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Why Most Blogs Suck

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As an avid reader of blogs some years ago, and with continued reading over these past 7 years or so, I’ve come to one stunning conclusion, and that is that most blogs suck.  Sorry, but I’m just telling the truth here.  Most people who write a blog are not fully committed (guilty as charged here), and so either their infrequent postings (also guilty), or lack of quality content (sometimes guilty, but not nearly as much as some of the other blogs I’ve stumbled across).  Sure, having a blog is challenging because it is kind of a “monkey on your back,” especially if you have some kind of following.  Most people give up, even if they have writing talent and have value to share, simply because of the demand on their time and the pressure to post.  The bigger the audience, the larger the pressure to keep posting those goldmine articles that people will give you great feedback on.

Most of my favorite blogs hctsave dried up considerably over the past 3 years or so.  Even blogging god Steve Pavlina has stopped blogging consistently.  Sometimes it takes over a month for him to post another entry, and many of his newer posts are simply plugs for products he’s bought or a reminder that the Ultimate You Mindfest started a few weeks ago (now since over).  So, needless to say, it is looking to me like blogging is starting to become less and less popular, and less and less impactful in the long run.  It’s a shame because while I haven’t achieved any kind of mainstream success with this blog, and I don’t post on a regular basis, I still have the drive to share ideas that give me value, and figure I might as well pay them forward to anyone who will read.

There are still a few blogs I do read, although some of them post maybe twice a month, while others post way too frequently (i.e. Zen Habits) for their posts to have any memorable impact.  It’s not that I don’t think Leo at Zen Habits is a bad writer or a lousy blogger, it’s just his posts are too short for one, and secondly, most of them are simply too superficial.  And now he has what he calls a Sea Change program, where for $10 a month, you can take part in an exclusive club where you get coached by experts about how to stick to your habits and goals, or something like that.  He writes e-books and such to generate income, but I can’t say I’ve ever felt inspired to buy any of them, simply because I know that it will most likely be a rehashing of all his old blog entries in a more digestible format.

One blog I’m still a big fan of is How to Save the World, written by Dave Pollard.  He’s been at it since 2002, and he has many insightful posts, along with visual graphics that explain his blog posts for those who are visual learners.  He puts a lot of time into most of his blog posts, and writes at a level that is unseen in 99% of the blogging world.  He is a deep thinker, and knows so much about what it means to be human, and how this pesky civilization has gotten us off track.  His posting frequency may also be down a bit, but the posts he does make are still fresh, impactful, and relevant.  He is still a voice of reason in an otherwise insane world.

Ran Prieur is also another blogger that still has promise, although is “blog” isn’t quite the same as other people’s.  He’s an anarcho-primitivist, or at least that’s where his beliefs align closest with.  He’s always got something interesting to say, or an interesting link to share, which shows that even after over 10 years, he is still passionate about his website and the sharing of what he considers valuable information.  People may find him a little strange, a little “out-there,” but he makes more sense and has a very articulate way of conveying his ideas, and it is a shame he doesn’t have a larger following.  But as he put it, “I like my small, smart audience.”  He accepts donations, and does not have a job, and I don’t think he’s had one for at least 10 years.  His most popular essay, How to Drop Out, has inspired so many people not to drop out completely, but to find themselves a low-stress job and how to live below their means to accumulate enough money to eventually retire early and spend time doing what you love, regardless of whether or not it makes you money.

Those are pretty much the only blogs I read nowadays, but that is simply because I don’t want to spend my time reading articles that don’t even merit the time it takes to read them, never mind comment on them.  They are just not worth my time, and even though some blogs can be entertaining for awhile (i.e. Violent Acres), they often fizzle out and become just a static website with a new post maybe once or twice a year.

Is blogging dead or is there still merit to being a blogger?  I think that for a select few, who provide value over time in a consistent manner, yes there is still value in what they do.  As for those who have neglected their blogs to the point of losing most of their audience, I’d say that for them it is more a problem of self-discipline or just a lack of inspiration that causes their blogs to die a sad and untimely death.

