Solace

                                                                         47.  K'un  /  Oppression  (Exhaustion)

                                    "He who lets his spirit be broken by exhaustion certainly has no success .   But if adversity only bends a man, it creates in him a power to react that is bound in time to manifest itself .   No inferior man is capable of this .  Only the great man brings about good fortune and remains blameless .   It is true that for the time being outward influence is denied him, because his words have no effect .  Therefore in times of adversity it is important to be strong within and sparring of words ."

                                                                         I CHING

                                     2 words :   Solace .

                                                             Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Trick of Threat

                                                           I had no plan to write this morning, I am still re-covering my nerves from the rake of Fear, Anxiety and Fury .    I told You I was fucking SCARED which may have struck ALL-OF-YOU as "UNBECOMING AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN" .  I know, I won't deny it .   Only thing I can defend myself with is the OBVIOUS --->  I'm OLD .   My FEAR is EVERYONE'S FEAR, as is my ANXIETY and FURY .   It's a Buddhist >thing< that sometimes defies explanation, this is one of those Times .   

                               Today is Halloween, technically it's "The Eve of all Hallows", that is, the Eve of "ALL SAINTS DAY" = where Hallows is manifestation of the Hallowed, the Saintly .   "IT" mite be slightly better with this > Hallows' Eve< but then again, who really gives a shit ???????   

                               "IT" 's also College Football Day, a day when millions upon millions IGNORE the country's Demise, and "The State of the Union", because THAT is a fucking "DOWNER" and "IT" would spoil the SPECTACLE  of Combat Sport, whose erstwhile Life was the "Bread and Circus" of Gladiatorial  Horror in Ancient america  Rome .   

                                "The more things change, the more they stay the same ."

Jedi Mind Control

                                                          I've been Zen Walking -- {Pacing} -- with the expectation that 'something' will 'arrive' that will help me conclude this morning's Effort .    I needed a 'something' that would demonstrate 'Mind Energy' , the sort of which Telepathy, as in 'Mind Control' would express .   I use Mind Control because this Mind Control Energy can be utilized against trumpists that they may be influenced enough to reverse their 'stand' {as in 'stand with trump'} and vote 'Blue' .   The BEST that arrived was "Jedi Mind Control" .   So here it is :   when you are out and about and detect a trump-o-maniac use your Mind Energy to insist, `I need to change and vote for Democracy` .   Personally, I hold this throughout the day :   TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED and I SEND THAT OUT Continuously .   

                           We MUST EXERT Our Will .

                                                            Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

"MY COUSIN VINNY"

                                                          Every vote is-gonna be HUGELY SIGNIFICANT .    Trump and his are already seeking to CAST-OUT --->  SUBSTANTIAL numbers of ballots that have been submitted .  If there is  slim margin in votes then he will EASILY declare VICTORY .   Even IF there is a fucking LANDSLIDE, he will seek to nullify vast number of democrat votes, so we MUST have EVERYONE vote .   

                         When Obama was opposed by Romney I twittered , "The republicans will SAY anything and DO anything, in order to secure Victory ."   Yes Obama proved to be the Victor but at what COST ?   Now the trumpistanians have been "backed into a corner" by their own `leader` and they have no other recourse save to LIE, CHEAT AND STEAL .   It is their "M.O." .    Look at what has transpired over trump's terms .   

                         Trump has calibrated thusly :  "Vote as if I am on the ballot."   This morning this arrived :   VOTE AS IF HITLER IS ON THE BALLOT .   Elsewhere I established the parallels between hitler and trump which have been assiduously corroborated by political scientists all over the World .   Recall j.d. vance :   "TRUMP IS AMERICA'S HITLER" .   You'd wanna believe that voting democracy is a "NO BRAINER", such is the disaster that is trumpistan .    Recall that we thought that before the FIRST trump .   We even had a SECOND CHANCE after he was IMPEACHED and look what happened THEN .   

                         You wanna believe, "THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM" ; but I give you that scene in 'MY COUSIN VINNY' when someone said, "You passed the Bar on your THIRD try because 'third time's the charm' rite ? "   Vinny was silent and then uttered  "Six" .   The questioner was aghast, "SIX !!!!????" .   "Yeah,"  Vinny sighed,    "SIXTH TIME'S THE CHARM" .  

John Wilkes [VOTING] BOOTH

                                                          There are hominids out there who would rather DIE than vote for democrat, liberal, progressive, Black, Muslim and I may as well add Buddhist .    These hominids voted for trump, as he too, is one of them, a hominid .    These barely humans are Instinctual in Mind and Psyche, meaning, they are "Jungle Dwellers" and as such the only Law they Know and Understand is the "THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE" =  "KILL OR BE KILLED" = =  "EAT OR BE EATEN" .   Here it is where FEAR is the PRIMARY Response to all things Unknown, indeed, we say that there exists, "THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN"  which manifests in Modern times as "FEAR OF THE OTHER" .   It gets worse {how the fuck can it get any worse ?} .   Evangelicals consider it a SIN to vote for democrats, whom they consider EVIL [ democrats as ANTI-GOD ] .   These somethings, will continue to support trump, he can count on their vote, while simultaneously pissing in their faces .  

                            There are other OTHERS, those that voted for trump to gain financial advance, the relief from taxes and such, and these folks are considered by us RIGHTEOUS SNOBS, as "Selling their Souls to the Devil" .   We say, "IN IT FOR THE QUICK BUCK", we note that they had given NO THOUGHT to the potentials that were soon to come their way, among them the COST experienced by the NATION, the Result of trump's tariffs and of course his WAR .   Will THEY continue to support trump ?   Can they be TRUSTED to vote for CHANGE ???????    I don't think they can be Trusted , I mean, seriously, WHY should we Trust them ????   I hazard that when asked for whom they would vote, they LIED TO OUR FACES that they were-gonna vote for a democrat, but once inside the the voting booth, VOTED FOR THEIR OWN MONETARY INTERESTS, fucking over the Rest of Us .  

