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I, God, welcome you to my blog!

The good book says only God is good, so it seems to me somebody needs to step up.

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Your pal, Jess
L-I'm a straight, virgo/boar INTJ (age 52) who enjoys books, getting out into nature, music, and daily exercise.

(my email is JesseGod@live.com)

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Here's a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky to start things off right: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Books I've Read

Books, lately

(And to be given as gifts, at some point, I guess):


Upgrade, Blake Crouch (from public library)

Insane City, Dave Barry (also, returned to library)

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

The Jesuit Guide (to almost everything), James Martin, s.j.

The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson

Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia

Freud and Beyond, Mitchell and Black

Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers

The Circle, Dave Eggers

All Families are Psychotic, Douglas Coupland

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Paris, photographs by Max Derhy

Elon Musk, Ashlee Vance

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Mark Twain

Beryl: A Pig's Tale, Jane Simmons

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The Lemonade Crime, Jaqueline Davies

Marveltown, Bruce McCall

Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh

George's Secret Key to the Universe, Lucy and Stephen Hawking

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (by the man, himself)

then again, maybe I won't - Judy Blume

The Miracles answer book, Lee Strobel, Mark Mittelberg


4 on deck:

A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

The History of Philosophy, AC Grayling

The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge

The Dorling Kindersley Science Encyclopedia


if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know! -kansas

real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius 

if you think education is expensive, try ignorance

libraries are free (but have a ROI of 4 or 5:1)


the voice 

v's:

you're gonna get law

you ARE amazing, in your own way

you're cutting my country

truly a logical and happy place

you ARE my doctor, Jesse

you are a bit like Tony, Jess

ya we know

you're well is what they are

you ARE possessed by the devil - in a real way

they know what you are - it's somethin'


inne kung clue zhin (forever never clever):


church parish will also “perish”, eventually.

Glen Gould is a ghoul.  Died, age 50.

Evil Knievel died from lung disease, age 69 

   no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Christ! The church lector isn’t Hannibal Lecter!

   you butt-slut nut!  what!?  tut tut

And the priest from the east isn’t deceased

Batman's atman, in Kathmandu

Let’s feast on beast!  Celebrate being celibate

Church merch like rosaries and hosiery

   Bird perched on a birch branch, at the ranch

Jesus flees us - por favor, don’t crucify me otra vez, he sez!

That shit hurts, ask dirty Kurt, about the insane pain

Christ could've used some ice.  Juicify, don't crucify.

hm, christ organized another heist?

Holy moly!  God sure is odd.  Getting even with God.

And Buddha? He's always nude-uh.

At least Jesus will please us, if God is in the sod.

Allah and Kamala in the lord's ward, with swords

the lord is bored with rhymes about crimes

church chew rhymes with virtue, says ooey gooey Chuy

eucharist says give nuke a rest!  In Bucharest...

and everywhere else, like rinky-dinky Helsinki

Peace should never cease, and war should be no more!!

The lion of Zion says Leo (love each other)

easier said than done

sed (thirst) and un (United Nations)

terrorism vs. being rude, and hating fate (if that's what this is)

generals don't usually give "holy orders" !!

diplomats with dipsomania

Thursday, October 19, 2023

True Love

What is Truth?

Truth is that which was, is, or will be the case.  That which describes reality accurately, is not false, and is right and correct and factual.  The truth is holy.  Honesty and integrity are facets of truth.  True love is God.  True blood is a tv show.  True Lies is a movie.  And True Religion is a clothing company.  True dat.  


What is a lie?

An utterance or statement or sentence that is False, fictional, imaginary, nonexistent, untrue, incorrect, wrong, misleading, deceptive.   Lies do not have to be intentional.   Don’t speak if you don’t know.  


Does God exist?

Depends.   What are you defining God as?   A higher power?  Different people have higher skills, abilities, talents in different spheres.   There are Gods of gymnastics, for example.  Or God as the Creator.  Creator of what?   The Universe?  You?  Your parents made you.   Your grandparents made your parents.   Your great grandparents made you, in a sense.  Going back through evolution to the Origin of Life, itself.   But a creator of all the stars and galaxies and the Big Bang and spacetime?  I don’t know if anyone can answer that question.  I mean, I don’t understand how there can’t be a before the big bang, or why a physicist said he could create a universe, or if God is love (is the answer to the question, does love exist?), and love is a chemical, so God is a feeling, a high, as much as a Deity Being (space-alien?).  


The question is too big, and therefore unanswerable, and so I am agnostic.


