There are roughly similar stories told about some ancient philosopher who wandered around during the broad daylight holding a lighted lamp.
Diogenes of Sinope is usually the one described as the 'philosopher with the lamp,' and he is also of course, known as - Diogenes the Cynic.
Expensive martini in Lotte New York Palace. They make it, and they have no idea how seriously important what they are sticking in there are, as ingredients. Literally as medicinal ingredients. Still, accidents happen, right. Fortuitous accidents.
But the account of why he did that was because he was wandering through the city market-place 'looking for a man;' by which he meant a 'real' man and not a wimp or someone susceptible to bribery and so on. So the usual sentence is that he was 'looking for an honest man' although the actual original texts don't say this: just that he was 'looking for a man.'
By certain other accounts it was Socrates who was seen bearing a lighted flame in the daylight, and when asked why, he said - 'because it is so dark here.'
Now this has a completely different meaning and all kinds of implications that the story about Diogenes doesn't have.
In fact most of the stories about Diogenes are pretty simplistic and he seems to have been a simplistic fellow, but nevertheless, his in-your-face attitude always finds its self-involved appeal in the minds of the other simpletons of the human race.
Same way that it is so easy for charlatans like Bertrand Russell, and very sophisticated and malevolent characters like Karl Popper, to enter into the acceptance of the uneducated and crass - partly because they are always saying the same stupid thing over and over again:
'See, see. You can't see it. It isn't there. Agreed?'
And every fool nods sagaciously and readily agrees.
And because people indeed do not see it, they think these imbeciles are 'wise' and 'honest.'
Here is someone though, who will tell us about light.
And when you have watched the whole thing, you quickly realize that morons like Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell and the whole band of them, are complete idiots, and just plainly wrong, in terms of actual science.
They're stupid people, ignorant; plainly ignorant because it is a lot of years since Francis Bacon and Al Kindi and Isaac Newton.
At some point you have to accept they are mentally deficient. And if you pointed them to the Feynman video and they still clung onto to their ridiculous and myopic ideas, you'd have to call them mentally defective.
Bertrand Russell is one twig of the thicket of, the Evolutionary Bush of Lies, that has characterized the rise of political academics, if not academia itself, whole-ly, in the modern West.
Despite that Russell is declared to have been a leading promoter if not even one of the actual founders of 'analytic philosophy,' you will never - as in never at all - find one single example of his 'analysis' of any data or any process of logic...
What you will find instead, are assertions by him that something is conforming to 'logic' (and thus also necessarily to the rules of logic) - when they are in fact really not at all; he, like his student Wittgenstein, play with words and terminologies and thereby pull the wool over the eyes of the credulous and the unsophisticated.
Russell is 'famous' for his so-called 'barber's paradox' (also blatantly acclaimed, and stupidly so, as 'Russell's Paradox') in which all barbers are only those who shave men who do not shave themselves, and 'therefore' the barber who doesn't shave himself must shave himself therefore he cannot be the barber therefore 'the barber' does not exist.
And then, to make matters truly devious to the idiot minds looking on, and also worse and worse by stages, they go into so-called 'first order of logic,' 'second order of logic,' et cetera. ...so that it all looks complicated and has 'maths-like terms' employed and everything cool and groovy.
The problem is that the whole thing is nonsense. Any programmer dealing in constructing code will instantly recognize that the flaw is that the basic algorithm uses deliberately ill-defined 'operator' labels: for instance 'all those' (who are 'barbers' supposedly, according to the line-code, so to speak; therefore inter alia 'all barbers...').
The trick, or the slip of truth and reality, is that they think you can substitute 'those' for the specific nominative label 'barber/s.' Or at least they want to believe that you can.
The logical truth is that in the specific case of this barber (who 'might' shave himself at some point), there is a condition of chronology applying to all the barbers anyway, and when he shaves himself, he becomes an exception to the definitional rule, but then who set this rule in the first place (the rule is in actuality 'wrong'); he's still a barber just not a barber who never shaved himself.
These are called 'emotional experience' showers. LOL - You can buy them. For money. It costs you money. But you can have them then.
The word 'barber' means person who cuts beards (and so on), it does not mean and never has done - a person who cuts the beards only of people who do not shave themselves!
