"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
- Nelson Mandela
I cannot fathom why they would be doing this. I mean really!
...Actually, I can completely fathom why they do/did this. As I do believe I said in a previous post, most of the rather outspoken, non-compromising politicians including President Obama (as the media just lovveeesss to remind us) are all up for re-election next year, or running for president against the incumbent president. However, to stall to the very last day AGAIN, which is unfortunately expected by the majority of people who served as spectators for this political fiasco earlier this year when the government was dealing with it's lack of a fiscal budget for this year.
As in the last one, these politicians will most likely go to the last possible second before striking a deal and passing some kind of legislative piece through their selfish, corrupted ranks.
At first I thought that perhaps the reason they were staging this horribly acted out performance is because they truly cared about the country's financial state... that is..that we are so deep in our own metaphorical shit that the only way that we could possibly relieve this pressure is if we admitted to ourselves that we had no money to pay the debts that we would accumulate by taking more money to pay debts that we also can't afford to pay---*breathes*---and defaulted.
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Did I lose you? That's okay. You shouldn't have to be in a situation where you'd have to comprehend that ridiculous statement. ...Though unfortunately you are one of many subjects of this stupid government if you call yourself an American...and if you aren't you will still be affected by this situation, so I suggest you go read that statement again and again til you get it and are as angry as I am!...If you got it the first time, don't mind this tiny side rant :p
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At least...that is where my mind is at right now, though that definitely doesn't mean I'd have no problem at all with the devastating effects that would have on the world, and the average citizen here at home.
..Side note: Go fuck yourselves 10% of people who hold the wealth in this country. No one likes you and your inherent resistance to the financial crisis >.>
....DIGRESSING lol, ..I am absolutely sure however that these politicians don't care. For further information, please consult Mr. Michael Jackson.
I personally like the second, prison one better. This first one is inspiring....
But the second one is so much more volatile and heart-wrenching because of the true footage in it.
I petition you, my few readers, to spread the word about these charlatans posing as uncorrupted people who care about the welfare of this once great nation. We are being thrown to the dogs (or you could say debt collectors, international loan sharks, ..other politicians..take your pick) just because these politicians all have an ulterior agenda, one that benefits solely those multi-billion, and I am sure..multi-trillion dollar companies situated here in the U.S.
I will be posting a blog later about one of these companies in particular later, and their connection with the brain child of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization later, so-called "Codex Alimentarius"
Keep your eyes open my fellow Barnacle Boys and Mermaid Men! There's evil afoot! (And yes, I did just reference Spongebob.)
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There you have it! Your daily dose of organic thought. Satisfied. (>^_^)>#
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Never have I seen so much win. Thank you xkcd.com/ bwhahaha!
After a week of being out of work due to a rather painful bladder infection (adding to that frequent bouts of nausea and headaches as a result of a generic version of Macrobid, which is an antibiotic created specifically to treat infections such as the one I had, and unfortunately also gives the rather BLECH side effects that I had)...now I am back in the lab, and the experiment that I was assisting in (I am a research assistant after all) is now completed :)
I feel good. ^.^
And also, I have been taking the bus to work/school and back, and have found it a rather interesting experience. The majority of the people on the bus AREN'T actually crazy, despite popular belief. It is just the select few creepy men and women on the bus that give public transportation the bad rep it has.
Though I won't lie...it's true that the crazier ones can be found on the late buses. >.>
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Anyways, as I walked from bus to work to bus to home this day, I had constantly on my person the collection of Celtic myths I said a teensy bit about in a previous post. I think I may have gone through four or five myths today, each at least 10 to 13 pages in length (the longest was perhaps...twenty pages?) ....and I must admit, the Celtic mythologies are grown on me. I see in myself a patter however. It is not enough for me to read and study myths of each separate pantheon, but rather to study them and the histories and cultures behind each religion. For example, this Celtic Mythology book I am currently fixated on speaks briefly of connections between Celtic Myth and Hinduism!
