10-10-2016, 04:59 AM
10-12-2016, 02:05 PM
RE: ConCERNING a CERN Con
Hello, Bond 1,
I see that this is your first post here at B4th. Welcome aboard! Be sure while you're here to whip up an autobiographical bunch of utter balderdash about your no doubt harrowing heroic cosmical life-struggle here in the earthly realm and post it to the "Wanderer Stories" section where it can be properly heckled -- http://bring4th.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=3 : )
![[Image: d4740b1-29392810-4bee-492c-b05f-ccf7112e...n_X5ArWcZI]](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/ca68fc6a-0337-4cb1-8632-e2376c833e1c/d4740b1-29392810-4bee-492c-b05f-ccf7112ea330.gif?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2NhNjhmYzZhLTAzMzctNGNiMS04NjMyLWUyMzc2YzgzM2UxY1wvZDQ3NDBiMS0yOTM5MjgxMC00YmVlLTQ5MmMtYjA1Zi1jY2Y3MTEyZWEzMzAuZ2lmIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.nT5opv4wrAumdBi9dYJ58U8flm67--ufvn_X5ArWcZI)
Mad as hell and not going to take it any more. Oh, and evil too.
In the meantime, for your amusement, here are some pertinent findings on the dead-renegade-evil-mad-scientist question:
http://www.theangryufologist.us/disclosetv-perpetrates-cern-hoax/
The name was evidently chosen by the tongue-in-cheeky author of this provocative fictional work to mimetically resonate subliminally with that of the unfortunate young Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, who in 1948 died whilst in hot aerial pursuit of what he perceived to be a UFO --
![[Image: OWQuanBn]](https://imgs.search.brave.com/S86b9vxKAAg3uHXgksuyNk6k80OXwEha32I1AV_5SSE/rs:fit:600:450:1/g:ce/aHR0cDovL2ltZy5n/cm91bmRzcGVhay5j/b20vd2F5bWFya2lu/Zy83Y2VjODI3Ny02/NzJmLTQwNDgtYWE5/NS0xMTIxZWNmNDhm/OWQuanBn)
Obviously this young vet, an WWII Army Air Force officer decorated for heroism in action, was an incompetent aviator, and an irresponsibly unrealistic and wholly unreliable witness regarding things aerial.
http://www.nicap.org/mantellcomp.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread463614/pg1
-- and thus, along with Kenneth Arnold (and his widely-reported incident of a half-year earlier with unknown aircraft seemingly skipping along the sky like. . . "saucers") -- effectively ringing in the modern era of UFO-sighting and other related seemingly unworldly technological phenomena.
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[url=https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/06/25/flying-saucers-still-evasive-70-years-after-pilots-report/427206001/]https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/06/25/flying-saucers-still-evasive-70-years-after-pilots-report/427206001/
BTW -- note that Arnold described the weird aerial whatchamacallits' movements as saucer-like (skipping as if along successive waves of air), not their physical shapes:
![[Image: ?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s...rstufo.jpg]](https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/810cfab/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x720+0+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fewscripps-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F76%2F96%2Fd7ddc2614c9bb14a4cf7ba7f05d5%2Ffirstufo.jpg)
"Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you: WTF?!"
http://mccluresmagazine.com/history/ufos...r-part-one
Coincidentally enough to hint at a meaningful pattern of synchronicity, Capt. Mantell was a flight instructor at the very airfield where an also-young Don Elkins was learning to fly, taking first steps skyward to eventually becoming a professional airline pilot -- who in his off-hours just happened to be keen on learnedly investigating UFO sightings) . . .
![[Image: hqdefault.jpg]](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/uO0DT40csVo/hqdefault.jpg)
Another flighty character, not to be believed for a moment. Head in the clouds, absolutely.
http://llresearch.org/interviews/intervi..._0604.aspx ,
Establishing a purported persona's bona fides in this age of accelerated strategic deception and personality simulation by various factions for various purposes and cross-purposes (but all tending to erode the very idea of being able to trust the validity of other species-members' anecdotal evidence, or even the evidence of one's own senses, of one's own thoughts, memories, intuitions -- of one's very experience of mortal incarnate sentience, in fact) is catalyst of a very high order for those to whom the discerning of truth in such a feafully benighted and weaponized realm as this world, now, is not merely a minor and negligible detail of the sociology of knowledge, not merely an endlessly debatable, utterly relativistic intellectual-fantasy game.
