I wish them well and one more thing,
I hate this worship of the 'king'.
The 'king' continues to impart
The notion that we are apart;
And all the trappings of excess
Prove he's worth more and we're worth less.
If thinking thus remains the case
Humanity will end its race.
"We" is the state to be alive.
When separate we can't survive.
The monarchy can't end too soon;
I wish them, happy honeymoon.
Cancun, the 16th time we flee
From dealing with reality
Though change environmentally
More certain deaths will guarantee!
How much more senseless can we be
To have a life philosophy
That puts a price on what was free
Until we reached modernity!
We face a common enemy,
Our vertical Economy.
As long as you need more than me
We won't be able to agree
On who will pay the biggest fee
To save all of Humanity.
Without agreement we will see
At COP's next Durban plenary
Repeated asininity,
The cause of our mortality.
I give support to Wikileaks
With hope the secrets they reveal
Will show to all humanity
A life that's utterly unreal.
"They threaten our security"
Is such a primitive refrain
It seems that evolution has
Moved on without the speaker's brain.
The only threat leaks are to us
Is that they'll finally expose,
Like we who put our faith in them,
Our so-called leaders have "no clothes".
If Wikileaks can show us that
Our common life is not a game;
And consequently it we save,
I'll also celebrate its name.
I thought tears might come from a well
That would eventually run dry.
But no, they're like the rain that falls
Which then replenishes the sky.
Although December tears are cold
And as drops hit they make cheeks sting,
It seems each season has its tears
And those in April make us sing.
Rita Barr 12/28/1915-07/27/2010
You gave me life so long ago
And then a second time.
Because you needed help with yours
You set me free to rhyme.
You gave more than I could return,
Too few were the ten years.
Because I always tried my best
Regret will not cause tears.
On many days you were the force
That caused this son to rise.
You did not know your purpose was
To be God in disguise.
You taught me well, I can go on.
I know what I will be.
As I reach out to others now
They will see you in me.
Our flowers always brought you joy
Is one last thing you taught.
Forever I will see you in
A blue forget-me-not.
MOTHER'S GAMES
MOTHER'S HOPE
MOTHER'S LEAVING
MOTHER'S MARKET MEMORY
MOTHER'S MEMORIAL BENCH
MOTHER'S SAD ATTACK
MOTHER'S WAR
MOTHER'S DREAM
MOTHER'S EULOGY
The explanation of life and related writings.
02/02/24
INTRODUCTION
Like everyone, I inherited an existence. Mine collapsed circa 1970 while I was at McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, getting a BA(math) and B. Phys Ed, so I could teach. While sorting through the rubble of my life I noticed, though not as pervasive as it is today, a continuum of varied and increasing conflict permeating our existence. I wondered why.
Though wondering for myself I thought I should find the reason for conflict before a student I might teach asked me. I couldn’t deduce the reason with math; nor did I think I found it in the 5 major religions and their thousands of offspring, or in the 11 volume history of philosophy I skimmed for electives.
So besides my formal degrees, I graduated with a major degree of motivation to find before I taught, the reason for conflict. I never taught. By the time I discovered the answer to why increasing conflict pervades our existence, I’d become, with the help of my brother, a self-employed carpenter.
I tried and failed to share the answer at least three times and each time I vowed to quit trying. The last was in 1998 when a friend of a friend, a philosophy professor, wished me good luck on other projects. To help keep my last vow I started an addition to my house. I received even more help in 2000 when I began caring for my parents.
But then, when my father died in 2004 I was motivated to try sharing my analysis one more time before I died. I was still thinking of a hard copy when a friend suggested I publish on a website. I’d never heard of websites nor could I type but with more help from my Mother I bought a computer, learned to type, and with expert help, created a website.
I first thought I’d bury the reason for conflict in an essay. But having already experienced web attention deficit disorder I decided to highlight the essence of it in my website logo and add context with blog posts.
Since there is no answer to “Why am I?”, attempts to answer it, such as the myriad religions and philosophies I skimmed, and a variety of other responses I found, are tries to fill the void. Though we can mix them, some may be similar and even have identical names, because we direct them to the void within us, our tries are all opposed and so cause conflict to the extent of our belief in them.
But, conflict is not inevitable. We can diminish it and resulting death to the degree we empty the void. Now, if we choose to empty the void, our lives are not then devoid of activity, on the contrary! Because it is essential, we each possess some remnant of “reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to Nature’s God”, the natural activity that creates and tries to maintain all life.
So, even though in the 200k years since the birth of humanity we have replaced almost all our inherited natural activity with the human made unnatural, self-destructive activity of trying to fill the void, if we choose to empty the void, the remnants of our natural, self-creative activity will at least refill our lives and possibly answer “Why am I?”
I have been trying share these basic facts of life for a few years by advertising. Last year (2023) I bought 8 million page views with half the value of my home, without effect; but this time I won’t quit. The warnings about fatal climate change by hundreds of climate scientists over many more years have also been ignored.
However, I do have to reduce my advertising. If it is too late to prevent it, I’ll need a place to live where I can watch the increasing conflict within us, between us and with Nature, causing at least the death of us and maybe all of Nature, possibly even before I’d have died in peace.
If you feel moved to help me share these facts you can by using the share icon at the end of any post, notably my most recent piece of rhymed reason, “Analyzing Conflict”, or any other way of sharing. If you also click on the like icon you will see an explosion of hearts, an expression of my gratitude. 🙏 Doug E Barr.
Part 1.Nature’s ideal diet: It was designed to maintain our immune/ maintenance system at its optimum operating condition to protect us from both pathogenic and autoimmune diseases. It protected our predecessors from conception to the birth of humanity when they realized the mental capacity to choose. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of us chose to ignore ’Her’ ideal, and thus our increasing disease. Specifically, ignoring the overlap causes, it could save the $34 billion cost of weight loss drugs, about $800 billion cost for treating type II diabetes, and many billions more in other healthcare costs.
Part 2. Nature’s ideal life: It protected our predecessors from conflict until the birth of humanity. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of individuals chose to ignore ‘Her’ ideal and thus, our increasing conflict.
Part 3. The integration of parts 1 and 2
Part 4. Existential risks: They are the result of our ancestors increasingly choosing to ignore Nature’s nutritional ideal. They may be reduced by expanding our mental capacity beyond what was realized at the birth of humanity. It would only take an instant, but the time we have to make the necessary choice is quickly running out.
Part 5. Appendix: Mostly diet related math that may have caused the mathematically challenged to quit reading in the middle of Part 1.
