Terrible Post

A post to fill the time. 

Terrorfied

We are terrified to express ourself.

Why are we so terrified?

Have you read this blog?

Nope, I barely have time to wash my ass, let alone wipe my ass.

You wash after wiping?

Yes.

How?

Soap and water.

Can you be more descriptive?

Well any natural, non-toxic, inert, healthy, freshly scented soap will do.  We wouldn’t want any unpleasant substancess fouling up our release hatch.  So, with this soap we lather and rinse.  While lathering we suggest lathering-up the inside of the o-ring of the release hatch as there might still be some unreleased stuff.  Also, if there was a lot of spray during release or what was released was very wet, we also suggest lathering-up a great deal of area around the hatch.  Rinse with some water from a bottle or, if you are lucky, a bidet is already available!  Dab dry with some bath tissue and enjoy the rest of your day!

See, terrorfying.

That is okay.  As we make consistent progress in posting our expression of existence perhaps the terror we experince in expressing ourself will become less intense.  Remember, we are a beginner.  Regardless of how proficient we can be, we can always be a beginner!

Enjoy your day! 

Express Yourself

 “Express Yourself” are two consecutive words Alan would say.  He often shared these words in the kitchen, or when he was engaged in a conversation with someone about something they do, he might say “Great!  Express yourself.”

How did he respond when he was asked what he meant or if he was being sincere?   He would say “It’s easy to follow the directions and do what someone else says to do.  But, to find a way to express yourself with what you are doing in a way that achieves a result similar to following the directions takes courage and only you can do it.  Only you can express yourself.”

Definitely

 It’s fun to be a part-time existentialist!

Perhaps it would be more fun to be a full time existentialist!

Yes, we are working on that!

No Such Thing

 We simply wish to create more time to write and consider and revise and rewrite some stuff.  We will have more time when we create a balance in our being and into our reality.

Something Meaningful

 What could be meaningful? 

Connections with other loving souls are meaningful.  Yes, yes they are.

And not just any connections will do. Positive, healthy, expansive connections encourgae and foster loving wisdom for each and all around.

GREAT!

 Who knows about not knowing?  We don’t know what this blog post is about but it’s about something.  Something worthwhile.  Something humorous.  Something intriguing and captivating.  What is it? No idea - but it’s GREAT!

Tell Me a Story

 Any cool experiences or interactions?

About our experiences from the all hallows weekend.

First off, we have the happy hour special.

I crossed the street to request an extra cigarette from the lady smoking one.  In our conversation, her friend came out disappointed.  She was out there smoking a cig while her friend waited to order happy hour specials.  When he came out - he needed a cig.  He was befuddled and confused. 

“Half Off Happy Hour”

He said, “Before happy hour I ordered a drink of light lager and they gave me a pint for $7.  I waited for happy hour and ordered the half-off light lager drink.  You know what they gave me?”  he asked his friend and me.

“No,” we replied.

“A cup for $3.50”

Okay, what else?  We have the Bill and Ted look alikes.

Dave and Matt came from Upper Dublin High School on their quest to talk to authentic Doylestowners.*  They were on some self-induced dereev, apparently to interview locals and learn about the town.  They first approached two very asian young men.  I was there on the porch doing my school work late on a Saturday evening to meet my own self-induced goal for the week.  I overheard them share all this through a very obvious language barrier between the young men.

They saw me laughing at them in their struggle to communicate.  When the boys from Upper Dublin could not find the language to ask the asian boys about how they came to America, I volunteered some coherent words.  “Ask them, ‘Did your family move here or are you exchange students?’”  The school boys were really thankful and exuberant to experience such language.  I said “We are constituted by language.”

They went back to their dereev and before the thought fully left Matt replied, “Wait, what did you say about being constituted by language?  We should interview you.”

They were curious why I was laughing so much.  I shared how it was obvious the asians were not local asians but immigrant asians.  I shared how I was looking for someone who might have a lighter and when I asked a someone and that someone had a light, they were mesmerized.  WOW!  DUDE!