"There is always something in the present moment to spark the heart and engage the passion of a seeker, for there is always a chance for adoration, forgiveness or some expression of the love of the one infinite Creator. This is one thing which we wish to say, for when many things are in doubt about one's perceptions, it is well to move to the only perception which has a central part in the evolution of spirit.*" -- The Daily Q'uote for October 23, 2016 (from session http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0110.aspx)
* Whoah. "[T]he only perception which has a central part in the evolution of spirit". . . wow, what a universally useful posture towards literally anything! But that's as may be. Back to our highly spiritual, action-packed rant, already in progress:
A certain very purposeful faction seeks to occupy the available mindshare of that human demographic that has just enough spare capacity to seriously contemplate supposed defectors from powerful but malign consensus-reality-shaping groupings, but yet not quite the requisite broad contextual orientation regarding the everyday mechanics of how negative-polarity-serving information warfare works. Alluringly exotic pseudo-defectors are championed using the time-honored viral-marketing principles that make urban legends, for instance, so powerfully entraining in their believability. In the meantime, actual positively-polarizing defectors (those posing an actual operational-security threat to the up-to-no-goodniks cryptarchically doing their insidious neg-pol helotistic thing) are marginalized and lost in the superabundance of gabbling fictionals and their sexy yarns, and bingo!-- the narrative is controlled, and kept safely on a storyline that goes precisely nowhere with maximum mock-revelational thrillingness. Truthy truth, as opposed to, for instance: http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/cia-w...h-tellers/ , http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/forme...iminality/ The inner "deep state" faction utilizing the alphabet agencies of a certain world superpower in very mundane geopolitics are indeed an extremely professionally competent organized force to be reckoned with, and their construction of a certain kind of weaponizedly cultic-thought-riddled counterinsurgent "reality" is state-of-the-(dark)-art. There's a reason why Ra and other well-informed transcendentals of advanced positivity of various shapes, sizes, and origins emerged with their grand briefings in the infosphere of the latter half of the 20th century: to pre-emptively provide a framework of knowledge that might allow one to perceive the absolute worst of negativity in action and not simply be automatically overwhelmed and subverted, heart-shattered and mind-blown into passive shell-shocked allowance (at least) or Stockholm-syndrome-like collusion (middling bad) to active gung-ho if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em change of polarity (worst-case). The point of psywar is to so completely prime the target for disheartenment-conditioning that it logically surrenders of its own free will, once provided with the slightest seeming "final proof" of the allegedly childish futility of such wistful Pollyanna-ish will o' th' wisps as, say, love and light -- what absurdly ineffectual hope-dope! Opiate for the masses! Hence the current global industry of providing utter bullshit by the megaton via "news" and other fictional entertainment arts envisioning the officially-approved, politically correct, consensus consumer-reality of scarce expensive commodities alone capable of conferring status-identity.
"Accustomed to looking at philosophy as a makeshift, a groping toward truth, changing in accordance with the acquisition of mere information, there are few people nowadays who can even grasp the assertion that there is an ultimate truth against which everything can be measured, and which is accessible to man."
-- Idries Shah, The Sufis (London & NY: 1964), p. 436
(See my posts for thrilling background info:
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210153
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid211410
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid208421
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210204
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid213796
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid215190 )
![[Image: EvilMadScientist.jpg]](https://www.halloweeneventsusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/EvilMadScientist.jpg)
Cheers!
Lagniappe: As much "disclosure" as you're going to get. A sample of it, anyway.
http://nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm
Knock yourself out! Read until your eyeballs squeak in their sockets! The question is, can you see the dots? Probably, at this late date. But -- can you connect the dots? And if you can, so what? Seeing as how The Answer was self-evidently, blatantly obvious all along. But only if looked at from the right perspective, using the right framework of knowledge.
