Saturday

During the Seventh Crusade an old woman walked 

with a dish full of fire in her right hand

and a bowl full of water in her left hand.

Asked why the two bowls, she answered

with the fire she would burn Paradise 

and with the water she would douse  the fires of Hell

Because she wanted no one

to do good

for the reward of Paradise,

or from fear of Hell;

                    but solely out of love (for God.)"

Today, this properly Christian ethical stance survives mostly in atheism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/opinion/12zizek.html.

Political Joke

Why won’t Iraqi women

sleep with American soldiers?

because they say “they’ll pull out”

but they never do…

Commentary

Now one could say by making light of the situation in some sense we are lessening the dire straights of those in other parts of the world and in a sense we are…

and even as a dishwasher                                                                                  we would make jokes about our lives  

Post Modernism

talks around around 

that which it doesn’t know,

Here we are 
With the fall of communism ,

history was declared dead

and things would get better

           indefinitely

(for those in the know)               

The good people

vote democrat

live healthy lives

      support NGO’s

     applaud Chomsky

                 and believe in

                         the liberation

                                   of the subject/self/solely

 

Virtual World

Canadians have the option

of a second life on cyber vision

Somewhere Else

people still eat dirt cakes

 

Bukowski Says

humanity never had a chance

Finally

self destruction is an act of courage

and

the only truth about psychoanalysis

                                                            is it’s exaggeration. (Lacan)

Where I Live

This Saturday

the 1st day

of 2011 

a beautiful woman

serves coffee…

 

her hair is blond

her face is tanned

and her eyes

are pleading

for mercy…