Kneel Before Your Gods, Babylon.

Hello my brethren.  Today we are going to talk about idol worship.  Why would people do that?  Is it because we all have a void in our heart the needs filling?  Or are these idols a projection of one's self, ego, or pride?

Allow me to philosophize for a second before we continue on to the meat of the blog.  Mmm... blog meat, slowly cooked in the red hot hands of Ra.

Without something to fill that void, men grow restless.  The void grows, eating away at man's core eventually causing him collapses in upon himself.

Religion or worship provides substance. It is that exhilarating force that propels man.  Of course, people can worship whatever they want.   But two men worshiping different things will propelled in completely separate directions. Why would I say all this?  Because look at this.

Kneel before your god, Babylon.

Holy crap. This is Avicii.  He is a DJ.  To me this picture looks like an ancient Egyptian ceremony from outer space.  Of course, I know that people are not actually worshiping this guy, but it still looks like how I imagine their rituals would look.   

Then there is Deadmau5.  The worship he gets equates to roughly a 12 million dollar net worth.  So yeah,  I was just thinking if we could transport one of these guys back in time, we could easily take control of an empire. Alls I am saying is alls.  

Real life Pokemon

some pokemon are badgers with
with skulls on their head.

Recently I have been playing a lot of pokemon.  Approximately 20 hours of game time in three days. How do I accomplish all this pokemon playing whilst going to school and working two jobs?  I don't sleep. That is how.
Actually, just the other day I quit playing.  So now instead of searching for TMs in the Pokecenter of Verilian city, I am blogging...

Thoughts on Roads

Geometry fact: Roads are equal
to the shape of a giant violin

Man: the geometric abstraction on this earth. Roads stand as a testament to that fact, and are beautiful ones at that.  They shrink distances and they connect states.  They are the skeletal system for thriving cities and booming metropolis.  They support the vessels that transport the lifeblood of society.  Like fossils preserved in tar, long after we are gone these roads will remain as evidence of all that we accomplish in our lives.

Facts on Impact

• It would take about 732 quintillion packets of Kool-Aid and 91.5 quadrillion metric tons of sugar to turn the ocean into cheery Kool-Aid.
• One atomic bomb can destroy an entire city.
• If everyone on earth was standing shoulder to shoulder, you could fit all of us within the city of Los Angeles
• Everyone on earth could live in a state the size of Texas. If they were willing to live New York type of conditions.
• The average American lives to be about 28 547 days old.
• If you made a new friend every single month of your life, you would have around 900 friends.
• Unfortunately, according to Dunbar we can only hope to keep real relations with 100-230 people. That means each person with 500+ friends on their facebook will never really know about half their so called friends.
• If you have a youtube video that has been seen 100,000 times.  You have been viewed by more people than you could ever realistically hope to meet in your life. 
• There are around 7 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 atoms in the human body.
• Deep down at an atomic level the sub-structure of mass becomes a haze of energy.
• There are about 400 000 000 000 000 stars in the milky way galaxy alone

I Am Bad At Quora (This is An Apology)

I have been on Quora lately and I follow a few questions some about health and running, you know, because it is sort of part of my job description. I could tell you some interesting things about over-pronation.  But back to the subject.  The other questions I follow are mostly philosophical ones, more specifically the ones that are about Atlas Shrugged, Fountain Head or Objectivism.  What I have found is many of the voices online want to demoralize the philosophy and paint it as godless and hedonistic.  Well, I guess in a sense hedonistic is the right term for it, but not in the traditional sense you are thinking.  Admittedly Ayn Rand's (the lady who wrote these books) concept of god was a little off "When I die, I hope to go to heaven, whatever the hell that is." Her ideals on liberty and convictions and loving life were spot on though. However, she does come off a little strong.  She is Russian.

Ayn Rand who wrote these books was from Russia, English was not her first language.  So she learned words and their exact definitions. She understood them differently than the way society did. The definition for "hedonistic": A person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.  

