Beware

                                                            Democratic optimism is surging in the most vile way .    In the Olden Times of Yesteryear we would be cautioned :  "Don't count your chickens before they hatch".   There's GREAT ---> Wisdom in that  barnyard obvious .   What is being broadcast  these days is a sickening disassociation from that barnyard classic .    News folks are telling us that the House will become democratic and even the House of Senators is possible .   I wouldn't mind hearing this if the qualifications were submitted as well, meaning, the Public needs to be reminded that just securing the House is NOT ENOUGH TO STOP TRUMP .   If trump IS to be STOPPED it would require TWO THIRDS MAJORITY IN BOTH HOUSES thereby guaranteeing VETO-PROOF Legislation .    

                          Presently THERE IS NO EVIDENC THAT TRUMPISTS WILL VOTE BLUE, VOTE DEMOCRATIC, IN RESPONSE TO PRESENT DAY ECONOMIC CONDITIONS .    I've watched, mostly IN HORROR,,,  as DIE-HARD LOYALISTS refuse to find ANY Fault with trump and therefore are quite willing to keep republicanism* alive and even flourishing, as the Dow presents .   

                          Every day we are subjected not only to trumpist Propaganda but democratic Propaganda as well .    The potential victory of democrats to secure a House of Representatives  simple majority is lessened BECAUSE OF REALITY .    The TRUTH is trump has the supreme court, the doj, the mil in his POWER and they can NEUTRALIZE whatever the democrats project .    The supreme court has given trump INVULNERABILTY , he cannot be prosecuted, nor even sanctioned because of its 'blessing' .    

                         

Philosophies don't pay bills

                                                           I spent some of yesterday afternoon immersed in Indries Shah's  THE WAY OF THE SUFI and presently I am a scant 28 pages from its completion .   I had hoped to find the mystical qualities that enriches Zen Buddhism, and to my delight there is significant mystical Qualities in Sufism, as well as the same WTF inscrutability . I LOVE  that .   What I did not expect to find was any political 'isms' that characterize THE TAO TE CHING  and among them ANY that would prescribe a remedy for Modern Day democrats' affliction, their inability to directly communicate with what is commonly referred to as "the General Public" .    I mean it this way :   there's "Out There" and then there's "WAY THE FUCK OUT THERE .    Sufi's have spent what seems to be EONS in an effort to provide the Teaching to just us reg'lar Folk and when that Teaching has been less well received they insist that it is because the Instructor or Teacher has NOT taught at a the level of the student .  We hear this same accusation from democratic strategists who are near bitter because of mis-communication, Cynicism resulting .   Most Folks are not Philosophers, nor do they have a penchant for Political Science, and even most of their Religious Activities are devoid of direct contact  with National and World Concerns .    

                              Thing is this, Candidates MUST afford potential voters the Policies to which they attend, meaning, those Policies that will contribute to the general Health and Welfare of the voters they are 'courting' .   These 'policies' are correctly referred to as "Kitchen Table Economics" --- it's Kitchen Table because that's where bills are addressed and paid .   Here it is where the ISSUES aren't really issues so much as they are COMMON, EVERY-DAY >>>COSTS<<< .    Technically, it's all about ARITHMETIC and as such, the NUMBERS, in dollar amounts, that need to be balanced in order to maintain and secure one's and one's Family accounting .   

                                The Voters' Question is savagely blunt :   What are you gonna do to help ME  and my FAMILY ?    It don't get no plainer .

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."  

Reality (2)

 From THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Aldous Huxley .

       Huxley quotes Dr. C.D. Broad :

                              "...the function of the brain, nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive .   Each person is at each moment capable of remembering and perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe .   The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practical or useful ."

                              "To make biological survival possible, the Mind, has to be funneled through the reducing value of the brain and nervous system ."

                                   "...likely to be PRACTICAL..."   Remember this please .

Reality (1)

                                                           My own Study of Reality is ongoing .   The blogs that follow are passages that I found revealing and therefore worthy of our Consideration .  I will make no comment on these passages, at least, not yet,,, I will wait until my Gentle Readers have assimilated them .   

       Dr. C.G. Jung quotes Richard Wilhelm the Translator of the I CHING from Chinese to German .

                                   "Reality", says Richard Wilhelm, "is conceptually knowable because, according to the Chinese view, there is in all thing a latent rationality .   This is the basic idea underlying meaningful coincidence, [Synchronicity] ;  it is possible because both sides have the same meaning .  Where meaning prevails, order results . 

     Dr. Jung submits this :   For the Unconscious psyche space and time seem to be relative ; that is to say, knowledge finds itself in a space-time continuum in which space is no longer space, nor time time .  If, therefore, the Unconscious should develop or maintain a potential in the direction of CONSCIOUSNESS, it is then possible for parallel to be perceived of 'known' ."

                            I ask my Readers to hold on to "Continuum" because "IT" is one of the Things that Sword'sMen Protect, via the Teachings of the Tengu Masters .

                               

Harmony

                                                           Please forgive me .  I do not have the strength to continue .   Know this :   there are MILLIONS of Realities, each one of us actually creates a Reality that best suits our psychological 'Condition' :  Reality, then, is dependent on AGREED Conditions, where Truth is accepted as "The Majority Perception", something that Kant spells out in his CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON .  

                           Trump lives in HIS Reality, while the rest of us Suffer in Ours .   The DEAL is to bring everyone's individual Realities into Harmony ,  whereby a United Reality affords advance into Peace that benefits EVERYONE .

                     

                                                                       Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

Magic and Mystery in Wakefield, Rhode Island

                                                           I'm getting a late start this morning due to Illness .   I awoke at midnight because I  could barely breathe with any comfort .   My head was a watermelon filled with watery junk and a 400 pound baby hippo had nestled on my chest .   I have just returned from the pharmacy with Coricidin HBP a capsule that will coax the baby Hippo off my chest and help drain my brain .   Weirdly, there's nothing rwong* with my Body ~~~~~~ .

                               I had planned a quiet delivery of something I've been working on for several weeks :  Spiritual Pragmatism, roughly defined as a Spirituality based on PRAGMATISM {{ duuuh }} and that Pragmatism is Buddhism and specifically ZEN Buddhism, because Zen is a Path that demands strict adherence to  >REALITY< .   Some of you may ask, "What's so damn SPIRITUAL about Reality ?" and it's a GREAT Question .   Those like me, those of my "ilk",,, can see "IT" straightaway :  Reality, some would argue,, is DEVOID of Spirituality, I contend the Opposite, that Reality is not only Spiritual but MYSTICAL as well .   

                                Look at this :   I press a key and a letter appears on this screen .  I mean, how is That NOT a fucking MIRACLE ?   I know we can use Science to explain "IT" but for most of us jus' reg'lar folk, that "IT" is nothing short of fucking MAGIC, since Magic can explain just about EVERYTHING in just ONE Word .    

