tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post9139934732429147961..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: "This is the crap I have to hear." NJ Gov, Chris ChristieDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5581460963899991522010-09-21T09:37:13.552-04:002010-09-21T09:37:13.552-04:00I really like that poem by Majumbar above.
All ex...I really like that poem by Majumbar above.<br /><br />All except one line that irritates me.<br /><br />"One music. Uni verse."<br /><br />Too cute. Two 'clever' by half? Distracts from the simplicity of the rest of the piece.<br /><br />I would have like to have seen something like "One music. One verse." Not as clever but in tune with the whole.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68384106373220827112010-09-21T09:20:24.180-04:002010-09-21T09:20:24.180-04:00Still pretty good. Some of the imagery damn good....Still pretty good. Some of the imagery damn good.<br /><br />I suspect you have it in you if you put in the effort and weren't so distracted by the south side of Ms. C and others.<br /><br />Trish is right. You are a dick.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90196851888285989592010-09-21T09:05:09.905-04:002010-09-21T09:05:09.905-04:00I sucked heavily off others there Q, but can take ...I sucked heavily off others there Q, but can take all credit for "I want to see the earth on fire but not destructive..." which doesn't seem all that hot to me. In bed, of course, I thought of a whole bunch of other stuff should have been thrown in.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47824685672557195762010-09-21T06:30:29.391-04:002010-09-21T06:30:29.391-04:00The Stoic Bearing by Manosij Majumdar, 2009
Publis...The Stoic Bearing by Manosij Majumdar, 2009<br />Published 29 May 2009 :: Poetry<br /><br /><b>The Stoic Bearing</b> <br /><br /><i>Still.<br />Dispassionate.<br />Tranquil.<br /><br />It is unmoved by emotion<br />devoid of motion<br />fix’d as a star on the horizon<br />unconcern’d, as the planets in their routes<br />perpetual.<br /><br />Tranquil,<br />as a bowl of water,<br />held by reason<br />circumscribed by composure<br />absorbing all thought<br />like yet another drop that,<br />causing a ripple<br />a perturbation of a moment<br />subsides and is<br />absorbed into the whole.<br /><br />The body is attuned<br />The thoughts are rhythmic<br />The mind composed.<br />One music. Uni verse.<br /><br />The flame is chaotic.<br />Its currents are erratic.<br />Yet all is well for it is bound within<br />by thermodynamic law.<br />Chaos hides the order within,<br />as<br />the frothing waves their rhythm<br />the screaming storm its simple course<br />the single hunting beast<br />the evolved instinct of millennia.<br /><br />If one man is destroyed<br />humanity shall yet thrive.<br />If humanity end,<br />life shall still prosper.<br />If life is lost<br />the earth shall yet fulfill its ellipses<br />and if<br />the sun swallow its offspring<br />like the ireful Titan<br />it shall yet all be according to the laws<br />gravitational<br />and entropic.<br /><br />The syllables, they do not add.<br />The words, they do not match.<br />The lines, they do not follow meter.<br />Yet in the whole there is<br />a common theme,<br />and a common beauty,<br />and a common silence.<br /><br />Such is the nature of order, nature, logic, and virtue.</i><br /><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59828546452355747762010-09-21T05:23:29.727-04:002010-09-21T05:23:29.727-04:00Good Bobbo.
Very good. Your best.
(I'm assu...Good Bobbo.<br /><br />Very good. Your best.<br /><br />(I'm assuming it's yours.)<br /><br />With some stoics the grief over the rabbit would still be excessive. Small animals and children. People, not so much.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86391889598142810502010-09-21T03:36:12.182-04:002010-09-21T03:36:12.182-04:00"I want to see the earth on fire but not dest..."I want to see the earth on fire but not destructive..."<br /><br />That's good.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56908876054696594932010-09-21T03:03:33.469-04:002010-09-21T03:03:33.469-04:00The hell with the Stoics. I want to see the souls ...The hell with the Stoics. I want to see the souls of the dead dancing in blessed ecstasy in the fires of the Hawaii volcano. Rationalism breaks down, can't explain a thing. Coming across the rabbit caught in the mower my grief was not excessive for to come upon warblers in early May was to forget time and death. The first heaven of knowing. St Thomas Aquinas at the end of his life all I've written is straw. The drowned man his eyes are pearls his bones of coral made he has suffered a sea change into something rich and strange. An eruption upward. I want to see the earth on fire but not destructive, the transforming fire of vision, cosmic consciousness, Bucke, Whitman, and I knew, and then I knew, surprise surprise, it wasn't like that at all, The Rose, the rose exceeds, exceeds us all, the dove flies through the darkness and the darkness always recedes and that darkness is the being of God, the gentle finger of the Lord leads up the laggards, the burning lake turned to a forest pool, the ice breaking in April, the torrents of spring, a man without passion might as well be dead, the atheist transformed into a pastor cause he came near death, strange openings granted to little children, the saints, uba uba uba it's with these I'd be, agony of crucifixion on bar stools, with these I wouldn't be, an astronaut returning from the moon saying it's alive, alive, reunions at death, glory glory uba uba uba, the song of the moving waters, and the hell with the Stoics.<br /><br />a montagebobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57942672207997608342010-09-21T02:17:35.331-04:002010-09-21T02:17:35.331-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7924417742486338482010-09-21T02:14:20.600-04:002010-09-21T02:14:20.600-04:00You're a dick.You're a dick.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42924454586012006242010-09-21T02:13:04.661-04:002010-09-21T02:13:04.661-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21617536549603486292010-09-21T02:07:50.332-04:002010-09-21T02:07:50.332-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85329516436629568632010-09-21T02:06:07.252-04:002010-09-21T02:06:07.252-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91217596959389682782010-09-21T02:00:05.336-04:002010-09-21T02:00:05.336-04:00"Back in D,C, yet?"