Sounds terrible right? Pleasure and self-gratification? yuck those are terribly selfish words.  Ok. But what if instead of thinking of our self as our body what if we thought of our self as our mind.  Suddenly self-gratifying means something completely different.  You see, instead of pleasure being temporary and carnal it all of a sudden becomes lasting and meaningful. A person known as selfish in the traditional sense would not be capable of loving.  However, in the objectivist sense a selfish person would share their love because the act of which provides joy and pleasure for them. It is actually a fact, being good to others makes one happy.  It is actually in your selfish interest to be good to others.  Many people cannot wrap their head around this concept. 

These Quorians write destructive comments about the aforementioned books. It seems their purpose is to dismantle the book and to eradicate it entirely. This frustrates me.  So I share my thoughts and opinions with these people on quora. Because I tell them they are wrong,  they don't like me.  Anyway. Sometimes I feel like I come off too strong.  Sorry.       

Where Will I Be In Five Years? (Controlling my own Country)

Ok I know it is an ambitious goal, but I really think I would be the best man to rule a country.  Well, it wouldn't be just me alone.  I would have people with similar moral convictions (none) help me run the country.  I am kidding, I have moral convictions. It would be a great and prosperous country founded on Austrian Economics.  

The place we erect ( yes, I expect your help with this) will look like Dubai, but without the turbans.  Also I think we are going to have to be stationed in Alaska, which means we get the aurora borealis.  Think of that, skyscrapers that tear into a sky that is painted by the celestial master himself. It will be wicked awesome.

Here is the plan.   

Year 1

Here is the first step, and maybe the hardest.  We will make a website that generates a lot of income, like something bigger than facebook or google, or at least as big as cupid.com.  Many of you are probably aware that since I joined examiner 3 months ago I have made almost 100 additional dollars. So once we launch the site we will be able to take the revenue from that and put it into my celebrity career.  Which brings me to step two.

Year 2

Create an international best selling album that the whole world enjoys. Have the lyrics base around the philosophies of liberty and of a unlimited potential given to all people by a higher being, I am talking about god, but I don't want the lyrics to be so direct.  You know how so many people have that strange aversion to any thing that deals with religion.  So it will be uplifting and spiritually awakening but under the guise of indie-pop music.  This will lay the founding philosophy for the Constitution of the new country.

Year 3

Maybe we could do something like this.

With the huge success from the music career and the website I will be able to use the money and influence to get into acting.  This will be the fastest way to promote knowledge about the plans.  This will also help us to connect with  influential people that may be able to support the cause.  This will be mostly a political move, if you know what I mean.

Year 4

Step four, actually go into politics.  This is when I will become senator of Alaska.  I will need a lot of baking --excuse me, backing*-- here, because we are going to need to change the laws and regulations about drilling for oil.  Don't worry, it doesn't kill animals. The heat from the pipelines actually creates havens for animals, in short it actually benefits the Eco system.

Year 5

Imagine a huge city under that. Beautiful.

Use the huge amounts of money made from oil and internet industry mixed with the influence developed through the celebrity political career, and buy Alaska from America.   We would easily be able to maintain the economy with the oil rigs and with the advanced computing factories we would erect.  We would need about a trillion dollars I think though, so that we could do this.  In five years time the national debt is going to be very high, according to wolframalpha  it will be 15 trillion dollars. We will have to at least be able to pay 1 of that 15. 

Don't worry about pollution and junk, we can use natural geysers for energy during the dark season, and we could use solar energy during the light season, we will just sell the oil to all the other countries. So what do you say? Are you in or are you totally in!?





 

Separation

Just a quick thought,  so I am sitting down listening to music and doing health related blog stuff online when all of a sudden I realize that I am in a room full of people.  My coworkers are all around me.  I haven't said a single word to them. Pretty cool how we can detach ourselves from our natural surroundings with some headphones and computer screen.  I don't know, I thought that was sort of weird.  I wonder if they think the same thing. I won't ask them cause that would be awkward.

Maybe some day this will happen.