History & Power

I cycle; I am History;
I let the powerful rise
Then I break them down.
12.31.10

Listening & Ideas

Listen carefully
Listen to everyone
Listen to everything
Listen with your eyes
Listen with your nose
Listen with your mouth
Listen with your skin;
Your best ideas come
From keen observation.

Ethnicity & Freedom

To insist on an ethnic purity is but primitive atavism
Which, in time, will bring more intra-ethnic feuds
That split and splinter such atavisms
Until external ethnic infusions
Come in to the rescue;
Ethnic inbreeding
Stunts intellectual freedoms
And fosters decay.
12.29.10

Obligations & Freedoms

Only the recluse are free
Social and private obligations
Tax our personal freedoms.
12.28.10

Meekness & Hubris

Those particular and critical among us
Nurture their hubris at the expense peace;
Contentment comes from acceptance
Acceptance, from humility
Humility, from meekness
And meekness, from magnanimity of soul.
12.27.10

Meausers & Intellects

It takes our brains
Decades of emancipation
To be able to measure all things
With unbiased, circumspect intellects
Rather than with how everyone else thinks.
12.26.10

Cowards & Heroes

Our fears
Either make us heroes
Or they make us cowards.
12.25.10

Giving & Loving

Giving is an act of loving;
Generosity is a tree
Whose soil is love.
12.24.10

Portection & Feelings

Protecting feelings
At the expense of truth
Heralds the decline of ethics.
12.23.10

Pretense & Humiliation

People who dislike each other
Should avoid each other;
Pretense is self-humiliation.
12.22.10

Impressional & Liability

An impressionable mind
Is a permanent liability.
12.21.10

Unilateral & Mutual

Forcing a unilateral change
Is never as just or as durable
As agreeing on a mutual change;
Outside the bourns of compromise
The pernicious seeds of conflict lurk.
12.20.10

Creativity & Entertainment

A mind
That cannot
Entertain itself
Is a wasteland;
Creativity flourishes
With self-entertainment.
12.19.10

Beauty & Desire

Beauty
Is the eye of desire;
What cannot be desirable
Cannot be beautiful.
12.18.10

Christian & Good

The Church
That welcomes only good folks
Cannot be Christian;
Jesus hung out with thieves.
12.17.10

Supervision & Excellance

Those who need supervision
Are incapable of excellence.
12.16.10

Castles & Mind

The most fortified castles
Are still easier to conquer
Than castles of the mind.
12.15.10

Substance & Form

The less the substance
The more the emphasis on form.
12.14.10

Beauty & Details

To resist enthrallment by beauty
Take a closer look at the inside
And examine all the details.
12.13.10

Talking & Listening

Those who have a need to talk
Never notice the listener’s fatigue
And only stop gushing when they’re empty.
12.12.10

Good & Bad

It is easy to confuse
Popularity with quality
And easier still to confuse
The beautiful with the good
And the homely with the bad.
12.11.10

Pretense & Need

Pretense
Is bottomless
And is proportional
To eagerness and need.
12.10.10

Violence & Recidivism

Like drugs
Violence can be addicting;
For often, it is hard to remain violence free
And recidivism from peace to violence is common.
12.09.10

Betterment & Love

We can only better ourselves
Through love.
12.08.10

Anger & Self Defense

Every time I have allowed myself to hate
I have been wrong
And every time I have acted upon my anger
I have been wrong
But anger is best for teaching us self-defense;
Defending our selves against anger
Is the best exercise for self-control.
12.07.10

Noise & Qietude

Noise violates quietude
Like brutes violate women.
12.06.10

Cruelty & Inheritance

Cruelty is contagious and transmissible
And handed down from one generation to another;
When ever a person, a family, a community, or a nation
Sanctions cruelty by calling it justice or self-defense
Or other euphemisms such as right, or God’s will
It teaches the young that cruelty is necessary.
12.05.10

Work & Passion

Work is the child of passion;
Without passion, work is but orphaned labor
For passion is the primal force behind accomplishments.
12.04.10

Excess & Contrast

Wealth and Power
Always lead to excess;
Excess leads to contrast
And contrast, to violence.
12.03.10

MInds & Pollution

Blessed are the self-taught and self-entertaining
For their minds will be least polluted
By their environments.
12.02.10

Simple & Complex

Simplicity is for the simple;
For all emotions, actions, beliefs, and happenings
There are obvious reasons and there are hidden reasons;
There is not an only one reason for anything under the sun.
12.01.10

MIstakes & Friends

Every honest mistake
Is a chance to make
A new friend.
11.30.10

Laws & Crooks

Laws and rules continue to multiply
In response to the creativity
Of criminals and crooks.
11.29.10

Writers & Readers

Even if readers stopped reading
The real writers would continue to write.
11.28.10

Size & Quality

Whenever ideal size is attained
Quality and efficiency diminish
With further increases in size.
11.27.10

Thinking & Procreation

If thinking
Were programmed
To precede procreation
The human race
Would have already expired.
11.26.10

Maintenance & Change

While age delights in classical maintenance
Youth is invigorated by rebellious change;
Therefore, you can measure the age of a soul
By how readily it looks forward to change.
11.25.10

Night & Tight

Under the cover of night
All skins are tight.
11.24.10

Nature & Programming

No one can change
Influence or rearrange
The intrinsic programming
Of human nature.
11.23.10

Think & Obey

Those who obey blindly
Do not think deeply
And those who think deeply
Do not obey blindly.
11.22.10

Age & Distance

Those who ridicule age
Will learn their lessons in reverse
For age is but youth seen from a distance.

Lesser & Better

The lesser
Who insults the better
Should always be tolerated
Because the better
Who is held to higher standards
Should not even notice the lesser’s insults.
11.20.10

Rest & Work

Most Homo sapiens
Unless reward is right
Prefer a lengthy rest
To long, hard work.
11.19.10

Delusions & Us

We must need our delusions
Because everyone of us
In his peculiar way
Is delusional.
11.18.10

Good & Bad Deaths

A bad death
Ruins a good life
And a good death
Enriches a poor life;
We should therefore endeavor
To try to die splendidly.
11.17.10

Misery & Species

There is no limit
To humanity’s miseries
And no other species in nature
Suffers as much as Homo sapiens do.
11.16.10

Delusions & Nurture

'Tis better to treat the one
Who thinks he’s great
As if he were great
Rather than sabotage
His nurturing delusions.
11.15.10

Behavior & Contagion

Bad behavior
Is contagious.
11.14.10

Intelligence & Genius

The main difference between
Genius and intelligence
Is hard work.
11.13.10

Thinking & Freedom

For any endeavor
To ensure competence
Study and training are required
Some sort of licensing, some certification
Or some sort of simple apprenticeship, at least…
But freethinking seems to be an exception;
Families, schools, religions, ideologies, cultures, nations
Teach us to think as they do, disallow independent thinking
And yet we all graduate as if we were highly trained thinkers
And believe our thoughts as if they were absolute truths…
And since we have all been reared
By some community, in some place, and at some time
We, then, have all been reared to reject freethinking
And in that lack of freedom to think independently
Lurk the seeds of our unending conflicts…
11.12.10

