Moon Full Aries: Nov: 13:2008:
November 12th, 2008
Halloween The Night Of The Blessed Dead:
October 31st, 2008
Better Take Halloween Seriously:
I have a theory that the real reason humanity is stark raving mad is because we are all mortal. Death anxiety bring out the worst in all of us. Don’t go imagining that you are free of death anxiety, just find out where you have it buried. Smart guys like me and the Buddha meditate on our death every day because the best thing to do with mortality is to keep it where you can see it.
For a long time in the West we had a near perfect antidote to death anxiety. All you had to do was believe in Jesus Christ and make a sincere apology at death and you were home free. But we grew up and that just doesn’t work anymore for intellectually honest people who want to live in a state of spiritual reality.
Halloween has become a fun night for the children and all in all it is a fairly good way to introduce children to the notion of death. Long ago and still in pagan spirituality Halloween is a profound spiritual occasion. The message of all Saints Day is that truly good people live forever.
It’s obvious that the worst assholes are people who think they are immortal. I’m not saying that there are no immortals, whose to say? But what I am saying is that thinking, that just by thinking you are immortal, makes you immortal, is sure evidence that you are a total asshat. Much better to remind yourself every day that there is nothing surer than the fact that you are inevitably going to die. That way you stand a chance of acquiring some humility at least. No humility no real human being. It’s that simple.
If you think that you have been born into this world to find fault with others and judge them then you’re a sorely mistaken moron. Whats that you say? Bad things have happened to you? You are a victim? We know all about these maniacally self important victims they are the cruelest, most vindictive and vengeful assholes around. And immortal too. Isn’t that amazing?
Better think about the facts of life and death and be grateful for what you have and even grateful for what you have lost. There is only one thing that you can never loose, well really its three things in combination and you had better be cultivating them everyday. The three things in every conceivable combination are Love, Wisdom, and Freedom. If you are going to have what it takes to face death psychologically and spiritually right now on Halloween and every day, you need to get really deep within these three states of authentic human being, and being human.
When physical death inevitably finds each one of us we stand the chance of dying as a human being. Thats the serious message of Halloween.
Canadian Democracy:
October 16th, 2008Remarkable country Canada where the media continue to behave as if the people don’t know what they are doing:
More later.
Slim Harper Majority!
October 13th, 2008Tomorrow morning the Toronto Stock Exchange will recover a large percentage of its recent losses. If the derivatives market can restrain their near pathological greed and not sell the markets short, the gains will hold.
We are going to be very happy that our Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty did not panic. Stephan Dion is going to look even more stupid than he does now…if that is even possible.
I must say Stephan Dion is a piece of work. He has no plan apart from his mysterious “Green Shift” and a lot of empty promises that he has no intention of keeping. But he does have a plan to have a plan at some time in the future and it is going to take him thirty days after he is elected to develop a plan. He claims he needs to see the books first. Balderdash!
What is holding Stephan Dion up? He could easily present a plan that includes the following equation: If no deficit then plan A. If a deficit then plan B. The stream of pure rubbish emotionalism and confusion coming out of his mouth should give us all pause. He is incensed at Stephen Harper for his failure to panic! As they say ‘only in Canada’.
The “Green Shift” Carbon Tax far from being neutral will drive up the cost of nearly everything in Canada. I think everyone understands this.
Quite frankly I don’t trust Stephan Dion or his deeply divided party to run this country.
Jack Layton has been given the opportunity to show his real colours in this campaign and he has let his Demagogue show.
Elizabeth May and the Green Party? Nice fringe protest vote if you are into that kind of thing.
Duceppe and the Block are trying hard to hold onto their right to go on isolating Quebec from the rest of Canada. I think they are in for some real surprises.
We need to be alert to vote rigging and vote fraud in Anybody But Conservatives ABC Ridings. During this election campaign the Left in Canada have shown themselves capable of every kind of low tactic and deception.
I will be voting for Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party for the third time.
Happy Thanksgiving:
October 13th, 2008Thanksgiving is a very important day to me. One of the most significant things that have ever happened to me happened on Thanksgiving.
Today we are all thinking about the Federal Election tomorrow.
Canadian Federal Election Truth: Economy
October 9th, 2008Canada will lead the other G7 countries in economic growth in 2009, a muted honour considering that the global economy should slow markedly, according to a new IMF study released Wednesday.
The International Monetary Fund said this country should see economic growth in the range of 1.2 per cent next year, less than half of what Canada experienced in 2007, but the best performance among Japan, the United States, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Just-World Fallacy:
August 11th, 2008The majority of us in Canada have traditionally believed that our system of justice, though sometimes mistaken, is the provider of a just Canadian society. That majority is shrinking as a growing number of Canadians come to understand that our system of justice is in actuality a system of injustice.
