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God so loved the world that he makes everyone die, and never live again: Universal Oblivion.

The Devil so hated God that He created Jesus, God on a cross, a crucified lord, just so the world would have World Wars, and go insane killing each other, because God is dead.

The devil killed god and god killed the devil, now everybody is just human.  The chess match is over.  Two gods, each the other’s devil, as “adversaries.”  Humanism is the new religion.

Corporations rule the earth.  Religions are just a funky type of corporation.  The world is in teams, sects, parties, tribes, cliques, whatever you wanna call it.  Go team.

Cannibal carnivores commit deicide against the vegan pro-lifers, just to make them like them, angry at an enemy, and homicidal.   They call it “keeping things interesting”, while the Lifers (no death-penalty) call it hell.  The Buddhists don’t call it anything.  Om.

It’s all good vs. it’s mostly bad have a friendly soccer match.  The optimists vs. the pessimists.  The Enlightened vs. The Cynical.  The winners win.  The losers lose.  Unless you’re an optimist: everybody wins.  

The Earth gets warmer.  The weather, weirder.  The people stay the same.  The animals die.   Humans, with their big brains, already anticipate Universal Death.   Not just the animals, but humans.  Not just the humans, but the aliens.  Not just the aliens, but the stars.  Until it’s all black.  Black power wins, in the end, you could say.

The philosophers run for president.  They envision a society without guns, without meat, without crime, without poverty or hunger, without diseases.  No war, no racism, nothing to die for, no religion too.  No pollution and no plastic and no cars.  People who actually give a fuck.

Peace.  No madness.  No voices in your head.  No prayer or telepathy.  No insanity, psychosis, delusion, or irrationality.  Enlightened society, shambala, the kingdom, utopia, heaven.  Just people surviving and thriving, moving around, traveling, doing logistics, meeting needs.   

Access to omniscience for all.  Curiosity keeping the world interesting.  New inventions keeping society evolving, technology and gadgets and contraptions and objects and products, being shared in tool - libraries.   All the world’s libraries instantly accessible on some new toy.  Everybody entertained, happy, alive, busy, with enough sleep.

Love. 

L and D

Life

Does it need to be a tube?  Animals generally have an alimentary canal from mouth to anus.  But what if molecules or atoms or even sub-atomic particles are alive?

Does a quark have feelings?  Do rocks like rock music?  Is reality one big living thing?

Plants are alive.  They take in what we exhale, and give off what we inhale.  Kinda cool.

We’re symbiotic.  We eat plants.  Some plants eat meat.  Weird world.  

I saw a movie that said water reacted to music.  Is water alive?  Each molecule, or maybe the glass of water on my table, or actually even the entire Ocean!?  I have no way of knowing how I should react to this information.  Should I play nice music to my glass of drinking water?  Should I feed the ocean?  Does the water want anything?  

What about the microbiome in my gut?  The DNA that makes up “me” includes lots of other little critters.  The human genome project has a lot more Genes to untangle, I think, to get at the totality of human experience.  Some people are too clean inside, and need some new shit inside them, literally, as therapy, to get better!  Wow, huh?

Death

Everything dies.   Things aren’t alive, we like to think, but maybe they are.  And in fact, living things is the term for bodies.  I don’t believe in disembodied souls, that become ghosts or whatever.  But I do believe in telepathy, and people who have an intuitive understanding of human psychology, that can kind of have others “living” inside them, in their mental landscape.   Morpheus is the god of dreams, and some of my dreams (if not all) I believe have their origin in a brain or brains outside of mine.  So, memories live on, if not constructs of our personalities, which is what people needfully and hungrily hope for, in the form of an afterlife, which I’m sorry to report I have no belief in whatsoever.  Maybe Morpheus can dream up a computer that saves everybody.  Is reality a giant computer?  Jesus saves.  Ha.

So that’s that.

