Me vs. Them

One of the things that I find painful of everyday modern life is the internal battle of me fighting against the knee reaction of buying ‘stuff’.  There’ll be some new gadget with sweet blinking lights that I must buy and if I have the money I debate whether I should or not.  It almost hurts to not simply buy it, but in the end I find out I need the money more so then something that only satiates that mysterious void for only a little while.  It’s like an addiction though, when you start buying stuff to make you forget certain problems that ail you in your life, but once the ‘high’ wears off you begin to want more just to get that same ‘high’ again.  It becomes a vicious cycle, a serpent constantly eating it’s tail forever and eternity.

Now, my anti-materialist/anti-consumerist tendency begins to rear it’s head and it becomes very enraged by the fact that such a thing can get to me.  Seriously, do I really need all of this stuff?  Not really, when you think deep about it.  A lot of it is cheap crap that only lasts for a year or so and then quits or breaks on you.  After reading much on the Buddhist concept of impermanence and our fetishism for acquiring large amounts of stuff makes sense.  Basically, we all die in the end, so why do we bother with suck trivial stuff such as materialism when in the end we become incorporeal and leave all materialistic and earthly items behind?  Out of all of this during our life span we are burdened and stressed by acquiring and keeping all of this stuff no matter how far into debt it puts us into.  It’s a form of suffering or samsara that keeps us in the cycle of pain that we perceive we can’t find a way out of.  Of course, that’s a fallacy perpetuated by our rampant competitiveness to have more than our fellow human being and by a society that believes if you haven’t amassed material wealth that you are obviously an oddball that needs to be ridiculed. 

In conclusion, the basis of my own personal battle is more or less fight for my own sense of moral values when it comes to materialism.  I try my hardest not to be a hypocrite, but most of the time reason comes into light and saves me from a financial heartache.  Of course, this is also mingled with some instances of failure on my part.  Sometimes certain elements in life weaken my willpower to almost nil.  As always, each experience is a learning experience and the best way to utilize such experiences is to strategically figure out a plan as to how not to have it occur again.  All things about us humans and our decisions is always reliant on us and not someone or something.  We are our fate makers. 

Hey, Society, What’cha Gonna Do?

So, if you’ve been reading the news lately it seems like a bleak time to be a dollar bill these days with it’s being devalued progressively and it just gets worse when the Taj Mahal and prissy models won’t accept the almighty dollar. 

We also see that our country is spending money like a spasmatic crack fiend needing that next hit which is leaving us in a trillion dollar debt, but it’s ok…we just gave China 41 billion dollars a week or so ago. Thanks for brutalizing the Tibetans still and for poisoning us with your crappy products.  

  Let’s see, can’t forget this war we’re in and with the continued sabre rattling between the childish Iranian and American presidents, OPEC is sure to keep raising prices on barrels of oil. They’re sucking us dry more so than Dracula could ever dream of. Hell, at this point I’d rather deal with a vampyre sucking the blood from my jugular at least I’d get immortality in return. What’s the American people getting in return? A huge gasoline pump nozzle up the ass. 

 
Race relations are gradually going down the toilet with each being prideful in their ridiculous melanin count within their skin. C’mon people, seriously, we’re all human beings, cut the crap and unite against the impeding problems facing us soon. How many times must one repent for the sins of the ancestors?

Gay marriage, what the hell is the big deal of two consenting adults get married? And what sanctity is in marriage when those getting divorces are straight people? Seriously, the sanctity of marriage has been destroyed long ago when a) straight people used it as status quo thing and b) the government stuck it’s nose in it. The sanctity of it is gone, so let’s cut the crap anti-gay marriage types just use that as an excuse to deny gays their right to marry whom they wish. 

Oh there’s so much more to be concerned about.

  So with all of our issues seemingly coming to a boiling point, I pose this wuestion, what if society finally collapses…what are you going to do? Cry and bitch about it while complacently sitting on your sofa watching a DVD praying that everything will turn out right or will you fight for what is justly ours: our rights, our country, our lives? What will you do? Because, I know my ass will on the frontlines securing our Constitution and rights next to my fellow Americans. 

