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Just came from a MuMM where someone was simply saying goodbye. I AM NOT blaming anyone. Didn't know the poster and they were gone before I came into the MuMM, but the goading and callousness that I read was a little scary. Have we all become so jaded that hurting someone's obviously bruised feelings is entertainment? I do frequently laugh at the stupid, the banal and vapid idiots who post MuMMs and even more so non-mumms. But, I think I am tasteful enough to know when to let up. I think we're growing into sharks/cannibals. We're not feeding to sustain ourselves or even for healthy culling, we're just being mean.
I know people will complain... Luvs ya all but that's my opinion...
Stil playing taxi for my son, don't mind since he moved out i miss our woerd conversation. So we were dicussing topics for an editorial he has to write for his journalism class and this was the topic i came up with.
There is no more invention, and if you think about that it's true. I won't even go back and bug joe caveman. Just consider: Samuel Morse, creator of the telegraph, his inspiration, hated delivering messages by horse. Now obviously telegraphs are passe but, early in the 19th century... it was like magic. Same with trains, steam engines, steam boats... things we consider out moded or outdated were HUGE leaps beyod what they replaced. We no longer do that... we just take existing ideas and try to make them a little better and get caught up with the toys. My thinking, why do i care if my kids can watch videos in the car, I'm still in a car.
Think about it. In the late 19th century men did not look to breed slicker, smaller, & faster breeds of horses for greater personal conveyance. They looked for a new means altogether. They toild and experimented and created the horseless carriage... not an improvement on an existing design it was something new! Why aren't we working on new?
I know this will sound silly but why do we accept corporations just churning out slicker versions of the same thing? Why isn't someone trying to creat a hydrogen celled personal jetpack? There's the answer to envirometal, fuel burning, traffic jams, you name it... most every problem associated with travel, solved. You don't even need roads... But the corporate world does not want old technology to be replaced by new technology because the lose income... My opinion, the corporate capital culture dull creativity to protect itself the way proto-humans wish they could have protected themselves from the rise of humans. I think we need to throw off the mental shackles of copro-capitalist culture, get back to the roots of human culture... Mother Necessity, where are you?
Earlier this week i read an article out of Texas where the most recent death penalty execution victim may have been innocent. Apparently, new evidence has been brought to lite that corroberates the executed man's story.
I have been an opponent of the death penalty my entire life, not for the reasons of cruelty but for this very reason. I believe it is wrong to have an 'ultimate' penalty in place when ANY legal system will be flawed in some way. There is no 'oops' in death. Even if a person is wrongfully incarcerated for decades, some compensation and justice can be meted out.
It bothers me more because, as only the 'State' may execute, that means WE, all of us, as we are the "State' of murdering an innocent person. I simply do not want that on my 'soul'. As a collectve people, do we want it on ours?
While this is the exception to the case, there have been a number of wrongful and incomplete executions since the '60s. All the murders were horrifying and the wrongful state endorsed murders equally so.
As always I love comments...
Wow, what a world of hurting that last blog turned out to be. Before any rumors or interpretations of my sudden abscense allow me to explain. My son, 24, messed his whole life up after HS and though it took 4 yrs. he's sober and has been working hard. He was accepted to nursing school. On his first day of classes his car died. I am playing dad's taxi getting him not only to and from school but also his job... this leaves me little time for my work. So today, getting caught up in the arguement i got off schedule and had to run.
The point of the blog was to explain that you may not see me actively around as much. I am obviously low in social skills and am sick of making an ass of myself. I posted the blog not for attention but to kind of premptivly explain if you don't hear from me as much.
DP
Interesting thing, I have been blocked by someone who was once high on my friends list and #2 on my family list. Life goes on...
So as i was going around rating family and friends i noticed by startling comparison, i'm not # anything to my family or friends!!!!!
And then it occurred to me, i joined fubar to blog about politics and write some of my micro-fiction just to see how people would respond to it. Not for any of the other BS, in fact i don't even know how i got beyond the MuMMs...
Then i remembered... nobody really reads my blogs... and even fewer leave feedback...
Then i realized I have actually blocked people which i uesed to find funny and commented how overly serious blockers were.
So, i am unblocking the people who are blocked, deleting #s from family and friends, removing family and friends... you'll see me much less & hear from me even less often. I think everyone involved will be happier...
I love and hate you all equally...
DP
My friend and I were having a conversation about the current state of the economy and finances in general. It struck me that money is an alien concept probably planted in the brains of early humans by UFO people to wreak havoc or laugh at us. So consider this...
Primitive Man: " I just slew this Wooly Mammouth, fought off a sabre tooth tiger while i was gutting it with a sharp rock, i've deboned the meat, remaoved it's tusks, and now I will carry it back home to my wife and viilage."
Carries Mammouth home.
Primitive man: "Wife! I have brought home enough meat to feed the village for a week. I am a hero and i brought you this Mammouth hide so that you may make yourself a new winter coat. Now I get sex!"
Wife: "Make a coat?!? I don't want to make a coat! Mammouth hide is so last millenia! I want to go to Macys and buy a coat!"
Primitive Man: "Buy? What's buy?"
Wife: "Purchase with money. You know good old greenbacks you big oaf. Paper Money."
Primitive Man: "Paper Money? What?"