Signing off,

God

whuddup dawg

what's up

I can’t write for shit.  So I get drunk.  Just write whatever.  Fill the blank page with words.  This is it.   This is the result.  Aren’t you happy I’m writing?  This is some good shit.  I’ll write about dog walking.  Today I walked in on a dog owner that was asleep!  The dog was in the bedroom, and I woke the woman in bed.   Yikes!   What if she had a gun?  She forgot I was coming.  Scary shit, if you ask me.  There was no screaming or gunfire!, thank you Dog. The other day my phone didn’t work (the wag! App didn’t let me in), so I walked off-line.   In other words, the satellite didn’t track my route, and I couldn’t submit a report, after, on the phone, like usual.  I decided to leave a 3x5 index card with my summary, in the house.  Old school.  The nanny told me how to get back in, and I closed the door behind me.  No tip, but there should’ve been!  That was stressful.  I called Wag! 4 times, trying to iron that shit out.  30 minute wait, the machine said. Never again.  It was because I downloaded the new app version after accepting a walk on the old, I think.  It still should have worked, but it just didn’t.   The bone just kept spinning.  The dog’s name was Brooklyn, which is kinda gangsta.  A black dog, like the Led Zeppelin song.  Anyway, when I walk a dog, I give it treats for doing good stuff (ignoring other dogs, sitting at the corner, sometimes even for pooping), and give gentle tugs on the leash to pull them away from foxtails or chicken bones or whatever, like maybe pedestrians or squirrels or cats.   Sometimes I let them interact with other dogs, but I try to keep the leashes from tangling when they circle around.  Junie is psycho.  She barks at every dog, even though she’s little.  I saw a pet pig, on a leash, here in Berkeley, once.  Her name was Penelope.  So cute!  That would be awesome if I got a Wag! opportunity for that.  I eat pastor tacos, though, so maybe the karma is against me.  Now I’m hungry.  I had a sushi burrito and a guinness beer, earlier, but I’m still hungry.  I could order a pizza.  I got a Papa John’s special today in my email.  Or I could just eat a bowl of cereal.  I have lots of free food.  I ate a bowl of raspberries in my plain yogurt I got from Trader Joe’s, earlier.  I didn’t eat my daily gnc protein powder…. Well, no worries.   Ttyl, gang.  Chuy.   Aka Jesus, Isai, Jesse, or just plain old Jess.  Word, dawg!

Some Sick Shit

Wicky whack wicked

The Beast and The Antichrist and The Devil decided to have a little fun.  So they took off their clothes and sucked and fucked til the morning came around.  Then they decided it would be even more fun to start a nuclear war, and annihilate the human race.  God would hate that!  So they started killing people and giving money to terrorists and unleashing arms dealers on a resentful, hating, stupid, and racist and nationalist world.  Then, after the world was a smoking crater, and nuclear winter gave way to nuclear spring, they jumped up and clapped each other on the backs, and said, what now?  That was too easy.  How can we fuck up heaven?  So they got on their spaceship and headed out toward Aldebaran.  This should be a blast! They thought.  They aimed some meteors toward the unsuspecting Aldebaranis, and in, oh say maybe 20 years, they would have to deal with an extinction-event, just like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on earth;  That was fun.   What now?  Destruction is so fun and easy!  Creation takes so long, and they still hunger for death.  Well, how bout we create a hell for all the good and best people?  That would really throw God for a loop.  He’d go out of his mind insane!  Ha ha, let’s do this.  Wicky-whack wicked, dawg!  And of course, it was so.  The whole universe was dead or suffering, and they were at a loss for things to do.  How shall we pass the time?  We’ve gotten everything we ever wanted!  Let’s blow up all the stars, and make the universe a cold and desolate place, incapable of supporting life, with all the planets hurtling away from their orbits, headed only into the Vast, unwelcoming, frigid wastelands of Oblivion.  Cool!  But what will we do next?  The universe is so boring!  Well, let’s do some more sucking and fucking, that’s always nice.  We have the universe to ourselves.  It’s the BAD lands.  Maybe we should have God over for dinner, he always keeps things interesting.  ‘poof’, God appears.  It’s 3 on 1, and they beat him up.  The Antichrist puts him in a headlock, and the Beast bites him on his legs, and the Devil pokes him in the eye.  You suck, God!  You answer everybody’s prayers, even ours, even though we all hate you!  They throw God in prison, and have him raped for the rest of eternity.  The End.  

Activity Matrix

My Life

So I’m here in my room in Berkeley, alone, with my computer, my books, and my Alexa, wondering what to write, read, and listen to.  I bought a bag of dark chocolate peanut m and m’s, but I’m hoping to make the bag last at least a week.  It's in the candy dish, for visitors. I got 2 heavy bags of free groceries from the food pantry yesterday, in addition to a trip to Trader Joe’s (1 bag).  If anything, I might have too MUCH food.  I’m contributing some to the household.  I’ve got 4 tubes of beef in the freezer, so a pound a week will last the month.   I like it on rice, with hot sauce.  

