This has actually been good for me. Surfing Blogs has liberated me from a cult of opinion that I've been surrounded with for a long time. There's no age limit to blogging. There's no subject matter. I'm still not at the point where I'm likely to detail the minutia of my daily thoughts and activities, although I'd like a life where I could do that. Don't have one of those so you're stuck with this. Its not so bad is it?
Thursday, January 27, 2005
More about Truth
'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind . . .
Statement by Krishnamurti in 1981
Its interesting that they post this quote because Krishnamurti's entire life was dedicated to talking to people about the Truth. I think Krishnamurti may have been onto the truth. He may have stumbled on it completely by accident. I once read one of his biographies and it seems that the circumstances were ripe. He wasn't looking for the truth, even when he was heralded as a Savior. He wasn't given any great tradition to follow, and it seems pretty clear that he was vividly aware that his benefactors were frauds. Everyone expected him to know the truth, and he felt like he wanted to find it because he wanted to please them.
KnowProSE
KnowPro SE seems to be an interesting blog. I'm not sure I got the name right, but the link will take you there. Apparently the author lives in Trinidad and is prolific as well as skilled in web authoring.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
More about Truth
Yesterday, I was able to share my Absolute Truth post with one of the people I had in mind when I wrote it. She could have continued the discussion here and it could have been very rewarding for both of us. Instead she was privately offended, and elnisted another chatter to flame me. I doubt that real communication is possible; there's only mutual admiration and deferment, or conflict.
Its sad. When I was a kid I was really hurt when adults criticized me for being immature. As an adult I've come to realize that maturity is largly a myth and who you are in middle school is who you will be for life.
No doubt they'll be here soon to delete posts and harass me for disagreeing with them.
Its sad. When I was a kid I was really hurt when adults criticized me for being immature. As an adult I've come to realize that maturity is largly a myth and who you are in middle school is who you will be for life.
No doubt they'll be here soon to delete posts and harass me for disagreeing with them.
Monday, January 24, 2005
Talk about Americana. I was actually a big fan of cocaine in my day, or "Evil" as we called it. These days I feel the same way about coke as I do one of my favorite sexual partners; if it wasn't so hard to get to her, and the kinds of people I had to deal with once I was around her she'd have been a keeper.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Dirty Tricks
Dirty Tricks is a political blog. I agree with a lot of the articles that are posted, but I'm more interested in the format. Just collecting some ideas. I'm new to this, can you tell?
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Mike's Allotment Diary: Broad Beans & Bottle Cloches
Mike's Allotment Diary: Broad Beans & Bottle Cloches is a blog about an "Allotment" which seems to be a term for a large garden.
Absolute Truth
Handbook for MankindI added this link because I have frequent discussions with other Buddhists about Buddhisms interest in truth. As far as the content of the book goes its not exactly my cup of tea. Recently, someone asked me what exatly is my Buddhist cup of tea. I'm not sure you should be able to enuciate that in a web page, much less an online chat. Isn't that what "the great conversation" is all about; 5,000 years of humans endlessly discussing what a world view could and should be?
Principles of Buddhism explained by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. It is a remarkable fact that in this book Ven. Buddhadasa has explained the meaning of one topic, thereby covering the spirit of the whole teaching or the Tipitaka. He says that Buddhism is the religion which teaches one to know just this much: "what is the truth?". All the chapters in this book dealing with the five aggregates, the four kinds of attachments, intuition in a natural way and other topics all point to "The Truth".
I believe there's a moral position that can be taken without becoming a monk or saint. While it may sound selfish to some, I think I should be able to have a beer, get into a thing with a beautiful woman and have it not work out. satisfy my sexuality and basically live a full twenty-first century life, and still be a good Christian/Buddhist/Hebrew/Muslim/Hindu, what have you. What's more, I think that the vast majority of people following any of those traditions would agree with me if they were allowed to.
But that's not why I wanted to post this link. The issue is truth, and clearly this very conservative Buddhist Monk believes that the end pursuit of Buddhism is truth, as do I.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
I know I posted something on this subject earlier today, but I came across another relevant site. This might become a collection for an actual web page, but for now its just links.
Here is another link about the Mob.
Here is another link about the Mob.
hehehe - Had a little too much fun there. I was having so much fun that I actually crashed my computer. No harm done though. Now then....
I've been a big fan of Rickie Lee Jones since her first album came out. After I got my first copy of Magazine I think I played it everyday until I was about 23. This is the cover art for the rerelease. The original cover was of Ricki wearing a black lace costume
with matching hat and gloves very consistant with her image at the time. Inside the album (that's how old I am, it was an album) was a wall poster of her in the same costume which I thumb tacked to the ceiling above my bed. Quite simply I thought she was beautiful.
There is something classic about this time in history for me. It feels as if it was the last time the American marketing machine was willing to make a pretense at taking the buying public seriously. Rickie Lee was, and still is beautiful, but it isn't the glaring glam doll type of beauty that gets produced by the music industry today. For lack of a more appropriate analogy if Rickie Lee is a flowering meadow, Brittany Spears is an astro turffed stadium floor.
If I hadn't been taken by her appearance her music would have still captured my imagination. Not that I'm listening particularly closely, but I haven't heard anything in a long time that is as original or crafted as Rickie Lee Jones' compositions. When I first heard them I thought she was as new and fresh and brave as she apparently thought herself to be at the time, but then times change.
