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No Prime Directive Overide
Contributed by
invierno
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Saturday, 14th October 2017 @ 04:15:51 PM in AEST
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Hand, take that lighter.
Ignite that cigarette.
Draw that smoke that kills
deep into your lungs.
Obligingly, I do just that,
and resistance? Not a crumb!
Were I so inclined
to command my hand to shears,
I could easily order me,
Cut off both my ears!
If I had the will,
(for that is only lacked),
earless would I now be
upon two painful wacks!
But, to point. (lungs and ears aside),
I address the unaddressed fail safe override.
There is nothing in my brain,
no highest highest seat,
granting full compliance should I say,
Heart, I command you cease to beat.
Copyright ©
invierno
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2017-10-14 16:15:51]
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Re: No Prime Directive Overide
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by Former_Member on
Saturday, 14th October 2017 @ 09:31:10 PM AEST
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Yes, this is exacting on how the human brain works.
The critical imperative, is softened, slowly hastened,
rehearsed again and again, in a rational irrational
way.
Like inequality might be examined by a long-term
study that clearly shows that it does much more harm than any real good for all people in the end.
And fear, what is fear, this uncontrollable makeshift
bad habit, if only it could one day be replaced, not by fear, but by something grand, and much more appealing.
I used to smoke, ha. I was an athlete, then I smoked to be cool. Then, when I first started, I smoked almost a whole pack cloistered in my bedroom, it made me sick as hell, and I quickly gave it up. Yet, then I started up again a short time later, and it took a lot of
effort to do so.
Not smoking by the way, once I did quit twenty plus years ago, made all the difference.
bad habits. We all have a lot of them.
The world is made up of many bad habits.
Some days it/'/s almost surprisingly brilliant
that there are any good things left.
It/'/s also surprising that many bad things are
no more, in some places.
What/'/s then weird, is also that bad habits go,
and then they return.
Ah, but that/'/s always another story.
Perhaps for another time.
Invierno, your poem is truly insightful regarding
how people do live with bad habits.
Many, the best of them even, do.
Peace!
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Re: No Prime Directive Overide
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by softerware on
Saturday, 14th October 2017 @ 10:09:28 PM AEST
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We are pleasure seekers at our own peril. Be it food, drink, drugs, sex (really? Define too much!) money, fame..whatever we crave overrides our better self. Would you prefer butter or margarine?
However, the body does eventually rebel our indulgent habits with a vengeance. Hell hath no fury like a meatball scorned.
Your higher authority is not in charge!!
A grand reminder, tho a bit late for most of us, and well said Mike!
softerware
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Re: No Prime Directive Overide
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by unknown_utopia on
Wednesday, 18th October 2017 @ 12:29:14 AM AEST
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That whole smoking routine/habit is so crazy
smoking but not wanting to smoke
we know it/'/s bad but the center for control is corrupted
No prime directive overdrive can be realized..... |
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Re: No Prime Directive Overide
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by ming on
Thursday, 26th October 2017 @ 09:39:48 PM AEST
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The ending clinched it. /'/Heart I command you cease to beat./'/ Good one!
ming |
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