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To ALL the bsky.social users whose posted images, poems & words of wisdom, affirm & reaffirm that the world & some [sadly, not all] humans in it, are beautiful, undeserved gifts to me, that are far beyond my capacity & ability to ever repay.
Would that we could live with such elegant delicacy as this butterfly which (like bees)—make no mistake—is raiding & plundering that plant but leaving it more or less intact & able to live & flourish.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Would that we could live with such elegant delicacy as this butterfly which (like bees)—make no mistake—is raiding & plundering that plant but leaving it more or less intact & able to live & flourish.
Word of caution: Don't count on "the voters". In spite of, & in the the evidence ⇩ ⇩: +77M elected. CHOSE this s***t-show. Remember Jesus عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَاوَةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ? I hear he healed the blind, the lame & lepers; walked on water, fed multitudes & raised the dead, but the crowd still went for Barrabas.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Word of caution: Don't count on "the voters". In spite of, & in the the evidence ⇩ ⇩: +77M elected. CHOSE this s***t-show. Remember Jesus عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَاوَةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ? I hear he healed the blind, the lame & lepers; walked on water, fed multitudes & raised the dead, but the crowd still went for Barrabas.
“No Congre vote?” Are you surprised? Trump & much of Congress were ELECTED, CHOSEN. Why? Beats me, but what IS clear is that Trump & his Circle Jerk buddies are NOT the problem. They were put there by +77M people who can’t do simple math & can’t foresee what happens when you put foxes in a henhouse.
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“No Congre vote?” Are you surprised? Trump & much of Congress were ELECTED, CHOSEN. Why? Beats me, but what IS clear is that Trump & his Circle Jerk buddies are NOT the problem. They were put there by +77M people who can’t do simple math & can’t foresee what happens when you put foxes in a henhouse.
Seeing is more than sight; it requires also insight. Vision is sight (subjective, internal) & light (objective, external): a perfectly functioning eye is useless in the dark. Seeing is more than looking that requires understanding; & sometimes seeing not only WHAT IS THERE, but seeing WHAT IS NOT.
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Seeing is more than sight; it requires also insight. Vision is sight (subjective, internal) & light (objective, external): a perfectly functioning eye is useless in the dark. Seeing is more than looking that requires understanding; & sometimes seeing not only WHAT IS THERE, but seeing WHAT IS NOT.
I'd intended to include the following images in my previous post about what it is exactly that can, in this amazing, stupefyingly incomprehensible universe, be gleaned ONLY from photographs of objects taken from distances that can ONLY be detailed in parsecs. Are we humble enough to "see" anything?
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'd intended to include the following images in my previous post about what it is exactly that can, in this amazing, stupefyingly incomprehensible universe, be gleaned ONLY from photographs of objects taken from distances that can ONLY be detailed in parsecs. Are we humble enough to "see" anything?
Yes! AGAIN, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT PREACHING! I just stating obvious truths ⇩ that ALL people should follow, but which few do, and our current crop of leaders ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT—not even, even especially not even—the (so-called) Muslim leaders:
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yes! AGAIN, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT PREACHING! I just stating obvious truths ⇩ that ALL people should follow, but which few do, and our current crop of leaders ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT—not even, even especially not even—the (so-called) Muslim leaders:
Granted. We ARE special. But look how we behave! Look who we elected! I worked as a prosecutor in Zimbabwe for many years all the way up to the Supreme Court & "got" 12 death sentences. I was also a public defender for 4 years in the US & to me, electing any felon is bonkers, but THIS ONE??
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Granted. We ARE special. But look how we behave! Look who we elected! I worked as a prosecutor in Zimbabwe for many years all the way up to the Supreme Court & "got" 12 death sentences. I was also a public defender for 4 years in the US & to me, electing any felon is bonkers, but THIS ONE??
We humans really act way too big for our boots. We’re Johnny-come-lately’s who’ve only been able to peer into space for less than 1 millionth of 1% of the history of the universe; but we talk like we had it all figured out & can’t understand why JWST keeps telling us to put it in a pipe & smoke it!
