Taxes are here to stay

What ARE taxes, beneath the CW dollar understanding?

So many “musts”! How many “needs to” demands can we DO at the same time, or even sequentially, that will actually reverse the accelerating trend toward an even larger percentage of GDP going to government?

In a spiritual community, there are specific rules for one who chooses to join it. The uber-demand is, as a practicing devotee, to be a reflecting “mirror”, and make DEMANDS on fellow members, but NOT to dissociate from them.

In a karmic sense, all Americans HAVE chosen to be members of this community, which is, to be sure, most assuredly NOT spiritual, in the conventional sense.

Well, in the old days---which I’d say ended with WWII, for most---survival demands were still inescapable. Now, however, you don’t have to be much more than an adolescent fool and you will still be able to get by, and with the “machines” so productive, even live swimming in the gravy stream they regularly spit out each day.

“Turn on, tune in, drop out”, quote Timmy Leary.

And, CW still thinks he was a weird and far out extremist!

What do you think has happened since he and his fellow LSD “warriors” introduced their radical “gulping” path to all and sundry?

Reality is like an alligator, which “eats” each day’s new emanating “food”, and it just grows and grows, always incorporating (taking into its body) each meal.

So, in a “fat chance!” way, the sum of our American fears, RIGHT NOW, is absolutely the manifestation of “turn on”, except instead of LSD et al, the drug of choice in physical terms is the junk food one sees advertised incessantly on TV, and in psychic terms, is the junk food of inane movies and TV.

Ergo, there’s a whole lot of “tuning out” going on, since when one “tunes in” to so much body-mind JUNK, and therefore logically BECOMES same, how is it possible to tune in to the “taxing” truth, a la what a Peter Ferrara so clearly lays out in today's American Spectator?

Just think! “Drop out!”, as a demand or call to un-action by the drugged out Leary, has been met.

What do you think those people who voted for Obama and other drug purveyors, like the you-know-what sucker Barney Frank, did---and thus ARE?

Drop outs!

They have successfully dropped out of the American Way.

What is the only solution? What is the unavoidable outcome?

When practically a majority, and surely a working and in-control minority, is totally happy with their fat and entertained condition, they will certainly resist, with all their still-powerful tools, any change.

Why, given that Americans are ALREADY a majority overweight or obese nation, many on the right have, themselves, turned on, tuned out and dropped out. (In 2020, a mere 10 years, it is projected that 2/3 of us will be overweight or obese!) It’s just that they have a scintilla of a memory of the previous time before Leary won out. Example numero uno…Gov. Christie. And, Rush Limbaugh provides another in-your-face body of proof of this!

“Eating IS!”

In a true spiritual community, the conditions are not really there for themselves. So, a lacto-vegetarian diet requirement is not meant to make one lean and healthy, although that will be the lawful outcome from such a change of food intake.

It is meant, spiritually, as a way to create HEAT. The friction that necessarily arises when you have to eschew a candy bar and chew some almonds, say, provides the bodily feeling, which can lead to insight.

So, in the current American scene, who thinks the Leary-programmed vast wrong-wing majority can heal itself?

No, the Universe works in mysterious ways, and it will not be mocked. Thus, one way or another, sooner or later, a crisis must come about, which cannot be ignored.

And only such a happening can possibly cause enough people to wake up and change their behavior.

Face facts. It used to be that America existed so that individuals could be free to live their lives as they chose, while respecting their fellows.

Now, America exists to---EAT!!!

Here’s one more myth that needs exposing.

Our fat cat oh-so-satisfied pompous generation raves about how in the old days most people had to work on the farms to produce food, and NOW there are only about 2% who are farmers.

What a self-deluding lie!

Eating to live (which used to be the lawful truth) has morphed into living to eat. And, listen, if one could make love as much as one could eat, AND SURVIVE, maybe we’d be a lot leaner!

From planning and planting all the way to swallowing and then dealing with the health consequences of such a junk food diet, it sure seems to me that at least half of American’s time and effort goes into FOOD---or, truthfully, junk food.

You see, all the concern with “health insurance” is also a vital part of the “farming” food chain.

Farmers grow it, illegals pick it, truckers move it, stores sell it, ads push it, doctors try to heal “it”, and all the other ways people live, while spent making other things, like houses and cars etc, they are still, at least subconsciously, wondering where their next meal is coming from!

“We have met the enemy, and it is us”. Pogo

How do you “meet us”?

Let’s get personally responsible, HERE!

“I have met the enemy, and it is I”

In order to meet I, I need a---MIRROR. Well, such an instrument needn’t be the one uses to “do one’s face” in the morning.

No, real demands that cause real changes are the actual “mirror” required to see oneself, with brilliant clarity.

Come to me, big daddy---the Crisis Mirror!

posted by James at 9:13 AM
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A Fool and a Witty

“What do you take me for, a fool?”

The whole enchilada of human relationships, epitomized by the higher “art” of elite political wrangling, can be usefully understood , IMHO, by considering the many ways the concept of “fool” can be applied to them.

We just (it seems to me!) endured the last great “fool” hope, from Hope, Arkansas, who enlightened us with his insightful reminder to us, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. Saying this, while HE, HIMSELF, was, and is, the essence of fooling!

And, now, the “fool” dimension has evolved even higher, almost unbelievably, with the arrival of the anointed one, BHO! Talk about the greater FOOL theory---in practice!

Well, I have, MYSELF, a couple of pithy and witty old “fool” ditties, that I think help us play the BHO “recording”---

We all know a fool when we see one, but never when we ARE one.

Let THAT swish around in your processing brain for a while, and expand its shining light of Truth on both BHO and each single other human who has to deal with him—including you.

First, way too many Americans---and, non-Americans, in spades!---did not see BHO as the fool he is, and were thus fooled: ergo, they ARE fools! A fool, fooling others?

Second, as witnessed by the latest presser by BHO, he absolutely does NOT know that he is a fool! He definitely sees the American public as---FOOLS! Why don’t they recognize his greatness? What fools you---we---are!

Here’s another hoary “fool” saying---

You may look like a fool, but why remove all doubt by opening your mouth?

NOW, I, personally, have lived quite long enough, thank you, to have learned the value of SILENCE! (That other old admonition, to not say anything about someone unless it’s a compliment, seems to stem from this wise take.) Boy, was my youth ever a living hell, because I couldn’t keep my mouth shut, so eager was I to tell the truth as I saw it---young Narcissus, in diapers, for way too long!

What is a “fool”, anyway?

Another linked memory---wasn’t it once reported that the Catholic Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia was an admitted “fool for God”?

You could have fooled me!

It takes one to know one!

Somehow, this rant about “fool” has brought me to a wonderful choice paradox that took my own foolish life into sheer---what?

“The moment a man attains Prajna (Enlightenment), he is swallowed up in the absolute. There is no stage when he can declare that he is freed; he cannot leave any kind of record. Logically, he cannot even know that he is free; as long as he is in bondage, it would be false to if he took himself to be free; and when he is free, he is no longer there to know that he is free as he is immediately merged in the absolute.”

From “The Central Philosophy of Buddhism”, by T.R.V. Murti, 1955, a book about Madhyamika Buddhism from the “point of view” of Nagarjuna (circa A.D. 150) page 279

These words are meant as a set up; and next, in the book, the author resolves the paradox, in his own way, basically “proving” that there exists Enlightened Beings, like Buddha, Jesus, Krisha, and many other lesser know humans, through time, who can be in both the phenomenal AND the absolute realms, simultaneously.

My favorite metaphor is the spinning pottery wheel.

We, as humans very much resemble one, and so if/when one attains Enlightenment, while spinning, the inertia of the “wheel” = the human one means that even as it slows down, such an awakened one CAN be at once in the phenomenal realm and the Absolute ONE.

Me---life’s ONLY paradoxical!

Pity the FOOL!

posted by James at 11:08 AM
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Convert, or DIE!

The given—gift of the God of Being + Becoming?---truth is that change is constant.

So, depending on the informed or misinformed state of any of us, at any given point of time, the most vital kind of change required for the most social good for the most members of society is---conversion.

Every belief system, if even a little bit coherent and consistent, wants to grow, and to do this the extant members of that system MUST gain NEW adherents, and that necessarily demands that non-members somehow become convinced of the truth of that system.

Hence, the dominant Christian admonition, usually mocked, like in cartoons with a guy in a sandwich-like “suit” with the words, “Repent, sinner!” on it. This is simply a form of the same need.

Just so---right NOW, on the changing margin, as always, there exists a swinging set of malleable humans ripe for the change of our time: CONVERT to freedom!

