Think Or Be Eaten

Arrogance. It's curable.

2011-11-07T12:40:00.000-08:00

American politicians. Israeli politicians.
Rabid oxymoronic pro-war Christians.
Rabid self-superior anti religion Atheists.
Rabid pro-Zionist anti everyone else Jews.
Cold blooded Conservatives. Pointless Democrats.
Deviant Republicans.
Privately Owned Senators. Check toting Lobbyists.
Corporate Monopoly Media. Corporate Media Whores.
Idiotic Authoritarians.
The Politically Correct.
Corrupt Capitalists. Corrupt Militarists.
Corrupt Nationalists. Fascists. The War and Death cults.
Free Marketeers and all unhinged Ideologues.
The filthy rich. The investment class. The Fed. Wall Street.
Big Insurance. Big Credit. Big Banking. Big Business.
Big Carbon-Total Control One Worlders.
National Security.
The TSA. The FBI. The DEA. ICE. The CIA. The IRS.
The completely insane Pentagon superstars.
The shameful State Department upper crust.
The militarized "shoot first and ignore questions later" Police.
The sadistic Criminal Justice and Prison Systems.
Unaccountable Private Security Forces.
Loony over the top Swat Teams.
Superstar Generals. Superstar Clergy. Superstar Economists.
Twisted Lawyers. Bought off Judges, Jurors, Politicians,
Experts, CEO's, Doctors, Scientists, Professors, Journalists.
Organized Legalized Criminals.
Official Terrorists. Official Torturers. Official kidnappers.
Marketing, Advertising and PR Firms.
Hollywood's dreck delivery systems.

WILL THESE PEOPLE EVER SHUT UP?

Can't they just go away and leave us in peace?
Because here is the truth and the bottom line: The whole lot of these nonstop loud mouths are arrogant, self serving, and selfish; and when combined as they are today in their incessant orchestrated cacophony of bull pucky, they are RESPONSIBLE IN FULL for ALL of the gargantuan problems bringing this country to the literal brink of total destruction.

What is wrong with these people?

What would it take to make them sit down and shut up?
What would it take to make them understand that
everything in the world is not all about them?
What would it take to make them see how obnoxious and destructive they are?

What would it take?

Do these people not have any sense at all of what is right and what is wrong? Or are they so self worshiping that all they can see is themselves and all they can think about is what they want and all they can hear is their own bloviating voices?

Would it kill any of these people to just one time, stop and think about what it's like to be on the receiving end of their arrogance and blindness and viciousness? Would it kill them? Really? Lord knows we don't want them to die. We DO want them to knock it off and start acting like reasonable, moral adult human beings with a conscience because frankly America as well as the whole of this world is beyond sick to death of them all and their endless, insane drivel and addiction to violence.

Please. You people of the above-mentioned categories, shut up.
It is way past time for you to feel inconsolably ashamed of yourselves. It is way past time for you to face yourselves in the mirror and see what the whole rest of the world sees in you.
Just because you're so sure your way is right doesn't make it so.
You are wrong about so many things.
In fact, the whole lot of you are more wrong
than you've ever been right.
That you've ever been right at all is debatable.

When are you going to be done terrorizing and destroying our country and the rest of the world?

When are you going to be finished crushing people for no reason other than you want to?

When will you be done destroying justice?
Stealing people blind?
Turning the constitution into a faded memory
in the name of God and country?
Selling our country out from under our feet?

When are you going to be done feasting on the flesh of children and violating human dignity?

When exactly will you be through poisoning, hating, beating, imprisoning, torturing and killing people you don't happen to like?

Exactly how many more bombs will it take getting dropped on how many more people before you lot can finally call it a day and go on home?

America and people all over the world want your answers to those questions.

Because what you're doing is wrong.
And we want you to stop.
What you are doing doesn't work
and you should have faced it by now.
You have cost us uncountable trillions.
You have cost us even more in things that are beyond price.

We refuse to pay for your self-serving escapades anymore.
And don't you dare attack Iran, don't you dare start one more war. Don't you dare!

We don't like your value system.
We are not interested in living down on our knees to you,
or paving your personal streets in gold,
or keeping you in luxurious quarters,
or bleeding under the violence of your billy clubs,
or your bombs,
or choking on the smoke of your tear gas canisters,
or living in fear under your nosy surveillance systems,
or your personal data collection or digital eavesdropping,
or dying because of your corruption.
Come up with the cash yourself boys, we're not picking up your tabs anymore.

Why should we?
What's in it for us?
When have we benefited from anything you have done and continue to do?
Where is the return on our investment?
There is no return.
Then we must withdraw our money.
It's only common sense.
Which of you capitalists would do otherwise?
You are totally out of control.

We don't know you people.

You claim to be unaccountable to the people
which only proves how lost you have become.

We don't want or need what you are doing. Not in America, not anywhere else in the world.
The truth of the matter is that a rather large number of you folks should be behind prison bars for the rest of your lives. And you know who you are.

There are other people standing by to take the wheel.
Qualified people. Sane people.
People who don't agree that violence is the answer to all questions.
People who don't think it is too much to ask to know what those who take our paychecks are up to.
People who know that official secrecy is cover for official crimes.
People who know what is right, and what is wrong.
People who don't play obscene favorites.
People who put life before money.
People whose values and morals are in order.
People who know that killing is wrong.
People who can see all sides without taking one.
That is what we need. That is what we want.
That is not what you do.

You've got the money and power disease. You are sick with greed and sadism and arrogance.
The only known cure is humility.
Develop some.

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What I Have Found

2011-09-16T18:12:00.000-07:00

It was somewhere around 2004 that I first ran across David Icke online. Someone had posted a video of one of his day-long slide presentations at a theater in England. It was just him up on a stage talking to a full house of people listening intently to his every word.

I started to watch it and was immediately engrossed in what he was saying. He was saying what I was seeing. He was making sense. He was stringing together all of the pieces like beads on a necklace and revealing how they were all connected.

I was so excited. At last, here was somebody talking about the things I was trying so hard to gain insight about. I had done the rounds and never found anything that felt real to me. It was a waste of time going to political web sites, especially the supposedly popular ones. All they did was go around and around and manufacture tangled plates of talk spaghetti. They accomplished nothing. They provided no insights. It was a great big endless taffy pull of 'he said - she said' and upholding the same viewpoints and framing of officialdom and big media. It all stayed on the same mainstream acre and never strayed off it. David Icke swerved all the way off it. He was coming at it from a completely different angle.

The first four hours of that video had me riveted. It was straight facts, history, and connecting the dots. I was starving for it. Here was someone who had some answers. I felt so gratified and was not going to budge until I saw the whole thing. At the end of the fourth hour he told the audience it was time for a lunch break and to go eat something and be back for the next part in an hour.   I took fifteen minutes and then fired up the next segment. Everything was going great, then all of a sudden he started talking about lizard people. I will never forget how I felt. I was absolutely livid. I jumped to my feet in outrage. It was some kind of sick joke. The guy had made a fool out of me. I was sorry I'd ever had the misfortune to run across this stupid video. I shut it off and walked away.

I went back to sifting through all kinds of things looking for clues, and reading everything I could get my hands on. I had a lot of catching up to do. I was keeping track of what was happening day to day with the absolute intent of knowing who all those people were in congress by name and by face. I was going to watch them and listen to them until I personally knew who they were. At the same time I was going backward in history to understand a great many events I'd heard of but didn't honestly know a thing about. Iran Contra, the Kennedy assassinations, the first Iraq war, Colombian drug lords, senators dying in plane crashes, the Franklin Scandal, the CIA, black ops, false flags, Operation Gladio, Operation Mockingbird, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kent State, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Pan Am/Lockerbie. The list goes on and on. It was pretty damned awful finding out what a bunch of lying, murderous, corrupt men had always been smiling in our faces while doing unspeakable things behind our backs. I was finding out real things, true things that most people didn't know and it was double damned awful finding out that telling friends about them made me lose all of my friends. They reacted to me as if I had gone over the edge and they were very impatient with me. They didn't want to hear it. To them I was sadly misinformed and too dull-witted to know how wrong I was. Or just plain crazy.

It was tough going at the time. The whole country was in the most terrifying pro-Bush fervor. Nobody would dare say anything that sounded like they had a problem with what Bush was doing. The few that did got served up to the likes of O'Reilly who cut them open and tore their still beating hearts out in order to spit on them. Dissent was unpatriotic and any who doubted the 9-11 story or were against the horror and crime of the Iraq war were nothing but scum. It was really vicious. It was the first time in my life I was ever truly afraid. I was afraid of my own government. People who disagreed were in danger, that much was clear. You had to watch what you said and who you said it to because many people, including long time friends, were becoming every bit as bad as O'Reilly and every bit as insane.

Combing through leads on the internet and reading from good sources who proved themselves still left a hole where media used to be. I wanted to listen to informed opinion, to hear other perspectives. The media was being torn down. Professional journalists were let go, newspapers bought out, international news offices completely disappeared. There was one perspective on every channel and war was good, the government guys were honest and trustworthy, arresting people for what it said on their tee-shirt was good, and the Patriot Act was patriotic. No photos of flag covered coffins were ever seen and we'd for sure find those WMD's eventually. It was an information crisis. There was no information. And the government was allowing media conglomeration like nothing I'd ever dreamed could happen. I found Robert McChesney and watched "Orwell Rolls In His Grave".   I saw "The Corporation" and Danny Schecter's "Weapons of Mass Deception" on the spin about the Iraq war.

I read Alex Constantine's investigative article on aspartame and immediately gave up "diet" soft drinks and sugarless gum. Found Betty Martini and Dr. Russell Blaylock and knew I'd never get another annual flu shot. Haven't caught a cold or annual flu bug since. Alex Constantine's piece on the Presidio child care nightmare introduced me to the stomach turning world of ritual abuse and pedophilia and the usual protection of the wicked by the media and officialdom.

Then I found Jeff Rense. He has covered a heck of a lot of ground and his archives are a great place to get lost in. Jeff Rense gave anybody a chance to have their say, even when they were totally loony. And to his credit, Jeff Rense remains a consummate professional with all of his guests. He is never rude. He never attacks them. He does not go for anyone's throat. He honestly tries to be objective though sometimes he's not any better at it than the rest of us. That's okay. He's allowed. Jeff Rense's show has drawn back the curtains on a great many things. He deserves credit for his hard work, and I give it to him.

I found Alex Jones and watched his earliest videos. He was definitely onto something. He didn't make anything up. I'd never heard of him before. The first show I listened to was an interview he'd done with a big time lawyer whose name escapes me; who was coming out with some insider information about official crimes. He seemed to be telling the truth. If what he was saying was true, and it appeared to be true, he was taking quite a risk. I think he's dead now. That happens a lot I've noticed. I took in Alex Jones' show each morning for several months. This was well before he went pseudo mainstream, and being so new to this kind of information I found it hard to blame him when he'd hit the wall. I absolutely give him credit due for shining lights on dark places, but about the time of his first "big" movie it was time to move along. Can I use the word "spazz" without it being a criticism? Because I don't need to criticize the man. It was just time for me to go.

I found Air America and Randy Rhodes and Mike Malloy, but Air America went down the bunny hole. Not much of a loss. I did find Mike Malloy again and hung onto him for dear life for a good while. I feel sincere gratitude for his being such a decent, real man with his values in sound order. He hated war and killing and he talked about Israel and Palestine. He referred to the Bush regime as "the Bush crime family". He was so kind that he took personal emails and answered them too. He even mentioned my very first web site on his show and I got thousands of hits. First class human being Mike Malloy. God love him. And his Kishka Polka too.

I bought Mae Brussel's radio archives and went to sleep at night listening to them.

Maria Heller. Greg Szymanski. Black Ops Radio. Radical Radio. Ralph Schoenman. Dave Emory. Red Ice. Guns and Butter. Freedomain Radio. TUC radio with Maria Gillardin (who irritates the crap out of me because first she tells you what the speaker is going to say and then he comes on and says it and then she immediately comes back and tells you what the speaker just said. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else but it drives me up the wall).   Coast to Coast. Jordan Maxwell. Unwelcome Guests. C-SPAN. Indy Media. World Affairs Council. Tons more. I've lost track.   I'll bet Google could give me a complete list of everyone I've read and listened to over the last eight years. By now Google certainly knows more about me than I do. That's not very helpful to me. More perplexing is wondering how it could be of any use to them, or any of their damned business in the first place.

I found newspapers from all over the world. Canada. Australia. England. Ireland. Russia. Germany. India. China. Jerusalem. Countless web sites. Some did mind bending, serious research and quietly put it out there to be found. Some were just places to visit where brilliant people I hadn't found yet were contributors.   Some web sites kept their eyes on corporate badness - congressional bribes, er, campaign donations - war crimes - billions blown on corruption, waste and fraud in Iraq - whistleblowers - and the clumsy inbred thuggery of Bush's second stolen presidential election, to name a tiny few. And then there was a literal explosion of political documentaries coming out and a ravenous public hunger for them. My first web site pbsBlog.com was nothing but pages of links to movies about things we'd never see on TV.

All the while the corporate/military/intelligence/congressional complex was relentlessly bunker busting American freedom and justice. You could not keep up with it. The hostile corporate takeover of America was the real weapon of mass destruction.

Switching through the television channels one day in utter disgust with the dreck and mindlessness of it all, I got all the way up to a little clump of channels in the 9,000 range. I had no idea there was a 9,000 range. These few channels at the end were listed way after the pay movie channels and the pay sports channels and the dozens of radio channels and dozens of foreign language channels in Spanish, Chinese and Hindi. After all that there was a channel for UCTV, and Link TV and Free Speech TV, tucked in-between Mormon TV, Evangelist TV and Catholic TV. Free Speech TV was fundraising. Then Democracy Now came on. I was thrilled.

At the time Democracy Now only had some 130 affiliates picking up the show. It was just Amy Goodman, no Juan. She used to do a War and Peace report where she actually did reporting on the war. Some of it was really good. She reported on things at the other end of our bombs and it was eye opening. I watched it every day. It was quite good for a while but then it went straight down the tubes.

Democracy Now never even mentions the wars anymore. The War and Peace report never mentions war or peace. Fukushima is long forgotten. Nothing of import seems to make it on the air anymore. She won't touch anything of actual relevance with a ten foot pole. And I really don't care if some 93 year old lady who lived a dream life in some creative career making good money has died. Good. Fuck her. I'm glad she's gone. Make room for somebody else. I don't know her. I don't care. It isn't news. I don't care if that sounds terrible, it's beyond ludicrous. I don't want to hear about orgasms or gay marriage or anything having to do with anyone's bodily fluids. It's not news. I don't care. I couldn't care less about incredibly old people finally giving it up after living totally great lives as writers, dancers or 1940's entertainers, having a ball and wanting for nothing. I don't feel sorry for them. I've never heard of them. It's irrelevant. It's not news. Democracy Now is DOA. They also do totally fake news. They're way gone. What else is new? And just once I wish somebody in the media would give us a Spock frown and say that Mexicans comprising over 50 percent of the US population in less than a decade is somewhat of a shock. It is not automatically wonderful and delightful and happiness in every way. Just once I'd like to see an honest discussion on things like this. I'm not holding my breath. I've moved on.

I also found Patriot radio and hung out there for a while. It didn't take long to realize it was a total crock. It's a game show. If anybody thinks they're going to take America back they just don't get it. There is no going back. Nothing ever goes back, it moves ahead, for better or for worse. If anyone thinks they can shoot their way out of this they are very sadly mistaken. Killing your way to happiness is the problem, not a solution.   It's a seduction that keeps people distracted or hopped up on Patriot dreams and heart squeezing tales of our saintly founding fathers. It's all a crock. Very effective way to keep people chasing their own tails and missing the whole point, thereby precluding any interference with the game plan.

I don't know how I found Vyzygoth's Grassy Knoll but it was the first radio broadcast that required me to take notes and do homework. No ads, no incessant breaks for nonstop commercials, just the serious business of getting the picture. His knowledge of history is truly impressive as is his general knowledge base. He brought in a steady stream of interesting people who were into interesting things and discussed things I was clueless about. Hence the notes and homework. It was great. Just what I needed. He had on guys I'd never heard of like Alan Watt and Michael Tsarion and he spoke with victims of organized mind control and horrific ritual abuse. He looked closely at Columbine in an excellent series and the Port Arthur Massacre too. When Dunblane came up I already knew the story. The shootings in Norway will without doubt end up on the same shelf.   The Informer series on law and the constitution was a kick in the stomach not to be missed. His shows on 9/11 pounded the stuffing out of nonsense and skipped the pointless arguments that amount to nothing. Vyzygoth opened a lot of windows.

Alan Watt is warm and soft spoken. He is very informative but in a way that pushes terror and hopelessness. I listened to a lot of his audio before he got on Patriot radio. I don't anymore. I can't take it.

Michael Tsarion is a great speaker and I've watched most of his videos. He is fearless and walks right over sacred cows without apology. His study of history and his take on things parallels David Icke's story of alien beginnings.

It doesn't phase me at all anymore when David Icke talks about lizard people. I don't have to see anyone morph into a serpent to believe it. It's perfectly clear these people are reptiles. In fact I see David Icke's story as much the same as what it says in the bible. You say airplane, I say big silver bird. Could we be talking about the same thing? I believe there is an ultimate truth and I further believe that anyone can find it if they look for it. There are 360 directions to set as starting points. If you and I are both searching for the same thing, and you head to the left and I head to the right, and we spend our lives picking up a trail and becoming one with it...should we really be surprised to see each other when we find what we've been looking for? Would we need to argue over the reality that your journey and my journey were completely different? Could it matter more how we got here than that we have come to the same place? I would throw my arms around you and be very happy to see you there. We would have much more in common than not.

I have dug into all of these things over the last eight years, always against a backdrop of endless and horrible ongoing war.   Now the war is killing ordinary people just like you and me in multiple countries. Average Americans don't know their leaders are seen as barbarians in the eyes of the whole rest of the world. I think they would be truly shocked to realize it. They don't know that American arrogance and disrespect for people in other countries has gone so far for so long that America is now hated. If they were able to see why, they would be heart sick. They don't know how lied to and manipulated they are, or how cut off, brainwashed and fearful they've become. They don't see how their leaders are working so hard to provoke world war three and what a bunch of cold blooded bastards they really are. They don't understand that their own elected officials with an entrenched network of insiders set out to break America's back and incite the world into bloody conflagration that will finally be happening here and not over there. The jobs are gone, the constitution is irrelevant, and the economy is reeling like a drunk about to pass out. None of it by accident; all of it on purpose.

About one year ago, I felt like I had finished a long and complicated crossword puzzle. I put my pencil down. I looked around and saw a lot of other people had finished their crossword puzzles too, some a very long time ago. I could also see that a whole lot of other people were still working on theirs; and a great many others hadn't even gotten started. There was nothing to do but wait for more people to finish. There was nothing left to say. There is no more evidence to drag out and leave in the middle of the road for people to find. All of the individuals and organizations I've mentioned above and many, many more have dug up all the evidence anyone could ever need. The reality of it all is piled up in mountains all around us. Folks trip over the evidence with every step they take. They just can't see it. The moment anyone desires to see it, they will see it. Like the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

So I unplugged from it all and wandered off.

I distracted myself. I sat and hurt. I worried. I felt very alone. I stopped paying attention to the violence and filth and lies that never stop pouring into our consciousness. I did not forget about any of those things, I simply stopped carrying them with me. I know they are there. They aren't mine. I don't control them. They are separate from me. They are not a part of me nor are they joined with me. They are completely foreign to me. If anyone had the power to make it all stop I am sure they would make it all stop.

I also saw that to directly engage the monster only makes it grow stronger. To engage it is to validate it, to validate it is to give it control over us.

I thought about the future and I thought about the present. I saw how hard it is for everybody to find a hole in the ice to poke through for air and to discover that there's a whole other world above the ice. I saw how much I've neglected myself and the price I have to pay for that. I asked myself what I was going to do for the rest of my life and realized I had no idea.

It isn't so easy to get angry at people anymore. I know from my own experience how easy it is to get pulled off course. For a while I was blowing up in a rage over minor things; never at a person only at inanimate things, and I swore my head off and howled like a dang fool. The angrier I got the more I raged, and the more I raged the angrier I got. It was a closed loop of stupidity and pointlessness. There was no satisfaction to be got, only more rage. I would never get to what I needed which was to not feel angry anymore. I decided to not get angry next time. Instead I would laugh. Wish I'd thought of that sooner. I can't recommend it enough.

I have gone from thinking that we have so little left to hold on to, to guide us, to help us find a way out of all this to seeing that what we need to hold onto, to guide us, to help us find our way out of all this is each other. We have all we need. So much struggle and worry and fear when nobody needs it. Nobody wants it. It is all for nothing. It doesn't have to be this way. We can honestly, truly, just let it go. None of it matters. It isn't real. This is not who we are. I know this in a way that I can't put into words.   The static and confusion, the hate and the war, all come from one source: fear. Fear isn't there naturally, it is fully and completely imposed on us. It is a prison. The only way out is to love our way out.

I know. What a horribly hokey thing for me to say. The thing is, it is true.

All that we know to be good has come out of love. No good ever has, or ever will come from any place devoid of love.   It is the most natural thing in the world to respect one another and to have empathy for each other.   It is normal to love our brother, no matter who he is or where he is from.

God help us if we really feel that love is too hokey for us. If love is too hokey to matter, if love is foolishness, if love is mindless emotionalism, then this party is almost over.

The Invisible Realm

2011-08-15T12:26:00.000-07:00

Our bodies are formed from the elements of the Earth, we literally come into physical existence out of the Earth. Where does our consciousness come from?

We know that everything that exists comes from something else that exists. Living things come from other living things each according to its kind. Consciousness then could only come from consciousness.

Is consciousness created during the process of human reproduction? Is it carried by the sperm to the egg or does it already reside inside all those eggs? That doesn't make much sense. Nor is there much reason to believe it.

Consciousness is not a physical thing. It has no physical elements to be constructed out of.   It has no physical structure. No size or weight or depth or breadth. Our minds and souls and dreams are not physical, but they are real. We all have them, know them and experience them. Their existence cannot be denied, even though they cannot be proven to exist. Nonetheless they do exist.

Does the lack of proving they exist mean that they do not exist? Apparently not. It would seem to mean that things can exist whether we can prove it or not.

Nonphysical things exist in nonphysical form. Consciousness comes from consciousness. Isn't it safe then to say that there is a nonphysical realm of conscious existence? And that consciousness comes from it? It would seem to be so. Why are we so reluctant to believe in the existence of a nonphysical realm? Why do we dismiss as absurd or impossible something that is a lot more likely than not?

The nonphysical realm is something quite different than our physical one. It has no physical form. It's not physical.   So where is it? Do nonphysical things need a physical place to exist in? Or do nonphysical things only need a place to exist in a physical realm? If so, when they are not in a physical realm, where are they? Does the idea of "where" even apply to that which is nonphysical? Maybe a better question is when does "where" apply to nonphysical existence?

Oh boy, this is getting confusing. Maybe it doesn't make sense to try to apply physical concepts to a nonphysical realm; to things that we know to exist that we can't prove to exist using physical forms of detection or measurement.

We know our consciousness is here with us. It is not separate from us. Is it alive? Our bodies are alive. No part of our bodies are not alive. Everything in our living body is alive. If any part of our body is dead we are in deep trouble. Unless it is excised we will sicken and die. Consciousness would have to be alive.

Our physical bodies die and return to the Earth. But living consciousness is not physical. How could it die? Where does it go when our bodies die?   "Where" does not apply. It does not die. It doesn't go anywhere. It just is.

It comes from is. It goes to is. It just is.

Well, that can keep you up all night thinking about it. It still won't get you anywhere. There is nowhere to get. There is only is. We are in it. It is all around us. You're soaking in it right now.

We can't find the invisible realm because there is nothing to find. It isn't in a place, it just is.

Are we separate from the realm of living consciousness? Can we be separated from something that has no physical coordinates?

Why do we believe that there is some kind of curtain between us and the nonphysical realm? Is there a veil there? Or is it that our physical bodies cannot enter the realm of the nonphysical?   What would prevent our nonphysical minds from entering that realm? Can our minds even be separated from a place that has no physical coordinates? Isn't that realm in the same place as the rest of living consciousness? No place? It just "is"?

Do we believe that there is a curtain of separation between the physical and the spiritual because we have been told to believe there is?   We are told over and again that there is a curtain that separates us from the invisible. It is a required belief unless we want to be called nuts.

Some people say that there is a place called "the other side".   We go to the other side when we die. Not before. And no one comes back from the other side.

Other people tell us that there is no such thing as "the other side"; that this is all there is. That consciousness is a product of the brain, the ordinary output of a machine. Humanity is an aberration, a hiccup, and so is all life. They say that life has no meaning or purpose. There are no invisible realms. Our existence is merely a random cosmic accident that has no inherent value whatsoever.

Those who believe so would easily accept that nothing that happens here matters. It would therefore not matter what we do to others or to the Earth. There are no such things as wrong or right. Life is not sacred, it is more akin to a virus. It is destined to burn itself out and that will be that. It's no surprise that those who preach this belief see no problem with any kind of ghastly genetic experimentation and wouldn't see anything wrong with eliminating most or all of the human species. If nothing has meaning then nothing matters. Do what you will. What else is there to do?

My own analysis finds that belief much harder to accept as true than the existence of an invisible realm of living consciousness. Far too many people from all walks of life and from all over the world and over thousands of years have given accounts of experiences with an invisible realm. How many of us have had personal experiences of things that cannot be explained according to the supposed rules of the physical world we live in? I have had a few of those experiences myself and I know without a doubt they were real.

It is far from unusual for people to become aware of inexplicable things because of seeing, hearing, feeling or sensing something that is not a part of the accepted order of physical law. People have had a lot of nonphysical reality experiences and have come back to tell us about them. Near death experiences are often reports of experiences in a nonphysical realm. Many people have seen ghosts. Many have heard voices from nowhere; have even recorded voices that nobody heard at the time of being recorded. These are not rare or unusual events, they are incredibly common. How many more millions of such unexplained events would it take to begin wondering if there is something there to look at? What actually can justify not looking at them when they are so consistent and voluminous?

Something about this seems strangely suspicious to me.   It is not a position of reason to insist there is nothing there. That is a position of unreason. It is a position of reason to study what people are reporting. It would be reasonable to consider some things differently.

The physical world won't provide us with answers to our questions about nonphysical things or tell us what happens to us when we die. Our invisible selves are obviously very real. There is an invisible realm. Do we come from it and go back to it like our physical bodies come from the Earth and go back to the Earth? Can we go back and forth in the invisible realm at will? Don't we live in it? Can we even be separated from it?

Could it be that we once knew all of this stuff and somehow have forgotten it almost completely?   So much so that we don't even know that there is an invisible realm of living consciousness, much less that we have anything to do with it? Have we been made to forget how to live in both realms while we're here? Have we been made to forget how to access the source of living consciousness?

Why do the hierarchies of power and control over our lives insist that there is no truth to notions of invisible realms? No life after death? No spirits? No God?   No universe teeming with all manner of life forms all around us? We once could not see the microscopic life forms that teem all over us, around us and in us until we got the microscope. But they were there. Why wouldn't there be more things all around us that we aren't able to see? Wouldn't it be more likely than not?

In spite of tens of millions of people whose direct personal experience has shown them that there is without doubt much more to our existence than meets the eye, why the continued insistence that it's only nonsense? When consciousness cannot be proven to exist although we know it does, why is it foolish to already know that there is more than this physical existence? Isn't the foolishness in insisting otherwise?

For whatever reasons we are urged to believe that there is no invisible realm, there clearly is one. Why are we told to not believe what we already know is true? I have a feeling that the answer to that question is far more interesting than we might think.   "The Unexplained" is not all that unexplainable. What really is unexplainable is the adamant insistence that there is nothing there when we know there is.

The Most Dangerous Fundamentalist Extremists In The World

2011-08-06T18:31:00.000-07:00

If you want to find the real radical true believers, the real plotters of government takeovers, the real bomb setting terrorists, the real haters of our freedom, the real killers of countless innocent people, then you'll need to look away from all of the usual places. It's not the Muslims. It's not the Christians. It's not the Jews. It's not any organized religion that you're aware of, yet it is the most powerful religion in the world. It is the religion of Doing Business.

Muslims, Christians and Jews have the same basic human values. They all believe in the sanctity of life. Life comes first. Protecting, nurturing and saving lives is held as the most important thing. Life is precious. Life is a miracle. Everything is done around and in support of life.

But we ordinary people have very different values than the fundamental believers in Doing Business. Some who believe in the religion of Doing Business share these values too, but I'm not talking about them. The ones I'm talking about are the dangerous extremists who believe that you can kill your way to happiness and they make it a regular part of Doing Business. When they Do Business people get hurt.