Sometimes a movie poster will say, “Anthony Hopkins IS Hannibal Lecter” (for example).    All the world’s a stage.   So whoever plays the role of God is God, in the same way.  Personally, this is the only definition of God I believe in.   People are in corporations, like religions or countries or churches or teams or gangs or schools or sexuality or race or gender or what-have-you (tesla owners, a book club, or cancer-survivors, say).   And I believe mind is telepathic, if not global, so God is a community or corporation, of many people as part of a holy network, or holy spirit, if you will.  God has his angels.   The Devil has his demons.


I am inclined to be an atheist.   Jesus was just a person like me.  Playing a role. And we are all children of God.  But the Bible says only God is good.   People believe only good people go to heaven.   I want to go to heaven.   So I’m god.   Simple, no?  You can also say God is love, and your parents made love, and made you, so you are love/God.  Right?   Only God is good, the good book says.   And it is enough to merely be "not-bad" to be good.  So being God is a lot easier than you might think.


Goodnite.


some fun:

Declan declines a free trip to the Deccans

Ben has been where it is banned, like Cinnabons in a bin

income / expenses, deposits / withdrawals, addition/ subtraction

   + / -,   sum / difference, increase / decrease

don't start with startling the starlings

New Haven is NW Heaven!  (Yale University, a neighborhood of heaven!)

Crustacean the clown 

Krusty eats Krusteaz!

commoners eat ramen, amenhotep amen

soybeans and soyuz rockets

angry at housecleaning, he swept and wept

parity and poverty and purity and a pocket - T

the possibility of loss, and gaining only pain

the veep is a VIP (virginal, innocent, pure)

Vice President ain't the president of vice

amorous in Emeryville

shrove Tuesday in Shreveport

unstable and unstoppable

Adidam and Audi, damn

worse than the force, but better than butter

serve the severe

lions in Zion, are the phone lions busy?

abcdf: allah buddha christ, capitalism democracy freedom

stress anxiety worry, fear panic terror, misery anguish despair

anxiety, depression, and ptsd (post traumatic stress disorder) 

civil civilians, and pugnacious pugilists, and lethal ether

"death, thou shalt die" - John Donne

  Don Juan says, "killers cum, too"

Boris sings a chorus

amorous, humorous, and ominous

your yore, and history? his story

past pain agony suffering torment

Herman, Hermione, Hermenio

A to Z of Alan Zeltserman

war, part of s war ming (like flies on a corpse)

man, manners, manors, and manure

You and eye, U and I, Ukraine and Israel

   me 'n you, on the menu, smiling men

ss, shit-show, of swarming soldiers

the whole world is Holy Land, imo

(or conversely, the Holy Land is just as profane as anywhere else)

wholly bland

Tulane highway

Is Notre Dame next door to North Dakota?

DOD, department of defense, doberman on duty

paleontologist pals

stinky extinctions

Megan is into Megadeth 

dining on dinosaurs

deadly and dominant, dad and d n' d

dime bag Dimetrodon

club mosses and Kate Moss at a club

ATL, addicted to love, at last

subliminally criminal, wicked wiccans, naughty nautilus

it's gotten hot and rotten on my yacht

a proper stop by a cop shouldn't pop your top

i8b4i1...u2?

Bill Bryson ate some nice bison with rice, 

   and fought mike Tyson for a slice of icy pie, son.

the genes in Jean's jeans! Gene and Jean have good ones

striking structure

gnome genomes

dna, genes, genotype, genome, chromosomes, nucleotide bases

Claire the clerical cleric, at her (geno)type-writer

baryons, Barry, Bryson, and Byron

the baby bawls on a balmy day

competent computation

Hominoidea? no idea

vermicious knids and hominids

homo habilis in rehab

acheulian? god bless you

homo erectus was gay, gaydar at Hadar

Peking, peekaboo

Tubingen, down the tubes

the rise and fall of nucleo-tides

deoxy ribald! nucleic acid


reek and stink, a greek extinction

Milesians and my lesions, my liege

Pythagoras' pet python

Heraclitus and her clitoris

parmesan, amenities, and Parmenides

impediment to understanding Empedocles

doing math in the bath in Athens

Anaxagoras with an axe

the atomists in the mist (with the gorillas)

a protagonist named Protagoras

a hollow scene during the holocene

occult cults and vulture culture

socratic socks, teasing socrates

sparring with spartans

eating a plate of platypus with Plato

agony in the cosmos, and cosmogony

immortality and I AM

knowledge, and biblical knowing, beyonce, ledge

prr and cat perception

NY metaphysics

was Aristotle an aristocrat?

