Were each so self
Absorbed in their own
Unconscious lives
They bought their son
A stay at home
Do-it-yourself
Self abortion kit
Which instead got used
As a show-and-tell
Take to school random
Post natal abortion tool
“The defendants had information long before Nov. 30 (six months prior to the shooting) that their son’s only friend moved at the end of October, that the family dog died, that their son was sadder than usual, and that he was sending his mother disturbing texts about his state of mind,” the prosecution wrote in a Thursday court filing. “Instead of paying attention to their son and getting him help, they bought him a gun.”
– Detroit Free Press
Maybe politicians are so well greased
From the sweaty palms of the NRA
The blood on their hands does not stick
As somewhere in the back of
Their empty heads they can justify
Doing nothing to curb the violence
Placating the proletariat of their “rights”
To “defend” property and “free-dumb”
Though their constituents children
Are slaughtered like fish in a barrel as
Potential corpses in a classroom
While I may not have been
That sad or self destructive
In my teenage years at least
My parents were aware enough
(Semi-comatose conscious)
Not to have a hand held
Weapon of mass destruction
Anywhere in my presence
With an absolutely clear and
Definitively innuendoed message
Not to reproduce the likes of me
They knew just enough that a child
Was to be seen and not to be heard/herd
“Just an observation, Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Too soon?????
“Jeremy”
At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
And the dead lay
In pools of maroon below
Daddy didn’t give attention
Oh, to the fact that mommy didn’t care
King Jeremy The Wicked
Ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Clearly I remember
Pickin’ on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
But we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recess lady’s breast
How could I forget
And he hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurting
Dropped wide open
Just like the day
Oh, like the day I heard
Daddy didn’t give affection, no!
And the boy was something that mommy wouldn’t wear
King Jeremy The Wicked
Ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Try to forget this (try to forget this)
Try to erase this (try to erase this)
From the blackboard
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in
Jeremy spoke in class today
(spoke in) (spoke in)
(spoke in) (spoke in)
(spoke in) (spoke in)
– Pearl Jam
On nonsense of the past
Completely un-provable
Save some polished theories
Which get regurgitated
As often as necessary
That due to an asteroid
Dinosaurs became extinct
As a cultural meme based
More on indoctrination
Than actual tangible proof
Whether plausible or not
Becomes an unquestionable
Fact generally accepted
Because after all who is
Going to waste their time
Refuting its factual-ality
Since it happened about some
Vague millions of years ago
245 to 66 million to be “exact”
Voila there is the basis
For most religious beginnings
Which only happened about
Give or take 1600 years ago
Completely un-provable
Highly improbable and illogical….like
Where did Caine’s wife come from?
If that can be answered perhaps
I can keep reading and believe… yet
Why would an APAKALOBCOL*
Murder by drowning “his” creation
Boredom frustration anger or just
Forgot to create a therapist to help “HIM”
Deal with his “mommy” issues
*
(All Powerful All Knowing All Loving Omniscient Being Creator Of Life)
Ooops this was about dinosaurs
Sorry took my usual sidetrack
Questioning unquestionable beliefs
I have been to Dinosaur museums
Find them interesting and presumptive
However, short of a guided tour
From a verrrrry elderly paleontologist
The only thing to make me believe
The birth, age and demise of
Dinosaurs is a small placard
In front of the display with the “facts”
Here’s an excerpt from a previous post
To try and explain that theory
(Group of tourists going through
A jurassic museum as their guide
Explains a fossil of a dinosaur is
Two million two years and three months old…
Fascinated, a guest inquires how has it
That it has been narrowed down so exact
Has the museum tweaked the carbon dating
Or come up with some radiation method
How could it possibly be so accurate
As the guide confidently states they started
To work here two years and three months ago
What you know is what has been taught
It is convenient and easily repeatable)
Think about our alphabet and numerical system. There weren’t always twenty six letters or ten digits. S o m e o n e……made them up…….and then someone else added to them, likewise removed some of them.
“The Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded to a California professor who has discovered a new number!
The number is bleen, which he claims belongs between 6 and 7.”
George Carlin
“We made the whole thing up!”
George Carlin
Not to mention, numerals or letters were not always the same shape, until very recently. Save for a variety of categorized fonts, into systematic conformity they follow in rigid lines and curves of specificity by who knows who on who’s authority.
