b78 (4.10.2017): smart bomb (you came from heaven)

smart bomb (you came from heaven)  ^[1]

by bursti n. ginair

smart bomb (you came from heaven)

you brightened up my night

you dis-located evil (and you showed him left from right)

smart bomb (you came from heaven) you’re a sight for all to see

but what went wrong? (our future, gone)

my kitten, daughter, me

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• written by a mom, watching a newscaster describe the launching of tomahawk missiles as “beautiful…” 

…but suddenly realizing that this thing of beauty, in addition to "bursting in air," has landed on top of her living room.

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[1] martino, joal. (4.10-3.17). smart bomb (you came from heaven).  book 78: dark days. © 2017 by joal martino. 

  

b78 (3. 18-2.2017): stoopid is as stoopid does

stoopid is as stoopid does  [1]
by h. u. mandoing

alternative title: ignorance ain’t bliss

ignorance ain’t bliss
thoughts have consequence
thoughts lead to beliefs (leading to acts that make no sense)
leading to a nightmare that we wish there never was
ignorance ain’t bliss, and stupid is as stupid does
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·        this thoem is not inspired by politics.
·        it is inspired by a life-form that values itself above all others: a vampirical cancer that cannot see itself in its own projection/reflection.
·        a species that has apparently lost its ability to practice the art and science of introspection.
·        a mass of lemmings, allowing a few (powerful) leaders to steer us off of a cliff.
 
…but here’s a secret:
·        the leaders have no power that we do not freely give to them.  they (shockingly enough) need us.
 
 

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[1] martino, joal. (2.18-2.17). stoopid is as stoopid does. book 78: dark days. © 2017 by joal martino. 

B78 (1/28/2017): reporter billybob v. kellyanne

reporter billybob vs. kellyanne (it’s no contest):

[reporter billybob] “kellyanne, uh, this morning… mr. t. tweeted about his, uh, breakfast, and..."

[kellyanne, cutting him off abruptly, and frowning] “first of all, billybob, that’s an unfair question.  we all know that the obama administration and the liberal media have ruined breakfast for centuries..."

[kellyanne: smiling, grudgingly] "…and furthermore, a former president shared sausage & cheese omelets with other women…"

[kellyanne: smiling painfully] "…and everyone knows that bernie wants everyone to treat everyone else to free, endless brunch."

[kellyanne: smiling, sharply] "…beware of socialism!  egg farmers… be afraid!!  in fact, that’s where the word “chicken” originally originated!"

[reporter billybob]  "but..."

[kellyanne: smiling, smugly] "…but to answer your question, he always means exactly what he says about the wall… except when he uses alternative facts." 

[reporter billybob]  (chuckles)

[kellyanne: furling brow, frowning, and increasing the decibel level] "…are you laughing at me???!!!  i’m going to have to re-think our relationship!  the egg is on your face, now, billybob!" 

[kellyanne: smiling, half-heartedly] in any case, it’s your own fault if you took him ‘literally’ – because we all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day……next question!” 

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from book 78: dark days.  

b77 (2.14-1.2016): Love life

life: the inevitable result of complex chemistry ^[1]

by s. cien tific 

alternative title: Love life

millions, billions, trillions
mega, gega... wat?
everything is tiny in this giant space of us

everything is no-thing (in this teeny bowl of stew)
millions, billions, trillions: it’s the stuff of me and you

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• be-Cause wIe are One:  collaboratively connected, yet divided.  i[n]-div-i-dual, yet Whole.  Same, yet with singularity of perspective.  Stew, yet you.

• who knew?

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[1] martino, j. (2.14-1.16). book 77: shift happens. © 2016 by wellnesseducation.us. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZyVZBtP70

b75 (6.5-1.2015): date nobody

date nobody [1]
by n. o. body
 
date no-body (in springtime)
date no-body (in fall)
date no-body (in summer) or date no-body at all

(instead of dating ‘body’ intertwine with mind and soul)

 

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[1] martino, j. (6.5-1.15). date nobody. book 75: lost & found. © 2015 by wellnesseducation.us.

 

b75 (5.27-1.2015): Alpha and omega

Alpha and omega [i]
by diametrically opposed & Al l. One  
 
Alpha and omega
swap a little smile
fight and kiss and squeal and hiss and bump that chest awhile
 
vying for your best position, share a little dual
Alpha and omega (flying) breaking all the rules
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·        is it Love, or is it a territorial dispute?
 
·        will they make babies, or will they drive each other crazy?
 
·        are they perfectly mis/matched/attached?
 

Alpha and omega

dueling all the time

is it twist of fate, or is it Really by Design?

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[i] martino, j. (5.27-1.15). Alpha and omega. book 75: lost & found. © 2015 by wellnesseducation.us.

