BEYOND TO THE 3RD DIMENSION (AND MORE)

Even those libertines and 'water-hole' gonad-philes are hearded in their expressions and behavioral capabilities by those seeking control for whatever power or commercial reason. That in the end they are all captives in the 2-dimensional crab-basket, only because they do not think of themselves as greater than the temporal or secular seeks to impose upon them for its narrow utility and not for the cognitive possibility of spontaneous insight and expression---http://youtu.be/jZ0tHS3p8pk

1The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Put 'Ma Nature' in as a substitute for 'the LORD', and there you have it! We are her possessions as the EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMIS, TORNADOES, AND HURRICANES have adequately demonstrated the impotence of our collective egos to be able to contend with Ma-N's unleashed furious energy!

The Journey in the rabbit-hole with Serendipity

Life was made so meaningful beyond the bullshit of the gauntlet and hoops I had to go or jump through for the delayed gratification crumbs of materialism by the interloping visitations of serendipity. Like the Lone Ranger or Superman, serendipity shows up at the right moment to make things cosmically equitable for me. I'll give a few examples to elucidate this declaration.

Just this week I was the only member on my weekend work team who didn't get two consecutive days off during the week. One of the days-off was to avoid paying us overtime for more than 40 hours since we'd be getting holiday-pay for Christmas Day this Saturday. By giving us a day off during the week, the eight hours of base pay/holiday pay for our day off on Christmas wouldn't put us over our 40 hours pay. That extra-day off to avoid paying overtime pay was given in conjunction with either a regular day off or in conjunction with the holiday weekend-giving the persons a 3-day weekend. It was NOT scheduled that way for me. I was given my normal day off, Monday, for the schedule, and then had Thursday-two single days off between work days.

I had resigned myself to the coming circumstance by the benefit it would give to others with multiple X-Mas responsibilities and obligations which I did not have. But being the ONLY person in that extra-off day situation who didn't have a two-day or three-day off schedule stuck in my craw. Then last Thursday or Friday the molars on the lower left side of my mouth began to be sensitive to both my biting down on them, plus the sensation of heat or cold. The sensation was like when the dentist is drilling and hits a sensitive part. I thought I would need to go to a dentist, very soon. by Sunday I had decided to try to get an appointment to the two dental schools in town on my up-coming days off, Monday or Thursday. As FATE would have it both dental colleges had a patient waiting-list of 2-to-6 weeks. So much for some discounted dental care. I then called my regular dentist, but they weren't seeing patients on either Monday or Thursday. They WERE seeing patients and had appointment times on Wednesday. Wednesday was a work day for me, but I needed that appointment so not to have an aching tooth going into the X-Mas weekend and the X-Mas dinner. On Monday, my day-off I called to see how I should put in for the needed time off. the receptionist and schedule maker, told me I couldn't do it on the phone but I could come in on Tuesday during work to put in the request. Because I needed the time off on Wednesday, I told her that I'd be coming in shortly so that the 'bosses' wouldn't be blind-sided by a short-notice request and would have a day and a half to come to a decision by Tuesday afternoon.

I fill out the paperwork for what was the last appointment for 9 a.m. on Wednesday. I asked for time off that would begin an hour-and-a-half after I started work, instead of asking for the whole day off that would've enabled me to sleep-in an extra 90 minutes. I was open to coming back to work if the appointment ended early.

The request was approved, since they realized that because I gave a medical reason for the leave time, I could either call-in or get off by going to the nurse's office when I came in. That was still good, I wouldn't have to go renegade to have my dental appointment.

The morning of the appointment I come in and am awaiting for my expected assignment. I get hassled for finding someone I was ordered to find and have come to 'the window' for her assignment. Because they play politics and give some people deference over others, I get hassled when the 'diva' cops an attitude about being notified, actually non-verbally signaled, to come to the window. THEN, as they found another person to do the duty which the diva was supposed to do with me, and as I tried to allay the fears of the person for what would be a new duty for him, I was reproached again. On top of that, I was told to 'not waste time' while giving my substitute his orientation. I, one of the few workers who seeks to save and make free time so to help out others, shot back, 'I don't waste my time!'

