"Simplicissimus" "The notion that science and spirituality..."

got to be quick
been reading and here are some of my notes
and my interpretation of them

people have worshiped something or other for a long time
the Venus statues go back many thousand years
there is the cult of the rosary (Rosa coeli) which was began by St. Dominic

there was the cult of Nezahualcoytl the sensual coyote diety

there is the Anthropic Cosmological Principal which says that
the cosmos was created to produce cosmologist so the cosmos could
experience itself...sounds odd to me but cosmologists may believe that

there is a difference between philosophy and theology
Plato was a philosopher whose real name was Aristocles
which means "broad shouldered" and he was a competitive
wrestler and wrote something like soap operas before he got
into the philosophy business
his teacher was Socrates
I have read and memorized all of Socrates writing
Socrates never wrote anything however..but it sounds good
Socrates said writing is like a painting and cannot change
but he thought his opinion changes with his experiences
so why write them down...smart guy that Socrates
Aristotle was taught by Plato but he abandoned Plato's school when
they did not make him the head honcho
Diotima was a woman who supposedly taught Socrates a thing or two

a Buddhist fellow has this idea about belief
"When we die our bodies begin their "dissolution" and then
our mind begins it's "dissolution" and the mind drops it's anger,
and it's ignorance and it's desire, all of which cloud the mind
and at this time it is possible to see existence in its reality."
that is why they meditate so much because they want to be ready
for the clear mind time...what happens then I forget..something big.

now this phrase is important
"Combinitorial innovation- proposes that progress comes from the right
combination of existing ideas."  sounds like a plan to me

here is an idea from a Nobel prize winning physicist who hade some
very profound insight about the nature of the universe

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force...
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and
intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." Max Planck

I am not sure why he thought there must be a conscious and intelligent mind
behind the force...Steven Weinberg thought just the opposite and he also
had a Nobel prize in physics...

then there are people who dont have much of a curiosity
about anything...but they do place a high priority on certain things.

"A test of every religious, political or educatuional system
is the person that it forms."  H.F. Amiel

got to go Carl V. Crabury

 

"Therefore hold to things which are reliable..."

                                          My neighbor in the desert come to visit

been reading in "Archaeology" magazine
folks digging up stuff all over the place
old animals   old people   old animals almost people
hominin    thats us  I think I may be around some Dmanisi people now.
now that we have become a lot more sophisticated as humans
we might do well to think about what we are doing to ourselves
and our planet 
I was watching one of my DVD's about "The Machinery of War"
sure is a lot of it....from pointed sticks to robotic bombs
there was this one battle during WWI called the "Battle of Passchendale"
1917 in France I think....500,00 allied troops killed and 250,000 Germans
they figured out that for the ground that was gained it cost about one human life
for every 2 square inches....pretty pricey real estate...maybe too pricey.
No body remembers it now but for the folks laying dead it will never be forgotten.

I have another music recommendation which may be online or can probably
be found somewhere. It is Bruce Springsteen's version of a song called
"WAR" which I recommend from a double album which he put out some time ago.
Great rendition of an older song. Sung with a lot of heart.

Well, off the the " Kingdom of Hwicce" and may visit Zoe in
Rouffignac Cave...

"Therefore, hold to things which are reliable.
Look to simplicity; embrace purity;
Lessen the self; diminish desire."
                                           Lao-tse (Taoist)

got to go
C57BL/6 Black six

"JOURNAUX INTIMES." Hypocrite reader-my likeness- my brother"

so I read on my blog that I have zero followers

this is good
very good
I used to have 3 followers but now it is none
therefore I will feel free to post this very interesting article from
Science magazine which gives some interesting information
about prayer and meditation and the effects that these practices
have on the brain.

"Drama is the back stairs of the intellect. Philosophers and
historians go in by the front door, but playwrights and novelists
sneak up the back stairs with their more disreputable luggage."
                                                           Alan Bennett (1991)

bought groceries
no more blockade mutton for me
living the good life
fresh air
plenty of sleep
clean underwear...usually

life is good....

got to go

Nashville Frank Leslie

"...learning is accomplished by a sense of confidence..."

my front yard....where is CLEO?

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH

GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA DECLARES A STATE OF PRETTY MAD
NUTRIA POPULATION EXPLOSION THREATENS CITIZENS SAFETY

According to our news sources from our affiliate station KFIB in Half Moon Bay
nutria populations have exploded and the entire agricultural business is at risk
our NPR correspondent Miss N. Fore May Shuun reports these non-native animals can
have up to 200 babies a year and soon the entire state will be ravaged by their
insatiable appetite for gourmet vegetables and artisianal fruits

"That seems like a lot of babies Miss Shunn"

"Well that's in quahog years. Quahogs live 500 years so that's why the numbers seem large."

