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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28399693 - 07/18/23 12:03 PM (11 months, 2 days ago)

The Brain


Inside of the human brain
The mind field distributes
The neurons, they contribute
But let us not yet deign

That whole of the mind field
Distributes across all
And all circuits recall
That with which thoughts deal

Let me be totally clear:
What matters is the whole
The cerebrum in its role
By a whole field is steered

One could call it holographic
The whole contains the parts
The parts are state-of-the-art
And enfold the holy traffic

We tend to focus on the pieces
The centers of process
To make ourselves some progress
We need holistic increases

The parts, they have no meaning
Outside of ‘foresaid whole
Beneath all this the soul
Observing broadband gleaming


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    #28401704 - 07/20/23 11:59 AM (11 months, 7 hours ago)

Nuclear Electric


Our energy problems could be solved
Tomorrow
If only we could accept a few things rationally

Climate change is serious and
Real, and its catastrophic effects can be witnessed in our
Backyard

This conflagration is, in point of fact,
Avoidable if only we could start thinking
In terms of real solutions

There is a way to eliminate our carbon
Footprint if we could only allow our biases
To fade

Fusion technology is at least twenty years
Away
But there is another emission-free technology we could employ right
Now

And that is next-generation nuclear
Reactors, which at this point are thoroughly and totally
Safe

They provide abundant power safely and
Cleanly, with no radioactive waste products
And no danger

Next-generation nuclear power is the best
Solution; it generates zero carbon footprint, releasing only
Steam

If we could create a comprehensive
Network of this now safe and clean nuclear energy

The planet could heal itself of global
Warming and then we could deal with the real issue:
A.I.

All we have to do to reverse climate
Change is to stop all carbon emissions,
Which in this scenario, is
Possible

Then we convert all associated technologies to
Electric, and poof! We have performed an environmental
Miracle

The bottleneck is that when people hear the word,
“Nuclear”
They react negatively, fearfully, and sometimes violently
And this is a serious problem

We have the means, today, to fix this tremendous
Issue:
We have only to convince ourselves that it is
The way to go

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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28401929 - 07/20/23 04:28 PM (11 months, 2 hours ago)

The Apollo Program


The Apollo missions to the Moon
Were good for adventure and fun flying
In the long run, that’s about all
Which is a prime reason for its dying

The whole nationwide spectacle
Of industry and billions
Required just the right world politics
It was, though, enthralling to millions

But this political alignment
Was fragile, and it has dissolved
That’s why we haven’t been back
It seems, though, there’s a new resolve

The contributions to science
Of these missions aren’t too grand
We learned a bit of Earth and Moon
Some geology, it was rather bland

Indeed, though, it brought forth technologies
Still in wide use today
Spurred on digital electronics
And computing, Huzzah! Hooray!

Our knowledge was not revolutionized
And that place is a desolate Hell
Misplaced nerdy notions of longing
Make the enterprise seem so darn swell

In the end, it was a neat experiment
But there’s not much reason to go
A few astronauts were illumined
But most didn’t see much to know


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28403433 - 07/22/23 01:16 AM (10 months, 29 days ago)

I really don't miss dogs or cats as pets
They miss you when you are gone.:thumbup:

Masterpiece.  Yeah, I could add so much to it but just getting the fuck out of debt and not a good time of what one wants and what one needs

When one was full of greed. 

One fucking month and am out of debt, worth it, then think about getting a pet.  There, that is some damn good poetry.

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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: Barnaby] * 2
    #28404117 - 07/22/23 03:45 PM (10 months, 29 days ago)

Native Moon


Native peoples are specially attuned
To the ecological shades made by the Moon
What we cannot feel, to them is so real
I hope compassion grows soon

At each individual lunar phase
The Earth reflects differently her rays
The behaviors one sees, on nocturnal lees
Vary along with the days

People today have no sensitivity
For any knowledge of such serenity
They’re oblivious really, sympathetic ideally
All the same, it’s paralyzed inactivity

Voluminous libraries of knowing
Are gone if they are not going
What remains in their place? Where has gone all the grace?
Still, I think Earth soul is flowing


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    #28404402 - 07/22/23 07:55 PM (10 months, 28 days ago)

"Native peoples are specially attuned."

No shit.

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    #28406388 - 07/24/23 12:08 PM (10 months, 27 days ago)

Responsibility


The question of what responsibility means
Is ages old, and unresolved it seems
In the East, it appears, one doesn’t believe
A person’s to blame when it’s time to grieve
In the West it seems everybody leans
Toward fault, and to prison one takes his leave

It occurs to me there are two forms of fault
The first is objective, misalign starry vault
Something is physically or neurally wrong
A structural or pathological flaw comes along
So even if a person can be judged worth his salt
His freedom can be stripped for a song

So, to my way of thinking, this does affirm
The notion of responsibility, which we needn’t unlearn
But along with this more objective side of things
There’s a subjective component that rather brings
Out the main difficulty, which in the soul burns
Are we pulled by puppet-strings?

