Well am over at my brothers, fooling around on there computer not doing anything much. Downloaded this game and need winrar to extract it... nothing shocking about winrar. So i thought. It turns out that there is currently a virus trojan hiding itself to that useful program. It produces a pop up with comanglia repeated three times and an okay button. It also redirects your internet exploring program. It seems currently no solution other than taking system back to factory setting. So yeah, am feeling like a right goose as I sit here typing this on laptop as my brothers computer does its system restore.
What exactly is a contributing member of society?
Does it just mean jumping through the societies hoops, holding down a job, paying taxes, so on an so forth?
Was Christ a contributing member? If so is that because he was a carpenter? Or does his work in the fields religion and spirituality count?
The impression I get from the world around me at this time is that its the working, paying taxes thing.
Which leaves me ... it leaves me ... I don't know where. As I have said before I am not opposed to working. But is not now nor will it ever be the be all and end of my existence.
(don't reckon that makes much sense to anyone other than me, barely does to me. But working through things in my head and getting it out helps sometimes.)
There are, as far as I can tell, two kinds of people in this world. Those who serve others and those who serve them self.
Those who serve them self often get what they want but are not concerned with what happens to anyone else in the process. Basically they would screw you to get what they want and not bat an eyelid. Yep that is right, pretty much most people fall in that category in the world currently.
And then there are those who serve others. Funny thing about that is, though they don't directly get what they want. By helping others in the long run they generally end up getting their own. With others, those around them also being assisted. It is not even that hard. Yes it is a change in mindset (for some). And it is just the opinion of one man here, but I feel, I think, I believe that the world would be a much better place if we all put others before ourselves. That means even putting those who are out to only serve themselves first before you. Yes! that does at times get frustrating, assisting those who are only helping themselves. Still ... does not change anything. I can only control myself, my actions. And I choose to work at making this world a better place.
2 DEC 2008
The world isn’t exactly improved greatly since the 60/70’s. I mean it is just as shit now as it was then. We still have wars, racism, inequalities. Where is the outrage? Where are the protesters, the people speaking out? Where s the public out cry. With the Vietnam war, race equality, they.. People of that time were passionate, outraged.
I do not get it. Where is the activism? What happen to what appeared to be such a strong movement? All that energy, the caring, the concern, the passion. Now more than ever every man woman and child is able to speak out and put their voices thoughts feeling outrage out there. That is one of the good things about the internet.
Disappointed in my species, my generation, the world. Giving up ones freedoms for security is madness. Giving it up for a sense of security is worse.. And the sense of security is really all those who are offering can truly deliver. There is no real security in what they offer, and many people know this yet everyone plays along. Giving up one liberty after another, and before we know it we will be monkeys in a cage. Let out only to turn our designated cog, or press our designated button to keep the world turning.
It would be nice, it is a nice thought anyway to think that there are enough outraged people that maybe… maybe the voice of the public, the people can be heard. I do not believe that shouting and screaming is the method, like it was in the revolutions of the 60’s and 70’s. These days screams and often ignored. Whispers on the other hand seem to always draw attention. Spread the whispers, share the knowledge. Everyone has the right to know, Everyone has the right to choice Everyone has the right to freedom. Freedom they choose not one that is thrust apon them. Here is hoping that one whisper blends with the next, and the next… before long the voice of the outraged will echo in the wind for all to hear.
When all the sheep are dying their fleece the sheep whose fleece is white is the freak.
I think disillusioned would be the best way to describe how I feel. Disillusioned and disappointed. I do not, am not claiming that I am perfect. Far from it. I am human. And I embrace my humanness. Yet like so many in the world I get distracted entrapped in distractions that keep us from being outraged and being passionate about those things that do matter. Like freedom. Yours, mines, theirs. Those ever tempting ever feeble mindless disstraction that are thrust apon us and keep us from asking why from being passionate being outraged. I mean you see flares of passion sparks of outrage. Glimmers of what is best known as hope.
Really wish I know what to say, what to do. I feel all I can do is speak, write. Voice MY outrage MY passion. For these things have been known to spread like wild fire. If there is spark is bright enough. There is definitely enough friction in the world to cause a few sparks. Life just needs to be breathed in to the fire. So much outrages me that I have trouble knowing where to being. Its not one thing that is wrong, it is everything. Its hypocrisy, ignorance stupidity it’s the window gloss. A pretty frame to distract from a no so great picture. The illusion of effect. Example putting laws, new laws in place. That sound good and in good in theory and in implemented in practice is all well and should be done. But if you are unable to enforce the laws you already have; placing more laws on the ever growing list of laws because they sound good and make the people feel better is pointless. And enforcing them on a haphazard basis does little to affirm law and order. People get away with things… talking on cell phone while driving, riding a bike with no helmet, more often then they are punished. Then they go add more, again sounding great and giving the illusion that something is being done. It will only cause outrage and contempt in those very few are caught and punished. Even the punishment is not really a deterrent. A fine, an annoyance, upsetting revenue raising fine. But the person is likely do it again. Human tend to do things they have success with. So if I have succeeded at riding my bike a hundred times without my helmet and go away with and get caught once. I am likely not to bother buying a helmet if I do not own one and not going to put it on if I do. Such posturing laws with are regularly made and rarely enforced is something that continues to be a source of outrage.
You see something taking place before you. To you whatever the act is it seems wrong. Yet you are asked to be part of it. Do you join?
That is somewhat how I feel about the world in which I currently live. To me, it seems fundamentally flawed. There are numerous things to me which seem glaringly incorrect. Yet I am being told to join in.
If it is wrong, or even if I feel it is wrong, then isn't it still more wrong to be aiding/participating in it?
I feel bad enough for "All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
But they are not asking me to do nothing. They are asking me to be a part of something I feel is flawed.