Later
Alexander: "I am Alexander the Great, my army is the most frightening the world has ever known. While I am gay I need a queen to bear me children. Any takers?"
Alexander: "What? Would no one allow me to sire their offspring? How is this so?"
Alexander: "What the hell is paprer money?"
lastly
Ceaser: "I, Julius Ceaser, conqueror of most of the known world. I shall inspire an empiric line that shall rule for centuries"
Senators: "Stab him!"
Ceaser: "Et tu Brute?"
Brutis: "of course..."
Ceaser "?"
Brutis: "They'll pay me in paper money"
Just think about it...
DP
Let me begin this rant by stating I am THOUROUGHLY pissed that i am wasting daily rants on fubar events... I meant this blog for polotics (one of my passions) and societal issues. But as it seems we're all STUCK in a quagmire of childishness I'm stating my positon once and for all.
I am friends with nearly anyone who will take my sorry ass in and I frankly do not give a good god damn who you are or aren't friends with...
I'm tired of trying to please people. Yesterday I was deleted from a friend for 'lieing'... I don't even know what I lied about!!!!! I actually fretted over this... until it occurred to me... It's a computer!!!! why spend the mental energy?
Understad this about me... because FUBAR is an online computer thing, I do have a certain detatchment to it. I do too often treat it like a game and forget there are people attatched... sorry, I do treat flesh and blood folks different from online.
Secondly, I am a drunk!!!, (don't know how to get rid of these italics) It's not an excuse... just a situation, so taking anything I say too seriously is silly, i don't drink until dark... but daytimes i'm hungover...
And lastly, I am a chameleon... it's a survival talent that I carry forward from a shitty childhood. It helps me in sales, but does make it difficult to be any 'one' person.
SO, to sum up, I LOVE you all and HATE you all equally... let's stop this 3rd grade play ground game of he said she said... just enjoy this site for what it is...
DP
Well i leared a lot in a short period of time, looking up as geese pass overhead still gets you in the eye... To Bella who told me to drop things i apologize for not taking your advice and leaving things rest. To Kloverlynn i apologize for impugning your character. I forgot a lesson i learned long ago, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.
I am an unabashed drunk, i'll admit that, and when i first learned of everthing i reacted as a drunk then as someone with a bad hangover, not an excuse, just the TRUTH, since that was a huge part of the topic.
I watch birds, i'm not an ornithologist or anything, but; i live on a high hill and there are wetlands all around me, and i notice birds follow patterns. To the untrained eye, what passes for random in the bird world is actually quite predictable...
When i arrived on fubar i had for the longest time 2 friends/family members... one was BBG, she guided me and taught me the ropes... she told me to avoid drama... and until yesterday/today i did an ok job with that.
I my defense i am one of those people who gives everone the benefit of the doubt and suffer from too much child-like naivete`... it's not that i BELIEVE necessarily, i just figure... what's to be gained? And, i do suffer from being a chameleon... that ability to blend in... to become what people need, it helps me out with sales.
Lastly i beg you all toconsider the power of the written word... another item i took for granted... what we take into the great organic computer of the mind... we must be careful to keep a self imposed BS filter in place. So folks, keep on dreaming, and being and going on feelings... Luv YOU ALL...
DP
I spent a good chunk of the weekend helping a friend deal with quitttting smoking 'cold turkey'. (Imanaged this last August on my own) She didn't think she'd need help, she thought i was trying to get her into bed, but ultimately she did, and she was able to get through the first 72 hrs. which means the real chemical addiction is past.
For those of you who have never bee through this, and believe me I congratulate you, and for those thinking they will try, let me describe it... I'm not doing this to scare you, just prepare you.
Day 1 first 8hrs... gnawing... think long meeting no break, can't leave x 100. if you've never been there... think gotta pee, no place to go. 8-12 hrs. your first fit... willing to drive your head through a wall. Between 12-15hrs... the real withdrawl begins... crying, nausea, fits... screaming yelling... self inflicted injury, finally fitful sleep...
Day 2 is an all day event of withdrawl... time seems to drag on so slowly you count each second in the day, don't expect sleep, you won't want to eat... drinks lots of water...
Day3 begins much the same way. you notice the scent of your fingers... you may find yourself licking them for the lingering nicotene taste... about 1/2 through day three a calming process begins... exhaustion takes over... long night but you'll sleep.
This is not the same for everyone... i smoked 2 packs a day and started with camel studs and lucky strikes and it was this way for me and many friends i've helped...
This morning as I was taking my friend home she was tired and no desire to work today, normal in my book. What struck us both as funny was this...
If she had been addicted to crack cocaine, she could have told her employer. Not only would her job be safe for 30 days but she could use her health insurance to entera drug rehab program and get support and counseling and drugs to help her deal with her addiction. Her cost would be a co-pay of $50-$100. Cigarette adddiction is not supported!!! there's no employment safety, no insurance support, and no drug support. Go to your Dr. with almost any other malady and there is almost certain to be a plethera of free samples that you can get. Chantix free samples were a rarity when the drug was first prescribed, and ther are no coupons. I would hazard a guess that Insurance, Pharmacutical, and Big Daddy Tobaccoe are fincially comingled... and i'll end this here before the MIBs come to my door!