"We have contacted Ms. Megan Tiffany Caitlin who is one of the founding members
of DAMN (daughters against mad nutrias) an association which seeks to alert
people about the threat that nutrias can present to the human population
Do you have any suggestions about how we might approach this problem?

"Well, nutrias love to eat sweet potatoes and other root crops so you should not
wear orange or green shoes or pants so they do not mistake you for a root crop.
And if they rush towards you  should stand your ground and stomp your foot
with authority and scream at them...but don't be rude. We believe that a
kinder gentler approach (thank you George) to nutria encounters should be used."

We contacted Mr. Hezekiah Gooddirt of the environmental consulting firm of
Gooddirt, Gooddirt and Loam to get his response to this alarming situation. 
Mr. Gooddirt do you have any advice for the state?

"Well, as you know when there was a nutria infestation on the Amazon Creek
in Lane county Oregon we advised that they bring in jaguars and piranha fishes.
There was some protests from the local bike riders and the plan was shelved.
Many of the nutrias dies in the big freeze a year later."

We also contacted Mr. Tex Toogunn of the Environmental Protection Agency
to see what their response might be to this problem.

"We have this problem well in hand and are working with the Food and Drug
Administration and the department of Agriculture. They are going to jointly release
a statement declaring that certain nutria body parts have medicinal and aphrodisiac
properties and we are going to declare the nutria a highly endangered species  and we
expect the Chinese poachers to wipe them out within six months."

thank you for these comments

Dinohyus signing off

"learning is accompanied by a sense of confidence..Confidence is a sense that
a decision is correct."  Challenges in Neuro-Science  Science magazine 2017

"Every great cause..."

may not get to post a photo with this blog....last time I was blocked from doing so...

so I'll make it short and sweet...

holiday movie review---"Snatched" with Brad Pitt
excellent movie...kind of violent and funny at the same time
good dialogue...but none from Mr. Pitt

Music review---guilty pleasure I am afraid
found a dollar DVD in the pawn shop
AC/DC Family Jewels
never listened to this band before
serious headbangers
I especially liked
"RIFF RAFF" from a 1978 video
i was called riff raff a lot in my youth
in this video this fellow in school hat, school
pants and school coat is standing in a speaker onstage
and playing his guitar   then he slides down and
BAM BAM BAM   the tune takes off and the adenaline
kicks in and it is memorable inguinal rush...
one of the best examples of the genre
this fellow mr Angus Young has been playing
rock on stage since he was nine years old
and now he is in his 60's
good show Angus

well no photo now as I timed out

got to go

"Any violence offered to me..."

black-tailed jackrabbit  lepus californicus
actually a hare which is precocial or nidifugous
well I guess this video did not upload...maybe later
"Any violence offered to me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do
for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from
detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian."  sam johnson

it must also be noted that johnson was a large man who once picked up a chair
with a man in it and hurled them both into the orchestra pit at the theater.

according to the american journal of physics
it would take 38 minutes and 11 seconds to fall through
a borehole in the earth...

so I just read most of my bootleg blogs and realized some of them seem to be missing

i must admit I have done very little to protect myself against hacking...

curley the crow  (1877)

"The fox knows many things..."

not a good week for gun owners
i just read that americans own 46% of the worlds
civilian guns but are only 4% of the worlds population
aren't we lucky!

E. Hemingway, Lafcadio Hearn, A.J. Leibling, Mark Twain
these are just a few of the writers who are also journalists
we need to demand protection for the worlds journalists

ralph plaisted an insurance salesman from duluth, Minnesota
was the first person to reach the north pole overland on
april 20th 1968

71 year old tom amberry made 2,750 basketball free throws in a row november 15 1993
he wrote a book on his technique if you are interested

friedrich serturner 16 year old pharmacist apprentice was the first to precipitate morphine
from opium in 1803   then the trouble begins

dr alexander wood invents the hypodermic syringe in 1852   and things get worse

PRESIDENT AWARDED DAMAGES IN DEFAMATION SUIT!

the newspaper wrote that "...he was getting drunk...and not that infrequently..."
and so teddy rooseveldt was awarded  SIX CENTS!  IN 1913

the fox photo was taken last night
according to my not too good field guide the only fox with a black tip tail is
the kit fox...i think
so this must be a kit fox

"The fox knows may things- the hedgehog knows one big thing."  Archilochus of Paros (680 BCE)

got to go
"Ozias Midwinter"

"The issues can be stated very briefly:"

recent events have led me to conclude that my opinions
have been determined to be somehow toxic and that perhaps
my entire life has taken on the aura of something not good.

what has indeed happened is after 30 years of being harassed
and nearly stomped out of existence by roughnecks and cads
I have become notorious for being a live person, and not a cadaver.
yep...still have a pulse on the old wrist...

there has been an abandonment of any semblance of adherence to
constitutional law and civility.