Radical fundamentalist believers in Doing Business talk about all of the same values as we have and claim to hold them as their own, but there is one big difference that makes their value system a complete inversion of ours. That difference is the order of their values, what they hold in the highest esteem and will protect no matter what it takes. To these fundamentalist fanatics, the reason and purpose of life is Doing Business. Doing Business is the highest good. Doing Business is doing God's work. Doing Business always comes first. Doing Business is the answer to all problems. Doing Business will set the world free.

This isn't economics, this is hardcore whacko fundamentalist religious belief. These are the most dangerous people in the world. They terrorize humanity and don't see a thing wrong with anything they do. They will always place Doing Business above protecting human life. Above protecting the environment. Above human rights. Above safety. Above human decency. Above justice. Above the law. Above common sense. Above freedom and democracy. None of those things will ever be allowed to stand in the way of Doing Business. Not anymore than you would be willing to let anything get between you and your religious beliefs.

For the radical true believers in Doing Business the fervor and excitement of Doing Business is all that matters. Doing business is everything. They love Doing Business. It is all they want to do. It is all they think about. It is all they care about. Everything else is unimportant. They're not necessarily pernicious although they may be, but they are disconnected from anything that is not about Doing Business. They're not aware of anything beyond Doing Business. They believe that this world belongs to them and everything and everyone in it is either here to be exploited or it is in the way.

When you're doing business and something gets in the way, you find a way to get it out of the way. You have to get it out of the way or just plain get rid of it so that you can go on Doing Business. And if what you have to get rid of is some other country's leaders who believe that protecting, enriching and defending life comes first instead of Doing Business, then you do some business to have them taken out. You don't feel bad about doing this, it is how business is done. When you do business you bring prosperity wherever you go and that means you are God's gift to this world. Any who stand in the way of God's work are evil so removing evil-doers from the earth makes the world a safer and better place. You are absolutely entitled to destroy whoever and whatever is in your way, it is your God given right. This is the same self-excusing logic that all fundamentalist extremist religious whack-jobs believe. It is exactly the same thing.

Now not all the true believers in the religion of Doing Business are actually all that delighted about killing people. Many of them find it distasteful and ugly, and sad even. They would be truly hurt to be called heartless and uncaring. They would be outraged at being called terrorists or war criminals. They would say they feel sad when hundreds or thousands of indigenous farmers or peasants or modern city dwellers are killed or displaced and are suffering, starving or being tortured or blasted into bits by bombs and bullets and so forth. They would say nobody enjoys seeing ravaged dead bodies, of course it bothers them to see that. It gives them no pleasure, they are not beasts. But when they are trying to do business, to save the world through Doing Business, and people fight them, it must be dealt with. It's nothing personal. It's just Doing Business.

When they are trying to Do Business in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere in the world and there are civilian casualties, this is a normal, reasonable and expected cost of Doing Business. The military, which Does Business as it's primary function, calls it collateral damage. That makes it all right. It's not like they wanted innocent civilians to get killed, it is that it simply can't be helped sometimes. The military is there to Do Business and the deaths of innocent people is one of the unfortunate costs of war. War is Doing Business. Since Doing Business is the most important thing, since it is the highest and noblest good, it is not wrong when innocent people die.

This is not an exception to the rules of Doing Business it is a basic rule. This rule is in place all around us, it is common practice in every big corporate entity and plenty of small ones too.

Like when miners die in mine collapses because the mine owners refused to spend the money to make it safe for people to work in there, you and I would find that inexcusable and reprehensible.

Or when tons of contaminated "No regulations" peanut butter horribly sickens or kills dozens of kids and adults and the peanut butter plant is not closed down or even fined after it gets inspected and is found to be teeming with scary health and safety hazards.

Or when airlines know about dangerous mechanical problems that need to be fixed, but they don't fix them because they don't want to spend the money or lose revenues by taking airplanes out of service long enough to make the planes safe; then a plane crashes and hundreds of people die. You and I would see that as a preventable plane crash that should never have happened and we would be furious. When you're doing business, you don't see things as you and I see things.

Here is how it goes in the corporate value system. Take the example of the preventable airplane crash. When executive officers are made aware of necessary safety enhancements the first thing they do is call their accountants. The accountants crunch the figures on the costs of these safety enhancements. They take everything into consideration, not just parts, not just labor, but downtime too because when a business has downtime, it is not Doing Business.

When the final costs are determined the accountants present the executives with the information. Regardless of the amount, the executives will also want to know how much it would cost them if they do not do the enhancements and there is a plane crash that destroys an airplane and kills everyone on board. The executives call their legal team to determine the amount of payments they'd have to make after the lawsuits that would be waged against the airline for the wrongful deaths of loved ones.

Because the airplane is insured, losing a plane is not that big a deal especially if it is nearing retirement. There would be some loss of revenue until the airplane could be replaced and put into service. There is also some cost associated with PR and damage control, and legal costs are considered but since they have in-house lawyers those costs are minimal too. Those costs are totaled and added to the total amount of the lawsuit payouts.

Now the projected cost of doing the repairs is compared to the projected cost of a plane crash. If it costs more to make the repairs to the fleet than it would cost to lose a plane and make survivor payouts then the right thing to do is obvious. Don't make the repairs. Keep those planes flying. Letting a few planes crash is cheaper. It's just good business. It would be silly to do otherwise. Doing Business is the highest good. Lives lost are a secondary consideration.

That is the way it is. It is standard business procedure. It is not shocking. It is not bizarre. It is the norm. Companies will always tell you that everything they sell you is safe, that it is what they say it is, that it does what they say it does and when what you get is not what they said it would be you simply cannot be surprised. On the contrary, when you get what you pay for then you can be surprised.

Tired of constantly paying for a new cell phone because they break all the time? DVD and MP3 players that croak after a few months or are DOA in the box? Why is this so common and why don't they get their shit together? Well, here's why. After manufacturing a thousand electronic devices if a company suddenly realizes the design has a defect and the devices are more than likely to fail, they are not going to trash them and start over. They are also not going to stop and go back and take the time to replace the known defective parts. Not all of the devices have those defective parts, maybe half or less. They are going to ship them to stores and deal with customer complaints later. That's why.

Three thousand people a year die in this country from food poisoning. Fifty million people a year in this country get food poisoning and survive. Removing the dang regulations to prevent all that food poisoning was just good business. When a production run of baby food tests with a too high level of some contaminant or another, they might not pull it. They'll find out how contaminated it is first and unless it's ebola strength instant death they'll just ship it out to stores. They know how unlikely it is that food poisoning, serious illness or death will be able to be tracked back to the source. If it happens they'll deal with it then. Who cares? They have a business to run.

Despicable? Yes. Rare? Unfortunately, no. This is true with defective tires on cars, toxic dyes in clothing, lead in toys, poisonous fumes in carpets and paint, the list is literally endless.

The FDA routinely approves drugs that they know are killing people. A new tablet for indigestion causes a certain percentage of people to have a heart attack and die. They know this before the first box ships. It's been calculated three ways from sundown exactly how many people will die, how many people will suffer permanent heart damage, kidney damage, liver damage, etc., and out of those how many reports from physicians will be filled out and sent back to them. Those reports are how they do clinical drug trials now by the way. They know only about ten percent of serious adverse reactions to drugs get reported back to them. Everything is on their side. It will take a very long time and tens of thousands of deaths before physicians themselves begin talking to each other and comparing notes and figuring out that the drug is killing people. Time is still on the drug makers side because so few of the victims will be alive to sue them over it. When the drug company is finally accused of killing people again they just deny it and walk away. The few really determined victims families and injured survivors who can somehow drag BigPharma into court will still have to fight a long uphill battle against a company that has more money than God.

To the drug company, it really doesn't hurt a bit. They are making so much money selling people drugs they know do damage and cause death that it's not even funny. Who's going to stop them?

And folks all drugs do some damage, that's just reality, not a news flash, a fact doctors knew back in the 1940's and people in general have always known. When you ingest anything that is not food there will be a downside.

The bottom line is there is nothing whatsoever standing in the way of drug companies putting out anything they want. No matter what happens they will get rich. And the FDA is there to support Doing Business, not to look out for you.

Dead mouse in a soda can? A rat in your KFC box? Duh. You have no idea what you may have eaten and never knew. It's only when it's obvious enough to see it that you'd ever have a chance to know. They know. It happens. So what? What are you going to do about it? Nothing. They are home free. Every once in a blue moon somebody will take one of these huge corporations to court and win but it ain't easy. And the media without exception portrays the injured American as a money grubbing slime ball and the corporation as the victim.

The examples of these kinds of things are voluminous beyond number. But you get the idea. It's not the exception, it is the rule.

Now back to the subject at hand. Here's the point. In case anyone out there hasn't noticed it yet, the most extreme, the most radical, the most insanely pious devotees of Doing Business have managed to take over our government. They go way beyond rat droppings in your cupcakes. These people are insane. Their religious zealotry and idealism has been bunker-bustered into the hallowed halls of the federal government through all three branches. Their doctrine is being taught in colleges and universities as economics even though it flies in the face of long held and proven standard economic theory and practice. Their economics are faith based, not evidence based. These guys are the penultimate believers in Doing Business.

In the year 2000 this faith based economic system became our official state religion. Executive level government employees who refused to convert were dismissed from their careers and replaced by true believers. Jobs weren't given based on merit, but on true belief and willingness to serve. Dedicated, experienced government workers who had upheld the fair and honest business practices that kept things honest and reasonably accountable got laid off.

Lawyers and lobbyists worked hard to support Doing Business, and the congress turned into a whore house of business deals and business gifts like free trips to European Golf vacations and corporate jets. Lobbyists handed out checks from people Doing Business to our elected representatives on the floor of congress, on live TV, as if it was perfectly normal and not criminal bribery. Our process of government was shamelessly bought and sold in acts of Doing Business as we watched in disbelief and horror.

Those first four years were the moment the church of Doing Business had prayed for all their lives. The believers were in ecstasy. Their arrogance and hubris beamed from their grinning faces. God was behind them all the way and they knew it was true because God was rewarding the followers of the scriptures of Doing Business with staggering profits and wealth. Their taxes were slashed and slashed again, all regulations were swept away, fraud was named a fair business practice and not a crime. At last they were free to live the American Dream and prosper and Do Business with all the stops pulled out. Anything goes, and indeed, everything is gone. To the radical true believers the world was being saved right before their delirious eyes; they saw themselves as heroes and prophets, men amongst the most favored of God. "Our children will sing songs about us".

The holy doctrine of Doing Business was jack-hammered into every department of government and Doing Business while those of us out here who do not believe in their strange religion felt sickened and horrified by the systematic destruction being wrought before our eyes, before the eyes of the whole world. These crusading zealots were and still are on a mission, one they worked hard to get started for many years. Now they have America in their hands and they are going to convert it, no matter what it takes, by force if necessary. They have Business To Do in the Middle East and they wasted no time pushing America into war. They told us it would take six weeks and pay for itself and the people there would shower our troops with flowers. But it was just the beginning of Total War, endless war, and with any luck, a world war of biblical proportion. That was the plan they wrote and published a year prior, and it was God's work.

Here on homeland soil, George W. Bush had his own To Do list to accomplish. One of the earliest items he began to preach was globalization, public/private partnerships, privatization which all mean the same thing. Doing Business by selling off public land, public resources and everything we think of as ours to rich people Doing Business all over the world. They've sold pretty much everything including our rights and our prosperity and our freedom and our health, the list is too long to mention here. Surrounded by ebullient, applauding true believers of his doctrine, the Patron Saint of Profit quickly blessed the torrential storm of contracting out to private business what the government is there to do. He privatized as much of what the government does as he could, including the most sensitive and top secret things as well as the defense of our nation. Why do those things ourselves when we can Do Business and pay contractors exponentially more for doing work that we can't check or keep track of or verify? It was brilliant and perfect and great for America he told us. The truest believers wanted to shrink the size of the government down where it would be small enough to drown it in a bathtub.

You wouldn't think it would be much of a surprise that with each passing year of his term in office, more and more Americans hated what he was doing. They hated the corruption. They hated the lies, the manipulation, the insulting religiosity and attack dog mentality of Bush supporting republicans. They were shameless and without conscience. They were out of control. They were doing incalculable damage and somehow his followers couldn't see anything wrong. But objective and ordinary working class people were getting screwed and abused and ripped off and lied to and thrown under the bus and they knew everything about it was wrong. The congress people who had rolled out the red carpet to these corrupt, insane zealots made America sick. The 2006 congressional elections made it perfectly clear. Congress people were thrown out of there in droves.

The zealots couldn't believe it. They were completely taken by surprise to find out that they weren't our dearest heroes who we adored and admired and agreed with. We saw them as criminals and scum and they were sincerely shocked. But it didn't matter that we didn't want what they had to offer, and it didn't matter that we threw that batch out and put a new one in. Nothing changed. Nothing at all. It didn't even change when the whole republican party was thrown out the back door and spit on and told to go away and never come back. In fact after Obama took office things got worse and haven't stopped getting worse. The zealots never went away. They stayed out of sight just long enough to regroup and repackage the same message in a different way that people wouldn't recognize. Tea Party, people would support that. They want a Tea Party really bad. They want change they can believe in. These people were going to give us everything we wanted. They were not going to stop doing God's work no matter what the people want. The more angry the people get the more the zealots dig in.

The War on Terror has morphed into more creative expressions of doing God's work, now including the terrible threat of terrorists that come from right here at home. Especially dangerous are those who are not in alignment with their radical religious beliefs, their political views, and even their personal opinions. Millions of Americans have been secretly investigated and their names added to lists of suspected terrorists and those people can no longer get on an airplane. Last time I looked it was nearing one million names. Today they have to feel everyone's tits and crotch at the airport in order to keep us safe.

Fundamentalist extremist whack-jobs have driven America well into the belly of their beast. That belly is sacred too, by law. Anyone who doesn't agree with them is considered a likely terrorist. We live in a police state. Police no longer need warrants. We are no longer free. We are openly at war in at least four countries and secretly killing people in over 70 more countries. If these people don't like you, wherever you are, they're doing the business required to take you out. America is brain dead and only a respirator is keeping the body warm. We need a miracle.

So when these people say that the human needs of Americans are superfluous and public money spent on health, education and human needs is wild and frivolous spending, they aren't kidding. Those who can't find jobs should not be rewarded with unemployment checks, they need to get up and Do Business. Those who cannot afford health care need to shut up and go Do Business. Old people are worthless and don't deserve anything. Doing anything to help those who do not Do Business is just plain evil. Social security is evil. Medicare is evil. Negotiating for lower prices for essentials is evil. Unions are evil. Taxpayers do not deserve to receive the benefit that comes of paying taxes. The most deserving recipients of tax benefits are those who are Doing Business. And the more successful and prosperous they are at Doing Business, the more they deserve the abundant rewards from our tax coffers.

Those who are unemployed, underemployed, elderly, disabled, sick, young or students are not doing anything to deserve benefits from the government. These are the people who deserve to bear the costs and tax burdens of the most prosperous, and so they are. When the big banks blew all of our hard earned money gambling in con games for the rich, the government proclaimed they were too big to fail and gave them trillions of dollars while Americans got kicked out of their homes. To them this was noble and compassionate, for these big banks had Done Business in a big way for a long time and now in a moment of need they deserved to be helped.

To put this in a slightly different perspective for the sake of contrasting the idiocy, imagine people coming to control of our government who had this same kind of over-the-top belief in and love of football, and their vision was a world of pro football stadiums holding pro football games in exclusion of everything else. Nothing else mattered. Everybody just needed to get up and get out there on that pro football field and play with everything they've got and all of the world's problems will be solved.   The fact that grandma can't even get out on the field and shouldn't have to doesn't matter to them. There is no room in their radical vision for any deviation. It is this or it is nothing. If you can't play pro football you don't count. You're out. Nobody cares about you. That would cut out roughly half of America on the basis that we have babies, children, pregnant mothers, sick people, injured people, disabled people, students, people in hospitals, old people and people important to us who don't do mainstream things at all, like artists, writers, film makers, poets and spiritual leaders. But still, out of the remaining half of the people, how many would honestly have a chance of success out on their playing field with all of their insiders, important connections, huge dollars and humungous pro players who can easily play pro football and win? Are we really going to send pregnant women and people in wheelchairs out there? How about kindergartners?

The whole world cannot be about just one thing that some group of guys decide everybody else has to believe in as much as they do. That is the definition of insanity. It makes no sense. It is impossible. Plus it is just really really creepy. But that's what selfish, arrogant radical extremists believe and they don't care who doesn't like it.   They decide they are right and you are wrong by decree. You don't get to have your own side. To them there is no other side. They are not sane or reasonable people. They have no respect for the vast majority of the people in this world because very few people are able to get up on their private, exclusive playing field and join their game. And very few people are willing to give up what they love and believe in to redo the world in the vision of insane people who hate everybody who is not what they think everyone should be. That's simple reality. This is not hard. The fundamentalist radical response is that they will create their own reality. Don't they all try? And don't they all fail? But that's never stopped them from trying once again to kill their way to happiness. What they do is not about reason or reality or facts, it is about belief. They cannot be reasoned with. Reason and evidence will never touch them. These people do not believe in the sanctity of life. They are organized criminals and killers.

Are you getting the picture? It begins to make a lot more sense when you understand that what they seem to be saying is not really what they're saying. When they talk about national security and freedom and democracy they are coming from a very specific and different place than we are. They are the exact opposite of everything we believe in. And they have robbed us blind, they have robbed the world blind, and they are galloping the globe spreading their religion with bombs and bullets and they are sure they are heroes. They want to destroy this country and they want to destroy the European economy too. This horrendous destruction is serving them well. They have worked very hard to destroy everything we have all worked so hard and so long for, everything that has meaning and value to us.   All of that has always been in their way. And in ten little years they've taken almost everything away. All that's left is grandma's monthly social security food money and what's left of a social safety net, and they're working on that right now.

If nothing else, know this. These people don't care about you. They don't care about us at all. They don't care if we die of hunger or if we are homeless or if we can't afford to see a doctor. They don't care. We are here for them to exploit and use and manipulate, and yes, even slowly poison to death with food and drugs and polluted water. It's all good. It's Doing Business and we're all losers in their eyes. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

The first thing to do is to recognize the truth that they are very different than we are. This is something they have always known that we didn't know. This is something they have used to achieve their wildest successes without us understanding what was happening or why. They have always known how different their values are from ours. They know it very well. They know how we think. They know how we feel. They know what we want and what we believe in. They know what bothers us and what scares us. They also know that we didn't know the kind of people they are. We believed they were just like we are. We were not well informed. That gave them one hell of a business advantage. Most of us could never believe that anyone could be so evil as these people, especially not our own government. Even today with everything coming apart at the seams many find it impossible to believe that they have been lied to and used and manipulated by people who know exactly what to say to appeal to our values and decency in order to screw us blind. It is time to climb up onto the back of that elephant in the living room to finally see the simple reality that the whole rest of the world can see. Our leaders are the most dangerous radical fundamentalist extremists on Earth.

It's not exactly that these "leaders" are lying to us, they are often telling the absolute truth. It's just that it means the exact opposite of what we think it means. It is a cruel and sorry deception that is sadly our fault for not knowing about their kind. Their kind has been killing, enslaving and robbing humanity since before Christ was born. It is time for America to realize that we have nothing in common with these people. When America understands who and what these people are about, they will not be lied to anymore. It's really that simple.

There is nothing we can do to change these people. They cannot be changed. They are who and what they are. The only way that we can affect change is to educate others about this simple reality that is hidden in plain sight. Not knowing the difference between your friends and your enemies is extremely dangerous to your health.

DEATH IS JUST A SIDE EFFECT

2011-05-22T16:02:00.000-07:00

The story of the Titanic is legendary. An infamous ship that sank a hundred years ago but the telling of its sudden demise is still as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Hollywood turned the story of the Titanic into a tale of love and romance and made it unforgettable in the style that Hollywood is uniquely capable of. Breathtaking visuals made it seem like you were there, YOU were aboard the Titanic. You could almost smell the salt air and feel the wind on your face.

Much has been written about the Titanic. Many questions have been asked about its Captain and crew; and countless researchers have studied infinite details about her voyage and have written countless books on the subject. Yet I wonder why it is that in spite of the lasting sensationalism and endless curiosity about the night the Titanic was ripped open by a giant iceberg and sank, little has been learned about this deeply symbolic tragedy. We have missed the point entirely, not seeing the forest for the trees.

The Titanic was proclaimed unsinkable. It was the firmest belief of its builders that their state of the art technological marvel was built so well that nothing could stand in its way. This high density hubris was later downplayed and even denied, but whatever denials were voiced after the fact cannot change the facts in evidence that prove quite clearly that Titanic's builders did believe their ship was so powerful and so advanced that it really could not sink like every other ship in the sea. The single verifiable fact to support that assertion is the small number of lifeboats installed on the ship; not nearly enough to save all souls aboard. Not nearly enough. The builders did not see a need to place sufficient life boats on the Titanic to carry all passengers. The last thing they believed possible was a need for lifeboats. They were indeed so full of themselves that they believed they had conquered the ocean with their money and their steel and their world class cutting edge technology. They'd thought of everything, they were certain of that. They were in love with themselves and certain they had achieved the status of modern miracle makers. They were wrong.

Have our modern men of money, steel and science learned anything from the abject humiliation of Titanic's builders? Or haven't they in fact chalked it up to hundred year old technology that is nowhere near the sophistication of our own cutting edge, modern technology? Yes, the Titanic's builder/owners egotism was silly but our own egotism is fully warranted. That was then but this is now.

Oh really. I'd have to say that the lesson has been missed entirely by the very same people today as their historical counterparts from a hundred years ago, both of which were and are every bit as high on identical hubris, and every bit as blind to the simple fact that in a hundred years from now all of this current cutting edge technology will look like silly tinker toys to the science and technology star chamber of the future. What makes a little bit of humility such an impossibility? Especially when it is incontestably clear that not a man on this earth knows all. Not a man on this earth is above nature. Humility would seem a common sense attribute, would it not? But when have any of these men ever allowed common sense to get in their way?

What is this willful insistence that 'we' are always the most superior beings in the universe, regardless of ordinary feet-on-the-floor reality? Why does this idiotic belief prevail in spite of the steady stream of tragic examples that prove we're not half as superior as we like to tell ourselves we are?   How do they do it? How do they ignore their abundance of failures, errors and losses as if they didn't exist?   How can a thing both be and not be at the same time?

Easy. Semantics plus double think. It's easy to invent tidy imaginary categories to place blown up space shuttles in; categories that cannot touch self-excusing arrogance with a ten foot pole. Categories made up out of whole cloth that are systematically deemed anomalies instead of constant colossal failures.

An example of Formula One S+DT (semantics and double-think) we are all forced to contend with is the created impossible category of "side effects" in pills. There is no such thing as an effect on the side of anything. Every effect is a full effect. Death is not a side effect, it is up front and in your face every bit as much as the touted effects the pills manufacturers want to use for marketing their single unit doses of chemicals. To call the terrible effects of pills "side effects" is an ingenious marketing technique, actually separating the bad from the good; at least in the mind's eye, even though no such separation is remotely possible. In this way the truly horrible failures of industry and technology can be separated from the illusion of progress we are sold. So-called progress that in fact amounts to mostly less-than-overwhelming successes.

And yes I am sorry but they are less than overwhelming.   Overwhelming successes are few and far between. When was the last time the captains of science and industry literally knocked your socks off? Since President Kennedy decided to send a man to the moon, there really haven't been that many truly, totally new, earth shattering, life changing, paradigm shifting technological successes. Which is strange really, considering the gob smacking amounts of money taken by the Pentagon, er, the government, from the people, to lavish upon the spoiled and pointless sector of scientific R&D. Weapons technology has advanced to levels beyond comprehension, need or want, but we're still using telephones, washers and dryers, and driving gas guzzling cars like our grandparents did.

But I digress. The marketing strategy of S+DT pretends it is blasé' reality to separate technology's horrendous failures from the glorious personal status, power and profits of for-profit scientific pursuit. Formula One S+DT is brilliant, even if it is completely dishonest, unethical and downright mind borking for average people to contend with. Without their perfected power-marketing techniques to sell perception control to the masses, the wizards of modern Invention For Profit would not be able to pretend to live up to their untouchable gospel mythology of self superiority, superhuman capability, record breaking brilliance, and advanced though impossible elevation in human intelligence, multidimensional vision, and general superstar quality.

HORK.

To put it simply, it is all total bullshit. Where's the beef? Sure, Velcro is neato but is the world a better place for it? Hardly. No matter how many shocking and destructive outcomes inflicted on us all, regardless of how many tragic and deadly failures that modern technocrats deliver to us, from Chernobyl and Fukushima to for-profit medicine and for-profit justice and for-profit war to for-profit global privatization and monopolization known as globalization, to life defiling nature insulting GMO's, none of the millions of tons of human carnage and toxic fallout is ever acknowledged, apologized for, or admitted to. Never do we see those responsible, the revered super luminaries of staggeringly costly unprofitable killing technologies, or extremely profitable but dubious, deadly or just plain toxic technologies, stepping up to the plate with hat in hand to admit responsibility and apologize for lost lives, damaged health, destroyed cities, irreparable ecological damage, irradiated lands, poisoned air, soil and water. Never do we hear those responsible for the poisoning and destruction of everything we depend on for life and health confessing with heartfelt apology for yet another obscenely expensive, incomprehensibly destructive, technological, scientific, medical, legal, congressional, military or professional failure of biblical proportion, which is precisely what they are time and time again.   The face in the camera says things that sound right but the arms and legs of the corporation are doing something else entirely. Standard Formula Two: Say What They Want To Hear But Do What You Want To Do. Lying is standard operating procedure. They lie even when they don't have to lie.

The timeless and valuable lesson of exchanging raging idiotic hubris for a tad of honest humility has not been learned. By the looks of it, at least in America, it probably never will be learned.

Part of the problem may be a matter of definitions. How do average people define success and how do the types of men who pull together money and talent to create star wars, deep ocean oil rigs, mega factory farming, TV Dinners and nuclear weapons define success?   If their definition of success is making a slew of money while gaining social status, fame and power then blowing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be a stunning success. To average humanity, it could never be a success to incinerate hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the blink of an eye, and leave hundreds of thousands more suffering unspeakable agonies for which there is no relief or repair. This would be a terrible, traumatic, shameful failure, impossible to make up for; at least in the eyes of those who don't see the definition of success as having anything to do with the mass accumulation of personal wealth, status and power regardless of costs to others. In fact, average people would consider that to be a crime, and a very serious crime at that. A death penalty crime. There's just no excuse for that kind of behavior, we ordinary folk would say, at least a fair number of us. What better definition of criminality is there than profiting oneself at the expense of others, by force or by lies with depraved indifference to the damages and suffering caused to others. Greed is not good. Greed is flat out evil.

That shameless, self serving, sociopathic greed is the very definition of evil was something not lost on those who engage in it. In fact, in order for these types to rise to their current positions of crushing, shouting down dominance and the shameless eating of our living bodily flesh before our very eyes every single day of the year, they knew they had to "do something" about the public perception that who they are and what they do is "evil".   They had to find a way to magically separate the evil from the deed; an optical illusion that seems to cleanse the evil out of the greed. They knew they had to head it off at the pass, beat the complainants to the punch, discredit the objective reporters of gob smacking, undeniable facts which every man, woman and child would easily see with their own innocent eyes - specifically that what these greedy, nasty, selfish people were up to was nothing less than calculated and shameless undermining and termite like destruction of our country. This, they knew, had to be turned into the unimportant "side effect" of an otherwise totally glorious top of the line, prestigious, award winning success; i.e. an organized crime-athon taking all wealth from all people leaving economies crushed, all living things indebted for the rest of time, and the global population reduced to dirt sucking poverty.

You and I and other normal human beings would have a tough time coming up with a way to spin that kind of offensive, malodorous shit into gold, but it would not be tough at all for these types. The alchemy of turning mountainous piles of stinking, diseased hog shit into super sonic futuristic green and democratic peace and freedom rail cars filled with silken threads of pure "we are one" happiness and joy gold is possibly the one and only real talent that these supreme pricks truly possess.. They can turn any shit anywhere into something the public at large will perceive as good, or at the very least not nearly all that bad so shut up about it. Damn them.

Who can tell them they are wrong for believing that force gets you whatever you want, fast? It does. A gun to the head makes rape so much easier. Who can argue with them that lying, cheating, stealing, raping, murdering, extorting, framing, making things up and denying reality are weapons with no equal? Decent people are defenseless against them.   An expertly told lie can chop the head right off any honest Joe, at least it can when they do it. They are not beginners at this stuff. They are the undisputed Kung Fu masters of deception and crushing their enemies into submission or a bloody pulp, which ever comes first. Because they excel in means of criminal action, they mistake themselves to be superior beings to the rest of the human race which does not see things or value life the way they do.

