my mind begins to hum...

[the fire elf]

tulsa plans bigger than liberty:
http://kotv.com/e-clips/?id=5795

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_%28statue%29

a dream... right?

the american
dream

am i on topic yet?


yet seems soo isolationary, lest they build some more and have a tribe...

[the fire elf]

Entering at the base of The American, visitors will board an elevator and
ascend to a two-level gallery and mezzanine that opens to a cathedral-
like view of the intricate, inner-skeletal structure of the sculpture. This
inner structure supports the more than 350,000 pounds of bronze-alloy
veneer that sheaths The American.


At the gallery level, visitors will be engaged by a real-time, closed circuit,
panoramic view of the surrounding countryside via large, high-definition
plasma screens giving the appearance of large picture windows.


Periodically, through special effects, the viewer will be transported back in
time to scenery when buffalo roamed the hills and Indians and settlers
surveyed the area from the summit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Wars

[mayavin]

know the first ones and those after them know me.

But I am the mind of [...] and the rest of [...].
I am the knowledge of my inquiry,
and the finding of those who seek after me,
and the command of those who ask of me,
and the power of the powers in my knowledge
of the angels, who have been sent at my word,
and of gods in their seasons by my counsel,
and of spirits of every man who exists with me,
and of women who dwell within me.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
and who is despised scornfully.
I am peace,
and war has come because of me.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.

Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,
and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.
On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you.

[I am ...] within.
[I am ...] of the natures.
I am [...] of the creation of the spirits.
[...] request of the souls.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.
I am the one below,
and they come up to me.
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I, I am sinless,
and the root of sin derives from me.
I am lust in (outward) appearance,
and interior self-control exists within me.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak,
and great is my multitude of words.

Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.
I am she who cries out,
and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
I prepare the bread and my mind within.
I am the knowledge of my name.
I am the one who cries out,
and I listen.
I appear and [...] walk in [...] seal of my [...].
I am [...] the defense [...].
I am the one who is called Truth
and iniquity [...].

You honor me [...] and you whisper against me.
You who are vanquished, judge them (who vanquish you)
before they give judgment against you,
because the judge and partiality exist in you.
If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you?
Or, if you are acquitted by him, who will be able to detain you?
For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,
and the one who fashions you on the outside
is the one who shaped the inside of you.
And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;
it is visible and it is your garment.

Hear me, you hearers
and learn of my words, you who know me.
I am the hearing that is attainable to everything;
I am the speech that cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.
I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division.
And I [...].
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[...] light [...].
[...] hearers [...] to you
[...] the great power.
And [...] will not move the name.
[...] to the one who created me.
And I will speak his name.

Look then at his words
and all the writings which have been completed.
Give heed then, you hearers
and you also, the angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
For I am the one who alone exists,
and I have no one who will judge me.

For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
and incontinencies,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober
and go up to their resting place.
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
and they will not die again.

Why have you hated me in your counsels?
For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
and I shall appear and speak,
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
For I am the wisdom of the Greeks
and the knowledge of the barbarians.
I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.
I am the one whose image is great in Egypt
and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated everywhere
and who has been loved everywhere.
I am the one whom they call Life,
and you have called Death.
I am the one whom they call Law,
and you have called Lawlessness.
I am the one whom you have pursued,
and I am the one whom you have seized.
I am the one whom you have scattered,
and you have gathered me together.
I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am she who does not keep festival,
and I am she whose festivals are many.
I, I am godless,
and I am the one whose God is great.
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
and you have scorned me.
I am unlearned,
and they learn from me.
I am the one that you have despised,
and you reflect upon me.
I am the one whom you have hidden from,
and you appear to me.
But whenever you hide yourselves,
I myself will appear.
For whenever you appear,
I myself will hide from you.
Those who have [...] to it [...] senselessly [...].

