ALL THAT I COULD NOT TAKE WITH ME

 

MEANING OF MEMORABILIA

I have much of too much

must try to charter a freighter

to sweep load 

all the deadweight

in all the time I have left

hidden in cacti pots

rice 

and kernel corn

which to carry

collections obvious

and collectibles

invisible and indivisible

stamps,

minted metal

printed paper

a fountain of pens 

thoughts thought and kept

poems posted and disbursed

schooled lines with loves and lives

illustrated people and parchment

porcelain stronger than metal

pictures of fairy lands when fairies lived

animals when they ran and crawled and purred

streets for walking and stumbling

pathways for choosing

metaphors almost always metamorphosed

times wished

times wished for all

and everyone

without history

or antiquity

always ever

and ever always

ahmet cafer celebiler

January 11, 2023

PUZZLES MUST BE SOLVED

 

pUZZLES

and then there was a conundrum

not even a smile from ages middling

few saw it as a dilemma

though the Sphinx deeply felt

and the cyberpunks dreamt

there came a meddling kid

aged only six 

saw 

and was not perplexed

he had kin ultra crepidarian

and marshmellow textured

and a menagerie of push and pull mes

was part of waking dreams

flying on the Phoenix

a friend of the Sphinx

and all the scarabs

gleaming 

gleams well worth 

their reflections and places

in not yet discovered universes

not so far away from yours

my love, my darling.

ahmet 

January 2023

SELF INSULTS AND SUCH

 

WAYS OF THE POPULAR HERMiT

The hermitage appeared in different colors and shapes and ages to people who chanced upon it during a walk, a gastric queeziness, a heart attack or a feeling of having found something long lost to the ancestral memory. Truth to tell, it was nothing special. had four walls outside and a few inside, some windows and doors, rooms and cubicles and niches which meant rather short unbroken corridors which always led to a door or a space.

There was always a sign at the entrance gate. This sign was not legible to most who frequented, in fact, who inhabited the hermitage. Simply, it said, "This is your Abode" in a language of sorts.

Many people just walked in without wondering and continued down a well-trodden corridor or two, to one or more well observed, always observed, never redecorated spaces. There was solace, there was peace, unquestioning acceptance and the never fully admitted feeling that everything was as it should be.

The times and the timing devices on the corridors and in the spaces displayed different figures and numbers and different types of birds chirped or sounded in a cacaphony unheard by ears. Time was time, and birds were birds and spaces were alway on solid foundations of known knowledge and dreamt dreams and wisely proclaimed words  uttered by the acceptedly wise.

Life in this hermitage was a secret insult to self and selfish family and friends and colleagues and the rulers and the ruled, but seldom was recognized as such.

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

December 2, 2022

IS THERE A BELIEF, ABILITY OR SUPPLY BASED LIMIT TO IMPERIALISTIC INTERVENTION?

 

HISTORY REPEATS ONLY FOR INTERSTELLAR CIVILIZATIONS, MAYBE

Yet, humans repeat this and other ridiculously simplistic words to cover up new politics, policies, buried murder victims, axes arrow heads, stele, utensils, flood escape boats, impossibility of hanging gardens and dreams. 

Similarly intervention in the politics, economy and social structure and defensive capabilities of other nations, by more powerful ones have meanings, actions and symbols no different than the above but with no repetition.

In addition to the positive consequences of American interventionism for America like support of American defense industry and defense/security jobs for difficult to employ less qualified citizens, frequent and expected resuts for the intervened are:

• A certain increase in technology transfer, training
• Some transfer of capital to certain sectors which may not directly benefit the development plans of that country.
• the formation and growth of a new sector of business and group of people who supply the Americans with everything from mates to pharmaceuticals, food, confidential information and rumors,
• low moral and morality
• confusion between local cultural values and American values, from politics, religion to ethics,
• establishment of new businesses, commercial activities
• More importance of a servile attitude due to new set of rewards and punishments and new judicial systemic changes.
• Possible disruption of global economic, educational, commercial, political relationships.

And political belief and analysis becomes atwirl like the compass like eyes of the Greek gaoler Cerberus, reincarnated on Netflix.

Ahmet Cafer Celebiler

November 11, 2022

Graduate Class Notes for the Kindermine at their Craft

 

How Philosophy Came to Being

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

Before we tackle this simple subject let me remind you that you should definitely ignore the rumors and the false testimony that philosophy has always existed even by mortals of limited life and intelligence span.

A large number of believers in supreme beings of variable powers over humanity, other creatures, world affairs, solar system affairs and everything visible by telescopes of the most magnificent magnification, and their spokesmen, and their assigned servants are quick to declare that philosophy was created at the same time as everything else was created. This belief does not negate the belief that a supreme being can create another supreme being as his progeny and in his image. That is how it is written with indelible fruit and vegetable pigments and snake venom on timeless, unperishable media parched by the dust of meteors, which were later reproduced subliminally in the dreams and thoughts of wise men who prepared themselves for this  mediatic information transfer by using copious amounts of myrrh and a little frankincence to overome any possible myrrhadiction.

All the different parched ments and the divergent but still factual facts passed through clean and sane wise men confused all those who followed them and wished to believe in their versions of the pigments which had mostly faded by the time a few millenia had passed, so that the wise and the unwise could only perceive two colours, white and black.  

The result was a great deal of argument and strong language, fisticuffs, show of and other use of organs, until one or more supreme beings interfered to calm down the kerfufle with the creation of ethics and morality, and realizing that the ignorant masses follow the wise in perceiving only white and black, they planted a strong message in the minds of all their followers that white represented good and black was just another adjective for bad. There followed new adjectives and adverbs, even nouns like evil and phrases like 'goodness me' and 'a curse on you' or it is a sin to fornicate, to further confuse humanity.

The all powerful and all knowing and all everything gods, having managed to bring humanity to this situation, felt that it was time to create PHILOSOPHY so that the thinkers who could observe more colours could think and argue separately from the hoi polloi whose color sense and artistic perception were weakened by too much exposure to only white and black.

CHAPTER 2. 

 

Compass of  Feelings

Directionless 

despite the twitching  arm

and a restless leg

knee joint oscillating 

with osteoporosis 

leaving the tendons to my care

and pity posing as 

compassion

for the self

and other creatures

exoskeletal

all in series geometrical

marching along a mortal path

in a life crepuscular 

or lifetimes illogical

denied by self

and by other selves

of myriads

believing themselves

but few other selves

after shedding

the hard part

soft care left alone

to survive 

at the bottom of a wave

or a continuum

without time.

Ahmet Celebiler

November 10, 2022

WHO IS WHO AND WHAT IS WHAT

    

EPISTEMOLOGICAL TIDBITS

 A philosopher tries to put a small number of major issues in context and passively solve them in his mind. He is passionate only in his mind which is very difficult to appease. The difficulty of defining issues of human life and thought which have been dominating human mind and life and understand all their earlier delineations while attempting to find original solutions is a never ending process for the philosopher.

 An intelletual has a wider range of thought and issues and believes he can and has solved them as fas as they impinge on his life and thought. He does not feel the need to broadcast his views and prove or defend his conclusions. This whole process is not motivated by profit or desire for power and dominance, therefore he can be easily satisfied with what he knows and has done.

A politician is driven by a desire to acquire and hold power, dominance and recognition by any means he finds acceptable to his ethics and abilities. His understanding of life and humans is purely pragmatic, involvings means of manipulation which may not be truely altruistic or based on facts and knowledge.

ACC

          November 1, 2022