in theory, it rhymes with ~ Cro-Mag Phaser

~ Belief ~
Things known but as yet unproven
 - hold this up until whenever -
I believe that worship of a deity
is a sign of a dangerously primitive culture.
I believe for every drop of rain that falls,
an equivalent amount of moisture is reallocated.
I believe that knowledge is good ~ n the more ye know the better off ye are.
I believe that religion is a primitive concept; that any search for any god, or any higher power, can be theoretically accomplished by exploring what is known and/or knowable; and that it is wrong to deny the admission of a true proven fact ~ and especially perverse when the clandestine reasons behind doing so are merely to preserve the status quo, the most obvious example of this being the perpetuation of mass ignorance, on a global scale, for the benefit of a relative few ~ and the continued oppression of all the rest.
I believe that when a person reaches physical sexual maturity, they should be allowed to explore that area of their humanity ~ and even encouraged. Further, it is cruel to deny them the right to explore that part of what we are, and instead being conditioned to suppress it, which can easily lead to misdirection of that most instinctive and fundamental physical and psychological energy.
In a perfect world, each of us would have been fully prepared by that age, emotionally as well as physically (frankly, by sane, safe adult and young adult teachers; our first physical experiences preferably by someone only slightly older), in an ongoing, incremental course until we are fully matured adults; unclouded by years of adolescent insecurity, torture, shame and the exponentially devastating consequences arising from mass ignorance, stewing in years of being alone.
Additionally, I believe that monogamy perpetuates jealousy ~ which is incongruent to a happy, healthy, wholesome, loving relationship. The presence of jealousy is congruent to psychological slavery, emotional servitude ~ thus altogether unhealthy, and a big part of our problem.
I believe that politics exists to serve and protect those currently in power. I believe that the 2000 election was stolen and there will be no indictments in our lifetime, or the liftimes of those guilty parties involved. I believe that society will grow more placid, yet less immune, to these diabolical behind the scenes meanderings ~ and that eventually, our decendants will read the Bill of Rights in historical context, with bland curiosity.
I believe that the technology exists to manifest and maintain a society beyond our wildest scifi utopian dreams ~ but that there is yet no technology to protect society from those among us who would use these ideas to destroy it all. A power source is available, about the size of a deck of cards, that would provide all of a single person's electrical wattage needs for an entire extended lifetime ~ but there is nothing yet to prevent a terrorist from strapping that on a laser scalpel and slicing crowds in half. We could disintegrate and recycle our refuse with something like a cross between a microwave oven and a trash compactor ~ but it would therefore be all that much easier to permanently and untraceably dispose of a dead body. Therefore, it is immensely important to keep the world at large as technologically primitive as possible ~ at least until we figure out how to round up all the homicidal maniacs, especially before they attain any power and/or large number of followers.
Additionally, I believe that if we were all individually allowed to do for a living what we are most suited for, everything we are most talented at, all that we most enjoy, there would be no need for money ~ and there would soon be no such thing as crime; and therefore very little need for an all encompassing, all powerful government body.
I believe that people from other planets, beings from other worlds, entities from other realms have visited this planet. I believe that UFOs, crop circles, pyramids, Atlantis, the Face on Mars and other unexplained phenomenon are entirely explainable ~ but we'll prolly hafta broaden our minds justa lil bit foist.
I believe that the universe, galaxy, solar system, planet and ecosystem upon which we hang our hats, and currently reside, is entirely alive; and we are but parasites ~ but this is not such a bad thing after all, as all of our parasites likely have parasites themselves, and that this is likely a natural and infinite state of existence.
Additionally, I believe that the clouds, rocks, water, land, plants and anything else you can imagine are equally alive and possess comparable consciousness ~ and also that there is a Doggie Heaven and Kitty Heaven, both of which are entirely accessible to our Heaven, but not necessarily to each other ;o)
I believe that when you die, your mind and/or soul vibrates at a certain frequency depending on what kind of person you are, how ye think n feel etc ~ and that determines what plane of existence you will occupy, and also what you will eventually be reincarnated into next ~ bad vibes weigh you down, good vibes lighten yer load ~ so if yer a real fuckhead, yer gonna tune in with all the other savage assholes who aren't currently inna body ~ that, u could call hell ~ n if they wanna hang out at or near this planet's molten core where it's all about fire n perpetual torture, there's prolly little stoppin em ~ same way with heaven ~ groovy people are prolly on a happy hippie wavelength, flyin around in the clouds, helpin people when they can ~ so, try to think of life as a test as to how good a person you can be ;o)
Additionally, I believe that we are constantly surrounded by our ancestors ~ and that they are an invaluable source of guidance, even if we are not entirely open to the idea.
I believe that, while most people are essentially good, the civilization on this planet is predominantly that of a warlike culture ~ and that basically, what it all boils down to is a chronic lack of guidance.
The history of the world, what we learn in school, and what is emphasized predominantly therein, can be perhaps most easily described as a series of events (a domino effect, if you will) based on the premise that people don't want other people tellin em what to do, but people tell em what to do anyways, and they're often fairly insistant about it.
I believe that when you throw a frisbee in to the air,
it will come back to you if the wind is right.
If, on the other hand,
you toss a pie tin wildly into the ether
and for no apparent reason it comes back to you
you may be safe to say that you are fairly blessed
or at least have experienced some high randomness.
In any case, some wiggy chaos theory is likely involved.





Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.  - t h h g t t g -

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.






The Eye of the Needle
There is a quote from the bible that has been misread by fundamentalists. Actually, there are many. But this one in particular says essentially that it is easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven. This is a parable. In order to understand it, you must put yourself in their place, and in their time. Cities back then were walled, for protection. In the Middle East, the gates of these cities were narrow; only wide enough for a man or an unburdened horse or camel to walk through - say, maybe a meter or so - but opened up larger and rounder about two meters up and thus resembled, and were hence referred to as "the eye of a needle." A travelling salesman, or anyone trying to enter the city with luggage, would have to unpack their steed, wait for the guards to search through them, and carry them inside one at a time, and then possibly load up again. The more "baggage" you had, the longer it would take. A rich man could be there all day. It was a widely understood term back then, meaning the definition of hassle.

The parable explained is this: if, when you die, your mind is still filled with thoughts of barter and commerce and trade; you may have to "unpack" all of that. The hypothesis is that, in the afterlife, one will have to untether himself from many current customs and/or worldly ways, based on value systems having to do with the economics of the temporal plane, or personal survival in a primitive society - and prompts the seeker to be wary of them while he is alive, recognize them for what they are, and take them only for what they are worth, no more.

Basically, the quote instructs us to lighten up a little - these behaviors which enable us to thrive down here might be a burden in a more enlightened dimension. The target is specifically the sterotypical wealthy, the power-mongers, but can apply to any immature mindset - though greed is perhaps the easiest example. Jealousy and bigotry are other obvious applications for this tidbit.




Water Into Wine
The first miracle of Jesus took place at a wedding in Canaan, which is in modern day Lebanon. The culture of this region is known for arak an alcoholic beverage that is transparent and very potent (the Greeks have Uzo, the Russians have Vodka, the Mexicans have Tequila, and so on).

Modern versions of this liquid are 90% alcohol, or 180 proof - even extremely watered down, it makes a good wine cooler. Perhaps this was a new idea, or just new to the setting - in any case, it seems to have saved the party. A traveller would have known this neat little trick - arak packs plenty o punch as a concentrate. We know that Jesus did alot of traveling in his day. As a child, he fled with his family to Egypt to avoid King Herod's lethal persecution.




Sinners, All
The word SIN, as we understand it today, is originally a mistranslation of an ancient archery term, meaning to not hit the target, or the center of it. A sin is merely to miss the mark - or, more poetically n metaphorically, to miss the point, or the dot of the idea and/or ideal. So, not all of them are punishable by death and/or hell - it jus depends on how fucked up or groovy a person you are. Thus, further examples of how religion possesses much wisdom, but there are often a buncha fools misinterpreting it.


















