WANT A BET?

 

AS I STATED IN MY 'ONE IDIOT TO ANOTHER' POST...DUDE IS A VICTIM.

HIS COMPULSIONS[NEUROSES] INCLUDE MOST WELL KNOWN ADDICTIONS.

THE ALCOHOLIC. THE DRUG ADDICT, AND THE GAMBLER..

'STARMAN' THE MOVIE SEES JEFF BRIDGES PLAYING YET AGAIN A COMPULSIVE 

CARD PLAYER/ ONE ARM BANDIT ADDICT WHO THEORETICALLY HITS THE 

'JACK-POT' [INTERESTING WORD!] IN 'VEGAS'.

GAMBLERS DEVELOP AMAZING COVER STORIES FOR THEIR LOSSES BUT ALWAYS

LOVE TO TELL ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN ABOUT THEIR 'BIG WINS'.

I HAVE HAD DEALINGS WITH GAMBLERS IN MY WORKING LIFE AS A CAB DRIVER

FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS, AND I HAVE OBSERVED HOW THEY BECOME

OBSESSED BY WINNING, TO THE EXTENT, THAT EVEN THE MONEY INVOLVED

HAS NO REAL RELEVANCE, ITS THE WINNING THAT MEANS EVERYTHING.

PLAYING CARDS HAVE A LONG HISTORY, AND WHAT THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD

USES TO PLAY VARIOUS GAMES, POKER ETC..ARE NOT THE SAME AS CARDS USED

IN OTHER COUNTRIES, HISPANIC, FOR EXAMPLE.

'TREBOL'[CLUBS] 'ESPALDAS' [SPADES] ARE TWO BLACK SUITS.

THE SYMBOLISM, INHERENT IN THESE CARDS IS VERY ANCIENT AND SOME PEOPLE

SPECULATE THAT 'TAROT' CARDS ARE ALSO DERIVED FROM THIS SYMBOLISM.

I AGREE. THE OPPOSING RED SUITS, ALSO HAVE INHERENT SYMBOLISM.

'WAY OUT WEST' IS A TERM USED IN PLAYING THE CARD CAME 'BRIDGE', SO EVERYTHING THAT 'FOLLOWS' IN THE SCRIPT IS REALLY ABOUT TAKING 'TRICKS'

SOME KIND OF 'EASTERN THING?'..RUBBER SOUL ...REVOLVER..ETC..

HEARTS, DIAMONDS, SPADES, CLUBS...BECOME CONFUSED IN CREATIVITY.

NORTH AND SOUTH THE OPPOSING PLAYERS OF EAST AND WEST IN BRIDGE,

STRIVE TO MAKE A 'CONTRACT'...'RUBBER' AND WIN THE GAME.

BUT.....THE MORE THE TRICKS PLAYED, THE EASIER IT IS TO PREDICT THE OPPONENTS HAND AS THE MATHEMATIC PROBABILITY BECOMES MORE PREDICTABLE.

GEOMANTIC TECHNIQUES PROVIDE A LIVING FOR TAROT 'READERS',

CARD SHARPS, AND MAGIC SHOWS. BUT SLEIGHT OF HAND, IS VERY ENTERTAINING,

UNLESS YOU ARE A GREENHORN ABOUT TO BE FLEECED.

PRO GAMBLERS WILL ALWAYS LET A SUCKER WIN WHAT WOULD SEEM A LARGE

AMOUNT TO BEGIN WITH, THEN TAKE DOUBLE OFF THE MUG LATER ON.

THESE PEOPLE ARE PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GREED.

 I ALWAYS LIKED BURT LANCASTER IN 'THE KENTUCKIAN'..

HOWEVER BURT LANCASTERS FILMOGRAPHY IS BOTH AMAZING AND 

WORTHY OF STUDY, AS A LOT OF HIS 'AVANT-GARDE' MOVIES, WERE A REAL

GAMBLE TO MAKE AND CONTAIN MULTIFARIOUS SYMBOLISM OF INTEREST TO JUNGIAN STUDENTS..[EXAMPLE; 'THE SWIMMER', 'CASTLE KEEP' 'DR MOREAU' ETC]

GAMBLING,BE, IT, ON, HORSES, FRUIT MACHINES, OR,CASINO GAMES,IS,
ADDICTIVE.
GAMBLERS, HAVE, THEIR, OWN, 'CODE', WORDS, SAYINGS,ETC...

IN, 'POKER', FOR EXAMPLE...

'PERSIAN CARPET RIDE', 'OPPRESSION OF THE MASSES', ETC...

