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    #27935998 - 09/05/22 07:27 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

I am releasing a new poetry book, which is available for pre-order and is already live as an e-book. It's called Ripples on an Infinite Sea. Take a look and see if you're interested:  https://www.amazon.com/Ripples-Infinite-Sea-James-Heffernan/dp/1667860151/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662427458&sr=8-1


here is a sample:


Because


One assumption always made
(And one that is a little played)

Is that all existing has a cause
This is the deepest of our laws

But why assume everything must?
We start from nothing, turn to dust

Perhaps Nature could simply be
Accomplished enough, isn’t she?

But man obsesses over one word: “Why?”
And never gets an answer, only a sigh

Perhaps this prerogative is purely local
And all it really is, is man being vocal

Vocal, that is, in a robotic sense
Pointlessness in the present tense

What if Creation did not ascribe
The meaning to being that man describes?

What if “causes” are human ideas
And not philosophical panaceas?

What if, in fact, there is only infinity?
In all directions, a taut sublimity


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Re: Check out my new book of poems [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #27936045 - 09/05/22 07:50 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Added it to my reading list for ordering when I get around to it.  :thumbup:
I really enjoyed the sample ty DQ.  :cheers: :mushroom2:


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Re: Check out my new book of poems [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #27936163 - 09/05/22 08:53 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

:peace::heart:


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    #27945635 - 09/11/22 04:29 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

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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    #27959568 - 09/20/22 07:32 PM (1 year, 4 months ago)

Work


It is indeed a luxury, for all that it is worth
To have a job one likes, to like to go to work
But most of us out there, are not quite so lucky
For most the grind, the rat race, is really rather sucky

Now the fact is that we all, are brainwashed on this front
There is no fundamental need for jobs to all affront
For you see the world economy is artificial
Our perspective on it is only really superficial

Bucky Fuller was saying things—back in the 1950s!
Like streamline, get rid of jobs, raise enough in a jiffy
If Dr. Fuller was saying such things in the way back when
Well, we ought to be able to streamline the thing then

If we put our heads together, we could jettison half!
Half of jobs, maybe more, a good plan we could craft
And people could then do the things that truly inspire
Perhaps then we would not be in such a frantic mire

The best we have come up with is the dreaded UBI
If we could fund it, it could work, at least so by and by
But as I’ve said, all it takes is teamwork and a will
And we could plan an economy that still pays the bills

Ah! but this is not how humans work, not heretofore
We lack initiative and wait to the last minute, boors
But I throw in with all workers, just as the retail clerk
Gets up, gets dressed, gets anxious too, and says aloud,
“Fuck work.”


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    #27979439 - 10/03/22 11:53 AM (1 year, 3 months ago)

The Nobility


It seems we’ve had the notion, of something like “nobility”
It also seems that presently most don’t have much mobility

Apparently, the thing comprises talent, wealth or power
Again, it seems that most of us don’t have these at this hour

Supposing, though, that such a thing as “noble” did exist
It sounds as if this type of person is one one can’t resist!

I call to your attention, though, a most unwelcome fact
The “nobles” were responsible to put folks on the rack

The Inquisition was about as wealthy as it gets
But on the Jews before it I would not place many bets

Stalin had the power of a hundred old French kings
(But I don’t think I need convince too many of such things)

Warhol was a famous, celebrated rakish craftsman
Talent? I’m not sure he had any more than the draftsman

So while in theory nobility sounds nice, it’s complex
Surely thousands possess its purported great and good effects

But whether nobles ever were true nobles, or just rich
It seems today just everybody occupies some niche

Anyway, throwing out wealth and power, for a start
And keeping talent, implying genius, would be to be smart

Maybe few are noble these days, perhaps it’s the wrong word
Merit, talent, worth, value, goodness – all are blurred

And generally what happens, most follow holy dollars
Those who don’t, who stay the course, are those to whom I’d holler


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Re: Check out my new book of poems [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #27993850 - 10/11/22 02:43 PM (1 year, 3 months ago)

Your poetry crypted the mind bad, man.

Maybe try to write children's books.  Parents and mother's go through children's book like a driving car goes through gas.


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    #27998521 - 10/14/22 11:53 AM (1 year, 3 months ago)

Unified Field


A hundred billion neurons
A galaxy of intelligence
Contained within a skull
Or perhaps not?

The sublime connectivity
Is primarily electrical
Instead of a tungsten filament
One has a nervous system

But that is not where the story ends
Nor does complexity account for consciousness
Complexity is a natural result of being
Not the other way round

This electrical field is interesting
Because it lives as spirit
Or in other words
The brain, the mind, the electricity, the awareness
Are all one thing

The conscious is merged with the electric
So the whole of mental consciousness
Is distributed across the whole brain
Every neuron, every synapse, of the one

So when we think
We have access to the entire field
And great circles are drawn
But this is only metaphor

With effort, we make circles
In a train of thought
So that, one idea links with another
That is related to a third,
That is related to our answer

These concepts may be unrelated
In principle, or superficially
But the circular movement
Allows us to use our brains

And the metaphor ends
With the realization that
The conscious electric field
Has intelligently navigated a neural puzzle
Circles upon circles is only an illustration

Ultimately, it is this whole field
This mind field
That must be the topic of discussion
For the brain doesn’t compute neuron-to-neuron
But rather as this individual ubiquitous field

So the brain, the electrical mind, and pure spirit
Are the causal and acausal players here
Any other explanation or approach
Is poorly conceived


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    #28000854 - 10/15/22 07:15 PM (1 year, 3 months ago)

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Reason for deletion: No bueno


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Re: Check out my new book of poems [Re: WhoManBeing]
    #28000974 - 10/15/22 08:33 PM (1 year, 3 months ago)

