Lonliness

I'm in a Roanoke thrift shop,accompanying my lady in her eternal quest for the perfect pair of brown shoes(either Gucci makes them outta crocodile or some dude in the bazaars of Mumbai), and I find something that excites me. "Honey,LOOK! I found an old George Mgrdichain tape!" Then I realize that no one within a hundred miles knows what the fuck I'm talking about.

To this guy its no hoax

This man is a climate refugee. The island he lived and farmed on is gone. It was in the bay of Bengal in Bangladesh and it and other islands in the Sunderbans are gone due to rising sea levels. Of course the American right doesn't believe that climate change is real. As long as pollution puts money in their wallets it's going to be just a hoax. Besides, this guy is a Muslim, so who cares. Of course Hurricane Katrina was a climate change event too, right here in the good ole US of A, People lost their homes, oh yeah they were black, so who cares. The pasty faced white guys are probably buying up lots of water(gonna be a big shortage when the glaciers go) and all the high ground they can get their greedy pudgy hands on. Already they are disenfranchising poor whites (social parasites, with no ambition to make any money), but then these poor whites are their base. What happens then? Who cares, government and elections are a charade anyway. The fat cats call the shots.

Change you can believe in You Betcha!

I voted for an supported Barak Obama because I believed he knew what was wrong with America. He appeared a visionary, and if in fact he is, he must be very frustrated. His own party won't give up the squabbles and he won't engage in Bush style rule by decree. In fact the health care bill being debated currently will have no public provision, it will have insurance cap limits(very bad for people with cancer. It has been called a gift to big insurance. Today they passed a bank regulation bill, supposedly to eliminate any chance for another big crash. During the debate a proposal to give bankruptcy judges to lower someones mortgage to prevent foreclosure was voted down.... and not completely on party lines. What the hell is going on?We're getting screwed in every hole. It seems big business gets what it wants from either side. Maybe the whole thing is a big charade. Someone once said America ceased being a democracy, but the people don.t know it yet. All the division, all the noise is just to distract people while the pasty faced white guys rape us.
Even the military industrial complex( Dick Cheney, halliburton, Bush etc) get to keep their money making war. After all killing is good business.
I cry for America

Somethings never change

In the mid 14th century, the Black Death ravaged Europe taking, perhaps half the population. The hundred years war came to a halt. But it didn't take but a few years for the French and English to start killing each other again. The church grew rich on property seized and the bishops diverted the large monies set aside for the poor to their own needs, as they claimed the poor were now all dead.To finance the continuing 100 years war, France imposed a war tax, as follows: 4% from the rich,5% from the middle classes and 10% from the poor. Perhaps we have not yet left the middle ages.
What amazes me about America is not the greed and hate of the right, or the misplaced idealism and internecine strife of the left, its the stupidity of the American people to believe the lies that thrown at them from both direction. Neither side, neither party is at all interested in the welfare of the common man, they want their 10%, thats all.

Abrahamic religions... the demise of the Mother Goddess

Although humanity's first deity might have been the bear cult(Neanderthal circa 100,000BC), our immediate forebearers(Cro Magnon man 40,000) are associated with a female Mother. Represented in paleolithic art by the numerous cave venuses found in Europe and Central Asia, it echoes the mystery of birth and creation. Caves become wombs and the creative aspects are foremost. Then we learn to study the skies and find our relationships with the music of the cosmos.( moon and menstrual cycles, snakes shedding skins and rebirth etc.) Our mythology becomes Goddess centered. Along comes Abraham and his elevated storm god(Yahweh) This changes everthing. The story of the end of Goddess worship is in Genesis. Eve consorts with the snake(common symbolic association of mothers and rebirth). She eats of the tree of knowledge and God expells her and Adam before they eat of the second tree(immortality) The snake and therefore nature become corrupt, woman cursed and demoted to second class citizenry and mankind inherits an original sin which Christ must be sacrificed for. Of the three Abrahamic faiths(Judaism,Christianity and Islam) Christianity retains more of the pagan incorporating much pagan symbolism. As nature is now corrupt, we have created evil, dualism. we have removed God to heaven. Enlightenment is the return to non duality.