23 SKIDOO, ETC..[MEANS, QUIT ,WHILST YOU, STILL,CAN]

A PAIR OF FLAGS, EQUATES, TO, TWO JACKS,[JACK IS THE OLD WORD, FOR, 'ENSIGN']

AND, SO, ON, A 'WHALE', BEING, A, GREENHORN, 'HIGH ROLLER', IN, VEGAS...

JEFF LEBOWSKI PROBABLY, HAS, OR, HAD, A, GAMBLING PROBLEM.
THE GUY,WAS, REALLY, MESSED, UP..BOOZE, DRUGS,LACK OF MONEY,
INABILITY, TO CONCENTRATE,NO MANUAL SKILLS,PROPENSITY, TO VIOLENCE..
WHAT, ELSE, COULD, THE DOPE, DO, WRONG? ...OH YEAH, MAKE ENEMIES, OF,THE,
PEOPLE,WHO, LOVED, HIM, MOST..SOMETHING, HE STILL DOES.

'HAVE GUN WILL, TRAVEL?'..TV SHOW,MEMORY, SEEN, AS,
'TEXAS RANGER?'..IN, 'HELL OR HIGH WATER', COMPLETE, WITH, INDIAN SPIRIT GUIDE?WHO, KNOWS, BUT, BANK ROBBING, IN, THE MOVIE,
'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT', REPEATS, THE THEMATA.
REPETITION, IS, JUST, UNORIGINAL, AND, GETS, TO, BE, BORING, WHICH, IS, WHY, I'M,
STOPPING, THIS, REPETETIVE, ANALYSIS.

MEDINA, TEXAS, HAS, AN, EXCELLENT, DRUG RE-HAB, CENTRE.

KIDNAP, DUDE, IS AS BAD, AS MURDER, IN A MORAL, OR LEGAL DEFINITION.

HERE IN UK, KIDNAP CARRIES A MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCE.



THE POMERANIAN KIDNAP? DID THAT PROVIDE FUNDS, FOR  ADDICTION?
THE 'CHOP-SHOP', OF MOTORCYCLES? … SAME...
SHOPLIFTING? CHEQUE FRAUD?.....PORNOGRAPHY?....
SEEMS TO ME, THAT THE YOUNG TREEHORN DICKHEAD, WAS INVOLVED WITH
SOME DUBIOUS CHARACTERS, WHO, 'PULLED HIS STRINGS' IN
CALIFORNIA?...
RICH KID ABIGAIL FOLGER, THE COFFEE HEIRESS?...AND CHARLIE NONAME,
'MANSON', ALL LIVED NEARBY....DUDE.

FRUSTRATED MUSICIANS? GUNS AND DRUGS?...SADISM?..MURDER....
NOT SOME HYPNOTIC SCRIPT, BUT REAL LIFE.?

THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS COME OUT, SOONER OR LATER...


SUICIDE JIVE...DUDE...IS NOT FUNNY, OR PAINLESS.

THERE IS NO HIDING PLACE FOR YOUR SELF,FROM YOUR SELF.

YOU WILL NEVER DIE, AND ETERNITY, IS, A LONG, LONG...TIME 

           



          

 THE MATHEMATICS OF PROBABILITY ALWAYS WORKS IN THE HOUSE FAVOUR.

THE MORE YOU GAMBLE THE MORE THE CHANCES OF YOU LOSING INCREASE.

LAS VEGAS IN NEVADA IS BUILT ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES.

THE ENTIRE CITY IS LAID OUT TO FIRST ATTRACT CUSTOMERS WITH FLASHING LIGHTS ETC THEN GENTLY REMOVE ALL THE CASH FROM THEIR POCKETS

IN THE SLICKEST MOST ENTERTAINING MANNER I EVER SAW.

[I VISITED THE CHINA PALACE HOTEL NOW GONE AND HAD A BALL]

THE LIGHT SHOW IN FREEMONT STREET IS AMAZING IT'S ALMOST HYPNOTIC

AS IS THE GENTLE SOUND FROM HUNDREDS OF FRUIT MACHINES IN AN

ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT WHICH WORKS ON YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS.....

PAYOUTS ARE NOISY AND ATTRACT SPECTATORS....BUT IF YOU ACTUALLY

LISTEN...THEY ARE NOT REALLY RANDOM...AND THEY ARE NOT THAT OFTEN.

THE HUMMING NOISE DELIBERATELY CREATED STAYS IN YOUR HEAD LONG

AFTER YOU LEAVE.

