SECOND LIFE!!!!!!!

For those who missed the first?

No!

For those who were told to get a life, they got a real fake one. Where they end up often paying for their own imagination!

Imagine that!

It is free here.

No sexy and enhanced avatars. I laugh when I see the real people compared to their imaginary selves.

To each their own.

How dare you criticize cyberspace stuff!

Are not blogs essentially given to imaginary audiences?

How dare this writer question his own pondering!

We will convene our imaginary court.

With our imaginary judge and jury.

Then we will ban you from cyberspace for eternity!

Don’t condemn what you do not know.

Sorry.

I did not know second life could be carried out all inside the same persons head.

WHY WE BLOG

There may be some three and one quarter million (shortly) blogs on the WordPress.

So we ask this question: WHY DO YOU DO IT?

For many, it is not money apparently, but time is spent typing and coming up with whatever it is you come up with. Why do you do it? There, alone at the lonely keyboard? Today, just on the WordPress, some 100,000 something of you will type out many millions of words. Each word cost .01 calories to produce. This results in a net loss of carbon footprint; than if you were out walking, or talking with someone making body gestures and such. But close to being a couch potato. Perhaps a high definition onion.

Point number one; I just made up that calorie figure.

The blog-o-sphere Internets tubey thingy is full of unverifiable information, suggestions, conceptions, and notions, plus many things I will not mention. Amidst all this highly questionable material, still you decide to blog, and one of you actually decided to read this post.

Point number two; The search for meaning and affirmation in a life of disconnection.

Despite the anonymity inherent to most post, many continue there search for existential meaning on the WEB. For some, it is the opportunity to be heard, no matter how ridiculous ones expression is, or how much you are ignored in the real world. Observe the invisible one typing at this moment. Yes you typer, this is the Great Spirit of the Internet asking you, why do you persist? Is it in the vain hope that the collective information of the Internet will evolve into the future life form of humankind’s destiny, and in this thin prospect, you place yourself as a serving on the plate of being? Just in case that other afterlife thing does not work out as advertised?

Point number three; Nutty and flashy titles get recognition and attention. Is this cheep billboard self glory the reason why you type?

Observe the standard titles of many top post (this one excluded of course), they often seem intellectually/emotionally immature, yet the interest grabbed is worth the effort to come up with a better fish hook. Secret point number four; The self confidence natural to being the editor and producer of your own blog lets you speak in utter certainty about things you can never be certain of. At least not as certain as you let on.

But since it is late, I will discontinue this post now, yet insert tags and categories, a bunch of them, just on that odd chance that someone, yes just one, you, will listen to even things without perfect endings.

and Jimmy calling me to come into the cat pen and play. I built the adobe outdoor room.

STUNNING, JUST STUNNING

The party that gave us K Street; now has some of those same nefarious characters involved in its presidential campaign.

K Street was an unprecedented campaign to get rid of one of the parties in our alleged two party system. As I remember it, corporations that donated to Democrats were to be punished for their “errors” of judgement. This contempt for democracy is said to be back in the ranks of the bumbling but can not be blamed John McCain’s bid for Bushes third term.

While McCain’s main critique of the presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama, is that he is naive and inexperienced, why is someone so experienced as John McCain, hiring on such highly questionable characters, many involved with foreign governments and lobbies that would quite possibly compromise foreign policy decisions to be? He does not need to answer that further, since he just announced that no one on his staff is to be a lobbyist. But since it was his style or choice so far, what has actually changed? What promise is there for the future? I know. Take his word on it. He suddenly changed again. Get over it. But Barack is responsible for what his ex preacher said, and his wife’s comments taken out of context? Both of those seem inherently less important to the nations interest.

America, the USA, has just endured a group of predatory opportunist who viewed the great American commons as their own feeding ground. Will Bushes third term holder now be beholding to all the compromised characters he seems to keep surrounding himself with? Will America fall victim again to fear and jingoism wrapped up in their security blankets of blind trust of “conservatives” who thrive off of perpetuating insecurities?

You know where help us if these shysters get back into the drivers seat once again. We and the world may not be able to contain their drunken driving skills.

YOU’VE GOT SOME SPLAINEN’ TO DO!

Where you live in the country or world will certainly make a difference in my questions to you, or about others. When I moved from the Chicago to California, I was shocked for how bad the drivers were there. That did not prepare me for how bad they were in Portland Oregon. Which in tern, did not provide any insight at all at how awful drivers could be until I moved to the renowned (actually!) friendly city Of Tucson AZ. However, I do hear that things do not get much better to the northwest in Phoenix.

For this post, I am only talking about driving a car. There are certainly other differences as well.

TRUE FOR YOU TOO?