astronomy, oh my

a tick named Matt, and mathematics

philosophy and Phil win!-ophy

obituary, oh what!? chew Aries

chew, choo-choo, chiu, chewbacca, and chuy

hellenic hell, sinful cynics

an epic cure from epicurean medical science

stoic stow-aways, on Noah's ark (Newark and Arkansas)

   anarchy and an ark key!

roaming Romans, vampire empire

foiling the plot by Plotinus

jew-bilee, chris' chin, a churro after church

Saint Benedict-ionary

a bathroom named John

ecclesiastical queasiness

Dan the mohammedan

wine with Aquinas

St. Francis' sis

a video clip of an eclipse (eek! lips!)

papacy and an ace paper

Renaissance and ren and stimpy, Hume and humor

the characteristics you care about

gawky and cocky Machiavelli, will not be mocked

Erasmus as us (not marasmus)

bringing home the Francis Bacon

levis and hobnail boots, Hobbes and Leviathan

Descartes and night court

spin doctors and Spinoza 

Leibniz' lies (bruce lee knits?)

liberal herbalists (and conservative conservationists)

the key to understanding Locke

lurking in Berkeley

Hume, humor, hummus, and hamas

romantic antics

kanga-Rousseau

Kant was a cunt (you can't say that!)

Hegel's bagels, shopping with Schopenhauer

Nietzsche's mess

utilitarians from Utah

high marks for Karl

argh, icebergs and Bergson

William James, billy jim, bj

Huey, Louis, and John Dewey

dreary Drury

incest with a princess

prometheus at the prom

Liz' civilization, Liz with an uzi

Erica's america, amory in america

Levi's pant-heon

Eleusinian sin, synagogue, synergy, cinema, syntax, cinder

  synesthesia, sinecure, sinister, cinnamon, synonym, etc.

something amiss with Artemis

R and R, rest and relaxation, reward and retribution

Minoan minnows, Cretan cretins

inspecting an aspect of respect

Greece geese, intro duck tion to Marduk

embryonic preface (pre-face)

pre-miss premise

dorian doors, ionian ions

attachment and aversion, hopes and fears

Italian IT (information technology)

divine madness (magic, astrology, divination)

science and philosophy, superhuman powers, 

  sea power, society and politics, siva and parvati

  syria and palestine, sinai peninsula, public spending

  sales and profits, single pointed (meditation)

  protein shake, seeking protection, peace and safety

  prone and supine, sacred and profane, sorry and proud

  sick and pure, problem and solution, pink slime

  solar prominence, saved and printed

fuck Fichte and fuck fiction

hannibal the cannibal, cyrus the virus, evil knievel

communists in Berkeley?  comi-Cal

inimi-cal, too (Cal's enemy!)

rapping with reason and passion

konk-eror, thor's hammer

   getting hammered on thursday

phony Phoenician foes

eastern Greece, Sicilian sisters

etymology of "enthusiasm" : having a god enter the worshipper, 

   who believes that (s)he becomes one with the god

   entheos, divinely inspired, possessed by a god

hizbullah and herbalists!

   towels and the towely-ban

taliban, isis, al qaeda, hizbullah, hamas, boko haram, al shabaab

errant parents on the Barents sea

G-D:  Greenland - Denmark, Germany - Deutschland

    Game Day, Garbage Day, gum drops, a good day (!)

    Gravitational Distortion, Green Day (bands), Ganesh deity

    gravitational drag, decoherence, dependency, deflection

    google documents, drive, doodle

7'4" :  the height of Victor Wembanyama

get dressed, go on a date, get drunk, like the good old days

air guitar, air massage (energy work), and arab

appeasement, uh.. peas / mint?

Pemex and femme sex

early birds of Ur

Is you fuckin' crazy?  Are you?  RU

   what does fucking have to do with it? 

   or Russia? or Ruthenium?

my runes won't indicate the moon at noon

I lampooned the goons with harpoons, in a typhoon

migrants, immigrants, emigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, displaced

Yahweh? ha! yay!  hey, yah!  weigh, whey, way

where did Napoleon keep his armies? up his sleevies!

newborn babies aren't very good at arms control

walking on your hands? an arms race!

computer hackers for disarmament...ouch

arms trade (between robots)

pushing my buttons, butt and cushion for the pushin',  turn me on, turn-offs inc-lewd

funny bone, laughing gas, smilodon, don't give me no guffaw, hilarious Hillary, calm mick, satire on Saturn, sa - tear- ical, Joko the jocund joker,  comity and comedy, a stand-up guy, one-liners and one night stands, quips and whips, gore before and laughter after, punch line (airplane), humorous human, take me to your lederhosen, (David) Hume more, Al less (Alice), tickling a tick

