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Tag: Philosophy
Within the Sandglass; Poems Summer 2021
1. Providence O, Providence's mighty hand struck down The bricks of rebellious sons and 'twas found. God need no man to prove He exists. Shot Down were the bricks with lightning, of George Floyd. Let his name now be made to ever rot In hell, for the power of God, annoyed Broke to rubble the emblem of black hate. Another is to go up, God, please also, this, break. 2. Commitment Start a journey with one foot upon the soil Which is soft to tender soles, And walk a mile, or two. The road becomes like gravel, and then the sand Sears the feet with blazing heat. How one walks that road, and knows at the end of it Are riches and honor. A thousand times One throws themself down upon the road Crying, "Not another step!" Yet, a breeze blows past the cheek And again one stands, and walks. Thou walkest because thou ought to. Commit thyself to the path. To wander backward is foolish; Or to take another path would lose oneself upon the way. So, walk until thy heart beats like a drum And walk until every muscle aches. I walk, because I have chosen my path And know one day I shall find my oasis. 3. Bone Wars Penniless, penniless Two geniuses were made. What man, being wise Doth with perfect knowledge Guess first all presumptions true? For a mistake, friends were made enemies--- A moot mistake of pedantic dragons. The sky is like the fumes of a furnace's smoke The embers dashed upon the mountains. The lightning flashes, the thunder's war, The eerie Indian Rain casts ember's glow upon all things Enshrouded by smoke. Criticize me for a mistake I made, But know I am not a god. For the wickedness of the feud Was theft, bribery and violence For the sum of fortunes made by digging up bones. Flash twice, thou lightning, For two wicked foes The thunder rolls. I am imperfect, and should a man Pour over my work to find A detail wrong or a comma splice... A "then" spelled for "than" or vice versa--- Do not be like Marsh and steal from me. Do not pedantically search my words for a place to pounce. I am not like Cope. I shall weep bitterly For the fire in my heart would dim Like the sunset's furnace. The smoke of my cloudy sky would be snuffed out. I have tried with all my prowess to give the summation of my thoughts. For, I am a poet, not a historian. I am a poet, not a scientist. I only speak what is the science of the soul... What are the Forms lying beyond this world. And my science is accurate. It decries the hidden wisdoms of the world. 4. Cursed Islam What is religion, if not a purifier of the heart? If religion teaches you to curse Or if religion teaches you to hate Or if religion teaches you to deceive What use is it? If religion teaches you to subjugate If religion teaches you there are races greater And races lesser, if religion teaches you That anything beside the Heart IS what God looks upon for judgment What use is it? What religion must force converts And kill and threaten And tell its people to lay up hatred in their heart What use is it? It is a cursed religion. One which I hate. In the Bible, God, when He lives upon the Earth The God of the Jews and Christians, When He reigns for one thousand years He will permit all faiths to exist; Yet, the knowledge of His law will be preeminent For it is even above His name. God, for Him to be just, Must hold truth above even His own holiness. That is why Christians are taught never to lie While Muslims, their faith is a lie. 5. Megan Fox Mysticism, Christians trying to find an answer--- She did not go to hell. Nobody smirks after being there. When I went to hell I saw a satyr with a spear As the sinews in his thigh muscles Bowed under the weight of his muscular physique. He was red, the perfect color for hiding in the night, And his horns were like a greased hair cut. And his face. He had a face. This creature was ready to smash my skull in And place me in a prison Until I called out to God And He raised me out of that pit. I had hoped the story were true. Nothing would add to her beauty But chastity. Nothing would add to her beauty But wholesomeness. But, she is filthy as she ever was And no, Megan, you did not go to hell. 6. Fairyland A war between Christendom and Paganism Is that text Fairyland. Baal, Athena, Thor, They battle Brittos, Beowulf, Joash. Pagan myths circle the brow And heroes must defeat it Within that very thought. The lustful Greeks, the violent Nords, The inhumane Canaanites; The Manichean Zoroasters, The Materialism of Babylon; Paganism is found in many forms And my heroes must do aught battle with it. For, as Chesterton said, There is one rival to Christianity And that rival is Paganism. The age of the epic is not dead; For religions encompass philosophies And there is only one philosophy Which produces love. All else must be fought with mortal combat And Eternal Rewards dolled out to those Who cling to God like Jacob did the Christophany. For, there is only one God, and he is Jehovah-Jyra. 7. Where I Came From Robots were friendly. Chip, the local nurse bot At the General Hospital Meandered about and piqued my childish curiosity. It could think, move, it was as human As any man I'd met. There were no smart phones. Man was at peace; The stars shined bright. The grocery store Had a coffee grinder And about thirty varieties of beans. It wasn't racist to portray Indians; It wasn't racist to portray Black Folk; It wasn't racist to portray Quakers. They were iconic imagery. Stories were at their peak; The best ones were being made. I was taught a hundred tall tale and fairy tales Iconic of the American Mythology. That was my education; Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and The Three Bears,--- We sang patriotic hymns at the beginning of every class. We said the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America Which was a republic, under God. The Ten Commandments were written on the Statue of Liberty. They were on the pillars of courts. There was no internet. Bugs Bunny was on every day, For about two hours a day. Elvis was bigger than the Beetles. There were ten channels on cable. And most of all, there was love. 8. Abide the Snow How I love Thee, oh Stately King The worlds seen from Thy peak. Beneath Thee, Thy black Princes' tor Gather by the valleys for war. It, the breath of Heather Blossoms Stain the rocks with liquid crimson; The Princes reign above the lot Of men, who upon earth, the gods They have all stopped believing in. Thus, Mount where the Nard Flower's sin Had grown, and the harlot's love washed Thy foot, Thy fragrant soils soft,--- Thy Statehood beams upon the breadth Of all worlds and cloudy hex. Thy peak is worshiped for its height; Princes beneath Thee ready fight; And the steeples of thy Welkin Ring, for Thou art the very vault in View of those who see Thy splendor; And raiment of the Prisms wore Thou upon kneck and ivory knape--- The sash of Thy Kinghood---irate That the very dogs Thou wished good Sought to steal from we poor our food. 9. A Tale of Two Princes I heard a preacher once preach A sermon on two princes: The story goes as so: The crown prince had a list Which, for his joy, was promised to him. He had no expectation for the things on that list Prior to the King and Queen promising him the things On that list. The second prince, Being far more popular among the people For his sunny disposition, Had nothing promised to him. He, too, had no expectations; And the King loved him more than the crown prince. Thus, when Michaelmas came The two princes were bestowed with gifts. The crown prince, who was promised everything on his list Was given two things from the list. Looking for the others--- For they were semi-precious stones Which he liked--- He became sad that the thing he was promised Was not given to him. The second prince--- Whom the whole kingdom loved--- Was given coal. And the second prince said, "Ooo! I can make this into diamonds "If I press hard enough upon the coal." And the whole kingdom was stunned That the prince who received coal Was celebrating that he could make diamonds From his coal. Thus, they became wary of the crown prince. So, the King---having laid out his plan Very carefully, to defame the crown prince And bring honor to the second--- Took the coal from the second prince And gave him diamonds to replace the coal. Then, he distributed among the kingdom How honored the second prince was For receiving coal and doing a dance for joy. However, the semi-precious stones Asked for by the crown prince Were all he asked for--- There was no other request he had And the whole kingdom had promised him everything on his list Down to the last sum. And he had only received a twentieth of what he asked for. And he wept that the promise made to him was in vain. Thus, the crown prince absconded his crown And gave it to the second prince Whom, having the sunny disposition Was happy for getting coal for Michaelmas. Later on in life, The crown prince grew to be a wise man And the second prince to be a foolish man. For, the crown prince never received aught That he asked for. The second prince, he received everything. The crown prince grew strong, he grew wise He labored on his princely duties--- Knowing that the kingdom belonged to his cousin--- While the second prince spent the riches Obtained by the crown prince. For the crown prince had obtained many riches Yet the second prince ate all the riches up--- If there were even a gem able to be bought By the crown prince's labor, The second prince was the one who received it. The crown prince, having worked hard For his salary, was perplexed. "Why did all the riches go to my cousin?" And, lo, it was because he was the king? So, the crown prince was saddened by this That all of his labor was spent to feed the second prince On his worldly lusts. The crown prince, though, Had time to understand what he would do with the profits. He, happy his crown was stolen, Will be a benefactor for the people. This was what he set his heart to do. For though the crown prince asked, And did not receive aught he asked for from his kingdom;--- Rather, he was scorned when he asked And given only a partial sum--- He was thankful that his wretched cousin Had the crown and not him. For, remember, he only wanted semi-precious stones; And his cousin wanted diamonds. Thus, the crown prince worked upon his princely duties Peering over all wisdom, to divine a strategy To save his kingdom from the barbarian onslaught. The second prince, he was allied with the barbarians. It came to, that the kingdom fell But the crown prince escaped with his life. For, he had accrued wisdom in his poverty--- For he was now poor, for all the sustenance he gained Was given to his cousin--- And thus, through the roughness of his life He attained a true knowledge Which the second prince had not attained. And, had he received the semi-precious stones He may not have acceded the office he did obtain Which was as a counselor to kings With wisdom, honor and glory. Though, his kingdom still hated him He had attained to the truth which could have saved it. 10. My Science My instrument is mind; My measurement is meaning. I ponder upon the Words spoken by the prophets And come to accurate conclusions. Yet, the precision--- Words can be too precise. For, it is the accuracy of discovery Which finds true meaning. If the words were precise--- Not even the definitions Of these scientific terms are--- They would carry no meaning. For, some concepts are too dificult To write precisely. Yet, that doesn't mean we cannot be accurate In interpreting them. 11. The Lotus Tea Upon the frailty of the lotus petal He plucks it to make his herbal tea. He then causes those who drink to forget. It, a tea with herbal essence Rot-grey in color, sickly; It is color of all men's skin; Sometimes darker, sometimes lighter, Regardless of how long it is steeped. It is poisoned by forgetfulness. Wars, heroes, ancient causes Are all forgotten by those Who drink the lotus tea. Where are the prophets; Where are the peacemakers: Where are those who listen? 12. Cow Tools; by Gary Larson I hath never seen the cartoon--- Yet, I hath heard it described. The joke, thou reader, Is thy reaction to it. 13. My Sympathies with Shakespearean Sonnet My love, when I first met her, she had a Face like that of a man's; her hair was foul--- She and I had not a semblance of play; She was boring, and had no word to rouse A glimmering thought or interesting Conversation by which made me smile. Then, I met him whom friendship would soon bring The conversation my heart had, mild, Wished to make. Wisdom he would teach me, right Yet dark and mysterious. So, her face I left, though her womanhood I aroused--- I learned that friendship was far more innate Than breasts, womb, skin and amatory's cowl. Thus, for true love I will patiently wait. 14. My Wasted Breath What is my voice among a thousand amateurs? What is my voice to those whom I've offended? Among the amateurs and social justice wariors My voice is drowned out by the Siren's who rent The hearts of the seamen to lusty show of song's breath; To the coves they die, and are dashed to pieces Upon the reefs. Amateur and offended left No place for my songs to be harked or heeded. What is my voice among the Siren's? All for souls They sing, their asp like bodies and naked breasts Upon the serpent's slough, and they sing of nothing old But what is new and in their hearts, which sings of the West The vacuous Gnosis of Mnemosyne, to which truth Is found only in Cholesterol, isolated In singular mind and sympathies uncouth. What is my voice among the sirens? It is Wasted. 15. Vignette How many words do I see? Master poets lose themselves in the din. Fortune's wheel Turn to formulaes Of money, markets And robotic algorithms Of buzzing hashtags. It is not a fun game; I do not enjoy it. I do not enjoy trying to find out What the masses want to hear And telling it to them. Truth is my unicorn. And when none believe in it--- A thousand songs are sung But noone truly listens. The Skalds sing of the virtue of silence. Of wit, and those who have it; If you do not, to stay silent. For speaking out of turn is foolish. Yet, that silence--- It is all I can think about now. To listen--- But it's hard because so few have aught to say. There are a thousand poets in my eye--- I unravel the scroll. Is it beautiful? Or is it the song of the modern age? All wishing to have their say--- Yet none saying. 