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selling your soul

Post by cmoore » May 7th, 2017, 3:01 pm

can we get away from the saying
selling your soul to the devil
Bob Dylan said he did
but he said it because
he was trying to tell us
how greedy the music business is

but the saying still lingers
because there is a poetic component
like saying the blues musician Robert Johnson
sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads

what would the blues be with out this legend
so I don't take it literally, did Babe Ruth
sell his soul to the devil, or Hank Arron
no, but the saying alas does hold
when it comes to the powers that should not be

to the military media complex
the hand full of people that control the rest of us
to enslave us, yes they, they sold their souls
the last president to ever say anything
that made any sense, who was assassinated
wanted to get rid of the alphabet agency

when Babe Ruth hit a home run
it really was a home run for the people
we don't live in that world anymore
sports and the music industry
and the medical is all sold
and they send off young men to die for evil banks
wars make them rich, and they are huge rituals
of slaughter of the innocent

why do you think Allen Ginsberg
kept crying Moloch, Moloch, Moloch

the thing is politics and religion
go together, because if religion was really
what it claims, why would we need politics
the thing is politicians as such are mostly corrupt
because the powers that should not be
the shadow government, has stuff on them
so even if they started out wanting to do good
now they have to sell out, or else

we still have the story of Buddha and Jesus
and some think Jesus traveled to the east
there is no historic records of anything he
was supposed to have done, either any record
was erased and removed by the church
or if he really existed he was from another dimension

the same could maybe said of the Buddha
but there apparently are some historic records
the story of how he became enlightened
but the one that makes most sense
is that Buddha really did not want to leave
written teaching, but only word passed on
the same with Lao Tzu , who when going
into retirement reluctantly left a written poem

the Blues came out of the experience of Negro slavery
but we all are enslaved, even if there was an illusion
of a middle class for a few short years
the blues tell a story of the journey of the soul
not selling it
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Re: selling yor soul

Post by mnaz » May 7th, 2017, 3:34 pm

The culture went completely materialistic and corporate over a couple of centuries- for better or worse- after the colonies threw off the British. As soon as the Santa Fe trail was up and running, the big military land grab was on ("manifest destiny"), and a fundamental shift happened in the relationship of the land's inhabitants to the land. No longer was earth sacred and a part of our spiritual being; the only thing that mattered was its utility and material wealth. One can argue that this is good or bad- I won't go there, at least not now, but that's what happened. And it continues to play out- on the world stage now. The only thing that (really) matters, all "noble rhetoric" aside, is material resouces, and their utility to the Capital Machine (including people, of course).

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Re: selling yor soul

Post by cmoore » May 7th, 2017, 3:54 pm

Manifest Destiny has to do with survival of the fittest, which came from theory of evolution
which came from Darwin, who was even known to have been used by the academic circle that took his theory and made it a thing. It is like Einstein they still hold onto his theories, but the real creative geniuses, the real thinkers know that theses theories are only that.

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Re: selling yor soul

Post by mnaz » May 7th, 2017, 4:03 pm

We not only consume stuff- we are consumed by stuff. There will always be some component of the material and the spiritual in any culture, and one can (rather easily) argue that it's gone way too far out of balance to the material side- with looming negative consequences for the home rock as part of the fallout.

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Re: selling your soul

Post by cmoore » May 7th, 2017, 4:13 pm

Looming negative consequences, almost seem like an understatement at this juncture.

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Re: selling your soul

Post by mnaz » May 7th, 2017, 4:16 pm

True.

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