There is no place like intentBlog, and no better time than now to be here.

"Attention! Attention!"

Everything is going to be alright. It's not your fault. Breathe!

Decisions are easy when you have no choice in the matter.

The freedom to sacrifice one's very own will is a sacred thought.

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Dependable & Trustworthy

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Hoping for the best, UT

Hi Keith,

"The freedom to sacrifice one's very own will is a sacred thought"

Wow, beautiful!

Am going to make that my thought of NOW :)

I has just written a question on paper for myself a moment ago:

" What could become possible if we would adopt a saying like: "Unite and Conquer"

You have given me the answer straight away.

Thanks!

Mieke

Four-poster, Keith? Putting the old OT to rest?
Some of my finest work, you terrorist!

That's fine ;)

Diablo,
You are a creative writer, eloquent and very astute.
Thanks again.
Love,
Sharon

for knocking me down a notch
not many people can do that
I'm too clever
usually takes a meteor's punch
or a jolt from one of my sons

Rode my mountain bike up in the mountains this morning.
I ate wild raspberries so sweet like candy not a tart one in the bunch. I can see why the bears like em so much. The forest around 8500 feet is amazing. Ferns, broad leaf plants spongy ground a place where fairies hide from non-believers and pose for those who do.
Best part.........only 15 minutes from my house. Yo and YO!

Shar
Diablo helped me more to get over my fears of this place than anyone. It is also because of him that I started letting myself write more freely as myself. He use to real work me over.

Thanks Diablo. I hope the ladies at the Love Ranch are treating you right bro.

Keith
yo

You know I've been looking for a poem you wrote about compassion and a ladder. One of my favorite of yours. Still haven't found it but still lookin'.

The mountains here vibrate with energy
They are granite but they are temporary
They are solid and soft in places
Blazing hot in the sun and cool in the shade of a mighty TREE

and now I get to create art

derek

Yo I posted a few more pix of some of my glass work and some of our kids a couple abstracts and the legendary Bill Hastings teaching at our studio. What fun

http://www.myspace.com/thepuzzlemaker

Thanks derek.
I think I'll just listen for awhile.
Much love,
shar

Rolling out the heavy artillery.

Awareness & Awe Campaign

A web no mind can escape

A framework that reaches everywhere

A glimpse of a tiny fraction of the framework, a work in progress, type Buddha.me in your browser address window or click my name.

Buddha.me it is all about YOU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJllvnlHV0

#10, #13
:)

"I" am going to tell you something that was conveyed to me by someone so enlightened that they would make Deepak Chopra look like a Pick Pocket and Osho look like a credit card fraudster.... LOL

He said to me "Philosophy is completely worthless to you - Unless you are ready to use it and become it"

None of you here except maybe Harb and one or two others who rarely post here are Using or have used the Philosophy and have become it.

All of the steps Deepak has provided and all of the insight to what this site is about have been as wasted as your own very lives have been....

Wasted not merely in the conventional sense but in the spiritual evolutional sense..

You Dont take any fu#@ing notice of anything other than the crap you came here believing in....

What you doing?

Wake up!

You haven't understood a morcel...

Love

Simon xx

Perfection belongs somewhere
Life is a movement towards that

You already know exactly what
What means the world to you

Stray not from that goal
Willingly...let go the judgment

Simon,

I don't understand why you write a message which seems, perhaps a little hateful, yet write Love at the end of it? The only way that this makes sense to me is if I view it as a swift kick in the ass; a message that is purposefully profane in order to convey its intent. What is the message that you are trying to convey? Or, what is the emotion? Is it love?

Marc

You see....

Look at at it like this and this is written from a hand of absoloute or nearly absoloute Zero Egotistical views.

I am not waiting for the bus anymore - I am on the train.

Imagine you are someone standing next to a huge pile of Crap... Ok

And the You that is standing there represents where I am at looking at all of the beliefs and so forth that all you guys have.... And swarming around the dung pile are all these flies with all there own direction and buzzing sound landing on the pile.

You see thats what most of you are - flies around a huge pile of shit... Its quite funny really.

Then you have people on here like Irvine Welsh who is a Wasp as he is a bit more swelled with Information and stripey but still all he is interested in is the shit.

Untill you turn your attention away from the huge pile of shit and become the observer of this... then you are attracted to a huge pile of crap.

Its all here... yet you are still attracted to crap..

I am not joking by the way..

This is an absoloute fact..

This is probably one of the truest and most honst thing ever spoken on Intentblog since it began...

Diablo... You aint even got wings Bud!

LOL

Love

Simon xx

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It's kind of early for this, eh?

My Dear Simon

I have found that when I surrender my impressions of events in the world to God, many alternate impressions and other options pop up. More often than not, it is a much more charitable view than first thought.

Pleasant dreams and peaceful sleep to you Geordie boy.

B

Salaam & Namaste From Manchester, England!

Just watched / drank and became inebriated with the 'The Way of the Wizard'...Just what the Doctor orderd! Al-hum-du-lillah / All Praise is to Allah...

Rishi Deepak is correct:

''The self to the self as it discovers itself...''

As they say the road to success is always under construction...

Yaa Haq / Truth...

Faisal

There is an excellent new way to make money for nothing.

Charter publishes its customers' outstanding balance if you know their phone number. So ared with an address and phone number, you can call Charter, get the exact outstanding balance, put a door tag on the persons house urging them to pay the exact outstanding balance otherwise arrange a disconnect.

The customer will call you and offer to pay via their credit card number.

I know because that's what "Victor" tried to do to me!

Detachment Leads to Eternity

If you are attached to appearances.
How will you see that, which is beyond them.
If you are still pursuing external fulfillment.
How will you be able to find internal fulfillment.
If your attached to your personal ideals.
How will you see that, which is impersonal and whole.
If you are afraid to except decay and death.
How will you be able to except eternity as your destiny.
If your attached to the good or the bad.
How can you see that, which is beyond duality.
If you are in love with the changing now.
How are you going to know that, which created it.
If you are attached to anything that doesn’t last.
How will you be able to see that which lasts.

Lily S.,

Nice to see you back.

#17 LOL Simon, I've just stumbled on one!

Gets bucket and carefully gathers every morsell and away to grand recycling heap. Next years flowers will be as the rainbow.

Yo Bonnie!

#21 'except'? was that intended?

If we accept eternity as our destiny
WTF are we hanging around here for?

Yo Simon

For whatever reasons it came to mind, and even though it is fitting--

Be careful, or this tune will get stuck in your head all day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8XVJx5bjrI

Deodoriser, Keith?

Damn, Keith....not available in UK, muwhaaa or whatever, now I smell in the dark!

Hey Old Spice!

Get a whiff of the truth,

without the bland "white rice"

after effects! Courtesy of Island TREE

Wha?

"Look at at it like this and this is written from a hand of absoloute or nearly absoloute Zero Egotistical views."

but...

"This is probably one of the truest and most honst thing ever spoken on Intentblog since it began..."

Very Not Egotistical.

Rather Egoistic and Egoic as well.

No matter how much YOU might believe that your shit doesn't stink, that won't eliminate the smell.