While they believe they are the unequivocal superiors of all humanity because of their unrivaled success at creating wealth through synchronized acts of sociopathic organized, global crime, they have fallen into the same trap of embarrassing delusional grandiosity that big name, big dollar movers and shakers throughout all ages of modernity seem to be inflicted with. ANYbody can bonk somebody else over the head and take their stuff, you don't even have to be able to read to behave like a thug. Literally ANYbody, of any age, any gender, any intelligence level, any level of education or lack thereof, ANY body, can use brute force, lies and Genghis Khan methodology to kill people and take their stuff. There is nothing clever about this. It requires no talent. It is not proof of superiority over anyone. In fact, this is what we normal people would call being a "Loser". Big time. A Big, Weak, Pussy-Baby Loser Asshole Chump, to give the exact technical term. (I'll bet you didn't know that technical term did you? Amazing all the sheeott I know, ain't it?) BWPLAC, "bwip-lack": A festering eternal sore on the tender backside of the world. Always has been. Always will be. What is wrong with these people and when Dear Lord will they ever go away and leave us alone?

The answer dear Nell and Roger is "never". They will never fork off and leave us in peace and sanity. Why? Because they have nothing better to do than to obsess over and plan out the many ways they can use to torture this world completely to insanity and death. When they've killed every living thing, poisoned every bit of ground, air and water, decimated every fish in the sea, blown up every flying thing, bird and beast, when every child has been fully molested and blown into red mist, when every adult has been humiliated and dehumanized to the point of regressing to boneless primordial ancestors who must kill themselves just to make the goddam pain finally end...when nothing is left but a stinking, smoking ball of death and decay and the hugest pile of cash, gold and jewels you ever saw in your life, then they will step forward out of their state of the art secret underground lair, beat their chest like a puny gorilla and proclaim with unrivaled stupidity, "I WIN! I HAVE GOT IT ALL TO MYSELF AND I HAVE DESTROYED MY ENEMY ENTIRELY! THE WHOLE OF THE WORLD IS MINE! I AM GOD!"

A bit anticlimactic I would think without a frenzied round of applause and cheers of "Hooray!" "Well done!" "What a man!" and all that sort of thing. But there will be nothing there to respond one way or the other. Not even a bird to fly overhead and shit on his suit jacket. Not even a pig to grunt and leave a puddle of pig shit in his honor. Not a daisy left to make a "I'm The Biggest Winner EVER!" Same-Day-Delivery bouquet. Not even a leaf to fall gently to the ground as if to say, "I'm blown away!". Not a single thing will be moving except billowing trails of smoke and the stench of burning corpses. Yeah boy howdy, what a winner. What a superior being. What a dickhead.

Hey wait a minute. Isn't this the story of Satan's rebellion against God? Didn't Satan say, "I'm better than you are, I can control the world, I have the power and the glory and I'm smarter and more Godlike than you are?"   I'm paraphrasing of course, it was something along those lines. And didn't God say, "Bite me you wad of toad crap! You're dreaming!" Or something along those lines.., and then didn't the angels all start throwing punches and taking sides, some going with Satan, some staying with God?

Are all of these greedy, Godless pricks Satan's fingertips incarnate, stomping all over decent humanity with utter disdain and total jealousy, being destructive, illogical, obnoxious, selfish, arrogant and mind explodingly idiotic, just for the sake of trying to hurt and offend God Almighty?

Could it be true?

Nah!

Chortle, snort.

Sounds pretty good though. It does seem to answer a whole bunch of questions, doesn't it? Maybe we ought to try to fake them out, you know, when you walk by, say, some big banker scum-bag, just walk by and go, "Hey! How's Satan doing? Heard from him lately? What's he been up to?" And see if they spill the beans before catching themselves. Like, "Oh he's FINE. He's doing great in fact. Just heard from him this morning when he called out our daily orders. He said "Keep on forking everyone and everything and don't stop till they're all dead! Do you hear me?" And we all laughed and said, "Yes we hear you Satan, Lord and Master of we the evil, hollow minions of pointless, meaningless existence! Duh we hear you! We have it memorized, you say it every day! JEEEEEZ!"

How likely do you think that might be, say, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being not likely and 10 being absolutely likely?
A minus 72?
Yeah. That's the same thing I got. Minus 72.
Still, you always have to check out every possibility. You never know. If we could just get pictures of these guys bare butts we'd probably find little pointed red tails on them. I have no doubt about that. No wonder they keep those butts covered at all costs.

Gee whiz, I really digressed there. Sorry about that. It wasn't even an acid flashback or anything, I'm just naturally weird. Cool, eh? You're hardly the first to say, "no".   But wait.. hang on a minute please, let me get back into my serious mood and get all sober and stuff again so I can tell you more symbolic insights I had about the Titanic and the former country known as America.

America. Geez I miss that place. It was a great place. Not perfect. Screwed up in fact. Miserably. But they knew the difference between right and wrong, had lots more fun money to spend, had more great music than you could ever hear all of, had Mimosas at fancy hotel brunches at two in the afternoon for like $7 per person, and had real live belly dancing right afterwards where you could sit and eat and watch exotic gyrating ladies while discover ing amazing new fruits like Asian Pears and stuff like that. We don't have that anymore. Now we have Achtung! 71 Shots Fired Police Thugs and creepy airport twist-o-wads that grab the crotches of five year olds, and nuns, and crippled people, to make you feel SECURE. This is a very different place. I don't like it here at all. Plus it's falling apart at the seams like an old loaf of bread. It's leaving crumbs all over the place. Dang it.

Hey do you remember back when we used to could go get like any food we wanted and it would have no MSG on it whatsoever? EVER? And back when there was no such thing as aspartame or any other Just-Like-Home-Made-Special-Chemical Warfare-Insecticide Recipe All Natural "low calorie sweetener"? Gosh, I sure do. I even remember fresh, local produce, just picked that morning, still warm with life giving sunshine. Boy, those were the days weren't they? Those were the days before the USS Satanic purposely blew out its own portholes and blamed it on the Middle East, working overtime to sink this ship of state and drown us all like a clutch of kittens in a burlap sack. Glug glug. Evil people are no fun at all. None. That much I can tell you for sure.

But seriously, think about what else was missed entirely in the true story of the Titanic. Have you ever heard of this country referred to as a "ship of state" before? Well please don't miss the glaring metaphor. This is the Titanic. Complete with not nearly enough lifeboats for all the passengers. Complete with delusional, detached spoiled rich people who have everything there is to have but don't see any reason to stop there, alongside an entire coast to coast size collage of people who have been rolled and mugged in the Wall Street Alley of the All Star Thugs, and then again raped and pillaged by the Federal Reserve Bank which is not federal, has no reserves and isn't even a bank, but that's okay, our dearly elected are on the job. They'd catch something like that in a heartbeat. Unless there was enough money involved to make them look somewhere else. Well what do you know, they never saw a thing. I can see it from here, 3,000 miles away, but I guess you actually have to LOOK or you never will be able to see it. More bribes gentlemen? Would you like fries with that? Or hookers and champagne? You got it. Film at 11, unless you go along.

So here goes the ship of state sailing along, most of the passengers asleep or feelin drowsy, some staying up late and getting smashed at every bar on the way back to the cabin, then the good Captain says "G'nite Lads!" and heads off to his own cabin for some microwave popcorn and hot buttered porn. But back in the mailroom, an overworked communications clerk has piles of inane personal messages from spoiled rich people they want sent immediately to other spoiled rich people so the overworked clerk has to hurry to click them all out in Morse code and nobody's there to help him out; so when a real message of actual life and death import comes through to him he looks at it and throws it in the trash can.

Why? Because infantile rich spoiled people sending messages to "Pookie" and "Wufflebits" are always given priority treatment over data like "we're all gonna die if we don't look out for damned icebergs". Don't be stupid Pookie. Money is the highest value of man and the truest. How much money you have is the exact determination of how much you matter above all other people. So if you're a certified moon pie moron who gets off on licking orangutan belly buttons, but you have a few billion dollars in the bank, you're the most important person in the room no matter what room it is. Whatever inane drivel comes out of your mouth takes precedence over all other information including the ship is sinking and Godzilla is eating your grandmother in the parlor. Yes that's right. No matter how much of a twisted scum bag you are, because of your billions, ill gotten or otherwise, you will matter more than everyone else, even more than people who actually are worth a damn in this world.

And please let me reiterate that that kind of money, personal billions, personal hundreds of millions, are ALL ill gotten. There is no other way to get that kind of money. You can't EARN it. What job could you do that would pay you that kind of money? The answer is easy, no legitimate job. There is no such thing as a legitimate job that pays anybody millions or billions of dollars. No such thing. If there were such a thing everybody would be working those jobs, but there is no such thing as a legitimate means to EARN billions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Which means what? Those who have it didn't earn it. They got it some other way. As previously mentioned, crime does pay. It pays extremely well. I don't know about you but the only way I can think of to get shit loads of that kind of money is via crime, one way or another. What do you think? Got any other ideas? I didn't think so. So you see? Once again, plain old ordinary common sense shows us the answers to questions we're supposed to think are too complex to understand. Nonsense. Just hold it up to the light and sniff it and if it stinks like a dead fish you'll know it's just another big fat lie. Like all the other big fat lies.

Oh dear. Did I trail off the path again? Jeepers, I am sorry about that. Where was I? Oh yes. The way to determine the true value of a human being is by counting the money in his bank account.

Now I know what you're saying, you're saying, "But Ang, that's just not true! Money is no indicator of human value or importance or any other thing! Money is an external, it has nothing to do with being human. It's irrelevant. It is meaningless. It says nothing about the person holding it. It means nothing. It determines nothing!"

I know that and you know that, but THEY don't see it that way. Understand something. We are talking about people who can, with a perfectly straight face, say, "Oh come and try our latest, newest, amazingly new, breakthrough PILL! It will cure your headache in two minutes flat and make you see little pink angels flying around your head. It has a teeny little side effect that is of no real concern, it can make your heart stop. But what are the odds? It's perfectly safe! Honest!" And they can, will and do, aggressively, relentlessly, shamelessly market this new heart stopper pill directly to med students across the nation, and they pay big docs big bucks to endorse it and say its great and sell it to colleagues and friends, and the drug company pretends there is no such thing as people dropping dead left and right from their heart stopping. Death is just a SIDE effect. Those dead people must have been doing something WRONG with their pills. Those dead people probably only died to try to make us look bad. Those dead people had to have been weird sexual perverts and mentally unstable because normal peoples hearts don't stop, only freaky peoples hearts stop. Probably crack addicts or holocaust deniers because good, decent normal people will only achieve freedom from pounding headaches. Those dead people were doing it wrong. They were bad people. Pills good. Dead people bad. Buy our pills today so that you can dance through the daisies and so we can get even richer than God and his first cousin and his whole family on his mother's side. Big Pharma. What pigs.

You know what? I gotta level with you. I think I'm just too goofy right now to go on trying to show you the serious parallels I see between the unsinkable Titanic hitting the iceberg and going down while the band played on until the very last moment... which is totally bizarre, just like our dry-humping, mad-dog media-clown 24/7 news shows made of perfectly disconnected All Natural Twinkie filling (hydrogenated whipped pig lard with poisoned cottonseed oil and USDA organic phenylacetaterseeyalaterwookiebitsandpiecesthyl, plus foaming agents) with bacon bits on top for your scholarly edification. ...Yep. That'll UP yer EYE QYEW fOr sUre. Fan-tastic.

I don't know, what do you think? Too goofy? Not goofy enough? Does anyone give a rat's ass on a rolling donut?
I wish I had a picture of that.
Okay. That does it. Too goofy it is.
I have to go.
Really.
I do.
Big kiss.
On the CHEEK.
The FACE cheek.
Oh never mind the kiss. Handshake n' bake. There you go.
Later gator.
My voice now fading out...
Hey watch out for icebergs you unsinkable miracle of nature!
As I disappear into a tunnel...

R-I-I-I-N-N-G-G!

Is that a phone ringing?

Yes? Who is it?

"IT'S GOD ON LINE ONE".

Oh WOW.
And it's for YOU. WOW-WOW.
You must be VERY special!
I knew it all along.
I... am not special at all.
So...I'm gonna go get a donut WHILE YOU'RE ON THE PHONE WITH GOD.

Catch me up later tho'. K?

ITGK 7

2011-03-05T23:27:00.000-08:00

ITGK 6 Winter 2010

Link to Issue 6

We're getting underway on issue 7 of the ITGK ezine with a target date of May 1 for online publication.

I'd like to invite interested readers of my blog to submit one of their own original articles for consideration and possible inclusion in the May 1 issue. The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2011.

Unfortunately, you will not be paid for your article. You will retain all of your rights to your work. If your submission is selected it will be seen by people from all around the world. I will have no part in the selection process. Send questions and submissions to angtobe(at)gmail.com.

Links to all previous issues of ITGK are on the Think Or Be Eaten home page.

If you're sitting there considering it I really want to encourage you to go for it because the folks who come by here, consistently knock my socks off. I can't check out everybody's blogs and links (yet) but when I can I absolutely love to do it. I wish I could have breakfast at everybody's house, that would be amazing. I'd want to know where you are. What are you thinking about as we head into Spring 2011? What is most on your mind? What do you see ahead? What do you think is really happening? Write about it. Send it to me.

Identity

2011-03-01T11:24:00.000-08:00

We all start out as females in the womb, at least that's what they say. I don't know how a clump of cells can be deemed to be female. I know it's about chromosomes but still, can you be a female before you even have a body? Gender is a simple and specific thing, it's about genitals. Genitals are either female or male. They determine reproductive function.   The rest of the body parts are not particularly female or male although hormones do make females more female and males more male; but you don't have female cells and male cells. They're just cells.

A developing fetus isn't anything but cells for a while, and then it begins to grow. Within a few weeks a body begins to take shape and then it develops its gender. It's a bit of a stretch as I see it, pragmatist that I am, to say we all start out as females. It sounds like dumbed down pop science that misses the point and sensationalizes it. I think we all start out as humans. We all start out with everything in common, our humanity.

It takes us a long time to get here from the womb. Nine months of gestation. In 266 days our bones and organs have to develop, and our skin and eyes and fingers and toes and brains. After we've got all of our parts we're still not even close to being fully developed but we have to leave the womb because we're just too big to stay there any longer. Unlike other mammals, on the day we are born we're still not all the way here yet. We'll have a long way to go before we can even stand on our own two feet.

I don't think it's untrue to say that for a lot of people, even after we can stand on our own two feet and long after we've reached puberty, some people never really grow up. From my own observations it seems that some people never get here at all. They're here but they're not here. They exist but they're not conscious of that fact beyond the most rudimentary sense of it. Their basic personality developed along with their physical body and about the time the body got done growing up, so did the mind. Anything that gets in after that will likely be the result of a life changing experience because from their perspective, they're all grown up. They're done. They know all they need to know and they go off and do life and never look back.    Their identities were constructed from external bits and pieces like a birds nest, from stuff that is easily picked up from their immediate environment. A few strands of floss, a few sticks of straw, a nice bit of fluff or two, tamped down at the bottom, build up the walls, and plaster it with a collection of labels. This is who we are. We all do this.

But it's not who we are, it's just who we think we are. In my way of looking at it, we're not really here until we realize that our constructed identities are just that, constructed. I think once we blow off the resistance we get upon realizing that, and if we are willing to go against the grain and trust ourselves instead of submitting to the overwhelming pressure to conform, and we choose to take our walk on an uncharted path, a place where nobody's gone before, when we set aside the birds nest and choose to discover who we really are, that's when we get here. That's what I mean when I say that a lot of people don't seem to ever get here.   Wherever "here" is.

Of course the truth is that we are all here whether we realize it or not. You don't have to know that gravity exists to be living in it. You don't need to know what's happening on those billions and billions of stars out there or the billions of worlds around them to find yourself in the universe, or find the universe in yourself. The workings of the totality of all that is will go on whether they are comprehended or not and let's face it, we cannot comprehend the totality of all that is. There will always be infinitely more that we don't know than we do know. So who we really are is more a measurement of awareness. We are each a unique, singular combination of everything we know plus everything we don't know. What we don't know shapes us as much as what we do know. In that sense, the totality of all that is, must already be a part of us.

What is our identity but a stage of knowing? Identity can be finite and static if we think it is or want it to be, but it doesn't have to be. I can't accept that I am finished with mine. I don't want to be the same person tomorrow that I am today, and I already know I won't be. Who I really am, I finally understand, is someone who will never be done with this process. I love that.

I still have a bird's nest, as we all do, because it is necessary for us to be able to see each other.   For some the bird's nest is all there is, but for others it is only the beginning. It is a portal that goes to a much bigger place, a fascinating place, a completely unique place. It is the door to everything. Have you had the experience of striking up a conversation with someone, birds nest to birds nest, only to find that theirs is a portal too? And when they open that door just a little bit, they let you get a glimpse of so much more inside them than you'd ever know was there unless and until they felt safe enough to let you come in for a while. When I can talk with people from my portal to theirs, these are the best conversations in the world. Communicating at that level is fantastic. To me, that is what it means to be real.

There is so much pressure on everyone to build their little bird nest and live their whole life in it and never think beyond it. To wonder if there's more is not received warmly. I think most people can hear the messages urging us from within to ask ourselves if what we see makes sense. There will come a moment, whether it is conscious or not, when we will choose to either follow our own heart or to conform. I think a good many people choose to conform and are aware they are doing it, and they will live out their lives knowing they are not being true to themselves. It's usually because the money is good or it's easier to not make any waves. It does make waves when we break free and do life our own way, in fact it separates us from everyone else. That separation is so hard for some that they will abandon themselves for the benefits that conformity brings.

Those who are willing to go it alone are only claiming their rightful place in the universe, taking up their space and time and understanding it is their space and time to take up. For whatever reason, that outer world of trivial pursuits, of appearances and herd think does not like people who won't forfeit what really has meaning in order to get in line, place your nose firmly into the bum of the animal in front of you, and walk wherever they walk for the rest of your life. Those who refuse to believe that that is all there is and that is all we need will not be understood by those who do believe those things. In fact those who do believe that's all there is often feel threatened by people who take off their own shackles and walk free. It scares them. But I can't think of anything more scary than never really existing in the one time and place that I know for sure I will be here.

F*CK THE POOR!

2011-02-27T05:46:00.000-08:00

Mr. Boehner's Poison Tea Party Wants It All:

Let The Jobless and Homeless Die.

Did you vote for that?

Why should I have to care? Why should I have to help? I have wealth and security and luxury, my bases are covered. I can afford great quality health care. My teeth are perfect. I have money to retire on and live quite well. I have a nice home and some property and damn it, I worked hard for every last bit of it! It's mine! All mine!

Who cares if old people are starving to death in their homes because they can't afford food? It's not my problem, let 'em die. Get 'em out of here, they're not doing any good for anybody anyway, they're just using up resources and not producing anything. Why should I have to pay for their food stamps? If they can't work f*ck 'em, they don't deserve to eat!

If people can't find jobs, why should I have to pay for their unemployment check? If people lose their jobs and lose their homes is it my problem? No. I really don't care. It's their problem, they have to deal with it. The government has no business taking my money from me and giving it to poor, useless, stupid, jobless people. Why should I have to fund their laziness, their drug and alcohol treatments, their stupid kid's lunches? This is government robbery!

Cut all public entitlements! They are freebies for the unproductive class that the productive, responsible class has to pay for, it's a crime! Slash social programs off the budget! Cut the losers loose! People have to fend for themselves and not expect the government to take care of them. If you can't carry your own weight, then too bad. You should just die, nobody needs you. You're a burden to society. You're the criminals and the crack whores that turn our city streets into crime and violence infested ghettos. You're just inferior beings who aren't worth a damn. You want everything for free. Free education. Free housing. Free food. Free doctors. Well I'd like to get everything for free too but I can't! I have to earn everything I have the hard way! Why should you have it any different? If I have to work for everything then so do you! I don't care if you're starving. I don't care if you're homeless. I don't care if you can't find a job. I don't care if they take your home or repossess your car. I don't care! You don't matter to me! You don't matter at all in this world because you aren't worth a damn!

Don't you understand that we make people weak with all of these molly coddling free perks? Food stamps, Medicare, low rent housing, public schools. Subsidized energy bills! Social security! Enough! I am sick of paying for the lazy lifestyles of worthless losers and I want it to stop! Make them get up off their asses and take care of themselves. Make them find a way on their own. It's the Christian thing to do! If people become dependent on the state they can be controlled by the state, don't you see that? It opens the doors to tyranny and dictatorship where people must obey the state in order to get their needs met. The last thing we need is a public option for health care! Why don't you just call up Communism on the phone and have it come over and run the country because that's what government run health care is! It's socialism! It's communism! It's the end of freedom! We can't allow the government to get between patients and their doctors, I'm telling you, it will lead to the end of freedom and democracy and the end of this great country!

....

Yep. That's what it says on the front door of hell. It's chiseled right into the wood. "Why should I care?"

How shameful that our dear new speaker of the house Mr. Boehner believes in this immoral creed and is making a stand for it. "Once and for all", he seems to be saying, "F*ck the poor! Screw the single mothers working for minimum wages, too bad that their kids go hungry! Screw the old folks! Screw the young folks! Screw the students and screw the handicapped! Screw the jobless and the homeless and the sick! We don't give a damn about their lives! Sure we can afford to help them, but we don't want to!"

This is the richest country in the world but the richest people in the country don't like helping people. They hate helping people. It makes them want to vomit. Helping people is just so wrong! They are kicking and screaming and flailing about as if they're paying taxes like the rest of us.

The wealthiest people have all of the wealth, but they don't want to help anyone. They just want more and more for themselves. Just because they are morally obligated to do as much as they can for people who don't have anywhere near as much as they have and no way to get enough to survive, doesn't mean the rich should have to do the right thing. They haven't so far. They don't have to care. They don't have to give anything back. They can be as selfish and greedy and immoral as they please. If they don't want to do anything for this country then they shouldn't have to.

If they think that poor people and sick people and people in need are worthless then obviously it must be true if the rich are saying so. If they say that poor people's lives have no value then it must be so, must it not? Are the rich not the most perfect people in the world? Are they not above all of us? Isn't it their job to decide whose lives have any value and whose don't? Are not the rich perfectly qualified to make a fair and reasonable determination about the value of other people's lives? After all, all of that money they have makes them smarter than everyone else, doesn't it? No, actually it doesn't. Our dear wealthy elite ain't no better than the rest of us. Thoughts to the contrary belong in the slop bucket of delusional self-importance. How embarrassing for them.

Yet our dear Mr. Boehner wants to stand by the corporate and wealthy elite in solidarity, and to show the whole world what a cold hearted immoral selfish pirate he really is. He is not ashamed of his callous indifference to little old ladies starving to death in their own shabby, unheated homes. He is above all that. He is a lofty and superior being who cannot be bothered with the irrelevant desperate needs of the American people who've lost their homes and their jobs and have nowhere left to go but down. No matter that half the nation can't afford health care, what do such things matter to the corporate and banking elite of our country? Trivialities of no import. Let them eat cake.

Yes, Mr. Boehner will find himself in good company when he gets to hell. He'll have plenty in common with the folks who dwell there. He and his ilk can go on bloviating forever about how unreasonable it is to expect them to feel a sense of moral obligation when they have so much while so many others have nothing at all. It doesn't matter that they have nothing because the congress took it from them and gave it to wealthy corporations and wealthy bankers and wealthy elites, Mr. Boehner and his political class still don't feel bad about it. They see no reason whatsoever to give something back to America, or to help those in need, or to help those who can't play on the same gilded, invitation only, professional playing field they're so comfortable on.

Mr. Boehner thinks it is absolutely moral to tell Americans to sleep in cardboard boxes and try to catch some rats for dinner. He says that not helping is the best help. Gee thanks Mr. Boehner, what a guy. What's that you say? "Let them die" is good for their moral character development? How would you know what is good for moral character development sir? You don't show any sign of moral character.

Not a trace of shame. My, my. What we have here are living, breathing examples of the definition of immorality. I suppose we owe them our thanks for giving our whole country this graphic example of brazen, shameless immorality. Look children, look at the men who do not care about their fellow man. That's them right there. That is what they look like. That is what they say. All of America is now witness to the spectacle of living and willful depraved indifference to humanity and the crass worship of bottomless greed at any expense to the people. This is your political class at their shameful best. It looks like Mr. Boehner's political base and its corporate crusaders for 'free rides for the rich and hand the working class and the poor the bill' couldn't care less about America or her people. As far as Mr. Boehner is concerned let them all die. Who needs them? After all nobody matters but him and his cronies. Only rich people count. Isn't that what we all voted for? I don't think so Mr. Boehner, I think you're in for a big surprise.

Immorality is not about dirty pictures my friends; immorality is about proclaiming your callous indifference to the suffering of others without the slightest trace of shame. Take a good, long look at it. It's ugly, isn't it? You'll never forget that sick feeling in your stomach or that rage beginning to boil inside.

If we were to believe Mr. Boehner's strange idea of Christianity and morality we might believe that the teachings of Jesus Christ included a sermon entitled "Forget the poor, who cares!" But those of us who are a bit more familiar with the actual teachings of Christ will recall no such sermon. There is no such sermon and there is nothing remotely resembling that putrid perspective. Jesus Christ told us to help the helpless and protect the weak. To heal the sick and feed the hungry because we can. We have the resources and they don't. We have the moral obligation to help those who have fallen through the cracks of this toxic, rigged rat race. Not everyone is cut out to make it. Not everyone can make it. If those who benefit and prosper most from this rat race want to make it the only game in town, then they had better see to the needs of those who cannot participate or benefit from it. This is not the private playground of the wealthy. We all have a moral obligation to render aid and assistance to those who cannot help themselves and to not pretend that human lives have no value without a dollar sign next to them.

If you disagree then how do you support your assertion that some human life matters while other human life doesn't? How do you measure this supposed difference in life value? The only measure that you can apply is your own subjective value system, and that is a measure of nothing but your own pompous, self-important arrogance.   Money is no determination of the value of human life.

Are we not obligated to rescue everyone in a plane crash and not just the people who can pay to be rescued? How far will you take your monetary valuation of human life? Life is only for those who can afford it? According to who? You? And who are you?

In a traffic accident or an industrial accident, we don't ask burn victims or someone with a broken back if they can pay a hospital bill before we do anything to help them. If they said they couldn't pay a hospital bill would we just leave them in the wreckage and walk away? Is that your picture of a moral society?   Is that what you think would be Christian and moral?   Would you really want to live in a world like that? Moral people aren't capable of thinking that way. I would suggest that a moral person would find such an attitude to be reprehensible and despicable and they would be incensed by it.

Whether we rescue air crash victims or supplement the unemployed, it is the same principle. The difference is only a matter of degrees. Mr. Boehner thinks it would be better to turn his back and walk away from Americans caught in the crashed up rubble of this economic disaster. What if we applied his logic toward the victims in the OKC bombing or the hundreds of people injured on 9-11 when the towers collapsed? Would we just have left them to die if they didn't have insurance? I am too terrified to ask.

Those in our country who are struggling financially to survive did not create this financial disaster. This entire economic nightmare was willfully created by the wealthy for the wealthy. There is no accident here, this was the goal. The victims of elitist greed have done nothing wrong. The people who blew up our economy are the ones who did wrong. Don't let them get away with it! America's shameful political class is responsible for the hunger and the unemployment and the homelessness and the exorbitant costs of survival in this rich man's world.   Those who are prospering the most in this climate of extremes of wealth and poverty are the most obligated to do something about all of the suffering and loss that has resulted from their gambling games and selling off our means of prosperity.   To cut off help to those who will not survive is criminal. It is immoral. It is disgusting and inexcusable. You and your class can afford it Mr. Boehner. Open those fat wallets gentlemen, it won't kill you to do the right thing.

You rich folks in politics and corporate royalty, and you wall street criminals better get off your high horses and snap into reality. You have lost your way. You have far more than you could ever need and you'd better start spreading it around because everything is out of balance and the weight of plenty is all on your end of the scale. It is immoral to expect people to starve so that you can increase your levels of luxury and status a few more notches.

Only those who have plenty can help those who have nothing. Where else can the help come from but from those who have it to give? That is why there is an obligation and why there is no excuse to condemn helpless people to die of want and to write off their lives with your disconnected rhetoric befitting of addlepated, spoiled royals. You wealthy captains of industry have enough to spare without giving up a single yacht. How can you possibly pretend to excuse yourselves? Are you no longer human? You might want to check because it doesn't look like it from here.

The Department of Explanation on Power and Authority

2011-02-26T05:08:00.000-08:00

Okay everyone, please take your seats...can we get it quiet in here for the presentation? Wonderful, thank you. Is the projector ready? Yes? Great. Pull the screen down please Earl, and could you get the lights too? Thank you.

Hi everyone, my name is Chris and I am from the Department of Explanation. We are a science based body tasked with helping people to understand things they might find confusing about our country.

For example, sometimes people have asked how it can be that on Sept. 11, 2001, that the two tallest skyscrapers in the country fell down into their own footprints in a pile of their own dust and rubble after no more than a seemingly small fire that lasted about an hour. They say things like, "That's impossible" and "This has never happened before in the history of skyscrapers and fires. How can this be explained?"

Well sure, if that is how you think about it of course it would seem strange to you. All it takes is the proper information and everything can become clear. It's so easy and there is just no need for Americans to be confused about anything that happens in our country.

