Wild and wicked west

I wrote a shortstory last night. But before that few comments about it. It is dedicated to everyone to whom I have been cruel or intolerant. Though I fight to my death against smokers, it is even to them. It's to the gays to whom I once were really intolerant. Its to my family for many things I shouldn't have done or said. If you ever feel that I have somehow harmed you, then it is for you. And of course it is for everyone for just a good surreal reading experience.

So.. at the wild and wicked west..

When Blue Bear walked into the saloon, all eyes turned to him. Paleface Jimmie was then facing the bar and turned around too. Slowly. He watched the Bear and Bear stared him back. Stared right into his eyes so sharply that the gaze drilled the small hole through Jimmie's head, and even the last bit of wisdom he had remaining, escaped out from there. Jimmie was calm. Yet all other men also saw how confident and brave were the buttony black eyes of the Blue Bear.

After a moment standing at the saloon door that was needed for Bear's eyes to get used with the darknes of the room, and to find Jimmie among all men, and the moment of these uncomfortable stares, he walked straight to bartable next to the man. He asked bartender to bring two whiskies. With unexpected quick move he turned to Jimmie. The move that made his shiny and well-cut hair to wave, caused an amazement among not only bargirls, but also of many men. "Surely the work of an proffessional barber, and not a cheap one at all; just look how fleecy it is;" and "his hairstylist must be a gay," were few of many comments they made. But Jimmie didn't care. Jimmie had always hated both gays and Blue Bear. And so far Blue Bear had been a furious opponent. Jimmie had never failed so many attempts to kill somebody. But now, Blue Bear wanted a truce.

"I have something for you," Bear said and reached under his furry coat. Some Jimmie's gunslingers were already on the line of taking Bear down, when they saw it was only a peacepipe he took out. Blue Bear now ordered some tobacco too. Expensive one.

"So what is it gonna be?" He asked, "Will you take my peace offering? The violence will only do harm for both of us and to the innocent bystanders. Surely we both have other more important things to do than trying to skin eachother. It would be most wise to end this ill blood.

Jimmie was silent and didn't move a muscle. He was a proud man. Blue Bear made an hard step closer. Now he was so close that he could easily bite off Jimmie's head. Jimmie's face turned from normal to even more pale, but who would have boldness to say he was afraid. Not me anyway, and of course none of the people in the saloon even noticed this.

"We both love tobacco," Blue Bear continued forcing the pipe to the mouth of Jimmie, "so lets have a few coughs and take some time to think about it reasonably.. ok?!"

Although all the smoke came out from the hole in back of Jimmie's head, it was clear it was a good stuff, as it looked like he would already be trippin' in the another world. Bear wasn't cheap when trying to negotiate. And no-one could resist such lavish gifts. Strong new scent spread around the hall. Everyone were almost melted in anticipation. As soon as barman found a fitting bottlecap for the hole in the head, Paleface Jimmie too found the peace. Peace with all the world, with Blue Bear, with sherif, and Billy, his naighbour who had just angered him by stealing some cattle under his guard. And he even made peace with the freaky gay hairstylists.