"You Dont take any fu#@ing notice of anything other than the crap you came here believing in...."

yeah, right Simon "I notice everything" John

BBWWWAAHHHHAAAAA!!!!

You are so full of yourself.

Practice is to get rid of willful behavior and opinions that encumber perception.

Yes,
so long as we don't imagine, like Simon Freejohn that the way to get rid of our opinions is to hurl them at the other monkeys.

Opinions are shackles to the person who conceive his life as a restricted occurrence and they are just opinions to the other person.

Especially as it relates to the one who thinks:

'my shit doesn't stink'

"No matter how much YOU [Simon FreeJohn] might believe that your shit doesn't stink, that won't eliminate the smell." ~John

...implying a difference, as it does, between
the 'opinions' of others and of one's own opinions. The above "opinions are shackles..." does not make a difference between an opinion that is mine or his, it explains how opinions are the obstacle, for example a clear application is that:

- It is absurd to hold any opinion longer than needed if it has not operated a releasing of some burden or brought a closure (otherwise it becomes Gandhi's crusades); an example, a father decides that by disciplining his son he will calm down and be obedient and six months later the son is still in the same pattern and behavior, obviously the father lost track of his aim and got "trapped in the doing" (disciplining).

- If one's life is still a chronic source of suffering, it is the choice situation to forget all opinions and preconceived ideas, obviously none works, but instead you see that the more one suffers the more they cling to an opinion about the other guy or what is wrong with Intentblog, people or the world; there is a direct link between holding an opinion and suffering; that is, one suffers for the obvious reason of being oneself, a specifically self-defined entity ...

Forgetting all my definitions of the world and about who i should be or look to others i dropped all sufferings. From there, opinions are just opinions.

"None of you here except maybe Harb and one or two others who rarely post here are Using or have used the Philosophy and have become it."

Nay.

Simon Freejohn misinterpreted the 'enlightened man's words.'

We are in a peculiar domain. Wherein there are no goals no benchmarks which to gauge anything yet here we are talkin.

I bet you some wisefart will now reckon that this here is a bench mark.

Well I don't care at all.

So there's nothing we can say (oops!) and here we are talkin'.

Into silence
and
into nonsense,

Playfully,
Preity

we find what we look for.
what do you look to find, simon?

what you don't know ...
[there is a vast amount]
did not notice ...
[there is a vast amount]
are unaware of ...
[there is a vast amount]
playful nudges we have here
traded over the years ...
at intentblog
endearments ...
from one ole hermit to another...
Ed gets where Keith comes from ...
Keith gets where Ed come from ...
many many more...
while you ...
o vast one ...
haven't a clue.

wake up simon.
open those myopic eyes ...
and that oh so narrow mind.
there's a whole world out here
that you are not aware of.

Hi Irv.. I thought you'd given up on Simon.. Did he mention your name or sumthin?

There's certainly a vast amount unsaid. That's the stuff I like reading, you?

*** Right and wrong is in the eyes of the
one who perceives. ***

Long time back, it was an expression that a master used to prompt the disciple to TURN the Attention Within.

To SEEK Within...

To turn INWARDS...

...

Now, this is the line that some IDIOTS [as well as some CROOKS] utter Again and Again!

They UTTER it to take the 'prying' Attention AWAY from Themselves!

...

They use it to TURN those who question their STINKING Reality... AWAY from examination!

They use it to 'escape' from being 'examined'...

To escape from their 'stinking reality' being 'revealed' in the PUBLIC!

To escape from their DARK Secret being made an... OPEN Knowledge!

...

Because, once it is made 'open'... it can then be quickly 'discarded' and thus the STINK will 'lose' its power to... "pollute"!

Beauty is in the eyes of Beholders...

Right and wrong is perceived "so" because of THAT who perceives. Because of his 'in place' discriminating facilities of ...the 'perceiver'.

What one senses and "how" one senses it, is because of the one who... senses!

Yes, it is True...

...

But, it is ONLY Half the ...truth!

The Other half is that to 'humans':

the SHIT really... does STINK!

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...while many PIGS [animals with different nose... with different 'discriminating' facility] GLADLY 'rejoice' in the Very Same... SHIT!

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and being ABLE to 'sense' and discriminate is NOT something to 'do away' with. It is NOT some dangerous or 'harmful' facility.

Being able to smell the SHIT as ... BAD Stink, does NOT mean that the one that 'can smell' needs to change and... become like a PIG!

It doesn't mean that one that can smell needs to get his nose examined, operated or... changed!

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It simply means that to 'humans' the SHIT does STINK Bad... ...and, that is a Valuable SIGNAL! A
Valuable Knowledge that can be used[and does get used] in many very effective ways.

--- THROW the 'shit' OUT.

--- If that is NOT possible, move AWAY from the SHIT and let the SHIT stink alone. Warn your children and 'friends' against visiting the 'area' with that 'shit'!

--- if none of the above is possible... KNOW that 'you are DEALING with Shit'! Know that it Will CONTINUE to Stink... [To be 'shit' is ...to Stink.]

Cover and PROTECT your mouth and nose and any other part that you use to touch the shit Very Well.

Keep your 'exposure' to SHIT as little as possible and then once you are DONE 'dealing with the Shit'... clean and 'disinfect' yourself thoroughly!

...

Then, take nice bubble bath with jasmine scented bath oils, put some Rose Petals, burn some Lavender Candles!

Feel the Difference!

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There is a REASON, you are 'given' the Ability to 'discriminate'!

There is a Reason, you are a HUMAN and ...NOT a Pig!

Enjoy your ability to ...SMELL!

Smell Rose Flowers...
Sandal...
Jasmine...
Sea Breeze...

and, cherish being Human and the 'Ability' to... SMELL!

#28 Yo Tree, so God really does hold you in the palm of his hand. Simon won't grasp that, will he?

"It simply means that to 'humans' the SHIT does STINK Bad...and, that is a Valuable SIGNAL! A Valuable Knowledge that can be used [and does get used] in many very effective ways.]" #34

...

Other...

even SMARTER 'alternative' is to 'use' the 'shit' to grow nice smelling flowers in your garden!

But, for that... like Ed, you will need to become a Master... and Expert!

You need to be able to effectively 'transform' the Shit and you need to be able to put in RIGHT Place at Right Time in ...Right Amount!

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But, at NO Point, should you 'feel Responsible' for ...the SHIT! or, feel sorry for the Shit!

or, expect the shit to smell "good"! or curse your 'ability' to... smell!

Shit will continue to smell like...
Shit!
Know it...
Be Aware of it...

and, USE this Knowledge!
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Throw it out...
Move Away...

or if you CAN then transform it into 'nice smelling' flowers in your garden!
But, even when you 'learn' to DO that... be Very Careful!

---Don't bring "too much" Shit in... "your garden"!

--- Don't bring any 'raw' shit in "your" 'garden'!

Bring it only after it is fully transformed into 'flower growing'... Fertilizer!

Our little forbears or forpigs or was it one, bacteria will soon render it aromaless, dis sheet, even as we speak!

Gotta go now!

Someone on this blog says that someone else doesn't have wings.

Humans are born with wings in the same way they are born in Light.