Does a person really intend, or in any way choose
From the self, from the soul, to freedom lose?
Is there more than material wrongdoing here?
When we think of crime what is it we fear?
To what extent can we excuse
The human propensity to ourselves wrongly steer?


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    #28407844 - 07/25/23 11:59 AM (10 months, 26 days ago)

Earth’s Fate


Sometimes I do wish
Things had gone differently
For our species

By now, it seems we
Are not a particularly elegant
Adaptation, in terms of evolutionary theory

That is, we are destroying
Our habitat

But the fact is
Homo sapiens, and its predecessors
Lived properly and well
For hundreds of thousands
Really millions of years

Just as one must say that
A man who died at 104
Had a pretty good run,
So we may say that
Man’s living in his evolutionary setting

Was a pretty nice slice of time

And now, Nature is taking
A different tack
With Earth

What it will lead to, who knows
But if there is no major punctuated cataclysm
Earth’s new phase might be a fruitful one

My heart goes out to the suffering and dying
But, oh boy, is it an interesting time in Earth’s history
I hope we are not merely circling the drain


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    #28409064 - 07/26/23 12:06 PM (10 months, 25 days ago)

Sixties Visions


It was not totally unreasonable
For 60s visionaries
To declare outer space to be our destiny
Early missionaries

Man’s destiny, indeed
Was reckoned physically to explore
Not to pursue this goal
Was mockingly deplored

At the time, one might now say
This was the most reasonable goal
Based on what then was apparent
Man must push off from the shoal

Now, fifty years later
We can see indeed quite plainly
That while logical and even sensible
These visions were held quite vainly

This outlook made good sense
But we know it was in error
Now we see, not the Enterprise
But that A.I. shall have Terra


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28409529 - 07/26/23 07:18 PM (10 months, 24 days ago)

“Cause and Effect”


Emerson once said that shallow men
Believe in luck or circumstance
While strong men believe in “cause and effect”
For them, naught happens by chance

Me, I believe there’s plenty of luck
Many are monumentally lucky
Look at Washington, or Napoleon, or Caesar
They were not just simply plucky

If these men had not had the benefit of luck
We’d simply be talking about others
Some humans must enter history as miracles
By the law of averages, but what mothers!

These special ones benefitted not as much
(And here is the principal insight)
From destiny, as from fortune and timing
Destiny happens in hindsight


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    #28410291 - 07/27/23 11:51 AM (10 months, 24 days ago)

The Bardos


Of course, in the end we expire
But the point at which we retire
Is fraught with consequent fates
Coming back, or pearly gates?

One might be destined for reincarnation
In which case he does not stop at the station
Or higher into the spheres
The soul’s rich history coheres

Exempt or not from samsara
Rub elbows with Avalokitesvara
To go back down into the stew?
What sort of a being are you?


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    #28412823 - 07/29/23 12:08 PM (10 months, 22 days ago)

People and Places Shine


Just as skeletons are draped in flesh
So certain places hide their truth
Some rare souls find that they mesh
With netherworlds providing proof

Some rare souls above reproof
With people and places shine
‘Twere not for mine and thine
Take care nay be aloof

And with this shining comes the sign
That naught is what it seems
And naught is guaranteed benign
And forget all pleasant dreams

Along with grace the horror deems
That the real breaks in twain
And the half that breaks brutal is pain
Along with grace the horror teems

Those who shine hardly ever feign
They are victims of their light
The question is: to which domain
Do they go: evil or right?

I hope these souls reject the night
And harmonize with all forces
Stay true to holy sources
I hope I can say they’re all right

But places go round different courses
And the Devil has tacit approval
Indeed, it’s so that God endorses
The most corrupt soul removal

This is the great horror, it’s crucial
To understand the point:
Sometimes the gods excuse evil
When people disappoint


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    #28416115 - 08/01/23 11:58 AM (10 months, 19 days ago)

Model Agnostic


Wilson’s genius took the approach
That “is”-ness business invites reproach

He pointed out also that concepts are models
The curtain of “certain” with falseness is mottled

All concepts are metaphor, no belief is real
Transacting our acting is part of the deal

‘Reality tunnel’s the best game in town
Let's not trust the thrust of our gaudiest nouns

