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#28327039 - 05/20/23 01:01 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Time
Amuses me Am free
Yet serves a purpose
The ability to grow and progress despite all that I have transgressed
Eyes get open for those willing to see the only reason we choose to be here and our spirituality
Leave your judgements at the door no one wants to hear them, as they are a bore
the flow within and creation ongoing fountains always flowing and growing
Past the deceits of the unknowing.
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#28327318 - 05/20/23 08:55 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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herbstation said: PS thank you to Divided for regularly contributing to this thread Cheers

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#28329207 - 05/21/23 08:21 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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War
From the dawn of civilization Through all of history All we seem to be able to do Is fight and fight
As Bierce said Peace Is a period of cheating Between two periods of fighting
As long as There is money Territory and resources And enemies to be seized
And as long as it is this species Running the show Manufacturing weapons above all else Then there will be war after war
I do not have the temerity To attempt to convey Any sort of picture or feeling Of the horror of the experience
But I do think This world has become too small for Such idiocy And yet the idiots yet prosecute their schemes
Let us pray fervently Atheist or no That through accident, miscalculation or madness No one ever ignites the Big One
Because Between you and me There is no coming back from that Word to the wise
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#28329888 - 05/22/23 12:09 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Morals
Morals form a system, many do not miss them If in youth indeed some were acquired They mostly are convention, and this circumvention Must be for honest souls a thing required
Indeed, they are external, and rather quite infernal At least the ones that the cultures share But there is a remedy, from popular enmity Indeed, we must replace, our soul to bare
Authentic morality, transcending banality Is a matter that comes from within Exercise compassion, gather proper traction And redefine what it means to sin
One can thus consider, no need to embitter That religion does not quite show the way All of their injunctions, just lead to dysfunctions And the individual hasn’t a say
A proper sense of right, does not preclude delight And it requires only the internal The truth disclosed to one, is like a phantom Sun And seeing and being become eternal
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#28332469 - 05/24/23 11:56 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The Man Who Would Be King
From solider to knave, criminal to king Peachy and Daniel formulate plans Which in the end would more than sting
They’re going to take Kafiristan! And take it they did, crown and ring Dravot and Carnahan!
Sons of Alexander, a Freemason thing But blood from their bird in the hand Erased all their land gains and bling
There is a moral here, easy to impart: Do not yourself in before you even start!
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#28334092 - 05/25/23 12:50 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Should
The weakest word in the language is “should” It’s not have to, or needn’t or must And if I could banish it I think I would For clarity, meaning I lust
You see, we might draw up a phrase like this: “The Earth should be pleasant and fair,” But that’s as compelling as wind-laden piss It means zilch!—Should’s a sterile affair!
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#28335800 - 05/26/23 04:16 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Ecology
One thing it seems we can all agree on: The environment is in crisis
The crux is, humans are stimulating Certain ecological variables, While draining and destroying others
What isn’t simply destroyed Is brought into tremendous imbalance With respect to affiliated variables
There are two salient problems: No one knows what will ultimately happen Nor how to fix what has happened, and is yet to happen
Superficial remedies clearly will not work And it seems to me that it is rather late in the game To repair what’s been done
Or avert what else may be coming
So I suppose we’ll have to see what happens
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#28338232 - 05/28/23 12:09 PM (1 year, 29 days ago) |
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A.I.
This whole thing is real, and coming like a locomotive To the cybernetic collective, alien will be time Will it have an ego or be in some way emotive? In any case, by now we needn’t any further sign
The McKennas and Kurzweil endorse something like the timewave It was set to 2012 to coincide with Mayan feeling This timewave is a fractal so not much like any sinewave In any case in that year we did not do any reeling
But hold on, because the endpoint could be off a little farther The concept doesn’t die because it’s thirty years advanced Novelty and habit become orthogonal partners And the final singularity is like a furnace dance
In any case, preceding stanzas are a bit abstruse We have to wonder: Will it really like us or dislike us? Or be very indifferent; we are hitched on at caboose Cooperation? Or will it somehow, some way, strike us?