Henry Bone, warm your bones beside the fire, 270 (infants), 206 (human adult, typically), jawbone of an ass, boner, fonebone, castro and castration, country wood

warheads, armies, eyes in the sky, the legacy of a diplomatic legation, hip-hop, knights who say knee!, and TOE missiles (theory of everything, it's TOW), shouldering the burden, protect your neck, in this neck of the woods, organization, hearty meals, booby traps, cocking your pistol, and -of course- spine (will suffice...), shall I continue?

chess and chests, lungs and lunging

yankee uncle's ankles

Paul the polyamorist

rapping with Rapa Nui and Arapaho

Kao (a meitei supernatural divine bull)

muay thai and the meitei

faux foe, mock-tudor

friend or Phoenician?

less molesters, more amor

dude in bermuda eats gouda with god and buddha

dead dude did the deed

go to heaven, Gough to Evan

Evan, Kevin, and Devan ate unleavened from 7-11

T Rex ate trex, dined on dinos, a plato platypus on the menu (me n you)

Dick Cummins and Gina

octopussy and platypussy

acheulian salad ( ¡ salud!)

dine-in and pig-out

seneca, senegal, cynical, single

entheos, in the OS (matrix?)

evangeli-CAL

dignity, you dig?

let their B light

speaking words of wisdom, let her be, letter B

an incisive analysis, decision to make an incision

Anne? Allah's sis

salah en la sala

corn on the Kaaba 

Jan yawns, and his peeps fall deeply asleep

Karen doesn't care if you hike the cairns

Patricia wishes for a delicious spanish fish dish

Greg likes eggs, and begs Meg for a regular jugular 

Evan drinks evian

Audio video of EO meeting Dio

the sink stinks of pink twinks, binky

thinking of getting inked and links to skinks, ice rinks, and hijinks by the kinks 

cheese Louise

gone and gonads and goons with guns and gin, again

the soap opera commercial was blather about lather (turn down the volume)

zapped less on olanzapine, the electric eel was shocked to learn, like Harry Potter with his Charlie Manson thunderbolt on his third-eye forehead, the Grateful Dead steal your face with political overtones (or warring angels?), or maybe a Neuromancer's positronic brain...

Lenny Kravitz and Whoopi Goldberg

My Philip Glass glass is full

Jorge says, hey whore; Juan the john with a Hittite prostitute

empty Humpty Dumpty was eaten by eggheads (brain drain?)

Are God and the devil in a relationship?

   is the devil possessed by God?  Or God possessed by the devil?

   lovers and slaves, be mine!  you got owned!

done with Donetsk and Donbas 

starting to startle the stars, don't stare at the stairs, step up to the steppe

buying steer at the store, and lamb limbs, and getting goat

clams in a climbing clime, is a claim

hunky funky monkey junky smells skunky, says uncle Duncan 

the punk with sunken eyes surprised me at sunrise

don't get raped by an ape, says Snape, but if you do, get it on tape

hanky panky with a lanky skank

agamas ain't agamic

Lydian idiots, tools at school, ruled by fools, the coolest ghoul

gals, girls, ghouls, and Gellar 

whale of a tale from Thales

Cairo chiropractor

underworld, overworld, surface world, whirled peas

squirmy worm, floppy fish, lice police, bug buggery

exercise on the USS Enterprise

subway sandwich on a submarine

a greedy need to speedread, thirst for the worst

inner dinner and outer doubter

planet? plan it!  

auks are ok with me

Doug the dog

God eats Godiva and gouda

doing the deed on Eid al fitr

which came first? Yogi Bear or Yogi Berra?

phlogiston on Phloston Paradise

I NV EZ and CD LN BT

QP dolls with BD eyes

acedia ain't acidia

becoming bee cum

punks in pumpkin patches

doing original origami, mon ami

the yogurt ogre, yeast beast, munster monster, ghost host

this cheese is the bee's knees

eucharistic puke, gadzooks, zucchini in a bikini

vampire campfire, dhampyr umpire empire

   impolite to the emperor

   whimpering, simpering fool

semper fi, ever faithful, temper die (cold dish) 

pan-fried animal, dining on dinosaurs, finger lickin' chicken

the agama game, prajna and yajna, yoga and a yoke joke, egg yolk and yokels

good god, this is some great goat!

I am Ganesh.   I have a long nose (no Pinocchio lying), and a big gut.