For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
Give heed to me.
I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

Jean Paul Getty, who in 1957 sadly philosophized that "a billion dollars
isn't worth what it used to be," was born in Minneapolis on Dec. 15, 1892.
His father was a lawyer who made millions in Oklahoma oil. J. Paul was
educated at the University of Southern California, the University of
California at Berkeley, and Oxford, from which he went to Tulsa (site of
his father's Minnehoma Oil Company) in 1914 determined to make a
million dollars within two years. He bought and sold oil leases with great
success and--true to his resolve--was a millionaire by 1916.

there's a technique of arbitrage,
similar to something defined as having unlimited power;
uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical

yet speaking worth once as thus,
and waiting till later when other ears are around and speaking it a different worth...

tis profit from speaking
and giving understanding of worth disconnected from the true import

and receive and transfer

cultural artifacts or the support mechanisms thereof

adornments or fliligree

To carry or hold the meaning of; signify

:

[the fire elf]

predisposed to quest(ion)
travels; colder perception

makes light of the work
confides in shared worth

makes nice
plays reactive insulation

[mayavin]

merely imagines a hermitage

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_ecosystem

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_utilitarianism / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resistance = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_Sutra

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[mayavin]

Culture shock is a term used to describe the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, confusion, etc.)
felt when people have to operate within an entirely different cultural or social environment.
It grows out of the difficulties in assimilating,
causing difficulty in knowing.
Often this is combined with strong disgust (moral or aesthetical)
about certain aspects of the culture.

Reverse Culture Shock - Returning to one's home culture after growing accustomed to a new one
can produce the same effects.

[mayavin]

the very notion that individual psychology can be conformed
refutes the manifest outlay's presupposed necessity
as the malleability fundamental to the ability to shift from unconformed to conformed
proves the Specificate of the whole to be at least as durable in transition
if not a multiplex of more potential

[mayavin]

beyond communications
the rattling of cords vocal
or even communal symbols triggering meaning

to look upon ancient greek mythos
without capacity to look upon the ancient greek

or to look upon the modern folk
where their mythos seems never to cease

clamor or manna
to sustain is to survive

mindful of edicts

to forbear another's mind

_________

[mayavin]

to question what's trully enriching

Trance-like states which are often interpreted
as religious ecstasy can be deliberately induced
using a variety of techniques, including prayer,
religious rituals, meditation, pranayama (breathwork or breathing exercises),
physical exercise, coitus (and/or sex), music, dancing,
sweating (e.g. sweat lodge), fasting, thirsting,
and the consumption of psychotropic drugs such as cannabis.
Sensory modality is the channel or conduit
for the induction of the trance.
Sometimes an ecstatic experience takes place
in occasion of contact with something or somebody
perceived as extremely beautiful or holy.
It may also happen without any known reason.

is to question what's desirable

Benevolent, neutral and malevolent trances may be induced
(intentionally, spontaneously and/or accidentally)
by different methods:

Auditory: driving through the sense of hearing by chanting, auditory story telling, mantra, overtone singing, drumming, music, etc.;

Kinesthetic; driving through the sense of feeling and movement through the kinesphere by dance, story telling by movement, mudra, embodying rituals, yoga, breathwork,oxygen deprivation, etc.;

Visual: through the sense of sight by yantra, visual story telling, mandala, cinema, theater, art, architecture, beauty, strobe lights, form constants, symmetry;

Olfactory: driving through via scent through the sense of smell by perfume, pheromones, incense, flowers, pollen, indeed any scent for which we have an association or memory, etc.;

Gustatory: through the sense of taste and indigestion; including: starvation, herbs, hallucinogens and drugs. As the intake of food and beverage entails intra-bodily chemical reactions through digestion, some infer that all food may be considered 'medicine' or 'drugs' and therefore contribute to the induction of discernible psycho-physical states (refer Ancient Medicine). It is sometimes attained through the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as alcohol and opiates, or psychoactive plants and chemicals such as LSD, 2C-I, peyote, marijuana, mescaline, Salvia Divinorum, MDMA, psychedelic mushrooms, or datura (Jimson weed).

