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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Promoting This Blog
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009I want more traffic on this blog. I feel like people stopped reading. I feel like I’m talking to myself here. I need ways to promote this blog. The problem is that my blog doesn’t fit into any particular category. I can’t sell myself on one aspect of myself. I don’t want to put myself in a box where I cover only one topic and brand myself as such. I have a lot to share with the world and it covers many subjects. I want to be able to be completely myself and nothing else. That’s why my website is my name. I have various things I like to write about now and I’m sure there will be more new things for me to cover in the future. I think it’s a complete prison to limit myself to one, two, or even fifty topics. But how do you sell that? How do you get people to read if from day to day they don’t know what they’re going to be reading? The same way I write every day with no idea in advance what I’m going to write about.
I know my blog isn’t all gold and silver, but there are many gems in the nearly 250 posts I’ve done so far. I’m not skilled with HTML or other computer programming languages. But I have a certain writer’s wit and a good sense of myself most of the time. When I write an article, I know where it’s going usually, unless I go off on a rant, but those rants are fueled with passion and understanding. I’m not a self-help guru or a nihilistic jackass. I’m just me expressing myself explicitly. Uncensored. The way the world is meant to be. Raw. I’m not going to sugar coat what I feel and this is what’s driving me to write more. I’m no longer worried about offending people on this blog. I used to be. I figure the more polarizing this blog is, the more people will come and read it and more importantly, enjoy it.
We’re told that to fit into society we have to project an image of who we are. We have to define ourselves as something, not someone. That, I believe, is the fundamental problem. People hide behind certain aspects of themselves to keep other parts of them hidden. A doctor hides behind his high status to keep from relating to people as equals. Not all doctors, but from what I’ve experienced, most of them do. Other people use power and authority to control people while hiding the sinister aspect of themselves. We’re told this over and over again that we can never be fully ourselves, but need to project a persona, a mask if you will. For example, look at the Bush-Cheney gang. When Bush gave his speeches, he projected himself as a Christian man, a loving and caring person. But when you look at the actions carried out under his administration, you see a completely different picture. My question is why couldn’t he have just said, “We’re going into Iraq for the oil. We don’t have much left in America. We need it because people live so far away from their jobs, grocery stores, and malls that they cannot live without automobiles. This, and this alone, justifies the slaughter of thousands of innocent Iraqi people.”?
I’m sure if he said it like that, people would support him. They know it’s true what he’s saying. He’s going to do it anyway, so why not just come out and say it. You don’t have to bullshit us and say you’re “liberating” the Iraqis from Saddam Houssein. But that’s beside the point. I feel like Obama is one of the most authentic presidents we’ve had in awhile. He’s not afraid to say the things the American people don’t want to hear. The more we are in denial, the harder we’ll fall. He isn’t going to fix everything overnight and he’s been given a bad hand to start with. But at least he’s moving in the right direction. His visions are grand and inspiring. That’s why I voted for him. He doesn’t provide false hope, but hope that’s grounded in reality. But enough about politics.
My point is that there are a lot of blogs out there spitting out self-help “masturbation” that might make you feel good for awhile, the same way a crack pipe gets you high. They tell you things like, “You can manifest all your dreams in the next 30 days if you follow my instructions.” Then you delve into the author’s personal life and reallize they’re completely full of shit. Not all of them. But the ones that tell you the truth about creating the life you want aren’t the ones who tell you what you want to hear. They tell you the truth. They challenge you to think and act. They don’t talk about enlightenment, something that I’ve seriously thought was a bunch of feel good tactics to attract self-help junkies. What is enlightenment anyway? You walk around, never offending anyone, going along with whatever happens to you, and never rock the boat? Sounds like the activities of a zombie slave to me.
We’re always told that we are progressing to a higher state of being. I would prefer to call it a different state. If civlization is better than foraging and hunting, why does civilzation cause more destruction? I think we are starting to realize that certain aspects of our daily lives are completely destructive and we are starting to move towards enriching our environment. It’s starting, but it needs assistance. We need to work together to make things right, not by saying that we can sustain our current way of living indefinitely. If that’s not denial, I don’t know what is. We need to start working towards a future we can sustain and then just stay there. We can still develop our minds, but we can keep the Earth in good condition and live in harmony with the rest of the Earth.
I just want to get the message out. We need to do something fast. I’m not here to judge you, but to open doorways for you. Imagine how great we could live if we changed a few things. And then think about changing a few more things. The possibilities are endless. Just stay with me…
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My New Laptop
Monday, February 9th, 2009I just got a new laptop in. It uses Vista. So far, so good. It connects to the Internet and runs ReadPlease2003. 3 GB of Memory.
Abundance Grows On Trees
Monday, February 9th, 2009I’m sure when you were a child, your parents said to you at least once, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” But the problem is that in our biology and our ancestral memories, we know that almost everything we needed for survival back then did grow on trees. The food we ate, the shelters we build with wood, the fires we burned…they all came from trees or other plants. Now we go to the supermarket instead of picking our own foods off of trees and other plants because there are no longer many rich forests and jungles left on this Earth due to development. There used to be a bounty at our feet. Now there is hardly any edible food left that doesn’t come from a grocery store.
Most of the food we eat comes from a monoculture farm where the foods are heavily sprayed with pesticides and other poisons to keep the bugs off of them. Now that Monsanto has genetically patented the Round Up ready seeds and terminator seeds, we have even more to worry about. Our food supply is becoming more and more corrupted, so much that even the Certified Organic label cannot be trusted, mostly because Wal-Mart got involved. Most of the processed food we buy is contaminated with genetically modified soy, corn, and many other lab experiments. Pretty soon, they’ll be growing all our food in a labratory and the consequences will be unknown.
