BOWLATRON: MYSTIC ENIGMA OR SUPREME MOOCHER?

Little is known about the obscure character who called himself "Bowlatron". Mystic, Shaman, Snake oil peddler, Satanist, CIA operative. He’s been called all of these, and yet, was probably none. In fact, the spelling of his name and even his very gender have been disputed in the obsessive, closely knit circles familiar with his work. Thus, across this text, the reader will note that we have incorporated a number of variant spellings.

Bolatron frequently remarked that he was: “originally a Pentagon lab monkey born in 1981. I was subjected to DNA experiments in 1985 at a research facility in Bethesda Maryland. I oscillate transmogrifications between lab rat, monkey, and human form, due to some sloppy label technique by an overworked research assistant. This accounts for my tendency to pop up in places where you find my good buddy, and feline par excellence, Roeco.”

This is generally held to be facetious. Nevertheless, the conspiracy theory branch of his followers take it as fact. They see it as “hiding the greatest of truth’s bananas at the top of the bunch.” However, Nietzschean Bolotronocists argue the opposite: operating with the “rare is for the rare” tack.

Several things are certain. There is no record of Bolotron before 1985, and since he virtually never visited doctors or dentists, we have no medical records to track so far. Not unpredictably, all inquiries regarding a Naval genetic research facility at Bethesda have gone unanswered.

However, Bolotron was extremely partial to bananas with cassava leaves, and he was a brilliantly adept rock and tree climber. Variously described to be 5'3" to 5'8," with eyes said to be a "twinkling cornflower blue, except when they were brown." people amazed at the limberness he displayed for a man who appeared to be at least fifty years old in human chronology. He had calluses on his knuckles, but also had the graceful walk of an adept martial artist. To the best of anyone’s knowledge he is gone now, and we are gathering the fragments if his knowledge to shore against the ruins of the Twenty-First Century Soul.

The most extensively recorded period of Bolotron’s life is from the years 1991-2001, after which he dropped from sight during a Halloween party in Juneau Alaska. At Paddy's Eskimo Cow Pie Saloon, the bartender states, "it was like he walked into the Men's room and out of the realm of time and space. I guess you could say he's finally plumbing eternity." HIS FOLLOWERS SAY THAT HE PASSED OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PORCELAIN.

It is during this period, when he wandered America with his large black cat, Roeco, whom he sometimes claimed that he himself was a mere projection of. He also referred to Roeco as the “the reincarnation of Schroedinger’s cat," much to the bemusement of the Quantum branch of Bolotronicism.

Not surprisingly, most of Bolotron’s accounts of things are contradictory to say the least. The Wiccanist branch of the Bowlatronistic practices, assert that this black cat acted as his “Familiar,“ and that Bowlatron in actuality functioned as a Warlock.

It is also a source of record thus far, that Bolotron is neither owing nor owed any sum anywhere greater than $50.

BOWLATRON’S CONSOLATIONS FOR PHILOSOPHERS

MYSTICISM IS THE ENTREPENEUR’S WORST NIGHTMARE.

BOWLOTRON ON COMPUTERS AND CHESS: “The computer application that is the human’s opponent constitutes a collectivized experience of the recorded history of the game. Therefore the “man” is not playing against a “machine” as much as the individual is engaged with the entire weight of the game’s past as recorded in the application. I find the idea of the “end“ of chess in the form of some “perfect“ game to be somewhat blood-chilling, however.”

BOLOTRON ON A SUDDENLY IMPOSED WARTIME CIGARETTE AND ALCOHOL TAX: “Wouldn’t it have to figure that at a sensitive time like this, a mayor who is self made millionaire business man should choose to express his concern for our health in this way? Squeeze ‘em for every drop you can while they’re still alive.”

BOLOTRON ON SATAN: “Blaming Satan or Beelzebub or whatever you want to call it on human evil is like a manufacturer blaming design flaws on their quality control department.”

BOLOTRON ON DAMNATION: “An illusion rooted in illusion. Experientially defined by a moment before death in which the subject “recognizes” that they have agreed to every aspect of their existence, and that the bases of their own existence are founded by the definition of agreement. In other words, you've asked for your life. And the devil that you know, yourself, will damn you.”

BOLOTRON KICKED OUT OF THE SCIENTOLOGY SEMINAR: “Well so what did I do wrong? The woman with the mop handle posture was expatiating on her previous lifetimes as a Galactic Princess in the Empire Maldoon 23 Centuries ago. Wasn’t it a perfectly logical thing to ask her what the hell she screwed up to end up here? I really was interested in the details.”

BOLOTRON ON PAST LIFE REGRESSION: “ I get the feeling that it’s preposterous in the deepest and most malignant sense of the word. If we work with the metempsychoses model as the best thing we have had to work with over the millennia of human incarnations, there is a skeleton key common to all mythologies. A river of forgetfulness. That the pain of burning the karma of a given lifetime coupled with the trauma of death and the transition into rebirth should be blessedly mitigated by oblivion. People who obsess over previous lifetimes are probably in a psychic state equivalent to that of an untrained infant who still thinks his diaper may double as a toy box.”

BOWLOTRON ON AMERICAN LIBERALS: “Well of course they’re buffoons. But your American Right is also a Pantheon of puppetry and buffoonery as well. Only radicals have even the possibility of accuracy. Wasn’t it your Christ who said, ’I spit out the lukewarm? I don’t think you’ll find it in the Book of Luke, though.’”

BOLOTRON ON RADICALS: “It would be an nice idea, but I would suggest that those who call themselves such be sure to investigate the root derivations of the word.”

THE “CLOSE BRUSH” QUESTION: “A close breath with death makes some people better than what they were and some worse, but it is always defining. That should be obvious, why do you ask?”

HARE KRISHNAS: “A bit Rococo. However, saffron is an excellent and time worn color for clothing suitable for meditation. I don‘t understand what they‘re doing in the airports, though. Shouldn‘t they be at the ashram, practicing meditation and asanas for the betterment of all sentient life everywhere?”

BOLOTRON ON HUGGING TREES: “What a dilemma to be incarnated into an Indonesian tree: On the one hand your motivation for taking the form was no doubt a positive one, within your soul‘s menu of options. I have heard that the level of consciousness required to work the DNA/RNA chain is of a sophistication far beyond that of the methane weasels of Jupiter. However, would you have agreed to that incarnation, had you known you would be unceremoniously torn from your meticulously and lovingly situated rootedness, and converted into rifles, guitars, and paper goods?”.

BOWLATRON TO A SELF-RIGHTEOUS ZIONIST: "If just once you were to scrutinize the vomitorious turds that emanate from that rat hole you call a mouth, you might need to redefine what you call a man, and exclude yourself from the category. Of course, I’m being optimistic enough to assume you’ll even develop that far. It takes a certain real and objective level of psychic attainment to experience the horror associated with one’s very existence. This is why these sorts of “dark nights of the soul” are usually associated with either great geniuses or the highest categories of saints. It is also why these sorts of folk have led lives “off the grid” of their societies."

BOWLOTRON ON PSYCHIC GROWING PAINS: “Horror, then guilt and finally remorse.”

BOWLOTRON PARANOIA: “What historical evidence is there to support the optimistic assessment of the forces around us that would ground a conclusion that they are controllable and subject to conspiracy?”

BOWLATRON ON MONEY:” The magic of money is that it separates itself from magic. That miracle was loaves and fishes, not shekels and denarii’s.”

BOLOTRON ON THE GLORY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: “Plato’s nightmare, and the last thing that the framers of the constitution had in mind. You want some examples of democracy? Look at a lynch mob or television programming.”

BOLOTRON ON KARMA AND DHARMA: “I see it like a game of poker. Karma is the cards you’re dealt as a consequence of the preceding shuffle. Dharma is how you play them.”

