© 2007 Mark Robert Gates
We all know how this works, we send in our operative, with an agreement, if caught we in America will deny all knowledge of this person having any existence. In Iraq, and given today's Iraq policy, it is time we "We American's" fall back on this, plausible deniabilty, as, there is still time and, as, there is still a possibility of maintaining, America's pristine, war image, by denying any involvement, by those past operative's now caught, in Iraqi war failure's, and involved in our current Ameri-government affairs. So, lets get our stories' straight and make sure we do not spill our guts, in a mistaken fear of loss, of our credible use of plausible deniability. Please, fill out your, Plausible Deniabiltiy Sweepstakes, entry, and send it in today, "We" could be America's next big winner.
We simply, all deny together, there is anyone, we know of, named, George W. Bush, who ever was, or who is now, an American president.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
CASEY AT THE BAT
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Published in The Examiner (San Francisco) (3 June 1888)
The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a fake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore."
Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And it's likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shown;
He stilled the rising tumult; he made the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
"Phin"
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Commentary:
© 2007 Mark Robert Gates:
This inning replayed, for those unaware,
George W. Bush' league warfare,
struck out last October, and for all:
lame duck, pseudo-Christian, right-wing,
Bush' Leaguer's, the war is over,
and the pennant is lost.
This even a diehard Cub's fan knows.
3000 to 1, is enough swings at one bat.
When I get my room, in the house on Gold Street,
in God's New Founded Kingdom on Earth,
I will ask for a radio, from which to listen,
for maybe, one day the Cub's will win a pennant.
Published in The Examiner (San Francisco) (3 June 1888)
The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a fake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore."
Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And it's likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shown;
He stilled the rising tumult; he made the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
"Phin"
Retrieved from "http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Casey_at_the_Bat"
This page was last modified 05:30:14, 2006-08-13. Content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Commentary:
© 2007 Mark Robert Gates:
This inning replayed, for those unaware,
George W. Bush' league warfare,
struck out last October, and for all:
lame duck, pseudo-Christian, right-wing,
Bush' Leaguer's, the war is over,
and the pennant is lost.
This even a diehard Cub's fan knows.
3000 to 1, is enough swings at one bat.
When I get my room, in the house on Gold Street,
in God's New Founded Kingdom on Earth,
I will ask for a radio, from which to listen,
for maybe, one day the Cub's will win a pennant.
Monday, January 01, 2007
SPRIGHTLY DOTH THE SPRING, SPRING AFTER SNOWFALLING'S
All photographs© 2007 
Mark Robert Gates, unless otherwise noted.
Mark Robert Gates, unless otherwise noted.
A CONSPIRACY OF ONE
© 2007 Mark Robert Gates, except where U.S. Code, is presented.
Fourscore, and so many years ago, not even Abe Lincoln can remember, we were at war with ourselves, and a discontented South, gladly conceded, so as to make their peace. Now, we once again fight the war, it seems, in Texas. Where, a bewildered student body, with tireless, laziness on their hands, has nothing better to do with their extracurricular activity, than to tilt at statues, in the lawn.
It seems, there just cannot be a remembrance, anywhere that, there ever was a Southside to our civil war, and only a Northside, must present, for the entire field of battle. We cannot be allowed to see, who in history, stood, against our sturdy northern stock of men, in a contest, to end all subjection of men to another's personal will. There, were many on both sides, who fought to contain, in history, a place, where slavery and servitude, end.
And, yet, there are those who would closet those who were amongst the fight, and did not lose a right to be seen in public, and even to be seen as a statue. To do this is to hide, and then erase, a part of American history, that must never be forgotten, lest, we do it all again. That is right, after putting those statues in the closet, and defying a man's right to be remembered, or another's, right to remember him, then we have no reminder, we once fought to end the right to own, or alter on demand, another person. And, as such, to be able to alter on demand another's law-abiding, person, property, will, heart's desire, love, passion, remembrance, dream, knowledge, cognitive science, theology, imagination or inclination, against their will, is to defy present civil rights law.
If we fail to learn the lesson's of yesterday, by looking at the statues of those who fought with the Southside, then we fail to learn, our place, is not to decide the contest again, however, to remember. No discrimination, therefore, is ever allowed on the basis of, deciding civil rights, and according to U.S. Federal code, penalties are allowed if such a group decide to conspire against rights, or conspire to interfere with civil rights. And, the rights of the man, in the statue, still state, "I am allowed to stand, here."
Please review the following:
-CITE-
18 USC Sec. 241 01/03/05
-EXPCITE- TITLE 18
- CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I
- CRIMES CHAPTER 13
- CIVIL RIGHTS-HEAD-
Sec. 241.Conspiracy against rights
-STATUTE-
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured - They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1985 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights
3) Depriving persons of rights or privileges If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal protection of the laws; or if two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy; in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1986 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1986. Action for neglect to prevent
-STATUTE-
Every person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to be done, and mentioned in section 1985 of this title, are about to be committed, and having power to prevent or aid in preventing the commission of the same, neglects or refuses so to do, if such wrongful act be committed, shall be liable to the party injured, or his legal representatives, for all damages caused by such wrongful act, which such person by reasonable diligence could have prevented; and such damages may be recovered in an action on the case; and any number of persons guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be joined as defendants in the action; and if the death of any party be caused by any such wrongful act and neglect, the legal representatives of the deceased shall have such action therefor, and may recover not exceeding $5,000 damages therein, for the benefit of the widow of the deceased, if there be one, and if there be no widow, then for the benefit of the next of kin of the deceased. But no action under the provisions of this section shall be sustained which is not commenced within one year after the cause of action has accrued.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1987 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1987. Prosecution of violation of certain laws
-STATUTE-
The United States attorneys, marshals, and deputy marshals, the United States magistrate judges appointed by the district and territorial courts, with power to arrest, imprison, or bail offenders, and every other officer who is especially empowered by the President, are authorized and required, at the expense of the United States, to institute prosecutions against all persons violating any of the provisions of section 1990 of this title or of sections 5506 to 5516 and 5518 to 5532 of the Revised Statutes, and to cause such persons to be arrested, and imprisoned or bailed, for trial before the court of the United States or the territorial court having cognizance of the offense.CHANGE OF NAME Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted "United States attorneys" for "district attorneys". See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder. "United States magistrate judges" substituted in text for "magistrates" pursuant to section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28. Previously, "magistrates" substituted for "commissioners" pursuant to Pub. L. 90-578. See chapter 43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28. Reference to the district courts substituted for reference to the circuit courts on authority of section 291 of act Mar. 3, 1911.
-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1989 of this title.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1988 01/19/04
-EXPCITE-TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1988. Proceedings in vindication of civil rights
-STATUTE-
(a) Applicability of statutory and common law The jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters conferred on the district courts by the provisions of titles 13, 24, and 70 of the Revised Statutes for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and for their vindication, shall be exercised and enforced in conformity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where they are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offenses against law, the common law, as modified and changed by the constitution and statutes of the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of such civil or criminal cause is held, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be extended to and govern the said courts in the trial and disposition of the cause, and, if it is of a criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty.
Happy New Years, and, I cannot wait to see what the, state of the union is, in George W. Bush's, eyes, and from where he stands.
-2007-Mark Robert Gates
Fourscore, and so many years ago, not even Abe Lincoln can remember, we were at war with ourselves, and a discontented South, gladly conceded, so as to make their peace. Now, we once again fight the war, it seems, in Texas. Where, a bewildered student body, with tireless, laziness on their hands, has nothing better to do with their extracurricular activity, than to tilt at statues, in the lawn.
It seems, there just cannot be a remembrance, anywhere that, there ever was a Southside to our civil war, and only a Northside, must present, for the entire field of battle. We cannot be allowed to see, who in history, stood, against our sturdy northern stock of men, in a contest, to end all subjection of men to another's personal will. There, were many on both sides, who fought to contain, in history, a place, where slavery and servitude, end.
And, yet, there are those who would closet those who were amongst the fight, and did not lose a right to be seen in public, and even to be seen as a statue. To do this is to hide, and then erase, a part of American history, that must never be forgotten, lest, we do it all again. That is right, after putting those statues in the closet, and defying a man's right to be remembered, or another's, right to remember him, then we have no reminder, we once fought to end the right to own, or alter on demand, another person. And, as such, to be able to alter on demand another's law-abiding, person, property, will, heart's desire, love, passion, remembrance, dream, knowledge, cognitive science, theology, imagination or inclination, against their will, is to defy present civil rights law.
If we fail to learn the lesson's of yesterday, by looking at the statues of those who fought with the Southside, then we fail to learn, our place, is not to decide the contest again, however, to remember. No discrimination, therefore, is ever allowed on the basis of, deciding civil rights, and according to U.S. Federal code, penalties are allowed if such a group decide to conspire against rights, or conspire to interfere with civil rights. And, the rights of the man, in the statue, still state, "I am allowed to stand, here."
Please review the following:
-CITE-
18 USC Sec. 241 01/03/05
-EXPCITE- TITLE 18
- CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I
- CRIMES CHAPTER 13
- CIVIL RIGHTS-HEAD-
Sec. 241.Conspiracy against rights
-STATUTE-
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured - They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1985 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights
3) Depriving persons of rights or privileges If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State or Territory the equal protection of the laws; or if two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of such support or advocacy; in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1986 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1986. Action for neglect to prevent
-STATUTE-
Every person who, having knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to be done, and mentioned in section 1985 of this title, are about to be committed, and having power to prevent or aid in preventing the commission of the same, neglects or refuses so to do, if such wrongful act be committed, shall be liable to the party injured, or his legal representatives, for all damages caused by such wrongful act, which such person by reasonable diligence could have prevented; and such damages may be recovered in an action on the case; and any number of persons guilty of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be joined as defendants in the action; and if the death of any party be caused by any such wrongful act and neglect, the legal representatives of the deceased shall have such action therefor, and may recover not exceeding $5,000 damages therein, for the benefit of the widow of the deceased, if there be one, and if there be no widow, then for the benefit of the next of kin of the deceased. But no action under the provisions of this section shall be sustained which is not commenced within one year after the cause of action has accrued.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1987 01/19/04
-EXPCITE- TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1987. Prosecution of violation of certain laws
-STATUTE-
The United States attorneys, marshals, and deputy marshals, the United States magistrate judges appointed by the district and territorial courts, with power to arrest, imprison, or bail offenders, and every other officer who is especially empowered by the President, are authorized and required, at the expense of the United States, to institute prosecutions against all persons violating any of the provisions of section 1990 of this title or of sections 5506 to 5516 and 5518 to 5532 of the Revised Statutes, and to cause such persons to be arrested, and imprisoned or bailed, for trial before the court of the United States or the territorial court having cognizance of the offense.CHANGE OF NAME Act June 25, 1948, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, substituted "United States attorneys" for "district attorneys". See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and Historical and Revision Notes thereunder. "United States magistrate judges" substituted in text for "magistrates" pursuant to section 321 of Pub. L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28. Previously, "magistrates" substituted for "commissioners" pursuant to Pub. L. 90-578. See chapter 43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28. Reference to the district courts substituted for reference to the circuit courts on authority of section 291 of act Mar. 3, 1911.
-SECREF-
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1989 of this title.