Horror upon Horror

                                                           Elsewhere I have proffered an explanation as to the 'what' that caused trump to ignite his WAR against what was then an innocuous Iran .   I suggested that netanyahu had the epstein files and sought to influence trump to attack Iran WITH netanyahu's IDF or be subject to netanyahu's RELEASE of the Files to the World .   Trump had already kidnapped Maduro, and was flush with the Military's profound expertise and execution, and so believed that any Military Effort to destabilize the IRGC would certainly be just as effective .   Remember the initial Conditions surrounding trump on all sides :   the NON- Release of the epstein files had resulted in a 'mild' {poor choice} Public Conflagration that resulted in DEMANDS for their Release AS PROMISED by trump's administration .   Ya-gotta figure that trump figured, "NO FUCKING WAY" , and rather than a Release that would OUTRAGE THE WORLD and CONDEMN TRUMP TO ETERNAL DAMNATION, he decided to do what he does best, DEFLECT .   

                                There are MASSIVE Conspiracy Theories that netanyahu KNEW about the INVASION of October 7th, but he, as was trump, was "under" the crushing weight of Populace CONDEMNATION because of his CORRUPTION .   OBVIOUSLY, he "took a page out of trump's `playbook` " and rather than face potential penitentiary Consequence he "allowed" his own people to be MASSACRED .    

                                "Horror upon Horror" ....... .

First Thing FIRST

                                                           You want to believe that trump will be stopped if the democrats win the MAJORITY in both Houses thereby neutralizing trump's VETO POWER .   2 words, "NOT SO FAST".   Trump will remain the 'Commander-In-Chief' and what HE says 'GOES' .   Remember what trump and hegseth have already done :  they have forced out MOST of upper echelon Generals and Admirals which allowed INFERIORS to ascend into Command positions, and most of these MAY support trump in whatever whim or fancy he dictates .   Can we trust the Mil??? , I say NO .   Most recently they, the mil, have bombed another drug boat, killing its crew members ----ALL TOTALLY ILLEGAL .   The Mil WILL Obey trump's orders, I see no reason they will do otherwise .   

                            Folks will offset :  "Wasn't there a "NO Concur" letter signed by Mil Leaders to oppose further Mil Action against Iran and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula at large ?   Yes .   Did anything HAPPEN as a RESULT ???   No, nothing, not one thing .   Indeed, there is reporting that trump and HIS Mil are preparing for another HUGE Attack on Iran and its infrastructures, to take place after the american Mid-term elections .   Indeed, even netanyahu's mil is "in" that same "scheme" .

                           We are in some seriously DEEP SHIT .  There must be a first step for our self-extraction and that is to VOTE --->  DEMOCRAT straight down the ballot .

                           

Miss Take

                                                          Trump has bankrupted every business he has owned .    Trump is running america as if it is HIS business .   Therefore, it is LOGICAL to assume he will bankrupt america .    Once he declares america insolvent, he will raid Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid using the excuse that "americans must sacrifice if their america is to continue" .   MILLIONS of americans will be expected to DIE [so] that the Younger will have a Home .   

                                It's been reported that younger americans are whining because the "Promise" of the fulfillment of the American Dream has somehow been revoked---they feel cheated .    I  mean, WTF ??!!

                                Social Security was devised and enacted as LAW because americans who could no longer work due to old age and such, were DYING IN THE STREETS .   The Gov went all "Good Samaritan" to mitigate the Suffering so that us Old Folks could, (get this) "die in dignity" .   The gov FORCED all the Workers to pay into a "Retirement Fund" which could be accessed at the appropriate time, which for me is NOW .

                               I confessed yesterday  I'M SCARED FUCKING SHIT that Medicare and Medicaid will be raided, in the exact same way that the american Post Office is ROUTINELY RAIDED to offset Treasury shortfalls .    

                              Trump MUST BE STOPPED , and the above is only ONE REASON .

Duress in Duration

                                                           Student Protests in Europe have ignited a "Signal" of the Past, the so-called "Arab Spring" of 2010 to 2012 .   SOME Satisfaction was experienced, but are the Arab-Speaking Nations under FULL Democracy Rule ???   2 words :   Nope .   

                             Students and Concerned Citizens are Protesting governments that have REFUSED to recognize the Interests of us Commoners .   I want to express the Nature of NOW by describing a Time BEFORE >Now< where Conditions were deplorable but no one "had the guts to leave the Temple" .   Folks ate whatever SHIT the government 'fed' them up until NOW appeared as "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" , meaning,  WE'VE EATEN ALL THE FUCKING SHIT WE CAN STAND >>>>NOW<<<< "IT" 's gotta END .   

                             We say, "The Time is NOW" but implicit in this statement Declaration is what I raised earlier --->  Duration .   >NOW< must have  >Duration< .   

                             In America, Folks want Change NOW, and so they will Vote next Tuesday to get "NOW" initiated and implemented WHICH WILL TAKE MONTHS .  Look at "IT" :   >NOW< 'takes' MONTHS .   I beg my Gentle Readers DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM THIS .

 

"Deaf, Dumb and Blind" ...

                                                          I live in a Realm {of my own creation} where I am 'aware' of Telepathic Energies, what Zen Buddhists [Zen-ists] refer to as "Mind Energy" .   In the "Olden Days of Yesteryear" this Mind Energy was referred to as "ESP", that is, Extra-Sensory-Perception and folks of my Generation and earlier, either Believed in ESP or didn't .   Obviously, as I have just expressed, I DO .

                           After I finish writing, I allow myself to be receptive to these Energies which, by definition, are the Mind Transmissions of my Gentle Readers .   These days I have been unsettled, grouchy, and morose because of my own dys-satisfaction* with my Effort and the reception of Energies that are also dys-satisfied with my Out-put .   

                           There is an URGENCY for TRANSFORMATION  >>>>>NOW<<<<< and the Investigation and Study of Kiddie Lit does NOTHING to address the POLITICAL URGENCY that assails us presently .   I FEEL that URGENCY, I suspect WE ALL FEEL IT, but it is as if   TIME -Itself- is working AGAINST our Will .   The Election is almost grotesquely upon us, and Folks, who APPEAR as Common and Decent are still UN-DECIDED  on for whom they will vote .  

                          "IT" gets worse .

                            Some folks interviewed admitted they will WAIT until they are INSIDE the Voting booth to finally decide .   2 words :   wow .