My job at the Department of Explanation is to travel around the country explaining things that people are having trouble understanding. When we at the D.E. determine that an unusually high level of confusion exists in the public about certain things happening in our country, like things that the government does or foreign policy or constitutional rights or mass shootings or arresting children and so forth, the D.E. creates Special Information Packages specifically to help people alleviate their confusion or concerns over specific topics. These Special Information Packets, or SIPs, will help to replace confusion and concerns with clarity and understanding. All that most people need is a good explanation for what they don't understand and the Department of Explanation was created to fulfill that need. I am delighted to be able to be here today and to serve the American people through my work at the D.E..

Did you know that the earliest presence of the Department of Explanation had its roots in working very hard with the scientific experts at Popular Mechanics studying the events of Sept.11? Our combined effort and painstaking research resulted in the very helpful report given to the 9-11 Commission that explained everything. Our effort proved so very helpful to the American people that the Department of Explanation was born and now it helps people all over the country to understand things that don't make sense to them.   We at the D.E. know that when something seems strange at first glance it's never really strange at all, it just needs to be explained. We are very good at what we do. In fact our director brought you The Pancake Theory which I'm sure you remember and I'm sure it cleared everything up for you. We at the Department of Explanation believe that no one has to be confused anymore. We are committed to ridding the country of all confusion. Wouldn't America be a much nicer place to live when no one is confused anymore? We think so and we're working on it.

Today's presentation is going to be a very special one. I'll be showing you a film today that you've never seen before. I am positive what you are about to learn will be something absolutely new to you. The reason I can be so certain of that is that it is only because of the efforts of the D.E. that we were able to get this film and the information within it declassified and released to us to be able to show it to you. We at the D.E. believe that this information should not be kept secret and that it is important for the American people to know about it in order to alleviate a growing confusion about government power and law enforcement powers. The American people shouldn't have to be confused about these things, these are serious topics and we should all enjoy the clarity of understanding what official power is. We should know where official powers come from, how official powers are created and what official power means in our lives.

Will you start the projector please Earl? Thank you.

This is an old film so it is in black and white and it is a bit grainy but you'll be able to see everything fine.

All right........ what we're seeing here is a white room with a six foot by six foot cubicle, or beam chamber, off to the right. You can see that it has plexiglass windows on all sides and there is also a plexiglass window on top. These windows allow us to see inside the chamber when it is in operation while keeping the chamber tightly sealed so that none of the energy it will shortly be filled with is able to leak out.

A Power and Authority Technician, or PAT, is entering the room. The PAT is taking a seat at the small control panel on the left.   The PAT is all dressed in white, wearing a white lab coat and white gloves, white pants and white shoes. A pair of white rimmed protective goggles are loosely hanging around PAT's neck.

As you can see, PAT is busily entering numbers into a digital display area using a numeric keypad. PAT makes a few adjustments using various dials and switches on the panel, and now we see several lights have come on across the top of the panel. The system is now ready and on stand by.

What is this system? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the G. E. Authority Maker 5000. This is where all power and authority comes from. This has been one of the best kept secrets of all time. Almost nobody knows that this machine is what has given our elected and appointed officials, our law enforcement officials, our justice officials and our military officials power and authority over our lives. It might seem strange to you when you first hear about it, but it isn't strange at all. Let's watch how it works.

A man wearing a uniform has entered the white room and PAT waves him in, directing him to the open side of the chamber. PAT instructs him to step inside the cubicle and to sit down in the center area upon the GXZ73 Authority Platform. He walks to the side of the cube opening, ducks his head down for clearance and steps inside. He now turns around and takes a seat on the platform. He is comfortably seated and watching PAT through the front window. The uniform he is wearing appears to be the uniform of a police officer... with an insignia rank of sergeant.

Speaking into a microphone on the control panel, PAT asks him if he is ready. He nods once. The cubicle door is closing, there it goes, click, into place. The chamber is now sealed.

Using the keypad PAT enters a five digit number. The display reads three point zero five four four two.   The G.E. Authority Maker 5000 message panel asks for confirmation. "Police officer. Sergeant.   Confirm: Y or N?"    PAT inputs the confirmation. The display scrolls to the default settings for a three point zero five four four two beam. It then scrolls a list of the beam calculations, lists the specific energy frequencies that will be used and their strengths and suggests the optimal duration for the P&A beam procedure. PAT enters a confirmation code and presses the "start" button.

You are now witnessing the transformation of an ordinary man into a man with power and authority. Isn't this amazing? It certainly is amazing, and it's absolutely real.
It is also perfectly safe, it does not harm the officer's health in any way, in fact he can't feel a thing. The powerful light he is bathed in will only last a few seconds and then it will shut off and the beam procedure will be over. He will leave that cube a genuine bona fide police sergeant.

All of our brave and heroic officials must go through this procedure to be imbued with genuine authorized power and authority over our lives. They will each receive a similar beam procedure that is specifically tailored to their particular levels of power and authority.

What is the beam and how does it work? The beam consists of a proprietary blend of various organic and synthesized energy frequencies that can be combined in various ways and adjusted for intensity, pulsation and duration. Beam procedures vary in time duration ranging from 10 seconds to a maximum of 10 minutes. After the beam procedure the ordinary guy who stepped into the G.E. Authority Maker 5000, will step out imbued with real and actual power and authority. Wow, how cool is that?

That's all there is to it. That was not confusing, was it? No, it was very easy to understand, especially when you can see the procedure for yourself, and you have all done just that. You are among the very first to get this newly declassified information. Right now you are among a very few who know where our nation's power and authority come from. Very soon though, everyone will know.

Why is this information important for everyone to know?
It is important because when Americans see police officers or senators or high level cabinet officials or SWAT teams, sometimes they see themselves as equals to their officials. They believe that no one has legitimate claims of power or authority over anyone's life and so if they disagree with what the officials say or do they often refuse to obey the orders given to them by their officials.

This can cause problems which can result in the injury or death of the misguided citizens whose only real crime was not understanding that their officials really do have real power over them. Once people can see films like this one and can observe how power and authority are literally transferred into the bodies of their officials, they will no longer feel doubt about officials having power over them. They will know the power is real. They will be much more willing to immediately obey the commands given to them by any officials and will not need to question those commands.

When people understand that officials have genuine power over them, and real authority, they will not mind so much when their neighbors doors are kicked in, in the middle of the night or in broad daylight, and their neighbors are perhaps shot dead in the street or out on their front lawn, and their dog is shot in the head, and all of their private property like computers and cell phones and printers and jewelry and family photos and old letters and papers and toys and cash and hard drives and scanners, etc., are confiscated and taken into storage as evidence to be used when your neighbor or his surviving family is prosecuted in court for terrorism and other charges. There is no need to be concerned when this happens to you or someone you know because it will never happen to anyone who is not a threat to your freedom and a dangerous criminal. If you see events like this happening, don't worry. Relax and know that men who are superior to you are keeping you safe so that you and your family can live healthy and happy lives in the best country in the world.

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Reality Revision effective 2/26/2011 replaces the following text from earlier versions of this publication.

"All power and authority derives from God. All rights derive from God. Authority can only be granted by those who have God given rights, upon others for the purpose of carrying out specific duties or work of benefit to all. No one has power over us but God."

All instances of the above text should be removed and replaced with the above revision.

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Have you hugged your dictator today?

SPARE ME

2011-01-24T15:11:00.000-08:00

Oh please. Spare me your drama queen finger pointing judgment of my being. What do you know of me? Not a thing. You stand there with that look on your face, calling me racist, or antisemitic or unpatriotic or any other knee-jerking self-superior subjective judgment of my person... and all of your nose in the air bluster is nothing but hot air. It is play acting. It is caustic, insulting, divisive, unhelpful, illogical, unwarranted and plain stupid.

What is the matter with you?

You're not fooling me or scaring me or making me recoil in horror for fear of your branding me with your mark of some sort of politically correct Zorro, carving a big R for racist with a circle around it on my forehead for all to see. Your cartoon tattoos of judgment are a plastic joke. The only thing about you that is real is your viciousness towards others. And you're supposed to be so much better than the rest of us? You can't even respect people with a different opinion than yours, what's so superior about that? That is the bottom of the barrel in human attitudes my friend. It's called intolerance, it's bigotry. You are what you rail so loudly against.

I don't care how self-superior you feel, you are not the end all and be all of human perfection. Who told you that you were? What are your qualifications for this lofty self image? You don't have any qualifications, and according to you, you apparently don't need any. Your personal sense of superiority comes from nothing more than a bloated, overbearing intolerance for all who are not just like you. Well my goodness, you're just as imperfect as the very people you are so quick to judge.

People I ask you, where's Gandhi when you need him? Where is any natural man with a lick of sense who knows the difference between a bag of hot air and a hole in the ground? Where are the shepherds of the soul with the visionary messages that raise the human consciousness as opposed to shoving its face down into the dreck and the mud of ignorance and fear and selfishness? Where are the voices of men who lift us to something higher by speaking to us of humility and appreciation and mutual respect? Where are all of those voices? Are they all dead? All of them? How did that happen?

Where is the common sense? 'Common sense' is an oxymoron, it's not common at all. It's quite uncommon. It is so uncommon in fact that the universe has to send us occasional exemplars of common sense, light bringers, those with the gift of genuine superiority that is always and only revealed by true humility and undying courage, by selfless generosity, kindness, patience, fairness and honesty and never by self-appointed, self-aggrandizing, trumpet blaring, wealth accumulating, gun toting general announcement.

It is hard not to notice that the most hated people on earth have often been those who simply tell the truth. You can get killed for that you know. It seems that truth is something that most people don't want to hear. People prefer to be lied to. They want to be told stories that support the pink bubble they live in, stories about how superior they are, or what victims they are, or how brilliant, entitled, deserving, educated and sophisticated they are. People want to hear that they're special, that they're better than other people, even that their version of God told them so, so it must be true.

As a brief aside, if your version of God says that 'your people' (whatever that means), are superior to all other people on earth, what was the point? Why would the almighty being, the creator of all that is, an intelligence so profound and so beyond you that you cannot even fathom it, what point would there be in this being's mind to singling out one stripe of humanity and telling them he favors them?

If God the almighty didn't like the rest of his human creation he wouldn't need your help to get rid of them. He could handle that himself. If he created them he could uncreate them, but that hasn't happened and it never will. So maybe it's not that God singled you out to dote on, spoil and favor so much as he singled you out to hold responsible. Maybe he expects better from you because he knows you can do better. And maybe just maybe your interpretation of being "chosen" does not equate to you being given permission to act like the most violent scum of the earth in existence and get away with it. Maybe it really means you're supposed to do God's work for him, which, as previously noted, is not to exterminate everyone but yourself.

But you can't handle that, can you. You? Keeping all of God's Ten Commandments? That will be the day. Thou shalt not kill is just too much to give up. You like killing. Face it, you like killing. You know it's wrong but you just tell yourself that you're killing for God/country and you feel superior and entitled to go kill people. Here's a tip for you, you missed the mark on this one. Your God, should he really exist, will definitely be filling you in when you get to your version of heaven.

There must be a special place in hell for those deluded souls who break every law of God and man in the belief it is God's will for them to do so. Is insanity punishable by eternity in the fires of hell? Only if it's insanity by choice. Insanity by lazy following of the rabid herd. Insanity by refusal to use the brains and the heart God gave you. Short answer, yep, you're going to hell. And all of you anal probing torturing scum bags for God & country, I hope you like pitchforks because you'll have one up your ass for the rest of all time. Now that's patriotic. And Godly too.

To pick up where I left off before, I was saying how it's hard not to notice that when people are demonized and vilified in the press, when it reaches a point of total saturation and orgasmic hate and fear, chances are near 100% certainty that the object/s of all that hate and fear are neither demonic nor villainous. They are not inhuman or ungodly people. They are not like animals. They do not hate us for our beliefs and ways. They are not out to get us. They do not eat our flesh or drink human blood. They do not take babies out of incubators and leave them on cold floors to die. They are not rabid haters of little old innocent us, nor have most of them even heard of us. Indeed, "they" are just ordinary people and none of them, repeat none of them, run this insane world. None of them want to destroy it or own it or kill it anymore than we want those things. They want to be left in peace to raise their families and live ordinary lives.

The fact is, the moment we nationally vilify others we feel entitled to kill them and let's face it folks, this country is Murder Inc. USA. Our leaders control the killingest military force in the world. The American killing machine will go anywhere, anytime and kill anyone, for any reason, for no reason at all, one at a time, in pairs, in mass numbers, in any variety and combination of ways, with or without torture, rape and disemboweling, with or without electrodes attached to genitals and breasts, and all at no cost to the supposed beneficiaries of all this killing. The American people, in semicomatose submission to the killer clown kings that lead this nation to endless war, will pay for every penny of it. They will pay for every bomb, every missile, every warhead, every bunker buster, every tank and plane and drone and concentration camp, every weapon and every drop of chemicals, every method of radiation and burning of flesh and they will do so by and large while not having any idea about any of it. They will put themselves and their grandchildren 7 generations forward into cast iron prisons of usurious debt that they will never, ever, ever be able to extricate themselves from, due to the illicit and unnecessary interest rates charged on all those hundreds of billions of dollars borrowed in order to keep on killing and killing and killing the whole damned world a hundred times over so that we can feel "safe". That's freedom baby.

That's our biggest gift to humanity folks, our bottomless hate driven fear of brown people, go ahead and tell me I'm wrong. Americans love to hate. Not all of us by any means, but enough of us to do so much damage, it's hardly news. American bigots are ignorant, self-superior, hostile bullies that can be riled up and led as easily as exciting a kitten with a bit of string. All it takes is a concerted symphony of talking heads on TV spewing out hate and fear of people and love and respect for war, while pointing the finger somewhere "over there" and saying, "we are in terrible danger because those terrible people hate us and are going to come kill us in our beds!" That's all it takes and boom! We're off to war. Again. And we're being seen naked and genitally groped in every airport in the country because we are so afraid that maybe somehow somebody else might come along with another firecracker in his underpants and give us a good scare.

We can't handle it. We can't handle anything anymore, the whole damned world has become a direct threat to us. We're ready to kill everything, anywhere anytime just bring it on because we're reduced to cowering whimpering fearful clinging followers of blatantly illegal, false, bloodthirsty authority that has made a total mockery of everything we are and everything we stand for and everything we believe in. We're fine with that, just don't let any of that evil socialism seep in here and don't let any of them towel headed moozlums get us! Don't let them bring their America hating God hating women hating Sharia law into our congress and force us to wear towel heads and beat our women and hate ourselves. Because that's just so likely to happen unless we wage war on the whole of the Muslim world and take all of their oil while we're at it and also pave the way for the infected carbuncle on the ass of the world known as Israel to move forward in their vision of Israel-World. More land for Israel. More and more and more land for Israel. Yes, they really need all that land. Would everyone in the middle east please leave? Israel is moving in. And the US military contractors, agents and guns for hire are laying the sidewalk for them.

Is anybody really missing any of that? Really?

You know, me saying that, just calling it like I see it, if it came to the attention of the bigots and warmongers in control of our poor, castrated, confused country, would get me immediately branded as antisemitic and unpatriotic and un-American and maybe even as a terrorist supporter.   Even though all I'm doing is reporting what is there to see, it is not hidden. I am telling the truth as I see it. How can that make me any of those things?

Well, the short answer is it can't. And it doesn't.

What is this about? All these attacks on people who won't tow the line of the illegal foreign corporate entity pretending to be our government? Why the brutality and bullying and forceful insistence that when we see what we see that it is not what we see but something else entirely that they will explain to us. These people are telling us what to think.

I don't need any help with how or what I think. I didn't ask for anyone's input on what I think.   You don't get to dismiss me, I'm your equal bubba, deal with it. I see things different than the mindwashing sales pitch that's constantly being crammed down our throats. I think what they're selling is wrong. I think they lie about everything. And I think nothing they say deserves to override what the rest of us have to say. I know for sure that not one of those arrogant gas bags and phonies, dual citizenship senators or pentagon denizens or mass media propagandists is remotely qualified or entitled to tell me what to think. Every last one of them can kiss my big fat butt.

I will think what I think. I will say what I see. I will criticize the wrongdoing done in the name of this country. I will criticize the vile scum posing as our representation when we have so little real representation. Money talks and money walks, and money and guns are running our lives. Money and guns and a desire for domination so profound that it is the way it has always been on this poor little violence and greed ravaged world since forever. There's nothing new about this. This is the dark spot that goes round and round and round our world blocking out the sun and bringing on death and war and violence and rape and human sacrifice and pillage...all in the name of some authority or another. It's always the same people doing the same things.

The mighty, mighty cocksuckers are having their field day on earth, again. They want World War III so bad they can't stand it. They are working overtime like radioactive cockroaches scuttling about in the dark, in the walls, underground, with their tapped lines and intercepts, their media control, their plane loads of cash and prostitutes and hidden cameras, their illicit private contract killers, their bottomless funds, their legions of clueless youthful recruits to carry it all out for them, their well honed needle sharp experts at manipulation, all working so hard, so relentlessly, every night and day, around the clock, to set Christians against Muslims, Jews against the world, to create armies of disgruntled head shaving angry racists, masses of discontented, disillusioned, hopeless, grasping, hungry, homeless, jobless ordinary people, and stirring the pot, stirring the pot, turning up the heat. A steady stream of lighter fluid is added to the mix and then one day, when the moon is in the right phase and the moment is right they will simply toss in a single lit match and it will explode into violent, earth shattering hate and destruction. And mark my words, the self same creators of all of this hate and death and suffering will stand before us and look right into the television cameras to tell us that we have no choice but to nuke the shit out of whoever they'll say has done this to us. And we will say and do what we always say and do, "Hell yeah! We're number one! We'll make them pay!"

Will anyone hear me telling them this is all contrived? It's all about money and power games and misguided sexual overdrive acting out a need to dominate everything that moves in order to feel secure that you'll get what you want and need and beyond. No, no one will hear me. In fact I'll be branded unpatriotic, un-American, antisemitic, and a terrorist supporter because I don't want to kill anyone. Because killing is not an answer it is a depraved sport, and a lucrative sport at that, and I don't stand behind that or anyone who does. We have out of control murderers galloping the globe for God & country, for The Cause; which as you know means anything goes, anything at all in the name of The Cause. And anything is going. Everything is going.

It all boils down to selfishness. And the delivery vehicle is so called political correctness.

I'm telling you that there are no such things as political correctness or preexisting conditions or the internet. There is only us. Just people. Plain, ordinary, human, mortal, imperfect people. People of all walks of life, all ages, all stages of health and sickness. Some are honest and honorable, some are wise, some are brave, and some are ignorant and small minded. We're all just people. Our needs are the same no matter where we live: food and water, clothing and shelter, love and health and something meaningful to do with our lives. That's not hard to understand is it? How can it be hard to understand that when people, any people, are systematically deprived of any of those things that there will be serious trouble?

All of the world's people have hearts and souls, we all love our children and we all want to leave the world a better place. We all want to live in a just world, a fair world, a kinder world, a world without violence and armies and land grabs and power struggles. And if all of those mighty, mighty cocksuckers would just fuck off and leave the people of this world alone, we might just be okay. But they won't.

I say don't hate your neighbor. Don't hate your neighbor if they have a problem with illegal immigration. Every country in the world is filled with people who react just like we do when their borders are overrun with people from other places. It's not racist, it's a normal response. The feeling of being overwhelmed, overridden by strangers is scary and threatening. Massive immigration upsets the entire status quo. It uproots personal status and security and if you don't think that's very serious indeed then you just don't think. If you want to call that 'racist' then you need to get honest inside yourself.

People who are unhappy about illegal immigration, people of other faiths and cultures, people with other values and priorities than yours are not wrong, they are what they are and who are you to judge them? Your position is not automatically right, why would it be?   Would it kill you to take people as they are and love them anyway? No, but it will kill a lot of people if you don't.

Before you point at Muslims and exclaim they're crazed and violent extremists who hate us for no good reason, why don't you take a look at who is telling you those stories and who is benefiting from those stories being told? Because it isn't you, and it isn't me. It's the same old mighty, mighty cocksuckers who are raking in bottomless pits of benefits in dollars, the financial terrorists; plus their symbiotic enabling of the other mighty, mighty cocksuckers who forever lust to commit murder; mass murder for pleasure, mass murder as surrogate for sexual domination of the entire planet. Only the mighty, mighty cocksuckers benefit. Everybody else loses.

So please, spare me your judgment about my being and my person. I don't care if I'm not okay with you, I really don't. Your position is yours and mine is mine and if you will not shake my hand and be my neighbor anyway, then the real problem my friend, is you.

Right and Wrong vs. Supporting the Cause

2011-01-03T23:33:00.000-08:00

There's a lot of head butting out there these days, something I don't have much taste or tolerance for. I don't see brute force as a proper determinant of winners and losers. Brute force is, in truth, an ultimate position of weakness. Brute force is desperate and afraid of truth. It hates and dismisses truth. It punishes truth. Brute force specifically aims to destroy the existence of truth.

No legitimate thing is harmed by the truth about it. It is only the illegitimate that cannot withstand its own truth being revealed. The truth destroys the lies. Positions based on lies are decimated instantly once the truth about them is known.

This is why it's always been so obvious to me that things like gag orders slapped on whistleblowers, press censorship, police brutality against peaceful dissent and back room political deals are based on lies and reasons that cannot withstand the light of day. Governments that oppress, threaten and violate their own people are openly admitting that who and what they are, who and what they serve, have nothing to do with legitimate leadership concerned with the good of the people they ostensibly exist to serve. Oppressive regimes serve only themselves, and they demand that all people serve them instead of it being the other way around.

Why should the public serve authority? There is no reason for people to forfeit their own needs, wants, beliefs and values to instead serve the selfish self-interests of so-called authorities. Yet this is the status quo all over the world. But why do the vast majority of people in this world accept and support this arrangement? What do we see happen when authority becomes destructive, oppressive and unjust? That destructive, self-serving authority lashes out with brute force, sometimes killing millions of its own people. Authority would be much more amenable to straightening up and flying right if it did not have the option of using brute force to terrify and destroy its critics. Brute force is weakness and fear personified.

Authorities are mere mortals like everyone else. They have no special qualities that separate them from those they dictate to. People in positions of authority cannot fly or turn invisible or walk through walls or escape death. They must eat and sleep and drink and feel pain and confront the same private challenges that every person in the world must confront and deal with in the course of a lifetime. Authority figures are every bit as prone to weakness and selfishness, dishonesty, deceit, lying, stealing and cheating as the rest of humanity if not more so, they are not above any of it. They are not exempt from bad behavior. They are not always honest or right or even all that well informed or well intended. And the more authoritarian they are the less likely it is that they'll even really give a damn about the effects their demands have on anyone else.

This is anathema to justice. It is the opposite of what is fair and decent and moral and ethical; in a nutshell it is wrong. It is purely self serving. When that self-service reaches the heights of arrogance and cruelty, the truth of who and what selfish authority is cannot be covered up. It virtually screams its true identity and purpose from every hilltop and rooftop. It is like Godzilla rising up out of the ocean and coming ashore, stepping on villages and power lines and howling as sparks fly beneath its feet. It is not at all subtle. It demands everyone's immediate and total attention. And every thing that every one does can only be in response to this monster on the loose in their lives.

This is nothing new. How many centuries have gone by with this kind of corrupt, self-serving power at the helm of nations and cities and religions and economies, enslaving people and waging wars to conquer and claim the territories, wealth and resources of others? Pick up the newspapers today and read of examples around the world of repressive, violent regimes engaging in slaughter, in vote rigging, in threatening, imprisoning, torturing and killing of political dissenters and competitors. Even here in the good old USA we witness republican factions working very hard to remove millions of people from registered voters lists, in particular people who are poor and black and very likely to be voting for democrats. Republicans are eternally obsessed with finding reasons to call for people's right to vote to be taken away from them. In some states, anyone who has ever been convicted of a felony has had their right to vote taken from them, although this makes no sense and is irrelevant to voting. No one's legal, or moral or birth rights are ever subject to denial by anyone else for any reason. It's just stupid to pretend it's anyone's call to decide who has rights and who doesn't, and yet we hear this all the time.

Prominent democrats in our hallowed halls of government shamelessly proclaim that anyone accused of being a terrorist, just accused mind you, not proven to be a terrorist, that such persons upon accusation should not be entitled to legal rights, no day in court, no lawyers, no phone calls, not even a basic level of humane treatment. They deserve nothing, once accused, meaning they only deserve to die. This sort of arbitrary condemnation of others is heinous and baseless, and if nothing else, none of our dearly elected or anyone else for that matter, has any right or business deciding who is good enough to live or die, or who is good enough to deserve equal treatment under the law. But go tell them that and you'll get a choir of Sarah Palins in your face.

When it is so clear that people who behave this way are illegitimate at the very least, and it is obvious that this self-serving, judgmental, repressive arrogance and hypocrisy is destructive to the people, then how can it be so pervasive and growing stronger by the day? Why don't people see it for what it is? How can filthy lying whores like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, most of our dearly elected and the far right political/religious extremists be able to capture and recruit so many Americans and bring them into their demented, destructive fold?

What it boils down to can best be summed up in a question.
Which of these two things do you believe is the most important?

1) Knowing right from wrong
                or
2) supporting "The Cause"

Because it is the clash of these two immovable forces that causes the outrage, resentment, fear, intolerance and outright hatred battering our country into bits and pieces of security obsessed, unconstitutional, inhumane, disastrous self-destructive cluelessness.

It very much matters which one you pick. Let's look closer at those choices and see why.

Right and Wrong
For different people to live peacefully side by side they must have just one important thing in common. They must agree to the definition of right and wrong and then abide by that definition. As long as all parties involved do that, not much else has to be held in common.

Right and wrong are impartial. They are no respecters of persons. They see no rank or status or wealth or philosophy or religion or political affiliation. Right and wrong are right and wrong no matter who you are or who you think you are. Right and wrong are the same for everyone. If it is wrong for you to kill then it is also wrong for me to kill. This is simple stuff, a child can easily understand it. Regardless of choice of or lack of religion, right and wrong still apply the same across the board. Regardless of nationality, gender, age, income level, education or lack thereof, right and wrong apply the same to one and all, and can be understood by one and all.

Supporting The Cause
Enter "The Cause". The greater good. The war effort. The church. The political party. While we're at it toss in the ugly underbelly of human weakness: racism, sexism, religious bigotry and all bigotry including heart-swelling nationalistic love of country. Conflate heart-swelling love of God with heart-swelling love of country and you've got the mother of all righteous causes to support. Suggesting otherwise would likely get your ass kicked, at the very least.

Ever since that horrible moment when g.w.bush looked the world in the eye and said, "You're either with us or you're against us", he set in motion the exact recipe for disaster that would culminate in the ultimate destruction of America. He probably didn't set out to destroy America, but he certainly did achieve exactly that. Why? Because his entire premise and foundation was an untruth. He was just plain wrong. There are many more options than either being with us or against us. Asserting there are no other options sealed America's fate. The entire foundation of his war effort, his war on terror, the national security state, his beliefs about market fundamentalism, all of it, was wrong. Wrong in the sense of right and wrong. So in essence, what sounded like righteousness was a hollow foundation, a foundation that could not exist and never did exist. All the cheerleading and belief in the world would not turn empty air to wood or stone. There was no "there" there. There is still no "there" there. And all of the lying, scrambling of facts and figures, obscuring of information, secrecy, and congressional bills passed in the world cannot change that. It is all based on a lie compounded by hundreds and hundreds more lies to try to cover and support the first foundational lie. To use a word I've grown to loathe, it's simply not sustainable.

Supporting The Cause supersedes right and wrong, and that of course is untenable and false. You cannot ignore and defy right and wrong any more than you can ignore and defy gravity. You can try, and they sure do try, but you cannot succeed. Supporting The Cause by definition includes doing whatever it takes to prevail. That specifically means ignoring right and wrong. It specifically means becoming monsters "if need be", in order to assure that our cause emerges victorious. When nothing matters but supporting the cause then all actions proceed from extremes of selfishness. By contrast when right and wrong decides our behavior we are thinking of others and not only of ourselves.

Supporting The Cause means looking the other way when you see horrific wrong doing, corruption, murder, any and every wrong thing. Because The Cause is all good then to criticize it is to say that it is not all good. To say that it is not all good is to be against it. It makes you a threat to The Cause, it makes you the enemy.   It must be "my country right or wrong", no matter how wrong it gets. It will be "my religion is good, your religion is not my religion so it can only be bad. You are not on my side so you must be my enemy". This is thinking inside "The Cause".

Supporting The Cause has created euphemisms like "collateral damage" to describe and excuse the deaths of innocent civilians. That's just one example but there is a virtual library of such euphemisms.   Supporting The Cause has enabled and funded the existence of covert departments of government that overthrow governments in foreign countries, so much so that it would be foolish to believe it hasn't been happening here as well. Of course it has been. To those who do this work it is all for a greater cause.

