Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Christmas Celebrations

I don’t "celebrate" Christmas. I recognise it as a holiday and employ and enjoy it as such. Some years I manage cards and gifts (though not this year) but I don’t “celebrate” Christmas.

I do “commemorate” Remembrance Day/Armistice Day. If I’m at home on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month I have the TV tuned to the broadcast from The Cenotaph in London. I stand for the commemorative silence.

I like Christmas for the children with their presents for being good (even if they weren’t good all of the time; who is?) but Christmas as a reinforcement of the lie that is theism (the rejection of personal responsibility for our moral judgements) is for me, like all religious holidays, a reminder of our continuing betrayal of human potential.

Taking control means taking responsibility. The buck stops with the maker of the rules. Theism claims morality is handed down to us by God. Theists claim God makes the rules. Theism is the mechanism by which theists shift the responsibility for our moral judgements from our shoulders to the imagined shoulders of God. That process is "the rejection of personal responsibility for our moral judgements".

Dinosaurs existed for 175 million years. Anatomically modern humans (the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens) have existed for 200,000 years. Hopefully, within the next 200,000 years we will have gained sufficient courage to celebrate human potential by universally accepting personal responsibility for our moral judgements. That celebration I would happily be part of.

 

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The Kids Have Dreams

A new Video by Labi Siffre

 

 

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Both Collocutors Disabled By Cloth

I tweeted this question
In twenty eleven
It got no response

Still the question remains
The answer clear and clearly terrifying
For those who impose the clothing

The question is:
Concerning the human race
What is the function of the human face?

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini…/english/collocutor

 

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The Thorns Of Democracy

Is it not the Democratic duty of a Sovereign Parliament to vote on whether to follow the (not legally binding) opinion of a referendum?

 

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Brexit Belief

We have yet to recover from the 2008 crash.
Austerity is still with us and shows little sign of evaporating.

Yet, we'll renegotiate 43 years of deals, intertwined business protocols and complex procedural arrangements and recover from Brexit smoothly, quickly, easily?

I don't believe it.

I vote to Remain. 

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The Evening Of The Day Jo Cox Died

"Britain first"
"God is great"
Patriotism
Theism
Scoundrels
Refuge

Penultimate
Ultimate
Radical? No.
Old as a lack of
Courage

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For The Orlando Dead - June 12th 2016

Fifty, yet, dead; a coward
Inspired by craven belief
Killed them; if
Angels exist they shit
In his mouth

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Rupert Murdoch - A Palpably Powerful Political Activist

As this morning on Sky News "Murnaghan" when TV media gives Brexit the last word remember this:

Life Goes On

From far and wide
Concerned friends,
Family and healthcare
Professionals advised him
"Strychnine is lethal”
“Nonsense” he poo-pooed
“You’re scaremongering!
Threatening, bullying!
Don’t tell me what to do!
Cast aside project fear
Be positive, optimistic
I'm the fifth healthiest person
In the room!"

We didn’t go to his funeral
As far as we know no one did
Times were tough
They're tougher now
Especially for the kids

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Muhammed Ali - Farewell

Farewell Muhammed Ali
You chose your name
And label

Despite white cowardice
You stung like a bee, and
Encouraged me
To be Me

Thank you
Muhammed Ali

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The Difference Between Atheism & Theism

Atheism is the acceptance of personal responsibility for your moral judgements.

Theism is the rejection of personal responsibility for your moral judgements.

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What The World and Homo Sapiens (humankind / hu-woman-kind) Needs

In these serious times we need folks striving to build on what we know rather than an overwhelming majority hiding behind what they believe.

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I Remember When Santa Was Fat

Ahh, the cuddly times.

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Now I'm also on Facebook

www.facebook.com/labisiffre

Paris Attacks 13-11-15

The lie of killing for God
There is no evidence of God
No murderers no murdered go to heaven
Nor to hell
No martyrs, no heroes, only corpses.

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A Small World

The young man shares

With us the sadness of his life

His story brings tears to my eyes

Dissimilar to mine it is the same

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At The Border

As Hungary forgets the revolution

World War Z progresses

I recall “Go back where you came from nigger!”

But Hammersmith isn’t Syria

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God Is The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel

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I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

 

Eric Garner "didn't deserve to die"

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ONLY GOD DESERVES HELL

Barack Obama / David Cameron / EU / Palestine / Israel / Illegal settlements / Gaza / Politics

What are the oppressed to do

When “The Good Guys”

Side with the oppressors?

What would I do?

What would you do?

What would we do?

What will they do?

What are they doing?

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Jihad Jihad Bring Back Our Girls

And in the end
The great Jihad
Appears to be
Primarily about
The right to have
Women, as slaves,
By day
By night
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Politics

The wielding of
Persuasion
Influence
Power
Control

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From One Who Only Watches

Cleverly with illegal
Settlement building
Israel ethnically
Cleanses Palestine

We here watch
With less
Excuse
Than World War Two
Dachau Town residents

With our cynical joke
Calling for restraint
On both sides

We stink of death
Calling ourselves
The International Community
Of good guys

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Another Word in the Lexicon of Avoidance

Men In gangs
Rape Girls
In a land awash
With ragas
And
"Spirituality"

I distrust that "must
Be OK then" word
Ever self-servingly
Caste

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