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Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
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That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
As if I had just woken from all water into dream.
— Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, 1973
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I shun most pundits but Gutfeld is always worth the listen.
Weird – this isn’t about the post, but supposedly there are three comments. None of them show on my screen. Clicking a direct link from the sidebar to one of the comments also shows… no comment. Everything else that should be here appears to be here.
Sometimes “comments” are actually pingbacks and won’t show up in the normal comment stream. But I’m no expert.
Showing 5 right now but only 2 appear, yours and one from Mike Guenther.
Anyway, didn’t watch the vid.
I’m not in a war.
Maybe others are but not me.
Vax?
Don’t bother me about not being an idiot and I won’t bother you for being one.
I just don’t care.
That is, I don’t care if you get a vax, and I don’t care what you think.
Well I see 3 comments here, although the “comment counter” says there’s 6.
As for the JoeVid Virus-
Project Veritas (whom I trust) says the Vax is actually pretty dangerous-
https://noqreport.com/2021/09/20/federal-govt-whistleblower-goes-public-with-secret-recordings-government-doesnt-want-to-show-the-covid-vaccine-is-full-of-sht-shove-adverse-effect-rep/
Don’t want to be forced into a vax? Here’s the religious exemption form for those who may want it-
https://magainstitute.com/the-lion-in-me-has-spoken-no-vaccine-mandate-download-your-religious-exemption-form/
And this may sound a bit “tin foil hat,” but supposedly WA Governor Enslee may be setting up some “strike teams,” and “isolation and quarantine” facilities. (AKA “concentration camps”)
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-20-inslee-covid-concentration-camps-washington-state.html
“Branch Covidians” it says in the Inslee link. That’s funny.
I can’t wrap my mind around how you’d wrangle a bunch of non-compliant unvaxed slackers in the first place. First: a system to sort. Well, I guess the govt. did do the vaccinations, and I guess some medical facilities, too. Hmmmm. Records: check.
It plays out like that TV show from the 60s called The Prisoner. Shudders.
If you live in ruralville this may be your future:
The gangstalker network in my ao upped the anti this weekend.
also 2 new rural acclimation groups showed up, added to the 3 been here almost a year.
they all have Virginia accents, some still running Va. tags, the assholes did a tour for the newbies and stopped out on the road near the house, got out, did question and answer session, then a debrief on the tour, with a pep talk/welcome to the network at the end.
been watching them earlier.
when they parked up I hoofed it around thru the woods, set up in a nice spot to listen and get pics.
pretty amazing what i listened to.
these are American’s, or rather amerikan’s.
the inherent hate and sense of destiny they are our rulers is always something to wrap the ol’ noodle around even when its first hand direct knowledge.
the last few weeks the gangstalkers who been regulars for months working our area stepped up their disruption activity.
sometimes dozens of vehicles with wide open pipes, going WOT by peoples homes, three nights in a row one truck dragging a carhauler they had laid 4×8 pieces of sheetmetal in, driving fast over these one lane rough dirt goat paths, with open popes, amazingly loud, it wakes the dead at 2 am, along with highly aggressive cruising up and down what roads we have here, heaving large bags of trash out of fast moving vehicles so it produces a wide spread pattern as they bust open, staging fake tailgate parties across from folks homes all hours of the night, running nigger rap with the deep base boom boom dialed to the max, creating all sorts of noise, slamming vehicle doors and tail gates, bats and shovels banging pieces of sheetmetal, steel drums, tooting horns, etc.
it is pretty amazing watching them going at it.
you have to personally see it with your eyes to believe it, to understand there are adult grown looking people doing this stupid shit.
amazing there is so much reckless hate.
but knowing it really is real and this network exists, that its everywhere, behind all this crazy shit going on, is a great boon to coming to rational logical terms with it and not falling for the traps they are created for to fuck with us and fuck with our heads so we are easily destroyed.
we see it as techniques employed to stress out all us native good folks living here, disrupt order and peace, fuck with serenity of place and community, cause and create worry, fear and unsettling sense of loss of stability and security.
same head fucking the whole annteefah/blm gangstalker bullshit is for in the cities, same fear mongering, the same yellow media weaponizing everything.
Weaponizing Fear.
Get people to take council from their fears, makes them suckers, easier to manipulate and control.
these gangstalkers operating around our area are so blatantly patently obvious.
none of them are from around here, belong here, have family or friends and nobody local knows who they are.
they truly stick out.
our county is about 3/4 size of Rhode Island, with a tad over 2000 families living in it.
its about as rural east of the mississipi as can be found, we have only 4 Deputy Sheriff’s for the entire county, they have told us they are helpless to stop this, they bust the fuckers, within an hour they are walking out the front door giving them the finger and laughing.
they went to lengths to let many of us know, they know all of us as good people, how they never have to worry about us and have appreciated us for it, our decent way of life, going on to tell us, it’s time we must take care of things ourselves.
another aspect of raising the anti, right out of the marxist terrorist handbook, its right on cue in the politicization of everything, it getting near about time for the next stage of “protracted struggle.”
this change in strat-tac points to 2nd stage early phase two, (3 phases in each of the 3 stages), ie, increasing the aggressive physical activity, no targeting individuals for direct action, ( targeted kill hits), lots of ramped up disruptive and disturbing action all hours, typically during dark.
the intent at this stage, once these teams have acclimated to the rural conditions, this draws out the white supremacists reactionaries and other white “fascists”, providing further intell of the local inhabitants, and for constructing direct action targeting lists.
