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| 05:03am 26/11/2009 |
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music: Harmonia - Watussi
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If the world will not dance with me - I will dance with it.
The earth is as flat as my feet (my feet are ~actually~ not flat).
The world is not meaningless (because it does not take itself seriously).
People are intelligent and interesting (because nature is not stupid and mechanical).
What you feel is true.
Embrace the fact that you are what the whole, entire, everything-everyplace-everywhere-in-the-whole-universe is doing at this very moment. You are not just some wisp trapped inside a fleshy shell.
When you die, the reason you forget everything because the TRUE you - the REAL you - is full of more wisdom than any biological or scientific definition can ever imagine. You forget because if you were to remember who you were, and carry those past biases, you would learn nothing.
And would the world not be so boring to you?
Is it the drug... or is it you?
It's both, because one or the other would be so boring. It is as if I were to claim that "either what you see in front of your comes from your eyes or your surroundings, neither nor".
To which, you know the answer - it is both.
If I were to put my hand on your lap and leave it there, you would soon forget it were there. However, if I were to continuously pat your lap: touching and not-touching, touching and not-touching you would notice it - both because it were there at one moment... and gone the next.
Such is everything in the whole universe to which we should believe in. We know it exists not because it is represented by some undeniable, infallible theory or logic that proves it itself always there before us. Rather, we are confirmed of its existence because at one moment it is there and at another it is not. The mountains have valleys and the sound has its silence. There is no with without without. Take solace in that. For when you speak - you also enunciate silence.
The main problem with civilization - I would say - is that it fears the moments of silence, of darkness and of infinite space. It fears the not, and has an agenda to rid our world of it. And so, were cover the world with sounds and light and matter to quell our panic.
Completely in denial of the fact that what lies in-between the sounds, the light and the matter is who we truly are...
...and what the whole universe is doing.
At.This.Very.Moment. |
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| More Prop-agenda |
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| 01:04pm 16/11/2009 |
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http://www.sphere.com/2009/11/16/the-point-obamas-bow-enrages-critics/
Point A:
Obama is a president - not a king, nor an emperor. The position of the president, by America's own definition, is not one of royal status. Now, I don't know what America thinks the president is supposed to function as but, his bowing to an emperor is the appropriate action considering the fact that American government structure humbles its own leaders by default.
Point B:
Internet-journalists need to stop acting as though dunderheaded opinions and remarks are in the majority when considering political, social, cultural and spiritual matters. The avid followers who actually buy into the low-value, contrived worldviews of Major News Media and sensationalist news personalities barely amount to anything worth sharing out here on the internet. You do know about the internet, right? That zone in cyberspace where people can actually educate themselves to their own heart’s desire? Yeah! So don't lay any of that hocus-pocus "OMFG the world is going to end because we elected a Democrat instead of a Republican" shit on me, because I don't need it. If I wanna get high, I'll get high! If I wanna make a joke, I'll make a joke! If I wanna go out all night and find some America-loving douchebag on the street and convince him that he should quit his 9-5 job, I will! Because I need these things! I NEED THESE THINGS!!!
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| Read, now. |
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| 11:13pm 03/11/2009 |
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music: The Amorphous Androgynous - Opus Of the Black Sun
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I've known about this book for a while and been reading over it, however, I can't believe I kept forgetting to link it here - of all places.
http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/text.php
I would call it the greatest book of our time... but, in wholeness, it is but a stepping stone in the true ascent of all humankind. |
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| America Sucks. |
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| 11:46pm 13/10/2009 |
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music: Nest - Otter Heart
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And so does looking for a job. I wish I spoke another language so I could leave this ego-infested shithole and live somewhere with some goddamn character. Maybe I'll move to Ireland. You know, where my Bartending abilities might actually be appreciated and the women aren't such stuck up bitches who think that their pseudo-spiritual, neo-liberal worldviews are the be-all, end-all of everyone's metaphysical and sociopolitical quandaries.
FuckEnd. |
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| On Lífe Ge On Legere |
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| 03:19am 25/09/2009 |
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music: Burzum - Dunkelheit
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So sick... need job... NyQuil... stupid road construction... took me almost an hour to go to get to Walmart... should've only taken five minutes, no exaggeration.
HOlysuckingfuckshit, does civilization piss me off.
There are such brief moments of beauty
Times when the ocean tears everything apart
In such great chaos
Then, after the waves crest,
Everything crashes back together
In even greater chaos
And this...
This is when our own souls can be salvaged. |
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| Writer's Block: On the (Job) Hunt |
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| 06:05am 15/09/2009 |
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music: Seven Nautical Miles - Our Eyes
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Dealing with the bureaucratic, passive aggressive games that employers play during the hiring process instead of just being honest and straight.