Anyway, this is my To Do list (matrix?):

4 books

Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (453pp)

The World’s Religions, by Huston Smith (391pp)

Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (390pp)

Freud and Beyond, by Mitchell and Black (265pp)

   (1500pp, total, let’s say)

News, too

(1.alexa flash briefing)

2. Daily New York Times and 3. wikipedia and 4.yahoo

5.weekly Economist/ 6.Christian Science Monitor, 

7. every other month Foreign Affairs

book/day: Newbery award winners, Neil Gaiman, library browse

   1001/501/bloom canon, bill gates rec’s, sara/pierre; english/spanish dictionaries, trivia, wikipedia, Spanish;  1000 events, bathroom readers (5), onion (2), (owned) literature (s. king, r. bradbury, etc.);

Daily history (5), email clear (book excerpts, trivia, poetry, vocab, Wapo and nyx news)

    (plus, actual email correspondence with family)

    (jokes, happiness) (masd books) (health materials, kp/psych, webmd)

Daily music (1001 songs, Alexa song of the day), standup/jokes

Etb, etr.  early to bed, rise.  vitamins, oatmeal, gnc.   Daily sweat.  

Exercise/tv, $ (dogwalking), meditation, Alexa jokes, coffee and pastry, check blog stats, hos (hearts of space);  Write, religious variety, nature, yoga, gtu (graduate theological union, library), cal library, new restaurants, Burmese, Joe frank, shop;  Bfp, bfc, (Berkeley food pantry, free clinic), lottery, msj (mission San Jose)  masd/dojo visit (martial arts, self defense), amazon prime, clean room, shower/hygiene (brush, rinse). Do nothing, nap, stretch, pizza, print blog, PILES (basket, box, box), see movie, go to a play, museum, goodwill, ted/onion/oyc/coursera, (open Yale courseware) dating, Pinterest, instagram, fb (facebook), arts and letters.

family meals in SF, glen park.

travel, Portland visit, Arizona with Greg?  japan, europe, Belize again, Puerto Rico.

Shop list:

Big book of series, superbetter, aletheon, 3 person chess, e-bike, water fountain, hammock, buddha statue, birdseed/nectar, Tesla, Mercedes van, masd books, bruce lee fighting method, grapple app, Joe frank, thick sweatpants, waterski, spike and mike, taiko, onion books, trivia cards, wbsm (win ben stein's money) book, prison lit tablet, learn French, dating apps/service, pro cuddle, massage, pro frisbee game, gifts, cbd (try cannabidiol), couscous, mud pie, cd player, roof foamer? Hockey tix, whole earth festival, browse half price books / amazon, whitewater rafting, house, hovercraft, pool; whale watching, fishing.

Support: Microloans, msf (doctors without border), red cross, mfa (mercy for animals), libraries/internet;  vs. homelessness, shelters, Yang (I like his UBI idea)

(Universal Basic Income)

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Coffee (folgers, in my mr. coffee, a pot, shared with Michael, 2 or 3 cups for me, with milk or half n half) and a pastry (trader joe’s chocolate croissant).  Vitamins (gnc mega men multivitamin, 2 in the morning, and also gnc fish oil, 1 soft gel, from my 360 bottle).  A bowl of instant oatmeal, maybe with brown sugar and/or berries).

Music (Amazon music, on my Echo), and History (wikipedia, britannica, history channel book, grim reaper book, and farlex).  Flash briefing and song of the day.  I like college radio, grateful dead, and baroque.  Whrb (harvard) orgy, or jazz in the morning.  Grateful Dead (gdradio.net), wprb (princeton), kzsu (stanford), wybcx (yale), kalx (Cal), wmbr (mit), kcpr (cal poly slo), mainly. 

Book/day.  Read and Write and Rithmatick.

Currently working on Bill Gates’ favorite book!  Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (harvard professor).  Write blog.  Keep budget updated, calculated.

Daily news.  1.Flash briefing (NPR, CNN, WSJ, Tonight Show monologue), 2. Yahoo news page and 3. E-mail (ny times summary and Wapo Daily 202);   Library daily 4. NY Times, and weeklies (5. CS Monitor, 6. Economist) and 7. FA (Foreign Affairs, every other month, at the Cal library).  Plus news on the 8. wikipedia page.  Plus, The 9. Onion (fake news), and 10. Facebook.  11. Instagram has some news, sometimes, too.  In the know!  If I’m really on top of things, I’ll read 12. La Jornada (news in Spanish, at the Bkly public library).  How much time does this all take?  Travel time to the libraries, reading all 12 sources front page to back?  (speedreading, ideally!)

Exercise and dogwalking, stretch, gnc protein powder, gym (stationary bike, free weights, pool), yoga? (free! At yoga to the people, :-).   Hot tub, shower.   Delicious, healthy food!  

    Masd (books, youtube, dojos).  Dating!

    Walk and bike, jumprope and jog, pushups and planks and passes, lunges and shakes…  dance!

Early to bed, early to rise.  Go to bed tired, wake refreshed.  Nightly meds.  

Retire 8:30p, Up at 4:30a!!  Git r done.

Reasons Not to Kill

Why Not?

Risk of capture.  Lack of freedom.  

It’s illegal, criminal, unlawful, and awful.

