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There is voluminous bellecositization of the environment ahead due to self blogulating guitar players who apparently launched one of their sorties over the landscape and engaged in vile interaction without the supervision of a rhythm section. Only professional, guitar-player-anchoring crews should venture beyond this point. While I have tried in some of the more disassociated self-promulgatory love- me- for- my- twang  fests, to provide a calming sea of words that might serve as a buffer between their mutually trashy tongues  I admit  that had a few slipped under the surface of my calming seas, the world would probably be a bit lighter and crispier.

Drummers,

The behaviors of these creatures can be puzzling. Understand that if your life view was rewritten into standard musical notation, it would appear as a great symphony; and theirs, a poorly executed 2 beat run of 16th and 32nd notes. These interchanges were picked up on the usual channels and are provided to familiarize you with your future mission. Also, these particular players have signed on for the initial invasion only, thereafter serving us best as casualties we do not report to the public. While there are 3 standard issue, dime a dozen, guitar players, one of those will actually get down on the Rhodes (OK (Yamaha digital grand) and one is bangin some film chick in Hollywood.

 
 
 
 
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     THE BLOGGERS       in order of appearance
disclosures
(what it is only fair to tell you)
MIGUELITO
a REAL musician and part time state bar-fly Miguelito's clever wit and eloquence all too often leaves his opponent far behind, mouth agape
lawyer
SEAN
best know as lead guitarist extraordinaire of streetdog fame SEAN will pummel non-believers until they beg for mercy
catholic
KEISLAR
if streetdogs are lost souls,  Bob is their Shepard. His reconciliatory magic can end brutal meat scrap squabbles and his analytical powers can slice and dice any average blogger's offering
atmospheric physicist
ZIPHLER
tall, gritty, mysterious, a powerful presence, usually given a wide berth by those all too familiar with his erratic and often dangerous behaviors, nonetheless he is loved by all
incredibly handsome
CURRENT TOPIC
Do YOU believe in PEEWEE?
this is day 28 of the blog so this blog is over
We therefore no longer ask that you remain quiet after entering the match.
Loud expressions of approval for ZIPHLER of course excepted
 
 
Set up: begins as most, with Miguelito in disarming innocence, reporting on a small discovery at the student center of the University where all 4  bloggers conducted their lives in the seventies while technically enrolled as undergraduates. In fact, all four may actually hold degrees from UCSB but have never been vetted

 
MIGUELITO
 
Hey, speaking of hilarious, check out this photo.   It's hanging on a wall of historic photos inside the [University of California at Santa Barbara'  University Center]  It's identified as the picture of a band playing in back of the UCEN in the late sixties, I believe 1969.
 
 
MIGUELITO
 
Now, check out the Guild Starfire the dude on the far left is   playing.
 
 
Here's the fun part.  He looks like the dude I vaguely remember buying my first good guitar from--a Guild Starfire--in the very early 70's.  Mine was dark red, like the one in the picture probably   is.
 
Now put the following facts together:
(1) Guild Starfires were fairly rare;
 
(2) The guitar in the picture looks exactly like the one I bought, right down to the oval tailpiece that replaced the Bigsby that originally came on it;
 
(3) The dude looks like the guy I bought my guitar from, and is   about the right age.  I think he was graduating and therefore was selling his guitar at the time.
 
Could it be???   Is that possibly MY GUITAR in the  photo???  My long-lost,  beloved original STARFIRE???
 
I think so.
 

SEAN
 
 Mike, I think there is good circumstantial evidence for that being you in the picture. Should have never let go of that guitar, man.
 
 

SEAN
day 2   2006 12:46
 
Guys, Dan has a new email. I'm in Santa Barbara-going to meet with Klaus and maybe Floyd tonight. Floyd wants to do a reunion jam next year down here. Its beautiful here!

MIGUELITO
day 4, 2006 10:03 AM
 
 Bob,
 
 Thank you for your highly cogent analysis.  As always, you raise some  fascinating points.
 
 However, faith has nothing to do with it.  You see, I know that when I used  to gaze into the wood grain pattern of my original Guild Starfire, the image  of a weeping Pee Wee Herman leaped out at me.  I didn't know who it was at  the time because Pee Wee had not yet materialized into our Earthly  consciousness.  But in retrospect, I'm quite certain that's who it was.  And, I'm also quite certain that this mystical apparition from beyond had nothing whatsoever to do with any substances I might have ingested at the  time. If you're looking for proof, you need look no further than the photo I sent  you.  I can clearly see Pee Wee's weeping visage leaping from the wood grain  on the guitar in the photo.  My guitar.  I KNOW this. 
 
                                     
  
Starfirism="ana"gram
 
    
 
 
of
   
Rastafarianism 
 
- "ana"
 
 
 
 
 
To answer your question, Starfirism is a variation on Rastafarianism, which  is an "ana"gram of "Starfirism" with the letters "ana" removed so people  won't notice.  We worship Pee Wee in all his manifestations. 
Pee Wee is an  anagram of "weepee"and
Pee Wee weeps for you
 
 
 
Pee Wee, and his only  adopted son, Swee'pea, personify our humanity.  Who among us has not been  caught masturbating in a movie theater?  Well, I haven't, but for the grace  of God, and my choice of films (the Sound of Music).  But I have Pee Wee's  example of suffering to turn to in case I ever am. Take another look at that photo of my guitar.  Are you a believer?  Won't  you join us?  There's plenty of room for Bobists in Starfirism.  We can  assimilate your beliefs and scientific mythologies quite readily. No--  Bobism is NOT dead.  It is just evolving
 Yours in Pee Wee,
                                                                Mike

KEISLAR
day4 2006  2:26:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Starfirism!
I am saved! Blessed be Earl Of Acres Mike The Doughton.
But no one is at home to read this. We're all in Santa Barbara this weekend.
See ya,
 Bob K.

MIGUELITO
day 5,  2006 9:40 PM
Re: Mystery of Mike's Guild Starfire---Solved!
 
All:
As promised by the prophet Miguelito, attached is photographic proof of Starfirism as articulated in the ancient email scrolls of the First Earl of Acres. Although in Zen there are no attachments, in Starfirism, each email is allowed one attachment. 
 
Behold!
                                                                                                                 - -Mike

 
KEISLAR
day 5, 2006 22:33
 RE: Mystery of Mike's Guild Starfire---Solved!
 
All hail Miguelito!
 
Oh Mighty Prophet of Starfirism! The Sacred Photo has been revealed. Starfire reveals that PeeWee Herman is God and Miguelito is His Prophet.
 
And it was written . . .
 
Cardinal Keislar (The Self-Declared)
 

ZIPHLER
day 6, 2006 03:54
RE: Mystery of Mike's Guild Starfire---Solved!
 
Finally, the day I start a fucking job, there is activity on the
cosmic-earl-dog-yay-who
I am still perseverating on enticing Miguelito to don an ivory cape and chuck that starry-eyed guild.  Was he even in receipt of my prior invite, nay, directive to lend his talented digits in the activation of that fine traditional instrument  in it's contextual honky service to the band?
 
 (the needs of the band outweigh the needs of the one)
 
If so, was he insulted by the very idea of lowering himself to keyboard player status? Nah. I believe the man may well have less shame than even I. Desecrating the sound of music! My DOG! I am almost shocked, or at least stimulated.
 
But enough of that for it strikes me that you, Miguelito, may have keen interest in laying your hands on a vintage (1970's) 3 foot PEE WEE HERMAN Doll in its original cellophane and cardboard container - unopened - as if right off the toys-r-us shelves from a more innocent day before all that dirty biologic reality imposed it's starkness upon us. AND, it just so happens, that I, the center of the universe, have the timely opportunity to lay my hands (washed of course) on not one, but yes, TWO!! of these coveted items. Now these aint no Saturday nite poker with the boys  kind of prices of course but seeing as you are in the government contract business, I'm sure you can find the extra fuel needed to close the deal
 
But more important than even all that - what'll you guys see and hear my new bass!
 
Lovingly yours, ziphlerdog

 
MIGUELITO
day 6 2006 22:10
 
I'm not sure, but I think Ziegler has invited me to play keyboards at some unknown place/time in a band that may or may not exist and that may or may have include one or more Pee Wee Herman dolls.  If so, i wish he'd just say so in plain English! 
 
I'm certainly game, assuming it's on a date I can make it.  Perhaps a free Pee Wee Herman doll would cinch the deal, though my performances are worth so much more than that. . . . the doll would be used only as a religious icon, of course. 
 
On a related subject, all hail Cardinal Keislar the First, for his deep, profound and abiding faith in Starfirism!!  He is my first and most coveted disciple/devotee/convert.  I hereby appoint him the Science Minister for the Institute of Forensic Proof of Starfirism.  All bow down before him!   
 
Yours in Pee Wee,
Miguelito
 

ZIPHLER
"MIGUELITO"
"I think Ziegler has invited me to play keyboards at some unknown place/time in a band that may or may not exist"
Precisely!
"MIGUELITO"
"i wish he'd just say so in plain English!"
I couldn’t face another rejection like the one I experienced with my first foray across the great communication divide just 5 weeks ago (recreated below)
 
P.S. the fraud and forgery division has analyzed the submitted evidence for the create a new religion and erase 8 more independent thinking minds every hour drive and has determined that the weeping PEE WEE photo was definitely doctored. I mean, come on! Those shoes! They are a fashion impossibility. 
 
P.S. don't worry guys. I won't be working too hard. I wanna see this picture you all keep a yappin about though!
"MIGUELITO"
Oy, another "doctor" purporting to "debunk" another religious myth/hoax.  Sheesh, when are these science nerds going to let up?  Even Cardinal Keislar has come around to see the truth.  If he can do it, you can do it.  Come on, who are you going to believe, a pawn of the medico-pharmaceutical cartel, or your OWN EYES?   It's PEE WEE! As far as the July 4th "band" invitation, wouldn't you know the good doctor would send it while I was away on my annual 2 week vacation to Santa Barbara?  It's the standard excuse ("I was in Santa Barbara!"), but it happens to be true! 
 
Miguelito
 

SEAN
day 7, 2006 7:09 AM
RE: Mystery of Mike's Guild Starfire---Solved!
 
It is quite an intricate pattern in which the essentials details must be apprehended (sortof like a Dead poster?). Very different from a Cardinal construction and exposition. Of one thing in Dan's missive we can be sure-he started his fucking job that day.
 
I hope it was a good day!
 
Sean

KEISLAR
day   7, 2006 07:19
 
Every day is a good day, Danny! Every fucking beautiful day! And night time's even better! That's the number 2 & 3 tenets of Starfirism.
 
Cardinal Keislar

MIGUELITO
YOU GO, CARDINAL K!!!  YOU ROCK!!!
 
Miguelito
p.s.  I realize I'm the Prophet of Pee Wee, god of Starfirism, but remind me again, what was tenet #1?
 
 

SEAN
day 7, 2006 09:43
My Guitars should anybody care:
 
1. 2004 Martin D-16RE Premium, Sitka spruce top, rosewood back and sides, striped ebony fret board, Spanish cedar neck, fish man sound system with mic and pickup.
 
2. 2003 American Telecaster, maple neck and fret board and ash body,  single coil fender pickups
 
3. 2005 Gibson ES-137 Classic, maple neck, rosewood fret board, Grover tuners, 496 and 498T hum buckers
 
I would say in all modestly that these are three beautiful fucking guitars, no shit! With these three guitars I can get any sound worth getting and do virtually anything. (Now if only I could play.) Now I'm told I need a fender for the fender and a Marshall, boogie, or AC-30 for the Gibson. I will experiment.
 
Sean 
 
 
I was merely trying to show you that Starfirism is a materialistic sham. I worship the
                                                           trigoddess
Martin-Gibson-Fender
 
The three form a power triangle, from which the light of higher consciousness emanates. Starfireists were heretics who drank too much jolt cola during the period of computer-musicality, when computers took over creating music from the musicians. Fender, Gibson and Martin created the musical instruments and wrote the computer code that eventually terminated the evil Starfireism control over musicality.  Yes, I'm afraid the Cardinal has misled you. Let his doctrine be anathema!
 
Sean
 
Servant of the trigoddess

MIGUELITO
 
OK now, Sean's email strikes me as just a little too precious. I'm sure that somewhere in there, there's a connection to what we were talking about, but I'm having trouble finding it. Maybe it has to do with Tenet #1 of Starfirism: thou shalt worship and shamelessly brag about thy guitars.  Now those are admittedly some righteous axes, dudes.  And Sean is just the man to grab them by the neck and wring out every last sweet screaming tone out of them.  I wasn't aware of the ES 137, that must be new.  Excellent.
                                                                                                                                                            ZIPHLER wishes to point out that two outs don't make an in
 
 
Now, I get to brag pursuant to Tenet #1.  My guitars:
 
1.  Guild Starfire III, from original Guild factory in Westerly, Rhode Island.
2.  1969 Gibson Les Paul Custom, 1954 reissue, Ebony neck, with P-90 single coil pickup at the bridge and Alnico V single coil at the neck.
3.  Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, with mini humbuckers.
4.  Fender American Strat, two texas special single coils and a hot rodded seymour duncan humbucker at the bridge.
5.  Guild DCE5 dreadnought acoustic/electric, Ebony neck.
6.  Martin Alternative X Grand Concert aluminum top acoustic/electric.
7.  Martin Cowboy II acoustic.
8.  Martin Backpacker acoustic.
9.  Ibanez 4 string bass (this counts--basses ROCK, right Dr. Z?).
 