We must never forget that, despite the best efforts of too many American citizens with closed minds, this country STILL “converts” many non-Americans in the form of legal and illegal immigrants, who desperately yearn to leave the mostly unfree places they come from in exchange for the freedom HERE.

Thus, is the tree of freedom watered, every day.

Likewise, those current Americans, who finally realize they have been mugged by liberal reality, reach the unavoidable tipping point of personal desperation and---CONVERT.

Exactly as hardly anyone LEAVES America---except, those who are already rich, and want to escape taxes---the same thing is true about politics. Very few people convert FROM the right to the left!

Another useful truth---experienced people rarely make mistakes. How do you become experienced? By making mistakes!

So, there is a huge pool of inexperienced people, in America. The up-and-coming younger cohorts have indeed been programmed by the pubic schools and the rotten culture that rules the entertainment and academic realms AND, they are sure to sooner or later notice how mistaken their brainwashing has made them.

Mass conversion is coming, and is absolutely happening as we live and breathe.

Let’s go underneath the “skin” of our fruit of taught belief system.

There is always a form. And, this form is always changing.

So, at any moment, one is to some extent informed, misinformed, deformed, reformed, and most especially, CONFORMED---to the prevailing CW.

Also, others are in the same mixed state of “form”, so their very existence in a wordless or wordy fashion ineluctably is informing those who see or hear or read them.

Well, these days, those on the left are actively MIS-informing us all, with the elites in this devilish camp fully aware of what they are doing---they KNOW they are lying, and take those who buy their dung to be the fools they certainly ARE. And, then there is the vast wrong majority on the left who are THEMSELVES fools and fooled by the bangles offered by these elites, who also do their plebian best to fool others---unwitting nitwits!

Therefore, while we all eschew the “horrible” change that bodily aging is, given the loss in vigor and the growing “edge” that an ever approaching death surely represents, the older mind MUST welcome, indeed embrace, the freeing change that experience offers.

Change is GOOD!

Lastly, “sin” comes from the Greek, “to miss the mark”. And, so, too many people do have SINFUL opinions, having been misformed into the deformed creatures they are, as they conform to so much that is NOT true. We are all like a shot arrow, at once hitting the target, usually NOT in the bull’s eye, and thus sinning, AND simultaneously in flight toward the next target.

Best is to CONFORM to the bull’s eye!

Note---the book, “Laws of Form”, by G. Spencer Brown, from 1969, was recommended to me by Alan Watts, right around 1971. It will blow minds, if read.

Here’s a money quote, that extends to the current political war---

“In mathematics, it becomes apparent, at some stage, that we have for some time been following a rule without being consciously aware of the fact. This might be described as the use of a COVERT convention. A recognizable aspect of the advancement of mathematics consists in the advancement of the consciousness of what we are doing, whereby the covert becomes overt. Mathematics is in this respect psychedelic.” Page 85

Since mathematics is just the most ordered “dance” of human minds, I posit that this above quote applies in CONVERTING spades to the ongoing human “war” of political ideas.

Just substitute the word “Politics” for “mathematics”, and I think we can see what is NOW going on, especially wrt the Tea Party and its opponents.

posted by James at 10:11 AM
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Remember the Domino Theory?

Also, it is essential to constantly repeat “basic training”, or even complete it for the first time, and then repeat it. What is BT?

Change is constant! And, probably the MOST basic defining characteristic of being humanly alive is to “never give up!”, which expresses itself in always trying to maintain---the CONSTANT. I am, that I am, and a man’s a man, for all that.

However, process = change ALWAYS trumps stasis = constant.

Thus, picture a physical plane with many dominoes lined up so as to (over time, once ONE has been pushed into the one next to it) use gravity to begin the process of the logical chain reaction. Well, while this image stays constant in your mind’s eye, over time more change is ALWAYS inevitable.

The reliance on this theory that led to America’s Viet-Nam adventure played itself out. Behind it was the USSR, and, indeed, the other bad boy, China was also right in the neighborhood, ready to possibly copy what they did in Korea.

However, the changing Domino Theory processed future actions by ALL players, depending on rising and falling clout---and, all the changing time, the USA kept on getting smarter and stronger, despite fools like Carter, et al, from the fellow-traveling left, doing their worst to bring her down.

So, America left Nam in shame, to the eternal damnation of the poor people left in that hot country AND the leftists in America, the enemy within, who chickened out.

Even so, 35 years later, in the meantime---the very MEAN time!---the Soviet “Union” fell, freeing up millions of people, and China was forced to open up its economic system.

And that left a vacuum for the growing-rich-from-oil leaders of the Muslim cult to make their newly processed attempt to take over the world.

Enter today’s new Domino Theory.

The Middle East has always been an ammo dump, basically, filled with too many resentful human “bombs”, and change has brought modernity to that sorry acreage, at last! Now, they can process everything that’s new, and they’re seemingly doing it all at once---the NEW Domino Theory still exhibits many of the same characteristics of the old one.

The Axis of Evil would be fatally crippled, if, and only if, Iran went the way of Iraq. That country, taken over by fanatics, is truly the Arsenal of Terrorism!

History will not be kind to GWB or slick Willie, and especially BHO---they will be seen as the weak and indecisive non-leaders they were and are: caretakers of government, ALL. Not wise men, in the least, except for GWB, who at least was forced to react to the attacks of 9-11 and to take out Saddam.

What about “Nation Building”?

The whole concept reeks of stasis! That is, living, and processing-it-all humans, inherently remain attached to lessons learned from history, and the very mention of the words, “Nation Building”, Pavlov-dog-like, elicit CW notions of logical ideas of what it means.

Well, OBVIOUSLY, there has to be something called a “nation” (constant), and, for better or worse, somebody has to “build” (process) it.

However, what if the human race is reaching a tipping point, wrt what a nation is? Take Afghanistan, for example. Before it became a battleground “state” or “process”, that land with random boundaries was known to “contain” many tribes, which basically controlled their own fraction of the land. What “nation” existed?

So, in the same sense that it was wrong to force boundaries on peoples living in the Middle East that “created” an Iraq and a Jordan, let alone the conundrum known as “Palestine”, it SEEMS like the same thing is problematic, today.

My guess is that, over the unavoidable processing of time, probably the most vital expression of the “Tea Party” dynamic is happening in all those places that are damned by the name “nation building”.

Thus, the natural human desire for personal freedom is HAPPY to be free of overweening BIG GOVERNMENT! Why does anyone ever need such a monstrosity? FEAR!!!

It’s back to the mob verses the individual. Gangs in LA, or in Beijing.

What was the raison d’etre of the Roman Empire? To bring ORDER! And, without adequate force to protect it, what did we get---DISORDER!

Hence, there really isn’t any option to an impregnable USA, that keeps Absolute world order, as long as various malicious centers of power remain, eager to stick it to the “nation” that has “built” and maintains ORDER.

It turns out that the “Law and Order” party is the only one we should all want, and fight for, unless we are nihilistic fools or devils.

posted by James at 10:56 AM
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Does 2 + 2 = 4?

Well, you’d THINK that anyone who was educated beyond caveman status would ALWAYS certainly affirm that it does.

So, take the case of Juan Williams, as a “tolerable” public face, or mafia mouthpiece, for the left wing socialistic side of the political spectrum---those who advocate for the mob verses the individual.

(An aside---around 50 years ago, as I ended my high school brainwashing career, one of the most memorable subjects I was assigned was to write a paper about the origin of ballads. The crux of it came down to an unanswerable (seemingly) pair---either an INDIVIDUAL or a GROUP created the first ballad.)

If anyone lives AWAKE for long enough, after a quick or a slow dipping in the sewage flowing from the mouth of all Juan William types must either revolt one, OR become congruent with one’s own beliefs.

2 + 2 = 4.

Thus, how many times does one need to be water boarded with the same old filth that escapes from all Juan Williams clones, before just seeing their visage or reading their name instantly results in the choice to turn them off?

My lifetime of experience long ago raised my own tolerance of ANYTHING said by Barney Frank, et al, leftists to ZERO----don’t let them TELL you zip, and you don’t have to ASK anyone for permission to follow this habit.

The choice of a good and HONEST life is to keep GOOD company, and to try your damnedest to avoid BAD company.

I missed, therefore, the explosive statement by Williams, even as I usually try to observe what the hell O’Reilly is narrow casting through his window to the world, at any time. Remotes are GOD!