What would we do with, say 32 letters. First, we would all have to learn a new keyboard.
How can we do that, since we stopped evolving with opposable thumbs.
That many letters on a keyboard would require a rinky finger, right between the ring and the pinky finger. Who has eons of time for that?
See how that new word “rinky” just evolved in context into a new name for a 6th digit on a hand that will never exist in the future.
I made it up.
“Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing?
It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant.
We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? There’s another 90 percent of our brains that we have to illuminate.”
– Bill Hicks
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Wouldn’t it be more adventuresome
If flying was inherently more risky
Say… one in twenty or so crashed
Not that I’m advocating for that
Rather more of a thought experiment
Manufactured from the cheap seats in
An aluminum tube 30K ft above (see) level
After being poked and prodded steered
Branded, through one way gates into a
Back straight, head forward, eyes glued
Feet crooked, elbows in, waist strapped
Technological marvel in the atmosphere
(Speaking of crashes, does anyone believe
That seat belt is going to do anything besides
Help identify bodies by seating assignment?)
Nevermind, here is the thought experiment.
What if….
Because of the above proposed risk the
Seating wasn’t so damned crowded and
Structured into fellow passenger ignoring
Screen staring, ears plugged conformity
The layout was as such that the seats
Are comfortable also even movable
Secured perhaps but more like a lounge
So that in two to seven hours on what
Might be your last flight anyway you took
A chance and unencumbered you spoke
(Ahhhhhhhh)(Yikes) with a “stranger” ??
Found out why they too were rolling the
Sky dice. Business, family, sightseeing
Or just a plain plane gambling addict
Like a grand scale of Russian roulette
Don’t get me wrong, I am good at avoiding
People like the plague, however in that
Given circumstance it would be interesting
Dialog beyond the usual cliche conversation
Of the uninteresting drivel that usually occurs
Where the answer is as programmed as
The innocuous question in the first place
Avoiding eye contact and emotions
With a looming gravitational demise
One could really get some insight into
A fellow earthly spaceship traveler’s
Fears, hopes likes and reason for the risk
So that if there were no crash at all
You would walk away with an experience
Unlike any other destination you could
Have possibly been to, that interesting
Besides, if for nothing else at all
Once and for all, to get on an airplane
You would no longer ever ever have to go
Through that illusion of the “security” check
Of the dehumanizing personal space violation
That systemic systematically happens now
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Hope you enjoyed this flight.
When I understand
The language of the soul
(I’m guessing it is not English)
The numbers of the spirits
That move through me
Surround me and
Help me keep balance
Ever on the cusp
Between life and death
Of which there is
Neither of either
Only this moment
Experienced through a
Kaleidoscope of distraction
Must need focus on
Every ray of light
That makes it through
Not hold on to it though
Just experience it
Then let it go
Otherwise a shadow
Remains to be cast
By a temporal body
Holding on to nothing
Until that awareness
Takes place
The projection
Of an invisible man
Floating aimlessly
In the sky adjacent
Like a spirit less big brother
Is just one more
Man-made up distraction
Completely w/o merit
As a heavily lopsided
Reality shaking
Patriarchal energy
That knows not
Empathy or nurturing
Never creation
Only destruction
“All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.”
— Albert Einstein
The first step might
Be knowing where
These words come from
Save a force that uses
My fingers to write them
So I may read them
To help me understand
Or perhaps from……….
“Living on a razor’s edge.
Balancing on a ledge.
Living on a razor’s edge on…
Balancing on a ledge on…
Balancing on a ledge on…
Living on a razor’s edge.
Balancing on a ledge you know … you know !!
The evil that men do lives on and on !….”
