I shit, therefore there is no God

Here is perhaps the stupidest atheist argument ever. It basically boils down to exactly what the title of this entry says.

Maui xaphoon

OK, seriously, you all need to go and get one of these, right now! It's the Maui xaphoon and it's absolutely awesome. Sort of sounds like a cross between a sax and a clarinet, sometimes with some flutish tones. Fits in your pocket, pretty much. Plus, they have a fingering chart just for screen reader users! How damn cool is that? If you don't like the sax sound, play it softer and it sort of sounds like some Middle Eastern reed instruments, the duduk comes most readily to mind. At some point soon I'll try putting up a recording. I got this a few years ago and messed with it sporadically, because I never did nail down the fingerings. They've got quite a few sound samples too, of whole songs, everything from jazz to sort of Indian inspired pieces. Plus if you do a search for xaphoon on youtube, you can turn up more fun stuff. If you're thinking, nah, saxes don't grab me really, trust me, you'd still be interested. A sax is just sort of what it most readily compares to when you really get it blowing loud. They've got a bamboo version and a plastic version, thing's about the size of a tinwhistle but much lower. Two full chromatic octaves. Go check it out, and be impressed.

Udu

Do you own an udu? If not, and you drum, or even if you don't drum but have kinda sorta wanted to try, or hell, even if you've never thought about drumming before ever in your life, go get one, right now. Oh fine, you want to know what the hell an udu is? Have some videos. Still want to know more? Here's a pretty good site with some history and even a bit of playing technique. Finally, here's a pretty cheap package from Lark in the Morning including an udu and a video on how to play it. It might even be pretty cheap for Europe if you can play the video, because of the exchange rate these days. See? I'm thinking of you people and not being all ethnocentric, heh! :)

Excellence

So I was looking at this site on shamanic song, and I see it has a very typical feature of a lot of neopagan/new age thought. At some point it's talking about how you too can sing shamanic songs. So it goes into this whole deal about how you don't need any musical aptitude, it's just like toning, it's about the sound, not necessarily sounding beautiful or anything.

OK, so on the one hand, I get the basic idea here. People have a lot of hangups about singing and such, particularly because nowadays it's seen as restricted to professionals, that kind of thing. So I can get behind anything to get people out of that. What I can't get behind though is the other side of it. People never get beyond this. Well, I mean I'm sure some do, don't get me wrong. But you never see anything like, you don't need to worry about musical training, refinement will come with practice.

I mean, I'm sorry, but shamanic song isn't like toning, all about the sound. In general, though not in all cases, shamans or their analogs are excellent singers, knowers of epics, and so on. In other words, they're striving for excellence, not just bellowing whatever happens to come out of their mouths. Even with toning, I don't understand the whole, it doesn't have to be beautiful. I mean of course I do, to get past that initial, OMG I can't do that no I'll never make a cool sound! I get that it's not necessarily about making cool sounds. But then, I mean, OK, you're going, I'm gonna tone to balance my chakras.

If you're making a sound that's just going all over the place and all, that you yourself find just not pleasing, are you really likely to start doing it to balance yourself on a regular basis? I really don't think so. I really wish that more people considered the "it doesn't have to be ..." statements as initial things. It's ridiculous to not do it because you won't be excellent right out of the gate. But I think it's also equally ridiculous not to try to improve and all. Of course, not every sound you make will be beautiful. If you're say, immitating a bear, I don't think people are going to go "wow, make that beautiful sound some more!" I mean, it's a growling thing, it's just not something we typically think of as beautiful, not that it's not cool in and of itself.

I think this also comes from the idea that everybody should be able to do anything. While I'm a huge fan of this, it's not like it works in all cases. I mean, I absolutely think that everybody should be given the knowledge and a crack at trying it and all the help in the world at getting it right. But I mean, look, let's be honest with ourselves. I might want to be a glassblower, but that doesn't mean I necessarily have the aptitude for it. And really, I don't think that's a bad thing at all. That's why we have some people who are professional glass artists, and some who aren't. It's OK to not be able to do every single thing you set your hand to. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. Look at it in connection with what we started with. If everybody's a shaman, why have shamans? I mean, if I'm a mechanic, why would I go to somebody else to fix my car? Maybe if I didn't have time or something, but otherwise, hey, I can fix my own car, what do I need you for?

something i wrote a while ago

us nature:

I am the wind
the breathing breaze
touching the oceans
son to a mother
the lands of dust and roots

i carry life within me and around me
and like a carefree baby so young
i play with the leaves from the trees
every touch the sensation.

