From: freebikermag.blogspot
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Zwelinzima Vavi
Zwelinzima Vavi's address to the Ruth First Memorial Lecture
17 August 2010, Wits University
This is a most important speech, please read it. Not only a vicious enictment against the rainbow nation and it's pigs, erm leaders, but it states clearly why we are beset by strikes again.
Nedbank's CEO earned 43 mil last year! That is obscene. And it shows how far apart we are. Further in fact, than during apartheid!! We are more divided economically than during apartheid. Read that again. We middle class types are paying syupid amounts into the government, yet NOBODY save the ANC members are benefitting in any way. The only way the poor are benefitting in my opinion by by the selfless giving of these same overtaxed middle class.
This government is not only failing, it is working very hard at fucking this country up. Cosatu (mostly) is the only real hope of change, since the only thing that the ANC respects is a mob.
High time Cosatu moved onto DA pastures and enjoys the fruits of western thought. Enough with this child-in-a-sweet-shop mentality that threatens us all with a fate worse than apartheid could ever be.
17 August 2010, Wits University
This is a most important speech, please read it. Not only a vicious enictment against the rainbow nation and it's pigs, erm leaders, but it states clearly why we are beset by strikes again.
Nedbank's CEO earned 43 mil last year! That is obscene. And it shows how far apart we are. Further in fact, than during apartheid!! We are more divided economically than during apartheid. Read that again. We middle class types are paying syupid amounts into the government, yet NOBODY save the ANC members are benefitting in any way. The only way the poor are benefitting in my opinion by by the selfless giving of these same overtaxed middle class.
This government is not only failing, it is working very hard at fucking this country up. Cosatu (mostly) is the only real hope of change, since the only thing that the ANC respects is a mob.
High time Cosatu moved onto DA pastures and enjoys the fruits of western thought. Enough with this child-in-a-sweet-shop mentality that threatens us all with a fate worse than apartheid could ever be.
Monday, 16 August 2010
Motorheads
www.motorheads.co.za
The coolest thing i've seen for a while!! A diary with all the major (and minor) motor vehicle events in South Africa. You want one.
Friday, 13 August 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Faith Hope and Charity
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
OR
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.*
Why love or charity? i'm going to have to research that.
Faith Hope and Charity were 3 bi-planes who held off the italian airforce over malta, early ww2. Saved my grandad's life no doubt. They were outclassed in every way, by machines a generation ahead. Vastly outnumbered, and requiring major repairs almost every time they ewent up, truly were 3 machines so aptly named. He told me once of sounding the air raid sirens, then watching the me109's go straffing the streets and houses.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Synchonicity
You're walking alone minding your own business, when suddenly facts are beating up your mind from all directions at once. Connections you can hear click as they slide perfectly into place in your mind.
Last night i had the honour of watching 2 owls come say hello. Myself and the kids just watched them quietly. We think they're nesting in the palm tree just outside, we'll be watching for more sightings!! I saw one at first, as he was denied dinner by a quick witted little bird, then as i was admiring the second sprang to focus on the next door neighbours roof. Beautiful birds! Too dark for photo's though.
Then we were doing some internet searches on a famous sa politian. The kids could only name mandela ... a sad state of brainwashing if i've ever seen it. So i introduced them to the late Field Marshall Jan Smuts. As politically correct as an awb member in soweto, yet fascinating and definitely worthy of praise for the very full and positive life he lived. A decorated soldier and statesman, the only man who signed both the Treaty of Versailles and the UN. Much of the importance escaped the kids, who apparently lack any real education.
Anyhow, we did a comparison between Smuts and Mandela, and found the famous black guy sadly lacking in credentials. WHY is he so damned famous? More famous than any other world leader since Ghandi, who was also a manufactured item, and also closely linked to SA. In this age of media celebrities, Mandela has become an icon, an untouchable. As big as the poep i'd say. Our own little poep, how convenient. This was a curious conversation in it's own right, but then today a new article was brought to my attention, about some of the skeletons in his closet. Unacknowledged children, wife beating, the usual sa fare. Add in the blood diamonds, and several other questionable events, well he is no saint, not even an admirable man. Just another problem.
Despite all the greatness, his legacy looks no different to apartheid's. A few fantastically rich men, millions of people with neither shelter nor water, and a government that seeks to destroy everything in it's path.
I listened to Bruce Dickinson last night, from whence came the previous post, which started all sorts of correlations in recent thought. Then i was reminded of the "11 phenomenon" ... a few webpages and such and synchronicities were literally screaming at me. Bible passages i quickly looked at echoed in ideas i'd just been thinking of.
BANG BANG BANG
I have no ... conclusion or anything. But the clicking into place of each part is re-assuring, it reminds me that there's stuff in my own head i don't understand. Yes, i like not knowing about the workings of inside my head. Perhaps a great epiphany awaits, i'm overdue for one. But for now, just alert, watching and waiting. For another message or sign or fact to help me understand this really very bizarre planet we share.
EDIT:
About mandela and synchronicities, i only found this now:
Nonexistent Mandela?
by Anonymous
2010-08-12 11:00
Thats just wierd.
Last night i had the honour of watching 2 owls come say hello. Myself and the kids just watched them quietly. We think they're nesting in the palm tree just outside, we'll be watching for more sightings!! I saw one at first, as he was denied dinner by a quick witted little bird, then as i was admiring the second sprang to focus on the next door neighbours roof. Beautiful birds! Too dark for photo's though.
Then we were doing some internet searches on a famous sa politian. The kids could only name mandela ... a sad state of brainwashing if i've ever seen it. So i introduced them to the late Field Marshall Jan Smuts. As politically correct as an awb member in soweto, yet fascinating and definitely worthy of praise for the very full and positive life he lived. A decorated soldier and statesman, the only man who signed both the Treaty of Versailles and the UN. Much of the importance escaped the kids, who apparently lack any real education.
Anyhow, we did a comparison between Smuts and Mandela, and found the famous black guy sadly lacking in credentials. WHY is he so damned famous? More famous than any other world leader since Ghandi, who was also a manufactured item, and also closely linked to SA. In this age of media celebrities, Mandela has become an icon, an untouchable. As big as the poep i'd say. Our own little poep, how convenient. This was a curious conversation in it's own right, but then today a new article was brought to my attention, about some of the skeletons in his closet. Unacknowledged children, wife beating, the usual sa fare. Add in the blood diamonds, and several other questionable events, well he is no saint, not even an admirable man. Just another problem.
Despite all the greatness, his legacy looks no different to apartheid's. A few fantastically rich men, millions of people with neither shelter nor water, and a government that seeks to destroy everything in it's path.
I listened to Bruce Dickinson last night, from whence came the previous post, which started all sorts of correlations in recent thought. Then i was reminded of the "11 phenomenon" ... a few webpages and such and synchronicities were literally screaming at me. Bible passages i quickly looked at echoed in ideas i'd just been thinking of.
BANG BANG BANG
I have no ... conclusion or anything. But the clicking into place of each part is re-assuring, it reminds me that there's stuff in my own head i don't understand. Yes, i like not knowing about the workings of inside my head. Perhaps a great epiphany awaits, i'm overdue for one. But for now, just alert, watching and waiting. For another message or sign or fact to help me understand this really very bizarre planet we share.
EDIT:
About mandela and synchronicities, i only found this now:
Nonexistent Mandela?
by Anonymous
2010-08-12 11:00
Thats just wierd.
1000 Points of Light
You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools
You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules
But you can't take a mother and give her back her son
What kind of freedom is bought with a gun?
People like to build their prison walls
When they're afraid to look inside a...
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
Political speeches, they're lying in the mud
Nothing else matters but money and blood
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like
There's a world gone crazy, 'cos it can't say no
People like to build their prison walls
When they're afraid to look inside a...
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
A thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
[George Bush:]
'What is it that produces the light?'
'What is it that makes these thousand points of light shine?'
'What is it that will make America a kinder and gentler nation?'
'Perhaps I should ask who, who is it?'
There should be time for love
But there's too much room for hate
Too much sliding of the truth
Too much abuse of wasted youth
There's a time for dying
And a time for living, too
Had enough of media lies
Had enough of your alibis
A thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold...
Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso
You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules
But you can't take a mother and give her back her son
What kind of freedom is bought with a gun?
People like to build their prison walls
When they're afraid to look inside a...
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
Political speeches, they're lying in the mud
Nothing else matters but money and blood
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like
There's a world gone crazy, 'cos it can't say no
People like to build their prison walls
When they're afraid to look inside a...
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
A thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
[George Bush:]
'What is it that produces the light?'
'What is it that makes these thousand points of light shine?'
'What is it that will make America a kinder and gentler nation?'
'Perhaps I should ask who, who is it?'
There should be time for love
But there's too much room for hate
Too much sliding of the truth
Too much abuse of wasted youth
There's a time for dying
And a time for living, too
Had enough of media lies
Had enough of your alibis
A thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold
Thousand points of light
Are the muzzle flashes in the night
And the freedoms you profess to hold
Won't bring the dead back from the cold...
Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Meeting Yourself
“when you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself, as you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself”
Heroes
Here is my latest hero.
Julian Heicklen was born at an early age. At 8 days, he was circumcised. This was so traumatic that he did not walk or talk for a year. There was nothing unusual about his early development. He went to Cornell University to become the usual engineering nerd.
Unfortunately, while in high school, his uncle gave him a book about the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. To complicate matters, while at Cornell, he read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. He transformed from the ordinary engineering nerd into a raving maniac about freedom. Ever since, he engaged in all sorts of socially unacceptable behavior. He stole a house, won the Yom Kippur war for Israel, corresponded with Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov, tried to sue the U.S. Post Office, smoked pot at the main gate of Penn State University every Thursday for 3 years, had a municipal law declared unconstitutional, and distributed subversive material at the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan. He has been arrested 23 times and incarcerated 8 times.