The cover art above is a rerelease. Rickie Lee dropped out of the music scene and public eye. At the time the story was she was raising her daughter, but in later interviews she implies there was another reason. When she returned to composing and performing the Magazine cover was changed and I've never been able to find that cover art again.
I spent all morning looking for this article. Ricki Lee Jones has changed along with the rest of the world, and I'm not sure I think that either has changed for the better. What was once fresh, brave and new, she now describes as desperate and lonely. I'm not an advocate of drug addiction, or heroine use of any kind, yet I can't help but be sad that she is clearly so saddened and ashamed of things that gave me so much joy and peace.
If there is an upside to her big change its that she clearly is as frustrated by the direction our country has been steered in as I am. Its comforting to read her commentary on American politics, and I'll probably own a copy of "The Evening of my Best Day" in the near future. Frankly, I haven't been excited about one of her albums since "Girl in Her Volcano". The interview ends on an optimistic note. My guess is that I'll never see the old album art again, but I hope her feelings on the future are accurate and that something good is going on.
I've been a big fan of Rickie Lee Jones since her first album came out. After I got my first copy of Magazine I think I played it everyday until I was about 23. This is the cover art for the rerelease. The original cover was of Ricki wearing a black lace costume
with matching hat and gloves very consistant with her image at the time. Inside the album (that's how old I am, it was an album) was a wall poster of her in the same costume which I thumb tacked to the ceiling above my bed. Quite simply I thought she was beautiful.
There is something classic about this time in history for me. It feels as if it was the last time the American marketing machine was willing to make a pretense at taking the buying public seriously. Rickie Lee was, and still is beautiful, but it isn't the glaring glam doll type of beauty that gets produced by the music industry today. For lack of a more appropriate analogy if Rickie Lee is a flowering meadow, Brittany Spears is an astro turffed stadium floor.
If I hadn't been taken by her appearance her music would have still captured my imagination. Not that I'm listening particularly closely, but I haven't heard anything in a long time that is as original or crafted as Rickie Lee Jones' compositions. When I first heard them I thought she was as new and fresh and brave as she apparently thought herself to be at the time, but then times change.
The cover art above is a rerelease. Rickie Lee dropped out of the music scene and public eye. At the time the story was she was raising her daughter, but in later interviews she implies there was another reason. When she returned to composing and performing the Magazine cover was changed and I've never been able to find that cover art again.
I spent all morning looking for this article. Ricki Lee Jones has changed along with the rest of the world, and I'm not sure I think that either has changed for the better. What was once fresh, brave and new, she now describes as desperate and lonely. I'm not an advocate of drug addiction, or heroine use of any kind, yet I can't help but be sad that she is clearly so saddened and ashamed of things that gave me so much joy and peace.
If there is an upside to her big change its that she clearly is as frustrated by the direction our country has been steered in as I am. Its comforting to read her commentary on American politics, and I'll probably own a copy of "The Evening of my Best Day" in the near future. Frankly, I haven't been excited about one of her albums since "Girl in Her Volcano". The interview ends on an optimistic note. My guess is that I'll never see the old album art again, but I hope her feelings on the future are accurate and that something good is going on.
Weeeeeee
This is so much more fun than I thought it would be. As you can tell, Al has a little too much time on his hands.
Finally, I can get to the article that made me start this Blog in the first place.
In the midst of our battle against terrorism America nurtures and is perhaps driven by its two oldest terrorist organizations; the KKK and the Mob. If you support either of these organizations, even by fondness of thought you are committing treason.
Found on the Web
In the midst of our battle against terrorism America nurtures and is perhaps driven by its two oldest terrorist organizations; the KKK and the Mob. If you support either of these organizations, even by fondness of thought you are committing treason.
Found on the Web
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What can you say about that other than it looks god damn good? Ok, you could also say it was reasonably effortless. Now we can bookmark and see how much more fun we can have with it.
Hi
Oooooooo well wow. How much fun is this?
After several hints and some small amount of thought I have created this blog.
Why is it that after you think up a title for one of these web thingys you always think up a better one. Right after I created this Blog I thought of the title "101 Unpopular Thoughts on the Web". Either way you get the general idea and this is my little Blog. I have no clue why people are dropping such strong hints that I should start a Blog. No one is ever going to comment on anything I post here, and a Blog without comments is like a phone that don't ring. Here it is regardless.
Once I finish the rework of the web page I'll work this in some how. Until then you can visit me here. Hey, I just thought of something. Maybe its supposed to work the other way around. Maybe you're supposed to link your web page to your blog. Hell, I don't know. I guess I'll do both. But for now I've got this new thing to play with. :))
After several hints and some small amount of thought I have created this blog.
Why is it that after you think up a title for one of these web thingys you always think up a better one. Right after I created this Blog I thought of the title "101 Unpopular Thoughts on the Web". Either way you get the general idea and this is my little Blog. I have no clue why people are dropping such strong hints that I should start a Blog. No one is ever going to comment on anything I post here, and a Blog without comments is like a phone that don't ring. Here it is regardless.
Once I finish the rework of the web page I'll work this in some how. Until then you can visit me here. Hey, I just thought of something. Maybe its supposed to work the other way around. Maybe you're supposed to link your web page to your blog. Hell, I don't know. I guess I'll do both. But for now I've got this new thing to play with. :))
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