Bugs in the Matrix

Bugged by

Insects, in sex (birds and bees), bee mine

Mosquito, little mosque

Bugs (easter) bunny, playboy bunny, and runny knows

Butterflies flutter by (spoonerism)

God dog, goat (greatest of all time), cat-erpillar

centipede and the scent of pee

Demon dog, whore pig, satan snake, goat (goatee), filthy rat, bear

Teshara, he’s a rat (anagram)

Computer bugs, Ant-christ, Flea - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fly fly fly, 666;   Beatles- Rubber Soul; 

Spiders, Lakota iktomi;  Ojibwe/Chippewa, dream catcher

Pop a pillbug, roly-polys, and horse and buggy

Creepy crawlies and devoured by Death, Time 

Cockroaches (dungbeetles) and Kafka
Police and pissed off lice (get out of my hair!) on the beat-les

Medusa (snake hair) and rabbits on my head (hares!)

   medications in the USA, and rabbis

   drugs and ughs (are giant profitable corporations making us sick?)

   pharmaceutical companies are so PC

       authenticity is out of Vogue;  Buicks for big pharma 

Spy spiders and bug buggery (and pie and ida)

Mother moth and mantis man

Smiley face spider, assassin bug, death’s head hawkmoth

dragonflies bug dragons, but fireflies are fired up

Gnats and Natalie, aphids and safe lids, mighty mites 

you have much to learn, young grasshopper

creature features and groovy movies 

and hideous videos of scary fairies

sleazy makes you queasy?  easy-peasy!

buggery and thuggery, escape the ape rape tape

but beg for a big bag of bugs

a smug bug named Doug on drughs needs a hug

World Wide WEBB

AnNETte V. Riddle

Putting the INTER in Internet (or Printer)

Mating in the matrix

Fear in the sphere

    key to the psyche

Conviction in your CONsciousness

    "contact is the reason, is the answer, why everything happens"

Honey traps and hunny bunnies and honeymoons and honey buns 

    (and Attila the Hun) (and funny money, sunny outlook) 

    when your nose is kinda runny, you might think it's funny, but it's snot)

btw, it's PRAYING mantis, not PREYING mantis, even though it IS. predatory.  Mantis means prophet.  The mantis from Atlantis has a fantasy about antics with ants :-)

Eowyn is not a heroine on heroin

Nor a bug on drughs

But a noblewoman, and that's no bull

The LOTR says there's a fungus among us

so the lord of the rings buys lotrimin

amen

Who was Attila's honey?  Kreka and Ildico

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The Frugal Father

 Raising Children on a Budget in America

Sometimes, including college costs, raising a kid can cost half a million dollars.   This is daunting, to say the least.   But it doesn’t need to be that expensive.   Heck, what about in human history, the Native Americans, say?  They didn’t need baby bouncers, piano lessons, Vision Pro goggles, college, and the rest.  In any case, I compiled a bunch of tips for frugal family fathering, or whatever the case may be.  