“The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall”---thank you, Jimmy Cliff! How salient this unhappy drug-era song is, in that it applies to fooled leftists, MAYBE, eventually, when they have been mugged by reality. Hence, BOTH Williams AND NPR, and its leading minions, are going from their haughty “Hard Coming” position to a “Hard Fall”! And, it still is----FALL!

Another way to understand the sad condition of programmed leftists, and even all of us, to varying extents, is that when it comes to surviving over time, our experiences, and most vitally, our reactions to them, necessarily result in any present-day noospheric condition. That is, our takes and opinions are at once shaped by nature AND nurture, through time.

So, we resemble a tightly wound baseball. When born, you could say the core is our born “nature”, our karma, our predispositions. And, then, the string starts to wind away!

Well, in my tightly-wound-string opinion, leftists usually, especially as they get older, and don’t change---or are FORCED to change by real conditions---can’t be reasoned with. How paradoxically funny, too!

Consider a “Renaissance” man, like Christopher Hitchens. His whole Weltanschauung rests on the RATIONAL, and he, Pavlov-dog-like, always instantly repels any “irrational” threatening-to-him ideas. And, yet, as intellectual and bright as he doubtlessly is, he is as closed up as the hardest baseball, and his entire essential character is---irrational!

Finally, I had my own trivial Juan Williams moment.

About twenty years ago, I was subbing in a school (Ygnacias Valley High School, I think) in the Concord, California area. The “lesson plan” for one class was, for me, great, because the teacher had arranged for these two young ladies to spend the hour promoting---Earth Day like left wing crap. I suffered through the whole time, and couldn’t help myself, as it was ending. I asked the brainwashers if they were paid to do this, and who paid them.

It was so “far out” to see them tighten up! Of course, they just ASSUMED, that like all “normal” teachers, I shared their far left agenda. The silence was deafening, as they oozed out of the room.

I was never “invited” back to that school, and at year’s end got the news that I was unacceptable as a sub, for them! The teacher got his revenge, but it was worth it. Even so, I doubt my “subtle” dig even made an impression, let alone mattered, to the poor being-tightly-strung up students. Do YOU even remember ANY single class, or any substitute teacher---let alone, teacher?

It is, though, always possible to make that hoary “purse” from ANY “sow’s ear” that makes up reality.

Therefore, Obama, in his own unique tightly-wound-string way, couldn’t help but be himself, by invoking the idea of a “teachable moment”. And, all along, HE is THAT---a gift that never stops giving!

However, in Truth, the “teachable moment” phrase is really another simple way of saying what I have always tried to use as a “lens” through which to “view”, or process ANYTHING that comes into my consciousness---don’t buy it!

Look, life, at least material life, is indeed a CONSUMER driven reality. Just so, when it comes to thoughts and ideas. Does one BUY everything? NO!!!

Being conscious IS to choose---Consciously.

Be Consciousness

Contemplate Consciousness.

Transcend everything in Consciousness.

This is the epitome of the way of Truth.

posted by James at 11:23 AM
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Fear Is "Thinking Clearly", Nowadays

The teaching moments that are Obama are not only continuing, but they are continuing to accelerate in both their frequency and their pithiness.

I’d say that his recent throw away line about how scared people don’t think clearly has to be about the most vital one yet.

What about “fear”?

Of course “No Fear!”, as a happy face attempt to throw out one’s chest AND point of the jaw by asserting, essentially, that they are brave---one of the most key GOOD aspects of being alive--- has long been in CW. So, it’s pretty un-PC to admit to being afraid.

However, fear has its uses, just as pain does. I have a wonderful book, “The Brilliant Function of Pain”, that proves what its title claims, not only wrt physical, but emotional and mental dimensions---and, let’s NOT forget the core spiritual one!

Well, imagine a “book” that does the same about FEAR---right NOW, due to all kinds of nihilistic actions and intentions of various powerful people and institutions, such as Obama, et al, and Islam, not to mention the autocratic China and Russia, I claim that fear is the essential state of mind for anyone who’s learned the taught moments!

When a lion is about to chase you, fear is most appropriate! We all know how this bodily “mood” physiologically puts the survival “fight or flight” systems into action. I claim those of us who have awakened to the logical fear sweeping the globe resemble a weak old grandmother, facing a car with its tire on their grand kid. From nowhere, she finds the “impossible” strength to lift that car and save the future of humanity.

Just so, NOW.

Never forget that our “betters”, epitomized by Obama, firmly believe they are way ahead of the “stupid” people who voted them into office! And, this means, basically, that they ALWAYS think that they can say and do ANYTHING, and talk their way out of ANY bad results.

Also, even after they themselves have done a “bad” thing, like get donations from abroad, and hide this fact, they USE this memory to help them choose to claim their opponents did the same thing---with no evidence needed.

J’accuse!

Let’s cut to the “fear” chase. When Obama’s lips loosen the “sinking his ship” truth, as he sees it, about afraid people not thinking clearly because of their fear, of course it is easy to determine his understanding, AND the real truth about it.

Obama---and Islam---are the attacking “Lions”!

It is GOOD to be afraid of them, and to act with all systems, bodily, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

People are MAD---there it is, emotionally.
People think America is going to HELL---there it is, mentally.
People VISCERALLY react to other people who look like enemies or dangerous types, such as those dressed like bin Laden or a mugger in the dark---there it is, bodily.

What about the spiritual dimension?

Well, as long as there is a self VERSES an other, fear is endemic, in truth. Indeed, every instant of our human bodily life is a continual struggle to maintain order---stay alive---while chaos is permeating our space-time. Do NOTHING---and soon enough, one dies. Even breathing and eating, while pleasurable enough, only keep the “alive” game going, until it stops.

So, since mankind as a whole is so unevolved, at this time, and likely will be for many generations to come, the best we can do is live in the physically benign FEAR a civilized society maintains.

Most every religion has a “secret” teaching, necessarily kept hidden from those who are untested and immature, which in Absolute Radiant Transcendental Being truth is ONE.

Actually, we should wake up and realize that even NOW, each human being is not only living accord to a Christian admonition, but is the bodily manifestation of it. Which one, you ask?

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” And, or, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

Notice the basic see-saw “self-other”?

Hey, we are all NEIGHBORS!

A fin, the latter demand about “love” hinges on FIRST loving yourself. What a great and confusing test, perhaps the greatest teaching moment to “get right”!

Truly, each “self” ALREADY loves itself! Narcissus lives. Merely to try to stay alive and feel good and prosper, in all ways, expresses such self love.

But, AND, the impossible “dream” is to love the Self---the One without an other---of which ALL is the rising manifestation.

Who can do THAT? Except---the SELF!!!

posted by James at 12:13 PM
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Democrats---the Vanguard of Islam

There are just so many distinctions without a difference, these days, that it’s hard to know where to focus. Also, since we awaken every day to a new reality---think of it as the Absolute Radiant Transcendental Reality changing like when one presses the refresh icon on a web page---which is indeed what re-incarnation is smoothly about, the thought hopper must be totally in the NOW.

That necessarily means that previously learned facts tend to be crowded out. Just as the overweening expansion of mob power = government crowds out individuals in the economic marketplace, RIGHT NOW we are suffering the loss of remembrance of BASIC things past.

I, personally, was just reminded of this, by Andrew McCarthy of NRO, as he expounded on a 1954 piece of writing by the inestimable Bernard Lewis, and what Robert Spencer, as well, has written concerning the essence of Islam.

This is currently oh-so-painfully existentially pertinent, given the brouhaha Bill O’Reilly caused when he, from his position as top media dog, excoriated Islam on the TV show, The View.

Islam is STILL defined by its own core tenets as a mostly this-worldly political movement, merely USING all the religious trappings about virgins, et al, which is Absolutely bent on totally taking over the world!

Islam is totalitarianism!

What is the dominant event, right NOW? The American election.

And, since attention on all the thousands of individual races is so prevalent, the “eyes” of us all are being sucked into the vacuum “cleaner” that eschews concerns of Islam.

We all love to celebrate the “win” in The Wizard of Oz, to wit pulling the curtain back to expose the wicked witch of the North. However, the most amazing “race” of humans is at once distracted by a “real” witch story in Delaware AND the ongoing string pulling by the TRUE witches who are STILL behind the curtain!

Yes, when even a “wise” man like Charles Krauthammer remains in the dark about Islam, all one can do is understand the many millions of other fooled people, up and down the power chain. This ABSOLUTELY bodes suicidally ill for humanity.

What will it take for a solid majority of non-Muslims to wake up? Also, isn't the only humane conclusion a present day Muslim can come to, if and when THEY truly understand their "religion's" core beliefs, is to leave that "religion"?