He has the delusional idea that he can transform the United States from a totalitarian government into a free society. His wife and daughters are trying to get him committed to an old age home. He prefers prison where he has around the clock police protection, something he could not otherwise afford. In addition, that is where the interesting people reside.
Rock on!!!
http://jailedactivist.info/activists/julian-heicklen/
Julian Heicklen was born at an early age. At 8 days, he was circumcised. This was so traumatic that he did not walk or talk for a year. There was nothing unusual about his early development. He went to Cornell University to become the usual engineering nerd.
Unfortunately, while in high school, his uncle gave him a book about the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. To complicate matters, while at Cornell, he read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. He transformed from the ordinary engineering nerd into a raving maniac about freedom. Ever since, he engaged in all sorts of socially unacceptable behavior. He stole a house, won the Yom Kippur war for Israel, corresponded with Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov, tried to sue the U.S. Post Office, smoked pot at the main gate of Penn State University every Thursday for 3 years, had a municipal law declared unconstitutional, and distributed subversive material at the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan. He has been arrested 23 times and incarcerated 8 times.
He has the delusional idea that he can transform the United States from a totalitarian government into a free society. His wife and daughters are trying to get him committed to an old age home. He prefers prison where he has around the clock police protection, something he could not otherwise afford. In addition, that is where the interesting people reside.
Rock on!!!
http://jailedactivist.info/activists/julian-heicklen/
Monday, 9 August 2010
Auto life
From plasma crystals and helical structures towards inorganic living matter
Abstract. Complex plasmas may naturally self-organize themselves into stable interacting helical structures that exhibit features normally attributed to organic living matter. The self-organization is based on non-trivial physical mechanisms of plasma interactions involving over-screening of plasma polarization. As a result, each helical string composed of solid microparticles is topologically and dynamically controlled by plasma fluxes leading to particle charging and over-screening, the latter providing attraction even among helical strings of the same charge sign. These interacting complex structures exhibit thermodynamic and evolutionary features thought to be peculiar only to living matter such as bifurcations that serve as `memory marks', self-duplication, metabolic rates in a thermodynamically open system, and non-Hamiltonian dynamics. We examine the salient features of this new complex `state of soft matter' in light of the autonomy, evolution, progenity and autopoiesis principles used to define life. It is concluded that complex self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter that may exist in space provided certain conditions allow them to evolve naturally.
ok, for all the NON particles theorists, the short version.
Plasma, left to itself in space, automatically arranges itself into a double helix spiral, which then proceeds to behave like something alive. Life is a default action of matter in the universe. This blows the lid off the probabilities of extra-terrestrial life, producing DNA is what the universe DOES.
The entire understanding of the universe has just been jarred, but i'm not surprised. As above - so below, in action, the fractal universe at work.
We tend to think of ourselves in a "web" in 2-D thinking, whereas we're connected in all directions, even those we don't yet know about, like macro and micra connections to things. I guess astrology is a "spinoff" of this theory, but astrology is not science, not truly, it's human, ie flawed, even if "creative license" is the excuse.
Let there be light. And there was love. This love burst into our universe as the big bang. It condensed into raging burning matter and still carrying VAST kinetic energy. Once cooled, it had the natural ability to organise itself into something more than itself. We are the direct intended result of the universe being created, to sustain life. Abundantly.
Abstract. Complex plasmas may naturally self-organize themselves into stable interacting helical structures that exhibit features normally attributed to organic living matter. The self-organization is based on non-trivial physical mechanisms of plasma interactions involving over-screening of plasma polarization. As a result, each helical string composed of solid microparticles is topologically and dynamically controlled by plasma fluxes leading to particle charging and over-screening, the latter providing attraction even among helical strings of the same charge sign. These interacting complex structures exhibit thermodynamic and evolutionary features thought to be peculiar only to living matter such as bifurcations that serve as `memory marks', self-duplication, metabolic rates in a thermodynamically open system, and non-Hamiltonian dynamics. We examine the salient features of this new complex `state of soft matter' in light of the autonomy, evolution, progenity and autopoiesis principles used to define life. It is concluded that complex self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter that may exist in space provided certain conditions allow them to evolve naturally.
ok, for all the NON particles theorists, the short version.
Plasma, left to itself in space, automatically arranges itself into a double helix spiral, which then proceeds to behave like something alive. Life is a default action of matter in the universe. This blows the lid off the probabilities of extra-terrestrial life, producing DNA is what the universe DOES.
The entire understanding of the universe has just been jarred, but i'm not surprised. As above - so below, in action, the fractal universe at work.
We tend to think of ourselves in a "web" in 2-D thinking, whereas we're connected in all directions, even those we don't yet know about, like macro and micra connections to things. I guess astrology is a "spinoff" of this theory, but astrology is not science, not truly, it's human, ie flawed, even if "creative license" is the excuse.
Let there be light. And there was love. This love burst into our universe as the big bang. It condensed into raging burning matter and still carrying VAST kinetic energy. Once cooled, it had the natural ability to organise itself into something more than itself. We are the direct intended result of the universe being created, to sustain life. Abundantly.
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Conspiracy of SAPS
The point of the Selebi victory is not that a single man faulted, but that he was dragged kicking and screaming from amongst his high powered friends and brought to order. The fact that his friends tried to protect him all the way speaks volumes for the determination of the prosecutors.
The point of the Selebi victory is that ALL of his friends should be similarly brought to book. And they can be. Now the man who instigated the investigation is fearing for his life, not from Selebi, but these "friends".
From IOL: Paul O'Sullivan, the man who blew the whistle on corrupt police chief Jackie Selebi, has laid a charge against Gauteng police intelligence chief Joey Mabasa, who he claims is involved with a gangster who has taken out a contract hit on him.
...
O'Sullivan believes Mabasa, who was the first person to be phoned by Lolly Jackson's alleged killer, George Smith, deliberately ruined O'Sullivan's investigation into Jackson (who O'Sullivan was investigating for links to Selebi) and then gave the documents relating to the probe to gangsters who have arranged for hired killers to kill him, just like Jackson was.
...
The Saturday Star has received a comprehensive dossier containing what appears to be affidavits of underworld figures all blowing the whistle in exchange for indemnity and transcripts of conversations between O'Sullivan, Mabasa and other senior intelligence officials.
end.
This is direct evidence that the entire top echelon of the police is corrupt. Cele's little games are only the start of this war against the citizenry. Again, we all suspect Selebi will be either found innocent on appeal, the SCA has shown several times recently their penchant for political verdicts. Or, he'll be diagnosed with the rare "shaik syndrome".
The point of the Selebi victory is that ALL of his friends should be similarly brought to book. And they can be. Now the man who instigated the investigation is fearing for his life, not from Selebi, but these "friends".
From IOL: Paul O'Sullivan, the man who blew the whistle on corrupt police chief Jackie Selebi, has laid a charge against Gauteng police intelligence chief Joey Mabasa, who he claims is involved with a gangster who has taken out a contract hit on him.
...
O'Sullivan believes Mabasa, who was the first person to be phoned by Lolly Jackson's alleged killer, George Smith, deliberately ruined O'Sullivan's investigation into Jackson (who O'Sullivan was investigating for links to Selebi) and then gave the documents relating to the probe to gangsters who have arranged for hired killers to kill him, just like Jackson was.
...
The Saturday Star has received a comprehensive dossier containing what appears to be affidavits of underworld figures all blowing the whistle in exchange for indemnity and transcripts of conversations between O'Sullivan, Mabasa and other senior intelligence officials.
end.
This is direct evidence that the entire top echelon of the police is corrupt. Cele's little games are only the start of this war against the citizenry. Again, we all suspect Selebi will be either found innocent on appeal, the SCA has shown several times recently their penchant for political verdicts. Or, he'll be diagnosed with the rare "shaik syndrome".
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Blog awards
So i'm perusing the South African blogosphere again, haven't done it or a while. Some really good stuff there. Lotsa crap. No really, tons of meaningless drivel.
Each to their own :)
Here's some that caught me fancy, never know what it is, some it's the feel of the site, some it's the photo's, some the mood of the person. Nice to feel that other people are doing stuff, just like you. This blog is about the inside of my head, which is odd. Yes, both ways.
In no particular order, i present my pick of the blog awards, which by the way i don't think i've seen them ALL, so if i've missed one please let me know :)
http://theartistandthewriter.blogspot.com/
http://spearthealmighty.blogspot.com/
http://strangestthings.wordpress.com/
http://takemyhandfollowmethere.wordpress.com/
http://letterdash.com/ThinkFFS
http://prisonpocket.blogspot.com/
http://01universe.blogspot.com/
http://blindcripple.co.za/
http://quietriotgirltakesnote.blogspot.com/
Must add i've got some friends and other local stuff on the right, always someone with something to say.
peace
PS, let's see if this works:
PPS Clever monkey.
PPPS Gawds it's big hey?
PPPPS Fixed.
Each to their own :)
Here's some that caught me fancy, never know what it is, some it's the feel of the site, some it's the photo's, some the mood of the person. Nice to feel that other people are doing stuff, just like you. This blog is about the inside of my head, which is odd. Yes, both ways.
In no particular order, i present my pick of the blog awards, which by the way i don't think i've seen them ALL, so if i've missed one please let me know :)
http://theartistandthewriter.blogspot.com/
http://spearthealmighty.blogspot.com/
http://strangestthings.wordpress.com/
http://takemyhandfollowmethere.wordpress.com/
http://letterdash.com/ThinkFFS
http://prisonpocket.blogspot.com/
http://01universe.blogspot.com/
http://blindcripple.co.za/
http://quietriotgirltakesnote.blogspot.com/
Must add i've got some friends and other local stuff on the right, always someone with something to say.
peace
PS, let's see if this works:
PPS Clever monkey.