So what are we supposed to eat? Are there any real options anymore? Or will every bit of food we put into our mouths slowly but surely send us to the hospital where we’ll need to be examined by a doctor, further enriching the medical industrial complex? I don’t have an answer, other than to say we need to start growing our own food soon. But since every square inch of this world is now “owned,” it’s not so easy to just go out planting fruit trees. We’d have to pay rent to some rich landowner, another river of money going from the poor to the rich. This idea of property from land we stole from the Native Americans is ludicrous. How did that whole thing originate? One guy walked onto the New America and said, “I got these 200 acres,” and just said they were his? And that land passed down from generation to generation and now someone today, who is said to own the land, can now sell it for an enormous profit?
They’ve got us by the balls here. They make us dependent on some central authority that will provide for us. The only food we can grow is in a small garden on the less than acre of land we’re allotted because we don’t have as many pieces of green paper as someone else. People starve in third world countries because American corporations go to their countries and take away the bounty at our feet we used to have. They call it “development,” but I call it robbery. If the jungles of Africa were still there, how many starving Africans do you think there would be? They’ve been living there for almost 2 million years! But only in the last few centuries do you hear of them starving. Probably sometime around the Industrial Revolution.
The only reason those starving Africans help extract whatever resource America or other dominating country wants is because they are given a small sum of money to spend at the company store for food because there is no longer any food around them. The space which used to not only feed them, but house them as well is gone due to the next oil drilling or silver mine. And our economy depends heavily on this destruction of other country’s habitats.
America is such a psychopathic country that if we were to start planting trees, much like Johnny Appleseed did in the 1800′s, we would probably be jailed for trespassing on private property, property that the rich landowner only goes and sees once or twice a year, but has armed guards to watch the land he’ll never use. An abundance can exist that will feed most of the world, probably all of it. But it would take a massive shift in the collective consciousness to accomplish it.
Imagine that if you wanted to eat something, you just had to go outside and pick a fruit or vegetable from not your garden, but from wherever you please in your area. That’s how we lived before just the last few hundred years. Abundance did grow on trees and can again if we can finally stop all this “development” and start developing sustainable ways to feed ourselves that will last for generations and also make the Earth a much healthier and alive place to live. Or you can eat a Monsanto brand Round Up ready soybean. It’s up to you.
I’m just trying to paint a picture of the abundant worl we could live in where all our needs are met in collaboration with nature, not against it. If every other animal in the entire world can do it, so can we.
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Funny Quotes From Yours Truly Part II
Sunday, February 8th, 2009I figured I’d lighten the mood after my two rants below. I have to warn you, there are a few abortion jokes in here. I hope it won’t offend you. Here are some more of my quotes:
I’ve been watching a lot of Court TV lately. Forensic Files is a great show. It’s amazing how they can catch you with the smallest bit of evidence…like a toenail. See this guy in the interrogation room. “We did find your toenails at the scene of the crime.” “Oh, man, I knew I shouldn’t have clipped my toenails after I killed her. The clippers were right there. I knew if I didn‘t do it then I would forget.”
Some children get all mad when they find out they were adopted. Like when I was fifteen, my friend found out he was adopted. He was crying. I tried to cheer him up, “Hey, cheer up, at least you weren’t aborted.”
When I was a kid, I thought I had an identical twin who lived in my mirror. When I was six years old, my parents told me that he… was adopted.
What the hell is with “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too?” That’s a bunch of crap. Why would I have cake if I’m not gonna eat it? It’s my cake. I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want with it.
So it’s wacky tie day at the abortion clinic and I am dressed to kill.
*A cup of coffee can save a third world child….I hope it’s not a Starbucks cup of coffee…cause I can’t afford that shit.
I remember having to read A Tale of Two Cities for college. I hated it. I even bought the cliff notes. I would’ve rather jumped off a cliff than read that whole thing. My report consisted of two sentences. “It was the best of times, it was a waste of time to read this book.”
I decided to join gambler’s anonymous. It doesn’t help. It’s a 21 step program and when you finish them, you yell out Blackjack!
I used to work at a supermarket. We had to watch all these training videos. My favorite one was called, “How to Prevent Shoplifting.” So I stole it…shhh.
You ever have somebody pull over and ask for directions, you give them to him, then after they leave, you realize, “I gave them the wrong directions.” Then you remember you did it on purpose.
Growing up, across the street lived a Native American family. So I did the American thing. I took all their land. We just walked into their house, “Here’s some beads, thanks for the house.”
Willie Wonka was a diabetic. That’s why he loved to torture children.
I was quiet in high school. My senior year, I took a vow of silence. Nobody noticed.
One of my life dreams is to develop a fanny pack that doesn’t look gay.
You know they say there’s a 40-year grieving period before you can joke about a national tragedy. Like WW 2 and JFK being shot. I don’t think that’s fair. I shouldn’t have to wait 40 years to joke about President Bush.
I found out today that generally pessimistic people live longer than people who are optimistic. What kind of cruel joke is that? “My life sucks. I can’t wait to die.” “Too bad!” If anyone ever asks me why I’m pessimistic. “Just looking out for my future.”
I once went bungee jumping at a site called “No Strings Attached.”
I had a blind cousin who, as a kid, was a real terror. He used to write all over the walls in Braille.
All right, I guess that’s enough for today. I have thousands of jokes, but I don’t want to spend them all in one post. Stay tuned for some more jokes and more social commentaries. Which one I’ll do next, I don’t know. If you want to hook up to my RSS feed, I recommend Google Reader. It’s what I use personally. Don’t worry, I’m not one of their affiliates. I just find their free service useful.
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