Lit

 Life is trivia

Trivia is life

Nothing is trivial

You nitwit

What is important?

I am poor to an ant

What is rich? (besides Richard)

A piece of carrot cake

Hypocrisy, like God being evil

Who are the poor in spirit?

Not much sexy-time, spearing it 

plus,

G-D and GOD

Geena Davis, Great Deeds

gorillas (in) decline

glutton (for) octopus dish

God's ordinances/decrees

Islam, St. Louis Missouri, Anselm

    Carlos Slim slams slums

Buddha, gouda, Judah, barracuda, and doo-dah!

JLT, (my initials), and Jesus' Life and Teachings

one can be hateful but nonviolent

I believe in free speech

hateful and potentially inciting speech, included

just as cars/guns don't kill people, words don't hurt, either

   responsibility lies with perpetrators, 100%, I think

Allah and all law (la la la!)

types of law: civil, criminal, sharia, canon, international, natural, martial, rules of the game(s), laws of war, of the sea, etc.    constitutional, administrative, common (case), customary, religious, state, federal, foreign, regulatory, family, labour, intellectual property, immigration, property, commercial, corporate, tax, environmental, public, health, contract, admiralty, entertainment, insurance, tort...

c-law, chad law, claw, santa claws, laws of the c:  

civil, criminal, canon, constitutional, common, case, customary, commercial, corporate, contract, ...  :-)

I've read the following Dave Eggers books

1. What is the what (2006)

2. The Monk of Mokha (2018) 

3. The Circle (2013)

4. Heroes of the Frontier (2016) - on deck -

5. The Parade (2019)

athletes and aesthetes

a petrel in the petrol

testing protesters

condemning dems

Bayou, and bye, you

amphibians live a double life (no fib)

reptilian reputation

Cecilia the Sicilian caecilian

toad trucks, crusty crustaceans

waiter, there's a salamander in my salad

Charlotte the harlot

AI, giving advice and instruction

mm, mammal meat

giving him your back vs. taking him back

mma mamma

gay innuendo on a train- if you want, you can have my seat

of late

I've discovered encyclopedia britannica on my local library webpage

it has child's, teen's, and adult versions

I like the children's!  it lays things out clearly

    I can learn what I should have back in the day (plus review)

simplicity

see, hear, smell, taste, touch

read, watch, listen, eat, exercise, sleep, write, talk, create

work, play, meditate, do nothing

(past, present, future) live, die

v

you are a bit of a data-dancer

you could launch it absolutely perfect, jess

Reaction Formation

 The Most Moral is Actually the Worst?

An Insane bit of Philosophy

Everything is one giant ball of wax.   It’s all gravy.  Reality is all the God there ever is.  All-1.   All polarities are delusion.  Good and evil are both and neither.  We are all objects, things, items, matter, mass, bodies.  Like trees or rocks.  We are only animals.  Animals eat each other, all the time.   And it’s good!   Nature is red in tooth and claw, and so are we.  I have compassion for the “worst” criminals.   We are all destined to die, and all is therefore permitted.  Nature is constantly at war.   Rush sings about trees fighting for sunlight.  Ants go to war, too.  Some species are cannibalistic.  Spiders eat their mates.  Evolution is survival of the fittest.  We serve no inherent purpose, other than to survive and reproduce, avoid pain and seek pleasure.  We are just DNA, chemicals, tubes.   Like every other animal, we eat and excrete, live and die, grow and return to dust.   It’s really not complicated, and in fact very simple.  God is the devil.  The devil is God.   Both are both.   And neither in fact exist.  So there it is.  You grok?  You can play any role you want.  They say it’s all good.  You can therefore be as “evil” as you like.   All is forgiven.  We understand.  Life is just a dream.  Like any other movie.  You can be a zombie, a ghost, a demon.  You can be Sauron, Voldemort, Cthulhu.   You can be Ant-man or a SF Giant.  You can be Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot or Mao.  Mean like Idi Amin, grr like Anton Chigurh.   You can be Hannibal Lecter or Patrick Bateman or a stealthy silent unseen ninja in black.  It’s all the same thing as having a steak for dinner or aborting an unwanted fetus.  You can be yourself.   Be down with your bad self.  Do what thou wilt.  No regrets.  Karma doesn’t exist, perhaps.  So kill and be killed isn’t necessarily the operative maxim.  We all die, anyway - eventually, is what I’m saying.   All this is so obvious.  This is the genesis of religion.