True nature of the Unknown Future

The Sequel to the last posting:
To be fair with you, I’d have to say that it is hard to see the mysterious ways Unknown Future works, even harder to learn how to sneak past his tricks. Yet it’s really well worth it. Actually ol’ Americans and natives before them knew him good, although with the other names. I already gave you a hint of his most known name before our times - Trickster – demigod or mighty spirit of chaos and irregular ways the world can work, teacher of nature’s ways and nature of our own being. Yes, many of his tricks are lessons. Really unconventional education about human’s own weaknesses and strengths. At least he sees these so. Now, this means he actually wants that humans stand above his tests. Every teacher wants students to succeed. And yes, you can even learn to use his deeds for your own good.
When it seems that you are loosing the grip over your life and maybe even weird things start to happen, then you can be fairly sure that you are dealing with him. Next thing would be to try and learn his agenda with you and go along with chaos to adapt and learn. Before you even realize, Trickster has gifted you with a true freedom and wisdom to use it properly. But in the case, things are still not looking well for you, I’d advise you to add more power to your actions. He likes it.
I even don’t know exactly when Trickster vanished from wide public knowledge, but it may have been seventeenth or eighteenth century, when he caused that much chaos and started events that ended unfortunately for the most of people, that he was likened with fiends who are absolutely bad in their nature. If the last is right, it would be quite understandable why he was cast out of the favor of the people – church just didn’t acknowledge that something like that should be trusted. Soon after that, science diminished the belief into deities, spirits and other such things, and he was almost completely superseded by the way of thinking that these more or less unfortunate events are happening just out of the bad luck and things just happen, we have no power against it.
But actually Trickster hasn’t lost hope for the reconciliation and salvation of humankind. Moreover, at these times, he again sets us in front of new ordeals, because man has left nature in harms way and are living more irresponsibly than ever before. Humans have embraced many unnatural sins and disvalues that threaten not to only end our well being we now love so much, but also may set us into the trail of harming the world without any hope of reversing the current.
Not all Trickster’s actions don’t seem bad, even not at first sight. He is also the one responsible for random encounters. He also creates variance in things and happenings. He encourages to discoveries, yet warns that some of these may end with more bad created than good. And sometimes his will offers a good entertainment too. For once more, Trickster is not entirely bad. He just likes us to find our lessons through failures and successes by our own. If you fail, then you see it as your own fault, and next time you try more. Well, if you still can. Look, the bugger entrepreneur Peter just gave up and that was not the fault of the Trickster. Let’s hope there is another life beyond that one, where lad gets the lesson.

21st century epically important truestory (with couple fictional additions)

His first name is Unknown. No, not unknown but Unknown.. with capital U. And last name is Future. Unknown Future walks the world, slowly and silently. Truthfully it even doesn't have a gender, but most of the few people who have actually seen it with their own eyes, sure say it looks more like man. Such really grumpy but extremely self-comfident and egoistic, bully type of man. He roams the world with only one reason. When people have some important decisions to make or great things are to happen, then he goes there and fucks everything up, leaving behind people who only see hoplessness in their way.

Unknown Future is like a cold weather that makes every mechanical thing to work with problems or not at all. Makes everyone to struggle to find their own way through the world where now most ways are dead ends, and makes people to question if it really is a good idea to get out of the bed at all. Even economical system goes to hibernation because of it. Money, time and other ressources tend to vanish into the thin air at the two times the speed of normal. Almost everything stops. But this isn't that kind of good stopping, when you can rest and think what to do next. He causes panic, doubt and ineptness to do anything or think any good and constructive thoughts.

Mostly, when Unknown Future visits some place, it causes people to gather extra supplies. For any case,.. because you never know when you may need additional food or burning wood (even if your heating system is electrical), or batteries.. or.. ok, i guess you allready got the picture. And mostly he makes people to swear a lot. Like people, so do countries start to gather extra supplies. More money is gathered from people who anyway have only bare minimum to manage. Countries also start to gather extra weaponry. Well, you never know when these may come handy.

Some of these who have suffered because of the Unknown Future, think of it as the most modern thing let out of the Pandora's Box, but it ain't so. It was in the world much earlier, and actually last time when at the year of 1978 ordinary english entrepreneur named Peter found the above mentioned box, he suddenly felt the panic. He never touched the box and called to police that someone left a bomb alike object in his not very successful restaurant. About an quarter of hour later bombsquad took the object. No-one knows of what happened with it later. Yet, known is that Peter bought a gun and started to gather petroleum, batteries, rice and salted meat. Soon his business went into bankruptcy. Peter saw no hope anymore and shot his brains out with his brand new rifle.

Also no-one exactly knows of Unknown Future's whereabouts, but here and then people still say that he had again got someones soul, someones love,.. hope, money, time.. future.