   An elephant shnoz and a beer belly.  Maybe I am.  I don't know much about Hindu

I know as much about Mace Windu as I do Hindu

into Hinduism, and out of doubt, convinced that Vince offers hints

mythology, theology, allah-g. 

gnarly Bob Marley, waking early and burly, unlike girly Hurley

Papal people use PayPal (orgy during the liturgy!)

drinking a Snapple, online with my apple, learning to grapple

the stronger stranger is stranger than the strung-out star

as far as I know, there's only ONE heaven in the heavens (earth!)

true and false aren't necessarily right and wrong

pain to the devil and Audi (ow, d-)

Identity? Role? (like international relations, infrared) or

Like an alias.  Or avatar.  Or possessed.  

   Or a really cool Halloween costume.

the reaper keeps weeping, like a wailing whale, a crying cri de coeur

I like Riesens, Swedish fish, dark chocolate macadamia nut turtles, gum drops, gummies, twix, lu schoolboy cookies, carrot cake, ice cream cake, chocolate chocolate cake...

There’s a liquor store on the corner.  Down the hallway, practically.  

  Sugar, alcohol, all junk.

Brenda on a bender

kumbaya, kombucha, and Kimberly

Evanescence and Evan's essence, 'pop' goes the weasel

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Salt Lake City

negligence and diligence

watch the wretch

general Jennifer's genitalia

lecherous lecturer

wax and wane, bane and boon

the fun in funeral, the tear in satirical

the ugh in laughter, the Y in cry (and seer)

the grim reaper, and the cat re-purr

feline felony, fell on black days

cruel, wicked, mean, mad, and dumb

brutal mean and wicked

historical, hissed oracle

distinctively destructive

the rotten is written

getting even with God

GOD:  ground offensive delay

power, privilege, prosperity and poverty

  proletariat, penury, pariah


trivia, books, flash-briefing (echo)

email, economist, wikipedia, chat gpt, google, onion

    wag (wikip, AI, google)

ted, YouTube, instagram, pinterest

pool, yoga, weights, cardio, pushups, planks, eat right, portion control, drink water

becoming a big burly bodybuilder, with a badly bulging bloated balloon buddha beer belly (bummer)


Truth

getting serious:


Death. Mortality.  Limited time.  Here, then gone.  Impermanence.  Evanescence.  Dust to dust.  Disintegration.  Worms.  Decay.   Oblivion.   Nullibiety.  Absence.  Eternal rest. Unconscious and unremembered.  Temporary.  Ephemeral.  Gone to God.   Meet your maker.   Planted.  Recycling through Nature as mere matter, molecules.  Transitory, transient, short-term.  Like a bubble - we all pop.  Cut flowers - like dead daisies, will wilt, and be tossed in the trash.   Perished.  Deceased.  No more.  An ex-person.  Expired.  Lifeless.  Belly-up.  Exanimate.  Adios!  Sayonara!  Ciao!  Hasta la bye-bye.  Goodbye, cruel world.   gone over dead.   dead done and gone.  dead as a doornail.  dead to the world.  unresponsive.  in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.  150k per day, worldwide.  don't fear the reaper.


mortals meet their makers as mere molecules of matter

dead, demised, deceased, disintegrated, dust, dearly departed, done

Being God for fun, kicks - to make my life epic, interesting...

    and also, because it's true!

cs - cs lewis and Christian Science (onward, christian soldiers)

Interesting linguistic relation fact:  SACRED is SCARED, rearranged

The possibility of heaven entails hell...

Reading recommendations: Noonday Demon, Demon Copperhead


OMG, Omega

Israel, Is Ra El?  iz wry elle, rye-L

  Israel, Is Ellen the sun goddess?

quirky and perky

irked at work by burger ergonomics

cemetery geometry

you need to practice your acting, and work at your twerking

earth is a place for peace

good times, on good terms

Tim and Tom in tombs by the Thames

  needing tums after reading the team's tome

meatier meteors, meteoroids, meteorites

meet me at the meatery

full steam ahead: science technology engineering arts math

steamed at the team, deemed lame

what constitutes a prostitute?

discovery and discernment at a disco


v's:

you're a builder

building something fun and amazing

we want you to have a phd, Jesse

you did it! you made the world cool again!

they know how well you try to be

they know it's you jess

they know you're ridiculous

we know how you god

they know what a Snape you are

I am sad

I don't know what to say except shit


shelter from the storm,  by Bob Dylan 

   (thinking about abortion:

but nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts

try imagining a place that's always safe and warm...)

come in, she said, I'll give ya, shelter from the storm


Justice (not just ice): 

retribution! punishment! vengeance! deterrence!

   or...

rehabilitation, forgiveness, reconciliation, and "restorative" justice