Goths

Goths

To start this episode we have a response from the journalist Hippie and friend who uses the name Eternum1 on the web. He was a part of the founding of web logs as these journalists went to the hot spots of the world and kept in touch with each other. I think he sees where I am going with this book.

Dear Robert:

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I agree with Sartre in that each being has perfect free time if he will only believe it and I agree with Camus on how the absurd man becomes a rebel. Sartre had de Beauvoir to keep him honest in his musings because most left wing sympathizers had yet to identify women as the barometer of society's evolution. As a effect Sartre was more of an anarchist in his existential writings while Camus remained a sympathizer to Marxist rebellion, he didn't quite link Engels statement "judge a society by the position of its women" to the rebellion of his time.

I understand your link to Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin... Btw I followed up on Rubin's "student is nigger" with my own catchy title 'the lumpenproletariat and the revolutionary youth movement'... I know its a real page turner judging by the title.... But it was re-printed in all the new left magazines of the day and translated into French, German and Italian..... It was an diagnosis of why white middle class youth was dropping out into a sub-proletarian mode of existence... I.e.... The hippy movement..... I explained in more human terms than Rubin... How white middle class and bourgeois children related the limits on their free time to racial minorities and the poor, which kind of shook up the socialists of the day who opinion labor unions were the radical institutions still..... The idea that lumpys or otherwise déclassé citizens were the hereafter great unwashed disturbed them more than the capitalists it appeared.

I agree that true free time is the capability to accept or reject all things or as Sartre says psychologically in each one of us this amounts to trying to take the causes and motives as things. We try to grant permanence upon them. "We exertion to hide from ourselves that their nature and their weight depend each moment on the meaning which I give to them"; I find this statement very important, but not traditional since a similar thing was said by Nietzsche a hundred of years before, because it allows a separate view of the things in the world. It reveals the inherent of the thoughts. When all things depends on the meanings we give, then, we should think absolutely and we should give the meanings that we want, any way unusual they are, not the ones we are staggering to give and this would bring us closer to reaching our purposes.

How often have we seen our motives and causes co-opted and their meanings distorted into what you refer to hole (ass) istic babble. Too often. As we discussed in Babble on Babylon the disjunction of beings continues without the need for foreign tongues, our own language is used against us.

To the point where words like patriotism, love, free time all become things not qualities.... But things we attach to like clothing labels.

Sartre makes an exertion to report what free time exactly is in Part 4, episode 1 of his book Being and Nothingness. However, he says, he finds it difficult since describing something is seeing for its essence. And "freedom has no essence"... "Freedom makes itself an act, and we ordinarily attain it across the act which it organizes with the causes, motives and ends which the act implies". That is to say that free time is revealed by the act, we can feel the free time only straight through act. It is not inherent to report free time that is valid both for me and for the Other, thus no essence of free time may be concluded. The free time in one individual is separate from the free time of any other individual; there is nothing in common which can be named essence. free time is beyond essence since it is "the foundation of all essences".

So that is why I say free time is an individual act but the combined acts of free time produce rebellion and that is how rebels become existent... Not that each finds a singular idealology but each exercises his free time not to attach to the ideas or its ideaology. We know that Communism was never practiced by those who called us comrades... 'from each agreeing to his capability and to each agreeing to his need' ... Possibly because the true anarchistic nature of free time needs citizen sophisticated adequate to implement socialist ideas.

Sartre often speaks of "bad faith" when we surrender our free time to become soldiers for a cause.... To pronounce to "love anything" more than our accountability to free time is acting in "bad faith". And when you hand that free time to a President or his Generals or to the mob of religiosity you give up accountability for your actions to others and thereby lose true freedom.

I don't think an existentialist would ever say "we choose to be free" however. Because we are free at every moment. free time is not a option made once and then forgotten. free time is not an ideal. free time exists within every being at every moment. free time on the individual level needs no defending against others unless others try to enforce their will. There is no "land of the free" there are only individuals surrendering their free time every day to causes and idealologys.

Sartre's version of a radical transformation of society is the paradigm shift in mental we have discussed in the past. It is the trust that we can be what we choose to be. This requires exertion for most of us believe what we are told we cannot do while few tell us what we are able to accomplish.