Amps: 
 
1.  Mesa Boogie DC-5
2.  Fender "Super" Deluxe
3.  Vox DA5 practice amp  (brand new--I LOVE this thing!!!)
4.  Genz Benz Shenendoah 100 acoustic guitar amp with extension cabinet
 
That's all for now--I'll keep my keyboard and bass equipment/amps etc confidential! Sean, I believe my first amp (that I played my first Starfire through) was a Vox AC15.  You should come over and try out some amps. Enough Starifirstic chit chat.  I LOVE guitars.  Sean, bring yours, I want to see them.  I loved your Tele.
 
In the name of Pee Wee
Mike
 
 
 

KEISLAR
(Cardinal Keislar, as the reigning religo-political leader of Starfirism, second only in spirituality to the great founder of Starfirism, Miguelito, had to issue a strong response to this blasphemy by the heretic Sean Kennedy! Or wait . . . just ignore the babbling delusions of this madman and maybe no one else would take him seriously . . . Or better yet, kill him with kindness! Yes! A stroke of genius, Dear Cardinal, if I do say so myself!)
 
(Cardinal Keislar composes himself for the important announcement . . . )
 
Greetings all! Surely Mr. Kennedy doesn't see us as all that evil. Perhaps we can invite Mr. Kennedy to a card party at the Cache River Circle temple and extend our every hospitality (while we quietly take his money! Ha ha!). The wide world of religo-musicality surely can accept one so learned in the ways of the trigoddess Martin-Fender-Gibson as Mr. Kennedy. Surely he could come see to see that we Starfarians are pious, musically reverent folk. Then we could discuss our gloriously intersecting spiritual paths. Come then, come Mr. Kennedy.
 
Yours Truly,
 
Cardinal Keislar
 

 
MIGUELITO
Day 8 , 2006 22:13
 
The Prophet is impressed. 
 
How fortunate I am to have the benefit of not one but two such insightful and deeply wise beings as spiritual advisors so close at hand.  On the one hand, Swami Sean correctly points out that no one brand of guitar can possibly encompass the infinite gloriousness of Guitar, capital "G" (rejection of mono-Guitarism).  The all-seeing Swami eloquently extols the indisputable virtues of the holy trinity Martin-Gibson-Fender. On the other hand, Cardinal Keislar brilliantly points out the futility and absurdity of all internecine Guitar wars, and correctly divines that Starfarians embrace all true Guitars, not just Starfires.  As suggested by the omniscient Cardinal, there is always room in the Starfarianstent for all faiths that embrace any form of Guitar.  
 
Cardinal Keislar and Swami Sean are hereby both duly anointed and appointed to the holy Starfire Guild, where they shall serve as trusted advisors to the Prophet Miguelito. Sean, by virtue of his great heart, Keislar by virtue of his impressive brain.  Should the good Dr. Zeigler ever convert from the dark side of medical science to the light of Starfirism, he, too, shall be appointed to the Guild, by virtue of his deep courage. The Prophet applauds the suggestion of Poker as the one true religious ritual for purging all impure non-Guitar thoughts from our souls.  Let the planning begin!  The Temple of Miguelito would be humbled to serve as the divine location.  Re-runs of Pee Wee's Playhouse will be prominently featured.
 
Finally, the Prophet Miguelito acknowledges that there are forms of holy music even beyond Guitars;  as such, he would be deeply honored to add the black and white yin/yang of his piano keyboard to the mix at the upcoming musical brew-ha-ha at Zeigler's in SF, schedule permitting. 
 
In the name of the Fender, the Sunn and the holy Guild, amen.  Miguelito  Prophet of Starfirism
 
 
-
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Any resemblance to PEEWEE behind bars is purely intentional. Is he suffering for your sins or right where he belongs? YOU decide? I don't think so. That's where America's true greatness once rested, not in the will of the majority but in its protection of minorities.
 
 

ZIPHLER
 
Have you ever heard the expression "He's unteachable?" Of course you have. Isn't it amazing how the most fundamental, substantial, and innocent appearing building block implants the presumption of its veracity with its own self declaration.
 
"Here I am!" it cries out, and before it even completes the sentence we have applied the resultant presumption "it's not anywhere else" in a thousand different ways. We can't even take credit for making the assumption. It has simply been dropped into our data base, pre-fabricated, without so much as a spurious "did I just hear something?" gurgling into our uncollective unconsciousness.
 
"Oh, sure, sure" you say; thinking you have got a handle on this semantic conundrum because you did factor in the assumption and the presumption. Oh, and you know Mike, I REALLY do have a pre-wee-wee PEE WEE doll to sell you. Actually it's Richie who picked up two and stored them away so long ago - I remember vividly how little I thought I should have cared the day he bought them and told me they'd be worth something someday. Yet I knew these pieces of inventory were not  finished with their abduction and occupation of some hopefully small nook in my mind.
 
Nay, I do not digress. The wool has been pulled over your peepers. If not by the mechanism in paragraph 2, then by your compensation for it. You figure: it said something, it must be there - or at least somewhere. But in this case, our little "it" didn't cry out "Here I am!" IT was "quoted" as having uttered itself into existence. It really DOES depend on what "it" is. A statement so profound, that I gain new strength, and enlightenment, from it every day.
 
The problem my boys, is not that you may be unteachable, but that the three of you are starting to appear like you may be teachable! One only need look over the fence anymore to see another cowardly spoon-feedable American who is sedated, overfed, and ridden with guilt. He knows that like Mr. PEE WEE Herman in the peeps, or Miguelito swaying to the rousing brass flourishes of "the hills are alive" while hunkered down in the balcony at the FOX Theater’s 30 cent matinee, something excites him that shouldn't. Now I doubt PEE WEE felt any guilt while he was whacking it with the pack. I suspect that, like Jesus, he would feel consternation at the religious accoutrements and ranked hierarchies from prophets to fuckable choirboys that gather round to be "taught".
Sooner or later you will have to ask yourselves why I am at the center of the Universe. I doubt you have ever asked this question. Miguelito, a scientist would certainly tell you that such a place is indefinable at least until we are able to define the limits of the universe. Yet, I know exactly where it is, not because I am there but it certainly helps that it is here. Oh, and I'm afraid I'd have to agree with Sean about that whore the cardinal who you so freely anoint and appoint as he prances thru his "gloriously intersecting spiritual paths". What kind of religious icon cavorts with fundamentalists of different fundamentals. No, he straps a bomb to the belly of his neighbor's kid and tells him to go meet God.
 
The evidence is clear Miguelito. It is the Keislarian who truly schemes with his mathematical equations. And how easily he can deceive the great prophet because, as a scientist he at least has the tools to objectify the battlefield and thereby sees light where the religious fanatic has pinned his darkest fears. Science is simply a language but there are those like the clearly obsessed Keislarian who can make the mistake of elevating science to a whorshippable, TEACHABLE level.
 
So what's it gonna be Miguelito? Hand it to Sean, whose had always laid his cards on the table, at least since that fateful day in Isla Vista when he determined and announced that he was going to allow the teachings of Christ and the Bible to wash him clean. What about Keislar? While it is a bit uncharacteristic for him to waive incense cans around after smearing himself in anointments of deceit and calling himself Daddy, it is not beyond a scientist to exploit any nuance in the travels of universal particles if it may shed  light from a slightly different angle on something he's trying to see. And you know, this guy has always put his cards on the table too. Since those heady days in Isla Vista Bob Keislar has called himself a "teacher"
 
So what about Miguelito? With the subtly of a politician running for president he cautiously but steadfastly tests the water as he approaches the center. All he need do is appear to have God’s ear and then WALLA! He can declare himself PROPHET, GOD's mouthpiece. Oh my God. A fucking lawyer!!
 
By the way mike. What news on the chest? Is it gonna blow? With the luck one can only attain at the center of the universe - i drew the king of hearts - get out of jail fucking free card. However a little further down where the suns don’t shine there may yet lurk a threat to the palace.
 

SEAN
Ahh yes, The Z is up early and off to his job! I hope he cures a few people! I'm not sure why, but that bit of articulation was very stimulating! I might even have to analyze it and break it down (because I do my homework and never read quickly else a mistake could occur). Dan, I would have to say you are a bit of an existentialist in your life-philosophy. Its phases such as these: "Yet, I know exactly where it is, not because I am there but it certainly helps that it is here..." That statement make me think, or should I say, squint and look away for an instantaneous glance of what I thought I saw. The conception of God is a human construction. But you guys know that, correct? Everytime we utter the word God or any word it instantaneously removes us light-years (as if we fell into a worm hole) away from the reality we try to express. And here's another observation: How earily familiar it was to hear Dan say that the essential point is what "it" is because it reminded me of the true prophets who said God said "I am". In this context the connection of "being" is what "it" is all about. So we find out that the "is" is paramount and should be included in "it" is. Again, the existentialist formulation.
 
And if you like the writer Dan, have you ever read Martin Buber? Try him sometime.

 
ZIPHLER
 
I had already washed my hands of all of this as Sean so astutely surmised due to an early launch window for the planet Oakland only to have the countdown aborted and a hurry up and wait, we're going to San Jose directive. I honestly do not know how or why this job thing is such the golden tittie to you guys (can you believe Microsoft wants to change the word guys to people even though the same sentence contains the word tittie).
 
As far as this existentialism thing goes; I have been called that before. I have always assumed that it was an explicative deleted kind of thing until Miguelito came up with that word that again escapes me that refers to one who is loud, verbose, and overbearing or maybe overly self-interested or something that anyway seemed accurate. I now count on the earl to explain big words to me although he probably does not know that. Existentialism is a word used in those core courses at UCSB that I never took. I thought you got to stay there forever if you didn't complete the core curriculum but one day a man in the psychology building called me in and as I sat and watched he just used his pen and created an entire smorgasbord of chick flick type mush topics, a veritable humanities orgy and feast of touchy-feely things I had supposedly experienced or accomplished while at UCSB. He might have even used my participation in the streetdogs a questionable abuse of their intensely honed and vetted ethical standards for some sort of sordidness. Then, with the second flourish I've used in a sentence today, and with a disgusted look on his face that I can only describe as accusing, while staring right at me I might add (you know, like you malingering little smart-ass FUCK!), he transformed me. I became not just the most well rounded prototype of the new 1980's UCSB graduate, but a perfectly rounded dough dough boy, freshly fluffed by the system. Yeah, OK, existentialism is a subcategory of philosophy, which is a word that defies even my well-balanced turbocharged hemispheres. It breaks down as study of love, no, that would be philology. I seem to remember someone once saying it meant love of man. Huh? [and how did a subject like philosophy ever take ownership of a subfield called logic?] What could existentialism mean other than the promotion or advocacy of existence? OMG! I am sorry to sound like a valley girl but gag me with a backhoe. If this is what it is then; time out, I take umbrage, I want a hearing. Hey, in fact I want a lawyer. Moreover, I do not want to hear any of this nonsense about how you have to be damaged to collect damages. [Are you sorry yet that you encouraged me (if even just slightly), SEAN?]. The word could only mean; everything is everything except that nothing is nothing. Yeah, and feeling good was easy lord, when Bobby sang the blues. At this point I am compelled to issue a warning to all within e-mail shot:
 
 
Everything is everything except that nothing is nothing ≠ it depends on what is is.
 
The symbol in the middle is a not equal sign. [I have always had trouble figuring which of you still converts everything to the grossly limited text format. Come on you pansies! We have finally laid the feminists to rest “no Virginia pussies are not dicks”] But guess what Microsoft want to do? It wants to change the 2nd nothing to the left of the not equal sign to “anything”.  WOW!  .  .  Shut me up. That is heavy. I think I just witnessed a dual-core Pentium 4 think. Nah! On that note, without ever having gotten to my point I am off to SJ (lucky you).  Miguelito, send over the necessary retainer papers and detailed word definitions.
 

MIGUELITO
 
Miguelito exclaims
 
HEY!  What a coincidence!  I'm at the center of the universe too!!  Hey neighbor!
 
Mike

ZIPHLER
Praise the Lord and Pass the mustard He has (not seen the light) attained enlightenment or he's trying to kiss my ass to get a pee wee Herman doll - or maybe he's just being a good lawyer like I asked. But no, his attitude is too independent and he's calling me neighbor. Maybe if I act like I don't see him he'll go away.  .  .  .  . But there is something familiar and appealing about his perspective 
 
Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything,
 
I believe it is all three of you who convert everything to this anachronistic text format. This stunningly dates you as doddering and just so you aged ones know, almost impossible to communicate with  . 
 
 
anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything,
 
 
Hey does anybody know any good guitar player jokes.  Like what's the difference between a Minnesota bobtailed catfish and a guitar player  -  one is a scum-sucking bottom feeder and the other is a fish!  HA  HA  ah  HA  OH that is rich   . ,.  . .
 
anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, Everything is everything except that nothing is anything,
 
ziphler

SEAN
Day 11 2006 14:05
RE: Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
Nah..he's just saving up and gonna lay one good whooppaas lawyer brief on ya.....and we're not talkin fruit of the loom.
 
Mike's a cagey one.
 
That guitarist joke sucks!
Kennedy intercepts, pivots and tosses across court. It looks like an intentional pass off to MIGUELITO.  He had a good pickoff of the rebound to ZIPHLER's weak joke shot, why MIQUELITO?

MIGUELITO
day 11 2006 23:02
RE: Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
Twice.
 
