The first formal introduction to any than the vaguest impression of breathing (i did it 'wrong' as in, i wd tighten my stomach on the in breath). When i sought the Sufis (whom i found in the San Francisco White Pages under the name Sufi Islamia Ruhamiat Society (due to irrational prejudice the Society has dropped the Islamia and is now simply The Sufi Ruhaniat International. My teacher was Ahmaddin As-Salik in the lineage of the current Pir of the order, Moineddin Jablonski. After Ahmaddin's death, and other factors, i chose to focus on the mundane part of my life. I started at City College in 2000. 11 years and i have 3 classes to go on a 2 year certificate program. considering the difficulty of Design 110 - Rapid Visualization i may take just that one class in the fall. City College is tired of me, and no longer offers financial aid. That does not rule out scholarships, which require 2 letters of recommendation (check - at least as far as asking. Both would like some personal details that might be relevant, and what the committee is looking for. I attended a seminar on scholarships. My major life challenge boils down to procrastination. I very well cd have hammered out a letter to my two instructors w/ the data they need. The due date is the 4th - shd have already done it, and tonite is not too late. not to speak of the letter i have to write myself, explaining my struggles and how i have overcome then. I only have a high GPA on my side. a poor completion ratio, but that will be wiped out if i take the additional 5-8 classes i need to transfer to state. If going to school is like pulling teeth, why do it? Alison Miller suggested that 'it is the only game in town'. that is, if they are gonna pay me to go to school, may as well. well, let's see how Scholarships pan out. I get as much as the FEDs say is my need. Since my own personal contribution is close to zero, i qualify for approx $16,000 in scholarship money. which, declared on my taxes the right way, does not affect my disability payments. (Tho the accountant at A.C.O.R.N. used a 'deferment' that may come back and bite me. fortunately i know a real accountant if such a thing were to manifest, i think he might take me on as a charity case.)
I don't suppose any of that has to do w/ Shakespeare. So far, in my reading among the critics, i have encountered the thesis that much of Shakespeare's later texts contain incoherencies that scholars attempt in vain to edit into some kind of sense. The counter thesis that the speeches of Leontes and Polixenes, rather than revealing a lack of sense in the original, tho obscure, reveal that instead of blaming Shakespeare for creating lines that are nonsense, that Shakespeare is exploring a theme, which has to do w/ power over and a refusal of ambiguity. Those in power cannot tolerate the ambiguous. Went to the Rosenberg Library at City College and found Ted Hughes exploring the NeoPlatonic/Alchemical milieu that was part of the circle that commissioned Love's Labour's Lost. I haven't read enough of Ted Hughes book to judge his thesis, but he prefaces his introduction by asking the gentle reader to abandon, for the sake of a thought experiment, the Shakespeare of psychological realism, and see instead a 'mythic' writer. To join him in exploring the underground grottoes and structures of Shakespeare's mythic imagination. I put the book aside at the beginning of the chapter on Venus and Adonis. By now i know that Hughes intends to show that the image of (in Grail imagery) 'the dolorous blow' in particular the roman variant the Shakespeare makes his own. I haven't read that, which mebbe i will do right now. let's see if i can find the text online.
[… … …](read along w/ me)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
kenne on Liberty
Democracy is a dangerous tool in the hands of the People. the Founding Fathers (notice there were no women? unless i am mistaken there were no black men at the Convention where the Constitution was argued and ratified - pls tell me their was a freedman at the Constitutional Convention!)
the founding fathers didn't like the direction that the democratic institutions were going under the Articles of Federation. the people are too emotional too easily swayed by demagogues (see the Federalist Papers by Madison, he was there. and he is remarkably blunt.) The purpose of our Constitution was to dilute the power of direct democracy. The Fathers didn't trust the people. And at the time the right to vote was limited to property holders. They didn't trust their own class. Jefferson is considered to be the liberal hero who saved us from Hamiltonian tyranny. Aaron Burr may have been mentally unstable, but his antagonism to Hamilton started as an argument over the crippling control the banks had over America. go Burr! vendetta and dueling are often seen as 'outlaw' justice, but it is the path chosen by many throughout history. Hamilton was not a native citizen and cd never be President but he at the time of the duel was the most powerfull person in America.
