Irene

The premise of this blog is that I am God.   But not just me.   You, too.   Everyone, really.   If God is everywhere, He is in all, interpenetrates.   If Reality is all the God there ever is, then God is You, always and already.  God is good.   It’s linguistic.  Just like the devil is evil.   It doesn’t have to mean any more than that.  What is good?  Kindness, compassion, love, charity, comfort, contentment, bliss.   I’m sure you can think of others.   The cardinal virtues and such.  Refraining from criminality, whether that be petty or capital.   To be good is simply to not be bad.   It doesn’t have to be saintliness.   If the requirement for an eternal life of bliss in Heaven after you die is to be good, that’s really a low bar, if you ask me.  But only God is good, so you have to be God.  

There are lots of Gods, names for God, and even room for new religions and improvements of those already laying claim to your faith and religiosity, your attention.  What does the Bible and Koran say God is?   God is beneficent, merciful.  God is a man of war.  God is love.  God is One.  And plenty more.   Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.   All is frustration, futility, absurdity, nonsense.  This is the word of the Lord.

So you don’t have to change yourself to be God.   You were made in the image of God, by God, and if you are good, are God Himself.  So be good.   That’s what all the religions boil down to.  Don’t be evil- Google.  Do a good turn daily -Boy Scouts (slogan).   Love all, serve all -Hard Rock Cafe.  Be good for goodness’ sake - Santa.  Don’t worry, be happy! - Bobby McFerrin.   Love the sinner, but not the sin -Mom.   There is no sin, only crime -Me.   Morality is just about preferences, opinion.  The golden rule comes in several forms:  Don’t do unto others what you would not have done to yourself.   Do unto others what you would have others do to you.   And neither - People have different tastes.  :-)   

Personally, I don’t believe in souls or an afterlife (of reward, punishment, or ongoing normality).   Once you die, you’re dead, that’s it.  Oblivion is the universal fate.  You can leave behind a legacy, and kids, and things like books.  It doesn’t hurt to hope, though.   Break on through to the other side, yeah.  But I’d rather be surprised.  We have one life to live.   So do what you want, make this life heavenly.  I do believe in karma.   You get what you give.   You reap what you sow.   Life is good!  I’m a firm believer in positivity, service, pleasure, nature, music, libraries, good food, travel, movies, fitness, beauty, dreams, humor, and things like a dip in a pool, sunning yourself, writing, good conversation, and creativity.   Lifelong learning, staying curious.  Virtue, service, and making lots of money.  Amen.

So smile, laugh, tell jokes, have fun, play, and ham it up.   Life is ridiculous.   Life is a cereal.  You can be a cereal killer.   Like a comedian that kills.   You can be a man of war, that fights for peace, to prevent war from starting in the first place, that fights the psy war, the war of words, the irenic diplomacy we all want.   When I dip, you dip, we dip.  Ha.  Peace be with you. 

Stan and Lucy

 Everybody is NOT fuckin’ good, Jesse -v

Thought experiment

Everyone IS good?  Really?

It’s all good.

There is no evil.

No crime.

Everyone is free to do anything.

There is no God’s law

No law books:  chaos, anarchy

The natural state, The State of Nature

The most wicked is a kind of goodness, actually

Says the devil

Says god

Says me

AMC theaters: anarchy, mayhem, chaos

MCI mad crazy insane

CVS Cthulhu Voldemort Sauron

WAG the dog, Walgreens

MAD SLB. Mephistopheles Antichrist Devil Satan Lucifer Beelzebub

Stan and Lucy Duvall (Satan and Lucifer Devil)

   Stan and Lucy are famous fossils (T Rex and Australopithecus afarensis)

Damon's demonic dementia

vile violent violation

Dave, Devan, Devo, and Darth Vader

   diva, deva, devil

I dunno.   Full freedom might actually suck.

Might makes right and such

Everyone paranoid

The police would still lock people up

Love

Unconditional, True Love

People change, but true love persists, as a grokking of identity (both identities) and the relationship.   Love is renewed, as a committment between two different and changing beings, who would rather be together than alone, and feel they are and will be happier in communion.   Honestly, it takes work, and can be a bit of a gamble.  Cupid's arrow can be random, but some of us take what we can get.