Such things include:
*** Having someone tell you they want someone with experience/a degree for said position when A) they would obviously train you to the point where your previous experience wouldn't mean much at all and B) the job is simple and really shouldn't "require experience" (IE - anything involving retail, serving, stocking and most forms of low-level management at such work-environments mentioned). Meaningless drivel, I say, that's code for, "We lie to ourselves. We'd like to think that we are not easily replaceable so, in order to feel validated, we act as though this job is more difficult than reality dictates."
*** Filling out questionnaires that include such BS questions such as "you are usually the life of parties: Strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree". Nobody fills those things out honestly, they just fill-out what they think the employer wants to hear. What is even worse, though, is filling out those questionnaires correctly (because, yes, they can easily be filled out correctly with a very minuscule amount of common-sense) and then not hearing back from the place at all, or nearly 6 months later *cough* Blockbuster *cough*, after you've already found a job.
*** When places don't call you back after an interview or dick you around when you give them a follow-up call in between interviews. Just tell me if I didn't get the job/other interview... especially if I'm the one who ends up calling you. Don't pull shit like "oh, well, if we didn't get back to you then the position was actually filled" or "we'll call you back Monday (three days from now)" and then don't call. They best understand that I took time out of my day to have this interview, right? I have a multitude of other things to do besides spend time wondering if you're going to call me back after I just took time out of my day for this interview (which would've been spent looking and interviewing for other jobs or taking care of important things like homework) -- I've even missed classes/left classes early for interviews before.
*** OH! And when places claim to "lose your drug test results" *cough* Sears *cough* which, in turn, delays when you would've started working by two weeks. Nobody "loses" drug-test results, especially if they were sent via computer from another, independent vicinity that obviously would have another copy on file.
There's only two, likely possibilities I can think of that would make this so:
The first is that in this day-and-age of computers-galore they didn't actually lose my test results and, instead, they thought I looked like a drug-user (probably just a stoner). However, if that was the case, why even tell me I'm hired? I'll tell you why - because drug testing is pointless for most jobs and everybody knows it. Everybody knows everybody has smoked/does smoke/will smoke pot and everybody knows it's no big deal. Plus, compare the following - someone shows up to work high vs someone who shows up drunk. No contest there. What about those other, worse drugs, though? Well, if any interviewer can't spot a crackhead, heroin user, meth-addict or any other sort of street drug user then they're idiots. And, as for anything of the psychedelic variety: nobody would waste a good psychedelic on a shitty job.
Now the second, which is more likely, is that the place that drug tested me thought I was trying to dilute my urine sample (the lady working there commented on how my piss looked very clear - I told her it's because all I really drink is tea, water and occasionally milk). However, I think that is one of the most obnoxiously cynical notions ever because... well... clear piss is also a sign that you are drinking healthily. Yup! Most people's piss shouldn't look like Mountain Dew, fucking numbskulls! That's like a cop working under a logic of suspicion which concludes "people who are guilty of a crime would follow the law". |
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| 04:22am 11/09/2009 |
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music: Ordo Funebris - Maellus Malleficarum
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It is a consistent point, it seems, that many people tend to make in the subject of just about any debate is that all things are “natural”. The common logic at work here is simply “humans did “it”, humans are natural, and therefore “it” is natural aswell”.
The problem with this assumption—because that’s quite simply what it is, an assumption—is that “what is natural” then consists solely of who made/produced/conceptualized “it”. Naturalness, then, has nothing to do with the nature of… well… nature.
The proper meaning of nature is one of reality. That is to say, nature is consistent with reality. Nature is a specific part of reality in this context; one that is, in all fairness, particular to Earth. That is why when we say “nature” we think the trees, the water, the animals an entire plethora of wild and untamed things and we don’t immediately associate nature with anything on Mars. It can be looked at as another way of referring to an ecosystem. Now, that isn’t to say that Mars has no ecosystem or “nature”. But, let’s be honest, Mars’ ecosystem is nowhere near as complex as Earth’s.
What is natural, then, actually has little to do with who made what or what materials any product is made from. What is natural actually has more to do with what is in harmony with nature. In so many words I would argue that nature is cyclical, as thus is reality, and as things decay they also give birth. Nature and reality are not linear. However, many perspectives taken in both the name of modern science and contemporary religion tend to pigeonhole reality into a linear outlook. The fact of the matter is, while so many atheists mock the face that is the promise of heaven and eternal bliss for a living pure lifestyle they are, quite simply, not that different in the name of their utopian goals that will hopefully be reached through technology, societal structures and governments. Both view reality and life itself in goal-like terms, and not for what they really are: processes that are part of processes.
What is unnatural is that which is attempting, I emphasize attempting, to defy reality and nature by hoping that “someday, there will be nothing more to fear”. Even our very sense of “ourselves”, our very sense of what it is to be human, and even my mortal struggle to determine “who Zach is”, falls victim to unnaturalness and ~dare I say~ unreality when I view my own hands, feet, eyes, ears and ideas as some linear state that must be forever preserved.
