This Old Blog

June 8th, 2009

This blog has gotten to be quite a burden for me.  I can’t think of anything else to write about at the moment and it’s just sitting here, dead weight on the Internet.  I’m exhausted from working, so it’s hard to write here as well.  I don’t feel like enough people are actually reading.  I’ve been trying to add more content, but there just isn’t a spark for it right now.  Blogging as a medium has its perks, and I appreciate them.  I just don’t have the motivation to blog right now, nor the ideas with which to blog with.  Until I can figure out what else to write about, this blog will probably be pretty empty on the content side. Just because I won’t be writing as much doesn’t mean you can’t sift through the archives and check out some of my older stuff.

I’m sorry about this and I will resume writing when I get some more good ideas.  I’ve never had a fixed center for this blog and I feel like it alienated the readers.  I’m just writing here to write.  I don’t need anyone’s approval.  I can write about whatever I want and whoever wants to read it can read it.  And whoever wants to comment can comment, although I may be getting rid of the comments feature on my blog because I really don’t care about feedback.  All it does is overwhelm me with more ideas and schools of thought that just aren’t my style.  So I probably will disable that function.

I don’t think I’m going to try to earn a living from this blog anymore because I simply can’t keep up with those who have the ability to post more frequently and have better content than me.  I just don’t see that it will happen.  It’s been hard for me to do any deep thinking lately, as well as put together a compelling blog entry.  I’m going to say goodbye for now and I’ll be back up and running soon.  Be sure to check out the archives on the sidebar if you need to read some of my entries.  Good luck.

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Overpopulation Revisited

May 24th, 2009

We are moving faster and faster towards overpopulation. Some may argue we are already there.  When will it stop and finally even out?  As long as we are in civilization, I don’t see an end to the rising numbers of human beings and the diminishing numbers of all other life.  Too many people.  Us, making our mark everywhere on the world, expanding until we have nothing left to expand upon.  The fall of man, his excessive pride in thinking he can rule the universe by continued expansion. It’s a shame to think that humans are going to go down in a final blaze of incompetence when populations get so large that the whole world goes into famines and disease due to different collapses in technological necessities we take for granted today.

It’s quite a shame to think about how we’ve done so much to hurt our own home and other species that live here as well.  What we’ve done here is nothing to be proud of.  Sure, we have dominion over all living things, but when will the lust for power stop?  Will it ever?  When will we just say, “That’s enough!”  My guess is not  until we go extinct, or witness a major crash in the current system.  And if we go extinct, the world will finally get its chance to heal itself.  That is, if we leave anything that’s not man-made as we exit this planet.  Humans only deal with human-made materials on a daily basis.  For the most part, other than the hands sticking out in front of you, everything you come into contact with was made by man, much like inbreeding.  This is contrary to all other life, who work symbiotically and cohesively to keep diversity at an all-time high.  This is another reason for our rampant expansion.  We are only interested in the self, at the expense of everything else.

I’m writing here because I find that anyone who decides they want a big family is being entirely selfish and is exacerbating the problem instead of working to solve it.  Unless you can raise everyone in your big family to be compassionate, conscious, and aware, those children will irresponsibly reproduce as well many times and cause more and more people to come into this world for no reason other than self-interest.  There are way too many people already, so why make the problem worse?  Why bring children into a world where for many reasons there is not enough to go around and there will most likely never be enough as long as we keep having children?  Not procreating is one of the most responsible acts you can do towards getting the human race back into balance, and yet you hardly ever see it, except among the people who are either socially awkward or unappealing.  Even in those circumstances, children are sometimes created.

I’m not trying to tell others how to live their lives, but it makes sense that if our major problem in the coming century is overpopulation, then we shouldn’t have so many children.  Of course, there is always the argument that the more food we produce, the more people there will be.  While this is also true, if we limit the food production in the world and have it steadily go down for years and years, then the population will steadily decline as well.  It will cause many to die in this current world, but it will be for a good reason.  We would try to get to the point that we don’t need to farm anymore and we just live off of the food that nature provides, much like we did for hundreds of thousands of years before this world we live in today.  But yet I see no one putting this plan in motion because it’s not really politically viable as an argument and whoever proposes this will be called a monster and mass murderer when what they are doing is just trying to find balance.