I encouraged them to work on their people watching skills.  “Book learning is great fun and all but real experience is quite the life.  And that’s what you honors students are out here doing.”

*Some out-of-towners came by the porch this summer.  They wore Philadelphia Eagles shirts and said “Yeah!  We are going to enjoy our coffee here on the porch like Doylestonians.”  Hopefully they will learn.

On profiling.

Late at night I asked a someone if he had a smoke.  He did.  I asked if he went to the local university.  He said he did and asked how I knew.  I said I profiled you.

There is one more story.  The story of the chef.  This one is more personal.  Shall we share?  Maybe, but we can leave the personal details out, okay.

On the porch the same evening as the Bill and Ted lookalikes, a chef from a local restaurant sat at the table next to me and waited for the bus.  I shared with him how I enjoyed the meals I had at the establishment and wanted to thank him for his good work.

He was impressed to receive a compliment.  He said, “Thank you.  I don’t often receive gratitude for my work from clients.”

I asked if he was saving for a car.  He shared he was going through a divorce.  I said “That is why I am devoted to building and maintaining positive, healthy, expansive relationships.”

He asked, “Are you a therapist?”

I said, “No, I have spent a good bit of time in therapy and considering finding an alternative way to serve the emotional-mental health market.”

Writing Sensibly

 We can write about writing.  We may want to go back and revise some of the more popular posts or even less popular posts to better convey our message more accurately.  Yes, the written word presents certain challenges compared to a visual or a demonstration expression.  Good Luck!

Devotion

Of our devotion to building and maintaining positive, healthy, expansive relationships, the devotion is a two way street, more than I must be committed to the practice.  We must share our boundaries, our expectations, our wants and needs.

Exhausted

About the exhaustion of sharing our opinion of surviving the way we do, we feel good to share our opinion.  The way a marathon runner might feel exhausted after a marathon and also feel good to have gone the distance.

The Fight in Grade Nine

What do we have to share about the fight in grade nine?

Well we are still fighting the fight?

What was the fight about?

Drugs, specifically painkillers or opioids.

How are we still fighting the fight?

We are volunteering with a philanthropic organization to mitigate the effects of the opioid confliction of our society.

How did we fight in grade nine?

*names are changed for privacy, except my own, as I am vulnerable on the vanguard in the war on ignorance

There was a misunderstanding.  I was commenting how I would never choose to use painkillers or opioids because one of our classmates brother died an awful way under the influence of the dragon.  One person Dave shared incorrectly with the living brother that I was making fun of the deceased.  I discovered this truth of the lie from the living brother when Landon approached me with concern about my comment.  I advised Landon how I was using his tragedy as a reason not to choose opioids.

Landon was not satisfied or convinced of my truth so I asked where he learned of such falsity.  Openly he shared Dave told him about my comment.

I approached Dave and said he had lied to Landon causing him distress and that I would like to fight Dave for such offense.  We agreed on a place and time.

A few days went by between setting our agreement to fight and the day of the actual fight.  Word got around, people talk, and when I got off the school bus there was a crowd of two and a half score of schoolmates.  All these people came to watch the fight.  As I walked in with the crowd, Landon showed me a blade.  I said put that away or there is no fight, we are just using hands.

My heart was racing, nerves and butterflies.  Dave and I squared up across from one another about ten yards apart and the crowd began to get a bit restless.  Across from Dave I said "You lied," and we began to quarrel.  Myself, being not a good fighter took many a blow to the face.  A bloody nose ensued.  None of my punches were landing.  I was becoming very fatigued very quickly so, I choked Dave out into submission.

My shirt more red than grey, I was relieved the fight with Dave was done.  At the conclusion of the fight with Dave, Landon cried out in agony wanting to fight me.  The crowd asked if I would accept.  I shared how my fight was not with Landon but with Dave who lied to him about my comment of his tragedy.  Landon didn't care - he was in agony and wanted to fight.  I did not deny his request.

