aphorism
jar yourself in to a new rhythm, or you will slowly continue to suffocate in your container
leave your comfort zone and you help to create our comfort zone
blessed are the stars, for they are beyond our reach
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My Thoughts Inexactly (Primero)
Lternate Lphabet Lliteration
L is for Lamenting
Z is for Zeroing
G is for Gathering
E is for Escalating
W is for Willing
W is for Willing (ov)
V is for Vanquishing
J is for Jousting
M is for Masquerading
Q is for Quelling
R is for Resisting
R is for Recurring
F is For
F is for Facing
F is Forcing (ov)
N is for Nothing
N is for No things
N Other Lphabet: A pequeño LteratioÑ
Y is for Yearning
Y is for Youthanizing
An Asymmetry
A is Against
My Thoughts Inexactly: Y is for Youthanizing
Throw all of yourself at life, for life will then have no other option but to absorb you. Throw anything less, and you will be bounced back in to the abyss from whence you came.
Spiders are forever caught in their own webs. Leave them their to starve!
The death of death is sure to coincide and accelerate with—not prevent—the death of birth. Only a mind marred by western concepts could be blinded to this.
Fooled are those who conflate dying with aging.
If we pour everything in to a last gasp, we may discover it to be our first true breath. Don’t save yourself for the future, for then the future will be safe from you.
Giving your hope to the future is something that might be blown away with the winds of time, but giving your promise to the future is to be the winds of time.
What is life if not the creation of beauty despite the circumstance of limitations?
If the alcohol is to loosen you up for dancing, so be it. If the alcohol is to loosen the music up, you are better of dancing in the silence.
Speak love to power—give it a dose of that which it is least familiar with.
The more of an empath you are, the more times you die during a single life.
A lack of leaders has not produced a lack of followers.
You are going to die one day, why be miserable and sedentary and spread it across several days?
The land breathed us in to life; how long can we continue if we are suffocating the land?
Children are the only afterlife we should be thinking about, and that afterlife is in great doubt.
There is no space for a leader of the free world, there is only room there for leaders.
Keep showing up. There is no investment in the future that compares to your throwing yourself in to every new present.
May the remainder of your life be the rest of your time, not your rest time.
The young die, or the young live—the old are perpetually dying.
Believe in something that most people fail to do over the course of their lives—believe in yourself!
A culture that has devolved so low to produce individuals saying “what does it matter? I’ll be dead in a 100 years” does not have much farther to devolve. Though an individual speaks such an utterance, it is spoken for the total culture.
When it becomes an eat dog world, it’s not far from an eat human world.
“It is written” is cured by fire; we can burn by flame or forgetfulness.
Before we rise up we must wake up, for a revolution is in name only if is attended to by sleep walkers.
Flags are ever woven with the thread of war so long as they exist by the threat of war.
Extinction is a serious topic, precisely because there is no more kidding.
When the energy reveals itself to you, you will finally be revealed to you.
Water is the only blueprint I will follow.
Many that commit suicide don’t wish for its reversibility, but many who commit homicide do come to wish for this. Think before you arm yourself, and think even and most especially of what ideas others have armed you with.
Jesus was insane, so why shouldn’t he pop up at a mental hospital from time to time?
The healthiest water is always flowing, and so too is the healthiest love. Don’t keep it all to yourself—find love for another, and love will be finding you.
The stupidity of recent nostalgia is that those who see a return to previous times as an improvement fail to see that those very previous times will return them right back to our current struggles, with the problems only multiplied.
Don’t blame a fire for burning, blame that which is old and dried up.
Why do those who supposedly represent the people always dress in the fashion that they represent the government?
If you are not literate in love, fluency in all the world’s languages will not save you. They will be as impotent as the words in a book never opened.
Only evil can be spoiled by love.
The save-up-and-work-until-retirement-age model isnt going to work for the generation being born right now. they will all be retired without retirement. Due to in large part by the retiring without retirement of their recent ancestors.
Don’t ever lose the love—better to lose yourself.
Radical politics without permaculture is rootless; permaculture without radical politics will never flower.
Nature needs to be doing more of the work than we are, or we are doing something wrong. We are certainly doing something wrong to nature.
Feeling the heights of existence one will also feel the lack and the loss, for the dilated eye sees new highs and new lows.
Most humans don’t realize how much structures confine them, because structures confine them.
Environments that dissuade your attention and your intention, are not environments to reproduce—we certainly won’t be reproducing in them for much longer.
Love—because evolution is backwards without it.
Thank goodness we say things but do other.
Anger is love on the defensive, not hate on the offensive.
