Faith and Justice pretend to be equal.
Chip Van Hassel
Author: Chip Van Hassel
One Man’s Conundrum
“…His neurons tend not to carve-out the necessary pathways to the doors- beyond which the candle of truth flickers relentlessly for eternity.”
The Face Which Tries to Look at Itself
A man interprets, “doing the Lord’s work,” as living as the example of compassion and unconditional love. The man knows that, “the ultimate answer,” is to love the Lord above everything else.
The man deems the act of loving himself as being the most selfish action a man could possibly undertake. (PROVERBS 16:5) The man, rather, deems that sacrificing himself for the sake of the happiness of others is, “doing the Lord’s work.” The man fails to actively share the love with himself which he yearns to share with others. In order to become the light of God for others, the man must learn to love the one person whom he deems to be most unworthy of such unconditional love!* This man has trained his mind to employ self-sacrifice over self-love. His neurons tend not to carve-out the necessary pathways to the doors- beyond which the candle of truth flickers relentlessly for eternity.
*The man is unforgivingly judgmental of himself.
The Attractive Dilemma
“Beautiful women do not have to work a day in their life; they simply need to charm a man who makes enough money to keep them both happy.”
Young Women- What They Want
“What is the dilemma with all of these young women being attracted to you?” Charlie asked me.
Lust
“All they want from me is sex, Charlie; … a quick night of passion of animalistic hedonism.”
Charlie smirked at me brightly.
“They are looking for that amazing action which changes their world-view.” I continued. “They are not looking for a husband to commit to or to hold on lonely nights.
Continue reading “The Attractive Dilemma”Horse Archetypes
Most counterproductive behaviors which racehorses exhibit are the result of being taught these behaviors by freelance exercise riders.
What Is Your Problem?
What Is Your Problem?
I guess you could start by asking yourself the question, “What is your definition of who I am supposed to be?”
Let us continue with the root of the dilemma:
We Are Surrounded By Adults Who Think Other Adults Are Authority Figures Over Each Other
The conundrum is that our fellow adults are still inundated by their childish and immature thought processes which guide their actions. Like a Christian yelling at the world to, “Repent!” I find myself screaming on the street corner, wearing a sandwich-board sign that says, “The End Is Near!” … telling my fellow man that we are all doomed to suffering and failure if we all do not collectively change our ways!
Society seems leery and scared of me. It is as if, if I genuinely be myself, people would look at me like I was dangerous and crazy.
The fact of the matter is that they are scared of their own realization of failure, that they purposely and actively deplete the value of their fellow man in order to maintain a dysfunctional status quo, therefore, lowering the worldly standard, making it easier to live at whatever quality of life they deem to be satisfactory.
Mid-Life Change
We are all simply practicing, “the art of being ourselves!”
The Second Library
I used to scribe allegories all the time. In fact, I view human interaction in an allegorical sense. This inspired creative neurons to establish pathways throughout my brain. I wrote a lot of poetry and philosophical work.
I viewed the world as an artist does and interacted with it in an, “eccentric,” way.
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The Santa Clause Conspiracy
“…The most taxing act of any relationship is when somebody speaks the unabashed truth!”
The Santa Clause Conspiracy
Teaching Our Children to Lie & How To Grow Up To Become Stupid :
By Chip Van Hassel,
Lonesome Glory Publications
June, 2024
From Santa Clause to the Easter Bunny to the Tooth Fairy, our parents told us Lies while we were children.
After that, we are expected to teach those same lies to the next generation of children when we become adults.
Society indoctrinates us to believe lies, then, after seeing the truth, to perpetuate those lies, thus, engraining into society that lying is good and correct and done for good reason. Therefore, doing what is wrong is expected of us; and being truthful is not accepted in society but, rather, shunned.
Continue reading “The Santa Clause Conspiracy”Rust of Change
Rust of Change
Once you see it, you need to keep it a secret that you know.
It is impossible to Un-know anything,
just as it is impossible to conceal that you know.
So write, in allegory, this game of word-association.
Like pigs and Larger Bretheren, always seeing the watch is on,
…
both hands on the zero o’clock.
What is Beauty?
Peering Over At a Beautiful, Young Woman,
Japhy asked himself,
“What is beauty? Is beauty simply pure happiness?
Is beauty a perpetual looking-forward to the unexpected future?
Is it a vicarious enjoying of some imaginary moment?
Continue reading “What is Beauty?”Shepp’s Training Program
Which training method did Jonathan Sheppard employ?
When somebody complained how Jonathan Sheppard would never explain his training program to them, this was my response:
Well, some of us understood his training program which was essentially reverse-engineered in congruency with the horse’s running date, its condition, the competition it would be up against, along with the expectations of its upcoming performance while always keeping the race AFTER that performance in mind.
Tongue Ring
Langue dans le cul
As the Catholic Church has provenly been regarded as a citadel for pedophilia, the Pope heads that organization; and the majority of the world’s money kisses that ring most closely by way of sticking it’s globe of a head up the Pope’s ass, as so to give that unclean ass the most French of kisses!
