matters of utmost importance

 found poem # 622












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thoughts which emerge during serious leisure

Nothing so distracts the human heart as sexual desire. How foolish men’s hearts are! Aroma, for instance, is a mere transient thing, yet a whiff of delightful incense from a woman’s robes will always excite a man, though he knows perfectly well that it is just a passing effect of robe-smoking. The wizard priest of Kume is said to have lost his supernatural powers when he spied the white legs of a woman as she squatted washing clothes. I can quite believe it — after all, the beautiful, plump, glowing flesh of a woman’s arm or leg is quite a different matter from some artificial allurement. 


kenko ( ca. 1290 )











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diplomatically bemused

If Putin could somehow replace Trump in the White House,
                           the cockroaches would be running for cover
                                                 and the US would no longer be
                                                      on the road to Armageddon.






                                                             lifted from lasha darkmoon's blog








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can i get a witness

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a ‘surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow’. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.






                                                                            Edward Abbey




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i'm hoping this is a premature ejaculation

Feminism's been bat-shit crazy since day one. The anti-suffragette leader Katie Roosevelt stated that giving women the vote would ultimately destroy Western society.   Look at the world today.   Western society is on the same downward spiral into insanity and self-destruction as Ancient Rome when toxic gynocentricity took over.   It's over for Western society.  The point of no return has passed a long time ago.   History has shown time and again that no society has ever recovered after passing the point of no return.








read on a post stream concerning the work of Cassie Jaye....the red pill








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a skiers' prayer

Let me give thanks, dear Lord, in the frailty of age,
for the beloved mountains of my youth,
 for the challenge of rock and for the joy of skiing,
for the friends with whom I climbed and skied,
and above all, dear Lord,
for the moments of revelation
when the moments of temporal beauty
of the mountains reinforces my faith
in the eternal beauty
which is not subject to decay.


                                           Sir Arnold Lunn  (  1888 -  1974 )














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my first poem in spanish

recuerdo momentos
de dulzura incomparable
que he tenido
  contigo












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found digital light panel poem seen three times today

 




  HOLIDAY DEALS?
NOT FROM BEHIND
     THE WHEEL










.... translation.....amazon can wait














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a time of day

Dawn                                            by                    Mike Logan   Next

Dawn comes on velvet tiptoes To shade the eastern skies. She lifts rose colored fingertips And bids the sun to rise. This soft eyed golden goddess Steals mountains from the night, Unfurls her glowing banners And brings the gift of light.

it's all about communication

voice recognition found poem



Hi John it's
for my at least call
 leave a message.

I'll let you know a big job --
 see you might be inbox about --
anyway I wanted to do --
give back -- give me a call.

Hello is deal
 see you then
John bye.












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who knows? i could be rich

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA - AFRICA'S GLOBAL BANK HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS UBA HOUSE 57 MARINA P.O. BOX 2406 LAGOS NIGERIA PHONE: +234 9093621222 FAX: 234 623 510 0853 Greetings, Am TONY OBAZE, director cash processing unit, united bank for Africa (UBA) the only bank appointed by the A.U. Members lead by President Robert Mugabe. Because of the frauds going on in West Africa countries where some innocent beneficiaries were asked to pay in advance before receiving their money owed to them. The above Africa union held meeting in USA have resolve to pay all beneficiaries in cash through means of diplomatic courier service. We receive your files from INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (I.M.F) WASHINGTON DC, USA, as one of the beneficiaries. Take note: Three thousand united state dollars ($3,000) have been mapped out for all expenses in taxes and other documents that matters. Therefore, I want you to bear it in mind that your total fund will not be Five million five hundred thousand united state dollars ($5.500, 000.00) but five million four hundred and ninety seven thousand united state Dollars ($5,497, 000.00). For more details contact the director cash processing unit on; +234 8146399215 Therefore, do forward your home address and direct phone number to this E-Mail tonyobaze620@gmail.com All the documents will be sent to you if I am assured that you have stopped sending money to those fraudsters. Am waiting to hear from you with the required information of yours. MR. TONY OBAZE Director cash processing unit United bank of Africa. (U.B.A)








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bumper sticker FOUND POEM IN MONTANA

