Thursday, June 30, 2011
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain
If you voluntarily and intelligently put aside this craving to possess, then you will create a society not based on compulsion and exploitation.
As long as you remain within that field of the culture, of society, of greed, of envy, of achievement, you are not a free human being. You may think you have free will, but you are just part of this monstrous society, a conditioned human being.
You must find out for yourself what it is you love to do. Don't think in terms of choosing a vocation in order to fit into society, because in that way you will never discover what you love to do. When you love to do something, there is no problem of choice. When you love, and let love do what it will, there is right action, because love never seeks success, it is never caught up in imitation; but if you give your life to something which you don't love, you will never be free. But merely doing whatever you like is not doing what you love to do. To find out what you really love to do requires a great deal of penetration, insight. Don't begin by thinking in terms of earning a livelihood; but if you discover what it is you love to do, then you will have a means of livelihood.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Gloves Off
Perhaps it is because I have been picking up the news again, but then again, what prompted me to do that, yet it seems that we appear to be in the free fall that folks have been barking on about now for the past few decades. Things are getting really ugly in all manner of areas. A bit like watching a tower of little piggies or monkeys collapse in Angry Birds, when you know you scored a direct hit and the whole fucking lot comes down.
Briefly, let's look at it.
Economics is buggered. The lies and endless "everything's fine" has just melted away. People are actually physically hungry and fighting back against the controlling authorities. Jobs are vanishing, homes are overcrowded and further education is now only reachable by the wealthy. The resentment is spreading like a cancer around the world as hopes and dreams fizzle away in a puff of green smoke. Food costs are soaring. Now you pay more and you get less. I noticed a lot less folks in the supermarket last week, shelves stacked full of expensive, imported items. Even the street food is hard to afford at the end of the month. This war is on the streets, and all that cash spent on guns was really for the uprising of its own people.
Environment. Best not go there. In a place like Thailand, whole chunks of mountains lie exposed and machines digging up earth for ever more crummy flats built by fat cunts for poor folks to carry out domestic abuse in tiny rabbit hutches. The late rush for resources means the gloves are really off and the big, bun fight has begun. Disputed territories are soft targets for tension. Those superpowers need their boilers stoked. Weather, constant floods on my side of the world, no trees? Who gives a fuck? As long as we can build more....blah, blah, blah
Health. Another young dad died at the school last week. This one was 36. Poor little kid in class was hardly aware that anything was wrong. Cancer and diseases stemming from dirty air and cramped, stressful lives sends people to an early grave.
Tech. This ideology that tech is the answer and will save us is a bit limp wristed, isn't it? It hasn't saved us yet. Smart phones and Ipads have some work to do. They are just the tools pushing us ever faster over the edge.
Sometimes when I am riding about the town, I say to myself, "Is this a cool place"? Or is it actually a dirty, smelly shitheap?" And most of the populated world looks like this.
Is it gonna be any better next year? Or in 5 years? Or in 10 years? I don't honestly see how.
Briefly, let's look at it.
Economics is buggered. The lies and endless "everything's fine" has just melted away. People are actually physically hungry and fighting back against the controlling authorities. Jobs are vanishing, homes are overcrowded and further education is now only reachable by the wealthy. The resentment is spreading like a cancer around the world as hopes and dreams fizzle away in a puff of green smoke. Food costs are soaring. Now you pay more and you get less. I noticed a lot less folks in the supermarket last week, shelves stacked full of expensive, imported items. Even the street food is hard to afford at the end of the month. This war is on the streets, and all that cash spent on guns was really for the uprising of its own people.
Environment. Best not go there. In a place like Thailand, whole chunks of mountains lie exposed and machines digging up earth for ever more crummy flats built by fat cunts for poor folks to carry out domestic abuse in tiny rabbit hutches. The late rush for resources means the gloves are really off and the big, bun fight has begun. Disputed territories are soft targets for tension. Those superpowers need their boilers stoked. Weather, constant floods on my side of the world, no trees? Who gives a fuck? As long as we can build more....blah, blah, blah
Health. Another young dad died at the school last week. This one was 36. Poor little kid in class was hardly aware that anything was wrong. Cancer and diseases stemming from dirty air and cramped, stressful lives sends people to an early grave.
Tech. This ideology that tech is the answer and will save us is a bit limp wristed, isn't it? It hasn't saved us yet. Smart phones and Ipads have some work to do. They are just the tools pushing us ever faster over the edge.
