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There is No Life After Death

Friday, March 27th, 2009

When you die, you just rot in the ground.  True story.  Sure, we may exist in some nonphysical form after death, but we’re not really sure what that is.  I wouldn’t call it life after death, but spirit after death.  Personally, I’ve never talked to a spirit, so I have no idea if we even exist at all after death.  I did speak to my great aunt and uncle once on a Ouiji board and what they said was something that only we would know.  So maybe there is some sort of spirit world up there, but I wouldn’t call it life, but more floating.  But I don’t know for sure because I’m not dead yet.  Talking to spirits could be an act of our subconscious, too.  Maybe we imagine talking to a dead relative.  It could all be in our heads.  And people like John Edward could just be picking up on the person he’s reading for by reading that person’s mind.  It could be that there are no spirits, or that spirits only exist on Earth, and not in the ether.  It’s really hard to know either way.

While it’s true that part of us could exist beyond our physical life, it is also very possible that this is false.  It is very possible that we just rot in the ground.  None of us lives on or still exists.  Is that a delusion or is that we live on a delusion?  How can we know for sure?  Many people claim they can speak to spirits, but how do we know it is for real unless we’ve actually spoken to spirits ourselves?  I’ve heard stories that made me think that we do live on and can come back and they were very convincing.  Perhaps just the idea of believing in life after death makes it true.  Perhaps not believing in it filters our beliefs such that we never have an experience talking to a spirit, and if we do, we discount it as something else, something more logical.  How can we decipher this so that we know for sure?  For me, the only way is to die.  Even if I am communicating with spirits, how do I know that they’re not just all in my head, like a schizophrenic?

We could try seeing this problem from different perspectives.  Let’s say that you die and no part of you exists.  Then there is no perspective.  There is no lens after you are dead.  You’ve ceased to exist entirely.  Then there is the perspective of that you survive as a conscious something and can continue developing your consciousness and experiencing something to some extent.  It’s hard to know what really goes on once you die, but believing that you exist in some form is certainly more empowering than believing you just rot in the ground and disappear from the entire universe.  Everyone has their beliefs about what happens when they die.  And if they’re wrong, the side that thinks nothing happens who end up living on after death will be surprised and the people who believe that there is life after death and end up not existing will not know it because they will cease to exist.  So believing in life after death really has no unexpected consequences because if there is no life after death, you won’t be there to realize it.  But if you don’t believe in it and it ends up that there is life after death, you will be wrong and you will know it.

So it makes more sense to believe that there is life after death.  People that don’t believe in it could be setting themselves up for a big surprise once the grim reaper comes and gets them.  What we know for sure is that all our physical stuff stays here.  What we also know is that our body stays here.  All that could survive is our consciousness.  Everything else turns to dust.  So maybe the reason why we are here is to develop our consciousness.  If that’s the only thing we could possibly ever take with us once we bite the bullet, then it seems that it is the only important thing to hold onto.  If your whole being on Earth is rooted in the termporary and physical, that is a guaranteed recipe for suffering.  It could all be temporary, but we don’t know that for sure until we die.  And it seems a bit more reassuring and empowering to choose that some part of us will still exist in the nonphysical realm than to submit to the grim possibility that we will never exist again.  But that is still a possibility, but if it happens, we won’t be around to have second thoughts about it.

It could also be possible that whatever you believe is what happens when you die.  Who really knows?  You would have to ask a dead person, so if you are a psychic or a channeler, then maybe you can give us a solid answer, but it would still be skeptical until we actually die.

Edit:   This post came about because I realized I was neglecting my spiritual side. Being so fixed on the physical world and its problems for so long on this blog kind of burnt me out on that topic, so I took a different avenue and I hope to explore more spiritual issues in the coming posts.

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Agriculture Ruined the World

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

You heard it here, folks.  Agriculture ruined the world and continues to do so.  Before agriculture, we had constraints on our population and on our dominance.  All our food was just enough for the population that was there.  We did not say the Earth belongs to us, but rather that we belonged to the Earth.  I read in the book Ishmael that 99.8% of the world’s population was added in the last 10,000 years, exactly around the time that we started dominating the land instead of living off of it.

Why was this?  Because creating more food led to more people, and then food production was increased, which led to more people, and so on until we got to where we are today, with hyperinflated cities and towns with central authority and heirarchy that was all made possible through the advent of agriculture.  One book I suggest reading on this whole issue is called Against the Grain by Richard Manning.  I already knew most of what he wrote about, but there were some new information that I had never considered before.  In order to understand what a big problem agriculture is and how unnatural it has become today just to sustain and grow our population more, get the book and read it.

