About BossKitty
BossKitty is the result of a Liberal Arts Major
who dreamed of being a Physicist.
First real job was Photogrammetry mapping the earth … Then along came the dream of taking humanity into the cosmos …
20 Years at the Manned Spaceflight Center – Johnson Space Center
From Apollo 14 to the end of the program
From STS-4 through STS 84
Then the Treasury 9+ years
3 years NBC
Photographer, Cinematographer and Producer at NBC in Illinois.
Wrote one terrific, unsold Screenplay. A lot of unsold Music, but sold a few collaborations. Wrote too many poems …
Legal Video & Photo Support Freelancer.
Texas Poetry Society
Maybe I should reveal a little known excerpt from my early years … I had the rare opportunity to speak with Academic Historian/Philosophers Will and Ariel Durant. My short experiences with them came when I was extremely immersed in learning about every philosophy and culture I could find. They were in their 80s and still full of valuable wisdom.
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I draw sleepy people
Dabbler in SKETCHING – no more paint
Wannabe shadetree psychologist … did I mention all creatures great & small, trees, fossil rocks and a very select few humans.
Thomas Jefferson, the architect of American democracy, said, “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others, but it does no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pockets nor breaks my legs.”
Once I was very young
Under Jeffersonian democracy, monotheism, polytheism, agnosticism, atheism and even victimless crimes are all tolerated. This conception of democracy appears to me to be closer to the Vedic conception of government, because under Vedic civilization there was tolerance of different philosophical schools of thought, different yoga systems, demigod worship, ancestor worship (”pitas” or forefathers in Sanskrit), pantheism (advaita vedanta), and even atheists like Charvaka.
Charismatic Imams rally their flocks into revengeful feeding frenzies, anyone in the way gets trampled, even their own. Charismatic Christian Ev-Angelists are equally guilty of forcing their congregations into a ‘hard core dominionist’ frenzy to create a theocracy (just like Israel & Muslim Countries). With all this destructive energy no one is safe. Charismatic Rebes and Rabbis stir their flocks into paranoid frenzy by repeating the history of abuse, persecution and Diasporas to reinforce the Zionist cause, there’s always another holocaust around the corner.
I cann
ot isolate Islam as the sole perpetrator of this insanity. The whole family of Abraham has lost its way, if not its collective mind.
If there is an Armageddon, it is one of our own making, a self-fulfilling death wish. What religious extremists are promoting is the concept that god is so ashamed of creation, that it must be wiped out and maybe try again, somewhere else.
Short term thinking and immediate gratification are the most dangerous qualities of today’s “want it now” society. I am drawn back to that old hippie paperback, a must re-read, ‘Zen, And
The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance’. Maybe Zen can be accused of focusing on
the moment, but remember that Zen does not want that moment to be wasted on ‘immediate trivialities’ having no positive impact on the future. This book made a convincing swipe at the ‘throw away, superficial’ culture America devolved in to. This premise is
coming home to bite us now. We live the results of a non-forward thinking society. I just hope there are enough brain cells among today’s population to make a difference and try to adapt so humanity can recover.
The Neo-Left Wing and the Neo-Right Wing must be used to fly us along a middle path forward, instead of ripping it apart, . Extremism on both sides destroys any country apart with best intentions and no oversight. Somewhere near the middle way, BossKitty can be found …
Scathing Indifference said
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bosskitty said
Thank you Daniel, You are added to my blogroll. I enjoy your page and agree that more damage is done in the name of religion than any other excuse. Any religious extreme is a mental illness that too often is programmed into the young. These youngsters are then at the mercy of religious leaders with political power ambitions. Pure religion is supposed to be a moral spiritual guide, not a weapon of intimidation.
Daniel Curran said
Your blog is great! Wanted you to know I am adding you to my blogroll.
My site is Justice Conquering Religion. http://justiceconqueringreligion.typepad.com/
bosskitty said
Max, consider it done. Moinansari was quick to jump on your name. He had so many other names to pick from. My apology for the MY error. Hopefully Moinansari will see who he really needs to attack. I vow to be more prudent how I cite my sources.
Max Paul Friedman said
May I ask that you correct your blog posting, “US Backed Dictators Cause Backlash Of Terrorism,” which makes it seem that I am the author of the entire blog posting. You quote, without citation, a blurb that I wrote for the back of David Schmitz’s book, The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989. One reader of your blog has already attacked me for the opinions you expressed because your posting concludes with my name. You are of course welcome to cite this or any other text, but I wish you would do so with enough information and in such a format that readers can distinguish between your work and my words. Many thanks.
bosskitty said
Thanks Gadfly, browsing through my blog stats, I click check to see who came by. When I enjoy what I find I blogroll them and make them part of my extended family. Besides, we are both on the OOIBC blogroll.
I don’t have a Facebook account, but will check it out.
I really enjoy your page, it stimulates that creative niche I misplaced. You offer refreshing and diverse subject matter.
thenationalgadfly said
Thank you for adding me to your blogroll. I created a page for your blog on Facebook’s Networked Blogs App. Shoot me an email or reply here with info on how you found my blog, why you linked to it and what you want to see more of on my blog.
-gadfly
omegetymon said
Hello he Kitt’n, Omeg here thank you for another drop-by.Missed you not tossing a rock at my windows of thought.You still inspire the “reach and teach”. ANTAGONYMIST posts (pastes, pisseds, pasts, etc.)need a bit-o ___________. No matter,thanks for spending time, fore…
the mind/mined.
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bosskitty said
Ravenscawl, Your blog speaks volumes about you. Your insight is added to my blog roll.
ravenscawl said
Your credentials are as impressive as the vast array
of you interest .I have added you to my blogroll
thanks.
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proudprogressive said
You rock, ….keep the wisdom coming. Hugs to YOU and the Truth. Together we will give that social pendulum a push back towards a culture that values wisdom , learning and enlightened progress. We all will work together to stop this downward de velution towards mediocrity and teh stupid…
LOVE YOU – BK !
bosskitty said
Thanks OpIt, I have corrected your links on all 3 blogs. I was about to send the Texas Rangers to Canada to join the Mounties and put an APB for you. I feared the worst … Polar Bear attack.
opit said
Whew! No wonder you have stories. BTW WordPress is MIA : Opit’s Linkfest is setting up at http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/