Guess what?

Technology can't replace nature.

Go Figure?

Same Glass, New Perspective...

When I first started blogging, I said at the very beginning that my view of the world is only one of many unique perspectives. These perspectives may change, but the truth doesn't. Just as some people see the glass half empty while others see it half full. See what you want, say what you want, but the contents of that glass never changes.

In regard to this rant on perspectives, I'd like to share another fresh perspective from Kevin Dann of Reality Sandwich. In his article, The Apocalypse Code, Dann writes:

"Apart from the striving to exercise military and financial power on a global scale, another area of growing concern to modern humanity is the genetic manipulation of organisms -- GMOs. Its relevance at this time is not surprising, since it is evident that it is actually part of the third temptation -- the temptation of turning stones to bread -- which is unfolding in the period 1988 to 2018. However, instead of the mineral realm ("stones") being manipulated to appear as if living ("bread"), it is a direct assault upon the "daily bread" itself. The words "Give us this day our daily bread" are directed to the Divine as the ultimate source of our daily bread. Food that is genetically manipulated is an attempted substitution of inverted food in place of the real food intended for us from our Divine Origin. By inverted food is meant the principle of taking that which is of divine origin and manipulating it so that it is changed while nevertheless still appearing to be like the original. It is again the principle of virtual reality, but now transposed to the organic realm. From the perspective offered in this book on Christ and the Maya calendar, since the Mystery of Golgotha -- and in a new and more profound sense since the onset of the second coming -- the earth is the body of Christ, and thus not only human beings but also the animals, plants, and minerals of the earth are sacred to Christ. This is the deeper meaning of the words, "Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool" (Acts 7:49). The endeavor of Satan/Ahriman is to take over the entire earth and to populate the earth with his creations -- GMOs -- in place of the plant life sacred to Christ. The achievement of this goal would signify -- at least, in the realm of food -- the breaking of the link between humanity and nature."

With a biblical spin, Dann also warns of the grave difference between natural vs. unnatural.

Everyone at Six Dragons couldn't agree more with this idea.

New perspective, same old glass.

Shallow people drive this world, accepting everything at face value along the way.

Why the fuck do I receive all that spam mail? Why are we continually subjected to so many cheap infomercials?

I'll tell you why.
It works...

Most people buy into that shit.

Listen, you’re not going to find the answer you’re looking for on some billboard or the full page ad of whatever magazine.
The absolute truth is just never spelled out for you.

If I ever happen to come across a sign that's telling me the road to salvation is on the next left, I believe I’d go right...

Surprise Surprise

Seems that one of the few conclusions I've drawn may not be that crazy after all.

In case you haven't read completely through my creative experiment, throughout a two year reflection of life here on Earth I've basically come to the ultimate conclusion that our planet is on it's way out the cosmic door.
First, I blamed us.
Then, I took a step back.
I decided not to give humanity THAT much credit...
I then alluded to something maybe pulling our strings. I mentioned that our own unnatural actions could indirectly serve as a stark reflection of a dying planet - meaning we are just symptoms of a planetary death.

Well, according to another blogger, a botched experiment in Germany could possibly introduce the idea that we may actually be "nothing more than fancy antennas receiving signals". Check it out.

“If there is someone like me in the world, and I'm at one end of the spectrum... Couldn't there be someone the opposite of me, at the other end?” - Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) in “Unbreakable” (2000)

Maybe we should start approaching life with our two magic words always in mind.
Use the textbook definitions of every root and derivative faithfully. Follow them as best as you can. After all, it is where you live.
Why wouldn’t you actually apply the self-explained laws of your environment?
Think about it. Imagine living second to second, minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day on your own accord. You can live your life trusting in the natural plan unknown to you. There are no positive or negative outcomes - only outcomes.
Mother Nature is the conductor of this human orchestra, and she will eat your motherfucking lunch.
It sounds like common sense, but there are so many people out there who think these rules don't apply to them.
These people are sleeping through a spiritual awakening, and totally missing the fact that we've defied the unwritten laws of nature and the universe for too long, turning this place into a cesspool, and it's time to pay the fiddler.

But I digress...

How could I just throw the book at humans like that?
There is a possibility that our unnatural human footprints draw no direct connection to Earth's gloomy changes (i.e. global warming).

Our own unnatural actions could only serve as a stark reflection of a dying planet.
We could just be symptoms! We are the flared up herpes jumping off the face of Earth. How does that grab ya?
Perhaps we can be considered actors as well? Was Shakespeare right all along? Was it always the world’s stage, and are we merely playing the third act?

