Michael A. McGuire

A Few Philosophies

I

Every individual has their own set
of morals, beliefs, ethics and laws
which govern their lives. 

Is it any wonder why life is so complicated 
and there\'s no world peace? Let alone
inner-peace?

Our philosophical and psychological
\"pieces\" are constantly struggling for
control of the psyche! 

From that standpoint: there is no 
\"true\" right or wrong; only separation 
of the senses, searching for unity!

II

Freedom, too, is hidden in individual 
faces beneath the mask of collective 
conformity! 

What enables \"one\" to be at peace with 
their inner and outer \"worlds\" might 
imprison \"another\"!

Without abolishing our individual
oppressors, how could we ever be free?
Let alone, help to free others by
their \"OWN\" methods without oppression
and control?

One must be willing to sacrifice
their \"mask\" for individual Truth;
that very freedom we hold so dear, if
only in our most sacred dreams! 

But alas, we are slaves to fear! We 
seek comfort in being controlled! We 
are terrified at the idea of confronting
ourselves; only to find this very Truth
that repels us! 

This is what devours our desire! We merely 
exist in this World and die without ever 
truly living!

III

In the midst of oblivion, I searched 
aimlessly for something to call my own!

But, alas, even my desire was taken
from me. Now, pain and emptiness is
all that I\'ll ever know!

IV

Say good-bye to reality; your former self, 
is no more! Watch in utter horror as
you witness all that you once knew,
swiftly exit out of Sanity\'s Door!

Locked inside your mind as the sole
prisoner without a way in or out; you
scream in vain to no one, for
INSANITY! is your destined route!

Your crime was abnormality; your
sentence, ridicule and a label marking
your difference for all to see, mock
and scorn. 

You only did and said what you thought 
was right but THEY told you it was wrong; 
\"boy, you need to conform!\"

You look straight into the prosecutioner\'s 
eyes and see a flash of fear. He knows he is 
doing away with a part of himself that he is
afraid of, for it is too close to his
soul as a beloved possession. 

He cries out loud inside because he knows
that he MUST! hold Society\'s longings
near!

V

Definitions

\"I\'m Sorry\"  

(1) The \"proper\" thing to say, offered 
as a \"consolation prize\" to someone who 
you\'ve just told the \"truth\" to or done 
something to that you knew was right but 
they didn\'t like it. 

(2) By saying these two words, you take 
the full blame for your actions and the 
other person you were trying to criticize 
or put down, comes away with the victory. 

(3) It\'s actually a full reversal of the
introduced circumstances, making you
a slave to everyone elses thoughts and
actions, instead of the captain of
your own. 

(4) It\'s best to stand your ground and keep 
your OWN views, freedom, sanity, self, soul 
in good standing with yourself: just tell
them all, very politely to - ???

VI

It is true that you are what you
think you are, and this includes feel,
think, eat, etc. but sometimes outside
forces have a lot to do with this. 

Of course, I\'m talking about the world
around us.

I do try to see the good in life,
I really do; yet even when I catch
faint glimpses of it, I feel sorry for
it, ex: children, animals, the
innocent and elderly. 

Because I know what will eventually 
become of them once the people around 
them take their masks off and the dream 
is over.

It\'s really strange how the
supposedly innocent aren\'t held
accountable for their actions because
they are not yet \"aware\" of what they
are doing.

Bullshit!  We are always aware;
from the first time we cry in order to
get a bottle to the many more times in
life we lie, cheat and steal in order
to get \"what we want\" (remember
bottle)?

It\'s funny how we handle children
like stray, cute little puppies, yet
once they get older, nobody seems to
care if they slit their wrists or
sleep on the streets. 

They just don\'t arrest our attention 
any longer because they are now one of 
us - the screwed! 

We\'ll give anything to a starving child 
but an adult man only gets only criticism 
and looks of \"get a job, scumbag\"!

Of course there are a few parents
who do tell their kids that life sucks
but how can they say that and make it
believable when the kids are getting
everything they ask for because they
are \"unaware\"?  Maybe ignorance IS a
virtue?