I’m still here, although not as much as I would like to be.  I’m going to try and post here more often and see what happens.  I realize that I do have readers who love what I write, and some that may disagree with me, but at least there are still some people reading these posts that I pour hours of my time into, and a few ounces of my effort.  And I enjoy it, because it is an outlet for my creative self-expression.  I’ll do my best to keep this blog afloat, because I believe in the message I have to give.

Mass Shooting in CT Thoughts

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My heart goes out to all the families who lost children, parents, and family members in the CT tragedy.  It seems as if there have been way too many of these this year.  It always seems like the people who commit these crimes were either mentally ill, or otherwise normal people who had their mind corrupted in some way, either by some kind of drug(s), or through some kind of mind control.  Those in the shadows who pull the strings have no empathy, and have no emotional consequences for their actions.  It’s all about manipulating the population through fear.  It’s just so sad that children are often casualties in this mind manipulation.  9/11 took so many freedoms away, and now all these mass shootings threaten to take more away, and the people will acquiesce to it, simply due to fear of the unknown.  But nothing can give those children’s lives back, and that’s the saddest part of it all.  I’m not saying this guy was mind controlled, but most mass shooters were in one way or another.  Here’s a story of one such instance of mind control that led to a man committing countless assassinations:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_superman.htm

If this is possible, why not this mass shooter?  It just seems odd he’d kill people at an elementary school years after he had gone there, and just do it in such a robotic fashion, with no emotion whatsoever.  And, of course, he took his own life, so we’ll never have any answers…  That kind of reminds me of when those Navy Seals killed “Osama Bin Laden,” then burned his body at sea, under “Muslim tradition.”  What a load of crap.

The whole goal of these mass shootings is to put us in such a state of fear that we simply willingly give up our freedoms in the name of security.  If people knew that death was only an illusion, and that we become pure consciousness at death, then it would be impossible to scare us in any way possible.  If everyone knew that we are fundamentally safe no matter what, and that even death is not the end, but a new beginning, there would be no fear of it.  We’re all going to die eventually, and it could happen any time, any way, and if people don’t make peace with that fact, then the world will be ruled by fear and the control system.

Another sad day in America, but don’t let fear get the best of you.  Don’t act reactively, but proactively.

New Laptop and Consumerism

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Just a couple of days ago, I received my new laptop in the mail.  It has Windows 8, a very nice and bright clear screen, and should last me at least until 2016, God willing.  It was a steal at just over $400, and is working much faster and better than my old laptop.  The reason I bought a new one was because my old laptop was having performance issues, especially related to videos and the hardware heating up to ridiculous levels.  It’s about the same thing that happened to my other laptop about 3.5 years ago.  It seems that laptops have a finite lifespan, especially how they are made today.  In this consumerist, throw-away society, instead of fixing anything, it is often cheaper and less of a hassle to buy new.

But we can only take so much from the Earth before the Earth starts screaming at us to stop. We are the Takers of the world, destroying natural ecosystems all in the name of progress.  It’s a shame, but most of the world, especially the first world, thinks like this.  We extract resources from third world countries by lending them money that they could never pay back, then using their land and their people as collateral.  So, now Africa is becoming a desolate wasteland with millions starving simply because the food growing there is headed to a first world country.

Sure, I could beat myself up about buying things I don’t necessarily need, but I do that so little that it is almost a non-issue for me.  This laptop is the first major purchase I’ve made in almost 4 years, so it’s not like I’m accumulating a ridiculous amount of knick-knacks that nobody should ever buy because they are most likely made by either Chinese or Taiwanese children.  Children who are never given a chance to succeed or follow their passions because they spend 16 hour days working in a toy or knick-knack factories.  China makes so many of our useless goods, our excess stuff that we don’t even really appreciate anyway.  So why do we own all this junk?

