Reformation

                                                          Stuff I wrote what seems like months ago, Dark Shit written in the Darkness of my Cave,, is now coming under the Light of both BIG and SUPER-BIG Brains .   This Shit is this :  Iran is now at a point of No Return, meaning, the Instinct of Self-Preservation has been activated .   Yes trump has executed Iran's Head, but in its place, a new Head with the SAME Mind has taken its place .    Even IF this new Head is assassinated THERE WILL BE OTHERS OF THE SAME ILK .   In the same way that Hitlerism could NOT be extincted* so it is with Muslim FANATACISM .   Not only will they fight "TO THE DEATH" it MUST-BE Understood that THERE WILL BE NO END .   

                           Unless Islam undergoes a TECTONIC SHIFT the Status Quo will remain in place .   Recall the work HERETIC ---  WHY ISLAM NEEDS A REFORMATION NOW  authored by Ayaan Hirsi Ali , in which she states that Islam HAS NO FUTURE IN MODERN TIMES unless and until  the Nature of the Religion itself undergoes a "Vital Transformation" .    

Heresy

                                                           I have asked and answered :   "Why the fuck would Jesus smoke a bowl with you ?"  Simple really, BECAUSE HE IS HIM , shit,,, who just doesn't LOVE Tautology ??? 

                             I consider myself a Templar, a Christian Warrior Devoted not only to the Living Christ BUT ALSO HIS WIFE MARY MAGDALENE .   I have a fucking OBSESSION to make Their Marriage KNOWN to the Christian World .   Many of my Gentle Readers are keenly aware that I have Devoted at least TEN YEARS to the Study of Ancient Christian Esoteric Doctrines, and the Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament .   I confess :  I was DESPERATE to find Evidence that Jesus was a Zen Buddhist by contact and Training with MANY Tibetan Buddhist Masters :   that not only did He Study but He received "Transmission" the Buddhist Seal of the Attainment of Enlightenment :  that once He returned to the Ancient Lands , He taught Zen to His WIFE, Mary Magdalene, verified in Her Gospel AND that of Saint Thomas .   

                             I WANT Jesus TO BE A MAN, not just, "THE SON OF GOD" .   I wanna make Him in MY Image, that of a low-born Human .   Blaspheme rite ?     Don't care ..... .

Heaven on Earth

                                                           I fantasize that if I do a SUPER-HUMAN "Clean-uP" job on this property, Jesus, will "slide by" ... I will see Him and invite Him to smoke a bowl with me, so We can solve the World's Problems lickety-split* .    I mean I WOULDN'T "press Him" to Miracle a few "munchie" treats, but since He can read Minds,  gotta figure I'm "Good" .   

                          When I am at my Best, the Interior receives an Easter Bleaching, meaning, the floors and windows get 'treatment', the kitchen gets SERIOUSLY "Bleached", and EVERYTHING gets the touch of the Dust Cloth .   One Season I bleached the Refer [fridge] just in case He wanted to get Himself some seltzer or milk .   Sometimes one can't be too sure .   

                         When you grow-up Portuguese-Catholic the words, "Cleanliness is next to GODLINESS"  are weaponized to the extent that they produce a "Cringe" that makes one's ears BLEED.    At this point, {even when I was still a kid} Spring Cleaning becomes some sort of RELIGIOUS RITUAL, the point of which is to Manifest Heaven on Earth, i.e., creating a Clean and Clear Environment so that Heavenly Angels can descend to "Make Way" for a potential Jesus Moment .   I want That .

Miss Guided

                                                           It's "Holy Week" for millions of Christians, myself included .    I awoke into a morass this morning, statement lines swirling about my tiny Monkey brain .   Each Lenten Season I sorta promise myself I will write about the Final Week of Jesus' Life  every Holy Day .  I feel it's a Risk, some Folks get alienated from my Work ::    they see that Religion is the topic and turn away .   I suppose these Folks are not to be judged as callus and cold, on the other hand, I have a staunch Belief that exposure to the World's Religions s-t--r---e----t-----c------h-------e--------s not only one's Imagination but one's Spirituality, thickening it, strengthening it, giving it Power .   

                          Yesterday, out of nowhere, I was engulfed by a 'feeling' that I have been "less than Honest" with my Gentle Readers, that with-holding Truth is the same as Lying--- I mean, THAT'S a "tough one" ... .   However, Holy Week provides a "back-drop" a "background" that aids in contextualizing Jesus' Teaching, the one of "Put Your money where Your mouth is"--- Jesus's SACRIFICE  ---> AT THE REQUEST OF THE DIVINE ALMIGHTY .   The Teaching is that we should use Jesus as a SPIRITUAL Paradigm, meaning Devotion to the Father is "The Ultimate and Supreme"--- that We should be AS Devoted as His Son, our Lord and Savior .   

                           I confess :  had I Jesus's Ear, I would have earnestly suggested He FOREGO what was to be His Passion, and instead, seek to REMAIN on this Earth and continue His Teaching and disseminate It World Wide .   But hey-----------that's just me .

The Nation of Minnesota

                                                         How I would LOVE if Some One would approach me and compliment :   "Sabom, you've done enough for today, you needn't attend the Protest Rallies".   We all know THAT AINT-GONNA HAPPEN !    Is five hours enough ?   I don't think so given the condition of America .   I'm-gonna go and be among "The People" .   I BELIEVE just as Minnesotans Believed  !!!!!!!!!!!!   

                                           "UNITED WE STAND -----  DIVIDED WE FALL"

"Dirty" Pete "The Cheater" Hegseth

                                                    Dirty pete "the Cheater" hegseth has yet to endure TRUE Excoriation, Castigation nor Vilification for his PROPAGANDAL* Deployment of Video Games .   The "Clean" among us have decried such WRECK-FUL* abuse .  Its consequence  the abject BEWILDERMENT  of our Allies and those that "Once Upon A Time" were also our most REVERED  Friends is STAGGERING .    Our view that hegseth is wont of Morals and  Mores that were once considered "Sacrosanct" has been sorely tempered by the Use and Abuse of the  Tyrannical Provocations with which we have been INUNDATED on a daily (fucking) basis .   I must insist that hegseth and his "grew-up" with "World of War" video games, and consequently the ONLY "way" he views or CAN view War is simply as a >>>>Game .   Within these Games is the Conceit that the enemies' Lives are NOT Sacred, which harbors a latent Anathema that ALL LIFE IS NOT SACRED .   Here it is where "THERE IS NO REAL COST OF WAR" :   Real Humans are "just like" video game Characters, i.e, COMPLETELY EXPENDABLE and are of NO REGARD WHATSOEVER !  

                             Despite "All This" pete, the Cheater, hegseth remains TRUSTWORTHY     We can Trust him to be THE SECOND BIGGEST FUCKHEAD IN ALL OF WORLD HISTORY trump being THE FIRST .

                            But let us return to Our topic ... .    Me and mine grew-up to :  " YOU STARTED THIS SHIT, NOW END IT " ~~~ as well as :  "DON'T START SOMETHING YOU CAN'T FINISH " .   We do not hafta* be  "Captain Obvious" to make note of trump's criminally juvenile and CHRONIC Distaste for "Taking Responsibility" ,,, but still, We MUST .

Sister Mary Margaret Cobra

                                                         Many of Us have been exposed to 2 year olds* who seem to be ad hoc members of "Children Of The Corn" :   supposed "Innocents" who are nothing of the Sort .   Many of Us remind our children that after they finish playing with their toys the must pick the up and return them to their toy boxes or toy baskets whatever the case may be .   How many times have we gone into their play room to find a HIDEOUS CHAOS, toys strewn about not by playful Innocence but somehow with the dastardly MALEVOLENCE, as if the positioning of the toys was TACTICAL in Nature, meaning the kids PLANNED such a warlike BATTLEFIELD itself strewn with mines and IED's .   We sharply reprimand, "PICK THIS SHIT UP AND PUT IT AWAY --- which is met with, "Will you help me?"   

