introductory remarks

Hello, dear reader.   I, the author, want to thank you for being interested in me and/or my writing, and invite you to participate in my mind further, if you wish.   My email is JesseGod@live.com, and my blog, the seed of this work, is at http://jesseteshara.blogspot.com.  

I like writing.  I won a Journalism award in high school, where I was in honors/AP English and was editor-in-chief of the Yearbook.  I enjoy reading well-written works, which makes all the difference, in my book.  Just as a bad teacher can ruin a fascinating subject, a bad writer can make something fun into drudgery.   Hopefully my love of writing will increase your love of reading  :-)

My topic is God, Religion, and Spirituality.   In other words, theology, philosophy, and psychology.  Not everything I write is original.  I stole some jokes off the internet:  I’m writing a book about reverse psychology.   Please don’t buy it.  HA!  Marxists only drink herbal tea.   Because proper tea is theft!  HA HA.   My aunt is a nun.   I called her Aunty-Christ, but that didn’t go over very well…   What do you call a sleep-walking nun?  A Roamin’ Catholic.  I wanted to become a Gregorian monk, but I never got the chants!  HAHAHA!

Anyway.  What God is and isn’t.  God is defined as the Creator.   The Source (of all things good).  So, like before the Big Bang.   Creator of the Universe, and you-niverse.  Your parents created you.  God is sex!  God is love.  What is love?  Lick my love pump, or something (thankyou, Spinal Tap).  Love is really, really liking someone.  Liking yourself around that person, too.  There are a million types of Love.  I’m not sure I’m kidding.  From parental to romantic to puppy to God’s love to self-love to Bhakti yoga to Queer platonic to infatuation to what-have-you.  God is good.  Pleasure is good.  Existence depends on God.  Reality is all the god there ever is.  Butt weight, God is a delusion. God isn’t anything.  Reality doesn’t exist.   I mean, once you die, there isn’t anything good happening to you.  Nihility, nullibiety, oblivion, nonexistence, decay, dust to dust.   You just turn to shit, and feed worms, like everything else.  That’s not an afterlife to get all crazy about.  Love never dies?  Everything dies.  God is dead.  The French call orgasm, “petit mort,” little death.   So God is a concept.  A role.  An identity.  Or even a status.  A higher power.   A yellow submarine.  CRISPY!   Chuy, too.

Kindness is my religion.   I don’t call lies kind.  The truth is kind.  Delusion leads to suffering.  Be happy you are alive.  Seize the day.  There are thousands of reasons to be unhappy.   But you can be happy, for no reason at all.  Be happy you exist.  I AM.

Spirituality is the same as a radio.   It’s all physics, physical.  Your body sends and receives vibes, is on wavelengths, and your mind is not private, despite what you may wish for, or defines sanity as.  STEM stands for space time energy matter, science technology engineering math.  Or femme stud.   Whatever.  Radio waves penetrate.  Spearing it, like a fork, or penis.   I don’t believe in ghosts, apparitions, spirits, phantoms, souls!  Morpheus sends dreams, though.  Don’t let the bed bugs bite!  

I’m into Native American spirituality, especially.   Mother Earth, Father Sky.   Loki, the trickster.   Iktomi, I mean.  I find God in Nature.  I’ve never done a sweat lodge, or anything.   But that’s how I identify.  Fun stories around a campfire, archery, horses, fishing, dancing, crafts.   I’m a Dem, but really I identify Green.   But I’m pro-life.   So it goes. 

God is a word.   A weird word for an odd god.   God is One.

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Thanks a bunch.   God is WE.    Plural.  Unity, commUNIcation....

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Jesse 

wordplay: salvage the savage;  din at dinner;  quiet choir, 

noise that annoys, sound mind, telepathy, hearing voices, spiritual openness, schizophrenia, radio, whatever.    what's the frequency, Kenneth?  entanglement and mind-linkage and shared mind and corporate "invoices"(?)

christ, what's the matter?   antichrist made of antimatter?   pope and antipope.  me and anti-me!  Does Matt matter as much as my aunty?