Nowadays in Arizona, it is not unusual to have cars come up behind you at night an never dim their bright lights. It is not just inconsiderate, it is physically dangerous, blinding the driver in front and making them have to possibly maneuver in position to avoid the glare. That takes concentration off the road ahead.

It might have been this way for some time, but it was not always so in the past. I imagine it is all part of the self centeredness running rampant in a culture that has many feeling they are all on their own to survive, who cares about the other guy. You might be on the phone or talking, doing more important stuff than watching out for one another where it is most relevant in the moment.

Tucson was something like the worst city for light running in the nation. One can often see 5 cars making a left after the light has already turned green for the cross street. Tucson has at least a 3 second delay from red to green to accommodate slow reactions. The amazing aspect of this phenomenon is; you can go from intersection to intersection and see the same thing happen just minutes later. What are the odds that only people who turn left, turn without ever knowing if the light has turned against them?

For some reason, it is implied that a possible majority of drivers will do this; follow the leader and hope for the best. I have seen this happen a hundred or more times and never was there a cop. I have often seen gross moving violations with a cop right in the front of the intersection, and still no action. In 40 years of driving, I have never gotten a moving ticket, (one parking ticket the first year I drove to visit a sister at college and got a parking ticket for parking in a way I did not know was wrong. Ignorance is no excuse)

Then there are those always bright blinding blue lights.

THE GREAT STUPID TEST—international

WELCOME TO OUR TEST CLASS ON STUPID NATIONS AND PEOPLE 101!

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Or are you just stopping by to see how stupid this stupud test can be?

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If you do not proceed with the test; grade yourself a 0, for lack of inquisitiveness.

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You will be judged harshly for any and all mistakes, including, and not excluding, near mistakes.

You have already received your initial preliminary questions! (subconsciously)

(And remember; humor does not exclude a question.)

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FIRST BASIC QUESTION (arrange into ascending order of value)

1. WHO ARE YOU?

–a. I am me.

–b. I am a cross between my parents.

–c. I am whatever sex I am.

–d. I am whatever race or culture I was born into.

–e. I am an expression of my experiences.

–f. I am because I think I am.

–g. I am not whomever you are.

–h. I do not care who you think I am.

–i. I am not taking this stupud test.

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BASIC QUESTION #2 (which answers must be false)

2. IS THERE A GOD?

a–Yes, because I was always told so.

b–Yes, because I cannot question basic assumptions.

c–Yes, because I am afraid to say no.

d–Yes, because everybody says there is.

e–Yes, because I am presumed evil to say there is not One.

f–Yes, because God talks to me.

g–Yes, because I am sure God listens to me.

h–Yes, because Somebody had to start everything.

i–Yes, so I have some insurance just in case.

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BASIC QUESTION # 3

3. WHAT ARE GODS CHARACTER TRAITS? (true or false)

a.–God is a male so He can grow a beard in space.

b.–God will burn you forever for getting His or Her name wrong.

c.–God is so jealous of us, God will have no other gods before It.

d.–God holds you up to Gods Own perfect standards of infallibility.

e.–God thus will punish you forever for having a mistake of assumption.

f.–God does not wish you to think for yourself based on empirical evidence.

g.–God is so insecure, God needs you to praise It to high heavens or you lose.

h.–God wants you to not think and just do what a book or person tells you to do.

i.–God is a concept held in by human understanding abilities, thus dependent on us.

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BASIC QUESTION #4

IF GODS WAYS ARE MYSTERIOUS, WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE TRUE? (yes or no)

a.–God waited for science (printing and satellites) to really spread Gods Word fast.

b.–Gods real children are actually the Porpoises, since they may be smarter than us.

c.–God played a tricky test on blind followers, “true believers” are then self deceived.

d.–God favored one culture somewhere, so only that concept of God is the true one.

e.–God wants Gods children to kill each other in Gods Own Name.

f.–God loves me because it feels really good for me to think so.

g.–God did not know we would kill one another in Gods name.

h.–God only speaks through special people, who probably are not me.

i.–God is everything, so conflict is a dysfunction needing resolution.

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Basic Question #5

WHAT MIGHT FOLLOW FROM YOUR ABOVE ANSWERS? (keep your responses)

a.–God will possibly punish me forever for my answers, I live under terror.

b.–God will be glad to hear I am thinking for myself and not like a robot.

c.–God will terrorize everyone for any mistake we make unknowingly.

d.–God is omnipresent and omniscient, so will thank even our struggles.

e.–God is Love and will love what we achieve in life in Loves full Name.

f.–God needs us to become one of the guiding influences of Creation.

g.–God wants us to love at all cost, to remain in the presence of God.

h.–God is sharing Its Life by giving us a chance to be free to love.

i.–God cares not what you believe, but who you become.

NOW. HOW STUPID WAS THIS TEST?

SHE’S ALIVE!!! SHE’S ALIVE!!! + still in the race?

