It's Scary

Sleeping at last - Sun

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About A Friend

We became friends many years ago. I was upstate, out in the country, when the cold winter wind blew, around Feb. I make friends easily whilst there and figured I'd tell you about one.
 
We were around the same age. He was this happy go-lucky type, optimistic, just seemed like an all around good guy. But fate brought around him very dangerous and aggressive types. The types that'll snap at you just for looking at them. How he got into that situation, I truly haven't a clue. He was dealt a bad hand. He didn't seem like he belonged. I asked and learned he had no family, no real friends, was obviously down on his luck, and so I felt bad and thought I'd show him what the city life was like, since in all his years he's never been.


Off the bat I liked this dudes careless country ways and said to myself "hmm if I can only learn to be  as careless him". Like he's oblivious to anything serious.

First place we went was a friends BBQ in Long Island. Everyone was having a good time, as was he, mingling with his animated, charismatic and larger than life way. Everyone was glad to make a new friend. Food was great and he most definitely did not hold back.


When we came into the city he had to reign in the shenanigans. He tried (hard) to fall in line, to be "proper" yet upon seeing him, his bushy eyebrows and the unkempt way about him, people would cross the street and look back.

He knew not a thing about hygiene and all he had going for him was that he didn't stink.
I sent him to the barber and he came back looking less disheveled. But he continued on with the same charades.

It's been a while since then, today we're roommies, travel buddies, best wing men ever, and the best possible friends.

I remember like it was yesterday, when we met upstate. I felt I should intervene on behalf of another soul, one whose future would have likely been dim (considering the situation he was in) had I not. Yes, I inconvenienced myself a little bit and it was the best decision ever made.

We're not of the same background, beliefs, or upbringings, but we never judge each other and we get along like brothers despite it all.



After-all, he truly is mans best friend.

That fine line between genius and insane

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Coldplay - Yes

Cash Fools Everyone Around Me

The most notorious lie that ever existed is the idea that if you dont have money, you cant eat. Never mind the fact that there is enough technology and resources today to feed the worlds homeless, still they're allowed to die and starve. Truly a sad reality.

Back in the day they used the barter system but still most hoarded and in the same way, many were left to die. As more and more people began to populate the world, gold became the standard. This applies to todays system as well. Not enough of this useless yellow metal? Well then, starve.

Even 1000 years ago, if people thought about a concept where there is an abundance of things, besides, only profiting from a buyer, imagine the utopia we would be living in today. Forget about building technology that helps these starving kids, too busy building things like for-profit prisons,   You have evangelists stealing from those who believe, in order to fatten their own pockets and bellies. Popular one below. People ask for wealth in their prayers, thats when he says "give and you will get" Then they profit/swindle from this rather simple deception. Jesus Christ said take all your possessions and give them away, yet these guys fly around in G5s personal jets.

I remember once being swarmed with clarity about the goings on and the "system" of how our world works. It matters not that I was on acid. The truth of our oppression became clear. The stage and the play we call politics, is nothing but just that, a play, with characters, puppets with pretty faces. Strings being pulled by some people whose only motivation is power. They don't need more money. They already used some to buy this power that allows them to decide how things will be. You don't like their ideas of our societal system? Well, this massive mafia has henchmen called the NSA, CIA, FBI, State and Township police. Do you think the Rothschilds sit around with their heads in the sand while others (like politicians)  make decisions that can affect their wealth? I think not. Whoops, there goes a fatal accident, an assassination or a suicide. 

There is a gun the CIA used  that shoots ice darts tipped with an undetectable substance that gives the victim a heart attack. Doesn't leave a trace. This was in the 50's and I'm sure many a leader were taken out (quietly) with it. it's pretty advanced. Now imagine what these people are capable of doing today. There are truths we will never ever know.

When you bank roll many royal families, even the formation of countries, like the Rothschilds do, the power and influence is incomparable to any one government.

There is no doubt that a monetary system must be in place. But why does it work the way it does? Money is printed all the time. There is definitely not enough gold in fort Knox to cover this.

 It's a simple fix. We need to focus our resources on "livingry" rather than weaponry.

 I really would love to read this coming from a wealthy person. Truth is, I would much rather have lived during the times of the Cherokee, the Navajo and the like. The quality of life the injuns had is FAR superior than our current soul stealing one. Fine, they didnt have iPhones to stick in front of their faces. These people didn't have skyscrapers with little cubicles to spend their whole day in. They didn't have bombs, they didn't have guns. They didn't have anti-social social networks, that keep our youth inside rather than outside. I'm 34, from Brooklyn and I remember running around the neighborhood, outside, making friends, playing ball. Putting Blockbusters (quarter sticks of dynamite) in mail boxes on the 4th of July. Egging peoples houses, city buses, the police from rooftops in Coney Island on Halloween. If you think about this critically, it's evolving (the anti-social social networks.) Cave men were primitive as hell. Indians much less so, Europeans, etc. Then, just 20 years ago the Internet came along and blew the top off of information technology.

Now we're bombarded, like being hit in the head, with adverts coming from wherever you rest your eyes. Being told how to look, how to talk, the "correct" way to behave. All orchestrated to guide or subconsciously force you to adapt, to conform to the ways some very few want you to be. This, so that you remain confused and in your little bubble. God forbid you look at the whole picture and begin to ask questions.

Native Americans had it right.

Of course technology is important, magnificent things have come about and have advanced dramatically. Even the Injuns created axes and what not which can be considered new technology. Many things are currently broken and dont just dont seem to work right, this isn't by chance. There are also deceptive tactics used against us like pharmaceuticals that suppress cures because they would rather sell medication long term. It's the simplest of economics and it is damn evil. Also, we have fortresses built to house inmates for profit by corporations whose one objective, like any business, is profit. Surplus in supply? That's fine, create demand. Lobby for Rockefeller laws, pay off judges to send innocent kids to Jail, and now we have mandatory sentencing. 