                              Me and my Generation grew-up "Playing" "Army" .   Many of Us had BAGS-FULL* of Army soldiers which we deployed as per the Order of the Films that We viewed with our Veteran Dads .   We LEARNED "to Play War" from these Films, which were stunningly prodigious .   Here's the thing :  We were told to "Pick-Up" after ourselves which translates as a Parental Teaching to BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS .   We heard, YOU MADE THIS MESS NOW PICK IT UP, until our ears bled .   We didn't like "wasting time" picking up our toys, BUT WE DID IT NONETHELESS .  We did not even DARE to disobey a "Direct Order",  {I THINK to our credit} .   

                             I hazard that the Best of us conformed to Obedience at an EARLY Age, mainly out of FEAR of Parental Retribution (to harsh ?) .   I mean, whatever --- but you gotta figure that RICH KIDS had no such exposure since their moms had handmaidens to "pick-up" their toys and return them to their proper location of storage .  

                           With the above paragraph in Mind, look at trump and his War .

The Wrath Of Con

                                                   You'd think and wanna* BELIEVE that a grown-ass ADULT could NEVER, in any CONCEIVABLE manner, get   > BORED< with a War THAT HE CREATED ,  and yet this UN-NERVING and even "BONE-CHILLING" observation from one of trump's White House employees .   Since NO ADULT ON THE PLANET would or COULD "get bored" what are We to "make" of trump's now "Careless" "Indifference" ???   We MUST 'conclude' that trump surely "aint no Adult" and that CERTAINLY he "ain't no MAN" `neither` .   So what, then, IS he ???????

                              Elsewhere I have likened trump to  a {CHRONIC} TWO YEAR OLD .   We have experienced his Temper Tantrums as Domestic Policy and Procedure with undo HORROR but not, as of late, with ANY congressional {republican} Regard ,  a DYS-REGARD* characterized by the most loathsome Passivity that can be correctly identified as Political Malfeasance if not, flat-out, SUBSERVIENCE .   We, as in Us NORMAL Folk, look at these trumpists as = Parents with a "Problem Child" , absolutely CONTENT to give their Defective Child a latitude that GUARANTEES Juvenile Delinquency and will INVEVITABLY lead to either Prison or an Insane Asylum .  

                          It aint just trump who's MENATLLY ILL !!!!!!!

King Shit

                                                           Part of me wants to write about today's "NO KING DAY" and the Protests about to take place .   SOME  Americans will "Take It To The Streets" to vent not only their Political Frustration with trump and his Foreign Policy but his complete CONTEMPT for the "American Way" which includes both Compassion and JUSTICE for Us "everyday Folk", those of Us who "Keep on keepin' on" ,,, toiling away to "make a living" and provide for our Families as best we can under the Circumstances .   Presently, it is "self-evident" that these >>>Circumstances< are UN-SUSTAINABLE with regard to "Kitchen Table" Socio-Economics, i.e., those very same Circumstances that e-x-t-e-n-d to cities, towns, villages and hamlets through-out the World .   I mean, some of me WANTS to, but I will  not .

                              Yesterday a something caught my eye and my attention ;  it was conveyed that a "White House Insider" considered trump to be (get this) BORED with his War on Iran and that trump 'wanted OUT' .   I mean, what gets us beyond "WHAT THE FUCK"  ???????

"Good Trouble"

                                                                     From Thoreau and his

                                                                    "Civil Disobedience"

                                   " A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the greater sense and MEN , serve the State with their consciousness also, and so necessarily resist it [the State] for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it ."

                                       This is me... .

The Zen Psychiatry of Observational Conduct

                                                     I would LOVE to use the term "White Lies" to further condemn and castigate trump .  I cannot.  One of my Favorite R+R Artists is Nils Lofgrin and his first tract on "Grin 1+1" is titled: "White Lies" .   "White Lies" is a rambunctious LOVE-LADEN chide to his potential Girlfriend to resist telling everybody that he is IN LOVE with her .  "Stop telling >>>White Lies<<<" .

                           Elsewhere I  have confessed that I "lie cheat and steal" just like everybody else, indeed, I am quite fond of using Woody Allen's  Wisdom/Advice :  "When you steal, steal from the best."   I WANT to be "honest and sincere" but when I'm "up against it" I may have no other recourse save to "steal from the Rich" .   I do my best to attribute each and every quote to its original author, but the very Nature of Human Consciousness sometimes conceals its authenticity  by  self-indulgence .  If I AM Guilty it's because I just can't remember EVERYTHING .   

                          I hear you screaming :  TRUMP AINT TELLIN'  WHITE   LIES !!!  I know, ALL of Us know, but are we willing to ACCEPT his Lies, and Falsehoods ???   Many DO !!!   

                          This THIS is why I offer the Zen Psychiatry of Observational Conduct, so that we can PENETRATE trump's statements that we may "get to" the Truth .  

"RAGING BULL" -SHIT

                                                          Trump has asked for Peace Negotiations while simultaneously deploying troops to invade Iran .   Here can be applied an idiom from the early 20th century :  "White man speaks with forked tongue" which we want to believe originated in the voice of a Native American Chief, but, sadly, is instead attributed to an anonymous Hollywood screen-writer .  {Thanks Google} .   No matter its Origin, we have seen and heard putin claiming he, too, wants Peace talks while still bombing the fuck out of RESIDENTIAL Ukrainian CIVILIAN locations .   

                            My Generation consistently heard our parents and other older ones spout, "He's talkin' outta*  both sides of his mouth" .   Denigration doesn't get any purer .  "Saying one thing but doing another" was decried by the "Greatest Generation", a Generation that brought us "Truth, Justice, and the American Way ".   

                            Oddly, there is a quiet passage in The Bhagavad-gita that cautions us to ACCEPT THE FACT THAT MERCHANTS >>>LIE<<<  in order to promote and sell their wares .   The Lying is, part and parcel, of Daily Life and the merchants themselves should  NOT be excoriated for Conduct unbecoming an  Honest Dealer .    In America, "it soon came to pass" that politicians advantaged this non-challenging Acceptance of Falsehoods as a means to gain political office .   Because political deception went un-challenged for so long, it was fucking INEVITABLE that Truth, itself, was transmogrified .   

                            

Judgement Flay

                                                           From Sigmund Freud and his 

                                                           The Interpretation of Dreams :

                             "Actions and consciously expressed opinions are, as a rule, enough for practical purposes in judging men's character .  Actions deserve to be considered first and foremost;  for many impulses which force their way through to consciousness are even then brought to nothing by the real  forces of mental life before they can mature into deeds .   In fact, such impulses often meet with no psychical obstacles to their progress, for the very reason that the unconscious is certain they will be stopped at some other stage .   It is, in any case, instructive to get to know the much trampled soil from which our virtues proudly spring .   Very rarely does the complexity of a human character, driven hither thither by dynamic forces, submit to a choice between simple alternatives, as our antiquated morality would have us believe ."

Sodom Insane

                                                       Let's carry trump's War with Iran to its "Logical Absurdity" .   Once the bombing stops and somehow Iran surrenders, the ONLY way to GUARANTEE its complete annihilation is to herd Iran's entire population into the desert and then deprive them of food and water, "killing off" the Peoples thereby "Killing Off" the Ideology that DEMANDS the COMPLETE ANNHILATION of the West .   This would be thusly considered an "Extinction Event", which, by Definition, will END the Threat of Muslim Retaliation  FOR EVER !

                            Within the Book of Kings can be found this HORROR :   

                                       "Let there not be not ONE left standing among the living . "

                             Ya know why "even ONE" cannot be "left standing among the living" ?  Because that ONE   WILL REMEMBER, and that Remembrance will fuel the BLOODLUST DESIRE for Vengeance and RETRIBUTION .   One Man can start a War as trump has PROVEN .