16. Illusions A charming conversation tattles about The quiet book store---of bass and alto. It's deep, sincere. Nothing they say interests me. But, it is wholly interesting to them. And that interests me, because it is good. It is something I wish people had often. Finding their class, their clique, through buzz words Which aligns them to each other's world. It is not gossip. It is not crass, nor base. It is not about money or sex but Common interests. And the boredom sets in. Not mine, but theirs---the chinwag disrupted By their better angels, to enable work. "This is the only good Fleetwood Mac song." Now they are speaking about common interests; Common enemies. Common hatred. Kyle comes in, and they are bored. I am not. I listen, I interpolate, I hear... Illusions. Now they speak of stories... Are they visions? Are they real? Illusions? Like when the tv seems to know my thoughts? Illusions interrupt my meditation Which are equally interesting to me. 17. Logos Those of the Beautiful Race--- The Ethiopian with thy beauty--- Aristotle tried to relegate you To a slave for lack of Logos. There is nothing inherent in you That can steal this gift from you. However, if the Cracker steals it--- And they do---then men of all races Will be subject back under a yoke and bondage. For understanding is the foundation of our freedom And without it, there is only force. Without it, there is only war. And powerful men and women--- Black, white or brown--- Will steal from us, who are less fortunate--- Our voice. Understanding, wisdom It is anyone's gift who seeks it. Do not revive the sins of the past By burning with fire the very Word Which will set you free. 18. Aristotle's Slave I am free Because I understand. ❦ All are slaves Because they refuse to listen. 19. Good Art Art which skill had wrought, Whether natural; romantic: Affirming volition or fatalism: Whether Ugly or Beautiful: So long as it captures the truth And is wrought with skill, I call thee art. Truth is antinomy. It mends contradictions; It plays with the war between light and shadow. 20. Imagine I can... And it's one of my worst nightmares. I've imagined there's no heaven I've imagined there's no hell. I've imagined there's no possessions It's far worse than you can tell. I've imagined there's no countries And all were under the brotherhood of man. There'd be no freedom to die for There'd be nothing but the Brotherhood's hand. I Imagine all would be silent And imagine his song enforced. I Imagine all things were given By the Brotherhood of Man's gun's force. I have imagined the lyrics I have thought about his song. To me it's an anthem of despair And it can only go so very wrong. Men are all so different. Men are not all wise. To force all men to conform And never share their lives It would be the most boring world One with only peace: For men would live in silence And there'd be no children playing in the streets. Sometimes what divides us Is the very best of this world. What men fight and die for Is the greatest, valued pearl. If men were wholly thoughtless If men were wholly slaves Then John Lennon's world Would be there to all men save. His world cannot contain us For men are so very diverse... To force all men as converts To a world which censored verse... It wuld be the hell I fear most It would be a world untrue. It would be a world of peaces All held together by tyranny's glue. I say it couldn't work out... It is only a dream... For blood would be the War Shout With "Peace" fought for in the streets, He was only a dreamer... Not a wise man you see. For I can imagine a world of peace With religion and countries... It would be ruled by our Father And His glorious Son. He would not be a Tyrant And we'd all have our blessed freedoms. A field to pasture; A few friends to love. Food in our stomachs And men would live by good. For verse is my most cherished right To write and to read the words Which men have fought and died for And without them, it couldn't be much worse. I believe in poetry. I believe in good. I believe in freedom. And on that hill I stood. John Lenon's world's a pipedream One which knows not how things work. And I know if you really imagined it It wouldn't be as good as it once looked. 21. Gifts A gift given, is often ill received By those who are pugnacious and rude; Only if the gift were exchanged for another gift. If a gift were given with no thing in return Suspect the gift, for men are generous But will not often give a gift without expectation. Yet, if you give gifts without expectation, Do not hesitate to receive a gift on return. It is more rude to refuse the gift Than to give one without expectation. 22. Yin and Yang Yin; Yang, Both possess half of truth. Both are Atheists. Yin possesses knowledge of dark substances Of man and mankind's inner clockwork; The higher and lower organizations of patterns in existence; The nihilism of men who've abandoned truth. Yang possesses knowledge of the higher principles Of choice, compassion and universal love. He knows it is a fact that nihilism is illogical; that morals are certain; A fact of life,---that more joy is attained through law. Solomon knew both of these Were the ways of finding God. Yet Yin walked circumspect upon the earth And was kindhearted to all she met; Knowing great darkness abounded. Yang walked foolishly upon the earth And was vengeful toward all who had stumbled; Knowing good, he could not see the evil in himself. 23. Warfare A wight may be a righteous man, And a beast a fortunate son. Wicked beings may torment a soul Of whom true righteousness had won. For fortune's not the hallmark's brand Upon the heart's red, burning coal, Which marks a man for Godly things Or raises him above the fold. A righteous man had demon's sting Which raised him above his soft bed. The pangs of ill-wrought anguish rose Him midair, anguished and in dread. Yet this man is a righteous son He had done no wrong thing untrue. For demonic oppression, wot I, its source’s not always you. 24. Why From my dad I learned the language of Freud; Learned the stock markets would one day fall; That the housing market was like a steroid; I learned how to predict the future’s laws. From my mom I learned the facts of life; I learned that man was man, and a woman woman. I learned love conquers all of life’s strife. She called me a philosopher, and that would stand. My mind was a garden of wars and dialogues; It was filled with lusts for adventure’s safe In my child’s play. Never had I heard demagogue’s Tongue, never had my mind been influenced by hate. My best friends taught me play, structure and wisdom. My apparition of love taught me the purpose of life. My country taught me the value of freedom. My apparition of love taught me to seek a wife. Like Chateaubriand or Milton I fell in love with her, The idea, the perfect form of woman played her part: Her ideal was there to ever in my imagination ensure That my purpose would serve to chasten the heart. I read over fifty of the timeless classics, I pursue the secret certainty in geometry. I have seen highest goodness in love’s charming hex; I have tasted the lowest evils by hatred’s calumny. I have seen both the highest goods and lowest ills; I have studied the art of Word for fifteen years. I have known what it is like to kill And to wake up from that nightmare’s fear. I have a science of the soul exact and true. I understand men both good and bad. I understand what drives me and you I only wish not to be a passing fad. 25. Uzziah Stately Priest, of the order of Melchizedek; King, and Priest, honored champion of the meek: Uzziah, remind me of gluttony, of wealth, of honor How it is unbefitting for man to take the role of Christ. Christ, Healer, is not his Surname, but his office Who could heal thee from thy leprosy. Yet, you, taking the office to perform the priestly duties As King, the offices were separated for a reason. Only the Lion of Judah, the Messiah, the Son of David Has the right to perform both the rituals of sacrifice And the rituals of cleansing, and the rituals of divine statehood. No other may possess this spiritual role of Priest and King. That is why, Uzziah, when you went to burn incense upon the alter You were stricken with your disease. For a feeling overcame you---one which is not yours--- To cleanse thyself from thy wicked deeds. When this ritual is to be performed by the priest And thy ritual is to be performed of the King’s. Even a king’s office is under the smiting hand of the LORD That there are holy sacraments given to both kings and priests And their offices, of man, ought never be mixed. 26. Proof Christ is He Had I a talent, And I a skeptic, I would bet Christ an Eastern Mystic. Had the Western Philosopher a talent, And surely he is a skeptic, He would bet Christ a manifestation of Greek Philosophy. I have a talent, And I am no skeptic, I will bet my soul that this conundrum proves the universality of Christ's teaching; How a homeless, carpenter's Son could find all truths on his own Without an education. West and East corroborate His claims And prove He is God manifested in the Flesh. 27. The New Covenant Eternal is the LORD's love for Israel. It is deeper than the Planc Length. It is wider than the Twelve Universes; Aye wider than all Universes man can discover. We possess the LORD’s Word upon our heart The knowledge of good and evil. As sure as the stars and sun ordain the Seasons As sure as the Earth’s foundations never can be reached So is the LORD’s love for His people Eternal. 28. There Were Beasts There were beasts, Who cautiously arrived At a delicatessen of human food Which lay upon the forest floor. The animals would take bites; Never did they eat the whole portion. There’s wisdom in this. Both that the wild beasts Were cautious to give up their freedom For easily trifled upon meat; But also, that they ate To what filled them, and no more; Also, that they left the morsels, Perhaps for fear of predators, Or perhaps by Godly design Which they understood Was right, and honorable, To eat the portion enough for oneself And leave the portion enough for others. 29. Western Civilization's End Seven men piously sit, Arranged in a circle Discussing the matter of truth. Each gives their discourse, And each discourse arrives closer and closer to the truth. Finally, the last man speaks, And He finds the very face of God. Then, a degenerate man enters into the party Has that last man abused, And with the last man's absence, initiates an orgy. Several months later, A new civilization arises from the ashes of the last. 30. The Best Cover Letter Ever Writen? Benedict Cumberbatch reads "The Best Cover Letter Ever Written." I like words, too. But only if they mean something. Austere words, which communicate man's inner demons. Blistering words, which scathe human iniquity. Righteous words, which are pious and just. To me, casuistry is verbiage which “Crackles, Sparks, Pops,” Is “Gluttonous, Voluptuous, Gelatinous and Toady.” Finding “Demimondes” when you could simply say, “Flapper”. Sexy is a good word, because everyone knows it. But describing the woman’s sumptuous lips; Why not just call them kissable? Oh, I love words, when they speak the truth. When they vacuously “Tinkle and Tick and Creek and Crank” It sends chills up my spine, and I want to vomit. I hate those words; they are gaudy excesses. Give me an excursus describing Stirling Engines And build a society to the stars; colonize Andromeda’s Galaxy, Speculate on the Quasars; theorize about gravity and the grave. Words are my Aegis, and my mien is sullen when “Salacious, scandalous, and suave” Words are guarded at the gates of the Orthodoxy of Svengalis who deem Grammatical Sentences as obsolete. Man is man. Woman is woman. Casuistry, Sophistry, Postmodern messes Trick the existentialist generation Who find meaning from nowhere… And they like the thrill of “Suck, tongue, lick, lavish”. I have nothing base to say. I deal in the realms of Philosophy; The higher forms The archetypes of civilization; The meanings and nuances of all life And the Sphere we live upon called the Earth. Am I a better writer? If that is good writing, I am the worst. Yet, my writing means something And that is all I ever intended it to be. 31. TEd-Talks Justifying its abuses. Almost like the millions slaughtered Were necessary. Remember this about communism. It says, “Everyone has food.” No. Everyone does not have food. Troops come into your silos, steal your grain, And then give you a little cake of cornmeal. For that cornbread, you lose your voice. For that cornbread, you lose your work. For that cornbread, you lose your property. And still, yet, you are hungry. 32. A Critique of Communism Your work is stolen. Your voice is stolen. Your freedom is stolen. All so you can eat a piddle of bread And drink some filthy water. The government shingles your roof So after three years of its leaking Someone comes, and tacks a nail with hammer. Or, you do it yourself. But, hide it! Hide your self-reliance! Burn communism to the ground Peoples of communist nations. Take up your guns, And kill them. Spill their acrid blood into the sand. Kill their children. Kill their elderly. Do to them what they did to you. 33. I Envision Two Paths I envision two paths. The first is slavery. The second is poverty. Either the state takes care of you. Or you cannot take care of yourself. The shining example that was capitalism Was a man had the recourse to take care of himself. However, when the machine takes away the man's means Of taking care of himself, he ends up needing the help of the state. And when the man ends up being helped by the state He is imprisoned by the State's stipend And he can never make himself free. The solution is a field to till, A garden to tend to; A horse for a blacksmith to shoe. Yet, that would require work which far too many are incapable of. So, God I hope you come soon. 34. The Preacher's Magic Oh, tongue, thou art mistaken. The preachers preach on the magic Word, which brings fortune or despair. Yet, I know what thou mean, my LORD. The tongue can bless---how how it can bless. It can bring happiness, joy, peace, comfort. Or, the tongue can curse. It can shake a man’s faith In himself, and his own paths. And given this, the curse sets one on a path To hardship and despair. And the tongue sets one on a path To prosperity the more it blesses. For, encouragement lightens the heart And discouragement makes it weighty. Yet, the tongue which speaks truth It is the tongue which will be rewarded. For, sometimes curses are spoken To bring a soul to repentance. And sometimes blessings are spoken To bring a soul to despair. Sometimes, a hearty rebuke---a curse even--- Is far more just than a blessing spoken In flattery. 35. The Nordic Magic No, their spells do not interest me. Speaking softly to a leech will Not make them less likely to bite. But, to know their minds, what concepts They felt important... Love, boating, Sharpened swords and spells to ward off Etins, Alfs and Dwarves; to control The misfortunes of burning homes; To have will over turbulent Waves, winds, swirling grey clouds and rain; It speaks lots to what the culture Thought of on a daily basis. Yet, it is equally true that Christianity made them more Prosperous by settling them; For the strong Jewish customs of Shepherding and Farming replaced The material lack they stole. 