Overpainted photographs

 

Gerhard Richter

Inappropriate

I'm offended by the appropriation of Nazi culture.
If you are not German, were not defeated in WWII, and
not dead, you don't get to take up that mantle.
End the whole fucking romance with Hitler and Nazis today.
Talking to you, too, television programming

Ravishing Rick Rude

 

Spring trance

Judy Chicago-

Grackles are back!!!

A light shines in the darkness

 

Dueling maids

 

Julia Wytrazek

Erin go braghless

 

Julia Wytrazek

Real time update!

Real time update!  St. Gertrude of Nivelles really is a protector against rats and mice, but I guess not really

and there is a dog saint!

Trompe l'oeil

 

Evert Collier

be like the cardinal

sing into the sun

let the warm light

radiate your colors

Rise up Russian people

Don’t believe the hype.  Putin lies about everything. 

https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/putin-2656960086/

to art thieves

 

betty 1977, gerhard richter

a raised glass 

for the class

and dat-ass

rocking

and 

rolling

on a ship

heading wherever

it's fun

Mother of Silence

 

Agnes Pelton

tms break

There is a general misconception about TMS that is the reason why people are having trouble and are on this forum, searching for help. I am trying my best to explain things so that hopefully, some of you can see the error in your thinking. Dr. Sarno discovered that people who are prone to TMS tend to have certain personality traits. These traits include being perfectionistic, worrying, trying to control things, putting pressure on yourself to succeed, being good to other people instead of being real, etc. The general feeling of someone with those personality characteristics is of someone who is in constant stress and worry. You probably are someone who just can't relax, can't let it go. You are always searching for answers, you just can't let things be as they are. You want control over life and over yourself. EFFORT is what defines you. I would also call this the "no pain, no gain" personality. It's the constant self-imposed pressure that you put on yourself. You actually are tense all over, it's not just pain that you have. But as your belief system dictates to you, "no pain no gain", so you believe that in order to accomplish things, you HAVE to be this way. This constant self-imposed pressure produces unconscious rage, as Dr. Sarno has discovered. If you think of it only in terms of anger, you are slightly misguided. What is meant by the rage is just massive emotional energy, anger, sadness, everything mixed together. People make up labels and then say that this is anger, this is sadness. But feelings are more like a spectrum of energy. It does not really matter where you put anger or where you put sadness on that spectrum, it's basically all the same energy and "anger" and "sadness" are just labels. And when you put pressure on yourself, you are generating LOTS of that emotional energy internally. This energy, when expressed, can cause lots of trouble. You might start to cry, get angry at someone, you might even want to beat someone up or beat yourself up. Anyway, the possibility exists that this emotional energy could cause trouble. Now, here is where you lock yourself into TMS pain. First you put pressure on yourself, which creates unconscious rage. The rage needs to be repressed, so your brain creates some symptom, like back pain, in order to distract you. It creates something for you to focus on, so that you won't experience your rage. Due to your personality, you not only are distracted for the time that it is needed for you to be distracted, but you get HOOKED on the pain. You are perfectionistic, so you can not allow yourself to have pain, because pain is not part of you being perfect. So you start fighting it with all you've got. The problem is that you are always fighting. First you worry about some things in your life, you try to fight them, you try to control them. Then you get pain and you start fighting the pain. Some people get so deep that their whole life revolves around pain. EVERYTHING they do is in some way related to the pain. This is the worst case scenario of being completely hooked. So, by trying to get rid of the pain, first you probably go the usual route. You go to doctors and you try to do everything to get rid of the pain. Then you realize it's not helping and you find out about TMS. So far, so good. But then you learn about TMS and you continue trying to solve things with your fight-fight-fight attitude. What is the message of Dr. Sarno? If anything, it is to realize that there is nothing wrong with your body, the pain is due to psychological processes, so stop fighting it and it will go away. But you don't get the message, because it is incompatible with your mindset. Your mindset dictates that everything in life can only be accomplished by effort. No pain, no gain. So you can't possibly understand the message which tells you to go the other way, to let go of the obsession. Instead, you get the typical message from Dr. Sarno that you must do this and do that. You get the message that you need to think about the rage and the reasons for it every minute, every second of your day. And that is exactly what is still keeping you in pain. 

