Let me get this off my chest

What does it mean to get something off your chest? 

Is it the simple fact that you say it out loud?  If so, anybody can do that anytime...even in front of a mirror if that's what they need. 

Is it telling another human being?  Do we need to tell somebody something that is bugging us, to dispel the stress?  What if that person has nothing to do with the situation.  If the person DOES have something to do with the subject you need to get off your chest, I can understand the feeling of relief. 

Or is it a matter of seeking out another's opinion or solution to that very "something" that you need to get off your chest? 

I'm very disappointed that I haven't heard many comments on the things that you read here.  You can always email your comments.  It's quick and painless.  How am I supposed to know what is right, if I never hear from you whether or not I make sense?  How can I do my best at making your life better, if I don't hear whether or not I'm misguided?  How can we learn the truth, if you dismiss ideas without adding your two cents? 

OK...I got that off my chest.

Justice

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http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_8.html

Lyrics from the band

The Earth,, the wind, the sky, the sea

The birth, the life, the air we breathe

The truth, the lies, the in between

The hate, the love, the waking dream

 

In the waking dream, of all the things unseen, the cycle is complete

The universe has justified my life and set me free

A smile spreads across my face, prepares me for the ride

The setting sun begins to set the perfect way t die.

 

homelessness and vehicle registration

Let me set up a scenario.  I am a homeless man, who owns a car.  I would like to register this car, because I have enough money to pay for a car, but not for shelter.  Shelter is much more expensive than a car.  How do I register my car?  I have no address, and no family and friends to provide me with one.  I do not reside in one town, I reside wherever I land.  I can provide services to scrap together enough for the car, insurance, and food, but no more than that.  What do I do?

A joke, oooor is it?

  The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of 
  Toronto chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" 
  that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, 
  of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
 
  Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic 
  (absorbs heat)?
 
  Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas 
  cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
 
  One student, however, wrote the following:

 
  First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we 
  need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at 
  which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul 
  gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
      As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different 
  Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state 
  that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since 
  there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong 
  to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.
 
  With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls 
  in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of 
  the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the 
  temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has 
  to expand proportionately as souls are added.
      This gives two possibilities:
 
  1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls 
  enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until 
  all Hell breaks loose.
 
  2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in
  Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
      So which is it?
      If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year 
  that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take 
  into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must 
  be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen 
  over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it 
  follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, 
  extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine 
  being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."
 
  THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A

I get arrested for smoking pot, sniffing coke, and taking pills of ecstacy...

But I don't get arrested for wasting my life away with alcohol.  Do you see the problem here?

Some more stuff to think about.

Always looking for reasons to believe that we should regain control of our own lives, I stumbled across this... http://www.pushhamburger.com/criminal.htm is where to find the rest of the story...The majority of Americans have been duped.  Be willing to admit your mistakes.  We aren't perfect, and "going with the crowd" is a good way to ignore those mistakes.  The more peole that admit their mistakes, the more people we will have to bring this criminal government to its knees.  Your mistakes are like little fish in a big pond.  The mistakes by the government and corporationsare giant sharks in this same pond...who pays the price?  Us. 

 

While the 1990s was a decade of booming markets and booming profits, it was also a decade of rampant corporate criminality.

There is an emerging consensus among corporate criminologists.

And that emerging consensus is this: corporate crime and violence inflicts far more damage on society than all street crime combined.

The FBI estimates, for example, that burglary and robbery -- street crimes -- costs the nation $3.8 billion a year.

Compare this to the hundreds of billions of dollars stolen from Americans as a result of corporate and white-collar fraud.

Health care fraud alone costs Americans $100 billion to $400 billion a year.

The savings and loan fraud -- which former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called "the biggest white collar swindle in history" -- cost us anywhere from $300 billion to $500 billion.

And then you have your lesser frauds: auto repair fraud, $40 billion a year, securities fraud, $15 billion a year -- and on down the list.

Recite this list of corporate frauds and people will immediately say to you: but you can't compare street crime and corporate crime -- corporate crime is not violent crime.

Unfortunately, corporate crime is often violent crime.

 

 

The FBI estimates that, 19,000 Americans are murdered every year.

Compare this to the 56,000 Americans who die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis and the tens of thousands of other Americans who fall victim to the silent violence of pollution, contaminated foods, hazardous consumer products, and hospital malpractice.

These deaths are often the result of criminal recklessness. They are sometimes prosecuted as homicides or as criminal violations of federal laws.

And environmental crimes often result in death, disease and injury.

I hope this leads you to go to website I copied this from.  The worst cliche in the world seems to be, "That's life."   "That's life" should refer to the common dangers that all living entities on this planet endure.  A tree who can not hold its branches against the wind.  Oranges that can't survive an early freeze in Florida.  A squirrel who doesn't quite know how to stay out of the automobile's path.  In our case, losing a loved one to accident or natural occurence.