I hope they know their prayer
I hope their breath finds
what is true, of use
singing its own song
Saturday, October 11, 2025
ama nesciri award
I’m thinking of founding a new medal I would certainly award to Mr. Trump.
It would be called the “Love To Be Unknown” prize.
Once you win it you must withdraw from any public elected office or socially prominent celebrity notoriety and enter a life of reflection, study, and unheralded good done without recognition or self-promotion.
I call on the selection committee to unanimously honor Mr. Donald Trump with such recognition so that he might fade into obscurity as befits his prestigious underlying character and unrealized desire to become so gloriously unrecognized.
Friday, October 10, 2025
that which will hold us together
I did not win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025. Nor should I have.
But I did win my grammar school Religion Medal as 8th grade graduate in 1957. It was a shock and a happy reception.
68 years later I’m still interested in the study of religion and philosophy. Watched Rupert Sheldrake’s lecture on Panentheism at St James Church, London. Clear, helpful, engaging.
The exploration into what is true and what is real, what is here with us and what is not yet revealed -- these are interesting investigations.
And why are they relevant?
Because illusion and untruth, fabrication and falsification, arrogant ignorance and ignorant assumption of power are the things that cause suffering, evil, and cruelty to flourish.
We’ve got to see clearly.
We’ve got to feel what many are experiencing in the world.
And we have to point out those who prosper from the suffering of others.
Religion isn’t just piety and spiritual bliss. Religion is also justice and fairness and standing for that is wholesome and noble, beneficial and compassionate in this world.
Paedophilia, whether that by clergy or the rich and powerful in our culture, is not religion, nor is it political privilege. It is wrong. Debilitating. Illegal. Unkind. Reprehensible.
To study religion is to explore what is true and healthy relationally between all beings. It is looking through metaphors, concepts, and insights of every stripe to unearth what is best for creation and creatures no matter their circumstances, ethnicity, species, diversity of cultures or physical/psychical abilities.
I'm not sure whether we have become a religious people, or will ever accomplish that way of being. True, we have religions. But authentic religious people?
I’m unsure we know how a religious person -- an informed and enlightened religious person -- would inhabit this existence when they appear.
But it’s worth the effort to explore, study, and meditate the eventuality.
if you have to say it you don’t see it
When the zen monk cried
He was asked why he cried; he
Looked around, no words
Thursday, October 09, 2025
how the comical show goes off the air
Tish James and James Comey
Are sharks that Donald Trump is
Trying to jump — oof —
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
nah, non, mu — maybe tomorrow yeah, sic, hai
A bit under the (proverbial) weather.
What does it mean to be “itself” or “oneself”?
Aseity comes to mind.
Aseity is the quality of being self-derived or self-originated, most notably referring to God's absolute self-sufficiency and independence from all other beings for His existence. Etymologically from Latin "a se" (from oneself), aseity means God is the source of His own being and doesn't depend on any external cause or factor for His existence. This divine attribute highlights God's absolute autonomy and makes Him distinct from all creation, which is dependent on God for its existence. AI Overview
When I get tired of God I get tired of myself. And vice versa. Probably more of the versa — I get tired of me.
Does God “stand out” (i.e. ex-sist) from “His own being”?
I don’t see it. Not when I’m tired, does “He”.
We exist, we say. We’re not self-sufficient and independent, so it seems.
And when tired, it doesn’t matter to me.
Nah-seity today suggests non-deity tomorrow. But I don’t have the energy for that today.
I’ll just disappear into primordial unconsciousness.
as if now has no say in the matter
Breeze through window
With no reason to live
I say goodnight — for now
Tuesday, October 07, 2025
what’s the opposite of inspiration
US Attorney General has binder with caustic accusations against democrat members of judiciary committee and sarcastically responds to questions with her vitriol.
This is trump and maga idea of discourse — insult, deny, bully, threaten.
I hope no young students see or hear this perversion of civility, honesty, governance and civics.
They will think that ugliness and deception, mendacity and meanness are valued over truth and respect, dignity and genuine colloquy.
Ms. Bondi does not inspire.
Maybe it’s her desperation.
sin-perspectiva antagonismo principio
When I was sane
Nothing made sense
Now that I am insane
Everything makes sense
Must be the Dis-perspectival
Antagonism Principle
reading, what I have, written
This scatter of retrieval came up when I asked meetingbrook’s Today at Meetingbrook Search for “me, a small poem.”
https://meetingbrook.blogspot.com/search?q=Don%E2%80%99t+write++Me++A+small+poem
ང་ལ — 我 — 宇宙 — དུས
(me, me, cosmos, time)
(Tibetan, Chinese, Chinese, Tibetan)
These few breaths
All of time and cosmos
Pass through this body
This instant, this useful
personal pronoun,
me
Monday, October 06, 2025
por supuesto que era yo, o yo él.
It could have been me.
As far as I know, it wasn’t.
But it possibly was.
My respects! Looking back. Seeing oneself.
HONORED ON PANEL 11E, LINE 87 OF THE WALL
WILLIAM FRANCIS HALPIN
WALL NAME
WILLIAM F HALPIN
PANEL / LINE
11E/87
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
Sunday, October 05, 2025
parfois la fatigue n'est que de la fatigue
Just because tiredness
Holds on to legs like
Three year old child
At play, doesnt mean
That you are finished.
Just take a nap,
As I am, as I do
un mot
This word popped up.
Philomath
[FI-lə-math]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Ancient Greek, early 17th century
1.
A lover of learning; a student or scholar.
2.
An astrologer or predictor.
And who doesn’t like a new friend?
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