| I opened my eyes one day and thought to myself. I am a robot like everyone else. I am overtaken by the wrong kinds of commercialism. I have my computer, my truck and other things sure. It comes down to a better balance of things we have today, while at least putting forth effort into what has always been here. I would never place myself as an equal, or below a person, that lives a life with their kids eating at mcdonalds 4 days a week. I would never consider myself less or equal to a person that puts nothing fourth into the planet itself, but instead to an invisable entity, while ignoring its creation. Some would call this my ego, I call it caring for what I see every day. If a person wants to degrade my way of thinking, to justify their shitty life they are free to do so, just don't expect me to follow along. As I have done in the past while seeing others do so much more for a planet than me, I don't degrade their efforts and achievements. I admire them, I learn from them, and grow with what they teach. My computer has reached out to people in which I have given a different view on things. It has to do with people putting an honest effort forth into many areas that are neglected. Not really having to go from here to living in a cave, but areas where things could be so easily improved. Though I would drop all I have now to go back to a time where things were not so complex and machine made, but the reality of that is, there's far greater of a chance for people to at least draw a little focus on what's being ruined, then to have everyone drop all they have now. It is too bad in a world that we live in today, some of us are even forced to use certain things of modern times, in order to live in this current world normally. Things that could be created with far greater ideas, and have less of an impact to the world negatively. Though some of this is getting out of our control due to certain governments and corporations. People have a voice, theres just not enough of them that care enough in the right areas. Some things are becoming better though. |
......Religion...... |
I respect religions to an extent of any kind as long as its good for that person, betters their life and the world as long as it does not interfere with another persons life in a very direct or negative way. I suppose that is why I have little respect for Christianity, although I keep to myself mostly, as there is already too much debate about it and war out there. It bores me for the most part to argue with people into this faith heavily as I have done in the past. It seems many I debate with just begin to babble and make no sense. Mostly with the answers ending with "because God said", or because "the bible says it, it is Gods divine plan.", without a drop of blunt obvious truth, but only interpretations that can be manifested into a million meanings. You might as well not talk to me if your that shut out from reality to a point where the babble is making no sense. I have known only a few great people that were heavy into this religion and it never seemed to bring us to much conflict because they respected my beliefs. I also have gone out with women of the Christian religion and again theres no problems as long as they can accept my beliefs. I like paganism for it's dealings with the outdoors or nature, and Buddhism for it's peacefulness. I do not have any one religion, I just admire a few out there, that pay more focus on the obvious. Although I am sure many religions have gone through violent times, nothing compares to the destruction that the Christian religion has caused. |
......Christianity...... |
| I was asked a question by someone that believed in the Christian based, God. "Well, Luke, you think others are close minded. Doesn't that make you close minded to not believe in something in which you cannot see?" Faith is it? No, I am not close minded because I do not believe in your God in which I cannot see. Isn't it more close minded to believe in one entity that you can't see, and call it the only answer? I believe there are things I can't see in which can't even be fathomed or dreamt about by the human mind. I believe there's many things out there. However, I do not presume to logically know what that is. I can't see it, so sorry if I can't explain it. I do not need to cling or believe in something grand and invisible, so I can feel better about living and dying. Especially if that something is unseen and rules out all possibilities of anything else, and strips away the rights of human nature, and calls it a sin. I am very open minded, with the belief of endless possibilities. Some people speak of how the power of the Christian god struck them in the shower, or how they feel it in a large church with hundreds of people. I believe the human mind has the ability to manifest many feelings. If you think hard enough about something, there are feelings that can be conjured I believe by chemical reactions of the mind. Whether it's by praying, or a deep meditation that can bring on the minor feelings in the stomach, a roller coaster ride at a theme park could provide. Or perhaps it's the chills up your spine, stemming from such an intense focus on a particular belief or action. Some people feel peaceful in a church, and it can be relaxing to be in such a quiet place, because of what it is supposed to represent. Even now walking into a church can bring a form of relaxation, but not because of some Christian enlightenment. I could gather the same feelings from other places, that encompass other followings or religions in which their places of worship would be more into the nonviolent and peaceful side of things. It is too bad that some forms of peace are not utilized more outside of these places of worship. It seems that people kill in the name of god in order to justify murder. In effect, destroying the happiness their religion is supposed to bestow upon a person. Feelings of euphoria could very well be