Mike
IT'S A SCORE 3 POINTS FROM HALF COURT BY MIGUELITO!! WELL THERE's YOUR ANSWER PEDRO. THIS IS WHY MIGUELITO IS IN THIS BUSINESS. A SINGLE WORD FROM A HARMLESS MID-COURT HANDOFF EQUALS POINTS IN THE HANDS OF THIS TRUE PROFESSIONAL. NEVER HAS THE SPORT OF BLOGGING PRODUCED SUCH A CONSISTENT PLAYER AS MIGUELITO.
 
ZIPHLER IS DOWN AND IN TROUBLE NOW AS THE VULTURES GATHER ROUND TO KICK THE DOWNED MAN.
 
That's right Akbar. Sean is already moving in for the first lick. Clearly he knew Miguelito was in perfect position to score given Ziphler's lead-off and Sean needs to etch some holes in Ziphler's armor if he is to stand a chance against Ziphler's renowned skills of religious disembowelment.

SEAN
Day 11 2006 10:29
Subject: RE: Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
Oh, by the way Dan, you are not the center of the universe. You are a creature who was created by God, patterned after God, but a contingent being nonetheless and you're every breath is dependent on God's life.
 
Make good use of the gift.
 
Sean
 
OH MY GOD PEDRO. SEAN HAS KICKED THE DOG WHEN ITS DOWN AND MAY HAVE SCORED HIMSELF BUT LOOK OUT. MIGUELITO IS COMING UP FAST , HAS UP RIGHTED ZIPHLER AND SNARED SEAN IN A CLASSIC COUP CONTRA COUP COUP

MIGUELITO
day 11  2006 23:40
RE: Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
And just to reassure you, as an attorney I know that God is insured by Allstate life & casualty (not term insurance) for a very substantial sum of money, with a hefty Erros & Omissions rider.  So, you can relax and breathe easy--She's in good hands!
 
Mike
 
p.s. but don't forget the gift tax!
 
SCORE! AGAIN! SCORE MIGUELITO  WHO AFTER A COMPLETE BORE OF A 1st QUARTER CONTINUING INTO THE SECOND QUARTER HAS COME ALIVE AND DRILLED A HOLE, NOT IN ZIPHLER's EXPOSED BELLY BUT RIGHT THRU THE HEART AND GENDER OF SEAN'S DEITY.  WITH JUST 3 DAYS LEFT IN THE HALF, WE SUDDENLY HAVE A MATCH.
 
Unbelievable Akbar! but this is what Miguelito is best known for. Patience and consistency. He takes advantage of any opportunity  So now Miguelito moves ahead of the pack with two clean scores  giving Miguelito 6 points to the others' zip zip zip.

ZIPHLER
Day 12  2006 00:21
Subject: CARDINAL KEISLARS SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION
 
Everyone knows that when overwhelmed with awkward loss of peer ranking, to feel cool again, one need only seek out Ziegler and let fly a joke. No matter how bad their aim, it will sail right over the center of Zieg's head and they will no longer feel like the most clueless in the universe (who has the heart to tell them the truth?). Before I knew this, I knew I had a problem REMEMBERING jokes (with the exception of one I learned in the 4th grade from which I will spare you). Unfortunately, sometimes they would rattle around in my head long enough that I could pathetically relay them that same day if I really paid attention and misguidedly seized the opportunity.
 
On Saturday, a "joke" I heard, in a stifling job environment, uttered by a complete moron, doing free labor as an extern for a company in the business of optimizing employee exploitation, was still bouncing off the pinball bumpers in my brain when I read the brief communiqué from Miguelito. I was elated that someone might have fleetingly glimpsed the powerful truth of which I pontificate tirelessly and I pulled a Mel Gibson. The moron told it as a surgeon joke but I believe there are more iterations as a lawyer joke favored by surgeons (who imbibe in lawyer jokes more often than most doctors do). Of course, Mel Gibson probably harbors a classic inter-religious resentment, not unlike the one Cardinal Keislar attempted, rather disingenuously, to conceal. I have no such discriminatory prejudice and instead the resentment I embrace is holo-religious. I definitely bear no ill will for guitar players who deserve our compassion for they have no insight into their perceptual limitations.
 
Having almost apologized for my bad joke, I must say, I am quite baffled. How could Mr. Kennedy one moment seem the very essence of open-minded self-generated enquiry into the nature of everything and in the next, tremble with confusion as he faces his mortality? Sean, I can only know what I can know, which can be quite a bit, as it turns out, if I am steadfast in accepting my own awareness and never relying on hearsay. Clearly, I am part of a biological succession and am thus alive. Since life defines death and vice versa, I will die, and there is nothing this human construct you call GOD can do about it. I therefore fail to see how my breathing is dependent upon GOD, much less, IT's life. However, I am not insensitive. Given this new disclosure that GOD has a life, you have my condolences regarding his inevitable death.
 
Cardinal Keislar, take off your high priest drag queen outfit for a minute. I have a very serious question for Dr. Keislar. Ready? OK. Here it is:
 
Regarding this vulgar public stripping of Pluto's planetary status
 
1) I understand that out of the 1800 or so eligible voters, 350 astronomers actually voted. Now I know your bailiwick is one atmospheric layer below actual outer space and thus correct that you had no vote. Right?
 
2) The criteria developed to be a planet were (and my sources for this and the info in # 1 are neither necessarily accurate nor comprehensive):
 
   a) Couldn't be a satellite
   b) Have sufficient mass to collapse into a globe
   c) Be in a stable orbit about a SUN
 
I would assume that any controversy would revolve around b. How much variation from a perfect circle is acceptable and how the compositional breakdown of the total mass is factored in since denser materials (granite) would presumably resist re-molding more than their lighter brethren (water, gases).
 
PLEASE ILLUMINATE.
 
Yours, most centrally located,
 
Ziphler

ZIPHLER
Day 12 2006 00:25
RE: Everything is everything except that nothing is anything, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
Why can you always make a point in one sentence that takes me 3 paragraphs?
 
That's a long story.
 
--M

SEAN
Day 12  2006 07:22
Re: CARDINAL KEISLAR'S SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION
 
In what universe? Oh yes, why....in Dan's universe, of course! I may be transparent and a God lover but I know what's going on.
 
You can't see the truth because it is too close...You did not create yourself, did you? Oh yes, the universe and particularly life, is highly ordered and complex to the point of being miraculous, yet you prefer to hypothesize that these happened by RANDOM CHANCE, as if such a highly structured pattern does not come from source! Randomness begets incredible highly intelligent complexity!? No-something CAUSED IT! If you say its quantum mechanics, I would say God devised it. If you say its evolution, I will say evolution is part of God.
 
How can you only rely on your senses or that scientifically proven-no wisdom ever came from there-only our frail and inadequate, limited knowledge-which never did us any good!. Aren't you the one says one should live/act according to their heart's dictates, like Jesus?
 
I'm afraid you're starting to sound like the Cardinal.
 
But, lest I get an eight to ten pager back from the Cardinal, let me say this: I do think the atheistic position is an intellectually consistant and valid viewpoint. 

MIGUELITO
Day 12 2006 08:17
Re: CARDINAL KEISLAR'S SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION
 
Miguelito's prayer:
 
Please God, don't make me endure yet another series of interminable email lectures/sermons/rants between Los Perros del Calle.  Don't make me read yet another series of predictable, intractable self-contained monologues from entrenched positions, delivered over the head by gaping mouths with closed minds and ears, intended to demonstrate once-and-for-all the intellectual/moral/religious/atheistic/scientific/spiritual superiority of the speaker.  Oh please oh please oh please.  If you grant this one small (huge) wish, I promise to believe in you!  Amen.
 
Love,
Miguelito  
p.s.  now that we got that nonsense out of the way, we should all start planning our UCSB reunion next summer!!!
 
Mike

SEAN
Day 12  2006 09:18
Re: CARDINAL KEISLARS SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION
 
 
BRING IT ON BABY! I'LL WIPE THE DECKS WITH YOUSE GUYS!
I'LL MORTIFY YA! I'LL EVEN RESORT TO TELLING BAD JOKES!
 
MICHAEL DOUGHTON, THIS IS GOD TALKING-YOU MUST LISTEN TO THESE RANTS TO ATONE FOR YOUR SINS! ONLY THEN WILL YOU ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT.
 
OK, got a little carried away.
 
Hey, my band is playing at the Miramar Beach Inn at Half Moon Bay this Friday for a wedding reception.
We're having a lot of fun playing lately.

ZIPHLER
Day 12 , 2006 12:58
Subject: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
Re: In what universe? Oh yes, why....in Dan's universe, of course!
 
I do not recall claiming ownership of the universe; I am simply describing my location within it. Universe, in this context, refers to an all-encompassing infinite space, infinite time, zero mass, consciously inconceptual Tupper-ware bowl. This amazing item (cat #000Z000) will contain this present universe wherein streetdogs reside from big bang to final collapse or dispersion (whichever it is the scientists are telling us this year) and all the other like universes that constantly implode and explode into and out of each other as single photon components.  
 
RE: Randomness begets incredible highly intelligent complexity!?
 
The steady state theory of biochemistry (which I believe has a proof) says: take a whole shit load of energy or mass (remember they are interchangeable), place it in an infinitesimally tiny space (0cm long, 0cm wide, 0cm high), give it a second (i.e. 186,000miles per) and behold. In its unimaginably violent, entropy-seeking spasm, highly ordered states of existence will occur with predictable regularity.
 
RE: How can you only rely on your senses or that scientifically proven-no wisdom ever came from there-only our frail and inadequate, limited knowledge-which never did us any good!.
 
It is the teachable vs. unteachable again. All the misery of humans not directly ascribable to Mother Nature derives from accepting, in faith, the viewpoints of others rather than viewing from one's own perspective.
 
Re: Aren't you the one says one should live/act according to their heart's dictates, like Jesus?
 
Precisely and guys like him show us the critical distinction between viewpoint and empathy.
 
RE: I do think the atheistic position is an intellectually consistant and valid viewpoint.
 
Don't be calling me no atheist, or agnostic. They, like all other faith-based trash, are simple-minded and dangerous. There is nothing valid or consistent in such walking talking contradictions.
 
Re: I may be transparent and a God lover but I know what's going on.
 
That reminds me of a tweaker joke I once heard that goes  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  . Alas! I hear the prayer of one who is suffering. In fact, it appears you have already made a stab at intervention. Observe, my son as I bring light to darkness and always remember we all need empathy not sympathy (except perhaps guitar players).
 
-    The center, where time is not linear

SEAN
Day 12   2006 07:22
Re: CARDINAL KEISLARS SPONTANEOUS ILLUMINATION
 
In what universe? Oh yes, why....in Dan's universe, of course! I may be transparent and a God lover but I know what's going on.
 
You can't see the truth because it is too close...You did not create yourself, did you? Oh yes, the universe and particularly life, is highly ordered and complex to the point of being miraculous, yet you prefer to hypothesize that these happened by RANDOM CHANCE, as if such a highly structured pattern does not come from source! Randomness begets incredible highly intelligent complexity!? No-something CAUSED IT! If you say its quantum mechanics, I would say God devised it. If you say its evolution, I will say evolution is part of God.
 
How can you only rely on your senses or that scientifically proven-no wisdom ever came from there-only our frail and inadequate, limited knowledge-which never did us any good!. Aren't you the one says one should live/act according to their heart's dictates, like Jesus?
 
I'm afraid you're starting to sound like the Cardinal.
 
But, lest I get an eight to ten pager back from the Cardinal, let me say this: I do think the atheistic position is an intellectually consistent and valid viewpoint. 

ZIPHLER
Day 12 2006 13:24
Subject: Prayer response 101
 
What da fuck yu spewin cracker?  It b STREETDOGS!
 
Not DA streetdogs, not dogs OF DA street
 
¡CALLE PEROS!
 
What colors you got under dat hood
 

SEAN
Day 12, 2006 14:02
Subject: Re: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
I must have a lot of time on my hands, but I'll give a try at this (acknowledging that we have probably passed this way before and will likely end up
disagreeing):
 
"I do not recall claiming ownership of the universe; I am simply describing my location within it."
 
That's evidence of your contingency.
 
"(whichever it is the scientists are telling us this year)"
 
Science-gotta love it.
 
"In its unimaginably violent, entropy-seeking spasm, highly ordered states of existence will occur with predictable regularity."
 
I don't deny this obeservation-my point is that ordered state comes from a source.
 
"All the misery of humans not directly ascribable to Mother Nature derives from accepting, in faith, the viewpoints of others rather than viewing from one's own perspective."
 
My gosh, I think you are wrong on this one Dan. You've fallen into one humongous assumption/preconception.
(That's the fallacy of the argument in your earlier
missive.)
 
Faith is what humans do. Period. The human experience is integrated by the human mind, soul, spirit, entity by faith. You can deny it but your peconception/assumption is no more or less apparent than mine; but it is a faith. You my friend, have faith, whether you realize it or not.
 
In fact you are disingenuous, because given your stated position, preconceived with all the Dan Ziegler center of the universe assumptions, you cannot know where misery even comes from, or only in a very depraved sense at most given the Ziegler preconceptions, maybe only Dan Ziegler's misery, yet you stand there and say it comes from such and such?
 
I therefore stand by my earlier statement. Knowledge is limited because of the location problem; wisdom allows people to experience other "spheres and centers of influence" and extend their center beyond their location or perspective.
 
I will have to defer answers and thinking about this more until later.

ZIPHLER
Day 12   2006 16:40
RE: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
"I do not recall claiming ownership of the universe; I am simply describing my location within it."
 
That's evidence of your contingency.
 
 
Miguelito quit your sniveling about wading thru rhetoric (that is what you do for a living anyway is it not?) and help me out here. What is he saying? I thought contingency meant backup. Besides, God ain’t gonna lose no sleep over what you believe so your prayers can only be answered by us.
 
