Plane Crazy Mickey Mouse Classic 1928

Seiously Beautiful

Seriously beautiful people making the rounds
picking up all the bonus points
that establish the fact
and the truth be known
you are all part of the master
plan
the arm
behind the 
invisible hand

Taking a look at you
I instantly knew
you were seriously 
beautiful
but when I did a background
check
it turns out you are not
working
for the man

So seriously beautiful
there is a sliver lining
in this chaotic time
when the Zombies
come knocking on your
door
they will get nothing 
but kick ass
from your silver feet

Seriously beautiful 
not good enough
took the knife
and carved
plastic parts
and made herself
into a couch 
covered in plastic
with the same
skin

Real seriously beautiful
don't need no help
from the pharmacy or hospital
no surgeon no matter how
skilled could sculpt such 
a face as the worst of the
seriously beautiful
has on her face
because the threshold 
is so high
the worst is
still some angel 
in the sky

hidden treasure

Inward Threat

The  goverment should keep
us up late at night
with fusia theats

Pleass fuck off
you consutants

the revolution will be live

I just want to get my kicks untill the whole shithouse burns down

That was Jim Morrison of the Doors expressing his opinion on why he existed.
Today it seems the whole shithouse is on fire. We have an ample supply of fire extingusers but like David Bowie said we seem to be pouring gasonline on the fire.

Do  i need to say again I am a history major
maybe in all my studies which you have
not done
i learned something

I have friends who have more degrees
than a thermomter
but still they
can not spot a fever

The world is in a crisis
today
and conflict breaks out
when people can
not feed on the world teat

I am always the optomist
I am always a believer
in good institutions
we have all the resouces
and we have not harvested everthing
its only the planet
why not get to work?

We can all live like humans
if we choose

Perfume

Bond, James Bond

I saw this movie close to a week ago in a Cinema. I wanted to say something but then the Paris attacks happened. Bottom line the writers of this movie agree with me that ISIS is a security distraction, the threat comes from within.

This is the best Bond movie ever. I can say this because I saw all the Bond movies in a theatre upon their release.  I know Bond like Moneypenny.

I thought Skyfall was a hot mess. I never cottoned to Daniel Craig as I am still shaken not stirred with Connery. 

In this movie IMHO Daniel Craig has become James  Bond.  No other actor  has managed to do this.

This movie connects all the dots. This movie has the best Bond Girl ever. This movie has the best Bond car ever.  I do not want to spoil anything, but in this movie every Bond touchstone gets touched.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 63% score. Proof they are insane.

A thousand years from now people will love this movie, like the fans of Greek plays play today.

Five Five high Five stars

"In Contact" The Pascagoula UFO Abduction

ISIS and the Holocaust

The true story of the Holocaust has never been written

until I did it today

I will make many factual errors

and my math may not add up

to the extent the deniers will add

my truth to their stump of lies

after the tree of knowledge and probity

has been sacrificed to a cause

which to this day befuddles me

cause if you look at the 21st Century

no one with any clued

is going to say the Jews are in charge

The tale really begins with the old Testament, or the Torah as the Jews call it. WHICH, brings up a salient point of identification that has long bugged me. The Torah is a very significant document. Its like calling the declaration of Independence the colonist wishes historically. Why do we call Wien, Vienna, and a hundred other misidentifications that lead me to ramble without logic.
I am no biblical scholar so I do not know if quoting anything leads to ecumenical

dichotomies.

For sure it make for a lot of misinformation to be polite when talking about

absolute born in poured concrete lies. These kinds of facts are not new

the Greeks wrote plays of them, and all over Europe you can find Roman artifacts built with taxpayer dollars for the majority that never did enjoy that highway, spa or splash.

Some time long in the past a group of citizens were bound together by tribal bounds

but more than that an idea of a people.  

This was Apple three thousand years ago.   The Jews became the Ipeople. The ones God loved best. Through self reinforced good behaviour they advanced over the Microcontrol tribes. No one could join the Ipeople. No you had to be born into the OS. I am sure this firewall against virus was not appreciated.

Time went by and the Jews who were slaves to a great extent made their move with Moses. They did a reverse takeover and drowned all the option seekers to make a healthy return to the lands they remembered.  There is a really complicated history of this. Who is right who is wrong, in the end today we have Jews

in Jewersulam pulling the levers of power to make it totally Jewish ground. People who wandered for thousands of years recently found Gold and now they want to make the rules, how audacious.

