OUTRAGE and DISGRACE

An NBC News review of classified CIA documents for a 14 month period beginning in September 2010 lists 114 drone strikes that killed as many as

613 people. However, in some of those strikes, the CIA did not know the identity of the victims. 

No big words here like OUTRAGE and DISGRACE, no one foaming at the mouth, no one ripping their clothes off, self-immolating or throwing dust and ashes wearing a hemp sack cloth here, Nope, none of that.
Just your regular tralala life goes on attitude. 

We are extremely SELECTIVE in our choices of deaths to rant over, extremely partial and biased in deciding who is a human and who is not, quite parochial/provincial indeed, small minded some would say. 

Petitesse d’esprit.

OUTRAGE and DISGRACE are strangely very selective dishes we serve willy nilly here and there on our whims of the day.

Some French journalist once said:

Every single French or American citizen has become a little tribunal to themselves.

Chacun, chaque citoyen français ou americain aujourd'hui est devenu un petit tribunal a lui tout seul.

So when one uses the term 'Absolute disgrace of a human' it is often dependent of where he lives and a million other factors. 

Disgrace is a funny word like that as is its opposite GRACE.

That French journalist actually suffered from some petitesse d’esprit himself as being judge, jury, and hangman is not reserved only to French and American. 

It belongs to all of us, every single one of us since the beginning of time.

This is why we have that mythological story of the garden of Eden trying to tell us that NO it is not knowledge that is dangerous, au contraire, (funny how this story got so distorted in time to the point of totally losing its original meaning),
not knowledge as I was saying but the Knowledge of “good” and “evil”.

Once we go down that road it gets quite scary everyone turning into its own hysterical foaming at the mouth Germinal Mob over the local morality of the day.

I said local morality of the day because we all know morality changes with time and place.  Examples abound.

A thirty year old marrying (i.e. fucking) a twelve year old was quite common for the longest time and some would say necessary and proven by nature since the female was fertile at such a time. The birds and the bees have no such qualms.

Older male with younger male was nothing short of the rule in Greek times as well. No disgrace, no outrage, maybe a little bit of game to save another funny word here, HONOUR.

68 years ago, (a very short time) burning and killing Germans and Japanese by the thousands perfectly normal.

Today an OUTRAGE, a DISGRACE.

Today killing Arab babies by the dozens perfectly normal.

In 68 years from now an outrage, a disgrace?

All of us in everything we do, every single day we have been given the gift of JUSTIFYING.

Normal Citizens, War Criminals, Serial Killers , Goody Two Shoes We ALL DO IT.

And We all are right and justified and have reason.

The thing is though that black cannot be white and white cannot be black 

so some of us are necessarily WRONG 

but of course it is ALWAYS the others that are wrong strangely enough.

As Don Henley puts it so well:

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds, 
in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

The first casualty of war is truth, truth buried in the history of the vanquished.

How can one study history anyway as a compass of right and wrong? How can one study history as anything remotely close to reality or even as a ‘science’?

So in the meanwhile let’s keep reading the news the media is FEEDING us so hungrily and let’s keep judging and commenting and getting OUTRAGED at the DISGRACE. 

Forget about classes on syndicalism in Primary School Mrs Marois instead of recreation. How about we teach our kids to think for themselves and to know their etymology and linguistics and logical fallacies and weasel words when they see them ten thousand times a day? That would certainly NOT serve a government very well I understand but it would make a hell of an interesting world now.

Teaching primary children syndicalism is just another form of Orwellian/Huxleyian propaganda. Replacing religion with politics is no change at all.

So while I can still go, I’ll go on pondering on the merits of this life, on the grace and disgrace of it all, on the rage and outrage of it all.  Pondering on the local present knowledge of good and evil and the purpose of war and media head filling and the power of money for good and evil, mostly evil from my POV here.

Next subject to ponder on speaking of the love of money is the medical future coming to us, a very near future where some will be able to AFFORD to even have organs printed maybe? 

There is a part of me that finds great wisdom in death somehow.

Fear is the path of the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to Hate.
Hate leads to suffering.  ~ Yoda

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Chasing God by Dawn French???

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. that’s what it come down to I s’pose.

Why the fuck would I want to read an article about theism or atheism by Dawn French of all people now?

For reasons unknown I have no respect at all for Dawn French OR Ricky Gervais while we are at it, which is strange because I almost worship George Carlin and every word that came out of his mouth.

Truth is I suppose that there are assholes of every creed colour nation or race.  Some creed, colour, nation, or race have more assholes than others I suppose oh and yeah let’s not forget sexual orientation too another important division on our explosive planet.

