Only to share with you the following ideas and ideals, thank you with anticipation for your understanding.
A study from Legatum Institute (an independent non-partisan public policy organization whose research, publications, and programs advance ideas and policies) has found Ireland to be in the tenth place as the most prosperous country in the world! Is this telling you something?
United States is not included and of course neither is England too or the UK.
Can be Prosperity without Freedom or Justice or Peace?
My grandfather always was dreaming of an Independent Scotland. He lived and died from afar the glorious lands, but his heart and mindset were all invested in his country: Scotland... He and my father showed me their love with their wisdom and the talent of their own hands.
I am sure, as much the same as the millions of Scottish around the world nowadays, they, we, want Scotland to be standalone over the face of this mere world....
Independence, sovereignty, and peace forever for Scotland.. For its noble daughters and valiant sons. Scotland the nation perhaps the very first, real, nation with its rich culture in the history of all civilizations.
◙ John M. Kennedy ◙
P.S. In 2014 the majority of this nation (56.30%) as whole has voted to stay in the "Queendom" then, I would invite the others (43.70%) to visit and stay in Perú, extraordinary food, nice fishing, full of mysteries to study and solve, golf camps, with prosperity and also peace as well as we all humans love. While we will continue waiting for those next years to come; because no matter how long, it is only the right thing to do, and the time will eventually come for Scotland, evenly if nobody for now knows how many more years. Many people around the world maintains that this goal should be achieved for the betterment of humankind.
Nevertheless, I know that finally one day, hope not too far, we, all, will vote, as we all should, for what in all universes every intelligence knows, which is the very right thing to vote for, i.e., only for Scotland to be one independent country or nation. Freedom for England and Scotland, that is all!
Well, this is all my "singing" about it ... for now and forever....
I used to love the TV series so called "The Twilight Zone". I was indeed very young, a 5 or 6 year-old boy, when I used to watch these series. Those stories as the acting were done with an unique craftsmanship for say the least, and many of those themes have become all true.
One particular episode has somehow stayed in my subconscious, and now I decided to share it with you. I started to have remembrances of this episode, when for the first time I listened the way in which the "Bush-son" had uttered the word "evildoers" from his podium and over my 24" inches TV set. As soon as I acknowledged his emphasis when he pronounced that word, I felt an intense discomfort and rare sensation over my skin and quite rapidly my life was already there, living at "The Twilight Zone" and more precisely, I feared that Bush sooner or later inevitably would experience his finest final hour at some point, eventually in one of those days and perhaps at "Four O'clock". However, I think that he is going to get away with all of what he has done and undone. In other words, he will be exonerated or will not be impeached. All his responsibilities or mistakes were for a good cause to win the "War on Terror". As it has been defined by the holy and sacred media, his acting shall be amounted by the title which serves as justification for his erroneous decisions, that is, he is a "Highly Functional Moron" or HFM President. Arguably one of the worst in the history of nations, definitely the worst in the history of the United States of America. I am starting to consider that this is the case that he was acting in good faith, but still he should have been called at least for a hearing, whether for this economic mess, for the privacy abuses on citizens' private life through electronic surveillance method, because the lack of evidence of the so-called weapons of mass destruction to declare a war to Iraq or because Katrina or torture... I mean there are so many issues, why congress has no been more proactive to follow the lead of some people? For instance, congressman Dennis John Kucinich who in June 25, 2008, presented a resolution supported by 35 articles of impeachment, and which somehow died a the judicial Committee of the sorts, because it seems that is up to de congress to define what constitutes or not a political impeachment. It was a very close battle, since the polls showed that a little less than the half of the representatives from both parties agreed that George W. Should be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors". In this regard Mr. Kucinich also moved toward the impeachment of Cheney read here in his resolution coded "HRES 333 IH", also there is an article in the Wikipedia called "Movement to impeach George W. Bush" It is altogether a progress in the right direction
Whatever, I have experienced over these last eight years the multiplication of the evil-hunters or many groups of people, which in different sizes and denominations hired evil-hunters and ghost-hunters to predicate and enforce divinity in our lives and using money and means to do just evil as well and in return. I have observed the resurrection of the inquisition by some of new order of Protestant-thinking; evenly, the mere Catholic Church was put into the "barbecue" as never before, in its entire history, over these past years in this country over accusations from people that were abuse by priests, bishop and evenly sacristans. It is all ironic that the founders of the Holy Inquisition were requisitioned by their own creation in a very especial way, no once but several times over and over, and finally the Pope would have not other avail or choice but to surrender some money and pay, and pay he did indeed, and in the name of the Holy Church and through a huge amount of dollars, with the purpose to finish with the bad reputation that the press campaigns were publicly providing to the public. It was a propaganda that somehow was mounted mysteriously by the agents of the press in this country and by those who claim to be the shield of goodness and combatants of the evil perhaps by some fanatics religious groups that hate the Catholic Church or want to recruit more people to feed their sects. Although their campaigns were proved effective and not only well funded, but well founded as well, with a lot of evidence from the numerous claimants: Man and women that were exploited by some clergymen sometime in their childhoods.
