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"There Is No Reality Anymore..."
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via First Rebuttal blog,
“I’d Like to Change the World, but I Don’t Know How So I’ll Leave it Up to You”
What a great lyric that is from the late 60′s, early 70′s English band ’10 Years After’. I believe this describes that uneasy feeling of discontent that sits deep in the stomach, beneath the day to day exteriors, of so many people today. The world is like a black hole in that it seems to be getting smaller and smaller as the years go by but also heavier and heavier with each passing day.
When I was a teenager and my friends and I were taking reality obscuring substances, one of my buddies (this means you Nichol) would stop us at certain points throughout the night for a reality check. This was just a few moments where we’d all gather our senses to make sure the world was still right and then we’d venture back into obscurity. I feel that reality is an old world term. There is no reality anymore. With advances in technology came unending possibilities of if you can dream it ‘they’ can make it so. The ubiquitous flow of information ensures that the truth is always available but never known with certainty. It means there is no such thing as a reality check. It’s like that dream inside a dream inside a dream. Which reality is real anymore? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
We are raised with pretty standard ideals of what the world is meant to be but these ideals seem to take place only in the movies. It must be incredibly difficult for our young people to reconcile the two worlds, I know it is for me. That which they learn as a child and that which they find has replaced it as a young adult. Our ‘leaders’ our despicable arrogant and egotistical fools who pretend we elect them because we don’t see them for what they are. But we elect them because we feel we have no choice. We know what we want the world to be. We know what it should look and feel like. And we know it is not the world in which we live today. “I know I’d like to change the world but I don’t know how and so I’ll leave it up to you”. And so we continue to move forward down this path each step uneasy as though something ungood is lurking just around the next corner.
We are able to put that feeling out of our minds for the most part but our subconscious is always aware that things are off. We have all kinds of self help books and new – new age theories that attempt to make sense of it all and explain why we just aren’t happy the way we envision happy should be. Perhaps the only reality is the reality that the world isn’t what we had hoped it would be and we don’t know how to make that right. I’d love to say that if we just stand up and do the right thing, act from our hearts and have good intentions that it could change the world. But quite honestly there are ill-ententioned people that are constructing this new world in which we sub-exist. It is ‘them’ and us but they’d never say it that way. Certainly though their intention is not for us to co-exist along side them.
But so we carry on and we, move forward, to the best of our abilities. We accept the good with the bad and acknowledge that everything is a trade off. We believe that if we go to college we stand a better chance in life and so we borrow our first 10 years of post college wages to get an edge over the next guy who is doing the same. When we get out of school we know that it is time to buckle down and get serious. We put our ‘lives’ on hold in order to focus on the future with the idea that one day we will be sitting on the porch with the person we love, the one we put on hold for all those years and we will then enjoy our life’s work then.
But then we get further in debt because we need a sleeker car and we need a bigger house but it’s ok because we can just work a little more. And then the kids come and as far as we got to know them they are great, I think. But it’s ok because they just finished college and now they’ve moved back in as the job market is tough out there and so we’re paying off their student loans. Eventually they get away and begin their life’s journey and they take their debt with them. And then we realize, god I’m almost 60. But it feels great because that means soon I’ll be there on the porch getting to know the one I love again and life will be grand at that point.
But then we turn 65 and we realize all those policies that were implemented by all those ‘well-intentioned’ decisions makers have actually left us with very little. And we say it’s ok because we’d be bored anyway just sitting on the porch. And so we take a job waving at people in Walmart but feel like OMG how did I get here. But the shift ends and we go home anxious to spend time with the one we love because although it’s a terrible thought we are aware we’re both getting long in the tooth. And so we arrive home only to realize the one we love is now sick and that it’s too late for our days sitting on the porch getting to know each other again. We do everything we can but we cannot afford to help that person who stood quietly behind us all those years as healthcare costs are unrealistically out of touch with ‘reality’. And then it hits us that despite taking all the ‘right’ steps to ensure we have a great life we failed to ever really be happy, to really love and to really accept love. And then it really hits us, this world provides but one shot.
Well then that feeling of uneasy discontent that shadowed us when we were young is now an intense pain in our heart. And we look out at the world and we ask ourselves how could this have happened? I did everything ‘they’ told me I was supposed to do, I did everything ‘right’! And it becomes clear that life was a chance to change the world, but we didn’t know how and so we left it up to….
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I got yer "nanothermite" right here:
http://www.debunking911.com/thermite.htm
Just because someone calls themselves "Debunking911" doesn't give them any credibility. I read your link and that person completely missed the mark.
Two words Bangalore:
"Pull it."
I listened to Rudy Guliani state live on the radio that very day that THEY deciided to "pull it" referring to WTC 7.