                             WWII did  NOT "Extinct" Hitler nor his Nazi-ism .   Indeed, Neo-Nazis PLAGUE Germany itself, and Neo-Nazi-ism has found safe harbor and even Sanctuary in sympathetic territories around the Globe .   People LOVE to HATE .  

                            Recall the Extinction Event of Sodom and Gomorrah .  Abraham tried to intervene on their behalf, asking God NOT to Extinct both, because MAYBE there were a few >>> even ONE<<< who was Pure and INNOCENT .   We know what happened .

                           I summarily REJECT the Horror that the Nation of Islam should suffer the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah because I believe and Believe TRULY, that there IS Purity of Soul within Islam but that Iran's Soul has indeed been Corrupted by ITS OWN .  Is the Saving of a few million Innocents ENOUGH ???   I Believe it IS .

                            

Japanica

                                                       The 7th tract of Chris Cross's self titled album/CD is titled, "The Light Is On" .   It is somewhat of a 'ballad' that I am "moved" to Love .   In the lyrics this :  "Is this the kind of world you could live in ?" .  I have queried by Gentle Readers that very same --- can we live in a World that does NOT consider "All Life Is Sacred" as "The Supreme of the Supreme" ?  Of course we can, of course we MUST .  BUT ..... .

                            Most of Us do NOT want to Live in a World where one entire Nation condemns the Life and Lives of a single nation and its "Familiars" .   Obliterating Iran's "Nuclear Capabilities" DOES NOT PRODUCE A SAFER WORLD, since the Religious/Political/ Governmental IDEOLOGY of the Nation of Islam is one of "Death and Destruction to the West" .   I argue,, that >>>Ideology<<< is JUST AS LETHAL as ANY Nuclear Detonation and it may be even WORSE since its Effects are  NOT mitigated by Time, but instead, its Effects reach into Eternity .   Consider Hiroshima and Nagasaki---both OBLITEREATED in a radioactive CONFLAGRATION.  Japan SURVIVED and is presently considered a Democratic JEWEL .   I believe it is safe to extrapolate that Japan did NOT harbor Vengeance nor Revenge in its Collective Psyche and as a result was WELCOMED into the Realm of Democracy Capitalism where it has since FLOURISHED .   Is the Nation of Islam anywhere NEAR such a Governmental Re-Make ????    2 words:  I aint seein' it .

"All Life Is Sacred"

                                                        I wanna be able to go to the local coffee shop or grocery store AND NOT FEAR BEING ATTACKED !!! How many times have we heard or read that either Hamas or Hezbollah "sent" potential Muslim MARTYRS to their own Death and that of INNOCENT OTHERS to the cafes and shops in Jerusalem and other towns and cities in Israel ---  folks jus'-wantin' to enjoy a bit of LIFE in an open outdoor or even indoor setting ????   Who the fuck DOESN'T want to Live a Life where Peace is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE ???  --- a Peace wherein "ALL LIFE IS SACRED" is the "SUPREME OF THE SUPREME" ????  

                           It sounds Utopic because IT IS UTOPIC , but that doesn't mean it's "out of reach" for Individuals and Nations alike .   

                           We invoke Orwell's Animal Farm :  "All Animals are EQUAL,  but some Animals are MORE EQUAL than others."  Here is the parallel :  All Life is Sacred but some Life is MORE SACRED that others" .  2 words :   Brutal --------fucking BRUTAL .    With this can be found Israeli comportment .   I don't like it, not one BIT ,  but I understand  it .  This Understanding does NOT provide ANY solace whatsoever,  how can it ?

"Crimes Against Humanity"

                                                        We are "living" [in] the Minds of both trump and Netanyahu, both literally and figuratively .  Many, of some of Us, view trump's War as the result of the Saudi DESIRE for the Crippling of Iran and its Shi'a oriented Theocracy, which is in opposition to the other Gulf States, Countries and Nations .   I also 'stand with' Rachel Maddow who has concluded that the money extorted by Jared Kushner from the Gulf States came with a "Tit-for-Rat" OBLIGATION .   It's EZ to imagine that the Saudis and Others saw a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY when trump and Netanyahu 'opened Fire' on Iran and Lebanon .   

                             It's not a 'wonder' that Iran countered with its own missile and drone strikes that attacked its neighbors, whose Muslim Orientation is that of Sunni .   

                             Trump and his are issuing 'messages' that are COMPLETELY >>>CONTRADICTORY<<< --- how can trump want an End-to-his-War while simultaneously deploying Marine battalions to the War Theater ????   

                            Netanyahu is NOT Contradictory .   He and his want the EXTINCTION of Hamas and Hezbollah, REGARDLESS OF THE COST OF >>>INNOCENT<<< Civilians---- look at what the Jews did to the Palestinians in Gaza .   The label "WAR CRIMES" gets Us to There .

Israel and Lebanon

                                                         Among the pundits, BIG and SUPER-BIG Brains there has been speculation that trump's War was initiated not JUST by trump's own criminal megalomania but also by Netanyahu and his feral war mongers .   Many of Us have "appreciated' {if one can use that somewhat "less-than" adjective} the so-called "Plight" of Israel and its Populace .   I, myself, sympathize with Jews in that they want Peace and Prosperity just like the rest of Us .   Indeed, the Desire for Peace, Prosperity and the practice of a Livelihood free from Fear and Terror SHOULD be the "Desire" that Defines ALL HUMANITY.   Sadly, [SORROWFULLY] it does not .   Residing in Lebanon and other locations throughout the Region, are satraps of Hamas and Hezbollah, whose Stated Goal In Life is the destruction and EXTINCTION of all Jews and their Country --- aint no 'Humanity' within this Structure, shit, how can there be ?????

                              

"The God Particle"

                                                           In the midst of this metal carnage a MIRACLE .   Somehow a stewardess was found, strapped in her seat, some distance from what once was the cockpit .   She was unscathed .   I mean ya-jus'-gotta ask, "Is not Allah Kind and Compassionate ?   Is not Allah Merciful?"  

                            If Cosmic Messages abound [then] what is the Message of this Miracle ?   I hazard this:  She represents the Primary Particle of Islam from which All the 10,000 Muslim Things originate.   She was NOT Killed ---  She SURVIVED the Destruction that DEMANDED the Sacrifice of the Pilot and Co-Pilot .   Islam Lives --- its Continuum Preserved .   

                           

Runway Hormuz

                                                          Thus far we've learned that a combination of >Age< and Human Error, contributed to this horrific destruction (Death Resulting) .    The ruling THEY, knew that the Aging System was DESPERATE for Up-Grade and Modernization, that "The System" overworked the Air Traffic Controllers, who were, at the time, OBLIGATED to monitor >ground traffic< certainly a "too-much-for-one-man" "made-for-Disaster" scenario .    

                              We can assert that the Fire-Tank-er >trump< was on the way to another runway "flare-up", here, trump seeking to quell questions about the ultimate Goal for HIS War .   We can also safely assert that the Fire-Tank-er was OBLIVIOUS to the Approaching Collision, same with trump, OBLIVIOUS to the Ramifications of War with The Persian Empire (((Death Resulting))) .

                              The aircraft remains on the runway, as if the runway was the Strait of Hormuz and the aircraft a GIANT mine .   Runway Hormuz is UN-USABLE and will remain so until the Investigation concludes .   You can see it, rite ?????

                              I heard this one time and it left me demented :   

                                                        "There's no such a thing as an accident."

My God---> God Zilla

                                                     Because I am who I am [and WHAT I am] it was impossible for me NOT to see the Air Canada passenger jet AS >>>Iran<<< .   The jet was "Decapitated", its "ganglia" hanging from what remained of the cockpit-as-head --- the Main Body, intact and looking as if it could be of Service once again, given the Prime Necessity of a new Cockpit--a new "Head" .    Plus, the craft was situated tail-ass down, as it it were ready for a "lift-off' .  Nearby the remains  of the firetruck, obliterated by the IM>>>PACT ~~~ this unit AIN'T NEVER "comin' back", a junk pile whose only Future is the Scrap Heap,  a Purgatory so to speak, a "holding area" where Death, the Melting Pot, is "met" for the first and LAST time .   The where-abouts of the Fire-Fighters is still unclear, what happened to THEM ????

