Tuesday 10 July 2018

A is A - The [Objectivist] Gospel According to St. Ditko

Why is Spider-Man morally superior to Superman..?

Because Superman needs to have a Father to tell him what Peter Parker was able to intuitively know and work out on his own. 

Tony Stark: 
Why are you doing this, huh? 
What's your MO? 
I've got to know, what gets you out of that twin bed every morning?

Peter Parker: 
Because... because, I've been me my whole life
and I've had these powers for six months. 

I read books, I build computers, and 
I would love to play football, 
but I couldn't then 
and so I shouldn't be able to now...

He Understands about Simony.

Jonathan Kent: 
Been showing off a bit, haven't you, son? 

Young Clark Kent:
Um... I didn't mean to show off, Pop. 
It's just that, guys like that Brad, I just want to tear him apart. 

Jonathan Kent: 
Yeah, I know, I know. 

Young Clark Kent: 
And I know I shouldn't... 

Jonathan Kent: 
Yeah, I know, you can do all these amazing things 
and sometimes you feel like you will just go bust unless you can tell people about them. 

Young Clark Kent: 
Yeah. I mean every time I kick the football I can make a touchdown. 
Every time! 
I mean, is it showing off if somebody's doing the things he's capable of doing? 
Is a bird showing off when it flies? 

Jonathan Kent: 
No, no. Now, you listen to me. 
When you first came to us, we thought people would come and take you away because, when they found out, you know, the things you could do... and that worried us a lot. 
But then a man gets older, and he starts thinking differently and things get very clear. 
And one thing I do know, son, and that is you are here for a reason
I don't know whose reason, or whatever the reason is... Maybe it's because... uh... I don't know. 

But I do know one thing -
It's not to score touchdowns. Huh? 

[they laugh] 

Young Clark Kent: 
Thanks, Dad.

Oddly, "Uncle Ben", literally means "Uncle Son" - which is interesting, to say the least.




" You can take your menial position—self-described—and turn that into a very nice little slice of hell. That’s for sure.

I always think of the archetypal diner in that way. You guys have been in this diner. There’s a really good opposite diner. There’s a great diner on YouTube. It’s Tom Waits reading a poem by Bukowski. I think it’s called Nirvana. It’s about a good diner that he happened to visit when he was a kid. A diner where everything was going well. You could listen to that. It’s great. But this is the opposite diner, that I’m thinking about. You go into a diner, right. It’s seven o'clock in the morning. You order some bacon and eggs and some toast. 


You look around the diner, and you think, it was like 1975 when the windows were last washed. There’s this kind of thick coating of who-gives-a-damn grease on the walls. The floor, too, has got that sort of stickiness that you really have to work at to develop over the years. The waitress is not happy to be there. The guy behind the counter isn’t happy that that happens to be the waitress that he’s working with. And then you walk down the stairs to the washroom, and that’s its own little trip. 

You come back, and you order your damn eggs, and you order your toast, and you order your bacon. It comes, and the eggs are too cooked on the bottom, so they’re kind of brown, and then they’re kind of raw on top. They’re cold in the middle. You really have to work to cook an egg like that, man, but you can master that with like 10 years of bitterness. It will teach you how to cook an egg like that. 

And then the toast—here’s what you do with the toast. You take the white bread—the pre-sliced stuff that no one should ever eat—and then you put that in the toaster, and you overcook it. You wait, and then you pop it out of the toaster. Because it’s overcooked, you scrape it off. You knock off the crumbs so that it doesn’t look too burnt, and then you wait until it’s cold, and then you put cold margarine on it. 

First of all, it’s not butter. But, if you put cold margarine on it, you can also kinda tear holes in it. Then it has lumps of margarine in it, and it’s really dry, except where it’s too greasy. That’s like its own little work of art, man.

You put that on the side with eggs. And then you have the potatoes. This is how you cook the potatoes properly: the leftover potatoes—and you keep dumping new leftover potatoes into the old leftover potatoes, over weeks. Some of the potatoes have half returned to mother earth. Then you flap them on the grill, and you sort of burn them a bit, I guess. And then you slap them on the plate. Jesus. You don’t want to eat those, man. That’s for sure. That’s the point.

You have the bacon, and you want to make sure you buy the lowest possible quality bacon. That’s how you start. Then you throw it on the grill—and your grill has to be overheated to do this—and you have to cook the bacon so that it’s raw in places and burnt in other places. 