It is only a matter of timing these blacbloc operations would follow the handbook involving rural operations, they have to control the rural areas at some point, step up the rural direct action, now, as the metro and shit-holes are mostly under direct network control.
neo-bolshevik direct action.
you can just see the obots directing this from on high.
The first direct action of these new rural acclimation groups once they settle in, going by the handbook, is job one, determining who are the “extremist white supremacists” in the community, in their strategy, rank as enemy number one on the targeting list, for further direct action operations, and determining the break down in patriarchal and agrarian order, associations, who attends which local parish, if any who is organized resistance and or gauging threat levels, natural community leaders, etc.
In the comments at:
https://bustednuckles.com/2021/09/20/while-i-was-sleeping/
Wow.
In my former AO in north central AR, these invaders would have run into a lot of…pushback.
The govts pushing it, we’re not buying. Don’t trust this govt for the past thirty years, lying cheating self serving mutants. We shall remain PURE BLOODS, View this as one worlders crap.
We are likely naturally immune after a bout of the flu 13 days ago.
VI
Nope. Totally different disease, in a different family. You might as well say that measles gives you protection from Ebola.
some of us ain’t fraidy cats
‘specially by stuff put out by the lyin’ assed media
Why do they (media) scare you so Fletcher?
Just pointing out a factual error.
BTW, I have had both jabs (Pfizer) for the very simple reason that I am simultaneously in three of the known risk groups for life-changing damage or death if I caught it. And the risk of serious damage from the jab is around the same as that of being struck by lightning.
Risk balancing.
Ever heard of Ivermectin?
That’s my route.
The gov’t has already given me 2 viruses, swine and hep c.
I’ll never again trust the gov’t or the media. ever
It’s never ending…..
Chris Langan is concerned about vaccine additives in the vegetables:
Hey, are you an unvaccinated person? (I know I am, and I’ll be staying that way until somebody dies, either me or the occupation-government c*cksucker trying to inject me.) Yes, you say? Then good for you! But if you want to stay that way, it’s time to start watching your diet. No, I’m not talking about eating only salads. I’m talking about never eating another salad as long as you live.
The COVID-19 vaccine is one of the many inoculations which use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology to defeat viruses. They work by teaching cells from the immune system to recognize and attack a certain infectious disease. Unfortunately, mRNA vaccines have to stay in cold storage until use or they lose stability. The UC-Riverside team says if they’re successful, the public could eat plant-based mRNA vaccines — which could also survive at room temperature.
Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers are now looking accomplish three goals. First, the team will try to successfully deliver DNA containing mRNA vaccines into plant cells, where they can replicate. Next, the study authors want to show that plants can actually produce enough mRNA to replace a traditional injection. Finally, the team will need to determine the right dosage people will need to eat to properly replace vaccinations.
“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person,” says Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, in a university release.
“We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,” Giraldo adds. “Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.”
I feel like I’ve been preparing for this my whole life. I know they don’t have them growing yet, but you can’t be too safe. Best stop eating anything green now.
In one of his off-boomer moments:
https://voxday.net/2021/09/21/not-a-problem/
I’d comment, but since there’s NOTHING VISIBLE in the block, there’s nothing but comments to comment upon. OH!! WAIT!!
We’re here for you, Sam.
YES!! WAIT!!
And now it’s back. (but for how long who knows?)
Shot, no shot, life’s about choices, we all get the choice. Ain’t nothing personal but we chose to be free bloods.
I’m at VA Reno again tomorrow for more thrilling spine injections, “ hurts sooooo good” they’ll be on my donkey from the second I say “ ain’t happening”
Six Shots base of my spin,,,flat on my back for a few hours, then dinner and dancing with the lovely Mrs. Williams. Did six oblations four weeks ago, severed six sets of nerve endings. Got something really wrong, still dragging my left leg, can hardly put any weight on it.
It’s all good.
VI
Oxford Risk Calculator: https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation
ima tad younger than you, Gerard, but still in the media-identified “high risk group” and still quite healthy for my age. Oxford calculates my risk of The Death That Must Not Be Named as 1.02% .
Just for grins, I looked up the vehicle accident statistics for 2018 (easy recent year to find the numbers). It says my risk of dying in a vehicle crash is 1.1%.
I am literally more likely to die in a car crash than of TDTMNBN. F everything the establishment says.