36. The Wisdom of Jordan Peterson There is no more room for creative people. We are a pain. No more room for the bard. No more room for the carpenter. No more room for the baker. No more room for the whistler, The musician, The painter, The toy manufacturer. The writer, The poet; The novelist--- No, novels must be written By a collaborative on market trends--- No more drummers No more stringed instruments, No more worship, No more books, No more readers, No more architects, No more gardeners. No more folk art, No more playgrounds. No more toy guns or hula-hoops. No more army men or matchbox cars, Only aphantasia. No, the only work that is left Is the manager. And the laborer. And that is because the majority of people are so. No more gingerbread houses, No more vellum, No more calligraphy, No more ballads, hiakus or odes, No more surrealism, No more cubism, No more realism, No more philosophy, No more, unless its figuring out The next way to make money. Jordan, reevaluate yourself. This is what you believe in right now. You’re a patron of the arts? Yet, you can’t support this modern capitalism if you are. No more quilters, No more afghans, No more photography, No more card tables with the hinge And patterned like a Chess Board. No more nursery Rhymes, No more fairy tales, No more cookery, No more paintings held in high esteem. No more black or Indian faces on the cardboard design--- No, everything is mapped out. Scientifically designed for the most use. Created specifically for your viwwing pleasure. Best meant not to offend, best created to make the most amount of money. And creative you are, it is only so far as It can make money. Everything scientifically designed to produce the most--- The pink chosen because it calms, yet later it excites and annoys. The Blue abandoned because it looks cheap. The green used in abundance because people think they’re intelligent If they prefer that color. Chosen for their own vanity. I like blue. And yellow. And Purple. Chess hacked from computer engines. I’m done. 37. Through His Eyes I Saw Through his eyes I saw Myself; Oh one who destroys, My eyes were like thine. I saw my very worst night. And my greatest victory. His lips and my foul Fingers called me Antichrist. Yet I shall soon win! 38. The Bluebird We artists are the Blue Bird; Red chest; we wear the sky as a raiment. Sell Outs, Marketers, Editors... They are the Blue Jay Which dig in their beaks Wetting our feathers with blood. They come, knowing only how to consume. We Blue Birds come, only knowing how To sing and be beautiful. Unfettered nature favors the Blue Jay; Yet from where I come from The Blue Jay is a pest While the Blue Bird is a lovely gift of God's creation. Build us our little homes Which the Jays and Crows cannot fit. For, soon enough we will no longer Be an endangered species. 39. The Queen of Poets O' the Queen of Poets The wretched Kings decry... Sword of Damocles unsheathe; The Queen of poets sings her Coda While she is yet a nursing babe. Her speech has yet to form… Yet, truth was on the lips of babes Like none ever seen so far. Kings, fear thou this, The poet’s heart who fears thee. For if the Queen of Hearts cannot sing her odes Then freedom dies. Sing. Sing Queen of Poets, And like the Blackbirds of Ireland Have your songs be heard! 40. Is Faith an Illusion? A wise man once said Faith was like smoking a cigar Faith was like listening to a symphony Faith was like butter. That unbelief were like cigarettes That unbelief were like a gramophone That unbelief were like margarine. Yet, I still perceived doubt. T. S. Eliot wrote Ash Wednesday. The greatest confession of faith in history. There were no apologetics. It was simply put, that God was known to Eliot In the moment he wrote it, And Eliot cried out to our God Saying for him never to forget. That is faith. We are at one point wretched, worthless sinners. And afterward we are cleansed. We may cuss, smoke an occasional cigarette Or write a blasphemy in our books. But, we know God Because God is in our lives. We know ourselves before God And we know ourselves after God. And we say, “Because I do not hope to turn again.” For in that is the emotionally weighted truth That before we were exiles, Hopeless, and suddenly we find life. And through our lives we increasingly And bitterly And sweating and crying and hoping against all hope;--- Our prayer intensifies, To where it was first a whimper And then it transforms into a heartfelt cry of belief. That is what faith is. 41. Spies Spies, spies They are everywhere. Have an idea They make you despair. Do not believe it? Just ask the police. What we know Is the least. They stop my books They stop your crafts; Have an idea And they'll watch your back. I knew it was true But today it was confirmed. Spies rule our lives And it makes my stomach churn. The walls are not the LORD's. 42. On Yin I watch thou speak... Always on destiny Always on causation. Turning wheels are man’s mind; Gears, leavers. What is bad is bad. What is good is good. Bad men are bad men. Good men are good men. There is no choosing for either. The lesser things go to war; The religious things are merely a product Of things upon things upon things upon things. Years, upon years, upon years, upon years. Line upon line upon line upon line. Here a little, there a little. I listen to you speak Relegating man, analyzing him as if man were a beast. Yet, your brother Yang Sees the soul within a man And attributes it to science. It is a soul nonetheless that he sees--- He sees the good, the volition, the capability for order. The rational mind. He plainly sees what is good in man. You see it, and say it is religion’s job to order it. He sees it, and says religion hinders it. I see it, and say it is a little of both. Yet, Yang is wiser then thou for seeing it. Thou seest it, and claim it is irrational. It is not. It is wholly rational. More pleasure comes from it than not. I silently look at both things And say, “God created it.” Neither can prove, nor disprove, God. Neither rational morality Nor irrational morality. For morals are rational--- It is just also true that most men cannot understand why. Sages spend lifetimes striving for one solitary truth. And when two sages find it, Then they war among one another. It is not that either’s truth is any less true; Only that both men cannot conceive of the other man’s truth. Both truths are true. And both men, knowing their truth, War with the other. I, I look to Christ. He was a genius superb above all other men. Godly intelligence; I read Moses, seeing the most controversial laws Are a wellspring of life. I do not conform my thoughts my own mind's redundancies But rather base my truth on what proven systems there were. And I say, “How is this?” And they surely come to reasons which I could never find on my own. Even the darker subject of war. Hammurabi was only a genius because God provided for him law; Yet, not all laws were found. Moses was a genius because God provided for him law; Yet, grace was not found. Christ was a genius, never having studied, He was God, He found all which man could under the sun And spoke it in parables. Even eternity is wisdom;--- For without it, what cautions a man to gain everything And to do great harm? What man, without the capacity for forgiveness Has reason to do what is good? None rational. That man must die. And if he does not die He can only build an empire of blood. I look to your speech, Yin, And I say, “There is half of wisdom, “Yet your brother has a half, “And I have the whole. “Yet, I only have the whole “Because I have a teacher. “You two do not; “You see half of all wisdom “And forget the other’s half; “Thus, you eternally strive with one another “And do not see the truth.” 43. Two Rocket Ships It was said If men sent two rockets To outer space; one were Atheists with Modern Science And the other Christians. They both would colonize their planets. The first would cease to be men at all within a generation. While the second would find pasture and retain what made humans noble. 44. Sleep Paralysis His bed quakes; He awakens To the sight of The Nephilim. The Giant is muscular, His eyes are black; He wears leotards; He looks like a Mohawkan. I believe it. Sleep Paralysis opens The eyes to the demonic world. Yet, the apparition Is called “Michael.” It is not Michael. It is a Giant. The Giant vaporizes; The shade disappears. Then a diviner is called. The diviner speaks Of the familiar spirit. It was his familiar spirit. Now it is another’s. 45. Swear A famous evangelist In World War I Kills men--- Thou Shalt Not Kill. I say the occasional Naughty Word Which offends--- Thou Shalt Not Have Any Filthy Conversation. In the first case, They were fighting Raping Huns. In the second case I’m fighting Postmodern lies. Some men need to be killed And thereby break the commandment. Some men need to be offended And thereby break the commandment. I see in both situations it is necessary To suspend the rules, for the greater purpose Of winning a war. 46. Thomas Kinkade I understand everything I need to know about the art world By its disdain for artists like Thomas Kinkade. Pretentious--- Art belongs to everyone, Yet they want it to be exclusive. Art feeds the artist But they want them to starve. The fact is his works are beautiful. The man was no saint. This is for certain. However, it takes superb intellect To understand the imagination. The works are beautiful--- He truly is a master of light. God truly did bless him. Though, a lesson is found in his life; To walk humbly upon the earth And not to be vain nor deceitful. To not exploit others. His paintings were brilliant. They were not kitsch. Modern art is actually kitsch Appealing to the Bathos and guttural Churning of the four biles; It is false medicine; It, rather, mistakes a leech for sutures. 47. Am I a Peg Shebna, Ozymandias--- Is my writing a tomb? Do I stand with my city of poetry To watch it crumble? Are the Bishop’s words Spoken of me: I act, “I Am”? Is my wasted breath for my own glory? Or, am I a peg, Which when the weight bears down upon it I one day break? 48. The Steel Man If I didn’t believe in God Then I might believe It's morally objectionable to Abstain from sex with a woman on her period. Smoking Marijuana is morally superior to smoking tobacco. Abortion is perfectly fine. So is homosexuality. So is forcing your child to have gender reassignment surgery. That women are superior to men in virtue and judgment in every way possible. That speech ought to be controlled, so as not to offend anyone. That there is no such thing as objective right or wrong. That there is no such thing as good, nor evil. That competition is ethical, and the only way to progress the human race is to transcend it, and therefore make man into a machine. That people are born either good or bad, and nothing can change them; they’re inherently what they are as their DNA makes them. That it’s okay to divorce if you’re unhappy in the relationship, and the people you hurt in the process ought to get over it. That monogamy is an illusion. I would believe Self Love is more noble than Selfless Love. I might believe that there’s no way to interpret a difficult passage. I might believe that sex before marriage is morally obligated. I would think life is about fun, and getting the most out of it, even at others’ expense; for, it’d be ignoble to do things that I don’t want to do. I might believe that people who can’t work ought to be sterilized or killed. I might believe that people ought to receive stipends, rather than work. There are many other things that I would believe if I didn’t believe in God. And remember these are all common beliefs of atheists. 49. Oh, thou violinist, my easterntwin “Oh, thou violinist, my easterntwin “I wish to kill you, for you are conjoined “To me without my consent. “How you play there, Bach, Beethoven, Paganini “Mozart, Williams;--- “Oh, I loved your music. “How I loved the songs, which in rapturous throws “Did I listen to you fiddle. “Yet, now that you are with me for nine months “I wish only to sever you. “I wish only to sever you from my body “And thereby crush your skull “And sell your organs. “I hate you, oh violinist “Chapped to my body; I who sustains you “Wishes only to cast you into your grave.” 50. She Weighed Fifteen Stone The contraption sat, A mechanical Machine, which told truth. The very fact truth Could be told by it Proved God does exist. For truth is true, she Weighed at fifteen stone. Numbers of matter, Two hundred and ten Pounds are fifteen stone. Yet, there is that which Is weighed; Atheists Get caught up in the Number theory. So, It is,---Humanist Philosophers find Moral principles Are measurable, Yet they fail to find The complete picture. That, Jack, is why we Need Christ. To sort it Out, and show us how to live. God, being good, set An example, taught Lived and died for us. The reason we know He is God, is truth Was found by Him. Which, Men, the great sages, Had found radical Bits of, but Christ found Them all. That is why We call Him Teacher. What is measured of Faith, was completely Found by His allwise Flourishing brow. 51. The Interpretation of Desolation Row The first stanza is Bob Dylan witnessing the race riots and is reflecting on American Racism. The second stanza is a man being rejected by an easy woman. The third stanza is about the end of the world, when the stars and moon are darkened, what people will be doing. The fourth is about a woman deciding to join the clergy, and thereby never experience life. The fifth is about a man with a false sense of intelligence and a robin hood complex, who was famous long ago for an obscure talent, but lost it due to drug addiction. The sixth is about a psychologist with patients who are involuntarily celebate, and that's the problem with them. The seventh is about a priest encouraging a man for courtship, but ultimately he will fail because of the preacher's bad advice. The eighth is about the military industrial complex, how spy networks and insurance agents work in tandem, and oppress those who "Know Too Much.” The ninth is about intellectuals who argue among one another, and the pop ideologies which divide them. The tenth is Bob Dylan receiving a letter from an old acquaintance who mentioned the people he sung about in this poem. The Desolation Row is the depression caused by these situations. 52. The Road Taken Two roads diverged in a verdant wood And I being one traveler took the level one. Yet, upon the willow’s grove, where the oak and elm Had stood, I turned my way back And took the path with the sharp hill. Before the open girth of the path, A yellow caution sign had been placed. And I, knowing the easier path would lead to bad health Took the more difficult path. I sturdily marched up the grade And felt my body strengthening. And then it dawned on me when I crested that glorious hill That sometimes it is safer to take the more difficult path. 53. Universe 25 Sodom and Gomorrah. Canaan. Israel. Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome. Sodom and Gomorrah. Canaan. Israel. Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome. Overpopulation? No. Idleness. Yes. Sin. Yes. The solution is work, Creativity, Self reliance. Law. 54. My Near Death Experience I was in the waves of the ocean Body surfing. One wave came, And overwhelmed me. My back had been taken to my head And I snapped. A green aura Surrounded me, and the feeling of peace. A voice spoke to me. "This is the feeling you like." What's next is unutterable. I asked Him, “Are there any other religions.” He said, “Not for you, no.” I said, “What about for anyone else?” God said, “No. Only Jesus Saves.” I then remembered my life, And He told me, “That was the past.” I said, “I want to have a wife.” God said to me, “I am your Husband.” I then asked Him, “Can I go to the Kingdom?” The LORD said, “No, you haven’t received treasure.” Then I said, “I wish to receive treasure, “More treasure than anyone else.” And the LORD said to me, “I will allow it,” and I was taken up out of the waves And my split back was set back into place And I could feel my body rearranging into its normal fixture. In the background I could see a hooded figure Who saw me, and then flashed away. The hooded figure was my mortal enemy. I asked, “Who is that?” To my girlfriend. She said, “That’s nobody.” And I was back. 55. White Guilt Never was the happy so divided Than the day they sat upon their bench; The Giant spoke to them, towering--- Look upon thy children, are they not different? Indoctrinate them in savagery, like my heritage. The little one cries over the violence of thy race Upon my own. Why dost thou dare to give them home When they are so different from thee? These children ought to have starved to death Or be given to those of like skin. Was it thy guilt that caused thee to love thine own children? 56. Cross Examined Upon my search, I have seen men striving to do good. And I found that strife has created great harm. Men would rather look inside themselves Where they find the utmost assurance that they are good. Then they destroy trying to conform mankind to the model of goodness In themselves. It is simple. Mozi proved the Golden Rule was logical. Yet even he had gotten things wrong. Jesus--- His moral teachings were perfect. No other genius in history can say the same. He told men to call Him teacher, and nobody else. I saw an evangelist struggle to understand An Atheist’s remarks that good and truth are self evident. These same individuals want to prove the Earth is young And that we had not evolved from apes. My doctrine is that we are only apes--- Yet too many have been into the void and seen what I have seen. The women who found the idol of Shiva was thrown back into this world Cruelly. Christians simply do not get it. So many of us have been indoctrinated in the existentialist claim Of their being no objective value. I speak as an atheist today, when I was an atheist, That I could see there was objective truth. I could see there was good and evil. I ought not concern Christians to disenfranchise faith in it As the result of this ministry of nihilism has spun the world Into chaos. We preach the Gospel. The Law must be self evident Or else there can be no God. And the law is simple: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Love others, as you love yourself.” The first commandment is fulfilled in the second. The bitterness---as I read my atheist character--- Of this nihilism is that it's taught as an alternative to Christ. When, Christ can only be God if His law is self evident And the words He spoke independent of Him. That even if He did not exist, these laws were still true. And when we see the laws He preached were true We find ourselves approached by the solitary wisdom That an abjectly poor Carpenter’s bastard had found truth; And not only found it, but all of it. That this man, who couldn’t possibly have been educated, Discovered something that many of the great sages had only come by Through much learning. And when you find this, The case begins to be ever more strong that Jesus is the Christ. Men are not capable of finding truths so potent on their own; Without help from others. Men are not creative enough. Not even I. And I find myself at the first piece of wisdom I’d ever found. Truth is self evident. Good is self evident. Nietzsche and the Existentialists were wrong. It takes a fool hardened by philosophy to not see it That there is meaning to life; And that meaning is to love others in the way we ourselves want to be loved. And that solitary truth is why Christ became our teacher. And how we know He is God Come in the Flesh Is that He taught truths which were self evident And persuasive enough to convince any rational mind. And if we’re honest, The preacher talked about this dirty old rapist--- The boogie man of the modern age, Is the Hitleresque rapist which all know is wrong. For the only two morals today are do not kill and do not rape. Yet, the greater morals are found inherently true By the discord we experience today--- And knowing that we are imperfect It becomes clear that we need a savior. Not because meaning must be found in the Bible But because the Bible described self evident meaning Which can be found independent of it or God. 57. Pop Music I am haunted by a vision. There is ample land. There is ample seed. There are ample waters. Yet, because of wars, All of this has disappeared. Men live in domes Where the sky is iron And the ground is bronze. Israel is protected by Iron Dome Which is a dome And not a missile system. Outside of the domes Are dirt, bare, deserted wastelands. Trillions of men live in termite clustered houses; And they ready to fight the domes. To bring down the domes’ wall. Outside, there is communism. Inside there is Utopian capitalism. Outside, the men are sticks; They are tiny men, feral, With breast implants and orifices; Genderless, sexless, raceless… Techno Cyber Punks--- A homogeneous blob Fed by injections. They swarm the pleasure domes Getting destroyed by nuclear weapons And their blood becomes rain. 58. A Sorry State He pointed at the plate And said, "That's your freedom." 59. A Conversation with India I look at those starving in your country And I look at the food in mine. I see you want the freedom---so they say--- To earn a living and eat. What you fail to understand Is that America was once much more Than a place where your freedom was to be fat And drive a car. Freedom meant saying what was really on your mind And speaking against the government. Freedom was knowing that your stuff wouldn’t be rifled through By government agents, or that you wouldn’t be spied on. Freedom was the right to fight against the government if it ever crossed those boundaries. You should read Roseau. The freedom of this country was that censorship was against the rules. Monopolies were against the rules, also. The Sherman Act made sure of that. Kids, in the 1980s would smoke cigarettes in the school hallways. It was common for companies to hold picnics. You could swim in the river or lake--- There wasn’t safety equipment everywhere Stifling you, or treating you like you were some kind of fool. Lawsuits were uncommon. I could say “Retard” I could say, “Faggot” I could say an offensive joke. If it truly crossed the line, people would reprimand it. They wouldn’t cancel it. YouTube, as you know, had anything a man could imagine on it. It was the golden age of information. I could publish anything---hypothetically, though this was never proven--- And I could make a living off of it. I could challenge the government. I could speak words of insurrection and not be investigated. And nobody would bother me. I don’t feel I have that freedom anymore. My only freedom, so said my brother one day, Is to eat. That was my freedom. And how slowly that freedom is being taken from us As prices for everything go up--- What was once a forty cent candy bar Is now two dollars. What was once a dollar soda bottle Is now two dollars and fifty cents. What was once a dollar a pound meat Is a four dollar a pound meat. What was once fourteen bags of groceries Is seven. I want you to have the freedom I experienced. I want that for you more than anything. I know, watching me---it’s my delusion--- You saw an entitled snob who chased Veplow all around the playground. I don’t want you to starve; I want you to have work. If it’s creative, artistic, manual labor, data entry, healthcare, craftsmanship, cookery, Whatever the job is you have, I want you to enjoy it, And be satisfied by the blessings of good government. I invite you to read Roseau. You had a Communist Revolution. It left you desolate. You had a Capitalist Revolution And your freedoms were taken away. Work is paramount; So is entertainment; So is ample food and clean water, Sewage systems, electricity… I wish you had what I had. It’s my greatest wish that the whole Earth was satisfied by the blessings I’ve had. Unfortunately, my country is not the ideal nation anymore. Does one exist? Perhaps it ought to; Words cannot hurt someone. Yes, people made fun of me But it was a common thought that I despised Dodge Ball from my friends. I did not. I loved Dodge Ball. The thing I despised was the selfishness, bitterness, arrogance and unkind nature Of all my peers. Which I took on their bad qualities. I suppose America is falling for that reason. But, I invite the whole world to take what we had, And build for themselves the kind of society I enjoyed. Ideas ought never be censored;--- Pornography; Violence; That might be best censored. But, then again, what is real is something immoral If it’s being sold as entertainment. Real sex, real violence, real life. Stories are meant to supplement reality, not be reality. 60. Pro Choice "Come, let us reason together. "The poor are scum upon the Earth; "And suffering---there is no way "To lift oneself out of suffering. "Poor should be thrown into chambers "And gassed; their bodies burned. "For, they are victims of this oppressive culture. "We ought to harvest their organs "And use them in our cosmetic products. "If a child or man is unloved--- "Rather than show them love--- "We ought to carefully weigh their "Benefit to society--- '"Their mourning, it brings down others, "And my soul is hurt by their mourning--- "And we ought to destroy them. "Rip open their cranium, and harvest their brains. "For, if one is a victim, "We ought to kill them. "For, that is the ethical, "And merciful thing to do." 61. History I read the Bible for what it had said And I found all we know of history Is scribed in those pages’ plain English ink. Yet, when I confront a skeptic, she points To the same evidence I had found. She Says, “Look, this proves the Bible is errant.” It’s simply a shift of nouns, a pagan Mythos, a long line of strong Satanic Divinations, maddened by poetic Intrigue just like my own mythologies. And I find the simplest truth is, they wish The Jews, who worshiped Baal, to have only Worshiped Baal, yet what they claim already Was said in the Bible. Yet, postmodern Analyses, and a defiance of Plain English supplants Baal for Jehovah. But it begins to appear that Hubaal Is a lie, yet the maddened scholars think He is more ancient than the Laws of God. Which, one need only look at Christ’s pure Word To know that what He spoke was self evident And therefore, making it more ancient still. 62. Phillies I, a Fourth Generation Phillies Fan Sit in the darkness of my room; listen To the sounds of the TV. My friend hates Me in that moment; I am bitter. Sleep Doesn't come easy. For my friend hates me. I hear it in his voice; I see it. Stained Is my voice to his ears, and he and my Family watch the Phillies. Bryce Harper hits A walk off home run. I feel no joy. For I offended him, just like my mother Was offended by the truths I uttered. I cannot but speak the truth, and now I, Seeing my team have the year I prayed for, Cannot enjoy it; my heart's bitterness For those I love and their hatred at my Words---where does it come from? I do not know. My life is like this season of Baseball; Triumphant Highs, Magnificent lows. All Is torn assunder in my wretched Heart. Bryce is worth thirty million dollars. Yet, am I? I do not know, for what I Love is my family and friends, and country; So I sit in darkness, solitude; Wait Yet the age's wisdom is the trophy Goes to thieves, the robbers, the murderers. Maybe a thief had joy in the ballgame But even if there were joy in it, I Sit nearly in tears---I wonder about My vision, my righteousness; I sometimes Wonder if the Earth were flat; I don’t know. All I know is this, that I listen to The sage today, after emailing Him, and I find my prophecies foolish. Yet, there is a peace. Though I am scolded For having the prescience to see futures And to know the dark course society Goes, I know this is what the Gospel preached. 63. The Four Noble Truths Sometimes the path to suffering Is the path to greater joy. Sometimes, striving against Evil--- Which causes temporary pain--- Is better than meditation. Sometimes, feeling self love And its endorphins aroused by Blank minds Is not the noble path. Sometimes war is necessary. 64. The Ferry To Hel The young King stood upon the shade-filled river Styx And argued with the Ferryman about crossing. The Ferryman, secretly, the young King’s sire, Had a wicked grin creak across his wrinkled, gray face. “I have slept with many men’s wives, o thou proud king.” The king, with wrath, opened up his mouth in judgment; “Let me cross the river Styx, into hel, the land “Of Giants.” But the ferryman would not. He cried, “O, you’ll travel far from thy wife, so unfaithful!” The King spoke, “I have slaughtered many Nephilim!” The Ferryman creaked a smile most severe. “I “Will not let you. For if you cross, you shall lose aught! “Thy wife shall sleep with any wight, and thy joys fail!” The King, knowing the old Ferryman’s exploits, glared. “My wife is faithful, you lie!” Yet the ferryman With a devilish grin, said, “I will not let you.” 65. Of Sound Mind It was said by Lewis that Jesus must Either be insane, or the Son of God. It was said by good G. K. Chesterton That Christ had proven his sound mind's subtlety. I say that Christ was a Genius, who poor, Surpassed all the sages of history. 66. Apollonius of Tyana Surrounding her is cloudy divination. She learned from India, Egypt, Canaan The mysteries of the purple occult. Then, was she raptured? A perfect philosopher? Before the Judge, whose sharp sentence was death Did she disappear into the gold abyss? Or, is it as one true prophet said, Christ is wedded to death? To conquer it.--- Knowledge of the certainties of this life, The certainties of the algebra, of All matter which is governed by its law… Did this make the perfect philosopher? Then, I, entwined by death, like the Fable’s Hero, wish to be so and disappear At judgment. 67. The Foes of the Red Cross Knight Oh, thou Red Cross Knight With the Daughter of Zion As thy bride; she rides upon the lion. So, you first find yourself at odds With Morpheus, and then Duessa. You see thy lady sex the Spright. Then, you must fight Sans Foy And you must fight Sans Joy And you must fight Sans Loy. You must fight a false Love. You must fight a false Joy. You must fight a false Loyalty. These three brothers hate you For you slew them, one after another. One after another, after another. Then, you must fight the Beast; Pride, Idleness, Gluttony, Lechery, Avarice, Envy, Wrath. Beneath the House of Pride Is the Mithgarth-Worm eating away Swirling amidst the floorboards. How many enemies can you face? How many foes can you fight? How many can be those defeated fears? 