PPPS Gawds it's big hey?
PPPPS Fixed.
They're coming to take us away
Look at these men's faces. They are policemen en route to arrest a journalist. These are our enemies now.This one in front looks a common ganster. Behaves the same way too. They are trying to get us you know?
EDIT!!!!!
IOL
Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika's case has been thrown out of court, TheTimesLive website reported on Thursday.
"The Kwa Bokweni court prosecutor has declined to prosecute Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika, saying he has no case to answer," reported the website.
It quoted the prosecutor, a Mr Erwee, as saying he had declined to prosecute him "on the grounds that he has no case to answer".
But Wa Afrika has not been released by the police yet.
WTF is going on here???
Ok, more edit stuffs:
So this journalist was arrested, marched to court, where the prosecutors declined to charge him. The person was not released, and after several hours of closed door meetings the charges were re-instated.
The apparent reason is a resignation letter of some sort, but we have monkey Cele claiming at the start of a press conference on this matter:
At a briefing convened to clarify the "incorrect and worse, misleading" article, Cele told reporters in Pretoria on Tuesday he did not sign a R500 million lease agreement for an 18-storey building in the capital city, but only a "needs assessment".
If he had signed the lease, to run over 20 years, it would have meant had not followed correct tender procedures.
Sunday Times editor Ray Hartley said the paper had a copy of the signed lease in its possession.
Wa Afrika was arrested a day after Cele called him a "very shady journalist", and when asked if he would take action against the reporter, he replied: "Time will tell".
The crux of the Selebi problem is not that a single man fell, but that he represnts what still stands in govt, claiming all authority over us.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Road surfing continued
So after my little session this morning, i was looking through the blog awards, just seeing what's out there.
And i found this.
Found at: http://www.guywithcamera.co.za/inspiration/dopamine/
The Photographer, Dustin Humphrey is represented by a Production House in California called Reel Sessions.
Road surfing
It's like you're swimming at the beach. A hot summer day, and the beach is packed full of people, all vying for the cool waves. Bumping into each other, splahing in the shallows. And all of a sudden, just out of reach, is a surfer.
He is flying across the water in complete control, zooming through the water like something from up high. You feel the escape ... the wind and spray and rush.
That's what it's like. Riding a bike through early morning traffic. Can't call it rush hour, because everybody is taking their turn in waiting. They sit in the haze and smog in their little metal bubbles, soaking up the bad radio, aircon gas, and mutual impotence. It's a really pitiful experience this traffic thing. Made only bearable by the wonder of two wheels.
I had a great trip to work. I went fast, and slow, straight bits and zig zags, open road and stuck behind a gs. I had nice cars and stupid morons, i waved and revved to each in turn. Such a happy way to pass the dreary miles between home and work. I highly recommend it :)
I found this pic of "lane-splitting" and hey look it's a fazer. Love the plate. Great bike for commuting. Although apparently the new fz8 is a bunch of crap. Pity, i like yamaha, but they're not really doing it right anymore. Especially not in SA. Was looking at a triumph scrambler yesterday, ooooo. Sort of dirty green, it suited the bike perfectly. Rough and tough, it was begging to be treated to a dirty splash in the mud. Something my bike does NOT enjoy.
But you have what you need, and always some more. I made an R1 look silly last night. Of course, he was looking silly all by himself before i got there, but that's a seperate issue. Always fun though. I got this thing, STAY in the biker lane. Unless a specific vehicle (usually a track) poses a danger in the fast lane, you stay where you belong. No yellow lines, no zipping over to the slow lane because it's empty. You stay where you belong, and you bloody well thank people when they give you space. If you don't know how to be grateful for the mercies shown you, you don't deserve them. Guys on JHB's roads, they seem unbalanced. Happy enough to rev or hoot, but raising a hand in thanks is beyond them. It's ok, the superior man is going slow enough that raising a hand is not a problem.
I'll leave you with this pic, look how many bikers their are! I'm counting 6, what an awesome place that must be.
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Bloody noisy
That's me. So i'm in a very WIERD headspace recently. Part divine, part madness, interesting times indeed. I have concluded that i am insane. There is no alternative. However, when i examine my situation i am heartened, because it means that inside me is some measure of good.
Sanity is the mythos within which we abide. I reject the mythos. I cannot accept it. I was accused today of being Christian, with a capital C. Are the two connected? Perhaps. If i called myself, it could be student, of life. I find myself quite startled to be here, confused, even indignant. For this life thing is a dirty business. But i am here, in this time, this place, and it's broken. Pretty much. We have placed man at the head of everything, and yet it doesn't work for us. Doesn't work for anything on this planet.
I had two questions posted me this eve, one by an old friend, the other by a new, and both are very provocative questions. Both demand a really good look at motivations.
I answered the first in the comments to Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's speech earlier. I recommend you read it, it forms part of my thought in this. What do we do? And do and do? Mankind has to keep DOing. Doesn't it? NO dammit. It doesn't work. This social atmosphere of constant thrust that we have perfectly justified to ourselves is not working. Yeah it sounds good. Sounds freakin great. All of it, the tech, the style, the magic, the science. But look at the people. I'm not the only person to see it, i think everybody sees it. What they then DO is where it gets wrong. Why? Man puts man first.
***i smoke too much ***
***puff***
I sit here and type furiously on my keyboard, i KNOW i am right. I know these things must be said. What you have to do is burn the box. But wow i sit here and see the problem so clear, i believe that love is the both problem and solution. Problem when rejected, solution when accepted. Here's how it works ...
Vapour Emotion
Water Energy
Ice Matter
Get it? Got it? Good.
Science gets to water. Even particles physics is playing in a puddle. Albeit a very small one. Emotion is real. Science is right, about most stuff. But it is not right about it's limits. And unless you accept the fallibility of science and conventional wisdom, you will not be able to recognise what ELSE is available to us. And the beauty is, laws of conservation of energies be damned, theres PLENTY of energy in this universe. So much it would blow our minds. Love is the key.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Thessalonians 13 ... my bible bashing for the evening. But seriously, read that. It's about love. And like God, it's a riddle that solves itself. If God does not exist, then there is much that doesn't make sense, like the duck billed platypus. If God exists, then a lot more kinda seems to be clearer, starting from the singularity and working from there. The problem is, this is not an intellectual riddle, it's a spiritual one. I told you, burn the box! The only way you get round this one is stop thinking and feel. Oh it's a long time you done that. It's there.
"A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Funny that, i heard an old boer lady say a similar thing recently. And i'm not talking about God giving haitians earthquakes (i'm betting haarp ... /tinfoil hat off]. It's about you, your family, community, town and country. Either you're doing it right or you're doing it wrong. We're mostly getting it VERY wrong. There's a solution. There is. Here. Love.
I didn't sleep well last night, other people didn't either, i was told. Found an article says the sun's activity was intense. Are they connected? i don't know. Science doesn't know either. We're stoopid huh? But i like the thought.
Something else i have to say. Jesus Christ is Lord. Another one of those truths. Like love. You won't believe me. Your box will burn well, just gotta know where to light it. Love.
peace and love and great big featherpillows
SA Blog Awards
So i'm in there, somewhere. How is a pretty good question, for science and technology, of all things. They didn't read my blog did they?
Best thing is finding new and stimulating blogs to read.
Of course, i voted for me, i mean, who wouldn't? AND ... i DESERVE a noddy badge, mkay?
Mkay.
PS <-- i dig dis ... oh yes i was going to say ... http://sa-essay.blogspot.com/2010/06/coldest-ever.html ... and http://sa-essay.blogspot.com/2010/05/chilbolton-arecibo-message-formation.html this is the best (funniest, most stimulating, intriuging) conversation i've had in a while.
Go to http://ionian-enchantment.blogspot.com/for a really good giggle at narrow minded monkey-man at his worst. (hint: open your hand, let GO the banana)
PPS ... OOOOOK!
A World Split Apart
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978
(An extract)
Western society has chosen for itself the organization best suited to its purposes and one I might call legalistic. The limits of human rights and rightness are determined by a system of laws; such limits are very broad. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting, and manipulating law (though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert). Every conflict is solved according to the letter of the law and this is considered to be the ultimate solution.
If one is risen from a legal point of view, nothing more is required, nobody may mention that one could still not be right, and urge self-restraint or a renunciation of these rights, call for sacrifice and selfless risk: this would simply sound absurd. Voluntary self-restraint is almost unheard of: everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme limit of the legal frames. (An oil company is legally blameless when it buys up an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer: after all, people are free not to purchase it.)
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher fails to take full advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes man's noblest impulses.
And it will be simply impossible to bear up to the trials of this threatening century with nothing but the supports of a legalistic structure.
Today's Western society has revealed the inequality between the freedom for good deeds and the freedom for evil deeds. A statesman who wants to achieve something highly constructive for his country has to move cautiously and even timidly; thousands of hasty (and irresponsible) critics cling to him at all times; he is constantly rebuffed by parliament and the press. He has to prove that his every step is well founded and absolutely flawless. Indeed, an outstanding, truly great person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind does not get any chance to assert himself; dozens of traps will be set for him from the beginning. Thus mediocrity triumphs under the guise of democratic restraints.
Monday, 2 August 2010
TB FYI
Just came to my attention:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QCCGHJW
Everybody is invited to respond, probably because they know "paid up members" is such a short list.
Raising awareness, saving lives. It's not that hard surely? Instead it's devolved into "raising ego's, lamenting the fallen" ...
