Thanksgiving rhyme prayer

Thanks, Greg n' Peg, for regular legs -  I'm thankful for my ankle

And grateful for my fate, even that of being late

And appreciate being, seeing, peeing, and me-ing...

And have an attitude of gratitude, for Every Heaven! 

And thank you for tanks, too

And especially peace, that doesn't cease

Thank you God, for my body, the love from above,

And a kind mind that finds the good in the 'hood

And ends the quest for the best rest, nest, dressed, in the west

Jess is blessed!

Thankyou, thanks, gracias, merci, and dankeshin (shön) 

(and Shia shay, Arigato, )

Yes, thanks for my shins, too :-).    vocation, vacation, location.   shin bet.

Thanks for the food, dude and certainly the dessert!

Take a seat, get off your feet, Let's eat, both meat and wheat!

Jess T says, in jest, let's digest

Let's consume, fill the room in your stomach, before running amok!

Bon apetit!   (omit joke about ape tit)

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cheeses christ:  Swiss cheese is holy, muenster is monstrous, and buddha likes gouda.   The freedom to eat edam.    Force is not endorsed, of course.

My contribution to the Thanksgiving dinner is Guiness beer, horseradish, and crackers.  I sent a picture of my purchase.  I've been specifically requested to get 3 Tracklements brand horseradish, and a 4 pack of cans of Guinness Draught stout.   I apparently screwed up by getting the Ba-Tampte horseradish, and the 6 pack of bottles of extra-stout.   Geez, Louise.  Would Thanksgiving turn sour if I just brought what I already bought??   Good lord.

Dog, D.O.G., Diogi, and Diageo (Guinness people);   you could name your cat See-eh-tee (Siati?)

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Thanks for BOOKS!

Did you know, around 4 MILLION books are published in English each year.    That's like 11,000 new books a day.   Happy speed-reading (j/k).   I mean, maybe AIs can read all that?

There are 130-170 MILLION unique books in the world (in all languages - there are approximately 7159 spoken languages in the world).   So that's something to look foreward to, in an infinite afterlife, or if your consciousness gets transferred to a machine, or something.  I guess you could calculate how many pages or words, too.   Is the data available?  170 terabytes, Google says.  Which is, a single terabyte could hold 1000 copies of The Encyclopedia Brittanica.  

Smart E

 Wiz-dumb and Smarties (candy)

Thoughtless pissing

Thoughtful chewing

Intelligence, and out don’t tell, gents

Your balls are showing, your dick is hanging out

Penn and Teller, Pennsylvania and Telephony

Teller and Gellar, fellas

Mel smells smelly Kelli, Dean cleans dirty Kurt, and icky Vicki

The hoarder orders messy Jesse, Meeting neat Pete in the street

Selling hell and yelling well for a spell

Pens in penitentiaries, pencils for stenciling 

The tensile strength of a pencil

The bouncy council voted for chill pills for Bill

The gay way and hetero on the metro

Queers drinking beers, and fags reading mags

Pedophiles distributing chocodiles

Rapist papists

No means no, only yes means yes

Know biblically?  Read your good book

Know thy bible before you buy the bull

Liars fry, so tell the truth in the booth

The penitent man shall pass

Ace is the place for the helpful hardware man

The case of getting maced in the face

Ow, bow, cow, dow, how, mao, now, pow, sow, tao, vow, wow

Rhyme about a crime

Hindus bowing to cows

Was Mao taoist?

Vowing to stop the ow (for cows and sows), like now

You know what smarties taste like?

Eat my brain, zombie

Eat my shorts

Eat Pete’s meat with wheat 

Beets, feet, heat, meat, neat, concrete, seat, teat

Eat my seat, and suck my teat

The concrete heats my feet, Sangeet 

Yada yada, my fada was a dadaist

Hello mudda, brudda

Buddhist nudists, naked, yay kid

No clothes, Bo knows, dough goes, yo Rose

Foodies like noodles with sauce, boss

Priest from the east is scared of the Beast

Roast beast and western vestments

Wear a bib for your burger, said Erger

Erger works at Murder Burger

smarties, brain food, zombies, and ecstasy - related, Kate

My date with Kate went great, mate

we ate dates, and danced with fate, for a spate

I hate Nate Tate's weight and Yates' freight 

illin' villains hate Bill Gates

a lil mil is still filling, Jill

Gill Bates, lol

Save My Soul

 Good at being bad

Really good at being really bad

Great at being evil, in fact

The best at writing.   Better than being evil.  Grok.