Thankfully Ely, an older brother of an Irish classmate pulled me aside and gave me a brief instruction on fighting.  Close my fists tightly, stop throwing hay-makers, keep the fists up and give quick jabs.

Ely's lesson proved very helpful.  Landon was continually pummeled into the brush and the fight ended in a stalemate when we were both to tired to continue tossing fists.

I received a ride home from some classmates.  I felt respected by them.  Unfortunately about a quarter of the people in attendence that day have succumbed to the very drug which caused all the agony to bring us young men to the fight.

Social Value

The three distinctions of Social Value.

Basic Social value.  Real Social Value. and Universal Social Value.

Basic Social Value is where you are accepted in a society.  The people like you and you like them.  The society may be a group of friends or club.

Real Social Value is where you are accepted by a society and the society pays you.  An example of Real Social Value might be your employer.  If you are your own boss you provide a Real Social Value to society where society pays you.

Universal Social Value is where you provide something to all of society.  Examples of Universal Social Value are people who contribute to our understanding of the world through science or philosophy.

These distinctions clarify our commitments.  Some people contribute a great deal to universal social value and are not compensated with any real property and may also lack basic social value.  Some people may have a strong basic social value and not be clear with real social value.  Other people may have much real social value and contribute very little to universal social value or basic social value.

Ladies Pay Up

In a recent work experience some of my co-workers were flown in from LA.  One co-worker shared of her experience of going out in Philly.  She was supprised she had to pay: her own cover; for her own drinks.  She expressed how the experience was different from LA.  In LA she never has to pay a cover - you know, girl privilege.  In LA guys are clamoring to buy her drinks.  She experienced culture shock.  Here, in the Philly region, is the Faith of the United States.  Here, women are imbuded with virtue, liberty and independence - you know, equality.

A Sad Lot of Landlords

When looking at an apartment, the landlady asked how I would pay for the apartment.  

I said, "I have a voucher to cover a portion of the rent."  

The landlady asked, "Is the voucher from 'the government?'"  

I said, "Yes."  

She, in a foriegn accecnt, "Ohh, no, no.  I can't accept that."  

I said "Okay well, would you mind if I parked in front of the property on the public road and slept in my van."  

Again she declined.  

I said, "Well, that is why "the government" created the voucher program.  Society doesn't want homeless people.  So society created a voucher program to pay a portion of the rent to landlords to get their people off the street and into a good place to live." 

The immigrant landlady was dumbfounded and befuddled and did not change her position.

More landlords need to read the following letter.

Tyler Kapish

P.O. Box 1190

Doylestown, PA 18901

25 May 2021

Potential Landlords

Blessing’s from our Dear Friend Uncle Sam

Having a section 8 voucher is a privilege.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development does not simply award a voucher to all who apply.

I maintain all necessary requirements with the housing authority and the department to receive such privilege.  

An analogy to privilege can be made with driving.  Driving is a privilege just as a housing voucher is a privilege.  For one to receive a license or a voucher they must meet and maintain all requirements.   

Thank You for being American

Tyler Kapish

Employment

If you are employed you are the bitch of your boss.

You may have a say in your job, but for the most part you tow the line or you are cut.  If your boss decides to lay you off you are out of income.  Being employed is for the spineless.  Those who lack virtue and liberty also lack independence and choose to be a bitch for a boss.

The author had a recent experience inquiring about a possible service opportunity for a mechanic.  The author asked if the mechanic would be willing to work with an independent contractor.  The mechanic mentioned insurance might be an issue.  The author said he will have insurance to cover liability at the shop.  The mechanic said he likes his "guys" to come in at 08:30.  The author said he is not your "guy" but an independent contractor and will come in at a time convenient for both himself and the mechanic.  The term "guy(s)" may as well be replaced with "bitch(es)."