                                Check "IT" out :   when we agree that >Birth< is a "Miracle" then EVERYTHING-ELSE is Miraculous as well .  Life is a MIRACLE !!!   The Logic is irrefutable .

                                 Reality, then, is a MIRACLE !

Offal-icians

 BUMMER ALERT

                                                          I always thought I would write a book on Manhood describing the Journey from Childhood to Manhood as a Reference Guide and Manual .   {{MANual}}} .  When the time came, when I had the time and LUXURY of workless Freedom, I no longer felt compelled nor Obligated  because what I thought I had appeared as irrelevant .   The World had changed, check that, my World had changed to such a degree that expression of yesteryear problems and how they were surmounted presented as ridiculous .   Who wants to know what happened in the Past (?), meaning, those Problems no longer even seemed to exist .

                              I am old now .   I have become aware of Young Male Problems that are the result of a Role Model Shortage, that is, young "men" do not have Role Models that reinforce TRUE Manhood .   Present Day Males have looked to >>>TRUMP<<< as a Role Model, even Joe Rogan, a kid I like despite his personal Politics .  Look  at what has transpired :   So-called "Men" who are Elected Officials {{offal-icians}}  have demonstrated time and again that they are, IN FACT,  NOT   True Men AT ALL, but rather BOYS whose FEARS have gone un-addressed and have resulted in the preference toward COWARD-SHIP* rather than BRAVERY .   They have validated each other's FEARS and defend their Cowardice as Protecting themselves and their families at the expense of those that voted for them with the Expectation that they would SERVE them with Valor, Virtue and Distinction .

Diesel-aid

                                                What do you say about all this shit ?   What CAN be said ?????

                             It seems like CENTURIES AGO when 'they' tried to impeach trump ~~~~then 'they' tried AGAIN !!!!   Nothin' .

                             Presently, nato could 'jump in' and SAVE Ukraine .  Presently, what use-to-be republicans could 'jump in' and SAVE what use-to-be America .   These use-to-be republicans MUST-BE regarded as nothing less than ENEMIES of what-use-to-be America .   But does this actually >help< ?

                             What-use-to-be-Americans Provide an entire NATION with Food--- we need THEM as much as they need US .   Indeed, the WORLD needs their Food .   

                              Yesterday I wanted to make today's topic >Sacrifice< ,,, I even had notes from like a fucking year ago that I thought would be useful .   I thought I would cliche my way into a modest from of optimism by stating "We are at a Crossroads of Opportunity .  The World's DEPENDANCY on Oil must be addressed with RADICAL, NON-LINEAR THINKING which is already in its nascent state ."   Enlightened Address by Wisdom-ful* countries like (get this) China and Japan have produced fucking EXOTIC Machines to harvest wind and ocean movements to generate Electricity --- thing is, if we're all starving to death, what the fuck good is electricity ????

                              Recall this bullshit ;  "If God gives you lemons, MAKE LEMON-AID"

                                                                 If god gives you diesel, fill your tanks !

                              You can see it rite ?

                                                             Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Miss Guided

                                                            We don't really need "Ockhams [Occam's --Ocham's] Razor but it may be useful here .   Putin's WAR is financed by his oil .   He's now getting a HEALTHY  >> "DOUBLE-DIP"<<,  he sells oil to the E.U. and now trump which he then uses to WAGE WAR against the E.U. and trump .   Asking, "WHY THE FUCK WOULD TRUMP BUY OIL FROM WHAT USE TO BE AMERICA'S ENEMY ?"   is an assault on Common Sense Intelligence .   Look at this :   Q.  "Why'd the  moron buy gas from his enemy ?"   A.  Because he thought it was a good thing to do ."    

                             Once again we are trapped by the phrase FUCKED-UP, "IT" isn't adequate to express grotesque BEWILDERMENT .    Bewilderment is itself a 'trap'  since it partially blinds us from the TRUTH :   the Truth being, WE MUST NOW CONSIDER TRUMPISTAN THE FOURTH MEMBER OF THE EVIL AXIS --->  russia, china, trumpistan, and iran . 

                             Trump and his have CRIPPLED american > trumpistanian<  farmers with first his tariffs and second his WAR .   China went elsewhere to satisfy their demand for soy beans,,,  an almost TWO BILLION DOLLAR LOSS for trumpistanian farmers .   Same with the trumpistanian cattle men .   

                             Chinese oil tankers have 'free passage' through Hormuz, trump doesn't even DARE to confront china nor their oil tankers .   Plus, china provides Spy Satellite Intel in the exact same way as putin .   Two words :   bewildering --- let's make it three :   fucking bewildering .

GARGANTUAN

                                                           It's never a good thing when so-called EXPERTS are flummoxed.   I'm certainly no 'expert' but I pay attention enough to be considered "up-to-date" with events and occurrences that are the plight {plague} of Present Day Humankind .   

                             Today's original first sentence was suppose to be, >It just won't end<.   Yesterday we learned that trump had `struck a deal` with putin whereby putin would sell 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to trump in trump's effort to mollify stricken farmers and alleviate/mitigate, at least somewhat, the cost of diesel.   I CONFESS, although there MUST-BE at least a modicum of comprehension available, I can find no such access to it .  

                             When such a GARGANTUAN of Inscrutability arrives one can only try and get some distance from "IT" so that one's view can see "the whole picture" where picture is the Demon Gargantuan .    'Straight-up' trump is buying fuel from his own ENEMY .   Putin IS Iran's ALLY :  putin supplies armament and munitions as well as Spy Satellite Intel that Iran uses to attack and destroy trump's Forces .   

                             Trump is doing what the E.U. is doing :   buying fuel from its own ENEMY .

"...yeah----what he said..."

                                                                       7.  Shih  /  The Army

                                  "The justifying cause of war, and clear and intelligible war aims, ought to be explained to the people by an experienced leader .   Unless there is a quite definitive war aim to which the people can consciously pledge themselves, the unity and strength of conviction that lead to victory will not be forthcoming .  But the leader must also look to it that the passion of war and the delirium of victory do not give rise to unjust acts that will not meet with general approval ."

                                You can see "IT" rite ?

                                                                   Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

"Back-back-back onto the "WARNING Track"

                                                            JFK and then LBJ 'handed' the American EMPIRE its MOST EGREGIOIUS HUMILIATION  its RETREAT from Viet Nam [Vietnam] .  Here it was that AMERCAN SUPERIOR Forces COULD NOT DEFEAT a bunch of "paddy-boy" FARMERS .   It is fucking IMPOSSIBLE that Iran and the rest of the Arabic Speaking Nations did not "MARK" this DEFEAT as >>> "If a bunch of paddy boys can DEFEAT an EMPIRE , we SURELY would {will} have MORE-THAN a Chance should the American Devil, some day, try the same shit-skank on US" <<< .   Hello and WELCOME to 'Some Day' .   We are living >IN<  the 60's FUTURE .