Posted on June 10 2015, by tattvamasi on tmswiki.org

Down with Putin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juUQZdI8xYI&t=185s

Putin doesn’t own Russia

Take care Russian people. No more war! Glory to the Ukrainians, glory to the Russian people. Fuck you Putin. Putin fuck you! https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pussy-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova-russians-oppose-putin-war_n_622513d6e4b012a2628c4b47

Putin: Russian for fart

Art by Pegasus

 

Some Ukraine history

From Wiki—

Modern human settlement in Ukraine and its vicinity dates back to 32,000 BC, with evidence of the Gravettian culture in the Crimean Mountains.^[27][28] By 4,500 BC, the Neolithic Cucuteni–Trypillia culture was flourishing in wide areas of modern Ukraine, including Trypillia and the entire Dnieper-Dniester region. Ukraine is also considered to be the likely location for the human domestication of the horse.^{[29][30][31][32]} During the Iron Age, the land was inhabited by Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians.^[33] Between 700 BC and 200 BC it was part of the Scythian kingdom. ...

In general it is believed that Kievan Rus' included the central, western and northern part of modern Ukraine, Belarus, the far eastern strip of Poland and the western part of present-day Russia. According to the Primary Chronicle the Rus' elite initially consisted of Varangians from Scandinavia.^[39]

During the 10th and 11th centuries, it became the largest and most powerful state in Europe.^[40] It laid the foundation for the national identity of Ukrainians and Russians.

Harness your power Ukrainians.  Holding out hope for your freedom.

prayers for peace

 

While the Putin cats away

 Maybe the mice should play

And make pussy cat pay

for what he does to the Russian people.

Wishing safety to all the human beings subjected to the wrath of an old baby.

I wish I knew how to rid the world of tyrants

Cry baby cry

 

You’re old

enough to

know better …

well maybe not

we are in the middle of a pandemic, you selfish old man. 

What is alive?

 I think everything is alive.  I don't parse it.  It makes things a lot easier to understand.

I was told that viruses do not have a brain, are not considered alive and I wondered if theirs was a sort of collective brain, working as a sort of spooky action as a distance in a cloud.  Or maybe there's an airborne myecelium..or! haha! they dip into the collective consciousness?  

I found this article asking the question if viruses are alive.  Since I think rocks are alive, I think ions are a sign of life, this quote peaked my attention:

A rock is not alive. A metabolically active sack, devoid of genetic material and the potential for propagation, is also not alive. A bacterium, though, is alive. Although it is a single cell, it can generate energy and the molecules needed to sustain itself, and it can reproduce. But what about a seed? A seed might not be considered alive. Yet it has a potential for life, and it may be destroyed. In this regard, viruses resemble seeds more than they do live cells. They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.

The seed example made me think of the seeds of men and eggs of women.  I think everything is alive.  I also think everything should make their own decision.

Are viruses parasitizing us to survive?  If we humans want to survive, what can we do to discontinue the virus' survival.  It survives, by spreading from one host to another.  Thus we should stop the spread.  The best way to do that is the mask.  Vaccine or not.  It's the mask.  Are we smarter than the virus?  Are we going to continue it's bidding?  

Parasites are considered alive.  Viruses act parasitically.  What direction would virology take if we considered viruses alive?

Anchoress Away!

Book board diptych

Teenage Anchoress

I gave up my life to pray for you

gave up my pretty clothes too

I didn't want to marry my betrothed

an old man from an old throne

I ran away into a cell

I was kept with nothing well

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this

cuz I know I'm not havin it

What did I think of all day in 

my one person room?

Sometimes an anchoress never 

leaves and it becomes her tomb

Mostly I think of food,

but I also keep in mind the common good

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

I was there at my death ritual

now my life is habitual

pray, eat, pray, teach

pray, eat, pray, I don't preach

I'd do it all again to retain my own power

living autonomously in my miniature tower

vistors in my window

like a puppet show

I'm a teenage anchoress

got on my nun dress

you know I'm not havin this 

cuz I know I'm not havin it

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

gonna sit here looking out into the wild world

I'm a lithe girl

gotta tithe girl

don't you know I've already died, girl?

just sittin, lookin out into the wild world

Mmm

 

Blue oasis in the dark

 This article makes me feel hopeful and sad that we can’t all get together and be scientific and reasonable about life on our planet

Juxtapose with these headlines and wishing I could request Paddy Considine to put out a new Le Donk “Calm Down” song

Could we replace these news headlines with famous people that are saying things that make sense?  Media, you are doing a big disservice to this whole thing by buoying the shock news and embarrassing the poor souls that are being brainwashed.  Rude, Media, really rude.

Calm down Aaron Rodgers, Calm down Robert Kennedy Jr

fan

 

Remedios Varo

 

A snowball right in the kisser

 

Countdown

 

Merry Christmas

 

Check

 

Christmas songs in my head

 

Waahoo doris, waahoo doris

I almost walk around drunk to this one

Christmas presents, check