Thanksgiving in Perspective

I suppose you could say I am thankful for the courage of a small few that decided to leave all life that they ever knew.... hopped on a small wooden ship and headed west. I mean come on... that takes balls!

I suppose I could show even more respect for the Paleo-Indians who came here over 12,000 years ago.... showing even greater courage as they migrated over the land bridge from Eurasia and spread out all over North, Central and South America.

I suppose we should all give thanks that the latter group decided to help out the former group when they were on the cusp of extinction. We should also realize that "but for" that union we would not all now be living and "flowering in this generation... triumphantly." O.K. the last few words were actually Bob Marley.

Always give credit where credit is due!

Yes... our Native American brethren shared their food with us during that cold, severe winter. They harbored us. They embraced us. They allowed us to live in their world.

When our politicians espouse their philosophies on immigration.... Let's at least try to keep the true historical record in perspective.

Above all else, there are no borders in humanity... there are only families helping other families and protecting them in their time of need. There are only individuals protecting and giving sustenance and warmth to courageous strangers that have arrived on wooden ships.... on the shores of hope.

Stop Fucking us Over

Listening to a little Bob Dylan: 


Oh yeah brother. 

The "Times are a-Changin"

SO PROPHETIC!  

Today we live on the cusp of GIANT change! 

Are we not now moving with blinding speed into a society that will offer true justice and equality to all? 


Is it not now the time to take back our society? 
Can we not now scream the following in unison????

No longer will we sit back and be passive. 

No longer will we sit back and accept inequality.

No longer will we accept the status-quo. 

No longer will we be content with injustices. 

No longer will we be guided by the charlatans who prosper and grow by our ignorance.

No longer will we be misled by the politicians that deceive us into their web of trickery and deception only to prosper themselves and leave us to pay the bills!

NO NOT NOW!  


Now is the time for the masses to be heard! It is time for all the people of this country to awake and find clarity in our message. 

It is time for us to unite as one and say... "diplomatically": Stop Fucking us Over! Stop allowing this rigged system to prosper. Let's unite! We all want the same thing. Let's stop letting them divide us! Let's unite and take control of this bullshit! 


LET'S VOTE AS ONE IN 2012!

Well perhaps Dylan can say it a little more diplomatically!   

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

-Bob Dylan

Cobwebs, Cleaning, Advertising and the Net...

Such bold and fast movements in our society these days. It used to be that, as a company, you worked hard... put out a good product, placed an ad in the Yellow Pages and then managed your company.

In today's fast paced technological society; we are now tasked with not only working hard, putting out a good product, placing ads in multiple sources of media including print, and the internet. However, now as an added bonus we have the pleasure to work almost full time working on the internet ads.

We no longer have the Yellow Page companies to design the perfect ad. We no longer have these advertising company's reps as advocates for our business. No, we must now work constantly on internet ads that change from day to day and to whom large internet company's only care in the world is how many "clicks" my company generates.

They no longer truly care in my company progressing and prospering so that I might grow and purchase a bigger Yellow Page ad next year. No, the sole concern is how much I am willing to pay for the next person to click on my website and possibly call to make an appointment.

Meanwhile, as a company that prides itself on consistency and quality in the cleaning business, I am still tasked with letting my crews know to clean out the cobwebs in the corners of the rooms when they perform their General Cleaning Services. Reminding them to hit the light switch plates or areas that might not be noticed.

Add to these multifaceted problems we now must deal with the occasional dissatisfied customer whose sole desire is to spew venom about your company all over the internet.  The fact that that your company cleans hundreds of homes a week to satisfied customers takes a backseat to the negative comments on the internet of the one person that has never had their home professionally cleaned in their life. The one customer whose expectations are completely out of the realm of sanity. The customer that expects miracle workers to come into their home which hasn't been cleaned in years and within one hour perform that miracle. Then, when that miracle is not completed within the one hour time frame that same person berates you all over the internet!

Meanwhile, the other 100's of satisfied customer's, don't ever even fathom to write a positive review for you  over the internet because they are happy! AHHHHH..... At times, this can be disheartening!

However, I don't let all the negativity bring me down. I fight on. I love my employees. I love my company. I take pride in the work we perform. I know that our company serves a noble purpose. I know that so many people enjoy a sense of calm and positivity from the work that we perform. I know that I am a fighter and I will change and adapt and move forward. I know that our company blows away the competition. I know that we work our butts off and I know that in the end....

Our strengths overwhelmingly outweigh our flaws!  And not to sound too sappy, but as I stated previously...our cause is noble.

That's Entertainment!

"Ramble on"... Yeah... nice... "ramble on." Zeppelin right? That song rocks! Or we could always go w the Circle Jerks... "I was so wasted!" HA HA HA HA!!!

Nice... so I have reached the Psalms and soon the Proverbs on my Bible Journey.

Nice... finally getting away from the history and the right side brain work... now delving into some poetry... a little easier reading... let the left side flow.

Not sure I am in total agreement with the whole left side, right side view. I mean, you are using your whole brain... maybe it has more to do with using your brain and your heart (soul??) in unison.

