Armenio Pereira
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Mankind: a shipwreck in the making, with a lifelong fixation on reshuffling the deck chairs, to the sound of a solipsistic tune.
May you have a pleasant week.
In “westernized” societies, people can’t help but to put on layer upon layer of prejudices because, you see, that pervasive, year-round blizzard known as “peer pressure” – making it so much troublesome to get naked ever again. That’s why, in due time, the grim reaper comes to lend a helpin’ hand.
Have a pleasant week.
’84 years old guys – your “choice”‘
Body fitness is as much as a choice as IQ is.
‘Four short years ago, “peace” and “prosperity”… what the hell happened?’
Poor “choices”? From whom?
Have a pleasant week.
A military operation relying on civilian – and private – infrastructure is not a military operation: it’s a farce. Both Mr. Musk and his opponents are but clowns, playing their part in the worldwide gaslighting.
Si la jeunesse savait, si la vieillesse pouvait…
Do away with guilt – Do away with pride – You’ll be fine – Or maybe you won’t
Memory and Truth are mutually exclusive.
(Truth is readily available; it doesn’t require storage. Doubtful things require constant scrutiny: memory is the realm of illusion.)Summary’s summary:
Atheism
– To believe that the Universe is a work-in-progress, and Man plays a key role in whatever goal (if any) the Universe has.Theism
– To know that the Universe is a self-contained, relentless recycling apparatus that always has been, and forever will be, Perfect (aka God or, in human-readable format, The Everlasting Dissatisfaction,)(I understand that, under Christian terms, sloth is a mortal sin, but Radical Acceptance – my personal take on Theism – makes everything so much easy.)
(Thank you, TAE Summary.)
“The Pursuit of Happiness”
What is happiness?
The art of learning how to cope with misery.How to hone said art?
A possible way: carefully calibrate the influence exerted by the relentless triumvirate – disgust + delight + obsession – over one’s own affairs.
Some do it intuitively; some learn it after long travails; to some, a lifetime isn’t enough (to perceive it.)Have a nice week.
“[…] Strasbourg Cathedral – what did they know in 1439 that we have forgotten?”
God (aka The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.)
There are no “rights” nor “duties”, only “needs” – “rights”, “duties” and all that jazz are nothing but abstractions devised by some clever dudes way back when in order to i.) ensure the existence of structured societies, capable of exerting power and influence over large territories, beyond the possibilities of the original organization, the clan; and, most importantly, ii.) to allow the leaders to remain alive after a good night’s sleep.
“we are all just stars”
We are all just procrastinated corpses, discombobulated by the pungent smell of immortality.
(O deus d’)A Eterna Insatisfação acordou, para realizar que não voltaria a’dormecer.
“Que fazer?”
Luz e Dor, Sombra e Prazer.(The God of) The Everlasting Dissatisfaction woke up to realize falling asleep was forever out of reach.
“What to do?”
Pleasure & Shadow, Light and Pain.
(Accepting with a certain bonhomie was the gift bestowed upon me; God bless you and yours,)“Beauty is truth, truth beauty …”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Truth in the mind’s eye of the believerSeek not for the truth, let go of opinions instead.
Radical acceptance
Religion as the opiate of the masses:
Organized faith, organized sports, legal/illegal drugs organized distribution: psychotropics for all – to each its own, according to his/her needs.
Every single human is (intentionally or not) on the prowl for the Universal Painkiller: those of a religious disposition peruse inwards, those of an anthropocentric nature shop around.Re: biolabs
Mankind owes an explanation to itself: why are there so many humans that feel utterly at ease doing R&D with the sole purpose of maiming, handicapping and/or outright kill other humans, and why the humans that somehow find this to be an abhorrent pursuit do exactly zilch about it? And why are so called “democratic” governments – you know, rullers elected by the people (LOL) – packed with people of the former persuasion?
The Everlasting Dissatisfaction – aka God in Western Civ – created us to have some comic relief from the ordeal of eternity.
We shall not disappoint.Mankind’s main ailment: the pervasive fear of the future, and he/she, who lives in permanent fear, can’t help him/herself but to spread fear around, non-stop.
To stop living in fear, to stop spreading fear – we all know what the future is all about: the relentless decaying of body and ego, until we are delivered from the current cycle.Humans are an oxymoronic species, ruled over by a pantheon of whimsical demigods/angels/djinn and a an even more whimsical Creator. (If you’re not of a religious disposition, replace ‘demigods’ and ‘Creator’ with ‘free will’: the end result is the same.)
A few of us see this fact with either some bonhomie or with overt animosity, while the masses couldn’t care less, channeling all their efforts into getting food and trying to improve their odds of mating.
It has been this way for more than 300 thousand years, wash – rinse – repeat, with the vast majority not showing any signs of even beginning to get tired of it.So soldier on, kommentariat, those who are about to die salute ye.
