Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 177
April 3, 2021
WAITS BREAKS LUCE
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Here’s a Tom Waits video featuring Margrite-esque imagery and anti-Luce-ian-Time Magazine-style-war-mayhem-chaos-bankster-commercialism. For me it’s an instant-classic Waits-bash of the Apocalyptic post-American Dream. Whatever it means for you is what is means for you. Only Tom knows for sure, but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t give a shit about opinions in general. Selling albums and doing your art is all anyone usually needs or wants.
April 2, 2021
LINCOLN SPOILER ALERT
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Before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated through a conspiracy organized by Rothschild bankers in 1865 he made the following statement. His prophecy is being fulfilled by a “New World Order” conceived and empowered by global bankers, secret societies, corporations and the media “by working upon the prejudices of the people”.
“The money powers prey on the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes.
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. As a most undesirable consequence of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, United State President, 1860 – 1865
April 1, 2021
TAOISM
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Taoism is not a religion, nor a philosophy. It is a “Way” of life. It is a River. The Tao is the natural order of things. It is a force that flows through every living and sentient object, as well as through the entire universe. When the Tao is in balance it is possible to find perfect happiness.
The text central to all expressions of the Taoist spirit is the Tao-te Ching (“Classic of the Way and Its Power”), previously known as Lao-tzu after the name of the mysterious master traditionally said to have been its author. The cardinal concept is that of the Tao, the ineffable, eternal, creative reality that is the source and end of all things.
Tao is the Absolute, the “Uncarved Block” experienced only in mystical ecstasy. Te is the manifestation of the Tao within all things. Thus, to possess the fullness of te means to be in perfect harmony with one’s original nature. According to Chuang-tzu (4th century BC), an individual in harmony with the Tao comprehends the course of Nature’s constant change and fears not the rhythm of life and death.
As the Tao operates impartially in the universe, so should mankind disavow assertive, purposive action. The Taoist life is not, however, a life of total inactivity. It is rather a life of nonpurposive action (wu-wei). Stated positively, it is a life expressing the essence of spontaneity (tzu-jan, “self-so”).
Taoism has been attributed to three sources, the oldest being the legendary ‘Yellow Emperor‘, (2,704 BCE) but the most famous is Lao Tse’s Tao Teh Ching. (5th century B.C.) The “Yellow Emperor”, Huangdi, third of ancient China’s mythological emperors, is a Chinese culture hero and patron saint of Daoism or Taoism. Huangdi is reputed to have been born about 2,704 BCE. His legendary reign is credited with the introduction of wooden houses, carts, boats, the bow and arrow, and writing.
Huangdi himself is credited with defeating “barbarians” in a great battle somewhere in what is now Shanxi—the victory winning him the leadership of tribes throughout the Huang He (Yellow River) plain. Some traditions also credit him with the introduction of governmental institutions and the use of coined money. Huangdi’s wife was reputed to have discovered sericulture (silk production) and to have taught women how to breed silkworms and weave fabrics of silk.
Huangdi is held up in some ancient sources as a paragon of wisdom whose reign was a golden age. He is said to have dreamed of an ideal kingdom whose tranquil inhabitants lived in harmonious accord with the natural law and possessed virtues remarkably like those espoused by early Taoism. On waking from his dream, Huangdi sought to inculcate these virtues in his own kingdom, to ensure order and prosperity among the inhabitants. Upon his death he was said to have become an immortal. (source: Encyclopedia Britannica)
Read more about Taoism at http://www.crystalinks.com/taoism.html
PASSIONS
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
— Carl Jung
SCHOOL GIRLS VISIT CONEY ISLAND IN 1905
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This visit to Coney Island is Approved by The New York City Chapter of THE ORDER OF OMEGA TIME TRAVEL CULT