Whether one finds and expresses their wings and their Light depends on....what?

Trish~~

Irvine
This has been a lesson for me here.

"Forgetting all my definitions of the world and about who i should be or look to others i dropped all sufferings. From there, opinions are just opinions."

I have watched those who get emotionally attached to comments and opinions and those who don't. Those who leave in a huff, yo like me several times, and those who don't.

I have visited blogs where everyone believes the same way, no one challenges the status quo, now there's some shit.

I have come to understand how vital it is to the health of a good blog to have people challenge our long held beliefs. Ed calls them taskmasters. I call them teachers as well.

shit-fertilizer-plant-food-fuel-brain-thought-opinion-the ability to set aside that opinion and hear someone else's-productive communication-growth

derek

"Someone on this blog says that someone else doesn't have wings."

What I talk about is not some meaningless persona called "Simon xx" but rather the complete waste of an opportunity to get real and offer something of value, instead of totally useless, and completely phony two-dimensional (if that!), strutting and striving to impress himself, if not anybody else.

What a waste! Totally useless.

I guess I better shove my disdain up my soul, and solve my own shit.

Simon doesn't strike me as offering anything more real and of value than Diablo does. His humor and wit also appear to be "strutting and striving"
to impress himself if no one else. It does not appear to me that he listens to others
anymore than Diablo does. Plenty of people have been in his face so many times to utterly no avail. His thought loops are... so kind of like that as for cleaning up shit.

Speaking of not being able to smell our own shit.....that's just something that comes with the package....at least most of the time, that is...

I mean in #41 is "What I talk about is not some meaningless persona called ...

"Diablo"[not Simon xx]

...but rather the complete waste of an opportunity to get real and offer something of value, instead of totally useless, and completely phony two-dimensional (if that!), strutting and striving to impress himself, if not anybody else."

“(Tat Tvam Asi)...means “I am that.”...I am that involves looking at everything in the world, everyone else in the world, and realizing that you are looking at another version of yourself. You and I are the same. Everything is the same. I am that, you are that, all this is that. We are all mirrors for others, and we need to learn to see ourselves in the reflection of other people. This is called the mirror of relationship. Through the mirror of relationship I discover my nonlocal self. For this reason, nurturing relationships is the most important activity in my life. When I look around me, everything I see is an expression of myself.

Relationship, then, is a tool for spiritual evolution, with the ultimate goal of reaching unity consciousness. We are all inevitably part of the same universal consciousness, but the real breakthroughs happen when we start to recognize that connection in our daily lives.

Relationship is one of the most effective ways to access unity consciousness because we’re always in relationships. Think of the web of relationships you have at any time–parents, children, friends, co-workers, romantic relationships. All are, at their heart, spiritual experiences. When you’re in love, for example, romantically and deeply in love, you have a sense of timelessness. You are, at that moment, at peace with uncertainty. You feel wonderful but vulnerable, you feel intimate but exposed. You’re transforming, changing, but without trepidation, you feel a sense of wonder. This is a spiritual experience.

Through the mirror of relationship--all relationships--we discover extended states of awareness. Those whom we love and those whom we are repelled by are both mirrors of ourselves. Whom are we attracted to? People who have the same traits as we have, but more so. We want to be in their company because subconsciously we feel that by doing so we, too, might manifest more of those traits as well. By the same token we are repelled by people who reflect back to us traits that we deny in our own selves. So if you are having a strong negative reaction to someone, you can be sure that they possess some traits in common with you, traits that you are not willing to embrace. If you were willing to accept those qualities, then they wouldn't upset you.

By recognizing that we can see ourselves in others, every relationship becomes a tool for the evolution of our consciousness. And as consciousness evolves, we experience expanded states of awareness. It is in those expanded states of awareness, when we get to the nonlocal domain, that we can experience synchrodestiny.

The next time you’re attracted to someone, ask yourself what attracted you. Is it beauty, or grace, or elegance, or influence, or power, or intelligence? Whatever it is, know that that quality is also blossoming in you. Pay attention to these feelings, and you can begin the process of becoming more fully yourself.

Of course, the same is true of people who repel you. In becoming more fully your true self, you have to understand and embrace the less attractive qualities in yourself. The essential nature of the universe is the coexistence of opposite values. You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you. You cannot be generous if you do not have a tight-fisted person inside you. You cannot be virtuous unless you also contain the capacity for evil.

We spend much of our lives denying that we have this dark side to ourselves, and then end up projecting those dark qualities onto other people in our lives. Have you ever known people who naturally attract the “wrong” people into their lives? Usually they don’t understand why this happens time after time, year after year. The truth is not that they attract that darkness, but that they are not willing to acknowledge it in their own lives. Finding a person you dislike is an opportunity to embrace the paradox of the coexistence of opposites, and to discover a new facet of yourself. It is another step toward developing your spiritual self. The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you’re with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It’s only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.”

When we are willing to embrace both the light and dark sides of ourselves, we can begin to heal both our selves and our relationships. Start very simply, with the most distasteful person you can think of. For example, think of Adolf Hitler and say, How could I possibly be like Hitler? Most people refuse to accept that they contain even the smallest shred of an Adolf Hitler. But think more deeply. Have you ever expressed prejudice toward any group of people just because they had a certain name, or a certain skin color, or a certain accent, or a certain disability? If you can think of any example of that in your life, then you must embrace the similarity between yourself and Adolf Hitler. We are all mutidimensional, omnidimensional. Everything that exists somewhere in the world also exists in us. When we embrace these different aspects of ourselves, we acknowledge our connection to the universal consciousness and expand our personal awareness.

There’s a wonderful Sufi story that illustrates how this mirror affects our lives. A man entered a village and went to see the Sufi master, the wise old man of the village. The visitor said, “I’m deciding whether I should move here or not. I’m wondering what kind of a neighborhood this is. Can you tell me about the people here?” The Sufi master said, “Tell me what kind of people lived where you came from.” The visitor said, “Oh, they were highway robbers, cheats, and liars.” The old Sufi master said, “You know, those are exactly the same kinds of people who live here.” The visitor left the village and never came back. Half an hour later, another man entered the village. He sought out the Sufi master and said, “I’m thinking of moving here. Can you tell me what kind of people live here?” Again the Sufi master said, “Tell me what kind of people lived where you came from.” The visitor said, “Oh, they were the kindest, gentlest, most compassionate, loving people. I shall miss them terribly.” The Sufi master said, “Those are exactly the kinds of people who live here, too.”

This story reminds us that the traits we see most clearly in others exist most strongly in our selves. When we can see in to the mirror of relationship, then we can begin to see all our selves. To do this, we need to be comfortable with our ambiguity, to embrace all aspects of our selves. At a deep level we need to recognize that we are not flawed simply because we have negative traits. No one has only positive traits. Recognizing that we have negative traits simply means that we are complete. And in that completeness we gain greater access to our universal, nonlocal selves.”