 
"In its unimaginably violent, entropy-seeking spasm, highly ordered states of existence will occur with predictable regularity."
 
I don't deny this obeservation-my point is that ordered state comes from a source.
 
Let me assist you with your argument here. Time is not linear. Our universe is not the only one. All the universes slip into and out of each other continuously each going thru their linear life cycle instantaneously from the containing universe’s perspective while itself containing that universe and watching that universe’s life unfold instantaneously. Einstein gave us this little tidbit. He called  it relativity. You add all this up and that is an infinite number of infinities. It is important to realize that these other universes are not simultaneous universes like those that occur in other dimensions on TV shows. They are universes that can both contain infinity and eternity within their every moment and yet be contained by their contents, as they exist forever and are infinitely vast. We will learn much once we can begin to look into these others in our midst. What really amazes me though is the idea that we can look into our own past with something as simple as a linear light telescope if we can just get a mirror out far enough.
 
By ascribing a process that even humans can understand given the building blocks, you seriously dis your God Sean. It’s like giving God credit for some hot dog stand when there is this whole planet, on which it sits, within an entire solar system, within our one insignificant universe, etc, etc. THAT is one of those annoying characteristics of religious types thru-out history. They are always so sure of the fairy tales they have conjured up to explain our circumstance and then scramble to adapt when things obviously turn out to be too complex to fit their simple-minded model.
 
Here’s the question you should be asking: Why are there basic subunits and laws that we can observe and why do they occur in such a seemingly arbitrary way. I.e. why are their 13 (or whatever it is) basic particles. Why do they assemble themselves ultimately into this big complicated yet highly structured configuration that we can represent in the periodic table? Why didn’t God create a simple, straightforward way to construct our pretty little town? One that would allow us to rearrange the furniture any way we please.
 
 
"All the misery of humans not directly ascribable to Mother Nature derives from accepting, in faith, the viewpoints of others rather than viewing from one's own perspective."
 
My gosh, I think you are wrong on this one Dan. You've fallen into one humongous assumption/preconception.
(That's the fallacy of the argument in your earlier
missive.)
 
Faith is what humans do. Period. The human experience is integrated by the human mind, soul, spirit, entity by faith. You can deny it but your preconception/assumption is no more or less apparent than mine; but it is a faith. You my friend, have faith, whether you realize it or not.
 
Here’s our central disagreement and no, I am correct! I have complete faith in what I know and try my hardest not to rely on information another has mined from their own heart and then conveyed to me thru semantics. That is the kind of reliance that forms the essential laziness and abandonment of responsibility that DEFINES religion
 
In fact you are disingenuous, because given your stated position, preconceived with all the Dan Ziegler center of the universe assumptions, you cannot know where misery even comes from, or only in a very depraved sense at most given the Ziegler preconceptions, maybe only Dan Ziegler's misery, yet you stand there and say it comes from such and such?
 
Empathy is real. Empathy is the best form of communication we have and it requires each of us to make up our own mind about another. It allows no proxy.
 
I therefore stand by my earlier statement. Knowledge is limited because of the location problem; wisdom allows people to experience other "spheres and centers of influence" and extend their center beyond their location or perspective.
 
Doesn’t that make you agnostic?

SEAN
Day 12 , 2006 15:29
Subject: Here's some dissing, discussion that is
 
 
Here's an intersting discussion:
 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/index.html
 
 
braauuuuughghhhhhhhhppppppppzzzzz
 
AND WE HAVE OUR FIRST MAJOR FOUL COMMITTED IN THE MATCH. WITH JUST ONE DAY REMAINING IN THE FIRST HALF, AS SEAN AND ZIPHLER ARE EMBROILED IN A REMARKABLY ENTHUSIASTIC TECHNICAL ASIDE, SEAN HAS INEXPLICABLY REVEALED HIS WEARINESS BY ATTEMPTING  A SHORTCUT TO HIS POINT WITH A REFERENCE TO AN OUTSIDE URL. MIGUELITO and KEISLAR while already hanging back and watching this 2-man aside with interest must now weigh many new factors into the equation depending on whom they believed to be their true and false allies and opponents. AS you know, no use of this reference can be used by any of the bloggers with the exception of ZIPHLER who, as the one fouled, is allowed to visit the cited URL and return with any one item plucked (completely out of context if he so chooses) from that URL which he may use here for any purpose. ZIPHLER is as we speak perusing the URL and is now shoving the monitor aside. Will he make use of something he has seen or simply move on in the knowledge that SEAN has damaged himself sufficiently as to no longer be a threat. You could here a pin drop in STREETBLOG ARENA right now:
 

 
ZIPHLER
Day 12   2006 16:57
Subject: RE: Here's some dissing, discussion that is
FOUL SHOT
 
 
AAUUUUGGGHH Why do these people want to contain me?!!!?
 
It does not all come down to one question "does God exist?"
 
Does humpty dumpty exist?
 
Why is the sky blue?
 
Why am I still sitting at this computer when the forces of economic ruin rain down forcing me closer and closer to one of Sean's churches' soup kitchens where I will endure even simpler theories of the promised land while I eat?
 
All right Miguelito. You win. You may go ahead and believe in PEE WEE. I will arrange for the doll's delivery.
 
 
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT! ZIPHLER HAS RETURNED WITH AND CHOSEN TO USE A FRAGMENT FROM THE REFERENCED URL. BUT THEN, INSTEAD OF
PUMMELING SEAN, ZIPHLER HAS CHOSEN THIS MOMENT FOR AN APPARENTLY HEARTFELT CAPITULATION TO MIGUELITO. WHILE NOT EXACTLY CONCEDING THE MATCH, ZIPHLER HAS CERTAINLY DUG HIMSELF INTO A POSITION THAT COULD EXPOSE HIM TO MERCILESS ATTACKS FROM ALL THREE OF THE BLOGGERS. WILL THEY MAKE USE OF THIS APPARENT SURRENDER BEFORE THE HALF-TIME BUZZER? WE ARE HOLDING OUR SPORTSCASTER BREATHS AS IT LOOKS LIKE SEAN IS THE FIRST ONE BACK ON THE FIELD:
 
Well Akbar, I am not so sure your conclusions are accurate. Even though it is a quote from another website, By choosing to transfer this particular segment to the blog, ZIPHLER is invoking the "you cite it, you said it rule" in effect making a statement that "all comes down to one ultimate question" SEAN's own. This statement amounts to a categorical oversimplification which automatically disqualifies SEAN unless he can demonstrate how his simplicity begets complexity.; an area more in ZIPHLER's expertise I believe. Lets see what SEAN will do:
 

SEAN
Day 12 2006 20:02
RE: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
Well, I notice a few things.
 
1. Your empathy may be my wisdom if thought in terms that wisdom is compassionate intelligence.
 
2. I used the wrong word. I meant to use degraded rather then depraved.
 
3. I understand that speaking of God on this level is very inaccurate, but one need not be an physicist to contemplate God and one need not explain God in terms of relativity and subatomic particles. You've described the frontiers of scientific thought that took many thousands of years to evolve, and yet you have only scratched the surface and the complexity of the universes (I prefer to think of the conglomerate as the super-universe containing all universes-its easier).
 
Those questions about the 13 basic particles-those are questions for scientists. Let me know when you read them in the Journal of Physics. Those other questions why didn't God do it this way or that-those are questions to ask God. Don't get me wrong, at some point these questions could be the same. Its not necessary to know the answers to these questions and have a relationship to the infinite universes-that relationship already exists.
 
4. Subjective reality is paramount for you, indeed, your faith is purely in your subjective experience. Is that correct? Well, that is where our fundamental disagreement lies. My faith is in objective reality, believe it or not; though you would probably interpret my "faith" to be otherwise. I also believe the subjective is a component of the objective and that subjective part makes my faith strong.
 
5. I must say, however, you really have something with that empathy take. That is exactly as Jesus acted; with profound compassion and intelligence.
 
6. One thing you must know after 50 years of life, is that we are human and subject to fallibility.
Therefore, although I think its good to know yourself and trust in your own heart, there needs to be a check in case of error. I see no mechanism for correction in the subjective approach. I would worry about that.
 
I kinda see where you're coming from.
 
And now, I would like to ask the lawyer Miguelito if I have babbled too long and hard.

ZIPHLER
Day 12  2006 21:45
RE: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
WISDOM SUCKS!
 
Compassionate intelligence sounds excessively much like "intelligent design" meets "compassionate conservatism" (oh yeah - they already met)
 
The center of the Universe provides the most objective view
 
However, I think you are coming along
 
While I briefly felt great empathy for Miguelito, I don't believe he would have kept his end of the bargain so   .   .   .   too bad. He still gets the doll though.
 
SCORE ZIPHLER! WITHOUT ASSIST. SEAN WALKED INTO ANOTHER ONE AND ZIPHLER WALKS AWAY WITH 5 POINT.

MIGUELITO
day 12  2006 22:34
RE: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
500 million years from now, scientists finally invented a microscope that was able to detect and accurately visualize the smallest particle in the universe, the basic building block of all reality.  Scientists were only able to observe this omnipresent ultimate particle, which is infinitely smaller than a muon or a pi meson, after temporarily suspending the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and several other laws of physics for 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 of a nanosecond, capturing the image on a 361 degree 9-dimensional holographic hyperreflective subarticulating cryo-nanocamera.  When the quantum computers were finally done processing, re-integrating, de-gaussing and psycho-enhancing the resulting multiphasic tri-spectral hyperelastic mobius image, there they saw, staring them in the face, the absolutely perfect image of . . . . . .
ANOTHER SCORE MIGUELITO, NO ASSIST AND AT NO ONE'S EXPENSE - 6 POINTS!
 
 

KEISLAR
day 13 2006  06:52
Subject: Starfire Fidelity Test
 
Beloved Converts to Starfirism!
 
      Play Lead, Profit Miguelito!
      (Power stance; right hand picking; left hand caressing fretboard.)
 
Please be seated, My Brothers in Pee Wee.
 
Now I've been thinking, watching, listening (i.e., reading the sacred e-chat), and meditating for days now . . . Babel tortures the Profit!
 
We need a definitive test to calm and sort the Starfire faithful.
 
Answer me without thought. Let your answer come from your other places.
As Brother Dan queries, so shall you answer me thus:
 
Why is the sky blue?
 
A) God: God made it that way.
B) Scattering: Air molecules scatter blue light more.
C) Tao: The sky is not blue to one who sees only blue.
D) Donovian: Blue is the color of my true love's hair . . .
 
Be swift. Be true. Be certain. Rest assured, two millennia hence the faithful will look to your answers on this seminal day in Starfirism . . .
 
      Play Lead, Profit Miguelito!
      (Power stance; right hand picking; left hand caressing fretboard.)
 
Cardinal Keislar
(henceforth "Kardinal Keislar" cause it's more Kool)
 
12  GAUNTLET POINTS FOR THE CARDINAL. THE REMAINING PLAYERS HAVE ONE DAY TO RISE TO THE CHALLENGE AND TAKE THOSE POINTS FROM KEISLAR

KEISLAR
day 13  2006 07:14
RE: R U dis'ng me boy!!?
 
Hi boys,
 
Sean, for #3, physicists Steven Hawking and Brian Green already beat you.
Unit verse means literally "one turning." The theorized number of other universes is called "multiverse," many turnings, vice your term of super-universe.
 
Good discussion though, At the roots of the subjective/biochemical brain that is doing the talking for both points of view. No one is better than the other . . . just two manifestations of two human minds.
 
Love you guys all the while,
 
Bob K.
OH, NICE TRY BY KEISLAR  BUT IN HIS ATTEMPT TO GET OUT OF THE PURCHASE HE MUST BUY ONE COSMOSPHERE SIZED TUPPERWARE BOWL (CATALOG #000Z000) FROM ZIPHLER FOR 2 POINTS

KEISLAR
day 13  2006 07:18
Subject: Mike the Articulate!
 
God he is articulate, isn't he?
 
Mike, you are amazing.
 
Go on finish the story . . .
 
Bob K.
KISSING MIGUELITO'S ASS LANDS KEISLAR RIGHT IN THE PENALTY BOX FOR ONE DAY

ZIPHLER
Day 13   2006 07:42
Subject: RE: Starfire Fidelity Test
 
The sky is blue because the majority of humans can recognize differing light frequencies and have chosen amongst themselves to call the frequency they see in the sky, blue. The sky is also blue because it misses simpler times before humans ravaged the earth and filled the sky itself with smoke and soot and carbon dioxide and other floro-chloro nastiness. And don't you be talkin' about my "OTHER PLACES"  .  .  I got my eye on you priest.
FOR TAKING UP THE CHALLENGE WITHIN THE ALLOTTED TIME ZIPHLER STRIPS KEISLAR OF 3 OF HIS GAUNTLET POINTS

SEAN
Day 13   2006 08:03
Subject: Re: Mike the Articulate!
 
Oh, yes, he's very creative when he's wackin' the ole' PEE WEE!

MIGUELITO 
Day 13
Re: Mike the Articulate!
 
I forgot to mention one thing.  One of the most important tenets of Starfirism is that any converted ex-Catholic Starfarian such as Sean who uses the name of Pee Wee in vain, as in the shameless example above, must flagellate themselves mercilessly with a Pee Wee doll until they have received inner contrition and absolution, as determined by the unanimous opinion of the other members of their flock. 
 
Miguelito  Prophet of Starfirism
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SEAN
day 13  2006 09:23
Subject: Re: Mike the Articulate!
 
