.. where
Gurdjieff

meets
Kafka

in 17 syllables ...

"Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

— John Lennon,
In His Own Words (1964)

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"We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. (...)"

But if I start quoting others, let me finish on a higher note, with John's own words:

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. (...)"

Indeed.

I think Bill Hicks summed up the sentiment quite clearly:

"We always kill the guys that try to help us. And let the little demons run amok:

John Lennon murdered, John Kennedy murdered, Martin Luther King murdered, Gandhi murdered, Jesus murdered .. Ronald Reagan ... wounded."

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Thank You
for sharing, Tom

I remember
shock & commotion
my parents' emotions

and

when it dawned on me
what had happened

a feeling
bewildered

translated
four years later
by another bard

"I can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man"

For the life

I couldn't
still can not
and never will

Just for comparison—and for the hell of it, of course—I will add the trailer of the original, noisy version.

Noisy indeed,
but not tinny.

Robert Anton Wilson
#RobertAntonWilson
#Immaculate #Fnord

Religion for the Hell of It

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Blatantly transparent, rather.

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It seemed like someone taking the silicon piss, at first .. tapping a replenished source of em-energy - you know: daylight. As in luring out incubator zombies into a lethal sunlit trap ... oh, wait. Vampires!

😶 Never mind - I know: I suck at jokes. But the punchline on this one seems much worse.

A little early for April Fools, it seems to me .. or does this pertain to the celebrating of the binary holiday of AIPRIL Fools, perhaps?

Somehow, I thought we could play media featured on @archive.org. Oh, well. Eris in control and Google's got our back—or simply looking over our shoulders. In any case, we do have the ability to watch this one on Bluesky.

Robert Anton Wilson
#RobertAntonWilson

Quite noiseless,
sounds rather tinny.