Filtering out the Treasures

 

Filtering out the Treasures 

 

 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 King James Version 

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.  ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  ¹² For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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O, You seekers of the 'Utopian Kingdom'. It's your metaphorical mirage!

There is only hunger and desire awaiting you. There will be no satisfaction for you.

 

When you realize that tending conscientiously to the intangibles of the consequences  of your existential, incidental circumstances, and the karmic obligations you've taken on 'in the pursuit of the mirage': then will you find the satisfaction of the earnest effort of your heart, mind, and soul.

Each day brings you your 'daily bread' of duties to consume to have atonement with yourself from past karmic burdens and earn the enhancement of the benefits learning the sources of your vitality.

Futile and False Creeds of Meaning and Emotional Security

 

Futile and False Creeds of 

Meaning and Emotional Security

From the tangibles of currency to the intangibles of relationships. The futility in seeking meaning and security in things of inherent limits shows the fallacy of such premises. Worse than the futility and vanity of the pursuit is the denigration and dismissal of the ethics and values of physical conditions and their intangibles which give cognitive guidance, since they don't flatter the ego and its satiating need for its comparative 'special uniqueness' with others.

As ALL persons' created value and dignity is spoken of as the equality of mottoes and platitudes, our choice of expression in the those values has been the whore of self-seeking that's undermined the structures for which we were created as a co-symbiotic and co-synergistic beings in this biospheric network. Our over-estimation of our "entitled" esteem based on that uniqueness has given license to the whoredom of our unwinding as a culture that is the foundation of our existence.

It is this informal and formal disseminations of these ethos and creeds that has led to the present conundrums of the present dystopian existence on the margins which  begs the question of the core operations. The vulnerabilities at the margins reveals the weaknesses of the extensions of the core's structural architecture.

Yet the promotions, apologetics, and deflection of the short-comings so that the ego of unique self-esteems can pursue its self-flattery. There's no shame. just deceptive to brazen avariciousness of intent. For this you will be cursed to wander in your misplaced vanities and pride. 

 

Posturing performance personas and Earnest au naturel personas

 For all the avatars and emojis we choose, the same occurs in our pedestrian street existence. We use our most mundane secular image or the wildest surreal image to represent the mood/soul of our persona. I have used

This one, taken in front of the White House fence barrier, was a 'Ta-duh!! Behold the man' introduction of the anonymous one from the western prairies coming to see "the magnificence" which dominates our existence. As the clothes show, there's no pretension.

This one here, one might consider a pretension of me being some learned pedagogue. In fact it is me showing the futility of higher knowledge using a surrogate symbol as the all-rectifying variable 'leap of logic' that gives the inscrutable process to resolving the problem. 

 

This next image of 'The Four Horseman is more abstract presentation representing my attitude of a prophet foretelling the future.It would be a more verbal performance for which the 'future' is the sole validating manifestation

 

This, as my subjective opinion of my operative performance, could be affirmed by objective consensus of others of my actions and expressions.

The symbol of 'Marie of the French Revolution' is similar to the icon image of 'the Show-off'. Again, thee performance is the judgement of my congruence with the ethos that this image projects

                              

 

                                           

The imageof Skaka is another 'attitude projection' tha would need to be affirmed by congruent actions that would bring King Shaka to mind.

This one is my presentation of my projection of myself, starting with my humanity and then radiating out as the monastic monk-sublime character of shaman. 

All those abstract presentations are fine and temporally consistent with the conventional and extremes manifestations. As current events have demonstrated, what you think you are and aspire to in your own mind and its motivations is secondary to what you actually perform. 

Abstractions are good for rhetoric driven values. When the rhetoric of words are seen as just props, then consistent and congruent acts declare validity and credibility. All the homilies and platitudes do not give validity or credibility, no matter what concurrent rhetoric exists as validation.

As an aside, the posturing of the Western Alliance-NATO to Putin reminds me of the Western Roman Empire to the Huns and Goths from the eastern steppes, and later, 800 years later, how Europe fecklessly responded to the Mongols. The affected actions driven by obstractions, aka faux-theatrics performance for others, behaviors that the nuances of "sophistication" enable such behaviors that people of serious gravitas sneer at with disdain at such dilettante affectations. They are taken with little seriousness.

'THE WORD' -The New Testament for Empaths-

 

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'THE WORD'

-The New Testament for Empaths-

       

Now those with insight will know why Jesus and 

the Christmas narrative have been so enduring 

over the ages.  In times of so great greed, amorality, 

corruption, and callousness in the pursuit of 

naked power; so great that people were abandoned 

to seek shelter in competition with their kindred 

beasts of toil, a promised hope entered the world. 

And just on the rumor of that presence's meaning, 

the genesis of a new testament of #Liberation 

replaced the default acceptance of 

‘things-as-they-are’ for the 

‘THINGS-THAT-COULD/SHOULD-BE’.

Just as then, the callous depravity of those with 

the temporary stewardship of the Earth’s bounty 

has become so figuratively and literally grave that 

such an ethos has become a consensus, 

main-stream behavior to the great adversity to the 

have-nots of privilege and access.

Even in these adversely formidable conditions, 

the animistic spirit of physiological empathy is still 

an in-born characteristic which dwells in the breasts 

of those for whom the hardships of their common 

diversity is shared. In that sharing another ethos 

dialectic is inseminated and gestates. It is the practices 

of equity and cooperative existence. 