And while I'm here can you please show me the parts of the airplane that hit the Pentagon? Yup, we can COMPLETELY REBUILD TWA 800 that crashed in the fucking ocean yet not recover anything that resembles a commercial jet out by the Pentagon. Never mind all the video surveillence just up and disappeared.
Oh and Jamie Dimon is a CRIMINAL. It's the crimes that matter not which invisible friend in the sky he supposedly prays to. But on that note you do not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. In fact within Judaism there is a large split and there are plenty of Jews who see Zionism as antithesis to Judaism. Might want to do your homework before you troll around far more well read individuals.
When someone can reasonably explain WTC 7, or an airplane that hit so hard it just disintegrated into tiny tiny pieces we cannot find, or where's the gold... Then I'll reconsider. Until then, the DC rogues did it.
There are both more bothering and interesting parts to the narrative... it really hides in plain sight.
THe destruction is graphic and emotional, it is tough for people to not rationalize about it no matter what they see in shows like mega destruction.
How about a passport found at the bottom of the tower?
You know what, whatever really happened, the governement had to do something, find (or make out, it makes no differentce really) culprits and take action otherwise...
What was at stake was the illusion of control, had the US representatives done nothing, and say they were clueless about how the thing unfold, your country would have descended into chaos.
As the score settled in, it would have in fact affected the whole world equilibrium.
And around here folks call everybody else “sheeple”.
Ask yourself why you “believe” the US engineered the Kiev overthrow. Who told you? Who recorded and released the supposed “smoking gun”? What was his former job title?
So here you “believe” that a State weenie bureaucrat (who doesn’t make policy and who has no “covert” authority) and a metrosexual career Ambassador of no particular accomplishment (career ambassadors get the posts political cronies and major campaign contributors don’t want, and which the USG doesn’t particularly care about) were so clever they outsmarted the “Chessmaster” who cared so much about Ukraine that he used dioxin to poison another former Ukrainian leader who wasn’t his lapdog.
Okay. And for your “proof” you probably like to mine quote that “$5 billion”, right? (Got a Congressional Finding? Maybe you can do a FOIA request from the Intel Committee...oh, you didn't know EVERY covert action requires a Congressional Finding?) Well, that $5 billion was the TOTAL US aid provided to Ukraine since its independence 22 years ago, which amounts to about $18 million per month. The money was used, inter alia, to break down nukes, clean up pollution left over from Commie days, begin to modernize infrastructure, build and improve schools and hospitals, and try to stabilize the financial system. The funds were handed out during a period when some Ukrainian leaders were favorably disposed toward the US, and some were not. It is possible, maybe even likely, that some of these pro and anti-Western leaders also skimmed a bit of it for themselves. That includes Yanukovytch. He certainly lived high on the hog by local standards.
You have a sum total of zero proof that any US paramilitary aid was provided to those at Maidan. You have utterances and insinuations coming from Russian media (or from those quoting Russian media) all of which is under either the direct control or influence of the former Propaganda Chief of the KGB, who earned his stripes leading the slaughter that was the 2nd Chechen War, and who also orchestrated the aggression in Ossetia. Not that it is relevant to Ukraine, but this same figure led Russia’s most recent “coming out” party in Sochi last year, a little gala that somehow cost $50 billion---and that back when the ruble still had some believers---with every last one of the major contracts going to people who just happened to be oligarch buddies of the “Chessmaster”. Did you notice whether or not any of those contracts went out to competitive bid?
So you’ve hung your hat(e) on a tale coming from a guy who eavesdropped on a private conversation, also picked up other private conversations including one between a UN bureaucrat and the Estonian FM, and who is that guy who previously ran the propaganda arm of the KGB.
And your beliefs “make sense” to you why? Because it fits your other beliefs, which also came to you from sources about whose veracity you know absolutely nothing? Is it possible that you’ve built false beliefs on top of false beliefs? Who’s the sheeplekov? If the glove DOES fit you have to admit.
Chindit, you do not need to lecture me on what i'm supposed to think and to debunk my stupidity. The MSM, shitload of alphabet agencies, Hollywood and a boat load of useful idiots (in the communist lingo) are trying to do it already. You have positioned yourself as the mouthpiece of the status-quo and for that you have earned a sincere FUCK YOU!
You are a shill and your pseudo-debunking only shows you for what you are, either:
1. a dumbass with a superiority complex.
2. a payed shill.
3. a bit of 1 and a bit of 2.
And to think that the taylers let you post on ZH (that is a very suspicious behavior from their part btw).
Instead of using our two hands to point fingers at the world, we can get to work making what we want to see. People get stuck in the cycle of blame, which is nothing but an energy-waster. Acknowledge the world is where it is and that you've a role in it - then do something about it. Regardless of how futile it all seems, only crying about it isn't gonna change anything, we either git'er done or we don't.
you give them all your goodies and then
wonder where it went. you dish out all
your power and then exclaim, "i am spent."