The Cause is completely egocentric. It becomes the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter how many people die, or how much injustice is wrought, all that matters is supporting The Cause. The Cause can only see The Cause and nothing else. People are used for the good of The Cause. Murder, torture, false imprisonment, cruelty and abuse go hand in hand with supporting The Cause. It is because The Cause supposedly defines and stands for the highest definition of what is right and true and good, then it would only seem logical that nothing done for the good of The Cause could be wrong.

But that would be wrong.

Causes are transient and fleeting. Right and wrong will still be here after The Cause blazes through and torches everything to ashes. Right and wrong are irreplaceably valuable. Right and wrong guide us. When right and wrong no longer matter then what is left? Arbitrary brute force to achieve whatever your selfish aims are. And that is precisely what America has devolved to. It now approaches every threat, real or imagined, every challenge, every problem, every annoyance, every failure to fully submit to its will with overwhelming force. It throws hundreds of billions of dollars at military might and security forces, equipment and training, and everything else has been thrown under the bus, including the people of this country along with their well-being and future. Now the people are the suspicious enemy. The people are being scrutinized to determine their individual allegiance to "The Cause". Those who don't care about false causes or meaningless labels and instead put human life and simple right and wrong first, they are becoming the enemy, the new domestic terrorists.

There is nothing wrong with loving your country or loving your God or laying down your life in support of what you love and believe in with all of your heart. What is wrong is believing that the most private and personal choices people make in a free world, like who and what they love and believe in, has to be the exact choices you make or else they are your enemy. That is wrong. All any of us have a rightful expectation of is being treated the same as others inside a community that knows the difference between right and wrong and otherwise leaves us alone. The Cause can never leave others alone because it is desperate to prevail. It exists only to prevail and for no other reason. It is forever asked to prove it is right, but it cannot. All it can do is try to kill dissent, literally, until everyone is dead but those who support The Cause. And if that is not the very definition of evil, then I don't know what is.

Freedom, Servitude & Things Not Hidden that Go Unseen

2010-12-29T14:37:00.000-08:00

Please rise and put your hand over your heart while the authorities recite the National Security Poem.

"You may not speak
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not see
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not hear
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not ask
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not know
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not complain
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not refuse
so that we can keep you safe.

You may not live
so that we can keep you safe."

"Amen."

You may now be seated.
...

Zombie. Borg. Robot. Android.
(Animated non-living things without self awareness that perform automatic functions.)

Slave. Servant. Soldier. Worker.
(Living humans who must forfeit personal identity and forego self-interest to obediently perform the will of another. These humans give up their own free will to become an extension of somebody else's free will. Doing so is called performance of duty, employment or slavery.)

Cult member. Extremist. Fundamentalist. Member of a collective.
(Persons who give up personal autonomy after being convinced by extremely effective brainwashing that they want to be worshipful, obedient members, followers and believers of a brainwasher's will. The promised reward is religious/spiritual/political attainment/status/reward by way of receiving supposedly superior/special knowledge that only the brainwasher has.)

Whether mechanical or human all of the above entities have one overriding theme in common: they are servile. They are all required to operate devoid of free will. Dissent is unwelcome. Resistance is punished. Refusal to perform as instructed for any reason having to do with rational self interest such as staying alive, or conscience such as not wanting to kill innocent people or take people's homes or property, or any other expression of individual free will asserted as a legitimate cause for disobedience, is deemed unacceptable, criminal and punishable. Servile entities don't get an opinion. Their free will is irrelevant. Nobody cares about what they think. Their claims of conscience are also irrelevant.

If you are a servile entity you have only one purpose for living and that purpose is to obey your master; at least according to the masters. Disobedience is not tolerated. Willful disobedience can get you fired, court martialed, attacked by other servile entities, imprisoned, beaten up, tortured and even killed. The message is clear, obey or suffer the consequences.

It is interesting to note that the creation of robots and androids to replace thinking, feeling, disobedient humans has long been the serious desire of the controlling wealthy, the capitalists, industrialists, military leaders, dominators, tyrants and slave owners. All of these entities are notorious exploiters of humanity in their pursuit of personal profit, power and status. They all want and demand the same thing: unthinking, totally loyal, completely obedient workers, slaves, citizens and soldiers who will work long hours for little or no pay, with few or no benefits, few or no human rights or other rights, who exist only to do what they are told. They are never to question or challenge authority, never act disobediently, and lay down their lives without hesitation should their master/owner/commandant/leader order it.

It is clear that this arrangement definitely benefits those in control. What is not so clear and is little discussed is how little benefit there really is in being the one who is controlled.

Wouldn't you think that people who are willing (or unwillingly forced) to give up their own personal self interests, life goals, free will and self determination for someone else to use for their own self interests, life goals, free will and self determination would be paid extremely well for such a valuable thing? What is more valuable than the freedom to create one's own life? To work not to achieve someone else's vision and goals but to achieve your own.

That is after all the most basic and obvious thing for us to do with our lives. Not to work at the baker's shop but to own your own bakery. Not to bake their recipes but to create and bake your own.

Not to be told what to do but to decide for yourself how to best manage and use your own time. To set your own standards, establish and live by your own values, to come and go as best suits you.

Not to be imprisoned by arbitrary wage ceilings imposed by others but to keep the full fruits of your own labor, which is the only way and chance there is of accumulating wealth of any kind for most working people. For the vast majority of us being employed means being functionally poor, forever. Being self employed and working hard can and often does create a very nice, comfortable level of wealth that allows you to be independent and free. Giving that up so that someone else can use your body for labor, your hands and your mind for their own uses and benefits... you would think this would be something highly prized and appreciated and therefore very well compensated, but no, it's just the opposite. The pay sucks and your life is owned and run by people who use you. They profit, you don't. It's a hole that is very hard, if not impossible, to crawl out of.

When people give up their own free will, their own freedom, their own self interests, their own dignity for any reason or cause, they become non-persons. They don't count anymore. They are mere objects, tools to be used by their owners. People who allow themselves to be used by others for those others' personal enrichment are not respected for doing so. They are often treated quite poorly. They are used and used up and discarded.

When anyone forfeits their self respect, they won't be respected for it, they'll be used and abused. Is anyone confused by that? It's very simple. It is not hidden.

...

I am always saddened when I hear of soldiers coming home from active duty who are wounded and/or spiritually decimated and coming apart at the seams; in particular when they come home but do not receive necessary support or medical care or must wait impossibly long periods for appointments and/or get terrible care that is in fact not care at all. In essence they're abandoned. At the same time I'm always a bit incredulous when soldiers families or other advocates express surprise over this abandonment. Not because it's not outrageous because it certainly is heinous and outrageous, but because of one basic, simple fact that every person who joins the military should know but which strangely and often doesn't seem to register.

It is not hidden. When you join the military you literally sign your life away. You sign complete and total ownership and control of your body and your life over to the US Government; whoever and whatever that may mean. Your body and your life become the legal property of unknown others who are free to do anything they want with you or to you.

When you sign your life over to someone else to use in whatever way they see fit, you're taking quite a serious risk. You will get no written contractual assurances that you will get anything in return for entering into this bizarre one way legal agreement. When you join the military you are required to sign countless legal documents. The US Government is getting their legal end covered in iron clad chains and shackles. When you sign your name countless times you are attesting that you are of sound mind and adult age and that you freely choose to forfeit your conscience and free will to become the legal property of an entity that can and will use you in whatever way it sees fit.   Once you do that, you no longer have a voice. You are not free to leave. Your opinion is not wanted. Your dissent will not be tolerated. Your well-being will not be assured.   It was your choice. You made a legal contractual irrevocable agreement to give your life over to be used by a government. You surrendered your free will and your life, and you agreed to be promised nothing of equal value in return.

Think about it. You are required to sign legal ownership of your body over to the government and to release them from all liability for any harm or sickness or disability or death that comes to you in performance of your job duties. The only reason they have any interest in you is because you are willing to become government property with no rights of any kind. And what is it they want to use you for? Killing. They will use you until they use you up. To them, thousands of soldiers getting killed is all a part of doing business. And in this government especially, they clearly don't want to pay for medical care or benefits of any kind. They are legally entitled to send you back home in a bag or box or just drop-kick you to the curb. So when it's clear they only want you if you're killing for them, then when you're no longer able to kill, they have no use for you, how can you be surprised when they don't give a rats ass about what you need? The higher-ups are not disconnected. They understand just fine. They just don't give a damn. Nothing is hidden. It's all right out in the open, yet how many soldiers do not or will not see it?

...

To be forced, coerced, convinced, sold, steered, marketed or otherwise shoved into a direction that leads to a lifetime of servitude is to be deprived of freedom.   Freedom to live life on one's own terms. To be convinced that giving that up in exchange for endless servitude is a good thing is to be convinced of a very old and very evil lie. What is it to discover one's own possibilities, interests, feelings, passions, principles, strengths and weaknesses but to discover one's own truths? What else matters so much as that? What else can hold any meaning for us but our own truths?

Zombies. The walking dead. These are people who have been separated from the important work of truly being alive, learning to understand themselves and others through coming to understand the world we all live in.   This can only truly be done through independent discovery, independent thought and reason and living in service to one's own conscience. To understand truth, to own truth, you have to get to it on your own and when you do that it becomes a part of you. You know why it is, you know what it is, and you know what it means. You also know it is not a full and finished whole but only a part of a frankly inconceivable greater whole. We can not be given truth or simply be told what is true. The only way any of us can get to truth is by virtue of devotion to finding it, and devotion is something that comes from the heart. It is what it is. This search for truth, for meaning, for understanding, for self, this is the unique journey of every person's lifetime.

Or... you can skip all that and just be out to make money and enslave people.

So Free And Democratic n'shit

2010-12-14T18:00:00.000-08:00

A long long time ago before there were such things as politicians, people used to talk to each other and tell the truth. They simply spoke their thoughts and feelings and talked of their experiences and pondered life's questions, sorrows and joys openly. They had nothing to hide and no reason to connive or contrive for people who were more than likely relatives anyway.

You'll have to check me on this but I suspect that right after someone invented money the first politicians showed up, about five minutes later; and sadly it seems politicians will never go away. As long as there is money flowing freely out of the people's pockets and into the tax man's coffers, there will be politicians. And as long as there are politicians they will do what politicians do, which is to loyally serve their only two real clients, the rich man and the tyrant, both of whom forever want only one thing: everything. They want more than anyone else, more than anyone needs, more than even makes sense. They want control over what is not theirs, because they want what is not theirs. They require special rules which exempt them from legal, moral and ethical behavior in order to get their hands on what is not theirs.

They also want other rules which will literally or figuratively disembowel anyone attempting to protect what belongs to them in order to keep it from being taken by the rich man and the tyrant. They want many special rules like exemptions from paying taxes, exemptions from legal responsibility for their harmful acts against others, and special legal privileges that allow them to pay cash to the state in lieu of life imprisonment or public hangings for felonious acts as would befit any other citizen. The politician's job is to facilitate their clients receipt of these things.

The steps of facilitation are simple and straightforward. It is done by accepting generous amounts of money from their clients to purchase one or more performances, the standard political play-acting of saintly state's rhetoric delivered with bellowing voice and masterful language, complete with fist pounding debate, name calling, character assassination, bribery, blackmail and so much more. Every trick and tool in the dirty little politician's toolbox will be used behind the politician's back while the front side delivers windswept drama dripping honey thick oration toward winning the objects of their dear and generous clients hearts.

All of these things are done while the politician publicly pronounces himself to be the trusted friend of the people, a friend wholly devoted to whatever they want to hear, a literal physical embodiment of lily white virtue and honor, a valiant protector of all that is righteous, noble and true; and most of all selfless. Politicians must scratch and claw their way to the tops of rarefied marble pedestals where they then are able to pronounce their selfless saintliness and honor to all the good citizens of the state, rich and poor alike. This is the first lie of politicians.

But it is hardly the last. When one's first foot forward is a balls out, shameless and preposterous packet of lies, then nothing else can follow but more lies. Indeed, one must lie from that day forward about every single thing. As years go by, the depth, breadth and sheer number of lies, deceits and manipulations stack up into inextricably interconnected layers built up into great kingdoms made of stale, bug infested crackers. It is nothing but a house of cards, having no substance, no glowing record of good deeds done, no evidence of the people's quality of life having improved, no trace of selflessness or all that much service. There will be a great deal done that delivered generous portions of self-enrichment but these are never shared with the public, they are taken home and used to enjoy a much better quality of life than the average citizen could ever dream about. After achieving such a dubious track record, any grandiose proclamations of service and nobility are transparent enough to expose the facade of a crumbling cracker kingdom and to make clear the complete lack of shining alabaster castles and towers. The jig should be up but the other politicians will now expound upon the noble and glorious career of their fellow public servant until he dies and then afterward too, because it is in their best interests to continue pushing the first lie of all politicians.

The people are always told that politicians are decent people with no personal agendas, qualified people, people who do not lie, cheat or steal, who love their country, love their people, worship the same God the public does, and work long, hard hours battling out legal concepts in order to ensure prosperity, freedom and democracy for all. They have to say things like that because if they told you what they were really doing they'd be tarred and feathered and run out of town, or hung in the public stocks for weeks to let children laugh at them and throw rotten produce at them, and then they'd be executed for being the scum of the earth. Because, in a nutshell, politics is a series of agreements made between the rich man and the state wherein the state holds you down so the rich man can rape you. There's your prosperity, freedom and democracy right there.

Woohoo! More tax cuts for the rich!

Murder, Ominous Parallels, and the TSA

2010-11-29T17:27:00.000-08:00

Greetings and hallucinations. I've got something a little different for you today. It's something to listen to. It is a segment of audio from a radio show at Radio4All that I listened to a week or so ago and cannot get out of my mind. I listened to it again today and afterwards I noticed that my body felt as if I'd been crying my guts out for hours, but I haven't been crying.

Murder

This story is about a 25 year old guy, somebody's brother, somebody's son, who was brutally murdered, shot dead in the street by a militarized cop using an assault rifle. The young man's name was Julian Collender. He was unarmed. He had no criminal record. He had not committed a crime. But that's only the beginning of this real life horror story.

I want to put this up here for you to hear for yourself, even though it's not a happy thing. It's a real thing. This is war. This is Baghdad. This is Palestine. Except for that this is Brea, California. This should not be happening but it is and not just in Brea, CA but all over the country.

Those whose idea of a perfect world being one in perpetual war are in charge of this country. This story of one family's total devastation and horrendous treatment by authorities is only one tiny snapshot of what it's like to be on the receiving end of American imperialist authoritarian arrogance. All done to feather the bankster's vulture nest with capitalism's most basic and lucrative industry: war. Here's your Neo-Con-Zionist/Nazi ideology in its natural state, brutal and inhuman.

It takes my breath away.

Mp3 Clip

http://www.thinkorbeeaten.com/tmp/Michele%20Collender%20on%20Michael%20Slate%20Show.mp3

Original audio source:

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/47022

Justice for Julian website:

http://justiceforjulian.com/

The Ominous Parallels
Speaking of brutal and inhuman I would like to recommend some further listening. The Vyz is recording chapters from a book entitled “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America” which you can find here.

The book was written shortly after WWII and it goes into great detail about the Nazi philosophy, if you can call it a philosophy. The gwbush regime literally did a play-by-play straight out of the Nazi playbook, it's no accident nor is it my imagination. I assure you I could never imagine any such things on my own, it is there in the open for one and all to see, if you can see that is. Those who can see, will see what I see, what the author of the book saw. It is definitely worth your contemplation. Whether or not you agree is not the point, the point is to consider the facts in evidence first and then decide what you see.

TSA

Which leads to the next logical step in today's equation, the lovely and wonderful TSA. I will never set foot in an airport again, and I knew that way back when they brought us the silly ass shoe bomber and exploding toothpaste or whatever nonsense it was that changed flying forever. I cannot tolerate idiocy when it comes to my person or my life and I won't tolerate it. I don't have to tolerate it because I said so. It is my life and these are my rules, like it or lump it, I'm the only person on earth who gets to make my rules. If I went to the airport I already know that I'd have a very serious problem with naked body scanners or getting felt up by complete and total strangers, and I know myself well enough to know that I would not be able to control my anger, and that would land me in jail or worse. So I won't fly again, at least not as long as the TSA is terrorizing flying America with their assinine WOT tactics aimed at us instead of actual scary people doing harm to innocent people. I'll take a bus or train or drive my car instead of flying, and I'm fine with that. As airlines continue to lose revenues they might start paying attention to why.

The TSA is the natural product of an out of control, corporate worshiping, developing police-state control grid. What the TSA is doing is clearly not about airport security, nor is it about keeping anyone safe. We're as safe as we're ever going to be, with or without any TSA at airports. We the people are not the terrorists but we'll have to stand in for them because you see, there are no terrorists so the state has to create them. It does this to justify itself and the money it uses up and all the rest of the horrendous useless shit it gets up to. Big "security" is very lucrative and it is fun as hell to be bullies and thieves with badges that can do anything they want and never be held accountable. They are not going to give that up, not without one hell of a fight.

Creating your own enemies is standard behavior with false authority. True at airports, true at war. We have no honest to goodness enemies to make war with so we create them as needed with our unconscionable behavior, always done in the name of our own vainglorious goodness. We are supposed to buy the flatulent, offensive nonsense about our own heavily armed invasion forces being the good guys and only those who don't appreciate being invaded being the baddest of the bad guys. The worst you'll hear anyone in the media say about this howling outrage is that our dear government is well intentioned but horribly inept. They're not evil, they are only mistaken and clumsy in their endless quest to deliver freedom and democracy around the world. Even when it's perfectly clear that 'freedom and democracy' must mean something very different to them than to the rest of us. To them it means millions of people standing in ankle high rivers of their own blood amidst the radioactive dust and rubble of what used to be cities, apparently. Because that's just so free and democratic.

There is a pretty much zero percent chance that any person in the USA boarding an airplane on any given day, or every single day, will be armed and/or bearing explosives. We the working class people are not the problem. We were the victims, remember? Electronic rape of every man, woman and child and the truly horrific treatment by TSA power-droids of the traveling public doesn't even make sense. If actual airport security was the point and aim of the TSA, what they should be doing is questioning people about current or prior military or police enlistment as these are without exception the grand shooters and murderers of innocent strangers in large numbers in public places. Period. It's never anyone's wheelchair bound 92 year old grandma, or six year old little boy or girl, or ordinary working class dad or mom.

The TSA's game show is such an inane waste of money, man hours, resources, time and energy that it's shockingly stupid. If 99.9% of people at the airport are already known to present no risk or threat to anyone, ever, then why are they wasting any time at all looking at those people? Shouldn't they put 99.9% of their time and energy looking where there really are terrorists? You know, good old fashioned police work. But that's just it, there are no terrorists, that's why they have to go out and make them up and frame them. How many times have we seen it already? The FBI/Police, whoever, go out and pick some young and stupid petty thug and drive him up the wall offering him lots of money if he'll agree to take their bomb and blow something up with it. It's clear cut entrapment, meaning there is always a zero percent chance any of these railroaded patsies would ever blow anything up on their own. They don't have the brains, the desire or the skill to do anything more complex than snatch purses or six packs. The TSA is not only doing everything except making us feel secure, it is so destructive of legally protected rights, of our human dignity, of basic freedom and obligatory two-way respect that it's clear that the entire TSA is not what they claim it is. It is the proverbial 1984 big black boot on the backs of our necks grinding our faces in the dirt forever. This is their idea of security? Well who is being made secure by all this? Oh right, They are. Not us, them.

The TSA is there to let us all know that we are nothing, but authority is sacred. Your life is irrelevant. So is your grandmother's life and your wife's life and your child's life. You are an insect who will obey every command given to you by authority, and obey it immediately and fully, without hesitation, with no questions asked, no matter what you are "ordered" to do or you will be made to pay. Comply or die. Think I'm kidding? Do not cling to any fantasies about your freedom, you are not free. And don't test it unless you're in the mood for the Julian Collender treatment yourself. They may not take your life, yet, but they will take everything else they can from you. Your dignity, your self-respect, your God given rights, along with your sense of justice and common sense, security and well being, not to mention your freedom to say what you think and do as your conscience dictates. To these people your conscience is irrelevant. Any form of non-compliance with the heavily armed thugs in uniforms is not for the greater good and so exercising your conscience makes you the enemy. In other words, doing the right thing makes you the bad guy. That's how the Nazi "philosophy" works, and how the TSA works; the individual does not matter beyond whatever good he can do for the greater cause. Life is cheap in Nazi land, and now it's cheap in America too. Ain't freedom and democracy great? I'm sure they would be, if only we could try them out.

Since I'm broaching this subject I may as well take it all the way home. The next time you hear some TeaParty-er or anti-Obamarino stomping their feet about taking their country back, ask them if they've been on an airplane recently, and if so, did they go through the Rapiscan (Rape-iscan) or get the EMCABG (pronounced "em-cabbage") Enhanced Molestation Crotch And Breast Groping? Because if they say they had no problem at all with being electronically raped and made into an insect by dim witted authoritarian thugs, tell them the entire blame for the state of the nation is on their shoulders. That's right, their own shoulders. It's also on their shoulders if they hated the idea of being body scanned or felt up by thug perverts but in order to avoid inconvenience or embarrassment, they just went ahead and put up with it. They're even more to blame. This is where the rubber hits the road. This government is never going to do what we won't let it do. It can't. What it will do is push, and push and push and it will go exactly as far as we let it. If we let it tell big, fat lies and force us to become like stupid barnyard animals, stripped of dignity and legal rights for no legitimate purpose, then they'll do exactly that. When it's placed in your hands, when it comes down to you, what do you do? Refuse to be treated that way or bend over and take it?

It comes down to one decent person at a time standing for what's right and refusing, flat refusing to put up with any shit from the government whatsoever. Damned right that comes at a price, hello? Is that a newsflash to anyone? So when this or any other similar situation lands directly in your lap, when it is placed directly into your hands, into your life in real time, and the question is, will you stand for what you believe in or will you snivel and fold like a puking, mewling dog... and you opt for the dog role, then honey you're what's creating these thugs. You're what's creating this whole nasty ass system. If you're not willing to die to protect your God given rights I can assure you nobody else is going to do it for you.

At the airport Americans are shit-canning freedom and democracy because it's too inconvenient to do what must be done to retain them. Instead of saying, "Don't touch my junk or I'll have you arrested", and not getting on the damned plane, they are saying "Okay, I'm too dumb to know for sure what's mine and what isn't yours, I'm as cheap and easy as you want me to be, so help yourself to my dignity and rights. Look at my wife naked. Feel my wife's breasts and my kid's genitals, go ahead, because I'm too much of a spoiled pussy to do what I damned well know is right. I am an insect."

Really, stop blaming Obama and liberals and everyone but yourself. If you refuse to stand for what you know is right then what you'll get is whatever they give you, which is exactly and precisely what you'll put up with. So maybe you really are an insect. And isn't it ludicrous for an insect to complain about governmental abuses? Yes it is. I rest my case.

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Last but not least, a lighter note to end this on. You'll like this, I promise.

EXCLUSIVE: TSA Unveils New Genital Visualizers

See ya later. Dressed, I hope.

Broken Wheel

2010-11-18T22:30:00.000-08:00

I won't deny it, sometimes I can get dang depressed about the endless stream of evil things happening in our bruised and broken little world, much of the worst of which comes at the hands of our own dear incorporated govmint. I can also get sorely depressed about my own personal life; I could give you a whole long list of things that have gone wrong, mistakes I've made, things that should never have happened but did happen, encounters with predators and thugs of all kinds, getting ripped off, used and disrespected... you know, life. I have taken my share of damage, maybe more than some maybe less than others, but damage happened.

It can be painful to understand accumulated damage in retrospect knowing there is nothing I can do about it now. I can't go back in time and relive something and make sure it comes out right this time or make sure it doesn't happen this time, or be braver this time or less gullible, whatever it is that I think would have kept me from taking on another brick in my private wall of hurt. A private wall which, my guess is, everybody has.

If you're living you're going to get hurt, in fact if you're not getting hurt you're not doing much living. Private walls encircle us all, built from the bricks of life experience. Maybe we use these walls to protect ourselves but it's just as likely they could imprison us instead. A real danger lies in becoming so imprisoned behind our private walls of pain that we can no longer see anything beyond them; all we can see are those awful bricks, each one imprinted with the indelible story that placed it there. It does hurt to lose irreplaceable things like time and health and trust and hope, fill in the blanks with your own words. It can be hard to sit in peace with the knowledge that life shouldn't have been this way and it wouldn't have been this way, if only...

If only what? If only we'd had different parents, a different family, a different education? If only we'd been born in a different place, or in a different time? If only we'd had enough money to overcome some of the uglier roadblocks to happiness, maybe then we wouldn't feel like we got into a fight with life and lost. But would any of those possibilities really have prevented us from getting hurt in this life? Honestly? I very much doubt it.

Being undermined, used, cheated, lied to, violated... again fill in the blanks as you please, these kinds of things shouldn't be the structural underlying factors of anyone's life but I'm sorry to say, I think they often are. It would seem they'd provide precious little to build a life on. Wouldn't you think that only by extricating oneself from these types of things could one begin to clear a space for a personal foundation on which to build an actual life? And wouldn't never having these things crop up in the first place be even better?

It would be like the difference between being handed a broken wheel at the start of a race or one that isn't broken. A broken wheel is useless. You don't know how to repair it. You don't have the knowledge or the skills to know how to fix it but unless you can make it work you won't be going anywhere, so you have to try to do what you can. You try this and that, it doesn't work, time whizzes by, finite resources are strained to depletion. You take bad advice from good people and bad advice from bad people and end up with things worse than they already were. You are painfully aware that you must fully invest every bit of yourself just to get that broken wheel into a basic, usable state while in the meantime you're not covering any ground, you're just continually struggling with a frustrating situation that is only made worse when you can see the guy next to you getting handed a beautiful brand new wheel that is not broken; and he sets it down and hollers, "Weeee!" and off he goes. It's doubly insulting when you know the guy is a moron and a genuine jerk.

For that guy, deserving or otherwise, life is good. He probably can't conceive of what it's like to be handed a broken wheel that doesn't work and won't go anywhere and you can't fix it and it all sucks and never stops sucking. He has no frame of reference for that sort of thing, it isn't in his life experience. He may not be a bad person at all, just a person who has zero understanding of something he's never been through himself. Which only makes sense.

But then again, maybe he knows full well that he just got handed the sweet and easy ticket to success. For him, other people's troubles and their broken wheels are their own problem. He's probably even glad that your wheel is broken. Hell, plenty of people out there spend all day long trying to figure out how to break other people's wheels. They understand it's an unbeatable handicap to run in a race against people who have no feet. Some would even hire others to cut the competition's feet off and there are always those happy to show up and take the money and do it. Think Nancy Kerrigan for a literal example of that metaphor.

Dishonorable people are a dime a dozen in this world. It grinds my craw (whatever a craw is) whenever I see people like that win, and the fact of it is people like that win all the time. Crime does pay. It pays extremely well. In fact, it's the only thing that does pay extremely well.   You and I were told just the opposite, we were told that crime never pays. That was just one of the million lies they tell us during our formative years, and that one's right up there with "Wonderbread builds strong bodies in 12 ways".    The criminals of culture are experts at breaking other people's wheels if nothing else. They excel at pulling off dirty deeds and they're never bothered by conscience over it. On the contrary, they're very pleased with themselves. The real geniuses at it can turn abject filth into some noble sounding thing and people will not see the filth and will instead give them a standing ovation and a prize. I'm telling ya, it is scary out there in the real world. Things are next to never what they seem and they are definitely never what we're told they are.

It doesn't seem right that bad people win so often. Where is the justice in this universe when nasty, mean and selfish people take all and good people have to suck mud and die? That might well be the question that spawned conformist religiosity so long ago; and who else would step in to play the lead role and answer that question but the very same people who made folks ask it in the first place?

I put it to you that this obnoxious, offensive paradigm is status quo with our species. I'm saying this is nothing new, in fact, it's as old as the hills. It has always been like this no matter when you were born or where. It would be very rare and unusual, if not impossible, to not have to run the whole gauntlet of oppressive negative forces restricting most people's lives, confining every life to be lived inside boundaries that are invariably asserted as real and legitimate when they're neither, defined as normal when they're not, and set and enforced by external, unknown others without you getting any say in the matter at all. Society at large simply accepts this status quo, and not passively. They deeply accept it at face value and believe only what they are told to believe about it. They will attack anyone who actually thinks about it, analyzes it or questions it. They will also happily kill anyone who refuses to be enslaved by the lies and manipulations that turn entire nations into intellectually and emotionally disconnected children living inside grown up bodies.

