I spent today with my head under my car hood trying to take my radiator out/patching it up, so yeah… naturally I wasn’t happy. I sat down at my computer at long last, and logged some forums. I got on a GFX streak, got some pallets and textures, some nice renders and free background kits, and had fun.

But then, one thread, a “random” thread I saw in someone’s signature on an anime forum, brought up something I’ve criticized and speculated over my whole life; in High School I used to talk about it all the time, trying to find out what it was and it’s meaning. I had actually researched it some fairly recently, about a year ago on the internet, and found what it was at long last, then let it die, for thinking it too stupid to have wasted so much of my life lost in mystery.

This organization is called Skull and Bones. Turns out it was a alumni society at Yale University. It got some publicity it seems, as I saw in this thread;

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml

Some prominent American individuals are members, reputedly.

But back to why I was so obsessed; I cannot remember for the life of me when I first heard of this organization, but it must have been at or around 1998. I remember hearing how it was an super-secret organization/society that was a launch pad into the big league of puppets and string pullers behind the American way of life. This society, in short, is actually what spurred me on my quest to pinpoint genius put to self-fulfilling use, and why to this day I advocate free thinking.

Thank you, Skull and Bones, I may be a no-one to you and your members, but you have drastically shaped the development of my character. Thank you in earnest, though I still do not know exactly who or what your entity is.

It seems as though the 50’s are back in style. Everyone knows the 50’s having been coming back,  but this year it’ll be full on. Expect to see baggy and vaporous dresses along with trousers, mini trousers, and capri trousers.

Sporty styles and chic styles will also clash, which means there will be an ethno mix.Now that will be an interesting combo!

The colors that will be in style are grey, black, white and of course yellow. Dresses and blouses will mostly consist of floral but will get more abstract and even geometric. So uni is also back in style.

Don’t worry girls oversized bags are still in styles. So that means huge earrings and necklaces will compliment your clothing. Your jewelry should be made of plastic, clay, or wood in order to have that ethno look.

 Now that you know what’s instyle run get your wardrobes ready!

 Why people choose to try to make Linux an everyday operating systems just baffles me. I get so tired of hearing these people that don’t know what there talking about, talk about how great Linux is and how it never crashes like Windows does. Linux is not an everyday operating system. It was made to be a server systems and that’s all. Its great if all you do is right a letter every now and then but if you do anything more its pointless. The reason it don’t never crash is because you cant install anything on it. Hell Windows never crashes either till you go installing a 100 different types of software and drivers on it, and o yea good luck finding drivers for Linux. And wityh Apple release of there new o.s last year that was the bigest mistake Apple has made in such a long time. All they did was make fun of Windows Vista, on TV and on there website they would pick and pick and vista saying that it wasnt ready to come out and there new OS would be perfect compared to vista. Then when vista came out they wanted to hurry there o.s up to compete and they made the same mistake that they had criticised Microsoft for… they released 10.5 and it wasnt ready. this thing had way more problems than vista ever had and what makes it worse is they clam to be a perfect software company…Microsoft doesn’t. Problems that apple had fixed years ago in there operating systems came back in 10.5…. how did they manage this. they was so concentrated on making fun of vista that 10.5 wasn’t there main concern and when it was released it showed. Linux however is not an everyday o.s. That is not what it was made for. maybe someday in the near future it may be but has of now unless you have another machine running windows (or apple HAHA). Don’t install any Linux o.s. if you want a good o.s and can handle not being able to do anything and install anything. just install windows XP and dont install anything else, its got more features than Linux, plus you can get drivers for the hardware and without installing anything its just a stable.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age…

…They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R’lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him. Meanwhile no more must be told. There was a secret which even torture could not extract. Mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. But these were not the Great Old Ones. No man had ever seen the Old Ones. The carven idol was great Cthulhu, but none might say whether or not the others were precisely like him. No one could read the old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. The chanted ritual was not the secret - that was never spoken aloud, only whispered. The chant meant only this: “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”

…Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity. They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.

