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Atheism

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Thank god I’m an atheist.

I said that once, thinking it was pretty funny. I asked Kevin Sanders if he thought it was pretty funny. He kind of paused for a bit, looking maybe a bit not getting it, and I said come on man think about it and then the light of comprehension dawned and he did think it was pretty funny. Oxymoronic in fact.

Not his word.

Still, atheism by definition and common use is not believing in supreme beings or a being. Really though it has more to do with not adhering to simplistic supernatural suspension of disbelief and blind faith.

Deism is also interesting.

Neither have anything to do with what I am on about. Truth. Fact. The Is.

A new term is needed.

Truthist. Truthism. Hey Colbert I was here long ago so don’t get all bent about originality.

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Looking Toward Nothing

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Drifting. A drifter. Aimless. Meandering. Going with the flow. Blowing in the wind.

This is a state that one may find oneself in at times. Or permanently.

Not unlike floundering in its incarnation drifting is quite different.

A drifter moves without purpose, without a goal, without compunction to a degree.

A drifter can be like any person really, so ethics and integrity are present to the extent they are present in anyone. The idea of no compunction would mean not dictated by a specific objective.

Drifting aimlessly toward nothing looking forward to nothing being nothing.

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You See Red

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Just noticing that the red text in front of the header looks like seeing red.

Reminds me of a Wishbone Ash tune, You See Red.

Don’t remember much about the song, just the chorus, and presumably title.

I do not see red of course, just truth.

Very irritating.

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Awaiting Moderation

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I’ve been awaiting moderation and yet is it to come.

One extreme or the other.

Though my Greek ancestors were known for moderation as of now I have none.

No hurry.

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No Comment

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

As of yet, I have no comment.

When I do, I will not hesitate to make clear the view that I see.

If this remains unclear, than the fault is clearly yours.

Haha.

Happy Thanksgiving World

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Commitment

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

a pledge or promise; obligation

Using definition #4, probably the most common in terms of daily usage, I think about desire and goals and what that really means. I think about actions speaking louder than words, really means that actions contain truth of motivation and words contain truth of contemplation.

We watched a movie the other night. Something about the Fastest Indian about a man who raced his 1920 Indian motorcycle for the simple purpose of going faster than anyone else in his class.

The film stars Anthony Hopkins, and though not a great film, certainly provocative in some sense. We were watching a DVD. We checked out the special features. Therein was the real great part of the movie, the man himself, Burt Munro.

Unbelievable.

Amongst the fabulous time we got to spend with Burt we got to see people speaking about Burt. The one that really resonated was the young man describing Burt as one of the few free people. Why was he free? Because he did what he wanted and wants to do.

That, of course, got me to thinking. I’ve always seen that truth, truth like Devin talks about it, the truth of feelings and opinions, is displayed by what we do. Our actions belie our true belief, feeling, intent. Joe Middleton the other day scoffed at the idea that someone wants to be doing something they aren’t, when they aren’t shows that they really don’t want to do that other something.

So Burt shows us that what we truly desire can easily be achieved.

All it takes is commitment.

Look it up.

I’m fresh out.

Happy Birthday Judy!

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Goals for Humanity

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Sometimes the idea of hitting a target seems appropriate to those not taking aim.

By this one can think of the possibility that one will not hit a target without aiming for it, though literally a false statement, practically true. In terms of likelihoods, hitting the target is highly unlikely.

Substitute target for goal and one can begin to understand a simple but sometimes overlooked paradigm of movement, that movement forward should be dedicated to reaching a certain point.

All the its not the destination its the journey slogans aside it is easier to get somewhere specific when you know where you are going.

Though I highly recommend drifting, this earth, a place where we evolved from star dust or appeared spontaneously from the mind of an all powerful being with faked evidence to test our faith, is soon to become inhospitable to us, and most living things we value or are accustomed to being around and eating.

Soon is relative. But soon enough for humanity.

If humans decided to maintain this earth in a state that would facilitate our continued lives, with a quality of life as we desire, this would be a goal, and the odds of reaching this goal would no longer be random but focused. Ain’t gonna happen. Still.

Where are you going?

Me? Nowhere fast with nothing to say, but its ok. It’s ok.

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I Don’t Believe in Belief

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Food for thought. Or maybe food for nothing.

Believing implies that the nature of things is a decision. There is no recognition of what is, or that anything is, when one “believes”.

Now, I may see a tree, and believe I don’t. I may believe I am intelligent when I am stupid. I may believe in dreams, when dreams are an illusion. I may believe in gravity, when gravity is without me. I may believe just about anything I want, when those things are not real, definable, or apparent.

Seeing the truth is a state of recognition, not belief. Seeing what is, is a rare ability, to be debunked by the believers.

Truth exists. Within you and without you.

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A Die Happy Song

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Well as many of you don’t know, composing music is kind of like breathing. You do it without really being aware, always, and you sometimes mess it up and lose you breath.

Dumb metaphor.

Let’s try composing music is like meditating. Yeah. Better. Sometimes you can die happy, sometimes you can’t.

So sometimes when I listen to my songs, music not usually words, sometimes the music hits me in a way that reminds me of life, the perpetual motion of life, the stillness of life, in essence the law of inertia.

And sometimes my music reminds me of a locomotive, very difficult to move, very difficult to stop.

When I listen to music, I look for the riff that is to die for, like a lot a Jimmy Page’s early work, Lennon has some, DiMeola and others.

When I hear those, I understand that an achievement such as that, leaves one little need to ever achieve anything else.

A die happy performance.

And then, inevitably, the opinion changes, about oneself, and the quest continues.

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Principles

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Have you ever heard “its the principle” before?

You won’t hear that in matters of law.

Law is based on cultural values, principles, agreed upon standards of behavior and then incredibly enforced by negotiated agreement due to logistical constraints.

A very strange situation this is, because everything we are taught regarding “do the right thing” and “be honest” and “stand up for what is right” and “call a spade a spade” and “protect your rights” and “do unto others” goes out the window when you enter this strange world of adrenalin junky legal types who have no real grasp of any of that any more and the highest bidder wins.

Its the principle of the matter that gets me.

Ach nein

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