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Thursday, June 22, 2017
“Life is a series of events, from War and Peace to the trivial and sublime, poignant, and deadly, depressingly serious … “brother, sister, mother, father, teacher, lovers, warrior, seeker” … all going to the same place by various routes and using various tools they try to make a life of comfort and joy and routinely fail at it, even accepting the great accomplishments of civilization there has never been a golden age, even at the height of success and security all tribes & nation states have their private and individual sorrows that eclipse even the greatest events and accomplishments.
People have told me, on usenet, FB & assorted websites, that they could not talk about certain aspects of The Tarot. And not just because of the sacred vows they had taken not to do so, but also, as they were kind enough to inform me, they new something that i could not possibly handle, would not understand, or mis-use in some nefarious way as demonstrated by an ego that made me question my interlocutor in the first place.
It is unfortunate that Arthur Edward (wisdom while you) Waite and his literary reputation is clouded with this obfuscation, but that a modern day, 30+ something alternative type who professes special knowledge that they cant or wont talk about should consider it even a rhetorical technique is a piece of work.
Especially on a FB type group dedicated to talking about it. ... to give the other side their view, i am an arrogant know nothing with a superficial reading of a few Crowley poems, and, according to my detractors, and perhaps worst of all, i am not even an official member (one who has gone through the training of one of the various competing corporations that have turned Crowley into a revenue stream) that they would term an initiate. And like all tyros and faddists i can not speak of that which i don't know, and they won’t tell me unless I apply for membership in their group and agree to go through a process that is not explained to me before hand and that require vows of secrecy to say nothing of trust, to find out about. The cost of this enshrined initiation is more than I will pay, and that is not the actual, financial cost, but rather the necessity of intelectual & mental dishonesty & hypocrisy. At least the Catholic Church don’t charge money for its initiations as the teachings they are based upon are universally obvious, public knowledge, and no great secret to be charged money for and asked to swear oaths against revealing to others.”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Eerskine of that ilk :)
People have told me, on usenet, FB & assorted websites, that they could not talk about certain aspects of The Tarot. And not just because of the sacred vows they had taken not to do so, but also, as they were kind enough to inform me, they new something that i could not possibly handle, would not understand, or mis-use in some nefarious way as demonstrated by an ego that made me question my interlocutor in the first place.
It is unfortunate that Arthur Edward (wisdom while you) Waite and his literary reputation is clouded with this obfuscation, but that a modern day, 30+ something alternative type who professes special knowledge that they cant or wont talk about should consider it even a rhetorical technique is a piece of work.
Especially on a FB type group dedicated to talking about it. ... to give the other side their view, i am an arrogant know nothing with a superficial reading of a few Crowley poems, and, according to my detractors, and perhaps worst of all, i am not even an official member (one who has gone through the training of one of the various competing corporations that have turned Crowley into a revenue stream) that they would term an initiate. And like all tyros and faddists i can not speak of that which i don't know, and they won’t tell me unless I apply for membership in their group and agree to go through a process that is not explained to me before hand and that require vows of secrecy to say nothing of trust, to find out about. The cost of this enshrined initiation is more than I will pay, and that is not the actual, financial cost, but rather the necessity of intelectual & mental dishonesty & hypocrisy. At least the Catholic Church don’t charge money for its initiations as the teachings they are based upon are universally obvious, public knowledge, and no great secret to be charged money for and asked to swear oaths against revealing to others.”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Eerskine of that ilk :)
Monday, June 19, 2017
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
*Sigh* ....i suppose if im actually going to mention 'my blog' ....in conversation and all that ... however epistolary, i must needs pay more attention to it ....i love to write i just have nothing to say:)
Beyond the odd disjointed observations that veer from a good chicken stock to the amoral relativism of the brief, ephemeral poignancy of life.
Occasionally a labored and ultimately futile attempt at humor, wit, le bon mot ..that struts and frets it hour upon the stage .... but nothing original:)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Friday, October 14, 2011
Ranee at Arabian Knits wrote:
> Regardless, I do wonder about your initial implication and later statement that property is theft. Does that mean that you eschew all property? Or are you an unrepentant thief? Or, like so many with this ideological stance, do you view yourself as being more worthy of such possessions than the average man?
>
Mea culpa! Maxi Mea Culpa!
Woman is the Nigger of the World, we are all prostitutes, slaves and bozos on this bus, a bunch of gullible heard animals and property (especially private) property is theft.
I am a flawed, imperfect being caught in an inescapable trap not of my own making, in that i own property then yes, i am a thief, but NOT "unrepentant".
I like to believe that the earth, the means of production and labour cannot and should not be owned by individuals and to do so should be a crime. Labour precedes and creates capital.
Here i must paraphrase a poet who, imo, puts the proposition more succinctly than i....
There shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the
Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this
World or any other World.
There shall be no Property in Human Flesh.
Every Man and every Woman hath Right
Indefeasable to give the Body for the Enjoyment of any other.
The Exercise of this Right shall
not be punished either by Law or by Custom; there shall be no Penalty either by Loss or
Curtailment of Liberty, of Rights, of Wealth, or of Social Esteem; but this Freedom shall be
respected of all, seeing that it is the Right of the Bodily Will.