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A little bit like the beginning of the movie "Up"
Just to be clear -
I can live with being 50 and working two part time jobs as a dishwasher
However, nothing says depressed like realizing that a false flag could hit near home any day now
Order out of chaos...can't wait to get to the other, with or without my head.
Which troll/pleb downvoted the above?
I didn't but I was close to doing so too.
To make this a matter of nuclear bomb fear (at least that's how I take "a false flag could hit near home"),
just like in the 70s only with a different triggering person,
really makes me question the writer's ability to keep things in perspective.
You know all the other crazy things that not "could happen" but are happening every day now, are of no relevance?
The world is changing every week whether we like it or not.
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For some reason I'm getting the urge to listen to Pink Floyd's Time.
And pigs ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI
Don't forget the dogs and sheep to.
"We do everything we can but we cannot afford to help that person who stood quietly behind us all those years as healthcare costs are unrealistically out of touch with ‘reality’."
Have always loved the song and I still do...but the idea was never to stick a gun in some young healthy strangers face (thats you, when you were young) and force them to pay.
Left up to you, thats exactly what you opted for, you're a fucking disgrace to my generation.
"There Is No Reality Anymore..."
What you say? It's all bullshit?
justforthefunofit >>>>>>> http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/01/victoria-nuland-says-constant-l...
Yes, it was all Victoria Nuland...please!
It's a joke n00b.
Money it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack.
Money it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you( alvin lee).this guy must still be stoned, he can't even accurately quote his lead in.
I don't know about reality all I know it's that there is not more "comment sections" in Bloomberg and CNN it looks like the awakening has created panic among US MSM websites.
There can't be a reality when we live in a world of competitive disinformation.
That's the reality we live in.
Alvin Lee Goin' Home http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI
I've been in a fog for many years, in this age i find it interesting that now as I am old and gray that the eyes begin to not just see, that they begin to open, the ears begin not to hear, but to listen, and the mouth begins not just to yawn but to wale for truths.
Your poignant observation applies to me and from what I see to a few others as well.
Our experiences and our decisions in respect to how we wish to continue play a big part. I wish there was an effective way of passing what took us a lifetime to learn to the young. But then, they would not have the opportunity to learn for themselves, experience the pain and the pleasure, reap rewards and consequences of what they do.
There is more to this life than meets the eye, of that I am certain. This plane we live on serves a purpose, for what I do not know, but methinks much like you in respect to truth.
Thank You
That is because our society is going through menopause...
Perhaps it was always thus........
Macbeth:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
Reality is a function of perception. People prefer an illusion brought on by deception which produces a delusion. God is delivering what people desire.
Below excerpt from:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/goldberg-economy
THE WAY I SEE IT, it’s all a con game,” Cody Lundin was saying. “What I mean is that Wall Street has always been an illusion. Now it’s an illusion that’s crumbling. Wall Street is like someone who’s having heart trouble. It’s in constant need of resuscitation, but after a while, it just doesn’t work anymore. People think that Bernard Madoff was unique, that he was an illusion, but he’s just an extension of the same illusion, the same con game. This is one of the reasons I don’t like to have any debt. When you have debt, you become part of this illusion, and sometimes you get trapped by it.”
2 Thes 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto He called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work
Ecclesiastes 1:18
With Wisdom Comes Sorrow
…17And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind. 18Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.
That's all you need to know. Deal with it brothers. Don't live for THIS world.
bird in the hand is worth how many in heaven?
If we want a better world in the here and now, we best start being better people, and that doesn't just mean loving one another. It requires hard work and even harder choices. Few of us are prepared so it likely won't happen.
Nailed it. God bless you sir.
Enjoy living in America during the 21st century.
You can be laid within in a couple hours – go! What else do you want?
A proper summarization of the current mentality of the world.
This is why I love ZH and all our comments.10 years after, the Bible, Shakespeare, Moody Blues ans Pink Floyd all in one setting. Gotta feel a bit sorry for those youngsters who have no musical history to compare. What a time it was!
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD REALLY WORKS
- The luckiest, fittest, smartest, with the capability for ruthlessness survive – always have – always will
- Resources are finite and therefore ownership is a zero sum game
- The strong always take from the weak – if they do not then that is a sign of weakness and a competitor will take from the weak and will usurp the formerly strong dropping them into weakling status
- Humans tend to group by clan or on a broader basis by nationality (strength in numbers bonded by culture) and they compete with others for resources
- Competition always exist (I want it all!) but it becomes fiercer when resources are not sufficient to support competing clans or nations
- Tribal societies understand these dynamics because they cannot go to the grocery store for their food – so they are intimately aware of the daily battle to feed themselves and the competition for scare land and resources
- Modern affluent societies do not recognize this dynamic because for them resources are not scarce – they have more than enough.
