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#27802980 - 06/02/22 05:03 PM (2 years, 24 days ago) |
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Death is a Switch
Death must Be a pragmatic function of evolution; According to the laws of physics Given that Earth is an open system There is no strict need for an organism to die
Perhaps There are programs encoded in our DNA That prescribe deterioration toward an eventual breakdown Because if all animals lived forever There would be a very great problem: Tremendous overcrowding
A planet without death Would see mass extinction Rather than eternal life
The resources are, of course, finite And breeding animals with no expiration Would plow through those limited resources In just a few generations
All of this implies, naturally That we have yet to understand the genetic sequence of Death, and turn it off
Perhaps this is possible
But is it advisable?
Must the soul not transmigrate?
If so, would such avenues not be futile?
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#27804155 - 06/03/22 12:24 PM (2 years, 23 days ago) |
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Active Information
The assertive self Inside myself A gentle will An active spill
Made possible by Activity Directing energy Into a synergy
So the self true Is awareness Going through A hopeful fairness
It is hard to see That all else Is machinery But it sells
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#27804531 - 06/03/22 05:31 PM (2 years, 23 days ago) |
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Constrained
I do not doubt there is a will We are in fact not robots But, really, it’s an unfree thrill Choice? I thinketh not
Our thoughts are truly infinitely Constrained from all directions One must know this intimately If savvy of imperfections
However a thought wants to fire You have mitigating factors For one thing, genes are on the wire And then we’ve cultural actors
The evolution of the culture Of which you are unwitting May as well be some dull vulture Sapping all your bidding
You do not choose any of this No one does, nor one’s genes Involuntary is what it is Our lives but puppet scenes
Moreover, none of these aforesaid Was ever anyone’s plan Genes and cultures: in your head Transcend them? No one can
Genes and culture, both of them Are a dynamic flux Decoupled from intent, ahem The whole thing really sucks
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#27804969 - 06/03/22 09:59 PM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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Time. Life can go to shit, but see a larger picture A frame a cover for the overall structure
Of the place you live.
See the fakeness and the sorrow Don't worry there will always be a tomorrow
Those in poverty and those in misery Quite a mystery!
Really not, but the threats are what they have got.
Fear it a bit, but they always run the bullshit.
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#27805963 - 06/04/22 05:19 PM (2 years, 22 days ago) |
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The Celestial Kingdom
If we had the audacity just to suppose That higher dimensions flower like a rose We are treading on ground that’s been treaded before What all of it equates to, who knows?
The king of science physics has mapped out quite well Dimensions, multiverses exotic and swell And inflation and strings and infinities Anything at all prosaic, no way in Hell
A black hole seemingly combines it all All the aforesaid on the large and small And now we’ve seen one! It’s getting intense… It’s all quite enough to enthrall
But if we can thus posit all these weird big facts Might we not liberalize with all due tact? If nonlocal dimensions higher than our own Exist, why paint the supernatural black?
All one would need do is suggest a few points Nonlocality, high frequencies the cosmos anoints Further, the commonsense notion that we do not know Everything, let’s be honest, we do disappoint
So without getting literal, I just want to say Seeing things in new lights, there is always a way The cosmos is easily interesting enough That perhaps—just perhaps—we don’t go away
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#27807239 - 06/05/22 04:58 PM (2 years, 21 days ago) |
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The Buddha and the Soul
One of the Buddha’s most important precepts Is that there is no soul Indeed, Buddhism gives very little cogent account Of just what reincarnates
One has to suppose that the possibly reluctant denial Was made to avoid A conflict with Gautama’s broadest strokes When it came to impermanence
All things must fade and pass away Nothing has permanence Therefore, the whole notion of a static object Is obliterated
Well, traditionally, the soul is said to be static Basically, an unchanging essence That gives rise to an organism’s contingent characteristics And is the vehicle which passes through the spheres
But here is where I depart from the Sakyamuni There is no mandate in Nature or the Heavens For the soul to be a static entity Indeed, one ought find it to be fluid and dynamic
The soul must grow, mature, learn, incorporate The Hindus posit this absolutely So for the Buddha to declare glibly that it is static And therefore essentially unreal, is too great a stride
I suspect the Buddha may have had leanings the other way But that an individual soul did not fit Into his philosophy of impermanence and annihilation And perhaps there were other realities he ignored…
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#27809911 - 06/07/22 04:58 PM (2 years, 19 days ago) |
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The Economy
They call it “making” money Whence, how does it come? It isn’t very funny All want more than some
The whole thing’s rather dumb At least in terms of function Billions rather glum Billionaires show no compunction
Familiar with dysfunction We all do seem to be Necessity’s not the goal of production And don’t nothin’ at all be free
We manufacture not what need we But what we think we want And this unto the nth degree And all our stuff we flaunt
All we ever hear is cant Let’s abjure, eschew snuffle Go on a quick little jaunt Against this greedy shuffle
If only ‘midst the growing bustle We could just bring ourselves To engage in a brusque up-rustle Leave that shit on the shelves
The bell, for us it truly knells To overhaul our ways We ought to automate our hells Streamline the end of days
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#27810084 - 06/07/22 07:36 PM (2 years, 18 days ago) |
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Bored.