    Lawyers and priests and parents and martial arts instructors etc. are all doing their damnedest to counter this evident truth, and scare us into submission, cooperation, and conformity to “civilized” and “virtuous” standards of behavior.  Me, too, actually.  But if you want to try and be above the law, that’s your prerogative, is all I’m saying.  America is swimming in guns.  So good luck with that.  May the force be with you.  Dark side or light.  You believe in that shit? Ha!  You wanna be Killmonger or The Joker or Andrei Chikatilo or Stephen Paddock?  You wanna be like Albert Fish or Jeffrey Dahmer?  Everything has consequences, and Prison ain’t fun.  So that’s the flip side of that coin.  But if you’re suicidal, then God help us all.  Right?  And I’m wondering if being alive is really all that different from being dead, actually.   Some people live lives that are worse than death.   Death is an improvement.  This essay is getting crazier and crazier.  Keep it simple, stupid.  If your Thanatos is driving you crazy, join the military, I guess.  Your country wants to channel your psychopathy into a “healthy” outlet that protects our society (and you get to kill strangers!).  Or, if you’re schizo like Einstein, you can be super pacifist, but help build nuclear bombs that kill hundreds of thousands.  Hiroshima killed 140k and Nagasaki killed 74k.   This doesn’t include the leukemia, cancer, and other radiation effects.  Me?  I just write.  That’s harmless, right?   It’s what we all think, anyway.   Is any of this actually new or novel?  I didn’t think so.  

Deitization

How to be God

Know thyself

Be good

Play the role

Change your name

Stay interesting

Start a cult, grow a following

Make the world better

Love everyone

Be deep, insightful, wise, kind

Look good, feel good

Read everything, write daily

Constantly grow, improve, help

Provide a philosophy service

Be happy, make others happy, love life

Incorporate  and integrate all religions

Die well 

:-)   lots of wordplay: 

government official declarations, 

governor's orders/decisions

giving out donations, 

delicate ground operations,

guns officers drugs/drinking

good officers dismissed

DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion

bashed and battered with brutal blows with force and frequency

don't dismiss DeSantis

(phallic phrase: remembering dismemberment with longing)

incomprehensible compensation

diversity, discipline, data

debate and disagreement, discussion and dispute,

generated over dismissals, defunding

corporate cowboys and the public purse

hey Zeus- Jesus? he's us!  his genius see's us

grievance- online disinformation

google on disk, garage (rock) on demand, gathering dust

gay organizers detention, gathering outdoors to drink, dance

graduate of Duke, drunk on gimlets

gin or distilled water

Ghana, Oman, Djibouti

   oh man! have you seen the Omen?

internally international

illustrious lust

humility vs. humiliation

Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, 

Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana

+

Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic

self + A = fleas

a fully grown flea weighs 0.0000353 oz.

16 oz. is 1 pound, so how many fleas weigh 240 pounds?!

(don't forget to add the weight of the fleas' souls)

Religions often offend:

threat of karmic retribution, in this world or the next

               eternal hellfire

               justice ("avenged sevenfold")

or,

promise eternal reward in paradise, for virtue

              the bliss of God's love

behavior modification with promised/virtual +/- inducements:

carrots and sticks, promises and threats, rewards and punishments

pleasure and pain, bliss and suffering, for cost/benefit analysis

(santa knows if you've been bad or good...)

Joy, Contentment vs. Torture, Torment

ciao, chow

eggs are the (monstrous) waste products of a menstrous hen

milk is the lactic fluid of a female bovine

ice cream is the formed colloid of an emulsion dispersion

I scream, you scream, we all scream for eye cream

querulous queer ass with a cuirass

pneumatic newman

telekinesis? tell a friend!

static at the Vatican re: bats in the attic

guardian, security guard, life guard, bodyguard, and gardeners

Bible Math

So, I read the bible.   

