St. Thomas

                                                           I am stalled at this point of today's Exercise .   I must find a way to bridge the distance between "The Good Samaritan" and "Being just who you are" .   I never figured to include Shakespeare---I gotta be Honest .   

                             I have asked my Gentle Readers to "play" a "Role" in the transformation of Our Civilization, which now appears as ruthless Hypocrisy .  Didn't see that coming .   

                             The Story of the Good Samaritan is found in Luke 10:30-37 but there is RELEVANT Issue in "The Gospel of Thomas --.  Logion 43 "Be a Passer-by" .  I ask you consider reading them if they are available to You of course, if not a 'Goggle Search" should suffice.

                                                               Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Home and Away

                                                            My Gentle Readers are well familiar with my pet phrase ;  "We ACT according to the WAY we SEE Things", and that is as serviceable as "IT" can be but "IT" is NOT enough because we ACT according to the WAYS and MEANS of our upbringing [rearing] .  We are SOCIALIZED by Our Parents and Society, which includes Education and the like, as well as whatever Religious Instruction that was imposed upon us .    In a sense, we were CONSTRUCTED by Our Parents and THEIR "World View", as well as the Prevailing Social and Cultural Conditions of that Time .   Here it is where "Rebellion" in our Teen-age Years, and later on in our College Years , 18-22, "Occurs" .  During that time we were introduced to OTHER "Ways and Means" which then acted upon Us to re-mold Our Character, to Change Us, to suit OUR Psychological Genetics .   We refer to this as Growth and Maturation .   

                          I'm guessing that many of us heard this admonition form Our parents, "YOU CAN'T ACT THAT WAY IN PUBLIC".   My Mother insisted, "What you do home, you do [when you go] Out [in public].  Here it is where you had-to ACT in a Socially Acceptable Manner, you didn't DARE "be yourself" because "Being Yourself" was Socially --->  UN- Acceptable .   Again with the ACTING . 

                         Shakespeare romanticized that "All the World is a STAGE" that WE are just POOR ACTORS on that Stage .   I shudder to Think that Shakespeare had that kind of Influence on Our Parents and Society and Culture in general, but there "IT" is .   

                         I think we gotta admit, there's something PHONY about being an Actor, we Value those that DO NOT ACT , Those that are GENUINE and TRUE blah-blah-blah .   

                         What the fuck is going on ?  

Conduct

                                                           We must exist in Reality, for the most part .   This means interacting with Those-around-us in a Civil and Polite Manner ,   It should be our wish to promote Peace and NOT to discharge Negativity by interrupting the Harmony of Others .   Here it is where 'Conduct' is the word, and `how we conduct ourselves` is the phrase .   I love the word Conduct, a Conductor is one who leads a Symphony, and, as far as 'model' 'goes', we can be a conductor of not only our personal 'Symphony' but the so-called (by me) the Symphony of Life .   It is said (by me) that we "Orchestrate" Our Existence, we compose the Music of Our Lives and then Perform that "IT" for Others .   I harbor, that we speak in Lyrics, that Our Voice Sings, that Folks hear us the way they hear Music .   Even in exchanging the Pleasantries of the Day, we must be Mindful of the words we use, that they express Goodness, and Honesty DESPITE the sometimes STARK NECESSITY to withhold the Truth, meaning, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THE STORY OF YOUR SUFFERING WHEN THEY ASK "HOW ARE YOU?"  

                                We must Conduct ourselves according to the prevailing Conditions, and be responsive to the Situation and what "IT" demands .   How many times have we flat-out REGRETTED  asking someone How Are YOU ?   Let's not do that, let's NOT subject ourselves to what Steve Miller calls, "Pointless Suffering" .   We have enough of our own Suffering, no one has the Right to impose THEIR Suffering upon US .  

                                 I hear you, "Doesn't a Good Person CARE about Others ?" .   I suppose so, but the Caution exists in the COST to one's Self .   There's a colloquialism that is applicable :  "Misery LOVES company" .   I get it .  No one wants to feel alone in their own Misery but there are two other phrases that Ring out :  "Not my Cross to Bear" ,  and "Your Karma is YOUR Karma" .   

                                "What's a body to do ?"

Miss Leed

                                                           It's getting late and I must attend to other duties, forgive me please .

                             It is said that War is "part" of Human Nature .   Certainly "IT" 's gotta-be THE WORST OF HUMN NATURE but to Us Planetarians, WAR is an ABOMINATION TO OUR SPECIES .   

