I don't really know what I should say.  I just have once and for all grown reckless and antsy having not updated any blogging-ness in some time.  So if anything, this entry is a space filler to satisfy my half-hearted interest in keeping an online presence alive. 

Let's see. Here's this for a start.  There's been a lot of fires lately.  Listening to the radio on the way to work and throughout the day it's impossible to not hear of some new place burning into ashes.  Especially the Greenwood neighborhood in Seattle.  From the sounds of it they've had a little busy bee arsonist lately.  Part of a strip mall close to where I work went up.  Emory's restaurant which I went to with my greater family just burnt up.  Not sure if there's arson there too.  Plus a Seattle police officer got gunned down in an unprovoked and completely random attack.  I'm not certain but I believe the man who did that was also behind the torching of a couple-three cop cars in Seattle as well.  Busy bees everywhere.  The only thing about crap like this is it makes a great case for a big brother surveillance-state.  Speaking of which.  Not sure if anyone's seen the video attached. 

 

That's it.  Foster an air of suspicion and tattle-telling.  Hear something you don't like?  Tell the professionals.  Go DIRECTLY to the police.  Now I understand the situation of if you see someone planting bombs somewhere.  But reporting something of that severity should be a given and goes without saying.  This disturbs me slightly.  Oh well. We're on the way there.  Might as well start acting like it.  Report your neighbors!

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*sigh*



My folks are moving far away.  Sure they're only a few hours by plane but
nevertheless.  I guess I've got the pack-rat gene.  I went over there
a couple weeks ago to help clear out everything in my room.  So yesterday
went back to continue the monumental undertaking we all knew this would
become.  I had to go through a lot of my old things.  You know the
feeling of searching boxes to discover that "Oh hey! I didn't expect to
see this ever again".  Only this last trip was a little less than
enjoyable in some respects.  A couple years ago things were moved out of
the garage to make room for other things of supposed greater importance. 
I won't lay any blame, that's not what this is about.  It's not about me
crying about spilt milk either.  Anyway, two years being outside does bad
things to stuff.  Even being under a tarp did little to preserve this vast
pile of belongings in boxes.  The very epitome of the verse "where
moth and rust doth corrupt".  It was not so much that you had to get
rid of the stuff, because that's a fact of life.  It was more emotional
seeing things which bring back feelings of warmth and happiness now molding
from the onslaught of the elements.  The books from childhood memories of
staying at grandma's house and reading the book about cars and trucks and
things that go.  About my little league baseball gear.  About my old
math books.... well, actually pouring gas and igniting those books wasn't so
bad.  Books to be burnt and old stuff to be taken to the dump.  Then
of course I had to think about the irony of it all.  How much we want that
new things at the time and will do anything to get another material good but
for what.  I suppose it's good to have nice things and a lot of that was
just normal things but they held some meaning.  Nothing’s wrong with
having good things either.  Perhaps the lesson could be to care for your
stuff better and to not let things just fall through the cracks to the point
where their only resting place is the dump.  But don't all things
eventually end up there?  I suppose but aren't there some things which are
symbolically sacred?  You could always pass on things to people you love
or who are in greater need than you are.  I guess in the end the moral is
to keep the memories with you as much as you can.  Things and objects will
pass on and while they exist they serve the purpose of rekindling those
feelings and performing their specific job, you need to savor the memories and
strive to pass on whatever emotional blessings you have received to others you
will encounter.  Don't become dependent on your belongings for
comfort.  Store your treasures inside yourself and other people. 
While other people will also pass it is the single best things you can do to
bring additional life into others lives.  There is so much death and we
are in the midst of a world in turmoil.  Care for those you know and don't
take things for granted. I know this is corny but it helps me think through it
all.  I'll continue to try to understand.  Thank you for your time.