Do not ask me about Jesus the Jew.  Do not ask a Rabbi about this. They will give you an answer as complete as asking Steve Harper about the Mike Duffy senate appointment. The fact is to the Jews, Jesus is a  Caucasian Santa Claus. Thinkaboot it folks for a minute. If the people there on the ground do not know about him,  and the people who reverb him only discovered him 300 years later we might not be getting the full story from either side. Nevertheless from the time of Constantine forward the Jews killed Jesus. This fact or fictional absurdity is the foundation of the holocaust. We can kill Jews freely and without sin because some Jew in a narrative authorised the killing of a messiah. 

So lets be clear. The people who created the first testament, which is really the only part of the King James Bible that is coherent, killed the messiah and failed to ever mention it. Going forward through history they are the people using  a Linux based code who are considered by Microcontrol to be a rouges  Ipeople app that killed Jesus. The Jesus app had so much potential, anti gravity, element transmutation, and with the healing power to end socialised medicine forever. Despite the fact that the Jesus app has shaped and precisely controlled at least two thousand years of history, the Microcontrol people remain bitter. 

As they have no sense of shame and are immune to best practises they are increasingly embarrassed. Despite the fact most people in power use the Microcontrol app to do business, the Ipeople thrive.  Small in numbers but equipped with better software they dominate the fringes of the Microcontrol world. While Microcontrol despite huge tax breaks continues to make slow progress, the Ipeople flourish and riffinking on the nonsense,  they manipulate Adam Smiths invisible hand with great dexterity. In fact for most of the middle ages handling money was less respected than arbitoriy.

This makes the Microcontrol programmers furious and they declare the Ipeople a virus. So they often through history attempt to purge the Ipeople program from the system. This goes on for centuries but in the end the Ipeople dominate with their clever software and software developers.  How do you develop Ipeople software. As I said it was a closed architecture.  The Jews breed themselves for success. Long before science they knew the DNA is the key to a healthy society.  Some people will say DNA is nonsense. If they can make a good argument for that case I assume they had a great upbringing. For sure DNA is more than half the equation,  but healthy simulation can bring scores up to fantastic all the time. Jews hit both sides all the time since the beginning of time and it made the big thinkers of every age furious.

Now I tell a Lee Kuan Yue  Joke, but it is so instructive. First let me quote a famous Jew.

"You will not get ahead pulling people down into the same hole you are in." That's a fact and a thing about modern politics that should give us all fever.  I am not a worse ass hole than that guy so I should be leader, oh the humanity.

The Lee Kuan Yew joke goes like this. First if you do not know who Lee Kuan Yew is your ignorant. Your letting the world tell you how it spins instead of trying to figure out

why it spins thus. So back to the Joke.

Lee Kuan Yew for all his faults and few foibles really believed in a better life for all. Its really well documented. Sure he cared more about Singapore than the world. However the China of today is built on his legacy and we can only hope they continue to find leaders that had his benevolence. I can not say enough good things about Singapore.

So Lee Kuan Yew is meeting his neighbours in an informal setting. Lets just say

cognac all around. A member, not to be named forever from the ruling Junta of Mymarr

is strutting around Orchard Road using his ill begotten credit card to the max  like a peacock of absurdity. Of course  the former Harry Lee has him targeted just like every other citizen on the constant surveillance network.

After a few co's they speak.

"General baby if you listen to me I can make Myanmar all Orchard road. It will take five to ten years but if you look at Singapore which has no resources you can be assured it will be easier in Myanmar which has a genius booty of low hanging resources we can call dollar fruit."

The General replies " Listen you Jewish Chinese motherfucker, I can make Singapore look like Myramar in two weeks, so shut the fuck up."

The holocaust, the worst stain on western civilisation ever. Why you ask, because by 1930 we knew better. I can forgive arrogant ignorance, but not sophisticated manipulation. A complete an utter breakdown of institutions. A lizard brain factory where the grey zone produced. How could this happen in 1930's Germany? Could it happen again? If I am a Jew should I be wondering if my neighbour will hide me or turn me in?

Just as an aside if I was a Jew today I would be very worried. The Rabbit Bomb is primed and growing bigger everyday. The crazies are massing and if the right needs a sacrificial lamb to hang on Jews will be the first on the skewer. As if you do not know the only reason the American Right clings to you is that they honestly believe only over your dead bodies can they reach heaven. Sick stupid fucks.  The people back home seem to be stuck on the Dig channel. Maybe the Jews born of Diaspora are always in the end going to be that way. Meeting in secret synagogues and chatting with their gentile friends on the fringes of the net.