Just bored.
Looking at a surfboard put me on a bodyboard
A metaphor for my life dodging drama and limiting strife no wife
Alimony and living with someone is not my thing would rather be free and no stupid diamond ring
Parents taught me well what is real and what is fake a stupid ring
Fuck them Fuck religion Fuck what they acted out and still are through a lifetime
Divorced and one died poor as fuck and the other married again and had riches galore such a bore but look what I have in store!
If you will be like me and part of the family tree/Mormonism I will give you riches Fuck off am fine with myself more to life then wealth
Can take care of myself and is amusing trying to explain to let go of the blame and shame
Thank you good drugs of the lsd and dmt and mushroom kind clearing out space like junk files in my mind
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#27812334 - 06/09/22 03:12 PM (2 years, 17 days ago) |
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Death
Well, they say, it would seem That it is certainly better To be or to remain alive (Death is a bit of a fetter) After all, life is but a dream This applies, I think, to most But indeed, there are those who would thrive! Being on that other side Taking their souls out for a drive Employed as a regular ghost Many here lack any comforts Almost all are suffering What are most leaving behind, then? It’s really fear that’s buffering Increasing all our discomforts Until such time as one’s demise As Bukowski said, it’s all waiting It’s all one big distraction And the dark and the light are creating And the dead, they do arise
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#27813629 - 06/10/22 04:34 PM (2 years, 16 days ago) |
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The Present Part II
Our attention is always in the present
But, considered carefully, time must be brought in The heart beats, the blood flows, the brain processes The organs function in sync And this is all in some sort of temporal dimension
These processes do not occur At precisely the nexus of past and future But have some extension in time, or necessary duration The brain-mind-awareness loop has a kind of bandwidth So in reality Everything we experience took place A few milliseconds in the past
Moreover, physicists feel strongly That time, whatever its illusory properties Exists as a dimension Through which it would, in principle, be possible to travel With sufficient technology
So it would seem Even though time may not be A fundamental property of the deeper existence We nevertheless must be subject to it At all applicable levels of our being
And if that is the case, What is the meaning In the most literal sense Of the present moment that is timeless?
Perhaps we can attain to it With advanced meditation, psychedelics, what have you But inevitably we return to time Even the Buddha had to die
So in the end, we must take both Time and the timeless into consideration Together As humans
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#27814919 - 06/11/22 05:16 PM (2 years, 15 days ago) |
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Deterministic
It seems to be taken for granted, that is on it people don’t think But here the idea is planted, from the spring of the Soul take a drink That Nature is more or less matter, and bounces around like a ball Yes, some atoms may scatter, but in this false belief we’re in thrall
If we are just to be robots, well, I leave it to people to choose It’s something like a death knell, on ages born only to lose But I’m going to brashly declare, that we are not, in fact, tools And as I shall show it’s a snare, for the best of well-meaning fools
You see that if we are just autos, with no volition at all And are we? Indeed it is not so, it’s a tale much too tall Someone somewhere has to make, such a determination One must go for logic’s sake, outside the reservation
And that is the point, you understand, outside, outside Infinity does us anoint, it’s a regress, it’s a free ride One has to get out of the loop, and if this is done on repeat One cannot get out of God’s hoop, it’s an impossible feat!
So determinism is in doubt, if it’s an infinite regress Indeed you have to explain, all of your explanations An infinite number of times, turtles all the way down But just in the way of these rimes, perhaps truth and seeing abound?
