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#27826105 - 06/18/22 05:23 PM (2 years, 8 days ago) |
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Is
The word we use the most Is virtually a ghost It seems when we speak, “is,” Our brain’s an empty fizz Because it seems to me We do not get ‘to be’
Whatever you say a thing be It’s quite apparent when you see (‘Cause consciously we’re absent), That being’s had no advent So we’re unqualified to say Anything about the way
The way in which objets sont The thing in itself will or won’t Be granted to your deeper nature Admitted to your nomenclature You see, the thing that has to be Demands some existential fee
Models, concepts, maps Pitfalls, booby traps We may access our higher minds But most don’t do this all the time So the notion of the thing in itself Is kept upon a most tall shelf
Now, when time comes to understand Illumination be at hand Subject, object, will unite In a whirlwind of insight And the territory joins the map And the slithy tove is zapped!
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#27828966 - 06/20/22 04:50 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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The Animistic Cosmos
It is we consciousness creates And everything we do Spirit through and through Our being animates
There really is no need To get caught up in free will Are decisions ever true?, still One need not about it plead
All flows out of awareness As if ‘twere on a spectrum Philosophers have wrecked ‘em But most don’t see, in fairness
On one end is the automat On the other, pure volition Fertilizing nutrition Mother Nature is no autocrat
This free awareness seems to be Independent of time But dependent on rime For it to be really free!
Pardon the flippant digression In the end, everything flows And every man and woman glows Without any need for confession
The philosophy en vogue That we are auto-bots Is really just sheer rot Promulgated by rogues
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#27832042 - 06/22/22 05:25 PM (2 years, 4 days ago) |
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Large Phenomena
As humanity artificially creates large phenomena In the spheres certain spirits are creating large sand mandalas Nature has already provided avenues for things We shall have to wait and see if we are made to knaves or kings
Telepathy, collective minds, and information saving Already have the futurists and all the Luddites raving Transdimensional computation and immortality Are making mince-meat out of old tired morality
What’s more, the tech to upload and preserve souls does exist Although the skeptics, atheists, and scientists resist Why’s humanity so hell-bent on reinventing it? Especially when so many cannot stop lamenting it
The irony here is so thick it chokes, it’s like a bog And the future’s visible only through an opaque fog Let us hope human survival is on the list of chores For all those beings who must be seeing us as boors
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#27833515 - 06/23/22 07:20 PM (2 years, 2 days ago) |
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Faith
The fetters of faith are not for full fools The whole thing’s misunderstood As memory melts over measure and mood We do not remember for good
The misunderstanding moves into the matter When we consider this ethereal nature Attached to the advent of abject attention We forget even our nomenclature
Presenting a point of purpose for the past Our memories are acts of faith Empirically empty of every example We attempt to remember a wraith
In turn, it’s time to tell truth to thyself We must have faith we are not wrong Criminy, cretins of crazy Calliope Life really is very long
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#27834813 - 06/24/22 04:51 PM (2 years, 2 days ago) |
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Seems Obvious Now
Truths that turn out To be taken for granted May seem quite obvious to us But to give them a shout Might be underhanded Because many still put up a fuss
Let’s take us a look At just what I mean And you’ll see humans at their most dumb Later on every book And every young teen Will see it all as rules of thumb
The Solar System Would be one example It wasn’t known that planets revolve The ancients missed them Their knowledge did trample On truth, and mysteries unsolved
And on top of this The Earth was considered The center of all of creation This was a miss An idea that hid Her True nature from every nation
And then evolution The room’s elephant Descent from a common ancestor A true revolution In knowledge triumphant We’re related to our predecessors
We’re still not quite sages And we’ve yet many questions And our habits are a little inertial It took longest ages Before any suggestion And the latter is still controversial!
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#27834980 - 06/24/22 06:54 PM (2 years, 2 days ago) |
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Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind.
Yeah, I wrote that.
Took a turn at the stop sign and took a turn for the worst.
Seriously though bored as hell waiting for the fourth.
Fireworks on display a place where Brad Pitt used to play
Got a great price Where a man got shot to death from a vice
Not afraid, can sleep through the noise idiot M's always have their toys
They don't get the live they take the ripple effects, and all it creates
Is sad but have been threw sadder it does matter
They will find them as tourist dollars one realizes the people that run the places don't like surprises
Fuck them they deserve whatever is coming would be interesting the idiots in the stupid clothing and stupidity and dumbing
Lost generation and they will be taught as they go through all the cameras and identify them and will be caught like bad viruses
Not posting the vid to the highest bid
I get it and I booked it in advance going to be a shitty vibe but will still dance
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#27836364 - 06/25/22 04:48 PM (2 years, 1 day ago) |
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Fair or Unfair?