I tell you right now we are in a pre Holocaust preparation. Snitch lines and reward for reporting trivial stuff. If you see a blank behaving in way that makes you nervous be sure to phone in, I will call you non observant if you do.  I am going to hide my neighbour, Jew , Muslim, Scientology's or Pastifarian because I do not believe in a general roundup.

Now your thinking I am drifting but not really I am still focused on the reason

there was the Holocaust. Its all about vision in my eyes. Who looks at the artwork.

How much value did art have in 1930 compared to today? I say nothing, its like all the hockey cards and comic books your mother threw away.  Taking that into account by my numbers which I have said before are flawed and subjective the Jews in Europe owned about 75% of today's treasured art world. I do not think I have to explain this was not simply due to wealth. Many of the great works were done by Jews, Jews likes art, and Jews in general had the disposable income to buy something most would consider crap but they liked. That said I do not think a Klimt should ever leave Austria. Its complicated.

Magnify this by a society crippled by reparations where the Jews seemed to be the least affected. Put into place a Harper like divide and conquer politician, and soon you have deathcamps as a means of power.

In requiem, the millions and I do not know the number. People make big fusses over whether it was two million or six million or whatever.  After a thousand it becomes a big number. If its government sponsored it becomes a holocaust.  I believe it was likely not six million. Its just my cynicism at work, I in no way would debate the six million number. Nevertheless my final thought on the holocaust is how magnificent Germany today would be with all those Jews.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine has the Fearing. These are the prototypical Jews. Easter Egg to everyone, this race is not Jewish. There are people in our world today who are truly examples of the worst portrait of what it means to be acquisitive.

I should not have to say it if you read my blog religiously. I am a big Jewish  San Francisco cocksucker  NTTIAWWT. I like most Israelis think Netanyahoo is a flawed con man who worked the bushes to make his family name wood. We celebrate Jews every day in our daily life.

Best practises and all that, we could do worse than all be Jews.  Okay I got a problem with the circumcision. Yet its just another best practise run amok. Kind of like buying booze in the USA, where no matter the age you look, they must ID. If for one we must then we all shall face every indignity to show up in the world as a better place.

We Christians pray that God will forgive us and help us today but at the top of the list
please let the God Bouncers let us into the Heaven Club. Jews pray really hard you can see them everyday working hard at the wailing wall for a better world. I know this for a fact cause on a subway one time I was all alone with a Hassidic Jew for an extended period and I did the natural thing, I talked to him. I wanted to know from this kid what the clothing and the haircut was all aboot. I may disagree with his fashion and style. but in his hopes for the world, we shared a right.

Steve you say why do you care about the holocaust and the true history? I axe myself often, and get some real cuts from that tool. The fact is that I think myself smarter than the average fool. I have seen this world like many before, but I saw it different because that is my wile or illusion of something I believe is understanding.

I do not fear ISIS or NAZI, Republicans or other extremists because I know in the long run

all people are still the same. Like Sting said "we can only hope the Russians love their children too"  Sure I am horrified by the work of terrorists but people this is nothing new. Ask the Archduke Ferdinand. ISIS and Al Queda are terrorism with Madison Ave working pro bono. They thrive on being attacked, I think there was a Star Trek episode that pointed that out in the sixties, yet we continue to walk into the sucker punch.

What I am trying to say in summary is that we will all kill the Jews if we are convinced enough. The Germans are a wonderful people, and IMHO in the 21st Century the star to hang on. So if one man and his will could prostitute this great nation with crude propaganda, image what today's power brokers are doing to your mind today.

Anyone who pumps up the individual is selling you a lie. Great masses of power like

little stand alone flowers when they spread pesticide. No man or women is an island. No matter how great some people are, and their are millions who soar. They did not become successful without you and me, and the people who died to make our institutions, never forget that. Institutions are more important than votes in todays brainwashed economy.

So now that you know the truth as I see it I ask only one thing. Find it for yourself really and next time you have a chance to vote, vote what you truly believe based upon evidence. Its in your hands the worlds future and only you can prevent the next Holocaust.