Iron Maiden
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
“Lift me up out of this illusion lord
Heal my perception, that I may
Know only reality and only you”
– Bill Hicks
“Lift me Lord”
No matter how big one
Ego/narcissisticly thinks
They see the “BIG” picture
There will always be a
Bigger picture they can’t see
Besides how much can be
Seen with just two eyes
Or sensed with the third eye
Imagine from any distance
How big the picture is while
Keeping an eye on yourself
Think of how small a gnat is
To how tall you are
To how high a tree is
Growing on a mountain top
That you won’t see the top of
Because it is so big
Let us not stop there
Keep going up or out
Depending on perception
Squeezing through satellites
That mountain is now as big
As the gnat you pictured
Further out you see earth
In relationship to what we
Egotistically call “our” sun
Now a small dot amongst
Nine various sized dots
Up out and away you see
Other stars holding together
Their own planets in orbits
While being part of an even
Larger band of stars surrounding
A black hole in the center
Of the Milky Way galaxy
Fascinated or scared
Matters not for in outer space
No one can hear you scream
Not only that it is fatally cold
Though you are reading this
Somewhere much warmer
Not done yet you now see
The Milky Way as a bright dot
Like once you saw our “sun”
Then other bright dots
Scattered around the cosmos
For no apparent reason or rhyme
Not even approaching the
Fathom-ability that there are
Other bipedal lifeforms
Contemplating similar scenarios
Because they are too busy
Trying to see their big picture
It is only after cycling through
That expansion exercise
Will you discover how
Important the little picture is
The one that is right in front
Of you to realize that the
Little picture is the big picture
Making the significance
In our insignificance
Significant
Meanwhile, we might all just
Be dancing on the head of a pin
Alas though, from a subjective
Perspective we can’t see that
For if my understanding is understood
The same view can be seen
Through a microscope whereas
Instead of planets and stars
Whizzing around the same is true
For quarks neutrinos and
Other subatomic particles
Just depends on how it is observed
Keep an eye on the “BIG” picture
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
A traffic accident
Gawkers paradise
.
Rubbernecking is a
Preventable disease
Keep your eyes
On the road and off
The cold corpses
On the concrete
Lookie-loos only
Exacerbate the problem
Creating more work
For EMT workers
Life flight pilots
Tow truck drivers
Autobody repairs
Insurance paperwork
Guardrail repair people
Doctors and coroners
Casket makers and
Grave diggers
.
Drive wise the life
You save may be your own
Though you won’t be
The center of attention
To repeat the story
Of the horrific accident
You once saw in the
Briefest of moments
That takes longer to tell
Than it did to occur
.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Best
At best
At its best
Is still just
An opinion
Or tallying up
Of telling
Opinions
Making best
Meaningless
As it means
Nothing
Or is that
Just mean
I learned this years ago after Professor William Lutz wrote Double Speak .
Like using “Best” to sell vehicles
Ford or Chevy are the best
“In “their” class”
In a vague set of parameters
Undisclosed in the ad
But still…..each is the “best”
Basically the same material
In slightly different shapes
With “different” features
Let’s see
All have 4 tires and an
Engine that propels them
Either forward or reverse
Brakes to lessen speed
With somewhere between
Two & four doors and all…
With round steering wheels
From robotic automated
Assembly lines with humans
Maintaining the machines
Oooooh!!
Can’t get much better than that
At prices and payments higher
Than some houses and mortgages
All because someone got the
Best deal on the best vehicle
At the best price at the best time (now)
From the best dealer
Language makes us funny
Consumer creatures
Along with icons (stars)
‘Member those from
“Grade” school???
“Gold” foil ones
Were the “best”
Also made-up
Rating systems
Making the two best things
Individuality and intelligence
The first things that are thrown
Out of the classroom window
Even though the parents are sure
They have sent their children
Off to the best schools
With the best teachers
In the best neighborhoods
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“Or the best ones if
I could only find them.”
– Angelo Devlin
To fill broken containers.
Plastered on trailer doors and plastic bumpers, posing as highway reading material.
Here is company “X”s” empty message.
Printed out over a picture of a wavy flag.
(Which I understand, according to US flag code….is unlawful to use in…… advertising.)
Ooopsie. How, ummm……. patriotic.
It is nor even an ad to conjure up more business, it is just an empty message.
“We support our troops wherever we go. No aid or comfort to the enemy – NO WAY!”
For God’s sake, is that what Jesus would do?
It is not even a rallying cry
It is a cry of desperation
To feel significant of being
Able to conquer bogeyman
Conjured up by invisible power
Through manufactured consent
To keep all too many distracted
From their own divinity by
Projecting projections onto
Fellow divine space travelers
As somehow being an enemy
It is without logic and reason
And various core religious beliefs
Save their wackadoodle fringe
Making their own interpretation
Who likes to think “their” God
Has a bigger dick than other God’s
If X really supported troops. I mean really supported troops, they would do everything to keep individuals from becoming a “troop” in the first place. By recognizing that we are all borne out of Gaia consciousness with no meaningful separation of our fellow space travelers. None that I’ve ever found.