I was growing very sour on the idea of returning after the appointment-especially if serious work was gong to be done on my molars. At the same time, the person who helped put me in a sour mood came up with the same line of the person who had scheduled me as the only one NOT given a two or three-day off with the extra off-day by saying, 'We hope you will return to work after the appointment'.

YEAH, RIGHT-on a frigid day in July I will. That went over as well as Bush's 'You did a heck of a job, Brownie!'

The aggravation by management did not end there. I gave my substitute a walk through so he could physically see his upcoming task locations. We had finished doing that while completing two of the three pre-break tasks. We were getting set to depart for the third task, when we were bothered about a minor task of the third task, which the lead supervisor decided to be important. After explaining the logic of our previous itinerary, we were left to do the business at hand.

Shortly there after,it was time for me to go to the appointment. At the appointment,the dentist tested the sensitivity around the molars. The results were NEGATIVE. Since we had the time,she decided to do some dental cleaning I was scheduled to have next week. While working around those molars, NO PAIN.

It has occurred in the past, where my body (subconscious?) comes up with some visceral symptoms, ailments, or affects when I perceive abuse from others. In this instance the REAL molar pain got me an appointment on a day other than the ones which would've affirmed my submission to the skewed scheduling. On top of that, the symptoms did not manifest themselves with the dentist's diligent diagnostic efforts. By 1030 a.m. I was through with the dentist and had the rest of the day free, if I so wished, since my leave/sick leave was for seven hours. I decided to do some morning grocery shopping and got a perfect eyeball cut for some meat, and then found out that by buying at that store that day I had walked into the senior discount given by the store on Wednesday. then later I got an extra tip for a ride I gave to my step-son, because he got a customer bonus tip at work.

The lesson for this day was that cosmic serendipity can and doe trump the scheming fates and injustices of people.

The other serendipity occurred for the meeting of my present wife. I had learned of her existence as the widow of my first-cousin's half-brother (who I had visited 40 years previously at his home, because his mother was a close, old friend of my mother when she was a girl). He gave me the phone number, street address with zip code of 'the widow'. I was eager to do this favor for my cousin who, at the time, was one of my favorites. I tried calling, but the phone was either busy or no one answered. I was determined to deliver cuz's greeting, so I resolved to go to the residence. I had lived in metro-Omaha 12-15 years earlier and was familiar with the grid system and major cross streets of the city. But I used the zip code that was given to me, and the computer finder directed me much further west than I needed to be. After realizing that and noticing the street address house number, I knew I had to go back east into town. I made my way back and found the house. No one was home except for some yapping dogs and toys strewn across the yard which confirmed this residence was inhabited though showing need for cosmetic repairs and maintenance. I left a note, giving some expletives to the yapping dogs inside. Got in my rental and started my return to the guest house at Offutt AFB. As I turned left at the corner, out of the corner of my eye I saw someone standing in the yard. It was a cute lady looking at me with curiosity. She was my future spouse, as was shortly and later confirmed by harmonious events.

Finding her place, though delayed by the misdirections, made it possible for us to meet because of the delayed arrival by me searching for the correct location. The harmonious events were fateful bonding for my giving friendship and dedication for her, as an imperative and a family compensation for the misdeeds of her deceased husband the son of one of my mother's dearest friends and our distant relative.

Two others I can mention were getting news of a job offer I had wanted just after being fired for a bone head mistake I had made earlier that day. (All foolishness in panic isn't totally persecuted).

The other was the affirmation of a dream being more than a psychological prop of consoling for a bad moment, when the staging of character positions in a dream was found on a flyer of a wake I attended by accident. (The mystical claiming its serendipitous signs & symbols, as its own).