The Model Agnostic’s the one who’s most sane
The trying replying causes one to deign

The only retort I’d provide for old souls
Is systems, nay dis them, they have certain roles

The key is that they cannot be arbitrary
Un-caustic to agnostics, but truth does not vary

Our models, while fluid, are based on some truth
To see, and to be too agnostic’s uncouth

But the approach is a sound one, that I don’t doubt
Teasing out, sound throughout, is what it’s all about


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    #28416406 - 08/01/23 03:55 PM (10 months, 19 days ago)

Socratic Ontology


Among other ideas
Socrates was interested
In how human ontology
Unfolds across life

He believed
That we are born
With all the knowledge
We will ever have or need

And that over the course
Of our lives
Knowledge is unlocked and unfolds
Revealing to us what was inside all the time

In other words, as we age
We increasingly discover
What we already really know
But didn’t know we knew

So as we get older
We don’t gain new information
So much as our perspective widens
And we see the truth in new lights

As I get older
All this makes more and more sense
As life unfolds
The focus sharpens


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    #28417087 - 08/02/23 06:33 AM (10 months, 18 days ago)

Solo II, you wonderous beast!
You ripped the most but used the least.
I thought forever you would thrive: until you told me "Error 5"




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    #28418649 - 08/03/23 11:52 AM (10 months, 17 days ago)

Delusion or Illusion?


There seem to be two schools of thought
One says there’s everything, one says there’s naught
One says that we can say there is reality
The other says realism is quaint banality
The former believes not all is appearance
The latter’s in extreme agnostic adherence

Some hold that existence is all observation
And aver Copenhagen with no reservation
All we can know is what is instrumental
There is no such thing as a real fundamental
When we are not looking, the world can’t exist
Human consciousness creates, now please desist

Some have come a long way since this bad philosophy
It’s really some kind of peculiar atrocity
It all comes down to whether you see delusion
Or whether, more lightly, it’s all just illusion
Are our perceptions filled with nothing at all?
Or do we confuse Nature with a skewed view of the small?

Perhaps there is a way out of this mess
Where measurement problems can no longer stress
And there is no boundary between macro and quantum
Of course, theories like this, we’d first have to want them
As beings we see Nature, it’s part of the deal
So perhaps, just perhaps, existence is real?


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    #28420383 - 08/04/23 11:24 AM (10 months, 16 days ago)

I took 2 and a half pills
With an air of
Cause for concern.
This (My) "Morning" God
(muddled by creative spirit sense identity)
The unhinged, that is, spoke through me:
"You're right on the edge"
I know
That I need this clarity in depression
& consequence of inaction
To remind me
That it is real.
"If I go back out I will die here."
Sunshine feels like blissful ignorance
& demons finally taken ahold
Whiteless eyes of hungry abyss
That hold no mercy.


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    #28420696 - 08/04/23 04:08 PM (10 months, 16 days ago)

The Thing-in-Itself


In the vastest portion of time
An object in our field of vision
Perceptually a focus of fission
Convicts us of a crime

Contrary, though, to consensus
It is a viable undertaking
Full disclosure not forsaking
The method to defense us

The “thing-in-itself,” indeed
Is a special identity
In a higher zone’s serenity
Perception can be freed

When subject and object become one
(And this is no trivial thing)
The universe begins to sing
And the splinters come undone

The Emperor urged us to see
The weaving of the contexture
And every transcendent conjecture
Navigates us through the high sea


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    #28421739 - 08/05/23 11:48 AM (10 months, 15 days ago)

Some Say the Truth Doesn’t Exist


If there were no such thing as truth
Nothing we said could have any meaning
Whether you assert it, or deny it
If it didn’t exist you couldn’t do either

The postmodern notion is that truth doesn’t exist
And Logical Positivism, Copenhagen, whatever
Wouldn’t such statements have to be true
If they were to carry any relevance?

And if they can’t be truth, they can’t be true
We are either simpering and muttering incoherently here
Or there are knowable truths toward which we are pointing
Language is not a meaningless superfluity


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    #28423016 - 08/06/23 11:53 AM (10 months, 14 days ago)

The End of Metabolism


In a universe that remembers everything
Death can have no special meaning
Everything continues, all is conserved
To call it the end’s overweening

All death represents is the end of metabolism
Nature’s a spendthrift, biology dies
It could not be otherwise in any ecology
Oblivion thus is all lies

In Nature nothing is ever destroyed
It’s all just changes of form
In this sense physics is a kind of theology
But terrible fear is the norm

No, death is not what for us should have relevance
The word only means ex-metabolic
What ought concern us is the end of suffering
Our deeds deserve only the vitriolic


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