68. For'tuna and Kairos How many have been wasted by thee? Men, who made thee the goddess? Women, who abandoning home throw their lot? For, aren’t thou just a lot, thrown? Thou art without justice, or the scales. Thou dost not weigh the balance, And give fortune to the good. Thou distribute, like a lot, Thy blessings. Men, wary, seek thee And search for thy brother Kairos; And in Kairos they await for thy German love. Worshiping Kairos and For’tuna The two lovers---and seizing upon They take For’tuna as their bride. Yet, how many souls are wasted Never seeing Kairos, never being blessed By the lottery of For’tuna? Whom, their unholy romance brings with it The savors of purple silk and crimson velvet. The savors of a dozen spices in every pot; The fat of a roasted suckling and corn Never lacking. And the man who gains For’tuna as his bride, the man who captured Kairos, that man grows ever so cold And he ends up in hell. For he says, “Jehovah has so blessed me with wealth, “And these miserable lot of fools “Do not work, and are lazy. “That is why they do not obtain wealth and favor.” However, it is the lot which brings man His state in life, and nothing more. If one man is born into a kingdom with guns And another man into a kingdom with swords; When they war, the former kingdom shall always win. If one man is born into a kingdom with wealth And another man is born into a kingdom with dearth It is For’tuna and Kairos who reign over them. However, a sturdy hand which sets upon the plough Shall never lack bread, water or any good thing No matter aught the kingdom he has been born into. Whether slave or free, the man who quietly works Upon his labors shall have continual feasts. 69. Our Burnt Offering Aye, Christ had gone to hell. The Father, Who is Christ, Was with the Thief on the cross In Heaven. Yet the second Person of the Trinity had descended Into hell, as is prophesied. Christ, like the sacrificial lamb’s Body, was broken. And like the Lamb, He passed through The fires so the priests and sinners could eat. What was finished Was the Levitical priesthood And the veil to the temple was torn. For, could there be forgiveness If Christ did not rise? Why rise, if death is the supreme accomplishment? Would Christ have died, Had he ascended into heaven? Nay, but He would be among the living in heaven. Had He need to ascend in Bodily Form To the Father, if His Soul were taken to paradise? Why rise at all, if Christ did not first descend? For, the prophets say Christ descended into death Not that He raised into life, And the Father, Who is Christ Jesus, Presided in heaven, while the Son Wast in hell, suffering torment And collecting the souls of She’ol Whom would make covenants with Him. 70. The Tragedy of Love Love has had the tragic past To be first, embarked on by two Who, with the passion broke The skin of pleasant womb And flower petals meet. And indulgent in amatory’s Naked touch, was quaffed For the allure of paramour’s touch. Then, love had been a vile thing Which censored from the lay Was called most wretched and worthless thing; A vile state of unhappy charm Which struck a boy or girl And would cause their life such great harm. For, worst was when loveless wed The man or woman would find the naked breast Of lover, and undawned their raiment They fell to lusty show of love’s Chemical bliss. And therefore, Love was sacrilegiously vile In the eyes of man, as a thing uncouth And cursèd, which ruined marriage vows. Then, once again, love unbridled Was to be forsaken once again When man and woman through emotion’s bliss Would fornicate one with another Their vile prick dipped in the ink Of woman or man, which love became A chemical once again, never to have been committed To one or the other---nay, just a vile thing Forsaken, indulged in, callously forgotten Once it dimmed and the two in heated sweat Found the chemicals at last had disappeared They leave one another, looking for the blasted heat With one again, leaving children to the dogs. It is all sacrilege. 71. Vile Thou didst make the Shakespearean Sonnet Be a song about homoerotic love, Of a man and his eleven year old, dead son. How much more foul is this queer science Which cannot interpret a man’s verse? Of a heartbroken father, singing over his son’s hearse? No, instead, you make it the foul love of he and a duke; Yet, read the damn thing, and its true meaning In light of this, Will make thou puke. For how dost thou change the fatherly advice Of a sire to wed a wife? If not a father's fatherly love to a son, Thou disgraceful fiends would make it vice? 72. The True Shakespearean Sonnet He was married to a black woman. He loved her very much, in soul But was not physically attracted to her. They had a son. Their son died. Shakespeare wrote in succession His fatherly advice to his deceased son. He was conflicted on not having a sire And his advice to his son was to wed So he could produce offspring And thereby continue his family’s legacy. He didn’t express his love to his son Except in his sonnets, where a careful ear Would see the true sense in what they meant. Almost humorously, he predicted His work would be misinterpreted Even defied; and the shocking thing Was his family was a mixed race family. This is the true Shakespeare. He was not gay. He was a father mourning a son And in love with a black woman. 73. Paraclete I listen to Hindu mantras And I see, in part, a veiled revelation Of the Spirit of God. I believe other religions wholly find God; They find God’s spirit, For if they couldn’t, Then it would not be true, “I was found by a nation that did not seek me.” However, God’s spirit upon the Earth Is available for all who seek God; Yet, for eternity---save one is abjectly poor--- For true knowledge of salvation, One need to know Who God is. I cannot but confess that other religions Have mingled and found the Spirit of God. I can feel power in Hindu mantras--- But, it is worldly knowledge. It is not knowledge which leads one to eternal life, But rather it leads one to eternal damnation. For, the LORD says, “All who enter not by the gate “Are thieves and robbers.” Meaning, men find God But without entering in through the Shepherd’s Gate They are but thieves who have stolen Paraclete; And thereby, they have not known Him fully But rather one person of the Trinity. For, only by knowledge of all three Persons Of God, can one attain to the riches of eternal salvation. Upon the earth, many find Him, But they do not know His name And without knowledge of His name There can be no salvation for any. And the reason for this is Christ's teachings. No religion, save Christianity, Has a full revelation of God's law, First given to Abraham in Mesopotamia, Second given to Moses in the deserts of Canaan, And third and finally revealed by the Son of God Himself, Jesus Christ. For without this full revelation One mingles with God perverse spirits of demons--- For every religion either propagates lies in their holy text, Or outright sin. And that is why one, To be saved---for finding God does not mean you're saved--- Means one must accept Christ and all that He had taught. For we call Him "Teacher." Not Vishnu, not Muhammad Not Buddha, not Darwin, nor even Moses if one cuts from the Word of God All that Christ had taught. First and foremost, it is Christ who gave Pure truth, and unadulterated, which no other man in history can claim. Christ alone is our teacher--- And some men, searching God, Find Paraclete, but without knowing His name There can be no life. 74. Divine Power Three divine powers exist. Wisdom, Paraclete and Love. Wisdom is the ability to interpret and understand. Paraclete is to commune with the presence and power of God. Love is love. I believe anyone can find these--- Christian or not. But, each of these come from, and are evidence of, God. The name of God is what saves. And only the name of God. One can mingle with all knowledge, All power and all love, But without knowing Who God is, There can be no salvation. For, only Christ has spoken the words of truth. Only Christ has given the perfect command for life; To embolden the power of God--- For, if one mingles with God’s power The fullness of the divine power points to the Words of that Crucified Christ. 75. The Okay Hand Sign Conspiracy theorists say it’s “666.” Leftists call it “A Symbol of White Power.” Yet, when I see Indians make the hand sign From an entirely removed region of the world, I tend to think it a natural hand sign That probably has some universal significance. Most likely, it’s the most opposite of a threatening posture That the hand can make, so naturally, We are built to do this when we’re trying to communicate That we are intending to appear nonthreatening. Which is a great symbol That the Black Lives Matter movement, Subconsciously, intends to make violent Every tic of peace, in order to Elicit the Racial Ragnarok And 2pocalypse Our Racist belligerents so desperately covet. 76. Una Thou Daughter of Zion Una, thou Daughter of Zion;--- Let I never be unchivalrous to forget thee. The Lion is killed for you; The Law is slain for you, Laid on the body of Asland--- He is killed by false Loyalty Who rapes thou away. Duessa, that potion mistress Medea, Walked beside me, yet let me escape her When I see hell is in the house of pride. She rides six of the Heads of the Thirteen By the Seven Heads of the Nile Dragon, That Mithgarth Worm Who eats away at our Tree of Life, Which holds our worldly plane in the air-- It feeds, so let I never forget thy beauty Lest the Earth fall to the World. 77. The Folly of the West It's a question being seriously asked right now, "Are mathematics invented or discovered?" If this question is seriously being entertained, Then the education system has failed miserably. The fact that Pythagoras had discovered a theorem Which we still use today, and the algebra we use Is proven in all areas, including physics and engineering, Shows that Mathematics are not invented. They are discovered. Even number theory is discovered. Base Ten or Base Twelve or Base Seven May be an example of different languages, yet they will always Come to the same conclusions, no matter what system is employed. Any invented mathematics cannot be called mathematics. This question just proves how ridiculous the current education system has made our kids. 78. Lil-Nas Shoes Christians scream about a shoe with blood in it. While they dance in ecstatic fervor, They babble like lunatics in the presence of non believers, They draw Enneagrams, They ascribe magical powers to essential oils, water and blood, They think grace gives one license to sin, They sing chaunts like that of the Occultist hymns, They play with spiritual powers, like a rebellious teenager does with Axe Cologne and a lighter, They do things with spiritual things that even the most hardened Pagan wouldn’t dare--- What’s my comment on the shoe? Fix the log in your own eye, before you bother about the mote in your brother’s. 79. Jesus Christ Is Come in the Flesh What this means--- So you can't call me a False Teacher, Collin--- Is that Jehovah God Came, by the Virgin Mary, And conceived the child Christ. Within the very body of Christ Dwelt God---fully God. The Flesh of God, God’s Word becoming flesh, Was Christ fully. Christ was not a cup. His flesh was as much God As the Father of Lights. The very Word of God became flesh And tabernacled among men. God, then, was crucified by Pontius Pilate Died, and was buried, And on the third day he raised from the dead. He then ascended into heaven In the resurrected Body, And there He is seated by the right hand of the Father everlasting, Amen. That Christ still has a body, this is evident; And He will return again, to judge the living and the dead. I speak the full manifestation of the Flesh of God in Jesus Christ As is said by John the Apostle, “He who confesses the LORD Jesus Christ is Come in the Flesh “That Spirit come’th from God.” 80. Hamnet Hamnet, you are the Young Man. You died. Your father spoke of you in your wild throws Of romance with a young woman. And she, you had blessed wed If not for the reeling throws of time Which because of thy mixed race Thou wert killed for courting her. Thus, grief thieved thy father William Who sung of your lovemaking To immortalize you. Thou wert Romeo. 81. Messiah I don’t say the Bible is inerrant, But our faith in it, like Kierkegaard said, Is more important than the object of The Bible itself. I still believe in it. Because if one read the metaphors, it Is clear that it is the Word of God, and God Breathed. I imagine Jesus telling His story, writing each chapter as His Book, to teach mankind about war and peace About love and hate, about right and wrong. Yet, would it not make sense that the news In Bethlehem reach Herod’s ears after The Prophet and Prophetess declared Him The Son of God and then King of the Jews? "They departed into their own country "Another way." Then they went to Egypt! Jesus was a young boy. It seems for Mary and Joseph to flee To Egypt, after Christ’s own lawful rites Would have to be after He was declared King. And David fighting off the numbers Of many men in battle, the point is That He won great victories, whether horse Or Chariot, or Footman it does not Matter. And perhaps Jehoiakim were A Mandela Effect, like Billy Graham. Or, it could be he was overseen by A regent until eighteen. 82. Andrew How many times has the LORD called you? Nay, just once? No, it's been multitudes of times In multitudes of different ways. He keeps calling you, until you follow him. 83. Judas Iscariot The portrait of a wicked man is such: He, having blood money, throws it at the Priests, where the silver coins spill onto the Temple's floor. The Priests then persuade Judas To accompany them, for it’s bloodcoin And then they buy the Potter’s Field with him To mock Jeremiah’s prophecy. Weak Judas then realizes prophecy Has been fulfilled, and he hangs himself in The field, where several two-days later his Rotten corpse spills his purple guts. 84. On the Inerrancy of Scripture I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Christians who lose their faith over A small detail wrong in our Holy Text. I say God doesn’t care about small details. Just the big Picture. Yet, with this there is an end to wisdom When the zealot, clinging to his faith, seeks scripture And sees the most minute detail wrong; “An Error!” And then the Atheist says, “See! If thou cannot “Trust God to make the Bible all inerrant, then thou “Canst trust a word the Bible doth say? Canst thou, now? “For if the Bible be inspired by God, how “I say to you, can you believe anything it “Says, if I find this little, innocuous thing?” I say, one ought to know God, and it won’t be a Problem. For, if one communes with God, God’s love will Show one the fact that our Bible is not a god Nor is it God’s flesh, nor is it God’s power. Words It is, transcribed by prophets, written by Jesus. But it is not the object of our faith. So what Kierkegaard says, that faith is more important than The object of faith, which for many Christians is The Bible. How do we know it is true? Because It speaks independent truths which man can find on Their own, yet no man, save God, was aught wise enough To find aught morsel of Wisdom’s objective truths. I spy upon the Earth the reverberating Circle--- There are Heathens who find God’s Paraclete And they believe they have found full revelation. Knowing power, they find themselves descending deep Into the recesses of dark idolatry. For, knowing power, they know not whether it be Darkness or light--- This is why one must couple truth And power--- for if they’re found independently Christians find all wisdom---to which there is an end; And wisdom not knowing God or tasting power Is as dangerous as Heathens tapping into it Like a thief. For knowing the Bible without first Knowing God denies the power and existence Of God. Yet knowing God exists, finding power, Is to know God, without washing in His clean blood. 