Alloyed from ambition and a strange mixture of desire, the fabricated political creature refuses to unplug the run to the submerging goal post. Will the electro-shock to come prove to be therapy or synaptic overload?

Pointing to the constellation of stars as a sure sign of latent success; she counts on racism, reverse sexism, and the more easily manipulated less educated whites, as the grounds for her superior posture for leadership.

This is her claim to fame, her voice found after so many years of wandering alone in the deserted graveyard of public attention. Powered by that concept she once exposed that she was even her husbands key to the presidency, the inevitability of her own delusions have cleared the haze of reality out of her way, and left many a super delegate absorbed in reading the headstones.

Will this bad scifi flick end in the fairy tale world of husband and wife presidents, setting an unbeatable president that even shames the Bush family’s sorry legacy?

Now it is we who are instructed to accept her reasons over any greater hope for realities.

FOLLOW THE CROWD PLEASE

First there was the slob look, which lacking anything more enticing, became the “bed head” conformist hair style still an essential in some conformity fit in and look groovy corners.

So I have decided to up the ante. Soon everyone over half a century old will be coloring their skin and having cool hair like mine here.

And then for the cult of narrow glasses that once looked like they were for the ultra cool nerd who likes to look at their rims, but became the norm, they still look ridiculous to me. But not to be a Luddite and not follow the crowd to advancement up with the trends nirvana. I have styled my new line of glass frames that are sure to keep the Joneses biting at your heels.

Yo.

Who said American innovation was all washed up!

I know!

THE BARACK OBAMA AND JERIMIAH WRIGHT exchange=+or-?

Barack’s biggest problem seemed to have become the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The connection was seeming to have been built up into a possible downer for Obama in the future. It seems to be producing negative results as most conflicts do. The resulting schism seems to have possibly removed the future connection as a viable ammo stash. The days events may have in ways been orchestrated. Lot’s of possible seems.

These facts remain; super delegates are still only trickling in, more to Obama than Clinton since Pennsylvania. This time in the campaign may become a moment where Barack’s shoes were soiled, and with the aid of the Rev. Wright, were made good to go into the election.

It remains to be seen if the hidden prominent subtext of interracial misgivings, will come to be a most deciding factor for a significant segment of the population. Not that male and female will not also become a similar, unspoken factor for some in the booth, if traditional rolls become a reactionary guide.

During political contest; what seems obvious might be the desired result, but not a benefit to whom it first seems. Meaning; in time, a seeming negative of the moment may become a historical positive for someone, thus not the result it at first seems to be. (I have restated my original sentence in the post since it led to too many loops open to those not following my chain of thought. Thanks for your feedback, and I hope you are not even more lost after this “correction”.)

MEN FAKING IT

10 WAYS FOR MEN TO BE REAL MEN

#10. Stop being made big by others accomplishments

# 9. Just say no to Golf, or sports on TV all day

# 8. Stop having more passion for sports than people in your life

# 7. This means get a grip on your testosterone self medication addictions

# 6. Quit your self definition anxieties by idolizing others feats as your own

# 5. Realize what men can do to provide a safe place for life on earth

# 4. Real men have the courage to have compassion, empathy and understanding

# 3. Get a hold on what all life is about, and your powerful place in it

# 2. Treat women only as you would respect God, do this for men as well

# 1. Don’t follow my list, be your own life maker

DO AS YOU ARE TOLD!

It can be suggested, since I just did, that political candidates try to invoke ones notions of a father, and now mother. To get us to identify with familiar protection and care. But not the listening kind, not the compromise and mutual regard kind like on Super Nanny. It is the do it or else kind, do it or else die at 3 o’clock in the morning kind. And I had a stepmother of that kind!

I suppose a president should know better, but we have just seen how little one need know to rule “The greatest nation like on earth like.” Reading or positioning emotions as the reasons for decision making and asking your “experts” what you are supposed to think; can’t anyone really do it the Republican way? Put the wolves in charge of the chicken house, and at least for a while, count on having some good omelets, or investments.

Of course mention Jesus! That goes without saying, like kissing babies and having a flag fest.

The one decided nominee acts like it is vacation or internment time from intellectual land, that the usual duty of that party to follow its leader will quite possible follow him right to the oval office. Many a good card game will probably ensue from the stranded caboose of the straight talking express, since the rails will have been removed for safety’s sake.

Then we have the lecturing, relentless in your face schoolmarm. She already knows it all from experience, and probably a life of lecturing someone. She is a take charge kind of guy, who at three o’clock in the morning will get on the other phone to her husband. At least that is how the campaign seems. He was not only a chick magnet apparently, but now a media one as well. In this circus he gets to send up the balloons to see which way the wind blows.

But has he morphed into a meteorologist of sorts, or a clown?

Witness now; the greatest show on earth!

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