Food is Medicine

What you eat is what you are.  If you choose to eat salty, fatty food you will be obease.  If you choose to eat healthy you will be healthy.

God provids us the life we need to sustain ourself for a healthy life.  That life lives for our well-being.  The apple tree bears fruit for us because doing so increases it's value.

Pharmaceuticals attempt to derive what already occurs naturally for us by God.  By having faith in pharmaceuticals you loose faith in God and in turn yourself as the light of God is within us, we are the light of God.

Marijuanna has all of the healing properties pharmaceuticals try so hard to replicate.  Pharmaceuticals will never be able to replicate what occurs naturally by God.  We may modify the plant to be more potent, but the plant itself generates the healing properties.

All ailments can be overcome with diet, exercise, and a positive, healthy, expansive perspective.

The only role pharmaceuticals have any value is developing vaccines and medical devices.

In some parts of the world chefs are paid more than doctors because their society fully acknowledges food is medicine.

 

Birkenstock is for Women

Conversations in passing with people.

As the author was walking down the avenue a young couple was walking up in his direction.  The couple were having a discussion about footwear, specifically about sandals or fliplops for men.  The woman was suggesting it is perfectly okay for men to wear birkenstock sandals.  The man did not agree and believed the style sandal is for women.  They went back and forth about the subject twice before the author and them passed by each other.  In passing the author said "Your right bro, those style sandals are for women."  "Thanks Dude!" the man responed.  His ladyfriend was flabbergasted that her opinion was wrong.

Speaking of flabbergastery

The author was at the library and could hear the music from some source.  He walked in the direction of the source of sound, listening for an increase in decibles.  The author walked.  The decibles increased, then began to fade.  He turned back to the direction of increasing loudness and came upon a woman with earbuds.  "Excuse me," said the author, "would you mind turning the volume down a bit," as he mimed the turning of a potentiometer.  The woman was sitting fifty feet from where the author first heard the noisy pop music.

Flabbergasted the woman said "You can hear that!?"

"I'm sensitive."

She polietley turned down her music.

Opinions

Opinions are incredibly important.  The most important opinion is your own.  Your own opinion can and most often is plural.  A plural opinion is comprised of thoughts which may be contradictory.  People often have inflated or depleated opinions.  The path to enlightenment is balancing our opinions to be clear, concise and coherent.

Other peoples opinions are also incredibly importat.  The opinion of your employer or clients about you is importat, so too is that of your spouse.  If either had a dissenting opinion you might loose your job or spouse.  People are friends with you because it is their opinion they like you.  People express their opinion in the stores they frequent, the products they use.

Some opinions don't matter.  Monday morning quarterbacks or any commentators on sports are a perfect example of meaningless opinions.  Bizzarly many people are of the opinion that those opinions matter - too bad for them.

Some opinions are destructive.  Opinions of township supervisiors and city planners create the sub-urban distopioa we have in the United States.  The once intelligently designed boroughs and towns are becoming sprawls of impersonal dimension.

How can we encourage people to have meaningful opinions?  Our schools and universities are not devoted to creating an enlightened society.  If we are to be the enlightened society our framers imagined we must encourage teaching the wisdom of virtues, liberty and independence.  Otherwise, those who are educated are ignorant.  

Extending Connecting for Commonwealth

At a recent work experience, we discovered our peers want to engage in thoughtful conversation but are inhibited due to the pressures of working.

Given the economic enviornment of our generation, we applaude our peers who are engaged in volunteerism.  We encourage our peers to take the time to breathe and engage in conversation that is positive, healthy and expansive for the benefit of our economic circumstances.

Being Thankful

We are thankful for the people in our world who fully express love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

We are thankful for the people who remind us it is okay to feel however we are feeling.

It's okay to be shameful.  It's okay to be guilty.  It's okay to be apathetic.  It's okay to be in a state of grief.  It's okay to be fearful.  It's okay to have desire.  It's okay to be angry!

