We are taught to believe in organization from a very young age. Our parents try to teach us about putting our clothes away, our school engineer us to believe that society has structure. Religion instructs us that we will burn in hell if we don't wear nice suits to church and Wal-Mart always seems to have the lowest price guaranteed!
I think consumerism should be considered a religion. I really do! Think about the parallels here! You have a guy that sits in a room upstairs and watches everything you do via closed circuit television. You have employees that act like clergy, and claim to know the way to your shopping salvation. They even gather a collection through highly trained cashiers! Now to me, this sounds like a religion!
And do you ever notice that all religions have unofficial slogans? Christianity's is The greatest story ever told! Now... That slogan should tell you something... It's just that! A story! A fucking fairy tale to scare weak minded individuals into subversion. That's all! The motto for Consumerism could be: "Money is God, product salvation and department stores the devil!"
Yes folks department stores are Satan! "Why do you say that Andy?" You mean besides the fact that you can wander aimlessly in them for hours, like a lost soul looking for salvation? "Oh please Lord, please let me find that last item... I don't know what it is but I want it so! I just know it'll save my eternal soul!"
"But Andy! Where does the organization fit into all of this?" Well goddamn it, I don't know! Naturally I would assume the shelves, but I could be over analyzing it.
Another thing that has always stuck me as odd is the unnatural way that employees everywhere can't be seen either buying or consuming the companies products. Maybe it's that critical thinking that's interfering with my consumeristic nature, but, it would seem to me that you would want your employees to promote your produt! "take your uniform off while your eating John, and put a goddamn smile on yor face!"
That's something else I've never understood... The Good Mood Policy. Don't even pretend like you don't know what I'm talking about! For those of you smart enough not to have a job, let me explain it to you how this policy works. The ideal employee is apparently supposed to be in a good mood at all times while at work. You could have just witnessed a guy getting his head blowen off with a 12 gauge shot gun while walking to work, but as soon as you enter the door to your job... All negitivity is null and void... How fucking unnatural is that? Sorry, but I'm what some would call human, and I tend to have bad days as well as good ones. I just witnessed a horrific act and I may need a few moments to compose myself.
They say that a good team is like a well oiled machine. No, a vibrator is a well oiled machine! A bukakke is a team effort, a vibrator needs human guidence to produce an end result. Maybe I'm not supposed to understand the conentation here, but it would seem to me that employers don't think these mantras could be misconsqued as sexual harassment.
Write or wrong, it's still in poor taste.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Aliens: They're not just at the borders anymore!
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if there is other life, on some distant planet, in some different solar system? I know that I have and for many of years, I also believed that there was! Of course I have since changed my views upon the subject of Aliens. I am not a skeptic. I just don't think that the beings entering this plain of existence. If you don't know anything about the subject of aliens, then just so you know there are four arguments that can be made about them. They are as follows:
1.) The Skeptic - A skeptic is known for their unique ability to believe in nothing. Aliens do not exist, and they don't visit earth.
2.) The True Believer - A true believer is known as someone who believes in life on other planets. Aliens do exist, they do visit the earth from other planets.
3.) The Dimensionalist - The Dimensionalist is known best for believing in aliens, but that they come from another dimension, or they are time travellers. Aliens do exist, they do visit the earth from another dimension.
4.) The Christian - The Christian is best known for their belief that aliens don't exist, but if they do, they are demons and only come to earth to corrupt and destroy God's creation: Man.
Frankly, I believe that aliens are demons. I never used to believe in this train of thought though! I used to be in the thought mode closer to the true believer class, rather then the Christian class.. That is until I started studies into the Bible. Now here's where my view point changed radically. First I began with classic bible stories, one of the first stories being that of Moses and The Great Flood.