SOURCE
Teenage Memory
I remember, when I was in high school, sitting alone in the snow behind Noah’s parents’ Isuzu Trooper, which had a “Free Tibet,” bumper sticker on it, drinking a bottle of Jim Beam whiskey.
Merchandise by Fugazi:
A Leveled-Up Experience
There are moments when an athlete experiences this:
Not “Doing” it:
and learning from it.
… the feeling of floating-
watching it all happen as
from the outside,
looking-in;
(Like watching a movie)
… not doing it,
but watching your body do it
New Strange World
Active-Bitch Face
In an overly-sexualized culture, there exists an air(e) of, “active-passive aggression,” which could be described as building(/being) the bridge upon which, “resting bitch face,” hath transmuted into, “active-bitch-face,”. This (invisible) force is a subconscious reaction to self-loathing. The catalyst of this paradigm is not conscientiously explored by the the common man. Most people are unaware
Don Explains
People act childishly, Don explains:
“The men around you, you see, are grown men with a child’s mind.”
Don Adams
Quick Question
What If?
If we ever realize how the planet formed and what the beginning of time was, … what use would you make if that information?
Chip
Suffering
What Is Suffering?
Suffering is the result of desire.
Chip Van Hassel
The worst form of suffering is desiring some undefined change which you do not comprehend how to promulgate.
Horse Racing in Decline
My decision to retire began on my way to the track on a horse for John Servis.
The Horse Racing Industry Is In Decline!
We were living the dream- I was getting paid top-dollar to ride for one of the top trainers- part of a formidable, respected team.
Thoughts From The Ghost:
Yes, God has made me poor in the pocketbook but wealthy in spirit.
Some Visible Ghost Nibbles
The culture we live in seems strange and weak.
People peer around and find everything to be strange while applying a weak predisposition; … scared, they are!
People seem angry in a curious way; and people seem curious in an angry way.
Men look at me angrily- a self-hating mechanism. They are angry at the unknown, jealous imagination of me.
Resenting the Master
Revere The Teacher With Compassion.
A Short Article For Flourishing Students:
If there comes a time when you resent your teacher, you have become your own teacher; and you must relinquish your expectations of such former teacher.
Resentment is the product of contempt and the ego; both of which are cataclysms.
After contempt for a teaching ha been acknowledged, the ego presents itself. Regardless of the validity of the ego’s claim, the added contempt limits your judgement, creating learning barriers.
Never Regret
You Must Move On!
Regret is poverty of the soul.
Chip Van Hassel
Smile At Others
Give a Stranger a Smile Today!
Being in good spirit is the choice to make- every minute, every hour, every day, every action and every intention.
Chip Van Hassel
Be Spontaneous
“If you don’t keep them guessing, they’re never going to find out.”
Chip Van Hassel
The New Masonic Oath
“…. Finding out that someone you know is a Freemason used to be a later step in developing a personal relationship with them; NEVER the opening of a friendship with somebody whom you have just met!
This juxtaposition has completely corrupted the Craft! …”
What is Different about Freemasonry Today?
The Freemasonic attitude towards his fellow man has changed from Fear of a Greater Power to an Ego-based display of stupidity! Why do I say that?
The Charge:
The Craft Has Been Corrupted… But HOW?:
This is how… ask yourself this question:
“How Do You Spot a Fellow Brother in the Crowd?”
Some Zen
How free a fly is!
How solid the rock is. How fluid the mind…
How wordless the water!
Cosmic Click
“there is no magical moment which makes everything change.”
There is No Cosmic Click.
Most people are seeking for that moment where it all, “clicks,” and everything, all of the sudden, makes sense and is correct, not realizing that there is no magical moment which makes everything change. (It’s all turtles!”)
Chip Van Hassel
Ego
“…man must forfeit his selfish actions and thoughts…”
Ego is the corruptor of the human soul. Ego has no name, therefore,
Numbers:
The Spanish of Science
For the Birds
Went from being on top of the world and having a defined future back to being all alone and desolate in three days. I’m not a cry baby. Sometimes, I feel I deserve better, but I am humble to understand that it has
Continue reading “For the Birds”Pave the Way for our Grandchildren
The human mind is ruled-over by good and evil.
Let us not feed the fire of evil and scorch the land of our grandchildren, but be fruitful and lay vibrant, loving, true seed for them to sew.
Chip Van Hassel
We choose our road tonight and the next. After that, we keep on choosing.
…
Do we choose Truth or do we choose the Status Quo of stupidity and ruin?
Seeking Council
The “Answer,” one seeks is more simple than the question asked.
Are You Troubled?
As we seek council to acquire clarity amongst our confusion, the only true clarity we find can be described as a love for one’s self.
Seeking the answer from an outside source seems ludicrous after the fact, because the answer is accepted from inside our own heart, beaming-outwardly, not from the outside of our body, beaming-inwardly!
The “Answer,” one seeks is more simple than the question asked.