Well, it looks like you can\'t win,
right? Wrong! Happiness must be a
personal quest and the findings,
untouchable to outer forces, lest you
fall back down the mountain facing
fear!

VII

Deceived: From Cradle to Grave

Lies begin as kind hands, gently
molding us; our consent being
innocence, ignorance, or naivety; and
more times than not, by the time we
reach the threshold of OUR truth, our
disfigured shape has hardened, no
longer enabling our souls to seek
other forms.

Thus, we have been mangled and
scarred by lies too often to rebound
from this tragedy and die as such, our
deceivers looking triumphantly on!

What is truth? What are lies? It
seems to me that they are one and the
same, or really nothing at all; merely
labels marking what we as individuals
think is right and wrong.

Of course, this creates quite a bit
of confusion and anger, resulting in
verbal or physical fights on an
individual level or all out war and
holocaust on a national or world-wide
level!

VIII

In this day and age, one must live
in pain in order to truly profit;
denied their personal needs that
promote true happiness.

They forsake their soul, providing
a safety net for the fools who
squander away their lives; always
seeking without ever finding and
building upon. 

And as always, the fool robs from the 
wise man that which took many years of 
hard work to obtain.

Physically it may be easier, but
for the soul, it makes a harder path
to the pinnacle of eternal peace. 

So we must decide if we wish to work hard
now, so in the end, all will be fine
or take it easy now and put off the
climb to the top until it\'s too late!

IX

What do you do when you finally
realize the truth of something? What
will you do with your knowledge?

Usually we drown when the impact of
our truth envelops our unprepared
mind, for so many of us are afraid to
express it for fear of being
\"different\".  

But that \"difference\" is the universal bond, 
probably the only bond, that binds all humans 
together, for it is truly what we all
collectively know together as mankind
that political, religious and other
leaders in this world try to keep us
from realizing! 

There must be self doubt in order to keep 
control and order. This even applies to chaos, 
if you look at it long enough!

Before quarrels or wars come about,
there must be difference. But even
difference doesn\'t start a war; it\'s
the fear of being different or having
others not like you and the insecurity
you feel about this fact; with others
confident with their difference that
eventually causes confusion and thus
prepares the scenario for WAR!

You see: ALL is known! But first
we must wade through the murky waters
polluted by our ancestors before we
emerge clean, clear and illuminated!

X

When we are born, we know
everything that we have to: genetic
implant of a belief in a higher lifeform
than ourselves; i.e. God, Satan,
Bhudda, etc. 

As we grow older, Satan\'s vices and angels 
of \"spiritual death\" spin us perpetually 
on the merry-go-round of delirious confusion
called \"life\". 

So most of us unknowingly live our lives 
for no other reason than to exist; continue
to exist, forever, without change or
enlightenment.

Death is like birth but you are cast from 
an ethereal womb into eternity. 

The cycle I visualize is thus: Everything, 
then nothing (birth), given a chance to be
everything once again, life, transition to 
eternity\'s upper or lower realms. (Ultimate 
knowledge once again)!

During existence, we are tempted by
Satan\'s forces yet we must live
according to our \"higher life-form\'s\"
will, while grasping on to faith
alone; trying to survive long enough
to finally be free of \"Life\"! To get
back to what you were before birth!

It\'s to prove yourself; to show you
are worthy of what God had given to
you freely in the first place!

So, before you are, you know all
you really need to. I think physical
birth is a continuous reminder of when
Adam and Eve ate from the \"Tree of
Life\" and were expelled from the
Garden of Eden. 

Because, before you were born physically, 
you were with God as a Soul and just as 
He sent Jesus down upon the Earth to be
tempted by Satan to prove himself worthy of 
Eternal Life, so are we, when born, cast from 
Paradise and exposed to all knowledge at once!

