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[Jan. 28th, 2009|01:25 pm] |
I deleted everybody. Livejournal is on hiatus.
It's a waste of time for me.
Sorry to delete everyone, but I've got to move on and start living some more.
I'll return one day, maybe. |
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[Jan. 27th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
A girl in my Biology lab class is sooooo cute and it's one of those awkward cutes which is especially good. I don't even know her name, but we worked together on a lab project today and I kinda feel like I have one of those weird highschool crushes where you don't even know the person but know you really like them. Maybe that's just something I do...
As strange and spontaneous as this situation is, it's the first time I've actually been attracted to anyone at my school whatsoever. I'm telling you, this school sucks. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2009|03:02 am] |
#25 Wal-Mart Brings Inequity and Low Prices to the World
Multinational Monitor, October 2003
Title: "Welcome to Wal-World"
Author: Andy Rowell
The vision of the international division of Wal-Mart is one where Wal-Mart becomes a global brand, just like McDonald's or Coca- Cola, monopolizing the global retail market. The next five or six years could see about 5,000 to 6,000 Wal-Mart stores outside of the United States. Wal-Mart is Americanizing retailing around the world and exercising an inordinate amount of economic power.
DISGUSTING. |
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[Jan. 20th, 2009|02:56 am] |
I'm looking at some censored news stories. Take a look at this one.
#11 The Media Can Legally Lie
CMW Report, Spring 2003
Title: "Court Ruled That Media Can Legally Lie"
Author: Liane Casten
Organic Consumer Association, March 7, 2004
Title: "Florida Appeals Court Orders Akre-Wilson Must Pay Trial Costs for $24.3 Billion Fox Television; Couple Warns Journalists of Danger to Free Speech, Whistle Blower Protection"
Author: Al Krebs
In 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals ruled that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. It agreed with an argument by Fox Television that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Under the current ruling, it is up to the public to discover whether or not they are being lied to.
WHAT THE FUCK. |
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[Jan. 18th, 2009|01:09 am] |
Battle Royale may be the most ass-kicking movie ever made. A classroom of students are kidnapped and put on an island with explosive collars around their necks. Each is given a bag with one random weapon in it and have 3 days to massacre the other students until only one remains. That student gets the collar deactivated and gets to go home. If there is more than one student still alive after three days, their collars all explode and kill them. A movie with 40 9th graders battling to the death on a jungle island with random weapons is amazing. Not only that, but the movie is Japanese with English subtitles that are often bad translations, so it's even richer. When a girl was dying in her lover's arms she said "I have one last thing to tell you... you look really cool." OMG 5 stars. it was so awesome.
I find myself pathetic and deranged for thinking this was such a great movie, but it really was. |
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[Jan. 5th, 2009|01:33 pm] |
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Joseph McCarthy just bought a pair of my jeans on ebay. That's the guy from the McCarthy era. |
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[Dec. 30th, 2008|10:58 pm] |
This woman came into Harris Teeter today and after I bagged her groceries, she simply walked out the door, so I was assuming she wanted me to bring her groceries out for her. So I do that for her and she gets into her fancy car and closes the door. Not a tip, not even a "thanks". She just got in the car and didn't speak a word to me. It was totally worth it though because she bought a product called "Summer's Eve Douche".
Later a woman told me I look like a young version of Jesus Christ, so helllll yeah. |
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[Dec. 30th, 2008|02:51 pm] |
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I saw the saddest thing I've probably seen in years just an hour ago. I was in the Home Depot parking lot and I see this old woman staggering with a big cane and messy clothes. She saw me and held a piece of paper towards me. I walked over and took the piece of paper and it said in scribbly writing "I need money for pads and food. god bless you". and I was like "pads? what?" and she patted her crotch and I felt stupid. Apparently she couldn't talk. She had really thick glasses and only had one eye open. Her teeth were sticking out of her mouth and looked horrible. I felt so fucking awful. I gave her some money, but it sure as hell wasn't as much as I should have given her. This is the first time a beggar has approached me and it makes me feel soooo guilty of being so privileged. I really need to get serious about taking action for this kinda stuff. The city does a pretty good job of covering this kinda stuff up, but I know it's everywhere. |
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[Dec. 29th, 2008|11:27 am] |
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My teeth have fallen out in my dreams twice recently. not again... : / |
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[Dec. 25th, 2008|10:49 pm] |
I liked this Christmas because most gifts were things I would have ended up buying in the near future. Stuff like bike tires or a replacement stereo for my car. It was very few items that were bought just for the sake of "celebrating Christmas". That's very good. I'm currently boxing up tons of old things from my room. I'm going to put them in a cardboard box and put them in the front of my neighborhood with a sign that says "free" and see what happens.