Aeg on õpetus

Enamiku kreeklaste jaoks ei omanud aeg suurt tähtsust. Minevikus toimunut ülistati ja tulevik usaldati jumalate juhatusse. Seepärast oli nende jaoks kõige olulisem igapäeva elu, mille osaks oli ka jumalate austamine sooviga, et samasugune kohtlemine siis ka jumalate poolt inimestele osaks saaks. Oli aga üks märkimisväärne erand. Noormees nimega Kleion, kes koolis käies erinevalt teistest nägi tuleviku olulisust. Talle tundus, et kreeka rahva ja kultuuri saatust ei saa jätta jumalate kätte, kellel olid alati omavahelised probleemid ja afäärid. Kreeklased tundusid Kleioni meelest jumalatele teisejärgulisena ja tulevik tundus küllaltki tume.

Üha enam oma mõtetesse vajunud Kleion muretses varsti nii palju, et unustas isegi söömise, mistõttu ta lõpuks ära suri. Sel ajal kui inimesed üritasid selle veidra poisi unustada ja teised jumalad vaidlesid, kas Kleioni koht oleks Elüseumi väljadel või allmaailmas, otsustas aja valitseja, titaan Kronos, kuuldes Kleioni surma põhjusest, ta hoopis uuele elule äratada. Kronos teadis kreeklaste tulevikku, nende tõusu Aleksandri juhtimisel, allajäämist Rooma leegionitele ja sellele järgnevat allumist Bütsantsile ning türklastele, viimaks aga ka taas iseseisvaks saamist. Ta andis Kleionile endale valida tema uue elu aja. Kleion kuulanud lühidalt tuleviku kohta, soovis uuesti ellu ärgata aastal 1821, kui Kreeka taas vabaks saab. Ta arvas, et pärast pikka võõrvõimu saavad ka ülejäänud kreeklased temast paremini aru. Kui Kleion oli aga mõnda aega elanud selles uues maailmas, kus isegi vanad jumalad olid sootuks unustatud, nägi ta järsku, et inimene ei saa liiga palju tuleviku peale mõelda. Hoolimata selest, millist tulevikku jumalad pakuvad, on elu siiski suures osas sama ja inimese jaoks on kõige tähtsam siiski oma elu võimalikult väärtuslikult elada. Just väärtuslikult elatud elu loob ka väärt tuleviku. See oligi Kronose õppetund oma surelikule austajale.

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Mu õel oli koolis jäetud koju ülesanne kirjutada Vana-Kreeka müüte järele aimates jutt. Ehk siis midagi õpetlikku või midagi seletavat. Kindlasti peaks seal olema ka müütilisi olendeid või jumalaid ja muidugi kangelaslikkus või ohvrimeelsus peaks sinna juurde käima. "Et siis peab rahvajutu fabritseerima", ütlesin mina. Teate küll rahvajutte - keegi täpselt ei tea autorit, liigub suust suhu, ühe mälust teise pähe, kuni keegi selle üles kirjutab. Ütleme siis nii, et see eelnenud jutt ringles juba mõnda aega inimeste vahel, kuni õde selle lõpuks lihtsalt üles kirjutas.. kahjuks on autor kõigi mälust kadunud;)

My version of how i came to this planet

Through the infinite space flew a little rocket with little weird being in it. He was sent to planet Earth to study local cultures and teach earthlings back some important things about their possible future. Having really carefully chosen his landing site, he started the descent, but was suddenly intercepted by air vehicles of one of the planets leading countries. So great was their fear of unknown that they shot the little rocket down. Luckily, shots had damaged only guiding thrusters and the weird little being finaly made an succesful emergency landing. He found himself to be in a little country called by its inhabitants to be Eesti (Estonia). Had he only knew how cold and dark it gets there in wintertimes. Anyway, There was this local female highly interested of what this stranger is doing there. Hey, waved weird little being, and decided to propose peace and an alliance, and ask if this female would take him to the most important person of the planet. But there was some misunderstandings in translations when weird little being learned the Earth's languages at home. Instead of proposing what he intended, he asked if that female human would accept him as a son and take him to her home. At first weird little being didn't understand that he had made a mistake and instead of leading him to any governing person, was taken to the ordinary box in where the humans normally live. Then he thought that the female was trusted with the important job of offering alien ambassador his quick temporary housing. But days became months, and months became years, without any word from any higher rank mammal. And then he realised.. ahh, what a bummer!