I mean, we are talking about evaluating your existence in this world. I mean... yeah, it is great to meander around in this world... acquiring wealth, building bigger nests and the like... but when you get right down to it... there has to be some higher meaning... unless you live in some freaking abnormal cocoon...

Let's get real! What is life? What is our purpose? Where are we going? If anywhere? Can we move forward on a higher plane? Can we somehow find an intersecting point from the life we lead and this earthly plane into a more metaphysical higher plane?  And if so, can we recognize that point and diverge our path to continue on to that higher plateau?

I would think that these matters are obviously of much more significance than all the bullshit that we must observe on a day to day basis.

Did our ancestors get closer to that plateau than us? The Egyptians? The Sumerians? The Mayans? Perhaps they did attain that level... perhaps they progressed into that new plane.

Can our society reach that level?  I think we are potentially on the precipice of a significant movement towards that end goal. However, I also feel that we are also teetering on the edge of falling into an abyss.; Well not completely the abyss of "the end." Yet... just a serious step backwards from where we need to go.

However, I do see a strong sense of positivity and strength emerging to guide us forward... We just need the people in the middle to think rationally and sensibly and push us "with an omnipotent storm" forward to keep us on the path!

Or we could always follow in the steps of the Jam:

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearses in a nearby yard
Watching the telly and thinking 'bout your holidays'

Now That's Entertainment....

-The Jam

CASE CLOSED ASSHOLE

Oh man... negativity be gone. Ever dealt with a person who is completely insane? Or in my situation, a tenant that is completely insane? You try to be a good guy and fix a toilet and the next thing you know you are being accused of subjecting the tenant to mold, asbestos, lead and any other invention they can find on the internet? 

Have you ever walked into a person's home to evaluate a problem.... leave to buy a new toilet to help out the tenant and return with your workers and then be accused of assaulting "said" insane tenant that you never touched and then being "citizen's arrested"? 

Have you ever had to take a lunatic to court to get them out of your property since they refused to pay any rent and then have to hire an attorney costing thousands of dollars and then having to defend yourself that your house never had any mold, asbestos or lead and that the "said" insane person is just working the system?

Have you ever showed up prepared to battle your opponent on all the merits of truth and the knowledge of right overcoming wrong... and then to have your opponent show up and basically throw in the towel and turn over the keys to your property and say they have moved out?

Have you ever had to witness the same "insane" person beg the court to waive court fees and the judge allowing it?

Have you ever had to watch that same "insane" piece of shit walk out of the court completely unscathed... as you have just lost thousands upon thousands of dollars defending yourself for nothing....?

Well, Case Closed on getting Mr. Insanity out of my house!

However, Case open on my next venture of dragging Mr. Nuts back into court to get a judgment for all I am out! Oh and don't think I have forgot my false "citizen's arrest".... oh yeah that's gonna cost said "insane" asshole a LOT of money.

Holy Diver and the Bible!!!!

I think Ronnie James Dio is a huge Bible fan!

So I have been reading the bible as I previously mentioned. I am really digging it! I would say this is definitely right up there with such epic works as War and Peace by Tolstoy which I had the pleasure to read while I lay in a hammock in Nicaragua while serving in the Peace Corpse from 1995-1997.

The Bible is an epic adventure of untold proportions. Wow... combine history, fable, strength, weakness, pain and struggles, triumph, defeat, victory, loss, suffering, sadness, elation, adventure, peace, war, Now mix all that with poetry, humor, wisdom, teachings and philosophy.

I am still working my way through the good book. I would say i am about 40% through. Ok maybe only 35%....it's a long book! Man.... I am feeling good about my progress. Just like War and Peace... it does get bogged down in names and places at times... but it picks back up! I feel really good and definitely I am feeling good about my progress. I am simultaneously reading World history books and geographical books to align all these events and to filter it all out. I mean everything must be read through a scholarly yet receptive and reticent prism in order to search for true meaning!Now shall we progress?

O.K. Holy Diver? I mean what the fuck right? How can I put Holy Diver by Ronnie James Dio: lead singer Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Dio in the same context of the Holy Bible? Well do not let ignorance blind your vision... Ronnie was singing about all those epic stories that I have been reading about in the bible. The highs and lows... the strengths and weaknesses. The struggles and battles.

At times we all must face this battle. Negative waves of evil and darkness will confront us. These are the times we must look deep within our souls, we must hunker down and let the storms rage above our head, we must keep calm and look for inner solace. Let the fury rage above our heads and not through our hearts. Let all that pain and negativity decompress and deflate. This darkness can come from even the closest places we least expect.

However, no matter how hard the fury rages... no matter how much fear our enemy tries to invoke.... all that strength and that mighty storm will collapse and dissipate just as fast as it flew into our lives. I know... I have been fighting the good battle for the last 2 weeks! At a certain point you will realize that you have seen the summit of a person's evil. You have seen the best that this rage has to show you!

At this point you will now have the strength to rise up, assess your damages, gather your wits, flex your muscle and come down with a mighty fury on this evil! You soon realize.... You are a fighter! You are the True Power! Now you stand tall! You scream to the evil, "That's it" ? "That's all you have"? 9 times out of 10 you don't even have to do battle.