I hope Egypt is not unduly influenced in their path to Democracy by the American system. I think a Parliamentary system is more just, in that minority parties have access to power. I have been a mutterer in the corner (kind like a voice in the wilderness, only more invisible) calling for a new Constitution. let's not rush into it. let's spend a decade talking about what kind of society we want. There are those that claim that no system can be imposed by decree and change the facts of human nature. I think that argument is so wrong - the facts of human nature are the distortions of human nature imposed by the needs of production. we are slaves, and are very angry about it, and cling to those scraps of freedom we have.
For instance, i sorta want to be a school teacher. In America i am free to celebrate any religion i want in ways that include the ingestion of drugs forbidden to non-members of the religion As in peyote, which is legal for those whose religion uses peyote sacramentally. I can't argue if i'm caught w/ a bag of peyote buttons that i have a religious right to use peyote, because despite the 1st amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" there are many court cases around veganism and other belief systems where 'religion' is defined in a way that one's idiosyncratic belief system does not constitute a religion. I wear certain items of jewelry for what are religious reasons. But a religion according to the courts must have a foundational text and certain level of organization (churches and popes and such).
I have joined a church or religion but the members of said 'institution' usually flinch when you refer to their activity as religious. "This is spirituality". But i tithe a certain amount of time every year to helping out during our major holidays. But if i were a school teacher, or worked for a religious bigot (as a teacher you are certain to have some students whose parents are intolerant of other religions) it wd behoove me to keep my mouth shut about my belief system. Those of you who are pagans and work in public schools know what i mean. I hesitate to call myself a pagan, but there is a certain polytheism in my beliefs, so pagan is as close as you are going to get. My own private religion was revealed to me alone (the original meaning of heretic) and in the course of my life have had experiences that seem like memories of a pre-conceptual worldview. i don't know how writers get their ideas. Some people call the source of their writings a being from Beyond like Ramtha and they say they channeled the information. The experience is for me more like vividly recalling something that didn't happened to kenne any time since 1963 when i was born. Like vividly recalling being a Franciscan msk who had fallen in love w/ the witch whose confession wd. allow Her to go to Heaven. I once read that some of the Franciscans were so devout that they wd stay w/ their 'client' right up to the Burning, and as i read that it even so often happen that the Franciscan friar wd be so close to the fire, hoping for a 'confession' that he wd also die - i cd vividly recall my spirit entwined like smoke w/ the spirit of the witch, and becoming one w/ that person. Frank Herbert writes in the Dune books that the female line of ancestral memories is unendurable for any man but their Kwisatz Haderach [sp?] whose cd look at all the time lines. That may be true, I don't have access to the memories of that witch i imagine that once i loved and died trying to save her soul. If i really am a twin soul, I only remember selective scenes. Or, i just cannot imagine what it is like to be a woman.
I didn't name the church i joined. and if the members of that body were to hear me call their organization a church they wd collectively flinch. But the essence of religion is this (to paraphrase Paul) feed the hungry, comfort the widow, visit prisoners. "By your fruits you shall be known."
The religion whose foundational texts i am most familiar w/ is of course Christianity and to a lesser degree Judaism (the Judaic approach to what Christians call the Old Testament) is different enough from the luke-warm assention to christianity (we went to church when more religious family were visiting - i was baptised as a new-born as is the custom w/ the Methodists. joke: my grandfather was Church of Scotland, my grandmother was Catholic - they chose Methodism as a compromise. hahaha. The Methodist Church didn't seem to have much juice back then. as a child i preferred Catholicism, the ritual appealed to me. and my first glimmerings of any use for my psychick powers came to me at church - i found i could sing along to any song, even tho i had never heard it before and wasn't looking at the lyrics. I can also answer your question based on the first word before the question itself is posed. In my English class i wrote 'reconciliation' in between the columns of qualities personifled by the Sun and the North Star in the characters Leontes and Polixones in the Winter's Tale. when the instructor was framing his question about these contradictory qualities i said "Reconciliation." he said "who said that?" ["me."] he looked at me funny, he had barely started the sentence. "That's right." for the benefit of the class he finished asking the question. This skill or intelligence can be disruptive. I have profound respect for all the previous Cassandras. a fren recently called me a canary and people ignore my distress at their own peril.
every semester i make a vow to keep my mouth shut, and just be a good student. i have learned to wait long enough for someone else to speak up when the instructor asks a question. My educational goals aren't the same as the normal young person going to City College. why shd they have to ask the famous question "Is this going to on the test?" After a kenne digression the teacher found interesting lead the class on a long digression, someone wd say that. i hope to never hear it again. but when i had a social fail at a fren's birthday party he disagreed when i said i had the intention of having conversatations w/ people, and not take hostages. he said, "No. you want to be heard."
