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I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 28, 2020, 1:56 am
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Dear Reader:
I say the same thing over and over in as many different ways as
possible, in the hope that upon reading one of my Rants, you,
Dear Reader, will be lovingly pushed off the cliff and learn to
fly on your own.
A little older, perhaps a little grumpier and definitely a
little less patient… sounds like I am becoming more little like
Nis every day, less those Bidet cigarettes and the throat
cancer.
I’ve said it before, anything can be seen as a metaphor for
everything else and thus everything can be viewed as a metaphor
for Truth. Well, that’s my assertion but I doubt that everyone
agrees with me. That’s fine because agreeing with me is the
opposite of what I desire. I want you to question everything, to
experience life and the dream at a deep level. I want for you to
own it, not just ‘cut and paste’ a piece of me into you. Anyone
like Baseball?
Not me! I think it’s a rather silly endeavor for any adult to
engage in, but let’s look closely at it, and I confess, pretty
cynically as well.
In Baseball, the player starts at ‘home plate’ and by using a
stick to hit a ball and following some arbitrarily established
rules, he/she proceeds to run around, bruise elbows, knees and
hips, (which injuries will inevitably show up in later life)
slides into a ‘base’ in order to make his/her nice white suit
all dirty and macho looking.
Thousands of people are cheer him/her on. WHY? He/she was
already at home plate, why run your backside off to get back to
it? I want to know why they left. Don’t they get it? They are
right on top of it. Sorry to all you fans, but I am just not
getting it. But, I said it has to be a metaphor. That’s the only
logical reason someone would create such a game. The creator(s)
were brilliant and no doubt fully Truth Realized. However, they
knew they had to go all Nostradamus and speak in code, because….
well, just because (I don’t have the clearance level for that
intel).
In the ‘dugout’ for nine months, or rather ‘innings’… just
waiting to get a chance at bat. Finally, you are called up. You
step up to home plate and now it's your turn. The roar of the
fans, the smell of hot dogs, popcorn and beer, the flashing
stadium light in your eyes, and bingo-bango, you are mesmerized
out of the Truth, the reality… that it’s just all a setup… a
total scam. You are already at home… repeat, at home! What is
all the fuss about?
Imagine you are an aspiring baseball player. At your first big
game, you step up to the plate, you look down and it dawns on
you. The fact you have come up out of the dugout has led you to
the point you are currently at, standing on Home Plate. Yeh, I
know I’m repeating myself….
You just declare; “it’s a home run!” and wander off into the
backfield to pick daisies for the next batter whom you find
rather attractive.
Then it’s all back to the dugout and another ‘inning’. Such
things as ‘ins’ and ‘outs’, strikes, balls, that bat, nine
innings, there must be something to this game that I am missing.
Well, I’m off to review my baseball card collection to find that
million dollar card.
Please don’t get me going on Cricket. That’s just tooo much for
me.
Love ya
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Parsley Date: August 28, 2020, 3:07 am
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What I feel is that it's all about feelings. No feelings, no
life. Feeling at home may seem much easier than playing baseball
or whatever but what would I be without all the "if... what
then" I am imagining?
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 28, 2020, 6:28 am
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The real question is 'When am I not imagining?'.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Parsley Date: August 28, 2020, 9:44 am
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Never! Can't stop the flood of infinite imagination. So there it
is this imagination of playing baseball and that I wonder what
the hell or I even enjoy it or whatever. But isn't it all
aligned to a conclusion in the end which is a new beginning in
an infinite game?
#Post#: 42266--------------------------------------------------
Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 28, 2020, 10:31 am
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Excellent! Now you understand.
Good work.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Lo Date: August 28, 2020, 11:27 am
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Oh thank you. A relief to read that. The spell of baseball
broken. with all its smells, cheers, sweat and scores...I took
it literally. I know it was an analogy though.
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 28, 2020, 10:12 pm
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Wonderful! If I have cured just one baseball fan my time on
earth has been a complete success... but wait! What about
football, soccer, tennis, my God, I has sooo much more work to
do. Guess I can't leave yet.
Love ya and stay healthy,
Jed.
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I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Kathryn Date: August 30, 2020, 10:36 am
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Yes, I have noticed that humans often find engagement and
enjoyment in manipulating various types of balls. And,
personally, there’s nothing like the satisfying sound of a bat
making contact with a baseball, or the baseball making contact
with a leather glove. Nothing like feeling “safe” on a base.
Nothing as exhilarating as trying “to steal” a base. Nothing as
refreshing as reaching “home” again after an adventure. I’m
thinking of “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again”—the hero’s
journey. This is baseball, in my imagination, how I spin the
proverbial “ball.”
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Jed McKenna Date: August 31, 2020, 12:11 am
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Got it K.
Thanks for sharing. You are always a home run to me.
Love ya, Jed.
P.S. if that sounds a little sexist, not meant to be.
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Re: I attack a tradition that shouldn't be a tradition.....
By: Kathryn Date: August 31, 2020, 12:39 am
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And you, as someone else said first, are a diamond.
But, more importantly, you point to the one diamond we discover
buried in a field, perhaps an old baseball field, where home
plate used to be? Then we work hard and spend all that we have
to purchase that particular field to gain the diamond, worth
more than its weight in carbon.
But, perhaps that is taking the analogy too far?
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