tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199654812012-02-16T01:01:38.069-08:00<center><a href="http://tinyurl.com/277euk"><img src="http://tinyurl.com/rw8lj"></a><i>random notes to strangers</i></center> <center><img src="http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/3711/earth89fu.gif"><br><i>Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.</i><br><br> Aristotle<br> <img src="http://tinyurl.com/ycbhbwe"></center>Indigobusinesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19965481.post-11514810486561759292009-12-07T09:46:00.000-08:002010-01-17T08:14:54.716-08:00<a style="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SyB5ls2H3mI/AAAAAAAADcg/WtyWfXp09mQ/s1600-h/NewMan.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SyB5ls2H3mI/AAAAAAAADcg/WtyWfXp09mQ/s200/NewMan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413460440699625058" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(205, 153, 10);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><blockquote><hr /><hr /></blockquote></span></span><p><span style="color: rgb(205, 153, 10);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(205, 153, 10);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(205, 153, 10);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" > Who watches the watchmen?</span><br /></div><hr /><hr /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Sx1M4ghxCkI/AAAAAAAADcI/IFtdH5lXI94/s1600-h/wheelin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Sx1M4ghxCkI/AAAAAAAADcI/IFtdH5lXI94/s400/wheelin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412566860857150018" border="0" /></a><hr /><hr /><br /><br />Ridicule: the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.<br />~Anonymous<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">Finding our sense of self - Have you explored your deepest nature? Are you self-reliant? Are you sharpening your skills to leave your old ways of belonging, to leave home and wander into the wilderness? Can you be alone? Can you let go of what is dear to you? Can you support yourself - physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially? Have you taken risks to find your sacred dance? Have you relinquished your attachment to your former self? Given up addictions? Can you choose to be authentic over being accepted? Have you made peace with your past? Have you confronted your own death? Have you journeyed to uncover yourself?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);">Time to go into the dark, where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your womb tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was meant to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn: anything or anyone that does not bring you alive...is too small for you. </span><br /><div style="text-align: right;">~David Whyte<br /></div><br /><hr /><hr /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Sx1McLaNNqI/AAAAAAAADcA/O-aC0ld_fQk/s1600-h/deathcake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Sx1McLaNNqI/AAAAAAAADcA/O-aC0ld_fQk/s320/deathcake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412566374151960226" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" align="left"><hr /><hr /><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SzpB8PHoz7I/AAAAAAAADfA/zhfC6ukfWcE/s400/popedevil.jpg" /></div><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c2824366580762259859"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="20" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I am unable to ignore the providential image of the pope's ashen face and (too)serendipidous demonic horns.<br /><br />Goes to a long-held proposition that evil (now, or perhaps, always)masquerades to everyone who seeks peace with god, as a living saviour.<br /><br />As the charade gets more obvious and 'god' or 'christ' is disembowled by a million or more, sceptics, there is a question:<br /><br />"Is it the case that things being held as true by the christians, have always been a figurative fleece to cover up the bad wolf, the embodiment of it's blatantly destructive nature?"<br /><br />When, one day, humanity finally lays all the bullshit to rest, that will be the day of emancipation.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:45 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="21" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=2824366580762259859" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c2692273337166034692"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon anon-comment" alt="Anonymous" /> <span dir="ltr">Anonymous</span> said...</dt><dd><p>Cosmic reckoning is not entirely without humor, I reckon.<br /><br />Personally, I'm smitten with Kogi cosmology. Throws into a cocked hat some of our comfortable, or more accustomed, conceptions.<br /><br />Your question answers itself, in a way, and God is Other only in terms of blaming. Mythic concepts are models for getting a people's head around, not logically, but semiotically.<br /><br />The deeper significances seep slowly into the cultural mind. Quantum realities don't translate well into the sacred vernacular of religious dialog, but religion is ultimately much more about the nature of things than idol worship.<br /><br />~Ib</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:55 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="22" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=2692273337166034692" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c1939022118961503894"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="23" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="24" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Sometimes I do not fully track what you write, but I sure am doing to die (I meant 'try', just wrote 'die' instead!).<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:02 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="25" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=1939022118961503894" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c9186788527106074545"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon anon-comment" alt="Anonymous" /> <span dir="ltr">Anonymous</span> said...</dt><dd><p>The Kogi are just as certain you aren't.<br /><br />How do you like them apples?<br /><br />I'm not intentionally cryptic or abstruse with my comments here, it's just these things don't lend themselves to compression. Simply trying not to be trite or glib. You aren't the easiest to follow, either. But these topics are grist for the mill, and it's a trip to pursue them.<br /><br />If perception is reality, at least a form of it, mundane certainties have meaning. The quantum revelation holds that everything is interconnected -" I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"- (I'm wearing this out, I know, but it's the best example.) and this has meaning beyond overt perception. The reality of it is revealed in subtle ways, but no less real than corpses in the streets of Haiti.<br /><br />Theres more to living and dying than meets the eye.<br /><br />Many truths and aspects of our mysterious realm seem absurd until they are accepted as obvious. That's the legitimate stairway upward. Not so much the trickery of discount salvation. Something sad and sentimentally exploitive in that.<br /><br />~Ib</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9:46 AM</p></dd></dl><p></p><hr /><hr />Zoro said...<p></p><p><br /></p>The issue of mass manipulation has been around since the machinations of the ultimate clique drew the attention of perception-freedom fighters. As long ago as 1980 and listening to Pink Floyd's Wall, utter denunciation of Educational practices as mind control and very mild and 'justifiable' cloning, lead me to virtual hatred of the ways and means of the fucks who continue to ensure supremacy.<br />The fact of the goverment providing a legal mechanism to punish those who do not find the opportunity to stick to booking vacations strictly within the standard school holidays, is a heinous practice. I just can't wait to lock horns with the head at y daughter's school. No hurry.<br /><br />Z.<br /><br />5:39 PM<br /><br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that.<br /><br />Once my dad went to bat for me and left the school principal shitting himself --prick deserved having his balls handed to him.<br /><br />Was the only time I was ever called into the office when I left feeling good. I was walking on air. Made me proud.<br /><br />People will almost always abuse power, given the chance.<br /><br />6:34 PM<br /><br /><br />Zoro said...<br /><br />My dad told me to tell the head I am an existentialist. He had paroxisms of rage. I was also advised to tell bullies that bullies needed telling they came from deprived<br />backgrounds. It worked so well but so cruel.<br /><br />Z.<br /><br />12:38 PM<br /><br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />I took an official beating for whipping an upperclassman after he got in my face for flirting with his girlfriend.<br /><br />It was good getting the tables turned and restoring order to my universe.<br /><br />Life had momentary clarity.<br /><br />2:13 PM<br /><br /><br />Zoro said...<br /><br />What, pray tell, led you up that particular garden path? Actually (and honestly), I had an assessment of my suitability for RAF pilot training. After peering up my asshole and screening for colour blindness, they found me in adequate for training as a pilot.<br /><br />As an aside, you know the current talk of a growing arena based on investigations about teleportation? Surely by establishing a moratorium on all carbon fuels, then placing a massive investment in teleportation, we could form an opinion about its viabilty by kicking the football that is quantum physics way out into 2020/30?<br /><br />Z.<br /><br />5:42 PM<br /><br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />The primrose led me up it...but, after my old man set the world back on its axis, I realized I'd never be the lover I'd hoped to be without being a fighter as well. Much to my dismay.<br /><br />At least I never let the military search me as they searched you, they might have found deliverance...or maybe their true calling.<br /><br />I made one visit to the the draft office, with news of my conscientious objection to the unholy practice of killing humans. They just grinned and mumbled stiffly...and I had a sense of them mentally sharpening knives.<br /><br />6:09 PM<br /><br /><br />Zoro said...<br /><br />Part of taking a path of one's own requires that just once in a while fighting is the best policy. I did choose once to mix it with 2 drunk youths at the mall who were racially abusing two asian women with their children. I got lucky &amp; swear now to throw my weight around only if I can expect to make a run for it. Generally I prefer living to dying, however, there's a bit of a moveable feast about it.<br /><br />Z.<br /><br />4:31 PM<br /><br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />A bit of a moveable feast about it? That's profound. And wildly funny. Hilarious.<br /><br />I can't get past it. It has completely rejiggered my moorings.<br /><br />Your scenario reminds me of a time I almost pulled a woman out of a car for slapping her small child. It would've been an interesting tussle, she was black, angry and had about 100 lbs on me. She probably would've whipped my ass.<br /><br />5:08 PM<br /><br /><br />Zoro said...<br /><br />Didn't you atempt to reason with the woman?<br /><br />Z.<br /><br />5:36 PM<br /><br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />Yes, of course.<br /><br />I told her if she laid another hand on her baby, we were going to have a come to Jesus meeting.<br /><br />6:24 PM<br /><br /><br /><hr /><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="3" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="4" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...<div style="text-align: left;"><dl id="comments-block"><dd><p>Somewhat like the pointless discussion of hot stoves with a stubborn child in his determined quest to burn his hand.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">Monday, 07 December, 2009</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="5" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=30897953&amp;postID=7225004299265985959" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd></dl></div><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c1258697438771869183"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="1" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Sheer vanity.<br /><br />Why do false gods bogart the spotlight and captivate the circus (much like how the loud chattering about war magically sleights the ulterior reasons for it)? Why is their pointlessness used to obscure the point?<br /><br />And how could God be caught up in the petty drama, like some housewife rushing home in a mad dash not to miss an episode of her absurd soap opera?<br /><br />Pure love is the soundless perfect pitch of meaning. What it ultimately means is anyone's guess who hasn't realized it. Damn few, likely. Call it what you will, names and language only symbolize. Truth is beyond calling.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">Monday, 07 December, 2009</p></dd></dl><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...<p>Like my friendship with "Rob" a schizophrenic voice-hearer. I only wished to-day to 'proove' what I espouse, the linkage between Husserl's phenomenology and Sartre's existentialism. Of the issue of calling, Husserl begs us to 'go to the things themselves.' A random thinker summons the veil to rend, the ultimate real phenomenon of Earth is exposed as pure beauty.<br /><br />I know the way, I have showed the world divested of nomenclacture and emptied of pre-conception. Where are the warriors of the golden dawn? Scrape off the blurry cuticle of the ignorant's inner eye.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">Tuesday, 08 December, 2009</p><hr /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19965481-1151481048656175929?l=notestostrangers.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Indigobusinesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19965481.post-20735496638966054142007-04-17T10:49:00.000-07:002010-01-12T04:22:54.296-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/R5PUr-qjamI/AAAAAAAABlw/D__6om0xM54/s1600-h/enf2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/R5PUr-qjamI/AAAAAAAABlw/D__6om0xM54/s400/enf2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157699850290293346" border="0" /></a><hr /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RyZUPFNqh6I/AAAAAAAABYw/PjS6ftvK2a4/s1600-h/wof1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RyZUPFNqh6I/AAAAAAAABYw/PjS6ftvK2a4/s200/wof1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126877843882149794" border="0" /></a><i><a href="http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=87775"><span style="font-style: italic;"><blockquote><hr />“The key to endless tomorrows is the realization that you, me, all of us, are the problem. Stop running away from the seeds of every human misery. Stop making excuses for the past. Your only home in the cosmos is on fire and every one of us is equally responsible for lighting the match and looking the other way. You are the problem, and you are also the answer. The first step toward saving the world is within.”<hr /></blockquote></span></a></i><div style="text-align: right;"><i><i>~John Hogue</i></i></div><hr /><br /><h3 class="post-title"> <i><i> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dctd2" title="external link"> The Emerging Cosmos </a> </i></i></h3> <i><i> </i></i> <i><i> </i></i><p> <i><i> </i></i></p><i><i> <i> by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet</i></i></i><p><i><i> </i></i></p><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i><i> "At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny."</i></i></span><i><i><br /></i></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><i><i> Sri Aurobindo</i></i></span><i><i> </i></i></div></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><i><i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dctd2"> The malaise of our civilisation is not an inchoate or unpredictable development. Rather, it is the logical, foreseeable result of thousands of years of partial and ineffective spiritual visions and incomplete philosophical systems. These have always been the driving force behind the evolution of higher mental forms. Therefore, if our civilisation stands at a critical juncture at present, it is not in the secular and scientific domain that we must search for the cause of the decay. We must discover what has been lacking in the dimension of existence that moulds the more external and material patterns which condition life on this planet.</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SomFE9Nn-7I/AAAAAAAADQc/RAiIfPENzHg/s1600-h/IMAG001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 88px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SomFE9Nn-7I/AAAAAAAADQc/RAiIfPENzHg/s320/IMAG001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370970350813707186" border="0" /></a><hr /><hr /><br /></i></i></span> <a name="comments"></a> <dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c6858840668013640639"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="1" href="profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>21/12/2012 is beginning to grab the attention of millions of people from all locations across Earth. I notice that the believers of the re-birthing powers of what many call the Age of Aquarius are combining forces with other systems geared to elevating the human race. The "balancing efforts" of a million tear-stained eyes be needing to talk of beginings in a world of folk who strive for suicide and self-destruction when a heartbeat way, is joy and felcitation.<br /><br />The faster the mad people strive, the faster they drive, the beauty they no longer see, the redemption they seek, lies at the convergence of the parallel lines of space, time and horizon.<br /><br />Anyone really needing death, will find her. The rest can gradually shed the burdens of the former and begin to rest for many years. Oh fuck! Another fucking prophet.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:35 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="3" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=6858840668013640639" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c187107117234948706"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="4" href="profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>2012 Has already been made a mockery of. The sound of even traditional references is beginning to clang in the ears. <br /><br />Sure, the run amok world needs a good bitchslap of a wake-up call..."purification", or "cleansing", as the Hopi say. But must it be physically hitting the wall?<br /><br />The Kogi say the Earth is dying, we are killing it. Who could argue? It's just I've long held a sneaking suspicion of a profound paradigm shift. If the penny drops, and the scales fall from the eyes of the collective, it would be an apocalyptic shock of the real to all those too heavily invested in the masquerade of the Big Lie.<br /><br />That would be plenty.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:58 PM</p></dd></dl><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><i><i><hr /><hr /></i></i></span><hr /><a name="comments"></a> <dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c197916123817195923"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="1" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Everyone's a fucking expert, just one wanking prophet after another. I challenge them to predict the time and place I next take a shit. Afterwards they can kiss my ass (with feeling...)<br /><br />Nonchalant Nick</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:17 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="3" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=197916123817195923" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c3269709374203124096"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="4" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>They have met your challenge with the prediction you will shit your pants when the global economic collapse crosses your threshold....perhaps in the guise of some sort of Santa, Tooth Fairy, or other benevolent benefactor.<br /><br />Additionally, they insist you do most of the kissing...and all the feeling.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:58 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="6" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=3269709374203124096" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c9162743903688604874"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="7" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="8" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>My prostate is trying to grab my attention, I aint scared of no ghosts. You should know by now how I work everyday towards the goal of global economic collapse.<br /><br />btw: crapped 15 minutes ago, quite sucessfully.<br /><br />Bottom - line is, I die. My balls for your neck. I am sick of fucking prophets and bored of the procrastination of all the human race.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">11:51 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="9" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=9162743903688604874" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c3965274810982933495"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="10" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="11" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Crapping is one long process, not episodic glory.<br /><br />Nobody is suggesting you be afraid, just aware. Prophets aren't near as bad as false prophets.<br /><br />I'm sick of the sickness.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:01 PM</p></dd></dl><br /><hr /><br /><hr /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c2082693143110447735"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="10" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>TL and others would have hoped that we humans at some point, start chatting to each other to find a solution to too fast pace of change. Instead of accepting coversationally taboo bewilderment (and it is getting more bewildering)at our occasional stuckness, or leave "speed of change" to those who dare moan about it and so by lose credibility. (Some poor sod who can't hack it.) Why are we allowing ourselves to be disempowered? Is someone studying the phenomenon or is that not 'cool'?<br /><br />All that I am able to surmise, is that, when all the young dudes finally feel comfortable both here and now, that that will 'do the trick' to 'take the urge out of surge.' Not that hedonism is at fault per se, but it's a bit like rushing to the doors of a burning nightclub when there is already a bush fire surrounding the buildng.<br />It's all about the song: "Teach your children well." Every single one of their paths is only as good as they know themselves. I trust my children, nothing will change the necessity of trusting the young as their paths stretch ahead beyond those who came before.<br /><br />Forever chasing the dragon, it seems like the fastest ride in town, but kid, it's not speed as known by the ancestors, it ain't optimum velocity, no way is moving the fastest gonna catch it. You work it out.<br /><br />You will.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:55 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="11" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=2082693143110447735" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c786755115097038032"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="12" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="13" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Nicely posed puzzle, I'm still unfolding it and trying not to get lost in the creases.<br /><br />I suppose the answer is in the question, where it belongs, and all the rushing madness is simply another form of enough rope with which the problem child shall ultimately hang itself.<br /><br />So, patience all you big-hearted empire healers. Think before rushing headlong into unnecessary battles. Let the dragon roar itself to a cinder. Concentrate on the path, 'cause no matter where you go...there you are.</p><blockquote><hr /></blockquote><p></p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c520254473158425026"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /><hr /></dt><dt id="c2953586130346839083"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="4" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Serves you bloody right for having no philosophy.<br /><br />Farking heathen.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:24 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="6" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=2953586130346839083" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c901352564410814909"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="7" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_K0FynLYoTXg/R-93ldFmrTI/AAAAAAAAALE/zrlmc3gC_XE/S220/me1.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="DAVE BONES" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="53" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="8" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" rel="nofollow" onclick="">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>innit</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:17 AM</p> </dd><dt id="c520254473158425026"><hr /><br /></dt><dt id="c520254473158425026"><br /></dt><dt id="c520254473158425026"><hr /></dt><dt id="c6424421743058790549"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="1" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Death is a mist shrouded wellspring of metaphor crayolas for coloring life.<br /><br />Imagine just how insipid we'd become without it? It's all that keeps us the least bit honest.<br /><br />Dying is easy, living is hard.</p></dd><dd><p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SomE6uz6f8I/AAAAAAAADQU/jFwRD_t7VRU/s1600-h/motivator.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SomE6uz6f8I/AAAAAAAADQU/jFwRD_t7VRU/s320/motivator.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370970175149080514" border="0" /></a><br /></p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c4109271139464964990"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>As from the neck of the womb, the vase's neck ejects the spray of lillies to blossom towards death, stems severed from its plant. Its a rewarding metaphor and symbol to boot. 'Spect Van Gogh liked this one too. So death in every form and symbol is life's intrinsic siamese twin.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">Monday, 17 August, 2009</p> </dd><dt id="c4102969056945597254"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>"Living is laughing/Dying says nothing at all."<br /></p></dd><dd><p>-Townes Van Zandt</p></dd></dl><blockquote><hr /><hr /></blockquote><p></p></dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c6239571248999289495"><br /></dt><dt class="comment-poster" id="c6239571248999289495"><br /></dt><dt class="comment-poster" id="c6239571248999289495"><span style="line-height: 16px;" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display: inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Kids are great, even whilst being ruined by the system. You are doing more for yours than maybe anyone will, <a href="http://voidwithme.blogspot.com/2009/06/filling-gaps.html">Paula</a>.<br /><br />Once I drove a special ed. bus... with all the cripples, retards, and mongoloid sexpots (just one of those, but she flirted enough for her entire army). Those kids were beautiful to me, and they came alive when they got on my bus. It was magic, everyday was like the Madhatter's teaparty.<br /><br />I remember watching a big old black mama start weeping as her tiny little boy in leg braces, who normally could barely walk, flew down the sidewalk and into my arms one morning. I'll never forget it.<br /><br />I like to think I did some good for those kids. I know they did a lot for me.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://voidwithme.blogspot.com/2009/06/filling-gaps.html#c6239571248999289495" title="comment permalink">6:02 PM</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-989524432"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&amp;postID=6239571248999289495" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt id="c520254473158425026"><hr /><hr /><br /></dt><dt id="c4984602276463970928"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="1" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>For literally years people had thought that, by making me clever, they had helped me out. I became a snob and sneeringly aloof from dirty jobs and dirtier people. Something like magic folk and muggles. Such beliefs nearly ruined me. That is just one reason why I argue for a world wide process of dumbing down intellectual property and total redistribution of world assets, property and wealth.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:30 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="3" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=4984602276463970928" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c949599367161232767"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="4" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>When all are magic folk, the heavy lifting will have been done. But is such a Utopian potential a useful preoccupation in a pragmatic world?<br /><br />Pearls before swine, and all that.<br /><br />Ultimately, everyone becomes Buddha. So maybe patience is the order of the day, every day, amidst the spiritual schizophrenia of the human condition.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">10:57 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="6" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=949599367161232767" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c2463138491091753341"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="7" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/18060810017742725941" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MhpcWQVpjFY/SkPUgslHSzI/AAAAAAAAAFo/6sTkqwuilO8/S220/bellesmoking.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Belle Epoque" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="42" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="8" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/18060810017742725941" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Belle Epoque</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>The ultimate mystery is death...<br /><br />...but in our short lives, I personally am happy I can't figure it all out. That's the beauty, and a conscious excuse for suspended belief. It's humbling, but also convenient to be NOT all-knowing.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:14 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="9" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=2463138491091753341" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c4148210469008902634"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="10" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="11" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Personally, I'm thrilled to be mystified.<br /><br />One thing I've learned regarding knowing: context cracks the whip.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:29 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="12" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=4148210469008902634" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c9149132927073238877"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="13" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="14" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I feel that simpler truths that link me fraternally to other amazing people get our job done more effectively. Our job: 'Go to the people<br />Live among them<br />Learn from them<br />Love them<br />Start with what they know<br />Build on what they have:<br />But of the best leaders<br />When their task is accomplished<br />Their work is done<br />The people all remark<br />“We have done it ourselves.'<br /><br />Really, superior people in the opinion of Lao Tsu possessed a special quality he named Te.<br /><br />Nowadays its te this te that - has it helped? The fuck it has. Lao Tse is a dead git which he thoroughly deserves.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:51 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="15" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=9149132927073238877" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c786672901343399229"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="16" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SiqGDFKPKvI/AAAAAAAADL0/Ub6kCa40sP0/S220/headhands.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="17" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Can't help but wonder what he'd have to say about you, Z.<br /><br />The mind reels...</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:17 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="18" style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=786672901343399229" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'deleteWindow', 'height=370,width=750'); return false;" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c6157836906415700056"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="19" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/Se5NxNvnbzI/AAAAAAAAADM/s7y7OianVTQ/S220/chars+camera+2009+072.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="20" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I'll take that as a 'maybe' or as Twit once said - 'Zoro, you loony get.'<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">3:07 AM</p></dd><dt id="c520254473158425026"><hr /><hr /><br /></dt><dt id="c6736574431693847152"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Sf6H1zEFMvI/AAAAAAAADKM/REuTtCumQqk/S220/mohismosmjpg.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="40" width="60" /></a></span></div><br /><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="3" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Excellent observation. Fears abound, until it dawns on us all that the paradigm shifted unnoticed whilst we wallowed in our electronic selves.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p></dd><hr /><dt id="c520254473158425026"><span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="2" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>"Know thyself" has got stuck in my head a long time as do the words of Socrates advising me to spend the rest of life getting ready to die. Even time spent as a kind of anti-christ and slagging off the "Fundys" has cluttered up the old inbox in my brilliant mind. I like gnosticism but it seems to have caught the pox like all the rest of them fairground rides and sideshows.<br /><br />Yawn.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:43 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="3" style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=520254473158425026" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c8593068188975587048"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="4" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I tend to have little regard for the bored.<br /><br />Ever wonder if there might be a crucial connection you've yet to make?<br /><br />There are countless examples of songs like yours...pre and post-epiphany.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">8:58 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="6" style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=8593068188975587048" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c2363197704696972143"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="7" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/SQucqe12iEI/AAAAAAAAACU/70gDiy10vP8/S220/france+2008+016.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="8" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>And I for the patronising, like how you dangle "epiphany" like some meritocratic morsel at the banquet of life. Sometimes you can sound a tad small-minded within your splendid res cogitens.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:30 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="9" style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=2363197704696972143" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c7843489458568067417"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="10" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="11" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Yeah, mea culpa. Sometimes I can sound that way, and for that you've pegged me.<br /><br />Not so splendid ways of addressing more splendid concepts reveal just how lazy I can be in these responses. You have my apology for sounding patronizing, it wasn't intended, but your yawning struck me similarly.<br /><br />The idea of personal paradigm shifts should always be considered, and the landscape of undiscovered territory can never be predetermined.