For the most part, the impulse to buy is an emotional one.  Many people rampantly consume to fill a void in their life and to get their emotional needs partially met.  It also makes them feel secure.  And the market simply pumps more products out than anyone could ever want, but they just keep on plugging because they know that everyone seems to want the newest thing.  I’ve seen this happen with the iPhone and iPad’s.  First, the iPhone came out, and everyone had to get one, then the iPhone 2 came out, and everyone had to get one.  Now I believe it’s up to 5.  First the iPad, now the iPad 2.  It’s the corporate mindset that they have to extract as much value from our natural resources in order to satisfy emotionally damaged people who don’t feel complete without a collection of unnecessary gadgets.

Most of these things are made in China, who pretty much owns the United States from a debt standpoint.  They have made so much crap for us, because they will work for less money than us.  It truly is a sad state of affairs because so many people in this country are looking for jobs, can’t find a job, or have simply given up looking for a job.  We import far more than we export, and that’s never a good sign for any country, never mind the United States of America.

Most Americans have no idea what is going on, and how this kind of consumption can only go on for so long before we totally run out of resources on this planet.  Pretty soon, we’ll have to start going to Mars just to get resources to build more fucking iPhone’s!  We might even build a few factories over there, so that when the spaceship arrives to Earth, there will already be fully-assembled iPad’s and iPad 2′s.  And don’t think we’ll stop there.  Once we get the technology, we will extract resources from whole solar systems just to keep satisfying customer demands for a cell phone that can make pancakes for you.  And all the landfills will be full of perfectly usable products, but things that would be considered “obsolete” by 99.9% of the world’s population.

Also, nothing is built to last anymore.  Except maybe Duralast. ;)  Most of anything we buy breaks down within a few years, needing replacement.  This cycle has to end sometime.  Otherwise, we might even have disposable houses that only last 5 years, and then need to be replaced with a new one from scratch.  And the resources dwindle while the landfills comprise half of the country at that point.  It truly has to stop soon, or we will have nothing left.

We can only take so much from the Earth before the Earth has nothing left to give.  It is the honest truth.  And even though people continue to consume with reckless abandon, they know in their bones that a crash is coming.  Either that or the Age of Enlightenment, which would be a much better situation.  This is where we realize collectively what is going on, and we choose to be stewards of the Earth instead of exploiters and extractors.  We live as one with nature and our home planet.  We will realize just how meaningless the rat race is, and how pointless more than half of our possessions are.  It was all done to fill a void, this rampant buying, and now look what it’s turned into.  It could very well destroy the world and humanity as a whole, but let’s just hope it doesn’t get that far.  There’s not much time left to stop this unbelievable consumerism, but if we reach another level of consciousness as a whole before a total crash of civilization, there may still be hope for us.  Let us pray that is happens.

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The Holographic Universe

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The illusory nature of reality is sort of like a holographic television channel.  There is so much happening in the space that we are occupying that we cannot see, hear, or feel in any way, shape, or form.  We can only see less than 1% of all light on the spectrum of light.  Humans are basically blind when it comes to what they can see in relation to what is actually there.  Not only that, they are not seeing with their eyes.  We are seeing with our brains, which are interpreting vibration, which then manifests itself as the holographic universe.  But this holographic universe is one of many, therein lies the theory of parallel universes.  Most of these parallel universes have frequencies that are so far apart from ones that we can decode, so we don’t pick 99.9% of them up, but the ones that are closest to us sometimes sneak into our reality for a few moments, and on some levels can cause interference.

Atoms are mostly empty space.  Yet we perceive things as solid.  But nothing is solid, everything we see is a hologram, and we only see and hear, and feel the frequencies we can pick up in our frequency band.  That is why people report seeing UFOs “appear” out of nowhere, and then “disappear.”  In fact, what is happening is the UFOs are entering our frequency band for a short period of time for one reason or another, and then quickly moving out of our spectrum of visible light.