Agriculture forced our populations to grow and to concentrate because the food was only in one place and it had destroyed the forests that used to exist there, so it left us completely dependent on it.  Not only that, it concnetrated populations so much that central authority was the only way for there to be any order, creating a necessary evil that still lurks today.  And also, since grains fed opiate receptors in our brains, we became addicted to agriculture.  And finally, it enhanced our need to dominate more land to feed our expanding population, which in turn created more people and then more food and so on.

This is exactly why feeding starving children in Africa will only make the overpopulation problem worse.  When humans or any other animal feels like they are going to die and their whole tribe is starving, they reproduce more to ensure that at least some of the children survive, and then we feed them with food from a farm in Nebraska, making populations larger and more mouths to feed.  In pre-agriculture, the bounty at the hunter-forager’s feet was enough to sustain a certain population, but no more.  If the population ever got out of balance, then some of the people would die off.  Getting out of balance had a price and it kept all living things around instead of the mass extinctions we are seeing imposed by humans.  We have no right to just kill off millions  of species because we are only thinking about ourselves and no other animal.

It’s a sick world since we started civlization.  It really is.  And even if there is a crash, who’s to say that we won’t start another agriculture and another civilization?  There’s no stopping it unless we realize that the way we live is wrong and that it is very, very destructive to all biological life, including humans.  Look at the pollution that civlization has caused.  Look at the corporate giants who love to dump things that destroy ecosystems.  Are they held responsible?  No.  But that doesn’t really matter right now.  What matters is we get out of this system.  Moving back to the hunter-forager way of life is simple and will allow our population to get down to a sustainable level, a permanent state in which humans can exist for millions more years.  We’ve only been in agriculture for 10,000 years and we’ve been around for about 3 million.  Why don’t we scrap the whole agricultural industrial complex and allow the Earth to heal itself so we can go back to being what it truly means to be human?  Why are we still addicted to the drug of civlization, allowing it to take us to our deaths?

When Jesus said we should immitate the birds and bees, he was being very profound, but he was no savior.  The people never did go “back” to immitating every other creature in the world.  I put the word back in quotes because back is relative.  We could call it forward to being ourselves again.  Jesus knew how we were supposed to live, but nobody got the message.  And those who did never acted upon it.  But it shows how bad life was even back then that we felt we needed a savior.  To be saved from what?  Society created through agriculture.  It was a hell world back then and it’s a hell world now.  Why do you think people look forward to the apocalypse?  They hate this shitty world and they want to get out of it.  Why are movies like The Road Warrior popular?  Because we fantasize about a world with no trees where we are outside fighting for something that matters instead of checking account balances and filing legal documents.  The civilized world has become boring and predictable and we are either subconsciously or consciously bringing it down purposely because we know in our bones that this is not the way we were meant to live.

We don’t have to scrap our intelligence and become animals in the sense that we don’t communicate or accomplish anything, but it would help if we just started by living off the bounty of the Earth instead of creating more and more food through dominating the Earth, creating billions of people that shouldn’t be here if we had stayed in balance.

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Humans and Conquest

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Humans are all about conquest and taking from others.  We spread across the world, like a cancer depleting the lands as we progress over the entire planet.  The only reason we need to keep expanding our base is because we destroy our current land.  When we were in history class, we were taught to view the great conquerors and something to admire, rather than something to resist.  That humans are the center of the world and we are entitled to the entire world to be our own.  And if there’s another group of people a few miles a way and you want that land, you go over there and kill them or find a way to get them to submit to your way of life.  And it just spread like wildfire.  The good thing about it is that the wildfire did burn out every now and then when one of the civilizations crashed due to its massive size, making it almost impossible to completely defend.

And so it goes.  Over and over, civilizations rise and fall since at least 10,000 years ago.  But what is the point of all this rising and falling?  What purpose is it serving, other than the short-term gratification the elites of each empire feel when the acquire a new piece of land?  The land gets more and more depleted as each civilization takes over it.  It’s very cyclical, except for the fact that the control gets tighter and tighter with each pass.  We become more depedent on the state each time around.  Just think how easy it would be to send people into a mass panic.  Suppose all the electrical grids went down.  No more running water.  No more lights.  No more refrigeration.  This one aspect of our lives failing could cause a mass panic and probably kill more than half the population if sustained long enough.  And yet this electricity has only been around at most a few centuries.

