Tears In Rain

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to die."

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Renoir

The Large Bathers, 1887

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Shadows and dust

I knew a man who once said...

Death smiles at us all...

all a man can do is smile back.




(shadows and dust)

good and evil

What is done out of love......

always takes place beyond good and evil

...Friedrich Nietzsche...

Temptation

Salvator Rosa
"Tentazione di Sant'Antonio Abate"
(Temptation of abbot Saint Anthony)
1645 ca.

The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. It is believed the pyramid was built over a 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC. Khufu's Great Pyramid originally rose 479 feet but has been reduced to 449 feet with the loss of its limestone casing.

The mass of the pyramid is estimated at 5.9 million tonnes. The volume, including an internal hillock, is roughly 2,500,000 cubic meters. Based on these estimates, building this in 20 years would involve installing approximately 800 tonnes of stone every day. Alternatively looking at the construction from another angle, since the Great Pyramid consists of an estimated 2.3 million blocks, completing the building in 20 years would involve moving little more than 12 of the blocks in place each hour, day and night, during the 20 year period.

The accuracy of the pyramid's workmanship is such that the four sides of the base have an average error of only 58 millimeters in length. The base is horizontal and flat to within 21 mm. The sides of the square base are closely aligned to the four cardinal compass points (within 4 minutes of arc) based on true north, not magnetic north, and the finished base was squared to a mean corner error of only 12 seconds of arc. The completed design dimensions equate to π/2 to an accuracy of better than 0.05% (corresponding to the approximation of π as 22/7).

Based on measurements taken on the north eastern casing stones, the mean opening of the joints are only 0.5 millimeters wide (1/50th of an inch). The largest granite stones in the pyramid, found in the "King's" chamber, weigh 25 to 80 tonnes and were transported more than 500 miles away from Aswan. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years.
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Revelation of the Pyramids

They've given you a number

(tv show intro)

Fight Club

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club




(fight club trailer)

Zardoz Speaks

"The gun is good.

The penis is evil.

The penis shoots seeds,

and makes new life to poison

the Earth with a plague of men,

as once it was, but the gun shoots death,

and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals.

Go forth . . . and kill!"

...ZARDOZ...

Comfortably Numb

Rock-A-Billy

Zentai

The Zentai Project

is a group of people

who go out in public

wearing Zentai suits

for the amusement of themselves

and the public.

"bedazzled"

The Devil threatens revenge on God by unleashing all the tawdry and shallow technological curses of the modern age:

"All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it full of concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television and automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers and frozen food, supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself."

"bedazzled" 1967 Trailer

Happy Love Day

"Venus disarming Cupid"

François Boucher

1751

Why Darkness

There has to be evil

so that good can prove

its purity above it.

Buddha

Pearls Before Swine

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny.......when the government fears the people, there is liberty.......Thomas Jefferson.

Oh God, oh God......I get in trouble every time I open my mouth......I just can't shut up.

Thank you......Father, God, Allah, Yahweh, Elohim, Jehovah, Krishna.......thank you for my life.

Religion should embrace science.......to know God's Truth is our greatest challenge.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.......but I have promises to keep.....and miles to go before I sleep.......and miles to go before I sleep......Robert Frost.

There's a war coming.......though they try to dumb us down, we slowly learn......and in the learning we finally see.......we are slaves......slaves to our fear, our ignorance, our hate......and in learning this......we begin the battle that leads us to true liberty.

In a forest of lies......it's hard to see the truth.

Smart money says......there's money to be made in prisons.......just ask investors who have seen their stakes in the private jailer more than triple in value in the past year......the prison business is booming.......yes indeed.......the profiteering prison-industrial complex has many government incentives to maintain a high prison population.......now we can profit from the poor and retarded......and mental patients.......and homeless.................I know some people need to be incarcerated but.............should this be a business?

Hunger.......makes a thief of any man........Pearl S. Buck.

Every person deserves respect.......as a person......an image of ourselves.......what we do to another can be done to us.......what example will you also endure?

I'm guilty......guilty as hell.......I've done things.......bad things.......I wish I could do it all over again......I'd change a million things........and nothing.

"The fact is, milk lacks some important nutrients needed for infant development"......this is the copy on the side of an infant formula box......that obfuscates the fact that.......breast milk.......is in fact recommended over any formula.......deception at the expense of a baby.

Every crime......................is a hate crime.

Now let's get down to the business of sucking every loose penny out of Mr. and Mrs. Average Knucklehead........Robots.

I can buy a kidney in India........for 20,000-30,000 bucks.......the poor sap that parts with it gets a thousand or so.......if they don't stiff 'em while he's still under.

