Doing spoken-word TMBG lyrics at open mic nights for straight-faced comedy.  Optional beat-nic drumming for additional effect.


Future option- video record it and make it a national / international  TMBG fan "meme".

Movie Pick

Ruby Sparks


I had to watch this in bits and pieces  lol

but I enjoyed it.

There is such a thing as True Love,

but True Love is not a guarantee.


True Love needs things to survive and flourish.


Caring, attention, honesty.  Probably other things.

My best movies of all time and recent best movies

All-time:   The Fountain, Groundhog Day, Hesher, The Last Circus (Ballad of a sad trumpet) (this movie has a lot of violence and sexuality)


Best recent movies that I highly recommend:


Detachment

Moonrise Kingdom

Safety Not Guaranteed


I'm not giving personal-opinion comments on these movies, because after I read such comments it takes away from the experience of watching.

On Identity

When I was young I attempted to get an identity through attachment to the music of others, and through idolizing those makers of the music;
   also through artificial means such as dress / clothes

When I was older I was given an identity through my relationship with a loved one;

Never have I tried to create my own identity.

To do this is a fearful thing indeed.

The Fictional Life Worth Fighting For

What I didn't say-  "I love you deeply.  Please wait for me."

What she didn't say-  "I love you no matter what.  I'll wait for you.  I will be with you when you are healthy."

The Innovation of God per a New Type of Relationship

Researching the biology / chemistry of the beginning of life

     In attempting to discover potential ways for the beginning of life on our planet, I think that we have been too concerned with finding a working process for the creation of rudimentary cells, which undergo chemical processes, followed eventually by replication.  I think that there may be more productivity in finding potential paths towards life through research into the "evolution" of chemical processes, rather than structure (cells).  By this I mean simple chemical processes with positive feedback loops.  In time the most efficiently self supporting / replicating processes will dominate an environment.  This is like different codes competing against each other- the ones that are most efficiently self-supporting and populating / replicating will dominate. 

     I envision a theory where relatively simple chemical processes undergo a Darwinian competition, with cells cropping up in time as a further assistance with this competition.  (Rather than a "cells first" paradigm).

On converting others to your way

This is just a note that needs to be fleshed out as I'm not near my computer.


One need not zealously pursue a 'tract' of going out and after those one wishes to convert.  One need only be true to their way.  The converts will come to them.  Active conversion comes through only being true to one's way; anything more will usually backfire.

The future of humanity vs replacing ourselves out of the future - an edited free-write

Basic Premise:    

     I think that in the near future, i.e., around 50 years from now, we (the human race) should start concerning ourselves with the threat of destroying our future as a species through replacing ourselves in general, with our creations which are more efficient. 


Elaboration and Extrapolation:


     Of course we have already done so in certain areas- robotics; the simple and complex computer, the internet (replacing, or an attempt to replace significant pieces of culture); the internet search engine; "Wal-Mart"'s.  But I say in general, because I speak to beyond us using "tools in humanity's tool-belt".  I speak to a time and a situation when we are no longer the future; when our creations truly take over- become the progeny and inheritors of the potential of the human race, rather than humans. 


     We will continue towards this future as we follow our greed; our sloth, or drive for greater productivity; our quest for more power; for greater protection.  Of course these things will start with the miracle of creation from the mind- that is fundamental to our species, but the in-general implementation will come from greed, etc.


     We have created so many things that are simply better at doing their jobs than we are, that I think it's hard to not admit that every task we might put ourselves to, can be more efficiently done by other things.  So where does this end?  A time when our creations think for us, act for us (in almost all ways), make war for us, colonize the cosmos for us?  I think in this end we see our race slowly whither away- no great apocolypse of a human / robot war, but a slow whithering away of a species such as the body whithers away when given a wheelchair / crutch.


     Is there a way to keep us from going down this path?  I don't think there is.  I think it will happen- we will fundamentaly and truly replace ourselves; our greed, and other character-traits, will drive us inevitably.  I think there is no use to attempt to get off this progression- through doing so we may delay it, but I think that is all.  I feel it is man's fate to destroy himself, and that our measure of achievement is the length of time before we do so.


