tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76183479227652256972024-03-13T11:10:53.287+08:00PROPHET OF NO PROFITJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.comBlogger403125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-27888649697048266732024-03-01T15:42:00.000+08:002024-03-01T15:42:14.335+08:00LIFE & TIME<p> LIFE & TIME & CREATIVITY.</p><p>Listening to Bernard Adamus last album and thinking <br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Zilla Slab"; font-size: 38px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1px;">ça laisse à désirer<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #c12d30; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">it leaves something to be desired</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #c12d30; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #c12d30; font-family: "Open Sans", serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">but then again creativity is HARD I mean the man kind of took a break and got sober and good on him but creativity is hard for everybody</span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchfK828Gpjs6Dr0wjXkHHkfkEa3OfHFQ7X6vhhpHCKqejYBL2nd_tTq5E8Mdd_ZJmtU7WbdTSubedUaELxNdEYn1jhmPQdLA6ABj7AHczeDvfcxYwCD_S6iK3qX23Gx6qMW6nQqzHadbah-sVSfiZ1MrrxNxX3sPEHbwz4_HyPsoViUr3zqzWe3M14Do/s320/everyone.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="128" data-original-width="320" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgchfK828Gpjs6Dr0wjXkHHkfkEa3OfHFQ7X6vhhpHCKqejYBL2nd_tTq5E8Mdd_ZJmtU7WbdTSubedUaELxNdEYn1jhmPQdLA6ABj7AHczeDvfcxYwCD_S6iK3qX23Gx6qMW6nQqzHadbah-sVSfiZ1MrrxNxX3sPEHbwz4_HyPsoViUr3zqzWe3M14Do/s1600/everyone.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">I mean all of them Alanis Morrissette, James Blunt, Ani DiFDranco, even the greatest most prolific of all: VAN the Man.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">This is why I admire J.D. Salinger; said what he had to say and fucked off, disappeared from the planet instead of being bled to death by so many producers, publishers and other sharks of the business.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">As I am listening to Adamus he is growing on me again lol</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">mind you his lyrics are just as good his music has changed a little, prolly a a much needed renewal in his entourage as you do when you sober up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">But yeah all of them, John Irving and Pink Floyd and all artists.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">You can't bat 1,000 every fucking time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">There is just so much a brain can come up with the rest is sad milking and stretching and abusing.<br /><br />Anyway CREATIVITY is almost an obsolete word these days even though I kind of abhor the word and its religious connotations and in ex nihilis business</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I rather stand with LAVOISIER on the subject</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">Dans la nature </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">rien ne se crée</span><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">, </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">rien ne se perd</span><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">I mean there are so many who called themselves creators these days and are a fucking joke<br /><br />CONTENT CREATOR<br />INFLUENCER<br />LOSER</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Anyway this blog like me is slowly dying it seems</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">many thoughts get lost in the oblivion cosmos,<br /><br />Some of them had to do with TIME and LIFE <br />LIFE being TEMPORARY</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">and TIME well basically non-existing AFAIAC when one is dead</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Dates and anniversaries marked the passing on time</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">but TIME ITSELF keeps PASSING </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">until it passes no more or it doesn't matter much when you're a pile of ashes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">And LIFE well is LIFE for you for me for the ant for the elephant</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">until it is not life anymore but death</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">not order anymore but chaos</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">What I feel today What I see today What I hear today<br />What I write and think today </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Will all be gone tomorrow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">This blog for a change is written directly on the blog site</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">all unedited as always of course <br />my usual flow of consciousness of lack of thereof</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">I am not a writer or an artist or a musician but the thing is that for anyone bipolar manic or not the tank has to die at one point the gas runs out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">INSPIRATION is such a funny word as it contains the word SPIRIT in it,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">which is nothing as I said so many times then AIR, AIR, AIR, AIR, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Hot Air, Cold Air but Air,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">No Air = No Life</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Something you say also when you meditate <br />INSPIRE, EXPIRE<br />INSPIRE, EXPIRE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">INSPIRE... EXPIRE</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">and then ONE LAST TIME</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">EXPIRE </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Goodbye Time! Goodbye Life!</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #c12d30; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-weight: 700;" /></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #c12d30; font-family: "Open Sans", serif; font-weight: 700;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-62652225911585130142023-12-20T17:11:00.002+08:002023-12-20T17:11:34.260+08:0014 years ago <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello little blog! Long time no see.<br />I just missed your birthday. You turned 14 years old on Dec 12th, which is coincidentally also Sue's Birthday and Our Anniversary: we just 'celebrated' our 22nd and you were born on our 9th.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway since no one ever reads you here it goes I just read somewhere it was good for mental health to write mindlessly.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What is it gonna be today? One thing is coming for sure it is the usual trigger that brings me here something about assholes blabbering that not doing nothing in front of injustices is participating in the evil and other bullshit and verbal diarrhoea when you get famous and are given a soap box and think you are the final authority in everything, names like Tutu and MLK come to mind.<br /><br />But before I move on to that now more pondering about LIFE and DEATH now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obviously the fact that I am sitting here typing means I am still part of the living rather than the other option and I just saw a funny video about a machine that tells you when you are going to die and what of. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For one thing I wouldn't stick my finger in this machine myself as I don't wanna know. Apparently there ARE tests and questionnaires that give you quite an accurate answer but STILL I don't wanna know. <br /><br />Just lost my sister this year and nearly lost my brother and still don't wanna know as the leaves on our trees keep falling. <br />Will I be singing with Tom Waits "I'm the Last Leaf on the Tree"? <br />Probably not but who knows?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sure I could live better sure I could eat better exercise more bla bla bla do intermittent fasting and run a marathon but the big question is<br /><br />AM I GOING TO NOW? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I am strong believer in extrapolation and extrapolation says I won't change a fucking thing since I never did.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I am Pavlov's Dog tied to a post digging deeper circles at the end of my chain.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So far the RNG gods have allowed me to live longer than my father and that is all I know. <br />Where will the dash end? <br />We should find out soon enough 1955-20??<br /><br />In the meanwhile now back to my trigger and that famous word INJUSTICE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">talk about a semantic minefield a nuclear linguistic, <br />a word invented by our sick fuck minds.<br />Morality is man made</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For one thing Mr. Self-Righteous <br />Where the fuck do we start? <br />Which one?<br />Do you have any clue of how many trillions injustice there are in this world?<br />of course your pet one IS the one what was I thinking?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For another thing are you aware of the length that those who perpetrate these injustices will go to stop you interfering with them? Life is worthless to them and especially your life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For another thing also who do you set your priorities?<br /><br />I am always amazed at all these vegans animal lovers activists as <br />my thinking goes to billions of children and women and men and poor people who are getting fucked every single day every single minute and you want to take care of animals first? <br />How about we get rid of the ANIMALS among us first and then we can move on to animals?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway it is as far as I am concerned a lost cause <br />pretty well what I mean every time I have said<br />MONEY TALKS and BULLSHIT WALKS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As to you Self Righteous activists whatever your name is <br />AFAIAC again there is only one sin (as much as I hate that word too)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the sin is Self Righteousness<br />Deluded fools who lift their noses on other human beings and dehumanise them rising themselves above the hoi polloi who think they are fucking ENLIGHTENED and even CHOSEN.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Minding my own business is not cowardice and just accepting reality stoically.<br />The age of martyrs and kamikazes is over,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It could be summed up in a couple of songs really as I always do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Your Last Bold Move ~ Ani Di Franco and<br />Everybody Knows ~ Leonard Cohen</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So keep on living little blog for a little while until all your ONES and ZEROS get lost in cyberspace way way before this whole solar system explodes and dies out and all of our heroic deeds are completely forgotten and fall into OBLIVION with all the rest of us the hundreds of billions that lived and breathed on this planet not mentioning the other trillions of life forms that also passed by as important as us if not even more </span></p><p>Over and Out for now<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOUGqFXLMRxd-dcQhx-DtPqSXHcTTpjRUdUaOhdObjr5NdgnH4EHtWjZkzzM3YrY-2stJKjDvQ12basCzDPVKnIwiBT6AZdhjX0CPABKx3Ff7jPmxXzOQH4a0QNzaF_vROMJ6LS5-Nu3D4cSMcYWjgMisXYXIe1icx5Wapm2XPW1R8FA_O60riKQTO464" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOUGqFXLMRxd-dcQhx-DtPqSXHcTTpjRUdUaOhdObjr5NdgnH4EHtWjZkzzM3YrY-2stJKjDvQ12basCzDPVKnIwiBT6AZdhjX0CPABKx3Ff7jPmxXzOQH4a0QNzaF_vROMJ6LS5-Nu3D4cSMcYWjgMisXYXIe1icx5Wapm2XPW1R8FA_O60riKQTO464=w640-h400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-4544579633721145032023-12-06T12:59:00.001+08:002023-12-06T12:59:20.559+08:00I'm telling you, lab rat to lab rat<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> We are programmed from birth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />Programmed right from our defective DNA one step away from the ape.<br /><br />Programmed by parents who were programmed themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some call it culture, some call it geographical situation,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some call it socio-economical background.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are programmed by schools and universities who themselves </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">are programmed by governments, big money, and the powers that be.<br /><br />Programmed by years of radio television and social media<br /><br />Programmed by thousands of years of mythologies, fables, lies and religion.<br /><br />The whole idea of free will is a lie itself promoted by snake oil salesman who are trying to tell you there is a good god out there, a just god, an all-knowing all powerful god that yet does fuck all to save its creation. AND HE NEEDS MONEY! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They NEED this imaginary power to shake their imaginary stick that gives them imaginary power otherwise they would just appear as the losers they are: <br />Nobodies with no power at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Trying to explain free will by trying to explain a just god is an exercise in futility.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All we are is ignorant Pavlov's DOGS in a gigantic humongous cosmic lab we cannot even begin to comprehend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are ALL SLAVES to a Humongous RNG and that's all Life is all about:<br />A gigantic casino where the house always win.<br /><br />Life is just a video game really not adhering to the multiple universes nonsense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">RNG ALL THE WAY,<br /><br />RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">RNG on your birth</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">RNG on your geography.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">RNG in every cell of yours.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">RNG on every second of everyday.<br /><br />Never wiser words were spoken but by a fictional character:<br /><br /></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000173/?ref_=ttqu_qu" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Claire Lewicki</a>: Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. <br />Nobody knows what's gonna happen next: </b></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>not on a freeway, </b></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>not in an airplane, </b></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>not inside our own bodies </b></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs.<br /><br /><a class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__ClickTarget-sc-110r0d9-0 cehZkS" href="https://genius.com/7490199/Deep-purple-child-in-time/If-youve-been-bad-lord-i-bet-you-have-and-youve-not-been-hit-by-flying-lead" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d8fe8; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: calc((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) 0px; position: relative; scroll-margin: calc(max(10vw, 0px) + 3rem + 0px + 1.5em); text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__Highlight-sc-110r0d9-1 jAzSMw" style="background-color: #e9e9e9; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.75px) 0px calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.25px);">If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And you've not been hit by flying lead</span></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; height: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal;">You'd better close your eyes </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; height: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal;" /><a class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__ClickTarget-sc-110r0d9-0 cehZkS" href="https://genius.com/7494952/Deep-purple-child-in-time/Bow-your-head-wait-for-the-ricochet" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d8fe8; font-family: Programme, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20.25px; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: calc((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) 0px; position: relative; scroll-margin: calc(max(10vw, 0px) + 3rem + 0px + 1.5em); text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__Highlight-sc-110r0d9-1 jAzSMw" style="background-color: #e9e9e9; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.75px) 0px calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.25px);">Bow your head<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Wait for the ricochet</span></a></b></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-74599902160963595952023-09-06T16:52:00.001+08:002023-09-06T17:00:42.762+08:00truth, beauty, freedom, and... love<p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo6IICWVSnVHS9QDyq1-2LB9SbG8yy_lb8l2aERap51d-5Bonfjm0DRuJDaNdngj_Z8JiMHOIZkkWsgiTVesXTFuss1eRKAPHPWC4Z3iaXi6UAJCiJp9tXnVAPhhviPGemp3XnWUY8mSNV5gptdtNAO2XNSvH139ZRQA-b7vZ3_U8Q_53LFWs_TeuxR3E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo6IICWVSnVHS9QDyq1-2LB9SbG8yy_lb8l2aERap51d-5Bonfjm0DRuJDaNdngj_Z8JiMHOIZkkWsgiTVesXTFuss1eRKAPHPWC4Z3iaXi6UAJCiJp9tXnVAPhhviPGemp3XnWUY8mSNV5gptdtNAO2XNSvH139ZRQA-b7vZ3_U8Q_53LFWs_TeuxR3E=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But, but tell me, that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and... love</span><p></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Well I can tell you one thing for sure</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Social Media or even plain Media does NOT</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and... love</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>"The medium is the message" </i></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. He showed that artifacts such as media affect any society by their characteristics, or content.</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Social Media is nothing close to Truth, Beauty, Freedom or Love.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">It is a world of sickening sycophants, </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">of blocking, ghosting, </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">eliminating all forms of dissension </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">all attempt to bring a narcissistic view to plain reality/truth. </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>It is the absolute opposite of therapy in fact.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It is one little kingdom of grand delusion.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It is noticeable even more on group pages where one would not even have a handful of friends on his page but now has thousands of captured viewers for his little soapbox of sad loneliness.