You have eaten from the \"Tree of Life\"! Now 
you are all alone in this world except for your 
faith. You feel the \"higher power\" implant 
from your birth start to guide you in the right
direction; the one and only reason for
your existence: get back to where you
once belonged: with GOD!

But you and you alone must seek with all your 
heart, mind, and Soul that now very hidden 
and well guarded (by Satan) path back into that
universal and ethereal womb (God) that
granted you existence!

So Life, itself, is nothing more or
less than 1) a gift from God 2) but
also at the same time, a challenge and
temptation process to determine
whether you were worthy of His gift in
the first place 3) if you are worthy
and praise Him and know why He is and
you are; Hey! You, my friend know the
meaning of Life and are hereby
\"illuminated\"! 4) So in a sense, you
are reborn and physical Death but a
transition, without pain or fear back
into the ethereal womb of warmth for
Eternity! Yes, it really is that
easy, but sometimes continuing faith
and patience can be hard! Just hang
in there and BELIEVE!!

XI

Death is but a mere nuisance! A
momentary transaction of the Soul. 

We fear it because it fears us not. It\'s
inevitable! We\'ve known it was meant
to be from our birth but we hate to
give in and leave the physical plane
that is so customary to our being!

Humans hide their true soul all
their life but at Death, no barrier or
wall can withstand its cry of power
for freedom!

No more falsehood! That is why humans fear 
Death: they fear the Truth!

XII

Life is a giant race toward Death!
With one foot in the grave, we are
born. With a gasp for heated breath,
we die!

We grimace beneath Life\'s Burden,
then dance with ease, flinging the
heavy load from our backs before we
begin that Final Sleep!

We are, wishing not to be; until we
are no longer, crying in agony, only
to see!

XIII

Non-Thought - A most interesting
philosophy. Probably classified by
other names and one which I know has
definitely been used in the eastern
cultures, religions, etc.

It applies the theory that if you
can breathe involuntarily, why can\'t
you accomplish extremely hard,
strenuous, physically difficult tasks
the same way - by-passing the thought
processes of the brain that judge and
condemn the mental perceptions of the
job at hand.

If you just follow your primordial
instincts, abolishing fear and do away
with the judging, you can do just
about anything through this method!

Unless, of course, the task would
mean serious bodily harm or Death!

Using suicide as an example: how do
you think this is accomplished?
Certainly not by judging and thinking
logically about it! You just DO IT!

Phobias, hang-ups and mental
barriers toward activities or tasks
can be ultimately obliterated! Yes!

XIV

Life is so simple, yet we, as
humans, seem to make it so confusing;
much to our ignorant dismay!
We always ask that mortal question,
\"where did we go wrong?\" But when we
finally realize the answer, we never
apply that which we have learned!

Application! is the key word to
knowledge, Life and skills. As I and
so many others have said before,
\"Everything is known but we have to
harness that knowledge and apply it
for actual benefit.

We are all so caught up in that
damned rat-race for individual power
and survival that we swiftly forget
that if our brothers and sisters in
this world go down, so will we!!

I wish I could just write a
complete book on our problems but 
I doubt that it would be taken seriously
or even applied!

Just think about this for a moment:
even \"The Holy Bible\" with all of
Life\'s answers in it isn\'t even
applied and it is indeed the one and
only \"owners manual\" for Humanity and
the Soul! 

When will we ever learn?
Probably never!

XV

From sperm to sand, we consume all
time and space, until we are no longer
even molecules of the living realm.

There are many living not deserving
of the gift of breath; who spoil the
atmosphere with their very being!

Those are the ones who are allowed
to live, thrive, produce large amounts
of money and control our lives, then
laugh pitilessly as the poor pass on
to the gold gutters of glory!

The rich have their Heaven; right
here on Earth. They wish not to die
and face the Truth of their
Consequences!

The walking dead: the poor, empty,
but spiritual ones only wish to die,
for they know the sacred peace of a
Saved Soul!

Come to me my dead servants and I
shall breathe into thee Eternity\'s
Light that ye shall live!

