October 1, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic Games Too Humongous to Conceive Sacred Cosmology Religious Frames of Reverence » Focused Excellence author, publisher, originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. » Newsletter Production » Graphic and Web Design » Life Coaching » Staying Awake Blog » DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap. ~ William Blake (b 1757), poet, engraver, painter Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. Language is fossil poetry. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), writer, philosopher No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will. [...] When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. [...] They will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of “O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!” ~ Dorothy Thompson (b 1893), American journalist, inspiration for principal character in the 1942 film Woman of the Year starring Katharine Hepburn (*) Countering phantoms of fear with racist, fear mongered religious combats over millennia have interrupted even the most intermittent illusory constructions of peace. Racisms are discriminations composed, orchestrated, choreographed, then disguised by leaderships’ fundamentalism acted out by votaries (ones who sire illusions by extreme force). In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evil-doers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. (from The Gulag Archipelago) ~ Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (b 1918), Russian novelist, dramatist, historian, Literature Nobel Prize 1970 The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~ Alvin Toffler (b 1928), American writer, futurist, noted in digital, communications, and corporate revolutions, technological singularity I do think that (9/11) was a hinge moment. And if only because it showed us that we’re now inescapably involved with each other. That we can’t disengage. ~ Salman Rushdie (b 1947), British-Indian essayist, author of fiction It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things. (from Jingo) ~ Terence David John Pratchett (b 1948), English author, fantasy, satire The opposite of religious belief is not secularism or atheism. It’s the independence of mind—where you do your thinking alone. ~ Martin Amis (b 1949), English novelist You cannot wake someone who pretends to be asleep. ~ anon © 2004-2006 All rights in all media reserved. You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine is freely distributed by EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Greetings All,

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879), German-born theoretical physicist, contributed to cosmology, special theory of relativity, quantum & statistical mechanics, Physics Nobel Prize 1921

Games Too Humongous to Conceive

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it, you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But, for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg (b 1933), American physicist at University of Texas, USA, Physics Nobel Prize 1979 with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow

I’ve had puzzling intuitions since childhood. At September 11, 2001, I began compiling enough information to begin connecting science and history with conservative biblical trainings received in my youth. The puzzling intuitions, I think, were previsions of games too humongous to conceive. Those previsions wouldn’t vanish, and became an emphatic part of my personal cosmology at 2001.

Merging science and history with biblical texts, I’ve finally found words to summarize an elegant, astonishing apex of three seemingly concurrent evolutions, displaying the greatest circus of games too humongous to conceive.

One. The detectable Grand Phase Change induced by the sun; an epoch manifesting the steady evolution of Earth’s current warming cycle with or without the presence of humans. Prior to now, the most recent evolutionary epoch reduced numbers of species, and resculpted Earth some 65 million years ago. This evolution looks capricious over the short term; over the long term of millions of years, evolution appears collaborative.

Two. Stupendous elaborate conflicts evolving within religiously and politically dominated, masculine militant hierarchies that could in a preordained agenda implode Abrahamic monotheisms, appoint duplicitous arbitrators, or appoint only one arbitrator to maintain peace already skewed by the very religious enterprise that inherited the medieval matrix. This evolution results in putting faith in myths and their illusions, believing illusions are real things; exposing a deity that assumes the most vindictive character in all of fiction.

Three. Corporatocracies (religious, financial, governmental, educational, commercial, broadcasting, motion picture industries, et al) evolving multiple illusory realities, vexing citizenries’ expectations of physical safety and emotional sanity. This evolution also results in believing acidulous illusions are real things.

I think it’s peculiar how all three evolutions overlap, peculiar indeed. Just imagine the one-upmanship, phone calls, emails, and appointments that must be occurring for men who are synchronizing natural climate changes with their monumental swaggering fantasy show, improvised by scriptures in Abrahamic eschatologies; namely Christitanic, Judaic, and Islamic theologies, each revealing its messiah for the end of the world as we know it. Umph!

