Wierd lunch time conversations

Him : If you were to preach about something, what would you preach about?
Him : I would preach

• a Thoreau style civil disobediance on a personal level, and
• a find out for yourself attitude, Buddha style...
  

Small things - Ubuntu

I like to do small things....inconspicuosly. All those small inconspicuous things add up to make me. Ubuntu is the latest.

What is Ubuntu? From the wiki

"Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa."

“Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity."

~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Now for a couple of pictures of Ubuntu in my daily life...



mmm maybe morality and the philosophy of choice as applied to technology in the next post... Take a tour of the Cathedral and the bazaar...

Banksy Vs Bristol Museum

Many of you who might know of my fetish for camo gear and reggae music might not know of my urban art fetish! So now you know...

Had to share the latest Banksy offering Banksy Vs. Bristol, or just the visuals if you choose.

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And Jack Sparrow said to the marooned man -

"Sir you speak as if you are an island
You are a floating body, weighed down.
Lift anchors and sail ahoy...."

- Self attributed quote to Jack Sparrow

subVerser

"Once you let go of the need to express your thoughts to anyone, you suddenly feel much lighter.You just float along blissfully, finally liberated from the burden of having any presence at all. It's sort of like getting to return to the womb"
Unattributed quote

Mainstream superheros, usually have their mild mannered alter egos, who manage to blend into their societies, and they somehow manage to keep these two identities separate. It is however their moral code of right and wrong, that forces them to use their super powers from behind their masks. In their mild mannered selves, they can be called subversive and anti social, as they hide their real selves from the society at large…

I now introduce to you to the subVerser… A subVerser has several characteristics of a superhero, but is not one. A subVerser also resembles a saboteur, but is not one. A subVerser wears a mask, albeit not a literal one, but one that effectively masks. A subVerser goes against the grain of the social fabric, but does not have a complete moral stance.

Trod On...

I went back to be at the beginning of this blog. In hindsight I still relate to the idealism of that post. Now that the period of wandering has come to an end, where has all this led to?

• Summaries are conclusions, but the wandering is eternal.
• There is no knowledge in the wandering.
  
• It is myopic to have a destination.
• Statistics are but the crutch of the undiscerning.

So there shall be none of that jazz on here.

The journey continues and the traveller wears different clothes now, and has himself cast deep into murky waters of this Babylonian shitstem. But with the minds eye firmly set on a bigger phenomenon that cannot be subjected to adjectives, the traveller is strangely impervious to all attempts at urban absorption.

Trodding on...

Reinvention

I was commenting about everyone being a self immolating phoenix on a friend's blog. I remind myself that this blog is about

"A lifestyle experiment ¤ an inquiry into values ¤ a surrender ¤ a moral acid test ¤ an old fashioned adventure, and all this, while trodding through this Babylon shitstem"