cosmic rapture

unconditional dust

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:19 PST

Lot of dust in the air this morn. Catches in my throat as I walk the dog, B. Horrible taste of dust in my throat. Worse for B. because he's got weird skin tags growing in his throat that make breathing difficult at the best of times. Unfortunately these are the worst of times. As a rather large Ridgeback B presents an incongruous site coughing and spluttering like a sick child. Actually, he's a

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plees freeze flees

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:54:31 PST

Continued from lunching intense What really happened was... no lunch, no wine, no tribespersons bearing platters of desert delicacies. No deep fried date hearts in scorpion sauce. No.READ MORE... Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights reserved.refresh / home

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lunching intense

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:16:05 PST

On the third day they crossed the Mazzambimbi at Monk’s Fjord and found themselves in the badlands. Trudging through the sand on zir two pairs of legs, stepping gingerly over the rotting carcasses of dead donkeys, even JillJack found it heavy going. “Stop pissing in my ass” ze told zirself crossly. One man, one woman, one hermaphrodite, one soul-sucking alien monkey and one soul-sucked zombie

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what is and what will never be

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:40:25 PDT

The isthmus of isness protrudes into the Sea of serendipitous stochasticity.READ MORE... Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights reserved.refresh / home

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think size matters

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:56:14 PDT

Where thought and brains are concerned, size does matter. In a different, subtler way than one might think. The nature, scope and number of thoughts that can be thunk within a given brain: these things are not completely and comprehensively determined by the raw number of neurons, the brute material amount of grey or white matter of the brain concerned. READ MORE... Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007.

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140 bird-brained stupidities

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:24:47 PDT

Nowhere to be, and not much to say last week, next month or even today? Don't get all sad or twisted and bitter dumb it down, cut it back, put it on Twitter.Cats miaow, dogs bark, cows moo and goats bleat but only a birdie goes tweet tweet tweet tweet If that makes you that much more twisted and bitterer you must be a twit, a twat or a twitterer. Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights

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free lunch

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:18:07 PDT

yes no good bad light dark .... .... .... .... .... .... Here's a very strange and interesting experiment: For each pair of words, choose which word goes in which column, so that each column contains words of a similar nature, following the example of the first three pairs in the table at the right. Ready? Ok, here goes: "night" and "day". Next pair: "right" and "wrong". Next: "black"

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great misnomers in history

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:47:43 PDT

Human rights (human wrongs?) Real numbers (not as real as other kinds) Corporate employee communication (managers pretending to talk to managees pretending to listen.) Human intelligence (nuff said!) The Final Solution (still not solved) Negative growth (give me a break) United Nations (give me another break, but much harder) Collateral damage (and vertical and horizontal and intra- and

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the Seeker's Gift

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:28:50 PDT

S was captured by a roving ranger of the Sunnees---a cheerful bombing people---and taken into the cruel, dry heart of a vast and trackless desert populated but thinly by scorpions and fleshbeetles. On arriving at the main encampment of the Sunnees, S was hauled before the tribal chieftain, Islimiri, a tall and rangy man in a loose burnoose sunburnt to within an inch of his life, his broad

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Venn diagrams

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:10:02 PDT

I'm going to be using Venn diagrams in some future posts, so I thought I'd kick off with this one. It's pretty self-explanatory. It shows two sets, A and B, and the intersection of A and B at Area C. It shows the members of sets A and B, and of Area C. The background is the universal set containing everything that is, was, will be, has been and could be in every manner, way, shape, form and

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the conservation of beauty

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:49:53 PDT

A mother and her son had an argument. About something stupid. The argument started small then grew bigger and louder until the son got so angry that he took a knife and slashed a beautiful artwork his mother had spent years creating, had poured her heart and soul into. Unsurprisingly, she was heart- and soul-broken when her life’s work---and her relationship with her son---was destroyed in an

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age of empires

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:12 PST

The Celts wield leather belts producing ugly welts on the backs of surly Swedes 'til someone cries "it bleeds!" The Vikings have their likings for hittings and for strikings but purple plastic sandals are never worn by Vandals attacking grog-soaked Gauls shivering in their shawls fearing night-winged moths much more than Visigoths and everybody runs away from hunnish Huns including foolish Franks

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bald men riding camels in sandy places

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:13:04 PDT

"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" is a question first asked and answered in the olden but not golden days of scholasticism: days of metaphysical nitpicking and hair-splitting. But modern schools of thought still are no less concerned with abstruse matters of dubious relevance, such as whether reality is continuous or discreet, smooth or lumpy, comprising waves or particles, real