Our very dependence on the world around us should teach us that we are no more nature’s master than it is ours. The only things we have ever become slaves to are abstractions, built by boundaries that would have us believe that our soul is nothing more than a mote of consciousness inside of a fleshy shell. I mean, the very fact that you can imagine an arbitrary object, such as a car or phone just floating in nothingness is a sign of our culturally and technologically bred separation from nature. Visualizing this object is significant inasmuchas you are visualizing it without considering its own nature, its ecosystem so to speak. Considering that very exercise is indicative of how even something such as a tree—something that is almost indisputably of nature as far as most everybody is concerned—can be warped into something wholly unnatural by isolating it from its surroundings.
But, think again, for is it in any way possible to TRULY describe a species without describing its environment, as it would be to describe a person without considering his friends, his family, his culture, his ecosystem? No. The only problem at hand is that our modern culture as we know it, the human artifact, has attempted (there’s that word again, attempted) to become independent from nature. That is why I think theories such as democracy and capitalism have become so popular; they emphasize the individual as the manipulator of his surroundings and they teach him pay little mind to what his surroundings might do should he defy their harmony.
Though, as our cultures and technologies are slowly learning, attempting to defy nature is essentially just picking fights with nature until nature wins.
Don’t get me wrong, though. The marvels of modern science and technology are not wrong, just as the core of religion, culture and art are not wrong. These are not unnatural things in and of themselves. They are just executed in such a way that relies on linearity and does not harmonize with the cyclical nature of things. The time where the harmonization of these human phenomena with nature is inevitable, if not painfully near. However, their implementation necessitates a grueling level of pain and destruction that will rid us of old worldviews – worldviews that are staler than any typical political affiliation tossed about these days – and lead us into an age of indescribable wholeness.
-Sorry George Carlin, but I disagree. |
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| I Beat the System... Twice With One Video!!! |
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| 12:51pm 13/08/2009 |
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That's right! It's back in all it's sound-ridden glory. I am such a badass!
So, here's the down-dittidy:
These bastards come along all "your video is gots this song in it that we own the shitz to, yo."
and then I'm all,
"But, my good sirs-"
And before I can even finish they take the audio out of the video and tell me I'm not allowed to have the Green Acres theme in it. They give me that stupid audio-swap option, instead. However, I can only use that if I choose to replace the entire audio track and, accordingly, never have the old one at my disposal again (which was ridiculous because the Green Acres theme only made up the last minute of the video).
So, in due course, I called bullshit -- because it was.
However, I had no actual legal recourse and just had to accept the fact that the video was soundless. I tried researching everything from "Fair-Use" to YouTube's own contracts to see if I could find any loopholes... but, I was with no avail.
...then I realized something... in this day-and-age shit don't mean fuck unless you have evidence to back it up. I then went on my account and filled out one of those official "I call BS on your BS" YouTube forms and presented the following argument:
"On multiple occasions I have attempted to buy the soundtrack for Green Acres and, yet, have never seen it available for sale. Thusly, I submit that you can offer no empirical evidence showing that my video has caused any decline in profit or sales that might've been garnered had I not used said song in my video."
BAM! Look at that bacon sizzle!
A week later they dropped the claim and put the video back up as God intended: completely badass! I rock so many casabahs. |
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| Who are the Chomans? |
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| 04:34pm 03/08/2009 |
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music: Caina - To Pluck The Night Up By Its Skin
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There's some pretty funny "behind the scenes" footage that I may decide to edit and upload soon, aswell. But, until then, ponder as to where you were when the Chomans came to power. |
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| Deep- Space- Morning- |
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| 04:43am 19/07/2009 |
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music: Urfaust - IX : Der Einsiedler
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I think I'm going to start carrying a tape-recorder around with me (or some modern technology analogous to one) and, perhaps, post an audio-journal of sorts. I mean, whereas I love writing and all... I think I need something more organic and boundtoimpulse if not to get my voice downbeat, at least to work in the fact that my mind is all over the place.
Yes-
...Whenever I bring my video-camera people just put on a show.
Tape recorders are subtle, they should work... |
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| Why "Democracy" Fails |
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| 10:49am 14/07/2009 |
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music: Mogollar - Katip Arzvhalim Yaz Yare
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I can't believe I spent the wee hours of my morning explaining to some neo-liberal jackals that hotdogs and sports are not examples of a strong culture, that Saudi Arabia is not a nation-state and that Bill Clinton was a slimeball of a president whether or not you bring up his sexual escapades. |
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| 01:23am 13/07/2009 |
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Some Classics. It seems like no matter how abstract or unconventional my taste in music gets I can always come back to these gems.
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| Sometime Today |
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| 03:31am 08/07/2009 |
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music: Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Mistrust
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In the ruin of civilization
Time seems childlike
And in the palm of one’s hand
It IS so restless
In the name of wellbeing
Our souls are the wounded
Death is bored with us
We’ve made his trade so simple
But, go ahead, breathe
Before long his touch will reign on all seasons |
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