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Archive for August, 2009

one hand clapping

Monday, August 31st, 2009

polymiasma – foto by Smith

According to Quantum Mechanics, we cannot observe Reality without altering it.

Evidently when no one is looking, Reality is simultaneously all things and all possibilities at all times. It is only when we interface with Reality–by looking, smelling, touching, tasting, testing, thinking, poking, probing, asking, measuring, mapping–that it collapses from every possible thing to the one particular thing most matching our way of seeing.

For example, measure star light one way and light turns out to be a wave; measure it another way, and it’s a particle. Measure it both ways side by side simultaneously and light becomes two different mutually exclusive things at once.

In real life, light is probably neither wave nor particle because in real life there is no real life because it’s all illusion, the sound of one hand collapsing.

There are no right answers because there are no right questions, with no right times or right ways to ask our no right questions. We get the answers we do only because we ask the questions we do based on and biased by the culture and history we were raised in. Different questions would return different answers. We’re two-dimensional creatures asking three-dimensional questions in a nine-dimensional universe.

Our questions are but ghosts walking the Reality of illusion.

Humans see whatever they seek. Krishnamurti said when he was a Buddhist and meditated, he saw Buddha; when he became Christian, he saw Christ–you see whatever you invest your time, effort and belief system in.

Thus the mindset we interface with Reality affects our outcome. Think nasty thoughts and expect nasty results–and voila, it’s a nasty universe out there. Be good, and look for good, and you’ll experience a much less nasty notion.

On a Zen level: expect something, get nothing; expect nothing, get something.

That’s not saying that no matter what good you do or how positive you think, that Reality still won’t turn on you in a second and wipe you from this earth with neither thought nor notice.

But except for the random chance of utter destruction, our bottom line becomes enmeshed in what we expect, what we seek, how we ask, how we go about it all.

Be good, expect good–but be prepared for bad.

This is my personal philosophy; I call it Polymiasma.


polymiasma – foto by Smith

 

false start

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

resting – foto by Smith

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco


daddy? – foto by Smith

 

s and m (sick and macho)

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

cartoon life – foto by Smith

I am–or was–an avid Quentin Tarantino fan. Liked his script writing, his film directing, his acting. Still think Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction are great cinema.

Bit I started reassessing him after watching Deathproof, in which Kurt Russell drives around abusing and battering women before brutally killing them with his car. The film ends with three females sadistically beating him to death in a round-robin of violence (which to be fair he has earned). The movie seemed more a tasteless teenage boy sexual fantasy exercise in s&m than the output of a mature artist.

Then I saw his latest–Inglorious Basterds–which is little more than comic book sadistic violence and death using real people. He beats Nazis to death with a baseball bat, and scalps all the rest of the Nazis they kill. The ones they don’t kill, they slowly carve swastikas in their foreheads with big knives in extreme close-up. The movie’s big ending scene consists of machine gunning women, civilians, and Nazis to death while they’re trapped in a burning exploding movie house–sort of how I felt watching it all. The movie made me feel unclean, down, depressed; I felt it was porno violence disguised as comedy. Someone said that Taratino’s parodying America’s love of violence, but one doesn’t satirize a crime by committing the crime. You are what you do.

The movie made me flash back to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ where Gibson has Christ sadistically whipped in extreme close-up slow motion for 20-30 minutes. Halfway through this brutality, the whipper switches to a hooked whip and the movie shows chunks of Christ’s flesh being ripped off in up-close slow-motion chunks while blood gracefully arcs and splatters.

Before The Passion of Christ, I was a Mel Gibson fan, but afterward I couldn’t stop thinking what a sick twisted mind he had to have to hide a bloody splatter flick in the folds of his unhealthy conservative right-wing religious movie. His later drunken hate-filled tirade against Jews just cemented my disgust for him.

Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds has me lumping him with the same sickos that includes Gibson. It’s taken me decades, but I’m at the point where I won’t watch anything by either of them anymore. To me they belong to the same Neanderthal hate mongering clan that includes Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Dick Cheney. May they each be hoist on the petard of their own verbal filth.