                              

Things Go Better With Choke

                                                           Even modest observation will reveal what is transpiring in the WAR "Theater" .   Trump's "Supply Lines" have been SEVERELY Compromised due to Iranian Strategy and Tactics, specifically, Iran's missile and drone ASSAULT on America's UNPROTECTED Bases, AND Iran's ELIMINATION of America's NAVAL Capacity to re-supply its blockade vessels and Jet-Attack "Platforms", [Aircraft Carriers] .   This THIS aint-no BRILLIANT Strategy, it's FUNDAMENTAL and even RUDIMENTARY, a something that even 7th Graders can recognize .   "Choke the Choker" .  

                           In addition, Iran KNOWS the American Peoples, Iran and the Arab-Speaking Nations have long studied the "American Devil", Iran and they are in constant, unmitigated SURVEILLANCE of America's Culture, and Society(ies) .   Weirdly, they actually FEEL our Pain and Suffering and REVEL in its EFFECTS .   American Malcontent, is being broadcast ALL OVER THE WORLD .   Clearly, Iran has BROKEN American "Supply Lines" which has effectively BROKEN trump's WAR Will, and "SUPPLIED" Iran with GREATER Power, that extends far beyond Hormuz and the Arabian Peninsula .

                           2 words :  Iran is "Winning"  ---so much WINNING--- and Iran is forcing trump and his to EAT their own SHIT .

Leningrad

                                                           For awhile I've wanted to draw a parallel between the Nazi Siege of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] to trump's "Siege" of Tehran [Iran] .      My intent was to depict the steadfast Valor of Leningradians* as an example of what Tehranians must be experiencing .   The Siege of Leningrad is  considered by Historians as the STARVATION of Leningrad , a Military Tactic that was advanced in the Middle Ages where castle/fortresses were surrounded, its food supply cut off, as well as water .  Why engage in combat when you could starve your enemy to death without a single loss of even one soldier ?    The problem was Time, the generals had to feed their own troops for days, weeks and months, and locating one's army in just one site OBVIOUSLY prevented an advance elsewhere .   Still, Siege was assiduously effective, IF the Siege Operators had the Time, and Supply Line that could be defended easily to keep the Line unbroken, then Victory was grotesquely at hand .

                           A million-zillion years later, here's trump with HIS army laying Siege to Iran, while simultaneously blockading Hormuz . Clearly,  the Objective is to Close Hormuz, others have described as a "Choke-hold" which prevents the Iranian "Supply Line" from operating with any effectiveness whatsoever .  No money --No food .   Trump and his nit-wit military cavalcade have failed {what else is new} to account for the Black Market that is is actually supplying the IRGC with enough foodstuffs and wares, that they can withstand the Siege [some say] INDEFINITELY .

                          Meanwhile, "back at the raunch",  Americans are experiencing a "cost-of-living" NIGHTMARE as THEIR foodstuffs and wares are becoming increasingly costly, so much so that even trump's most MANICAL zombies are expressing, not just "dis"-content but "MAL"-Content, and derisive speech, directed to trump, is being Voiced with aggravated Scathe .          

Dire Straits

 BUMMER ALERT

                                                            Here's one for ya :   90% of Home Heating Fuel for the E.U. 'comes from' --->  RUSSIA .   I've stated this before :   The E.U.  DEPENDS on putin to keep warm and keep its Economy 'running' .    Ukraine is presently bombing the shit out of putin's oil refineries, as well as its tankers , while putin is targeting vessels that transport needed grains to both the E.U. and Middle Africa .   Putin has MASSIVE Leverage ...... .

                                  Recall, as did John Steinbeck, This Is The Winter Of Our Discontent .  The line is from Shakespeare, it couldn't be more fitting .  

                                   And then there's this one :   Dire Straits .   How fucking AWESOME is ---> THAT ?  Hormuz and Bab al Mandab  =   The Dire Straits .  Too good .

                                 We were fucking up so the Universe sent hitler .   We didn't get the message .  Stalin, pol pot, papa doc, that Philippines madman, what's-his-name, then putin and now trump AT THE EXACT SAME TIME .   Two words :   wow .

                                  The Third World War is upon us like a no visibility BLIZZARD .   We KNOW its Root and Source .   Putin must be STOPPED .   Netanyahu must be STOPPED .   Trump must be STOPPED .   

                                Aint no one comin' to rescue us kids, "IT" 's gonna be upto*  US .

                                                      Tare Forward and Keep the Faith    

The Atrocious Three

BUMMER ALERT

                                                            Does anyone still remember that WAR is RAGING in Ukraine ?   It began in 2024, February, and this year will be the  third Winter Ukraine will experience WITHOUT a steady Source of Electricity and Heat .    Many Americans believed Ukraine was UNIMPORTANT to their daily Lives, that there was NO need to be concerned, '"IT" was just too far away to MEAN anything .  Now America is in a WAR and HEAT and Electricity will be in URGENT  Demand .  Hello Ukraine, NOW we "UNDERSTAND" .   

                         Check this out :   "The enemy of my enemy is my ally."  When we extrapolate,  this arrives :   Trump is at WAR with Iran .   Trump is at WAR with American Citizens .  Iran opposes trump, Americans oppose trump .   Therefore ;   Iranians and Americans are BONDED because of a MUTUAL Enemy .      And Worse >>>>>  Iranians are {somehow} America's --->  Allies .   It's one thing to be an Ally of Ukrainians, but is it another to have Iranians as [fellow] Allies ?    What about Gazans and  West Bankers ?????   Have they not Suffered from INSANE Rulers as well ???????         

                         We see images of old Ukrainian Grandmothers, in rags and tatters, foraging about for firewood to cook whatever food is available and to heat their makeshift shelters ---  it is the same for Gazanz and Westbankers who Suffer because israel will NOT allow Humanitarian Aid to be distributed in Gaza .   

                          It's one HUMAN ATROCITY after ANOTHER .   

                         Three humanoids did this to US   putin netanyahu and trump .  

Winter

 BUMMER ALERT 

                                                           Winter approaches bringing with it the NECESSITY for 'home heating fuel' .  Projections in the State of Maine, America has the NEW cost of this fuel will be whatever was paid previously PLUS the trump WAR addition of some SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS  per 'fill-up'.  The residents of Maine are ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ...) .   Know this :

                                                HOME HEATING FUEL IS >>> DIESEL FUEL !!!!

                           TRUMP'S WAR AGAINST IRAN IS NOW A WAR AGAINST AMERICA.