I thought a lot today. We celebrate the birthday of a nomadic, ascetic, anti-materialist holy man by dumping gifts on one another simply for the sake of the holiday. It's very strange. Christ said we should sell all of our possessions, give the money to the poor and follow him. So when we want to celebrate his birth, what better way than buy truckloads of things that we really don't need? Traditional Christmas values like being together as a family and loving one another are nice, but the gift thing deeply perplexes me. |
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[Dec. 20th, 2008|11:58 pm] |
Went dumpster diving with my friends Jeremy and Jesse tonight. We went to a bunch of condos. One of them was filled with stuff that was apparently cleaned out of one of the condos. Loaded with perfectly good stuff. We grabbed a cd player, a rectangular basket that I'm using in my car as a place to put stuff, a nike duffel bag, a pair of Timbaland shoes and a pair of dress shoes that fit my friend's feet, a briefcase, some keychains, and some markers.
We went to another condo complex after this. We opened the dumpster up and sitting right inside was a vintage Schwinn road bike. It's a really nice yellow color. The tires probably need new tubes and there's a lot of rust on some parts, but it rides quite fine. The frame is really small, but it probably fits Jeremy well enough. We let him have it, so we're fixing it up a bit tomorrow. It's pretty exciting, to say the least. Lots of yard sale memorabilia was inside the dumpster too, so I guess it didn't sell during the day. Better in our hands than the landfill, especially because it's so righteous. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2008|01:18 am] |
A man I know tried to tell me that Christ is God because he walked on water. I told him I was unimpressed. Even tiny insects walk on water. The savior of mankind chose to imitate the very type of creature this man does not think twice about stepping on. The insects walked on water far before any savior did.
My friend Paul spent 20 minutes hunting down a spider just to kill it. He is a Catholic. Didn't God create that spider? Doesn't it belong to him?
I don't understand the religious mindset. I have no god. I don't believe every creature is a precious treasure belonging to God. I don't believe we were given a garden to take care of and were trusted to cultivate life and harmony. Paul's religion says this. I live in harmony by choice, but he cannot do this when he tells me that the very book he reads is written by God.
When I told Paul that we should avoid needless destruction of life and that God intended humans to live in the Garden of Eden and care for all creatures, another Christian whom I thought was a friend didn't bother to reply, but instead deleted me. I can't even understand the hypocrisy. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2008|12:54 am] |
After reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn for the third time, I've been really thinking about our lives.
Upon much thought, I've not been able to come up with a single piece of technology that has benefited the human race or life as a whole. My first thoughts were that of medicine. I'm not sure we'd need medicine if death wasn't so misunderstood. Maybe we should be realistic with our explanations of death, rather than making it such an unknown and terrifying territory. Things die all around us all day and we don't worry much over it. Regrettably I killed an insect on accident today, but I moved on. I think we can learn this eventually. To die is not shameful. But also concerning medicine, where does a lot of medicine come from? The herbs and plants, growing naturally.
So I started thinking about things like eyeglasses. My thought was that again, no animal besides humans use eyeglasses to fix vision. Vision is often the product of genetics. Certain types of shrimp have been stuck in dark caves and over generations of natural selection, lost their eyes altogether. If we always correct vision with eyeglasses, will the trait of poor eyesight ever evolve out of the human race? Am I just saying this because I've never benefited from the use of eyeglasses?
It seems that sentience, self-awareness, intelligence have a trend of growing in life over many generations.
Technology is a hindrance to evolution. Variety must exist and if every person is put on equal standing by strengthening all weaknesses, what variety is there? Can natural selection truly occur? Can the planet even survive our total unfair breaking of natural biodiversity laws? Once the planet is gone, humans are over.
I don't think I'm advocating eugenics here. Does eugenics necessitate the use of human selection? I'd like nature to do it though. Nature can create the master race. Man can't do that. Thinking of Nazi Germany, the choice for the supreme race was a bit absurd. Such traits as blue eyes or blond hair, traits totally arbitrary to preservation of a species were exalted while not possessing these was seen as inferior. Hair color or eye color is a sort of quirky choice. The Nordic people were, biologically speaking, not in any sense advantageous over other races. The choice was purely aesthetic and unimportant.
