Revolutionary Thought!

Keeping a firm grip on heritage and an individuals culture is an ideal however the likelihood of continuing human life on the globe in a utopia is nearly impossible with the consideration of every unique individuals own idea of utopia. The modern materialism and consumerism are modern human ideals. When the time we live in now becomes in itself history and the modern material items we indulged in pollute the world inhabited by our offspring it will be evident, that ego, selfishness and irrationality are results of a society bent on proving to themselves that they are independent of any God or higher meaning other than themselves. Our offspring will see a disaster that resulted from self-interest. Contrary to Jacques Elluls statement "I see no other satisfactory model that can replace what the west has produced." there is hope that future people that inhabit this earth will come to an understanding that may seem far-fetched in comparison to modern ideals, the idea that humans can once again learn to live in harmony with their environment, respect it and respect their neighbor. Respect can only be realized when the self interest of the free-acting individual is abolished. When the evidence of mans 'achievements' that pollute the earth can be used as a warning.

The Enlightenment heritage has a definite value when applied to modern thinking. Many ideas presented during the Enlightenment should never cease they are the invaluable natural laws of society which should be expanded upon and applied to the everyday life of every individual. Rationality should take a broader perspective maybe just by looking at things in simpler terms such as wonders of nature being just that, natural wonders. What good are the scientific explanations of naturally occurring events? It may be said that it is an effort to better understand our universe, our world and it's people. But are these seemingly oblivious explanations taking our attention off of what would otherwise be considered most important? Enjoying living out the miracle of life on a naturally enjoyable world. Why must we test our limits?

Undeniably the West has and is continuing to exalt itself with questionable achievements at the expense of the lives of humans in other parts of the world. There is a median, a peace that would not be too far out of reach if it wasn't for arrogant egotistic world leaders. If every human being cared about human life as a whole, the whole of human life would inherently improve in quality. In such a scenario over-population could easily become an issue but nature has it's own horrifying ways of maintaining that delicate balance.

History has showed us how change continues to continue. Change seems to be developing a faster pace as if this age is nearing its conclusion. The inhabitants of this world quickly adapt to change in thought and environment. And the environment society creates for itself becomes what society wants it to be, no more, no less. The present becomes what collective conscience idealized. As history progresses there is always still more that is aimed toward. Will this bottomless pit remain bottomless? Or will self-interest expand out and into an endless array of other possible interests? Mankind is amazing, probably one of the most amazing things we will encounter. Is there anything more important to us than ourselves, should there be? Certainly the lives of our children should be considered above all else.

One Door

By SCR Baisden

This is my only chance to live isn't it

Live a short while die and be dead

It's me here it's me in the ground

Here from nowhere gone to dissolve

I lost what was there once never to be found

Here as a flower that becomes the soil its roots once held to

Let me find a way to live for myself

Let me find a desire let me find in every passing moment this lifetime brings the continuing realizations of the size and the scope of my desire to cherish everything

When I am no longer spoken for last exhale closes one door and opens another ah fresh air I am the space between the stars

Inevitability

Propel

By SCR Baisden

Solitude destitute

Face it again

Hurdle blockade

A day late

Document spreads the word

Did you really want to know

Behind skies the shell of an atom

All for nothing

Solemn liking

Propel

borders like waves

hope it's now while we fall

I like the way you do that slow nod

Like a long lost dream redeemed

it could be a monsoon anomaly

but must the quest be relief

it's true that to backtrack we would be in it again placed to react

be there for it

A Cliff to Fall

By SCR Baisden

I'm falling

Catch me

You'd rather have it apart hold on to nothing

Everywhere feels like life We're not divided

It's not like you look up at me from the ground and I'm standing on the edge I see you and jump

I'm atop a cliff I'll just use this ladder and step down

We are the same there is no distance

But I am on the edge I'm scared to come down

So I fall to my knees And you fly up here next to me and see the view and you fall to yours

And now you are here we help each other up stand and hold each other close

It was cold but now it's perfect

Step off`

We fall together

We fall to the ground and through it and out into the stars drifting and twirling

Between our eyes the background shifts but we are oblivious

With you the rest is forgotten and we fall through a dazzling rainbow aura holding drops of rain suspended in place each kissed by the light of all these stars

And all I see is you

All the time in time all the lengths all the measures all the things to consider all there remind me why it is that I continue it might just be because something more might happen but I will just continue to bask in fear nothing is there anyway what can you do when your world falls to pieces it was nice while it lasted I guess that's just the way it goes oh how that can not happen I cant handle going all the way up and falling all the way down I would hit hard I don't want to not be with you

When I see a soul like yours the time stands still universal reminders set in and there is nothing outside of us be with me always eternal companions make me happy

You're all I need without you I'm as good as dead

I, You, Two?

