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Fear of God

keeps one from Truth.

Do not fear God

for you will fear

your True Self.

Know thyself and

ye shall know God,

for it is in

His image

that we are

created.
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'Ye'... I couldn't resist using 'ye'. "He, she, we, ye..." Ye is probably an early version of 'y'all', or more properly, 'you all', the plural of just you. Ye is a nice short way of saying those other things. Try it some time.... ye will see.

Now that was a long way around addressing the initial cecilism. That's the way I get rolling. Although I don't normally write every little word, (or large for that matter), that pops into my head, I am not that writer today.

The contemplation of this cecilism did not reveal how those words were to be written. The contemplation did not say whether or not to caplitalize god or truth, of even his, much less whether to capitalize the first word of each sentance. These were of no concern until I went to write it down.

Rules of writing... or are they contemplations? We could think about whether of not we should capitalize the words God, Truth, His and ask ourself if it makes any difference. There are many amongst us that feel if the word god is not capitalized it in someway if showing disrespect. There is some validity to that line of reasoning - we capitalize our names when we sign of names or write our names... why wouldn't we capitalize the word God? Buddha is capitalized, and not because it was the first word in this sentance. Look - Buddha, and the word is still capitalized.

We capitalize our countries, our states, our cities and towns. We capitalize our streets and automobiles. Look at our stores and restaurants, our utility companies.... capitalized. Capitols is even said the same way... the sound between 'capitol' and 'capital' is only in the mind. Capitalization of some words is the honorable thing to do. It speaks of respect.

Peculiar how making the first letter of certain names taller, bigger, bolder and louder equates with respect... a very bold thing to do with our letters. "Capital, my man... very capital!"

Our current mode of writing certainly includes the computer world we all are plugged into. In most writing progarms, if not all, we have the ability to utilize many tools to enhance and emphasize our words. Even on this program we can

WRITE in different siZEs

WRIte boldly in cOlOr

These writing tools give us a new sense of writing freedom. We can further impart the written message - become more emphatic, more colorful, more hushed and suggestive in conveying the point or points of that which we are writing.

This allows us to bring more art to writing. If we were to actually use a pen or pencil to write the way the computer allows us to write, it would be a very time-consuming endeavor. We will see the written word written with a flourish and zap! that the written word of comics only hinted at.

There are those that will refute the upcoming writing future. It is now going on but not yet recognized. We see the world of advertising utilizing the tools, but books will one day be written, maybe even republished classics - Moby Dick or Farenheit 451... just think of the possiblities with books like The Bible... GOD will resound with grandeur... and 'cecilisms' will not be capitalized and perhaps still be respected..! [and emoticons will be vastly improved...]

In the global neighborhood we find many languages. Not all languages strictly adhere to the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Spanish has some of its own symbols to express a sound: en - yeah, the tilde that is over 'n''... the double 'L' with its 'y' sound... new doors to open with new sounds to add to our vocabulary of written sounds. The future of writing will have to combine different sounds to the global language even more than we use today. We have all read things were French words are used to express the joy of life, along with dozens of others... we use Hebrew expressions... the list goes on and the future of writing will go on incorporating other languages as our world becomes smaller, faster and more informative. It's inevitable if written language is to survive, and it is our Computer Age that has opened the doors to whatever the future may hold.

___

Silence

is the key

to awareness.

Still the mind,

for within the silence

lies all the answers

to your questions,

wordlessly revealing

what we define as

Truth.
___

We silently write our words and read them with inner-ears that paint the images for us to see that which we hope to experience. In silence we witness all answers to questions asked by mind in our journey to self knowing. Truth is not an answer but an experience that stills the ripples of questions to reveal our oneness with all... questions vaporized into the consciousness.

This has turned into a morning of words that I have written to express my silent thoughts for today. Laid bare but yet clothed in sounds ... my silence can only be seen thru these written words exposed by my fingers pressing the keys of my keyboard - the chicken or the egg of creativity..? These words will not be so much saved as they will simply accumulate with the rest of my collections as reminders that I have been here along with the rest of ye.


cecil
16 januar 2005

Period...the end....if there ever really is one....

artguy - I like this piece and the title! miro-esque.

thx, Kurt/

it could be an esperanto of zeros and ones

computer language and internetenglish as global language -- global commerciaimperialism-- nice philosophical piece, mtmynd, really interesting flow through thought to language to thought to mystical experience and so forth. the cycle of expression and insight, wrapped around within itself, opening outward.

some dang nice words you spewed out here, e_dog - "internetenglish" and "commerciaimperialism" are pretty expressive ones that I enjoyed.

Thx for the reply...

I like the colors and the different sizes and forms of letters. I didn´t learn to do it on line yet.
A global language... I don´t know. I don´t like esperanto. I like the fact that different idiomas exist.
Paratext and paralingüistic communication are great but lexical and grammar desorientation are great too.
Saludos,

Arcadia
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at birth we can speak every human language on mother earth. We can make any sound in any language. Or so I think I have heard some talking head on PBS say.

