martes, 22 de febrero de 2022

THE DEVIL´S HOOK: MONEY

Source: Wikimedia Commons.


By H.G. von Österreich und von Toskana

One of my favourite pastimes is reading old books and journals on literature, arts and sciences, for in them I usually find imperishable and infinite jewels, like the one I am posting here, what may be called the devil´s hook:

 

“Money secures friendships, commands respect, procures titles, softens justice; obtains even royal favours. Honours shower upon wealthy persons, whereas beggars – fortune´s wretched outcasts – receive nothing except cutting insults.”

Autor: I. K. (1880).

[“El dinero consigue amistades, comanda respeto, procura títulos, suaviza la justicia; obtiene incluso favores de la realeza. Honores llueven sobre las personas adineradas, mientras que los mendigos – indigentes parias de la fortuna – no reciben nada excepto insultos hirientes.”]

 

References

I.K. (1980. No title. Truth. A Weekly Journal, 8 (183-209): 146.

 

domingo, 31 de diciembre de 2017

MAN CHANGING HIS CHANGES

Source: Wikipedia.

By Gundhramn Hammer
December 31, 2017
 
Man is never happy unless he makes changes 
to what he changed and changed him. 



EL HOMBRE CAMBIANDO SUS CAMBIOS

El hombre nunca está feliz a no ser que cambie
lo que ha cambiado y que lo cambió a él.


sábado, 21 de octubre de 2017

WHAT´S YOUR LIFE FOR?

By Gundhramn Hammer 
October 21, 2017 

What is important in life is not what you do in life
but what you become in life with what you do in life.
Let what you do in life
be part of what you should become in life:
A kind human being.


viernes, 19 de febrero de 2016

POWER IS SHIT: THE HIGHER YOU CLIMB, THE DEEPER THE SCHEIßE

Source: EnCognitive.com.

By Gundhramns Hammer
February 19, 2016

In the world of human politics, if you scratch deeply, the higher you climb, the deeper you descend into the pit where you will be swallowed by Scheiße (shit).

In human terms, power is shit. 

Definitely, it could be otherwise in the hands of wise leaders but those that wield it in our world tend to be nothing but morons possessed by evil forces, serving the Hidden Hand´s hidden agenda, and thus they use it only to step on the meek and weak, to exploit people, to fuck humans and nonhumans up on a massive scale and, of course, to be held in awe and ass-licked by robotic masses of people that know nothing of what they should know to know what they do not know but nevertheless they should and must know to be able to weigh properly what they are told to do when they are told to do what they should never do if they knew what to do.

Obviously, this must change.

Nowadays everybody is talking about change: Social, political, economic, environmental, etc. Even going to the extent that those folks who sit at the top of or belong to the political and power structure along with their bunches of experts that feed off this bandwagon, to make it sound more attractive they now wrap it in nice Trojan terms such as “sustainable”, “ethical”, “environmentally friendly”, “environmentally and ethically responsible”, “culturally sensitive and respectful”, and so forth, when they too often do not live up to it or simply do not give a shit about it.

How many of you have not heard of the so-called “climate change”, for example?

This man-made phenomenon is expertly used by some people to siphon off great quantities of public funds into private hands worldwide, usually to fatten up personal banking accounts in tax havens.

The "climate crisis" will make some people even richer.

“Being or going green”, anything that can be made to look like green and can be sold like green even though is far from the truth has become big business today.

It is often used as a gimmick to market shit and thus comfort our delicate egos so that we can direct our attention away from or keep us from digging into a corporation´s pile of shit.

But nothing will change unless each of us changes.

Naturally, to do this, here is the gist of it:

Do you know what you should change?

Once you do, are you willing to change what you should change?

Herein lies the problem. 

People are too slow to change their habits. And most folks are not willing to ever change what they should change.

In general, people enjoy fucking up anything or anyone, directly or indirectly, but they don´t like to do the opposite: To unfuck what they have fucked up even if they could.

And if they change a little bit because a difficult life situation makes them change, the change is usually temporary. The change will only last as long as it is used as a lever to come back once again to the previous point where there was no change.

So, leaving technology and science aside, let us put ourselves at the extreme and ask the following questions:

  • What have the last 2000 years brought us into our own hearts?
  • Aren´t we still nothing but mere fake “civilized” savages bickering and fighting about, ready to kill anyone at the least scratch done by somebody else on our skin?
  • Spiritually speaking, how much have we grown inside?


Let us ponder on this.

We shall now leave you with three more questions:

  • Where are you on this hopeful change?
  • Are you the change? 
  • Or are you yourself being used as a mere tool by the elite to apparently change what will only keep you from changing?

viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2015

PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR DAD: WE ALREADY ARE STARS!

A beautiful star on Earth: A humble Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Photo: Milagros S. Trullen.

By Gundhramns Hammer
November 27, 2015

Dad, where are we? 

I shall tell you where you are, children. But for that you shall also need to know who you are. And ironically, you already are!

Nevertheless, in our societies, where you think you are is not where you think you are but where they want you to think you are.

This way, they can keep you where you are even though you do not think you are where you are and you are.

So where are you?

Are you where you are even when you are not where you are because you are not pleased with what you are? Or are you where you are even when you do not want to be where you are?

To see where you are you must see who you are. And at the same time, to see who you are you must see where you are.

But do it not how they tell you to do it how to find out who you are but how you are who you are without becoming who they want you to be who you are even though you are not what you think you are.

But do not lose your marbles trying to figure out who you already are in order to reach the stars when they already are where you are.

You already are stars!

Do not wait any longer what you are not waiting for but you wait for anyhow!

Children… Free yourselves!


sábado, 22 de agosto de 2015

LIFE ON A FINITE PLANET: THEIR ROOT IS YOUR ROOT TOO. SO WATCH YOUR ROOT!!

Source: Barnaby is Right.

By Gundhramns Hammer
August 22, 2015


The root of the problem may be the way you deal with the root that causes the root of what you want to uproot. 

To change such a problem is a big challenge.

What to do?

Firstly, you will have to take a good look at your own root so that you do not go around trying to uproot what you think is the root even though it may be something that has nothing to do with the root because you are the root which needs to be uprooted to connect with the root to avoid any frictions with the course of each other´s root.

Secondly, do not try to tell someone to uproot what you think is the root unless you have changed your root.

Thirdly, be careful if you see the other´s root as the root of your root because you may be in for an uprooting surprise when you are dealing with their root.

Fourthly, never assume your root is the only way to change someone else´s root. 

Fifthly, be respectful and kind.

And last, even though you may think you have the right root to uproot what you want to uproot, there is no "one root to rule them all", when applying the measure of your own root because, living on a planet of limited resources, their root is your root too.

You´d better pay close attention to what most people ignore: Life in a finite planet should always be weighed together before you attempt to change anyone´s root to uproot what may in the end leave everyone without a root at all.

So watch your root!

What is true for your own root is also true for your own nation´s root, when dealing with someone else´s root. 

An example?

What better example than the way the United States relates with the Islamic world.

The following paper may give you an insight of one root looking at someone else´s root:


Levi Michael A. & D´Arcy Michael B. (2005). Untapped Potential: US Science and Technological Cooperation with Islamic World. The Brookings, Washington, DC, USA. 98 p.

This article was first published on our blog: Gundhramns Hammer, 22nd August 2015.