By SCR Baisden

Where I end and you begin

Living a dream

Share this lonely view

Pick me up with your wishes

Atop the highest mountain how much of this is ice

Stand

Heard the wind stop short silence showed itself to me

This is all for you

Time whispered in my ear you are here

The ringing of bells the sounding of trumpets

The sky is wrapped around you

A Circumstance

In a moment we would have heard it all

live a moment

This is what you get

Sit and enjoy this warm cup of tea

Abide by the scenery

Questions and answers

Have you seen?

This is what it's all about

Now I have seen

Now for a transformation

Notice anything different?

I'm still here it's still there

Where are you?

I'm here

And here

And here

This calls for a laugh and a tear

Share with me

The sun is going down

Observe from here

One star shows itself another they all gather

You are here

Sideways sand storm reform

Beyond possible comprehension

Maybe later

say it seems its stopping me now its time to formulate some sentences so that something anything can be expressed just let it do it on its own it has it own way to flow don't hold it back just let it attach

Step back this is coming out swinging shark took in the sand that was the plan your just after what comes to you don't let it be something that you don't want for you it may end up like the way you imagined but it always ends up other than what you planned

Cornered silence screams on the highways its there don't listen and maybe youll hear it

Just be the guest

Virtuous calming rousing ruckus

I begin with a perception

My feelings stretch across dimensions

I'll never glow the way that you glow

My fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown

You'll say you understand you'll never understand

you'll never wake up knowing how or why

Now the guidance that I refused allowed for harmony

Upon a pond a drop sends ripples

First my fingertips turn blue the frostbite tightens the skin all you did was exhale but it made me colder

Not that words could compile into a subject for delinquent trial

Failure to make comprehensible sounds

You want me to be sick

So call me crazy

Withstanding agony make me cry

You'll never see the courage I know

But as the cold swells the pulse the sight of desire will come in time

I call you mine

Breathe it in and breathe it out

I feel alive

Free me

that's a lie

no matter

Part of a Moment of Eternity

By SCR Baisden

I am there for you always in the way that everything is always for you

You are the one whom is the reason for the stars captured in time you saw wonders so overwhelmingly beautiful you issued forth the sea in a tear of joy

I am here for you to know

Rescue me and I in turn rescue you

This is unmatched unparalleled the universe has brought forth such a thing so incredibly sweet its like rose of a cactus that is retained until it reaches full bloom for a few brief seconds along with the sunrise once in a million millennia

Worlds possible just imagine and so it is the way it will be your passion is the energy that aligns the planets oh so perfectly

Just as a Sun Baked Stone

By SCR Baisden

With all of the worlds of emotion intrigue devotion set as stepping stones in your quest an important thing to remember is that your quest is your peace and contentment and it's always continuing and it is continuing now. You are always encountering experience as that is what you desire. There is something for which you observe and feel for before you now its always there in the moment It remains the same but different and differing as it moves. Part of it is you part of you is part of it but the balanced is maintained while it's ways change always there before you changing always.

As the dew on the grass became bathed in the warmth of the rising sun the beads of water held tight on the blades of grass and contracted and reflected the surroundings in a curvature that shown like mirrors in the morning light and every bead of water on every blade of grass saw the world through as a series reflecting captured glory.

Essence remains maintained in ever present change

Life revolved around evolving experience

Conditions contrary one sided collaboration restoration recollection

A piece to leave behind a piece of my mind to demonstrate a peace of mind

everything that I am currently trying to remember I really wish I could forget

A horse drawn carriage the bliss is magnifying

Look towards letting go

This now is what its for as the world around you is presented according to your perspective

Virtually there

the buckets for the water are breaking

Rain prays for rain

more for now because it weighs down all of it it stays pinned get it off me please so that I can move windows are walls there is nothing in between us when I see you when I dream the connection carries the

