I am slowing down
As the years go by
I am sinking
So I trick myself
Like everybody else
The secrets I hide
Twist me inside
They make me weaker
So I trick myself
Like everybody else
I crouch in fear and wait
I’ll never feel again…
If only I could remember
Anything at all
The end of the earth is upon us.
Pretty soon it’ll all turn to dust.
So get up. Forget the past.
Go outside and have a blast.
Go a thousand miles in a jet airplane.
Go out of your mind go insane.
To a place you never been before.
Eat ice cream our you’ll lick the floor.
‘Cause, the end of the earth is upon us.
Pretty soon it’ll all turn to dust.
Goodbye my friends.
Goodbye world.
I’ll see you in the next life
Enquanto me dirigia a pé para o meu emprego pude observar um daqueles momentos insólitos que me despoletou uma serie de pensamentos menos próprios para um início da manhã.
Enquanto um carro de lixo se afastava, vi um balão cor-de-rosa que esvoaçou do seu interior e levado pelo vento começou a saltitar pela rua, como se tivesse vida própria, escapando do mundo dos resíduos. Pinchou levado pelo vento rua acima, passo ante passo e dei por mim a pensar na fuga do balão, uma espécie de metáfora doentia da nossa realidade – como num poema-realidade em que o que é belo é levado pelos lixeiros neste mundo consumista e cheio de desperdícios.
O balão cor-de-rosa pôs-me a pensar acerca da realidade e de como ela é caótica e estranha. Aquele brinquedo jogado no lixo estava ali a esvoaçar como se o vento lhe soprasse vida e viajava para longe fugindo ao seu destino num centro de reciclagem. Uma simples rabanada de vento o fizera escapulir-se e passar a ser mais umas gramas de material tóxico no meio ambiente em vez de estar acondicionado ou reciclado em um novo objecto. O caos interviera e sem saber esse objecto inanimado, alegrava a minha manhã com uma imagem poética que me tinha despertado a curiosidade e também a vontade de escrever.
Aquele balão cor-de-rosa têm para mim um significado intenso, relembrou-me de algo que a minha mente me tem alertado continuamente neste últimos anos, de que devemos estar atentos ao que nos rodeia. Nas nossas rotinas, esquecemo-nos de estar despertos para o que nos rodeia. Vivemos sem ver e vemos sem observar. E quando vivemos embrulhados nos nossos pensamentos apressados, na nossa agenda de afazeres diários por fazer que nos esquecemos de pensar e apreciar a beleza do momento. Agradeço-te balão cor-de-rosa e também te agradeço vento, por me lembrarem que é preciso estar atento, que é preciso viver para lá da nossa azáfama diária.
“The United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen. Every charismatic figure is such an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like McCarthy or Nixon or the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don’t think all this is very far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the next election.”
Kalama Sutta
The people of Kalama asked the Buddha who to believe out of all the ascetics, sages, venerables, and holy ones who, like himself, passed through their town. They complained that they were confused by the many contradictions they discovered in what they heard. The Kalama Sutta is the Buddha’s reply.– Do not believe anything on mere hearsay.
– Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in many places.
– Do not believe anything on account of rumors or because people talk a a great deal about it.
– Do not believe anything because you are shown the written testimony of some ancient sage.
– Do not believe in what you have fancied, thinking that, because it is extraordinary, it must have been inspired by a god or other wonderful being.
– Do not believe anything merely because presumption is in its favor, or because the custom of many years inclines you to take it as true.
– Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and priests.
– But, whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of one and all and of the world at large, accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it.The same text, said the Buddha, must be applied to his own teachings.
– Do not accept any doctrine from reverence, but first try it as gold is tried by fire.
From the dusty mesa her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosoteShe twines her spines up slowly towards the boiling sun,
And when I touched her skin, my fingers ran with blood.In the hushing dusk, under a swollen silver moon,
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom.A strange hunger haunted me; the looming shadows danced.
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt a trembling hand.When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes unfold,
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones.And rise with me forever across the silent sand,
And the stars will be your eyes and the wind will be my hands.
