If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
Guaranteed one-way trips to the landfill.
Today’s Special: free excoriation of bishops, imams, rabbis, philosophers and gurus who abuse their own books and insult the common decency.
What do you listen to while you work?
I like to alternate between sounds in the foreground and background sounds. Running water is just lovely, but ocean waves breaking are superb. The laughing sounds of people at play reminds me that life is still very good and valuable. I listen to recorded music for my work as a keyboard player, both intently to learn musical progressions and peripherally to catch the soul of a song. I wish there were lions roaring in the dark, and do not wish to forget frogs croaking all night long.
What’s your go-to comfort food?
It used to be a secret. Now the intelligence agencies and legislators of our times are going to eat like princes. Rice cooked in milk until it is soft and melts in the mouth, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and coconut, may look like rice pudding until you add cocoa. Light or dark brown, sweetened with sugar and/or raisins, this edible is also a favorite of some of my closest friends. I make this for me, and paradise would be having it made “like mommy used to make it”. Bring your 5 hour version of rice porridge.
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
Are you seeking security or adventure?
Mercenaries and the pampered class would like to be known as adventurers but one would think that after two deadly wars and dozens of deadly conflicts that humanity would have found a formula for security. Not the case. Most people are plotting their next investment in capital projects.
Every single bloc of nations prefers to pour billions of dollars into lucrative ventures than to secure a foundation for societies to cooperate and thrive. Is it because people think that there must always be us and them in every aspect of life? If collective security was a priority among the well armed nations Russia would not be levelling Ukrainian towns and villages today, sixteen months after Russia declared its special military operation.
I seek to become free having to hear from MxGA mercenaries. Any nation that once was great deserves a place at the bottom of the barrel and a throne at the landfill. Great again? What a total load of manure! Did Greece or Rome or Babylon or Persia ever rise again? Who is going to Jerusalem to be awed by the wisdom of any of Israel’s sages or political stars? Not a soul. Most adventures end up with somebody being cheated, oppressed, discriminated against, and exploited. It is not walls that give people security, but arms outstretched with assistance and cooperation.
What strategies do you use to increase comfort in your daily life?
I love a rocking chair, with my guitar, personal computer, and keyboard 🎹 nearby. My comfort picture has ears perked for the voices of housemates talking, laughing, and calling, for help or just engaging.
With the sounds of life from the street and the forest I can only dream of more comfortable days.
What are you most excited about for the future?
A lot of future scenarios are purely pie in the sky, and the show we have endured of empires and mega commerce will come to an abrupt end. No light, no business, literally. When the power systems of our times – the solar, the fossil fuel, the nuclear, become ineffective, the meek will truly inherit the earth. No one will be waiting for courts to rule on access to nourishment and recreation. Big business will flicker and dangle on the cliffs of silence. Angels, who neither marry nor procreate are said to personify human destiny, so it is not a stretch to have expectations about humans being like birds and the lillies of the field, astonishingly adorned with individual splendour. Governments, both large and small, will have no levers to pull, no bottom line, no profit margin, and no corrupt law enforcement. Do not ask me when. Maybe after the next great earthquake? Maybe after the waves cover the machinery of the generals and the mighty? Maybe after the sun scorched the delicate instruments of oppression? Maybe the meek will, without shame, inherit the earth “… in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they will have abundance.” (Psalms 37:19, NASB)
But the humble will inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.
Psalms 37:11
What are you most worried about for the future?
The resources of information and entertainment are being marshalled for a campaign of deception. Security, justice, and the common good are already being manipulated and diverted from the known courses. For example, civilization used to be measured by literacy, namely, writing and documentation, as compared to oral traditions. Today literacy is disappearing as cheap political and religious slogans multiply and dominate the market place, helped along by algorithms designed to sustain the supposed priorities.
Stop following the crowd blindly! Check the sources of information. Believe what your ears hear and your eyes see. The truth is more likely to be in the sights and sounds than in the spin. Deception is too easy these days, and even manifest falsehoods become treasured truths once they are repeated regularly and by trusted public officials. Be very worried, but arm yourself with unchanging truth and facts.
Life is Fun, But Not a Joke 