Well here, in this obscure corner of the internet, i can ramble and hold you hostage and at any point you can stop reading. in person, getting kenne to be quiet is a skill that very few people have. In hindsight, i see that I like Mike and Lizie and courted them for the room i live in now, because they both have excellent disengagement skills, and i can be told to shut up and not get hurt feelings. most people don't have that skill, or they just don't choose to be kind. most people will allow kenne to take them hostage and escape at the first opportunity, generating resentment and such. When in the course of a lecture on social norms and the crazy vibe i radiate i suggested that people have a share of responsibility when someone like kenne seems to have fallen in love w/ their own voice. I do listen. if i think you are grossly wrong i may choose to walk away from you rather than let myself get upset and argue w/ someone i don't enjoy arguing w/. Otis (otherwise known as Douche) prefaces every response to anything i say w/ a "this is how you are wrong and a fool." The last time i saw Douche i was talking about certain particulars about the experience of being a recipient of Federal and State entitlements. I am on both Medicare and Medical and have the best medical care possible. Certain specialists like psychiatrists pretty much are impossible to get in as a new private practice patient. But my orthopedist is glad to take what the Medi/Medi offers as recompense. Medi/Medi people are a small niche of disabled people who have enough years of a work history to qualify for Medicare, but make the minimum payout, and have no assets so i also still am on MediCal [MediCaid is the generic term for the state run health systems. different states call it different things.] So my conversational gambit is based on my own experience as a member of a denigrated elite - the leisured poor. And Douche starts his denounciation of socialism w/ his usual "yer wrong" and i walked away. he said "Oh, you say your piece and then when it's my turn you walk away." So i returned and said "I won't listen to your lies. When I am talking I sm telling the truth, and when you talk all you do is parrot lies." and walked away for good. Douche's birthday is the same day as my party and Douche is the boyfren of Lizie's best fren, so there is a conflict. If Douche and I ever do talk again, i will tell him i will not tolerate being told i am wrong, or that i don't know what i am talking about. If he is willing to back off from being a Douche and talk to me as a peer. But i will not tolerate being abused.
Am reading a book Hayek On Liberty but i don't have a reasoned response to it yet. this post is my unreasoned response. Douche and the entire built meme of the free market (which Hayek claims to be an evolved entity) rests on the creative efforts of people like Hayek to purge science and philosophy of certain entities which have been found to be full of contradictions. But Hayek is the main apologist/architect of the current worship of 'free market economy' as the only route to liberty.
the founding fathers didn't like the direction that the democratic institutions were going under the Articles of Federation. the people are too emotional too easily swayed by demagogues (see the Federalist Papers by Madison, he was there. and he is remarkably blunt.) The purpose of our Constitution was to dilute the power of direct democracy. The Fathers didn't trust the people. And at the time the right to vote was limited to property holders. They didn't trust their own class. Jefferson is considered to be the liberal hero who saved us from Hamiltonian tyranny. Aaron Burr may have been mentally unstable, but his antagonism to Hamilton started as an argument over the crippling control the banks had over America. go Burr! vendetta and dueling are often seen as 'outlaw' justice, but it is the path chosen by many throughout history. Hamilton was not a native citizen and cd never be President but he at the time of the duel was the most powerfull person in America.
I hope Egypt is not unduly influenced in their path to Democracy by the American system. I think a Parliamentary system is more just, in that minority parties have access to power. I have been a mutterer in the corner (kind like a voice in the wilderness, only more invisible) calling for a new Constitution. let's not rush into it. let's spend a decade talking about what kind of society we want. There are those that claim that no system can be imposed by decree and change the facts of human nature. I think that argument is so wrong - the facts of human nature are the distortions of human nature imposed by the needs of production. we are slaves, and are very angry about it, and cling to those scraps of freedom we have.
For instance, i sorta want to be a school teacher. In America i am free to celebrate any religion i want in ways that include the ingestion of drugs forbidden to non-members of the religion As in peyote, which is legal for those whose religion uses peyote sacramentally. I can't argue if i'm caught w/ a bag of peyote buttons that i have a religious right to use peyote, because despite the 1st amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" there are many court cases around veganism and other belief systems where 'religion' is defined in a way that one's idiosyncratic belief system does not constitute a religion. I wear certain items of jewelry for what are religious reasons. But a religion according to the courts must have a foundational text and certain level of organization (churches and popes and such).