- One of the main reasons that resources are not scarce in affluent societies is because they won the battle of the fittest (I would argue that luck is the precursor to all other advantages – affluent societies did not get that way because they started out smarter --- rather they were lucky – and they parlayed that luck into advances in technology… including better war machines)
- As we have observed throughout history the strong always trample the weak. Always. History has always been a battle to take more in the zero sum game. The goal is to take all if possible (if you end up in the gutter eating grass the response has been – better you than me – because I know you’d do the same to me)
- And history demonstrates that the weak – given the opportunity – would turn the tables on the strong in a heartbeat. If they could they would beat the strong into submission and leave them bleeding in the streets and starving. As we see empire after empire after empire gets overthrown and a new power takes over. Was the US happy to share with Russia and vice versa? What about France and England? Nope. They wanted it all.
- Many of us (including me) in the cushy western world appear not to understand what a villager in Somalia does – that our cushy lives are only possible because our leaders have recognized that the world is not a fair place --- Koobaya Syndrome has no place in this world --- Koombaya will get you a bullet in the back --- or a one way trip to the slum.
- Religious movements have attempted to change the course of human nature --- telling us to share and get along --- they have failed 100% - as expected. By rights we should be living in communes --- Jesus was a communist was he not? We all know that this would never work. Because we want more. We want it all.
- But in spite of our hypocrisy, we still have this mythical belief that mankind is capable of good – that we make mistakes along the way (a few genocides here, a few there... in order to steal the resources of an entire content so we can live the lives we live) --- ultimately we believe we are flawed but decent. We are not. Absolutely not.
- But our leaders --- who see through this matrix of bullshit --- realize that our cushy lives are based on us getting as much of the zero sum game as possible. That if they gave in to this wishy washy Koombaya BS we would all be living like Somalians.
- Of course they cannot tell us what I am explaining here --- that we must act ruthlessly because if we don’t someone else will --- and that will be the end of our cushy lives. Because we are ‘moral’ --- we believe we are decent – that if we could all get along and share and sing Koombaya the world would be wonderful. We do not accept their evil premises.
- So they must lie to us. They must use propaganda to get us onside when they commit their acts of ruthlessness.
- They cannot say: we are going to invade Iraq to ensure their oil is available so as to keep BAU operating (BAU which is our platform for global domination). The masses would rise against that making things difficult for the PTB who are only trying their best to ensure the hypocrites have their cushy lives and 3 buck gas (and of course so that the PTB continue to be able to afford their caviar and champagne) …. Because they know if the hypocrites had to pay more or took at lifestyle hit – they’d be seriously pissed off (and nobody wants to be a Somalian)
- Which raises the question --- are we fools for attacking the PTB when they attempt to throw out Putin and put in a stooge who will be willing to screw the Russian people so that we can continue to live large? When we know full well that Putin would do the same to us --- and if not him someone more ruthless would come along and we’d be Somalians.
- Should we be protesting and making it more difficult for our leaders to make sure we get to continue to lead our cushy lives? Or should we be following the example of the Spartans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYVIWz99I
- In a nutshell are our interests as part of the western culture not completely in line with those of our leaders – i.e. if they fail we fail – if they succeed we succeed.
- Lee Kuan Yew is famous for saying ‘yes I will eat very well but if I do so will you’ Why bite the hand that whips the weak to make sure you eat well.... If you bite it too hard it cannot whip the weak --- making you the weak --- meaning you get to feel the whip….
- Nation… clan … individual…. The zero sum game plays out amongst nations first … but as resources become more scarce the battle comes closer to home with clans battling for what remains…. Eventually it is brother against brother ….
- As the PTB run out of outsiders to whip and rob…. They turn on their own…. As we are seeing they have no problem with destroying the middle class because it means more for them… and when the weak rise against them they have no problem at all deploying the violent tactics that they have used against the weak across the world who have attempted to resist them
- Eventually of course they will turn against each other…. Henry Kissinger and Maddy Albright bashing each other over the head with hammers fighting over a can of spam – how precious!
GET OVER IT
Things are only worse now because the age of abundance is over -- this is going to be like throwing a piece of meat into a pack of starving dogs before it ends
Yes, when the SHTF we are going to revert to our human nature which many see as our animal nature to survive...
That's a warped fucking view I must say.
So much fail I don't know where to begin.
Fuck it, time for roof hits in the choomwagon.
"In a nutshell are our interests as part of the western culture not completely in line with those of our leaders – i.e. if they fail we fail – if they succeed we succeed."
Gee, how much government cock can you suck in one sentence?
Ok smart ass.
We kicked the fuck out of Iraq. How'd you like to trade places with an Iraqi instead of living your relatively cushy life wherever the fuck you are?
YOU still benefit when YOUR country pillages other countries of their resources.