"If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone,
"America died of the delusion she had moral leadership."  Will Rogers

America needs to be good before it can be great. and being good is
not very popular right now.

We must not accept the notion that everyone has the right to record
the conversations of others and transmit them to the world.
It is a grave mistake to allow this to happen and not be commented on.

"The issues can be stated very briefly: Who will be controlled? Who
will exercise control? What type of control will be exercised? Most
important of all, toward what end or purpose, or in the pursuit of what
value, will control be exercised?"  Carl Rogers

who was a therapist by the way

got to go

"...the strongest bulwark..."

"...the hanging...was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population that
is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it,
is never matter of reasonable regret with anyone. If they were annually swept, from the stage
of existence, by the plague or smallpox, honest men would, perhaps be much profited, by the
operation."   

what sort of vermin is being being written about here!  what sort of man would condemn
the lynchings of these people...?

this is a statement by none other than Abraham Lincoln in a 1838 speech to
the "Young mens Lyceum" of Springfield, Illinois
concerning the lynching of gamblers in Vicksburg, Mississippi
that is a harsh thing to say  about anyone
but he goes on to say that rule of law must be observed above all else
or we have no government but chaos and anarchy..


"I know the American people are much attached to their Government;-
I know they would suffer much for its sake;- I know they would endure evils long and patiently ,
before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this if the
laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and
property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their
affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later
it must come."

"...the strongest bulwark of any Government...the attachment of the people."

and so it must be observed that everyone's ideas evolve with their
experiences in life and yours will too



it has recently come to my attention that there are some person or people
who have sought to appropriate certain of my literary creations
such as mr teatsqueezer, the brothers hogwash and even Baba Rum Raisin
let it be known that none of these characters have been retired of or
out of my copyright protection...please use your own characters and leave
mine to live according to how I determine

regards
bootlegcircus

"The purpose of studying..."

stock market fluctuating wildly
or so they would have you believe
this bit of intelligent information from
the "Week" july 6/13 2018

"The stock market index is becoming meaningless said Alexis Madrigal.
Last week, GE, which has been a part of the Dow Jones industrial average
since 1907, was replaced in the index's basket of 30 stocks by Walgreens.
GE's removal probably has to do with its sagging profits or the relative decline
of industrial companies-out of 3,500 publicly listed corporations-supposed to tell
us about our "massively complex, globalized economy" anyway? In truth, the Dow was made for another era, "when people didn't have nearly as much access to different kinds of information."
An index of a few dozen stocks is helpful for historical comparisons, but it no longer reflects
our primary economic forces. As a matter of design, the Dow can't include extremely high-priced
stocks such as Google and Amazon because their values would wildly distort the average.
Share prices are also "becoming detached" from traditional measures of a company's worth,
because digital firms are valued so differently. Costco had earnings per share of $6.08 last year,
while Amazon had $6.15. But Costco's market value is $91 billion, while Amazons is $844 billion.
If we want a snapshot of the economy, "the real one that you and I live and work in," the Dow is
"not the best indicator."  Alexis Madrigal "The Atlantic"

"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic
questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." Joan Robinson

got to go

bootlegcircus

Much attention has been paid to the nomination of a person for confirmation by the congress
of the U.S.A. to the Supreme court as a judge. Much speculation concerning the activities of said nominee from about puberty until about last night has been put forth by various and assorted concerned citizens all of whom seek change, the sooner the better.

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." J.M Keynes

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."  Ruth Benedict (anthropologist)

The people with whom we associate influence how we think and act.

"What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter,
which lie in close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs
in bar rooms, and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name virtue." H.D. Thoreau (journal)

Many persons have determined that as a gender female persons are subjected to prejudice which
leaves them at an economic and social disadvantage. This notion has begun to pullulate as the uvulating females insist on change tout de suite and not in exiguous portions. Not to be confused with ovulating females who also have demands, similar but different.

"Declamation roared while passion slept." S. Johnson

The battled raged...accusations, insinuations, and contradictions abounded.

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which
it was conveyed."  F. W. Nietzsche

Some believed that tacticts should change...

