Dualistic Billboards (atepdn)

15 Billboards That Don’t Belong Next To Each Other







I don't think it's coincidence at all that these billboards appear next to eachother. Another example of this "ritual blasphemy" would be the gigantic roadside cross built right next to an adult video store in Kentucky. Can't find any pictures of it but I've seen it many times while being driven back and forth from Michigan to Georgia.

The highways are just huge serpentine advertisements. It really sickens me how (almost) everyone who claims to be "anti-religion" is actually just a member of the Cult of Materialism. They are probably more religiously indoctrinated than any Christian you will find. Don't bother trying to get either of these people to give up their BS, it is pointless. They have to see for themselves and look within. Unless there is nothing inside anymore, they may eventually wake up...

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I like the 5:55 post time... If you're wondering why I've been posting a little less lately, I've been working pretty hard on music (go here and click on "Sloth Broth" to hear my latest musical abortion, I didn't work very hard on that one but I've also been collaborating over the internet with someone in Atlanta so I have to focus on that) so I haven't had much time to explore the synchroverse. Today I was added to the Sync Whole roster, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Otherwise, I've been feeling like crap lately... I have anxiety problems and sometimes just being alive is painful. Every day kind of feels like an uphill battle for my sanity. I try hard not to bring my negativity here, but it's embedded deep within my being and sometimes it speaks without my permission. It's kind of strange feeling like I have something living inside me that I can't always control. Dealing with this thing almost feels like a step backward at times, I had almost reached a point where there was so much other stuff going on that I forgot it was there. It's probably not good to ignore it, though. This also has to do with my insomnia, I think it's screwed up that I found a cure (marijuana) but it's illegal and always seems to be just out of reach. Seriously, the stuff seems to cure all my ills...

Swine Flu scare tactics aimed at pregnant women

Pregnant women are four times more likely than the general population to need hospital treatment for H1N1 swine flu, data from the US suggests

The findings suggest pregnancy does increase the risk of complications without speedy anti-viral treatment.

It also underlines the need to ensure pregnant women are made a top priority when a vaccine becomes available.

The study, by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appears in The Lancet medical journal.

Scientists studied 34 confirmed or probable cases of swine flu infection among pregnant women.

Is this to scare pregnant women into getting the (more harmful than Swine Flu) vaccine so that their unborn children receive the side effects? I wonder.

The whole "swine flu" terminology, besides the whole cutesy "pigs flew" thing, is pretty disgusting. They're calling us "swine" right to our faces and we cower accordingly.

Red Ice provides these links revealing the vaccination eugenics program:

Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health: The Worldwide H1N1 Flu Vaccination Program

Government virus expert paid £116k by swine flu vaccine manufacturers

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline predicts swine flu gold rush

12,000 U.S. children to be used as guinea pigs for Swine Flu vaccine

"I don't have no say in when God deems your turn." (unrelated update)

Ark. woman's death was 'God's choice,' N.J. voodoo priest says

HOUNGAN HECTOR Salva, a native of Vineland, claims he can improve people's fortunes, get the incarcerated out of jail and return lost lovers. But he, too, answers to a creator who does not grant interviews.

That's why the mysterious death earlier this month of Lucie Marie Hamilton, 20, a male-to-female transgender woman from Little Rock, Ark., who traveled to the voodoo priest's home in Camden County for a spiritual cleansing, can't be solved on an earthly level, he said.

"That's God's choice," he told the Daily News yesterday. "I don't have no say in when God deems your turn."

Authorities are awaiting results of a toxicology test to determine the cause and manner of Hamilton's death, which has not been deemed suspicious. No charges have been filed, and Salva, who goes by "Houngan Hector," said he is "100 percent confident" there was no wrongdoing on his part.

Lucie = Lucifer ("marie"/Mary for added biblical resonance), quite fitting in this context, considering he/she was transgendered. One thing I can never seem to figure out is where these people who are my age get the money to have these sex-change operations...

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there was once a very long rant here, but it only made me look like a whiny little shit so I removed it... I'm allowed to censor myself, right? There was nothing uplifting or interesting in the 4 paragraphs which I deleted.

Tired...

I've been having trouble sleeping lately. I still have to endure the constant blast of banality from the TV in the room upstairs, and I seem to just be waiting for my birthday (august 12) to get some free cash so I can leave and go back to Georgia. I'm tired of living under someone else, but doesn't that seem to be our only option sometimes? It seems like I spend every waking moment wanting to be somewhere else, and not so alone all the time. There's a difference between needing acceptance from others and seeking it because you want it. I've also been listening to a lot of music I used to listen to when I was young, remembering what it meant to me, and thinking about how much (or how little) I've changed.

I recommend checking out Red Ice's recent interview with Lenon Honor, it's great and I wish I could subscribe so I could hear the rest...

The Water Bearer isn't who you think

COOL canine Fei Fei left other dogs in the shade after his owner bought him a pair of sunglasses as a joke.

But now the fashion mad mutt refuses to leave owner Bo Lee's home in Chongqing, central China, without being given his wraparound shades!

Kool K-9! Mad Mutt! BO(W) Lee! SUNglasses! The dog's even carrying a basket with water in it.

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Unrelated:

Bid To Give Michael Jackson The Nobel Peace Prize

The late star's fans have flocked to sign online petitions supporting the move.

They say he should be honoured for his charity work and "lifelong dedication to the well being of humanity".

So far, more than 2,000 people have added their names to the campaign started by Los Angeles student Anneliese Nichole Brown.

Yeah, not gonna happen...

A Man and his Pillow

37 year old man in love with pillow depicting little girl

Nemutan doesn’t really have a leg. She’s a stuffed pillowcase — a 2-D depiction of a character, Nemu, from an X-rated version of a PC video game called Da Capo, printed on synthetic fabric. In the game, which is less a game than an interactive visual novel about a schoolyard romance, Nemu is the loudmouthed little sister of the main character, whom she calls nisan, or “big brother,” a nickname Nisan adopted as his own when he met Nemu. When I joined the couple for lunch at their favorite all-you-can-eat salad bar in the Tokyo suburb of Hachioji, he insisted on being called only by this new nickname, addressing his body-pillow girlfriend using the suffix “tan” to show how much he adored her. Nemutan is 10, maybe 12 years old and wears a little blue bikini and gold ribbons in her hair. Nisan knows she’s not real, but that hasn’t stopped him from loving her just the same. “Of course she’s my girlfriend,” he said, widening his eyes as if shocked by the question. “I have real feelings for her.”