In folklore lies the most potent wisdom, layered over and diluted so that it might be more palatable to the gradually evolving mind. Taking folklore literally, as with religion, is to drink a laxative for want of nourishment.
When in doubt, get out.
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My Thoughts Inexactly: Y is for Yearning
The ability to identify and critique a culture of fakery doesn’t free one from the injury of it.
Perhaps more dangerous than the casualties of war is the casualness with which war is embarked upon.
It’s all very existential… and if it isn’t, that’s very existential, too.
Acting is preparing for the future while keeping in the present; it is the art of not losing the present to pensivity.
Better to actively become nothing than to passively do nothing.
A revolution doesn’t need anyone—it needs everyone.
The utmost cowardice is putting the following generations’ lives on the line for fear of putting your own life there.
What we request of the government we don’t ask of ourselves—the government existing is our own fault, for our faults not being owned. If we stop faulting ourselves, we will stop defaulting to government!
In times of such violence, if you aren’t paranoid enough, you will be eaten by others; if you are too paranoid, you will be eaten by yourself.
Or die trying.
Those who think themselves the conquerors are the more conquered still.
An important difference between a revolutionary and a war criminal is that the revolutionary puts above all else the preservation of the revolution, whereas the war criminal puts their self.
One doesn’t meet with success when requesting of an enemy species for it to go extinct; one must alter the environment in which their enemy thrives.
Poetry is when a spirit deforms language in to something beautiful.
Prisons are as much about limiting the freedom of those outside their walls as they are about limiting the freedom of those inside their walls.
Even the elementary ethics inscribed in Hammurabi’s Code would say it is justice that if one’s land is being bombed, they have a right to come and live without restrains in the land of the bomber. Empires don’t speak justice, they speak bullets, for bullets are blindingly quick and quicker to blind than false words for the domesticated.
Anything that needs to be backed by force other than itself is intrinsically weak, and should be let go by life; laws are just such an example.
Anything more than love, is everything less than love.
The brain is the most fragile flesh to worship, and all the moreso if it is singled out for reverence.
Are we stuck in our heads despite the environment around us, or are we stuck in our heads because of the environment around us?
Wisdom is remembering to use your intelligence for creating in to reality a good world, rather than exposing the reality of the self-veiling bad world. I need to remember to be wiser.
Only the false bridges are burned when you cultivate the fire that is yourself. Be glad that they burn away, for you will not now cross in to enemy territory unawares.
Infinity is not a fixed destiny, but it can be a broken destination.
Forms are self-limiting, that’s what makes them forms; energy is form-breaking, that’s how it makes itself unlimited. Energy choose to be free, or it chooses to be in-formation; it is the force that is never forced.
Remixes are a macroscopic way karma expresses itself in music.
In these peculiar dying times of our era, comfort is the most dangerous killer. Only in indifferent relaxation and sedation could the most impermissible atrocities go permitted.
The thoughts you think are much more a reflection of the time you are in than of who you are. If you don’t want the thoughts thinking you, don’t be the passive reflection, be the active inflection.
In a world where the domination is actively overseen with propaganda far more than guns, the power of symbols cannot be overstated, though it be overrated.
If you shiver when beauty touches you, know that you are the one doing the touching.
We want revolution, not because we want violence, but because we want an end to violence. May the violence be theirs in failing, not ours in succeeding.
To never let go your dice is to role yourself countless along with the faceless.
A revolution that isn’t creative isn’t revolutionary.
To take the lesser of a great evil as as good as being your own enemy. To take the great evil as your friend is to be the enemy of all good.
Too many confuse opening a book with opening their mind. Books narrow focus to draw on a prefiguration.
The world changes with the blink of an eye, but if eyes don’t blink…
The created future will always be more amicable than the predicted future.
So on, and so forth!
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Individualism is to see with only one I
Quotes and aphorisms will carry the day,
for in your head alone might you carry them away.
the red water drank makes one thirstier for the red water lost
blood is for dancing, not for digesting
(paraphrase from upcoming my thoughts inexactly)
…keeping yourself in the past, I guess that’s why it’s called drunk
↓ skip to 2:09 after first bit… usually trance is better than it’s lyrics, but this is an exotic erotic paradox of that, with some bassline exceptions:
My Thoughts Inexactly: F is Forcing, otra vez
If you shiver when beauty touches you, you are the one doing the touching.
Chew on your fortune, for that is the real cookie.
So beautiful a thing is loyalty despite the confines in to which it is submerged and conflated with—hierarchy and monogamy.
We may never touch power, but power ever touches us.
