dalelans

[dalelans]

Carve me a lion out of stone Line the picket fence with planter boxes full of begonias so red you think they’re plastic Til you look at them sun-bathed and see they’re more alive than you. Make me a labyrinth in the garden from short evergreen hedges. In the center let more peonies grow than anyone could need.

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its like chewing on an apple at an archery range - ryan davis & the roadhouse band

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racoon on the canal path dead, curled up as if sleeping, must have been hit by a car and then, in wordless shock, crawled over to this soft grass to rest.

gaping hole in a poplar the dead wood mulched by rain and time clovers growing in it. Spring flowers everywhere, roses and clematis and fleabane, and it is impossible to know if they have been sown by a person or an animal or the wind.

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a true pessimist can’t love god. if you trust god you will trust other people. if you trust other people you would trust god. is there any other way?

[dalelans]

Dopamine

When a thing wants something, that, to me, is a being. and it takes so little for some material process to want something. They all do: the rain wants the ground, the protein wants to fold, the demons want worship. It hard to find a thing that is not drenched and entranced with want. maybe all metaphors that last long enough become literal.

Eugene

[dalelans]

Snowdrops just blooming in March, Little bells, drooping like lampshades from their scapes, Petals white as the clear moon, white as bone, white as snow of course, Rising and falling from dark green leaves. Each bunch is a family of nuns, hopeful but somber. They shoot up along the creek’s edge, the first green things to reclaim this land and start the cycle of life and death again.

Eugene

[dalelans]

marriage

sacred vows before god. to say to the ground of being: ’this is who we are. we choose this. hold us to account for how we meet the demands of this role, and bless us with the blessings of what we have chosen.’

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what happens when everyone is asleep is called ‘evolution’. what happens when everyone is awake is called ‘revolution’ - GK Chesterton

[dalelans]

The anarchist is not an ‘enemy’ of the state per se. They are of it but are not for it. They see its fictional qualities. They want it to be less strong than it is, until it becomes unnecessary. They want to see their families and their towns become stronger, more democratic, and more interdependent than they are. They do not want a big impersonal and toxic spider poking its horrible feet into their gardens and living rooms. They do not want to inflict pain afar, and they do not want pain from afar inflicted on them. They don’t see the point in that. The anarchist is like Jesus: “render to caesar what is caesar’s, render to god what is gods’s” and they attribute very little to caesar. The anarchist would not like to sacrifice their life to the state: that would be too much for caesar.

[dalelans]

Let my church be where the people go to see god Let it be a haunted house

[dalelans]

The seeker

What is the belief called where you believe in a god or gods or so-called spiritual realm (you are not an atheist or an agnostic), but you are unsure of which account is right, if any are. Probably they could all be better.

You are interested in learning which is right, because you want to know the truth about god. You dont want to be mistaken about god. If anything is hell on earth it is being mistaken about what is of god (what is good) and what is not.

You could be convinced, you could see, but you haven’t and you wont say you have until you have.

What is this belief called?

Eugene

[dalelans]

The profound weirdness of our predictament is often forgotten. The tragic comedy of these upright apes, struck by something like an angel with a sword.

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James 5:1-5

[In this time of tumult and despondence, it is important to remember how old and even sacred the radical ideal is. As a demonstration, I am going to do some translations of relevant passages of scripture. While the KJV is the pinnacle of English style, I went for a more modern tone. This declaration of holy class war is from James, the brother of Jesus ]

Now listen, billionaire! Weep for the misery that is coming for you. Your money has gone rotten, moths have eaten your clothes. Your money has blisters all over it. Your money testifies against you, and its disgusting blisters will jump to your skin and eat you, engulf you in fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look fucker! The wage slaves who have raised your stocks to heaven are unpaid and cry out against you. Their cries have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived in luxury and indulgence. You have fattened your own self for the day of slaughter.

[dalelans]

If youre reading this youre in hell. Put your phone away. Go look at a tree or a cloud or the moon until the anxiety subsides.

[dalelans]

If Jesus can’t come back to us just yet could we at least have a St Francis? could we at least have a St Julian?

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I feel alienated from the world lately, like the big boulder is just rolling away, and we are watching it, left behind, trying to understand what we just saw.

Eugene

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on demons 1

demonology is the science of evil. the science of what it is doing to this world and why it is doing it, and who is doing it. if you deny the existence of demons, consider how fucked up the world is. not entirely, but commonly. who or what keeps it that way? who stops the better angels of our nature from just winning? you can say its this or that -ism that you dont like but once you get all those ideas instantiated in all of those human minds driving human bodies who’s to say its not alive?

Eugene