CATCH   GUT  RELEASE
BREAD
FRY IN GREASE


......how to treat  a trout







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A WELL-FOCUSSED COMMERCIAL INVITATION

found poem




WE'RE LOOKING FOR
GOOD PEOPLE
WITH BAD CREDIT






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SJW for poultry

I want to live in a world
where I can cross the road
and not have my motives 
questioned





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found apocalyptic poem

one text
could end it all








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geologically speaking

    you can take the girl out of the dirt and the stones
       but you can't take the dirt and the stones out of the girl






                                                                           anonymous
















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how the rebellion revolves

 




from:  Gramsci




  part of the program....






       be pessimistic in intelligence
            optimistic in will










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Cajetans' revulsion

"Ego nolo amplius cum hac bestia colloqui:
habet enim profundos oculos et mirabiles speculationes in capite suo."

"I do not want to have any further parley 
          with that beast   ( Luther ) ;
for he has sharp eye
 and fantastical speculations in his head".








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found pome on email...with commentary

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....so many possibilities so little time


...a free trail...that strikes me as odd


.. unsubscribe...who signed me up in the first place


I wonder if I could find something to improve my celibate performance...an agenda of holiness perhaps.......




is there such a thing as female enhancement
boobjobs I suppose  qualify


what a weird endeavor
...we will medically certainly improve your life!!! what a strange claim




how odd






let's hear it for found poems










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messages found on a journey

3 found poems


a billboard equation----








More than two                                        Most likely
absences a                        =                     will not pass
semester                                                       math












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what darkness lies therein










THIS PATH CLOSED


   DUSK TO DAWN
















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snip snip snip...for phuqqing with fewer problems




Quick
        Vasectomies














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swedish proverb

Tänk vad livet är för en börda!
Rätt vad man ligger där och har det gott,
skall man upp och ha mat. 

På engelska:

"Think what a burden life is!  Just when you’re lying back and having it nice, it's time to get up and eat again."

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a comment in response to a youtube talk with Bishop Robert Barron on the prevalence of anti-Catholicism

Thank you Father for this wonderful video. I was raised in a Protestant Church, The Evangelical and Reformed (which is no more) which was anti Catholic but not nearly anti Catholic as many other Denominations. I became Catholic when I was 27 after going to Mass with a Catholic who asked me to. There when I was not going up for the Eucharist as I was Protestant Jesus asked me 3 times, "Al, would you refuse me?" and soon after that I became Catholic. I just say that to share my Protestant background. I think the anti Catholic prejudice stems from when the Protestants broke away from the Catholic Church and the incredible hostility at that time between the 2 groups which continues. Also at about the same time the philosophy of materialism began to take precedence in the country and is confirmed by the fact that materialistic science has attained religious status in this country and all of the Western world. The rituals of the Mass are seen as nonsense as also the Spiritual world is seen as nonsense.    ....Albert Nygren










https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgBo6uFQs5s




















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image of the day

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a briefer history of time

time comes from the future
and enters into the present which has no duration
thus receding into the past which no longer exists






                                                 St. Augustine


















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david berlinski puts things on the line

Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence?
 Not even close.


 Has quantum cosmology
explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here?
 Not even close.


 Have our sciences explained
why our universe seems to be fine-tuned
 to allow for the existence of life?
Not even close.


Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything
so long as it is not religious thought?
Close enough.


 Has rationalism and moral thought provided us
with an understanding of what is good,
what is right, and what is moral?
 Not close enough.


Has secularism in the terrible 20th century
been a force for good?
Not even close, to being close.


 Is there a narrow
and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences?
 Close enough.


Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy
 justify the claim that religious belief is irrational?
Not even in the ball park.


 Is scientific atheism
 a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt?
     ...Dead on.










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written on a cast iron tailgate...in white stencilled letters

  






DO   NOT   PUSH








........found poem # 3,976










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found pome haiku

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horkheimer and adorno hash it out...they condemn jesus christ

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..from....ELEMENTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM




Christ, the spirit become flesh, is the deified sorcerer.
Man's self-reflection in the absolute,
the humanization of God by Christ,
is the proton pseudos [original falsehood].
Progress beyond Judaism is coupled with
the assumption that the man Jesus has become God.
The reflective aspect of Christianity,
 the intellectualization of magic, is the root of evil.




         ...here let us toast the anti-Christ










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found poem at Judaculla Rock

The soapstone boulder was named

 for the giant Tsul`kälû´,

which means "slant eyed giant"

who was reported to control the weather,

was the steward of all hunted animals,

and could leap from mountain to mountain.

