"Keep the Faith'

                                                          What follows can be found in William James'  THE WILL TO BELIEVE :

                                       "No philosophy will be permanently deemed rational by all men which (in addition to meeting logical demands) does not to some degree pretend to determine expectancy, and in still greater degree makes a direct appeal to all powers of our nature which we hold in highest esteem .    Faith, being one of those powers, will always remain a factor not to be banished from philosophic constructions, the more so since in many ways it brings forth its own verification."

                                       

                                        Consider ... .

                                                            "Tare Forward" and "Keep the Faith"

"There ain't no E-Z way out..."

                                                          "IT" 's when your 2 year old grand-daughter is in a place where she shouldn't be, doing shit she shouldn't be doing and she knocks over an antique soup bowl and it s--h---a-t--t--e--r---s all over the kitchen floor, and then she starts BAWLING her eyes out {of her head} .   What the fuck are you gonna  DO ???  THERE'S NOTHIN' TO DO , except try and console her and then clean-up her mess .   Same with trump and his WAR ,  He's broken every fucking thing and, like a 2 year old, is chronically INCAPABLE of cleaning up his MESS .    

                               I can hear all of you screaming TRUMP AIN'T NO FUCKING TWO YEAR OLD ---True,,, but his actions ARE those of a 2 year old, it SUCKS AND BLOWS but what are we to do ???   The Allman Brothers moan, "There ain't no E-Z way out" truly a dead Certainty ~~~ but what the fuck ???   

                               

"...beset by enmity..."

                                                           War IS ---> Suffering, and I am loathe to admit that writing about War is also Suffering .   Writing as the EXPRESSION of Suffering, I mean UN-Holy Shit---anyone see THAT coming ?   I don't like it, not one bit .

                          My Hero and Lifetime Paradigm is Hermann Hesse who wrote If the War goes On... between 1914 and 1917 . What follows is his opening statement in the Foreword to the 1946 Edition =

                 

                                         "Compiling THIS BOOK has not been a happy task for the author .  It has not awakened pleasant memories or recalled welcome images .  On the contrary, every single article reminded me painfully of times of suffering, struggle and loneliness, times in which I was beset by enmity and incomprehension and bitterly cut off from pleasurable ideals and pleasant habits ."

                          "...beset by enmity"   that's me, I am THAT .

...when the dog jumps over the Moon...

                                                           It's my Job to try and "make Sense" of the incessant sensory bombardment that is inflicted upon us by trump's Propaganda Forces as well as Global News, specifically, PUTIN'S WAR ON UKRAINE, NETANYAHU'S WAR ON LEBANON  {{{and what should be Palestine}}} and of course TRUMP'S WAR ON IRAN .   Some morning's I can't remember my own fucking NAME let alone mine for Insights in the Thought Landfill that is the size of Oklahoma .   What galls me most about my own Inabilities and Shortcoming is that yesterday I was SUPPOSE-TO get my Mind Empty so that new info could be processed, assimilated and prepared for this morning's Output .   I hade a HUGELY Successful Rock Moving Effort yesterday--- I managed to move and position a rock of between 5 and eight hundred pounds to a position of containment alongside the other boulders I also positioned to make this unusual "Raised Bed" .   In total I invested almost  NINE HOURS moving this mini-boulder about ten feet .  Yup --you read that right ----> 10 <----  feet .   I allowed myself Satisfaction but had to fend off 'exaltation' .   

                           I had given NO Thought to trump's WAR during this activity but while watching the Hearing I figured, "No Prob" for today's Topic .   It doesn't help that I am both Angry and BITTER, those Emotions cloud my Judgement and obscure Reasoning and deter me from Writing mainly because when I get "like this" my Writing takes the form of Mad-man Lunacy {{{a dog barking at the Moon}}} .

"Pistol Pete"

                                                           I awoke at 3:38 and got into the cave at near 4 o'clock ~~~2 and a half hours later, still no "first sentence" .   Then this arrived =  I like to invest in my own Suffering because there is a great 'return' .   "Invest in Suffering" =  where the fuck did that come from ?

                                 I have no 'first sentence' because I couldn't decide upon what this morning's Topic should be .   Yesterday I managed to watch most of hegseth's "Hot Seat"  `burns` but I became an 'mental case' because of the ridiculous questions asked by ridiculous senators .   It wasn't until the very, end where REAL Questions concerning the Strategy [or lack thereof] of trump and his administration were delivered --- it made the opening hours look stupid mainly because THEY WERE .   Of particular note was the inclusion of the Agriculture Secretary .    One of the pundits made certain to stress that her inclusion was a way to DILUTE the Questioning of hegseth and general Boot Licker, What's-his-name .   Genius.  Fucking GENIUS .    The democrats are no match for the republicans Superiority of Cunning .

                                The 'grilling' was itself Sickening, how much fucking BULLSHIT can you eat before expLOSIVE Vomiting results ???  One word ;  Not Much .   We're PAYING these asshole to run the Country ??   OUR Country ????   

Miss Took

                                                           I began a rock-moving project late yesterday afternoon, and now its completion awaits .   I am too restless, {{excited}} to stay here and write but the circumstances surrounding the move are an example of a guy "stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime" .   I had a problem with containment that has been bugging the shit out of me since I solved the problem half=assidly when I moved the other boulders into position .   The Solution was directly in front of me each and every day for moths .  I'm cautioning my Gentle Readers --- DON'T GET OLD !

                              'Stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime' means that you   DON'T , WON'T or CAN'T see what is front of you so you pick-up something that may or may not "do" at and for the time being .  

                              "IT" gets deeper because it is the underlying recognition mechanisms tht ultimate are responsible for CORRECT 'Recognition' but this topic I must reserve for a later time .

                                K ------------  I'm out .

"Fate cannot be duped"

                                                          3.  Chun  /  Difficulty at the Beginning

                                 "If a man tries to hunt in a strange forest and has no guide, he loses his way .  When he finds himself in difficulties he must not try to steal out of them unthinkingly and without guidance .  Fate cannot be duped ;  premature effort, without the necessary guidance, end in failure and disgrace .  therefore the superior man, discerning the seeds of coming events, prefers to renounce a wish rather than provoke failure and humiliation by trying to force its fulfillment."  

                                 I wish that trump will stroke out -----not a wish from a Zen Master to be sure--- mercifully,,,,,  I am not a Zen Master .