"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."  Edna O'Brien

The primary witness against the nominee presented an eidetic, emotional testimony.

"Everyone complains of his memory, but no none complains of his judgement."
                                                                                                             F. La Rochefoucauld
what was the motivation for this accusation...?

"Spite will make a woman do more than love." Margaret of Navarre

what was the motivation of the accused...?

"The accent of ones birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech."
                                                                                                       F. La Rochefoucauld

Now that the accused person is a Supreme court justice and one of nine people who will
make decisions concerning the interpretation of laws which have been promulgated by
elected members of the legislative branch of government the question is whether there will
be any changes made in governance and social norms in society in the U.S.A.

"The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already,
and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do things which at present are not done
at all." J. M. Keynes

"Society...prepares crimes; criminals are only instruments necessary for executing them."
                                                                    L.A.J. Quetelet (1835)

"All philosophers have the common failing of starting out from MAN as HE is now and thinking
they can reach their goal through an analysis of HIM...Lack of historical sense is the family
failing of all philosophers." F. W. Nietzsche

what is wrong with this statement...?

"...language imposes a hierarchical clarity upon the world that is powerful but sometimes fake."
                                                                                       
I read this statement which put into perspective some of the tyranny of language.
Say these sentences three times and experience the different effects they have.

"I am a failure. I am a failure. I am a failure."
"I have failed. I have failed. I have failed."

the difference is slight but very important.

women suffer from imposed tyranny of language which must be addressed as it promotes a
"...corrosive worm of thought." and a flawed "heterophenomonology.

"We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years
of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration,
to recognize that we have such a distance still to go."  Lewis Thomas

"There is is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." Machiavelli

evolve or perish



you may have already read this but I only wrote it this morning
but as usual my writing has much value to the criminal class
who have no class

go to go
E.Teatsqueezer

I opened the door to the van
and there was the raccoon

"What are you making all the noise about!

and as raccoons always do
the raccoon said

"The possum started it!
the possum said that there was baloney sandwiches in these buckets"
.
"Well there are no baloney sandwiches in these buckets and
if the game warden catches you on this table he is going to
put out his wire trap and trap you and carry you across the river where
you will have to fight with all the coyotes and big raccoons."

"well the possums is dumb!"

"No, the possums are not dumb because they have been around for
millions of years, they  are just primitive, and besides they are eating
the persimmons and muscadines which are ripe now and what you should be eating.
So you get off my table and quit waking me up in the middle of the night!"

"The possums is still dumb. The possum started it!"

"Good-bye!"

 . 

new post
a few minutes ago I posted a blog at another
blog site which is molochorridus@blogspot.com
much of my writing has been stolen over the past few years
and I decided to stop trying to post any blogs at all
the library has been about the only regular access to the
internet which I have had for the last 15 years or so
having been a residence of the "Suite Van" for 8 years
and a pickup truck befoer that
it is not expensive and I have been able to see some nice places
anyhow if you will read the moloch site you will see what I hope
to do which is post my photography online for free

I like to write and I have a lot of notes which have gone
un-written but I hope to  eventually get them online
but I do not want my life to revolve around a damned
computer screen or a lot of online time
I would rather spend my time outside and watching
nature    but I realize that if more people could see
what they are missing being outside then maybe more
people would take the time to get out there an enjoy it

MORE... SHINRIN YOKU   
LESS...SCHADENFREUDE

thats all the time I want to
be online for now

i usually ended these blogs
with the name of a circus owner
from many years ago
a mr cayetano mariotini
but his family may be offended
by this use of his name
I dont mind being offensive but
I dont want to offend anybodys
family
so for now I will sign off
as the person for whom I am most
identified
E.T.   cow political advisor
some people will know who this is
and some will not

whatever

   

"The condition of all human ethics..."

got caught without my card reader so no photos with this blog...
was really surprised to get a message from the boss of blogs to
inquire as to my relationship to my blog...
been a long long time since I last wrote officially for this blog

but it seems that rather than have my writing purloined
I will stand up and defend my right to write...

been in a lot of places since the last blog with the brush rabbit
and the timbered out hill
I looked at that hill for years and figured i would hike up there
when the time came and lay down on the brush pile at the top and
offer myself up to the vultures...seemed like a good ending to me
but that hill is many a mile away now but the vulture population is
still with us...when the time comes

for now it is avoid the storms and enjoy the day..

"The condition of all human ethics can be summed up in
two sentences.  We ought to. But we don't."   Kurt Tucholsky

got to go for now
a photo or a video next ti
 soon I hope

r d lizard