I will have more to say about this in coming posts
[…”The just-world phenomenon, also called the just-world theory, just-world fallacy, just-world effect, or just-world hypothesis, refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is “just” so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it…]
[…This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault. Historically this concept can be dated back to the theodicy of Leibniz, a theory that was attacked by Voltaire in his novel Candide…]
Mens Rights:
August 8th, 2008
Apparently Jack Layton didn’t have a frackin clue about what was really going on today- of all days-* when a couple of superhero fathers got up on his roof to make what must be a very popular political statement.
Layton, who wasn’t in the office, said he doesn’t know much about the group or why his office was targeted.
“It really just came out of the blue,” Quoth Yappy Jack.
Fathers 4 Justice has photos on its website of men dressed as superheroes protesting at locations across Canada.
[…”Many years have passed since the Special Joint Committee on Custody and Access recommended sweeping changes to Canada’s Divorce Act. Beginning with Anne McLellan, a succession of federal Ministers of Justice have refused to follow the recommendations raised in For the Sake of the Children, rather they have embarked on a series of selective consultations that recently resulted in proposed amendments to the Divorce Act completely at odds with the findings of the Special Joint Committee.
The results arising out of those same restricted focus groups and narrow consultations, all of which were sponsored by the federal Department of Justice, were then allowed to guide legislative change. An open, transparent public consultation - the Special Joint Committee - was turned into a carefully guided and secretive process that could produce no other findings than it did, making a mockery of the parliamentary process in Canada.
We’re not waiting for our rights to be upheld anymore or standing by idle while they’re further attacked. In the coming weeks and months F4J Canada will conduct a coordinated campaign designed to raise awareness of the need to reform family law and why, in a very public and visible manner - we’ll be coming soon to a high place near you…]
*some of you will understand.
Demented Bunny 08 08 08:
August 8th, 2008
Henceforth the 08th of August shall be known and celebrated as “Demented Bunny Day”
No Secret Software!
July 28th, 2008Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault
July 16th, 2008“Heidegger and Foucault are clear, then, that what is uniquely oppressive in our current practices is not that they are illegitimate nor that they cause ecological devastation. According to Foucault legitimacy is a red herring; our current society becomes more oppressive as it becomes more protective of rights and more permissive, and productive.”
“Heidegger, on his part, distinguishes the current problems of technology — ecological destruction, urbanization, nuclear danger, etc. — from the devastation that would result if technology solved all our problems.”
Women To Avoid 1:
July 15th, 2008” Feminists. Period. At the basis of all feminism: equality-based feminism, men’s-rights-too feminism, rabid feminism, is the theory that men once controlled the world and are responsible for all of the bad shit that has happened in the last 5,000 years.”
“It doesn’t matter how committed she is to “true equality.” It doesn’t matter how much she agrees with your causes. When the gloves come off, she’ll blame you for everything that’s gone wrong in her life and everything that’s gone wrong in the world since Hammurabi.”
Happy Canada Day!:
July 1st, 2008
Beginning Of June:
June 1st, 2008I have a lot of interesting links to post when I find the time:
May Day May Day:
May 1st, 2008First of May:
Introduce Your Girlfriend To Hardy Heron:
April 29th, 2008
This is a very interesting post that illustrates what happens when a geeky guy introduces his intelligent computer using girlfriend to Hardy Heron. Que jokes about Geeks not having girlfriends. You may have had some of these enlightening experiences your self.
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release:
April 24th, 2008
A series of running jokes these many years past have all involved the phrase “This is the year of Linux on the desktop”.
Well it sure looks like that year may finally be here with the release tody of Ubuntu “Hardy Heron” 08.04. This is an LTS version which is to say that it is guaranteed three years of support on the desktop and five years in its server version, which makes it very attractive to business users and organizations of all kinds. This LTS version means that you can safely invest the time and effort to learn your way around Ubuntu, with the ultimate aim of freeing yourself from the tyranny of Microsoft. Did I mention that Ubuntu is free?
One of the most exciting things about this Ubuntu release is the fact that it can be easily installed in a windows computer just like any other application. Over the last few years I have gotten myself embroiled in quite a number of dual boot installs of Linux on Windows Computers. Sometimes partitioning the hard drive and installing Linux turns into a real PITA. Now problem solved with WUBI.
And of course you can get the new Ubuntu from the Ubuntu home page.