Like some dogs: 

kick them once and they never trust you again, 

no matter how nice you are to them.

Summer Songs

 

Summer Sunshine - Song by The Corrs 

 "Cruel Summer" 

Summer Breeze 

Summer in the City

Hot in the City - Song by Billy Idol

The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Girls Aloud - Long Hot Summer

"Summer Rain" - Belinda Carlisle 

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Summertime - Song by Bon Jovi 

Summertime - Song by New Kids On The Block

Here Comes The Sun - Beatles

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

 

Freedom is an absolute state, 

there is no such thing as being half-free 

 

on the local news about a year ago. 

A teen football player had died in a car accident. 

The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” 

 I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive,

 or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used.

 

We are all dying, 

every moment that passes of every day. 

That is the inescapable truth of this existence. 

It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, 

or one that can energize us with impatience, 

with the desire to explore and experience, 

with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action.

 To be alive,

 under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. 

To dance with every step, 

be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

 

reality is always plural and mutable

 

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.

 You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. 

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way

 

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

 Better yet, give him none. 

Let him forget there is such a thing as war. 

If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.

 Peace

Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. 

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. 

Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. 

Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

 Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure and equate the universe, which just wont be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

Reacher

 The first season of Reacher was based on Killing Floor, Child's 1997 debut novel,

The third season based on Persuader the seventh book 

One Shot is the ninth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. The book title is based on "One shot, one kill," the military sniper's creed. The novel was adapted into the 2012 film starring Tom Cruise as the title character.

The second season, based on Bad Luck and Trouble the eleventh book 

Gone Tomorrow is the thirteenth book  will be adapted to screen for the upcoming fourth season 

Never Go Back is the eighteenth book 

 produced the 2016 film adaptation, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, as a sequel to 2012 film, Jack Reacher. 

The book continues the storyline covered in the novels 

61 Hours - book 14 

Worth Dying For - book 15 

and

A Wanted Man - book 17 

 

Academic Professor 

University - PhD

Businessman 

Sales - City - Wealth 

Musician 

Bass - Guitar - Vocal

Stage

Bodybuilder Athlete 

Gym - contest stage 

Martial Arts Champion 

Karate - Judo - Boxing - Cage 

Mat - Ring - Cage 

Martial Arts Master - Teacher  

Dojo 

Ninja 

Japan 

Army Officer 

Soldier - War 

Spy

Intelligence 

Magician

Spells  

Porn Star 

Holiday rep - model 

Doctor

Hospital

 

Bouncer 

Clubs - Fights 

Summer Solstice

 

Summer Solstice - June 21st

 

During the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, the upper half of the earth is tilted toward the sun, creating the longest day and shortest night of the year. This solstice falls between June 20 and 22.

Solstices are when days and nights are at their most extreme

That means the sun's warmth and light fall unequally on the northern and southern halves of the planet. The solstices mark the times during the year when this tilt is at its most extreme, and days and nights are at their most unequal.

During the summer solstice, the earth's axis is tilted at its closest point from the sun. This means that in the northern hemisphere, the sun is at its highest point in the sky. It's also the longest day of the year - and the shortest night.

Equinoxes and solstices are key points in Earth's orbit around the sun that mark the transition between seasons. Equinoxes occur when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in nearly equal day and night lengths worldwide. Solstices occur when the Earth's tilt is at its maximum towards or away from the sun, resulting in the longest and shortest days of the year, respectively

Celebrations were marked by bonfires to boost the sun's strength for the growing season. The bonfires also symbolized protection, fertility, and prosperity. Similarly, the ancient Romans honored Vesta, goddess of the hearth, with a festival that culminated around the summer solstice.

When you're honouring the Summer Solstice, the sun, and our natural world, there isn't much you can do more in line with the occasion than getting outside in the garden. You could also plant flowers that are believed to represent the sun, like sunflowers and carnations

The goddess often associated with the Summer Solstice in Celtic traditions is Áine, an Irish goddess of summer, love, and wealth. She is also known as a fairy queen and is associated with the sun, wealth, and sovereignty

The Summer Solstice time was an event of tremendous importance to the proto-Druids of the New Stone Age, who built a number of magnificent megaliths aligned to the sunrise on this day.

On the summer solstice, you may observe that the Sun's path across the sky is curved—NOT a straight line. It appears to rise and keeps veering to the right as it passes high overhead. This is quite different from the laser-straight path the Sun moves along in late March and late September, near the equinoxes

Over the centuries, the June solstice has inspired many festivals and midsummer celebrations involving bonfires, picnics, singing, watching the sun rise and Maypole dancing. Many towns and villages across Britain still mark the day.

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, holds significant spiritual meaning across various cultures and traditions. It's often viewed as a time of illumination, renewal, and celebration, symbolizing the triumph of light over darkness and the peak of the sun's energy.

Mysticism and magic are a common theme in midsummer folklore across the world as well as in the UK. Magic was thought to be strongest during the summer solstice and myths told of the world turning upside down or the sun standing still at midsummer.

The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice.