Talk about an inescapable either-or!

Actually, here is a most un-politically correct question---

Ask all “Krauthammer” types if they think all people who are Muslims, in their bottom line heart of hearts, would most wish that ALL humans were also Muslim? Of course THEY DO!

NOW---the true Muslim believers ARE the extremists, and they are the vanguard of that religion, whose ONLY goal is to TAKEOVER the whole world.

From any individual Muslim’s point of view---say an Obama, who thinks the call to Muslim prayer is the sweetest sound---isn’t it obvious? They want you to “enjoy” their own BLISS!

Think of then as Jesus freaks on steroids, armed---soon with nukes?---with modern weapons.

Are you scared, yet?

posted by James at 10:55 AM
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Details, Details, Details----SUCK!

People, who bemoan the Pledge because it’s not as specific as the Contract for America, while surely well intentioned, miss that hoary forest for the trees.

What does a detail man do for your car? Making it LOOK good won’t make it run better!

I once subbed for a high school class that taught me more than the students, probably. It was election season, like now, and the students were given a handout that listed the MANY different issues involved---and, it was four or five pages long!

Have you ever wondered how the political dimension ever evolved---devolved?---over time so that we today face so many polarized situations? And, how it always seems to be so clear-cut, with leftists taking almost perfectly opposite positions to rightists?

It’s the BASIC principles, not the ----DETAILS!

Getting mired down in arguing about specific programs that flow naturally from basic principles is playing into the loser-leftist’s hands.

I recently rejoined the cable TV community, having delightfully eschewed the “enjoyment” of watching O’Reilly, Hannity, et al for the last four or five years. Pay attention to the “fairness” doctrine as inevitably followed by the masters of these “programs”.

There are always segments with people from the right VERSES the left. And, thus, around half of the time is spent = wasted when leftists spout their “principled” talking points-of-the-day, AND even more is down the drain when those on the right have to RESPOND to them. And the show-ending result is?

Obfuscation masquerading as analysis! Why?

Because the time is mostly filled with hot air blasted on and of and about—DETAILS!

Me, I’m from a Gary Cooper era of the laconic or taciturn man, where actions are all that matter, and spoken words are very carefully chosen. Today?

Holy SPIT!

Also, one of the insights, quite impossible not to come to, given the tsunami of actions AND words from losers = leftists, is the quip---“Shut up, he said.” This command on high from such luminaries as Harry Reid, say at a town hall meeting, usually only comes to light infrequently, when they lose their covering-up cool.

However, in essence, this is what’s being manifest in ALL leftist’s encounters with their opponents. They are just so tightly armored within their own killer political belief system that they always rebuff ANY nonbelievers with this repellant reflection.

NOW---I believe ALL their actions, most assuredly including the myriad words they spit out to take up valuable time arguing in “fairness”, are just clever attempts to SHUT UP their critics.

Understand---they have NO = ZERO respect for them = us!!!

As a youthful hippie dropout, I have personal experience in this attitude. Talk about extremists! While the MSM = leftists prefer to try to convince the ignorant and unwashed masses that Tea Party types are “extreme”, what MUST be finally realized is that it is the LEFT that is, by definition, wholly EXTREME!

Thus, it is almost too late to get to truly know freedom’s enemy, before they become impregnable in their lawyerly “Ivory” tower. Indeed, when Obamacare passed, it certainly seemed to me that the ignorant masses had totally tipped into a coming Dark Age, within which it would be impossible to escape, with horrendous logical outcomes for all of us---except “Shut up, he said!” leftists--- cooked in the “laws” already passed and to come.

Maybe, though, KISS will fight back against SHUT UP.

By Keeping It Simple, Stupid, people have perhaps the final and only chance to stifle, a la Edith, the boneheads destroying this country.

And, therefore, let us be absolutely SIMPLE, by not getting distracted by the exponentially growing number of “programs” both to be done AND undone! Forget such DETAILS!

One of the political “tricks” is never to answer any question laid on you. Think about it. By playing the “answer the question” game, you are letting the questioner RULE. So, instead, take a deep breath, and refuse to be drawn into this pit of excrement---remember, “journalists” are NOT neutral “reporters” anymore, and haven’t been for many decades. They THINK it is THEY who are in charge!

My advice is to channel George Washington, and move and act as he did in public!

His ACTIONS, both as a warrior and as a President, are eternal examples to be followed.

On to PRINCIPLES, not programs, my freedom loving fellows!

posted by James at 12:16 PM
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We're ALL Getting Gored!!!

The “trend is your friend” saying just hit home for poor old moi!

My social security is so low that I qualified for Medicaid that was paid for by the liberal state of Oregon---until it was stopped on September 1st!

That means my cash flow has been reduced by 15%!

If this kind of personal “hit” is happening all over the USA, and I think it is, maybe the tipping point has already been reached, and the near future will resemble the way a falling rock GAINS speed as time passes, so that when it---the disgust with the suicidal actions of the regnant “liberals”---hits ground in about three weeks, it could be the equivalent to the meteor hitting Earth and wiping out dinosaurs.

Let’s face it---liberals ARE dinosaurs!

I well remember a youthful realization about how capitalism always uses “whatever”, even and especially currently radical and revolutionary breakthroughs. “Imagine” how advertising irresistibly gets around to playing old popular songs to sell their products---even those, like “Light My Fire”, that were banned, by some, when they first came out.

Well, what we have NOW is the nihilistic extreme of this tendency, only presently the “banned” stuff is the new normal!

Besides, at the deepest core of True Understanding, based on the irreducible fact that one can NEVER know anything---any THING---perhaps the most basic either-or “play” is in slow motion: PLAY!

There is always tension between “state” and “process”, or what currently seems to BE, and the “change” that is “becoming”.

So, an Obama uses “change”, just like advertisers use hoary songs, but he LIED! And, thus, we have the terrible “TWOS” manifesting in dire disgust at this man’s hubris.

Did he really think he could get away with this blatant ploy?

The vast awakening majority of Americans has FINALLY begun to get back to their primeval animal nature---see Pavlov’s dog!

Hopefully more than enough of us are NOT masochists, so that we will instinctually break through all the LIAR crap dripping out of liberal’s mouths.

Enough, they cried---STOP!!!

posted by James at 11:02 AM
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Principles! NOT Programs.

So many clichés scream out, calling for congruent application to today’s perfect political storm!

On the spectrum between optimism and pessimism, true realism was long ago nailed by the admonition to “hope for the best and expect the worst”.

Too, most piquantly appropriate for the stoneheads currently ruling the rueful country is one from my own wild and crazy “youth”, “hope is for dopes”.

How about the hoary “this time will be different”? We can all remember how painfully relevant this was as the housing bubble as well as the dotcom bubble ended up taking most people for a disgusting money-losing ride.

I think the leaders of the freedom-loving right wing of the flying American populous needs to copy, at least, the actions of the left. In a fight for survival, mano a mano, would anyone who wants to win this ultimate zero sum “game” NOT kick his opponent in the nuts, or gouge out his eyes?

One of the key changes in strategy, if not THE key one, has just been pointed out by “David Kahane”, which is the pseudonym of a screenwriter in Hollywood, who came to my attention posting on National Review Online---he has a new book out, using his real name, which essentially takes Saul Alinsky’s rules for a radical and applies them to conservatives.

The problem right-wingers must first understand and transcend has to do with not even playing on the same field as their killer opponents---that is, instead of even getting into the tactical details, known as “programs”, go deeper, by actually using the KISS acronym.

Keep It Simple Stupid!

Let’s face it---real reality, expressed in such an ugly fashion by Obama and his enablers being regnant, proves that the majority of Americans are STUPID! Either those people in this ever changeable group is brainwashed and deluded and/or they are too defeatist to fight against the rampant voter fraud, which situation has resulted in the repugnant rise to power by what are really nihilists.

So, in place of program-ism, always resort to---principles!

What ELSE is the Constitution, but SIMPLE principles?

Just think---any presently manifested condition of humans in the “opinion” dimension, which must be expressed in logically derived votes, has to come from the distillation made from the overwhelming and growing mass of daily, and nowadays, hourly, “information” blasted over the noospheric “airwaves”. And, brothers and sisters, are we ever constantly required to make sense of an almost infinite number of PROGAMS---what an onslaught!

My own realization, perhaps born by a childhood with a family of small business entrepreneurs, has long been that it is best to avoid both lawyers and doctors. Think of it as being personally responsible for the mind, the lawyerly realm, and the body, the realm of “other” humans known as doctors.

