shut up already

i have this crazy idea.

let’s just have the federal government recognize “civil unions” between who-the-fuck-ever (for tax purposes mostly i presume). i mean, “marriage” in the eyes of the state is just a contract between a governing body and 2 separate entities anyway. that’s why the state owns your kids until their 18 and you parents have little real rights to them, but i digress.

so civil unions for all! then everybody can shut up about it. ’cause i for one am sick of hearing it….from both sides.

you could civilly unite with an elephant for all i care. just don’t shove it in my face. stop parading. stop protesting. save your activism for something more worthwhile than what you want to or don’t want others to fuck. please.

gods & gurus

the simplest way to express my feelings on religions/cults/philosophies (including those “anti-religious” paths of science/politics/sociology/etc) is that i don’t worship anything. you could call that my “belief system” i suppose…the belief that absolutely nothing, no matter how wicked or wonderful, is worth my mindless and utter devotion. and why isn’t it? well, i see no justification for denying myself to give it all to something a) that’s just like me or b) that isn’t like me. nothing in existence, known or unknown, could ever prove to me that it needed me to belittle myself for it. really, if i was some omniscient, omnipotent being i certainly wouldn’t be going around begging other beings to bow down to me. that kind of desire seems to only come from some weird need for a power/ego-trip…which if you truly were so omniscient/etc, i don’t think you would need. (so, why was yahweh so jealous of all those other “gods”……hmmm? remember, he was only “god of the mountain.”)

granted, some people may just be in that kind of mental/emotional state of development where they actually have some need to blindly devote themselves to something seen or unseen–perhaps to learn that they really don’t need to be doing that. it just seems to me that worship & devotion of any nature makes you completely forget yourself. at that moment, you stop developing. you as a person no longer exist nor can you grow because you have traded yourself for the worship of another being. i prefer to keep the freedom of my own being. to be able to discern life without the colored glasses of any one set of dogma. some might find that selfish i suppose, that the whole point of life is to deny yourself–to “altruistically” give of yourself. but i think if you take a good look, you’ll see that most of the time there is no actual “altruism” occurring….and if you’re giving yourself away just because that’s what someone else or some book told you to do, well…remember, you can’t help anyone else until you’ve helped yourself. your issues don’t just disappear because you’ve devoted yourself to someone/something….in fact, they tend to come back quite a bit more powerful and problematic because you denied yourself for your object of worship.

then there is always the struggle to unlearn social conditioning…to cease merely reacting to everything because that’s how your family/peers/society does it. so many people nowadays speak about a global worldview, but i do not find the concept possible if we are all simply reacting to everything because that’s how the generation before us reacted. i myself am not immune from reaction. i’m much better at recognizing it that 10 years ago and, albeit not as often as i would like, better at consciously choosing an action. i don’t find it an easy to task to undo the conditioned aspects of oneself, but in the long run it’s the only way to global improvement–and that global worldview. how can one respect another and coexist peacefully if we all are just reactive creatures, with little actual thinking and slaves to our emotions/beliefs/gods/gurus? and i’m an emotive person too! i’m all for recognizing a feeling, but you really need to combine some mental thought with all that emotional reasoning to come up with an action and not just a reaction. i will have to admit that the balance of daoism has something going for it. (and no, buddhism is not an answer. it forces a lot of denial/repression especially in westerners, and has had quite a violent history. to me it’s no different than any other religion as much as they try to say it’s not.)

so, i don’t worship anything. even the trees i love so much, even the earth, the forces of the universe….nope, nothing. doesn’t mean i won’t hand out some respect where it’s deserved, but i won’t grovel before anything. i’ll shake hands, look it in the eyes (if it has either of those), but i won’t kiss its feet. and it better not try to kiss mine. that’s so annoying!

BOYCOTTING CHRISTMAS/XMAS/THE HOLIDAYS

another site i came across randomly, while perusing stuff completely unrelated–the christmas resistance movement.

but i feel the same way. not only am i already pretty poor during the winter months, but then i have to spend money on gifts? and hope i make it back with monetary presents or stuff i can return given to me? whatever. isn’t it much more fun to give spontaneously?

i also hate obligatory visitations. ’cause it’s always me doing the driving. and i see these people often enough. why doesn’t somebody come visit me for once?

so yeah. oust the “holiday season” once and for all!

generation of vipers

so now i’m reading Philip Wylie’s GENERATION OF VIPERS which though not following a story line, it is following a theme. that theme being (and i quote):

“…that Americans have lost their moral sensibilities by living too objectively and with too little subjective awareness”

just as good as OPUS 21, even without following a “story.” i am still awed by how remarkably well these books fit these times. Wylie says in his preface that if you like it, then you should write him and let him know. i really wish i could!!!

i have a special war edition (WWII), with smaller print to conserve paper. i wonder what the regular size print was, ’cause small is still kind of big.

i would have quoted OPUS but that would have ended up being practically the entire book. but here’s a little nip from VIPERS:

“Man’s physical senses were extended enormously by science. The degree and the speed of that achievement are, indeed, the most common sources of our contemporary vanity; they form the whole preposterous case for the claim that we are civilized.”

there is much more too, but it’s best to read for yourself. slowly and with determination.

