To All God's Children,
-->Nothing. I have an inner calm that's effortless to maintain. When I get angry I feel nothing; when I cry I feel nothing; even when I’m happy I feel nothing; when I make love I feel nothing; nothing but calm. At the end of the Diary of Anne Frank, there’s a second hand account of her dying in the concentration camp and the last thing she said was “I feel nothing.” Perhaps nothing is the most natural thing we can feel. Returning our bodies to nature is like returning it to nothing. She died at peace with nature; her soul escaping.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Men and Their Insecurities
To All God's Children,
-->The ones who are exceptionally insecure about their masculinity are incredibly narcissistic, are demeaning to women, and have self-esteem issues. I can speak from experience because I have a friend with a gay brother and he’s the “Golden Child” for his parents so they treat him like he’s made of gold. He’s incredibly pampered and I think some of his mannerisms are mistaken for being homosexual. I could imagine why he would have a complex though considering his brother is gay and according to him the family “f--k up” which I assume he doesn’t want to be.
-->The ones who are exceptionally insecure about their masculinity are incredibly narcissistic, are demeaning to women, and have self-esteem issues. I can speak from experience because I have a friend with a gay brother and he’s the “Golden Child” for his parents so they treat him like he’s made of gold. He’s incredibly pampered and I think some of his mannerisms are mistaken for being homosexual. I could imagine why he would have a complex though considering his brother is gay and according to him the family “f--k up” which I assume he doesn’t want to be.
I think men are more likely to be insecure about appearing gay. The ones who struggle with it become narcissistic trying to find evidence for why they are better than women or just different trying to improve their unstable self-esteem. Also, if you have low self-esteem and you think other people don’t like you according to self-fulfilling prophecy you will unleash bad attitudes and treatment from other people unto you. It’s funny that “men rule the world” and “men don’t cry” and all this BS about men being so much better than women over the ages. They turned us into whores and sex toys or housewives and basically slaves or emotional drama queens throwing the free thinking ones in insane asylums. After all that misogyny and men are the ones with the mental complex. They are afraid of another man getting to close behind them because they’re worried their sexual orientation will be compromised. It’s pathetic. That’s why God gave us the pain of childbirth because we’re tougher.
In my opinion, narcissism creates solipsism where the person thinks that others are an extension of their mind. A person did not exist until he (the solipsistic male) met her. It’s like Mark Twain and his family; whenever he came home, the wife and children all had to centered their lives and conversation around him. He is free to say and do what he wants to her because she is an extension of his mind and not a real person. The social roles of women have unfortunately adapted this narcissistic or solipsistic stance. Not only in the personal life (women are whores, wives or dykes if they don’t want men), but women are extension of males also in the workforce (women are nurses for doctors or secretary for a CEO). There are more women in the workforce than men. Great, that’s all we need. Historically and even now they rape, kill, abuse and virtually enslave us and now they want to stay at home with the kids. Men are still in higher leading positions while women toll away and bear the bunt of the work.
In this society with its stringent sex roles, I would say women are freer in terms of self-expression. Women can dress how they want, dance how they want and wear their hair however they want. It’s men who are trapped mentally and it may even be a jealousy of the “masculine” male that would drive one to mistreat a woman. I admire the men who come out of the closet but not just with sexual orientation, but the one’s who are willing to wear whatever and be whomever they want without degrading women. That’s freedom.
In my opinion, narcissism creates solipsism where the person thinks that others are an extension of their mind. A person did not exist until he (the solipsistic male) met her. It’s like Mark Twain and his family; whenever he came home, the wife and children all had to centered their lives and conversation around him. He is free to say and do what he wants to her because she is an extension of his mind and not a real person. The social roles of women have unfortunately adapted this narcissistic or solipsistic stance. Not only in the personal life (women are whores, wives or dykes if they don’t want men), but women are extension of males also in the workforce (women are nurses for doctors or secretary for a CEO). There are more women in the workforce than men. Great, that’s all we need. Historically and even now they rape, kill, abuse and virtually enslave us and now they want to stay at home with the kids. Men are still in higher leading positions while women toll away and bear the bunt of the work.
In this society with its stringent sex roles, I would say women are freer in terms of self-expression. Women can dress how they want, dance how they want and wear their hair however they want. It’s men who are trapped mentally and it may even be a jealousy of the “masculine” male that would drive one to mistreat a woman. I admire the men who come out of the closet but not just with sexual orientation, but the one’s who are willing to wear whatever and be whomever they want without degrading women. That’s freedom.