Duration

                                                                       32.   Heng / Duration

                                     "Duration is  a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances .   It is not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression .  Duration is rather the self-contained and therefore self-renewing movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in accordance of immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending .   The end is reached by an inward movement, by inhalation, systole, contraction, and this movement turns into a new beginning, in which the movement is directed outward, in exhalation, diastole, expansion .

                                      " Heavenly bodies exemplify Duration .  They move in their fixed orbits, and because of this their light-giving power endures .   The seasons of the year follow a fixed law of change and transformation, hence can produce effect that endure .  

                                        "So likewise the dedicated man embodies an enduring meaning in his way of life, and thereby the world is formed .   In that which gives things their Duration, we can come to understand the nature of all beings in heaven and on earth ."

                                                                             I CHING or BOOK OF CHANGES 

Miss Stroke

                                                          Earlier I was writing about why folks lie, specific to american politics and the consequence of those lies with regard to polling and further down the road, the Mid-term Election .    I had half a screen lit up when, for some COSMIC reason or another, I hit a key or keys that deleted the entire blog, which then caused me to "tail spin" out of control .   I didn't recover, ---  I went outdoors to Zen Walk to regain my Center and figure out what the fuck had just happened .   Clearly the Universe saw fit to alter my trajectory :  tagging folks as Liars, Cheats, Scoundrels and Scalawags, dose nothing save to express anger, and dystrust* , somethings* unacceptable to Scholarship .   Name calling breaks all my Rules .   

                          When I returned to the Cave "IT" arrived :  I was SCARED .

                           I was Scared that the elections would not be  ---> Transformative, meaning, the democrats could win, but the margin would be so slim, that NOTHING would Change and Nothing COULD-BE Changed .   Labeling folks LIARS is an effort to protect myself from the abominable  DISAPPOINTMENT that america would remain in open cesspool of Corruption, Lies, and Deceit that has already manifested as trump's WAR .  

                          

Pharaoh's Legacy

                                                           Yesterday I spent NO 'Time' thinking abut this morning's topic {consideration} even after Fareed Zacharia's program some of which was devoted to Israel and the Quasi "EXTINCTION EVENT" of Palestinians, that is, Gazans and 'Bankers' .   Some say there is HOPE [I HATE HOPE] that the Ruling Sanhedrin of Israel [the Knesset] will "come to their Senses" and vote AGAINST netanyahu and his  SLAUGHTER MACNINE otherwise referred to as the IDF .   Israel has been  ||| divi  ded |||  just as america with support for a Solution to the Palestinian Problem that does NOT involve handing over Territories that would become the Nation of Palestine, and those who simply Demand the above mentioned EXTINCTION EVENT as the way to eliminate hamas at the expense of Innocents .   Is this Election to be a harbinger of things to come in america ?   

                            Most will argue that HAMAS will never be eliminated as long as iran has money and WILL .   Here  it is where the Civilian Populations of Iran, Israel, America, Saudi Arabia, and the majority of Arabic Speaking and Muslim Orientation DO NOT HAVE ANY POWER WHATSOEVER .   Those presently in POWER consider the Human Population of Innocents as >>>>>>> EXPENDABLE .   If the People "die off" due to governmental policies, so be it .  Those in POWER will always have their needs met, for the most part, with LAVISH construction .    

                                                   "Of what need do the poor have for food ?"     

Balance

                                                           In the Same Way that we don't get better by playing individuals and teams that have inferior [less developed} skills than we, so it is with Scholarship as well .   If we are to 'advance' our Understanding(s), then we must read materials that are "over our heads" .   Reading such Material is a fucking CHALLENGE but we MUST resign ourselves to undertake this Challenge as  means of Self-Development, especially those of us who seek Planetary {Cosmic} Consciousness .   In my Senior years I have taken to find Balance in my reading .  Presently I am wading {trudging, slogging} through Adam Smith's   THE WEALTH OF NATIONS,,, I can do so because I managed the same kind of slog with Thomas Piketty's CAPITAL .   It's not that I HATE Economics, it's just that I don't like it because I SUCK at it .   It's weird because I didn't find THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO a trudge at all .   I FORCE myself to read at least for half an hour before I get to my (True) Love, Kiddie Lit and Aesop's Fables .   "A spoonful of sugar help the medicine go down" . 

                             If you DO undertake the Reading of HAMLET'S MILL it mite* behoove you to read some Myths for balance .   

"Hamlet's Mill"

                                                            It may be that I have inadvertently offended my Gentle Readers by suggesting they enter the Realm of Children's Literature ("Kiddie Lit") .   If so, I apologize .   Every tribe, every hamlet, every village has their own Stories of Creation, [Myths] as well as Stories, Fables and Tales that supply their offspring with the Values, Morals, Mores and Ethos that is the foundation of their own Social Reality, hence my desire to communicate a ONE-NESS of Global Civilization .   It occurred to me yesterday afternoon, that Folks consider Kiddie Lit somehow 'beneath' them, and I understand that ;   to these Folks I offer the Study of Myth(s) because Myths supply those Very Same but for an Adult Appetite .    

                               Dr. Joseph Campbell is considered the PRE-EMMINENT SCHOLAR of Mythology and I  STRONGLY Recommend the following :   THE MASKS OF GOD   ORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY ;  THE MASKS OF GOD   CREATIVE MYTHOLOGY ;   THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES .   However, there is one text that is at the Apex of the Study of Myth and it is :   HAMLET'S MILL  AN ESSAY INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND ITS TRANSMISSION THROUGH MYTH .    It is written by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha von Dechend .   "IT", the Text, is of INESTIMABLE  Value .   

                               This from the back cover :   "Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose poser and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view .  This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge .  This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two ."

                             This TEXT aint for the squeamish , it is DAUNTING .

"MARS ATTACKS"

                                                           Elsewhere I have presented my ability to read Minds .    Trump's Mind can be viewed as :   "See Spot.  /  See Spot run.  /  Run Spot, Run.  /  Spot runs fast ."   Musk's mind presents something more different but not more difficult .   Musk is a "Sci-Fi" guy .  

