Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Exceptionalism

The claim of Human Exceptionalism is particularly tiresome when accompanied by claims of humility.
[Human exceptionalism: The view (paradigm) that humans are different from all other organisms, all human behaviour is controlled by culture and free will, and all problems can be solved by human ingenuity and technology.
Anthropocentrism: The ethical belief that humans alone possess intrinsic value. In contradistinction, all other beings hold value only in their ability to serve humans, or in their instrumental value.]

For The Children

When I recorded my fourth album, "For The Children", my manager at the time said, "Every word on the album is true ... but people don't want to hear that."
Since 2016 to the present we the human race have proven the truth of that every day (and continue to do so).

A Danger To Us All

The intellectually challenged Donald Trump zealots who still don't realise Trump as President is an existential threat to us all, are an existential threat to us all (including to them). It seems impossible to engage rationally with them. Let's hope they're outnumbered. Is it the plastic particles now in all our brains? Is it the chemicals in the drinking water? Unfortunately the intellectually challenged are incapable of realising they're intellectually challenged. It's an age old problem. Global education of children rarely if ever includes lessons in how to think and the assumption that everyone knows how to think is dangerously misguided.

David Sanborn

Thank you David Sanborn.
Funk everytime.
Thank you.

IN PLAIN SIGHT

It is that Donald Trump is such an insignificant, pathetic person (hardly worth calling a man at all) that is so disappointing. A creature without substance held together by the subservience of others. Odd, strange, queer that this pathetic, whining wimp has followers, like a trail of dung beetles or dogs following a disease ridden goat in order to eat its faeces.

An accident of birth is not an accomplishment. Men have an abiding tendency to forget that.

When "Precise" Means a Dead Child In Your Arms

On Tuesday, in the middle of Gaza, relatives clutching limp and bloodstained bodies of small boys and girls rushed from al-Maghazi refugee camp to al-Aqsa Martyrs' hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah.
Medics at the hospital said that at least 12 people were killed and some 30 injured by shelling in al-Maghazi.
"They were playing in the street. Why were they struck? They weren't in any position close to Israeli forces," one man told the BBC. Another added: "They were just playing. They were in the market with people coming and going normally."
Israel's military has not commented on what happened there, but this week in Gaza the central refugee camps have been its main focus. It said it was "eliminating terrorists and destroying terrorist infrastructure" such as attack tunnels and military compounds used by armed Hamas fighters in "precise" action. Shooting fish in a barrel. These fish are children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68854896

If heterosexual men stopped trying to prove they're not Gay the world would be a much more peaceful place!

Horrific Tragedy Crime Farce

The laughing stock of the animal kingdom continues not to surprise.
Stupid yes and tiresome; predictable like seconds following minutes following centuries.
Lemmings don't do what humans malign them for doing but humans do what they accuse lemmings of.
A pile of dead bodies, Buchenwald, Dachau, in photos by the artist war photojournalist Lee Millar. She saw and shows us the horror in beauty, the beauty in horror.
Now piles of dead Palestinian children don't count, deserve to be ignored. The only good Red Indian a dead Red Indian, the only good Aborigine a dead Aborigine.
No photos of these kids piled high, dead with our breakfast journals, though this is a serial and it's on our phones. Nothing barbaric in their being killed, these kids. "The deserving dead deserving their deaths" their designated epitaph.
Unworthy, our media tell us, of being mourned. Unworthy even of being acknowledged. We boast, "We're better than this". How can we be better than what we do?
There you go again, hinting at Collective Responsibility; anathema you fool! It's nothing to do with you and nothing to do with us.
And when they're gone their lands will make money for the righteous and the natural gas off their coast will make even more and who will make the dough out of clearing the rubble and building anew? The bids already in, "Nothing personal" it's just a game we play as days follow nights, nights follow days following months and years and centuries of heroes in histories we write to our glory. But wait!
The Pope has something to say!
Platitudinus Vaticanus.
So that's ok then. We're as we thought we are, compassionate, righteous, holy; born sinners but so, so, so, so, so good with it.

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Your Turn

And 10,000 dead Palestinian children later, the mealy mouthed still lack the courage to see the evil we are complicit in and will never have the guts to admit to that crime.
"Why don't you condemn Hamas"?
I condemn The State of Israel killers of 10,000+ Palestinian children first and then I condemn the Hamas killers of 36 children on the 7th October 2023.
Your turn.

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Eradication Is The Goal

As with Black people, in the West's mainstream media and much of social media, Palestinians are denied a history.
For the West's mainstream media and much of social media Palestinian history began and ended on the 7th of October 2023.
That for years Israel under Netanyahu organised the funding of Hamas so as to subvert the PLO and the Palestinian Authority (thus elevating Hamas to be as it was on the 7th of October 2023) is not mentioned.
The 75 years of the Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians is not mentioned.
The 57 years of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is not mentioned and now, what little physical and cultural infrastructure the Palestinians had has been and continues to be systematically and purposefully reduced to rubble. The erasure of Palestinian identity is the goal. The murder of 10,000+ Palestinian children, rarely mentioned, is part of that goal.

