The Law of Effect

by dipp jonz

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Law of Effect (Despisers of the body)
despisers of the body hear me speak these words
the soul is fully carnal a shepherdess of herds
the spirit is a minor wisdom the senses are a battlefield
emergence self-explanatory no deeper truths revealed
The self says SUFFER and the body seeks escape
and that’s the reason for your reason
the self says DELIGHT and the body seeks return
and that is the meaning of your meaning
despisers of the body here me sing these lines
the senses and the spirit hang at the end of vines
vainly see themselves as ends but the body holds the greater sages
distributed in minor wisdoms against false souls it rages
The self says SUFFER and the body seeks escape
and that’s the reason you were MEANT to think.
the self says DELIGHT and the body seeks return
and that’s the reason you were MEANT to think.
despisers of the body what fills the wells of your contempt?
is it the fruiting ground that underlies these very valuing attempts?
The creating Self created for itself esteeming and despising,
sense and spirit, worth and will and a demon’s host advising
The self says SUFFER and the body seeks escape
is this all there is to your meaning
the self says DELIGHT and the body seeks return
is this all there is to your meaning
angry with life and with the earth created worlds and those they tempt
suggest unconscious envy is in the sidelong look of your contempt.

despisers of the body hearken to this cant
when the creative part is squandered the opium screens of tomorrow chant
not saying that the spirits fiction not saying that the senses lie
just that your emergencies are self-explanatory lesson for a self that wants to die

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released June 4, 2015
words and music by dipp, heavily borrowing from Z

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dipp jonz Tempe, Arizona

dipp staffed punk rock, lofi and alt-dujour bands throughout his prolonged adolescence. Markets soured the muses, and a different path was taken. But green thoughts sleep furiously, and when they awaken they demand an audience. Thirteen years in the wilderness, and dipp jonz has returned to sing of self-overcoming, of love most biological, of destinies that are not given but must be earned. ... more

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