Lady (White Jacket): Been there. Done that.
Yellow Jacket: You write one word of this on Facebook and you’ll be wearing your skis as a scarf.
Blue Jacket thinking: (Can I write that you ski like a moose.)
Black Jacket: …. reader suggestions, use comments …..
(Tomorrow: The Fruit of Truth)
I’m not sure if it’s a symphony, rock n roll, jazz or rap. Maybe a hallelujah choir going wild?
Nature seems to get giddy-dizzy sometimes. She has no need to show off, simply can’t stop shouting thanks.
Or is she trying to tell us something?
Something about the glorious harmony of cooperating differences
and the creative power of peaceful diversity?
Or is she merely dancing to the song of life where beauty lives?
(Tomorrow: The Heights of Reality)
The word bishop originally meant a watcher, someone who watched over the activities of those below.
The bishops of today watch from the shadows while those they are watching watch an artificial light pouring from a screen.
Life goes on in the light. We can all become bishops by watching life to learn how we can serve the light.
If the Nobel Peace Prize committee was in charge of the Economy Prize it would probably go to Wall Street bankers.
(Tomorrow: Symphony of Beauty)
Religious racism (= prejudice in religious skin). This is the second in a series on racism that will appear on the 20th of every month.
The UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS covers all values contained in Christianity. Like most religious people however, Christians manifest their prejudice by assuming that their values are something special. They are not. Each religion embraces a unique set of beliefs, traditions and customs but share their morals and values with humanity in general. It’s prejudice to think otherwise, the kind of prejudice that can turn ugly when crisis calls.
Throughout the world people have lived in mixed religious and ethical communities in harmony, and then became mortal enemies when conflicts fell upon them.
Those who instigate conflicts capitalize on prejudices and provoke people to fight among themselves. It’s so easy. A bomb explodes in the holy house of the Xs. Two die. The Ys are blamed. Xs attack the homes of some Ys. That’s all it takes to get the hate ball rolling. The real criminals, the agents who do the actual bombing and attacking, can manage this in their spare time. It’s that easy. And so cost effective that the dumbest warmonger knows enough to play the prejudice card. Prejudices are the insurance of the rulers. Divide and conquer! It’s as basic as it gets.
Even atheists know that God is for everyone and doesn’t have favorites. Yet many people believe that their religion gives them VIP status in God’s club.
Religious racism/prejudice forms a highly explosive ingredient when mixed with politics. Lakes of blood along the path of history testify to the deadly nature of this combination, not to mention the examples in our times. Religious racism is one of the devil’s favorite weapons.
God is for everyone and can’t be influenced by the symbols we carry, the gestures we make, the books we read, the clothes we wear or the houses we pray in. God is for everyone. Everything else is idol worship. The true believers, those who can win the grace of God, are recognized by the quality of love in their hearts, the strength of compassion in their character, and the respect for life in their actions.
Have mercy!
(Tomorrow: Bishops of Life)
– The powerful can afford beautiful words for their ugly actions.
– The people in control are out of control.
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They steal from the poor in the name of economy,
rape justice in the name of necessity,
imprison freedom in the name of security
and build towers of tyranny in the name of democracy.
– The rulers are and have always been dependable.
They do and have always done what is best for the rulers.
– Never before have so few taken so much from so many.
– Milly and Terry threw Joey into an arena of hungry wolves
and claimed that he was killed by wild animals.
by Dartwill Aquila
We didn’t curse in my family and cursing never took root. I did my share when young, but usage quickly faded with professional life and family. Linguistic studies deepened my understanding of the nature and function of foul language, and my reluctance to employ invectives was consolidated by academic and literary taboos.
I was fuckin wrong. Cursing doesn’t degrade language. The sanitized, politically correct, academically accepted and formally approved style does. It’s a fuckin travesty. The talking dummies with their manicured smiles, for example, can say things like “enhanced interrogation” without anyone shouting,
“Hey, asshole, you’re talking about fuckin torture. What’s this enhanced interrogation shit. Interrogation means questioning, you’re talking about breaking some dudes soul with stress, harassment, isolation, threats and a shit load of other degrading techniques. Enhanced interrogation, my ass! Someone should enhance the shape of your shit-licking tongue.”