However as we run out of cheap resources (afterall this is a finite world) as we are seeing, we start to eat each other alive.
The elites have run out of other people to fuck --- so they now fuck YOU. And before this is over they will be FUCKING each other.
This is not different than the behaviour of dogs. You give them more than enough food and they get along - kind of.
If you starve them --- and throw a piece a meat in their midst - they rip each other's fucking heads off.
Only a fucking retard of the highest degree would think that the only choice in the world is to either live like an American or to live like a starving Iraqi or Somali. I hate to break it to you, but LOTS of people in this world--i.e., billions--live very happy, satisfying lives in countries that don't "kick the fuck" out of other innocent countries. WE are the pigs, loser. WE are the assholes. I would tell you to wake up, but fuck it--I just hope you get leukemia. You deserve it. :-)
You sound like the poster CrashIsOptimistic. Hard to argue with what you write, especially for anyone who has read a history book or two. The empirical record is there, whether we choose to see it or not. Most people prefer Walt Disney ("It's a Small World After All") and kumbaya.
One thing you left out (out of politeness, I suspect). The real secret of life:
Choose your parents well.
Where you get whelped, and with what sort of traits, pretty much defines the parameters of your existence. Fair ain't got nothing to do with it. We can bitch and moan and whine, but it is what it is. We can call it the fault in our stars, the fault in our genes, or just the randomness of a Universe whose laws really just work at the micro level, but it is what it is. Never was any different, never will be.
I recently inadvertently heard a radio story about a hospice for Veterans in NewYork. One featured speaker was a hospice nurse. She said that anyone who takes the life of another; be it to protect a home, country, or any other reason, is dealing with that at the time of dying. It ALWAYS comes back.
I was heartened by that. It is nice to know that people who harm others, taking their life, are faced with their actions and must suffer with them.
It reinforces the karma theory. All of us will get back what we gave in life.
There is no gravity, the earth sucks.
Here's the reality:
Slum Goddess from the Lower East Side by the Fugs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1hp6yjNTI
""There Is No Reality Anymore..."
In 1984, Orwell spends a lot of time describing the environment of mandated delusion.
In Oceania reality is not what is, but what one is told it is. Ditto in Zionia.
The banksters need to repay us.
Also of note in 1984 that the spying by the state/Party is a mechanism of CONTROL.
Centuries ago they would have called Orwell a prophet.
Yet what he observed and wrote about could be seen as it was happening then. Now with technology the control is much simpler than relying on a gossip or paid informer.
I know what you mean when you continue with your quest, "The banksters need to repay us." Unfortunately it goes much deeper and broader than the banksters.
Funny, just recently I was talking to a coworker about Orwell 's 1984. Him and I sit alone in an 800 square foot office, so we discuss a lot of things. He admitted that he had never read it, but it was obvious that he knew the tenets. I told him, that he didn't have to bother reading it, because we're living it. He understood this, quite well and simply nodded.
An old BSer just BSing. Yeah some things are horrible but at the end of the day & in the grand scheme of things the sky hasn't fallen yet. I do feel sorry for this guy if this writing is how he feels when he reflects back on how this life has transpired though.
Full lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUJIziMe-4
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
I'd love to change the world
But I dont know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, monopoly
I'd love to change the world
But I dont know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I dont know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Better yet, revisit Steppenwolf's Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk3sURDS4IA
The rythym guitar starting back up at 5;14 is so sweet.
an undiscovered diamond for most. Truley a rock n roll gem and it ain't about getting laid, but it is about getting fucked.
"don't you care about your sons and daughters?"
It can give one the feeling of being at a loss because its true that there is only one shot. But the fact that the journey was travelled also means that the doing was not entirely left to others. Continue to not just roll over when the dumbfucks push their stupid shit on ya.
One shot, indeed.
There are no do-overs.
Better get it right the first time.
key to happiness? Ecclesiastes 2:24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations Ecclesiastes 3:13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations Ecclesiastes 5:18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations Ecclesiastes 8:15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
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Now now let us not forget the ultimate lesson of Ecclesiastes, 1:18 to be exact.
18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow
That really hits the nail on the head. Simplicity is key. Be happy with, and thankful for, what you have (life, sun, soil, water, spirit) and life will be enjoyable. It's all in the design of things; we just overcomplicate it all until we're miserable.
Welcome to the Matrix... Please be patient... Our system is going through menopause...
We were intentionally bred to need that sense of certainty and security. It is what stopped us from creating our own reality and instead choose to live in someone else's.
'Reality' is that there is no certainty for anyone.
If you want to create your own reality you need to accept that if you make your own choices you will inevitably make mistakes along the way. We are brainwashed to fear doing the wrong thing. Yes mistakes can be painful, and deadly, but the more mistakes you allow yourself to make the better you get a dealing with them until eventually you grow to appreciate the lessons you learn from your mistakes and look forward to them because you realize the most meaningful moments and lessons in your life grow out of mistakes that overturn your rigid sense of certainty and correctness.