Authority is a big meaningless word really and expert means even less.

Dawkins is a biologist not a theologian.  
Hitchens for all his reading and awesome brain 
has been all over the spectrum so he can’t be right all the time.

A lot of these atheist loud mouths all over the internet seem to be nothing short of ignorant angry bullies and their support of atheism does nothing to help the cause.  They are just as bad and ignorant as any fanatic believer.  Bottom line I suppose again is,

a fanatic is a fanatic 

no matter what his/her colour, creed, nation, race 
or sexual orientation is too.

The motives of the hearts at times 
are more important than the correctness of the brain methinks.  

For instance I somewhat resent an atheist who is an atheist because he is gay and god hates gays so fuck you god. 
Or the poor mother who prayed intensely for god to spare HER child and god did NOT listen to HER so fuck you god again 
I will be your worst enemy now. 

It somewhat reminds me of that familiar Salieri scene in Amadeus.

I don’t know how Camus lived with the absurd but I do find it really arduous at times. And I’d hate to be French on top of all that too. J  I mean I am French-Canadian by nature but “THE” French to me are a really contentious snobby bunch almost worse than the Knesset and add on a French Jew and you have double-contentious here.  We Canadians I suppose are not very well known for our contentious spirit quite au contraire.  Some nations might be perceived as more contentious than others I guess. I know, I know, an awful lot of guessing and supposing here. J 

To achieve the right goal for the right reasons is just impossible on this planet.  We are way too twisted, ignorant and warped to come anywhere near the truth and true reality. 

Too apelike even at our best.

Our very best minds (make it an IQ of 200 or even an impossible 300) are nothing and often totally wrong in so many ways.

Our polymaths, our geniuses are still primates in so many ways.

The randomness of it all is unexplainable to the best of us.

Words like justice and truth will remain vague concepts forever and ever.

The randomness of life 

and all its innumerable factors and conditions to survive.

The randomness of death 

and its strange unexplainable, inexcusable dice rolls.

The total randomness of everyday life, of every nanosecond life.

The rewards of the wicked, 

the punishment of the poor, 

all of it is ABSURD.

Politics and religions are the ultimate Absurdities of them all.

And in the end the love we gave

… and eat and drink and be merry

… is about the sum of it all.

And maybe leave some offspring for some to prolong the absurdity.

Strangely enough both of Mozart’s sons 

who survived to adulthood 

died childless. L

A LOT OF ASS & U & ME

Rosenberg emphasized that evil “needs to be desperately explained.” The Christian theologian responded by saying: “The problem here is that we are assuming that God's purpose is just to make us happy in this life, but on the Christian view that's false. The purpose of life is not worldly happiness as such, but rather the knowledge of God. There may be many evils that occur in this lifetime that are utterly pointless with respect to producing worldly happiness, but they may not be pointless with respect to producing the knowledge of God and salvation and eternal life.”

Audience members, the formal debate panel and online viewers all said that Craig, the Christian theologian, won the debate.

I hope there was more to it than that but still I seem to have missed the point here or the whole boat.

The purpose of life is the knowledge of God?

Empirical knowledge?

Epistemological knowledge?

Emotional Knowledge?

Intellectual Knowledge?

Scientific Knowledge?

First define Knowledge and then go on and define God.

And those were the second and third assumptions only.

The first assumption was to ASSUME that life has a purpose.

So

1.       We ASSUME life has a purpose

2.       We ASSUME we know what knowledge is despite all the contradictions of epistemology and

3.       We ASSUME there is such a thing as one God vaguely defined amongst 1000 myths.

That is a lot of ASS and U and ME if you ask ME.

All these debates seem so absolutely pointless to me.  The rules are bent, the audience is bent, pride and prejudice play the biggest part in it and it is as invalid as democracy.

We haven’t moved a single inch forward from the days of the Aeropagus
and public intellectual masturbation. 
Rhetoric is not a science.
Rhetoric is a mastering of fallacies to fool the many.
Paul was just one more rhetorician among millions.

The truth is that there is NO explanation for our race of violent apes.  We are evil and that’s it. We are cruel and we don’t need no gods and no demons to be so we can do it all by ourselves same as any other apes do.

What is the point at all of master debating with another monkey?
Are we going to convert the planet to reason and good sense?
I THINK NOT!

Greed and Ignorance will rule forever or until the day the last human dies after having destroyed all other humans around him.  There is no redemption in the universe. 

So what is the point anyway with debating with greed and ignorance? What does it achieve?

Majority and numbers on your side mean nothing at all here.

So Craig could have just STFU after his first seven words then

The problem here is that we are assuming PERIOD. STOP. 