Now for anybody who reads the bible this part will make sense, but for the rest of you, try to keep up. Before the flood Lucifer, (later to become Satan), goes to earth because he feels that he is Gods' greatest creation, now when Lucifer and the 1/3 of angels return, God asks where they have been. Lucifer says they have been "wandering the earth". God doesn't like this, and then it gets worse! Lucifer actually created a new race, Angel/Human half breeds! This is the reason for the great war in Heaven and the fall of Lucifer. Interesting to note that Madam Blavatsky had told about an ancient race called the ARYANS, (sounds a bit like ALIENS), that had telepathic abilities and superhuman strength! So after Lucifer is defeated, and God wipes out the earth, (save for Noah, and family, and every animal on earth), and humanity starts a new. Let's skip quite a few years until we are in the here and now. Right, so here we are in today and now. Aliens are considered to be the abductors that preform human genetic tests on human beings.
Okay, so if that is true, and it is also true that angels can not sexually reproduce, then one must consider this "evidence" to be note worthy. Another similarity between Aliens and Demons is if you look back to the dark ages, reports of "abductions" by demons, (known either as Succubi or Incubi), were interested in sexual interactions with humans, then this too is also very note worthy.
Could aliens be from different planets or dimensions? Could they be Demons? Or could it be that they simply don't exist? I have taken the Dimensionalist Belief because I have found it to make for good fiction. However with that said, I can not speak for everyone. The point of this article is to maybe open a new possibility that you haven't heard over and over again.
1.) The Skeptic - A skeptic is known for their unique ability to believe in nothing. Aliens do not exist, and they don't visit earth.
2.) The True Believer - A true believer is known as someone who believes in life on other planets. Aliens do exist, they do visit the earth from other planets.
3.) The Dimensionalist - The Dimensionalist is known best for believing in aliens, but that they come from another dimension, or they are time travellers. Aliens do exist, they do visit the earth from another dimension.
4.) The Christian - The Christian is best known for their belief that aliens don't exist, but if they do, they are demons and only come to earth to corrupt and destroy God's creation: Man.
Frankly, I believe that aliens are demons. I never used to believe in this train of thought though! I used to be in the thought mode closer to the true believer class, rather then the Christian class.. That is until I started studies into the Bible. Now here's where my view point changed radically. First I began with classic bible stories, one of the first stories being that of Moses and The Great Flood.
Now for anybody who reads the bible this part will make sense, but for the rest of you, try to keep up. Before the flood Lucifer, (later to become Satan), goes to earth because he feels that he is Gods' greatest creation, now when Lucifer and the 1/3 of angels return, God asks where they have been. Lucifer says they have been "wandering the earth". God doesn't like this, and then it gets worse! Lucifer actually created a new race, Angel/Human half breeds! This is the reason for the great war in Heaven and the fall of Lucifer. Interesting to note that Madam Blavatsky had told about an ancient race called the ARYANS, (sounds a bit like ALIENS), that had telepathic abilities and superhuman strength! So after Lucifer is defeated, and God wipes out the earth, (save for Noah, and family, and every animal on earth), and humanity starts a new. Let's skip quite a few years until we are in the here and now. Right, so here we are in today and now. Aliens are considered to be the abductors that preform human genetic tests on human beings.
Okay, so if that is true, and it is also true that angels can not sexually reproduce, then one must consider this "evidence" to be note worthy. Another similarity between Aliens and Demons is if you look back to the dark ages, reports of "abductions" by demons, (known either as Succubi or Incubi), were interested in sexual interactions with humans, then this too is also very note worthy.
Could aliens be from different planets or dimensions? Could they be Demons? Or could it be that they simply don't exist? I have taken the Dimensionalist Belief because I have found it to make for good fiction. However with that said, I can not speak for everyone. The point of this article is to maybe open a new possibility that you haven't heard over and over again.
The State of the Dead: Hope or Humbug?
In the book of Daniel, it discusses something that is known as "The State of the Dead". It declares that the dead, (save for a few people), are sleeping in the ground, ashes, and tombs. They are not alive anymore, but are in a state that is a lot like dreaming.