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:16 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="12" style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=7843489458568067417" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c8128321367567811865"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="13" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a linkindex="14" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I Saw this and thought of you:<br /><br />"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."<br /><br />~Andre Gide</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:25 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a linkindex="15" style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=8128321367567811865" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt class="" id="c5394494952885370310"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="16" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/SQucqe12iEI/AAAAAAAAACU/70gDiy10vP8/S220/france+2008+016.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" linkindex="17" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd class=""><p>Indi - your words are music to the ears, please accept the assertion of my perpetual paradigm-shifting? Most noticeably a shift from christ-centredness to person-centredness thus a new vista on the tomfoolery of religion.<br /><br />Ever since I read la porte etroite and l'immoraliste (in french) and les faux monnayeurs, I have welcomed Gide as a brother and i can clearly respect what he might have said about self discovery (although Gide himself vaunted self discovery). I am partly aware of inner change and to an equal or greater degree, aware of the weltanschauung of the en-soi all around.<br /><br />My pedigree? Nietsche, Heidegger/Husserl, Sartre. The more modern, the less sense "they" make. If I am wrong I willingly stand corrected. Your Blog is strewn with references to the here and now which hit its maturity in the sixties and to which all culture harkens even among hip hop and R&amp;B in the culture of the noughties.</p></dd><dt><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a set="yes" linkindex="20" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt></dl><p>The cutting edge is constant and ceaseless. And whatever one's philosophical bent or effort to connect to oneself in any fundamental way, it takes getting beyond the confines of self to realize anything worthwhile. And this is what all religions are about. Regardless of how they've been corrupted.<br /><br />Religion is not about the institutions and inquisitors and ridiculous interpretations. So, throw all that out with the bath, but not the baby, if you ever expect to find anything.<br /><br />Without mythic context, every curious mind on the planet creates one...call it religion, or whatever you please.</p><dl id="comments-block"><dd class=""><hr /><p></p></dd><dt><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SadFjmd-lQI/AAAAAAAADHA/5rfMDZeQvc8/s1600-h/Bush-fires-rage-out-of-co-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SadFjmd-lQI/AAAAAAAADHA/5rfMDZeQvc8/s400/Bush-fires-rage-out-of-co-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307287163803440386" border="0" /></a><hr /><br /></dt></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c8375342287773387846"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 60px; height: 45px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/SQucqe12iEI/AAAAAAAAACU/70gDiy10vP8/S220/france+2008+016.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>My bad language was uncalled-for.<br /><br />Au contraire on the subject of infinity and omniprescence - which exist soley in contrast with their opposites, necessary to frame the omnipresent dialectic which only exists as the vehicle pointing to nirvana.<br /><br />Call god my buddha-nature but ditch the personification: it confuses those who seek freedom, "god's" person is almost the last obstacle on humanity's journey to it's total buddhahood.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:48 PM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c299185258635144976"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>God has no personhood, snap out of it, Z.<br /><br />I'm so ashamed.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:16 PM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c6154926711905967605"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Bad language? You mean when you called me a humanist? You are forgiven, but you should know better.<br /><br />Other than that, I have no idea what you mean.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:26 PM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c708291976307471594"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f4o7LrLE9LY/SQucqe12iEI/AAAAAAAAACU/70gDiy10vP8/S220/france+2008+016.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="Zoro" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="45" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Interesting. Both horns of the same dilemma with bull as common ground. Is this what history is coming to? I won't be fighting a corner too much, as the result is not even a ripple out of sight in the expanse of being and time. You should know that.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:50 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=708291976307471594" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c4613515573491898406"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I might know that, but I won't attempt to unravel the long and twisted road of that comment without a map with pictures.<br /><br />Word verification: decor<br /><br />which should've been sufficient response, but I'm a glutton for punishment.<br /><br />I gather by your folderol you didn't read the entire article, it's all there.<br /><br />Metaphor and rationale allow for only so much, and instinctive abstractions can be profound knowledge as well as delusion.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:13 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=4613515573491898406" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" 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onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>The day will come when,<br />after harnessing the winds,<br />the tides and gravitation,<br />we shall harness for God the energies of Love.<br />And on that day,<br />for the second time in the history of the world,<br />man will have discovered fire.<br />~Teilhard de Chardin</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:28 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=8855762961295448340" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" class="icon_delete" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c8962854342501899176"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" class="comment-icon blogger-comment" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I may have lost the plot.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:37 AM</p><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><ol class="commentlist"><li class="alt" id="comment-32970"> <cite>Xman</cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" linkindex="24" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/#comment-32970" title="">November 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm</a> </small> <p>Thanks Joe!<br />Truly a great lift for my day. I clicked the link and found many other vids of people doing the same thing in tribute to <a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/">Matt</a>.<br />Maybe I should do some of those goofy things that fly in from left field.<br />Maybe Indigo will get to see me dance yet…. </p> </li><li class="" id="comment-32971"> <cite><a set="yes" linkindex="25" href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">JoeC</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" linkindex="26" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/#comment-32971" title="">November 17th, 2008 at 1:41 pm</a> </small> <p>Lifted my day, too. I know the economy is going to hell along with retirement savings, etc., but for some reason, I feel really upbeat lately. Maybe it’s because problems are no longer being ignored and looming over our heads. Maybe because the country is finally having to address some of the crap we’ve known has been wrong for so long. Or maybe the gloomy half of me just had to take a break for a spell. Whatever it is, <a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/">this video</a> did fuel the good vibes. </p> </li><li class="alt" id="comment-32972"> <cite><a set="yes" linkindex="27" href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" linkindex="28" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/#comment-32972" title="">November 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm</a> </small> <p><b>Get</b> to, Xman, <b>GET</b> to? I’m bleeding from the eyes as it is.</p> <p>You nailed it, Joe. Although I haven’t watched <a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/11/16/where-the-hell-is-matt/">the video </a>yet for fear it will improve my mood and I can’t have that, I’m surfing the crest of some vile mojo at the moment, and the impending wipeout has my knees knocking. So, it’s all I can muster to acknowledge your insight: there truly is a pervading euphoria filling the air over the mask being stripped from the big lie. It’s as if everyone’s suspicions are suddenly being confirmed, and everyone is realizing they weren’t paranoid after all. </p> <p>Once the monster is tangible, it can be reckoned with…and that’s a relief.</p><hr /><p></p> </li></ol><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c1334375946379888860"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Some people deserve a lot of credit.<br /><br />They virtually slap my face, snap me out of it, and momentarily give me hope for the future.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9:08 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=1334375946379888860" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c834279772443574168"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K0FynLYoTXg/R-93ldFmrTI/AAAAAAAAALE/zrlmc3gC_XE/S220/me1.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="DAVE BONES" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="53" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Don't take that-Slap em back!</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:59 AM</p> </dd><dt id="c2318274264145065689"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I welcome anything that clears my vision.<br /><br />I'll save my slaps for the obscurors.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">2:45 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=2318274264145065689" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c792403259146443423"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K0FynLYoTXg/R-93ldFmrTI/AAAAAAAAALE/zrlmc3gC_XE/S220/me1.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="DAVE BONES" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="53" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>If you can see em</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:04 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c2562708044340968725"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I should've said virtual slaps.<br /><br />So, spank me.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:06 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=2562708044340968725" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c2342290257004044770"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Sorry, too much Monty Python.<br /><br />The word verification on that was gridme. I should've listened.<br /><br />Sometime the innernets are like the Great Pumpkin, filled with wisdom and coded cues.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">8:22 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=2342290257004044770" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c9002075655210990636"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K0FynLYoTXg/R-93ldFmrTI/AAAAAAAAALE/zrlmc3gC_XE/S220/me1.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="DAVE BONES" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="53" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Especially to diviners like ourselves</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9:31 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c731782880099898968"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Not me, I'm in constant state of total confusion.<br /><br />But I'm drunk on the mystery.</p></dd><dd><br /></dd><dt id="c3899856509240059812"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Yeah totally. Don't divine. Surprise me.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">8:08 AM</p> </dd><dt id="c8901825828619404031"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>On second thought, I think you're right...I think I'll slap anybody who gives me hope for the future.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:15 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=8901825828619404031" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c344642379569769737"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_K0FynLYoTXg/R-93ldFmrTI/AAAAAAAAALE/zrlmc3gC_XE/S220/me1.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="DAVE BONES" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="53" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" onclick="" rel="nofollow">DAVE BONES</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>definitely as a matter of course. And as a matter of tradition.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:17 PM</p></dd><dd><br /><hr /><p></p><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c3800659282613226774"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>I think that natural selection is operating among us as described - the proposition is a true one and scarcely conspirationalist. Neologisms apart, isn't it interesting to shine lights on the grotesque guignols in the human pantheon? Sometimes their scrawny necks spew from their suit collars and underneath, their flaccid white man breasts rise and fall with their rasping breath.<br /><br />Anarchy could offer the antidote to rule by hierarchy if it ever managed to break out outside occasional side splitting banter sessions. Just give up the ghost man, that is, the holy ghost.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:45 PM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c2351104753499037556"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>OK, then. Done.<br /><br />But, in the meantime of that grotesquery of preening Guignols (who obviously fancy themselves quite roguish and beguiling) we move as flocking birds, or frightened lemmings, in stampeded search of material salvation.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:52 PM</p></dd><dt id="c1623751988882870351"> <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Yep - and flocks have shepherds, even free range sheep. You said birds and I say seagulls, I say those sheep are mine and I theirs, treachery is success's bedfellow and not shafting a mate is the best act in the Guignol's repertoire. On one level there lives a million assholes on Earth who are unmistakably each a kind of brother and sister.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:34 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c5192637105000231057"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" onload="'setAttributeOnload(this," height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>We're all bozos on this bus.<br /><br />Even the puppeteers.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:12 PM</p><hr /><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/"><img style="width: 100px; height: 55px;" src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/sublime.jpg" /></a></div><h3 class="post-title"> 5 minutes left. 5 minutes. </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" >[Whatever happens, my friend, keep writing.<br /><br />-Why the hell?<br /><br />Because you will spend a lifetime writing complete drivel, scratching on the great toilet wall of the internet, <a linkindex="3" href="http://wrapped-too-tight.blogspot.com/search?q=howling">howling across empty fields</a>, and then even as the clock counts down the last minutes to your execution, you will write the perfect poem, the beauty of which will move souls in centuries to come...]</span><br /><br />5 minutes is plenty.<br /><br /><br />And what is the meaning of this? you will ask...<br /><br />Poets, bloggers and other scribblers with over-developed senses of melodrama need a suitably melodramatic reply when interrogated by that sinister looming monster, futility... </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by I.:.S.:. at <a linkindex="4" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-minutes-left-5-minutes.html" title="permanent link">01:02</a></em> <span class="item-action"><a linkindex="5" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=10377676&amp;postID=4030437738180047441" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon18_email.gif" /></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-2020476521"><a linkindex="6" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=10377676&amp;postID=4030437738180047441" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" /></a></span> </p> <!-- End .post --> <!-- Begin #comments --> <a name="comments"></a> <h4>4 Comments:</h4> <dl id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-poster" id="c1980656522157519983"><a name="c1980656522157519983"></a> <span style="line-height: 16px;" class="comment-icon openid-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/openid16-rounded.gif" alt="OpenID" style="display: inline;" /></span> <a linkindex="7" href="http://swine.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">swine</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>We will just burn our myriad written pages in a controlled fire to keep warm in the winters of our discontent, as our utilities prices reach beyond our means.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a set="yes" linkindex="8" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-minutes-left-5-minutes.html#1980656522157519983" title="comment permalink">5/6/08 13:40</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-812703296"><a linkindex="9" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=10377676&amp;postID=1980656522157519983" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c583263071450718363"><a name="c583263071450718363"></a> <span style="line-height: 16px;" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display: inline;" /></span> <a set="yes" linkindex="10" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Sometimes melodrama is a form of understatement.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a set="yes" linkindex="11" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-minutes-left-5-minutes.html#583263071450718363" title="comment permalink">30/6/08 11:17</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1103513840"><a linkindex="12" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=10377676&amp;postID=583263071450718363" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c7853589607410460396"><a name="c7853589607410460396"></a> <span style="line-height: 16px;" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display: inline;" /></span> <span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>"...he's Mikey, OK? He's like the locusts. He's not gonna be right again for like seven years."<br /><br /><br />-----------<br />(from the tv show Rescue Me)</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a set="yes" linkindex="13" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-minutes-left-5-minutes.html#7853589607410460396" title="comment permalink">23/7/08 08:00</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1221527521"><a linkindex="14" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=10377676&amp;postID=7853589607410460396" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c2119995326571795770"><a name="c2119995326571795770"></a> <span style="line-height: 16px;" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display: inline;" /></span> <a set="yes" linkindex="15" href="http://intheblogbusiness.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">I, Blogger</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>"We will just burn our myriad written pages in a controlled fire to keep warm in the winters of our discontent, as our utilities prices reach beyond our means."--is a form of understatement.<br /><br />I hope your work much ;)</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a linkindex="16" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-minutes-left-5-minutes.html#2119995326571795770" title="comment permalink">3/8/08 04:01</a><hr /></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c7042526259203235829"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>While I agree that style is often egregious, on all sides, it never fully obscures the truth.<br /><br />The spin is only a sad commentary on our culture, as is the ugly truth and delusions thereof.</p><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SPvVCApKEJI/AAAAAAAACus/142DYkw6-aQ/s1600-h/picasso.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SPvVCApKEJI/AAAAAAAACus/142DYkw6-aQ/s400/picasso.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259031220394266770" border="0" /></a><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c6684809625503715690"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>The web is just our contemporary tool for chronicling our collective demise...with little actual residue. Being so chic and civilized we accomplish the necessary without littering.<br /><br />This just occurred to me as I read <a href="http://funk.co.uk/2008/07/harmony-heresy-hearsay-hairspray.html">your post</a>, and I didn't really feel like so much roadkill on the information superhighway until I saw Picasso so at ease with his yamsack. I then realized how doomed we truly are.<br /><br />"Drink to me..."</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:45 AM</p><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SadLWSh1pvI/AAAAAAAADHQ/oUqH_0N7bGc/s1600-h/fuckit2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SadLWSh1pvI/AAAAAAAADHQ/oUqH_0N7bGc/s400/fuckit2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307293532182390514" border="0" /></a><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c3040851902647961797"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Blah blah - stuff's OK but it aint livin - it might help if I gave a fuck, but Ize heard it all fifty times an' these dudes are takin a fat cut.<br /><br />(I'm pissed cos my folks came round and they have this habit of saying the same things over and over year in year out.)<br /><br />Of course shit is going on, dunno how or why - I serve, dunno what or who.<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:11 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=3040851902647961797" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c145180250122538038"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Anonymous" /> <span dir="ltr">Ib</span> said...</dt><dd><p>Yeah, Z, I know what you mean, but I'm always supportive of sincere efforts to work it out.<br />I was a bit taken aback by the phrase <b>new world order</b>.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:16 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=145180250122538038" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c1930022420209342519"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Reminds me of Scar - an songs like waiting for my work to begin - where lion and hyena reign supreme, some asshole said something about the meek, oh is that the time already, I have an important appointment at Waco and i mean that most sincerely.<br /><br />Z.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">11:36 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=1930022420209342519" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c3953795980339401819"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Now that's painting with too broad of a brush.<br />There's all sorts of delusional abuse.<br /><br />The real deal is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't. Too many get lost in the drama and lose sight of the purpose.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:12 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=3953795980339401819" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c1205847252935525693"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Zoro</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>The delusional abuse is from those assholes who labour under the illusion that there is a purpose - with all due respect :-)<br /><br />Z</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:00 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=1205847252935525693" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c591940590665191256"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>What illusory purpose is it you respectfully deny?<br /><br />The purpose I spoke to is the effort to transcend illusion, and assholes.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">5:19 PM</p></dd><dt id="c6709077758388755487"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/16436705683800547607" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Jersey Cynic</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>OK Indi - i THINK(?) I'm ready to discuss this. I swear I've been here at least 10 times to read and re-read this. (btw - I'm with you daily and think about you all the time.)<br /><br />Thought has entangled the brain in time.<br />Thought has entangled the brain in time.<br />Thought has entangled the brain in time.<br /><br />I understand this because the more time passes, the more my thought process seems to speed up. To the point now where I am beginning to think that I am slowly driving myself mad. can't seem to focus on a single thing. then i think maybe that's not so bad because if we get stuck on one thing for too long, that's not good. (i.e. religion) Not good in the sense that we can't completely evolve to a whole being (be entirely part of the universe) until we have let this whole thought process ability we have, come to an end. Maybe what I am fighting is this "unraveling" of everything:<br /><br />"To end becoming...Of course, there is only complete security in nothingness!"<br /><br />THEN - THEN!!!! I get to the New World Order part and literally freak out. And now I come back to your site for about the 11th time and see your comment about the 'New World Order', just after I had been over at the BigBrassBlog reading the comments<a href="http://bigbrassblog.com/index.php?itemid=1572#comm" rel="nofollow">in this post</a><br /><br />UNRAVEL ME BABY!!!</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9:56 AM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c2236368148324136700"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Dear JC- You really are the best.<br />I'm glad you told me that, I worry about you when I don't hear from you. Good to know you've been lurking, but you should know you ring my chimes as only you can. I tend to get a little cranky when I go too long unrung. ;}<br /><br />You really have dug into this stuff, haven't you? I remember knowing you early on and sensing you awakening. I could almost feel you unfolding. So cool. I'll try to help if I can, after my usual disclaimer that I am certainly no authority. What gave me a leg up was a personal crisis, fairly early, that forced me to look hard and long into the abyss. I came away with new eyes.<br /><br />The phrase used here of a new world order is creepy in the context we are accustomed to, but nothing of real consequence. Sort of like the ancient use of the swastika as a spiritual symbol before the Nazis ruined it for us.<br /><br />The important thing here is the idea of conscientiously building our collective path upon firm foundations, recognizing transformative insights,and the consequences of accepting less.<br /><br />Lots of pitfalls along that path, keep a sharp eye.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">12:12 PM</p></dd><dt id="c3904602644520976336"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>re: Unraveling...<br /><br />Keep in mind, religion is only a framework for self-realization. A process, not an end in itself.<br />When it gets down to getting stuck on ideas like religion, etc, it's important to consider that you can let go of these sorts of moorings, you can get beyond them by letting go...when the time comes and the moment has been cultivated. A terrifying leap, for sure, but it's the Big Kahuna of the evolving spirit. It's the wall of the Bodhisattva (the true long distance runner). It is transformative insight. Genuine awakening.<br /><br />You'll still have to take out the trash and slop the hogs, but you will never view it in the same way.<br />________________<br /><br />re: Being and Nothingness<br /><br />It's a tough nut to crack that we are NOW "entirely part of the universe". Everything is interconnected (see: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3bj9zr" rel="nofollow">spooky action at a distance</a>) and evolving into our "whole being" is what it's all about. Our human duty, disguised as an option.<br /><br /><b>"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."</b><br />_____<br /><br />Teilhard de Chardin had an interesting handle on this:<br /><br />Taking evolution as his key idea, he saw the whole universe as an evolutionary process - what he called cosmogenesis. Everything in the universe, including man, was bound together in complete organic interconnection and unity. Matter and spirit were not two separate things but rather two dimensions of one reality. The evolution of the cosmos was the progressive spiritualization, or personalization, of matter, with God as the Omega Point, or fulfillment of the cosmic process, and Christ as the incarnation in time of this ultimate cosmic purpose. The emergence of human consciousness, the "noosphere, " on this planet was the leading edge of the cosmogenesis and the clue to the direction of the whole universe. With man, cosmic evolution became self-directing; it "folds in upon itself, " converging increasingly toward spirit and person.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SP0ZY6yxdrI/AAAAAAAACvM/1rig4kZUx3Y/s1600-h/mandalax.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/SP0ZY6yxdrI/AAAAAAAACvM/1rig4kZUx3Y/s200/mandalax.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259387855728375474" border="0" /></a>-<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3ymda6" rel="nofollow">link</a></p> <p class="comment-timestamp">1:44 PM</p></dd><dd><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c3452062538073066198"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XHfwWFBLm14/R1qtpEo_8CI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iav0qsw7dyU/S220/Joe08.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="JoeC" height="60" width="48" /></a></span></div></dt><dt id="c3452062538073066198"><img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">JoeC</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>And when you follow how much corn goes into so much of our food stuffs, and then follow how much oil it takes to grow the corn (fertilizer, harvesting, etc.), it's just insane that the current administration decided to push Ethanol Made From Corn as an answer to our oil problems. Well, it's insane unless they profit by the price of oil going up and they just got control of a whole bunch of it in Iraq and want to sell it off at as high a price as possible...</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:47 AM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c3156492607707581677"><div class="profile-image-container"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></span></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <span dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></span> said...</dt><dd><p>Switchgrass, Joe, switchgrass.<br /><br />Actually, I heard Catherine Austin Fitts explain the true dynamic of the current trainwreck juggernaut, and I'm convinced it is just delaying the full consequence of the failed evil plan.<br /><br />No genuine concern in the equation for the people or the planet.<br /><br />Hemp would've gone a long way to healing our ills if the powers that be had their collective heart in the right place.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">7:20 AM</p></dd></dl><br /><h2 class="headline"><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/2007/12/mysterious-dark-spiral.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 92, 55);"><i><i><i><i>Couple films mystery dark spiral</i></i></i></i></span></a></h2><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/2007/12/mysterious-dark-spiral.html"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/2007/12/mysterious-dark-spiral.html"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/R3c8AOqjaUI/AAAAAAAABjg/yi-HO32r1mw/s200/fraxt.jpg" alt="" /></a></div><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c3399175908758027233"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Deek Deekster" height="52" width="60" /></a></div></dt><dt id="c3399175908758027233"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Deek Deekster</a> said...</dt><dd><p>that spiral was God's asshole. Of course.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">4:40 AM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c7652775832238698407"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Yeah,D, <a href="http://home.egge.net/%7Esavory//mingleton_mayors_gallery.jpg" rel="nofollow">this image</a> came to mind.<br /><br />I wish it hadn't.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:17 AM</p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c6719541299119719790"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Deek Deekster" height="52" width="60" /></a></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Deek Deekster</a> said...</dt><dd><p>all God's assholes. sorry, children.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">6:42 AM</p><hr /><p></p> <span class="item-control"></span></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c5378703508235162164"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" class="comment-icon" alt="Blogger" /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>In the face of persistently evaluating music, how is it possible to truly enjoy that which measures up?<br /><br />***Happy New Year...</p><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><ol class="commentlist"><li class="alt" id="comment-24998"> <cite>Indigobusiness</cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" linkindex="22" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/12/06/recharging/#comment-24998" title="">December 6th, 2007 at 11:38 pm</a> </small> <p>Shoot the messenger, the war has no panties!</p><hr /> <p></p> </li></ol><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c5817558406785954326"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>God's deconstruction results in us, and our pain.<br /><br />Who knew he was a masochist?</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">24/9/07 08:06</p> </dd><dt id="c8649341444654835235"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11333497030751042143" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/392557141_8cdd8763a1_o.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="{illyria}" height="60" width="45" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/11333497030751042143" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">{illyria}</a> said...</dt><dd><p>i happen to like your god theory very much.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">17/10/07 04:58</p> </dd><dt id="c7485019961283434171"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>God is a sadist..Not a masochist..<br /><br /><br /><br />You must know the story that goes a little like thees;<br />Man invents a huge, monolithic uber-computer to ask the ultimate question;Is there a God?<br />The appointed day for the answer arrives, and in front of the massed ranks of humanity, the uber-computer answers...<br />"There is now..."</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">18/10/07 15:40</p> </dd><dt id="c421406676442085362"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Otter, once again, mangles the point...and the joke.<br /><br />Masochism, in this example, is the clarifying hinge-point in the conceptual fog.<br /><br />Only false gods are sadistic.<br /><br /><b>Now</b> is the eternal realm.