It has that delightful pig-like odor that only really cheap, badly-cooked bacon can provide. Or maybe you use those little breakfast sausages that no one in their bloody right mind would let within 15 feet of anything living. And then you serve that. And you serve it with the kind of orange juice that is only orange is color, and with coffee that’s…Agh

…What would you say? It was started too early in the morning. That’s the first thing. Bad quality coffee started too early in the morning—got cold once or twice, and has been reheated. And then you serve that with whitener. 

It’s like, here’s your breakfast! 

It’s like, no, man. That’s not breakfast. 

That’s hell, and you created it.


 And then what you do if you have a diner like that is—because you have a miserable life if you have a diner like that, and you really worked on that—you go home, and you curse your wife, and you curse your kids, and you fucking well curse God, too, for producing a universe where a diner like yours is allowed to exist. And that’s your bloody life.  "

Also, that’s what Ditko’s trying to point out, here.



Which is What Makes PornHub a Living Thing.




Larsen-style.


A Bad First Draft of Your Self




" That bad first draft, that’s the most valuable thing. That’s what you need: you need a bad first draft of yourself. 




There’s an idea that Jung developed about The Trickster, or The Jester, or The Comedian. 





The Trickster is the precursor to The Saviour. That’s one of the things I learned from Jung that was just so unlikely

You’d never think that. It’s so amazing that that might be the case. The satirical and the ironic and the troublemaker, the comedian—the fool is the precursor to the saviour. Why? 

Because you’re a fool when you start something new. 

And so, if you’re not willing to be a fool, then you’ll never start anything new. And if you never start anything new, then you won’t develop. And so the willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation. That’s the same as humility. 

If you’re going to write your destiny, you can do a bad first job. 

You’re going to get smarter as you move forward.

Something beckons to you. That’s what happens, here. Maybe the star that Geppetto wished on was the wrong damn star, but at least it was a star, right? At least it was in the sky. At least it moved him forward. And so you say in your life, well, something grips you, and fills you with interest. And you think, should I do that? 

The answer is, if not that, then something! 

What if it’s a mistake? It’s a mistake! Rest assured. What do you know? You’re going to stumble around, right? And what’s going to happen is this: you’re going to not stay in stasis; you’re not going to wander around in circles. I see people like that. 

They say, well, I never knew what to do, and now I’m 40. That’s not so good. 

That’s not so good, and there is a literature, too, that suggests that people are a lot more unhappy, when they look back on their lives, about the things they didn’t do than they are about the mistakes they made while they were doing things. And so that’s really worth thinking about, too. 

There’s redemptive mistakes. A redemptive mistake would be a mistake that you make when you go out and try to do something. You think, ok, I’m going to try to do this, and you’re not good at it. You make a bunch of mistakes. What’s the consequence, if you pay attention? You’re not quite so stupid anymore. That’s the thing: you’ve been informed by the results of your errors. What happens is you follow the beacon; you follow the light, and you’re blind, so you don’t know where the light is. It’s dimly apprehended, only, and you’re afraid to follow it. But you decide to take some stumbling steps towards it, and, as you take stumbling steps towards it, you become illuminated and enlightened and informed because of the nature of your experience, and because you’re pushing yourself beyond where you are; you’re going into the country that you have not yet been in. You learn something. What happens, then, is the star moves. You move 10 feet towards it, and you think, no, that’s not right. I didn’t get it right. It isn’t there; it’s actually there. So then you see it somewhere else, and you shift yourself slightly. You move forward.

It's like a Pirate had a Baby with an Angel.



Quill :
How the hell is this dude still alive?

Drax: 
He is not a dude. 
You're a dude. 
This... this is a Man. 
A handsome, muscular man.

Peter Quill: 
I'm muscular.

Rocket Raccoon: 
Who are you kidding, Quill? 
You're one sandwich away from fat.

Peter Quill: 
Yeah, right.

Drax: 
It's True. 
You have put on weight.

Peter Quill: 
What?

[Drax gestures at his chin and gut]

Peter Quill: 
Gamora, do you think I'm...

Mantis: [sensing Thor] 
He is anxious, angry, he feels tremendous loss and guilt.

Drax: 
It's like a Pirate had a baby with an Angel.

Peter Quill: 
Wow. This is a real wake-up call for me. 
Okay, I'm gonna get a Bowflex. 
I'm gonna commit. 

I'm gonna get some dumbbells.

Rocket Raccoon: 
You know you can't eat dumbbells, right?

Gamora: 
[touching Thor's arms
It's like his muscles are made of Chitauri metal fibers.

Peter Quill: 
Stop massaging his muscles.

Manhunter


Wow - Look at That One....

There Will Be Blood



"Perhaps it's time I wrote about Fathers and Sons, in memory of my boy, my precious Hamnet."

MARTHA: 
Hamnet? 