At this point in my life I realize a 'certain' life would have been the worst choice I could have made and thank my lucky stars for all the screwups I inflicted on myself. I am a far better person for them.
We don't need to defeat those responsible for consensus reality in our society. We only need to learn to think for ourselves and go about our 'own' business instead of their's. Can't pretend this is an easy row to hoe but it is the only way out of the mess our society has become.
Writer got the lyrics wrong. Nice. "But I don't know what to do." He lost the rhyme.
Anyone see Alvin Lee tear it up at Woodstock, btw? Best performance of the whole congregation.
Woodstock was a little before my time, however a buddy turned me on to the Joe Cocker performance. I was impressed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
When do you think the society will start eating fat people?
That's true that most of us have no idea what to do, how to change not only government but how to change entire 1000 years old Anglo-American regime and its destructive, for individual and community, power rules.
Some had and still have good ideas that are truly different and meaningful. Unfortunately most of people with wisdom and courage to share it eat the dirt prematurely. While outbursts of futile anger, pain and desperation are somewhat tolerated, severe price have to paid, often loss of life, for giving people direct, actionable ideas how to fight the system as well as our own preconceptions often unknowingly inserted in our minds by propaganda machine that is present everywhere.
Here is one honest take on regime change.
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/regime-change-we-can-...
Excerpt:
By default, we should not trust anyone in position of power, no matter from where such person came, or from what socio-economic background originated, whether rich or poor or middle class, or whatever critical function’s designated to fulfill, it should not matter at all. Neither religion nor any perceived superior morality nor extraordinary intelligence should be construed as of any value or any foundation for trusting any individual in position of institutionalized influence since no one is immune to devastating, corruptive influences of mere fact of holding power.
Excellent!! Much of what was said could apply to anytime in history. BUT, because "what is happiness". But now is probably most comparable to the times when an empire is truly failing, which does not happen that often. And it seems it is different than the normal malaise because the uneasy feeling crosses all generations if the person has done any investigation at all. I do sometimes wonder though if I am crazy and maybe 45 y.o. men have thought the way I am thinking for the last several thousand years. But, go with the gut it seems to always know what is right(whether you are 8 y.o. and it says that the ramp is too steep and you will crash and burn on your bicycle or you are 35 and it says not to take the job). It may be a lot like Mr Cog says and I must first change myself before I change the world around me.
Amen...once you change yourself and stop living the lie ... it sets you fre. .....change
Reality?
That might be what manifests when all these folks realize what the unreality of their new oscambacare tax bills are going to really be. Prolly one of the greatest real numbers of massive amounts of no-tax paying Americans to consider when it comes to reality. There will be no taxes paid the foreign banksters and MIC to profit from war while every country goes into the poor house, anymoar!
http://patriotrising.com/2015/01/29/millions-owe-obamacare-tax-penalty/
I say we start a movement. Everyone start sending all medical bills to the IRS. Since they're now our defacto Health Insurance Theft By Mandate company, they should pay the bills. We should inundate them with billions of unpaid medical bills. Isn't that what attorneys and every level of the .gov regulatory monster do to the average citizen? It's time to fight fire with fire. Let's bury the IRS under paperwork.
"Our ‘leaders’ are (sic) despicable arrogant and egotistical fools who pretend we elect them because we don’t see them for what they are. But we elect them because we feel we have no choice. We know what we want the world to be. We know what it should look and feel like. And we know it is not the world in which we live today." --T. Beversdorf
Our "leaders" don't pretend the electorate's collective endorsement of their authority is based on popular ignorance, because the collective endorsement of the electorate IS based on popular ignorance. The people DON"T see these "leaders" of the status quo for what they are... 120 million voters are completely invested in the left-right paradigm, with each WILLINGLY and ABLY fighting for his or her wing of the welfare-warfare corporatocracy.
...And "we" don't elect them for lack of choice -- 120 million elect them out of collective ignorance, while the remaining 120 million eligibles abstain from voting. "We" DON'T know what "we" want the world to be -- nor what it should look and feel like -- because there's no such thing as "we" at the national level.
...And "we" DON'T know that the world in which we live today isn't what "we" want it to be, because the vast majority of Americans only think what their MSM programming tells them to think. Say the economy's doing great and "the shadow of crisis has passed", and watch the service-sector masses swarm to the dealer lots, all horned up on 72 months of 0% financing. Say the Ziocon-manufactured mayhem in SW Asia, Europe, and Africa is a bunch of Quran-carrying boogymen attacking innocent civilians because they're jealous of Western freedoms, and damned if they aren't barking for MOAR WAR...
Gimme a break with this "we" crap, Thad Beversdorf. And wake the eff up, while you're at it.
