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jiminycricket1 74M
5535 posts
7/5/2019 8:38 am
Somewhere Over The Rainbow


WE become enthralled with the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the friend of my enemy is my enemy..

WE accept "fake news" like it's candy in a candy shop.. WE fight over gummy bears and peppermint patties.. Like our world depends on it.. I watched the Macy's NY fireworks last night.. I was proud to be an American.....

But cried when I heard ..."Somewhere over the Rainbow."..

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"Over The Rainbow"

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
There's "This LAND" that I heard of once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh, why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh, why can't I?

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Because..... America use to be Somewhere over the Rainbow.. It's still here, I saw it last night.... But I cried as it faded, right before my eyes... the idea expressed in the end of of the movie and story.. will never be realized... That we didn't have to go there.. It was HERE all the time.

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I oh.. so want to believe in mermaids of the seas
IN God and hope and love
In all that can be

When life becomes too painful..It ebbs the tides of dreams
And Mermaids vanish from the sea .. the greater loss so it seems

The challenge is not asking why.. you get what you got.
but not letting life's pain deny...
The Challenge of WHY NOT..

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AS I came back to earth
I saw the rainbow's end
Where the enemy of HATE
Is HATE'S only friend.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 8:46 am

I wrote this on Leaf's blog..In hopes that he can find a 'better way"...I am at my rainbow's end

I fight against the fight.

For there will be sadness in victory as well as in defeat..

Amash is not a "total loser".. Nor are WE the "total winners".

Because "in total" America is the only loser.


Archer62 83F
7075 posts
7/5/2019 8:56 am

ONE THING YOU CAN KNOW FOR SURE: THE REPUTATION OF THE USA IS QUICKLY FADING IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE WORLD. VERY SAD BUT TERRIBLY TRUE.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 9:36 am

    Quoting Archer62:
    ONE THING YOU CAN KNOW FOR SURE: THE REPUTATION OF THE USA IS QUICKLY FADING IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE WORLD. VERY SAD BUT TERRIBLY TRUE.
Yes... but then again.. it's just "fake news"..... Of the "haves" and the "have nots"..

Those that have it... need to pretend they don't need it.. and those that don't have it... need to pretend they don't want it.

Those that have it.. want something more
Those that don't have it.....Want "others" not to have it... either.

The destruction that follows is amazing..

When the "have nots"...don't want the" haves" to have it
And the "haves" think the "have nots" want to take it from them..

And the "fake news" is..

That there is such a thing.. as the "HAVES" and HAVE NOTS"


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/5/2019 11:19 am

All these hyperbolic First World, manufactured problems.......Kim Kardashian's new full-body makeup will fix them........

You reduce the rainbow to a cartoon symbol of wish fulfillment......this rejection of the natural world ......seeing it as nothing but scenery, resources to develop.....to refine and manufacture into something that will thrill for a day and then go to the land-fill.........This attitude of entitlement........the entrenched ... Anthropocentric attitude....

The rainbow is a dance of light and water.......not a fantasy....you are continuously enthralled with the cutesy marshmallow pharts in your own mind.....You say "As I came back to earth".......but that is also just another empty catch-phrase ..


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 12:24 pm

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    All these hyperbolic First World, manufactured problems.......Kim Kardashian's new full-body makeup will fix them........

    You reduce the rainbow to a cartoon symbol of wish fulfillment......this rejection of the natural world ......seeing it as nothing but scenery, resources to develop.....to refine and manufacture into something that will thrill for a day and then go to the land-fill.........This attitude of entitlement........the entrenched ... Anthropocentric attitude....

    The rainbow is a dance of light and water.......not a fantasy....you are continuously enthralled with the cutesy marshmallow pharts in your own mind.....You say "As I came back to earth".......but that is also just another empty catch-phrase ..
WTF?
Again you define your objectivity..

And you treat me...Like finding "holes" in the atmosphere..

When will you try and understand.. I AM NOT TELLING YOU ANYTHING..

YET you are TELLING ME EVERYTHING.

