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SIZE AND IMPORTANCE

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MANKIND’S ESTIMATION OF SIZE AND IMPORTANCE ARE RELATIVE TO THE HEART

HOW TO WRITE

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One contemporary writer who inspired me to write books is Neil Gaiman.  I’ve never had the honor of meeting him personally.  However, I’ve read many of his books. To that degree I feel as though I can perceive and share the essence of who he is, as a spiritual being.  His books, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book are among my favorites. His books are marvels of mythological wit and wisdom.

Likewise, I never met Mark Twain personally.  However,  I’ve read nearly all of his books, including the 1,496 page Autobiography of Mark Twain. Through his words he purveys his personal passion and pain; convictions about life, joy and empathetic anguish. Through his words, I discovered the tragedy of his realization, late in his life, that human existence is an ironic comedy of  cruelty, stupidity and despair.  Laugh or cry: it’s all the same.

I have been asked by several people: “How do you write books?”.

My advise is simple:

1) Live your life and be true to your own observations.

2) Write about what you know and believe in your soul.

3) Read the minds of Great Thinkers through their books.

The two profound and prolific writers I site above are exemplary (as well as hundreds of other literary masters too numerous to name individually), to wit:

4) Think and communicate your thoughts one word at a time in writing. Continue until you die.

May you survive in perpetuity through your words!

CAGE OF ILLUSION

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“How does one create a cage, lock one’s own self inside the cage, throw away the key, and forget there is a key or a cage, and forget there is an “inside” or “outside”, and even forget there is a self? Create the illusion that there is no illusion: the entire universe is real, and that no other universe exists or can be created. “~  from the book ALIEN INTERVIEW

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VIRTUAL REALITY GAME: LIFE

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This is a very cute video about Life, Universes and Other Stuff….

LET IT BE PREDETERMINED

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Fatalism: noun —  resignation, stoicism, acceptance of the inevitable;

Stoicism: noun — the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.   synonyms: patience, forbearance, resignation, fortitude, endurance, acceptance, tolerance

Predeterminism: noun — the idea that all events are determined in advance.[Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.

Predestination; noun — a doctrine or theory common to many of the prevalent religions such as Christianity, Islam Buddhism and Hinduism. Some of the features of it apparently seem identical with each other in every religion but the spirit of this concept generally varies in all to cause the bewilderment in the human community as to which of these explanations is based on truth.

INDEPENDSDENSEDAY

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CREATION

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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and “gallows humor”. Beckett is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. His work became increasingly minimalist in his later career.

(Read about Samuel Beckett, and read what he wrote)

Steps Ahead – Live in Tokyo, 1986

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This is my favorite live music performance of all time.  Astonishing…haunting… mesmerizing…amazing!

via YouTube – Steps Ahead – Live in Tokio 1986, 30th July – In a sentimental mood / Trains.

REGULAR REALITY

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My Reality is more interesting than regular reality

MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, AND OPINION

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My Best Friend wrote me an e-mail recently to ask me a very good question:  

“Why don’t you ever write about your personal thoughts? I want to know your OWN real feelings and emotions. Your joy, pain, fear, insights  – but with your OWN words. Lawrence, I want to hear YOU!”

I realized that this idea had never occurred to me before!  Why don’t I ever write Blog posts about my own, personal ideas, emotions and point of view?  This is really a great question!

So, I started doing some heavy “soul searching” to discover the answer.  I recalled that some great philosopher, a long time ago, said that “A Question is The Answer to The Question”.  It’s a rhetorical.  A question always answers itself.

Here’s an example.

QUESTION:  “Why can’t dogs fly?”

ANSWER: “Dogs can’t fly.”

QUESTION: “Is the Federal Reserve Bank a scam?”

ANSWER: “The Federal Reserve Bank is a scam.”

I have written 9 books of my own. And, I edited and published what could be the most important document ever published in the history of Earth:  the interview transcripts between the pilot of the Roswell UFO crash in 1947 and Nurse MacElroy, which I published in the book ALIEN INTERVIEW in 2007. If you have not yet read this book, you need to read it.  It will completely CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

So, the answer to the question: “Why don’t you ever write about your personal thoughts?” is answered within the question:

ANSWER:  I NEVER write about my personal thoughts!

But WHY don’t I write about my personal thoughts?  The “WHY” question also answers itself.  The Answer is that there is no “why”.  Life, Universes and Other Stuff, ARE what they ARE!!!  There is no such thing as “why?”.  It’s just another rhetorical question that answers itself.

Existence is what it is. People are who they are.  Ideas, opinions, dogs, flying monkeys, witches and criminal Federal Reserve bankers are what they are!  They  ARE.  They cannot change the essence of themselves.  Snakes are snakes.  Mice are mice. Men are men, and Women and women.

This god-forsaken physical universe we live in does not allow changes in the “program” of existence!  The “law” of this universe seems to be:  “IT IS WHAT IT IS”.

You and I can change our OPINION about this universe.  However, opinions do not change this universe.  At least, this has always been my personal feeling and opinion.

But, maybe I’m wrong…..  Einstein proposed the idea of “relativity”.  Quantum Mechanics.  Maybe the universe is all just made of infinitesimally tiny particles of energy that are conceived and contrived and animated by an unseen and unknowable, unfathomable, primordial, a priori “Force”.  And maybe, as the alien pilot in ALIEN INTERVIEW says, the “force” is us!  You and I, as spiritual beings, may be just “thinking” this entire universe into existence!  Maybe it’s nothing more than all of our “personal opinions” combined into One Gigantic Multiverse of Interactive Points of View that We All agree is “The Way It Is”!

I think about this kind of stuff all the time.  I am an old man.  I am retired from the “real world” of business and the economic necessity to work all day doing shit that I hate to do so I can feed and house a biological body that I inhabit whether I want to or not.  Personally, I think and feel that this “reality” we call the “universe” is totally fucked up!  It is filled with pain, suffering, stupidity, amnesia and antipathy toward every sentient entity — plants, animals and people — who co-create and co-inhabit this god-forsaken shit hole called Earth.

Maybe this is why I don’t write about my own, personal thoughts emotions and opinions.  I think that YOU — the reader and subscriber to this Blog – don’t really want to hear MY opinion about Life, Universes and Other Stuff!  You already have YOUR OWN personal thoughts emotions and opinions about Life, Universes and Other Stuff.   So, why would you waste your precious time reading my opinions?

It’s a “rhetorical question”.  The question answers itself.

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(I would like to know YOUR person opinion about MY personal opinion.  So, if you don’t have anything better to do, leave a COMMENT.)