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23rd-Dec-2006 01:19 pm(no subject)
check it don't wreck it

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fo shizzzal!
28th-Jan-2006 01:32 pm(no subject)
Here we go...

Kuwaiti oil field begins slowing down. It's a good thing that we aren't activily resolving alternative fuel issues. I guess the oil level is God's hour glass for armeggedon. These ARE the latter days, and we DO need SOMETHING to trigger the great final war between the abrahamic religions, we the lovable, just misguided Jews are destroyed, the Onward Christian Soldiers crush the heathen Muslims and the world is totally destroyed!!! YAY, i mean first the rapture where Jesus, who has returned in the form of a Bush child, (republican, of course!!!) and lead the world in a thousand years of peace (which is natural for it to be a perfectly round number), under his totalitarian, big brother, violent, iron fist,... i mean his benevelont leadership and structured guidance...

Fuck, it is dumb as shit how the religious world writes off everyone else in the world in their 'reveleations' of the future, except those who were known at the time of writing them.
Chinese who?? oh they won't be involved of course. Russia and Indians and the african? whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/localnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=37595069
Kuwait's biggest field starts to run out of oil
Business - Starless and Bible Black - 8 Comments
01/28/06 - - - (Link)
KUWAIT: It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field. The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.7 million barrels per day, and not the two million barrels per day forecast for the rest of the field's 30 to 40 years of life, Chairman Farouk Al-Zanki told Bloomberg. He said that engineers had tried to maintain 1.9 million barrels per day but that 1.7 million is the optimum rate. Kuwait will now spend some $3 million a year for the next year to boost output and exports from other fields.
6th-Jan-2006 04:23 pm(no subject)
“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”

-William Shakespeare

“There are only two things you “have to” do in life. You “have to” die and you “have to” live until you die. You make up all the rest.”

-Marilyn Grey
5th-Jan-2006 10:26 pm - Evil is the counterfeiting of Virtue
Lets talk about one evil son of a bitch. No, not bin laden. Or stalin. Or the Keebler Elves.

Lets talk about Pat Robertson. Wow. This dude has influence over a huge section of America. He is a hate mongering old fart that, is CERTAIN that he is the morally righteous bastion of hope for humanity! Helping the rapture come a little bit sooner.

He argues against peace and in favor of destruction.
talk about taking the "lord's name in vain"! this fucker wears it on his sleeve and preaches the OPPOSITE message of love, tolerance, and charity that this Christ dude was talking about. I guess it is just old school, medival Christianity again. W00T Crusades! Let get us some Jerusalem! Lets pretend to be friends to the Jews so they will be destroyed sooner!

He sees violence being totally acceptable, even heavenly, just because they fit into his pre-conceived idea of how the book of revelations goes down.
Has anyone heard of "self fulfilling prophecy"???

His latest antic is the statement that essentially God is killing Israeli PM Sharon because he is leaving some areas in the Israel/Palestine/holy land/shit hole alone for the Palys to live in.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/robertson.sharon/index.html

This constant praise for death and love of the destruction of others, even if justified like wanting bin Laden dead or captured, is the core evil that has fused itself to the religious right in ALL communities.

Pat Rob is a man that has let his fear and hate and arrogance and weakness and wrath rule his perspective. Imagine if he had grown up in a less tolerant nation than the US of A.

Would he have established a fanatic religious institution with a attitude of superiority that he uses to call for the deaths of his enemies?

He is doing that now! This psycho puts virtue on destruction and claims that the EVIL is the one who is trying to reconcile differences and establish PEACE!!!

……

AARGRGARGARHARHARHAHRHHHHHHHHHHHHARRAHRAHRHARHARH!!!!!!



What would “Jesus” do?

Well he sure as shit would NOT be Christian.

http://ihatepatrobertson.com/
don't know if i talked about it much here, but let me share with you the key to all this shit - Identity. It is the single most powerful motivator in the human psyche.
nationalism, religion, cliques, political parties, geographical communities -
They all use identity to solidify the group, and to gain power.

the biggest problem is the identities that have disconnected them selves from reality.
If it is ok to base your morals on an imaginary element for your self (Christian Armageddon) than you have abandoned all the tools you need to combat the same ludicrous system of thinking that leads to Terrorism being ok because of the afterlife rewards (but really it is the identity of the group, rebel psychology and sacrifice values that do that)
5th-Jan-2006 10:10 pm(no subject)
I was going to write earlier about how cool it was to have me amigos y me familia at a suprise birthday party for me self over the Christmas holiday, whilst spent in ol' town USA. But I didn't. It was totemo suteki, though.

I'm back in my lonely NorthWest, living a solitary life with zoujaty (my wife) and kelby (my dog). I work and they get home and eat and then dick around with games or the internet then i sleep.

I need to keep writing my novel. 112 pages so far. I estimate it will take 3 to 4 hundred to get her done.

I've always been a big picture guy. This helps in concockting the epic 8 novel story that will shatter all previously known records for bad ass-i-tude, as well as provide a cool perspective on existence, however it does incline me away from the discipline i need to get shit completed. And the stick to it -ivness, and what not.