Well, the spewing forth of myriad “programs” is the wrath of the American nomenclatura, aka attorneys at law!

The ONLY way to win this game is to NOT play it! Remember that movie, “War Games”, where the conclusion was for the supercomputer to give up, when it finally understood that any of the options in a nuclear war scenario were nugatory?

Yes, the ruling class of leftist “program” shitting elites can only be stopped by returning to the Constitution---first principles, now and---

FOREVER!

That’s what “Eternal Vigilance” truly means!

posted by James at 9:54 AM
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New Age Slavery

First we find out from Barone and Rove that we may be going through a '94-like election, 1894 not 1994. And, now, Tony Blankley digs deeper into an even more radical time, circa 1855, giving us hope and a path for the demise of the very un-American 2010 version of the "Democratic" party.

When he noted that slavery was the key issue in 1855, my heart soared with the realization that this is indeed the clear issue, or choice, before us all, right NOW.

For those of us who've been awake and aware for however long, that taxation-without-representation = theft IS the present day form of slavery, given the ubiquitous nature of evolving media that is NOW reaching almost each single American, isn't it entirely possible that the tipping point of our generation has arrived?

How sweet it is! A short two years ago, thieves like Carville et al crowed that the balance of power had totally shifted in their direction.

And, NOW, it's turning out to be the exact opposite.

"Don't tread on me!" is, IMHO, in the American DNA, so with all the horror Obama and his ilk have openly showed us, we still have almost a month---an eternity, given the New Age of media communications---for enough voters to express this very core defining attribute, and essentially KILL the jackass party!

Spread this WORD, not the wealth!

posted by James at 10:34 AM
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Good on you for highlighting to vital 40/60 statistic.

While we must endure the fluff of empty words about particular “news” of any moment, there is always the ultimate yes or no bottom line. So, as I’ve long been enjoying reading you, VDH, it constantly amazes me how you are able to remember and clearly write about all the still simmering-in-consciousness hot topics.

As an aside, as one who carefully followed the Bill Clinton show, I was CERTAIN he couldn’t be elected president. One night, in 1992, I saw an old “friend” of his on TV bring up his draft dodging and womanizing and pot smoking, and this “news” led me to raise some glasses of wine in happiness that this scoundrel had been exposed, since we all know that light is the best disinfectant! AND, the rest is history!

However, back to the choice numbers. My own cynicism has only grown with the passing years, as things that SHOULD happen don’t, and vice versa, after the facts about various events and choices by people---see Clinton, above---become known.

So, my life-long-learned belief is that at least 80 % of the general population is essentially equivalent to deluded and programmed-from-birth religious believers, such as epitomized by a bin laden. That is, 40% of us will choose the left side of any either-or question, and 40% the right side. Mostly unconsciously.

But, there is always the more aware 20%, and it’s ever at this margin that the scales are tipped.

Right now, we are experiencing a Clinton-like barrage of negative “facts” thanks to the Obama child and his pack. And, perhaps enough excrement has been dumped on the left side of this scale that more and more revulsion will cause the vital margin voters to remove all doubt about the phony Obama “machine”

Actually, even though it’s “against the law” to disallow votes on the basis of color, let alone mention certain irrefutable facts in public, isn’t it “interesting” that 90% or so of blacks support Obama? When this cohort is factored out of the approximately 40% who NOW claim to support him, it seems like something like the following is mathematically true—

Of 100 voters, 40 are for Obama. Since blacks are about 17% of the population, 90% of that is 15%. So, of the 40 Obama lovers, subtract 15 blacks, and that means BHO is only registering 25% approval among non-blacks!

Why, Obama is ALREADY a failed loser, to non-blacks!

We used to worry about the digital divide, when the Internet and personal computers started to permeate society, back in the late 90’s, remember? Poor blacks just weren't able to keep up, Internet-wise.

Well, here we are, over a decade later, and the cascading lack of awareness of the truth, brought about by mal-education in this country, logically brings us to the current impasse.

How much longer can the fools on the left continue to yank the strings of the great mass of Americans?

posted by James at 10:48 AM
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Get Ready for THE November Surprise

A radical reckoning is about to irrepressibly expose most people to the bitter truth, that they are even MORE ignorant than they think!

Each of us living Americans is regularly swamped by the “latest news”, the string of “right now” moments that, like the steady drip of water on our forehead when we’re lashed to a cross, necessarily create our present beliefs and Weltanschauung.

So, with the latest political orgasm a little over a month away, after all the top players of power have so far done their in-your-face duty, as THEY see fit, from the left and the right side of the spectrum, what is the overwhelming news each day brings?

POLL RESULTS!

Just as in economics, the old saw about “this time is different” is about to whack the deluded populous upside its poll-results brainwashed head!

How so, you ask?

Looking back, present day pundits try to make sense of which earlier polls were most correct, and thereby to predict what is most likely come November 2nd. Well, not so fast, my friends!

There is a hidden variable that’s unaccounted for when pollsters ask questions----you can’t query a DEAD or nonexistent person. So, it’s just like Las Vegas---

The political “HOUSE” is rigged, and AS A WHOLE always wins, despite the random FEW lucky winners. Therefore, consider the breakthrough “Contract with America” in 1994, and everything that flowed from that, including the way the HOUSE fought back, and learned its lesson.

Unless and until elections are so clean that fraud is kaput, voting is an exercise in futility, which is why older people both make sure THEY at least provide one honest vote AND become jaded about the whole process.

Actually, the very fact that a Mad Magazine “cut-out” like Pelosi could end up as the speaker of the PEOPLE’S house is all the proof needed to any awake person.

Thus, the only real question is what is the majority of honest right thinking conservatives, who truly number in the many more millions than all the thieves and liars and fake voters, going to do, after the latest election fails to unseat all the powerful robbers?

Paint me a cynic. I think there are more “realistic” people, those who know it’s useless to fight city hall and don’t vote, as well as those who have also given up and vote for their “leaders” who take care of them, AND supplemented with the always available pool of fake “votes--- so, forget about it!

Simple math always serves. Forty percent are “right” and forty percent are “left = wrong”, so the twenty percent in the middle provides the margin for victory.

BUT!!! This “middle” class of voters is as variable as those in control of fraudulent votes require---the elasticity of this band is infinite!

Therefore, I wouldn’t get any hopes up for ANY change for the better, any time soon.

posted by James at 10:02 AM
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To Love, or BE Loved?

Perhaps, after all the words of analysis about all things stemming from the Obama phenomenon, a few key basic components warrant outstanding and continuous awareness.

First, Obama and his ilk, most definitely including his political opponents like John Boehner, are essentially just apparently different variations of Narcissus. I’m reminded of a classic sophomore-in-college bull session splitting question---would you rather be the one who loves your mate or be the one who is loved?

Well, combine THIS apparent dilemma with the fact that there is NO danger of ever knowing the future, because: by definition, the future = the unknown!

However, in the veil of Narcissistic reality peopled by humans who have the life or death power in 2010, one other fact is certain.

Cui bono? “What’s in it for me?” ever provides the true prism through which to focus ALL words and actions by anybody, in particular those high and mighty people who populate positions of power over their low and weak brethren.

Also, never forget that it’s the PERCEPTION, stupid! That is, each of us Narcissistic characters always, instant by instant, spend our Being and Time choosing our NEXT move, and then doing it to the best of our ability. And, or BUT, this is absolutely dependent on our lifetime’s experience, which furnishes our present basic core of values.

So, Narcissistic perception is expressed and expressive AS us.

Witness that woman who “exhausted” Obama, much to his embarrassed surprise. See—it was all about: HER!

Is facile-minded Obama more interested in being loved, or loving?

Isn’t it obvious?

His whole day-by-day record as president reeks of the blatantly Narcissistic desire to BE loved! Simultaneously, the other side of this exudes contempt for those he SHOULD love---the American people he legally represents and is supposed to be working for.

Therefore, probably the best we can hope for in this world of Narcissus is that enough people awaken and throw up real champions of the people, who utterly realize that to be an effective and LOVED leader, paradoxically they, themselves, must be wise enough to know that they are NOTHING---that is, sacrifice is the called for order of today!

Lately, I have seen and heard some rising selfless stars, who proudly and brightly proclaim that this is their truth---it’s the CAUSE of freedom for American individuals, not the candidate that matters.

Lastly, transcend the only conventional Fourth of July expressions of patriotism, and REALLY take into account the millions of dead and buried ancestors, who fought and died protecting America. The draft dodgers, and the war survivors, must, of course, be part of the pool of leaders when the fighting and dying is over, but what about those who were unlucky to be killed?

