HEART BEATS
/I look for words to keep the beat
In my heart.
So many words but none with sense
To impart.
It seems heart beats should be the 'words'
Where lives start.
Unique, but don't conflict and tear
Us apart.
I look for words to keep the beat
In my heart.
So many words but none with sense
To impart.
It seems heart beats should be the 'words'
Where lives start.
Unique, but don't conflict and tear
Us apart.
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02/02/1915-04/09/2004
I'm sorry, more I didn't care.
I had the chance while you were here.
It's just that I was unaware.
I never saw you shed a tear.
I didn't know you had been hurt.
You always seemed all right to me.
But when you said, "I feel like dirt."
I sensed a pain I couldn't see.
Too late I learned you felt no good.
I cursed the ones who told you so.
They stopped you being what you could
And thus gave you nowhere to go.
That left a hole for you inside,
A wound for life to feel alone
Because someone could not abide
A sin for which you should atone.
Despite your wound you handled well
All obligations that you bore.
You cared for me, that I could tell.
I now know why there wasn't more.
Had you told me what I know now
I could have tried to make amends.
To you I would have made a bow.
We would have been much more than friends.
I washed you, dressed you, helped you shave.
When we went out I helped you walk.
I set you in the tub to bathe.
But through it all we didn't talk.
I'm sad you thought I seemed so cold,
That I told you by being gruff
Your effort even to grow old
I felt was never good enough.
If I could do it all again
I'd hug you at least twice a day.
I would try more to ease your pain.
"I love you", is the least I'd say.
When I recall your final night
We're holding hands, for that I am glad;
And many times to aid your 'flight'
I said, "You did a great job Dad."
Of course God is! No, God is not!
We're tied together in this knot.
We probe, we pull, we twist, we turn
The facts of life and all we learn
There is no way to see God's face.
All we can do is take our place
In Nature's plan for us to be,
Our realized capacity.
If God exists, God we might feel
In this apparent planned "ideal
Reaction to the void" within.
Religion is a mortal sin
Since if in doctrine we're entwined,
For certain, God we will not find.
God isn't in religious thread.
Tied in it, Nature's God is dead.
Humanity will not survive
By searching for a God, alive.
Life starts 2 million years ago.
The reason why we do not know.
Through Age of Evolution we
By "Why?", were born humanity.
With Stone and Bronze and Iron aged;
Against an Age of Darkness raged.
In Middle Age we joined the fight
With thoughts, to start the Age of Light.
The Age of Industry we made;
In Economic Ages paid.
But life not right we next invent
A New Age of Enlightenment.
That showed us how our world was made
From particles, precisely laid.
New 'light' however, let us feel
The emptiness within is real.
The Information Age we spawned
To fill it but it still soon dawned
On us we cannot fill the void.
Now in our last try to avoid
The emptiness, we've chosen play.
So after coming all this way
It seems insane with all to lose,
The Entertainment Age we choose.
Our living has become a rave,
A witless party on our grave.
We fill our lives with deadly strife.
We’re wasting Mother Nature’s life.
Together we might end our waste
But only if we act with haste.
If we don’t act our Mother dies.
Without Her there are no more tries.
Unlike reality TV,
Survivors there will never be.
If we continue with this blast
The Entertainment Age is last.
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE
AGE of ASININITY
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS
DONALD TRUMP
NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL
"What's happening?"
"We don't know.
We're just "Waiting for Godot"."
"We're born,
We grow,
We talk,
We sow,
We age,
We go.
That's it?"
"We think so.
Thus we're "Waiting for Godot"."
"But God?"
"You can't know.
Join us "Waiting for Godot"."
"Thank you, but no."
The explanation of life and related writings.
02/02/24
RHYMED REASON
DONALD TRUMP
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN
AGE of ASININITY
LIFE: a reaction to the void
ANALYZING CONFLICT
ABORTION
DEMOCRACY: the death of us
ECONOMY
ARRESTING CLIMATE CHANGE
KNOWLEDGE and ESSENTIAL FACTS
DEMOCRACY: a debacle
PROSETRY
$$NATURE’S NUTRITIONAL IDEAL$$
CANADA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM (x3)
CANADIAN ELECTION 2025
OUR LIFE LINE
OUR HISTORY and THE LAST WHY
INTRODUCTION
Like everyone, I inherited an existence. Mine collapsed circa 1970 while I was at McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, getting a BA(math) and B. Phys Ed, so I could teach. While sorting through the rubble of my life I noticed, though not as pervasive as it is today, a continuum of varied and increasing conflict permeating our existence. I wondered why.