Predictably, there will not be an officially case-closing Establishment disavowal of the Man-Is-Alone-In-The-Universe Narrative (their pet disinformative psyop's Big-Lie thesis) by those who set the bloody thing in motion and vigorously continue its motion these 70+ years later. They'd sooner throw the lower-tier bad actors of their Dealey Deal or their Big Building Demolition Derby under the bus, because only the most harmlessly kookiest kooks have managed to associate the bug-eyed-alien motif with either of those situations.
http://nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm
(10-10-2016, 04:59 AM)Bond 1 Wrote: [ -> ][YouTube vid: "The last words of Dr Edward Mantill a physicist at CERN"]
Hello, Bond 1,
I see that this is your first post here at B4th. Welcome aboard! Be sure while you're here to whip up an autobiographical bunch of utter balderdash about your no doubt harrowing heroic cosmical life-struggle here in the earthly realm and post it to the "Wanderer Stories" section where it can be properly heckled -- http://bring4th.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=3 : )
Mad as hell and not going to take it any more. Oh, and evil too.In the meantime, for your amusement, here are some pertinent findings on the dead-renegade-evil-mad-scientist question:
http://www.theangryufologist.us/disclosetv-perpetrates-cern-hoax/
The name was evidently chosen by the tongue-in-cheeky author of this provocative fictional work to mimetically resonate subliminally with that of the unfortunate young Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, who in 1948 died whilst in hot aerial pursuit of what he perceived to be a UFO --
http://www.nicap.org/mantellcomp.htm
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread463614/pg1
-- and thus, along with Kenneth Arnold (and his widely-reported incident of a half-year earlier with unknown aircraft seemingly skipping along the sky like. . . "saucers") -- effectively ringing in the modern era of UFO-sighting and other related seemingly unworldly technological phenomena.
[/url]
[url=https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/06/25/flying-saucers-still-evasive-70-years-after-pilots-report/427206001/]https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/06/25/flying-saucers-still-evasive-70-years-after-pilots-report/427206001/
BTW -- note that Arnold described the weird aerial whatchamacallits' movements as saucer-like (skipping as if along successive waves of air), not their physical shapes:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you: WTF?!"http://mccluresmagazine.com/history/ufos...r-part-one
Coincidentally enough to hint at a meaningful pattern of synchronicity, Capt. Mantell was a flight instructor at the very airfield where an also-young Don Elkins was learning to fly, taking first steps skyward to eventually becoming a professional airline pilot -- who in his off-hours just happened to be keen on learnedly investigating UFO sightings) . . .
Another flighty character, not to be believed for a moment. Head in the clouds, absolutely.http://llresearch.org/interviews/intervi..._0604.aspx ,
Establishing a purported persona's bona fides in this age of accelerated strategic deception and personality simulation by various factions for various purposes and cross-purposes (but all tending to erode the very idea of being able to trust the validity of other species-members' anecdotal evidence, or even the evidence of one's own senses, of one's own thoughts, memories, intuitions -- of one's very experience of mortal incarnate sentience, in fact) is catalyst of a very high order for those to whom the discerning of truth in such a feafully benighted and weaponized realm as this world, now, is not merely a minor and negligible detail of the sociology of knowledge, not merely an endlessly debatable, utterly relativistic intellectual-fantasy game.