Defining “Glory”
The, “Glory of God”
Defining the word, “Glory,” is simple. Replace the word, “glory,” with the word, “ego,” and the truth will be seen.
Chip Van Hassel
At Peace
“When profound, open clarity has no change and is consistent at all times, only then can you be at peace.”
Translated by: Thomas Cleary
Being is Perceiving.
Constantly be an appreciator of life by feeling the all of your being.
Without “being,” we perceive not.
Length of Step
How Long Is Your Mind’s Step?
Satan takes short steps.
God takes long steps.
Hard Hats
Hard Hats:
The Engineers’ way to pretend they actually build stuff.
Chip Van Hassel
Random Poem
Written in 2010:
Even though none of it is real,
It makes me so happy.
It seems to grab me
And entrap me.
So Slap me-
Snap me out of this
Rhetoric.
Travel to the Unknown Idea
pushing ourselves to our limits,
“Culture is missing the Grand Power of Motivation towards the unknown-
Chip Van Hassel
that physical action of advancing towards fear,
pushing ourselves to our limits,
so we may therefore push ourselves beyond those limits
to create more advantageous precipices from which thereupon, we we may elevate our efforts; for we are rewarded with the strength, courage and some wisdom which allows us to experience the Great Power of Motivation which operates the Sun and the Moon.”
Circular Connection
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
Make the aura around you flow of purple water-
Dakkuan
It’s current- Strong,
Revolutionary of itself.
When you notice that your focus has been lost
Breathe-In
Moderately-Controlled
down through your Sacral Chakra,
Circulating the inside of the chakra;
condensing it’s
outer physical membrane.
Be the Beam of Light
When asking How to help others, she said,
“You cannot help anybody;
Carolina Zachariah
all you can do is
Be the Beam of Light.”
In other words, you cannot help people who do not realize they need help, or do not want help.
All we can do is be the example of what we want others to be.
-Chip
Emotion: the Hinderance of the Soul
When an intellectual conversation dissolves into a self-loathing proclamation…
“The Answer,” they seek cannot materialize. Instead, the, “investigation,” becomes a self-exploration, describing the whole of humanity, fueled by pent-up emotion (which they want to share,) consequently being extinguished by the arrogant affect of being the observer attempting to objectively observe itself.
Chip Van Hassel
As a picture of a pencil cannot draw itself, the human attempting to reconcile with its own cognitive dissonance by way of cognition is the same as the ocean attempting to dry itself off by splashing around!
Bearing Witness
You Cannot Witness Yourself.
“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
JOHN 5:31-32
There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.”
Of a man who chooses not to see the light, neither all the books in the world may enlighten him; and for a man who sees the light, a single word is too much!
Chip Van Hassel
As we are surrounded by (and ruled by,) self-deceiving people, the only recompense is to constantly and instantly forgive them.
Be an example of the Great Light which shineth from above.
No Drink Carrier
“Ah, c’mon, you don’t have an inner server in you?”
Random Waitress
Truth and Justice
The Difference
Truth is not blind of facts, whereas Justice is blind of both facts and truth.
Chip Van Hassel
Push Past that Stride
The Teaser of Fate
Push those last ten strides,
Chip Van Hassel
but always have your finish line
beyond that.
Give more love and understanding,
yet tease these moments of fate!
Reserved Mantra
“Keeping it Reserved”
“Stillness in Motion”
Jose Sameñego
Wrists broken-over,
Dakkuan
“Praying Mantis hands”-
“Keeping everything re-chambered”
Nightly Scribbles
Burn relentlessly until your juice runs dry!
A Letter Written to a Lost Friend
Cold water hardens wax
to form shape.
A shadow is cast,
from a candle’s light,
flickering in a fleeting moment.
Without a Candle,
Marylin would have never seen
the wind blow.
Without darkness,
the moon would not wax.
Dark as her sudden silence seemed,
and as remarkable as JFK’s birthday, song’s tease,
the wick of the candle is sometimes trimmed away.
Chi Peace
Manifesting the Horse’s power into my hands as Peace. Even muscle strain is peace and is void of conflict.
Breath for peace.
The monk, always at peace, keeps a clear mind, so he can react and act without judgement.
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Words of Get To Work
“Ha ha ha- Get to fucking work!”
George Beaulieu
-Deleware Park-
Now, Get To Work.
Masters are No Longer.
“ … the ashes of the earth
are the edge of this town.”
Where is there a Lodge
Of Master Markers,
Who’s moon-body has surfed
Beyond the already-traversed marble?
Is it from the east?
Is it to the West?
Could it be farther South,
Or even closer north?
Could the albatross
Have already flown across,
Leaving the mariner’s quiver,
but only the motion of chilled skin?
Writing Sample
Which training method did Jonathan Sheppard employ?
When somebody complained how Jonathan Sheppard would never explain his training program to them, this was my response:
Well, some of us understood his training program which was essentially reverse-engineered in congruency with the horse’s running date, its condition, the competition it would be up against, along with the expectations of its upcoming performance while always keeping the race AFTER that performance in mind.