Labi Siffre - Into The Light

WHAT I WANT

I want to wake up
In a world where
Stupid is not the norm
Ignorance is not the aim
And psychosis is not the dominant philosophy
I can’t see that happening in my lifetime

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God said?

The only evidence we have
is that the words religionists tell us we must obey
because God spoke them
were in fact written by men.
On the other hand
If you're not interested in evidence
Good luck in court if you're on trial
for a crime you didn't commit

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Their Sacrifice

Their sacrifice
and ours
What was it for?
Why did your daughter and my son
have to die?
Now we've flown away
Why are the daughters we abandoned
Again caged?
Those men with guns
Why are they and their God
so afraid
of these women and girls
Alive
but erased?
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THE LAWS OF PHYSICS PASS THE TURING TEST

For those searching for "a controlling hand"
The controlling hand is the Laws of Physics.
The laws of Physics are “The Controlling Hand".
The laws of Physics pass The Turing Test.

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Atheism & Me

I'm an atheist

by which I mean

God as generally presented

Is insultingly absurd

but most importantly

is exclusively wielded

as a political weapon

I oppose

both

of those

and for those who fail to define the words they use:

Politics: The wielding of

Persuasion Influence Power Control

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A POSITIVE ACT WITH A POSITIVE MESSAGE

In shared global security self-interest, perhaps a coalition of India, USA, Pakistan, UK and others (some EU nations, perhaps even Russia would like to display itself in a positive light) with a UN mandate for Afghanistan to be designated a Global Protectorate aimed at saving 50%+ of Afghans (women and girls) from enslavement, would be a not so far fetched ethical action.

 

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The Never Ending Story

He is distressed to the point of agony

We try to comfort him with food and drink

and a soft bed for the night but

he cannot sleep and refuses to eat or drink

He says he lives in a country where

the people would rather pray

than reason

rather kill or die

than think or admit

they could be wrong

He'd seek asylum in another land

he says

but the lazy diseases, faith and belief,

are a global pandemic more infectious

and deadlier

than any Covid variant

 

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It’s time to apologise to The Hippies.
Apart from Flares they were right:
Peace and Love
Eat Less Meat
Expand your mind and
Don’t Fuck With Nature.
“Right on!”

The War Against Women

I have no respect for The Competition of the Dispossessed (e.g Discrimination against us is worse than discrimination against them, genocide against us is worse than genocide against them). However, in human history the most discriminated against group has always been and continues to be Women. That fact is a constant. In almost every group discriminated against, the males in the group politically, physically, discriminate against the women in the group.

 

To estimate that over a period of many thousands of years, millions even tens of millions of children have lived with and witnessed violence against women doesn't seem to me to be an over-estimate.

 

There are 1,189 chapters in the bible. God wastes no time in revealing His cowardice, bigotry and lack of self-reflection. In Genesis Chapter three God makes it clear that everything wrong, toast falling butter-side down to the floor, you painfully knocking your leg against that coffee table, flood, contagion, plague, famine, war, everything bad ... is the fault of Woman. It is not surprising that those who invented the political weapon, God, have a vested interest in perpetuating that political lie. The struggle continues.

 

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Brexit/Covid A Lack of UK Backbone

As predicted in the 2018 Government forecast that any Brexit would make the UK/GB worse off than staying in the EU, Brexit makes the economic effects of Covid-19 worse. Lacking courage to admit that exacerbates the tragedy (having already, by Brexit, stabbed our children in the back).

 

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With Respect

Since 2016 it has become even clearer that The Dunning-Kruger Effect affects almost half of planet Earth's human population.

Exceptionalism, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Voters, GB, COVID-19, Masks, Populism, Theism, UK, Leave, Trump, MAGA, USA, Populist Nationalism, Hubris.