Me, Myself, I, and Nobody

Pride - self-respect, satisfaction, confidence, self-esteem (you should like who what where when why how you are, even if Catholics call it a sin, imo). what you've done and failed to do.  all you think, say, do, and are and have been and will be.  It's all good.   Including the avarice lust anger gluttony envy and sloth.

Vanity- inflated pride, conceit.   Bible says it's all vanity.   Reality is all the God there ever is.  All-ah.  I am.  (translated, in my bible, as synonymous with absurdity, frustration, futility, and nonsense).   Camus, the absurdist, said we live in the midst of the "benign indifference of the universe."

Solipsism- the philosophical theory that the self is the only existing thing, and that the self can know nothing but its own modifications.   

Selfishness-  (excessive?) interest in oneself.   concern for one's own welfare (in disregard of, or at the expense of, others).    Assigning primacy to self.

Alienation, Isolation, Loneliness. (AIL, a kind of soul-sickness, we need each other)

Narcissism- egocentrism, self-absorption, love of one's own body, the disorder of exaggerated self-importance, and need for admiration, a preoccupation with power and prestige, with snobbish, disdainful, or patronizing attitude towards others.  (NOT "the god in me bows to the god in you")

Conceit- feeling superior, of one's worth or virtue (can a "Lord" be egalitarian?)

Egotism- egoism, talking about yourself too much

Self-love-  being your own best friend, in addition to masturbation.   Being Super!  With or without, supremacy or superiority.

All the world's a stage, and we but players

No-self.    Part of Buddhist dharma.   You are not your name.   You are not your body - it changes.  You choose which roles to play.  Different circumstances evoke different identities.  Multiple personality disorder, vs. the appropriateness of appearing different at different times and places, contexts.   You are not your mind.  You are not in control.   There is no you.   Other than DNA, I guess.  But an identical twin is still not you.

I'm a million different people, from one day to the next.... (and all of them, without self, too!)

MY self, you choose the self you want to identify with?   Different roles for different plays.   Is my blog NUGATORY (of little or no consequence)?   We create our own meaning.

I believe there is usually an element of shared mind and corporate-ness, to "self", whether you're a part of some group, or are schizophrenic, or take orders, or not.   You know, dominance and submission, role models, parents and priests and bosses, bloggers like me, whatever.

Corpus Jess-T:   my body of writing;   my body of flesh

GOD:  Gathering of Data

dogs and cats, gods and tic-tacs, (TIC, tongue-in-cheek), 101 uses for a dead cat, all dogs go to heaven, Mouse (matrix character), cats toy with their prey, sometimes.  Go Panthers, Wildcats, Cougars!   (Burlingame, St. Ignatius, St. Stephen's).  Penthouse pets.  Cumfort animals.   Hepcats at the pet cemetery in Los Gatos.   Chai tea and tai chi and i.e. (id est).   IBYC?   The Pope, Popeye, and poppies (and puppies)!   Poopy peppy puppies!   Dogs, deputy attorney generals (dags), DOGE, and Doug.   Me llamo Yanomamo!  yo mama is SO fat...  Sonya from Sony.   Frank the freak.

Seers.  The Holy See.  of the Past.  of the Present.  Of the Future.   Pristine pure?   With ears to hear, and eyes to sigh?

Grumpy Cat died, in 2017, urinary tract infection.  Ned the snail (with a left-sided coil) died, just recently.  They have much to teach us.  Rest In Peace, beloved animals!

Bad Aachen means "bath" not the English 'bad'.   Westernmost city in Germany.   Alemán is German, in spanish.  30+ German kings crowned there.  Other fun encyclopedia factoids:  'A' comes from proto-sinaitic, the first alphabet.   Alpha started out as an ox head ('alp' meant ox head.   The alps (mountains), however, is from Albus, meaning white.   Different derivation, etymology.   'Trump', in cards, is from "triumph".  Unrelated to 'trumpet', believed to be from the sound a trumpet makes.

witchy, itchy, and bitchy!   Richie Rich :-)

the most nerdy come-on line

Wanna put your one in my zero?, she asked

holy holes, Batman!   Was she bi-nary?

what did you do when it was OVA?  (or/vagin/an- al)

God is One.  How phallic.  