Chavez Showing His True Colors

So, the wonderful socialista, Chavez is clamouring to get opposition TV stations to close down and calling those who protest against, chiefly the University students who oppose his decision, US pawns. What a wonderful way to start out a path towards an egalatarian socialist state by being a brutish thug towards the voice of the people. And his smug attitude about demanding people to give away their possessions and only wanting to be surrounded by ONLY true socialists is hardly socialist nor leftist, but rather a symptom of pompousness on Chavez’ part. I can only hope the people see through his ruse and rise up against this wanna-be dictator.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/06/12/students.chavez.ap/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/06/11/chavez.socialists.reut/index.html

Like Most Religions, Marxism Can Stupify the Masses

Marxism is no less dogmatic than those of the Christian faith. The idea that Marxism transcends dogmatism is ridiculous and naive to believe. It instills certain core values and certain type of moral code, in this case forced altruism, that is relevant to a Marxism society. Marxism seeks to replace the religions of old with the religion of new, Marxism and the utopian vision of world peace by world domination of one system. Sounds like what the practioners of the Abrahamic faith are trying to do.

With the forced altruism and eradication of the essence of human nature, such as greed, hate and etc., the Marxists have every intention of instituting what they consider as truth upon the masses thus stupifying them to believe that humans can transcend millenia of instilled evolutionary and survival-based behaviour, greed, territorial greed, ignorance, hate…etc. Unfortunately, every attempt since the dawn of the human species has seen different types of programs and initiatives to quell human nature and create a utopian society has been tried and has failed miserably. Look at the different sects of Christianity that are striving for the same 1,000 Year Reign of Christ utopian vision. The same is seen within the Marxist realms. Within the Marxist religion we see Trotskyites, Stalinists, Maoists, Leninists, Minhists and so on. So with all of these different sects within the Marxist religion, who shall lead the revolution? Who has the TRUE Marxist truth? And thus we see the beginnings of the new religious crusades. The Marxist religious crusade.

In conclusion, I’d rather live in a secular society where religion is allowed and deal with the Christian zealots rather than a society that frowns upon the human freedom of choice to believe in something more than the material.

Snow, Finally!

It finally snowed some.

Today I find myself standing in the frigid weather after delivering my geneology samples to the post office. This should be interesting.

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Acts of Human Compassion *sarcasm*

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/17/manhole.bodies.ap/index.html

First up is the recent grissly discoveries of the bodies of four homeless people found stuffed in manholes. From what I read they were beaten to death, but this isn’t being considered a serial killing. All four were discovered this month, though. Apparently, these men were selling scrap metal, which as of late has become a precious commodity sold by those trying to make it through each day.

Second, is the apparent burial of a dog while it was still alive. Now, within the Buddhist realm to show compassion for creatures lower than ourselves means we can show compassion for all living things. Since someone had the lack of compassion to bury an innocent animal in the ground while still alive…it’s a no brainer that these ‘people’ don’t have any type of heart nor compassion for anything nor anyone.

And lastly, yesterday I read a report about how people are personifying inanimate material objects such as cars and bestowing them the compassion, love and respect that you would bestow on living beings. Apparently, in this materialistic, consumerist world we tend to care more about our ‘stuff’ than we do about living beings. The human race by far is losing it’s humanity each and everyday. And people want to know why I’m so hardcore against consumerism and materialism.

Global War Is Inevitable

I just got done watching an interesting documentary on the rise and fall of Easter Island and it explains that a few of the contribution to the decline of the Eastern Islanders downfall was over-population and the strain on resources that resulted from the over population. All of this took place on this very small island. With our growing population and the strain on resources, we can expect a full out global war within 50 years. We’re already beginning to see the strain on oil and it’ll only get worse, not better. To believe that we’re in no danger of a global war is naive. Devaluing of the dollar, climatic change, over population and the strain on resources will only result in global war and all of us below the line of the wealthy will pay for it mostly.

Chavez

I find it funny how the atheistic and supposedly sensable communists are supporting Chavez and treating him like he’s some divine magistrate of utopian engineering. Recently, he announced he would be nationalizing various private sectors. From studying various experiments in antionalization of private industry, we see such figureheads as Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot and Castro tightening control via the state not just on what and how much is produced in each industry, but also as a way of controlling the population. By controlling the communication sector, you control what the people can say and do to what they can watch and hear. History has shown nationalization only leads to tyranny. It’s not a good ide anad never has been, but to the communists…this idealology is their religion and Chavez has become their ‘annointed one’.

All in all, history will prove this man as every other socialist, a tyrannical leader who uses the facade of ‘humanistic socialism’ in order to bring together the reigns of control over the population. Chavez isn’t a divine manifestation in the flesh. He’s just another human who will have the tendency to err and expoit an idealology for his own beneficial gain. Hitler, Stalin and Mao did beneficial things for their countries, but in the end it was all for control. Nothing more.

The Scummy Airvents at Work

Airvents at work.