spiritual in a sense, as I have felt things come on to me in which made me feel a greater connection to the earth, but I also was not sitting and making attempts to have these feelings, they came upon more naturally, and unexpectedly. I also did not tie these feelings to a religion, just because it was pushed on me, or because it was what I was raised to believe in. Even so, "non-self induced" religious feelings that many people have, I believe are read wrong in many ways, and the reason I say this, is because many of the feelings people have draw them to grasp onto a belief system or religion that is so destructive, or a belief system that holds no logical explanation to prove itself as being true. It seems logical to me that a belief system should not focus on something we can't see, but more so what we can. In taking care of what we walk on, in a sense is to help maintain what the creator has created. That in itself will surely please whatever is out there, that we can't see, as opposed to pleasing an invisible entity by not having premarital sex. The feelings I have had, have actually drawn me away from my beliefs in Christianity. There was a time where I called myself a Christian. I find it ironic that after I changed my diet to most things organic and much of it vegetation, quit smoking chemical filled cigarettes, and went through more so a "food cleansing," that my mind changed, and soon after my beliefs had almost seemed to change overnight. It was like my mind expanded on it's own, without even trying to change my beliefs at all. It just happened, and when it did, I saw no reason to connect it to an irrational belief system. I don't claim to have the answers to everything that is right or wrong by any means. I simply attempt to put into these writings what I find to be more realistic. I feel my beliefs are more logical than 800 year old men, talking bushes, giants that get their ass kicked with a modified slingshot, and a fucking wizard that can part water. But, what if it was all true? Well, sorry folks, I need a little more than a 2000 year old book to prove this. A book filled with everything natural seeming to be a sin, and with stories better than Dr Seuss's animated creations. Until all this happens, my beliefs will stay as they are now, until the evidence presents itself in an obvious fashion. Blind faith, in one possible entity, is a closed mind. |
......Faith...... |
Although some of this may be touched in previous texts, I would like to elaborate a little more on this topic. Faith in an invisible god is one of the most irrational things a person can have. I see no logic behind it at all. Say there are religions A and B, both stating that their religion is the only one. They both had that warm fu feeling in their stomachs as they showered one morning, they both had thoughts to the point of releasing chemical endorphins in the brain to give them that "touched by god" effect. Or maybe it was a greater force, perhaps they just interpreted it wrong. Point is, there is no way to ultimately say that this feeling or how you were raised makes your religion the only way or you will be shoved into a world of damnation. You can't prove one religion is true over all others. You can only claim this because your teachings or books state it. Or else you use the almighty answer to the questions, "How is your religion the only true one?" "How do you know your god is real?". Many would reply, "Because I have faith". I am sorry, this does not answer or prove your religion is the only one in a factual way. This is a very primitive mind set. It's hard to understand where people do not get the logic in which faith in such religions is not a rational way to think. I think these types of beliefs takes our efforts away from what we walk on everyday. A place that gets shit on. A place where, in order to live a normal life, we have to use gasoline engines, when we had things running on water ages ago. In the least maybe we could change a few things in life that we didn't care about before. Things that would directly impact the earth, which, in the cycles of life, could effect everything on it, not just the humans that inhabit it. I know faith can give a person comfort instead of the idea that there is nothing there after death. However, I do believe that something does not come from nothing. I just feel whatever "it" is, divine or great, even though I may not know what it is, I will be rewarded for my overall improvement on earth, to the earth itself and to all living things on it. A person brought up within a certain religion, stands a good chance they will keep these beliefs as they get older. They will still keep the "faith" in this religion. This does not however make them or the religion they follow right, or factual. There is no logic or proof in being able to place one religion over the other. |
......Satanism...... |
No, I have many interests, it is too bad that the color black tells many people that a person is evil and then link it to Satanism. To me I find Satanism to be more of an unrealistic part of Christianity, considering it is linked to liking or living in a way that Christ, God or the bible was against, but more for what the body naturally feels. To me this is based on the natural feelings and actions of a person, a way of life that was far before the time that the word Satanism has existed. I do and still believe, that many younger people are into Satanism, for the purpose of rebelling or gaining attention. I do however believe that there are people out there legitimately into Satanism for what they believe it is and stands for. I just don't see it a fit label for a way of life that has far surpassed the label itself by the amount of time it has been around. Some Satanists say its always been around, some say it for the reason that its not that they don't believe in Christ, it's that they just do not choose to worship him, therefore still believing Christ or God was