Deepak Chopra, “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”, from Ch. 9 The Second Principle: Through the Mirror of Relationships I Discover My Nonlocal Self

(I've been listening to everyone, and I just really like the way Deepak says it. When Simon said, "All of the steps Deepak has provided and all of the insight to what this site is about have been as wasted as your own very lives have been....", I felt inspired to remember what Deepak has said. Thank you all for showing me me. Love, Sharon)

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Yo Ed

Yo Doodle

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The Way is not difficult,
only there must be no wanting
or not wanting.
- chao-chou

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To set up what you like
against what you dislike -
this is the disease of the mind.

- Seng T'san

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WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get

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where do you expect to find truth
(or joy, or whatever you seek)
if you cannot find it right where you are?

- some old guy

Best wishes to those who wish to make departure(s)

Extra points to those who don't chastise the whole group while they depart.

Erasing Self-Importance

"While observing the quirks of self-importance, and the homogeneous way it contaminates absolutely everybody, the seers have divided human beings into three categories which Don Juan gave the most ridiculous names he could think of; the urines, the farts, and the vomits. We all fit into one of them."

"The urines are characterized by their servility; they are toady, sticky, and cloying. They are the people who always want to do you a favour; they take care of you, they hold you back, they pamper you; they have so much compassion ! In that way they hide the underlying reality: They are incapable of taking an initiative, and can never do anything by themselves. They need another person's command to feel that they are doing something. And, unfortunately for them, they assume that others are as kind as they are; and because of that they are always hurt, disappointed, and tearful.

The farts, on the other hand, are the opposite. Irritating, mean and self-sufficient, they constantly impose themselves and interfere. Once they get hold of you, they won't leave you alone. They are the most unpleasant people you'll ever meet. If you are calm, the fart will arrive and wind you up and pull you in, and use you as much as possible. They have a natural gift as teachers and humanity's leaders. They are the kind who kill to stay in power.

The vomits are in-between these two categories. As neutrals, they are neither imposing nor will they be led. They are show-offs, ostentatious, and exhibitionistic. They give you the impression that they are something great, but in actual fact they are nothing. It's all boast. They are caricatures of people who believe too much in themselves, but, if you don't pay any attention to them, they are undone by their insignificance.

From

Encounters with the Nagual, Armando Torres

(PART 1 A ROMANCE WITH KNOWLEDGE 2 Self Importance)

...commentary and a poem by Anna:

In the process of elimination,(amongst other things) there is urine, there is farting and there is vomiting. Not pretty by most standards unless one likes taking golden showers. Most folks would rather inhale the fragrance of a rose than the egregious olfactory offenses of clogged toilets and soiled diapers (on either young or old). (Try getting Montezuma's revenge;-)

The problem occurs when one doesn't admit that their own 'shit' does indeed, stink. However vegetarian or fruitarian their diet is. Malodorous is malodorous in anyone's good book.

So somewhere along the way, a revisionary tactic was employed or deployed and all part or parts of a 12 step process similar to AA was imparted on the Way Of Being Human. Remember no-one came with an instruction manual. And what was a fairly decent set of laws has been subject to revision by playing the card game: get out of hell or jail. (Hey, anything is allowed and generally does occur but no-one wants to take the responsibility.

And now for the follow-up (what else?) poem:

The Enlightenment Of Cats And Dogs or What I Learned In Kindergarten
Part Deux

Some folks like cats
Some folks like dogs
It is sometimes a process of elimination
How cats hide their s***
And dogs like to p*** over anything
Do you remember what your s*** looked
Like as a young child, how you groaned
And moaned and how it came out one loooooong
Turd,
Now I may be absurd
To talk about these words
Just remember how busy you always were as a
Little One,
How you barely made it to the bathroom,
And now if your body is going downhill
And you are losing your mind,
Are alone in your Soul,
Remember this wonderful process of elimination
Enjoy both your 15 minute-recess and success
And failure to process
Be nice to cats and dogs,
Before the final elimination...
No-one wins this one.

~Anna

# 47 Yes, good stuff, Irvine.

Re. don Juan, some good stuff on the whole Carlos Castaneda phenom, published last year in Salon:

"The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives."

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/12/castaneda/index.html

"If this name draws a blank for readers under 30, all they have to do is ask their parents. Deemed by Time magazine the "Godfather of the New Age," Castaneda was the literary embodiment of the Woodstock era. His 12 books, supposedly based on meetings with a mysterious Indian shaman, don Juan, made the author, a graduate student in anthropology, a worldwide celebrity. Admirers included John Lennon, William Burroughs, Federico Fellini and Jim Morrison."

The Salon artcile seems like an authoritative gathering of info on Carlos Castaneda, from a lot of insider sources. A must-read for all interested in this guy and his contribution to spearchill lore. Four longish pages of dynamite and/or deep background.

yup
shit happens.
i guess some of us have shit that stinks ...
and others don't. ;)

SHIT HAPPENS

http://www.thejaywalker.com/pages/shit_happens.html

One can always take the smell of one's own shit. However, there is a built-in aversion to the *others'* shit.

no, no, Irv. Your shit or for that matter Simon's shit is pure Paris by Yves Saint Laurent. One sniff, and I know you've come into the room.

"Your shit or for that matter Simon's shit is pure Paris by Yves Saint Laurent. One sniff, and I know you've come into the room."

Which calls the oxymoron, "his shit smells to High Heaven", which means, Heaven is made of all sorts of textures, no selectivity.

You are all absoloutly right... of course

When confronted with the flies around shit analogy (Or Wasps in some cases)

What do you do?

You continue with the same swarming pattern, you spew out the same shit as you did when you came here on the very first time.

You are not evolving at all, you are not buzzing off to find a nice flower to land on.

I realise that this line of talk is quite hostile and I am probably offended certain people and for that I appoligie.

Reality is a lot less curtious how ever.

Love

Simon xx

"Which calls the oxymoron, "his shit smells to High Heaven", which means, Heaven is made of all sorts of textures, no selectivity." John

Or, it might also mean that I am basking in samadhi in a place of heavenly bliss, hands and eyes to the sky, doing a little slow motion happy
dance in my own little spotlight given to me by God almighty, ten thousand dakinis dancing with me at my horizon never breaking the rhythm..

then

suddenly from the deep bowels of the dark

somebody emits some noxious gas...

and, as my dakinis all scatter in a chaotic frenzy, my eyes lower, narrow, glaring at this offender who somehow made it all the way into my personal heaven.

Wha?

"When confronted with the flies around shit analogy (Or Wasps in some cases)

What do you do?

You continue with the same swarming pattern, you spew out the same shit as you did when you came here on the very first time."

but...

"Reality is a lot less curtious how ever."

Indeed, Reality is a lot more complex than your silly little flawed analogies.

#56

...ahh but I thought, that you adore those creatures flying over your personal garden leaving their droppings.

"Reality [or even intentBlog] is a lot more complex [or for that matter, far more simpler] than your silly little flawed analogies." John 57

I might add.

"...ahh but I thought, that you adore those creatures flying over your personal garden leaving their droppings." John

You're weird.

"You're weird."

this is a great compliment, since I dislike ABC resiting average Q

Freyja,

Buzzz Buzzz Buzzz....

Mmmmmm

Tut Tut Tut.

xx

No attraction, no aversion...

No complements, no insults...

Bless'd are those
who can be
complete without a complement
comply without compliments

Here is another one for you to add to your Buzzing...