Is this situation hopeless?  Perhaps.  It’s possible that our population will expand to numbers never thought of before followed by an intense drop in population due to all the factors associated with overpopulation.  Wouldn’t it be easier to gradually reduce the population than to have half of Earth’s humans disappear in a matter of years due to famine, disease or other overpopulation problems?  It’s hard to think about what this world will look like in 100 years, with a potential 1 billion Americans and 12-15 billion people.  It would be worse than India today all over the world.  Is that the kind of world that all of us want to create?  I hope not.  Let us all try to reduce the population by following one simple rule to start:  Do not have children.

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Vitamix Update

May 20th, 2009

I’m still making smoothies with whole foods, water, and ice.  They are still very tasty.  The fresher the foods, the better they taste.  I just made a smoothie today that consisted mostly of fruit and 2 handfuls of spinach.  Here is the recipe:

* 2 bananas
* 10 large strawberries
* 1 whole pear, diced
* 2 handfuls spinach
* 12 oz. water
* 6 ice cubes

Obviously, this smoothie was a bit sweeter than the ones I had been making previously, but I do enjoy a good fruit-based smoothie.  The antioxidants and fiber that I am getting from two 20 oz. cups of smoothie a day are amazingly high.  The funny thing is that after doing smoothies for a couple of weeks, I actually gained 5 pounds.  I was as amazed as you are.  But it’s not like I’m overweight to begin with.  I’m 6′1″ 180 lbs. now after the gain.  I don’t see a big problem with this as I don’t really notice any gains in my waistline or abdominal level.  It is a great meal substitute as it keeps me full for hours.  It is probably a good idea to eat these in the mornings because that’s when fruit is most easily digested–on an empty stomach.

The Vitamix is great for two reasons:  It is a very large container and it has very fast speeds to properly blend everything together.  I have yet to have serious problems with blending, unless the fruit I was using was very soft and it caused the smoothie to be very thick.  Soft pears do not make a good smoothie.  I just used a very hard and new Bosc pear and it made the smoothie thinner than it has been for awhile.  The reason I love the Vitamix so much is that I don’t have to actually eat this food anymore, but I can drink it.  I’m not a fan of eating strawberries or blueberries or any fruits because they are very messy.  Now I can condense all of them into a shake.  Not only that, I do not like eating greens, especially dark greens.  So I can just drink my nutrition and it digests much faster than if I were to eat it and it takes much less time.  I can make large smoothies and drink them throughout the day.  It’s such a great invention and it is the best blender I have ever seen.

There are a million other uses for the Vitamix, but I like to use it for smoothies.  You can even make hot soups in it by leaving it on for 10 minutes on high.  You can make sorbet with frozen fruit.  You can grind coffee or chop onions.  It is so versatile and it is 1000 times more useful than the Magic Bullet, mostly because it is so much bigger and so much faster/efficient.  It can heal people from diseases.  It can improve lives no matter where you find yourself healthwise.  What an amazing machine.  I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in their health and making nutrition that much easier and tastier as well.

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On Being Human

May 13th, 2009

What does it mean to be human?  Seriously, what does it mean?  Who are we as a species and why are we here?  It is a very complex question that takes great thought to answer.  Some people would say that we are the eyes of the world, documenting what is happening all around us.  Others would say that we are the dominant species, at the top of the food chain.  Others would say that we are an offshoot of gorillas and other primates who have learned how to communicate effectively through the invention of language to create wonderful things and a few bad things.  Any way you put it, to be human is something unique to our species.  It is something that only we can claim to be and it is something the comes with great responsibility.

We have the power to do good or do evil.  We have the power to eradicate all useless life (from our narrow perspective) from the face of the Earth or to work with the Earth to create more diversity.  We have the power to be constructive or destructive.  But with great power comes great responsibility.  Sure, if the world goes to hell and we all die, responsibility will be left with whatever is left.  But the destruction will be mostly the humans’ fault.  It’s no one’s fault individually, but collectively.  It is the civilization we have created that is responsible for all the destruction.  The people who initially started civilization didn’t know where it was heading, so it is futile to play the blame game.  Sure, power is addictive and since us humans crave power ever since the advent of agriculture, it was only inevitable before the world became what it is today and what it will become in the future.  But it is not in our nature to do things like this.