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I'm on the "What Goes Around?" podcast (ep: 17)

Anne & Eamon, thanks both.

https://anchor.fm/what-goes-around/episodes/Episode-17-What-Goes-Around--featuring-Labi-Siffre-emluuq

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NO MYSTERY

The Religionist psychosis continues to kill;
Believers demand their beliefs
be accepted as fact
Lack courage to admit they have
at least a 50/50 chance
Of being wrong
Lacking humility they continue to make excuses
for God
All powerful yet needing
believers to kill to protect
His thin skin
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IMMUNITY

In times of plague
Many behave badly
It isn’t the badness that is amplified
It is the weakness
I see that in myself
Others may claim to be immune
But in times of plague,
Immune to the pathogen or not,
No one has immunity

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THINKING ALOUD

Ignorance of the terminology is a barrier to debates that lead to peaceful solutions. Patience on both sides can remove the barrier. Meanwhile the zeitgeist of impatience arm in arm with wilful ignorance is an ever threatening time constraint.

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peace/violence/solutions

 

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THIS VESSEL EARTH

Boats don’t float forever
Even water grows weary of
Supporting humans for no return

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THE LAST PARAGRAPH

“That day it shone crystal clear
That the folk condemning
Political correctness
Are politically correct
Clasping their bibles, korans & flags
They’re racist, homophobic, misogynists
Lacking the courage to declare it”.
“And that’s why babies cry” she said
"That’s why babies cry”.

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MUSINGS

The radical left
The radical right
The radical wilfully ignorant

Militant theists
Militant atheists
Which are most prone to being radicalised to terrorism?

Wilfully ignorant zealots
Have a lot of bad things to answer for
Fortunately for them
That fact will never occur to them

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A DISEASE CATCHES ONE

Demanding the right
To infect others, the trump
Succumbs to the bug
Don’t expect him to repent
Be sure, he despises you

 

Trump gets Covid19

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Brexit, Leave, No Deal & Money

Brexit, especially a No Deal
Brexit
Benefits most
Those thousands of UK citizens
With offshore accounts
In Tax Havens

If you’re not one of these
And you voted for Brexit
You’ve been
Right Royally
Played
Conned
Screwed

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Dr Johnson Was Mistaken

God is the last refuge of a scoundrel

Patriotism merely the penultimate

 

 

 

[ USA  UK  Poland  Hungary  Russia

Saudi Arabia   Ireland  Iran  Turkey

North Korea   Vatican City   Nigeria

and more ...

Theism is Politics

That's all]

 

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Woke To Being Politically Correct

Politically correct (as brought to general public view) began as merely pointing out that words have meaning and subtext; and that sometimes the subtext can be harmful.

 

For example:

The definition of Homo sapiens as "Mankind"; the harmful subtext being the exclusion of women and girls (approximately 51% of the human race).

The "Politically correct" suggestion was to use "Humankind" in order to describe Homo sapiens; thereby including and respecting women, girls, sisters, aunts, wives, grandmothers, mothers.

 

Outraged by the suggestion that they could be in error, UK right wing oligarch newspaper owners (exclusively male) through the pages of a predominantly right wing UK press e.g. The Sun, News of the World, Telegraph and The Express, re-defined "Politically Correct" to mean "lacking the courage to speak your mind".

 

Incidentally, a Google search reveals the current definition of "woke" as "Alert to injustice in society". To me that sounds like a worthwhile aspiration and more: a duty.

 

Be woke to the fact that definitions can be and often are weaponised. For example, the word "woke".

 

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Moving Forward

When voters accept
Collective responsibility
For the policies and practices
Of governments
They collectively elect
Democracy will have made
Much needed progress
PS
Whether you vote or not
If you have the franchise
You’re compromised

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Casual Lies

Casual lies are now the norm.

The agenda is to remove the concepts of

Facts

Truth

Accuracy

Details

Things that ARE

(And can be verified as so)

Thus making "the people”

Even easier to manipulate

As everything those

In positions of responsibility say

Or do

Becomes instantly deniable.

 

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MAKING EXCUSES FOR GOD

Free will?

OK

Hold your breath

Till day after tomorrow

Then call me

And we’ll discuss it

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