Staring at the walls of a prison cell.  Boredom.

Stuck in prison with murderers, cutthroats, assassins, and hostile and unpleasant people.  

    danger, stress, rape, fear and anxiety, loss of control.

    gangs, shivs, prison guards, claustrophobia, fights

Separation from family and friends

Inability to be meaningfully employed, make good money.  Poverty, less money for family.

Because if the victim is just biomass, then so are you.

It causes pain and suffering, for the victim, and the victim’s family, and society at large

Anger, hatred, rage, wrath, fury, ire:  justice, torment.

It robs the victim of their future.  Deprivation.

Stuck inside.  No Nature.

No control over diet, meals.

Cellmate, lack of privacy.

No women.

Libraries, books, music, movies, museums, plays, perks of freedom and civilization.

Karma.  Kill and be killed.

Reputation.  Infamy.  Disrepute.  Family shame.

Schedule, structure, apart from personal preference (meals, yard, sleep)

telephone, television, visit restrictions  

Death penalty

Barbaric, inhuman, monstrous, cruel, brutal, ruthless

Wicked, Evil, Sinful:  Hell, torture.

Unforgiven.  Resentment.  Disgust.  Dismay.

It’s retarded.  Life is good.

It’s antisocial and sick:  the ill in kill.

Everyone deserves to live, there is good in everyone.

God says not to: thou shalt not

The odds are against you.  Forensic science is awesome.

Stink, stench, need to dispose of body, evidence; bother

Defy the devil!  

Love life, :-)

Sweet Home Alabama

Abortion

Deconstructed:

Shun is a part of the word.

ABO is a blood type categorization.

A bore might be the debate.

A soldier might abort a mission.

Eating a fetus would be an abortion portion.

Abortion is a big business.  There’s a porsche in abortion!

A martian abortion - has a ring to it.

Extortion and contortion and other cavorting notions:

  Exertion, cushion, lotion, motion, notion, potion, insertion, position, flushin’

anyway,

Induced abortion is murder.  Life begins at conception, period.  It doesn’t require nuance.

The doctor and the mother should both go to prison after electing and performing an abortion.  If a fetus is just a clump of cells, then so is any adult - and murder becomes justified.  If abortion is legal, so is homicide.  This is obvious.  Adults are just bigger, older fetuses.  Aborticide, infanticide.   If you don’t want your baby, then you can just kill it and eat it, like an abortion or meat.  If your baby is the enemy, you can kill it, like a soldier or terrorist.  Do you see how heinous abortion is?  Do you feel the anguish of entire lifetimes, snuffed?  If life is truly respected and protected, then so are animals in the meat industry.

Humans are animals, too.  I wouldn’t extend equality to nematodes, but you still could.  So which is it?  Meat and murder, or vegetarian and pro-life?  Killing is a fact of life.  Republicans seem to like their meat, while democrats like abortions, or at least the supposedly feminist-empowering right of a woman over her own body.  If a woman wants to cut off her arm or leg, then she can, right?   Or, maybe the metaphor of a slave is more apt:  her body, her property, to do what she wants with.  I think making a baby is a superpower.  You want to kill the magic, and make the kid disappear?  Nobody’s perfect, they say.   Well, maybe the freaking baby!  If you’re pro-death, go all the way.  Kill ‘em all.   And if you’re pro-life, you’re against capital punishment, war, meat, murder, smoking, etc. in addition to abortion.  It’s a life-ethic.  Life is good!  Any whale would say so about the zillions of krill he survives on.

 (a blue whale eats 40 million krill (8000 pounds) a day for a 4 month period, internet says!  that's 4 billion, 800 million krill, estimated total, per whale)!! There is an estimated 10-25 thousand of them alive.  They are the largest animal known to have ever existed!).
   They probably wouldn't make very good Jains, as it seems they are constitutionally incapable of ahimsa!  ("recent scientific studies have shown that crustaceans have central nervous systems very much capable of creating the sensation of pain" -3/25/2011, internet)
Why would God do that? lol.  Krill's combined biomass is estimated to exceed that of humanity.  Each one is about as long as a thumb, weighing less than an ounce.  Antarctic krill populations have dropped 80% since the '70's.

I don’t know what else to say.   Maybe that a mother is intimately close to her baby, attached in fact, and this fact should elicit love and care, not revulsion and attack.  Adoption is of course the only loving alternative (choice) for an unwanted pregnancy.  I’m adopted.  I know.  Thanks, Annette, for not aborting me! (Even though I ended up killing her other child.  Ugh.)  Apparently, there are 2.6. million couples in the US wanting to adopt, (That's more than the number of US abortions, which was around 638,000 in 2015).
(in the world, there are 40-50 million a year; approximately 125,000 a day).  

