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So last year I did a lot of research into spiritual concepts that I had, as an atheist for many years, neglected to study.
It was a bit mind blowing.
so here it is for your meditative appraisal
Massive links to enlightenment….
Don’t drive after looking into the Light….
8P
So I was thinking some more about that Intervention series
The one I think is using and abusing people for profit without their true consent
I thought of the best twist.
Everyone is gathered around the poor victim, harassing them for their lifestyle, putting down thier individual concept of god, spirituality, sickness…
And then it gets turned around.
Jeff VanVonderen and his crew: Sealed in for 30 days with “Addict”
So the major players of Intervention get locked in a sealed facility with the Addict for 30 days, and they enter naked. They bring nothing. Inside they wear hospital pajamas.
each morning a delivery comes to the center of the room.
They have to order it the day before.
Everything is tabulated. If it’s not fruits and veggies and meat, it’s a drug.
Great big scoreboards for everyone.
Tylenol, coffee, caffeine drinks, percodans, ritalin,
prescriptions all classified as drugs, any stimulant a drug, cigarettes a drug
No secret doors or delivery slots. No way to smuggle it in up your ass.
How many of his crew would have a completely empty basket each day??
Oh, but I NEED my Ritalin
Oh, but I need my chest steroid inhaler
Oh, but I need my coffee
Oh, but I need some tylenol for my….
Oh, but I need my percodans for that old ….. injury
Oh, but I NEED my SSRI’s(antidepressants) for….
I wonder if they all would really make it a month without a flask of scotch, a cigar, an antidepressant, or their coffee.
I bet a lot of them after a few days would be screaming for one thing or another.
I’d take them all on.
and each morning at 8 am the morning philosophy session for 2 hours
and again each evening.
Watching them slowly unravel, till they finally crack
and beg for their coffee or Ritalin.
Or scotch.
It’s Hollywood.
There doctors prescribe pills so new that “these aren’t drugs”
In a christian mindset where a gram of a plant of nature (marijuana) is a drug
But for some reason, using half a bottle of Tylenol’s in a month and drinking 200 cups of coffee,
is not.
I had this long conversation with a roommate once
a total psycho
All superior like she asks what I’m high on.
She didn’t even notice until I mentioned I was high.
Before answering, I looked at her.
“what are YOU high on?”
“Nothing, I’m not high on anything….”
Hmmm.
Veins popping popping out of her forehead above her noticeably distended eyes,
blood pressure forcing them out of their sockets….
“Well, I know for a fact that about 2 hours ago you took your horse sized pill of ritalin, 200 mg or so, along with your 200 mg horsepill of Wellbutrin(an SSRI that gives you high blood pressure), and that other pill which is some other kind of psychiatric drug, and you’re going to stand there and tell me that my REALITY is altered because I smoked a joint.”
“Of course, those aren’t drugs, they make me NORMAL” she says
All I could really do is make the Mr. Spock raised eyebrow face.
Each morning she hops up her “reality” to make it “normal”.
I took 75 mg of wellbutrin for 3 months about a decade ago. It gave me moods swings that almost killed me, and mixed with a head cold almost caused an encephalitic reaction because of the increased blood pressure.
Psych drugs are drugs, painkillers are drugs. If it alters your mood or feeling it’s a drug.
The one label of Drugs is bullshit.
because an eighth of weed is like a case of beer in reality, in our society
yet that eighth of weed is shoved right next to pounds of heroin and coke and called a “drug”
while half the members of our government would get the shakes if you locked them in a room to go cold turkey, screaming for their “meds”.
So my WIP of a philosophical/spiritual pamphlet…
Even the outline seems to feel palpable
Some intrinsic measurement
of value or solidity
Designed to be about the size of a Watchtower magazine.
here’s a google dox link that’ll update
I really have no interest in crack.
Or crystal meth.
Weed and other plant/fungal based entheogens are enough for me
I revel in watery symbiosis.
Perhaps some might use crack as an entheogenic substance for personal spiritual grease
I’d think it would be sketchy
like trying to meditate on speed
or trying to swim drunk
If we consider different concepts of what a God is
some of these concepts are not antithetical to science
Many alternative non creationist/non Abrahamic concepts of “God”
are not impossible for an Atheist to understand
and even study
“Nirvana” is not a deity, it is a momentary state of being through which we pass in pursuit of understanding
one does not reside there for eternity
Scientists cannot study Zen? or Tao? or Qi?