CASINOS ARE NOT THERE TO GIVE YOU MONEY.

THEY WERE ORIGINALLY SET UP BY CHEATS AND FREQUENTED BY CHEATS

SO YOU WOULD REALLY HAVE TO HAVE A NEW TRICK UP YOUR SLEEVE TO GET ONE OVER ON THEM

OVER TIME THEY HAVE SEEN EVERY TYPE OF CARD COUNTER EVERY TYPE OF COLLUSION ETC

ITS ALL DOWN TO DUMB LUCK IF YOU WIN THERE IS NO ONE MACHINE THATS 'HOT'

OR ONE GUY WITH A WINNING 'METHOD'IF THERE WAS IT WOULD BE CHEAPER TO JUST BUY A LOTTERY TICKET AND THEN ALL THE 'NUMEROLOGISTS' 'PSYCHICS' ETC COULD EASILY PROVE THEY WERE NOT ACTUALLY CON ARTISTS AND PICK THE WINNING NUMBERS THERE AND RETIRE.

NOW, I BELIEVE THE MONOPOLY GAME PLAYED BY JEFF AND FAMILY WAS RIGGED FROM THE START AND THE UNCONSCIOUS ARCHETYPE WAS TEMPORARILY FOOLED

BY WORDS BEING USED AMBIGUOUSLY, 'ROLE' OR 'ROLL'..ETC..

SO THE TRICKSTER WAS TRICKED IN EFFECT...LOL! 

THIS SITUATION IS NOW UNDERSTOOD MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVELY..

AND THE TRICKSTER WILL GET HIS REVENGE ON JEFF AND COMPANY ONE WAY

OR ANOTHER MAKE NO MISTAKE



         

ONE ARMED BANDITS AND GAMBLING FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN THE SUB CONSCIOUS OF JEFF BRIDGES AND HIS ACTING TECHNIQUE.

A ONE ARMED BANDIT APPEARS IN HIS MOVIE 'CUTTERS WAY'....

AND OF COURSE 'STARMAN' IS SET MOSTLY IN LAS VEGAS WITH THE 'ALIEN'

HITTING THE JACKPOT ON A FRUIT MACHINE BEFORE BEING PURSUED BY

GOVERNMENT AGENTS ETC.

IT'S NOT TOO DIFFICULT TO ASSIGN FORM METAPHOR OR ANALOGY FROM THESE

VISUAL AND CINEMATIC SCRIPTS.

CUTTER'S WAY...FOR EXAMPLE OPENS WITH A SCENE OF 'WILD HORSES'

[SEEN AS 'WILD STALLIONS' ELSEWHERE IN MOVIE-LAND 'BILL AND TEDS SHIT ADVENTURE']

CUTTER, AS A WORD INDICATES,?...DRUG DEALING? CUTTING, THE NARCOTICS, TO, INCREASE, VOLUME?...

'WILD HORSES', IS   A ROLLING STONES,PROBABLY, HEROIN-INDUCED,
SONG...

OR,

IT COULD BE A RIPOFF MEMORY OF THE MOVIE 'BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK'WITH

SPENCER TRACY?..FIGHTING BIGOTRY IN MIDWEST USA?..

NATIVE AMERICANS OF COURSE KNOW ALL ABOUT BIGOTRY.

THEIR HISTORY RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMPASSION ENCOMPASSES

EVERYTHING GOOD AND BAD IN THE AMERICAN PSYCHE.

'AMAZING GRACE' IS THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE'S 'ANTHEM'...

 THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN BY A LIVERPOOL FORMER SLAVESHIP CAPTAIN.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/sad-origin-of-amazing-grace-as-cherokee-anthem/

THE DISGRACEFUL TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS BY THE FREEMASON

GOVERNMENT IS INDICATIVE OF THEIR REAL AGENDA.

ONE-ARMED ACTING IS VERY DIFFICULT...ROY THINNES PLAYING'THE INVADERS'

ALIEN-CHASING CHARACTER..A SORT OF SPIN-OFF FROM 'THE FUGITIVE'

KIND OF ILLUSTRATES THE EFFECT PARANOIA AND ANXIETY HAS ON THE PSYCHE.

'DAVID VINCENT' ROY'S CHARACTER NAME IS VERY INDICATIVE BUT I DIGRESS.

INTERESTING THOUGH THAT THE 'ALIEN' HAS TO RETURN TO A TANK OF WATER..

[JUST LIKE MANY OTHER MYTHOLOGY FIGURES-SEE MY 'ANCIENT FISHGODS POST]

SO IT IS WITH A JUNGIAN ANALYSIS...NOTHING HAS TO BE 'FIXED'.

