The metaphysical homelessness blues

[one of those jerks]

I understand
You got to fear god
you got to be more afraid of god than anything else you can think of.
Because John Hagee is right.

John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.

Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: "'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/2 ... 02892.html

I can understand why the military takes their oath at Masada. Why the religious right is so zealous about their Biblical Land. You have to dot every I, cross ever T, obey every commandment to your utmost. Or else ...

RE: The Apocalypse of Baruch

Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 4
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part 5
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Part 6
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Part 8
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Part 9
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[tinkerjack]

Genocide committed on any people is heinous but simultaneously enlightening and telling to its witnesses. In deed, the German people before the beginning of WWII were demonstrably less racist and less prone to genocidal actions than most of their co-citizens in other countries. Before the beginning of the war, some 61% of marriages in Berlin were mixed marriages, Jew with Christian. The anomaly was Jews without influence in that society, and the German leadership profited a great deal from their capture. One transaction we can certainly make gain from within the Jewish genocide is the discussion Jews had among themselves after and during the war. The most creative and best Jewish minds came from this time. Some 29% of all Nobel Laureates are Jewish and more than half of them were either born or alive in the 1940s. With such a collection of educated and interested people, it makes sense that these discussions would include a great deal of reason and honesty.


The film presented here is a fictional account of a group of Jews who fit this somewhat broad bill. A variety of doctors, lawyers, and professors are placed in close proximity to discuss the religious implications of genocide, specifically on the chosen people. The literacy present in these gatherings was surely significant, and I think it would have been a widespread topic, at least among those in the early times while the captive were still healthy enough to engage in healthy thinking.

This production is touching. It shows the conflict between evidence and religious dedication. It can be a source of comfort and yet paradoxically anguish. God has abandoned his people because he does not exist. When the people are prosperous, it is easy to thank an invisible god; however, when the people suffer, it makes for a more difficult time to believe in evidence-poor propositions.

[one of those jerks]

You gotta start young if you're gonna stick it out.

- Firesign Theatre

How stupid and how smart can a person be at the time time.

Talk about your dualities.

I am grateful to have lived this long

To see my chickens come home to roost.

and how may I help you?

[tarbaby]

You've been more trouble to me than you're worth, one way or another, but it'll soon be over now. Do you see that?

That's how much longer you've got to be alive. And it isn't long, my pretty. It isn't long.

[jackofnightmares]

I saw the movie for the first time in 1946 or 1945 it was right after the war ended. I went with my two older brothers. I was so scared when that witch came on the screen I tried to run and hide in the boys room but my brothers held me down and made me watch. I closed my eyes and tried to put my hands over my ears.

I got a new microwave oven without digital controls. I have a dial now instead of a digital clock. I got into the habit of watching the numbers count down to zero on the clock. I would stand there and watch it and imagine that is how much time I had left to live. As if I was on death row with a time of death certain.




I just woke up from a dream of being lost again looking for something. I was wandering through back alleys again. Industrial neighborhood of factories and warehouses. Something looked familiar about it. As if I had been there before. A hodgepodge of images from my life on the road and the neighborhood in East Baltimore I grew up in maybe.

A typical nightmare for me lost and trying to find my way home again without a wizard to help me.

Finally I woke up because the dream became monotonous and threatening, the people I was meeting in it became ominous.

<center>HER OWN BACKYARD</center>

"But it wasn’t a dream. It was a place. And you…and you…and you…and you were there”



The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America

[stilltrucking]

Husserl behind the curtain
Googling for something I read about The Wizard of Oz and Husserl I found these. Not sure what the conneciton is, just a note to myself to continue the search. Woke up at three AM mind fuzzy with dream logic. I put my T shirt on backwards took it off put it on again this time inside out. With a propitious start for my day I decided it would be a good time to work on my computer. I removed the fan from the processor to clean the heat sink. Not intentionally I also pulled the processor out of its socket too.
I am in the market for a new computer now.

Gedane zaken nemen geen keer—Done deeds cannot be undone.
References

Barrow, J.D. (1998). Impossibility: The limits of science and the science of limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Clayton, P. (2004). Mind and emergence: From quantum to consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Denney, M. (2007). Science and prayer. The Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, 80(4), np. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from the San Francisco Medical Society website: http://www.sfms.org/
Everdell, W.R. (1997). The first moderns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hofstadter, D. (2007). I am a strange loop. New York: Basic Books.
Holland, J.H. (1998) Emergence: From chaos to order. New York: Basic Books
Satinover, J. (2001). The quantum brain. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

[stilltrucking]

I bought a used pentium four processor for 19 bucks now my computer is up and running again.

After The Fall
After the Fall comes the spring
each year since I have turned sixty I have the same thought
Will I live to see another spring
This the fall of my sixty ninth year of existence.
I would like to make it to seventy so much
But each day is a gift
Like the last sip of a Nehi Grape soda when I was a kid
I would gulp it down but that last sip I would linger on

Windows all open on a thursday september early morning
Cool and damp after the rains
Crepe Myrtle tree blooming so gratefully after the drought
Train rolling by as I write

I just woke from another "lost" dream. I have so many of them. I am wandering the streets of a city looking for a certain place. The city is a composite of a million miles of city streets that I have wandered during my lifetime. Mostly idustrial neighborhoods, factories, wharehouses, train tracks. Such hopeless desperate wandering.

[gypsyjoker]

This is probably the weirdest thread I got going on studio eight. Pretty sure of that.

Bad dreams last night/this morning about the circus and the bus, trucker's nightmare last night this morning, one of those dreams that persisted into waking, a twilight zone where I tried to decide whether the dream really happened in this best of all possible worlds of Actuarial Tables.