Penetrating insights with my pen.   Make something out of nothing.

2 can become 1, and make 3+ .   You do the math.   Math is sexy.   

Conception, what a concept.

io, io, it's off to work I go

the ups and downs of elevator repair, and ins and outs of movers

My Life, of late

 getting an Economist subscription, reading A volume (#1) of World Book (from library), walking dogs, blogging, oversleeping, taking my meds, trying to fix my tv, Hearts of Space, being a listener.   Today I bought a chile relleno burrito, with a can of cherry Coke.  I think I'm going to see Hoppers, this Thursday.  I'm hoping and praying my roommate doesn't get evicted.   A local store (Popeye's market) took my phone number; he said he would call me when the cheap cigarettes ($7.50/pack) are in, for her.  

carrots and sticks, or carats and Styx?

window pane, cruller, jalapeño, propane, herz, couch, (words will never hurt me)

Rocky, can you do me a solid?  Why should boulders be bolder?  are Oliver Stone and The Rock petrified (scared) of getting stoned? a blockhead with a heart of stone.  Is it hard to get hard?  The trouble with roubles is the rubble.   Mm, rocky road ice cream at the Pebble Beach Hard Rock Cafe.  Rock on!

I looked for a YouTube video of the Japanese prime minister playing drums in her old college metal group, :-)

the Philly minion eats filet mignon

the mime puts on a bib;  mm, prime rib

Mecca, Mexico, mechanization, and formica;  Mike and Mack, in the muck, making a mockery of the meek.   Drink a Mickey's and eat a beet, swallow tallow and digest a bird's nest.

pause the grind, grin, and drink a "grenade" in Granada with grenadine

there is a God named Hapy.   Be happy, Hapy!   Just say No to being negative :-)

President Jesse:  no borders, free healthcare, clean water for everyone, libraries with everything, UBI, no nukes, no militaries, guns everywhere, and legal drugs, under supervision.  Delicious food availability, of course.  Tool libraries, too.  Hot weather cooling centers.  Access to omniscience, meeting the vast need of endless curiosity.  Universal enlightenment.

fun day

Just the right amount of rest;  awakened to music or a touch;  brush teeth and ingest your vitamins; make the bed;  breakfast (say, bacon and eggs with oj, for 2);  read e-m and wb and a ss (email, worldbook, short story);  walk dogs; p-u and jr (pushups and jumprope);  nap, meditate, write; book/ day.  See a movie, surf the internet, talk on the phone.  Sushi or thai.  Happy Halloween, Heloise.   sex, heroin, a horseback ride, a movie, a nap, a good read, a massage , delicious food, swim - you know, fun.  then again, maybe not the H.  Like win the lottery or something.  

The point of everything.   Does it have to make sense? Or make scents?  Or make cents?  You can do whatever you want with the one life you’ve got.   Have fun.   Don’t needlessly suffer.  Don’t worry, be happy.  No regrets.  Be who you want to be.  Play.  Imagine and read and live in many different worlds.  Eat well.  Seize the day.  Be an example of the world you want.   Be healthy, wealthy, wise, and alive!  Be good?   Be great, be perfect!  Just be.   Be strong, fit, well, sane.  Get a little crazy.  Or be insanely sane.  Right?

that's where my philosophy intersects with everyone else's.    Madness reveals truth, in the filter of scientific daily life.   Fiction and fantasy and lies make life interesting, and when the fake seems really real, interesting things happen.