For example, we got to “endure” a JFK, instead of his brother, Joseph, and who’s to say that wasn’t the second best outcome?

The naïve me “hopes” for the best “change” in the immediate future, so that the largest majority of voters will embrace the selfless statesman running, and we will be able to stop the bleeding caused by the derelict dudes like Obama, Clinton, and even the Bush’s.

The world-weary me “expects” the worst, though, because----Narcissus rules!

I can’t resist, however, relaying one final “solution” note----

The wisest humans, usually after a period of time maximizing their Narcissistic nature, wake up and understand that serving OTHERS is the most ecstatic and blessed way to live. Why?

Because spending one’s precious Being and Time all-concerned with self is like pinching the body, or tightly clenching the fist---such contraction cuts off the flow of blood, and other needed physical and psychic “fluids".

And, attending to others removes this constriction, which is the true way to love: others, and self!

When one puts attention on others, the pain that always takes place when turned inward relaxes.

posted by James at 10:44 AM
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Who Is Chris Coons?

Chris Coons reminds me of a “friend” from University of California, Santa Barbara, a wild and crazy New Yorker. This burly wacko loved to go into bars and pick fights. But, his signature moment was being caught on tape throwing rocks into the Bank of Amerika, in 1970 or so.

Later, I heard he was pulled over for a vehicle violation when on the lam back east, and jailed when the police found dynamite in his van.

At the time I was totally apolitical, but this guy “charmed” naïve me into reading a Marxist “classic”, “Monopoly Capital”, by Baran and Sweezy, I believe. And, I was off and running as an already-too-old hippy, as my youthful caring heartstrings were expectedly pulled. Only when helping run a business and beginning my life’s love affair with the Wall Street Journal around 1978 did I wake up.

So, IMHO, each and every conscious American, epitomized by the heretofore blind sheep who support assholes like Obama and Biden, et al (who are of course nothing but Marxist elites trying to impose socialist edicts under the phony Democratic Party name} are simply being offered the opportunity to really see such people naked, as the jay birds they are.

The only question is whether, on the always all important margin, a large enough percentage of them WILL wake up, when confronted with the unmistakable truth. I try to imagine walking in fooled people’s shoes, and, recalling what it took for me to realize my own turnaround, dare I say it---I am actually feeling more and more full of HOPE that the required CHANGE is coming.

I’ve long marveled at the sleeping giant mass of fellow citizens of this still-free country, most of whom are truly just unaware of the depth of the rot that’s permeated the electorate---in particular, those who vote for the jackass party candidates.

And, based on this simple awareness, isn’t it obvious that a massive shocking event, that cannot be ignored, had to happen?

Well, I thought that we’d need a worse attack than 9/11, since it seems to me that it is foreign enemies who most threaten our very existence as a free and independent country. However, it turned out that the willful blindness of the majority of Americans---with the “Independents” providing the at-the-margin edge---who swept Obama-the-Marxist and his enablers in congress into power, with what they thought was a one-and-done election, was the “benign” crisis we needed! Maybe!

So, as many people have realized and said from the heart, America the lucky is AGAIN being given the opportunity, on November 2nd, to make the choice to stop all the decades of Marxist madness.

Failure is NOT an option!

posted by James at 8:48 AM
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The OBAMA Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste

“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”.

It seems to me that the insurgent leaders of the Republicans, from extant top dogs like McConnell and Boehner, down to and most vitally including, emerging superstars like Rubio, should make the following perfect proof argument a key part of their red meat talking points---say:

“I agree that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, as the Obama administration told us all, before going on to do so many horrible things. Indeed, the absolute truth is that the very Obama administration, and its partners in crisis crime, ARE the crisis!

And, we should not waste this once in a generation chance!

So, in November we must exploit the hell out of it, and blast away the people who are causing America to commit economic and political suicide.

Out, with their damned "SPOT!”

Another takeoff from this sure-to-be-included-in-the-book-of-famous-quotes gift from Rahm Emanuel is--- “Let’s get wasted.”

You see, the Obama plus cohort can be characterized many ways, but at their core they are unrepentant hippies, defined by taking mind-altering drugs. And, the first choice of such people is marijuana, the consumption of which is purposed by the desire to “get wasted”.

Yes, think of Obama, and now his unhappy wife, also, as people who are suffering from the crisis THEY have unconsciously created, and in so much psychological pain that getting loaded seems to be the only way to get Absolute relief.

I speak from unfortunate experience!

Entropy is always beaconing, while we humans are busy creating and maintaining as much order as we can tolerate, so getting wasted is just one of the ways to dip into that seemingly ecstatic experience of nothingness. Oh, the pressure is just too great!

Also, “Crisis = opportunity.”

It is unnecessary to say more, right? Remember, there are around 300,000,000 humans in still-free America, so the few hundred of us who are willing to get into the ring of political fire and exploit the Obama crisis represent many millions of others who could do so.

Finally, picture that old ad, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”, which, if I recall correctly, was aimed at black Americans, who were failing to apply themselves to “book learning”, and thus wasting their “minds”. Of course, this problem persists, and I think is even worse.

So, “Mind” up, cowboys!

Surprise, surprise!

Another way that hubris seems to be blowing in the wind, a la Bob Dylan---and Peter, Paul and Mary!---is also thanks to the unwitting Marxist fool, Obama and his minions.

I’ll betcha the phrase, “It’s a teachable moment” has just begun its run as a used label to apply to---most anything. So, just as wasting the crisis that is Obama is a terrible thing, so is it stupid to ignore the teaching moment that he and his far left idiots ARE.

NOW—Karl Rove, and even Mark Levin, are exhibiting all-too-human behavior, and they need to wake up. As we taught students about to take the SAT’s, when facing multiple possible answers to a question, be very wary of those that use the words “always” and “never”.

So, when Rove said O’Donnell could NEVER win in Delaware, oops! Of course, there is ALWAYS the constant true ongoing opportunity = crisis of the NOW point of space-time, at which to use NEVER:

You are NEVER in danger of knowing a single thing!

A being, from the human on down to the amoeba, and even if a quark can be considered “a” being, NEVER knows the future!

And, that’s the truth—blech!!!

posted by James at 8:44 AM
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Sore Losers Are Such a Sight!

From nowhere, perhaps the “nichts” = nothingness of Heidegger, or the Sunyata = Voidness of Eastern religion, and indubitably stemming from Adi Da Samraj’s most basic insight that ALL forms of our human reality are essentially contraction, the simple word, “sore”, has been hanging out in my mind for about a week.

As Da long ago put it, just being born is, right from the instant of the popping out “gratification”, only vital shock. Keep in mind the twisted face of all newborn babies, crying and spanked into breathing, as their = our introduction to the human trail of tears. Not just tears that escape the eyes, in utter sorrow at the psycho-physical task arriving in human form forces upon us, but tears, as in the fabric of space-time that allow the first core separation into a me and a not-me.

I’m all torn up, and tearing up---constantly! And, I AM you, paradoxically, in Oneness,

Still, let me dilly dally a while on the “sore” theme, and right away notice that we earthbound creatures at once “soar” in our unique way, mostly in a "sour" fashion. Just as birds-- such “poor” driven creatures--- are always in one process of soaring or another during their waking hours in search of vitally shocking food, we soi disant top-of-the-Being chain humans are likewise always on the seeking make.

Admittedly, for “lucky” Westerners, for a while---probably until the next big thing of a local or worldwide disaster strikes---such searching takes a “lighter” form, most of our waking time, because we’ve solved the gross food intake problem. However, it sure looks to me as if nary a human exists who isn’t constantly moving around and Being a sore, soaring human “bird”.

Of course, “sore” invokes the timeless description of “sore loser”, with all the hidden historical baggage this phrase plucks, for surely all of us. Hey---what better way is there to link, for non-Muslims, to the word Islam? We almost all assume that the members of that deluded cult are losers, who are filled with hate and resentment for their “others”, especially Americans.

Still, it is certainly a moving “soar” experience to be alive, these days.

As football season has just blossomed into its yearly dominance of the sports world, probably any American male can remember going through those painful years of high school, during which the desire to excel on the football team, or even just to try out and hopefully make it, is defined by the transition called “getting in shape” And, this workout “job” separates the ones who can handle the severe pain from those who can’t or who are unwilling to, because the muscles always get very sore!

Well, we must also acknowledge that there exist sore “winners”, and glory be, don’t we have to put up with their sore acts? Picture a Harry Reid, a Nancy Pelosi and a Barack Obama, all of them simultaneously sweating constantly in a mug shot pose under bright lights, while they are also, in the next door “frame”, seen running on a circular treadmill, like those prototypical laboratory mice, going NOWHERE even as they exhibit mere sore Being.