If there were any positive use for memory-erasing technology, it would be to erase the image of this "man" and his little girl pillow from my mind forever. I guess this guy openly shows that he has a thing for incest and pedophilia then. (not only him, but whoever makes this game/puts out the pillows/buys this shit)

I will probably make less posts revolving around the general weirdness of our human race, since a lot of it isn't their fault. I'll be posting more about the people we should be paying attention to, rather than be distracted by this other crap.

Hatred

People are afraid of themselves. They fear being alone. They will do anything they can to eliminate this fear, not from purging negativity within, but through giving in to it.

This fear is the source of all evil. It is the source of every violation of privacy, every hive-mind group, every enslavement. It needs you far, far more than you need it.

It is a need for an Other, a "missing" puzzle piece which, in truth, rests just behind where you can see. In other words, it's you. No other person's acceptance is required for you to be happy.

I feel energy within being stolen and abused. I must leave behind my current location in order to retain my sense of mercy. I am quickly losing stamina in this war I've been pulled into against my will, by the person who seeks the answer to their problems in the outside world.

My shadow speaks very loudly when it wants to be heard. Every single doubt I could have pours into my mind at times. It overheats my senses with pain-numbing rage, and weeps in paralyzing agony. It lies coiled within, wondering why I ignore it, why I don't look at it as much as I could. My ego overlooks this pathetic thing, and all forms of compassion are dead...

"L'enfer, c'est les autres"

- Jean-Paul Sartre

edit: Oh, and guess what my little sister named her new pet rat? Zeus.

Attack of the Trolls! (Update)

Chris Knowles' Secret Sun site was linked to on one of the sites I frequent to steal news stories from, Fark, a site which has gone WAY downhill in the past 3 years, in terms of the commentary and sense of humor. The story they linked to was this one, about Gus Grissom, and opens with the line "If I had to guess, I would say that Barack Obama is a Freemason".

Chris has nothing to worry about. These people are on the same level as "Anonymous" (the people who joke constantly about pedophilia, minorities, etc.), in that Anonymous took over their site a couple of years ago. It was once a haven for those of us who wanted to see all sides of an issue, or at least that's the way I saw it when I was 16. Please note it was very different around the 2004 elections, a great place for politics and such (since I was still interested in that sort of thing). I just wanted to point out exactly what I expected to find (these people are so damn predictable. I usually make comments pointing out how dull and backwards everyone there is. I'm not trying to give them a voice on my blog, just showing how open-minded we are compared to your basic internet slime. The backlash is mainly because most of these people are "liberals", though not really, they're like my dad, they just want to fit in with the Socialist crowd so they say they're liberal while practicing conservative politics. Some of them are probably Masons as well, I wouldn't be surprised with how obsessed they are with being "anti-conspiracy") This stuff makes me laugh, for a different reason than they probably want:

Fark comments:
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cue the twilight zone music.

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I think that guy's tin foil hat wears a tin foil hat.

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Full blown, stark, raving mad.

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I do agree that Obama's grandfather looks like Gus Grissom. I mean a LOT.

As in "that may actually BE Gus in the photo" a lot.

But the Freemason crap is stupid.

(*sigh* why can't people put two and two together?)

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A raving loon, yet he has a couple of legitimately published books, albeit missives about pop culture media.

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What a waste of bandwidth.

As a 32nd degree Mason, I have to ask him if Xenu is coming next...
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And there you have it. Masons on the internet (and brainwashed drones) are pretty much the only people saying "this is all bullshit".

Just thought that was weird, since I visit that site every day to search for news stories, and seeing Chris's site on there seemed out of place and I knew it wasn't going to be received well by the Fark hivemind.

Now, if my site got linked, you can bet I'd be in the comments defending my views. I'm thinking about defending Chris in the comments for his story that got linked, but I'm not sure he'd be comfortable with that (and since debating with these people is absolutely pointless). The people making the least-inflammatory comments are the people who have been on there longer than I've been there, and I'm surprised they're still there considering the quality of the site has gone straight down the toilet.


Update: Checking back on the Fark site, it looks like Loren Coleman's Twilight Language made the front page as well. They linked to this story.

Another Mason commenter posted on Chris's article:

I know, we're so secretive about being Masons that don't do things like get masonic ink, wear masonic ringg and hats, put stickers and emblems on our vehicles, etc. We're proud of being Masons and show it as often as prudent.

And my response:

Yeah, that keeps you out of trouble with the law because all the cops are freemasons too and you're under a blood oath to help eachother (but no one else). No one knows the symbols of a freemason besides other freemasons so you're not "advertising" it at all.

I've never had an opportunity to talk to a mason, but you seem to talk to us non-masons a lot, and any sort of conspiracy stuff you just shrug off like there's nothing strange that happens in the world, even though your whole ideology revolves around symbolism and ritual. You are the reason there are so many people in the dark about everything.

I apologize for buying in to anger, I'm probably not going to that site anymore anyway.

Obama's 17-year-late parking tickets

Story's boring, but there's that omnipresent 17 that hovers around Obama...

Obama pays parking tickets 17 years late

Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, mostly for parking in a bus stop, parking without a resident permit and failing to pay the meter, records from the Cambridge Traffic, Parking and Transportation office show.

So he got 17 tickets, and paid for 15 of them 17 years late. Hmm.

Cop arrests Mcdonald's employee for "over-salting"

McDonald's Worker Arrested For "Over Salting" Police Officer's Burger

No, "over salting" isn't code for anything nasty. The 20-year-old McDonald's worker literally spilled salt on the hamburger meat that was used to make a "Big 'N Tasty" that was served to a Georgia police officer.

The police officer says the burger made him sick—and Kendra Bull, 20, spent a night in jail because of it. According to Kendra, she accidentally spilled too much salt on the hamburger meat, tried to remove it, notified her coworkers, then took a break. During the break she says she ate a burger made from the salty meat.

Officer Wendall Adams got a burger from the over salted batch, took a few bites and came back to confront Kendra.

Abuse of power. I can't imagine being arrested for putting too much sauce or seasoning on some pig's pizza when I worked in fast food. People bitch you out for that stuff like the lazy, whiny motherfuckers they are, but they don't arrest you. We had to give cops free food (my manager's orders, so they wouldn't bother us).

Weird Al In Oz (first attempt at a sync video)

Enjoy. I couldn't figure out how to put actual video on there so this is really more of a slideshow with music... Part 2 coming soon.

The screenshots in the second half of the video are from UHF.

(additional references are on the youtube page)

McDonald's is made out of people!

Woman Found Dead at McDonald's Food Processing Plant

INDUSTRY, Calif. — A 40-year-old woman has been found dead in a machine at a Southern California food processing plant that is a major supplier for McDonald's restaurants.