Age & Youth

Age is nothing but youth
Seen from a distance.
11.11.10

Change & Pretense

The idea that anyone can change
Who and what we really are
Is preposterous;
Only individuals can truly change
Who and what they are;
All the rest is petty pretense
To appease societal scrutiny.
11.10.10

Use & Abuse

The nicer we are to others
The more they will use us
And abuse us.
11.09.10

Beauty & Prosperity

Beauty and prosperity are hidden handicaps;
The more beautiful and prosperous we are
The less are we prone to struggle
In order to improve ourselves.
11.08.10

Fantasy & Reality

In youth we fantasize
In age we realize;
For fantasy is the rock-&-roll of youth
And reality, the tango of age.
11.06.10

Body & Soul

I must remind myself that my body
(That borrowed tool of my soul)
Is not really my body;
It ages, deforms, sickens
Then leaves me all alone
And returns to atoms.
11.05.10

Myth & Theory

In our quest for knowledge
We ride myth as our horse
And wield theory as sword.
11.04.10

Fatigue & Imagination

Heed fatigue;
It diminishes everything
Especially imagination.
11.03.10

Words & Truths

Unless one reads between the lines
One cannot understand the meanings
Behind the colorful camouflage of words;
In public addresses, the number of words
Is directly proportional to the sheltered truths.
11.02.10

Truth & Silence

Unless it is stated
It is as if it didn’t happen;
We hide so many truths
With precision silence.
11.01.10

Dislike & Admiration

Dislike and admiration
Grow with proximity.
10.31.10

Speed & Loss

The world has become much too fast
To countenance lengthy works of art;
What beautiful truths have we lost
In the hurried rubble of words.
10.30.10

Wisdom & Age

There is not wisdom without age
But there is age without wisdom.
10.29.10

Mind & Direction

Beware of the mind;
Once it sets sail with a certain wind
It has problems ever changing direction.
10.28.10

Like & Dislike

Don’t try to find out
Why some don’t like you;
They’ll never tell
And you’ll never know;
The secrets of dislike
Are deeper than our senses.
10.27.10

Climax & Decline

Beyond every climax
Lurks an anticlimax;
Why the hurry?
Take your time;
Delay the decline.
10.26.10

Persecution & Creed

There is no race or religion or nation
That has not committed persecution.
10.25.10

Animals & Primitiveness

We admire animals
Because they need no laws
To govern them but nature’s
And need no religions for morals
Nor do they compete in wielding cruelty
Upon each other to satiate their primitiveness.
10.24.10

Worry & Death

Those who worry about death
Are killed by their worry.
10.23.10

Worry & Esteem

Worrying about
What others might think
Is a symptom of low self-esteem.
10.22.10

Reading & Thinking

Reading
That does not liberate thinking
Is an escape from the burden of thought.
10.21.10

Denial & Hubris

Ignoring,
That powerful tool of denial,
Is the futile flushing of truths
Down the sewers of hubris.
10.20.10

Efforts & Pleasing

People like those who serve them
And serve them unconditionally
Without voicing complaints;
It takes enormous efforts
To continue to please
In order to be liked.
10.19.10

Thoughts & Identities

Do not ask a person to become
Someone that he or she is not;
We are our thoughts
And as our thoughts change
So do our identities.
10.18.10

Liars & Humans

If we were not habitual liars
Who lie to ourselves by denying
And to the many others by pretending
Then we would have to become un-human.
10.17.10

Aging & Death

When one gets tired of aging
Of losing skills, abilities, senses
One aught to help natural death
Rather than fight a loosing battle.
10.16.10

Unconscious & Sewage

Our unconscious
Is the sewer of humanity;
Into it drain all our secrets
Desires, wishes, aspirations
Hates, fears, loves, delusions
Everything unmentionable
Everything unthinkable
And everything dreamable.
10.15.10

Bird Droppings & Invisibility

No bird droppings, please
No marked grave
No epitaph
No statue;
When I die
Honor me with
Invisibility.
10.14.10

Worthy & Cause

Dedicating one’s life to a cause
Does not make the cause worthy
But not dedicating one’s life to a worthy cause
Makes one’s life less worthy.
10.13.10

Desire & Conscience

Desire is undiscriminating;
It observes no mores
And has no conscience.
10.12.10

Mistake & Punishment

A mistake
Punished with another mistake
Compounds the error.
10.11.10

Longer & Shorter

Candles that burn
The life we have left
The roads un-traveled
Our bodies that stoop
They all grow shorter
The longer we live.
10.10.10

Anger & Love

Each time my anger dies
My soul is resurrected
And my heart’s loves
Are rekindled.
10.09.10

Transience & Permanence

Accepting transience
As the essence of living
Brings joie de vivre to moments
And emancipates us
From the delusions
Of permanence.
10.08.10

Love & Reality

Love
Escapes reality
When it flies into orbit
And crashes back into it
When it returns to earth.
10.07.10

Personal Flaws & Truth

Personal flaws
Are self-sustaining;
Show friends their flaws
And you will lose them,
Pretend not to notice
And they’ll remain disfigured.
10.06.10

Reality & Myths

The public
Is easily seduced with myths;
Reality, on the other hand
Has no sex appeal.
10.05.10

Life & Life

Life is a war with life
We kill that we may live.
10.04.10

Stimulation & Melancholy

The un-stimulated
Languish in melancholy.
10.03.10

Satiety & Passions

Satiety is dangerous
It stifles passions.
10.02.10

Giving & Anger

When you stop giving
To the undeserving
They get angry
And so do you.
10.01.10

Quality & Quantity

Quality is elusive;
Eyes are impressed by quantity.
09.30.30

Beliefs & Truths

We resist truths
That challenge beliefs.
09.29.10

Reward & Breeding

When you reward hard work
You breed hard workers,
When you reward laziness
You breed procrastinators,
And when you reward pretense
You breed social duplicity.
09.28.10

Humane & Self Worth

The delusion
That we are being humane
When we are doing nothing for humanity
Sustains our false self worth.
09.27.10

Spending & Living

Not spending money
When one has it
Is selfish hoarding
For it deprives
The less-fortunate
From making a living.
09.26.10

Loudness & Self Knowledge

The loud don’t know
How loud they are.
09.25.10

Listening & Words

We listen better
When words are fewer.
09.24.10

Speach & Noise

Saying something
When there’s nothing to say
Makes for a noisy world.
09.23.01

Age & Speed

Nothing is more characteristic of age
Than the decline in speed.
09.22.10

Information & Knowledge

The media
With their barrage of information
Give the unsuspecting public
The illusion of knowledge.
09.21.10

Association & Strength

When we associate
With those older than we are
We flaunt our physical strengths;
When we associate
With those younger than we are
We flaunt our intellectual strengths;
For in every association, there's a tacit duel.
09.20.10