Certain traumas happened on this planet thousands of years ago that forced us to take action to ensure our survival.  Many traumas happened in a short period of time that damaged us psychologically as well as physically.  Some of these traumas may include the magnetic reversal of the  poles, the ice age, global food shortages, global cooling/warming, continental drift, earthquakes, etc.  I am not sure which of these actually happened while humans were on the Earth, but I have seen some documentaries that say that there were many traumas, even possibly being visited by aliens who manipulated our DNA.  But that’s just a theory.

Nevertheless, our psyches were badly damaged and we needed some part of us to take over during our time of trauma and the ego stepped right in.   The ego is basically a defense mechanism brought on by intense psychological or physical stress.  I remember hearing Michael Tsarion say something like, “It’s like the secretary is in charge while the boss is at lunch.  The ego is saying, ‘I saved your ass, so I demand respect and I deserve to be in charge.  Don’t mind that I’m underqualified and make frequent mistakes.  Until the boss gets back, I am in charge.’”  Very interesting and it resonates with me deeply.  The ego has been running the show for at least 10,000 years, possibly more.  The ego runs on fear and zero-sum thinking.  The ego is overly defensive for its own safety.  The ego will do anything in its power to preserve itself.  The ego is always thinking about expanding because of its underlying fear of being inadequate.  Our whole society is built around this fear-based ego.

So what was there before the ego?  We simply had the self.  We were more of a collectivist race than an individualistic, or egoistic one.  It was a time where we did not fear anything, not even death because we understood the world as a whole, not as an individual.  We knew our place and did our best to stay in it because our survival as a whole depended on it.  Sure, it wasn’t as glamorous as  life is today for us humans, but it worked really well.  That is, until all those traumatic events that scarred us for so very long and continues to scar us today.  The society we built was around fear and other so-called negative emotions, so how could we possibly expect it to be universally good?  We let the ego take over and look out for our best interests when the ego only looks out for itself because of its fear-based mindset.

In order to overcome the evils of the world, we need to let go of fear.  Fear, the mind killer, the tool that manipulates us all.  As a collective unit, we need to stop all the fear and replace it with love.  Unconditional love.  We need to try and lose the ego and get back to being ourselves–to be the true human beings that we are.  Otherwise, we will surely go extinct and after billions of years, not leave a trace of us ever being here.  Is it better to be glorious from the egoic perspective and burn out with our monuments eventually crumbling or sustaining ourselves as long as the sun and Earth permit?  The question is up to you.

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Where Can We Go From Here?

May 9th, 2009

I recently got a job at CVS and it’s been taking some time away from blogging, but I want to keep this blog rolling, so I’m going to post something here.  The world is changing ever faster every day and it’s on a one-way street to hell, but we can take some good out of that.  We can learn from our mistakes.  We can take the good and lose the bad.  We can use the present system in the creation of the next.  We’ll need the tools of this society to create the new one.  A big system like we have dies hard.  There will be many casualties, but they will be necessary in order for us to get back to a sustainable and Earth-enhancing way of living.  Keeping communities small and simple.  Keeping populations low and not letting it get out of control again.  Instead of dominating nature to suit our needs, we can live off of the bounty of the land.

I’m optimistic about the future on this planet because our consciousness seems to be growing every day in mass.  More and more people are awakening to the folly of our ways when it comes to civilization.  It’s a good thing. :)  We are becoming more planet-conscious and thinking of new, innovative ways to solve current problems and some of them will be used in the next system.  Will the next system work forever?  No.  Nothing is forever, but we just need to keep getting better and better each time we build a new system, and eventually we will get to a place where we can live on this planet as a species without destroying it and actually enhancing it.  It’s a very long and drawn-out process.  We won’t see this in our lifetimes, folks.  But every day, we can work to get things moving in the right direction.

