top image cow poop...not the same as bullshit...but simyuler...next image is my neighbors who like to sleep near-by....then an unidentified insect beneath dried cow poop ...then is the tuning head of my main squeeze the Takamine nylon string pawnshop guitar....
in the last couple of weeks I had to get back to the forest before I could write this blog but serious storms happening now so the motel room seems be the best place to be...the obligatory nosey neighbors also show up...the dominant news has been about a couple of guys I don't know...the murdered man was murdered by a fellow who seems to have poor thinking habits...essentially it is one human killing another human for no good reason...that is very common...and has been since recorded history...what concerns me is when many people kill many people...that is usually mass delusion....the real story is that the murdered mans wife and mother of his children stood before thousands of people and forgave her husbands killer!...this is what Jesus of Nazareth taught his followers to do....it is very seldom done by anyone and rarely done by those members of Christ Inc...this wife and mother will be remembered when her husbands killer is long forgotten...the guy who lost his job for a few days might should think about moving on after 22 years at the same job...might be good for his brain growth...I discovered an incredible talent recently in the person of Micah Nelson who is a visual artist a film-maker and a singer/songwriter...and a thinker/poet/philosopher...one of his more creative songs is called "Everything is Bullshit" (4:10)...which has a very good music video with it...the story seems to be about a magic mushroom experience...I have a story about my first experience eating magic mushrooms...I was with a couple of my hunting and fishing buddies at a ranch of a friend...there was a small pond and we were going fishing...one of the guys plucked a large mushroom from a horse turd and said he thought it was a magic mushroom and I should eat it...and I did...it seemed like a long time went by and nothing happened...I forgot about it until we smoked a doobie and then I suddenly found myself crawling around in the tall weeds next to the pond looking for my fishing rod...and my mind...the friend who gave me the mushroom said he had never seen anyone have the kind of reaction I was having and he said he thought it was the wrong kind and I should go to the hospital and have my stomach pumped...this was not comforting even a little bit...I resigned to die and soon a great calmness came over me...everyone is going to die sooner or later I figured...as I contemplated the universe and my place in it I felt an overwhelming "oneness" with the universe...except the it seemed to me that "everything is bullshit"...this is known as nihilism I think...this was more than 50 years ago and it still has a powerful effect on my worldview...
Life is research, in a way, if you allow it to be." Lex Fridman
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