 
I am flagellating as we speak. OoooH!
 
FOR TASTEFUL IRREVERENCE AND CHILDLIKE ENTHUSIASM SEAN PICKS UP 4 POINTS RIGHT AT THE END OF THE HALF

ZIPHLER
Day 13  2006 09:44
RE: Mike the Articulate!
 
YOU'RE ALL GOING TO THE CENTER OF HELL!!!
SLAM DUNK WITH NO ASSIST AND AT EVERYONE'S EXPENSE - 10 POINTS ZIPHLER

MIGUELITO
Day 13 2006
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
All:
 
Hmmmmm, this seems to the Prophet Miguelito to be a very deep and profound matter.  Illumination is needed, who can I turn to?  AH!  Of course! This is a matter for the Prophet's closest spiritual advisor, to wit, Kardinal Keislar, the esteemed high priest of Pee Wee squared, master of exponential flagellation, brilliant seer of all things Pee Wee, holiest of all holes.   Kardinal, are we all going to the center of hell?  Or will some of us wind up on the periphery of hell?  Has Sean yet reached a sufficiently pure state of humble contrition and absolution?  Shall Dan be admitted into our inner circle of Starfarian advisors?
 
As to the next chapter in the continuing saga of the PEEWEENO and the local universe known as Hermanico Peeweenicus, this prophet's oracle has for the moment mysteriously gone dark.  The Prophet Miguelito appeals to the trusted and most exalted Kardinal Keislar to meditate deeply upon Pee Wee until the inspiration arrives to divine the next chapter!  Yea, verily, enlighten us, O wise Kardinal!  We summon your spiritual genius to enlighen our yearning hearts and learn what happened next in the year 501 million A.P!*
 
* Anno Peeweenicus
 
--Miguelito
 
p.s.  Oh, by the way Pee Wee ordains that everyone must immediately send me all their money. 
 

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SEAN  commenting on his description by the media
 
Ecologist? I ain't no stinking ecologist!!

KEISLAR
Day 13 2006
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
Oh, Great Profit Miguelito, link to PeeWee, Godfather of Starfirism.
 
Play Lead, Profit Miguelito!
(Power stance; right hand picking; left hand caressing fretboard.)
 
Brother Dan is caught in the old cognitive traps: heaven, hell, why is the sky blue, etc. We must lift him higher. Yet, again, Brother Dan was the first and so far only Brother to take the Fidelity Test. For this he must be praised and exaulted!
 
Hail, Brother Dan!!
(Goofy stance; hunch over base; deep-furrowed masculine brow)
 
Yet I must report, Great Profit, Brother Dan has failed the Fidelity Test!!
Tragically, he could not turn off his brain and answer from the Other Parts.
Hence, Brother Dan cannot be admitted into the inner circle at this time.
But such great courage he shows! What he lacks in deep Starfire connection, surely he can otherwise advance our cause in bass spirit, an octave below perhaps? Yes? No? Maybe so?
 
As for 501 Mega-annum A.P. multiphasic, tri-spectral, hyperelastic mobius image, I foresee that the quantum computers will show (or past tense "showed" to we enlightened, pan-temporal beings!) the absolutely perfect image of . . .
 
The Guild Starfire!!
 
Surely you knew this, Oh Articulate One.
 
You were merely testing me, as I tried to test Brother Dan and Brother Sean.
But now that I have given the correct answer in their humble cc'd-ness, the same test cannot be administered to Brothers Dan or Sean. Hence my Starfire Fidelity Test on this day stands.
 
I noticed that Brother Sean has not yet taken the Fidelity Test. He may lack the courage Brother Dan showed, or he may be preparing for the critical moment of no-thought needed for such a question. You know, "in the morning, when (he) rises" . . . Without passing First Fidelity, Sean cannot be admitted into the inner circle, either. He may be cast to wandering eternally in the black-hole music of the multiverse, listening with Brother Dan, but never getting song-writing credits and royalties.
 
Let us still wait faithfully for Brother Sean's noble reply . . .
 
As for the money smack-down that PeeWee channels through the Great Profit Miguelito, all Starfirians know that the next manifestation of the Quasi-Annual Sacred Poker Game is drawing nigh. The Divine Tithings will be collected for the work of the Great Profit Miguelito at that time, according to the laws of semi-skilled statistics, and the Ever Lovely Lady Luck, as per always.
 
Play Lead, Profit Miguelito!
(Power stance; right hand picking; left hand caressing fretboard.)
 
In PeeWee's Service,
 
Kardinal Keislar
 
A TRULY BRILLIANT SOLILOQUY THAT UNDOUBTEDLY WOULD HAVE SHAKEN THIS MATCH TO THE CORE EVEN WITH THE PERSISTENT ASS-KISSING BUT ALL DELIVERED FROM THE PENALTY BOX WHICH RENDERS IT NOTHING MORE THAN MINDLESS BLATHER
 

MIGUELITO
day 13   2006 22:55
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
Ziphler:
 
That is one hell of an entertaining website!  Very nice!  But the "proof" photo of Pee Wee in the Starfire wouldn't show up. 
 
How about linking the StreetDogs website to my website, www.michaeldoughton.com?  I'll do the same for the Dogs, except I need someone to do that for me, I don't know how to mess with websites.  Help!
 
Sean, that's one hell of an impressive resume!  You da man!
 
Miguelito

MIGUELITO
Day 13  2006 23:16
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
Grasshoppers,
 
Listen to the infinitely wise musings of Kardinal Keislar.  Follow his brilliant insightful commands.  Meditate deeply on his amazing words, he speaks the truth with a capital "Pee".  Ponder his magnificent teachings, they come only once.  If you are fortunate, perhaps you may one day grasp an infinitesimal grain of their profundity. 
 
If you have been excluded from the Guild, do not despair.  There is still time.  Mollify the Kardinal.  Bring him offerings.  Shower him with gifts.  Cast rose petals before him. 
 
Bring cash to the poker game.
 
-The Highly Prophetable Miguelito
 
CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PROFESSIONALISM OF THIS PLAYER WHO SO DEFTLY IS ABLE TO KISS KEISLAR'S ASS WITHOUT PENALTY FOR KEISLAR STILL HAS 44 MINUTES LET IN THE PENALTY BOX. AND WHILE MIGUELITO SCORES NO POINTS HERE, HIS POSITION ON THE FIELD IS NOW DOMINANT.

Keislar is out of the penalty box for the final day of the half

MIGUELITO
Day 14  2006 00:54
Subject: Calling all Dogs
 
I'm Strawberry Festival-bound for 4 days this weekend starting Friday!  Music in the mountains near Yosemite!  You guys should come up and jam!  Thousands of musicians, wilderness paradise!  Not cheap though.  Miguelito the Prophet will need lots of money to compensate for my spiritual retreat, where no doubt I will come up with further pearls of wisdom to share with you.  So lose at poker.  Discount available for Kardinals, Swamis and even baser 4-string low-down types.
Miguelito

ZIPHLER
Day 14  2006 04:32
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
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Akbar, there is no way that Ziphler could actually believe that a seasoned pro like Miguelito would fall for this kind of preen.
 
THAT'S RIGHT PEDRO, IT IS DIFFICULT TO FATHOM WHAT ZIPHLER IS THINKING. THIS COULD SPELL THE END FOR ZIPHLER 

SEAN 
Day 14  2006 06:45
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
THAT'S BETTER! Catholic I can live with.

 SEAN 
 Day 14  2006 08:00
Subject: REPENT!
 
(Sean contemplating and meditating on the Tri-goddess:
I am beset by ignorant heathens….what can I do Tri-goddess? I have played the Starfire, yes, its true! I have felt its fretboard…..it was enticing, verily, yeah. It held Partial truth so I can see why so many are fooled, but can’t they see? Oh I know the Kardinal is aware of its limitations, but I fear he seeks only power and he uses his doctrine as a tool to enslave his followers. I think he even made up that position to curry favor with the Prophet. Could he be so diabolical? Forgive him Tri-goddess, for he is unaware of his own self-deceptive heart. Still, his doctrine is like a sweet nectar; is it not true that that sweetness has as its source a purity which can only be ascribed to the Tri-goddess? Yes, he’s lost his way, but were he to see the light and his services directed, the effect would be enormgigantous (a special Tri-goddess term)).  
 
But what of the one who claims enlightenment, the Prophet (the one whose profession is to rephrase-hereafter I will call him the Rephraser), who claims Starfire as the path. Yes, I understand the Rephraser’s error. Not even David could resist Bethsheba. Did he not live, yeah, sleep with this guitar(oooh!)? I’ll not judge him or else I would have to judge myself. Oh what man will do for a few seconds of ecstasy!  So bereft and detached from reality are we that we must fill our lives with the illusion of Starfire!
 
Then there are those wandering souls such as the Z, who rejects all paths but for the one of his own molding. Profound and insightful is his penetrating intelligence, like the Guild’s cult members to be sure, a healer of the body searching for a way to heal minds. And yet, he thinks the whole of the world resides within himself. The paradox is he is only a part, and a whole cannot exist within a part. Verily, the Tri-goddess has shown me this. Like the wind it came to me.
 
AND NOW I WILL REVEAL A GREAT TRUTH! LISTEN UP! Woe to those who follow the Guild, who use the PEEWEENICUS as a crutch, who call themselves Starfrafians (or whatever the damn term is), for they will merit no space for eternity (better known as the endless black hole).
 
Are you listening?
 
The Tri-goddess has three archangels that rule the planet. They are: Vox-Marshall-Fender. (To distinguish between the Tri-goddess Fender, Leo, the archangel Fender is called Freddy. Do not dwell on these matters-they are a MYSTERY!)
 
Verily, yeah, Amen.
 
Sean Servant of the Tri-goddess       
 
FOR CITING SOOOO MANY SACRED WORDS IN ONE BLOG SEGMENT SEAN MUST DONATE A MONTH's SUPPLY OF MILKBONES TO THE WEB-EDITING TEAM

SEAN 
Day 14   2006 10:14
Re: REPENT!
 
Supernova caught in its exploding act
POSTED: 11:10 a.m. EDT, August 31, 2006 Adjust font size:
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Teams of international scientists have used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a stellar explosion or supernova.
 
The blast is thought to be caused by the Trigoddess, Martin-Gibson-Fender, and is a milder type of gamma-ray burst (GRB) -- the most powerful type of explosion known to astronomers -- called an X-ray flash.
 
 
 
Children-this is a sign from the Tri-goddess. Await oders-the end may be soon.
 
 
Sean Servant of the Tri-goddess

MIGUELITO 
Day 14   2006 19:34
RE: Dont forget your sun tan lotion in Hell!
 
Most Exalted Kardinal Keislar,
 
Please take note:
 
1. I beseech Thee, notwithstanding Your previous edict exluding him from participation, please search Your Soul and see if there is not an immediate opening on the Guild for the good Dr. Ziphler as High Spiritual Minister in Charge of Monetary Policy.  Certainly, You, the Guardian of Guild Theological Purity can see that Starfirism needs Dr. Ziphler's brilliant financial acumen and syrupy-smooth 21st century cypto-obfuscatory fraudulent oratorical skills in order to attract the kind of capital needed to advance our message of Multiversal Harmony across the Multiverse!  Have You checked into the cost of proselytizing lately, especially when the service area covers a distance of 11,000,000,000,000,000,000 parsecs?  For Pee Wee's sake, get this guy on the Guild IMMEDIATELY!  
 
2.  Please immediately issue a Golden Pee Wee Award to Sean.  He is playing the part of a pathetically-deluded lost soul with uncanny accuracy and deeply moving authenticity.  Not to mention side-splitting comic hilarity.  Imagine, claiming not to believe in Starfarism!  Luckily, I see him for the brilliant comic actor he is.  What a joker!
 
3.  Sean:  just to be safe, please engage in 1150 more self-flagellelations.  I can tell you're close to attaining absolution, contrition and Starfarian ideological purity, but this should make sure.  Send me an email in the morning confirming your devotion to Starfarism!
 
4.  Prophet Flash:  Starfirism incorporates String Theory as a basic tenet!  Super Slinkies or DR 10s?  You decide.
 
Strummingly,
 
Miguelito, the Multiversally-acknowledged Prophet of Pee Wee
 4 POINTS TO ZIPHLER FOR USING THE TUPPERWARE (CATALOG #000Z000) CLEARLY LICENSED TO ZIPHLER BUT HIS PANDERING TO ZIPHLER'S SALES ABILITIES IS SHAMELESS AND WORTH 6 POINTS.

MIGUELITO
Day 14   2006 19:38
Re: REPENT!
 
Dear Sean,
 
While we sharpen our olfactory skills awaiting the promised odors, I suggest you go to Ben.
 
Miguelito, Servant of Mervyns

KEISLAR 
Day 14   2006 18:21
RE: REPENT!
 
In the early stages of many religions, social, ethical, and philosophical fractures can occur, dividing followers into denominations, Shia and Sunni being one example.
 
And the birth of Starfirism was no exception . . . . . .
 
(Kardinal Keislar was snubbed by Brother Sean, yet again! First Brother Sean's deliberate refusal to take the Fidelity Test, and now this . . . this blasphemy! The Holy Prophet labeled a "Rephraser," and Kardinal Keislar's own good name slandered as a power-hungry sycophant, currying favor with the Profit. The Second in Command of Starfirism tapped his fingers on the computer table as he read the second email from Brother Kennedy's with further disapproval. This minor x-ray burst compared to a truly great gamma ray burst! Humph! How could he combat such mumbo-jumbo as this silly supernovae association, wildly interpreted by Brother Sean as some cosmic gesture from the Tri-Goddess. Talk about Bad Theology!
 