  

b75 (5.22-2.2015): the bliss of marriage

the bliss of marriage [i]
by marita l. bliss

people often imagine the bliss of marriage: together, loving each other forever, raising the perfect children, traveling together, co-ordination, co-operation, co-Union, etc.
 
but have they ever imagined the other side of the coin?
 
what if your loving partner just happens to turn pissy, or angry, or needy, or addicted?  what happens when you’ve made the legal commitment to stay in it (“till death do us part”), but you re-cognize that you don’t even like each other’s behavior?  what happens when (due to those mutual dislikes), you no longer even desire to have sex with each other, or even touch each other, or even to speak kindly to each other?  what happens then???
 
what happens then, young jedi… is this:
 
you’re f---ed (and not in a good way).
 

• now you’ve got to beg for a mediocre lifestyle,

• now you’ve got to hope for a reasonable settlement,

• now you’ve got to split things up,

• now you’ve got to rationalize the break-up by cutting-down your former lover,

• now you’ve got to explain it all… again and again, and again,

• now you’ve got to be alone: no touch, no love, no plans, no partnership, and

• now you’ve got to wonder if you ever even want to start the whole process over again, because you never, ever saw this catastrophe coming… and your loving side probably won’t see the next one coming, either. 

now you can’t leave.  now you can’t just ‘go home’.   now your partner can extend his/her period of pissy-ness (or violence, or whatever…) for hours, for days, for weeks and even for years!!! 
 
now the burden is on you to play the bad-guy role, the breaker-upper role, the failure role… unless you decide to staaaaaaaaaaaay… and live in mutual love/hate/cohabitate for the rest of your time on this planet earth. 

‘till death do us be miserable beyond all belief.

 
the bliss of marriage is a mirage.
 
if you’ve got bliss… if you click… if you love what you’ve got… then why not just keep doing what you are doing?  why change it?  why f--k it up?  why turn bliss-ness into hellacious-ess???  why regress????
 

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[i] martino , j . (5.22-2.15).  the bliss of marriage. book 75: lost & found. © 2015 by joal martino.

b75 (4.28-1.2015) my own research on the bible

my own, personal research on ‘the bible’ [1]

by anonymous (my own, personal belief: G∞d. Is. Love)

my own, personal research leads me to believe (not ‘know,’ but believe), that, in regard to ‘the bible’: 

1. there isn’t one ‘bible’.  there are many versions, in many languages, with many editions and many translations. 

2. ‘the bible’ (in this essay, from here on out) refers to the many, many, many bibles that, while similar in many ways, are different from each other.  there is no such thing as ‘the bible.’  there are various bibles that stem from pieces of interpretations of ancient artifacts (all of which were created/written-down by men). 

3. the bible(s) is a compilation of stories:
1. stories that were passed down, from generation to generation -- by word of mouth, via song, and through poetry.  i’ve tried to translate poetry (from another language).  have you?  it’s an exercise in extreme futility.  as one might imagine, poetry doesn’t translate well at all.  once translated… you’ll then need someone to interpret the translation!
2. word-of-mouth (as you surely know) is also a poor, ineffective method of transferring any kind of information.
3. men (not women) were in charge of the story-telling, writing, editing, translating and publishing processes of the bibles.
4. no one knows who wrote what, and no one bothered to write down who edited what, and no one seems to care who translated what.
5. men wrote it, men edited it, men translated it, and men edited it (again and again).
6. even today, it is men (mostly) who are in charge of how to interpret it. 

4. the type of men who would have had the wherewithal to oversee the writing and ‘publishing’ of the bibles were, and are, men of power (men of control, men of war). 

5. the biblical god is not ‘loving.’  pick any page of the old testament, read on, and it will not take you long to find verses that show the biblical god to be angry, jealous, vindictive, punitive, vengeful, sexist, prejudiced and judgmental.  ‘he’ is a murderer (in fact, ‘the flood’ was the largest premeditated, mass murder/genocide of all [earthly] time)! 

6. there are many, many, many more than 10 commandments.  the biblical god does not follow his own commandments, and you know that this is true.  example: “Thou shalt not kill.” 

7. the biblical god is preoccupied with blood: blood sacrifices to himself, especially. 

8. the biblical god is an egomaniac… a raging lunatic… and, oh, occasionally: loving.  he’s a lot like an angry, mean (but sometimes okay) alcoholic dad… probably like the ones who wrote and edited the bibles! 

9. no one knows if Jesus really existed.  no one knows if Jesus is god.  many of the stories of Jesus are stories of love, and many other stories show Jesus to be an egotist, as well as a trouble-maker.

10. Jesus gave ill-advised directives that only an idiot would follow: “leave your home, your wife, your job, your friends, your family… and follow me.”  that, my friends, is not good advice.  who else but a few down-on-their luck fishermen would ever drop everything (yes, everything) to follow a long-haired homeless man -- around and about an obscure countryside? 

11. Jesus (if he existed) was a charismatic hippie who was more likely to get his followers killed than to ‘save’ them from anything.  don’t get me wrong: i Love the Love theme and the hippie theme.  i also like the idea of turning water into wine (especially on friday evenings). 

12. back to ‘god.’  wait… uh… Jesus is god.  whatever. 