-CITE-
42 USC Sec. 1988 01/19/04
-EXPCITE-TITLE 42
- THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 21
- CIVIL RIGHTS SUBCHAPTER I
- GENERALLY
-HEAD-Sec. 1988. Proceedings in vindication of civil rights
-STATUTE-
(a) Applicability of statutory and common law The jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters conferred on the district courts by the provisions of titles 13, 24, and 70 of the Revised Statutes for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and for their vindication, shall be exercised and enforced in conformity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where they are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies and punish offenses against law, the common law, as modified and changed by the constitution and statutes of the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of such civil or criminal cause is held, so far as the same is not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, shall be extended to and govern the said courts in the trial and disposition of the cause, and, if it is of a criminal nature, in the infliction of punishment on the party found guilty.
Happy New Years, and, I cannot wait to see what the, state of the union is, in George W. Bush's, eyes, and from where he stands.
-2007-Mark Robert Gates
Sunday, December 31, 2006
STEP OUT & STEP UP, OR STEP DOWN
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
One, cannot
take the right step,
without, also,
taking the left step.
One, cannot
take the right step,
without, also,
taking the left step.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
OUTLAWING DESERT STARVATION, AS A MEANS OF EXECUTION
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
It can be proven, now, that, the removal of people, from their property, and leaving them in a desert to die, is a death sentence, and this method of execution needs to be outlawed, worldwide.
I have it on good authority, all people who were starved to death, using this method of execution, would have preferred to be offered a more humane method of execution. They all wanna know, "For God sake's, why did you not, just, machine gun me to death, when you seized my property?"
It can be shown, in all places where this practice occures, people happy to live off the land, had a means of acquiring food, even though to society, they were considered impoverished. In our' God's of our' Bible's, Christ's, says, "We will have the poor with us always." However, this does not refer to starving to death. We, who are follower's and believer's in the God's of the Bible's, and God's Himself, will not allow the definition of poor, in this passage to be equated, anylonger, to: "Unable to acquire food." As, Christ did not say, "We will be starving to death people, always." This, perversions of God's, and Christ's intent, is criminal in its endeavourer, always. And, all nations, and all world courts, must now write laws to specifically state, to render a person, to a state, where this person is unable to acquire food, is a sentence to crime, or a personal attack, that is now outlawed. worldwide.
A desert, courtesy of, Answers.com, and the American Heritage Dictionary, is defined as such:
A barren or desolate area, especially:
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
An apparently lifeless area of water.
An empty or forsaken place; a wasteland: a cultural desert.
Archaic. A wild, uncultivated, and uninhabited region.adj.
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or inhabiting a desert: desert fauna.
Barren and uninhabited; desolate: a desert island.
This means, isolating a person, economically, and removing any ability, to acquire any economic necessities, is to sentence, illegally, this person, to a desert, to starve to death, and is always, and forevermore, a criminal action, and not allowed to be viewed as a legitimate legal action.
This is necessary to protect these people, being removed from this sentence, from being resentenced, by another, as we are trying to aide the person's damaged in such a crime.
Our, remedy, must be to require all sovereign's nations to accept this international law, and that a person rendered to the state of, Desert, must be allowed international, asylum, of their choosing. As, sovereign's nation's, enforcing, this international law, it must be required, all person's, placed in a starvation desert, are entitled to, successful relocation to a place of being able to acquire food.
What, we must do, when people are placed in a desert, is send an international team, to remove them from this illegal sentence. We, will take all person's from their place of sentence, including all people starving in a desert region of our' earth, even up to multitudes, and provide whatever, is necessary to allow them, by voluntary means, to choose, where else to live, and recover, economically to a place where they are again able, to always, acquire food, without aide. This, means those who choose to live off the land, in a straw hut, in Africa, can return there, even though, to society, this is still considered an impoverished condition. There are those who do not desire, Ipods, and would like to just live close to nature, and survive, by growing, or raising what they eat, and want nothing else, except, such a simple life, and we have no legitimate right, to remove from a person, this desire, to live as they choose, without, modern technology.
Any country, or person, sentencing, or personally attacking a person in such a way as to make, a person, or people, to be rendered to such a state, as, a desert where one is unable to acquire food, will be required to provide payment to whatever agency, or agencies, were required to aide these victims, in being, economically re-established, in a place of their voluntary choosing, to a state of a voluntary means of acquiring food. There will be no pussyfooting, any form of seizure, of any available assets and monies, will be allowed, to collect payment for committing such an atrocity. Please, do not expect, kind and gracious treatment, from world and national authorities, after making it necessary to deal with such a situation.
It can be proven, now, that, the removal of people, from their property, and leaving them in a desert to die, is a death sentence, and this method of execution needs to be outlawed, worldwide.
I have it on good authority, all people who were starved to death, using this method of execution, would have preferred to be offered a more humane method of execution. They all wanna know, "For God sake's, why did you not, just, machine gun me to death, when you seized my property?"
It can be shown, in all places where this practice occures, people happy to live off the land, had a means of acquiring food, even though to society, they were considered impoverished. In our' God's of our' Bible's, Christ's, says, "We will have the poor with us always." However, this does not refer to starving to death. We, who are follower's and believer's in the God's of the Bible's, and God's Himself, will not allow the definition of poor, in this passage to be equated, anylonger, to: "Unable to acquire food." As, Christ did not say, "We will be starving to death people, always." This, perversions of God's, and Christ's intent, is criminal in its endeavourer, always. And, all nations, and all world courts, must now write laws to specifically state, to render a person, to a state, where this person is unable to acquire food, is a sentence to crime, or a personal attack, that is now outlawed. worldwide.
A desert, courtesy of, Answers.com, and the American Heritage Dictionary, is defined as such:
A barren or desolate area, especially:
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
An apparently lifeless area of water.
An empty or forsaken place; a wasteland: a cultural desert.
Archaic. A wild, uncultivated, and uninhabited region.adj.
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or inhabiting a desert: desert fauna.
Barren and uninhabited; desolate: a desert island.
This means, isolating a person, economically, and removing any ability, to acquire any economic necessities, is to sentence, illegally, this person, to a desert, to starve to death, and is always, and forevermore, a criminal action, and not allowed to be viewed as a legitimate legal action.
This is necessary to protect these people, being removed from this sentence, from being resentenced, by another, as we are trying to aide the person's damaged in such a crime.
Our, remedy, must be to require all sovereign's nations to accept this international law, and that a person rendered to the state of, Desert, must be allowed international, asylum, of their choosing. As, sovereign's nation's, enforcing, this international law, it must be required, all person's, placed in a starvation desert, are entitled to, successful relocation to a place of being able to acquire food.
What, we must do, when people are placed in a desert, is send an international team, to remove them from this illegal sentence. We, will take all person's from their place of sentence, including all people starving in a desert region of our' earth, even up to multitudes, and provide whatever, is necessary to allow them, by voluntary means, to choose, where else to live, and recover, economically to a place where they are again able, to always, acquire food, without aide. This, means those who choose to live off the land, in a straw hut, in Africa, can return there, even though, to society, this is still considered an impoverished condition. There are those who do not desire, Ipods, and would like to just live close to nature, and survive, by growing, or raising what they eat, and want nothing else, except, such a simple life, and we have no legitimate right, to remove from a person, this desire, to live as they choose, without, modern technology.
Any country, or person, sentencing, or personally attacking a person in such a way as to make, a person, or people, to be rendered to such a state, as, a desert where one is unable to acquire food, will be required to provide payment to whatever agency, or agencies, were required to aide these victims, in being, economically re-established, in a place of their voluntary choosing, to a state of a voluntary means of acquiring food. There will be no pussyfooting, any form of seizure, of any available assets and monies, will be allowed, to collect payment for committing such an atrocity. Please, do not expect, kind and gracious treatment, from world and national authorities, after making it necessary to deal with such a situation.
Monday, December 18, 2006
DETECTION OF THE GOD SPIRIT, BY SCIENTIFIC MEANS
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
A need exists in our 21st Century to find
a scientific method of detecting the God Spirit,
and the human spirit’s existence.
Currently, there are heartless, people with obvious
problems of brain inactivity, hovering around those
they call brain dead. These human vampires, wait for
the situation of undetectable brain activity,
in a machine sustained body
for a state of which they call brain dead to exist
to use a legal document
to flush the soul from the body
in order to dispose of the body.
There, are those of us acquainted with God’s
who know, there is more brain activity
in the brain called, brain dead,
than in the mind of the man
wanting to pull the plug
on the man, he calls, brain dead.
We must find a verifiable method of determining
the presence of a soul in a person,
And, develop a constitutional law stating:
Occupation, by the soul,
of the body,
by being in the body,
proves,
desire of, said,
spirit to occupy, said body.
As, obviously,
if the spirit did not choose to occupy
the body, it would not do so.
In order to enforce this constitutional law
We must detect the spirit’s presence, in order
To confirm, whether or not, medical instruments
Are capable of sustaining life in
a body without a spirit.
If we are to develop,
a scientific method of detecting the God Spirit,
removed from all existing theological methods,
theology schools provide students with
several methods of detecting the God Spirit,
as part of their course of instruction,
we, however, must use only cognitive science,
using only scientific observations,
and scientific instruments capable of detection,
then we must, first, form a series of questions,
from which we are to form our hypothesis,
or series of hypothecis.
Question 1: If the God Spirit exists, what is it composed of?
We know it is not atomic,
and not anything of which would necessitate atomic make-up,
such as chemical, as all this can now be detected,
by modern scientific methods.
Question 2: What is this God Spirit’s source of energy?
As, we know all living things require a source of energy, in order, to live.
A: Is the God Spirits source of energy, Internal only?
And, is this source of internal energy, self-sustaining?
And, is this internal, self-sustaining, source of energy,
Universal, and the source of all existing energy, and,
is it the same universal energy the Chinese refer to as Chi?
B: Is there an internal, self-sustaining source of energy,
in the God Spirit, and also, an external universal source of energy,
and which source of energy, is the universal energy,
the Chinese refer to as Chi?
C: Is there, an external only, universal source of energy,
and the God Spirit, itself, requires this source to sustain itself,
and, is this external only source of universal energy,
the universal energy the Chinese refer to as Chi?
Remember, there are theological texts, of which,
teach of a God Spirit, capable of experiencing death.
Now, we have series of questions, necessary to provide answers
in our quest to form a hypothesis, to detect the God Spirit,
from use of only scientific methods, observations, and instruments.
Now, we must combine the mind of Albert Einstein, with the mind of Edison,
And, go out in the laboratory, and attempt to create instruments,
Needed for detection.
Remember, in order to invent the radar speed detection gun,
one does not need to form a hypothesis,
to prove the existence of the automobile,
In order to devise a method of detecting its speed.
However, here we now must find, first, a method of detecting, whatever,
the God Spirit, if the God Spirit exists, is composed of,
by forming our hypothesis, as to what this composition is composed of.
Good luck, everyone, in your search, however, I would be informed
It is probably best if we find this method of detection,
Before, our next president takes office, as, we are having several obviouse problems
Made necessary by our presidents inability to communicate with a God Spirit.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Immancipation Proclamation, of, Mark Robert Gates
As, of, Monday, December 18, 2006, 5:00AM, Eastern, all lies, about me, will have been told, and will be known as lies, all accusations agaisnt me, made behind my back, will be known, to me, and will be dealt with by me, only, and, only, face to face.