Instead of maintaining an environment of toxicity. That it is just a ruse for commerce, stealing otherwise shareable resources.
Under the guise of greed pig capitalism.
Sold to this country’s crass consumers of crude as democracy. Which on the down low and the wink-wink is better known as..Want lower fuel prices, all power has to do is to convince some, it’s okay to kill your siblings.
Speaking of which, aren’t we due for another major war soon? It has been almost twenty years, since our last focused distraction.
As long as I’m editorializing on roving roadway reading material, read recently off of a red rusted rideable wreck.
Read the following.
Don’t believe fake news.
Hmmm, really “fake” news. It is almost all fake. It is presented in an entertainment forum, why do you think most programs are called “shows”?
Show:
“to present as a public spectacle: perform.”
M-W.com
The key words on that bumper sticker are believe and fake. Regardless the topic or action, if one doesn’t believe in it, or rejects it because it is personally unliked then it is “fake”.
Well who is going to be the arbiter of whatever is real or fake. Some dude with a red hat and red tie, that could be Santa Claus and we all know how real he is.
What one must try to comprehend is that beliefs are just ideas indoctrinated over time under the constant torturous drip of information into plausible perceptions that something tangible exists as “true”, when nothing could be further from the truth.
But that is how the human mind operates, when nothing is questioned to assess individually what is real, against what is believed.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“At least while I’m driving”
– Angelo Devlin
I heard a news report that this current administration, (Most of that sewage flows through my auditory canal) has two main focuses.
One of which is to do everything to foist the lives of children. Health care and education etcetera.
“Here’s another platitude they jam down your throat”
“Children are our future”
“Children are not our future and I can prove it with my usual flawless logic.
Children can’t be our future because by the time the future arrives they won’t be children anymore.”
– George Carlin
The other is to do anything or everything (meaning nothing) to protect the environment. (Watch and wait with the brown polar bears as the glacial ice caps are re-frozen.)
“You know, there’s environmentalists and there’s people who just hate environmentalists. People get angry at environmentalists because they think they’re slowing down the economy and creating restrictions and a lot of these people are Christian.
A lot of these people are very devout Christians and that’s such a confusing thing to me, that if you believe that God gave you the Earth, that God created Earth for you, why would you not have to look after it?
Why the fuck– Why would you not think that when he came back he wouldn’t go, “What the fuck did you do?” “I gave this to you, motherfucker.
Are you crazy?” “The polar bears are brown.” “What did you do to the polar bears?” “Did you shit all over every polar bear?”
“What did you–who did this? Who spilled this shit? Who spilled this?” “Come over here. Did you fucking spill this? What is that?”
“It’s oil. It’s just some oil. I didn’t mean to spill–”
“Well why did you take it out of the fucking ground?”
“Because I wanted to go faster.” “I’m not fast enough.” “And I was cold.”
“What the fuck do you mean, ‘cold’?”
“I gave you everything you needed, you piece of shit.”
“Well, because jobs, and I wanted–”
“What is a job? Explain to me, what’s a fucking job?”
“Well, like you work at a place and people call when their game doesn’t work and you help them figure it out.”
“What do you do that for?”
“For money.”
“What do you need money for?”
“Food.”
“Just eat the shit on the floor.” “I left shit all over the floor.” “Fucking corn and wheat and shit. Grind it up, make some bread. What are you doing?”
– Louis CK
Whether it be reducing the consumption of fossil fuel or coal in exchange for solar or wind power, the resources all have to be extracted from the Earth. Causing different damage it will still be slow to recover from. All the while using petroleum products to move it from point A to Z.
At least for now, it is less deadly as no wars are being waged over resource stealing, under the guise of democracy and freedumb.
Encouraging and enabling the former while trying to protect and save the latter is merely two locomotives connected together on the same track heading in opposite directions. Going nowhere fast.
“Save the planet!” What?! Are these fucking people kidding me?! Save the planet?! We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another and we’re gonna save the fucking planet?!
I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m tired of fucking Earth Day! I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths!
People trying to make the world safe for their Volvo’s! Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit 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 some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages …And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn’t going anywhere.
WE are!”
– George Carlin
There is not a footwear manufacturer large enough to make a boot to cover, the carbon footprint the exponential burgeoning population is leaving behind. That is jackbooted against the carotid artery of mother earth’s neck.
