Virtues

                                                          Ben muses, "He is ill cloth'd who is bare of Virtue" .   We can translate .  One who lacks Virtue, is ill-SUITED for Public Display .   Can Virtue be "bought" ?  Yes, of course and NO, most definitely .   Can that answer be Truth ?  Indeed YES.   

                           One who is Virtuous has TRUTH as a Mental Foundation .   Virtue implies HONESTY and a most rigorous Devotion to "What is Right, Fair, and Just" .    When Truth is abandoned Virtue evaporates .   Simple .

                         Here are the "Seven Heavenly Virtues" :

  

              Chastity ---- Charity ---- Patience ---- Temperance ---- Diligence ----Kindness ---- Humility

                         Be HONEST    How many of these Virtues are in your Possession ?    Take your time ... 

               

Ben-fucius

                                                           My Guy and Mentor/Hero, Robert Pirsig, exclaimed this ,

                                 "When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of                                                             another mind that thinks and talks like yours does is something close to a blessed event."

                       Such was my GREAT Experience this morning --  my so-called "BLESS-ED EVENT" .

                       Straight-away I give you one of Ben's >>> Thoughts <<< :

                                         "The proof of gold is fire, the proof of a woman, [is] gold;  the proof of man, [is]   a WOMAN !!!   

                         Anyone see THAT coming ?????   I sure didn't .  I LOVE it nonetheless... .

                        Earlier, I proclaimed ;   Behind every Great Man,  there is a GREATER WOMAN .

                        Since I began blogging I have wanted to introduce Confucius and his The Analects to my Gentle Readers with the wish that they receive him as I have .   I contend that Ben Franklin is the Confucius of Ancient America , that his Life SYMBOLIZES that which can be Achieved and Attained by one who is Devoted to Self, and one's Country .   

                          Although Confucius is NOT "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and it is unlikely that Confucius had an interest in natural Electricity, he remains the preeminent Authority of the Social Graces, Traditions and Customs of a SUPER-GREAT Empire .   Ben IS,,  on the other hand,,,,  a Pre "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and CIVILIZATION IS THE GREATER FOR IT .  But what makes Ben so HUMANLY MONUMENTAL is his Writings, the pith and stark of NATURAL WISDOM that results from the Observation of Social & Cultural Conditions , and his Ability to set them forth, as though releasing an apiary of bees to fertilize the flora of an Intellectual Landscape .   

                        That's me,,,rite there .

The Coping Cop

                                                          I have devoted This Week to Kiddie Lit, Wisdom of the Ages, American Mythologies and America Folk Lore because of  "In times of War, Prepare for Peace", and the role of Education in determining American Intellection*, a disguise for the American Mind [of the American Body Politic] .   I am concerned  that Writing about War and its GROTESQUE Negativity each and every day is, literally, >grating< :   it 'grates' Our nerves until they are raw, torn and bleeding .    We must never try and escape the Reality of War but a 24-7 unremitting display of "Horror upon Horror" is MONSTROUSLY DISASTROUS because it is SOOOO SICKENING .    I find it NECESSARY to advance Forms of Coping, and to uncover Coping Mechanisms be they Ancient or Modern .   A HEALTHY Warrior is BALANCED, and thus is able to maintain a Correct Mind which then Directs CORRECT ACTION .   "Clear Mind --  Clear Action" .

The Holy -Kite Flying- Cow

                                                           I am FREAKING OUT .   I just finished my Recitations and was trying to decide a topic that was suitable for today's Effort ... I sat in "Chairy-Chair" at Mull .   Some days there are lags of Time where my Mind has "stalled" but in a GOOD way .   Today, out of nowhere, a thought arrived that surprised me =  I thought that if I had Poor Richard's Almanac I could quote from it to express American Wisdom,  that of my Guy Benjamin Franklin .   "Just like the Gypsy Queen" my Mind began to "roam".   Where the fuck was I gonna get hold of Poor Richard and his Words of Wisdom ?    I wandered and wondered ...................... .

                               I recalled I had procured {{GOD I LOVE THAT WORD}} a VOLUME simply titled FRANKLIN    Writings .    I removed it from the shelf and  `took a look` .   The Book is a True VOLUME, it contains 1,470 pages of Text and 135 pages of  Notes, the Index and a detailed Chronology ,,, but did it contain the complete "Almanac" ?    I sifted the pages -got to near the end and I saw a page header , "Poor Richard" ,  I splayed the book and found a "title page" -- there it was  "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC" 1733 - 1758  !!!!   Holy Kite Flying Cow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I inwardly EXALTED !!!!!!!!!!!!

