"The Pulse of BEING"

                                                           From William James :

                             "All men know it at those rare moments when the soul sobers herself, and leaves off her chattering and protesting about this formula or that .  In the silence of our theories we then seem to listen, and to hear something like the pulse of BEING beat :   and it is borne upon us that the mere turning of character, the dumb willingness to suffer and to serve the universe, is more than all theories about it put together .  The most any theory about it can do is to bring us to that .   Certain it is that the acutest theories, intellectual power, the most elaborate education, are a sheer mockery when, as too often happens, they feed mean motives and a nervous will .  And it is equally certain that a resolute moral energy, no matter how inarticulate or unequipped with learning its owner may be, extorts from us a respect we should never pay were we not satisfied that the essential root of human personality lay there ."

[ Essay on Reflex Action and Theism ]

                                       Take your time with this .

                                       I LOVE >>>>  " ... the Pulse of BEING... "  

                                               

"Father Knows Best"

                                                            We're not gonna 'fix' trump with even more Demon Energy THAT would be IMPOSSIBLE ,  so what CAN neutralize trump and the Demons that reside within him ?   We just wrote, "You CAN'T fight fire with fire" so what IS ---> Possible ?   "Enter stage RIGHT and with FLOURISH" one James Talarico .    When I learned that Talarico was a Presbyter my first thought was of Gabriel Byrne and his portrayal of "Father Kiernan" in the 1999 Film "Stigmata" .   Recall that Father Kiernan was convinced that "Frankie", portrayed by my Girl Patricia Arquette, was POSSESSED by DEMON ENERGY .   Father Kiernan's Mission was to SAVE Frankie and in so doing the ENTIRE CATHOLIC CHURCH from --->  DEMONIC FORCES .   You can see it rite* ?  

                                  When the Fight is on Earth it's Newsom versus trump, i.e., Moses versus Pharoah but in the Heavenly Realm its Talarico versus trump, i.e.,  Father Kiernan versus Satan .   

                                  

                                   When Satan was cast out EVIL was given SUPERNATURAL AGENCY .  "IT" was "allowed" to enter OUR Realm where it reeked HAVOC manifested as HORROR and CRUELTY .   The WAR is ETERNAL , is now and forever will be .   That's the Way "IT" is .  "IT" is LIFE .

                                                           Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

"Possession defines Ownership"

                                                            Elsewhere I have depicted trump as a "Diabolical GENIUS", I stand by that depiction but supplement it as follows :    Trump reads at a 4th grade level, two levels worse than the American Reading Level which is 6th grade .   Plus, he's IGNORANT to such a degree that most of US can only shake our heads in Bewilderment and Incomprehension .   So,,,,, what accounts for this fucking GENIUS ?   We have observed that trump "acts like a man possessed".  I hazard trump IS POSSESSED by DEMONIC Forces, and that THESE FORCES are responsible for trump being "a PLAGUER of mortal men" as Homer has stipulated AND it is THESE FORCES that are at "GENIUS LEVEL" .   BECAUSE TRUMP IS  SO FUCKING STUPID HE WAS A PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR DEMONS' ENERGIES.   The KGB currently considers trump "A USEFUL IDIOT" .  2 words ;  PERFECT . 

                             Trump Rules LIKE A MAN POSSESSED ----  it don't get no better .

De-man

                                                           When trump disgusted*, "This place is a dump" (referring to the White House) and decided to move to Mar a Lago to spend much of his time THERE all I could see was the Emperor Constantine moving the capitol of the Roman Empire to Byzantium [later to be renamed, Constantinople] .   Thing is~~~  I liked Constantine because of what he did for Christianity and the WORLD for that matter .   When Justinian came to Power he, too, Changed the World by his OBSESSION to remake Roman Law and to (get this) MODERNINZE "IT" .  He WASN'T  "All Demon All the Time" .   When I read Procopius my Mind changed because of the direct conflict of Interests, that is, viewing Justinian as "The Great Law-Giver" to DEMON ENTITY .   Recall that I tagged trump as >Inhuman< and qualified THAT by labeling him ANIMAL, a one devoid of HUMANITY .   I never liked my own shit, tagging him as an ANIMAL was NOT ENOUGH and it disparaged The Great Spirit who gave birth the our brothers and sisters the "Four Legged and the Two Legged" which is blatantly SINFUL .   Tagging trump with DEMON is SOOOOOOOO much  more suitable to me, despite knowingly defying Academic Protocol .   So be it .   Demon it is .

"Plaguers of mortal men" ...