As, of Monday, December 18, 2006, 5:00AM, Eastern, all men who call me out, or, have called me out, over, any women, who are, will be, would be, or want to be my wives, I will be going out to meet. According to Pauline Law, a man and any women who marry, must look after their needs, and the things of this world, as applies to those needs. And, the things of this world require, that if a man calls, a man out, over his wife, then a man must go out to meet that man, and cannot, hide, or run away, from this duty. There will be no more, calling me out to women, behind my back, as God's has my back, and there is no no longer any invisablility back there, all Mighty's Eye's have my back, and there is no where to hide any longer to sneak up on me behind my back, either. If, a person accuses me, or calls me out, that person must meet, only, me, only, face to face, in a court of law. There will, no longer, be any passages available, to fight my wife, or any who would be, or want to be, my wife, behind my back. If you choose to call me out, you face me, not a woman behind my back, any longer, as, there is no longer a behind my back, as, God's has my back.
The possibility of dropping false complaints, and all calling out's ended, Friday, December 15, 2006, a sundown, Eastern. As, sufficeint time has been allowed, for all to retire such threats, and intimidations peacefully, and willingly. Now, such matter's, will all, be dealt with, as according to, all American laws.
I trust, no one, now believe's there is any further possibility of fooling God's and I'.
-Mark Robert Gates
As, of Monday, December 18, 2006, 5:00AM, Eastern, all men who call me out, or, have called me out, over, any women, who are, will be, would be, or want to be my wives, I will be going out to meet. According to Pauline Law, a man and any women who marry, must look after their needs, and the things of this world, as applies to those needs. And, the things of this world require, that if a man calls, a man out, over his wife, then a man must go out to meet that man, and cannot, hide, or run away, from this duty. There will be no more, calling me out to women, behind my back, as God's has my back, and there is no no longer any invisablility back there, all Mighty's Eye's have my back, and there is no where to hide any longer to sneak up on me behind my back, either. If, a person accuses me, or calls me out, that person must meet, only, me, only, face to face, in a court of law. There will, no longer, be any passages available, to fight my wife, or any who would be, or want to be, my wife, behind my back. If you choose to call me out, you face me, not a woman behind my back, any longer, as, there is no longer a behind my back, as, God's has my back.
The possibility of dropping false complaints, and all calling out's ended, Friday, December 15, 2006, a sundown, Eastern. As, sufficeint time has been allowed, for all to retire such threats, and intimidations peacefully, and willingly. Now, such matter's, will all, be dealt with, as according to, all American laws.
I trust, no one, now believe's there is any further possibility of fooling God's and I'.
-Mark Robert Gates
Iraq: The President's Smack
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
It is maddening to hear the things Hillary Rodham Clinton gets accused of, like actually representing her constituency, rollin’ up her sleeves and jumping into things she believes in, without regard for her personal reputation. In fact, she does not have any regard for what anyone thinks of her personally, when persuing something she belives in, and will not let public critisizm, and complaint stop pursuit of high and lofty ideals.
Obama, is already overwith, he firmly shot himself in the foot, after firmly sticking it in his mouth. He said when asked if he was experienced enough to be president, “Is anyone ever really ready to be president?” How naive can a man be, to run for president on such a high and lofty ideal as that?
After, 6 years, of making it up as we go, while George W. Bush, has to rediscover what Alexander Pope wrote in 1734, http://lokieponaphoenix.blogspot.com/2006/11/epistle-iii-of-nature-and-state-of-man.html, we do not need another mere mindless, and meaningless speculator.
Trust me a two day or two week legal process is not what American's want. Yes, it can seem impossibly encumbered with technicalities, however, our legal process is designed to protect the rights of those innocent American's, either unjustly or falsely accused from being incarcerated on false charges. Therefore, we will never have in America, a legal system in which just accusing a person is enough to make a person guilty.
Unless, you would like to go to jail for George W. Bush's imagination, we will all have to continue to fight to preserve our American right to a fair trial, in order to maintain all of our American liberties and rights. There is no other way, look at the outgoing congress, and the number of sharks looking for a way to make all of their false charges stick without any public or private scrutiny to determine whether the charges are legitimate.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/3zZQwjwS.jpg
If there is a thing in a person one cannot admit the truth about, such as the desire to commit a crime, or the position of being in the process of committing a crime, where in admitting the truth would require confession. Then this person is incapable of accepting the truth about anything, as accepting the truth about any one thing would require accepting the truth about this person's criminal intentions, or their crime in process.
There is no point in debating a person such as this, no truth whatsoever, will ever be acceptable.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/UWeJ2QKA.jpg
You have to realize the reason these "Insurgents" are kidnapping all of these people, is, that when the Democrats give the war to a qualified military, to handle, this milktoast approach, of George W. Bush's is goin' to end in Iraq. They are kidnapping all of these people to use as human sheilds, when the real war begins.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/uIE4f5nq.jpg
This administration is using the same failed policies, as in Iran in the 80's, with the same result.
The result of trying to foist a western ideology on an eastern culture, is always, a religious backlash. Unless, this administration changes its policies, we will see the same result as in Iran in the 80's, an Ayatohla.
Also, we are fighting this war today, because, Americans, and other misguided countries, would not let Israel proscute, Yasar Arafat, when he was captured. Instead, these people tried to broker a peace, by asking Israel to give land and amnesty to terrorists. When Messir Arafat finally realized, he was not going to be given, what he killed people for, after all, like his Nobel Prize, he returned to being a terrorist.
Did Yasar Arafat have rockets?
These wars are always racist, they are not about religion, and they are not about ideology, they are about extermination of races. We too, are in this war as racists, as our military also carries orders, to kill everyone of the same race. We lost the ideological war in Iraq when we opened, Quantanamo, we, whites, as a race, are not any better than Arabs, Muslims and Hebrews, we maim, rape, kill, murder, prostitute and torture, just the same.
As far as a loving God, is concerned, when asked if they wanted a place in Iraqi government, "Insurgents" said, "No." And, to their charges said, "Go on killing." These, "Insurgents" are only interested in killing, and the people living in Iraq, and Afganistan, are screaming to God's for help, and God's has said, "So be it: I will now carry out my wrath."
http://thumbsnap.com/v/KURCakFV.jpg
Theft, is not the returning of stolen land.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/FXVkiFOZ.jpg
This, Iraq involvement, was not a pre-emptive war, it is official, now in Washington, this involvement by Bush' and company was a: presumptive war, based purely on speculations'.
It will now be known, as, the human sacrifice necessary, to get American's a real picture of what life is like in the Middle East, so we can now be friends with those cultures, against the orders of Bush' and company, and like's of Dr. Dobson's.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/fdcohJiU.jpg
Somebody, needs to tell Mel Gibson, what I always did when I encountered, first, this apocalypse story, in a church, “You are imagining things!”
Once more, its the troops I support, not human sacrifice. I do not want those people dying for me, in that way, as, the only way those deaths could ever have had any worth, is if you people, had actually eaten their flesh, and sucked the fat from between their ribs. It will be better for cannibalism, in those days, when God’s wrath appears.
It is maddening to hear the things Hillary Rodham Clinton gets accused of, like actually representing her constituency, rollin’ up her sleeves and jumping into things she believes in, without regard for her personal reputation. In fact, she does not have any regard for what anyone thinks of her personally, when persuing something she belives in, and will not let public critisizm, and complaint stop pursuit of high and lofty ideals.
Obama, is already overwith, he firmly shot himself in the foot, after firmly sticking it in his mouth. He said when asked if he was experienced enough to be president, “Is anyone ever really ready to be president?” How naive can a man be, to run for president on such a high and lofty ideal as that?
After, 6 years, of making it up as we go, while George W. Bush, has to rediscover what Alexander Pope wrote in 1734, http://lokieponaphoenix.blogspot.com/2006/11/epistle-iii-of-nature-and-state-of-man.html, we do not need another mere mindless, and meaningless speculator.
Trust me a two day or two week legal process is not what American's want. Yes, it can seem impossibly encumbered with technicalities, however, our legal process is designed to protect the rights of those innocent American's, either unjustly or falsely accused from being incarcerated on false charges. Therefore, we will never have in America, a legal system in which just accusing a person is enough to make a person guilty.
Unless, you would like to go to jail for George W. Bush's imagination, we will all have to continue to fight to preserve our American right to a fair trial, in order to maintain all of our American liberties and rights. There is no other way, look at the outgoing congress, and the number of sharks looking for a way to make all of their false charges stick without any public or private scrutiny to determine whether the charges are legitimate.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/3zZQwjwS.jpg
If there is a thing in a person one cannot admit the truth about, such as the desire to commit a crime, or the position of being in the process of committing a crime, where in admitting the truth would require confession. Then this person is incapable of accepting the truth about anything, as accepting the truth about any one thing would require accepting the truth about this person's criminal intentions, or their crime in process.
There is no point in debating a person such as this, no truth whatsoever, will ever be acceptable.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/UWeJ2QKA.jpg
You have to realize the reason these "Insurgents" are kidnapping all of these people, is, that when the Democrats give the war to a qualified military, to handle, this milktoast approach, of George W. Bush's is goin' to end in Iraq. They are kidnapping all of these people to use as human sheilds, when the real war begins.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/uIE4f5nq.jpg
This administration is using the same failed policies, as in Iran in the 80's, with the same result.
The result of trying to foist a western ideology on an eastern culture, is always, a religious backlash. Unless, this administration changes its policies, we will see the same result as in Iran in the 80's, an Ayatohla.
Also, we are fighting this war today, because, Americans, and other misguided countries, would not let Israel proscute, Yasar Arafat, when he was captured. Instead, these people tried to broker a peace, by asking Israel to give land and amnesty to terrorists. When Messir Arafat finally realized, he was not going to be given, what he killed people for, after all, like his Nobel Prize, he returned to being a terrorist.
Did Yasar Arafat have rockets?
These wars are always racist, they are not about religion, and they are not about ideology, they are about extermination of races. We too, are in this war as racists, as our military also carries orders, to kill everyone of the same race. We lost the ideological war in Iraq when we opened, Quantanamo, we, whites, as a race, are not any better than Arabs, Muslims and Hebrews, we maim, rape, kill, murder, prostitute and torture, just the same.
As far as a loving God, is concerned, when asked if they wanted a place in Iraqi government, "Insurgents" said, "No." And, to their charges said, "Go on killing." These, "Insurgents" are only interested in killing, and the people living in Iraq, and Afganistan, are screaming to God's for help, and God's has said, "So be it: I will now carry out my wrath."
http://thumbsnap.com/v/KURCakFV.jpg
Theft, is not the returning of stolen land.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/FXVkiFOZ.jpg
This, Iraq involvement, was not a pre-emptive war, it is official, now in Washington, this involvement by Bush' and company was a: presumptive war, based purely on speculations'.
It will now be known, as, the human sacrifice necessary, to get American's a real picture of what life is like in the Middle East, so we can now be friends with those cultures, against the orders of Bush' and company, and like's of Dr. Dobson's.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/fdcohJiU.jpg
Somebody, needs to tell Mel Gibson, what I always did when I encountered, first, this apocalypse story, in a church, “You are imagining things!”
