Poetry by Lawrence R. Spencer. Poetic nonsense by Lawrence R. Spencer and others. Haiku poems by Lawrence R. Spencer.
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THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS BRUTAL AND UNCARING. WE ARE NOT THIS UNIVERSE.
WE CAN ENVISION NEW UNIVERSES THAT ARE WORTHY OF OUR IMMORTAL INTELLIGENCE, OUR WISDOM AND OUR LOVE.
WHAT WE CAN IMAGINE, WE CAN CAUSE.
— lawrence r. spencer. 2013. —
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I live in a “55 and older community” of homeowners. There are about 11,000 people living in this upper-middle class American “retirement resort”. The average age of the residents is about 72 years old. When I attend events and activities here I often think to myself, “Gosh, there sure a lot of old people here!” Then, I go home and look in the mirror….. It is then that I discover that I am one of the “old people”.
However, because I AM old, and because I am surrounded by other “old people”, I realize that “old people” do not think of themselves as “old”. In our minds, we see ourselves in our mind at a time when our bodies were physically fit, sexually attractive and productive! Nevertheless, even though I am only “18 years old in my mind”, the mirror reminds me that my body is more than 70 year old, and counting…..
These are the moments when I must remind myself that I am NOT the body I inhabit at this moment in the Eternal Now. I know — deep inside myself — have lived a thousand, thousand lives in bodies uncountable, on planets in galaxies unspeakable. When I remember “Who” I REALLY Am, the “man in the mirror” doesn’t seem quite as “real” as the people who live all around me seem to think. I know that I am an Immortal Spiritual Being. If your body is still young, sexually attractive and physically fit, you may want to start remembering that you are NOT the body. When your body gets “old” it will help you to remember that you are immortal, and eternally “18 in my mind”.
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François-Marie Arouet (French) 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.
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“Science” is the religion of Materialists who worship “The Creation” called the physical universe, but does not acknowledge a “source” of all that has been created. All “good science” is supposedly based on an “observation, analysis and catagorization of the characteristics and behavior of physical universe phenomenon AND the creation of theories or hypotheses to explain the mechanical function of the phenomenon.
Therefore, anything which cannot be “observed” in the physical universe is either 1) doesn’t exist or 2) is mysticism, superstition, witchcraft, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…..
Based on my definition of “science” above, I’ve discovered a new “scientific theory” which PROVES my new theory. I call it “The Theory of Permanent Disfiguration by Excessive Smiling“.
(AS YOU READ THIS POST, I AM PREPARING MY ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE.)
Here is undeniable, empirical, photographic PROOF of my Theory:
SAMPLE 1: PROOF OF DISFIGURATION FROM EXCESSIVE SMILING
SAMPLE 2: PROOF OF DISFIGURATION FROM EXCESSIVE SMILING