I have joined a church or religion but the members of said 'institution' usually flinch when you refer to their activity as religious. "This is spirituality". But i tithe a certain amount of time every year to helping out during our major holidays. But if i were a school teacher, or worked for a religious bigot (as a teacher you are certain to have some students whose parents are intolerant of other religions) it wd behoove me to keep my mouth shut about my belief system. Those of you who are pagans and work in public schools know what i mean. I hesitate to call myself a pagan, but there is a certain polytheism in my beliefs, so pagan is as close as you are going to get. My own private religion was revealed to me alone (the original meaning of heretic) and in the course of my life have had experiences that seem like memories of a pre-conceptual worldview. i don't know how writers get their ideas. Some people call the source of their writings a being from Beyond like Ramtha and they say they channeled the information. The experience is for me more like vividly recalling something that didn't happened to kenne any time since 1963 when i was born. Like vividly recalling being a Franciscan msk who had fallen in love w/ the witch whose confession wd. allow Her to go to Heaven. I once read that some of the Franciscans were so devout that they wd stay w/ their 'client' right up to the Burning, and as i read that it even so often happen that the Franciscan friar wd be so close to the fire, hoping for a 'confession' that he wd also die - i cd vividly recall my spirit entwined like smoke w/ the spirit of the witch, and becoming one w/ that person. Frank Herbert writes in the Dune books that the female line of ancestral memories is unendurable for any man but their Kwisatz Haderach [sp?] whose cd look at all the time lines. That may be true, I don't have access to the memories of that witch i imagine that once i loved and died trying to save her soul. If i really am a twin soul, I only remember selective scenes. Or, i just cannot imagine what it is like to be a woman.
I didn't name the church i joined. and if the members of that body were to hear me call their organization a church they wd collectively flinch. But the essence of religion is this (to paraphrase Paul) feed the hungry, comfort the widow, visit prisoners. "By your fruits you shall be known."
The religion whose foundational texts i am most familiar w/ is of course Christianity and to a lesser degree Judaism (the Judaic approach to what Christians call the Old Testament) is different enough from the luke-warm assention to christianity (we went to church when more religious family were visiting - i was baptised as a new-born as is the custom w/ the Methodists. joke: my grandfather was Church of Scotland, my grandmother was Catholic - they chose Methodism as a compromise. hahaha. The Methodist Church didn't seem to have much juice back then. as a child i preferred Catholicism, the ritual appealed to me. and my first glimmerings of any use for my psychick powers came to me at church - i found i could sing along to any song, even tho i had never heard it before and wasn't looking at the lyrics. I can also answer your question based on the first word before the question itself is posed. In my English class i wrote 'reconciliation' in between the columns of qualities personifled by the Sun and the North Star in the characters Leontes and Polixones in the Winter's Tale. when the instructor was framing his question about these contradictory qualities i said "Reconciliation." he said "who said that?" ["me."] he looked at me funny, he had barely started the sentence. "That's right." for the benefit of the class he finished asking the question. This skill or intelligence can be disruptive. I have profound respect for all the previous Cassandras. a fren recently called me a canary and people ignore my distress at their own peril.
every semester i make a vow to keep my mouth shut, and just be a good student. i have learned to wait long enough for someone else to speak up when the instructor asks a question. My educational goals aren't the same as the normal young person going to City College. why shd they have to ask the famous question "Is this going to on the test?" After a kenne digression the teacher found interesting lead the class on a long digression, someone wd say that. i hope to never hear it again. but when i had a social fail at a fren's birthday party he disagreed when i said i had the intention of having conversatations w/ people, and not take hostages. he said, "No. you want to be heard."