We are only serving the government because we don’t think we can live without it.  We’ve been told so many times what the world would be like without central control.  “It would be chaos.”  Was it chaos before we started civilization?  No.  The proof is in that we’re still here today.  We learned how to survive off the land, rather than just using it to the brink of exhaustion and then moving other places to do the same.  Agriculture ruined the world.  We didn’t know it at the time what the ramifications would be of this new “invention,” but we certainly do now.  Well, some of us do.  Our population is way out of control.  Because grain feeds opiate receptors in the brain and is easy to grow, we have populations so large and growing so large that in 50 years there will be 10 billion humans if something drastic doesn’t happen.

The root of conquest was agriculture.  The agricultural way of life is what created the nations and control structures we live in today.  If we hadn’t concentrated populations so much due to the way we grew our foods, we wouldn’t need all this control and conquest.  If we kept the tribes small instead of exponentially larger, we may have been able to not only sustain our life on Earth, but have the Earth be better off for having us here.  It’s a shame we let the drug of agriculture lead to the drug of civilization.  I call it a drug because it is fundamentally destructive and exploitative, and yet we cannot live without it.

The only thing I see that even resembles the way we used to live is something I call permaculture, but there is still a domination aspect to this.  We control the animals and the crops on the farms.  But we use what we have there and make it better without increasing what we have.  It’s the closest thing we have to natural, but there’s still the idea of conquest because of the use of land we supposedly own (stole).  But how many people actually do this sort of permaculture?  Not many.  Most of our food is grown using oil fertilizers and pesticides because our topsoil is so depleted.  And let’s not forget Monsanto’s new genetically-modified crops that are Round Up Ready, meaning that they are the only plants that can survive that toxic chemical being sprayed on it by whoever is tending the crops.  Even organic crops are not natural.  They’ve been hybridized and bred for higher sugar contents and to be more palatable to humans, while at the same time losing most the nutrition it used to have.

We used to have populations of humans that were at a level where we would never have to worry about the things we do now.  I would say the most we could sustain at this point would be 1 billion, but preferably much less.  And we would all have to be part of non-coercive tribes or villages where we all worked together to sustain our communities and refuse to go back to the drug of civilization.  But it’s so tempting…  We would have to not only remember what this world was like, but know enough never to go back to it.  We would have to evolve in such a way that we would never break out of the cycle of nature again.  We would have to love the space we’re in enough to not only sustain it, but enhance it.  Then we would have no reason to conquer other lands, because we don’t have exploding populations and know enough not to ever go down that dark road again.  We would have to possess a consciousness that expands way out into the future and the past where we know where we’ve been and know where we’ll be headed if we make certain moves.

I’m not calling for a mass extinction of humans anymore than anyone else.  It is simply necessary for us to thrive and become what we were meant to be.  It’s going to happen either way.  It will happen when our population gets so big that disease spreads like wildfire, or it can start now with people starting to downshift their lives and having less children.  But we must get out of this conquest mentality for this to happen.  A nation is not going to lower its population if it thinks it will be conquered by another nation who does not lower theirs.   I might as well be shouting into the wind because I know the scenario will be overpopulation leading to massive disease.  People are too selfish to start now.  Especially in the developed world.  There are very few people in our world that will give it up for the good of the whole.  They’re too attached to their way of life, much like the addict is attached to the needle.  I’m not hopeless, but I expect a crash.  It’s only natural.  It’s been happening for thousands of years.  But when it crashes, will we go back for more?  Or will be start living smarter?  That’s the question.

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Everything is Owned

Friday, February 20th, 2009

It’s no secret today that every piece of land in the inhabitable world is owned.  Owned by some guy or some nation.  Owned by people that think it’s perfectly okay to own a piece of the Earth.  You know that now there’s this guy that actually claimed the moon and sells spaces on it to celebrities?  Apparently, this trend has even stretched into space.  When can I get an apartment on Jupiter?  Somewhere near that Great Red Spot.  $500 a month?  Okay.  But I can’t live there.  I’ll just use it for storage.  All my knicknacks and extra crap will go to Jupiter.  Just because someone says they own something and have a piece of paper that says they own it, does that mean they actually own it?  Property is theft.  Any way you look at it, it’s theft.  Ownership of anything is theft.  Everything in front of you was stolen.  Every home and piece of land you see was stolen.