Ill Lusions versus HEALTHY Lusions

                                                           When I settled on this morning's topic I was wary of its effect, since my global readership numbers are declining at what I consider to be an alarming rate .   "IT", the Decline, makes sense, no one wants to read the same depressing shit every fucking day .  Reality can be BRUTAL and I will offer no illusion {ill lusion} to mitigate its True substance .   I have decided to offer a "Bummer Alert" to notify those that can't take me [my words] of impending negative drama, where drama is used in its theatrical sense, that of Shakespeare and his, "All the World is a Stage" .  We say, "The Drama is unfolding" to obviate any good feeling that the reader may expect .   The so-called 'Hippie' lexicon is fraught with drug references, many of the words in it are derived from fantastical and "Alice-In-Wonderland" phrases, too numerous to cite here .  I mean, I could always note, "DON'T BOTHER" but I WANT to Bother, I'm botherful*, besides being irascible, cantankerous, acerbic, surly and dyspeptic .   Being an old man has linguistic and rhetorical advantages, be they odious and foul .   I have always admired old assholes who think they can 'get away' with being blunt, rude, callous, gross and disgusting .

                                                                    I have issues .

The "Sleeping GIANT"

                                                           By my reckoning, it will take TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS to bribe Iran from continuing the WAR, and if america refuses to Surrender it will take even more,,,  and further, the Cost will NOT be borne by america alone, because the WAR has already expanded into Yemen where the Houthis now Control >Bab al Mandab< ,  and have attacked Saudi pipelines that were the hopes of Saudis to bypass Hormuz altogether .   In THAT 'vein' Saudi oil refineries have also been attacked, successfully, further decreasing the amount of oil that is sorely needed by the rest of the Planet .  

                                  The BOMBING of  Iran has parallel in the December 7th "Attack on Pearl Harbor" to which a prominent Japanese Admiral who MAY have embittered, "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant ."  

                                  GIANT or not  Iran now (C)ontrols the Middle East and as such the World is its Hostage .

                                                                  

Seize Fire

                                                           Trump is "Fine" with the extermination of some TWENTY ONE MILLION AMERICAN CITIZENS, the populations of Los Angeles and San Diego ~~~   as long as "IT" suits his needs and satisfies his Derangement(s) .   There is NO one word adjective to describe this sort of INHUMAN CONTEMPT for LIVING BEINGS .   Can I leave this here ?   Two words :   Nope .

                            According to 'open' media outlets there is NO Communication between Tehran and D.C.. but other Sources have reported that, in FACT, there IS communication taking place through "Back Channels", which we can assume are linked to Pakistan and Qatar .   What is the NATURE of these Communications ?   We can assume more .   The General Question is obvious, What will it take to end the WAR ?   Perhaps more specifically, What will it take to FULLY OPEN Hormuz ?   Short Term :   HOW can a TRUE "Cease Fire" be actualized ????? .

                            I have offended everyone with my own "Hey Russia if you're listening", Hey Tehran, if you're listening, just ask trump to resign, forfeit his money and that of his children, turn himself over to International Authorities for "Crime Against Humanity" and leave America IMMEDIATELY .   Of course NONE-OF-THAT will take place, but the  LEVERAGE  for it exists .   When confronted by this THIS, perhaps trump offered to eliminate Los Angeles and San Diego, a SOMETHING SO PREPOSTEROUS that it MUST-BE included in ANY con-sideration of trump's mental health and lack thereof .   We KNOW TRUMP IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING .   This THIS, ain't no s----t----r----e----t----c----h .   I mean, I'm jus' sayin' .       

Milo Minderbinder

                                                         "IT" is well known that trump HATES Governor Newsome .   Newsome has been a jagged 'spur bone' in trump's side, and one of the Few who can TROLL trump with SCATHING  Alacrity .  Recall that trump has already INVADED California when ICE took to the Streets to literally ATTACK its Citizens ---"IT" , therefore, is NO 'Surprise' that trump Targeted Los Angeles for Iran in the same way he 'told' putin to ATTACK Clinton during the 'Private Server' controversy, a one in which putin actually RESPONDED .   That 'field' had already been 'plowed' .

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                                 There was a Film that depicted the launch of American ICBM's that resulted in the utter destruction of Moscow .   The U.S., in an act of sincere apology, told Russia that it could, if it wanted, NUKE Washington D.C. as a measure of Reciprocity ~~~ the Film concludes with the Nuclear Destruction of D.C. 

                                Is the above scenario a Possibility ?  Sure .  I mean, it wouldn't be Iran to do it, it would have to be done by Americans .   Recall the Scene in "Catch-22" where Milo Minderbinder had made a "Deal" with the Germans, a Deal that included the bombing of Milo's OWN BASE using the AMERICAN B-17's and 25's that were there .   "IT" was all for what Milo considered to be a "HANDSOME PROFIT" .   Milo figured, what was GOOD for HIM was Good for everyone else . 

                               Can you see "IT" ???

"Questions 67 and 68"

                                                           Trump's wanton Depravity is unfathomable .   Yesterday he almost INVITED Iran to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego where "take out" means Total Destruction, the EXTINCTION of MILLIONS of American Citizens .   I couldn't believe what I heard .  I was instantly Sickened .  

                           Thing is, his "people" CHEERED .   

                            On any other day I would have taken the time to recover, to allow that kind of HORROR to abate, and then evaporate leaving behind remnants upon which I would comment .   

                            There were OUTCRIES and OUTBURSTS BUT NONE FROM REPUBLICANS, further deepening the Depth of Depravity if that is even possible .   "IT" was the Same after trump bloated* that he would "Nuke Iran back into the Stone Age" .   Even W-T-F can't get us there .

                           Iran does NOT have ICBM [Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile] capability, nor Bombers capable of that kind of "Reach" {some 7,580 miles} .   Los Angeles and San Diego are safe, {{for now}}.

                           I HAD-TA ask, WHY did American Citizens CHEER for the Destruction of these California Cities, one of which houses a Military Base with some 100,000 +  Soldiers :  and WHY did trump use these cities as TARGET for Iran ???  

"Get Ready To RUMBLE "

                                                          A "Blue Wave" "aint-gonna cut it", not even  a Blue TSUNAMI, what we're gonna need is a BIBLICAL INUNDATION, in stronger more BARBARIC language, we need a WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER .   In addition, we MUST recognize that FACT that trump and his WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to maintain CONTROL of the Government including forestalling the Swearing In Ceremony .    Americans MUST BE PREPARED to conduct MAJOR PROTESTS in D.C. and throughout the Land at EVERY State Capital so that >>>

                                 THE WORLD SEES AMERICANS PROTESTING TRUMP AND CALLING FOR                                                  HIS DISMISSAL WHATEVER THE COST  !!!  

                                 Should trump be successful at DENYING ELECTION RESULTS we MUST-HAVE the WORLD  BEAR WITNESS to OUR --->  WILL .   If the World, then, imposes Strict Anti-trump Policies, we MUST be ready and WILLING to Sacrifice until trump SURRENDERS  or is "Run Out" .  