Once more, its the troops I support, not human sacrifice. I do not want those people dying for me, in that way, as, the only way those deaths could ever have had any worth, is if you people, had actually eaten their flesh, and sucked the fat from between their ribs. It will be better for cannibalism, in those days, when God’s wrath appears.
A Little Less Fuck, and A Lot More Inaction
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
I have discovered what is either, the biggest marketing fiasco, in world history, or a case of every executive, and producer, at Toby Keith's label, wanting to pull down his pants, and have sex with a Toby Keith fan in her bedroom, in consulation for screwing her royally, in the first place.
This is the line-up of the labels first Toby Keith Greatest Hit's:
1.
"Getcha Some"
Toby Keith
2.
"If A Man Answers"
Toby Keith
3.
"Should've Been A Cowboy"
Toby Keith
4.
"Dream Walkin'"
Toby Keith
5.
"A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action"
Toby Keith
6.
"Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You"
Toby Keith
7.
"I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
Toby Keith
8.
"We Were In Love"
Toby Keith
9.
"You Ain't Much Fun"
Toby Keith
10.
"Who's That Man"
Toby Keith
11.
"Wish I Didn't Know Now"
Toby Keith
12.
"Big Ol' Truck"
Toby Keith
13.
"Me Too"
Toby Keith
14.
"He Ain't Worth Missing"
Toby Keith
Here is the line up of Toby Keith's Greatest Hit's 2, as released by the label:
1.
"How Do You Like Me Now?!"
Toby Keith
2.
"Country Comes To Town"
Toby Keith
3.
"You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"
Toby Keith
4.
"I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight"
Toby Keith
5.
"I Wanna Talk About Me"
Toby Keith
6.
"My List"
Toby Keith
7.
"Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Toby Keith
8.
"Who's Your Daddy?"
Toby Keith
9.
"Beer For My Horses"
Toby Keith
10.
"Stays In Mexico (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
11.
"Mockingbird (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
12.
"Go With Her (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
13.
"You Ain't Much Fun (Live)"
Toby Keith
14.
"Should've Been A Cowboy (Live)"
Toby Keith
If I want to get Pam, her favorite Toby Keith song, I got to buy one Greatest Hit's album, with it being the only song on the album she will know. A little less, Talk, and a Little more Action.
And, then I have to buy her, Toby Keith's Greatest Hit's 2, to get her all the rest of the Toby Keith songs she likes, and her second favorite, How Do You Like Me Now?!
I listen to all my music on my xomputer, through a juke box, since, discovering, even CDs sound better when ripped and played through 5.1 Surround Sound Blaster. So, I can arrange a playlist anyway I like, so it doesn't matter to me, however, this would have killed Pam, were she still alive in the flesh, today, since, I cannot buy her all of her favorite Toby Keith songs, on one CD's, and she only has the CD, player, of which, I still have, to play songs on.
If this perverse label's executives were to release a: Toby Keith's Real Legitmate Greatest Hit's, with this line up:
1.
"How Do You Like Me Now?!"
Toby Keith
2.
"Country Comes To Town"
Toby Keith
3.
"You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"
Toby Keith
4.
"I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight"
Toby Keith
5.
"I Wanna Talk About Me"
Toby Keith
6.
"A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action"
7.
"My List"
Toby Keith
8.
"Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Toby Keith
9.
"Who's Your Daddy?"
Toby Keith
10.
"Beer For My Horses"
Toby Keith
11.
"Stays In Mexico (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
12.
"Mockingbird (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
13.
"Go With Her (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
14.
"You Ain't Much Fun (Live)"
Toby Keith
15.
"Should've Been A Cowboy (Live)"
Toby Keith
And, if I could buy this, Toby Keith's, Real Legitmate, Greatest Hit's, CD, for Pam, for Christmas this year, she would still be dancing to it, next Christmas, when unwrapping her next Christmas present.
If there is any agrument between Toby Keith, and his perverse label, over whether or not they know his fans, then argument is settled, "Please', Fuck off!" And, give Toby Keith, full artistic control, or do as Pam wants, move to another planet, in another Galaxy. And, if you exec's and producer's wish to go to heaven, to meet her, do as she also requests, cut your pecker off before you die, or deal with her.
I will be fully enraged for an entire year, since, this year I cannot buy Pam, what would be her eternally favorite album, and I will be for each year until I can. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, or deal with Pam.
I have discovered what is either, the biggest marketing fiasco, in world history, or a case of every executive, and producer, at Toby Keith's label, wanting to pull down his pants, and have sex with a Toby Keith fan in her bedroom, in consulation for screwing her royally, in the first place.
This is the line-up of the labels first Toby Keith Greatest Hit's:
1.
"Getcha Some"
Toby Keith
2.
"If A Man Answers"
Toby Keith
3.
"Should've Been A Cowboy"
Toby Keith
4.
"Dream Walkin'"
Toby Keith
5.
"A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action"
Toby Keith
6.
"Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine On You"
Toby Keith
7.
"I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying"
Toby Keith
8.
"We Were In Love"
Toby Keith
9.
"You Ain't Much Fun"
Toby Keith
10.
"Who's That Man"
Toby Keith
11.
"Wish I Didn't Know Now"
Toby Keith
12.
"Big Ol' Truck"
Toby Keith
13.
"Me Too"
Toby Keith
14.
"He Ain't Worth Missing"
Toby Keith
Here is the line up of Toby Keith's Greatest Hit's 2, as released by the label:
1.
"How Do You Like Me Now?!"
Toby Keith
2.
"Country Comes To Town"
Toby Keith
3.
"You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"
Toby Keith
4.
"I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight"
Toby Keith
5.
"I Wanna Talk About Me"
Toby Keith
6.
"My List"
Toby Keith
7.
"Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Toby Keith
8.
"Who's Your Daddy?"
Toby Keith
9.
"Beer For My Horses"
Toby Keith
10.
"Stays In Mexico (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
11.
"Mockingbird (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
12.
"Go With Her (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
13.
"You Ain't Much Fun (Live)"
Toby Keith
14.
"Should've Been A Cowboy (Live)"
Toby Keith
If I want to get Pam, her favorite Toby Keith song, I got to buy one Greatest Hit's album, with it being the only song on the album she will know. A little less, Talk, and a Little more Action.
And, then I have to buy her, Toby Keith's Greatest Hit's 2, to get her all the rest of the Toby Keith songs she likes, and her second favorite, How Do You Like Me Now?!
I listen to all my music on my xomputer, through a juke box, since, discovering, even CDs sound better when ripped and played through 5.1 Surround Sound Blaster. So, I can arrange a playlist anyway I like, so it doesn't matter to me, however, this would have killed Pam, were she still alive in the flesh, today, since, I cannot buy her all of her favorite Toby Keith songs, on one CD's, and she only has the CD, player, of which, I still have, to play songs on.
If this perverse label's executives were to release a: Toby Keith's Real Legitmate Greatest Hit's, with this line up:
1.
"How Do You Like Me Now?!"
Toby Keith
2.
"Country Comes To Town"
Toby Keith
3.
"You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"
Toby Keith
4.
"I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight"
Toby Keith
5.
"I Wanna Talk About Me"
Toby Keith
6.
"A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action"
7.
"My List"
Toby Keith
8.
"Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Toby Keith
9.
"Who's Your Daddy?"
Toby Keith
10.
"Beer For My Horses"
Toby Keith
11.
"Stays In Mexico (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
12.
"Mockingbird (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
13.
"Go With Her (Greatest Hits 2 Version)"
Toby Keith
14.
"You Ain't Much Fun (Live)"
Toby Keith
15.
"Should've Been A Cowboy (Live)"
Toby Keith
And, if I could buy this, Toby Keith's, Real Legitmate, Greatest Hit's, CD, for Pam, for Christmas this year, she would still be dancing to it, next Christmas, when unwrapping her next Christmas present.
If there is any agrument between Toby Keith, and his perverse label, over whether or not they know his fans, then argument is settled, "Please', Fuck off!" And, give Toby Keith, full artistic control, or do as Pam wants, move to another planet, in another Galaxy. And, if you exec's and producer's wish to go to heaven, to meet her, do as she also requests, cut your pecker off before you die, or deal with her.
I will be fully enraged for an entire year, since, this year I cannot buy Pam, what would be her eternally favorite album, and I will be for each year until I can. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, or deal with Pam.
PERSON'S OF THE YEAR, 2006
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
Where, does it say the person of the year, must survive the entire year, in the flesh. If the person of the year, this year, really is still alive in the flesh, for you, then I do not want to hear about, person’s of the year, ever again.
All of this years person’s of the year, died, in Iraq, Afganistan, Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Where, does it say the person of the year, must survive the entire year, in the flesh. If the person of the year, this year, really is still alive in the flesh, for you, then I do not want to hear about, person’s of the year, ever again.
All of this years person’s of the year, died, in Iraq, Afganistan, Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine.
MEMO TO DAMAGE CONTROL, CONCERNING, CURRENT AND ALL FUTURE POPULATION'S
© 2006, Mark Robert Gates
The bone-to-soil ratio, necessary, for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, has already exceeded quotas, and allowable limits, and is causing massive, instabiblity, therefore, only bones of those people being raptured, are now, to be, accepted for deposit in the earth. No more bones, not-to-be raptured, are to be deposited in the earth, unless rapture will happen, to a person's bones, we no longer want those bones deposited in the earth. If known, a rapture will not occure, please do not deposit any more, such, bones in the earth, and, make prior arrangements, to death, to have those bones deposited elsewhwere. Do not use a plastic bag and do not leave them here, inform population: to take them with you. Pouring blood out on the earth, will still be allowed, as the earth’s, hot magma core, will absorb any applied amounts of blood poured out upon it, however, all bones, not being raptured, must, now and forevermore, be deposited, elsewhere. Thank you.
The bone-to-soil ratio, necessary, for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, has already exceeded quotas, and allowable limits, and is causing massive, instabiblity, therefore, only bones of those people being raptured, are now, to be, accepted for deposit in the earth. No more bones, not-to-be raptured, are to be deposited in the earth, unless rapture will happen, to a person's bones, we no longer want those bones deposited in the earth. If known, a rapture will not occure, please do not deposit any more, such, bones in the earth, and, make prior arrangements, to death, to have those bones deposited elsewhwere. Do not use a plastic bag and do not leave them here, inform population: to take them with you. Pouring blood out on the earth, will still be allowed, as the earth’s, hot magma core, will absorb any applied amounts of blood poured out upon it, however, all bones, not being raptured, must, now and forevermore, be deposited, elsewhere. Thank you.
Friday, December 15, 2006
MATTHEW, CHAPTER 5, VERSE 3, as SPOKEN by CHRIST, as ATTRIBUTED, by A TAX COLLECTOR
Matthew, Chapter 5, Verse 3;
μακαριοι οι πτωχοι τω πνευματι οτι αυτων εστιν η βασιλεια των ουρανων
1894, Scrivener Textus Receptus
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© 2006, God’s, Christ’s and our’ Holy Spirit’s, as attributed by, Mark Robert Gates
Matthew 5:3; Well off, one: pauper, one: spirit in selve’s, are, one: realm, and, one: elevation as heaven.