Well here, in this obscure corner of the internet, i can ramble and hold you hostage and at any point you can stop reading. in person, getting kenne to be quiet is a skill that very few people have. In hindsight, i see that I like Mike and Lizie and courted them for the room i live in now, because they both have excellent disengagement skills, and i can be told to shut up and not get hurt feelings. most people don't have that skill, or they just don't choose to be kind. most people will allow kenne to take them hostage and escape at the first opportunity, generating resentment and such. When in the course of a lecture on social norms and the crazy vibe i radiate i suggested that people have a share of responsibility when someone like kenne seems to have fallen in love w/ their own voice. I do listen. if i think you are grossly wrong i may choose to walk away from you rather than let myself get upset and argue w/ someone i don't enjoy arguing w/. Otis (otherwise known as Douche) prefaces every response to anything i say w/ a "this is how you are wrong and a fool." The last time i saw Douche i was talking about certain particulars about the experience of being a recipient of Federal and State entitlements. I am on both Medicare and Medical and have the best medical care possible. Certain specialists like psychiatrists pretty much are impossible to get in as a new private practice patient. But my orthopedist is glad to take what the Medi/Medi offers as recompense. Medi/Medi people are a small niche of disabled people who have enough years of a work history to qualify for Medicare, but make the minimum payout, and have no assets so i also still am on MediCal [MediCaid is the generic term for the state run health systems. different states call it different things.] So my conversational gambit is based on my own experience as a member of a denigrated elite - the leisured poor. And Douche starts his denounciation of socialism w/ his usual "yer wrong" and i walked away. he said "Oh, you say your piece and then when it's my turn you walk away." So i returned and said "I won't listen to your lies. When I am talking I sm telling the truth, and when you talk all you do is parrot lies." and walked away for good. Douche's birthday is the same day as my party and Douche is the boyfren of Lizie's best fren, so there is a conflict. If Douche and I ever do talk again, i will tell him i will not tolerate being told i am wrong, or that i don't know what i am talking about. If he is willing to back off from being a Douche and talk to me as a peer. But i will not tolerate being abused.
Am reading a book Hayek On Liberty but i don't have a reasoned response to it yet. this post is my unreasoned response. Douche and the entire built meme of the free market (which Hayek claims to be an evolved entity) rests on the creative efforts of people like Hayek to purge science and philosophy of certain entities which have been found to be full of contradictions. But Hayek is the main apologist/architect of the current worship of 'free market economy' as the only route to liberty.
Monday, January 3, 2011
A Reply to those who are the strong ones
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
Anthony Robbins
when it comes to taking the stairs and an assessment of the state of my arthritis your phrase might add a few years of being able to take the stairs in my gradually decline until i am old enough to be a candidate for knee replacement surgery. in that context i find your quote usefull. it might be, if applied consistently - nay, relentlessly! it might prove to a state achieve-able in my bipolar cycles - a state that when i am in it, might be the fulcrum from which i can move myself in better mental health. but i have a cyclical disease that is poorly understood, and most medicines used to treat were developed for seizures, or are weird little medicines in the category Atypical that have a long list of effects, that if you are the lucky combination of factors they admit they don't understand that you will feel better. the house of cards came down when i started taking a new asthma medicine whose number one warning was 'may cause suicidal ideation' and the may turned into "and that whole list of other psychiatrist symptoms thrown in just for kicks!"
in other words i flinch reading your statement. it feels cruel, and unforgiving towards the damaged and ineffective. it seems to have an inner architecture of isolation and the competitiveness that seems to be a compulsion of the western mind, and widely felt by all - competition in the sense of an word that comes between compassion and cooperation, one kind of behaviour exhibited by living creatures. as a man who had dreamed fantastic dreams as a young man, stripped from me by mental illness and a cruel world's response to that expression of my inner world was incredibly violent. i am permanently damaged. Like in Spinal Tap "if you want to get louder you go to 11." i have long since hit the 10 barrier. we got 10 on the pain scale as a daily experience. later today i return to physical therapy. parallel to the cruel world that commits acts of violence upon my person if i persist in saying crazy things - is a world of healers some of whom have enough craft to allow the natural compassion to manifest in my body as acts of healing. but the healing is slow, and the vulnerable are a constant target.
i appreciate the phrase as it operates as way of encouraging the faltering. it hurts my feelings to imagine the way people might express that sentiment who are not coming from a place of heart felt expressions of Service - "does this help?" is the stance of good hearted people, but the cruel and heartless use similar, more hatefully phrased, like the charming euphemism for firing that alcoholic who was good in a pinch and for god's sake he has a family: trimming the dead wood.
sorry to rant. in fact i wont. i will repost to my page and not polute your page w/ dissent: i feel that you post this because you think it might be inspiring. having had poor health my entire adult life - entirely invisible poor health, asides from the hippy extreme to which i have let the freak flag fly you mostly wd see a robust guy in his late 40s who looks pretty damn good for his age.
