The Certainty Principle

Oil on canvas board
16x20

My impression of racism as a problem.  Nothing in this world is black and white.

Brass in pocket

So, I've got a little spending money.

I could consume, give to a worthy charity, or save.

All my options are the opposite of denialism.

Because I don't have children, I don't get a tax break.  Kind of like being paid to procreate.

What this leads to is a life like in 'The Hunger Games', or 'Divergent', or 'Ender's Game' or 'The Giver.'

It seems fact is just catching up with fiction - the futuristic world of 'Brazil' is now within the scope of reality.  Where terrorists attack innocents and repairs are done best by professionals.

My computer is my little window on the world.  It is optional if I participate.

Or I could live a life of denial - hence denialism is the new framework for rebellion.

Whether I am too old to care, or cannot afford financially my participation in the great economy, I am forced to care.

No longer can I just let life pass me by.  I am forced to care lest I deny my existence.

The end.

Philosophy and Religion

Philosophy gives a man a pair of comfortable shoes...
Religion makes a man walk.

Whatever we do...

Whatever we do filters down to our children.
If we teach them to say no to drugs, chances are they will eventually try them.
If we hit one another physically, chances are they will try the same behavior.
I may believe I am lost at sea, and I don't affect children in any way,
but there are those who teach on recess rather than in class.

The teacher may have a structured classroom.
One with many desks, and a chalkboard.
But what about the class clowns?

The audience may line up, buy a ticket, and sit in an auditorium.
---expecting to be entertained by what happens on stage.
---expecting to laugh, cry, and applaud.

A person may go to a therapist, and get healed - however unlikely.
It is the person who heals himself.  Therapy comes from within.  Healing is drawn out by one's surroundings.  It can never be imposed by force.

So, is the main problem of life how to teach correctly?
The rules and regulations our ancestor's devised?
Or do we write our own rules regardless of the powers that be?

We are at once the ones doing and the ones done.
Every moment counts, yet matters not at all - that is the paradox of life.

Are you going to go silently or kicking and screaming?  Whatever you do, do it wisely, and remember the children are listening.

Only in painting...

In writing, you can see 10 months pass by in two sentences.

Only in painting can you see 10 months in two seconds.

That is all.

Wrap your head around this:

There is much to read...

There is so much more to read than there is to write.
My God, there are students at MIT who videotape (DVD?) their every single waking moment.

I believe in the future we will go to theaters to watch other people's dreams.
It would get really interesting if we could learn to control our dreams, in the manner which people learn to control paint, jewelry, ceramics, etc.

But until that day, we will type on computers.

I often dream my computer gets completely overtaken by some evil.
This evil prevents me from using the computer as a two-way device.
I am completely limited to the evil and whatever it says to believe.
This is why computers must not be let ruled by evil.  Like Disney or Pixar.

We must keep ourselves with freedom of speech and original idea.
OUR ideas matter more than a corporations.  Corporations are zombies.
WE are human and have original ideas.

Some bulbs are brighter than others, but we all shine on.

Another dream I have is when I run out of light bulbs and my bulbs keep going out.
WE must fight the darkness and nothingness too.

Peace.