Beyond the emotional comfort zones

Our thinking and feeling is a fabrication of our metaphysical as well as physical environs. Most to all of us grow up in the cultural and social web of the temporal and secular operations of our times. We are creatures (more like puppets) of our time. The influences on our thoughts and emotions come from our intimate, personal relationships and from our public commerce for work, recreation, and avocation. These latter three areas are usually connected by associations in one or more of these last three, as well as our intimate realm. In the spirit of accommodation and cooperation a mechanism of social consensus develops. This consensus provides the conceptual architecture for what we find appropriate and feasible to be in congruence and have involvement in the cultural and social activities of our contemporaries. For most, a stable comfort zone is sought to have an effective commercial-political, or social status within the circle of association we exist. A mental and emotional circumcision of thinking and behavior occurs to consolidate and enhance that status within one's association.

As was stated in the Gospels, each outlook 'has their rewards'. The 'reward' may also be a double-edged sword. The edge that cuts against one is what we have forsaken. For materialists in this consumer culture it is the intangibles that do not support the trappings of the pursuit of acquisition and the cultural and social status they bring.

I question the importance of the cultural and social status, which is just an emotional fabrication of the social and cultural process. That process' paradigms have their inherent limits that have their TEMPORAL justification, which can have its historical repudiation a few decades to centuries later. The paradoxes and inconsistencies we adapt and accommodate ourselves to fit in and go along with the social or cultural flavor of the time, degrade our cognitive acuity and conceptual foresight. That degradation is, 'IMO', no insignificant matter. "The stone which the builders have thrown away..."

In the rabid, addiction for acquisition and consumption, carnally and sensually, we have made ourselves pawns to a Pavlovian process that has conditioned too many of us from our non-compensated abilities to be dependent on externals, from people to things to do the 'work' which our abilities could and should be doing. In so doing we have lost our connection to our organic human capacities.

Those capacities go beyond socializing emoting and accommodating that exists beyond basic empathy and sympathy. Instead of being the extorted pawns of social and cultural limitations for behavioral conformity, in either the intimate or public realm, we can be the vessels of insights and vision to conceptions that have more to do than with our aggrandizing acquisition and avaricious consumption for carnal and sensual satiation and gluttony. Once we go past the comfort zones of avaricious satiation and the mantra of logic which contends for that pursuit, exclusive of other conceptions, then we become liberated in mind and emotions to be free to think and choose from the conscientiousness of conscience than from the social or cultural consensual limitations.

Part of that thinking and choosing is the communications that are nonverbal and can be felt without explicit manifestations. Feeling the attitudes and presences transmitted, as well as the ones you are affected as the recipient, are a function of a cognitive sensitivity and acuity. That sensitivity and acuity comes from the freedom of emotional obligation and intellectual mandarin-isms. When your mind is not cluttered by your obsessions of avariciousness to the frivolous spectacles and distractions, its receptors aren't cluttered by the cognitive noise that physically dissipates your energy and the coherence needed for that sensitivity and acuity.

In that sensitivity and acuity is discovered the serendipity in the cosmic process. The world and universe beyond human fudging-around is not a random throw of the dice, but a choreography of force fields interacting: constructing and deconstructing, then constructing, again, to find that greater synergistic harmony.

This age we are now passing through is the end-times of hoarding and possession that places tangible and intangible barriers between the natural processes. The cultural and political efforts to maintain the illusion of plenty for consumption and satiation are the howlings of anachronistic mantras. As the victims of the margins increase, the advocates and apologists for this outmoded thinking will lose their intellectual and moral authority. Those who live in the smugness of this emotional bubble will witness or experience the deconstructing of the trappings that formerly were the foundation of their intellect and emotions.

In the meantime, those who've gone to the frontiers of their comfort zones will discover connections that are amaterial and intangible to carnal and sensuality, while being the sensuously cherished of one's aesthetics shared in the network of the nonexplicit, intuitive senses.

Duty to Warn

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Gary Kohls wrote:


“The ruling class has always been split and is unified only at the beginning of a war, under a threat of challenge to their rule or under a fascist dictatorship where resistance is futile.”