I'm not really expecting any of this to make sense, but I'm exhausted and have a lot on my mind. |
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[Dec. 13th, 2008|10:27 pm] |
transitioned to college and got a lot of freedom, got to stop going to church, figured out pretty well (I think) why I'm here on Earth, managed to pull off a 3.0 gpa and keep my scholarship though I definitely saw myself not making it, went vegetarian, went vegan, got an awesome bike, built an awesome bike, became a worthy challenger in religious debates with my scholarly grandmother, created a great powerpoint presentation on hell, stopped worrying about clothes, greatly reduced my materialistic tendencies, learned to shoplift, was part of a cool relationship (and ended in good terms), learned to make out, lost my virginity, tried marijuana, cigarettes, hookah, and alcohol and decided for myself that I'm not all that interested in any, learned to challenge the government, dropped my general shyness, learned unconditional love, created a question that no Christian has been able to answer thus far (why is "God" more likely to have created the universe than "Brahma"?), read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, didn't become enemies with anyone at all, learned about how to nurture a human body, learned a lot about female physiology, held a pretty decent job, and in about 4 days, buying my first car.
I guess I should have posted this on New Years Day or something, but I don't care. Id been thinking about this for a while. |
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[Dec. 12th, 2008|01:01 am] |
I was asked to make a Christmas list from my mom.
This is highlighting to me how my quest for reduced materialism is working.
It's hard to come up with anything at all.
All I can write are books, though I have 100s of them already. Plus all the books I would want are not the sorts of books I would want to open in front of my grandma who is visiting. I don't think she understands that I've become a delinquent. I'd have to order books some other time.
I'd like some new bike tires, but other than that, bleh. Having a birthday and Christmas on the 24th and 25th is pointless.
I'd like some abstract things, but as far as material things go, not really... |
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[Dec. 3rd, 2008|06:36 pm] |
So proud of myself for finally deleting myspace. What a colossal waste of time I spent going from myspace to facebook checking for notifications that were never there. Time to start living a real life now.
Plus I'm going to wear the same shirt everyday for a month to try and teach myself that I don't need to buy so much clothes. I gave away 30 items at my house and I'm going to sell half of the clothes here at my dorm. I'm feeling really liberated in a lot of ways. My materialism is dwindling. |
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[Nov. 30th, 2008|01:55 am] |
Protesting Starbucks on monday. Yeah, giving money to aids is nice, but $0.05 a drink? Aren't they selling those things for like $5? You don't think you could give a little more than 1% profit on drinks?
So we're promoting the idea of giving to the aids fund directly. Cut this bullshit middleman because it seems Starbucks is using this solely as a marketing campaign to increase their sales. Exploiting those in need to make a little more money than usual, basically. Of course I'm also bothered by their use of Styrofoam cups and competition against local coffee shops, but that's not the point.
Flyers, sidewalk chalk, holding a sign next to the on campus store. Nothing too elaborate. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2008|01:13 am] |
I kept hearing a bunch of thuds outside of my window. I'm on the 3rd story. I looked outside and there are a bunch of sacks of garbage all over the parking lot below. I think somebody figured it'd be too hard to walk down the stairs and put them in the dumpster, so instead they threw them out the window into the parking lot. I guess that works...
Now I wonder what would happen if I tied my garbage bags closed and set them outside an annoying RA's door and left them. It's not like they're going to be sitting in the hallway for forever. They've gotta take them out sometime. If they don't know who put them there, they can't knock on my door and tell me to cut it out. That's so hood. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2008|01:28 am] |
Apparently teeth falling out is one of the most common dreams. Strange. I guess it has some connections with the Jungian archetypes.
Well I read a few little analyses online about it and something did strike an interest in me:
"Teeth are used to bite, tear, chew and gnaw. In this regard, teeth represent power. And the loss of teeth in your dream may be from a sense of powerlessness. Are you lacking power in some current situation? Perhaps you are having difficulties expressing yourself or getting your point across. You feel frustrated when your voice is not being heard. You may be experiencing feelings of inferiority and a lack of self-confidence in some situation or relationship in your life. This dream is an indication that you need to be more assertive and believe in the value of your own opinion."
And I do feel pretty powerless lately. In fact it's a pretty dominant thought. I do have a hard time getting people to listen to me too. Dream interpretation seems kinda bogus to me, but this does seem pretty likely. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2008|10:21 pm] |
I don't understand. I explained one of my bad dreams to my dad and halfway through it, he explained the other half to me and told me he's been having that same dream all his life.
It's the one about feeling my mouth and one of my teeth is loose, so I push on it a bit and it falls out. I panic and try to put it back in, but it doesn't work. I then run off and try to get help. 5 times I've had it recently and he has it too. Too weird. |
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