You're not weird.

Don't let you think because you choose tie-dye and burning man that you are "weird"... weird mother fuckers believe that it's a world conspiracy about the earth being round, because it's flat and for some reason the governments of the world don't want you to know. (no joke.)

Those are some weird people.  (the biggest problem with conspiracies is usually they are too much work: look at the NSA those are real spooks and they hemorrhage secrets)

I wrote the above a few months ago.  It's an unfinished response to the return of a few of my friends from Burning Man.  They were riding high on their freak summer, and were going on about how square the real world was and how awesome their pseudo-utopia was.  And the one thing all burners do: talk about how weird they are.  "Because, like, you don't know weird till your out on the playa. dude."

Bull.

Weird is as it is stated above are crazy mother fuckers who believe that the world is really actually flat.   And for some fucking reason, because if we knew it wouldn't be a secret conspiracy, the governments  of the world all work together to keep us in the dark.  The world governments can't even decide if the UN should be officially French or English.

Riding around on a unicycle, wearing a Gandalf costume and playing the Imperial March?  It's not

SO.   You're not really weird.  Just a little eccentric.

The start of real blogging?

"A loaf who attempts to twist his own fate is not a loaf, but in fact a pretzel" - No Need For Bushido


Being employed is a wonderful thing.  Even more wonderful when payment is made.  As an attempt to reverse my lack of energy to extracurricular activities I have decided to go once again into these depths to write at least weekly on this blog that nobody reads. - Bent Ray


The saddest part of my life is not that I have been unemployed for the last year, but that depression due to not working has stifled my creative spirit and made me hate my doodles and crazy thoughts.  What are they worth if they do not create currency?  The depressed capitalist in me says nothing.  YET.  I have worked for a week and now these doodles give me the joy they once had.  or still do....  hmmm, bad philosophy.

Depression is an evil thing.  A heavy burden that is oft mistaken for a lingering bad mood, depression is more than that.  It is not a mood that can come and go, it is fed like a beast and must be tamed.  If not kept constantly tamed it tears from its cage and rips through soul and mind.  Darkening thoughts and feelings, wanting to escape through pain in oneself and others.  Drugs can sometimes alleviate this self-torment, bringing short bliss.  They do not really help, they artificially keep it at bay.  And the fact it is artificial makes the step back to the harsh reality that much worse.  Depression must be worked on like a breaking auto; going from A to B is okay but trying to win a race is out of the question.  You must clean every nook and cranny, finding all that is wrong in the mind and soul then dealing with it.  Often one must work hard and go over every part of the machine more than once.  And like how the old auto will constantly find a new part to break, depression is always ready around the corner with a surprise.

This is a dark post.  I apologize my imaginary readers.... so here is a dark joke: wasn't the Ku Klux Klan the first black ops?   (if you are intelligent you will notice a pun there.  hehehe)


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The last word:

My first memory is waiting for my father as he payed the motel bill.  I was standing next to our family's Volvo station wagon, in one hand was my stuffed dog Victoria and in the other a comic book.  We were heading to the final day of the Grateful Dead set in San Francisco, CA.  I don't think I really understood at the time what was going on, but I do remember one thing: the smile on my father's face.  It is a look of happiness that I will cherish my entire life.  It's the smile he only gave his family.  That is real magic.    Sleep well imaginary readers. - Bent Ray

In The Future...

Male, Female, Man, Woman.... what do they mean?

Male and female are biological terms to describe the dual sexual genders that are prevalent in nature.

But man and woman?  Those are terms to describe a state: a girl becomes a woman, a boy becomes a man.   What ever that line in the sand is, how ever you want to measure it, what is important that a line exists.

I don't think this will happen in our lifetime, but it may slowly start to become over the next hundred years.

What am I writing about?  The use of male and female will remain as gender classifications and the terms man and woman to become primarily used for sexual orientation.  You can never stop being male, you cannot remove that X and turn it into a Y.  But, you may know that you're a woman.

Or you were born as a female and know you're sexual orientation is that of a man.  You can't change your gender, and your orientation is not based upon the DNA giving you swinging bits up high or down low.  Your gender is based upon something that LITERALLY to change from one to the other: every single cell and every single strand of DNA in your body must be changed.  And not only just a switching of the order of TCGA, but making it so when the individual cell dies it is replaced by a cell with the proper DNA sequence to match the rest of your body.  (and we won't even try to pretend we could get DNA manipulation down before words will change meanings)

Sexual orientation is somewhat of a topic in general conversation, or at least is a subject involved in many topics.  Today we use words such as "gay" "bisexual" "straight" "transgender"

They are fixed in the current paradigm of male=man and female=woman.  Don't believe me?  I just used the term "transgender" as an example of sexual orientation words.  Orientation =gender in the common mind.  But, we have so many new classifications of orientation since the realization by enough people that we are individuals and as such have different tastes in books, movies, exercise  and yes: sexual partners.

And unless we stop advancing into such a liberal society, those classifications will increase and what makes a boy a man, or a girl a man, will soon become more muddled then it already is.  What man and woman will mean exactly in 100 or 200 or even 1000 years is nothing I can say, but as a scientist I know male and female can never change due to the rigidity of DNA in creating all the fun parts of the human body.


This is what I think about when gays tell me that I am still in denial when I say I am bi... You gays are a bunch of dumb males, and sometimes you act like women [bitches].

Note: Since I am updating this at an unprecedented rate recently (twice this year!) I should let you know I am hanging in the woods for the next 6 weeks... so maybe I will have something good to post then.

The Christian Time Travel Paradox

So, what if in the future we can time travel?
    Normal, sci-fi dream.
 But, what about time-travel tourism?
"Okay, but Family Guy did that."
What about CHRISTIAN time travel?
     ....
Think about it: we already have christian themed travel agencies.
Now, where would they go: to see Jesus.
You may be asking: when could you see Jesus and not screw up time?  The Sermon on the Mount.  A lot of people standing around and listening to Jesus, the perfect cover.  And as a bonus: You get to be part of the miracle of loaves of bread.  Free lunch on this time travel trip.
But this makes me think if most of the crowd turns out to be christian time travelers then does that mean the reason Jesus had to do a miracle is because of time traveling believers?  Who knows, but makes an interesting CHRISTIAN TIME TRAVELING PARADOX {BOOM}

And for those who like a little action: the Crusades.
Horror: the Inquisition

But really, I just want a freaking time machine.