Napoleon

                                                           It is IMPERATIVE to read between the lines if we are to apprehend Moses' Story fully .    God PARDONED Cain rather than allow his execution, thereby conforming to what would ultimately be released as the First Commandment which would then have been an exercise in Contradiction,, Hypocrisy resulting .   Remember, Cain WAS EXILED into a tribe of lesser-thans--  proto humans -- NEVER TO RETURN TO HUMAN SOCIETY .   That BANISHMENT WAS his Punishment .

                              Remember Western Civ. History :  Napoleon was exiled to Elba as punishment for aspiring to be Emperor of the World .   His Hubris activated Nemesis as was meet and fit .  

                              At some point trump will be deposed, the kind of Suffering he has wantonly inflicted upon American Citizens and THE WORLD cannot be sustained.  One way or another he is going down, and if down means HELL  so be it .

                                                        

                                                       Tare Forward and Keep the Faith  

A vote for Cain is a vote for MURDER

                                                           In yesterday's Reality I voted straight 'democratic' meaning I voted for every democrat on the ballot which was an expression of Belief .  I BELIEVE that republicans are of a specific 'tribe', members of which are incapable of Humanism, at least that aspect of Humanism that demands Respect for and Compassion of fellow Citizens .   They should not be allowed NEAR any governmental authority, not even the DPW, THAT'S how bad they are and what I think of them .    My Belief is origined* in the Bible, where Moses gave us "The Story Of Cain And Abel" .   Here it is where we were exposed to Cain's now FAMOUS retort/question , "Am I my brother's Keeper?"   Clearly republicans are not 'of the mind' to be a Keeper, not even of their own brothers and so much less, their sisters .   Despite having MURDERED his own brother, God saw fit to PARDON Cain, and even give him access to another tribe, that we must assume were early hominids, where he married and had children .   God saw fit to MARK him with a Symbol of Godian Protection, which we must assume was received by those hominids as Special where Special is TERROR-FYING .   God thereby SANCTIONED an Horrific Atrocity ,  must WE, then, ALSO "Sanction"  Human Atrocity ???   Keep in mind Cain's VIOLATION of the First Commandment   THOU SHALL NOT KILL .  Folks will argue that the First Commandment was yet to be received by Humans, but what the fuck changed from God's SANCTION of Murder to HIS Commandment that FORBADE ---KILLING ????? 

"Conform or be cast out"

                                                           Sociologists, among others, insist that "We act according to the way we see things", but they sometimes fail to note that we are TAUGHT not only 'what' to see but HOW to see .  This, of course, is the result of first parenting, second Education, and third 'socialization', which includes exposure to television, film and most print magazine, and in  these our Modern Times, all the media platforms, facebook*, tic tok, instagram and the rest .   The rise of "influencers" is a calibration of the extent ordinary folks will 'go' to be kept informed of fads and fetishes, that they be accepted as part of whichever tribe they wish to define their existence .   No one wants to be labeled an outcast or 'different' because being labeled as such denies them the very thing they desire most 'Acceptance-as-normal' ; Acceptance-as-tribe-member .   Neil Peart, the RUSH drummer and lyricist writes this in the song "Subdivisions" :  

                                          "Subdivision /   In the high school halls /  In the shopping malls /   Conform or be cast out  /  Subdivisions  /   In the basement bars  /   In the backs of cars  /  Be cool or be cast out ..."

                            No one can deny that we maltreat one another, it's odious if not flat-out HIDEOUS but there it is in plain fucking SIGHT.   We "SEE" that a someone is "not like us" so they are REJECTED straightaway---out-of-hand .  No one wants that .  I believe it to be a BULLSHIT Reality, a Reality that DENIES our HUMANITY . It is this Reality that should be REJECTED because it does NOT CONFORM to Evolutionary Standards, the Standards of Human Decency and genuine Compassion .  

                           My "Fight" is to 'remove' this BULLSHIT Reality and replace it with HUMANISM .

                            What is Humanism ?      Good Question .

Reality Bites

                                                           The blogs of October 13th seem to be lifetimes distant .  Yesterday I returned from a very simple road-trip and all I could do was lie down to recover, which I did for almost 4 hours .  I had no gas, no juice to do anything but walk up the stairs and settle into the recliner and watch the news, slipping into snooze mode periodically .   2 words ; pathetic .   At 8:30 I cashed out and awoke at 3 with my T shirt and street shirt drenched from the so called 'night sweats' .   Old Age sucks.  And although I know you folks could care less,,,  I write this as a waring that my head is still 'not rite', that today's work may or may not be "on the level" .   Still I'd rather have diminished out-put than no out-put at all, since there MAY be at least a modicum of value in the blogs, something that MAY be useful .

                            The blogs of Oct. 13th are already stale .   The fire I had to express, has turned from welding hot to campfire flicker .   When you watch news all day there is so much that needs to be addressed that previous day's occupation renders it ALMOST invalid .  I mean, it ISN'T but that doesn't keep the occupation alive but puts it, rather, on 'life support', to be further addressed under different circumstances .   

                             I'm opting to continue the examination of Reality because I DON'T want to bring it up again .   So ......... .

Duty call

                                                            I still must explain why Reality is so important especially with the elections up and coming .    I must hold off for a couple of hours as I have a detail to perform that begins at 7:30 a.m.  and should last until around 8:30 .  Please bear with me .

Reality (4)

 From Robert Pirsig, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE .

                                               "The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans .   The present is our only reality .   The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal .   Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal .  Reality is always the moment of vision BEFORE the intellectualization takes place .   THERE IS NO OTHER REALITY .   This preintellectual  reality is what Phaedrus felt he had properly identified as Quality .   Since all intellectually identifiable things MUST emerge FROM this preintellectual reality, Quality is the parent, the source of all subjects and objects . "   

                "Phenomena, themselves ARE the Absolute"  where Absolute is another word for Reality, this from "The 6 Insights of Mahayana Buddhism" .  

                  You can see it rite ?

                                                               Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Reality (3) The Movie

 Ken Kesey / Tom Wolfe

                                           "A person as all sorts of lags built into him .   One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your sense receive something and you are able to react .   ONE THIRTYETH 1/30 of a second is the time it takes, if you're the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that .   We are, all of us, doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives---we are always acting on what has just finished happening .   It happened at least 1/30 of a second ago .   We think we are in the present but we're not .   The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means .   That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough .

                  "There are all sorts of lags that go along with it .   There are historical and social lags, where people are living by what their ancestors or somebody else perceived, and they may be 25 or 50 years (or centuries) behind, and nobody can be creative without overcoming those lags first of all .   A person can overcome that much through intellect or theory or study of history and so forth and get pretty much into the present that way but he's still going to be up against one of the worst lags of all, the psychological .   Your emotions remain behind because of training, education, the way you were brought up, blocks, hang-ups, and stuff likethat, and as a result your mind wants to go one way and your emotions don't."