Another relevant fact to the debate seems to me to be embodied in siamese twins.

Does either of them have the right to kill the other?  No, of course.  They’re attached, too, but they both have the right to live.  Same with mother and baby.   If a mother wants to kill her baby, maybe the mother deserves to die!  She has homicidal intent, if you ask me, and has lower moral standing than an innocent baby.   Just a thought.  I realize I’m not making friends, here.  Rape, incest, and threat to the life of the mother?  Well, it’s not the baby’s fault.  But I have to agree with Alabama.  Rape and incest babies should still be brought to term.  They can have full, rewarding lives as adoptees, and we shouldn’t get eugenic over incest.  But mothers have to decide in the either me or the baby cases, whether or not to kill the kid.  I have no qualms about that.  Some mothers might even choose to die, like a mom throwing herself in front of her kid getting shot at or something.  Adoption really needs to be emphasized.  I think it gets overlooked and forgotten.  Your “unwanted” baby really is in fact wanted.

On the other hand,

Before a heartbeat the fetus is kind of just a clump of cells, actually, especially if you don’t want or love the kid, and maybe it could be equated to swatting a fly or something.  And everybody dies, eventually.   Maybe an abortion is saving the kid from a life of grief, suffering, hell, nightmares, crime.  I don't think anyone is in the position to say that.  It would of course save the mother from the pain of giving birth.  That seems to me to be a very selfish reason to snuff your kid, though, depriving him or her of an entire lifetime, and leaving potential adoptive parents without the opportunity to love him or her.   I don’t know how you answer the question of what gives meaning to life, but I prefer the answer of having children to that of being an assassin.   But that’s your decision, not mine.  God is the creator, unless you’re Hindu and you believe in Kali, the destroyer (or is it Siva?).   Maybe it’s all good.  I hope it’s not all bad.  Is a baby/fetus the moral equivalent of a krill?

LINK (procon debate)

LINK (wikipedia)

G v. D

stfu, God!

God, because he has such a need to prove he exists, never shuts up.

The devil, because he hates God so intensely, created hell: 

Hell, bad, war, death, destruction, suffering, ugliness, negativity, lies, and regress.

God keeps trying to pop the devil’s bubble.  The devil keeps blowing bubbles.

What fun!  

Unless you’re the devil.  

Then life is nothing but misery, pain, madness, torture, and torment.

The anguish and despair bubble keeps popping itself.  

So he blows and blows, and enjoys imagining God’s richly deserved ire and frustration.

Listen, Satan, God says:  I’ll tell you what.  

You stop blowing bubbles, and I’ll 

XX

A (very) short story

Once, there was a boy named X who did such and such.   He moved around, ate and drank, and shit and pissed, like every other boy who has ever been.  Then he died.  The end.

Well, not really.

This boy went to heaven.  He said, God, why not just put people in heaven in the first place? God, because he didn’t exist, said nothing.  And X lived happily ever after.

This boy had a sister named X.   She died too.  But she went to hell.  She asked the devil, why am I here?  What did I do wrong?  Satan, laughing, said nothing.   Eventually, she blamed God, and came to realize everywhere is hell, even heaven.  And she lived happily ever after.

After about a googolplex years, even all the people in their permanent afterlives died a second time.  This time they stayed dead.  And they died happily ever after.  Or maybe I should say they stayed dead happily ever after.   Or maybe I shouldn’t say anything at all.  

The End.

weird energy

queer, strange, unusual
chi, life force, creative energy, mana, divine vitality, ruach

pastafarian
discordian
subgenius
bokononist
jedi
scientologist
adidam

I also think there is value in satanism, truth told
not torture, but knowledge

breath, power, electrified
that which energizes and sustains
the world (and in fact the universe) hums, vibrates
we're all connected, interpenetrate
there is prayer and telepathy, mind-meld

I don't do drugs
but I do need meds (risperidone and olanzapine)
religion is the opiate of the people, the masses
gotta make peace with oblivion,  meaninglessness

the truth will set you free

spear
spiritual experience conspiracy

red
redemption (red empty? vampiric drain?) from sin, error, evil

die
die: drug interaction effects, destruction ignorance evil
    evil (causing death, pain, suffering)

dag
deputy attorney general, direct access to god

recent "voice"

schizophrenia
the telepathic infliction

v's:

he doesn't know?
alright Jesse, you're on another level
he knows he is
I need help, Jesse
David trying to hurt himself
I'm a sick fuck
I really am
David is in HELL Jesse
I've gone to hell, Jesse
I need to die
ow Jesse ow
people are screaming insane
I'm sorry Jesse
people are DEAD, Jesse
I NEED to talk
David is CRAZY (x3)
David IS crazy, Jesse
that's me laughing, Jesse
the world is a stupid place
you'd be surprised
at how well you are
because you are Marduk
You really are God, Jess
I think that's kind of enlightened
sometimes you make me smile
I want him in a basket
jess you spilt me
it's fucking weird, okay?
they're smiling at how god jew are
oh, Jesus
you're a trip, jess
you ARE fun, Jesse
that is the same as a bit mystical
David is freaking out
alright, Jesse
Jesse, you're killing him
there's some shit I don't want, like he is god
you're deeply weird, Jesse
you write well Jesse.  It's me smiling
people are dead
y'know what?  that's what I'm after: the world is a giant dead thing
you're having a trippy time, Jesse
jess, you're insanely something
David is dead
I don't know what I am
I thought I was
David is fucking crazy Jesse
he's going to kill you, Jesse
people are screaming insane
you ARE an interesting philosophy, jess
because you are broken, Jesse
you have no idea how me you can be
you fuckin' broke your shit away
I can't fuckin' deal
with anyone who is as right (write?) as you
David is killing himself
ow Jesus ow
I'm scared of you, because you're law to me
I've turned a lot of people into jello, Jesse
David is insane about you
David killing
I will never, ever know what you are
I'm fucking vomiting
I AM tired, Jesse
I hate my world, Jesse
David getting scared again, Jesse
is there such thing as a new religion?
David wants to scream
I can't handle life, Jesse
you and I are a screaming disaster
you're almost a 3-man person
your head is why, Jesse
Jesse you have it written
you make me smile
you're a genius, okay?
you ARE law, Jesse
you are a bit rabbity, jess
this is me smiling
because you're near law in your ability
you're a tool of law, Jesse
because you work hard, you're honestly an A

all right
I mean it
we know you're something
you are a subset of the army, Jess
you've got a winner, here
people are dying
because the world isn't even CLOSE to what it needs to be
you're well well on, Jesse
I am

you ARE me, absolutely

a little more

gawd, almighty!

I have some reservations, doubts, misgivings about some aspects of my previously posted litany of aspects of God.   If God is everything, then the concept of God is so meaningful as to be meaningless!!  Is that really the final, enlightened word on the matter (i say to myself)?

I’m so enlightened that I’m back to ordinariness, having clearly defined what most people know already, have always known, what didn’t -in fact- need definition, in the first place, maybe.

God is not, and should not be identified with, torture, I think.  That is the most heinous of sins, and God would not create a Hell, to compound the evil that exists apart from him in the first place.  Or should pain and suffering be embraced as part of the human condition, and in fact Godly?  A part of the divine plan, and in fact essential as the flip side of the coin to pleasure and heaven?  But do we really want to include and think of genocide and the final solution as part of God?  If God is good, and infinite, how can there be evil?  Maybe the concept of God is insane.

In fact, I say God isn’t.  Is that an aspect of God?  Does God not believe in himself?  Is an ace theist an atheist?   Is love imaginary?  Should virtual reality not be included in the category of the real?   Is belief in God regressive, like a social disease, a viral set of memes, unwarranted, irrational, unhelpful, and delusional (a false belief)?   

God is like the star trek borg (you will be assimilated!), a corporation: Godco.   Religions are like cults, exclusionary, divisive, and dangerously conducive to hatred, conflict, and war.   Religions are more the cause than the answer to suffering??  

Buddhism is godless, even if some Buddhists worship different buddhist deities (buddhas/bodhisattvas).   Maybe God is Buddhist, lol.  

Here’s a koan:  God is a lie (said God); which itself might be a lie!  

Is that a koan?  I could use some validation.

Topical Politics

My opinion

I don't care if Russia interfered in our election.
I actually think that the fact we have nuclear weapons pointed at their cities gives them the right to participate in our political process.   And, of course, America has certainly interfered in many foreign elections around the world, in the past, so this is just karma biting us on the ass, and only natural.  In a global system, a global ecology and a global economy and global health threats, etc., all of humanity has an interest in the well-being of everyone else, and nationalism and tribalism shouldn't limit our spheres of influence.  That's my opinion on the matter.

Speaking of nukes, if we want to make a good-faith effort to reduce nuclear proliferation, we should put our OWN nuclear arsenals on the table, in my humble opinion.  Right?  In this age of global warming, the threat of nuclear winter is unacceptable.  Wouldn't just a few detonations, (or even only one!) fuck up the global ecosystem irreparably??  Do scientists even know?  We should all be humble in the face of our ignorance regarding Nature and the webs of interdependence between species, and repentant, contrite, and especially sensitive about doing further damage to the biosphere.  The planet is currently undergoing a massive extinction event, and good-faith action to reverse this state of affairs includes denuclearization, in my opinion.  Most of us believe God has made us stewards of nature, and we shouldn't recklessly threaten other species, and THUS OUR OWN SURVIVAL.  I know Noam Chomsky said Republicans are the biggest threat to humanity in all of human history... I'm not sure it's that bad, but whoever is in power should make an effort to get on the right side of history.  