                            I perused a few pages and DISCOVERED that I write "just like" Ben .   My use of CAPITAL LETTERS, I know to be "against the grain" of Punctuation & Grammar, is to enhance and focus my Gentle Readers attention to specific words or wordings .   I determined long ago that I would make my pages "look like" pages from 16th and 17th scripts, what with all that flowery calligraphy and CAPITAL LETTERS that seem "out of place" and even incongruent .   I just loved "the look" .  Now guess who indiscriminately uses CAPITAL LETTERS as a "Style Preference".   Yup  ---> Ben .

                         I'm fucking BEN FRANKLIN                         Can you "dig it" ???

Miss Understand

                                                           I have two shelves, some FIVE FEET of Children's Literature I once believed I would analyze and >amend< in my Retirement Years .   At one point I wanted to "Retire in Teaching" but THAT "didn't work out"--- my Jeep "shit the bed" and Finances forced me to take a "Different Path" .  There was no way for me to "see the Future" and for sure WAR and trump did not 'occur' in ANY Thinking--- I TRUSTED "America" and OBVIOUSLY this Trust was SEVERELY and SAVAGELY Violated .   I mean "That's Life" ----------rite ?

                       Speaking of "Severe" -- I am deeply and SEVERELY Interested in Quantum Mechanics and although I SUCK at IT. I LOVE IT INTO INFINITY AND BEYOND .   I have taken it upon myself to "Science-ize" Mahayana Buddhism in such a way as to reveal the Parallels that {I Think} exist between the Two .   I want to "make" Mahayana Buddhism to be a Science of SPIRITUAL Physics, thereby registering IT as WHOLEY ACCEPTBLE to both the Scientific Community and the General Public .   

                       I contend that Kiddie Lit is Quantum Mechanical, meaning, the Stories, Fables and Tales "ACT" as do Infinitesimal Particles that exist and DO NOT EXIST at the exact same Time, but are registered as REAL because MATHEMATICS is "Applied" .   I contend that these Stories, Fables and Tales are embedded in in Our Unconscious and that they are the Promptings that regulate our Consciousness in day-to-day Activities .   They are the Foundations of Decisions, meaning, when we are forced to decide ANY 'something' these "Agents" are what we experience BEFORE we make a Decision.

                  This is me .

"KNOCK FIRST..."

                                                          There's the Story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", a Traditional CLASSIC .   The ENORIMITY and MAGNITUDE of the Story reached INTERSTELLAR Intensity, as other planets were considered to be in "The Goldilocks Zone", the Zone of "Just Right-ness" .   I mean I get that, WE ALL >GET< THAT but I struggle with Goldilocks {{{FOOLS'GOLDILOCKS}}} because she broke so many "common laws" two of which were BREAKING & ENTERING and STEALING PORRIDGE .   Goldilocks aint lookn' too GOOD here .   Shouldn't she have been ARRESTED for "B & E" and "Commodities THEFT" ?    

                          This THIS is the COLLOSAL POWER of "Children's Literature' {fondly nicknamed 'Kiddie Lit'} .   Here it is where I argue that the FIRST >Step< in "the Right Direction" is for a "Reformation" in Children's Literature where Reformation is Re-Form-ation .   Kiddie Lit must be RE-FORMED to establish and maintain Correct Ideation, where 'Correct' has COMMON SENSE as its Foundation .    Here it is where Goldilocks SHOULD HAVE KNOCKED FIRST and when there was NO Reply, simply gone about her business without further insistence .   Here it is where "All's Well that BEGINS Well" and NOT "All's well that ENDS well" should be the [ Aesop]  "Moral of the Story".

Miss Informed

                                                          My GREATEST CONCERN is Present Day Education, which is the Result of the Status Quo's GRAVITY  and the American Educational PAST, that is its Foundation .    America in the Educational Sense, has manufactured both GOOD and  BAD "individuals" who have contributed to the General Well-Being and UNIVERSAL Suffering that have been both Blessing and CURSE to the American Public and dare I say THE WORLD .    The Education SYSTEM has been modestly SUCCESSFUL and punishingly Destructive AT THE SAME TIME .   "IT" is as if "the Wheat" was NEVER "Separated from the Chaff " .   And quite honestly, THAT WAS NEVER THE GOAL OF EDUCATION IN THE FIRST PLACE .   Education, itself, has stock Allegiance to Democracy from which it has evolved ; and this Democracy issued a Prime Directive that "All men are created EQUAL" an IDEAL that ABJECTLY DEFIES >>>THE REALITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE<<< the one where COMMON SENSE >>>>>>>>>>IMPLORES<<<<<<<<<< that "We are NOT Equal" .  

                      You can see it rite ?   "Out of the gate" we are told a LIE .   Here it is where an UN-TRUTH is registered as TRUTH ,  a Truth, we  NOW  KNOW is UNSUSTAINABLE, and worse, CATACLYSMAL --- to the Point where Truth has become NEARLY EXTINCT .  

                       Remember my blog on "Good Intentions" ?