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I always get back to these short reels to attract new disciples for all the tiny gurus of this planet how have shite to sell.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This modern Areopagus is utterly sickening</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(I better get my thesaurus out now but yeah Sartre's La nausée comes to mind here)</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Back then all one had to suffer in a big city was some cunt with a megaphone who was luckily out of hearing after a few blocks.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now they are everywhere: insipid and loud and numerous.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A strange strange society now, some sort of a reverse democracy where minorities have all the power and majorities are too scared shitless to do anything about it.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A handful of stand up comedians try to stand against it at their own peril of being "cancelled" themselves. </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A world of McCarthyism where one can have his life and revenue utterly ruined for one word one said many years ago before all this madness began</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">because madness is what this is:</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">some sort of mass psychosis </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and I won't live long enough to see the end of it but for fuck's sake it has to end one day </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">one would like to dream that common sense will prevail one day instead of a mass hysteria of headless sheep.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Which pretty well answers the question I was asking myself on a subject I don't care much about but this vote coming in Australia about giving a minority again a bigger voice well I will have to say No to that even though I think this so called democracy is a huge delusion really.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's kind of funny in a way because it lines me up with 2 people I can't stand LOL: Howard and Abbott.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O well I won't be distraught if it goes on either</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">we're back to Salomon and Farrokh Bulsara aka Freddie Mercury here who wisely said:</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Vanity of Vanities, All is Vanity. </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(someone translated it as futility and another as spitting in the wind) and</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nothing really matters, anyone can see</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nothing really matters</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nothing really matters to me</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And let's not forget the other great prophet now:</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Don Henley</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"Relax, " said the night man</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"We are programmed to receive</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You can check-out any time you like</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But you can never leave!"</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WE ARE ALL JUST PRISONERS HERE OF OUR OWN DEVICE.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-77654793196011889992023-05-30T12:01:00.002+08:002023-05-30T12:02:52.540+08:00see you here<p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgia5nsPtt3yIE5FKg8wC5wr5pTzg8Kgg_fpAO9UJwYnLsCkfUDvgsNQfwkzeBKES1PgQv2CrTgYQz6E46q5NxvzpC3pkRhznEFWxDrS790pfZv4BRcTN1LARSBSRPm3CJysQaUCMabeZfghnCHN1MmaOT9agr8cWLHmfo2Zmt1km7Oa7947jNtfTh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgia5nsPtt3yIE5FKg8wC5wr5pTzg8Kgg_fpAO9UJwYnLsCkfUDvgsNQfwkzeBKES1PgQv2CrTgYQz6E46q5NxvzpC3pkRhznEFWxDrS790pfZv4BRcTN1LARSBSRPm3CJysQaUCMabeZfghnCHN1MmaOT9agr8cWLHmfo2Zmt1km7Oa7947jNtfTh=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not sure what to think of this one really.</span></p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Prolly too early to think anyway, <br />not even finished my coffee yet BUT here we go...</span><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />The first word that came to mind here is <br /><br /><b>PROJECTION</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />the good ole Freudian Defence Mechanism.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Artists sometimes tend to be hubristic, </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">self-centered, </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">narrow minded </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and even narcissistic, </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">thinking <a href="https://prophetofnoprofit.blogspot.com/2009/12/most-people-are-other-people.html" target="_blank">of an old blog</a> here about Oscar Wilde<br /><br /><blockquote><i>“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation" - Oscar Wilde</i></blockquote>One seems to forget when one writes about people is that one is people too<br /><br />Here is another quotation now while I am at it, my trade mark:<br /><br /><blockquote><i>Strangers passing in the street<br />By chance two separate glances meet<br />And I am you and what I see is me<br />And do I take you by the hand<br />And lead you through the land<br />And help me understand the best I can</i></blockquote><br /><br /><b>I AM YOU AND WHAT I SEE IS ME</b><br /><br />I know Bukowski has a cult following and cult following in my mind is to be avoided, it does not respond well to criticism or logic or rationalisation or reason even.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong I like the guy I mean he is a lucky drunk who kind of made it but still HE could ALSO be called<br /><br />A pompous blazing bastard fool poet, <br />a very soft small lump of humanity.<br /><br />Just like so many of US <br /><br /><b>not THEM : US!</b><br /><br />Here is Pink Floyd again! <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihpdb8beBi1F0q_dY17203y9Xg4AgWhW-SrvuHVGO9yBCgSQBevW_B2K6SdR8h8GiBSPYf6lnnpvOWXicy2qrr4JELdNA5TRMk-5tuPlVtP3NlUYVa_LIgy4gDhpRISH5scVBiSvCxosmuvHDv3K5E--Fxh_vS4NdQXi7ozFYWDryLfYGSIDnOLHk6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="1242" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihpdb8beBi1F0q_dY17203y9Xg4AgWhW-SrvuHVGO9yBCgSQBevW_B2K6SdR8h8GiBSPYf6lnnpvOWXicy2qrr4JELdNA5TRMk-5tuPlVtP3NlUYVa_LIgy4gDhpRISH5scVBiSvCxosmuvHDv3K5E--Fxh_vS4NdQXi7ozFYWDryLfYGSIDnOLHk6=w517-h640" width="517" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-56624161535185866812023-05-27T15:38:00.001+08:002023-05-27T16:00:12.003+08:00I must be manic again :) <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6UjmGWAhSAC60s9qr1sXXj4uWKK8838D1HHW_-jpx_i1zwgZbgo6K7QB2jALlTuzODBWbqW7B0q0MG7pHpJMGs46GuCjqw-oh0O57w6X16LhehuocLzHBWBvTfV86FhQVBlMQEa9OEGqRaUMbH1AEIOLu6_6wP1wWRg9dI16UnVXSngBopZuux_Ez" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6UjmGWAhSAC60s9qr1sXXj4uWKK8838D1HHW_-jpx_i1zwgZbgo6K7QB2jALlTuzODBWbqW7B0q0MG7pHpJMGs46GuCjqw-oh0O57w6X16LhehuocLzHBWBvTfV86FhQVBlMQEa9OEGqRaUMbH1AEIOLu6_6wP1wWRg9dI16UnVXSngBopZuux_Ez=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Back in the days I used to be really strong on what I call </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Negative Golden Rule</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">DON'T do unto others what you DON'T want them to do unto you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as opposed to</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">DON'T do unto others what you DON'T want them to do unto you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As I am getting older I am starting to realise that </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">what I don't like, what I don't want means diddly squat,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">it is certainly not the final authority,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">the moral compass of all that is good and evil.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">More than often it is one of my many idiosyncracies or kinks and mental quirks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Some other golden rules:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do unto others before they do unto you</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">or</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Do unto others and then SPLIT!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Morality anyway is a bottomless pit of man made rules, dirtier than anything one could conceive,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am also led to believe in my old age that first there is no free will and that there is only one SIN if I can use this abusive word loosely:</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There is nothing uglier <br />than a holier-than-thou <br />sour puss controlling freak.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The rest is human nature and highly forgivable, certainly not cause to throw the first stone and to highly remember where we come from, what we are, that we all have the beast, the shadow, the dark side within us and that a certain set of circumstances could certainly make this beast come out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Many of these aberrations are totally parent produced and the ones to be punished should often be the parents and not the poor victims of atrocious RNG.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I like to think of life as a video game as so much of it seems to be left to one thing and one thing only: RNG</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Random Number Generation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or Luck, or Fortune or Fate as some prefer to call it so it makes them feel better,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Some RNG's are just plain horrible and some children had no chance at all to get out of the lot they were sadly given.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here we go again just a little more of my same old same old own RNG.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Prolly nothing I haven't said before but sometimes it is good to rearrange our thoughts to see if they are still the same or have changed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As for the golden rule I will stay in my corner and try to mind my own business and try to avoid shame and condemnation because in the end <br />none of this shit matters <br />and the Great Equaliser will get us all <br />and we in turn will also be shit/manure/ ashes whatever:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b> a small black dot in the ocean of oblivion and nothingness.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Speaking of I often think something silly that there will be great peace in dying as it means <br /><br />no more shitting and pissing, :)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">activities out of my control and terrible time wasters anyway <br />if you ask me LOL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">so dying will be in fact OUR LAST DUMP <br />where all of us will turn into shit <br />into an eternal bowel movement,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Voila for my classy enlightenment!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">You are all welcome! :) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-9277292247075118932023-05-26T13:17:00.003+08:002023-05-26T13:22:38.520+08:00Here we go again! VALAR MORGHULIS!!!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5p7mv6yU8DG5bkXgve9Qg1sTp12HewVg-CkzAghEiWH0TdeKbXSCxj0B9nfXVTOFNv9ku1DOhheYHUSz_dKnkjNQ48EtpeHEs9wcm1oKOvwmeTQ1vYhM0bG4QjksOa5X7JMxBHY7p2ta1ah-n4z7Vm3OOYGLKHsELxFnQWe6u1P6G6Ycgvahc6XP3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5p7mv6yU8DG5bkXgve9Qg1sTp12HewVg-CkzAghEiWH0TdeKbXSCxj0B9nfXVTOFNv9ku1DOhheYHUSz_dKnkjNQ48EtpeHEs9wcm1oKOvwmeTQ1vYhM0bG4QjksOa5X7JMxBHY7p2ta1ah-n4z7Vm3OOYGLKHsELxFnQWe6u1P6G6Ycgvahc6XP3=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I hate losing sleep.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And most of the time I lose sleep over the silliest thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Last night was me worrying over a little fight I had on the Montreal site. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">One of my main annoyances last 2 days has been the death of Tina Turner. Not the fact that she is dead she was 80 something FFS more than fair game for the Grim Reaper.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">No but the fact I have to read about it a gazillion times some sites posting it many many times every member thinking he or she is bringing something new.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Montreal admin let this one flow by even he himself posted recently.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwFYFCQrrzkLfDmZWLNW2pryLXe2LphfiFqudL7t6eLJi2UL8Cldsqf5nOBV-OzsY8Qa0obEFaRGAFwCzguNgXcVrv-2Hs6n_7_UCkTZZGr3SUmc6v73PRPmlqs7o0wpFJSIoyJg9aen6t8Iwy5VrAQIoQyalKJUozXjMZ7-YkXHOX0kKQm2o6pSBv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1008" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwFYFCQrrzkLfDmZWLNW2pryLXe2LphfiFqudL7t6eLJi2UL8Cldsqf5nOBV-OzsY8Qa0obEFaRGAFwCzguNgXcVrv-2Hs6n_7_UCkTZZGr3SUmc6v73PRPmlqs7o0wpFJSIoyJg9aen6t8Iwy5VrAQIoQyalKJUozXjMZ7-YkXHOX0kKQm2o6pSBv=w640-h444" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway I would have to post the convo but I have now deleted it LOL I have blocked the asshole who was an absolute </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />SYCOPHANT, ASSHOLE, BROWN NOSER, SUCKHOLE :)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /> as we say in English and as we say in good Quebec French</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span> UN ESTIE DE TÉTEUX!</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">He rubbed it in over and over again that he was getting away with it</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and was an ABSOLUTE ABJECT SYCOPHANT.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And it made me a little sick to my stomach and I wanted to use a few of these epithets on the site but we all know where that would have led now.<br /><br />I am already in trouble with Facebook AGAIN for something they took completely out of context. AI has no heart of mind or comprehension or maybe it was just a complete snowflake reporting me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Story is there was a funny board on a chess site where there was an opportunity to do an en passant move which is a meme by itself in chess as it is always tempting to show that we KNOW the EN PASSANT move. Problem is that in this position doing en passant would have cost the game. SO I said joking:<br />En Passant by suicide!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">AND HELL BROKE LOOSE.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I mentioned the 'S' word and the world stopped.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I should have said<br />En Passant by seppuku or even<br />En Passant by Sudoku and it might have flied~!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So I got reprimanded restricted and what not because AI does not understand CONTEXT, it doesn't know the diff between the spirit of the law and the letter of the law.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I noticed the 'S' word gets blocked a lot recently like THAT is gonna help.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidsAo8L_6FPW0hURAA52EhXdCKiZqhxIUz-_f0cqV53fNtIXvD3_XcG6F-UFkj09SbMmdu_tQ7AiSHXzoF8usw9FH_AAF_bvb-36Zb6OzcWKbiRkFwIqkom7-L2hR_Xgx7l9t9wPkOcbfnXfexeNKnk67pHIVAYlgFj1ZCdBAIJT14qhUdgLf_fB31" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidsAo8L_6FPW0hURAA52EhXdCKiZqhxIUz-_f0cqV53fNtIXvD3_XcG6F-UFkj09SbMmdu_tQ7AiSHXzoF8usw9FH_AAF_bvb-36Zb6OzcWKbiRkFwIqkom7-L2hR_Xgx7l9t9wPkOcbfnXfexeNKnk67pHIVAYlgFj1ZCdBAIJT14qhUdgLf_fB31=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway back to my original subject I am here sitting some other celebrity can die soon so we can MOVE THE FUCK ON,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I used to do this shit mind you and I prolly still do but I am trying to refrain from it. Thing is 2 REAL PERSONS DIE every FUCKING SECOND and I will be one of those soon but no one gives a shit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I mean no one has prolly listened to Tina Turner in years now (I know I haven't) but now that she is dead and was long forgotten let's all go hysterical about it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Aldous Huxley had the misfortune of dying on November 22nd, 1963 and THAT didn't make the news obviously. He was relegated to a nobody because someone "BIGGER" than him died on the same day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway not sure what it is altogether the trip coming or what not the circle of life? the cycles of life? but I was feeling my mental health was slipping down a little? The fact I don 't have a therapist for the past few weeks? WHO KNOWS? Certainly not me,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Time is relative here in Australia but even this afternoon many many hours after the fact someone posted that TT died! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to post</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />IS THERE ANYONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOESN'T KNOW THAT TINA TURNER DIED YET FFS?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">PLEASE HURRY UP NEXT CELEBRITY.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Again it's prolly only me again being a cantankerous mental sick fuck.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's all well known that Social Media is NOT GOOD for mental health!~ :P </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Hurry up June 2nd so I can get lost in Diablo IV again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's a much better world! ;) </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">VOILA! END OF RANT! FOR NOW!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-5432451065529212482023-05-24T14:09:00.006+08:002023-05-25T15:34:22.934+08:00I sit and wonder some time where they're gone?<p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PK_2JFl-wHWDr0U19Gwbjz3YPRuCPEJWLruLkoNa5Gr0_js_8kUZWERZj9Nv079qqqowgfYJSe7lvJyvp_BPqf3fgI1drURTma7WI_01zvjErXzjiWx1BGygUE3XdpXVPpPuJZj8jV_t82_4divt45jPozn_ERw0KkQ-r2sMoDMDRV82iO92XEWQ/s643/prisoners.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="460" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3PK_2JFl-wHWDr0U19Gwbjz3YPRuCPEJWLruLkoNa5Gr0_js_8kUZWERZj9Nv079qqqowgfYJSe7lvJyvp_BPqf3fgI1drURTma7WI_01zvjErXzjiWx1BGygUE3XdpXVPpPuJZj8jV_t82_4divt45jPozn_ERw0KkQ-r2sMoDMDRV82iO92XEWQ/w458-h640/prisoners.