Sports and their minor relevance

In this world of placing trivial values on monumental consequences and monumental values on trivial consequences, I would like to offer the following. In the grand scheme of things, sports are not all that we have to live for. Sports do, however uplift the spirit on many occasions.

New Englanders have enjoyed two Super Bowls and a World Series since the year 2001. Two dismal professional teams facing ultimate defeat year after year rose above all the expectations. The New England Patriots recovered from a devastating injury to their starting quarterback, only to win the Super Bowl with a back-up quarterback fighting the odds every step of the way. In fact, the Patriots have transcended the yearly success by instilling an attitude of positivity and teamwork. They found men who could connect with each other to excel in their pursuits.

The Red Sox proved how going through life without taking things too seriously can relieve the pressures that each and everyone feels day to day. They too, showed us what it means to be a team. They also showed us why we should never give up. When all is said and done, they know that if they fail…it is because there was absolutely no way to succeed. Yet, even the times when it seemed there was no way to succeed, they proved that nobody should give up on their goal.

Sports in themselves, seem to provide trivial entertainment. Can a sports team affect your daily life? If you say it can, than you must realize that these two teams have provided a very important message. Don’t ever give up…believe in your teammates…meanwhile you will see why the human race continues to press on. You will see why it is unwise to give up or rest on your laurels. Either way, you will not be giving your best, and that will lead to regret.

debit cards

     I am concerned with the growing popularity of debit cards.  The reason I use them is partly because of the advertised convenience.  It is so easy to spend my money when I need it, even if I forgot to hit the ATM... and partly because I know that the money in my pocket is the same as the money in my bank account.  So if I keep the money in the bank, it doesn't get lost as easily. 
     This is where the problem comes in.  As you may or may not know, I'm a licensed electrician, doing business for myself.  I usually get paid cash, and when I get paid by check I usually go to the bank the check was drawn on to get my cash.  Many people like me, want to keep control of their own money, either for tax purposes, or, or...ok I guess it's just tax purposes.  Not me, of course...but let's just say that they convince us to use debit cards and checks and do away with paper money. 
     In that event, all of my money would have to be in a bank account in order to spend it.  Which means 1.  There is a computer record of all money that I have.  2.  All peoples giving me money would have access to deposit the money in my account.  3.  The banks would have control of the money.
     The problem is, some of us have debts to banks that don't allow us to have a checking account and some of us have even exploited a checking account to spend money we don't have.  If we are required to let the banks control our money, we would lose a way to help tear down the system that enslaves us and robs us of our labor.  That would help the government eliminate those guys that always keep all of their money in cash, and skirt their taxes.  Good for the government, bad for us.  Also, once we put our money in total control of the system, we could be robbed for more money.  How?
     When you get a ticket, you may be in a situation where you barely have enough to eat, let alone pay that ticket.  But with your money in control of the bank, the government can force you to pay that ticket.  An indirect result is that you will be forced to follow their rules, because if they find you guilty you could be seriously fucked.  Once that happens, they can pass any crazy law they want, and you will have no recourse...except of course to steal everything you need to survive.  As the thefts increase, the iron fist of government will impose even more laws, furthering the difficulty in your life.
     I would prefer to live in a world with no money, but that is another story.  As long as we slowly give up control of the tokens we gained by slaving over a job, we are actually helping them enslave us even more.
     No matter what, we cannot allow the government to do away with paper money.  As soon as they do, we are giving them permission to fuck us even harder.  In a hotel room in Las Vegas, that's not such a bad thing...but in day to day life?  You decide.

Thank god for the workers, we wouldn't want to bankrupt the multimillion dollar companies.

As the world spins in the turmoil of war and attempts at international exchange, we realize that an entire earth full of humans haven’t exactly agreed completely with one another. On the simplest level, humans share the need for food, water, air, and it helps to have sleep. Instead of destroying the humans that haven’t been around as much civilization as us, we need to find out what their ideas on life are…some of their ideas may be religiously based, but so are most of the morals in America. Once you get past the simple commonness, we web out into many ideas…it is those ideas, and the ability to share those ideas that make us great. War remains necessary until we realize this.

The internet may teach us something about this.  On the simplest level it is a means for boxes of silicon (read 'computers')  to share ideas.  These ideas are then categorized.  On AOL for example, the 'welcome screen' has listings of topics to the left side.  Such as news, sports, jobs, kids, music, as so forth.  If you click on these they take you to other screens that are broken down into sub-categories...So many of the 'welcome screen' subjects I've never looked at...imagine how many sub-categories I haven't looked at.  It's up to each individual person to decide which of those categories interest them.

Without computers there would be ZERO categories, ZERO sub-categories.  Just like without food, air, and water there are no humans to become individuals.  I guess I'm trying to demonstrate how unimportant each individual is to having life exist on this planet.  Each individual is only in control of his/herself.  It's the sharing of these multitudes of sub-categories that may bring humans together.  Individual creativity was important for inventions born from necessity.  But whose necessity? 

Tell me why my car has a computer chip in the key to prevent it from getting stolen.  I don't care if my car is stolen, the insurance company does.  You may care if your car is stolen, and for you...these transponder keys help you keep your car.  Why should I pay $100 to get a new key for my car, when I could just go to Home Depot, and make a copy?  And why is it so important to save the insurance companies' money?  Aren't they one of the richest businesses in America?  Do you think they would buy my new transponder key under my insurance policy since it is their own money they want to protect?  No way, you're foolish if you think so.  So you and I, who probably earn the smallest fraction of the insurance companies' profits, are forced to spend even MORE of our hard-earned dollars to protect an insurance company...No fucking wonder we see so many frivilous lawsuits...people are PISSED OFF at the government, and all it's bullshit...but with the police, military, and the "threat" of terrorism, they are afraid to say anything.  My mother is afraid that the government will find out what I have been saying and put me in jail as a terror threat.  You and I both know that I am examining the government and it's practices.  Not trying to claim holy land, not to push my religious beliefs on you, and not under some mystical power that nobody has ever been able to prove.  Why is it that we can prove just about every facet of life by looking at the facts, but we can't prove the existence of any god?