When I get want to get down, I mean when I really want to fear god I say G-d

stumbled on a book about Rumi today, I like this bit

X .In case you want to be safe from God's wrath control your own wrath. "Jesus upon whom be peace, was asked 'Spirit of God what is the greatest and most difficult thing in this world snd the next?' He replied "The wrath of God"

A WISE MAN ASDED jesus , "What is the most difficult thing upon earth? He said "O' my dear friend it is the wrath of G-d. On acccount of which hell trembles like we do" He asked (again) "What is the security agains the anger of G-d?" Jesus replied "To quit your own anger by the time."

ya know I once hit a elephant across the head with a two by four, it did not hurt her much. But years later when that fellow in baltimore called me Nigger Nigger, and I turned my back on him and he hit me upside the head with a two by four and now I think I know why.

what was we talking about oh yes
death stalks the planet or was that last week
thinking about the great die off of two hundred and fifty million years ago when they say 96% of all the life on earth ended. Like the man said last week

there is so much more

It puts things in perspective some how,
every once in a while i get so pissed I got to say god dam, I wonder if I am going to get struck by lightening for that.

Arcadia - no comprendo la palabra, 'esperanto'... ayudame, por favor.

Truck - fear of God is usually in the search for God. Some wise people say that those that search for God risk their own sanity. But fear is quite unnecessary if one seeks not God but Truth for they are the same. As far as using one word, goddamn, the only Lightning may be from the Rod, eh? Seriously, to summon God in anger will not bring 'his' presence but only disillusionment at best, and distortion at worst, but "God' cannot be offended.

They say I was a rebel until I reached the age of five
it was then that I got caught up in the struggle to survive
it came to me one rainy august morning
we might all wake up tomorrow in a smile of smoke and ash
peggy wilson lyircs
almost forgot the rest somethin


I should spend more time looking at the art work and less thinking about the words I read here. I been thinking about silent ash, the mad molecule, all the fears of the atomic genie and geologic catastrophe. NASA fires a rocket at a comet that passes by every couple hundred or thousands of years. I imagine the impact slightly alters its orbit of the earth, next time round in crashes into us and curiosity killed the cat. Fall out shelters in the fifties do you remember the civil defense shelters in basements of churches and office buildings, our dear leader has his little hidey hole in Washington, the rest of us can pucker up and kiss our ass good bye, yeah amigo there is a lot of fear here, but I know that no matter what I fear or think, it is more than that, what is the faith of a Buddhist, most of all it seems to me it is harmony, the universe unfolds and refolds and it is there, and our bodies were created for us, and the words were here first and we were created for them, I stumbled on a link once by a woman zennists it was a kinder gentler not getting it kind of enlightenment, a getting it by not getting it, i don't know if it is correct but Zen seems more right for me then Buddhism, but that is probably ridiculous to anyone like yourself who has a grip on it, my ignorance is almost total, but one thing I have sought on litkicks was the freedom to let these pixels scroll across this text book, my only regret is I can't control the code so that these words are in white fonts against a white back ground, as silent as the snow.

I saw a masterpiece theatre called He Knew He Was Right, reminds me of all the times I have been so sure I knew what I was talking about to find that I was wrong, or as it has been written "there is a way that seems right to a man but leads to death" or something like that. I think I have set one foot on the path, the Noble path of the Compassionate One, the Buddha, no one seems asks for proof that he ever existed in this objective fact world of time and space, unlike jesus who has the full support of the government. I am feeling somewhat evil these days with my positive and negative words, Right thought does not necessarily mean to me that I think only good thoughts but maybe I will one day, meanwhile Right Thought just means that I watch my thoughts chug across my consciousness like the trains that pass by my little shack by the railroad tracks which has turned into my little cave, my monk's cell that I am reluctant to leave. Motorcycle enlightenment is what I am working on. right livelihood to save my pennies for motorcycle freedom, Nietzsche was right it is a decadent time when bachelors live like married men. So much time on family matters that hardly matter, maternal uncle an honored roll in my family tradition, if the kid winds up in a bloody twisted wreck of steel glass and plastic, I just can't deal with the thoughts, another catastrophe that i can't predict or avoid, like the serenity prayer by Rhinehold niebur, the Alcoholics Annonymous uses the prayer but they changed the wording, should be god grant us, not grant me, makes a difference to me. not a personal god
the god of all
Vonnegut changed it to the three things we cannot change the past the present and the future. Fear of god, no fear of self

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)"


I have missed Dr Seuss, to old by the time he started to write. I regret not reading him to my nephew, now I got to teach him to drive, Zen And The Art of Driving, going to buy that book again. use it as a drivers manual for him
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.~Dr. Seuss

I was a scary kid and it seems like it is taking forever to grow out of it.