you say I'm HEDONISTIC AS IF it was WRONG!

Truth is there are millions and millions of ascetic religious people out there who litterally deprive themselves of all good things.

Plus these millions have a million different beliefs that only they have the truth and everyone else is wrong or basically going to hell in a basket.

So since there is only one truth it means that 999,999 of these ascetics faiths are going to hell anyway or to some sheol of your liking.

So I say WHY BOTHER? :) Never been much of a gambler meself! :)

Just imagine pushing that rock up the hill for eternity with the Eagles singing in the back it was all WASTED TIME!

Veritum dies aperit.

More Veritum

There is nothing new under the sun.

Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil.

Vous êtes pas tannés de mourir bande de caves?

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? There are no limits to our greed, none to our cruelty. And as long as such crimes are committed by stealth and by individuals, they are less harmful and less portentous; but cruelties are practised in accordance with acts of senate and popular assembly, and the public is bidden to do that which is forbidden to the individual. Deeds that would be punished by loss of life when committed in secret are praised by us because uniformed generals have carried them out. Man, naturally the gentlest class of being, is not ashamed to revel in the blood of others, to wage war, and to entrust the waging of war to his sons, when even dumb beasts and wild beasts keep the peace with one another. Against this overmastering and widespread madness philosophy has become a matter of greater effort, and has taken on strength in proportion to the strength which is gained by the opposition forces. - Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65)

Notre frénésie n'est pas seulement individuelle, elle est nationale : nous réprimons les assassinats, le meurtre d'homme à homme; mais les guerres, mais regorgement des nations,[134] forfait couronné de gloire! La cupidité, la cruauté, ne connaissent plus de frein : ces fléaux toutefois, tant qu'ils s'exercent dans l'ombre et par quelques hommes, sont moins nuisibles, moins monstrueux ; mais c'est par décrets du sénat, c'est au nom du peuple que se consomment les mêmes horreurs, et l'on commande aux citoyens en masse ce qu'on défend aux particuliers. L'acte qu'on paierait de sa tête s'il était clandestin, nous le préconisons commis en costume militaire. Loin d'en rougir, l'homme, le plus doux des êtres, met sa joie à verser le sang de son semblable et le sien, à faire des guerres, à les transmettre en héritage à ses fils, tandis qu'entre eux les plus stupides et les plus féroces animaux vivent en paix. Contre une fureur si dominante et si universelle la tâche de la philosophie est devenue plus difficile; elle s'est munie de forces proportionnées aux obstacles croissants qu'elle voulait vaincre.

While French is a beautiful language of love, compassion and social revolution almost feminine in nature English is a language of international business, beautiful but masculine in nature and manipulative in the extreme usage.

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/07may/article085.html

I would tend to agree and even to add that especially in this paragraph French seems to be totally emasculated, bland and powerless. No umph to it at all unlike the more aggressive English that seems to paint a more realistic picture even though all these words get totally lost either way as everyone reads them, forget them and go to bed exactly the same as they were.

La preuve du pire, c'est la foule.

"Therefore let us press on and persevere. There remains much more of the road than we have put behind us; but the greater part of progress is the desire to progress."

--- Seneca

I LOVE THE SMELL OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE MORNING!

SELF DEFECATION

self-deprecation

"I am so clever that sometimes

I don't understand a single word

of what I am saying."

— Oscar Wilde

"All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise.

It is in order to show how much he can spare."

— Samuel Johnson

Of what authority?

My references?

My credibility?

My credentials?

Reprobate Unreliable Rogue

Leaky Bucket.

Questionable Quester.

Gesticulating Jester

I am the bungled and the botched

I am the bumbling rumble, the rumbling bumble, the botched bungler, the bungled botcher, the Giddy Glaiket, the Pakeha Palooka, the Local Yokel, the Boeotian Philistine, the insane profane, the vulgarian vulgarist, wandering maunderer, maundering wanderer, drivelling rambler, rambling driveller, a wobbling babbler, and a babbling wobbler.