The guy is still a person 'who cuts beards.' 'Do not shave themselves' is a condition not a term.
Yet. Bertrand Russell - Lord Russell, in fact - is widely regarded as a frikkin' genius, right?
And then (which is going to take me to what I wanted to discuss here), from the status of acclaimed frikkin' genius, what he has to say about Jesus Christ and religions and Christianity in particular, simply must be fantastic and of course, certainly troooooo.
Yes m'lord, no m'lord.
If you take Lidocaine (in some common mouth washes) apparently, some people can hallucinate, by 'seeing multiple,' and 'ghostly outlines.'
If you close your eyes, you can also 'see' phosphenes still reacting inside your optic nerves and so your brain can see 'lights.' And there are other kinds of hallucinations that are natural, and also 'visual impressions' available to the sleeping or resting brain that is not receiving direct external optical stimuli.
Now I've already said many times that there is a big problem with translations, especially modern translations of ancient philosophical and/or religious literature, and there is also the small matter of certain things writers were seeking to put down in writing, but that were highly dangerous, sometimes illegal to say, and sometimes which they wished to disguise to the 'uninitiated.'
Or you can have that. It doesn't cost a lot of money...
But, nevertheless, let us accept some of the criticisms of those like your Bertrand Russell's, who will say, oh but Jesus never actually returned during the life-times of 'some of his disciples' like He claimed that He would do, and that there is simply not a single verifiable material fact that can be subjected to empirical analysis, that either any 'gods' exist or that anything for instance, Jesus said is materially true to us today, if it ever even was, since the whole of the New Testament could easily be fiction.
And ET Aliens don't exist because we haven't got one and stuck it in a bottle, to empirically analyze.
So...
You walked into a car-park and found a lottery ticket, and it was a winning ticket, and so then - you won. A whole lot of money.
Yippee!
Thirty minutes after you find you really have won (won't be just the standard 'five seconds' which is what I often like to say) - you will say: 'Oh but it wasn't really what Calvin was telling us -, was a coincidence. Yes, a happy and amazingly valuable short-term, one off coincidence, but nonetheless, meaningless in any kind of a sense of reliable process.'
Now you see but, I haven't told you the process. I have fenced around it quite a lot but I do not want to attract the pointless and very silly childish accusations of 'Delusion! Delusional!' that obtain to anyone who says 'You can see the Light...'
Still if you spent fifty grand and went out to the very private and secluded Monroe Institute facilities, they will coach you into having a certain kind of visual and sensory experience.
And it won't be anything at all even remotely like anything you can read about on Wikipedia about what a 'delusion' or an 'hallucination' is like.
Shouldn't cost a lot of money but it does cost a lot of money because it's at Oscar's Steakhouse.
Let's hear from that man Jesus on this subject of the lottery tickets, again:
Matthew 6:19 "Store up for yourselves treasures (means 'winning lottery tickets') in Heaven."
Well, why? What are we going to do with them up there, when we are down here?
The Muslims say 'wait till you are dead, then, so that then Allah will not (here's the 'Allah Barber' version of Russell's idiocy) burn your beard and face off each day and then grow you another one each night so that he can burn them off again, next day - till forever.'
And the Campbell's Tomato Soup Christians more or less say the say thing - jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
And that, boys and girls, is exactly NOT what Jesus the man down here, said. Instead, he said, a little further down the same page - Matthew 6:26 - "Behold the birds of the air, they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns... ...yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"
Yeah so, I have not been telling you about how to 'see' anything with some actual weird 'illumination.' Ha! The Illuminati have a long walk up the hill here to get to me on this matter of 'Light!.'
But I will tell you this - you need to see the lottery ticket in 'up there' first before you will see it manifest down here next. Isn't that right, Rabbi Alon? That's what the Zohar says, yes? Parashat Metzora or somewhere like that. Or maybe some exegesis by Rabbi Akiva.
I dunno. Better just go ask Rabbi Alon. He will know for sure. I'm not a Jew and I don't know the Zohar (much!), but it is in there, just like it is in the ancient Greek 'mystery' texts.
Otherwise what's the point of 'just' finding something lying on the ground one time.
You don't want one packet of Golden Tim Tams. Or 'three wishes.'