We can take steps to move towards nature instead of further away from it.  Let us pray to have the wisdom to accept that we can change this world for the better and move towards a better life for everyone.  This is the main purpose of this blog.  We can’t do this all at once, but in a long stretch of time, we can live like all the other species and still have our intelligence, wit, and communities.  Let us hope for a better tomorrow.

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Insomnia

May 5th, 2009

The reason I haven’t been posting on this blog lately is because I haven’t been getting any sleep lately.  Last night, I dozed off around 12:30 and woke up 20 minutes or so later.  Then I didn’t fall asleep until well after 3 AM.  Then I wake up at 9 AM.  It wasn’t a deep sleep.  I tried going back to sleep, but I just couldn’t.  Even if I take a sleep aid, my sleep is still very short and light.  I did have some coffee last night and that explains last night, but why would I wake up so early after falling asleep?  Six hours has never been enough sleep for me.  I just don’t understand it.  I’ve been waking up really early lately after going to bed after 1 AM and having trouble going back to sleep.  The only thing I’ve been doing differently is drinking the smoothies every day.  This newfound feeling is very strange and is killing my sleep.  It could be the heat that’s killing my sleep.

I’ve been waking up in sweats a lot and unable to get comfortable in my bed due to the heat.  I’m going to try some new things and see how they work out.

It’s so weird to want to go to sleep and not be able to.  It’s like your body is rejecting your mind.   I haven’t been having any dreams, which is why I know that my sleep is not very deep.  Usually when I am sleeping well, I have dreams that I remember.  I’ve been having what I can only describe as hot flashes lately as well.  Perhaps it is due to the detox my body is going through because of the smoothies.  Been having headaches almost all day every day.  Didn’t have any last night, though.  But then I had insomnia.

Haven’t had much feeling lately.  Most of the day.  Kind of an empty feeling.   It’s weird.  Nothing really excites me anymore.  I never feel fully awake, nor do I feel fully asleep.  It’s just this constant fog that never gets lifted.  I don’t really identify with my body anymore.  It is merely a shell.  A shell that contains the real me, the timeless me.  My body is simply a manifestation of consciousness and my consciousness is the only infinite.

The world is nothing more than mere illusion.  I feel this way now, but I’ve felt differently in the past.  It is something put here to help us build our consciousness.  At least that’s what I’m led to believe.  But who really knows?  Why are we here and what is the meaning of this existence?  It certainly isn’t to build malls and parking garages.  Sometimes I feel like the world and the Earth has no purpose and is just here by random chance and then I think it is merely an illusion.  It is a product of our consciousness.  But why?  What does it all mean in the end?

This is just so strange.  This whole reality we live in.  Making sense of it is an exercise in futility and I’d just be wasting my time.  How can I figure something out that no one has ever truly known before?  There are so many answers to the “meaning of life” question that it all just gets muddled into one big pile of uncertainty.  This is why I can’t identify with any of the wide range of answers.  I could say the meaning of life is what you make it, but that’s truly a cop-out answer.  The whole meaning is in your mind and your mind alone.  There are just so many choices to make in this world and the more there are, the more paralyzed the people become.

The universe is laughing at us all right now because the human race has destroyed their home planet and for what?  Progress?  But what has that brought us?  More people are depressed than ever before.  We can travel the globe in less than 24 hours and yet more people go hungry every day percentage wise than 20,000 years ago.  Our population continues to spin out of control as we grow more and more food, only making the whole human problem worse.  It’s nobody’s fault.  But in another way, it’s all of our faults.

My mind is a mess right now and I’m just typing to get my mind moving.  I hope this entry wasn’t too disjointed and disorganized.  I’m just feeling really weird lately, so I suppose my entries will be weird.  Have a nice day.