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives say the woman's body was found early Tuesday at Golden State Foods in the City of Industry, an east Los Angeles suburb. Investigators believe her death was accidental.

No other details were given about her death or about the woman except that she was an employee.

The Irvine-based company has distribution centers across the nation. Its Web site says the company supplies McDonald's and developed the sauce for the restaurant's Big Mac in the 1960s.

I bet you thought McDonald's was rat meat (or worm meat). Nope. Human meat. I had speculated on this the last time I was in Atlanta, that there was something terribly wrong with the whole McDonald's corporation and their "food" and it had to do with cannibalism. If I have to eat fast food, I prefer Wendy's or Checkers (or Dairy Queen if it's available, though I haven't had any in a couple years, I rate based on the fries really), because for something to be as widespread as McDonald's there has to be something weird in what they're cooking up.

Here's a version with a couple more details, and a more fitting headline:

La Puente woman crushed by robot at McDonald's supplier in Industry

(The first one I posted was the initial report, this one and all others following that first one are probably softened up to keep people going to McDonald's)


(the above image was most likely altered in photoshop, but it could just be artifacts from a lossy JPEG)

Eclipsed (Updated)

Turns out I wasn't the only one feeling the negative "moon energies" this month. One of my friends attempted suicide and almost died. His girlfriend found him hanging. I talked to him last night and tried to tell him how I view life and death and told him that I can relate, but he was traumatized in the worst way when he was young (like a few of my personal friends), so it's very hard to bring him out of that suicidal trance.

Required viewing from the syncrosphere:

The Hidden Agendas - An Open Letter to The Powers That Be

Twilight Language - Moon, Death, Masons and Golf

Accidental Alchemist - Oz, Land of the Dead preview (featuring my favorite Radiohead song)

The Secret Sun - The Phoenix Has Landed: A Picture Story

The Cleaver - The Fall and Rise of the Divine Nexus

Newspaceman - 4 legs good, 2 legs better

Wrong Way Wizard - Lighthouse


Opeth - Moonlapse Vertigo

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Some words on Golf: I don't like golf. My dad and my grandfather play golf, in fact my grandfather owns and lives on a golf course (he's an alright guy as far as I know). I tried to learn it (because I didn't know my dad very well by the time I was 16, and after my mom left I wanted to bond with him) but I couldn't stand the fact that I couldn't even wear what I normally wore (I had to wear a polo shirt and Khakis. I almost got expelled for not wearing this same uniform in middle school in 8th grade, when our school became a charter [fascist] school, I had to deal with administrators breathing down my neck every fucking day, I wasn't going to change my mind about uniforms just to play a game but I did change my mind when I could make money wearing the exact same stupid uniform) and besides, it was boring to me and I couldn't get it right. I didn't try very hard... I had a roommate who played golf, and that guy sucked. He lived off his politician mother's money (which she had a lot of), smoked good-ass weed which he bought with that money, and he bitched her out when she refused to give him any. He was also a hardcore, Bush-loving Republican. He wanted to be a cop. He was a good ol' boy, and he was a racist, misogynist douchebag.

We have some golf magazines in the bathroom, and each time I use the bathroom Tiger Woods is staring back at me. I sometimes flip through these magazines, and wouldn't you know it, they are chock full of masonic symbolism, not public-consumption square and compasses, but the more esoteric ones. Just like pretty much everything else. I sometimes wonder if my dad knows about freemasonry, or even if he is one, considering his devotion to golf and television. I figure he's one of the many who actually respects them (like most people from his generation, the way they were programmed to), but isn't a member. At Christmas we have a set of 3 fake candles up in the window, like the three pillars. It creeps me out a little to think about. Here's a picture of the "famous" 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, which (from a certain angle) looks to me like a big mushroom, or more obviously (well, vaguely), like a dick and balls:



The whole sport is Osiris worship. What else is new?

Amazon Pulls "Animal Farm" and "1984" from Kindle

Amazon to World: We are Not Evil Totalitarians

A mini-scandal broke last week when it was reported that Amazon deleted copies of certain novels from its e-reader, the Kindle, including George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, the dystopian tome where "Big Brother" controls information flow. Creepy! Information-controlling companies want to avoid the label Orwellian, but it certainly doesn't help when the thing you're being Orwellian about is the work of George Orwell. Amazon explained the weird move this way:

These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances.

Peter Kafka parses this lawyerspeak and winces, saying it doesn't seem to match Amazon's license terms, which seem to offer permanent access to the files you download onto your Kindle.

Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

I agree with Kafka that there seems to be a bizarre chain of events here. First, Amazon promises that you keep what you buy on their devices, permanently. Second, it deletes two George Orwell books. Third, it promises it will "not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances" ever again. That sequence should not instill confidence in Kindle readers that their downloads are guaranteed to be permanent.

Of course, we should expect more media piracy in books, just as illegal downloads have impacted movies and music downloads. As Jack Shafer wrote in Slate, there's no reason why the book industry won't face it's own Napster conundrum -- that is, the launching of an illegal e-book channel that customers use in lieu of Amazon's platform. Will Amazon maintain the right to reach into your reader and yank out the offending titles as you read them? I can imagine something like that being 1) Somewhat terrifying; and 2) A good reason for hoards hordes of young people to switch to an e-reader that supports pirated books. In short, this isn't the end of Amazon's worries over third-party publishing platforms. It's only the beginning. For their sake, I hope the next book-pulling scandal doesn't involve Fahrenheit 451.

Hmm. I still haven't read 1984, but I remember being assigned to read Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451 in high school. Did they have us read those books because they wanted us forming our own opinions about them, or because they wanted to get the idea of totalitarian dictatorships into our minds before we really rebel against such things? I remember all the questions we were asked about what the books meant, and how we had to explain both sides of each story, as if to relate to the mindset of a dictator. In those times immediately after 9/11, I was witnessing my own country deploying the methods used in those books, so obviously the "messages" of the books (or at least, the messages that I got) were harder to understand for people who were "rooting" for our country in the war against Terra (and the war against the freedom of its citizens).

Clogged Orbital Water-Portal 2: Galaktik Boogaloo

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet.

One of two commodes aboard the international space station broke down, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded.

Mission Control advised the astronauts to hang an "out of service" sign on the toilet until it could be fixed. In the meantime, the six space station residents had to get in line to use their one good toilet. And Endeavour's seven astronauts were restricted to the shuttle bathroom.

There have never been so many people — 13 — together in space.

The toilet repair work fell to Belgian Frank De Winne and American Michael Barratt, who had to don goggles, gloves and masks. They ripped apart the compartment, working well into the evening. Mission Control finally instructed them to call it a day and resume the effort Monday morning.