Same Atheists, gays, socialists or other freethinkers, were somehow seemed as a society's weirdos or undesirables, and for such were harassed by these groups, the same fortune experienced those who were agnostics. These groups has create their own strategy plans and "holyland" security offices. So all these people were blacklisted, as possible terrorists or troublemakers or a least as "persons of interest". So those who chose not to believe or declare themselves as ignorant or undecided about the existence or nonexistence of God, were treated harshly by some of his coworkers or evenly mentally tortured at their workplaces. Just because their postures and so pretext of godlike power some people opted to invade some other people's past, still their identities, damage reputations to ruins and exploit other people's private lives. It is absurd but they were a lot of victims of the most "sacrilegious" sadistic prejudice. On the other hand, Buddhists were an exception, they were allowed to be as such and treated well or they were seem as a plausible alternative to protestantism, only because their historical struggle against China which in fact is a communist country and for such an enemy of the "Protestant nation". Most Muslims were considered potential terrorists and because their religion, they were considered as traditional religious adversaries for these type of degenerated Christians. By the same token, most Jews were viewed as the natural allies in the fighting against evil. That was America under the hegemony of Bush's Republican kingdom. Anther instance, who was a Darwinist was considered as dangerous as a renegade, a blasphemous pervert, a heretic, and possibly, an enemy of the state.
In these eights years, I have witnessed torture, whether while watching images unwillingly over the incessant news on radio, TV or in the newspapers about actions that were perpetrated in Iraq or at Guantanamo bay. I have in my own flesh experienced situations in which "security" meant for me to be just in a sense of another type of much more deeper fear. These are times in which the level of cynicism in the media has reached astonishingly new records of stupidity. Who can trust the media? We all know that what only we are doing by listening or watching the news or to those political commentators, is just to receive the messages on behalf of the owners of the media channels, the oligarchs, actually the owners of the media and now the owners of our lives, those who configure our reality as it were a simple operating system or a game console. These people are just all dictators with FCC licenses, who believe in the democracy of the funnel, that is, the big side for them and small side for the rest of us, in other words for them people are not only expendable they could be digested, toileted and them recycle, yes you right, in organs in bones or anything that cam be monetized and for such could give them the right "Margin of profit". Now, what is the right "margin of profit" or "mark-up" well it depend of how greedy they feel and because greedy or fear are their only two motivator then "Margin of Profit" equates to the sum of "the more the better". I do not know about you, but something ought to change, ought to be change and that change needs to be profound.
In the verge of changing, only America could change within of what it is now, and so it is bounded with many legacy policies therein from the Bush's administration, all what will remind with us for a long...long time, in many ways they could obstruct the development of new programs or new political initiatives. Those who have the chance of living in New York before, during and after 9/11, and those of us who embrace and make diligent efforts to develop a freethinking and open-minded attitude, towards privacy, personal freedoms, sexual orientations and religious beliefs preferences, are the one who believe in the ideas behind a real democracy; for all of such aforementioned, I believe, we would never be able to forget this retrograde and deflationary set of unfortunate events that have been taken place in these last, and most infamous, years. Infamous for the American History and also for of the world at large. A shame for our western civilization as a whole, it has been a tragedy comparable in pain and sorrow to the Theban plays of Sophocles.
We shall remember Nero because he had this "magnificent" idea of burning Rome out of his own "artistic" and inspirational needs as we are told by Suetonius in his sixth book. As many historians are writing about just now what the Bush presidency means altogether, we are curious to understand how they would describe these last eight years. Perhaps, we need to come back retrospectively to "The Twilight Zone" and look for some explanation, or for just coping and to make some sense of all of it. Point in case, it is this episode "Four O'clock", it seems as one of the best explanations about the underpinnings of the Bush doctrine. ◙JMK◙NY◙ Here is the show... enjoy it!
"Relearn again and forget, then go back to your child vision" Avoid part or all on this formula ► {POV²+POM+POB}:
Looking throughout single points of View or using one single Color of Glasses, one size telescopes, 1x microscopes, one sided spectroscopy, forgetting to use your natural X Ray vision and your CAT Scanner::meaning your imagination, instincts and guts
√ POV = Avoid Singular Persistence of Vision or partial ½╟╜ visions. √ POV = Avoid Singular Point of View ► Fanaticism
POM = Persistence of Memory (ies) ► Live in the present using the past for the future
Avoid Persistence and obsessive behaviors of unkindness, cruelty, cynicism, ill-intentioned or nonsense moods. Look for meaning or provide the context in which meaningful things could be developed, either by you or with/by others.