Killing bugs, eating meat, soul aligned with both sides of the force.

You get it, you understand, you have sympathy

Compassion for carnivores, the prey, vegetarian anger, the whole thing.

Kill germs, vermin, hunt for meat, soldiers obey orders

   For money, for kicks, for their country, for freedom, just because

Being a warrior, good at winning fights, strategy, tactics, execution

God is good.   God is a vegetarian.   Meat is good, though.

I’m an omnivore.  Just the way it is.   Sorry.

Also, I don't believe in souls.

I mean, this blog is kind of my soul, it seems, actually.

I believe in irreverence and blasphemy!  

I also enjoy believing everything, syncretic, pantheist

You can think, be, do, say whatever you want.

Don't believe the hype.   Don't be.  Leave.  

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There are more stars than grains of sand, on earth, is said

Each star has an average distance from other stars of x light years

    (oh, in The Milky Way, our galaxy, the statistic is about 5 ly, is what I heard

      - not the U)

The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second

The closest star is Proxima Centauri.   It is 4.24 light years away.

It would take us (a crewed spacecraft like the Apollo Lunar Module) 27,000 years to go one light year.    An aircraft going 600 mph would take 1 million years to go a single light year.

This is only the KNOWN universe

I think space is infinite, in fact

There was a before spacetime, too, if you use your noodle

The average location in space is said to be completely black!

We are incredibly solitary and alone, out here on this spiral arm in the middle of nowhere

The situation is seriously unfathomable

Ask me?  Do whatever the fuck you want

We’re all candles in the wind, bubbles about to pop, ephemera

We are things, objects, bodies, that age, decay, die, disappear, dust to dust

We’re all in the same boat, nobody lives forever!

Even so, Happiness is possible, real, sustainable.

Love life, all of it.  Your one life.  

Number of stars?   The guesstimate is 2x10 to the 23rd.   200 sextillion.  In the OU.

Observable Universe.  2 trillion galaxies x 100 billion stars per galaxy, average.   Happy counting!   The average distance between galaxies?  About 1 million light years.   Now you know.   In much knowledge is much suffering?  Ecclesiastes 1:18.    Sneezy nasties.  Achoo!

Exercise at the Jim!

Snap into a slim Jim, bulk up at the gym

Jim Hennessy, Jim Marquis, Jim and Steve, gym

Jimmy Carter, Jiminy Cricket, Jim Carrey

Jim Jones, James, Jaime

Words and turds are for the birds (cumin is for humans!)

Fly, fly

For a (humanoid) angel to fly, the wingspan would have to be 23 feet 

  Plus, bones would have to be hollow, and

   also, the musculature would be crazy

Is it possible?   Will human technology someday make a real angel?

Ridiculous.

  I count Jim among my friends.  :-)

Less literal, everybody's in the heart of gold band.   Set the angel in you free!   We are each of us angels with only one wing, let us embrace each other and fly.  Yada yada.

Waiting for a miracle?  Miracle on 34th street - but I AM, really!

In your dreams?  Over my dead body?  

At the Apple Store (gotta take the Vision Pro goggle demo).   

You can buy a jar of Miracle Whip!  

Spirit in the Sky, your last breath (puff) joins the atmosphere

(tropo, strato, meso, thermo, exo-) spheres, :-)

burpees, herpes, and slurpees!

86,400 seconds in a day

31,546,000 seconds in a year

120 years is a lotta seconds

    3,785,520,000 (actually)

95 years is about 3B seconds

A Sampling of Deities

 gods, immortals, supernatural and celestial beings

Hello world.

I read the article on ‘deity’ on grokipedia.  (I like grokipedia)

I could list all the deities/gods mentioned by name that managed to get cited as examples. 