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oh dear dying blog what could I tell you today?</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They say journaling is good for your mental health.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All dem spellchecks can’t keep up with the modern world!</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Journaling IS a word.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well I journal in my head a million thoughts a day but that is not the same.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">[Speaking of in my usual décousu style I kind of discovered I was better at chess actually when I don’t think too much.]</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well obviously that is not the same, in fact it is more part of the problem than part of the solution.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">[another strange segue I got to get back to meditation some day soon]</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some of these many thoughts are good, some are bad, and some are just pure genius! :P</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anyway as I read my old blogs once in a while I am very proud of some of my stuff.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mind you my pearls,</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">to use an expression I have used many times before, are buried in a huge mountain of manure, a shit ton of shit.!</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I, who is so against editing and so pro flow of consciousness could certainly used to tweaking but like everything else in life I am nothing if not a self-centered narcissistic HOARDER.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But anyway as I have said from the very beginning, after I am gone this blog will be pretty well all that is left of me.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At 67 now, it seems like “after I am gone” could be any day now.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hahaha I left the double now on purpose now since I seem to use now a lot now when I write anyway.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">But yeah my signature is there anyway all my left tendencies and all my peculiar thinking how I have been formed and shaped for so many years, meandering through life and readjusting my positions as I go.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes it seems like I rehash the same old shit over and over but so be it, consider it the cost of flow of consciousness.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes I wish there was more in this blog, sometimes I wish there was less.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Still puzzled daily with this decaying mind of mine and even wondering lately if it is not decaying but has always been decayed.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">This space cadet eternal mind of mine has always been there</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(strongly associated to dissociation if I was to do some self psychoanalyses: disassociation to shelter myself from unbearable beatings and a harsh world for my tender soul)</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">So maybe I have always been stupid but now I am old enough to just realize it is what I said this week.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had a good cry this week after I nearly got ran over by a car</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">thinking hell I haven’t been able to drive for the past 2 years </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">and now I won’t even be able to fucking WALK.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I check the street I start crossing and somehow the spacetime continuum disconnects and nek minit I got a car on my ass.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And this is not the first time it happens. Sure I had headphones on but it happened again later this week and without headphones. </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fuck how am I gonna survive Montreal where cars come from a different direction?</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It took me over two years here to kind of get used to the opposite driving side.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And same yesterday at chess where my mind went totally numb and useless.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sue had to remind me that I AM DIABETIC but still. <br />It’s like I know I can play a good game some times <br />but at others I am just living in a FOG.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Same with everything else these days.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was thinking how hard it is to get Ritalin here in this country but in my case it might just be a Life Saver as important and necessary as insulin.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anyway as always I am writing all this shit to myself again</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You live alone You die alone.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">But it’s supposed to be good fer ya they say.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For some odd strange reason even though everything is moot and pointless</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and nothing really matters anymore</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">it seems to be that my time blogging </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">is more ‘productive’ than my time gaming</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">which is a question I won’t even ask comes June 2nd,</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pavlov Dog at your service here Blizzard!</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thanks for all the years of perfect dissociation.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Add a little music to that and Farrokh Bulsara was right again:</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Nothing really matters</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothing really matters, Anyone can see,</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothing really matters,</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothing really matters to me</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Any way the wind blows... ♫♪♫</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are all prisoners here of our own device.</span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-33233607669496758292023-04-19T20:44:00.000+08:002023-04-19T20:44:56.216+08:00LIKE TEARS IN RAIN<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1vDrwjDCUO5axnjN-N9XUyeJ50GrSr8sQ_869SuWeNH6CAokQyETX5HV-PteA2xc9PlJUZ4IfvVGbzCC42WQ1lSuK-ENetn-lr-hm833KTWMMHCpf_4YMQCjiv-0TW5k8x0LWJh6dth9BTxBexfatMjOremDYnImbHO1UCRE4Yy4v-jWBjUXQK1_/s500/tearsinrain.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="500" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1vDrwjDCUO5axnjN-N9XUyeJ50GrSr8sQ_869SuWeNH6CAokQyETX5HV-PteA2xc9PlJUZ4IfvVGbzCC42WQ1lSuK-ENetn-lr-hm833KTWMMHCpf_4YMQCjiv-0TW5k8x0LWJh6dth9BTxBexfatMjOremDYnImbHO1UCRE4Yy4v-jWBjUXQK1_/w640-h266/tearsinrain.gif" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /> O</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">n the same line as previous post </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am nothing if not free association 😛 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I can free associate a million thoughts a minute </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">😛 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">all lost like tears in rain</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">when André Fortin says</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>L'histoire du monde pis mon histoire sont mélangées</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>J'viens juste de r'vivre cent milles autres vies en une seconde</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Toutes mes conneries pis l'ambition de l'humanité</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Ça r'vient au même</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Y'a pas d'coupable, y'a pas de honte</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>I believe him!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The history of the world and my history are mixed up</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I just relive a hundred thousand other lives in a second</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All my bullshit and the ambition of humanity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It comes to the same</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There's no culprit, there's no shame</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">100,000 thousand lives in 1 second is easy when you're manic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In fact being manic is a super power!~</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">😛 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I like to paraphrase Professor X here</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Professor X: [voiceover] Bipolars. Since the discovery of their existence they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. <br />Are Bipolars the next link in the evolutionary chain or simply a new species of humanity fighting for their share of the world? Either way it is a historical fact: <br />Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A spinning mind is not always fun though.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">When I was young and stupid I used to say trying to sound wise that</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In Life you only choose the heights of your mountains</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The depths of your valleys will equal the heights of your mountains.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I prefer my mountains really high despite the depth of my valleys.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BUT NOT THAT I AM OLDER AND WISER LOL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A nice little baby roller coaster ride will do just fine thank you. 😜<br /><br />P.S. yeah all those thoughts coming in a second leaving in a nanosecond which is a point meditation is trying to show us.<br />They come and go and come and go.<br />You are not your thoughts!<br />You can sit and observe them coming and going.<br /><br />Which I don't do often enough really.<br />Except at night when these thoughts race at light speed and I can't sleep.<br />RISING! FALLING! RISING! FALLING!<br />Thinking! RISING FALLING.<br />It seems so pointless and useless at times but there is something to it deep down.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Me not thinking or me thinking it is all the same.<br />As the great Persian Prophet once said in his wisdom:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nothing really matters,</span></b></i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Anyone can see,</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nothing really matters,</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Nothing really matters to me</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Any way the wind blows...</span></b></i></span></p></blockquote><p><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Every single thought will be gone one day <br /><br />LIKE TEARS IN RAIN </span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-48034835586160639362023-04-02T14:23:00.000+08:002023-04-02T14:23:14.913+08:00Where did all this people go Who had something to tell???<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXgAbU3_Tt21HIbV5Lna_thvfdcm8e4GA2wrH9d3DnN1ku3l5IWgHlxT7-N1HpyD_SnFOJd6nHVsXVRIxVQk5MRw8_R6I1PiFvDhUqlLUuUFRws7YywSZQtJiG-wg09h0j2WxwpjHTMP83De-25TjDwGPZDdGgupmCOESOgoIQxboHMOK2ovM2Rep/s280/Harmonium_Album.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXgAbU3_Tt21HIbV5Lna_thvfdcm8e4GA2wrH9d3DnN1ku3l5IWgHlxT7-N1HpyD_SnFOJd6nHVsXVRIxVQk5MRw8_R6I1PiFvDhUqlLUuUFRws7YywSZQtJiG-wg09h0j2WxwpjHTMP83De-25TjDwGPZDdGgupmCOESOgoIQxboHMOK2ovM2Rep/w400-h400/Harmonium_Album.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Où est allé tout ce monde</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Qui avait quelque chose à raconter???</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br />Where did all this people go</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who had something to tell???</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Disparu! Vanished~! Avalé! Détruit~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Utterly entirely buried in a pile of manure the size of Jupiter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1:40 PM </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">5,404,163Blog posts written today</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">516,524,270Tweets sent today</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and not counting the millions and millions of YouTube videos and the millions and millions of Facebook and YouTube ADDICTIVE Short Reels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I don't know~ as an ageing disillusioned boomer I know we always miss the point at we get older but still...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It seems to me that Aldous Huxley has won hands down against George Orwell!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Where Orwell was trying to control the quantity of news and media Huxley got us drowning in it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>‘Oh wonder!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>How many goodly creatures are there here!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>That has such people in’t.’</i></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Prospero retorts: ‘Tis new to thee!’ Shakespeare is also using the phrase ironically, so Huxley’s novel not only takes its title from Shakespeare but is also mirroring its tone.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">These words were obviously spoken by a very sheltered Miranda, very innocent and very ignorant.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Was it better in the old days when people had access to old libraries and read the classics and the old mythologies and the old TALES???</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Because raconter being a raconteur is exactly this:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TELL TALES.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I mean not so long ago we had good raconteur <br />hell Tom Waits comes to mind here among many others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now we have cheap cheap cheap clickbait hunters by the millions obviously paid by the minute like one of these scamming psychic or sex lines of old.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">YouTubers! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Content Creator!?!?!? (make gagging sound here)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Influencers FFS! (make puking / retching sounds here)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Millions and millions of short reelers all trying to grab your attention some not even trying at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And yet nothing is said, nothing is done, no wisdom is gained, no knowledge is reached. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They should ALL bare my name!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">KENOPHON!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Empty Sounds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Babbler~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Soap Boxers of the Areopagus of old~!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Drowned daily in sounds and wanna be entertainers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To paraphrase the good ole KJV here</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Wherewithal shall a young man FIND his way?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Or an Old Man for that matter.</i></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I admit it is getting hard to get away from this misery</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as if this whole generation was programmed like Pavlov's dog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I do believe we do suffer programmation of some sort daily</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sometime we just call it CULTURE</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">as in being CULTIVATED just like the good veggies we are.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It is more visible and obvious from the OUTSIDE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Get out of your environment for a while and come back to it</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And open your eyes and ears and see and hear.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When did my people all became robots? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Strange.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Same everywhere a strong current of indoctrination everywhere you go: <br />French being French, B<br />rits being Brits, <br />Chinese being Chinese <br /><i>Ad Vitam Aeternam and Ad Nauseum.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So this ZEITGEIST has all of us becoming utterly stupid </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">running towards IDIOCRACY and IGNORANCE. SMH!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">News are not News!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Facts are not Facts!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And like Van the man says:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Everybody is trying to sell me some SHITE*</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Streamers and YouTubers and what not making a killing out of stupidity and mob rules.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>*Don't know who's round the corner, </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>trying to sell me some more tripe</i></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So ALL in <b>ALL I STILL don't know</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wherewithal shall a young man FIND his way?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Or an Old Man for that matter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">but I hope to find out one day! :P </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And don't give me the KJV answer now!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Been There! Done that!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Bought the T-Shirt! Went to the Conference.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Read the damn book 7 times<br /> and tried to live it for a long long time <br />before I SAW THE LIGHT! :P </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There has to be some secular logical answer to that question now! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-87782602435989755592023-03-21T18:26:00.006+08:002023-03-21T18:26:41.057+08:00O POOR LITTLE BLOG...<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> ...you have been so neglected. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nearly April and hardly any post at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tempus Fugit!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today was a rough day well this whole month has been so far.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Where to start?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The bittersweet feeling of meeting and "losing" a friend all in one day? <br />Well kind of lost in geography anyway!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">More on that later I am sure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The loss of my psychologist I had to more than 2 years?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moving on to green pasture leaving me in the desert.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The trashing I had today chess which makes me question my whole life?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The fact that I keep losing won games time after time <br />questioning my sanity, <br />my motives for keeping at it <br />and the whole ageing brain situation?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The fact I don't have a shrink anymore to talk about that?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Always tired these days mind you the Diablo madness that has been going on did not help.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">First Diablo 3 Season 28 which kept me manic for almost 2 weeks having so many loops to jump for 2 accounts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pavlov's dog not questioning why do you have to jump all these loops/hoops?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then the week end madness of Diablo 4 Beta!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Figured since I paid for it might as well enjoy myself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And I did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now with the Montreal holiday coming in July all is kind of culminating to total madness,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3 months and 10 days should go fast especially June considering D4 is supposed to come out for real.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next week end will be spent in the 2nd D4 Beta for sure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now what I have to work out is what do I do with chess???</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Gotta get back to my walks too if the temperature can cool down a bit and my knee heal a little better.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">O yeah not mentioning my dummy spit at the Autumn Centre this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am usually very agreeable and not much for confrontation but this time I lost it. Felt a little bad about it but dealing with it a little better now. They had it coming! LOL.<br /><br />I was looking at the OCEAN 5 traits on this Agreeableness of which I think I am pretty high being Canadian and a wuss etc LOL and then the next one was<br />NEUROTICISM!<br />and I said well I am pretty HIGH on that one too and Sue had a good chuckle!<br />:)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Story?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well again I was struggling losing a won game with Milan who has been trashing me for days now and some lady next to us was showing videos on her phone to her friend next to her and I lost it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Could you make less noise please I am trying to think?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- But we were here first</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Me: - It doesn't matter who was first! Manners are Manners!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Must have work cuz they were talking very softly after.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(Should have thanked them)</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today was much quieter but I STILL LOST! LOL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a long long 2 hours struggle where I was winning all the way <br />and then one brain fart and GAME OVER Red Rover~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was so so upset at myself. <br />I wanted to quit there and then.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They still managed to coax me into another loss. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway full week ahead! <br />Perth tomorrow! <br />Doctor Thursday, <br />Massage Friday and maybe more chess <br />and then Full Diablo IV Beta week end practicing with Druid and Necro.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>But this entropy is really bugging me.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Couldn't even manage a simple Sudoku just before starting to write this.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">67 and a few projects on the back burner:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Montreal July 2023 and</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lyon June 2024.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now I gotta live that long and hope to have some brains left when I come back~ </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Voila for the catch up<br /><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-n6lx6lRItSOMuCZMWlWJWUABXFXxg4jGDKgbGqt78G8lKaCDjD57QCe8c73pmggEqElsFQCqEvcIHMyj__KHee4MnyJjwdQews_1USFkGtd8Vcp_HPN6uO3i8lJ0k9ZZvfXtInGjPlBK6Yv5nsreFJQf69ciIrmNvC9HvrTZe5c-fE10wjuEwFW/s2561/blizzard-entertainment-diablo-iv-lilith-blizzard-diablo-4-li%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2561" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-n6lx6lRItSOMuCZMWlWJWUABXFXxg4jGDKgbGqt78G8lKaCDjD57QCe8c73pmggEqElsFQCqEvcIHMyj__KHee4MnyJjwdQews_1USFkGtd8Vcp_HPN6uO3i8lJ0k9ZZvfXtInGjPlBK6Yv5nsreFJQf69ciIrmNvC9HvrTZe5c-fE10wjuEwFW/w640-h360/blizzard-entertainment-diablo-iv-lilith-blizzard-diablo-4-li%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-44256111647383520532023-02-06T23:26:00.001+08:002023-02-06T23:26:22.853+08:00Utterly meaningless<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ecclesiastes 1:2 NIV</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.<b> <br />“Utterly meaningless! <br /></b>Everything is meaningless.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> 2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">vanity of vanities; all is vanity. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When I googled EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS I GOT THIS<br /><br /><br /><i>Is life truly meaningless?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Be clear on one thing: no human's life is ever truly meaningless. Basically, your life can never lose its meaning and purpose. If you're living in this world, there is some reason deep down. The only issue is that you have lost the vision to identify it.</i><br /><br /><br />SMH again and again!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">statements like </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <i>If you're living in this world, there is some reason deep down. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">make me wanna scream!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">NO there is not a "REASON" anywhere deep down of far in the abyss!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There is no RHYME or REASON at ALL.<br /><br />Unfounded unbackable unprovable statement.<br />Just more utterly meaningless words.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNRHjdTrQc4dtG-TnlADD_JTgCKFAudciWIac2_TLt1paXMWGC2fj_odQOQre8xhBXjS0nzkzOA1CnaRbNQmZ9tVpEUqusJRwRMZdDVuqan98kXicU7Q2BNQ_oBOtfGTi7amZLsKS5J06WPAgt3ybPJM-zWAjUjHj2awK7HKDwtxQRPnpFyIa_zo_T" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="664" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNRHjdTrQc4dtG-TnlADD_JTgCKFAudciWIac2_TLt1paXMWGC2fj_odQOQre8xhBXjS0nzkzOA1CnaRbNQmZ9tVpEUqusJRwRMZdDVuqan98kXicU7Q2BNQ_oBOtfGTi7amZLsKS5J06WPAgt3ybPJM-zWAjUjHj2awK7HKDwtxQRPnpFyIa_zo_T=w483-h640" width="483" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />You are born you live you die <br />RINSE & REPEAT AD VITAM AETERNAM</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for a fucktillion of humans <br />and for all animal life out there <br />of which we are just a minuscule part of.<br /><br />And NO again to<br /><br /><i>The only issue is that you have lost the vision to identify it.<br /></i><br />There is no vision <br />One has to create one out of sheer nothingness <br />and this vision is absolutely nothing short of a <br />GRAND ILLUSION , <br />A big LIE one tells oneself to go on. <br />A fantasy, a dream, a vapor, or just a bad trip really: <br />nothing anchored in any reality whatsoever.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here is more fascinating meaninglessness,<br /><br /></span></p><div style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_km" style="animation-name: none !important; padding: 4px 16px; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="animation-name: none !important; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px; transition-property: none !important;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="animation-name: none !important; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><blockquote><i><span style="color: red;">I am becoming more and more alarmed by the utter meaninglessness of words today, even as the words grow softer and sweeter by the minute. People 'care' a lot, then do nothing with anything but their facile tongues to show that they do. People are 'outraged' or 'concerned,' then sit in the same place and metaphorically cluck over some indignity they will soon forget. ~ James Grissom 1997 ... 1997 FFS</span></i></blockquote></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><br /><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: large;">People are 'thinking' of you and 'praying' for you, but the intention--so beautifully rolled off the tongue--never reaches their feet or legs, and so no action occurs: No help, I am here to tell you, is on the way." ~Grissom again <br /><br /><br />Paul Rusesabagina: I am glad that you have shot this footage and that the world will see it. It is the only way we have a chance that people might intervene.<br />Jack: Yeah and if no one intervenes, is it still a good thing to show?<br />Paul Rusesabagina: How can they not intervene when they witness such atrocities?<br />Jack: I think if people see this footage they'll say, "oh my God that's horrible," and then go on eating their dinners.<br />[pause]<br />Jack: What the hell do I know?<br />~ Hotel Rwanda 2004</span></i></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The most ironic part of this all is that <br />ALL OF THESE WORDS I HAVE JUST PASTED AND COPIED ARE MEANINGLESS and WILL HAVE NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER<br /><br />What has happened to us?</b></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe it has always been. Maybe 9/11 fucked us all up<br /><br /><br />Maybe Ani DiFranco is right maybe CointelPro has fucked us over and forever. There is obviously some psywar going on somewhere and most of our modern info comes from media which are OBVIOUSLY bought biased and lying through their teeth all of the time and we know all this but we choose to believe it.</span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mean every time I see the words FOX NEWS I cringe.<br />I mean people can't seem to see and know that they are the equivalent of the National Enquirer or worst. </span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mean look first at who OWNS these medias and how ALL of them repeat the same trash jargon over and over.</span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">Orwell was on to to something here for sure.</span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #282828; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #282828; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Who controls the past controls the future: </span></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #282828; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">who controls the present controls the past."</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;">So to repeat myself aimlessly and meaninglessly and vainly again</span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;">The most ironic part of this all is that<br />ALL OF THESE WORDS I HAVE JUST PASTED AND COPIED ARE MEANINGLESS and WILL HAVE NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER<br /><br />CIAO FOR NOW fellow passing citizens</b></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-53503928469733092512023-01-01T12:07:00.004+08:002023-01-11T23:11:28.727+08:00Happy New Year<p> No drama just a "funny" thought I had </p><p style="line-height: 100%; 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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">The
man downed a bottle of scotch to flush down the few boxes of</span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"> Oxycodone he just swallowed.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br />
He climbed on a chair while he
still could with a knife in his hands.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br />
Put the noose around his
neck jumped off the chair </span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">as he split his guts</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18pt;"> open </span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18pt;">in a Seppuku /
Hara-Kiri manner.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br />
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After a long inquest the experts
concluded it was a cry for help!</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-20441869705569556832022-12-26T12:39:00.000+08:002022-12-26T12:39:13.410+08:00Triggered again! <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiVNRrBZu4mMma04r1uObHX4mzkM0PBlK1Ne53xinKGpZIXs2iloC5_UWaOTpJ4_IkGFFR8z1_sWGNrkr9vEP8HHKVML-K0grwWQoCpiD5TitAg9cVIa-RP0ojTBQlgisgvKPpQo3Td2wjF59bdnewFZzjN9Cu_Ge00aaySzP7QRdo-UvmzD04VSTi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1024" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiVNRrBZu4mMma04r1uObHX4mzkM0PBlK1Ne53xinKGpZIXs2iloC5_UWaOTpJ4_IkGFFR8z1_sWGNrkr9vEP8HHKVML-K0grwWQoCpiD5TitAg9cVIa-RP0ojTBQlgisgvKPpQo3Td2wjF59bdnewFZzjN9Cu_Ge00aaySzP7QRdo-UvmzD04VSTi=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I Was
reading</span></p>
<h1 class="western" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0.07in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #202020;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">A
Ranking Of The World's Best Cuisines Of 2022 </span></span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And
it went like this</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span>
<br /></span></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span><span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Italian</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Greek</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Spanish</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Japanese</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Indian</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Mexican</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Turkish</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>American</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>French</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span style="color: #121212;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif;"><span>Peruvian</span></span></span></span></li></ol><span>
</span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FFS</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">American
before French to begin with and o well</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">one
of my comment was:<br />
</span><br />
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
had this theory that any site with the word Truth in it has no truth
in it whatsoever.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now
I am gonna have to add</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">any
site with the word Taste in it has no Taste AT ALL! <img align="bottom" alt="🙂" border="0" height="16" name="Image1" src="file:///C:/Users/jcais/AppData/Local/Temp/lu204402yr6mq.tmp/lu204402yr6mu_tmp_84e936ab69ffddf1.png" width="16" />
</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.01in; margin-right: 0.01in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">End
of Rant <img align="bottom" alt="😐" border="0" height="16" name="Image2" src="file:///C:/Users/jcais/AppData/Local/Temp/lu204402yr6mq.tmp/lu204402yr6mu_tmp_96b1ff6839bbbe4b.png" width="16" />
</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
2 Montreal Sites often get on my nerves but then again a lot of
things do these days. <br />
One of them once put a McDonald’s
poutine or fries as best in town FFS.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thing
IS as always that there is way way way too many VOICES these days.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
are completely lost in a deluge of manure from anyone and everyone
who has a phone and access to the internet and all of them have
something to say<br />
<br />
The fool rejoices at the manifestations
of his own thoughts.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some
say that the first casualty of war is truth</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">same
could be said about greed also</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b>The
first casualty of greed is the truth.</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SO
MANY GURUS! <br />
SO MANY P.T. BARNUM. <br />
SO MANY SNAKE OIL CON
ARTISTS! <br />
And all of them have been given a gigantic soap box.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gone
are the days when you had to walk miles and miles to the Areopagus.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
seems to me that Huxley won over Orwell really.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Drowned
and paralyzed in an overflow of info.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyone
trying to say something real these days might as well be called John
The Baptist (not that Johnny was real here but…) <br />
<br />
A
VOICE IN THE DESERT.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Or
Rather</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<br />
A VOICE IN THE OCEAN!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Completely
neutered, annihilated, and silenced.<br />
<br />
O well! Nothing I
haven’t said before but the daily reminder is exhausting.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The
first casualty of greed is the truth is so much more visible in this
new trends now of short reels: the road to success apparently to
become a popular YouTuber / INFLUENCER! Fuck I HATE this word!