around since the beginning, then the belief of Satanism always being around would follow. I guess this just goes with my beliefs. Then again even many Satanists interpret there own religion differently. At least the modern form of Satanism seems a tad bit more less vulgar or violent then in old times.Even the orgin of the word satan in Hebrew, has always carried a "shady" definition. I simply do not think it is right to label a way of life that has been here forever, especially with a word so many associate with lies, deception, and pain in which is mostly linked with Christianity, even though I do not believe that's what the modern version intends. I call this common sense way of life, living, but not to rule out change that would slip from the category many Satanists would deem as just there label, or life. My living and beliefs do not fit under any one religious topic, or at least one I have seen. |
...... Symbolism...... |
The Green Man. I think what he stands for, or more so the definition of the name, the connection to and the beauty of nature. The birth and growth of everything green. I also find the art of the Green Man visually appealing. |
...... Children...... |
For me to plan on having a child, I would need to live away from the cities and much of the influence. In a world of shitty people, I would not feel wrong in adding someone to the world with an open mind, perhaps to replace my life with someone taught to be great to the planet and open to possibilities. I would never subject my child to the school systems that strip children of the struggling development of their individuality, in which can mold them into the mindless things we see everyday that shit on the planet. I have had my close calls in life. The whole girlfriend going "Oh No, I am late on my cycle." bit. I am not incapable of mistake, but I would learn and make the best of it and definitely raise my child different and to know what is really important in life, that being the earth. This to me is all common sense. Without the earth, no one lives. A child of mine will be far different from the average child you would see today. Brought up to not worship something I deem as false until proven otherwise, but if anything, to worship a planet (born of balance and wrecked by humanity), just through their nature loving actions to the earth itself. So far I have been well off for not having any unplanned children. What I speak of are the people that continue to multiply knowing full well their actions, as I will always believe many in 3rd world countries do. If you live in an area infected with filth, then why would you have kids? Much of it is selfishness. People wanting to live that life of a husband wife and children no matter what the bad status of their living conditions might be. This wouldn't be so bad if people were only raised to have more focus on what they grow to ignore or destroy eventually. Perhaps more common sense on having a child to replace you and your companion at the most, and teaching them "real" values. The population in itself, continuing to move, grow and think the way it does is the single most unnatural destruction to the earth. What else would it be? |
...... Humanity...... |
Yup, your right. Earth comes first, not living creatures that spread constant filth to destroy it. I could care less if the majority of people on earth got wiped out. If people were more in tune to nature and what is right, or needs to be done, my love for humanity could only grow. At least the people I touch with whatever wisdom they think I possess, or with the ability to teach them about nature, natural healing, or anything for that matter linked to planetary issues, makes me get a caring feeling for a few people out there that may be giving it an honest attempt at change. I never push people away or feel uncaring towards them when they are ones that are changing for the better. The ones I speak of that I do not care for is in the majority that decides to shut out what is real. Even the uncaring, that are interested in change, the ones that reach out, I could only grow to like or share knowledge. The only problem is, most people speak of changing, mostly to impress someone of individuality, or the person they see as doing good, but in reality when they walk away. They really do nothing. I have seen it many times. Most are just to lazy. I do have fun hanging around my friends, and I care about them to an extent, even the friends that care little of what I speak of. I still meet people of all kinds, and I like to make friends. I am at least feeling better knowing many I speak with will at least leave with a different view on things, not by having to tell them, but just by them seeing me as an example through my daily life. The world should always come before humanity. I hope someday that humanity can become something I more so love, than dislike. So many people like the song Imagine by John Lennon, but so few seem to understand what it says and means. |
......Mainstream...... |
This is an area that at times is hard for me to understand. With all the different kinds of interests and followings it hardly seems to make a difference on the actual individual person. So many people put themselves into a little group, or have interests that they would deem as pulling themselves out of the mainstream. In reality so many I have run across don't seem much different. It seems it is more of a visual art form, yet mentally most people are on the same level about the importance of what is real in the world. I find in some interests or subcultures, where you would think you would have less snobby or more accepting people, it is quite the opposite. I have a little of this text sounding like a few words I have posted on my Goth/Gothic page, but I will say it again. It is too bad more people whom try to escape from the mainstream, do not do any better than the people they try or act like they are running from. So many people only go a different direction to become the very people in which they have tried to escape from. Their outer appearance seems to justify to themselves that they are different. I would call that wanting attention. I like all different kinds of things, I went through my hair dying phase of black, but it wasn't to fit anything, it was to try something new, and make a change perhaps visually for myself, but not for the purpose of that making me who I am. Inside I know my mind is changed, and is different from most. |