"There is always something in the present moment to spark the heart and engage the passion of a seeker, for there is always a chance for adoration, forgiveness or some expression of the love of the one infinite Creator. This is one thing which we wish to say, for when many things are in doubt about one's perceptions, it is well to move to the only perception which has a central part in the evolution of spirit.*" -- The Daily Q'uote for October 23, 2016 (from session http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0110.aspx)
* Whoah. "[T]he only perception which has a central part in the evolution of spirit". . . wow, what a universally useful posture towards literally anything! But that's as may be. Back to our highly spiritual, action-packed rant, already in progress:
A certain very purposeful faction seeks to occupy the available mindshare of that human demographic that has just enough spare capacity to seriously contemplate supposed defectors from powerful but malign consensus-reality-shaping groupings, but yet not quite the requisite broad contextual orientation regarding the everyday mechanics of how negative-polarity-serving information warfare works. Alluringly exotic pseudo-defectors are championed using the time-honored viral-marketing principles that make urban legends, for instance, so powerfully entraining in their believability. In the meantime, actual positively-polarizing defectors (those posing an actual operational-security threat to the up-to-no-goodniks cryptarchically doing their insidious neg-pol helotistic thing) are marginalized and lost in the superabundance of gabbling fictionals and their sexy yarns, and bingo!-- the narrative is controlled, and kept safely on a storyline that goes precisely nowhere with maximum mock-revelational thrillingness. Truthy truth, as opposed to, for instance: http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/cia-w...h-tellers/ , http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/forme...iminality/ The inner "deep state" faction utilizing the alphabet agencies of a certain world superpower in very mundane geopolitics are indeed an extremely professionally competent organized force to be reckoned with, and their construction of a certain kind of weaponizedly cultic-thought-riddled counterinsurgent "reality" is state-of-the-(dark)-art. There's a reason why Ra and other well-informed transcendentals of advanced positivity of various shapes, sizes, and origins emerged with their grand briefings in the infosphere of the latter half of the 20th century: to pre-emptively provide a framework of knowledge that might allow one to perceive the absolute worst of negativity in action and not simply be automatically overwhelmed and subverted, heart-shattered and mind-blown into passive shell-shocked allowance (at least) or Stockholm-syndrome-like collusion (middling bad) to active gung-ho if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em change of polarity (worst-case). The point of psywar is to so completely prime the target for disheartenment-conditioning that it logically surrenders of its own free will, once provided with the slightest seeming "final proof" of the allegedly childish futility of such wistful Pollyanna-ish will o' th' wisps as, say, love and light -- what absurdly ineffectual hope-dope! Opiate for the masses! Hence the current global industry of providing utter bullshit by the megaton via "news" and other fictional entertainment arts envisioning the officially-approved, politically correct, consensus consumer-reality of scarce expensive commodities alone capable of conferring status-identity.
"Accustomed to looking at philosophy as a makeshift, a groping toward truth, changing in accordance with the acquisition of mere information, there are few people nowadays who can even grasp the assertion that there is an ultimate truth against which everything can be measured, and which is accessible to man."
-- Idries Shah, The Sufis (London & NY: 1964), p. 436
(See my posts for thrilling background info:
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210153
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid211410
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid208421
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210204
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid213796
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid215190 )
Cheers!
Lagniappe: As much "disclosure" as you're going to get. A sample of it, anyway.
http://nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm
Knock yourself out! Read until your eyeballs squeak in their sockets! The question is, can you see the dots? Probably, at this late date. But -- can you connect the dots? And if you can, so what? Seeing as how The Answer was self-evidently, blatantly obvious all along. But only if looked at from the right perspective, using the right framework of knowledge.
Predictably, there will not be an officially case-closing Establishment disavowal of the Man-Is-Alone-In-The-Universe Narrative (their pet disinformative psyop's Big-Lie thesis) by those who set the bloody thing in motion and vigorously continue its motion these 70+ years later. They'd sooner throw the lower-tier bad actors of their Dealey Deal or their Big Building Demolition Derby under the bus, because only the most harmlessly kookiest kooks have managed to associate the bug-eyed-alien motif with either of those situations.
http://nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm
10-13-2016, 01:24 AM
10-13-2016, 01:57 AM
Bond 1, those of whatever kind whose professional interest it is to know what is being thought and felt and bandied about in a self-selected, largely anonymous virtual affinity-group such as that comprising the B4th forum membership are indeed aware, and in a business-like fashion (for instance, automatic machine analysis of the key memes in the narrative data here is sufficient for most purposes, with little need for direct personal eyes-on monitoring and forceful hands-on counteraction unless things go hugely seditiously astray). Very little of the data posted here poses any real immediate political/economic threat to the negative power structure, and there are certain protections in effect allowing even a certain amount of such a thing if it is presented in a fairly low-key, fairly unprovocative airing, especially when allied with a certain amount of flexible-minded good humor and honest intent to serve.
