My Life, of late

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

carrots and sticks, or carats and Styx?

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

Rocky, can you do me a solid?  Why should boulders be bolder?  are Oliver Stone and The Rock petrified (scared)? a blockhead with a heart of stone.  Is it hard to get hard?  The trouble with roubles is the rubble.

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

the Philly minion eats filet mignon

the mime puts on a bib;  mm, prime rib

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

Lava

 Hell

Perdition

Eternal torment

Unending horror

For all eternity, without end, forever and ever

An infinity of burning in Lake of Fire

Pain, Agony, Suffering, Torture

Misery, Anguish, Despair

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

In my book, Hell IS the biggest sin

A good God would never create such a thing

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

cruelty, brutality, savagery, ruthlessness

rape, murder, slavery

Karma: mean to the mean, get what you give

Eye for an eye, tooth for tooth

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

Ranging from dissatisfaction to pure evil

Rage against the machine

Goddamned piece of shit

A place removed from God, full of demons

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

war is hell;  hellions are in a bad place

No good luck

No fun

A fancy scare

No one survives death

Everyone gets Oblivion

Sinners, saints, amoebas, elephants, everyone

But the concept of hell serves a purpose

Scared straight, fear of God

God uses both the carrot and the stick

Mind control

Be good, or else

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here

A lot of noise, words, intimidation, fear

Hell is dukkha

Pleasure is the absence of dukkha

Neutral is positive (relative to the insanely negative)

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

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

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

Turn the other cheek

Forgive and forget, let it be

Kindness is my religion

It’s a long hard road out of hell

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

Reading queue

Wikipedia (wanderings), and WorldBook (21 volumes)

Economist (magazine, weekly), thanks mom

Short Stories (Best American series, library shelf)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Do, Tada!

From To Do to Done Did:

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

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

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

PIA (Peripheral Intelligence Agency), lol

Purell (antibacterial) is not Prell (shampoo)

bigots, bigotes (mustaches), and Big O tires

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

Huron neurons 

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

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

grant deed, gravely disabled, goddamn

assiduously assessing assassins

a stack of steaks, I'm stoked!

protein and Pantene and poutine, tunes for teens

pump rumps and dump Trump?  ew

Trump's got mumps

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

I'm kooka-loca about Coca-Cola!

the rabbi with rabies speaks arabic

what's the beef between Kabul and Macao?

   Camus would like to know

vampire cow?  in the moo-v's

murderous marauders from Mordor

Hungry in Hungary

Bolsheviks, Turkey, Chile and a bowl of turkey chili

GOD, Great Offensive Destruction

   German opera director

   Gandalf or Dumbledore

   gluttonous overeating disorder

   gaylord, overlord, dragon lord

   German Oktoberfest Deutschland

   governs our destiny

mosquitos in mosques, lice in Laos

insects in sects

Lake of Fire of Hell vs. Heaven on Earth

LFH

God is the Creator.  Love.   God the Father.  Mother Earth.  Ra, the sun God.  The sun is made of plasma.  The sun will expand and engulf the Earth in future.  We’re all destined to the lake of fire.   That’s plasma.   Ionized gas.  Lake of fire could also be the puddle of wax on your candle.  What else could a Lake of Fire be?  Lava, of course.  Or even a flammable liquid, like the ocean was, during WWII when the Navy sailors jumped ship into the sea, and were severely burned, from the fire made from spilled and ignited fuel.  

HOE

What about Heaven?  Here’s 4 varieties, in different neighborhoods of the “Heavens.”   On drugs, on a blissful high, from chemicals that do the trick.    2.   In love, making love like rabbits, or something.   That’s oxytocin, actually, they say.   But your body can synthesize its own drugs, is what I’m trying to say.  3.  Stillness, peace, enlightenment, Nirvana.   Nibbana is the rarefied world of blissful meditation, realizing truth.  4.  Comedy club, losing yourself in laughter.    For starters.   There’s a million more.

The twisted and sadistic make compassion fashionable!

what is the meaning of "the kind kind"?  

vicious and malicious, the love from above

my sweetheart has high blood sugar

bike, bart, and bus, from Berkeley, in the Bay Area

philosophically, perhaps my primary purpose is happily and politely picking up pooch poop

G-Ds:  Gray Davis, Geena Davis, g'day!  Great Dane

Eat like a God at Gary Danko's

QT:  rhythm, Quentin Tarantino is a cutie

In Session

 God v. Demon

Court is now in session

Sentenced for as long as it takes to become Me

People are people, so why should it be, you and I should get along so awfully?

Estranged from yourself

Go ahead, try it, you’ll like it, you’ll see

Nothing is good, nothing is bad, everything just IS

live, die, whatever

pleasure, pain, well…not whatever

Pleasure is FAR superior

Karma for pain- you cause it, you receive it

Life is measured in future pain or pleasure

So prove your life is The Good Life, to be spared

The future is theoretical

Theos is the operating system

betterment, improvement, increase

Life is Good! Said God

Because I AM

I’ve only killed x

I’ve only killed y

Demon v. God

Chess 

Thou shalt not killl

Do as I say, not as I do

Killing, bad

If you kill, you must be Me

Corporate, and justified, and reciprocal

And Forgiven

Manslaughter?  Young girl’s laughter?

Ugh 

UBI, survival guarantee for everyone

Universal basic income

A floor, with no ceiling! (re: income)

The Will of God, things as they are

The best of all possible worlds?

With everyone pursuing their own version of Utopia

No way!  Ya, whey!  weigh

YHWH,  (H WHY, backward)

antichrist and ant eye cry (st, something)

aunty kreist?

Jesus, hey Zeus

Slartibartfast created Norway

Bayou?  by you!  by me? blimey!

Chuck Norris died.    Robert Mueller died.   xx.   

beastly burial holes: 6 feet under, by 6 feet wide, by 6 feet long (!)

death cubes, burial squares, G-D the Grave-Digger

DAE, dangerous and evil