POINT FINAL.

Missing the Mark

Missing the fucking mark is such a big deal in this world. 

An awful lot of religion seems to be founded on negative words.

Aletheia, (Truth)  Hamartia (Sin) all express the lack, the removal, 

the negation of something.

The removal of the river Lethe, the missing of a lot or destiny appointed to us by some mysterious will somewhere.

So much foaming at the mouth over other people missing their mark while totally forgetting how many times they have missed the fucking mark themselves.

All empowered again in our darkest subconscious twisted minds, the so-called Freudian defence mechanism which bring the absolute worst of us all and which apparently are inevitable AND inexorable as well.

Projection, Repression, Regression

Denial, Displacement, Dissociation,

Rationalisation, Intellectualisation

Passive Aggression, Isolation.

All sicknesses found in large numbers in religious people.

If one is worried about missing the mark one should worry about missing the mark of reality and mental health really.

“Resist much, obey little.”

There was a time where I thought there was a major twist in cosmic thought in what I called the dark 19^th century.  I mean the Darwin and Nietzsche and Jos Smith and Rutherford nuclear fallout is still all around us and like a volcano still very active.

Now I realise this movement, or these movements rather are still quite active and a lot of “thought nuclear dust’ has been activated in the fifties and the sixties.

For one thing all we hear today seems to be eternal truths like America is a Christian nation under God and the so-called Holocaust killed six million Jews but history wasn’t always so.  

As a matter of fact in a perfect Orwellian nightmare history has been REWRITTEN, to prove only one thing 

that there is no such thing as history really in our human corrupted/corrupting mind 

and that a lot of what is said it tainted lies and distorted propaganda 

when it is not plain psychotic denial and projection.

All the dollar bills and the documents have been rewritten and I am told if I am to “believe” Wikipedia that:

Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani, communists, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred regardless of whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin. This was the most common definition from the end of WWII to the 1960s.  Using this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.

I find this “fact” utterly disturbing besides a whole bunch of other points I keep repeating
(i.e. Aborigines, Armenians, Rwandese etc).

But this tells me that someone somewhere, some more than likely Jewish think tank, has decided to appropriate the multiple genocides all to themselves and by doing so to almost literally eliminate or condemn to oblivion FIVE to ELEVEN MILLION other wasted deaths, maybe nearly twice as many as their 6 million.

What is the difference now between pretending that 6 million Jews never died in the holocaust
and 5 to 11 million OTHERS who simply disappeared from history as well.

Am I now just for thinking this attracting the ire of the only hate crime possible today? 

Money talks and bullshit walks as always

but it is not a hate crime, it is a need, a want, to re-establish a sense of truth and reality it is a Winston Smith attempt at independent thinking perceived as thoughtcrimes.

For one thing, the only “truth” we ever hear is from the biggest liar of all, the root of all evil:

MONEY ITSELF.

Poverty does not talk; poverty does not have a voice. 
Poverty does not own media and does not win election.

One would think that there is no truth in poverty that all paupers are liars.

But Truth in its pure and essential sense cannot be bought.

So it is a bit sickening in a modern world to wake up and try to decipher any truth and sense in what hits our eyes and ears every day, or bombards them I should say.

Our brain has been muddled beyond repair, before our conception and beyond our grave.

We are as I keep saying defective engineering, totally irremediably FUBAR.

Our brain is wired to try to find control in chaos and that is where the trouble begins to start with.

We always ask WHY but we never ask

WHY we always ask WHY.

Too many people know how to PROFIT from our inherent weaknesses also and that is where the problem gets compounded.

GREED is probably our greatest downfall.

Food and Water and Shelter for the day are simply not enough for the human animal.

Buddhists would call it attachment and apparently according to them it stems from Ignorance which apparently can be “cured”.  

It’s always nice to have dreamers but I don’t think there is enough reincarnations in two eternities and a half to stamp out ignorance from our monkeys brains.

Plus withdrawing our main comforts of sex and alcohol in this crazy world? 

I mean COME ON! 

Give me a fucking break! :)

And oh yeah become a vegan on top of that?
That’s it. Give me a rope. What is left then?

Jesting apart though,
I can’t see the light at the end of this tunnel.  

Choosing another delusion to replace this delusion

seems to be pointless.

I can only wish that some of my little “light” will keep on shining somewhere in this dark chaotic kosmos and that’s about it. 

If I made one more soul question and wonder maybe all is not in vain.

Question everything.

Don’t believe anything you hear from anyone.

Maybe a bit a la Whitman here since nothing is new under the sun

re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” 

“Resist much, obey little.”