What a set up. It's an eternally repeating loop. It's the perfect recipe to protect those who feed on others, those who lie, cheat, steal and manipulate while simultaneously ensuring a steady supply of willing victims.   The parasite clown kings of earth hoist themselves and each other onto all the highest of the high public pedestals for every last sheeple to look upon and worship. All it takes is walling in the minds of people from childhood, never showing them anything beyond the props that are used in the daily production and denying there is anything beyond those props should anything else be inadvertently dragged in. The mind is thus imprisoned, and when it is imprisoned it ceases to be, because when it thinks it knows all there is to know it stops thinking. It stops asking questions. It stops seeking. It stops learning. It stops caring. And it resists worthwhile change. Change would mean the answers you already possess are wrong. A shut off mind can't adapt. It cannot change. That might be why bringing new information to the old table is often a total waste of time and can be about as welcome as the plague. All the hard facts in the world won't penetrate the brain of someone who has stopped thinking.

Are you with me so far? You are? Great! Then roll down your socks into ankle donuts and follow me back to the broken wheel scenario.

It is flat understandable that being handed a broken wheel in life can cause some serious unhappiness. Especially when we can see the blatantly unfair way that certain other people are predictably and invariably handed beautiful brand new unbroken wheels. But here's the thing. Did you ask for a wheel? Did you desire to be entered into someone else's race? Are their rules of any interest to you? Do they mean anything in your life?

Why would you want someone else to hand you a wheel in the first place? Especially when it's clear that what they're handing you is a rigged game, a handicap, something that will hold you back while helping someone else win this rigged race? It's a perfectly good question to ask, what's in it for me? Who's game are we playing here and why?

It is true that for the most part we don't have much choice about being in "the race". If you want to eat, if you want to fit in, if you don't want to be called a loser and a freak and be rejected from inclusion in the action and activity around you that does everything from get you food and shelter to friends to sex to love to choices of ways to spend your time and life then you are essentially forced to get in the race and pedal where they tell you to go. But you don't have to buy into it and you don't have to believe in it and most of all you don't have to accept it as it is and just go along. You don't have to take anyone's broken wheel onto yourself. You can say, "No thanks, I'm making and using my own wheel, it's one of a kind and it's mine all mine". If you're a thinking person you have to get to the point where you realize what nonsense everything in the phony rat race is and how truly little the blabbering, posturing, plastic circus of fools have to offer that has any real value, substance or meaning. And I think when you realize that, that is the moment, or at least the beginning of the metamorphosis, that honest to goodness sets you free.

You can't get to here without going there first. Broken wheels open your eyes. Then you can finally see. What matters is not what they're doing out there, but what you think matters. That is an immovable truth that "they" cannot do anything about. They know this, it is not a news flash by any stretch. They know it exquisitely well. They know that all it would take to blow their whole False World of the Parasite Clowns to pieces is enough people thinking like this. With enough people seeing right through them not a shot would need to be fired. No riots would occur. In an atmosphere of peaceful silence, their games and all of their lies and senseless ways would become like melting snow. They would no longer control the race. They would no longer control the outcome. They would no longer control anything.

But that will never happen. At least not in my lifetime. I don't see much chance of millions of people who can no longer think on their own getting to the point where they can see truth they've been told does not exist. They are literally hypnotized and can only see what they're told is there to see. Love those people, be kind to them, but don't waste time trying to jump-start their minds, and don't turn your back to them because they just might drive a knife through it. Why? Because instead of thinking and perceiving the world around them, they live in perpetual fear. And nothing gets fearful people more excited than something coming along that sounds like change. Different is bad, it doesn't matter a whit if it's true.

If you think about it, it only makes perfect sense. If you don't know anything about the world you live in beyond what you've been told by others, you will live in fear. People fear the unknown, and the real world that exists beyond their own lives is literally unknown to them. They would deny that of course, but that won't change the fact. Ignorance or denial or even straight out dishonesty cannot change what is true. What is true will be true whether we know it or not, or like it or not, or agree with it or not. It will be true even if we deny it is true. It will be true even if we say something else is true instead. Nothing we do will touch what is true. What is true cannot be changed by anything we say or do.

This is probably why so much time, energy and money is spent on covering up, literally burying what is true and then asserting that something else is true instead. It is most often done by laying something else on top of the truth to partially or completely obscure it. When people ask, "What is true", they will point and say, "Here is where the truth is, come and see it for yourself. We will show it to you". And they will point to where the truth is said to reside and people will look and what they will see is what has been laid on top of the truth. Then they will say, "Now we know what is true". Only they won't know what is true and they'll probably never figure that out.   It's not exactly impressive or complicated to throw a whole lot of people off the trail of truth. It is devious and dishonest though. And it's par for the course. Anywhere there is money flowing, there is a sea of bullshit to float it on. Show me one exception and I'll eat my hat.

But you know what? I think that deep down inside people know they don't have the real truth. They just can't stand the idea of it. A shut down mind doesn't want anything to change. People usually don't like change anyway, at least not when the status quo is comfy enough to tolerate and the rewards for playing the game keep coming in. A state of ignorance is a matter of will, not a matter of truth.   Deep inside where truth rings like a bell, they don't hear that ringing. They hear lots of circus music and talking heads and assertions played on endless repeating loops and they're told that unless everything stays the way it is then everything would fall apart and chaos and anarchy would turn the planet into literal hell. People see the finger pointing and stage-show posturing, but they don't hear that ring of truth. The closer they get to noticing that and asking themselves what it means, then the closer they get to the most important fork in the road of a lifetime. Do they strike out on their own and begin searching for the truth, or do they choose to remain ignorant by dismissing all available information and demanding they are right and everyone else is wrong? If they decide to remain ignorant it is because it pays to remain ignorant. It's much easier, it is effortless in fact, and since you're making everything up as you go then you can also make up the idea that you're right. If they decide to strike out on their own and hunt for the truth we'll probably never hear from them again because they'll be dang busy for the rest of their lives. Regardless of the choices made, the truth will never go away. Ever. It will always be there, it is always there to be discovered and understood. Ignoring it won't change it. Denying it won't change it. Hiding it won't change it. It will always be there.

Are you sure?

2010-11-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

What's up with software makers having their programs ask you if you're sure you want to close a program? When you click the "X" in the corner of a program window, or when you navigate to the drop down menu and choose "Exit", what happens? Does the program close?   Sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes instead of just doing what you told it to do, it asks you, "Are you sure you want to exit?"

Why does it do this?   Why wouldn't I be sure? What manner of bizarre lingering doubt do software creators imagine exists in the mass mind of humanity that would make it so unlikely that anyone would be unable to determine whether or not they "really" want to exit a software program? Is this hard for most people? Do most people usually click the "X" and then ask themselves, "Should I have done that? Did I really want to exit the program? I can't tell for sure if I wanted to exit or not. Oh dear, what should I do? Help me please."

I am sorry but barring so few examples as to make them not worth mentioning, I put it to you that over 99.9% of the time when ordinary computer using people click the "X" they do it because they are through using the program and want to exit it. They are not ambivalent about it nor are they confused. They are not drenched with sweat due to overwhelming insecurity over the decision. They harbor no doubt or hesitation. They are done now. They want to leave. It is over. They click the "X". Why do software manufacturers find this so difficult to believe?

What is the message your friendly neighborhood software selling corporation sends you when you can't even close a silly computer game without everything coming to a halt so that your computer can demand that you make damned sure you know what you're doing? The message is straightforward. You are too stupid to properly click things on your computer and you need to be second guessed 100% of the time to make sure you don't do something catastrophic like close your program when you didn't really mean to close your program. Not that you couldn't just reopen your program if that were the case but ignore that and pretend there's a serious "X" clicking related threat here. What's the deal?

It is apparently the belief of certain software makers that most people are so pathologically inept and tragically insecure that they don't usually mean they want to close a program at any time, including when they purposely move their mouse pointer all the way across the screen way up to the uppermost corner where they have to carefully align the mouse pointer directly atop a little bitty "X" and then click on it. Software makers are certain that nobody means to do this. Ever. It is always an error when anyone tries to close a program.   Yet by the same token these very same software companies feel perfect security in the ability of people to know for sure when they want to open a program, because there is no such thing as a message asking if you're sure you really want to open any program on your computer. So... no one ever opens programs they didn't really want to open, they only close programs they didn't really want to close. Is it just me or is this truly bizarre thinking on the part of software companies?

It would seem that some software companies are convinced that there could never be such a time in anyone's computing life when they would be done using the software. This is an inconceivable situation to these companies, many of whom themselves never, ever close any of their computer programs. Ever. It would have to be a gross accident, a mental blip, a moment of total stupidity for anyone to actually believe they were done using the software program. You are never done using the software. Do you understand? Never. You don't have a life. You don't have other things to do. No. What would be normal, reasonable and expected is for you to sit at your computer twenty four hours a day for the rest of your life using the software. "Why would anyone ever want to close any computer program?", they seem to be saying.

Why would anyone click the "X"? Are you sure that's what you want? Are you sure you know how you feel? Are you sure you know what you think? Do you need help making sure that you can think all by yourself? You may think you're done using this program right now, but are you? Shouldn't you think it over and reconsider that idea because it's probably wrong? You are too dumb to know what you want. We're here to help by telling you how dumb we think you are over and over and over again.

This is not only not helpful, it is scary. Not to mention insulting. It also makes little sense. On the average, how often does it really happen that people close programs when they didn't want to close them? Does it happen so often that the best course of action is to save people from their own hopeless stupidity by making them confirm they want to close a program 100% of the time before the program allows them to do it? I don't think there is any evidence to support that. At all. None. In fact I would say that it is so unusual that people accidentally close programs that it's not even worth the time to calculate the percentage of times out of a thousand that it happens. Besides, even if it does happen, so effing what?

What does a software maker care if I accidentally close a program when I didn't really want to close it? Does it affect them in any way? No. It is irrelevant to them.   I really don't see the logic in this strange setup or any reason for it other than to perpetuate the insulting and untrue suggestion that computer users are too stupid to open and close programs of their own cognition within any acceptable margin of error. It is arrogant and impertinent and they can kiss my unamused butt.

Ever heard of personal responsibility? If I close a program accidentally and lose work then I learn not to do that again. It might happen again, but it won't happen very often. I am sure this situation is best left to the individual experiencing it. I'm not seeing where software manufacturers feel the need to be included in or to prevent this sort of personal learning curve. It doesn't appear to me to be anything within the venue of writing computer programs. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't think so. My personal behavior is none of their concern. At least not on Earth. Instead of second guessing me maybe they should concentrate more on writing programs that don't crash or go cattywompus quite so much.

Perhaps this particular default was written into programs as a form of insurance for new users, but you know, you can only be new at computing for a very short time, then it's not new to you anymore. Should operating systems or software programs be set up to cater to the most temporary class of computer users, new users, on a permanent basis? Who would benefit from this? Maybe a computer school for new computer users, but no one else. Not the average home user. Not the average business user. So, again, I am confused as to the need for this second-guessing the intelligence of the user being built into software programs and operating systems, and I wish they'd knock it the hell off.

I feel better now. Thanks.

The Possible Origin of Galaxies/Remember Lot's Wife

2010-10-16T19:39:00.000-07:00

It is really strange watching the devolution of this country. Instead of continuing to develop, people are going backwards, turning back into primordial ooze. Or where ever we came from.

It's surreal constantly finding myself trying to explain the obvious. It's exceptionally hard to do, try it sometime. Why is it wrong to kill? Why is it wrong to steal? Why is it wrong to lie? These are things that everybody is supposed to know; it doesn't take a discourse or fancy university degree. Ironically, it is a lot of those fancy university degreed people who don't seem to know, or remember or comprehend or respect any of these obvious things that everybody is supposed to know.

What's all the rage these days and as far into the future as we can stomach seeing? According to those with Acquired Degreed Degeneracy Syndrome, it is doing everything and anything to erase the real, the obvious, the sensible, the rational, the fair, the common sense, the truth, the very nature and decency of man, along with nature itself. "Fuck nature!", they all seem to be saying. "And fuck you too, worm!" [Insert maniacal laugh here.]

It appears the game-plan is to replace the normative substance of nature and man with an artificially created profitable devolution version of the future; and they are riding it in on the solid gold backs of stampeding wild war-horses of the apocalypse. "Ahead Death! Ahead Lies! Onward to serfdom! Run Hypocrisy! Faster Biotech! Do not tarry! The future are belong to us!" "Us" being the most clinically insane, depraved assholes of all time, out to get rich by destroying the whole of the world and all life on it. What the hell is wrong with these people?

Oh now I know what you must be saying. You're saying, "Ang, that's just not so. They're not trying to kill the whole of the world. They're just on target to get rid of most of earth's population. It's only a clean up job, a little tidying up, you know, sweeping away the flotsam and jetsam of pointless humanity to make the world a better place for us, the ones who really deserve to be here because we're so superior and shit."

See what I mean? It's everywhere. Do I really have to explain why it is depraved to the nth degree to murder most of the planet's human populace just because "you" think it's a good idea? Well who the hell are you? I guess the answer to that question is self evident. "You" means the people doing it and getting away with it.

I didn't used to understand God's anger in the Old Testament. I always thought he was kind of harsh the way he kept turning cities and peoples into smoked flambe'. Now I get it. Now I totally understand what made God so angry that he annihilated population after population of filthy, stupid, corrupt, greedy perverts and twist-cases that had no respect for life, no morality, couldn't care less about their fellow man, or God. When cities devolved completely into lecherous, criminal, greed and corruption, it made God sick to his stomach. He wanted to God hurl. Maybe that's how all those swirling galaxies got created, they are deity puke. That is something to flesh out another time maybe.

In the Old Testament, Genesis 6, which is pretty early on in the story of God and man, God was already up to here with stupid human meat puppets. God was appalled, offended and disgusted by the corruption everywhere. There was so much corruption that even the earth itself was filled up with corruption. That's a lot of dang corruption. And God repented for having created man upon the earth because man was just a piece of shit and that's all there was to it. Man didn't get it. Man wasn't bright enough to actually get it, and God knew that, but God figured if his creation just did what he told them to do, they'd be fine. Great in fact. But right out of the box his creation blew him off. It took about 15 minutes. God was left standing there all alone doing the V-8 forehead slap. "Why will you not listen to me?", he must have asked a zillion times.

From the get go, people were corrupt. They were selfish and greedy and violent and dishonest and perverted and sadistic and cruel and all the things that people can be that tear peaceful, loving existence to shreds and use it for toilet paper. Killing children, raping anything that moves, worshiping status and wealth, selling your own family into prostitution, mass marketing, whatever, just so long as you move up the food chain. It's perfectly inane, but there it is anyway. There is no point to chasing wealth and status except self glorification. Frankly, I have never met anyone who deserved glorification. I don't think any such human exists. Never has. Never will.

So right after people abandoned God at the first sign of something shiny across the street, the next thing they did was lie about being God themselves. They put on funny hats and long gowns and encrusted themselves with gold and gems and finery and went about strutting their stuff acting like God's gift to mankind; protected by battalions of heavily armed men to keep from having the shit kicked out of them by the masses who have always known bullshit when they see it. If all of these self appointed special people were all that great, why do they live off people they impoverish and work to death and why do they have to have armed protection? Is it because they're full of crap? Yes it is.

To this day we can watch the God Wannabee's strutting their stuff on the world stage, most of them seem to live here in the states, or in England or Israel. They all do the same thing. They lie and talk about how great they are and how they're right about everything and can not be prosecuted for any of those right things they do. Those right things that end up leaving millions of dead bodies in their wake and countless hectares of poverty strewn suffering defenseless humanity behind them. Yes indeed, good job men. Well done. If you're flaming moronic amoral pond scum that is.

Is this a joke? Is this whole planet one great big April Fool's joke? Is this thing on? Is it just me or is what we're witnessing materializing before us on this earth the exact opposite of the best thing in the world ever, ever? Is humanity screwed or what? And who are these jokers having so much fun crushing the planet into bloody, brutalized, begging pulp? Why are they allowed to live? Aren't these the exact corrupt scum bags that God zapped into smithereens over and again? What are they, human cockroaches or something? Will they never go away and leave us in peace?

Apparently not.

We have a pickle here. A gauntlet has been thrown down before us...but, the game is rigged. Just like in the movies. "Pick up the gun!" "No mister I don't want to pick up the gun!" "Pick it up or we'll shoot you!" "Okay okay, here, I picked it up". And then they blow him away saying he pulled a gun on them. Seen it before? See it repeated all around you in endless ways? Is that or is that not corruption? Well there you go, there really is nothing new under the sun.

How many times did God tell people how to live well and right so that evil would not consume them and poop out their bones like camel droppings in the sand? More than once I'm sure. I've never counted. But how many times can you open the bible to find God saying, "Enough! You are out of here!" Enough times to understand that even God Himself could get sick and tired of repeating the same simple request to man: be decent human beings.

They brought us poppy fields to fall asleep in, and we did. Then the flying monkeys came and they got jobs as lawmakers and radio talk show hosts and TV liars. And then the poppies wore off. Bullets, bombs, pills and chemicals are killing the world and bankers are eating the killings. And everybody keeps pretending that there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this and there's nothing wrong. Like hell there isn't. Tell me one thing right about it.

Evil is not a single individual running around the world doing evil things. The point of evil is not to do evil, it is to get you to do it for him. Satan wins the one world cup. All I can say is that if God shows up head for the hills children. And don't look back.

Hand Job Alert - Distraction Tactics

2010-08-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

Something landed in my inbox this morning that warrants making an example of. It's an article from the Wall Street Journal, WSJ, written by a Brett Arends. Don't know him, never heard of him before, don't read the Wall Street Journal. It was an interesting read though, quite fast paced and stuffed to the gills with scary "data" that kept the reader riveted. The title of the article is, "Is a Crash Coming? Ten Reasons to Be Cautious".

I guess professional writers have to earn their pay like everyone else, and there's little doubt that the most popular pastime of today is fear mongering and hystericizing how bad it all is; so what's a writer to do but go with the flow and keep that paycheck a'coming? Right-O.

The above mentioned article has ten numbered short paragraphs plus a brief intro saying all the right things. It begins:

"Could Wall Street be about to crash again?
This week's bone-rattlers may be making you wonder.
I don't make predictions. That's a sucker's game. And I'm certainly not doing so now. But way too many people are way too complacent this summer. Here are 10 reasons to watch out".

Okay fine, we're supposed to perceive the writer as savvy, sober, sane and honest and not prone to push anything that ain't so.   Well, we shall see.

Each of the ten paragraphs is on a different subject but each of them shares something in common. They all have a feel and tone that escalates an explicit bottom line message. That message is that things are much worse than we're being told; that everything is even shakier and more horrifying than we know; and most of all that any minute it's all going to blow up and bring on horrible terrible times and suffering and panic in the streets and chaos and all that fun stuff. So don't wait; worry, fear and panic now to stay ahead of the crowd.

I'm hardly a proponent of this government. I know that it lies like a dog and I know things are foul. But I also know that we don't know dick about what's really going on. I know that everything is being orchestrated to the letter by very powerful individuals and that nothing happens or is allowed to happen unless they want it to. I've learned that everything we're told is more or less bullshit and that the real reasons for things that happen are never given to us. We are literally in the dark. Go ahead and prove me wrong. We have to take "their" word for everything unless we can get up and go check it ourselves and for most of us, we can't do that. Which is why it is very important to be careful who you listen to and even more important to use your head to do a whole lot of critical thinking because so much of what gets past us simply does not pass the sniff test, if only you do a little sniffing. Could it be that there is no financial crisis at all except for the one they're making up in the media and shoving down our throats in order to supply cover for all the egregious thieving and robbing being done under the watchful protective eye of our dear Unca Sam? Who knows. Could be. But this article is a perfect masterpiece of fear 'n panic pushing bull doody, right down to the black and white photo from the day of the 1929 crash.

Here's what I mean. This is paragraph 6:

"6. The jobs picture is much worse than they're telling you. Forget the "official" unemployment rate of 9.5%. Alternative measures? Try this: Just 61% of the adult population, age 20 or over, has any kind of job right now. That's the lowest since the early 1980s—when many women stayed at home through choice, driving the numbers down. Among men today, it's 66.9%. Back in the '50s, incidentally, that figure was around 85%, though allowances should be made for the higher number of elderly people alive today. And many of those still working right now can only find part-time work, so just 59% of men age 20 or over currently have a full-time job. This is bullish?"

On a quick read through, one might be shocked by these numbers and one might believe they just read that we have a 39% unemployment rate. That does seem to be what is being implied here, but that is not what was said. What was said was that 61% of the population, age 20 or over has a job right now. What was not said is that is pretty close to good old fashioned normal. That's right, normal, and here's why.

People often think that having a population of 300 million means we have 300 million workers but that would be wrong. Chop that roughly in half to guesstimate the working population. Why? Because there are things called children in America. There are also people who go to school called college students; and there are retired people, disabled people, and people who don't work because they either don't have to, they don't want to, or they can't for various reasons like having family responsibilities and so forth.

Now that you know that roughly half or so of the adult population doesn't work in the first place, does 61% strike you as shocking and horrible or does it strike you more like ballpark?

I wondered where the writer got his employment data because he didn't state his sources, so I emailed him and asked him where he got it.

"Labor Department. I dig through the numbers."

That was his reply, in full. Alrighty, I said to myself, I'll just go there and see what they have to say about it. I did this with a strong idea about what I thought the numbers should be because I went through this subject more in depth a year or so ago and what I learned stuck with me. It didn't take long to locate the numbers that verified that I'm correct and that this isn't shocking or even unusual for that matter. It's all pretty status quo.

Don't get me wrong, there are most definitely a whole lot of people out of work as corporations pull up and move offshore with American jobs leaving workers precisely squat for options. But that picture can only be revealed if you look at the data over time, say since dear Ronald Reagan was in office. He's the great president who opened the doors for corporations to have their way with the world and exit the country with Americas jobs and prosperity and to screw the American people as much as they like. Bless his heart. I'm glad he's dead now.

The thing of it is, a number like that 61% doesn't mean squat by itself, that's what's insidious about it.   It's not until you compare data over a period of time in order to gauge increases and decreases, spikes and drops, that you can glean anything meaningful or pertinent from all those numbers. Just throwing out a single number like that is pretty much pointless because it doesn't tell you anything about anything.

And because that's true the best that can happen is that people will believe things that are not true or real at all. Repeat that process over and over as the corporate media tends to do, and pretty soon you've got a nation of worked up, hopped up people blowing off steam about idiotic nonsense like Obama's birth certificate or believing that all Muslims are crazed terrorists hell bent on killing us all in our beds. That's how it happens. That's the simple process that has gotten us to where we are today. Obama is just another pez head prez and I promise you, it's not all him doing all that's wrong with the country. Most of that ground was well laid long before he got on the scene. And for those who have already forgotten that george w bush was and is the most hated man in the whole wide world, then you need to do a reality check. The bush regime used the constitution for toilet paper, it was long gone before Obama's name was even on the ballot.

But I digress. Back to the article.

I interpret this to be a case of preying on the ignorance of the public with the aim to inflame and upset people and get them even more wound up and worried and angry than they already are.   I just don't respect that. I think it's low and seedy and unhelpful at best and one wonders what would possess any honest decent person to imply such horse crap knowing how much damage it will do to so many people who will take to heart what they think he said because that's exactly what he was going for.   The WSJ obviously caught the News Flu, the kind that makes you lie about everything and forget about
informing people about what they need to know. No real surprise there.

The fact of the matter is that there really are extremely serious threats coming down on us right now but the establishment media is the last place you'd hear about any of those things. The establishment media is there to distract you from those things with other things that go nowhere and mean nothing and just get everyone's panties all in a wad. That's their
simple formula for keeping the masses at bay and out of their hair so they can go about doing their criminal thing uninterrupted. When will the public ever figure this out? Hard to say. Maybe never.

I didn't check the facts of the other nine paragraphs but excuse me for assuming they're probably filled with similar falsely implied non-specific, unsubstantiated, over generalized data with the aim of freaking people out for fun and profit. I get to make that assumption based on my first hand checking his "facts" out and finding out there's a game being played.   You can't say he's lying, but he's not exactly giving anyone an honest picture either. Know what I mean?

If you want to read the rest of his piece, here's the link.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703723504575425723973560744.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Question authority. Question everything.
Doubt whatever they're selling whenever it's being pushed hard and wide.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Carry on.

Rich Looters Just Want Something for Nothing

2010-07-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

It disgusts me to hear the political class, whores that they are, saying the stupid, ugly things they say. Things that would make any moral person hang their head in shame for even thinking them, much less spouting them out loud like the bloated wind bags some of these guys truly are.

The recent political floor show debating whether or not to extend unemployment benefits was a good example of well fed, spoiled rich people saying stupid ugly things. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona said that unemployment benefits keep people from looking for work "because people are being paid even though they're not working." He said that unemployment checks don't create new jobs and that, "In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work."

Senator Kyl you ignorant slut. One wonders, has the senator ever faced extended periods of unemployment? Has he ever missed a meal? Has he faced losing a home because he could not find work due to the nationwide exodus of business to foreign countries? Has the senator ever seen any of the ghost towns this mass exodus has created? An exodus which he and his cohorts brought about and forced on a populace who did not ask for it or support it. Because of our self serving dearly elected's hard work this entire nation is tanking. It's impossible to miss it. We don't all get to eat 5 star lunches and be waited on hand and foot Mr. Kyl. Shame on you, you dirty bird, and shame on all of the shameless right wingers of like mind, arrogant sadistic swine, the lot of you.

There is no question of whether or not to extend unemployment insurance payments for a nation of battered cheated people who have been stripped of their ability to support themselves directly due to the big business and big political boys and girls obsessive compulsive monopoly games. No debate is necessary. They'd better damned well keep those checks coming.

It is upsetting to say the least when this country is forced to listen to the ugly likes of phonies and scum buckets like Limbaugh, certain religious leaders and a whole host of so called republican politicians who become foaming at the mouth demagogues decrying the horrors and sins of "giving" unemployed, excluded, screwed over, poverty stricken people enough money to just barely sustain their lives. For these people it is apparently too much to ask to give a damn about humanity. They're too busy giving a damn about their own bottom line and to them that's all it can ever be about. As far as they're concerned when it comes down to their beloved wealth or millions of Americans slipping into poverty, sickness and homelessness with no hope for change anywhere on the horizon, they will always and immediately grab onto their fat wallets and tell the American people to fuck off and die.

The myth of poor people wanting something for nothing needs to be put to death once and for all. There is no such thing as people living hand to mouth in poverty, living it up on their pittance of a monthly check from the government. That's complete crap. The vast majority of human beings on this earth would jump at the chance to make their lives better. Most people don't have a problem with working. People like to work. People like to have something worthwhile to do with their lives. I've yet to meet anyone who wouldn't be interested in improving their situation. This drivel spouted from the political/fundamentalist right is just that, sorry, despicable nonsense. It sounds like a good thing to say to get others on board all in a huff thinking that poor people are just out for a free ride but I'll tell you what. You name me 10 such people. Go ahead I'm waiting. Yeah, that's what I thought. You can't name one and you know what? Neither can Limbaugh, or Robertson or dear senator Kyl. It's all big fat lies. It's all a manipulation of the American mind. But it's worse than that.

Look at what's really going on here. What is the unspoken but undeniable message we are hearing? It is that money matters more than human life. And sadly, in today's depraved economic climate money does matter more than human life. How can that possibly be okay? How can it be state policy? There is no possible justification for this, how could there be, but there it is anyway. The rich people want it this way. The people who know how to play the game better than everyone else want it this way. There is no shame around this, no apology for it whatsoever. On the contrary. It's gotten so entrenched into the system and unfortunately into our national values that today it is done with enough arrogance to choke a horse.

In 21st Century America, caring about the well being of your fellow man is supposed to be seen as an inexcusable burden; not as a moral obligation of those who prosper most, but as an outrage. We're to believe that ensuring the well being of the citizens of this country is not our problem and it's wrong, even harmful to them. We're to believe there's nothing in it for us. We're told that nobody else deserves the fruits of our labor, and the Christian church is even selling the concept that those who don't work should starve. Whatever supposed Christ they claim to be worshiping is not one that I am familiar with. We're told there will always be poor. Yes, there will always be poor because there will always be selfish, greedy rich people who don't give a damn about their fellow man.

We are supposed to feel put out by chipping in a few bucks of our tax dollars to be used for making this country a better place to live, better for the human beings who live in it. As if there's something wrong with doing that. Conversely we're supposed to be thrilled and delighted when staggering amounts of our tax dollars are used to make war on the poor people of other countries. No complaints there are allowed.

Yes, today, Those Who Have are now in the official positions of being their less prosperous brothers judges, claiming to be fully qualified to decide the fates of millions even while not knowing a damned thing about any of them, even while being completely disconnected and ignorant about the millions of people they dismiss out of hand as irrelevant and undeserving, and let's not forget evil. And they claim this right to be the judges and decision makers for all others lives because they have plenty in the midst of people who don't have enough to survive.

Well whose fault is that anyway? This is circular thinking in the extreme. It is strictly because some people in this world want so irrationally much for themselves that there are so many who don't have enough to survive. The rich people want everyone else's share. It's time to face that simple, basic, eternal, unshakable fact.