Courage of the creators will to demonstrate balanced magnetism

Life reforming wonder caution cursorily

fire and water

Two Hearts and a Cane

By SCR Baisden

When will we see each other again

Will there be a time when we pass the pen

Mesmerizing tales of times of old

Jointly weaved between hearts so pure

Planning lives in each manifestation

Lost transfixed we reside in paradise

Drop violent fire follow the tide away from all that more to decide walk and realize here is your anchor your standing where you see yourself standing an isle in time

Just stop and look a portrait portrayed

Just because I lost it doesn't mean I have to find it

I may leave it where it is and move right along

Other lives in other times won't you detach too and join me to you

acquired desire light a fire we're retired

more to come high life dumb my lifetime gone where did it go will it be back I hope not

is this the way shouldn't the sign say part of my life part of a life

As It Seems To...

By SCR Baisden

My blood thickens into muck, introspective

Just try to forget the reason why you try to remember what you have forgotten

All you need to remember is that this now that moves but stays is there because you are there for it, it is there for you, you are not subject to it is subject to you

I wish I felt nothing that would be nice

Then this overwhelming euphoria wouldn't be there for me to wallow in

In time we have always been together it is known I just know

Fall into me I am always there for you without exception

But stay standing here you can reach obtain all your dreams

I will not interfere, you be who you are do what you do

This land is for you but wherever you go you will have the ground holding you up

Turn around and hug me hold me we will take off say good bye to that land, you have left behind a change continuous it will never be the same, life goes on down there even without you but look what you have done everyone smiles with every reason to do so because magic was destiny everything you see meant to be how all this change can occur in one lifetime there to hold witness the world just needed an influence you have realized utopia

good bye my life I'm ready to die I don't have to try

who am I to decide I take a look at the sky reminded how could I forget

being in this world puts me in a world without hope without trust, what all have

I have forgotten but what I know brings novice views void of truth

This world will not be forgotten and now its transformed entirely new and there to compare memories seem misery but they got me to here

A Slowing Sand Wave

By SCR Baisden

The pattern in change remains

Drive to pursue my desire stems from you

Shipwrecked deserted isolated removed washed up and sun dried I lost my shoes

I'll walk this beach barefoot the wind whips up the sea moved by the moon it melts and moves the sand before me into essence of sweet order achieving something so perfect

I fall to my knees and swirling snowflakes dance showing they're pleased in circles around shifting and melding a beating heart, forming a vessel for you to proceed, the cosmos stand in silent awe their reason complete delighted relieved. For in front of me stands the notion of bliss, core of all that is beautiful you came with the wind and wind would not be without you the dust of stars would have no room to stand it would be desolate but there is everything eternal and with you there is balance.

For the first time I felt that there was more to life than I was seeing. The sun came out from behind the clouds and beauty shown bright throughout the land and it was reflected in my mind.

Eight months calls for red sun to be pulled in

Under it something keeps it up it stays suspended

rope and sweat its blazing caked

Stand here sure to be okay adjust

Count the number of times no forget about it just wait

I wouldn't wear clothes why the black robe

Instant caramel rush sweet lip bliss

Martian karma bold yet partial

Hope port vacant walkway fill us in with the feather pen

Its nice when it's nice

Question entice

Courtyard

A Moment More, Captured and Portrayed

By SCR Baisden

The one I saw

Portrait holding hidden meaning symbol of cosmic triumph

Captured glory stay with me on both sides balanced

Citrus symmetry pollen blooming natural wonders

Guiding flow begin again open door

Pour out disorder use me for more

There it was where we could say here we are now inside I know how you are from afar

What did you want to say when those drops of rain glistened as they glided off your face

The blue of the sea contained wrapped around the center core show so much more than reflections of hues our simple truths correspond these irises there for each other together they open adjusting to shared surroundings showing you me and me you. I thought of you I wondered what you were thinking about I thought you could be thinking of me thinking of you.

Farewell Fading Future

By SCR Baisden

I find peace of mind

I uncover what there is to discover

I remember I want to redefine acquired requirements

They're using you

Movement requires reforming

Sit still

Now a tsunami

So long

Newer smores Elroy

Larsson payday headway

Worry

Lost

Passed up last wit head trip it spins tin bin tossed out of time not told unknown own tone bone cone runes roam found factual fault tracks warped distort lord form more torn back in the grass the task asked harassed the mass it's past Nordic canvas cast

Just thought that maybe a thought never was really there it just moved right along it was thought that the thought was there in the moment but it really was not now there are places to harbor within my mind sanctuaries peaceful rest stops between the compiling journeys

Back when peace was essential to living happily, people were happy

Rest assured that the way it occurred was the essence of an essential occurrence.

