Daniel's WriteStuff

These are a few items for which I take full credit and/or blame. Of course © 1997, all rights reserved by me, Daniel Pyron, except when permission granted etc. updated 10/08/97

Index:
bread
that loving feeling
rain
For Brecht
classified
of time and rivers
fate
fire
Introduction to an Unwritten Book
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	bread eternal laborer where is thy bread? does it grow from yeast and pureed rags? go down to the sea breathe the salt wind and face the storm which comes and when it comes stand upon a dune to live or die upon a dune solid sand of silicone which shifts and sways by wind or wave solid in wind and wave knead it well knead a loaf of life a bread seasoned by your hands needing no other salt as a dune crawling with the wind eat this body your body, this loaf Top of page.
	that loving feeling where is my love? no, not my lover I know where my lover might be, my love where is my love? misplaced perhaps piled in the sink along with other dirty dishes. maybe under the bed gathering dust growing moldy with age. then again perhaps it has runaway to Haight-Ashbury or Greenwich or do people still go there? maybe my love could be there but it doesn't matter I have a lover and who needs love it only itches. Top of page.
	rain rain some call it but a name is a name nothing more a solace for ignorance. Top of page.
	For Brecht "He who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news." those damn birds singing the day away I wish to tell the news to let them in on the awful secret but (shit!) they would never listen. Top of page.
	classified Send 5 dollars for soiled panties the American dream equipped with 100 percent cotton crotch size 5 only and don't forget the sales tax, even dreams have sales tax.   A short note of explanation on "classified", it really did come to me while reading classified adds. The world really is stranger than we can imagine. Top of page.
	of time and rivers children by the river sparkling like rain under the cloudless sky. laughter and fishing poles scrambling through the bushes sailing over the brown waters feeling the breeze. sun lapping like the river on bare shoulders. the cooling day and growing shadows sends the children back into the town and home and parents arms while another peering into the shadows sees other shadows and the end of another day. Top of page.
	fate if they only knew their fates as I know their fates they could not bear to live but I have borne life. a million years ago I knew of each planted field & war & every stifled yawn yet I have borne life. I know what was & is & soon shall be & I know the blood coursing hot in the lovers' veins & blood lying cold upon the ground I shall not tell you all I know, for I know, you'd go mad for only the mad can know. I assure you there is no hope; there never was yet while there is life ... but, you should just walk away - now - while there still remains a frozen instant of time. Top of page.
	fire if one gazes deeply into the flame one will see the pulsing heart of the world fickle and hot burning the unwary yet a comfort to the lonely teacher to the mystic aid to the needy a sign for the lover hot and sooty burning its own way down to China consuming itself a consummation of its relationship with itself and others living for its moment of joy before the world blows cold Top of page.

Each day we face a cacophony of conflicting beliefs. Some are old and some are new. The advocates of most beliefs say theirs is the TRUE-BELIEF and the others are FALSE-BELIEFS. When we scan history we see many TRUE-BELIEFS appearing then fading away. None of the current TRUE-BELIEFS are very old. Even in those cases where there is an old name for a belief, the beliefs called by that name have changed much from then to now. The old and the new can not be regarded as variations on one belief, but as entirely different systems under one name.
Yet we refuse to live without belief.

This is the paradox of humanity, the demand for an order to life (A fixed set of beliefs even though, fast or slow, all beliefs have always changed). WE also have other desires. To be accepted by others. To live well. To be at peace with others. To be happy.

Sometimes our beliefs get in the way.

We, the authors, do not pretend to have all the answers, nor that what we say will last forever. What we insist is that there are beliefs which can be trusted - for now- and that life can be meaningful and happy. Our plan is to show not just beliefs but a way of thinking about beliefs. So we intend to approach things sideways and not charge headlong into a battle of wits. We just ask that for now you accept what follows as true. The control of your beliefs is, as always, entirely up to you.

Some simple science and a simple parable:

Living beings survive by tropisms, the tendencies to seek that which is beneficial and avoidance of that which harms. These drives can be regarded as love and fear. A living thing loves that which is usually helpful and fears that which can harm.
For example, some moths use the celestial lights to establish direction. They love the distant lights because of their need for a compass. But all tropisms have limitations. Moths will circle around a campfire mistaking the flames for a celestial beacon. So the moths will circle the fire till they are exhausted, burned in the flames or consumed by the predators drawn to the mass of befuddled prey.

Moral: A deceived desire for life can kill.

Sometimes it is hard to know what to believe and sometimes the discovery of what is true must begin with the discovery of what is false. Like in high school math class when we had to prove a mathematical idea false by extending it to its ridiculous conclusion.
Some people say it does not matter what you believe as long as you are sincere. Let us assume this is true. Try to accept as true all religions, myths, sciences, philosophies and ramblings. Imagine a world with trolls, gods, goddess' poltergeists, banshees, elves, monsters and demons. That the earth is both flat and round. that both Ptolemy and Galileo are true.
Obviously the sun can not orbit the Earth while the Earth orbits the sun. Nor can the universe have both many gods and only one (or none). Some of you will say this is obvious and you are right. Yet we have all met or heard of someone who says "It's OK if it's true for you".

Assertion #1: Experiences vary from person to person but truth can not.

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