I cry for what was, and could still be. I've moved on, TOYRUN, ya'know? But Think Bike has become stuck in a groove, and being HELD in the groove, for no other reason than, well it's groovy, ya'know?
I still reckon they shoulda made me chair, i got NO time for bs like this. They got a job to do, and they have been playing happy bikers for far too long, at the expense of the campaign. Too many bikers dying for us to sit and chat about having a beer.
But it's the 1% ideology, and the fact that everybody loves a jol, and no small bikes either. WTF is with that?? It's the smaller bikes that NEED TB, not the patch wearing "big boyz"who frankly should know better by now.
Let me be most clear on this: TB is a safety awareness campaign. There is no place for ego's, alcohol, or anything other than SAVING LIVES. You can't even organise a parking lot training session on a saturday for crying out loud. But invite all and sundry for a high speed ET run ... and everybody and their mother in law wanna tag along for the jol (cos you know it's gonna be a jol).
TB: you have the power, but you have woefully abused the priviledge. Time for a bit of sweeping, you know the old fashioned kind ...
PS. So as usual, think bike are running around hiding stuff. Slim vang sy baas ouens!!!!
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Microstars
Great balls of fire: newborn nerve cells navigate their universe
Picture: Dana Bradford / Courtesy of Australian Museum Eureka Priz
Some microscope images could have come from a powerful telescope. This neurosphere was cultured from an adult mouse brain in a project aiming to determine how new brain cells are born in the adult brain. With nascent neurons (yellow) navigating amongst associated astrocytes (red), it reminds me of a meteorite in the night sky and highlights the mirror relationship between microcosm and macrocosm. In the century old words of Cajal: As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
Power
This is a rant, pure and simple. It's something i need people to hear. Power, specifically your own. Even more specifically that which you give away. And even more so, that which is used against you.
YOU HAVE THE POWER. Full stop end of story. But you give that power away to people. They want it. They'll do ANYTHING to have it. And you let them. And then, to add insult to injury, you HELP them to fuck you over with it by honouring your commitment!!! Enough.
When you allow someone power over you, please hold the reigns? Be it boss husband wife or anyone else, do not let them hang on to the power, take it back. It is yours to take back. They will never relinquish that powwer, certainly not as easily as you did. They know the true value of it, yet you have so given yourself to their control you ACCEPT what they tell you, when they repeatedly hold onto that power. They hold on like a dying man to a liferaft, and tell you it's only a piece of rubbish.
IT'S YOUR POWER. POWER. Read that word and please understand its POWER. Not happiness, or fuzzy feelings, or even self image, it's power raw and pure. And it's still yours. Can never change that. But you have to take it back, hold it, know what it is and feels and looks like. And you need to use it again. It's been so long since you used your power, it's been so long that OTHER people have told you what it is, you don't even remember how it works.
K i'm done. Don't even know who that was for, but i hope it helps.
peace and love
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
*stunned*
This image was presented with my news ... or something equally mundane. Without pre-empting anything, DO YOU SEE IT?????
Look at the whole picture, as much as the parts ... but wow. Comment me if you don't get it ok?
From: student night
Gnostics
So the other day on my favourite forum, i encountered a gnostic. A real live one. What a prat, but moving long. And it was real hard to get to grips with this guy, to figure out exxactly what he was saying. He was certainly well read and intelligent, but he was half true ... it's the other half i couldn't put my finger on.
Arrogant and totally "above" anyone else, he insulted everyone by basically saying i've studied for 34 years, you haven't, you're just another idiot. Which is nice and all, but i'm not. But between myself and one or two others, we managed to ddraw him out and started taking his statements and putting them together and getting a big fat zero.
Another guy posted this link:
http://www.evidencetobelieve.net/gnostic_gospels.htm
Only certain Christians possessed special knowledge (or "gnosis"), and that this knowledge was only given to the spiritual, the few, the "insiders". Not everyone had this "divine spark" -- only those "in the know" - the intellectuals. Those lacking this spiritual knowledge -- well, they were doomed. According to Gnosticism, salvation is attained through the acquisition of special "secret" knowledge, not by grace through faith as the Bible teaches.
and waddaya know? That was exactly what we were debating against. I love debate, i don't care what you think, but i'd like to hear it, and hear you justify it, and we'll do it politely thank you. The whole thrust of his argument was that he had received special "revelation" concerning the mysteries of "rebirth" and "resurection" and how that was the central dogmatic issue of our times, hidden of course by those who know, and the rest of us.
A collection of ancient texts were uncovered with this discovery, many with intriguing titles such as the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Truth, Acts of John, and others. The Nag Hammadi Library, published in 1977, consisted of 45 titles - only a few of which were titled "gospels". In fact, only five are listed as gospels - Truth, Thomas, Philip, Egyptians, and Mary.
Historically they came to the fore about 100AD, and were already then exposed for what they are, sowers of confusion, promising knowledge which would then allow you to become higher than others. Special knowledge huh? Like the Nephilim? Perhaps?
Either way, i thought i'd share the above incident with you. Read the whole article, there's quite a lot in there that may resonate. Life is so much simpler than that, even religion is not complicated. BELIEVE, there ies the only "requirement" for christians, hindus, moslems, buddhists, pagans and so on. Believe in what you will, but no man among us has any guarentees to eternal life / salvation/ karmic unity / 167 virgins unless they believe.
It's the belief and the faith that is more important than the knowledge. Knowledge divides, surely humanity has figured THAT trick out yet? Whereas 100 people who believe in the same thing, are always a most powerful force, when dogma and over thought comes in, then the fractures appear.
"For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - not of works, lest any man should boast." (Eph 2:8)
peace and love
Monday, 26 July 2010
Acid Water
So i read this story this morning, and promptly shat myself.
Johannesburg - Millions of litres of highly acidic mine water is rising up under Johannesburg and, if left unchecked, could spill out into its streets some 18 months from now, Parliament's water affairs portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.
The acid water is currently about 600m below the city's surface, but is rising at a rate of between 0.6 and 0.9m a day, water affairs deputy director water quality management Marius Keet told MPs
Ok, 2 years before JHB does Venice.
She told MPs that residents of many of Gauteng's poorer communities were living alongside, and in some cases on top of, land contaminated by mining activities. They were exposed to high concentrations of cobalt, zinc, arsenic, and cadmium, all known carcinogens, as well as high levels of radioactive uranium.
Come again what the f***?
More than 43 000 tons of gold and 73 000 tons of uranium have been extracted from the region's mines.
According to Liefferink, this mining activity has left a legacy of about 400km² of mine tailings dams and about six billion tons of pyrite tailings containing low-grade uranium.
Friday, 23 July 2010
My bike
So we crunched, me and her. Front fairing assembly is repairable, but as with all things, time and money. This is my streetfighter look. Pretty appropriate, my little bike has quite a few scars from fights, the number plate being one. When i tell people i do 10 illegal things before i get to work, i really mean it :/
I love first thing in the morning when she sits and steams at me like this, and i'm getting my gear on, and my head in the right place. I don't have much depth of lighting, but it's bright enough for people to see me when i'm lane splitting, all i care about really.
She's got a miss, and i'm having issues getting her fuel air mix right, probably because of the miss. But she's developed a cheerful burble as she grumbles and pops to life. The wind is another story, i miss the fairing already. next i want the bigger back sprocket, she goes like a bomb, but you really have to tweak her to do that. I just want torque on tap.
*grin*
Ticket to heaven
I can see what you're looking to find
In the smile on my face
In my peace of mind
In my state of grace
I send what I can
To the man from the ministry
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he talks to me
Now I send what I can to the man
With the diamond ring
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he sure can sing
Now it's all I can afford
But the lord has sent me eternity
It's to save the little children
In a poor country
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
All the way to paradise
Now there's nothing left for luxuries
Nothing left to pay my heating bill
But the good lord will provide
I know he will
So send what you can
To the man with the diamond ring
They're tuning in across the land
To hear him sing
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
In the smile on my face
In my peace of mind
In my state of grace
I send what I can
To the man from the ministry
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he talks to me
Now I send what I can to the man
With the diamond ring
He's a part of heaven's plan
And he sure can sing
Now it's all I can afford
But the lord has sent me eternity
It's to save the little children
In a poor country
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
All the way to paradise
Now there's nothing left for luxuries
Nothing left to pay my heating bill
But the good lord will provide
I know he will
So send what you can
To the man with the diamond ring
They're tuning in across the land
To hear him sing
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
I got a ride all the way to paradise
I got my ticket to heaven
And everlasting life
All the way to paradise
Thank you Dire Straights
Note: this is off the "Calling Elvis" album, which i had as cassette for many years. The whole album is both brilliant and startling, and without hearing it, read the words closely, and you'll feel the dripping scorn that is so tastefully embedded within.
peace and love D:
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Do not piss off the whale ...
From: IOL
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Monday, 19 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
The stars
The moon was gorgeous last night, but i found this image taken of the skies of 2 nights ago, from spaceweather.com.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Land surface temperature
Unashamedly stolen from: WattsUpWithThat
Green seems to be zero degress centigrade. Notice how much cooler the amazon is than the sahara.
Monday, 12 July 2010
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Age of Horus
"Everywhere his government is taking root. Observe for yourselves the decay of the sense of sin, the growth of innocence and irresponsibility, the strange modifications of the reproductive instinct with a tendency to become bi-sexual or epicene, the childlike confidence in progress combined with a nightmare fear of catastrophe, against which we are yet half unwilling to take precautions. Consider the outcrop of dictatorships, only possible when moral growth is in its earliest stages, and the prevalence of infantile cults like Communism, Fascism, Pacifism, health crazes, occultism in nearly all its forms, religions sentimentalized to a point of practical extinction. Consider the populatiry of the cinema, the wireless, the football pools and guessing competitions, all devices for soothing fractious infants, no seed of purpose in them. Consider sport, the babyish enthusiasms and rages which it excites, whole nations disturbed by disputes between boys. Consider war, the atrocities which occur daily and leave us unmoved and hardly worried. We are children."