Consult parenting and frugality bloggers.  Even if you’re more fortunate than most, you can still be frugal, thrifty, economical.  SO.  Buy used (second-hand) clothes (from churches, goodwill, thrift stores, consignment stores, garage sales, flea markets, etc.), get freebies and join giveaway groups (facebook groups, say), buy beds, swings, strollers, bouncers, etc. from friends or on craigslist.  NextDoor can be a resource, too.  Keep your eyes open.  Buy things in advance (like for Christmas or birthdays).  Look for special offers, like for camping or theme-parks.  Talk to other parents to share costs and activities, get free food from food pantries (if not food stamps, aka CalFresh, SNAP, EBT, Link), use coupons vouchers discounts deals sales bargains (you get the idea), have only ONE snack time per day (they will finish dinner, as well), budget and plan healthy batch meals (crockpot? for the freezer, to save time), buy in bulk and generic and from warehouse stores (like Costco or Sam’s Club), limit the frequency of (eliminate?) eating fast-food and takeout meals, do free activities (like outdoors, free concerts, parks and playgrounds, back yard, etc.), the LIBRARY especially, have your housing expenses be underbudget, use cloth diapers (cheaper AND less landfill waste), avoid “toy chaos” and get, say, one nice gift per child for Christmas, instead of many cheap ones…  Public schools, and limiting the number of sports to one per child, and not buying all the garbage that you don’t want or need, or to “keep up with the Jones”, or be pressured into fundraisers, etc.  Fill your calendar with fun and free activities.  Libraries don’t just have books, magazines, audiobooks, and computers/tablets.  They have story time, and other family programming, and dvd’s, for example.  Swap baby-sitting with other families, to trade the service instead of pay for a sitter.  Sock money away in a 529 college savings plan. Make a list of all your expenses, and prioritize them, and regularly review your budget, to put your family’s needs first and cover the essentials.  Avail yourself of the child tax credit.  Save for an emergency.  Make money last until payday.  Use comparison websites for things like your phone/utility/broadband bills, and switch to cheaper options.  Laundry can be cold-washed and air-dryed to save energy bills.  Maybe you can get solar panels installed, and even get paid for your surplus electricity.  Weigh your options.   Don’t automatically buy stuff;  give it a couple days, “needs” dissipate.  Daycare is said to be the biggest expense:  instead of $300+ a week, you can find an in-home daycare provider (you trust) for less.  In the teens, or junior/high, your child(ren) can earn spending money, do odd jobs, and be taught to wait for things.   Delayed gratification is a valuable lesson.  We live in a capitalist society, and it’s absurd, really.  All of us live, reproduce maybe, and die.  Don’t worry about it.  You don’t have to be Bill Gates or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett or anybody but yourself.  You can't take it with you.  What people call “poor” is freaking filthy-rich relative to both space and time, geography and history.  Be happy.   It’s not all about money.   To me, it’s not even a third about money, to put a number on it.  But money never hurt. 

I have a disability and get SSA, SSI, Medicare A and B, Medi-cal, and free dental.  I haven’t researched all the programs available to low-income families.

Family

Crash!  (Car flips off the road and comes to rest upside down off the side of the highway).  Passenger, a beautiful 17 year old, ejected and mangled and barely alive, then dead.  A nightmare during the middle of the night, running for help, losing a shoe.  Press coverage, harsh and judgmental treatment, a police officer trying to assuage me with a god I didn’t believe in, and her belongings strewn about the site, to be collected and returned to her family.  Life as I know it is now over.   My sister is dead.  She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and we were both stupid, and she would probably still be alive today if I were half as smart as I thought I was.  She would probably be one of my best friends.   She would probably have a family.  I am such an idiot.   Lesson?  Wear seatbelts.  Don’t smoke.  Don’t overcorrect.  And don’t speed.   Keep your eyes on the road.  Go slow.  It’s not that important.  Don’t take stupid risks.  Stay alive.  Jesus has nothing to do with it.  But God as your copilot can’t hurt, I guess.  

Starting a family+

Being a part of a community, conceiving kids and adopting kids and serving those in need.  Teaching what you know, learning what you should teach, and just being there for those who can benefit from your experience and advice, knowledge wisdom and understanding.  Help those around you, and help the larger world in an ethical profession that serves humanity and meets a need.   Be good.  Be God.

Raising a family

Having enough money and resources for their upbringing, etc. (marriage, inheritance, unforeseen need).   They say it costs the average American family $300k to raise a kid (for 17 years; and not including college).  But it can be done cheaply.   Just not as well, of course.   Right? The statistics online range from $233,610 to $240k to $288,094.   So this is ballpark $1334 a month (which works out to $44/d... for 17 years).  Childcare is the biggest component.  They say girls cost more.  There are free food, free clothing, free education, free healthcare.  Free libraries.  Even housing can be inexpensive, if you’re lucky.   Maybe you need transportation.  Cars are more of a necessity than luxury, these days.  But if you’re talented and have a college education, you can earn bank in a country as opportunity-rich as the United States of America.  Luck might play a part, too.  Geography does.  And your child(ren) can get all they need, if not from parents and family, then from charity, or, when they’re older, from hard work (e.g. merit scholarships), and from -of course- needing less.  But every parent dreams of giving their children all they need, and enough for them to be happy well into the future, if not their grandchildren’s futures.  