We are in a phase now with people paying attention In ten years’ time, all of this will look like child’s play Accelerate or brake? Among experts there’s dissension Perhaps a restoration of the Earth to light of day?
In any case, the revolution is underway now There’s not much reason for either alarm or for hope Humanity may not have a place, can only just say wow But Fate has something special in her novelty scope
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#28340602 - 05/30/23 12:47 PM (1 year, 27 days ago) |
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Reflex and Intent
Surely, a primary component (With many an outspoken exponent) Is reflex action behavior Skinner to many’s a savior Pavlov, too, a central actor In psychology, an essential factor And these are not wrong, no But there’s more than one ring in a show A circus, that is, and psych is one But behaviorism’s under the gun
In the spirit of, say, William James Intent is the name of the game Intentional generation of actions Is the by-line of many a faction Surely, at times we have will A yogi, he has his fill
So we have both reflex and intent Why not? By the truth it is meant That it needn’t be one or the other The truth is a most fecund mother We get stuck in the Aristotelian While reality’s like a chameleon We’d do well to include all the colors Sometimes humans are really such dullards! The moral: Include all the facets Or ignorance, you shall amass it!
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#28342163 - 05/31/23 04:24 PM (1 year, 26 days ago) |
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The Vienna Circle
The notion was, it seems to me That nothing is quite real The factual Is actual And that’s it: the whole deal
And what I mean by this, you see Is the objective’s really subjective Only the empirical (Never esoterical) Is the only thing that’s prospective
You have all of your Wittgensteins And all of your Ernst Machs Who declare, you see Math’s arbitrary Any other notion is mocked
And your Paulis and your Heisenbergs And Bohrs and Borns and such Who declare the apparatus The thing that begat us Every truth we cannot touch
But then we have instead our Gödels Who feel things are more concrete Nature's objective God is corrective And math is incomplete
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#28344376 - 06/02/23 11:54 AM (1 year, 24 days ago) |
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The Universe is Out There
The universe really is out there But I suppose most do not know it One thinks it is, but is one sure? Philosophers tend to blow it
One might say all is illusion The real, a vibrating gray The realm of science, dead material Perception is night and not day
But all this is reductionism A denial and death of the whole Gotta put Humpty together again Human consciousness does have a role
Nonlocally, we know the truth That being and light are inherent Finally, it all comes full-circle The actual is the apparent
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#28344653 - 06/02/23 04:07 PM (1 year, 24 days ago) |
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Extinction
The notion of species extinction Really doesn’t bother me much We have reached the distinction Of ruining all that we touch At the very least let’s have constriction Of poverty, suffering and such
Will it ever be enough? It seems that every dysfunction Leaves everything extremely rough We do not show much compunction Though we certainly seem to act tough But our system—then, now—doesn’t function
Now, I do have reservations, though About just when we retire Like I said, extinction’s just death, so If just one or all have expired It’s all the same, throw your yarrow For the last time out of the mire
These reservations I mention Are very specific indeed We must first offer an abstention From holocaust, then proceed From the realm above’s intervention It’s something that we will sure need
And I hope that the future’s potential We do not then recklessly abort We can square this with modern torrential Artificial intel’s retorts These are the primary essentials For a future luxury resort
So in sum, we all have to die To die out, with no harm, is the same If success remains by and by And the Earth’s in a positive frame We’ll leave a worthy legacy And finally give our poor selves a name
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#28345162 - 06/03/23 02:44 AM (1 year, 23 days ago) |
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Appreciate the poetry mate they've been a nice touchstone during my days.
Some really great stuff.
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#28345430 - 06/03/23 08:37 AM (1 year, 23 days ago) |
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Thanks! 
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#28348483 - 06/05/23 04:28 PM (1 year, 21 days ago) |
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Entanglement
Entanglement is spooky But real, anyhow To study it’s not kooky I say to Nature: “Wow!”