THE COEN BROTHERS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE TIRED RIP-OFFS OF

CLASSIC MOVIES ALL WITH AN ALCOHOL UNDERTHEME.

INTERESTINGLY  THEY LIKE TO ALSO INCLUDE KIDNAPPING...AS IN 'HAIL CAESAR'

JEFF BRIDGES' OSCAR WINNER ? MOVIE..'CRAZY HEART'..INCLUDES KIDNAPPING?..

[JEFF OF COURSE WAS PROBABLY KIDNAPPED AS AN INFANT AND 'JEWELS PROGRAMMED' WHILST HIS ALCOHOLIC DEPRESSED

DAD WAS 'SHANGHAI'D'BY A MICKEY FINN..ADMINISTERED BY GOV.AGENTS]

KIDNAP..ORIGINALLY WAS AN 'INSIDER' TERM USED BY GANGS WHO PROVIDED

SLAVES FOR AMERICAN PLANTATIONS...

WHAT? YOU THINK I'M TALKING 'JUNK?' ......

junk - rubbish, valueless odds and ends
This word really belongs to the sea. Junk is the old sailor's name for rope-ends. It is derived from the Latin juncus, a bulrush, from the fibre of which in ancient days ropes were made.

SHIP'S ROPE, WAS, MADE, FROM, HEMP, GET IT? ...BULRUSH? DIDN'T, MOSES, HAVE, SOMETHING,
TO, DO, THIS, VEGETATION?..

LIKE 'LEBOWSKI', SHIPS AND SAILORS, PERMEATE THE STORY...

JEFF BRIDGES', MATERNAL GRANDFATHER WAS A SAILOR...

GET IN TOUCH SOON, MAN.

MAKING A MOVIE IS A FINANCIAL GAMBLE AND PRO-GAMBLERS ALWAYS TRY

TO MAKE THE ODDS WORK IN THEIR FAVOUR.

'AGAINST ALL ODDS' MADE BY JEFF BRIDGES IN 1984...HAS AN INTERESTING

THEME SEEING BRIDGES GOING IN SEARCH OF A FORMER GIRLFRIEND

DOWN MEXICO WAY..I REALLY LIKED IT BUT IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN

MAYBE A GAMBLING PROBLEM HAS CAUSED SOME DIFFICULTY IN THE PAST?

WHO KNOWS? BUT THE PAST IS OVER...IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.

IF YOU WERE A THIEF ONE TIME BUT SERVED YOUR 'SENTENCE' THEN LEARN

AND MOVE ON..BY THIEVING YOU ONLY STEAL FROM YOUR-SELF.

YOU HAVE TO LIVE WITH YOUR SELF GET IT?

IN PHILOSOPHY SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS HAVE NO RELEVANCE IN UNIVERSALISM.

THERE IS NO SUBJECTIVITY IN UNIVERSALISM ONLY OBJECTIVISM.

EXISTENTIAL IDEALISM TRIES TO INCORPORATE OBJECTIVISM VIA SUBJECTIVISM

THEREBYE CREATING AN UNTENABLE HYPOTHESIS.

ie 'GOD DOES NOT EXIST'...

A STATEMENT THAT IS INHERENTLY SUBJECTIVE CANNOT BE OBJECTIVE.

THEREFORE THE STATEMENT IS PATENTLY INCORRECT AND UNTRUE.

ARGUING ABOUT TRUTH DOES NOTHING TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF WHAT PLATO 

SOCRATES ETC CALLED, 'CIVILIZATION'-CERTAIN PRECEPTS MUST BE NATURAL

AND COMPASSION A QUALITY OF BEING HUMAN IS NOT WEAK OR INEFFECTUAL

ON THE CONTRARY COMPASSION IS ALL POWERFUL WHEN PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD.

Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will.
It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it will die of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision to choose one over the other.^[1] The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirizes. A common variant of the paradox substitutes two identical piles of hay for the hay and water; the ass, unable to choose between the two, dies of hunger.
[WIKIPEDIA]

SO, HAVE OTHER PHILOSOPHERS TRIED TO OVERCOME THIS, SUBJECT/OBJECT, 'DIVISION?'...

YES, OF COURSE THEY HAVE....