Why don't we get down to the basic realities here since that will never happen in Washington DC. Great pains are taken to sell us everything but the basic truth about what those with wealth and power do, and the reason for that is obvious. When you really look at what they do you want to throw up. You realize that there is no excuse, legal, moral or otherwise that justifies the way the monied power class of this country treats the people of this country. They are flat out despicable. They are dishonest, abusive and deceitful because they are greedy, nasty, selfish, ill willed, small minded and ignorant. They're the ugliest people in the world. Ugly on the inside that is, where it actually counts.

Take a moment to come with me now; let's go all the way back to the beginning, before there was such a thing as money. What was life like for human beings before money was conceived of? Life for human beings was on the same terms as all other life on this planet. Everything you needed and wanted was here and it was yours free for the taking. If you wanted shelter, you made yourself one. You could build it anywhere you wanted to; there was no rent to pay, no mortgage payments, no ownership of land, no permits needed. Like birds build their nests free of charge where ever they choose, human beings used whatever available natural resources they needed to use, free of charge. All it cost them was the labor it took to do it.

What this tells us is that, according to nature, of which we are still a part, the actual monetary cost of living on this earth is zero. It tells us that food is free and water is free and shelter is free, by birthright, to every living thing that is born here. For humans it tells us that with the application of our intellect and muscle, we can freely make use of the abundant varieties of raw materials, all provided free by the earth, in order to get our life needs met; food, water and shelter as well as herbs, medicines, minerals, etc. Whatever is there is free for us to make use of as needed to sustain and maintain our lives and care for our families. Once we establish ourselves in providing for our needs we can take things along much further and create wonderful things that make our lives better, richer, easier, more abundant, meaningful and more fulfilling. All without spending a single buck.

Which means that there is an inherent right for all people to get their needs met and prosper by their own effort. For free.

Unfortunately we have nothing of the kind available to us today. Every bit of food, every inch of land, every acre of fertile soil, belongs to someone else and can only be gotten with money. By decree of establishment law, which is nothing more than the wealthy people's personal private system of total economic and political control, all but themselves and their own business enterprises are deprived of the ability to live in absolute freedom and utilize the natural resources of the planet as desired at no cost. They have totally monopolized the resources of this world while simultaneously exploiting the coerced labor of others to collect those resources and process them for the sole benefit of the rich.

If the rich of the world must have this unnatural arrangement lest they become dejected and morose, if they insist by law that they must prevent the majority of humankind from living in freedom and from prospering on this free, natural earth, from creating their own abundance and prosperity with the sweat of their brows, the intelligence in their brains, the creativity of their spirits, and the good will in their hearts; then something is most definitely owed by those who prevent it.

If the corrupt and the greedy insist that they must have it all for themselves then they must pay for it, it is not theirs for free, it is ours, it belongs to all of us. The only reasonable exchange is actual value for actual value. All those natural resources would be there in perpetuity for us to use if psychopathic corporations weren't mass producing and consuming them in excess and waste, all for profit, not for human good or intelligent use or need or any other rational motivation. If these selfish wealthy types must own and control it all then they must pay for it. And the price is self evident. The price is providing all that is needed for all who have lost out the chance to live well and prosper in health and continued growth and life satisfaction as they would be able to do if not so prevented. No. They don't get to just have it all because they want it all. That is their modus operandi, and it's no less than criminal and preposterous. No deal. Who'd make a deal that stupid?

We begin to understand what "imperialism" is. It is precisely that. Taking what you want from others by force without regard to those you take it from. Imperialism is the misguided belief that there is such a thing as a right to behave in this manner and to garner obese and disgusting personal wealth from so doing.

Well, people are entitled to believe whatever they like but it shouldn't be a news flash to anyone that there are a large number of other people on this earth who disagree strongly with imperialist notions of having rights to anything they want and forcing their own personal value system on the world. The vast majority of people would say imperialist behavior is not rightful under any circumstances and in fact what it represents is everything the body of man considers to be criminal behavior. Yet there they are in control of all of the world's resources, and why? Because they use force to get their way and when you're blown to bits is pretty much impossible to do much about anyone stealing your land and your water and your resources and killing your family and friends and culture until no trace of your people exist and are forgotten. All so that the imperialist rich can stay rich and get richer.

Nothing there to be proud of in my opinion. It doesn't even make sense. But the bottom line is, we never agreed to any such arrangement. And our ancestors did not speak for us or contract for us, that's not possible. Whatever deals of the day were struck a hundred years ago are over when the original deal makers pass from this life. Otherwise what we end up with is a snarled, corrupt, filthy criminally dominated system that consumes everything and leaves nothing but destruction in it's wake. And that's pretty much what we have. Does it need to be said it's a failure?

The people will have their due, and what they are due is the means to limitless prosperity. This is the very essence of freedom, being free to see to your own wants and needs. It is not possible to live in poverty if you're any other of God's creatures than man. Only a lack of money makes you poor, and the lack of money is never by choice, it is by design of the system that is bleeding us dry as it makes it's move to finally monopolize the whole world. They want to make everyone poor so that they alone can be rich and have everything all to themselves.

This is their system, the very system that's been forced on us all; a system not here by your choice or mine, or by our fathers or our father's fathers choices. It is a system that belongs solely to a singular class of people who own most of everything and who possess wealth in extremes of excess that most of us could not even conceive of. This is their criminal game. It belongs to them. It sees to their whims and desires. It provides for their "needs" at the cost of not allowing us to provide for our own, beyond whatever ways a certain number of us can be utilized by these people to further their own goals of personal wealth and power. All ownership benefit accrues to them, and never, ever, to any of us, the actual people who do all of the work and build everything.

The terrible state of things today is no accident, it is the world they wanted to create, a selfish world that cares only about them.   A world that puts them first, forever, above all others and allows them to have their way with the world however they see fit, in perpetuity. Their world vision specifically excludes the vast majority of the rest of humanity. Contrary to the standard propaganda, this system is not designed to let us lift ourselves as high as we want to go. It is designed to put us down and keep us down where we will never be able to obtain enough wealth to be truly free, free enough to live our lives on our own terms. Only they possess and monopolize that kind of freedom. What they've forced on our lives is modern slavery and you're the serf. You don't get any choices. Your opinions don't count. You'll do as you're told or you'll be fired. You will comply or you will be punished, non compliance will not be tolerated. If your credit's bad then you won't be able to rent a place to live and no one will hire you. Comply or die. That's what you've really got and that's what they tell you to believe is freedom and democracy, and you do.

Proving that you can take any egregious behavior and label it something positive and nice, and nobody will notice it's a big fat lie. Take any serial pedophile and call him a priest and bingo, he is free to engage in a lifetime of child rape and never has to worry about being suspected of being and doing what he really is. That's how easy it is to detour an entire planet from seeing the truth of anything. Call organized mass murder 'war' and all of a sudden it's a noble enterprise that everyone accepts as reasonable and necessary. Examples abound, I can't list them all, just look around, they're everywhere. We are all living a lie, spellbound by happy sounding misdirection and deceit. And being told that poverty is our own fault is one of the biggest deceits of all.

If given the opportunity in our God given, natural environment that was not 100% monopolized, owned and controlled by wealth and power obsessed, competitive, cutthroat rich men and their pet whore politicians, ordinary people would do what they've always done, only better, due to much improved understanding of the world. We would all be able to grow our own crops and build our own houses and make our own commodities, establish our own ideas about trade and ethics and best practices and we would live perfectly well. Fabulously in fact. But today the system of ravenous monopoly by the rich doesn't allow that. That freedom, our very freedom to create our own prosperity is unwanted competition to them, and if there's anything they hate it is having to compete in their own system like the rest of us have to do.

We can't opt out of their crappy system and begin growing our own food somewhere that looks like a nice place to settle. We can no longer simply collect wood and necessary supplies to build our own homes. Somebody will run you off, or land you in prison for trespassing or some other claim. In this "modern day" environment, the message is clear. Only some may have everything, while a few may have some, and a whole lot won't get anything at all.

Pardon me for saying so, but that is a shit system. Who thinks this is an okay balance of needs and prosperity? Who thinks this is an acceptable way of doing things? It isn't acceptable. It's horrendous. It fails utterly to ensure the well being and prosperity of the vast majority of people in this country. And for those who are allowed to partake of some part of that prosperity, a ceiling for it is cast in stone above all our heads; a prosperity ceiling determined by the rich system owners to suit themselves. This is how and why there are such moral atrocities as arguments in the congress over whether or not anyone working a full time job should be paid a living wage. According to the people who created and own this system they say no. Work two or three full time jobs, it's not their problem. Their problem is getting richer than ever and according to our value system which is in fact their value system, and our laws and our policies which are in fact their laws and policies, they win. The people lose. So if you can't find work because there isn't any work you should just fuck off and die.

Are we seriously to believe that this couldn't be done better? Let me see, what are the working parameters again? The wealthiest people in the world, who have more money than God, who own everything, who worship themselves as our superiors, as the brilliant captains of industry and finance doing God's work, who know the system intimately, who know everybody who's anybody, who have all the inside information, all of the contacts, and know all of the ropes; these people who can pick up the telephone and any time of the day or night call on the most talented, gifted, and brilliant people on the face of the earth who will jump at the chance to work for them; these wealthy men who can order that anything whatsoever that they choose be done and others will rush to carry it out; this is the best they can do? Make themselves even more rich by taking the food from our mouths and taking our homes and taking our jobs away and giving them to people in other countries, leaving us in poverty, broke, in debt up to our eyeballs, without health care, without any hope of the so called economy coming back online because they've killed it to benefit themselves, ran a going out of business sale, liquidated the public's assets, emptied our coffers, drained our prosperity and future and have packed up and left for higher ground leaving us, the people who made all their wealth for them through our hard work, abandoned, impoverished, in debt, abused, lied to, used, confused and going down for the last count without even so much as a life jacket. Even that is too much to ask.

Well excuse me but I am not impressed. You couldn't come up with a much worse system than this. This system stinks. It's an abject failure and it's inexcusable. It represents the ultimate misuse and abuse of all available assets and the forfeiture of all reasonable outcomes. It's utterly ridiculous. The "My Money Matters More Than Your Life" gang has rolled around in their own skunk scent for so long they can't smell themselves anymore. But we can smell them. Anybody who has managed to retain their human decency in the midst of this frenzied final sacrificial feast of globalist parasite scum on humanity, can also smell it. The smell is overpowering to all who continue to value human life more than worthless green dollars. The stench is horrendous. I can't stand it anymore.

These guys act like they're doing the world such a great big favor by bringing us their made to order personal concept of progress and prosperity and shoving it down our throats against our will, with deceit and by force. What big favors have they ever done anyone? Are you better off today than you were ten years ago? Very few of us are. The better off people are the wealthy ones; you and I got dick. And now they're taking whatever is left of what little we have after all this looting and pillaging our economy by the rich and greedy; by the flesh eating parasites and their bought and paid for political whores. What's so dang great about that? It sucks. And they know it sucks.

The political class represents the rich and powerful and the rich and powerful don't want anyone to do well except themselves. They want to see all our means of support and all social safety nets stripped from the system, so the politicians yodel out idiocy about people gaming the system and wanting something for nothing. They should know all about that. Who wants something for nothing? It's not the poor people, it's the rich ones.

It's the rich ones who don't want to work. They're the ones who don't want to pay for what they want, to have it handed to them on generous no-strings silver platters or to just take it, at gun point, by virtue of unfair laws and policies they write and pay to have entered into officialdom to benefit themselves by screwing others. They're the one's who don't want to have to earn a cent through hard work like the rest of us have to do. They're the ones who want it all for free. They're the ones who don't pay the taxes, who don't want to be regulated, who don't want fair play or to open up to competition so all of us can play the game. The greedy rich are the ones who want the free rides, all of the free rides, and they're the only ones getting them. And they're getting them in the hundreds of billions of dollars that come out of our stolen prosperity and freedom.   Who's really getting everything for nothing? It sure as hell isn't you and me.

By the way, these double-talking lying greed bags are the same people who pointed at desperate, starving and injured   people in the wake of the levy collapses after Katrina and called them looters. They wasted no time calling the people of Haiti in the aftermath of the most horrendous earthquake we've ever seen, looters.   Apparently the definition of the word 'looter' is unfamiliar to them. Traumatized victims in desperate need of life saving emergency assistance are not looters. They're victims. They must take whatever food, water and necessities they can find to stay alive. This is called survival and there is no creature on the face of the earth who does not have the right to save its own life.   People in the wake of terrible disasters need help and help can either be given or it will be taken by those who need it because there are no other options.

It is not wrong, it is fundamental truth.   Instead of idiotically blathering about looting why don't these useless idiots get off their butts and send food and supplies so nobody is forced to take anything away from you profit-uber-alles business twits?

It must be mentioned that the normal human mind and heart feel strongly motivated to render aid and assistance when it sees people suffering and in need. The sight of devastated people does not leave the normal mind cynically disinterested, it does not bring pleasure or amusement and it most definitely does not spawn immediate thoughts of getting rich off other people's misfortune. This is where the rich and the nasty part ways with the rest of the people of this world. The most prosperous people on earth are apparently functionally incapable of giving a damn about anyone but themselves.

Normal people care about others. Not because they have to, not because it is owed, but because it is normal and natural to care. Normal people have compassion for others. Normal people feel respect for others. Normal people understand the pain of others and understand what it would be like if the tables were turned and it was they who needed help. A normal human mind would know it would strongly desire help when help was needed. So it is beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond deals and profits, real estate grabs, oil and mining contracts or anything else that speaks only to the rich and greedy; normal people just want to help those who need help. That is what natural, rational, moral, decent people do. That is what being human is.

Human beings who think only of self and personal gain from the deaths and losses of others are despicable in the truest sense. Their crudeness and selfishness is grotesque and offensive to all moral and ethical humanity. Depraved indifference to human suffering is not something to boast about or feel proud of. It is shameful to assert such insulting, arrogant nonsense about doing a service to one's fellow man by swooping in to profit from disasters by helping oneself to vaults of money while letting a few crumbs drop so that some few others may eat. These people are not God's gift to anyone. Not in this universe at least. How shameful the greedy become. How shallow and empty and vain. How self-centered and obsessed with always getting more for themselves until getting it at the cost of other peoples lives, prosperity and happiness is only "doing business". How much lower can you go?

It's nothing personal they say, it's only business. Well, it may be only business to their shrunken hollowed-out souls, but I assure you, nothing becomes more strictly personal than feasting on the flesh of our children. That's not business you scum bags, that's as personal as it gets.

In closing I would leave you with this thought. The truth, the fact and the bottom line is exactly what they don't want you to see. All of the posturing, infighting, noise and distraction of this game show called politics is there for one reason; which is to detour the public from understanding that in this system of, by, and for the rich, it is only the rich looters who always want something for nothing and it is always and only they who unfailingly get it.

If I Don't Like You

2010-06-02T13:27:00.000-07:00

If I don't like you, that means I have the right to kill you, doesn't it?

No. It doesn't.

But if I am very afraid of you, even though you're far away from where I am, that gives me the right to kill you, does it not?

No. Still not.

If I am obsessive compulsive about you and I believe that you're out to get me, do I then have the right to kill you?

No, sorry, still not.

Can I at least imprison you then? Without a trial. Without a lawyer. Without legal rights of any kind because certainly if I fear you, you should have no rights or protections under any law. Can I at least disappear you away and torture you so that I can feel better?

No. Not that either. Sorry.

Well dag nab it, when do I get to kill you? Because I hate you and that's all there is to it. Wait, surely hating you gives me the right to kill you.

No. Sorry, it doesn't.

Damn it! Look, I really want to kill you, help me out here. What is a good enough excuse for me to kill you and get away with it?

Well, there's not many options for you on that. You'd need to make me out to be a threat to you in some way. A very serious imminent threat to your life.

Oh I see! Self defense! Of course!   Make it look like I am an innocent victim so that nobody would think twice about me killing you. Nobody would try to prosecute me, and better still everybody would agree with me that you needed to be killed, and even better everyone would feel sorry for me. No one could ever claim that it is wrong for me to defend myself against a vicious attacker like you.

I am not a vicious attacker. I have never attacked you or anyone else. You would be lying to accuse me of being a danger to you, and anybody who knows either you or I would know it to be a lie, immediately. You would be branded a liar and lose all credibility and respect. No one would tolerate you anymore.

Oh that would be terrible. That would never do. I must have utter credibility. I must be trusted, adored and fawned over. I must be respected, admired, seen to be truly special. Extraordinary. Extra-special. I must have room to move around freely and do whatever I like, where ever I like, whenever I like. If everybody hated me or distrusted me I couldn't get my digs in anywhere and I couldn't flourish and I couldn't insinuate myself into other people's lives and exploit them to death. I couldn't parasitically extract profitability out of others for personal gain. I would have to get a job! GOD NO! I will not sweat! I will not toil! I will be waited on by slaves! Slaves I say! Lesser beings than my righteous, extraordinary, special self! Small little nobodies who grovel and quake in my presence!   I shall be waited on hand and foot and I shall live in comfort and luxury at all times! I shall want for nothing! I shall be worshipped because I am superior to all others. I shall make all the rules to make sure everything will always be done my way and I shall kill and destroy all who stand against me! It is my birthright to have it all for myself and to be worshipped and obeyed! I am your king! Everything is mine! I am everyone's king! I am king do you hear me! I am the king of the world!

Okay. You know, you might want to try cutting back on the caffeine a little, you seem a bit edgy. A tad anal. A little worked up. A bit delusional. A bit too self-important. A bit over the top. Frankly you sound nuts. Does that run in the family by any chance?

You dog! How dare you speak to me in that manner! I am better than everyone in the world, don't you know that? How stupid you are! Boy do you deserve to die! Look how vicious you are! Look how you are filled with hate for me! Look how you hate a good and kind and decent individual who has done you no harm! What kind of filth are you? I must defend myself against your hateful venomous aggression! You are trying to kill me! Destroy me! Undermine me! Lie about me! Prevent me from having everything I want and getting rid of everyone who doesn't see it my way! You will pay for this!

I have one word for you: Valium. Get some. Try it. You need it. Trust me.

You filthy vicious animal! You're a murderer! You are evil incarnate! You're trying to kill me! HELP! HELP! POLICE! THIS MAN IS TRYING TO KILL ME!

What?! You are a lunatic! Did you escape from a mental hospital or something? You are such a big fat liar! Now back off! Stop hitting me with your umbrella you asshole! Get off of me!

MURDERER! THIEF! NAZI! HELP! HELP!

All right, all right, what's going on here? You there, stop hitting that guy with your umbrella. I said stop it! And shut up! Now! All right. You, tell me what's happening.

Gladly. I was just sitting here minding my own business when this FREAK with the umbrella comes up to me and starts saying how he hates me and wants to kill me and wants to know how he can kill me and get away with it because he thinks he's the king of the world. I am not making this up. Look at him. He's a lunatic!

LIES! LIES! LIES! Look at how he has harmed me! Here I am walking along the sidewalk minding my own business, feeding the birds with crumbs from my sweet roll, when this raving murderous crazy person runs up to me and starts stabbing me and shooting me and blowing me up and killing me and hating me for no possible reason! He is dangerous and I demand that you arrest him immediately before he starts killing nuns or cops or something! COP KILLER! COP KILLER!

Where were you stabbed? Where were you shot?

Well I have no stab wounds or gunshot wounds because he missed! Thank God! But he sure tried to kill me! I am almost nearly dead right now because of him! NUN KILLER! COP KILLER! MURDERER!

Is this true? Were you trying to stab and shoot this man?

NO! Of course not! You can see for yourself that I have no weapons. I am the one who was getting battered! He is the one who is going around beating on people and trying to kill them, not me!

Umbrella boy, you trying to kill this guy? What's your problem? He ain't got no knife or gun or anything else. What are you trying to pull?

I assure you officer, I am not trying to pull anything. Every word I have spoken is the God's honest truth. It is that man behind you, he is the liar! He is the dangerous killer!   He is the raving lunatic! You should arrest him right now and save this city from his rampage of hate and murder and killing and depravity!

Okay. I don't have time for this. You, Umbrella boy, do not hit anyone else with that thing, do you hear me? You do it again, I'm taking you downtown. And you, you get on down the road. Just try to avoid this guy, who knows what his problem is. And you too Parasol Pete, get a move on; go that way. And I don't want to see or hear one more peep out of either of you and I don't want to hear about you either. Just stay away from each other and mind your own business. Now get going.

YOU ARE LETTING THIS MURDERER GO FREE? HOW COULD YOU? CAN'T YOU SEE WE ARE ALL IN DANGER BECAUSE OF THIS MAN'S UNFETTERED BLOOD THIRSTY SCATHING HATRED FOR INNOCENT PEOPLE?

One more word - jail cell. One word. Just one.

(Silence).

Good. Now turn around and start walking. Go. Move it.

You too, turn around the other way and start walking. Good. Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

THE END
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This fictional short dose of common sense and simple humanity was brought to you by Ang, who figures you're probably seriously missing both as much as she is.   This story could never happen today. It could have happened anytime before the year 2000, roughly, but today it could not happen. Today the raging hate filled politicized nut case only has to point and cry out, "Terrorist!", and entire SWAT teams descend onto the scene, armed to the teeth with weapons of war, hungry to torture, beat, crush, zap, interrogate, imprison, destroy or kill anything that moves. This sort of thing cannot mutually coexist with common sense and simple reasonable humanity.

Some things never change. Some things do. It would just be nice if the right things changed/ stayed the same as really needed once in a while. But no. Ugliness just gets uglier, stupidity just gets stupider, myopia just gets more myopic, aggressors just get more and more aggressive.

But there's always a flip side, and the flip side is the opposite of Stupid Aggressive Myopic Ugliness (SAMU). This is a good thing. The contrast between SAMU and that which is not SAMU makes it hard to ignore the SAMU stuff. The uglier it gets the more it stands out as ugly, and the more it stands out as ugly the weaker it becomes. In essence, it takes itself out.

Stupid Aggressive Myopic Ugliness is self defeating, it cannibalizes itself. It is a self cleaning spot on the dirty carpet of the world. It may take a while for this indelible truth to be learned so that we can move on as a species, but it will be learned. This indelible truth cannot be avoided or hidden or indefinitely postponed. Good always prevails over evil and evil always takes itself out. Maybe not on our personal time scale but on the time scale of universal truth that cannot be touched or tampered with by any mortal. Men can dick around and act like demonic viral pond scum that consumes innocence and light, but they will never change the world. They will always lose.   They always have. They always will.

FALSE IDOLS

2010-04-26T17:55:00.000-07:00

Neither my mother nor my step dad had any strong sense of religion, so it follows that I didn't grow up having one myself. It was possibly one of the nicest things they ever did for me, or didn't do for me, to not instill in me some prefabricated pre-supplied preordained required belief system regarding religion and religiosity.

Whether or not they knew they were doing me a favor, their own general silence on the subject left it to me to do my own searching, comparing and questioning, which I did do pretty early on in life. I think that's pretty much the norm too, to do this kind of searching and questioning early on. Doing this exploration on my own enabled me to approach the subject with a very open mind, without pre-supplied expectations, preconceived notions or ideas of any kind.

Even though my mom never went to church or talked much about religion, she very much encouraged me to go along with school friends who often invited me to church with them. My closest cousins were Catholic and their mother, my aunt, made them go to church every Sunday even though she often didn't attend with them. She still sent them to church and to years of Catholic Sunday school too. So I was able to sit through many a Sunday service at various churches in the area, visiting the Catholics, the Mormons, the Jews, the Presbyterians, the Unitarians, the Scientologists who are extra creepy, and various assorted others.

Hollywood has done a great job depicting "the church" as a place of benevolence and caring for people but truth be told, the last place I'd ever run to in a time of need is some church. While I know there are good churches with good people who really do get it and who don't turn the church into a power playing game show, there are plenty who do.

Official church structure is a standard Power and Control template that looks the same in government, officialdom, and any hierarchical status obsessed self important supposedly authoritative conglomerate of borderline and/or flagrant narcissists, control freaks, power junkies and attention addicts. It's all about them and about you doing it their way, or else. Or else what? Or else you suck like a terrorist dog while they act nonplused, arrogant and vindictive with you. Because they're such nice people.

Well that's what they claim to be. Not just any nice people but THE nice people. The BEST people EVER. And it must be so because they say it is so. That's enough to make it so, isn't it?   If you look the part and say the words, everything you say is true, isn't it?

Simply by virtue of them saying, "We are the best people EVER. We are above reproach, above suspicion and above having to prove ourselves to anyone at any time. We represent the highest good and the highest truth. You're either with us or you're against us. You're either one of us or you're on the other side, you're the enemy, the misguided, a danger to our goodness and light keeping the world safe from evil people.   You have to believe us and never question us because we are never wrong, even when we're wrong. We never do wrong because it's impossible for us to do wrong because we represent the highest good and the highest truth. We're the good guys and we set THE ultimate standard for what being good means and what doing it right means. We are your role models AND we live up on pedestals because we're more special than other people. And that's that. Period.", that makes it all true. Simply because they make these claims, (albeit not in so many words but that is their modus operandi go ahead and tell me I'm wrong), simply because they represent this queer philosophy, people believe them. Most everyone believes them and takes them at face value, en masse. Because that just makes so much sense, doesn't it?

No, actually, it doesn't make sense. It makes no sense at all. It's stupid. You'd have to be dumb as a rock or have the IQ of a kindergartner to think that just because someone is some kind of authority figure they can be believed and trusted. They can't be trusted. They're total strangers. Why would you trust them when they feed off public money and don't appear to be suffering for it in the least? When they're better off than you they're not your servants dear one, they own and control you. Grandiose authority figures least of all deserve public trust.

It's a real shame that our public education system is so useless that a sack of farts would do you more good than 14 years of public indoctrination; because if people knew the slightest amount of history they'd know this. They'd be able to recognize horse hockey when they see it. They'd be able to tell the difference between a big fat liar and a statesman. They know the difference between facts and faith, between manipulation and honest discourse, between hypocrisy and fairness. I'm afraid Americans have been so deprived of education they can't tell the difference between their own ass and their elbow.

That's why being able to come at all of this with an open mind, a clear mind, allowed me to see it and hear it, experience it and evaluate it for myself. What I can tell you about doing it that way is this: when you are able to see something without having been propagandized about it first, you stand a much greater chance of seeing what's actually there, not what you've been told is there. And that my dear friend, is no small thing at all. It's a honkin' thing. It's the crux of the biscuit.

I didn't understand a thing about organized religion, it was completely foreign to me. And coming at it from that kind of a blank slate in mind and heart, it soon became apparent to me that there was nothing much that organized religion had to offer me. It was clannish and fraught with pomp, curious behaviors and hypocrisies; plus churches were not friendly places at all. In truth they were often down right ice cold.

Sitting through services in a variety of churches didn't do anything for me beyond boring and confusing me, and sometimes even offending me. Organized religion is about as clear as mud, and the fact of the matter is that you have to be indoctrinated into it, brainwashed, programmed, whatever you want to call it, but it has to be pumped into your head first and thoroughly or it can't make sense. The reason for this is self evident, to me at least. Organized religion is not natural. It is unnatural. It's an invention of man, a club, a social structure, a political organization, a good old boys thing. Whatever you want to call it, it isn't real. If it was real it wouldn't need to be explained to me, I'd be able to experience it and understand it all by myself.

Things that are real, things that are true, don't need to be dressed up funny and propagandized to get everyone seeing the same thing.

Do you need the ocean explained to you when you're standing on a beach somewhere, looking out at that vast expanse of moving water? Nope. You sure don't. You can take it in all by yourself and you can understand it well enough all by yourself, you don't need any help at all.   The ocean will speak to you the same as it speaks to anyone who stands in its presence. It's majesty, beauty, mystery, complexity, it's sensuousness, speaks to one and all, even as it speaks directly to you personally. You experience it personally, you have no choice. Your senses will take it all in as your mind expands and focuses. The sound of waves crashing, the feel of soft sand beneath your bare feet, the invigorating clean smell of energized salty ocean air. The warmth of the sun upon your face, the tickle of wind whipping through your hair, the shrill calls of seabirds flying nearby. This is reality and I don't need it explained to me.

I also don't need any help feeling the spiritual aspects awakened in me just by standing there taking it all in. At that moment and every moment I'm there, I feel fully alive. Every moment feels laden with meaning and truth. I'm sure of my experience and it is unforgettable. It is profoundly inspiring, relaxing and exciting all at the same time. This is the truth.

Most of all, in the context of this subject, I don't need a thing about it explained to me. In fact I'd venture to say that anyone presuming to tell me anything about the experience would be way out of line. They're not qualified to tell me a dang thing about what I experience or feel or see or think about while I'm there. What arrogant stupidity it would be to wag your finger in my face and tell me how to perceive the beach and what to think, do or feel while I'm there. How bizarre you would be to approach me and say I need the Holy Book of The Ocean before I can properly go to the beach and understand the rules and the hierarchy and do it right. If you did that, what could I say but, "Who the fuck are you wookie, to tell me anything?" Such impertinence could only invoke from me my usual helpful and to the point response, "Kiss my butt".

