*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.)
God made paradise. The heart and the mind found and discovered it.
Then paradise was lost when people lost their heart and mind by trading truth and right reason in exchange for lying and the authority of spirit people. For true paradise is of the truth and right reason; such that to reject honest truth and right reason is to reject paradise; while lying and spirit people are the death of the heart and mind.
But do they blame lying, spirit people, or themselves? No, they blame God, the government, or morals; as they understand God, the government, or morals to be; that is, according to what lying and spirit people say these are.
So that ever since, life scares us to death.
We love or are at least fond of the angels as an, say poetic, abstraction or in a painting; or even a ghost if he would but remain in the book or the movie. But when, outside of curiosity, did any intelligent person ever want to be with or have either sort actually around and in their lives?
That Dante should call his spirit person heaven "Paradise" seems very odd because paradise, etymologically, means "garden," and yet Dante's Heaven is anything like a garden; just as spirit person heaven, inasmuch as we actually know of it, is nothing like paradise. Is then Dante's perhaps a case of someone being fooled, or am I reading him too literally?
Meanwhile "the world," to which so frequent derogatory reference is made here and elsewhere, is not the planet, let alone nature, but rather human society answering to and taking orders from spirit people.
In short, truth (i.e. honesty and reason) must rule among and over us; otherwise, by default we leave it to unknown, unaccountable, and suspicious spirit people to reign over and make our decisions for us instead -- and which the latter have in fact, with very tragic and sometimes catastrophic results, been doing in no small measure for millennia; with one clear proof of this being the degree to which mendacity and secrecy, much more than rationality and candor, so heavily prevail in society and human dealings generally.
"But there are hoards of them!"
Yes, but a hoard is still all one.
As well as Valentines there is also Presidents Day coming up later this month, and which is also and used to be Washington's birthday, and that for some will mean cherry pie. Although "Yankee Doodle" is probably the tune most associated with the Revolutionary War, there is little record of its being much sung at that time. Much more often and commonly heard in the American camps, taverns, and homes was Jonathan Mitchell Sewall's (1748-1808) "War and Washington" that was composed early in the conflict; and is sung to "The British Grenadiers" (another American variant using the same well-known music is "Free America" by Joseph Warren; and which can be found (track 3) on (English folksinger) Wallace House's "Ballads of the American Revolution, 1767-1781"* [amazon.com mp3 downloads.]) It was and has been some point of amusement that the Rebels entertained the extravagant notion of taking and annexing Canada. Yet, as Seawell's popular song here shows, there were even such, and of such fervor, who did and would talk of conquering Britain itself, perhaps even Europe! Proud boast indeed. And whether "Washington" himself would have approved is open to question. But we can at least now admire the pluck and gumption of it; while serving as a reminder to the merit and benefit sometimes to be had in elevating one's sights and aspirations.
"Vain Britons, boast no longer with proud indignity,
By land your conquering legions, your matchless strength at sea,
Since we, your braver sons incensed, our swords have girded on.
Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza, for war and Washington.
"Urged on by North and vengeance those valiant champions came,
Loud bellowing Tea and Treason, and George was all on flame,
Yet sacrilegious as it seems, we rebels still live on,
And laugh at all their empty puffs, huzza for Washington!
"Still deaf to mild entreaties, still blind to England's good,
You have for thirty pieces betrayed your country's blood.
Like Esop's greedy cur you'll gain a shadow for your bone.
Yet find us fearful shades indeed inspired by Washington.
"Mysterious! unexampled! incomprehensible!
The blundering schemes of Britain their folly, pride, and zeal.
Like lions how ye growl and threat! mere asses have you shown,
And ye shall share an ass's fate, and drudge for Washington!
"Your dark unfathomed councils our weakest heads defeat,
Our children rout your armies, our boats destroy your fleet,
And to complete the dire disgrace, cooped up within a town [Boston.]
You live the scorn of all our host, the slaves of Washington!
"Great Heaven! is this the nation whose thundering arms were hurled.
Through Europe, Afric, India? whose navy ruled a world?
The lustre of your former deeds, whole ages of renown.
Lost in a moment, or transferred to us and Washington!
"Yet think not thirst of glory unsheaths our vengeful swords
To rend your bands asunder, or cast away your cords,
'T is heaven-born freedom fires us all, and strengthens each brave son.
From him who humbly guides the plough, to god-like Washington.
"For this, oh could our wishes your ancient rage inspire.
Your armies should be doubled, in numbers, force, and fire.
Then might the glorious conflict prove which best deserved the boon,
America or Albion, a George or Washington!
"Fired with the great idea, our Fathers' shades would rise,
To view the stern contention, the gods desert their skies;
And Wolfe, 'midst hosts of heroes, superior bending down,
Cry out with eager transport, God save great Washington!
"Should George, too choice of Britons, to foreign realms apply,
And madly arm half Europe, yet still we would defy
Turk, Hessian, Jew, and Infidel, or all those powers in one,
While Adams guards our senate, our camp great Washington!
"Should warlike weapons fail us, disdaining slavish fears,
To swords we'll beat our ploughshares, our pruning-hooks to spears,
And rush, all desperate, on our foe, nor breathe till battle won.
Then shout, and shout America! and conquering Washington!
"Proud France should view with terror, and haughty Spain revere.
While every warlike nation would court alliance here;
And George, his minions trembling round, dismounting from his throne
Pay homage to America and glorious Washington!"
And why were these innocents put at such risk and in harm's way?
In order that Ben Hinnom and his gang might be better pampered and accommodated (and, as a result, have and continue to get away with murder.)
Meantime, for literal ages they old us that women were the incipient cause and source of his jealousy and rivalry. But don't you believe it. He has acted and conduced himself as he does entirely owing to his self-pity and desire to be the center of attention, and women are and have ever been only a cover and an excuse for these ulterior considerations. Likewise we are to understand his followers go to a withered, wicked old man in order to see a sexy and stunning young lady. How many times do and have they claimed passion is the consummate good and justification? This, of itself, were it true and meant sincerely, might not be so objectionable an argument. Yet the fact is it isn't true and isn't meant sincerely, and is rather only a mask to excuse and disguise their doing the wrong thing a certain way. And they have to do that due to the feebleness of their character and intellect; and concomitant inability to disobey, combat and resist these spirit people.
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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.
Since its inception, posting the "recommendation of the week," although much fun along the way, has also become a bit of an inconvenient chore requiring a regular schedule. Meanwhile, but more importantly, since I effectively (aside from the above mentioned exception) receive no feedback on them (or on this website generally), I can't think it warrants the personal investment any longer to keep it going. In addition to lack of feedback, I simply don't have the extra money (I feel) necessary to explore different music, movies, books etc. -- in turn necessary to maintain the span, color, and variety of the selections, taking the list as a whole. Consequently, unless and until I do ever finally get feedback and or "somehow" come
into some funds, the "recommendation of the week" at present (as of August 2009) has been discontinued.
Otherwise and as an expedient, what I intend to do in future in its place is post or mention music, movies, books etc. among my regular "Oracles;" as inspiration moves me or of unusually special interest comes up; something, of course, I already have, to some extent at least, been doing for some time.
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