The Curious Thing

about Jesus' Crucifixion was not
that The Disciples were kept
out of the loop for it to be achieved.
That seems normal-plots will require
'creative discretion' to make them work.
The oddity was how grand the plan
was, that it was meant for all time,
and for all of man and woman kind.
It was to be the truth that was to set us all free-eternally!
And yet however often the story is traced
it with-holds its facts and keeps it's mystery.
As if parts of the story that were known are lost to history
and the roles some people played were meant never to be revealed.

The Changing Of The Guard

When history appears to leap forward
it is merely a change a demagogue.

How Much Denial

does it take one half of the human population, 
to be ignorant of how the other half survives?
Surprisingly little it seems.....

Alas

irony is the last thing
education can teach us
-but it is a vital thing
for understanding life.

'We Should Celebrate

that a child died when a child. 
That one escaped. 
We lock them in our schools, 
we teach them our stupid taboos, 
we catch them in our wars, 
we massacre the innocents.
The world is for children. 
The real world.  They climb trees
and roll on the grass, close to the ants . . .'
-Film Director Jean Renoir

Dejavu For The Future

The future is going to be like the past-
there will always be those
who are going to be admired
as examples of behaviors
and ethics worth repeating,
the Ghandi's, Jesus's and Buddhas
to name a few, whilst they are unfollowable
(and they privately knew this at the time).
Time would deny the same scenes
repetition, by falsifying memory,
but time will always permit
false memories to tempt us....

Working Class Atheism (2)

was as proud as it was stupid
and all the more powerful
for the ease with which
it became self garbling.
It even had its own press,
which through the compression
of stories about the use of power
that once had an internal logic
into a cheap and sexist gibberish
with a nasty streak of humour
drew advertisers like never before-
but not even advertising could stop
the great mass of people going to church
for the minimum three times in their life.
For baptisms, marriages and funerals.
But with the unforgiving feudal nature
of atheistic family life participants
made it hard to pick out
any one event from any other.