Translated by, Mark Robert Gates
μακαριοι οι πτωχοι τω πνευματι οτι αυτων εστιν η βασιλεια των ουρανων
1894, Scrivener Textus Receptus
Courtesy of, http://www.e-sword.net
http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html
http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html
© 2006, God’s, Christ’s and our’ Holy Spirit’s, as attributed by, Mark Robert Gates
Matthew 5:3; Well off, one: pauper, one: spirit in selve’s, are, one: realm, and, one: elevation as heaven.
Translated by, Mark Robert Gates
PLENARIAL DISEASE, PRESCRIBED TORTURES
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
Plenarial Disease: Giving false instructions in a planned demonstration of supposed mental superiority.
Sociallairistic intercourse treatment: Arrange a side-by-side demonstration, in a public area, of the plenarian’s diseased, result, and your own vastly superior, reality based results.
Planarity
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This article is about the game; for the graph theory property, see Planar graph.
Planarity is the name of a puzzle computer game based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University.[1]
The name comes from the term planar graph. In graph theory, a planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in a plane so that no edges intersect. In the game, the player starts out with a tangled series of connected dots, and has to untangle the web until no edges intersect.
The original implementation of this game was a flash game developed by John Tantalo at Case Western Reserve University.[1] It in turn has inspired the creation of a [[GTK+]] version by Xiph.org's Chris Montgomery, which possesses additional level generation algorithms and the ability to manipulate multiple nodes at once.[2]
References
^ a b Planarity FAQ.
^ gPlanarity home.
External links
Planarity.net — the original flash game
gPlanarity — an improved [[GTK+]] version
Plenarial Disease: Giving false instructions in a planned demonstration of supposed mental superiority.
Sociallairistic intercourse treatment: Arrange a side-by-side demonstration, in a public area, of the plenarian’s diseased, result, and your own vastly superior, reality based results.
Planarity
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This article is about the game; for the graph theory property, see Planar graph.
Planarity is the name of a puzzle computer game based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University.[1]
The name comes from the term planar graph. In graph theory, a planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in a plane so that no edges intersect. In the game, the player starts out with a tangled series of connected dots, and has to untangle the web until no edges intersect.
The original implementation of this game was a flash game developed by John Tantalo at Case Western Reserve University.[1] It in turn has inspired the creation of a [[GTK+]] version by Xiph.org's Chris Montgomery, which possesses additional level generation algorithms and the ability to manipulate multiple nodes at once.[2]
References
^ a b Planarity FAQ.
^ gPlanarity home.
External links
Planarity.net — the original flash game
gPlanarity — an improved [[GTK+]] version
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower, --
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening, --
Like clouds in starlight widely spread, --
Like memory of music fled,
--Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, -- where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Ask why the sunlight not for ever
Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom, -- why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?
No voice from some sublimer world hath ever
To sage or poet these responses given --
Therefore the names of Demon, Ghost, and Heaven,
Remain the records of their vain endeavour,
Frail spells -- whose uttered charm might not avail to sever,
From all we hear and all we see,
Doubt, chance, and mutability.
Thy light alone -- like mist oe'er the mountains driven,
Or music by the night-wind sent
Through strings of some still instrument,
Or moonlight on a midnight stream,
Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
Man were immortal, and omnipotent,
Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,
Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
Thou messgenger of sympathies,
That wax and wane in lovers' eyes --
Thou -- that to human thought art nourishment,
Like darkness to a dying flame!
Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not -- lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.
While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed;
I was not heard -- I saw them not --When musing deeply on the lot
Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing
All vital things that wake to bring
News of birds and blossoming, --
Sudden, thy shadow fell on me;
I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy!
I vowed that I would dedicate my powers
To thee and thine -- have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours
Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visioned bowers
Of studious zeal or love's delight
Outwatched with me the envious night --
They know that never joy illumed my brow
Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free
This world from its dark slavery,
That thou - O awful Loveliness,
Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express.
The day becomes more solemn and serene
When noon is past -- there is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Thus let thy power, which like the truth
Of nature on my passive youth
Descended, to my onward life supply
Its calm -- to one who worships thee,
And every form containing thee,
Whom, Spirit fair, thy spells did bind
To fear himself, and love all human kind.
This work is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us, -- visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower, --
Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower,
It visits with inconstant glance
Each human heart and countenance;
Like hues and harmonies of evening, --
Like clouds in starlight widely spread, --
Like memory of music fled,
--Like aught that for its grace may be
Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form, -- where art thou gone?
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state,
This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
Ask why the sunlight not for ever
Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river,
Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown,
Why fear and dream and death and birth
Cast on the daylight of this earth
Such gloom, -- why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?
No voice from some sublimer world hath ever
To sage or poet these responses given --
Therefore the names of Demon, Ghost, and Heaven,
Remain the records of their vain endeavour,
Frail spells -- whose uttered charm might not avail to sever,
From all we hear and all we see,
Doubt, chance, and mutability.
Thy light alone -- like mist oe'er the mountains driven,
Or music by the night-wind sent
Through strings of some still instrument,
Or moonlight on a midnight stream,
Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart
And come, for some uncertain moments lent.
Man were immortal, and omnipotent,
Didst thou, unknown and awful as thou art,
Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
Thou messgenger of sympathies,
That wax and wane in lovers' eyes --
Thou -- that to human thought art nourishment,
Like darkness to a dying flame!
Depart not as thy shadow came,
Depart not -- lest the grave should be,
Like life and fear, a dark reality.
While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed;
I was not heard -- I saw them not --When musing deeply on the lot
Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing
All vital things that wake to bring
News of birds and blossoming, --
Sudden, thy shadow fell on me;
I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy!
I vowed that I would dedicate my powers
To thee and thine -- have I not kept the vow?
With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now
I call the phantoms of a thousand hours
Each from his voiceless grave: they have in visioned bowers
Of studious zeal or love's delight
Outwatched with me the envious night --
They know that never joy illumed my brow
Unlinked with hope that thou wouldst free
This world from its dark slavery,
That thou - O awful Loveliness,
Wouldst give whate'er these words cannot express.
The day becomes more solemn and serene
When noon is past -- there is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Thus let thy power, which like the truth
Of nature on my passive youth
Descended, to my onward life supply
Its calm -- to one who worships thee,
And every form containing thee,
Whom, Spirit fair, thy spells did bind
To fear himself, and love all human kind.
This work is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
PARADIGMS OF ISSUE
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
In America we are fighting two paradigms, of which we have to see an end, or find a way to prevent those of whom hold these paradigms from being a danger, threat, or harm to us.
Paradigm 1: When I am breaking the law, it is no longer illegal to do so. These people believe once they have decided to break the law, it is no longer illegal to do so, due to their rationalizations, and there is no place to place a stop sign in the road, once a person with this paradigm chooses to break American laws. These people now believe what they are doing is legal, and enforcing the law to stop them, is illegal.
A way has to be found, now that we can prove this paradigm to exist, to either end this paradigm in a person, or see that a person with this paradigm is no longer a danger, threat, or capable of causing us harm.
Paradigm: The God is an idiot paradigm: There are people who would lie to God, Christ and the Holy Spirit, and all of society on an open microphone, and then believe, I am an idiot. These people believe in a god of which created all of these lovely people on this planet to be their victims and this loving god aides them in victimizing their victims. Why? These people not only believe God is an idiot, they believe anyone who believes in a loving God, and believes they are being nurtured by this loving God, are also, idiots. And, these people try to enforce a clause, of which states: God is an idiot; this beliver is an idiot. Yes, these people want all people who belive and follow God's of our' Bible's tagged: idiots. Yes. God created the earth and all of these people in it, in order that they may have them as victims, is what these people believe, and if God does not aide them in having these victims, God is not loving. And, will fight to the last man to enforce this rule.
A way has to be found, now that this paradigm of religious persecution can be proved to exist, to prove, once and for all, American law prevents and protects its citizens from such religious torture's. And, use exsiting law, to either end this paradigm in a person, or to enforce all parts of American law, and prevent and protect Americans from this, God is an idiot paradigm, from being a danger, threat, or capable of causing us harm.
There is no need to limit freedom's of speech and press, all we have to do as American's is enforce those laws already existing of which state: Freedom's of speech, press, religion, and our right to a fair trial, do not exist to protect lies.
In America we are fighting two paradigms, of which we have to see an end, or find a way to prevent those of whom hold these paradigms from being a danger, threat, or harm to us.
Paradigm 1: When I am breaking the law, it is no longer illegal to do so. These people believe once they have decided to break the law, it is no longer illegal to do so, due to their rationalizations, and there is no place to place a stop sign in the road, once a person with this paradigm chooses to break American laws. These people now believe what they are doing is legal, and enforcing the law to stop them, is illegal.
A way has to be found, now that we can prove this paradigm to exist, to either end this paradigm in a person, or see that a person with this paradigm is no longer a danger, threat, or capable of causing us harm.
Paradigm: The God is an idiot paradigm: There are people who would lie to God, Christ and the Holy Spirit, and all of society on an open microphone, and then believe, I am an idiot. These people believe in a god of which created all of these lovely people on this planet to be their victims and this loving god aides them in victimizing their victims. Why? These people not only believe God is an idiot, they believe anyone who believes in a loving God, and believes they are being nurtured by this loving God, are also, idiots. And, these people try to enforce a clause, of which states: God is an idiot; this beliver is an idiot. Yes, these people want all people who belive and follow God's of our' Bible's tagged: idiots. Yes. God created the earth and all of these people in it, in order that they may have them as victims, is what these people believe, and if God does not aide them in having these victims, God is not loving. And, will fight to the last man to enforce this rule.
A way has to be found, now that this paradigm of religious persecution can be proved to exist, to prove, once and for all, American law prevents and protects its citizens from such religious torture's. And, use exsiting law, to either end this paradigm in a person, or to enforce all parts of American law, and prevent and protect Americans from this, God is an idiot paradigm, from being a danger, threat, or capable of causing us harm.
There is no need to limit freedom's of speech and press, all we have to do as American's is enforce those laws already existing of which state: Freedom's of speech, press, religion, and our right to a fair trial, do not exist to protect lies.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
DEMOCRITTUS JUNIOR TO HIS BOOK, from Project Gutenberg's The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Democritus Junior
PARAPHRASTIC METRICAL TRANSLATION. (1621)
Go forth my book into the open day;
Happy, if made so by its garish eye.
O'er earth's wide surface take thy vagrant way,
To imitate thy master's genius try.
The Graces three, the Muses nine salute,
Should those who love them try to con thy lore.
The country, city seek, grand thrones to boot,
With gentle courtesy humbly bow before.
Should nobles gallant, soldiers frank and brave
Seek thy acquaintance, hail their first advance:
From twitch of care thy pleasant vein may save,
May laughter cause or wisdom give perchance.
Some surly Cato, Senator austere,
Haply may wish to peep into thy book:
Seem very nothing--tremble and revere:
No forceful eagles, butterflies e'er look.
They love not thee: of them then little seek,
And wish for readers triflers like thyself.
Of ludeful matron watchful catch the beck,
Or gorgeous countess full of pride and pelf.
They may say "pish!" and frown, and yet read on:
Cry odd, and silly, coarse, and yet amusing.
Should dainty damsels seek thy page to con,
Spread thy best stores: to them be ne'er refusing:
Say, fair one, master loves thee dear as life;
Would he were here to gaze on thy sweet look.
Should known or unknown student, freed from strife
Of logic and the schools, explore my book:
Cry mercy critic, and thy book withhold:
Be some few errors pardon'd though observ'd:
An humble author to implore makes bold.