Playing The Victim Card : Israel Palestine Hamas Gaza Netanyahu

So those with Tanks are the victims of those who have no tanks.
Those with Helicopter Gunships are the victims of those who have only Para-gliders.
Those with F16 fighter bombers dropping 2000 pound, ground liquifying bombs and White Phosphorous are the victims of those who have, again, only Para-gliders.
Those with missiles are the victims of those with rockets.
Those with WMDs, including Nuclear weapons, are the victims of those who are in comparison a mouse being played with by a cat with all the time in the world to kill.
"WE Control The Height of the Flames” boasts Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel).
Benjamin Netanyahu and The State of Israel financed (so armed & helped tunnel) Hamas via Qatar (just Google it).
Like shooting babies in a barrel: 36 Israeli children killed by Hamas on October 7th 2023. 10,000 Gaza children killed (so far) in response by the righteous, the good guys, the State of Israel.
We're expected to believe Hamas committed the greater evil of those two evil acts.
Anti-zionism is not Antisemitism.
The State of Israel is not "The Jews".
The State of Israel is currently a terrorist state.

Rights are difficult to get
Easy to lose

So now, a greater evil is condoned, facilitated and applauded over a lesser evil. In this, The Age of Stupid, we now choose, profess and uphold that philosophy (smeared with excrement, deserving only to be spat on) as righteous. After decades of abuse, she punches you in the mouth, drawing blood. In response you assemble your brothers and cousins, and that night kill her entire family (including children, toddlers and babies in their cribs/cots). The authorities repeatedly declare the slaughter as "justified". The Age of Stupid has become The Age of Insanity.

[Israel/Palestine/Gaza/USA/UK/Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide]

Another Year

Another Year has gone
And here's another one
I hope it's good for you and yours.
A Happy New Year from me to you.
... LS
https://youtu.be/ik0BsPxzG1c?si=lAVcfTi1sI7ZApOILS

"God promised to Abraham to give this country to you and to your children"
... David Ben-Gurion (Former Prime Minister of Israel)
However, If God is your authority, you have no authority. There is no evidence of God and your belief is not evidence. When you claim God is your authority, you are in reality saying your authority is you and your religious belief.
In this age in which few are willing to accept personal responsibility your sophistry is enduringly popular. However, the response to, "Do this because God has told me that you should", should always be, "Give us evidence of the existence of God. Your belief is not evidence and your Holy Books are evidence only that Men wrote them. They are not evidence of God, the most successful political weapon yet devised by man".

LACKING EMPATHY ?

He could not understand why
Fearing the universe
so fearing facts
most voted for lies
as their fundamental philosophy
Variously diagnosed as
"Eyes Shut Hands Over Ears Syndrome" (ESH O ES)
or more widely
"The kneeling Tendency" (TKT).

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A Protocol To Remind You Of Something Very Bad

That this was ever a published protocol describes a government to be ashamed of.

Israeli U-turn over West Bank romance declarations

 

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Where Do You Want To Live?

I want to live
in a world where Stupid
is not the norm
Ignorance is not the aim
And a psychosis is not the dominant philosophy

 

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Trump Says He's Innocent

Why Wouldn't You Believe Him?

After all, he's the ex-President of the USA!

 

Video: Trump Took The 5th

 

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FAITH BELIEF INSANITY

And Lo
All powerful
All knowing
Omnipotent
Omniscient God
Killed millions of unborn babies in the womb
(with The Flood)
Angry because the creatures he had designed and made did
Exactly
what He (before day one of creation)
Knew they would do.
Praise the Lord?!
Are you insane?!

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The Human Condition (Loop)

2008 Crash
FF > 2016
Money's tight
Folks look for folks to blame
Pieces of opportunistic shit
crawl out from under their rocks
and offer a deal:
"In return for scapegoats
Give us your votes"
We The Folks say
"Yes Hooray!"
and so we're where we are today

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Do Human Beings Have Free Will Pt 2

Free Will :
noun [mass noun]
The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

Many people suffer from chronic pain. For example, in many countries pain relief medication for cancer patients is unaffordable, unavailable. Cancer patients die in terrible pain. Do they have free will to choose not to feel pain (without suicide)?

In Russia, Putin, the current owner of the country, has more choice than any other citizen. He is the only person in Russia with personal sovereignty. Could he, of his own free will, jump from the Moscow Kremlin to the Kremlin in Kazan. Could any of us, of our own free will, jump over Mount Everest.

Only one entity has free-will and that entity is (to be polite) imaginary. God/Allah/Yahweh/Jehovah has free will (and look what he's done with it). God is Omnipotent (adj. having unlimited power) though clearly lacking the courage of US president Harry Truman in having a sign on his desk stating that "The Buck Stops Here".

Only the proposed entity God has free will. God the omnipotent could choose, of his own free will, to exist and not exist at the same time.

The claim that human beings have free will is to claim human beings have power equal to God's omnipotent power, that human beings are omnipotent. Of all our hubristic claims *that* "takes the cake”, or the biscuit.

 

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Free Will

So you ask, "Do human beings have free will?".
Well ... hold your breath, no I mean really, hold your breath.
Good, now keep holding your breath until day after tomorrow
then call me and we'll discuss whether or not you have free-will.

 

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Reason

Ask yourself difficult questions
And demand of yourself
that you answer them;
Otherwise, what’s the bloody point?!

 

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