In that existence are the standards of decency, which 

have been sidelined by those of more selfish and 

depraved motives. Yet, that decency speaks to a state 

of felicitous and facilitating grace exhibited in the 

mutual caring for the other to affirm the mutual intents 

of that equity and grace. That grace has an overarching 

purpose of being the bulwark against the selfish 

depravities of the times.

That bulwark, personified in an individual presence 

and the articulated narrations of that presence, 

is the enduring and ever-renewing testament for our 

inbred physiology of empathetic solidarity for one 

another’s condition, as given by the paradigm of 

the advent of ‘The Nativity’.

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Seeking another way -Moving beyond the provincial nest of thinking

Beyond the bubble of security of hierarchies

Very similar to the fattened beast being led to their slaughter, so are many of us with our delusional belief in being the dutiful and obedient institutional person who has material security as a substitute for their feral powers. We settle and accommodate ourselves to the point where we see it as the ONLY existential reality. So busy earning a living, that we end up just existing in a world of material and emotional escapist trappings which we consensually share with others who've sold their 'being' out to live in a paradigm of servitude of false promises.

In this bubble, you talk about all the little mundane and trivial happenings that you have elevated to drama, melodrama, and emotional mountains of importance, when all they are are but trivial mechanics of process that you've let get beyond your reach with the accommodation to being 'adaptive' to your being disempowered. You look at the ephemeral trinkets, bling, and other possesions of status, while all around you at the social and civic margins you see the wolves of this world devour those same type of beasts like you who were caught at the margins where predatory opportunist had their way with them. But it wasn't you. You emote some affected sympathy, but there's little you can do, because there's little you have been doing for decades to get out from that bubble that is your placenta for your delivery into that mythical retirement period of bliss.

Don't believe me. Just listen to the daily chatter that goes on as conversation as you hear the latest soap opera of low-drama and trivia raised to an existential crisis, not because it is so overwhelming, but because the people have resigned themselves to being so cognitively with their heads up their ass in denial of this day of reckoning as they put off any affirmative, beyond-the-bubble-disturbance to their relative, material and physical, 'comfort' zone so not to deal with the underlying condition that they've been so busy chasing material security and comfort, that they have degraded their ability to deal with adversity with their native talents beyond affected, social ritualistic, emoting.

Out in the hinterland weeds

Checking in to talk about two different but similar paradigms, and why I'm not a 'love forever' but a '10 minute passion guy' and why I have yet to have any allegiance beyond my ACTIVE DUTY military service to any institution-it's just a job for services rendered and the paycheck.

Back in the day...When I was under the enchantment of the romanticism's images and homilies that exploited my hormonal rushes, I was willing to sacrifice my soul to experience that which teasingly titillated my mind and body. After experiencing the mental gauntlet with their hoops and trip-wires that required me to put up with the emotional limitations of an otherwise iconic image, 'happily forever after' and 'to death do us part' were more illusion and a sentence, respectively, for me. It was better having a 'buddette' with whom I could have an altruistic collaboration on the mundane details and the occasional sublime moments, in appreciation for who she is, her aspirations, and her ethics, then sign my 'Self' to a blood contract giving absolute entitlement with a blood-letting for an escape clause. I was lucky that I didn't have to go through a blood-letting, but judging by some who have settled or resigned themselves to their 'partner' I'm sure the motto, "It's cheaper to keep her" is the ruling doctrine. And it definitely works both ways for you women (since very few of you could honestly admit to the false modesty description of 'ladies')who have lumps of aggravating lard occupying your couches in your living rooms. Just give me an iconic,few, passionate moments of mutual admiration and intent. If there are further planned or casual meets, then FINE. But I'm more gratified for the cognitive marker of emotional, visceral, and mental intensity and acuity that was brought to my consciousness then to continue to want or expect-beyond any procreative necessity, the 'mate with emotional baggage'.

Speaking of 'with emotional baggage', let me connect the institutional baggage many employers want you to swallow as your paradigm of being the team-player, careerist for them. Unless your self-employed and want to concur with a mea-culpa about this, I'm talking to you, Joe and Jane Shift-Salaryworker. Though I enlisted so not be drafted for whatever skill Uncle Sam wanted to place me, I found that the people I interacted with as an ACTIVE DUTY soldier and airman looked for each other's morale in our existential state of potential deployment into a conflict zone, then some of their civilian counterparts who have adopted the architecture of the military hierarchy but do not have the ethics of concern by the management who see leadership as a title than something that is earned by daily example setting. These institutions would steal your time, and even your life and limbs away in economic extortion for the privilege of being an at-will employee who could be fired or forced to retire early with your so-called vested benefit hanging in vulnerable non-reliance. FOR THISyou should hang on 15 to 20 years of your life when you KNOW before the first five that its no more than a paycheck, health bennies-as partial that they are, and some pension, with the caveat the company doesn't declare bankruptcy and goes through a restructuring that diminishes those hopes to the same level as Social Security. For all this material 'security' you sold your life away to the equivalent of a bad marriage with little fringe benefits! It's better to be a self-employed tradesman or artisan, if not for the tax laws that fleece you, who don't have a team of lawyers to find or lobby loop-holes for you at the state capitols or in the 'Beltway'. You might as well look at work as just a job where you can learn some skill and , if lucky enough, meet some people who are cognitively inspirational for your empowerment. Just like that iconic love-buddy of the moment, that job is for a season of intellectual and emotional seasoning for the next possibility, like than next iconic encounter, that comes along