If Sartre was President he would tell each citizen what they need to do to prevent terrorism and it wouldn't be surrendering your free time or accountability to others and continue grazing passively in the food courts of the nations shopping malls. Nothing is a complex as the elites would have us believe and the fact that they deny each citizen the right to be fully complex in development a safer world gives the lie to their role of defenders of freedom.

Really if free time was a project wouldn't we want everybody working on it? But the co-opted version of free time is not a project... It's a banner meant to take away ones options and choices like a valium induces passivity and a cost plan induces obedience.

Dear Et

I recall that lumpenproletariat thing. I liked it and the word. I agree about Simone de Beauvoir and there is an additional one Simone that was prominent - Weil. Yep - I agree about Sartre and was impressed when he turned down the Nobel Prize. I used to call myself a French Atheistical Existentialist.

You apparently see where I am headed as I draw the Goths and Beatniks into this (tie it back to Cathars and Cynics long ago too). As the movie Braveheart ends the life of Wallace and the Keltic Creed that held the world in Brotherhood for millennia says - free time and No Fear - which you see all over the place. These symbols and the one for Peace are grand legacies and archetypes. We need to show citizen some cultural through-lines and help the Goths be understood. - Robert

The same issue of what a Goth absolutely is can be made in comparisons to Flower Children and the citizen who absolutely study what might be the core principles. The Goths I have known seem more able to defend their advent to life than the normal midpoint or everyday person. But I seem to know the upper echelon of them perhaps. I find few are doing it just for the attentiveness which absolutely was not as true with the Flower Children. At the same time one can find a wide variety of perspectives and wonder if there is any true Goth culture at all. absolutely the journalists and group commentators who were all the rage after Columbine's Massacre did not clue in to some truly prominent things. Those kids were under psychiatric medication and there are other ultimate issues they faced. But I will make a puny diagnosis of what I think might be going on with them and a host of other Church-burnings and the like.

In my time in the Caribbean I met citizen who knew some things about the 'Lodges' as well as Rastafarians or the followers of Bob Marley. There is something similar to the Peace, Love and Brotherhood message in these approaches and there are myths that make one smile. One of the things I hypothesize is operating has to do with the 'Rastie' seal and flag of 'Irie' and I could be wrong but Eire seems to be there as a spiritual part or association to the Kelts and the ancient Brotherhoods be they Olmec or Phoenician. Many black citizen there know that they were there long before the Spanish heathens and Empire-Builders came to wreck havoc and enslave them or perform an outright genocide on the likes of the Taino in Cuba. Their aversion to Babylon is a metaphor for all that is wrong with the materialistic Empires that control so many people. This continues in the black society to the gift and many are they who abuse this knowledge and act as criminals. Who can absolutely blame them? I deal with these things in depth in my historical books.

The stele I found at Chichen Itza had many ancient Masonic symbols including the old T-square which is the seal of the Egyptian builder-god Ptah. It may have been put there by Rosicrucians and there was one member of their inner sanctum watching over it. The Goths who did the deed at Columbine were heard speaking about Plato and Aristotle and the day they chose to do it was the birthday of Adolf Hitler. The extent to which confident citizen know about these things or write about them has been hard to tell. I know authors like Marshall McLuhan knew about the sway of underground societies and yet he did not disclose what he knew. It can still be difficult for truth tellers. We must tell some of the root story of these strangeness Schools within what I call the 'octopus'. Hitler was a learner of them too.

There are at least a thousand separate stories that would fill the equivalent of the thirteen volumes the Corpus Hermeticum entails. Stories abound with re-written history and co-opting the citizen who told the truth by creating fictions about them or eliminating facts like who tried to assassinate James 'The Righteous' leader of the Essenes and probable brother of Jesus. This tale is mentioned in the Bible without saying who tried to assassinate him. Thus the reader is led to think it was an uprising of common citizen who distrusted James rather than the fact that Paul was diametrically opposed to the teaching of James; who as Michael Baigent says was much closer to Jesus than Paul ever was, even if James was not the actual brother of Jesus. The Roman scribes and lies are so perfect as to make it exceedingly difficult to even guess what the nature of truth was. Unless one absolutely gets first hand experiential knowledge by means of such things as 'direct cognition' with such dimensional knowledge as the akashic or spirits might allow. That is what is known to me, alone; a simple sole and singular searcher for truth - fantasize how many other stories of even greater import there might be. It is hard to write about one without running into an additional one but let me try to tie Aristotle and the life of Hermes in with Jesus and the enigmatic 'Emerald Tablet' so that you can see some separate perspectives from academics. At the end of this story is a personal tale of soul-grabbing that makes the idea of the Lévi to Crowley to Hubbard and Miscavige soul entity continuance seem more possible. By the way, it is very unlikely that Jesus did not visit Alexandria to see her great Lighthouse and Library while the long time he studied before his short duration of missionary work that may have only been a combine of years at most.