Okay, that's fu..."Back in D,C, yet?"<br /><br />Okay, that's funny.<br /><br />Unless you're actually stoned, in which case it's not.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50647890308358654122010-09-21T01:57:37.412-04:002010-09-21T01:57:37.412-04:00"Where are you?"
Nebraska."Where are you?"<br /><br />Nebraska.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4985637425035292102010-09-21T01:51:06.029-04:002010-09-21T01:51:06.029-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63180691371891929402010-09-21T01:45:35.530-04:002010-09-21T01:45:35.530-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20697194056542532492010-09-21T01:42:05.198-04:002010-09-21T01:42:05.198-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69197417131778455652010-09-21T01:41:30.957-04:002010-09-21T01:41:30.957-04:00"Love to visit a shopping mall with you...&qu..."Love to visit a shopping mall with you..."<br /><br />No, you wouldn't.<br /><br /><br /><br />I'll think Hello Kitty thoughts for you.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82808191567248649912010-09-21T01:38:55.586-04:002010-09-21T01:38:55.586-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54376074954102265892010-09-21T01:38:31.296-04:002010-09-21T01:38:31.296-04:00Sweet.
Toots.
Got any more?Sweet.<br /><br />Toots.<br /><br /><br /><br />Got any more?trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20365934595256982282010-09-21T01:31:37.200-04:002010-09-21T01:31:37.200-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28127250794996565222010-09-21T01:25:45.626-04:002010-09-21T01:25:45.626-04:00Except maybe those later ones who made a fetish of...Except maybe those later ones who made a fetish of suffering.<br /><br />Shopping malls are just that bad.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42965463151933163062010-09-21T01:20:14.711-04:002010-09-21T01:20:14.711-04:00they sought to transform them by a resolute 'a...<i>they sought to transform them by a resolute 'askēsis' which enables a person to develop clear judgment and inner calm.[21] Logic, reflection, and concentration were the methods of such self-discipline.</i><br /><br />Exactly the point I was making earlier tonight.<br /><br />(Of course I have gone beyond mere Stoicism since my perception has been enhanced and magnified by the 'secret knowledge' I have gained through the Rosy Cross.)<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77011435241377209522010-09-21T01:12:31.070-04:002010-09-21T01:12:31.070-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87169790083404060582010-09-21T01:11:30.825-04:002010-09-21T01:11:30.825-04:00The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because...The ancient Stoics are often misunderstood because the terms they used pertained to different concepts in the past than they do today. The word 'stoic' has come to mean 'unemotional' or indifferent to pain, because Stoic ethics taught freedom from 'passion' by following 'reason.' The Stoics did not seek to extinguish emotions; rather, they sought to transform them by a resolute 'askēsis' which enables a person to develop clear judgment and inner calm.[21] Logic, reflection, and concentration were the methods of such self-discipline.<br /><br />Borrowing from the Cynics, the foundation of Stoic ethics is that good lies in the state of the soul itself; in wisdom and self-control. Stoic ethics stressed the rule: "Follow where reason leads." One must therefore strive to be free of the passions, bearing in mind that the ancient meaning of 'passion' was "anguish" or "suffering",[22] that is, "passively" reacting to external events — somewhat different from the modern use of the word. A distinction was made between pathos (plural pathe) which is normally translated as "passion", propathos or instinctive reaction (e.g. turning pale and trembling when confronted by physical danger) and eupathos, which is the mark of the Stoic sage (sophos). The eupatheia are feelings resulting from correct judgment in the same way as the passions result from incorrect judgment.<br /><br />The idea was to be free of suffering through apatheia (Greek: ἀπάθεια) or peace of mind (literally,'without passion'),[23] where peace of mind was understood in the ancient sense — being objective or having "clear judgment" and the maintenance of equanimity in the face of life's highs and lows.<br /><br /><br /><br />I'm going to the mall tomorrow.<br /><br />Probably not what the Stoics would have had in mind.trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139410627244875589noreply@blogger.com