To My People, My Black People
What it do God's Children,
-->My Black people always inventing their own names like Lakeisha and Labria; why not just Keisha or Bria? As if these latter names sound better. It’s less “ignorant” some people say to have the name Mary or John. Is it ignorance or is it creativity that brought Blacks to want their own names? It’s a basic human quality that shouldn’t be suppressed or belittled. The "n-word" stands for ignorant person so it's a shame that the "i-word" has lingered in its description of Blacks along with that "n-word".
There’s this idea that listening to and living with the hip hop music as a way of life or a religion is somehow devil worship and that the only way to praise God or the wonders of the world is to praise Jesus through Christianity. Don’t believe it. This idea that dancing to the rhythm of the music is somehow evil or wrong is just giving into the old White Puritan beliefs.
Music is what connects us all especially all our Black people together. I remember once seeing a future Black doctor at Duke University cruising in his car with the speaker’s blaring. He was “straight up gangster” and it was something that you could commonly see among blacks in an urban neighborhood.
It’s not ignorance that makes us rap and rhyme with the music. It’s the brilliance of Black teenagers and the creativity of Black children that established rap as an art form. All the words that are put into the urban dictionary are not a sign of ignorance, but a symbol of brilliance. We have created an entire dictionary of new words that have become very influential in mainstream America.
It’s the sign of brilliance that has been suppressed by our society. Just because you cannot get an A in physics doesn’t mean you are dumb; it means you are a different kind of smart. We are not dumb people, it is not ignorant to be in harmony with what feels natural and music is what keeps us in harmony with ourselves, with the world, with God, if you believe, and with our ancestors who fought for out right to live freely.
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-->My Black people always inventing their own names like Lakeisha and Labria; why not just Keisha or Bria? As if these latter names sound better. It’s less “ignorant” some people say to have the name Mary or John. Is it ignorance or is it creativity that brought Blacks to want their own names? It’s a basic human quality that shouldn’t be suppressed or belittled. The "n-word" stands for ignorant person so it's a shame that the "i-word" has lingered in its description of Blacks along with that "n-word".
There’s this idea that listening to and living with the hip hop music as a way of life or a religion is somehow devil worship and that the only way to praise God or the wonders of the world is to praise Jesus through Christianity. Don’t believe it. This idea that dancing to the rhythm of the music is somehow evil or wrong is just giving into the old White Puritan beliefs.
Music is what connects us all especially all our Black people together. I remember once seeing a future Black doctor at Duke University cruising in his car with the speaker’s blaring. He was “straight up gangster” and it was something that you could commonly see among blacks in an urban neighborhood.
It’s not ignorance that makes us rap and rhyme with the music. It’s the brilliance of Black teenagers and the creativity of Black children that established rap as an art form. All the words that are put into the urban dictionary are not a sign of ignorance, but a symbol of brilliance. We have created an entire dictionary of new words that have become very influential in mainstream America.
It’s the sign of brilliance that has been suppressed by our society. Just because you cannot get an A in physics doesn’t mean you are dumb; it means you are a different kind of smart. We are not dumb people, it is not ignorant to be in harmony with what feels natural and music is what keeps us in harmony with ourselves, with the world, with God, if you believe, and with our ancestors who fought for out right to live freely.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
What does it mean to be smart?
To All God's Children,
-->Poors, minorities and the underrepresented. Minorities, the underrepresented, and poors. I’m tried of these categories. There’s an obvious bias in careers based on race and gender. Certain races are more likely to be scientists, certain genders are more like to be nurses and school teachers and still a certain type of race and gender is more likely to be basketball players. I bet I can predict the races and genders that came to mind when you were reading the last sentenced. You probably thought white people (or white men in specific), women for the second, and black males for the final biased career.
I still say there’s nothing wrong with this. Okay, so many blacks end up in entertainment careers. So what? Why should we downplay a gift that we can give the world? Music, dance, and sport. If you ask me, after watching Lebron James dunk several baskets from the opposite side of the court I would say it takes some level of genius in order to do it.
Why is brilliance in science and math the only “real” smarts? I wish schools would reconsider making cuts to arts and music, and some even sports in an attempt to teach students math and science. Without proper exposure how is a student supposed to find their true calling?