INFLUENCER.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
It absolutely REEKS of vapid shallowness and
uselessness.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every
snake oil con artist gathers there now to sell his salad.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
think I have said this before but everybody wants to TEACH YOU</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How
to Eat, How to Drink, How to Piss and How to Shit</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because
OBVIOUSLY you have been eating, drinking, pissing and shitting WRONG
all your fucking life you morons and for a fee this new Messiah will
teach you how to do it right.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Hubris is mind blowing SMH<br />
<br />
Not exactly sure what is going
on and it is way beyond my limited brain but some weird things are in
motion.<br />
<br />
Ani DiFranco said something brilliant many years
ago”<br />
<br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">what a waste of thumbs that are opposable</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">to make machines that are disposable</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">and sell them to seagulls flying in circles</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">around one big right wing</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">yes, the left wing was broken long ago</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">by the slingshot of cointelpro</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">and now it's so hard to have faith in</span><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">anything</span></p><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is quite obvious that the left wing is FUBAR.<br />
Reagan and
Thatcher made sure of that among many.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Also
it seems that since 9/11 it is almost impossible to change anything</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
net has tightened. </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even
that Arab Spring has died and it would seem that the good old days or
revolution are finally over neutralized slowly by fuck knows what.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And
now all we have is mindless rebels walking in the desert babbling
shit.<br /><br /><b>So</b></span><b><span> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Maybe
I am just one of them ALSO. I wouldn’t be surprised at all.</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stuck
in the Matrix like all of us and there is no Morpheus to get us
out.</span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
We are just dreaming that we are free.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
I have been programmed to write all this :P </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from
one clog to another</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ciao
for Now</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">I might have swallowed the Black Pill LOL<br />I just heard about this concept yesterday in Season 2 of Traces </p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
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--tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Blackpill is basically the ultimative and hardest to <a class="autolink" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swallow" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">swallow</a> <a class="autolink" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Redpill" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Redpill</a>.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />It is about realizing nothing matters and there is nothing you can do that will change anything, it depraves you of all positive thought and makes you want to get some sort of meaning out of this limited time we have.<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; 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font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">nihilism</a>. That's why its not a called a red pill, since beyond that.</div><div class="break-words example italic mb-4" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">"John took the <a class="autolink" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blackpill" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">blackpill</a> recently. He is depressed since that..."<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />"Tell him to just take the <a class="autolink" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bluepill" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Bluepill</a> then"<br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" />"Impossible. <a class="autolink" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=once%20you%20go%20black%20you%27ll%20never%20go%20back" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgb(229, 231, 235); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">once you go black you'll never go back</a>"</div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-25547045264432974002022-12-22T18:28:00.000+08:002022-12-22T18:28:12.807+08:00not a wonderful world<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSyMCHVA-hBQgC2FAf6_It4SzasMj7BV84fQ9oC5rzemRKEP5fcYhFSYUGqiaHBctMluTpc_STVoA8me5XF7-oVdLXQWYT9D2wXPYsRfKWb1nh-zV9vgZa7gok-u6_FmWysSweJWKxANLa2G-gCnNbDgNeCtSm1mXnM0k1SHuQDXTd7DqnoCVqWAhL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSyMCHVA-hBQgC2FAf6_It4SzasMj7BV84fQ9oC5rzemRKEP5fcYhFSYUGqiaHBctMluTpc_STVoA8me5XF7-oVdLXQWYT9D2wXPYsRfKWb1nh-zV9vgZa7gok-u6_FmWysSweJWKxANLa2G-gCnNbDgNeCtSm1mXnM0k1SHuQDXTd7DqnoCVqWAhL" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Virtue Signaling here is an
old dirty expression renamed and re branded.<br />
Back in the days
it was called Pharisaism… <br />
something about throwing the first
stone and all that bullshit.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
amazes my old brain is HOW MUCH POWER that minority of self-righteous
mental Don Quixotes REALLY GET.<br />
<br />
All these activists and
witch hunters of old, <br />
modern KKK clan chasing down people <br />
and
foaming at the mouth while lynching them.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not
sure who should PAY and to whom they should PAY really, <br />
Justice,
that made up word, is beyond my pay grade.<br />
<br />
Weinstein?
Prolly<br />
Woody Allen? Bof <br />
I personally think Mia Farrow
should be hung and dried <br />
she is a sick fuck AFAIC</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">C.K.
Louis?<br />
Kevin Spacey?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bill
Cosby?</span></p>
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<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;">Lawrence
M. Krauss</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br />David Silverman</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br />Weinstein</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br />Epstein</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #0084ff; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Hoffmann</span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #0084ff;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;">
Maxwell</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
complete opposite of democracy actually.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sure
some of them are guilty as sin but some have just been thrown under
the bus by zealous idle losers with big chips on their shoulders many
of those who have hearts and actions as dirty but just not discovered
yet a bit like Jimmy Swaggart throwing Jim Baker under the bus before
he got caught himself with his pants down as it so often happens.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
Quebec two names come to mind: Bernard Adamus which I happen to
really like. Of course the man was a rude uncouth alcoholic we all
know that and he certainly did get out of hand at times. Still I
won’t stop listening to his music anymore than I would stop
watching a Woody Allen movie.<br />
<br />
Another one that got a
really lousy raw deal is Dany Turcotte after years and years as a
good co-host he had to step down because he offended thousands of
soccer fans with an innocent remark, totally innocent but <br />
soccer
fans (hooligans) not know for their high IQ went on a rampage and got
his head. SMH. </span>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s
a sad world but it is today’s world where anyone and anybody can be
lynched and annihilated in a nanosecond. I am so glad I am a nobody
and not in the limelight so I can say what the fuck I want.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
cancel culture sure troubles and scares more than one and I can only
hope it is but a passing crazy fad that will go away in the near
future as it is completely insane, way out of hand and too many bow
to these bullying hypocrites.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway
I might not be here long enough to see it and that is okay. </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
have seen way too much already and I am pretty tired of it all.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
madness, the craziness, the hollowness, the emptiness, the grand
delusional schemes we are all under worshiping the killers and
kissing their asses. Shooting at the small fry while the big fry
gets away with murder every fucking day: the million things we DO NOT
SEE<br />
The embargoes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the
arm deals<br />
the secret financial deals that ruined millions of
lives<br />
The pillaging and raping that goes into every war, the
maiming the humiliating </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
NO
IT IS NOT A WONDERFUL WORLD <br />
if you look at it properly but<br />
if
you look at it properly you go fucking insane.<br />
One has to pick
and choose his/her battles.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is a dirty ugly world full on uncountable horrors:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a
real jungle out there and we are the utter worst merciless predators.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nothing
I can do about it and nothing that anyone will ever change<br />
self
righteous woke pharisee or not.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.98in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">So it is what it is.<br />
<br />
Let
me finish with Lenny Bruce quote again:<br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">“</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
truth is 'what is.' If 'what is' is, you have to sleep eight, ten
hours a day, that is the truth. A lie will be: People need no sleep
at all. Truth is 'what is.' If every politician from the beginning is
crooked, there is no crooked. But if you are concerned with a lie,
'what should be'-and 'what should be' is a fantasy, a terrible,
terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago: This is what
should be-and no one ever saw what should be, that you don't need any
sleep and you can go seven years without sleep, so that all the
people were made to measure up to that dirty lie. You know there's no
crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never a
truth.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">― </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lenny
Bruce, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1824461"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>How
to Talk Dirty and Influence People</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<br />
</span><br />
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</p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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</p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-83338568543725183522022-12-20T14:39:00.000+08:002022-12-20T14:39:30.801+08:00O Me! O Life! <p> </p><h1 align="center" class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 375%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxseF1YAt7L3mZF1KqaMkvPddTPIg4MZ74s_jWh2gJZks4PWHWDfVCUuMPyw3SQ2AAC_xRNzXDFs-KWlVDcfZ5eT_33t_7UNcf891RXnBejZGkikTxEOmZPBrM9I8xj7fWUEb1CZSK3Jpd8dkQZOitomdH5mYgcZ0JKr48HjynAGVkoAEh2A9G0cRI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="2509" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxseF1YAt7L3mZF1KqaMkvPddTPIg4MZ74s_jWh2gJZks4PWHWDfVCUuMPyw3SQ2AAC_xRNzXDFs-KWlVDcfZ5eT_33t_7UNcf891RXnBejZGkikTxEOmZPBrM9I8xj7fWUEb1CZSK3Jpd8dkQZOitomdH5mYgcZ0JKr48HjynAGVkoAEh2A9G0cRI=w640-h274" width="640" /></a></div></b></span></span></span></span></h1><h1 align="center" class="western" style="border: none; line-height: 375%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>I
Don’t Need My Life to Be Remarkable</b></span></span></span></span></h1>
<p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 375%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: nyt-cheltenham-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, times new roman, times, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Or
do I now?</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 375%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>That
is the question!</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
can of feel a cringe when even animals; horses, dogs etc make it to
Wikipedia and chances are my name will never ever appear there unless
I become a cardinal or go out with a bang and bottom line <br />
like
the great Zoroastrian prophet Farrokh Bulsara once said:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #494949;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>NOTHING
REALLY MATTERS</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Same
cringe I feel I supposed when I listen to <br />
Bon Iver’s Holocene</span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><a href="https://genius.com/629551/Bon-iver-holocene/And-at-once-i-knew-i-was-not-magnificent">And
at once, I knew<br />
I was not magnificent</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</p><p align="center" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Who
doesn’t wanna be MAGNIFICENT?</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">There
sure was times in my many manias where I was</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">FUCKING
MAGNIFICENT</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">but
that seems to be such a distant past now</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">so
NOT MAGNIFICENT NOT REMARKABLE </span></span></span></i></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">so
in other words utterly normal and boring</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">your
typical bungled and botched asshole really</span></span></span></i></span></p><p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">one
of 117 billion that have passed on this planet </span></span></span></i></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">one
of the current 8 billion living on it now</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">well
for the moment anyway.</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">No
marks left!</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">And
then again all of my ancestors have left no marks really.</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Go
back only 3 generations and all history is lost and forgotten.</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Go
forward 3 generations and my history will be lost and forgotten</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">and
gone</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">and
THAT’S THE WAY IT IS as Céline would say! </span></span></span></i></span>
</p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Mind
you a lot of people who have left a Mark didn’t leave it for good
really whatever that constructed word is and also the mark we see now
and are told may not be the real story either as we all know the
winner writes history and the winner is not always the good one as we
are led to believe.</span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="left" style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><i><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;">Facts
are getting more and more warped these days and history which has
always been erased and rewritten is doing it now at warp 9 speed
going boldly where no generation has gone before.<br />
<br />
Anyway
still waiting for this kick ass epilogue of mine<br />
that fucking
verse I am suppose to contribute :)<br />
</span></span></span></i></span><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="border: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; padding: 0in; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black;">That
you are here—that life exists and identity,</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black;">That
the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black;">When
116.9 billion have left no verse at all.</span></i></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" style="font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="left" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Oh
me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Of
the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the
foolish,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Of
myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and
who more faithless?)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Of
eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the
struggle ever renew’d,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Of
the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see
around me,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">Of
the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me
intertwined,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, Baskerville Old Face, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">The
question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O
life?</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</p>
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</p>
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</p>
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</p>