Soldier on, until the thing you cherish the most, the thing which made you spend unfathomable energy and resources to preserve – the body/ego combo – finally perishes.Fear not: “progressives” can’t control Change, “conservatives” can’t prevent It; eventually, equanimity towards Change is our best bet.
Low tide follows high tide follows low tide.
The change one favours will inevitably come, but not necessarily during one’s lifetime (as a human being.)
That’s the Universe’s nature.
Now you go and, one monad at the time, change the Universe, will you?A healthy dose of equanimity towards change is what we need.
Mme. Lagarde can’t be sacked:
a) She’s a useful clown; and, doubleplusgood
b) she’s of the feminine persuasion.We have clowns aplenty, but most females – being primarily pragmatic, thus keenly aware of the importance of self-respect- usually shun the clown role: to TPTB, the few female clowns around are highly valuable.
In order to overcome judgment, a human needs to suspend/stop thinking, and here is where free will – or lack of thereof – comes into play: one can’t simply stop thinking as long as one remains a going concern.
As long as The Everlasting Dissatisfaction sees it fit, pleasure & pain will never go out of style, thus, dorénavant
Mourn when you feel pleasure,
’cause sorrow dully follows.
Cheer when you feel pain
’cause after that there will be
joy.(hail to the forgotten guitar hero)
Young lads will do almost anything for sex, including flattery/toadying towards women; lasses will do anything for adulation from others, including engaging in intercourse with no matter who.
Somehow subdue these two irreducible forces and harmony – albeit precarious – will prevail.
(Don’t miss the superb string arrangement on this, courtesy the late and great Paul Buckmaster.)
It truly would be a blessing if humans could definitively eschew the ludicrous – and sometimes outright dangerous – delusions about making the world – and, by extension and sheer hubris, the Universe – a “better” place, because:
a) The many agonistical views on what “better place” means and how to get there recurrently end up in tragic and widespread disputes.
b) No one can improve an already perfect thing.Having said that, I grok this is only wishful thinking, because humans are not here to improve an iota, but simply to be what everything else is: an agent of change, a figment of The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.
“Religion won’t save you.”
Nothing to be saved, ’cause we aren’t really lost, only oblivious of what life’s all about (to kill, until one gets killed; otherwise, how would you feed yourself and your loved ones? If you are a vegetarian of some sort, please remember that plants are living entities, and that trees don’t bear fruit all year ’round, and not in quantities enough to feed large groups – after all, paradise was intended for Adam and Eve, not for Adam, Eve and an extensive cohort of descendants.)
Religion will – eventually – give you peace of mind.
That’s enough.The inevitable is hassle-free, in spite of our prejudices.
The art of living may well be learning how to seamlessly integrate with the unavoidable.
Adapt or die?
Adapt, and then die.The (paradoxical) art of living: how to effectively occupy one’s waking hours doing a bunch of poorly thought-out things.
Don’t fret: the remnants of some human achievements are destined to become symbols, catalysts for the next species afflicted by consciousness, in order to ensure this species properly aligns itself with the cycle of creation and destruction.
The most relevant question every (wannabe) philosopher should ask himself (and submit for others’ consideration) is, IMHO:
– Is the Universe perfect, or is it a work-in-progress?Once one finds the answer – or, in the very least, one feels comfortable enough with one of the options – everything falls into place.
Saludos
“Borrell: The EU Is A Garden, The Rest Of The World Is A Jungle (RT)”
So, should the migrants heading towards the EU be treated as an invasive species?
We do not know reality – we only have a multitude of personal versions of reality, that either compete or cooperate. With cooperation nearly extinct, now’s the time of unbridled competition – disaggregation is inevitable. The victor takes it all, and won’t be extolled. The triumph will be the greatest, and bitterest, disappointment.
Humans consume the equivalent to 254 oil filled Olympic pools per hour (as of 2021, estimated daily oil consumption source here). How many pools of oil do the geological processes produce per hour? We don’t know, therefore all discussions concerning human permanence on the planet are moot.
Meanwhile, enjoy some beauty
WTC: for further reference, see this (and then ask yourself: how could a team alien to the construction site smuggle and assemble all the required equipment to pull it through? And if they did, why not others with less entertaining – albeit quite spectacular – ends?)
Nord Stream pipelines: those are (were?) supposed to be key infrastructures (both in logistics and political terms) – for all logical reasons, it should be one of the most controlled/under surveillance infrastructures on the planet. Yet, it was partially “damaged” by “unknown” agents. Makes one wonder if the main culprit for all what is going on on the world stage isn’t a supranational entity. (I’m not talking about NATO, because NATO=USA, and no, not necessarily the WEF: to my mind the WEF is just a clown world cover for something a tad more enigmatic.)