I can take the homes of many many...
and fill the lungs of more.
My message is through doors and windows
and i take your understanding for others to hear

this is my nature
my part in nature
i am nature
i am the wind

i am the earth
the lands of dust and rock
i cary life on my and within me
my power is the light.
My direction

all things through me are rooted
there stuck to me
in me and on me
i am the creator to the air and waters
through me all comes
mother to elements
on me and around

i am the cat
my speed is great and my straingth is fears
eat from my life and drink from my waters
creat from my metals and breath through my trees

i am the earth
a mother to all
my being goes beyond my body
beyond this planet

i am solit
and shapefull
the core of many things

this is my nature
my part as nature
i am nature
i am the earth

i am ... me
a man feeling the breaze
touching the oceans
breathing the air
son of a mother
to the lands of dust and roots
rocks and metals

i can take homes of the many many
and take life from even more ...
creator of so mutch beauty and life

is this my nature?
i know we are part of nature
we are nature
i am me

The Subie sisters drinking games

I like to drink, don't you? Sometimes though, you want to play a game. Here's one that should have you drunk almost immediately! So read the directions, go to the title link, and have fun!

Things you'll need: Lots of alcohol, medical team on standby.

1. Watch all videos in order, from the oldest to the newest. Implement one of
the following games.

2. Every time they say/do something stupid, drink!

3. Every time they contradict something they said five seconds ago or in a
previous video, drink!

4. Every time they are incoherent, i.e. how the fuck did they go from point A
to point B in two seconds? Drink!

5. (Warning! This game is for those who want to die.) Combine the previous
three games.

6. If you're not as drunk as you've ever been in your entire life in the first
five minutes of any game, please stop and go back to your wussy games like
chugging grain alcohol, you've obviously not been paying attention and aren't
at all serious about your drinking.

People are kicking my ass!

I was playing this neat game called the Pirate Memory Game, the link in the title will take you to where you can get a demo. Basically it's one of those memorization games where you flip things over and have to match them. Sounded kind of eh at first, but man, it's really cool, all audio, and even Sue plays it from time to time, and she hates audio only games. I thought I was doing pretty good with my score of 883 or whatever on the peer, but man, people are kicking my ass, with scores up in the 2000s.

I'm normally not one to advocate that people spend money, but if you've got some extra, consider getting this one. It works not just for the blind, I'd think it'd be fun for kids and adults alike, and it's really pretty addictive. Now if they'd just translate the programming docs out of Polish ... Get the demo, if only for the opening part where the guy says "Klango". If I could get that sound, I swear I'd make it my boot sound for windows. It's awesome. Oh yeah, only runs on windows, i think, though I don't see any reason the newer macs wouldn't run it or wine or such under linux. Somebody give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

Did you ever find something and wonder where it came from?

A.K.A., this is apparently what happens when you've read too many shamanic song translations! This apparently got written late March 2003, though that might be the time it got copied. It has no title, but the file name is antiwar.txt. I can only assume I wrote it, though I don't remember it whatsoever. The dagger in question is obviously a Tibetan phurba. Anybody wanna do the exorcism ritual suggested? Anybody? :) I should add that I never said this was particularly good, heh.


Power of the United States!
Speaking against you I come now.
Bringing exorcism to you,
The eight-headed, the nine-headed!

War has come here, brought by power.
The people want not war at all.
Bringing exorcism to you,
The eight-headed, the nine-headed!

Protection sought, instead war given,
Unjust, unlawed, not noble act.
Bringing exorcism to you,
The eight-headed, the nine-headed!

Eight-headed, nine-headed dagger,
Wrathful triple blade expelling,
Bringing exorcism to you,
The eight-headed, the nine-headed!

Doesn't this make you want to get up and dance? Dance, damn it!

This guy totally rocks the fuck out on the gong go, yet another type of thumb piano/kalimba/whatever you'd like to call it. This one sounds somewhat similar to a marimbula from Jamaica, A.K.A. rumba box.