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Internet, Utilities etc.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This is one of the reasons I guess also that I have never played WoW (World of Warcraft) or any other games that requires monthly payments.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But basically I don't NEED Spotify or YouTube Music.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am perfectly satisfied with my current music selection and I can listen to You Tube AD-FREE all day at home on my Wi-Fi.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">My mobile phone service has always been $60 a year and that is basically just to keep my number with minimal internet activity as one YouTube video at my current rate would prolly swallow my whole $60 @ like $0.05 a MB.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Day and Night time I use the PC and manage to get YouTube ad-free on Chrome and on the Phone I somehow have to use Firefox for the same results.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The last 4 days walking with my big headphone set on (unusual but I seem to have probs with earphones these days my ears are getting too big LOL) </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I marvelled and wondered at the MAGIC!!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To have perfect carriable sound everywhere we go.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I remind myself that for the same privilege back in the old days ( my adolescence) I would have had to carry a heavy portable battery operated record player and several crates of milk filled with Vinyl and yet I still wouldn't have had the same FLEXIBILITY.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now I can pause and start at the tip of one finger on my headphones, raise the volume up or down at the slide of one finger, skip or repeat a song at the slide of one finger.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">MAGIC!!! LOL! :P </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Surrounded by beautiful sound and MOREOVER isolated and protected from all annoying crowd noises.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What an Age to Live in! 😃</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Part of the magic also is what YouTube is gonna throw at you next in this very high AI personalised algorithm. <br />Very rarely do I need a skip on this one.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At the PC I also like that I have this big wide wheel to control the volume on my keyboard a feature I appreciate more than all the RGB and other gadgets of this Corsair keyboard.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here it is when all is dark and grey <br /><br />you can always run to your favourite Pusher </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and INHALE DEEPLY! :P </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-27969917023895338192022-11-22T16:21:00.000+08:002022-11-22T16:21:20.906+08:00THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING AT ALL<p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkP49btioVaBTCB-STpIZwWxj0D3OfkfXbLn4FBlQ9UBGdTNKVTsHJcHry_vPJkRLWf5-WSh7_nfTmgPKDCTeHaf4m1YH0Kc54xDF1ytLqbMykn7Rknw4Rwma8pMw0RNAHpE2WodJzdnC1_uGM_-S9R19BU3Vvz3lsmJ2BGuEjQ2kFfWbJV-J67bDr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkP49btioVaBTCB-STpIZwWxj0D3OfkfXbLn4FBlQ9UBGdTNKVTsHJcHry_vPJkRLWf5-WSh7_nfTmgPKDCTeHaf4m1YH0Kc54xDF1ytLqbMykn7Rknw4Rwma8pMw0RNAHpE2WodJzdnC1_uGM_-S9R19BU3Vvz3lsmJ2BGuEjQ2kFfWbJV-J67bDr=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Stream of consciouness or lame attempt at a blog</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Le fou se réjouit a la manifestation de ses pensées.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ce n'est pas à l'intelligence que l'insensé prend plaisir, C'est à la manifestation de ses pensées.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">One thing Elon Musk said recently is that he was looking a lot when he was younger for THE MEANING OF LIFE</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and then he realised like Douglas Adams that</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">we were ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION(S)</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyone knows anyway that it is 42 :P</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The meaning of life at this very moment is to sit here under the fan in this 32 degrees weather listening to Mozart and try not to worry too much about the meaning of life or its lack thereof.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I get way too down browsing too much internet <br />and I certainly CANNOT agree with Satchmo <br />that it IS a wonderful world.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then again I sometimes vaguely realise that my perception of the world is not gospel truth or science and is a valid or as invalid as any of the 8 billion different perceptions of the world.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To quote/ paraphrase Lenny Bruce</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Let me tell you the world. </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The world is what is, </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and what should be is a fantasy. </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Even History is NOT the truth therefore not the world.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But still to go along with Mike and the Mechanics aphorism here</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Every generation</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Blames the one before</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And all of their frustrations</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Come beating on your door</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But as I am getting older I sometimes am glad I only got a few years left on this journey.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I relate more and more to this old Futurama meme:</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncxDzNvw7gQp6yplVKFVyVtsitlVaR_k9doxmm8m7V8UtGvK0-qfnHih9Eca0SGf1CIFBQ8-4LsV616rfP9g5xmqJ684hwJks3kdee0v0CdkoOfANoFaf1Jj0oiD9Y_q3-mtNxBXib6ngNbo_Q0-e5aA9fmNdStUjwtpvl_4ub9xd-q1l9lGk981j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1700" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncxDzNvw7gQp6yplVKFVyVtsitlVaR_k9doxmm8m7V8UtGvK0-qfnHih9Eca0SGf1CIFBQ8-4LsV616rfP9g5xmqJ684hwJks3kdee0v0CdkoOfANoFaf1Jj0oiD9Y_q3-mtNxBXib6ngNbo_Q0-e5aA9fmNdStUjwtpvl_4ub9xd-q1l9lGk981j=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I DON'T TO LIVE ON THIS PLANET ANYMORE</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Everything is too tiring, exhausting, just knocking the wind and the will to live out of one every day.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I love that quote I just read from Simone de Beauvoir</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">La mort semble bien moins terrible, quand on est fatigué. </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNk-dfLJxJvcvDsOlrOO_QTDIuS7WrSsDcY87jDnSsBe0orCwkorL6sjaq1Dj8fnLCIJoutQ6V-Weg7PlmISAtxJSmU7EHehiUcx6dVIHEutdrldRjiHGyATFaOGkiNBu1f3w8tlHWhhhIvCDrk8JqP1J7H23fQ3HJx8i_M-9_rK_z-jkeVftDTNwS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNk-dfLJxJvcvDsOlrOO_QTDIuS7WrSsDcY87jDnSsBe0orCwkorL6sjaq1Dj8fnLCIJoutQ6V-Weg7PlmISAtxJSmU7EHehiUcx6dVIHEutdrldRjiHGyATFaOGkiNBu1f3w8tlHWhhhIvCDrk8JqP1J7H23fQ3HJx8i_M-9_rK_z-jkeVftDTNwS=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Death seems much less terrible when one is tired</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">~Simone de Beauvoir</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I miss some of the old days when one could speak and jester and joke; when minorities did not control you somehow??? <br />We keep talking about democracy <br />(even though I doubt there is such a thing) <br />as if it was the Elysium, the cat's meow of all ideologies<br /> and yet one is cancelled, lapidated, discounted at the least word by what is but a fringe of society:<br /> an ideology that has taken way too much power <br />a little bit like the kings and bishops and the Holy Inquisition of old that could kill with a word.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimY6Iez_PCfbDFaKbJUbsHuHarOtY37CIJtuUsC2I4opcUD0NKAmZ2qMNYqZaK6-XOuy4OGYEE3DDAtqoPa8GDQ9ot_3vmxU0ctXd1oow-M9md3BLTMUR2vLmCZX8jFhpNQ1QVm8f_M-Q8qc24vaA5Eh6UPdj5ioK_CoJij04PJ07C1yt44MR67Wed" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimY6Iez_PCfbDFaKbJUbsHuHarOtY37CIJtuUsC2I4opcUD0NKAmZ2qMNYqZaK6-XOuy4OGYEE3DDAtqoPa8GDQ9ot_3vmxU0ctXd1oow-M9md3BLTMUR2vLmCZX8jFhpNQ1QVm8f_M-Q8qc24vaA5Eh6UPdj5ioK_CoJij04PJ07C1yt44MR67Wed" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Diversity if you ask me is an aberration. </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It has taken flight over more decent approaches </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">like meritocracy which has never really succeeded </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>since what really rules the world is </b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>nepotism, oligarchy and plain old BRIBES.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Replacing a mistake from the past <br />by a mistake from the present <br />is STILL a mistake.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">All this Huxleyan traffic too is just mind boggling I nearly puke every time I hear the words influencers or content creator FFS.<br /> Yet some of those are millionaires <br />as if OnlyFans was a mark of $ucce$$!!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Half wits with a camera and an internet connection now have their own soapbox and like P.T. Barnum will always have a number of fans to follow them. <br /><br />I think the sucker ratio of 1 per minute has exponentially grown when you get close to 8 billion possible followers.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The thing is and this is a subject, a metaphor, an allegory that I have referred to many many times:</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Yet in this humongous PILE OF STINKING MANURE once in a while one finds a very nice pearl but yet the stench that sticks to you afterward makes the find a little less pleasurable.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well there is no sense of smell in the grave if that is a relief now.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Ecc 9:6</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpDZs5wO2VhqUYfpEmfTIkebhO0i3SPRsVGH4e70cyuwNFvqIAkT7uSz0Rqvz5-FBbiiQbhmX8o62ywYtqKqpDBP5z2HEaBGC0mgGlqYZyG3yqpBhIsywZo142R6yfJeSjKrEevpkV8TGc4459UjLqpcDW9_9ZE_8BCgcbDySiZltUikcPucW8DcwZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpDZs5wO2VhqUYfpEmfTIkebhO0i3SPRsVGH4e70cyuwNFvqIAkT7uSz0Rqvz5-FBbiiQbhmX8o62ywYtqKqpDBP5z2HEaBGC0mgGlqYZyG3yqpBhIsywZo142R6yfJeSjKrEevpkV8TGc4459UjLqpcDW9_9ZE_8BCgcbDySiZltUikcPucW8DcwZ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As he said just before that THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING AT ALL</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and that to me sometimes is a RELIEF<br /><br />the Great Equalizer:<br />Saviour of us all <br />and of the planet too</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">KNOWING IS FUCKING EXHAUSTING</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Seeing is exhausting</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hearing is exhausting</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and as he said again quoted in previous blogs</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Studying is exhausting</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">a weariness of the flesh </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and in this post-truth too much information age the well is just way too fucking deep and too fucking dark.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There you go little meaningless blog another nothc to you </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I feel better, for all it is worth, writing a blog than doing anything else really prolly as useless and meaningless as anything else I do but still <br /><br />maybe I am a content creator too??? </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">FUCK FORBID! :P </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-3614852248301038902022-11-19T13:09:00.000+08:002022-11-19T13:09:07.161+08:00Relevance in a Post-Truth Exponential Huxleyan World<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Relevant:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">relevant</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">rĕl′ə-vənt</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">adjective</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Meaningful or purposeful in current society or culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Relieving; lending aid or support.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But there is always always someone to bastardise and nullify a good word now there is even something called </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">relevantmagazine.com|</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Relevant is a bi-monthly Christian lifestyle magazine. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The magazine is published by Relevant Media Group </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Thing is in this Post-Truth Exponential Huxleyan World</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>nothing is RELEVANT anymore</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">NOTHING is Having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">NOTHING is Meaningful or purposeful in current society or culture.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">NOTHING is lending aid or support <br /><br /><b>EVERYTHING is just </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>CONFIRMATION BIAS.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In an evolution where the brain is programmed to eliminate and forget irrelevant information for survival <br />it is no wonder then that there is so much ADD / ADHD today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It reminds me a bit of the time my friend and I loved to go to this repertoire cinema just to watch the Lions: <br />Prize for the best commercials in the world like Oscars Emmys and Tonys etc</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Having your brain blasted for an hour and a half with 30 seconds ads was quite amazing. <br />Thing is that after watching like 180 commercials in a row you could barely remember a handful <br />to this day I think I remember TWO.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">While I am here the second word of the day is</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Demonise.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">A lot of polarising people quite often much richer and much more intelligent than the hoi polloi are quickly demonised in this cancelling society. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson come to mind here.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Their contribution to the world to say the least is much much greater than mine, <br />much much greater than any of all the SJWs out there and the constant commenters on the internet. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The reason why I made this Marlon Brando meme really replacing the words:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJjEPnvQKCuBD-JV1RiEo6t7EECqukTIZxbpWfPPTUxmmxD8b6QA6KtGxKiNzUCepeBrDAhHvVnMeFpOwiuWK5jyrfJqv2pq7Mr0S3-vKuY7_brwx5hXh1dtVtcL38-4-IX1_TMzXrzJLttc00o4LvW8VHC_2F6u9zQ9mjW4wxVrgQB2q4b6xyTVc/s1198/thecommentsthecomments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1198" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJjEPnvQKCuBD-JV1RiEo6t7EECqukTIZxbpWfPPTUxmmxD8b6QA6KtGxKiNzUCepeBrDAhHvVnMeFpOwiuWK5jyrfJqv2pq7Mr0S3-vKuY7_brwx5hXh1dtVtcL38-4-IX1_TMzXrzJLttc00o4LvW8VHC_2F6u9zQ9mjW4wxVrgQB2q4b6xyTVc/w640-h268/thecommentsthecomments.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">THE HORROR! THE HORROR!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">with</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">THE COMMENTS. THE COMMENTS.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The biggest problem with demonising I see is that one has a strong tendency while foaming at the mouth to</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am somewhat fascinated at times with Jordan Peterson though I try to see him with an unfiltered mind if there is such a thing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At times he says great sensible things but often as most people are, <b>yours truly included</b>, he is UTTERLY FULL OF SHIT.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Especially lately he is getting worse and worse every day going down in flame but then again he has been very ill and his wife is dying so I try to give him some leeway.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">No one can handle fame and power as he should know very well and he is not immune to it either.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Elon on another hand is well kind of special; <br />very privileged childhood <br />and a special strangely functioning Asperger Brain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Mind you I guess he is not immune either to my favourite paraphrase of Balzac and should be thrown in the same bag as Oprah and so many other rich people:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">~ Honoré de Balzac</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRF_YKi-cuzR3h8pVEy3o8TC31bXMlO8XkJle29hH178fctuGsNBaOX4D__-GnLR6kw2IFWUjRI38a36RKl0njPwrYTb59LRz-vTExU19G2xgKeVa_wzb-LXmdML6pfHXaQrGFmoJa5E3rlc1wRvWNIul0DOmFOOGNa59CFUd5ao1azzmyHTnECPYB/s850/balzac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRF_YKi-cuzR3h8pVEy3o8TC31bXMlO8XkJle29hH178fctuGsNBaOX4D__-GnLR6kw2IFWUjRI38a36RKl0njPwrYTb59LRz-vTExU19G2xgKeVa_wzb-LXmdML6pfHXaQrGFmoJa5E3rlc1wRvWNIul0DOmFOOGNa59CFUd5ao1azzmyHTnECPYB/w640-h302/balzac.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">O well again to make another paraphrase:<br /><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #081c2a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;">“How can a young man cleanse his way? <br />By taking heed according to WHOSE word?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And to quote the old book again since it has been a big part of my programming:<br /><br /></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-1" id="en-KJV-17525"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">12 </span>Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-2" id="en-KJV-17526"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-3" id="en-KJV-17527"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-4" id="en-KJV-17528"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-5" id="en-KJV-17529"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-6" id="en-KJV-17530"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-7" id="en-KJV-17531"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-8" id="en-KJV-17532"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-9" id="en-KJV-17533"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-10" id="en-KJV-17534"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-11" id="en-KJV-17535"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-12" id="en-KJV-17536"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-13" id="en-KJV-17537"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-14" id="en-KJV-17538"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Well I will give you two things old SOL:<br /><br />1. YES All in Vanity and Dust in the Wind;<br />2. Yes too much study IS a weariness of the flesh!