ACCEPTANCE VIA CONFORMITY.......CONGRUENT OR CONVERGENT VALIDATION.......IN THE SHORT FILM, "FISHBELLY WHITE".....THEN, LATER, IN THE FULL LENGTH FILM, "THE MUDGE BOY"
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A decade back, my word(s) of the day.....to ponder.......Dilemma, Assuagement and Oblique Palliation......
..in the context of being perpetually confronted with contradictory inputs that require ethical or moral judgment calls, while simultaneously avoiding the pitfall of mitigating my and others' feelings in the struggle to maintain congenial, open correspondence while being characteristically direct and to the point, even when I realize that I am merely extrapolating from creative equations that have no purpose other than the intrigues of mindful coincidence and creative waterfalling.........Watching the rather profound episode of GOTHAM ..... " Follow the White Rabbit " , after re-reading the Lewis Carroll books and, obliquely, re-watching the film, " WHAT THE BLEEP "....and really relating to James Gordon's frustration and disempowerment by the irrational insanity of The Mad Hatter......noting the parallel of my trying to make sense of the expressions of those in more intimate correspondence with the "me' that resides outside intellectual thinking o...
THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
I spent some 'Times' in 'The Principal's Office' .....fortunately, my parents....dressed to the nines..to establish their credibility....came to School and 'bailed me out', promising that I would ' be a good boy' ....My " Crime " was refusing to Pray to "God" or "Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" in Jr. High School..... or sing the National Anthem...."Oh, Say Can You See"...or the, still at that time, "Battle Hymn of The Republic".....The 'Weekly Reader' was removed from the Alabama Public Schools' Libraries and replaced with even more copies of The Holy Bible...... These 'Times' are, even now, are...increasingly....being re-established in many schools of 'red' states.......as part of de-evolutionary curriculums.....as late as 10th Grade, I was 'punished' for Free Thinking...the Enemy of the Righteous Right.......I, still, have nightmares about being beaten wit...
What young men really want to eat.......you got it!.....sugary junk food, of course....and fatty fried 'stuff'...Movie Theater Chow.....
LICKING, SUCKING AND GULPING ARE HUMAN'S FIRST INSTINCTUAL WAYS TO FEED.......
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi looks through my aging eyes......“The Wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
'THE EYE GOES BLIND WHEN IT ONLY SEEKS TO SEE" “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Bow your heads and clasp those hands in abject humility, delusionals....or 'wake up' and do something REAL......
I've heard or read a couple of hundred requests for prayers in the last 24 hours.......I don't "do" prayers, folks!.........I don't believe in spirits, God, Gods, Angels, Demons or Devils....Reincarnation or other manifestations of afterlives...well....ANY of that!.......{however, I do like whacko religious imagery..... in Art...that is}