It is said

that the strange 7-fingered globs on the boulder

were from the seven-fingered giant's hands

where he braced himself after a stumble from such a jump.

Despite being a grotesque,

hair-covered giant with demigod powers

 and seven-fingered hands for feet,

 he eventually took a Cherokee wife

and became one of the tribes earliest ancestors.

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freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.


                                                                               Theodore Kaczynski








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like mercury in a dish

The past is malleable
and flexible, changing
as our recollection
interprets and re-explains
what has happened.






                   Peter L Berger   (  + June 2017  )














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i've poeticized a prose intro. to a news story

LOVE FOR SALE Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush.

One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned  by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with  him,  which she did not land after rebuffing  him. Another  showed the increasingly suggestive messages she had received from a start-up investor.  And one chief executive described  how she had faced numerous sexist comments from an investor while raising money  for her online community website.

What happened afterward was often just as disturbing, the women told The New York Times. Many times, the investors’ firms and colleagues  ignored or played down what had happened  when            the                 situations                                  were                                            brought                                                          to                                                                                               their                                                                       attention. Saying anything, the women were warned, might lead-------------------> to ostracism.

Now  some of these female entrepreneurs  have decided  to take that risk.                    women were always in charge and better off                              when they ran the kitchens                                                         (  -from the editor -  ) ....

ding!

The feminist error was to embrace the value of the workplace as greater than the value of the home. Feminism has endorsed the public sphere as inherently more constitutive of women's worth than the private sphere. Feminists have established as their criterion of success and self-worth an equal representation with men at the top of the career ladder. The consequence of this feminist scale of values is a terrible and unjust devaluation of women who work at home.


                                                                          Dinesh D'Souza












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there's always that first step

The first degree of humility tells us that the world is not a mirror in which we see ourselves, nor is it a treasure chest filled with gifts for ourselves. Rather, the world is a temporary home where there unfolds hour by hour the truth that God loves us and that we are to live constantly with the awareness that he lives with us and sees us always.

– Father Simon O’Donnell, O.S.B.

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webtalkcode

feels  >  reels










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beyond a shadow of doubt

The destiny of humanity passes through the family.








                                                 John Paul II








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give me some of the old fashioned chivalry

If I were the last man on the planet to think so, I would want the honor of saying no woman should go before me into combat to defend my country. A man who endorses women in combat is not pro-woman; he’s a wimp. He should be ashamed. For most of history, in most cultures, he would have been utterly scorned as a coward to promote such an idea. Part of the meaning of manhood as God created us is the sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of our women.




                                           John Piper








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stumbling toward peace

the weak
cannot forgive.


forgiveness is an attribute
of the strong.














                     Mahatma Ghandi


















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rage against coddling

At every step the child should be allowed to meet
the real experience of life;
the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.






                                                Ellen Key
















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adam's core

At the end of his Ph. D. dissertation,
    Karl Marx wrote: 


      “I hate all the gods,
           and I hate them because they do not recognize
             Man as Supreme Divinity.”














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eliot squirming

april
along with being the cruelest month
and national poetry month
is now the sexual assault  awareness month






...april seems burdened






....so much to think about as spring surges










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news of a relative in Walhalla ND 1899

J. A. DeLisle

and Wm. Martineau

sold

$81,000 worth of cattle on Saturday

 to

Montana parties.


















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nobody ever said space travel was going to be easy

I had to make my own distortion.


 Back in the ’50s, there was Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee,...


 but ‘Rumble’ don’t sound like ’50s rock and roll.


                          It sounds like outer space.












                                             the immortal
 
                                                    LINK WRAY












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flatlander divine eros

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things:
One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in Hell.
The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth
and you should save it for someone you love.







                               -- Butch Hancock












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sometimes the world is like a cognitive stripclub

In his book on the nude,
Kenneth Clark says that being naked
is simply being without clothes.
The nude, according to him,
is a form of art.
 I  would put it differently:
           to be naked is to be oneself;
            to be nude is to be seen naked by others
             and yet not recognised for oneself.
              A nude has to be seen as an object
                in order to be a nude.






                                      John Berger...     + January2017








I was for many years an ardent fan of this man's writing
and I think now I will go back to his books








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you can't say you weren't warned

The time has come,
everybody lie down so you won't get hurt
when the sun bursts.  




