by thrulookingglass » Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:32 am
"Be careful, you might hear something
You don't want to hear
Be careful you might say something
That you really mean" - Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Selfish
We find it in poetry, song, literature, comedy because it's the only realm for free thought anymore. "It's funny because it's true." rips into us a bit. Reading the story of Jesus being tempted by the devil, it's SO absurd. So Jesus fasts, 40 days even...Jeesh, I guess the starving children of Africa must be wicked holy! God's got a hard-on for that forty bullshit. I guess you have to choose not to eat, not be forced into starvation. Tempted by the devil. Who is the devil's manufacturer by the way? Oh, that's good 'ol YWHY himself? Jehovah? So Jesus, who is God, or not God, just his son, no wait God sends his son to be tempted by the devil, which is one of God's servants, the devil that is, but the devil does shit that God doesn't like, but God just lets him do it, which is kind of a tacit form of approval. Hey, isn't that kind of like how we allow the war machine to trample all over us? Forget that thought, lets just move on. Jeesh, this gets confusing. Jesus reported last words, well, before Jesus, the resurrection, or is that the second coming...this gets real confusing. Well, when he's dying on the cross he reportedly says, "Eli, Eli, why have you forsaken me?" Sounds like he felt he didn't get a fair shake. Elijah, I guess. For the record, fasting shows significant health benefits when done properly. Always take water. Letting your system clear out can be beneficial, not to mention your taking a little stress off 'ol mother nature. For I am the God of a thousand names. Doesn't sound deceptive, right? Thou shall not bear false witness. My cardinal rule for you, but not I. Isis must learn the secret/occulted name of Ra in order to gain power over mankind. "By the knowledge of his own name did Ra rule." Bite on that one for a while. Call all things by their true name. Do not bear false witness. Words, language. They were called 'spells' because it was thought that people who knew how to read and write held a special power. Which they did. In our ancient past, learning to read and write almost always started with studying scripture. Muslim children learn to write by reproducing the Quran. They are taught not to make a mistake. It's sacred text, change it not. The Hebrew, the same...change not a jot, not a tittle. This can be said of the Masons as well who knew ways of creating sound structures through the use of math, levels, squares, calipers. In order to know who was truly a Mason, those who were actually skilled in construction, they came up with a secret handshake so they would know their own kind. Occulted knowledge. They kept information apart from the masses so they alone could profit from it. Glad we've moved beyond that these days. Communications. It's not what you say, it's who listens. Einstein was a patent clerk. It's my idea. Closed architecture they call it in the computer world. Anyone seen the Soviet's Buran space shuttle? Wow, that's familiar looking. Dimensions are almost the same even. Standing on the shoulders of giants. NASA never made the plans top secret. Too many secrets. Who gains from occulted knowledge? Those that keep it. Share and share alike. We are all in this mess together. Those who create a heaven for themselves while others suffer dwell in hell as well. Moral lessons look good on paper, but their truth only shines when these ways are practiced. You might know right from wrong, better to act upon it rather than just know it. In these absurd rules humans make up as religious practice it was decided amongst the Hebrews that the sins of the child become those of the father until you were eight. Exactly eight by the way, so get your kicks in early. Honor thy mother, thy father...damn, got to read the fine print. Says nothing about the parent's honoring their children. I guess that's expected to be tacit. Whom shall I dishonor? Who's making these rules again? Exactly ten rules shall free you. Asimov cuts them down to three, three laws safe. There's a hilarious story of a child from This American Life, whom hearing this 'fact' decides to sin like a son of a bitch because he doesn't like his dad much. Sounds cold that way, but it's more the naivety of the child and the foolish thought of sin transference, he doesn't run out and murder, or spread agent orange on unsuspecting Vietnamese, he just breaks Jewish taboos. The Tulpa, the Golem, creatures willed in to existence. Thought. Willed into existence. I'm not sure whether it was me, or someone else I read of, but the grays once told someone, "life is God's dream." Does that mean it was something he thought up and decided to bring forth, or does it mean, we're stuck in his mind? That's right, I think it's a real simulation which is the stupidest way to describe it. As real as it gets, stuck in God's mind. Makes it sound like a computer, which is scary. That's how it is able to manipulate everything, to this being all exists as knowledge, not material. Knowledge is power. The mathematicians, physicists are persecuted by the church, the Earth is the center of all creation. Right but wrong, not the center of the universe, but the center of creation. Who knows the universe's center anyhow unless you've observed it all. Watching a special on PBS of physics, they kept asking, why does gravity work, how does it work? Waves, energy, particles. It works because it does. If it didn't work this way, well, it simply wouldn't work. Build from a sound foundation. In the beginning, there was the word, and the word was God. Sound, nothing but air moving in patterns. Language, communications, the first common ground. All is illusory, all is allowed as some brave soul on this board once stated. Matter falls apart when observed, there but not there. Life struggles I say, it changes, morphs, adapts, mutates, fights for survival. Brick by brick we build this world. "We are spirits in the material world," crones Sting. Spirit, will, drive, fight, strength of self, strength of others. Bertrand Russell, please take the stand..."As soon as we abandon our own reason and are content upon relying on authority, there is no end to our troubles." Shakespeare testify, "Only love heals. Anger, fear, and guilt can only destroy." William Blake, kick it to me one time, "Love seeketh not for itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives it's ease, and builds a heaven in hell's despair." The absence of love creates poverty in our souls. Only our compassion can save us from hate. What the fuck am I looking for anyhow? How to free myself from a world of war and depravity. Honestly, I was trying to free us all. All my life I've struggled with trying to understand our culture. So broken. Drop some knowledge Will i am Shakespeare,
"But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place'- some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - Williams, Henry V act 4 scene 1
Oh God, my king. He's called en satun himself often in the bible. There's literally two different passages, and God punished them, and Satan punished them. Same event, two separate names. Sometimes, it just means to take a contrarian opinion, to fight against something, to rebel. It's necessary sometimes to stand up for your rights. All I can think is, God needed to feel wanted too. So we tore each other apart, so that us and our creator could make amends. "Peace be with you...and also with you." Help me. God help me.