Chronoflash Sequence

Clocks are not responsible for time.

Clocks display delusions.

Cloaked inside of cases

Time is duration.

Time is subjectivity 

And its subject is Time. 

Mirror, mirror, on the whore,

The time has come for 

Many more for there is Time.

Time matters and matter gathers.

Objective Time is the Time of objects,

And so, once sampled,

Time can be measured but need not be.

Decisions are momentary.

Time does not care, for 

Time's not aware and that's 

For the best since awareness is death.

In dreams Time is manipulated, then

You awake to life as a slave of 

Time. We try to run but 

Aways turn to return, 

And return yet again.

That's our wretched doom,

A sentence with no room to move,

To which we are forever fated.

"Having too little Time" is a mirage.

Everything is in Time.

"Waiting long enough" is arbitrary.

Time is not the 4th dimension; our 

Perception of it is.

You try to ignore it but 

You cannot affect Time.

Time exists with and in 

The mind yet out of it.

Time is an eternal never.

Time is what is

In the box.

Think about it.

Being is what to Time? Ask: how long has

It been? How long has it been It? What 

Do you mean by It? By mean?

That, too, is philosophy.

"Give it Time." Why? Where did its go?

Tomorrow will come and be.

Are we sure? And until when?

Until nullity.

To be in Time is but a lie, 

Self-told to cope with 

The vast expanse that asks

For the small mercy we can 

Provide, to forget that 

We once knew but know 

No more.

Ignorance is bliss but 

For what is that is

Not we. Give up on eternity 

To save what's left 

Just in time.

"Shave off some Time," is a 

Common saying, so

Please save me a shaving....

Then warp Time using Now 

To manifest the Paradox.

"It's immeasurable." How can you know?

You have "just enough Time," so 

Why be concerned?

Chronomenclature can fascinate, yes? 

If one "has time" do they have it all?

Eternity makes Time an anachronism.

Once duration is infinite 

Manifestation is done with it.

Rant à la Washington

I have Eno’s “Music For Airports” playing on repeat AND the sound of ocean waves hitting some beach somewhere coming out non-stop from my phone. That has worked fine for some time but not this morning. I think that the arch villain that lives in a suite in the subbasement of my brain just lulled me into believing that this is as bad as it can get. And then he punched me with one of his Archgloves when I was just looking at the view on the inside side of my eyelids, which is perfect and relaxes more powerfully than anything, absolutely it’s unprecedented like nobody has ever seen. I have strong genes going back, who knows, maybe a million generations. My great-uncle’s best friend, absolutely so good that you would never believe it. So my family right out of their perfect, so perfect like nobody anywhere, and I have talked to many experts, the best experts, unprecedented in science everywhere in the world and I can say my eyes are perfect, not like all those fake eyes I see very strongly out there. Do you know what? The best artists, the best of the most powerful artists like nothing the world has ever seen and I was the first, just ask anybody, any expert and ours are number one, the best in the whole world and they will give you a powerful, the best, the strongest but so perfect that you can’t even understand like I do, more than anybody in who knows, maybe ever that has ever been given and, believe me do I know a lot, more than anybody else about giving and I can take all, every one of the perfect stuff the strongest total geniuses have ever given me. But right here and now, you know, where I am there just is not enough room. I’ll Tweet you some pictures of it, and I take all of my pictures myself and put that writing with them all by myself and you-know-who is jealous as hell but my brain is just the best brain ever, so they can make up as much as they like but YOU can tell what’s true and together we will get through this like the absolutely greatest government and the strongest voters in the world and they won’t even be able to believe it. Buy a t-shirt before you leave because, as any doctor you can find will tell you, my t-shirts are like nothing the world has ever seen in the past and like it says on the tag on every one of them, that took me so long to sign each one, that they will go up in value 4,000 % by November. (Did you see that, those two words “buy” and “by” that sound the same but actually mean something different? Can you just see all those governor dictators get mixed up by that?) They should bow down and show some dignity for once to my perfect big brain. I was actually born with my brain and I didn’t have to go to the most best of the strongest universities in the country but I was just being nice. I never wanted enemies when I was young and I certainly don’t now see any here on this beautiful day in.…a place. I have an office, it’s oval. Did you know that? My big tough desk so I can’t answer questions. Too busy. Much too busy. Get on my mailing list and the best people will send you emails. All the details, all the details you need.