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The Swine Flu and a Post-Crash Society

April 27th, 2009

There is a swine flu outbreak somewhere in Mexico or something and like 20 people in the US have gotten it.  The media has blown this out of proportion because it’s only hospitalized one person in the US so far, and yet there’s already a concern.  The flu pandemic of 1918 killed 40-50 million people.  How many people has this swine flu actually killed worldwide?  Sure, I’m all for an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  So it’s good that we are aware of this rare and interesting new flu, but the fear tactics being used to a relatively harmless flu, at least in America so far is kind of grandiose and exaggerated.  I don’t know anything about the science of how a person can get a flu from a pig, but I’m sure it’s possible.  The flu these days hardly ever kills anyone.  It’s only when the flu is allowed to progress to pnemonia that it kills some elderly and very young children.  We have the technology to cure and prevent a flue outbreak and living in this society has made our immune systems strong because of all the pollution we are subjected to from a very early age.  Sure, this is a new strain we’ve never seen before, but we have the ability to treat it and beat it.  So what’s the big deal?

With our current medical system, poorer people won’t be inclined to go to the hospital or the doctor for these kinds of ailments, which will allow the swine flu to spread among them.  They don’t have insurance to go to the hospital or emergency room, so they’re more inclined to just lie in bed and fight it out.  This is something our body is capable of, so there’s no harm, no foul.  But it will allow the flu to spread to others.  It’s not like the flu is really that bad, though.  It’s relatively benign compared to other diseases and viruses, so I really don’t see the problem.

Viruses are nature’s way of weeding out a population.  But the flu has been conquered years ago by modern science.  I’m tired of all these scare tactics used by the media, trying to put the general public into a panic just to keep the world in a state of perpetual fear.  I would understand if the flu had killed millions of people, but it is not even close to being a big deal yet.  SARS killed less than 300 people as far as I know.  150,000 people die a day on average.  More people die from our toxic environment each day than will die from some swine flu.  I don’t see anything as a pandemic until it can actually put a dent in our population worldwide.  It’s got to at least cut out 1% of our population to actually be considered a threat.  And even then it’s not really a bad thing from the Earth’s perspective.

The Earth is going to try and fight back.  This comes from the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a living thing and will fight back against us as a pesky species that is ruining it.  But we are always one step ahead of all the viruses it can conjure up.  We even have a way to treat AIDS now, which was a surefire way to reduce our population and cause a definite pandemic.  A virus is always contained before it can do much damage.  The Earth’s population control mechanisms are no match for us humans because we’ve outsmarted the Earth.  We use the Earth against itself even when it is trying to exterminate part of us.  This is what has led to a  population explosion.

A population explosion leads to pandemics that are easily cured by our advances in technology.  It is yet another cause of the gigantic numbers of people we have living ont his planet.  If it weren’t for all these medical advances, many of the people alive today and even going a couple generations back, would be dead.  It would probably have cut our population in half or even by 2/3.  In the uncivilized world, people in these nature-based tribes hardly ever get out of balance, and if they do, they are brought back into balance by the forces of nature.  It’s like a bowl, where the center is perfect balance and the further you try and stray from the center, the harder it is.  But that’s when humans were servants of nature, not dominating it.  Now that we dominate nature, we can go as far out of balance as we wish until we run out of all the things that allow us to go out of balance.  And that’s what’s going to happen.  Once we have nothing left to fight over, there will be a post-crash nature-based society because there will be no alternative.

What matters is what happens next is important because we can take many roads.  We can keep living like nature and all other species, or we can once again rebuild this pandemic-creating society with nearly 7 billion people and counting, with malls and strip clubs.  In order to make that choice wisely, we’ll need to be operating from a consciousness much higher than the one we have now.  The materialistic consciousness needs to go away.  The domination consciousness needs to fade.  The agricultural-industrial complex needs to be gone completely.  Man the toolmaker needs to check out of the world’s hotel.  We should become land dolphins.

But what are land dolphins?  Land dolphins would be a highly intelligent species that uses no tools and feeds of the bounty of the Earth.  We would have to greatly lower our population, but a crash would do that anyway.  But if we can become stewards of the Earth and not dictators of it, we will learn to live and love the place we’re in and be able to sustain it for millions, possibly billions of years.  The human race towards progress and neverending innovations is going to come to a halt at some point.  It’s just common sense.  It’s what we do afterwards that’s most important.  I don’t feel like everyone’s going to wake up one day and stop this society, so there will be a crash.  I just hope the people who survive that crash know what they’re doing so that this population explosion and hellish world doesn’t come back into existence.  It would seem rather pointless to not learn anything from this society, to just keep crashing and burning for all eternity.  We’re in this crazy world to learn something, that this world we’ve created is wrong.  I just hope the message gets through.