                          When we 'see' trump, we see a guy who wants to annex Canada, Greenland, and for now, Venezuela .   I contend that musk is no different, with regard to america, and now Ukraine .   I view trump as a Modern Day Genghis Khan 'set' on CONSOLIDATING vast Territories in order to PLUNDER those Territories =  trump for PERSONAL GAIN and musk to bank-roll his COLONIZATION OF MARS .   Putin is set to CONQUER Ukraine in an Effort to restore his beloved SOVIET UNION and is obviously willing to GIVE some of Ukraine's Resources to trump and his in exchange for "Unity of Form and Function" which includes 'Rare Earth Minerals, and Ukraine's "Bread Basket" which feeds almost ALL of Africa .   

                         Musk is holding Ukraine HOSTAGE , so is trump for that matter but on a lesser degree .   Musk NEEDS putin in order to secure the Rare Earth Minerals he needs for Space "Occupation" .   We ask, Why doesn't he just BARGAIN with Zelensky ?"  Ya gotta figure that "IT" would cost musk money, whereas putin mite* just hand-over Rights AT NO COST --- simple capitalist arithmetic .   

                         UGLY gets us there .

musk

                                                           As an american I have no 'rite'* to denounce France and its government .  Recall the Spanish proverb =  "pot calling the kettle black" [from Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE ] .   Trumpistan has LITERALLY taken "Food out of the mouths of BABIES" in order to secure for the EXTREMELY WEALTHY monies they couldn't spend in 10 fucking THOUSAND  lifetimes .    The adjective CRUEL doe not even approach the lethal toxicity of such an IN-HUMAN ATROCITY .   And yet...there "IT" is .   

                       French 'citoyen' (s)  have every RITE to REVOLT, as do american Citizens who are poised to upend trump and trumpism in the upcoming Mid-Term Elections .   

                        You look at trump and see that ONE MAN can set the World to WAR~~~ now there is ANOTHER "ONE MAN" who has an entire NATION LITERALLY at his 'push-button' fingertip, and that is elon musk .   Hitler was 'ONE MAN", trump is 'ONE MAN' and now musk who is also 'ONE MAN' .   

                        We can only shake our heads in ASTONISHMENT, BEWILDERMENT, AND SORDID INCOMPREHENSION .    

                         Musk's CONTROL of Ukrainian Air Defenses --- anyone see THAT coming ???

"Worlds In Collision"

                                                           It's almost impossible to write about anything .  There's so much shit happening ~~~ the World at WAR---- .    Aggressions on the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, Gaza, Lebanon, and of course the WAR in Ukraine where ONE "american" is single-handedly PREVENTING Ukraine from defending its Self :  and then there are the Street Wars in France , where STUDENTS have taken "IT" to the Streets in a UNIFIED REVOLT against what most consider GOVERNMENTAL MALFEASANCE .   

                           This past Sunday Fareed Zacharia did a segment on France, and showed photos taken inside many of the schools .   Decrepit gets us there, and since we are already THERE, let's add dilapidated as well .   There are stories of leaky roofs, crumbling ceilings, and decayed pipes leaking everywhere .   Meanwhile, the government is considered by Most to be a "bloated bureaucracy" unable to sustain its obligations to the Retired, and therefore unable to supply desperately needed funds to repair age-related degeneracy in the Schools .   The French Debt Level is 'through the roof' , largely due to the government's insistence NOT to TAX its millionaire-billionaire "bourgeoise" .   

                         Americans are turning away from trump, or so the Propagandists would have them believe .    Reporters on the Street have interviewed  Street Level americans, and MANY still SUPPORT TRUMP, and will probably do so until either they die or trump "bites the dust" .   

Muddled

                                                           I confess :   I thought I knew the Nature of  Muddle, and for the most part I do, but there remains the muddle in "the Sage seeks to muddle the Mind of the empire" and THAT muddle is muddling* .    On the surface muddle is another word for "DISTRACTION", used by trump effusively :   Propaganda IS >muddle< and "IT" has been SAVAGELY Successful .   But why would the Sage attempt this Muddle ?   Reason asserts it CAN'T-BE the Same muddle .  If not, then What ???

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                                 I am being called by a batch of fresh kim-chee I prepared yesterday afternoon, plus the Sun is BRILLIANT and my own Inner Children are SCREAMING for "Recess" .

                                I will work on finding a proper description for Muddle .   Please forgive an old man .

                          From Looney Tunes :    "THAT'S ALL FOLKS".

Muddle Trouble

                                                           You can see "IT" rite ?    White, non-educated folks, those who don't like to read, ACT in the same was as CHILDREN .   Children LOVE Cartoons, {AS DO I} and what better cartoon IS there than trump ?????   Parents, check that, GOOD parents, try to expose their offspring to Learning that helps identify "Good" and "Evil", Right and Wrong {Rwong},,,if this Early Learning is NOT accessed,, then, results are DISASTROUS .   Look at the american electoral Profile .   In the same way that Children are EASILY scared, so it is with trump's "adult children", both are susceptible to Lies, Deceit, gross Fiction and in Modern Times,,  PROPAGANDA .   Here it is where the father comforts his children by telling them HE will PROTECT them from MONSTERS, in Modern Instance, DEMOCRATS >>>> "I Alone Can" 'Fix' "It" ;;; I ALONE CAN PROTECT YOU BUT YOU GOTTA VOTE FOR ME .

                             I will address cartoons at a later date, but I will tease you with Truth that I consider the Characters of "Looney Tunes" manifestations of my own, PERSONAL, Psyche .   I have ISSUES !!!!

                             Ya-gotta ask,  WHY doe the Sage seek URGENTLY to muddle the Mind of the Empire ?    What is >muddle<  ???

Miss Tickle

                                                                          TAO TE CHING

                                                                                XLIX

                          "The Sage has no Mind .   He takes as his own the Mind of the People .

                            Those who are good, I treat as good .  In doing so, I gain in goodness.

                            Those who are of good faith. I also have faith in .  In so doing I gain in good faith .

                            The Sage in his attempt to distract the mind of the empire, seeks urgently to muddle it .

                            The people all have something to occupy their eyes and ears and

                                        the Sage treats them like children .

