Poem by Else Cederborg: "Echoes"

 

 

Echoes

Echoes go so well with lives

with love, with fates

even with humanities

no more heavyhanded clue than an echo

shall - shall not

love - love not

Love to the drums of doom

success - failure, success - failure

all of it echoes

been there, done that

too old to un-remember former loves

those memories cost heavy duties

all of them love-killers

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The Split Body

 

This picture sort of comments itself, but for those who simply don't get it, I shall make it easy: The picture is about how many women feel about their situation in a patriarchy. When I (re-)found it I came to think of tRump and his infatuation with someone not being either of his three wives. Actually, she was a fellow politician from another country, blond, pretty and charmingly "petite". When he complimented her, he obviously didn't see her as the politician, she was - i.e. his equal - but his wet dream of a woman. She certainly, wasn't one of those "nasty" ones who challenges his image of himself as the one who has a right to demand a certain behavior from the female sex. The above picture says it all when it comes to this attitude: You are a woman, and you are nothing but - or first and foremost - the embodiment of my needs which are centered upon certain of your body parts. This attitude is so old, and so integrated into the common male biased ideology that even some women may see it as "complimentary". That is, if they have fallen prey to this ideology which gives them the possibility of letting themselves be "complimented into oblivion: They are not, what they are, but what they have been told they are.

A New Life, For Or Against?

 

Sometimes I watch a television program about some "ghost hunters" who investigate allegedly haunted places. It's very interesting both to see what they find and what they call "finds". Up till now there has definitely been more of the "what they call finds" than 100% water tight, scientifically proven finds, but still, I find it interesting, actually also to see my own reactions to these maybe-finds.

IF there are ghosts then it means that our "soul" is more than the body and mind of us, it's not even part of our physical death, but somehow lives on after we die. That will be a substantial consolation for many people who fear death, but I'm not sure this "staying alive after death" is something to wish for. To have some traumatic experiences in life that glues one to the place where they happened is not what I find worthwhile for anybody, dead or alive. Such a situation would be more like being caught and then tied down in a more or less gloomy dungeon which I don't see as the wishful scenario for my future.   

Naaahhh, I think I would prefer a totally new life which is what cats are supposed to get up till nine times. Then the question is, would I be prepared to live in a place or a situation that's not "ME" as I'm now? Naaahhh, not really .... What I would concede for is a staying "me", while being transformed into something - ehhh', somebody else - and I don't think that's what's supposed to happen when one is reincarnated. 

Then there is no real point in wanting this intolerable, evil-minded and spoilt milksop to be reincarnated as this guy:
 

The milksop will not feel or experience the hardships of the homeless guy, just as he doesn't now when he is the so-called "president" of the USA. That means that the tie of these assumed lives must remain tight for the past to make as much as a dent in the make-up of the new life. 

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesus and the apostles taught that death is like sleep followed by a resurrection (See John 11:11-15).

 

Poem by Else Cederborg: "Masks"

Whenever the face was on it bristled with smiles

all kinds of smiles, some half, some whole

some genuine, some anything but

 

All of them were hers, earned in pain

and countless frustrations

Actually, in nature, most of them were

kicks, stabs, evil wishes and plans 

turned into facial expressions 

 

That's why she kept her face in a box

putting it on or locking it away, day in, day out

Her being held captive by unbeatable circumstances

the face got the better of her, demanding

moods and feelings that were not hers 

 

 

A On-Line-Love-Affair

Eh'???!!!! Yes, I definitely do have that right, and I'm going to exert it whenever I chose to! However, I have heard of people who feel owned by their own computer and certain subs they somehow got to visit all the time. I don't feel "owned" yet, but there are subs I would find it difficult to give up, and which I visit quite often. When I did some time ago, I was told a gruesome, but not all that uncommon tale of a woman who let herself get involved with a man on the Net. Before long they sort of seduced each other, and for a while they were very close indeed. The way it was told led me to think that she was a very down-to-earth-woman, but he started out as what one might call an old-fashioned, romantic gentleman-suitor - that is, before he turned unpleasant.  

 

 

Over time he somehow got the upper hand over her because nobody had told her of the dangers of webcams. All og a sudden her gentleman-suitor turned nasty: Being no better than he was, he threatened to post his takes of her on YouTube, when she decided to leave him for a more substantial lover. Suddenly, what had been a kind of love and quite fun games turned bad. As it is, she got more and more afraid that he would revenge himself on her by ruining her reputation in what might be called "the real world". 

