Back to the future

 April 30th 2014

I just want to clarify what it is I meant by this entry I titled Back to the Future.  Simply put I carried out objectives that many in society have labelled me for.  I feel rejected as result.  However, I do not want this to be confused with as apologetic mock confession of guilt.  If I am apologetic about anything it is because I choose not to be taken for granted.  A lot of my entries past leave me with a pride that I own.

I really enjoy the ideas I presented throughout these years.

It is this time in my life that has come full circle.

intoxicating defeat

 This past weekend was a revelation for me. I feel less understood as an artist and even less understood as a person.

That is not the problem.^ I feel strengthened through an odd amount of dejection, defeat, failure, and humiliation.

I find myself contributing to a cause that is much more real than whatever joy it will bring me.

I felt as if the risk I took, was that of a crash test dummy, in order to run into a wall without penetrating it, but to my psychic awareness feel connected, grounded to go through the walls that forces outside myself may put there, in front of me.

I work hard to carry myself as far as my talent will stretch itself.

Aside from the criticism I have of myself that I am overwhelmed. To reach that level plateau is something that inspires more in life than meets the eye.

I care more about myself today than I did yesterday.  

The skunk

When I was ten.

I met a skunk.

This animal I connected with.

The skunk has since died.

I saw that same skunk today, again.

Saw the skunk lay dead on the road.

Splattered road kill.

And all that I could think.

Was how sad I was.

It made me sad to see my friend there on the road.

With the foul odor. . . emanating.

This unmistakable odor filled the air across that murder scene.

And as I drove by to see my friend, the dead animal . . .

spoke nothing.  Never did anything to deserve this fate.

And as I reminisce. . .
like a magic bullet - invisible only to those who could not truly see.

I wish that they could have my special ability - 

to see my skunk friend,

having given me the keys to life.  

A life that I should feel empowered by my own volition.

My volition to make others see and not be seen.  Is such a lie - 

not the same rules followed by that game of hide-and-seek children play?  

I find myself so utterly complete, now.

That the skunk is spreading that awful aroma to remind us how shallow we are.

The skunk was probably just trying to find its way to nowhere.

Because that is nature's destination - the place that has no real name

Something like the mother's womb.  (The skunk never a name was given.)

But this game shows us how to defeat ourselves.

The hide-and-seek we look to find our way home without knowing,

where or how the direction takes us,

because that cold cold air passage that travels throughout time.

Is it real or what is not.

We find our way. . . out to the middle of nowhere.

To find the mother's womb.

Even that skunk had a name.

I just forgot to name it.

(end.)

Putting the fear back in sexy

Pascalian Logic

in human error

satirically false stereotype into verbalization or (my) subliminal warfare in agreement

 

What are your thoughts on the concept of morality without religion?

Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

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There can be no religion without morality. Only when you learn to practice morality that if you replace religion without morality - what are we left with? It's practically impossible. The philosophy of true religion is based in theurgical theory, which has divinity involved.

@shacktoms

I think the point of morality is to serve consciousness, thus improving the conscious experience. I identify consciousness with the divine, so we serve consciousness by serving both God and our fellow human beings. Morality that neglects the divine is, at best, incomplete. It risks mistaking the temporal for the ultimate, creating a rift. Essentially as Plotinus warned. But religion is also tricky. There is the awful (some say demonic) temptation to elevate the experience in itself, rather than as it is revelatory of the divine. And this temptation is greatest when the experience is most transparent of the holy.

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There is a universal law of physics and psychiatrics I call the "Law of Congregation". Basically, unless all members of a congregation follow a specific set of protocols, the end result is chaos. There is no way to get the lower 30% to follow without making them fear a god.

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Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

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The fear of god makes us incomplete. (In theory only.) If I am wrong, which I could be, makes this logic complete. Morality is therefore, not absolute. What we learn makes us complete in our understanding of this role we play morally. Subsequently is the evil from within. ------------------------------------------------------------------

Plato practiced no religion but his ideas played a strong role in the development of Judaism & Christianity. Augustine was thoroughly Neo-Platonist while Aquinas was influence by his student Aristotle. The writer Philo wrote extensively on Judaism using Platonic ideas of a force for good in the universe.

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Marco Almeida©

@bigcanadiano

If all religion is philosophy. Then there must be an equal which would manifest the opposite of good. Evil being the ratio from which we CAN measure. If Trump is any indication without labelling him as the antichrist. At the very least he is a fascist. Without morals.