BTW, why is it always doesn't this make you want to get up and dance, or, if this doesn't make you want to dance, you've got problems? Why is it never, if this doesn't make you want to get one and start playing it, you've got problems? Well it's damn good either way you look at it. Tell you what, I'll play, y'all dance, how's that?

the witch, the chritstians and there 10,million dollar payed director

so here it is,

not even 200 year ago witches and pagans and magussis and shamans and women and doctors and dogs and your wifes cat and you wife her self and i fact the holl town but the people that are rich enough to be the best holy assholes there... exept for them they all got burned, drowned, stoned, riped into parts and someother things you cant even come up with.. they had it....

no these days its fun to watch TV and see how fantasticly witches and shamans and all the beliefs directed to no villens nature care and peace are being put on TV for intertaiment createing the msunderstanding about hows and whats. just the other day i was talking with Khomus about how one of the styles i practice in martial arts is also seen in some cartoon. not mutch of a suprice right. but it got me thinking that all the assholes and the haters are being shown precisly as they are on TV.. and all the stuff bveing spirituale and loving is being made more soft and more fantasticly.

now all that is okay and fine by me.. but in some point it screws up alot of understanding.
a vew years ago some budist monks came to the netherlands and made a mandala from sand. it brings luck goof furtunes and peace and love for everybody. when the where done with the mandala theput it into a bog jar and threw it into the river.. sharing the loving wishes with all people. i though that was soo very cool. but yet again the christions came like guarding dogs from hell and started telling people it was evil and the whent and started praying the let the evil from the monks be gone... i was prety pissed .. how can poeple do that.. being that disrespctefull...

so here a fast message to the christions that cant bring up the understanding of man and keep on disrespecting people that are not right in your religoin> IFF YOU CANT GET ALONG... THAN FUCK OFF!

they say that the muslims are bad and evil and .. and im not saying that some aren't just like the christians there are good ones and there are one that screw it up for the rest. in the end its like those fanasticly made tv shows. the once that dont understand creat the image for the rest of man about something they have no understanding about.

there you have it

Awesome analysis from another blog, on skeptics.

This guy subjects a skeptical investigation of a near death experience to the same sort of analysis skeptics generally use of such things. Points out some great stuff I've been saying for years, particularly about most atheist arguments on religion. Check it out, it's a really great read. Five part series, and you can get to all the parts from the title link.

One thing I think a lot of skeptics/atheists miss is the idea of arguments. For example, I don't really care about near death experiences. They're not really a part of my spirituality or anything, I don't need them to be there as evidence for some belief I happen to hold. But when you attack this sort of skeptical inquiry, they insist you do so because you need it for your religion or whatever, when I'm much more interested in demonstrating the fact that the skeptics often use the exact same types of arguments, or in some cases the exact same arguments, that they accuse religious/paranormal believers of using. They attack these arguments as sloppy and then turn right around and use the arguments themselves. So as the author says, it's not like they don't have biases and agendas and all. I wish we'd all admit that. I mean, I don't really have an agenda, as such, if I tell you about what I believe, I'm not trying to convert you or something. But obviously I think it happens to be the case, so I do have the agenda, so to speak, of putting that out there, whether I'm selling it or not.

Thought processes fascinate me, particularly in this case, where people are violently against something and then turn around and do it themselves. Skeptics are very much into evidence, yet you can see from this article their arguments often contain precious little of it. So the exact same process they abuse because it maintains the fallacy of somebody's religion/paranormal belief seems to be just fine, when it backs their particular anti-religious/paranormal prejudice/worldview. That's sort of harsh, but I think it's fairly true in the end. Of course, I freely admit to having a prejudice towards religion, and just like the skeptics, I think it's well-founded. So again, I wouldn't so much have a problem with it, if they were honest. But they hide behind the veil of supposed "science" and "reason" and "rationality". I think this article goes a long way toward demonstrating just how false that is.

Idaho, u da ho, long-range butt muscles!

So here's finishing up Idaho. We went to the Basque museum, cool, had a tea party, not my idea, went to a WWII museum, which was fun. Found the most aptly named place in the universe, Harp House, which was supposed to be a store selling harps. Turned out to be an actual house, with harps! I guess it was a store but the couple were getting too old to do it, a very nice woman in her 80s told me fun things about the harp. So they shipped all their harps to some music store or other.

Oh, you want to know about the long-range butt muscles, don't you? I was over in the other room, and heard as a comment on a video game, what actually was "I just killed that enemy with my long-range cruise missiles." But I swear it sounded like long-range butt muscles. I really wondered what the hell you sighted folk were doing for video games these days.

