The Tiger’s Tooth

The villager took the tiger's tooth
Which he slew in mortal combat.
Wore around his neck, he showed
That he had taken his tribe's life
Into his own hands, and slew
The tiger. With spear and stone knife
The tiger eyed him raw, upon the weeds
And came out, with claws wide
And fierce, so they flew down, 
As the tiger's rage leapt for the neck.
The villager shafted his spear
At the boney chest of the Tiger
And the cat juked back. Another slash
The tiger lunged forward, caught
The man on the cheek, ripping a gash
That fissured and gushed in three dimensional
Flesh. But he was quick, and took his blade
Made of flint, and dug it into the tiger's
Loins, cutting guts out with a quick strike.
Both were wounded upon the sand
With the vines and trees grown around.
The man took his spear, with blood rushing
Down his serrated face, hanging limp in bloody flesh.
He struck the tiger in the neck, for it was wounded
Fatally and slew the beast. There the tiger lay
And he ripped out its canine tooth.

Later, the man looked upon the tiger's tooth
His face balmed with aloe and salt.
It took a few months to heal,
But he wore that tiger's tooth around his neck.

There came into his village a man
White as a ghost, and with a musket.
He looked at the fangs, and there were those eyes.
Lustful, he maligned all the women
And made bastard children.
He did not respect whether they had married or were virgins.
No, he took them, lustfully, and ate lots of food.
For his science, he was greater,
With musket... He was superior in every way.
His muscles bulged from food,
His brain swelled from nutrition,
His armor was light, but unable to be pierced.
He was more intelligent than the villager
More savage with his nobility.
More screwed with his lust which he satiated
On the beautiful women of his tribe;
Without respect to marriage, without respect to virginity.
He taught them his religion of science and materialism
And the women began to despise marriage
And divorce men. The villager had no science
But the man did, with his thundering musket
And his iron scales. And he taught them their ways
Of adultery, how pleasure was more important than love.

The villager played with his tiger tooth,
And finally went to arms against the newcomer,
Whom he saw his predatory canines
And reptilian affect.
The battle was swift.

Out came the white man's sabre,
Unlike anything he had seen before
And his flint knife and spear was broken
By the metal armor, and cut down upon his shoulder
He was wounded, so his face hung
His cheekbones shattered.
He was dead.

To Rousseau

An apology I make for my science
Of art and letter, called Poesy keen:
When I read the Eastern Sages
I see great discourse, and encouragement
To learn. When I see Pythagoras, 
I see also, a meeting of the minds.
When I see Christ, I see a premier philosopher.
When I read Keats talking of the billow
Of a foam on his beer, in Spencer's Dedication
I understand it to be light praise, not high.
Thus, I have light praise for you.

It is true, capricious scholars, with doubtful ability
Do glean from knowledge tares instead of wheat.
But, it is doubly so, that Arts and Sciences
Are what make our world good.
For, you said, "There can be no luxury without them."
Yes... indeed... I want luxury, but also work.
Man is more than sinew and flesh for working in a Potter's Field.
I want morality and art and sciences;---
Who could imagine such a thing?
Well I can, and that is why there ought to be poetry.
For the worker, coming home from the field
Then sits in his study, and reads a line or two
Or watches a program, or listens to a score
Or gazes upon a beautiful painting and muses on the artist's intent.
This is a good life, which only the vilest fool would be against.

Why Homosexuality is Unlawful

Well, you'd have to read a lot of history. It alters the psychological state of the social organism, and causes a lot of corruption. The 13th Century Collapse into the Dark Ages, was preceded and probably caused by it and infidelity. So was the Roman Hedonism and the culture developed there.

There's been lots of stable societies that accepted LGBT, but none of them were necessarily just societies. They didn't promote human flourishing, but rather just the opposite. Because, again, it is aberrant human behavior. Unlike the animals, people understand right from wrong. And usually, what causes a lot of social unrest, frustration--which is the cause of mass movements and war--is usually rooted in the first principles of the Libido, and it is caused by frustrating the libidinal output. That's just how human psychology works.

To simplify that, humans usually become Homosexual when there's increased frustration, usually due to unfulfilled desires and the society being unable to fulfill them for whatever reason. And that leads to more frustration, which catalyzes a culture into rampant corruption, and it also leads---kind of miraculously at that--to disease. And it also causes war.

