On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:58 PM,
Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> People-animals
& Animal-people. <<<
( Another one for the blog's pot.)
People are animals. Animals are people. 'People animals,' (that's us),
don't know how to talk among themselves, so how would they know how to talk to 'Animal people?'
Look at what we do. We chop everything in half, and call our bit 'good', and the other bit,'bad.' Because that's how our language defines everything. And we think our language is good because it's ours. But who are we to talk? We are only half-people because we think our animal part is bad. You know, "worse than an animal."
Too bad by half. We're 'Halfists'. That's our belief system.
Is it any wonder we build a 'civilization' made of 'other bits'? The left-over half we think is 'not us.' You know, trees, rocks, earth etc. The 'bad' part we're forever trying to conquer and tame. Then we wonder why we live in a junk heap!
Halfists. Half arrogant, half mad. They're bound to cause trouble. Being 'side-takers', they think everybody is against them for being against everybody, which they are. Forever wanting what they think they don't have, and should have because they think they are the better half of themselves.
Rene Descartes, might just have well have said: 'The better thinking part of me thinks i am better therefore i am."
Well what 'about' the animal part, which is not 'a part' because not apart. Or it wasn't, before you decided you could chop a whole in half.
What the animal part is NOT, is 'cruel and savage'. It's not 'dumb', 'stupid', or 'without feeling'. Neither is it 'soulless' or 'lacking intelligence and natural wisdom'.
All the things, People animals think Animal people are.
Let's get things the right way round.
People animals,(that's us) are 'the Clown of Creation'.
That would be funny if we weren't so currently ignorant and downright dangerous. Why, do you think, the Animal people don't seem to laugh? Give or take a few hyenas who obviously have a highly developed sense of black humour. After all, it's us who chop them in half and eat them, and we do a pretty ( not pretty at all) savage and brutal job of it too.
Human(e)? Don't think so. What's humane about humanity? Ask your better half.
The 'other half', which we designate to 'dumb animals' has most of the goodies we deny ourselves. To name a few:~
Grace, Freedom, Dignity, Authenticity, Spontanaeity, Telepathy, Empathy, Acute senses, Precognition, Physical prowess, Social cohesion, Attunement to habitat, Resourcefulness, Caution, Total presence, Soulfulness, Prudence, and lots more we've forgotten to remember.
And reason calls them 'dumb animals'. How 'reasonable' is that?
It would be reasonable to have a bit of humility, and not be chopping everything in half with our brutally ignorant binary language.
In our crudest possible terms, we think, 'this is this because it's not that.' That's the rule of language, not reality. In reality, everything is this AND that inseparably. Inter-dependently.
Ignoring this, is what makes us so dangerous. We're not designed to be this way, we're just , literally, 'spell bound'.
Since we're not naturally this way, we can dispel (de-spell) our spell.
Just stop defining reality through language!
Doesn't mean we can't communicate, or have to stop talking. Although learning to listen without thinking would be a good start.
Did you ever meet anyone who didn't insist, against all possible refutation, that they are 'me'? And you thought you were the only one!
This one feels it's about time the People animals, (that's us ) learned from the Animal people,..... again.
As it was before we became The Clown of Creation. I mean, we're not even half what we used to be. That's 'progress'. It's pathetic! Embarrassing. And the Animal people are not laughing and i don't blame them.
There are those among us who would chop everything in half and patent both bits and charge you for one, or more of them. And they mean business, and i mean, 'Business'.
Well, stop joining them and join yourself back together instead.
If you had half an animal instinct you'd know, their intentions are sold to sound like what you think you most want. A unified world.
Bark bark! Woof woof! Even the wolves are howling. Not laughing.
You can only get yourselves back together. I mean how many have you got?
Get it together. As Robert Dylan once said: "It's every man for himself are you a man or a self?" But no. Service to others. Your/our kin.
It's called 're-membering'. Do you remember, how it was, before we split? Do you remember? Mark my words.
Mitakuye oyasin. (All our relations.)
(Part inspired by Tippi (Degre) of Africa/ and all natives. Google it!)
