No real conversation

I have been looking at this webpage (blog) writing task today wondering if I’m not turning into a generational reject.  Coming back to these words, and splashing thoughts on the white screen is like an effort to mental masturbate.  The whole thing is like an explosion of misdirected creativity.  Who is impregnated by our heedless banter?  What senseless, soulless, drivel is going to pour out of my twisted mind?  Hell if I know.

What I do know is that we need each other.  In our breathless effort to father some original thought, we are sucked into the vortex of other’s words, works, and ideals.  We stick some tiny little innocuous teeth into a movie, a script, a photo, and album of sound, tracking some source of brilliance that erupted in ecstasy eons ago.  But the creative God never rests, he is pumped always, spilling his seed in the minds of those seeking to enjoy the strokes of creative bliss, over and over.

The leftovers of other geniuses, really paint a picture dripping with color that amazes us, sometime inspiring us to dip our own brushes in to splatter our own attempts of expression.

Without an audience, without a stage, without a readership, we suffer in the world of little closed minds, who do not even sing with the music, dance with the beat, or dare to lick drama off the spoon of life.  The world grinds onward filled with their fear and cowardice.  They are the types to bag Napoleon’s manhood.  We must not succumb to their vile ways or develop their vices, we must fight the darkness of empty minds and souls; we must think and believe.

This blog has received over two hundred thousand reads, but most of those reads are only looks.  I not that readers check out this blog from 300 plus countries too, but after all this time, I have yet to have a real conversation with anyone.  How is it that we pour over articles, blogs, news and facebook sputtering, and never stop and converse with anyone.

I think I need to strap on a nice straight jacket.  Or maybe I should watch Iron Maiden youtube videos. Try one.

Islamic Culture: West not Capable of Understanding

Why is a philosophical question? We ask why when we do not comprehend the rational for someone’s decision. We respond, “Why,” when we look at serial killers, meth abusers, and mentally ill schizophrenics talking to themselves on the streets on every major city in the United States.

 So, when we in the western hemisphere think about warfare, we don’t think like our enemies from other cultures. We have been raised to make women and children our first priority in whatever we do. We want to keep them alive, and that’s why we provide them with the lifeboats first when our ship is sinking.

But the Islamic culture thinks entirely differently, and has an unfathomable logic. Win at all costs. Women and children be damned.

Reports have been circulated for a while about Hamas military operations using human shields.  People in the west wonder why? The reason is really simple.

“Hamas wants the Israeli Defense Force to kill their children, their women, that’s what they want to happen,” he said. “They want to get the propaganda; they want to get the publicity, the sympathy and the pity of the world to by getting the Israelis to kill their population. That’s war effects exactly what their tactic is.”  Watch this in action on youtube. Video Link

The weakness of Hamas also shows in their use of tunnels to send skirmishers inside Israeli territory. But many people do not know that in building these tunnels and the tunnels from Gaza to Egypt’s border. (At least these tunnels we understand – used to overcome economic oppression to allow free trade with a bordering Islamic country. We in the west ask ourselves Why does Hamas pick a fight they can’t win? They know they will never defeat Israel militarily, so why bother? Because Hamas knows what while they can’t win on the battlefield, they can win in the world court of public opinion.

“To date, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have found and destroyed more than 30 tunnels – each having cost upwards of $2 million a piece to build instead of supplying food and medicine to Palestinians in need.” We in the west wonder why not use that money to build facilities and provide food? But we weren’t raised with Hamas’ mentality.

Hamas also uses children to build these tunnels. Nicolas Palham documents the deaths of children in building tunnels: “At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials.” In the west we don’t allow child labor, and especially are concerned with activities that put children in harm’s way. People would get arrested for that. Islamic culture is different.

Here in the west we were raised with Christian morals and European law derived from Roman law and Greek philosophical reasoning. We are taught that man should better others. We are solely and woefully ignorant of the cultural training that folks in Palestine, including the Gaza Strip are raised with.

The type of rational we see portrayed by Hamas and other fundamentalist Islamic militia is like that of the Nazis in the holocaust. We watch in the movie the Pianist as the old and disabled are murdered by the SS soldiers. What is different about what Hamas is doing now?