Struggle & Love

Beyond our struggles for survival
All the rest of our restless efforts
Are struggles against loneliness
Against worthlessness
Against emptiness
Against insecurity-
Against the lack of love.
09.19.10

Sexuality & Intellect

It is regrettable
That nature enjoins us
To expend more energy
Nurturing our sexuality
Than our intellects.
09.18.10

Sexuality & Humanity

Sexuality
Is the grand conductor
Of humanity’s infinite orchestras.
09.17.10

Followers & Gullibility

The fact that anyone
No matter how evil or bad
Can attract followers
Is universal evidence
Of human gullibility.
09.16.10

Cruelty & Limits

There are no limits
To human cruelty;
We can always out do
Our predecessors.
09.15.10

Religious & Spiritual

One must choose
Between being religious
Or being spiritual;
One can either be contained
Within one religious doctrine
Or else be free to contain
All the doctrines of humanity.
09.14.10

Easy & Hard

Youth’s
Fear of death
Makes dying hard;
Age’s
Fear of infirmity
Makes dying easy.
09.13.10

Righteous & Unnatural

There’s nothing righteous
And nothing unnatural
Upon this planet.
09.12.10

Pretense & Hubris

Pretense
Is surrender to hubris.
09.11.10

Exposure & Absolution

We do not absolve ourselves
By exposing others.
09.10.10

Dislike & Reality

We dislike those who remind us
Of who we really are.
09.09.10

Minds & Enlightenment

A made up mind is a closed mind;
Those who have already made up their minds
Have unwittingly closed them to further enlightenment.
09.08.10

Fear & Teacher

Fear
Is a grave teacher.
09.07.10

Joy & Thrills

Thrills may be complex
But joy is always simple.
09.06.10

Competence & Incompetence

We annoy the incompetent
When we execute with competence.
09.05.10

Cruelty & Selfishness

All of us are cruel
In our tacit selfishness.
09.14.10

Pioneers & Effete

The pioneers first spill their blood
Then the effete wash it away.
09.03.10

Terrorism & Torture

Torture
Is the signature of primitive oppressors
Terrorism,
The signature of angry underdogs
Cruelty,
The signature of human conflicts.
09.02.10

Age & Speed

Age
Cannot be hidden;
Observe the speeds
Of motion and emotion
And then look at the hands.
09.01.10

Beauty & Desire

Beauty is desire;
We only find beauty
In what excites us.
08.31.10

Form & Substance

Youth upholds form
And age, substance.
08.30.10

Ineptness & Noise

We cover up our ineptness with noise;
The greater the gift, the softer the voice.
08.29.10

Widerness & Habitat

Animals in captivity,
A zoo
Humans in captivity,
A prison
Animals in wilderness,
A habitat
Humans in habitat,
A wilderness.
08.28.10

Worship & Cosmos

Worship
Washes off hubris
And reveals our worth;
A minuscule, ephemeral species
In an infinite, timeless, unfathomable cosmos.
08.27.10

Peaks & Tumbles

Keep the peak within sight
But not within reach
Be the best you can be
But not the best there is
Everything that peaks tumbles.
08.26.10

Evidence & Decisions

Our unwillingness
To critically examine the evidence
Is responsible for most of our bad decisions.
08.25.10

Money & Life

Money that enriches life’s quality
Is well spent
Money that reduces joy and peace
Is preposterous
Money that merely increases power
Is the most dangerous.
08.24.10

Human & Divine

To spot a good reason to celebrate
Is human;
To create an excuse to celebrate
Is divine.
08.13.10

Biographies & Halos

Biographies
Remove the halos
From around famous faces.
08.22.10

Wisdom & Groups

Wisdom is an attribute only of individuals, never of groups
And there has never been a wise group under the sun;
In fact, wisdom declines as group numbers rise
And since our entire world is ruled by groups
Wisdom has never been our guiding star.
08.21.10

Time & Life

Those who don’t waste time
Live many lives.
08.20.10

Hints & Words

Hints are more potent than words
The less said, the more is implied.
08.19.10

Words & Knowledge

Listeners learn as talkers make noise
The wise think as talkers make noise;
Knowledge is inversely proportional
To the number of words used
To express an idea.
08.18.10

Friends & Abdication

When friends abdicate
And you don’t know why
It’s mental misappropriation;
Don’t waste time to find out why
You’ll never find out and if you do
It won’t make sense to you.
08.17.10

Music & Noise

Just like loud music turns into noise
Likewise soft speech turns into music.
08.16.10

Conscience & Humanity

Those who tranquilize their consciences
In order to justify the injustices committed
By country, creed, ideology, family, or loved ones
Even though they do represent the majority of humanity
As a majority, they also do commit double treason;
They not only betray all their fellow humans
They also betray the soul of their Maker.
08.15.19

Advertisements & Truth

In all advertisements
Is a waft of seduction
A teaspoon of cunning
A veil of misrepresentation
And a breath of treachery.
08.14.10

Life & Inanimate

Only death endures;
Compared to the inanimate
Life is frail and ephemeral;
Much like a meteor
It burns bright a while
Then quick reverts to dust.
08.13.10

Greatness & Joy

The concept of greatness
Comes from humanity’s paranoia;
There is nothing great upon this planet
Except the joy that one creates with love.
08.12.10

Truh & Numbers

Truth has little to do with numbers;
Humanity still believes that
We are the universe.
08.11.10

Hunger & Starvation

The difference between
Hunger and starvation
Is the difference between
Hunters and killers;
Those hungry for love, hunt
But those starved for it, kill.
08.10.10

Life & Meaning

Humanity’s search for the meaning of life
Is embellished with so much mythology
And pursued with so much seriousness
As though life has forever been
In desperate need of meaning.
08.09.10

Power & Wisdom

No power remains wise;
Hubris rises with power
And supplants wisdom.
08.08.10

Terrorism & Injustice

Terrorism
The ideology of anger
Is the primitive reaction
To inequality and injustice;
Counter terrorism, on the other hand
Is the enlightenment that blossoms & blooms
Out of heightened justice and diminished contrast.
08.07.10

Euphemism & Truth

Euphemisms serve those
Who do not dare speak the truth
And also those who do not dare hear it;
The brave ones, those who do not euphemize
Are sacrificed in the name of truth on the altar of history.
08.06.10

Food & Play

Were ever there is food, there is play
And were ever there is play, there is food
For the two are united by nurture and pleasure.
08.05.10

Cycles & Beings

We are cyclical beings
Like life, we cycle
In and out of our seasons
Our moods and impressions
Friendships and loves
Passions and desires
Interests and Activities
Cycle in and cycle out
In their own sweet times.
08.04.10

Life & The Inanimate

Life is a time out from the inanimate
Inanimate is the reality of the cosmos.
08.03.10