That's just history. From Japan, to China, to the Americas---you can study the American tribes, and how awful they were---it's just not good for people. That's also why Christianity is so persuasive because it aligns with the human moral nature better than any other religion.

Also, in a very Confucian way of thinking, it leads to silly conversations, which proceed to bad governance, as it's doubtful whether humans are naturally disposed to do that, any more than they are cannibalism or incest. As animals do both of those things. So, generally, there is a moral absolute people naturally are disposed to, given that we're genetically hardwired to know right from wrong--that's been described by thousands of sages--that behavior being one of the things that causes a disturbance in the human social organism. It can last a long time, but typically the governments get so corrupt and horrible that they're literally legalizing every crime imaginable, and no one can have any peace.

A Definition of Purpose

Is it desire? Is desire what makes purpose?
Is it knowledge? Does the ability to know, make it?
Is it love, joy, peace, flourishing, health, wealth, friendship?
Is it to see and know God?
Is it to obtain eternal life in a world where suffering does not exist?
Is it a wife, kids, husband, and filial honor?
Is it survival?
Is it pleasure?
Is it faith?
Is it reason?

How Calculus Works

An eas[y] way [to calculate pi is] to use a Sine Function. I saw a person use them and got several digits quickly.  {,,,}[P]i is just a number that tells us a thing is a perfect circle. As everything, from area to circumference--even different pieces of it--ratio to pi if something's a circle. That's also how Sine functions intuit rates of change in calculus, is by telling you the difference off of pi a thing is from the slope on the curve. Which basically gets calculated from the curve of the parameter, but also works in Areas too. Which is neat, because when you have a piece of pie, it's actually equal to pi, but there's straight lines on the parameter, and actually the number pi is [completed] from the parameter of the circle. [Just like it would be in calculus, when you factor in a rate of change, and a slope, the area beneath it is shaped through the curve; and that area is useful in attaining real, physical measurements, such as distance in acceleration versus speed. And of course, one takes different sums of the series, and completes it through intuiting the logic by a formula.]

The Atheist and the Church Choir

I listened to the note, so holy and pure
And then I had the intrusive knowledge
Of what an Atheist feels when they hear it.
Deafly does the music rise, and all is empty.
Then, I felt my own feeling, so full and pure.
I realized why religion is good, and why more
Is needed. For if deafly do our prayers go up
The soul of man is burdened with nothing.
No hope, not in life, nor hereafter.
The emptiness I felt, was truly empty.
And feeling the melody with faith, it was truly full.

On Familiar Spirits

[A[ familiar spirit [is when you commune with the dead], and there is something wrong with that. But, sometimes it comes from faith, when it's an angel. But, you're not to communicate with the dead. That's a big no no. It's a form of idolatry. Most likely, because if the person is not in hell, you're communicating with an angel, and they can do nothing for you, save God will it. So, it's not something you should do. Though, angels do speak to the living---they call that a conscience. But that's holy guidance, and should be superseded by the Spirit. But so do demons; those are called intrusive thoughts or temptations. As Elijah had to be still, and hear the still small voice.

The Children of God

The children of God they say, are who inhabit the kingdom.
Remember the joys you had as a child, how life could be spent
Eternally, with that luster and beautiful affect?
You do a thing, and all celebrate it, no matter how austere.
You play, and live, and have joy at all time.
Do not commit infanticide, by telling your children
To grow old, and matured by the world's echoes.
For that is the beginning of hell, is growing
And losing youth's lusty sheen, and hope.
For as a child, every activity is grand, and sincere.
As a youth, your love is felt deep, and believed to be eternal.
Never lose that hope, or you'll be damned.
Never lose that childlike innocence,
For when rolled up in a ball, it will be an old man
Jaded, and spiteful... not a little child blessed
And though he throw the ball like a weak little child
God raises him up, and swings dawdles him on his knees
And celebrates. For Heaven we will all be children;
Like this, with youthful enthusiasm for all in the Kingdom.
Every youthful lust will be pure, every joy fully experienced,
Every activity fully new, and enthusiasm shall burn.
For, a man could live for eternity with a child's lust for life.
To experience all things new, and be wholly given to the moment
And not care about work, or the future, or the past.
Only the moment, with every moment fulfilling its full potential.