Though wondering for myself I thought I should find the reason for conflict before a student I might teach asked me. I couldn’t deduce the reason with math; nor did I think I found it in the 5 major religions and their thousands of offspring, or in the 11 volume history of philosophy I skimmed for electives.
So besides my formal degrees, I graduated with a major degree of motivation to find before I taught, the reason for conflict. I never taught. By the time I discovered the answer to why increasing conflict pervades our existence, I’d become, with the help of my brother, a self-employed carpenter.
I tried and failed to share the answer at least three times and each time I vowed to quit trying. The last was in 1998 when a friend of a friend, a philosophy professor, wished me good luck on other projects. To help keep my last vow I started an addition to my house. I received even more help in 2000 when I began caring for my parents.
But then, when my father died in 2004 I was motivated to try sharing my analysis one more time before I died. I was still thinking of a hard copy when a friend suggested I publish on a website. I’d never heard of websites nor could I type but with more help from my Mother I bought a computer, learned to type, and with expert help, created a website.
I first thought I’d bury the reason for conflict in an essay. But having already experienced web attention deficit disorder I decided to highlight the essence of it in my website logo and add context with blog posts.
Since there is no answer to “Why am I?”, attempts to answer it, such as the myriad religions and philosophies I skimmed, and a variety of other responses I found, are tries to fill the void. Though we can mix them, some may be similar and even have identical names, because we direct them to the void within us, our tries are all opposed and so cause conflict to the extent of our belief in them.
But, conflict is not inevitable. We can diminish it and resulting death to the degree we empty the void. Now, if we choose to empty the void, our lives are not then devoid of activity, on the contrary! Because it is essential, we each possess some remnant of “reaching out to the limits of our capacities, to others and to Nature’s God”, the natural activity that creates and tries to maintain all life.
So, even though in the 200k years since the birth of humanity we have replaced almost all our inherited natural activity with the human made unnatural, self-destructive activity of trying to fill the void, if we choose to empty the void, the remnants of our natural, self-creative activity will at least refill our lives and possibly answer “Why am I?”
I have been trying share these basic facts of life for a few years by advertising. Last year (2023) I bought 8 million page views with half the value of my home, without effect; but this time I won’t quit. The warnings about fatal climate change by hundreds of climate scientists over many more years have also been ignored.
However, I do have to reduce my advertising. If it is too late to prevent it, I’ll need a place to live where I can watch the increasing conflict within us, between us and with Nature, causing at least the death of us and maybe all of Nature, possibly even before I’d have died in peace.
If you feel moved to help me share these facts you can by using the share icon at the end of any post, notably my most recent piece of rhymed reason, “Analyzing Conflict”, or any other way of sharing. If you also click on the like icon you will see an explosion of hearts, an expression of my gratitude. 🙏 Doug E Barr.
Part 1.Nature’s ideal diet: It was designed to maintain our immune/ maintenance system at its optimum operating condition to protect us from both pathogenic and autoimmune diseases. It protected our predecessors from conception to the birth of humanity when they realized the mental capacity to choose. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of us chose to ignore ’Her’ ideal, and thus our increasing disease. Specifically, ignoring the overlap causes, it could save the $34 billion cost of weight loss drugs, about $800 billion cost for treating type II diabetes, and many billions more in other healthcare costs.
Part 2. Nature’s ideal life: It protected our predecessors from conflict until the birth of humanity. It can still protect us but over the millennia increasing numbers of individuals chose to ignore ‘Her’ ideal and thus, our increasing conflict.
Part 3. The integration of parts 1 and 2
Part 4. Existential risks: They are the result of our ancestors increasingly choosing to ignore Nature’s nutritional ideal. They may be reduced by expanding our mental capacity beyond what was realized at the birth of humanity. It would only take an instant, but the time we have to make the necessary choice is quickly running out.
Part 5. Appendix: Mostly diet related math that may have caused the mathematically challenged to quit reading in the middle of Part 1.