Popular & Creativity

Catering to the popular
Stifles creativity.
08.02.10

Mood & Self

Good moods are easy when all is well
And hard when ‘currents turn awry’;
We find out who we really are
When things are bad.
08.01.10

Abused & Abuser

When the abused
Become abusers
They become
Especially creative
In wielding cruelty.
07.31.10

Reflection & Self

As long as I do not look
At my reflection
I know who I am;
But when I look to see
How do I look
I lose myself.
07.30.10

Burden & Pleasure

Those who are not
Capable of pleasure
Are a burden.
07.29.10

More & Less

The well endowed
Should be held to higher standards;
The less endowed
Should be tolerated with deeper compassion.
07.28.10

Pioneers & Spirits

Pioneership
The spiritedness that builds nations
Suffocates in the effeteness of security;
To resuscitate pioneership
A nation needs emigrants
Legal, illegal, young, old
From all places and races
Who will bring with them
Their indomitable spirits.
07.27.10

Nations & Futures

Nations that think
That they can protect
Their futures with guns
Are adolescent sophomores
With too much muscle
And too little wisdom.
07.26.10

Preaching & Nature

It is puerile to think
That any amount of preaching
Can influence a person’s nature;
We can only receive
What we are inclined to receive.
07.25.10

Hubris & Humility

To call somebody stupid
Or to mistreat the less intelligent
Is the pernicious hubris
That poisons life;
Intelligence is given, not earned
And those who have received more
Should guard against the slippery slope
Which tumbles us from humility down into hubris.
07.24.10

Praise & Gifts

Sincere praise
For good minds and hearts
Ignores the fact that our hearts and minds
Are but the generous gifts of our Maker
And are not personal achievements.
07.23.10

Repetition & Anxiety

If one asks you
The same question
Over and over and over
Or if one repeats himself
Without sensing his repetition
And if your answer is heard
But never acknowledged
You can then diagnose
Severe anxiety.
07.1.22.10

Submissive & Shy

The Submissive get along with everyone
And the Shy conjure everyone’s compassion
For they both vouchsafe to everyone they meet
Everyone they know and everyone who loves them
A false but gratifying sense of dominance.
07.21.10

Good-Byes & Hellos 07.21.10

Were it not for those lengthy good-byes
We would have more time for hellos.
07.21.10

Struggle and Health

Nature is unforgiving
And exacts struggle for fitness and health;
Reward creatures with more food for less activity
And they’ll become unfit and fat.
07.20.10

Nature & Borders

Nature has no borders;
Divisions are figments
Of the human mind.
07.19.10

Quality & Majority

Quality decays
Awaiting majority approval.
07.18.10

Self Worth & Sabotage

Self worth engendered by others
May be sabotaged by others;
But the self worth that springs from within
Is immune to sabotage and praise.
07.17.10

Evidence & Dogma

Science offends humanity
When it challenges beliefs
And undermines dogmas;
The burden of evidence
Is too heavy to bear.
07.16.10

Voting & Evidence

Voting is emotional
Not evidence based
And the winners are those
Who best manipulate emotions.
07.15.10

Dictatorship & Cosmos

Democracy is dictatorship of governments
Capitalism, dictatorship of capitals
Socialism, dictatorship of ideologies
Society, dictatorship of traditions
Religion, dictatorship of beliefs
Power, dictatorship of the military
Desire, dictatorship of instincts
Emotions, dictatorships of passions
Thoughts, dictatorships of memories
Reason, dictatorship of the mind
Behavior, dictatorship of the mores
Life, dictatorship of our programming
Our programming, dictatorship of the planet
Our planet, dictatorship of the cosmos.
07.14.10

Freedom & Illusion

Freedom is an illusion;
Not even our imaginations
Are totally free.
We are the progeny
Of our programming
The output
Of our nurturing
Contained in body and mind
In soul and imagination
Within our places in history.
07.13.10

Legal & Ethical

What is legal is not always ethical
And what is ethical, not always legal
And having the right to do something
Does not sanction its ethicality or wisdom.
07.12.10

Noise & Quietude

If you want noise
Turn on the TV or radio;
If you want quietude
Turn on your mind.
07.10.10

Self & Information

Those who always talk about themselves
Actually think they’re being generous
By sharing vital information.
07.10.10

Innocence & Reality

How innocently we pass through life
And how shocked we seem to be
When checked by reality.
07.09.10

Optimism & Pessimism

Optimism
Is just as bad
As pessimism.
07.08.10

Useful & In Need

Those who are useful
Are pray to those in need.
07.07.10

Evidence & Human Behavior

Evidence
Seldom influences
Or else takes a long time
To influence human behavior.
07.06.10

Smiling & Death

We cheat death
When in our sleep
We die smiling.
07.05.10

Speaking & Listening

The pressure to speak one’s mind,
To empty one’s overflowing heart
In spite of the listeners’ disinterest,
Is the need to vent, share, imprint;
It also is the listener’s chance to hark
The excogitations of a soul in distress
And a chance to ease a spirit’s anguish
Through the generous act of listening.
07.04.10

Substance & Noise

Observe how the noisy lack substance
And how the substantial lack noise.
07.03.10

Self-Entertainment & Freedom

It’s only through one’s abilities
At self-entertainment and enjoyment
That one gains freedom from loneliness
And independence from burdensome society.
07.02.10

Performance & Truth

If you perform
For those who like you
You’ll get applause
But you’ll never know
What they really think;
But if you perform
For those who don’t like you
And you get applause
You will know what they think.
Only those who don’t like you
Will tell you the truth.
07.01.10

Urine & Sex

Ask an old man with a big prostate
To choose between being able to
Urinate well or have good sex.
Then ask a young man
With a normal prostate
The very same question.
After a short pause from the old man
And a long pause from the young man
They will both choose the very same thing.
06.30.10

Aging & Loss

Aging gracefully
Is the living art
Of ignoring loss.
06.29.10

Dictatroship & Democracy

In a democracy, the only ones
Unable to speak their minds
Are the politicians.
In a dictatorship, the only one
Able to speak his mind
Is the dictator.
06.28.10

Problems & Solutions

I never trust simple solutions for complex problems
Complex problems demand equally complex solutions
And expose thousands of simple solutions that don’t work;
When there are thousands of treatments
It means there is no treatment
And when there are thousands of solutions
It means there is no solution.
06.27.10

Making & Finding

I would rather
Make beauty
Than find it;
What I find fades
What I make lasts.
06.26.10

Mind & Entertainment

To the unlocked mind
The mind free to think and learn
Unmindful of all that it was ever taught
Daring to see things for what they really are
Then weighing them on the universal scale of joy—
To this self-taught, independent, satirical mind
The best entertainment comes from thinking
Comes from within.
06.25.10

Readers & Authors

Readers, beware of book praise
No author publishes negative comments
Or tries to solicit them from readers or editors;
Authors, like dictators, surround themselves with praise.
06.24.10