                                 There IS no other Choice .

                                                               Tare Forward and Keep the Faith  

Wednes' Day

                                                           Presently, "IT" can be seen that american democrats are expressing something just short of Elation that the 'polls' are intimating a MASSIVE {Potential} DEFEAT of trump and trumpism throughout the Land .   I have no such elation, rather, I'm SCARED FUCKING SHIT .   TV pundits are already claiming "Blue Wave" a symbol for COMPLETE VICTORY but there are OTHERS who are less convinced, indeed, there are a few "SUPER-BRAINS" that do NOT Question the Potential Results but DO Question what will happen AFTER the "Results are in" .   One such SUPER-BRAIN spoke thusly :   "I'm not concerned about the Outcome, I AM CONCERNED that the newly Elected WILL NOT GET SWORN IN , that the existing trumpian leadership WILL REFUSE TO OBEY THE LAW, and instead will seek to suborn the Election with abject CRIMINALITY, the DEFIANCE of Constitutional Guarantee ".  {MOSTLY his words, I added a few for dramatic effect} .  

                              We only needs LOOK at the Pattern   ALREADY ESTABLISHED,   i.e., JANUARY 6th !   Trump WASN'T facing "Prison Time THEN but he KNOWS his ass is grass IFF  the newly Elected get "seated", that is, "Sworn In" .   He can surely DELAY the Ceremony just by declaring NATION-WIDE FRAUD, and with the supreme court, his own SS, and the Mil ALREADY "in his pocket" he can do whatever the fuck he wants WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF >>>>>>>>>ANYTHING<<<<<<<< .   

                             There are PRECIOUS FEW Assurances being generated by the [Blue] State Governors who command their own "National" Guard--- and this Guard can be (get this) SWORN IN by trump to effectuate HIS Desires and Demands .  

                              "Wednesday"  said it best,   "Be afraid --  be VERY Afraid." 

Choice

                                                           There are candidates who steadfastly BELIEVE that a vote for them is a vote LITERALLY for them, as INDIVIDUALS, meaning, you vote for them because of WHO THEY ARE AS AN INDIVIDUAL .   For most of Us, a vote for a particular candidate, is a vote to make them a VOICE for US  !    The vote for an Individual  who Believes he is to be elected to serve HIS OR HER OWN CONSCIOUS 'goes' AGAINST the desire by Voters to be FULLY Represented WITH THEIR INTERESTS in Mind, NOT those of an individual, who is susceptible to "whim and fancy" OR the CORRUPTION resulting from bribes and political extortion .

                             There is a Logic that is both UNREMITTING and IRREFUTABLE , "IT" is this :  Premise ;   A Good Government is the Result of Good People .  In order to have a Good Government GOOD PEOPLE MUST BE ELECTED .   So simple "IT" appears as both OBVIOUS and STUPIT* at the same time .   The Proof is --->  "Self-Evident" :  two words, TRUMP .

Electing to Elect

                                                           I apologize to my Gentle Readers around the World, the American Mid-Term Elections are scant days away, and this particular Election is one of EXISTENTIAL Monument .     Americans that voted for trump have come to realize {Real Eyes} that he and his have committed Us to a WAR without the People's Consent nor that of congre$$ and because of this WAR the so-called "Cost Of Living" reduced to one word ---> Affordability, is beyond what Americans can withstand .   They have come to See, Recognize and Identify trump as a Psycho-CRIMINAL whose bloodlust and GREED has NO  Limits --- that he is quite willing and EAGER to STEAL all that he can from HIS OWN PEOPLES ; and that the only way to STOP him is by and through the Electoral Process .   So it is that I must maintain a large percentage of my Focus {Attention} on this upcoming Election .   As I have  stated elsewhere, my Devotion is to Truth and the Protection of Truth, trump is the OPPOSITE of Truth, save this one, his LIES are Truth, it's TRUE, that he LIES, which registers with Psyche as "What he says is True" .   Recall the Schwarzenegger Classic, "True Lies" .   Arnold HAD-TO tell his loving Wife LIES in order to remain in the Power of his Marriage .   Lying to be full of Truth is hideously UGLY, >>>>BUT<<<< we do it all the time .

"The Teaching Is All Around You"

                                                           I must call your Attention to what Shah has written :   

           "Another Sufi idea, producing a problem which may have found impossible to integrate in their minds, is the Sufi insistence that Sufism can be taught in many guises .   Sufis, in a word, do not stick to any one convention .   Some quite happily use a religious format, others romantic poetry, some deal in jokes, tales and legends, yet others rely on art-forms and the products of artisanship .   Now, a Sufi can tell from his experience that all these presentations are legitimate .   But the literalist outsider, however sincere he may be, will often testily demand to be told whether these Sufis are members of of guilds, religious maniacs, jokers, scientists--- or what .   This problem, while it may be special to Sufism, is by no means new .   Sufis have been judicially murdered, hounded out of their homes, or had their books burned, for using non-religious or locally unacceptable formulations .   Some of the greatest classical authors have been accused of heresy, even political crimes .   Even today [[1970]]  they come under fire from all kinds of committed circles, not just religious ones. "

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                                   Before he left for home, Zen-Master-To-Be, Jacob Perl, cautioned me, "Don't look for the Teaching, It is all around you [here, in the Temple] " .   

                         Zen Sword Master Chang Sik Kim Taught, "EVERYTHING IS YOUR TEACHER" .

                         "IT" isn't just 'Everything', "IT" is EVERY-BODY .

                          In the Anelects this Gem :   "Even Tsu Kung was not afraid to learn from his Inferiors" .

                                It's certainly hard to detect Humility in Tsu Kung, I assure you, "IT" 's There .

Some do some don't

                                                           This morning, when I viewed my numbers, I was delighted to find some 900 had read my blogs on Music .  Technically, they were NOT blogs at all, but transcriptions of quotes I thought relevant to my 'case' for Music Appreciation .  I KNOW there is dispute among Muslims, whether or not listening to Music is permissible or if is is "Haram", Arabic for ---> Forbidden [one of the Five Rulings], and many of the Countries that 'read' me have a large Muslim population, so THAT would definitely contribute to low numbers .   I suspect that 'Modern Times' have relaxed staunch Muslim Insistence that Music is NOT one of Allah's Fav's, but I am inclined to (b)elieve that Muslims do, indeed, 'Appreciate' Song , or at least TOLERATE it, since Music in all its Forms and Manifestations has Residence among the World's Every-Day Citizenry, and as such, CANNOT be truly Avoided .   