Before I get anyone all ticked off as I am so prone to do whenever I bring up the subject of religion, nobody needs to rush in to defend their beliefs and nobody needs to attack me as if I'm an actual threat to your religion's domination of the country and most of the whole dang world. Trust me. Nothing I can say or do will so much as put a teeny dent in religion's stranglehold on the human mind. So please, just exhale and let your anger float away. You're fine. Your beliefs are fine. I'm not judging you and you don't need to judge me. I am stating my views which are different than yours. It's not that what I'm saying is all that horrible, it's common sense. If you're upset it's probably because what I'm saying is not the same as your current dominant viewpoint on religion, and you just can't tolerate a different view point. But you need to tolerate it. I have to tolerate you and it's no big deal on my part. Why not do the same and we can both have what we want?

I'm not saying that churches and organized religions are all bad. Then again, maybe I am saying that. Maybe that is how I really feel, but even I suffer from some of the cognitive dissonance that the deeply indoctrinated true believers suffer from so profoundly. It is really hard, painful even, to believe that people who are supposed to be good and right and decent and caring leaders of the people are in fact big fat nasty ass liars and thieves and child molesters and scum bags. That's hard to let take root in the deeply indoctrinated, trained brain. It means letting the feeling of extreme and brutal betrayal set in, and nothing, I mean nothing, stings quite as horrendously as the feeling of being betrayed.

In the case of important leadership, important people the whole world follows, finding out they have betrayed you does more than cause upset, it would cause social collapse. Pandemonium. At least for some people for a while. Mostly only those who it actually comes as a shock to that all those glowing public personages are just mere mortals like everyone else and they, especially, are prone to do Big Fat Evil for the simple reason that they can. They can and you can't, so whose going to do the big bad things, them or you? High crimes mean just that, crimes done by those in high places, and that's exactly who I'm talking about here. It is sadly some of the most beloved and well trusted names in the world who are in fact people we should not trust because they're fuckers. They really are. And it's not a secret, the proof and the reality surrounds us and persists. All the evidence you need to wake up and smell the bastards is right under your nose. But it's like they say, you can lead a betrayed sucker to the bastards but you can't make him smell. Or something like that.

And while I've got some of you in a raging state of strong offense I might as well carry it all the way to the finish line. If what I'm saying is true, and it is, and you CAN check it yourself, if only you would, if these famous faced leaders are liars and thieves and fuckers then it must follow that their entire spiel, all of it, is high falutin' horse crap. I know it hurts and I know it's even harder to believe but the FACT is, it's true. Everything you think you know is wrong. That is if you've been hooked into the mainline of dis-info and Pablovian Brain Training all of your life like most everyone has. Just like religion isn't "real" because it's not a product of nature, politics and most of what you think of as modern life isn't real either. All of it is products of men. They're all created, they're an illusion, a game we all play. Some of us know it's a game and others aren't capable of understanding that. Some people can't handle it so they refuse to see it. It is pretty awful when you suddenly realize nothing makes sense anymore and your whole world and life is a lie.   I can understand not wanting to look at that. But only to an extent. If you want to claim that truth matters to you then you can't stay there for too long. You have to march down that scary abandoned back road all by yourself and deal with whatever jumps out at you. And good luck to you, not everyone makes it. But for the record a good many do make it, and they're infinitely better off for it when they're through.

Getting back to the subject, let me make clear that I am talking about formalized religion and the formalized church. I am not talking about anyone's bibles. There's a lot that can be gotten from any spiritual writing, if you go at it sincerely and on your own once in a while. I think the Bible as well as the Koran from what I've read of it, have plenty of truth in them. The truths that monotheistic religions share are moral truths and that's a good thing that religions do. We need morality taught to us and repeated and expounded upon and repeated again or else we're screwed.

We're all watching right now what happens when your lunatic psychopathic greedy elites forego morality like trimmed off bread crusts. Everything turns to stinking depraved shit. It may be fun for them but it's causing the whole rest of the world a whole lot of suffering. And that is the very nature and definition of evil and wrong doing and crime. What else could it be but achieving pleasure from acts that cause others harm, loss, suffering and death? What's worse than that? Not much.

And that's what morality is and that's why morality is so tremendously important. It's just too bad that it has to be left to formal institutions to be our earthly representatives of morality because they're all manned by ordinary people like the rest of us. They're not 'just as prone' as the rest of us to behaving badly, but are exponentially more prone to it because they have access and means to do serious damage and they encounter hard core temptations on a daily basis that the rest of us can't even imagine.

When you or I screw up we usually don't hurt anybody but ourselves and maybe a few people closest to us. But when these Power and Control elite windbags screw up, a lot of people die. A lot of people get hurt. That's why when they do it it's so important to hold them fully accountable and make a big production out of it. If we don't do that it's like signing a permission slip that says, "Dear Scum Bag Elite fuckers, it's okay to have your way with us and our children and our lives and our prosperity. Don't worry about us, you just have yourselves a good time at our expense". But I don't feel that way. I wish so many others didn't feel that way too but apparently they do or this shit wouldn't keep going on while the scum of the earth elites kill us all off one way or another.

How many high level government officials getting indicted for felonies is it going to take before we stop telling ourselves it's only a fluke? How many more thousands of people coming forward to talk about being raped by priests is it going to take before we face the fact that pretending to be a goody two shoes is the perfect disguise for life long committed pedophiles and that there's a whole shit load of them in the Catholic dream world? How many more cops do we need to see getting off after committing cold blooded murder and engaging in cover ups to protect themselves before it starts to soak in that officials and authorities can be criminals too because they're just people too, in fact that's all they are. They ARE NOT their clothing or their guns or their bibles. They are not the flag or the red white and blue. They are not truth, justice and light, they're ordinary mortals, imperfect and flawed like everyone else. They're often selfish, self serving and ambitious. They're wealthy, arrogant and in with a whole different thing and a whole different crowd than you and I. They are plain old people who frankly are obligated to us because they live off of us. They're supposed to be doing us good, not having us serve them while we're down on our knees letting them get away with everything from murder to fraud and waste to abuse to rape to all kinds of crime. When are we going to get it that these people are just plain people, they're not special, nobody's special, we are all flesh and blood?

As soon as anybody presents themselves as "special" to me I already know they're full of it. Nobody's special, least of all, nobody taking a public salary. There's no such thing as a pope in nature, go look for one, you won't find one. Go look for a cop in nature, or a president, or a king, you won't find any of those either. You won't find any because they're all totally made up ideas, guys wearing costumes and play acting these roles, they're not a truth or a reality. Do you really think that some guy has a hotline to heaven? A special pass to God? Really? And how did that happen, the day he was elected to his job by some other guys? Come on, get a grip. Nobody's holy. If anyone is holy then we're all holy and you know, maybe we are. Maybe that's the problem right there.

All these people want you to believe that you are less than they are. You are less of a person than they are. You know less, understand less, deserve less, are worth less, have less ability to understand truth, less knowledge, less potential, less importance than they do, and if they can get you to believe that then maybe they can get you to obey them and follow them and treat them like special people who deserve to be rich and pampered and butt kissed and never disagreed with and held to an entirely different set of rules and standards than everyone else. But I have to ask. If anyone's all that special why can't they follow our rules and standards like the rest of us do? What's so special about them that they can't be like we are? What's wrong with being like we are or rather, what's wrong with them that they can't? Something is very wrong there folks, it doesn't make sense. Are we really to believe that some people's path in life is so important or so special that they are above the law? Above every rule of decency and morality and justice? That they have some right or need to order others to death or imprisonment based on their personal ideas and not based on laws and rules that exist to keep things sane and safe and fair, at least to the extent that that's possible?

I know nobody's that special. Why doesn't the general public know that? Why do so many people assign "star" status to famous names and faces and grovel before them just because they've heard of them or seen them on TV? Does that mean something? What does it mean? Does it change the fact that they're only ordinary people like everyone else? Certainly they're better off, they're spoiled rotten, they've had a much nicer quality of life in everything from food to homes to education to opportunity to adventure. I think there's more there to resent than admire but that's just me I guess. I just don't see how people get to idolizing other mere mortals; following them, blindly believing them, letting themselves be lied to and crippled and stripped of dignity and strength and intelligence to the point of spending one's lifetime waving a stupid little flag or threatening to punch out anybody who has a different God than you. These are the actions of the truly stupid. It is sad to say it, but there it is man, I'm not making it up. I'm just reporting it. There it is. What would you call it? It's stupidity.

If anybody has the right to perpetrate deadly force against another then we all have that right. That's a reality. If you're forced onto your knees before the court or the king then you're being lied to and treated like dirt by liars and thugs pretending to be superior beings when they're clearly not superior. If they were all that superior they wouldn't have to resort to being thugs, liars and thieves, engaging in censorship, threats, fixed courtrooms, political filth and ploys, spying and double dealing until they turn the whole world into a dirty cesspit. How is that superior, exactly?

Which brings me to the point of all this which is that we are not meant to follow others. Respect is to be earned, one on one, not blindly granted, not required by law, not given away more cheaply than free popcorn. We are better served to be dubious and suspicious of people we don't know, taking public incomes and prancing around under authority of auspicious labels and titles and other ridiculous means of hiding one's true intent and behavior. Evil specifically hides in the guise of good, that's where you'll always find evil. It's in your church, it's in your government, it's every place that officialdom hangs out. People demanding to be seen and treated as better than anyone else are full of crap. So if you follow mortals unquestioningly don't be too surprised when you wake up one day only to find out you've been used, abused, lied to, cleaned out and taken for everything you've got. There will indeed be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. That's what happens when you put ordinary men up on pedestals. Because as much as these types go on and on about how great and right and chosen and holy and patriotic they are, the only unshakable truth is that nobody, nobody, has it all together. Nobody has all the answers. Nobody knows "the truth" in totality and nobody could possibly know your truth, that's for you alone to figure out. And nobody else can make any of your life choices for you because they're not you and they can't know what's right for you.

Don't say nobody ever told you. You've just been told.

Now get out there and question authority. Question everything. Start acting like you're every bit as good as Joe Biden in his expensive suits and every Senator and Banker scum bag on Wall Street. Because you are. And it is only liars who believe otherwise and want you to believe it too. Why? Because it makes it so much easier for them to rape and pillage the world if you don't think you deserve better and if you don't know that right is right and wrong is wrong no matter who's doing it.

And that's that.

Love & Fear, Freedom, Might and Right

2010-04-26T17:49:00.000-07:00

Demands that certain kinds of people be unable to use public programs to receive certain kinds of medical treatment, or that after serving one's time that felons may not vote, or using anyone's private information by corporate, government or institutional entities for any purpose but especially to discriminate, manipulate, deny access, jobs, housing, benefits, freedoms or rights is like demanding that certain kinds of people be unable to use public roads.

Public roads and highways are to be used without respect to persons, status, wealth, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, state of employment or unemployment, credit rating. Public roads may be used by anyone regardless of whether they've ever been in jail or not, been to college or not, can carry a tune or not; regardless of who they voted for or if they voted at all. Public roads are there for one and all, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, whether you're nice or not, good looking or not, smart or stupid, tall or short, fat or thin, pigeon toed and knock kneed or bowlegged or not, child or adult, whether alone or with others, happy or sad, big or small, naughty or nice, creepy or not, or any other judgmental attempt to marginalize and ostracize people and tear the people apart until they are hate filled and the whole of the country is brought to ruin because of boiling wars of petty self righteous indignation, greed, selfishness and resentments all because we forgot what it means to love freedom more than feeling superior to other people who, quite frankly, we're never superior to. Public funds are used to benefit the public, all of the public, one and all equally without respect to any personal criteria.

It needs to be said, apparently, as a reminder, that this is the basic principle of American style freedom. The real kind of American style freedom, not the phony and strange politically 'correct', totally undermining of real freedom kind that's destroying our real freedom and real justice and real rights today. The attempts to create officially recognized categories of people who are okay and not okay, acceptable and unacceptable are illegitimate, a disgrace and shameful, and fly in the face of the respect for self and others that freedom, justice and common decency requires.

Shouting down others instead of supporting their right to speak their mind shows contempt for the right to speak your mind without fear of imprisonment or death. It also shows ignorance and arrogance, neither of which do anyone any good.

Those who claim to love America but behave like rude, selfish ideologues have brought foreign, ugly destructive values into the American value system and those foreign values are murdering everything we stand for in this country. They have brought shame, hate, intolerance, discord, dishonor, vicious politicism and ill will into the hearts of the people, and these things are destroying us from the inside out.

We can do what we do out of love
or
We can do what we do out of fear
but
We need to use reason to get to truth
and
We need truth to be able to have justice
and
We need justice to be able to live in peace and in freedom.

Real freedom is blind.

It doesn't care who you are or where you've been or how old you are or what your religious beliefs are. It doesn't measure you by the mistakes you've made in the past or the successes you've achieved. Freedom is based on respect and good will. Freedom is not won with blood but with respect and good will.

Real freedom is blind.

Real justice is blind.

Fairness is blind.

Truth is blind.

Honesty is blind.

Courage is blind.

Honor is blind.

These are based on love.

Trust is not blind.

Faith is not blind.

Worship is not blind.

Responsibility is not blind.

These are based on reason.

Cruelty
Treason
Deceit
Dishonesty
Lies
Spreading False Rumors
PR and Spin
Marketing
Usury
Double Standards
Hypocrisy
Injustice
Selfishness
Insults
Refusing to talk out disagreements
Refusing to allow the other to have equal time to give their side
Refusing to hear the other side at all
Refusing to set aside petty differences
Use of force for personal gain
Petty criticism
Sadism
Arrogance
Racism
Sexism
The need to control others
Censorship
Excusing one's self or one's side for wrong doing
Being content with cheating to get what you want
Lying to get away with wrong doing
False pretenses
Omissions and misrepresentations of facts
Betrayal of trust
Disrespect for other people
Blanket judgments of persons or entire groups
Hating the person, not the behavior
Greed
Monopolies of power
Monopolies of ownership
Apathy and indifference to of others
Conceit
Purposely bringing discord and upset into the lives of others

These are based on fear.

These are not based on love or reason.
These and many others are based on unreasonable fear.
Hate and jealousy are made out of fear.
What we fear controls our lives.
What controls us prevents us from being free to do and be what we're capable of.
Fear is a prison, a torturer and a liar.
Fear is death.
What we fear must be confronted head on. Confronting first what we fear the most is the most important thing we have to do in our lives. Confronting what we fear must be our highest daily priority. Confronting what we fear is the only way to be released from bondage in all of it's various forms, all of them destructive. Bondage means being controlled by and/or promoting that which is not rooted in love and reason.

If what we say, think and do
is not based on love and reason,
then what is it based on?
And is it legitimate
or is it self excusing our fears,
coddling our own lesser tendencies?

What legitimate reasons exist to deny justice,
to refuse to hear all sides,
to show common courtesy,
to require oneself to have common tolerance,
to show common respect?

Let's never forget that no one among us is perfect.
There is no such thing as someone who has never been wrong,
someone who has never made a mistake,
someone who has never said or done something clumsy, selfish, rude or worse.
No one among us knows that which cannot be known.

So let us dismount our high horses, shall we?
Let's be more willing to forgive.
Let's look more toward what good can come and
less toward seeking punishment or vengence.
If, that is, we care at all for freedom,
or truth,
or life itself.

And let's get something else straight once and for all.
Might does not make right.
Might makes victors and vanquished.

Many are obsessed with winning and losing.
So obsessed that winning by honest means in a fair fight means nothing.
But what makes winning desirable is the fact that you have proven yourself and that you are truly the better man.
"Winning by any means" is the new goal.
Their fear, insecurity, greed, jealousy, whatever it is, has taken control of them.
They self excuse that which has no excuse.
Their beliefs deny right. There is no right in might unless the fight is equal and fair.
Otherwise it is only slaughter. It is only a crime.
Pick on someone your own size.
Let's see you win in a fair fight.
No one is impressed by fools, ideologues, lackeys, thugs or cheaters.

Using overwhelming force against the defenseless
is not winning, it is crime.
Cheating to obtain victory is not winning, it too is crime.

In a moral world it is the obligation of the strong to protect the weak.
In a moral world strength is only used for defense.
When strength is only used for defense, to protect the innocent,
to protect the defenseless, force and violence are minimized
or eliminated completely. Overpowering strength need only
show itself to keep peace and ensure justice.

It is when overpowering strength, force, is used to harm the helpless,
to loot and pillage and kill the innocent that peace is eliminated
and justice is crucified on a cross of hypocrisy.

The way superior strength is used, be it in the form of weapons of war
or knowledge, how any greater advantage is used is what defines good and evil.

In a moral world, the belief that might makes right is immoral.
Might has nothing to do with right, only right is right. Might used
for anything beyond literal self defense or to protect those who need
protection against all forms of aggression and oppression, is wrong.
Yes, overpowering force and violence, be it physical, mental or emotional,
can crush and destroy your competition, your enemies and your human decency
but it cannot and never will make anyone right.

Humility's Wake

2010-04-24T21:43:00.000-07:00

Ah, hello there, I guess you heard the news. Our dear old friend Humility is dead and you've come to his wake. Welcome. I was just about to begin a remembrance of him for Posterity's sake. Yes please, by all means join me, come and take a seat.

Friends, strangers, all, we are here to day to mourn the loss of a dear old friend. A friend who has served us well in days past. A friend we haven't seen much of lately; who we began to see less and less of over the years until he all but disappeared from our midst. Our dear old friend Humility has indeed disappeared for good. He is dead and gone. Things will never be the same without his wise and equalizing presence.

At first we thought Humility was outsourced, shipped off to some God forsaken place where people are uncivilized pagans who barely wear clothes and who dance naked in the moonlight having wild sex after eating hallucinogenic mushrooms until they reach frenzies of insanity causing them to not want to give us their oil. What else can we do when we see them dancing nude around the fire, having sex with each other outside of the bonds of legally acquired holy matrimony, worshiping false idols and refusing to sign our oil contracts, but kill them to make the world a better place?

Did I just say that? Oh dear, how dreadful. You see it is happening already. Humility's loss has already begun to affect me, I'm already sounding like a fascist imperialist sonofabitch. God help me.

If only Humility had simply been outsourced at least he would still exist somewhere, like Gilligan on his faraway isle, we could hold hope of seeing him again someday.

But alas, Humility was not outsourced. Humility was picked up outside of a movie theater by National Security Police with faces covered and no name tags, stripped down to his shorts, injected with consciousness altering drugs, and flown to one of the government's secret detention facilities that we don't need to know about, where he was summarily and brutally tortured; water boarded 800 times, and would have been ready to confess to giving birth to Satan if he hadn't unfortunately died in their custody.

They tell us Humility killed himself by wriggling out of his shit and slime covered restraints to purposely hurl himself head first into a vat of hot boiling oil and that he did it just to make them look bad politically. But between you and me I have my doubts about that. Humility was just not that kind of guy.

What on earth did Humility do to deserve to die? What wrong could Humility do? Why couldn't it have been Hubris, that prick, or Arrogance, who seems to be everywhere these days? Spite and Intolerance are all over the newspapers, Ignorance and Hypocrisy are in all of the magazines, Stupidity even has his own hit TV shows and national radio programs. Loud mouthed politically apoplectic media monopolizing manipulators, why couldn't it have been one of them who got picked up and suicided to death? That would have been a good thing. A wonderful thing. A great thing! All of them suck big time. But Humility? Dear sweet gentle wise tolerant understanding patient respectful Humility? A terrorist? Impossible. Never.

No. I just don't believe it and I never will. Official testimonies be damned, I will never believe it. Humility was innocent of any wrong doing. This is the cover up of a terrible mistake or a terrible misunderstanding or a terrible planned extrajudicial politically motivated execution. It has to be one of those things because there is no way Humility ever did anything wrong to anyone, anywhere at any time. If Humility was a threat to this government or National Security then we have a much worse problem than we'd ever want to be stuck with. As it is we're already screwed. We're double screwed with a black booted cherry on top.

And now this. I don't need my sunglasses any more, everything looks dark enough already.

For-profit health services are not health "care". There is no "care" in what they do. Caring is a nonprofit activity. It is personal in nature, emotional in scope, and its benefits are far reaching, incalculable and 100% free. Caring is something that comes from the heart that makes the world a better place. Caring is not bossy or full of crap or demanding or arrogant or selfish. It is just caring. For-profit health services have nothing to do with caring. They have only to do with sales and profits. They are a vending machine. Pay up and get one of these or one of those. Next time you need some more go find the vending machine. There's not even a fully staffed kitchen anymore, there's nobody there now; just some change machines. No human touch. No human talk. No discourse, no smiling faces saying welcome, have a seat, would you like some coffee? There's no one there at all. Ever. The walls are cold steel, the windows on the machines are smudged with fingerprints, and there's graffiti all over the walls. Messages of angst and fury written in spray paint in full view of the nonfunctional security cameras stuck to the ceiling; they express the fundamental insult of the inhuman pay or die game of profiting from the illness and injuries of others. Only the utter lack of humility could allow sentient beings to be able to reach such shameful lows of callous selfishness and wrong doing. "We only care about you if you have money". Yes, that's a beautiful sentiment, if you're demon spawn. Without humility there can be no respect. Without respect there can be no justice. Without justice you might as well shoot yourself now and get it over with.

I'm sorry, I am sorry. I am depressed and perhaps seeing things as much worse than they are. Or maybe I'm seeing what's right in front of my eyes and that's what's making me so depressed in the first place. In any case, don't pay much attention to me. I have no idea what's to come. I'm not fricken Houdini.

I need to blow my nose. Hold on a sec please.

HONK.

Okay, that's better. Sorry about that. Where was I? Oh yes...I remember now.

How utterly dehumanizing and demoralizing the capitalist machine has become. And we wonder why people are so angry, cynical and hopeless that they go on shooting sprees or crash their airplanes into office buildings. There is no mystery here. Without Humility people can't get along. Without Humility there can be no tolerance or desire for truth or understanding. If only Humility were still alive, he could explain it to us so well. Humility could always make everything perfectly clear. Humility brought Balance into any equation and ushered in Truth to join the party as well. What a great gang of guys. Will we ever see Humility's friends again? They may all be dead too. Come to think of it, it's been a while since we've heard from any of them.

We are all much worse off for this sad and meaningless loss. We are going to feel it too, mark my words. I miss Humility so much already.

Good-bye Humility. It was so good to know you. Now that you're gone the world will never be the same.

All we can do is pray that reincarnation is real.

Otherwise, we should prepare for the plunge into 21st Century style Corporate Elite Fascist rule over all our lives. Total crushing control by international elites over the new burgeoning Global Calcutta; massive slums of starving wretched people who have no hope; whose bodies are used at will so that corporations can continue to profit. Not much to look forward to there I'm afraid. Sorry kids. We will see a lot more dead people. TV dinners, soilent green, what's the difference? Can't read, so what? You can text on your cell phone and if you don't have electricity I guess you can always not text and just sink into total stupidity and pointlessness. That's what they have in mind for you. If they let you live.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm doing it again. It's just that at this moment I don't see how we can survive without Humility. I can't see anything good ahead without Humility to guide us.

Farewell Humility. It's a real fucker pucker that they killed you dead. We really need you. The ones who killed you needed you most of all. Doesn't it just figure that things turned out this way? They always said that only the good die young. That leaves only the bad to get old and bossy and greedy and crushing the world with violence and hate and control. Dear dear Humility, I swear this is true, you will be sorely missed.

HONK!

The Choice

2010-02-22T16:34:00.000-08:00

You have just been granted a wish.

One wish. Irrevocable. Nontransferable. Unequivocal. Right here, right now, today, this minute, think carefully now, you must make a choice between two things. Think as long as you like, within the ten minutes allotted to you for this purpose, then tell me your answer.

Which would you rather have? Great wealth? Or truth?

Great wealth. Or truth.

You cannot have both, it is either/or, you have to pick one or the other.   Wealth? Or truth?

Wealth. Or truth.

If you should choose wealth then you will never have to worry about money again for all the rest of your life.

Imagine it. Never again will you hunger or thirst yet have to go without either for lack of money.   Never again will you have to feel the unrequited longing, the hurt, the humiliation of not being able to afford whatever you need or want. If you want those new shoes, you may have them, just like that. That new leather coat? It is yours. A whole new wardrobe? You can have it today. You can have a new wardrobe every day if that's what you want, it will never be a problem.

Never again would you ever have to suffer the hardships and disappointments of not having enough money to make ends meet. You would never again be forced to choose between buying food or buying medicine. Your children will have all of the best of food, clothing, toys, necessities, medical care, education and travel.

Yes, you could travel all you want to, anywhere you like. You can stay in the most beautiful hotels and be waited on hand and foot by smartly uniformed professional hotel staff who will rush to bring you anything you desire.

You don't have to stay in that run down old house of yours with the crooked fence and the squeaky stairs and the cracks in the walls and the tattered insulation, chipping paint; those old appliances, all that dust, that depressing mass produced suburban view across the street.

You can leave all of that behind. Right now. Today. Instead of that dreary ordinary insufficient life style you can have all of the wealth you need to be free forever from all worries about money.

What's that? You want to know how much money, exactly?

No number is needed, there is no specific sum. You will simply possess great wealth for the rest of your life. You will never run short or run out of money. You will have enough money to live every day, year round, in Las Vegas, if you so desire; staying in the most exclusive, expensive hotel penthouse suites, gambling all day and night; your money will never run out.   You will always have enough money to do and to have whatever you want. No material thing, as long as it exists and is available to be had by you, will be beyond your reach. You will be able to afford it, no matter the price. That is how wealthy you would be.

That is the up side. But there is a down side too, as there always is, and this you should consider well before you make your choice.

A small price must be paid for the gift of great wealth, for the priceless gift of living free from lack and want and financial worry.

That price is this: in exchange for all of your ample material gain, you must give up knowing the truth.

You will not be able to tell what is true from what is false, you will not know the difference.

You won't be able to know for certain whether or not you are being misled or lied to.

You will not get a sense of anyone's intent, should someone want to manipulate you for their own purposes and gain. You'll have no way of sensing tricks or lies, con jobs or sob stories, it will all sound the same as any believable thing sounds.

If you look deep into the eyes of a speaker, be he in the pulpit, wearing a badge or a crown and robes, it will lend you no clues. You will not know if what you hear is truth, if what you read or see is truth, if what you are counseled and told to be truth, is truth.

For all the rest of your life you will not know if any person in your life, in any capacity of your life, is honest or deceitful. You will not be able to sense to a certainty, whether someone is sincere, if when they say they love you that they truly love you or only love your money instead. You will not be able to sense to a certainty, whether those nearest you are really faithful friends, or if instead they are brazen back-stabbers who use you and make you look the fool to all who can see you.

If you're thinking you can outwit the price think again. You cannot avoid the payment price. You will have no internal truth meter, which is something that you currently possess. Whether or not you use it much is another thing, but used or not, you will have to give it up. It must be forfeit. That is the payment price. Your ability to know truth will no longer function and you will never again be able to tell a truth from an untruth with your natural inborn ability to do so. Your heart will no longer tell you what is true, it will not know what is true.

That is all there is to it. It's really no big thing. And if this tiny inconvenience does not trouble you too dearly, and why should it, then you should be ecstatically happy taking the money. The price is not so great, it's a trifling thing. Truth is cheap after all. Certainly there are other ways for you to procure correct assessments, to validate suspicions; certainly you can find others on whom you can depend to wisely council your decisions, to guide you, to bring you the light you seek, to give you the answers you need. Such can be purchased, advisors and experts of the highest caliber are easily obtainable. It's not at all difficult, it's quite easy. It is standard procedure anyway to purchase the council of others. No one in a position of great wealth seeks their answers from within. How ridiculous. It would be unheard of.

Luxury. Security. Life options. Adventure. Respect. Power. The world is your oyster. But do you find the price too steep? None of the finer things in life come cheap.

Isn't so called truth dependent on who is looking at it? And don't these things all change like the weather? Truth is fleeting, is it not? Truth is hard to find, and it is often inconvenient. It's not all that it's chalked up to be. Not really.

Truth is easily ignored; and it is often irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. Truth is not enough reason to hold back greatness of any kind. At least, it hasn't been so far.

Face it. There isn't much call for truth these days, few are really that interested in it. The truth goes down much easier when you make it up yourself, that's what everyone does anyway. The fact of the matter is that making up your own truths, making truths that suit you, holds so much more potential for happiness and love. Plus who would disagree that lies are much more fun and exciting? Naughty little lies are well known to lead to things that are much more fun and exciting than the ordinary mundane things we're supposed to be content with. But aren't those things which are considered "forbidden" or "bad" the most scintillating, pleasurable things of all? If it were not so, there wouldn't be so much of it around, would there be?

Truth is really just a bore. Does "truth" even actually exist? Is there such a thing as truth, really? It's too silly to worry about to any great degree, don't you think so? Most everyone thinks so.

So, lucky traveler, master... the clock is ticking. It is time to make your choice. Which do you choose? Wealth or truth? Give me your answer. Choose now between wealth or truth, else miss this once in a paradise, once in a dream, once in a million chance of a lonely little life time turning into something totally new. This offer can not be repeated. It will not come around again. So tell me master, what's it going to be?