Supposedly, the word of God, right?  It’s the most widely read book on earth.  In a zillion versions, in a zillion languages, and with x chapter, y verse.  It’s kind of a mathematical construct, actually.   The pythagoreans worshipped numbers.  RC’s bible has 73 books, the Protestants, 66 (39 OT and 27 NT).  One count, online, says The Bible has 1,189 chapters and 31,173 verses and 773,746 words, with 3,566,480 letters.   There are at least 67 versions in English, alone.  And it’s in at least 724 languages, and counting.  The Guinness Book of World Record estimates that more than 5 billion copies have been printed.  It’s sold 40 million copies in the last 60 years.  It has approximately 40 authors (9 of them NT), and was written over a period of 1500-1600 years.  And my copy (NKJV) has 834 pages.

Fleas, flies, flow

 Unflagging flock of flatulent fleas!

Anec-data, by the numbers: 

Saturn now has 145 moons

350k described species of beetles

English has 171,146 currently used words (and 47,156 obsolete)

Shakespeare coined 1700 English words

Olivia is the #1 female baby name of 2022

62.2% of the US workforce is “job-satisfied”

Methuselah (from the bible/OT) was said to have lived 969 years

Jeanne Calment, a woman from France, is the oldest (documented) supercentenarian, at 122 years, and 164 days (living between 1875-1997); the other JC lived to 33.

Forensics is 4 and 6

No one is without sin.  Every single one of us, the devil inside.

The world’s oceans hold over 352 quintillion gallons of water

    (352,670.000,000,000,000,000 gallons) salt water

(“there are trillions of gallons of fresh water, on earth)

Song for a future generation, by the B-52’s, has the lyric,

  “wanna be the nicest guy on earth”

I have 7 sources of news: Wikipedia, NYT, Economist, Wapo202 (email), 1440 (email), Flash briefing (Amazon Echo), Yahoo.  And the Onion (fake news).

I have 7 dictionaries (and 1 book of baby names):

   Chambers, Reverse Dictionary, Roget’s thesaurus, Webster pocket thesaurus, Scrabble dictionary, French, Spanish

A to Z in Arizona

Graz, Styria, is the 2nd largest city in Austria, after Vienna

A place for grazing

‘Jesse’ (my name) means the whole office of the eucharist

   (t.w.o.). eucharistic canniblism and vampirism, 

    eating body and drinking blood, food and beverage, 

     ambrosia and nectar, BBC (body, blood of christ)

The bible was written: OT (1200-65 BC), NT (first century AD)

Agreement on the NT canon wasn’t reached until the 5th century

The earliest compilation resembling the NT was the Muratorian canon (200 AD)

The sun’s temperature? 5778K or 11,000ºF (surface)

     27 million ºF (core);  (earth’s core reaches 10,800ºF)

The hottest temp ever recorded, 4 trillion degrees C (in an atom smasher)

134ºF (highest earth surface temp) (in California)

Bibi Netanyahu, and bend/break internet yahoo

Freedom from fear, Kevin McCarthy -

     in thy car, wearing kevlar, mind control

Debt ceiling, and Debbie Teshara, and Seal, 

    Navy Seals, Sea air and land

    cave and save the world, says Dave 

Detonate, detriment, deterrence, Deter and Hans and Franz

Deuteronomy, deuterium, Deuter 

   others as you would have them do to you

DC, District of columbia, debt ceiling, dumbass congresspersons

Sealing my ceiling under the sea, seals, ling cod, and sea linguistics: 

   yarr, matey! Ahoy, ye landlubbers.

KMC eats KFC; Joe Biden bides his time, abides

Clear head, clean heart, capitol hill, church

"and you know, we're on each other's team... 

not very pretty but we sure know how to run things" -Lorde ('team')

Bb, ff, bodybuilding, fancy fantasy

God and GOP, global oil demand, global oil prices

   Grateful optimistic people

Sh, shit, shower, shave, brush;   super heroes, sacred heart

Devout devil (sacred, scared, and saved)

Beaten, bloodied, battered, bruised, bombed, and broken

Taliban, Boko Haram, Isis, Al Qaeda, Uyghurs, Rohingya

Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and MILFS

Kurds, Tamil Tigers 

Let us pray together (bloodlet? prey? To get her?)