SHAKES-SPEARE: 
That's him. 



MARTHA: 
HamNET? 

SHAKES-SPEARE: 
What's wrong with that? 



There’s a fatherly aspect, so here’s what God as a father is like. 

• You can enter into a covenant with it, so you can make a bargain with it. 

Now, you think about that. Money is like that, because money is a bargain you make with the future. 

We structured our world so that you can negotiate with the future. 

I don’t think that we would have got to the point where we could do that without having this idea to begin with. 

• You can act as if The Future’s a reality; there’s a spirit of tradition that enables you to act as if the future is something that can be bargained with. 

That’s why you make sacrifices. The sacrifices were acted out for a very long period of time, and now they’re psychological. We know that you can sacrifice something valuable in the present and expect that you’re negotiating with something that’s representing the transcendent future. That’s an amazing human discovery. No other creature can do that, to act as if The Future is real, to know that you can bargain with reality itself and that you can do it successfully. It’s unbelievable. 

• It responds to sacrifice. 

• It answers prayers. 

[ I’m not saying that any of this is true, by the way. I’m just saying what the cloud of ideas represents. ] 

• It punishes and rewards. 

• It judges and forgives. 

• It’s not Nature. 

One of the things weird about the Judeo-Christian tradition is that God and nature are not the same thing at all. Whatever God is, partially manifest in this logos, is something that stands outside of nature. I think that’s something like consciousness as abstracted from the natural world. 

• It built Eden for mankind and then banished us for disobedience. 

• It’s too powerful to be touched. 

• It granted free will. 

• Distance from it is hell. 

• Distance from it is death.

• It reveals itself in dogma and in mystical experience, and 

• It is The Law. 

That’s sort of like the fatherly aspect.



And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.


And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.


And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.

19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

One of Five

Sunday 8 July 2018

I Hate it When They Drown Me




11 The Earth also was corrupt before God, and The Earth was filled with violence.

12 And God looked upon The Earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon The Earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, The End of All Flesh is come before me; for The Earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with The Earth.

People in Recovery Are Great Listeners


People in Recovery Are Great Listeners 
and 
Really Observant.


So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, 
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Which one..?

Bad Skin MuffinTop 
or
Red Bull Semen-Breath..?


Who's on parole?
You guys have a low opinion on Judge Palmer?

When your Field Officer is filling out his incident report, I'm Gonna be very helpful, as helpful as possible.

So let me guess, who's going to fill in the DUI?

Ugh, you flinched! 

Possession of Controlled Substance,

Domestic Violence, that's you - 
You alright, honey?

What are the random myriad of fucking misdemeanors is Gonna come to light while you're drying up at the slammer?

Failure to Appear,  Bench Warrants?

Come on!

And because I'm the only one that isn't driving with a suspended license, 
I'll be driving your gals home girls, so...

Who lives closer?

Er, Bad Skin-MuffinTop 
or 
Red Bull-Semen Breath?

Hick :
Asshole!

Throw that first punch!
You like County food?

Hick :
Meet my closed fist, Counsel -
in my own, personal space.

Or maybe, I'm Just Gonna ask you to -
Blow My Dice.

That's a metaphor, I'd heard it, 
it's good, you're funny.

Hick 2 :
Let's get the hell outta here.



Get some counselling.


AND GO TO MEETINGS


Doc Morris: 
Wow, this isn't an act, is it? 
You really aren't a pleasant person. 

Hank Palmer: 
Right now? I'm a summer breeze. 

Once I subpoena you, 
get you on The Stand 
and extract The Truth from your ass like tree sap, 
THEN you'll realize 
in THAT moment —

Correct, I'm not a pleasant person.


Eskimo Carol



You were right. 

I knew it when you said it. 

I wish it didn't have to end, not this way. 
It was never my intention to hurt you, 
but it's how it has to be. 

We have so much here-- 
people,  foodmedicinewalls
everything we need to live

But what we have other people want, too
and that will never change
If we survive this threat and it's not over, 
another one will be back to take its place, 
to take What We Have

I love you all here. I do

And I'd have to kill for you
And I can't. I won't

Rick sent me away 
and I wasn't ever gonna come back, 
but everything happened 
and I wound up staying. 

But I can't anymore. 

I can't love anyone 
because I can't kill for anyone. 

So I'm going, like I always should have

Don't come after me, please.”

Eskimo Carol




Rimmer: 
Well, if you ask me, the Eskimos had the right idea. 
They knew how to handle The Elderly and The Permanently Baffled. 
Middle of the night, they'd take them out into the blizzard, remove their pyjamas, and just leave them to it.

