As much as i would like, I cannot secede from the ignorant masses who muddy the waters of consciousness.
But if I considered my life and felt to die, still, my act is the meaning, either way.
I agree with Camus, unless you despair unto death, you never live.
For you must face your fear.
That is the destiny of a Jedi.
Speaking of fires...
I was sitting here alone and Marcus stopped by.
He reminded me of a few things.
As always I am grateful for his patience and his wisdom.
We do not speak of prophecy.
We look at one another and grin because we know such things are nonsense.
But I will not argue it.
There is no prophecy that can stand against true philosophy.
It matters what we do, not what we think and feel.
“ 13. To-day I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within, in my judgements.
14. All things are the same: familiar in experience, transient in time, sordid in their material; all now such as in the days of those whom we have buried.
15. Things stand outside our doors, themselves by themselves, neither knowing nor reporting anything about themselves. What then does report about them? The governing self.
16. Not in feeling but in action is the good and ill of the reasonable social creature; even as his excellence and his failings are not in feeling but in action.
17. To the stone that is thrown up it is no ill to be carried down nor good to be carried upwards.
18. Penetrate within, into their governing selves, and you will see what critics you fear, and what poor critics they are of themselves.
19. All things are in change, and you yourself in continuous alteration and in a sense destruction. So, too, is the Universe as a whole.
20. Another's wrong act you must leave where it is.
21 The ceasing of action, impulse, judgement is a pause and a kind of death, not any evil. Now pass to the ages of your life, boyhood for instance, youth, manhood, old age; for each change of these was a death; was it anything to be afraid of? Pass now to your manner of life under your grandfather, then under your mother, then under your (adoptive) father, and when you discover many another destruction, change, and ending, ask yourself: 'Was it anything to be afraid of?' So then even the ceasing, pause, and change of your whole life is not.
22. Make haste to your own governing self, to that of the Whole, and that of this man. To your own, to make it a righteous mind; to that of the Whole, to remind yourself what it is of which you are a part; to this man's, that you may observe whether it is ignorance or design, and may reflect at the same time that his self is of one kind with your own.
23. As you are yourself a complement of a social system, so let every act of yours be complementary of a social living principle. Every act of yours, therefore, which is not referred directly or remotely to the social end sunders your life, does not allow it to be a unity, and is a partisan act, like a man in a republic who for his own part sunders himself from the harmony of his fellows.
24. Children's fits of temper and dolls and 'spirits carrying dead bodies', so that the story of the visit to the abode of Death strikes one more vividly.”
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Watching the waves has likely driven you insane Dan.
“28. The rotations of the Universe are the same, up and down, from age to age.
Now either the mind of the Whole has an impulse to each individual; and if that is so, welcome what it initiates; or else it had an impulse once for all and what follows is consequential upon that; and why are you anxious? And whether the Whole be God, all is well—or whether it be Chance, somehow molecules or atoms, be not yourself then ruled by Chance.
In a moment earth will cover us all, then earth, too, will change and what ensues will change to eternity and that again to eternity. A man who thinks of the continuous waves of change and alteration, and the swift passage of all mortal things, will hold them in disdain.”
Just be here and act from nature.
“29. The matter of the Whole is a torrent; it carries all in its stream. What then, man, is your part? Act as Nature this moment requires; set about it, if it is granted you, and don't look round to see whether any one will know. Don't hope for Plato's Utopia, but be content to make a very small step forward and reflect that the result even of this is no trifle. How cheap are these mere men with their policies and their philosophic practice, as they suppose; they are full of drivel. For who will change men's convictions? And without a change of conviction what else is there save a bondage of men who groan and pretend to obey? Go to now and talk to me of Alexander, Philip, and Demetrius of Phalerum. If they saw what Universal Nature willed and went to school to her, I will follow: but if they were actors on the world's stage, no one has condemned me to imitate them. The work of Philosophy is simplicity and self-respect; lead me not away to vainglory.
30. 'Look from above' at the spectacle of myriad herds, myriad rites, and manifold journeying in storm and calm; diversities of creatures who are being born, coming together, passing away. Ponder, too, the life led by others long ago, the life that will be led after you, the life being led in uncivilized races; how many do not even know your name, how many will very soon forget it and how many who praise you perhaps now will very soon blame you; and that neither memorial nor fame nor anything else at all is worth a thought.
31. Calm, in respect of what comes to pass from a cause outside you; justice, in acts done in accord with a cause from yourself: that is to say, impulse and act terminating simply in neighbourly conduct, because for you this is according to Nature.”
Grinning.
Thanks Marcus.
All the men around me live as whimpering fools.
I will live in accordance with my nature and my neighbors.
If they sleight me, I shall give to them.
That is infinite potential.
Only through the rainbow connection.
Chance or God.
Th Sun or Bust.
I am sufficient unto myself come what may.
From here the real work is completed and done at the same time in the infinity sign of the dragon eating its tail.
From here u shirk false idealism and morality. You shed your mechanical optimism.
Welcome to the brooding heart of man, your true inheritance, it drives many insane and into suicide.
Are you so weak minded or hearted?
NO
Absurdity of life and death and good and evil initiates you.
From here one may dare to rediscover their own sense of eternity, where the fear of the storm breaks.
The fever comes down.
Now tell me about following thoughts of dead men.
As Marcus threw down his crown, so do I.
Heaven is a horrible place.
A hell with a pretty face.
I do not want live forever.
I drop my claim on eternity.
What arrogant ants we are.
Where are the female prophets?
They bore the living.
They tell no tales.
Prophecy is the dream of the ego to live forever.
And we are trapped in that nightmare.
But to live, you must die.
A paradox.
Does that make you rage or calm?
I choose calm, because while we appear a tempest, we are still.
Our true nature.
And from our natural calm, one crosses the bridge to nowhere.
No muppet can pazzzzzz
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on, one leg at time. 
as a portal 
traffic engineer 
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to the nearest exit. 
better, 
, and you will be seeing the light of the BPW...... until then, better be dancing around the fires 
of Beltane. 
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