here's teddy roosevelt on the subject of serpent wisdom. teddy roosevelt, like the president, the patriot, the creator of child welsfare laws, honouring the sabbath by reducing thw work week, protecting the rights of all, san juan hill type teddy roosevelt.
anybody wanna argue that he wasn't an example to us all?
serpent wisdom....it's not just for hippies anymore.



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All kinds of qualities go to make up character, for, emphatically, the term should include the positive no less than the negative virtues. If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good. He must be brave and energetic; he must be resolute and persevering. The Bible always inculcates the need of the positive no less than the negative virtues, although certain people who profess to teach Christianity are apt to dwell wholly on the negative. We are bidden not merely to be harmless as doves, but also as wise as serpents. It is very much easier to carry out the former part of the order than the latter; while, on the other hand, it is of much more importance for the good of mankind that our goodness should be accompanied by wisdom than that we should merely be harmless. If with the serpent wisdom we unite the serpent guile, terrible will be the damage we do; and if, with the best of intentions, we can only manage to deserve the epithet of "harmless," it is hardly worth while to have lived in the world at all.

Feed Shark

sooner or later we all have had our fill of sorrow.
when Moses left to return to a City where He was no stranger and no one minded Him being there,
God handled the funeral arrangements.
while They were talking about it, God also gave Moses a good Deal on some real estate.
what's the survey marker for where They were stadning when the Deal went down?
signs of serpent wisdom.

the world's most undiscovered dance band is no more dangerous than the Bible.
Moses danced to serpent wisdom.
now, you can too. just drop your pre-conceptions, since they've all been conceived before.
remember, we come to find out who we are.
some people will be all about proving the Bible is a set of facts about a very weird Dude who has control issues.
others will be all about proving it's all random drama redacted later by people with self-esteem issues.
the wise will wiggle thru the maze, eat the maize, and take flight with the innocence of doves.

couple of times in the past 7 days, almost precisely 7 days, i have had to make the point to someone, uh huh, and now u know who u are. whether u like it or not. God does, becuase She sees what u can be.
over at the main base there will soon enuff be the complete lyrics to "we go."
but these opening lines keep coming up:
we go.
we choose.
no fate--no, man--we make it with our bare hands.
we choose our blessings and our scars.
we come to find out who we are.
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there is a wonder to it all. beyond any possible conception:
from "light&shadow":
making the most beautiful garden...
...
...
...
beyond words.
beyond words.
"if light and shadow can, if day and night, if land and sea can"

can we all get the very hell out of our own drama (which is, after all, what hell is) and see it?
hear it?