                              Some folks aren't 'into' Music, sad but True .  Does that disqualify them from entry into Planetarianism* ?  Most assuredly Not .  For MOST of Some-of-us, Music is "pleasing to the ear" and affords a 'comfort', where comfort is a Feeling of Connection, first with Time and Place, [Location] of Reality, and then with the general Human Condition that considers Loneliness a viable form of Suffering---Most folks do not want to be alone-- they NEED background Music because they Fear Silence, where Silence AMPLIFIES Alone-ness* .   

Music as Joy

                               "Here, then, Music terminates in Religion .    The two are intimately related, and Religion in a way elucidates the content of Music .  Logos descends from his heights, and sound---the Shriek--- is joined by Myth .  Myth unites men within the Symbol, it embraces men, and they are far more moved than they would have been by mere Sound, for Myth is the Music of Symbolism .   Therefore, it is clear that Myth is FULFILLMENT .  { > Whole-Ness < } ."

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                       "But even here, Harmony is the Core of the Spirit of Eastern Wisdom .    To be sure,, the deep origin of Western tragedy is not foreign to Eastern Wisdom either, but these depths are for it only partial, and not final in themselves .  Height and Depth are united in Logos, by TAO .  Joyousness, and surrender to joyousness as the final redemption of Myth, supply the energy necessary for Order among men .   Surrender to joyousness forms and shapes men :   force neither of arms nor of law, but joyousness alone makes it easy for men to follow .   Joyousness is garbed in beauty, showing itself pleasantly to men, so that from within they are compelled to submit easily and willingly to its regulations .   Ultimately, this is the greatest idea that came to life in China as the Sprit of Music and as the Spirit of Religion ."

---All quotes from LECTURES ON THE I CHING    CONSTANCY AND CHANGE by Richard Wilhelm Translated from the German by Irene Eber .

                          These two blogs must serve as my Introduction to Music .

MUSIC

                              "A person who surrenders to the moods of the day, who gives voice to the dissatisfaction of the masses, momentarily becomes the leader of the masses .  For one moment he is the man in whom the people recognize themselves . {Zen Master as "Empty MIRROR"} .   

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                             "The more on the surface a person is, and the more it is intended to draw the masses, the sooner it ends . "

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                            "Whatsoever lives in the heart is expressed in SOUND, and growing in intensity, is expressed by movement, so that each tone and each movement are the expression of internal animation."

                                                      

                                                                    The Most Important :

                              Man comes in contact with GOD, through the Spirit of MUSIC .

"Do you hear what I hear ?"

                                                           I promised you, my Gentle Readers, a Consideration of ---> Music .   The other day {week, month, year LIFETIME} I made note that Sufism has an Order Devoted to [the Study of]  Music and that I was instantly Exultant .   I must Confess that the Study of Music was a Some-Thing that I had long wished to include as part of "American Zen" .   The Late Great Zen Master Seung Sahn had opened Zen to America via his "Kwan Um" Zen School .  Kwan Um means "Perceive World Sound" and I was set to supplement it with "Perceive ---> Music" .   To me, "Perceive World Sound" meant Perceive World SUFFERING at the expense of  "Perceive Sound" which would include all the mellifluous harmonies of wild-life, the Industrial World, {house building, construction in general} and every day-to-day street `noise` .   It IS imperative to "Hear" the cries of the Sorrow-Stricken and Suffering, they DEMAND our "Attention", but this Reality exists on the surface of Conscious-Ness, and somehow belies the UNDERCURRENT of [literal] Music, the bee-bops and do-wah-diddies, of songs that IS not only the Undercurrent but the Back-Ground Music broadcast in almost all American Stores and Sales Locations that laden the world with Wares .   "IT" 's so common, we can't even hear "IT" and most consider "IT" "white noise" as I have just mentioned .   

                                Learning that Sufism is DEVOTED to Music THRILLED me, and it's sorta PROOF that my thinking was "on track", meaning, what I THOUGHT to be Questionable, was, in FACT,  REAL .

                                What follows are several passage that I will use as an Introduction .

Nixing Nixon

                                                           I find heartening the news that is being reported that there are cracks, fractures, breaks and fissures in the so-called maga-coalition that is the result of PUBLIC MALCONTENT .   Elected 'officials' {offal-icials} are responding to the expression of that Malcontent by trying to distance themselves from trump, and his GRAVITY .   This MUST-BE considered PROGRESS toward an "Awakening", rather a Neutralization,  that can and does exert Pressure on trump, that, as yet, he REFUSES to acknowledge in any MEANINGFUL way .  Trump still DENIES Reality .

                             Recently, Journalists have attempted to draw parallels between NIXON and his Resignation and the current "predicament" in which trump finds himself .   I personally would prefer that trump and his be HANDED-OVER to Iran to face charges of ASSASSINATION, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, and JUST-BEING-THE-BIGGEST-FUCKING-ASSHOLE-SINCE HITLER .   Ain't nevuh gonna happen I Know that but the SCENE pleases me without end . 

                            Nixon was told BY HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS that he was gonna be IMPEACHED if he refused to Resign and would face PRISON TIME as a result .   Nixon caved .

                            Oh WOULD that american republicans, what's remains of them, stand together, approach trump and DEMAND his Resignation !!!   

                                                             Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Jesus the Destroyer

                                                           I don't know if Iran has already conceived of the Resignation Plan, to impose on trump as a Condition for opening Hormuz, establishing a REAL 'Cease Fire' and ENDING the WAR .   They, as in the Military Sanhedrin, [the IRGC], may --->NOT<--- want trump to be "gone" because NEVER in the Modern Time has Iran had SO MUCH POWER, where POWER means Leverage .   PLUS, they have Allies =  Russia and China, and americans have NONE .   A "Regime Change" in america, may not Suit Iran, like, AT ALL .  Iran has survived thus far, and has proven itself a FORMIDABLE Force which has exerted itself into the Arab Peninsula in Violent and Destructive manner .   ANCIENT Intra-Religion ANIMOSITY  is also "at work", Shia versus Sunni being its garrulous Manifestation .   Religion IS POWER, none can deny, and Iran is FULL of religious Zealotry, much to the DETRIMENT of Common and DECENT Muslims both in Iran and around the World in Muslim Populations .   "IT" is as "IT" was in Ancient Israel during the Time and Ministry of Jesus, where the Religious [Spiritual] Sanhedrin had NO "Beef" with Jesus and His Teaching, but where the Political Sanhedrin FEARED Jesus because He was, to them, a "Subversive Revolutionary" .  { I LOVE this Depiction of Jesus, it makes HIM  one of US .}

                                   But I digress ... .  Sorry .

Miss Represented

                                                            Iran has implied that `nothing will happen` until America finishes conducting its 'Mid-term elections' .   The Sub-Conscious suggestion here is one of "Regime Change" the very construct trump and his (D)esire .   I find that the entire State of Condition, wherein one Nation desires the utmost Change from Another, has been verted-in {inverted}~~~ and the Proverbial "Shoe" is "on the other foot" which makes no Sense unless one "shoe" was on the rwong* foot to begin with--- .