Truth is known by means of itself, for its unique frequency unerringly strikes a resonant chord, so to speak, within the contemplative heart/mind of its realistic seeker. This is the main "threat". Fortunately for the negative ones, even though all the people can't be fooled all the time, all the people can with a bit of luck be fooled some of the time, and some of the people can most certainly be fooled all of the time, so there's a nice balance. And yes, it's all a foregone conclusion that this whole bloody contentious polarized mess eventually, inevitably, resolves into one big swingin' love-in with free beer and skittles for everyone, but the time element of timespace (from our current perspective) imposes upon us the weirdly paradoxical situation of having to work very hard, to the utmost of our powers to struggle valiantly against all polar odds, to painstakingly create that "inevitable" unipolar future.
Which means, at grassroots existential level, that what you and I and everyone else actually does in this very moment is a valid bit of that creation-effort. What exactly can a person, one of seven-billion-plus, do to affect how this massive inertia-filled juggernaut of a world goes? Our options of action are limited, in very practical terms, by the extent of what we know is even possible. You can be very "free" -- free to be deceived, if you have not sampled the necessary minimum amount of ideas and experiences which provide a realistic portrait of what we human beings really are, where we're from, where we're going, what our most glaring vulnerabilities are, what our shining strengths are. In short, what actually can be done, by whom, where/when/how, and according to what design. Keeping in mind that to the average man any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (as the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke pointed out half a century ago-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws).
It's tough to self-reference ourselves in life (because we're so busy just struggling to be ourselves at all in the first place, in a very demanding personal-energy-and-attention-devouring world) and we have little spare capacity to calmly step outside ourselves and our busy environment and look down at it dispassionately as if from a great height. Amazingly, much of the necessary information of this kind can be passed on adequately through the good old cultural standbys of literature and art and personal demonstration; enough to give sincere seekers a fighting chance at more efficiently ordering their life-struggle -- enough to gain the spare capacity for further and more specialized learning. It's not a minor skill, being able to tell one thing from another thing, in a world full of very professionally-made deception. And it's not a minor skill to show true indomitable spirit and be able to soldier on positively no matter what, independent of all the usual outer sources of solace and reassurance. This inner strength comes from grokking the certainty of what light and love are in the most practical Earthly terms, a certainty enabled by the streamlining clarity of real knowledge, a framework which stands unshakably even in the face of the most fearsome opposition mercilessly pursuing its grimly dark way.
I. NAMING OF PARTS
Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria
[Recently I lived suitable for warfare,
and I soldiered not without glory]
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For to-day we have naming of parts.
-- Henry Reed, from LESSONS OF THE WAR (1942) http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/...parts.html
A Few Good Men - "You can't handle the truth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpOtFIEkbs
Payday Monsanto - "All I Want (Naked Truth)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJ2KQs8_bQ
#Obeezy | Dr. Dre Remix - "Keep The Clubs Swingin'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSouLdlLT8o
"Music is best." -- F. Zappa
Benjamin Zephaniah - "Rong Radio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HjMcY50Kc
The Pretenders - "Middle Of The Road"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niz2DuHc5K8
Naked Aggression - "Why Do They F*** Up My World?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4kC08vLQcY
ditto - "Right Now"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHu40DyttA
Thievery Corporation - "Culture of Fear" (feat. Mr. Lif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApK0kcy7...d6&index=2
P.M., "Puppets On A String"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVGThNTs8Gw
https://vimeo.com/25996242
ENCANTADA
Just as flowers aflight career upwards to light,
So too leave the years upon my soul vaporish trails of firefly blazes.
Wonderful the soul's ascent!
Wonderful the mind's assent!
Blunderful though it be to the mind's eye's sight-- all is right!
All is right.
But still: strive against the night--
And fly!