Drinking whiskey and beer ( lalala thats how the song goes )

waiting on a friend.. so we can drink whisky and be happy and stuff...
so yeah thats kinda my night for this night. i did however get my fiddle.. its very sweet and nice sound for such a cheap peace of fidlle.. what can i say its true.. but the sound is good.

i had alot to write down just a minute ago but i fogot it all.
so now for a joke instead:

a belgium guy and a dutch guy both run adrift on a strange iland. where a tribe a canibals take them prissinor.. the chief of the trive commes up and saiz : im gonna slash you head from you boddies and put them in the soap for lunch.... the dutchmen and the belgium ghuy both get realy realy scared and the chief saiz: well okay i won't do so if you would do a test. so the 2 scared men agreed and listen to the test. Chieff saiz: you have to both run into the woods and get 100 peaces of the same fruit....

after a while the belgium guy commes back with 100 berry's.. and the chieff saiz: okay now you have to put them all 100 in your ass without luaghing. and so the belgium guys does so and start reraly luaghing his ass of when he comes to berry 99. so the chieff said : you failed me.. but do tell me one thing? you got so close to complete the test.. why did you start luaghing at berry number 99? and the belgium huy awnsers: cuz i just saw the dutch guy comming back with 100 coconuts...

the end

well that was it.. i hope you liked the joke

Beer sounds like a good idea

Well we're hanging out in Idaho. No desert yet, but let me tell you, Asma, whom none of you know, makes some really awesome Indian food. The Ten Thousand Villages store here is a lot smaller than the one in PA. Didn't have any instruments I wanted except for some huge panpipes which I can't play anyway. Did get another really nice set of soapstone dominos, this time actually complete instead of having multiple double fives like the other one. Both are from Kenya. Both come in a really nice soapstone box. If you haven't gotten your hands on any soapstone yet, and I mean that literally, go find some and have at it. It's awesome stuff.

I think tomorrow is the Basque museum, among other things, so maybe an opportunity for more instruments. The Basque have a particular type of flute that you can play with one hand, the other typically plays a drum, that I might want, assuming they sell one. Some sort of social thing on Saturday, no idea what's up for Sunday or Monday. Then back on Tuesday. Since we don't leave here till 2, I'm guessing we'll get home pretty late. So more updates later. Oh yeah, and I think I'll go have some Guinness. Told you I agreed that beer sounds like a good idea.

im having a good day... now give me beer

okay so woke up at like 12.30pm and now its like 17.25... thinking i have to make dinner in an hour or so while i just had something that seemt like lunch i think... oh well knowing me i would make dinner and eat my spagettie anyways.

so there a little update about me doing nothing this day.. and it feels fucking good.

take care
Jaydon

Kalimba Magic

I really like this guy's site. I especially like his waking dream link or whatever it's called. Oh, since at least one person missed this in the last post, the link is the title. Sort of confusing there, Blogger.

Anyway, the site is all about the kalimba, often called a thumb piano in the West. I'm not sure I dig the fact that there aren't any African instruments, but it's a cool site and I'll probably get one at some point. So go check it out.

This woman is my hero

This is so fucking awesome! Should've used the lighter though. Why is she alternately accused of not being a journalist anymore and then of being "such a journalist"? I don't get it. Good for her though, this kicks major fucking ass.

another poem from an ancient culture

hear my thoughts forests
see my heart grow, care taker of life
sence my wonder drifting clouds
i listen to you mountains surrounding me

lift me softly father of skies
plant me firmly mother of nature
let me breath sister ocean
keep me warm brother fire

touch me fingers
flowing stream
taste the life, howling moon
heal my mind, turning sun.

Fish, the sea, fish.

Oh fish, why do you not come?
I have chosen food of the best for you,
But you do not desire it.
Oh fish, though the hook is ready for your mouth,
Still you swim in the depths of the sea.

The sea is made of voices.
Never ceasing, always sounding,
Roaring forever,
Until the world's end.

The sea is of images.
Light, reflections, dazzle the eye.
I am blind, oh fish.
I have seen the sea too long.
You are blind, oh fish.
You see only the sea.

The sea is of death.
Cold, lifeless, devouring,
Rather than making,
The potter's wheel would shatter the world.

Oh Fish!
The hook is for your tongue,
The worm for your belly!
The line a tie,
Never to be broken!

Oh fish!
I would give you to eat,
Take you to eat,
Such the flame,
The sea shall not drown!