Well to say the least, these actions come at no surprise. The bequests of our ancestors resonate throughout time. As we all know from studying our ancestry, history tends to repeat itself. Over the course of time, empires rise and fall. There are many facts and opinions written in academic texts supporting several different theories for their decline - and I think they're all right. You don't have to qualify as a historian to know and understand these reasons. You only need be wary of the main idea, which this piece simply provides for you: Unnatural conduct is unsustainable.
Joseph Tainter alludes to this unsustainability in his book "The Collapse of Complex Societies." Tainter basically states that ancient civilizations drowned in their own social, political, and scientific complexities. These complexities continually grew until supply fell short of demand, and large groups of people found themselves in a tangled web wove by the human drive for more territory, food, water, energy, information, and technology. In other words, every well appeared to run dry because the simple notion of that hole in the Earth paved the way for other projects, such as channels, aqueducts, dams, sewers, and all sorts of irrigation systems from a rope and bucket to a hose and sprinkler. Get it?
In any historical context, our way of life has always been counterproductive. Our human progress slowly degrades nature with each passing day. This is the ultimate lesson only taught by the ultimate experience.
Keeping the wall theory in mind, we should be able to make sense of this suicidal behavior. We should be able to look at every worldly crisis saying, "C'mon, what did we really expect?" I mean every thing. Peak oil, global warming, economic downturn, etcetera are all unnatural products of unnatural acts.
At least I have the fortitude to say this. Our highest human authorities on matters of right and wrong can't even muster up the courage. They dub things like stem cell research and cloning as too "unpredictable."

Unpredictable?

Are you kidding me?

I guess that the majority of us aren’t "blessed" with thinking in terms of longevity. As long as there are no immediate or close to immediate repercussions, we basically don't give a hoot.
It's like trying to comprehend infinity. Stop and try to think about infinity. Dare yourself to fathom how far infinity goes. Where does it start and end? Our little minds just shut down, and usually deem it, um, shall we say unpredictable?
If nothing is immediately wrong, we just blow it off.
We simply can not comprehend outcomes because the actual weight of an outcome always conflicts with our present limited perception - similar to tossing trash out of a vehicle while driving.
Almost every driver has carefully checked to see who's around before thinking about innocently chucking an empty coffee cup, water bottle, candy wrapper, or cigarette box out of their window. For each one of us, justifying this act is easy, but it's only easy because there are no short-term consequences. "So what?” and “Who cares?" make up the bulk of the typically ignorant responses. The prisoners will pick it up, right?
Well, what about the garbage crisis in Italy? What about the massive plastic island floating in the Pacific Ocean? Each piece of trash carries a so-called innocent story, which climaxes years later into an epically guilty tale.
Only time can truly expose the deteriorating fabric of civilization.
We’re just beginning to witness all of history’s unnatural ideas fall through. We’re seeing the grim results of great ideas for short-term progress, like mass transportation, vaccines, and pesticides (just to name a few). Seriously folks, take a look at your local infrastructure. I dare you to drive 5 miles without seeing ANY bright orange signs for road construction or bridge repairs.
This begs some questions though – were we just not thinking things through? Did common sense only compromise seedy goals?
Well, ignorance is bliss afterall.
Hey, I’ve hid myself from reality just as much as anyone reading this. Every failed relationship recorded in my past is based on this concept.
Overly optimistic eyes believe whatever they want at first. For instance, in high school I knew certain girls weren’t right for me, but damn, some were so beautiful that all they had to do was give me the time of day. Once that uplifting, fuzzy feeling permeated throughout my entire body, I gained the biggest bullshit perception of that girl’s character. The truth was I never even saw past her eye-liner.
I must add that compounding the situation with false hope is even worse. Especially when I think that I might have a shot at actually making things work because my situation is so special and different from everyone else. Even when I know she’s been mounted more times than the Royal Canadian Police, I can still wholeheartedly believe that she’s my soul mate.