“(In the 2004 election) Karl Rove made the war hero (Kerry) appear as a "girlieman" and the Chickenhawk (Bush) like a war hero”



“rather than risk exposing Bush of electoral fraud, and undermining the democratic legitimacy of the US in the eyes of the world, John Kerry conceded before the vote was even counted”

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Duty to Warn

There Has Been A Fascist Coup in This Country –
With Media Complicity


Author’s name withheld (preface by Gary Kohls)



Many of us who are anti-imperialists and therefore also antifascists will sadly recall that, following the stolen presidential election of 2004, John Kerry inexplicably and far too-readily conceded defeat despite the evidence that the infamous Diebold voting machine fraud had given the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove/Bush administration control of the White House for another four years. Following that electoral coup (see the powerful documentary about the election fraud of 2000, entitled “Unprecedented: The battle for the Presidency in Florida and the Undermining of Democracy in America”), a politically- and historically-savvy Jewish author and acquaintance of mine from the East coast wrote an important essay that I attach below.



I include it now because we have 10 years of hindsight watching the alarming (and rather stealthy) progress that the American Empire has made since the year 2000 (actually 30 years since1980, with the NeoConservative Cheney/Rumsfeld/Reagan/Bush years). The now-tottering, morally and financially bankrupt Empire was birthed and nurtured into its current bloated, rotten and decrepit existence, ready to burst at any time. This whole process was orchestrated by any number of anonymous, un-elected, billionaire captains of industry and their minions, sycophants, lobbyists and bought-and-paid-for Congresspersons in the shadow government – all enriching themselves at the expense of the largely unaware superpatriotic American sheeple. This Empire was also nurtured, with “bipartisan” support from both wings of the elected, but corporate-and Pentagon-controlled, War Party. Serious readers will recognize the contents of the essay as being remarkably prescient.



I once asked my friend for permission to forward the piece around to some of my political e-lists, but he never replied in the negative. Therefore, after waiting for the past 6 years for a reply, I am finally taking the liberty of printing it here - and withholding his name. I agree with many of his comments, and readers of this column will notice the accuracy of many of his predictions. Here is the essay:



“Noam Chomsky has lucidly explicated the imperial consensus adhered to by both parties since the US became # I after WWII. However he has also pointed out that the Bush National Security Strategy scared even the mainstream foreign policy elite. It predicts an escalation of the international arms race and all kinds of unprecedented threats to our survival.


The Democrats of course are morally complicit in a fascist coup



“I see major differences between what the Kerry Administration would have done and what the Bush agenda is. However considering the fecklessness of Kerry and the Democrats, they of course are morally complicit in a fascist coup.



“I say a fascist coup, but one must realize that the Neo-Cons wielding the power in the Bush Administration had been out of power since Reagan. One must also remember that all indications are that neither the military nor the CIA wanted the war in Iraq. The Joint Chief of Staffs had testified before Congress in the summer of 2002 that war on Iraq would be a bad idea. So did Scowcroft, Eagleburger, etc. The CIA reported at that time (front page of the NY Times) that Saddam was contained. The Bush Junta prevailed because of its fanaticism and determination -- just as Hitler did. (Clinton endorsed "regime change" but he was far too cautious to go ahead with this crazy war.)



“First, the coup has been covered up again. Nothing in the NY Times was written about electoral fraud -- let alone Kerry winning sufficient electoral votes to defeat Bush. This does not bode well for a Watergate-type expose even though Howard Zinn wistfully invokes that precedent. He forgets that the Democrats were far bolder and more principled back in the Nixon era, -- and they were in control of Congress. But it does illustrate that there IS a split in the ruling class. Otherwise why would the election have been rigged by the Bushies?



“Second (bad sign), The Bush Junta has effectively ignored the Supreme Court ruling against Bush. The military tribunals they are now providing in Guatanamo are a far cry from any kind of due process. The Supreme Court might just as well have ruled in favor of Bush, as he feels free to effectively disregard it with no consequences.



