11/8/04
DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY.
"Don't mourn, boys, organize."-- Joe Hill (last words)
Rely not on the teacher, but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of the teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on experience. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- the Buddha, Kalama Sutra
They've been sleeping on your shoulder
They've been crying in your beer
And They've sung you all Their sad lullabies,
And you thought They wanted sympathy and didn't care for souls,
And They never were about to put you wise.
But I'm telling you today
That it ain't the only way
And there's shit you won't be eating any more
They've been paying you to love it,
But the time has come to shove it,
And it isn't a resistance, it's a war
It's a war
It's a war
Light one up before you mosey out that door.
Once you cuddled 'em and kissed 'em
but we're bringing down Their system
and it isn't a resistance, it's a war...
--Thomas Pynchon, "Road Song of the Counterforce," Gravity's Rainbow
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
--Abbie Hoffman
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
-- Philippians 4:8
There's no card so black that you can't deal it
There's no wound so deep that you can't heal it
There's no law so high that you can't appeal it
But there's no hope at all
No there's no hope at all
If you can't feel it
There's no dog so big that you can't bind it
There's no spy so keen that you can't blind it
There's no promise so lost that you can't remind it
But there's no hope at all
No there's no hope at all
If you can't find it
Give yourself hope for your birthday
Send yourself hope in the mail
Hope is a well when you're thirsty
Hope in your heart is a sail
Feed yourself hope for your breakfast
Take your hope out to the park
Hope is a rope when you're slipping
Hope is a light in the dark
There's no fate so hard that you can't refuse it
There's no fear so cold that you can't lose it
There's no crime so great that you can't accuse it
But there's no hope at all
No there's no hope at all
If you don't choose it
No there's no hope at all
There's no hope at all
If you don't use it
-- Amber Tide, "No Hope At All"