tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post7101491623099168673..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Any Decent Realtor Walking You Through a Real Shithole ChirpsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-66766941782686936362020-05-06T13:21:09.334-04:002020-05-06T13:21:09.334-04:00So California is coming out of lockdown starting F...So California is coming out of lockdown starting Friday. This should be interesting. The thing about people who believe that the pandemic is mostly hype is that it's comforting to believe that it is hype. But that doesn't make it so. I'm not saying I know. I don't. Here's something I like to believe - both Biden and Trump won't make it to November. Robert Paynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02433313459943971984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-80671917122803971522020-05-06T11:00:11.418-04:002020-05-06T11:00:11.418-04:00speaking of life's duration, as maggie smith&#...speaking of life's duration, as maggie smith's poem does - earlier this morning i was reading an aphorism of gurdjieff, and my exegesis of it<br /><br /><b><br />One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.</b><br /><br />gurdjieff revisits this theme in the final words spoken by beelzebub in his very long and intentionally hard to read book <i>Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man</i>:<br /><br /><i>“The sole means now for the saving of the beings of the planet Earth would be to implant again into their presences a new organ … of such properties that every one of these unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own death as well as the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them.”<br /></i><br />gurdjieff’s prescription (assuming his fictional character is serving as his mouthpiece, which seems likely in this instance) is not just for the perfunctory intellectual awareness of our mortality and that of everyone we meet, but for actually FEELING it instead of running away from feeling it – it’s the difference between knowing by rote the words of the Lord’s Prayer, and living according to its principlesmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com