******
For this same Reason thou shalt
cause full Restriction and Punishment of any who may seek to limit that Freedom for the sake of
his own Profit, or Desire, or Ideal.
*****
Every Man and every Woman has full right either to grant or
to deny the Body, as the Will speaketh within.
This being made Custom, the Evils of Love,
which are many, extending to the Disturbance not only of Body but of Mind, and that in obscure
Paths, shall little by little disappear from the Face of The unspeakable Glory.
--
JL
> Regardless, I do wonder about your initial implication and later statement that property is theft. Does that mean that you eschew all property? Or are you an unrepentant thief? Or, like so many with this ideological stance, do you view yourself as being more worthy of such possessions than the average man?
>
Mea culpa! Maxi Mea Culpa!
Woman is the Nigger of the World, we are all prostitutes, slaves and bozos on this bus, a bunch of gullible heard animals and property (especially private) property is theft.
I am a flawed, imperfect being caught in an inescapable trap not of my own making, in that i own property then yes, i am a thief, but NOT "unrepentant".
I like to believe that the earth, the means of production and labour cannot and should not be owned by individuals and to do so should be a crime. Labour precedes and creates capital.
Here i must paraphrase a poet who, imo, puts the proposition more succinctly than i....
There shall be no Property in Human Thought. Let each think as he will concerning the
Universe; but let none seek to impose that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this
World or any other World.
There shall be no Property in Human Flesh.
Every Man and every Woman hath Right
Indefeasable to give the Body for the Enjoyment of any other.
The Exercise of this Right shall
not be punished either by Law or by Custom; there shall be no Penalty either by Loss or
Curtailment of Liberty, of Rights, of Wealth, or of Social Esteem; but this Freedom shall be
respected of all, seeing that it is the Right of the Bodily Will.
******
For this same Reason thou shalt
cause full Restriction and Punishment of any who may seek to limit that Freedom for the sake of
his own Profit, or Desire, or Ideal.
*****
Every Man and every Woman has full right either to grant or
to deny the Body, as the Will speaketh within.
This being made Custom, the Evils of Love,
which are many, extending to the Disturbance not only of Body but of Mind, and that in obscure
Paths, shall little by little disappear from the Face of The unspeakable Glory.
--
JL
Monday, August 1, 2011
>Sun Jul 31, 2011 at 07:15 PM PDT
>
>POTUS Has Our Back
>by airforceblue
>
> What they also got is a damocles hanging over their head in the form of the soon to expire Bush tax cuts, which Obama can blackmail them with just as they did all of us with the debt ceiling.
>
>
Shouldn't that be "a sword of Damocles"?
Or do they plan to start lynching the republicans?
When you casually mug the rich you usually only get spare change.
To make them cough up more of their ill got gains (sell off at least one
private jet and limit oneself to only half a dozen polo ponies) you got
to seriously threaten their rights and privileges (legal & social) to
exercise the ability to be rich & powerfull (confiscatory taxes, government
regulatory agencies, private property, control of the means of
production) before they will try to bribe you off with a
larger share of their ill-gotten gains.
Which, by then its probly to late anyway and hopefully, carrying that
picture of Chairman Mao wont be so meaningless any how:)
--
JL
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Janet wrote:
>
>it only stands to reason that i would interpret your remarks as more indicative of your >abilities to formulate, much less express your personal bias's as any exceptional quality to >them:)
>
>
>
> Your premise makes no grammatical sense, and even worse, it contains a misuse of the apostrophe.
>
> Janet
>
>
The horror! the horror!
"The themes explored by Burgess in The Wanting Seed seem all-too-relevant at the dawn of this twenty-first century, as land and resources dwindle and the Earth’s population continues to rise steadily, with the world’s most powerful empires engaged in an undeclared, undefined war on an Enemy whose name is simply ‘Terror’. Is it possible that even now, the masses are being manipulated into support for a pragmatic, never-ending war necessary to sustain a quality of life that seems otherwise unsustainable? Perhaps, as Burgess suggests, the masses won’t have it any other way. Perhaps human existence, for most, really is little more than sex and death—one forever demanding the other."
--
JL
>
>it only stands to reason that i would interpret your remarks as more indicative of your >abilities to formulate, much less express your personal bias's as any exceptional quality to >them:)
>
>
>
> Your premise makes no grammatical sense, and even worse, it contains a misuse of the apostrophe.
>
> Janet
>
>
The horror! the horror!
"The themes explored by Burgess in The Wanting Seed seem all-too-relevant at the dawn of this twenty-first century, as land and resources dwindle and the Earth’s population continues to rise steadily, with the world’s most powerful empires engaged in an undeclared, undefined war on an Enemy whose name is simply ‘Terror’. Is it possible that even now, the masses are being manipulated into support for a pragmatic, never-ending war necessary to sustain a quality of life that seems otherwise unsustainable? Perhaps, as Burgess suggests, the masses won’t have it any other way. Perhaps human existence, for most, really is little more than sex and death—one forever demanding the other."
--
JL
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