by Matthew Warlick | Jan 12, 2005 | Blog
Yeah, so anyone who knows me (or happens to flip thru the root of SoulCore) knows I’m obsessed with haikus. To quote a great movie “I too need structure, and fucking discipline.”
Haikus help hold in the creativity, and sharpen it to its maximum focus.
For those of you not in the know, a Haiku is an ancient Japanese form of poetry, consisting of 3 lines; the first of which has 5 syllables, the second 7, and the last 5, for a total of 17.
A Tanka by the way has 5 lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables; respectively.
Enjoy.
Never will they see, blinded by a milky haze, count them as you choke.
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by Matthew Warlick | Jan 7, 2005 | Blog
1. The World Trade Center Black Boxes were recovered, though officials perpetuate the lie that they weren’t.
2. FEMA really did arrive early in New York City, for the “bioterror drill” Tripod II, and Rudi Giuliani’s testimony to that effect before the 9/11 Commission is its only public testimony which remains officially untranscribed.
3. The Total Information Awareness program was ready to roll out before Sept 11, and John Poindexter’s office was established in the Pentagon no later than Sept 12.
4. A recording of six air traffic controllers’ same-day detailing of their communication with two hijacked planes on September 11 was purposefully destroyed by the FAA.
5. NORAD was conducting a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings on the morning of 9/11, which effectively hamstrung a fighter response already compromised by exercises which took the bulk of interceptors far from the eastern seaboard.
6. Dick Cheney was running a separate command and control communications system on 9/11, which whistleblower Indira Singh recognized as having “the exact same functionality I was looking to utilize [for] Ptech,” the high tech terrorist and intelligence cut-out that “was set up in the basement of the FAA” for two years before the attacks. (Go to this page to download video testimony of Mike Ruppert and Indira Singh on this subject.)
7. George Bush was unwilling to reluctanctly meet members of his reluctantly struck 9/11 Commission unless Cheney accompanied him, both were unsworn, their words were unrecorded and untranscribed, the meeting was private and in the White House, and the members’ notebooks were confiscated afterwards.
8. That John Ashcroft made the case for Sibel Edmonds’ State Secret Privilege gag order by claiming that disclosure of her testimony would “cause serious damage to the national security interests of the United States” suggests he is at least an accessory after the fact (Daniel Ellsberg believes Ashcroft deserving of jail time for his role in obstructing justice), as Edmonds has been able to say that her testimony involves “specific information implicating certain high level government and elected officials in criminal activities directly and indirectly related to terrorist money laundering, narcotics, and illegal arms sales.”
9. Donald Rumsfeld confirmed what we knew all along, that Flight 93 was shot down, and the corporate media flew into damage control for the Pentagon, saying the Secretary “misspoke” and “stoked conspiracy theories.”
10. As Pakistan wound down the search for Osama bin Laden and “prohibited” American forces based in Afghanistan from making cross-border incursions into the Tribal Areas, Musharraf was rewarded with the approving words that his continuing rule remains an internal matter for Pakistanis. (Afghanistan was, arguably, more cooperative in their attempt to bring bin Laden to justice, and Iraq was not a rogue nuclear state.)
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Taken form http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
by Matthew Warlick | Dec 31, 2004 | Blog
“Religion and Spirituality are often confused with each other, yet in many respects religion has very little to do with spirituality and everything to do with the attainment of secular power and wealth for rather base and venal reasons.”
“Religion invariably presents an oversimplistic and narrow view of reality, is intolerant of contrary views and demeaning to the basic tenets underlying spirituality in that it attempts to present a finite and limited interpretation of the infinite.”
“Spirituality on the other hand is usually a far deeper personal experience associated with an individual’s personal quest to re-discover his or her essence and who he or she really are. (i.e. the essence of one’s identity so to speak) This quest invariably involves entering into some form of holotropic state (either planned or spontaneously) and experiencing a life-changing spiritual event associated with the person’s reconnection with the Creative Principle (or God, for want of a better name) This ‘reconnection’ has no real counterpart in everyday human experience, so very few people who experience it ever talk about it.”
for more intersting articles on everything from religion to quantum physics visit http://www.vision.net.au/~apaterson/index.htm
by Matthew Warlick | Dec 24, 2004 | Blog
How quickly history is forgotten, only to be repeated.
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Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in Gilbert’s book ‘Nuremberg Diary.‘
Goering: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Goering: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
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Go here for some real news from Iraq.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
-Abraham Lincoln before invading the Southern States
by Matthew Warlick | Dec 18, 2004 | Blog, Works in Progress
Tonight I Dream In Burnt Umber and Cerulean Blue.
by Matthew Warlick | Dec 8, 2004 | Blog
One of my friends died today. She passed away June 24th but I just found out about it this morning. I sent her an email yesterday, just checking in, seeing how she was doing. Wishing her Happy Holidays.
I awoke today to a reply from her Father; she was killed in a drunk driving accident at Lake Texoma this summer.
I would be lying if I said we were the best of friends. We dated briefly, but it was quickly evident her soul belonged with someone else. Never the less we kept in touch thru emails and phone calls, and the occasional drink or spliff here and there.
She had a smile that would light up a room, and I will never see it again. She was engaged to be married, and if anyone ever deserved to live a long, happy life; it was her.
My thoughts and condolences go out to her parents, fiancée and friends, I will most definitely miss her.
http://www.lynseyrobichaud.com
Haiku
everybody dies
it’s how you live that matters
we will see you soon