Normal portal more like a turtle.

I thought that this day would never come

Poison tropic paradise potion better under straw hat

Not full climate recommend a pleasant end

Symmetrical twilight docile lime

light cyanide

Partial closure nonsense told you

Arsenal sound off steer rudder

No reaction

The Winds and The Sands

By SCR Baisden

Harsh winds move tree limbs swift spins

Pale blue skies hypnotize with lies

Partial to sandstorms

Cause under way still going

Multiple versions

Look cliffs kept standing it's moving the landscape shifts steadily ever-changing living

Fireflies whisk lights in their part of the sky

Parched deserts painted just the same

Steam may seem to be so free

These are pieces placed

Portion never to be erased

never content

Its odd and even

Gems within

A simple plan

Open to change

Joined as more to pass

Ordinarily unordinary

Beauty bright

Formerly forgotten

One subject to change

Numbers stay replaced

Borders binding broken lightning

no timing no scales nothing to weigh

Grapes of wrath fruit of the womb

wouldn't you say its hard to move

More often than not

Less fire that moves

And under layers of dead that you see I will await you faithfully

I'm here now continuing particles rooted material once animated

Where does I go if I is always here

I am now a decomposing body

Somebody shot me

Enter into where the room splits as two

The Canopy past the ceilings

Not too far

It's the brightness of a star

Kept back still track trails cursed call of wild

A diamonds flame casts shame

Ruptured astral plane household name

It Is I, You

By SCR Baisden

In the absence of truth I bid thee farewell so long sweet sorrow

No losing no finding

The sands of time slip through my fingers

Ordered chaos brings such sad trials

Overcome the ground you stand on.

There forever remains surroundings to push away

Encompassing, it's the simulation continuously projecting

Here it is here am I who is this

Observe it is I the one I call me

Hide and try to redefine a meaning you have yet to find it remains in front of you just out of reach

When your done with this no longer be

No, now cease

Integral Illumination

By SCR Baisden

To all those who didn't see it coming

This is the time of restoration

Run

Opt to change

Voice

Call out the silent song

Nothing will be gone before too long

Hello just say nothing that would stand for nothing

I want something

Order Un catalogued

Not your ordinary peace of mind

Cut out the fallen

Let go the trodden

Pave the new wave

Save the days grace

Quit quitting

Stems to trim

Faults to find and redefine

Rain reigns in your dynasty

Please don't listen to me

Wondrous treasures glow stunning ruby lights from elsewhere out your eyes and into here

This is hard it's solemn fear

What would be nice

There you are

I see the sign is here it's clear and void of fear, the fear is gone a thought of the past

At last

What did I say

It's all for you

Turn the rock over

See past the sulfur ash

Hot stone not alone

And it's heavy don't use your hands

Just another moment pulled apart

Heart rules rest assured

Nothing hinders the mind more than the existence of doubt

Nothing matters to time alive at the same time

Pressure

Doubt?

Questions?

What doubt?

Your next

Oh

Never mind

I tried

Request

Subject?

Here words are made

Labels

Transferable

So much to say so much to say so much to say

Yet nothing is said

Spotlight

Soul light

Illuminate

Transparent

There

Where?

Somewhere else but here you are

Who is referred to as you

Dance under pale moonlight

Stand in the rain

Emotions glow show me more

Life moves at near too quick of pace

Rapid repetition makes life's little moment last momentarily, then drift away.

Stand in the rain to reassure yourself that life is almost to often taken for granted and that the little drops of moisture rinse thy clean of bad emotions and free to uncover new ones.

Rain glistens just a tear in your eye hard to define the notion of resonance

Ever wind ever sky ever mountain ever your eyes

When the rain clears your soul is now cleansed and fresh

The drops remain in the heavens for another day and the clouds clear to another castle

Rain more often than not brings beads of harmonious colors across the sky

The pale blue dashed with the radiance of yet another hue

Your lost

Going gone past

Here there

Words do no justice

Aw

The truth behind the letters

examine

You are what you want to believe

Gut instinct died when I tried

Open and the room is empty conjure up something

Here room for you to create

The room is a never-ending fathom of what you create

You accomplish only what you want to accomplish and reach for nothing more for either fear of rejection or unaware of understanding. Write what you feel and place the material world in bubbles around you ; free to examine each but never becoming entrapped with them.