BOLOTRON ASKED ABOUT NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES OF HORRORS AND PLAGUES: “They have already been long in place. Post industrial humanity is too anesthetized to notice. Just as the Tibetan Book of the Dead is really about the living, The Books of Genesis and Revelation are both books about the perpetual timeless present that is objective human experience.”

BOWLATRON ON TEACHING: “If it’s not a calling, it’s not much of anything at all. It is instinctive for sentient matter to want to leave a little better behind. Or at worst, to hold fast to human rudiments.”

BOLOTRON ON “NEW AGE” THEORIES OF EVOLUTION BASED ON TIBETAN BUDDHISM: “Like the pamphlet indoctrinated Xians, and the kalashikov toting Islamic illiterates, they have not done their homework, and have not researched the words they use. What they interpret from the twelfth century Sanskrit as “evolution” really implied a progress towards increasing complexity, illusion, and disorder, which can only be rectified by catastrophic intervention.”

BOLOTRON ON AFRICA: “Didn’t you used to have apocalyptic articles on the population time bomb there? Between AIDS and regional wars, that’s not going to be a problem. But who do you think will fill the vacuum? It would not surprise me in the least of it gets carved up between India and China sometime around the mid-21st century.”

BOLOTRON ON DEMOCRACY AGAIN: “I object to the word as well as the concept for the same reason my founding fathers did. It is part of a vicious cycle of history that was first identified by Plato. You can start the circle anywhere you want because it goes round and round, but it works like this. Beginning with putting kings in charge, the kings need money. Sooner or later the king becomes the puppet of the wealthy who keep the game afloat. The wealthy depend on their assets by squeezing them out of the commoner, and this dependence makes them their eventual puppets, so they surrender power to them(democracy). The trouble is that the common opinion is sustained only by common information, so it is chronically misinformed. The common opinion is swayed by demagoguery which simply manipulates it through propaganda and rhetoric to tell them what they want to hear. This generates tyranny. The tyrant finds kings to be convenient puppets, because the king has the aura of legitimacy. The idea of a Republic, which was the subject of his book, was to break the chains imposed by this cycle which had already been in re-runs in Greece back around what? 2500 years ago??

WHEN ASKED HOW HE WANTED HIS KNOWLEDGE TO BE ENCRYPTED, THE GREAT MYSTIC, BOLOTRON, SAID, “WHY DON’T YOU PUT IT IN A CHEAP COLORING BOOK, AND OFFER THEM A FREE BAG OF POPCORN WITH IT? CHARGE ‘EM A PENNY.”

TRY AS THEY MIGHT TO FIT IN, BY NATURE A MYSTIC WILL BE SEEN AS A RENEGADE

RELIGION IS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR DEATH AND HELL, MYSTICISM IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE

BY DEFINITION KNOWLEDGE IS ABSOLUTE IN CHARACTER.

KNOWLEDGE IS PURCHASED THROUGH WILL, BUT DOES NOT RESULT IN WILLFUL BEHAVIOR.

THE OBSELESENCE OF RELIGION AND ITS TOOLS BASED ON FORCE WILL NATURALLY OPPOSE IT.

CAN ANYONE TRULY XIAN AVOID BEING SOCIALIST BY NATURE?

NATURALLY TRUE CAPITALISTS WILL EITHER CONSCIOUSLY OPPOSE MYSTICISM, SUBCONSCIOUSLY OPPOSE IT, OR BOTH. HOW CAN IT BE EXPLOITED?

JUDAISM WILL BE MOST EFFICACIOUSLY OPPRESIVE TO JEWISH MYSTICS.
ISLAMIC MYSTICSM HAS ALWAYS HAD TO OPERATE UNDER THE GUISE OF IDIOCY.
XIAN MYSTICISM HAS LONG TAKEN REFUGE IN LUNACY.
BUDDHIST MYSTICS HAVE OFTEN BECOME SCHOLARS OF APPLIED FORCE.

THE GREATER THE DEPTH OF A MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE, THE LESSER THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE PERCEPT IS TO EXPOSE IT.

TO BE A SAINT OF ANY KIND IS TO HAVE MET DEMONS. TO BE A DEMON OF ANY KIND IS TO HAVE KNOWN ANGELS. SAINTS ARE WISELY AVOIDED BY ANGELS. SAINTS WISELY AVOID ATTENTION TO THEIR BEHAVIOR. BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGISTS CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR SAINTS, AND WISELY EXOSCRIBE THEM FROM THEIR DEFINITIONS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

IN THE WORDS OF BOLATRON, “AS SURE AS WHEN I VISUALIZED ALL THE LONG HAIR TYPES I VIEWED AT A GRADUATION AS WELL COIFFED MEN IN SUITS SUCKING LONG AND DEEP ON A PHALLUS SHAPED LIKE AN OIL WELL, I SEE THE CURRENT HERD OF DREDLOCKED VEGAN RANTERS ON THE MUSIC SCENE AS THE REINCARNATED SOULS OF SPINSTER SCHOOL MARMS WITH HATCHETS IN THEIR HANDS DESTROYING SALOONS. THE IMPOTENT FORCED OUTRAGE OF THEIR TONE, FORCE DRIVEN THROUGH THEIR ADENOIDAL SEPTA. GIVES THEM AWAY.”

WHEN ASKED ABOUT ANGELS, BOLOTRON SAID, “IT’S A GOOD THING THEY HAVE NO BODIES, ELSE THEY TOO WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED. IT IS EVEN BETTER THEY HAVE NO EYES, LEST THEY BE DIVERTED FROM THEIR TASKS BY WEEPING AT WHAT THEY WOULD SEE. AND IT IS, OF COURSE, BEST THAT THEY HAVE NO HEARTS, LEST THEY BE BROKEN AT THE AFOREMENTIONED SIGHTS OF WHAT MAN DOES SO WILLINGLY TO MAN AND BLAMES EITHER GOD OR BEELZEBUB FOR.”

WHEN PERTURBED BY SOME MASSACHUSETTS SATANISTS, BOLOTRON RESPONDED SWEETLY THUS: “YOU DO NOT YET QUALIFY FOR DAMNATION, OH YE SUBURBAN GOATWHORES, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT YET APPRECIATE SUFFICIENTLY THE GOD YOU SO RHETORICALLY RENOUNCE. TALK TO ME OF DAMNATION ONLY AFTER YOU KNOW THE LOVE OF GOD. TALK TO ME OF SATAN ONLY AFTER YOU BRING KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WORK. GO IN TURBULENCE. YOUR IGNORANCE CONDEMNS YOU TO HEAVEN.”

DURING HIS NOW LEGENDARY 40 DAY WALLET FREE HITCH-HIKE ACROSS AMERICA WITH HIS MOST TRUSTED 22 YEAR OLD APOSTLETTE, HE WAS BUSTED OUTSIDE OF CHEYENNE WYOMING BY A BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN STATE TROOPER. WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS LACK OF A WALLET AND PROPER ID, BOLOTRON REPLIED, “SHOW ME IN YOUR NEW TESTAMENT WHERE THE GREAT CHRIST CARRIED A WALLET AND I WILL PLEAD GUILTY TO EVERY UNSOLVED CRIME YOU HAVE. IF YOU CANNOT, YOU MUST RELEASE ME OR SUFFER THE PAIN OF LIFELONG INTERNAL CONTRADICTION.” MIRACULOUSLY, NOT ONLY DID THE TROOPER LET THEM GO, BUT HE BOUGHT THEM BOTH A FISH DINNER, AND ARRANGED SAFE PASSAGE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF AMERICA.

WHEN APPROACHED ABOUT DOING TALK SHOWS BOLOTRON SPOKE THUS, “I WOULD AGREE TO DO IT FOR NOTHING, IF IT WERE TO GENERATE EMPATHY AND FAITH SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A TELEPATHIC INTERACTION AMONG ALL THE VIEWERS, WITH THE CONSEQUENCE OF RENDERING THAT MEDIUM OBSOLETE. OTHERWISE I REQUIRE 3 BILLION DOLLARS.”

BOLOTRON ON THE EXISTENCE OF TIME: “THE EXISTENCE OF TIME IS A NON-ISSUE. IT HAS NO EXISTENCE WITHOUT MEMORY, AND TO THE MEMORY A DAY CAN FEEL LIKE A CENTURY AND A DECADE CAN FEEL LIKE A MINUTE. REMEMBER THE WORDS OF MY GURU, NOLNAX, “THE DAYS CRAWL AND THE YEARS FLY.”

TO A SOPHIST ON HIS LACK OF WEALTH: “TO ASK SUCH A QUESTION DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM THE ANSWER.”

BOLOTRON TO A NITPICKER ON HIS EXACT CHRONOLOGICAL AGE: “OLDER THAN YOU AND YOUNGER THAN THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS THAT ANIMATE WHAT YOU CURRENTLY CALL ‘HOPES AND DREAMS.’”

BOLOTRON ON CHURCHES, SYNAGOGUES, MOSQUES ETC. : “ALTHOUGH THEY ARE AS PLEASING TO THE EYE AS THE LOVING CRAFT OF THE WORK OF MAN CAN BE, AND THOUGH THEY ARE A SOLACE TO THE DAUNTED, NEVERTHELESS AS LONG AS THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM THERE WILL BE WAR.”

BOLOTRON ON WAR: “A MAKE WORK PROJECT WHOSE OBSOLESENCE HAS BEEN CENTURIES IN THE PLANNING.”

BOLOTRON ON HIS LIFELONG DEVOTION TO THE PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC: “IT IS NOT THE ONLY CALLING, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY ONE FOR ME AT THE TIME.”

“WISDOM IS THE CHILD OF REMORSE, AS SURE AS GUILT IS THE BASTARD OF NARCISSISM.”

BOLOTRON ON ATHEISTS: “OPTIMISTS ONE AND ALL.”

BOLOTRON ON JUDEO-CRISTIANITY: “IT APPEARS TO BE A SCHISM BETWEEN OPTIMISTS AND PESSIMISTS. I SEE THE “OLD SCHOOL” AS OPTIMISTS BECAUSE THEY ASSERT GOD’S AGENT AND/OR AGENCY IS YET TO ARRIVE, WHICH EXPLAINS THE BUTCHER’S THEATRE OF HISTORY. THE “NEW SCHOOL” SEEMS TO ASSERT THAT MAN’ S HISTORICAL BEHAVIOR CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE DESPITE IT, IN REFLECTION OF THE EXORBITANCE IN MAGNITUDE OF THE ORIGINAL FALL FROM GRACE. LIKE THE VARIOUS OLD MAPS OF THE HEAVENS AS A BOWL LIKE ARRANGEMENT OF STARS OVER A FLATTENED EARTH, THEY ACCOUNT FOR FACT IN A CIRCUMSCRIBED WAY, BUT FAIL IN THE LIGHT OF LARGER PERSPECTIVES.”

BOLOTRON WHEN CHALLENGED ABOUT HIS POSITION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: “WELL, SIR, I SUSPECT THE REASON YOU WANT AN EXECUTION DONE THROUGH THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS BECAUSE YOU LACK THE STOMACH TO DO IT YOURSELF.”

BOLOTRON ON THE MEANING OF IT ALL:
“PICTURE A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET ON A LUSH SOUTH SEA ISLAND
PENDULOUS OVER A SQUALID HUDDLE OF HUTS.
CAN YOU SEE THE PEARLY INTERPLAY
OF THE SETTING SUN
WITH THE EVER CHANGING CURLIQUES
THAT DEFINE WHERE THE CLOUDS MEET THE SKY?
CAN YOU SEE THE INELUCTABLE DYNAMIC
THAT UNDERLIES THE EVER AND DEFT RESCULPTING
OF THAT SHIMERING ABALONE?
CAN YOU FEEL THE COLORS
IN THEIR PINK AND ORANGE GLISTENING
DAPPLE INTO GOLD AND THEN COALESCE INTO SHADOW?
HAS YOU HEART GROWN ITS WINGS TO MEET IT?
AND HAVE YOU FELT YOUR LUNGS OPEN TO ITS CLEANSING DIAMOND DUST?
NOW WALK INTO THE CENTER OF THOSE GATHERED HUTS
AND TRY TO DISARM THE HYSTERICAL NATIVES,
PUTTING THEIR LIVES AND FUTURES
ON A BUTCHER BLOCK
IN THE NAME OF A FEW SCRAPS OF DEAD LOBSTER MOLTS.

BOLOTRON ON BELIEF: “It is not to be recommended. It is better superceded by faith and knowledge. That’s why you originally had different words. In the older practices beliefs required blood sacrifices. Now they simply generate war.”

BOLOTRON ON PORNOGRAPHY: “A perfectly understandable alternative for those who have given up on the possibility of making love in the deeper sense. Anything has to possibility of becoming pornography. It's in the eye of the beholder. I suspect it is statistically safe as well. I would expect the number of people whom it would incite to rape to be about equal to the number of adolescents who find the work of the rock band Black Sabbath a reason to become practicing Satanists, and interpret that to be drinking goat‘s blood and biting off the heads of bats... Those beta deviations would be due to the variety of work which goes under the umbrella of ‘pornography.’ Much of it is obscene as well, and I find that nauseatingly repulsive.”

BOWLOTRON ON ISRAEL: “I hear a lot about the world wide problem parking nuclear waste. Parking lot anyone?”

BOWLATRON ON JIHAD: “I simply don’t get it. According to the Holy Q’ran, the greater Jihad is an internal process, akin to the “examination of conscience” in the European Xian tradition. The oil rich Arab minority and opportunistic intelligence agencies of either side who recruit the malleable miserable who become human bombs are opportunists of an exponential order of magnitude. I will not judge them, and I do not envy God.

BOWLOTRON ON PALESTINIAN DILEMMA: “Let’s face it. Death Valley, Arizona would be an improvement on most of their lives. There‘ll be no improvement on suicide bombings until then.”

BOLOTRON ON THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC: “The first casualty is the initial impulse to love music. The second death is art, which, being more durable, is re-animated in the form of virtuosity.”

BOLOTRON ON BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT THE REBBE JESUS: “He displayed the mathematician’s passion for simplicity and elegance. And he is the only post pagan avatar who did not die of old age. Not to love the guy may be missing out on one’s own humanity.

BOLOTRON ON CHRIST AGAIN: “He liberated man from dialectical thinking. And now it is mankind’s ability, and responsibility to liberate itself. I think that‘s one reason why I often call Him the "Great Liberator." I doubt he is amused at how much blood has been spilt for more than two millennia over the details. He really does not come off as one of those “anal retentive” detail haruspicating kind of guys. I think that if I were He, I would be disappointed that things had changed so little after I had gone to so much trouble to arrive here and prepare the ultimate dinner.”

BOLOTRON ON DIXIE BEER: “Now I see why the South lost the war. Under Lee‘s brilliant leadership they might have overcome the disadvantage of inferior industrialization, but certainly never this swill.”

BOLOTRON ON SLAVERY REPARATIONS FOR AMERICAN BLACKS: “If there were any substance to the case at all, Israel would be suing Egypt for the Pyramids.”

BOLOTRON TO SOMEONE WHO CALLED HIM A GURU: “If I ever catch you saying that about me again, first I’ll break your fucking wrist, and then I’ll sue you for defamation of character.”

BOLOTRON ON THE KING JAMES BIBLE: “A brilliant flower of the English language at the height of its power to express nuanced meaning. Unfortunately, just as in war truth is the first casualty, in redaction and translation that first casualty is humor. Reading between the lines, I suspect that X was the first political comedian, in addition to his other extraordinary virtues.“

BOLOTRON ON CHRIST’S UNFAIRNESS: “So you don’t like the fact that the laborers who came in at the last minute got a Gold coin too, huh? This reflects your lack of sympathy with the plight of the day laborer in Shitsville, Samaria, pal. If you asked anybody who had to put a fourteen hour day into that kind of whip driven performance oriented work you’d find out how grateful you’d be to get some fresh meat in simply to get the job done so they’d let you go home! And that reminds me, aren‘t you the same person who was bitching about that first shall be last and the last shall be first business? Haven‘t you ever ridden a jam packed subway train? The first ones in end up being the last ones out.”

BOLOTRON ON GAUTMA BUDDHA: “A brilliant pessimistic analysis of perception emolliated with redemptive techniques.

BOLOTRON ON DEATH: “An adventure to be welcomed, but not invited.”

BOLOTRON ON HITLER: “I sometimes wonder if I am his reincarnation. I see a little of the Nazi in all of us. Consequently I see much more if that in me. However the reincarnation speculation is self flattering, don‘t you think? He‘s much more likely a very successful, driven Advertising Executive.”

BOLOTRON ON INSTANT MESSAGES: Like most modern communication it’s still a downgrade from Faith, Hope, and Charity. Instant though they are, the OBJECTIVE content seems to bear an inverse relation to the velocity.

BOLOTRON AT THE SOHO YOGA CLASS(1992): “I’ll be more likely to find the ultimate pretzel of enlightenment over a beer at the local saloon. Where is the nearest such establishment?”

BOLOTRON TO THE HOLLYWOOD KARATE MASTER: “Sorry about that left hook. Here’s a napkin for that nose of yours.”

BOLOTRON AT THE RACE TRACK: “Wait a minute, they don’t have Fast Filly in the fifth! How can you expect me to wager on anything else? Hang on to the money.”

BOLOTRON ON RELIGION: “It is like a beautiful antique that has long outlived its usefulness, but still should be cherished by those who can afford the luxury. For all the bloodshed it has unleashed though humanity’s incessant desire to tweak and tangentialize obvious truth, it is not the cause of the butcher block, just as Beelzebub is not the cause of the four agencies of Apocalypse. The causalities are humanity’s and humanity’s alone.”

BOLOTRON ON RELIGION AGAIN: “Perhaps the decay of communism is an accelerated reflection of the path of religions. It is something that looks very good on paper, but disintegrates under the weight of undisciplined opportunistic egos.”

BOLOTRON ON RELIGION AGAIN(ca. 1989): “The greatest peculiarity of any religion is the insistence that its forms and practices at any given time are perfect and immutable. This assumption in active contradiction to what the advanced members know to be false. Any religion has a history, and therefore is a concatenation of changes. A perfect example of the religious state of Israel. Orthodox practitioners of Judaism are far happier in Brooklyn than they are over there. Go ask any one of them who has lived in both places, and figure that one out, folks.”

BOLOTRON ON CONVENTIONAL CANCER TREATMENT: “To be undergone only if you need more time to contemplate your death, or if it provides you with the opportunity to better take care of you loved ones upon the completion of your incarnation. I would probably come in particularly handy for overly “creative“ types, who tend to leave loose ends for later. For them, later can become now and they can actualize some good with the time and expense.”

BOLOTRON TO AN ANGRY PARENT: “Hang on to the fiery feces you’ve got in your mouth until you provide yourself with the opportunity to scrutinize the source.”

BOLOTRON ON TRUTH: “It has no author.”

BOLOTRON ON THE AMA: “Should sentient humanity survive the calamitous 21st century, which I expect it to do, they will be referred to in the kind of shuddering tones we use about the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition. They have yet to provide themselves with a viable definition for the life that they have committed themselves to preserving. Nevertheless, as an expression of post-industrial civilization they are a necessarily. One certainly should not take a gunshot victim to an acupuncturist. Modern problems entail modern solutions.””

BOLOTRON ON EDEN AND REVELATION: “I think people like William Blake were on to something when they started reading both books as elucidations of humanity’s perpetual present. Each day begins in innocence when we arise from the little death that is sleep. Even the dreams which contaminate this resurrection with intimations of the dissatisfactions that drive our previous “lifetimes” of personal history carry with them the kind of encryption appropriate to the oblivion of the Bardo transition between lifetimes.

BOLOTRON ON DINOSAURS: “Nothing would surprise me less to find that the original Ur Atlantis was a civilization that had lizards as its evolutionary root. The timeline that supports the apparently plausible “asteroid” theory has about a 250,000 year lacuna. Now that’s such a drop in the bucket relative to the rest of the events that it is virtually ignored as a “margin of error.” But if you look at the history of “civilized” mankind as you know of it from stone slinging to missile, that’s a piece of time you could drive a truck through.”

BOLOTRON ON SELF-OBSERVATION: “The greatest terror for the post industrial being.”

BOLOTRON ON ABRAHAM: “Down there in the afterlife he’s gotta be really pissed off with the Jews. Here he was, leaving everybody specific instructions not to engage in human sacrifice. That a sheep, or in a pinch, even a rabbit would do, and there they go backsliding again with X. And what a hell of a choice to throw to the dogs! I can just see Moses there with him going, ‘and you crucify me about losing my temper over the ten commandments?’

And now I see…get me my magic crystal bowl….God stepping between them saying, “Hey look guys! What DID either of you expect? Which but one of the many tribes with which I populated my little planet needed so many written laws about keeping organs of generation away from farm animals? They were the ultimate challenge. That’s why I chose you!”

BOLOTRON ON A NEW YORK MAYORAL ELECTION: “The super duper two fer Jew fer Tuesday. The businessman beat the hack.

BOLOTRON ON GENIUS: “Most people dislike it, some actively hate it, and that’s not too good. Genius can hate back as well. Consider the case of Saddam Hussein. He is an Iraqi success story.”

BOLOTRON ON RETAIL: “As in war, the human body itself is the ultimate source of wealth, and final asset of the state. I guess that‘s what they always meant by ‘organs of the state, eh?’”

BOLOTRON ON JEWS AGAIN: “It seems to me that nobody seems to take a public position on what a Jew actually is. Everywhere from a Hollywood director to a hock shop owner you meet and/or read about Jews. Throw in the Doctor and the lawyer, but excluding the Indian Chief, there’s plenty in-between. For crying out loud, look at how many came over from Russia talking anti-Semitism out of one side of their mouth and offering no mitigating aspect of the excellent education they received there from the other.

And then, when we read the literature, they are the outcasts, the ultimate minority. Partially true? We’d all agree, but what the hell is partial truth? Perhaps it’s the other way round. Maybe they are the in-casts. The weirdest thing of all is to witness how among the many who call themselves Jews, most know precious little about the fundamental intelligence of the religion, and agree even less regarding its specific points of practice. Couple that with their own explicit definitions of self-hood based on race, and we are stuck in dialogues that are as barbaric as anything that might have come out of Hitler’s mouth, coupled with less honesty.”

BOLOTRON ON ANTI-SEMETIC “CHRISTIANS:” “For the love of god….It’s like a child that hates its own mother because it can’t stand the looks it inherited from her. How they can continue to call themselves followers of X without their hypocritical and blasphemous tongues rotting out between their teeth is an outstanding exhibit of divine mercy.”

BOLOTRON ON ANTI-CHRISTIAN SEMITES: “Business as usual, I suppose.”

BOLOTRON ON SADDAM HUSSEIN: “Of course I’m not pro-Iraq. The man’s a fascinating thug, though. And like every story ever written about fascinating thugs who go from peasant field worker to a wild and wacky fruition, it ends with a mutant spew of his loins in the form of a son who is an idiot.”

BOLOTRON ON TYRRANY: “It is a pre-ordained characteristic of a tyrant that their career will exfoliate into diminished options and increasingly repulsive choices.”

BOLOTRON ON THE WEATHER: “How many beautiful days is allowed to a lifetime? People are so easily confused by their holy books cant about how the creator has numbered every hair on their head and all sorts of minutiae. If one has not noticed last time one looked in the mirror, neither you nor I is the creator of the Universe. Let’s face it, we’ll never even pull off a half baked constellation like the Pleiades. However, unlike the number of hairs on one’s head, the number of beautiful days is an easy number. One should strive to add to that, should one dare or care to.”

BOLOTRON ON THE OCCULT: “One conclusion that centuries of experimentation and study have yielded is that there certainly is ‘something’ to it. Even skeptics and Catholics check their horoscopes. The trouble is, what is that ‘something?’ Continuing with the snake oil dealership known as astrology, where did that come from? Early astronomers projected mythic stories onto the shapes of the stars to better categorize and recollect them. These stories are multiply referential in their nature because they are myths. People born in different seasons were subject to different diet and environment during their earliest formative months. It’s a nature/nurture issue. At the present time, these considerations have been shot down the trash chute by modern transportation, agriculture, and marketing. Anyone who tries to apply these ‘sciences’ towards the regulation and control of their lives are flirting with death, if they are lucky.”

BOLOTRON ON SALOONS: “I consider them to be one of the primary fixtures of civilized life. What I’d love to know is who opened the first one.” We're very much on the same page despite our occasional petty divergences. I couldn't agree more, it's the greed I find incomprehensible. However, perhaps I'm being obtuse with such a position, and ignoring what I know to be true. In my experience as a tutor, the thing that I experienced over and over again was that the wealthy would grind you on a perfectly reasonable fee for a genuinely invaluable service, simply because the process of doing so filled some kind of personality deficit. I find the "howling hells" of twelfth century Tibet to be particularly apropos. I have seen more integrity in the snake pit I call my daily work on the sales floor as a retail comission driven turbo slave. But things have always been so. Cf. Mein Kampf, and the rules for the little man (untermensch), Jesus and his "eye of a needle" or F.Scott Fitzgerald, "the rich really are different." So to take a note from "Pinky and the Brain," What am I going to do about it? What I always do every day, learn eight more measures of music and derive insight thence.

BOLOTRON ON SIN: “….best understood as a psychological precondition to actions that generate horror, guilt and hopefully remorse. Paradoxically it is in the conditions sometimes referred to as the seven deadly sins, that many folks egoes project the illusion of experiencing the greatest intensity and vitality. Actually the opposite is true. In the condition of say anger, one is actually responding and thinking excruciatingly mechanically. The ego takes refuge in the act of repetition, and claims control over life and vitality. In so doing it squelches both.”

BOLOTRON ON THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: “With the passage of two thousand years, we may now have nine.”

BOLOTRON ON MYSTICISM: “Theoretically unnecessary.”

BOLOTRON ON BEING ASKED TO TEACH: “I would teach them to breath first. The truth is in plain sight, but the eyes of the liar are blind.”

BOLOTRON ON SPORTS SALARIES: “You are being obtuse to rant on in pseudo shocked horror at their astronomical proportions. Otherwise, how could the American public bet with confidence? And that’s where you ‘ll find the real money. If one can tolerate using the words ‘real’ and ‘money’ in the same sentence, and successfully stifle the urge to vomit. Excuse me, I need to hit the men‘s room.”

BOLOTRON ON THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: “Each and every condition is excellent. They would not be ’deadly’ otherwise. They should be incited in others by the morally responsible. Then and only then can the conditions be internally recognized and confronted.”

BOLOTRON ON ONE OF THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES: “That man is so low that for the appropriate fee he would gladly crawl under the belly of a cockroach to suck the penis of an ant.”

BOLOTRON ON NECESSARY SUFFERING: “Perhaps you fancy yourself either a Christ or an Adonis.”

BOLOTRON ON ISLAM: “An excellent religion for the purposes of doing business and indulging in enthusiastic zealotry. Which seems to be prioritized highly. Did not X evict the tax money changers from the Temple on the “High Holiday? That made a hood ornament out of him. In any case it is no wonder that they and the Jews carry on the way that they do. They are natural rivals. It is more of a wonder that they haven‘t managed to do worse.”

BOLOTRON ON “HIS LEGACY: “For the love of God, keep it apocryphal.”

BOLOTRON BEING EVICTED FROM A MACDONALD’S:”All I did was try to confirm with the manager that somewhere on the premises there was food fit for human consumption.”

BOLOTRON: “The weirdest thing about the last couple of centuries is the cyclic relation between the pauperization of the working population with the onset of war.”

BOLOTRON EXISTENTIALISM: “Okay let me check to see if I’ve got my thinking cap on and that I’m getting this right.

BOLOTRON ON HILLARY CLINTON’S 1994 PLAN FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE (sometimes used as evidence he was a clairvoyant): “Let me see. I’m supposed to entrust the care of my penis to a health plan designed by a woman who could not figure out how to please her husband‘s? You know the only way her position can make any sense in the larger perspective is if the Jewish backbone of the AMA has her in their back pocket. But then the next thing you know she‘d be elected aNew York state senator, or something ridiculous like that.”

BOLOTRON ON CHINA: “So far the twenty-first century will belong to China, unless America and Russia can do the right thing and form a team that truly could bring about , if not world peace, then an equivalent of Augustus’s Pax Romana.”

BOLOTRON ON NOSTRADAMUS: “Such a big deal about above average poetry. Simply another description of the perpetual present state of humanity.”

BOLOTRON ON THE ANTICHRIST: “Oh get off of it. There’s a little bit of the Antichrist in all of us, don’t you think? Let he of mediocrity who does not yearn for power be the first to grow angel’s wings in the middle of rush hour Broadway . ”

POST-BOLOTRONIC DISCUSSON GROUP ON MONICA LEWINSKY: “Personally, I think she’s on the guy’s (then-President Clinton’s) payroll. There’s nothing about the case that makes any sense at all. Has anybody here ever spent any time in Arkansas? When I went on my forty day wallet free hitchhike across America, Emily and I were hung up outside of Little Rock for about six days in the middle of August. The women were redolent of a libido thick as the scent of Honeysuckle. Trim and limber, with ears for poetry to boot. Does that sound good?

Well, it gets better, One of these kinds of lovely women seemed to be putting the moves on Emily here, and I was contemplating a possible evening with my hand. But when closing time hit, the real strategy emerged, and I found myself in the middle of the kind of three way most men can only dream about. I found out later that this sort of thing was rather common down there. Now with that kind of selection pool, and those kinds of attitudes he ended up, in a scandal with something like that? You’re the goddamn president. Surely you could do better. Good God, not even blindness is an excuse. I think the whole thing was a canard to divert us from his connivances in China and the mid-east.”

BOLOTRON ON THE STAR OF DAVID (1983): Looks more and more like a Swastika on the TV with each progressing day.”

BOLOTRON ON CLANS AND VEGETATIVE RITUALS: “The souls transmigrated to whomever among them was a copulating couple. There was no concept of death. Merely the inconvenience of relearning motor skills.

BOLOTRON ON THE BIGGEST LIE: “It was all part of the act.”

BOLOTRON ON HIS MIRACULOUSNESS: “That would be a miracle!”

BOLOTRON ON SAINTHOOD: “Could I have another coffee, please?”

POST-BOLOTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP ON HOLOCAUSTS: “Viewing the majority of living humanity as an infestation rather than a manifestation, the Twenty First Century promises to be an even bigger butcher block than the preceding one. The differential between birth and use has risen to unprecedented levels, and the cost of birth is suffering and death. The most frightening thing about the Nazi experiment is the attitude towards the human body more than the targeted corpses. It was a crystalline expression of a powerful and competitive capitalism. Its vitality was a direct correlative to its capacity to deal death.

POST-BOLOTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP ON FEDERAL TAXES: “If one substitutes for the word “slave” the word “taxpayer” in Paul’s Epistles, then their voluntary payment would appear to be in order. What may render this problematic is that “God” for the framers of the Constitution is not the God of X.”

POST-BOLOTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP ON MARXIST REVOLUTIONS: “A fiction that will never happen. We would have been better off if, like that last utopianist, Thomas More, Karl Marx had been beheaded.”

BOLOTRON ON SUFFERING “At all times a time to remember that we are riding on the Holy Planet of Purgatory. Each of us is a hair that feeds its sun. Its orbit that spirals around the sun that is a bristle in the wing of an insect of the universe.

BOLOTRON ON SUFFERING: “I wonder how many of us keep in mind that the word also means to allow. As when X said ‘suffer the children to come to me.’ In that context they were shooing the kids away, and X said, let them in on the joke too.”

BOLOTRON TO A DRUNKEN HECLKER AT A TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA SALOON: “The numbers are in! Your interjections are in an exponentially inverse relation to your learning curve.”

BOLOTRON’S BOXTOP HISTORY OF RELIGION AND HUMAN PROGRESS: ”Let me put it into twelve steps, since that seems to be a fashionable number. :

Step one: The God of blood sacrifice, and prayer.

Step two: The God of the Inevitably broken agreement and prayer. .”

Step three: The God of the Self as God.

Step four: The God of Disillusionment with the adequacy of Self, and prayer.

Step five: The God of the Induction of Self Immolation, and prayer.

Step six: The God of Remorse, and prayer

Step seven: The God of Wisdom, and prayer

Step eight: The God of Transmission, and prayer

Step nine: The God of pure Remorseless Life, and prayer

Step ten: The God of Saintly and Angelic, and prayer.

Step eleven: The God of Origins, and prayer

Step twelve: The Unspeakable God.”

BOWLATRON ON HIS ALLEGED PESSIMISM ON THE FOUR HORSEMEN‘S PRESENCE IN THE NEWS: “That is either a misreading or projection. I never used the term "extreme." Nor do I feel that either end of the optimist/pessimist dichotomy applies. The only appropriate conclusion that one should draw from my remarks is that humanitiy's population control balance mechanisms are in moderate swing, and will continue to be so. Whether it be AIDS in Africa or a children's war in South America, we enact these "disasters" because the wages of the illusions which we pursue is death. I hope it goes without saying that I consider almost all of this suffering to be unnecessary for humanity’s climb towards enlightenment and freedom.”

BOWLATRON ON THE FOUR HORSEMEN REDUX: “You misread me. I don't worry at all nowadays. I'm happy to see we won't have to worry about long term population problems.”

BOWLATRON ON THE FEAR OF DEATH: “Death should hold greater terror for children because their lives are still so much potentiality. With the passage to each succeeding lifetime there is a concern that much of what has been learned or acquired as skill will be lost in the transition process. Paradoxically, however, children have always made excellent and willing martyrs when intensely indoctrinated. This may be due to their closer psychic proximity to humanity in the primordial state, where death is seen in a far different light. For the Celts, death was seen as nothing more than an opportunity to return to the joys of childhood. To many native American Tribes, a ritual death was considered a great honor, and lucky. Much as one of you might consider the opportunity to be a movie star or sports figure.”

BOWLATRON ON WHY IT CONTINUES AS IT IS: “The ego clings to its self constructed vacuums and mistakes them for void. This mistake is an act of displaced will. For example, use a simple activity like gossip. It is a displaced behavior based on the interactive need to be loved. “

BOLOTRON ON SUFFERING: “Never complain to God about the deals you cut with your demons.”

BOLOTRON ON THE ACCELERATING EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY: “The broader the technology’s sweep, the greater its capacity to wreak stupidity on its user, individually and collectively. The numbers are in: the statically average people really are even stupider than they were in the moronic fifteenth century, despite an enhanced awareness of Jesus, Elvis, and Coca Cola.” To re

BOWLATRON QUESTIONED BY A WAITRESS WHY HER DINERS IN THE FRENCH RESTAURANT COMPLAINED NOT ABOUT THE AROMA OF THE TOILET’S OVERFLOW: “The bacteria perfumed aromas probably wafted sweetly through their nostrils, evoking nostalgic memories of the stench of the dead who brought them their wealth. More surprised you should be that they did not seek out the manager to compliment said management for such a loving preservation of their origins.”

BOWLATRON ON CONSPIRACIES REDUX: “In general conspiracy theories are extremely optimistic because they all reside on the assumption that certain events can be controlled at all. The only conspiracy theory I would entertain at all, perhaps, is that the proliferation of conspiracy theories can be viewed as a diversion of the attention of an increasingly Balkanized public away from the larger issues that will affect our future. In other words, assume aliens have landed. Now pay more attention to that than how we are expending money and man power in the mideast. Don't you feel better now?”

BOWLATRON ON LAS VEGAS: “A vision of Hell, if one were to win for all eternity. Did you ever notice that casinos have no clocks?”

BOWLATRON ON BUGS AND FOOD: “I’ve never seen an ant enter a toothpaste tube in all the years I’ve lived in caves.”

BOWLATRON ON AN ACOLYTE’S CHILDHOOD: “You were very fortunate indeed to have executed the person who attempted to rape you when you were a fifteen year old runaway in New York. The event seems to have precipitated and crystallized hunting animal instincts to counter balance your ego experience of being a successfully elusive prey. This formative moment guarantees that you will never be a glutton. However, I advise you to abstain from the manipulation of sharp objects when your ego is infested with anger.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “It is permissible to lie when fiction more effectively orients the listener in the direction of truth. However, this bears with it an injunction of perception. The liar must take responsibility for correctly estimating the listener’s levels of stupidity and ignorance. This almost never happens.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “The name of the Lord can never be taken in vain at this point in Human history. It cannot be taken at all.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “To steal is to take something without asking for it first, either explicitly or implicitly. To do so generates an internal contradiction in the actor, which will cause their super-ego to attract them to a counterbalancing harm to further the sacred process of clarification and evolution. Blessed would be the facilitator of that being’s evolution. This almost never happens.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “To kill in a sanctioned manner harmonious with the universal need for blood, is blessed. This almost never happens.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “I wonder why no one has ever asked why out of ten possible commandments there are separate ones devoted to adultery and coveting thy neighbor’s wife.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: “It may be worth noting that when they did the one about idolatry, paper money had not been yet invented. And now we have electronic wire transfers.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:

BOWLATRON ON THE WATER IN QUEENS NY:”Only to be drunk with an antidote of a large tablespoon of cheap instant coffee. Taken plain, its corrosive effects on the intellect are statistically self-evident.”

BOWLATRON ON OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM: “The pessimism of the Christian and the Buddhist, allows for more hope than the optimism of the original Judaic axioms which posit that there is neither magic nor an afterlife as the Egyptians conceived of it.”

BOWLATRON TO A YOUNG SATANIST WEARING A 666 T-SHIRT WITH A GOAT HEAD ON IT: “Well it is certainly wise of you to reject the ‘anthropomorphic God with the flowing white beard,’ but I think substituting for it images from a second rate horror flick does not mark a step forward in your personal evolution towards greater enlightenment and freedom. And it is a move down the proverbial food chain from the old man with the bard. Why didn’t you go for an obese woman, like the matriarchies of old? At least in the vagina you would worship the gates of your incarnation. It is kind of cute, though. Where‘d you get it?”

BOWLATRON ON PERSONAL SUCCESS: “A funeral attended by five very merry widows.”

BOWLATRON ON THE TEACHER’S “POVERTY” ACROSS THE CENTURIES: “Keeps the game honest.”

BOWLATRON ON GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE: “Serve it up like peasant under glass.”

BOWLATRON ON THE LOTTO: “Keeps the suicide rate down. Did you ever notice the days they have it?”

BOWLATRON ON SODOMY: “If it were to be done, would it be done either with the greatest of professionalism, or between passionately intimate true lovers.”

BOWLATRON ON POST-INDUSTRIAL ADULTHOOD: “The cult of youth engaged in the destruction of childhood and innocence. There is no form of sin more perverse than when the old that envy the young and who act on that.”

BOWLATRON ON SHAKESPEAREAN EVIL: “Evil in Shakespeare always somehow accelerates the predictable care and work of time.”

BOWLATRON ON THE SIXTIES: ”A total sellout whose mendacity lowered the baselines of human drealms. They took a drug so dangerous that it is the only one whose use in terms of laboratory grade quality the government has effectively stamped out. But their dreams turned into the orgies of the late seventies through the nineties. Cashing in the deepest of spiritual experiences fro a house in the suburbs and a wife they have learned to hate. Naturally many of their children have turned deeply against them. They betrayed the very force of conscious love that brought them those children.”

BOWLATRON ON OBJECTIVE COMMUNICATION: “STILL POSSIBLE AND MORE NECESSARY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSESS THAN EVER. However objective communication assumes objective conscious contents. We have chosen to distort our understanding of that which is objective into the Boolean sets of the machine.”

BOWLATRON ON INTERNET PORN: “Who would have imagined such a tsunami of people willing to have their nakedness propogated into so many more masturbatory fantasies. But no harm in it, as long as it does not involve children or dumb animals. I find the matures quite engaging. You see how each woman’s karma and dharma has carved its individuality into her face and how she poses. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if some of this is some kind of revenge for a husband’s pecadillos. Many of the women wear faces of utter contempt while fornicationg. What a waste. The teen stuff and the pro stuff is boring though. Like jerking off to a cookie.”

BOWLATRON ON VOWS AND VOCATIONS: “If the vocation is a real, the vow is really a mere formality, almost with the quality of a joke, and certainly infused with joy. For esample, if a mystic were to take a “vow” of poverty, they would be simultaneously sloughing off an interest in the things of this world as they embbrace adeeper transcendant wealth. In so doing, they are obligated to make it as freely available to the rest of sentient life as it is cabable of tolerating.”

BOWLATRON ON POPULAR REACTIONS TO THE DEATHS OF ELVIS, LADY DI, ET AL:”Synthetic grief.”

BOWLATRON ON REUSING PLASTIC UTENSILS: “Rinse well with very hot water, and then colder water before drinking.

BOWLATRON ON SORE LOSERS: “On the obvious level they take the fun out of the game. At a second shell level, however, they inject a certain sadistic source of fun. One is delighted to see its negativity being stymied.

BOWLATRON ON MARKETING:“Keeping women in an ever more intimate and urgent search for their Inner Princess Pinkylace. In the case of men, I’m not so sure, but I wonder if it’s their Inner Suicidal Psychopath. Most male oriented marketing is geared to activities which will significantly shorten their projected life expectancy. “C’mon. Do you really believe that the first recreational bungee jumper was a woman?”

BOWLATRON ON MARKETING: “Never before has the macroscopic approach fo manipulating human behaviors appear to be quite so terrifying. Like Nazism, what is terrifying to me is not the degree of its activity, but it’s meticulous administration. Mass marketing in China is significantly different, although quite malignant in its own right. In all cases the human instinct to interact is subverted by pavlovian substitutes. This causes th edevelopment of a fiction in which the ego does not recognize the extent of its self containment and self generation regeneration. Psychomatic suffering has become a marketing norm. It is essential we begin to return to essential questions so we can start examining what decisions are being made for us. The vegans, the Satanists, all the various splinters are all yearning for truth but in their Balkanization they are self disqualifying as well as self defeating in any larger sense.”

BOWLATRON ON PORNOGRAPHY REDUX: “The emphasis on youth serves no purpose at all. The

BOWLATRON ON PORNOGRAPHIC POSSIBILITIES ON THE INTERNET:”It’s the final chapter that started with Greek and Roman Pottery. The end of erotisism as the specise once knew it.”

BOWLATRON ON DEATH THREATS: “They can make the meat, but not the motion. They can kill a whale, but not an ocean.”

BOWLATRON ON A MYSTIC’S CONSERVATIVISM: “Should run silent and deep.”

BOWLATRON ON TERRORISM AND OPERATION DESERT STORM (1993): “Has it occurred to the poinsettias of government that they should be consulting ex-terrorists of 70’s and those who were acquainted with radical thinking at the time? One will find more patriotism there than you will find with a thousand of these yellow ribbonized , flag flaunters who couldn’t tell a government from a feedbag. Maybe get some insights as to how to conduct terrorism in that vicinity as well. Any thinking caps handy?”

BOWLATRON ON BOWLATRON: “Well, since I see so many of you are taking notes on my “answers” to various questions posed, would the record please indicate that these “answers” constitute responses, provocations, and/or dismissals. Anything but answers. Nevertheless,, I will continue to love a good question anyway. Another coffee please?”

BOWLATRON ON RHETORIC: “The first use of mass media. Rhetoric was mass media. Even literally, regarding the Christian mass.”

BOWLATRON ON ADORATION: “My dear, the fact that you just expressed adoration for me is unfortunate to me. I will probably be impotent for at least the next week.”

BOWLATRON ON SAINTHOOD: “My cursory examination of the writings of those frequently referred to as saints, indicate that there is no case of a saint who called themselves that. They seemed to be single-mindedly pursuing their understanding of truth. In that regard they are also close to what we call genius and lunacy.”

BOWLATRON ON DISILLUSIONMENT: “A strong step forward, but insufficient. If incorrectly directed, it will reify into a knee jerk hardened bitterness that the percept really does not believe, but will mechanically repeat despite its better judgment.”

BOWLATRON ON TRUTH: “The greater a system’s objective truth content, the greater is the tendancy for the statistical specimen of historical humanity to resist it. Either consciously by persecution, or subconsciously by assimilation and distortion. If one looks at the history of pre-Xian persecution of the Israelites, nothing could be clearer. Except for their provincial rejection of the study of the stars, they really had the best post-Egyptian game in town. I do not think they are to be blamed for their rejection of their own prophets. That rejection is part of what ended up validating the prophecies, whether Moses, Hosiah, or X.”

BOWLATRON ON GENIUS:”It’s most salient character is self definition. Others follow and project onto it. Thus the proliferation of books “about” Shakespeare and his work, as one example.”

BOWLATRON ON ORIGINAL SIN: “At this point in history, clearly impossible. Perhaps the greatest illusion entertained of all.”

BOWLATRON ON PRIDE: “Those puffed up with petty pride are afflicted with ignorance of the difference between strength and rigidity. Thus, the expression that it goeth before a great fall.”

BOWLATRON ON COVETOUSNESS: “An old and now misunderstood word. It is best understood as a condition of avariciousness with regard to the ‘possessions’ of others. It relates to tangibles. Thus the earlier commandment regarding coveting wife and goods.”

BOWLATRON ON LUST: “Of all the sins the most desirable, as well as significant to the propagation and survival of the species. Thus, ultimately the most dangerous, with frequently fatal historical consequences, whether we consider the legendary Trojan war, or the AIDS epidemic. Don’t you find it ironic, that one of the most popular brands of condom is Trojan?”

BOWLATRON ON ANGER: “For some, it is the time when they have the most intense impression that they are alive. There is sometimes a momentary delight in an act of either violence or destruction, which only accelerates the destructive aspect of time. What a waste.”

BOWLATRON ON GLUTTONY: “The delight in consuming more than is necessary. Fed no doubt by a starvation deep within that tries to veil itself behind rolls of protoplasm.”

BOWLATRON ON COBSERVATIVE XIANS: “Nice enough, despite their rather blithe inattention to the amoral underpinnings that drive both the good and bad times in their economy. How many of the straw hat laden, flag waving denture grinners would have suspected that their boy Ronny was fronting the biggest drug running operation in America, all in the name of arming Afghanistan Mullahs?”