Games too humongous to conceive are marketed right in our faces in forms of outrageous combats over resources and geography. Mostly, complex games are about words, language, and symbols expressing freedom; freedom from harm insinuated by religious scripts—free-enterprise ideologies—that thwart good will between humans through streams of media.

Intolerable, misleading phantom fears of alarmist ‘warren terra’ deliberately confound taxpayers’ perceptions.

The prime directive is to placate citizenries’ upsets by leaderships’ religious allusions while planning nations’ disruptions of any illusions of peace. I ask, ‘Look you sirs, to what end?’

Sacred Cosmology

Contentious games too humongous to conceive convolute the profound sacredness of life. A nontraditional, sacred cosmology is something too many Earthlings dismiss. And, evidently, too many sheeple do not wish to change their habits of believing because they are not encouraged to challenge their religious beliefs, or to recognize what happens when those frames of reverence are taken to their ultimate combative extremes. (*)

Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
~ Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (b 1804), German philosopher, anthropologist

Gawking Earthlings not staying awake to the dark side of history may as well be ostriches hiding their heads in the sand, not asking questions, and not feeling upset. The funny thing is religious ostriches may fair as well as lit’l o’enlightened me clutching my pearls of sacred cosmology through probable debaucheries of industrialized civilization!

Religious Frames of Reverence

Civilizations rise and decline seemingly by design. It’s peculiar that 17th century engineering still goes on, creating beautiful cultures only to get torn down not by nature, but by vaticanic design. Also, it appears over millennia, Earthlings had invented myriad art forms and architecture by which to remember their ancestors and where their ancestors came from. Except for the Jewish tradition, which is genius for remembering their past, it appears other marvelous historical frames of reverence were bollixed; ancient familial ties brought to a close; and, fenced-in minds became ancestorially amnesic during the last 400 years. I ask the designers, ‘To what end?’

Medieval theologies and their stories are still current, making a grim global cosmology thriving on superstitions and unsolved mysteries. Through this decade, it appears political shills are strong-armed to synchronize olden religious fear-based myths with waves of climate and weather changes. Natural climate changes are corporatized then politicized as commercialized superstitions, sometimes insinuated as divine acts in progress, habitually worshipped like dog’s vomit by too many bereft Earthlings.

Are industrialized taxpaying Earthlings not to account ourselves responsible for acts of our exalted political leadership? Didn’t we vote to get them into office? Remembering some (many, all) of our elected officials were likely not elected at all, but preselected by invisible males, scamming judicial processes while calling stratagems democracy. Swindling votes for profit and greed has happened not just during our life times, but from expertise that began millennia ago.

Arrogant men, within an axis of ethics free egos, in old families of colossal wealth are invisible to taxpaying publics. However, their clueless fundamentalists, stirred up religious pawns who set up and play their versions of righteousness too humongous to conceive, do anything not to appear superfluous. If financial or political triumphs go unrecognized, pawns publicize their (in)justices as divine prized acts (above the law) in humans’ quagmire of insanity, an insanity manifested in main stream media.

Religionism or racist fundamentalism weren’t conceived with Earthlings’ well being in mind. Instead, hired extremists’ alarms and harms conceal from taxpaying hirelings unlawful acts of greed and profit conceived and maintained by a few cloistered males of colossal but false power.

There are no accidents. Abrahamic traditions and eschatologies were written as deliberate dupes entwined with games that developed into global discriminations too humongous to conceive.

Isn’t it annoying that too many oppressed Earthlings believe shaming biblical texts (re)written for the mentality of the 17th century; a mentality that couldn’t have known the sciences and sacred cosmologies of today?

As we move through this decade of psychologically controlled upsets, more religious prophetic phlegm of fear will be coughed up by proselytizers. Built into scripture are shaming ideas that command bleating believers, led by the nose by scurrilous shepherds, to habitually scare unbelieving sheeple into folds of believership. Out of religious frames of reverence, demagogic squanderers of governing are bound by their own ideological, racist upchuck.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit. ~ Samuel Barclay Beckett (b 1906), Irish playwright, novelist, poet, minimalist, Literature Nobel Prize 1969

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