Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre
24.9.09
8.7.09
morality
Aright, if there was a blog post that someone disowns me for here it is. But I have an idea that I need to write down and even if only one person has a slightly different way of thinking because of my words then I am happier because of it.
My life is full of religion. I live in one of the most religious states in the US and I find myself in a unique position to observe the intricacies of the people that label themselves as religious. Religion is about control. I am not saying that churches are trying to take over the world, but the people that proselytize the idea that religion will save a soul, or stop a war don't see the big picture. Hell, most wars have been started about religion and more people have been killed because they were of different religions then any other reason. The holocaust was christian based and the church doesn't like to admit that, 9/11, the ongoing conflict in the middle east, all of these modern examples are just the conflicts that come to mind as I type this. But I am not really here to bash any church in particular. Doing that wouldn't alter the cycle in any way shape or form. Religion has taught us to value life, to keep something going because "god" mandated it. God is a lie. That isn't the atheist coming out in me, that is the idea that the God that we have presented to us as an ultimate being that has our best interest at heart isn't realistic. We should realize that any god with our real interest at heart wouldn't allow us to destroy the world that it created. "god" (as presented by mainstream religion) is nothing more then a way to control the masses and to make people rich. Prove me wrong, please.
Religion teaches us that humans are meant to rule this world, that human life is precious and priceless. Where has that got us? We are runing out of resources, global warming (not a theory any more, fact, the temperature is rising), overpopulation, an economy based on greed and the ability to exploit the masses for personal gain (capitalism, sorry guys, great theory and all but it isn't working), the prevailing idea that we as people in the system have no say about how our lives are lived except that we can choose which shitty dead end job we will live with till we find another shitty dead end job that is "better" because it gives us the ability to live more out of our means. I sound like a communist... eh, I have been called worse things.
Morality has nothing to do with human life any more and we need to stop thinking that humans have some kind of "divine mandate" to do anything. Morality should be about sustaining the home we live on, not pressing outdated and old fashioned ideals onto the youth of this and every country. The world has enough humans. With a population of 10,000 we should try to reproduce, with a population of 6,768,167,712 we need to stop. We aren't talking about survival only if we reproduce, we are talking about not being able to survive if we keep doing what we are doing.
My life is full of religion. I live in one of the most religious states in the US and I find myself in a unique position to observe the intricacies of the people that label themselves as religious. Religion is about control. I am not saying that churches are trying to take over the world, but the people that proselytize the idea that religion will save a soul, or stop a war don't see the big picture. Hell, most wars have been started about religion and more people have been killed because they were of different religions then any other reason. The holocaust was christian based and the church doesn't like to admit that, 9/11, the ongoing conflict in the middle east, all of these modern examples are just the conflicts that come to mind as I type this. But I am not really here to bash any church in particular. Doing that wouldn't alter the cycle in any way shape or form. Religion has taught us to value life, to keep something going because "god" mandated it. God is a lie. That isn't the atheist coming out in me, that is the idea that the God that we have presented to us as an ultimate being that has our best interest at heart isn't realistic. We should realize that any god with our real interest at heart wouldn't allow us to destroy the world that it created. "god" (as presented by mainstream religion) is nothing more then a way to control the masses and to make people rich. Prove me wrong, please.
Religion teaches us that humans are meant to rule this world, that human life is precious and priceless. Where has that got us? We are runing out of resources, global warming (not a theory any more, fact, the temperature is rising), overpopulation, an economy based on greed and the ability to exploit the masses for personal gain (capitalism, sorry guys, great theory and all but it isn't working), the prevailing idea that we as people in the system have no say about how our lives are lived except that we can choose which shitty dead end job we will live with till we find another shitty dead end job that is "better" because it gives us the ability to live more out of our means. I sound like a communist... eh, I have been called worse things.
Morality has nothing to do with human life any more and we need to stop thinking that humans have some kind of "divine mandate" to do anything. Morality should be about sustaining the home we live on, not pressing outdated and old fashioned ideals onto the youth of this and every country. The world has enough humans. With a population of 10,000 we should try to reproduce, with a population of 6,768,167,712 we need to stop. We aren't talking about survival only if we reproduce, we are talking about not being able to survive if we keep doing what we are doing.
18.6.09
Cans
Here I am again putting things into cyberspace from my soliude. Lovin life and glad that I am in my favorite plae in the world. 300+ pics when I get bact, so I have some sorting nd editing when I get bact to my big computer.
15.6.09
amazing
I am amazed that I am able to post this pic I took today from my cabin. Middle of nowhere, internet you don't have anything on this.
25.5.09
9.5.09
two tommorows one yesterday
I have talked to my friend in Sweeden, for free. instant communication across thousands of miles at real time, for free. This is but one tiny example. We have the opportunity to be able to change this world as it needs to be changed. People these days still are thinking with a dollar and cent mindset. How much is it going to cost. Where are my hard earned dollars going that I have earned?
This needs to stop. We need to start listening to that little thing inside of us that tells us who we are. I am not talking about your undying soul saved from hell by Jesus himself (rest in peace) I am talking about that little part of you that understands that you are not the only thing in this universe. That I am. The idea is that we are on this earth and a part of this earth for a reason. We are here to uncover some aspect of truth, or so we are told. Truth isn't something that we can call "this" or "that" each persons truth is their own. People have tried saying that over the years with varying levels of sucess. Most of the time they are seen as peacemakers. Agents of change in this soup that we call the masses. It is time to stop thinking with the part of our bodies that wants to be comfortable, and start thinking about the unification of everything, or everyone rather. We as a species are on the edge of a knife. We face our own destruction, yes at our own hands, but we won't live to see the end, no we damn our children and grandchildren to starve and die slowly while we take the cheap way out, dying while everything falls to shit.
We need to start living with this world, not on it. There are vast changes that need to be put into place before we can think about the next step. I just hope it happens before it is too late.
This needs to stop. We need to start listening to that little thing inside of us that tells us who we are. I am not talking about your undying soul saved from hell by Jesus himself (rest in peace) I am talking about that little part of you that understands that you are not the only thing in this universe. That I am. The idea is that we are on this earth and a part of this earth for a reason. We are here to uncover some aspect of truth, or so we are told. Truth isn't something that we can call "this" or "that" each persons truth is their own. People have tried saying that over the years with varying levels of sucess. Most of the time they are seen as peacemakers. Agents of change in this soup that we call the masses. It is time to stop thinking with the part of our bodies that wants to be comfortable, and start thinking about the unification of everything, or everyone rather. We as a species are on the edge of a knife. We face our own destruction, yes at our own hands, but we won't live to see the end, no we damn our children and grandchildren to starve and die slowly while we take the cheap way out, dying while everything falls to shit.
We need to start living with this world, not on it. There are vast changes that need to be put into place before we can think about the next step. I just hope it happens before it is too late.
6.4.09
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be
lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is
in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit
of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why
programming -- or buying software -- on the basis of "lists of features" is a
doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a
garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification,
as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
-- Ted Nelson
lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is
in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit
of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why
programming -- or buying software -- on the basis of "lists of features" is a
doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a
garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification,
as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
-- Ted Nelson
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