Alistair Crowley - 1904
See circles top right? Tilt your head to the right ...
Eclipse
Major sporting event
Cauldron (calabash)
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
My sixth, seventh and eighth senses are screaming blue murder at me right now.
PS Add new moon ... uh it's all very very important right now ... just feel it ....
PPS i hate it when i'm right
Same guy who "led" the opening ritual at soccer city, this pic taken a few days ago. Take a nice long look at that AWFUL necklace. ut um ... hey lookee, horus, well whaddaya know?
Friday, 9 July 2010
The Battle of Evermore
Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn-ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold
The seeds of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black,
The tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry,
Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long
The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ringwraiths ride in black,
Ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back.
Bring it back.
At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn-ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold
The seeds of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black,
The tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry,
Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long
The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ringwraiths ride in black,
Ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back.
Bring it back.
At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.
Thank you Led Zeppelin
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
I am my Father's child
As above, so below. Each step up or down revealing new complexities and shapes never seen. So we humans continue our evolution, genes matching and adapting and creating echoes of what has gone before. We, breathing for ancestors, carrying their traditions, traits and beliefs forward to our progeny. A link in a chain far greater than we imagine. Not i, but i as the river of life, flowing strong against our environment.
I was blessed as a child, with good parents and family, who taught me well. I was taught morality, and love by example, and until older could not even conceive of things like violence, and drunkeness. While i did grow up, as we all, nay some, eventually do, i carry within me my past, and appreciate the value, in a world without.
But even my father got it wrong. He lost me, for a time. We are different, and looked at the same things with completely different eyes, and not always in a friendly way either. But these things pass, as all things do, and we were able to make amends between us. I stand between my father and my children, with his father looking on, (a man who i still greatly admire, a man whose heart was always good) and accept the burden that fatherhood is, or can be.
For to be a good father takes sacrifice. You cannot give to your children without taking some of your own share. You pour your life and passion into them, and you do it hoping that they will be better people, than you know you yourself are. For we are all weak, and fail, ourselves, our women, our children. That's just life. To me, the only thing that can be expected of fathers (and mothers) is to put their family first in all things. You HAVE to put yourself, your interests and preferences second to your family.
Not all parents are good though. And i think we have created a society where the good father is a myth. So many of my friends have split homes, and a split home is the definitive sign of a failed father, a failed leader, and failed citizen. For if a man cannot guide and protect his family, then what shall we do with him? I make it perhaps overly simplistic here, but a man who allows his family to walk away is no man, he is broken. If he does not feel the loss, then he did not deserve the honour, if he does feel the loss, perhaps he should have acted sooner, removed more of his ego in the building of the family. But it's a social problem now, where little boys are so ego stroked, especially for displays of strength and prowess, and then promptly inserted into a situation where ego and strength need to be subdued for the game to be won. And they don't know how.
I have stood to take my place in this flow of fatherhood. And in doing so face my own fears and insecurities and weaknesses, and accept them humbly as they ARE mine. But i do it with resolve, that i shall try not make the same mistakes as my father made, but i will still use what was good, whether i thought it was at the time is irrelevant now, i understand where my father did good by his family, at cost.
We are fortunate though, us humans. Caught between mud and the stars we share a Father who has always done what is good, even if we doubt it, or argue against it. There are rules to be followed throughout life, some assumed by choice, like vegetaranism, and others that are universal, you reap what you sow, what goes around, REALLY goes around. We know these things, in our lives and especially with our children.
With a son who has been rather aptly nicknamed "sparkey", the rules exist that if you play with electricity you will get shocked. I am not making these rules up, they exist without me. All i can do is try teach respect for those rules. You break them you're going to get hurt. Sometimes, you have to sit quietly and watch the child break the rules. Don't stand on there you're going to fall .... ok, so don't listen ... crunch ... Waaaaaa .... next time, they'll listen, you hope. If you always catch the child, they'll just keep doing it, they have to learn consequences all by themselves, even if it hurts. As the parent, you can only stand by, perhaps minimise the pain with a pillow or something,and dry the tears.
It takes strength to watch your child fall, it takes care to pick them up, and it takes more love to watch them run away again, now fixed. So it is for us all. We play, run, fall, learn, cry, laugh and all other emotions, but we fall, and are picked up, because that is the way of it.
As confusing as my ways are to my young children, so are the ways of the Father to me, i don't get half of it to be honest, and certainly don't like bits too, like eating all your veggies, and having to wash hands before eating(whats THAT about? i was eating the dirt earlier, i'm still fine?) But what i do understand i accept, and know that it is for my benefit. I am just a child, at play among adults. I don't understand them, much, but i know my Father is standing to the side, over there, as i do when my daughter goes hairing off into a crowd with nary a thought for safety. She KNOWS i am with her always, even when i know i'm not, that's faith right there.
I'm only human after all ...
Monday, 5 July 2010
Number13.co.za
HECTIC bruuuu ...
It's been. So on to something a little more lighthearted. A game.
Wits students i believe. Grassroots internet something something. Brilliantly done though, really compeling and clever. A series of youtube vids and online clues.
Enjoy the creativity :)
Friday, 2 July 2010
Give it to God
It was done.
Peacefully, other people's consciences spurred them to act. Despite much else that i have done recently, i did nothing. I gave it to God and He returned it with a ribbon.
People are good at heart, and know what is good. Family, community, brotherhood, all seek to share communion with each other. No man is an island, we are all part of each other, and in recognising that, we make ourselves bigger, and stronger, and kinder too.
peace and love
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Personal, and public
Right, this is arguably the most difficult post i've ever written. Most likely because i'm in the most difficult place i've ever been. Also because some stuff is personal, other stuff involves a lot of other people, ad i certainly don't wish to air dirty laundry in public, nor slander. This is a post i must write, because i write posts, lol, that's what this blog is for. Just me, another view in this multi-layered multiverse of ours. And despite everything, all the trauma and raw emotion that is coursing through my veins, this is an utterly god post (typo, good post, freudian slip that i think is hilarious right now, because this post can only be about love, and God).
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
Evil exists. Pure, unmitigated evil that slashes and tears and burns mercilesly at all of mankind. We all know it, we've all experienced it at some point. Usually it hides behind a corporation, but sometimes there are men and women who carry that evil inside them. They partake of darkess and keep it safe, and usually hidden, deception above all else. They mix among us, we heedless to their true natures. They infiltrate, obscure, confuse, decieve, lie and all manner of things. The difference between these men and others, is that where a lie is uncovered, it is not a mere slip, or a thoughtless act worthy of remedy, but a small crack in a faultless facade, that shows intentions, which are utterly bestial and base. Not fleeting moments of anger, either, but a systematic and concerted effort to cause pain in others.
Sadly, our conventional methods of dealing with problems are, poblematic at best. For these mn know no limits. Violence, intimidation, co-ersion, blackmail, all these are merely conveniences for these men. Tools to be used against whoever they deam a threat. Because they themselves know more than any others how tenuous their place among us is. They know the falseness of the facade they wear. So they run amok among us, creating pain and misery and suffering, seemingly free of our bounds, of kindness and fellow humanity.
The thing i've learned though, is that like all bullies, they are terribly afraid inside themsves. And like all bullies have that hidden fear that consumes them. That fear is terribly simple, truth.
They are never misguided, they are willfilly opposed to truth, and the truth is the light. Like a light, the truth is open for all to see. They hide the truth, it's part of their game. And the truth is the greatest weapon against them. It sends them reeling in agony.
I have been involved with two such men, in the last few days. Truth be told, i've been involved with them both for years. Decades of pain and hate that i never even full conceived of. Not so much for me, this is so much not about me, but everyone around me. And i have stood silent too long in the face of this evil. I was hoodwinked too, and believed the deception, and allowed them to work their evil ways. And they have. Standing now at the summit, overlooking mountains and valleys of lives and stories, i see their acts. I see their victims crying out. I see their hearts full of malice and ego. I see the blood, the tears, and i see the effects, years later of their carefully construed slights. And i find myself unable to remain silent. I find myself standing before them as a messenger of truth and i speak the truth.
The hardest is not letting your own personal truths replace those of other far more deserving of this moment. The hardest is needing to know that it is not your own malice that drives your tongue. The hardest is speaking truths which will cut to the core and shatter their frail minds. The hardest is speaking the truth.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Sounds like pretty good advice to me. I follow that advice. No really, ok?
But all men will be judged, at some point.
Mene mene tekel parson.
We shall all have our day, once we die. We will face whatever stands behind the veil, and be accountable for our travels on this plane, or perhaps through this corner of the cave. Some men are fortunate, and are asked to account for their works while still alive and are able to make remedy. Able, but not always willing.
My heart is terribly sad right now. For both victim and perpetrator. But the sadness is mixed with anger. Blind rage at the blackness of the soul that caused this. And sometimes, one cannot stand aside and do nothing. For that would be the victory of all the evil that lives in this and the next world. One must stand and act. One must act righteously!! above all else, for we of the good are burdened by our actions, and must take care lest we become that which destroys. We cannot be stained with their blood, we cannot act in the same way.
We are burdened by our humanity! We are burdened with our care and love for life! It IS a burden and we are weary for the carrying!!!!! But as my friends would well know, it's a burden worth every weary step. It is an honour, to carry your friends burden. It is an honour to stand tall in the face of adversity. It truly is magnificent to unite friends and family in common love, and community. To share, to teach, to learn, to partake of this bread called life.