“Her love rains down on me
As easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
Burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
The earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back some day
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back some day
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day”
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
“The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation, just another closed end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac.
The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance.
//
Take care of yourself and take care of somebody else.”
– George Carlin
“The planet is fine”
So instead of meaningful legislation and incentives* to reduce the population. The children / environment focused distraction is there to brighten and polish a comfortable pot to cook the tadpoles and frogs in.
Ribbit
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
*
“If I had any cause over the course of my career that I’ve bitched the most about, It’s overpopulation, which is the root of most of the other problems you care about.
//
The only solution that I’ve ever come up with, Which I think is great, but no one’s gotten on board, incentive-based eugenics.
Eugenics was a practice of sterilizing people. Hitler got a lot of the credit for it, but it was actually done in this country long before Hitler even knew who he was mad at. We were practicing eugenics in this country.
Eugenics was the practice of forced sterilization of undesirables, which sounds bad. And the way they did it was bad ’cause they would…
First of all, the force is wrong. You don’t force people to do things they don’t want to do. And, “b,” who decides who’s undesirable?
They were doing it in this country At the turn of the 20th century, Which is the 1900s, for a lot of my fans. Early 1900s. To criminals, perverts, which is way too vague, the mentally ill, mentally retarded, homosexuals, which makes perfect sense. We don’t want them breeding.
//
But if you took away the force, And you just made it incentive-based for people willing to sterilize themselves. Offer up some white trash prizes. You know, Nascar pit pass, meet your favorite driver. All you’ve got to do is snip the sac. “Really?” Year’s supply of sunny delight. You want some sunny d, don’t you?
//
What do we got to do? “Are you telling me, if I cut off my balls, I’m going crossbow hunting with Ted Nugent?” Well, shit, yeah. “No. No, sir, sir, sir. Wait, no. “We don’t actually cut off your balls.
We just make a small incision with a local anesthetic.” “F%@! you. I want you to cut off my whole balls. “I’m gonna hang them from my rear-view mirror “like a lucky rabbit’s foot. “I’m going crossbow hunting with the Nuge. I ain’t never won nothing in my life.”
That’s a workable plan. Can’t argue with that. It just won’t happen.”
– Doug Stanhope
‘Tis the season…….
This has been in the chamber for a while.
I would extinguish myself, if I didn’t think life was such a meddlesome joke or that I would have to do it all over again.
“My spirits are low in the depths of despair.
My lifeblood…
…Spills over…”
Rush “2112”
“Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven’s claws “
Jim Morrison “An American Prayer”
“Feel the sweat break on my brow
Is it me or is it shadows that are
Dancing on the walls.
Is this a dream or is it now
Is this a vision or normality I see
Before my eyes.
I wonder why I wonder how
That it seems
The powers getting stronger
Every day
I feel a strength an inner fire
But I’m scared
I won’t be able to control it anymore
There’s a time to live and a time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying.
Just by looking through your eyes
He could see the future penetrating right
In through your mind
See the truth and see your lies
But for all his power
Couldn’t foresee his own demise
There’s time to live and time to die
When it’s time to meet the maker
There’s time to live but isn’t it strange
That as soon as you’re born you’re dying…
…and reborn again??”
“The Clairvoyant”
– Iron Maiden
Fear not, this is merely a dark post on the topic of suicide and unintentionally reincarnation.
Besides I understand the following.
“And if you die by your own hand
As a suicide you shall be damned
And if you try to save your soul
I will torment you – you shall not grow old
With every second and passing breath
You’ll be so alone your soul will bleed to death”
“Moonchild”
– Iron Maiden
Still find it an inherently interesting contemplation as a means to paradigm shift into an elevated degree of consciousness of consequences. Or consciousness alone.
After all, if things thought, make decisions so desperately dire demanding demise, then the turnaround is as equally optimistic for an alternative. Why not, at that critical point, what have you got to lose. You will go through it all again anyway.
“Infinity is so big, that everything that has ever happened, on earth in the exact same order, down to………. that … pause has happened an infinite number of times, all through out the universe.
Everywhere in space, there is a you, making the same colossal f**king errors, that you’ve made your entire life.
So if anybody ever tells you, you can do better. Go, apparently not.”
That’s infinity.”