A prophet of no profit, a poet of no point, a philosopher of no sophia (wisdom)

I wobble and I stagger in the darkness.

I am the botched and the bungled the bungled and the botched, the expandable mass:

A VERY UNIQUE SOUL AMONG 100 BILLION OF THEM.

100,000,000,000 OF US WHO HAVE PASSED THROUGH THIS LONELY PLANET.

Give or take a few billions here and there.

Who’s counting anyway?

I am the King of the World. The Enlightened! A Scholar and a Gentleman! Kink Kong! The Best in the West! The only Prophet of God! What am I saying? I AM God! I am Me! I AM!

Irrefutable, infallible and never ever wrong! Spot on all the time! So get used to it, I am always right.

I yam wat I yam and dat’s wat I yam!

dep⋅re⋅cate

  [dep-ri-keyt] Show IPA

–verb (used with object), -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.

1.	to express earnest disapproval of.

2.	to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.).

3.	to depreciate; belittle.

4.	Archaic. to pray for deliverance from.

Origin:
1615–25; <> dēprecātus prayed against, warded off (ptp. ofdēprecārī), equiv. to dē- de- + prec(ārī) to pray + -ātus -ate ¹

Related forms:

dep⋅re⋅cat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

dep⋅re⋅ca⋅tion, noun

dep⋅re⋅ca⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. condemn, denounce, disparage. See decry.

Usage note:
An early and still the most current sense of deprecate is “to express disapproval of.” In a sense development still occasionally criticized by a few, deprecate has come to be synonymous with the similar but etymologically unrelated word depreciate in the sense “belittle”:The author modestly deprecated the importance of his work. In compounds with self-, deprecate has almost totally replaced depreciate in modern usage: Her self-deprecating account of her career both amused and charmed the audience.

Doctor of Disorders

Dr. Joseph Caissy B.D.II, SPD, OCPD. BPD

DSM-IV-TR = 296.89

DSM-IV-TR = 301.20

DSM-IV-TR = 301.4

DSM-IV-TR = 301.83

L E T
H E R
R I P
L U V
J O E

WHY IS IT?

WHY IS IT?

Why is it that some people have the sense not to play with guns crossbows and high balconies no matter how drunk, stoned or shitfaced they are and some don’t? Having fun is the most misused and abused expression on the planet. Nothing personal to all the William S. Burroughs of the World but WHY oh WHY? Sure it’s a good way to learn and deal with your demons but could there be a better less rough way?

The laws do not change according to our perception of them. Danger is danger, statistics are statistics and gravity is gravity.

Has anyone ever heard the expression “an accident waiting for a place to happen” or “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? I am sure Mr. Burroughs and the likes know damn well that there is not enough cure in the world.

So please anyone don’t die or kill anyone in the name of fun, please try to THINK a little before you act no matter how drunk you are. Life is just too precious. We are all humans and I am sorry for all those who lost but let’s prepare for a better future for all those who are left and still in danger.

I am sure Mr. Burroughs would agree and Clint Eastwood as well. Trust me! You DON’T WANNA know what it is like to kill someone else ....or yourself.

If this message can save only one life it will be worthwhile.

TIME TO GO PLEASE. DOUBLE DOUBLE!

I’LL TAKE TIME TO GO PLEASE. DOUBLE DOUBLE

Nah make that TRIPLE TRIPLE.

It’s a Wonderful Life starring Joe Caissy

What did this angel have to do again to get his wings?

The film of my life! As if there was such a thing.

I hope the director is kind.

What did I do? Moreover what did I CHANGE?

What did I get and what did I miss not materially of course but in truth and spirit and understanding and wisdom?

Well the fire is not burning as high this morning and I have a feeling the fire will be burning low a little for the next 5-6 weeks to come. Getting some sort of a 6^th sense about this bipolar (dis)order lately, some sort of extrapolation.

The point seems to be how you judge yourself matters very little in the big picture except maybe for moment of euphoria or a depression based on wrong premises that affect your mood of the moment but basically changes nothing to the big plan if there is a big plan.

One minute your life is over, the next it couldn’t be better and neither is a true picture of reality.