                                                           There are two passages that are illuminative :  Procopius writes ;

                             "It is said that Justinian's own mother told some of her close friends that he was not the son of her husband Sabbatius or of  any man at all .  For when she was about to conceive she was visited by a demon, who was invisible but gave her a distinct impression that he was really with her like  mn in bodily contact with a woman,  Then he vanished like  dream ."

                             It gets better :

                             "In view of this I, like most of my contemporaries, never once felt that these two were human beings :  they were a pair of blood thirsty demons and what poet's (Homer and Aeschylus) call 'plaguers of mortal men' .  For they plotted together to find the easiest and swiftest means of destroying all races of men and all their works, assume human shape became man-demons, and in this way convulsed the world. "   

                             "But wait, there's more" :

                              "For the actions of demons are unmistakably different from  those of human beings .  In the long course of time there have doubtless been many men who by chance or by nature have inspired the utmost fear, and by their unaided efforts have ruined cities or countries or whatever it might be; but to bring destruction on all mankind and calamities around the whole world has been beyond the power of any but these two, who were, it is true, aided in their endeavors by chance, which collaborated in the ruin of mankind ... "

                              You can see it rite ?   I don't know how this can be missed . 

The [NOT SO] SECRET HISTORY

                                                           I'm in the process of reading REGIME CHANGE  --  Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump written by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan .  It's written in an Ancient Style , meaning,  each  chapter  is  "about"  a  specific  individual  and his or her relationship to trump .   As a History-man I see echoes of Plutarch as well as Procopius penman of The Secret History .  The  SECRET HISTORY I have is the Penguin Classic, translated by G.A. Williamson and what follows is on the back cover :

                                     "Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in The Secret History the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the 6th century .  Justinian, the great law-giver, appears as a hateful tyrant, wedded to an ex- prostitute, Theodora ;  and Belisarius, the brilliant general whose secretary Procopius had been, is seen as the pliable dupe of his wife Antonia, a woman as corrupt and scheming as Theodora herself .   In all, the vicious side of a splendid city is exposed by Procopius with a candor which is revolting ."

                                     Please be patient with me as I unpack what I need from this Treasure Chest .

Just US

                                                                           49. Ko  /  Revolution  ( Molting )

                                 "Political revolutions are extremely grave matters .  They should be undertaken only under stress of direst necessity, when there is no other way out .  Not everyone is called to the task, but only the man who has confidence in the people, and even he only when the time is ripe .  He must then proceed in the right way so that he gladdens the people and, by enlightening them, prevents excess .   Furthermore, he must be quite free of selfish aims and must really relieve the need of the people .  Only then does he have nothing to regret ."

                                                                             * * *

                                   When we have tried in every way to bring about reforms, but without success, revolution becomes necessary .  But such a thoroughgoing upheaval must be carefully prepared .   There must be available  man who has the requisite abilities and who possess public confidence .  To such a man we may well turn .   This brings good fortune and [so] is not a mistake .  The first thing to be considered is our inner attitude toward the new condition that will inevitably come .   We have to go out and meet it, as it were .  Only in this way can it be prepared for ."

                                                                              * * *

                                   "Radical changes require adequate authority .  A man must have inner strength as well as influential position .  What he does must correspond with a higher truth and must not spring from arbitrary or petty motives ;   then it brings good fortune .   If revolution is not founded on such inner truth, the results are bad, and it has no success .  For in the end men will support only those undertakings which they feel instinctively to be just ."  

                                    

Spear It

                                                           One must ask, "If the I Ching is so fucking GREAT, why isn't it used in China NOW ?" .   And there's this corollary :   If the Vedas are so GREAT why doesn't India use THEM as the Foundation of Governance ?   These Civilizations are perhaps the OLDEST Living Organisms on the Planet .  Recall that Great Britain spent ONE HUNDRED YEARS in India to bring it out of a Stone Age and into  Modernity, and they STILL shit in the streets of New Delhi .   China, has COMMUNISM for its Government, and IT is still considered OPPRESSIVE by World Standards .   When we add the Civilization of Persia, and the Civilization of Israel we can see the Quran and the Bible as being grossly Ineffective as well .   I have stated elsewhere that the American "Constitution of the United States" and its "Declaration of Independence"  are as >Bibles< and they, too, have not fared any better , indeed, it is as if they have made things WORSE .  

                               Philosophy aint enough, BOOKS aint enough so what IS Required so that Humankind can Advance into an Age of Stability, Providence, and Peace ?     2 words :   Spiritualism .