Yahweh / YHWH, Allah, and Zeus, of course.  The Trinity (f,s,hs).   Atman, Brahman.  Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Cybele, Aphrodite.  Ogun, Osun.  Nladiba, Nladisara, Mwari Shona.   Min, Neith, Anubis, Atum, Bes, Horus, Isis, Ra, Meretseger, Nut, Osiris, Shu, Sia, Thoth.  El, Asherah.  Dumuzid, Geshtinanna, Gugalanna.  7 Annunaki: An, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, Inanna.  Ansar, Kisar.  Marduk.  Baal.  Thor, Odin, Freyr, Eos.   (12 Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Aries).  Hestia, Hades, Heracles.  Pan.  (6+6:  Venus, Apollo, Mars, Dianna, Minerva, Ceres, Vulcan, Juno, Mercury, Vesta, Neptune, Jupiter / Jove.  Bacchus, Pluto, Hercules.  Janus, Fortuna, Vesta, Quirinus, Tellus.   Viracocha / Pachacutec.  Inti, Mama Qucha.  Mama Kuka, Mama Ch’aska, Mama Allpa, Mama Killa, Mama Sara.  Kukulkan.  Xib Chac.  Ixchel.  18 Mayan months…. Quetzalcoatl.  Aztec (100s).   Io.  Tangaloa.  La’a Maomao,   Tu-Metua, Kane, Rangi.  Hayyi Rabbi.  Bathala, Mangechay, Malayari, Melu, Kaptan.  Ganesha, Saraswati, (Asuras, Suras, Deva and Devi: ), (“8 million” kami).   Padmavati.  Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu.  :-)

Cia, constructs, ideas, abstractions.

Grok greek?   The Neptune tune.  Zeus' zoo.  Utu on YouTube.  Gugalanna on Google.

Augustine the Hippopotamus!  PIE, proto indo european

Horace plays ball.  Be(neith) O’ sun.    Rubber (Mar-)duk(ling)

Brahma, SIva, Vishnu

Maybe the most powerful and important deity is unnamed, or doesn't have a name!  The "word" was God.   Any word you like!

Nanna, Dianne, Paul (Apollo), Sara (Saraswati, Suras, Nladisara, Mama Sara).

I've known a Sara, Athena, Devan, and Shiva.   Michael Mercury.  

Did Aphrodite have an afro?  Did Shu wear Nikes?

Sometimes I feel like a Nut.   Siva and Mama Killa.   And O's gun.

Was Ceres a serial/ cereal Killa?    Horus, Horace, and whore us.

Io, it's off to work I go.   Oh Kaptan my Kaptan!

Sanity and saint

other ideas: Self, Universe, Jesus, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Love

Santa, Adi Da, L Ron, Me (earth name: Jesse Lawrence Teshara;  

    "space name":  Arahset Ecnerwal Essej

I tot I taw a puddy-tat

Thinking about Thought

My mind is mine.

Minors are miners?

I share my mind.  I speak my mind.  I write my mind.

Thought goes unheard.   

A “sound mind" is like what the speed-readers call subvocalization (?)

There are telepathic voices, auditory hallucinations, for the "spiritually open" 

like shared, corporate, borg minds - or different stations, networks

Unless the noise annoys !

I don’t want to hear yours, and I don’t want others trying get inside mine.

Digging around, in there, unearthing nuggets.

Pray without ceasing?   That’s crazy.

Unless all thought is a prayer.   

Our relationship and communication with God, Natural.   What it is.

Drown out the thought with headphones.

Replace the automatic internal flow with music, tv, reading.

I hate commercials.  TV is manipulative, stupid, and infuriating.

Heaven is a kind of library.

I like dreams.  Customized TV, from God to me.

Some people stay on one channel.  Others surf everything.

The rain in my brain, the stream of consciousness

don't be a drip, she said, so I gushed

ice-breakers, making a splash

babbling brook, washing on your shore

do we need our brains to be so Interactive?

Medic Kate thing, and of course, Flo

Recent reads:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

Good Omens (re-read), by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig 

The Best American Short Stories, 2024 (20 stories)

The Best American Short Stories, 2018 (20 stories)

now:  The World of the Short Story, 20th Century Collection

   (selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman, 1986) (62 stories)

stop sign:  pots tops post spot opts

I spy (with my little eye) a willow through the window

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