2022

Jan. 6th, 2022 05:10 am
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New year, New you

Cheap magic for people who want to believe that the numbers we assigned to the days mean something. Anything can mean something if I see it.

What I see in this year is opportunity like I've never seen before. Anything can exist in the space I live in now.

There are masses engaged in the media over things that matter and many that don't. Tweeting, commenting, liking, reposting, censoring, complaining. Over and over to infinity. It has no end. It's a vortex. A black hole. It exists yet it is not visible. It pulls at everything and eats it alive. It creates and throws out so much it seems to be unstoppable and unavoidable. Numbers, graphs, images, videos, statements, fear, anger, worry, endlessly released into the world.

Or is it? Is it even real?

It exists. Yes. Its there. I call it The Mass (leaving the media off.)

But is it real? Its as real as calendar numbers assigned to the rotation of the earth.

So where is the real? Its where I say it is. It is where I see it and interact with it with my body, my senses.

Starting from nothing - as much nothing as I can create from the something that I become conscious of each morning - I can observe and create.

My mind is making meaning and reasoning and telling me what to feel about it. It just goes. Where is the real?

It begins where I have courage to look. The feeling comes first.

Courage are the hinges on the door. Courage is the pivot. Courage is created, forged, and applied. It's not stumbled upon and picked up like a prize.

"I can't"

Then don't. Your Self knows itself as part of The Mass. It can be comfortable there.

Words are the world.

In the gospel of St. John written in Aramaic there is a phrase used that translates to "I is". Translators for centuries assume it is wrong and write it as "I am".

Create the is.

Am is static and hard. Is is fluid and boundless. Am requires a bunch of stuff to justify it. Is exists without questions.

Is is the counter to The Mass, the black hole.

I is. 2022
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Catherine was a noble maiden of Alexandria, who from her earliest years joined the study of the liberal arts with fervent faith, and in a short while came to such a height of holiness and learning, that when she was eighteen years of age she prevailed over the chiefest wits. When she saw many diversely tormented and haled to death by command of Maximinus, because they professed the Christian religion, she went boldly unto him and rebuked him for his savage cruelty, bringing forward likewise most sage reasons why the faith of Christ should be needful for salvation.

Maximinus marvelled at her wisdom, and bade keep her, while he gathered together the most learned men from all quarters and offered them great rewards if they would confute Catherine and bring her from believing in Christ to worship idols. But the event fell contrariwise, for many of the philosophers who had come to dispute with her were overcome by the force and skill of her reasoning, so that the love of Christ Jesus was kindled in them, and they were content even to die for his sake. Then did Maximinus strive to beguile Catherine with fair words and promises, and when he found it was lost pains, he caused her to be hided, and bruised with lead-laden whips, and so cast into prison, and neither meat nor drink given to her for the space of eleven days.

At that time Maximinus’ wife and Porphyry the Captain of his host, went to the prison to see the damsel, and at her preaching believed in Jesus Christ, and were afterwards crowned with martyrdom. Then was Catherine brought out of ward, and a wheel was set, wherein were fastened many and sharp blades, so that her virgin body might thereby be most direfully cut and torn in pieces, but in a little while, as Catherine prayed, this machine was broken in pieces, at the which marvel many believed in Christ. But Maximinus was hardened in his godlessness and cruelty, and commanded to behead Catherine. She bravely offered her neck to the stroke and passed away hence to receive the twain crowns of maidenhood and martyrdom, upon the 25th day of November. Her body was marvellously laid by Angels upon Mount Sinai in Arabia.

Source: "St. Catherine and the Emperor Maxentius," posted 25 Nov 2010, http://www.diakonima.gr/2010/11/25/st-catherine-of-alexandria-virgin-and-martyr-november-25/

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