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Sometimes fasting is in thought, too. I've learned recently that thought is sequential. Often to have a thought you need a previous thought that leads you to that thought. And so I ask what path through what lonely place by a lake-shore; where the throngs congregate to hear the Good Word; did Mr. Glen Beck take to get to the wilderness where he is fasting for a presidential candidate? And the candidate is well and not in any distress. I think that maybe Glen needs to rethink this. I'm not saying "don't fast". But saying that your fast is for some otherwise healthy man, with a great spirit within him, too, who needs prayers, yes, just like we all do. But is greatly blessed and wise, though maybe a little bit prideful. And many allege is not good at compromise. So we can pray for that. But what does my fasting do for him if I did?
I've always thought of fasting as a way to see in myself the flaws that I have and have never imagined that my fast is going to help another person. My activity, when needed, by assistance with money or aid, or a vote might help someone (if they are running for office). But if it's a prideful person who needs to stand down and stop, then you love her (him/?) by not voting for her. She is tired and needs to go lay down. I'm sorry, your vote for her might get her elected, but it only feeds her megalomaniacal nature. So you love her more by not voting for her. (I'm talking about a hypothetical candidate, who may not realize that he/she/? needs to step back from the podium.)
Ya, so, I can pray for their souls, all of their souls. And for their health. But my fast is for me, and only me. Ya, I can put some money in a cup and give that to charity to feed the hungry. But don't we do that anyway? Even when we are well fed? We are told to do that. But also told not to make a display of it. So if the act of fasting is something to help then how does make a display of fasting jive with Jesus Christ told us about that? In the Beatitude? How does it jive?
And as far as fasting to get people to vote a specific way? You can try it, Glen. But, even though he's a good soul, my guess is that it isn't going to help Mr. Cruz's chances. Why? Because people have free will and they vote with it. You shouldn't, and you can't, use prayer and fasting to take away people's free will. When I say 'use prayer and fasting' I mean use it effectively. You can do that, but the prayer will not be answered. Why? Because prayer can never negate someone else's free will. They are allowed to think and act the way that they do, and your prayers don't enter into it. The prayer that they should come to know what is true and useful and use that to move forward, so that they would make the right choice, as inspired by God and Spirit, and outside of what the prayer knows personally, the prayer for another is so useful and awesome and helpful. But a prayer to say 'people loose their vote and vote for so-and-so?' I put that in the same class as prayers at sporting events for one team to loose and the other team to win. Such prayers, seem, to be, to be . . . fraudulent and self-serving. ( a more concise term would be flagged: 'BS' as in "such prayers, seem, to be . . . BS".
And, Glen, even when Ted doesn't get to be president next year (my prediction, I could be incorrect) he'll still be walking around and living his life and speaking truth to power. You either believe, as a Christian, that God will always solve all real problems for you, or you imagine that there is some magic person on whom the future hinges. My bombast is shocking, I suppose, but remember I'm trying to bolt some lightening through the thick fog of media.
If society and people were so shaky that the death of one Justice means the end of freedom and liberty, if society were weak-moral-ed where the non-election of a candidate means the end of all that does good for the people; if we were really that broken as people and as a nation then we wouldn't even be having elections anymore. It would all be a forgone conclusion.
But I know, fear sells. So the magic justice who is like Saint Michael for the Constitution (Scalia) or the magic conservative who is the second coming of Churchill or William F. Buckley, anyone who is the magic whatever, the single point of light more important than all of the rest of us . . . anyone who thinks that this kind of governance or government works . . . looking for heroes, anyone who waits for that, needs that: sees the always-apocalypse as the necessary course and we all must stay it or we all will fail . . . Doesn't a world view like that kind of make someone else think that maybe your Christianity needs some shoring up: you need to start reading those parts of The Bible where you are shown how secure believing makes you: what magic man is going to save you when thousand fall at your side? You need no magic man because you have taken refuge beneath the shelter of the Most High.
So you either "be still and know", or you go on about how we have to have so-and-so best person, and only him/her/?. So have some faith. And maybe some break-fast. Because, Glen, one of the things that you ought to know; and this might explain a lot about what you've been going on about lately, and explain why you have been seeming to be . . . incoherent . . . and babbling nonsense; when you fast, just like when you take psychotropic drugs, your reasoning capacity breaks down. You start to free associate and hallucinate. And while it might all make sense to you in the throws of that, like when someone is on peyote, it doesn't always make sense to anyone else. So when you fast you really ought to be in a lonely place apart and not in front of the microphone or the camera lens for immediate release of syndicated content. I'm not saying don't go on a vision quest, but I am saying that doing it in television studio for public consumption, might seem to many to be the public broadcast of a nervous breakdown. Look it, ya, go fast. But also fast from your work and your media empire. Take a couple of weeks off and fast from your own agenda.
And also, Glen, don't be like Jonah and get all upset when your dire apocalyptic visions don't pan out. The world won't end if Ted looses another primary.
10:20 AM
February 23, 2016
recommended reading: The Major Ordeals of the Mind, and the Countless Minor Ones by Henri Michaux; published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974
In the 1940's and 1950's in Paris Mr. Michaux explored the breakdown of reason and awareness as it occurs during the delusion of depravation or drug-stupper. He did all of this so that you, dear reader, don't ever have to. If you wonder about these things, please, do not do your own experiments. Instead read a book like Mr. Michaux's.
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How the storm tracks
we don't need to wonder
How the song goes,
what's the key
is that thunder?