“Kerry would have stayed in Iraq because imperialists put a premium on maintaining "credibility" -- as Chomsky has repeatedly argued. Eventually he would have been forced to withdraw by combination of insurgents' success and US opposition. I expect however that Bush will enact Patriot 2, as he has said he will do. He has “a mandate” after all. With prospective demonstrators facing the risk of being selectively stripped of citizenship or sent to Guatanamo (as Bush plans) how large do you expect future protests to be?


The NeoCon imperial strategy towards the Arab world



“The NeoCon imperial strategy towards the Arab world is distinctive. It basically involves -- at least in the mind of its American Likudnik designers -- fighting a proxy war for Israel in the MidEast. This has been the dream of Israeli Likudniks since Oded Yinon first articulated it in 1982, as discussed in Ralph Schoenmann's book The Hidden History of Zionism. Instead of working with "friendly" Arab regimes they will be overthrown, one by one. This is all articulated in the writings of American neo-cons. Israel will be the hegemon of the Middle East.



“How can Bush do this with resources strained in Iraq? They'll find a way. The prologue will be a new propaganda build-up with perhaps another Pearl Harbor-style attack within the US. For the Likudniks who oppose even a facade of peace negotiations (BTW do you think Arafat just happened to mysteriously get sick?), a big bonus will be the expulsion of the Palestinians from the West Bank, under cover of war. This would not have occurred had Kerry gotten in but then again had he had some guts he would have been elected, and never would have conceded under the shadow of massive voter fraud.


For Cheney of course the goal is US control of oil and the world



“For Cheney of course the goal is US control of oil and the world. Israel is incidental to him but the neo-cons are the biggest hawks so they're in bed together. And then we have the Falwells and Robertsons who HOPE to hasten Armageddon by expelling Palestinians and illegally expanding Israeli territory!



“Yes of course the Democrats NEVER oppose Israel, but they did not sign on to the NeoCon project of fighting a war against the Islamic world. Israelphile Nader (who co-signed a letter with Conyers) was one of the most vociferous opponents of the war in Iraq, and, BTW, American Jews -- despite their Likud Party Zionazi "leadership" -- also opposed the Iraq war. As in 2000, only a small minority of Jews voted for Bush in 2004.



“As far as Kerry goes, his opposition to the policy of "escalating" the war on terrorism was confided to the NY Times magazine, a few weeks ago. He even talked about re-starting the peace process in Israel. Of course he had talked about "killing the terrorists" during the campaign, but he had no chance of getting elected if he sounded "weak." One of the ironies of the election (and one of Rove's trumphs) was that Rove made the war hero appear as a "girlieman" and the Chickenhawk like a war hero. Of course the Bushies also convinced the Bush voters that they had found WMD in Iraq!



“On the domestic front Bush can consolidate the Republican dictatorship by appointing 100s of Scalias to the federal courts. Thus the courts will no longer act as a check upon Executive power. If he's lucky he'll appoint a Supreme Court judge (besides Rehnquist) -- but it does not matter because he ignores their rulings anyway. Bush may have very well won the popular vote; at any rate, he has millions of Chistofascists to cheer on any war he undertakes. This is the Israelization of US policy -- and it is noteworthy that no matter how unsuccessful Sharon is in defeating terrorism he keeps getting re-elected.


The US is now a totalitarian country. Period



“Of course Bush's successor -- assuming that he decides to step down -- will be assured of re-election with Diebold controlling the voting equipment. Bush has succeeded in eliminating all the checks and balances on Executive power, and, unfortunately, unless there is a revolt within the military itself or unless the top echelons of the Republican Party revolt, I cannot see how this disaster can be reversed. The Republicans who control both houses are not going to restore honest elections. The US is now a totalitarian country. Period.



“This is a different program than the Democratic wing of the ruling class ever would have enacted. But they don't have the courage to oppose it, so I suppose the point is academic. I suppose it is worth bearing in mind that the ruling class has always been split and is unified only at the beginning of a war, under a threat of challenge to their rule or under a fascist dictatorship where resistance is futile. Thus, rather than risk exposing Bush of electoral fraud, and undermining the democratic legitimacy of the US in the eyes of the world, John Kerry conceded before the vote was even counted. He too will live in infamy for that act of betrayal of his supporters, those who still represented the dream of American democracy as opposed to the theocrats in the red states -- the Confederacy.”