I'm not Trying to change your mind... I am trying to get you to use it..

Now let me get objective.. so you can challenge me on the same level..
You are an affront to the way I think.. You are the cause of my dismay.. And not those you and I oppose.. They have reasons for their bias and prejudice.. You have no excuse.. The "objectivity" of reality in this world is what I am against.. I can not accept that YOUR truth is THE TRUTH and being right doesn't MAKE YOU right..
There is a reality... that GOD doesn't exist....But then again.. is one wrong.. to try and define something that is not real?
The irony of course is that progress depends on the unreal.. and defining it.. WE could not be what we are now without it.. And as you may think it's progressive..
If we began the objective reality you think.. We'd still be living in a cave.. and I would be dragging you around by the hair. If you disagreed.. I just beat the shit out of you..
Now.. that is the objective reality.

So let me go "subjective"... and explain why.. we have progressed..
The thing.. that is unreal..that we have searched to define unsuccessfully... to try and make Objective...Yet.. it stares us down in our OWN reality...
IS LOVE.....


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 12:46 pm

WE have a difference in how we see things..

If God is love and God doesn't exist.. then Love doesn't exist.????

God can not be objectified... since God is not real.. God must be subjective because God doesn't exist............

But how can God... be even subjective... if God doesn't exist? Unless one defines subjectivity as made up shit.

So we disagree because .. Although, I believe God can not be objectified.. but it's because what God stands for.... can not be objectified,. things like LOVE...And Giving, and Hope and Faith... Although, I also believe God must be subjective.
But.... I believe it... because HE does exist.
And subjectivity is not made up shit.. It's and alternate view...That can only give the "object" a greater and higher purpose.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 2:09 pm

The rainbow is a dance of light and water.......not a fantasy....you are continuously enthralled with the cutesy marshmallow pharts in your own mind.....You say "As I came back to earth".......but that is also just another empty catch-phrase .."

Sparkle.....What are you metaphorically challenged?

Like I don't know what I am saying....But I am not saying.."The rainbow is a dance of light and water... I am saying a rainbow is a fantasy...WTF"S the matter with you?
Like a rainbow, unlike a unicorn, a mermaid, or a leprechaun...can not be a fantasy.. because rainbow actually does exist... WTF is your problem?
The idea of subjectivity.. totally eludes you... And you say... i don't know what I am talking about.?

You are both.. finite and final....a true combination of the most narrow-minded.

My evidence is your overwhelming desire to dispute me.. when I am neither finite nor final. I have no desire to hold you accountable for what you are. I do not wish to dispute you.. EVER...
But if you are going to dispute me..You better be ready to hold YOURSELF accountable

AS I came back to earth
I saw the rainbow's end
Where the enemy of HATE
Is HATE'S only friend.

Oh yes I have been to the mountain. God has spoken to me..
I have returned to earth to inform you all of my powers and your inability to understand. So i speak in tongues, and signs... so as to confuse you, and prove my own superiority. How can you be so stupid.. and I so wise? As i am a MAN and you are but my "rib"....The friend of my hate... and my own worst enemy.. Is she who doesn't know the difference between a response and an attack
Twinkle Twinkle little star.. how I wonder what you are?
F...U....Sparkle!


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/5/2019 5:09 pm

You sure have a huge problem with being challenged by a woman.......you don't get nearly as worked up when you are challenged by a man it seems........You interpret my response as an attack and attack me in return......

You say that God is Love, therefore, if God doesn't exist, there is no Love.......That is an extremely objective viewpoint...........You can't evoke Love without an image of an angry Male Patriarch .......To you, Love must be embodied, made concrete.....Objective.

I don't think Hope and certainly not Faith are good or helpful concepts to help Society to run smoothly......Faith is divisive......the most divisive idea Humans have come up with yet........certainly not an adjunct to Love.....