As we become more comfortable in shame, guilt, apathy, greif, fear, desire, and anger, we gain access to higher qualities of being, respectively in order, such as pride, courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reason, love, joy, peace - compassion, and finally enlightenment.

We are thankful that a corporation, due only to public opinion, allows people to be in their store without the purchase of any of their products.  While in their store the people are free to: use the store's restrooms; request water that is hot or cold or frozen and not be charged; charge electronic devices with the store's power outlets; bring and eat food not purchased at the store.  

Unfortunatley not all corporations are as accepting of free people.  Small business owners typically request free people to leave if the people are practicing the aforementioned freedoms the other company permits.

5th of July

The author was walking back to his vehicle the day after Independence Day.  As he approached, three young couples with baby strollers and Starbucks coffee cups were passing his sweet ride.  The author notice the lead man was wearing a Yankees hat.  "Are you a Yankees fan," asked the author.

"No," responded the lead man.

"What do you mean no?"

"I'm bandwaggoning, I don't have a choice."

"What do you mean you don't have a choice?  That's not very American."

The Dude and his Set-Up

The Dude imagined how he could blog in an easy and effective way.  His imagination came when he experienced an upset.  The Dude was blogging simply on his phone.  The tiny screen of the phone and his fat fingers did not pair well for blogging.  One day last December the Dude created a stellar post about free writing when the post magically disappeared.  Much grief was experienced by him at that moment.  The Dude began to open and relax his mind for the universe to reveal a solution for how he could blog to share his wisdom with the world in a way that would not cause such grief again.

The Dude imagined having an adapter for connecting a wireless keyboard to a phone or tablet.  He imagined a shoulder harness to hold the keyboard.  He already had a music stand on which to set a tablet.

The Dude researched such adapters and of course, On-The-Go Adapters are easily available.  He researched a shoulder harness and found one already on the market - he was prepared to design his own.

The Dude acquired all those basic items and now blogs and writes and lives so eloquently.  He can write and walk at the same time.  He can sit down if his legs get tired.  He can shift between sitting, standing and walking with ease as he continues to type.

When the Dude brings his set-up in public, people notice the genius.  They say, "I like the set-up."  The dude responds, "That's what I call it!"

Now the Dude is waiting on a sponsorship for a quality phone service to use a cell phone as a WiFi hotspot and blog anywhere with cell service.

The Plural

We refer to ourself as 'we.'  To call ourself 'I' is to deny all other aspects of ourself.  The other aspects of myself have meaning.  If those aspects weren't meaningful, those aspects will not manifest somewhere in our being.  Therefore we are we.  

Experiencing Adversity

Yesterday morning at the place where we get hot water for our instant oatmeal and pour over coffee the barista said to me, "I don't know how much longer I can give YOU water.  My boss is becoming impatient.  You come here ALL DAY and don't buy anything."

We did not feel safe.  The place has a policy that all people who enter the store whether they buy something or not are customers.  We felt all of our emotions from the projection of the employees' hate of themselves onto me.  We searched ourself for how to respond in a positive way.  We will copy our thought process below.

    Hello Journal we had a barista here say "I don't know how much longer I can give YOU water.  My boss is becoming impatient.  You sit here ALL DAY and don't buy anything."

    Okay well what will we do?  How will we respond?  Well we just googled starbucks store policy and we are welcome to continue as we wish.  How will we respond to the "Boss" who is having a personal problem with me?  We feel unsafe.  Shall we contact Starbucks Customer Service 1(800)782-7282, maybe.  Let us find out the name of the barista and the name of the boss and any employee who has the same perspective about me which is inconsistent with store policy and makes me feel unsafe.  Catherine Connors is the name of the manager.  Gabby, the barista said "It doesn't matter if I have the same opinion."

    Okay well we will write our testimony and call customer service.

