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Big B & Other Poems

Big B

You can keep blocking
As many as you want to
But how will you block life
That will keep expressing itself
Through every pore of your being?
And who is the one
That is choosing to block
And who is the one
Writing these lines
In asking such questions
Maybe one will come to realize
Life itself is expressing itself
As Big B sometimes
And as the one who writes these lines
There are no boundaries
Where I end
And another begins.

Ah, To Be 19 Again

A friend asked,
“What would you do if you were 19 now”
Ain’t I, is what I would ask him
The lub-dub-lub-dub carries the same rhythm
I have dealt lightly with all the curveballs
That life has thrown at me
Took in my stride all the heartbreaks
That I caused to myself and others
Maybe I would take my guitar lessons more serioulsy
Damn, it is hard work, this learning a guitar
So, I would be tempted to quit again
Would I dare, would I dare
Take that chance? You know what I mean
You who are no stranger
When it comes to matters of the heart
And as far as chances go
I have taken far too many chances in life
I have always been a gambler
And I have gambled my life
Betting on the impossible odds
That I the maybe not so dull guy
Can figure out the Truth after all
Though I could never figure out
Whether if her arms clasped me
I would have found the Truth sooner.

People Are Too Awake

Where’s a soporific when one needs one
Be it the company of Plato or Nisargadatta
That dullens the pain of this dreary day
Where the sun beats down mercilessly
Though the trees seem to love him
And those with solar rooftops
Me, I prefer the moon and the stars
When stern duty is not calling me
To prove myself worthy to a cause
Life seems all too superfluous
Though none with me agrees
They’re too busy living to think or feel.

Choosing between God and Mammon

Who is that Ubermensch
Who can deal
With God and Mammon
At the same time?
King Janaka? Lord Krishna?
Us lesser mortals
Have to choose
And rest content.

The False Dichotomy of Enjoyment and Renunciation

The world is meant to be enjoyed
When you no longer find it enjoyable
Ask where else could enjoyment be
Other than in this world
Why talk of renunciation
As if enjoyment is a thing to be renounced
What is to be renounced is suffering
So, enjoy this world fully, heartily
Until you no longer find it enjoyable
Then renounce this world as one of suffering
And look for your enjoyment elsewhere.

A quotation from The Bible

All baptised in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ, and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
 
[ὅσοι γὰρ εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε. οὐκ ἔνι Ἰουδαῖος οὐδὲ Ἕλλην, οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερος, οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Galatians 3: 27–28 [JB (1966)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/81792/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #galatians #newtestament #baptism #Christianity #equality #foreigners #gender #nationality #othering #religion #slavery #theother #unity

Shudder January 2026 Schedule: New Movies & TV Shows

Link: https://film-book.com/shudder-january-2026-schedule-new-movies-tv-shows/?fsp_sid=120036

#28DaysLater #28WeeksLater #ADesert #BeastofWar #BoneTomahawk #Carrie #ChainReactions #Don’tGoIntotheWoods #Don’tTortureaDuckling #FoundersDay #FromBeyond #IntheMouthofMadness #Marshmallow #MotherofFlies #Shudder #StreamingNews #TheLastDriveIn #TheOther #TheSeveredSun #TheTexasChainSawMassacre #TheTexasChainSawMassacre2 #Wolf

Exclusive: THE OTHER Vinyl Soundtrack Is Hot Off The Press

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.fangoria.com/the-other-vinyl-soundtrack-waxwork-records/

#NowPlaying the recent album "Alienated" by the band #TheOther from #Germany

#HorrorPunk #HorrorPop #Rock #AlbumsOf2025

Personal Rating: 7 / 10

Recommended Tracks: "Hellfire", "In the End", "I Give you the creeps", "A Ghost from the 80s", "I need Blood", "Don't be afraid of the Night", "Hier sein", "Alienated", "Witch from Outer Space", "Batcave", "Die Human Die"

I believe a philosophy that can be called wide-ass. Everyone contributes their thoughts, and beliefs, and actions to the wide-ass philosophy.

My personal philosophies are more wise-ass. But I don't think that navel-gazing from the inside, or head-up-the-ass philosophies will lead to useful enlightenment.

I could be wrong... It wouldn't be the 1st time...