Bixby (Joncarlo Ruggieri and Caleb Ward and Mark Thiess), and Andy Mak (of Mike, Andy, and Doug), and Erik Beever and Bill, Adam, Rez, and Stu were my college roommates.  College was fun.

puns:  Lavese los monos (wash your monkeys);   Shale university (Yale rocks!)...Sheol rock.

reverent is relevant,  but elephant ears are ear-elephant!

stoop to the stupid, you intelligent intelligentsia

rise to the skies, sink into drink, do whatever floats your boat

Merle drinks merlot with merlin

Marlboros with Marlen

making millions with minions

onions, Funyuns, Paul Bunyan, and Steve Bannon 

glued to the gloom

happiness is a warm gun, blast bliss

god bless this blunderbuss

the best or bust

gay Sergei (Rachmaninoff), 

hetero (James) Hetfield & George Strait

putting the ass in classical

erotic hetero, bi Billy eyelash, queer Weird Al and Billy Strange

it's a miracle you're here at all!

Tuvan throat singers in Teva's, on tv

gb/wh/bt/ch/wf!  go to the bathroom, wash hands, brush teeth, comb hair, wash face!

   (not Great Britain, White House, bind torture, Capitol Hill, Wells Fargo)

car shows:  miami vice, magnum p.i., hardcastle and mccormick, knight rider, dukes of hazard, and CHIPS of course (for crash and pileup madness).

remember, Harrah's car collection? Concours d'elegance? Sacramento train museum?

Ares, Aries, January, military, library...

Lava

 Hell

Perdition

Eternal torment

Unending horror

For all eternity, without end, forever and ever

An infinity of burning in Lake of Fire

Pain, Agony, Suffering, Torture

Misery, Anguish, Despair

God’s punishment for sin, wickedness, evil, depravity 

In my book, Hell IS the biggest sin

A good God would never create such a thing

But if anyone does, they deserve it, themselves, you ask me

cruelty, brutality, savagery, ruthlessness

rape, murder, slavery

Karma: mean to the mean, get what you give

Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth

anger, hatred, rage, wrath, fury, ire, spite, madness

Ranging from dissatisfaction to pure evil

Rage against the machine

Goddamned piece of shit

A place removed from God, full of demons

Satan, Mephistopheles, Antichrist, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Devil, etc.

war is hell;  hellions are in a bad place

No good luck

No fun

A fancy scare

No one survives death

Everyone gets Oblivion

Sinners, saints, amoebas, elephants, everyone

But the concept of hell serves a purpose

Scared straight, fear of God

God uses both the carrot and the stick

Mind control

Be good, or else

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

A lot of noise, words, intimidation, fear

Hell is dukkha

Pleasure is the absence of dukkha

Neutral is positive (relative to the insanely negative)

Be grateful, satisfied, happy, well with your life, no matter what

No regrets, no hate, accepance, equanimity, curiosity, engagement. 

Laugh, meditate, play, refrain from wrongness, error, spite, malice, revenge

Turn the other cheek

Forgive and forget, let it be

Kindness is my religion

It’s a long hard road out of hell

Conceptual relief, with realization of truth (nothingness, oblivion, nullibiety)

Reading queue

Wikipedia (wanderings), and WorldBook (21 volumes)

Economist (magazine, weekly), thanks mom

Short Stories (Best American series, library shelf)

Trivia (J! archive, and TP (trivial pursuit cards, etc.) (thousands of cards)

Philosophy (1. Sophie's World -Jostein Gaarder,  2. A History of Western Philosophy- Bertrand Russell, 3. The History of Philosophy -AC Grayling, 4. Western Philosophy (an anthology) -John Cottingham, 5. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy, by Fung Yu-Lan

plus: Pratchett, Pynchon, DFW, masd (martial arts/self-defense), jokes

reference: Chambers Dictionary, and my Atlas can be fun sometimes

Big Book of-  series (Unexplained, Bad, The 70's, Grimm, Freaks, Thugs, Little Criminals, Losers, Conspiracies, Urban Legends, Weirdos, Death)

some things and authors, I'm a "completist"

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Easter, weirdly, has nothing to do with East.    But a fun thought for Easter is that the Earth rotates east.   Jewelery has nothing to do with Jewry.   Is Allah all law?  Hindus and. honeydew melons.  Sangha is the group of Buddhist buddies.   Messy Jesse and his immaculate ejaculate (sorry, lol).   Chris' chin.  Cat mew-sick.  Religion about pigeons (rock doves).   A prayer for the bears, hares, mares, pairs,  and the rare.  The dragon ate knights for 8 nights.    The ninth knight only won daze.   dazed and confused, in DC.

a fractal, byzantine blog of religious and philosophical engagement, with a healthy dose of wordplay.  In my personal context, about me.