Disciplines: Yoga, Sufism, Surat Shabd Yoga; meditation;

Miscellaneously: traumatic accident, sleep deprivation, nitrogen narcosis (deep diving), fever, by the use of a sensory deprivation tank or mind-control techniques, hypnosis, meditation, prayer;

Naturally occurring: dreams, lucid dreams, euphoria, ecstasy, psychosis as well as purported premonitions, out-of-body experiences, and channeling.

and the presence of a world serene
surely contrasts... at times

take the 'dirty word' humor of a child
refracted and refined

they're not all 'frat boys'

college might as well be a school of the mysteries to some

but the simplicity

behind even the power to consider

there is the brotherhood
and sisterhood
of 'Man'

[mayavin]

[quote="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passaddhi"]In Buddhism,
passaddhi refers to tranquillity
of the body, speech, thoughts and consciousness
on the path to enlightenment.
As part of cultivated mental factors,
passaddhi is preceded by rapture (pīti)
and precedes concentration (samÄ

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Depending upon what substances are reacting, the time varies.
Acid reactions, the formation of salts, and ion exchange are fast reactions.
When covalent bond formation takes place between the molecules
and when large molecules are formed,
the reactions tend to be very slow.

[mayavin]

have you taken up the tasks of your forbearers?

if not why not?

if so, why so?

i'll question you all, and yet none at all

if there were a beautiful woman
with murderous thoughts
standing next to a beautiful woman
with unmurderous thoughts
standing next to an ugly woman
with beautiful thoughts
standing next to an ugly woman
with ugly thoughts

what time would one take lunch?

if i must learn patience, let it be now!

"flying woman with oversized spoon
dips with determination
into a river next to a floating walkway"
~dream morn of 10-11-07

and yet...

and yet...

Then it came about
after these things,
the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt
offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
Pharaoh was furious with his two officials,
the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
So he put them in confinement
in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail,
the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them,
and he took care of them

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This comes from dangling from the ceiling–
I'm goitered like a Lombard cat
(or wherever else their throats grow fat)–
it's my belly that's beyond concealing,
it hands beneath my chin like peeling.
My beard points skyward, I seem a bat
upon its back, I've breasts and splat!
On my face the paint's congealing.

Loins concertina'd in my gut,
I drop an arse as counterweight
and move without the help of eyes.

Like a skinned martyr I abut
on air, and, wrinkled, show my fat.
Bow-like, I strain toward the skies.

No wonder then I size
things crookedly; I'm on all fours.
Bent blowpipes send their darts off-course.

Defend my labor's cause,
good Giovanni, from all strictures:
I live in hell and paint its pictures.

[mayavin]

...presupposition, loaded question, "trick question", or plurium interrogationum
(Latin, "of many questions"), is an informal fallacy.

how many choices do you have
that are not chosen availabilities of another?


where does your free will begin?


if this is fallacy, is it useful, could it end?


tendrils of grappling sociology,
barbs and suckers
pertinent matters of focus

to bear down upon, as being born down upon

psychological inducement

human chains...

human chains

[mayavin]

The Sage is occupied with the unspoken
and acts without effort.
Teaching without verbosity,
producing without possessing,
creating without regard to result,
claiming nothing,
the Sage has nothing to lose.

"Water is without will (i.e., the will for a shape),
though it may be understood to be opposing wood, stone, or any solid aggregated material
that can be broken into pieces.
Due to its nature and propensity, water may potentially fill any container,
assume any shape;
given the Water Cycle water may potentially go "anywhere",
even into the minutest holes,
both metaphorical and actual.
Droplets of water, when falling as rain, gather in watersheds,
flowing into and forming rivers of water,
enjoining the proverbial sea"

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http://www.p45rant.net/boards/image.php ... 1108746882

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