In British Columbia Canada there lives there an Enlightened master. He currently lives on Gabriola although he moves around the world a lot.

When I first met him I began to tell him my views and beliefs were on spirituality... this was back in 2001.

You know what he said to me? LOL

he said

"Listen, You don't know shit from toothpaste"

He was right I didn't and he taught me a great deal and still is.

Most of you here don't know shit from toothpast either, and untill you get out of this crystalised state of beliefs you will continue not knowing shit from toothpaste!

Love

Simon xx

and blessed those without the need of labeling

hey there Simon,
if you can get out of thoughts altogether,
it won't matter what smells -
you will be
free.

(with death of the physical body - makes no difference what smells like what,
or when you are dreaming.
I do like the dream state :)

love,
~ Kate

and blessed those without the need of labeling
because they won't give a shit.

Guru said: "Listen, You don't know shit from toothpaste"

Student tells: "Most of you here don't know shit from toothpast either, and untill you get out of this crystalised state of beliefs you will continue not knowing shit from toothpaste!"

The guru is great but the student is still full of shit.

The student with his intimate studies of the geography of his guru's ass cheeks, finally came to understand the importance of a tooth paste. The lesson was complete.

Hi Simon, I am going to BC, Canada in September for two weeks. Can you tell more about the Enlightened master. Does he receive visitors? Is there a way to contact him? Does he have a website, or written any books? What name does he go by? I might visit Gabriola Island during my vacation there! Any idea of his travel schedule?

Thanks!

I liked IB so much more when Simon wasn't regurgitating his same ole bullshit ...

shit happens
that's right, it does.

man ...
i've about had it with of all this self-righteousness that passes here as being spiritually correct ... or enlightened/realized.

just more shit on the pile. ;)

"shit at last, shit at last, thank god almighty, shit at last."

a moving speech

"shit at last, shit at last, thank god almighty, shit at last."

damn...

what a great unorthodox view of shitt... may the
shit be free flowing...

you do know that nurses always look at your shit
in the hospital and ask if you had a BM...

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

;-)

reminds me of Garbage And The Goddess by Adi Da,
anyone familiar with that shit? I guess Simon Freejohn is.

Are we lost in an episode of Wayne's World?

Hi Kate

derek

"and blessed those without the need of labeling
because they won't give a shit." #67

ah .... the 'noshitters' ;) simon et al...

reminds me of a story ... about the meanest animal in the world ... the crocagator.

"what's a crocagator?" you inquire.

critter that's got an alligator head one one end ...and a crocodile head on the other end.

"an alligator head on one end and a crocodile head on the other end?" you exclaim ...

"how's it shit?"

don't ...

that's what makes it so damn mean.

here's to regular bowel movements.

'"shit at last, shit at last, thank god almighty, shit at last."

a moving speech.' #70

it's all that fiber ...
and/or prunes ... :-)

# 74

I can attest to that!! Cheers!

I love ya Preity.

~dot

Re. 54

There's just no accounting for someone's taste/take on Shit, unless one is smoking it...:)

Disclaimer following youtubes may be offensive to some folks' shit.

Carlin on Bullshit:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&feature=related

or

Carlin on Cigars:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rrZwAyToxwA

WOW, P.....U

Looks like this OT messed in it's diaper and spread it all over the crib!!!! P....U ...

who is on the clean-up brigade? anyone?

I recently went to a picnic where there where a few 3 to 5 year olds and they were having the same conversation, all about excretment, except they couldn't use the S word it was all poops and giggles...for them..

this open thread needs an open window...ruth

Hi derek,
I have been using my oars today, it's pouring like crazy, and there is no better way to get around,
canoe-style!
love to you,
~ Kate

Hmmm, crocagators....better call in Bomb Disposal.

Ultimately on the 'spiritual quest' or non quest... Shit, Sex, Love, Emotion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Religion etc are just nonsense of the mind and a hindrance..........Indy

Mmmm Mmmmm Yum!

Maybe our next topic of conversation should be Maggots!!

With a little internet surfing, I have discovered that the larvae of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) have amazing environmental usefullness especially if you have lots of feces to dispose of including human, pets, pigs and etc. producing finished compost safe for your garden.

And! Songbirds love them.

Yo!
www.esrint.com [click on food]
www.thebiopod.com

Tears fall from my eyes.... hehehehehe very funny indeed, brilliant infact.

Some of you resent me I know because you think I come accross as being an enlightened teacher of some kind Lol.

I am the kind of teacher that is not worth your trouble following at all - there for I am no teacher.

I am a one night stand - you would fall in love with me but in the morning I would be gone..

I do not ask you to surrender to my philosophy or my teaching for I have none..

I encourage you however to fall in love with surrender to none beliefs, None ideology, None location and eternaly surrender to the now where I have learned to call home.

Love

Simon xx

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Hi Keith!

my fresh-
ness is from
water,
I am sparkling
today, from
so much rain.

