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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 3h

I'm reminded of an old #FlipWilson comedy bit about the Christians vs. Lions: ultimately, it doesn't matter who your "coach" is, if the team doesn't "win". Based on how we're playing at this moment in time, whoever we've got on staff isn't cutting it. Our "human" game right now really sucks. LOL.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 3h

If only we applied ourselves as diligently to ethical & moral behavior the way we seem to pour ourselves into physical activity, particularly if it's seen as competitive sport! Acting humanely & human is NOT a slow fake-it-until-you-make-it process. It's an on/off switch. #JustDoIt

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 14h

If it were indeed the breath of god, its absence from your lungs would cause your immediate death from spiritual asphyxiation would it not? And if in fact you can be godless, that is, without the breath of god, and still be breathing, well, that’s quite a thing, isn’t it?…Continue reading

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Breathing Room Only

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 14h

Are we at that Cartesian crossroads of could be worse and could be better yet? Is that on the road between fair to middling and not too bad. All things considered. Or all things being equal. As opposed to all things being what they are. Which is of course, impermanent, empty of independent arising.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 15h

Which is worse I wonder: to be an actor pretending they can’t act, or a non-actor pretending they can? Ultimately is there a difference between genius and utter lunacy, between material and spiritual, left and right? Like Senchan said, just give up choosing. Be who you are. The show’s over. Go home.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 16h

At worst it will be boring. LOL.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 16h

The secret to “spiritual” gossip: just don’t talk about anything BAD. Everything else is fair game. :)

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 16h

As me sainted grandmother used to say, “The bigger the splinter, the bigger the needle you’ll need to dig it out.” Wiser words, dear woman, were never spoken.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 19h

For some reason this hash tag resonates with me: #MyHouseHasNoClosets :)

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 19h

U don't TRY to be honest, faithful, kind, compassionate, feeling, friendly, peaceful. It's no thinking game. The subcommittee of voices in your head doesn't vote to go ahead with the good person initiative. If u stand in the doorway, u let out bought air. In or out. #MyHouseHasNoClosets #JustDoIt

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 20h

I want to start a "scientific" Society to study the reasons why we find it necessary to create societies to study societies (usually other than our own) and their relationship with information, both true and false [because who really knows the difference anymore], promulgating said society's glory.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 20h

It’s about time to light some fresh incense and be quiet for a while. LOL.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 21h

It’s all in your mind, right? But like Dumbledore asked somewhat rhetorically, “Why does that make it any less real?” So, the issue is YES. And it’s in your mind. But just THINKING about being a good, decent, wonderful, warm, kind, human being isn’t enough, is it? The proof is…Continue reading

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You Are Not The Mind. Are So.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 30/09/2026

I have now officially seen it all: a vehemently argumentative and passionate comment stream about an AI (imaginary, fictional, never happened) philosophical chat between Nietzsche and a Buddhist monk. Both sides caricatures of real people. And these folks are arguing, “N woulda just said X”. OMG.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 30/09/2026

If you woke up with everything where would you put it? Why would you think it was yours to put, just because it crawled in bed with you? LOL. Imagine the kinda movie THAT would turn out to be, even in a really imaginary universe where some folks just costume better. Probably filmed in New Orleans.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 30/09/2026

A Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Zoroastrian, a Sikh, a Wodenist, a Wiccan, a Baptist, a Catholic, an Amish, and one of everybody else walks in. Not to a bar or a barbecue cause that’s deliberately divisive. They won’t all dance or sing either. But they’re wrong about that too.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 30/09/2026

Of course it’s not segregated by color. It’s creed, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, marital status, hierarchy preference, age, national origin, family, etc. Until there are fewer denominations of all faiths (including materialist and atheist) there will not be ANY real “family of humanity.”

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 29/09/2026

Like Malcolm X quipped, the most segregated hour in America is Sunday morning at church. There is no point in preaching brotherhood or universal anything unless we're all in the same building, agreeing that each of us is equally right - and wrong.

