Do you ever get a chance to have a
Completely philosophical conversation
Utilizing rational thought experiments
Based on perceived aspects of reality
Where restraints of beliefs are lifted
With a stated premise that outcomes
Do not need to have a rapt conclusion
Such as suggesting it is not really
Human’s nature to be brutal and violent
That that is leftover residue from our
Reptilian brain of excruciatingly slow
Evolution fight or flight kill or be killed
Passing the instinctual surviving into
Aeon length generational indoctrination
Through word of mouth then later books
With the other person not forgetting
The premise to suspend “known” info
Before falling back into the trap of
No, it is this way………..because……….
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Ever have one of those conversations?
Yeah, me neither.
Heck, it is hard enough to have that
Conversation with myself.
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
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– Angelo Devlin
Winning or Losing
It is about leadership
Awareness and evolution
And as soon as the
Collective realizes that
The sooner
We will start winning
Because the previous
Definition of winning
Meant making
The rich richer
The poor poorer
The guests unwelcomed
The families separated
The walls higher
The morality lower
Specific peoples banned
Specific people with
Specific beliefs banned
Loyalty to one not to all
Wishing away disaster
(Just around the corner)
Ignoring emoluments clause
Riling racism
Burgeoning bigotry
Cheating at golf
Apparently enough
Were sick of that
Kind of “winning”
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Nothing of judgment ego or deceit
Only life death recycle and repeat
If we could only have that clarity
Instead conjuring new disparities
We are not separate from nature
All we have to do now is mature
Learn and grow in the available light
Do right even in the shadows of night
Instead we rely on the systems of men
Making the same mistakes over and again
Trying to evolve based on what “he” knows
Impossible, that changes as the wind blows
Given nature always has the power to decide
We should just sit back and enjoy the ride
“It is just a ride”
– Bill Hicks
I do not always
Comb my hair
But when I do
I use a towel
Around in my concentric bubble
Padded with narcissism and ego
Occasionally opening a curtain
To glimpse the outside world
Which ultimately looks safer
Then the locked cell I occupy
How does that saying go
Better the devil you know
Than the devil you don’t know
Still, like the definition of insanity
I am expecting different results
If I can just tweak my perceptions
Enough to better understand people
Why they believe what they believe
While behaving so discordantly
Against what they convey in dialog
Memes and regurgitated rhetoric
Perhaps they too are doing what
I am doing in my concentric bubble
Blissfully floating around in theirs
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Are much easier to remember
As most all of society participates
In perpetuating said untruths
E.g. a book written and rewritten
Translated from ancient languages
Revised and regurgitated
Describing an impossible past
Of how your ancestors appeared
Before being maliciously drowned
Having been left to their own de-vices
Fought battled and died horribly
For no particular reason save
Acquisition of land and power
Though land “ownership” is impossible
(Can’t take it with you when you die)
And no one has a “right” to it
Anymore than anyone else does
Save by printed pieces of paper
That say so and who owes who for it
To the tune of trillions of Dollars
Euro’s Francs Pounds Lira Yen Rupi
Dinar Pesos Shekels Kohns Rubles
Likewise a “Constitution”
Written then altered in such
Vague language it needs
Nine rotating alleged experts
Adorned with “Supreme” monikers
(Not fair compassionate or reasonable)
To constantly and continuously
Decipher and reinterpret
Through debate and denial
Extended into government
Systems of rules and laws
Who can kill who or what
With impunity or incarceration
Under a deceptive and supposed
Inclusive notion of “We the people”
Though right off the bat it didn’t
Even include 1/2 the population
Plus dismissed anything less than
Caucasian as being less than people
Of course one could say it has been
Modified to correct inequities but
Not so you would really notice it
Any more than painting an old car
That runs poorly but looks ok
Hiding its truth to everyone
Refusing to look under the hood
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“And That’s the Truth”
“Pblblthhhh”
– Lily Tomlin
Albeit, a cautious sigh of relief
Besides all of the voting bs
Doesn’t it feel like we are simply
A school of fish synchronously
Swimming away from danger
Not because of a new leader
Rather a collective awareness that the
Direction we were heading was wrong
That we are accepting our humanness
That under all of the surface layers
When the ghost has left the machine
All that remains is a similar skeleton
Without lungs to let out a sigh of relief
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
You can convince
Someone to change
Their beliefs
Give it a test run
Start with your own
See how willing you
Are to change yours
Any belief will do
Religion creation
Evolution race
Kennedy assassination
September 11, 2001
Election meddling etc.
What belief do you
Hold so strongly that
With overall resounding
Fact based evidence in
Forms that you trust
Would it take to alter
Any one belief that still
You cling to. Hmmm?
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That should be quite easy depending on how tight or loose you decide to set the parameters of whether or not you’ve changed your beliefs.
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My guess is you haven’t.
Supposition is just as
Absurd as circumstantial
“Credible” sources
Heresay rumor and print
Are as equally valid
As they are invalid
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
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Believe what you want to believe
Because that is how beliefs work
Even though there may be plenty of
Insurmountable evidence to prove
Any one person’s beliefs are ludicrous
Unsubstantiated or 1000% correct
Nobody or verifiable proof can change
What rolls around in your cranium
If in fact that is where they come from
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For me beliefs come from my big left toe
Because that is how beliefs work
“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
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………..and just for a split second
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You wondered if I actually believe that…..
Of course not….everyone knows beliefs
Come from behind their right knee
Or so I’ve been told or read somewhere
Thank you for reading these words
And hopefully questioning your beliefs
“All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ‘em real.”
Bill Hicks
A really truly APAKALOB
(All Powerful All Knowing All Loving Omniscient Being)
Would have written
A “Bible” pamphlet
All by them self
Stating :
Be kind to each other
Take care of everyone
With abundant resources
This planet is balanced
To provide everything
You will ever need
As long as it is kept
In balance and care
You will never want
For anything you do
Not already have
Instead of waiting
4.5 some billion years
For men to conjure up
Impossible bs stories
(Like leaving out where
O where did Caine’s
Wife come from)
Of an allegedly
Loving God
Who although “created”
Them in his “image”
Mandated certain ones
Deform their penises
For identification purposes
Where’s the love in that?
Or omniscience for that matter
And although “he” could
Create all of the other
Plant animal amphibian
Sea creatures reptiles
Dinosaurs birds and the like
In both genders
In one fell swoop
(2 or 3 days) Opted
To make the humanoid
Female from the male
So as to be permanently
Or semi permanently
Subjugated to “mans”
Wishes and ownership
Control and ridicule
Violence and torture
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Actually methinks God
Wrote that Bible pamphlet
Indelibly on our hearts
It is just that it has been
Buried under generations
Through aeons of time
Of indoctrination by greed
Fear ego worthlessness
Because it is easier
To get caught up in
Dichotomous details
Such as good vs. evil
Black and white
Us vs. them
Right and wrong
Than calming consciousness
Knowing everything is energy
In different forms and degrees
Giving and receiving heat and light
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Holy (holey) Moses
I should not be listening
To “The Bible In 90 days”
I do not think I am getting
Out of it what was intended
(Manipulation control fear)
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“Just an observation, maybe I need different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
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Where this should have stopped
…………………But I digress
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Would your life be anymore
Meaningless than it is now
Or have much more meaning
If you knew differently
From what you know now
That perhaps in the miracle
Of living on this planet in
The Goldilocks zone of being
Neither too hot or too cold
We simply had manifested
Into our current evolution through
A life force that developed from
The primordial ooze maternal
Love known as Gaia consciousness
With that awareness should we not
Be taking care of our aging mother
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“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
Looking at the world through a windshield. 