Once all the scientists in the world spoke of Ether
and would have your eyes poled out
for suggesting the sun as the center of our spinning
Hens, pecking in their Orders
and Hierarchies
Wisdom is based on reason, empirical evidence, observation, wide knowledge.
I take it the crack head comment is meant to be a form of pejorative statement implying lack of scientific method
or perhaps the amount of HEROIN Giger used is a reason to hate the content of his works
Who can find reason, intelligence or aesthetic enlightenment
from the brush of a Junkie.
Who can find the soul in the philosophy of a drunkard
smoking his pipe
in a darkened den
amongst his books and papers
While you scoff
I will take the time to read
the explorations written
Reality can only be ascertained
by geeks surrounded by tubes and wires
calculating the brush of a feather on skin?
Gods are usefull archetypes, tools of our spiritual psychology
As long as we ignore the tales of “Heaven” and”Creation”
We can find true usefulness in their forms
Like brushes are useful
to painters
They nailed him up…
one of many
one of many
many millions
young men
crucified
purges
There were millions.
Thousands in a day
crucified, beheaded
Burnings
Would he stand on the hill of the killing field of Infidels
With their observations, books, thoughts,
Sight
Would he look upon their bodies and smile?
For some strange reason, madness perhaps,
I think to myself he would weep.
He never was about guilt
Never wanted that for you
would grieve to see you grovelling
confessing Sin
Before the Axe you bow and cry
Tell Him about your Sorrow
He cares not for simple guilts
and Fear
Is it not Life
That you would hear Him speak about
I do not know,
I cannot say
Think of this Being at the center
Speaking
Surrounded by His acolytes
Wanderers
A message of
Acceptance
Peace
Strength
Love
Community
Blown apart we are divided
The Break
We are broken Apart
Become Wanderers again…
He does not want your Suffering
for Guilt, Shame and Fear
The cross on which he hung is NOT his friend
No Ally was he nailed to
Electroshocked minds of happiness
it’s so much better now
We have so much to do…
We dance naked in tiny boxes of white
Almost afraid of the fields flocks once roamed
Terrified of dirt,
and the smell of grass
Worshiping the guillotine on which our rebels and heroes have departed…
Screaming
“Truth…
and freedom!”
I will not bow before this Axe
It killed my friend
His Life is the True Story
Not the fairy tales of his Father
Jesus did not point to the sky
He pointed to his centre, and that of the others there
“This is what we seek
Together…”
Not the noose and its tying…
The bullet in its flying
The machete and the pistol
And the Pyre.
C. Taylor
what does
Namaste
or
ishta deva
mean?
archetypes/symbolic metaphors
worn
as Masks
The Oracle speaks
we choose
their wisdom
or our own
to pull the Aspect
from the Skein
Or to Weave our Own
In golden filaments
draped across
aroused and breathing
Skin
filled I am
Content
Close as I myself am to you
Is how close we can be
to uniting
even closer
is One for an instant
made of two entwined
and attuned
Breathing together
over Time
We become
One, two entwined
enshrined
released
breathing
Together…..
Entwined………..
over
Time……
C. Taylor
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
“…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
“One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
-A. Einstein
“All you need is a crowbar” – G. Freeman
And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I’ve grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one
And my ties are severed clean
Less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign
Roamer, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will
But I’ll take my time anywhere
I’m free to speak my mind anywhere
and I’ll never mind anywhere
Anywhere I roam – J. Hatfield
Jewish priests have a habit of keeping track of births, deaths, important events.
It’s pretty clear there was an ancient rockstar who liked whores, travelled around with his “crew”, and performed for groups of hippies who would come from miles around to see him, until the local feds busted him for some infraction or another so he could be made an example of to all his rebellious fans who weren’t singing while they slaved.
Whether or not his name was “jesus” and not “ben” or “joe” is a matter of debate.
Afterwards, like 50+ years later some senile old farts tried to remember what that cool dude said way back when. But they were yuppies now, converted to willing slaves by da man, and anyways, they were so high when they were at that jesus gig that they didn’t really pay that much attention beyond the “hey let’s everybody love everybody” schtick. Which was pretty cool really, there were lots of hot chicks at every jesus gig. But man they were soooo high.
anyways.
After the pigs beat him to death, the old timer priests he was bitching about all along commissioned some people to write about him, properly domesticated former hippies, and then tacked on that wad of jewish history they’d been shoving down peoples throats for for centuries previously.
Anything too radical was of course left out by the writers working from memory of an event 5 decades previous. You can only rock the boat so much before you are tossed in the drink, as that whole nailed to the cross thing illustrated so well to everyone.