Ok I'm rambling...keep searching.  If you live blind to what is happening to you, you may never realize how free you were meant to be.   

Please realize these simple truths

As I spit this shit at all the people who ask, I find myself realizing that many many people agree with what I am saying.  Most of them hadn't put a lot of thought into it, but some of them were even afraid to voice their opinions in fear of ridicule from the normal people.  First of all, there is mentally no such thing as a normal person.  A normal person only refers to physical characteristics...A living being that breathes air, drinks water, and eats food to stay alive.  After that, our individuality takes control.      

     Revolution is a scary thing.  It means war on our homeland.  It means the fear of fear itself.  It means that somebody somewhere maybe sacrificed.  If you look at our troops overseas, you will realize that we sacrifice humans anyway.  As the iron fist of the government starts to grip your soul with more laws to take your freedoms away, infinite inflation, more warning signs and labels, the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer...Sure the poor people make more $'s than they used to, but do those dollars buy the same things? 

     The revolution will come someday...unfortunately it may not even correct the problem, but it will get better...the more educated we become, the more history we have to draw on, the faster we will come to our conclusions.

what is time?

They say that money is the root of all evil. Having it lends yourself to the evils of being able to get away with the things that the have-nots get punished for ; the evils of judging and/or snubbing the people who don’t have money. Knowing that you can buy somebody else’s pride, imagination, intellect, and labor can lead you to become idle. Idle hands are the devil’s work is a popular cliché. Not having money lends yourself to the exploitation of the weaknesses of the people that have it. It causes you to lie, cheat, and steal to attain money, and all the luxuries it affords. That evil is usually directed at the people who have money. In reciprocation, the haves will try to oppress the have-nots which will lead to unsatisfactory living conditions. Is it easy to see how much evil is created by money?

Time is money. Notice how you spend time, and spend money? The grammatical interpretation would be that you use the same word, spend, to describe your actions with time and money. Application of that statement, however, runs much deeper. You have to spend time to make money, and spending money can save you time. How much of each usually depends on where you fit in to the social class system. If you use your time to help save another entity (one or many humans) time or money, you can make money for yourself. If you don’t have enough time to help yourself, you can use that money to save time. If I install a light in a room with a switch near the door to enter the room, I am saving time for the owner of that room. They don’t need to find a flashlight and make sure it has batteries to find their way in the room during the dark hours. On a more natural level…they don’t need to find a candle and light that candle to enter the room. They simply need to flip a switch as they walk in the room. For this, they will spend their money to give it to me. If I don’t have enough time to do my laundry for clean clothes, I can spend some of that money to have somebody do it for me. While I spend that money, I could possibly be out making more money while somebody does my laundry. I could also spend the time that I gained by spending money, by doing another task that I need, or even spend the time to do something I enjoy.

When you cause the masters of money to lose some of their money, you may be taking away some of their time. If they catch you, they will demand that you spend time or money to repay them. A fine or retribution may repay them to their satisfaction. Sometimes you may be allowed to spend your time helping the community to repay them. By helping the community in this way, you save the master’s charity money, which in turn saves them time, or allows them to use the money on other helpful causes. If you can not repay the master in these manners, you must spend, or waste your time in jail or prison. While in prison you lose a lot of time and money, but the masters, and effectually your tax-paying peers also lose money. They use some of your time to save money on the costs of running a house for your criminal peers. The only way to avoid all this is to spend your time being cautious not to waste the master’s money, or to spend your time avoiding this fate by devising plans to avoid being caught, running from the police, or hiding from the police. In the end you spend time or money when you waste the master’s money. How much you lose isn’t completely uncontrollable, but it is inevitable.

Money makes the world go ‘round. The desire of the have-nots or even the have-not-as-muches to become the haves can quite possibly be the reason anything gets accomplished under a system of money. Somebody needs a house, somebody builds it for them for monetary compensation and the result is another place of shelter for humans, and money for another human to spend on his needs. In this way, development and advancement can occur. Under a monetary system it is virtually the only way advancement occurs. Time, in it’s true definition, is a measure of the world going ‘round. Each time the world goes around 360° , we label that measurement “a day.” Shorter and longer amounts of time can be measured by: Is the sun in the sky, or not? (day and night) What angle does the sun’s rays hit the Earth? (seasons) How much of the moon is illuminated? (weeks) Has the moon completed it’s illumination cycle? (months) Is it high tide, or low tide? (Hours)

If time is money, and money makes the world go ’round…isn’t it time that makes the world go ’round? If money is the root of all evil, isn’t time the root of all evil? If money makes the world go ’round, then the root of all evils makes the world go ’round. So should we accept that we live on an evil planet? The ridiculousness of some of these notions will hopefully cause you to reconsider some of the ideas that you have been following. Time is relative,it is not the same for even each of us human beings, let alone the pets that live an entire life in 7-10 years or the housefly that lives it’s entire life within a day or two. Just remember…a stitch in time saves nine…dollars.

Coming soon!!!!

Yeah right, like I'm gonna spoil this beautiful personal forum with advertising.  Get a life.

I pulled this out of an article on the web

I had to shorten this a little bit, but I did not change the intent, or content...or the intent of the content...or something.

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