Age & Spouses

There will come a time
When those of us who reach old age
Will become undesirable sexually
Unappealing physically
And uninteresting socially;
This is when we most appreciate our spouses
For whom we remain ever attractive.
06.23.10

Truth & History

It is futile to campaign
Against truths that expose aggression
Or injustice, or are otherwise inconvenient;
Sooner or later, they will prevail
And those who had tried to bury them
Will be ridiculed by history.
06.22.10

Death & Security

Most of those who will die fat and rich
Will have squandered most of their lives
Struggling for financial security.
06.21.10

Men & Women

Men and women
Would have little to do
With each other
Were it not for sex.
06.20.10

Procreation & Selection

Though we are programmed to procreate
We’re not programmed to be selective
Of the ones with whom we copulate;
This minor genetic miscalibration
Is responsible for most marital misery.
06.19.10

Evidence & Belief

The less the evidence
The stronger the belief.
06.18.10

Dogs & Suicide

We need to learn
How to love from dogs;
Dog lovers do not
Commit suicide.
06.17.10

Freedom & Counter-thoughts

A free human being
Protects the freedoms of others
Especially their freedoms of expression
And especially when expressing counter-thoughts.
A human, a group, a nation, an ideology, or a religion
That does not protect the freedoms of counter-thoughts
Is enslaved by suffocating censorships and myopic dogmas.

Excused & Culpable

Note how we make excuses
For those wrongdoers whom we like
But hold as culpable those whom we dislike.
06.15.10

Public Toilets & Us

Do you have any idea
What the public toilets call us?
They refer to us as the dirty animals.
06.14.10

Pre-Owned & Pre-Married

We need to learn from the car dealers
Who call their used cars, pre-owned
And call the divorced, pre-married
A much kinder euphemism.
06.13.10

Fragmentation & Unity

Unity is ephemeral;
It is forged under threat
And fragments with security.
Fragmentation is natural;
It subdivides with security
Unto the edges of loneliness.
06.12.10

Death & Generosity

Dying is a generous act;
It’s giving up your only seat
For someone you don’t even know.
06.11.10

Enlightenment & Education

Enlightenment
Cannot be taught;
It can only be acquired
Through personal endeavor.

You won’t learn it
In schools or travels
Or in readings or arts
Or in places of worship.

Enlightenment is not education;
It’s an epiphany that only comes
To those fearlessly independent souls
Who burnish their free-willed minds
With painfully discovered truths
Unmindful of nation or religion
Or of group or family.
06.10.10

Shame & Nature

Those who preach
Unnatural behavior
Attract audiences
Who are ashamed
Of their natures.
06.09.10

Beyond Dogma & Life

The select few
Who dare think beyond dogma
Are the same few
Who dare live beyond life.
06.08.10

Laughs & Frowns

I trust those who laugh
More than those who smile
And those who frown
More than those who cry.
06.07.10

People & Us

I’ve never met People
That everyone talks about;
People who like this
Or People who do that
Or People who don’t understand
Or People who feel, or talk, or act…
Oh, you do, of course, know what I mean,..
Everyone I know or have ever known
Excludes one’s self and one’s audience
When they discourse about People;
Who are these People and where are they?
These common People that everyone talks about.
06.06.10

Mediocrity & Self

Mediocrity is universal;
Every one of us
Is a mediocre
Or has been one
At certain times
Or in certain situations;
Tolerating mediocrity
Is tolerating one’s self.
06.05.10

Statesmen & Politicians

Democracy
Deselects statesmen
Who dare displease
In favor of politicians
Who aim to please.
05.04.10

Approval & Truth

One should not seek approval
Before embarking on one’s own journey
Nor should one expect approval
When declaring one’s own truths;
Those who require approval
Spend a lot of life acquiring it
And achieve little because of it.
06.03.10

Approval & Truth

Shame & Nature

There is no shame in nature
Indeed, shame is an exclusively human invention
Brewed in awareness, flavored with conceit, and laced with envy.
06.02.10

Humanity & Remembrance

It’s difficult to be proud of humanity
Because of how it has treated humanity
And because most of its grand achievements
Are rooted in aggression or tainted with cruelty;
When it ends, and if anyone is left that could recall
It will be remembered not for its science but for its art
That ever gentle dimension of its ferocious history
Where beauty was truth and truth was beauty.
06.01.10

Military & Demographic Powers

When, after a long while
Military powers prove ineffective
Demographic powers will then become
The grand conductors of human history.
05.31.10

Rightly & Wrongly

To behave rightly
A group needs a leader
And to behave wrongly
A group needs a leader.
05.30.10

Thoughts & Conflicts

“How dare you think so differently?
You either think like I or we do
Or else you are a traitor…”
Herein lie all the origins
Of human conflicts.
05.29.10

Dissonance & Peace

Stay away from those who are easily upset;
They will contaminate your tranquil soul
With their deep disharmony
Yet will not let you inseminate
Their restlessness with your peace.
05.28.10

Hurt Feelings & Distance

Those who consistently manage
To hurt each other’s feelings
Need to stay apart.
05.27.10

Griefs & Surprises

Accepting reality
Tempers griefs;
Preparing for reality
Tempers surprises.
05.26.10

Love & Fear

Love and fear contend for the human mind;
When fear overwhelms, the mind becomes loveless
But when love overpowers, the mind is rendered fearless.
05.25.10

Hubris & Humility

A humble human
When shown his errors
Learns and grows;
While the one
Afflicted with hubris
Is blind to his errors
Nor learns, nor grows.
05.24.10

Homo sapiens & Homo disturctivus

After Experiment Planet Earth
The universe has renamed Homo sapiens
Renamed them as Homo destructivus
And isolated them in space
So as not to contaminate
The rest of the universe
With their deadly seeds.
05.23.10

Pleaser & Pleased

Trying to please
Teaches bad habits
To both, the pleaser
And the pleased.
05.21.10

Wisdom & Peace

I miss my passions
But I love my wisdom;
And I miss my struggles
But I love my peace.
05.20.10

Effeteness & Nations

Nothing destroys a nation
Quicker than accrued effeteness
That pernicious malady of soft entitlements
Against which not even nuclear powers
Can ever stand a chance.
05.19.10

Capitalism & Socialism

Capitalism
Is ruthless to the poor
But discourages poverty;
Socialism
Is ruthless to the poor
And encourages poverty.
05.18.10

Good & Bad Traits

When you say you love me
You are, indeed, saying that
You also love my bad traits;
It takes no effort whatsoever
To only love my good traits.
05.17.10

Democracy & Dictatorship

Democracy encourages
The good to do their best
And the bad to do their worst;
Whereas dictatorships
Stifle the good and
Empower the bad.
05.16.10

Imagination & Dogma

We spend most of our lives
In the company of our imaginations
Which fly high with enlightenment
And are kept captive by dogma.
05.15.10

Youth & Age

An old person
Knows what youth is
Whereas a young person
Cannot know what old age is.
05.14.10