Perhaps the spiritual energy of Starfirism was becoming too complex, with the all these various demi-deities: PEEWEENICUS, the Tri-Goddess, and the Prophet Miguelito even. And the Starfire itself, a guitar which appears on the surface to be only a simple harmonic/electronic device, perhaps devoid of any real spiritual sustenance. Was the Prophet misinterpreting an ancient photographic record, reading in far too much? Was Brother Sean a loose cannon threatening to take down the Holy Ship of nascent Starfirism, BEFORE the even next Sacred Poker Game?
 
It is common that the religious elite get into power and then entrench that power. Look at the Jewish Priests in Christ's time, the Catholics during the Inquisition and Renaissance, and the Church of England during the Reformation. Kardinal Keislar was merely trying to do the same, to give the new religion some firm dogma, ah, some sound traditions (he re-phrased in his own mind), to make the young Church more respectable.
 
And, most worrisome, Brother Kennedy had seen right through him! Kardinal Keislar knew down to the dishonest beat in his small, black heart that Brother Sean was a bone fide revolutionary! Maybe the real thing. Maybe a True Believer! Kardinal Keislar WAS seeking power and abusing his rights as Kardinal to invent doctrine to enslave the innocent Starfarians! And the plan had been going smoothly, until Brother Kennedy got in the way . . .
 
Brother Kennedy had to be stopped . . .

KEISLAR
day 14   2006 18:21
RE: Calling all Dogs
 
I'm jealous. I am a bad person for not going when my friends Suzette and Dale have been trying to get me to go for decades. And now I'm even more despicable for getting jealous that my good friend is going, and I can't cause I got to be a good dad this weekend.
 
Bob Full of Despair

MIGUELITO
Day 14  2006 21:14
RE: Calling all Dogs
 
Despair not, good Kardinal.  Sign up now for Strawberry in spring or fall next year!
 
and so it is written . . .
 
--Miguelito

SEAN 
Day 14 , 2006 21:43
RE: REPENT!
 
 
SUCH A BLATENT DISPLAY OF BLASPHEMY IS INTOLERABLE!
I AM SO UPSET THAT TWO PARALLEL UNIVERSES MERGED.
 
 (In other words, I am beside myself.)!
(Can you tell I am incensed? What tipped you off?)
 
A RESPONSE WILL BE FORTHCOMING! STAY TUNED! IT WILL COME DIRECTLY FROM THE TRIGODDESS THROUGH THE INTERMEDIARY SAINT LES PAUL. Saint Les Paul, of course, gave us the Gospel of the Guitar.
 
WOE BE TO THE BLASPHEMERS!
(Not to be confused with O B Wan Kanobe)
 
VERILY, YEAH, AMEN.
 
SEAN SERVANT OF THE TRIGODDESS

SEAN 
Day 14  2006 22:08
RE: REPENT!
 
I just remembered it will take a period of time to get in touch with Saint Les Paul, because as you know, he don't do email.
 
I am convening the band a Miramar Beach Restaurant tonight and we will pray and issue first a Rock Musical Response, then an email response will be forthcoming.
 
Etc., etc., etc.,
 
Sean etc., ect., ect.
THE THREAT IS REAL AND FOR FAILURE TO ATTEND SEANS REALWORLD PERFORMANCE EACH BLOGGER GIVES UP # POINTS TO SEAN


 
AND THAT STRANGELY HIDEOUS but nearly inaudible wail you just heard is the STREETBLOG ARENA's game buzzer marking the end of the 2nd period.
 
BLOGGERS, please retire to your respective locker rooms and remember there can be no contact or communication with the other bloggers in the match during halftime. When the referees complete their tabulations, we will notify of your corrected current standing in the match. In the meantime, you are welcome to catch the halftime show on your locker-room monitors.
 
The blog resumes Tuesday at 12am but you can load your first volley's and even press send, anytime after noon on Monday. Until then, have a good weekend.   .   .  .  .  "Oh shut up ziphler! Sean has the last word of the period fair and square. So WHAT! It isn't enough for you to have the inside track and complete fix already arranged with the NBL is it? NOO you've got to have it all. Hey, is that camera on? Check it out and please spare me  your constant  .  .  .  .  .  .  click

 
 
CUT TO COMMERCIAL
 
The Stranger
 
A few years after I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around from then on.
 
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special niche. My parents were complementary instructors: Mom taught me good from evil, and Dad taught me to obey. But the stranger...he was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies.
 
If I wanted to know anything about politics, history or science, he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He took my family to the first major league ball game. He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
 
Sometimes, Mom would get up quietly while the rest of us were shushing each other to listen to what he had to say, and she would go to the kitchen for peace and quiet. (I wonder now if she ever prayed for the stranger to leave.)
 
Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our home... Not from us, our friends or any visitors. Our longtime visitor, however, got away with four-letter words that burned my ears and made my dad squirm and my mother blush.
 
My Dad didn't permit the liberal use of alcohol. But the stranger encouraged us to try it on a regular basis. He made cigarettes look cool, cigars manly and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, so metimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing.
 
I now know that my early concepts about relationships were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom rebuked... And NEVER asked to leave.
 
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended right in and is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you could walk into my parents' den today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. His name?....
 
We just call him, "TV."
 
He has a younger sister now. We call her "Computer."
 
 
After much deliberation, we have decided to accept the above communication from Keislar as a contribution to the streetblog arena’s halftime show, and thus unrelated to the match. This is your last warning Keislar. Not a peep until noon Monday at the earliest,
 
THE NBL board of directors
 
PLEASE ENJOY THIS EXCLUSIVE HALF TIME ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED BY GEORGE BUSH AND HIS ORIGINAL YALE POM POM TEAM
 
   .    .    .    .    .  to be continued
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Scoring is completed with the exception of the last day of the 1st half (day 14) The bloggers my wish to peruse their standings. You will only have 78 seconds to submit any protest when scoring is complete latter tonight and it's weapons free at midnight for the 2nd half.

SEAN
Day 15 2006 22:08
RE: REPENT!
 
 
Well, what do ya know. The Z gets to be participant judge and jury in determining the outcome of such nefarious a blogging game. Much like the Kardinal self-appoints. In that case, I will choose the Rephraser to represent my interests in this street dog blogosphere.
 
But, why do I call him the Rephraser? Herein lies the tantalizing truth. Well, of course, it is because of his way with words and on further thought, his way of seeing all positions. The power of thought lies not in the words spoken but in the spirit of those words, the self-consistency, and the assessed truth of those words. Can a snake-oil salesman speak the truth? And please do not mistake my ass-kissing for anything but what it really is: pragmatism.
 
Therefore, I claim the right that the Prophet, or the Rephraser, will represent my interests, separate from his spiritual pursuits, since I abhor and renounce them as heresy. To the Kardinal and his fidelity test, I say, it is written, thou shalt not test the Trigoddess, for human fidelity is foolishness in the eyes of the Trigoddess.
 
I am beginning to see how foolish and unteachable this lot is, a saying once stated by the Z although for the wrong reason.
 
Sean Servant of the Tri-goddess

SEAN 
Day 14  2006 22:08
Subject: Verse 1 of The Gospel of Saint Les Paul
 
 
Now there were in those days, human beings who were searching for a way to transcend their human condition. The ancient ones created a instrument through which a mode of expression was perfected, and that instrument was the guitar. So the Tri-goddess made them, male, female and the guitar. And the Trigoddess knew they were good by the sound they made.
 
In the year 1833, entity one of the Tri-goddess came to America and made his first guitar, and he was called Martin.
 
In the year 1894, entity two, called Gibson, also started making guitars which rivelled Martin.
 
In the year 1943, Leo Fender (and Doc his brother), the third entity of the Tri-goddess, created transducers that reverberated the frequencies of the solid plank guitar.
 
And these entities which existed before all time in all universes became the Tri-goddess. (Actually, the term goddess is a misnomer. The creators really have no gender but because the guitar resembles the female body, humans mistakenly called them goddess. It is of no matter though, since human conception is only useful preliminary understanding for something that is inconceivable.)
 
St. Les Paul's letter to the Stafarians, II:9-46
 
Here is another useful fact from the Letter of Saint Les Paul to the Stafarians:
 
"The year was 1952. The place was a small loft in New York City, just a mile or so from what is now known as the West Village. A group of five guitar makers- all of them older men with steady hands of experienced wood workers- were completing the bodies, necks, fingerboards and headpieces of the first Guild guitars."
 
St. Les Paul's letter to the Stafarians, IV:1-5
 
Brothers, children, these facts are undisputable!!
 
So, you have to ask yourself this question: Why is the Kardinal and the Prophet saying that Stafirism is the truth!? It came years after Martin Gibson Fender!!
I'll tell you why-they are heretics and blasphemers who have manipulated the truth!
 
I will now make a bold offer to the Kardinal.
Kardinal, renounce Starfirism and the following will be yours:
 
Mercedes 750SL
A bugalow on the beach at Malibu
200K per year
Fully paid health insurance for you, your wife and entire extended family.
 
Kardinal, you have 48 hours to accept this offer.
 
If you don't, well.....I can't even think of that possibility.
 
Z - don't worry, I'm working on a plan for your salvation.
 
Sean Servant of the Tri-goddess
 
 

 
I can see Sean is back in the race and spending a lot of milk bones. While the preliminary scoring of the first half is complete, it will be several days before all the field reports are in. A word of caution, flagrantly excessive use of sacred words as Sean is suddenly seeming so fond of doing is taxing our web skinners and you don't want to piss them off. Go at it gentleman  ZIPHLER has to go back to work  something you employmentphiles would of course have no sympathy for.

MIGUELITO
Day 15   2006 21:57
RE: REPENT!
 
My Lambs:
 
Having just returned from my 4-day spiritual retreat to the mountains, living in a humble tent, devoid of all worldly possessions except a guitar and a change of underwear, I have been purified by the Strawberry Festival.  My vision is clear, I now see what I must say and do. Forsooth:  
 
1.  Proselytization:  Dear lambs, I am soon embarking on another extended spiritual journey, this time far beyond this hemisphere.  I am venturing downunder to the lands of Australia and Fiji for the remainder of this month, beginning very soon, to spread the Word of Starfirism, seek further followers of Pee Wee and gain further enlightenment.  During this extended absence, I will not be able to converse with you, at least not in any wordly language.  
 
2.  The Second Coming:  Do not despair, my flock;  there will be a second coming of the Prophet to this domain!  And when I return, Pee Wee shall rule the Earth!  Then the Multiverse!
 
3.  Nolo contendere:  I hereby turn over my blogospheric fate to my Lambs, to praise or scorn my words as they wish, to revere or to mock me at their option, in my absence.  For I have no use for any worldly victory or defeat in the Dog-o-blogosphere.  I hope other(s) win, so that my defeat will poignantly resonate down through the ages, as a symbol of the high regard I hold all members of the Starfarian Guild:  the Kardinal, the Swami and yes, even the Ziphler.  And the worldly sacrifice I made in the name of Pee Wee.
 
4.  Rephraser on "stun":  Although I have dropped out of the competition, I do hereby humbly accept the beseechment of Sean, Servant of Try-Godless, to represent him in these proceedings.  
 
5.  Opening Statement:  Dear Guild, I represent Mr. Sean Kennedy, a fine human being.  Mr. Kennedy has been outragrously accused of things he didn't do and doesn't deserve.  My client, Mr. Kennedy, is totally innocent.  In fact, the record clearly establishes that there isn't a mean bone in his body.  My first act in representation of Mr. Kennedy is to enter a plea of "not guilty by reason of insantiy" on his behalf.  To establish this defense, I submit to the esteemed members of the Guild the following incontrovertible proof:  it is UNDISPUTED that Mr. Kennedy professes not to believe in Starfirism!  He further has been documented babbling on incoherently about his irrational belief in some "Try-goddess" or something!  Thus, although obviously a kind and deeply caring human being, Mr. Kennedy is clearly out of his mind, and MUST be found not guilty by reason of he's bonkers.  I rest my case.      
 
6.  Prophet profit (aka taxation without representation):  I hereby appoint Ziphler as my most astute financial advisor and legal "assistant" to determine the appropriate attorney fee, payable by Sean, for the above-rendered legal services, to be divided 50-50 between me and Ziphler.    
 
7.  Prophet flash:  Besse mi Cool-o.  Upon emerging from the forest, I have decreed that not only is kissing the Prophet's derriere permitted, it is now a Kardinal tenet of Starfirism.  Kiss away, grasshoppers, my hind cheeks joyously await your enthusiastic, amorously extended lips!
 
8.  4-way street:  Lest you be deluded and conclude that item #7 is a totally selfish commandment, be advised that it is 2-way, fully mutual.  Therefore, the Prophet hereby plants a big wet one on all 6 deserving cheeks of his sweet Guilded lambs.  
 
9.  No raspberries:  One last Commandment to the Guild and all followers of Pee Wee:  THOU SHALT GO TO THE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL NEXT SEPTEMBER!  Or suffer eternal perdition in the unending purgatory of the Dog-o-blog-o-sphere!
 
PEEce.
 
Yours in Peeweenicus,
 
--The Prophet Miguelito
"I shall return"

MIGUELITO
Day 15   2006 22:06
RE: Verse 1 of The Gospel of Saint Les Paul
For those of you who missed my last message, here it is again, due to popular demand!
 
--the Proph
-deleted by the department of redundancy department-

SEAN 
day 16  2006 07:47
RE: REPENT!
 