And part of this burden is to act, with honour, against those who seek to destroy.
I came face to face with evil. I came face to face with good. And i know that i choose good. And i know that good and evil are not abstract concepts, but living breathing animals which have their own ways. I know that love is the reason. LOVE IS THE REASON WE ARE HERE. I can shout it for ever and always and never tire. It is as absolute a truth as you will ever hear in your life. I know it is a truth that spans every single tribe race family nation that has ever been. I know this with the conviction of everything i have. And i know that i will NEVER be dissuaded. I cannot be. it is fixed and it is good.
I know i am not God. I know i am AS a god to be sure:
Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods?
I have no hesitation. No fear. No confusion. I am my Father's child.
I should end this now i think. I give you the reader this, if nothing else ever, love. Take it, use it, give it away. I have plenty so come back for more.
peace and love
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Reflections by comrade Fidel
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2010/ing/f270610i.html
http://monthlyreview.org/castro/
Of course he refers to us South Africans as racists. But he outlines quite openly about how Isreal gave us US nukes. He outlines where they were to be used. Quite honestly, South Africa is still suffering the effects of the British invasion, if only through our twisted thinking, and historical mistakes. I believe that we have moved on, mostly. Our current problems are different, but STILL THE RESULT OF THE BRITISH AND THER BLOODY APARTHEID. Remember, the Afrikaaners were the first South African victims of the Empire. What followed was merely, more of the same, only distorted. I digress.
Castro shows us the current layout of the chessboard. Who is moving which piece where. And what that means. The World Cup is a diversion, for the real news, that he keeps referring to, and i believe him. Again, The world cup here is no coincidence, we are here as the sideshow, we have to be useful for something, you know?
Everyone is ready, the straights of Hormuz has 2 carriers groups in it right now, and other assets are moving to swell the numbers. Saudi Arabia has just given Iseal permission to use it's airspace militarily, although Turkey has ended the long standing agreements with Isreal over airspace.
It's all moving very, very quickly, and the sanctions that have just been imposed on Iran have just put them in a corner. The US and Isreal, with full UK and EU backing, want war. It suits them.As with all things, nothing done by anyone else has placated them, there is nothing that will, save war. Iran has complied with IEA officials comprehensively for several years now, and their tactical nuclear ability as of now is zero, THERE IS NO THREAT.
The Empire strikes it's last blow, or will shortly. The capitalist markets of the world have been pillaged, the rape and murder of the inhabitants are about to begin. There are no other opions left, but, total war, that will turn nuclear almost instantaneously, they have been making it this way for too long, there can be no other way.
Just read this: The Empire and the Drugs
Conflict ..... resolution ... ?
What is it about conflict that sears into our brain? It consumes your mind at the cost of all else.
In the old days of dinosaurs and caves, it was easy. Fight or flight. Problem comes, either debrain it or you better be a fast runner. These days that doesn't work. More akin to being stuck in a cave with a hungry bear that can't get to you, but neither can you escape. So you sit there and wory about it. You think about how to attack the bear, but you have not the right tools. You think about running, but the way it is, you would have to run damn near into the bear to get out. And you sit there, in the dark, getting hungrier, and colder, and more desperate. Stalemate.
Stress: the overwhelming desire to beat the crap out of someone who desperately deserves it.
When i speak to people about stress, i mention the above definition, and point out that yes, the person (usually) DOES deserve it. It's someone else's issue that they are foisting on you. Not to say that you can (beat them), but it becomes a need, often akin to survival. Your well being depends on this problem being dealt with. And these days, there is nowhere to run.Despite all the "options" ... yu are stuck, in your house, in your job, in your marriage.
The goal, is always to deal with it both humanely, and expediently. Although truth be told if you achieve either one of those you are ahead of the game. That the two above are often diametrically opposed is just more ... confusion. Expediently would involve a thick stick. But thats not very humane. Humanity would require care, and love, and diligence, but that is NEVER expedient. The truly human response looks like one of those love paddles, that parents use. It hurts like HELL but has "we really love you" written on the side. As i said, that's humanity for you.
Creativity is the thing. But to be creative you cannot be tied down as your thoughts, especially fearful ones, force you. After a few days perhaps, you'll realise that there are rocks at your feet. Not enough with which to attack the bear, but perhaps distract? And while you are now scurrying around with renewed hope, you find a carcass, not too old either. Another animal that has met the fate you are envisioning for yourself. Throwing it down, the bear instantly attacks it, and is so utterly entanced with it's meal, it does not notice you slipping through the entrance where the bear was guarding so patiently.
You are alive. and you neither fought nor ran, although i'd wager you're running now.
Sometimes, in the middle of panic and fear, you have to sit, and relax. WHAT SHALL BE SHALL BE. All that you can ever do is be utterly receptive to your surrounds, the cues and clues that show you where the true solution lies.
But sometimes a big stick is more fun.
Saturday, 26 June 2010
The business of the SA REPUBLIC
Business Address
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20008
021 464 6100
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
3051 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20008
021 464 6100
Business address of what you ask?
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA CIK#: 0000932419 (see all company filings)
I didn't know of this.
The significance of REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA being a corporation is that company law applies. As REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA is registered with the SEC, one has to wonder WHAT company law applies?
From http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/
I am investigating further.
Friday, 25 June 2010
FUCK THE FUCKING FUCKERS
ALRIGHT
ps i meant that
pps manowar ROX
ppps people suck ... and not the good way either
Wheels of fire burn the night
Ride across the sky
Wheels of fire burning bright
We live to ride
see?
pppps how does the p*s thing work? ad infinitum? or wot?
ppppps ... nobody likes my music, they all tell me to turn it down. fucking heathen.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
With Malice and Forethought
http://www.withmaliceandforethought.com/
With Malice and Forethought
An Autobiography on Life and Corruption
or
(How to cover up killing 160 innocent people
and How to get away with $150 million in tax fraud)
Dave Meckanic
All Web and other Pages Copyright © 1999 - 2008
ISBN-10: 1419639269
ISBN-13: 978-1419639265
Just finished reading this, and wow, what an utterly enthralling account. Just a guy, albeit bordering on genius, who ended up in the air up there, and being utterly fucked over all the way.
South Africa, circa late 1980's, and Canada, circa 1990's. Took me a few days, over 500 pages in there, and not "well" written, really. He's not a writer, yet, although this was an astounding first book. It's a story, told as record, which makes it interesting in another way, in the way that details are important. There are many really insightful comments in the book, about people, governments and business, and law. The story rips at the heart of the lies we are told "for our own good", and how the "law" now serves only those who are abe to afford it's manipulation.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Trafficking claims exaggerated
Ok, again news24.
Now i did cover this a while back, HUMAN TRAFFICKING .... aka slavery was the big demon forecast by TPTB. Hmmmm but of course there was no evidence for it, only ... educated opinions, by people who would be in charge ... hmmm.
Anyhow, without further ado, the sequel.
Johannesburg – Claims exaggerating the danger of human trafficking during the Soccer World Cup have resulted in the sidelining of other important social issues, the University of the Witwatersrand's forced migration studies programme has found.
Programme director Professor Loren Landau said that despite "alarming" radio and television advertisements, there had been little evidence suggesting high volumes of human trafficking in South and southern Africa.
"Nor does local or comparative evidence indicate that a major sporting event is likely to increase these volumes," he said in a statement.
The programme's latest "Migration Issue Brief 4: Human Trafficking and Migration" refuted what it felt were exaggerated claims about the crime.
"Before the 2006 Soccer World Cup, media reports and Non-Governmental Organisations claimed that 40 000 women and children would be trafficked into Germany," said Landau.
"Yet, in research conducted after the 2006 World Cup, researchers found evidence of only five cases of trafficking," he said.
"Considering the limited evidence for trafficking into South Africa, the attention the issue has received in policy prioritisation and media reporting appears disproportionate.
Oh yes, 40 000 estimated ... 5 found. Hmmmm. Flase flag anyone? The point of the article was that massive funding and attention was taken away from .... more pressing concerns, like rape murder and so on.
Sincerely, we have many serious problems in our society. Most totally fixable, but you have to acknowledge the appropriate priority. But for fuck sakes, they still think weed is a freaking priority .... so i guess we can see where their interest lies.
Taking a non issue, making it an issue, taking a lot of resources (from elsewhere) to fix said issue, and then justifying their uselessness by statistics. Doesn't that sound so ... typical?
I'm GLAD there are no "human trafficking" problems, really. But i told you so, i did. If they'd spent that effort on the real traffic, the world would be a happier place already.
Cold cont.
Nearly 500 African penguins died in 24-hours because of cold and wet weather at Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape, SA National Parks (SanParks) said on Tuesday.
SanParks spokesperson Megan Taplin said: "The chicks, aged between a few weeks and two months, are covered only with down feathers. They succumbed to the cold and wet weather that has hit Bird Island."
Taplin said rangers on the island were trying to rescue the remaining birds by giving them temporary shelters made from available materials on the island.
"They are also attempting to drain penguin nests which have filled up with water after about 20mm of rain on the island," she said.
Friday, 18 June 2010
Coldest ever
It's cold here, really really cold. I believe last night standerton was -11 ... that's centigrade for international types.
Just before dawn, the mercury bottomed out at -3,2degC, which, according to the SA Weather Service, broke the previous record of -3, set on June 30, 1994.
Cars skidded on icy roads, records tumbled, and it's official: it's the coldest World Cup ever.
International media are already calling this World Cup the coldest ever, with teams having to deal with frozen training pitches, and journalists whinging about the need for hot water bottles and long johns.
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Global warming huh? Reminds me of the early nineties when it was last this cold in JHB. I used to walk along a river to school, lol. Very very very cold.