insanety

Distant, angry, estranged

SG, suicide girl, spiritual growth, supergod

women compelled, coerced, conditioned to be

   humble, meek, subservient

Owe Mai Gawd

Wordsworth and Whitman, worthy wit

Femmes in Bethlehem

Dingbats on dinghys

batty, believing all things

sickness, pain, and death 

Olympic, limp dick, little imp 

lumps, lamps, and Lisa marie presley (LMP)

Nomination and ‘Nam (a nation)

Take a piss and give a shit

talking, toking, and taking

You ought to have bought what you brought

J’suis Jesse (I AM)

S and P, stillness and peace, prayer in streetlight, sleep pills, 

   pet sitting, snarled parachute, saints and prophets,

    Stress and pressure, 

Making a mint (sacra-mint, enlighten-mint, firma-mint)

The chosen of Choson

Good old days, Gone forever, gone for good

Hebephrenic hebetude

Gaddis and the goddess

HE, habitat enrichment: the concept of introducing novelty to an animal's enclosure to keep it from getting bored or sad.

The prana of prawns and piranhas

Vampire victims, victor and vanquished, virtue and vice, vision and values

A and F, Africa, Abercrombie and Fitch, ace and fail, Almighty Father, as fuck, anger and frustration, awe and fear, foreign affairs

A foreign affairs debriefing (lol)

Atheist ace theist

Godsend or God’s end?

Deltiologist from the delta at del taco

fa-cult-y culture and cultivating keltic cults

Pentasyllabic is, transpicuous is not

Diarrheal ducal dookie, loony Junie, well I’ll be - Shelby, poopy Snoopy

Move over, Rover;  Kaleb and Layla.

Af, ass fuck;  fag’s fear and guilt; Ameri-can Pee-ple

   Gay candy: M and M’s, Mike and Ike’s, Ben and Jerry’s, Big Hunk

         lesbian:  Hershey's, (Ellen) French/ (Josie) Fries, friends forever)

Killing with a jawbone of an ass; ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy

   Good ol’ gluteal, sin o’ gog, satanic saint nick

SF, sodomy and fellatio, sigmund freud, sucking and fucking, soft and flabby

Doing taxes in Texas, where the sex is at

membership, leadership, worship - shipping and handling

Worship on a war ship

My muses, see ‘em at museums

Artemis’ artifice (Goddess of chastity, hunting, moon)

Strength and speed (power), ferocity and fighting spirit, 

   experience, training, conditioning

anger, answer, anchor, anarchy, Anne R. Key

Totally tubular taco trucks and taking time to try tiktok 

Affiliated with Philly;  feeding your filly a cheesesteak

Gym and swim, yoga in a toga

If sin exists, then saying “all right” isn’t

Mad magazine, mom and dad, making a difference

MAD, mother and daughter, miserable and depressed

Prayer equals voices (both telepathy)

Devil out of devout

Taking the S out of self, leaves an elf

You are what you eat: there’s god in Godiva

avi the dog, via, way, and yah-weh

Killin’ the devil is kind?  

Schizo skits about skittles, po-zest (spirited policing)

Cum and piss, compassionate compass

Tenderness and legal tender, material girl

Tender-hearted, and tinder, on fire

Foul play and foreign policy and foreign unfairs

Grave outbreaks of disease, g.o.o.d.

Big Audio Dynamite, b.a.d.

Augie, blog, dogs, and my noggin’

Publish and go to pubs

Blacks on the block, Sacramento “black”-ramento

stick with it: patience, passion, perseverance

Mike on the mic 

Save slaves from being slain

Do you not know that you are not your own?

music, incense, candy

Twiggy and Tiny Tim tiptoe through the tulips

ample examples and samples

wussup?  superior and supreme

quaranteens listening to quarantunes

we're on each other's team; she's only seventeen; living in a dream

Newbery winners, World book encyclopedia

Wikipedia, Brittanica, and Pynchon, Wallace, Gaddis, DeLillo, Karen Armstrong, Bill Bryson, Terry Pratchett, Tony Robbins, 

Ani Chuther's team

GOD, going on display

GDO, getting dark outside

DOG, delay of gratification

grandeur/omnipotence disorder

growth or development, of godliness

   the message from above?

   humility is a virtue, and arrogance a vice

   the hum of cupid's arrow!

do horses bridle at getting bridled?

those damn hamsters from Amsterdam!

