"When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.

Without the rigidity of concepts, the world becomes transparent and illuminated, as though lit from within. With this understanding, the interconnectedness of all that lives becomes very clear. We see that nothing is stagnant and nothing is fully separate, that who we are, what we are, is intimately woven into the nature of life itself. Out of this sense of connection, love and compassion arise.

Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation."

~Sharon Salzberg

Pastafarians! :) How I love them.

From the Wikipedia:

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is a satirical parody religion created to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution.

Among the FSM beliefs:

- The Universe was created by an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster. All evidence pointing towards evolution was intentionally planted by this being.

- According to the pastafarians, the monster created the world starting with a mountain, trees and a midget, and continues to guide human affairs with his "noodly appendage." Heaven is depicted as having a stripper factory and a beer volcano.

-Global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct consequence of the decline in numbers of pirates since the 1800s. A graph showing the inverse correlation between the pirates and global temperatures was also provided. This component of the theory highlights the logical fallacy of correlation implying causation.


FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!
PIE SAUCUS DOMINE
RAMEN


See the FSM high prophet's site at: http://www.venganza.org/

Life, that is...(see subject line, you'll get the picture)...

(Hmm? - you say that you were hoping I was describing a kind of kinky sexual position? Interesting...well, perhaps if I were to lay out this old Twister(TM) game mat on the floor...and then you leaned **all** the way back on red-blue-green, and then I spun the arrow, and...)

Dammit, but I get distracted easily by my evil overactive imagination. Curse of the Gemini-Cancer cusp. >.< Closes eyes and focuses: Mind over gutter, mind over gutter...

Back to the philosophy corner.

At best, I suppose, we incarnates each but hold a soul mirror in hand to peer over shoulder, as we walk ass-first into the circle of the future. Born and born again, like infants in perpetual breech - with each step, losing sight of the far horizons where we have been; catching only fuzzy glimpses of the now, fleeting just at the edge of vision as we pass; and hoping blindly that the 'mirror mirror' of the soul isn't distorting *too much* of the path of life we hope - and believe - lies just out there, where we want to go.

Backwards.

So perhaps it is appropriate, then, that 'backwards' will be the nature of the reading this online journal: the first post will soon enough be the last, and the last post will always be the first.

Welcome to the beginning and the end, my friends! Unless you happen to live in an alternate universe, and slipped through a dimensional portal or something during your browsing; in which case, this all of this looks **exactly just like**...ummm...the end and the beginning.

Stop bitching, stupid brain. :p

Ja for now! Peace.