Dan-That's got to be a minus 10 points for Mike for sending the same email twice.
 
Ok people, I've come to my senses. This has been a fun waste of time. I quit.
Sean

 

SEAN LANDS SQUARE IN THE PENALTY BOX FOR WHINING. THE JUDGES HOWEVER WILL ALLOW HIS CONFESSION AS A QUITTER TO STAND
 

the following is penalty box blubbering. be careful not to step in it. we will have it cleaned up shortly

NEW THOUGHT
Mike-you are going to be playing with Dan and I at this mystery block party, are you not? I suggest we: 1. get a songlist together, chart arrangements and mp3 of all songs, and distribute. 2. Lets start with 20 songs. For a regular band that would be 2 sets. For a jammin band possibly 3 sets.  3. To play a gig and sound half decent, I suggest 2 o 3 rehearsals.4. have to find a place to rehearse.Yes, what I am suggesting is replacing this waste of time with a "Real" waste of time, i.e., playing music.Sean
NEW THOUGHT Mike-you are going to be playing with Dan and I at this mystery block party, are you not?
 
I suggest we:
 
1. get a songlist together, chart arrangements and mp3 of all songs, and distribute.
 
2. Lets start with 20 songs. For a regular band that would be 2 sets. For a jammin band possibly 3 sets.  3. To play a gig and sound half decent, I suggest 2 or
3 rehearsals.
 
4. have to find a place to rehearse.  
Yes, what I am suggesting is
replacing this waste of time
with a "Real" waste of time,

i.e., playing music.  
 

ZIPHLER 
day 16   2006 19:25
RE: REPENT!
 
You are all on the money but behind the eight ball. Pending a final summation from Keislar the blog is over. Final tallies and various hidden intendos and agendas will be revealed by Friday evening. Two major hidden agendas have been accomplished. Yes Sean, as you may recall I broke into this already ongoing blog long ago and only for getting the band together however, another objective has been accomplished. I refer to a class assignment given to the three of you for keislar's birthday. An assignment you all failed but due to some recent epiphanies demonstrated by all three an assignment I have reason to believe you all may yet redeem yourselves on. Clarity will arrive to all by Saturday. Miguelito When do you leave for down under and are you planning any swims with the stingrays?

  DAY 17 SEAN IS OUT OF THE PENALTY BOX

MIGUELITO 
day 17    2006 00:30
RE: REPENT!
 
All:
 
Sean, Bob and Dan are all fired!  I abdicate! 
 
The theory of band practice sounds great, but I'm leaving for Australia in a week for the rest of the month and I'm too distracted to do any planning now.  Catch me when I return October 1!  You guys can start practicing without me. Send me a draft song list, I'll edit or add some.  Covers or originals?  I'd prefer originals and would love to do some Street Dog originals, like She's Only Crying, etc. in addition to songs by everyone including moi. 
 
I don't recall that this "block party" has any date attached to it yet, either precisely or even vaguely.  If you want to nail this down, it would be good to announce the date or datish.  Maybe you did and I missed it.  
 
BTW, don't forget that Miguelito's pad is already custom equipped for band practice, with large carpeted air conditioned practice space, psychedelic lighting and Ginormous PA!  I don't relish hauling my big fat keyboard all over the Bay Area for practice, unless of course Ziphler's roadies are part of this deal.  HINT:  let's practice at my groovy pad!
 
If I get any grief from my ex-Lambs, I WILL swim with the stingrays!  Otherwise looking forward to EVERYTHING!
 
--Mike, aka Miguelito, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Prophet, aka TAFKAP
 
 
Pedro, as twisty as they get this blog has got me reaching for the Dramamine. Despite ZIPHLER'S somewhat heavy handed [but light hearted] attempt at forced derailment to the Cardinal's complete advantage, without the Cardinal's summation, this blog is still alive! And My GOD, what does MIGUELITO do? LADIES AND GENTLEMAN MIGUELITO HAS FALLEN ON HIS SWORD. THREE BLOGGERS LAY BLEEDING AT THE CARDINAL'S FEET, ALL THEIR WOUNDS - SELF-INFLICTED! WAITING  FOR THE KARDINAL WITH AN ANTHONY HOPKINS SLITHER TO HIS TONGUE, TO SAUTEE THEM IN ETERNITY. WHY DOESN'T THE CARDINAL MAKE HIS MOVE? ZIPHLER IS ACTUALLY STILL MOBILE AND I SUSPECT HE IS TRYING TO LURE THE CARDINAL OUT FOR A REASON  .  .  BUT WHAT?

SEAN 
Day 19    2006 09:45
Subject: a bit of comedy for Friday-hilarious
See Sean Knock one outta the park
 
 
 
 
AKBAR IS SEAN TWISTING HIS HARI-KARI BLADE?
 
NO PEDRO, unbelievable as it must seem to all of our viewers just look at the url  cited . sean has done the impossible. Sean has
threaded the blogseye
 

MIGUELITO
day 19   2006 18:52
RE: a bit of comedy for Friday-hilarious
 
Oh, that is good!  Despite the obvious omission of Starfirism.  Thanks for the yuk!
 
--Mike
 
 
By meeting all criteria for both relevance and for substantively distilling the majority content of the blog:
 
Sean's cited URL has STRUNG THE NEEDLE and like that, Kennedy has turned a routine "I quit" into blogging's equivalent of a kicker takes win, field goal. And just like that, as the third quarter was ticking down  all the players seemingly ready cut to the chase:
 
a brutal and bloody,
 
    shockingly intimate,
 
bitch fight between
Ziphler and Keislar !
 
Miguelito and Sean were seeming to lay down their arms [and at the same time grovel in a most unseemly way for a pair of box seat spectator passes] in acceptance of the inevitable, when Sean, in what appeared at first to be an inane blog suicide, cited yet another outside URL! BUT son of a gun if he didn't thread the eye of the blog! There is only one other instance of a KO by threading the eye and I don't know when that was but it happened.
 
 
BLOG by KNOCKOUT   SEAN
 
 
 
IT DOESN'T END HERE FRIENDS. IT SEEMS SEAN'S ATTEMPTS TO TRAP MIGUELITO IN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST EARLIER HAS CONVOLUTED THIS ASTOUNDING PERFORMANCE OF THE GREATEST BLOGGING TEAM EVER which will certainly mean the doll still goes to Miguelito.
 
BUT WAIT!
 
- we have just learned that the PEE WEE doll, thought to simply be a flea market artifact that the NBL officials were preparing for shipment to MIGUELITO has spoken! YES IT HAS UTTERED SPOKEN WORD. I KID YOU NOT! SOMEONE BETTER BE AT MIGUELITO'S SIDE WHEN HE OPENS THIS PACKAGE. I SWEAR, THIS IS NO JOKE!

MIGUELITO
day 19 2006 22:56
 
Wunnerful a wunnerful!  But you never revealed what Sean's attorney fee to us is!  It should be at least enough to keep me in Pee Wee dolls the rest of my life.
--Miguelito

 
GOSH PEDRO. YA GOTTA WONDER IF MIGUELITO IS LISTENING TO THE LATEST RUMORS FROM THE ANCIENT PEEWEE ARTIFACT EXCAVATION SITE IN LOS ALAMOS, CALIFORNIA.
 
That's right Akbar. This veteran knows how to win and his eye is right on the money but does he understand the sleeping PEEWEE giant that his ruminations are awakening? I'd want to have someone watching my back right now and maybe he does.

ZIPHLER
day 20  2006 11:40
 
When you hear it speak even you, having now shown yourself [with your assumption that there are multiple Peewees] to be a false prophet, will understand, there is only one PEE WEE

ZIPHLER
day 20  2006 11:40
Subject: correction
 
Inventory control reminds me that there are actually two PEE WEEs.
 
IN ADDITION, the judges have yet to sound the final buzzer because until day 28 it is possible for Cardinal Keislar to unthread the blogseye. This latest ruling in no way is a reflection of the quintupling in ticket sales since the hint of a bitch fight between Keislar and Ziphler has hit the rumor mill.

SEAN 
day 22   2006 07:11
Subject: RE: Microsoft's correction of my last email: "no kidding"
 
I found this amazing book, "the Language of God" by Francis Collins, scientist and director of the human genome project which broke the human DNA code.
 
I've got through the 1st 2 chapters and I would say its extremely relevant to the discussions we were having about faith and reason.
 
This would be an especially good book for Bob, for he describes himself as a "priest of the cult of science"
as does the good Kardinal.
 
Dan might enjoy it to because he is also a medical doctor (beside being a PhD chemist and biochemist).
 
Be wary though, he may impact your thinking.....
 
Sean the wily

 
KEISLAR
Day 24 2006 06:59
RE: Microsoft's correction of my last email: "no kidding"
 
Sean,
 
I never said "priest in the cult of science."
 
And, no offense, Sean, but you're just the guy to misuse the word "cult" in referring to science.
 
What I said was, scientists are the latter-day monks. The average research scientist works so hard (60-80 weeks are common), in close comradie with other "monks" in these sub-communities called universities (like monasteries), for measly academic salaries (room and board is all some monks get), in search of truth, however mundane or insignificant that truth may be regarded by you big-headed theologians! And sometimes, we monks are so busy, we forget to have sex! (Like many monks of old didn't have sex.)
 
Science is not a cult. Science is organized knowledge based on observation and experiment.
 
What Huston Smith refers to in "Why Religion Matters", the word science-ism (or some such paraphrasing), could be considered a cult. That's people who worship science (and often technology is thrown in, although science and technology are different). Huston Smith states that in "science-ism" (or whatever similar word he uses, I forgot), the pursuit of science is like tunnel vision (compared to what he considers the broader view of religion), crowding out other human experiences. But I know that science isn't all of human experience. It's just that I give real weight to the hypothesis that science MAY be all that is verifiable and common to all humans. In other words, it is possible to me that all of religion(s) could be human-created.
It is very possible to me, that the "spiritual" experience that many religious people feel transcends mere science, may in actuality only be human rationales attached to a part of your brain that feels good when it gets "religious". It is possible to me that religion may not be innate in the universe at all. The basis for religion could just be a part of our brains that feels good when we pray and sing together, a part that evolved because the accompanying sense of community and commitment gives an evolutionary advantage. That's all it may be. Nothing more, even though it feels wonderful and "real" and all.
 
And I give weight to the idea that there may be no overarching god of the universe. The existence of God is something that I feel you have to take on faith. I believe that the objective evidence, demonstrable across cultures, is inconclusive either way.
 
What I believe is that there MAY be an overarching "consciousness." I think Mike backs me up on this, though he may not admit it outright, at least not the way I've worded it. No matter what planet you evolved on or what medium you use to support your brain (the hardware, be it carbon or silicon, the only two I know of so far), the mind (the software) may be universal or "overarching" because it can tap into and communicate with other consciousness. But consciousness (ours, for example) need not come from a god. It could just exist . . . It could have just evolved, with no point, rhyme or reason. It might simply just be . . .
 
I'll check out "Language of God," but I think I know the story. The DNA code may well have evolved randomly, not through divine plan or deed. God, as the monotheists envision him, may be completely out of the picture, irrelevant, wrong-headed, human-concocted to put a rationale to this otherwise advantageous blood-flow spot in our brains.
 
But I don't' know. I don't pretend to know. I'm an agnostic. I don't think I'll ever really know. Yet I consider myself an open-minded guy, with a healthy skepticism. I live my life in full knowledge that I don't know. But I consider it an advantage that I don't fool myself, the way I'm afraid so many religious people fool themselves.
 
Of course, I can't judge them. Of this I am certain: we are all free to choose our own meaning in this world . . . and the meaning for religious people is just as valid as my meaning is for me. In contrast, most religious people don't think this. They usually think that there's only one meaning, God's meaning, their God's meaning. And they usually think that their religion has a monopoly, or, at least the best short-cut, to the "one, true"
meaning, their God's meaning as put forth in the (insert sacred text of choice). Religion does not dominate my thoughts, as I suppose it might dominate yours at Mass. Religion might be true, but the odds of any one specific dogma (e.g., Catholic dogma as opposed to Hindu or Buddhist dogma) being true are prohibitive in my opinion. It's just not likely that any one dogma could be specifically true at all.
 
That's why I'm attracted to science. At least I have a basis for claiming to know what I think we know, however mundane and spiritually unfulfilling that knowledge may be to theologians.
 
Meanwhile, I think you're just a great person, Sean. In fact, I KNOW it, despite our philosophical differences. How do I know it? It's not science. I just KNOW it! End of story.
 
Bob K.
 

ZIPHLER
day 24   2006 08:04
RE: Microsoft's correction of my last email: "no kidding"
 
Well I really thought Sean had an easy win but Mr. Keislar just pulled a slam-dunk out of his hat and with just 4 days left in the match. Unfortunately I'm off to have one of Bob's everyday-is-a good-day days at work just when this juicy morsel lands in my silicon banks which is unfortunate because the last four paragraphs need to be ripped to shreds (actually not the last one but the other three). Even with that Bob's spasm of brilliance was, well brilliant. Why are you suddenly so smart Bob? I mean in a truly balanced left right brain kind of way. It must be that Hollywood chick you're banging.  .  Or, is it teenage sons?