Kryten: 
And that's how the Eskimos cared for their old people?

Rimmer: 
Absolutely. 
That's why there's no Eskimo word for "Eastbourne."


( crickets chirping
Carol,
The Great Mother :
 Those things'll kill you. 

Tobin, 
The Spirit Guide :
You got another one? 

Carol,
The Great Mother :
Not for you. 

Tobin, 
The Spirit Guide :
 And why is that? 

Carol,
The Great Mother :
'Cause, asshole. 
( chuckles

Okay. Couldn't sleep either? 

Tobin, 
The Spirit Guide :
 I never could sleep. 
Worried about tomorrow

Carol,
The Great Mother :
You going? 

Tobin, 
The Spirit Guide :
No. You are —
 You can do things that-- that just terrify me. 

Carol,
The Great Mother :
How? 
How do you think I do those things? 

Tobin,
The Spirit Guide :
 You're a Mom. 

Carol,
The Great Mother :
I was. 

Tobin, 
The Spirit Guide :
You are

It-- it-- it's not the cookies or the smiles. 
It's-- it's the hard stuff. 
The scary stuff. 

It's how you can do it. 
It's strength

You're a Mom to most of the people here. 



Carol,
The Great Mother :
To you, too? 

Tobin, 
Spirit Guide :
No. You're something else to me. 


Carol,
The Great Mother :
Well, it's not tomorrow yet.

( crickets chirping ) Those things'll kill you. You got another one? Not for you. And why is that? 'Cause, asshole. ( chuckles ) Okay. Couldn't sleep either? I never could sleep. Worried about tomorrow. You going? No. You are. You can do things that-- that just terrify me. How? How do you think I do those things? You're a mom. I was. You are. It-- it-- it's not the cookies or the smiles. It's-- it's the hard stuff. The scary stuff. It's how you can do it. It's strength. You're a mom to most of the people here. To you, too? No. You're something else to me. Well, it's not tomorrow yet.

Read more at: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25792
( crickets chirping ) Those things'll kill you. You got another one? Not for you. And why is that? 'Cause, asshole. ( chuckles ) Okay. Couldn't sleep either? I never could sleep. Worried about tomorrow. You going? No. You are. You can do things that-- that just terrify me. How? How do you think I do those things? You're a mom. I was. You are. It-- it-- it's not the cookies or the smiles. It's-- it's the hard stuff. The scary stuff. It's how you can do it. It's strength. You're a mom to most of the people here. To you, too? No. You're something else to me. Well, it's not tomorrow yet.

Read more at: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25792
( crickets chirping ) Those things'll kill you. You got another one? Not for you. And why is that? 'Cause, asshole. ( chuckles ) Okay. Couldn't sleep either? I never could sleep. Worried about tomorrow. You going? No. You are. You can do things that-- that just terrify me. How? How do you think I do those things? You're a mom. I was. You are. It-- it-- it's not the cookies or the smiles. It's-- it's the hard stuff. The scary stuff. It's how you can do it. It's strength. You're a mom to most of the people here. To you, too? No. You're something else to me. Well, it's not tomorrow yet.

Read more at: http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25792

"It Feels Good to Help Another Person...!

And You Know, You Can't Just decide to Help Another Person Because You want to —

You Have to be Given The Power to Help that Other Person..."

- Bro. Steve Cokey




Carol :
I told Richard no more visits.

King Ezekiel I

I am aware.

Your desire is Solitude.

That's what I've ordered 
to be facilitated.

My men are here clearing The Wasted.

The Dead are quite inconsiderate when it comes to those who are wanting to be alone.

I thought our efforts would be quiet enough to fall beneath your notice.

You're the one who opened The Door.

Carol :
Tripped my wire.

Sir Jerry :
Thought I caught it in time.
Sorry.

You hid them well, lady.

Lady Knight :
Don't call her "lady."

Sir Jerry :
Ma'am, Ms., missus...

Lady Knight :
You can shut up now.

Sir Jerry :
Copy.

Carol :
Goodbye, Your Majesty.

Jerry,
Steward at The Court of King Exekiel : 
Hold up.

Cobbler.

King Ezekiel I :
 
Kevin said you like it.

Just in case you did open the door.

Carol : 
Go.

[Door closes]

[Sighs]

[Knock on door]



[And It's DARYL DIXON, Ladies+Gentlemen..!]


♪ ♪

[Sniffles]

Carol : 
Okay.

Oh.

♪ ♪

Daryl Dixon,
Orion, The Hunter :
Jesus took us to The Kingdom.

Morgan said you just left.

I was out here.

I saw you.

Why'd you go?

Carol :

I had to.