the new world is fast approaching.
two more massive harvests and then the pedal off.
get ready.
Jacinda Ardern is the only viable leader
she is still accelerting and no silly little pinpricks will impede her trajectory.
kiwis trust her.
true.
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Saturday, April 30, 2022
walk right in ...
The fundamentals of mandolin technique are taught through familiar tunes with this book which works great for group or individual use. It includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chord names and diagrams, photos and more! Topics covered include: playing in rhythm, playing melodies, using down-up strokes, 3/4 or waltz time, the slide, double-string melodies, mixed single and double strings, and more.
for additional innovations listen to the rooftop singers butg their version os in G# .
the talking cure...
In principle is this.
from the start the key is what does the person say from the first moment you meet.
if they wont speak then take a hike.
not your job to go sifting through freudian nunaces for archaic memory.
the unconscious but that is not the issue at hand here.
feelings are innate but cannot be given names till the human learns language.
only later do they become attached to intentional and unintentional acts.
on the end of the scale are the psychoses and at the other end are the neuroses and character disorders all of which take a large amount of mental intestinal fortitude and good support to understand and comprehend mental functioning outside of the psychbologists laboratory.
what is really happening to a person and what can be done.
It takes a special person to specialise in special circumstances.
Back to the talking cure.
There is no cure as such but simply and I repeat simply relieving the person of their un named fears and enabling them to face reality.
day to day in reality people are doing this for themelves in their relationships and social intercourse and it is happening automatically so to speak.
thats it.
you see there is always truth in what people say even if they are telling a lie so it is your job to find the real reason from the good reason and what the person is really saying.
in the end to get good at this you have to read history, anthropology, a soupcon of philosophy and the commentaries on freud (peter gay) to really grapple with the subject.
in the ned it is not something you learn and then put into practice but a calling to a lifetime of making sense of the world.
good luck
and dick is a test to see who can fork out a few bucks to acquire something of inestimable value without doing a bourgeois flinch.
oh and beware the charlatans and other deviants who practice for their own reasons and the ones who were no good at pottery or weaving and took up counselling believing that even though they had failed at everything else they could by virtue of their social caste have the ability to persuade a sick person to change from moral authority or by reasoning with them.
Friday, April 29, 2022
mysogyny and hate speech in new zealand...
Got on the bus yesterday and all was still.
two teenage oafs down the back.
a nice young maid got on and then this chant started up from the back row:
sit on my face
sit on my face
slut slut slut
ugly ugly.
over and over.
was going to say something when somebody else did.
thats what you get when pornhub is freeely availlable to every post pubescent teenager and girls are told they have to give in to get a man.
I'm really sick of so called intellectuals like the vice chancelllor of Auckland University spouting on in this mornings dompost with no answer except this bullshit theorising from the lecture room.
when are the eggs that think they count in this country actually going to do something instead of beating their breasts and getting their piccies in the saturday edition?
no time zsoon I think.
they too busy getting their own rocks off to actually do anything that counts.
memo to Kim Hill...
Dear Kim,
will you please stop giving air time to nitwits with made up stuff designed to keep people in thrall.
the charlatans will be rubbing their handes with glee.
its all nonsense3 but they will consider that they conned you too.
the angelic doctor...
bedside reading
I am a pascalian christian.
i.e. If God is not true then I have not lost anything but learned how to be a christian
and if God is true then I am in line for his grace should he fit to bestow it upon me.
this book is philosophy par excellence with a tasty admixture of theology.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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Friday, April 22, 2022
are we here for them or are they here for us....
Saturday began as a beaut day.
a friend asked me round to select anyhting I wanted from his large dvd coleection before he parts with it.
got some western crackers.
hondo, chisum, high noon, for a few dollars more etc etc. be good for winter.
then walked downtown to the sallies and scored big on vinyl!!!!!
one worth supposedly $US 169 on amazon????
yeah right
Leave them and the rest for my issue and if they dont want them when I go then they will go back where they came from and someone else can have a go.
then came home for a nice little lunch and a granpappy nap till I was woken up by the so called gardener from next door (from carter court) one alistair conwell who drove his ride on mower past my window at least a dozen times with no obvious purpose and then parked it outside my unit for ten minutes while he went off and did something else.