Everything in this universe is wave form, and each wave carries information, and we decode this information using our bodies, which I’ll refer to as a biological computer.  Our five senses pick up the waves in our frequency band and formulate what we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel.  Some humans have a better ability than others to sense more wave forms, but all in all, humans are in a tiny band of frequencies that are but an infinitesimal fraction of what is actually in the space in which we are occupying.  A good example of this are all the radio and television stations that are passing through you right now, and yet you cannot see or hear them, simply due to the fact that your body/mind computer is not set up to decode them, but your television/radio is.  That is how seemingly invisible waves can become pictures and sounds.  You just have to have the right medium to decode it.

A hologram is basically a wave that you shine two lasers at, and it creates a 3-Dimensional picture.  That picture appears to be solid and 3-D to the human eye, but in fact it is not solid or even really there.  It is but a projection, and the universe is a projection for all five senses.  What the true nature of reality is is still up for debate, but every time I really delve deep into this subject, I get that pure consciousness is our true selves.  Infinite and eternal consciousness is who we truly are.  What we are seeing outside of ourselves is like watching a movie that comes from within.  We are an ocean of consciousness, and we are all one consciousness having individual experiences.  There is no such thing as death, and you could look at life as a dream if that helps you understand.

When you dream, everything that takes place is happening in your mind.  It seems real at the time, and all the things you feel, see, hear, etc., are totally real while in the dream state.  It is only when you wake up (or become lucid) that you truly realize that whatever took place in your dream was indeed all illusion created by your mind/consciousness.  David Icke wrote a book called Infinite Love is the Only Truth, Everything Else is Illusion.  And what he meant to say is that who we really are is consciousness, pure undiluted love energy, and everything else is a hologram/illusion.  Everything physical is a projection of consciousness.  And we are slowly awakening to this conscious awareness of our true nature.  It may take a few more decades, but the suppression will end and we will know who we truly are.

So, why don’t we know about the holographic universe and our true nature already?  The answer is complex, and very so-called “out there,” but I’ll do my best to explain it in the best way I can.  At some point in the ancient world, we did live as though we were in this world, but not of it.  We knew of our connection to “God,” or consciousness, or the great spirit…whatever you want to call it.  We knew we were all one, until one day we were hijacked by what can only be described as inter-dimensional beings who were very technologically advanced (but not so much spiritually).  And what they did was bring the moon (which is most likely a hollowed-out planetoid) to Earth (Think of it like a Death Star…perfect analogy).  And what it did was cause mass cataclysms on Earth, and many ancient cultures describe the “Earth turned over.”  Because of the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth, it caused the Earth to tilt in the way that it does, and also caused many natural disasters that basically “wiped the slate clean” for these entities.

This is when the interbreeding started.  After everything had settled down to a point, these entities came down to Earth and interbred with humanity.  There are ancient accounts of this all over the world, and even in the Bible.  The Bible calls them “fallen angels,” and other ancient societies have other names for them.  What the main goal of these entities was and still is was the enslavement of humanity so that these entities could parasite off of our negative energy states.  Energy vampirism.  These hybrid bloodlines quickly assumed the power positions and killed off all the ancient knowledge by milking the shamans and storytellers of all the ancient nations and then killing them, ensuring only they had the knowledge of the illusory nature of reality, and they now use it against us to keep us in control.   These hybrid blood lines claimed they had the “divine right to rule,” due to the fact they had a bloodline related to the “Gods,” who were really the Reptillians or other inter-dimensional aliens.  This explains why the Royal families throughout history were obsessed with keeping their bloodlines “pure,” with excessive interbreeding which also caused some problems as well.

These hybrid bloodlines have a stronger connection to the Reptillians, who are broadcasting some kind of signal from the moon.  They are more easily possessed by these entities, and have rituals and sacrifices on certain meridian points throughout the world.  One that is pretty famous is Bohemian Grove, California.  They are Satanists, what who they are really worshiping are these entities who are very close to our frequency, which allows them to come into existence for short periods of time, and to certainly control the hybrid bloodlines through vibrational energy.  That is why the world is the way it is today.  But we’re starting to wake up.