                          Can we now extrapolate from these image-conditions that the fire Truck Symbolizes trump (and the American Forces in general) ?   I want to, I really do .   Thing is, the Fire Truck {also referred to as a "Tank-er"} was fucking OBLITERATED, to the point that it is UN-RECOGNIZABLE .   OBVIOUSLY , America and trump remain HIDEOUSLY recognizable, forcing us to conclude that perhaps NO, the Fire Tanker cannot be used as the "such" I would like .  Here I MUST use 'authorial prerogative and gently INSIST that YES the Fire Tank-er  >IS<  IN FACT, America, OBLITEREATED not just from Impact-With-Iran, but also from trump and his relentless, ex-PLOSIVE Attacks on Democracy .   In the same way that that Fire Tank-er is fucking UN-RECOGNIZABLE so it is with America and American Democracy .   

Winwood and Jennings

                                                     The first line in the first Song of Steve Winwood's "Back In The High Life" album/CD is this :

                                 "THINK ABOUT IT, there must be a Higher Love

                                    Down in the Heart or hidden in the stars above..."

                     

                          The Song itself is an Entreaty that borders on Supplication and resonates within my own Heart and my own Soul with rigorous Profundity, so much so that I use it to define my Existence .   Many of us do NOT Question ANYTHING let alone GOD, I Question Him  anyway,  He may Respond ....

                         OBVIOUSLY,  Steve and his co-composer Will Jennings, HAVE indeed, "Thought" about "Higher Love", and here I bring >Higher LOVE< into the AA Realm of "Higher POWER", which then produces, "Think about it, there must be a HIGHER POWER" .   Is Steve and Will desirous of a Higher Power that can generate a Higher Love ???   One MIGHT conclude, "yeah and FUCK YEAH " .

                        What transpires when we do NOT "Think-about-it" .   Steve and Will observe :

                                 "Things look so bad everywhere

                                   In this whole world, what is fair ?

                                   We walk blind and we try to see

                                    Falling behind in what could be ."

                       There it is : "Falling behind in what could be" .   We MISS "...what COULD be", which translates as the >>>Future<<< .  

                       Think about THAT !!!

Rodin

                                                     I have  two mini-"The Thinker" sculptures that double as book ends .   I LOVE THEM !!!  At first glance they are seen as heavily muscled, as if The Thinker was a Body Builder, which is fucking ADORABLE since it is probably his Mind, that was trained or under Training .   You'd think that Rodin, the Artist, made CERTAIN to depict the Thinker, also known as The POET, as a pencil-necked GEEK, since the Thinker was devoted to THOUGHT--- but no and FUCK NO,  The Thinker is  Man of HEAVY LABOR, his Body the Result of INTENSE EFFORT .   He was NOT 'locked away' in some Library or classroom, a someone who assiduously AVOIDED manual labor,  nope--this Cat involved his Mind and Body in the Real, PHYSICAL World .   

                          I will believe what I have speculated :  that Rodin "caught" this Man at a work site or in his gymnasium where he was working or working out, and that a "Thought" "arrived" that was so EXTRA-ORDINARY that he just HAD-TA stop what he was doing in order to THINK about its Quality .   I've been there and done that, it's worse for me, since I take the time to actually scrawl-out the Thought, that I may re-view it later and subject it to clinical analysis .   I am of the Belief that Cosmic Messages are held within such Thoughts and that they are a Form of Universal Secret ---  I know this is a "Mystical Bent" but that's who I am .  I mean, Who among us does NOT want to have Secrets revealed, ESPECIALLY when they are of a COSMIC Nature ?????   I know I do, perhaps we all should as well .

The Thin King

                                                               We admonish Perpetrators-of-DISATROUS-RESULTS with, "Didn't you fucking THINK about 'what-could-happen' ? --- to which they retort, "NO,, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT".   It's >frustrating< and sometimes even MADDENING .  At that point someone is deemed >callous<, meaning, they MAY-HAVE  >refused< Consideration  for whatever Reason, since, at the time, they chose to focus attention on some other thing, or worse, simply IGNORED the qualitative IMPERATIVE to "Think things through " .   Our Society and Culture is RIFE with those that dys-value* Thinking, those that do NOT equate Thinking with Caring, and it may be stated that these folks reside in a Reality of Whim, Fancy and FEELINGS that provide them with a fucking "Lah-Tee-Dah" Attitude of 
"If it feels good, DO IT" .   I summarily REJECT this Reality ,  and if it leads to an invalidation of another's Psyche, so be it .

Madonna

                                                           I know that a Student of Zen, whose Zen Master's Teaching is 
"Don't Know",  must be in the midst of a quandary .   How can a Zen Student actually PROMOTE "Thinking" ?  You can see it rite* ?   As I stated above, I equate >thinking< with >caring< so what I am actually promoting is >CARING< .   Besides, Zen Master Seung Sahn did NOT Teach, "Don't Think"  Zen Dogma is "Don't ATTACH to Thinking" .   However, in Zen Sword, if one is to advance to the "Upper Realms" it is IMPERATIVE to "Cut Thinking", to DISABLE the Thinking Mechanism itself, and this is achieved by meditation of one's Sword Forms .   There IS a Difference, but this discussion must be kept in abeyance until a more appropriate time arrives .       

                                Check out the 2nd definition of >consider< this one found in Webster's New World  College Dictionary, "...... to THINK about in order to understand or decide ......" .   That 's IT rite there .

                                 Mainstream and main-river communications value Thinking in its manifestations of >care, TO care< and >consideration< .   In fact, we loath those that do NOT >>>Care, [Think] and those that are "inconsiderate",,   where inconsiderate MEANS "Thoughtless" .   We sometimes even ADMIRE those that are "Thoughtful" {FULL of Thought} .   Indeed, one of my absolutely FAVORITE Songs by Madonna is, "THINK OF ME" .    {{{For what it's worth, the only Madonna album you will ever need is her First}}} .   

                               Bottom ____________  =  Thinking is Caring, Caring is Thinking .  No Thinking No Caring---No Caring, No thinking .  [We are safe with this] .

The Don't Care Bear

                                                  We have observed that trump and his did NOT "CARE" about the consequences of waging War against Iran, that the subsequent Closing of the Strait of Hormuz wasn't even >considered< as part of the Iranian counter-offensive .   Once we get past, "ARE-YOU-FUCKING-KIDDING-ME?", the definition of >care< comes into view as germane to the topic and this morning's Consideration .    Before I consulted both my Dictionaries I WANTED >care< to include >thought<, since I personally deem > -"I care about you" as equivalent to "I THINK about you".  With regard to the above, "We didn't care about the Strait" is equivalent to "We didn't THINK about the Strait" .  No Thinking ??   Not even ONE Thought ????   Apparently not even one ... .

                       Battle Plans are first >Conceived< and then >Planned< where Planning is the result of Strategic THINKING as well as "Tactical Awareness" .   Clearly, trump and his did NOT Think, and perhaps, this THIS is the result of a reliance on "We'll cross that bridge when we get there".   I confess :   I LOATH that phrase, and my loathness is based on Experience and  NOT the "good kind" but the kind of experience that witnessed CATASTROPHIC results due to 'piss-poor' Planning or the abject FAILURE to Think about Consequences .   I WANT to state ,  Thinking IS Caring, but I am wary, oh so wary, I'm a wary-er .

"Sticks and Stones..."

                                              I once scored a "Hat Trick" ------------it was against my own goalie .

                          It's true, I did and it "sure as shit" WAS NOT FUNNY at the time .   But now ?   It IS funny .   It's a real >Gag< .   