Unconditional- no matter what.   If you love one, you love all (all in all is all we are), SO a relationship between two expands into your overall relationship with society.   Love is wanting the other person to be happy, not suffer, almost as an extension of self, with compassion and joy.

True, not acted or pretended, natural and organic.   Deep affection, and loving yourself around your loved one.   God is often defined as Love, the source of love, and can be a helpful belief for a committed relationship, grounded in an unchanging ideal of goodness and support and kindness.

Loving Reality, life, yourself, everyone.   Love is happy, helpful, hopeful (Heaven itself).

Sex is just a part of it, called "making love" for a reason, but not strictly necessary, especially if the love isn't mutual, or is unrequited.   Intimacy is a kind of maintenance, a language of touch between a couple who enjoy each other, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Love should grow and be reinforced, and be pleasurable, in every way.   Life can be hard, so having someone to deal with it all is important, even necessary, because solitude, alienation, isolation, and loneliness don't hold a candle to Love. 

The sex act does not equate to love.  But knowing each other's turn-ons and turn-offs is part of it.   Really, really good sex, good chemistry, is foundational for many relationships.   But not all.   Lovers should be best friends, too, if you ask me.

UTL also stands for Unable To Locate (in police lingo)

Love is inclusive, if universal.   Even for haters.   People who wish ill on others.  Like burn in hell for all eternity.   Or crucify him.  Even dumb dicks, stupid shits, idiot retarded wicked reprobate sinner criminals, monsters, demons and vicious villains.  Infested rotten whore things.  Arrogant bent corrupt depraved evil fucks.  Cruel and twisted.   Yada yada.   Every single one of us, the devil inside.  They say God loves everyone, including sinners.  God says I don't even know you.  But to know know know him is to love him.  I don't know you, but I love you.  You're a person.  I get it.  Get the picture?

I suppose I should add that God has his favorites.   Those he loves most (and least).   Right?

Hats off, yessir,  to yetzer ha-tov!   Have a Buddha-ful day!   Or an even butter day with cheeses rice :-)

I Noah guy.  Why didn't Noah go fishing?  He only had 2 worms!

G-D:  God Dick, Gigantic (Orgasmic) Dick

Mom and Dad are MAD about Meat And Dairy, Mutually Assured Destruction, and Making A Difference

InTIMidation,  reMARKs, eJACKulation, BILLionaire, sugJESStion, GREGarious, hilLARRY-us, TOM-ato, JIM-nasium, formMATT, JERRY-atric, glutTONY, banJOE,  genERIC,  SAMurai, naBOB, and uhh....conFREDeracy, caDAVEr/ affiDAVEit,  pELIcan, bALLENce, EDucation (Edgar, Edwin, Edward; Ed, Edd, and Eddie), ROBot, DANgerous, CHRIStian, running an AARONd, KURTains, ALgorithm, KENTucky, broKEN, JUANderer.   JOSE, can you see?

TriSARAtops/ SARAHmony, AmERICA, halLUCYnoJEN, mALICE / fallacy, KARENgo (an edible seaweed), BerKELLI,  blue hERIN, mESMEric/ linESMEn,  SUMMERsault,  VICtorY, fauna and fLAURA, moROSE, meMIRANDA. 

Wherever I go, Hugo;  Augie the logical yogi;  Pierre and the peerage system (UK),   the excitement and variety of feudalism, few-dull ism!;  peasants and serfs and pheasants and Smurfs;   the perfect society for the stressed and anxious:  calm-you-nism :-).   Phosphorus is fun for us.  Houthi youth seek Yemeni hegemony.   I can go to Iran, like Ivan.  Jedis in Jeddah.   I miss the missus' missiles.  I left the key to my EV in Kiev.  my darling uses Starlink.  You think this incense smells nice?  I dissent, and dislike the scent.  Barbaric Barbara is not as bad as Ruthless Ruth.   Flavor-flav knows Flávio?  Rounding up numbers and supporters, and pointing down.   Kids in the halal.  Yahoos crossing the Yalu.   Kevin in Kevlar.  Pogrom program is pro-Graham.    Blind and in a bind.  Sighted and cited.   Pneumonia and old Mona. Hanna- Barbera and barbaric Hannibal.  Doctor Pepper and Nurse Salt (Lot's wife?).  Meursalt drives a Murano (mucus, urine, o!).   Bi-sick:  Antisocial Personality Disorder, with a social disease.  Abih and Abigail.   Red Foley and Helen Reddy and Red Ryder, and Vida Blue.  Chopin (show pan) on a chopper.   Colonel Cornel eats corn with Commander Seaman (corny).  Get up!  Get on up!  Kilmartin and Bradbury.  MD and VP.    e.g. Marlene Dietrich and Vincent Price.   Leiningen and the ants, as read by the defend-ant :-)