Thy kind indulgence, even undeserv'd,
Should melancholy wight or pensive lover,
Courtier, snug cit, or carpet knight so trim
Our blossoms cull, he'll find himself in clover,
Gain sense from precept, laughter from our whim.
Should learned leech with solemn air unfold
Thy leaves, beware, be civil, and be wise:
Thy volume many precepts sage may hold,
His well fraught head may find no trifling prize.
Should crafty lawyer trespass on our ground,
Caitiffs avaunt! disturbing tribe away!
Unless (white crow) an honest one be found;
He'll better, wiser go for what we say.
Should some ripe scholar, gentle and benign,
With candour, care, and judgment thee peruse:
Thy faults to kind oblivion he'll consign;
Nor to thy merit will his praise refuse.
Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse
By flippant spouter, emptiest of praters:
Tell him to seek them in some mawkish verse:
My periods all are rough as nutmeg graters.
The doggerel poet, wishing thee to read,
Reject not; let him glean thy jests and stories.
His brother I, of lowly sembling breed:
Apollo grants to few Parnassian glories.
Menac'd by critic with sour furrowed brow,
Momus or Troilus or Scotch reviewer:
Ruffle your heckle, grin and growl and vow:
Ill-natured foes you thus will find the fewer,
When foul-mouth'd senseless railers cry thee down,
Reply not: fly, and show the rogues thy stern;
hey are not worthy even of a frown:
Good taste or breeding they can never learn;
Or let them clamour, turn a callous ear,
As though in dread of some harsh donkey's bray.
If chid by censor, friendly though severe,
To such explain and turn thee not away.
Thy vein, says he perchance, is all too free;
Thy smutty language suits not learned pen:
Reply, Good Sir, throughout, the context see;
Thought chastens thought; so prithee judge again.
Besides, although my master's pen may wander
Through devious paths, by which it ought not stray,
His life is pure, beyond the breath of slander:
So pardon grant; 'tis merely but his way.
Some rugged ruffian makes a hideous rout--
Brandish thy cudgel, threaten him to baste;
The filthy fungus far from thee cast out;
Such noxious banquets never suit my taste.
Yet, calm and cautious moderate thy ire,
Be ever courteous should the case allow--
Sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire:
Warm to thy friends, give all a civil bow.
Even censure sometimes teaches to improve,
Slight frosts have often cured too rank a crop,
So, candid blame my spleen shall never move,
For skilful gard'ners wayward branches lop.
Go then, my book, and bear my words in mind;
Guides safe at once, and pleasant them you'll find.
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FRONTISPIECE.
Ten distinct Squares here seen apart,
Are joined in one by Cutter's art.
I.
Old Democritus under a tree,
Sits on a stone with book on knee;
About him hang there many features,
Of Cats, Dogs and such like creatures,
Of which he makes anatomy,
The seat of black choler to see.
Over his head appears the sky,
And Saturn Lord of melancholy.
II.
To the left a landscape of Jealousy,
Presents itself unto thine eye.
A Kingfisher, a Swan, an Hern,
Two fighting-cocks you may discern,
Two roaring Bulls each other hie,
To assault concerning venery.
Symbols are these; I say no more,
Conceive the rest by that's afore.
III.
The next of solitariness,
A portraiture doth well express,
By sleeping dog, cat: Buck and Doe,
Hares, Conies in the desert go:
Bats, Owls the shady bowers over,
In melancholy darkness hover.
Mark well: If't be not as't should be,
Blame the bad Cutter, and not me.
IV.
I'th' under column there doth stand
_Inamorato_ with folded hand;
Down hangs his head, terse and polite,
Some ditty sure he doth indite.
His lute and books about him lie,
As symptoms of his vanity.
If this do not enough disclose,
To paint him, take thyself by th' nose.
V.
_Hypocondriacus_ leans on his arm,
Wind in his side doth him much harm,
And troubles him full sore, God knows,
Much pain he hath and many woes.
About him pots and glasses lie,
Newly brought from's Apothecary.
This Saturn's aspects signify,
You see them portray'd in the sky.
VI.
Beneath them kneeling on his knee,
A superstitious man you see:
He fasts, prays, on his Idol fixt,
Tormented hope and fear betwixt:
For Hell perhaps he takes more pain,
Than thou dost Heaven itself to gain.
Alas poor soul, I pity thee,
What stars incline thee so to be?
VII. But see the madman rage downright
With furious looks, a ghastly sight.
Naked in chains bound doth he lie,
And roars amain he knows not why!
Observe him; for as in a glass,
Thine angry portraiture it was.
His picture keeps still in thy presence;
'Twixt him and thee, there's no difference.
VIII, IX.
_Borage_ and _Hellebor_ fill two scenes,
Sovereign plants to purge the veins
Of melancholy, and cheer the heart,
Of those black fumes which make it smart;
To clear the brain of misty fogs,
Which dull our senses, and Soul clogs.
The best medicine that e'er God made
For this malady, if well assay'd.
X.
Now last of all to fill a place,
Presented is the Author's face;
And in that habit which he wears,
His image to the world appears.
His mind no art can well express,
That by his writings you may guess.
It was not pride, nor yet vainglory,
(Though others do it commonly)
Made him do this: if you must know,
The Printer would needs have it so.
Then do not frown or scoff at it,
Deride not, or detract a whit.
For surely as thou dost by him,
He will do the same again.
Then look upon't, behold and see,
As thou lik'st it, so it likes thee.
And I for it will stand in view,
Thine to command, Reader, adieu.
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Go forth my book into the open day;
Happy, if made so by its garish eye.
O'er earth's wide surface take thy vagrant way,
To imitate thy master's genius try.
The Graces three, the Muses nine salute,
Should those who love them try to con thy lore.
The country, city seek, grand thrones to boot,
With gentle courtesy humbly bow before.
Should nobles gallant, soldiers frank and brave
Seek thy acquaintance, hail their first advance:
From twitch of care thy pleasant vein may save,
May laughter cause or wisdom give perchance.
Some surly Cato, Senator austere,
Haply may wish to peep into thy book:
Seem very nothing--tremble and revere:
No forceful eagles, butterflies e'er look.
They love not thee: of them then little seek,
And wish for readers triflers like thyself.
Of ludeful matron watchful catch the beck,
Or gorgeous countess full of pride and pelf.
They may say "pish!" and frown, and yet read on:
Cry odd, and silly, coarse, and yet amusing.
Should dainty damsels seek thy page to con,
Spread thy best stores: to them be ne'er refusing:
Say, fair one, master loves thee dear as life;
Would he were here to gaze on thy sweet look.
Should known or unknown student, freed from strife
Of logic and the schools, explore my book:
Cry mercy critic, and thy book withhold:
Be some few errors pardon'd though observ'd:
An humble author to implore makes bold.
Thy kind indulgence, even undeserv'd,
Should melancholy wight or pensive lover,
Courtier, snug cit, or carpet knight so trim
Our blossoms cull, he'll find himself in clover,
Gain sense from precept, laughter from our whim.
Should learned leech with solemn air unfold
Thy leaves, beware, be civil, and be wise:
Thy volume many precepts sage may hold,
His well fraught head may find no trifling prize.
Should crafty lawyer trespass on our ground,
Caitiffs avaunt! disturbing tribe away!
Unless (white crow) an honest one be found;
He'll better, wiser go for what we say.
Should some ripe scholar, gentle and benign,
With candour, care, and judgment thee peruse:
Thy faults to kind oblivion he'll consign;
Nor to thy merit will his praise refuse.
Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse
By flippant spouter, emptiest of praters:
Tell him to seek them in some mawkish verse:
My periods all are rough as nutmeg graters.
The doggerel poet, wishing thee to read,
Reject not; let him glean thy jests and stories.
His brother I, of lowly sembling breed:
Apollo grants to few Parnassian glories.
Menac'd by critic with sour furrowed brow,
Momus or Troilus or Scotch reviewer:
Ruffle your heckle, grin and growl and vow:
Ill-natured foes you thus will find the fewer,
When foul-mouth'd senseless railers cry thee down,
Reply not: fly, and show the rogues thy stern;
hey are not worthy even of a frown:
Good taste or breeding they can never learn;
Or let them clamour, turn a callous ear,
As though in dread of some harsh donkey's bray.
If chid by censor, friendly though severe,
To such explain and turn thee not away.
Thy vein, says he perchance, is all too free;
Thy smutty language suits not learned pen:
Reply, Good Sir, throughout, the context see;
Thought chastens thought; so prithee judge again.
Besides, although my master's pen may wander
Through devious paths, by which it ought not stray,
His life is pure, beyond the breath of slander:
So pardon grant; 'tis merely but his way.
Some rugged ruffian makes a hideous rout--
Brandish thy cudgel, threaten him to baste;
The filthy fungus far from thee cast out;
Such noxious banquets never suit my taste.
Yet, calm and cautious moderate thy ire,
Be ever courteous should the case allow--
Sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire:
Warm to thy friends, give all a civil bow.
Even censure sometimes teaches to improve,
Slight frosts have often cured too rank a crop,
So, candid blame my spleen shall never move,
For skilful gard'ners wayward branches lop.
Go then, my book, and bear my words in mind;
Guides safe at once, and pleasant them you'll find.
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FRONTISPIECE.
Ten distinct Squares here seen apart,
Are joined in one by Cutter's art.
I.
Old Democritus under a tree,
Sits on a stone with book on knee;
About him hang there many features,
Of Cats, Dogs and such like creatures,
Of which he makes anatomy,
The seat of black choler to see.
Over his head appears the sky,
And Saturn Lord of melancholy.
II.
To the left a landscape of Jealousy,
Presents itself unto thine eye.
A Kingfisher, a Swan, an Hern,
Two fighting-cocks you may discern,
Two roaring Bulls each other hie,
To assault concerning venery.
Symbols are these; I say no more,
Conceive the rest by that's afore.
III.
The next of solitariness,
A portraiture doth well express,
By sleeping dog, cat: Buck and Doe,
Hares, Conies in the desert go:
Bats, Owls the shady bowers over,
In melancholy darkness hover.
Mark well: If't be not as't should be,
Blame the bad Cutter, and not me.
IV.
I'th' under column there doth stand
_Inamorato_ with folded hand;
Down hangs his head, terse and polite,
Some ditty sure he doth indite.
His lute and books about him lie,
As symptoms of his vanity.
If this do not enough disclose,
To paint him, take thyself by th' nose.
V.
_Hypocondriacus_ leans on his arm,
Wind in his side doth him much harm,
And troubles him full sore, God knows,
Much pain he hath and many woes.
About him pots and glasses lie,
Newly brought from's Apothecary.
This Saturn's aspects signify,
You see them portray'd in the sky.
VI.
Beneath them kneeling on his knee,
A superstitious man you see:
He fasts, prays, on his Idol fixt,
Tormented hope and fear betwixt:
For Hell perhaps he takes more pain,
Than thou dost Heaven itself to gain.
Alas poor soul, I pity thee,
What stars incline thee so to be?
VII. But see the madman rage downright
With furious looks, a ghastly sight.
Naked in chains bound doth he lie,
And roars amain he knows not why!
Observe him; for as in a glass,
Thine angry portraiture it was.
His picture keeps still in thy presence;
'Twixt him and thee, there's no difference.