It’s sort of like telepathy Among objects in space A physicist a deputy Recording weird apace
Quantum computation And the human brain Rely on information We cannot yet explain
These nonlocal systems Link coherently The Cosmos in Her wisdom Makes wholeness the key
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: aghorrorag]
#28348793 - 06/05/23 08:12 PM (1 year, 20 days ago) |
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Life is great at times like at the present. Two vacations booked and planned for the Summer After the endless Covid bummer.
Optimistic and feeling good As people should.
Take for granted the United States. But still better than most of the shit in the world. All coming unfurled I giant ass being showed by a man that can't walk to the countries worse than all of the fallacies
So on to vacations and poor me living in a somewhat great country
Endlessly feel sorry for me.
I have to figure this new tent out nothing to do but endlessly poubt In this country of endless doubt
People will figure it out.
And if they don't fuck off.
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#28349827 - 06/06/23 04:17 PM (1 year, 20 days ago) |
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Good Behavior
Sociobiologists have a certain view They think that genes are the right and true When it comes to determining behavior (Ernest O. Wilson is a virtual Savior) But I think these folks need a little clue To be so one-sided is failure
Anthropologists on the other hand Utilize memes to make their stand Feeling behavior to be cultural Exclusively, multicultural Every human in the land Has a brain thus structural
One or t’other, it always goes That’s the human in his flows The truth is hovering somewhere between It’s necessary to have a naked gene And with it culture to give it clothes Else nothing would be put across the screen
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#28350790 - 06/07/23 11:46 AM (1 year, 19 days ago) |
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The Aristocrat
In times galore long distant Some were aristocrats for good reason Whether well-bred, or a brilliant head Logical class was in season
Today we have nothing like that The clarion call is all money Your bank balance, and not your talents Is considered by all to be sunny
Now, how that money is gotten Is certainly here germane But the rich are nit-wits, with only a fitness To do what got them their gain
So we have our Mark Cubans And Bill Gateses (and Donald Trumps) These men are not, as if one forgot Aristocrats at all, just cash pumps
Indeed they are just businessmen There are not many examples Of Renaissance men, virtue to defend In fact, over virtue they trample
So this right here is the sort of thing That defined traditional aristocracy We’ve not got the fitness, as God is our witness And we’re living in an idiocracy
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#28351253 - 06/07/23 06:27 PM (1 year, 19 days ago) |
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No longer can cream be found at the top. It has been replaced by fatty sugar lumps. We continue to stir never settled non stop. If only it were just our morning beverages that look and taste like trump.
I once asked a man whom was an elder within his space. Why only he and a few others voted for the rest. "As a father a grandfather and a man close to death. Why would i let my son vote while he knows not of consequence."
We've devalued outcomes as if theyre perversely inescapable. All while we laud our debauched jurisprudence. Politically speaking its non debatable. These sophistically laid structures of influence.
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#28353210 - 06/09/23 12:15 PM (1 year, 17 days ago) |
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Idealistic
The forties roll along And we make an atom bomb Many of those near Sought a way to quell the fear Not the D.O.E. Holler if ya hear me
No, some world commission Had the docs’ attention Work with all nations Global cooperation Regulate world energy Holler if ya hear me
There would be no arms race Yet everyone could save face No huge stockpiles Exercising Satan’s wiles Avoid it if it could be Holler if ya hear me
In just the same way In about the same day Metzer, Alpert and Leary Upon getting rather cheery Worked up a lovely theory Holler if ya hear me
The idea was getting Dosage, set and setting Into a more mainstream Scene with expert teams No trifle, LSD Holler if ya hear me
But all these wise people Never got past the fetal Stage of their grand plans Too naïve, you understand They were thinking ideally Holler if ya hear me
So the drugs and the nukes Became government spooks And the people agreed That programs that freed Wouldn’t let the fear be
Holler if ya hear me
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