Only you can connect the dots and wonder why ISIS loves the Jews

i know you want it

robert mapplethorpe

"but...seriously"

Disunion Now (A Plea for a Society based upon Small Autonomous Units) - Leopold Khor - 1941

 

We like to believe that the misery into which the world has come is due to the fact that humanity is split into too many countries. And we like to believe that all the evils of our globe would be eliminated by simply doing away with the variety of states through uniting - the democracies now, the continents later, the world in the end. The usually cited examples for the feasibility of such unions are the United States of America and Switzerland.

  

As far as the United States is concerned, it is not a model after which Europe could be reshaped because it is not a union of different entities. There is no real differentiation between the peoples, languages, customs and races living in the various states. There is only one people, the American, living in the United States which is plural in its name but not in fact. The United States are not a country, it is a country. The only lesson which can be drawn from its constitutional picture is that in spite of the uniformity of type it has produced, it was found more practical to subdivide it into 48 states instead of trying to govern the entire continent through delegates from Washington. Thus differentiations were artificially created because this proved to be an easier way to achieve union than unification.

But more than the United States, it is Switzerland which is regarded as the proof of the feasibility of the unionist dreams even for the continent of Europe, where they have neither a uniform type of continental man, nor a common language, nor a common cultural and historical background. There, in a tiny spot in the Alps, three arch-enemies - Italians, Germans and French - have united for the common purpose of freedom, peace and economic happiness. Switzerland to the unionist, is the eternal example of the practicability of the living together of different nations, and for this reason, he praises her as his holy land.

But in reality, Switzerland, too, proves something quite different from what she is meant to prove. The percentage of her three national groups (not speaking of the Romanche, her fourth nationality) is roughly 70% for the German, 20% for the French and 10% for the Italian speaking population. If these three national groups as such were the basis of her much-famed union, it would inevitably result in the domination of the large German speaking block over the other two nationalities, who would be degraded to the logical status of minorities representing only 30% of the total population. Indeed, the rules of  democracy would favor this development, and the reason for the French and  Italian speaking communities remaining in a chiefly German enterprise would be gone. No sense could be found in their keeping away from the more logical reunion with their own blood-relatives, who, through their number, have formed the powerful nations of Italy and France. No more sense could there be for the German block to stay outside the Reich.

In fact the basis of the existence of Switzerland and the principle of living together of various national groups is not the federation of her three nationalities but the federation of her 22 states, which represent a division of her nationalities and thus create the essential precondition for any democratic federation: the physical balance of the participants, the approximate equality of numbers. The greatness of the Swiss idea, therefore, is the smallness of its cells from which it derives its guaranties. The Swiss from Geneva does not confront the Swiss from Zurich as a German to a French confederate, but as a confederate from the Republic of Geneva to a confederate from the Republic of Zurich. The citizen of the German-speaking Uri is as much a foreigner to the citizen of the German-speaking Unterwalden as he is to citizens of the ltalian-speaking Tessin. Between the canton of St. Gallen and the Swiss federation there is no intermediary organization in the form of "German-speaking cantons." The power delegated to Berne derives from the small member republic and not from the nationality, because Switzerland is a union of states, not of nations. It is important to realize that in Switzerland there live (in rough numbers) 700,000 Bernese, 650,000 Zürichois, 160,000 Genevese, etc., and not 2,500,000 Germans, 1,000,000 French and 500,000 Italians. The great number of proud, democratic and almost sovereign cantons, and the small number of the individual cantonal populations eliminates all possible imperialist ambition on the part of any one canton, because it would always be outnumbered by even a very small combination of the others. If ever, in the course of contemporary simplification and rationalization, an attempt to reorganize Switzerland on the basis of its nationalities should succeed, the 22 "superfluous" states with all their separate parliaments and governments would become three provinces: not of Switzerland, however, but of Germany, Italy and France.
 

Cantonal Sovereignty

People who argue for a union of nations in Europe because they believe that this kind of union has been realized and thus proved its practicability in Switzerland, have never based their wonderful schemes on the principle of cantonal or small-state sovereignty. The national idea has so much troubled the minds of the political thinkers that, in contrast, the notion of state so much more flexible, adaptable and multipliable than that of nation, has most completely gone out of use. For virtue has been seen only in great and greater while smaller entities have been thought and taught to be the source of all mischief and evil. We have been educated in the worship of the bulk, of the universal, of the colossal, and have come away from the minuscule, the completeness and universality on the smallest scale - the individual, which is the protoplasm of all social life. We have learned to praise the unification of France, Britain, Italy and Germany in the belief that they would give birth to a unified humanity. But they created only Great Powers.