I would have to say the contrary when it comes to ownership.  Instead of people owning the land, I say the land owns the people.  Before humans, animals didn’t have any concept of property that was owned and kept embarassingly sterile because the housing development you live in wants every house to look the same.  The land was free for the living.  Not for the taking because no other animal sees themselves as owning land.  Sure, they may think they mark their territory, but there are no laws in place that stop another animal from taking over that land and living there.  Everything was wide open.  Even the Native Americans could not conceive that someone could own a piece of land.

I think the reason people want to own land is because it makes them feel powerful.  Or at least more powerful than before.  “Yes, that’s MY piece of land right there.  It belongs to ME.”  It belongs to the Earth and the Earth belongs to the universe.  The idea of property is to keep people in the broken system we have now.  If people could just go anywhere and build a shelter, they wouldn’t have to pay rent or mortgage every month.  If people could just take land and grow their own food, they wouldn’t have to spend money at the supermarket.  By having the entire world owned, they keep an entire generation captive in unfulfilling jobs because they have no other choice but to starve and freeze on the streets.  Most of these jobs are damaging to the planet and humanity as a whole.  Extraction of resources, depletion of topsoil, pollution of rivers and oceans.  Most of the corporations in the world contribute to these atrocities.  It’s either destroy the Earth or die on the streets.  Of course, this isn’t true for everyone, but the majority of people have no choice.

Even a writer  or an attorney contributes to the clear-cutting of forests when they use paper products.  Deplete the Earth to survive.  That should be our mantra.  We have no choice because we’re not allowed to occupy any physical space unless we help in this cause.  This is how most people are forced to be.  A system that depends on destroying its environment is doomed to failure, and yet people can’t just stop because they would lose their “property.”  We have the ability to create heaven on Earth if we could just get past some of these ridiculous laws that keep us in this system.  Even the Founding Fathers were this way.  Rich, white, property-owning men who believed their class was the only one who should be able to vote.  How enlightened…

At this point, I feel that resistance is futile because not enough people are willing to put an end to this system we live in.  We know in our bones that it’s wrong and yet we keep going on, day after day, with an almost zombie-like apathy, waiting for our time to die and finally get out of this hell world.  Our leaders are satanic for the most part and do whatever they want with no regard for the law, while the people below them are put under harsh punishments for the same crimes.  Power does what it wants and gets away with it.  And they have this power because they own things.  They own land.  They own oil.  They own whatever it is that other people need or want to get their hands on.  And they use propaganda and other manipulation tactics to keep things that way.

How can people be woken up from this stupor and start moving towards a better world, a world we can all feel good about?  We could show them what really goes on in the world through independent media, but they won’t believe you because it’s too fringe.  If it’s not on television or in a newspaper, it isn’t true.  All the things that don’t get out are usually the most important things.  If you haven’t heard, the USA, Canada, and Mexico signed the NAU agreement, making these three countries into one.  You didn’t hear this on CNN or Fox News.  The reason the most powerful people in the world want a one-world government is because they would OWN EVERYTHING.  Every piece of land in the entire world would belong to them.  They could control every action in the entire world.

I have an alternative here.  How about a no world government?  How about a world where we don’t need laws and we just get along and work together?  We use community and cooperation to get things done that actually matter.  We’ll have no need for accountants and bankers because we will be in so much abundance that we’ll never know scarcity.  The Earth was once an abundant place full of life.  These owners are the ones that have destroyed much of that aliveness.  I would say that to own is to destroy, but it’s not absolutely true.  But it’s close enough.  Let’s drop the facade of ownership and start living like we are supposed to.  Like we used to.  The way our bodies and biology intended.  Once we get the hang of it, it won’t be so hard, it will be natural.

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Control

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Human beings crave control.  It’s our nature to control everything in our world.  But we know we can’t control everything, but we sure can try to.  Our social status is measured on the amount of control we have over others.  Control lies everywhere in today’s society.  Social control is the backbone of keeping us all in line because the society we live in is so insane that the people who cannot tolerate it must be reprimanded through brute force.  A psychogenic mind creates a psychopathic society.  A society where only those who are psychopathic enough can rise to the top.  Those who will use others below them as sacrificial lambs in their quest for domination.  Who are the elites of the world but glorified criminals who do things behind the scenes that are so horrific that no one would even believe them if they did it out in the open.