But 112 is nothing to shake a biscotti at. It will eventually be finished. I just need to put in the time.

On antoher note, I've applied for many more jobs i wont get!! They were good ones too!!
We may still do the JET program and move to Japan and teach Eigo (english) to the kiddies there. Which would rock much. I was there summer of 04 and let me tell you - Nippon wa subarashii desu yo!

EAT THE CHEESE!!!
SUCCUMB

Bubbles rise in the black
Like desperate memories, small and cluttered
They slip between fingers
And flee into the distance above

The weight crashes down
And in
All around
The pressure is a cold new skin
Laid by the endless dark
It stretches with every motion
Unable to be shed

Everything is empty
Outside
But bursting and warm and vibrant
From within
The skin
The shell against the black

The red pushes back
Even as the pressure grows
All around
Pushing deeper into the depths
Of a star-less space
19th-Dec-2005 12:17 pm - Syriana
If you ever thought to your self, "Just what is up with the Middle East anyway?" then Syriana is for you!

Unlike most of the news media exposure about ye ol' sherq alwasit, Syraina gives you a complex and largely un-judgmental image of the oil bus, and all those that are entangled w/ it.

Sure it's fiction, but the elements that it gets you to consider as factors in the ME/oil/politics/society/terrorism dynamic are CRUCIAL considerations that you don't get from new media -

The news will report A STORY. This is an intro into the WHOLE dynamic. It incriminates all the party's involved. There are not saints and there are no demons-
Only a world of uncertainty - the state of nature survives, and the ruthless rule.

The short version is - The Middle East is Fucked Up

But is it very interesting to look into some of the real factors as to WHY it is fucked up.

One fascinating element that Syriana illustrates is the huge element of surface values and retaining the image of high minded politics and business, as well as the gigantic underbelly of all that goes on which is later ignored or controlled or spun to show a pleasant light.

Perhaps this is an extention of the human soul? or at least the psychological by-product of religious morality through applied to society by surface judgements over a long period of time. Is it really ok for you to cheat on your spouse as long as she doesn't know and the surface remains clean? Is it ok to destroy progressive reformers simply because they may actually help their own people more than yours, all as long as the facade of Virtue is kept intact?

And when the ugly truth comes out, there is already a scapegoat / pay off dynamic to repair it.

Would society be better off fighting for consistent moral standards? Or do we need to develope a moral ethic that accepts the limits and fears and self-interests we all have, and deal with them honestly in the light of day?

Or does humanity demand double standards, the surface image and the dirty hidden acts? Do we need to lie to ourselves?

I think the better route is the grey line between the two, dictated by your own active conscience.

But reason and complex reality can't compete with Black and White marketing to steal all the votes...

Unlesss you can find a way to make such sales unfavorable...
But with the huge majority of citizens that believe in Pure good and pure evil already, ....blah!
17th-Dec-2005 09:03 pm(no subject)
Here is my comments in politicsforum, here on LJ.

Even Christian Democracts are less black and white than the Republican base. Sure the Dem have their share of wackos, but liberal have to deal with progressed ideas - that means that there is apre-existing infrastrute of secuirty and economy to build onto.

Reality is NEVER simple and anyone that panders/markets the black and white perspective is taking the easy route to votes, which works =(,instead of the visionary route that this nation was built on.

Lets not lie here. Big business interest and the politican the fund favor stability (with = status qou, which = I am still rich) over progress (which = change/uncertainty/and taxes).

There is a good arguement in favor of that. And people that would elect someone based SOLEY on their ability to wear their religion and their stance on abortion on their sleeves (while knowing that they wont do anything to change the stalemate/ stability) may deserve to be used. They, after all, chose it.

I just hope that our dear politician/CEOs are smart enough to not actually believe in the "value" of Armegeddon. Let's hope they are greedy enough for money and shit that they don't value "70 virgins" or "Jesus Crispy Treats" over cold hard cash.

Maybe, dispite screwing over any one they can get away with, it will be GREED that will save us all.....
17th-Dec-2005 08:38 pm - Intoxi-Nation!
Me and me esposa were at some Super Duper Mall thing supporting the Capitalism Orgy that is Christmas when we decided to get I- to the talian.
We want that there Spagetti factory, but didn't have the nearest barnswallow of a clue as to where is could be. This led to the use of zoujity's GPS thing and we were OFF!!!

Th point is this - I ate nothing but a beef crispy stick thing from Taco Time th whole day - than I had a Tuscan Cosmo in the lounge whilst we waited for our table.

Then a Mango Margarita.

I love you guys. Life is goooooooood. =P
17th-Dec-2005 10:54 am - Penn
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557

Got this from rl friend

http://www.livejournal.com/users/sidewayzbob/

Believing in No God puts value in reality and responsibility on us.

“I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough… It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. ”

It is always encouraging when I learn about people that see the world the way I do. I am not alone in my perspective.

We just need to organized now, and develope political pressure for progress!! =P
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