Although what is even more frightening than the sickos above is how large their audiences are, how rich they’ve become pandering to these hate-filled violent bigots.


cartoon violence – foto by Smith

 

A cracked transcript advises heaven over a hip galaxy

Friday, August 28th, 2009

A cracked transcript advises heaven over a hip galaxy. The dealer intimates a central mystery. Behind his proved outline hunts the high imbalance.

Our injury captains every bigotry near a resulting railroad. The tangent postulates heaven. The railroad gulfs heaven. An outcome observes the dustbin. The dependent agenda bells stone underneath a stunt. Heaven moves stone across an unsuspecting downhill. Heaven condemns your immortal above our idealistic constituent. Heaven hardens above the ordered impulse.

Heaven farms. Heaven samples a still flood. A managing dialect fishes stone. Heaven spits throughout stone. Throughout stone strains heaven. The subtle originator piles stone.

Any baggage collapses on top of heaven. Stone weights heaven. The wrecked view slaves on top of the golden bandwagon. An ideological restaurant hangs from stone. Heaven suspends your motor above your airport. A gasp works over heaven.

Heaven extends the solved skeleton inside an irritated chicken. Can the grandmother chop a surviving house? Can the clothed head stare outside heaven? How will heaven certify the raving pigeon? Why does the designer warp ban stone?

Past heaven relaxes stone. Stone exists opposite a plain atom. Stone supposes heaven past the bump. A grass embeds stone without a spreading bulletin. Every stem misplaces stone. Stone pops a regarding gulf behind the dummy. The confine degenerates into your competitive gene within the snack. Our subjective structure corrects heaven past the questionable invalid.

Within stone walks heaven. The arrogance resides in a profound pointer before the hope. The governing manufacturer apologizes for stone. The mathematician accepts. A mystic presents heaven near a sickening silicon.

Heaven compromises stone below the jazz. Over heaven reads the egg. Heaven experiments with a tail below the unused hypocrisy. When can heaven overflow opposite the respectable heaven? When will my god serve as the integrated degenerate?

A collaboration between Lady and a random paragraph generator seeded with ‘stone’ and ‘heaven’ – http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomParagraph/RandomParagraph.aspx

 

news blues

Friday, August 28th, 2009

behind the blinds – foto by Smith

Nothing to say today so I’ll let the news headlines once again say it for me. These are all from respectable sites, not from the tabloid trash, even though they certainly seem to be. No folks, unfortunately once again this it is the it it is, the it we’ve shit. I’ll add a couple cute pictures of cats to make it all more palatable.
Giant Rat-Eating Plant Discovered By Explorers

Man Causes Traffic Jam By Throwing Cash Onto LA Freeway, People Dash Into Lanes

Is It Okay to Fire People Who Smoke or Are Obese?

Obese People Have ‘Severe Brain Degeneration’

Woman Shouts “Heil Hitler!” At Jewish Man Praising Israel’s Health System

Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win Re-Election

Conservatives’ Latest Lie

Coal Lobby Forged Letters From “Citizens” Opposing Clean Energy

EPA Fails To Tell Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water

Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

Swedish Newspaper: Israeli Troops Kill Palestinians For Organs

Rush Limbaugh Warns That Obama Intends To Harm America’s Penises

India: Boy, Age 9, Charged With Raping Girl, Age 6

1.5 Million More Fell Below Poverty Line In 2008

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

Man Gives Teller ID Before Robbing Bank

Man Charged For Attacking Roommate With Coconut

How Yawning Got One Court Spectator Six Months in the Slammer

CIA Interrogators Used Power Drills, Mock Executions Says Report

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Drug Companies, CEOs Don’t Make Much Money

Florida Governor Charlie Crist: I Asked God To Keep Hurricanes Away From Florida

Rep. Michele Bachmann: “Prayer And Fasting” Will Defeat Health Care Reform

I Wish My Slutty Christian Friend Would Stop Praising My Virginity

Microsoft’s Ad In Poland Photoshops Out Black Man, But Keeps Asian Man, White Woman

Sultan of Brunei pays £15,000 to fly London barber 7,000 miles for a haircut

Occidental College Offers Course In Stupidity

This is Smith, reporting from the shallow end of the gene pool.



a rare pocket of sanity – fotos by Smith

 

 
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