                           Look at trump ---here's an asshole that HATES to be ridiculed or criticized.   OBVIOUSLY he take himself too Seriously, indeed, he is INCAPABLE of ANY self-denigration that is itself humorous at its core .   He expressly LOATHES being the brunt of someone else's humor-laden scrutiny .   He is of My Generation, a generation that was 'brought up' on, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me ".   Most of us learned this BEFORE 3RD GRADE .  My guess is that "Privilege" somehow obstructed this ELEMENTARY Teaching .   

                          At Umpire class we were advised :  "Don't have 'Rabbit ears" and "don't be 'thin skinned' " .   Meaning, the fans are-gonna yell that you SUCK and that you are NO GOOD .  "You jus'-gotta let it go and consider it Part Of The Game" .   Sage Counsel especially when "Life is but a game" .   I mean, Life aint no fucking GAME but my Gentle Readers will appreciate the Sentiment .  Shit, we ALL should .

The Bi-Polar Bear

                                                      I characterize my self as being either a Clown or an Assassin, which then begs for the tag, "Bi-Polar", indeed, I consider myself a Bi-Polar Bear .  Cute rite ?   Oh my ... .

                              I could use "comedian" instead of clown, but the visual of clown is so much more intense and that intensity is matched by "assassin" .   Much of my "Adult Life" has been spent managing my "Clown-ness" and my sometimes OUT-OF-CONTROL "Assassin-ness".   I  actually STRIVE to insert >lethality< into my work ,   we speak of "Crystal Clarity" but there is also "Rapier Wit", and "Razor Sharp" Writing .  That's me rite there .   My Efforts to be 'Clear' are founded, partly, by Cicero and Sallust, who managed to contain the Imagination of their fellow Citizens and EXPRESS that imagination in their Court Cases .   I suppose that guys of my Nature and Temperament actually put Life "On Trial" on a daily basis .   In the Film "Zero Dark Thirty" , Jessica Chastain is depicted thusly, "It's her against the World" .   That's me again .  I routinely Prosecute Life for "CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY" --- Ridiculous I know, but sometimes I must divorce Life from "The Maker of All Things" so that my Love for Both and Neither isn't jeopardized .   Fucked-up rite ?   Indeed it is and indeed I am .

"Serious Humor"

                                                       I awoke at 3 o'clock with this morning's on my Mind, weighing me down, pressuring me .   I mean, how the fuck did THAT happen ?    During the week, between 8 and 10:30 p.m., I try to locate a suitable topic for the upcoming day's blogs, this isn't very difficult---there's so much shit about which to write ... .   Last night I just let everything go, trusting my Mind to "be there" in the a.m.  No such luck this morning, if "luck" is a factor at all .   

                            I sat in "Chairy-Chair" in a joyful misery , nothing to write about that would satisfy [alleviate] my Guilt .   In the olden days I used Sundays to project Humor - EZ shit because things happen that seem "beyond human ken", and most often are the results of a Cosmic Intelligence that fucking REVELS in creating Spaces that are experienced as "What The Fuck" and that these experienced cause one to 'shake one's head' in stark mis-understanding .  What else can we do but LAUGH ???????

                            Dr. Ken Ring wrote, "... Speak to those, surely, wo can hear you;   love those who cannot, but don't waste your words on them .  And most important, don't take yourself too seriously;  laugh at yourself because we are just poor fools " .   

                            Author Leroy Jones quotes Music Maestro Wayne Shorter :  

                                               "What it comes down to is seriousness !   Nothing comes to anything unless you are serious about it .   Man, that's the only things I dig ...serious people doing serious things... otherwise there's not much to it .   Of course, there's such a thing as serious humor too.  You know ?"

                            This is me... .

Iraninam

                                                     I extend an apology even before my Gentlemen and Gentlewomen read what follows .   It may be inappropriate to "vent" my personal Issues, however I maintain that this particular vent is germane to the Topic of War, and I tender, 'authorial prerogative' as a defense .

                                  We are hearing retired Admirals and Generals remind us that :

                          "THE ELITES START WARS BUT IT IS THE AVERAGE CITIZENS WHO         CONDUCT THE COMBAT ".    Here now the World View of the "Elites" in all its HEINOUS ATROCITY .   

                                   Trump has managed to manifest EVERYTHING AMERICANS DID NOT WANT  and done so with CRIMMINAL MENDACITY .    

                                   Trump has done ALL except declaring himself a CAESAR .

                                    >>> TRUMPGUSTUS CAESAR<<<  The MAGA-LOW-MANIAC  who single handedly ANNIHILATED all that "Once Was" .

Hubris

                                                   I find it necessary to introduce, to at least a few of my Gentle Readers, the concept of Hubris (also spelled hybris and pronounced YOU BRISS), which is, "Excessive Pride and/or Self-Confidence" .   Some of us know of >hubris< because of the story of "Icarus" who fashioned wings  whose feathers were glued by wax.   Icarus neared the Sun and the wax melted sending him plummeting earthward toward a certain demise .  

                          My "Western Civilization" Professor, Dr. Langer, spent some time on this .   Icarus, he said, sought to be as the Gods, meaning, he desired to FLY, as the Gods Fly and when the Gods became aware of his Effort, they got PISSED and PUNISHED HIM WITH DEATH .    Dr. Langer continued with the Concept of Hubris,=  Icarus had committed Hubris, thinking that HE, an earthly Mortal, could achieve what the Gods were capable of---clearly the gods would have none of it .  

                        Dr. Langer did not stop at that point but supplemented the story by adding >Nemesis< .   Nemesis is the actions taken to punish Hubris and is often stated this way ;  "When one commits hubris, Nemesis results" .   Some of us know that Nemesis is the Greek goddess of Vengeance, and YOU CANNOT FUCK WITH NEMESIS .  She aint "All Powerful" but She is close, oh so fucking close .

                       Trump's thinks he's GOD, his actions are PROOF .    Will the Gods allow him such GROTESQUE Delusions and their ACTUAL Manifestations .   Doubtful ~~~~~ .

Qeshm

                                                         Last evening {even-ning}, while listening to Music, stretching and re-viewing the day's actions, a 'something' "arrived" that caught and trapped my Attention, it was this :  trump [and his] are about to be HUMBLED by what was once the Persian Empire .   It is now "self-evident" (to ALL), that in order for the War to come to a close, the Strait of Hormuz must-be opened and protected from re-closure* .   Present Day retired Admirals and Generals agree that Ground Forces must be deployed in the areas and territories that are the shores of BOTH the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman .   Indeed,   American Warships have been dispatched to the Strait and are set to arrive within the next two weeks, OBVIOUSLY prolonging the War for  AT LEAST that sailing duration and the land assault surely to follow .

                            The stated Target of these Ground Forces is a little island named Qishm (or Qeshm) which  has, within its bowels, an Underground Missile Fortress .   Also, and definitely 'for what it's worth', the island is base for desalinization facilities .    The island has already sustained both bomb and missile attacks that MAY OR MAY NOT produced acceptable results, in that, the Strait remains controlled by the Persian Empire .

                           The retired Admirals and Generals have submitted that the Strait CANNOT be "Opened" by Air Forces alone, since both the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman are ridden by mines, some of them dating to WWII .  Hence trump's DESPERATE Call for NATO 'Mine Sweepers', to which the NATO Allies have answered with, "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on".  

                          But I digress ... .

