you haven't achieved your full potential yet

With my great popularity and the enormous amount of FOUR followers I can only hope in my narcissistic way that 
dem words 
will be ultra famous POSTHUMOUSLY! :) 

Anyway here is a short addition, the first of the year to be followed immediately by a second.

Sometimes my documents remain only that documents when they really should end up here mostly.

so here it goes

Heard today.

 “Authentic people always find their Utopia in the end.”

Well thank you very much Deepak!

I would love to see your empirical, ontological and epistemological evidence on that please.  

Have you got any article in a scientific peer reviewed magazine?

Please define Authentic!

Please quantify always.

Please define Utopia and

Please define and quantify the end.

Google and Bing (fear the singularity) both seem to have missed

the absolute irony of

“you haven't achieved your full potential yet”.

“You haven't achieved your full potential yet” is the catch all phrase of all wannabes gurus, shamans, or charlatans, psychics, astrologers and such: The panacea. 

Most people are stunned by such remarks and react like 

WOW! You are so right!
How DID you know?
Damn you must be wise!
You ARE good and you know me so well. 

Where if you THINK for one nanosecond you would realise that you can spew this bullshit to just about anyone and no one will ever disagree. 

 
Elementary my dear Watson.

Curmudgeons “Я” US!

Ebenezer Scrooge here!

Still early in the day and I shake my head at most things I see including a video on world slavery and all I can think is I wonder how much this photographer spent on her hair and clothes and make up 

Plus all the obscene amount of money she is making from all this etc etc  

But what bothered me most was the drama or the dramatic presentation or the use of drama anyway something on that line.

A man in Armani using the same techniques would have provoked the same reaction BTW.

Then next comes a well-known fake smile with his new age diet vomit riding his short span of glory and milking it for every penny.

Actually pennies come a lot to mind when I watch these wannabes celebrity chefs how they milk the system, freely advertise their restaurant or bullshit, make tons of money doing it and as money brings money and celebrities get an awful lot of free shit they buy the most expensive shit for themselves with the money that belongs to the station that hired them: a little non-taxable fringe benefit.  Often they steal ideas from others and profit from them while the originator gets nothing a bit like corporate management eh? They travel for free get all the glory and the monkey carrying the camera and doing everything he does but backward gets no glory whatsoever speaking of slavery.

Everybody and everyone have an agenda and a bias. 

Even watching this BBC science show where 2 so-called scientists and doctors start with their own biases and quelle surprise finish with exactly the exact same bias! 

Wow! 

The Power of Science! 

I tell you.  

The subject here is that BBC Horizon latest about the female brain vs the male brain a repeat of Trading Partners really mixed with some Simon & Garf here:

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

And a woman too like Alice Roberts.

So many so-called scientists like a lot of religious people start with a pre-conceived idea and filter all information out that they don’t like, and they filter it out so easily too, all the while pretending to be unbiased and seeking the “truth”.

Personally on the nature versus nurture subject, I might tend slightly towards the nature side but then again nobody knows nothing as always.

Just so I make a little more sense the triggers of today are

Here and here and here.

Now on a different subjects it might be apparent that I play much less Diablo these days as this blog is getting a breath of air recently but Blizzard is reminding me of my mother lately so I stay away! :)

Their attitude is: 

“OH You LOVE this eh? GOOD! We’ll take it away”

Authorities and powers that be! Pffft!

O well enough curmudgeoning for today I guess! :)

Electrons are good, protons are bad!

Everything that is ‘good’ is a negative.

We seem to associate good with positiveness and bad with negativity but in the old and ancient languages it was totally the opposite.

For instance there is no such word as truth. The only original word in truth is Oblivion. 

(Forgetfulness, some would say concealment).  

Truth is the negation of Lethe.

Same in Buddhism all good virtue is the negation of a poison, unwholesome root

Opposite wholesome qualitiesThe three wholesome mental factors that are identified as the opposites of the three poisons are:

amoha (non-bewilderment); prajna (wisdom)

alobha (non-attachment)

adveṣa (non-aggression, lack of hatred); mettā (loving-kindness)

So there IS NO truth then! :)

Science and CONscience

Two words that should mean the epitome of human endeavour right?

