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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. Haruki Murakami
From today, 1 January 2010, the new Irish blasphemy law becomes operational, and we begin our campaign to have it repealed. Blasphemy is now a crime punishable by a €25,000 fine. The new law defines blasphemy as publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defences permitted.
George Carlin, 1999:
“Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!”
More at http://blasphemy.ie
“I can’t understand why anybody should devote their lives to a cause like dope. It’s the most boring pastime I can think of. It ranks a close second to TV.” ~ Frank Zappa
“Frank Zappa is probably the single most untalented person I’ve heard in my life. He’s two-bit, pretentious, academic and he can’t play his way out of anything. He can’t play rock n’ roll because he’s a loser. And that’s why he dresses so funny. He’s not happy with himself and I think he’s right” ~ Lou Reed
3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow… Mad Cow disease. 2 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the bird… Avian flu. This year, Chinese calendar year of the pig… Swine flu. Next year is the year of the cock…Anybody else worried? via Fark
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
“I don’t think we should feel that because our tools have become more advanced, we are more advanced. The technology of the soul has not changed for a long time. Many times we use technological advances to stand in for we are more advanced. Jazz is not like that. You can come up with all the synthesizers you want, it’s still not going to be able to swing….This music celebrates human beings and our creativity.” — Wynton Marsalis
Simplicity is supremely beautiful, yet difficult to obtain.
Found at this great article on Presentationzen.com; Zen, jazz, & creativity: Lessons from the art of jazz.
This is the fifth rule of Jim Jarmusch, an independent film director, golden rules.
Rule #5: Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
“Silence is a source of great strength.
– Lao Tzu
God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
Nihilism is best done by professionals.
- Iggy Pop
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao-Tzu
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
- Chuang Tzu
Peek inside the heads of Christian bloggers, it is a bit of a long read, but the narrow mindness is impressive… Christian Blogger Quotes.
“The American Way is to dumb everyone down to consume for their happiness.”
Nevertheless thats also becoming the European Way. I wonder can we escape ?
Public Enemy
All my unity is dissolved; I live in the tips of my feathers.
For though my wings are of fine gold, yet my heart is the heart of a scorpion.
A.C. The vision and the voice, The Cry of the 23rd Aethyr.
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”
Michel Foucault in his “Archaelogy of Knowledge,”
By imputing concepts of nastiness, dirt, shamefulnes, guilt, indecency, and
obscenity to the entire sexual process, it has poisoned the life force at it”s
source
(JW Parsons)
O read new meanings into old forms: “I must create a system, or be enslav’d by
another man’s. I will not reason & compare: my business is to create”
(W Blake)
The mysteries were organized for the purpose of assisting the
struggling creature to re awaken the spiritual powers which, surrounded by the
flaming ring of lust and degeneracy, lay asleep within the soul
(MP Hall)