Atheist vs Theist: A Weigh-In

I’m feeling compelled to point out a couple of things: 

First, the “debate” between theism and atheism is a non-issue, a disagreement that people are keeping alive for no good reason, because there is no reason involved and, if there was, the topic would have worn itself out long ago. 

Part of the problem is that while debating the theists, atheists fail to recognise that they too are arguing from a point of faith. The basic question is not about how the universe was created. The root question is about the existence or non-existence of some kind of transcendental “supreme being.” Now, the definition of “faith” is the decision to believe in something without the benefit of concrete or existential knowledge. In the light of this, the existence of the aforementioned “supreme entity” can neither be factually proven or disproven. Everyone has the freedom to choose whether to believe in the existence of a “God” (which is much easier to type than Supreme Being) or to deny the existence of a “God” but, people on both sides of the argument should have reason enough to recognise that neither position can be empirically proven to be true. If, for whatever motivation, you feel compelled to take a stand on the question, please do have the presence of mind to realise that you are making a choice to believe something that can never be empirically proven. Ironically enough, it is most often the atheists who allow themselves to wallow in the belief that their stand is somehow a “scientific” one. What hogwash. All they’ve done is chosen one of two hypotheses, neither of which can be demonstrated by direct observation or repeatable experiment. Where is the “science” in that? The religious folks are at least self-aware enough to know that their position can’t be proven. That’s why they have faith in the first place. Only one more point is required to put an end to this ridiculous argument that has accomplished nothing over the centuries except build walls between people, causing divisions instead of unity. Once both sides recognise that they have chosen to participate in a needless argument, they must then also allow for the possibility that the arbitrary position they have chosen might be wrong. Not that it matters when the issue will never be resolved but, it would reduce the amount of acrimony we’ve set loose in the world. 

Personally (if I haven’t made it clear yet), should I be asked where I stand in this (absurd) debate, and my questioner is not satisfied with “I really don’t care,” I will say that I’m an agnostic. In an argument with neither substance nor purpose, sitting on the fence is the responsible position of the reasonable. I see no reason to choose to believe in a hypothesis that is impossible to prove so, the agnostic neither claims that transcendental Powers exist, nor does he claim the equally powerless position that such Powers cannot exist. It’s much like what do you do in an election with two candidates, neither of which you approve of? You stay home; you simply don’t vote.

In closing I’ll reiterate: in the God argument, both atheists and theists hold onto a faith and, in too many cases, neither side is able to cope with the possibility that they might be wrong. And in most cases, neither side is willing to acknowledge that the argument they are keeping alive is just stupid on the face of it and, even more ridiculously, absolutely NOTHING depends on the argument they apparently enjoy to the fullest. Talking heads and rifle rounds: twits, the lot of ‘em.…

Fear, Meditation and Poppies

It’s weird and I don’t understand it. I can go for days (weeks? I doubt weeks) living in this box with the closest thing to human contact being the voices that sing to me out of my computer but then, with no warning, a feeling of solitude hits me like a pyramid dropped on me from out of low Earth orbit. It brings along a trailer filled with the threat of panic. I know that’s what I would have to deal with if I can peek out from under the pyramid. That is what opiates are for: they wrap you in a comfy cushion that insulates you from everything uncomfortable. Just lean back into it and soak up the total lack of…well, anything that might cause you pain or fear or the problems that come with being a social animal without a society to belong to. And that society can even be just one other person. I guess that all I’m doing with this perambulating paragraph is using a whole lot of words to describe and define “loneliness” and its potential terror and, therefore, its danger. Yes, when you are of a certain turn of mind, opiates keep you safe. Safe from what, you ask? Safe from yourself really, because if you don’t have SOMETHING to kill the loneliness and the fear and the fear of loneliness, all you have left is the ability to kill. If you lose control of whatever mechanism you have to suppress your feelings. It’s feelings that are the real danger, once you have stripped away all of the layers of its disguises. Opiates are painkillers and what is pain? Pain is a feeling and quite possibly the purest and most basic of the entire range of feelings that you can experience (and if you can’t experience something then it certainly is not a feeling, or a problem for that matter). All of those “centring” exercises? They are all designed to purify your consciousness and to leave only your ego, your YOU, free of distractions. Distractions that include feelings. That centre you aim for IS the essential “you.” Do you think it’s a coincidence that the parts of the world that developed meditation are also parts of the world where opium poppies grow? I think not.