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Franklyn Greene, Former Competing Bodybuilding Man

Don’t let the last name fool you of Greene
As you continue to read, you will understand what made him structured lean
Mr. Greene was a man who won International Federation of Bodybuilders of MR. WORLD title twice
There were times when Mr. Greene called Joe Weider and asked for advice
It was intensity with the weights
Then taking in food protein and drinking protein shakes
Mr. Greene is a personal friend of mine
He used to tell me stories of bodybuilding ways
Also stay away from drugs and go astray
Yet he was every bodybuilder’s friend
But on the Bodybuilding stage, it was about the win
Mr. Greene’s muscles were his voice on stage
In the audience, it was the posing that did amaze
It left the audience and Judge’s in a daze
It was his proportion being the fine line
Then it was the repetitions that contributed being combined
Under the spotlight, Mr. Greene was the terminator
But it was his posing being the illustrator
Franklyn Greene was focused down to the finish
This is what makes him distinguished 
A Bodybuilding champion who was meant to be
The world witnessed and was able to see
Mr. Greene made Bodybuilding everything that it should be
He is now retired from competition, but continues to train
Bodybuilding in his heart still remains
His motto, “Train with focus and eye on detail”
Franklyn Greene who did achieve and many bodybuilding awards he did receive. Accomplishments with many wins, and with a past being a milestone, but the name of Franklyn Greene who is still known.

So Why Competing

So why competing?
When you see a young 
                              parrot singing ,"
Respect your husband 
             and 
 Stop competing 
                            with him to 
                                            save your marriage." 
You will be astonished to see 
                                a bird telling 
                                                you the truth.

So why competing? 
When you see a peacock  teaching 
                                                   more about pride.
You can think, thinking  to hit
                                          the innocent bird with 
A golden rode
                  because it is a master of arrogance.

So why competing ?
When a white rabbit says  loudly, " 
                                                    you can easily 
Say if my
                husband mistaken cheat 
                                                   and I cheat too...,'
But if he buys you valuable 
                                       stuffs you can not buy 
Them for him too...
                              to prove your  competition.
Dear , It is so cuckoo.'"

So why competing?
Egotism
               is a relative and best friend of egoism 
And both two lead to destruction
                                  because they are all  vanity.
Don't allow  some evil spirits 
                                                      distract  you.  
There is no solution
                                      in  infuriation...
                   But 
There is an answer in forgiving and forgetting. 

      Written March 2014      
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe 
         Mussabwa Chris

Premium Member Competing Cooperative Archetypes

Everyday games we play
grow productive successes
and over consuming failures.

Every day and night
we try to reduce
RightWing dominant overproduction
LeftSoul underconsumption,
Gap growing devolution
of bilateral failing anti-invitation.

Every mutual distrusting day
quick fix addiction
fuels competitive co-dependency.

Every cooperative night
constrains rabid Lose to Lose competitions
spiraling monstrously inhumane growth
of toxic tumors,
rumors of mutually whispered mendacity.

Every day
amplifies chronic stress
in between successful productions
and all-consuming capitalized failure
to play this insane Win to Lose competition game.

Every day and night
life and death of ego-consciousness
wants to play Win to Win together cooperation,
but Left and Right,
like Ego and EcoEnvironment,
see SacredOther healthy wealth communion
immune from suboptimizing Win to eventually Lose.

Every night
descriptive and prescriptive WinWin performance
gradually fails to focus light,
like Full Moon dwindling down
to New Moon's absent bright.

Every day
we each try to react successfully
to satisfy responsibilities
to achieve one hundred percent
of each competitive opportunity
and thereby consume our capitalized lives
while producing no ultimate
single-minded healthy wealth
of multiculturing outcomes.

Every day and night
the harder he pushes production
the harder nature
pushes back to consume her soul.

Every day
every person
every government
every monoculture
consumes every healthy resource
belonging to Win to Win cooperativity
to every time
and every living ecotherapeutic Soul.

Every growing day
and underinvested night
we push to produce healthy success 
more than loss of growth
under-skirting cooperative Win to Win
all-consuming democratic passion
to health-wealth systemic green
gaming LeftNature as RightSpirit growth.

Every day
high incarceration rates inevitably rise
while Win/Lose crime levels recede
Only if you have gospel faith
that punishing imprisonment
is not itself a soulless crime
unconsoling Win/Win's soulful nature.


Premium Member Competing Voices

When two or more Yang Dominants
are in the same room,
noticing each other,
it may be time to leave that room.

We have issues curtailing our co-arising competition
to reveal who can win
our CoElational Wealth Game.

All Yang-voices inside
and outside
clamoring EgoSapiens 
hungry for EcoRights
optimizing Elational AnthroLight,
a smile of Namaste recognition,
we know each other from inside 
compassion now,
yet only unusually from outside
pleasure rooted here.

Then we go back to our CoInhaled Win/Lose 
dark and disempowering
political
and economic game of life,
but this despite I-Thou moments,
unsustained iconic monuments
within cooperative co-arising
sacred grace remembering.

