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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:01:27 -0800

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:12:10 -0800

"... You have provoked all this from me with your dreary, unsatisfying letter, and your half-finished sentence, " And in the future " -- Why did you stop? Did you fear to go on ? Well, and in the future ? Do you think any woman will love you as I have loved you; will forget you as completely as I will forget if I choose ; will scorn you as well if it comes to it; will be as constant or as fickle, as passionate or as cold ? It may be; but I think not, for my strange heart is given to the Fates to wring with what agony they will, or to fill to the brim with joy, and out of either I can give lavishly.

Do you understand me ? I doubt it. I stand here by the gate of many things, wondering if the latch shall be left up--or down forever. For when the summer-day is done the twilight comes, sweet enough for the dawdlers who would sit and dream alone, but not for me with the wild blood dancing through my veins. Draw down the blinds, say I, and bring the flaring lights; the guests of the day may go, but the guests of the night will come--ready to begin what perhaps you are ready to end. Jn the beginning are life and promise and love; but in the end ? In the end one lies down to die--and forget. Good-bye...."

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:24:29 -0700

Keyserling's Europe (1928) and Spengler's Hour of Decision (1934)

Continued from previous post

From the page: "... IV. Like another, later analyst of modernity in its agony, Eric Voegelin, Spengler sees at the root of Liberalism-Nihilism the perversion of a religious idea. "All Communist systems in the West are in fact derived from Christian theological thought: More's Utopia, the Sun-State of the Dominica Campanella, the doctrines of Luther's disciples Karlstadt and Thomas M�nzer, and Fichte's state-socialism... Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism." The materialism - which is again a type of nihilism - of Marxism and socialism never contradicts the case for liberalism-nihilism as a perversion of Gospel themes. "As soon as one mixes up the concepts of poverty, hunger, distress, work, and wages (with the moral undertone of rich and poor, right and wrong) and is led thereby to join in the social and economic demands of the proletarian sort - that is, money demands - one is a materialist." But, this being Spengler's point, one may have the belief-attitude with respect to one's materialist doctrines that the fanatic of God has for his mental idol, with the concomitant fierceness and ruthlessness. The end of real Christianity is "renunciation." With reference to the sentence of Adam, writes Spengler, the Gospel tells men, "do not regard this hard meaning of life as misery and seek to circumvent it by party politics."

In a precise description of the modern, immigration-friendly, general-welfare state, Spengler remarks that "for proletarian election propaganda," an opposite principle to the Gospel one is required: "The materialist prefers to eat the bread that others have earned in the sweat of their face." When the Gracchan rabble dominates from below so that the demagogues might manipulate from above, then it will come to pass that "the parasitic egoism of inferior minds, who regard the economic life of other people, and that of the whole, as an object from which to squeeze with the least possible exertion the greatest possible enjoyment" will seek its bestial end in "panem et circenses." Once the majority descends to vulgar consumption through extortion - and through a mere pretence of work under the welfare-umbrella of "the political wage" - then the society has doomed itself. It can only lurch in the direction of its inevitable demise. Even the keen-eyed will not want to confront reality. They will, as Spengler writes, "refuse in horror" to believe what they see. Spengler might have been thinking about a letter from his correspondent Roderich Schlubach dated 9 October 1931. Schlubach writes: "I frankly admit that much of what you prophesied [in The Decline] has taken place. The decline of the West seems to be at hand, and still I do not believe in an end of the world, only in an entire change in our circumstances..."

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Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:58:11 -0700

Witty Remarks from Jay Leno

According to Fed Chairman Ben Benanke, the recession is over. Where is that 'you lie' guy when you need him?

They used to say a recession is when your neighbor lost his job, and a depression is when you lost yours, but now they say a recession is when Wall Street gets bailed out, and a depression is what you get thinking about it.

There's been a big scandal at A-Porn . . . I mean ACORN.

ACORN is an organization that gets government money to help poor people. Well, now they're in trouble. These two filmmakers went to ACORN posing as a pimp and prostitute saying they wanted to buy a house and run it as a brothel. ACORN gave them advice on how to do it and how to avoid prosecution and how to avoid paying taxes. If they want to get away with prostitution and not paying taxes, they should go to Congress. These are the professionals.

New House rules say members of Congress cannot call the president a liar or hypocrite, and they cannot say he is dishonest. To which President Bush said, 'Hey where were these rules when I was president?'

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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:59:23 -0700

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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:33:21 -0700

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:21:08 -0700

..Milarepa

"My religion is to live - and die - without regret."

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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:27:07 -0700

"... As for us, we forgot to be afraid of the lightning, the thunder, and the downpour, just as a droplet in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. Insignificant yet grateful, we became part of this world - a primal world in creation before our eyes..."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:21:25 -0700

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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:40:28 -0700

For You My Love

I went to the market, where they sell birds
and I bought some birds
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell flowers
and I bought some flowers
for you
my love
I went to the market, where they sell chains
and I bought some chains
heavy chains
for you
my love
And then I went to the slave market
and I looked for you
but I did not find you there
my love

~ Jacques Pr�vert