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Fires Gone Wild

April 24th, 2009

In the county where I live, there were and still are wildfires in two different locations.  I’m pretty sure they got the smaller one under control, but I haven’t checked the news today to see what happened with the one that consumed 19,600 acres as of last night.  It has displaced almost 10,000 people and 30 square miles are now burned to the ground.  The media hyped this into a frenzy the last couple of days, so I couldn’t help but comment on it.  Sure, it’s terrible that many people have lost their homes and all, but wildfires are a natural part of the world and have been for many years.  If lightning strikes a dead forest, it will go up in flames.  But if lightning strikes a living forest, nothing will happen.  So what wildfires are is a kind of rejuvenation of a forest so it can begin a rebirth.  Nothing wrong with that.  Nature works in cycles, and this is the wildfire cycle in that particular region.

Forests grow and die like anything else.  Once they become dry and without life, they become more susceptible to catch fire.  The more dead forests there are, the more wildfires we’ll see.  Luckily for me, I am miles away from the actual destruction, so I will not be impacted by this fire much.  I find fire as a mataphor for what the planet is going through, with all its financial collapses and economic recessions.  We need to build a whole new system to fix this, not put a band-aid on the existing system in hopes that the gigantic wound will heal.  The bleeding may stop for a little while, but it will be worse in the long run.  We’ll be deeper in 10 years down the road than we are now.

We need a rebirthing of the economy, a way to start over from scratch and begin anew with a better plan, hopefully learning from our previous mistakes.  Some people say that something like this is impossible.  Well, for those naysayers, I challenge you to think that if a revolution were possible, would it be worth it?  And once you come to the conclusion that it would be worth it, you realize that it is possible.  As soon as we stop our close-mindedness about certain things and how they are impossible, then we can actually make progress on that which we felt was previously impossible.  Impossibility is only in our minds, so we can change them.  I’ll give a concrete example here:

People say it’s impossible to go back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but it makes perfect sense.  People today think it’s more possible that in the future we’ll be downloading our consciousnessess into machines and be able to live much longer with our android bodies than to live like every other species on the planet.  While turning into androids is certainly possible, it will throw us even more out of balance to the point that we’ll be consuming planets by the solar system just to feed our ever-expanding “progress.”  Before we know it, we will have stripped the entire universe for resources.  Sure, it may take a billion years to do so, but it will inevitably happen if we get the technology to be able to do it.  But if we were to go back to living like we are supposed to, in balance with nature, at a sustainable population, then we could live forever as a species instead of crashing and burning or stripping the whole universe for resources, and then crashing and burning.

Wildfires consume everything in their path, destroying habitats that once were and leaving nothing but desolate land.  Sounds an awful lot like humans, who are responsible for creating most of the world’s deserts.  Humans, who are in some way partially responsible for global warming.  But that doesn’t really bother me.  Global warming is such a human-centered problem.  They’re all worried that their houses and businesses will be flooded.  The other animals in the world will simply move further inland and be fine.  There will be insurance company defaults because they can’t afford to spend trillions of dollars to replace all of the land and structures destroyed by the water level rising 30 feet or whatever it is they are predicting.

What bothers me the most is that we are turning the world into a desert.  Sure, after the whole world crashes, the Earth will heal, rebuild if we allow it to, so I guess it’s just like a wildfire.  After a wildfire, all the burnt trees and plants become soil for a new forest to come along.  It may take awhile, but the new forest will be more alive and diverse than the forest that was previously there.  And I feel that this is what may happen with the human race.  Our consciousness is being expanded on a daily basis and we are learning new and valuable things each day, so when it does all go crashing down, we’ll have a sustainable solution.  Not just sustainable, but expansive in the terms of making the world more alive and diverse to the extent that we generate a net positive effect on the planet, rather than the negative one we have now.  The wildfire of society has a lot to teach us about where we need to go once it finally burns out.  So, I do now believe, in some terms, that society is meaningful, but only if we learn from it and don’t allow things to get out of hand again.