Flight director Brian Smith declined to speculate whether overuse caused the toilet trouble.

"We don't yet know the extent of the problem," Smith told reporters. "It may turn out to be of no consequence at all. It could turn out to be significant. It's too early to tell right now."

Teams of specialists in Houston and Moscow hurriedly convened to discuss the problem. The Russian-built, multimillion-dollar toilet flew up on a shuttle last November.

Didn't something like this happen on the ISS last year? This happened on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which is an interesting "water-vortex" sync with that historic mission.

In other news:



Here's a shirt featuring some stupid internet meme called "Keyboard Cat" (KK, look it up on Youtube, people usually paste it onto the end of those horrifically violent "fail" videos, you'll get sick of hearing the jingle after 2 or 3 times, I assure you). Blue and gold, 3 Kats (33), keyboard/checkerboards, and a recent recurring theme: the Moon.

Japanese Pyramid-Shaped Watermelon

Fruit fetishists given chance to pick up pyramid-shaped watermelon for princely 52,000 yen

FUKUOKA -- An unusual pyramid-shaped watermelon has drawn attention from customers in a department store here.

The watermelon measures about 25 centimeters high and is priced at 52,500 yen. It was grown by a farmer in the town of Tsukigata in Hokkaido, by placing it in a specially-shaped plastic shell and hanging upside down.

Sixteen (4x4, Jupiter's magic square) of the pyramid-shaped watermelons have been shipped to shops across the country, including the Iwataya department store in Fukuoka. The watermelon on sale at Iwataya for ornamental use will reportedly keep for another month, since it is not ripe.

I don't want to know what a fruit fetishist is, or what they'd want to do with a pyramid shaped watermelon. I like how the pharaoh head sticker gives it sort of an "eye". The fact that 16 were shipped out to be sold while one "ornamental" one is left behind to ripen gives us 17 of these green, pyramidal fruits.

On second thought, let's not go to Japan, it is a silly place.

Nic Cage's son is in a black metal band.

They are called "Eyes of Noctum". I can't really describe how wrong this is, but since I haven't heard any of their music yet, I can't judge. They somehow got Hellhammer and the live drummer from Therion to record the drums for their debut CD, probably with huge amounts of cash.

Check out their monikers:

Arcane - Vocals (2005-) (Nicholas Cage's son)
Neboran - Lead Guitars (2009-)
Vardar - Rhythm Guitars (2008-)
Templar - Keyboards, Vocals (2008-)
Moloch - Bass (2008-)
Donner - Drums (2008-)


Being born into wealth is grim and bleak.


Me after watching "The Wicker Man"

Now, onto the music. I'll type up my thoughts as I listen...



This is probably one of the shittiest things I've ever heard. There's not much "black metal" to be seen here. You can hear someone laughing pretty hard at around 3:45 in, if you listen to it for that long. That pretty much sums up my feelings.

This is obviously more of a fashion statement or something to these guys. The music is shallow, emotionless and lame. There's no energy to it. I don't doubt that Nic Cage's son has been initiated into some sort of cult to some extent, so maybe they are purposely killing art. Who knows.

Releasing the Demons

Police: Nurse shot ex-husband in groin to release 'demons'

CHATTANOOGA — A nurse accused of shooting her ex-husband in the groin inside his chiropractic clinic while their two young daughters waited outside had written in her diary that she needed to create "portals of exit" for demonic spirits, a detective testified Friday.

Brown said Tina Loher's' diary contained an entry that included: "Terry is filled with three demonic spirits. One is assigned to me, one to each of my children. The purpose is to destroy us. The only way Terry will stop trying to destroy us is if the spirits exit his body today. I will have to create three portals of exit, that way they can leave."

Weird.

Also, I'm not sure how strapping panties to your head is supposed to reduce the risk of "snoring yourself to death", like this ad implies:

Man stalked by Mafia for not being a model

I would say "this is just weird", but really, it's pretty scary... I'm not sure how trustworthy The Register is, but something tells me this sort of thing is not rare.

Apple sued over shrink-wrapped Mafia death threats

A Beverly Hills, California man is suing Apple, the St. Louis Police Department, the FBI, an auto mechanic, and others for aiding and abetting the Italian Mafia's attempt to force him to become a New York fashion model.

Plaintiff George McKenna filed a painstakingly detailed 124-page pro se complaint with the US District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri contending that his troubles began when "three members of the alleged Italian Mafia proceeded to threaten to murder Plaintiff at a nightclub called Velvet located in St. Louis, Missouri."

The nefarious Mafiosi, it seemed, made McKenna an offer he couldn't refuse in their plot to force him to continue working as a fashion model at a New York agency called Bossmodels.

"We're going to kill you if you don't model for us in New York," the bad guys allegedly threatened the refusenik Brüno.

A few weeks later, when the Mafia appeared at his home, McKenna - as would any right-minded citizen - called the St. Louis Police Department. And that's when things got weird.

"Despite being held at gunpoint and receiving threats of imminent death from the Mafia members, the STLPD officers wrongfully refused to arrest the perpetrators and left the scene of the crime," which allowed the miscreants to "stalk, make extortion threats, attempt rape, and kidnap Plaintiff."

McKenna tried to get help from the FBI. But no dice. They said it was an STLPD matter.

Then the Mafia began to harass McKenna through "illegal communication devices planted in his home, vehicle, residence, workplace, church, and other places that he publicly frequents."

Understandably, he hired a private investigations company with the reassuringly professional name of A-1 Private Investigations to sweep his home for bugs - which the complaint alleges were found in his "bedroom, living room, upstairs bathroom, and Toyota Camry."

However, after McKenna presented the bug-discovering report to the STLPD, A-1 denied it. "As a direct and proximate result, the Mafia was allowed to continue stalking, extorting, and torturing Plaintiff."

Many more details in the linked article.

The Fixers

What do we have here...?

The 5 alchemical elements, by color: fire, water, earth, air and spirit!

Lightning Bolt!

Serpent!

Circle/Solar symbol! (the green forms the "dot in circle" sun symbol)

Fire!


Is that JC or Ophiuchus in the middle?



Notice that the "trinity" is in the center of the symbol as a whole, much like how Ophiuchus marks the Galactic Center.

Also notice that the words "AXE" and "FIXERS" both include "X", giving us the Double-X symbol. The "double-X" is symbolic of an 8 rayed star (two crosses superimposed, one tilted at 45 degrees), and also kind of looks like a square and compass when placed next to eachother:



All the letters in "AXE" (A=1, X=24, E=5) added together make 30, or XXX. Goro Adachi and other bloggers note the significance of the number 30 as being related to 2012, in that Prince William will turn 30 that year. 30 A.D. is also supposedly the year which Jesus was crucified, but I'm also seeing 33...