WRONG!

Both of them are highly and I mean highly corrupted by other heavily human factors.

Pride, Greed, Ignorance for instance, almost always coming back to the three poisons here, Gautama must have been on to something. J

When science is not obscured by pride and ignorance it is heavily tainted by greed and aggression, i.e. the best minds of the planet selling their souls to the devil aka so-called ministry of ‘defence’ more like the ministry of offence, lies, and bullshit.

Now on the word conscience, WITH knowledge, usually heavily slanted, twisted and repressive knowledge of a particular group much in love with their ethereal power made of thin air and different for each group too:  A very muddy well at best.

Anyway we got about 1.5 billion years to wise up. Considering homo sapiens is relatively young that is quite a long time but by then we might have to move temporarily to Mars before the Sun collapses and that is if we survive the collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda and another billion things that could happen to us.

Or Brian Cox maybe right and No life form hangs around long enough to be consequential or to amount to anything really

21,500 days on earth

Copying someone again as I said again and again none of us are ‘originals’, none of us are free.

What’s new? Same old same old, last spree was getting quickly bored by a young American with nothing new… another form of Amazing Atheist, another vlogger vaccinated with a gramophone needle pushing his shite, selling his snake oil anywhichway he can.  One good way is to comment on popular issues and viral YouTube’s videos this way you can ride the coattail of someone else and STILL cash on the leftovers: the American way.

What is he selling? Hot air and bullshit like everyone else. Snake oil accompanied by many flavors to get the maximum attention. A young kid who has watched too many YouTube in fact selling the old libertarian idiocies he has learned from Penn & Teller, a little bit of Osho here (without the abort and sterilise hypocrisy) a comment on news and popular criminals, opinions galore on many subjects, a seethed machoism and hate for feminism if I get the gist right ..all that to point to a pseudo matrix cure all who can’t seem to be enough of a cash cow to afford a fucking tripod.

His dissing of education because HE doesnt have any makes it lame and his dabbling in heavier intellectual subjects becomes even lamer.  

Maybe it is Alanis Morissette all over again! J Oops Alzheimer’s slip AGAIN!  Not Alanis but Jewel rather the Kilcher one.  Maybe he IS Pieces of Me. J 

But then again he too could listen to that song.

Another manic vlogger, 400 plus vids in less than 3 years, consistent so far but then again it is like a free commercial innit?

Why bother about him? Why bother about anything? 

Got sick of him quick, got sick of his Osho fake bullshit as well.  

The most important thing about Osho that his popular video on Marriage and Children does NOT mention is this:

“There were no children born in the ashram." 

"He would always say 'abort and sterilise",

" About 87 per cent of residents had a sexually transmitted disease "

Nuff said!

That was a short break anyway in my favourite escape to which I should go back soon really. 

I mean what else is there better to do? 

I just ran out of dopamine feeding for a while and got deflated, 

tired of it but it’s a life as good as any if not better.

All this thinking might be overrated after all you may be right young man! J 

But unlike you I got nothing to sell, not being American might be a help here since this selling bullshit seems to work so much better in America for all these young Anthony Robbins out there who are totally oblivious that there are 7 billion people on earth not a market of 300 million that there are such poor countries and continents as India and Africa and even huge part of China and Brazil the so called BRIC where all their bullshit is exactly that: bullshit.

In the meanwhile I’ll go back to ‘breathing’ on something else while I still can.

On another note last night was interestingly sad watching Warren and Glen all led to it by the inevitable love of cracked! J

Alzheimer’s always seems to me to be a fate worse than death, like being buried alive… was it Nick Cave or someone else lately that said something like what are we if not memories? 

No memories = No meaning.

Now on another note

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

All this Buddhism bullshit is really starting to sound deadly wrong to me.

As if in being a sentient animal was never meant to be.

All life has always suffered and as far as I know always will until the end, until death, 

to some the last suffering to others the end of all suffering.

