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                                                    

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                        WHO
                                    MAY
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                        EXACTLY
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                                                            I
                                                           T
WITHIN         
                        SUCH

                        (SPACES)
AS
                                    LIKE THEM

HE                               MICHAEL
                        ALSO DOESN’T
                                    PRECISELY                           
FIT


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4 comments:

Judi Carlin said...

Jonah Raskin's poem on bread made my day!

Martin Cibulka (from Vietnam) said...

Hi Ed,



Thanks for the great blog. Spent the last hour or so reading it – lots of good food for thought.

Love that picture of your granddaughter with Obama!

I’ve been following the Republican primaries from safe distance - they were more entertaining than I had anticipated, too bad they are over already. Unfortunately I’ll be witnessing the run-up to the elections from home, which will probably be rather stressful (President Romney and the Republicans in charge, a thought too scary to ponder).

Martin

Duncan said...

From Bill Edelen on Albert Einstein;

Einstein was completely convinced that the vast majority of problems in the
world, and especially with individuals, was caused by belief in a “personal”
God. An anthropomorphic God who was a “divine window peeker” or a “celestial
bellhop” or even a “cosmic hit man.”

Einstein wrote:
“Teachers of religion must have the stature and integrity to give up
the archaic and superstitious concept of a ‘personal’ God, a concept that has
brought fear and done monumental harm to individuals.”

“I am my own authority.”

Andrew Mayer said...

Hi Ed,

Just enjoyed reading your material at the p3 site. Love the Woody Allen take on life, I emailed that to a couple friends... Also really like the Hillary quote... And also the polygamist comic strip, reminds me of a funny movie by Rodney Dangerfield, called My Five Wives, in the movie he's some ordinary schmuck who inherits property in a rural place with a religious group kind of like the Amish combined with polygamous mormons, he also has inherited a whole troop of young beautifull wives at the rural cult location... Before you can start thinking it's a sexist plot, his wives accidently go to a speech/workshop by a feminist and so they turn the tables on him, he has to serve them hand and foot, but then... there's a whole bunch more plot twists, and it's quite funny, including the surprise ending, I highly recommend it as a rental. That is, if you like Dangerfield, if not, then it may not be your cup of tea.

Blessings,
Andrew