Britomartis

Searching around eternity for my 72 Gothic schoolgirl virgins that tempt me on my search for unity I came across this goddess. She's 3500 years old( and still a virgin???WTF), comes from Crete, associated with mother goddess chores. Her name is Britomartis (sweet virgin). Hmm Brett n Brit, fits well. The snakes, wierd hair, sort of plaid skirt and for me the du rigeur exposed breast. Mythworld! You create your own, you populate it and you live it. A world without time and decay, it becomes a metaphor for the "real world". Slowly we see man's greatest error, man forgets god is in himself and of himself and of all,partners, siblings,communion. Man removes god to another place, usually hard to get to, say heaven,valhalla,nirvana etc. Sometimes we split the god into a duality of good and evil, thus seperating what once was one. Perhaps man obtained his powers from is first contact with understanding,say 40,000 yrs ago. Art arrives, full blown, tools,once good for a million years begin to resemble Detroit with brand new model years, a 3500 bc Ford hand axe model b 123. The' secret' is simply that god exists in us and in all in unity of being. One organism. We are cells doing our job, or perhaps we are cancer or some loathsome parasite. Just a minute part. And we forgot, and removed god, put him up in some holy attic to take down Xmas,hannukah, eid al adha ( Eid Mubarak!- it's today) How can we understand unity, humanity being so obsessed with division. Anyway back on the road to nirvana, I encounter Britomartis and Tara...........Sexy mythworld

A letter to K

While Muslims are preparing for the Hajj which starts on Wednesday, and Christians and Jews begin preparations for Christmas and Hannukah, while catholic bishops ban a Kennedy from communion(abortion issue) and wingnuts right and left decry the Hadron collider's search for even smaller particles of matter, I wonder why religion no longer works. Putting it simply, religion is founded on a view of the cosmos. that view constantly changes. In the 1500's Copernicus and Galileo faced heresy charges for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. Our Judeo-Christian-Islamic cosmic model dates from about 1500 BC when the book we call the bible was being put together. It postulated a Bronze age cosmos, a flat earth, an earth centered universe, to just name a few. Christianity and islam added their own myths. Laws set down in the Mosaic books of the Bible, the New Testament and the Quran reflect that world view of Bronze age 1500BC. Well it served its purpose , although Greek thinkers circa 400 BC, Islamic scholars circa 1000AD and the European renaissance began to point out its flaws. Darwin created panic in 1860 that's still being debated. The fact of the matter our view, our mythology doesn't work anymore. Its 4500 years behind the times. And as fundamentalists Christian, Muslim and Jewish are faced with this, they panic. They panic into fear. The very life of their God is at stake, their souls at risk. Hence all the hullabaloo about literal interpretation of the holy books. The holy books are not wrong, they are outdated. Religion creates dogma and dogma can't change.
Our understanding of the cosmos grows daily, it always will. It will always approach God, but never get to him, because God as i understand him is not understandable. We will never understand the whole of god, because the whole of god is always in motion. It brings to mind a Lakota(Sioux) phrase for god, Skan Taku Skan Skan. Something in motion always in motion. Sceince does not not shatter my faith in god, it only increases the awe I have for this ever expanding, ever changing cosmos we call God. Holy men come and go, religions change, but they never "get it' and probably never will. Even if we invent anew religion, write a new holy book, it will be obsolete before its printed.
I have always been interested in man's evolution. The concept given to me in the 50's is no longer a working model. Discoveries like Lucy(australopithecus afarensis) and Ardi(ardipithecus ramidus) have given new direction to our past. As a child I corresponded with Louis Leakey( the premier paleontologist of the 50's) He was right about a few things and wrong about somethings. I still admire him. He was a seeker.His explanation of human evolution fit the 1950's, based on the knowledge we had. Leakey accepted new discoveries and was comfortable with the progress, even though some of his calls were off. Religion must take the stand of Louis Leakey and be thankful when discoveries are made to increase our knowledge and closeness to god.
Grace Slick said in Go Ask Alice, "Feed your head"
Have a great Thanksgiving with your family and friends, but remember Thanksgiving day should be every day.