......Industrial Life...... |
Why is it we create things that run to wreck the planet? Sometimes it is out of our control, only to be in control by government or a few rich people that choose how things are run and created. Large corporations and governments steal the show and not in a good way. Things could easily be made and used, causing little damage to the planet, but some of these things just don't put money in the pockets of government and large corporations, so they are ignored. I should not even have to specify on anything in particular. It is easy to see the items and think of ways that things can be improved. Whether it be certain forms of transportation and better cumbustible engines, or not burying people in the ground, in large land masses, soon to be filled with slowly decomposing, poison filled bodies and caskets made of man created junk. There is an actual law, that I can't be whipped into a ditch in a nice plain pine box within my back yard, my body in its natural state, to decompose and feed the earth. There are multitudes of things that could be improved. |
......Government & War...... |
| No, I feel sorry for them. So many lies in the government, I can't possibly believe that most of these wars are for the benefit of our freedom, but I do believe they are for the benefit of our leaders. Sure, to benefit the people is what most would like to believe, or perhaps the government would like us to believe. I find it to be a crock of shit based on the reasoning for particular wars, that seem to change every second, as a governing body can't find proof for the first reasons they went in for, so they make up other reasons for the justification of the war they started. The soldiers are pawns, brainwashed into believing what they are doing is good and for the most part justified. If the government tried to force me to go into a war, like some of the bullshit conflicts that have happened in the past and present, I would be more apt to "defend" myself against whoever came knocking at my door to throw me into their flock of sheep. I honestly believe that much of the stuff in the middle east is revolved around money. It is an important part of the world, for our government, or economy to have control of, or to be "close" to whomever has control of it.. While we are at it, lets be nice and drop relief food packets in the middle of minefields. Half of our taxes go to these bloodied fields of war. The government is full of lies, and I am afraid I do not trust them. I sit here and am forced to pay their dues and to obey their laws, hopefully they just wont get out of control, or I am afraid some will have to rise up. As time goes on, government becomes more of a gross sitcom to me. Some of the things I read about and the stories that change so much can blow me away. It is hard for me to even understand how half the population in the U.S. even supports the government and it makes me wonder about the statistics in the press. I will focus my attentions, once again to the planet. I will do my little part here, and if the shit hits the fan, I know I have done my part. I will also understand that it had nothing to do with my actions, but instead it had to do with the actions of the others involved. I defend myself when needed, but it does not include going into a flock of people, ordered and run by a crooked ruling body, that shoves them into conflicts that hardly have a fraction of realistic or proven reasoning. Not even a remotley good candidate to choose from, I am forced to vote for this idiot, or that idiot. All with different views, yet still leading to a shitty outcome. So I dont even bother. I should'nt bitch if I don't vote. Guess again. When I see servicemen and women, I think to myself if I should look at them cheerfully, or at least I use to. I look at them knowing most are brainwashed and so low on the government totem pole, they really could not know much into the truth of what is actually real. When I see them, I am glad they are home, but not in the way to thank them, more so in the way that I feel sorry for them, knowing it is not all their fault for their brainwashed actions. The government spews their shit to get the hopes of the people up, just to let us down. Lets not talk about capturing someone, or believing someone is dead until their head is on a stick. What a bunch of idiots. I do not dislike "most" people in the military at all, as far as what most of them are doing and the way that they are thinking, I realise their mindset is not all their fault. I am glad they are home and I hope given what may be a second chance at life back here, just maybe some of them will come to reality. I am already hearing of some that are beginning to see the light of which I speak. It seems in years past, government has only made the rebels out to look bad, but in many conflicts, the only reason people are rebelling, is because their land has been stolen from the bodies of government that run us today. Even so, much of this can be linked to the institutions of religions. The unacceptance of other peoples beliefs. Thou shalt not kill, unless its in the name of God is seems, or to increase the land masses, to become power hungry and create a large corporation of followers that will play the role of pawns, without having a drop of their own individuality. Most governments have stolen, all they have. Wether it be from the Native Americans, to the Clans in Scotland. |