Anthony Robbins
when it comes to taking the stairs and an assessment of the state of my arthritis your phrase might add a few years of being able to take the stairs in my gradually decline until i am old enough to be a candidate for knee replacement surgery. in that context i find your quote usefull. it might be, if applied consistently - nay, relentlessly! it might prove to a state achieve-able in my bipolar cycles - a state that when i am in it, might be the fulcrum from which i can move myself in better mental health. but i have a cyclical disease that is poorly understood, and most medicines used to treat were developed for seizures, or are weird little medicines in the category Atypical that have a long list of effects, that if you are the lucky combination of factors they admit they don't understand that you will feel better. the house of cards came down when i started taking a new asthma medicine whose number one warning was 'may cause suicidal ideation' and the may turned into "and that whole list of other psychiatrist symptoms thrown in just for kicks!"
in other words i flinch reading your statement. it feels cruel, and unforgiving towards the damaged and ineffective. it seems to have an inner architecture of isolation and the competitiveness that seems to be a compulsion of the western mind, and widely felt by all - competition in the sense of an word that comes between compassion and cooperation, one kind of behaviour exhibited by living creatures. as a man who had dreamed fantastic dreams as a young man, stripped from me by mental illness and a cruel world's response to that expression of my inner world was incredibly violent. i am permanently damaged. Like in Spinal Tap "if you want to get louder you go to 11." i have long since hit the 10 barrier. we got 10 on the pain scale as a daily experience. later today i return to physical therapy. parallel to the cruel world that commits acts of violence upon my person if i persist in saying crazy things - is a world of healers some of whom have enough craft to allow the natural compassion to manifest in my body as acts of healing. but the healing is slow, and the vulnerable are a constant target.
i appreciate the phrase as it operates as way of encouraging the faltering. it hurts my feelings to imagine the way people might express that sentiment who are not coming from a place of heart felt expressions of Service - "does this help?" is the stance of good hearted people, but the cruel and heartless use similar, more hatefully phrased, like the charming euphemism for firing that alcoholic who was good in a pinch and for god's sake he has a family: trimming the dead wood.
sorry to rant. in fact i wont. i will repost to my page and not polute your page w/ dissent: i feel that you post this because you think it might be inspiring. having had poor health my entire adult life - entirely invisible poor health, asides from the hippy extreme to which i have let the freak flag fly you mostly wd see a robust guy in his late 40s who looks pretty damn good for his age.
Friday, December 31, 2010
They (you know who they are) want to destroy everything they cannot control, cont.
pls look closer at the christmas tree farms and ask about the wild forest that used to be there. and if you are not convinced that the beingness of the forest is worth preserving for its own sake, then how about this: a living interdependent forest is actually potential worth far more than the christmas tree farm - the forest is more valuable than lumber. ask about the wild forest conditions that allow the christmas tree farms to grow in soil has not not been exhausted by our agricultural methods. any culture that stops rotating crops and letting the fields lie fallow is too desperate for cash to see the damage that our techniques to do the thick rich soil natural conditions left for us to exploit. to continue w/ the forest - what gave the europeans who come to the Americas the impression that the rich forests and bays full of life 'just happened?' to acknowledge the native land management practices dismisses the illusion that the land is not being used and there for there for the taking of the industrious European, whose homeland had lain fallow during the dark age and recovered enough to feed the population explosion that continues to this day. shut the fuck up whitey, i know the poor master race is not exploding as fast as the poor races of the southern hemisphere, and all over europe white people seem disinclined to bring a child into this world. America and nature were based on a set of deceptions concerning the nature of nature, and the rôle traditional cutltures play in nurturing usefull plants, guiding variation that produce for instance over 200 varieties of potatoes, each attuned to a particular microclimate.
the christmas tree farms will fail w/out inputs because growing christmas trees as a crop does not replenish the soil, which in the meantime is also eroding away faster. since to get the most out of the crop the farmer cannot allow forest conditions to emerge naturally - a natural catastrophe like a forest fire and clear cutting have similarities and glaring differences. both result in a period of the prevalence of weeds. define weeds as quick growing plant that creates conditions in the soil ideal for its rapid propagation and the elimination of competitors. agriculture has increasing depended on an ecocatastrophe to clear the way for profits over sustainability.