So it's not me???? Jesus, Thank God! I thought I was having acid flashbacks from my teen years in the 80's.
I don't know if I will sleep better or worse tonight knowing that reality, if that is what I can call it, actually sucks as bad as I have perceived it to be, or knowing that this isn't some latent windowpane or blotter that was stored up all these years in my fat cells and just started to slowly leak out and put the zap to my brain.
Soy confusado!
Reality still exists, you can have an effect.
It's not as easy as running away, but at least it's real.
Don't expect anyone to thank you ever, for anything.
Do it because you become it.
You are never alone.
That is one journey this author has taken. It is good to see that this person has the courage to share this journey.
It is a lesson.
Pens,
Ps. Thank-you tyler.
Yeah a lesson on how not to waste your life.
Kids. You know those things'll kill ya.
Especially the big kids, that pull triggers and levers, the head of big banks, insurance companies, retirment funds, politician, or CEOs of Crony Corp. et al.
"But we elect them because we feel we have no choice. "
There are always choices. It's just sometimes the correct choice doesn't fit with the propaganda.
We cannot pretend we have choices when there is no valid alternative.
Of course you can choose - just between shit 'A' and shit 'B'.
I don't call this a choice.
So don't vote.
What is so hard to comprehend about world resources exploited for the benefit of the moneied class. Would you rather a despotic cabal have the power to exploit ..... Wait uh I men do you think the interests of a few uber wealthy are going to be subservient to the interests of the many citizens that inhabit the world. No it will not.
Awh hell What's wrong with no reality? Just BTFD. The thing about it is there was never any reality to begin with. You better watch out. You better not cry. Better not pout I'm telling you why. Sin gu lar it y is coming to town.
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Decided to stop playing the game and start sitting on the porch around age 30. Still here years later. Still on the porch. Still not playing the game (except for the forced "property tax"). And loving every minute. And to think, they almost had me convinced that competition, struggle, and conflict was the way to go....*chuckle*.
fascinating. doing the same exact thing for the last 6 years. absolute rock bottom minimum spending. Trade in the manner that generates the absolute least amount of tax benefits to .gov. Take every dime from .gov I can figure how to get my hands on. Screw em back.
Living without debt by living with what you need and can afford - not want - is the most liberating thing I've experienced. Took it to a whole new level by brewing my own beer - even peddle some on the side. I won't go down with an ulcer!!
USG total fail post Hiroshima
same reality dude in the what-goes-around-comes-around scheme of things, you are now in the comes-around phase i.e. time to pay the piper, the party's over etc etc.
on your watch, your country has killed, maimed, raped, destroyed people, resources, animals, environment etc etc.
you make me laugh go cry in your watered down beer you naive fool.
doomed
tic toc
There's a movie going on at the matrix. Watch it and believe what you see, or don't. If you don't (which I think applies to most round here) then you get into that weird situation where you on the one hand live in a fake matirx one way or another, to a certain degree. Either you unplug completely and get off the grid 100% (difficult if not impossible for most, and not recommended for everybody...) or you learn to live in a hologram world, knowing that eventually some other reality will bite. To paraphraze a quote I read the other day: "It's not doubt that drives you crazy, but certainty."
That's exactly why stackers stack.
Things are changing:
All Centrist, status quo parties are just so last year.
Current elites have failed miserably and taken massive rewards in the process.
It is time to look at that uninhabited political wilderness to the Right and Left with new parties.
Greece - Syriza
Italy - Five Star
Spain - Podemos
France - Le Pens far right
UK - UKIP
US - Tea Party
Elites, if you can't do the job, it is time to move out the way.
Unconditional bailouts for bankers and austerity for the people was never a vote winner.
Passing all the rewards to 1% of the population always was a democratic time-bomb.
The fuse is lit.
(Political Capitalism - the old, incompetent and inefficient must make way for the new.)
Not that I want to play th fearmonger but it makes me think of the comment the "boss" in the Hunger Games makes the Katniss:
It is fragile but not as you think...
That is pretty much the lie behind most /every pacific movement, the curtains falling and the show stopping does not mean the end of the game. It takes more for TPTB to let go.
and so society is missing common ground.
easy to direct lonely spirits in a material world.
even easier with machine help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtQvbA0WC4
The problem is of course, in the expectations. We have come to expect that the point of life is to be happy. That is an unrealistic expectation fostered by a culture that shoves in our faces every day the expectation that if we buy that new car, eat at a great restaurant or take a kick-ass vacation we will be happy. The premise is wrong. None of us were put on Earth to be happy. The best we can hope for is moments of happiness amidst otherwise unrelenting difficulty. Change your expectations.
http://climateviewer.com/2015/01/29/chemtrails-calmatives-and-terrorism/
This is an extremely disturbing article for how well it articulates the sense of pervasive insanity I see, hear, and feel. Financially, politically, culturally, morally - things are rather epically horrible, but most everyone goes about their business and their trivial distractions either truly or just willfully ignorant of that shitstorm gathering on the horizon. While many of those waking up feel crazy, it's the blissful bleaters who are out of their minds.