             Neal Cassady














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poetic brake shoes

progress might have been all right once
but it has gone on too long






       ogden  nash






















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from: THE FRAUD OF FEMINISM

Modern Feminism has two distinct sides to it: (1) an articulate political and economic side embracing demands for so-called rights; and (2) a sentimental side which insists in an accentuation of the privileges and immunities which have grown up, not articulately or as the result of definite demands, but as the consequence of sentimental pleading in particular cases.  In this way, however,  a public opinion became established, finding expression in a sex favouritism in the law and even still more in its administration,  in favour of women as against men.




       Ernest Belfort Bax -
                  the only real prophet of the 20th century






































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blessed assurance

a sign on the side of a bus
for all to read










“There’s probably no God:
                now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”










(agnostic fundamentalism)














....what ever get's you through the night
















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found on a comment stream associated with youtube recording of blind willie mctell

I do not understand
 how people come up
with the shit they do nowadays
and call it 'Music'.
This.
Now this,
is real fucking music.






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNZm9KXm8w

look around

The perfect dictatorship
would have the appearance of democracy,
a prison without walls
 in which the prisoners would not dream of escape.
A system of slavery where,
 through consumption and entertainment,
 slaves would love their servitude. ​












                                     Aldous Huxley   (  perhaps ?  )














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toward a purer objectivity

Mind you,
sometimes the angels smoke,
 hiding it with their sleeves,
and when the archangel comes,
they throw the cigarettes away:
 that’s when you get shooting stars.








                            Vladimir Nabokov


















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the creative impulse in a nutshell

I? who am I?
a fugitive singer.
songs I make
butterflies of song
that bloom in the soul
for the heart's delight








                    Evan  S. Connell




















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new trends in cyberethics

Poe's law


...is an Internet adage that states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.

difficult to be settled in the moment

Man…who lives in three places –
  in the past, in the present, and in the future –
can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless.
Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. 




                             




                                  Georg  Christoph  Lichtenberg
















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someone has to stand up to those bastards

the family
is the human race's natural defense
against utopianism








                   Michael Novak












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every system is a synthesis

 

 

 

 

 

　


Christianity as a work of art in Christ who is God's doxa,
human life as a theater of evil and grace in players and Player—in the last analysis,
Balthasar has given us in his systems works of art.
 Despite weaknesses that lie within these thousands of pages,
the greatness of the vision shines through the form.
The structure is the message.


                           Fr. Thomas O'Meara OP









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a good reminder

 






"In true faith
the ultimate concern is a concern about the truly ultimate;
while in idolatrous faith preliminary,
finite realities are elevated to the rank of ultimacy. 
 The inescapable consequence of idolatrous faith
 is 'existential disappointment,' 
 a disappointment which penetrates
into the very existence of man! 
This is the dynamics of idolatrous faith:
 that it is faith, and as such,
the centered act of a personality;
that the entering point is
 something which is more or less on the periphery;
and that, therefore,
the act of faith leads to a loss of center
 and to a disruption of the personality. 
The ecstatic character of even idolatrous faith
can hide this consequence only for a certain time. 
But finally it breaks into the open."

                                   

                                  --Paul Tillich, The Dynamics of Faith, Chapter 1.3








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the important thing is

The important thing is to learn to distinguish the left behind from the right behind.






      ......from:  craig ..over on Lutheran surrealism
















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an ignatian plea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soul of Christ, sanctify me

Body of Christ, save me

Blood of Christ, inebriate me

Water from the side of Christ, wash me

Passion of Christ, strengthen me

O good Jesus, hear me

Within Thy wounds hide me

Permit me not to be separated from Thee

From the malicious enemy defend me

In the hour of my death call me

And bid me come unto Thee

That with thy Saints I may praise Thee

Forever and ever

Amen

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i paraphrase jonathan haidt

the very concept of the University
is degraded by the presumption
that Truth and Social Justice
can coexist as mutual teleologies


to insist upon one
is to at least partially
negate the other
















......yeah well I guess there's an inherent challenge in all that


















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investigating the possibility of dark matter

cocktails have always been good for science




                                           Katherine Freese














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sometimes you just have to stand your ground

I'm not saying those goddamn pronouns!






                     Jordan Peterson PhD.  ... Canadian hero
























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