 

 References

Gaza’s Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel’s Siege

Nicolas Pelham

Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 41, No. 4 (Summer 2012), pp. 6-31 Published by: University of California Press Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2012.XLI.4.6

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Effects of War on Children:

It has been said the Hamas has used children and other civilians as human shields. According to researchers, war’s death toll now includes a 90 percent civilian component.

Children as shields: Warfare Strategy

Understanding Islam and Jihad: Islam Spread by the Sword?

Syrian Christians face new treat – “convert, submit to Islam or face sword”

The Death of Western Civilization

People came to the United States for the opportunity. They came to take advantage of the resources, the open territory, the ease of conquest, the moral and spiritual freedom. The Europeans killed off the Indians by hook, crook and by carrying biological diseases unknown to North America. These people weren’t Americans they were Europeans.

They didn’t cut ties with Europe, they maintained relations. Up until the 20^th century the elite returned to Europe and considered European culture to be far superior. Americans were still just visiting.

The western traditions which use to be the staple of intellectual development in Europe and the United States has suffered a death blow lately, and the traditions which brought Europe from the dark ages into the age of enlightenment have been snuffed out.

Along with that tradition is the striping of all things religious, at least the Christian ideas from public life. Most notably the removal of the age long tradition of displaying religious items such as the ten commandments from courthouses. Other examples such as eliminating prayer from the opening of government run schools and at graduation ceremonies continues to erode the basic building blocks for a spiritual foundation of American society.

The Clash of Civilizations

Europe may have gone rotten sooner, and the dead tree churches of England are a glaring example of how the light of the spirit has gone out across the pond. Churches are in ruins, have been sold as nightclub locations, have been turned over to secular use, and have been leased by the Muslim hordes filling the porous pews with a radical faith centuries forgotten.

How long will the nation survive the dismantling of its foundations? How long will the people apathetically sit watching entertainment, the new God of the people? How long will truth lose its meaning and significance?

References:

James Kurth an educator from Harvard writes about Western Civilization. Here is a video with him speaking about western civilization.  He speaks of Samuel Huntington.

“As long as there are people who believe in these principles that practice and promote them, that people will be western civilization. And as long as there are a people who uphold western civilizations ideas, there will be a clash of civilizations.”

Moth to Flame: Thrill Seekers

On the dangerous side of a heartbeat dwells the super thrill seeking sensations!

Some allusions just work. People who are stupid and bored are drawn to dangerous situations. They hear a helicopter buzzing by and they run out to the street to see. The gunfire can get you inside the house, so why go out and be a moving target for a trigger happy cop.

Some of us get a thrill at standing close to the edge of a cliff. We want the excitement, the adrenaline rush. We stand on a live wire, we walk the tight rope. The certain chance of beating death crawls through our veins. The movies portray the rush of beating the scythe of death. The Bourne series, the Taken, Die Hard series, etc. Are you addicted to the cocaine of thrill seeking? If you are you might like to know why.

 

I find that when my heart palpitates, I’m nauseated. What some call life, I call sickness. Why place yourself in harm’s way. Aren’t you more productive alive. You can’t change the world in the grave.

If you live in southern California you have many attractions to draw you to. You have roller coasters, water slides, theme parks, etc. If you like physical thrills you have skiing, if we have snow, surfing, sky diving, ind surfing, etc. There is also a bunch of Hollywood adventures they don’t have anywhere else in the United States like obstacle courses designed by stunt men.

Unnecessary References

Moth to Flame Band:

Moth to Flame, a four piece electric jazz quartet, are performing throughout the New York City area. Moth to Flame has been thrilling audiences in the Northeast, from intimate music clubs to large jazz festivals, through an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, rhythm & blues/soul and rock. More on this band.

National Arts & Disability Center

Paint It!

UCLA hosts the National Arts & Disability Center located at the following address:

11075 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200

Los Angeles, CA 90025

 

The program has provided small grants of $500 to $1500 to artists with disabilities and arts organizations, promoting the advancement  of artists with disabilities.   The sponsorship is from UCLA and the California Arts Council’s Grant National Arts and Disability Center.

Sample Art

Applications are encouraged from artists in all artistic disciplines.

If you would like to be involved, you have a variety of opportunities;

1. Share your work on the NADC online gallery.  They take a variety of formats of work: visual, literary, music and digital media.
2. You can join their mailing list.