Miss Represent

                                                            Some time ago I described my Brain as a ">landfill< the size of Oklahoma" .    This morning I 'rooted around' and found nothing worthy of presentation .   I mean, there's just SOOOOOO much SHIT .   I have been assailed by Doubts and Misgivings that manifest as 'legit' Questions regarding "Planetarianism"* specifically Questions about the I Ching and the Value I have placed on it to be as a "Bible" for the Conduct of both the Individual and the Society and Culture of the Government "writ large" .   I hear this : "If the I Ching is so fucking AWESOME [then] why isn't it a prominent Feature of our Education and the Social and Political Classes ?"   When I hear this Question I also `hear` this REDNECK attack :  "If you're so fucking smart [then] WHY AINT YOU RICH ?"   Valid Questions, both .

                             There's that scene in "Good Will Hunting" where Minnie Driver asks Matt Damon about how EASY it is to solve the most DIFFICULT Equations WITHOUT ANY  Effort .   Damon uses Beethoven as an example .  He says, "When Beethoven was a kid and he saw his first piano, IT JUST MADE SENSE TO HIM .  He looks at Minnie and and rues, "It's the same for me ."   Minnie just shakes her head .   Now when I read the I Ching, ALL of "IT" made Sense to me, even the "ideograms' .   The fact that the Chinese harnessed their Imagination in their their ideograms, as though ART was an ESSENTIAL COMPONENT in their Writing, appealed to me in the UTMOST "Sense" .   Indeed, Chinese Calligraphy IS Art in one of Art's most Pure Forms .   I LOVED  "IT" .

                              I have digressed, Sorry .

Decline and Fall Clean-up

                                                           I must abbreviate this morning's Effort ~~~  Fall Clean-up is underway, and the suffocating humidity has itself evaporated, leaving the Air Fresh, Crystal Clear and EXCEEDINGLY Healthy --- I am almost excited about getting out and starting up .

                               Iran has been blatant, they will NOT try and end the War until the American Midterm Elections [[[ IF THEY ARE HELD AT ALL]]] are completed and the Results tabulated .   Iran, like the rest of US,,  expect trump's republicans, ( now a FOUL term) to be DEFEATED in LANDSLIDE manner, which would then RETURN Legislative Power to the democrats, where OVERSIGHT will produce CHANGES that will GUARANTEE an END to trump's MANIACAL Conduct .         

                             The  "THING"  about  THAT  is,  once trump's "Psycho-phants" *  are Defeated, then what ?    Iran will STILL "  want  War REPARATIONS because, in this Instance,  IRAN IS THE VICTIM IN THE EXACT SAME WAY AS UKRAINE .   The American Government must still deal with the IRGC , and worse, what was once the Status Quo is no longer 'serviceable' in that NOW Hormuz has been annexed by Iran and, for all intents and purposes, Oman .   Trump + his have  created a New World Order --- a New World Order wherein America is NO LONGER the Epitome of Goodness dressed as Grandeur and Resolve .   America has redressed itself, meaning, America has become what trump sneeringly addressed as "a SHIT-HOLE country" .   Trump and his America will be forced fed those words.  America is gonna-hafta EAT ITS OWN SHIT , and then cough up TRILLIONS in War Reparations and Humanitarian Aid not only in Iran but in Gaza and the West Bank as well .  

                          Defeating trumpism at the ballot box is only a Sorrow-Stricken Beginning .

Do you speak the Russian ?

                                                           My Misery is unbounded this morning .   

                               WW II was the last WAR that Americans helped to Win .   Korea ended in TRUCE .

                               Americans did NOT Win in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and they have continued this LOSING STREAK .   

                               The Folks who defeated Hitler are all Dead .   The Generation that helped Us get out of Vietnam are useless, because of Age and  Exhaustion .  

                               All Present Day americans do now is GRUMBLE, the War simply an inconvenience .

                              Academia has been cowed, check that, AMERICA HAS BEEN COWED because of trump's hitlerism .  No one dares to OPPOSE trump for fear of losing their luxuries .   

                               We are headed to be a COLONY of russia .

                                It may be time to begin learning Russian .

The Drug Boat Elections

                                                            Hegseth has FIRED EVERY GENERAL AND ADMIRAL HE SUSPECTED AS BEING DISLOYAL TO TRUMP !    We KNOW that there are generals and admirals who BELIEVE AS TRUMP BELIEVES ,  and should Circumstances require THEIR 'leadership' they WILL be set in place to execute trump's UNLAWFUL ORDERS .   Do any one of US actually BELIEVE that the Mil will "DO THE RIGHT THING" ?   I don't .   Look at what transpired Early On when trump took office ,  he ordered the Mil to BLOW UP BOATS AND SLAUGHTER THEIR OCCUPANTS >WHICH WAS A WAR CRIME< .   The Mil WILLINGLY COMPLIED NOT ONE MILITARY OFFICE OPPOSED TRUMP  fucking COWARDS ALL and to the last .   