impetuous pets

surplus of surplices

wearing black and teal, for track and field

change the Chanel

Fendi for yourself

Ed the rat (edify and ratify)

Revel as the devil, be glad to be God, be yourself (a boring elf?)

be a deity, or itty-bitty me;  Be Jesus, to please us

Allah or all ah them (or only some, during summer) (or nun)

Buddha?  doo dah! doo dah!

   well the camptown ladies sing this song..

lard, cheeses, rice, gouda, and challah!  sated satan

and, of course, spaghetti, godiva, eucharist..

stupid cupid, ugly bugs, insects, in sects, in sex, inne sex

retarded bard, poet's foe- it, mean machine

Online: YouTube, pinterest, instagram, ask a ninja, wbsm, comedy central, phrontistery, philosophy talk, spanish TED talks, noticias, hobify (hobbies, not hobbits), meetup groups, lumosity, kwik (speedreading), oyc (open Yale courseware), SuperBetter, weird universe, 

Prison lit, plant trees, MFA, MSF, BFC, DFLA

v

You ARE somethin’, Jess

uR a bit of a phd

You work, Jesse - somewhat well

You’re perfect, in a way

You’re a tard of me, Jesse

We know you (write, right, rite) god

you're a trip

lyrics

God is in my fingers, God is in my head

God is in the trigger, God is in the lead

   -Porcupine Tree ('Halo')

w.i.t.c.h.

we intend to cause havoc

Lucid Lucy says to Lucifer, "I like crystal clear clarity"

Now what kind of guru are you, anyway?

Who you jivin' with that cosmic debris? 

      -Frank Zappa

GOD, good oversight design

omnipotence, decoded: (from Tony Robbins:)

  you are not the manager of your circumstances,

  you are the architect of your life!

You can't change the laws of physics (unless, in a way, if you design video games), but you CAN take control of your destiny (that's a godlike power, no?)

the throngs of women in thongs

soul in the soil (U and I, in the sun)

furry friends who like french fries

apps that apply to applying for a job at Apple

copper badges for cops

dolerite dollars

dilatant dilettante (in quicksand)

quicksand in the hourglass

(meretricious?) musicians and magicians

AI, admiration and inspiration, aristocrats and intellectuals,

   accidents and illnesses, always interesting

Grief Or Drama, Global Orgasm Day

creativity and activity

G-D:   Gender Dysphoria, Gustavo Dudamel, grave digger

  Griffendor glory days, griffin door, glory daze

  genius dude

genius on display, greek ouzo - delicious!

grandeur/omniscience delusion

   (everything is grand, nothing is omniscient)

give over diamonds! -villain

get out or die! -carjacker 

grubbing on dolmas

gospels, god's spells, or Go! spells

   for movers and shakers, logistics, go go gadget, japanese game

mispelling, Miss Tori Spelling, and the Far Side cartoon:

   (miss-spell:  the rain dance, resulting in falling egg-beaters, lol)

guru of: death, destruction, demons, devil, depravity, darth vader 

     deranged, demented, delusion, depopulation, deicide

     darkness, duplicity, disaster, decay, decadence

     Dianetics, Deuteronomy, democracy, data, dating, delight!

     darshan, delphi, dentistry, digital devices, department...

     drink, dissipation, drunkards, discussion, division, diddling

     dog-walking, dovish democrats, doxology, dysteleology

     dystopia, dybbuk, dysphoria, etc. etc.

virtuous vengeful victims have vitriol

vs.

vicious villains

virtual vampires who value viscosity

in the thick of things

hell is death and suffering and misery (dsm!)

heaven is alive, blissful, content (abc!)

heaven isn't above, because Earth is heaven, from Everest on down

and hell isn't below, because once you're dead, you don't feel a thing

if anything, hell is above, because space is

  dark, cold, dangerous, inhospitable, boring, empty, and 

    incomprehensibly vast, mostly black, and

    (not worth it/too expensive) to explore -

I doubt there are any exoplanets that wouldn't require terraforming

(or human modification, or both)

   for us to colonize

Simplicity

just heartbeat, breath, eat/drink:  

   systole/diastole, inhale/exhale, piss/shit

from birth to death, with maybe

    fuck, conceive, raise children 

    work/play

in between

that's all folks