85. The Reign of Science Are we anymore free today With science as our guide? Are we any happier? Are we any more blessed? Are we any more satisfied by love? Are we less hungry? Are we sheltered more? Are the governments any more benevolent? Are the children any safer? Are the schools better? Is the child’s hope in the future any brighter? It seems five years of the reign of Science Has already crippled the Earth totally. 86. India The cure kills. Bodies float down the Ganges Starved from the Locusts which wiped out Half of the crop. Meanwhile, being told to stay indoors, And not go into the market to avoid getting sick. A well fed individual has nothing to fear from it. But, a man told not to go to market, Told to wear a mask which costs a day’s salary--- They die for they’re blocked from access to food. Meanwhile, Joe Biden forces Americans to take vaccines; A hot meal is the best vaccine medicine can afford. And for over ninety percent of the world They are being blocked from having it. 87. The Battle of Oxford For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars For one hundred and eighty years The Boers and the Rebels fought wars Bloody and broken. Between gaps They would rest, and blood would spill out Upon the grassland’s ruby clay Of the African bush. Back, forth They would wound and maim, and so kill The Redcoat and Boer Warrior’s bled. On the final salvo, after Many years of slaughter, the Boers Took one last push into Redcoat Lines, yet the Redcoats repelled them For they were refreshed by a moment’s Hesitation from the Boer lines. Fifty-one hundred Rebels slain And Fifty-two hundred Boers lay Dead upon the open plains, heaped Into their rows, where the dead lie. 88. Western Empiricism If Western Empiricism were only understood? Then, classrooms would build squares And test out the Quadratic Equation. They would cut their squares, and see The beautiful workings of geometry. They would do calculus, and find it precisely Forecasts measurements---they would test It with the forces of Gravity. They would see circles’ circumferences Were Pi, if the diameter of a circle were one. They would predict the volume of spheres; They would understand the reason spheres Are calculated, and they’d see by water displacement That the calculations are 100% accurate. They would, in remedial math courses, Learn algebra through physics and electricity. They would learn how electricity works By testing it in the classroom. They would measure velocity and distance and time. They would learn geometry through Euclid, And connect the limitations of physical reality. Instead, our students are bombarded by deduction Without any a posteriori understanding of why? Deduction within deduction, within deduction--- If one has perfect logic, yet not a fact to use with it, Then one can prove about anything--- So long as the logic is sound, it creates beautiful works of art. Yet, to understand the simple nature of reality Is to understand the subtle nature of how real world Events dictate the interpretation of history. That a word is as accurate as a scientist’s compass. Should we know history… See history… Understand Shakespeare for what he truly said, Not what we had liked him to have said; We would not pervert the science of the soul. For, the mere fact that we make a lovesong Of a man with his eleven year old son To be an erotic evocation of a gay relationship With a Duke--- There’s something perverted in our knowledge. The fact that Fantasia’s nudity is seen in perverted light; It means that someone must feel a cherub is erotic. Not, however, to see the metaphor of erotic lovemaking Which brings upon Cupid’s form from the womb. No… Cupid is erotic, Shakespeare is singing love songs about his son. Why I cling to my Bible is that it helps erase that nonsense An align my soul back to understanding things Without the perverted intrusion of sensualities Which ought not be interpolated into the text; Save that an individual is perverted beyond all measure. Yet, because we live in a perverted culture Cupid is erotic, and Shakespeare sings erotic stanzas To his eleven year old son Hamnet, whom the poem So clearly is talking about by reference a dozen times to death’s deparation. 89. Combat Wombat I've built an entire empire through poetry; Established through logic the principle that words Have meaning. Yet you topple it down By refusing to listen. You attack a brother in Christ. Let me defend him. My words have bite, and I know my wisdom seeps into your soul. You'll say, "Dude this guy is crazy, "His words don't seep into my soul. "He's a religious nut job with a blog." And then you'll mention my criminal history. Let me just say, that riotous past is why I Know you're wrong. There isn't any sin I abstained from in youth; And I know full well your every thought. Subconsciously, they ream in me... I understand your arguments better than you do. Why is Homosexuality disgusting? Because it plainly perverts our perceptions about reality. By skewing the common discourse with foul notions, It makes no man have a sense of purity. Words wholly unsexed become scandalous. Shakespeare sings a catamizing hymn to his son; Fantasia's cupids are erotic---I've heard it said. The Bible has no clear interpretation. Anyone who reads the Bible knows you're plainly wrong. But your smugness... Homosexuals can't help themselves? Then neither can a pedophile or rapist. Why have laws at all, if people are bound to their sin Genetically, and have no way to escape it? It seems the Gospel is moot, now, For the whole point of the good news Is that doesn't have to be true. How many gays want to be gay? Used to be none of them; Now it's hip, and in the by and by And it's noble. And because of that The knowledge of the past is entirely perverted Homosexuals aren't always catamites, I'll give you that. But they surely are sodomites. The Bible condemns sodomy. In its literal translation, it categorizes Sodomites The same as Catamites. Sodomites are anyone who have sex Beyond penetrative vaginal sex. And even that can clearly be a sin If it's eaten by a paramour---which is another word the Bible uses. Look it up. And the Bible has a clear interpretation. It is the story of Israel becoming a people, And then sinning through Idolatry with Abortions, Sodomy and Paramours. The Bible says that quite plainly. Then God brought Babylon to Israel's walls; Here, as a matter of history, We have actual evidence that Babylon did this. They besieged them, And then the besieged city's people had to eat their own shit, If not their neighbors. Surprised I cuss? "No," You say. I'm crazy, you say, you say, you say. No... I'm just tired of people like you Perverting everything you touch. I spend a lifetime finding the meaning of the greatest literature in history. And you, your whole generation, Sweeps it away with one blatant, ignorant sweep. Why is homosexuality wrong? Because it clearly makes people unable to understand one another. Simple proof is every lie you uttered. And Christ is the restoration of that great siege. He is the restoration of His people; The Shepherd back to the Promised Land. 90. Thoughts on Prufrock Haunted like I always am by Prufrock, A vision... Loveless, unsentimental, Obtuse--- Successful for a time And waning into your elder days You are no longer famous. You are "Counselor to princes." Looking like the fool... Balding, thinning, deluded by magic. I've seen it in many academics. So caught up in knowledge, So inured by philosophy that love is like Prufrock's lovesong. In and out they go, talking of Michelangelo... A subject high and mighty. Yet, it does not seem to interest Prufrock. Why doesn't Michelangelo interest him? Inured to beauty--- Likely you stare at blank walls, and jagged lines. Michelangelo no longer interests you. Do you believe you're like Lazarus? Do you believe you're like John the Baptist? Grasping for an answer... A false prophet, giving divisive counsel to the king. Balding, thinning... I'd rather be impoverished, And like a monk compiling my odes Than become you. I'd rather hold onto Eternal Life. As Eliot said, "Let me never turn again." You made a public denunciation of me and my faith... You are he, that Prufrock. Balding, deluded and inured by your countless studies. Ensconced in the dullness of Academia. Obtuse. Sometimes ridiculous. I simultaneously see you as the most vile man I can imagine... A loveless psychopath murdering, "A time to murder; a time to create." In the collegiate world, or whatever world you walk in, Your insomnia, your meandering through crooked streets Seeing the shadow cross your room. The yellow smoke reminiscent of Agent Orange Reminiscent of Mustard Gas. Muzzles, mustard gas... For some reason you think you're Lazarus. For some reason you think you're John the Baptist. Holier than thou, a martyr. I have a mental image of you, in your rolled up khakis, Yet walking on the beach searching for Mermaids. You drown yourself. Let me never be you. I never want to be you. Deluded, ensconced in study; Unloving, uncharitable... Maddened by philosophy, Maddened by Aristotelian Ethics. You dabble in poetry, Like you were Yeats or Tolkien. You think you were the Oxford Don, You teach your class, Your sing your liturgy of "Breasts!" Like you had just recited Southey; Filling the Stadium at Coventry With adoring fans. Your erotic poetry, Like Endymion, Feigns a greatness, Yet falls on ears like a guttery does eyes. At the very most, You are a sub par poet Who's enjoyed his brief time of fame... Working in the hallowed halls of Academia--- Unkind, unmoved by any great sympathy. No... like so many scholars You are not enthralled by Michelangelo. You cannot enter into the fray, The ecstasy--- He is overrated. That is what you think. Jubilant, triumphant shouts over what could be mankind's greatest artist, And it does not excite you; Unlike a child who sees it for the first time Who speaks for days, upon days, upon days. What's more honest is the child's curiosity. But, you stifle it... Show your class a Joan Miro For he you find worthy. Does that even excite you? The guttural banality of stick figures And geometric shapes? I'd say like a prude, like a simpleton, Like a pompous ass, you dote over it. For it tantalizes your toddler like mind. 91. Rashomon He doesn't prove witnesses are unreliable But that modern culture is filled with liars. 92. Some of the Evide3nce I've studied the Genealogies in scripture. And they are very, very, very accurate. Abraham---if you tally up all of the years--- Lived right at the forming of Hammurabi's Code. The cult of Aten was founded---and you can do this yourself I swear---right when Moses lived. For those who say the Jews didn't exist Because scholars see evidence of Baal worship In Canaan---the Bible says that the Jews forgot their religion many times. The Bible says that Israel worshiped Baal for most of its existence But the Southern Tribe of Judah stayed for the most part faithful. We know there was a Southern Tribe because the Tele Dan Stele--- An Archeological relic---has written on it Verbatim that Judah had lost a battle, And on that stone was written the portmanteau Housedavid Which this pagan king had won a victory over. Meaning, Judah was indeed a kingdom. Yes, the Bible was recompiled in Persia On its most recent draft---but the Bible Claims so when it says several dozen times, "As it still is to this day." Meaning the Histories were transcribed After Cyrus had restored Israel back to Canaan from Babylon. Cyrus, who was prophesied in Isaiah to be the restorer of Israel's Captivity Some 200 years beforehand. I've already established that Israel was a people Prior to the captivity, so it can only be that the religion Was preserved. It is also recorded that Babylon sacked Jerusalem In the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles--- Which is another historical fact. So, it cannot be claimed like it sometimes is That Israel or Judah weren't kingdoms prior to Babylonian Captivity. As for the flood--- Every culture around the world Has a myth about the global flood. As for Christ's existence He most certainly lived. The Vatican has record of His census And it has His death certificate Which the Jews had forged to try and claim Jesus was not the Messiah. Also, there are references to medical conditions As yet unknown to the ancient world in the New Testament. Jesus sweat blood. It's a condition called "hematohidrosis". And Jesus died of a Heart Attack, because When He was pierced, water flowed from His wound. This is consistent with a heart attack Where the water lining of the internal organs is damaged. This also could only occur if Christ had truly died. As for the resurrection, Men who had personally known Jesus Were willing to die over the testimony that He raised from the dead; They were crucified, burnt, impaled, Stoned, suffered persecution For the testimony that He had risen from the dead. Men will not suffer long for a lie. They just won't. But, these men suffered and died, So they must have been eyewitnesses to His resurrection. As for the record in Genesis, God is all powerful. The rest of these facts should overshadow Any insipid doubt about how God could create the world in six days. God is God. Meaning He can turn water into wine Raise the dead, heal the blind, deaf and mute And that also means alter time and matter. He changed simple H20 into the magnificently complex chemical composition of wine. Any doubt to the matter of how God could have created the world Is a un-imaginative assumption. God conceived Christ through a Virgin Which is prophesied in the scripture. Also, Christ's crucifixion and death are prophesied In plain terms, in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 2 and 22. The fact that God was going to change the Law is prophesied in Jeremiah 31. It's also true that in Deuteronomy, the curses Over Israel were fully satisfied by the captivity and sacking of Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar; Which is a matter of historical fact, preserved in the Babylonian scrolls of the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle. Isaiah 53 is verbatim in the Dead Sea Scrolls Meaning it, too, existed prior to Christ. Meaning the prophet did actually predict Christ. As for the morality of Christianity It is proven independently by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Mozi, Confucius, Lao Tsu, Maimonides, And many other great sages in history finding aspects of the Christian truth. It was revealed in part through many religions, which veiled the truth as they mingled with God Unknowingly, but was fully revealed by God through direct communion with Prophets. God, to be just, had to reveal His law through His prophets. So, He first revealed it through Abraham, Inspiring what academics have called the "Cult of Righteousness" To then Moses who chiseled them down upon stone And finally Christ, God Himself, spoke the full revelation of God's Law. This was so none would be without the knowledge of what is demanded from man by God. For, if God were good, and seeing it takes geniuses to find even a small portions of moral truth, God would have to reveal Himself through revelatory visions to men and women Throughout History to inspire Law. And He did just that through the Prophets and Moses, and finally through His Son Jesus Christ And the Apostles. For, the morality laid down by Christ is quantifiably the best in existence, and it is testable; It produced the happiest civilization in history, For as that civilization fell away from its belief in God It had gotten ever worse, until now it is like the rest of the world. This is the evidence that God is Jesus. 