If the Swiss experience should be applied to Europe, also the Swiss technique - not merely the appearance of its result - will have to be employed. This consist in the dividing of three or any number of unequal blocks into as many smaller parts as is necessary to eliminate any sizable numerical preponderance. That is to say that one should create 40 or 50 equally small states instead of 4 or 5 unequally large ones. Otherwise even a federated Europe will always contain 80 million Germans, 45 million French, 45 million Italians, etc., which means that any European federation would end up in a German hegemony with just the same inevitability as the German federation, in which 24 small states were linked to the one 40-million power of Prussia ended up in Prussian hegemony.

The suggestion, therefore, is to split Germany into a number of states of seven to ten million inhabitants. This could be easily done since the former German states (or a number of them) could be reconstructed, and even Prussia could be divided on a natural and historical basis. The splitting up of Germany alone, however, would have no permanent effect. With the natural tendency of all growing things, Germany would reunite unless the whole of Europe were to be cantonized at the same time. France, Italy and Russia must be divided too. Also in their cases their historical backgrounds would make the task easy: we shall again have a Venezia, a Lombardy, a Burgundy, a Savoy, an Estonia, a White Russia, etc. But as with the German states, here also the new (or old) entities would again grow together on racial lines unless they be brought together in new combinations making the creation of national states impossible. That is to say, the true meaning of Switzerland or the Austro-Hungarian empire will have to be realized in many new instances: the small states will be federated, but not with their nearest relative, so that the new map of Europe might show a Pomerania-West-Poland, and East-Prussia-Baltica, an Austo-Hungary-Czechoslovakia, a Baden-Burgundy, a Lombardy-Savoy, etc. Then the Great Powers, which are the womb of all modem wars, because they alone are strong enough to give to war its modern frightfulness, shall have disappeared. But only through splitting up the entire continent of Europe will it be possible to eliminate honorably Germany or any other Great Power without having to inflict on any the odium of a new Versailles. Once Europe is divided into small enough parcels, we shall have the Swiss foundation of a Pan European Union, based not on the collaboration of powerful nations but on the smallness of all the states.
 

Glorifying the Small

All this is a defense of a much-ridiculed principle which glorifies the sovereignty of the smallest and not of the largest state-entity - Kleinstaaterei, as the Germans say. The theorist of our time who seem to be able to see only the large and get emotional over words like "humanity" (no one knows what it really means and why one should die for it) call the very idea of creating more instead of fewer states medieval backwardness. They are all out for unionism and colossalism, though unionism is nothing really but another expression for totalitarianism, even if it is thought to be a guarantee for peace. It is the one-party system transplanted into the international field. Against the scorn of our theorists I would like to point out only a very few of the advantages of this "medieval" scheme. The unionist will say that the time when hundreds of states existed was dark and that wars were waged almost continuously. That is true. But what were these wars like? The Duke of Tyrol declared war on the Margrave of Bavaria for a stolen horse. The war lasted two weeks. There was  one dead and six wounded. A village was captured and all the wine drunk which was in the cellar of the inn. Peace was made and $35 paid for reparations. The adjoining Duchy of Liechtenstein and the Archbishopric of Salzburg never learned that there had been a war on at all. There was war on some corner of Europe almost every day, but they were wars with little effects. Today we have relatively few wars, and they are for no better reason than a stolen horse. But the effects are tremendous.

Also economically the advantages of the coexistence of many little states were enormous, although the modern synchronizers and economists will not agree with this since they have got accustomed to see the world standing on their heads. Instead of one administration we had twenty, instead of two hundred parliamentarians we had two thousand, and, thus, instead of the ambitions of only a few the ambitions of many could be satisfied. There were no unemployed because there were too many identical professions which competed less because they were exercised in more countries. There was no necessity for socialism (another totalitarian notion), because the economic life of a small country could be supervised from any church tower without the interpretations (brilliant though they be) of a Marx or Schacht. There was the development of the arts in the many capitals which excelled in the creation of universities, theater and in the production of poets, philosophers and architects. And there were no more taxes than we have now, in the age of rationalization, where people and enterprises have been "economized" for economic reasons and the phenomenon of unemployment has come into existence. We have done away with what we thought was the waste of courts and kings and have created thereby the splendor of the dictators' marching millions. We have ridiculed the many little states; now we are terrorized by their few successors.