Oh fish, why do you not come?
I have chosen food of the best for you,
But you do not desire it.
Oh fish, though the hook is ready for your mouth,
Still you swim in the depths of the sea.

Net Head Radio on YouTube?

so check this,

its been awhile since i've been running my radioshow.. this becuz of server problems with mu vomp's. no i was thinking it be fun to record a radio show with my cam and post it on YouTube.. just for fun.. im thinking just small parts of 1 show... to give people a tast of what its like.....

what you guys think?

now sometimes ( and this is for the other people that are reading along to ) im listining to 107thephoenix radio thinking this might be a cool idea in generale... well what ever is out there get ready for NH.Radio onYouTube..

Jaydon

Aethyric bodies, auras, sound healing, and such ( reaction 1)

thats very intresting...
when i wa reading this i was thinkin about chantingss done by monks.
it sets the mind into a state of mind that alows the body to slow its fuctions leaving more time to restore its self in energy and also with parts off the body being sick.

the principle would be the same.

i do think that with music it directs difrent on every persone. one would have more with newage kinds of music and someone els would feel more within rock tumes.
it depense ( i think ) on the state of mind.

Jaydon

welcome back

hey there,

well,... welcome stonewolf.
thats real sweet your here as well.

Khomus thanks for sharing the blog with us man... i mean that must take some mental staingth to alow some insane people from all the way over here on this blog.

either that or your just as insane.. in that case... welcome to the club of the insane

take care and stay insane
Insane... uhm, i mean Jaydon

Aethyric bodies, auras, sound healing, and such

Sound healing is often supposed to work in specific ways, e.g. the body has an aethyric double, the aura is affected, and so on. While this may or may not be the case, I think it is part of a larger issue. Even if such things are not mentioned, it's supposed that sound affects us unconsciously, that is to say, whether we believe in sound healing or not. This is certainly true, noise in the environment being a prime example, think of construction equipment running near you constantly for just one instance. However, I think this idea has a corolary that isn't really talked about and probably should be.

We also know that we have a great ability to tune things out. Claiming sound affects us regardless of how we feel about it seems a little odd to me. It seems to me that focussed attention on music/healing sounds would increase the effects. Also, let us suppose that our random person requesting healing hates the flute, they find high tones annoying, or has contempt for the guitar, and so on. Should it then follow that using a flute or guitar with them is perfectly fine? suppose, instead of meditative, they find singing bowls and such to be monotonous and annoying?

This point of view also says something to the perspective person. Just sit there and do nothing. They don't have to work, they don't have to have their mind in any particular state, they don't even have to pay attention to you. Would you expect this from a normal doctor? Certainly not, for we are now coming to understand that the patient's role in maintaining their own health is vitally important. So why would you not assume much the same thing for sound healing and the like? It's the same with regular music, you have to pay attention to it in order to enjoy it or gain benefit from it. Actually the separation between ordinary music and sound healing is completely artificial, but it is sometimes a useful distinction to make. In any case, while sound can affect us without our attention and/or belief, it seems to me that both would greatly enhance the effects, and so telling people they have no work to do, while relieving them of stress, is perhaps a great disservice to them.

Welcome to the new people.

OK, so now we have new people who can post besides me, both from the Netherlands. If you kids have an extended conversation in Dutch, I'll bitchslap your asses into the middle of next week. This blog is in America, which means it's in English. The universe, love it or leave it! Heh! Maybe Stonewolf can tell us how his new fridge is working or something. Won't that be exciting?

as we try and try

so here it is people,

all the way from the netherlands... one of the smaller countries below sea level...
and people are wondering why we are such good swimmers...

well this is a test posting so smile about it already

take care and stay insane
Jaydon

The obligatory test posting.

Let's assume, for a moment, that I know what I'm doing. Let us further assume that you too know what you are doing. Cross the street! Quickly! Do you think time will stop for you so that you can purchase a muffin?



Here is a choice, a choice open to all of us. Do we sleep now, or do we sleep later? I should add, though it should be obvious by now, that this choice is not in fact open to those of us who may be dead. Therefore, if you are dead, please get on with your deadness and quit bothering us. Nobody likes zombies anyway. Not even people who incessantly watch zombie movies. They lie not only with their tongues, but with their whole body and mind. What do you think about that, zombie movie watchers?



Let's suppose, just for a moment, that you built a fence. This fence is very high, and very strong. How do you know it's not a wall instead?



God told me to say these things. That might be true. Do you have ears? Have you heard?