......Voting...... |
| Do most people that vote, in all honesty, really know about the person they are voting for? They know what they see on the news, or what is allowed to leak to the public. Do you know and trust that girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife that you catch in bed with another person. Who do we truly know in this world? Ourselves. There can be a certain level of trust built within a person's beliefs when it comes to someone else. Since it is hard to trust anyone close, how the hell can you trust someone you do not even know, or have not even come in contact? We go by what we read, and what we hear, and occasionally on facts that are to blunt to call hearsay. We also go by what the person speaks. I think it is safe to say, there is a massive amount of dishonesty in the public and within government. No matter who it is that gets into office, the outcome is usually a nice list of lies or misinformation in the end. Not mistakes either, but things easily placed as bullshit (that blunt stuff that's not easily dismissed as propaganda). Maybe it is the current leader's overwhelming feelings of grandeur that would make himself/herself feel they could change this and that. When it is beyond their ability to do so, and they probably know it, but they want to become president so they probably won't elaborate too much on what they cannot accomplish. Even the people that do vote, don't know much in reality of the person running for office. Should these people be voting in the first place? Why is it I have to choose, the "lesser" of the two evils? When I can just not vote at all and support not having either party in that I don't trust or feel comfortable with, and hope for a much greater change? I will have to say being a bit more environmental than most, I favor some things within the Green party. I mean the thoughts of getting rid of many things to help us mass produce and wreck the earth, the things that feed the concentrated populations sounds great to me. Like a natural form of genocide. Such a lack of compassion I have. When people want to have a huge catholic family of 20 kids that they probably can't afford, yet have their selfish dream to do so anyway, it is well within my beliefs that they deserve poverty or something worse, that their selfishness has brought on to themselves. When a poor family shops at a store with food stamps, and they have 2 kids and a bun in the oven, they probably don't deserve the help. When a country has children when everyone is dying around them, it would be common sense to probably abstain from sex, have control, or some method in which a child will not result. We live in a selfish overly humanitarian world. However, even within a party that may hold some good ideas, you always manage to find things that suck about them. And in reality, even the things I do believe that the party may support, I wonder if they actually support it. Forgive my lack of faith or caution, just because I want to be sure of something and not forced into being a part of the robotic system, that will than give me what "you" consider a right to complain. I have every right to complain, because most things in government suck. The ideas of these morons to accomplish what they say has proven to be unrealistic. At least in a time frame in which they are allotted. I have a right to complain about "YOU" the voters that place these people in office. I will not vote for a 1 percent party as a protest vote. I will vote for no one to protest, and you will hear me complain, and in my world I have every right. I pay taxes, and have to abide by the same laws. I will complain, and have two reasons to do so. Until another of the several parties gets higher in the ranks, and then I will probably have more reasons to complain. And who knows maybe someday I will be surprised by a party and my visions will change, but until then, if you tell me I cannot complain because I don't vote, I will continue to complain. With my beliefs in having more reasons to complain than you do. I may be living in a caveman's mind, but I envision things on more so of an individual basis. Making things better on an individual scale, no matter how little the impact. I speak of exercising the right to use logic, and many times, to not vote. Considering most of the people I see are so far from a true individual, I will never listen to these people that choose to tell me I have no right to complain if I don't vote. I complain of you, and the "strangers" and unrealistic people, you choose to place your beliefs, worship, or leadership in. If you do not understand my logic, than it is probably not in your best interests to debate with me. Going in circles will be the result, and probably cause nothing more than an argument. When the time may have been used in a more productive or happy intellectual manner. Chaos before peace? How about we take into the effect of more people not voting than voting, and not have a president at all. We lay unprotected, and a massive invasion and defense takes place. Oh, and I'm not talking about another country. Are we free?
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......My beliefs...... |
For one I will never believe in a religion that will tell me what is wrong and right to do with my own body. I think that is one of the greatest failures of the Christian religion, among others. Much of our completely natural feelings, and pleasures are looked down upon by some religions. Why would we have a religion that would say we are sinning by having the natural thoughts and performing actions that feel good to a person, given it is not hurting another? (Unless you like pain of course). It is as if many of the religions out there, are telling us we are wrong for the way we were created. There is no logic in this for me. Surely to gain followers in such religions would only prove to control. |
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