And a new door into the past opened to me, that of Indo-european cultures! It fascinates me and makes me think on how I came to see this passion within me in the first place. So many philosophical ideas now swarming around in my head like angered fireflies, each alight with their own small, fantastic glow! And to come together so neatly into one curious passion...is just...astounding.
And I owe it all to my hunger dragging me to Coffee Bean late this morning! *giggles*
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There you have it, your daily dose of healthy, organic thought (>^_^)>#
For all we know We may never meet again Before you go Make this moment sweet again
We won't say goodnight Until the last minute I'll hold out my hand And my heart will be in it
For all we know This may only be a dream We come and we go Like the ripples of a stream
So love me, love me tonight tomorrow was made for some tomorrow may never come for all we know
Donny Hathaway: I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
If I ever leave you....you can say I told you so!
And if I ever hurt you ..... you know I hurt myself as well.
Is that any way for a man to carry on
Do you think I want my loved one gone
Said I love you
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know...
When I wasn't making too much money
You know where my paycheck went
I brought it home to you baby
And I never spent one red cent
Is that any way for a man to carry on
Do you think I want my loved one gone
Said I love you
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
Now listen to this!
I'm not trying to be
just any kind of man
I'm just trying to be somebody
You can love, trust and understand
I know that I can be
A part of you that no one else can see
But I gotta here ya say, I got to here ya say..
its allright
I'm only flesh and blood
But I could be everything that you demand
I can be king of everything
Or just a tiny grain of sand
Is that anyway for a man to carry on
Do you think I want my loved one gone
Said I love you more than you'll ever know.
(After having to correct numerous mistakes in these lyrics, I decided it best henceforth to look up vids with lyrics in them lol :p)
These wonderful songs have been stuck in my head all day, and instead of being annoyed by them, I figured I would share them to you. :)
Here's a little token of past music, a gift from me to you ---remember that only a few decades back, music had more meaning to it that getting wasted and then getting laid (or both simultaneously? YES I'm talking to you Trey Songz).
I've been following the debt-deal "talks" in Congress and between Congress and the White House for a while now, and each time I tune into the news, I become displeased (like most who hear about it) that our representatives and senators whom the American people elected for the sole purpose of running our government smoothly and effectively seem WHOLLY incapable of doing just that.
*For starts we are in something like three wars right now: Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya (yes I include Libya. Just because we don't have "troops on the ground" doesn't meant we aren't spending enough money on Libya to make up for that. The majority of NATO's military finance and finesse come from the United States. Unfortunately, these wars seem to also be out of sight, out of mind events for the majority of the American population, so I won't go much into them right now.
*Then there is this whole debt thing...During the Clinton administration we had a SURPLUS, something that was lost quite rapidly during Bush Jr.'s terms as president and of course is currently being exacerbated during Obama's administration by the amount of wars going on, by misused and inefficiently used funds in entitlement programs, and of course by ridiculous tax breaks for the wealthiest people in the US (politely renamed 'job creators' by those Congressman favoring the Bush [Jr.] era tax cuts).
Anyways, my purpose here isn't to bash politicians because of the choices both they and the American public made which contributed to our current financial problems...my purpose is too bash them because of their political antics at this moment, and their utter refusal to come up with some sort of compromise between themselves.
They had ...literally months to begin planning. And I can understand them not taking that time, because I know that they have a lot on their plate..they are a federal institution after all, and one of the highest.
HOWEVER. Now they have less than two weeks to strike a deal, and they are still being stubborn as mules. What is the American public supposed to think when all they see inside Congress is a lot of 'monkey business' if you will on the one hand, and people like President Obama and Treasure Secretary Timothy Geithner telling us that they are 'close' to a deal on the other hand? Dispute Threatens Debt Limit Negotiations
Now don't get me wrong, I am sure that they will get a deal (though if they don't it won't be much of a surprise either >.>) but what truly frustrates me, is the amount of political grandstanding going on. After all, how many of the Congressmen and -women are up for re-election next year? Exactly.