   Okay, not just money, but good schools, fun and play and enjoying childhood without being overly structured, fun toys (like at Christmas;  average xmas expenditure is $220/child), love of Nature, instilled values, work ethic, and occasional fun things like vacations abroad or trips to Disneyland or going to museums.   Reading aloud.  Being interested in their day, their interests, their problems or concerns, and talking to them.  Granting freedom to explore interests, choosing a religion, choosing a political affiliation, be their own person.  My dad and grandpa and I are all Eagle Scouts, and I would hope my own would be in that world, too. 

A Funny Little Poem

 

Fuuuuuuck

Oh Oh! Oh!

Best orgasm ever

Best sex ever

Best partner ever

Most love ever

Insane commitment

Do anything for her

Lay down life for her, even

Die for her

Kill

Anything

But we both have morals

We wouldn’t ask anything wicked of each other

Is part of our immense and intense love

We want to grow old together

We’re set

Life is good

Life is great!

We’re living the good life

This is the dream

The best life each of us can imagine

We’re happy and content and fulfilled and blessed

This is enough

Thanks, God

Thanks, my lucky stars

Thanks, fate

Thankyou, baby Jesus!

Melange Mix Medley

 Don’t you love her madly?  Yes.  Sanely too.   Every which way.  Every which but the witchy.  Maybe a little black magic is called for.  Some eye of newt.  Skin of a toad.  That kind of thing.  Love is a many-many-splendored thing.  But ONE splendor is enough for me.  Or one newt, anyway.  :-)

Sardaukar!   Impose military rule over the universe through suicidal disregard, and cruelty and terror.  WE ARE SAUDAUKAR.  THE EMPEROR’S BLADES.  THOSE WHO STAND AGAINST US FALL.  (from Dune)

You got to go through hell before you get to heaven?

Churchill said if you’re going through hell, keep going.  But Hell doesn’t exist.  But you need to purify before you get into Heaven.   But Heaven is earth.   But not the soil sense of the word ‘earth.’  Unless you like it dirty.   Heaven is her.  er, earth.  er, fur, gr, myrrh, purr, sur, whirr….  How dirty is dirt, anyway?  And is soap even clean?  

Devil's depraved diabolical demons:

Hell is/can mean 4 things: 1. Eternal torment, 2. Death, 3. Prison, 4. Suffering, (and also, 5. that place in Norway) (or, 6. Hel (one L), the place/world of the dead in Norse mythology, which later became the goddess of death)

Only God is good?  All people are bad?  99.9%?  What if people are people.   Everybody is the same.   Anybody can be anything.  God is a man of war.   So God is a person.  War is bad?  Love the sinner, hate the sin.  People are bodies.   Bodies are not evil.  Actions are, and the decisions to make those actions.  But sin doesn't exist.   Only crime does.   Different people have different "god's laws."  One man's trash is another's treasure.   One's virtue, another's vice.  And some people have really TWISTED "virtues."  Everybody is the God of their own skull-sized kingdom.   Mean or kind.  They can instill their values in their children.  They can become politicians or Supreme Court justices.  No matter how much we differ, we all usually think of ourselves as good.   So God is a game.   No?

Consular counselors

I hope this brightens your day, brings a smile, cheers you up

Windows and widows

Tighty-whities and wheaties

Wet wit and dry cough

Greg's congregation

Larry T's hilarity

expenses and experiences

diplomats and mad pilots

going the whole way down the hallway

talking to you, talking through you

propose to a porpoise on purpose?  preposterous!

abusive medusa (and Yusef)

which-craft:  Hot N Cold, by Katy Perry

   (she has a cat named Kitty Purry!)

Dove soap (are doves actually filthy animals?)

    (pigs are said to be clean!)

MJ, Mick Jagger and messianic judaism

    (messy Anne Nick, "macy - onic", like masonic, or William H.)

    mace and masons and Macy's and Messi and, of course:

        the messiah's messy message

an anthem for atheism

v

You’re law

I AM mad, Jesse

That is a genius to you and Satan

You really are Allah

Blog

Finished, polished, structured, organized

Zap!

head shocks, brain zaps, and correlation to Tornadoes

Medications and elecroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Grateful Dead logo and Harry Potter lightning bolt

Zapped!  Like a mosquito

Biophysics and electric kool-aid (chest pains, too)

“shocking” events, “shocks” of hair, and electricity in the air

Electrify an audience, electrify the room, power-ful speakers

Light switches as erections

www

World Wide Web and witches, wizards, and warlocks

who what where when why

dubya 

W, 2 V's (close), double-you, fangs/canines/eye-teeth, vampiric

THE LATEST DRAMA

v

‘she wants to die’ -v  (cum?) (depressive, suicidal) (homicidal)

She says she doesn’t like penises

She says she’s god, and that god kills whores

She said “i will kill you.   Do you understand?”   twice.