How many tracks
of 'bop bop and woe'?
What is this song?
How does it go?
Bop Bop and
woah oh oh oh.
Gravity Waves
and Santa Monica
says \'hello\'
How many tracks
of \'bop bop and woe\'?
what is this song?
how does it go?
Caitlyn
dancing in the rain!
He's adored!
He's adored!
He'll be cured!
He'll be cured!
Great big waves
breaking over the
California highway!
Drink up
Drink up!
Drink up
Drink up!
Bop Bop and
woah oh oh
Bop Bop and woe.
Bop Bop and woe.
Bop bop and woe
coming through on this
old fashioned
radio . . .
Bop bop and woe!
Is that the sound
of rolling thunder?
Maybe she's too drunk?
to leave is a blunder.
Bop Bop and woe.
Rain breaks out over Malibu water.
Drink up
Drink up
Large booming sound
of not distant thunder
breaking her out
of the spell that she's under.
Bop Bop and woe
Bop Bop and woe
coming through for you
on this magical
transister radio
Malibu waves
and Santa Monica says \'hello\'
whoa oh oh!
Bop bop and woe
bop and
woe bop
and woe bop
and bop bop
and woe bop
(and so on)
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John Cleese speaks sense about joyless political-speach conformism. It's worth looking for his comments posted yesterday in a lot of different web locations. Yay for Mr. Cleese. http://www.thejohncleese.com/
Monty Python's humor, always appealing, gave a quick study into kindness of ribaldry. Those gentlemen (and the women around them,"Would you like to come up-stairs?" dissected the genres of British media, and made hard-truth commentary within the dream-space of comedy. In the tradition of surrealism, and acid-rock, they deconstructed genre after genre of mind-mush media, and concocted mayhem of flaying of assumptions, blow-whistle quality slapstick coupled with a full understanding of the modern conundrums of political and sociological elitism. Harrumph!
I had to stop to blow my nose. Well not really.
The thing about cutting-edge stuff is that, years later, in hindsight, it might not seem that way. So many other comedians have mirrored the humor that Monty Python made, for a very long time, and that makes it seem prototypical. Like listening to a cut of Atomic Dog from Mr. George Clinton in a raw early version. It's really very skimpy in some sense. But skimpy means that you can imply other things, build a montage on top of it. In the case of George Clinton (I've divigated) "woof, bow wow, yippy yo, yippy yay. " He laid down the beat and the sound and let's the world dance up a storm.
Monty Python? They left us laughing. They left us thinking. They did things with the comedy that was revolutionary in some sense, but completely within the comedic tradition: flay the fallacies of those locked within them, so that they feel good about becoming aware of how they drop turds on the heads of others with their ways and demands. Show them the turds-thought behaviors and help them to clean it up. Make them be kind by realizing their ridiculous. Well, not 'make them be', let them be.
Mr. Cleese is correct is saying that comedy is not supposed to be politically correct, and that political correctness is the death of comedy. But I'm not quoting him directly. It benefits students of comedy to study Monty Python. Also, listen to what Mr. Cleese says about the modern college campus. It's too bad that Mr. Cleese isn't a professor at a university teaching his view of comedy. But he's out doing it, for real, and traveling the world in the meantime. Sounds like a lot of fun? Or a long, grueling road home.
History shows us that comedians and actors often have to face political clampdowns by powerful lobby interests of power. These shady groups demand order, and do not understand that the chaos of a production is not supposed to be easily cataloged with some base and stock 'on message' meaning. Double entendre, and the alternative meanings of homophonic phrases: phrases that sound the same but mean totally different things, are designed to give maximum humor. Worrying about offending a touchy political class results in very poor humor.
Fortunately Mr. Cleese doesn't need to go to college anymore. And it's sad that he fears doing his work there (his act). but I think maybe colleges are a lot more open-minded than he knows. He ought to go and shake it up a bit, at a college, and ruffle some academic feathers. Maybe he can do a Fish called Wanda type of humor only set it at a college? There is a lot there to satirize.
The best way to describe Monty Python's humor? With long winded sentences of extreme sycophancy.
What they claim is good
for 'the environment'
really sucks
for the forest.
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Here is today's pretty poem:
How the storm tracks we don't need to wonder How the song goes, what's the key is that thunder? How many tracks of 'bop bop and woe'? What is this song? How does it go? Bop Bop and woah oh oh oh. Gravity Waves and Santa Monica says \'hello\' How many tracks of \'bop bop and woe\'? what is this song? how does it go? Caitlyn dancing in the rain! He's adored! He's adored! He'll be cured! He'll be cured! Great big waves breaking over the California highway! Drink up Drink up! Drink up Drink up! Bop Bop and woah oh oh Bop Bop and woe. Bop Bop and woe. Bop bop and woe coming through on this old fashioned radio . . . Bop bop and woe! Is that the sound of rolling thunder? Maybe she's too drunk? to leave is a blunder. Bop Bop and woe. Rain breaks out over Malibu water. Drink up Drink up Large booming sound of not distant thunder breaking her out of the spell that she's under. Bop Bop and woe Bop Bop and woe coming through for you on this magical transister radio Malibu waves and Santa Monica says \'hello\' whoa oh oh! Bop bop and woe bop and woe bop and woe bop and bop bop and woe bop (and so on)
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♥♥? :
Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?
Wake up!
Praise God!
♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥ and ♥♥ Awesome ♥♥!!
♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ because ♥♥
♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥
♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥
♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥
"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
-from Psalm 91 KJV
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