ritual of addiction Wednesday, 18 January 2006
Posted by cerebralgraffitti in junky, rif raf.8 comments
assume, for a moment, an atheist perspective … just for the purposes of reading this piece …
do you ever wonder why the evolutionists and scientists don’t burn with desire to ‘convert’ the ‘non-believers’ …. ? i mean, they don’t believe that Moses parted the Red Sea … that some omnipotent entity sits up in heaven, playing his little chess game, with US as the game pieces, mind-fucking us … like … mind-fuck after mind-fuck …? they do have access to the mounds and mounds of scientific evidence (science=’makes sense’) in favour of evolution, the big-bang theory … so …
mind-boggling, isn’t it? how thousands and thousands of people AROUND the world just don’t see the science written on the proverbial wall, huh? well, you certainly think this of you’re among the science-thinking type, i guess … but not if you exist under the ‘god’ delusion … yet, those who see the ‘truth and the light’ (science=truth … and where there’s truth there’s light) do not seek to convert the less enlightened creationists … go figure …
well … it’s not really THAT mind-boggling, when you consider that one cannot ever hope to ‘convert’ a creationist, given the strong ritualistic facet of religions … a belief wrapped in rituals … beliefs … they don’t need to make sense, do they? rituals … we cling to our rituals … seek solace in them, shelter in them, peace in them, envelope ourselves in them … to the point of fanatacism and even self-harm/death (think: suicide bombers, pilgrims to mecca). that’s religion, folks … and the religious types exist inside the walls their rituals have erected …
beliefs … rituals … self-harm … hmmmmm …. doesn’t …. that …. sound …. like …. like … addiction? yes …. yes … i think so …. it does, doesn’t it? so … all these people out there kling to religion … god – because it’s their DRUG of CHOICE. That’s right … religion as a drug.
so … think about the ridiculous ‘war on drugs’ … do you think that preaching to ‘convert’ disfunctional/deviant drugs addicts based on science and common sense will really have the effect of getting addicts to give up their DRUG of CHOICE? of course not … drug use, it’s couched in ritual … belief … maybe even superstition … remember, rituals comfort, shelter, soothe … we need rituals to exist in our daily lives …
so … i wonder … why is addiction to some things in life okay … but not others …. who gets to decide what’s okay and what’s not ….? and when will the DEA-minded folks realize the war on drugs has the same effect on existence as does the intifada?
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wild-eyed dream Tuesday, 17 January 2006
Posted by cerebralgraffitti in junky, poetry.add a comment
I felt the needle enter my vein
Morpheus raced down the track
My track, obliterating my track
Morpheus swallowed me, whole
The purple crocus sneered at me,
poking its head through the damp, cold earth
Grass blades, the colour of freshly vomited bile,
snickering – muffled munckin chortles and giggles
Eery sway of tree
branches crackling like decrepit floor boards
Mournful, haunting faces in gnarled, knotted trunks
Smoke plume – a twisting corkscrew of smoke engulfs me
Her face appeared – old, sunken, dark
She opened her grotesque mouth:
a votex, nothing else
The whispered crackle of rotting flesh,
the sweet sickly pungent odour of dying meat
maggots, teaming maggots
Loud glint – blinding
Vision ebbs to shadows
A shrieking siren
Red light, blue light
The wild-eyed dream, ended