Even so,
more and more of us are slowing our competition
for Ego's well-intended
but perhaps not always full-health and therapy
hunger for love is joy,
mind passion is  body pleasure
synergy,
integrity;

slow enough toward MidWay Tipping Point Non(0)
1 Whole Root Systemic embrace
Other's loving eco-lights and brights
and hugs and smiles,
knowing them for our own,
bipartisan together.

Winning together 
Yang/Yin bicamerally balancing
Internal ego recentering
away from a bit too competitively dominant 
over
External EcoPolitical Wokeness,
Yin's full CoRelational ElationFlow
DoubleBinding Balance
RightBrain conserving feelings
for/within/of/without Yintegrity

Left as Yang verbal dominance,
listening in Yang's languaged yammering AnthroUniverse
to breathe out sacred Yintegrity's
in-out-ductive Prime CoElational Time
in TaoHarmonic two-faced fractal-octave +Yang/(-,-)Yin
WinWin co-reiterative 
dialectical compassioned pleasure paradigms

Crown and Rooted
Anthro/Earth
Mind/Body 
bicameral Tree of LiveBranches v. eviLRoots
as Win cannot be LoseLose 0sum equity
as +1/(-,-)0 Bicameral 
ConvexYang/ConcaveYinFormating CoElation 
AnthroMind/EarthEmbodied
Enlightened/Empowering 
Sacred Unitarian/Secular Earth-Universal 
CoPassion/Pleasure.

When YangEgo and YinEco CoElationals share a room, 
ecopolitical outcomes 
are passionately pleasant heaven.

Art of Peace : No Contest But Thanx Michelle F

I
Walk in others' shoes, fear of God/Universe: peace
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Losing My Competing Minds

A mind,
I think,
should be a brain
still in a living organic body
in homeostatic normative relationship.

A human mind
could become mid-sized, just right,
and left,
not too hot, not too cold,
not too light, not too dark and heavy,
yet sometimes too complexly dense with chaos theories
rather than synergetic creolizing hypotheses
favoring thermodynamically ego/eco-balancing biosystems,
relying on double-binding feedback loops
of endosymbiotic cooperativity
within ectosymbiotic acclimations
without,
maintaining polypathic health
of multiculturing inter-relationship,
dipolar interdependence
slowly creolizing wealth of further enculturations
into even more polypathic bicameral balance.

A mid-sized just-right humane ecosystem
is a horrible potential to waste
to too-closed off entropic loss
of regenerative energy,
dissipating off into cognitive-affective dissonance,
both verbal and non-verbal dismay,
near death before open-systemic maturing time.

Aging is post-revolutionary degenerative maturation,
quieting grace.
Suicide and depression,
repression and ecopolitical suppressions
are pre-revolutionary,
before their regenerate maturing fullness
of fertile time.

A mind
is a brain
within a fertile 
well-timed
pre- and post-revolutionary 
sacred acclimating body.


Premium Member Growing Competing Anxieties

What is the best available treatment
for cancerous climates of anxiety?

Well, 
imagine you were born in a USA
time and place
when we knew only one retributive model of justice,
both internal theological punishment for being merely mortal
and external anti-ecological.

Now imagine you live in a Win/Win 
time and place
wherein Restorative Justice Peace Warriors
are also PermaCulturing Designers
of natural landscapes,
internal and external,
and spiritual-experiential-sensory climates,
internal and external,
nondually co-arising.

Best still-available long-term therapies
for growing Wonder and Awe
and Grace and Good Karma Climates,
long-term restorative health co-designers,
for democratic regenerative polyculturing outcome optimization
WinWin planning and strategics and praxis,
and not so much merely against
Republican DeGenerative MonoCultural Income Hoarding for Plutocrats,
dissonance,
disarray,
dismay,
decaying Win/Lose
toward Lose/Lose (0)Soul Trends,
4D RealTime double-binding nihilistic
denialism of Win/Win ego/ecotherapeutic 
sacred/secular co-equivalence,
cosmic cosmological co-incidence.

Competing Spirits

Competing spirits move about
seeking a patron, loyal scout,
trailing branches down wooded road
with blessed prod or cursed goad.

Tempting teens on a risky route 
competing spirits move about. 
Looking, lead in a lustful way
mean spirits look for waves to sway.

Guarding with a license divine
safe spirits shield a tender vine.
Competingspirits move about
guiding, girding the naïve sprout.

Until the forests all close down
two warring natures will abound.
Sheer zeal keeps each from bowing out,
competing spirits move about.

January 22, 2020

Premium Member Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs

Freedom with far    Freedom with         Order with less      Order with far
less emphasis on    less emphasis         emphasis on          less emphasis
Order -                  on Order -              Freedom -             on Freedom -       ___________________________        ____________________________  

F  Far-reaching       Fundamental          O  Opportunistic     Onerous
R  Rectifications;     Receptivity            R  Responses         Regulatory
E  Effectuating        Expressly               D  Diminishing       Dogmas;
E  Evolving             Empowering           E  Empirical           Emplacing
D  Determinants     Diversity;               R  Rights;              Rules
O  Ostensibly          Optimizing             L  Lessening          Limiting
M  Maximizing         Meritocratic           E  Effective            Equalitarianism; 
L   Laissez-faire;      Lifestyles;             S  Subgroup          Subverting
E  Exhorting            Enhancing             S  Sureties;           Safeguards;
S  Superior             Systemic                F  Fostering           Formalizing
S  Sensibilities;       Subjectivism;         R  Regimens          Restrictions;
O  Obviating           Operationalizing      E  Eroding             Engendering
R  Revisionism;       Responsiveness      E  Egalitarianism;   Exclusivity;
D  Demanding         Developing            D  Devaluing          Demonizing
E  Exceptional         Eclectic                  O  Objective          Oppositional
R  Resourcefulness. Representations.    M  Messaging.        Movements.    