 

The funding for NADC comes in part from the California Arts Council: Embracing Creativity.  This year’s funding has been placed, and the NADC is positioned to receive new funding in 2015.

 

Crazies like pitbulls

I’ve been living in the LA area for some time.  We have at least 55,000 homeless, and about 66% of those are mental ill.  That translates to about  a tenth of the nation’s homeless are in LA county.

A friend of mine recently took to the streets to visit a favorite Denny’s for coffee and a snack, and was bitten brutally by a pit bull, who was on the lose, and was part of a three-dog entourage for a crazy woman, panhandling on the street corner.  His story makes this somewhat personal for me, but I will not go into the gory details, nor describe the 57 stitches that repaired the wound he received. Nuff said!  LA may be considered the capital of entertainment, but I think it is more along the lines of the capital of crazy.

The real story is that dog mafioso came out to protect the pit bull from being put down after the case was reviewed in court.  The animal protect league in LA has lawyers on the spot ready to defend pit bulls who maim people.  That’s the real essence of the craziness of LA.  You see the man who was mauled got nothing for support, but the damn dog did. ASPCA (the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) sent a lawyer to ensure the dog was not blamed, nor put down.

In one study it was found that pit bulls initiated a dog attack 94% of the time as compared to around 40% by other dog breeds.  In a medical study designed to teach trauma units about the severity of dog bites, I found this quotation: “the gravest injuries would be those caused by pit bulls.”  Another quote I found was from the Maryland court of appeals; it simply read “pit bulls are inherently dangerous.”

An attorney who works to collect money for people bitten by dogs wrote this on his web site: “U.S. health officials estimate that Americans are bitten by dogs 4.4 million times a year, causing 330,000 emergency room visits, and 6,000 hospitalizations and 17 deaths. Among the most seriously injured victims, 70% are children.”

You wonder if those who love these dogs, love people less than the dogs, especially after they plea for mercy for dogs who have truly maimed people they have bitten.  Love is thicker than blood, for sure!

Also, my advice to all, if attacked by a pit bull, punch or kick them as hard as possible in the nose.  Avoid them if you have a choice.  Climb to the highest location possible, like atop a car or truck.   For more advice: Defense Against Dark Dogs. And for those of you with these dogs, keep them on a leash and away from humanity.

Other articles of interest:

http://dogbitelaw.com/press/los-angeles-times-profile-of-kenneth-phillips.html

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/06/pitbull_crackdown_los_angeles_antelope_valley.php

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/88/1/55.short

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201301/my-dog-always-eats-first-homeless-people-and-their-animals

School: Breeding Contempt of God

The government of the United States has at its core to enforce the constitution of the United States.  The problem is that the government reaches into the very homes of Americans because it (sort of ) enforces the practice of no religion in the schools.  The separation of church in state was about government, not education.  There is no more personal space in our lives than the education of our children.  The government has no right to educate our children, and they have no place in telling us what our children should believe.

The separation of church and state has been violated due to the governance of education in this country.  Teachers and children should not fear that they will be mistreated in any way when they practice religion.  Yet, teachers are in fear of losing their jobs for voicing religious opinions.  Kids are afraid to speak up about their beliefs for fear of lower grades.  This is especially relative when talking about the origins of the universe, a highly philosophical question, and one that most religions have dogma for.  Science cannot prove of disprove the existence of God nor can it define why life exists without becoming religious – for you have to have faith to stomach their answers to the “Why” question of life.

The public schools have become a breeding ground for contempt of religion, especially because of the humanist philosophical teaching in the sciences, where the origins of life are taught to have come from natural processes.  Even atheists contest the metaphysical theory of humanism that supports Darwinism.  To discuss a religious view-point on creation or anything that differs with the philosophy inherently embedded in Darwinism is to call scorn upon yourself from the scientific community.

Is time for our children to be equipped for the battle, clothed in anti-government slogans, and bearing the proclamations of the religious or atheist?  Wouldn’t it be better to have them openly discuss philosophy and religion openly?  Don’t most people want to know what the ages have produced as to why the universe exists or why humans have consciousness?  Isn’t it more disturbing that they are taught the answer to these questions in science, and told the science has no philosophical underpinnings?