                             English is awk-weird and the above gives us no Relief , I LOVE "IT" nonetheless .

                             Iran is looking for a Regime Change that can occur IFF the democrats win the 2028 Presidential Election and gain MAJORITIES in the House of Representatives and the House of Senators .  I mean, THAT'S the Problem ---> TIME .  What are we,  as in the inhabitants of Earth,  to  DO  until THEN ???     THAT'S the  ---> OTHER PROBLEM, present Conditions are generating both Material and Spiritual Suffering .   Trump's administration is  DEVOTED  to the  Destruction  of  ALL  American Institutions , [Democracy] while simultaneously effecting a campaign of STARVATION which is inflicted on ITS OWN CITIZENS, meaning, the wholesale EFFORT to withhold FOOD, and Food Subsidies, from the Lower Realms, those of the Working Poor, the Poor, the Elderly & Infirm, and of course X-Migrant CITIZENS .  

                            You'd wanna (B)elieve that one man, in trump's case one HOMINID, can be the source of GLOBAL SUFFERING, but look around,  it was HE who started WORLD WAR THREE .

Pissing into the wind...

                                    Looks like I'm doing nothing more than pissing into the wind here.

                                                  

too little too late

                                                           Would trump resign if he were told that his resignation WOULD END THE WAR ?   Fucking FANTASY !!!!   I don't believe america could withstand 2 more years of his fucking bullshit .   Remember our Civics :  the House of Representatives and the House of Senators must reach a TWO THIRDS MAJORITY in order to enact legislation that is "Veto Proof" .  What are the odds of THAT happening ????????   So what if the dems get a Majority in the House but fail to get a majority in the Senate---THAT is far more likely --- what will happen THEN ?????

                            We KNOW what 'type' of hominid he is , a hominid DEVOID of the Human Characteristics that define both Civility and Humanity .   He would think, {I KNOW HIS MIND} that his Resignation would be taken as AMERICAN SURRENDER --- A DIRECT SYMBOL OF HIS PERSONAL FAILURE .    No, I think we all agree ---Resignation is NOT in his Future , so how can we MAKE IT PART ?????

                             If the dems were United they could offer trump a Commitment that they will NOT Prosecute him nor IMPEACH Him when (and IF) they regain Control .   He could leave office with all the cash he and his family have STOLEN ....  with NO "Prison Time" .   Would he be TEMPTED ???   Maybe, but just a little,  given that he could remain in Power by just REFUSING to leave the WH .   Even  >>IF<< he resigns what would become of his administration ?   Would they, too, demand the treatment afforded trump to be THEIRS as well ????

                             2 words :   It don't look good .  

                             

EPSTEIN NOW

             According to the numbers, paltry, the solution to the War was received by a miniscule few. I admit substantial disappointment .  2 words :  whatever .

                           Folks are probably suspicious of ANY trump "resignation" :  I mean, really, WHY would he resign just to open Hormuz and Relieve the WORLD of its Stress and Depression ?   

                           SOMEONE hacked the American F.B.I. files and downloaded VITAL information .   Suppose it was IRAN ???   If they were capable and actually DID hack the F.B.I. could they not extract the EPSTEIN FILES from the American D.O.J. as well ???    Do they NOW have the EPSTEIN FILES in hand ????   IF they did, then they could threaten trump with the GLOBAL RELEASE of the EPSTEIN FILES !!!!!! 

                           Folks have speculated that nethanyahu HAS the complete, unabridged and unredacted EPSTEIN FILES and it was HE and THAT which was use to "Leverage" {extort} trump into starting the WAR against Iran .   

                           Folks have intimated that the EPSTEIN FILES are just as POWERFUL AS A NUCLEAR BOMB .   MAYBE ,,,,,,  "IT" 's even better .           

"Strange News From Another Star"

                                                           Yesterday, between 6 and 7:30 p.m. I was the Recipient of the SOLUTION to trump's WAR against Iran, and the trump's Tyranny of America .  Although >"IT"< is not mine, {technically "IT" IS} I will assign it this tag :  The S.D.P.O.A which stands for Short Delivery {of a} Plan Of Action .  {{The Steve DeSilva Plan Of Action}} .   "IT" is as follows :

                                    The IMMEDIATE >>>RESIGNATION<<< of trump, hegseth, miller, and ALL THOSE WHO DEMANDED WAR AGAINST IRAN .

                                     An IMMEDIATE FREEZE of all trump assets including those of his family .

                                     The IMMEDIATE Removal of the American Flotilla that blockades the Strait of Hormuz .

                                     The IMMEDIATE >>>RESIGNATION<<< of netanyahu and his military Sanhedrin .

                                     The IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL of the IDF from Gaza, and Lebanon .

                                     The IMEDIATE DELIVERY of Humanitarian Aid to Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon, including FOOD, WATER, HOUSING, ELECTRICITY and HEAT and MEDICAL RELIEF (in the form of Hospital Repairs and Rebuilding) .

                                      The IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS .

                              

       "but wait, there's more..."

Happy Trails

                                                            I am painfully Aware that he majority of my blog conclusions are rife with despondency {and despondency is ridiculously generous] .   "IT" could be better if I were able to be more uplifting , to somehow be more positively Spirited ~~~~  .  While I was Zen Walking on the street this arrived :  We need a Battle Hymn of the Resistance {"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"} and I didn't have to go very far when this arrived :   The Battle HIM to the Republicans which is  

                                                       

                                                                    FUCK TRUMP  .

                        

                    I qualify it as follows :  It's the Fuck of "Fuck YOU", the Fuck of  "Fucked-over", and the Fuck of  "We are SOOOOO Fucked", and even better , the Fuck of "GO FUCK YOURSELF" .  

                    This is all I have for this morning, and I will tease you that Music will be {MITE BE} the topic of tomorrow's consideration .

                                                    "Happy trails to you, until we meet again

                                                      Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then." 

...religiously pathetic .

                                                           I am compelled to elevate "The Instinct of Self-Preservation" to

 ||| The LAW of Self-Preservation|||  in order  to re-make "IT" a part of Evolution .  It's a removal from the Psyche of us mere Mortals {Human-Kind} {{The "Collective Unconscious"}}  to Infinity where I believe it should reside .  Is there EVIDENCE ???  Good Question .

                           I view trump's "Vanity Projects" as manifestation(s) of his Law of Self-Preservation, despite the Law's OBVIOUS PERVERSION .   Trump seeks IMMORTALITY via these Projects which will, he thinks, endure FOREVER .  Self-Preservation is the PERPETUAL maintenance of one's specific "bloodline" and of course this Continuance is PROTECTED by Mother Nature, {as best She can} .   This >Continuance< is well represented by the Pyramids and other TREMENDOUSLY MASSIVE Structures .   The folks who constructed them were intent upon being remembered for EONS, and they built them to withstand CATACLYSMS --which they have .   In the infinitesimal, we, as Humans, have constructed "Grave Stones" to mark OUR >>>Presence<<< on this Planet .  I have cynically qualified them with "I was here" a scrawl I read while pissing into a bar urinal .   That's the best we can do as Humans, "I was here".  Fuck if that aint religiously pathetic .  