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#27816443 - 06/12/22 05:07 PM (2 years, 14 days ago) |
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A Free Nature
All sorts of ideas are in people’s heads About all the cosmos, the way that things are And there are all sorts of uncommon threads Unloading one’s subconscious upon a star And most of these trends are infrareds: Hot air, how from truth they are far
Specifically, some feel the world is a script That all was written before time began By God, presumably, as he is equipped And has access to limitless spans Supernovæ are as if Heaven has ripped But that is all a part of the plan
Whether Mother or Father, Nature or God Is responsible for a rote, scripted fate I tend to ignore this, and submit a mod: What if Nature is free, and God is just great? For the beginning we thank the good Lawd And evolution’s job is to create
A scripted, fated existence is simply not sublime Degrees of freedom rather show the way There is, in fact, control—a little of the time When the force of Mother Nature has no say But ordinarily, as expressed in this rime Unbiased happening wins out the day (And freedom in Nature is the play)
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#27819627 - 06/14/22 04:41 PM (2 years, 12 days ago) |
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The Quantum Soul
The wavefunction in superposition That makes up the awareness of one Does not have a strict position
This object and subject, when up-spun Is what we mean by soul and its mission And away from the self it can gun
In this fair treaty of extradition The soul can leave the body, hon To return to, or not, its perdition
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#27821038 - 06/15/22 05:03 PM (2 years, 11 days ago) |
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Appreciative
There are various points of view to take When it comes to the variables of life Certainly, it is rough at times But its essence need not be of strife
And certainly, quite a few of us Probably have a central view On just which variable seems The most more or less true
A certain party, no need to name Thinks the main point is concentration This is noble, valiant, sane A perfectly fine declaration
Too often we distract ourselves From what’s really going on When if we only concentrated The clouds might part at dawn
We’re only always scatterbrained And not living life to full If we would only pay attention That dart might hit the bull
But as to me, my own perspective I think not the core concentration For me, taking a different tack The main thing’s appreciation
Concentrating’s well and good But it’s not as fundamental As appreciating all we see Every detail, elemental
The degree of one’s enjoyment Of life is directly proportioned To just how much appreciation We can attain through absorption
But, naturally, a really nice trick Would be to combine the two The Nature we’re given, a gift from the gods Should e’er be accorded its due
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#27821923 - 06/16/22 04:34 AM (2 years, 10 days ago) |
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I appreciate you and this beautiful poetry youve been sharing.
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#27821928 - 06/16/22 04:44 AM (2 years, 10 days ago) |
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Everyone needs a vacation way to much stagnation
Am bored waiting for a flight in time will take flight
Will see fireworks galore! in Vegas by the shore
Lol. just a joke fireworks mean men getting killed by artillary fire women get to as well, now that we are all men and woman and the constant tire
A national anthem about endless war always another one across the shore
Yet hail the 4th of July and those fireworks and what they represent just don't show the men in their prime and lives not well spent
Frontier is a bitch. Wish I could switch. Knees to ones body, I am a nobody.
The American dream is over no four leaf clover on to Dover just move on over
Feel sorry for me this American tree with the best GNP yet loses financially endlessly
Globalism. Let us all take hold of everything that will unfold
Doomsayer you say? what does my opinion matter anyway?
Edit everything and control speech writing and the ability to breach
The false narrative that so many want to believe of America, yet it is a sieve
To the global elite and those of it they have a great plan for us and not part of it
So on with the fear and the daily grind inflation and all else starting to unwind
should end this poem on a positive note but will end it with a quote
IT IS A BIG FUCKING CLUB AND YOU AND I ARE NOT IN IT!
I accept this. Find it amusing actually.
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pineninja said: I appreciate you and this beautiful poetry youve been sharing.

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#27822968 - 06/16/22 05:05 PM (2 years, 10 days ago) |
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Consciousness Without an Object
Consciousness without an object Seems to be the object for many seekers Ironically and impossibly
Naturally, the initiate, psychonaut or adept Would, at this, display either laughter or scorn
Indeed, it is said to be the ultimate Samadhi This state being ultimate in itself The highest degree
Continually, there are contents of our awareness; Emptying these contents, we may find ourselves
But the Eightfold Path has many twists and turns What this amounts to Is that there is never really an end to the story
But once we have purged everything But the deepest, purest level of our multiform Awareness And once we are entirely free from distraction Or impulse Pure consciousness without an object is a possibility
The Magus has crossed the abyss To the new aeon Once and forever consumed by the fire Of this sacred awareness
It is extraordinarily unfortunate That such treasure is denied The masses of uninitiated Who can never even dream
Of its possibility
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#27824444 - 06/17/22 04:51 PM (2 years, 9 days ago) |
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Death Anguish
Clearly the most central obsession Of man is that of his death Any other topic is a digression And to most a waste of his breath Death anxiety is ferocious The corresponding mind-state, atrocious
The yang to this yen carries insight Perhaps we would be well served To reconnoiter joining the light From one life to others we swerve We must develop a strength That shall serve us in its full length
We must dive into the mystery Of passing between states of being This supersedes simple history And from plain mental anguish is freeing This passing is our true ontology Thus we must amend standard psychology
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#27826097 - 06/18/22 05:19 PM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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The Devil’s Rejoice
From Pazuzu to Pithius Baal to Baphomet There’s no shortage of evil In this stupid Earthly set
Things change for the worse That’s all they seem to do The tortures of the damned The innocent put to the screw
A surplus of deceit And foul persecution Insane chaos all about Ubiquitous executions
The number 666 Is the number of a man Following the Beast Is a successful Satan
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