Joe Rogan
Besides, I have infinitely more reasons to stick around than not to than I do to not.
Just need to apprise myself of them more often.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Or a crystal clear crystal ball.
“Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn’t work out the way I want it to
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn’t work out the way I want it to
It’s like I concentrate real hard and it doesn’t work out
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out
It’s like I need time to figure these things out
But there’s always someone there going
Hey Mike:
You know we’ve been noticing you’ve been having a lot of problems lately
You know, maybe you should get away and maybe you should talk about it, maybe you’ll feel a lot better
And I’m all like:
Oh nah it’s ok you know I’ll figure it out, just leave me alone I’ll figure it out
You know I’m just working on it by myself
And they go:
Well you know if you want to talk about it I’ll be here you know and you’ll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it
So why don’t you talk about it?
And I go:
No I don’t want to I’m okay, I’ll figure it out myself
But they just keep bugging me and they just keep bugging me, and it builds up inside
So you’re gonna be institutionalized
You’ll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
You won’t have anyting to say
They’ll brainwash you until you see their way
I’m not crazy – Institutionalized
You’re the one that’s crazy – Institutionalized
You’re driving me crazy – Institutionalized
They stuck me in an institution,
Said it was the only solution,
to give me the needed professional help
to protect me from the enemy – Myself”
//
MY best interests?! How do you know what MY best interest is?
How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say, I’M crazy?
When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches. I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities?!
So how can you say I’M crazy?
They say they’re gonna fix my brain
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
But by the time they fix my head
Mentally I’ll be dead
//
From the much longer, killer song…….
“Institutionalized”
– Suicidal Tendencies
On a lighter note, from George….
“Suicide is for people who can’t wait to find out where the hell it is you go,
“Holy s___, I been waiting a long time”
I don’t have many nights like that.
But when you think about it,you know, *mumbling*
Suicide.
I always pictured myself on the ledge. There’s gotta be a little show business involved. You know, you don’t wanna slump over a porcelin fixture.
“Let me get up here.. Hey-y-y-y-y-y!”
Set the record, be the first guy to reach the double yellow line. Have you picture in the centerfold of the newspaper. Actually, a picture of the building with a dotted line showing “Leaper’s Path” Suicide!
Suppose you worked on the Suicide Hotline. Helping people talk them out of it.
That’s your job,
“Hello, Suicide Hotline.”
And one morning you wake up a little depressed. Should you call in sick?
I’d like to see a top salesman commit suicide. A really persuasive guy up on the ledge. And the Priest talks him out of it. And he talks the Priest in to it.
People say maybe you’ll come back. Reincarnation. Do you think so? Well, it doesn’t seem mathematically possible to me, man.
Ah, ’cause at one time all we had on the Earth was 6 people, you know. I avoid 2 because it’s controversial, but 6. Most people will agree,
“Oh f___ ya, we had 6 at one time, yeah”
6 people, 6 souls. Cool! They died, souls went back to the place. 6 new people, souls *Whew* Still 6 souls.
Now we have 4 (almost 8) billion people claiming to have souls. Someone is printing up souls. And it lowers their value, you know.”
“Death and dying”
– George Carlin
Other lyrical ways to prevent suicide
“Don’t
Forget
Your
Second
Wind”
“You’re only human”
– Billy Joel
“Don’t try suicide, nobody gives a damn”
“The Game”
– Queen
“This is the only life for me – yeah
Surround myself around my own fantasy
You just gotta be strong and
Believe in yourself
Forget all the sadness
‘Cause love is all you need
Love is all you need
Do you know what it’s like
To be alone in this world
When you’re down and out on your luck
and you’re a failure
Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
You think it’s all been a waste of time
It’s been a bad year
You start believing
Everything’s gonna be alright
Next minute you’re down and
You’re flat on your back
A brand new day is beginning
Get that sunny feeling and you’re on your way (way)
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Do you know how it feels when you don’t have friend (friend)
Without a job and no money to spend
You’re a stranger
All you think about is suicide
One of these days you’re gonna lose the fight
You better keep out of danger – yeah
That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside (inside)
You keep telling yourself it’s gonna be the end
Oh – get yourself together
Things are looking better everyday (day)
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows
Just believe – just keep passing the open windows”
“Keep Passing” from “The Works”
– Queen
Looking at the world through a windshield. 