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moderately excessive

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:53:56 PDT

The statement (1) "everything in moderation" contains the seeds of its own destruction. "Everything" includes moderation. So to take everything in moderation implies that one should be moderate about moderation itself. To put it another way: (2) One should take everything in moderation, including moderation itself, and including the extent to which the next three words---everything in moderation-

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in the Dog's Arse, chillin'

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:18:46 PDT

Introducing the outcast mutant outlawsIt was a time of great change, a time of death and destruction, of madness and muffin-making. Not only were the barbarian hordes at the gates of the Imperium, but they had come through the gates, had rested up for a while at the outskirts of town with nice warm cups of mead-tea, and then reinvigorated had gone about their barbaric business of rampaging,

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patricidal

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:31:50 PDT

Once upon a thirsty Thursdayin the jolly month of Juneseven brothers undertook a questto cross the land from east to westone sunny afternoon.READ MORE... Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights reserved. refresh / home

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not wrong or wronger

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:40:57 PDT

The fact that a particular world-view (eg Christianity, Islam or Buddhism) seems to be fundamentally different to other world views (eg the one that holds that the universe was born in the big bang some 14 billion years ago) does not mean that either or any of those world views is necessarily incorrect. The apparent differences emerge as a result of the inadequacies of language: specifically,

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smumpy or looth?

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:18:23 PDT

Is reality lumpy or smooth?Quantum physicists say lumpy. String theorists get all tied up in knots about it. M-theorists haven’t got the branes to know. Relativists absolutely understand the gravity of the situation. They find reality to be smoompy, no, smumpy, no, looth. What came first, thought or language? Gotta be thought---you can have thought without language but not language without

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furiously curious

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:45:12 PDT

When it's forty degrees in all areas and people get sweaty and weary as they feel the effects deleterious of all that's strange or mysterious including frostbitten wisterias for which cold death's not as serious as other kinds many and various as that of the king known as Darius who was said to be cold and imperious with teeth all yellow and carious. Now ain't that fucking hilarious? Copyright

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statements about nothing

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:57:02 PDT

Each of the statements below has two meanings of which each is opposite to the other. For example, the statement "nothing is nothing" can mean "there is no such thing as nothing, ie nothing does not exist" or "nothing does exist, in the form of the thing we call "nothing"".Nothing isn't everything.Nothing is nothing.Nothing is nothing (except nothing). The smallest thing is nothing.Nothing is the

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a very sloppy casserole

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:45:43 PDT

Tears of sadness rain from brooding cloudsSorrows lie cold and deep in trenchant immensities of silentmonstrous gulfs between seas of stars. Despair howls like a wolfin the lost and lonely places fears creep like thieves pain's acid etching their faces.Thieves steal like pains wildfires of panic flash and burnbehind eyes that see nothing butphantasms of stochastic ontology. More than

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eating moths makes me feel queasy

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:08:06 PDT

Kids are noisyIn the busEn route to schoolAmong the boys heMakes a fussTo show he’s cool “Teacher sees me,” says our Gus(he plays the fool)”I say ‘Sir, please...’ heLooks at usEn route to school."But feeling queasyEating mothsFrom dusk to dawnIsn’t easyWith no clothsTo wipe the spawn.Copyright © S R Schwarz 2007. All rights reserved. refresh / home

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later darling later

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:40:26 PDT

The process by which a child becomes an adult involves the acquisition of skills that facilitate the child's integration within society and culture. The ability to defer gratification is a good example. But there's a problem: successful acquisition of the skills to defer gratification is itself a source of gratification. And to defer that particular gratification would mean stopping all efforts

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Noah's comeback

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:27:28 PST

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that the whole world's gone mad?Well, not the whole world, just the culture of economic growth at any cost with money the goal in all cases. (Economic growth wouldn't be so bad if organisations had to clean up their own messes, pay in full the true costs of their operations and stop pushing their 'externalities' onto the community.) Of course there are

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scared of God

noreply@blogger.com (masterymistery) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:39:40 PDT

Many if not most pantheists lack the courage or the awareness to follow their beliefs wherever they may lead. Weak pantheism identifies "nature" as deity. A stronger pantheism identifies the universe (including nature) as deity. An even stronger pantheism identifies reality (including the universe including nature) as deity. The strongest expression of pantheism identifies Everything That Is (ETI

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