Thx. :heart:


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    #28023529 - 10/29/22 07:57 PM (1 year, 2 months ago)

Intention


Awareness always carries intention
God’s subtle and brilliant invention
This truth is seldom understood
Complexity is a convention

Science as yet cannot explain
How intent arises inside a gross brain
It wonders how matter can generate thought
Truly to see it does not deign

Of course we all know the folly of this
Neuroscience has all its tenets amiss
Complexes of atoms do not make us see
The dogma sealed with Satan’s kiss

As a matter of fact, awareness is all
And intent is how we answer creation’s call
We are conscious, the people and all animals
No creature is really too small

But anyway, all this is not yet acknowledged
Here in the West, with our dubious “knowledge”
So circumstance keeps us all on the down low
And we’ll send our kids off to college


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    #28047616 - 11/12/22 07:40 PM (1 year, 2 months ago)

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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    #28047636 - 11/12/22 07:49 PM (1 year, 2 months ago)

I really don't comprehend this poetry.

You ever make love to a lady?  Romance?


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Re: Check out my new book of poems [Re: WhoManBeing]
    #28047648 - 11/12/22 07:53 PM (1 year, 2 months ago)

"awareness always carries intention"

No it doesn't.

Actions have intentions. Awareness is more of a naked presence. More of surrender to moment of observation, among many ways to say of such.


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    #28074398 - 11/29/22 11:40 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

The Buck Goes Up


Nature has a certain flow, a certain way for Her to go
Agreeable, yes mostly so, at least in days of yore
There’s nothing extra needed, nor good God to be heeded
All eagle really needs is air to soar

And so the cosmos goes, we can trust it in its flows
It regulates itself for all generally quite well
She may be harsh, it’s true, but about that what to do?
I have to think it’s difficult to tell

The point here indeed, I’ll make with due speed:
Nor God nor Heaven does Mom require
But this I will say: Sometimes, see, the way
Is blocked – deadly deep in a mire

She can often by herself, select from her most long, wide shelf
The most appropriate and rapid of her salves
But here is where the scene takes on a darker sheen
A solution sometimes Nature does not have

Naturally, it’s well and good, when local forces be withstood
But sometimes, let’s admit, must needs ethereal
You will call it luck, and I’ll say lightning struck
In the end the situation’s immaterial

This lightning gets its grease from a radiating peace
(At least we hope there are such realms withal)
It comes to it often that there is nothing to win
Unless some benefactor saves it all


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    #28097157 - 12/14/22 11:45 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

An Education


There are a few, yes some, it’s true
For whom schooling has worth
But most would like to bid adieu
To any school on Earth

The thing the system does, you see
Is teach from times of old
Not how to think, or see, or be
But just do what you’re told


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    #28115314 - 12/28/22 04:16 PM (1 year, 30 days ago)

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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    #28138265 - 01/13/23 04:50 PM (1 year, 14 days ago)

Cool!!


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    #28138547 - 01/13/23 07:14 PM (1 year, 14 days ago)

Thanks!  :peace::heart:


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    #28165880 - 01/31/23 11:48 AM (11 months, 20 days ago)

Our Little Will


It’s generally thought
By those who are not
Competently introspective
That good old “free will”
Should pleasantly fill
The entirety of our perspective

The thing is, you see
We aren’t too free
By any old reasonable measure
In fact, Nature’s say
Closes off the way
For all truth of this popular treasure

And abandoning Nature
And this entire wager
There are other hard forks in the road
To a great degree
It’s mental debris
The whole thing’s just really a load

We do have perhaps
Except in mishaps
Some function that one might call “will”
We are beings of spirit
And Nature can hear it
Some capacity we can fulfill

But the fact, it remains
That the subconscious deigns
To drown out our little free will
Abysmally trivial
Pointlessly convivial
When the rest of our brains we distill

It is simply a level
(In which we may revel)
Among levels gone quite a bit higher
But just to suppose
That it’s a bright rose
Is to have a vain vision quite dire

So here then in sum
It’s best to stay mum
When it comes to convictions about
The power of mind
And “freedom” that’s blind
That we in all truth are without


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    #28170741 - 02/03/23 12:45 PM (11 months, 17 days ago)

The Abolition of Money 


We are told, from our youth, that money is natural
Necessary, good, and of primary concern
But it only exists because humans won’t share
So all one can do is steadfastly earn
Indeed, without money all people would hoard
To be done with it all we all yearn

Perhaps there could instead be an alternative
Perhaps some new novel system
Perhaps it could be a complex ledger of sorts
The debts, the taxes – who will miss them?
It would limit the goods a person could acquire
And hoarding would perforce be stemmed

With these vast improvements, it seems possible
That economic sharing could work
Humans would see that hoarding just hurts
But success in the shadows does lurk
We could share commodities and services
There certainly would be some perks

We could do away with all forms of money
And radically streamline affairs
The economy robust, A.I. does the work
And instead of just putting on airs
We could make real change, a truly new world
With everyone having a share

These are all very nice suppositions to make
But in fact, it would fall quite apart
A new currency would arise, somehow
Some manipulation of the ledger for a start
And humans are not, simply not geared to act
In ways altogether quite smart

I do not know what transformation’s required
For anthropoid conduct to improve
I suppose it could be quite as simple as this:
Some of the glands you remove
And boost the IQ average up fifty points
And we might enter in some new groove

In the end, I’m afraid, my suggestions must
Be confined to future eras
The collective IQ seems only to go down
And we’re confronted daily with new terrors
It’s a nice dream to have, perhaps get there one day
But such blessings are not nigh for Terra


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    #28194407 - 02/19/23 11:43 AM (11 months, 1 day ago)

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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