As for the school systems and employers, it would be nice if employers respected HBCUs as much as state schools and other crappy traditional community colleges (not to say all community colleges are bad; there was one in my old neighborhood that had one of the top culinary schools in America). HBCUs are just as good and sometimes better then these other colleges they just aren’t getting the respect they deserve.
I wish people respected health related jobs more than they did. The “feminine” jobs in the health system have remained relatively stable while testosterone ran masulineconomic financial collapse of the seeming second Great Depression not only affects men but women.
The mainstream race think they are so smart and educated inventing all these things and ignore that their inventions cause just as much trouble as it helps. For example, hospitals have many great doctors, mostly White Americans. But what about the car accident victims that end up there frequently from the White people made vehicles that claim a substantial amount of lives?
What about the cancer stick or cigarettes that are produced by White people that send people to the hospitals for lung cancer? What about all this scientifically generated and carcinogenic enriched food that we eat that gives us cancer and sends us to the hospital? Our desire to scientifically develop a better world for White people by White people is the same as the masculine run economics taking the females down. Why for every “genius” invention of theirs is there a thousand other unfortunate things that result from it? What’s the point?
Who’s smarter - an Advanced or an Indigenous person? A person who tries to drastically improve his live, stresses himself out and ends up dying alone and broken in his old age from some shitty disease that didn’t exist thousands of years ago? Or a person who lives in tune with nature so the next generation will have a planet to live on? Again I beg of you to tell me who’s better off? Who is smarter?
-->Poors, minorities and the underrepresented. Minorities, the underrepresented, and poors. I’m tried of these categories. There’s an obvious bias in careers based on race and gender. Certain races are more likely to be scientists, certain genders are more like to be nurses and school teachers and still a certain type of race and gender is more likely to be basketball players. I bet I can predict the races and genders that came to mind when you were reading the last sentenced. You probably thought white people (or white men in specific), women for the second, and black males for the final biased career.
I still say there’s nothing wrong with this. Okay, so many blacks end up in entertainment careers. So what? Why should we downplay a gift that we can give the world? Music, dance, and sport. If you ask me, after watching Lebron James dunk several baskets from the opposite side of the court I would say it takes some level of genius in order to do it.
Why is brilliance in science and math the only “real” smarts? I wish schools would reconsider making cuts to arts and music, and some even sports in an attempt to teach students math and science. Without proper exposure how is a student supposed to find their true calling?
As for the school systems and employers, it would be nice if employers respected HBCUs as much as state schools and other crappy traditional community colleges (not to say all community colleges are bad; there was one in my old neighborhood that had one of the top culinary schools in America). HBCUs are just as good and sometimes better then these other colleges they just aren’t getting the respect they deserve.
I wish people respected health related jobs more than they did. The “feminine” jobs in the health system have remained relatively stable while testosterone ran masulineconomic financial collapse of the seeming second Great Depression not only affects men but women.
The mainstream race think they are so smart and educated inventing all these things and ignore that their inventions cause just as much trouble as it helps. For example, hospitals have many great doctors, mostly White Americans. But what about the car accident victims that end up there frequently from the White people made vehicles that claim a substantial amount of lives?
What about the cancer stick or cigarettes that are produced by White people that send people to the hospitals for lung cancer? What about all this scientifically generated and carcinogenic enriched food that we eat that gives us cancer and sends us to the hospital? Our desire to scientifically develop a better world for White people by White people is the same as the masculine run economics taking the females down. Why for every “genius” invention of theirs is there a thousand other unfortunate things that result from it? What’s the point?
Who’s smarter - an Advanced or an Indigenous person? A person who tries to drastically improve his live, stresses himself out and ends up dying alone and broken in his old age from some shitty disease that didn’t exist thousands of years ago? Or a person who lives in tune with nature so the next generation will have a planet to live on? Again I beg of you to tell me who’s better off? Who is smarter?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Human Beings being Nature
To All God's Children,
-->Read the old testament if you can find a place that promises immortality or eternal life come tell me. It’s just the New Testament apparently according to Spinoza. It’s such a tease living in existence as such conscious matter that we are aware of ourselves and our wants and desires. Nature is mocking us because it has provided us with such a profound understanding of life, and yet given us no way to sustain our own life forever to enjoy it. The fact that we are aware of our deaths as so many other creatures with “living monads” is the most frightening reality one can face. And we have to face it alone.
