LXXXIX
Ignorance
finds seemingly countless ways to pretend it knows.
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Can
there be objectivity in the measurement of differences?
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Being
the knower means you deny the nothing known.
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Differentiate
and you shall be differentiated.
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To say
the good die young
Could
mean they die inwardly.
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What a
load of crap.
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It
cannot be taught, only learned.
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Fate is
a strange undertaking.
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This is
it.
This is
all it can be.
Accept
the offering such as it is,
Or die
a-grumbling.
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In the
end it will be as it was in the beginning.
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Ah, if
you only had the same detachment
For
yourself as you do all the others.
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If
these writings have merit they will survive time.
If not,
well, no biggee.
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What
would the world be without diversity and cockroaches?
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What a
mockery so many make of religion.
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You act
out your part for me and I for you.
If you
wish to know who you are, find out who I am.
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Who
needs another lifetime?
Haven’t
you already imagined everything?
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Try not
to believe it all the time.
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Once
you see it without
All the
concoctions of consciousness,
How can
you ever go back?
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What is
life time?
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Just a
big water balloon waiting to be popped.
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Do you
follow your own advice?
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What
cause captures your attention?
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There’s
still enough pleasure in it all
That
its true sum zero nature
Remains
camouflaged.
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One day
the time was ripe
And
that to-do on the list
Just
sort of took care of itself.
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Amazing
how language forms the foundation
Which
weaves any given universe.
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So many
implications.
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Petulant
and dismissive,
She
buried her head in the sand.
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Praise
god for a good shit.
Anal
Samadhi, to be sure.
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Please
don’t stop running,
I might
catch you.
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You
will believe in god for as long
As you
belief any conceptual framework.
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Why
would god be confined
By any
name if you aren’t.
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The
lights all come on and go out one at a time.
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There
is no hope,
But
that doesn’t mean
You
cannot get on
Without
trying.
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Doesn’t
every experience
Contain
some validity?
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You
cannot stop insanity.
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Everybody
longing for that rainbow
And
following anyone who says they know
How to
get them a pot of gold for only $25 a month.
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A
coffee shop philosophers manifesto.
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Real
revolution requires no leaders.
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Don’t
show me what I don’t need to see.
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Anything
is important to someone.
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Mother
Nature will only let the human experiment
Go so
far before it get shoved into the annals of time.
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Have
seen too many universes
To
believe there could be any but one.
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The
first mistaken assumption
Is that
you are somehow separate.
Accept
no conjectures, no speculations.
Even
your doubts are corrosive.
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Funny
how so many would rather
Quell
the symptom than solve the problem.
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In the
heat of the chase,
Many
traps can await the hunter.
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Are we
heading for the tsunami,
Or is
it surging inevitably toward us?
Just
remember, might makes right.
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Cracking
through a woman’s delusion
Is met
with an adamant wall of denial.
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You
don’t even know what you’ve done.
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Rather
repetitious don’t you think.
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The
more personal you take it,
The
more you will suffer and be
The
cause of others’ suffering.
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Science
is limited by its attachment to measurement.
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You
didn’t come to hell not to enjoy the carnival.
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Imagine
how different life would be
If
changed by even one factor.
Sex,
color, culture, name,
Ad
infinitum.
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One
life cannot bear total responsibility
For the
world but for its relationship to it.
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It’s
your way, neither best nor worst.
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Reflections
of a world never sane.
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Thank
you for the many reflections
During
the time we had together.
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There
have always been goons
To
enforce the will of whoever pays.
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How can
anyone surpass what they know?
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The
universe will never go back but through imagination.
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Who
would want a prissy princess
Who
could be bothered by a pea
Under a
big pile of mattresses?
* * * *
How
much more pleasant life is
If you
manage to embrace it
Even in
the tougher times.
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Be
Self-sufficient.
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Life
can be very old or very new.
State
of mind is all.
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Who can
fathom a life without attributes?
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Just
another confounding mystic.
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Oh, how
we love our martyrs.
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What
can an ocean be without every drop?
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Don’t
be bothered with truth.
You’re
too busy enjoying delusion.
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So many
longing for greener grass.
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It may
have been far smarter to have run away.
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Sometimes
it is almost overwhelming
How
stupid and vain some can be.
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Worlds
can come apart very quickly.
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Why
burden others with you immortality?
They
are too.
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It does
not matter one iota what labels you give it.
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Climb
what ladder you will,
All
dissolve into the same origin.
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You
cannot help but learn if you pay attention.
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Welcome
to the masquerade.
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Alas,
that one must lose one’s innocence
To
abide in the savage pleasure garden.
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You
worship concepts.
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It is
the imagination of will which creates
All
points in an otherwise pointless infinity.
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It will
be of academic interest to see
If
Mother Nature will curtail her human spawn
Before
they invoke a barren paradise.
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The
winner is whoever survives to laugh last.
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How
seriously you take yourself and this ball of dust.
* * * *
Your
holding on is your own choice.
Gravity
only controls the body.
Imagination
travels where it pleases.
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Intuition
is prior to all measurements.
It is
creator-preserver-destroyer
Of all
will-filled containers.
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How big
must your numbers be
Before
you realize how meaningless
They
truly are and will ever be?
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A
continuing exercise in allowing
The
stream of consciousness full sanction
To flow
however the moment draws it.
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Some
people have a difficult time
With
people meditating on public time.
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It’s
about all of us in particular
And
everyone in general.
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All
conclusions are fallible.
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Maintain
your innocence as best ye may.
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Love my
kids too much to bring them here.
It’s
just too scary that they might someday
Run the
risk of running into some of yours.
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Heaven
and hell are the choices of conscious design.
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Trying
to be open and accepting
Is so
often a great challenge.
We
cling to such pettiness.
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God is
the imagination,
Not
what it imagines.
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You are
enjoying a life of social solitude.
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What in
hell do they keep looking for?
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Earth,
water, fire, air, heart.
The
five elements.
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Eternity
does not necessarily imply time.
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They
see only mortal fare.
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How
many ways everyone interprets anything.
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A work
in progress.
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Sometimes
you wonder why you bother.
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You are
under no obligation to say or do anything.
* * * *
You
offer some everything
And
they walk away hungry.
Amazing.
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Time is
a highly questionable concept.
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What a
paranoid god you are.
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Without
imagination, what could there be?
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A
doctor may give a prescription,
But you
must take the medicine.
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Cleave
to that which was never born.
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How can
you commit to something you don’t believe in?
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Hope is
just another vain, meaningless form
Of
imagination’s longing for meaning.
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Imagination
knows no bounds but its own creation.
* * * *
Scary
the thought.
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What
does an ocean use to make a drop?
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In all
the channel surfing the scribe abides,
There
is nothing to indicate any change whatsoever
At the
inherent core of homosapien behavior.
The
faces may change countless times
But not
the modus operandi.
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Ideals
are generally unattainable
Because
few really hunger
To
generate their reality.
It
would be much too boring
To sit
around content and happy.
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The
Stillness Before Time (Compendium)
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Michael J. Holshouser 2009
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