Pharmaceutical Phun

Since cigarettes are legal there should not be restrictions on any drugs. People should not be limited in what they do for recreation as long as their actions do not harm others. And why do people use drugs recreationally? Because they are fun and they feel good, something that cannot be said of many things in a human's short lifespan.

Being In The Now

Let's see if I understand this. History is concerned with the past. When you speak of history coming to an end, what are you really saying? That the past no longer matters? The past has created the present & the present is an eternal now? Has time stopped? That last point seems impossible because time is duration and without duration motion becomes impossible on every level, from the subatomic to the cosmic: the Universe stops. End history and you eliminate the possibility of a future, all from an objective viewpoint. But humans have a subjective viewpoint so, faced with the end of history, with the end of chronology, how can people experience anything? Is the essence of God the fact that "He" exists in an eternal present, and is therefore impossible for we temporal beings to ever understand, impossible to even be truly aware of? The gulf between the Creator and the created can never be bridged.

Wishful Thinking Big

Would someone please
Make the USA
Just turn to dust
And blow away?

Constitution Class

I, while not being a citizen or resident of the United States of America, am a concerned and curious alien. Back during the Trump 1 administration there was enough chaos and confusion to cause both politicians and civilians to churn words about what was and was not in the Constitution and how what was should be interpreted. Two things appeared to be unclear. Do American schools teach civics? Are politicians expected or required to read said Constitution? The ratio of answers to questions was disheartening to say the least. It wasn't my problem but I was curious: how hard could it be?

So I went to Apple's bookshop and downloaded a copy of the Constitution of the USA. For free. So it didn't cost anything and it was in English! How much more accessible could it be? I'm no lawyer but I'm reasonably well educated and I have had to read through insurance policies more than once. As it turned out, reading the document required paying attention but it wasn't a challenge. It took me considerably longer to get the overall gist of that pillar of the American republic. By "considerably" I mean under two hours. If you listened to Ms Miller read the Constitution, you might have heard a certain rhythm to the language. Not a mantra, although if you weren't conversant in English it may've reminded you of a liturgy. But forget my experience, the point of it all is that, unless you are illiterate in English, the Constitution is quite accessible and if you are American, I should think it would be required reading. If you don't know how the System is supposed to work, how will you ever know when you are being led by the nose to the Abattoir That Was Democracy? For the seventh heaven's sake, if you don't want to read it for your own sake, read it for the sake of your children! 

[Sorry, that dragged on longer than expected...]

The In Outside

Now, open the door 

And step on through  

Into my suite of rooms.

And so very sweet 

My rooms can be...

Door, closet, cupboard:

Here, where most of 

What you're able to 

See, carries 'pon

Its crosshatched back

A silent sliding metaphor

Of a well masked majick door.

Then, with a stride both 

Noble and high-blood 

Dignified, you approach 

An Aeon in a gown.

And I may hide a prize in 

Disguise: an eldritch gate

To the beating black meat 

That is the heart of our 

Common cold and callous 

Eternity.

An eternity, not 

Of words, but just an 

Amorphous cloud of

Random 

Scattered 

Glyphs...

Query The Captain

When 'round a sphere

You go, how much trust 

Can you abide

When you're out of sight 

Of the other side?

Does direction draw

You on, your path dictate,

Whether true or dire

Mistake?

Have you chosen well 

Through navigation or lost

Your path through lack

Of foresight, skill or

Mayhap a faceless,

Fey, feckless or

Merely malign Fate?

The End Begins

Carouse in chaos!

It's so much more fun

Than Universal 

Laws or rules allow 

Matter to behave.

Seek your fulfillment 

In the random joy

Found by every

Single girl and boy 

Every day they

Remember to live,

Not as hoarders of 

Their supply of love,

But may they instead

Sow whole fields with seeds

Of the compassion 

Our withered world needs.