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Junya Bugs (Harp),

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Meaning versus Stimulation

It's the difference between titillation and insight. Or it is like viewing an eye-candy babe to having a profound encounter with the same 'babe'. Meaning provides a unique cognitive realization, while stimulation provides physical intensity. The cognitive realization is the portal to a new perception of one's environment or oneself. Physical intensity is equivalent to a bucket of cold water landing on you. It's memorable and acutely intense, but gives no more than an emotional reaction to the stimulus. This kind of stimulus appreciation and apprehension creates an affected-emotive personality, in which the person enjoys the drama role of their moment. In that role there is rarely more than a tactical manipulation of the factors and little detached introspection of the phenomena encountered.

On the other hand, the unique cognitive experience affects how one thinks and approached the phenomena from how they formerly approached it. It is the genesis of a new habit, instead of being a psychological, or physical, compulsive or mindless addictive habit.

Beyond the bottleneck of Federal legislation

The Tea Partiers and Constitutionalist have a point, for the wrong reasons, about limited government. The political effectiveness of government has been limited by the exponential, acceleration in peoples ability to connect. HOW IRONIC, but TRUE! As people are able to connect and organize, they are able to make greater congruent and coherent assemblages for their self-interests. They no longer have to accommodate themselves to contradictory agendas. They can aggregate greater numbers around common causes.

With this comes the dynamic of what causes are able to generate the greater energy in people and money. Those with more resonating and cohesive agendas with each other are better able to effect their agenda, rather than restrained by the limits of consensus within one's group. This is why the partisanship has grown to the cancer that has taken over the legislative process. As the different cohesive groupings with a greater coherent agenda of consensus because of their congruency are able to come to a resolution for action, presumptively, as well as administratively, they have more affected adherents to their agendas, thus are less disposed to seek accommodation or compromise.

This leaves the political process in the hands of these forces who can combine available people and resources. Primarily, those who are materially endowed are the ones best able to create these political forces. Economic, in this way, does effect and distort the political process.

For those with out the economic disposable resources to make such an effect, they are marginalized if not ignored. This creates an angst and a derived need for those, now marginalized, to find a medium in which they can manifest their will. They can be auxiliaries and adjuncts to greater and similar agendas or they can seek in people organization what they don't have in money. ACORN was such an attempt but fell afoul of the political system for which it was too dependent upon for funding.

The mission of ACORN, organizing the otherwise marginalized, was good but required and depended too much on outside financial resources, instead of internal, organic motivation and inspiration of its subject constituency. That constituency cannot be faulted for its own preoccupation with just trying to make their financial obligations for SUBSISTENCE, rather than further dissipating their energies on abstract, social and political hypotheticals.

It will take a consciousness of people seeing and acting on their similar organic, compatible interests in incidental and casual venues so that an infectious attitude is propagated which will cohere and adhere the otherwise civilly, unorganized into a coherent political dynamic for change within their local sphere, rather than seeking changes to be brought from outside that sphere. This will require a readjustment in their thinking about what is necessary and beneficial for their well being and contentment, so to keep the coherence of purpose as well as the adherence of participation.

Thinking beyond narrow self-indulgence and self-interest to cultivate and nurture these local cooperative cells will not be easy. The political ends of a cultural and social change in life-view in which one shares locally one's empowerment, rather than giving it away to some remote or detached entity to one's own organic process will take a deconstruction of the social and cultural training we give ourselves and offspring.

We will have to come to appreciate the 'atmospherics' that have their own physics of affects. Those affects give us conditions of grace that facilitates an empowerment of serendipities that are, literally, miraculous. From these miracles of the sui generis, we will see ourselves beyond the partisan pettiness that holds us hostage in this present political environment.