THE GREATEST DECEPTION OF MODERNISM

          IS THAT THE LAWS OF NATURE 

           ARE EXPLANATIONS OF THE

                    PHENOMENA OF NATURE. 

                                     THEY'RE NOT,  

                         THEY'RE SIMPLY DESCRIPTIONS.

                                                   ludwig wittgenstein

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astronomy and intimacy...a pop-up fantasy

Do Black Holes Have Friends?
The big one in the Milky Way might



                          ...think of the combined warmth









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the wit of GKChesterton

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.






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SJW poster

    



   Trust me I'm a
 NASTY WOMAN









.............. how could you possible go wrong?








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talk about Primal Screams

In sum, 
the diminution and rupture 
        of the human family 
and the rise of identity politics
 are not only happening 
                  at the same time. 
They cannot be understood
                 apart from one another




\                                          Mary Eberstadt















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raw comfort

Search Results

Knowledge Result

   COLD COLD GROUND     

 Crest fallen sidekick in an old cafe
  Never slept with a dream before he had to go away
  There's a bell in the tower Uncle Ray bought a round
 Don't worry about the army in the cold cold ground
 Cold cold ground, cold cold ground, cold cold ground

  Now don't be a cry baby when there's wood in the shed
 There's a bird in the chimney and a stone in my bed
  When the road's washed out they pass the bottle around
     And wait in the arms of the cold cold ground
 The cold cold ground, the cold cold ground, cold cold ground

  There's a ribbon in the willow there's a tire swing rope
    And a briar patch of berries takin' over the slope
  The cat'll sleep in the mailbox and we'll never go to town
  Til we bury every dream in the cold cold ground
 In the cold cold ground, the cold cold ground
   In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground

   Gimme a Winchester rifle and a whole box of shells
   Blow the roof off the goat barn let it roll down the hill
   The piano is firewood, times square is a dream
    I find we'll lay down together in the cold cold ground
   In the cold cold ground, cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground

   Call the cops on the Breed loves, bring a bible and a rope
  And a whole box of rebel and a bar of soap
   Make a pile of trunk tires and burn 'em all down
    Bring a dollar with you baby in the cold cold ground
   In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground, 
   in the cold cold ground

    Take a weather vane rooster throw rocks at his head
   Stop talking to the neighbors til we all go dead
   Beware of my temper and the dog that I've found
  Break all the windows in the cold cold ground

   In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground
    In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground
  In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground
    In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground
    In the cold cold ground, in the cold cold ground

                                                  Tom Waits

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there we were hanging off the edge of the abyss....

Bach's music is the only argument
 proving the creation of the Universe
 cannot be regarded as a complete failure.


                                                       Emil Cioran





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the new cultural condensation...drip drip

A saying on the Pacific Rim:
Heaven is an American home, Chinese food,
and a Japanese wife.
Hell is a Chinese home,
Japanese food and an American wife.





.....something is being said here










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the valor of woman

Never explain, never retract,
 never apologize.
 Just get the thing done and let them howl.


                              Nellie McClung




.....   i guess killing millions of humans in the womb is beyond moral scrutiny











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what fuels their claim for justice

I feel that "man-hating" is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. And although there are exceptions (as in everything), i.e., men who are trying to be traitors to their own male class, most men cheerfully affirm their deadly class privileges and power. And I hate that class.





                                                                Robin Morgan







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hitting one's head against the dead end sign

politics offers yesterday's solutions
to today's problems

              marshal mcluhan





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some birds never fly

the notion of acedia means that a man does not,
          in the last resort, 
    give the consent of his will to his own being; 
  that beneath the dynamic activity of his existence,
he is still not at one with himself

  ….. …..                           -Joseph Pieper








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george carlin said...

There are nights 
when the wolves are silent
and only the moon howls.





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travail of the modern prophet

                                               Echoes of Heraclitus





Four days I sat in the attic
with 27 cans of beans
we were going to use on Labor Day
and some coca cola I drank very slowly
                                                       to make it last

Finally I bashed and bashed
with a can
till I created enough of a breach
to pry open the smallest slit in the roof

O my God!
one of my neighbors was floating with
her hair entangled in a tree limb

A helicopter flew me away
I wound up in Utah
where I'm waiting for Jesus
or anybody

to help me home.

That's what my mother always said:
The rivers always pours toward poverty
You can't lose the same house twice

but once you get to heaven
the water makes God's bread to leaven



                  Ed Sanders







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let us drink to aesthetic dystopia...here's to the muse...in absentia

....art museums have existed for barely two hundred years. They bulked so large in the nineteenth century,   and are so much part of our lives today that we forget they have imposed upon the spectator a wholly new attitude towards the work of art. For they have tended to estrange the works they bring together from their original functions and to transform even portraits into ‘pictures'.