tv faves:  National Geographic does Nature, and I like Miracles of Nature too;  Anthony Bourdain does food, Rick Steves does travel, and x does History (drunken history?).    Artcast is fun.   You should be able to pay x dollars for each museum, and get access to ALL the work!

Home of the Gods

 In your head?  In your house or room? In your heart?  In your pineal gland?  Somewhere in my blog?

Or in Heaven, Asgard, or Mt. Olympus?    Mount Kailash and Mount Meru, too.

Then again, some say God is omnipresent (EVERYWHERE!), as big as the universe itself!

Where are you, God?  Can you hear me?   Are you out there?

Come into my heart.   Make me a vehicle of your peace.   You know, that kind of thing.

Enjoy the ambrosia and nectar (food and drink of the Gods).   You are welcome here :-)

Testaments say tent, tabernacle, temple - transformation, (dwelling and residing permanently, not just as a guest).  Betwixt and between the two temples of your head!  (This temple is temporary, though- memento mori).   ROD, reminder of death.   Meditation, mindfulness, and Moksha.   Sukhavati does not suck.

Nirvana is a band, and City of God is a movie, too

my happy place-  a land of contentment, without greed or hatred, and omniscience (with wisdom, without ignorance).   You can be happy anywhere, they say.   For no reason whatsoever, in fact.   Right here, right now!

the holy throne seat?  no shit!   or, where the magic happens, places of pleasure...

New Bike!

 The Trek people are amazing

My Trek e-bike (pedal-assist), which I bought for $1400 in May of 2019, had a problem with the kickstand, and a piece of metal came off the frame, and my warranty meant I get a brand new bike!   Phil at the Berkeley store helped me get my $1999 brand new Trek electric bike, which I rode home from the nearby store just today.   It's all black, except for tan tires, and it looks smart.   I hope it lasts.

I'm charging it now.  I rode out to Safeway for chinese food.   My only complaint is it doesn't go over 20 miles per hour.   Like the pedals get sludgy, even going downhill.   But it's got turn-signals, which are awesome, and front and rear lights built into it.   It's still heavy, but I don't mind, because it's fun.   It accelerates quickly.   I have to adjust to the new configuration.   The seat is higher than the handlebars.

I'm told a single charge will take me 75 miles, depending how much juice I use.   Of course, I like going fast.  It's fun going uphill, because it's effortless, and I know how much harder it would be without it.  

Thanks, Trek!

wp (wordplay)

Two-face uses toothpaste!,  new shoe goo for you;   Joe Palooka fires a bazooka;  bloody bludgeoning;  toxic topics;  angel anger;  gnome enemy; albino from Albion;  hostile at the hostel;  orgasm organism; Amy and Erica, for America!   Electric bill:  elect Rick and Bill!  Karen caring about cairns; torture in an orchard; abbot in the habit of stabbing rabbits (at the abattoir);  HALF (have a little faith) in me :-)

God's prayer to Himself

Hey there, everyone, howzit goin’?   I’m good, fine, well, doin’ my thing.  Y’know, writing, thinking, napping, walking, talking and such.   Hope you are also in fine fettle.   Anyway, if I had omnipotence, which I don’t think I do, but what if, right? - I think I’d end war.   I could outlaw militaries, and make it a crime, in international law, to arm up and threaten your neighbors, or anyone else, fellow members of the UN.  The whole world are international citizens, and have human rights, which include peace, and peaceful leadership.   So, just as an individual can’t rob a pedestrian walking down the street, Putin can’t threaten to steal $26T from Ukraine, which is really what it boils down to, if you ask me.  That’s the value of the Ukrainian economy.   