Avoid envious feelings, it will drain you, drive you crazy and it will "dry" or "Fry" most of your dreams, aspirations and goals. Remain human and follow your inner nature, this nature should be positive and constructive , but otherwise then you know what you have to do with it...
Do not avoid to be alone, but by all means enjoy the company of your fellow artists, those who where behind you, those who are coexisting with you, and those who are becoming or will come after you. Live the tree tenses or times, Past, Present and Future and the many complex variations thereof.
Moreover, everything that you do or say onto others is a boomerang, it will come back to you, but for this do not avoid conflict, slavery is the rewards of those that do just this. If the prison were made out of gold, it is still a prison, artists hate prisons, oppression or injustice, because to be free you need to remain ethical and well balance (there are many flavors of what is balance or what it means, it could be harmony, think in here on your own music and how it sounds when you play it for others. It is for the most part a maturity and evolving process within each life cycle at every effort, project or piece of work that you do or want to do::Therefore, envision the circumstance, it might be bigger than your perception, and much bigger than your imagination, then enhance your existence by acknowledging more of it).
However, for most of the artists freedom is their main source of inspiration, if they were prisoned because their ideals or art, then they would be evenly freer than before. Artist will remain independent not matter what. Art is intrinsically motivated and extrinsically activated, but you draw and paint the mere buttons that ignite your own fantasies and/or imaginations or disgrace and/or lamentations.
In conclusion, give and share and you will receive ...the same, perhaps it might be more or might be less, don't worry about receiving, just share, provide, support, empathize, contemplate, absorb, produce, mutate, do, even if you can't, do a little more, then enjoy it or better continue with another piece, perhaps you will find out that it is you what you are building from the scratch of your most deeper and inner self.
Finally, I hope that it is Creativity what you are about to select for your life and in every case anyway be one more element why our society triumphs; as it is known by now already as the most innovative society in all generations:: the artists society.
As for my humble case I just keep remembering the aforementioned thoughts...
I feel that a great part of being a human being consists in expressing thoughts, [whether these are conceptual or non-conceptual, i.e., a priori] sensations, observations, feelings and emotions. The behavior of my art is hyperactive after rather random periods of prolonged contemplation. When I paint, I enjoy the most doing it using Oils; but l have produced some paintings in gauche, watercolors, temperas, and pastels.
I worked in wax as in clay or wood and stones as well to create my 3D forms or sculptures. I have designed, and produced Jewelry with diamonds and other color precious stones. I created logos and posters for several companies or commercial and educational events. I enjoyed working in Photoshop, and GIMP. I have produced, directed and written scripts for "shorts" created for academic dissemination.
I consider that my art is living. I am a multi-disciplinarian and since we are living again the dark ages but in its digitalized version, far from being a crusader, I see my self as a compacted renaissance man. I will work until the end of my days. Living is communicating, and learning how to bring beauty to one's own life while changing uncontrollably the unknown and obscure to a yet another unknown; but with this new version, we somehow could build one or perhaps many pleasant paradigms for helping us to cope with whatever the reality outside us is. From this "neounknown" we then, could foresee possible futures, all of which we, kind of, do not want to calculate it with exact precision either, e.g. few people want to know in what day, at what time and how they would eventually die. We even do not want to think about it. I remember in here, those thoughts attributed to Socrates, "Those who know how to die, Sure they know how to live".
Art is many things as for the many people of the world, each has their own way of perceiving it, but even though we all appreciated it when we see it. Then, Art "acts" for us like a door that "opens", before our mind's eyes, all our knowledge, ignorance and wonder, almost at once and with such an intensity that we could recognize it instantaneously, even if we do not know what that object means, we are attracted to it. Perhaps it does not matter, at all, to know it but to feel it. Nietzsche wrote : "It is not the duration, it is the intensity what makes a feeling superior." Art is Art because resolves our living with a meaningful minimum set of impressions, expressions or both at the same time and forever. Keats in his "Ode the Urn Greek" explain to us: "Truth is Beauty, Beauty is truth." That is it! You have experienced eternity and this will form part of you. It will never change in you no matter how many times you think you have changed. It will remain the same. Hence and thereof we have always this human urgency or need to search for all things that we consider Art.
It all depends what you are looking for or even though Art can awake you when you were not even looking for, aware of or paying attention to it. It traps you. Therefore impels and propels our most deepest emotions. It gives us a direction, a purpose, a sense with full desires. Opens our Skinner's box. Injects full ideas in our blood and dilates our arteries and pupils. It makes us conscious of our existence.
Point blank, the only fact of being able to survive one minute more, as being alive and knowing it, constitutes art. Therefore, as Siddhartha emphasized, my truly profession is to know myself as I found out this today, and Gurdjieff and Outspenky knew it all along. Art is just living.