Human beings have a really hard time surrendering to the truth for all sorts of reasons, and if love can fool you, pretty much anything can.
Again, it is all because we hardly ever see or accept shit for what it truly is.
This type of thinking is one of the biggest reasons for our current predicament. Why shouldn't you be worried though? Well, maybe we were supposed to travel down this ungodly path. After all, we wouldn’t know how to succeed unless we really understood what it takes to fail. They say experience is the toughest teacher – in our case, nature administers the test, and after, she gives the lesson.
I think we need to wake up and smell the fresh cup of collective failure. We need to just play the hand we’re dealt. Face it - You can't reshuffle the deck, or ask for a mulligan. You can't divorce your destiny and marry a new one.
In the words of a cackling Joker played by the late, great Heath Ledger, “It’s all part of the plan.”
Don't pit yourself against nature. Be a part of it.
Mind your surroundings. Stop and observe your current existence.
Ask questions like, “Why are city people generally defensive and unfriendly?” It wouldn’t have anything to do with being enclosed by walls of concrete and artificial floors of gravel, would it? Very few signs of nature exist in cities; therefore, there are usually no familiar signs of life. Another commonsensical question – “Why is it better to consume fruits, veggies, and water over fast food, cookies, and soda?”
You don’t even need to consult a nutritionist to know how to take proper care of yourself. As long as you can distinguish natural from unnatural, you’ll usually be better than great.
Recognize our current dissension against the natural world. Realize what it takes to live harmoniously with our environment. Understand the grave difference between waking up to the sound of the wind and waking up to the sound of an alarm clock.
Stop seeing life brick by brick, and start looking at the entire wall.

But don't be too hard on yourself now. Everyone is guilty of raping nature, but, fuck man, we really didn’t know any better. As I alluded to earlier, being human entails that we were all born to eat the apple, and then, once finished, bulldoze the entire garden for profit.

BUT, can human beings somehow flip the script?

It’s a hard pill to swallow, but the quality of life has been eclipsed by commerce - everything from Wal Mart to government. These institutions are too strong to be challenged.
People who sit in positions of inscrutable power will never relinquish their lifestyles or reputations to refurbish balance. Unfortunately, the people representing these institutions have their own delusions of what’s good and bad for us - like when Mickey Knox tries to explain to Wayne Gale that there are people out there who can kill forests and pawn the idea off as industry, not murder. Similar to Colonel Jessep from A Few Good Men. Some people can seriously justify killing Pvt. Santiago. These people think we need them more than they need us. They think we need them on that wall.
Oddly enough, they're right. We really do need these fucked up people with fucked up perspectives.

Wait, what!?

Well, it's all apart of life. We need evil to complement good. Just as up complements down, left complements right, and hot complements cold.
Every aspect of our existence is ying and yang. There wouldn’t be night if it wasn’t for day – no men without women, no jocks without nerds, and not even a Batman without a Joker.
This is the most important lesson life has to offer. If society desires prestigious schools by means of straight-A students with promising futures, then there are going to be hard times at places like Frederick Douglass High School. The ONLY reason for a person achieving something is because someone else is failing. The only reason for people being economically poor is due the existence of economic wealth. Hence, the only REAL way to eliminate poverty is to eliminate prosperity.
What a lesson, huh? We just can’t have one without the other.
That’s the beautiful (or hideous?) coin of life. It always has two sides, and you can’t shrink or expand one side without directly affecting the other side somehow. Someone needs to relay this message to the people who are cryogenically freezing themselves, so future science and technology can bail them out of their death sentences. They need to be reminded of the other side of that coin; that preventing or stopping death means preventing or stopping birth. If we uncover the ultimate life, we also unearth the ultimate death as a direct result to same extent. Get it?
It’s really the toughest conclusion for any human to reach. If you asked every person in the world to offer a reason for death, you’re likely to hear every palpable response humans beings are conscious of - like war, heart attacks, car accidents, cancers, and O.J.; but you probably wouldn’t hear the most obvious reason of all - birth.
Who really wants to admit that love is only possible through hate, and hate made only possible through love?
Who wants to tell the world that the only real way to love and accept each other is through hating and condemning?
Ugh, the truth - the ultimate balance. It lifts you up when you're down, and down when you're up.
That’s the bittersweet coin of life.