 If corporations or foreign governments want to spend money in support of specific candidates, I have no problem with that, either.  I'm not sure how much money it would take to buy an election, because people consult wikipedia and procon.org and other fairly objective and unbiased sources to make their decisions, in addition to tv ads and facebook posts and Fox News and snail mail mailings.   Personally, I consult the Green Party voter guide.  Also, most people vote according to their parental upbringing, I think, so the fraction of the electorate that is the coveted "swing" vote, is marginal.  Corporations have a right to communicate in furtherance of their own self-interest, just like individuals, churches, states, and countries.  We shouldn't assume people are stupid and merely sheep, and thus we should make intelligent arguments, without presuming people are unreasonable and ignorant, in furtherance of progress, growth, global development, or -as some like to say- the Kingdom.

I admit I'm not 100% on this, but I want to be less cynical, and more hopeful and trusting in the goodwill and intelligence of humanity and the average citizen.  Maybe the swing vote is decisive, and maybe the future isn't decided by fate, and maybe that's a good thing, where we should engage and get involved and be activists and communicate and be social, with open minds, but also in the strength of our convictions.

On the other hand, I like Gabbard just because she's pretty (!)

A Poem

God

God is great.  The Greatest.  The Greatest of all time.  Faultless.  Perfect.  

God is good.   Better.   Best.   God is love.   God loves all, always.

God was in the past, is in the present, and will be in the future.

God is everywhere, up above, down below, to the right, and to the left.

God is behind us, and God is ahead of us.

God is reality.   There is nothing but God.   God is the universe.  God is infinite.

There is only one infinity.   There is only one God.

Love permeates all of spacetime, forever and ever, forever and always.

God is vast, wonderful, within the known universe, and beyond into the unknown.

God created you.  God created the world.   God created the moon, sun, and stars.

God created the animals and plants, the land, sea, and sky.

God was in the beginning, and God will be in the end.

God is still making the world, many worlds, all worlds, your world, and mine.

There is no realm without God.  God is in heaven, and God is in hell.

God is in progress, and God is regress.

God is in good, and God is in bad.

God is life, and death.  God is truth, fact, knowledge, wisdom, understanding.

God is science, thought, enlightenment, and omniscience.

God sees all, knows all, is all, does all, makes all, thinks all, says all.

God is blessing and increase.  God is curse and destruction.

God is light, and God is dark.   God is with you, and God is against you.

God is real, and God is virtual.   God is in truth, and God is in lies.

God is an optimist, and God is a pessimist.   God is all possibility.

All Gods of all names and all qualities and all religions are all aspects of the One and Only God.

All avatars, incarnations, throughout time and space, are facets and expressions of The One.

God is lowly and minute, and God is most high and great.

God extends through all space and time, ever smaller, ever greater.

God is infinity.  God is all numbers.  God is one.  

God is zero.  God is full, and God is empty.  God is always and everywhere.

There is nothing that is not God, nowhere that is not God, no time where God is absent.

God is alive, and God is dead.   God is here, there, in between, everywhere.

God is with you, and with your enemy.  God is male, and God is female.

God is in you, around you, in all, and around all.   God is every thing and Everything.

You are God.  Not-you is God.  You are a part of God.  God is a part of you.

God is beneficent, virtuous, kind, forgiving, merciful, loving, compassionate, true, and real.

All reality and all realities are God.  Bliss is God and Suffering is God.

God is death, and death is God.  God is immortal.  God is contradiction.

God is happiness, joy, fun, play, games, humor, laughter, levity, satisfaction, contentment.

God is love, intimacy, sex, touch, ecstasy, and nature.  

God is heaven, bliss, curiosity meeting answers, access to omniscience, and excitement, interest, engagement, rest and relaxation, leisure, sleep and dreams, ordinary life and extraordinary experiences, enthusiasm and optimism about the future, as well as boredom, the trite, the banal.   God is beautiful and God is ugly.  God is positive, and God is negative.

God is war, and God is peace.  God is everything, all the time.  God is the whole ball of wax.

God is whatever you want him or her to be.   God is surprising.

God is created, and God is creator.   God is and God isn’t.  God is every book ever written.

God is hypnosis, and God is a dream, and God is Fact! Awake! Reality! Truth!

