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revolutionrabbit
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Post by revolutionrabbit » May 17th, 2010, 6:44 am

what we been told
combined with what never was told
and we have been told so much
and there's so much we are never told

history is one big ugly smear job
if there was one moment that was pure
out here in the west if would be some gun-
slingers resolve to draw and fire at will

I remember reading Nietzsche years past now
how each word held together with his thought
each sentence begot another that sent my mind
into an inward direction like a bullet of meaning
fired at the target of the will to power
"and nothing else besides"

if there is any meaning that has not been crucified
If there is some dancing star of the imagination
that has not been killed, buried, and resurrected

then we can never begin to grasp the meaning of
some blue-eyed teacher who stood aloof to meaning
changers in the temple of ultimate everlasting truth

what I know, is, sure as the shifting sands of ages
as sure as philosopher kings and wandering futures
as sure as poets who once looked deep into liquid stone
and passed through winding fingers of mysteries canyons
to commit to memory the written living language of
golden shadows dancing through centuries of shining lamps

what I know, dreams there on the edge of some infinity, blue
and a dream materializes out there in the middle of the desert

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Post by mnaz » May 20th, 2010, 9:34 pm

yes. "aloof to the meaning changers." upsetting their tables.

dreams materialize out there. outcasts, prophets, miracles and monks as well..

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Post by hester_prynne » May 21st, 2010, 12:41 am

This IS a shining lamp.
Really enjoyed this
H 8)
"I am a victim of society, and, an entertainer"........DW

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Post by revolutionrabbit » May 21st, 2010, 12:47 am

been reading a biography about William James
who wrote among other books "The Varieties of Religious Experience"

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Post by still.trucking » May 21st, 2010, 8:42 am

I been reading you
And that has been working out well for me.
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous." Barbara Ehrenreich

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