                  I KNOW you qids* see it ;   "...treats them like CHILDREN ".    

                                                                                *    *    *

                              I have actively sought to acquire "the Mind of the People", to be their Voice, blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAH .   I  WANT to be the "Universal Everyman" as is "Piers the Ploughman" .   I have always VALUED that the Sage "has no Mind"  because it is SOOOO  >Zen< .   But this shit on the bottom, what does Lao Tzu MEAN when he writes that the Sage "seeks URGENTLY to muddle the Mind of the Empire" .   Until now, "IT" troubled me, and Troubled me GREATLY .

                            But wait...there's more ... 

The Little Dumber Boy

                                                           Republican {trumpistanian} campaign rhetoric has reached something of a 'fever' pitch :  they have resorted to FEAR in order to "energize" the "base" [comprised primarily of non-college educated voters, mostly White] as an Effort to ensure [that] they actually Vote .   Pundits, opinionists* and the Brain-ful* have agreed that the republicans "have nothing left" on which to promote, given the desultory vacuity of trump's own speech and savagely self-serving 'policies' .   

                         In keeping with my most recent Effort to utilize "Kiddie Lit" as a scaffolding to view PROPAGANDA,,  I offer  "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" .  The original title is :  "The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf", and it's one of Aesop's Fables .  We must s---t---r---e---t---c---h our Imagination to apply it to republican' s use of FEAR and I do so via Authorial Prerogative .   

                         We know the story, it has been "ingrained" in our Collective Psych as a MEANS to keep our children from 'telling lies' for `amusement`, as did the Shepherd Boy, and to keep them "on the straight and narrow", a Path of Honesty {"Honesty is the Best Policy"} .   >"IT"< gets UGLY in Modern Times, as Paranoia, is expressed in Fear---Fear that the democrats will 'over-run' the Country and with it, the elimination of Ante-Bellum Sovereignty the South, so TREASURED by White Racists and Bigots .   

                         The Shepherd Boy PROOVED he was a LIAR, after having fooled the Villagers not once, but TWICE .   The second time was all it took for the Villagers to tag this nit-wit kid a LIAR .  Recall this :   "Fool me once shame on you, fool me TWICE SHAME ON ME" .   

People of the Lie

                                                           Some of us may enter the Realm of Childhood Studies unprotected because we consider ourselves 'normal' ;  others, like me, [of my ilk], may be susceptible to dread, bitterness and remorse .  It is imperative to fully appreciate that the Study of Children's Literature, is a Journey into one's own rearing and as such, an actual Investigation into the parenting skills or lack thereof of one's own .   As I have stated in the Before Times,  we ARE our Parents, unless and until we confront our Rearing, [up-bringing] , and 'become' our 'Own Persons' .   

                             There are Protections .    I strongly Urge my Gentle Readers to procure CHILDHOOD and SOCIETY by Erik H. Erikson "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award" .   There are others of EXTREME Value, among them :  TOXIC PARENTS by Dr. Susan Forward ;   THE ANGRY BOOK by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin ;   PEOPLE OF THE LIE by M. Scott Peck, M.D. ;   THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED  A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth also by M. Scott Peck .   These Texts are TRANSFORMATIVE so be WARNED .  

Wasteland

                                                           I have insisted that we, as a NATION, have been living trump's UNRESOLVED Childhood Issues .  We don't know if trump's mom read to him or didn't, I speculate she didn't, and as a result trump favored his father, to the point where it was his father that dominated his life, I suspect, at his mother's expense .   There is vibrant speculation that trump was a "problem child", a one who could not receive even ordinary lessons with any receptivity whatsoever .   His father bribed teachers and probably entire school districts, to prevent his son's grades from becoming Public, as he did in trump's collegiate years .   "Numb-skull" gets us there .    His mother was quoted, "I hope he NEVER enters politics because he would RUIN everything".   "Truer words..." .

                           Further, I insist that trump and his childhood can be utilized EFFECTIVELY because he encapsulates all that is Negative in an adult {a-dolt} Human {hominid} .   By Studying trump we can determine how  NOT TO be raised, how NOT TO >>>Be .  Problem with that is = he isn't just TOXIC he is RADIOACTIVE and even the slightest exposure to his life results in DEADLY Contamination--- which is why the Generals that 'served' him were FORCED to leave, less they DIE from his Radioactive Lethality .   

                        Trump's Radioactivity has turned america into a WASTELAND .  

...Intensive SCARE...

                                                           Yesterday, before yesterday reached noon, I was satisfied with what I had produced in my blogs,,, it's rare, but it happens .   Outdoors was the second day of an almost VIOLENT Wind Storm, a perfect excuse to remain indoors and allow my body to rest and recover {I HATE THAT WORD > RECOVER BECAUSE OF RE-COVER} from what I suspect was an ALIEN form of the Flu, which I shouldn't have experienced in that I got inoculated a couple of weeks ago .   I wrote a gag for it :   I was so sick I had to check myself into Intensive SCARE .   

                          The afternoon unfolded like a fucking night-mare, democrats believing that a LANDSLIDE was somehow GUARANTEED, that the trumpistanians were eating their livers because of their impending SLAUGHTER, and trump's non-stop propagandal BOMBARDMENT straight-outta Orwell's BIG BROTHER'S maw .   Trump has FULLY re-positioned the Untied* States to be an ALLY of putin, which means trump is giving putin MONIES so that putin can attack and KILL AMERICANS .  I mean, shit, why not "eliminate the middle man" and have ICE Agents savage Camp Lajeune, cap a few soldiers in their brains, and get out in time for supper at macdonalds ?    Trump could save on jet fuel AND diesel thereby re-establishing Frugality as VIRTUE .   Trump is the APEX of Virtue, is he not ???

Leo T.

                                                           It's late and I must conclude this morning's Effort .   I remind my Gentle Readers that Leo Tolstoy [WAR AND PEACE] was a prodigious Author of MANY Children's Books .   Even after reading Dostoevsky, [THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV]. I am still wading through WAR AND PEACE --- thing is--- when we got to him in Kiddie Lit class he was INFINTIELY BEAUTIFUL .   He remains so .   