</p><hr /><hr /><p></p></dd></dl><ol class="commentlist"><li class="" id="comment-15492"> <cite><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/10/08/coexisting-bush-gets-it/#comment-15492" title="">October 8th, 2007 at 9:28 pm</a> </small> <p>Being positive is centered in honesty and truly fighting the good fight…taking no prisoners, whomever. </p> <p>Tough talk for a raging pacifist…I know. But when it gets down to brass tacks, truth is the absolute imperative. </p> </li><li class="alt" id="comment-15522"> <cite><a href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">JoeC</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/10/08/coexisting-bush-gets-it/#comment-15522" title="">October 9th, 2007 at 5:22 am</a> </small> <p>You’re right…gotta tell the truth, and as Jefferson said, the citizenry has to stay informed or we will surely lose our freedom, and we’re seeing that come to pass. Still, I’ve been watching Ken Burns’ <a href="http://www.pbs.org/thewar/" rel="nofollow">The War</a> WWII documentary, and I find myself longing for something to feel patriotic about, and after searching for it I am finding slim pickings. But, I am still determined to post on some GOOD little known things about our country to counterbalance the bad…balance…I need some balance. Our COUNTRY needs some balance (Hint…listen up, egg-sucking roll-over-and-play-dead Democratic Congress…) </p> </li><li class="" id="comment-15541"> <cite><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/10/08/coexisting-bush-gets-it/#comment-15541" title="">October 9th, 2007 at 9:28 am</a> </small> <p>I think it goes beyond candor, to the cultural realization that genuine patriotism is founded in a devotion to the pursuit of truth, and not the facade of politics and propaganda.</p> <p>But, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said, Joe, and I’ll admit my persistent urge to listen to the liars in hope of finding some way to respect those I wish I could. I want to believe in the uprightness of my govt, etc, but not to the point of delusion. It is easy to lose one’s moorings in the info/disinfo crush, and the Stockholm syndrome allusion you made is apt. Regardless of desires, Americans must bite the bullet and look on this dilemma with a clear, objective eye, or else we’re all soon sunk. </p> </li></ol><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c2392019151795990734"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Nobody really gives a shit, Otter. We're (us the multitudes) are just here for the belly laughs.<br /><br />I sort of got that from the line you wrote in the piece <a href="http://www.socialistwanker.com/articles/archive/drotter1.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>, on the war:<br /><br /><b>'...a “bad thing” is only a “bad thing” when it is happening to YOU.'</b><br /><br />Got to say, I can't tell if you mean it when you say anti-war folks are insincere, but that's utter crap. Maybe not entirely, I suspect there are those in it for the rush alone, and they are despicable. Peacemongering is every bit as serious as warmongering. Every warrior should know that, yet even war has its dilettantes, and some don't. Not truly warriors, those.<br /><br />You sure spell it out well, though, the important factors. Not sure about your analysis. Keep writing, you have a knack.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/02/2007 3:48 AM</p> <span class="item-control"></span></dd><dt id="c7926005465228981184"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Dont be a fucking mug Ind.<br />I care not who gives a shit.. My father taught me that what other people think about you is NOT your business..Deleteing most of this post cos its shit.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/02/2007 2:18 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c3726217371328968235"> Indibiz said...</dt><dd><p>Your father gave sage advice. But come on, Otter, that's like me telling you not to be a raging maniac asshole.<br /><br />You did bring it up, after all, untill you pared-down the post.<br /><br />Was I being a mug? That's altogether bad, is it? I'll just lurk, and enjoy the saga. No point in commenting. Good luck.<br /><br />Beware the dull knife.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/02/2007 5:24 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c3052051415098012833"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>"Anti war"-oh god I love that phrase, I piss myself laughing internally every time I hear it- folk are more often just misguided at best, pious at worst. Comically simplistic without exception.. Like carrying a placard saying "Pain hurts.."<br />They are merely partially evolved in their logic.Still crawling across the mudflats with partially withered gills.....Thinking (at least 45) years behind me and in terms of a redundant and now nonsensicle precept.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/15/2007 7:13 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c3814009750905419613"> Indigrits said...</dt><dd><p>Man, you really don't get it.<br /><br />Maybe if you spent less time pissing yourself, and focused that laser beam mind of yours, you'd see beyond the spotlight of your own circus?<br /><br />Tibetan Buddhists talk of struggling against the powerful current, to arrive at the clear pool, else winding up on the mudflats.<br /><br />Antiwar is evolved beyond the selfish wanking bullshit.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 1:10 AM</p> </dd><dt id="c4358266114058183810"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>No, mate. You dont get it.Hasn't a few thousand years of history taught you that war, not "peace"(never existed, never will....) is truly the natural state of mans existance.<br />War is without question the primary motivating force of history and invention.<br />Can you imagine the nightmare state this planet would be in if all those killed in two world wars had children, and so on...The result would be more horriffic than any war with disease supervening in its place.Great.<br />Total war! Total war! to feed the beast in man once more!<br />To kick out Christ and bring back Thor! To dance unto the Lions roar!<br />Total war! Total war!<br />And its no surprise to me that the Bhudda is portrayed as a corpulent fucker, I'd like to smash him in his self satisfied, self rightious, amotivational face.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 8:52 AM</p> </dd><dt id="c3277150032688199840"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Barbara's story is s tale of war.<br /><br />You exalt the puerile.<br /><br />War is the hell realm of mankind's refusal to grow-up.<br /><br />Buddha could teach you a thing about being a warrior, he killed when necessary.<br /><br />Don't mistake the cartoons for the feature. There are lessons in man's folly. There are potentials, and manifest realities, and past ain't necessarily prologue.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 4:16 PM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=7570765408912313820&amp;postID=3277150032688199840" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c8349260438019955468"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>1.<br />I DO NOT "exalt" war. I am merely realistic.<br />2<br />B's story has NOTHING to do with war, except in the most tenuous and semiotic sense.<br />3<br />This IS the feature.You must have slept through the cartoons.<br />4 Dont keep trying to call me peurile when you simply disagree. It cuts no ice. Your actual comment is one of the weakest you have made. You know this and that is why you resort to trying to tell me what I think.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 5:16 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c495704397877489671"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Okay, It did sound as though I was "exalting" but, as my profile says, I enjoy baiting those who find my views unacceptable.<br />Weak response from you though...</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 5:28 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c3688394864093659363"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05110012900695010338" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/is_.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="I.:.S.:." height="56" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05110012900695010338" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">I.:.S.:.</a> said...</dt><dd><p>You know I don't think the fat one is actually Buddha but some sort of attendant Santa Claus-like character. Someone told me about it once.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 5:30 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c6668337799802951363"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>You failed to address any of the points I made...</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/18/2007 5:50 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c5677963559798311265"> In... said...</dt><dd><p>I'm notorious for weak response.<br /><br />So, you drank the Kool-Aid, and think your rationalizations are realism.<br />You see War as some acceptable form of pro-active population control?<br />Don't trust in Nature's ability to blance herself? Better to trust the controllers, I reckon...<br />And you don't acknowledge this as puerile, on it's face?<br />War and Peace are not separate but equal Machiavellian bargains. They don't represent a true dichotomy, and<br />both exist at all times. Always have, and likely always will. Despite your declaration that Peace has never existed, and never will.<br /><br />Peace is a principle. War a tool of manipulation. Cultive either garden, it's everyone's choice.<br />Which do you truly believe bears the bitter harvest?<br /><br />BTW- That was i.:.s.:. ignoring your previous points, I just got here.<br />He's right, there are Santa Claus Buddhas, Santa Claus Christs, cartoons and features.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/19/2007 8:00 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c3939334415547483679"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>You see War as some acceptable form of pro-active population control?<br />Yes, and far more constructive than thew other option which is disease. And STOP trying to tell me what I think..<br />Don't trust in Nature's ability to blance herself?..<br />Yes, and this IS nature balancing herself..<br />War and Peace are not separate but equal Machiavellian bargains. They don't represent a true dichotomy, and<br />both exist at all times. Always have, and likely always will. Despite your declaration that Peace has never existed, and never will.<br />True global peace is somethin that disappearred when we developed opposing thumbs (some of us..)But yeeeah..A duality at least, tho..<br /><br />Bitter? Noo, sweet..Like revenge or the smell of a dead enemy.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/20/2007 3:15 PM</p> </dd><dt id="c7969661695299831878"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/ho.JPG" class="profile" alt="" title="happy otter" height="49" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02236508780267967187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">happy otter</a> said...</dt><dd><p>"Productive" is what I meant, not "constructive"....</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9/20/2007 3:30 PM</p><hr />At <a set="yes" linkindex="14" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/09/fascist-20.html#c1303422242230389325" title="comment permalink">4:55 PM</a>, <a linkindex="15" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" rel="nofollow">Deek Deekster</a> quoth... <p></p> </dd><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Some attention to spelling is needed here: "fascist" has an "s", "millions" only has one "n" and <b>G</b>reat <b>B</b>ritain is Always Capitals.<br /><br />I say, bring back compulsory spelling tests on the hour, every hour..</p> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-375002038"><a linkindex="16" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=7265244&amp;postID=1303422242230389325" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-data" id="c5375146838870154113"><a name="c5375146838870154113"></a> At <a set="yes" linkindex="17" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/09/fascist-20.html#c5375146838870154113" title="comment permalink">3:56 AM</a>, <a linkindex="18" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>I say bring on compulsory editing options for all blog commenters.<br /><br />Not capitalizing Christmas, in a comment below, haunts me endlessly.<br /><br />Even with my fascist spell-checker, screaming constantly at me about my howlers, I still manage to butcher the language.<br /><br />I'm up for telepathy.</p><blockquote><hr /><br /></blockquote><p></p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c4750842277398029634"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/joe3.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="JoeC" height="60" width="48" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">JoeC</a> said...</dt><dd><p>I've gotta admit, I was a little relieved when I woke up this morning and realized we'd made it through 9/11 and 9/14 without any false flag nuke events (9/14 being the day they said they were going to take some systems offline and review the handling of nuclear weapons...)</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">8:25 AM</p> <span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=4750842277398029634" title="Delete Comment"><img style="border: medium none ;" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" /></a></span> </dd><dt id="c1540527623253715135"><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" class="profile" alt="" title="Indigobusiness" height="54" width="60" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt><dd><p>Whistling past the graveyard is cold comfort, I figure.<br /><br />War is folly, in almost every form. Anyone who believes otherwise is a pox on the planet.<br /><br />I'm utterly sickened by how the issue of war and killing has become casual consideration.<br /><br />If we survive the warmongers, it'll be a surprise to me.</p> <p class="comment-timestamp">9:33 AM</p></dd></dl>At <a linkindex="12" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/08/twodge.html#c4798401801640561766" title="comment permalink">9:03 PM</a>, <a linkindex="13" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... <p>As someone who only pretends to speak English, I'm hardly qualified to comment.<br /><br />Forgive the preamble, I'll get on with it...<br /><br />It seems hard to escape the numerical implications of <i>twodge</i>. Scatological as it is, it strikes me as endearingly useful in situations such as the anticipation of a loving parent opening a baby's diaper, like a Christmas present, and exclaiming with only the joy a parent would know: <b><i>TWODGE!</i></b></p><p><b><i><blockquote><hr /></blockquote></i></b></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RtA1VgJNULI/AAAAAAAABOg/VS6-nOzrpRI/s1600-h/ctd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RtA1VgJNULI/AAAAAAAABOg/VS6-nOzrpRI/s320/ctd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102637021332852914" border="0" /></a><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c6062216020540964447"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/joe3.jpg" title="JoeC" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="48" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">JoeC</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I've always wondered about Dean, along with Major Philip J. Corso. Funny how these high-level military personel can come forth and say we're being visited and it's not really news (and I've seen stories about both in the main stream media, so can't blame them this time...) It really makes me wonder, if the President held a prime time press conference announcing we'd been in contact with extraterrestrials, I don't think the public would care. The public will only care and believe when extraterrestrials start affecting the mass public's everyday life. It'll take them giving us free energy or putting us all in slavery or holding saucer flyovers of Phoenix on a regular predictable schedule for the skeptics to let the possibility of ET and/or extra-dimensional life (whereever they come from...) to enter their brains. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:56 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=6062216020540964447" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c2187228730475935281"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Men like Dean and Corso make a far more compelling case than the ridiculous official disclaimers such as crash test dummies employed years after the fact, etc.<br /><br />No joke. It's so ho hum. It seems the brainwashing took, and has solidified the overbearing stigma and ridicule factor to the point of forming an insulating bubble around the whole affair. Opinions are entrenched, and life goes on.<br /><br />The threat, I reckon, is the paradigm shift of a widespread realization of operating under false definitions of who and what we are. The psychic impact of questioning our place, and our neighbors, should not be underestimated. I can't help but wonder if the full truth is far more bizarre, and difficult to digest, than we might anticipate.<br /><br />The only thing that holds our chaotic civilization together is an unwritten psychological contract ensuring a material interest in our social game.<br /><br />If what Dean says is true, the ultimate impact will be like suddenly realizing the walls <b>ARE</b> breathing. It only takes a subtle shift in consciousness to steal the flavor from life. There is already a large percentage of us at the edge, or medicated, or both.<br /><br />Paranoia strikes deep, Joe, and I've had my suspicions about you.<br />Where are you from again? </p></dd></dl><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RsfypgJNUBI/AAAAAAAABNY/goKGGVIQZyI/s1600-h/holloway-handcuffs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RsfypgJNUBI/AAAAAAAABNY/goKGGVIQZyI/s400/holloway-handcuffs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100311897837490194" border="0" /></a><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c9061065110617474223"> At <a set="yes" linkindex="40" href="http://www.funk.co.uk/2005/03/holloway-road.html#c5947354456710525391" title="comment permalink">6:10 PM</a>, <a linkindex="41" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... </dt></dl><p>It's pretty obvious those handcuffs were there for you to attach to your wrist of choice and await the authorities.</p><p><br /></p><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" linkindex="22" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05755182093183959705" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 60px;" src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/twit_07/aroundtwit.gif" title="twit" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="60" /></a> </div> <a set="yes" linkindex="23" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05755182093183959705" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">twit</a> said...<dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> I've got to the point now, where I don't trust anyone -unless I think they're fucked up.<br /><br />&amp; I don't really trust them either.<br /><br />This consumer-culture-thing we're inside preys on basic survival urges &amp; although they're obviously not intrinsically bad traits, when they dominate a psyche/mind/being we can only expect imbalance.<br /><br />Or something..<br /><br />Hating ourselves for not caring enough?<br />How vain is that?<br /><br />Do I like being sick or is that just an excuse?<br />Intellectualization is a healthy drug if you want/find it to be.<br />I can't prove otherwise.<br />So that will do for now.<br /><br />Gordon Brown, texture like sun.. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:16 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c4307335599596660278"> Indigus said... </dt><dd> <p> Yeah, man. And even if you manage to shake the spell, you find yourself still surrounded by it. It's like living amongst the pod people. I tend to furtively but deeply look into people's eyes, those few people I do encounter anymore, in search of a soul.<br /><br />One thing for certain, the status quo paradigm is a colossal lie. And people go about pretending their pompous arguments are addressing the significant issues.<br /><br />We are drunk on air-filled nonsense. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:41 PM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c1909445559694225480"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 52px;" src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" title="Deek Deekster" alt="" class="profile" height="52" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Deek Deekster</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> fuck me gently indi, i don't expect good news from you, surely there is an evil kickback from this process?<br /><br />anyway if it's true, it's a hellofalot better than so-called "biodegradable" plastics - which merely break down into plastic molecules and spread evenly through the food chain, helping to remove fertility... </p><span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c3041552636640770862"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Ok, Deek, you began your comment with an expression I used to use all the time. Nice that it's still operating, but it's a bit shocking with a British accent.<br /><br />While I may not be commonly looked to for good news, I occassionally report it when I find it. And besides, good news needs no reckoning. So, what's the point...generally...eschatologically?<br /><br />Regarding plastics, they all break-down into molecules, eventually. The scary thing is they have already been incorporated into the food-chain, and have even been found within the dna of humans.<br /><br />It's my limited understanding that organic/biodegradable plastics, made from cellulose and plant esters, are far more ecologically desirable than petrochemically based plastics.<br /><br />I didn't realize they might interfere with my fecundity?<br /><br />I fear I may yet have to clone myself.<br /><br /><i>The horror...</i> </p></dd></dl><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><i><i><a set="yes" href="http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=070524230339.aha5xr5x&amp;show_article=1"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></a></i></i></span><center><h3 class="post-title"><i><i><i><i><a set="yes" href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070524230339.aha5xr5x&amp;show_article=1" title="external link"> Designer Vaginas</a></i></i></i></i></h3> <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RlbeqZTGz9I/AAAAAAAAA-4/BYA8eh1Rh6Y/s200/00-10-MysticTraveler.jpg" align="middle" /><br /><br /></center> <i><i> </i></i> <i><i> </i></i><p> <i><i> </i></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i><i><a set="yes" href="http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=070524230339.aha5xr5x&amp;show_article=1"><span style="font-size:180%;">Top medical journal blasts "designer vagina" craze</span><br /></a></i></i></div><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"><i><i><a set="yes" href="http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=070524230339.aha5xr5x&amp;show_article=1"><span style="font-size:85%;">May 24 07:03 PM US/Eastern -AFP<hr /></span></a></i></i></span><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c8399499973354297442"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 58px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8yUNoROdUM/RlGp5nAAc2I/AAAAAAAAAQY/JT5UoC7btPI/s400/gdrawing1.jpg" title="treacle" alt="" class="profile" height="58" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Bloody hell fire. what next????? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:17 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c4929376346405320028"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" title="La Sirena" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="43" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Are they fucking kidding???!!!???<br /><br />I recommend shaking hands and making friends with one's vagina. Then perhaps one wouldn't feel the need to take a knife to one's love box.<br /><br />That's genital mutilation. LOVE your vagina. Looovvvee it... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:47 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c6237938935816972343"> <a href="http://ijustknowitsoutthere.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">It's Me... Maven</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yanno, actually I saw an episode of "Dr. 90210," which involved a yound woman (couldn't have been more than 17 or 18) who went in for "labia-plasty," because she thought her vulva was too big, pronounced, whatever, and claimed she was embarrassed when she wore bathing suits.<br /><br />This episode, coincidentally, had a segment devoted to a "B" porn star, who went in for sphincter bleaching.<br /><br />Kind of a sad commentary on our "land of plenty." There she is worried about something so superficial (it didn't cause her any urological problems), yet, there are children in third world nations with cleft palates etc just-about-dependent on the kindness of organizations such as Doctors Without Frontiers to fix such outright deformities.<br /><br />I wonder for the amount of money she (or in this case, her parents) spent on her snatch reconstruction; and by extension, I wonder how many cleft palates that could have fixed. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:29 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=6237938935816972343" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c4533264223584918878"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G8yUNoROdUM/RlGp5nAAc2I/AAAAAAAAAQY/JT5UoC7btPI/s400/gdrawing1.jpg" title="treacle" alt="" class="profile" height="58" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Hello Serena:<br />lol, I agree with you entirely…I recently had to go for laser surgery for a medical issue and it was so excruciatingly embarrassing that I can hardly believe that there are women out there willing to undergo this surgery simply for pleasure &amp; trend…<br /><br />Hi Maven:<br />I agree with you also that its more a reflection on the mindset women are lulled into. This pursuit of beauty and looking “perfect” is so ridiculous. Regarding the money issue its very simple really – we need to bring down the fascist monetary system that enslaves people and replace it with a balanced distribution of wealth, resources, talents and skills…. I live in hope :)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Rl9GK5utFXI/AAAAAAAAA_4/wRF04HngUGo/s1600-h/vag.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/Rl9GK5utFXI/AAAAAAAAA_4/wRF04HngUGo/s200/vag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070848858551817586" border="0" /></a> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:42 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=4533264223584918878" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c224567164544965041"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I intend to thoroughly study the matter before commenting in depth. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:36 PM</p><hr /><p></p> <span class="item-control"> </span></dd></dl><div class="storyheader"><h2><i><i>Buddhists celebrate a happy day</i></i></h2><h4><i><i>On the founder's birthday followers visit temples, cleanse their minds</i></i></h4></div><div class="feed_details"><h4><i><i>Doug Todd, Vancouver Sun</i></i></h4><span><i><i>Published: Thursday, May 24, 2007</i></i></span></div><p><i><i>Many Canadian Buddhists will be washing statues of Buddha with fragrant water and flowers this week to celebrate the birth of their religion's founder and cleanse their minds of greed, arrogance and jealousy.</i></i></p><p><i><i>At Richmond's Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Temple, the abbot will be among those offering fruit in gratitude to Buddha and urging followers to "detach" from their desires for everything from wealth to other people.</i></i></p><p><i><i>"Ordinary people attach to their bodies and their family members and lots of things in the world, like money and belongings. We will use the ceremony to let go of the vexations that causes," Abbot Guo Shu Fa Shi said Wednesday, speaking in Mandarin through a translator.</i></i></p><div id="imageBox"><i><i><img style="width: 150px; height: 150px;" origsrc="http://imgred.com/http://media.canada.com/idl/vasn/20070524/34474-11833.jpg?size=l" id="storyphoto" class="thumbnail" src="http://media.canada.com/idl/vasn/20070524/34474-11833.jpg?size=l" alt="Abbot Guo Shu Fa Shi stands before a Buddha statue in the main hall of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Temple in Richmond." align="left" border="0" height="150" width="150" /><a id="largeimagelink" class="bigger" href="javascript:void%20window.open('storyimage.html?id=19401b7c-e264-4d6d-811f-b652d2e6e4c0&amp;img=953d4fb3-e8e7-4fc7-9cfb-6700de3aacae&amp;path=%2fvancouversun%2fnews%2fwestcoastnews%2f',%20'storyimage',%20'width=760,height=550,location=no,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes')"><img src="http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/widgets/bullet_story_headline_bigger.gif" alt="View Larger Image" height="14" width="15" /> View Larger Image</a></i></i><h4 id="storyphotocaption"><i><i>Abbot Guo Shu Fa Shi stands before a Buddha statue in the main hall of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Temple in Richmond.</i></i></h4><h6 id="storyphotocredit"><i><i>Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun</i></i></h6><h6 id="storyphotocredit"><i><i><hr /><hr /></i></i></h6></div><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c7978887844650152142"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> If we detach from other ppl does that mean that we stop caring about what happens to them? If that is true how can we help make the world a better place if we dont care anymore? Maybe I am just thick but it doesnt feel right. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:30 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c1140304860389725234"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Detachment doesn't mean not caring.<br /><br />Buddhism is about liberating the true human potential, about realizing what we truly are.<br />Attachment is a controlling mentality. It binds us to our delusions.<br /><br />It's about trust. Absolute trust. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:28 AM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c8865111344283098722"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> To understand this, it takes understanding the Buddhist concept of non-attachment.<br /><br />Non-attachment is a nonreactive accepting of all outcomes...in full trust of, and devotion to, the Dharma.<br /><br />It in no way suggests not caring, nor inhibits any healthy form of love. It merely reflects a deep sense of the interconnectedness of all things...and the knowing that, ultimately, all are one.<br /><br />Compassion, or bodhichitta, is central to the Buddhist path, and is anything but not caring.<br /><br />Desire is a fundamental cause of suffering, according to the Buddhist view, and its a sticky wicket to sort out. Non-attachment is a way of dealing with desire in a way that defuses the hazards.<br /><br />Someone correct me if I'm wrong. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 29 May, 2007 15:40</p></dd><dd><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><br /></dd><dt id="c8503146301165660911"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05755182093183959705" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/twit_07/aroundtwit.gif" title="twit" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05755182093183959705" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The idea of non-attachment comes out of the belief that everything in the 'material-world' is transient, ephemeral &amp; ever-changing. So when it is said that someone is attatched - in the buddhist-sense, it means that they have a fixed or 'frozen' idea about how something or someone 'should' be. It's about the preconceptions we hold onto because they are ultimately only reflections of our own precious identity. Identity is inevitable but it can evolve to a more fluid, giving &amp; for-giving state; which is the essence of health.<br /><br />So we must start (&amp; continue) with focusing on the transient nature of everything - because it appears to be a basic truth of our existence - it's pure science really.<br /><br />Detachment can be a tricky word because we associate it with <em>actively</em> 'cutting-off' or 'breaking-up' - stuff like that, but It's more about letting our illusions dissolve - &amp; that becomes easier as we focus on what we <em>really</em> know - very little (that's kind-of what Mother Teresa was talking about).<br /><br />Like IB, some prefer the word non-attachment because it's 'softer' &amp; expresses a 'non-state' rather than suggesting an 'anti-state'.<br />Not-attached &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; yet not de-tached; in-tune; receptive.<br /><br />Relationships tend to get better &amp; empathy increases, if anything.<br /><br />But we are kept, &amp; <em>actively-encouraged</em> to remain sick in this consumer culture though, so it's an uphill battle.<br /><br />Take drugs!<br /><br /><em>¦;¬]</em> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 30 May, 2007 05:03 </p> </dd><dt id="c8036153306537143540"> <a href="http://www.wisdomplease.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Thanks Twit, much clearer now. My misinterpretation came out of language and my understanding of it. Also I totally homed in on this aspect without properly considering consumer culture and how "non-attachment"impacts that.<br /><br />I don't know anything really about Buddhism or the beliefs around this subject so its been an interesting eye-opener.<br /><br />Its common sense really and everything you and IB have explained makes sense. Its about a selfless state as far as I understand it. I enjoy these things (even though I feel utterly stupid sometimes) I just need to read more and find out.<br /><br />Thanks a lot. x </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 30 May, 2007 07:18 </p> </dd><dt id="c351434241231274652"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Everyone just needs a good spanking. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 08 June, 2007 19:17 </p></dd></dl><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RiUJIXDb1BI/AAAAAAAAA3A/_MSUUO8gth4/s1600-h/bushincredshrink.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RiUJIXDb1BI/AAAAAAAAA3A/_MSUUO8gth4/s320/bushincredshrink.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054456196025275410" border="0" /></a><br /><ol class="commentlist"><li class="" id="comment-4939"> <cite>Xman</cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/04/16/bush-war-spin-world-tour-2007/#comment-4939" title="">April 17th, 2007 at 9:23 am</a> </small> <p>Everytime he speaks I recall all the inbred, deformed and insane little monarchs from the pages of history. I find myself wondering what event and what people or person with be the catalyst for change. </p> </li><li class="alt" id="comment-4940"> <cite><a href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">JoeC</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/04/16/bush-war-spin-world-tour-2007/#comment-4940" title="">April 17th, 2007 at 10:23 am</a> </small> <p>“…the President is, in no wise, satisfied with his own positions. First he takes up one, and in attempting to argue us into it, he argues himself out of it; then seizes another, and goes through the same process; and then, confused at being able to think of nothing new, he snatches up the old one again, which he has some time before cast off. His mind, tasked beyond it’s power, is running hither and thither, like some tortured creature, on a burning surface, finding no position, on which it can settle down, and be at ease. …As I have before said, he knows not where he is. <b>He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man</b>. God grant he may be able to show, there is not something about his conscious, more painful than all his mental perplexity!” ~Congressman Abraham Lincoln, <a href="http://www.animatedatlas.com/mexwar/lincoln2.html" rel="nofollow">lambasting President Polk over the Mexican War</a>.</p> <p>Some things never change… </p> </li><li class="" id="comment-4944"> <cite><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/04/16/bush-war-spin-world-tour-2007/#comment-4944" title="">April 17th, 2007 at 11:43 am</a> </small> <p>Well said.</p> <p>His behavior is emblematic of a philosophically bankrupt, baseless, opportunistic non-ethic. He is constantly dealing with the shifting sands of the outrageous fortune his own actions help generate. With no fundamentally honest principle to anchor him, he grasps at straws to help dig his way out of his own hole.</p> </li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19965481-2073549663896605414?l=notestostrangers.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Indigobusinesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19965481.post-1164813361714325222006-11-29T07:00:00.000-08:002007-03-23T08:04:13.089-07:00<center><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1t5zLV821u0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1t5zLV821u0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object></center><blockquote><hr /></blockquote><hr /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c5829771568383211056"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a><dl id="comments-block"><dt class="postinfo" id="c1135536277769386264"><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>I let myself go.