For just one example, imagine a real full blown depression in the USA like we had in the 30's, except in the America of this new millennium.
Ask the high iq think tanks that arranged for this or at least have thought this senario out and beyond what would happen if it's not already happening. All they have to do is defund the food cards in the name of national security so they have enough money to fight the dreaded guy across the hall. Then they have to do something about all the low lifes that are starving and causing such a ruckess for the good hard working americon sheeple. Just stay in your homes and the terrorists will be gone missing soon. Darpa's working hard to keep you safe and next years killer robot will have facial recognition to keep you even safer so don't change your facial expression when you go out or you maybe accidently blown to bits (important safety tip). If you require a help please call and we will drone strike your home for your safety...safety..,, .safety. ...safety. .. ..
The trick in life is to realize, its all bullshit.
But there's bullshit that matters and bullshit that don't and most of the bullshit falls in the latter category.
Let go of the shit that doesn't matter and concentrate on the shit that does. Find the things that make you happy and pursue them and let go of the things that cause you pain.
We are all screwed by the system, abandon the system. Cash transactions are a good place to start. They force you to budget, they force you to understand the value of your money, they force you to become anonymous and not a cog in the marketing/debt for "points" lolipop so many choke on.
realize you are not a consumer, you are a citizen. Throw away your television, and hold onto your car for as long as possible . Downsize your life style, get rid of everything you haven't used in the last 2 years. Live your life for you and don't compare yourself to mythic others you see displayed in the media.
Learn to garden and work outdoors, clear your mind through physical labor and heal your body from inactivity and aging.
Realize there is no paradise, save what you build here and now, no matter how small or insignifcant to others.
This is your life and its ending one minute at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpqObhK4Rw
So don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff. Funny the last guy that said that now has a brain tumor and has changed his tune to a load whine ....lol
People's sense of reality is being distorted. The NWO is pumping propaganda into the system, as mind control, i.e., the Brit tv series, Black Mirror, a rather depressing look at how they see the future. Many Zerohedgers see the Bible as passe, Preterist; having already happened. But you don't have to take LSD to believe it, it all makes sense.
Do you know the warm progress under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys to The Kingdom?
Have you been born yet, and are you alive?
Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages.
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests.
Have you forgotten the lessons of the ancient war?
We need great golden copulations.
The fathers are cackling in trees of the forest
And our mother is dead in the sea.
Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals,
And that fat, slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood?
Do you know we are ruled by TV?
The moon is a dry blood beast.
Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers
In the next block of green vine,
Amassing for warfare on innocent
Herdsman who are just dying.
O Great Creator of Being,
Grant us one more hour to perform our art
And perfect our lives.
The moths and atheists
Are doubly divine, and dying.
We live, we die
And death not ends it.
Journey we more into the Nightmare.
Cling to life, our passion'd flower,
Cling to cunts and cocks of despair.
We got our final vision by clap.
Columbus' groin got
Filled with green death.
I touched her thigh and death smiled.
We have assembled inside this
Ancient and insane theater
To propagate our lust for life
And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets.
The barns are stormed,
The windows kept,
And only One of all the rest
To dance and save us
With the divine mockery of words.
Music inflames temperament.
When the true King's murderers
Are allowed to roam free,
A thousand Magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feasts we were promised?
Where is the wine,
The New Wine?
Dying on the vine.
JIM MORRISON 1970
The article resonates with a lot of people. Many good comments here.
Once your eyes are opened you are indeed free but what may be the greatest challenge in this life is where to compromise.
Downsizing and making life simpler is an option. But so is selling services to the rich and slowly accumulating hard assets. The attempt to get rich in a rigged game is also possible, but you'll trade a pece of humanity for it.
The fact is we evolved here and will continue. We evolve mostly by learning through pain. "No pain no gain" is a saying I still appreciate. I consider conquering obstacles to a better life evolving and that is enough for me as such brings better posterity.
There are those that by word or deed help shape the world for the better and lets be frank, it is better for most of the worlds population in the last 100 years.
But right now in America you must outcompete to have material wealth which lends itself to freedom. It is a jungle out there. While I prefer collaboration the cycle right now is competition. The predator is showing signs of being fat and lazy so the prey can sell back into there own pocket what was stolen. Or downsize... I don't condemn any man for taking either path in a barbell economy. But fence sitting in the middle will not encourage happiness.
I helped take care of a schizophrenic kid who once said to me:
"you know, schizophrenia isn't all that bad--
at least I don't have to deal with YOUR reality"