True, we now have airplanes, telephones, cars and what-not, but I'm sure simple souls would rather escape this cleverly formulated, perpetual race which no one ever wins.

I'm not sure when it happened, probably thousands of years ago, but at some point it was decided that quality of life should be suffocated by laborious hardships in order to have "better things". Better things which create a worse life for the "weaker" and the less fortunate. I just think that that era is over. We can go to the moon, even mars today and we cant feed the poor, even house them? I call bullshit.

- End rant

tl:dr 

The system with which society and governance works is broken.

Duvet

I walk around blanketed by light armor that protects the place where I reside, my body. My forward motion is driven by these two extremities attached to me below. Have the same which I use to bring me things above those. Pretty well protected in this blanket fort but never was able to deflect the bombardment of cannons that gets in and leaves a hole in my ships hull through other attributes provided to us with this turtle shell. A sheep walking around in wolf's clothing.

With these eyes open, I witness things. With these ears open, the grapevine speaks loudly to me. This enters and affects the part of us that determines how our thoughts will be that day. For that matter its prudent to speak positive and stay away from those who dont.

Not sure what this force is that drives us humans to be able to live like an efficient machine, but I doubt it just disappears when someone dies. This 'force' might even go to another planet.

People say the big bang created Earth. Evolution happened and here we are. Why dont we think a little further out of the box. Picture yourself a billion gazzilion light years from Earth now. Who created the suns, the moons, planets (perhaps) beings you see around you? Everything working the way it does.

Maybe the universe is square, and you can wingsuit down an infinite black abyss.

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Lost but on the road to Zion

It's been a while and so I figured I'd drop a couple of lines. If I was to say I'm affected by what's going on in the world, I'd say I strut with a crippled limp. The calamity with the Syrian refugees, 99.9% of which are just fleeing war with desperate little ones, traversing across borders. Hoping neighboring countries will open their arms to take them in, but the .01% who are terrorists are damaging this prospect for them. This .01% is enough to instill fear in the native population of these countries and force them to turn away the innocent people - who like the Jews were during the Holocaust - are just trying to escape certain death.

Analyzing both sides of the conflict, this spate of stabbings in Israel is truly terrorizing. Yes, innocent Israelis are being killed and seriously injured by Palestinian youths. This is unforgivable and they don't deserve it. It's truly sad that their leaders don't build universities or proper educational institutions with the billions in financial aid they get from the global community. Forget about the history of the conflict for a second, look at what's going on today in Gaza and the West bank. My Jewish and Israeli friends will hate me for saying this, but there really is no prospect for growth or prosperity for these Palestinian youths - NONE. Imagine not being able to foresee any good happening to you in the future, no formal education, just the teachings of the Quran. Fact is, if one is going to take the violent parts of the Quran fanatically, then there is no doubt they will commit these acts.

I never thought I'd say this but it's true. It seems Vladimir Putin is the least corrupt politician out of the lot today. A one time gangster out of Leningrad (a violent part of Russia) he went on to be the head the KGB and took control of the country at some point, how I am not sure, but he is today with no doubt the most powerful person in the world.

Recently a person went, took hostages, killed some people and shot a few cops in a planned parenthood. You may be thinking 'why are you even bringing this up, doesn't compare to other, worse things happening in the world' but I do because it's ludicrous that unarmed black people are shot and killed by police all the time. This guy was calmly arrested and you can see in his mugshot that he walked away from the incident completely unharmed. This double standard is unacceptable in a society that is supposed to be just and equal. 

Parisians are in shock because of this terrorist attack that happened to them recently. It's said it is the worst attack on their soil since WW2. I can't think of a more cultural, artsy and peaceful people. It took one day for the Nazis to beat them and take over their country. This is because they're lovers, not fighters and they couldn't fathom the aggressiveness and brutality of the Germans at that time. They're not very fond of Americans but unlike these blindly patriotic Trump supporters, you really can't blame them for that. Who the fuck else overthrows democratically elected leaders and steals their resources? Sadly, we do. 

People say focus on the good, but in the 34 years that I've been present in this world, I don't remember more conflict and catastrophe. Not to say there hasn't been before my time, surely there was worse.

Lots more I can note here but I gotta run. Lets just hope the scale will tip towards peace and love, not hatred and tragedy.

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Wild but in stealth

I must digress
I'm in a sloppy mess.

Can't confess
But it has me stressed

I could say this
Lovely summer is being missed

All around hard knocks sound

Like a clown with a frown

Like it's a sin to grin

Right now glee is foreign
Like the first person born

But it's apparently unnecessary
Like throwing innocence in solitary

Seeking opportunity
Like a trader with mutiny

What to do I don't know
Like Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams so dark the days of late
Wandering aimlessly with 0 fate

An island paradise
I long for a slice

To close I pose
To blend with all of those

Like an owl does a mouse
Seeking a cause to espouse

From up I gaze
Down, but they say it's just a phase

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So Recent

This was an actual game played at circuses & carnivals, mostly in celebration of "INDEPENDENCE DAY", all over America from the late 19th century well into the early 1940s. 3 balls cost them a dime to hit a grinning Black CHILD peeking through a platform painted to resemble an African jungle while the child's head appeared through the open mouth of a crocodile. This is a part of our history that you will NEVER see in any textbook or any class. 

Bang Bang in original French version!

Bonfire w/fam

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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

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