Música de Handsome Family – (tema do genérico de True Detective)
So you’re on the floor, at 54
Think you can last – at the Palace
Does your body go to the to and fro?
But tonight’s the night – or didn’t you know
That Ivan meets G.I. Joe
He tried his tricks- that Ruskie bear
The United Nations said it’s all fair
He did the radiation – the chemical plague
But he could not win – with a cossack spin
The Vostok Bomb – the Stalin strike
He tried every move – he tried to hitch hike
He drilled a hole – like a Russian star
He made every move in his repertoire
When Ivan meet G.I. Joe
Now it was G.I. Joe’s turn to blow
He turned it on – cool and slow
He tried a payphone call to the Pentagon
A radar scan – a leviathan
He wiped the Earth – clean as a plate
What does it take to make a Ruskie break?
But the crowd are bored and off they go
Over the road to watch China blow!
When Ivan meets G.I. Joe
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe – The Clash
Was it a huntsman or a player
That made you pay the cost
That now assumes relaxed positions
And prostitutes your loss?
Were you tortured by your own thirst
In those pleasures that you seek
That made you Tom the curious
That makes you James the weak?And you claim you got something going
Something you call unique
But I’ve seen your self-pity showing
As the tears roll down your cheekSoon you know I’ll leave you
And I’ll never look behind
‘Cos I was born for the purpose
That crucifies your mind.
So con, convince your mirror
As you’ve always done before
Giving substance to shadows
Giving substance ever more.And you assume you got something to offer
Secrets shiny and new
But how much of you is repetition
That you didn’t whisper to him too.
Crucify Your Mind, album Cold Fact de Sixto Rodriguez
Breaking my back
Just to know your name
Seventeen tracks
And I’ve had it with this gameI’m breaking my back
Just to know your name
But heaven ain’t close
In a place like thisAnything goes
But don’t blink you might missCause heaven ain’t close
In a place like this
I said heaven ain’t close
In a place like thisBring it back down
Bring it back down tonight, hoo hoo
Never thought I’d let a rumor
Ruin my moonlightWell somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidential
I’ve got potentialReady? Let’s roll
Onto something new
Taking its toll
And I’m leaving without youReady? Let’s roll
Onto something new
Cause heaven ain’t close
In a place likethis
Heaven ain’t close
So don’t blink you might missCause heaven ain’t close
In a place like this
I said heaven ain’t close
In a place like thisBring it back down
Bring it back down tonight
Never thought I’d let a rumor
Ruin my moonlightWell somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidential
I’ve got potential
A rushin’, a rushin’ aroundPace yourself from me
I said maybe, baby please
But I just don’t know now
When all I wanna do is tryBut somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidential
I’ve got potential
A rushin’, a rushin’ aroundSomebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidential
I’ve got potential
A rushin’, a rushin’ aroundSomebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last yearIt’s not confidential
I’ve got potential
A rushin’, a rushin’ around
by the The Killers
“A morte é inevitável. Quando um homem fez o que considera seu dever para com seu povo e seu país, pode descansar em paz. Acredito ter feito esse esforço, e é por isso, então, que dormirei pela eternidade”
~ Nelson Mandela 1996
by a very good friend
End of the World Notification Service
11:50 (há 9 minutos)para mim
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END OF THE WORLD NOTIFICATION SERVICE
*************************************December 21st 2012
This is a notification to inform you that the world will be ending shortly.
The world will be ending due the following reason: Mayan Prediction.
Apart from some flooding in Southern England, there have been no signs of the armageddon yet. However, we at the End Of The World Notification Service are still ready and we hope you are too.
We advise that you take the short time you have left on Earth to either repent, spend time with your loved ones or seek shelter in a network of caves.
About the Mayans and their doom-calendar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon
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END OF MESSAGE
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‘We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.’ ~Voltaire
The greatest battle is not physical; but psychological. The demons telling us to give up when we push ourselves to the limit can never be silenced for good. They must always be answered by the quiet; the steady dignity that simply refuses to give in … Courage. Keep going.