Esoterica

                                                       Part of my own World View is that the World is NOT "a Safe Place" .    I tend toward a Cynicism that reeks of Kurt Vonnegut, and an Absurdism that smells of Joseph Heller .   I do NOT Trust ANYONE including my Self .   The FACT that I am almost devoid of Trust does NOT mean that I lack Faith, indeed, I have GREAT Faith in Humankind, although my Cynicism and Absurdist Tendencies provide access to a brand of Reality itself tainted by a Dark Humor that is despondingly* remarkable .   I have been bludgeoned nearly to Death by >  "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SO FUCKING NEGATIVE ?"   I torture my Inquisitionists with, `It AIN'T me, it's the World`--- which recalls what's-his-name's  "The Devil made me do it " .   {Comedian Flip Wilson} 

                                 Zen Master Steve Miller, songs, "Is this the kind of World we want to live in?"   OBVIOUSLY Existential Questions are within the Realm of the "Heavy Headed" - a term of the Early 70's that described Deep Thinkers, those that asked "Heavy-weight" Questions .   

                              Most Folks are NOT "Tuned to the Infinite" and MANY  contend that Philosophy is best left to Philosophers .  I WHOLE-HERTEDLY DISAGREE .   

"Know thyself, Nothing too much"

                                                       The title is a pronouncement derived from the Oracle at Delphi, in Ancient Greece .   Roughly it means that one can never know one's self COMPLETELY and the penetration in to one's self must be constant, and dare I suggest, UNREMITTING .  

                                 Remember the 4th Definition of Zen = "Looking into one's self, and the attainment of Buddhahood".   Zen Master Steve Winwood urges, "Look inside your Heart, I'll look inside mine" .   

                                 This THIS begs the question =  "What are we looking FOR" .   We are looking for the Essence or Essences of one's Being .   What are the components of one's Essence ?   What are those 'things' that define our Being ?   

                                 I eat rice, kim chee and seaweed-miso soup EVERY morning .   It defines part of my diet and is therefore,, in Biblical terms, my "Daily Bread" .   My sandwich is seasonal, baloney and tomato, and my favorite grinder is a cheese-burger with mayo, ketchup and tomato .   Something is your Fav if you can eat it everyday, and/or once a week .  Simple rite ?  Indeed Yes .  And yet folks don't know what their Fav is and worse, never even considered asking themselves .   If this is so fucking difficult, you don't have to imagine that asking them if they believe in God or a God would be considered by them to be an IMPOSSIBILITY .  Same is True of asking them about the MEANING of Life and whether or not Reincarnation is possible .   My 'across-the-street" neighbor responded, "I don't think about Death or Dying".  She is not an anomaly--- it's somewhat distressing to me that she is just normal as are our vast Millions .   Folks don't know and worse, THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW .

                              "Uuuuh Houston ?  We have a Problem"

The Prodigy Son

                                                              You can see it,  rite* ?    If a person doesn't even know him or her self well enough to answer the most basic and simple questions HOW can that person answer the COSMIC Question "What do you want to be when you grow uP" ?  

                           Kwik* 'aside' .   As an old man of 74 I confess that I still HAVEN'T "Grown uP". I'm stalled at age FIVE and it's been an unremitting STURUGGLE to `get to`  five and a half .  It's "Oh well" and "Woe is me" at the same punishing time .  Thing is >>   I'm the most smotest* five year old I have ever met---GENIUS really and definitely a PRODIGY .   

                          

                        

                          

Dumb-strucked*

                                                    We've all been on "first meetings" with those that have piqued our interest and generated a desire for more contact and  more understanding .   We begin with the easiest of questions, 'where are you from, where did you attend school, what do you do for a living', and various and other sundry queries .   There have been times when the only answer has been "I don't know" , or, "I haven't given it any thought" .   "I don't know" is like the 5th Amendment,  "I can't answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me".   Here it is where you get "Struck by DUMB".  I have asked the  most simple questions, all the way from "What is your favorite sandwich" to "Do you believe in the existence of Other World Space Beings?" only to get the most exasperation-al responses entered above .   It's amusing at first, but in Reality exposes a Mind that is NOT tuned to "The Infinite" nor even to OBVIOUS day-to-day personal trivia .   Here it is where things can "go South" in a manner of seconds , EVEN IF, the person your interested in is  "DROP DEAD" GORGEOUS .   

                             Lao Tzu informs us best, "In quality of Mind, it is DEPTH that matters ."

"Sister Mary Elephant"

                                                          It's not enough to tag trump as "the worst of the WORST" .   It IS necessary to have a Foundation on which Change can be conceptualized and a plan developed for whatever transformations are needed .   

                                The Psychological Foundation of Individuals is referred to as one's "World View" .   Generally, one's present World View is that of one's parents .  Our parents teach us "About the World" through 'jus-reglar'* interaction, sporadic as it may be .   Their World View becomes OUR World View and remains so unless challenged .    If they are Religious, they may insist on weekly visits to their Church, Synagogue, Temple or Mosque , and we, as obedient children, are introduced to THAT World View, through the Teachings of the Bible, Torah, and the Quran .   Here now the exposure to "Right and Wrong" .   We learn to be good persons by the application of  "Laws" when various situations,  circumstances and even predicaments are encountered .   Scholars are in agreement that America is a Christian nation [for the most part] and that its laws are derived from Biblical Sources .   You can see the Problem .    What happens when one is NOT >>>Christian ?   What happens when Christianity does NOT meet our personal need for a World View that satisfies both our Conscience and our Spirituality ?    

Pizza mio

                                                             I won't write this morning save for this note .   My Mind is muddled and my body CRAVES >outdoor< activity .   Easter approaches and with it the Christian Exaction of the Resurrection, and with the Resurrection, Spring and ITS Re-Birth and Re-newal .   I allow my Imagination the complete Freedom to exercise and one exercise in particular involves Spring Clean-up so that should Jesus slide by and look at my clearing actions He can compliment me on my Effort .   Of course I won't KNOW it is He since Jesus can "shape-shift" .   No matter .   I WANT TO BELIEVE that He MAY slide by and perhaps offer me a bowl of Mary Jane's Essence --- we will then sit quietly and I will get to ask Him this most burning question --->  "Do Space Aliens eat and enjoy pizza ?"  

R-ocket P-ropelled G-renade

                                                   We have learned that past Generals and Admirals advised their Commander-In-Chief that any War with Iran would necessitate the abject PROTECTION of the Strait of Hormuz because of the MAGNITUDE of its Importance to GLOBAL Trade .    Present Day retired Admirals and Generals are ASTOUNDED that trump and his did  NOT consider the Strait as worthy of even the slightest consideration .   Worse, we can't help but speculate that trump and his KNOWINGLY regarded Iran and its Mil as IMPOTENT and because of such, SEVERELY Underestimated Iran's Forces, an underestimation that even a junior high football coach would calculate as CATASTROPHIC.   

                      So it is that trump and his CANNOT "locate" an Exit Strategy unless and until the Strait has been "secured" from Iranian Land Forces, that can fire an RPG into the hull of ANY ship that seeks release .  

                       Ya-gotta wonder if Present Day Generals and Admirals advised trump about the GLOBAL IMPORTANCE of GUARANTEEING "safe-passage" to the world's tankers, and cargo ships ,,, because if they DID and trump and his REJECTED their counsel then trump is even  MORE grotesquely STUPID than previously calculated .  

The Analects

                                                  Buddhism presents us with :  "A thing can be known by its opposite" .   In this vein we turn to Confucius :   

                                        "There are three things a gentleman, (          ) , places above the rest :  from every attitude, from every gesture that he employs he must remove all trace of violence or arrogance;  every look he composes in his face must betoken good faith ;   from every word he utters, from every intonation,  he must remove all trace of coarseness and impropriety ".

                                                                         The Analects

                                                                          8 :  4

                         Clearly this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what trump projects .   