Other quick facts about 30 from Wikipedia:

30 is the smallest sphenic number, and the smallest of the form "2*3*r" where r is a prime greater than 3 (Explained: [2*3]*5=30). 30 has an aliquot sum of 42

It is the sum of the first four squares, which makes it a square pyramidal number. Adding up some subsets of its divisors (e.g., 5, 10 and 15) gives 30, hence 30 is a semiperfect number.

30 is the total number of major and minor keys in Western tonal music, including enharmonic equivalents

Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Matthew 26:15.

At age 30 (according to most biblical scholars) Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist, at the beginning of his public ministry of teaching and healing.

I remember one of the last posts Rik Clay made before he passed was about the "XXX" symbol. He said it had something to do with energy and the Trinity.

Abort!

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Children traumatised by 'War of Worlds' abduction of teacher

Pupils as young as seven were left traumatised after a school staged a 'War of the Worlds' style production during which a teacher was abducted by aliens.

The 370 children at Southway Junior School, in Burgess Hill, west Sussex, saw a 'spaceship' crash near their school and then aliens grabbed a member of staff as part of the performance.

The 'alien invasion' show, which was supported by Sussex Police, took place without parents being informed, leaving some furious that they had to comfort their terrified children.

The event was designed to "develop youngsters writing skills" and fire their imagination - but some children were left traumatised by the show.
Southway School admitted that a number of parents complained after their children returned home in a "state of shock".

More:

Police contributed to the invasion by providing sirens and flashing blue lights to signify the landing of the craft just before morning classes on July 10.

Diana Goss, the headteacher, informed pupils that an alien craft had crashed near the school and pupils were encouraged to "follow a trail of debris" before stumbling across the UFO.

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Unrelated, but I found this screenshot from Watchmen to be a little disturbing:



Apparently this is OZymandias' computer. Why is there a folder called "Boys"? I haven't seen the movie and haven't read the graphic novel in a couple of years.

Also found this page from a Batman coloring book:

Legal Marijuana Could Generate $1.4 Billion In Taxes

$1.4 Billion.

Officials: Legal Pot Could Generate $1.4B In Taxes

California tax officials have found that a state bill to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol would generate nearly $1.4 billion in revenue.

A State Board of Equalization report released Wednesday estimates marijuana retail sales would bring $990 million from a $50-per-ounce fee and $392 million in sales taxes.

The bill introduced by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano in February would allow adults to legally possess, grow and sell marijuana.

Ammiano has promoted the bill as a way to help bridge the state's $26.3 billion budget shortfall.

The state could not begin collecting taxes under the bill, as written, until the federal government legalizes marijuana.

A spokesman says Ammiano plans to amend the bill to remove that provision.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Whoops, overlooked that last part...

Alienation (update)

(Here's an example of what huge amounts of stress can do to someone who is usually calm and collected. Paranoid delusions are a dime a dozen in this state of mind...)

Feeling intentionally left out, ignored and mocked. Probably going to take a break from posting or commenting for a while. Even though this really the only place I can go to get away from everything else that's bad in my life, the negative energy appears to have leaked into this area as well. I've been through this many times before, it's regularly scheduled for me to repeatedly lose everything I've worked for. It's unavoidable, a cycle of death and rebirth.

I received very strong negative vibes from meditating on my blog last night. Feelings of shame and guilt, and humiliation. I don't think anyone was ready for me to express my will to hurt myself openly. All I have to say is I've been through it before.

(I'm not doing any of this for attention, either. That's kind of the last thing I want. Chances are I'll get bored with not updating my blog by the end of the day and things will go back to "normal". I'm starting to crack a little from the white trash who inhabit my house consistently annoying the crap out of me. What is it about the TV lifestyle that draws dumb people to it like moths to a lightbulb? Oh yeah, it's the overwhelming amount of sacred symbols being jammed into their ocular receptors making them think it is their god. I don't get people who hang out just to watch TV. Seems excruciatingly boring to me. Though I suppose anything [besides learning] is "fun" if you're drinking copious amounts of booze while doing it. God damn these people suck! Why is it that people push peace away, from themselves and from others, so willingly...? Trying to analyze their behavior, since they're being very loud and there's no way I can avoid hearing the stupid noises they're making, is making me dizzy and extremely irritable!)


Update: Interesting that as I open Red Ice's homepage, this is the quote featured:

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— Noam Chomsky

This is true. But... I don't really see sitting around drinking beer and watching TV to be "expression", and they are pretty much denying my right to express myself by being a raincloud above my head all the time.

... Hold on, someone's knocking at my invisible door. Oh, it's The Universe! How's it goin'?

Universe: Touché, you little wimp! See, they have every right in the world to do whatever they want because they are a unique, individual facet of consciousness! I don't want anything to do with them so I just plop them down in front of a big glowy box so they don't bother me. Is there anything wrong with that?

No, not really. Well... You could be a little more actively involved with their process of shedding unnecessary, outdated forms of entertainment and make sure they don't cause the unique facet of individual consciousness attempting to achieve enlightenment below them absolute hell. Say, who put you in charge anyway?

Universe: You did. Remember?

I don't recall doing that. You are the universe, though, so I guess you're right. You got any weed? You seem like a cool dude to get high with, being all multi-faceted and omnipotent and everything, and it would make me relax a little and stop complaining...

Universe: Are you serious? Buy or grow your own! I can't afford that shit and the Man's got taps on all my connections anyway. Get out of my infinite being, you hoser!

Alright then, see ya. *implodes*

Discovery's Apocalypse Rehearsal Show

(Sorry if my site is being really slow, I'm not sure what's causing it and removing the videos I had up isn't really doing anything.)

Places, everyone...

Discovery channel's new reality show: The Colony

What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?

The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.

With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.

That image on the main site looks awfully "prison-camp"-like... The title of this blog post is redundant, since "Discovery" and "Apocalypse" basically mean the same exact thing. I saw commercials for this when I had to resort to watching TV the other day when my internet was down. Didn't look too interesting, but the sound was off anyway... Could the upcoming "apocalyptic scenario" that the world's leaders are betting everything they've got on simply be a sort of "reality show", entertainment for them while they watch safely from their space stations/underground bases?

During one of my less pleasant psychedelic experiences, I spent some time in a prison camp in what appeared to be a barren wasteland. Watching Battlefield Earth reminded me a lot of that, as our prison guards were tall, dark and menacing and everything looked gray and lifeless. I don't know if it was genetic memory, a glimpse of the future or a vision from my astral body's true location (what some people would call "hell").