“This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” - Ellis (Barry Corbin) in “No Country for Old Men” (2007)

With each passing minute of our lives, our hearts and minds try to reconcile.
The mind teeters back and forth deciding whether we stand a chance or not. Sometimes it waves a white flag. At other times, it stops at nothing to pursue opportunity.
Even if it’s raped by confusion and battered with exhaustion, our brains can still make it a point to remind us that the sun has to shine after every storm. Our minds can either make us or break us. Only we hold the liberty of making that choice.
Sadly, this train of cognitive liberty derails on the tracks of destiny. Fate that only the heart knows. At the same time, while our minds are searching for that silver lining, our hearts remind us to embrace the present storm. Our hearts protect us from the superstitions of luck and coincidence.
Most importantly, our hearts subtly remind us that you just can't stop what's coming.
My mind has certainly played tricks on me throughout the course of writing this - making me think the points were too difficult to conceptualize, and the ideas would be reduced to nothing more than a mere oversimplification of some idealist hippy. Those thoughts were short-lived though because, after all, the choice to stand or fall was ultimately mine.
With that being said, I mentally did my part. The rest is up to fate.
As people get older, they learn to lead with their hearts when making choices. It’s like a biological GPS that you can always count on to find your way. Always follow your heart. If you know how to communicate with it correctly, you'll always get positive feedback.
Communication begins with the heart dialing out first. Unfortunately for most people, the brain never picks up. However, not answering the call is the second worst thing you can possibly do. The worst crime a human being can ever commit lies in reversing this process by letting the mind call the shots.
Don't fall into promoting the conscious mind to the body's highest pay grade. It won't pay off. It never does. Instead of supervising intuition, the brain should be on standby, ready to decode it.
Currently, my mind is honestly trying to figure out why I feel like this world is falling apart so fast.
So far, I've done my best to satisfy this hunch. I'm almost totally convinced about why and how the sky is falling. The big question is when. When does this all get out of control?
When does our day of reckoning come for turning on nature?
Obviously, no one knows the time or day, but there will be one major clue hinting the end of our times. This clue involves the formation of an über political unit, or something along the lines of a widely conspired new world order.

What's that? You think I'm kidding, or just batshit crazy?

Let me explain…

A unified planet is the perfect preceding for the end.
This idea goes beyond any biblical prophecy or doomsayer's apocryphalness. This idea stems from a logical observation of life. You see, life starts and ends with the same biological characteristic - limits.
In the beginning, life is confined or limited. It needs to be cradled and nurtured before it's ready to break away and stand on its own. Although growth and development seem boundless, life gradually returns to where it came from towards the end. When the clock ticks down, life revisits an all-too-familiar restricted or limited state, which requires care and support once again. The need for support arises from the inability to properly sustain oneself due to increasing limitations.
Logically, this planet should hit a natural ceiling, if it didn’t already. Remember, this world started as one colossal (and scientifically accepted) supercontinent, Pangaea. We must return to these roots in some way before the end. Count on us drawing back together to create a natural crutch before this Earth deserts the universe for good. So far, a one world government appears to be the bureaucratically ill-chosen, but predictable answer to a collectively struggling world - a world that is getting progressively limited just like any other old, aging organism.
Could there be a given time frame for this occurrence? When will the world irreparably turn upside down? As of this very moment, I'm unofficially predicting the final "big change" to occur in October 2010.
Why October 2010?

Well, first off, I'll start by explaining my sophisticated researching technique - I googled "apocalypse." For the most part, the results returned the most anticipated date in history; 2012.
December 21st to be exact.
Apparently, the ancient Maya civilization developed a calendar system that ends on that date. Regardless of the specific intricacies, the calendar stood the test of time, and proved to be more accurate than our Gregorian calendar. I love the idea of this calendar, and what it entails. It only needs to be adjusted by one day in 380,000 years! I feel compelled to believe in it.

Similar to the Maya, a recent claim was made by a man named Terence McKenna, who also discovered an end date of 2012 through the use of a great book called the I Ching. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese text that's like a "pocket universe." Not only does it provide the framework for the simplicity of nature, but it also describes every change and transformation through the use of 64 different hexagrams. (By the way, my recommendation for a copy of this book parallels any proposal for a primary reinforcer, like food or air. If you don't have it, you need it.)

So, this dude, McKenna, utilized all sixty four hexagrams of the I Ching to graph a timeline. This timeline, according to McKenna, graphed novelty (or change) over time. (You can literally try it out for yourself by using Time Wave Zero software. Just google it.)

According to actual Timewave Zero software, which produces McKenna's graph of novelty over time, the last peak on the graph before the dive into infinity will occur in October 2010. The last peak occurred in November 2008 when the U.S. presidential elections sent shock waves around the world.

2010.83 is a bold prediction for sure. I find the idea quite fascinating. I can't wait to find out what's going to happen.
Of course, I could be way off because my ideas aren't driven by prophetic visions, or some godly apparition that visits during the night slipping me cosmic cheat sheets. My ideas are driven purely by intuition, and I’m just riding shotgun.