Saturday, June 27, 2020

Tyrants today preying upon the Gullible Believers, claiming End Times are near.

Compare the period immediately before and after Martin Luther and Servetus.




Saturday, June 20, 2020

Preparing for the Sabbath *

Go nowhere.
Spend no time in the world.
You are floating.

It seems as if
as if something is
as if something is happening.

Surrounded by its invitation.
The happening is holding you.

Go nowhere.
Pay no attention to anything
that wants money.

Urges?
You have heard that song before.

Aching with guilt?
Stop dancing on the fence.

Perhaps you need to help another?
Pricked to help your neighbor? Help yourself.

Want to eat the banana? Eat.
Craving more more more?
Drink the water.

Go nowhere.
Go there now.

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* Pico Iyer points out that in the Decalogue, 
there is only one word to which the adjective "Holy" refers.
Just "Sabbath".  Just the period of rest.
The only "Holy" thing in this universe is a day
of doing nothing useful or worldly.

Monday, June 08, 2020

List of Ancient Words (universal)


LIST OF ANCIENT WORDS

Paleo-Philologists have accumulated a list of ultra-conserved words, projecting an ancestral language, extended well into 15,000 years of usage.  

Certain core concepts have been with us, always: Resonant, blunt, unadorned, concrete, descriptive. And see if you are surprised by any of them, especially the last one.

I,
not,
That,
We,
To give,
Who,
This,
What,
Man/male,
Ye /you
old,
mother,
To hear,
Hand,
Fire,
to pull,
Black,
To flow,
Bark,
Ashes,
To spit,
Worm  - surprised? Clue that we used to eat them.
Grubs are more delicious than beetles
Which are abundant and everywhere.

EXERCISE: 

Write poem, using these 23 words.

EXAMPLE:

Who gives not to old Mother,
That hears the hand of fire
Pulled black flowing from the flame
That men spit into?