Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Class mobility
You get pity when you lose money. Even if you might be happier. And that's the hard part.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
paradoxical circles and the God question
Maybe God is the externalization of our naturally trusting nature?
Or it's our ego's way of coping with the issue that we ourselves can not completely dominate? Is that why we think technology has rendered religion moot? Does this show for whom religion was about ego, and for whom it was about spirituality?
Am I spiritual if I am not religious?
Or maybe God is just a pattern like any other, an idea among many, forever reverberating off each other in the kinesthetic outer-fields of our minds.
Who can tell me? And how can they prove it?
Endless, isn't it?
Or it's our ego's way of coping with the issue that we ourselves can not completely dominate? Is that why we think technology has rendered religion moot? Does this show for whom religion was about ego, and for whom it was about spirituality?
Am I spiritual if I am not religious?
Or maybe God is just a pattern like any other, an idea among many, forever reverberating off each other in the kinesthetic outer-fields of our minds.
Who can tell me? And how can they prove it?
Endless, isn't it?
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Predictably Cruel
We are constantly having to re-adjust our notion of reality. Subliminally. When we keep changing the channels. More and more rapidly. Like the moth dancing around the flame.
Youtube Conspiracy
Okay, let me know if you follow me here:
It's boxing day, and it's snowing here in Canada. It's been a foggy christmas, lots of unprecidented junk in the sky. And in our homes. From Wallmart. I just arrived home from my boyfriend's families' picturesque christmas in the country where we saw planes making strange lines in the sky that didn't disappear.
In any event, the reason I'm writing this post is that I was speculating about the New World Order, conspiracy theory, and youtube.
Now, I'm a sceptic on all fronts. I pledge allegiance to no explanation for things other than my own, which is unique as far as I know. Maybe the closest thing would be the discordians?
But I do discuss conspiracy theory with several people that I'm close to.
And so on this evening I found myself speculating about a science fiction-y relationship between Youtube and the New World Order. What if the internet is the new democracy? It is, or will be soon, the total display of our consumer habits. Right? But not just consumer habits. social habits, too. Political habits.
Youtube inspired this, because I was thinking about what the usefulness was of the Youtube people having access to the information about which videos we favourite, which videos we make, and which videos we like. And what comments we like. And what Comments we make. And it dawned on me, as it probably already has most of you at one point or another, that many sites have information like this about many of us. And every display of opinion can be marketed to. And so, in our corporately-owned faux-democracy, that's the closest thing we have to a real vote on real issues that we really want to change.
Maybe...
Now, again, let me know if you follow me here, what if the internet were designed as a reading device for what belief system the public has regarding their experiencial reality? All trends,all fluctuations in mood, is displayed online about all of its users.
So...
Technology could be the latest device to determine who is progressing in the life-caste system.
Side note: Maybe when certain people get assassinated, it's a time when the universe is making a moment of irony, where on man seals his fate as an angel, and other as an animal, in the next life.
Okay, that's enough spectacular speculation for right now. I'll leave you with two contrasting quotes (Or are they?):
"Just because truth has been omitted, does not mean that truth is not true. Just because reality has not been perceived, does not mean that it is not real."
-Stan Moore
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Chrisel
Kalu Rinpoche
(P.S. Have you ever noticed that playing in the background fashion reality television shows is the exact same type of music people play in the background of pornography?)
It's boxing day, and it's snowing here in Canada. It's been a foggy christmas, lots of unprecidented junk in the sky. And in our homes. From Wallmart. I just arrived home from my boyfriend's families' picturesque christmas in the country where we saw planes making strange lines in the sky that didn't disappear.
In any event, the reason I'm writing this post is that I was speculating about the New World Order, conspiracy theory, and youtube.
Now, I'm a sceptic on all fronts. I pledge allegiance to no explanation for things other than my own, which is unique as far as I know. Maybe the closest thing would be the discordians?
But I do discuss conspiracy theory with several people that I'm close to.
And so on this evening I found myself speculating about a science fiction-y relationship between Youtube and the New World Order. What if the internet is the new democracy? It is, or will be soon, the total display of our consumer habits. Right? But not just consumer habits. social habits, too. Political habits.
Youtube inspired this, because I was thinking about what the usefulness was of the Youtube people having access to the information about which videos we favourite, which videos we make, and which videos we like. And what comments we like. And what Comments we make. And it dawned on me, as it probably already has most of you at one point or another, that many sites have information like this about many of us. And every display of opinion can be marketed to. And so, in our corporately-owned faux-democracy, that's the closest thing we have to a real vote on real issues that we really want to change.
Maybe...
Now, again, let me know if you follow me here, what if the internet were designed as a reading device for what belief system the public has regarding their experiencial reality? All trends,all fluctuations in mood, is displayed online about all of its users.
So...
Technology could be the latest device to determine who is progressing in the life-caste system.
Side note: Maybe when certain people get assassinated, it's a time when the universe is making a moment of irony, where on man seals his fate as an angel, and other as an animal, in the next life.
Okay, that's enough spectacular speculation for right now. I'll leave you with two contrasting quotes (Or are they?):
"Just because truth has been omitted, does not mean that truth is not true. Just because reality has not been perceived, does not mean that it is not real."
-Stan Moore
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.”
Chrisel
Kalu Rinpoche
(P.S. Have you ever noticed that playing in the background fashion reality television shows is the exact same type of music people play in the background of pornography?)
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Christmas Realism
So, Santa Claus isn't real, after all. (If by Santa Claus you mean the first Amendment to the American constitution...)
Saturday, December 18, 2010
WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE SAID
You know what Obama should have said to the bankers when they asked for a bail out?
"In the immortal words of John F. Kennedy, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
"In the immortal words of John F. Kennedy, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
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