NOW, this entire “sore” drama, of course, is always what could be called the biggest ongoing cover up of the separation “crime”, because each one of these sore winners, AND losers, learn to exhibit a false face that tries to smile, OR frown, in dissimulation of their basic core sore value.

Yes, a botoxed Nancy Pelosi has no clue about her weak smiling act, which these awakening days, is surely serving to make anyone brave enough to view her face cringe, and indeed Realize the ubiquitous “sore” act that is humanity on the earthly stage.

All is contraction! And, so, the dance between sore losers and sore winners is the eternally returning circle, a al Nietzsche, only apparently in differing forms, over space-time.

I’ve been rereading a book trying to put the meaning of Heidegger into English, published all the way back in 1959, which was “only” about 30 years after he burst on the philosophical scene with his book, Being and Time, or Sein und Zeit.

Another playful English word we might associate with “sore” is “scour”, and why don’t we make this consideration a trifecta, and add in “scowl”? The past four months, or so, I have been working hard as ever, “scouring” clean many surfaces of the contracted atoms that make up my physical abode. And, this activity could also be expanded in a seemingly non-scouring way, as I applied mucho paint and varnish all over the place---literally!

Was I “scowling” while I worked? Well, I certainly wasn’t working hard the facial muscles to plaster a Pelosi smile for all to see! No, timely gravity necessarily brought my cheeks and jowls LOW, so any who were unlucky enough to view said face, would surely conclude I was scowling!

Here’s another regular experience I endure, at the YMCA---there is this woman, in her sixties, I assume, who sometimes uses the therapy pool with moi. When we meet, she and I brighten up our faces and smile a friendly hello out, and immediately after, the poor “old” suffering Sein-zum-Tode = Being-on the way to-death lady absolutely reverts into a SCOWL!

Yes, we arrive in a “sore” mood, and we spend our ending years in a most “sour and scowling SORE” one, certainly getting ready to do it in the dirt as humus beings, again.

Given the absolutely required seminal action of separation from the undivided One and Only that is Truly our very Nature and Condition, which is necessary for the multiplication into things, and many me and you capsules, let me note the inevitable circular “reasoning” that is what is taken to be conventional wisdom.

One of the jewels from Heidegger happily involves verstehen = understanding. He claims that understanding must assume points of view. How can one understand ANYTHING, unless they “have” a point of view? And, on the flip side, to have a point of view also requires something, to wit---understanding!

Is your point of view filled with THIS understanding? Now, and all thens, all of “your” thens as past or future memories or hopes or fears, we have to Absolutely understand that “point of view”, itself, could be Realized to be the first cut away from One, since to have ANY point of view excludes ALL other ones.

Besides, I wonder about understanding “understanding”, or having a point of view about a “point of view”, and even taking this numerical trip all the way up and down---understanding the understanding of understanding, etc, etc, etc.

Getting back to “sore”---after being born into our growing understood point of view as a named human, the fresh start usually offers a grace period of mostly pain-free life, in the physical dimension. And, so, as one cannot escape the eternally returning change of space-time, known as aging, during which there is a definite ongoing “sore” expression of our unique form of contraction from Light = Being, slowly but surely the physical body wears out, and more and more pain comes, to reside all over the body, either constantly or randomly.

So, the living “in store” of us all, is “sore is us”.

How about the combined point-of-view and understanding contained in the other “sore” phrase that’s so well known---“a sight for sore eyes”?

First, just to be alive and contracted as a human body-mind, for normal people, involves being dominated by the visual sense. And, therefore, just to “have” eyes is to be---SORE!!! It’s hard to understand and take this, I know, because in our human reality seeing beats blindness, so basically.

However, I’m reminded of an old Cat Stevens song that says that if you don’t have legs, you won’t “have” to walk. Now, of course, being born blind, or without eyes, is certainly a survival issue! However, remember this---one of the most essential regular “activities” for serious practitioners of most religions, is meditation, with: EYES CLOSED = BLIND.

What a paradox, AGAIN---which abounds!

I concluded, very long ago, in my own blinded and sore eyed journey as the ongoing present conglomeration of lighted atoms, that even apparently fake words can always be sourced back to their Absolute Truth.

So, take “You are a sight for sore eyes”. The big “door” to the Enlightening perception that I can open, here, first discards the apparent dichotomy of sore verses non-sore eyes. All eyes are, essentially “sore”, by just being there, because they depend on separation from what is seen, and the seeing, itself.

Hence, the One and Only “You” that can be Absolutely indicated by this string of words might better be termed an IN-SIGHT. And, there are many ways to spray words that try to “point” out this One “view”, but I will settle with---UNDERSTANDING.

Instead of buying the conventional “view” about eye sight, one must GET One and turn the usual seeing inside and insight out, and every other way around, by understanding that any seeing by the eyes at once connects the seer, and Transcends this connectivity.

Finally, before born, a fetus is ONE “inside” mother, and on the way “out”, the tie that binds, the umbilical cord, clearly indicates this, until---CUT! Instant separation!

Just so, the very development of the eyes, the physical act of plucking incoming rays of photons, involving all the myriad complications of physicality, is just another way that the “cord” is cut, until---

I see, conventionally, becomes I (AM) seeing, which is, despite any felt “sores”, in all dimensions, Bliss, in and as ONE.

posted by James at 10:59 AM
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Dead Is Being Alive

Maybe there’s a Universal Rule, that everything splurges, diverges or lurches merely from the One and Only, so that each seemingly separately enclosed “thing” is always a lonely test.

One times one equals One. When One begins parting into fractions, so that, for example, one half times two equals One, and the multiplying Pandora’s Box is wildly opened, well---and away we go! All is One equals Consciousness only.

Truth IS true!

Therefore, It-All IS there, for---ONE!

So, how low can One go, even as a separate seeming one? It’s all such glorious FUN, to physically appear, and to unwittingly pretend NOT to be what One Absolutely IS, even to be the utter opposite, of One, indeed. In DEED!

Volcanoes ARE perhaps the best lesson and test for those of us fixated on the gross physical, the material, dimension---which is, of course, the set of humans making up current conventional reality.

The Earth’s mantle merely COVERS, for a while, all that’s bubbling underneath it, being the physical congregation of physical elements, finite in number, but incredibly huge compared to the puny weight of all of any 6 or 7 billion humans. And, One of the erupting concerns, these days, via Islam, is the use of veils to cover female's faces. They are human volcanoes, themselves, sucking male's attention and gross protuberances in order to self propagate.

Let’s screw Earth AND all humans, in order to expose the deepest truth!

The mantle, as veil, at once---at ONE---serves as solid ground, for a WHILE, at the same time as it hides the buried past. So, living for ONE today necessarily implies currently forgetting about yesterday.

Isn’t it all obvious? Try NOT to accept whatever is the present condition!

What a Godly paradox! In exactly every present condition, about which there can be NO doubt---it is what it is!---simultaneously any Conscious human is able to Realize that HOPE and CHANGE both come and ARE always already happening, right NOW!

Thus, there is the One as the RIGHT NOW, which is also the not RIGHT NOW, in that the RIGHT NOW is never stable. This is quite easy to demonstrate, by paying complete attention to the moving second hand of any clock.

Because it takes TIME to notice any TIME, say when it “turns” twelve noon, EXACTLY, one can never KNOW what time it is.

NOW, and then, apply this irrefutable insight also to SPACE. Despite the seeming stable sameness of all that coheres for a while on the mantle of our Earth, as well as wild nature, such balls of SPACE behave exactly like TIME!

Mundane “objects” can be eternally undone, this way---the very keyboard that “my” fingers are RIGHT NOW serially playing, is apparently JUST so there, not moving on its own, appearing DEAD, unless some “other” group of elements impinges on it. Well, the other day I dusted it, and RIGHT AWAY, the invisibly swirling atmosphere began depositing particles of tiny elements on it!

Hey, what can I do, to keep It-All clean? Must I meditate on it, constantly, brushing it unstoppably? Why, NO way! If I want to USE it, which is why it exists for ME, I have no choice but to accept that its RIGHT NOW phase is always dying, so that dust and all other ravages of time = CHANGE will destroy it! And, ME.

Conclusion---I, and all other apparent human beings, are always and already truly DEAD, and any clinging to ANY THING, or most essentially to self as Narcissus, is delusion par excellence!