I am catching Simon's tears
;)

~~~~~~~ Kate

Aww well OK Keith.

But did you know that BSF are now being used for bioconversion, turning food scraps(and other waste) into renewable fuel. Fits right in with DK's Golden Age of less waste and recycling.

Everything has a purpose.

:)

B

Hi Mini,

He will be back on Gabriola in October 22nd he is in Europe at the moment and then shortly after he comes back to Gabriola he will be going to Australia and New Zealand.

He is way beyond the writing of books even though he was friends to many of the great spiritual Gurus such as Osho and others who did much in the way of book writing. If you were to ask him "Why have you not written a book?2 He would probably reply "I have nothing to tell" When I first encountered him it was incredibly painful because I could not hide or use any pretense with him that he could not see through. His understanding is mind blowing and the closest you can come to his level is Nisargaatta Maharaj. Like Nisargadatta Maharaj said... My words will destroy the mind that is not ready for them. You go to this man and you had better be ready to forget everything.

Many spiritul teachers ar static and have the flock come toward them in their place... this one is the complete opposite. God knows how many people have known him and how many souls he has touched. He moves accross the globe like the wind. Mexico, Australia, India, Europe and America. He might be the next begger you meet in a doorway he is so unpredictable.

If you want to get in touch with him... When you go to Victoria you need to get the bus to Nanaimo; from the bus station there on Douglas. You get off the bus at Harbour Mall and catch the Ferry onto Gabriola. He lives with an old Scottish woman who is about 95 years old; I can not remeber her name now. The locals call him Ron or sometimes "Ron the flower man" as he used to sell the most beautiful flowers that he grew from seed. There is a retreat on the Island that he is sometimes found wandering about it.. Ironicaly he does not teach there - yet spiritually he is a billion light years ahead of anyone who preaches there. He goes there to listen though sometimes and many have left there knowing him.

He has no computer nor any inclination of a website...

e-mail me from my profile and when I hear he has returned to Gabriola I will tell you how to contact him...

The only way I can contact him is through phone but I cant give that out on here... not with people Like Diablo about LOL.

Love

Simon xx

go see him... he will be there when he returns

#87
"He might be the next begger you meet in a doorway he is so unpredictable"

Affectionately known as Irv, one might correlate.

Ed...
come out from behind
that doorway,
I see you!
;)
~ Kate

#89 Ha Kate, sweetie, the thought did cross my mind, but far be it from me..........

Beggers can't be choosers, so they say.

:))

Yo Ed...No, lest he kiss my ass - literally and very predictably.

Is it wise to doubt?
Aragon is arrogant--
Yo! "Gotta have faith!"

But not too much faith?
Dare you doubt your lovers love?
Face to face? Doubt it.

To trust and depend
Requires "questions only"
Believe me--let go

Thanks for the info and help, Simon.

Looks like I won't be able to see him in BC this September.

Very interesting personality. It could be possible that his visitors or students have recorded audios/videos or written about their experiences with him over the internet. Like you just did in a less formative way.

Some of your descriptions of him and his views reminds me of U.G. Krishnamurti.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppaluri_Gopala_Krishnamurti

"Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (July 9, 1918 – March 22, 2007), better known as U.G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G., was a speaker and philosopher, often known as an "anti-guru" or as "the man who refused to be a guru"."

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"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody."
--UG

Enjoy the quotes:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/U._G._Krishnamurti

His less radical quotes:

"If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place."

"Whether you are interested in Moksha, Liberation, Freedom, Transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing."

"We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear."

"Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is 'you'. There is nothing there inside you other than that."

"When the movement in the direction of becoming something other than what you are isn't there any more, you are not in conflict with yourself."

--U.G.

More about him from those who interacted with him:

www.well.com/user/jct

Hi Mini,

I am not sure how many other people have gone and seen him on the Island but I am sure many people around the world hav spoken to him and if he chooses to talk to you about spirituality and educate you on the subject it is Incredible. He has an Incredible presence; when you leave him you feel like you are walking three feet off the ground.

There is another guy on Vancouver Island that I had heard about when I was there. I never got to see him but quite a lot of people used to visit him I was told. His first name was Wim or Wym I did have his surname but can't remember it. He lives around the Victoria area.

I will find out his name and you could maybe look him up when you are there. I heard some great stuff about him and I have always fancied meeting him. When I lived there I was a member of a Meditation group and one of my buddies and I had heard from other people about Wym and we decided that we would try and get to meet him and listen to what he had to say. I had to go back to the UK and never made it to see him. My friend Clay completely forgot about meeting Wym as I had gone and one day he was in a place called Market Square downtown Victoria and there is a Vegaterian Cafe called the Lotus Pond or something like that and he accidently met Wym and his wife in there. They invited my friend to their house the next day and they meditated together with some other people in his garden. My friend Clay said it was a life changing experience for him. The Garden vibrated with this love energy that radiated from Wym and you could feel the plants and flowers absorbing this love and it made them grow faster and healthier than anything he has ever seen. everything around him was so alive it was amazing.

I will find out how you can contact him and that might be a good thing for you to do when you are there.

Love

Simon xx

The Trolls Among Us

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

Malwebolence
By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ
Published: August 3, 2008
This article will appear in this Sunday's Times Magazine.

Enjoy.

Hardly enjoyable, Irv, but very interesting. Trolls and Spiritual gurus, now there's a convergence to conjure with.
Bit too way out for a Virgo, perhaps?

Why congest your mind with such pointless nonsense dreamed up by some arsehole with a degree and nothing better to do than waste our money?

The press is always full of great explenations of how they have uncovered a break through in human behaviour, such as eating salad cream can cause breast cancer and other bollox like there are trolls on the Internet. Next week they will spend millions of dollars more from Government grants to come up with some more useless crap that contradicts the first load of shite they come up with this week.

What a complete load of bollox!

You would be better off watching a tin of paint dry, or write another book that glamourizes the drug culture in Scotland why don't you?

What people don't realise and Deepak Chopra has been telling us this for years is that being Ill is not defined to any one thing. In fact it is possible that you constantly thought that you would get breast cancer from eating salad cream then you would get breast cancer... Not because of the salad cream at all but because you created your illness through thinking you were going to get a particular illness. You have heard of the Pseudo Effect right?.... its the same with Illness; people who initially tell themself they are feeling ill - become ill and sometimes very seriously ill.

People who project a healthy self awareness are normally quite healthy. Thos who are always run down and stressed are not so healthy.

You dont need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for some scientist to tell you this... the facts are completely evident all around you. The world, nature, the human body and the spirit can tell you all that there is to know about this model without having to listen to some dreamed up misguided information.

Love

Simon xx

What is worse is that when people are trying to shove these concepts down our throats they always package it around a very sad or fatal event... In this case a mixed up young man who shot himself in the head.

They are holding the reader to ransom with anothers misfortune you see..

If you break this article down the issue the guy is trying to emphasise is seperate from the event of the young man shooting himself, but the story of the guy killing himself carries so much weight that it is in there to get the reader sucked in so that is idea about Trollism on the Internet to be taken seriously and credibly.

Its like me selling tires and teling you a storey about a young girl walking home from school with her entire life ahead of her and suddenly she was run over by a car not using my brand of tires and she was killed...

You see someone being knocked down and killed is not related to selling tires, but immeadiatly the reader has been shocked into the idea through a story of tradgedy and now you bought the whole deal.