Passions & Death

Too bad
Our passions die
Before we do.
05.13.10

HIstoric Forces & Historic Men

Historic forces make historic men
Create nations, move the world;
It is anachronistic to say that
Men and nations move history
Rather than they are moved by it.
05.12.10

Lazy & Efficient

If you gather into one work force
The energetic and the lackadaisical
The lazy will find a way to work less hard
Leaving the efficient to do most of the work.
05.11.10

Humans & Identity

My conscious
Would castigate me if I were to wear
A national, religious, political, or other identity;
I am a representative of the only extant genus, Homo
Of the bipedal Hominidae primates of the great ape family
A member of the Kingdom, Animalia, of the Class, Mammalia
Of the 200,000 year old African dynesty, Homo sapiens
An ephemeral human spirit-a citizen of the world.
05.10.10

Life & Fear Of Death

Whosoever lives a life
That prepares him for death
Lives with less fear and more joy
Than one who fears death enough
To beg for life at any cost and
To live shrouded by myth.
05.09.10

History & Human Nature

History repeats itself
Only because
Human nature
Is immutable.
05.08.10

Poverty & Causes

Poverty is mostly
Environmental
Or mental
Or both.
05.07.10

Attitude & Situation

It's far easier
To change one’s attitude
Than one’s situation.
05.06.10

Beliefs & Powers

Show me a power that did not succumb
A force that did not become disempowered
An ideology that survived history’s bloody blade
Or a belief that did not fragment and become abused.
05.05.10

Powers & Conscience

There is no power with a conscience;
Powers aim to grow, self protect
And they suffer from hubris-
Whereas a conscience aims at justice
Protects others at self expense
And grows with humility.
05.04.10

Life & Danger

Life is dangerous
Only death is safe;
Everyone alive
Lives dangerously.
05.03.10

Injustice & Coping

One copes
With injustice
In four stages -
First comes anger
Then retribution ideas
Then realization of futility
Then the magnanimity of spirit
Summons forgiveness with a smile;
And that’s how the meek inherit the earth.
05.02.10

Life & Daath

All that one desires
After a long, beautiful life
Is a short, wonderful death.
05.01.10

Wisdom & Recognition

Wisdom begins with recognition
With the recognition of the irrational
First in ourselves and then in everyone else.
04.30.10

Choices & Consequences

Whenever we refuse to choose
We are neither alive nor dead
But, like a Sunday afternoon,
Somewhere in between.
04.29.10

Herd Mentality & Critical Thinking

Human herds
Can be led anywhere
As long as critical thinking
Remains suppressed or underdeveloped.
04.28.10

Money & Love

Ask a dying man
What would he
Rather have
Money or Love;
Then ask an old man
And then a young man
The very same question;
With age we always transition
From materialism to spiritualism.
04.27.10

History & Memory

In the infinite shelves of the brain
Resides the human library
We call the mind.
Culture, nature, nurture, coincidence
Where we grew up and how we grew up
What times we grew up in and our experiences-
(Religious, political, national, historical, mythological, personal
Our individual pre-wireings, and life's continuous programmings)
They all stack books in our brain shelves that can never be removed
Books that become our human library, our collective memory, and our identity.
04.26.10

Imagination & Reality

Imagination was born out of awareness
Out of our awareness of reality
For living entirely in reality
Is incompatible with joy.
We all live two lives,
The thorny life of reality
Where jagged facts bleed us
And the secret life of imagination
Where dwell our spiritual implements of joy
Our hopes, dreams, myths, delusions, and faiths.
04.25.10

Medicine & Quality

In America
The calling that was medicine
Is dying...
Technology and human nature
Have poisoned it...
We test before we think
We think to justify procedures
We take care of diseases
But neglect the humans who have them...
In America
Medicine has become a high-tech industry
With poor-human qualities and harsh insurance dictatorships
Expensive, aggressive, inefficient, unavailable
Unaffordable, fragmented, and dangerous.
04.24.10

Denial & Planet Earth

If we were not in total denial
We would be working together
In order to save this living planet
From imminent demise.
04.23.10

Life & Batteries

Life is a charged battery
If it does not die of damage
It will slowly run out of charge.
04.22.10

Entertainment & Passivity

Unless we learn to entertain ourselves
By actively pursuing what we passionately love
Most of the entertainments we partake of
Will render us intellectually passive.
04.21.10

Tiring & Retiring

Besides food, sleep, and passions
Whatever else we do, day after day
Becomes ultimately tiring
And invites retiring.
04.20.10

Literature & LIfe

Blessed are the writers and readers
For they shall live many lives.
04.19.10

Time & Abdundance

To those who do not waste it
Time comes abundantly.
04.18.10

Life & Universe

This experiment called life
Upon this planet called earth
One day will convince the universe
That life is self-destructive.
04.17.10

Entitlement & Disillusionment

Entitlement is a sad disease
It causes the entitled to think
That you deserve more...
That they owe it to us...
That I deserve better...
It is best to believe
That one deserves nothing
So that when good things come
One is pleasantly surprised
But when bad things hit
One does not suffer
The pangs of disillusionment.
04.16.10

Wright & Wrong

In human conflict
All sides believe
That they are right.
We only find out
Who was wrong
From the winner.
04.15.10

Prophets & Earth

All the prophets
Have died in vain;
Look what a shameful
Earth we live in.
04.14.10

Advertising & Stealth

Advertising is
A misrepresentation by stealth
It bypasses the conscience of its mongers
And the intellects of its receivers.
04.13.10

Time & Money

The savers are three:
Those who pay money to save time
Those who pay time to save money
And those who save both time and money.
The squanderers are three:
Those who squander money
Those who squander time
And those who squander both money and time.

Identities & Self

We all possess numerous and diverse identities:
Some identities are defined by how others see us
Some others are defined by all the life roles we play
Some, by our personal dreams and aspirations
Some, by our beliefs, biases, and myths
Some, by how and where we grow up
Some, by our appearances and ages
Some, by our possessions or wealth
Some, by our intellectual or artistic outputs
But only one identity is defined by our memories of youth
By the images we cling to so that we can always
View ourselves as young in spite of our age.
04.11.10

Orbits & Freedom

We all think in orbits
Highs, lows, and in-betweens
One orbit at a time.
We all exit our orbits
Up or down, but only awhile
And then go back to our bases.
High orbiters are free
They think outside beliefs
And they are chastised by society.
Low orbiters are shackled
They think from within beliefs
And they are the mentors of society.
The in-between orbiters
Are the common chameleons
Who choose the colors of their orbits
To match the colors of their situations.
04.10.01

Life & Stars

Our miniscule, un-cosmic lives
And heightened awareness
Render us impatient
And deny us peace.
With our myopic minds
We hoard, headless of time
We quarrel, headless of reason
And then we die, always surprised.
If we could live like stars
We would not petty
Our burning lives
With ephemera.
04.09.10

Life & Stars

Our miniscule, un-cosmic lives
And heightened awareness
Render us impatient
And deny us peace.
With our myopic minds
We hoard, headless of time
We quarrel, headless of reason
And then we die, always surprised.
If we could live like stars
We would not petty
Our burning lives
With ephemera.
04.09.10

Generosity & Poverty

No one has ever been
Impoverished by generosity;
The more one gives
The more one receives
And the wealthier one feels.
04.08.10

Nations & Aging

Nations possess human anatomy
But instead of bodily organs
They have institutions
And instead of brains
They have governments.