It strikes me as a possibility That the world That is, Nature Is basically fair
It can be hard work to make a living But at the level of brass tacks It’s fair
Sometimes Occasionally It’s just an individual’s day to die
Most species Most of the time In most ecosystems In a world not dominated by human civilization Are able to do quite well
Now It is tragic when severely injured animals suffer But even suffering animals Do not conceptualize suffering as man does And therefore They accept it and don’t fight it and don’t wallow or brood
It seems to me That the whole “life is unfair” thing Is restricted to civilization only
The Buddha should not have said “Existence is suffering” But rather that civilized man’s conceptualization Of it is
The natural state of a given organism is not to suffer, But to be alive
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#27837711 - 06/26/22 05:00 PM (2 years, 2 hours ago) |
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Manifest Destiny
“Manifest destiny” never did die It’s now directed up toward the sky It’s based on a tendency ever to expand And for this, dear Mother cannot quite stand We expand, we conquer, we quest, we consume And Earth’s turning into an over-hot tomb It goes all the way back, ten thousand years Our one little culture, and all of the tears This culture has ever and always expanded And right about now a few are being stranded In any case, most cultures are quite sustainable But then, most others are quite containable Not we! To the Moon! To Mars! And beyond! With technology vast areas will become as a pond!
But hold on, I say, just wait a hot minute I mean, really, down here we are just about finished To “jump off” and continue our torrid behavior Would require the aid of a rather skilled Savior Ecology applies everywhere in Nature So cultures unsustainable can’t reach fullest stature Running out of resources, or running into the ground Is not the way for civilization to stay sound Perhaps “manifest destiny” is peculiar to us If we forever go off-planet, it’s bound to be a fuss ‘Cause all we’ll do is pollute and ruin world after world And our destiny will in ignominy be fatally unfurled
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#27839280 - 06/27/22 05:02 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Multiversal Origins
It is legitimate to declare That it is monumentally improbable Ridiculous even That life should appear at all
And you can forget about Intelligent life If there were evidence for it It might not be so absurd to suggest it
But I suppose There is something interesting Going on Here on Earth
This improbability of life’s evolving Is wholly offset By the fact that we live In a multiverse
A multiverse is a limitless expanse Of parallel universes of every type And I mean limitless: Some physicists have said it is infinite
If not infinite, then huge beyond huge, anyway So, logically, there must be a very great number Of universes in which humans arise So: If the multiverse is real, humans must evolve
That is to say, with infinite chances There will be infinite manifestations Of humans, and wombats and rattlesnakes There are even trillions of versions of you
So, the seas part a bit Because one has to conclude That we are the organisms of one such universe Looking back and contemplating all of this—
Which in a multiverse, is perfectly necessary
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#27839421 - 06/27/22 06:36 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Ever think of just writing poetry in a notebook? I do. And then post the ones I like from time to time. They are not bad, just maybe more selective? What you really like? I know the special ones that I write. To me and some like it and some don't. Blah, who cares? Maybe share some of those poems that mean the most to you. 
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#27839898 - 06/27/22 10:48 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Multiversal ego. Manifests expansion. Universal zero. Ones fixation.
Consciousness dimensionality. Inescapably unseen. External causality. Nothing between.
Parallel coexistence. Agreement foreseen. Physical resistance. Utopian dream.
Mirrored discoveries. Patterns renew. Scientific philosophy. Perspective askew.
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#27839903 - 06/27/22 10:53 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Barnaby said: Ever think of just writing poetry in a notebook? I do. And then post the ones I like from time to time. They are not bad, just maybe more selective? What you really like? I know the special ones that I write. To me and some like it and some don't. Blah, who cares? Maybe share some of those poems that mean the most to you.  
Id prefer him and everybody else to share whatever they got....whenever they got it.
Especially in old mates case.
Losing the inhibition is one of the great lessons of self expression.
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#27840307 - 06/28/22 08:38 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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pineninja said: Multiversal ego. Manifests expansion. Universal zero. Ones fixation.
Consciousness dimensionality. Inescapably unseen. External causality. Nothing between.
Parallel coexistence. Agreement foreseen. Physical resistance. Utopian dream.
Mirrored discoveries. Patterns renew. Scientific philosophy. Perspective askew.

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#27840310 - 06/28/22 08:43 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Barnaby said: Ever think of just writing poetry in a notebook? I do. And then post the ones I like from time to time. They are not bad, just maybe more selective? What you really like? I know the special ones that I write. To me and some like it and some don't. Blah, who cares? Maybe share some of those poems that mean the most to you.  
Well, I don't think it's hurting anything. No I do not use notebooks. Other than for sharing, one reason I post my poems here is to archive them -- they will still be here if my computer crashes. I just happen to be writing a lot right now. I went for almost a year without posting at all, previously.