                            I have conjectured that trump was 'sent' for the WORLD to SEE, that he is manifestation of all the NEGATIVE Characteristics of our Species and as such must be "dealt with" accordingly .   We, as a Species, have veered from a Trajectory of Global Peace and Global Prosperity and have REDuced ourselves to barbarians and savages 'guided' by the now heinous "Law of the Jungle" which generates, "Every man for himself" coupled with "Kill or be Killed" , that is, "Eat or be Eaten" .  

                           Let's Begin by stating the MOST OBVIOUS :

                                               "  WE ALL NEED TO BE LOVED "         

                         Great place to Start .

                                                       Tare forward and Keep the Faith 

"I Sing The Body Electric"

                                                           Medieval Literature speaks of the "Universal Everyman" a "commoner" who trudges through Life with Religion as his Path, so to speak, but He is of  keen Interest because  he  REPRESENTS ALL-OF-US .  I want THAT, to be   the `commoner` that speaks FOR the People, that they may SEE and HEAR   THEIR Inmost Fears, Frustrations, and THEIR Outer Joys and Gratitude .   

                          It is IMPERATIVE that we as Global Citizens and Planetarians "get on the same page" , and I want to supply that "Page" .   There are Universal "Constants" that exist as the Physical Foundations for Our Species , the NEED  for FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, FIRE and  ELECTRICITY .   Folks are gonna argue that >Electricity< is NOT a "Need"----- I disagree .   Can there be MODERN Life without Electricity ?  The Answer is Self-Evident .   In the Ancient of Olden Times we could "get away" with "Earth, Wind {Air to breathe} and Fire" but no longer .  We have EVOLVED and so have our Needs .

                       You mite-wanna* Think that the Planet CAN NOT be Unified because of   Language .   Some would argue that different Languages PREVENT Global Unification and will cite the Bible and its story of "The Tower of Babel as PROOF .   I'm not buyin' it .   Elsewhere I have argued that the Planet ITSELF is of ONE MIND , that the Planet has a Conscious Mind, an UN-Conscious Mind and a Psyche that is EASILY Accessible .   I have offered that the World Wide Web is nothing less than the Neural Net of the HUMAN Brain but E---X---P---A---N---D---E---D to encompass and encapsulate the Earth .   

                       We are  ONE Species and by Definition of ONE Mind, "IT" can be nothing Less .

"Happy Trails"

                                                           I have never even TRIED to hide the fact that I am trying to Save the World from ITS-Self :  one word at a time, one sentence at a time, one blog at a time.   Now you'd be rite in observing that I MAY have the so-called (and dreaded) "Savior Complex" but Trust me, I'm NOT THAT SMART .   All I have ever wanted to do was Repay those that I have Read that Changed me and my Direction and in so doing provided me with Guidance I needed to surmount Life's Obstacles and avoid, traps, pitfalls and circumstances + conditions that assail the Traveler on The Path .   

                              Literature, for "Better and for Worse", provides Us with Maps to Navigate the Ocean of Suffering that is stated as the First Noble Truth =  "ALL EXISTENCE ENTAILS SUFFERING" .   Of all Things-To-Teach , this Buddhist Truth is the most DIFFICULT for Others to accept .   It is CRUCIAL to also Realize {Real Eyes, Eyes that SEE the Truth} that Life is NOT  >>>Suffering<<< but Life ---> ENTAILS <  Suffering .   There would be NO WAY to Express the vaunted, "Majesty of Being" if the World was NEGATIVE form Its Start .    We must try to Accept that Buddhism and Its 8-Fold Noble Path is a Suffering MANAGEMENT System, and I use >System< instead of Science because Science bespeaks Difficulty, many folks do not "Like" Science and Woody Allen says it best :

                                               "Science is nothing but an Intellectual DEAD END ."

                              I LOVE That .   

"And the Magic Number IS ______ " .

                                                           Out of a cosmic Curiosity I engaged Google Chrome asking, How many countries are 'reading' my blogs ?   As of April 1st 2026 there are 135 

                                                          ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE  !!!!

                               2 words :  I AM STUNNED !!!!

                                While I was at U. Conn. if the now Famous "Some One" were to have told me I would be read GLOBALLY I would have scoffed and been irritatingly dismissive .  2 words :  IMPOSSIBLE !

                               Yet here I am, There "IT" is .   My Gratitude is INFINITE .   THANK YOU for having an Interest in my "Work" .  

                                I have refrained from stating some blatantly Esoteric phenomena :  I use phenomena because information, data, and facts are victims of Bias, they shouldn't be considered Objective DESPITE their Veracity .   The Phenomena of which I speak is Personal but because I have just learned of my >Reach< I find it necessary to do some "SPLAINING", Code for EX-PLAINING; and even better X-PLAINING .

                             More to follow .... .