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We humans really act way too big for our boots. We’re Johnny-come-lately’s who’ve only been able to peer into space for less than 1 millionth of 1% of the history of the universe; but we talk like we had it all figured out & can’t understand why JWST keeps telling us to put it in a pipe & smoke it!
"... JUST 5.5 million light years long but ONLY 117,000 light years wide.” Really!?!?! Really!?!?! Really!?!?! ... The blasé, casual nonchalance with which some of us talk about the awesome Reality that is the universe is, in my—& it is just MY—opinion, criminal and should not be allowed! See ⇩
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"... JUST 5.5 million light years long but ONLY 117,000 light years wide.” Really!?!?! Really!?!?! Really!?!?! ... The blasé, casual nonchalance with which some of us talk about the awesome Reality that is the universe is, in my—& it is just MY—opinion, criminal and should not be allowed! See ⇩
I AM NOT PREACHING but Life—like it or not—is A SUBJECTiVE EXPERIENCE; when I vomit, my mouth is befouled & when I die, I WILL die & be BURIED ALONE. SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE DIE & BE BURIED/cremated ALONE. Here ⇩ —TAKE OR LEAVE IT—is a REMINDER OF A FORGOTTEN REALITY: ALTRUISM IS SELF INTEREST
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I AM NOT PREACHING but Life—like it or not—is A SUBJECTiVE EXPERIENCE; when I vomit, my mouth is befouled & when I die, I WILL die & be BURIED ALONE. SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE DIE & BE BURIED/cremated ALONE. Here ⇩ —TAKE OR LEAVE IT—is a REMINDER OF A FORGOTTEN REALITY: ALTRUISM IS SELF INTEREST
About the "I don't always understand what I am saying either"; does anyone? These days life looks like a tableau of the blind leading the blind. see: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-o... & chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is... & my earlier post bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
About the "I don't always understand what I am saying either"; does anyone? These days life looks like a tableau of the blind leading the blind. see: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-o... & chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is... & my earlier post bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
Horses fascinate & perplex me. Why DO they do the things for us that they do—often at great expense and danger to themselves—run senseless mile-long races over hurdles, for OUR enrichment or impoverishment; carry us into war; & haul our burdens? Some comments ⇩ I've collected in search of answers:
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Horses fascinate & perplex me. Why DO they do the things for us that they do—often at great expense and danger to themselves—run senseless mile-long races over hurdles, for OUR enrichment or impoverishment; carry us into war; & haul our burdens? Some comments ⇩ I've collected in search of answers:
This is true: A sage said that you can dig anywhere in the world and you would be sure to find a treasure, provided you dig with the heart of a peasant. Gratitude is the appetizer that beats all appetizers.
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is true: A sage said that you can dig anywhere in the world and you would be sure to find a treasure, provided you dig with the heart of a peasant. Gratitude is the appetizer that beats all appetizers.
Nothing fancy???!! Nothing fancy???!! Jeez!!! Guess spectacular just doesn't cut it with you, huh? I gues I take after the sage who reportedly said: you can dig anywhere in the world & you will find a treasure, but only if you dig with the heart of a peasant.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nothing fancy???!! Nothing fancy???!! Jeez!!! Guess spectacular just doesn't cut it with you, huh? I gues I take after the sage who reportedly said: you can dig anywhere in the world & you will find a treasure, but only if you dig with the heart of a peasant.
As incidental beneficiary of your good will, Good Morning & Happy Days to you and every one, every day until forever; & especially to the impoverished-in-heart-&-soul billionaires & millionaires in our midst who despite wealth almost immeasurably beyond their needs, "need" still more.
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
As incidental beneficiary of your good will, Good Morning & Happy Days to you and every one, every day until forever; & especially to the impoverished-in-heart-&-soul billionaires & millionaires in our midst who despite wealth almost immeasurably beyond their needs, "need" still more.