One minute I am worried to death and the next I don’t have a care in the world and who knows if I should care or not? The crux of the matter being that there is more than likely absolutely nothing I can do about many of these things. Being a bit of a worrier and somewhat of a hypochondriac here I tend to worry about every little pain or sign that my body sends me always fearing the worst, some people would say wishing or bringing the worst but I don’t think so.

If we knew the future all those insurance agents would go tits up and all those gamblers and ambulance chasers would go mad.

For one thing one almost never does the right thing and even when one does shit happens anyway but many of these killing diseases are brought upon us by ourselves, playing the odds or burying our head in the sand. Not only the favourites sin taxed pleasures are dangerous but many of our daily habits. For instance we all know smoking and drinking excessively is not the best thing one can do to increase his odds at longetivity but does that stop us? Pretty well the same with everything we put in our mouths really, question that egg that steak and those ever tempting fries or bacon or what not.

Sometimes the odds beat us and our lungs or our liver or our heart give up under the abuse or we just survive all odds and get hit by lightning at 92 or get shot at 78 like Gandhi or some other strange happening sitting at a cafe, minding out own business under a falling 1 ton block of concrete. One could get hit by a bus a 104 in fact.

So since we can’t determine when it’s time to go what does one do while he waits?

This Eternity notion is somewhat annoying and unnerving at times.

Another question in parenthesis is there such a thing as an appointed time no matter what?

The latest version of Time Machine (2002) with Guy Pierce raised this issue with a beautiful approach.

I could go on forever on Time Machine the Elohim and the Morlock but for the sake of concision, I will have to circumvent and circumcise this issue for now: Subject of a blog in the near future. Keep watching this station.

Can you change or stop or delay your time? There is one story in the bible where it was apparently possible (2 Kings 20) but the consensus seems to believe somehow (where they got it I don’t know) that when it’s time to go it’s time to go.

So lately I have been pushing my wussiness to the extreme by trying to stay on firm land as much as I can, taking as little chances as possible with a few gambling exceptions like drinking for instance.

Some people would say

Live Life to the Fullest

and I am trying to apply

Live Life to the Longest

somehow despite a few flaws in my system

because my quest, my search

seems so far from complete yet.

So many questions, so little time, so few answers! J

Speaking of time it’s also time to go here so stay tuned

ATTENTION K-MART CUSTOMERS

There was a mistake in the Mayan Flyer from last week and the end of the world is now predicted for October 28, 2011. Please readjust your agendas and your party planning.

http://www.montalk.net/notes/

So brace yourself for a Hell of a Clean Up in Aisle 4 Now! J

Our last good scare I guess was Y2K and also some nuts who predicted that a generation was 40 years and therefore it would be a generation after the return of Israel, therefore 1988.

We’ve had all sorts of dates, JWs and countless others kept readjusting theirs when the last one past its best before. How does one keep its credibility? I don’t know, we will have to ask P.T. Barnum.

So not wanting to be left behind in crazy predictions here is mine.

Since numbers are always popping back in history and there is some sort of consensus on numerology I OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE that the End of Days will OCCUR when the 144 billionth soul is transmutated into the last body ever to be produced:

some sort of End of Days visits Children of Men.

Hope all you asses here can recognise a sarcasm (tongue in cheek) when you see one. J

So here it is, by best count we would be at about 125 billion.

Now if it doesn’t come in my life time I can just say that the 125 billion estimate was wrong. J

Other estimates of the total number of people who have ever lived range approximately from 45 billion to 125 billion, with the more robust of these falling in the 90–110 billion range

Now PLEASE hurry up to make 19 billion babies so we can wipe this planet clean off and start afresh.

God has a Very Special 44 Magnum of His Own in the Sky waiting just for that Day.

And He Too can say: I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING.

Like Dirty Harry and SANTA He knows when you’ve been bad and He knows where you’ve been good

So you better watch out, you better not pout

And ask yourself one question.

Do I feel lucky?

Well do YOU Punk? J

Go Ahead Make My Day!