                            BRILLIANT Minds Taught THROUGH Kiddie Lit, such was the VALUE  they placed on direct communication to and with Children .   I want that.  I wanna be like Leo .

                                                                Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

The Well Spring

                                                           70's American Hippie-ism had some great gags, here's one now :   a long-haired 'Jesus freak' confessed this ;  "I useta-be all messed-up on drugs and alcohol, now I'm all messed-up on the Lord ."   

                                 BEFORE children are introduced {messed up with} to religion, they are introduced to Kiddie Lit .   Herein the POWER of Children's Literature .   Various CODES are supplied within the stories, Bravery, Virtues, and BEST-OF-ALL  >>>>>>COMMON SENSE<<<<<< the best of that BEST is the one where the Child calls out "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES" .    The TRUTH of Visuality is irrefutable, making the sycophantic praises of bootlickers and ass-kissers unquestionably ABSURD .   Here it is where the TRUTH of EXPERIENCE CANNOT BE DENIED !    

                                The title of the Story, penned by Hans Christian Anderson, is "The Emperor's New Clothes" and reached the Public in 1837 via "Fairy Tales Told For Children" .   CLEARLY, that Story is as Relevant  NOW as it has ever been .   NO ONE can deny its VALUE, and it's weird that the CHILD-WHO-DARED-TO-TELL-THE-TRUTH is considered a HERO , who, unwittingly, helped to depose a fucking TYRANT .   

                                

Tenets

                                                           My Theory is simple and straight-forward, Because Dr. Carl Jung devised "The Collective Unconscious" I reasoned that there must be a Collective CONSCIOUS .   There are themes, motifs, and plots within Children's Literature that are UNIVERSAL, 'they' occur in Kiddie Lit all over the Planet .   I contend that these themes are part of the Human GLOBAL Conscious, and as such, once uncovered, they can become a Foundation for the  Planetary Psyche .   Sociologists refer to these as "Shared Commonalities", meaning, they are INHERENT in the Human Species .   The Unification of the Planet's Population can be achieved when we all agree that these Shared Commonalities represent the Totality of Human Awareness, and therefore Civilizational Cognition .   In the same way that Dr. Jung established that there are "Archetypes" in the Human Unconscious, I argue that there are are Principles, Values, and further POLITICAL Mental Constructs within the the Collective Conscious that are, check that, CAN-BE the Foundation of Political Altruism,  a tenet of Planetarianism* .   

Public Sanitation

                                                           As simply as I can state "IT", I want a Return to Truth, not just on an Individual Basis, but on a National, Continental and GLOBAL Level, where "IT" once occupied the APEX of Human Intellection and that of Civilization itself .    We, as in ALL-OF-US, have experienced the utterly PITIFUL Degradation of American Political and Social Values, once admired by many Nations .    When Folks in AA stipulate that "NO change can be initiated unless and until the drinker has reached 'ROCK BOTTOM' , so it is with the American Electorate, those that voted for a madman, vital and CLEAR indication that america has, indeed, hit ROCK BOTTOM  and there can be nowhere else to go except UP .   

                        Opinionists*, pundits, Brains and BIG Brains have cautioned us :   "It aint-gonna be over when all the ballots are counted, there will be a TREMENDOUS amount of WORK to salvage from the rubble and debris of a WAR-Weary Nation, what can be useful in a RECONSTRUCTION , and what must be summarily REJECTED and therefore DISCARDED" .    They insist that there CAN-BE and MUST-BE a Return to INALIENABLE RIGHTS, among them, LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS and a VIABLE Democracy that is TRUE to "IT" 's Principles, the Rule of the MAJORITY .

                       On my end, I caution the Cautioners*  ---  after a HUNDRED YEARS of British Rule, they still shit in the streets of New Delhi .  

"In the Beginning..."

                                                           We know that trump is "thin-skinned", meaning, he takes what is said about him personally .    My generation was taught to ignore worded insults, that is, we grew up with this "old adage" =  "Sticks and stones may break my bones but WORDS will NEVER hurt me " .   Obviously trump was NOT brought up with that, and we are living the consequences of that shortcoming .    

                         A kwik* Search recovers that this "old adage" has been around since 1862 and was first expressed in the "Christian Recorder" a publication out of "The African Methodist Episcopal Church" .  It was communicated to children to supply them with a Defense Mechanism that could be utilized to thwart verbal bullying .   I believe that "IT" WAS effective, but that in Modern Times "IT" has all but evaporated and nothing was put into Public Consciousness to replace it .  Look at what has resulted .

                        I cite this Instance to make my Case for the Study of Children's Literature, which I contend is a Study in the [Oral] Transmissions of Human Morality, Social Mores and Ethical Practices .  

The Best of the Best

                                                           Please indulge an old man .   Below are some of the Kiddie Lit Books I LOVE .

THE ANNOTATED MOTHER GOOSE  Introduction and Notes by William S. Baring-Gould & Ceil Baring-Gould --  Illustrated by CALDECOTE, CRANE, GREENWAY, RACKHAM. PARRISH AND HISTORICAL WOODCUTS .

THE COMPLETE MOTHER GOOSE  Illustrated by Ethyl Franklin Betts BEAUTIFUL Pen and Ink Drawings and Exquisite color Prints .

ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES  Illustrated by Arthur Szyk .

ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES   Translated y Valdemar Paulsen and Illustrated by Milo Winter .

ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES   Illustrated by E.H. Wehnert & W. Thomas   followed by

GRIMM'S FOLKS TALES         Illustrated by E.H. Wehnert

GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES           Illustrated in Color by Noel Pocock  

THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK      Edited by Andrew Lang   Illustrations by H.J. Ford  (Compendium from Around The World)

                                 I have multiple copies of Alice in Wonderland, and several different versions of AESOP'S FABLES .   

                         One word :   NEVER ENOUGH !!!  The ARTWOK alone is "The price of admission."

Miss Handled

                                                           I have advised my fellow Planetarians that "IT" would behoove them to procure, a Bible, I CHING, TAO TE CHING, QURAN, and perhaps, Bulfinch's Mythology, and even Chuang Tsu's INNER CHAPTERS .   