-- Dekalb_Blues
![[Image: c5a81bf9e03ad16e4d9e50b44d2dc912.jpg]](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c5/a8/1b/c5a81bf9e03ad16e4d9e50b44d2dc912.jpg)
Truth is known by means of itself, for its unique frequency unerringly strikes a resonant chord, so to speak, within the contemplative heart/mind of its realistic seeker. This is the main "threat". Fortunately for the negative ones, even though all the people can't be fooled all the time, all the people can with a bit of luck be fooled some of the time, and some of the people can most certainly be fooled all of the time, so there's a nice balance. And yes, it's all a foregone conclusion that this whole bloody contentious polarized mess eventually, inevitably, resolves into one big swingin' love-in with free beer and skittles for everyone, but the time element of timespace (from our current perspective) imposes upon us the weirdly paradoxical situation of having to work very hard, to the utmost of our powers to struggle valiantly against all polar odds, to painstakingly create that "inevitable" unipolar future.
Which means, at grassroots existential level, that what you and I and everyone else actually does in this very moment is a valid bit of that creation-effort. What exactly can a person, one of seven-billion-plus, do to affect how this massive inertia-filled juggernaut of a world goes? Our options of action are limited, in very practical terms, by the extent of what we know is even possible. You can be very "free" -- free to be deceived, if you have not sampled the necessary minimum amount of ideas and experiences which provide a realistic portrait of what we human beings really are, where we're from, where we're going, what our most glaring vulnerabilities are, what our shining strengths are. In short, what actually can be done, by whom, where/when/how, and according to what design. Keeping in mind that to the average man any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (as the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke pointed out half a century ago-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws).
It's tough to self-reference ourselves in life (because we're so busy just struggling to be ourselves at all in the first place, in a very demanding personal-energy-and-attention-devouring world) and we have little spare capacity to calmly step outside ourselves and our busy environment and look down at it dispassionately as if from a great height. Amazingly, much of the necessary information of this kind can be passed on adequately through the good old cultural standbys of literature and art and personal demonstration; enough to give sincere seekers a fighting chance at more efficiently ordering their life-struggle -- enough to gain the spare capacity for further and more specialized learning. It's not a minor skill, being able to tell one thing from another thing, in a world full of very professionally-made deception. And it's not a minor skill to show true indomitable spirit and be able to soldier on positively no matter what, independent of all the usual outer sources of solace and reassurance. This inner strength comes from grokking the certainty of what light and love are in the most practical Earthly terms, a certainty enabled by the streamlining clarity of real knowledge, a framework which stands unshakably even in the face of the most fearsome opposition mercilessly pursuing its grimly dark way.
I. NAMING OF PARTS
Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria
[Recently I lived suitable for warfare,
and I soldiered not without glory]
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For to-day we have naming of parts.
-- Henry Reed, from LESSONS OF THE WAR (1942) http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/...parts.html
A Few Good Men - "You can't handle the truth!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpOtFIEkbs
Payday Monsanto - "All I Want (Naked Truth)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJ2KQs8_bQ
#Obeezy | Dr. Dre Remix - "Keep The Clubs Swingin'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSouLdlLT8o
"Music is best." -- F. Zappa
Benjamin Zephaniah - "Rong Radio"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HjMcY50Kc
The Pretenders - "Middle Of The Road"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niz2DuHc5K8
Naked Aggression - "Why Do They F*** Up My World?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4kC08vLQcY
ditto - "Right Now"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SHu40DyttA
Thievery Corporation - "Culture of Fear" (feat. Mr. Lif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApK0kcy7...d6&index=2
P.M., "Puppets On A String"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVGThNTs8Gw
https://vimeo.com/25996242
ENCANTADA
Just as flowers aflight career upwards to light,
So too leave the years upon my soul vaporish trails of firefly blazes.
Wonderful the soul's ascent!
Wonderful the mind's assent!
Blunderful though it be to the mind's eye's sight-- all is right!
All is right.
But still: strive against the night--
And fly!
-- Dekalb_Blues
10-13-2016, 03:39 AM