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Krishnamurti: We Have Progressed in Science but Not in Brotherhood · From: Life Ahead • Krishnamurti Foundation Trust

Krishnamurti questions scientific progress like the jet plane, arguing we have not advanced in brotherhood, love and one-world unity.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 28/09/2026

I just read a review about me that said it was like "having a coffee chat with a really funny guru." Not quite sure how to take that. I'm pretty SURE it was AI. No actually intelligent reasonable person would have said it. LOL.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 28/09/2026

Just because we WANT it, don't make it so. Thus, suffering. Thus, seeking, Thus, this. Thus.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 28/09/2026

Just because u can't see the beginning, doesn't mean it's causeless. Just because u can't see the end, doesn't mean it's infinite. We base so much on our "known" laws of the universe. As if the unknown "laws" weren't so much more numerous. Human beings want to be the only creation that won't die.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 28/09/2026

Go ahead. Ask me a question. Any question. I will respond as truthfully, thoughtfully, and sensibly as possible. LOL. Both our mileages are likely to vary. Or VERY. Just an idea. Whatever you want to know may not be in my wheelhouse. But you never know. LOL. That's one thing you ALWAYS know.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

Identity. Ownership. Membership. Connection. Attention. Use. Once you define those for yourself: Who am I? What do I own? Where am I connected? When am I needed? How can I help? Why should I bother? Because there’s no long game v short game. It’s not a sport or contest. Not a solo competition.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

The real opposite of “natural”? Unnatural? 2 easy. Supernatural? Only your perspective, right? How do u actually know what’s naturally possible just cause it seems improbable Sherlock? So fake, artificial, fabricated? Pick 1 that works for all these: power, flavor, high, birth, intelligence. Can u?

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

What’s the real difference between an “easy” challenge and a “hard” one? We all want to feel we’re trying, right? So every effort takes actual effort. But is an “easy” challenge an oxymoron? Is it actually a challenge? Because it’s easy for YOU, of course, doesn’t make it EASY. It just looks it.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

You know they always tell you when you’re on the spiritual path to hang out with other “superconscious” people. Folks also seeking, right? But honestly, all those people are lost. The source isn’t out there. And yet it is. The trick is figuring out exactly where you really are. How would u know?

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

Whatever you say, not everyone needs to hear it. Well, at least not immediately. Only one other person hears it first. What makes the difference is that it’s the RIGHT person. Of course that varies based on what you’re saying and why. So writers never find agents and readers and visa versa. E.T.C.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

I think too many people don’t actually realize how culturally diverse these United States really are. I’ve lived in 8 and traveled in 48 and each one is an adventure in a foreign country. Language, religion, color, creed, shape, gender, age, origin, faith, practice, family, history. Never assume.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 27/09/2026

Whenever I hear someone say, “It’s a battle of wits AND experience,” I wanna say: aren’t they all? Some are just under equipped or simply outmatched in 1 or both areas. To a different degree than the one needed for the “test” at hand. So somebody else “wins”. Some days lion wins, some days antelope.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

Or why Schrödinger may have a point. Honestly, I’ve never seen a cat of any kind get harnessed and pull any kind of weight. So hoping somebody’s got the heart of a lion when they’re pulling a two-ton shitwagon ain’t really much good, is it? How about the legs of…Continue reading

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In the Bag

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

Life is like this: you don’t have the money but you do it anyway. It’s not like you can actually return a god-given gift, can you? What’s the postage on that? Are you kidding me? So keep it. Keep the change. It’s already perfect. If the entire universe is complete, what needs to evolve?

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

Somewhere out there is a multitrack recording of this from my “bluegrass” period. High lonesome harmony with dobro, mandolin, and four party voice. This and the Osborne Brothers “Sweet Hour of Prayer.” If you find a copy send me the tape. LOL. youtu.be/UcU04NGMQb8?...

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YouTube video by The Flying Burrito Brothers - Topic

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

I think of those businesses who say, “30 years in business.” When I was a kid, that was impressive. Now, I’m like, “You mean 1996? Yesterday?” Me, I say On Air since 1965. In verse since 1973. Onstage since 1974. On edge since 1979. In code since 1980. Online since 1995. LOL. Vintage. Or just rusty.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

If there’s a method to this madness, there’s a madness to the method. You can’t really pick up one end of a stick without getting the other one with it you know.

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am everything. In between, my life moves. #NisargadattaMaharaj #NonDuality

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John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com · 26/09/2026

So many thoughts: I can’t keep up, and even if I could I’m not so sure that clinging to them all will serve the long term view. Of course they come. The monkey mind will have its day or night; and you will learn the ritual despite everything in your…Continue reading

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Hudathunkit Sutra

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