                           From the above we can project that very same, Meaning,,,  when ordered to "Take the Streets", that is, go to polling places and INTIMIDATE LAW-ABIDING AMERICAN CITIZENS,,,    THEY WILL DO SO !!!   Remember this :   MANY of american terrorists, the proud boys for example, DID TIME IN THE MIL .   The Mil is RIFE with White Supremacists, Bigots, and Haters of Liberals, and those that WORSHIP hitler and Nazi-ism .   In the Mil they learn how to ---> ATTACK  AND   DEFEND HATRED .   Recall what they did on Jan. 6 .  

                            Trump's ARMY exists in OUR Army .

Feeling is Believing

                                                           I want to write about trump's Efforts to 'take over' the Voting Mechanisms currently in the Domain of States .   I fear such a topic is NOT suitable for Global Appetite .   The WORLD is painfully Aware that America is to be considered a "BAD ACTOR" on the Stage of World Political Theater , and speaking of American Voting seems ridiculously tiny, thereby making "IT" inappropriate .   

                             I can't help but FEEL that there will be  NO Election because, for trump, SO MUCH IS AT STAKE !   "IT" would be a MIRACLE if the House of Senators and the House of Representatives were DOMINATED by democrats to such an extent that they had a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY which would then give them the POWER to not only Impeach trump but PUT HIM AND HIS IN PRISON .   The POLLS have indicated that more and more of trump's cult members are FEELING the Truth of his Mania , that they are considered, by him, to be of little or NO Value;  that HE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO STAY IN POWER,  and if that Means to SUSPEND ELECTIONS HE WILL DO SO  !!!

              HE HAS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE SAVE TO RIG THE ELECTIONS IN HIS FAVOR !

                          

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

                                                           I'm gonna leave You with a bit of my 'Geek-ness' .   The Second Law of  Thermodynamics is this :  "The total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time, dictating the direction of spontaneous processes and the irreversibility of natural phenomena ."   Entropy is the $20 word for CHAOS .   The best example is found as a garden .  When left untended the garden gets overgrown with weeds and SHIT .  "IT" is ALWAYS gonna-be "like that" .   

                            "IT" 's  the SAME with EVERYTHING .   

                              When we say, "We gotta let Nature take Its course" we are inviting >CHAOS< to be the Dominant Factor in whatever "System" is under observation .  I'm no fan of Chaos, indeed, I'm grossly Conservative in some "Areas" .  

                             Trump IS Chaos, look what has happened when we let HIS Nature "take its course" .

                              Consider .

                                                                 Tare Forward and Keep the Faith

Karmatose*

                                                          When I heard, "We choose our own parents" I was beset with question and the feeling that something was not kwite* rite* .   YEARS later I read The Tibetan Book of the Dead where I found satisfactory Resolution .   We may not CONSCIOUSLY 'choose' our parents but there IS an Agency that Directs our Births and that Agency is Karma .   Our Karma is responsible for our parents and our Mom's "Womb Door" through which we exit into this World .   Some Folks insist :   "It's not my FAULT that I was born into Poverty, I DIDN'T >choose< my parents."  Yes and Sorta .

                           Our Karma somehow 'Designs' our Birth .   Upon Death, our Karma is Responsible for our Rebirth .   If our Past Actions have been "Good" a "Good" Birth and Good Life are the Result .  If our Past Actions have been less than Good, we will have a "Less than" Life, that is, unless we Change our Karma which then Changes our Life .  Simple rite ?

                           "IT" doesn't matter if one does NOT "Believe in" Rebirth .  The $20 phrase for ReBirth is "The Transmigration of Soul" .   What DOES Matter is the CHOICES we make regarding our Status as a Human Being .   We must choose to be Good because Choosing to be BAD lands us in Prison, and/or an Insane Asylum .   And yet, folks choose NOT "To Choose" which winds them back into a somewhat Comatose Actuality that resembles that of ANIMALS, especially HERD animals, where ---> Instinct DOMINATES .   Indeed, we hear of "Herd Instinct" as an explanation for Community Psyche .

                            

"IFF"

                                         IF we have Freedom,,,  THEN  it is the Freedom to CHOOSE .   

                             I can't remember if I have written about one of my Pet Notions, that Life, in all its sometimes MURDEROUS Complexity,, is nothing less than a series of >Syllogisms<, [Statements that begin with "IF" and conclude with "Then"] .   For example :  IF I write, THEN I may be able to Change the World .   Even better :  "IF I don't write, THEN Nothing will change" .   