Anyway, I would also -after criminalizing war- have libraries, and digital libraries, available to everyone on earth.   Because reading is fun.    And education should be free.  And this includes exercise regimens for everybody to keep themselves in really good shape, for strength, and endurance, and general health, in addition to beauty.   

Let the robots do the work.   Do what you want to do, yourself, right?  Amen.

where do you hail from?  hale and hearty, and it's hailing outside.

aisles in the supermarket, isles in the ocean

sewers and people who sew garments

flowers and rappers who spit a flow

integrity and out-tegrity!?   ha

(Patrick) Mahomes is my homie

Charlie Chaplin's chaplain

Get your act together, marine corps chaplain!

oxymoron?  huh?  1600 military intelligence

thou shalt not kill, Exodus 20:13

there is a time to kill, Ecclesiastes 3:3

I have some time to kill

these are some killer shades, dude

comedians that "kill"     :-)

drinking Killian's red in a kilt before ascending Kilimanjaro...

1 world is enough for all of us

the UNI-verse IS a multi-verse

multiple psyches in one fabric of spacetime

   "fabric" doesn't do justice to a 3D grid of cubes

but diversity is a good thing, in my book

it's already one (composite) world, if you ask me

different worlds, countries, planets

men are from Mars, women from Venus

Americans have freedoms of speech, petition, assembly, religion, press

   can have any or no religion

in god we trust, on the money

you can define any which way you like (any witch?)

race, religion, region, books, music, nationality - worlds

diseases and wars and money and weather/climate do not respect borders

love doesn't respect borders, either

even if irrational hate sometimes does

it's a complex system

small things ripple outward

sheeple zombies and alive! thrill-killers?

   it doesn't have to be that way

can't we all get along?  - Rodney King

some of us Get Shorty

shit I'm shot, thought the shoat

shoot the sheets (ghostbusters), in Shetland

Is the God of the Universe a space alien?

is there anybody out there? -Pink Floyd

Jews on Jupiter, listening to Neptunes, driving a Saturn, wiping Uranus

In Plutonic relationships (that's cold!)

Star Wars biology

midi-chlorians and mitochondria

amidala and amygdala

F=ma

Jed die, Jed eye

tomorrow is a new day (and a new month)

new year's resolutions can be renewed, monthly

every night you can review your day, and plan the next

you don't have to do anything, you can do nothing

relax, take it easy;  work hard 24-7; do what thou wilt

an old soul, newness at noon

elegy for an intelligent religion

stupid Stuart, stupid cupid

love that fits like a glove

www.love.gov

Bigots, got bi, big O tires, Big OT, big it

Brigitte the bigot, irked by jerks, annoyed Boyd

Bob Saget and the maggot faggot

icky Vicki, smelly Kelli, messy Jesse

Schroeder's odors, heaven-scent

Lionel clean and neat :-)

what's the anemometer reading for Soledad?

mm, mother's cookies and dad's root beer

San Diego Padres and the Sierra Madre

Clarence and Terrence are my parents

  not Anne and Saul, or Erin and Darren

Wonder Woman and Barbi

Amazon and Barbizon

Amazing Barbara

rebarbative Barbara, eats rhubarb

Sheikh in an earthquake:  It shook the shocked sheikh

pay shekels to shake the love shack

Ferrari in Harare, zooms in Zimbabwe

a record by wrecked Kurds

listen, glisten, and kiss the missus

Angelica the angel, nimble in her nimbus

it's hard to please a plesiosaur

yellow-bellied rednecks and greenbacks

Cincinnati reds and Cleveland browns 

  UPS, the power of brown

Violet Beauregarde sing the blues with the indigo girls

Blue Angels, blue devils, yellow jackets, green party, green bay

Orange County and red square, oranges and blueberries

red apple, strawberries, watermelon, cranberries,

      cherries, pomegranates, raspberries

orange oranges, yellow bananas, greens, purple eggplant

    plus, blue spirulina, corn, potatoes

Mariah the pariah

febrile in February

re zent mint of my inability to spell correctly?

valetudinarian valedictorian became a veterinarian veteran aryan

Hi Gene!  what does genetics say about brushing your teeth?

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