</p> </dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8yUNoROdUM/RfAmuCyluCI/AAAAAAAAAJI/t-GmN3vubHQ/s320/Gloria+-+Riverside.0.jpg" title="treacle" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="40" /></a> </div><dl id="comments-block"><dt class="postinfo" id="c5813876409827582826"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Where did you end up?</p></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div><dl id="comments-block"><dt class="postinfo" id="c525352566112976238"><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Gone.</p></dd><hr /><dt><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/03/blank-canvas.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Norman-Lundin/Blank-Canvas-and-a-Chair-Print-C12151864.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></dt></dl> </div> </dt></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </div><dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> How is it the shadowplay in that picture parallels the edges of the canvases? Must be a picture of a painting?<br /><br />And who is Norman Lundin, and does he really not know how to spell <i>London</i>?<br /><br />By the way: Everyone knows hyperthyroidism is machofying, but take it easy...for crying out loud...you're disturbing my great lumpen illusion of impermanence. </p></dd></dl><br /><center><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Je6BIX7qGZc/Rfqu361V-WI/AAAAAAAAACU/snQA93OywuU/s320/050531_ex_viagra_tn.jpg" /><br /></center><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c2803156591971143605"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I could watch you Google yourself all day long.<br /><br />Four hour erections used to be nothing to write home about. Now, they're the stuff of urban legends, dumb commercials, and deviously wicked research. </p></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /></a><a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""></a><br /><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/18094271405833966851" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Paulette</a> said... </div><dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> hahahahaha... Spot on! :) What's happening with men's penises?? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:32 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c8212373804418811577"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Beats me. There's only one penis I care anything about, and it's fine and dandy. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:04 PM </p></dd></dl><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c7033215307792321074"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Upon arriving at the edge of anything, it can't be helped but to wonder what's beyond.<br /><br />Maybe there is only one story, of which we are all ultimately experiencing? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 08 March, 2007 20:49 </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c2360143778691246239"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G8yUNoROdUM/RfAmuCyluCI/AAAAAAAAAJI/t-GmN3vubHQ/s320/Gloria+-+Riverside.0.jpg" title="treacle" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="40" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> IB - that's exactly what I started to draft for today's post... I really think everything is connected and we simply can't seperate ourselves from others around us or what is happening in the world. We are part of the meta-narrative, we just need to see it. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 09 March, 2007 13:01 </p> </dd><dt id="c7983245459852305625"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Context is everything. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"><br /></p></dd></dl><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RfGYLLZSdKI/AAAAAAAAAjg/qJfkqUHaHQs/s1600-h/parkysprofounduvula.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RfGYLLZSdKI/AAAAAAAAAjg/qJfkqUHaHQs/s320/parkysprofounduvula.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039976775809135778" border="0" /></a><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c2524081897056015138"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> That's one wicked <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/407107895_d5cc745f27.jpg?v=0">uvula</a> you've got there!<br />Best have it circumcised before you come to Texas or they're liable to do it for you. And <i>they</i> are <i>everywhere</i>.<br /><br />My avoidance of doctors has more to do with my allegiance to the philosophy that ignorance is bliss than anything else. Besides, I figure it's just a matter of time before the prognosis is negative, and who needs that? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:46 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=7265244&postID=2524081897056015138" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c2304630196328114893"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" title="La Sirena" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="43" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick="">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Deek,<br />They're supposed to be giving you regular blood tests on that med. Also, sore throats in and of themselves are a(n) (side) effect.<br />Oh, your poor uvula...<br /><br />Doctors are often a bizarre combo of arrogant/ignorant. I work for docs and I'm always having to tell them very diplomatically that they're totally fucked.<br /><br />Your GGF is right tho. Go get a check up.<br /><br />I avoid MDs, like IB. I recommend seeing nurse practitioners. Way more practical experience, way more accurate diagnoses, way more compassion. In the States they can prescribe -- tho they don't seem to unneccessarily. They can always refer you to an MD if needed, and they usually list that MDs clinical flaws for you ahead of time (diplomatically, of course) so you can work around the good doctor's personality disorder. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:43 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c5410598751011219319"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" title="Deek Deekster" alt="" class="profile" height="52" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13492090203145178551" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Deek Deekster</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Geezers - you are very kind but it's not my uvula.. "I have been touched by the merest corner of this plague garment" - I just picked up the same virus! Send your kind comments to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkylondon/" rel="nofollow">Parky</a>... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:53 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c8107684608039269078"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Geezers?</i><br />Was that really called for? I think you just make matters worse with that sort of low blow.<br /><br />Regardless, I did look for a proper place to leave Parky a kind and concerned comment, but was stopped short by <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/86168873_16d1dccdcf.jpg?v=0" rel="nofollow">this photo</a>.<br /><br />I can only assume the reason you aren't in it is you were behind the lens, most likely in equally resplendent finery.</p></dd><dt id="c6479597425253198259"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" title="La Sirena" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="43" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06565141127124213800" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> This was such a sad (and infuriating) story.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it seems every war, every battle we (the US) engages in, our members of the military come back with equally chilling stories of incomprehensible violence against the innocent. If bartending taught me anything, it's that.<br /><br />Support the troops, my ass. No one attempts to help our ex-military deal with the psychological fallout, and next thing you know, some guy is crumbling before a twenty-something bartender with no antidotes but whiskey and ears.<br /><br />And meanwhile the warmongers cut funding to the VA.<br /><br />Kudos to people like Key and Watada who refuse to participate in this senseless bloodbath. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:13 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c3422942858967796723"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Any institution that instills in one human an eager willingness to kill another is a pox on humanity.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20070205_140356_140356">This story</a> is stark example of the pathology of war, and it eventually comes home to roost.<br /><br />It strikes me as supreme cowardice to refuse the possibilities of peacemaking, in favor of warmongering and the refusal to allocate, at least, equal resources to both.<br /><br />This story ripped my guts out.<br /><br />In war, there are only bad guys. Bad guys, and those who lay down their guns.<br /><br />The worst guys are the profiteers. </p></dd><dt id="c7212188295784966476"><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> do the first glimmerings of a renewal of all that is good in the apast 2,000 years REALLY have tocome packaged in culmination of a very loud and strident blood soaked wrapping... how utterly depressing. I guess my allocated five minutes of forgetting about the world are over. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:12 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c5406212727021166018"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The world may be forgetting about us.<br /><br />Good point, g. I had similar thoughts, yet my prophetic inklings are even more dire.<br /><br />Lo... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:02 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c621121057777158622"> <a href="http://www.wisdomplease.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">me hogging the computer</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I kinda prefer to think another world is blossoming... we spend far too much time despairing at the things that are going wrong and not enough time marvelling at the beauty of the human spirit in its various pockets around the globe striving to make a difference. Maybe I am just too idealistic. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:52 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c1748622471387547514"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You hogging- I think it's two simultaneous conscientious modes:<br /><br />One is a constant form of wonder/blessing/prayer for all that is.<br /><br />The other is a welling undercurrent of grieving sadness focused on our failure as stewards of the planet.<br /><br />Tibetans find bliss in recognizing this steady-state of grief. It is counterintuitive. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:35 PM </p></dd><dd><span class="item-control"> </span><br /></dd><dt id="c1435476433047799358"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> This stirred me up. I'm going to rant a bit:<br /><br />To me, it goes beyond judgement of issues, and gets down to honestly embracing what is...and accepting it.<br /><br />The only aspect that causes me to despair is our head-in-the-sand approach to unpleasant realities. It doesn't serve anything to paint the cataclysmic trend in pretty colors. What will be will be, and that's ok with me, it's in our best interest to be honest in our going forth (in a collectively healthy way).<br /><br />After all, who am I to judge what is best, overall, in the long term? Maybe our species will ultimately be seen as some sort of parasitical blip on the radar? The only prayer I've ever understood and fully embraced is <i>God's will be done</i>.<br /><br />I believe in the inherent wisdom of the unfolding substance of our experience. I trust it beyond all else. My gripe is with our immaturity in the face of it. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:14 PM</p></dd><dt><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt></dl><p> <b>If I were a ___<br />I would be</b> :___<br /><br />Month I would be : May<br />Day of the week : Tomorrow<br />Time of day : Now<br />Planet : Saturn<br />Sea animal : Nautilus<br />Direction : Homeward<br />Furniture : Hammock<br />Sin : Unpunishable<br />Historical figure : Sophia<br />Liquid : Pulque<br />Stone : Sword-riddled<br />Tree : Knowledge<br />Bird : Quetzal<br />Flower/plant : Cactus<br />Weather : Waterspout<br />Musical instrument: Bullroarer<br />Something that floated through the air : Echo<br />Animal : Yeti<br />Colour : Green<br />Emotion : Gratitude<br />Vegetable : <span>Green chili </span><br />Sound : Moan<br />Element : Quicksilver<br />Car : Packard<br />Song : Old Man River<br />Movie, directed by: Jim Jarmusch<br />Book, written by : Cormac McCarthy<br />Food : Raw<br />Place : Off-limits<br />Symbol : Cymbal<br />Material : Clay<br />Taste : Questionable<br />Scent : Musk<br />Word : Up<br />Body part : Appendix<br />Facial expression : Befuddled<br />Subject in school : Under investigation<br />Shape : Mobius strip </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 03 March, 2007 19:17 </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-data" id="c1091017882005415163"> At <a set="yes" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/02/infomania.html#c1091017882005415163" title="comment permalink">1:09 PM</a>, <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04028767935860200252" rel="nofollow">RuKsaK</a> quoth... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>there is plenty of wisdom in toilets - more than on the internet i feel.</p> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-446952986"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=7265244&postID=1091017882005415163" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-data" id="c4370221367744979431"><a name="c4370221367744979431"></a> At <a set="yes" href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/02/infomania.html#c4370221367744979431" title="comment permalink">4:29 PM</a>, <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>What a loaded, bloated topic! I'm tempted to tether myself to it and bleeding float away.<br /><br />Nice commentary, very astute, and what a quote!<br /><br />It gets down to what is truly valuable and meaningful, and which yardstick measures.<br /><br />Clever men are often sharper, wealthier, and better informed than the smiling wiser ones.</p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c4396594735983297942"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 48px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Jim Carrey's been on about this too. Now, that's some recommendation! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:59 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c3840152232843972860"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Jim Carrey is a toadsuck, or two, over the line. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:11 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c1447032304997596245"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Really? I never knew that but I guess it stands to reason as most people in the public eye are. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:08 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c318823137470099043"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> No...not <i>really.</i> I was just being an ass. I mean, after all, who am I to judge?<br /><br />That said, it's probably true. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:16 AM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c1050983943078214485"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 60px; height: 48px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What does cooties mean? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:35 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c8597750070453478019"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cooties" rel="nofollow">cooties</a> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:58 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c4444073747961153152"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I tend to think along the lines of definition 2, with a bit of 4 and 6. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:12 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=4444073747961153152" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a> </span> </dd><dt id="c8687511832041139938"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> i can't access it. Its obviously rude and my filters wont let me through! Will check it out laters </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:33 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=8687511832041139938" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a> </span> </dd><dt id="c7533136876771791868"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Rude?<br /><br /><b>Filters</b> are rude. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:27 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=7533136876771791868" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a> </span> </dd><dt id="c4504839332365952401"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I think there may have been a terrible misunderstanding here: we're talking <i>cooties</i> here, not <i>cooters</i>.<br /><br />That <b>would've</b> been rude, unbidden. But now that it's been exposed, cooters and cooties do have their dark and tangled and sordid history...and are certainly not entirely unrelated.<br /><br />While boys surely <i>do</i> have their fair share of cooties, it was precisely because they're generally thought to have more than their fair share that the original point was made...playfully, and in response to the article.<br /><br />I hope we can put this to rest, understood. I'm going to wash. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:27 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=4504839332365952401" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a> </span> </dd><dt id="c6650912309175321305"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You didn't have to explain but Thank You. I sometimes don't get your american words that's all & stupidly tried to access the link from work (because I am impatient) and couldn't get through. I never EVER thought you were being rude.<br /><br />Anyways I'm glad you've had a wash. Smelly boys are a real turn off. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:02 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=6650912309175321305" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a> </span> </dd><dt id="c670127954238578609"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Shuh</i>...<br /><br />Smelly? I beg your pardon. I never said I was smelly.<br /><br />In fact, I smell like roses...even in the worst of times. You just made me feel dirty, by forcing me into a corner and making me explain.<br /><br />All that clinical talk just got to me, that's all. Now, I'm going to find some diatomaceous earth...and roll in it. </p></dd></dl><p><i><i><b><br /></b></i></i></p><center><i><i><a set="yes" href="http://www.spamula.net/blog/i42/postcard05.jpg" title="Misprinted postcard (Italian, 1980s)."><img style="width: 400px; height: 271px;" alt="Misprinted postcard (Italian, 1980s)." src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mttpxtVh1Ck/RdWRqboxKZI/AAAAAAAAAIc/4r-ERIKb4iA/s400/postcard05.jpg" border="0" height="271" width="400" /></a></i></i></center><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c664784359249899032"> <br /></dt></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/joe3.jpg" title="JoeC" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="48" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">JoeC</a> said...<br /><dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> I just found a new hobby...checking the back of the stack of every postcard rack in every tourist shop on vacation. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:21 AM</p></dd><dt id="c8141196638883717421"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Amazing, aren't they, Joe?<br /><br />I hate to think I've lived my entire life without hearing the words <i>ciao fusto</i>. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:39 AM </p> <span class="item-control"></span> </dd><dt id="c9120046615468657127"> la bella said... </dt><dd> <p> Ciao fusto,<br /><br />Come lei facendo oggi? Sperare che lei ha un grande fine settimana. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:06 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c8223060441533905363"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Grazie mille, Bella amore,<br />L'oggi è improvvisamente bello,<br />e la mia fine settimana sarà fine, ora che la mia vita è completa. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:32 PM </p></dd></dl><ol class="commentlist"><li class="alt" id="comment-2299"> <cite><a set="yes" href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/02/14/us-sponsored-terrorism-operation-northwoods/#comment-2299" title="">February 15th, 2007 at 3:52 pm</a> </small> <p>I’m always struck by how so many people refuse to consider what they don’t wish to perceive, or that threatens their comfort zone.</p> <p>We seem to be caught up in a psychodrama scripted by forces we are unwilling to acknowledge.</p> <p>It seems we are focused on the wrong ring of the circus. The important things hide in plain sight.</p></li><li class="" id="comment-2303"> <cite><a set="yes" href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">JoeC</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a set="yes" href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/02/14/us-sponsored-terrorism-operation-northwoods/#comment-2303" title="">February 15th, 2007 at 6:49 pm</a> </small> <p>Indigobusiness: I’m a little stumped, too. People have no problem believing the President can deceive…nobody denies Watergate, or the Lewinsky scandal. But bring up a big deception and you’re labeled unpatriotic. Didn’t Hitler, or one of his pals, say something like, the bigger the lie, the less people will suspect it’s a lie? The Third Reich was pretty evil, but that doesn’t mean we citizens can’t learn a lot from them; our elected leaders have apparently studied their tactics thoroughly. </p> </li><li class="alt" id="comment-2322"> <cite><a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indigobusiness</a></cite> Says:<br /><small class="commentmetadata"><a href="http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/02/14/us-sponsored-terrorism-operation-northwoods/#comment-2322" title="">February 16th, 2007 at 7:27 am</a> </small> <p>Yeah, Joe- It’s our built-in desire for a decent environment. The skilled trickery is in our face, on a daily basis these days, yet many just abjectly refuse to face it.</p> <p>If there are forces in our govt dark minded enough to cook up schemes like Operation Northwoods, no telling what lurks in the hearts of our current overlords. No telling how twistedly Machiavellian their true motives and hidden agendas are.</p> <p>We will never sustain ourselves as a viable country unless we get back to some sort of moral imperative as a basis for our collective course. This dog-eat-dog, catch-as-catch-can, controller philosophy is killing us. </p> </li></ol><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c664784359249899032"> <br /></dt></dl> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/joe3.jpg" title="JoeC" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="48" /></a><br /><a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/33724662" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">JoeC</a> said... </div> <dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> Now that any woman can have perfect lifelike breasts in any shape or size, I see the rare flower becoming the most attractive, and soon that will be...flat chested females? No kidding, I'll bet in 5-10 years after the doctors have performed surgery on every woman, then it will suddenly be hot to get your breasts reduced to nothing. The surgeons gotta keep making money someway, and women gotta keep looking unique and different from their friends and rivals... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:01 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> </span> </dd><dt id="c3509089692705489293"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> *<br />Probably so.<br /><br />I predict women will someday grow penis shaped tits...just because they can. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:44 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=3509089692705489293" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c3294779732309406922"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3140/3118/1600/880969/gloria.jpg" title="g" alt="" class="profile" height="48" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">g</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I predict that men will grow breasts before women contemplate growing a willy. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:08 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=3294779732309406922" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c5709291741551248635"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> It will all happen in the continuating frenzy of body modification madness, g.<br /><br />Parts is parts, I reckon, they're already somewhat interchangeable.<br /><br />And while I'm not entirely unsympathetic to a girl having a bit of "work" done, the plastic surgery fad has gotten completely ridiculous and bizarre...and pathologically compulsive. Like phony on steroids.<br /><br />Just to be clear on this, my little joke was about willy shaped tits, not willys. And it was pointed at the trendiness of this bs.<br /><br />Visit any plastic surgeons office, or at least the one I did once, it was like the Village of the Damned. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:56 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=5709291741551248635" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c664784359249899032"> <br /></dt></dl> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04666354789291684470" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img style="width: 48px; height: 60px;" src="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/joe3.jpg" title="JoeC" alt="" class="profile" height="60" width="48" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/33724662" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">JoeC</a> said... </div> <dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> Scary, scary, and even more scary. I'm still surprised at the ease people go under the knife and make permanent changes (well, permanent in the sense that they can never go back to "original") That goes for tattoos, too...I don't have anything against them, but just that it seems such a shot in the dark that you'll end up with something that will be out of style...like, what if people in the 80s got permanent mullets. Yeah, I know you can get it erased somewhat, but still... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:23 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=3347515025256213844" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c3962282108226529948"> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" title="Indigobusiness" alt="" class="profile" height="54" width="60" /></a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yeah, Joe, and what's really scary is how once they start carving things up, they can't seem to stop.<br /><br />They are trying to fill a psychological hole in their soul, I figure, like some do with food.<br /><br />I can't understand this desperate effort to draw attention. But then I've always been too damn shy, so I try to understand.<br /><br />Maori tribesman tattoos and ritual ornamental scarification in Africa, and elsewhere, I respect and value. I feel far differently about this other form. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:32 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=3962282108226529948" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=3962282108226529948" onclick="'window.open(this.href," height="370,width=" 750="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd></dl><div class="comment" id="comment-4306521804782630814"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>You say that like it's a bad thing, g.<br /><br />Let's have a look at these pictures.</p> </div> <p class="chat back"> Posted by <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> | <a href="http://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/2007/02/darling-divas-funky-friday-fun.html#4306521804782630814">06 February, 2007 01:55</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1872938429"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=29306568&postID=4306521804782630814" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </p> </div> <div class="comment" id="comment-3771330821501021242"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I thought you were above perving on women... lol<br /><br />I've asked N to send me some piccies and I shall post them up. Just for you Indigo :o)</p> </div> <p class="chat back"> Posted by <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/02079805944418592719" rel="nofollow">g</a> | <a href="http://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/2007/02/darling-divas-funky-friday-fun.html#3771330821501021242">06 February, 2007 16:50</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-2079519688"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=29306568&postID=3771330821501021242" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </p> </div> <div class="comment" id="comment-8779168283555055670"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Perving is as perving does,<br />I reckon.<br /><br />Thanks, g...I'll be marking time.</p> </div> <p class="chat back"> Posted by <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> | <a set="yes" href="http://wisdomplease.blogspot.com/2007/02/darling-divas-funky-friday-fun.html#8779168283555055670">06 February, 2007 18:10</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1872938429"><a set="yes" style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=29306568&postID=8779168283555055670" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </p> </div><br /><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> <i>...it wafts a lovely woody smell like it is enjoying it.</i><br /><br />When I read that, I swear I could almost smell it.<br /><br />That's really nice.<br /><br />When I really get after my guitars, it smells almost like hair burning, like they're being tortured. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:13 AM</p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c117089242624116979"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" rel="nofollow" onclick="">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Satan is still in the music industry even in these shallow and pretentious times. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:53 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c117097467759763348"> <a set="yes" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Times are truly pretentious and shallow.<br /><br />Satan seems to get too much credit, and too much blame, these days.<br /><br />Who knows, maybe Robert Johnson had the right idea?<br /><br />Personally, I'm at my own brand of crossroads. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:44 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=117097467759763348" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c117097967864086549"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08207525118627449541" rel="nofollow" onclick="">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> keep your eye out for the red guy with the fiddle. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:07 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c117098496296820717"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272" rel="nofollow" onclick="">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> He's always sitting on my shoulder. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:36 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=117098496296820717" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="https://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="https://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=117098496296820717" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd></dl><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c117044473363040863" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 83px;" alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /></a></div></dt><dt id="c117044473363040863" class=""> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I mentioned this to you several months ago. We're working on a trial with one of these medications -- this type of med might improve thinking and concentration in people with alzheimers and schizophrenia.<br /><br />Brains have several cannibinoid receptors -- just for processing marijuana, I guess. One of the ways they tested if the med was truly inhibiting stimulation of these receptors was...they placed people's heads in these plastic bubbles, INFUSED them with enough ganj fumes for an entire Sunsplash festival and attached them to a kind of high-o-meter. Once the meter was buried on the left, the testees were given a dose of these new meds and within a half hour, the high-o-meter read something like, "Not at all high, anymore." </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:32 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=117044473363040863" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c117044568663702393" class=""> <a name="c117044568663702393"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.</i><br /><br />I'm in a constant fit over how we abuse and misuse our resources. <i>Give the garden its due</i>, I say, and if someone gets high in the process, so be it. Maybe we were made to get a little high at times? Surely.<br /><br />We seem to be rediscovering things we've known for ages, but with the jaundiced eye of post-modern thinking.<br /><br />Medicine means different things to different people, I reckon. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:48 PM </p></dd><dt id="c116969700547300104" class=""><a href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> JoeC</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Awesome rules for being human; that really fits what I would wish life to be like, too. On the other hand, I am suspicious that some personalities/souls sitting around in the non-physical realm decided it would be fun to play WAR, or SOAP OPERA, or WALL STREET TYCOON...not to be evil, but just that not everybody is playing the same game.<br />I think it's like, the universal creator (God, but even God has become such a loaded word these days...) has a large studio apartment (the Earth) and there's a group of ballerinas who want to practice ballet there, and God says be my guest. And there's also a group of boys that want to play dodge ball in the same room, and God says be my guest to them too. And the ballet people are yelling at the dodge ball boys to stop disrupting things, and they're sure they're right. And likewise for the boys--they don't understand why the girls don't want to join their dodge ball game.<br />I think life is a lot like that--there are people playing with very different agendas, and it's confusing and tough when the room gets crowded sometimes. Just my $.02. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:50 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116969700547300104" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116969898924490410" class="removed"> <a name="c116969898924490410"></a> Comment Deleted </dt><dd> <p> <span class="deleted-comment"> This post has been removed by the author. </span> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:23 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116969898924490410" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116969907889716889" class=""> <a name="c116969907889716889"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> One man's dream is another man's erotic nightmare,<br />I reckon.<br /><br />Thanks for that, Joe. I was beginning to sense a drift toward madness, but now I'm comparatively feeling near incandescent lucidity.<br /><br />Seriously, I think what you touch on is what keeps most from letting go in full trust of their instincts: the idea that it all might be just a cruel joke...in many forms<br /><br />For me, I'm seduced by the notion of universal and singular significance. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:24 PM </p></dd><dt id="c116664579827477420" class=""> At <a href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/01/walter-ego.html#c116950038372796770" title="comment permalink">9:13 PM</a>, <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... </dt></dl><p>I like what Dylan's character said, in the movie <i>Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid</i>, when Pat asked him his name:<br /><br />-<i>Alias</i>, he said.