BLACKSBURG, VA or WHY THE MACHINE WORKS SO BEAUTIFULLY

i’ll let you all in on a little secret. Virginia is my native state, in fact i’ve known many people to pass through the halls of Virginia Tech, though i myself was not among them. so this is an interesting situation for me. in fact, i find it all rather amusing. this may not win me points with the general public, but if you look at things from the point of view of the architects of the machine, it really is quite amusing. for one reason, people are so predictable. for another, people are so gullible. for a third, people are so oblivious. for a fourth, people are so easily manipulated (thoughts, feelings, and actions). and for a fifth, it’s so insanely easy to get what you want if you just have enough time, money, power, and patience to pull it off. and the architects of the machine have all of those qualities in massive amounts. it’s not even a secret. it’s right out in the open, very easy to see if you just look out of the corner of your eye. they don’t hide anything, so you can’t really accuse them of lying. but they never tell the whole truth. the best way to hide something is in plain view, albeit indirectly, or just at the edge of perception. and the best way to convince people is to mix the truth with a little diversion, something that could be the full truth but really isn’t. that way, the people think they’re in the know, when they really are being easily deceived. in fact, i’m more than convinced that the general populace WANTS TO BE DECEIVED. truth sure isn’t pretty, and it’s finding out that the people you thought were around to protect your health, your rights, your freedom could care less about “the common man/woman” is a hard pill to swallow. especially when it involves the sacrifice of innocent lives. which it almost always does. but really, 30-odd people is a small small quantity compared to what goes on elsewhere in the world, and what has gone on everywhere for centuries upon millennia.

here’s what we need to remember: the machine wants something that it knows it can’t get by just doing it overtly because the general populace, though overwhelming stupid, would notice and could possibly try to stop it, which they might could pull off because there is a lot of them and they can get pretty violent when storming together as a group with a like mind and a decent supply of weaponry……SO the thing to do is be subtle and sly: CREATE THE PROBLEM, CONTROL & MANIPULATE THE REACTION THROUGH MEDIA OUTLETS, AND THEN OFFER UP THE SOLUTION (which the people are now clamoring for), THAT SOLUTION OF COURSE BEING THE VERY THING YOU WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT NOW GENERAL POPULACE THINKS IT THOUGHT OF IT, SO THEY ARE ALL SATISFIED WITH GIVING UP A LITTLE FREEDOM, A LITTLE MORE OF THEIR LIVES BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE (but really it’s only making the world an easier place for the machine, for control, for fascism, for military dictatorships, etc and so on as nauseum and a worse one, a more frightening one for you and me)

driving early monday morning, NPR mentioned something about 9-11. lalala, i thought, it has been awfully quiet since then, when are they going to start pushing the agenda again? well, i didn’t have to wait too long for my answer!!! i happened to be somewhere where a lady who had a son at VA TECH was working. so we found out about everything right pretty early on. and you know, the more i hear, the more that “develops,” the more i have to smile because it is working out so wonderfully…..the architects have achieved another marvelous work, pulled off another beautiful plan without a hitch. they must certainly be patting themselves on their backs, popping those champagne corks in celebration of a job well done.

here are the thoughts that hit me as soon as i heard what happened:

• students murdered, ok, big tragedy, lets get rid of some more “unalienable rights”
• murderer quiet with violent thoughts, ooo wait, he’s been involved with video games and psychiatrics, but no one really pushed that last one….the architects have been wanting to force psychiactric care on students/teachers that have thoughts of their own, well what a perfect excuse to a) get people to start really policing each other and make it easier for the machine and b) get everyone on mind-numbing drugs (that often end up making people more violent….hmmmm)….this way anybody who thinks outside the box will be easily and effectively forced back in it. NOT EVERYONE WHO IS QUIET, PLAYS VIDEO GAMES, OR THINKS FOR THEMSELVES IS A MURDERER, BUT OF COURSE THIS IS WHAT WE ARE LED TO BELIEVE….of course, CHEMICALS, in food, in legal drugs, in water, and high-tech mind games are more often the culprits, but whatever
• murderer is of Asian descent and come to find out he is not a full citizen either….so that means the threat is not here at home, it comes from far away, it’s these “aliens” these “others” (i feel like i’m in an episode of LOST) that are coming here and harming us….never ever could it be the people in our political backyards. (regardless of which part of Korea he was from, what are the associations the average person has with Korea, hmmmmm?)
• university leaders, the police, etc all acted very inefficiently and seemed to not think it wise to let students clearly know that there had been some early shootings (before the main one) and the police, etc were so scared and slow (all those doughnuts) they just couldn’t get in there in time to do anything! awwwww…..poor police! (why are so many so fat? how can you be an officer and be fat? i think our police force really needs to rethink their hiring policy, or once you get fat you have to have an office job)
• murderer is very proficient with 2 small handguns…kills a lot of people quite easily without having had any sort of training, which is hard to do with 2 small handguns….easier with some sort of assault rifle, but he didn’t have that…easier of course if you are trained to be an expert marksman/assassin, but he didn’t have that either….so they say. (hmmmmm….what do they have buried in those lovely Virginia mountains so close to Blacksburg?)
• ok, the best was when i found out about the PACKAGE!!! oh god, how i laughed! it’s so perfect! i love that he had time to accomplish all this between his shootings (if there wasn’t another shooter, and if he was really the one who sent the package, which he must have been of course, why would anyone else be involved?) anyhoo, it just pushes more the agenda of a quiet lone crazed person (meaning all quiet people or all loners are obviously deranged and violent). they’ve been pushing that one for a long long time. but hopefully this time, since it was determined by a judge that he was a threat to himself and others and no one did anything about it, that now the architects will have the power to force anyone into treatment for any reason they make up. which is how it’s going to be. you don’t tow the line, you get reformed. you want to grow your own food, you get reformed. you question your government, you get reformed. (again, i feel like i’m in an episode of LOST….you know “the room” they put you in if you start acting/thinking for yourself) and you don’t have to be violent, in fact it’s better if you’re not–they want the true violent people free and the rest enslaved, if not completely physically, then mentally & emotionally. and they do a pretty good job already, but it doesn’t hurt to be as all-encompassing as possible.
• back to guns: oh see how easy it was for a non-citizen to get a gun! to get 2 guns! well, that’s definitely the problem, so let’s make it harder for actual citizens to get guns. in fact, let’s get rid of them altogether! (forgetting of course, that all criminally-minded people will still have easy access to guns and will use them and things will be even more fun since you won’t have a gun nor try to get a gun illegally because you don’t think or act like that….so that means criminals will obey and act honorably? delusions, folks. and really. a massive populace is so much easier to control when they have no means to protect themselves. big brother does not have my best interests at heart, and i would much rather go down with a fight then to be murdered like an animal. damn hunters. there’s a lot of innocents mindlessly killed for “sport” as they call it. well, people can be sport too i suppose.)
• the constant newscasts are very reminiscent of the 9-11 fiasco, which brings in some perfectly complimentary & similar feelings/thoughts to this event. in fact, i wondered if there was any connection with monday’s date to 9-11. and there is. let’s see, April 16th, 2007 or 4-16-2007…4 + 1 + 6 = 11 and 2 + 0 + 0 + 7 = 9, that is 11/9 as the Brits write it or 9-11 here in the states. why is that so easy? you don’t have to dig for that one.
• but my main thought is really how perfectly it all went off. how effectively the architects design & execute their plans. and how stupid people are to swallow the hogwash the media throws at us. if you still don’t think we’re living in a fascist regime, then please read a little bit about Germany prior to and during Hitler’s rise. then compare the defining characteristics of a fascist government and open your eyes a little. the things right under your nose are the hardest to see. it’s the best place to hide something.

so yes, i really do smile when i hear anyone talking about this. you may think i’m evil, which is inaccurate, for it’s not the death that makes me smile, nor the horror, nor the tragedy. it’s merely because i have been researching for years and history has a wonderful way of repeating itself. there are things that the architects of this machine have wanted for a long time, and they need disasters, horrors, death to achieve their goals. we are all simply pawns in a worldwide game of chess. and if you think otherwise, you are sorely deluded. it is so easy to sacrifice a few of us or even millions of us (without batting an eye, i might add). i smile not in joy but in awe of how perfectly the problem-reaction-solution ploy plays out. i certainly don’t like it, but these architects really have it going for them. i wish i could be that effective and that patient.

now it’s time for you to exercise your mind a bit and do some detective work. start lifting up the rugs so to speak. taking off those horse-blinders. it’s really better that way….information has a much more lasting effect if you take an active role. and don’t be afraid to follow your gut either–intuition is not all irrational (and neither is reason), despite what authorities may have you believe.

so bravo, ye architects of this grand machine. you’ve pulled it off. again.

it’s funny being in the record books. go VA!

(i really hate that state. it’s evil. just like its daddy. or its mommy. depending on how you like to see intangible objects that have no biological sex)

on a lighter note. Philip Wylie and Robertson Davies are both marvelous authors. i highly recommend them to any serious thinker, bibliophile, or any person willing to expand their minds a little with some wonderfully excellent authoring.