My only regret is what the cold did to my plants. Black frost isn't friendly.
Codex and oil
Ok, i've just figured out what the oil spill was for:
Codex alimentarus has just been implemented in the states by Barry.
“Section 6 (g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.”
Think long and hard about preventative medicine. Vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc.
You're not allowed those anymore, unless your doctor prescribes them for you.
Think about that, long and hard.
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Mr Terry Pratchett on "abraxas"
"He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards. " - Terry Pratchett
Morning traffic
I'm caged. The bike is in itty little bitty pieces, lots of em. Frame has been welded now, and re-inforced, properly i'm told. Or at least as good as is possible. The alloy is a tricksy barstard, so we'll have to see if it works.
So ... nissan 1400 agricultural implement, with me inside.
So imagine my surprise when i try clear the ice off the car window, with luke warm water, and it freezes instantly. i'm talking 5 seconds here. That was fun. I saw a military convoy, 8 APC's carrying about 8 guys each. Followed by an ambulance. I loved that bit ... someone is going to get hurt. And then there was the delightful metro double cab bakkie idling along the yellow lane pulling people out the traffic, seemingly at random. Thrills.
My 2 biker buddies passed me, the gold wing and the red kawa ... *sigh* until i get the bike back together it's going to be hell.
peace
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Quakers
So the other day my son felt an earth tremour. We found it measured 4.3 on the Richter scale, and it was quite an event. Then a few days back, there was another.
I felt one last night, lying in bed, very eery in fact. Not enough to notice really, but all was quiet and still, so it was easy enough to pick up on, just a background rumble, the windows rattled slightly.
Dated yesterday: Timeslive
An earthquake that measured 4.3 on the Richter scale was felt along the West Rand and parts of Johannesburg this afternoon, the Council for Geosciences said.
Johannesburg – Four earthquakes were recorded around Gauteng, the North West province and Limpopo on Wednesday, the Council for Geosciences reported on Thursday.
The first was at 13:28 in the Gamoep area of Limpopo and measured 2.4 on the Richter scale, with a depth of 5km.
The second earthquake was at 19:.34 in Gauteng, along the Roodepoort mining belt, west of Johannesburg. It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and was recorded with a depth of 2km.
A third earthquake was recorded in the area of the West Rand gold mines in the North West at 23:42, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.
A fourth was recorded at 23:49 in the same area, measuring 2.9 with a depth of 2km.
Oddly, what i felt was close to 9PM.
These tremours are certainly increasing in frequency. Not huge news, but worth taking note of.
Monday, 14 June 2010
The Universe
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. - Terry Pratchett
Yes.
Lookee here .... a universal scale thingy: http://htwins.net/scale/index.html
Way cool.
Friday, 11 June 2010
Welcome World Cup
1.3m state staff declare wage dispute day before Cup kickoff
Public service unions representing 14 unions and around 1.3 million state employees have declared a dispute, the parties said on Thursday, the day before the World Cup kicks off.
Unions affiliated to the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) said the dispute had been declared "as a result of the employer's intransigence and inability to meet the demands of labour".
"The employer is totally out of touch with the reality of the existing conditions in the country.
"Workers are struggling to keep up with spiralling increases in municipal rates and taxes caused by the 24.5 percent of electricity tariff increases."
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This is already a laugh a minute, stampedes, drunk policemen speeding towards team hq's, several armed robberies and thefts, and we're on day1.
May i just remind everyone of SA's status of TB capital of the world? When someone is blowing a vuvuzela at you, he's likely sharing his germs too.
It's a lovely day for a braai. Not realy, it's cold, windy and cold. Not even sunny. ROFL!! And our company, and many others, are doing the let's watch the game together. I don't, really really really don't get it. Good luck and keep safe.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
RIP Granny
My granny died friday of a grand old age. Gone to join her lifelong friend in heaven.
Anne and Harry were both the quntessential example of everything good and wholesome. She missed her Harry in the last years. I sood in in some ways for her, but it wasn't the same.
Death took it's time, she was ready, but that old boere tannie body just wouldnt give up, tough as nails that old lady was.
I miss her, but i miss the younger her, running around the Kommetjie rocks so fleetly that this little boy couldn' keep up. Teaching me the mysteries of rock pools and the little animals that lived there. Limpet fritters, that was my favourite treat. Sunshiny morning walking up to the local bakery for cheeserolls, stopping and chatting to all her friends.
I miss her knowledge, her phenomenal understanding of the universe, plants, stars, animals and even people, she had the insight and compassion of a true leader.
She became old, as we do. She became like her mother, Ouma we used to call her, who sat quietly in the lounge, and tripped us kids with her walking stick, chuckling loudly when we fell, and even more so when i apologised to her. And, like her mom, she never lost her sense of humour and good spirits, although we kept the walking sticks away.
An old lady who died a dignifed death at home, no fear, no uncertainty. She has gone to her Jesus, and her Harry after living the good life, a shining example of how it should be done.
Oh granny thank you, for all those years.
Friday, 4 June 2010
TO THE ANGELS
TO THE ANGELS
by Allen Ginsberg
These are the thoughts -- anxieties -- of anxious marchers
That the Angels will attack them
for kicks, or to get publicity, to take the heat off
themselves
or to get the goodwill of police & press &/or right
wing Money
That a conscious deal has been made with Oakland
police
or an unconscious rapport, tacit understanding
mutual sympathy
that Oakland will layoff persecuting the Angels
if the Angels attack & break up the March &
make it a riot
Is any of this true, or is it the paranoia of the less
stable-minded marchers?
As long as Angels are ambiguous and don't give open
reassurance that they can be trusted to be tranquil,
The anxious souls, the naturally violent, the insecure, the
hysterics among the marchers have an excuse for
policy of
self-defense thru violence,
a rationalization for their own inner violence.
That leaves the Marchers with choice of defending them-
selves thru force on account of fear & threat
unleashing the more irrational minority of rebels
or at best, defending themselves coolly, under control
BUT CRITICIZED FOR BEING LAWLESS
or not defending selves, and possibly abandoned by police
(for we have no clear assurance from Oakland police
that they will sincerely try to maintain order and guard
our lawful right to march)
if you attack, & having innocent pacifists, youths
& old ladies busted up
AND CRITICIZED AS IRRESPONSIBLE COWARDS
By you, by Press, by Public & by Violence loving leftists
& rightists.
As it stands the VDC adopted policy of pacifism for marchers,
WHO SIMPLY WILL NOT FIGHT. And will try to
make the march a HAPPY SPECTACLE.
***
Do Angels have any questions for Vietnam Day Committee?
any suspicions that might be cleared up now?
What's the main complaint?
What do the Angels plan to do Nov. 20? Do they really have
a plan?
Let's now make a plan that will leave everybody secure.
Because the Fearheads around the VDC public meetings
believe the Image of Angels as "They like to bust people
up for kicks" and naturally you get a bad rep. that way
especially if you've finally found a group you can beat up
with some social approval, temporarily,
& compliance of the cops.
You don't want to "change" you want to be yrselves,
& if that includes sadism, or forced hostility,
here's a situation where you can get away with it.
BUT NOBODY WANTS TO REJECT THE SOULS OF
THE HELL'S ANGELS
or make them change --
WE JUST DON'T WANT TO GET BEAT UP
***
The protest march is trying to point out
that the terror in Vietnam is making
same terror here inside our country
loosing publicly the same cruel psychology that'll
give approval to busting yellow head gooks in Vietnam
This is infecting peaceful human relations here
allowing for public mass persecution of people
who disagree with
the
growth of mass hostility mass hypocrisy mass conflict
The mass of marchers are not POLITICAL, they're
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEADS
who don't want the country to drift into the habit of blind
violence & unconscious cruelty & egoism NOT
COMMUNICATION -- with outside world or lonely
minorities in America
such as yourselves
and ourselves
AND the negroes
AND the teaheads
AND the Communists
AND the Beatnicks
AND the Birchers
AND even the so called Squares
I am afraid that once
the people who hate us peace
Marchers & let you beat us up, -- afraid of us Pacifists
will then, still having this
fear and hate at heart, turn it on you
afraid of you, too,
or ask you to turn it on other minorities
the negroes?
Ultimately on you and each other.
(This was the pattern of Brown Shirts in Germany
who were used by hate politicians,
& then creamed in Concentration Camps.
I think.)
**
I said we were not politicians mostly. And you say
you're indifferent to politics. But you're getting hung on
politics and taking Geopolitical positions promoting bomb
Vietnam.
***
What ELSE, besides this politics, will take the heat
off the Hell's Angels?
That heat's on everybody, not just you
To go to war, to be drafted,
to make money on war jobs & economy, to be destroyed
by Bomb, to get busted
for pot --
To take the heat off, you've got
to take the heat off
INSIDE YOURSELVES --
Find Peace means stop hating yourself
stop hating people who hate you
stop reflecting HEAT
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HEAT
THE MOST OF PEACE MARCHERS ARE NOT HEAT
They want you to join them to relieve
the heat on you & on all of us.
Take the heat -- Anxiety Paranoia --
off us, AND off the police, off all the fearful
REASSURE, and act clearly in such a way
as to reassure --
by being kind not
cruel --
and it'll be remembered and responded to.
Forcing self, others and police into a corner
increases heat.
Beating up on Vietnam won't take the heat off
even if whole country joined Hell's Angels
-- world will apply heat & world be destroyed
(almost happened thru Hitler)
Yes time to take the heat symbolism off the Swastika
and give the swastika back to the Indians & Peaceful Mystics
& Calcutta Ganja Smokers
Can you imagine doing the same for the Hammer and
Sickle?
I've seen Jewish Stars, & there is M 13, & LSD
& Negro Crescent
to make HAPPY on yr. backs.