Not only history but also our own experience has taught us that true democracy in Europe can only be achieved in little states. Only there the individual can retain his place and dignity. And if democracy is a worthwhile idea, we have to create again the conditions for its development, the small state, and give the glory of sovereignty (instead of curtailing an institution from which no one wants to depart) to the smallest community and to as many people as possible. It will be easy to unite small states under one continental federal system and thus also satisfy, secondarily, those who want to live on universal terms. Such a Europe is like a fertile inspiration and a grandiose picture, although not a modern one which you paint in one dull line. It will be like a mosaic with fascinating variations and diversity, but also with the harmony of the organic and living whole.

This is a ridiculous scheme, conceived for man as a witty, vivacious and individualistic reality. Unionism, on the other hand, is a deadly serious scheme without humor, meant for men as a collectivity and as social animals of lower order; and it reminds me constantly, in all its earnest elaborateness, of the German professor who submitted to Satan a new plan for organizing Hell. Whereupon Satan answered with rock-shaking laughter: "Organize Hell? My dear Professor, organization, that is Hell."

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The Philosophy of Atheism by Emma Goldman (First published in February 1916 in the Mother Earth journal)

To give an adequate exposition of the Philosophy of Atheism, it would be necessary to go into the historical changes of the belief in a Deity, from its earliest beginning to the present day. But that is not within the scope of the present paper. However, it is not out of place to mention, in passing, that the concept God, Supernatural Power, Spirit, Deity, or in whatever other term the essence of Theism may have found expression, has become more indefinite and obscure in the course of time and progress. In other words, the God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in- proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science pro- gressively correlates human and social events.

God, today, no longer represents the same forces as in the beginning of His existence; neither does He direct human destiny with the same Iron hand as of yore. Rather does the God idea express a sort of spiritualistic stimalus to satisfy the fads and fancies of every shade of human weak- ness. In the course of human development the God idea has been forced to adapt itself to every phase of human affairs, which is perfectly consistent with the origin of the idea itself.

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all super- stition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

Very aptly, the world-renowned atheist and anarchist, Michael Bakunin, says in his great work God and the State: "All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties. Conse- quently, the religious heaven is nothing but the mirage in which man, exalted by ignorance and faith, discovered his own image, but enlarged and reversed - that is divinised. The history of religions, of the birth, grandeur, and the decline of the gods who had succeeded one another in human belief, is nothing, therefore, but the development of the collective intelligence and conscience of mankind. As fast as they discovered, in the course of their historically- progressive advance, either in themselves or in external nature, a quality, or even any great defect whatever, they attributed it to their gods, after having exaggerated and enlarged it beyond measure, after the manner of chil- dren, by an act of their religious fancy. . . . With all due respect, then, to the metaphysicians and religious idealists, philosophers, politicians or poets: the idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind, both in theory and practice."

Thus the God idea, revived, readjusted, and enlarged or narrowed, according to the necessity of the time, has domi- nated humanity and will continue to do so until man will raise his head to the sunlit day, unafraid and with an awakened will to himself. In proportion as man learns to realize himself and mold his own destiny theism becomes superfluous. How far man will be able to find his relation to his fellows will depend entirely upon how much he can outgrow his dependence upon God.

Already there are indications that theism, which is the theory of speculation, is being replaced by Atheism, the science of demonstration; the one hangs in the metaphysical clouds of the Beyond, while the other has its roots firmly in the soil. It is the earth, not heaven, which man must rescue if he is truly to be saved.

The decline of theism is a most interesting spectacle, especially as manifested in the anxiety of the theists, what- ever their particular brand. They realize, much to their distress, that the masses are growing daily more atheistic, more anti-religious; that they are quite willing to leave the Great Beyond and its heavenly domain to the angels and sparrows; because more and more the masses are becoming engrossed in the problems of their immediate existence.