XVI

In the midst of oblivion, a light
still burns, calling the weary
homeward; there\'s still more pages of
life yet to be turned, then burned!

Rise up, for the time is nigh!
Vault the wall of oppression and see
beyond the obscured night!

Flee as far away from Society as
you can and there will still be more
room left to run; but why live your
life dying? 

Experience the total package. 
Sometimes, reality\'s much more fun!

XVII

When the steel of lust and longing
embraces the silk lining of desire,
without lies and insecurity, the World
will stop and rejoice.

For during the frantic and insecure
years of our life, these fleeting
emotions are but few.

We hide behind masks with our lies
covering the plastic like tears. 

We want nothing more than to just cast
them aside but then, the only identity
we\'ve ever known would be gone!

Then what would we do?
Then what would we do?
Then what would we do?
Then what would we do?

WE WOULD DIE!!!!

XVIII

When you step off the sidewalk of
conformity, you always get stuck in
the mud of authority\'s mockery!

Always! Society is set up this
way! We can\'t win! We might think we
are winning for awhile then boom -
trip, and fall in the mud, mocking
laughter in your ears! \"Ha! I told
you so!\"

\"Why don\'t you just do as you\'re
told and live a nice, quiet life?\"
I\'ll live a nice, quiet life when
I\'m dead! 

Right now, I want a loud, triumphant, 
FREE Life by my rules! If I get caught
...fine!

Shoot me or shut up!

You wouldn\'t make waves about this
if you weren\'t jealous of my courage!

XIX

Imagine yourself as a single cell,
floating silently down a river of
confusion. 

Strange objects lurking on
the bank. They were once known by you
in a mirror but now the mirror is
broken, the fragments scattered, only
one piece remains - your true soul!

A single cell, floating silently down
a river of confusion alone in
disharmony!

Thus is the disintegration of the
individual soul, the blinding
destruction of self and reconstruction
of the whole, infamously known as:
CONFORMITY! ! !

Run while you still can!
Now playing at a selected theater
near you!

XX

Behold Life! How fragile is thy
skin, yet beneath that thin shield
lies an even more special substance
called SOUL!

Your whole existence is primordial;
your being, predestined. Your future,
decided by the mere toss of a coin.

How can something that special mean
so little to the oblivious world
around us?

Maybe it\'s because we have no more
right to live than we have to die!

Life and Death are kept at a
constant equilibrium in order to
maintain a balance on Earth.

Personal emotions, feelings and
thoughts destroy our minds:
Insecurity, paranoia, and mental
instability brought on by SELF-DOUBT
caused by listening to others who
have no idea what they\'re talking
about!

Become ONE with the Universal Mind
and ye shall have no more fears or
phobias!

XXI

It costs so much just to insure
your home, car, health, life, etc. but
isn\'t it funny that it doesn\'t cost
you a cent to insure your most
important possession - YOUR SOUL?

Just ask God to come into your life
and it\'s done. Now, everything else
will fall apart over the years but
your soul will always be saved!

XXII

The only way to visualize the truth
is to stop seeking it! Let Truth find
you! It will eventually. 

Most likely, when you least expect it.
Knowledge can heal but also destroy:

Insanity is a protective womb keeping
a vigilant eye over the most fragile
souls!

XXIII

Stress is self-induced!

A stressful situation presents itself
yet we make the choice whether or not
to accept it!

A person with a strong mental
capacity will not panic but remain
calm and think the situation over
logically, then act upon his decision
and judgment!

Those who become overwhelmed by the
stressful situation have no more
common sense than a lunatic!

XXIV

Ultimate Knowledge is unachievable
and only once we think we\'ve obtained
it, do we need to begin again!

Have ye not learned anything from
your own writing?

Yes! That to know means nothing
more than a slow death administered 
by those who know not; making them
happier and more intelligent than I!

XXV

Anything else?

What difference does it make?

You have now achieved Ultimate
Knowledge. 

Go to the back of the line
and start over. 

Maybe you\'ll make it to the front 
again before you die!