The great fury will now cower away and run. Your words will send fear to not only this negativity but to all the negativity that is near. In the unlikely event that you must do battle, your strength is so omnipotent your enemies are crushed in battle! These are the times we ride the tiger!!!!!

Between the velvet lies
There's a truth that's hard as steel
The vision never dies
Life's a never ending wheel

Holy Diver
You're the star of the masquerade
No need to look so afraid
Jump on the tiger
You can feel his heart but you know he's mean

Some light can never be seen
Race for the morning
You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light

Oh we will pray it's all right

Ronnie Dio RIP brother! July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010

Been reading the Bible lately...

People have such weird reactions when you tell them you are reading the Bible. Fanatic, manic depressive, and my Favorite: What the FUCK! .... so many varied and interesting reactions...

Well, I have to say: I have been bashing this book my whole life and rejecting everything that it has to say... but truth be told... I have never actually read it. So, I am going to read the good book and hold all judgment until I am done. I mean I really am a true hypocrite!

In all actuality... it is so different from what I thought. I thought it would be just some cult like... "I love god" type book.

So far from the truth. In actuality, I am actually digging it more because I have always enjoyed history. yeah that is all debatable.... however,

As far as making any metaphysical connections, true meanings... finding higher plateaus.... well this is my journey... I am working my way through the Bible... I have read the Koran and I need to read

The Analects
Veda
Upanishads
Tao-te-ching
Talmud
Five Classics
Bhagavad Gita

My reading list is before me... Lofty goals I am sure.

Hey... why work 9-5 without purpose... at least seek some higher purpose... right/ i mean what else is there???

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 16: 26

Bob keeps me grounded and soulful...

Yes... life throws us in turmoil... spins us around like we are in a washing machine. Life shakes us like a rag doll... beats the shit out of us. Life can really try our faith and spirit...

When I find myself in these low... dark caverns; I bust out my Bob Marley... My spirits lift... I feel a sense of being... I become grounded and present. Life begins to have a semblance of clarity. Bob lifts me up! Bob sparks a fire within me and makes me soulful and content.

I'm listening to Bob as I type... my head sways from side to side... my inner "chi" is in line... meditation is achieved. Nirvana is still a possibility.

If even for such a brief and ever so forceful and meaningful time... i am transported and the mundane bullshit of day to day existence is trivial and meaningless... I am one w my spirit...

Wow... all that and No... I'm not smoking pot!!!! Here is to you Bob... a prophet in our day....

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our mind
Woh, have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfill the book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had
Redemption songs
All I ever had
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom

Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley, February 6 1945 – May 11 1981 RIP!!!

Tweetle fucking Dee and Dweedle Fucking Dumb!

So ambivalent about the state of things as we approach the culmination of years of obscurity and people trying to hide or change known truths or in the worse circumstances... believing in arcaic.... self serving ideological SHIT!

Thus the Tweedle Dee's and the Tweedle fucking Dumbs of the world slow the inevitable progression of man into the future and delay the launching of cerebral vessels into uncertain and unknown waters. Yet, now we flounder, into known waters and existences in which we so readily accept and fail to venture forward to discover!

Thus, this ideological ineptness of the passive and somewhat stupid "Twiddle Dee" is obscuring the future and driving the Tweedle Fucking Dumb down a blind and unrealistic future....

There are those that know and accept the true vision and destiny of the majority and the unknown... well... we shall never know the unknown... the only fact that we do actually know is that our destiny is an obscure path that leads us forward...

So for all you fucking idiots that try to open paths that lead backwards I say Fuck You and that we will forever progress... your stupidity will not further your cause and I only hope one day you will realize that your ignorance has only deterred those with a somewhat nodule of intelligence and a belief in that which is true and which shall be;

We are individuals... not pods of subhuman conformists! While our culture molds us in the latter.... our brains lead us to the former.... And as such, our paths will lead us to unknown truths about our existence and our ultimate purpose!!!

Therefore I say to you Tweedle Dee... take your friend Tweedle Dumb out to the desert and shoot him in his head and then take the gun and point it at yourself... and pull the fucking trigger....

Of course this is only a metaphor~~!!!!!

Easter

So I am sitting here rocking to some old school music. The Cure. Man, I dig that band. Perhaps my all time favorite! Tomorrow is Easter. At what point to we slow down, stop and take it all in? At what time can we reflect on what it means to be here....

I think Easter must be one of those times.... it comes at a weird point. We are busy with school and work and all the bullshit that comes with our merry go round world...

The resurection. Wow... the defining moment in our history. The moment when our lives came to have meaning. How we interpret that meaning is diverse and immense. I am still trying to sort through these different feelings and beliefs... always searching for higher meaning and connections.

I have long ago decided that rejection of faith in its entirety is really not a truthful connection with my core yet a ploy to invoke feelings in others...

I strive to reach the plateau where my true feelings and desires reign supreme above all else. However this state of being must also be in relation to a strong sense of empathy for others.

This combination will lead me to a road of self satisfaction for both my self purpose and that of my fellow man. Lofty goals I am sure!

For now... I move ever subtly forward... creeping along... trying to make a difference... often failing!