Vaccinated by Religion, Innoculated by Love…
Atheists are lucky. They get all the benefits of religion with none of the sacrifice: no long dark nights of the soul, no wrestling with questions of good and evil, or right and wrong, no giving to unnamed charities and the nameless homeless simply because ‘there, but for the grace of God, go I.’ No God = no grace; or not much, anyway. True, some secular humanists have adapted the same play-list without the figure-head, but still: more later on that….
Many an atheist will proudly proclaim the stupidity, ignorance or ‘religulousness’ of religion, while preparing to fly 3000 miles to go hear some half-assed R&R band play some half-assed three-chord comfort-food ‘classic rock’ as perpetrated by some sketchy characters of questionable habits and likely moral turpitude, simply because forty years ago, all that felt good: ‘the Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian’, etc; yeah, right. Life is more than sensation, I reckon, thank God… 🙂
Vaccinations have been big news lately, and with the latest deadly measles outbreaks, the concept is worth analyzing. The deal is: as long as ninety percent or so of the populace is vaccinated, then everyone is vaccinated, by default. This is not just idle theory or abstract speculation, but can and has been proven many times over graphically and mathematically and in society itself. (More …)
Kc are discussing. 
We all know what it’s like to be in love: that crush—of feelings and desires and… and… suffering, yes, suffering (we’re talking about passion, remember, as in the Passion of Christ OR the passion of hot steamy nights). There’s nothing like it in the world, absolutely nothing. It will make you do the craziest things or go to the craziest lengths, all for love, or the act thereof…
t’s an amazing world in which we live, this slow cool world down here, up here, of molecules making love, and atoms doing time, of spatio-temporal flows and eddies, with dervishes and rock bands and salad greens and rocket science all swirling and whirling at less than the speed of light, more like the speed of sound defining this dimension with all its percussion and repercussions, quarks tachyons leptons Higgs bosons and an infinite number of other particles all holding hands… 
People are desperate; people are starving; people line boulevards scrounging for crumbs and morsels; the homeless drift through the streets of nameless cities like zombies on life support, more and more keep coming and coming, without end middle or beginning, living in the moment like animals in search of pleasure and pasture; office workers adjust their ties and tie up their arms in expectation of junk, mail arriving from the four corners of the earth in bits and bytes, accounts payable and receivable in silver and slivers of pie-charts and Boolean logic… 
Esther Fabbricante, and 
Kc 2:15 pm on February 22, 2015 Permalink |
lou reed said music was his religion. yes, babs and her church family prayed for me at a time i was scheduled to have a tetrotoma cyst removed from left ovary. when i went in for the surgery, the cyst cd not be seen. those type (tet) have hair and teeth and such in them so yeah, you cd say i have some religion, it may be believing that other people have religion and i latch on. still believe nothing from nothing leaves nothing, hence, once you’re gone you’re gone. as for now i will continue to register voters.
you tube lou reed’s entire album, MAGIC AND LOSS, if you can and if you do, plz let me know what you think. bye for now.
hardie karges 11:33 am on February 23, 2015 Permalink |
good album… ever heard the Daniel Lanois song ‘the Maker’ or his first album ‘Acadie’, out about the same time as ‘Magic and Loss”? Check it out…