<br /><br />As for the creator thingie well many have tried this story for thousands of years before you back when there was no science and no one could explain shit and still tried.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">But I like your poetry on growing old though.</span><br /><br />This was one of the first sermon I ever heard back when I was 20 in a Baptist church and I was highly impressed by the use of the silver cord expression having just read Lobsang Rampa on the Third Eye and Astral projection and mentioning that the silver cord held your soul to your body.<br /><br />Now don't get me going on this soul word again:<br />AIR BREATH HOT AIR fart if you want.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That is all it is </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You have air you have life; <br />you have no air you DON'T HAVE life <br />and this is the end of it the rest is made up.<br /><br />(same goes with the word spirit, <br />You IN SPIRE you live<br />You EX SPIRE you die)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nothing new under the Sun as good old Sol said again.</span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-52672903310694309272022-11-11T22:03:00.004+08:002022-11-11T22:03:45.626+08:00511 and counting<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSTMj3Jrnq0AA6CbPbIZC34QnM06Q80bokYGkL5yMdcE1mfkMP3JzBFsnyx35DcmNrehQgSKvmKSjXMhTg8q5pJ-p14NxGS8MzDnMtgGRF4a14S0EbByNjnl76l97pSa4nSKD7E-GNZLwgHmuFZjY1G91kPX1LE8JHahUGxXZjbxIAhlZSxpmzepOJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="1546" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSTMj3Jrnq0AA6CbPbIZC34QnM06Q80bokYGkL5yMdcE1mfkMP3JzBFsnyx35DcmNrehQgSKvmKSjXMhTg8q5pJ-p14NxGS8MzDnMtgGRF4a14S0EbByNjnl76l97pSa4nSKD7E-GNZLwgHmuFZjY1G91kPX1LE8JHahUGxXZjbxIAhlZSxpmzepOJ=w640-h328" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 2,110,233,600 seconds</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 35,170,560 minutes</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 586,176 hours</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 24,424 days</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 3489 weeks and 1 day</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> 6691.51% of a common year (365 days)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Watching short reels again and this wanker tells me that an average life is 4000 weeks which I thought sounder about right</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">76.923 years give or take a few weeks</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was always impressed 40 years ago by this preacher trying to impress on you the shortness of life and counting it in weeks</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If you re 60 and you expect to live to 75 you have 750 weeks left</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">considering HOW FAST a week goes by and next thing you know it's Monday again AKA Bin Day here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BLA BLA BLA the usual fear sermon on hell and damnation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Was looking at the word Save today meaning</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>To save (someone) from danger or difficulty and I thought</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>How practical it is to invent some fictitious danger <br />like hell to imply the need of a saviour</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway I keep joking about that to my massage therapist and my psychologist that I see more or less fortnightly. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">If I live to 72 I have 250 weeks left that is ONLY 125 massages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyhow this wanker who was banking on the catchy preacher sentence used 40 years ago ( used for eons in fact your life is but a vapor etc etc) and then proceeding that YOU were wasting YOUR TIME and HE was gonna tell YOU how to make a better use of YOUR TIME and this is pretty well when I went:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GO FUCK YOURSELF WANKER!<br /><br />I had another blog brewing after listening to <br />Don Henley's Wasted Time that went a bit like this</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />That TECHNICALLY it is ALL WASTED TIME.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Time is only a short concept while we are alive.<br />Technically there was no time before we were born<br />and there will be no time after we die</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />or at least for all intents and purposes <br />NO TIME KEEPING.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Like Roy Batty once famously said:<br />Our Time, Our Memories will all have vanished <br />LIKE TEARS IN RAIN<br />give it just a few years and nobody NOBODY will remember what we did with our time.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uXnCP5V2P78QwP3CzEOztC-Yy79-Ls42pSuiA8Ha3YtJHNTOXWO_NPwN9eBjoxOtEzsFXGGKG8lLzgraokSWTiTJuMX0q1lQni0An0wVnz63-yoFGwHhxYJwlEg1iJ111MnNO-wvKT_FGx1VDYbQXhBKeH0uVYSmyTamEu9K5xEMRGHtcRbqqc8H/s480/tears2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="480" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_uXnCP5V2P78QwP3CzEOztC-Yy79-Ls42pSuiA8Ha3YtJHNTOXWO_NPwN9eBjoxOtEzsFXGGKG8lLzgraokSWTiTJuMX0q1lQni0An0wVnz63-yoFGwHhxYJwlEg1iJ111MnNO-wvKT_FGx1VDYbQXhBKeH0uVYSmyTamEu9K5xEMRGHtcRbqqc8H/w640-h286/tears2.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">So I got 3489 weeks done and dusted</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">24K days plus way more than Nick Cave's 22K anyway :P </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Got a long long long 28 weeks to wait <br />til I leave for Montreal <br />to spend a short 5 weeks there <br /><b>if and if and if</b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">But yeah! With 8 billion coming soon if you were to live one week with each individual on the planet you would have to live</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">153,846,153 YEARS considering the population is growing exponentially these days you might have to live forever at least an eternity and a half! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Well if I make it to 4000 weeks and fuck knows I like ROUND numbers I will be happy with that</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">511 to go and counting </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-36897740209676934332022-11-08T15:43:00.005+08:002022-11-08T15:43:46.435+08:00The lengths that people will go to aka For a Few Dollars More<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgL2eYdFNB1vpXRZG6w4WNhExU7LYmVkxP-FzRAWTfuWam8nd-bg2xpMWUfO3MmrZ70XragVTju1PoedSzyM_HyxhwsNv3JooqtSyPm6mUY1rF4IwvAY2Wo5Jtfe2GzeRPgZwG11-YTaeUdBR5A1T0fPUXfFK2ik16qUhB8iTnOwlPcg7DoS5cZjZ/s703/everyone2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="703" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgL2eYdFNB1vpXRZG6w4WNhExU7LYmVkxP-FzRAWTfuWam8nd-bg2xpMWUfO3MmrZ70XragVTju1PoedSzyM_HyxhwsNv3JooqtSyPm6mUY1rF4IwvAY2Wo5Jtfe2GzeRPgZwG11-YTaeUdBR5A1T0fPUXfFK2ik16qUhB8iTnOwlPcg7DoS5cZjZ/w640-h286/everyone2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I can't seem to do anything else these days but browse the internet since it seems I have lost my gaming mojo again despite being given some nice privilege I can't even talk about LOL <br />NDA involved and what not.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And I used to feel guilty browsing one short reel after another but now I don't feel guilty so much anymore, dirty maybe, but not guilty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Dirty a bit like when I open Firefox and browse the Microsoft / MSN page: so much crap on there.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway last trigger apparently is Neil Oliver joining the conspiracists pages out of spite I suppose since no one is interested anymore in his gambling rambling speculations on what may or MAY NOT have happened 1000 years ago: some people find it so so hard just to say</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW" <br /><br />as it doesn't fill the time slot of your program or your book <br />and it wouldn't sell SHIT.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">BUT NOT ONLY HIM THOUGH! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">EVERYBODY! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">EVERYBODY is a fucking GURU <br />and a fucking KNOW-IT-ALL on all subjects.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to the Internet.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">You're doing this wrong,</span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">you're doing that wrong, </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">you're breathing wrong, </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">sleeping wrong, </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">drinking wrong, </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">eating wrong, </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">pissing wrong </span></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">and shitting wrong. </span></b></span></li></ul></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Listen to ME and for a small fee I will show you <br />how to <br />do, breathe, sleep, drink, eat, piss and shit RIGHT!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Barnum and Bailey on an exponential catalyst where everyone with a web cam and an internet connection is trying to sell you <br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">some snake oil / tripe / shite! Click baits for a few dollars more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">And that is when they're cheap only fan type follow me is not just absolutely ridiculous or plain boring.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">O well if I had any brains left I would surely find a better occupation for sure.. reading Dostoyevsky for instance might be more rewarding but I find myself exhausted every day not able to even finish that interesting link I just click on. <br /><br /><b>Huxley Overload Syndrome maybe.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Too tired to study it all and too old to bother. I don't have the energy anymore to pretend that I know better and that I am in the loop of all the secrets of the earth. This gnostic bullshit has been going on and on and on for eons anyway.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As far as I know and as far as I am concerned <br />I WILL GET ALL my vaccines, <br />hope for the best <br />and QUE SERA SERA! <br />Trust the science kind of <br />not trying to be a rebel without a clue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wasted enough years in a cult like mind already and I am tired of it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So here it is in a nutshell more of my babbling, <br />my empty sounds, <br />my kenophony!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">More wasted zeros and ones among so many other wasted zeros and ones. Well unless you are an hexadecimal believer that is! :)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">P.S. 16 blogs this year so far what I would call a slow year</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-27122311620871199812022-10-31T18:28:00.004+08:002022-10-31T18:28:41.711+08:001988<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3DXtql9qrkLARnlFb41h0D6oG2FwwKjOVBdGUR5YEiOaEc92LQRmxJMteYLTzYQlBVSxaMZ_S7HT-yOY4wI2fhBIYGxtN7Sz-KLW6-s5u2SSyQcH0QET3NCCwnkwO1_Kn_-xcGu4q3Z22TswTiVbJWSX5CLepZhSxkGZtcd-9q1q2CUEzl3Ns0DK/s1021/joe%20elliot%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="1021" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3DXtql9qrkLARnlFb41h0D6oG2FwwKjOVBdGUR5YEiOaEc92LQRmxJMteYLTzYQlBVSxaMZ_S7HT-yOY4wI2fhBIYGxtN7Sz-KLW6-s5u2SSyQcH0QET3NCCwnkwO1_Kn_-xcGu4q3Z22TswTiVbJWSX5CLepZhSxkGZtcd-9q1q2CUEzl3Ns0DK/w400-h331/joe%20elliot%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />I was wondering why the album Hysteria brought back such sweet memories to me.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">10th of June 1988 (my 10th wedding anniversary) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I "LIBERATED" myself from the grip of the cult I had been in since oct 12, 1976.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Threw my things in one bag in the back of the company pickup truck, left to a hotel with my last paycheck and muster the courage to go back to my house 2 days later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The house was totally empty, <br />They left me one couch to sleep on, <br />one fork, one knife, one spoon.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Gave my 2weeks notice at work (in Toronto) and rented a tv to save my sanity in this long 2 weeks in this lonely house.<br />I didn't know where my kids were or my wife or anybody. I was completely OSTRACISED as it was the norm in any cult.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So went back to Montreal, pleaded my case with unemployment insurance and got spared from the 6 weeks penalty for quitting your job. <br />Got my cheques coming in two weeks and tried to recover from the stunning trauma.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Bought myself a sofa bed a tv and settle in the hottest apartment ever. Went to bed at daybreak when exhausted. Went shopping at the depanneur across the street late in the afternoon early in the evening rarely saw the light of day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Didn't see my kids for 9 months in fact first time I saw them was on TV.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After a few months of that again in order to save my sanity I went to work for my old boss, the locksmith I had left in a hurry 1o years back when we fled to Manitoba via Tennessee.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Not for the money as I was not making much more than on UI but just to get back to some sort of normal life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But I can say that MTV or Musique Plus as we called it has saved my life, It was the days when Pour Some Sugar on Me won every video battle every week and I spent hours and hours watching Evening at the Improv Comedy on A & E.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here is that bit of memory log all coming back to me now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Them were the days.</span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-70214945443792407772022-10-07T15:31:00.000+08:002022-10-07T15:31:11.858+08:00HERD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXOnQSQ9aJ4D9MnLGJ1Cgzl8o9MaDZ-j82i-TyiSK544a-AR59KV0iZHdPvt79N7i-c0pXau3kPhla3U1upV27U5o5HtbMLHPYJSPjjV0cFMHKlJW9XUS9TGdjQ9UQ4tOa-c9ZMXVUG2w4a5ocs-VMQ6bmbAFD2YFcAGSgYBhAEZojpgOaIWQ23GW/s1200/cowpf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXOnQSQ9aJ4D9MnLGJ1Cgzl8o9MaDZ-j82i-TyiSK544a-AR59KV0iZHdPvt79N7i-c0pXau3kPhla3U1upV27U5o5HtbMLHPYJSPjjV0cFMHKlJW9XUS9TGdjQ9UQ4tOa-c9ZMXVUG2w4a5ocs-VMQ6bmbAFD2YFcAGSgYBhAEZojpgOaIWQ23GW/w640-h358/cowpf.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Some woke archaeologist is trying to warn us that we are being herded.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Well as an archaeologist he should KNOW that we have always ALWAYS been herded.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We are the sheep, the sheeple, herd/mob mentality IS in our DNA.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Every time one is conscripted or drafted one is herded.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We are HERDED every single day by everything that surrounds us: parents, society, school, media and now ALGORITHMS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In one of my old blogs I was quoting <a href="https://prophetofnoprofit.blogspot.com/2009/12/most-people-are-other-people.html" target="_blank">Oscar Wilde</a>:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><blockquote style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation" - </i></span></blockquote><p style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">What part of 'us' is "us' is one of those sempiternal questions:<br />Free Will and What Not, Nature vs Nurture etc etc</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">And then there are those illuminated who THINK they are not herded, they are not the sheeple, they are holier-than-thou, wiser-than-thou, woke, illuminated smart asses of the world who have just fallen in their own little herd.</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Some sort of self-righteous cult among all the other self-righteous cults.</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">WE for sure have fences and boundaries and so many CHAINS we CANNOT see.<br /><br />As S & G said again:<br /><br /></span></p><pre class="lyric-body wselect-cnt" data-lang="en" dir="ltr" id="lyric-body-text" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: alias !important; line-height: 26px; overflow: auto; word-break: break-word;"><blockquote style="color: #111111; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>A man gets tied up to the ground
He <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/gives" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;">gives</a> the <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/world" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;">world</a> its <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/saddest" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;">saddest</a> sound
Its <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/saddest" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;">saddest</a> sound</i></span></blockquote><p style="color: #111111; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are tied by socio-economic chains, geographical chains (closely related to religious chains as well) educational chains</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">For instance it is nearly impossible nowadays to get the classical education one had in the past with extensive knowledge of past Greek and Latin writers. It is nearly impossible even now to get a university education that is not TAINTED by a billion political agendas and this joke only leads most students CHAINED to enormous debts to repay where they are going to HAVE to resort to slaving away and sell out somewhere to another form of slavery. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So much for free will and free thinking,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">PLUS PLUS PLUS nowadays we are completely inundated in this Huxleyan Algorithm which drives most of us insane on the borderline of ADHD.