I would love to believe that Ghosts are our loved ones coming back to check on us, and comfort us in our times of need. However, I do not feel that this is true. Everyone however is entitled to their own opinion, and the point of my blogs are to give people alternative possibilities, not to make their minds up for them, so please don't take what I say to heart.
So what is a ghost anyway? I believe that ghosts are most likely frequency shifts in time. However, for the point of this article let us put ghosts into two more familiar terms. We shall call the two categories Angels and Demons. Malevolent ghosts are forces that tend to be more demonic, they tend to threaten human life, use their abilities of invoking fear into us, and on occasion have been known to actually cause harm to the living. I also believe that "Shadow People" fall under this category. If you don't know what a shadow person is, then here are a few quick facts: Shadow people are mostly associated with night terrors and old hag syndrome. Usually they can be seen in the darkness as an even darker shade of black, and tend to mimic human forms. Red glowing eyes are also some times linked to this quick and very dark figures. This is why I call this group of ghosts demons.
On the other hand there are also ghosts who tend to be the exact opposite. They comfort us, and make our fears go away, and in some cases even protect us. Of coarse this is all on how individuals interpret what they feel, and see. I would place these types of ghosts under the angel category.
However, it is unfortunate that not many reports of good spirits are around, most deal with shadow people, or other malicious entities, but they do exist! Well according to some anyway. (The reports not the ghosts, because I have no proof of existence on either account. Angel or Demon).
This brings us back to the state of the dead. If indeed these spirits are the ghosts of our loved ones, what are the shadow people? I would almost entertain the notion of them being the ghosts of people who had done some seriously bad things in their life, but one would have to ask, don't they have loved ones as well? And why would they not visit them? Do they protect their love ones, and terrorize the rest of us? These are questions that would have to be asked. Personally I think the State of the Dead is some more gibberish in a book to inspire hope, and tries to solidify beliefs in a judgement day. Faith is a funny thing, one which requires no proof.
I would love to believe that Ghosts are our loved ones coming back to check on us, and comfort us in our times of need. However, I do not feel that this is true. Everyone however is entitled to their own opinion, and the point of my blogs are to give people alternative possibilities, not to make their minds up for them, so please don't take what I say to heart.
So what is a ghost anyway? I believe that ghosts are most likely frequency shifts in time. However, for the point of this article let us put ghosts into two more familiar terms. We shall call the two categories Angels and Demons. Malevolent ghosts are forces that tend to be more demonic, they tend to threaten human life, use their abilities of invoking fear into us, and on occasion have been known to actually cause harm to the living. I also believe that "Shadow People" fall under this category. If you don't know what a shadow person is, then here are a few quick facts: Shadow people are mostly associated with night terrors and old hag syndrome. Usually they can be seen in the darkness as an even darker shade of black, and tend to mimic human forms. Red glowing eyes are also some times linked to this quick and very dark figures. This is why I call this group of ghosts demons.
On the other hand there are also ghosts who tend to be the exact opposite. They comfort us, and make our fears go away, and in some cases even protect us. Of coarse this is all on how individuals interpret what they feel, and see. I would place these types of ghosts under the angel category.
However, it is unfortunate that not many reports of good spirits are around, most deal with shadow people, or other malicious entities, but they do exist! Well according to some anyway. (The reports not the ghosts, because I have no proof of existence on either account. Angel or Demon).
This brings us back to the state of the dead. If indeed these spirits are the ghosts of our loved ones, what are the shadow people? I would almost entertain the notion of them being the ghosts of people who had done some seriously bad things in their life, but one would have to ask, don't they have loved ones as well? And why would they not visit them? Do they protect their love ones, and terrorize the rest of us? These are questions that would have to be asked. Personally I think the State of the Dead is some more gibberish in a book to inspire hope, and tries to solidify beliefs in a judgement day. Faith is a funny thing, one which requires no proof.
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