After the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Which can be called the birth of Christianity or more properly 'Churchianity', the Gnostics were attacked four times over more than one hundred years. The agents of empire-builders like Constantine or Caliph Omar, did not want citizen to know the truth of the prophet Jesus, who spoke about all men being 'the children of God' in equal terms. They wished to be the Divine interpreters for anyone it is that we call God. In fact, they wished to be the sole interpreters if that were possible, but they knew they might have to share some of this power with others who also had armies and legions of willing 'sword or cannon fodder' that would effect like sheep in the proverbial 'flock'. The scribes were busily re-writing the apocryphal Bible or Septuagint and Targum Onklos with due regard to the Torah and Hebrew Bible. Part of the agreed upon purpose was to take off the story of the wise Miriam, whose counsel in her day (with Moses) was the most sought after in her land. This was once in the Bible under the name Jasher, but when the Council of Carthage removed women from the priesthood in 397 A.D. They allowed such heresy no more.

Enoch was an additional one book of the Bible which told of psychic and spiritual realities 'within' and 'without', that mirror and expound the sayings of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, a priestess with the Essenes and part of the 'Therapeutae' who were a watered down version of the 'Great White Brotherhood of devotee Craftsmen' from a combine of millenia before, was probably the wife of Jesus. Such truths would have rendered the 'Bible Narrative' staggering and without power to wield a 'sharp sword' of fear over the souls of all men. For if Jesus was not 'the only begotten Son of God' as the Jews and traditional Celtic Catholic Church say; then the opinion of easy 'Salvation' (and its extra dispensations that Martin Luther railed against) would be unable to generate the money-making and power creating outcome that has been with us these past 1500 or more years.

Karma or the traditional 'law of Retribution' would wish right living on a daily basis and citizen would have to live in the true path of Jesus, and never be able to Expect a simple 'absolution of sin' straight through such things as confessionals. The great stories of 'Eternal n Damnation', 'The Resurrection' and 'Hell' would have puny theological or philosophic support. The Pope has said there is no Heaven or Hell in the months prominent up to the millennium and as part of damage control or spin-doctoring but is there any proactive course of turn and when will the dogma and philosophy of Paul's 'Epistles to Timothy' that say 'man is the head of woman' etc., be expunged in all their vile prejudice against women? St. Augustine's portrayal of Genesis and the 'original sin' with women as the harbingers of that which disconnected us from God are damnable destructive influences to this very day.

Let me expound the academic conundrums and obfuscated idiocies attendant with Hermes and Jesus. Aristotle was able to keep his hermetic or alchemic inclinations sufficiently shrouded and thus lived a long life from the time his father taught him as physician to Alexander's father King Phillip of Macedon. (384-322 B.C.) He was motivated and guided by 'The Emerald Tablet' and the work of Hermes Trismegistus. agreeing to the 'Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology':

"Emerald Table: The (of Hermes)
Believed to be the earliest statement of the ideas of spiritual alchemy, ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, after whom alchemy has been named the 'Hermetic Art'. Hermes Trismegistus is a shadowy figure, Possibly mythical. The old alchemists believed him to have been an Egyptian living about the time of Moses; others have claimed him as a personification of Thoth, the Egyptian God of learning. There is a legend that the Emerald Table (also known as the Smaragdine Table) was discovered by Alexander the Great in the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron.

The earliest printed version in Latin dates from an alchemical work of 1541, but a comment on it was known three centuries earlier, and the Table might well be ancient. The traditional was believed to have been inscribed on emerald (smaragdine) in Phoenician letters, later translated into Greek and Latin." (1)

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