and there's the difference between a tree farm and extracting value from a living forest. the tree farm requires a modicum of work relative to the potentially size-able return in large cold hard beautifull cash, if you are savvy and work the system, and even the less venial farmers can make a good quick buck, compared to a sustainable enterprise utilizing the forest - to maintain balance and guarantee the greatest return from managing a forest in the old way requires most of having an intimate relationship to the forest. the single greatest value of the forest: it's biodiversity, is where the fortune is to be made - or are you unaware that you cannot patent the whole plant but do get an patent when you isolate the 'active' ingredient. a plant like chocolate has hundreds of chemicals and scientists have studied the effects of many of them but not all and don't have the financial nor theoreticall resources to investigate the interactions of several chemicals at once. if substances are banal as epson salts turn to an unpleasant goop in the bath if you add olive oil soap before the epson salts have disolved. i have no indication of either epson salt or Dr. Bronners behaviour independently that mixed together under certain replicable that a weird and rather gross mixing results. that is a demonstration of many thing you can try the next time you take a bath. one demonstration concerns starting conditions. if the salts are dissolved enough the goop will not happen when you add the soap. those conditions rely on varients as simple as how hot you run your bath..
the christmas tree farms will fail w/out inputs because growing christmas trees as a crop does not replenish the soil, which in the meantime is also eroding away faster. since to get the most out of the crop the farmer cannot allow forest conditions to emerge naturally - a natural catastrophe like a forest fire and clear cutting have similarities and glaring differences. both result in a period of the prevalence of weeds. define weeds as quick growing plant that creates conditions in the soil ideal for its rapid propagation and the elimination of competitors. agriculture has increasing depended on an ecocatastrophe to clear the way for profits over sustainability.
and there's the difference between a tree farm and extracting value from a living forest. the tree farm requires a modicum of work relative to the potentially size-able return in large cold hard beautifull cash, if you are savvy and work the system, and even the less venial farmers can make a good quick buck, compared to a sustainable enterprise utilizing the forest - to maintain balance and guarantee the greatest return from managing a forest in the old way requires most of having an intimate relationship to the forest. the single greatest value of the forest: it's biodiversity, is where the fortune is to be made - or are you unaware that you cannot patent the whole plant but do get an patent when you isolate the 'active' ingredient. a plant like chocolate has hundreds of chemicals and scientists have studied the effects of many of them but not all and don't have the financial nor theoreticall resources to investigate the interactions of several chemicals at once. if substances are banal as epson salts turn to an unpleasant goop in the bath if you add olive oil soap before the epson salts have disolved. i have no indication of either epson salt or Dr. Bronners behaviour independently that mixed together under certain replicable that a weird and rather gross mixing results. that is a demonstration of many thing you can try the next time you take a bath. one demonstration concerns starting conditions. if the salts are dissolved enough the goop will not happen when you add the soap. those conditions rely on varients as simple as how hot you run your bath..
They (you know who they are) want to destroy everything they cannot control
i feel like they (you know which 'they' i mean) are intent on destroying everything they can't control.">
Take this next statement srsly: if we do not restore the habitat of wild cacao trees immediately there will be no more chocolate. the plantations of cocao trees are a declining clone line. eventually all the lines of cloned trees in plantations will fail: the cacao does not sexually reproduce in captivity. experts in chocolate cannot identify all the factors necessary to induce the plant to go to maturity. w/ deforestation and other forms of habitat loss (like the 'accidental' release of an incredible amount of pollution extracting petroleum in the rainforest). i am breaking it down in stages,now i spell it out: if we do stop wantonly destroying biologically diverse environments to increase production of goods for export. then. chocolate production will trickle to a halt, and there will be no wild cacao trees left. the unique conditions in which cacao exists in an dynamic web of living interactions will no longer exist and cacao will another extinct species lost as a direct result of our voracity of poor wildlife management. because once the great die off is over, nature will be carefull preserved until the last forests are an embarrassment and bruce dern goes nuts when word comes down that due to budget concern the last of earths forests are scheduled to be destroyed. i choose chocolate because many people use it as a sacrament against stress, which is the disease of our age. the entire planet is in distress to satisfy our need for more. Alice Miller and Ray Kurzweil both (to cite a children's advocate who divorced herself from psychoanalysis when she realized that Freud covered up for Victorian Vienna and by extension everyone by retreating from the truth about child abuse. his theory about infantile sexuality and his set of maturation dramas is a lie to put a fancy word on "you can't rely on children to not tell on us" - even if the New Pope on a Mission from God to Save the Catholic Church from paying reparations whose lives were destroyed by rapists in the priesthood, whose lives were destroyed by a culture of denial in the Church and in Society as a whole. The pain and suffering of the victims must be diminished, made the victims fault "how cd it be rape when she didn't fight?" The Pope's Sacred Mission to not part with a dime stoops to no smear too foul to discredit those whose testimony indicts an institution immune to the suffering it inflicts. But i see no difference btwn the Pope and say the C.E.O. of Union Carbide who has suffered no personal consequences nor has the corporation been forced to make the payments an indian court ordered Union Carbide to pay for the 'accidental' release of toxic gas (those closest began to hemorrage from every oriface and died on the spot) those far enough away from exposure to an immediately fatal dose suffer from a profound collapse of their health, often requiring extensive treatment. A doctor who set up a clinic on site to treat people was quickly shut down so that no one would panic. i guess if we don't panic we are easier to control.