Never-ending wishes.
You want 'limitless pack of Tim Tams' and 'never-ending wishes.'
You need the process.
I have the process. But it's all there, right in there, and you can find it all by yourself - although not in those parts where Pythagoras, apparently, murdered a competitor mathematician who had either discovered the Golden Ratio or irrational numbers or something.
Wouldn't be in those parts.
And then the other thing is, if you find the 'light' to see your way by in the 'up there' (because it is pretty dark in all of those abandoned junky space stations near the Earth), better not to tell anyone, because they'll cut your head off back down there where there's jealous people, see.
Especially since by the time you 'find the light' you will 100% definitely not want to go giving the information out to everyone.
No no no. You'll find you will have only enough 'energy' to spare for the lighting of your own torch.
I'll give you 'elite/s!'
It's me or its a tiny small handful of us, or it's nobody.
You think I can't bring down a tidal wave or a meteor on the head of anyone? You're wrong.
Well but that's right, isn't it? Logically? If 'winning lottery tickets' then 'tidal wave' too surely, just as easily.
Don't be flailing about here with frivolous 'lottery ticket' finds.
Yeah there's Satan, and he's 'diabolical.' So? So what? So am I. Why would you think not?
Oh we're so love-y love-y, right?
Maybe. Maybe Mr FBI-man. For you, oh yes, for sure. We are powerless, weak, and harmless.
Do not think that just because you can see with your natural eyes, that you can really see.
You see the stick bending in the water. ...It is not bending.
You see magenta and you see purple and you say these are 'colors' - but they do not have their own wavelengths but instead are combinations of red, blue, and violet, each of which of those do have their own discrete wavelength ranges that define their color 'labels.'
And it is not as simple as suggesting that the label 'purple' is a cultural phenomenon because it is actually not - there is such a thing as purple, but only as a combination of very different wavelengths and not something existing in its own band. So, fair enough, it is not an 'illusion.' It is just not a spectral color, that's all.
Are these two tiles the same shade/color or not the same? What say you?
Adelson's checker shadow however, is an illusion.
What we literally see, and are entitled to see and to perceive, is not what is really there at all...
Huh?
Oh yeah.
We see 'white' things or 'lightness' in terms of variations in intensity against backgrounds or immediate surrounding other intensities - and this allows us to make out edges of things where all the 'faces' are in fact the same 'whiteness' or the same 'grayness.'
If I jump to a related subject, but which appears radically different - the movie 'The Burnt Orange Heresy' my personal view is that you are not missing the most life-altering thing ever, if you never watched the movie. It is a film somewhat about art and artists and how society and modern culture deals with these things, but deep down - well there is no 'deep down' in it at all.
It is cynical, shallow, interesting and engaging to an extent because of our own cultural programming as seasoned movie-watchers to believe that 'story-line build ups' such as what we can see in this movie at its beginning, will end up with some revelation, whereas instead, it's just simplistically hard-bitten and cynical and outside of Mick Jagger's outstanding portrayal of a money-motivated old hand at serial exploitation, it 'holds nothing' of any value, moral or otherwise.
Donald Sutherland is himself and the younger actors are passably okay.
And that's that about it.
What do you say? Same or not the same?
If we go to something that has been claiming to be 'morally deep' for many thousands of years, the Hebrew religious scholars can tell you, that when Leonard Nimoy took a peek at the Shekinah, when the Kohen (intermediaries between God and Man) were 'shining' their Holy Blessing upon the people - what we will find is that the Hebrew exegetic texts all say the Kohen are 'praying to God' at that moment, even though they are actually not verbally doing that nor are they looking at 'up there,' but instead addressing the people directly (who are all supposed to have their eyes closed).
So what is going on? Or at least, meant to be going on? Did Nimoy actually see the 'Glory of God?' Well, I am not sure from his interviews on it, seems like maybe, might have been, something - but what he certainly knows he did see, of course, was the famous 'Spock hand sign' which he then gave to the world in Star Trek.
Okay, so the 'secret' teaching is that God intended for the whole thing to, not so much just 'depict' a two-way interchange, but to actually be that: but literally to be about two-way interchanges between people.
The 'prayer' is the two-way engagement between people...
I get that as a separate idea, same as I get there is a color 'purple.' Even though there isn't one; even though there is.