I've got a new pet peeve.  You know how sometimes you'll come across it at first? The first couple times it's just a mild annoyance?  Then as it progresses you feel it evolving into the mutated mass of frustration!  I've been shopping today.  I already buy the bulk of my shopping list and am on my way home.  About 5 mins from there I remember something that wasn't on the list but I foresee needing more of in the near future.  So in the interests of efficiency I'll stop off at Safeway before proclaiming "mission accomplished".  While walking through the store I am reminded of the lunchmeat, mayo, and other misc. items (just previously purchased) relating to the upcoming week's luches.  I'm out of chips at home.  I'll get the bulk bag of 20-something Subway meal sized bags of chips.  On sale.  Very good.  Acquire toilet paper and onward to the cash register.  Two things.  Two things mind you.  I'm silently asking myself if they are going to seriously ask me the dreaded question which is now balancing on the precipice of peevery.   "Would you like a carry out?" he asks in the overkill sunny tone.  I am clearly not among the 60+ yr old grandma's on social security.  I do not believe that I give off the aura of snobbery.  I'm a guy in my early 20s just wanting my chips and TP.  Instead of asking me, why not wait for someone behind me that could honestly benefit from such a service?  One reason could be that they're forced by an overbearing management to go the extra ten miles.  The kind of people who enforce your quantity of policy mandated "pieces of flair".  If that is the case I am deeply pained for all of you at Safeway.  If not you must be on auto pilot and in drone fasion ask every single individual whether they want carry out.  No.  I do not.  But someday I will.  I'll buy some milk and cereal.  And when you ask me I will oblige.  I will smile with cruel satisfaction as my two pound purchase is carried along by the store peon as per company policy.  While five says a week at work I might have to lift something anywhere in the range of 0-150 pounds.  I had no reason for this post other than to complain.  And I won't actually make them carry it for me.  It's just how I feel.  Why don't they just get self-checkout and save me from this anguish?

These are some thoughts on the process of growing beyond yourself and your prior sociological environment and learning to accept concepts and philosophies not previously realized.  -- During one's awakening process they can have the tendency to lose mental clarity.  This is due in part to the new overwhelming amounts of information at their disposal.  This is a natural reaction when you 
consider this individual's world view has been molded through a process of intellectual hand holding or a dismissal of non-approved concepts.  Naturally one would feel frustrated and overwhelmed for so long not truly employing the skills of critical thinking and reasoning.  Now all of a sudden they are faced with the daunting task of reconstructing a vast amount of their worldview.  But therein lies the proverbial kicker.  As much as they would previously deny it, their mind would not and could not think beyond its limited exposure to an entirely new world of data and information which seems unfamiliar and previously trivial before the awakening.  The only ways someone will allow themselves to break the binding sequence of intellectual and worldview mind lock is to finally realize they have been purposely kept ignorant.  That the number of mega-corporations influencing our mass media outlets do little more than offer confusion and predigested facts which have been screened to perpetuate an  intolerant and close-minded viewpoint.  If there is a perpetual war of ideologies which are so convicted of their superiority to the others, all individuals never progress any further than their precrafted box where everyone inside thinks the same way and offers no compromises.  I want to include a portion of a speech by a man named Billings Learned Hand.  He was a supreme court judge and his writings offer useful wisdom.  "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest."  I believe that many things which people consider to be of utmost importance realistically hold little relevant value but merely serve as a placeholder to ensure their continued and non-wavering stance regarding their parties' interests.  That which I am advocating is not widespread compromise on every mainstream issue.  I do believe, however, that if one should desire the best for the country, personal freedom, and the integrity of the nation for our future children we need to learn that party lines serve only to divide and inevitably conquer those who grasp so tightly to them.  For someone to merely see a letter before someone's name on a ballot (i.e. D or R) and without any further consideration immediately become filled with vile hatred is a de-evolution of the civilized population.  I do realize however that it will forever be the case where man does not agree on the goals of an issue or even the issue itself.  I think that even yet after they have learned to disperse with the mindless loathing for his fellow man because of a disagreement on opinions, people need to learn that it is entirely acceptable for individuals to hold contrary ideas and goals.  Compromise can be reached so that they do not infringe on each other's rights to life, love, and the pursuit of happiness within reasonable bounds.  Ultimately, people need to have a little bit of maturity about the political process and cease and desist with blind hatred and such a followers mentality.  Of course, the two party system is in place specifically to create the "lesser of two evils" scenario.  People should learn that it starts with themselves.  The more informed you become as to the reality of things the better you become as a sovereign individual.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC9q2tK06nE

Here is something a little less entertaining but even more important than most of the things you'll hear about on the evening news. Things are going to take a turn and all I can guess is that we (ordinary Americans) are going to be absorbing the collateral damage for this intentional shift of our currency's worth in the world market.