David Icke talks about the truth vibrations, which he has been for over 20 years.  That everything that has been hidden will come to light, and the control system will fall.  And once again, we will regain that suppressed knowledge that has kept us in bondage and slavery without even knowing it.  We will once again realize that we are infinite consciousness, infinite possibility, and pure love energy and that nothing can harm us on a fundamental level, because we are all that has been, is, and ever was.  And now that the control system is in its death throws, it’s going to throw everything and the kitchen sink at us to try and suppress us more and more, much like a cornered rat trying to maintain its dominance, but at that point the truth vibrations will awaken more and more people, and there will be no stopping us from finally putting an end to the bondage we’ve been stuck in for thousands of years.

It will happen in our lifetimes, but before it does, the control system will seem to be getting stronger, but that is but an act of desperation.  Their last ace in the hole is the microchip, but most people will not go for such nonsense, and they are going to try to use it to suppress the truth vibrations on an energetic level.  So, if you refuse one thing, let it be the microchip, no matter what.  That is the “jewel in their crown,” as David Icke points out.  Either way, when we “die,” which there isn’t anything truly of it, death being the illusion that it is, we will once again become infinite consciousness, so there really is no need to fear anything, not even death.  And fear is the energy these entities feed off of.  Without this fear energy, they have no sustenance and will have no way to keep surviving.

There is nothing to fear except fear itself.  The world is an illusion, a hologram, and we are infinite consciousness having an experience.  There is no such thing as death, life is a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.  Until next time, I’m infinite possibility…;)

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Zen Minimalism

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I’ve been in a Zen Minimalist mood lately.  What I want to do is remove all things from my life that don’t contribute to my happiness.  I want to remove all possessions that no longer serve me.  It is an iterative process, taking many years to complete, but it is worth it because it becomes much easier to organize less stuff.  The truth is that your possessions should reflect who you are.  If something you own no longer resonates with you, then you should dump it either by trashing it or giving it away.  I’ve been holding onto some things that are no longer of use to me, and if I were to move, they would not come with me, so why not trash them now?  Or give them away or even attempt to sell them?  There’s no shame in selling that which you no longer need.  Trust me, someone else may need it.

I honestly would have to say that I haven’t made any major purchases in the past few years.  I’ve been the very picture of frugality.  I’ve managed to save a ton of money simply by working 40 hours a week and controlling my spending to the things I want and need, but no more.  Luckily, I don’t have expensive tastes.  :)  And if there is one thing I’ll splurge on, it is high quality foods.  You can’t go wrong buying organic baby spinach.  Or bulk frozen berries.  The truth is that the less you need to be happy, the easier it is for you to be happy.  If you can be happy with nothing or close to it, then you have less need to buy, buy, buy.  Spending money you do or don’t have on things you don’t need or even want is foolish.  But “need” is a relative term here, isn’t it?

What one person “needs” differs from someone else.  Some people think they “need” a mansion and servants, while others simply need healthy foods and a comfortable place to live and they are happy.  Whatever keeps you happy and fulfilled will differ, but cutting out that which does not make you happy or fulfilled is the essence of minimalism.  You can be a millionaire minimalist, or a homeless minimalist.  It is a matter of mindset and philosophy, not income bracket.  Although I would probably think the homeless minimalist would at least like a place for shelter…

Some people fall into minimalism not by choice, but by circumstances.  They cannot afford the things they want, so they pretend that they are minimalists because they don’t have the things that everyone else has.  That is a breed of false minimalism that is really self-delusion.  Eventually, people begin to see right through this and label these people as simply out of alignment with the principles of minimalism.  It’s all about being happy with what you have, not coveting what you do not have.  It is knowing that having more of possessions that most likely will not fulfill you will not add anything meaningful to your life.  It will probably stress you out more than if you did not have them in the first place.

I’ve already written over 500 words in this post, and I’m starting to feel like too many words describing minimalism is not really minimalist, now is it?  Simply put, minimalism is being happy with less, and being fulfilled because what you do have expresses who you truly are.

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