I get that.
How about now? Same shade or not the same shade? (Answer is they are the same shade. 100%).
I don't like that this 'God' claims that He is 'standing in with the Kohen' (okay, you can call them 'priests,' Jews don't like that you say that, but hey, we're gonna say it still).
I want Him to be literally there, not 'invisibly' there or 'non-spectral color' there, but there, of course there; because well 'purple,' right?
Otherwise what makes this still not 'just an idea' that Moses and co went out earnestly looking for God over, and but coming back with a brilliant idea in place of?
Yes it's a great 'God' idea - aka: God is Love expressed, actually expressed between two parties... ...I get that. Brilliant. But not God. Maybe from God, or something like that. But not actual God.
Sorry God, don't tell me you are there, invisibly with the Kohen guys. Not good enough.
When you say 'Glory' I want to see that. When you say 'Thunder' I want to hear that.
Okay you know what...? I'll make a compromise though. Maybe was okay, when people were mostly all idiots and ignorant and violent and destructive (well, they still are that...); while you were getting this great idea to seep into human consciousness. But right now?
No. Not good enough for right now.
And yes I still get the first point, but no, not for right now.
See, a good idea is self-contained within itself isn't it? It can have been back then, and still remain a good idea now and yet not be actual 'God' outright. Doesn't need to be 'God' to be a really good idea.
Was a good enough idea but now what makes it that 'we' the human race though are still running around giving military equipment and killing thousands and sending money to kill more thousands and lying to the public and stealing from them and acting like little, no - not acting - being conniving petty little tyrants?
After many thousands of years of lots of 'good ideas.'
Hope the factory is totally robotic, so that we can have these new still... Afterwards.
I understand the latest 'conspiracy theory' is that with these vaxxes, everyone who took them will be dead in five years - and then, the 'elites' will just have... ...well, I'm not sure what the point of killing so many people off is. But I guess then the 'elites' will have the place to themselves.
Will they need to have a few otherwise useless eaters around to do the 'clean up,' though? I don't know what the conspiracy theory says about that side of it.
The conspiracy theory doesn't sound quite right to me, because if they can have killed off so many, why would they even care about 'avoiding being blamed because it didn't happened instantly?'
As it is, the Supreme Court judges know damn well the voting is crooked but they are obviously bought and owned and they are not going to do anything about egregious criminality and corruption. And that's because they are that themselves! The Depp Trial absolutely proved one thing -, which is that you can suppress crucial evidence in a supposed honest and fair trial.
The FBI are the biggest joke on the planet. That was made abundantly clear this last week.
So. Interesting.
Where does that leave us, now that we have seen that 'white' is a pretty gray area...
Some of you haven't yet 'seen the light.' But you sure as heck have seen the shadier sections versus the lighter parts.
And that's good enough in many ways.
It will help you to 'see the edges' and keep away from the cracks. And that will be well good enough for what is coming towards us down the turn-pike not too far ahead, let me tell you!
And then a sound like great waves rolling and the voice as of the sound thunder, and then I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.
Okay.
'Red Pill/Blue Pill.' An important totem of modern popular culture. I think they took the idea from an old Disney movie called 'Babes in Toyland' but I know people will argue with me. ...Who haven't even seen that movie.
Well, we've already had the 'silence in heaven for about one half of an hour,' so okay, we're back to noise again then...
LOL
Still, let's have another look at this: 'the voice of harpers harping...' Well what does that mean?
Means the general music, singing and playing - and then it goes on 'as it were a new song, that no one except so-and-so many were able to learn.'
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen, the Finnish expert EDM producer and DJ says at the end of his show to the audience: 'Given what is going on currently in the rest of the world, and in Europe particularly, I can't believe that what I am seeing is such a demonstration of people being united: you guys are the very definition of unity, of being unified.'
Well okay, part of that is true enough, the rest of it is he has been into the audience proper, chatting to the people, playing around at the front edge of the stage proper where the mostly all pretty hot women aged from 18 to anything, up the front pushing forward, were.
And then, let's not forget that the sound system is utterly extraordinary and bones and tissue and blood are 'at one' with the very physical vibrations going through the air.