Thank you. I'm not the rightest light in the room or the sharpest tool & the last three verse were way of my head but the other verse were ...(in Keats's words ⇩ ) "poetry":
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Thank you. I'm not the rightest light in the room or the sharpest tool & the last three verse were way of my head but the other verse were ...(in Keats's words ⇩ ) "poetry":
And what a human, and what sublime creations!
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And what a human, and what sublime creations!
As beautiful as (transitory) rainbows are; more than visions of them, or of the myths about the gold at their ends; we need the REALITY of Peace, Love, Respect & Gratitude for our life and those of all living things, IN, THROUGHOUT, and at the END of the minds, hearts and souls of ALL peoples.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As beautiful as (transitory) rainbows are; more than visions of them, or of the myths about the gold at their ends; we need the REALITY of Peace, Love, Respect & Gratitude for our life and those of all living things, IN, THROUGHOUT, and at the END of the minds, hearts and souls of ALL peoples.
As the longest reigning champion idiot of my village ; I am not qualified to provide "feedback", but I believe we should brand into our brains the awareness
1 of our natural, inborn limitations to see, understand & know anything UNAIDED; &
2 that our knowledge will ALWAYS be incomplete.
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1 of our natural, inborn limitations to see, understand & know anything UNAIDED; &
2 that our knowledge will ALWAYS be incomplete.
. .
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
As the longest reigning champion idiot of my village ; I am not qualified to provide "feedback", but I believe we should brand into our brains the awareness
1 of our natural, inborn limitations to see, understand & know anything UNAIDED; &
2 that our knowledge will ALWAYS be incomplete.
. .
1 of our natural, inborn limitations to see, understand & know anything UNAIDED; &
2 that our knowledge will ALWAYS be incomplete.
. .
Thank you. Your post is a welcome—even, a vital—contribution to the good on which many in our midst are intent on demolishing with their demands for only more murder & mayhem. Despite the superiority of their intellects, human beings evidently learn only when they've reduced each other to cinders.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Thank you. Your post is a welcome—even, a vital—contribution to the good on which many in our midst are intent on demolishing with their demands for only more murder & mayhem. Despite the superiority of their intellects, human beings evidently learn only when they've reduced each other to cinders.
هذا خلق الله
فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Nature: the Supreme Artist & Alchemist. A sampling from a previous post of what I think about just one aspect of nature’s power - bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Nature: the Supreme Artist & Alchemist. A sampling from a previous post of what I think about just one aspect of nature’s power - bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
هذا خلق الله
فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Nature: the Supreme Artist & Alchemist. A sampling from a previous post of what I think about just one aspect of nature’s power - bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه
Nature: the Supreme Artist & Alchemist. A sampling from a previous post of what I think about just one aspect of nature’s power - bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
2. Carl Sagan & Neil Postman saw through the charade & coincidentally both FORETOLD, PROPHESIED America would come to where we are. THIS is where America was bound to land. You can read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death" interesi.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
2. Carl Sagan & Neil Postman saw through the charade & coincidentally both FORETOLD, PROPHESIED America would come to where we are. THIS is where America was bound to land. You can read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death" interesi.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
The alchemy of nature!!!! Plants reach down into earth—sand, dust, dirt—& somehow pull out & display with pinpoint accuracy an amazing range of startling colors of such pristine purity in a multiplicity of shades you have to raid the color palettes of scores of paint companies just to find a name⇩!
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The alchemy of nature!!!! Plants reach down into earth—sand, dust, dirt—& somehow pull out & display with pinpoint accuracy an amazing range of startling colors of such pristine purity in a multiplicity of shades you have to raid the color palettes of scores of paint companies just to find a name⇩!
Photography by Xuebing Du
from duxuebing.tumblr.com
from duxuebing.tumblr.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Photography by Xuebing Du
from duxuebing.tumblr.com
from duxuebing.tumblr.com