By this time I was wide awake and the lady next door was pissed off too.
he wont pick up any rubbish and he pulls the benches off the main lawn while he mows that and never puts them back so the old folks cannot get past???????
there has been a beer bottle on the entrance lawn for over a week and he wont remove it????
I could pick it up myself but I am not paid to do that and it seems that this guy has no pride in his place of employment or his job.
sad really.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
memo to RNZ...
potash
pot ash
not poe tash.
do your announcers never take the trouble to find out how to pronounce words they have never seen before but instead rely on their own OPINION!
memo to australian christians...
scott morrison is a theologaster.
i.e. posessor of a shallow and paltry theology. OED.
e.g. if I go to church on Sunday and say all the right words and put a few bob in the plate then God is going to reward me before all others.
it doesn't work like that scotty.
when a person prays it is to ask how they might be of use to God not how God might be of use to them.
DIG?
memo to westpac...
when I ring you up I want to talk to someone and not get earbashed by john kirwan or judy bailley.
what do they have to do with my banking?
judy bailley is not my mother and john kirwan knows nothing about depression.
ayn rand...
Collectivism is the tribal premise of primordial savages who, unable to conceive of individual rights, believed that the tribe is a supreme, omnipotent ruler, that it owns the lives of its members and may sacrifice them whenever it pleases.
rand says her philosophy came out of her own mind!
wow.
that quote goes against all anthropological investigation into the workings of hunter/gatherer tribes and is made up to fit her private purpose.
that may be as may be but she never had a real job in her life except for parasitism in other peoples cultural productions.
she never made anything real, worked in a factory or cleaned up vomit and faeces in a geriatric ward.
hyuk hyuk hyuk
the tory trolls on fb got blerrrrkkkkkked out today so they complained it was spam.
they aint seen nothing yet!
there is avery ugly group on fakeboke purveying almost pornogrpahic lies concerning the prime minister of new zealand Jacinda Ardern
they are devious and sly and pretty good at leading you on till they can complain and have you removed from fakeboke.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
why is RadioNewZealand treating luxons pronouncements as gospel...
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If radio new zealand wants to be new zealands premier news source then they must do better than this to have a pic of luxon and a short txt saying government spending is fuellig inflation.
time they hired some people who know how to sift the grist from the meal.
at the moment they appear to be shilling for nationals
someone needs to complain to the brodcasting standards committee about this liteweight and biased so called journalism.
the god of spinoza...
When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was:
- Do you believe in God?
And he always answered:
- I believe in the God of Spinoza.
Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes.
(Spinoza) : God would say:
Stop praying.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've made for you.
Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.
Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don't blame me for everything they made you believe.
Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son's eyes... ➤ you will find me in no book!
Stop asking me "will you tell me how to do my job?" Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I am pure love.
Stop asking for forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies... free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?
Respect your peers and don't do what you don't want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide.
My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now and it is all you need.
I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life. Heaven or hell.
➤ I can't tell you if there's anything after this life but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is not. As if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.
So, if there's nothing after, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won't ask if you behaved right or wrong, I'll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?...
Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.
Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?
I'm bored being praised. I'm tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.
Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you've been taught about me.
What do you need more miracles for? So many explanations?
The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.
- Spinoza
Monday, April 18, 2022
ian taylor illusionist...
he has no greater claim to be an authority on anything more than any one else.
he has the socratic neurosis which is if I know something about this then I know everything about that.
nup
doesn't work like that.
sorry
a hustle here and a hustle there nrew york city is the pace where they say hey babe take a walk on the wild side
Sunday, April 17, 2022
george carlin...
Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
George Carlin
rue morgue avenue...
“When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
When it's Easter time too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you.“
Photo at Jacob street, lower Manhattan, NYC, by Jerry Schatzberg (1966)
runners up...
andres segovia
lonnie johnson
charlie patton
son house
robert johnson
muddy waters
t-bone walker
elmore james
bb king
freddy king
albert king
wolf
duane allman
jimmy page
eric clapton
willie nelson
grady martin
tommy tedesco
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