the art of coy inquiry

help

2011-09-26T22:19:00.002-04:00

how often have you said...

"i am only trying to help"

when what you meant was...

"i am really trying to control"

and you never knew...

why the person you were trying to help went away...

...

who is that chameleon in the mirror?

2011-07-08T23:34:00.000-04:00

could i be the mirror that smiles inside all the time and yet, to those who see me as their reflection (the strange chameleon posture and facial expression is what does it, but some secrets may be beyond current consciousness), or projection, afraid to actualize the love and share the trust that inspires the smile, i am as they wish me to be...

no wonder they complain about me so much, and vice versa :}

nothing coy about it

2011-01-04T05:20:00.000-05:00

if you do not do it, you lose it
if you do not do it, it does not exist
even if you think it does
even if you create a feeling inside
that fools you into believing you do
if you do not do it, you don't

did you care today?
what did you do?

value

2010-10-29T00:51:00.003-04:00

facebook is appalled! (or is it appalling?)… no, really, what do you truly value in this life?

social what?

2010-10-25T01:55:00.000-04:00

laughing at the fact that i get text messages to remind me to check facebook messages that remind me of events i have been invited to (sometimes)... and laughing at myself for rhetorically wondering whatever happened to phone calls (oh yeah, voicemail :)

feel free to let me know

2010-10-19T00:30:00.002-04:00

when i start mattering to you

callous sense

2010-07-07T03:35:00.000-04:00

sensitivity isn't worth much when it's covered in calluses... but are the calluses on the inside or the outside or both... and does the answer answer the question, "who cares?"...

does the chuckle offend?

2010-06-27T05:47:00.003-04:00

what we have here is a failure to communuicate, or at least one video with seven comments, not to be confused with snow white and the seven dwarfs, at all... no offense intended, but i found this blog called out for the reproduction of the following facebook post composed of, as aforementioned, a video and commentary conversation of sorts that may not be art, but is certainly coy:

which lead to the following commentary, the last of which may be considered to be the epitomy of coy inquiry, hence, part of this blog:

1)
Lightning is an act of God..not sure whether making statues is and act of God:)

2)
May be she missed! :-D

3)
I watched it twice looking for the offensive parts and could not find them. What aspect of the video offended your Christian friends? Was it the chuckle in his voice when he described the destruction of an inanimate object? Was it the mention of Zeus?

4)
I don't see what would have been offensive about it, either, unless Christians are offended by unbelievers taking Christian superstitions at face value.

5)
Well, if I was a Christian, the chuckle in his voice when he described the destruction of an inanimate object would certainly offend me. And that's not just any inanimate object, that Jesus Christ! Moreover, Christians get offended for everything said that goes against their beliefs. So I'm just doing my best to be sensitive while making a point. :-)

6)
Most Christians I know would think that the "Touchdown Jesus" statue is ridiculous and would have been almost as ready to make fun of it as would any irreverent atheist

7)
everything explained based on presupposition of belief in the supernatural will be logical for those believing in that particular supernatural concept... so the burning of the rather large statue of jesus can easily be explained as a) god reminding christians about the old testament edict about no engraved images or physical idols, i mean, the purest interpretation is do not worship a man-made thing, even if it is a 66 foot jesus... on the other hand, forgetting the old testament, as many moderns do, the burning by lightning could be viewed as b) god's way of shaking up the flock, testing the faith, a world trade center wake up call to believers of sorts... of course from a secular view, one could test the adage about lightening never striking twice in the same spot by building another 66 foot jesus and waiting... , with due respect to mr. beckett, godot might arrive before the next strike, or before the second coming, for that matter, but it would be something to do during the wait...

i would have liked this video to be produced without the chuckle, as a very serious question... perhaps some youtube afficianado might overdue the audio and therein not distract from the question, but then, that might lead to an array of answers c) d) e) and so on that i doubt i'd want to read... still, others might, so thanks for the thoughts...

i was watching a video the other day that was very seriously attesting that lightening attracted aliens to our planet to re-charge their space ships... i am waiting for the aliens to confirm, but godot might arrive before they do too...

of course there are those who don't believe in godot, again, with due respect to mr. beckett, who has no investiment in this comment except to be a foil for an amusement in my head, which leaves me with this next thought-provocking question i will leave unanswered, just cuz i can...

if a body dropped from a plane landed on my head, would god have dropped the body and if so, would it have been dropped randomly or on purpose?...

and there we see the danger, or several of them at least, of staying awake all night watching movies and browsing the internet...

let this be a lesson for us all...

twitterisms

2010-06-08T02:39:00.001-04:00

is it time to retire from meaningul discussion and join twitter?...

or coy responses

2010-05-16T05:14:00.006-04:00

being grown ups

2010-03-01T01:34:00.001-05:00

on the responsibility of being and understanding (or understanding being, for that matter)...

does simplification of everything into judgements of good and bad really make it easier for children to understand life, pain, tragedy, cruelty, and ultimately death or is it really the grown ups who placate their own fear by creating a black and white good and evil delusional rationalization to avoiding facing the responsibility and their own actions in this life, on this planet, and in this universe?...

vegania

2010-02-16T22:34:00.000-05:00

is it arrogance, ignorance, common sense, or foolish guilt that defines life simply by mobility and five senses?...

anything like "made in his image?"

just sayin...

grandma's birthday

2010-01-14T00:59:00.002-05:00

today is the grandma’s birthday, though by the time these words are finally date stamped on the internet, in a blog entry, no doubt, it’ll probably be yesterday, or tomorrow, depending on your perspective of time and space and reality and illusion and dead people, but then, who knows if there is time after death, no less life, or whatever, or chocolate, for that matter, so I’ll just continue doing my thing which has been, for most of this life, being loyal to a dream of being loyal to true love, my word, and friends, even if it’s only brought me abuse and abandonment, but grandma would be proud…

show me someone who cares when it’s inconvenient, after all…

pre-existing conditions

2009-12-11T01:33:00.000-05:00

"Did the universal health care reform bill not receive the serious concern and care it needed and deserved, and ultimately die, because it had a pre-existing condition?"

craig ferguson writers, paraphrased

later

2009-12-07T04:45:00.001-05:00

all will be revealed...

until then, there's this...