Truth is that standing up for what you believe once was a cherished and honorable position.  What honor is there in cowardice?  People need to be encouraged to defy the government like Gandhi.  Kids must learn how to best survive an educational system that doesn’t teach truth.  Yet the tentacles of humanism reach all the way into the very heart of the academic world, with their pulpit being the lecterns of our great colleges and universities.

Student who defy the atheism of the “enlightened”  and the “educated” suffer when they stand up for their faiths and beliefs.  They are mocked in the classroom.  Their grades are deflated, and sometimes they are failed do to their beliefs, I hear this from students every year, so I tell them that letting the faculty know their beliefs is the most certain way to have lower grades.  Student especially should know not to write about religious and political beliefs.  You know you are in an oppressive religious organization when you can’t question the faith.

Some related articles

Removing Jesus from public life due to political reasons

Atheist argues against the philosophical foundation of evolution:

Wearing your beliefs on your shirt
“This is not about the T-shirt — it’s about our children and our grandchildren having the right of freedom of speech and religion,” he said. “That’s being taken away in our schools.”

If you want to buy your kids that shirt “Life is Wasted without Jesus.”

Removal of Jesus from public school

Communists removed prayer from public schools

Rights of school teachers:

Students suspended over religion:  didn’t want to wear tracker/mark of the beast

Stomping Jesus:

Teaching Religion in the Secular Classroom: Nothing to Fear

 

Inflation and why you should fear

The money supply in the past few years has tripled.  What is the result of that tripling?  First the government has basically said a dollar is now worth 33 cents, or one third of what it was worth a couple of years ago.  You should be scared.

What does that mean?  You use to page $1.50 for a gallon of gasoline, and now what are you paying?  Here in CA at a shell station close to where I ride the train, the cost was already $4.37.  What’s means the $1 in 2007 is now worth 34% cents today.  The price is showing you the true inflation rate.

I also see that reflected accurately in my pay buying less.  don’t you.  So what happen to truth in reporting.  The government doesn’t want you to think about it.  They are using it (inflation) to effectively decrease their debt, by making the money’s value decrease.  So if they own 17 trillion dollars, and they keep pumping money into the money supply, then they really only owe one third of the value of that debt.

Think about how that works for your debt.  Let’s say that you owe $10,000 and now you want to pay it off.  Well the drop in value of the dollar is great for you, because in real terms you are only having to pay 33 cents on the dollar, or $3333 for the $10,00o.  This works for all debts.

Weird how your debt is better than your earnings.  But that’s the scary part.  Debt is a promise, and you are not really paying what you promised.  It makes you a big liar, like the government.  No integrity, like the white house.

The rich corporations and banks don’t want to inflate things, but the government is over its head in debt.  Because what happens next is that everyone raises their price so they can have more value to cover the rising costs.  But, at the same time, the pay for jobs will go down, because the profit margins for the rich, the stockholders and the CEOs won’t go down.  They need  higher prices and lower pay to keep their greedy little accounts growing with worthless money.

In real terms, the government is owned by corporate america and the banks.  They are beholden to floating the economy.  Because of that, they lie constantly about what things are worth.    Lance Roberts has written a solid piece in how those figures have been compromised.

The fabric of American society is totally immersed in the deception.  This series of lies and alteration of consistency in reporting inflation; the fact that the media doesn’t report these adjustments shows that corporations have something at stake in not reporting it; the fact that what the American government did in bailing out the automakers, AIG, and the banks was totally illegal.  This huge system of capitalistic control of government where both parties are owned by wall street and the banks, really should spin your head.  This total disregard for the law shows you how bad the situation really is.

Corporate america has we the people by the balls.  They own the news media and the government in which most people trust.  As Ralph Nader stated, ”

It isn’t just the government under the CONTROL of corporations–the government IS the Corporation now! The corporation IS the government!”

The Media you watch is controlled by corporations!

6 media companies

Suggested readings:

Aftershock by Robert Reich

20 biggest Donors for 2012 election — Mother Jones

Deadly Monopolies — P2P Foundation’s Blog

Ralph Nadar on Corporations

 

 

 

Why Jesus could never be the pope

His Lordship

The catholic faith has a pope.  No one else wants one in the christian church.  Funny how Catholics call themselves Catholics and others as Christians. But Jesus, he couldn’t be elected pope.

For one, he would never be caught wearing those robes.  He preached against robes.  I talked about how the high and mighty Jewish clerics wore those robes, with the grand tassels.  I like tassels, but on curtains.

Jesus was the son of a carpenter and learned the trade himself.  He has calloused hands.  No popes wear little white gloves  have baby soft hands.  He was too dirty from walking the streets ministering to the world.  The pope doesn’t even know how to heal anyone.  He doesn’t have the power of God on him.  No mantle, just a high collar made of mink. Jesus would be exclude from talking to the sick, the lepers, the poorest of the poor .

He certainly wouldn’t get in the limo and travel the world to hang with the rich and famous.  Jesus would be down on the street, not up in the Vatican perch.  The Catholics worship the pope in earnest   Kiss his ring when they have a chance, but the pope doesn’t wash the populace’s feet, nor eat meals with them.

Jesus had no fortune either.  The popedom is worth — according to Time magazine, Bankers’ best guesses about the Vatican’s wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion.

Judas carried the purse for Jesus.  The pope has billions at his disposal.

“The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc. At a conservative estimate, these amount to more than 500 million dollars in the U.S.A. alone.”

Jesus said catch a fish and pay my taxes.  The pope may be the richest man in the world — his (or should I say the Catholic church) holdings aren’t all public either.  He is at least in the top hundred, right.  Jesus had them catch a fish, pull a coin out and pay his tax — give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and give to God what is God’s.

The pope lives a life of luxury and Jesus cooked fish when he could, gathered bread after the meal, went 40 days without, and drank lots of water.

His Lordship

Jesus said what we do to one of these in his name will have an award for us in heaven.  He spoke allegorically about a poor man named Lazarus and his dying and going to heaven where a rich man shows up and is said to show up and ask God to be able to warn his rich brothers of their coming fate.  The man doomed to be pope faces the same fate.

They give their whole soul to be rich and powerful.  If Jesus showed up at their door, he would be tasered, arrested, sentenced and killed — just like he was before.

Jesus hung with the sinners, the sick, the poor and not with anyone who would be made pope.

Articles to review:

General Bond meets Pope Francis

White on black

Good and evil are represented continually in movies, and the use of color to demonstrate the right from wrong has always been white good black long. Black is usually collected around gray and red. White often with earth tones. In Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick’s infamous movie the colors are shifted. Is he saying that the gang of thugs are in the right, and the wicked purveyors of societal order are in the wrong.

The uniforms of the four droogs look like this:.  They do have black hats.  I think white might have been to “Singing in the Rain” – isk. Most of use in the real world wouldn’t run around in white jump suits with crotch protection.

Compare that with star wars.  George Lucas used the traditional colors.  The empire runs around in gray, black and red uniforms.  Only the clone trooper wear all white — but they are controlled by the man in black, Darth Vader. The characters is the film associated with the rebellion were also very connected to mother nature.  They are the tones and shapes of vegetation like  Yoda.  Many of the creatures like wookies, gungans, ewoks and jawas.  The unif0rms of the rebel alliance are camouflaged according to the location of their base.  In the movie that means usually tan or green with the exception of when they are hiding on the ice planet Hoth.  The presence of white as the good guy in hollywood films.  Especially righteous are the white hats.

Growing up these colors were in the Cowboy movies and in the cartoons as well.  John Wayne wore a white hat in Fort Apache.  And Snidely Whiplash hat the lovely black cap. White of course is a crazy color in reality.  It is impractical.  It turns brown of black with a mere smudge of experience.  Black hides all the dirt.  So colors do have in a sense realistic long lasting characteristics when worn.  Evil hides behind smokes and screens, grays and browns.  Good is pure and had nothing to hide.

We expect the colors of blue, green, brown and yellows are healthy, neutral.  In the movie Avatar, the people of the land are all in a world of color, which the expansion of man is desecrating.  The machinery and the weapons of men cut down the peaceful and nature-bound inhabitants.

The avatar people are blue, and probably represent American Indians or the indigenous peoples of earth.  Even the natural resource the men are trying to pry out of the hands of the tribe is colorful.  Their whole world is full of color, while the imposing unnatural arrival of men from our world has destroyed all the remains beautiful, sacred and holy.  Again the movies are showing us what is really happening in our real existence.  Here we have the greedy rich corporations and investors, bankers and other insatiable capitalists stripping the planet of its natural resources and subjugating the peoples of the earth to wage slavery.