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( Another one for the blog's pot.)
People are animals. Animals are people. 'People animals,' (that's us),
don't know how to talk among themselves, so how would they know how to talk to 'Animal people?'
Look at what we do. We chop everything in half, and call our bit 'good', and the other bit,'bad.' Because that's how our language defines everything. And we think our language is good because it's ours. But who are we to talk? We are only half-people because we think our animal part is bad. You know, "worse than an animal."
Too bad by half. We're 'Halfists'. That's our belief system.
Is it any wonder we build a 'civilization' made of 'other bits'? The left-over half we think is 'not us.' You know, trees, rocks, earth etc. The 'bad' part we're forever trying to conquer and tame. Then we wonder why we live in a junk heap!
Halfists. Half arrogant, half mad. They're bound to cause trouble. Being 'side-takers', they think everybody is against them for being against everybody, which they are. Forever wanting what they think they don't have, and should have because they think they are the better half of themselves.
Rene Descartes, might just have well have said: 'The better thinking part of me thinks i am better therefore i am."
Well what 'about' the animal part, which is not 'a part' because not apart. Or it wasn't, before you decided you could chop a whole in half.
What the animal part is NOT, is 'cruel and savage'. It's not 'dumb', 'stupid', or 'without feeling'. Neither is it 'soulless' or 'lacking intelligence and natural wisdom'.
All the things, People animals think Animal people are.
Let's get things the right way round.
People animals,(that's us) are 'the Clown of Creation'.
That would be funny if we weren't so currently ignorant and downright dangerous. Why, do you think, the Animal people don't seem to laugh? Give or take a few hyenas who obviously have a highly developed sense of black humour. After all, it's us who chop them in half and eat them, and we do a pretty ( not pretty at all) savage and brutal job of it too.
Human(e)? Don't think so. What's humane about humanity? Ask your better half.
The 'other half', which we designate to 'dumb animals' has most of the goodies we deny ourselves. To name a few:~
Grace, Freedom, Dignity, Authenticity, Spontanaeity, Telepathy, Empathy, Acute senses, Precognition, Physical prowess, Social cohesion, Attunement to habitat, Resourcefulness, Caution, Total presence, Soulfulness, Prudence, and lots more we've forgotten to remember.
And reason calls them 'dumb animals'. How 'reasonable' is that?
It would be reasonable to have a bit of humility, and not be chopping everything in half with our brutally ignorant binary language.
In our crudest possible terms, we think, 'this is this because it's not that.' That's the rule of language, not reality. In reality, everything is this AND that inseparably. Inter-dependently.
Ignoring this, is what makes us so dangerous. We're not designed to be this way, we're just , literally, 'spell bound'.
Since we're not naturally this way, we can dispel (de-spell) our spell.
Just stop defining reality through language!
Doesn't mean we can't communicate, or have to stop talking. Although learning to listen without thinking would be a good start.
Did you ever meet anyone who didn't insist, against all possible refutation, that they are 'me'? And you thought you were the only one!
This one feels it's about time the People animals, (that's us ) learned from the Animal people,..... again.
As it was before we became The Clown of Creation. I mean, we're not even half what we used to be. That's 'progress'. It's pathetic! Embarrassing. And the Animal people are not laughing and i don't blame them.
There are those among us who would chop everything in half and patent both bits and charge you for one, or more of them. And they mean business, and i mean, 'Business'.
Well, stop joining them and join yourself back together instead.
If you had half an animal instinct you'd know, their intentions are sold to sound like what you think you most want. A unified world.
Bark bark! Woof woof! Even the wolves are howling. Not laughing.
You can only get yourselves back together. I mean how many have you got?
Get it together. As Robert Dylan once said: "It's every man for himself are you a man or a self?" But no. Service to others. Your/our kin.
It's called 're-membering'. Do you remember, how it was, before we split? Do you remember? Mark my words.
Mitakuye oyasin. (All our relations.)
(Part inspired by Tippi (Degre) of Africa/ and all natives. Google it!)
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artwork: Kisses the Wolf,
martin law, January 2009
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