                             We have observed the American Congre$$ .  It appears that they BELIEVE that If they do Nothing, Then things will eventually change for the  Good .  Here, there is GROSS Delusion .  When was the last time we observed Nothing actually Effecting Change ???   There is NO Science within that Delusion, how can there be ???   Perhaps they Live by a Belief that IF things "run their course" THEN things will "end up" as Positive ,,,  Folks insist, "Things ALWAYS "work-out" for the Best" ,   yeah SOMETIMES ---except when they don't .   That 'SAME' is True for the World, "IT" Believes that IF "IT" does NOTHING, these "Bad Times" will pass and Order will be restored .  Yeah OK, but will that Order be POSITIVE or NEGATIVE ???   "Aye, THERE'S the Rub" .  

Free Will & Free Won't

                                                            I suggest that the REASON God 'does' "Nothing" is simple :  HE 'gave' us "Free Will" .   "IT" is as if He created Soccer, created the players, the teams and the Rules and then directed, "Have at it" .   At  that  Point  all  He  need  do  is  sit  back  and  Watch .   That THAT is my Point ;  God has 'given' us all we need, the Rest of >"IT< is up to Us .   {{{The "IT" is Life}}}

                              Thing is, What is the True Nature of this "Free Will" ?   

                              Some of us "Old Timers" insist : "Ain't NOTHIN' >Free< ".   Logic asserts its Self when we conclude, "EVERYTHING comes at a Cost" .  Don't forget this American colloquialism :  "There's no such thing as a "Free Lunch" ;  to which we can submit, "There's no such thing as "Free Will" .

                              Trump has been 'given' "Free Reign" over the American Political and Governing System .  Are we not now PAYING THE PRICE of trump's "FREE WILL" ?  Has his Free Will not embroiled us in GLOBAL SUFFERING ?   We pray, "God's Will be done" while Others 'pray' :  "Trump's WILL be done" .   Heller and Vonnegut rejoin :   "That's SOME Will" .  

                              

God the Shape-Shifter

                                                           I'm not-gonna write this morning---"IT" doesn't feel like it's "That Kind Of Day", please forgive an old man .   I'm headed out to continue Fall Clean-up ~~~ as I work I will "wrestle" with God until I am exhausted or until HE Blesses me with Answers .  

                                                            Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

Moses, The Story Teller Feller

                                                           Some things I cannot explain .   I don't feel good this morning, and for some reason the Story of Jacob wrestling with God is on my Mind in an oppressive way .   Yesterday I wrote that God's JOB is to do NOTHING .   There's the Notion that God set things in  motion and that's "IT" .   We've been taught that God "gave" us "Free Will" and this Free Will came at a fucking HUGE Cost ,  Life Itself .    The Argument against That is Strong ---  The Flood, various Plagues,  Pandemics and the like, ALL of "Natural Causes" , and some would Argue --->  "Divine Intervention" .   I "wrestle" with this Shit, maybe THAT'S why the Story of Jacob wrestling with God arrived .   What kind of EGO must I possess if >I< consider myself as Jacob ???????   

                            The Story of Jacob wrestling with God is found in Genesis 32 : 22-32 , and it is both perplexing and bewildering .   The now Famous "Some Guy" appears out of nowhere and begins to wrestle with Jacob throughout the night and stops when dawn arrives .   This "Man" tells Jacob his birth name is GONE that his new name is "Israel" .  Jacob wrestled, instead of Fought, and wrestled while demanding this UNKNOWN HOSTILE "Bless" him .   If you're like me if some guy grabs me and begins to wrestle it ain't likely that I'll ask him to Bless me .   Moses is quite the Story-Teller .

                            

Fish & Chips

                                                           Christians use the Question, "What would Jesus do ?" as a means to solve Moral Dilemmas .   I question their Question .  When Jesus was confronted by the hunger of His Audience He fed them with SUPERNATURAL AGENCY , turning five loaves of bread and maybe a half dozen fishes into an "ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET" .    WE have no such 'Agency' .    BUT  when we elevate things to a COSMIC Level and ask "What would GOD do?"  the  answer  is  a  resounding NOTHING .    God's JOB as it were, is to do NOTHING .    THAT, rite there, takes some getting use to .   Should we be as Jesus or as GOD ???   I mean "IT" hurts .

                                    I will leave this here without Resolution .   Tomorrow may be a better time to introduce "The Empty Mirror"-----   until then

                                                        Tare Forward and Keep the Faith