                      Andre' Malraux --1940





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o that pernicious monster within

...(sic)  barbarism is never finally defeated;  given propitious circumstances, men and women who seem quite orderly will commit every conceivable atrocity.   The danger does not come merely from habitual hooligans; we are all potential recruits for anarchy.   Unremitting effort is needed to keep men living together at peace; there is only a margin of energy left over for experiment, however beneficent.   Once the prisons of the mind have been opened,
 the orgy is on.


                                               Evelyn Waugh









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Uhlmann's Razor

“When stupidity seems a sufficient explanation,

 there is no need for recourse 

to any more elaborate analysis.”

            ...Occam is writhing in purgatory

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found poem # 456,897

Please do not
   Play the Piano




......do you mean....never?

Bill Evans would defy the command

i imagined sitting there, opening the cover
make the little grand playable
and just sit there in hommage to john Cage








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4 last things

            Death

              Judgement

                  Heaven

                       Hell....




..........short final steps to eternity







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to see by faith

To one who has faith,
no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith,
no explanation is possible.



-St. Thomas Aquinas











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just found poem

           # 7,998



           Terms of use. Privacy&cookies ...




              ...sounds like a policy statement for just about anything

two intellectual roads

either you make the effort to conform your desires to truth
or you spin your wheels 
                            making truth conform to your desires






                                                e michael jones






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found poem

Amen Christ is Our Savior One Man + One Woman Family is Our Strength







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no wonder we're in such a wretched state of affairs

musics are cultural particularisations
of the human capacity
 to form multiply-intentional representations
through integrating information
across different functional domains
of temporally extended
 or sequenced human experience
 and behaviour,
 generally expressed in sound



....bach would vomit








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a full poem contained in three little words

    
                Please    give     blood.









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south park rejoinder

all characters and events in this show--

even those based on real persons --

 are completely fictional

all celebrity voices are impersonated ... poorly

the following program contains coarse language

and due to its content

it should not be viewed by anyone

they can always say...i told you so

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perhaps they shaved...it's all the rage i hear tell

found poem  # 567.982



stephen hawking was wrong.
black holes are bald; not hairy





             ....something tells me: nobody has ever seen a real black hole








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a quip for the ages

Calling the ADL a "charity" 
is
like calling murder
 assisted suicide.



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found poem #1,988

instacart
           GET GROCERIES

shop now






             ...why not,  better things to do etc.


multitasking the ways of living yeah you go girls

who woulda thunk?

Golf is Killing
 Your Clubhead Speed




............found poem #9,116

a moment in human evolution

if offered a seat on a rocket ship
don't ask, what seat? 
Just get on


               Christa MacAuliffe



             ...maybe a dirge would be appropriate





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antiphon of the proud boys

i am a proud western chauvinist
who refuses to apologize for
creating western civilization






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from: the mustard seed manual of painting

To be without method is deplorable, 
but to depend entirely on method is worse. 




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to paraphrase teresa of avila

life is like
a bad night
in a bad hotel....


(or maybe a busy night in an albergue)






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the best of all possible worlds discovered

found poem  #7,789


STUFF YOUR FACE.
LOSE WEIGHT.





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turns out you have to pay for free speech

one thing is for sure:
life at university new brunswick just
got a lot quieter-
and that's how the petty tyrants like it


                                     janice fiamengo

....support    ricardo     duchesne

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joseph

God never caused the virtues and singular merit of Joseph
 to shine with greater splendor 
than when He said to him by the mouth of the angel, 
“Take the Child and His mother”;
 for in them He committed to him 
His most precious treasures,
 giving him thus the preference 
over all the blessed spirits of Heaven;
 and Joseph received these two sacred persons
 into his care, to be their protector, 
their guardian, and defender. 
If, then, Heaven made Joseph 
the protector of Jesus and Mary, 
we may rest assured that he was at the same time
 made protector and patron of all men.

                                 
                                            — Edward Healy Thompson





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a luthier's dream

Tone is a subjective thing but everyone seems very pleased with their guitars.

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pandering after illusions

The Equality Act is madness on stilts.





                       legislative contortion machines

Is this a Ted Talk or a South Park episode?

Psychopaths have found a happy hunting ground
with hook-up culture.
- from the comment stream






TEDtalk - the secularist pulpit
for humanist idiocy




from an impromptu preacher extolling the positive possibilities
of casual sex: pros and cons






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found poem e-letter

 



         found poem   #77,659

In Utah with

Youngest chicken 

And Susan

Have fun

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