<br /><br />-<i>Alias what?<br /><br />-Alias Anythingyouplease.</i><br /><br />---<br /><br />btw- My grandma was married in Pat Garrett's house (at his insistence). Damn fine man, Pat Garrett, but I've never forgiven him for shooting Billy.</p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116664579827477420" class=""> At <a href="http://funk.co.uk/2007/01/unsocial-media.html#c116852540209595975" title="comment permalink">2:23 PM</a>, <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> quoth... </dt></dl><p>Now that we've harvested everything the material world has to offer, it slowly digests as we settle into our winter of discontent.<br /><br />Harsh? Hardly.</p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116664579827477420" class=""><a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/20536087" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Jersey Cynic</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Well Indi -- I've been talking about this all day. When I had read a while back that violent crime was down, I saw that light at the end of the tunnel. After hearing this news today, obviously it was just another train.<br /><br />I myself am feeling so much rage inside of me lately that I am not suprised -- and I am a very nice person.<br /><br />Have you noticed something very obvious that has also been happening in our world lately? GOD has been front and center, worn on just about everyone's sleeve, to the point that it seems it's all everyone is fighting about. MY GOD, NO MY GOD blah blah blah.<br /><br />Until GOD and $ are completely removed from our world, I can't help but feel very discouraged about our future on this planet. Who ever is doing this 'science experiment' (I believe we earthlings are probably some 12 year old's science project from another universe)well, it must be looking for an ending. I wish they'd tune into us. I'd like to give it a few ideas to consider on how to get an A.<br /><br />I have now become a neo-pagan, and I'm pretty sure I am also a xenophobic now, in the sense that I now hate all people equally. All except you guys -- not that you're not people -- you know what I mean.....<br /><br />I'm going to buy a gun, a little purse of gold, and update my passport.<br /><br />Have a nice day!!!!!!! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:16 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116664579827477420" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116664691452321128" class=""> <a name="c116664691452321128"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I'm in full agreement, JC, I might just frame it differently.<br /><br />GOD is like a word said over and over until it loses all connection to meaning.<br /><br />That's no fault of God, we've just thrown the baby out with the bathwater.<br /><br />And btw, even pagans revere God, they just call by other names.<br /><br />How is it we trivialize those things which truly matter? Not just the real meaning behind God, but things like real prosperity. Ever notice how crime skyrockets under Republican administrations? Remember Reagan's last term? They couldn't build prisons fast enough.<br /><br />Bush sings his empty song of a burgeoning economy while he prints money at a smoking clip, and fuels the figures building war implements, and the price of a house is through the roof.<br /><br />Crime is fixing to explode. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:35 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116664691452321128" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116669560677858702" class=""> <a name="c116669560677858702"></a> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/20536087" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Jersey Cynic</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Indi - did you read the comments over at Huffpo?<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/crime-is-backhow-long-c_b_36719.html<br /><br />The majority (not too many comments for what I consider an important post) are blaming the rise on illegal immigrants who are on meth and the lack of police protection because of budget strains. Then, as usual, it turns to the gun control issue.<br /><br />It's hopeless. Even I wrapped my comment up with buying a gun, albiet tongue-in-cheek.<br /><br />One very profound statement:<br /><br />11,535 law enforment agancies??<br />Let's see there are 50 states so there are over 2,000 law enforcement agencies per state???<br />Doesn't that seem like alot!<br />And crime is still rising?<br />Well it sure can't be because there are not enough agencies. Wonder how much that costs.<br /><br />and then a very interesting comment followed:<br /><br />.....The police told me that the recent rise in crime in our area is because of 1. Lack of resources to hire a sufficient number of officers. 2. A rise in the methamphetamine trade coming up through Mexico. 3. A rise in gang membership, due in our community to the children of illegal immigrants who have no support system and whose parents are often not at home because they have more than one job. I am simply repeating what I have been told,.........<br /><br />UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE.<br /><br />I can just imagine how this will play out. The right to bear arms will now be challenged (AGAIN!) This is a perfect argument to take this right away, leaving citizens with no protection from our fascist government. (maybe I should buy one before it's too late?) </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:06 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116669560677858702" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116672034696068833" class=""> <a name="c116672034696068833"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I rarely read the comments, but you cite many legitimate concerns. Meth is a seriously evil problem.<br /><br />I tend to see the overarching problem in terms of a cultural breakdown. These are symptoms of our nation's rampant greed and social selfishness.<br /><br />The shit we're in grew out of the concerns that filled the streets with protesters in the 60s. We ignored that wake-up call, and we're paying for it in spades.<br /><br />The unenlightened rose, like grease, to the top. They hold sway in power positions and their world has become manifest. We talk about the symptoms while the root grows more deeply entrenched.<br /><br />If our soul as a people had not become so diluted, we would rise up and insist on meaningful change. But, we won't, because we've become a vain, selfish, and petty lot...in the aggregate. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:59 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116672034696068833" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"><br /></a></span></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116622633365372031" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You're working it out.<br /><br />I wouldn't be overly concerned with monkeys...or people...or people who crop their monkeys.<br /><br />Just keep the beat. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:45 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=116622633365372031" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116629841243926828" class=""> <a name="c116629841243926828"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I worked that out some time ago, but bring things from the unconscious and change it is a delicate process. but yeah, you are right, now it shows.<br /><br />Unfortunately(?) I depend on some monkeys.<br /><br />Nice to hear from you, IB! I'll keep the beat. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:46 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116630944560196227" class=""> <a name="c116630944560196227"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You seem to have a sincere and unique vision. I just hope you'll press on in your take on things, and not let the world smooth your edge.<br /><br />Nobody really works it out...fully, I reckon. Maybe some do, but most offer their best in simply forming the same questions from a fresh angle. That's plenty, I figure.<br /><br />My comment was a boiled-down joke from a much longer, more serious comment. Lately, my opinions have been falling so flat I've begun to rein them in a bit.<br /><br />I'm just glad you're still speaking to me.<br /><br />***Happy Christmas*** </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:50 PM </p></dd></dl><br /><img style="width: 336px; height: 326px;" alt="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4936/3934/1600/155493/clip_image002.jpg" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4936/3934/1600/155493/clip_image002.jpg" /><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116483939962939936" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3594342" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 52px;" alt="Deek Deekster" class="profile" src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/3594342" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Deek Deekster</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> i love this picture. please don't commit suicide. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:29 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116483939962939936" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116484168327490522" class=""> <a name="c116484168327490522"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Thanks, Deek, I'll try not to.<br /><br />I really just posted this for the picture.<br /><br />Knocked me smooth out. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:08 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116484168327490522" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116484168327490522" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116484190400441569" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 80px;" alt="humpty dumpty" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/771/3322/320/100_0094.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">humpty dumpty</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I believe what Fuller says - people must rise up, they must hold the very rich and powerful to account - it is anathema to those who possess wealth or power to give it up - what do we do then? Just take it? I don't know what to do, it depresses me more all the time. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:11 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116484190400441569" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116492222648215136" class=""> <a name="c116492222648215136"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I'm always struck by how our better thinkers are largely ignored, and how our course is so often set by dim-witted pretenders. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:30 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116492222648215136" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116492869447700308" class=""> <a name="c116492869447700308"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="humpty dumpty" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/771/3322/320/100_0094.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/17327653874317131747" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">humpty dumpty</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Hallelujah! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:18 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116492869447700308" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116492869447700308" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd><dt id="c116492504360638490" class=""> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> After reading your blog, I do firmly believe, you have to take of your Flash Gordon space suit, leave the clay people, and spend some time on the surface, before you go back to never land. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:17 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116492504360638490" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116493410421547433" class=""> <a name="c116493410421547433"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> Pelmo, I thought you were an idiot...before.<br /><br />Now, I'm fully convinced.<br /><br />Go back to your poorly spelled, fully measured, narrow world. </p><a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""></a></div></dt></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116502656074574209" class=""> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> But at least I live in a world of reality. Unlike your bullshit, if it was measured in monetary terms, you would be a billionaire. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:29 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www2.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116502656074574209" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www2.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116502882860405943" class=""> <a name="c116502882860405943"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What do you know about anything, Pelmo? Your thumbsucked point-of-view assumes my posts are automatically endorsements.<br /><br />You clueless windbag are no arbiter of reality. You are a joke. The <i>clay people</i> (whoever the hell they are in your twisted fantasy) must be far beyond you as company.<br /><br />I'd debate you on anything, take either side, and thrash your pathetically feeble intellect.<br /><br />Piss off, or bring it on <b><i>for real</i></b>. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:07 PM </p></dd></dl><br /># Indigus Says:<br />November 18th, 2006 at 3:04 pm<br /><br />Thanks, Joe.<br /><br />I’ve been on the Athabasca glacier, in a SnowCat. The photos of that place, then and now, hit me in the gut.<br /><br /># The Holywriter Says:<br />November 18th, 2006 at 5:41 pm<br /><br />I don’t deny the world is going through climate change. I just don’t think humans are affecting it one way or the other. A volcano puts out more pollution that a coal plant’s smokestack.<br /><br /># Indigus Says:<br />November 18th, 2006 at 6:59 pm<br /><br />It’s more complicated than that, Holywriter. The Industrial Age has had an undeniable impact on climate, all facts considered.<br /><br />The chlorine molecules in the upper atmosphere that destroy the ozone are not only from spray deodorant, etc… Every Space Shuttle launch unleashes a gargantuan quantity of ozone destroying chemicals. Jet planes are impacting our atmosphere horrendously. Skin cancer rates are skyrocketing Downunder. Australia and New Zealand are becoming as dangerous as Antarctica, in terms of places to live, and may soon be nearly uninhabitable.<br /><br />Our atmosphere shrank in thickness by over a mile between the mid 80s and the mid 90s.<br /><br />Volcanos do their part, but humans have done theirs, as well. Look it up.<br /><br /># Indigus Says:<br />November 18th, 2006 at 7:22 pm<br /><br />I edited that and botched the grammar.<br /><br />Sorry to be so preachy but volcanic activity has always been around, and the argument that it gets humans off the hook for the recent climate lurch is a lame, irresponsible, and unenlightened one.<br /><br /># Joe Says:<br />November 18th, 2006 at 7:50 pm<br /><br />Let me preface this by saying I’m definitely not an expert on the environment. But, just from a pure logic standpoint, it seems the C02 levels in ice-core data and the climb in temperature over the last century and a half have a proportional ratio.<br /><br />Now, that could be because the global warming caused CO2 levels to rise, or the CO2 levels caused the global warming, or, less likely, something entirely different. However, humans are responsible for belching out tons of CO2 (in proportions that rival volcanic output…). And I don’t know of anybody running a gigantic air conditioning machine in the open, so, for me, that makes me lean toward the human-added CO2 at least in part causing the global warming. I’m probably still missing a lot of facts, though, because I’m not well read up on it. Yet.<br /><br />What I am a little surprised to hear from so many people is that there’s no way us little ol’ humans could cause a big enough change in the atmosphere to cause global warming. This coming from the same generation who will swear straight up that the hairspray their mom used to keep her beehive hairdo aloft single-handedly ripped a giant hole in the ozone over the north pole.<br /><br />Seems if refrigerators and aerosol cans can put a hole in the sky, we should have no problem believing those millions of cars and coal plants can cause the temps to rise.<br /><br />But again, this is not science–this is my speculation without all the facts. Contradicting information is welcome, and please jump in here and correct and educate. It’s like Dragnet….I want facts, damnit! Facts!!!! :-) We can handle the truth! Bring it on! :-)<br /><br /># Indigus Says:<br />November 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 pm<br /><br />One thing the ice-cores show is that never have CO2 levels been this high without an ice-age soon following. And the transition to full-blown ice-age condition is swift. As quickly as a decade or two.<br /><br />I don’t pretend to be an expert, but I first began studying this in 1990 when I received a packet of info which included a study on ice-core data, as well as the Gulf Stream as climate engine. The salinity of the North Atlantic is what drives the Gulf Stream. With the melting of the ice cap, salinity levels have dropped precipitously and slowed the Stream to a near stop. There are only a couple of “chimneys”, i.e. water columns of falling high-salinity water, left functioning.<br /><br />Look for wicked winters in the UK and N Europe. It could get ugly real fast.<br /><br />Don’t let the warming throw you, as counter-intuitive as it seems.<br /><br />Jersey Cynic said...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t5zLV821u0<br /><br />I couldn't get a pic on that one - found this B&amp;W -<br />can make out the faces better, I think. (I recognize david byrne)<br /><br />what a song - what a time -<br /><br />thank you goddess above that I was in grade school during this wild time! I wish -- no, nevermind -- I'm happy to be able to watch and IMAGINE!!<br /><br />Thank you Indi -- loved it!<br /><br />2:53 AM<br /><br />Indigobusiness said...<br /><br />Yeah, JC. That was a time of infinite possibilities. Locked doors were flying off the hinges.<br /><br />I remember the first time I heard this song. Sent a shiver through me. And that final power chord left me stunned and staring into space.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19965481-116481336171432522?l=notestostrangers.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Indigobusinesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19965481.post-1163360243528419852006-11-12T11:36:00.000-08:002006-11-24T11:30:26.853-08:00<center> <object height="238" width="317"><br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nKel1LVgwWA"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nKel1LVgwWA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="238" width="317"></embed></object><br /><object height="238" width="317"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/og65050F-70"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/og65050F-70" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="238" width="317"></embed></object><br /><object height="238" width="317"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IGdXBo-ukCk"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IGdXBo-ukCk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="238" width="317"></embed></object></center><blockquote><hr /></blockquote> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" class="preview-profile"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p id="preview-body"> My world has been so given over to <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/philistinism">Philistinism</a> it seems an apology is in order for every creative expression.<br /><br />There seems to be a new form of salivating Pavlovian creativity that functions for the ring of a bell, or some sort of treat or reward.<br /><br />Far different from the driven sort of compelling creativity that had men with torches crawling far underground to conjure forms on cave walls.<br /><br />Nice film.<br /></p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> November 24, 2006 7:53 AM </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116421539635406408" class=""><br /></dt><dt id="c116421539635406408" class=""><a set="yes" href="profile/33724662" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">JoeC</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I've read different oppinions over the years...so did PEAR ever really prove that experimenters were influencing their "random" machines beyond statistical norm? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:09 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116421539635406408" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116421938326688002" class="removed"> <a name="c116421938326688002"></a> </dt><dt id="c116421964433785489" class=""> <a name="c116421964433785489"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Considerably. Look <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epear/human_machine.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />The graph spike just prior to 911 was off the charts. But they weren't measuring experimenters' influence, just the random number anomalies as influenced by whatever the hell influences them. General field of consciousness is what's suggested. The RN generators were placed around the country, or was it the planet?<br /><br />But, there was no "curricular element". So, they felt compelled to shut it down. <i>Sheesh</i>.<br /><br />Check out the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epear/remote_perception.html" rel="nofollow">remote perception </a>results, too. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:20 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116421964433785489" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116423336734206294" class=""> <a name="c116423336734206294"></a> <a href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> JoeC</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What the hell is curricular element? Isn't that the easy part? Lecture, give test, grade papers...you can do that for any subject.<br /><br />Wow...didn't know PEAR had been doing remote perception trials. Was more familiar with Russell Targ, Joe McMonEagle's writings about the outgrowth of the Stargate remote viewing program (mostly done without the observer at the target location, or at least an appointed observer...)<br /><br />You've probably already seen this article about physicist John Wheeler, but in case you haven't, it shouldn't be missed:<br />http://www.discover.com/issues/jun-02/features/featuniverse/<br /><br />There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:09 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116423336734206294" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116424312015312738" class=""> <a name="c116424312015312738"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Gotta love Shakespeare, but I always come back with "Nothing new under the sun."<br /><br />Both are compelling, and that's a smokin' article, but sometimes these physicists upset my chili. Particularly Wheeler and Edward Teller.<br /><br />None of these guys had near the poetry in their soul that Einstein did. Now, <i>what</i> is not enough of a question, they presume to ask <i>why</i>?<br /><br />That's a question for us laymen.<br /><br />Wheeler was at UTexas when I was knocking around there. He never went drinking with me.<br /><br />(Ignore Dr. Doom, except for entertainment purposes.) </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116394878409459185" class=""> <a name="c116394878409459185"></a></dt><dt id="c116403394001521843" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 83px;" alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The difference between just plain insane and certifiable (a person so insane they can be hospitalized and treated against their will) is the answer to the question "Is this person a danger to themselves and/or others?" If yes, all clear to ship them up to the psych ward...<br /><br />The U.S. is not just insane,it's certifiable. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:45 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116403394001521843" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116404252158663478" class=""> <a name="c116404252158663478"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yes, and in order to be <i>certified</i> as "sane", one must first be certifiably "insane".<br /><br />Only in America.<br /><br />Are you certified?<br /><br />Read this:<a href="http://deoxy.org/alephnull/pip.htm" rel="nofollow"><br />"man's insanity is heaven's sense"</a> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:08 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116404252158663478" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116405331861173104" class="removed"> <a name="c116405331861173104"></a> Comment Deleted </dt><dd> <p> <span class="deleted-comment"> This post has been removed by the author. </span> </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:08 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116405331861173104" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116405357738454910" class=""> <a name="c116405357738454910"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Nice passage. I need to read Moby Dick.<br /><br />I do agree that insanity (or neurological chemical inbalances) could simply be an ability to hear the voice of the divine or (as in the MD passage) see the the divine.<br /><br />But according to Christian lore, god used the angels to deliver his messages so humans wouldn't be killed by the power of his voice. Are those people who have mental health issues and can hear the voice of god actually angels?<br /><br />Is it trully an "inability to cope with reality" or an example of "impaired judgement" to choose god's mission for you over the accepted dominant materialistic paradigm?<br /><br />Of course, those are hypothetical questions...for many people such a level of intimacy with god results in a life of suffering, isolation, and poverty.<br /><br />Sometimes god IS an asshole. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:12 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116405357738454910" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116405603958105877" class=""> <a name="c116405603958105877"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> GOD is NOT an Asshole, ever.<br /><br />We simply live in a dualistic world.<br /><br />Bliss could not be, without suffering.<br /><br />---<br /><br />If you do read Moby Dick, don't let the drawn-out technical cetacean stuff, in the middle, throw you. It's tough to dig through.<br /><br />It's a GREAT book. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:53 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116405603958105877" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116405900426892812" class=""> <a name="c116405900426892812"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> If bliss could not be<br />without suffering,<br /><br />Then could God be,<br />without Assholitity?<br /><br />And where would Sirena be<br />Without a little blasphemy? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:43 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116405900426892812" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116406139611894433" class=""> <a name="c116406139611894433"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yes, of course. Don't blame the wrong problem.<br /><br />Life would be sheer hell without trial by fire. Those who are never tested are the most pathetic.<br /><br />Social failings are man's fault.<br /><br />You know, there are societies in the Spice Islands, for example, without neuropathologies? No mental illness at all.<br /><br />People grow through pain, not pleasure. Ease brings out the worst in mankind. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:23 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116406139611894433" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116406484451683356" class=""> <a name="c116406484451683356"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I don't know...I suspect the divine encompasses far more than our puny little human brains are capable of fathoming.<br /><br />I actually blame most of our neuropathologies not on God but on our culture of disease, pollution and genetic engineering. Of course, there is about zero research to support those theories.<br /><br />We've already agreed on easy. However, I would gladly accept some simplification. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:20 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116406484451683356" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116406538698387447" class=""> <a name="c116406538698387447"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The crux of this is as old as the hills, but my point was that balance is the hinge of dichotomy.<br /><br />Everything has its place. There is no inherent malice.<br /><br />Who would choose to suffer?<br /><br />We are not separate from the divine, nor the diabolical.<br /><br />There are those who understand this. I don't claim to, but understanding <i>that</i> keeps me going. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:29 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116406538698387447" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116406555764295850" class=""> <a name="c116406555764295850"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> BTW- Ease and easy are different things.<br /><br />Simplification...<b>YES</b>...by all means, that's key. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:32 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116406555764295850" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116412288868208630" class=""> <a name="c116412288868208630"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Ease and easy can be different things -- but not so much in this context. (Indigobusiness está tan literal!)<br /><br />And while I agree that inherent malice is rare -- life is not a Disney movie, thank goodness -- I'm not sure everything has it's place. But then again...we can't always see the bigger picture. But chaos is inherent and necessary in the universe. (I don't know. I need to go mull that one over for awhile.)<br /><br />People make choices that cause them suffering every day -- and I know you've met some that seem to enjoy suffering and others who lack insight into the fact that they are choosing to suffer. And what about masochism and martyrdom?<br /><br />The divine and the diabolical aren't separate from each other either. And yes, we are part of it.<br /><br />Maybe it's something you're supposed to remember, rather than understand??? Methinks it's what's referred to as a mystery. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:28 AM</p></dd><dd><p> </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116413483231796875" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116413520704516034" class=""> <a name="c116413520704516034"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> We seem to be experiencing an extraordinary disconnect here, Sirena.<br /><br />Ease and easy are specifically different here, that's why I mentioned it.<br /><br />Your Disney movie comment is gratuitous and meaningless. The nature of things is not dependent on humans. Humans and human concerns are incidental, not central.<br /><br />Of course everything has its place. How could it be otherwise?<br /><br />The context went beyond pathologies. Yes, masochists exist, but the larger significance was spoken to.<br /><br />"The divine and the diabolical aren't separate from each other either."??? What? Nothing could be more separated. They are polar opposites. This is the dichotomy that every conscious act hinges upon. We are not "a part of it", IT is built into the very fabric of our existence.<br /><br />Mystery? What mystery?<br /><br />Yes, it is circular, not linear. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:53 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116413520704516034" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116414866432109480" class=""> <a name="c116414866432109480"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yes, Indigobusiness, we do seem to be experiencing an extraordinary disconnect.<br /><br />I feel that most of our points have denatured from the act of splitting very fine frog hairs. However, I should know better than to attempt to write anything cohesive before noon.<br /><br />If you would be so kind as to indulge me, let’s rewind 2 entries.<br /><br />You said,<br />“We are not separate from the divine, nor the diabolical.<br /><br />There are those who understand this. I don't claim to, but understanding that keeps me going.”<br /><br /><br />Sentence one is essentially the central pillar Sirenaism. Well put.<br /><br />To elaborate on that point, the divine and diabolical are not separated from each other -- in the way that a coin has 2 sides, yin has yang, and polarities simultaneously attract and repel.<br />???The hinge of dichotomy, I guess, but sometimes they bleed into each other. The borders aren't always simply defined or correctly understood. It's my main quarrel with organized religion.<br /><br />Suffering is a human choice and a human creation -- neither divine, nor diabolical, nor universal. However, when you are inside of a human existence it’s difficult to maintain that perspective.<br /><br />Regarding your second sentence…that kind of understanding – understanding "that" – is faith in a mystery. Two more obscure definitions of mystery are a sacramental rite and any truth that is unknowable except by divine revelation.<br /><br />I like those kinds of mysteries.<br /><br />Thank you for your (plenary) indulgence. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:37 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116414866432109480" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116415378889947210" class=""> <a name="c116415378889947210"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> In a dualistic realty, opposite poles of a dichotomy are as separate as is possible. The divine and its opposite is the quintessential dichotomy.<br /><br />Suffering is not a choice, it is the stone that sharpens the blade. Without it, piercing the veil of illusion would be impossible. It has its sacred quality. Essentially universal. Faith is inconsequential to this fundament.<br /><br />Do not be fooled by petty concerns of the immediate, or of the self, we live in the eternal now. It is constructed of these things. In that, there is no mystery.<br /><br />No hairs have been split, only the clarification of terms. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:03 PM </p></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said...<br /><p> It seems I'm still dropping-in apostrophes where inappropriate.<br /> Aside from apologizing for that, I just want to add:<br /><br />Recognizing suffering for what it is, and what it offers, is not a form of exploitation. Religion is about liberation. Love in pure form. Beyond pairs of opposites (our dualistic field of existence). Abuse of religion via subjugation is the province of church, state, etc.<br /><br />Genuine humility is different than living on one's knees. And it's required for knowing genuine compassion, and, ultimately, unbound love. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:44 AM</p><dl id="comments-block"><dd><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p> <br /></dd><dt id="c116439446033442272" class=""> <a name="c116439446033442272"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I wouldn’t deny an ant his reality. I also wouldn’t call it an illusion. There are alternate realities. That doesn’t make them illusory.<br /><br />Sweetie, I know you didn’t cook up dualism….it is how the human world perceives things. But why should we limit our thinking to “either…or”? It seems “both…and” is a more apt worldview.<br /><br />Why can’t we see without contrasts? Why can’t we see in comparisons? Wholism is interrelated and connected, not polarized. I am pieces of you as you are me and I am also river, grass, trees, love, temper tantrums, obstinacy, lightning, self-indulgence, beating drums, melted plastic, spent shells, ash, electricity, a bone chilling wind, an aria and a warm bath. And all of those are also Sirena…maybe we share a molecule and a memory. And I would not be the same me without that shared molecule with (for example) that willow tree. Same for the tree. Etcetera, etcetra, ad infinitum.