VIII, IX.
_Borage_ and _Hellebor_ fill two scenes,
Sovereign plants to purge the veins
Of melancholy, and cheer the heart,
Of those black fumes which make it smart;
To clear the brain of misty fogs,
Which dull our senses, and Soul clogs.
The best medicine that e'er God made
For this malady, if well assay'd.
X.
Now last of all to fill a place,
Presented is the Author's face;
And in that habit which he wears,
His image to the world appears.
His mind no art can well express,
That by his writings you may guess.
It was not pride, nor yet vainglory,
(Though others do it commonly)
Made him do this: if you must know,
The Printer would needs have it so.
Then do not frown or scoff at it,
Deride not, or detract a whit.
For surely as thou dost by him,
He will do the same again.
Then look upon't, behold and see,
As thou lik'st it, so it likes thee.
And I for it will stand in view,
Thine to command, Reader, adieu.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
FROM MAMMAL TO MAMMON
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
If mankind is supposed to evolve from one form to another, every millennium or so, we have not progressed far, we were mammals, living as Pagans, and since we have met God’s we are now the seed of mammon. And, still cannot serve any other master, except mammon, unless we meet a God’s on the road, one would think we would be born by now with Sunday school manners enough, to stick our heads out into the world and ask directions, to the baptismal.
If mankind is supposed to evolve from one form to another, every millennium or so, we have not progressed far, we were mammals, living as Pagans, and since we have met God’s we are now the seed of mammon. And, still cannot serve any other master, except mammon, unless we meet a God’s on the road, one would think we would be born by now with Sunday school manners enough, to stick our heads out into the world and ask directions, to the baptismal.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
TRUE: LOVE WILL FIND A WAY
© 2006 Mark Robert Gates
Backwards; for though I go,
Onward; I cannot slow,
Sideward; is a distant glow,
Upward; is the tidal tow,
Downward; a graviton pull,
Towards; all eternal toll,
Wayward; all in love is dull,
Paydirt: heaven lie’s a knoll.
Backwards; for though I go,
Onward; I cannot slow,
Sideward; is a distant glow,
Upward; is the tidal tow,
Downward; a graviton pull,
Towards; all eternal toll,
Wayward; all in love is dull,
Paydirt: heaven lie’s a knoll.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
EPISTLE III: Of The Nature and State of Man, With Respect to Society
From: Essay on Man by Alexander Pope (1734)
ARGUMENT
I. The whole Universe one system of Society. Nothing made wholly for itself, nor yet wholly for another. The happiness of Animals mutual. II. Reason or Instinct operate alike to the good of each Individual. Reason or Instinct operate also to Society, in all Animals. III. How far Society carried by Instinct. How much farther by Reason. IV. Of that which is called the State of Nature. Reason instructed by Instinct in the invention of Arts, and in the Forms of Society. V. Origin of Political Societies. Origin of Monarchy. atriarchal Government. VI. Origin of true Religion and Government, from the same principle, of Love. Origin of Superstition and Tyranny, from the same principle, of Fear. The Influence of Self-love operating to the social and public Good. Restoration of true Religion and Government on their first principle. Mixed Government.Various forms of each, and the true end of all.
I.
Here, then, we rest: "The Universal Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.
"In all the madness of superfluous health,
The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth,
Let this great truth be present night and day;
But most be present, if we preach or pray.
Look round our world; behold the chain of love
Combining all below and all above.
See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Formed and impelled its neighbour to embrace.
See matter next, with various life endued,
Press to one centre still, the general good.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again:
All forms that perish other forms supply
(By turns we catch the vital breath, and die),
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole;
One all-extending, all-preserving soul
Connects each being, greatest with the least;
Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast;
All served, all serving: nothing stands alone;
The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
Has God, thou fool! worked solely for thy Thy good,
Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food?
Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn,
For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn:
Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings?
Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
The bounding steed you pompously bestride,
Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain.
Thine the full harvest of the golden year?
Part pays, and justly, the deserving steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear.
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!"
"See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose:
And just as short of reason he must fall,
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Grant that the powerful still the weak control;
Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole:
Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows,
And helps, another creature's wants and woes.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above,
Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?
Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods,
To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods;
For some his interest prompts him to provide,
For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride:
All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy
The extensive blessing of his luxury.
That very life his learned hunger craves,
He saves from famine, from the savage saves;
Nay, feasts the animal he dooms his feast,
And, till he ends the being, makes it blest;
Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain,
Than favoured man by touch ethereal slain.
The creature had his feast of life before;
Thou too must perish when thy feast is o'er!
To each unthinking being, Heaven, a friend,
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end:
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, while he dreads it, makes him hope it too;
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
Great standing miracle! that Heaven assigned
Its only thinking thing this turn of mind.
II.
Whether with reason, or with instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best;
To bliss alike by that direction tend,
And find the means proportioned to their end.
Say, where full instinct is the unerring guide,
What pope or council can they need beside?
Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when pressed,
Stays till we call, and then not often near;
But honest instinct comes a volunteer,
Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit;
While still too wide or short is human wit;
Sure by quick nature happiness to gain,
Which heavier reason labours at in vain,
This too serves always, reason never long;
One must go right, the other may go wrong.
See then the acting and comparing powers
One in their nature, which are two in ours;
And reason raise o'er instinct as you can,
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
Who taught the nations of the field and wood
To shun their poison, and to choose their food?
Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand,
Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand?
Who made the spider parallels design,
Sure as Demoivre, without rule or line?
Who did the stork, Columbus-like, explore
Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?
Who calls the council, states the certain day,
Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way?
III.
God in the nature of each being founds
Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds:
But as He framed a whole, the whole to bless,
On mutual wants built mutual happiness:
So from the first, eternal order ran,
And creature linked to creature, man to man.
Whate'er of life all-quickening ether keeps,
Or breathes through air, or shoots beneath the deeps,
Or pours profuse on earth, one nature feeds
The vital flame, and swells the genial seeds.
Not man alone, but all that roam the wood,
Or wing the sky, or roll along the flood,
Each loves itself, but not itself alone,
Each sex desires alike, till two are one.
Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace;
They love themselves, a third time, in their race.
Thus beast and bird their common charge attend,
The mothers nurse it, and the sires defend;
The young dismissed to wander earth or air,
There stops the instinct, and there ends the care;
The link dissolves, each seeks a fresh embrace,
Another love succeeds, another race.
A longer care man's helpless kind demands;
That longer care contracts more lasting bands:
Reflection, reason, still the ties improve,
At once extend the interest and the love;
With choice we fix, with sympathy we burn;
Each virtue in each passion takes its turn;
And still new needs, new helps, new habits rise.
That graft benevolence on charities.
Still as one brood, and as another rose,
These natural love maintained, habitual those.
The last, scarce ripened into perfect man,
Saw helpless him from whom their life began:
Memory and forecast just returns engage,
That pointed back to youth, this on to age;
While pleasure, gratitude, and hope combined,
Still spread the interest, and preserved the kind.
IV.
Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod;
The state of nature was the reign of God:
Self-love and social at her birth began,
Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid;
Man walked with beast, joint tenant of the shade;
The same his table, and the same his bed;
No murder clothed him, and no murder fed.
In the same temple, the resounding wood,
All vocal beings hymned their equal God:
The shrine with gore unstained, with gold undressed,
Unbribed, unbloody, stood the blameless priest:
Heaven's attribute was universal care,
And man's prerogative to rule, but spare.
Ah! how unlike the man of times to come!
Of half that live the butcher and the tomb;
Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan,
Murders their species, and betrays his own.
But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And every death its own avenger breeds;
The fury-passions from that blood began,
And turned on man a fiercer savage, man.
See him from Nature rising slow to art!
To copy instinct then was reason's part;
Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake--
"Go, from the creatures thy instructions take:
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
Thy arts of building from the bee receive;
Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave;
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Here too all forms of social union find,
And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind:
Here subterranean works and cities see;
There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Learn each small people's genius, policies,
The ant's republic, and the realm of bees;
How those in common all their wealth bestow,
And anarchy without confusion know;
And these for ever, though a monarch reign,
Their separate cells and properties maintain.
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state,
Laws wise as nature, and as fixed as fate.
In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw,
Entangle justice in her net of law,
And right, too rigid, harden into wrong;
Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.
Yet go! and thus o'er all the creatures sway,
Thus let the wiser make the rest obey;
And, for those arts mere instinct could afford,
Be crowned as monarchs, or as gods adored."
V.
Great Nature spoke; observant men obeyed;
Cities were built, societies were made:
Here rose one little state: another near
Grew by like means, and joined, through love or fear.
Did here the trees with ruddier burdens bend,
And there the streams in purer rills descend?
What war could ravish, commerce could bestow,
And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
Converse and love mankind might strongly draw,
When love was liberty, and Nature law.
Thus States were formed; the name of king unknown,
'Till common interest placed the sway in one.
'Twas virtue only (or in arts or arms,Diffusing blessings, or averting harms)
The same which in a sire the sons obeyed,
A prince the father of a people made.
VI.
Till then, by Nature crowned, each patriarch sate,
King, priest, and parent of his growing state;
On him, their second providence, they hung,
Their law his eye, their oracle his tongue.
He from the wondering furrow called the food,
Taught to command the fire, control the flood,
Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound,
Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground.
Till drooping, sickening, dying they began
Whom they revered as God to mourn as man:
Then, looking up, from sire to sire, explored
One great first Father, and that first adored.
Or plain tradition that this all begun,
Conveyed unbroken faith from sire to son;
The worker from the work distinct was known,
And simple reason never sought but one:
Ere wit oblique had broke that steady light,
Man, like his Maker, saw that all was right;
To virtue, in the paths of pleasure, trod,
And owned a Father when he owned a God.
Love all the faith, and all the allegiance then;
For Nature knew no right divine in men,
No ill could fear in God; and understood
A sovereign being but a sovereign good.
True faith, true policy, united ran,
This was but love of God, and this of man.
Who first taught souls enslaved, and realms undone,
The enormous faith of many made for one;
That proud exception to all Nature's laws,
To invert the world, and counter-work its cause?
Force first made conquest, and that conquest, law;
Till superstition taught the tyrant awe,
Then shared the tyranny, then lent it aid,
And gods of conquerors, slaves of subjects made:
She, 'midst the lightning's blaze, and thunder's sound,
When rocked the mountains, and when groaned the ground,
She taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray,
To power unseen, and mightier far than they:
She, from the rending earth and bursting skies,
Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise:
Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes;
Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods;
Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust,
Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust;
Such as the souls of cowards might conceive,
And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide;
And hell was built on spite, and heaven on pride,
Then sacred seemed the ethereal vault no more;
Altars grew marble then, and reeked with gore;
Then first the flamen tasted living food;
Next his grim idol smeared with human blood;
With heaven's own thunders shook the world below,
And played the god an engine on his foe.
So drives self-love, through just and through unjust,
To one man's power, ambition, lucre, lust:
The same self-love, in all, becomes the cause
Of what restrains him, government and laws.
For, what one likes if others like as well,
What serves one will when many wills rebel?
How shall he keep, what, sleeping or awake,
A weaker may surprise, a stronger take?
His safety must his liberty restrain:
All join to guard what each desires to gain.
Forced into virtue thus by self-defence,
Even kings learned justice and benevolence:
Self-love forsook the path it first pursued,
And found the private in the public good.
