Reflections on being 85

Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Why should a person care at all,

If in the mirror he's looking old

When in the grave it's mostly mold.

So ask yourself and ask you wife,

"How should I spend remaining life?

Should I just dream of days gone by, 

And punch old sorrows in the eye?

Or dream of present life with thee,

And futures we shall never see?

Mirror, mirror, on the ceiling,

Image thine is not appealing.

Mirror, mirror, on the floor,

Like reason, you are just a whore,

whose warnings now are such a sham,

I frankly do not give a damn.

 MONEY CHANGERS

Jesus was a lunatic;

A kind and gentle fraud.

He did some clever magic tricks

to keep the yokels awed.

But when he pissed the bankers off

they nailed him to a tree.

So there should be a lesson here

for folks like you and me.

Go sell your new religion.

Who cares if you lied?

But never piss the bankers off,

'cause that's how Jesus died.

The money changers run this world. 

They run it for each other.

The selfish bastards eat the poor,

And you are not their brother.

 

On Easter, many celebrate the feast of the Resurrection,  but I prefer to celebrate Easter.  "Easter" is a form of the name, Ester, and also Ishtar, all based on the original name, "Astarte", who was a fertility goddess worshipped all over the Mediterranean from Persia to the Straits of Gibraltar.  Astarte was usually worshipped along with a male fertility god, Baal, whose symbol was the bull.  And Baal and Astarte were also worshipped across much of Western Europe,  starting long before there were any Ibrahimic religions.

 There is a movie you can rent called The Cave of Forgotten Dreams.  You should see it. It shows the beautiful cave paintings of the Chauvet caves in southern France.  These are beautiful, realistic paintings of dozens of animals, horses, deer, bison, etc,  but no humans----except one.  This figure, an attractive human female, is badly eroded, so that only a torso remains.  This woman is standing next to a young bull bison, with one arm resting on the back of the bull.  There is no way to prove it, but I suspect that what we are seeing is a representation of Baal and Astarte.  And these paintings were made 19,000 years ago.  If you like that "Old Time Religion,"  just celebrate Easter.