<br /><br />And all of us, together with the atmosphere, the solar systems and the life therein, the chemical bonds and compounds, galaxies unseen by our puny eyes, life forces unacknowledged by us humans…all of these things are a part of us as we are part of them --- whether we are aware or not. If you close your eyes and breathe deeply, if you turn off your mind – on a good day, you can feel the most miniscule subatomic particle of that vast web of connection. That larger-than-the-universe inter-connectedness is divinity -- as I understand it, in my puny, ignorant way.<br /><br />Religion IS NOT about liberation. <br /><br />God/ the Force/ the One IS ABOUT love and I suppose it is love that liberates us from our isolation – our fears and conception that our suffering is punishment. So maybe you are right – isolation is diabolical and in liberating ourselves from our fears we are able to tap into the connection -- or the divine.<br /><br />And I would COMPARE that connection to “knowing genuine compassion, and, ultimately, unbound love.”<br /><br />And sometimes that means eating a drumstick, playing in the woods, making sweet love and being thankful. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:54 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116439611301875991" class=""> <a name="c116439611301875991"></a> <a set="yes" href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> We may very well live in a holographic universe. I wouldn't argue that. I believe it is pretty clear everything is interconnected. But perception of reality, and reality itself, are two very different things.<br /><br />Our limited perceptions ARE illusory, because they are incomplete. They are REAL, and/or AUTHENTIC, within their own context.<br /><br />Religion IS about liberation. It is about knowing the mind of God. The very word means to relink to the source...ie God. It is about transcending the things of Man.<br /><br />The application (or practice, or abuse) of religion is what you speak to, not religion itself.<br /><br />What it is about has nothing to do with opinion.<br /><br />Every conscious choice we make hinges on the pivot of the divine/diabolical. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:21 PM </p></dd></dl><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116394878409459185" class=""><a href="http://www.joecrubaugh.com/blog" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> JoeC</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You guys are hillarious...in some weird synchronicity, I just KNOW, for some reason, that President Bush was up at 2:30 wandering around the White House kitchen looking for a bottle of Coke and an opener. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:06 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116394878409459185" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116395306529655951" class=""> <a name="c116395306529655951"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Hey Joe. LOL.<br /><br />Long as he doesn't log-on.<br /><br />JC- I speak in some foreign tongue, in my sleep...LOUDLY. Lots of hard consonants, k sounds and such. I haven't been able to identify the language, BECAUSE I'M ASLEEP.<br /><br />I've never wrangled anyone into taping it for me. I'm usually slapped silly and told to shut the fuck up. At least back in the day, when I could get someone to sleep with me. I probably snore, too. I'm beyond caring. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:17 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116395306529655951" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116397918195822658" class=""> <a name="c116397918195822658"></a> <a href="profile/20536087" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Jersey Cynic</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> take a listen to this "throat singer" -- I sware I've heard him coming out of my husband during the middle of the night.<br /><br />maybe you guys sound like this also?? LOL<br /><br /><br />http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6493062 </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:33 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116397918195822658" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116398759463011328" class=""> <a name="c116398759463011328"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Us guys? I'm the only one copping to making odd noises, unless you were referring to my myriad personalities?<br /><br />First time I heard this stuff was from Tibetan monks. They are fantastic.<br /><br />Tuva sounds a bit demonic at first. It's an interesting cross-cultural application. Cool.<br /><br /><b><i>I' got a black magic woman...</i></b><br /><br />One night, at a Tibetan retreat center (in Ca., not Tibet), after hearing this circular breathing technique for the first time, I woke up, sat up in bed, and began making these bizarre, weirdly circular breathing, chanting sounds. Badly done, but better than I ever figured I could. Must've been a lingering dream-state other self, just showing off. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:53 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116398759463011328" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116401948027730824" class=""> <a name="c116401948027730824"></a> <a href="profile/20536087" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Jersey Cynic</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Were you possibly in the Garden of Eden or -- were you In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.....<br />Ba-a-a-a-a-a-aby??<br /><br />ROTFLOL!!! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:44 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116401948027730824" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116401968630781909" class=""> <a name="c116401968630781909"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yes. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:48 AM </p></dd></dl> <dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116378984313669471" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /></a></div></dt><dt id="c116378984313669471" class=""> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I've lived my life in the midst of a zombie pandemic.<br /><br />I refuse to spawn. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:57 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116378984313669471" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116379214900216066" class=""> <a name="c116379214900216066"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I subscribe to the hypothesis that we're all attracted to those with whom we would create the sturdiest spawn, aka children.<br /><br />Even if a person has consciously decided not to reproduce, that person will still be most attracted sexually to those with whom they would create the “fittest” offspring.<br /><br />Mother Nature designed us for genetic duplication and reproduction, the perpetuation of the species – probably to Her own chagrin.<br /><br />We're all living in the midst of a zombie pandemic. Gold star to you for being the first one to pick up on the intended metaphor. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:35 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116379793986507256" class=""> <a name="c116379793986507256"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> If your theory held true to form, I'd never've been hatched.<br /><br />The question is: Would've the planet been better off without my gold star existence? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:12 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116379793986507256" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116379903506727250" class=""> <a name="c116379903506727250"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Your continued survival proves fitness. Your gold star existence proves my theory and your endless questions probably improve the planet. The trick is...we don't get to see the master plan.<br /><br />Don't misunderstand. I'm not talking about social darwinism -- but I am talking about the biological imperative that drives our instincts -- instincts we can choose to override via conscience, wisdom, experience, religious sacraments, financial incentives...<br /><br />Biology may inspire us, or even cause us to prioritize -- but it doesn't override free will. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:30 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116380278571481624" class=""> <a name="c116380278571481624"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Plan? What plan?<br /><br />It's all instinct and impulse...<i>URGE</i>.<br /><br />What we refer to as <i>God's will</i>. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:33 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116380278571481624" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116380327136782102" class=""> <a name="c116380327136782102"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> All the folderol of our fancy notions, pomp and circumstance, boil down to<br />the freewill choice between harmony and discord. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:41 PM </p></dd></dl><p class="comment-timestamp"> November 17, 2006 10:57 AM</p><dl id="comments-block"><dd><span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116380327136782102" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span><br /></dd><dt id="c116387675159571505" class=""> <a name="c116387675159571505"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Free choice, yes -- but whose interpretation of harmony and discord? Some would say it's a harmonious choice to install ridiculous laws and mandatory beliefs.<br /><br />I think creating harmony is an instinctual urge, that often leads to cacophony... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:05 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116387936959311793" class=""> <a name="c116387936959311793"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Balderdash!</i><br /><br />Harmony and discord in relation to the immutable natural URGE, inherent in all that is.<br /><br />Nothing arbitrary, aside from choice.<br /><br />That's the rub. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:49 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116387936959311793" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116388195666979525" class=""> <a name="c116388195666979525"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Rub-a-dub-dub...<br /><br />(Enough balderdash and folderol --I am arbitrarily choosing harmony.) </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:32 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116402195373992833" class=""> <a name="c116402195373992833"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> It's not a choice,<br />it's a cosmic imperative. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:25 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116402195373992833" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116402195373992833" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd></dl><h4 class="total"><span id="btnAll" class="hide" style="display: block;" onmousedown="toggleAllComments(); try{this.blur();}catch(e){}"></span> </h4> <div style="display: none;" id="cpost-container"> </div> <div id="comments-bar-info"> </div> <a name="comments"></a>pelmo said... <dl id="comments-block"><dd> <p> If we all switched to methane as an alternative fuel. We would have a cheap source, with all the BS you and MR INDIGO produce. Our dependance on oil would cease, and peace would traverse the globe. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:07 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116304336972738714" class=""> <a name="c116304336972738714"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I used to bump into Townes, from time to time, back in the good old days of Austin. He was a good guy, always said something memorable.<br /><br />Fuck you, Pelmo. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:36 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116304336972738714" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116308682072064624" class=""> <a name="c116308682072064624"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Pelmo -- You need to listen to Townes Van Zandt. Anybody that listens to Willie as much as you do should give Townes a try. He's pure.<br /><br />Second, I have a hunch that the methane produced by your bullshit may have made the hole in the ozone a few acres bigger.<br /><br />Indigobusiness -- I'll bet he did.<br /><br />Alot of my old Albuquerque crew seems to bounce back and forth -- a year or 2 in Austin, then back to the Land of Entrapment for awhile, ad infinitum. I think those cities are on a circuit or a ley line or something. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:40 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116309988409995935" class=""> <a name="c116309988409995935"></a> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> But at least mine you don't know it is there until you step in it. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:18 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116310176138007334" class=""> <a name="c116310176138007334"></a> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> Just to get serious for a moment. This is for all the morons who voted "RED". Isn't it amazing how fast the price of oil and gasoline has shot up in the last two days. Oh I'm sorry,it's not big oil doing it. It's just how the market works. For you morons I will lay a big cow pie and maybe you will trip over it and bang your head, and maybe just maybe it will knock some sense into you. But we allready know the answere. You are a lost cause. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:49 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116311916607306166" class=""> <a name="c116310227794681396"></a> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> You have to play nice Indigo, or you will be banished from the playground.<br /><br /><br />When I was young and wild and a bit more limber, I tried some of that kinky contextuall stuff. Remember I was in San Francisco in its hay day. Now that I am older I might hurt myself if I tried it. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:39 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116313385282351925" class=""> <a name="c116313385282351925"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Fuck you, Pelmo...in your playground. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:44 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116313385282351925" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116316737959581461" class=""> <a name="c116316737959581461"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You BOTH need to play nice.<br /><br />Don't make me take that maternal tone. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:02 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116328757446909622" class=""> <a name="c116328757446909622"></a> pelmo said... </dt><dd> <p> With your sharp rebuke, I took a time out and went and stood in the corner </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:26 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116343283116499651" class=""> <a name="c116343283116499651"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What I need is beside the point. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:47 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116343283116499651" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116343329070444741" class=""> <a name="c116343329070444741"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Needs are never beside the point, but generally the source of the reaction. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:54 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116343517012946609" class=""> <a name="c116343517012946609"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Never say never.<br /><br />They most definitely <i>were</i>, in this case. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:26 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116343517012946609" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116343561740103871" class=""> <a name="c116343561740103871"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The need to say never has always been one of my venal sins. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:33 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116380380917033776" class=""> <a name="c116380380917033776"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You're a sinful wench...I've always said that. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:50 PM </p></dd></dl><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> Perfect pitch must be a fine source of confidence...and a distinct advantage, musically.<br /><br />Personally, my pitch is as imperfect as the rest of me. But my ear isn't 24k tin. As my childhood cornet teacher told my folks, "...he really likes to swing out." I guess he had to say something.<br /><br />So, I just tend to rely on delusions of grandeur to see me through my occassional drifts through self-sabotaging insecurities.<br /><br />Nice post, Deek. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:57 PM </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116328467019595766" class=""> <a name="c116328467019595766"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="dave bones" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7769/406/320/producer-03.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You are really hopeful? Do you feel a breath of new air sweeping your nation? I felt like that when Blair first got in. I thought he was really inspired and things would change.<br /><br />I've read a few hopeful things about the mindset of the new defence secretary.<br /><br />I feel more worried.Like everyone has thought "shit- this is bad".<br />about Iraq. Like Iraq is going to go the way of Yugoslavia only this will have a lot worse conotations for all of us.<br /><br />I'm still waiting for someone to turn up in your country with a real American vision. Politicians are so bankrupt now ts ripe for it but everyone seems too partisan. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:37 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116335991812857156" class=""> <a name="c116335991812857156"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> People of real vision are largely ignored, perhaps because they are too blindingly brilliant for the tired eyes of an indoctrinated culture.<br /><br />I'm hopeful the suffering/misery index will be ratcheted down. That's enough for me now, enough cause to celebrate whole-heartedly.<br /><br />In terms of the bigger picture, it's obvious to me we are past the tipping point with dying seas, desertifying Amazon/Congo basins, poisoned lands/waters and unprecedented mass extinction. Still, we play each hand we're dealt (as much as I despise game and sports analogies)...it's important to go forward as best we can.<br /><br />The next few years will see the world waking up to the true calamity of our imploding natural world, and will expose petty politics and Machiavellian war adventure in an honest perspective and for what they truly are.<br /><br />We have far less time than most people realize. </p></dd></dl><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19965481-116336024352841985?l=notestostrangers.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Indigobusinesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10805496512951830272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19965481.post-1160157472005692102006-10-06T10:57:00.000-07:002006-11-10T21:59:32.656-08:00<span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><i><b>Ignore the date---It's bogus.<hr /><img src="http://i10.tinypic.com/3ywhchy.gif" width="350" /><hr /></b></i></span><center><b>Living With The Law</b><br /><embed enablejavascript="false" allownetworking="internal" allowscriptaccess="never" src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf?u=YUhSMGNEb3ZMMk52Ym5SbGJuUXViVzkyYVdWekxtTmtiaTV0ZVhOd1lXTmxMbU52YlM4d01EQTNNalEwTHpBMEx6RXlMemN5TkRRMk1qRTBNQzVtYkhZPQ==&d=235" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="288" width="350"></embed><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.chriswhitley.com/index.php" target="_self">Chris Whitley</a> RIP</div><br /><object height="288" width="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RHDqIi5OBfg"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RHDqIi5OBfg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="288" width="350"></embed></object></center><hr /><blockquote><hr /><hr /></blockquote><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116034314559253009" class=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial,geneva;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.world-playground.com/Bob_and_Tom_-_Telemarketer.mp3" onblur="function onblur(event) { try { parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully(); } catch (e) { }}"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2170/294/200/phone.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></a><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.world-playground.com/Bob_and_Tom_-_Telemarketer.mp3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204);"><center></center></span></a></span></span></dt><blockquote><dt id="c116034314559253009" class=""><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial,geneva;font-size:85%;" ><a target="_blank" href="http://www.world-playground.com/Bob_and_Tom_-_Telemarketer.mp3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204);"><center>Try this...<hr /></center></span></a></span></span></dt></blockquote></dl>I speak in tongues when I sleep.<br /><br />Usually after drinking whiskey.<br /><br />It's hell on girlfriends.<br /><span class="byline">Indigobusiness | <a set="yes" href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/" title="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/">Homepage</a> | 11.10.06 - 8:52 pm | <a set="yes" href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/digifrog/116317745391294383/#312324" title="Link to this comment">#</a> </span><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116283998037927443" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Bakunin has it knocked, he expresses a fine perspective...save for one aspect of this:<br /><br /><i>"The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual"</i><br /><br />Divinity, if it has meaning, is as naturally intrinsic as gravity. Suggesting otherwise echoes the crux of the misguided argument ripping the seams of humanity, and modern culture. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:06 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=116283998037927443" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116284152033631510" class=""> <a name="c116284152033631510"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I know what you mean, and agree with you completely, but I think he meant the church. Actually, I'm sure he meant the church and its "divinity". He was only mentioning what "God" imposes on us through the church. His inverted comas were jammed at the time.<br /><br />He's a fine man, and I would risk saying I agree 100% with him, but even if he said something not quite right to me I still have to admire him imensely. He's a very special man. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:32 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116284219690233665" class=""> <a name="c116284219690233665"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yes, he surely is that.<br /><br />It struck me as an important distinction, though. As articulate as he is, I'm surprised he didn't spell that out better. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:43 PM </p></dd></dl><h4 class="total"><span id="btnAll" class="hide" style="display: block;" onmousedown="toggleAllComments(); try{this.blur();}catch(e){}"></span> </h4> <div style="display: none;" id="cpost-container"> </div> <div id="comments-bar-info"> </div> <a name="comments"></a> <dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116274626321400346" class=""> <a name="c116274626321400346"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> History will flay these ship-jumping rats, along with the captains, and trumpet the illegitimacy of the invasion.<br /><br />It will go down as one of the most ill-conceived military adventures. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:04 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=116274626321400346" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116276335077239077" class=""> <a name="c116276335077239077"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="dave bones" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7769/406/320/producer-03.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Do you seriously think they are on the way out? Will the Dem's do any diferent? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:49 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116276958734421566" class=""> <a name="c116276958734421566"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Maybe they will be more inclined to 'err on the side of caution' in the future.<br /><br />But somehow I doubt it.<br /><br />& to your point, Dave: No I'm not convinced that the Dems would have been much better... but then again, there's another example of 'err on the side of caution' ie - Vote Democratic.<br /><br />Beyond that, fuck them all. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:33 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116278182914717979" class=""> <a name="c116278182914717979"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Dems see the world through entirely different eyes. Don't buy into the horseshit that they are remotely the same. The system stinks, and only makes it seem so. Perhaps the honest moderates are somewhat similar, but they're fairly rare.<br /><br />We need a change in worldview in the halls of power.<br /><br />The system needs meaningful change. There are too many schmucks in politics. The system weeds out colorful people, and too many people of sincere vision.<br /><br />Anyone who beats the Liberal/Conservative drum is a charlatan. Listen closely for meaningful rhetoric, not sloganeering. It's easy to weed-out the crooks.<br /><br />I predict the Dems will run the table. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:57 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=116278182914717979" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116281634261984148" class=""> <a name="c116281634261984148"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="dave bones" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7769/406/320/producer-03.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> and that will change what? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:32 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116284161540000379" class=""> <a name="c116284161540000379"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> There is an unchecked diabolical cabal manipulating power...promoting policy and hidden agendas potentially dooming us all.<br /><br />You want me to list the egregious examples? It's truly appalling.<br /><br />If Dems succeed in getting an honest vote count, and there is a resulting balance of power, at least there's a chance for sordid hidden facts to be revealed, and more corruption to be squelched by courts, etc. The convicted co-conspirators are adding up, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. If the Dems get the bit in their teeth...watchout.<br /><br />It's time to look under the rug and clean house. We desperately need a fresh start.<br /><br />Cynicism is pointless. </p></dd></dl><br /><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3594342" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 52px;" alt="Deek Deekster" class="profile" src="http://funk.co.uk/funkbaby.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3594342" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Deek Deekster</a> said...<br /><dl id="comments-block"><dd class="comment-body"> <p>As a child of 8 and upwards, my favourite reading apart from science fiction was second world war stuff, especially the Nazi and Japanese torture methods. I found the books in second hand stores along with discarded hippy books like BE HERE NOW. All I could afford, the twin poles of selflessness and sadism. Which is why I am now a priest.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a set="yes" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2006/10/torture-in-modern-age.html#116236544660801647" title="comment permalink">7:17 AM</a></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="http://notestostrangers.blogspot.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="http://notestostrangers.blogspot.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said...<dl id="comments-block"><dd class="comment-body"> <p>I preach, but I'm no priest.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2006/10/torture-in-modern-age.html#116244423219643299" title="comment permalink">5:10 AM</a> <span class="item-control admin-1746291201 pid-1743224267"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=10377676&postID=116244423219643299" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116086481887619864" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116100861785454103" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116131195729218685" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116110485796362231" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/04321713951006827527" rel="nofollow" onclick=""></a><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116164639408275043" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116190504686583079" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116231994710003337" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 42px;" alt="Lazy" class="profile" src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/mc.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Lazy</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> How do they come up with these experiments? Do they do brainstorms in their labs where they're like, well, what shall we do today? I know - let's get some... some water, okay, and then we'll subject it to high pressure... let's say 100,000 times atmosphere... no, I say 170,000 times... okay... and then bombard it with microwaves... no, not microwaves, we did microwaves last week... let's do x-rays... and see what happens...<br /><br />So what would happen if we pressurised cookies & cream flavoured ice-cream to 57,000 atmospheres and held it upside-down and bombarded it with infra-red light? Or carbon at 350,000 atmospheres and gave it a good shake and then bombarded it with UHF radio waves? The secret of the universe may be hidden in experiments like these, who knows... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:39 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116231994710003337" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116233311345155401" class=""> <a name="c116233311345155401"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The universe has no secrets, but I figure these sorts of discoveries are always serendipitous...like discovering the cure for hiccups by sticking a finger up an asshole. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:18 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116233311345155401" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116233344578272970" class=""> <a name="c116233344578272970"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> No secrets, just riddles. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:24 PM </p></dd></dl><a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/11088369405855047637" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"></a><div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" class="preview-profile"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p id="preview-body"> Expertise without vision is only so useful. Recognizing the tea leaves helps little without comprehending their message.<br /><br />You make a strong point for the ultimate impact of our abuse of resources. The dovetailing breakdown events will feed on themselves in a feedback loop, the scope of which will be far more dire than Stern suggests.<br /><br />We live in a fragile and weakening system. If anyone thinks modern cities can cope with real calamity, just have a look at post-Katrina New Orleans.<br /><br />We are eating our future.<br /></p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> October 30, 2006 2:14 PM</p></div></dt><dt id="c116190504686583079" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/11088369405855047637" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 45px;" alt="Bostick" class="profile" src="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m135/Bostickislame/gun.jpg" width="60" /></a><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/11088369405855047637" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> </a> </div> <a href="profile/11088369405855047637" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Bostick</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Religion pisses me off. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:24 AM, October 27, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116190788773732640" class=""> <a name="c116190788773732640"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Me too. Pisses me off, amuses me, interests me, scares me.. powerful stuff.<br /><br />& then there's 'wtf constitutes a religion anyway?'. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:11 AM, October 27, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116199858735449778" class=""> <a name="c116199858735449778"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/28282968" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Angel Feathers Tickle Me" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4184/3452/400/ANGEKSSSL.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/28282968" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Angel Feathers Tickle Me</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Religion should not make a person hateful. It is a personal choice and is a completion of you.<br /><br />You are not just what you eat.<br /><br />You are a special mixture of thoughts. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:23 AM, October 28, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116200348834489851" class=""> <a name="c116200348834489851"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Sincere thanks for your thoughts, AFTM... positive stuff.<br /><br />In a sense, nothing 'makes' a person anything really. We use religions/concepts/ideas/identities to justify whatever we really need them to... be it ugly, kind, beautiful, cruel.. whatever. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:44 AM, October 28, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116201451057216753" class=""> <a name="c116201451057216753"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Religion is about one thing: the realization of ultimate human potential. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:48 AM, October 28, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=116201451057216753" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116201643873832702" class=""> <a name="c116201643873832702"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> "about one thing" eh?<br /><br />You could say the same about science. So do we call science a religion..? Yeah, if you want.. But it soon becomes a big mushy soup of vague meaningless shit though doesn't it?<br /><br />Desperate grasping, all of it.. [even this]<br /><br />..Vain piffle. PAH!<br /><br />Put your kinky Nazi uniform away & have another Absinthe, Ib.<br /><br />;] </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:20 AM, October 28, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116205384927876747" class=""> <a name="c116205384927876747"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Nazi? That just illustrates how much you miss the point. I don't make the definitions, and nobody is forced to acknowledge them. But they are what they are. Though they often get lost in the noise of style over content.<br /><br /><i>Religion <b>is</b> about the realization of ultimate human potential</i>. That is true.<br />Opinions of that pursuit are only that. I'm making no advocacy for any side.<br /><br />Why you would call me vile names is a mystery. Or confuse the distinction of Science and Religion. Though Science, in its description of all that is, has been doing a good job of proving, scientifically, many eastern religious concepts.<br /><br />It's important to separate essential Religion from Church and practice. Nothing more despicable than the evils done in the name of Religion.<br /><br />Nazi? That's a corker. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:44 PM, October 28, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=116205384927876747" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116205418850504309" class=""> <a name="c116205418850504309"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Ignorance pisses me off. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:49 PM, October 28, 2006 </p></dd><br /><dt class="comment-poster" id="c116180852639452211"><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Prolixin was sent from the bowels of Hell to announce, via these demonic campaigns of inhumanity, the true taste of ultimate consequence.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a set="yes" href="http://realgem.blogspot.com/2006/10/torture-in-modern-age.html#116180852639452211" title="comment permalink">8:35 PM</a> <span class="item-control admin-1746291201 pid-1743224267"><a set="yes" style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=10377676&postID=116180852639452211" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"><br /></span></a></span></dd></dl><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img style="width: 60px; height: 45px;" alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /></a><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You are a self-obsessed bitch!! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:33 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116164973446196741" class=""> <a name="c116164973446196741"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The first step of solving a problem is recognizing it exists.<br /><br />You'll get over your badself, I'll bet.<br /><br />There's still time.<br /><br />If not, youll leave a colorful path of devastation in your wake, and that's something. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:28 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=116164973446196741" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116165051632402042" class=""> <a name="c116165051632402042"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Thanks for your kind words Indigo. It just seems that we need chaos to produce beautiful things, and at the moment my life demands organization. I just miss my messed up self and her crazy thoughts.<br /><br />wish I could blog more but things are just too normal in my little world. Let us read blog ho for now, then. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:41 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116165244980420043" class=""> <a name="c116165244980420043"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> BlogHo is navigating a bad patch of his own. He also hears my absurd words and ridiculous advice, but he seems to benefit little. He tells me his specialized opinion of the concerns I express. I understand nearly nothing, but I'm increasingly convinced he really is quite mad.<br /><br />It seems he isn't fully benefiting from such a fine smoldering madness... he should be payed handsomely for it. That's what I think. But real money paydays are infrequent, often late, and usually in lump sums.<br /><br />The point is to enjoy the madness, whatever the season. But I won't be telling him this, he called me a robot today, and I'm not sure there's much left to say.<br /><br />It's scary when you can't get off-center enough to generate the friction of inspired living. Just don't get too comfortably numb. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:14 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=116165244980420043" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116170096848011363" class=""> <a name="c116170096848011363"></a> <a href="profile/20523924" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Carlos Carah</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> hahahaha! eu sou mais ou menos assim também, parece que tacaram fogo na minha cara e apagaram com pauladas. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:42 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116171016912078387" class=""> <a name="c116171016912078387"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> "It's scary when you can't get off-center enough to generate the friction of inspired living. Just don't get too comfortably numb." That's my post in tidy up words. haha<br /><br />Most people don't like advice, especially because we only learn if we live things inside our own brain and it changes our chemical links. There is no other way. Sometimes when we try and "help" people we do the opposite cos the person needs to go through some shit to gain that knowledge. sorry to give you my " specialized opinion of the concerns you express" but I lived it myself and would morbidly love to see what hell produces in blog ho's blog. haha.<br /><br />I kind of like to listen to other people's view and try to imagine how it would be if I had that link made in my brain, but it is all imagination.<br /><br />I agree we shoul enjoy madness. Sure. I enjoy everyone's madness. I'm looking forward to the day we call it normal. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:16 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116172257031553048" class=""> <a name="c116172257031553048"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Ho still loves me. Can't fool an old fool.<br /><br />Most people don't like my advice because it's usually in the form of thinly veiled insults.<br /><br />Who really <i>is</i> fit to judge madness? Or define it? Sanity is only sanitized madness, I figure.<br /><br />There's a movie, a collection of shorts by great directors, called <i>Aria</i>. One French segment has the madhouse folk taking over the Opera/Theatre... Good stuff.<br /><br />I listen only to bad advice. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:42 PM</p></dd><dd><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><br /></dd><dt id="c116177799527341470" class=""> <a name="c116177799527341470"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 45px;" alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> "Most people don't like my advice because it's usually in the form of thinly veiled insults."<br /><br />Cryptic ones, I suppose.<br /><br />I'm trying to surround myself with cryptic people! It's great! It's like going to Finnland! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:06 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116181569610010831" class=""> <a name="c116181569610010831"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> When I indict myself, I don't like to be too blatant.<br /><br />Otherwise, I'm an open book. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:34 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116182109743454831" class=""> <a name="c116182109743454831"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I'm trying to surround myself. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"><br /></p></dd><dt><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/04321713951006827527" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 80px;" alt="Laurie" class="profile" src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/lauriea776/NewPic2.jpg" width="60" /></a></dt></dl><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/04321713951006827527" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a> </div> <a href="profile/04321713951006827527" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Laurie</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I totally agree with Will's comment. However, living in Texas, it's more difficult to say that most Americans aren't gun crazy because most Texans are. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:07 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116144752503210291" class=""> <a name="c116144752503210291"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I disagree with everyone.<br /><br />I'm generally disagreeable.<br /><br />Most Texans are. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:18 PM</p></dd><dt><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /></a></dt></dl><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> This is emblematic of how twisted our values and priorities have become.<br /><br />It is not idealistic to think we could minimally ensure the basics of food, shelter, and health care for everyone in this country. It is eminently doable...if our resources were not squandered on the madness of military adventure, the hoarding of wealth, and the short-sightedness of class struggle.<br /><br />History will one day judge America's recent choices, and view them as no less selfishly vile as those of Nero's Rome. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:39 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116131195729218685" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116135235336364141" class=""> <a name="c116135235336364141"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 83px;" alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I'm afraid so.<br /><br />Here are some depressing updates. The healthcare/ case management program I located for the gentleman mentioned in this post lost more funding this fiscal year. They can't take any new clients, because they are already working at double their case load. The kind, professional man who is my contact there was going out to the shelter and the streets to find the ill gentleman and to try and set him up with something else -- so say some prayers/ mantras/ wishes. Otherwise, I'm sure I'll be hearing from the gentleman today -- so if anyone has any ideas let me know....I'm fresh out.<br /><br />Also, my boss came back from presenting at an army hospital. He was stunned by the sheer volume of permanently disabled solidiers(amputees, parapalegics, etc.) arriving literally by the boat load and jet load every single day.<br /><br />And those are the wounds we can see.<br /><br />I think I'm going to drink tonight. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:52 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c116136449846614117" class=""> <a name="c116136449846614117"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The horrors are just beginning to ripple through the pool.<br /><br />I think I'm going to drink lunch.</p></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img style="width: 60px; height: 83px;" alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /></a><a set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a> </div><dl id="comments-block"><dt><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a><br /></dt><dt><a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt></dl><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a> </div></dt><dd> <p> True -- in the U.S. people have apoplexy if they see you nursing your child, but have no qualms about giving the same child a toy gun 2 years later.<br /><br />I agree with your friend about demystifing alcoholic beverages, but I also took that approach with firearms. Shoot the gun once so you know it kills for real. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:23 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116101966073643833" class=""> <a name="c116101966073643833"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I realized we were well past redemption in America when I recently saw, on TV, a perfectly innocent baby's bottom <i><b>blurred</b></i> out. To spare us the vulgarity, I suppose.<br /><br />Do-gooders push every remotely controversial issue into a twisted state of depravity. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:27 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=7265244&postID=116101966073643833" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116102434697217677" class=""> <a name="c116102434697217677"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Regarding the <i>acute blindness on the part of the Great American Public, and some bizarre and twisted values</i>...and the subsequent violence:<br /><br />The cultural failing that everyone seems to ignore, is no basic rite of passage.<br /><br /><i>Catch as catch can</i> is a pale, dysfunctional facsimile. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:45 PM</p></dd><dt><br /><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 53px;" alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /></a></dt></dl><a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> </a> </div> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Apart from implants (in general) being a sad sign of the quick-fix mentality in our culture, breast implants just don't FEEL right.<br /><br />I was with a girl who actually said to me "don't put your whole weight on them" ... WTF!?<br /><br />Ick.<br /><br />No.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I love big boobs.. But I love ALL boobs.. & I would much rather be with a girl who was completely "flat" in that department but happy with HERSELF.<br /><br />If it's just a quick fuck then so be it - I'll fuck anything.. but if you've been suckered into this hideous current trend, it's highly unlikely that I'll take you seriously.<br />(Not that I'm really any kind of a "catch" but you know what I mean:) </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:26 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116086481887619864" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116086832969296827" class=""> <a name="c116086832969296827"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I agree, but if you were any real catch, you'd go fuck yourself. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:25 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116086832969296827" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116086994098989657" class=""> <a name="c116086994098989657"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Why do I feel damned with faint praise? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:52 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116086994098989657" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116087495075672963" class=""> <a name="c116087495075672963"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Quite the opposite, I'd reckon. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:15 PM</p></dd><dd><span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116087495075672963" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span><br /></dd><dt id="c116087795720783815" class=""> <a name="c116087795720783815"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a style="color: brown;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a style="color: orange;" set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What would be the opposite? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:05 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a set="yes" style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116087795720783815" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a set="yes" style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116087795720783815" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd><dd><span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116086994098989657" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span><br /></dd><dt id="c116087495075672963" class=""> <a name="c116087495075672963"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a set="yes" href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img style="width: 60px; height: 54px;" alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said...</dt></dl><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name"></a> <p> We live in a world filled with paradox, and we've dumbed our collective self down to the point of losing touch with the virtue and value of our contradictions.<br /><br />Great post, Bing. Keep it up. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 18:08 </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116041595001434207" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> </a></div><br /></dt></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> This post has been haunting me. It keeps rolling around in my mind. I'm compelled to add a comment about Capitalism.<br /><br />Healthy Capitalism is characterized by honest markets and fair profit. It is not imbued with a pervading ethos of greedily gaming the system.<br /><br />When I was young, I can remember an acceptance of a standard 40% mark-up. Now, it seems like whatever the mkt will bear, or whatever can be gotten away with, is the ethic of almost everyone. Deceit is rampant, in even the most staid businesses. TV commercials are rotten with smirking deceptions and deviousness.<br /><br />I'm losing hope. I'll leave you with a quote. Thanks for the opportunity to unload about this.<br /><br /><i>“The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”</i><br /><br />-- Victor Frankenstein </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116041595001434207" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Great dream, I would've bet on you, but anacondas have no fangs. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:45 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&postID=116041595001434207" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116041712581022228" class=""> <a name="c116041712581022228"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> My Sweet Indigoprecision,<br /><br />True -- real anacondas are constrictors and have no fangs (see the picture) BUT superhuge dreamscape anacondas sometimes develop fangs to further intensify the sense of terror and urgency in the dreamer.<br /><br />Form over function, in this case. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:05 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c116043134159977457" class=""> <a name="c116043134159977457"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I started to mention the picture, but, as can be plainly seen, anacondas are equipped with needle teeth which can well do the damage mentioned. And since fangs are just specialized hollow teeth in the case of snakes, and just plain teeth in carnivorous mammals, it was a petty point to try and make.<br /><br />But, speaking of making, the dream is the tits...especially the unpublished part deux.<br /><br /><b>Smokin'!</b><br /><br />I'm all for <i>Better Bordellos</i>, digital remastering and the extraction of long fingers to champagne pops, etc. Lawdy, I think I've got the man-vapors, but I'm definitely behind probing orifices and suddenly turning anything into a <i>lesbian kitten pile of an orgy</i>. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:02 PM </p></dd><dt id="c116034314559253009" class=""><a href="profile/11088369405855047637" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Bostick</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Since it is close to halloween and all I feel compeled to share an interesting movie fact. The mask that character Michael Meyers wore in the 'halloween' films was molded from a cast of William Shatner's face. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:32 PM, October 08, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116035395034665829" class=""> <a name="c116035395034665829"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Thank you, Bostick. That was worth reading.<br /><br />Bill's got a great face, I reckon. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:32 AM, October 09, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116037921807143534" class=""> <a name="c116037921807143534"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I have a face like William Shatner. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:33 AM, October 09, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=116037921807143534" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116040910968820785" class=""> <a name="c116040910968820785"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> But a far better last name.<br /><br />When a surname begins with <i>Shat</i>, it can't be redeemed, no matter what follows.<br /><br />Even, for instance, <i>Shatless</i>...<br /><br />It's simply too late. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:51 PM, October 09, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=116040910968820785" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116041697968560851" class=""> <a name="c116041697968560851"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/11248012197291099658" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Deanna" class="profile" src="http://photos21.flickr.com/32491948_bf0ced7edb_o.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/11248012197291099658" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Deanna</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> At least it wasn't Shathead. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:02 PM, October 09, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116041737858395231" class=""> <a name="c116041737858395231"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Ner</i> means <i>head</i>, in Croatian. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:09 PM, October 09, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=116041737858395231" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116042434913592822" class=""> <a name="c116042434913592822"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Thanks for keeping my blog nice & anal folks.<br /><br />>;¬]~ </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:05 PM, October 09, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c116042784931410671" class=""> <a name="c116042784931410671"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Did you notice my effort to turn it oral?<br /><br />(Nice soul~patch, btw.) </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:04 PM, October 09, 2006 </p></dd></dl> <dl id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-poster" id="c115534817223705344"><a name="c115534817223705344"></a> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Does it burn when you pray?<br /><br />Seduce your demons.<br /><br />Or, become a monk.<br /><br />Or, simply go to Thailand and help those who truly know suffering rebuild their lives. They haven't given up. They'll save you.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://wariscoming.blogspot.com/2006/08/ass-to-mouth-muzzle-to-breech.html#115534817223705344" title="comment permalink">7:02 PM</a> <span class="item-control admin-330289595 pid-883462679"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9541865&postID=115534817223705344" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c115650174836101038"><a name="c115650174836101038"></a> <a href="profile/20454368" rel="nofollow">Lazy</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>join the army... become a comedian...<br /><br />no... become a junkie... i dare you dare you... (no need to fight, throughout the night, never a frown with golden brown...)</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://wariscoming.blogspot.com/2006/08/ass-to-mouth-muzzle-to-breech.html#115650174836101038" title="comment permalink">3:29 AM</a> <span class="item-control admin-330289595 pid-1651716297"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9541865&postID=115650174836101038" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c115928003272715497"><a name="c115928003272715497"></a> <a href="profile/21307210" rel="nofollow">bangbang</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>You realy wanted to be fucked in the ass? It`s highly overrated.<br /><br />Hi, Indi. Oh, no you don`t alienated me and sorry, for the confusion.<br />Was just a fun for me.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://wariscoming.blogspot.com/2006/08/ass-to-mouth-muzzle-to-breech.html#115928003272715497" title="comment permalink">7:13 AM</a> <span class="item-control admin-330289595 pid-1178569613"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9541865&postID=115928003272715497" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c115947575280129830"><a name="c115947575280129830"></a> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Bangbang- Glad you're back, I've missed you.<br /><br />All agreed on the overrated, I'm guessing.<br /><br />In defense of <i>Thyfleshconsumed</i>, it seems he'd wish life would leave his ass alone, entirely.<br /><br />He'll be fine once the sting subsides.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://wariscoming.blogspot.com/2006/08/ass-to-mouth-muzzle-to-breech.html#115947575280129830" title="comment permalink">1:35 PM</a> <span class="item-control admin-330289595 pid-883462679"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9541865&postID=115947575280129830" title="Delete Comment"><span class="delete-comment-icon"> </span></a></span> </dd><dt class="comment-poster" id="c116024059621431039"><a name="c116024059621431039"></a> <a href="profile/21307210" rel="nofollow">bangbang</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body"> <p>Hey,ja realy!?<br />You`re nice.<br /><br />And I hope Thefleshconsumed suffers on (not realy), so I can leave my empty bullet casings.</p> </dd><dd class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://wariscoming.blogspot.com/2006/08/ass-to-mouth-muzzle-to-breech.html#116024059621431039" title="comment permalink">10:03 AM</a></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c116022492378437001" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/25545796" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="treacle" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3140/3118/1600/gloria.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/25545796" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Hmmm, interesting...what do you think IB? Sorry I have been away I do not get as much computer time at the moment. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:42 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116022492378437001" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116022807556253007" class=""> <a name="c116022807556253007"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Good to see you, Treacle. I've been wondering how you were faring in your transition to the big city.<br /><br />This subject is old news, and, although a bit tortured here in its overstatement (i.e.- "...receiving this oil is what made Jesus the Christ and his followers Christians."), it strikes me as a good thing to emphasize how comparatively immature and propagandistic we are today, regarding agents of the spirit and our bountiful world in general.<br /><br />We've turned this stuff into a clown act, in my opinion. A tragic one at that.<br /><br />You may have seen this quote I post from time to time:<br /><br /><i>"The contemporary World War on Drugs is nothing more nor less than the modern manifestation of the millennial struggle between state power and individual freedom; between the proselytizers of purely symbolic simulacra of religion - propagandists of what Blake called "pale religious lechery" - and the practitioners of the real thing - for religion is an experience, not merely a "social activity with mild ethical rules." This War on Drugs originally started as a War on Religious Experiences, and it is nothing new..."<br /></i><br />—Jonathan Ott </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:34 AM </p></dd><dt id="c116022511103178802" class=""><a href="profile/25545796" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">treacle</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> We can only truly understand what our experience of the timeless, higher-dimensional, all-knowing is. I guess that is what's called faith. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:45 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116022511103178802" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116022916669511582" class=""> <a name="c116022916669511582"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I think there are forms of knowing beyond the rational, more customary cognitive determinations.<br /><br />When I was studying art, I was mystified as to the real meaning of art...and had been all my life. From an early age I had been drawn to this mystery and felt compelled to wrestle it into resolution.<br /><br />One day in college, I was in the painting studio and I had a sort of<br />epiphany, I felt suddenly golden, I realized I <i>got it</i>. Not at all sure of when, or how, it happened...but it had definitely happened. My world was forever changed.<br /><br />I suspect knowing anything of deeply amorphous significance might be realized this way. We generate our thunderbolts, if we do the work.<br /><br />It might be like a deaf man enjoying the music by its vibration alone, but we can know, to some degree. I believe that. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:52 AM</p></dd><dt>re:<i><i> <b><span style="color: rgb(251, 192, 155);">Cure hiccups with a finger up the ass</span></b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2170/294/1600/handface1.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2170/294/200/handface1.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(151, 192, 155);">A New Zealand medical journal recounts the story of a man whose incurable hiccups were cured with a finger up his ass: <a href="http://godisnotanasshole.blogspot.com/2006/10/finger-up-ass-cure.html">etc<br /></a></span></i></i></dt><dt id="c116015295894940084" class=""><br /></dt><dt id="c116015295894940084" class=""><a href="profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Lazy</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> The Dr Fesmire who came up with that received the Ig Nobel prize for it... Marc Abrahams, originator and presenter of the prize, said: "Quite why Dr Fesmire decided to try this in the first place, I am not sure. But that is why he is a pioneer of medical science, and I am not."<br /><br />Well said.<br /><br />However, I am not entirely sure this works as a self-administered cure. I'm waiting for the hiccups so I can try. But I think it may work on the traditional "a good shock will cure the hiccups" principle. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:42 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116015295894940084" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116015503386413771" class=""> <a name="c116015503386413771"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I think it's just an excuse to experiment with the anal second circuit.<br /><br />Pioneers ain't what they used to be. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:17 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116015503386413771" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116015510745713741" class=""> <a name="c116015510745713741"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/7711059" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="annulla" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/191/4208/320/brooklyn_bridge.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/7711059" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">annulla</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Isn't that one of Mark Foley's excuses? "I was just trying to cure the page's hiccups. Yeah, that's it, hiccups." </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:18 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=116015510745713741" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c116015533324152757" class="removed"> <a name="c116015533324152757"></a> </dt><dt id="c116015538383767609" class=""> <a name="c116015538383767609"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yep, Annulla, I think you've pegged it.<br />So to speak. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:23 PM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115989038612163139" class=""><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /></a></dt><dt id="c115989038612163139" class=""><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigo</a><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">business</a> said... </dt></dl><p> I detest butt implants. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:14 AM, September 30, 2006 </p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115989038612163139" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"><img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> This is just so fucked I can't even come up with a better word. It's even more fucked because it's not the least bit shocking to me.<br /><br />Notice that child rapists catch 8 or 9 year sentences. If they had a cannabis plant, they'd catch a 20+ year sentence. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:46 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115989038612163139" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115989991769485021" class=""> <a name="c115989991769485021"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> We've become a land captained by hypocrites with misplaced values.<br /><br />Our system elevates the worst and stifles the best among us. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:25 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115989991769485021" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a></span></dd><dd><span class="item-control"><a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115989991769485021" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span><br /></dd><dt id="c115990223879487461" class=""> <a name="c115990223879487461"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> True.<br /><br />And frankly, I'm just as irritated with the complacent chickens who stand by while we lose our identity and language to the lunatic fringe. We need to recapture and own our voice and sense of outrage.<br /><br />As this article illustrates, just because someone calls themself Christian does not grant them the moral high ground. Usually, it's the opposite.<br /><br />An extremist is an extremist -- Muslim, Christian... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:03 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115990223879487461" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115990370520228771" class=""> <a name="c115990370520228771"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Lunatic fringe</i> has no solid definition. It morphs with every use. It once had an aura of beguiling eccentricity about it. Now, in this age of meanness and marginalization, it is used like a knife...by everyone.<br /><br />But, I know what you mean. My big complaint is that, even with all our modern advantages, we sink ever deeper in the mire of our self-indulgent folly. Our divided house can not stand much longer. If our culture matured in-step with our technologies, we would honestly broker our disagreements in a mutually benificial way. Instead, we game the system for personal advantage, to our monumentally extrapolating peril.<br /><br />The danger of our impact is not only to others and other things, but to ourself as well.<br />We are on a downhill suicidal track. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:28 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115990370520228771" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115991712451234235" class=""> <a name="c115991712451234235"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="La Sirena" class="profile" src="http://www.forrealism.com/gallery.muertoPop/thumbnails/sirenaLoteria1.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/22388981" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">La Sirena</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Suicidality is not a tolerable state. I refuse to lie down and take it.<br /><br />We may be Cassandras howling into the winds of the Aegean Sea, but howling is something.<br /><br />No culture could mature in step with modern technology. It accelerates at such a rate, there's barely any time to assimilate as a culture -- instead we've become cultures ("a house divided").<br /><br />Maybe we'll survive a rollback. Spain and Ireland preserved the knowledge and literature of the Classical Era during the European Dark Ages, and later there was a Renaissance. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:12 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&postID=115991712451234235" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115992082617895047" class=""> <a name="c115992082617895047"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Tolerability is not at issue. It is what it is. Nobody, in their right mind, ever chooses to suffer.<br /><br />My reference was to the culture not the individual. A calamitous tide swamps all boats. We will see how it unfolds, and struggle with the forces along the way.<br /><br />If technology outpaces our ethical maturity, it will destroy us. Nothing before, in recorded history, has had that power.<br /><br />We do what we can, nothing more. But we should be driven to do at least that. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:13 PM </p></dd><dt id="c115939530308308546" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /></a></div></dt><dt id="c115939530308308546" class=""> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i><b>It is to see this war for what it is: a battle between men filled with contradictions, inconsistencies and weaknesses -- not a mythic struggle between our supermen and their ghosts.</b></i><br /><br />That's about as articulate as it gets. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:15 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&postID=115939530308308546" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115940167876734656" class=""> <a name="c115940167876734656"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="dave bones" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7769/406/320/producer-03.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3333721" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">dave bones</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> pretty ineresting article no? guy's like a "khatashin" </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:01 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c115940302384192690" class="removed"> <a name="c115940302384192690"></a></dt><dt id="c115941000580979147" class=""> <a name="c115941000580979147"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Yeah, but nobody ever knows how long a war will last. There are never any guarantees. War is utter folly, even as a last resort. It is always either an admission of colossal human failing, or the calculated plan of monsters.<br /><br />Mocking the possibilties of peace ultimately leads to the questioning of genuine and twisted principles, after enough blood is spilt. A devotion to principle is admirable, until that devotion is manipulated to the point of compromising that very principle.<br /><br />Seems everyone is asking wtf? Too bad it takes so much death and suffering for the scales to fall from the eyes of the extremists, the idiots, and the fools...on both sides. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:20 AM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><br /></dt><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" class="preview-profile"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said...<br /></div></dt><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><br /></dt><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><div class="profile-image-container">Morphine just happens to perfectly fit our endorphin receptors. Fancy that?<br /><br />Sanctimony and righteous indignation are two separate and distinct things.<br /><br />When I begin a comment with <i>I.:.S.:., I.:.S.:., I.:.S.:.</i>, for example, I'm usually being both sanctimonious AND righteously indignant. Mostly I'm poking fun at the very nature of pomposity...but there is always some degree of indignation and sanctimony.<br /><br />It doesn't necessarily stem from a desire to be right, though. It usually is the result of an utter frustration with the world in general, culture in particular, and an abiding lust for truth. But above all, it is driven by delighting in absurdity. Therein rests the true underpinnings of civilization.<br /></div></dt><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><br /></dt><dt id="c115940113344009902" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""><img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> It is beyond me how, in the hands of anyone else, these things would be a sordid tangle of tawdry nonsense, yet here it is presented as an exaltation: full of light and air and crazy wisdom. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:52 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=115940113344009902" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115947909205075703" class=""> <a name="c115947909205075703"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You're funny, Ib. If I'd written that, you'd have ripped it to shreds.<br /><br />Aaaaanyway, interesting post,<br />Paula. Are you menstruating again?<br /><br />Now THAT^ was a wee slice of nationalistic passive-aggression...<br />What ja fink?<br /><br />;¬]#<br /><br />God is NOT a Urinating Pigeon. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:31 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c115947991073069426" class=""> <a name="c115947991073069426"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You made my day with your comment, IB<br /><br />You're lovely people, you.<br /><br />I'm not menstruating, no. To be honest I just wanted to introduce that sign to you cos I look at it everyday and it makes me smile. I think it's amazing: commit no nuisance. Quite abstract.<br /><br />But it's true thou, here in England they invest a lot in advertising as a way to fix problems. It shows they are doing things but sometimes I think they are not. And I don't really expect them to do anything either. I love London, anyway... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:45 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c115948480925271964" class=""> <a name="c115948480925271964"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> You're right, Twit, like I said: "<i>...in the hands of anyone else...</i>"<br /><br />You sordid, tawdry twat.<br /><br />We should drink, sometime, and trade insults.<br /><br />Most excellent, the lighting here. Mind if I open a window? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:06 AM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115958247550509451" class=""><a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I insult you without even trying, Ib. To actually attempt to would be completely unnecessary.<br /><br />E Tup:)<br /><br />3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306<br />64709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612847564823378678<br />31652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925<br />90360011330530548820466521384146951941511609... </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:14 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c115962645702191813" class=""> <a name="c115962645702191813"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Can't argue with that, Twit, but you should've kept your chin hair.<br /><br />Pie? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:27 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&postID=115962645702191813" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a></span></dd><dt id="c115966020267534348" class=""><a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> "<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twat">TWAT is going well, don't you think?</a>" </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:50 AM, October 01, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=31716826&postID=115966020267534348" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115966326647498029" class=""> <a name="c115966326647498029"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="twit" class="profile" src="http://www.teks.no/marieke/workshop/gb_camera/tv_static.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/27897536" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">twit</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> I know! How the fuck did that "example" get in there?<br />I have never heard anyone say that; infact they would have to be a complete twat to say it.<br /><br />~<br /><br />The<br />War<br />Is<br />Terror </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:41 AM, October 01, 2006 </p> </dd><dt id="c115966830766846458" class=""> <a name="c115966830766846458"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> T<br />W<br />I<br />T<br /><br />~<br /><br />Eureka! </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:05 AM, October 01, 2006 </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" 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Doesn't it seem our land is dimming by the dearth of shining lights like Chief Seattle?<br /><br />By contrast, the belicose mongrels holding forth today are a mockery of our wise progenitors.<br /><br />Doesn't it just get you where you live? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:04 PM </p><i>SurreptitiousConfessant said...</i><br /><br />I wish you were two inches longer, and one more full inch in circumference.<br /><br /><em>posted by SurreptitiousConfessant<br /><br /></em><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> I wish your wound would heal. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> September 03, 2006 12:30 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a 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post.<br /><br />Sometime in the delirium of last week I came here to read Yeats' The Second Coming... to read it over and over like some demented prayer...<br /><br />This place is so full of beauty...<br /><br />(So why did you have to put that fucking turd statue up?)<br /><br />hahaa, do as you will </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:41 AM </p></dd></dl><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115728011814959871" class=""> <a name="c115728011814959871"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> So, you think that since you swept out your cave you can go around, in all your incarnations, making rude comments and vaunting your delicate newfound sensibilities?<br /><br />You <i>should</i> think more of Plato, and, if you were a true fan of this page, you would've seen my post of that very reference to the Golden Verses of Pythagoras.<br /><br />There are more than one gold-plated and/or solid-gold turds on this blog: hidden and overt. But that painting is nice. Rarely are abstract images of this sort done in watercolor. I wonder how big it is? Paintings like this should be large, but I fear it's not. Nice image, still.<br /><br />If I were in England, I'd kick your ass...<i>all</i> of your asses. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:41 AM </p></dd></dl><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> There is a recessive selfishness gene responsible for pathological rightwingery.<br /><br />It's in their genetic code, they can't help it, it's one reason they fear science. It's in their bones to defend the gene...<i>at all cost.</i><br /><br />Consider this:<br /><br /><i>There has <b>never</b> been a rightwing empath.</i><br /><br />Go figure. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:34 AM </p><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"></span><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> Everyone's a critic.<br /><br />I've been criticizing titty fakery for decades.<br /><br />It is just another abhorrent attempt to close the yawning hole in the soul. The work never ends, because it has no chance.<br /><br />I once sat in a plastic surgeon's office, after having some battle scars beautified, looking around the room I realized I was in the <i>Village of the Damned</i>. It was horrific. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:54 AM, August 28, 200 </p><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"></span><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> <i>Absolutely</i>...I'm fairly knackered by politics. <i>Bollocks</i> the bullshit dynamic, I say!<br /><br />But I probabably said it wrong. I'm as weary of my own vernacular as I am with the dishonest bargaining known as politics. So, I mangle the ones I admire.<br /><br />Politics is the active rewriting of History in flux. History is written by the victors, they say, but the only version worth noting is the version of the vanquished.<br /><br />Columbus thought he was a victor, but he was a bozo. His idea of reality had him fearing the edge of the world, while hoping he was right. I can relate to that. But reality has nothing to do with rational conclusions. It is a gestalt, at best.<br /><br />Until we collectively find the lateral gear that shifts us into the paradigm beyond selfishness, we will be pawns in our political folly...and our spectacular potential will be squandered. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:40 AM</p><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c115611878348154272" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/142/6674/640/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Oh, good to be home!! Went to Dublin to see Eddie Izzard's gig, went back, sang with my band and played drum n bass in a mini festival in my back garden, slept 4 hours and worked at the rolling stones gig!!!<br /><br />Soooo good to get home and find your comments here!!! I missed you!<br /><br />Indigo, please post when you are drunk! Experiment with the anal second circuit with no guilt! It is fun! thanks for the link.<br /><br />Oh, Anonymous! I indulged myself in a binge cheese eating night! That's why I got so fucked up! thanks for the tip.<br /><br />Twit, I like your blog eventhough I don't really get it. Yes, I was menstruatin when I added it to my list of blogs, LoL.<br /><br />I'm flattered you liked my music. I'm making more. Did you go to http://www.myspace.com/pauladaunt as well?<br /><br />Kisses </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:06 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c115613870793077034" class=""> <a name="c115613870793077034"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Welcome back, Paula. Your post is so vibrant and alive, it makes me feel I've been dead for some time, now.<br /><br />Not even guiltlessly experimenting with the anal second circuit can save me now.<br /><br />Somebody throw some dirt on me. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:38 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&amp;postID=115613870793077034" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c115617428974744105" class=""> <a name="c115617428974744105"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Paulette" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/142/6674/640/paulaspock.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/3151054" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Paulette</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Indigo, please talk to my doctor: http://www.drhyatt.net/<br /><br />Read all his books, take some LSD, we are gods, we make reality. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:31 PM </p> </dd><dt id="c115618225511888632" class=""> <a name="c115618225511888632"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Luciferian Society?<br />Thanks, but I'm not much of a joiner. Besides, I need a nurse more than a doctor.<br /><br /><a href="http://key23.net/wiki/index.php/Faemblem_of_divstellatio" rel="nofollow"><i>Faemblem of divstellatio</i></a> is interesting, though...and I'm particularly intrigued by <a href="http://key23.net/wiki/index.php/Erectaclysm" rel="nofollow"><i>Erectaclysm</i></a>.<br /><br />I've heard of Dr. Hyatt, with his blend of blend of Reichian physiotherapy and tantric yoga. All that has a nice ring to it, but I'm not sure he can heal what ails me.<br /><br />Just shoot me. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 6:44 PM </p></dd></dl><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><dl id="comments-block"><dd><p class="comment-timestamp"> </p><br /></dd><dt id="c115663781021115404" class=""> <a name="c115663781021115404"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Lazy" class="profile" src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/mc.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Lazy</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Nothing like the balancing act of the high-wire insomniac, Indy!<br /><br />Those links were vaguely mind-blowing.<br /><br />I'm sitting here warm in bed with a big lump of hash laptop on lap with no hope of sleep despite the valium and valerian...<br /><br />I'm going to have to get used to this all over... Time... there's so much of it... what do you do with it all?<br /><br />It's like when people say "ah, life is short". No it's not, you idiot - what exactly is there that is longer than life, hein?<br /><br />Oh you beautiful people. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:16 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c115663787790963498" class=""> <a name="c115663787790963498"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Lazy" class="profile" src="http://globaldomination.org.uk/images/mc.gif" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/20454368" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Lazy</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Shit you think it's easy being a man, anyway? Get shit like... dunno... ingrown beard hairs. It's not easy, you know. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 1:17 AM </p> </dd><dt id="c115664054007367019" class=""> <a name="c115664054007367019"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Lazy, Lazy, Lazy- Vaguely blowing your mind is like phoning-in an orgasm.<br /><br />Valerian sprang-up in my garden this year. I told my straightlaced neighbors it was marijuana. It vaguely blew their minds.<br /><br />Life is short, until it becomes unbearable....then, it is much too long.<br /><br />I find it an oddly unnatural imbalance that there is no male parallel for the female period. Period.<br /><br />The only thing longer than life, is August in Texas. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 2:02 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&amp;postID=115664054007367019" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /></a><a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=14084280&amp;postID=115664054007367019" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span></dd></dl><br /><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><br /></span><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> Foolish in our belicose blunderings, we seem to have lost our mythos compass, thinking we can control our destiny by taking the world by force.<br /><br />My species has elevated itself to the precipice: pointing fingers, ranting, awaiting a push. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 8:51 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=26108981&amp;postID=115651388612279147" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><br /></span><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> In the middle of my art school education, I spent a year in Normal Illinois. I rented a studio that was the top floor of a derelict storefront on Main Street, above Nick Africano's studio in adjoining downtown Bloomington.<br /><br />One day, at the library, I ran across a copy of <i>The Annotated Alice</i>. I was so smitten I fell into the habit at twilight of sitting on the fire escape -overlooking Main Street and the square where Lincoln gave his famous lost speech- reading <i>The Annotated Alice</i> to pigeons and passersby, and occasionally my girlfriend.<br /><br />My girlfriend seemed to like it, and the pigeons didn't seem to mind, but the good citizens of Bloomington thought I was mad as a hatter.<br /><br />Alice was a very special inspiration, and an extraordinarily meaningful work of fiction. Thanks for posting the photo of the home of the girl who inspired it all.<br /><br />Nick Africano became a famous bigtime artist. I'm still sitting on fire escapes at twilight. </p><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"></span><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick=""> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... <p> Fucking enabling limey bastards gave Bush the boost he needed to turn the world to shit. Bloody hands all around.<br /><br />I think the optimists and pessimists are both deluded:<br /><br /><i>The deal is done, the jig is up.</i><br /><br />Our destiny is writ large in the headlines. You think things will get better? Today is just a taste of our collective folly. We've turned a garden into a shithole. A shithole with damn fancy plumbing. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:19 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=6980742&amp;postID=115611235711554566" onclick="" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><br /></span><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=12363648"> Lord Douchebag </a><br /><br /><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=12363648"> <img src="http://myspace-750.vo.llnwd.net/00785/05/72/785212750_s.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /> <span class="blacktext10"> 8/9/2006 3:36 PM </span><br /><br />You've been quiet... how's bidness?<br /><br /><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998">Indigobusiness</a><br /><br /><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998"> <img src="http://myspace-557.vo.llnwd.net/00886/75/50/886860557_s.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="blacktext10"> Aug 10, 2006 12:28 PM </span><br /><br />Bidness is bluish.<br /><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><br /></span><dl id="comments-block"><dt id="c112911000959870588" class=""><div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12909172" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="abraxas23" class="profile" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/abraxas23/berglund.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12909172" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">abraxas23</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Actually I'm dead. I'm even double-dead. And you don't even exist at all.<br /><br />Where void touches something it becomes nothing.<br /><br />greez </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 4:40 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=112911000959870588" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c112913924238499996" class=""> <a name="c112913924238499996"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> <i>Where void touches something</i><br />it becomes contaminated. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:47 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=112913924238499996" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c112969803336649990" class=""> <a name="c112969803336649990"></a> <a href="http://n/a" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> actor</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> when a void toches something, it realizes nothingness...because it finally can compare itself to a SOMETHING. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:00 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=112969803336649990" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c112969858812737764" class=""> <a name="c112969858812737764"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> What part of a void does the touching? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 12:09 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=112969858812737764" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113257361370684848" class=""> <a name="c113257361370684848"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876078" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="ericswan" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/195/8218/640/spock%20on.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876078" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">ericswan</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> zero = infinity<br /><br />CAN'T TOUCH THAT!<br /><br /><br />I'm going to add you to favorites but I don't know why. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 5:46 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=113257361370684848" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113257880004924782" class=""> <a name="c113257880004924782"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Nice try Eric, but <i>zero=infinity-infinity</i> is the correct equation. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 7:13 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=113257880004924782" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113284704992666539" class=""> <a name="c113284704992666539"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876078" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="ericswan" class="profile" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/195/8218/640/spock%20on.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12876078" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">ericswan</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Indi..that was a double negative..you must be in the other universe heading south no? </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 9:44 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=113284704992666539" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113284948616237232" class=""> <a name="c113284948616237232"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Leave me out of it, Eric. The equation is correct. There is no double negative involved.<br /><br />Are you suggesting infinity is a negative?<br /><br />Consult the definition of terms and get back to me. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 10:24 AM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=113284948616237232" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/icon_delete13.gif" alt="Delete" style="border: medium none ;" /> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113790617028083178" class=""> <a name="c113790617028083178"></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/17663516" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Nobody@All</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> Without being an elitist, I can firmly say that you are lost in ideas and abstractions. What is the value of an idea about infinity, or void, or nothing, or something? Can you trade that in for valuable prizes? Well, yes, you can if your part is to feed the delusions that provide the materials for the cement that binds the fiction of reality.<br /><br />Any action you take, is by its own right and function, a positive one. If I say, "There is no God! There is no reality!" you might respond that I am being nothing but negative. I would ask you if any action can be non-action, in that case. My attempt to state an antithesis is active and you would not be aware of it if it was inactive, passive, and receptive.<br /><br />You are the ones who rest on the false premises that you then try to prove other factors upon. If you were brave enough, (oh, and I know that walking through real fire and tossing your bag of stuff away forever is brave) you would see that your mind is the core of the problem, and not the stuff it troubles itself with, looking for temporal solutions!<br /><br />But from my perspective ... that just happened. I did not have to type a thing. You can agree, oppose, or ignore it and it does not mean a thing to me. This is not happening at all.<br /><br />Pass this off as something you put in that circular file called nonesense. From here, that is where the real, organic Wisdom is not found. You will always miss the mark and your truthes will be eccentric widows. Got it yet? If you said yes, then get thee behind me Santa!<br /><br />Your solutions are already there and you create the problems for them. That is bassackwards, ey? Intellectuals and thinkers are the very last to every see that their path and paradigm is just as insoluble as the religious/spiritual/philosophical ones that come before them, only because they serve as a pure and ripe medium for the oneupmanship to follow.<br /><br />Like it or not, your mentations are merely an altered and more sophisticated form of what you call violence or primitive, or instinct. To me, only the wise can manage to see this because the bootstrap problem exists in relation to the older concept of the “transcendental” and the “metaphysical”. No matter how we slice the cake, there is the problem of replacing anything that may be actual and concrete with belief systems, (old or new) that are merely pure abstractions in the realm of the mythical mind we place on a pedestal and consider to be the “word” or “God'. Even Atheists and Agnostics do this. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 11:02 PM </p> <span class="item-control"> <a style="border: medium none ;" href="http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=9212372&amp;postID=113790617028083178" onclick="window.open(this.href);" title="Delete Comment"> </a> </span> </dd><dt id="c113796116960600100" class="removed"> <a name="c113796116960600100"></a></dt><dt id="c113796490628080992" class=""> <a name="c113796490628080992"></a> <div class="profile-image-container"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"> <img alt="Indigobusiness" class="profile" src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3489/headhands9wj.jpg" width="60" /> </a> </div> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/2410618" rel="nofollow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" class="comment-poster-name">Indigobusiness</a> said... </dt><dd> <p> No use at all, to those entrenched in a materialist's practicality. Is that your reality? It was an oportunity to have a bit of fun, at least for me. Is that not allowed in your unreal world either? Prize? Who cares?<br /><br />Alrighty then...someone else has stepped up claiming to have it all figured out. You might be spot-on from your materialist/self-centered/mock-selfless perspective, but one thing I know for sure is the framework you assert is limited, at best: a rather annoying yet welcome foil for more lucid insight. At least your scatter-shot self-contradiction affords a context for bone-picking.<br /><br />There is no slicing of the cake, only crumbs to do the pondering, in reverent wonder, of the whole. There is wisdom in that, regardless of opinion, or who has eyes to see it. You are a mark made by the cosmic pencil, whether you realize it or not. The quality of the mark is your doing, but the residue is ephemeral, at best, and ultimately again part of the marker.<br /><br />I'm too Taoist to buy into your clattering claptrap, and one thing I know for sure is that 'he who knows he knows, doesn't know...he who knows he doesn't know, knows'. But you've heard that before. What part do you not understand?<br /><br />Semantic gyrations are simply a distraction. Call it unreality, happening, void, nothingness, path, no path, or paradigm...it gets down to the clusterfuck of experiential eternal becoming. You can pretend to an intimate certainty of the full texture of the natural tapestry, but such pomposity only contributes to your judgmental self-indictment. What an insult.<br /><br />You appear to be another blinded by the glare of his own brilliance. What a sincere shame. </p> <p class="comment-timestamp"> 3:21 PM </p></dd></dl><span style="color: rgb(151, 202, 255);"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="blogCommentsProfile"><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998" class="profileLinks">Indigobusiness</a><br /><a href="http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=89581998&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656"><img src="http://myspace-557.vo.llnwd.net/00886/75/50/886860557_s.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><div style="width: 80px; height: 20px;" id="UserDataNode1" class="DataPoint=OnlineNow;UserID=89581998;"><img src="http://i.myspace.com/site/images/clear.gif" border="0" height="20" width="80" /></div></div> </td> <td class="blogComments" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="blogComments"><p class="blogCommentsContent">A crusade is a crusade is a crusade.<br /><br />Everyone is certain of their crusade.<br /><br />God knows, Lord Douchebag is.<br /><br />A douchebag is a douchebag is a douchebag.<br /></p><p class="blogCommentsContent">Posted by <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998"><b>Indigobusiness</b></a> on Friday, August 11, 2006 at 9:55 PM<br />[<a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.commentreply&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;friendID=29800003&amp;blogID=154903811&amp;journalDetailID=1697171&amp;ticket=MHMGCisGAQQBgjdYA42gZTBjBgorBgEEAYI3WAMBoFUwUwIDAgABAgJmAwICAMAECOFjYP%2FiBMNYBBBaGhdd23jkh3KrKpzCfg3lBCi06%2Bghmxc1APjMYksY1lTpJZ5aCic2cST%2FXNSnZF%2F%2BhmMYjCPCj6rn&amp;BlogCategoryID=0&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656" onmouseover="window.status='Reply to this comment';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;"><b>Reply to this</b></a>]</p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr class="commentSpacer"> <td colspan="3"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td><img src="http://x.myspace.com/images/clear.gif" height="1" width="10" /></td> <td class="blogCommentsProfile"> <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=29800003" class="profileLinks">Trepanation T</a><br /><a href="http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=29800003&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656"><img src="http://myspace-673.vo.llnwd.net/00321/37/63/321863673_s.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><div style="width: 80px; height: 20px;" id="UserDataNode2" class="DataPoint=OnlineNow;UserID=29800003;"><img src="http://i.myspace.com/site/images/clear.gif" border="0" height="20" width="80" /></div></div> </td> <td class="blogComments" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="blogComments"><p>And entropy is entropy is entropy...or is it? What about when, in some amazing coincidence, you spill out scrabble tiles on the floor and they all land in perfect order spelling "Let no flesh be spared". Is there meaning in everything afterall, is chaos only the guise of a carefully guided plan moving every atom in this universe to some unknowable end?</p><p>Naw, it's just fucking entropy. NEVER BE FOOLED!!!</p><p> </p><p class="blogCommentsContent">Posted by <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=29800003"><b>Trepanation T</b></a> on Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 9:23 AM<br />[<a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.commentreply&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;friendID=29800003&amp;blogID=154903811&amp;journalDetailID=1698873&amp;ticket=MHMGCisGAQQBgjdYA42gZTBjBgorBgEEAYI3WAMBoFUwUwIDAgABAgJmAwICAMAECOFjYP%2FiBMNYBBBaGhdd23jkh3KrKpzCfg3lBCi06%2Bghmxc1APjMYksY1lTpJZ5aCic2cST%2FXNSnZF%2F%2BhmMYjCPCj6rn&amp;BlogCategoryID=0&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656" onmouseover="window.status='Reply to this comment';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;"><b>Reply to this</b></a>]</p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> <tr class="commentSpacer"> <td colspan="3"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://x.myspace.com/images/clear.gif" height="1" width="20" /></td> <td class="blogCommentsProfile"> <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998" class="profileLinks">Indigobusiness</a><br /><a href="http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=89581998&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656"><img src="http://myspace-557.vo.llnwd.net/00886/75/50/886860557_s.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><div style="width: 80px; height: 20px;" id="UserDataNode3" class="DataPoint=OnlineNow;UserID=89581998;"><img src="http://i.myspace.com/site/images/clear.gif" border="0" height="20" width="80" /></div></div> </td> <td class="blogComments" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="blogComments"><p class="blogCommentsContent"><span style="" italic="">Consider this:</span><br /><br />Entropy in art involves patterns revealed by the repitition of identical or similar forms.<br /><br />Physical chaos and entropy are perhaps merely ripples on the surface of the cosmic pool, moving inexorably toward a meaningful calm, an ultimately significant stillness.<br /><br />Omward.<br /></p><p class="blogCommentsContent">Posted by <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=89581998"><b>Indigobusiness</b></a> on Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 2:02 PM<br />[<a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.commentreply&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;friendID=29800003&amp;blogID=154903811&amp;journalDetailID=1699812&amp;ticket=MHMGCisGAQQBgjdYA42gZTBjBgorBgEEAYI3WAMBoFUwUwIDAgABAgJmAwICAMAECOFjYP%2FiBMNYBBBaGhdd23jkh3KrKpzCfg3lBCi06%2Bghmxc1APjMYksY1lTpJZ5aCic2cST%2FXNSnZF%2F%2BhmMYjCPCj6rn&amp;BlogCategoryID=0&amp;Mytoken=0B234B8D-3380-4F6A-BD100832827FEAD059808656" onmouseover="window.status='Reply to this comment';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;"><b>Reply to this</b></a>]</p><p class="blogCommentsContent"><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="blogCommentsProfile"><a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=29800003" class="profileLinks">TrepanationT </a><br /><a href="http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=29800003&amp;Mytoken=CD1085BC-18DE-4155-ABA275A29920A9A9542470578"><img src="http://myspace-673.vo.llnwd.net/00321/37/63/321863673_s.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"><div style="width: 80px; height: 20px;" id="UserDataNode4" class="DataPoint=OnlineNow;UserID=29800003;"><img src="http://i.myspace.com/site/images/clear.gif" border="0" height="20" width="80" /></div></div> </td> <td class="blogComments" width="100%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="blogComments"><p>I think you're talking about fractal geometry, right? We're getting into chaos theory now, order masquerading as chaos, which freaks me out to no end because that starts giving weight to predestination in a larger sense...</p><p>But I prefer to think of chaos in a more traditional way, completely arbitrary and without meaning except that which any one person chooses to ascribe. Significance, meaning? I don't believe it. There will be stillness and calm though.</p><p>When we're all fucking dead.</p><p class="blogCommentsContent">Posted by <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendID=29800003"><b>Trepanation T</b></a> on Monday, August 14, 2006 at 9:34 PM<br />[<a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.commentreply&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;friendID=29800003&amp;blogID=154903811&amp;journalDetailID=1710162&amp