Wednesday, January 25, 2006

 

What are we really doing here?

First I'd like to post a few snippets from a recent Newsweek article.

A CIA-guided Predator drone fired missiles at houses in the village of Damadola, aiming to kill Zawahiri. At least 18 people were obliterated, though probably not Zawahiri. "We are still not sure who they were," said a senior official in Islamabad who spoke only on condition of anonymity. "We are still in the process of establishing their identity." Still, U.S. counterterrorism officials say they may never completely confirm the identities of terrorists who were blown up.
The Predator killed several women and children, provoking demonstrations in the tribal region. "The message to them is, 'You have to take a new measure now: your families are not safe if you protect the terrorists'," says one senior Pentagon official.

Wow. What else can I say? Apparently we want to kill certain people so badly that we are willing to blatantly obliterate (good word) innocent women and children. And if we're still not sure who all those people are, what made us so confident that we should just go and blow them up in the first place?

I wonder why it is then that we haven't gotten to Osama bin Laden? Maybe we could tell who we are killing if we went about it a little more carefully. What if we did get Osama? Would we even know it? I'm sure there are people out there that would just love to have a phantom menace to perpetually strike fear into the hearts of others. After all, what better way to keep the masses obedient?

And let's not forget about backlash. Oh, oops...apparently everyone in the Middle East will now fear for their lives and those of their families. It's a good thing that the U.S. wouldn't stoop to using terroristic threats. I doubt anyone would want to exact revenge for such just actions anyway. I mean that's the way it has worked in Israel, right?

I just gotta scratch my head and wonder sometimes. I just hope something more important doesn't come along like more steroids in baseball or another private matter between family members. Keep up the good work!

 

And I thought financial institutions were our friends

Haha, basically big business in America does not care about you. This should not come as a surprise. Now I'm not advocating a Fight Club solution here, just mind your P's & Q's when it comes to your finances. Check out a couple of starter articles and let those search engines have it!

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Savinganddebt/Managedebt/P125779.asp?GT1=7623 http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/creditcardsmarts/P98888.asp http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/creditcardsmarts/P41957.asp

I'm lucky enough to have a built in loathing for the owing of money, but admittedly owe a couple hundred on one of my credit cards right now. But there is something bigger nipping at my heals - my student loan. Currently sitting at around $10,000 its not that bad comparatively, but for me its like having a zombie chasing after me and not having any weapons to use against it. And I won't even go into the way our personal information is not personal. I still haven't bought into that false American dream (maybe because I still don't have a real job). Sure I went to college and racked up a nice little bit of debt - creditors 1, consumer 0. Here's where I start to get a little defiant.

I've diverged a little from the standard path which is
1) Go to college, amass student loan debt
2) Graduate from college, get a job, be a good little worker bee
3) Save up a little bit of money and buy a new car = student loan + car loan
4) Continue being a good little worker bee, maybe get a promotion and some kids
5) Save up a little more money and buy a house = student loan + car loan + home loan
6) Congratulations! You are now in debt for the rest of your life. Let's just hope that there will be some kind of social security programs out there when you retire to help maintain a standard of living...any standard.

I don't have a real job (which also means no savings, no retirement plans, generally not much), I still drive the car that my dad pulled out of a salvage yard and fixed up 7 years ago, and as for buying a house? Maybe if people would stop throwing money around like there will never be another house for sale again, I'll think about it...after I get my wings. Buzz buzz.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

 

Sorry to our fan

I apologize to our sole reader about the lack of blogging activity. We will promise to maybe be a little more active in our postings...possibly.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

 

Cosmic Recycling


What really happens to us when we die? Well, we cease to exist altogether. Perhaps some of us ascend into Heaven and others descend into Hell. Maybe we are reincarnated into another form of life or if we are worthy we may end up in the halls of Valhalla. There are just too many beliefs out there, some of them similar and some very different.

What if our souls are recycled? I was born on October 9. John Lennon was born on October 9 and so were a lot of other people throughout history. What if our souls are reserved for one specific day? Maybe our creation is a set occurrence, maybe our deaths are too.

Thinking like this also lead me along the lines of human knowledge. It seems remarkable that over the course of human history we have accomplished so much and have come so far. Sometimes it seems hard to believe that all human knowledge is simply passed down from one person to the next orally, written, or now in audio/visual media. This is kind of where my little thought bubble bursts in. Maybe with every new birth, human potential grows.

I guess this still allows for a Heaven and Hell or maybe just a limbo where souls wait patiently in line for their number to be called. Haven't you ever wondered why astrology seems to be so eerily right on? I know that when I see info. about Libras there seems to be too many "coincidences" to just be some random crap. And isn't it strange that children seem to "grow up faster" these days?

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