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Red Ice recently posted this article about a robot which feeds on dead bodies (much like I speculated about a little while ago on The Solar Satellite)

Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies





Sorry, I don't want to be anywhere near something equipped with a "gripper" and a chainsaw. The fact that it wants to eat me is also a little unsettling.

The Androgynous Star Machine

Various stars undergo virtual sex changes (I don't think they volunteered or anything but who knows?)



(Now he's the One-Zero)

This is kind of a weird theme that has been popping up (see my last post), and I'm pretty sure it has to do with an androgynous God in some form. I remember reading how "9/11" was important because it skipped the number 10, which represents hermaphrodites/"God" (1 and 0 represent a penis and a vagina, respectively, seen in the number "10" as a whole). That's all I really think I know about that... Not to mention the binary aspect of it, bringing in the "machine" part of the title.

I swear I am not intending to make some of these connections before I start typing. It just sort of comes out.

Red Bulls and Something Strange (update)

Briton is 1 of 3 gored by raging bull

A third Briton has been hurt at this year's Pamplona bull festival in a bloody run which left two men fighting for their lives.

The 21-year-old (777) was taken to hospital after being gored in his back.

He was one of 11 people treated by paramedics after a 570kg (90st) bull turned yesterday morning's run into probably the most dangerous so far this year.

Shocking TV footage showed the second man being thrown in the air and charged repeatedly as onlookers desperately tried to fight the animal off.

The injuries come just two days after Daniel Jimeno, 27 (999), from Madrid was gored to death at the famous Spanish festival – the first fatal goring in 14 (77) years.

People should probably not try and play with huge dangerous animals. Just a thought. The numbers I pointed out in parentheses translate into planetary influence like so: 7x7 is the magic square for Venus, so the 777 and 77 have a Venusian vibe, and Venus is associated with Taurus the bull. 9x9 is the magic square for the Moon. Since the number repeats 3 times, there is also a Saturnian (death, limitation) influence (and it becomes cubed, 9x9x9 and 7x7x7. 9+7 is 16, which is the age of the person in the story below). Lots of moon themes appearing lately... (I'm aware that the original numbers aren't multiples, which is why I was hesitant to post the magic square connections, but the numbers are still there even if they aren't necessarily cubed in their original form)

In an interesting synchronicity, that movie "Rec" I watched and posted about a couple of days ago is from Spain, where this story takes place...

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MEET the latest pop sensation. At 16 years old, with blonde good looks and a wholesome appeal, Kim Petras is set to be a superstar.


(I am very confused right now.)

But this is no ordinary girl - Kim was actually born TIM.

Last October, just days after turning 16, she had a sex change operation to fulfil her dream of becoming a woman.

She is the youngest person in the world ever to have the dramatic surgery.

16 = 4x4 (magic square for Jupiter [!])

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Sorry if I made anyone worry needlessly yesterday with my depressing post. It was actually from a lack of sleep and mind-bending frustration (which seems to be happening cyclically). My sister and her boyfriend say they broke up but they still just hang around upstairs all day, so I was dragged out of that feeling of relief that I wouldn't have to deal with them sapping me of my energy every day. Some days I am presented with situations that really test my limits. I ended up reading and meditating as well as I could and I managed to relax enough to bring myself out of that low energy state. It really didn't have anything to do with my internet connection being down, I'm used to it after living without it at all for a few months last year. Everything just kind of caught up with me and hit me harder than I expected. I have to admit, I went somewhere I could be alone and I had a knife to my wrist. It's been a really long time since I've been at that level of despair. Later in the day our cat scratched me directly down the wrist, so it kind of looks like I cut myself. :| I'm not ashamed to admit that I sink really low sometimes.

I have to find a way to transmute that extremely negative energy into something that doesn't want me dead or in pain...

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update: I'm pretty sure the direct source of most of the negative energy I've been feeling lately is sitting in the room above me as I speak (namely, my sister and her ex(?) boyfriend, now joined by another goon)... I actually had 2 hours of time all to myself earlier. It felt like heaven. It's a rare opportunity these days and I always enjoy whatever alone time I get. I'm almost certain that if I just got away from these people I would feel a lot better. I can feel energy being drained right out of the pit of my stomach every time they are around. (I'm pretty sure this guy only went out with my sister just so he could watch sports on our big-ass TV. He never takes her on dates or anything. My sister has a reputation for going out with stupid, mean, kleptomaniacal jerks anyway.)

The System is Back Up (update)

Well, something bad happened to my laptop's internet capabilities. For some odd reason, the internet on my sister's computer still works (which is how I'm posting this right now), so it's not the modem or the router. I made a post a while back about some nasty viruses that got on my computer and every time I deleted them, I wasn't able to use my browser. I think this might be the same thing, but I'm not sure how to fix it this time.

The last 24 hours have been really, really shitty for me. Everything's kinda falling apart (it's not just the internet thing). I had thoughts of suicide this morning, and it's been a long time since I've rationalized killing myself. I have to do something productive soon or the chances of me completely losing it are just going to increase.

update: False alarm! All I had to do was reboot the router. I feel stupid now for waiting so long to do that. "What the thinker thinks, the prover proves" (This is VERY true, guys), I had thought someone was messing with my connection and "found" evidence to prove that to myself. I was getting worried there for a second.

The Alchemist - Chemical Warfare

(not sure what city that is)

I had seen this advertised on Myspace, and saw it on Pirate Bay so I decided to download it... Still waiting for it to finish. Normally I'm not into this kind of music but I was drawn to it based on the whole "alchemist" thing.

Some info:

Label: ALC/E1 Entertainment (I thought it said "El" at first! "ALC" reminds me a little of "Aleister Crowley")
Release Type: Studio Album
Genre: Rap
Year: 2009
Tracks: 15
Playtime: 55min Total
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Size: 77MB (Coincidence? No, synchronicity.)


The Alchemist - Lose Your Life

All-Seeing-Eye complete with pyramid @ 2:58 in...

Snoop DoGG syncs with the coffin again in this video, I remember he did that already in his performance of "Murder Was the Case" at the MTV music awards in 1994 (though that time he was not inside of it, I remember thinking at the time he was going to rise out of it, he lived up to my expectations in the Alchemist video though):



This syncs well with the new Sync Whole post dealing partly with the theme of "dead people".

Disturbing...

A prominent musician and business-owner was arrested in Volusia County after being accused of engaging in sex acts with a teenage boy.

Deputies arrested F. Douglas Wilhite, 56, on Friday. He is charged with engaging in sex acts multiple times with a 15-year-old.