REPENT

i.e. CHANGE the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining

CHANGE the intellectual faculty, the understanding

CHANGE the reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, and the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil

CHANGE the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially

CHANGE a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e. thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires

FOR THE END OF THE WORLD,

[KOSMOS, EON,]

IS COMING!

HELL! I’LL NEED A MUCH BIGGER BOARDSIGN! J

MILK AND HONEY BUT ONLY AT THE PRICE OF BLOOD

Damn! I’d rather have Beer and Nuts really!

Democracy! No such thing! Only moneycracy in disguise. Enough money to win an election but never enough money to make a change or matter plus that money that won the election came with big strings attached make that chains and Damocles Sword if you don’t cooperate.

Good Dictatorship equals Oxymoron, Moral impossibility, as Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

Theocracy! What an interesting concept ‘cept for that theo part that rarely talks to us directly but yet again uses corruptible men who once in a blue moon tend to strike the rock twice instead of once and get to miss the Promised Land.

That promised land by the way has been nothing but trouble from day one from Philistine to Palestine it has always come at the price of much blood to find yourself a place to lay your head.

What’s left? What we should really have is each our private island and no material for boats since the moment two come together shit happens. J

Some sort of quick mating ritual on an empty island to propagate the race, leave the baby there and run before we corrupt it too.

Kind of in a hurry at times to cross that Styx/Jordan for find that Eden/Paradise/Heaven because this planet really sucks and is utterly hopeless. Wonder if we’ve been lied to like in Logan’s Run and there is no Carrousel in the Sky! Merry go Round and Round and Round.

Will have to find a real conversion a deep metanoia to see the light though this darkness and love my neighbour as myself. Feel a bit sad about my neighbours these days, like sheep without a shepherd. So how does one go from paranoia to metanoia now?

Metanoia for the non erudite out there LOL is the Greek for what is usually called repentance.

The word repentance just don’t cut it for me.

Meta is easy Change...metamorphosis change of form but

That Noia concept seems to be as deep to grasp as the Logos concept.

Noia, mind, heart, soul, spirit, seat of intellect and emotions ???

How does repentance paint the words:

CHANGE the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining

CHANGE the intellectual faculty, the understanding

CHANGE the reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, and the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil

CHANGE the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially

CHANGE a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires

ALL THAT IN ONE WORD!

Semantic is so crippling.

Old concepts like Asha in Avestan and Logos in Greek have all been lost and nearly untranslatable well not in one word anyway.

Asha: The significance of the term is complex, with a highly nuanced range of meaning. It is commonly summarized in accord with its contextual implications of 'truth' and 'right(eousness)', 'order' and 'right working'

Logos:

Its semantic field extends beyond "word" to notions such as "thought, speech, account, meaning, reason, proportion, principle, standard", or "logic". In English, the word is the root of "logic," and of the "-ology" suffix (e.g., geology).^[5]

The primary meaning of logos is: something said; by implication a subject, topic of discourse, or reasoning. Secondary meanings such as logic, reasoning, etc. derive from the fact that if one is capable oflegein (λέγειν; infinitive of legō), i.e. speech, then intelligence and reason are assumed.

^{How is the vulgar common man supposed to understand anything really?}

but that is the joke of the day though

IF ONE IS CAPABLE OF SPEECH THEN INTELLIGENCE AND REASON ARE ASSUMED!

I’ll DRINK TO THAT! Pass the nuts please.

For etymology lovers again

G3340

μετανοέω

metanoeō

Thayer Definition:

1) to change one’s mind, i.e. to repent

2) to change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one’s past sins

G3563; to exercise the mind (observe), that is, (figuratively) to comprehend, heed: - consider, perceive, think, understand.

G3539

νοιέω

noieō

Thayer Definition:

1) to perceive with the mind, to understand, to have understanding

2) to think upon, heed, ponder, consider

G3563

νοῦς

nous

Thayer Definition:

1) the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining

1a) the intellectual faculty, the understanding

1b) reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil

1c) the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially

2) a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires