=scsaaa5o Part II of Notes to =sc_aa5 Part I is =scsaaa5n Caveat Tabbycat, Caveat Blackhat. (Snias Alert, Frummie Alert) ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no =scsaaa5z GET =scsaaa5a ============================================================= CONTINUATION OF NOTES TO INPUT OF RSC. MS. AA5 TEXT DOC =scaa5*. FINAL TEXT DOC TO BE =sc_aa5 Previous notes docs: =scsaaa5x + =scsaaa5y These notes to be cut if needed as =scsaaa5z And then the whole group to be pasted end to end as =scsaaa5n (aa5-78) {When RSC gets a theme, he's like one of those dogs that won't let go of it until he's worried everything out of it that he possibly can. Then he drops it and picks up another theme the next day. So I don't think, if work on his Nachlass ever gets that far against all sorts of extraneouis obstructdions, that you'll find his thought falling into a sysstem. Just a very large aggregate of hermaneutics, whateer hermaneutics are. } [ This is a free choice? "So he organized the angels, and led them out on strike."] (aa5-78a) The Ballad of Harry Pollock: "Now Harry was a Bolshevik, and one of Lenin's lads 'till sadly he was murdered by counter_revolutionary cads. ... St. Peter said to Harry, are you humble and contrite? "I'm a friend of Lady Astor's." "Oh well, then that's all right." (aa5-79) Well, so much for non_orthodox Judaism. (aa5-80) So evidently the preeceeding quesstioner has been 'Judy' whoever Judy was. I think it is fair to say that she did not get answers which she would have perceived as entirely satisfactory. So I would guess that she did not remain long in the chevre.] (aa5-81) { PVK once said, there are soulmates, but you do not necessarily wnat to marry your soul mate. (The implication being, or so I guess -- -- for a marriage, you might be much better off marrying someone whose character complicates -- I mean compliments -- rather than duplicates your own. ) (aa5-82) {And the kiddies can go join the Moonies and sell flowers on the street. I suppose they'll just muddle along like everyone else does. I mean mazaltov, it is of very little use, from the standpoint of religion nor even spirituality, to display an ideal and then demand that everyone in the realworld -- to which few philosphers belong -- adhere to that ideal. Like those New Hampshire license plates, which the government of the State of Hampshire so viciously required convicts to make, with the embossed slogan, "Live Free or Die."} (aa5-82a) This is a beautiful idea, and maybe some can realize it, but I think that most won't, and if they try they'll just mess up their lives. I mean, bugger Young Werther, this is not the Jewish notion of marriage, its impossibly romantic. (aa5-83) Quite so. I have long yearned to learn by osmosis. Carry around all the right books with me wherever I go, and never open them, for fear of disturbing the vibes. Can't be too careful with osmotic learning. (aa5-84) Well, we may not have any quite right ideas, but that don't mean we stop thinking and trust to mumbo-jumbo from the Congo, Frango. Got to do the bsst you got with what you got, Wot. [ GLOSSARY: taka -- Not sure. A lesser davka no doubt. Best Guess -- a corn wrapper used in Indian fastfood cuisine. If your children don't have three ears it was not made from USA Modified Corn. ] (aa5-85) Personally, I would rather accept upon myself your money, or your wife. I mean, as long as we're being altruistic about it all. OK. PVK sometimes said, one should not attempt to heal another -- this is non_physical healing -- unless one was prepared to accept his/her pain. Now first of all, that ain't how we do it where I come from. You just say a prayer and hope heaven will do it. You try to pray "withall your heart and all your soul" maybe -- or as best's you can, can't ask someone to do more than they can -- but what you don't do, because its like weird, is try to get inside them, to feel what they're feeling. I mean, we don't do magic, for that you gotta go Bongo Bongo in the Congo, Sambo. OK: Now first of all in the second place, I doubt it doesn't any good to "feel the pain" as the Great Gropester used to say. I mean, if I feel your pain, or take it upon myself, does that mean you ain't got it any more. Not ruddy likely Charlie. I mean, if I catch your cold does that mean you threw it away and I caught it. So I reckon feeling someone's pain is just a by-product of an attempt at healing. OK, it may be, especially if am a great psychic with also New York State Boards in Internal Medicine that if I intuit your condition I can correctly analyze it, and then think of the way to heal it, and that sling that though back into your head where you can put it in your kishaks and clean everything up in time to go out to the Saturday Night Orgy, George. But if you was that smart you wounld have got sick in the first place, Mace. Oy, Pfeffanuisse. ] (aa5-86) Come again? Better he should have been born a Roman and sold the little brats to a whorehouse. The Roman paterfamilias had the right of life or death over his children. Judaism recognizes that every living being "is endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." So in short, it seems to me that whatever tradition this story comes from, is bullshit. No holy man would act like that. At least not without paying his wife mnimum wage for the 9 months she carried the kid, plus 10 cents for each dirty diaper. This was really an off day for the holy Rabbi. "I need a dump truck to unload my mind." (Bob Dylan) And also, what's with this notino of 'has to be sick' or 'whatever pain you're supposed to have'. That sounds like some heresy we picked up from the goyim. It for sure ain't Judaism, as_it_is_said, 'Ki L_Olam Chesd_O' And if you think you can't find it in Judaism, then go run join the Jesus Freaks quick, even if you have to cancel your Aetna Life Insuramce Policy to pay for the train fare to Jesus City Iowa. You owe it to your family. And then with all the money you save on health care, not to mention what your surviving kids can earn slinging hash browns down at MacDonald's, you can buy the synagogue wine and challah for a year, if they let you in the back door. And so in short: Supposedly orthodox Judaism has picked up a lot of supersittions in its 2 millenia of exile amdist the goyim, and now that we can return to orthodoxy from a standpoint of intellectual freedom, we must be careful not to pick up some of that dreck. (AA5-87) Tia once put up a sign at Modi'in , or so they say, which read something like, 'less holiness, more human decency'. 'Holiness' was not her word, but something sort of like it. So enough of all this jive about serving the Supreme Being. I mean, you were maybe hoping to be Chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? And don't even talk about serving your fellow man; it's enough if you can help a few out from time to time. (aa5-88) Yup. Sure does sound like Islam. Islam, a Salaam. They do their dardness to annihilate the ego before the Supreme Being. Mazaltov, but even the bored_again__Christians know that annihilation is merely the preliminary, what matters is, what fills the vacuum you've created. And as Jesus said, be darned careful before you sweep out your little demons, because bigger ones might just see the Vacancy sign and come on in as squatters. ( And speaking of 'squats', if anyone happens to see T.S. Eliot in Dante's hell, push him into a dungill .) (aa5-89) Darn. And all this time I thought there were nine, just like on a baseball team. I mean, what is one saying when one says this. Because if you don't haae some idea what you're trying to say, then its merely pious claptrap. Pious is a one-upsmanship move, you take a phony position that everyone else has too much intellectual honesy left to try, but that no-one dares contradict. il'm here must a little while you ,now. On the leel of the highest existence only G_d is really existing, right. (aa5-90) OK -- what are you saying when you say that. If anything. Most supposed philosophy, and that includes this sort of philosophy of religion, is not saying anything, it's must rococco decoration of what Wittgenstein calls a grammatical point. The Supreme Being is by definiton -- though also as psychologic truth -- the highest reality, so you don't add nothing when you say, only this is "eally existing2. Again -- Wilbur if memory serves -- "We milk the cow of the world, and as we do / We whisper in her ear, you are not true." G.E. Moore said it first, and not much more awkwardly. (aa5-91) There's Jesus Christ, and Fred Christ, and Melvin Finklestin from Flatbush Christ -- (And this is a gloss on Ram Dass quip: 'You say your Christ and they feed you rubber chicken, I say it and they lock me up. ' 'That's because I say everyone else is too.') I mean this whole lecture seems to boil down to some pretty inept metaphysics that's not much more than restaing , without additional conceputaal exegesis, points that we all agree to anyhow. I mean, sure you should say the Shma with kavana. It don't add nothing to say, this is the only true existence. --------------------- GET =scsaaa5b (aa5-92) This is the equivalent of, in Sufi conceptualization, the zikr. Annihilation is of course ' 'illa '. That is of course the Void, but PVK teaches that the Void is not tohu_v_bohu , but rather, though it is likely at first to strike on as such, it is rather a realm of all_possibilities. (aa5-93) I dunno. Let's look at the matter under dicussion, like prper ordinary_language__analytic_philosophers , insead of just sitting on our dualisms and slinging the appropriate bull, Bill. OK -- some prayers are said in the name of the whole world. The prayer for peace in the Amidah, and in the kaddishes. Some prayers said in the name of the Jewish people. Some are said in the name of the land of Israel. Some ae said in the name of all people. Some are said in the name of the state of Israel. Personal prayers may be added within the Amidah. These are said for oneself and/or whoever one is praying for. A prayer must not be said at the expense of others. (This is "take no heed of the prayers of travelers [immediately after Sukot, since they pray for clear skies on the way home, so that the roads are not muddy, whereas the land needs rain. ] And this is also what illegitmizes the Curse of Sammy the Runt (the 19th mis_termed 'bracha' in the Amidah, by Shmuel haKatan ] (aa5-94) The psychedelic generation mistakes prayer for a way to get high. The mitnogdim were two centuries too soon. All that matters with prayer is that it be answered. Not how you feel. Of course we must pray only to The Good (to use Plato's term.) One who does not do so is a pagan at best -- I mean, a prayer now and then to Venus is no great sin -- nor to Dinah, goddess of the hunt, no rhyme intended -- or even Athena -- nor Mercury, nor Vulcan -- nor Thor -- or an idolator, in which case its no great sin, merely foolishness or an animist, which is cool -- or a half-assed black magician or worse, neither of which are acceptable -- Judaism is quite clear -- you do not tolerate evil. You do not take evil people to your encounter group to share their feelings, or whatever people do in encounter groups. You quck them out the door. (aa5-95) Nope. Maybe you wasn't supposed to have started it in the first place. So like, Kol Nidre baby -- cut yourself some slack, so even if the brain says, do it, if the heart says, excuse me but I think we just past a sign saying welcome to the Annual Marathon, Comrade Lemmings, the feet will maybe say, excuse me but I just think there's a free tequila stand that has hotdogs with sauerkraut, all you can eat 5 cents, be right back in a second - or make it two -- ------------------------------------------------------------ GET =scsaaa5c (aa5-0e) This manuscript I xeroxed from the BZ Collection, which he copied from the HH Collection, which I duplicate of a part of the Witt Collection. I think Hatzkala (one of the H's of HH) had it first, from the HLP. I am grateful to Miriam Gal-Or for recopying this xeroxes and mailing them to me at Campra, Airmail Registered. I wrote on the number AA5 when I inventoried the Witt Collection, ca. 1988 . I have not looked the Witt Collection since. I do not intend to affront nor confront anyone's religious nor personal sensibilities, and offer my apologies (that's apologetics, Critics) insofar as I do so. But I ain't tied off my mind with a necktie since I came home to Israel, "the land of the free and the home of the brave", Knave. As_it_is_said of the USA necktie (by RSC, recalled by Hatzkela if I recall), "They put the gartel in the wrong placd." Israel is what the USA pretends to be. "A land of power and glory" (Woodie Guthrie). (aa5-96) Actually I don't. I mean , are there any alternatives -- leaving aside all that post-Thomistic pilpul about a Trinity that's really a Unity or else a trinity sh'b' Unity with a Unitarianism Schism. And leaving aside Manicheanism, which rests of the fallacy of reifiction of Shadow, as_it_is_said (by Plato) "No man does evil but through ignorance." OK, seriously: The Shma is not a dogma, and it is not a statement, it is an affirmation of attitude and a commitment to cleave to that perspective and base one's actions and even feelings on it. (aa5-97) And why the deuce should I want to know that. It's like wanting to know how my kishkes work. Some things its best just to do them and leave it alone, and leave the analytic exegesis to the Heavenly Institute of Human Technology, because if I try to stick my nose into things that Heaven went to a great deal of trouble to arrange to run quite well without me thank you, I'm more likely than not to mess it up, being most days of half oa mind to take the first Express Elevator I see one way. Yogis of the mystic east do it , and if that ain't idolatry waht is. I mean, better you should go Friday night to the Golden Calf Disco, at least all you'll lose there are your ears. --------------------------- GET =scsaaa5d (AA5-98) [ That don't seem to make metaphsical sense, Spence. But one really needs Hindu metaphsics to clarify this point,and I ain't never learned that, Frat. ] Sometimes G_d does a little bit wrong (aa5-99) [ No; that's polytheism ] ------------------------------------------- (aa5-100) You and Raskalnikov, Goodenough. I think someone mixed loco weed with the Kansas Road grass that they boiled up for tea that day. always need proof that here is one G_d (aa5-98a) [ at a minimum, but one will do ] Sometimes G_d does a little bit wrong (aa5-99) [ No; that's polytheism ] ================================================================= GET =scsaaa5e This manuscript is listed in my inventory of the Witt collection. (=inv0494a + =inv0494b) Those invdocs are included in =in94964.zip, which is on my Website, www.geocities.com/sa73122a ------------------ Here it is: From =inv0494a INVENTORY OF R. SHLOMO MATERIALS, Rev. 4/25/94 SET AA: Original handwritten Ms. in 3-Ring binder, consecutive 6/90: Returned from ZF to HS, both Meor Modi'in. AA1 4 -- Orig -- Arthurs Tape 1 Side 1 & 2 Israel Summer 1973 AA2 36 Orig Tape 2 Side 1 Jerusalem Summer 1972 (?-qv ms.) AA3 38 Orig Tape 9 San Francisco Summer 1973 Thursday AA4 23 Orig San Francisco Sunday July 3, 1973 AA5 42 Orig Another Tape, San Franciso Summer 1973, perhaps Sunday AA6 18 Orig San Franciso Summer 1973 Sunday Tape 2 pp18 AA7 23 Orig Miami Dec. 26, 1974 Tape 6a -------------------------- (aa5-0e) Notes will be Deep6'd to =scsanaa5 or some such; Caveat Lector, Hector, Caveat Tabbycat, Blackhat. I do not intend to affront nor confront anyone's religious nor personal sensibilities, and offer my apologies (that's apologetics, Critics) insofar as I do so. ------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL NOTES: I try to start each line where it's started on the ms. But sometimes I break it early and start a new paragiraffe, in the interests of like enhancing clarity. A paragiraffe is an outstanding paragraph. I am still struggling to unlearn all the rules of grammar I learned in 8th Grade English Class at Belmont Junior High School. And somtimes I alter the punctuation of the ms., because punctuation is like Dealer's Choice. =================================================================