*If we ever experienced a problem anywhere, it came about, in some degree, due to certain wrong assumptions, either co-present with, or just prior to the given problem's actually taking place.
TENETS
* Unless you believe in God, the One, and or the infinite, every assumption is contingent.
* PROCESS (or if you prefer spirit, or activity) PRECEDES IMAGE. Image may, to some extent, (and sometimes almost perfectly) represent process. But process is always superior to and always more real than image. If process precedes image this might suggest also that mind precedes matter and energy.
* Everything we believe, or say we know, is based on a factual or value judgment. Both kinds of judgment always entail the other to some extent, and nothing can be known or exists for us without them.
* No fact or purported fact is true or false without someone to assert and believe it to be such. If an assertion or claim is deemed true or false then, and we are thorough, we should ask who is it that says so (or has said so), and what criteria are (were) they using? There is no such thing as "faceless" truth or reality -- at least none we are capable of knowing.
* You can't escape reason. If you aren't rational yourself, someone else will be rational for you; nor do their intentions toward you need to be friendly or benevolent.
* Every point of view and opinion has its truth to it -- even the most abhorrent and unacceptable to us. This said, we are naturally inclined to assume that some opinions have much greater truth to them than others. Even so, what little truth there is in any point of view must, at least at some juncture, and certainly with respect to issues of heated controversy, be justly and reasonably respected. Why? Because we would not be honest (and therefore not truthful) if we didn't.
*Ultimately, and when all is said and done, thought without heart is nothing.
* Most, if not all, of society's very worst problems arise from (certain) spirit people and those who listen to them -- whether the former comes in the shape of "God," angel, devil or what have you. It is these people who are most the source and cause of real unhappiness. If then you chance to have contact with such, while having (one assumes) overcome their lures, deceptions, and pretenses of benevolence and higher knowledge, I recommend that this (i.e. "unhappiness" or "unhappiness itself") is what you call them. Blame and curse them for (most) everything wrong; for it is it is they who have been and are the ruin of everyone and everything (that is, if anyone is or could be said to be so.)
My (Quick) Two Cents
The economy suffers, as much as for any reason, because people are being straight jacketed and forced to fit the narrow minded, if not deliberately destructive, standards of people in positions of "business" leadership who are against free speech and free trade, and fair and humane competition, and who otherwise simply do not know what they are doing; and this last because they listen to or else are under the indirect influence of spirit people (and from which latter they have acquired their ideas about reality.)
It is not at all unusual for the ghoulish faith to ape and attempt to imitate the true one, and this I've found can actually be shown on quite a number of points, some of which might surprise you. One for instance is the teaching against making a graven image of the almighty. Now the reason the ghoulish religion adopts this stance is for reasons entirely different from that holy law's authentic theological purpose and intent. In their case they stand to lose greatly if you know what he really looks like; consequently, such an injunction is understandably made necessary to stave off and prevent your trying to do so -- and, of course, the risk of your possibly succeeding.
As I paused to muse and reflect on the subject, the question arose -- philosophically speaking, what after all is "Hippie-ism?"
One good basic philosophical definition of "Hippie-ism" I think as any is that it is a belief and method of seeing by which a person's mind, while moving through the universe, turns or transforms the mundane into the cosmological and the cosmological into the mundane (or the ordinary into the extraordinary, and the extraordinary into the ordinary) -- accompanied by a natural taste for good music, smoke and or drink. And, of course, from this core outlook have sprung various sects and sub-schools which place special emphasis on matters such as love, freedom, justice and beauty.
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Miscellaneous
"Single-handedly,
Fought both the League of Horror
And the Organization Against Freedom
For over a Decade,
AND beat them -- MANY times!"
This is my recommendation of things and people sundry which others may have missed. For some these will already be well known, but for others less so. It is for these last that the suggestion is proffered.
For the week of Sunday, November 16, 2008.
"Orphans of the Storm" (1921) with Lillian and Dorothy Gish (DVD)
When I was a very young up on Long Island, I had my first introduction to silent films by way of a PBS series hosted by Lillian Gish, and which ended up leaving a deep and indelible impression on me. I recall being astonished and fascinated by the idea of seeing people from long ago coming again to life, as it were, through these old films -- and who I found myself naturally and easily relating to. And so I soon made a point of punctually returning alone everyday Saturday night (or whatever week night it was) to my older brother's bedroom (where a television was located) to sit down and watch the latest installment. Among those I recollect seeing were the well done Paul Killiam reissues of "Intolerance," "The Man in the Iron Mask," "The Extra Girl," "Down to the Sea in Ships," and "Orphans of the Storm." The last of these, which is this week's recommendation, is probably one of the most enjoyable of all silent film features that, while obviously over the top and very melodramatic, is done in such a way as to keep it entertaining -- though one is advised to nostalgically adopt an old fashioned perspective and sensibility when viewing.
As a bonus this week, as well a deserving of mention as an outstanding bargain, is the "Mary Pickford Signature Collection" which contains "Poor Little Rich" (1917), "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917), "Pollyanna" (1920), and "Little Annie Rooney" (1925). "Stella Maris," though not included in the set, is another Pickford feature worth getting. While it has been a long, long time since Mary Pickford has had anywhere near the status and popularity she at one time enjoyed, she, nevertheless, remains an essential part to a proper understanding and appreciation of silent films and silent film culture -- and though the films themselves typically can't help but show their age, she herself still manages to surprise and delight. I must say notwithstanding, and this is perhaps true of the Gishes also, I think I prefer her Biograph short films to her features, and, as I have mentioned previously, one of the best DVD ideas waiting to be done is a complete collection of the Biograph shorts. But that we are living in an era that marks the triumph of the ghoulish religion, it's something of a wonder that this hasn't been done already.
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