BOWLATRON ON SPACE EXPLORATION: “Oh I don’t know. I don’t think we’re really even half way done mucking up this planet yet. It’s not a good job to leave any important job unfinished, don’t you think?”

BOWLATRON ON INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY(1995): “I predict that it will become even vaster in scope the more of human consciousness (or perhaps merely sentience) enters the tabula rasa of the digital map. We will need to learn to differentiate more precisely our understandings of the words nudity, nakedness, and art. It is interesting to notice how many of the most enthusiastic voluntary participants are middle aged white American women. Why do you think that is so?”

BOWLATRON ON INTERNET NUDITY: “I like the middle aged women and the orientals personally. The young stuff is mind bendingly tedious, aside from its repulsive character.”

BOWLATRON ON INTERNET NUDITY: “The artists of yesteryear would have killed for so many willing, free models. Photoshop anyone?”

BOWLATRON ON SILENCE: “It is often taken to be the absence of sound. Or at least it appears so.”

BOWLATRON TO SOMEONE ON THEIR SUFFERING: “Several observations, my artistic friend. You have complaints with God, perhaps without sufficiently considering the implications of the fall from grace you like to write about so much. What you call suffering may be a direct consequence of you r experience of consciousness. I always thought the most terrifying of God’s alleged statements in Genesis, when Adam and Eve are kicked out is, ‘You will bear your children with pain.’ The connections within our own language are unsettling. We even call them labor pains. Even your brain, the crown of your sentience is an endorphin factory. Pain and labor are necessities of consciousness, and perhaps even tools. Just bear in mind not to overuse any tool.” BOWLATRON ON SPACE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS: “Yeah. Some of them were so damn wise they buried them in gigantic pyramids. Maybe it was saying stay the hell away.”

BOWLATRON ON ANTI SMOKING LAWS: “Well of course the AMA is opposed to it. There’s far more money to be made for them in Alzheimer’s treatment than lung disease. What I don’t understand is why they haven’t come out against automobiles, which are the single greatest threat to our collective health, and have been for quite some time.”

BOWLATRON ON TECHNOLOGY: “The invention of any tool renders certain behaviors obsolete. The trouble is that people need to infer from the tool what it has rendered obsolete.”

BOWLATRON ON PROGNOSTICATION: “Well, it’s always somehow been associated with mysticism in many people’s minds. However, those people themselves were not usually mystics, or even of a mystical persuasion. Many times people of a spiritual or scholarlay character have had to convince people to protect the repositories of valuable information by dressing it up in spectacle which people interpreted as divine. Your average participant in a mass culture whether it be Cairo of 2000 BC, or television of today, takes pleasure by surrendering control. What better way to get someone to willingly surrender control, wheter of their critical faculties, or one‘s very senses, than to convince them to convince themselves that the architects of the cultural experience know the future, as well as the present, better than they do?

Deeper thinkers than I have questioned the value or even the very meaning of the notion of a knowledge of future facts. Dante gives knowledge of the future to the damned as an act of compassion. His logic is that if the damned primarily know the future of mankind, then at the end of human time their consciousness as well as suffering will come to an end.

The I Ching was originally written as a highly abstract text with numerous multiply referential meanings. Which is to say, it was probably an excellent poem. During the Q‘in Dynasty all books that were not overtly useful were burnt in China. Scholars convinced authorities not to burn it, by convincing them that it could be used to predict the future and answer questions. They surrounded the text with such a multeity of ritualized handshakes that they were able to so successfully pull off that charade that people still use this brilliant text for prognostication to this very day.”

And then we have Astrology. That apparently is an outgrowth of a mnemonic. It is a naming system based on what were commonly extent myths and legends. For example, the constellation Hercules was based on Zeus taking pity on his unremitting agony and cast him into the stars to take up the rest of his demigod existence.

POST BOLOTRONIC GROUP COMMENTS ABOUT IRAQ: “It is a principle of aggressive chess that there is the danger of a last possible "flare back" as one pursues an attack on the King, unless the attack has been appropriately nurtured. I was listening to the propaganda blowing out of K-Rock today (We optimistically would prefer to see Microsoft as the bad guy, but that's the bullet, not the finger squeezing the trigger.),and they're doing everything but put a dress on Hussein and confidently predict victory. What if this one's not a turkey shoot?”

The problem is that as long as you have millions of oil poor Arabs with no future, and as long as you have the oil rich Arabs who need to divert their attention from the true source of their oppression, and as long as we continue to play the international buffoon/stooge of Israel, we will continue to be perceived as the bad guy. We will be the Darth Vader to the Luke Skywalker in their dreams.”

A little background:
Osama Bin Laden: We trained him.
Hussein: We armed him under the table during the eighties when we did not like Iran as much as we are trying to do today. We get rid of him, and just what are we going to put in his place? Or do we just hand Iraq over to Iran as we are handing Afghanistan over to the loveable tinhorns of (drum roll please: "We ah so vury broud. Millions of our people starve , but we hab de bom!") fucking Pakistan! Could you slip another fox in the henhouse matey?
Afghanistan: A patsy in the first place.
To apply the Sigma(oidescope): This sums up to lose-lose. 911 was obviously a large team effort in which a good number of the sandy nations probably had a piece of. And I don't think there was a failure of intelligence at all. The propeller-head wonks at the CIA and Mossad were probably in the loop and looked the other way in the hopes that this would galvanize America a la Pearl Harbor. Jesus Christ, look at what movies were being promoted at the time!

The WTC affair looked like it had been staged by Golan-Globus productions. Right down to the hang time between tower hits to allow for somebody to have the time to get some great footage. Wonder who made a few extra shekels on that?

POST BOLOTRONIC GROUP COMMENTS ABOUT IRAQ: “This development of homesec is inevitable. It appears equally inevitable that they will subvert the very liberties that they will be paid to protect.”

POST BOLOTRONIC GROUP COMMENTS ABOUT IRAQ: ”The subversion of liberty raises interesting Constitutional questions because the framers had very good reasons to be suspicious about shackling a concept as direct as rights with language. They would probably be horrified at the degree of linguistic deterioration we are currently experiencing to learn that even liberty must become enslaved through definition. A careful read of Marvell‘s The Coronet would be illuminating for all parties.”

BOWLATRON ON “MATURE” PORNOGRAPHY: “The nudity of the old serves as an ampler warning for the young than is the nakedness of the young a spur to improvement of the old. Thus let the old be naked. Better for the young to see the way the innocent body is tattooed by the history of the individual. Put another way, let’s face it. If you’ve been repelled by one view of child pornography, you’ve been repelled by all of it. But you have to admit that there‘s something intuitively cool about being aroused by the sight of someone who has aged gracefully.”

BOWLATRON ON CHRIST ENTERING HIS LIFE: “For Chirssake, it’s not like I’m a motel. There’s always room for the voice of Faith Hope and Charity.”

BOWLATRON ON TRANSCENDENCE: “No matter how detached one’s perspective, I think the only human impulses remain somewhere between tears, laughter, and prayer.”

BOWLATRON ON THE AMERICAN WAY: “The most extraordinary achievement of all. To simultaneously and equally increase the standard of living beyond historical precedent and diminish the quality of life.”

BOLOTRON ON THE ULTIMATE CURSE: “I would bless you with an extraordinarily long individual incarnation, so that each of your many urinations become increasingly agonizing.”

A FOLLOWER ON BOLOTRON: “Occasionally he would express a sense of despair that would make an afternoon with Satan seem like a Sunday lark after a brief and uplifting sermon. Otherwise a really great guy to hang with. Always seemed to make you think.”

BOWLATRON’S AXIOMS TOWARDS A MATHEMATICS OF RENEGADE MYSTICISM

Ex.2 INFINITY RESIDES IN THE CONCEPT OF ZERO AS SURELY AS DARKNESS PROVIDES SUPPORT TO THE DEFINITION OF LIGHT. EQUALITY RESIDES IN MUTUALLY SUPPORTED EXISTENCE.