She repeatedly accuses me of cheating.  I am not a cheater.

She has trust issues.  She never believes me.  

I’m at my wit’s end.   End of my rope, or whatever.

I don’t know how to have her believe I’m faithful (and will be).

Maybe I’m an idiot, and she’s just playing.  Doesn’t seem like it.

I told her, the last time I cheated was when 

    I got help with a spanish essay, freshman year of college.

She could be a stone cold killer.  I mean, we met at a psych H.

I do not appreciate my life being threatened.

I can love a killer.   I can even tolerate threats.

It might not be the healthiest relationship, even toxic, but love is love.

I mean, soldiers love each other.  Carnivores love each other.

She’s sweet and righteous, and that’s one reason why I love her.

She’s gorgeous, (but it can sometimes get “ugly” !!)

IF  she was saying IF/THEN (you cheat, I’ll kill), that’s okay (maybe)

But IF it was a promise that “I WILL KILL YOU”, then that’s crossing a line.

It’s a crime, actually.   A terrorist threat.  I can’t abide that.

Shit.  I love this woman.  What should I do?

When she asked, “do you understand?” I said no (both times).

IF you cheated, I’ll kill?  IF you WILL cheat, I’ll kill?

OR, (EVEN IF I”M CRAZY AND JUST BELIEVE YOU CHEATED), I’LL KILL YOU (????)

I guess that's love.

Jealousy is a thing.   A dangerous, frightening thing.

I told her (David said) I was a vampire.

She said "maybe" she was a vampire.

We have a thing.   A kind of insane thing.

I'm crazy about her.

The Snake's Tail

Better Angels and the Wrath of God.   The Snake Eating It’s Tail.   Or, Evil against Evil is Good.   Is Why God (Love) is a Man of War (Hell).   And (a ‘hypocrite”) who killed 2,821,364 people in the Bible.   He commanded Thou Shalt Not Kill.   Vengeance is mine, sayeth the lord.   Every human being on earth is a “terrorist organization.”  A boiling pot of resentment.  Only God is good.   Some think an eternal HELL is a wise creation of heavenly justice.  Others think God should go to hell, Himself, for being worse than the hellions themselves.   Is God both the best and the worst?

And love means hate, if, for example, someone rapes your child, or murders your wife, or tortures your family, for example.*.  If justice is unobtainable by the police, and you KNOW the perp’s identity….  Then, in that case, I would say, abduction into a private prison could be merited.  If they beat your loved ones, then justice would be vengeance in kind with cruel beating(s) of your own, and even rape, torture, and slow, painful murder might even be called for, for satisfaction.  It could be just and right and merited and a sad conclusion to a tragic situation, not a thrill-kill.  Is my attempt to understand Hell.   Hell is, after all, extra-judicial.

I’m just saying, I understand.

*On the other hand, maybe violence is NEVER justified.   No one should join the military, and militaries should not exist, and they should never go to war, and all murder is an abomination, and the cycle of violence needs to stop with you, no matter what, with understanding and forgiveness, not vengeance and retribution, to lessen the overall amount of suffering in the world, and allow Hope.  Criminals need to be locked up, but eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, and justice should be kind, and not make the justice system as guilty as the perpetrator.   In other words, impose a harsh penalty, in a sentence of time, but not in pain or cruelty.  Just confine someone to a cell, and deprive them of freedom, without killing or maiming them.   A truly enlightened justice system understands the context and motivation(s) of the criminal (act), and aims for the repentance and transformation of even the most heinous criminals.  