                           I warn my Gentle Readers that I intend to begin using Kiddie Lit to neutralize trumpian propaganda; here it is where "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."   I KNOW Readers in Foreign Lands and Far-Away Nations have their own Children's Literature and I am counting on them to avail themselves to their Study of such .   Kiddie Lit is something of a "First Transmission" of Morals, Mores, Ethics and even MORE IMPORTANTLY as a means to aid in identifying "GOOD" and "EVIL" and THE DIFFERENE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG .   Elsewhere I have vehemently argued that trump is devoid of ANY sort of HUMANISM, that, because of his upbringing, ONLY misfortune could result, in other words, trump was somehow Dys-Socialized, meaning there was  no way for him to identify Good from Evil, that he was tutored by his father's ATROCITIES which he now inflicts upon US .

                          If we are to Transform the glob I insist "IT" must begin with CHILDREN .

"Out Of The Mouths Of Babes"

                                                           For  weeks I have been miserable .   Everyday there is some new and gross BULLSHIT that bombards our Senses.   Trump's propaganda has been relentless --- in order to neutralize some of if I have offered nothing but pure negativity, in an Effort to rivet the Attention of my Readers to TRUMP'S Reality .   I realize the Suffering I have impose---I justified my actions as what Buddhists refer to as "Merited Karma" --that which is both generated and received .   I don' like it, never have but the Truth is always gonna-be the Truth and, technically, there IS no escape .

                          I KNOW there are better, more acceptable delivery systems, one of which is to use the I CHING and then add to it, 'purport' .   The problem with the 'Ching' is that it is esoteric in both Form and Substance, and I doubt many Folks have a copy .  "IT" is the same for almost all quotes from Ancient Chinese Philosophy, precious few of them have reached the Streets and Gutters of common Academics, let alone those of us who make our 'homes' in "Tombstone" Territory,  the cliche ridden wasteland of Modern Day Superficiality .   

                         I wanted to somehow link Children's Literature, my BELOVED "Kiddie Lit", to Everyday Propaganda Neutralization but feared my Readers would be insulted at such "low brow" expression .   I FEARED, "That's IT ???  That's all you got ???????" .   I stayed away from that which I loved because I thought it Inappropriate .   

                         Then THIS arrived :   "It is not a matter of whether you can learn by silence, by speech, by effort, by submission .   It is a matter of HOW this is done not 'THAT' it is done ."  [ Khamosh ] .   In this, Sufis utilize EVERYTHING , including children's stories, jokes, and the above listed .  "IT" has given me a Voucher to advance a Neutralization that doubles as Teaching .   

no go

                                                           I'm disappointed that so few of you are interested in this morning's topic .  I will suspend my activity on this topic for a later time .

Sensory Deprivation

                                                          So----------what is the Nature of the 'Truth' for which we Search ?    Zen Master Seung Sahn teaches that Meditation results in finding one's "True Self", a True Self that "transcends 'likes' and 'dislikes' " ,   a Self that is "Enlightened" .   Sufis describe a 'state of Mind' that is ONE with the ONE, another word for God .   

                          Recently, we have been supplied definitions, explanations and description of Reality.   This is the Common Reality of day-to-day Existence .  Now we must look at the Reality of Meditation, and there is no Greater Description than the Heart Sutra, where we find this Diamond Description of the BEST State of Meditative Reality :   "No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no Mind, --- no color, no sound, no taste, no touch, no object of Mind,, no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of Mind consciousness" .   To properly conceive this State, simply close your eyes and put yourself in a silent sound-free room with the lights off .   THIS is Meditative Reality .   NOW thoughts arrive and depart of their own accord ---Nothingness exists --- Mind is Free to roam or be still --- here it is where "Stillness IS Bliss" .   Now GETTING THERE and STAYING THERE are different things, and STAYING in the "ULTIMATE REALITY" is NOT ---->  Practical .   We must work to Live .   

                       

"ATONEMENT" [AT-ONE-MENT]

                                                           I was delighted and RELIEVED that there are parallels between Zen-ism and Sufism, the most important of which is the Necessity to "look inside" one's Being to locate Truth .   Zen phrases "IT" this way :  "Seeing into one's Self and the Attainment of Buddhahood", while Sufis describe, "...a form of direct perception of the Truth which has nothing to do with mechanical Intellection".   Compare these to Gnosticism's  "Direct and Immediate {Personal} Experiential Knowledge of the Divine" .    Gnosticism is Ancient, the 1st and 2nd Centuries A.D.,,,  and the question may be asked if what may be considered Modern Christianity, specifically the Synoptic Gospels, contains such an articulation of these Mystical -----> Alternatives can be found .   Not exactly, but I argue and have argued that the Parables found in said Synoptic Gospels are certainly close enough to qualify as SOMEWHAT Mystical, in that trying to Understanding the Parables is the same as trying to Understand Koans {Kong-ans in Korean} .   In All of the above MEDIATATION is Required to first Penetrate and then GRASP the Spiritual Significance of the Stories, Kong-ans, Messages and Parables .   ALL Require INTENSE Focus and Concentration, a Focus of One's ENTIRE Being .   Remember the Goal :  Truth .   The Truth of BEING "Nearer to God" where God is Code for The Infinite Divine {my tag} .   Being at ONE with the One, God, GUARANTEES "Inner Peace" which means "EVERYTHING IS EASIER TO DEAL WITH" .

                          

Silver BELLS

                                                           I will inject >Self Absorbed< into this narrative as in "The man was so self-absorbed he did not see, feel, or hear the thief approach nor cut his tether ."   Further, his concern was directed toward >material gain< and he literally thought of nothing else .   Is this man, then, a true Innocent ?   I say NO .   The thief saw him as an easy 'mark' and took advantage of it straight-away .

                       The man arrives at a well and sees someone who he thinks is in distress .   We now know the thief is not only practiced but has KEEN vision and so seeks to "play" this man once more .   First he tells the man he has "dropped" FIVE HUNDRED SILVER COINS into the well and then offers him 100 should he manage to retrieve them .    The thief is believed by the man, trusted even, but upon what is this trust based ????   The man asks NO Questions, like, HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DROP A SACK OF COINS INTO THIS WELL ????  Even better WHY DIDN'T YOU try YOURSELF ???????   

