Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Let’s give the got dam true believers a knife and a gun and let them settle it. And leave our sons and daughters out of it.

Makes a lot of sense to me, Jack.

As I mentioned elsewhere, much to ponder. Seems at times like a rumination on a general slide of real life swing into the TV wasteland dilution of corporate-sponsored "Mc-Society." But I'm still curious about that "DoorMattyStepanic" reference...

..life experience and the unavoidable bumps, in that sense, "I'd do it all again." on the other hand, always been curious about that 'karma' thing? how does that work? or is that a bunch of Eastern hooey?

Both dangerous. The whole "messiah came (or will come) to save the world" bit. Seems a bit of a cop out to me, always did. In the wake of Jesus' enlightened words/deeds sprang a religion that (seemed to) grow more top-heavy through the centuries, and now it leans on a "Second Coming." Well, to me it...

Powerful stuff, Barry. A lot of good observations and questions. I guess the best questions are never completely answered.

Thanks, Jack. So many true believers have wrapped up all the escalated, mass-produced mass-savagery of 20th Century institutional mass-warfare in their various slots of "prophetic" doctrine, but I can't get to that, it seems. We have a lot of internal work to do, it seems. My old computer gave out f...

Thanks Jack. Two of my biggest beefs against religiosity summed up succinctly. (At the risk of being accused of "complaining too much"-- that's ok, I'll risk it!) Here's something else I wrote recently. I know I've written about the WW2 vet in this one before, but he keeps popping into my consciousn...

We're all God's children
except if we aren't quite.
Round up a posse, put 'em on a bus.
Hunt the Almighty, He's up there.

been writin' short pomes about religion tonite,
how it stultifies and rips imagination in general,
then holds up all those cathedrals in counterpoint.
A lot of generations invested in it so far.
A little surreal, like a sunrise
800 million years from now.

Dig those unpredictable orbits.

Hey Scoot, where ya been?
Snorkeling the tide flats or something?
Welcome back. And thanks for those Dylan records.

What kind of question is that? I hate these kind of questions. Man, life sucks.

Yes, you see, mesmerized, polarized, and/or busy, it will take our hawkeye instincts to see them when they appear, what we really need, instead of what we're told to need, or to feel "secure" with. "Transcend bickering automotons." Excellent!

forgot to mention how much I liked this one.

"teakettle teakettle teakettle, cheery cheery cheery"..
I can picture the little guy shaking it off.

Are all writers/poets doomed to write? Well put. Yeah, need to cool out, I think. For a while. Got a big burst of summer writing done. Just rocked it out. Summer is when my energies are at their highest. But I'm a little burnt on the cyber-writing scene in general, as I told Cecil recently. The com...