read that story again except the part where the young lad shoots himself and you will see that is utter nonsense.

Love

Simon xx

Are you ready for "The One"?

http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnMcCaindotcom

-Steve

If I am ready, "The One" will reveal itself naturally :)

In my world this is Barack Obama. I may not be able to vote, but for me there is no single doubt.

Suit yourself, Simon, I read it again and wouldn't dismiss it that easily. I think it makes a reasonable toothpaste but, joking aside we don't live that far apart, do we?

It's a wind-up whichever way you look at it and although, as article notes, we all have degree of 'troll' it's a technique you admit to using yourself and blatantly try to truth-shock with.

So we have troll and teacher tending to be One and with similar justifications. I remain neutral but take great interest in all human expression because that is my clue guru.

evening everyone,

well, I have really been bored the last couple of days so I was watching the political propaganda tv shows to see how the campaign was going and well I must say FOX TV is a kick sass propaganda machine for the far, far, right wackos...god, they even have brought Karl Rove out of the back room and put him front and center so all his fans can get a good look at him while he acts like a disintrested observer instead of being the prime strategist.

This week McCain got ballsy and accused the Barak Obama campaign of using the race card. Really, this is Rove strategism at it's best, accuse the other of your crimes of the heart, first, and put them on the defensive. Really, this is a bold tactic on the white sourthern man's part and proves, to me, at least, just how serious you have to take their strategy and their manipulative talents.

I love how the southern white man is crying "race card" about the fact that the black man is pointing out the fact that the southern white man's campaign is trying to scare the voters away from voting for the black man by accusing the black man of "using the race card" when all has really done is brought attention to the fact of the white southern man's racist strategy.

So, this is the reasoning of the white southern man's political strategy... if your tactics are discovered.....disown them...outright.. by saying.....finder's keepers!!!!

Well, come November, we will see, not just, who will be the next President, but, we will see, just how f-ing stupid Americans really are....and, really, love being and acting by who wins this election....if it is John McCain, and his far right wacko fan club..I fear our stupidity is has been cemented and our prognosis is not good, as a Nation...if it is Barak Obama then it means we are fighting to save our lives and our intelligence as a Nation.

Right now, it is hard to tell which way it will go...I haven't been a big fan of Barak but really for the health and well being of this Nation, he is the ONLY choice available.

have a great evening, ruth

gee, I just wrote my first, vote for Barak Obama, piece....who would thought....:)ruth

Gas w/ethanol is back to $3.68 here in Nebraska, Ruth.

My long-time mechanic has always told me to stay away from the tainted fuel.

Regular is hovering around the $3.85 mark. Who will blame Obama for the re-treat?

McLame most Mclikely! What a gas!

Amba: See #3

Understood Edward..

You know something and this is directed toward no person here in particular, But I only ever read about or learned some teaching second hand from an realised teacher who was Gay or clearly homosexual.

Women have pronounced Kundalini energy or to extend that - females have it... Like a female or Hen bird when she builds her nest. The sexual drive to build a nest or the female creative Shakti is awesome.

The female polarity is dipped in Sex... I once watched a woman just sit and hold herself and mother herself and caress every part of her skin and it made me melt in a spiritual sense. The Kundalini Shakti is like a cat licking itself after a kill. it is deep sexual power but is also incredibly beautiful and seductive at the same time. it is a mother, the breast and the erotic nature of the female all at the same time.

I can identify with this energy within myself; It mothered me and it is the sex that I hold in the moonlight. It is hallmarked with femininity..

For some men Thay have become that or gone toward it, maybe even been brn with it.

I will tell you who he is... If you come out of the closet!

Love

Simon xx

Obama camp responds: 'sad...juvenile antics'

Barack Obama's campaign responded sharply to a new McCain webad depicting Obama as a parody of a biblical prophet.

"It’s downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics," said spokesman Hari Sevugan. "Senator McCain can keep telling everyone how ‘proud’ he is of these political stunts which even his Republican friends and advisors have called ‘childish’, but Barack Obama will continue talking about his plan to jumpstart our economy by giving working families $1,000 of immediate relief."

Obama's campaign responded to McCain's webad after sending out a separate statement from Newark Mayor Cory Booker, whom McCain had praised in a speech at the Urban League today:

Booker: "In yet another dishonest attack at the Urban League, Senator McCain misled the American people about Senator Obama's record and his own"

Booker praised Obama's support for charter schools in Illinois, and attacking McCain's opposition to spending on a range of education programs: "With that kind of track record, Senator McCain should be the last person lecturing Senator Obama about a commitment to quality education for our nation's children"

And if you missed it, McCain LIED today, bigtime... I think the sheen has worn off

McCain: "I don’t think the campaign is negative in the slightest."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_our_campaign_isnt_negat.php

Meanwhile, David Plouffe says THANK YOU

"I think John McCain has harmed himself in the last week, really eroding any capital he had built up in terms of what kin of politician he is," Plouffe says. "But he's really helped our campaign, because so many of you have contributed in the last week. Our field offices had people pouring into them yesterday."

and if you haven't seen it, here is McCain's latest ad which is offensive to all Christians and Jews alike... mocking Moses for political gain...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8

Ref. Ruth, Rove McCain tactics.

Rick Davis(McCain's campaign manager) wrote a 2004 op-ed in the Boston Globe about smear campaigns:

They work, even when they're not true.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/

Rick Davis is the guy who is accused Obama of playing the race card. And he claimed that Obama campaign was the one which made the first negative attack on McCain in the race, by citing an Obamma ad which was in fact a 'response' ad to a negative ad by RNC.

Anyway, McCain is turning off several of his friends in the media (McCain calls Media his "base") with his baseless, outright false and lowly attacks over the past two weeks.

We have a long way to go till November and McCain is playing all his cards, trying to get his base excited with very little gains in return in terms of polling and improvenets in electoral prospects.

Pollster.com

Obama 284, McCain 147, Tossup 107.

Obama
Strong 231
Lean 53

McCian
Strong 112
Lean 35

It takes 270 electoral votes to win. Today, Obama is 14 EVs above that threshold, while McCain is 123 below it.

None of the Kerry states lean McCain, but many of the Bush (2004) states lean Obama. Obama leads in several of them. See the Pollster.com map.

Obamma has several paths to 272 even if he loses Ohio and Florida. This is truly a 50 state strategy while also helping down ballot democrats in traditional red districts and the senate candidates.

The jackasses in the media may try and play this as a tied game, or that Obama should be winning by more (so it's good for McCain!), but the reality is much tougher for Republicans. McCain has a serious challenge on his hands. That's why they've gone hard negative. They ain't gonna win this one unless they can drag Obama into the mud.

Andrea Mitchell Nails it...

I was watching Hardball and trying not to destroy my nice LCD tv when to my surprise Andrea Mitchell called McCain out for the condescending, disrespectful disdain in how he talks about Obama.

Further she pointed out that this has been going on for some time, including McCain saying he would go with Obama to Iraq to "educate" him. She also predicted that this would continue and that this was similar to how George the elder treated Bill Clinton during the 92 campaign. Methinks that the media is losing its man-crush, or at least some of it, with regard to McCain.

I thought this was pretty important that someone in the media (his base) finally called a duck a duck and saw McCain as being disrespectful etc. That has the potential to hurt McCain big time.

He's losing Andrea. (She also called him out on his Obama-overseas-military-visit-outright-lies.)

He lost Joe Klein. (Said he was wrong when he called McCain a honorable man.)

McCain is trashing his brand. Losing the traditional media will harm him.

Low Road Express: spread it around.

That happens when you call them "Little jerks" after you had them literally eating out of your hands a mere few months ago.

What's really sad are the (thankfully) ever-shrinking contingent of true believers who are still promoting his lies.

Cognitive dissonance finally collapsing?

It goes with a bang when it does go.

