Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Fear and the like

Ever since 9/11 it hit me how ridiculous our fear as a nation is. We watch the news telling us to fear Osama Bin-Ladin while we sit and eat McDonalds. I was the guy who posted on the Wikia site - "anonymous 8" I think. Unfortunately, I still don't have any cures to the absurdity, save for not buying into it myself. I think if we took the war spending and redirected it to health insurance and the environment and research into renewable energy we would be much safer not only as a nation, but as a planet.

I wonder if perhaps it's because our nation is so young. On one hand, we are the infant nation; nay - the fetus nation trying to tell the ancient nations how to live life. But on the other hand - we all come from older and other nations, like an offshoot. So does this give us the seniority to tell others that what they are doing is wrong and needs to change? Maybe they've tried living in peace.

For instance, if I was approached by a kid who had just picked up bass guitar earlier that day and tried telling me how to play so-and-so, I'd be quite miffed, as I've been playing for 10 years. Anyway, don't know how this got off in this direction, but, there you have it.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Which way to die?

Me and my drummer, Ryan, were sitting around before our gig tonight. The subject of Iran and the almost imminent war between them and the west came up. We began discussing the potential for the draft coming back into fashion, and he said, "I will fucking kill everyone if they bring the draft back." This is just one of his sayings, but the point was clear - he is not into being forced to become a soldier.



I said, "Fuck it, I'd rather die in a war than whatever would come after."



But then it occurred to me; shouldn't peace follow a war? Not nowadays. There would be so much rebuilding that it would be maddening to try to resurrect life as we know it or are used to it.



I was listening to Coast To Coast AM and Brent Miller was on and he heads up the Horizon Project. He studies science generally as opposed to specializing in ONLY quantum physics or biology. He says the Earth cyclically passes through a gravitational field that reverses polls and obliterates civilization.



Food for thought.





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One of the coolest pics out there!



I wonder which one of her is the real one?



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