MY VIEW

In the heat of passions, the need for retribution may cloud anyone’s judgement, and make it less than objective, fair, and impartial.  God is emotional, and feels wrongs against him deeply, and has a thirst for justice, a need for things to be made right.  But he is also cold, detached, unemotional, dispassionate, objective, and capable of impartial fairness and justice.  So Hell is just a threat, a disincentive.   The reality is everybody, no matter what their life story or history, good or bad, dies and disappears, dust to dust.  That is the ultimate fate of all criminals.  I personally believe in pacifism and the idealism of maybe someday there not being a need for militaries or police or weapons, but this is obviously unrealistic, and I simply espouse Buddhism for virtues like kindness, and Islam for a beneficent, merciful God, and Christianity for love and turning the other cheek, and Hinduism for recognizing that it is valid to worship different forces, such as Creation, Preservation, or Destruction.  In other words, it’s all good, and atheism is a path to God, and eventually people see the Truth of the wisdom of reducing suffering and increasing contentment.  The goals of the good life are bliss, service, peace, prosperity, health, love, fun.   A virtuous person seeks to end the suffering of ALL beings, not just themselves.  I think the best people are funny, and make others happy.   Was the Buddha a comedian?

Gene Machines

HUMAN NATURE

If a human has done it, it’s a part of human nature!   We’re protean, and can basically become almost anything.  Anybody.  The full range, the full spectrum, is possible.   The best person in history and the worst could have been the same person.  Math can kind of calculate our behavior.    Sociobiology and evolutionary genetics can predict likelihoods of stuff (I vaguely remember from college anthropology).  We’re gene machines.  

Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology.. different perspectives on being human.   We’re descended from hominids in Africa, and have invented both libraries and nuclear bombs.     Our experience ranges from true love to flame-throwers.  There are lovely cities like St. Helena and hellscapes like plastic-covered beaches.   War, from us and them divisions and aggravations, and peace, from friendship and philosophy (like religions or comity of nations), are entirely the choice of the leaders of society.  In democracies, everyone has a say.  Everyone that votes, anyway.  Human Nature can get really ugly.  We’re mean to each other all the time.

Resentments and malice and hatred and aggression can quickly spiral into (sometimes large scale) conflict.  Everyone needs to fight for peace.   Ha.

The Satanists vs.  The Buddhists

The sick savage slaughter by satanists against a pacifist kind compassionate equanimous society of buddhist bhikkus is actually possible.  A bunch of self-immolating monks would make the devil cackle with delight.  It’s a mad mad world. 

Humankind should be both, but is often neither.  We’re carnivores, and responsible for death and suffering on a vast scale.  We’re animals, but think we can waste the earth because we’re destined for Heaven.  We’re lovers, but we are twisted into hate by the media.  We want happiness, but think we have to be slaves to the money til we die, for it.  We want sex and intimacy and love, but end up with prostitution and sexual slavery and rape and disease. 

What God Says About Good and Bad

Morality and Ethics (and me!)

Virtue and Depravity, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil

Morality:  conformity to ideals of right human conduct (virtue, character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, probity, rectitude, righteousness, (up)rightness, virtuous(ness)

Ethics: principles of conduct governing a group (or Individual)

Guiding philosophy, (theory, system, set), good and bad, duty and obligation

For me, virtue is letting everybody be who they want (freedom, but without impinging on the rights of others).  Maybe “rights” don’t exist objectively, but it’s a convenient way of saying what Jefferson did, “you have the freedom to swing your fist, but that freedom ends at the tip of my nose.”   Or, in other words, other people exist, and we all want the same things (basically).   The golden rule(s), do unto others as you would have them do to you, as well as, don’t do unto others what you don’t want them do to you.   There’s the caveat, of course, that people have different tastes and want different things.  But being suicidal doesn’t give you the right to go on a killing spree.  And loving everyone shouldn’t make you feel entitled to universal respect in return.  The law limits freedom, but in a way that allows everyone to exercise his or her limited freedoms to the greatest extent possible.   If you want to kill, join the military.  If you want to beat people up, get in a ring.  If you want to rape, get into bdsm and find a woman that wants to be dominated.  If you want to be depraved for the sake of worshipping satan or something, be willing to serve time, and be raped in prison, and/or beat up, and maybe die.  Hell, basically.   And if you want to torture, the CIA and military and, of course, people who are into sadism, could all be your bag.   There’s a way to meet the need for every kink, and all dark impulses can be satisfied legally, if only in video games. 