The more I think about people the more I wonder if we are in fact soulless. Essentially, if we don’t have souls then we are living, breathing matter that slowly deteriorates and ceases functioning until we break down and become other pieces of matter; in other words, the circle of life. Like in “The Lion King” the antelopes eat the grass, the lions eat the antelope and both the lions and antelope become fertilizer for the growth of new grass. Where does the soul come into play in that eternal circle? Someone with Alzheimer’s if they lose their personality, they lose it because parts of their being is destroyed. If the body were just a shell and the soul resided within, any damage to the body itself would not affect the capability of the soul. Then again you could argue that the spirit lives within the body on a different realm or dimension – but it’s impossible to test with out current scientific instruments. That is things that aren’t considered pseudo-science.
Nothing that isn’t meant to exist will be. Humans were meant to live in just the way we are. No matter what anyone says people are apart of nature. There’s no distinction between “natural” and “manmade”. Just because humans have touched the matter to mold it into something else, doesn’t mean that it is any less a part of nature. We’re all nature in motion with abilities to perceive and manipulate it better than any other life form – at least on this planet. Think about it clairvoyants may not be real, but a physicist is. Compared to the talents of, for example, medieval alchemist, a modern day physicist might as well be a magician.
-->Read the old testament if you can find a place that promises immortality or eternal life come tell me. It’s just the New Testament apparently according to Spinoza. It’s such a tease living in existence as such conscious matter that we are aware of ourselves and our wants and desires. Nature is mocking us because it has provided us with such a profound understanding of life, and yet given us no way to sustain our own life forever to enjoy it. The fact that we are aware of our deaths as so many other creatures with “living monads” is the most frightening reality one can face. And we have to face it alone.
The more I think about people the more I wonder if we are in fact soulless. Essentially, if we don’t have souls then we are living, breathing matter that slowly deteriorates and ceases functioning until we break down and become other pieces of matter; in other words, the circle of life. Like in “The Lion King” the antelopes eat the grass, the lions eat the antelope and both the lions and antelope become fertilizer for the growth of new grass. Where does the soul come into play in that eternal circle? Someone with Alzheimer’s if they lose their personality, they lose it because parts of their being is destroyed. If the body were just a shell and the soul resided within, any damage to the body itself would not affect the capability of the soul. Then again you could argue that the spirit lives within the body on a different realm or dimension – but it’s impossible to test with out current scientific instruments. That is things that aren’t considered pseudo-science.
Nothing that isn’t meant to exist will be. Humans were meant to live in just the way we are. No matter what anyone says people are apart of nature. There’s no distinction between “natural” and “manmade”. Just because humans have touched the matter to mold it into something else, doesn’t mean that it is any less a part of nature. We’re all nature in motion with abilities to perceive and manipulate it better than any other life form – at least on this planet. Think about it clairvoyants may not be real, but a physicist is. Compared to the talents of, for example, medieval alchemist, a modern day physicist might as well be a magician.
Of Spiritual Minds and Physical Bodies
To All God's Children,
-->Then again, what about this spiritual side? Where does it go, or does it even exist? I think so. We have our minds, our bodies and a third factor that goes unseen – the soul. The mind is our consciousness and how we perceive life. Some have greater more perceptive minds then others, and some are constantly moving around in a subconscious state of perceptual blindness.
Our bodies are how we exist in the material sense of the world. We need our bodies to control our actions and have free will (or a lack thereof). The soul is an invisible (or at least to our naked eye) extension of ourselves. Perhaps it is possible to step outside the body as I’ve heard stories of blind people seeing color for the first time when they had a near death experience. Although it would appear to be impossible to escape our mind. Therefore when we die, we take our mind with us wherever we go.
The body goes back into the universe’s materials broken down into basic matter and sent to thrive in other beings like dirt, insects, plants and eventually back into animals. The mind will hopefully continue on with the soul. There’s too much evidence out there that a skeptic or atheist cannot account for that would suggest there is a life beyond our physical deaths. The human range of vision is too short to claim that things we cannot see cannot exist.
If anything, we should all stay hopeful that we do live beyond this point; a life after death may be a beautiful and wondrous existence full of knowledge and star travels – okay, so I’m putting my desires before reason. Think hard now, where were you before you were born? If you can answer that with confidence, give me a call we have a lot to talk about.
-->Then again, what about this spiritual side? Where does it go, or does it even exist? I think so. We have our minds, our bodies and a third factor that goes unseen – the soul. The mind is our consciousness and how we perceive life. Some have greater more perceptive minds then others, and some are constantly moving around in a subconscious state of perceptual blindness.