Observe

Understanding what do you know a bag of tricks a knowledge beyond your comprehension is no knowledge at all it is what everything is

Cause and effect affecting me

Art

Far from ordinary

Its all right

Bless you little one in the little world this world has magnitude

This world is healthy alive and breathing

Sad concoctions the label of a feeling

there is more than your eyes see

This is a grain of sand

to see it as a whole

Endless beaches

Here we are a simulation you're a fabric of imagination manifested within my concoction here it is a nice basic scenario with an end in sight to die would be to experience life differently This is a way

Don't enter your already there the moment stretches

Isolated

Hundreds of numbers

Representing

No value

Voice your opinion guide me

No advice no input I'm stuck in a rut your words your energy tell me something

Option choice repercussion

Its electronic

Knowing Thought

By SCR Baisden

There is a notion that knowledge can be derived from the process of experience. John Locke was a philosopher that believed in this view. He developed his theory around the tabula rosa, or the clean slate. He believed that everyone was born with a blank tablet and that life's experiences created memories, learning, and knowledge. He believed that knowledge came from two sources : sensation & reflection. So, I understood this through example. Therefore, we are all born with a blank tablet that represents our knowledge. As we grow and develop through our infancy and childhood we are exposed to different sensory motor stimuli. We see, feel, hear, and smell our surroundings, and by doing so we gain memory of our surroundings. Memory is much like a library. We gain certain memories and catalogue them into our memory. As a famous philosopher, Kant, asserted that our minds have innate categories of understanding. The more memory that we gather the greater our knowledge becomes. When we gain a sufficient memory log then we are able to use reflection as a source of knowledge. We are able to reflect in our own mind, using memories in resource.

Furthermore, we have empiricist assumptions on the process of gaining knowledge. Under empiricism assumptions conditioning is possible, which primarily relies on the external world (as does empiricism). In conditioning, the behaviors that are learned are those that become associated with a certain stimuli in the environment. However, there is an opposite direction to looking at the gain of knowledge. The alternative to epistemology is rationalism.

Instead of gaining knowledge through sensory experience, rationalism is based on the assumption that the source of all true knowledge is logical thinking or reasoning ability. This is that not all knowledge comes directly from experience. Descartes was a famous philosopher that showed how not all sensory experiences can be trusted. Which conclude the capacity for sensory deception. He concluded that even though this type of deception is rare, we never know when our sensations are misleading our perceptions. Therefore, Descartes used skepticism as his basis for knowledge. Meaning that one can subject a topic to doubt, and if the topic if found lacking in certainty (or doubtable) then it cannot be a firm basis for knowledge. However, the only thing that Descartes found that could not be doubted was the fact that he was doubting. Therefore, he realized that doubting was a form of reasoning, and thus reasoning had to be the foundation of all knowledge. So in all, Descartes was the founder of modern rationalism.

With that understood, there are newer ways of viewing knowledge in the post-modern age. Thus rejecting both empiricism and rationalism. The ways of knowing are not left solely up to the individual mind, but put out more into a societal sphere. Social construction is now used, or the commonality of how people view their lives and understand certain things. This structure helps us to postulate what understandings are created through culture and which ones are more universal to all cultures. One can see how, from culture to culture, views can change. Western culture has very different views from that of Chinese cultures. I think it is interesting to note that when considering conceptions, the notion of progress has come to mean closer to the truth. Therefore, western civilization has been seen as contributing highly to the understanding of knowledge. Hence, even if an idea is lacking in completeness, if the idea is from the western civilization it is assumed more advanced. So, perhaps our understandings of knowledge are currently stemmed from the western culture minds only. Therefore, perhaps our current understandings of knowledge only conclude those individuals in the western culture and is not universal in understanding all cultures abroad. In any case ethnocentrism takes a major part in many ideas of today.

On an end note, I would like to discuss hermeneuticist views. I found this idea to be very intriguing. It states that the 'lived' world as more meaningful than the physical universe. In a sense, holding this 'lived' world as one that is an extension of our concerns. This lived world is up for interpretation, therefore, meaning and meaningful objects cannot be separated. So perhaps this lived world is in someway like our subconscious thought. Things that mean something to us are usually relative to memories that are not revealed even to ourselves, having meaning and objects with meaning becoming one in the same.