BOB, bunch o' bs.    Bible Study, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Billy Squier, bridal shower, Big Sur, back scratch... taurus poop

a damp, dark, dreary, dismal, dour, depressing day

To Do, Tada!

From To Do to Done Did:

 Hygiene (piss, shit, shower, shave, brush (teeth, hair), floss; wash hands, face;  multivitamins, astragalus, fish oil, B12;  Meds,  Food, Drink, Budget, Laundry,  Clean/ Straighten/ Organize, Exercise, stretch, Nap, Meditate, Sleep (not too much or too little), make bed, plan day, review day, Read, Write, Publish, Watch, Listen, Talk, Origami, Relax, Sit, Candle, Incense, Sound Machine, Artcast, Miracles of Nature, Poem of day, short stories, Trivia, Philosophy, Pratchett, Pynchon, DFW (David Foster Wallace),  masd (martial arts self-defense), World Book, Wikipedia, Blog, Onion, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Joe Frank, online classes, Economist, library movies, Read aloud, thumper, water the plant, massage, Walk dogs, side-hustles, meetup, take pictures, page-a-day, coffee/tea, the Berkeley scanner, accordion file, air purifier, yoga, flowers, jelly bellies, carton cigs, Allende, Wuthering Heights, Calfresh/EBT,  daily olive oil, computer maintenance, bike maintenance, vision pro goggle demo, tennis, campanile, Rialto cinema, Italian restaurant, indian rock, go swimming, pier, bodyrok, hiking/ camping, ebike, vacay.  Job, side-hustles, free parking, DL, AAA, Ins, tire, car maintenance, BFP (Berkeley food pantry), Adidam, Buddhism, N hike leader, credit, spanish, Vuarnets, headphones, klove, mochi, bacon, Turkish delights, GNC, Portland, jumprope, pushups, bird feeder, Greg coffee, pad-chair/bed, haircut, beard trim, smell nice.

READ:  World Book, Short Stories, MASD, Philosophy, Pratchett, Pynchon, DFW, J!, trivia cards, big book(s) of, kp health wise handbook, dictionary, jokes, literature lists, spanish, book/day.

LISTEN: 10,001 list,  music alarm, college radio

PIA (Peripheral Intelligence Agency), lol

Purell (antibacterial) is not Prell (shampoo)

bigots, bigotes (mustaches), and Big O tires

L Ron and Enron and Iran (pronounced e-ron)

Huron neurons 

erin, karen and darren;   harrold, cheryl, and errol

erring on the side of caution is still error...

grant deed, gravely disabled, goddamn

assiduously assessing assassins

a stack of steaks, I'm stoked!

protein and Pantene and poutine, tunes for teens

pump rumps and dump Trump?  ew

Trump's got mumps

no kings and no smoking and I'm only Joe King

I'm kooka-loca about Coca-Cola!

the rabbi with rabies speaks arabic

what's the beef between Kabul and Macao?

   Camus would like to know

vampire cow?  in the moo-v's

murderous marauders from Mordor

Hungry in Hungary

Bolsheviks, Turkey, Chile and a bowl of turkey chili

GOD, Great Offensive Destruction

   German opera director

   Gandalf or Dumbledore

   gluttonous overeating disorder

   gaylord, overlord, dragon lord

   German Oktoberfest Deutschland

   governs our destiny

mosquitos in mosques, lice in Laos

insects in sects