Aging affects nations
Like it affects humans
Their organs begin to fail
Their brains become feeble
They become fat and disabled
Then they succumb to dementia.
04.07.10

Oppression & Injustice

There is no just oppression or oppressor
The mere need for oppression
Is certain proof of injustice.
04.06.10

Writers & Audiences

A writer writes from within
Writes about the truths within his soul;
But, when instead, he writes for audiences
He taints his truths in order to please.
04.05.10

The Best & The Best

To be the best is ephemeral
Some one always out-bests the best
But to be the best one can be
Could never be bested.
04.04.10

Beauty & Marriage

Nothing can destroy
A beautiful human being
Like a bad marriage.
04.03.10

Readiness & Adversity

If we plan for adversity
If we prepare for injustice
If we get ready for being hurt
Life would not catch us by surprise.
04.02.10

Thoughts & Knowledge

Wonder about your own thoughts;
Wondering about the thoughts of others
Is a futile attempt at knowing the un-knowable.
04.01.10

Wisdom & Folly

Wisdom only comes to the wise
And folly comes mainly to fools;
Wisdom cannot be taught
Nor can folly be averted.
03.31.10

Intelligence & What's On The Mind

Intelligence is not in short supply;
The source of worry is not our minds
But what’s on our minds;
For it’s the contents of our minds
That make us what we are.
03.30.10

Self-Worth & Audiences

Pity that our self-worth
Has to come from without,
From the applause of audiences;
The most worthy have always been
Those whose worth comes from within.
03.29.10

War & Environment

Before earth explodes
And shatters us all to shreds
We should erase our borders
Replace our armies with global police
And use our war moneys to make war
On the violators of the environment.
03.28.10

Truth & Courage

Those who dare speak the truth
Offend so many
That now hardly any
Dare speak it.
03.27.10

Awareness & Life

Awareness is
The curse of humanity
The mother of myths
The maker of religions
And the harbinger of fears;
Were we like animals, unaware…
We would fill our minutes with little joys
Ignore precarious life and brutal mortality
And live for living without ever asking questions.
03.26.10

Ownership & Significance

How quickly we believe
That everything we own
And wherever we are reared
And whatever countries we inhabit
Belong to little us;
We forget that everything’s on loan
That nothing in this unimaginable universe
Can ever belong to anyone
And that nothing on our insignificant planet
Can ever attain great cosmic significance.
03.25.10

Teaching & Fear

Teaching fear is ruthless
Teaching hell is heinous
Teaching fear of God is sinful
Teaching fear of Death is cruel
Teaching love of God and peace of Death
As the natural extensions of life into the future
Is the best means to live in harmony with nature.
03.24.10

Motion & Life

Move without reason
Be active out of season
Ask not for an excuse to fly
All you need to know is that time is flowing fast
And you either flap your wings or die.
03.23.10

Hunger & Satiation

Hunger empowers our drives
Until it is satiated.
03.22.10

Freedom & Price

Freedom is never free
Its price is high
And grows even higher
The longer it lasts.
03.21.10

Youth & Knowing

When we interact with the youth
We know that they will change their minds with time
And they believe that we cannot possibly know what we know.
03.20.10

Words & Substance

The more the words the less the substance;
Verbosity dilutes the essence.
03.19.10

Effort & Eagerness

Effort is reward dependent
And eagerness, expectation dependent;
Those who expand great efforts are the well rewarded
And those who evince great eagerness have great expectations.
03.18.10

Mishaps & Thrills

Make room everyday
For mistakes and mishaps;
If they happen, you’ll be prepared
If they do not, you will be thrilled.
03.17.10

Loyalty & Blindness

Loyalty is often blind;
Those loyal to a cause
Don’t often change their minds
Even when the evidence
Is all against them.
03.16.10

LIfe & Earth

If we were given the choices
To remain in earth, unborn
Or to be born and live for a while
We would all choose life.
Those who choose life
Have nothing to loose
Because after a while
They all will go back home.
Those who chose earth
Have everything to loose
Because they may never get another chance
To learn what life is all about.
03.15.10

Pretense & Popularity

To be well liked
One must be what others want
And value their opinions
Above one’s own
Making it impossible
To be true to one’s self.
Social pretense is universal
Especially among popular people.
03.14.10

Most & Least

We’re most vulnerable when in need
Most virtuous when satiated
Most venal when the price is right
Least rational when emotional
Most rational when detached
Irrational when it comes to our own beliefs
Least aware of our own imperfections
Most critical of the imperfections of others
Most delusional with death and immortality
Bravest with words
Violent in anger
Most desperate for love.
03.13.10

Love & Wrong

Love is never an excuse
For doing the wrong thing.
03.12.10

Relationships & Need

Relationships start when we begin to need or to like each other
They prosper as long as we continue to need or like each other
They begin to die when we no longer need or like each other
And love, the innocent bystander
Glorifies our affections
As long as they last.
03.11.10

Intelligence & Leisure

Television has deprived humanity
Of the intelligent use of leisure.
03.10.10

Small Things & Joy

It’s vital to celebrate something, no matter how small, everyday
Small things can bring great joys to life.
03.09.10

Elegance & Comfort

There’s a tug of war between elegance and comfort
The younger favor elegance and the older, comfort.
03.08.10

Thinking & Levels

One-level thinking is done by all animals
Two-level thinking is done by most humans
Multi-level thinking is only done by a few thinkers.
3.7.10

Greatness & Insanity

It is unwise to inflate one’s own self worth;
The delusion of greatness is intoxicating
And drives one into hubristic insanity.
3.6.10

Morality & Dogma

Teaching morality
Entails un-teaching dogma
And teaching ethics instead
So as to empower our conscience
To make all of our moral decisions.
3.5.10

Surmise & Conclude

It’s best to surmise rather than conclude
Surmising entails flexibility whereas
Concluding reeks of finality.
3.4.10

Trust & Nature

Homo sapiens cannot be trusted;
They all betray Mother Nature.
3.3.10

Power & Endurence

If we know with our foresights that certain things are inevitable
We are fools to fight them for the moment’s heroic sake;
If we could see only a few hundred years ahead
We would lose our ugliness and grow meeker
With the realization that no power endures.
Shortsightedness is the plight of humanity.
3.2.10

Tolerence & Mediocrity

A noble soul tolerates mediocrity
And expects less form it.
3.1.10

Worship & Support

Most worship is a form of social support
Only the few worship alone.
02.28.10

Effeteness & Strggle

Effeteness is the spoiled child of affluence
And struggle, the mother of fortitude.
02.27.10