I doubt that his photos and videos of her were very revealing or shocking, but she felt they might ruin a lot for her with her family, her colleagues, her friends, yes, everybody who knew her. Because of that, she was caught and gave up her new real-life-love to stay with her internet-lover. What a pity, in my opinion.

As she had never seen her online-lover in real life, but only knew him from photos who might be of anybody with a face and a body, she wouldn't even know him if he came to look her up. Actually, she was in a similar situation as the one of the young woman in this rather scary tale of a man's radical changes of looks and personality:

Wagging the "Tail" of the President

I always liked Dustin Hoffman, and I remember him in the classic movies "The Graduate", "Tootsie", "Midnight Cowboy", "Papillon", "Marathon Man", "Kramer vs. Kramer", "All the President's Men", and "Rain Man". The one I remember the best is "The Graduate", and I think that's because he and Ann Bancroft are doing a great job of the story about the woman who seduces her daughter's boyfriend.

However, there is another Dustin Hoffman-movie which I, actually to my own great surprise, have forgotten totally: "Wag the Dog" (1997), which is based upon the novel by Larry Beinhart from 1993: "American Hero".

This may sound crazy, but the reason why I came to remember this movie is the tRumpian's insane Iran-war that started a few weeks ago. As it is, tRump has nothing to do with this specific movie, but part of the recent Epstein- and Iran-situation, as it's seen by most people, Americans or not, seem to mirror it. The story is about a president, played by Michael Belson, who has an urgent need of a distraction from a sex scandal that could ruin his career: He was caught making sexual advances to an underage girl in The Oval Office. 

Michael Belson

Now, what to do to save the president's career and him from criminal prosecutions? Well, Dustin Hoffman and Robert the Niro as a Hollywood producer and a spin doctor, decide that a fake war might take the heat off the guilty president, so they go about fabricating what looks like a war in Albania, but which is only a make-believe-story. 

Strangely enough, a few weeks after the release of "Wag the Dog" the then president, Bill Clinton, had an affair with the young Monica Lewinsky that drew a lot of attention. Was it what led to the bombings in Sudan and Iraq? Also, there was the American intervention in the Kosovo War which one might suspect was related to the Clinton-Lewinsky-scandal.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/09/wag-the-dog-where-to-watch-streaming-abc-iview-robert-de-niro-dustin-hoffman 

 

Wikipedia 

Playing With Toxins

 

Now, what do we have here? A sick dog? Yeah, but not sick-Sick as in contamination, genetic problems, accidents or the like. This very sick dog actually is a genuine drug addict. You may ask, how a dog can be a drug addict, and the answer is that he/she loves licking some of these poisonous animals:

I would have thought it takes a fairy tale princess to kiss one of these, and then it's not a frog, but a toad. The idea of "kissing a toad" stems from the Brother Grimm's fairy tale "The Frog Prince" about an unpleasant physical contact that symbolizes endurance: "Kiss the frog who is a bewitched prince and free him from the magic that turned him into an ugly animal. By doing that you gain the true love of a true prince.

Well, part of the unpleasantness of kissing frogs - or toads - is that some of them are quite poisonous. To kiss, or even touch, such a creature may be quite dangerous and is not to be recommended, e.g. as an experiment or a dare.

The sick dog who keeps licking toads is not only "playing with toxins", but with fire, as this foul habit may cost it its life. If a dog or cat licks, bites, etc. a poisonous toad one has to bring it to the vet, but before doing that one should rinse its mouth. 

Dogs don't read fairy tales, making them want to take the chance of kissing a frog to see it turn into a handsome prince, but they may do it to get at the skin secrets of the animal. While these secrets being killers in some toads or frogs they are also very "narcotic", giving hallucinations and all sorts of sensations that some, people and animals, enjoy. I suppose they aren't tasty in the normal sense like e.g. some foods, but they do what narcotics are supposed to do. For instance The Colorado River toad also produces something that's called 5-MeO-DMT, which is a powerful psychedelic. The Cane Toad is very dangerous to animals and should be avoided.

https://hemopet.org/toxic-toads-in-the-united-states/