Why is it okay for Google and Yahoo and Microsoft........to enable the Chinese to censor the internet?

Father................the sleeper has awakened!.......Muad'Dib.

Since 1950, an estimated 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese........cultural genocide can be overlooked.......when you offer cheap labor.

If those bible thumpin' moralists were so intent on preventing abortions........they'd be on every street corner passing out condoms........ya think?

CIA,TNT,NBC,DOA,NXS,MIA,KIA,BTW,FBI,NSA,EPA,FDA,SOS.

Read "A Culture of Corruption"......by Bill Moyers.

If those gays want to get married.......I think we should let 'em.........they have the right to be as miserable as the rest of us..........hee hee.

You ever seen a UFO?........I have........ask Travis Walton about it.

Money, money, money.......got to have it......really need it......O'Jays.

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I Can Fly

I can fly

I can make a machine

I can make it fly

I can leave the earth

I can soar above the clouds

I can reach the heavens

I learned to fly when I was 6 years old

I can fly

The Seven Deadly Sins and The Seven Virtues

Whether one is religious or not, there is much symbolic power in the concepts and language used by the Church (indeed a plurality of churches as splits inevitably developed to cater for divergent views.) For the present writer, religious language is purely metaphor. For him the Bible is a superb compendium of stories rich in metaphor and indeed meaning. He has long left behind any trace at all of literalism in religious or biblical matters. However, he still respects all religions and those that espouse them provided they do not seek to thrust their views down the throats of others or indeed harm others by following misguided beliefs.

There is not a little psychology in the Scriptures and in the traditional teaching promulgated and promoted by the various churches and organised religions. Whether one is religious or not, one can access this wisdom through looking at and contemplating what religious categories sought to represent metaphorically. To cut to the chase here, the category of sins called The Seven Deadly Sins represents a deep insight into human psychology. Even if you are not convinced that such a concept as sin exists you could recast them as The Seven Deadly Desires. For me they represent a deep insight into human psychology.

One of my favourite contemporary philosophers is John Gray who quite simply believes that we overestimated the importance of humankind's place in the universe or in the scheme of things. He prefers to call us "human animals" rather than "human beings" as he feels this latter term is loaded with presuppositions and indeed prejudices. Of course, we are a special kind of animal - a human animal, but an animal nonetheless. We are heir to many animal instincts and desires. These for the erudite Sigmund Freud, the founder of Psychoanalysis, make up that part of the human psyche which he referred to as the "Id" which for him was literally a cesspit of desires.

Where, you may ask, is this post going? What is it getting at? Well, it is my contention that the present world economic crisis is been caused by the deadly desires of the human animals that live upon this little blue planet in the middle of the frightening infinity of space. Let me list the the seven for you, though I am sure you are really very well acquainted with them. They are: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. These, you will agree, are deadly desires when they take hold of us. Lust, Gluttony, Greed and Sloth are sins or desires of excess. We literally want to possess everything - we cannot get enough of anything. The Eastern religions see this as a clinging onto things and to people - all of which belongs to the world of impermanence anyway. An international Irish politician, Mr Pat Cox, a former president of the European Parliament has stated rather wisely that what caused the present international global monetary crisis was "the tsunami of greed that gripped the western world." How right he is and how perspicacious of him. Yes, we poor human animals, often at the mercy of our desires do succumb to lust - for power, for wealth, for boundless happiness, whether sexual or otherwise. We do like to glut ourselves in the best of restaurants. We do like to do things to excess. To that extent we become possessed by our possessions and overwhelmed by our passions - if not virtually smothered by them.

Then, envy and pride are rather pitiful and base desires. It is surely a sign of a considerable lack of self-esteem that pushes us to envy the achievements of others. Then, the old saying that "pride precedes a fall" is ever so true. I am reminded here of the famous Biblical story of the Tower of Babel - a wonderful and wondrous allegory full of metaphorical delight. The early human animal was so besotted with his own prowess that he sought to build the greatest and highest tower ever - one that would reach to the very heavens but alas and alack its destiny was that of destruction. I remember a lecturer calling this the "hubris" of humankind. Hubris is the Greek word for pride.

However, the Church (or churches) did have a balance to this teaching. For each of the Seven Deadly Sins there were, of course, The Seven Virtues which were the cure or antidote, to use a medical metaphor, to each of the evil desires listed above: Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness and Humility. The religious virtues can, of course, be recast as positive human behaviours capable of being executed by the Ego under the influence of the Superego (Conscience) to put this religious language in Freudian terms.

Above The Seven Deadly Sins or The Seven Deadly Vices by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Relax