"Child is Father to the Man"

                                                            I have endeavored to promote my Belief that we, as in ALL of Us, are connected to the "Divine Infinite" via Spirit, the HEAVENLY Spirit that Native Americans Revere as "The GREAT Spirit"  and further that the Individual is manifestation of ALL Human-Kind .  Here now the  concretization of "The Micro-Cosm IS the Macro-Cosm" and also, "Child is Father to the Man" .  As said manifestation, we, as Entities of the Divine, are subject to "IT" 's Laws, among them the Law of Evolution which I claim to be Divine Trajectory toward ---> Perfection .  In the same way that Evolution, whose children are Mother Nature and Mother Earth, manifests CHANGES, to enhance and perfect Her offspring, so it is that we, too, must FULLY Acknowledge Her Directive to become >Perfect< .   Darwin has 'given' us "Survival of the Fittest" as an Explanation of Species ---> Continuance .   Those that cannot change are doomed to Extinction, restated ; Those that cannot or REFUSE to Adapt are "Dis-continued" and are therefore relegated to the Domain of Memory IF they are fortunate enough to be Remembered at all {Dodo bird} .  

                                  

"Return To Forever"

                                                            I want a "Return to the Truth" .   I will leave this >Truth< to be regarded as "Self-Evident" for now, because I am reluctant to explain it in depth .   I need "IT" "out there" in the broadest way, and rely on everyone's Understanding of Truth as it currently exists .  I have presented Zen and now Sufism as "a means toward an end", that End being the above, a Return to the Truth .   Specifically, Zen is a "Way" to establish and maintain >Reality<, rather, the Perception of Reality, so that the so-called Truth of Reality can be experienced .  My  Gentle Readers  are  firmly  aware  of  my  pet phrase :  "We create our own 'Perceptual Reality' " .   Here it is and here it MUST-BE that one's Perceptual Reality be in accord, in HARMONY, with prevailing Conditions, meaning, if the Prevailing Conditions include Lie Telling ASSHOLES then the Perceptual Reality must recognize those Conditions and be able to "Call a spade a spade" ,  NOT  to call a spade a club or diamond .   I have communicated my own personal adherence to the Ancient Kung Fu Order whose Primary Foundation is to "Protect the Truth" .  I insist, it takes "GUTS" to Defend the Truth, and the Truth Seeker/Protector must have the Spirit of a Warrior, a HUMBLE Warrior but a WARRIOR, none-the-less ---there is a name/title for such a one, it is "Bodhisattva Warrior" and that title serves us perfectly .   Bodhisattva = Kind, Compassionate and Generous, and I supplement that as follows :  Skilled, Reliant and Valorous .   

Freemasonry

                                                           Shah uses History to place Freemasonry as an adjunct of Sufism .  It is essential to make note that American Freemasons were an integral part of the American Birth, and remained so in its formative, and later, mature Politics .   Among these George Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere and John Hancock are KNOWN Freemasons .   Here now the CONNECTION between Sufism and Americanism*, at least EARLY Americanism .   America was awash in an Idealism that origined* in Self Knowledge which manifested  as Universal Politics in the form of "The Body Politic" and "IT" 's Ideologies {Idea-ology} .   Freemasons were exposed to Sufism, a reliable precursor to Zen .  Dare I suggest that both Sufism and Zen are in American Blood ?   I do .

                           

                                  

                              

Crystal METHods

                                                           We must ask, "What is the Nature of Ghazali's --> 'Truth' ? :  What is the Nature of Gnosis 'Divine' ?  ? .   Inevitably, after years of Practice, one will arrive at the Understanding that he or she is One with the Universe, that we are all Born DIVINE .   In this, we are all Manifestations of GOD, of the Higher Power, [ make that the HIGHEST POWER] and as such WE ARE EQUAL, since we have reached "Human Status" .   Does this not make Us  CONNECTED  by   UNBREAKABLLE Bonds ?   Indeed it does, indeed it MUST !   

                            Sufism, Gnosticism, and Zen-ism are, at their Core, METHODS to reach Ultimate Truths for Humans, as I have just stipulated, that We are One, We are Divine, that each of us is a "Living Miracle", hence Dr. Joseph Campbell's insistence upon "The MAJESTY of Being" .   

                            I contend that should the Shia and Sunni, America's republicans and democrats, DEMONSTRATE the Understanding that we are ONE Race, ONE SPECIES, then we can Advance into Planetary Altruism, meaning, WAR will become ABHORRENT and that DIPLOMACY will become the "ABSOLUTE" Means to address World Crisies NOT Death and Destruction .   THAT'S the "thing" about lofty Idealism, it make so much Sense that it appears grudgingly stupid, and ridiculously obvious,,, but look where we are ... .  

The Bridge over the River WHY

                                                            Yesterday I offered that Sufism and Zen could Change Islam and America but I did not explain the most Vital ---> HOW ?  .   We, as in I, have been trying to establish "Shared Commonalities" that Sociologists recognize as >Essential< if Humankind is to Advance in a preferred Evolutionary manner .   Elsewhere I have argued to promote the Conscious-Ness* of One-Ness, that we, as in All Earthlings, are Connected by an Essence that IS "Human NATURE" , and that this Essence is ---> Spirit, Biblically recognized as "The Breath of God" .   I used these 'tools',  "The Spirit of God is WITHIN", and what the Buddha Taught, "We are, each of us, Buddhas" .

                            In this Light, what, then, is the Nature of Zen and Sufism ?   I return us to yesterday's Consideration and these two :   Zen is, "Seeing into one's Self and the Attainment of Buddha-hood" (Enlightenment) ; and  Gnosis is, "The Immediate and Direct [PERSONAL] Experience of the Divine" ;  and today I add Shah's note of El Ghazali :  "He arrived at his knowledge through his upbringing in Sufism, (among Sufi), and through a form of direct perception of the Truth...".   It must be noted that Zen, Gnosis, and Sufism get their 'POWER' from a "Turning Inward", the Depth Penetration of first Conscious WILL and then the UN-Conscious >Tuning< of the Self to COSMIC {Spirit} Vibrations .   When a certain level of Harmony is thereby reached, "IT" "opens the doors of Perception" where Entry introduces not only Cosmic Knowledge but Universal WISDOM as well .  

                          Here it is where "One-Ness" is Revealed, where One-Ness is the TRUE Nature of ALL Humans .