If real progress seems far fetched, think nearer.
Fate is what the weak cling to, and it is what the strong create.
The tragic irony of our times is that if we are to survive we will do it despite our parents, not because of them (as should be).
Let your fire rage, and if bridges be burned know that they were contrived in falsity and their endurance was a puppet string that you may now be liberated from.
Insincerity for the purpose of entertainment and jest is a higher form of sincerity.
To see the light at the end of this tunnel we have dug ourselves in to, we will have to be far seeing and have the will to turn around.
We must be the night, not to defy the sun, but to preserve darkness from the gathering shadows.
Identity is a previous investment trap.
Grassroots can only make change so deep, especially when there are forces that keep mowing them down. Other deeper rooting methods are needed.
Oppression existing is the longest term predictor of extinction.
Death frees us from the final terrifying moments of life so that we do not have to bear them in memory. Terrifying moments that don’t kill us are torturous if death is prevented or delayed.
To be willing to die for something gives you a huge advantage over your opponents. To be willing to live for that something seals the deal.
They are not the be all and end all, but they might be our end all.
I want unconditional freedom, and that makes me a target. However, because of that very freedom, I am a moving target.
When humans break they break other humans. We are anything but an individualist species.
God is love misspelled, and religion is love misunderstood.
A fish out of the water is today’s dinner, and a human off the land is tomorrow’s breakfast. When dawn is eclipsing the horizon, will you be there to greet it?
It is true that we can feel one another’s pain. But it is even truer that pain fades away if we feel one another.
When in doubt and all seems equivalent, privilege the new arbitrary over the old arbitrary.
Don’t focus on what it means, focus on what it does.
With the military industrial complex, we’ve all become prisoners of war; and with the prison industrial complex, soon we will all become prisoners.
To belittle others one must belittle oneself.
Capitalism depends upon war; whether it be a world war or a war on the world, if there be such a difference for it is now blurry, as with our vision.
Teleology is the ideology of necessity.
Don’t fear death, fear not being alive.
360 degrees crooked appears straight to the weak minded.
If the slow and systematic enervation of the planet burns a rage inside of you, then you are a comrade of mine.
The world has such great problems, especially when we remove ourselves from being part of it.
When plurality is singularity, contradictions will be in contradiction.
Give all your energy to revolution, and you will receive it back many fold. The Universe yearns for a new way for life, and has an unimaginable abundance ready to freely give out.
One does not even need to eat magic mushrooms, to be fed the magic of mushroom. There are far more immediate connections than digestion.
My Thoughts Inexactly: F is for
For some, it is two days before Christmas; for others, it is two days after the Solstice; for me, it is today. Each day is its own holiday, better when not planned for or longed after. Join me, for a day is singular and so should our presence be!
Saving the Earth is saving yourself spelled differently.
Lovemaking with others is the most profound way to connect to Earth.
It is telling that words are the weapon of so many.
The only way to have the enduring revolution we all need as humans, is if the four-letter word hidden within is not ever forgotten.
If the choice between allying with a person or with the Universe is not the same choice, then it cannot be love.
I love to be contrary to culture, because love has become so contrary to the values of these cultures. A culture in which love is marginalized cannot endure.
Their mouths say they are our elders but their actions say they are our enemies.
If only we were serious about our play time, and playful about our serious time.
They occupy us, if we occupy their ceremonies, whether in protest or support.
I thought I was tortured by your presence, but now only in your absence do I know this was not true.
We want revolution, not because we want violence, but because we want an end to violence!
We should all have an inflated sense of self—it’s called Earth.
Don’t hold something twice (a proverb meaning that so much is already taken care of and being supported by larger forces that it is not just useless but also potentially harmful to intervene).
When kings realize they are pawns in someone else’s game…
The Universal life force stretches consciousness deeper as it stretches deeper into space. We are left timeless, and need no infinity pre-existing; we can become the infinity.
The first shots of a war long brewing will only ever be known to the perpetrators, not the victims.
We bipolar people can change the world, but more often than not we will change it back.
All that science has known correctly and known incorrectly in stored mediated form is in toto far less than was immediately known before science, and civilization, ever existed.
The ignorant will die,
without knowing why.
Paganism isn’t a different world. Its entering the world by removing that which would defer it.
Get in to the minds of others, by letting in the minds of others. Getting in to the minds of others, they get in to the minds of others.
When your low point is behind you, you’re going in the correct direction. If you’re going in the incorrect direction, you won’t know that you don’t know where you are.
The Romeo and Juliet story of polyamory will not be one of families warring but of families joining.
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