13. when an all-knowing, all-loving, all-caring god determines that the best way to ‘forgive sins’ is (a) to impregnate a young palestinian virgin, (b) to have one [and-only-one] ‘son’ (c) to set the causes in motion that lead to his ‘son’ being nailed to a cross and murdered in public, and (d)… after all of that, to make a change in the rule that “The only sins that are (really) forgiven are those of followers who believe in me” … i can easily deduce that no ‘God’ made up that bullshit.  Men made it up.  i tend not to worship a dad who would blood-sacrifice his only child. 

14. “flood a planet, and drown ‘em all!”: when an all-loving father decides that his best plan for dealing with some unruly children is to kill every, living thing on the planet (including innocent babies, innocent women, innocent kittens, innocent puppies, innocent fig trees, etc.)… then he’s just proven that he is not all wise.  he is not all-loving.  he is not even nice (for god’s sake)! …and (let’s not forget) he didn’t just kill them, honorably.  he drowned them! 

         the equivalent of that would be your creepy next-door-neighbor (a) creating a garden, (b) noticing some weeds, and then deducing that his best course of action was to take his kids, your kids, and all the neighborhood kids into his bathroom and hold their heads in the toilet until they drowned.  oh, and then he’d do the same to your parakeet and tomato plants.  this is the kind of biblical god that people actually worship???

 

15. when one of the bible(s)’ greatest heroes ‘orders’ the killing of women and children, but then relents, allowing the virgin girls to be kept alive – only to be given to soldiers (as the spoils of war)… we’ve got a divinely-inspired problem.  by the way, when only the virgin women are kept alive, and when they are ‘given’ to soldiers to “do as you wish,” and when soldiers “do as they wish,” those 10-13 year-old girls aren’t virgins anymore!  what happens to them then?  nice attempt at divine inspiration, moses! 

16. when one of the bible’s heroes can ‘buy’ a wife (as property) with 200 foreskins… we’ve got divinely-inspired insanity.  adultery, murder, slavery, and the systematic slicing-up of men’s penises.  david must have been divinely-inspired… or he had some divinely-inspired penis envy. 

17. when a fig tree doesn’t bear fruit for the main character (Jesus), and, pays the price of death… we’ve got a divinely-inspired-angry (or hangry) writer. 

18. when a man lives in the belly of a whale for 3 days, we might have divine bullshit, but the writer (and the believers) show little-to-no knowledge of human (or whale) anatomy. 

19. when a ‘devil’ has power, and when god ‘bargains’ with the devil, we’ve got something other than an all-powerful, all-wise, biblical god.


20. when gods (and angels) come to people in dreams, and when dreamers tell us that their dreams are real, and when we believe them, the problem isn’t god.  the problem is us. 

21. when gods ‘choose sides’ in race, in war, and/or in super bowl victories, we’ve got to wonder if it’s god, or if it’s men, playing god.  did god deflate tom brady’s balls? 

22. my deduction: men of power, playing god.  men wanting to control.  men in charge.  men, writing the his-story.  old men, creating gods in their own, white-bearded image.  men, hood-winking a never-ending flock of sheep who are too lazy to research (or critically read) their own holy books, or too tired and overwhelmed to realize bullshit when they read it.  men and women, telling outright lies to young, impressionable minds… and then wondering why their own children lie when they are all grown up. 

23. believers are not believers: while it is true that ‘believers’ might believe men who tell them how to interpret insane information from an insane compilation of stories, they do not believe a lot of things:
1. they don’t believe everything they hear.
2. they don’t believe everything they read…and they don’t/can’t read others’ holy books.
3. they don’t believe everything they see.
4. they don’t believe everything that somebody tells them.
5. they don’t believe politicians and/or used-car salesmen.
6. they are not ‘believers.’  they simply choose to believe stories that they’ve been told by men, based upon little-to-no evidence, without ever, ever questioning their own religious beliefs. 

24. i could go on (literally) for volumes (after all, the bibles do), but i’ll close with this:
1. is your god ‘male’?
2. how do you define ‘male’?  does your god have a penis?
3. if he has a penis, what does he use it for?  urination?  sperm? (ewww…)
4. if he doesn’t have a penis, wouldn’t that make him transgender (or non-gender)?
5. does your god have a mouth?  why?
6. does your god look like an old white, bearded, european male?  why is that?  have you ever contemplated that?  who do you think wrote, edited, translated and published the kjv?
7. would you describe ‘love’ as a ‘masculine’ characteristic, or more of a feminine characteristic?  is ‘murder’ (inspired by angry, vengeful, parental rage) a loving act?
8. has your god shown up lately?  no, not as a piece of toast, or ‘in a landslide,’ or ‘as a cloud,’ or ‘in a dream,’ or…  (fill in the blank ____________ illusion), but…
9. has your god ever shown up, except for in the eyes and dreams of very questionable people?
10. would you let your grandkids hang out with that preachy, loud guy-in-the-street who swears-by-god that he sees, hears, and communicates with the one-and-only god? 

…why on god’s given earth would you ever, ever, ever worship (and pray to) the god of the bibles?  

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 [1] martino, j. (4-28-1.15). my own research on the bible. book 75: lost & found. © 2015 by joal martino.