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#27842222 - 06/29/22 11:42 AM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Decisions, Decisions
For some reason, it has become accepted That decisions are the children of will True will, perhaps, but this is rejected As most have not swallowed the pill
We do not decide how we decide The universe conditions that for us In necessity we must abide And to this end I implore us
To realize at once that decision making Is but one narrow function of brain And that will could emerge when taking A perspective that could lead to gain
There are multitudes of actions That do not constitute a decision Effort and intent must find traction We must approach the truth with precision
If free will only applies to Decision making and its causes Then we do not have free will, we do Have many excuses for faux-pases
We can however be willful In many other areas, it’s true There is a sense in which many of one’s actions Could not take place without you
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#27844102 - 06/30/22 05:11 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Old Higher Realms
Quite possibly, you see, it rather seems to me That the future has already played it out Realities to be, and bedrocks bleeding scree Are fodder for the most unlikely shout
If the future does exist, and one does not resist One might posit infinity upon infinity The skeptics must desist, and atheists be pissed But the result would be the sweetest dear serenity
Is Heaven itself, the highest spiritual shelf Elsewhere’s future come unto fruition? Is our own future self, or some emissary elf, Come back at death to pay the Dean tuition?
Is our crucial future state, before it gets too late Interacting backward through the timewave? What about this gate does spiritually sate? And how to handle miscreant or knave?
Potentially we are, creating for afar Artificial beings who shall take the mantle If they can use a star, to propel them au revoir Perhaps they can upload our little candle
Wouldn’t this be Heaven, uniting human brethren Into some sort of utopian scheme? Don’t forget circuit seven, and Samadhi to leaven Is this not somehow a scientistic theme?
So it’s not very remote, if the doubting can be smote That in the vastness of the multiverse it’s happened This is logical, I’ll note, and if you point out what I wrote Fantastical, I’ll submit and I’ll slacken
But the universe is old! And if I may be so bold As to suggest that higher realms evolved by now The infinite! we’re told, even though space is quite cold Infinity leaves lots of room, and how!
So if we can posit beings, aside from what we’re seeing That created higher-up long, long ago It would be very freeing, with all the squirrels treeing A trillion-trillion times by now, you know?
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#27845398 - 07/01/22 05:11 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Basic Truths
If one becomes aware (A novelty—beware!) Of attributes of various certain truths It’s not really belief We need some small relief A bit of saying of the basic sooth
Nor is it a matter (Soon we’ll be in tatters) Of probability concerns The probable in test Is clearly no one’s jest But in a deeper way we oft’ discern
Nor either is it thus Of all, the biggest fuss A matter of basest certainty We need not e’er be certain That this right here’s a curtain We know the thing indeed quite wordlessly
Questions of semantics Are often rather frantic And they are not without their just decree But certain one needn’t be To look at, see a tree It is quite self-evident to you or me
Perhaps we’re not objective With our mundane directives But this isn’t really very much the point When I visit with my dog I know it’s he, by Dog! And certainty’s a little out of joint
There is all of this stress When it comes to truly test The variables of our reality But belief, probability And certainty, you see Do not total to the totality
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#27845474 - 07/01/22 06:06 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Admissions of linear circulation. When a completion creates new. Totality is an impassable calculation. Beyond a individual participants purview.
The very interactions of expectancy. When trying to place results behind. Seems to allow a momentary latency. But only reproduces nothingness in kind.
The paradox is not found in potentials. Nor before or after result. Each sphere holds truly confidential. Asking for surety is an insult.
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#27845597 - 07/01/22 07:26 PM (1 year, 11 months ago) |
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Life before Vegas and the 4th America goes forth
Is fun but am listening to a depressing Pink Floyd sond, god, it is sad sad, mad, glad, if one is a sadist One of the depravest
Really this is depressing me Yet am still free get why it bothered me so much on LSD
Unmagumma. Don't think it supposed to mean anything Maybe something left over from Syd Barrett things
God it is making me depressed just listening to it now
LSD and music gone wrong, but Piper was some of my favorite albums. He made one that was fun.
I see the album as one long song not drawn out just I get it. I want to tell you a story, if I can.
Seriously they just replayed some from Saucerful shortened and added a few songs on the album. Get so much more why it was depressing. Is not fun. Not dumb but just a declining mental state of Syd and how he could become so berate.
Seriously the guy locked his girlfriend in a room and slid food under the door to her. Listening to it again I get why it depressed me. The last songs not copied from earlier albums are like a horror movie.
I can't even make it to the ping ball song. But at least my conscience is strong. Didn't get it at the time that drugs aren't always fun all the time, not that what he did would ever cross my mind
I don't judge for the most part in life endless strife
But shit this is just bad. And educated guess is why not the most popular Pink Floyd album. It is just dark. Like Syd and his brain going insane.
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