#Philosophy #TheoryOfMind #Self #TheOther #SelvesCreateReality

The Other - The Price you Pay #HorrorPunk #TheOther

https://theotherband.bandcamp.com/track/the-price-you-pay

It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)

I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.

Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
https://courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-lack-in-the-left/

#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
#boundaries

You [ #theWe ] are going to do as They wish.
They [ #theThey ] are going to do as #theThey wish.
Since there has been #government to rule people.
#theWe have no desire to do as #theThey wish for it seems to bare upon the notion of #freedom
The truth is, #theWe do as #theThey wish. In our daily's-- unless #theIndividual is a most clever #anarchist , #thewe do as #theThey wish
Accept that truth, then consider this
Suppose what #theWe call racism weren't

A Narrative
The African people #theThey abducted for organized human slavery weren't.
#theOther are NOT easy to distinguish in appearance from #theWe of burgeoning settlements; #theWe who believe #theWe forge #theWe's new land.
#thewe couldn't separate #theOther by appearance! In dim lighting, you thought He was your brother and she, your auntie.
Established.
What shall #theWe do to control #theOther for are they not also #theWe?
#theWe are human!
We know #theWe are human now!
#theOther are #thWE!
This cant't be rationalized!
#theWe dissemenate-- as only #theWe can in that time-- #theOther carry deadly disease!
#theWe carry disease! #theWe carry disease!
Do not let #theWe in your home! #CivilWAR
Continue #irrational [ dictionary of words ] for decades.
Present day.
#Disease? What disease?
#theWe be stupid.
The end

Is it #racism ?

The reason so many #fascist adjacent #US #Republicans are so pro-#Israel and yet so #antisemitic is that for them #Israel is a legitimate #power and #authority that is punishing The Other (#Muslims, #Arabs, #Palestinians) and that is natural and good.

But #Jews, as a successful non-Christian group, are a dangerous fifth column working against the natural and just Christian order. So they are #TheOther. 🤦🏼

A moose has come out of // the impenetrable wood // and stands there, looms, rather // in the middle of the road. // It approaches; it sniffs at // the bus's hot hood.

Elizabeth Bishop, The Moose. Reading by pernishus (YT):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqagYwcLV6U&pp=ygUQYmlzaG9wIHRoZSBtb29zZQ%3D%3D

#ElisabethBishop #moose #poetry #wonder #TheOther

#Nimona: We're ending 2023 on a good note with a look at the almighty phoenix that rose from the ashes of Blue Sky Studios. Disney's loss will forever be our gain.

Full review at Mahan's Media: https://betwixtstarproductions.blogspot.com/2023/12/nimona-2023-movie-review.html #film #movies #filmreview #moviereview #cinema #cinemastodon #scifi #fantasy #comedy #animated #chloegracemoretz #rizahmed #eugeneleeyang #nickbruno #troyquane #NDstevenson #theother #LGBTQ #transidentity #RIPBlueSkyStudios #RedRibbonReviewers

The #War Between #theOther and Us
https://medium.com/the-radical-center/the-war-between-the-other-and-us-8a83991a2ec
#xenophobia

#sydney #sunset #notEquinox #theOther #Solstice 🤦

One complaint, riffing on an off hand comment in the interview: it’s long past time everyone abandons the outdated belief that #anthropolgy is about going to the field and studying #theOther, while #sociology is about studying #theSelf (or worse, the #modern ).

#InstitutionalRacism goes back a long way, as we all know.

This documentary highlights a number of ways in which #theWest have exploited #fear of #theOther to commit heinous #atrocities, even against their own people.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI

#slaveCamps #oilBarons #railways #cottonFields #russians #bolshevics #cuba #sugarPlantations #vietnam #racism #islamophobia #bankers #twoParadigmDebate #usVersusThem #badNeighbour #phonyWars #richMansTrick #skullAndBones #piracy

As we all know, #InstitutionalRacism goes back a long way.

This documentary highlights a number of ways in which #theWest have exploited #fear of #theOther to commit heinous #atrocities.

http://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI

#slaveCamps #oilBarons #railways #cottonFields #russians #bolshevics #cuba #sugarPlantations #vietnam #racism #islamophobia #bankers #twoParadigmDebate #usVersusThem #badNeighbour #phonyWars #richMansTrick #skullAndBones #piracy