McCain's recent claims and ads are so preposterous and so laughable that even some of his former donut and barbecue buddies can no longer look the other way and mutter, "That's just McCain being McCain". It's too obvious.

I'm actually surprised to see the GOP in panic-mode this early in the election season. If things are as bad (internal polls?) for the Republicans as their behavior would seem to indicate, then we may be looking at a real Democratic tsunami come November.

Which is good, because that's the only way to be sure these guys won't cheat their way into office again.

Andrea Mitchell? OMG!!!!

I was shocked into submission when I heard her push back. It was clear as....as angels coming out of heaven....Andrea Mitchell!!! I remain in a state of shock.

She has been the last person I would have thought would say anything even close to positive about Obama. But even though she said it, I expect that next week, the real Andrea will be back. That water on Mars obviously took the real Andrea and left us with this....dare I say it?....reasonable facsimile....OMG!!!! Stop the lightning, don't bring the thunder, please!

Rick Davis pissed her off with that phone interview yesterday. You could see how angry she was when he continuously overtalked her and told one false talking point after the other.

Wow, twice in one week she nails it. Good for her.

She's been doing this ever since she came back from Europe!! She defended him from the troops attack, from the celebrity ad, from the race card attack. She's basically been awesome.

I just hope that doesn't mean she will soon have to tack to starboard to stay in the good graces of her bosses and producers.

When it comes to the MSM, I trust it about as much as I do the honesty and integrity of Karl Rove.

That said, good on Andrea Mitchell for calling out BS where she sees it.

The media is slowly getting dissed by McSame and his team as he morphs into W himself. This can only be good for Obama.

To me, it looks like McCain has gone so far off base that even Andrea Mitchell can no longer give him the benefit of the doubt. He's a f***ing asshole, and there simply are no more excuses.

That said, the corporate media is against Democrats and they will do anything they can to make sure Dems lose. Just be vigilant.

Andrea is weak though.

She got her ASS handed to her by Rick Davis yesterday. She totally let him steamroll her. I hope nobody lets her 1000 yards near the Meet The Press chair.

Davis was trying to be too cute by half by trying to say that the Paris/Brittany/Celebrity thing was "positive" and they were popular global figures.

I know Tim Russert would have hit back with something like "isn't to compare Barack Obama to one person who is best known for being a porn star and another who was recently hospitalized for mental illness attempting to smear a public figure?"

Btw, Paris and Britney are longer and no where near in the list of the current top celebrities.

Davis had/has NO respect for Andrea Mitchell and it showed. Tim Russert would have nailed it, Rachel Maddow would have destroyed him, he wouldn't have even tried it with Chuck Todd or Kieth Olbermann.

The fact that McCain campaign cleverly injects race into this race and subsequently attacked Obama for the "playing the race card" shows just how sensitive his campaign is to the issue, and just how completely they've sold their soul to the Rovian smear machine. It's purely hypocritical, dirty, and John McCain is totally complicit and willing to play the part that George W Bush played before him.

I don't remember who brought this up, but thank you! I finally had time to watch it.

I'm talking about the Randy Pausch Last Lecture. God bless him!

Here is the link again for anyone who is in need of inspiration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Hey Heath

Cousin about to fly to Houston, shall arrive in Atlanta tomorrow. Thanks for all the help! School starts in two weeks.

Scott/Ana/Kranti/darknite/jm...

Dear Tiger

Thanks for the news. I wish her all success on every level, with bells and whistles and drums. Atlanta is lovely, with air that's soft and fragrant, warm light, vividly-colored earth and vegetation, and lots of great people and things to do.

Today is an anniversary of sorts, one I thank you for from the heart. And thanks for all the past fun, too, Tiger. You were a super riot in them good ole days. I finally found a good Hindi grammar, and in the two days that I've had it, my Hindi self-learning has picked up. I figure my four years of listening to Hindi films and songs has given me about the same cumulative language exposure as a infant of one year who's always lived in a Hindi-speaking family. So now it's time to learn how to talk.

love & hugs, h

Dear Tiger

In thanks for the anniversary, I share a very short (and flawed) story I developed from a writing exercise. I wrote it for my vvl, mm, for his recent birthday. You helped make our connection possible, and you were part of the fire lit under me for writing, in those days. I wouldn't have grown as I have without you, so thank you again. On a writing note, as poor as this story is, it represents about 40 hours of edits, in over 600 sessions. I learned bahut bahut as I did the edits.

Ed, Bonnie, Dara, Stan, Derek, Keith, Irv, Meike, ruth, RP, Arsenio, et al, et al, this one's shared here for you too, as you've all been part of my growth as an artist who also kind of writes.

love & hugs, h

Why She Danced

Corinne woke up with a headache. For some reason she couldn’t figure out, she was crying. This was a rare thing. She shoved the pillows off the bed. She always felt better when she did that. ‘Ha! Take that, pillows!’ she thought as she took control of the bed, refusing to be smothered by its comfort.

The morning light was too much for her eyes, and her mind was still tangled in last night’s dreams. But she was happy anyway. She stretched on the cool sheets and pictured herself in an overhead shot, spreadeagled like DaVinci’s perfect human form. She was free. She felt free, anyway. Maybe the headache would go soon. There was a sound, a kind of faint whoosh, just before the slap-out-of-nowhere hit her.

Corinne rolled to the edge of the bed and dropped off, landing among the scattered pillows. She couldn’t feel the headache. She felt stiff, sharp, hard, to herself. Anger turned her cold and she hated the feeling. She hated Kaz for making her angry. Huddled on the floor with tensed muscles, she waited for Kaz to make another move.

She knew the story. He had a lot of complaints about life, and was willing to let loose on her sometimes. He thought she’d take anything. He was wrong, damn it. She didn’t want to be hurt. He had no valid excuse for hurting her, anyway, none whatsoever.

Corinne lay still and listened. Kaz’s breathing had gone quiet. She heard his clothing rustle sometimes, and he sighed once, but otherwise he wasn’t moving. Maybe she wouldn’t have to fight after all.

Finally her coldness receded, becoming the memory of a feeling. Kaz felt the change. He came close and knelt by her on the floor. Threatened by his nearness, she stood as her mind shouted: ‘I’ll do what I have to do to stop you from hurting me again!’ But her mind was going to lose this one. He looked up at her. She saw regret and a kind of bitter repentance in his eyes, and she reached down and put her fingers gently on his temples. He felt hot. She was pulled back down to her knees by a longing to be with him. Corinne buried her face in his shoulder. They held each other for a long time, then lay down, side by side on the floor, like kids. Kaz held her hand, or she held his. They fell asleep together, and she dreamed her dreams and he dreamed his.

She woke on the bed. All the pillows had been picked up and placed back on the bed. Kaz was gone. Corinne smiled and pushed the pillows to the floor again. She wiggled her toes and spread her fingers far apart, turning her palms up to the ceiling, feeling the twist in her joints. She stretched out on the cool sheets. The sunny mid-morning air warmed her face. Her eyes were closed and Kaz was in her heart. She could feel his arms around her. Her eyes brimmed. She looked like she was crying, but she wasn't. Love spilled out onto her cheeks

Love was a strange thing to Corinne. Unpredictable and ungraspable, it had her, she didn’t have it. She had no say in the changes it made to her nature and feelings. It was continually conquering her practical side, but her life didn't suffer for that. She was more creative and flexible, and practicality was becoming unimportant. Love felt like a swing, and when she was on it, she lived with more courage. She knew love didn’t need any excuses to be, it couldn't be rationalized, it just was. It used to scare her, but now it was OK. Her love for Kaz was inside her, and outside, too. It surrounded her like an ocean, she could walk in any direction and its dense transparency was there, touching her. And it was in her blood.

Corinne felt light, and strong, strong. She rose, and showered.

Waiting for her hair to dry, she danced an impromptu dance as a thank-you, and maybe an explanation, for the day. This was what her dance said to the day, ‘Hello, day, this is what matters - love, and nothing but.’

dear Heath,
she awakes to shower in roses! :)

It is a lovely story and the strength in Corinne, is in you too :)

thank you for sharing your writing - and your heart - at IB.

love always,
~ Kate

and Kate! blame my weeks and weeks of IB-less-ness! Corinne's love is mine, ji haan, though the danger she faces isn't. hugs + love, h

#117 I don't know where this came from, Heath, but I'm wanting to say that your writing gets right into the creases and validates them.

Valid though are you to me.

I bow.