Sophistication & Enlightenment

Those who flaunt sophistication
Lack enlightenment.
02.26.10

Generalization & Prejudice

Resist the urge to generalize
And you’ll avoid prejudice.
02.25.10

Surprises & LIfe

Surprises arise whenever we assume
That people are rational and life is orderly.
02.24.10

LIfe & Nature

Life, the greatest attribute of nature
Is too precarious to survive long
In this explosive universe.
02.23.01

Media & Masses

The media inflate and audiences capitulate;
The art of using too many words to say little
Appeals to the mass mind more than terseness.
02.22.10

Passions & Wisdom

Boundless passions belong to youth
Old age must exchange passion for wisdom
Or else it would languish in lethargic indifference.
02.21.10

Death & Awareness

Let me die aware
Aware of my transitioning
Aware of the last trickles of life dripping
Dying aught to be the beautiful crown on my head
That I shall wear for the grand finale of my life’s performance.
02.20.10

Death & Renaissance

Were it not for death
The planet would have been ruined;
Death cleans and renaissance refreshes.
02.19.10

Inconvenience & Truth

Inconvenient evidence is invariably contested
And inconvenient truths, invariably denied.
02.18.10

Reason & Delusions

Reason does not stand a chance
As long as humanity remains delusional;
Collectively, most of our beliefs are fictional
And most of our ideas are unverifiable by evidence.
02.17.10

Atrocities & Names

Situations change their names and faces with times and places.
What was palatable during war should become unconscionable
during peace. What was sanctioned in the past—such as
inquisitions, colonialism, occupations, evictions, slavery, and
creating refugees plus violating their human rights—should become
horrifying to the enlightenment of today. Yet all such atrocities
continue unabated, albeit under different names. What really
matters is not what we do but by what name we call it.
What’s in a name? Everything...
02.16.10

Value & Loss

We eulogize far more after death than during life;
The word eulogy has acquired a macabre sense because
What makes us keenly aware of value is loss.
02.15.10

Incompetence & Excellence

In human affairs, incompetence is easy while excellence is hard.
Human nature, like water, flows naturally downstream
And can only flow upstream with effort.
Choosing the easy way out is a slippery slope,
Which in the long run sets us up to fail.
02.14.10

Ethics & Nations

There has never been an ethical nation under the sun
And there never will be as long as human nature
The most dangerous force upon this plaent
Continues to prevail over ethics.
02.13.10

Art & Artist

Art, the child of the aritst, lives on
While the artist becomes a name.
02.12.10

Humanity & Euphemisms

Our language is loaded with euphemisms
Humanity has never been humane and
Homo sapiens have never been wise.
02.11.10

Evidence & Belief

Humanity has always shunned evidence that runs contrary to its beliefs and has always refeused to alter older beliefs diproved by newer evidence. Loyalty to unverifiable beliefs is a fundamental feature of human nature and whosoever dares to challenge this loyalty is accused of treason and jis ruthlessly punished.
01.10.10

Sex & Heaven

Sex is the reward of procreation
And heaven, the reward of faith.
02.09.10

History & Quality

History has taught us that high quality is illusive;
It takes a rare amount of sophistication
To recognize it.
02.08.10

Mind & Society

An un-enlightened mind is a dangerous waste
It grows to hurt the society that engendered it.
02.07.10

Children & Pets

Children are pets;
We bring them up mainly for love.
02.06.10

War & Waste

Were it not for waste and war
We'd all be healthy and wealthy
And earth would be much cleaner.
02.05.10

Youth & Foresight

Youth,
Blinded by bright alacrity
Cannot see what awaits it
Down life’s untrodden roads.
02.04.10

Belief & Segregation

Every belief is an act of segregation
A closing up of the mid of a group against all contrary opinions
A respite from the labors of thinking that is necessary
For reassessing reality and reexamining morality.
02.03.10

Corruption & Reform

Human nature cannot be reformed
So far, corruption has managed to infiltrate
All the governments, establishments, and religious orders of humanity.
02.02.10

Quality & Quantity

In the desire for Quantity lurks the demise of Quality;
The More has always been more lucrative than the Better
And the Easy more lucrative than the Hard.
02.01.10

Trust & Deception

The longer one lives, the less one trusts
Deception, which pervades all human societies
Grows more elaborate as societies grow more complex.
01.31.10

Mass Enlightenment & Dogma

Mass enlightenment is impossible unless it is started in childhood
Before the seeds of handed-down dogmas have a chance to sprout.
01.30.10

Growing UP & Down

Age is pernicious;
It’s the growing down
After growing up.
01.29.10

Urges & Sainthood

If it weren’t for my urges
I could have been a saint.
01.28.10

Natural & Noble

Nature always wins and human nature always prevails
It’s just a matter of time before the natural overcomes the noble.
01.27.10

Making a Living & Living

We are more creative at making a living than at living
More eager to make more money
Than to live more meaningful lives.
01.26.10

Greatness & Language

All great things are rendered great with language
Without the right words greatness passes unnoticed.
01.25.10

Self Entertainment & Entertainers

Those who have not learned how to entertain themselves
Risk being entertained by their entertainers.
01.24.10

Noise & Enlightenment

Noise is inversely proportional to enlightenment
The noisier we are, the closer we get to our animalism.
01.23.10

Tolerence & Growing UP

I can tolerate most people
If I can imagine them as children
And divine how they must have grown up.
01.22.10

Death & Birth

Death begins at birth
And dies at death.
01.21.10

Youth & Age

In spite of universal evidence
Youth never believes it can age.
01.20.10

Beauty & Innocence

A woman loses her innocent charms
When she realizes how beautiful she is.
01.19.10

Natural Transition & Theisms

It seems that the natural transition of humanity
From polytheism to monotheism will not stop;
I fear what’s next in line is atheism.
01.18.10

Human Pleasures & Age

The human pleasures are physical, emotional, and intellectual
The physical decays quickly and the emotional, slowly;
Only the intellectual grows better and better with age.
01.17.10

Ego Defenses & Truths

We continue to love and defend ourselves
Even when the entire world hates and assaults us;
Our ego defenses are impenetrable to unfavorable truths.
01.16.10

Cruelty & Nature

Nature is not cruel
It’s our expectations that are not natural.
01.15.10

Dying & Living

Dying is easy; everyone does it
Living is hard; only a few do it well.
01.14.10

Thinking & Believing

Thinking is painful
Believing is the easy way out of thinking.
01.13.10

Culture & Myth

All cultures are based on myth
The identity of a culture is its beliefs
And its beliefs are its myths.
01.12.10

Popularity & Quality

Social decay starts when popularity starts to define quality
High quality is seldom popular but high quantity, seldom is not.
01.11.10

Believers & Thinkers

Believers stop thinking when they believe
And thinkers stop believing when they think
Shedding a belief brings gain and loss
You gain your freedom of thought
But you lose your friends and your faith.
01.10.10