I just hope my house doesn’t end up getting burned down in the process.

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Eating Whole Foods for Health

April 22nd, 2009

Eating whole and unprocessed foods brings us closer to the Earth and closer to nature.  It’s also wonderful for our health.  A whole foods diet can cure almost any ailment, although not officially because I don’t want the FDA knocking down my door saying, “Are you crazy?  Only a drug can cure an illness!”  Now that I have a high quality industrial speed blender, it makes it so easy to consume whole foods without having to spend all that time chewing it.  I’m trying to work my way up to eating 90% whole foods and then go from there and see what happens.  These are the foods that sustained us as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, so why not you?  A diet high in vegetables and fruits is a great way to get yourself down to an ideal weight or even cure some of your annoying ailments created by this toxic society.

99.5% of people in my region eat mostly processed foods.  I would say about 75% or more percent eat all processed foods and nothing else.  It’s no wonder the obesity epidemic is striking everywhere we look.  People are eating too much fake food and not enough real food.  Sure, the food in those packages is convenient, but at what cost?  How many diseases could be prevented if we all ate a whole foods diet?  I would be willing to bet at least 70-90%.  But when will this happen?  Never.  People have all these logos and brands etched into their brains from the television or from billboards and love to chow down on food that isn’t even nourishing them, other than keeping them from starving to death.  Nabisco is what these people want.  They want Kraft and McDonald’s.  If it doesn’t have a brand name, they don’t want to eat it.  You don’t see too many advertisements for fruits and vegetables.

There’s a good reason why you never see any healthy food commercials.  Their budget is 1/100 or less of that than just one of these gigantic food conglomerates.  When was the last time you saw one of those 5-a-day commercials?  10 years ago?  Perhaps longer?  They don’t have the money to fund healthful food awareness.  But Pepsi’s there to step in and give a giant ad about how their new diet soda has more caffeine and more aspartame, but it mentions nothing of its value once inside the body.  It’s because it has no nutritional value, other than to make you fat through either aspartame or high fructose corn syrup in the regular sodas.  It’s no secret that the government wants those below them to be docile and unhealthy so that when they extend their power, the people in the lower classes will be too weak and unhealthy to truly fight back.  Yet another way to keep the human race controlled under central authority.

Who would have thought that eating whole foods was political?  Well, it is.  If the government had half a soul, it would allow the fruits and vegetables brigade to have more in their budget to show people what a truly healthy diet looks like.  But, like much information about other things, this information is suppressed so that giant corporations can make giant profits off  of food that tastes good, but will not give anyone even a smidgeon of nutrition.  Just Uncle Sam’s way of saying how much he cares about you.  So just shut up and eat your white flour, white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, MSG, soy letichin, evaporated cane juice, and enriched bleached partially hyrdrogenated oils with a twist of fluoride.

While most processed food has little if no nutritional value, it does taste pretty good, doesn’t it?  Krispy Kreme doughnuts beat a salad any day.  But at what cost?  You are supporting corporate America by consuming all these processed foods that have name brands, marketing divisions, and cool characters that get your kids to want to eat them too.  Of course our government knows what’s best for us by allowing these satanic foods to be advertised 1000-1 when it comes to air space in comparison with fruit/vegetable campaigns.  They want you to eat that processed, genetically modified crap because it will make you sick and feed the medical industrial complex that pretty much runs our country.

How many drugs are advertised on television every hour?  In America, that is.  It’s our government making us sick and then selling us the cure.  They come out looking like the good guys when in actuality they are the most evil fucks this world has ever seen.  Our air is toxic, our water is toxic, our food is mostly toxic.  Radio waves beam into our bodies every second and cell phones cause brain cancer.  It’s not even that society looks out for the elite.  We all breathe the same air, drink mostly the same water, eat basically the same foods as everyone else.  It’s just that the rich have enough money to buy treatments to mask the symptoms of their toxic lifestyles while the poor simply die.  I had a brain surgery when I was 16 and it cost $40,000.  I don’t know how much the following radiation treatment cost, but I’m sure it was large as well.  Good thing I had medical insurance back then or I might be dead as well.