The above was how we coped with the adversity.  We wrote to customer service about our experience.  I really wish we copied our submitted testimony of our experience for this post.  We called customer service three hours later.  The customer service associate Evan asked if we would like the district manager to contact us.  We responded in the affirmative.  We imagine apologizing to the district manager as the store manager is a reflection of the district manager's ability to discern quality attributes in people.

Today, the environment at the store was much more welcoming and safe.  We are thankful for the store policy and the effectiveness of the company’s response.  We are thankful for all the progress we have made in responding to our emotions and environment.

Tattos are Disgusting

Tattos represent permanant hatred of your own body.  

Regardless of what meaning you choose to give the ink - the mark is a symbol of ignorance to the perfection of yourself.

Despite the author's opinion of the awefulness of tattoos, numerous people with tattoos love him and he loves them.

Someone inquired about how this post helps the youth.  This post encourages the youth to have pride in the perfection of their own self.  Love yourself!

We Forgot a Title

With the rise of elderly having dementia or alzheimer's, we wonder if our culture is playing a part in the prevalance.  People choose to work insainly or choose to deny themself the truth and force lies into their opinion to maintin their denial of self.  We believe those choices lead to dementia or alzheimer's.  

We really don't know what truly leads to demntia but we do know how to treat those with such a condition.  We treat those with such a condition with self-control, gentleness, faithfulness, generosity, kindness, patience, peace, joy, and love, just like everybody else.

The Weirdest Thing

Being alive has got to be the weirdest thing.  Everything that is alive will die.  You are going to die.  You can't escape death.  Some people believe in an afterlife or reincarnation and in all those beliefs the understanding of death remains.

So what is the point of being alive if we are all going to die?  We might as well choose to have a positive, healthy, expansive perspective in our short time of our existence.  

How unfortuante we are to be around people choosing to express themselves in a negative, unhealthy, contractive way.  Thankfully we have the power to infuence others by living a life of virtue, liberty, and independence.

Hot Hot Nights

One night last week was incredibly hot and humid.  

We entered the fetal possition or child's pose and began to wail in grief "God help me.  God help me!  God help me!!"  We noticed we sounded pathetic.  

We rememberd God helps those who help themselves.  We remembered the light of God is within us, we are the light of God.  We then wailed "Tyler help us.  Tyler help us!  Tyler help us!!"  After developing pride for me to help us, we gained the courage to be neutral of the hotness and humidity.  

We are thankful to have the permission to park on private property.  By parking privatley we can sleep with our doors wide open and not be bothered by the public. 

A Society of Ignorance

 Air conditioners make the environment hotter - not cooler.

Connecting for Commonwealth

Connecting for Commonwealth 

Our Generation

 Service Aligned

Imbued with Spiritual Virtue

Sharing Love

First Night Back

 Everything is going to be okay.

The day of our first night was so incredibly hot and muggy.  First sad as we left our covid sanctuary we found an incredible sense of excitement in considering my time in this existence.  We chose to excitingly live in our existence, to be thankful for all things.

Developing courage to virtuously live independently with liberty we committed to acquiring a thong for future days of humid heat.  In our quest we discovered another thong we needed - one for our feet.  The quest for the proper foot thong to satisfy my particularly simple tastes finally came to an end for the season.

We parked at the place near the river in time for a doeth before sunset to organize our current dwelling.  Although privileged to park privately so I might open the doors - the humid heat did not abate.  Intermittently we would pause to pour water over our head to cool off from the encroached water vapor.

Our final pause we extended for as long as we could - almost intending to maintain the pause all night.  For our pause we sat in a chair far enough away from Wilma to feel a breeze.  Then came the rain cooling of the high heat.

Everything is going to be okay. 

Filling the Void

At the Fountain House porch we stand or sit filling the space our late friend reserved.  The space he held was one of philosophical inquisition, and a gentle curiosity for people and things near and far.  He was open to sharing and teaching powerful perspectives and perceptions of existing.  

How will we fill the void left in his departure?

Come here and speak, see, and hear for yourself.

How to spell 'Life'

L - O - V - E