SEAN 
day 24   2006 08:19
RE: Microsoft's correction of my last email: "no kidding"
 
Haven't read your whole email Bob, but I didn't mean that comment maliciously, at least I don't think I did. Sorry if I mischaracterized. I think you probably were offended that I called science a "cult". Of course you can't take that seriously. Science is the most important tool to learn about our physical world and how it works. But....Science will never answer, "why are we here?" (From Francis Collins book-but I think I've also said that before). One could take the position that that question is irrelevant, I guess. I was just thinking, and this could be wrong, that I have a hypothesis about God, i.e., that there must have been a creator of the universe (or multiverse if you prefer, however, that too is speculation) and you have a hypothesis that the creation of matter and energy occurred by itself. Hey, may the best theory win because I want to know the truth, and nothing but the truth.
 
I reading that book I told you about and it has a lot of interesting stuff about the latest in physics and genetics. You're probably more familiar with science's "latest" than I am.
 
Sean

MIGUELITO
day14, 2006 11:35
Subject: RE: SIGNS
 
Give me a SIGN, Lord, just gimme a SIGN!

SEAN 
day 24, 2006 17:25
Subject: Question of the day
 
Who wrote this?
 
"...the extreme difficulty, or rather the impossibility, of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity for looking far backwards or far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist."
 
Bet you'll never guess.
 
Be good scientists. Consider the hypothesis with an open mind. At least study the hypothesis. If the hypothesis is weak, by all means list and investigate the limitations; decide it's not for you. But be honest, if it has some support and positive points, explore those. Listen to your mind and your heart.
Exercise free will.
 
Sean

MIGUELITO
day 25   2006 00:59
RE: Answer of the day
 
You wrote it.
You sat down at your computer
and typed everyone word of it.
Seriously Sean, can we just
drop it? 
 
--God-
 

SEAN 
day 25   2006 07:56
RE: Answer of the day
 
Ok Mike, I'll drop it.
 
I don't want to bring you down under! Have a great time there. Do you have a guitar with you? Send me back one.
 
Sean

SEAN 
day 25   2006 09:25
RE: Question of the day
 
 
Dam, I knew I couldn't put one over on Bob.
 
OK, Bob wins the bet. Z, please immediately award 20 points to the Kardinal for measured and reasonable response. In recompense, I shall have to read his whole email in yahoo split format (not an easy task but I'm up to it-perhaps the primary reason I don't like long emails), and shall list all points of agreement and not disagree with any.
 
Once again, I hereby state for the record that I will keep my God thoughts to myself and not bother the bloggers, particularly the musical missionary travelling down under.
 
My seal
 
X
 
P.S. See agreements below
KEISLAR   I'm not offended. But you're thinking was revealed, and I called it on  you! You only tease the ones you love, Sean! You don't have to read that  email or this one. I'm just having fun as you probably guessed. Darwin is known to have half-heartedly (if not whole-heartedly) converted back to Christianity in his sunset years, or near death, and/or on his deathbed, depending on the biographer you're reading.
Yes, he actually went back and forth.
Religion is comforting. A benevolent God, God's plan, life eternal, see your loved ones again in heaven, etc. All good stuff.
Yes, people can use religion for their own comfort, as a crutch. If used only for self-centered reasons such as that, you get the right-wing evangelist political-religious blend of feel good, capitalistic "God wants to make me rich" philosophy. They won't experience true peace. 
My father was a Methodist minister, a college professor, and a dynamic lecturer. He could send the whole family into alpha-state at the dinner table on any given evening. The older I get, the more I appreciate that my Dad was a charismatic genius. I feel so lucky to have known him, to have been raised by him, and my open-minded Mom, a good Christian, gentle and peaceful, and far more honest, thoughtful and believable than some Bible-Thumpers I know.
Very cool. I have to say over the last few years I have gained a great respect for Methodism. They are my brothers, and I don't mind being part of their community, which I am.
Believe me, Sean. I have considered the God hypothesis, or the "First  Cause" hypothesis. I considered Christianity, including Protestant v. Catholic issues. I have thought long and hard, wandering in the spiritual desert for 40 years, moving from a good Methodist teen, to just loving choir, to an almost hard agnostic 20-something, to the soft agnostic I have been since my 30s. The god hypothesis is not so much weak as just "untestable."
Excellent, now that I appreciate this I can shut up.
And, when tested against the tangible, organized religion has often been on the wrong side of the truth. In every instance where religion has been tested, (as astrology has been tested), there is no statistically significant evidence for the dogma in religion, beyond the common sense of all of us just getting along on this planet. Stated another  way, the God hypothesis cannot be distinguished from the null hypothesis in any statistically significant way. As far as science is concerned, it is equally likely that there is or isn't a "First Cause."
Good. Again it shows you've considered it.
But the difference is that we have exciting scientific hypotheses to more accurately, more fully explain some aspects of observation and experiment, without ever needing the God hypothesis.  As La Place replied to the King of France when questioned about where God was in his wave equation and other brilliant differential  mathematics, "But Sir, I have no need for that hypothesis." Nothing, in any of the articles you've sent, has changed this simple  fact. And I have (perhaps too coldly) labeled some of the far-out articles as speculation, at best. (What was that "Epoch Times International"  publisher?)
I admit, some weren't good articles.
The fact that observation changes reality, i.e., that consciousness APPEARS to have an effect on the outcome of some quantum mechanical phenomena, does not prove anything about the existence of a First Cause. It could be that consciousness warps spacetime, like gravity warps spacetime. I don't know. I'm now guilty of speculation.
Yes, you've hit on one point. It relates to quantum mechanics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Do you read that book? I'm going to try to remain neutral and consistent with what I said. Best evidence (you might consider it circumstantial) for "supernatural" (as opposed to natural which science is in the process of analyzing) is the natural law (conscience) and self-sacrificing behavioralistic tendency. (Maybe that's Z's empathy.)
But my larger point is that my heart is ready to line up with my mind when it comes to being objective. I love being as objective as I can be. And when my heart just loves (objective, subjective, who-the-hell-cares-jective), hell, I let 'er rip, and my mind comes along nicely, without needing to understand the experience, even if  there is some perfectly logical yet heretofore undiscovered  biochemical explanation for my emotions.
Yes, emotions operate from a biochemical basis, but isn't there something more there? Otherwise, people are interchangeable (its only a biochemical interaction), and then it would be perfectly logical to operate from a purely opportunistic level. No Z's empathy here-why-only if happens to be self-serving
Careful Sean-agreement only.
I don't feel like I'm missing out on the human experience, or even the spiritual experience!
Well, of course you're not. Not believing in God will not diminish your natural experience of life. Absolutely zippo.
I'm just side-stepping what may be only arbitrary, human-generated dogma as I see it, the historical accidents of religion, so to speak. I just don't need dogma, or the God hypothesis  . . . it clutters my free-thinking . . . even if I'm supposedly going to hell for such blasphemy according to Religion X.
Yes, I agree. Accepting this hypothesis will change your viewpoint, which may feel restrictive on your thinking so to speak, not your reasoning processes or your free will.
 
Sort of like when someone has cancer, your viewpoint of life radically changes.
If the god hypothesis fits the data in such a way that science cannot explain, I'm more than willing to consider it. But it hasn't, and it doesn't look promising, not so far, not for me.
What about big bang-isn't that at least-not evidence for, but consistent with a creative event?
 The universe is a fantastic place with or without God.
Amen.
I'm living a good life, with or without God.
Absolutely.
If God is real, as you claim, I'm content to watch for the hard evidence.
Well, I'm afraid there will be no hard scientific evidence. Because we're talking about a supernatural reality as opposed to natural. (My latest conception is God would not be subject to space and time. If He/she/it was, they would not be independent and would be contingent. And then we bring in the concept of
transcendent and omnipresence.)
There's plenty of religious scientists. I worked with them everyday at the University of Nevada Desert Research Institute. We always had great discussions . . Believe me, if there was a way to scientifically prove the existence of God, geniuses Christian scientists would be all over it, like white on rice. But there isn't .  . . not yet anyway. I'm open-minded . . . but I gotta tell ya, in all  honesty, it doesn't look promising.

MIGUELITO
Day 25    2006 11:53
RE: Answer of the day
 
Thank you thank you thank you!  I thought for a moment I might have to launch back into dogma-busting mode . . . .  Tragically, I do NOT have a guitar with me!  (Traveling light).  Lots of dijeridoos though!
 
Mike
 
p.s. Probably someone like Einstein.

ZIPHLER
Day 26   2006 06:49
Subject: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
 
Miguelito,
 
If you are still down under, I need independent verification of one of this earth’s properties that has been at the top of my personal WOW list since I was young.  Does the water in the toilet and other drains down under REALLY swirl to the left?  If it does then it would be cool to watch the toilet flushing in the lavatory as the plane crosses the equator.
 
As your flock goes, I know that I have not always been the best of little lambs, and I only plan to stray further, but if you could gather this one kernel of data for me, I would seriously consider pulling some strings in the shepherd’s upcoming contract negotiations with the flock union.  I think, for instance, the union would drop their demand for studies of when lambs become sheep from a carnal point of view. I know this is a sticky topic to those with an eye for our tenderness. I for one am starting to enjoy the shepherds’ new lambs only, midnight PEEWEE -fests.

 
RE: Miguelito's not so silent lambs: Gentleman, the current blog is over and no more submissions will be entertained. Akbar and Pedro will have the last word and we will update the site in a few days.
 
A few of the highlights:
 
While it first appeared that Bob and Sean had engaged in a back-channel discussion, I am currently following an electronic trail of whoa that may show a surreptitious saboteur had been Bob’s address back up the reply-to-all trail to make it appear as if he had started the backchannel chat. Yawn.
 
The PEEWEE will ship as early as today, directly to Miguelito if someone can sign for it on Cash River or he gives me another way he can receive a FedEx package. Here’s the shipping address I currently have on file
 
 
 
 
Bob and Sean, safely contained in the penalty box until after the final buzzard, Mike and Dan will probably split the winnings and both be fabulously rich.
 
I will announce a new strategy to realize my lifetime commitment  to shedding THE  light on the virtues of html format over text format email and the crotchety close-minded pedantic  nature of old men who cling to text format because of its imagined purity.
 
 
 

ZIPHLER
day 27 21:43
the sad truth about PEE WEE
 
It turns out the PEEWEE does not really talk but is in actuality a fully functional professional ventriloquist dummy.  We can only surmise therefore, that this WHOLE thing has been a WIZARD of OZ-(movie, not book version)-style hoax, cruelly perpetrated by Miguelito, and just as the quaking, pious, wimpy, faith-based, spastic, lunatics club the scientists to death for discovering that God is actually just a word spelled backward (that word is dog), our three abused lambs will turn menacingly toward the EARL of Cash River.
 

Given this final development, Dan will probably have to be declared the supreme winner and will give a short acceptance speech on the idiocy of idiocy and the equality of the three big zeros: believers, agnostics, and atheists.

 
SEAN 
day 26    2006 07:51
Re: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
In between my pondering the multiverse, God, and the meaning of life, I sometimes wonder: Is it Z, the Z on drugs, or another person who has dispensed with Z and is using his identity?
 
These are profound questions.
 
For I must admit, during our college formative years, the Z's penchant for creative writing and razor sharp wit lay dormant (to my eyes at least).
 
Just another mystery to ponder.....
 
Latest music stuff:
 
I'm learning some jazz standards. I tell you, there are so many great songs out there.
 
Here's a tip I learned lately. If the nut on your guitar makes this ping sound when you tune, like its alternately slipping and gripping, take some lead pencil shavings and apply it to the string wells on the nut, and it will keep it from gripping.
 
Ta Ta for now 
 
 

MIGUELITO
day 26   2006 15:42
Re: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
Hey Sean,
 
Thanks for the tip, my nuts have been pinging for years.  Now I know why I always keep a tube of graphite handy.
 
With respect to Z, I think you're on to something there.  I've had the same doubts as to whether it's really him composing these wildly deranged semi-intelligible creative outbursts, or just a brilliant stand-in he hired, using the vast medical wealth the Z extorted from the diseased needy masses, to ghost write for him.  Given his vast underground cache of priceless collectible Pee Wee dolls, you know he can afford it. 
 
With love from
--Miguelito, spreading the Gospel of Pee Wee Down Under

MIGUELITO
Day 26  2006 15:51
RE: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
My dearest Dr. Ziphler,
 
I will try to do as you bid, however I have encountered an obstacle.  All these Aussie toilets flush, not in a circle, but linearly.  Therefore, I haven't yet noticed any "swirling" at all.  It's more like a gargling.  Probably the result of the peculiar "Caroma" brand of Aussie toilets I've been frequenting (a little too close to "Aroma" for my tastes).
 
I know that's hard to comprehend, but it's true.  Nonetheless, as I am about to check out of my Sydney youth hostel I will try to run an experiment to satisfy your scientific curiosity and earn me some Pee Wee points.  (Heading to Byron Bay next, where more experimentation may ensue.)
 
Yes, indeed you have my correct postal coordinates, however all mail has been stopped pending my return from down under on Sept. 30.  Don't know what the post office does with it in the mean time, perhaps it would be better to wait till I return.  I'm so excited!!!!
 
My compliments to your ghost writers!  (Sung to the tune of "Ghost Writers In the Sky".) 
 
--Miguelito, Down Under

ZIPHLER
day 26 2006 15:54
RE: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
Ok, I mean swirl to the right
 
Oh and Sean, interesting you should mention that cause one of the original identity thieves was living in our house in phoenix when caught. Ever since, whenever I try to use plastic more than three times in one day I get shut down until I call up the bank and play 20 questions with a very humorless fraud technician.
 

MIGUELITO
day  26 2006 22:23
RE: Afore a fergit n after eyes remember
 
WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ZIEGLER'S BODY??!?!?!!!!
 
Miguelito, the Multiversally-acknowledged Prophet of Pee Wee
 

 
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