How to bring the masses back to the God idea, the spirit, the First Cause, etc. - that is the most pressing question to all theists. Metaphysical as all these questions seem to be, they yet have a very marked physical background. Inas- much as religion, "Divine Truth," rewards and punishments are the trade-marks of the largest, the most corrupt and pernicious, the most powerful and lucrative industry in the world, not excepting the industry of manufacturing guns and munitions. It is the industry of befogging the human mind and stifling the human heart. Necessity knows no law; hence the majority of theists are compelled to take up every subject, even if it has no bearing upon a deity or revelation or the Great Beyond. Perhaps they sense the fact that humanity is growing weary of the hundred and one brands of God.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness. Perhaps that explains the efforts fostered in all religious publications to combine variegated religious philosophies and conflicting theistic theories into one de- nominational trust. More and more, the various concepts "of the only tree God, the only pure spirit, -the only true religion" are tolerantly glossed over in the frantic effort to establish a common ground to rescue the modern mass from the "pernicious" influence of atheistic ideas.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe. To accomplish this end, the crudest and vulgarest methods are being used. Religious endeavor meetings and revivals with Billy Sunday as their champion -methods which must outrage every refined sense, and which in their effect upon the ignorant and curious often tend to create a mild state of insanity not infrequently coupled with eroto-mania. All these frantic efforts find approval and support from the earthly powers; from the Russian despot to the American President; from Rocke- feller and Wanamaker down to the pettiest business man. They blow that capital invested in Billy Sunday, the Y.M.C.A., Christian Science, and various other religious institutions will return enormous profits from the subdued, tamed, and dull masses.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell; reward and punishnient, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and content- ment. The truth is that theism would have lost its foeting long before this but for the combined support of Mammon and power. How thoroughly banlrupt it really is, is being demonstrated in the trenches and battlefields of Europe today.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preach- ments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injus- tice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages com- mitted against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, be- trayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

The philosophy of Atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it philosophy, is static and fixed. Even the mere attempt to pierce these mysteries represents, from the the- istic point of view, non-belief in the all-embracing omnipo- tence, and even a denial of the wisdom of the divine powers outside of man. Fortunately, however, the human mind never was, and never can be, bound by fixities. Hence it is forging ahead in its restless march towards knowledge and life. The human mind is realizing "that the universe is not the result of a creative fiat by some divine intelligence, out of nothing, producing a masterpiece chaotic in perfect operation," but that it is the product of chaotic forces operating through aeons of time, of clashes and cataclysms, of repulsion and attraction crystalizing through the prin- ciple of selection into what the theists call, "the universe guided into order and beauty." As Joseph McCabe well points out in his Existence ot God: "a law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way."

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean content- ment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

It may seem a wild paradox, and yet it is pathetically true, that this real, visible world and our life should have been so long under the influence of metaphysical specula- tion, rather than of physical demonstrable forces. Under the lash of the theistic idea, this earth has served no other purpose than as a temporary station to test man's capacity for immolation to the will of God. But the moment man attempted to ascertain the nature of that will, he was told that it was utterly futile for "finite human intelligence" to get beyond the all-powerful infinite will. Under the terrific weight of this omnipotence, man has been bowed into the dust - a will-less creature, broken and sweating in the dark. The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond. Again and again the light of reason has dispelled the theistic nightmare, but poverty, misery and fear have recreated the phantoms - though whether old or new, whatever their external form, they differed little in their essence. Atheism, on the other hand, in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a super- natural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahministic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder: Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon earth.

Only after the triumph of the Atheistic philosophy in the minds and hearts of man will freedom and beauty be real- ized. Beauty as a gift from heaven has proved useless. It will, however, become the essence and impetus of life when man learns to see in the earth the only heaven fit for man. Atheism is already helping to free man from his dependence upon punishment and reward as the heavenly bargain- counter for the poor in spirit.

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self- righteousness, partly with hypocrisy. As to truth, justice, and fidelity, who have been their brave exponents and daring proclaimers? Nearly always the godless ones: the Atheists; they lived, fought, and died for them. They knew that justice, truth, and fidelity are not, conditioned in heaven, but that they are related to and interwoven with the tremendous changes going on in the social and material life of the human race; not fixed and eternal, but fluctuating, even as life itself. To what heights the philosophy of Athe- ism may yet attain, no one can prophesy. But this much can already be predicted: only by its regenerating fire will human relations be purged from the horrors of the past

Thoughtful people are beginning to realize that moral precepts, imposed upon humanity through religious terror, have become stereotyped and have therefore lost all vitality. A glance at life today, at its disintegrating character, its conflicting interests with their hatreds, crimes, and greed, suffices to prove the sterility of theistic morality.

Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of dark- ness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Are we sitting on the Cure?

One thing is certian the TPP will not accelerate Star Trek medicine.

Leaving The City

so much life

I got so much life
running through my veins
the artery's can hardly keep up
as long as my heart keeps'
pumping I will be a force
in this game