Amazing! “I” was contemplating what it must be like to be an animal, from an insect on up the evolutionary chain. (By the way, PBS had a show the other night about perfectly preserved fossils of a possible dinosaur with FOUR wings of feathers!) A neighbor has set out a bunch of bird feeders, so there is a group of yellow flying beings regularly speeding through the atmosphere surrounding “me”. And, just as I went to record this, a few of them flew by.

There some go, AGAIN!

Or, to give the punch line by Huang Po, that led to Satori, for One of his devotees, after some birds apparently flew away---“How could they ever fly away?”

We “advance” members of the human race love our pets. A cat, say, is too undeveloped to “worry” about the “future”, and just lives in the Eternal Now---what death is there to be concerned about?

That’s ME!

I---and, Consciously, Truly, every YOU---am always DEAD and infinitely ALIVE!

posted by James at 8:23 AM
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Cloning Clowns

“Be Consciousness. Contemplate Consciousness. Transcend everything in Consciousness. This is the Epitome of the Way of Truth.” Da Free John

Death IS as much Consciousness as life, even as we seem to be alive until we seem to die.

Understanding that each instant of living is at once dying, to One’s and one’s core, which is Sunyata = Voidness, is the great help of a True savior.

As usual, every new day seems to begin for each of us apparently separate humans only AFTER we seem to wake up from a needed period of---SLEEP. Thus, one of the most obvious common happenings for all of us humans most clearly exhibits and demonstrates our firm “attachment” to our true mother-father: the only One Who Is, or else the bodily nakedness that can never be escaped, which is eternally returning to our True proceeding state before our mother and father were even born.

Here’s the NEW thing---consider our noospheric “mental health”, which we bathe to varying degrees, by reading or hearing the latest NEWS. These days, perhaps a regular dip into the Drudge “water” can best illustrate this.

So, in our immortal TODAY habits, we randomly find SOMEONE who just physically died (who really stopped moving and being, who they took themselves to be since bodily birth), and resurrect their famous acts.

Every 365 days, or one earthly cycle around the sun, contains inevitable plucks---so, let us celebrate and mourn Bobby Thomson and James Kilpatrick! Who would have thunk these two wildly different characters would bond in death?

Keep in “your” eternal mind that identification, differentiation and desire do INDEED perfectly explain our constant lives; or, better understood in physical terms, in one form or another, we always are pinching ourselves. Quote the Moody Blues: Lost in a lost world.

Perhaps a helpful story will serve.

With growing free space-time, the other day I dove into Google. Since sports has always been one of my most identified with realms, I looked up one Jim Barnett, a basketball player. This, of course, via Google, offered the most “hot” OTHER linked places to cast my attention, and I eagerly exhumed my NEW BORN self from back in the 1950’s by jumping to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame web page.

Yes, witness DEATH!

Instead of the singularity of momentary attention on a Bobby Thomson, say, right there we had a single page that collected HUNDREDS of names of famous people, who over the past century or so, were able to achieve enough standout performances to be recognized. Of course, there were all the usual dominant categories, along with more recently invented ones, or less famous ones.

What a rush down “identification” memory lane! A slow reading of all the names was quite adequate to flick my gray matter off, by sparking so many vital memories surely still spinning around “inside” my skull!

Over more than fifty years, and probably close to sixty, there it all was. Just think---something like 700 LONG months, or 3,000 weeks, or 22,000 DAYS. Each of the latter had to be filled with something: imagine a myriad of newspapers facing blank sports pages. There always exists SOME humans who rise to the top of their “identification” realm, the secondary “writers”, who end up choosing the who, what, where, when, why and HOW about that!

Well, it’s almost TOO raw, to allow the apparently still living memories in aging dudes like moi to come to the surface, because a lifetime of self-pinching just might hurt TOO much, and induce---DEATH.

Oh, wait a lifetime, or a second! That’s what Conscious noticing IS, and/or does.

Now, in the already conventionally conceived human dimension, wherein common sanity is well defined, there always exist layers of possible understanding. Therefore, every ONE must constantly pay attention to all apparent others, because they can ruin your physical ass, if pushed beyond their limits.

A personal example---years ago, in a human potential growth movement group with a small group of fellow males, I Absolutely lost it, at one point, by going on an Ecstatic riff about how there is ONLY God. Before long, a hardcore Christian grabbed me by my throat and flipped into angry denial---right in my face! A coda---later, he saw me at a restaurant, and was like a warm puppy, exuding friendly happiness at seeing me, as if he’d never threatened me at all! Me? I pretended not to know him, and escaped his wicked presence: good company rules ”my” identified life sadhana!

Anyway, let me at get to the this-worldly point I have been aiming for. This is the even unenlightened Truth, which the most unconscious devil can at least appear to agree upon, although ACTING on it is enough to make one a member of the Enlightened Hall of Fame.

Given---Consciousness without inwardness, first transcend the mind, not the body. Be the body only. Inwardness is flight from love. Me is an illusion. There IS no I “inside” the body.

So, merely and only being the physical body, surely we can agree that learning geometry is most basic. And, we don’t have to get very complicated. Indeed, it is best to simply keep in “mind” the reality of a shimmering temporary boundary, to wit the skin.

Of most vital course, the eyes stand out as connectors of this bound body.

However, just as a circle or a sphere or any other “bound” seeming entity has only two physical activities, the same is true for YOU! In OR out---get cracking: UP!

That is, reception-release rules. The body, while alive, that is, communes with/as the atmosphere, breathing in and out. And, there is also the Conscious possibility to just DO NOTHING, to be “breathless” by holding the breath, at any stage in any cycle. Why, I even read somewhere that a crooner like Frank Sinatra learned how to breathe IN while he was vibrating OUT in song.

Just so, since we humans currently hover, mostly, in the physical realm, usually ignoring what bodily senses are unable to FEEL, why don’t we apply reception-release to every iota of arising NEWNESS?

Here’s another NEW insight. One of the hottest manifestations of the physical play is cloning. As evolving humans live and die, with some coming in = reception and some going out = release, unless and until a massive revulsion or revolution or devastating event occurs, marching time ORDERS that unexpected creations must come.

Well, truly, if any one is open enough to notice what’s way beyond the heavy physical, the light noosphere is itself dominated by—cloning! What the hell do you think “school” is?

In fact, the whole physical state of being, nowadays, is permeated by cloning, and I can’t resist pointing out that this truth has created only---CLOWNS!

Yes, we reach a bottom line---cloning clowns describes the whole human dimension!

Ignoring the implications of the inevitable results of reception-release run amok is not an option. The growing number of obese and fat people exhibits this, since these days it’s all about reception, and forget about release: hold on to that fat tiger!

Therefore, it just hit me: just as it’s a fact that, whereas in my youth of fifty plus years ago, one had to go to the circus to see the “fat lady”, nowadays open public life IS a fat lady-man CIRCUS, one-worldism shows itself by the way cloning has managed to infect the human race, so much that the same thing is true wrt CLOWNS!

Oh happy day! All that’s required, for Absolute entertainment, is to immerse oneself in the public realm, which is composed of a vast majority of FAT CLOWNS!

That’s why, by the way, that it should be NO SURPRISE that America = fat clowns should choose a skinny clown like Obama, as well as his goofy enablers.

We have met the fat clown enemies, and they are US!

What is to become of US?

Oh yeah! I have managed to recall probably the key physical insight that impelled me to merge with this noospheric rant: necessarily branching off the reception-release truth, let’s consider how the body basically “works”, when it comes to food, or all that goes down the gullet, liquid or solid.

The spinning digestion system resembles a spinning potter’s wheel. While most people never fast, this spin cycle always goes in one direction. When a fast begins, it’s as if this reception-release cycle slows down, until after about three days, it not only stops, but, given no new solid food, since the body need “gas” for energy, it starts spinning in the opposite direction, and uses = eats the stored fat and crap distributed inside the trillions of cells.

Hence, a fat clown---me, included, most assuredly!---who’s had to hold on to too much waste in all those cells, can be forced into the released cycle, big time, as the body eats its bad self to nothingness. Of course, taken to its extreme, such a fast cycle leads to bodily death, but done wisely such an activity brings the hoped change to a slim and awake un-clown.

Well, I leave it to “you” to extend this spinning cycle story to the noosphere.

Suffice it to say that given the accumulated growth of fat clowns over the last many decades, it is quite easy to understand that there can be no quick fix. Indeed, the fat clowns may be on their way to winning, which means that one way or the other, a physical readjustment must happen.

Jawohl---the fat clown boom must burst!

posted by James at 8:05 AM
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