     In free-writing this, an answer has occured to me- that a solution may lie not from without, but from within.  If it is man's fate, given what man is, to destroy himself, then there may be hope in changing man; to fight or eliminate greed, sloth, our drive for ever greater and greater productivity, and our quest for more power; to give up our fear that spurs greater and greater protection.  Yes, I think that's the answer-  change ourselves; Change what our species is, or be eliminated.


     Given this, I feel the future doesn't look bright as greed owns the present, as capitalism takes over our world.


     As I said I think this is something we should be concerned with in the near future, not today.

Poem- Shooting down Superman

Shooting down Superman




Flying high in the air

My sight distracted by him

Revolutionary

Passionate



Are you my strength,

are you my weakness


flying high,

Destroying everything a normal man should love




My gun poised.

Looking through my sight.



My dreams of a normal life;  a normal man


I'm a blue-collar worker.  I come home to a loving wife.  I come home to a home.



I put down the gun.  Look up to Superman.




Land.

Land.

I highly recommend checking this website out

"The Scale of the Universe"

http://www.htwins.net/scale2/



Amen to this comic:

 "The Race of Life"

http://www.viruscomix.com/page531.html

I don't have the Courage, and I don't have the Strength to truly live.

I don't have the Courage, and I don't have the Strength to be happy.

Random Thought

I wish only to be a tool of my own potential; my perceived purpose.

On Living a Good Life

One of the funny characteristics of life, I think, is


Palpable justification for living a good life- with love, courage, and strength, only crystallizes near the end of life.

That could probably be stated better


Difficult to see the importance of the way we run, until we look back on how the race has gone.


But I just wanted to say how I think it's funny-weird, that we only see it clearly at the end.

The Fear of Life

I feel that we are all deep-down, afraid.  The variance comes from how we deal with that fear.  We may have seek to have relationships with those we perceive as strong, for instinctual safety; we may turn to religion to give us a fundamental belief that gives us courage; we may turn to a violent, rebellious attitude to give us a feeling of safety; we may seek courage through friends, through family; we may construct a facade of strength to attempt to fool others, and ourselves, that we are not afraid; we may seek to avoid our fear through busyness; through driving ahead zealously.

Can such a person exist that has true courage within him/herself?  To understand they are afraid- to truly face their fear, and have the true courage, a courage without a source but him/herself, to continue on?  Is such a person possible?


Is the singular courageous person even possible, or must that person have an "external" source of their courage?


If the singular courageous person is possible, then what is required?  A belief in something?  A sense of purpose?  A passionate desire for something?  What is required to face our fear, and continue moving forward?

What is this cruel world that makes me realize my love so vividly after I have lost it?

Sayings from the Internet

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Life is

Pulled forward by beauty, pushed back by fear

Who is Ron Paul?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5I0E75G8-g



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64_UAVUPe4&feature=related

Regarding the Affect of Human Population Growth on Human Progress

 


      Population density will reach a point where its increase no longer aids in the progress of the human race, but hinders it, due to a net excess of energy being "wasted" through dealing with the affects of the density.



A simple illustration is-

Expending energy to deal with famine; the affects of water shortages; aggressive transmittable diseases; various climate change challenges, and the massive amount of energy used in wars over resources,

VS

Investing this energy into education, science, our communities, etc.



      I think it is important that the human race starts thinking of population density as a potential threat to the progress of our species.  I think more important than the threat of our species being "wiped out" by our own unhindered reproduction, is the threat of being held back by it.

A Metaphor for Moving from Escapism and Addiction to Fully Processing and Dealing with Life (Reality)

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My Relationship

My relationship was a flower
I grew into her, and she into me.

I gave promise of warmth and nourishment

She bloomed to me

She brightened up my life and warmed my heart

I fed her;
then abandoned her.
Fed her;
then abandoned her,

Until one day she withered and died.

Now I stand looking at the dry withered flower in my hand