And this all disturbs me but...what really disturbs me is...
A lot of my peers just...don't care. I have heard many in my generation (I just turned 18, but am a Sophomore in college), a lot of college-going young adults always give me excuses like "I am too stressed out to pay attention," or "It doesn't concern me," or...my favorite..."I don't like politics and don't approve of what the government is doing...so I stopped paying attention."
I just...truly don't get it. We are on the brink of a financial collapse akin to that of Greece...and yet people just seem to think that this in no way affects them?
But then again..given how out of touch people are with the goings on of their government domestically...what care would they have for the rest of the world and its troubles either? v_v
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Your daily dose of organic thought, satisfied. (>^_^)>#
As I was walking back from a store earlier today, I found myself walking past a ridiculous amount of litter lining the side of a gate I had sauntered past.
For one reason or another I found myself focusing on the kinds of trash I walked past. Doritos bag, empty cigarette box, Doritos bag....more Doritos bags lol. It was all becoming rather repetitive so I started focusing on my book again, a collection of Celtic myths entitled Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis. A really good book, and the author's introductions to each section is very interesting.
But I digress....
I was almost completely into my book again, when a shimmer caught my eye. I look down. And it turns out to be a Magnum condom wrapper >.>
Of course I was disgusted and thought, why the hell would anyone leave something like this here?
...But then a random voice in my head thought two things.
1) If you were a teenager, and you didn't want to get into trouble with your parents for having premarital sex, would you hide it in the family trash bin? (That question of course was rhetorical and sarcastic, of course that is the last place where i would hide it :p )
2) Perhaps in that moment, it was romantic? In the heat of passion, in the late hours of the night, some young couple made love under the moonlight, and without a care for anything besides the need to feel each other close (and of course to not get the chick pregnant), the wrapper was quickly tossed aside, the condom in place, and love making ensuing...
so yeah...I could see the circumstances of how that condom wrapper got there. In any case, I didn't appreciate it distracting me from my book. >.<
"Venus and Cupid" by Lorenzo Lotto, is a painting that caught my attention a few years back while I was browsing the internet for...one reason or another, the actually reason escapes me haha.
But what intrigues me the most about the work is the history behind it. After a bit of research I found out that the crown that Venus is wearing is actually a Venetian Tiara worn by brides during the Italian Renaissance, which ultimately (after a bit more reading) led to the understanding that this painting was created as a "visual equivalent of a poetic epithalamium, or marriage poem." That is, that Venus is seen here playing the role as the Venetian bride, blessed with the gift of fertility by Cupid (his urinating on her alone is a symbol of male virility and female fertility ^.^). What a compliment this must've been to all those Italian brides when this painting was first unveiled!
Other things I noticed in this painting that contributed to the marriage symbolism are the main three colors that catch the eye in the picture: red, blue and white.
Red and blue seem to be the opposing colors, that is red is a warm and passionate color (possibly a salute to Eros) while blue is a more calm, cool color, and the ripples in the fabric are reminiscent of the sea, which of course is a very strong connection to Venus as She was born of the sea, a point emphasized by the conch shell dangling above the head of the lovely goddess.
I find these two colors very interesting because of how Venus interacts with them in the painting. Her skin seems to be alabaster white, glowing almost, seeming to be pure and virginal which matches up exactly with the historical character She is portraying.
I noticed a snake slithering around underneath her. I'm not sure what that is supposed to signify exactly, but my mind automatically went to temptation and the creation myth in the Bible. Also the flower petals which I'm going to say are...light pink? that are sprinkled around her on her lap... as well as re-emphasizing the idea of fertility due to their placement, if I am right about the color, than the petals also symbolizes marriage or..love rather.
*Pink = Red + White*, and red to me symbolizes passion, lust, and physical love (at least in this painting), while white again symbolizes purity. So what does our equation give us then? Pure love :)
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