Our bodies are how we exist in the material sense of the world. We need our bodies to control our actions and have free will (or a lack thereof). The soul is an invisible (or at least to our naked eye) extension of ourselves. Perhaps it is possible to step outside the body as I’ve heard stories of blind people seeing color for the first time when they had a near death experience. Although it would appear to be impossible to escape our mind. Therefore when we die, we take our mind with us wherever we go.
The body goes back into the universe’s materials broken down into basic matter and sent to thrive in other beings like dirt, insects, plants and eventually back into animals. The mind will hopefully continue on with the soul. There’s too much evidence out there that a skeptic or atheist cannot account for that would suggest there is a life beyond our physical deaths. The human range of vision is too short to claim that things we cannot see cannot exist.
If anything, we should all stay hopeful that we do live beyond this point; a life after death may be a beautiful and wondrous existence full of knowledge and star travels – okay, so I’m putting my desires before reason. Think hard now, where were you before you were born? If you can answer that with confidence, give me a call we have a lot to talk about.
Some Scattered Thoughts on Reincarnation
To All God's Children,
-->I believe in a certain balance of life and how people are born or leave the world and may return to it someday. I do believe in reincarnation, but in a very abstract sense. The Hindu have a more spiritual outlook on life and believe that your grandmother can be reincarnated as a bug, so be friendly to all insects may you not destroy the life of a loved one again. What I believe is similar, but in a different light. Think about when we die and the rules of physics that state “the conservation of mass”.
Perhaps when we die our particles are dispersed and we literally are reincarnated into another physical being. It could make all the difference how our funerals play out. Hindus incinerate their dead allowing their particles to fly freely into the sky and up into the cosmos even. And where to westerner put their dead? In the ground so they can grow into the grass we tread on every time we visit him or her in the cemetery. It’s a horrible thought, but I believe with further conceptualization I can suggest even more reasons for a belief in reincarnation – or at least a physical one.
-->I believe in a certain balance of life and how people are born or leave the world and may return to it someday. I do believe in reincarnation, but in a very abstract sense. The Hindu have a more spiritual outlook on life and believe that your grandmother can be reincarnated as a bug, so be friendly to all insects may you not destroy the life of a loved one again. What I believe is similar, but in a different light. Think about when we die and the rules of physics that state “the conservation of mass”.
Perhaps when we die our particles are dispersed and we literally are reincarnated into another physical being. It could make all the difference how our funerals play out. Hindus incinerate their dead allowing their particles to fly freely into the sky and up into the cosmos even. And where to westerner put their dead? In the ground so they can grow into the grass we tread on every time we visit him or her in the cemetery. It’s a horrible thought, but I believe with further conceptualization I can suggest even more reasons for a belief in reincarnation – or at least a physical one.
The Dichotomy of Life
To All God's Children,
-->My beliefs are moderate for a reason. I’m in the middle on many issues such as abortion. It’s unfortunate when a baby dies, but we have to think about when and in what situation it happens. Perhaps a mother was too young and reckless and could not offer the baby a good life. Perhaps it’s a woman whose very life depends on having the child and to abort her baby is the only way to live. If she found this out after she was already pregnant can you really blame her?
Abortion is a dichotomy to many pro-life versus pro-choice. However, there are too many conditions that result in a person to change their mind on an issue. Having strong believes in either brings nothing but death to the baby or death to the mother in extreme cases. Regardless, I believe that the government and other people should stay out of the rights of another person to choose what they want to do with their body and their child. I would rather die than to see my baby aborted, but that's my will and that may not be the will for someone else.
-->My beliefs are moderate for a reason. I’m in the middle on many issues such as abortion. It’s unfortunate when a baby dies, but we have to think about when and in what situation it happens. Perhaps a mother was too young and reckless and could not offer the baby a good life. Perhaps it’s a woman whose very life depends on having the child and to abort her baby is the only way to live. If she found this out after she was already pregnant can you really blame her?
Abortion is a dichotomy to many pro-life versus pro-choice. However, there are too many conditions that result in a person to change their mind on an issue. Having strong believes in either brings nothing but death to the baby or death to the mother in extreme cases. Regardless, I believe that the government and other people should stay out of the rights of another person to choose what they want to do with their body and their child. I would rather die than to see my baby aborted, but that's my will and that may not be the will for someone else.
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