I bet Gary Glitter was one of this guy's inspirations (though he was more into girls). I can't imagine what drives people to do stuff like this. It is truly on a level I'm not familiar with personally. Something tells me stuff like this is more widespread than we'd like to think, and this guy did way, way more than what he was charged with.

(the link goes to a story with way more details than I want to put on my blog. He was a nudist as well, which is probably why he's shirtless in the mugshot)

Social workers force child into adoption

I want to come home mummy: Aged five, 'Jenny' was torn from her parents by social workers after an RSPCA raid. Now a court says she must be adopted...

The recording begins with the sound of a child's voice. It belongs to a little girl and she is clearly bewildered and distressed.

At one point she begins to cry. At other times she is sobbing uncontrollably. 'Have you seen the judge yet?' she can be heard asking pitifully in between the tears before pleading: 'I want to go home with [you] Mummy and Daddy.'

The recording - and dozens of others just like it - was made during a supervised meeting between the youngster and her parents after their daughter was taken away from them by social workers.

They are known as 'contact visits' in the soulless vernacular of the care system, and took place in a room with a table and chairs and a few toys.

One hour. Once a month. That's the extent of the relationship now between this little seven-year-old girl and her traumatised parents.

There are some parents who do not deserve to see their children more than once a month. Irresponsible parents. Neglectful parents. Abusive parents.

According to care workers, the mother and father of this little girl were found to fall into this category after their home was raided by the RSPCA and at least 18 police officers to deal with a complaint about supposed mistreatment of dogs.

But what if social workers have got it wrong? In the light of Baby P and so many other scandals, it's hardly impossible is it?

Certainly, the recordings stored on a computer at the family's home on the South Coast seem to contradict the damaging claims by social services that the girl, whom we shall call Jenny - the girl's real identity has been suppressed by the courts - did not wish to return to live with her parents.

Here's an interesting detail:

The first was the state of the house. Police said it was covered in rabbit entrails - used as food for the dogs they raised - and animal excrement.

The couple claim most of the mess was caused during the raid. They say, the doors were left open, allowing the dogs in. Normally, they insisted, their home was 'clean and tidy'.

Only a few weeks earlier a policewoman had visited them - after a puppy had been stolen - and backed up what they said.

And another:

There is also another sad twist to this troubling story. Susan and Richard didn't just lose Jenny that day.

Susan was three months pregnant with twins. She says she was in a police cell when she began to miscarry.

'I started bleeding heavily and knew that could only mean one thing,' she said. 'I was taken to hospital where doctors confirmed my worst fears.'

Even so, she was taken back to the police station later, where she says she suffered another haemorrhage. 'I rang the buzzer and they brought me sanitary towels. Later, I was allowed home.'

Way to go, police state. What a fucked up system.

Polygamy Cult Compound (red-eye update)

Prosecutors: Jailed evangelist 'married' girls

TEXARKANA, Ark. – Federal prosecutors say jailed evangelist Tony Alamo (uh-LAH'-moh) "married" underage girls he had allegedly had sex with, exchanging wedding vows and giving them rings.

Prosecutors made the claim in a filing to U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes in Arkansas. Prosecutors want to include evidence of Alamo's alleged marriages in his trial on a 10-count indictment accusing him of taking young girls across state lines for sex.

Alamo's trial is scheduled to start Monday. Prosecutors and defense lawyers met with Barnes in a closed-door session in at the federal courthouse in Texarkana on Friday.

Defense lawyers for Alamo filed a set of motions Thursday requesting words like "polygamy," "cult" and "compound" not be used at trial.

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Sorry about the lack of pictures in recent posts. Got some malware on my computer and my browser loads slowly a lot of the time.

I just got done watching a movie called [Rec]. In the movie's poster, there is a red dot/eye, like when a camera is recording. It's a horror movie, shot in long takes with a handheld camera, kind of like Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project. It's actually pretty scary and I'm still a little shaken (also just feeling a little down lately). It's got all the symbolic imagery we've come to expect from any movie, but it is a little more unexpected in this case because of the way it was filmed. It feels more natural, and is more blended in with the other scenery. Unfortunately, the ending was completely spoiled for me a couple of months ago while browsing Youtube, so it probably didn't have as much of an impact as I would have liked.



I definitely recommend it if you're into horror movies, but if you get motion sickness from shaky cameras I'd stay away from it. I might do a full post on the movie if I decide to watch it again.

If I have any nightmares related to this movie I'll be sure to post about that as well. It didn't force me into an existential quandary, like The Ring did (didn't screw with my imagination quite as bad either), but it's still a good way to spend an hour and 15 minutes if you're bored.

Why Do People Lie?

I've been asking myself this question a bit lately... Why do people lie? What is the point of it? Why is it obvious when people are lying? Why do they continue to do it? Do they feel as if they are "on the run" from everyday reality, in a sense?

I live with a pathological liar. This sad example of humanity does nothing but watch TV in the room above me all day. She is completely devoid of a mind of her own, because she has turned it into a lie-machine to get her anything she wants, though at the price of others respecting her. Here's how you can tell someone is lying to your face: 1. Their voice gets louder than yours, in an attempt to drown you out should you bring up any evidence against them. 2. They attempt to leave the scene where you have confronted them as soon as possible. 3. They attempt to ridicule you. 4. They emanate an aura of anxiety and distrust for a long time after having lied, making sure you don't dare approach them asking more questions.

Now, some people are better liars than others. Maybe people who started earlier still have their methods from when they were young, so it's a little more obvious than those who caught on later in life. I know this, because this person I am talking about would lie to get me into trouble for things I didn't do for most of my childhood. I had another "friend" in high school who couldn't complete a single sentence without lying about something, and by this time I saw it as a genuine mental disease. People who lie often are usually the ones "debunking" anyone with an amazing story to tell. But, sometimes they have picked up on something with truth to it, and thus run it into the ground, making it completely unbelievable because of who it's coming from. I realized lying itself was a necessary part of maintaining a day job: You must lie to yourself and say you enjoy it in order to will yourself to return. Whose lies are we living on?

Back to the pathological liar in my house: This person, when being blamed for something they are entirely responsible for, will do every single thing they can to avoid taking blame. They simply can't see a world in which they are ever wrong or guilty for anything, therefore it is the accuser who is actually guilty of the crime, in their mind. In strange cases, when someone besides them is being blamed for something that is indeed their fault, the liar will attempt to divert blame from this person onto an invisible person who is actually causing all of the trouble. If someone else is being blamed for something the liar has done, they will stay quiet and show all the "signs" I listed above.