___________________________

Above are these competing views
Of social construct ends
And choice is not to win or lose
But how they all should blend.

The truth is each is built into
The fabric of our days
Requiring that we must pursue
Sound, realistic ways.

Judicious blend is what we need
To keep us on due course -
With none promoted to exceed
And sanction our remorse.

Competing For You

I know you can't see me

And my appearance you barely see.

Striving for your attention, is like being lost at sea.

You can't find me on the map or you compass.

Because being with you, I know its justs  being traceless.

You know I always care about you and wonder when your sad.

So what not give the feeling back, so that so bad?

Competing

It’s nice to win a contest.
I know I, for one, have tried;
But I read about one recently
In which the winner died.

Some folks think if something’s risky
That the glory’s more intense,
Which is why they may take chances
When a contest makes no sense…

Like the one on Broward County:
Eating roaches was its goal;
And the winner, thirty-two years old,
Thought he was on a roll.

He defeated all contenders
But he got no prize; instead
He collapsed and just like what he ate,
He ended up quite dead.

There’s a moral to this story:
Watch out for the things you eat
And determine if it’s worth it
When deciding to compete.

Premium Member Competing For Satan's Love

I’m a racist, you’re a racist, life looks racist too
and one more proof that all are sinners (tainted through and through).
Even babies fear a stranger (cling to mama’s skirt);
inborn, we’re trained, or raised by parents with imperfect love?
Categories plague our species; souls (smeared black with dirt)
we dare to protest (in our stupor), wear Christ like a glove!
You’re my friend, but who can be who dares to disagree,
who even hints a strangeness lurks inside the heart of me.
 
Christ saw evil in disciples, swiftly called it out!
A friend suggests that you’re a sinner, and you’re prone to pout?
Called unfaithful? Enemy? You’d call one friend who lies?
Suggestions do not prove you’ve sinned; rejection of a friend IS BAD!
Counsel from a friend’s so precious, life seen through fresh eyes.
But choosing friends for honesty, my friend, this concept’s RAD!
Funny how all sin conflates to bring us where we are,
like monkeys, hands (stuffed full of cookies), trapped by ‘loudmouthed jar!’

Who deserves to win God’s favor, should a God exist?
For time must live outside His presence, where our dreams persist!
We, who dream that there’s a Dreamer, know our own dreams fade
that we’re not God, still dream of heaven, hell; might death be gain?
Souls are real, or human lemons beg for lemonade,
a sweetness that might last forever; few give thanks for pain!
Yet, it’s pain that nurtures wisdom (Christ’s death is God’s rock),
while butterflies more love to flutter, summer’s breeze as frock!


Brian Johnston
30th of August in 2020

Premium Member Competing Roads To Peace

History,
one of the Muses,
like Music,
and Poetry,
and Liturgical FireCircle Dance,
and Regenerative Design,
offers three types of fertility/bereavement stories:

Yangy War stories,
Yinnish Peace stories,
And everything in-between life and death,

Hybrids of diverse creative and degenerative tensions
struggling with and against each Other.

War stories remind us
no one is special dead.

Peace stories reweave us
Everyone is uniquely special
called and challenged
fully alive

In-between stories
restore and destroy
special GoldenRule meanings
for and against unanimous death
of EarthlyOther
as our co-empathic EgoSelves.

War stories sadly proliferate
like BlackFriday tragedy shopping hours
and NRA ViolenceFirst! membership cards
and automated death machines
and climate sickness
in public squares
and anxious private circles
of remunerative capital despair.

Peace stories gladly integrate
ThanksGiving Days
toward peaceful everyday Advent
of new born communal princes and princesses
living healthy happily ever paradise after
integrity of war-torn story ends.


Sometimes we call PeaceStories
love stories.
I won't even try to list all the bad names
we sometimes give competing WarStories,
children are probably deeply listening,

But,
They all seem to have something sinister to do
with reducing Earth's natural fertility
to mere spiritualized manure,
toxic attitude,
definitely not centered in ultra-nonviolet gratitude
for PeaceStories
and their MultiCulturing Muses.

Premium Member we have competing tvs

I hear the drone of a distant TV
it is coming from my husband’s dungeon office
he watches nine sets simultaneously
but only listens to one

I am not ready for my recliner yet
will be in a few minutes
after I have fixed my cinnamon sugar coffee
three sugars, cocoa mix and whole milk

we will have competing TVs going
as I do word searches and draw cartoons
he falls asleep in front of his nine sets
an ideal life for two retired people

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