Why do people have to die?  Why do people have to lose their lives in a seemingly senseless series of events?  They don't have to, they just do.  In one instant tens upon tens of thousands of lives are snuffed out instantly to enter into the other side (earthquakes in China).  Vast numbers of people are eliminated via massive flooding.  Children are given drugs at a young age to prevent unwanted behavior as deemed necessary by their parents and teachers.  People don't like what they feel inside so they take drugs to alter their moods into something hopefully more tolerable.  People become old and are prescribed drugs and pills by the hundreds for their own good and to prevent unwanted behavior.  People have it all wrong.  Find your beliefs which make you happy and try as best you can to better yourself mentally and physically with as little collateral damage as possible.  If something makes you fearful or places your consciousness in bondage forsake it and fill its place with beliefs of empowerment.  The course has been set.  There is no deviating because masses of sheeple will always be more overwhelming than those few who make the effort for self enlightenment.  Participate in civic duty.  Plan for your retirement and the betterment of your offspring for nobody will be doing it for you.  Know how to defend yourself and loved ones.  Have a spine.  Learn that the system cannot be taken down and therefore one's time should not be wasted trying to do so.  I will download my information, listen to my podcasts and music, watch my shows, play my games and try to pretend I know what's going on in the world.  Truth is, I won't ever know who motivates the decisions which are made that make no logical sense.  I can speculate but in the end it matters very little.  The truth is out there.  That's where it will stay.  Those you can love with every fiber of your being are what make life worth living.  God is love and to love unconditionally is to reside in God-consciousness.  Why do people have to be poor?  Because they'll always be with us, period.  Individuals might become more susceptable to financial burden due to economic manipulations from they who know what's best for 'us'.   They've taken the torch of human responsibility and where they lead we will blindly follow.  We'll piss and moan the whole way but we'll dutifully follow their every step.  I'm rambling.  I'm tired.  I want answers, an apathetic mediocrity, and overcoming illumination simultaniously.  Is it a roll of the dice by which our futures are laid out?  Genetics, pre-childhood development, parenting style, experiential knowledge, present and conscious decisions.  This is the finish of my late night, fatigued rant.

(Something I happened across and makes me think yet again that we are too shortsighted and polluted by lack of understanding to truly learn from history.  Not only the aforementioned, but I find it astonishing at how much this outline mirrors our present day mass distrac... I mean communication mediums.  I’m not insinuating that Communism is making resurgence, but that there is an effort, a push if you will towards a sort of societal collectivism.  When such government begins to establish itself it will undoubtedly be under the guise of ’democracy’ [mob rule] whereby the populace shall be openly deceived into thinking they are being given a voice and having their concerns addressed.  It in fact shall have nefarious motivations.)

In May, 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, allied forces captured a very significant document&183; It was called Communist Rules for Revolution. These were the processes by which the Communist objectives were to be achieved. As you read these, consider what is happening in the world today.

A. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby:

1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding them up for contempt or ridicule.

4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging Government extravagance, destroy its credits, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Promote unnecessary strikes in vital industry, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of the government toward such disorders.

7. By specious argument cause the breakdown of old moral virtues, honesty and sobriety.

C. Cause the restriction of all firearms on some pretext with view of confiscating them and leaving the population helpless.

I have recently ran across several disturbing stories of agents demanding for you to turn in your passwords and allow them access to your data otherwise they will not allow you to continue in your travel.  And they still would run your information through the EnCase digital forensics package to find absolutely anything they can hit you with.  Bear in mind this is probably more relevant to those of international flight travel. 

The excellent article is here http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9892897-38.html?tag=nefd.lede

If you know me you'd realize that I really like computers.  If you know me really well you know how much I like knowledge and information.  I have tons of files, e-books, documentaries, and informational data stored on my hard drives.  I know how to convert dvds and most video formats to ipod format.  I have now just acquired a new software.  This software just might be the single most important piece that I have ever come to possess.  Omnipage 16 Professional.  I now have the power to take all of my e-books and through OCR and RealSpeak text-to-speech technology converts them into a wav file.  Then adding them into my itunes library they are automatically converted over for my ipod to play.  All the books I've wanted to read I shall now have the capability to retain their knowledge in an efficient and time effective manner.  This is really something for me and I am stoked beyond words at the moment.  Just felt like sharing.