Lucky for me, my brain tumor was with me since my birth and growing steadily until I was a teenager when it was removed.  But most of these ailments that are coming about in today’s toxic world are the result of living in this toxic world.  Even the treatments for these diseases are toxic.   People always want a quick fix pill to solve everything and get mad when it doesn’t work.  Most likely because they are kept so sick by this toxic world that they don’t even have the energy to go exercise or prepare a healthy meal.  Nutritional information is everywhere, but 99.5% of the United States doesn’t care because they would rather sacrifice their health for the good taste of name-brand snack foods that are only going to make their gigantic figures twice as big in half the time.

It’s so easy to eat whole foods and people just don’t do it.  They need to be informed about how we lived just 200 years ago, eating all organic and natural foods, not this genetically modified frankenfood.  But how to get the word out?  How to tell the masses that they are killing themselves slowly through fast food?  Who will even listen?  Most of these people would rather quietly die from an obesity-related disease than take control of their health.  It’s sad, really, but what can I do?  If I can’t change the system or stop the big food companies from advertising at us nonstop, then what is there to do except to lead by example?  To show the world what eating healthy really looks like is the only way to truly make a difference.  Because it takes someone to show these people what real food looks like for them to even consider a change.  It takes good results on a nutrient-rich diet to inspire change in those who will have diabetes in their 20s.  It takes courage to rock the boat and do things that are against the grain.  And that’s what I need to do, and what we all need to do.  Because without showing those who are marketed to on a daily basis how to get out of that media-induced stupor of consumption of shitty food, we will be too weak to do anything and die when this whole system collapses.

So, to sum up, eat healthy because you owe it to yourself.  You owe yourself a healthy body.  And you owe yourself the ability to fight back if there is any injustice.  You need to take control of your health or it will be gone before you know it.  Best of luck to you all and the next time you think about having a snack, reach for a piece of fruit instead of a bag of chips.  It’s the natural way.

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Green Smoothies Save the Day

April 21st, 2009

If you’re looking for that extra boost, drink a green smoothie.  Full of nutrients and fiber, you’ll feel like you’ve just drank something out of the Bible.  It’s that heavenly.  Raw greens are one of the best things you can put in your body, so be sure to bulk up on those because without greens, your body will be functioning at a less than optimal level.  I just had another green smoothie and I can feel my body healing itself slowly.  It’s a good meal that will allow for very quick digestion and keep you full for quite some time, mostly because it has so many nutrients in so little calories.  Just take some of your favorite fruits, water, ice, and a few handfuls of greens and enjoy!

It’s hard work trying to save the world from the mistake of civilization, so I’m trying to gain an advantage by eating healthier than those who control the world.  If I can get myself in peak physical condition, I’ll be able to become a force in the blogosphere and get better at marketing this blog to the point where it will be a tour de force to be reckoned with.  After putting such living and vibrant foods into my body, I feel like the world is at my fingertips and things are looking up once again.  It’s raw nutrition that is unprocessed and completely natural.

I’ve read that once you get accustomed to the greens, you start putting more and more and less and less fruits, so that will be something even more beneficial.  They say that the strongest animals in the world are the ones that eat plenty of dark, leafy greens.  Gorillas and other monkey species base most of their diet on greens and some fruit.  We can learn a lot from this and become much healthier as a species if we eat predominantly greens and fruits, not to mention a little meat.  Smoothie number 4 had as follows:

  • 6 strawberries
  • 10 grapes
  • 2 bananas
  • 3 handfuls spinach
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 2 cups water
  • 5 cubes ice
  • 1 pear (whole)

Sweet as pie, but healthy as a full salad.  You just can’t beat it! Goes well for breakfast, lunch, and a lite dinner.  You’ll get more nutrition in one meal than the average American gets in a week, or maybe even a month.

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