What is good?  The good life.   Not suffering, and bliss.   The absence of dissatisfaction and the positive presence of pleasure.  Money, love, leisure, and things like good food, vacation, good books and movies and music, looking good and feeling good (e.g. endorphins, oxytocin), and being in a good frame of mind (peace, safety, good weather, meditation, yoga, etc.).  

A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.   On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to god and my country to obey the scout law to keep myself physically strong mentally awake and morally straight.   Be prepared.   Do a good turn daily.  Be a man for others.  Love thy neighbor.  Love all serve all.  

Honesty?  Only God is good.  God is a man of war.  War is the art of deception.  Sometimes lies are necessary.   They’re a good way to get at the truth.  And it’s not illegal to tell lies (except under oath), despite what your mother may have told you.  Maybe you decided in your youth, on a policy of truth.  I don’t think presidents should do nothing but spew lies all day at the American people.  But I do think cops should use any methods at their disposal to legally get to the truth about crime and culprits.  And during war, the enemy should be confused and deceived. 

Depravity and evil (and DAE!), raw about right and wrong, GE we bring good things to life, Depraved virtue and Darth vader and VD (Venereal disease)…

Depravity is sin at the extreme evil end of the spectrum.  Wickedness at another level.   Things like abduction, and false imprisonment, and savage beatings, and enslavement, and violent rape, and torture, and thrill-killing murders, and cannibalism.  Cruelty of any kind is deeply immoral, in my book.  I’m a hypocrite, but I believe meat is murder.  The enjoyment I get from eating meat outweighs any moral qualms I might have about animal suffering.  But I’m not about to start eating babies.   Starting wars is depraved and mass murder or serial-killing is not acceptable, by any means.  We’ve all wanted to.  At least, I’ve been there.  But live and let live.   We all have to live with each other. 

God Religion and Spirituality

GOD

    God created man.   But first, man created God.  Although God is love, so love created the man that created God.  And maybe the Universe was created by a space alien.   So THAT deity has everybody beaten, chronologically.  I’ve heard a philosopher posit that God is outside of time.  God is a man of war?  God is Jesus, prince of peace?  God gave the ten commandments, enjoining his people (everyone?) to not kill.   But vengeance is mine, sayeth the lord.  If God isn’t confused, He sure is confusing.   He doesn’t make mistakes, and is the source of all goodness, and is beneficent, merciful.  Yet he created hell.  He understands everyone, is omniscient, and kind and compassionate and loving and good.   But he sacrificed his own son to be nailed to a cross, in agony and torture.  God is singular and plural, male and female, and immanent and transcendent.  God is infinite, and yet you can be separated from Him.  God is eternal, yet Nietzsche said God is dead.  I happen to believe everyone is their own God.  Religion is an exercise in hypnosis.  I like the Native American stories.   I even appreciate the absurd Scientology UFO saga.  God is a Father figure, imagined as a refuge and resource, a protector and an answerer to prayers.   God is also a flying spaghetti monster.  I kind of like the adage, Reality is all the God there ever is.  God is good and great and perfect and never makes mistakes and a man of war and always and everywhere and omniscient and omnipotent and a concept, role, identity, and status.   God is the source of all things good, and dog backwards, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  God is invincible and invisible.  God is insanely sane and hears and answers prayer and is One.  God is the big kahuna.  God is getting old and dying, and gone over dead, and grave oblivion death.   God is also good orderly direction and a group of disciples and good old days and gratification of desires.  Vonnegut said we become what we pretend to be.  God is the Santa for adults, and the Source of All Moral Authority.  God is like a video game level in the game of life.  God is the Great OutDoors.   God makes wind, lol.

RELIGION

    A religion is just another type of gang.  Like a school/sports team or nation or corporation or knitting club.  It’s a philosophical affiliation, and usually what you were brought up in, part of your cultural identity.   You can “ligion” and re-ligion.   Ha.

SPIRITUALITY

    Spirituality is all about penetration.  Spirits like ghosts, mind, the immaterial world.   Physics tells us that not everything is matter.  Like light, or radio waves, or anything else on the electromagnetic spectrum, like X-rays or microwaves.  Energy, basically.  Matter is energy and energy is matter.  They can change form.  Anyway, you can drink spirits and spear it.   Spirituality is kind of sexy.  The holy spirit even includes hole.  And you can spear your food with a fork and chew.  That’s the third thing I think of re: ‘spirituality’.