92. Notes on the creation of Astille Looking at my villain in Hail Britannica. I find the prefix in French, "a" which means without. I find the suffix "lle" which means she. Yet, of the "sti" I found it rooted in a Danish word. Yet, that cannot be, though it has to be, As the word means "Path" And it must be why I chose it. But, I remember precisely looking through French Prefix and Suffixes Somewhere in my Dad's French Book To come up with the Portmanteau. And so I come up with "Astille." Pronounced " 'a stee yuh" Yet. I had found it in a French Dictionary And it wasn't Danish. Perhaps I chose the Danish word To portmanteau with the French To say Astille was not Danish, So she was not the right path. Very strange mystery. But, when I was creating her name, I was looking over French Etymological suffixes and prefixes To create a Portmanteau. Though, I wholly remember making Astille's name Fully of French origin. Which is a great mystery to me How this could possibly have happened. 93. Odinism and Hellenism On my bookshelf are works such as the Poetic Edda Ovid's Metamorphoses, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Virgil's Aeneid and Horus' Odes and Epodes. Like Lewis I'm tempted---yes, it's a temptation--- To reconstruct them. However, with all religions--- Pagan included---there are moral aberrants. In Odinism, particularly, it was the religion of the Nazi Party. But, more imperatively---the more enticing religion--- Is Hellenism. Yet, at its core is sin and passion. It was told to me by a beloved person That Dionysius was Satan---or the Greek Satan. Deriving a meaning for Satan, That Satan is imbued with passion, sexuality, drunkenness. I have to say that Ovid is full of beautiful scenes. The Pagan religion enticing the flesh. I could never be swayed to Odinism, as it's racist--- But, Hellenism I could be swayed to it for its focus On beauty and passion. In fact, it was my religion as a child. Not literally, but in all the passions I had Pan and Syrinx, or Byblis' love for Caunus Came closest. I was unbridled--- Much was my proclivity toward passion. And that is what the Greek Religion is Is a celebration of human passion. Feeling the liquor of pure emotions--- Whatever is their source. In my adulthood, I realize that this was precisely The dirty thing I abhorred most. I was overwhelmed with Peace--- And that peace came from loving Jorgia. Not to say that Jorgia was my God--- But, that the feeling of Peace became The highest form for religious emotion. It's the thing I'm bringing men to in my writing. I find in the Christian religion--- Its mythology, its architecture, Its music, its painting, its worship Its religion, its cultural impact, That it best reflects the peace I found through Jorgia. Prior to that, I had not known it--- I was much like Ovid's depictions Filled with enraged passions. It was in effect my religion--- That of Eros, but Jorgia brought me knowledge Of something deeper than Eros. She brought me knowledge of peace. And imbued in that peace came direct communion with God. It was far superior. So, I reject Hellenism and Odinism Odinism for the reason that it killed 14,000,000 people On its last manifestation. Hellenism because it is the religion of the world As it exists today---and that religion is passion Without recourse to law. 94. The Root of Atheism The atheist sees evil And says, "A Good God would never "Create suffering." I look at Genesis, The very book atheists nitpick, And understand man had acquired Judgment. With this knowledge, Man understands right from wrong, Therefore, deserves to suffer. For, a crime committed by a dog Is not damnable. For it does not know Why it commits sin. Thus, man must be reminded That this world is imperfect; That is why there is evil. Because our lives are purposed To attain to a better life. And this life can never be that better life. 95. Fool The top nine most inconvenient verses In the Bible---so an Atheist proclaimed--- He unfolded nine of my favorite verses. Jesus called the Pharisees fools. So what? They were fools. Just like you're a fool. Yet, he who calls his brother "Raca" That is "Worthless fellow" Which translates into "Fool"--- I'm sorry, did I just chink the first third of your video? Jesus whipping the Temple is a fulfillment of prophecy. "My house has been made a den of thieves." And even Jesus displays wrath. Sorry. I'll get to the rest later, but you're not going to like what I have to say. Yes, Christians cannot sin. That is, they cannot commit cardinal sins. As John says, probably somewhere nearby that same chapter, Is that there's a sin leading to death, And a sin which does not lead to death. The second, Christians do often. The first is impossible for a Christian, For the Holy Spirit prevents them, Even in some scary supernatural ways. Which leads to the last. I have seen amputations healed. A guy's finger once appeared out of nowhere, And it was amputated the day before. And I have seen a few people raised from the dead, Actually, I've seen blind, deaf mutes healed too. Those inconvenient verses Build up the whole testament to my theology. And, for the last one. The law shall not pass. It's still in effect today. So that those who do not obey it Will be sentenced to death. So, as Jeremiah says, There will be two unchanging covenants. The Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Which, if you don't partake of the New, You automatically are condemned under the old As the Old is a universal law which binds all men To God's holy standard. While the second is a mercy. All Christians have sinned, and have fallen short of the glory of God. All Christians deserve a death sentence. Until Christ's blood washed them, Which they became sinless, And sealed with the Spirit full of grace. 96. Ezra and Nehemiah The most wild conjecture I can make to validate modern academia's theory about the Bible true Is that Isaiah II convinced a bunch of Completely ignorant people that they were Jews And then somehow got a license From the king to go to a remote Desert in the middle of the earth. So, if hypothetically the Bible were written in Persia, And just thrown together with a bunch of Random historical texts, some impromptu prophecy And some Sumerian Mythology thrown on top of that; Where was Ezra and Nehemiah written? Obviously, it had to be written by the Jews After the fact. And, it catalogs the rebuilding Of actual walls, the rebuilding of an actual temple;-- And then there's protectorate kingdoms of Persia attacking them Constantly, who verbatim know these people are Jews. At the very least, it would be suspect--- That this invented race in that invented moment Would come to find the ruins of a city Which was conquered seventy years earlier. And then, the surrounding people Knew this invented race, And decided to harangue it. There's a lot of assumptions. Most likely, the Jews had an actual historical Scripture, an actual lineage of kings from two separate kingdoms, With a Law infused with Oral Traditions written down by Moses--- Whether they were Sumerian, I'm suspect to think That the events were shared by many cultures, As most things which are true are--- So, these stories were preserved by Moses And handed down to the Jews in accordance with their Torah, and the Bible really were written over the succession Of 1300 year prior. I'm even apt to believe The verse about Cyrus were in the original Isaiah text; As, certainly, Jesus is in Isaiah too, in the most literal terms In the 53rd chapter. It's not hard for me to believe, at all. What's harder to believe, Is the series of strange, misshapen events That don't conform at all to what we know about basic human psychology. 96. The Revolution The most beautiful movement in history. It freed every slave. It gave every man, woman and child a voice. It prospered billions. It made its poor fat. It made skin and gender moot. And then three hundred years later A counter revolution arises Led by the very tyrants Whom we freed ourselves from. It wants to revive Feudalism. It wants no one to have a voice. It wants the billions to have no self reliance. It wants all malnourished. It uses Gender and Skin color as the weapons to revive it. 97. John MacArthur Did not the Priest wear the ephod? A congregation, to symbolize the service John had given his church And the good shepherding, Have given him the five thousand dollar watch. For every thing under the sun there is a time and season. He did not purchase it himself, And wear it out of vanity. His flock had rewarded him For his service. For every deed under the sun There is a time and season. A time to kill. A time to heal. A time for a priest to wear a symbol of his good work. A time for the priest to sell it, and give the produce to the poor. Truthfully, it would be unloving and rude To reject the gift, or to sell it. Does one, after receiving a good gift Go off and sell it? No, for such would be an offense against the giver. John, you're not a hypocrite for having the watch. That is Christian Pharisaicalism that would scorn you for it. Christ Himself allowed Mary Magdalene to pour her costliest perfume On his feet. If we are to lead by His example, For shepherding a flock as well as you, A gift is nothing excessive. Do not sell it. 98. The Pharisees It is just like this people to Tempt the priest and say to him, “Give up your gift and ephod "And give it to the poor," Rather than to admonish him of his affluence And say, "Thou must give of that to the poor." 99. Oscar Wilde As much as I sympathize with him. As much as I am him. My sin was unacceptable. I deserved my two year sentence. And I bore it with patience. I deserved my ten year sentenced And still bear it with patience. Without justice, men are in danger everywhere. I would be horrified, if in an effort to exonerate me Men made my specific sin acceptable. I would rather bear it patiently, As a cross. I may be made fun of I may be made a laughingstock--- To wit, I already am. I see the furrowed mien on the neighbor's faces. I see their disapproval of me. But, I am not so flagrant that I would Strut around with my sin, Telling all that they must accept me. What I did was wrong. And what he did was wrong. It was the habitual unrepentance of it; That is what caused the great distress. I do not want a world where what he nor I did Is made into a normal thing. I bear my shame with humility--- I understand it. I would have no other way of men For what I did was wrong And inexcusable. That is why I confessed it in the first place. Because it was wrong and inexcusable. 100. On Judgment A wicked man destroys himself For he excuses the sins of his own soul When he finds those sins in others---thereby, He allows those same wicked men The opportunity to slay his soul. This is different than mercy. When a sinner makes an affront Upon one's self, and one has the Justice to overlook the offense And thereby excuse it. It is also different than gossip. One ought not meddle in affaires Not belonging to them, nor be Enraged by the stories of others' sin. For justice is not found through gossip.
Oh, War, I Come to You Again
Oh, war, I come to you again. A muse in my innermost thoughts Of why men would slaughter one another. It was mentioned that you are fought Because of beliefs, and that to deny Such a thing is to deny humanity. I look at this, and say, "There is nothing "Human about war." Thus, I remember The age old adages of the Stale Oxford Don; "War is about Economics." How intelligent Men wished for it to no be the case To build a case for Christ on the back Of Religious ideology. For the ideology Is beautiful because men do fight for it? I believe men fight for their religion. But, only because the religion brings comfort. It brings order, and it brings familiarity. It so orders the world around oneself In a familiar way, that brings just recompense On the unjust---for most religion is about establishing A law, by which men must live. Then, Religion is about solidifying that law Into the bulk of populations. It is, yet again, another form of economics. Why the most ugly thing about humanity Must be awed at, as if religion were the force Behind war. I say to those who say this Even the well meaning advocate of the faith: War is purely about economics. And when men fight for God What they truly fight for is the comfort Of agreement between man and man And the sacred bonds of uniformity. That uniformity could be as simple as the color On a piece of cloth. Men fight not for God But they fight for the band and group Which so identifies them. And it is an ugly thing we ought to cut From our flesh; though sometimes The war is just, for the economics being fought For were indeed comforting, and beneficial.
Veritable Divinity
The Pharisee would walk the streets with his hands Over his eyes, in order to avoid the sight Of a beautiful woman or a sinful idol, Which would catch an ever wandering eye. Confucius said suffer a woman to drown Rather than take her by the hand to save her. For tradition to these men was the way to cleanse souls. Was Confucius a Pharisee, probably. However, good, he had concluded, Is self evidently so; and good must Be part of one's daily habit. For tradition Finds its root in ancient established laws. For he saw that goodness established customs And then those customs would be later core To the felicity of human government. Just like Moses' law established justice So did the law Confucius base his judgments On establish. For, good is good by the sake Of its being inherently good. 'tis A tautology, sufficient in itself; For reason cannot exist without tautology Or self evident truth; thus, Confucius based His philosophy on self evident truths That man needs to love and so order his Respect with those filial bonds which are formed For the sake of human happiness. Yet, like all men with an ideology He and the Pharisees forgot the exceptions To the rules established; that if a rule Contradicted the course of humanity's love It was to be rejected; and this is why Christ Is preeminently divine, that though Confucius saw the Legalists as fools He invariably was one. And Christ is not.