Remember 9/11.  We were not attacked by some rebel Islamic sect.  We were attacked by our own government so they could tighten the belt on the control they have over us.  A way to get us to comply as long as they kept us safe.  Fear is a very powerful motivator to these people.  They are the ultimate darkworkers.  They’re so addicted to power and control that they spend their whole lives trying to extend their power.  Slaughtering people for oil.  Slaughtering your own people for oil.  Not that we should make that distinction as we are all human.  We all do not deserve this type of treatment.  Central control corrupts so easily and it’s there all over the world.  There are surveillance cameras on street corners in some cities now.  We’re constantly being watched, constantly surveiled.  Pretty soon, they’ll install RFID chips in our bodies.  They’ve already done it with the Real ID act.  They always need to know where we are.  What kind of a free country is this?

We lived in small tribes for millions of years without a need for central control.  Now that we’re all the product of grain agriculture and the need for heirarchical societies, the people at the top knew that they needed to control such a mass of people through all sorts of manipulation tactics.  Why do only five corporations own all the television stations?  Why does the news mostly talk about things that are non-actionable?  Because the people in charge want us to stay passive, stay complacent in a society that sucks.  They make it seem like our priveleges are so good compared to the third world and we should be grateful to live in the freest country, that we should be proud to be an American.  We’re nothing more than a nation of thieves and cowards.  Tracing back our history is so painful that the history books only tell half the story, or probably less.  The public school system is nothing more than a propaganda machine to turn an entire generation into passive consumers who always turn to authority because they’ve never been taught to think for themselves.  They’re given the option of one world and if they don’t fit in it, they’re outcasts, thrown away.

Thinking for yourself is a big step towards getting free of the control structure, at least mentally.  Every day on the television, we’re told what to think, what’s good and what’s bad, and who we should trust.  All these programs are owned by multi-national conglomerates that benefit immensely from keeping the public in the dark about certain things.  And these conglomerates would never rat each other out because then they risk the same thing happening to them and when all the secrets got out, the whole fabric of society would break down.  I would say what you hear in the media is like an iceberg, where only a small percentage is visible, while the rest remains unseen, trapped under the frigid waters of secrecy.  The highest functioning criminals in the world are the owners of the media outlets because omitting the atrocious actions they’re guilty of is not only wrong, but highly damaging to humanity as a whole.

But how do we fight back?  How do we beat a control structure at its own game?  How do we get the world to transcend the fear we’re bombarded with every second of every day via the news?  I don’t know because so many people today are so entrenched in being the obedient slaves of the ruling elite.  It’s kind of like the movie The Usual Suspects, where the people who worked for the crimelord never knew they were working for him.  By lining the pockets of these elites, we are just giving them more and more power and control.  And they already have a multi-trillion dollar deficit to begin with.  But they don’t care about that the same way a gambling addict doesn’t care about stealing from his grandmother to keep up his habit.  The people at the top are so addicted to power that there is no way to stop their destruction.  They’ll make it so taxes are 85% of our incomes and just keep spending.   And the American people will go along with it as long as it stops the “terrorists” from attacking again.  The biggest fallacy is that the terrorists we’re so afraid of are the ones who are running our country and most likely the entire world.

We are prepared for a life of control, though.  As a child, our entire lives are controlled by schedules and rigid time structures.  We only get to play for 15 minutes daily while at school.  And the play is intently supervised, making sure nothing “bad” happens.  We’re groomed for the world of serving the elites and it’s almost impossible to think outside that box because we’re told there are no other alternative ways to live.  We’re not really told of the forager-hunter tribes that used to live in balance with the Earth and had such rich lives that they didn’t consider any of their activities work, but joyful activities.  It’s that whole concept of hiding the truth to gain more control for these powerful insiders.

I wish I had an answer on how to put a stop to this kind of world.  I’m talking about an answer that would actually work in the real world.  Maybe if the whole media broke down, we could start a revolution.  But the media is so important to those in charge that they use taxpayer money to fund converter boxes on old television sets.   Anything to keep our perspectives small through the weapon of fear.  There are very few people in this world that see it for the way it is.  I’d say about 1% of the population.  Maybe less.  What we need to do is set the rest of these people free.  Freedom is more mental than it is physical.  We need to free their minds.  I’ve always found it funny how people blindly accept what they see on TV as real.  Like it is an established authority.  It is the major culprit in all of this.  I say taking down the media is a great start.  Now comes the question of how…

P.S.  The elites don’t want any hint of real democracy.  That scares the hell out of them.  A rule by the people?  All the people?  That would ruin all their plans.  Especially the one about a one-world government.  We’re already the NAU (North American Union).  Just wait until the WU.  

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