Steve Jobs, R.I.P. (today's diva)

Dear Mr. Jobs,

many might try to find

the places where you err'ed

but when it comes to this,

the end of your era,

well,

we can clearly see

You sure could sing!

The Computers I Write On:

Fairy Dust

 ( wallpaperhere )

To see

the shining glitter

of dust on light

         and light on dust

as it dances

         in early sunlight,

To hear

the scolding caw

of morning crows,

and taste

the fresh mid-August

         air.

To be 

unaware

of worldly things,

and absolutely

aware

of earthly life.

Childlike,

silent, am I,

so content with being.

I have no other answers.

( apod.nasa.gov )

May 21, 2011 - The Rapture?

Since I do write a fair amount

about 12212012,

I'm moved to make a comment on 

this 05212011 doomsday theory:

Well, I'll tell ya'

I'll lay money on the fact I'll be here

May 22, 2011,

and so will you;

and I predict

there will be no world wide 6:00 p.m. earthquake,

and no rapture.

~  ~  ~  ~

Now,

I may be proven wrong, and if I am proven wrong,

and there really is a rapture,

than you have every right to stop

reading this blog.

In fact, I should probably stop writing it then,

too.

If there is a worldwide earthquake

on May 21, and a rapture, and you notice that

I have stopped writing this blog,

you can conclude that one of two possible scenarios has occurred:

1.

I was actually swept up

in the rapture,

and I'm gone to a better place

with Allison (see video above)

or

2.

I have discovered I haven't been saved,

and I'm a detestable sinner,

and I'm cowering in embarrassment

in the corner over the fact

I was wrong; 

I'll be

gnashing my teeth in horror

and agony

over my doom.

Quite frankly, though, it's possible that

if the world wide earthquake is bad enough,

we'll lose the internet,

and all forms of communication,

then all my words written here

will have been in vain.

(University of Western Ontario)

In many ways,

Makropoulos is a blog about

how to live fully and with integrity

during a time of great change,

and potential endings.

And I sincerely believe that

it really will not serve us at all

to plan our next few days too selectively,

as we ready for this potential 

rapture.

We should just live in every moment

truthfully and with goodness

as our primary goal.

We should treat each person and situation

we encounter with honesty

and respect and humility,

never once passing judgement 

on anyone else.

(You can read other entries here,

under the label "love",

"peace",

and 11/11/11,

about how I propose we should live 

during an end time.)

Then, quite frankly, 

if the end comes

on Saturday

or Sunday

or tomorrow

or even 

tonight

we will be able to face

our maker honestly,

and hope she will treat us fairly.

(hongkiat)

And Abraham drew near, and said,

Wilt thou also destroy the righteous

with the wicked?

Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city;

wilt thou also destroy and not spare

the place for the fifty righteous

that are in it?

That be far from thee to do after this manner,

to slay the righteous with the wicked:

and that the righteous should be as the wicked,

that be far from thee.  Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,

then I will spare all the place for their sakes. . .

[ . . . ]

And he [Abraham] said: Behold now, I have taken upon me

to speak unto the Lord: Suppose there shall be twenty

found there.  And he [the Lord] said, 

I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and

I will speak yet but this once:

Suppose ten shall be there.  And he said,

I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

The Bible, Genesis, 18:23 - 33.

Therefore be ye also ready;
for in such an hour as ye think not
the Son of man cometh.
The Bible,  Matthew 24:44

 

Indeed, those that submit to God

and do good works shall be

recompensed by their Lord:

they shall have nothing to fear

or to regret.

The Koran "The Cow"  2:112

Man's life, however great and spiritual,

has its limitations.  Before some conditions in life

even the greatest man on earth,

the most powerful soul,

will for a moment seem helpless.

But it is not the beginning that counts,

it is the end.

It is the last note that a great soul strikes

which proves the soul

to be real and true.

(Hazrat Inaayat Khan:

The Unity of Religious Ideals, p. 159)

( imagesofzen )

Changes of Signs/Changes of Times

OK, so I'm going to venture out onto one of those limbs

just flowering with hypotheticals

and propose

that all the Scorpios in the world

who just found out they may now be

Libras, or -- heaven forbid --

Virgos, had better bite the bullet

and be it.

The times they are a changing,

the earth is moving,

and so must you

and me ------

I've always prided myself

on my balanced sign,  Libra

(with Aries rising, an 

astrologer once told me,

and I liked that too),

and now I'm being asked 

to give up balance and yield

to chastity.
(Virgo, the virgin, ergo, chaste?)

But I think I still have my

Aries rising, unless

that has become

a Pisces,

which really isn't all that bad:

Virgo with Pisces rising may give me

a new kind of balance, 

one that doesn't procrastinate as much

as I've done as a Libra.

(sciencedaily)

Indeed, I see 

real optimism in 

this celestial realignment:

we can all adopt the positives

of our new position

and keep the best of our former

selves, as well. 

This is not to say

we won't all have our flaws,

but by adopting our new signs,

we may

take strides towards a new empathy

towards the perspectives of Others.

Perhaps even the very Other

who, astrologically,

six months ago

was the very sign with which we were told

we were least compatible

is now the very sign

we must become.

So, dear Scorpios,

as I said at the beginning

of this meandering entry:

try your hand at a little 

balance, peacefulness, and justice,

and I'll be,

well,

whatever a Virgo
is supposed to be
within reason.

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