***
I called Beatnick or Vietnick not want a way that is not
common for all -- recognizable & acceptable to all -- want a
way we can all live together without heat & rejection.
My desire to share, not
MONOPOLIZE the images, because I don't want to
be ALONE in Earth.
I don't want unnecessary suffering for me, or anybody --
you, the police, the Vietnamese, the entire human
universe.
***
What is the way out of the heat
for you? If stop threat to take over
others, then people let you alone.
Have you stopped threatening the Marcher people
yet?
If you threat, you must WANT heat.
We're trying
to take it off you, & off us, & off the
cops, & off the U.S. & off China & off Vietnam.
The heat is human, emotional, not a law
of nature.
How many Angels really dig your political position
aside from its tactics as heat relief?
How many hate the marchers? really want to bug them?
Is it you & Tiny's personal goof, or really what you all
want?
If you dig POT why don't you dig that the whole
generation who don't dig the heat war also dig pot and
consciousness & spontaneity & hair & they are your natural
brothers.
rather than the moralistic rigid types
who have fixed warlike negative image of America?
The great image -- which all can buy -- is your own ideal
Image
WHITMAN's free soul, camarado, also of Open Road!
I asking you be Camarado, friend, kind, lover, because vast
majority of peace marchers
actually respect & venerate your lonesomeness
& struggle & would rather be peaceful intimates
with you than fearful enraged frightened paranoid
enemies hitting each other.
That probably goes for the police too who have human
bodies under uniform.
There are some rigid souls -- who believe the universe is
evil -- frightened of sex & pot & motorcycles & PEACE
even if it was all peaceful and tranquil
afraid of life, not realizing its harmless emptiness
These are the people we should be
working on -- making love to them
blowing our minds and theirs
softening them, enlarging their consciousness
and our own too in the process
not fighting eachother
All separate identities are bankrupt
Square, beat, Jews, negroes, Hell's Angels, Communist &
American.
Hell's Angels & Tiny Intervention has probably had good
effect
forced the leaders & marchers to look inside
themselves to measure
how much their march is blind aggression
put-on motivated by rage &
confused desire to find someone to BLAME
& fight & scream
OR
How much the march will be a free expression
of calm people who have controlled
their own hatreds
and are showing the American People
how to control their own fear & hatred
and once and for all be done with the pressure
building up to annihilate the planet
and take our part ENDING THE HEAT on earth.
-- Delivered as a speech at San Jose State College, Monday November 15, 1965, before students and representatives of Bay Area Hell's Angels
by Allen Ginsberg
These are the thoughts -- anxieties -- of anxious marchers
That the Angels will attack them
for kicks, or to get publicity, to take the heat off
themselves
or to get the goodwill of police & press &/or right
wing Money
That a conscious deal has been made with Oakland
police
or an unconscious rapport, tacit understanding
mutual sympathy
that Oakland will layoff persecuting the Angels
if the Angels attack & break up the March &
make it a riot
Is any of this true, or is it the paranoia of the less
stable-minded marchers?
As long as Angels are ambiguous and don't give open
reassurance that they can be trusted to be tranquil,
The anxious souls, the naturally violent, the insecure, the
hysterics among the marchers have an excuse for
policy of
self-defense thru violence,
a rationalization for their own inner violence.
That leaves the Marchers with choice of defending them-
selves thru force on account of fear & threat
unleashing the more irrational minority of rebels
or at best, defending themselves coolly, under control
BUT CRITICIZED FOR BEING LAWLESS
or not defending selves, and possibly abandoned by police
(for we have no clear assurance from Oakland police
that they will sincerely try to maintain order and guard
our lawful right to march)
if you attack, & having innocent pacifists, youths
& old ladies busted up
AND CRITICIZED AS IRRESPONSIBLE COWARDS
By you, by Press, by Public & by Violence loving leftists
& rightists.
As it stands the VDC adopted policy of pacifism for marchers,
WHO SIMPLY WILL NOT FIGHT. And will try to
make the march a HAPPY SPECTACLE.
***
Do Angels have any questions for Vietnam Day Committee?
any suspicions that might be cleared up now?
What's the main complaint?
What do the Angels plan to do Nov. 20? Do they really have
a plan?
Let's now make a plan that will leave everybody secure.
Because the Fearheads around the VDC public meetings
believe the Image of Angels as "They like to bust people
up for kicks" and naturally you get a bad rep. that way
especially if you've finally found a group you can beat up
with some social approval, temporarily,
& compliance of the cops.
You don't want to "change" you want to be yrselves,
& if that includes sadism, or forced hostility,
here's a situation where you can get away with it.
BUT NOBODY WANTS TO REJECT THE SOULS OF
THE HELL'S ANGELS
or make them change --
WE JUST DON'T WANT TO GET BEAT UP
***
The protest march is trying to point out
that the terror in Vietnam is making
same terror here inside our country
loosing publicly the same cruel psychology that'll
give approval to busting yellow head gooks in Vietnam
This is infecting peaceful human relations here
allowing for public mass persecution of people
who disagree with
the
growth of mass hostility mass hypocrisy mass conflict
The mass of marchers are not POLITICAL, they're
PSYCHOLOGICAL HEADS
who don't want the country to drift into the habit of blind
violence & unconscious cruelty & egoism NOT
COMMUNICATION -- with outside world or lonely
minorities in America
such as yourselves
and ourselves
AND the negroes
AND the teaheads
AND the Communists
AND the Beatnicks
AND the Birchers
AND even the so called Squares
I am afraid that once
the people who hate us peace
Marchers & let you beat us up, -- afraid of us Pacifists
will then, still having this
fear and hate at heart, turn it on you
afraid of you, too,
or ask you to turn it on other minorities
the negroes?
Ultimately on you and each other.
(This was the pattern of Brown Shirts in Germany
who were used by hate politicians,
& then creamed in Concentration Camps.
I think.)
**
I said we were not politicians mostly. And you say
you're indifferent to politics. But you're getting hung on
politics and taking Geopolitical positions promoting bomb
Vietnam.
***
What ELSE, besides this politics, will take the heat
off the Hell's Angels?
That heat's on everybody, not just you
To go to war, to be drafted,
to make money on war jobs & economy, to be destroyed
by Bomb, to get busted
for pot --
To take the heat off, you've got
to take the heat off
INSIDE YOURSELVES --
Find Peace means stop hating yourself
stop hating people who hate you
stop reflecting HEAT
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HEAT
THE MOST OF PEACE MARCHERS ARE NOT HEAT
They want you to join them to relieve
the heat on you & on all of us.
Take the heat -- Anxiety Paranoia --
off us, AND off the police, off all the fearful
REASSURE, and act clearly in such a way
as to reassure --
by being kind not
cruel --
and it'll be remembered and responded to.
Forcing self, others and police into a corner
increases heat.
Beating up on Vietnam won't take the heat off
even if whole country joined Hell's Angels
-- world will apply heat & world be destroyed
(almost happened thru Hitler)
Yes time to take the heat symbolism off the Swastika
and give the swastika back to the Indians & Peaceful Mystics
& Calcutta Ganja Smokers
Can you imagine doing the same for the Hammer and
Sickle?
I've seen Jewish Stars, & there is M 13, & LSD
& Negro Crescent
to make HAPPY on yr. backs.
***
I called Beatnick or Vietnick not want a way that is not
common for all -- recognizable & acceptable to all -- want a
way we can all live together without heat & rejection.
My desire to share, not
MONOPOLIZE the images, because I don't want to
be ALONE in Earth.
I don't want unnecessary suffering for me, or anybody --
you, the police, the Vietnamese, the entire human
universe.
***
What is the way out of the heat
for you? If stop threat to take over
others, then people let you alone.
Have you stopped threatening the Marcher people
yet?
If you threat, you must WANT heat.
We're trying
to take it off you, & off us, & off the
cops, & off the U.S. & off China & off Vietnam.
The heat is human, emotional, not a law
of nature.
How many Angels really dig your political position
aside from its tactics as heat relief?
How many hate the marchers? really want to bug them?
Is it you & Tiny's personal goof, or really what you all
want?
If you dig POT why don't you dig that the whole
generation who don't dig the heat war also dig pot and
consciousness & spontaneity & hair & they are your natural
brothers.
rather than the moralistic rigid types
who have fixed warlike negative image of America?
The great image -- which all can buy -- is your own ideal
Image
WHITMAN's free soul, camarado, also of Open Road!
I asking you be Camarado, friend, kind, lover, because vast
majority of peace marchers
actually respect & venerate your lonesomeness
& struggle & would rather be peaceful intimates
with you than fearful enraged frightened paranoid
enemies hitting each other.
That probably goes for the police too who have human
bodies under uniform.
There are some rigid souls -- who believe the universe is
evil -- frightened of sex & pot & motorcycles & PEACE
even if it was all peaceful and tranquil
afraid of life, not realizing its harmless emptiness
These are the people we should be
working on -- making love to them
blowing our minds and theirs
softening them, enlarging their consciousness
and our own too in the process
not fighting eachother
All separate identities are bankrupt
Square, beat, Jews, negroes, Hell's Angels, Communist &
American.
Hell's Angels & Tiny Intervention has probably had good
effect
forced the leaders & marchers to look inside
themselves to measure
how much their march is blind aggression
put-on motivated by rage &
confused desire to find someone to BLAME
& fight & scream
OR
How much the march will be a free expression
of calm people who have controlled
their own hatreds
and are showing the American People
how to control their own fear & hatred
and once and for all be done with the pressure
building up to annihilate the planet
and take our part ENDING THE HEAT on earth.
-- Delivered as a speech at San Jose State College, Monday November 15, 1965, before students and representatives of Bay Area Hell's Angels
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