Miss Management

                                                      Trump's preeminent Predicament affords us valuable Insight, for it is here that we can garner the results of his personal and social relationship management (or lack thereof) .    Both Sigmund Freud and his Student Carl Jung agree that a man CAN-BE Judged by "the company he keeps", for example, if one surrounds one's self with thieves and criminals, it is clinically SAFE to regard that one as ALSO a thief and criminal .   From the late 70's :  "You are what you eat" can be b-r-o-a-d-e-n-e-d to  "You ARE what your friends are"---{rough but serviceable} .   Note trump's "friends" = putin, the  North Korean Dung-Eater,  Xi,,  and that Hungarian Horror .   We must, perforce, consider HITLER as trump's "bedside buddy" as well .   We can render a Judgement that is "Self-Evident" =  According to Those-That-Are-NORMAL trump is not only Deranged, Addled, and Delusional,,,,, he is a Political PERVERT--- and even such a declaration is WEAK and perhaps we should add the OBVIOUS, that trump is DIABOLICAL .  

"As ye sow, so shall ye" WEEP

                                                        I am  not alone in appreciating trump's present predicament .   He is in "dire straits" because of the Strait of Hormuz .   Yesterday we made the Determination that trump encapsulates ALL the negativity that can be contained within one's Psyche, and that of the Psyche of the Planet .   Trump's "Call to Arms" was largely REJECTED by those that once considered America as a GREAT Ally .   I insist that this entire Predicament is Biblical and I offer this :  "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."   Trump has viciously maligned almost EVERY Country in the E.U. as well as inflicting Economic Pain via the gross 'application' of Taxes that can only present itself as Vengeful and Punitive .   He has treated those Allies with both Contempt and Scorn, at times mocking them, at other times SCOLDING them as though they were disobedient children .   It is safe to affix the term "Father" to trump, meaning , he feels that his "status" allows him to be cruel, abrasive, offensive and callous with regard to his relationship with Others .   He is "The Bad Father", of this, there can be no doubt .

                           We have seen that trump was SHOCKED at the REFUSAL of NATO Allies to aid him, and he bemoaned that Fact with even MORE "Scorn and Contempt", spouting in just one sentence that he NEEDS their ENTHUSIASTIC Participation and that he DOESN'T .    Here now the proverbial "Sour Grapes" .   

                           Trump made every Conscious Effort to estrange himself from these "Friendlies" and when it came to for them to Respond to trump's monstrous ILL-TREATMENT they did so with their own ENTHUSIASTIC "Scorn and Contempt" and dare I add an extremely Glorious "FUCK YOU" .  

                          God how I LOVE the E.U. 

All men are NOT "Created Equal"

                                              We know that Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, can we assume that he never knew of Kung-tu Tsu, Mencius, Chu Hsi and Master Ch'eng I  ?   I think it is obligingly safe to answer in the affirmative .    According to the Ancients,  all men are NOT "Created Equal" .   What is to be done with THAT ?

                        There IS >Equality< , but its Form is this =  We are Equal in that we were created as Human Beings--we have HUMAN Form .    REGARDLESS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY  We are all HUMAN .  THAT is the UNIVERSAL EQUALITY .   

                        And yet, Governments composed of inferiors and those who are >'lesser'<,  sometimes Rule as if Human Beings are ANIMALS .   Can there be a GREATER ATROCITY ???  No.  There cannot .

                       INHUMAN CRUELTY is the POLITICAL  Ideology of trump and trumpism .   Elsewhere I have argued that trump is, himself,  INHUMAN .    Trump has "Demons" --- shit---ALL OF US HAVE DEMONS--- but trump's Demons govern his every action and his every IN-action .   Most of us are able to control our Demons, we have a Conscience and are tuned to our "greater qualities"--- trump is DEVOID of such Qualities as are his minions, rather, trump has chosen to IGNORE his 'greater qualities' and has favored those of DEMONIC Origin .   Trump is BROKEN and has created a Regime IN HIS IMAGE .   As such, trump has become a STANDARD of "fucked fucking up" , and so we would do well to seek to neutralize his Demonic Negativity with Our "Greater Qualities"  a Task surely Noble .

"The Investigation of All Things"

                                 

         " I Chu Hsi,  have ventured to take the view of   Master Ch'eng I   and supplement it as follows :   the meaning of the expression "the perfection of knowledge depends on the investigation of things" is this :   if we wish to extend our knowledge to the utmost, we must investigate the principles of all things we come into contact with, for the intelligent Mind of man is certainly formed to know, and there is not a single thing in which principles do not inhere .  It is only because all principles are not investigated that man's knowledge is incomplete .   For this reason, the first step in the education of the adult is to instruct the learner, in regard to all things in the world, to proceed from what knowledge he has of their principle, and investigate it further until he reaches the limit .   After exerting himself in this way for a long time he will one day achieve a wide and far reaching penetration .  Then the qualities of all things, whether internal or external, the refined or coarse, will be apprehended, and the mind, in its total substance and great function will be perfectly intelligent .  This is called the investigation of things .  This is called The Perfection of Knowledge ."

                         This is me and I want It to be You .

"The ALL of EVERYTHING"

                                                The questions of Kung-tu Tsu and the responses of Mencius compel us to ask  >What are the 'greater qualities' of our nature ?<   :   and  >HOW do we "build up the Nobler part of our Nature" ?<    

                          After reading this brief exchange can we deduce that our "Nature" has within it BOTH the GREATER and the smaller ?   Can  we deduce that our  [Human]  Nature contains "The ALL of EVERYTHING "? 

                        You can see it rite ?   In order to advance our Understanding of Mind {and who and what we are} we MUST at least CONSIDER that the All of Everything IS  contained within our COLLECTIVE Psyche just as our DNA contains The All of Everything .  From this recognition we can conclude that our "Nature" is "akin" to our CONSCIENCE and that this Conscience is CONSTRUCTED .  My Hero and Father of American Psychology, Dr. William James, INSISTED that "Life is what you MAKE it" .   We are said that we 'Build a Future' :  Of what is our Psyche made ?   What are the "things" that act and function as "building blocks" ?   

                       If our Psyche contains the All of Everything, we cannot ignore the fact that both Good and Evil reside in our Psyche which then tortures us with, by what Mechanism(s)  do we identify >Good< and >Bad< ?   Further, what is the Source of those Mechanisms ?  

Mencius and [Zen] Thinking

                                           "Kung-tu Tsu asked, 'We are all human beings .  Why is it that some men become great and others become small ?

                         Mencius answered , 'Those who follow the greater qualities in their nature become great men and those that follow the smaller qualities in their nature become small men .

                        Kung-tu Tsu was not satisfied and continued, 'But we are all human beings .   Why is it that some follow their greater qualities and others follow their smaller qualities?

                       Mencius responded, When our sense of sight and hearing are used without thought and are thereby obscured by material things, the material things act on the material senses and lead them astray .  That's all .   The function of the Mind is to think .   If we think, we will get the principles of things .  If we do not think, we will not get them .   This is what Heaven has given us .  If we first build up the Nobler part of our nature, then the inferior part cannot overcome it .  Itis simply this that makes men great .' "

"...but TIME will take you on ."

                                             One of the pre-eminent values of the Noble 8-Fold Path is that it is the Essence of Earthly and Heavenly (get this)  Hygiene .   The Great and Venerable Zen Master, Seung Sahn, lists the 8 this way :                    

                                                                          Right Views

                                                                          Right Thoughts

                                                                          Right Speech

                                                                          Right Karma

                                                                          Right Life

                                                                          Right Practice

                                                                          Right Mindfulness

                                                                          Right Meditation

                          For the time being we MUST set these aside rather than confront them "Head On" .   There IS "Daunt" with regard to this Practice, however, just reading them should ignite even a modicum of Curiosity---I need my Gentle Readers to "hold on" until I can offer REASONABLE explanations and definitions .  

                          As far as "the body" "goes" :  Daily Exercise is IMPERATIVE for a Healthy Body and a "Clear" Mind .    

                           As far as "Time" "goes" , I offer James Brown, The "God-Father of Soul",,   :   "Money won't change you, but TIME will take you on".