Take this next statement srsly: if we do not restore the habitat of wild cacao trees immediately there will be no more chocolate. the plantations of cocao trees are a declining clone line. eventually all the lines of cloned trees in plantations will fail: the cacao does not sexually reproduce in captivity. experts in chocolate cannot identify all the factors necessary to induce the plant to go to maturity. w/ deforestation and other forms of habitat loss (like the 'accidental' release of an incredible amount of pollution extracting petroleum in the rainforest). i am breaking it down in stages,now i spell it out: if we do stop wantonly destroying biologically diverse environments to increase production of goods for export. then. chocolate production will trickle to a halt, and there will be no wild cacao trees left. the unique conditions in which cacao exists in an dynamic web of living interactions will no longer exist and cacao will another extinct species lost as a direct result of our voracity of poor wildlife management. because once the great die off is over, nature will be carefull preserved until the last forests are an embarrassment and bruce dern goes nuts when word comes down that due to budget concern the last of earths forests are scheduled to be destroyed. i choose chocolate because many people use it as a sacrament against stress, which is the disease of our age. the entire planet is in distress to satisfy our need for more. Alice Miller and Ray Kurzweil both (to cite a children's advocate who divorced herself from psychoanalysis when she realized that Freud covered up for Victorian Vienna and by extension everyone by retreating from the truth about child abuse. his theory about infantile sexuality and his set of maturation dramas is a lie to put a fancy word on "you can't rely on children to not tell on us" - even if the New Pope on a Mission from God to Save the Catholic Church from paying reparations whose lives were destroyed by rapists in the priesthood, whose lives were destroyed by a culture of denial in the Church and in Society as a whole. The pain and suffering of the victims must be diminished, made the victims fault "how cd it be rape when she didn't fight?" The Pope's Sacred Mission to not part with a dime stoops to no smear too foul to discredit those whose testimony indicts an institution immune to the suffering it inflicts. But i see no difference btwn the Pope and say the C.E.O. of Union Carbide who has suffered no personal consequences nor has the corporation been forced to make the payments an indian court ordered Union Carbide to pay for the 'accidental' release of toxic gas (those closest began to hemorrage from every oriface and died on the spot) those far enough away from exposure to an immediately fatal dose suffer from a profound collapse of their health, often requiring extensive treatment. A doctor who set up a clinic on site to treat people was quickly shut down so that no one would panic. i guess if we don't panic we are easier to control.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The internal contradictions of the radical communities that both nurtured and oppressed me while i was busy losing my mind
shit. i just evaporated my essay not pasting before i copied something else. crap. come back later.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
i've gotten cold
the prostitute is shy. she knows i like her, turns her head, sez hi. love is useless. too bad you can live w/out it.
i always stumble when i try to say something, You sed i sdn't generalize. i heard misha cry, poor so lonely, and felt sorry for him. o ed go Thor, when Thor was beating him up. Thor sez: NO MORE ROOM! ok babyhead, i give you wub. that's why i was smiling at the cute chicana. wearing short shorts, spit curls glued down w/ greasy kid stuff. decided i shdn't even ask her (Tarin that is) how she wd. feel if fell in love w/ someone else right now.
[editor's note: i don't remember a hot chicana in short shorts]
i always stumble when i try to say something, You sed i sdn't generalize. i heard misha cry, poor so lonely, and felt sorry for him. o ed go Thor, when Thor was beating him up. Thor sez: NO MORE ROOM! ok babyhead, i give you wub. that's why i was smiling at the cute chicana. wearing short shorts, spit curls glued down w/ greasy kid stuff. decided i shdn't even ask her (Tarin that is) how she wd. feel if fell in love w/ someone else right now.
[editor's note: i don't remember a hot chicana in short shorts]
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