~ Top 10 Bullshit Beliefs and Assumptions ~
1. Don't worry about it - everything will work out fine.
2. Belief in the unknown is the sign of a sick, twisted mind.
3. Belief in yourself, self confidence, perseverence, tenacity
     is the most important thing there is - and the key to success.
4. The only way to learn how to do something is to do it,
     and then fail, and then try again - or read a manual.
5. Nothing can travel faster than the Speed of Light.
6. There is no such thing as reincarnation - when you die, that's it.
7. Animals have no soul - neither do plants or rocks or computers etc.
8. If there were such a thing as aliens, they would certainly
     have landed on the White House front lawn by now.
9. There is a God, and _______ is his (son, prophet, etc.).
10. There are more people alive today than have ever lived 
     in the history of Humanity - going back some 5000 years.






The Bible
Volume 4 - Book 1
Power

In the beginning of the end, there was artificial light - and the people beheld this light, and thought that it was moreover a good thing. But the people did not generally know that the power that supplied this light was not necessarilly the best thing for people to be using - although they had certainly found many uses for it, even though no one was even remotely sure how it worked; but this was not widely known.

The name for this power was electricity, and electricity was the name that the people had given unto this power - and electricity powered machines that made light and heat, and nearly everything that was known to modern civilization. There were many sources of electricity, and many ways to store it - and the name of a storage container for electricity was called a battery. The power called electricity was harvested from the wind, and from the sun, and from the sea, and from fire - but more than these put together, this power was also derived from the atom, which is found within all things of the universe.

The favorite and most used source of power was oil, which is made from trees that died many millions of years hence - and is found buried deep in the ground, even under the oceans, but usually in the deserts which had once been great forests. The leaders who controlled the harvesting of this resource became wealthy and greedy - even though the source was surely limited. The burning of oil was very dangerous; but was much needed to produce heat, locomotion of transportation and many other things - even though the continued use of oil polluted the atmosphere and raised temperatures worldwide, even in the sea, which killed many things. Yet another power source was invented, which was very clean, and the name that was given unto this technology was the fuel cell - but the leaders decided that this was too powerful a source to allow the people to possess, for fear that the people may overpower them.

In those days, the world was divided up into many nations - and the people who lived within them were generally peaceful. Still, many leaders of nations would make war with each other; setting the people of their nation against the people of another - or even groups of people within nations against each other, and by using any excuse imaginable, to divide and conquer. usually by pointing out differences between individuals and groups, to stir up conflict and to cause general discord between the people - and for many reasons: religious, political, economic; but mostly so the leaders currently in power could stay in power indefinitely.

Long before this time, the world was discovered to be a spherical planet, the third of four solid inner worlds, with one moon, orbiting a single yellow star - beyond which was an asteroid belt; and beyond that were four outer gas giants: each of them hosting a ring and many moons which orbited around them. Beyond this was a tiny world, with a single tiny moon, that some scientists condidered asteroids, even though they were spherical and orbited each other. This totalled nine planets in the solar system, and seven continents on the planet - although most people did not know these simple statistics of their state.

By then, the people of the world numbered six billion - and this number was expected to double within a single generation. While most people belived that there certainly must be life elsewhere in the vast universe; the leaders of the people did not acknowledge that there was any life beyond the world; although they often knew far better - and the people were told by the leaders that most people did not believe such things - thus, most people thought they were in the minority opinion, and did not want to be ridiculed. This proved advantageous to the leaders who wanted to explore space secretly, without telling most of the people.

Not all leaders were evil, however - some good people managed to attain political power, but were often overthrown. The more power a good person was able to achieve, the more vicious their opponents were in their disinformation. It had become nearly impossible for any person to achieve any influence without being somewhat corruptable - because corporations ruled the world from behind the scenes, and leaders were often merely their puppets. The laws of the most prosperous nations required that all people be treated equally - but any rise to power still required a vast number of followers, which required vast wealth.

Despite being hundreds of times more advanced: technologically, socially, emotionally and intellectually; many people were nearly as superstitious as their ancient ancestors; and some of them, even moreso - as they were spoon-fed the politically intentional mistranslations that had controlled the previous generations; and thus looked more to leaders than their hearts, for their morality and philosophy.

Because the population of the people continued to grow, more power plants were needed. Because power plants cost money, many taxes were raised - as were utility rates. Because power plants pollute, no one wanted them to be built near to where they resided - thus, those who had the most influence were able to prevent them from being built at all. This was a boon for the corporations of the energy industry, because prices and profits continued to rise. Then it came to pass that the old power plants began to fail; and millions were left without electricity, until they could be repaired.







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