Sometimes when I am riding about the town, I say to myself, "Is this a cool place"? Or is it actually a dirty, smelly shitheap?" And most of the populated world looks like this.
Is it gonna be any better next year? Or in 5 years? Or in 10 years? I don't honestly see how.
Aljazeerza Viewing
Just sat through, "To the Last Drop", a Witness show on the Aljaz website. OMFG! The oil sands extraction project is a third the size of Norway and the rivers and towns within 50 kms have got 13 heavy metals, massive increases in rare cancers, leukemia and other nasty diseases. The fish are all rotten and deformed. Independant scientists have carried out in depth studies to come up with the stats that this is dicing with death. But nothing can stop the machine. All the major oils companies are there and money coming in from all over the world. Politicians throw up confusing data signals to allow the extraction to go ahead year after year. One chap said that this was so crucial that one could use it as the tipping point for the future of humanity on Earth. And this is coming from Canada. Not China, not the Middle East, but the home of maple syrup.
Watch and weep, if you have the guts...
Watch and weep, if you have the guts...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Nightmare
Oh, I had a terrifying nightmare last night about an alien invasion. It was so real and scary I woke up and that was my beauty sleep over at 3.00am. Perhaps it was brought on by toom uch Crysis 2 and watching a UFO video on the Daily Mail website...I guess I will never know.
Thailand is set for general elections this weekend and it is anticipated that Thaksin's sister will win and then the army will move in to prevent her taking power. Awesome stuff. Sad really, but also amusing as the human beans scramble over each other for power.
Right now I am deeply engrossed in the book Game of Thrones on my ereader and looking forward to getting beyond what has been covered in the TV series. I would particularly recommend this to Collett's whom, as I remember, enjoy a good fantasy epic.
Also, downloaded, and yet to be watched is a Russian WW2 movie "The Brest Fortress" which is supposed to be fantastic.
Glastonbury looked a bit weird from the press coverage.
It should be noted Burma's cunt government just banned actress Michelle Yeoh who played Aung San Suu Kyi in a new movie. Those cunts really are as dumb and shit as they profess themselves to be. There's quite a lot happening in SE Asia right now, and most of it pretty stupid, especially crappy words from an old buffoon like me.
New song on the player at the top of the screen; Yellow Cab by the Stones from Through the Vaults Darkly.
Enjoy.
Thailand is set for general elections this weekend and it is anticipated that Thaksin's sister will win and then the army will move in to prevent her taking power. Awesome stuff. Sad really, but also amusing as the human beans scramble over each other for power.
Right now I am deeply engrossed in the book Game of Thrones on my ereader and looking forward to getting beyond what has been covered in the TV series. I would particularly recommend this to Collett's whom, as I remember, enjoy a good fantasy epic.
Also, downloaded, and yet to be watched is a Russian WW2 movie "The Brest Fortress" which is supposed to be fantastic.
Glastonbury looked a bit weird from the press coverage.
It should be noted Burma's cunt government just banned actress Michelle Yeoh who played Aung San Suu Kyi in a new movie. Those cunts really are as dumb and shit as they profess themselves to be. There's quite a lot happening in SE Asia right now, and most of it pretty stupid, especially crappy words from an old buffoon like me.
New song on the player at the top of the screen; Yellow Cab by the Stones from Through the Vaults Darkly.
Enjoy.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Rock and Read
This new facility took some Internet wizardry, but eventually He figured it out and with a plethora of tunes to inflict upon the universe He will attempt to change the melody frequently.
He was scanning through the programmes page on Aljazeera and quickly remembered how He had angered the world with what He had witnessed. Nay! Nothing had changed. A show on the rising masses in Spain and then another on global dirty money and how the world banks keep it rolling is enough to make an honest man turn away and walk into the forest never to be seen again. It makes a mockery of anyone attempting to live by the method in which he was raised. He wishes He had an invisibility cloak and go and pump all guilty parties full of hot lead. Alternatively, He could just retire to the garden and attempt to forget.
Weekend is here and We assaulted the garden and dug up a plant that we had bought near on two years ago and had spread like a weed. Eventually, we agreed that neither of Us liked it, so out it came. I also threw tons off fallen fruit over the garden wall and conducted a massive clean up operation. Now, the garden doesn't look half bad.
Those who missed His recommendation of Norwegian flick, "The Troll Hunter", here is a reminder to whet your appetite;
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