One of them songs. One of them songs is a gonna be sung.

The sun burns at 5,778 K (5,505 °C). Hottern’ hell. When the sun rises the birds start chirping. Then light slowly seeps through the trees. I’m awake!

Panic! Panic! Panic grips the steel! Panic makes the day! Panic goes on by! Panic is my name! Panic is the wind! Panic is the sky! Panic is the day, I gently go to die. Panic is the seed. Panic is the root. Panic is the pajamas. Panic is the fruit. Panic is glorious and wondrous. Panic just walks on by. Panic is in a whirlpool. Panic is having fun. I believe in Panic!

The Panic Movement was a performance art collective in Paris in 1962. They did various things such as a dressing in motorcyclist leather, slitting the throats of two geese, taping two snakes to their chest and having themselves stripped and whipped. Other scenes included a staged murder of a rabbi, a crucified chicken, a giant vagina giving birth to a grown man, naked women covered in honey and the throwing of live turtles into the audience.
The Ya̧nomamö of Brazil are a very warlike people. They believe that through ingestion of a substance known as ebene (also known as yopo) they can activate and embody the spirits that live in their chests. When a shaman is under mystical intoxication he is able to travel as a spirit does: swiftly and without being seen. He may travel to an enemy village where he will eat the souls of the enemy villagers. This is called magical death. Just about every death that happens in Ya̧nomamö culture is a magical death. What happens is that the soul is eaten by the enemy shaman and soon after the flesh dies too.

The Kwakwaka'wakw participate in the potlatch described by Marcel Mauss in his book The Gift, which is about gift-based economy amongst indigenous peoples. The potlatch is a ceremony by which the host gives many of his goods up for the guests. The guests are in turn expected to hold a follow up potlatch, which presumably would be even bigger than the last one. And the attendee’s of that potlatch would be obliged to hold a potlatch that is even bigger, until the potlatch gets so big that the whole world is in the potlatch and everything is free. At least, that’s an idealistic interpretation. The Kwakwaka'wakw are also a warlike people, but not to the same extent as the Ya̧nomamö. The Kwakwaka'wakw get most of their violence out through what is called the cannibal dance. The dance may or may not have involved the actual eating of human flesh in the past. It’s hard to know. But now it is a healthy way to channel feelings of anger and hostility into dancing. There is also evidence that the Kwakwaka’wakw actually did practice cannibalism.

So tired. So long. So so. Welcome to the longest day. The last day. The judgment day. The day of reckoning. Where you will be fed the longest poison meal. Until you vomit blood. You will cry and put tears in your libations. Whine all you want, the pain is not over. Then you will be stuck with needles all over. Then you will be strung together with other lost souls on a string like Christmas decorations made from popcorn. Ultimately you will die, but not for a long time. This is existence. A classic staged play of pain and suffering. A tragedy. Where everyone dies at the end. I am not sad, though. I live each day to the fullest, as the cliché goes. I take on the day. I fill my lungs with air. I break wind and begin. Society for the greater part carries on its own organization. Each man pursues his proper occupation, and there are few individuals that feel the propensity to interrupt the pursuits of their neighbours by personal violence. When we observe the quiet manner in which the inhabitants of a great city, and, in the country, the frequenters of the fields, the high roads, and the heaths, pass along, each engrossed by his private contemplations, feeling no disposition to molest the strangers he encounters, but on the contrary prepared to afford them every courteous assistance, we cannot in equity do less than admire the innocence of our species, and fancy that, like the patriarchs of old, we have fallen in with "angels unawares."
– William Godwin

The Christian Children of Oblivion. Follow the leader. Why do we feel the need to follow? Hitler, Manson, Jesus, Koresh, Jones? No Gods, No Masters! God is dead as Nietzsche said. And we killed Him. Nihilistic Catholics. Is it worth it to care anymore? Nothing is true! Everything is permitted! Some philosophers are just skeptical of everything, but for someone who’s supposedly agnostic about anything, they sure seem to think they know everything. Even Buddha is worshipped. Jesus said he didn’t want to be king. “My kingdom is not of this world,” he said. And they labeled him “King of the Jews” anyway. Rasputin, the mad Russian, was a puppet master. He controlled the Czar with his magic powers. Is magic behind every door? Some say the Illuminati controls things, and they’re an esoteric cult that practices witchcraft. I’m ambivalent toward this view. Some will tell you that lizard aliens are the rulers. Still others will tell you it’s demiurges, or Yaldabaoth. “Now the archon (ruler) who is weak has three names. The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas (“fool”), and the third is Samael. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. For he said, ‘I am God and there is no other God beside me,’ for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come.” - Apocryphon of John
Yaldabaoth is the half-maker of the corporeal, or tangible, or material universe. He is a deceiver, much like the evil genius talked about by Descartes. This Gnostic account refutes Descartes’ belief in a perfect God, and instead speaks of an imperfect archon who fucked up the world with his clumsiness. We are all clowns of the underworld. We are all waterboarders. We are guilty, we are sinners. Repent and you shall be forgiven. The dollar is a sin. The bible says you must not be a usurer or commit usury. “If he has exacted usury Or taken increase -- Shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be upon him.” (Ezekiel 18:13) Landlords and bankers, you will die. Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers and drove them out with a whip. Read what he told the rich: Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25 The Jerome Biblical Commentary is a standard reference work found in many libraries, written by Catholic scholars. Its commentary on Matthew 19:24 states bluntly, "the figure of the camel and the eye of the needle means exactly what is said; it does not refer to a cable or a small gate of Jerusalem." Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions. … I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation. - Richard Huelsenbeck

Cognitive Dissonance (examples): Anti-abortion/pro-war. Skepticism/believing in science as absolute truth. Ben Franklin said of a political opponent, “I did not ... aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him but, after some time, took this other method. Having heard that he had in his library a certain very scarce and curious book I wrote a note to him expressing my desire of perusing that book and requesting he would do me the favour of lending it to me for a few days. He sent it immediately and I returned it in about a week with another note expressing strongly my sense of the favour. When we next met in the House he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ‘He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.’” Many religious people experience cognitive dissonance as well. They believe in the Universality of God’s love, yet believe in eternal torture in hell. They also condemn people when Jesus said to love your enemy. Ben Franklin was a deist, NOT a Puritan or a fundamentalist as some who insist that the US was built on Christian principles may think. Deism holds that the existence of God can be proved by reason, but that God does not intervene in human affairs. There is also a belief that organized religion is unnecessary, and that no particular religion is any more desirable that another. Franklin himself seemed to have a bit of cognitive dissonance regarding slavery. The Declaration of Independence held that all men are created equal, but the Constitution of the United States, on the other hand the original Constitution contained four provisions tacitly allowing slavery to continue for the next 20 years. Section 9 of Article I allowed the continued "importation" of such persons, Section 2 of Article IV prohibited the provision of assistance to escaping persons and required their return if successful and Section 2 of Article I defined other persons as "three-fifths" of a person for calculations of each state's official population for representation and federal taxation. Article V prohibited any amendments or legislation changing the provision regarding slave importation until 1808, thereby giving the States then existing 20 years to resolve this issue. The failure to do so contributed to the Civil War. Ben Franklin's views on slavery changed over time. When he was a young man he bought and sold slaves in his shop. Later on he became a staunch opponent of the practice and founded an early anti-slavery society known as The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.