'Twas then, the studious head or generous mind,
Follower of God, or friend of human-kind,
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore
The faith and moral Nature gave before;
Re-lumed her ancient light, not kindled new;
If not God's image, yet His shadow drew:
Taught power's due use to people and to kings,
Taught nor to slack, nor strain its tender strings,
The less, or greater, set so justly true,
That touching one must strike the other too;
Till jarring interests, of themselves create
The according music of a well-mixed state.
Such is the world's great harmony, that springs
From order, union, full consent of things:
Where small and great, where weak and mighty, made
To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade;
More powerful each as needful to the rest,
And, in proportion as it blesses, blest;
Draw to one point, and to one centre bring
Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king.
For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best:
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right:
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives;
The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
On their own axis as the planets run,
Yet make at once their circle round the sun;
So two consistent motions act the soul;
And one regards itself, and one the whole.
Thus God and Nature linked the general frame,
And bade self-love and social be the same.
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ARGUMENT
I. The whole Universe one system of Society. Nothing made wholly for itself, nor yet wholly for another. The happiness of Animals mutual. II. Reason or Instinct operate alike to the good of each Individual. Reason or Instinct operate also to Society, in all Animals. III. How far Society carried by Instinct. How much farther by Reason. IV. Of that which is called the State of Nature. Reason instructed by Instinct in the invention of Arts, and in the Forms of Society. V. Origin of Political Societies. Origin of Monarchy. atriarchal Government. VI. Origin of true Religion and Government, from the same principle, of Love. Origin of Superstition and Tyranny, from the same principle, of Fear. The Influence of Self-love operating to the social and public Good. Restoration of true Religion and Government on their first principle. Mixed Government.Various forms of each, and the true end of all.
I.
Here, then, we rest: "The Universal Cause
Acts to one end, but acts by various laws.
"In all the madness of superfluous health,
The trim of pride, the impudence of wealth,
Let this great truth be present night and day;
But most be present, if we preach or pray.
Look round our world; behold the chain of love
Combining all below and all above.
See plastic Nature working to this end,
The single atoms each to other tend,
Attract, attracted to, the next in place
Formed and impelled its neighbour to embrace.
See matter next, with various life endued,
Press to one centre still, the general good.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again:
All forms that perish other forms supply
(By turns we catch the vital breath, and die),
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole;
One all-extending, all-preserving soul
Connects each being, greatest with the least;
Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast;
All served, all serving: nothing stands alone;
The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
Has God, thou fool! worked solely for thy Thy good,
Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food?
Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn,
For him as kindly spread the flowery lawn:
Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings?
Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
The bounding steed you pompously bestride,
Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride.
Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain?
The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain.
Thine the full harvest of the golden year?
Part pays, and justly, the deserving steer:
The hog, that ploughs not nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear.
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!"
"See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose:
And just as short of reason he must fall,
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Grant that the powerful still the weak control;
Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole:
Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows,
And helps, another creature's wants and woes.
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above,
Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?
Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?
Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods,
To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods;
For some his interest prompts him to provide,
For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride:
All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy
The extensive blessing of his luxury.
That very life his learned hunger craves,
He saves from famine, from the savage saves;
Nay, feasts the animal he dooms his feast,
And, till he ends the being, makes it blest;
Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain,
Than favoured man by touch ethereal slain.
The creature had his feast of life before;
Thou too must perish when thy feast is o'er!
To each unthinking being, Heaven, a friend,
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end:
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, while he dreads it, makes him hope it too;
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
Great standing miracle! that Heaven assigned
Its only thinking thing this turn of mind.
II.
Whether with reason, or with instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best;
To bliss alike by that direction tend,
And find the means proportioned to their end.
Say, where full instinct is the unerring guide,
What pope or council can they need beside?
Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when pressed,
Stays till we call, and then not often near;
But honest instinct comes a volunteer,
Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit;
While still too wide or short is human wit;
Sure by quick nature happiness to gain,
Which heavier reason labours at in vain,
This too serves always, reason never long;
One must go right, the other may go wrong.
See then the acting and comparing powers
One in their nature, which are two in ours;
And reason raise o'er instinct as you can,
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
Who taught the nations of the field and wood
To shun their poison, and to choose their food?
Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand,
Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand?
Who made the spider parallels design,
Sure as Demoivre, without rule or line?
Who did the stork, Columbus-like, explore
Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before?
Who calls the council, states the certain day,
Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way?
III.
God in the nature of each being founds
Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds:
But as He framed a whole, the whole to bless,
On mutual wants built mutual happiness:
So from the first, eternal order ran,
And creature linked to creature, man to man.
Whate'er of life all-quickening ether keeps,
Or breathes through air, or shoots beneath the deeps,
Or pours profuse on earth, one nature feeds
The vital flame, and swells the genial seeds.
Not man alone, but all that roam the wood,
Or wing the sky, or roll along the flood,
Each loves itself, but not itself alone,
Each sex desires alike, till two are one.
Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace;
They love themselves, a third time, in their race.
Thus beast and bird their common charge attend,
The mothers nurse it, and the sires defend;
The young dismissed to wander earth or air,
There stops the instinct, and there ends the care;
The link dissolves, each seeks a fresh embrace,
Another love succeeds, another race.
A longer care man's helpless kind demands;
That longer care contracts more lasting bands:
Reflection, reason, still the ties improve,
At once extend the interest and the love;
With choice we fix, with sympathy we burn;
Each virtue in each passion takes its turn;
And still new needs, new helps, new habits rise.
That graft benevolence on charities.
Still as one brood, and as another rose,
These natural love maintained, habitual those.
The last, scarce ripened into perfect man,
Saw helpless him from whom their life began:
Memory and forecast just returns engage,
That pointed back to youth, this on to age;
While pleasure, gratitude, and hope combined,
Still spread the interest, and preserved the kind.
IV.
Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod;
The state of nature was the reign of God:
Self-love and social at her birth began,
Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid;
Man walked with beast, joint tenant of the shade;
The same his table, and the same his bed;
No murder clothed him, and no murder fed.
In the same temple, the resounding wood,
All vocal beings hymned their equal God:
The shrine with gore unstained, with gold undressed,
Unbribed, unbloody, stood the blameless priest:
Heaven's attribute was universal care,
And man's prerogative to rule, but spare.
Ah! how unlike the man of times to come!
Of half that live the butcher and the tomb;
Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan,
Murders their species, and betrays his own.
But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And every death its own avenger breeds;
The fury-passions from that blood began,
And turned on man a fiercer savage, man.
See him from Nature rising slow to art!
To copy instinct then was reason's part;
Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake--
"Go, from the creatures thy instructions take:
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
Thy arts of building from the bee receive;
Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave;
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Here too all forms of social union find,
And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind:
Here subterranean works and cities see;
There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Learn each small people's genius, policies,
The ant's republic, and the realm of bees;
How those in common all their wealth bestow,
And anarchy without confusion know;
And these for ever, though a monarch reign,
Their separate cells and properties maintain.
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state,
Laws wise as nature, and as fixed as fate.
In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw,
Entangle justice in her net of law,
And right, too rigid, harden into wrong;
Still for the strong too weak, the weak too strong.
Yet go! and thus o'er all the creatures sway,
Thus let the wiser make the rest obey;
And, for those arts mere instinct could afford,
Be crowned as monarchs, or as gods adored."
V.
Great Nature spoke; observant men obeyed;
Cities were built, societies were made:
Here rose one little state: another near
Grew by like means, and joined, through love or fear.
Did here the trees with ruddier burdens bend,
And there the streams in purer rills descend?
What war could ravish, commerce could bestow,
And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
Converse and love mankind might strongly draw,
When love was liberty, and Nature law.
Thus States were formed; the name of king unknown,
'Till common interest placed the sway in one.
'Twas virtue only (or in arts or arms,Diffusing blessings, or averting harms)
The same which in a sire the sons obeyed,
A prince the father of a people made.
VI.
Till then, by Nature crowned, each patriarch sate,
King, priest, and parent of his growing state;
On him, their second providence, they hung,
Their law his eye, their oracle his tongue.
He from the wondering furrow called the food,
Taught to command the fire, control the flood,
Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound,
Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground.
Till drooping, sickening, dying they began
Whom they revered as God to mourn as man:
Then, looking up, from sire to sire, explored
One great first Father, and that first adored.
Or plain tradition that this all begun,
Conveyed unbroken faith from sire to son;
The worker from the work distinct was known,
And simple reason never sought but one:
Ere wit oblique had broke that steady light,
Man, like his Maker, saw that all was right;
To virtue, in the paths of pleasure, trod,
And owned a Father when he owned a God.
Love all the faith, and all the allegiance then;
For Nature knew no right divine in men,
No ill could fear in God; and understood
A sovereign being but a sovereign good.
True faith, true policy, united ran,
This was but love of God, and this of man.
Who first taught souls enslaved, and realms undone,
The enormous faith of many made for one;
That proud exception to all Nature's laws,
To invert the world, and counter-work its cause?
Force first made conquest, and that conquest, law;
Till superstition taught the tyrant awe,
Then shared the tyranny, then lent it aid,
And gods of conquerors, slaves of subjects made:
She, 'midst the lightning's blaze, and thunder's sound,
When rocked the mountains, and when groaned the ground,
She taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray,
To power unseen, and mightier far than they:
She, from the rending earth and bursting skies,
Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise:
Here fixed the dreadful, there the blest abodes;
Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods;
Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust,
Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust;
Such as the souls of cowards might conceive,
And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Zeal then, not charity, became the guide;
And hell was built on spite, and heaven on pride,
Then sacred seemed the ethereal vault no more;
Altars grew marble then, and reeked with gore;
Then first the flamen tasted living food;
Next his grim idol smeared with human blood;
With heaven's own thunders shook the world below,
And played the god an engine on his foe.
So drives self-love, through just and through unjust,
To one man's power, ambition, lucre, lust:
The same self-love, in all, becomes the cause
Of what restrains him, government and laws.
For, what one likes if others like as well,
What serves one will when many wills rebel?
How shall he keep, what, sleeping or awake,
A weaker may surprise, a stronger take?
His safety must his liberty restrain:
All join to guard what each desires to gain.
Forced into virtue thus by self-defence,
Even kings learned justice and benevolence:
Self-love forsook the path it first pursued,
And found the private in the public good.
'Twas then, the studious head or generous mind,
Follower of God, or friend of human-kind,
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore
The faith and moral Nature gave before;
Re-lumed her ancient light, not kindled new;
If not God's image, yet His shadow drew:
Taught power's due use to people and to kings,
Taught nor to slack, nor strain its tender strings,
The less, or greater, set so justly true,
That touching one must strike the other too;
Till jarring interests, of themselves create
The according music of a well-mixed state.
Such is the world's great harmony, that springs
From order, union, full consent of things:
Where small and great, where weak and mighty, made
To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade;
More powerful each as needful to the rest,
And, in proportion as it blesses, blest;
Draw to one point, and to one centre bring
Beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king.
For forms of government let fools contest;
Whate'er is best administered is best:
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right:
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives;
The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
On their own axis as the planets run,
Yet make at once their circle round the sun;
So two consistent motions act the soul;
And one regards itself, and one the whole.
Thus God and Nature linked the general frame,
And bade self-love and social be the same.
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