On the summer solstice, Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the Sun is 23.44°. Likewise, the Sun's declination from the celestial equator is 23.44°. In areas outside the tropics, the sun reaches its highest elevation angle at solar noon on the summer solstice.

 

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

 it is those who know little, not those who know much, 

who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

 

Pain may be the only reality 

but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness.

 All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. 

They are frauds. 

We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it,

 nor do we have any choice but to bear it. 

Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.

 

the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside,

 the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves

 

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, 

and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, 

even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

 

I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,

A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. 

A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. 

That’s what being real is like.

 

 When the worst of our fears are realized, when everything we’ve counted on has disappeared, something still drives us to try to fix the past, or to find our future, when the only thing that needs our attention is the present. 

And its infinite possibilities.

 

avoid being seen, which is impossible in the 21st century. 

So at least avoid being memorable

God pt 2 - U2

 Don't believe the devil

I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up.
Don't believe in excess
Success is to give
Don't believe in riches
But you should see where I live.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in forced entry
Don't believe in rape
But every time she passes by
Wild thoughts escape.
Don't believe in Death Row
Skid row or the gangs.
Don't believe in the Uzi
It just went off in my hands.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in cocaine
Got a speedball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Did you hear what I said?
Don't believe them when they tell me
There ain't no cure.
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma's gonna get him
If I don't get him first.
Don't believe that Rock 'n' Roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
Yeah, it spirals and turns.
I, I believe in love.

Don't believe in the sixties
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up.
Heard a singer on the radio
Late last night
Says he's gonna kick the darkness
Till it bleeds daylight.
I, I believe in love.

Feel like I'm fallin'
I'm spinnin' on a wheel
It always stops beside a name
A presence I can feel.
I believe in love.
Stop!

"God" - John Lennon

God is a Concept by which we measure our pain
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which we measure our pain

I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles

I just believe in me, 

Yoko and me, and that's reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday

I was the dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn

I was the walrus
But now I'm John

And so, dear friends,
You'll just have to carry on

The dream is over

 

 ancient civilizations would make human sacrifices 

 the run-off from the furnaces would be discharged to water sources like rivers 

 the discharge from the human sacrifices contained lye that would make clothes cleaner than water from any part of the river’s course. 

The locals then used the discovery of lye to invent soap that is actually used to clean clothes.

  without human sacrifice, there would be no progress in humanity 

  the first soap was made of heroes

the process of manufacturing soap is brutal and demands sacrifice because animals have to be slaughtered in the process and bodies harvested to generate the state of cleanliness. 

The process of making soap thus signifies the brutality that exists in the world.

 The product, which is the soap that washes away all the dirt from people’s lives, is also symbolic of the pain and sacrifice that has to be made to keep the world evolving.

Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot in space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing

the sacrifices that have to be made to keep the world clean

  

 In a real Dark Night Of The Soul

its is always Three in the Morning 

Day after Day 

3 A.M. eternal

Talking 'bout the Mu Mu
Justified Ancient Liberation Zulu
Got to teach and everything you learn

Will point to the fact that time is eternal

Sample city through Trancentral
Basic face kick elemental
Swings brings new technology

Looking at my watch time 3 A.M.

Got to see that everywhere I turn
Will point to the fact that time is eternal

It's 3 A.M., 3 A.M.,

 It's 3 A.M. eternal

Ocean deep

 

When you reach 200 meters (656 ft), you enter the ocean's Twilight Zone

— an expansive world with almost no light.

It's so black that photosynthesis is no longer possible.

The twilight zone is between 200 and 1,000 meters.

The record for the deepest dive by a human is 332 m (1,090ft).

Beyond this twilight region, at depths of 1000 m (3280 ft), you enter eternal darkness.

This is the Midnight Zone.

— an expansive world that leads down to abyssal plains.

These are reached at a depth of 4000 m (13,000 ft).

Next comes the Hadal Zone

at 6,000 m (19,000 ft).

The deepest part of this zone is the Mariana Trench,

which reaches 10,935 m (35,876 ft) deep

— making it deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

 

 

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. 

The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. 

He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky

. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel.

 Literature always anticipates life. 

It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

 

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. 

The stage is too big for the drama

Friday the 13th

 

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.

 It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday, which happens at least once every year but can occur up to three times in the same year. 

2015 had a Friday the 13th in February, March, and November, 

 will happen again in 2026;

 2017 through 2020 had two Friday the 13ths;

 2016, 2021 and 2022 had just one Friday the 13th, 

as will 2025; 

2023 and 2024 have two Friday the 13ths.

A month has a Friday the 13th if and only if it begins on a Sunday.

Unluckiness of "13"

One source mentioned for the unlucky nature of the number "13" is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. 

The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the 13th guest, and arranged for Höðr to shoot Balder with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.

 "Balder died, and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day."

 This major event in Norse mythology caused the number 13 to be considered unlucky.

The superstition seems to relate to various things, like the story of Jesus' last supper and crucifixion in which there were 13 individuals present in the Upper Room on the 13th of Nisan Maundy Thursday, the night before his death on Good Friday.