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/5/2019 8:26 pm

By the way, congratulations for joining Hank, Bigblock and Bob in attempting to bully me by describing your fantasies of physically abusing me.....I guess that makes you feel like a real man......I suppose you think that misogyny is OK as long as it's subjective misogyny........After all, you worship the most unpleasant tyrant in all of fiction.....


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/5/2019 11:49 pm

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    By the way, congratulations for joining Hank, Bigblock and Bob in attempting to bully me by describing your fantasies of physically abusing me.....I guess that makes you feel like a real man......I suppose you think that misogyny is OK as long as it's subjective misogyny........After all, you worship the most unpleasant tyrant in all of fiction.....
It was a test and you failed again..Oh yes I objectively meant every word.. Your objectivity is just amazing..You can't separate anything..as I said.. it's all finite and final..Slot me anyway you want to..I am not trying to win..I am just another one of THEM.
You objectify me.. You're not alone.. for me. it's Not about YOU...but it seems for you.. It's about me..
But at least those other don't profess to be anything else.
Empathy, understanding, and compassion...are not your strong suits.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/6/2019 12:05 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    You sure have a huge problem with being challenged by a woman.......you don't get nearly as worked up when you are challenged by a man it seems........You interpret my response as an attack and attack me in return......

    You say that God is Love, therefore, if God doesn't exist, there is no Love.......That is an extremely objective viewpoint...........You can't evoke Love without an image of an angry Male Patriarch .......To you, Love must be embodied, made concrete.....Objective.

    I don't think Hope and certainly not Faith are good or helpful concepts to help Society to run smoothly......Faith is divisive......the most divisive idea Humans have come up with yet........certainly not an adjunct to Love.....

Your response was an attack... you made your response personal. Your response was not about the subject it was about ME...

You know.. It may seems logical to you.. that if you misinterpret what I say... It's My fault not yours. Granted there are times that can be the case.. but it's not the case ALL THE time. When I can tell.... you purposely choose to make that way..

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.. that that's the way you think and not the way you CHOOSE to THINK..But my patience is wearing thin.. and your choices are becoming more obvious. So it becomes, that you having nothing to add.. to any conversation I want to have....So what you think about me.. doesn't really matter.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/6/2019 10:15 am

    Quoting jiminycricket1:
    Your response was an attack... you made your response personal. Your response was not about the subject it was about ME...

    You know.. It may seems logical to you.. that if you misinterpret what I say... It's My fault not yours. Granted there are times that can be the case.. but it's not the case ALL THE time. When I can tell.... you purposely choose to make that way..

    I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.. that that's the way you think and not the way you CHOOSE to THINK..But my patience is wearing thin.. and your choices are becoming more obvious. So it becomes, that you having nothing to add.. to any conversation I want to have....So what you think about me.. doesn't really matter.
As far as I can tell, the subject of this blog was your personal feelings and the symbology you use to evoke them.......Yet somehow, it wasn't personal? Give me a break.....


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/6/2019 4:11 pm

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    As far as I can tell, the subject of this blog was your personal feelings and the symbology you use to evoke them.......Yet somehow, it wasn't personal? Give me a break.....
Well... you are f*cked up.. you and big make a prefect couple of f*cked ups..

This comment is inane and not based on anything...as my blog is poetry, subjective.. and has nothing With me.
the blog is about enemies and friends... it's about hope and dreams.. It's about
the enemy of hate.. being hates only friend.
So WTF are YOU talking about?

Go away.. you're just a hateful CHILD..


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/6/2019 8:45 pm

Are you seriously telling me that your poetry has nothing to do with you?......You still don't seem to understand what "subjective" and "objective" mean, when you say....." "as my blog is poetry, subjective, and has nothing to do with me.".......Poetry is about as Subjective as you can get........Subjective means "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
"his views are highly subjective"
synonyms: personal, personalized, individual, internal, emotional, instinctive, intuitive, impressionistic;"


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/7/2019 7:47 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    Are you seriously telling me that your poetry has nothing to do with you?......You still don't seem to understand what "subjective" and "objective" mean, when you say....." "as my blog is poetry, subjective, and has nothing to do with me.".......Poetry is about as Subjective as you can get........Subjective means "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
    "his views are highly subjective"
    synonyms: personal, personalized, individual, internal, emotional, instinctive, intuitive, impressionistic;"


You can not objectify me .. with my poetry..My poetry is my subjective. If you allowed it to.. It could take you to a different place.. the place of my subjectivity. In that place... there is no RIGHT OR WRONG.