Pascal's Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).^[1] It posits that humans all bet with their lives either that God exists or that he does not. Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).^[2]
Pascal's Wager was based on the idea of the Christian God, though similar arguments have occurred in other religious traditions. The original wager was set out in section 233 of Pascal's posthumously published Pensées ("Thoughts"). These previously unpublished notes were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics.
Historically, Pascal's Wager was groundbreaking because it charted new territory in probability theory,^[3] marked the first formal use of decision theory, and anticipated future philosophies such as existentialism, pragmatism and voluntarism [WIKIPEDIA]

YOU SEE THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

THAT STATEMENTIS NOT EXISTENTIAL OR MARXIST IT IS JUST A STATEMENT.

PHILOSOPHY HAS IT'S PLACE...BUT IT IS NOT THE 'BE ALL AND END ALL'...

WE ALL GOTTA EAT.

 'GOD' REALLY DOESN'T CARE WHO BELIEVES AND ALL THE 

RELIGIO-POLITIC DOGMATIC RHETORIC IS POINTLESS UNLESS A 'SELF' UNDERSTANDING PROVIDES A 'PSYCHIC FRAME' ON WHICH THE VARIOUS TEACHINGS

CAN BE MOUNTED, ACTORS UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TO ACT AND PROVIDE AN 

'INTERPRETATION' OF SOMEONE ELSES 'SELF-EXPRESSION'- EITHER THAT OR LOOK

FOR ANOTHER JOB..

ACTOR JOHN MALKOVITCH WHO WAS CONNED OUT OF A FORTUNE BY A JEWISH

'PONSY-SCHEMER' MUSING ABOUT THE 'EXTERNAL' 'GOD' 

SO WHY DO GAMBLERS 'WANNA BET?'... USUALLY THE UNDERLYING PSYCHOLOGY IS VERY COMPLEX

 IT IS NOT MERE FINANCIAL GAIN IT IS MORE TO DO WITH

SELF-WORTH AND THE EGO'S SELF-PERCEPTION...IT IS ALSO TO DO WITH WHAT

FREUD CALLED THE 'POWER PRINCIPLE'.....

EASIEST WAY TO WIN AT GAMBLING? DON'T PLAY THE GAME IT IS RIGGED ANYWAY..

THE WORST THING A GAMBLER CAN DO..IS TO WIN EARLY ON.....BECAUSE AFTER THIS

THE GAMBLER BECOMES CON-VINCEDTHAT LOSING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

HE BELIEVES HE HAS SOME 'GIFT' OR 'LUCKY CHARM' OR WORST CASE SCENARIO-SKILL.

PROBABILITY THEORY HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE....

MAKES INTERESTING READING...YOU BET YOUR LIFE IT DOES.

BUT ALAS YOU CAN'T PUT AN OLD HEAD ON  YOUNG SHOULDERS ...

SOME PEOPLE JUST HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY.

PILAR AS A NAME HAS CONNOTATIONS WITH THE VIRGIN MARY OF CATHOLICISM..

BUT INTERESTINGLY IT WAS USED BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY IN HIS NOVEL..

'FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS' AND HE ALSO NAMED HIS BOAT 'PILAR'

AND IT WAS HIS 'NICKNAME' FOR HIS WIFE...

SO, YET AGAIN, LITERATURE, AND, 'THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA'...PROVIDES,
CLUES, TO, ANY, INVESTIGATOR..PERO,ADIOS PARA AHORA..TENGO QUE,IR EN VACACIONES... 

YOU'RE, NOT DEALING, WITH, MORONS, HERE...

JUMPING JACK FLASH?[SUITED DIAMONDBACKS?]

JJ	Fishhooks, Hooks, Jokers, Kid Dyn-o-mite, Johnnies

http://badbeatpokershirts.com/pokerhandnicknames.htm

ALL BEEN SEEN BEFORE, POKER GUY...LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE ALL OUT?

SUCKER....WHATS PUZZLING YOU..IS THE NATURE OF MY GAME ?

I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL..

I CAN GET SATISFACTION

I DONT LIKE BROWN SUGAR

AND TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST I'M NOT MOVING FROM MY CLOUD

I NEVER LIKED THE ROLLING STONES AND HERE IN LIVERPOOL HEARING AMERICANS

TRYING TO COMPARE THEM WITH THE BEATLES MAKES NO SENSE TO US?

THERE IS A BIG NORTH/SOUTH DIVIDE HERE, ECONOMIC MOSTLY BUT

SOUTHERNERS ARE GENERALLY THOUGHT OF BADLY BY A LOT OF WORKING CLASS

IN THE NORTH

EVEN THE HUMOUR IS DIFFERENT-HOW CAN ANYONE NOT FROM HERE UNDERSTAND THAT?