Masopher's Mind

Very interesting case where a student excercises the second amendment to make a silly joke at a public forum. Potentially the entire world witnesses the juvenile and asinine antics of a youngster who then gets punished for being just that. Of all the ‘political statements’ one could make, Bong Hits for Jesus just doesn’t match up to I have a dream, Woodstock, facing down a tank or setting one self on fire. Using the American Constitution to protect ones right to be an idiot is not what Americas forefathers had in mind. What would Jefferson or Franklin or Adams do? They would take the rapscallion over their knee and give him a good hiding. plain ans simple.

My initial thought on the converse is “there goes another amendment.” With the relaxation of habeas corpus, gun control, ratification of torture, denial of counsel and of course regular gags on, intimidation and politically controlled media, one sees the cataclysmic de-legislation on the amendments. Amendments can and will tumble like dominoes given the current state of affairs. Big government, cowed states and militarization of the North American continent by the executive body. Something is amiss in the balance of powers. The checks are not in place. The foundations need a rethink.

One cannot help but trust the entropy of complex systems to rectify this. Something will happen that will awake the sleeping giant that is the People of the United States, permanently and cohesively against the usurpers of the Constitution.  A counter 9/11 is needed, an event that will cauterize the American resolve against capitalist control. Unfortunately it will need to have the impact and scale of the original 9/11 plot and will have to happen to the people. Not peoples pensions, not a few Arabs in ‘git-moe’, not a beating of a minority or some handsome dead boy in the middle east.

Obviously, punishing a boy for being an ass will not be that event either. The fact that this has to be wrangled out in the supreme court shows how neurotic the American Justice System can be.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/25/free.speech/index.html

“Paulo  Coelho is a genius” that is what my Fatima said to me when I decribed the book I was reading. She had already read it, in fact recommended it to me. His book is profound if only in its simplicity and deeply resonating truth. In  my readings of Jung and studies of consultants, “The Alchemist” is scientifically and proven as a work of genius, similar to other great stories for example “The Lord of the Rings”,”The Matrix”, “David Copperfield”, some greek tales and the like. genius as described by my authorities is the ability to communicate with the subconcious and collective subconcious freely. Without a doubt this book will communicate with any persons subconcious touching on drives and struggles within each of us and more importantly for my ego, drives and struggles within me. I wont spoil it for anyone who will one day find my digitalized words but all I can say is that it is the path to God and godliness that mankind has to take and which precious few individuals find.

Alchemists are the ancient practicioners of transmutation, changing of one state to another. As mankind slowly changes from physical to digital, psychological and spiritual we are being subjected to the alchemy of our own destiny. We are being transmuted. Back to a personal level, I am also transmuting. Like precious metal I must feel the pain of heat and the blow of the hammer so that I can be shaped and molded and changed into the treasure that I seek. I am the metal but I am also the crafter and I am the adventurer seeking to find myself, the most sacred of philosophers stones. I have written it before in a more scientific tone, but all things are one, and I am the alchemist of my destiny.

I may have forgotten my dreams, wandered astray but I can see the omens again, thanks to my Fatima. I too will touch the face of God and be an Alchemist.