A couple of years earlier, I had watched as the current state Premier of Western Australia turned up at a suburban food hall and sat with the people who were just there in their normal daily lives, and he left his 'security team' well behind as he chatted with people generally without any kind of arrogant manner or standoffish-nish at all. After a while it was clear he would be protected most of all, by the ordinary people, if anything
One side of the vast complex at Hillarys Boat Harbor where Finnish music producer 'Darude,' performed. Pic doesn't give an accurate impression of the size of the place; it's pretty huge - many floors. Very upscale inside.
Later that year, he won the election by the greatest margin ever in the history of all Australian elections, leaving just one 'opposition' member on the other side in Parliament, but another one eventually joining that side through a contested result and I think, someone just plain feeling sorry for them on 'the other side.'
The human race is just such a 'game in development.' I've said this a number of times, but it's worth re-stating:
I totally accept the sincerity of people of the past who 'went out in the earnest search for God.' But then when they come back, you can certainly say to them - you went out looking for God but you came back with an idea. And then you turned around and told everyone else that you had found God whereas in fact you found an idea. And you are pressing onto people an idea, as if it were the God, but in fact never showing the God.
God is not an idea. The word for God yes, that is an idea of something. But it is not God.
The so-called Tetragrammaton, as much as Jews want you to believe they 'have hold' of the name of God, and that this is 'special' and sacred, and also powerful (of course powerful, naturally, it has to be powerful) - is nothing more than an idea.
You see, there is not one single actual hard text in existence, dating from anywhere near the supposed time of the supposed 'Moses,' with the 'Yodh' - that letter 'floating in the air' at the beginning of 'JVHV' - in that supposed name.'
There is every excuse of course - 'goat ate my Quran' (lol, sorry, just had to), goatskin faded and then decayed into dust... ...and then Wikipedia too for example, goes to great lengths to blur the matter by showing this 'letter' as it would have been written in ancient Phoenician, and 'Paleo-Hebrew' as if somehow, this means that it ever had have been, written.
Darude. Famous for a track called 'Sandstorm.' Has many many others though.
So but is God then, actually an idea - such that yes you can 'viscerally experience' God, but as a full comprehension of the powerful idea?
No. Well, It is that, resonance from supremely powerful ideas...
But, like the sound of many thunders - because it is itself in part an idea like thunder - and then, just like the thunder -, the sound of it presages lighting, storm, and rain.
God is not just an idea, however good that idea may be.
Here is how you may touch God personally, and have the god touch you:
Inside of you is a space, in which you have entertained every idea... You have let in there, the words of your University professors, your media speakers, your politicians, your culture, what passes for your society.
The only things that should be allowed into that space, are the highest, most illuminated dynamic living beings - and the ideas are what you have with your material brain about them.
Put yourself there... Except wear earplugs, okay? And then, listen to the music below.
Five seconds after I teach you what 'word' really is that thing they are describing as the Tetragrammaton, every single thing you imbue with it, becomes alive, becomes endowed with a dynamic living force, and 'happens.' Which is the reason why they say not to use the name of God in vain.
You don't need me to teach you that word. Not right now.
For now just look forward, and imagine yourself, in a relatively not too large EDM space, like a nightclub, with incredibly powerful speakers arranged properly everywhere. ...And lots of beaming lights flitting through the air. And realize the visceral feeling of being caught in the sound waves. I had ear-plugs, myself. I don't know how anyone doesn't. The sound from the speakers is so powerful but also precise, so that when the percussive 'rim shots' strike they literally feel like they are cutting into your body, and the futuristic 'twitch twitch' sounds of the phaser sound effects, synced to the beam lighting literally feels like you are being zapped by a sci-fi space gun. The bass is the whole swelling visceral force of some kind of 'sound sea':
It's probably not a great idea to advertise where you are going to be in three hours.
So, I won't.
Suffice to say that if I even survive the night and live to tell the tale, well maybe we'll be in a condition to tell it by tomorrow... ...sometime.
LOL
Apparently, the code is 'follow the White Rabbit.'
So that's what I'll do. And see what happens. That's a good idea, isn't it?
I couldn't make the Church Nightclub last week in Denver for Haliene's Aliens but, um, we'll be doing the * - or wherever the White Rabbit goes this evening instead.
