Saturday, April 21, 2012

Soul & Immortality?/Woody Allen Backwards/4th Century Civility/ On Controlling Women/Spitzer on 100,000 Poets for Change/Poem "for Michael Rothenberg/

(P1) Philosophical




Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope. Robert Green Ingersoll
(1833-1899).


I am a hopeless materialist.  I see the soul as nothing more than the sum of activities of the organism plus personal habitsplus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism.  I believe that when I am dead I am dead.  I believe that with my death, I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.   Jack London (1876-1916).

Soul is the generative spark of the Divine, The Universal Source Of All Life (USOAL).  It is the blueprint for your authentic self.  Its force is inward towards self-knowledge and discipline, upward to spirit and self-knowing, and outward through learning, growing and self-realization.  Gayle Swift The 32 Keys (2012)

Now give us your own beliefs, ideas, musings, and confusions on these ideas (above).

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(P2) Political

"Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed." Saint Augustine (354-430 C.E.)

















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(P3) Poetical

Jim Spitzer Poster for  100 Thousand Poets for Change
 


   
for michael rothenberg
by Ed Coletti

A
            KIND
                        NESS
                                    THAT’S

                                    WHERE
I BEGIN
                        TO FLESH
OUT THIS   
OTHER           WROUGHT

HEN                BERG

          MIAMI     -    MADE

WHO DWELLS

                        AMONG  US                                     

WHO BENE –

FIT                  FROM

                                    HIS LARG-

ESSE                                       THIS NOUR-

ISH                  MEANT         
HE WHO CARES

NOT JUST                              A WHIT

                                    MAN                                       HE DOES

NURSE THE
                                    WHALENS
                                    MELTZERS
                                    COHENS                                                    

THEY             
                        WHO
                                    MAY
NOT
                        EXACTLY
                                                F
                                                            I
                                                           T
WITHIN         
                        SUCH

                        (SPACES)
AS
                                    LIKE THEM

HE                               MICHAEL
                        ALSO DOESN’T
                                    PRECISELY                           
FIT


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