tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post7203352832589165098..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Ignorant Freedom of My Talking MindUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-48485275880057231942015-06-17T16:52:38.421-04:002015-06-17T16:52:38.421-04:00if Her Inevitability is truly inevitable, then one...if Her Inevitability is truly inevitable, then one must lie back and enjoy it<br /><br />the more support bernie gets, the more lip service his policy positions will receive, and maybe that's worth something<br /><br />sometimes surprising things happen, and who knows if our man martin o'malley might, through some combination of circumstances not currently foreseen, emerge as the victor?<br /><br />may the creative forces of the universe smile in our general directionmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-33482427334844589752015-06-17T12:40:24.274-04:002015-06-17T12:40:24.274-04:00You do understand that (the) better Sanders shows ...<i>You do understand that (the) better Sanders shows in the run-up the more valuable his inevitable endorsement of Inevitability is, yes?</i><br /><br />I've heard the argument. I see the alternative as just ignoring politics, as George Carlin suggested. I'm voting for Sanders in the primary.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57733447958543905532015-06-17T12:04:23.012-04:002015-06-17T12:04:23.012-04:00speaking of the gazette newspapers going out of bu...speaking of the gazette newspapers going out of business, and of rock and roll shows with old fat people on stage and in the audience - it's been nearly six months since i last posted this<br /><br /><b>THIS is the future - you got to LIVE it, live WITH it, or get out of the way - Firesign Theatre [slightly edited]</b><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />OLD AGE Rumi<br /><br />Why does a date-palm lose its leaves in autumn?<br />Why does every beautiful face grow in old age<br />Wrinkled like the back of a Libyan lizard?<br />Why does a full head of hair get bald?<br />Why is it that the lion's strength weakens to nothing?<br />The wrestler who could hold anyone down<br />Is led out with two people supporting him,<br />Their shoulders under his arms?<br /><br />God answers,<br /><br />“They put on borrowed robes<br />And pretended they were theirs.<br />I take the beautiful clothes back,<br />So that you will learn the robe<br />Of appearance is only a loan.”<br /><br />Your lamp was lit from another lamp.<br />All God wants is your gratitude for that.<br /><br />=========<br /><br />I was trying to think of a non-theistic way of putting Rumi's essential point here, and I guess it is basically acceptance of the Taoist perspective - that we, like all organized entities, have our beginnings, flourishings, and endings - that we are temporary subsystems within larger systems that were here before, and persist after us - although they themselves are temporary subsystems within larger contexts. As the Kansas song "Dust in the Wind" puts it, "Don't hang on - nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky" - but the earth and sky don't last forever either - they too have their beginnings and endings.<br /><br />Gustav Fechner, 19th century experimental psychophysiologist and metaphysical philosopher, said, "Of all miracles, the greatest is that anything exists at all."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i> </i>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-53148390267165111302015-06-17T11:58:27.211-04:002015-06-17T11:58:27.211-04:00Yeah, playlist was for band so the solo acoustics ...Yeah, playlist was for band so the solo acoustics weren't listed.<br /><br />Once upon a time, approx 120 concerts ago, I didn't mind VBL. Hell, once I loved Beeswing, but after the 80th time....BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-23580150573534220092015-06-17T11:37:52.749-04:002015-06-17T11:37:52.749-04:00Had to forego Sunday night's RT show here. Tha...Had to forego Sunday night's RT show here. Thanks for the recap. I like Vincent Black Lightning (which doesn't appear to be on the playlist?).Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com