The second pathological liar I met was actually abused when he was young, which is very different from the person I'm living with, who has rebelled against everything in sight for no reason other than the fact that it isn't her, so she doesn't care what happens to it. The male liar is different. He has different "signs" to show that he is lying: 1. He will not blink or falter once in his recollection of an event which didn't actually happen. 2. He will look you straight in the eye and lie to you (but if you stare back long enough, you will notice that he will look away first). 3. After having lied, he will change the subject, in order to avoid being caught adding or forgetting a detail from his original lie. 4. He will only put out a positive, friendly vibe whilst lying to you, and never show any signs of "thinking" or "rationalizing", it is all stemming from a creative center in the mind, yet with the intention to deceive in order to create a false reality around this person. It will be a constant flow of lies entering your mind, sometimes this will dissociate you from reality just by listening, especially if you aren't aware that they are lying.


I still have my question. What is the purpose of "lying"? Why are we capable of doing this feat of creative thought? Is this what the mind does when it has no artistic output? I think people who lie are more likely to believe the lies of others, like they're playing a little game with eachother without really being aware of it (maybe on some level, but the liar seemingly believes that what ever comes out of someone else's mouth is the gospel truth, while their version of reality is inadequate to meet the status quo so they must make up things about themselves to match the experience of someone else).

From my experience, lies and secrecy are a direct gateway to pain and loss. I lied about my drug use to my now ex-girlfriend (as of 2006) and it ended our friendship and our relationship. It wasn't the drug use, it was the fact that I lied about it. I haven't been able to love anyone or keep a very close friend since. I don't trust myself enough to have someone else find me of any worth. I have taken it upon myself to tell the truth as often as I possibly can, and being around people who must lie to themselves and everyone around them is proving to be a dreadful experience, since I then have to cover up things about myself (such as my esoteric interests at this point in time) to deflect any hatred coming my way. They (one person, at least) are just waiting for an opportunity to call me crazy and have me exiled. I guess lies are like a shield that protects the self, yet veils it from light at the same time...

Put on your best crocodile smile and serve me up a batch of shit-talk.

"Life Extension Drug" discovered

Scientists Discover Drug That Could Extend Lifespan by 10 Years

Scientists say they have discovered a drug called rapamycin that could help people live up to 10 years longer.

It works by inhibiting a protein called TOR that plays a key role in cell growth.

Rapamycin is widely used to stop transplant patients from rejecting their new organs.

Tests on 600-day-old mice — equivalent to 60-year-old humans — have shown it also extends life expectancy by up to 14 percent.

"Rapamycin may extend lifespan by postponing death from cancer, by retarding mechanisms of aging, or both," said Dr. David Harrison, of the Jackson Laboratory in Maine, who carried out the research.

TOR, eh?

Sounds like a regular Holy Grail they've found here.

12:34:56, 7/08/09

123456789 Day: Big moment comes at 12:34:56 on 7/08/09

"For the digitally inclined, Wednesday marks a cool spot in sequential history. At exactly 12:34:56, the time and date will be 12:34:56 7/08/09. That only happens once -- or twice -- every 100 years, so for some, it's worth celebrating.

Plenty on Facebook and Twitter are spreading reminders or cluing others in. Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight on "The Office," tweeted about it, and on Facebook, pages popped up commemorating the date. Jon Everett, a 23-year-old University of Texas at Austin employee, created a Facebook page about the date with more than 600 Facebook users R.S.V.P.-ing yes to his "two-second celebration."

But there's always a spoilsport.

Many point out the time comes twice today, in the a.m. and in the p.m. (though, if you're on military time, 12:34 a.m. would be 00:34 a.m.). Nitpickers say the actual date is 7/08/2009, so the true 7/08/09 was 2,000 years ago. Others note serial dates aren't all that unusual (1/02/03 4:56, and 1:23:45 last year on 6/07/08)."

It's a holiday for people enjoy sequential numbers in dates.

Ignorance (Update)

Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion"

"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

What century are the people running this "club" living in? Did they miss the whole "black president" (well, half black) thing?

Watch the video embedded in the link to get a good idea of how confused the children are over this (actually, they probably know exactly what's going on, and it makes them sad). This sort of thing should not be happening in this day and age.

Update: Swim club president downplays camp comment

"There is a lot of concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion ... the atmosphere of the club," Duesler had originally told a Philadelphia TV station about his club's severed contract with Creative Steps.

Duesler said his original comment was intended to detail how his site simply does not have an adequate number of lifeguards to properly supervise the visiting campers, the Inquirer reported.

"It was just too many kids on top of each other," said Duesler, whose Huntingdon Valley, Pa., club has been tabbed for a racial discrimination investigation by a state agency. "Many of them couldn't swim."

I think his use of the "black people can't swim" stereotype should tell us what's really going on here.

Pope proposes "New World (Financial) Order"

Pope proposes new financial order guided by ethics

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown.

"There is urgent need (for) a true world political authority" that can manage the global economy, guarantee the environment is protected, ensure world peace and bring about food security for the poor, he wrote.

One of those days...

I'm in a surprisingly good mood, but it could just be from completely snapping.

It's pretty much half and half today, really... I think some people run on a different type of energy than I do, because when I attempt to "fight fire with fire", I just feel drained, whereas some people can act solely to spite someone they consider lesser than them for their entire lives (i.e., "I have a job and you don't! Kneel before me, you unworthy speck!"). I like to produce very little noise output when others are present (unless it's something very important to me, like music) and stimulate my mind a lot of the time (just to remind myself it's there), sometimes meditating, sometimes really wishing I had something I need but it's not gonna materialize out of thin air. I want to say "I don't understand some people", but I feel like I really do understand them but can't process the same thoughts they impulsively act upon, so I can never relate. I have a bad case of social anxiety, but I'm growing very tired of feeding it. I feel guilt almost every second of every day, and I'm getting really sick of it. I'm tired of feeling like God is punishing me every time things don't go my way. Down with feeling down, I say.

This is probably what being surrounded by people who hate me for my entire life culminates in: a damaged, warped perception that guarantees I'll never find solace in anything. Maybe that's a good thing, since there is really nothing worth devoting time and energy into besides one's own creations, which aren't really "there", they are an idea which can truly take no form, a limitless "what if" that transcends all thought.

Some people just really like imposing fear upon others, I guess. That's the only way I can explain what's happening in my household. Everyone here wants me to be afraid of them while they go about their drone-like behavior, and they are kind of succeeding but only because I'm afraid of bland normalcy. I'm afraid of being strapped into this machine against my will...

Qool Quote 2

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality."
— Michael Ellner

Seen on Red Ice

Arnie's Binary Star Glasses

I was watching Terminator 3 and caught this sync, the Binary Star:



If someone already pointed this out, my apologies (and please direct me to where it was covered so I can see what else has been said about it).