"Just Do It"

                                              "The Greek made physical training an important part of education, not because he said to himself, 'Look here, we mustn't forget the body', but because it could never occur to him to train anything but THE WHOLE MAN .   It was as natural for the polis to have gymnasia as to have a theater or warships, and they were constantly used by men of all ages, not only for physical BUT ALSO FOR MENTAL EXERCISE . "

                                                                         The Greeks

                                                                         H.D.F. Kitto 

               I will employ the word (term)  >Hygiene<   to establish conceptual reality .   We shower and brush our teeth  EVERY DAY as a program for [of] personal  Hygiene . I am adamant and insistent that both physical and MENTAL hygiene are abject NECESSITIES for the establishment and maintenance of Health .    In the EXACT SAME WAY that showering and brushing our teeth is done WITHOUT THINKING so it must be with daily Exercise and Meditation to the point that these Required Two, Exercise and Meditation, are performed as SECOND NATURE, meaning, these Two are like >Breathing< a function of our autonomic nervous system .  

             The company "Nike" sez* it best in their slogan =  "Just do it" .

             In case you haven't already come across "Nike" -- She is the Greek Goddess of Victory and as such was highly honored by the Greeks .   You may even see her name as NICE but it is pronounced like niece .  In Roman culture she is known as Victoria .

"Health is WEALTH"

                                             When I was a drunk, {I am STILL a "drunk", [the term is "functioning alcoholic"] I didn't give a "flying FUCK" about my >Health<  =  I never ate breakfast, choosing instead to swill a beer (even before work), I did eat a meager lunch, and I "drank" supper .   I was working as a chainsaw man and the work was BRUTAL.   "It soon came to pass" that I couldn't drive at night because my eyes were so fucked-up .   The optometrist didn't have good news, I had developed cataracts as a result of malnutrition .   "If you wanna play, you-gotta PAY" .   I was shocked and mortified BUT NOT ENOUGH TO TAKE CARE OF MYSELF .   It was fucking YEARS LATER before I did anything .   Now I have NEW eyes, and oddly, the world is a CLEANER place .

                         Understand that it is my Goal to use >>>Health<<< as a tool [weapon, or implement] to pry Commitment out of or from those who are "indifferent" to Health .   Some of us may not have "come across" the axiom >>>  "Health is WEALTH" .   Know this ;   THERE MAY BE NO GREATER 'STATEMENT OF POWER' THAN THIS .   Here now the IMPERATIVE to INVEST in one's Health , to LOVE one's Self to the extent that the knowledge > ALL PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ACTIVITES REQUIRE A HEALTHY BODY AND HEALTY MIND < becomes the FOUNDATION of one's Existence .        

A walk to the terrace

                                              It is "self-evident" that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" .   There is another :   "A terrace nine stories high begins with hods full of earth" .   [ a hod is a specialized v-shaped trough that is supported by a long pole behind the neck and on the shoulders of a "hod carrier"].  

                      ANY >Change< begins with a decision to actually exercise* one's Will .  "I WANT to change is vastly different than "I WILL Change" .   Here now >Commitment< .   Commitment is fraught with considerations that can be both complex and unwieldy .   Here it is where one must be DEVOTED to one's Self and where DISCIPLINE is ABSOLUTELY Required if ANY Advancement {toward Change or Transformation} is to be achieved .   2 >Things< characterize Commitment :   "Ain't nothin' EZ" and "There's no such thing as a "Free" lunch" .

* to IMPOSE one's Will  

"Indifference is the Root of ALL Evil..."

                                         "Everything proceeds of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their own course without troubling over details .   SUCH INDIFFERENCE IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL .   Symptoms of decay are bound to result .  Here we have the rule indicating the usual course of history .   BUT THIS RULE IS NOT INESCAPABLE LAW .   He who understands it is in a position to avoid its effects by dint of >>>UNREMITTING PERSEVERANCE and Caution ."

                                                                          63.  Chi Chi      After Completion

                                                                           I Ching     Book of Changes 

                                     It would behoove us to try and understand >>> indifference<<< and its fucking CATASTROPHIC consequences .

"The Maker Of All Things"

                                I call your Attention to an opening phrase in America's  "Declaration of Independence", it is :    "...the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God..." .   The "How" that Nature can have Her own God, is, at the very least, ENORMOUSLY COMPELLING .   Nature, it may be argued, CREATED her own God, which leaves Humankind ON ITS OWN .    Do NOT misunderstand (me) .   I believe what the Ancient, Chuang Tsu, also believed and Transmitted in his Inner Chapters, that there is a God, which he tagged as "The Maker Of All Things" .   Since the Maker Of All Things made >All Things< we can include ALL THINGS, those of GOOD and BAD in our Assessment that The Maker Of All Things is RESPONSIBLE for "All Things" INCLUDING WAR, DISEASE, STARVATION AND THIRST .    Folks routinely thanked "the Almighty" for the vaccines that ENDED Covid, while simultaneously IGNORING the FACT, that the Divine Infinite, INFLICTED this Global Pandemic upon Humankind >>> FIRST <<< .   Shit,  we must be SOOOOO FUCKING CAREFUL !!!

                       I steadfastly REFUSE to "turn to God" for Salvation from the Atrocities and abject HORROR inflicted by a HUMAN Government .   WE got us into this fucking cesspool and it is WE who should navigate our own Exit .   Here now the NECESSITY for GLOBAL CONCERN, which is ultimately dependent upon EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US to EXECUTE OUR DUTY to Humankind to DEMAND the Rights and Liberties that have expressly and VIOLENTLY been Withheld by INFERIOR OTHES .    These Demands are the Foundation of Civilizational Existence .

"Shared Commonalities"

                                              I got into the "Cave" at around 4:30a.m.   I settled into "Chairy-Chair" with my fav cold coffee, Hazelnut, and began my Recitations .   When I finished I began the morning's >Mull< in the expectation that a "first sentence" would "arrive",  4 hours later, no such sentence "surfaced" ---  frustrated I resorted to my default, the transcription of a quote "out of" my GIANT 3 Ring Binder of Quotes .   I am EXCEEDINGLY reticent to use my own shit as "Example for others", yet, this morning, I had no (suitable) choice .

                         As usual there was a fucking PLETHORA of topics to consider ----the most important of which was a consideration of "Bottom Line" commonalities, specific to ---> What are to be the "Shared Commonalities" of Global Citizenry ?   I decided that America's "Declaration of Independence" COULD-BE EXTREMELY Useful but when I turned to it I saw only HUGE-FUCKING-DAUNT even though it contained almost EVERYTHING I had in Mind to offer to my Gentle Readers .   

                        Trump's War has put a magNIFYING Glass on not only the Political Ramifications of a MENTALLY ILL President, but also the American Citizenry as well .   Elsewhere I have likened the Iranian Protest to that of American Mal-content --- even for one such as myself it's a fucking s-t--r---e----t-----c------h .    From the gutter this :   Ain't no Americans rioting with "Death to Iran" SCREAMS .   The Shared Commonality is viciously simple :   THE GOVERNMENTS OF BOTH COUNTRIES ARE SAVAGELY BRUTAL AND HAVE NO REGARD WHATSOEVER TO THE PLIGHT OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS .   Here it is where the Declaration of Independence is CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR :  we read ;   "it is their DUTY to throw off such government " .   2 words :   HOW ???

Hidden Dragon

                                            "The lake rises above the trees :

                                              The image of Preponderance of the Great .

                                              Thus the superior man, when he stands alone,

                                               Is unconcerned,

                                               And if has to renounce the world,

                                               He is undaunted ."

                                                                                    28.  Preponderance of the Great

                                                                                         I Ching

                   

                                                                           Hidden Dragon

                        "This means a person who has the character of a Dragon but remains concealed .   He does not change to suit the outside world; he makes no name for himself .  He withdraws from the world, yet is not sad about it .   He receives no recognition , yet he is not sad about it .  If lucky, he carries out his principles;  if unlucky, he withdraws with them, verily, he cannot be uprooted; he is a Hidden Dragon ."

                          This is me .