(the old testament has NOTHING to do with Jesus, it is the very thing he was fighting against during his whole speaking tour)
IMHO
I saw a clip of the “reality” show “Intervention”
How can anyone believe that these people actually signed a release form to be viewed?
It’s a complete lie.
They trick these people into signing something,
and in this age of of easy forgeries and copies they try to make use believe that someone has actually agreed to have their life on permanent display.
Weak people. People with problems. People who don’t really have bad problems until the tv fuckers screw them over.
Its big money, they need drama.
Someone whose business has run fine for years, but whose family decides that they do too much of something, usually a moralizing bunch of christian fucks who are scumming off the stigmatized “addict” who’s doing well, and suddenly the business starts failing, bad things start happening, customers leave, suppliers don’t come through.
It’s done to these poor people on purpose.
These people did not sign any release, they were tricked.
The drama and crumbling life around them is manufactured by hordes of PA’s, actors, producers, paying longtime customers and suppliers to leave, character assasination in the “addicts” local community by paid actors pretending to know them and slandering them.
A neighborhood they’ve contributed to for years suddenly turns hostile towards them.
They don’t understand.
The big secret.
Everyone around them is an actor in the big secret game.
They know something’s wrong, but thousands of dollars are being spent to set them up for failure.
They’ve been doing fine for years, just been ostracised and stigmatized by their evil christian familes, and the very christian interventionists.
I think they should need to have a video affirmation at the very start that completely explains to the “addict”/”subject”/”victim” what’s up and what may be involved and the victim should have to state in plain english, “I know that I am on theIntervention TV show.”
Because the fact is, they don’t know, and people around them are fake people sent to set them up and tear them down, wear them down and cut them up.
It’s one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen.
And what REALLY pisses me off…..
Do you think the “addicts” that they harass for months on end, undermining, backstabbing and destroying their lives, do you think these victims get paid for their suffering?
The show makes millions, I bet their victims don’t see a cent, or get some paltry couple grand.
I wonder if that guy who died actually got cirrhosis from drinking.
In the interests of drama, who’s to say these people won’t poison their victims drinks. Smokers dying from cancer right near the end of the season, as if on cue, killed by a poisoned cigarette offered to them by a planted actor. Drug addicts getting brain damage from “dirty” drugs, spiked in the interests of ratings by the producers themselves.
You know, I bet they spend half a million screwing these peoples lives up.
Could you imagine how many of these “addicts”, marginalized and stigmatized for years, would be able to pick themselves up and start a new life, themselves, with half a mil?
More than half of them, if given the half a mil would be able to get themselves a new live doing what they really want to do, which is why they are probably down anyway, the CHRISTIANS running the intervention and and their christian families all with their expectations and stigmatizations, don’t respect the life they really want to lead.
It’s the way christians have worked for centuries.
Stone and burn the ones who won’t submit to control.
I wonder to myself how many of these people, the victims, are atheists or pagans.
It seems to me “Intervention” has a clear christian bias, and maybe that’s it’s purpose, to beat down and break down non believers, force them to nothing so they will convert.
Discrimination and exploitation, that’s what I see on “Intervention”.
So I just posted my OPUS MAGNUM in progess,
The Small Great Book of Atheist Spirituality.
The Great Book of Atheist Spirituality being a considerably larger piece of research to chew on in my magnificent current economic state.
Too bad nobody ever listens to me anyway.
Who knows?
Maybe some rabid xtian will try to kill me for it.
They do that in Canada you know, kill people for saying what they think.
Canada is full of queer hating, atheist hating, colored folk hating rednecks,
regardless of the fluffy media portrayal of Canada as a place where everyone gets along.
It’s BS.
Go to Shittown, Alberta.
Or any other hick Canadian town an hour away from a large city.
Take a look around.
How many black people you see?
You might see some chinese, but usually just a local restaurant owner.
Not a turban in sight.
Yee – Haww
Backwash Canada regularly murders faggots and bull dykes who stray from the city
believing the media lies of a welcoming place where all belong
Murders unsolved for years, and never will be
even tho every hick in town knows who dunnit.
Funny thing is, if JESUS was hitch hiking through Canada,
yes that long haired hippie in sandals, wearing a gown, unshaven, preaching love and acceptance
Jesus himself would get the shit kicked out of him anywhere outside a major canadian city.
He would. He’d get fucking murdered.
And no one would know.
The cops would stand there and go:
“shoulda cut his damn hair and put some jeans on, hippie faggot…”