Dear Søren Kierkegaard
Dear, Søren Your philosophy is like a bridge between Nihilism and Transcendentalism. For there are two great forces working in the world today, that of nihilism and transcendentalism. And by your reckoning, life is about making a choice between the two. The Bible, being the object of faith, is not as important as the faith itself---or the relationship with our Creator. While I accept as true every word the Good Book proclaims, I'm skeptical of convincing atheists of it. Because what's important is their belief in one miracle, and one miracle alone. And that is Christ Jesus' burial and resurrection. If one is confident of that, one will be saved. Whether Noah built an ark or Eve was literally formed by the rib of Adam---I believe it wholly, but I also have knowledge only very few do---it's inconsequential to the greater miracle of Christ's burial, death and resurrection. The Virgin Birth must be believed too, and that Christ was God Made into Human Flesh. These three revelations are the three miracles by which all Christians must believe to be saved. Greater knowledge comes when you accept the others, greater faith, greater relationship with God. But, I do not pretend to convince an Atheist that the world were flat, why would I pretense to convince him that evolution were not true? Especially since it is irrevocably observed, and as cannon to science as any other truth? We ought not argue about it. Rather, the Bible should be accepted on the merit of faith that the Bible is true. Because its morality is true. Greater than whether Noah existed---which he most certainly did---is the knowledge that he was not Gilgamesh, a warrior, firebrand, nor did he fight heathens off his ship. He was a farmer, the only man of faith in the world, humble, and possibly preaching to all that the flood would come, yet none would listen to him. Happy he would have been to have anyone on his ship, but God shut the ears of the world around him, and thought only to save his three sons and daughter in laws. And that's the importance of the story, which even Christians forget. We, often, want to shut the door to the world, and pretend like we are greater in our efforts. That we ought to be like Gilgamesh, fighting with the sword and punishing the Heathen. Yet Christ says, "He who slays with the sword must be slain by the sword." In no uncertain terms, Christ says, "Judge not lest you be judged." Rather, if we are like Noah, we are beckoning an unbelieving world to come join us in the ark, but none will take the call, or they think we're lunatics until the torrential rains come. I understand that a lot of Christians will be angry at me, but faith is understanding the story. It's not literally believing the story---though, that can just as easily be a condition for true faith. As the miracle we ought to believe, wholly, is that Christ died for our sins, and resurrected. We need not believe in demons, ghosts, fairies, aliens, angels, djinni or otherwise anything, though some of it may be true. We need to have faith in Christ and Christ alone, that He, in bodily flesh, suffered and died and is the LORD. That God Himself died for our sins. I'm not even sure one ought to believe in hell, but one must surely believe in heaven. As, true belief in Christ will cause one to obey the moral teachings of scripture, to understand that they are true. Such things as Noah's example with the ark. Greater spiritual awareness will cause one to understand the rest is true, but that granule of a miracle is all a Christian needs to convince anyone of. Telling people the world were flat, evolution isn't true, and that the Earth is only six thousand years old is harder than passing a camel through the eye of a needle. And I don't mean the walls of Jerusalem, as Christians in their lack of faith believe that is what Jesus was referring to. It can be done, with God's help. But by our own power, we ought to preserve the unbeliever's soul with one teaching, and that is Christ preeminent. If you can believe in that one small miracle, the life and teachings, and death and resurrection of Christ, then you can be saved. I've seen men like Tolstoy believe that, and even doubt the miraculous healings of Christ, but I'm confident he was saved. As salvation is a willingness to do what is right under all circumstances, through riches or poverty, through persecution or praise. And it is spiritually enabled in the Christian's heart to follow based proportionally to their commitment to the truths in the Bible. For some men, this is a stumbling block and I adjure them to continue in their faith. But, I worry about them stumbling over their faith when some great catastrophe happens in the name of science, where some form otherworldly is discovered. As I understand they are demonic---but in order to ensure we never face those questions in our lifetime, it is best we evangelize with Christ Preeminent, come in the Flesh. Jesus Christ is Come in the Flesh, and we need to preach that truth before any other can be accepted. And that truth means changing out behavior to fit the model Christ set for us, and not abandoning it. As one can believe all the Bible Stories they want, if they don't believe in grace it's all for naught. And believing in grace means the accompanying of action. Not simply setting our light under a basket.
O’ Requiem of the Dead Poets
O' requiem of the dead poets Alighted your vigor, Your ancient souls do rest in the grave. Your words course through me... The subtle, inauspicious meanings That the madman sees and says, "Aha, it says nothing." So little is said that is said Loud, bold and obnoxious. Inebriation of subtle inquiries Subtle thoughts and subtle shadows Of thoughts. I ask, "Why do you need "A meaning that is loud, and bold "When Rhetoric favors ignorance? "However, subtle souls have taught me subtlety "And with that the mingling of all knowledge." Yet, it was foreseen that the man of inquiry Did not want revealed the heart of another man But to only look into a reflective pool. He did not want to share, or understand. Merely to have his own ideas shouted back at him. Thus, blood ran in the streets. Thus, dead were wheeled through the thoroughfares For seven days of revolution. All for loud, droning war songs And not the quiet voice of reason Understanding its world, And gaining from it packets of wisdom Which does not gallivant through the street Nor does it make its words an enchantment. It, rather, seeks to understand what others are too busy to understand And pass by, leaving its little packet of pollen upon the pistil To germinate into the next budding spring. While pseudo-philosophers war over who is right And who's brand of ideology shall be superior... We, the poets---who are long dead, or shall die--- Leave behind the subtlety of more ancient wisdoms Which the world, as it fights its wars Would some day soon find again And see there upon the page what folly it was That right and wrong were not to be won by the muzzle of a gun But were simply to be found, and rediscovered A thousand times by Us, the poets who are dead, or shall be dead.
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Colridge, a Biographical Analysis
First thing that becomes clear, the poem is describing Lesbian themes. Furthermore, the demonic presence is captured in the “Spell” which is the unnatural romantic love between women.
Coleridge seems to have been fantasizing about a love triangle between he, his wife and his paramour.
It makes sense, that Coleridge would entertain such ideas. He loved his wife, and his paramour. Frankly, the theme of the successful love triangle has been a strange one to espouse upon, though the poem is not explicitly about this.
The poem is merely a naughty daydream, giving the moral tone significance that the relationship is not right. The “Spell” as is the case, “Spell” in the traditions of the romantic poets is likened to a wicked thing.
Why the protagonist’s name is “Christabel”, frankly, duly understood I don’t believe the poem was finished for a reason. I think Coleridge had initially entertained the gruesome thought of bedding two women who were romantically involved, and played the subconscious moral play out in this little poem.
Coleridge is almost entertaining a modern attitude about it. Which, to say, I think in this regard the correct attitude is to understand the poem as Erotic, Lesbian, but to not shy away from the cultural taboos of the day. I don’t think Coleridge would be completely aware of why he was writing it, nor what he was writing.
It seems to me that the poem was a fancy which captured Coleridge, that he would have greatly desired a romantic ménage à trois between he and the two lovers of his life. Passively, though. The poem is not conscious of diving into the material, so neither is the reader consciously aware of the true meaning of the poem. There is a mystery of the Lesbian eroticism in the poem, disparaging it nonetheless. The tone is utterly negative, taken in the context that the woman has become the desired object of both a father and daughter. It is in effect bibliomancy, and should the poem continue it would most likely end in the father and daughter’s utter destruction. Hopefully the reader cannot assume that this theme is taken lightly, and is possibly why the poem was abandoned by its author, because the subject was inappropriate. Scandalous, even for today’s day and age.
There is something unnatural in the thought of two so closely related being romantically involved with the same person, therefore, it might be a testament to the utter disparity of adultery, that such thoughts will even be allowed to be entertained. It is a testament to how wrong sin is, that if there were a boundary broken by our modern standards, this one surely will not be. Which should disturb the reader’s opinion on the legality of Homo-eroticism, whether it is Malum in Se, or Malum Prohibitum.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Complete Poems. Edited by William Keach. “Christabel”, pp. 187 – 205. Penguin Classics, 2004. Text.
The Modern Skeptic
When all philosophy fails
A man brings his cup to his lips.
He despairs Socrates,
Saying all love was for his hips.
He says, “All we know
“Is that beauty catches the eyes,
“Woman’s flesh upon my glans
“Is the only meaning I can find.
“And how I want to live;—
“I don’t care who has to suffer.”
The Modern Reichstag
A thousand writers lay before me
Their thoughts contained in the jars
Of wood pulp, ink and glue.
Numerous thoughts lay before me…
Seneca, Livy, Horace
There in used copies at the bookstore.
Where are they sold now,
New, in those beautiful Penguin and Oxford bindings?
I don’t see them on the shelves at my local book store.
Rather, I get one more rejection letter in the mail
Because I don’t sell a detergent.
I don’t sell deodorant.
I don’t sell left or right politiks.
Soon, that large library will wane
And what will be put in its place
Is the cacophonous voices
Of Fox News Analysts,
CNN and MSNBC commentators,
Politicians and the few Celebrity intellectuals.
No serious works of philosophy, religion,
Art or political science.
A thousand voices,
All shut up by populist opinions.
Slowly, we deteriorate,
Until the Reichstag is performed by the almighty dollar.
It’s performed, because all ethics are “Too emotional.”
All philosophy is “Merely speculation.”
Technocratic, we burn our books with our own opinions.
They don’t sell, so are thrown into the flame.
I read the famous poets.
None of them wrote like me.
None with the modern story telling element—
The clear language and imagery,
The thematic elements of our modern fantasies.
Why I couldn’t be squeezed into that little space
On the bookshelf I saw,
Why, even though there are thousands of famous writers,
Some I have never even laid eyes upon,
Why cannot I be a part of this tradition?
Rather, we burn Seneca with Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow;
Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper and Milo Yiannopoulos;
We bury Pride and Prejudice with Stephen King, Stephanie Meyers
And George R. R. Martin; Fifty Shades of Gray, Hunger Games
And Divergent.
We praise poets like Ezra Pound—
Never reading the word salad of his
Which no man living can decipher;
I’m not even sure it’s meant to mean anything.
Then, of course, there is E. E. Cummings.
Garbage.
Does anyone read Wordsworth, Byron, Keats or Longfellow?
Essayists, of course, are college students
As Shane Dawson writes like he’s submitting a high school essay
And it prints and sells millions.
Emerson, Thoreau, Montaigne;—
Much more interesting… if they were given a shot.
Yet, I have to search the used book stores for Emerson and Montaigne.
They’re both slowly going out of fashion.
Both kindred souls…
Both so similar in their styles.
Plutarch I found, after some digging.
Herodotus tells me about Ancient Babylon,
Yet somehow the idiots online do not believe historians mentioned it.
A rich source of historical analysis,
Filled with Babylon, Persia, Media, Assyria, Egypt, Mesopotamia,
A Greek historian.
Yet… sadly there is online materials that would “prove”
These empires never existed.
Yale lectures that would even insinuate that they never did.
They find a “Sumerian” empire, and automatically say,
“Well there was no Babylon.”
Wholly forgetting that cultures call themselves by different names
Than other cultures. Germany in America is Deutschland in Germany.
Some idiot a long time from now might speciously believe
Germany never existed because they dug up German artifacts.
We’re dealing with a stupid generation
Because books aren’t read,
But podcasts are listened to.
There is not a touchstone to the past
Therefore, anything can be made up about it in the present.
And, my writing has touched the past.
But, they can find no place for it in that empty slot on the shelves.
Because, as it still remains,
I get rejected for having a racist character.
Wholly disposed, that the generation I was writing about
Was saturated by racism, and it was about their only sin most of them.
If we could excuse them of it, and wonder at how they were so far superior
To what we have today…
Perhaps we will have a more educated tomorrow
That doesn’t—as every movie seems to do—
Imprint their own values on the past.
Frankly, every movie you watch about history
Is ensconced in its present’s vices.
The best way to know what history was like
Was to read what was written at that time period.
Often, you’d find the most degenerate scoundrel
Had a heart of gold when compared to our modern man.
And that I find by reading history;
Watching history;
Experiencing history in what are called books.
But, today we’d like to invent it for ourselves
To shape it to our modern way of thinking.
Why can’t I be on those shelves
To represent modern man
As he truly is?
Jordan Peterson, Magnus Carlsen, Akiana Kramarik, Gad Saad, Peter Hitchens, Ken Robinson, Stephen Pinker, Thomas Sowell
I respect our modern literati.
I consider the trait of elite intellectuals
To be apolitical and zealous for their fields.