                      The man's justifies this perilous effort with a common cliche "One door shuts while many are opened" and with this he strips and "plunges" into the well .   He made Effort to AVOID THE OBVIOUS, that is, WHO THE FUCK IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BE CARELSESS ENOUGH TO DROP A SACK OF SIVER COINS INTO A WELL ???????????????????  Innocent ???   Hardly .

                      Trump voters refused to believe that THEIR OWN MINDS accounted for the first theft, and THEIR OWN MINDS resulted in the second .   

                      I mean, one word :   TOOO Good .

A Sheep Without Man's Clothing

                                                           Had Aesop written this story, it would have had a 'conclusion' of some sort of 'Street Wisdom' .   This Story was written by one of the most Famous Sufi Masters, RUMI .

                         In Sufi Tradition this Story does not have a 'conclusion' since THAT  IS  the Teaching .  Like the Biblical Parables and Zen Koans [Kong-ans in Korean] it is up to the Reader to gain Insight and Understanding by depth Meditation .   First, I follow Scholastic Tradition by practiced and rather mundane analysis, which is my 'Wheel-House', in order to secure at least an initial understanding that results in Appreciation .   I mean, FIRST there's this :   Dude---you are having a SUPER BAD DAY ===  first your sheep then your clothes .   Thing is, can you feel any REAL sympathy for the guy ?   I don't .

                       Analysis asserts this question, WHAT was this guy thinking about, WHY didn't he sense anything BEFORE the feeling of a slack rope ???  Here it is where "reading between the lines" demands IMAGINATION ,  and where the Author has satisfaction that his words have engaged and engrossed the Reader .   Now, I think that the Man-with-sheep was taking his animal to be sold, and was immersed in receiving a handsome profit, and with that profit what he would spend it on, and was SOOO distracted he couldn't see or feel ANYTHING until he did .   

                       I liken this man to TRUMP VOTERS .   Now just hold on to that for a minute or two .

THE SHEEP AND THE PURSE

                                                           What follows is a transcription of a story that's in Shah's chapter :  "Teaching Stories" .   My first thought was to modernize it to make it more palatable but further consideration rejected that notion.  I WILL, however, make comment in the Purport .  

                                                            THE SHEEP AND THE PURSE

    A man was walking along a road one day, followed by his sheep .   A thief went after him, cut the rope, and took it away .   When he realized what had happened, the man ran all over the place looking for his animal .  Presently he came to a well, where he saw a man apparently in despair .  Although the man did not know it, he was the very same thief .  He asked him what he was doing .   The thief said, "I have dropped a purse into the well .  It contains five hundred silver coins .   If you jump in and get it back for me, I will give you one hundred silver pieces ."

             The man thought :  'When one door shuts, a hundred may open .  This chance is worth ten times the sheep which I have lost .'   

             He stripped himself and plunged into the well .

             And the thief carried off his clothes .

BLIND FAITH

                                                           After I sent out the first blog I put my machine on "Sleep" and settled into "Chairy-Chair" to receive whatever Energy would be sent my way, also, I wanted to find a Modern Day example for Sufism, and Its 'Reliance on God' component ~~~  "IT" arrived almost instantly .   "PRESENCE OF THE LORD" performed by Blind Faith the Members being :   Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Rich Gretch .   Eric Clapton wrote the Lyrics and Music .   Eric used a Fender Telecaster, Rick a Fender Jazz Bass, Ginger his fav-Ludwig drum kit with Zildjian cymbals, and Steve's organ~~ a Hammond B 3 .

                              I have always regarded "Presence..." as a White Boy's > Spiritual< ,  mainly because Steve set his Hammond B 3 to CATHERDRAL in order to amPLIFY the Sense of HEAVEN and ITS proximity to GOD .   The song has deep background, as if it WAS being performed in a HUGH CATHEDRAL / CAVE .   

                              Steve records :"I have finally found a Way to live, /  Just  like I never could before /  I know that I don't have much to give  /   But I can open any door . "

                               The Way to Live is IN "The Presence of the Lord" and deeper "In the COLOR of the Lord" .

                             Eric was never gonna-get the Nobel Prize for Literature, the verses transcend Simplistic but EVERYBODY can hear and UNDERSTAND them a {Divine} Sufi NECESSITY .   Further his Solo is a SYMBOLIC Expression of his Journey that ended with his "Discovery" and ENTRY into the "Divine" . 

Crazy 8's

                                                            I finished reading THE WAY OF THE SUFI :   It is a TREASURE STORE of Teachings that have UNIVERSAL application .   Indries Shah, the present Head of the Sufi Tradition, has presented "an unparalleled cross section of material from Sufi Schools, Teachings, and Classical Writing as a basic course of Sufi Study" .    No matter one's position or station in Life, this Book is of inestimable  Value .   What I am about to write may be considered BLASPHEMIC, I do so any way :   in the same way that one does NOT need to Study Buddhism IF one's attention is drawn to Zen, so it is with Sufism ;   if you Study Sufism, it MAY not be necessary to immerse one's self in the Quran--- THAT'S how POWERFUL are the Teachings of Sufi Masters .

                             I suggest that it is IMPERATIVE for my Gentle Readers to 'get' familiar with the 8 Sufi Beliefs, but for now I will supply a 'short-cake' .  1.  Belief in God and that He is ONE .   2.  Awareness of the Self's Desires .    3.   One's Ego/Self must be annihilated {in order to advance/progress} .   4.  Subsistence in God .   5. Divine Love .   6. Return to Truth / God .   7.   Patience .   8. Trust as the Reliance on God's Will .     This must suffice for now .

                           Here, now, are the 8 Qualities of the Sufi Master :   

                                         Liberality, as that of Abraham

                                         Acceptance of his lot, as Ishmael accepted

                                         Patience, as possessed by Job

                                         Capacity to communicate by symbolism, as in the case of Zacharias

                                         Estrangement from his own people, which was the case of John

                                         Woolen garb like the shepherd's mantle of Moses

                                          Journeying, like the travelling Jesus

                                          Humility, as Mohammed had Humility of Spirit .

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