It always reminds me of one of Ani DiFranco's Song:
</span></span><a class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__ClickTarget-sc-110r0d9-0 jvutUp" href="https://genius.com/23939901/Ani-difranco-little-plastic-castle/In-a-coffee-shop-in-a-city-which-is-every-coffee-shop-in-every-city-on-a-day-which-is-every-day-i-picked-up-a-magazine-which-is-every-magazine-read-a-story-then-i-forgot-it-right-away" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d8fe8; margin: 0px; padding: calc((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) 0px; position: relative; scroll-margin: calc(max(10vw, 0px) + 3rem + 1.5em); text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><span class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__Highlight-sc-110r0d9-1 jAzSMw" style="background-color: #e9e9e9; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.75px) 0px calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.25px);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></span></a></p><blockquote><a class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__ClickTarget-sc-110r0d9-0 jvutUp" href="https://genius.com/23939901/Ani-difranco-little-plastic-castle/In-a-coffee-shop-in-a-city-which-is-every-coffee-shop-in-every-city-on-a-day-which-is-every-day-i-picked-up-a-magazine-which-is-every-magazine-read-a-story-then-i-forgot-it-right-away" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d8fe8; margin: 0px; padding: calc((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) 0px; position: relative; scroll-margin: calc(max(10vw, 0px) + 3rem + 1.5em); text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><span class="ReferentFragmentdesktop__Highlight-sc-110r0d9-1 jAzSMw" style="background-color: #e9e9e9; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.75px) 0px calc((((1.5em - 1.125rem) / 2) - 0.0625rem) - 0.25px);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>In a coffee shop in a city<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Which is every coffee shop<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In every city<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />On a day which is every day<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I picked up a magazine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Which is every magazine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Read a story then I forgot it right away</i></span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; white-space: normal; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; width: 0px; z-index: -1;" tabindex="0"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">And they say goldfish have no memory</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">I guess their lives are much like mine</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">And the little plastic castle</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">Is a surprise every time</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">And it's hard to say if they're happy</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">But they don't seem much to mind</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; white-space: normal;" /><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;">(Yee-haw)</span></i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WE ARE A HERD.
A herd that rapes and pillages in every war.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A herd that foams at the mouth and gets outraged
and stones and lynches at the smallest occasion
when our self-righteousness
and our hypocritical man-made morality are "offended"
A herd that cannot think, that doesn't have the capacity
to get beyond war and destruction or even the wisdom
to get above self-destruction
8 billion of engineeringly defective beings not as far above
the other animals as we think.
And to think we are not a herd or just realised we are herded
well it is to think that the shadows in the cave are real. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We have been herded in myths for thousands of years and
WE STILL ARE.
<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To think there is such a thing as a HOLY WAR is
</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">just HERD mentality to begin with.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To think we are the good guys is herd mentality.
To think Us vs Them is herd mentality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">O well I could go on and on and let's not forget
that I am part of the herd too.
It is funny how we are quick to call others stupid when
we are not too high on the intelligence scale ourselves.
Maybe in the end we are all lost souls swinging in a fish bowl
YEAR after YEAR.
So maybe we are not a HERD, Just a Shoal or a School or a
WhatNot of Fishes
</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVzE8l3yKVjf2V2q1mRuuVIHkEogfUTqBN2oyFPAE6ur3gGtkuRlALgY6-k9hOMCWIGVbnzfpXQO0CMiRB51cvzh7EJJDuPaFo9AH_H_wx1U6idvNP9SBtYENSmJPBRZf9NyPwNGIkMlYVUp-f6XuIDFRipDsmBX-OweMwsmke4_i3yP18y4IEbpo/s1219/shoal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1219" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVzE8l3yKVjf2V2q1mRuuVIHkEogfUTqBN2oyFPAE6ur3gGtkuRlALgY6-k9hOMCWIGVbnzfpXQO0CMiRB51cvzh7EJJDuPaFo9AH_H_wx1U6idvNP9SBtYENSmJPBRZf9NyPwNGIkMlYVUp-f6XuIDFRipDsmBX-OweMwsmke4_i3yP18y4IEbpo/w640-h310/shoal.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />Funny how in the old days your herd was always the best and
your god was always the strongest
the good old my daddy is stronger than your daddy
After all the original Hebrew God was called
Yahweh Sabaoth:
The Lord of Hosts
The Lord of the Armies
And then when you got your ass whipped
you had to find some poor excuse why Daddy let you down
So to conclude
We are HERDED from Day One
and constantly after that Day after Day
oh we may transfer herd here and then but
A HERD IS A HERD IS A HERD
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p> </p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: normal;"></span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p></pre><p></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-91397032135667463432022-08-13T16:48:00.000+08:002022-08-13T16:48:44.906+08:00TIME IS TIGHT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsy2am_fIV1Dx_sITOl-qpR_AWl7oBcDKYN3nT7mtIDsCr5Vyit9u2x2wkb0DArbWXUEorL1YJzNoyw_1FV87ju_JSmaoQ_z2qJiowMYXzqcBkf5VmpDDiOZz6Xj3bJzJQjxJJul6hec9CJzQLMJLsaUaGkw0_kDngddATaqyCrW3nS9I3jZCiSoEA/s2000/Booker-T-And-The-MGs-Time-Is-Tight-and-Johnny-I-Love-You-Side-A-Label.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsy2am_fIV1Dx_sITOl-qpR_AWl7oBcDKYN3nT7mtIDsCr5Vyit9u2x2wkb0DArbWXUEorL1YJzNoyw_1FV87ju_JSmaoQ_z2qJiowMYXzqcBkf5VmpDDiOZz6Xj3bJzJQjxJJul6hec9CJzQLMJLsaUaGkw0_kDngddATaqyCrW3nS9I3jZCiSoEA/w640-h640/Booker-T-And-The-MGs-Time-Is-Tight-and-Johnny-I-Love-You-Side-A-Label.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Déchéance:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">here is another French word that gets lost in translation</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bing tranlates it as: DECAY which is kind of lame</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Google says FORFEITURE but also offers DEGRADATION which is better IMHO</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway that is<b> the word</b> that came to mind lately as I have been in the habit of watching this "new" chapters on Facebook called Reels and now on YouTube called Shorts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And I feel the déchéance not only of the world in general <br />but also of my own soul when I watch them too long.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thousands and Thousands out there if not MILLIONS trying to get your attention, trying to sell you some TRIPE as Van the Man would say.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And even though my attention span is getting shorter and shorter sometimes it is not short enough as <br />ALL I NEED is 5 seconds out the of 15 seconds short <br />to move on to the next one with some thoughts <br />like Fuck off you try hard or Get fucked you loser. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(One of the most offensive to me being the cunt who uses a spray bottle on some stranger and pretends to sneeze as a prank: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">get a fucking life you losing wanker. Grow the FUCK UP.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So many wannabe GURUS, SO LITTLE TIME.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It always reminds me of one of my fav Ani DiFranco song:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">EVERYONE IS A FUCKING NAPOLEON.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There sure is a lot of "ink" time, or zeros and ones as I call them out there INCLUDING MINE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">DECADENCE might be a better word exactly <br />as in the decadence of an empire or of a generation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You can't cancel YouTube or Facebook or even better TikTok out there. <br />The market goes where it is wanted and way too often to the LCD unfortunately, <br />the Lowest Common Denominator.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">P.T. Barnum was fully aware of that now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am sure there are excellent informative, educational wonders on the internet, pearls one might say, but like everything in life a bit à la Huxley they are utterly buried in a fuckton of manure making it nearly impossible to find, making the digging completely exhausting and the stench unbearable.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway it seems to be a "new" trend from my POV and not one in the right direction if you ask me but then again I IS NO GURU either! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">People vying for their 15 seconds of fame in a pandemic world void of real contact and even real jobs these days. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Easy money street aka the oldest profession in the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mind you the oldest profession in the world gets more respect in my book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">So here is my two bits to throw on top the fuckton of existing manure already.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As Booker T. & the M.G.'s once said:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">TIME IS TIGHT! :)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but that was FIFTY THREE years ago way way before the days of the internet</span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618347922765225697.post-62414793648470362482022-07-29T11:49:00.001+08:002022-07-29T11:49:31.586+08:00If I can dream<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8gHTcWEdoAuJauaYkfurHx5Xi6ewztyjdBX4tu3D2idFj4IJ7K3fREtO2FfcxKPQIOk1Tfy3KK19P495zq7rShK7L2WJDlmp59kU3ksRMknY_1I6nwAeaiG4ywgKc4vuOWrg20Lb8a85WJCNWFIZ1GyKCxqMMYCo9LiD6URXVFD1jJM6YDmdhmXvL/s1920/poulin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8gHTcWEdoAuJauaYkfurHx5Xi6ewztyjdBX4tu3D2idFj4IJ7K3fREtO2FfcxKPQIOk1Tfy3KK19P495zq7rShK7L2WJDlmp59kU3ksRMknY_1I6nwAeaiG4ywgKc4vuOWrg20Lb8a85WJCNWFIZ1GyKCxqMMYCo9LiD6URXVFD1jJM6YDmdhmXvL/w400-h225/poulin.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Who you are!<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Who you think you are! and<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Who you would like to be!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Sometimes I think I was born too early and then again the future does not look so promising except maybe for a few medical advances but what would be the point of living a long life then?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">At other times I think I may have been born too early.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I missed by a smidgeon a totally different system of education which I may or probably would not have enjoyed but could fantasize on or dream of. (never finish a sentence with a preposition) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When I was in primary school just before they opened the very first new "polyvalente" school my options for the future were thus:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">1. Classical </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for the great brains who wanted to study humanities and languages and all the great classics, who wanted to read all Cicero or Plato in their original languages: Latin and Greek respectively.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">For the "bolés" as we called them in Quebec back then.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2. Scientific</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for the other kind of "bolés" who liked maths more than english or french and liked to study maths, physics, chemistry etc</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3. General</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for the hoi polloi the riff raff and the rest of them that didn't quit after high school or go to a trade school</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Classical studies has always been a dream of mine but then again it was never to happen for many reason a) they quit that system the very year I entered high school and b) I wasn't cut out for it having been ruined much earlier. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There was a kind teacher in year 7, <br />Mr St-Onge (my mother's maiden name strangely enough) who tried to rescue me but he came a little too late. <br />The damage that the other St-Onge had done was irremediable.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anyway </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I could of ;) done my own education and read all the great books but history says I didn't. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chose the Drugs and Rock and Roll road instead and look where that led me now :P</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Speaking of that Mr. St-Onge I bawl my eyes <br />out every time I hear this song from<br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3Csi7f1hE&ab_channel=DisquesVictoire" target="_blank">Alexandre Poulin: L'écrivain.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I am always reminded of this story of this French Canadian girl who was trying to use this expression once I bawled my eyes out and said instead: <br /><br />I cried my balls out! LOL<br /><br />Over and Out</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5xBhsY8PHiYFA_ZySqf222FTihI5CyOuFegfKvmCgHrpVhKHkdi5vpB31kzzzNkYqBQiGitnv8ZlLiqFHEZG7OERizLUH_Da9vCN0WXGvDys5SMONrUhvVHLO6RW6X9EC1gho2DB99uetGW9ppjQrrJq6pVTGyY_ZH13HG0d1cF_AUAr2jSiQ5AX/s879/dream2.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5xBhsY8PHiYFA_ZySqf222FTihI5CyOuFegfKvmCgHrpVhKHkdi5vpB31kzzzNkYqBQiGitnv8ZlLiqFHEZG7OERizLUH_Da9vCN0WXGvDys5SMONrUhvVHLO6RW6X9EC1gho2DB99uetGW9ppjQrrJq6pVTGyY_ZH13HG0d1cF_AUAr2jSiQ5AX/w510-h640/dream2.webp" width="510" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p>Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143212545826651950noreply@blogger.com1