Avoiding all suffering at all costs now is a strange way where many mystics have got lost. 

Avoiding all suffering at all costs is also a good addiction motto,
alcoholism and heroin preach that as well in their way.

Since suffering in general is often as inevitable, inexorable ( I love this word) as death 

and maybe both are not meant to be avoided at all cost.  

We are lucky in the western hemisphere at least and in the present time span to be able to avoid much suffering thanks to many drugs and anaesthesia. Just a short time ago, an amputation for example was a lot of alcohol and bite something hard and try not to pass out from the pain.

Anyway my point is that this ‘detachment’ on top of a holy mountain is an extreme not better than the attachment to the right or wrong thing or people.  

Osho comes back to mind here as he is somewhat interesting in his “brave new world” approach of children being raised by the commune but his practical approach utterly sucked as it does usually among imperfect humans, the most imperfect always being the leader totally corrupted and drunk with power.

The good old power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It IS in our DNA and that too is inevitable and inexorable.
Therefore there is no solution to the human problem.

So this “do not get attached” i.e.do not love anything or anyone is just bullshit selfish narcissism.  

Sentient beings are MEANT to suffer as long as we have a physical body and a soft heart.

So here it goes as always all problems and no solutions, all questions and no answers à la Socrates.

Now you do the thinking I is too tired! J

Not infinite but very ephemeral.

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite".

But man, especially this man or any ‘man’ for this matter, is NOT Infinite. 

No Life is.

Life: A very temporary thing for the fruit fly, the tsetse fly, the mayfly (ephémère in French), the rabbit and the impala, the lion and the wolf and US.

My consciousness is very finite and the future of my billions and billions of atoms is of little concern to me, stardust or not.  

And what we do with this little consciousness while we have it is probably very limited as poets of the like of Blake, Huxley and Morrison would say.

Ephemeral from the Greek Epi Hemera, upon one day:
a day being a conceptual length of time.

Limited consciousness to the point where the highest IQ could easily be a psychopath or a criminal, an arm dealer or worse. 

Limited consciousness where there is no solution visible for this race in an infinite amount of time except maybe total and complete extinction and annihilation, the ultimate solution. 

In fact we are no more important to the "laws that be"  than any other species who have all gone extinct and will go the same way no favour granted here for our so-called superior intellect.  

We have been here for a very short time all considered and all our endeavours will disappear with us. 

I doubt it will take all the four billion years this little ball has left.

So in the meanwhile
we can all fuss and mutter
and pretend we matter. J

The thing about Russell Brand

Don’t get me wrong I love a great mind, I love a bipolar, and I know one when I see one. The man can surely talk as if he was vaccinated with a gramophone needle for sure and his 78 RPM could certainly be tuned down to 33.

Anyway he talks about an awful lot and no one could really put up with his manic state for too long but this editing video about transcendental meditation and yoga is dizzying to say the least, not to mention the annoying new age music in the background.

Why O Why can’t we just listen to words? 

Why do we have to add editing music like if life was a movie and we all needed a soundtrack behind every move and word?

Anyway this “new” oriental thing is not new at all and like always people rally behind celebrities’ fad. Remember the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and what a fraud it all was?

Nothing new under the sun and like Paul Simon says we hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.  Yoga and meditation fans will USE Russell Brand to support their twist too.  

Some of us want to use some of us want to be abused blah blah blah.

Russell could never convince anyone for long anyway as manic is too high to follow for most and too convoluted to keep up with. I should know.

The thing about oriental also is that they rarely present us with the full context of old strange beliefs in elephant gods and blue Krishna lying and the million strange legends we are unfamiliar with which are just as senseless and irrational as our western legends of water into wine and resurrections and what not.

Try to study the Upanishads for a while and let me know.

 I have mentioned this many a times but that is basically it. 

and here

and here again.

Russell is cute and all and different and let us all  be different  but then again let us all be aware too, aware that we cannot know and that we are apes, a form of life like any others that knows nothing at all about life except that we are alive for a very short time.

End of a short story before I turn into Russell Brand myself! J