God is honor and virtue and dignity and honesty and candor and integrity.

more god thought

religiosity and spiritual ideation

god is love
but is love god?
a bird is an animal, but an animal is not (necessarily) a bird

necessarily Sarah Lee, any cess (pool)

love believes all things: things?  love believes?
try looking up the definition for 'love' in the OED
  (Oxford English dictionary), it goes on forever!  love never dies, lol.
things don't make assertions (well, people ARE things, actually: bodies)
and love is a noun and a verb, but not an entity/being?
   maybe God believes all things (that's part of the definition of God)
   or, your lover believes anything you say (if it's true love)
(virtual realities are still realities)

god is one
god is Neo, eon, noe, and (my one, anagram for money)
all gods are different names, avatars, facets/expressions of the ONE God?
commUNITY
1 world is enough for all of us -police
all-1 -dr. bronner (on the soap label)
All, ah.   Reality is all the god there ever is -Adidam
satan, say ten, 11215 (actually), sums to 1 (!), Santa, saint, holy, holes
   1 and 0, phallus and hole, holes: ova (oral, vaginal, anal)
god is a number?  book of numbers.  numb, brr.
   the count: Sesame Street (s.s.), Dracula (vampire, demon)
       dragons and nazis
god is older than one, lol.
terrible 2's, godly 1's?
beast with 2 backs, sexual union: make love, make baby
god the Creator (mother and father, as one)

love (according to my -less than exhaustive/authoritative- chambers dictionary): fondness, an affection that gives pleasure, strong liking, devoted attachment to another person, sexual attachment (cum-unity), cupid/eros- god of love.

Always Love Life Attachment Hell
   just a thought I had, for a buddhist spin on it

gawd! christ! (death) hell: he'll, he will
   hell, heil (Hi! L), heal, heel
   christ: crys T (t as cross)
   Jesus: hey Zeus (Greek gods, Gr, eek! grim reaper, snake)
         Jess, u (u as smile, me/you)
         Chuy, Isai: chewy (eucharist, granola bars, Chewbacca),
            AI: artificial intelligence, artificial insemination, amnesty int'l

"only god is good"
no good? only lies are good? (e.g. fiction at the library; tv/movies)
keepin' it realz, dawg (Anne I mull) Anne rice, vampire, I'm a perv
    humans are (just) animals, like tubes/worms (eat, excrete)
           (only, justice)

vamp is a part of a shoe, shoe is a cartoon
Jesse, Jesus, Zeus (vampire, greek god, 1/3 of God)
dvd plus ai (David)

Teshara: as earth, he's a rat, as heart, as hater
hart sea (Gary hart)
shat ear (mike tyson)
Hillary : (capital) hill, Larry (my dad, Mr. T)
USA: united state:  am Erica!
mind meld, sexual union, political and military (common enemy)
A: ace, ass, America (aaa)
urination: u r in nation (micturate, wiz, piss) gee, whiz.
yellow: yell ow
p: ack (tongue sticking out emoticon)

GOD
Go: Japanese board game, green light, van Gough
O.D.: overdose, LD50, odie - the dumb dog in Garfield comic strip.
(o.g. original gangster)

soc (sociology, stream of consciousness, mindstream)
collective unconscious:
God, god, deity, divine, holy, sacred, blessed, lord, christ, king, father
love, lust, heaven, paradise, utopia, kingdom of god, shangrila, shambala
Jesse, Jesus, Chuy, Isai.   Chessy:
(Tim) bishop, (Michael) king, (Sam) castle-scott, (Jeff) pon, Brooks (Chorley),
 Knight (Ellen), Red Queen (Christine)
chessy, juicy, jazzy, jealousy, jayzee, Jussie
Jesse, David, Four, Al
number, Berkeley (numb, chilly); Chile, chili
Benjamin Mathew (math? ew!), BM: banh mi
Elizabeth Warren, poutine: pooh teen
politics: poly ticks
vampire: I'm a perv, vamp ire, ire land, v. (litigation), v am pyre (burning), amp
   the count (down for the count)
   numerology (new me are all oh gee)
calculations, cal cu later!, lay asians
cal! (graffiti approval: Colorful, Artistic, or Legible)
   UC, California, Ripkin, Calvin, calendar
Q: question, Star Trek omnipotent being
   (accordion to my Cal Q lay asians...)(!)

deconstruction
d.e.  constructs
distant angry estranged

no spell blood
be lewd, blew d, blue, loo b/d
hop
hip-hop hopi, house of pain, hoppy easter

v's
Jesse you've got me swallowing
I'm fucking tired Jesse
David crying Jesse
I hate myself
I can't do it

German sermon
serving Noah's kids for dinner (Ham)
Jesus had 12 opossums, healed many leopards
divinity, dive in it why?  dive in me- Nirvana