What any artist does is take his/her subjective and tries to objectify it..So YOU can understand it.. It a representation of the artist's subjectivity.

I don't call myself an artist....I don't have to be an artist to understand the art.

But it seems You do?

The idea of art is both objectivity and subjectivity..The art is in the objectivity... the artistry is the subjectivity. They have to go together..
i am not an artist because my art is for crap
You're not an artist because your artistry is for crap.

I know you think.. I'm placing value on it.. but I'm not.... the value it's EQUAL..
I know the meaning.. but can't draw it.. I'm way too much about subjectivity
You can draw it.. but not know the meaning..You're way too much about Objectivity.
What we end with.... is I paint an ugly picture and you paint "pretty" ones.

It about what we value....you value objectivity.. I value subjectivity.
But to be a great artist you need to value them both equally.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/7/2019 6:08 pm

First you demand that I should comment on the subject of the blog , not about you,because the blog has nothing to do with you........now you tell me that the blog is about you and how great your "artistry" is and that my "artistry" sucks..........you can know this, I suppose because not only are you an authority on Art, but on my art in particular.........based on your great experience on the subject ....Your naivete' is not as endearing as it once was.......


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/8/2019 10:57 am

    Quoting sparkleflit:
    First you demand that I should comment on the subject of the blog , not about you,because the blog has nothing to do with you........now you tell me that the blog is about you and how great your "artistry" is and that my "artistry" sucks..........you can know this, I suppose because not only are you an authority on Art, but on my art in particular.........based on your great experience on the subject ....Your naivete' is not as endearing as it once was.......
So you disagree with my idea that my artistry good and your art is good..
Can't you see what your saying..

You are saying I don't know that.. ?

As try to explain why your art is good.. but not great. And my art stinks,, but that doesn't mean my artistry does. You disagree?

I give to YOU...But You want to take away from me.. the one thing I have?

Like I tell you that my expressions suck..but my meanings don't.. and you choose to disagree.
As I write this.. I fully understand it's the proof that you DON"T understand subjectivity. You can't find the subjectivity.. behind your own objectivity. You are incapable...And that is the proof of why you have no artistry
. You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?????????
Yes that's nonsense to you..But it's what I am all about.


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/8/2019 11:32 am

So sparkle.. think of it this way..

When you disagree with me
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

When you try and slot me.. and define me...
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

When you find yourself right about the spelling of words and the use of words
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

When you try to belittle someone, react negatively towards someone, and close your mind to alternatives...
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

When you define America and Americans.. when you define men and women..when you define race and religions, and countries and people,
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

When you categorically say there is no God
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

Sparkle.. It's not about being right...It's about possibilities..Being right is only one possibility
Again it's all nonsense to you..
You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/8/2019 8:11 pm

Vagueness wanders .......


jiminycricket1 74M
13732 posts
7/9/2019 8:01 am

yes it does.... and that is the artistry...


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/9/2019 5:27 pm

    Quoting jiminycricket1:
    So sparkle.. think of it this way..

    When you disagree with me
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    When you try and slot me.. and define me...
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    When you find yourself right about the spelling of words and the use of words
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    When you try to belittle someone, react negatively towards someone, and close your mind to alternatives...
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    When you define America and Americans.. when you define men and women..when you define race and religions, and countries and people,
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    When you categorically say there is no God
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?

    Sparkle.. It's not about being right...It's about possibilities..Being right is only one possibility
    Again it's all nonsense to you..
    You are incapable of seeing what isn't there.?
I have no idea what the comma followed by a question mark is meant to indicate........Your deceptive, ambiguous,self-centered double-speak is just irritating......