"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair." Henry David Thoreau
aloha again.
listening to blues, sore from spring weeding etc etc.
PAGANI
yin yang, a kernal of each inside the other.
sorry, still believe in 'free will' & karma of sorts.we all chose our twisty paths...
just responding to a Comment about Spiritual Wounds blog.
have a jumble of blog notes here.
on new meds so be patient...
THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY (Jane Fonda classic film) this was brought up by a Ripley's Believe It or Not which showed a Wiscosin farmer who collected two headed pigs,donkeys,cows and five,six,seven legged farm animals.apparently once you get then thru infancy they are as healthy as anything else.
linked to this thot is EUGENICS which started in California and was such a dandy racist idea Hitler and the Nazis adopted it.as usual the 'feeble minded',disabled and deformed were the first to feel the knife then they sterilized the poor and darkies.
this leads to a news story about some gene doc who promises to help potential parents select eye color,hair curliness,wgt,intelligence etc etc.(insert the aborting Beethoven here & cruel Tuskegee experiment).
crips as usual see this as the potential to eliminate all 'birth defects' & criptitude once and for all,before they cure all diseases and prevent all accidents (like a G rated Times Square). there are several movies about this theme...now i honestly think a lot of crips lack mental toughness due to the routine humiliations & lack of experience eating sh*t at work,but this may be more than Crying Wolf. um um um...
sorry,my train of thot got derailed.
we are imperfect as a species,as a society,as a culture and everything else.
that is why a constant flow of Messiahs and angels are on vigilant eternal duty to save our sorry asses. the Roman God Vulcan the blacksmith was a crip, imagine a culture which does not have at least one crippled god? other Gods were insane,lecherous,avaricous ,gluttonous,drunks or boostful. the Spartans killed all children who did not meet their ideals of perfection (see '300') which eventually lead to their internal collapse and absorption (see History channel).
let's just smother Steven Hawkings in his crib and be done with it. van Gogh and Picasso too while we're at it...
in other news,
SM is busy doing taxes and listening to blues,ah sweet sorrow.
i heard a radio analogy of the AIG bailout being like pumping air into a blown out tire,priceless.
don't you wonder why every time there are government funds to be cut the poor,frail elderly and disabled are the first to be shown the ice flow exit (see Eskimo/Inuit)? and children too, was listening to some politico blather about RE-INVENTING EDUCATION (sic). they have been doing this ghost dance since the New Math of the 60s and now we have a near 50% drop out rate in high school.good work guys & gals & all you so called Educators.gotta keep those pricey prisons full right?
saw MR.BROOKS (Kevin Costner) on pay-cable recently which compared serial killing to addictions (making them crips too?) a quite tasteful treatment of a sordid topic.Korak The Killer made a slightly muddier analogy,'like eating popcorn or sushi' he said (see previous Blk History Month blogs).
that's it for me today.
namaste
semper gumby
mega
We've been told that serial killers are people who were born without a conscience; that they are incapable of feeling empathy for others, or feeling sorry about their own deeds. If they are born that way, how are they evil?
ReplyDeleteTheir DEEDS can be called evil, but that's a separate issue. It's food for thought, anyway.
I used to be very much a black and white, good and evil kind of thinker but as I've aged I've begun to see more and more that people usually just live out the script that was handed to them when they came into this world.
Only mildly related, you might enjoy reading "5 Ways 'Common Sense' Lies To You Everyday" -
http://www.cracked.com/article_17142_5-ways-common-sense-lies-you-everyday.html
Or maybe it's a LOT related because sometimes things that are "obviously true" are really wrong.
PS: I'm flattered that you mentioned me. :)