How about the expression “Collateral damage”? Language doesn’t get any fouler than that. No curse word can come near the vulgarity of that term. Calling the murder of children, brides and grandparents for collateral damage absolves the murderers in a blast of semantic evil.
There are times when cursing seems the only adequate response. Like when Madeleine Albright was asked on 60-Minutes about the effects of U.S. sanctions against Iraq causing the deaths of a half million children.
She replied, “… the price is worth it.”
Wouldn’t the reporter have been justified calling her a stupid cunt?
The language of the authorities can dirty the linguistic atmosphere without ever going near a dirty word. (See Tarnished Justice and the follow up Tarnished Virginity). The entire chorus of media authority declared political and linguistc bankruptcy when Bush claimed that he was “the decider.”
A circus of ridicule broke out condemning the new word that the president had used. There is no such word as “decider.” Haha ha. These pundits seemed unaware that English allows for the creation of new words with the –er suffix. It is so common that hundreds of words have established themselves in this way: baker, backer, maker, packer, hunter, hacker, hiker, biker, sucker, fucker and hundreds of others. The mind-fucked intelligentsia however jumped on “decider” like hyenas, but seemed unaware that the president was abandoning the Constitution. The Constitution stipulates that Congress decides and the president executes the decisions. The founding fathers were well aware of the dictatorial nature of a single “decider” and were explicitly clear that the president was not to be a decider. The supposed guardians of proper language exposed their impotent understanding of English while proving themselves ignorant of the basic laws of the nation.
Please forgive me for not cursing more in this article. I confessed at the start that I’m not very good at it. Hopefully, others will use their talents to refresh expression and expose the ass-kissers who bend over to please the pig-suckers at the controls of the prevailing decadence.
(Tomorrow: Whispers from the Shadows)
In the beginning was the word. Then we got sentenced.
The word language comes for the Latin word ”lingua” meaning tongue.
Animals can’t speak. They can communicate with sound signals—and some of these signal systems are quite extensive—but they can’t speak. They cannot describe reality, relate fantasy, wander in the past or fly to the future. They can’t use language as a tool for their thoughts to juggle ideas or employ words to comfort, amuse and deceive.
We don’t think about how quickly and easily we coordinate the actions of many organs and muscles to shape and control bursts of air in the complicated process of pronouncing words, because, like with walking, evolution has hard-wired the wording ability into our brains.
Language has evolved to a physical construction of the brain. It is no less a human attribute than a hairless body, danceable legs, an overhanging nose, crying eyes or a long penis.
(This in the introduction to Chapter Language in the book System Humanity. See the Blogroll!)
(Tomorrow: Confessions of a Fuckin Linguist)
The clowns with round noses claim the wars will continue while the clowns with pointed noses claim the wars will not end. No one mentions that the slaughter of children will continue and that drone strikes will not end. (They’re speechless chewing on juicy contributions from drone and missile producers.)
The unseen circus masters tell us the show will go on and no one may leave the tent.
(Tomorrow: Language, Dance of the Tongue)
Part of the Blue (Cobalt) Mountain at Blaafarveværket in Norway
The mountain sings an ancient song
of treasures great and small,
of the strength of colors,
the courage of forms
and of the right of life to stand in the light
and grow in the cracks of the mighty.
(Tomorrow: Political Clowns)
We love likes don’t we.
You like me and I like you. Thanks for your like, here’s a like right back. You show me your likes and I’ll show you mine.
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When I went to school we weren’t allowed to write ”like”, not good, bad, right or wrong either. Describe what it is that you like, we were told. Why is something good or bad? What makes it right or wrong? Don’t use lazy words. Engage your reader in an active description.
Those were pre-digital times. We were dealing with drops of information compared to the seas we swim in today. Comments engage us in a discussion with people all over the world. Links wisks us off to new harbors in a click. Tags and categories guide us along trails of discovery.
Humanity is developing a nervous system. We are all being wired to one another. The need is greater than ever to avoid lazy words if we are going to create a world that everyone likes.
(Tomorrow: Blue Mountain)
System Humanity 