These Great Old Ones, Castro continued, were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape - for did not this star-fashioned image prove it? - but that shape was not made of matter. When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live. But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R’lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious surrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them. But at that time some force from outside must serve to liberate Their bodies. The spells that preserved them intact likewise prevented Them from making an initial move, and They could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by. They knew all that was occurring in the universe, for Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs. When, after infinities of chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by moulding their dreams; for only thus could Their language reach the fleshly minds of mammals.

-From the Call of Cthulhu

As seen:

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm

Its odd at times just to stand back and watch people. Don’t say anything to them just watch them. Most will go by you in such a hurry they will seem to pass through you and not notice you at all, other will pass by you and just not care about anything in life. Some of them you can see through like glass panels sliding down the sidewalk. Other have built up a bullet proof barrier that nothing can tear down. Then as you watch them you try to think about there life. Do they have kids? Would i leave them with my kids? Do they have any secrets that my drive them to an early grave? Its hard to fathom that every single person has a different life and a different story to tell yet so many of us could care less about anyone else but ourselves. Someone might pass you and live on to be a great hero of our time and the next person to walk by may be killed around the next corner.

I meet a lot of people. True most of it may be online but to me that can be so much more real. So many people put on fancy cloths and buy houses they cant afford and fancy cars to cover who they are. But you cant do that online. A person might lie about everything they are online but least then you can see there dreams. Then you get to see they if this person could be or do anything you could see what they would be. The sad thing is after much candy coating most people still suck. So meeting people online is much the same as meeting them in person. i talk to hundreds of new people every week. Some i choose to keep talking to and most i don’t. Some i really don’t have a choice in the matter. After many years i still keep in touch with a few people i have never meet in real life, and some of them i have got to meet. Some of them i still plan on getting around to meeting soon as traveling is free, or i get some money. The person i been talking to the most is Ilona, you mean so much to me you really do. We been talking to each other on the bloody Internet so long, way to long in fact. Hopefully our views on the government and the will to change this country for the better will do America some good one day. um lets see next is josh. We didn’t talk on the Internet long before we got the opportunity to meet and pretty much hit it off as really good friends. he to as this fire inside of him to change the world for the better and can see through most bullshit that anyone gives to him. How he can put up with the parents he has astounds me. Third would have to be Laura from Belgium. One look at this girls pictures and you can easley see she is one of the most artistic people you can ever talk to. She as a style that is unlike anything i have ever seen anywhere in person or online. When you talk to her even on the worst of days they way she talks just makes you feel like everything somehow will be ok. She kinda lightens the room with a soft mellow glow. Which the glow is coming from Belgium so I’m sure if your there its a lot brighter. Has always the people with be greatest of smiles seem to have the hardest times in life. Seems to be life’s way of kicking you down for being happy because you shouldn’t be. After the things she has been through the last year you wouldn’t think she would brighten the day but she still does. hang in there kid, things get better. I have talked to so many more people on a constant bases but these seem to have stuck around to enlighten me the most. i have learned from them, grieved with them and rejoiced with them. And after so long…….there still here. Just to talk. Just to listen. There are no one night stands or broken hearts are contracts or hut feelings….But just to listen and be there for someone.

So next time you see someone walking down the street, remember that there life is so much diffrent than yours and there may just be somehitng to learn from it.

Its official. DDR3 is avalible now for everyone (that can afford it). Although at this time it is only acalible on boards with Intels P35 chipset, 775 socket. Just wait a bit though and it will be avalible for the AMD AM2+ and AM2 motherboards. Speeds right now are as listed.

1. DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500)
2. DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)
3. DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
4. DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
5. DDR3 1625 (PC3 13000)
6. DDR3 1800 (PC3 14400)
7. DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000)

Prices also range from $199.00 for a 1 gig stick to $859.00 for 4 gigs (2×2gig). Although DDR3 has been carried on video cards for some time now its takin mainboard companies a while to start producing DDR3 mainboards. With DDR2 speeds reaching 10400 you almost have to wonder what is the point of DDR3. I find that my DDR 3200 works just fine even by todays standards, and i know of no one that does more with a computer than I do. And lets not forget how DDR2 started. DDr2 started its life much as DDR3 is, It came out on nothing but Intel supported boards. However AMDs socket 939 wich still used DDr was still far faster in every performance aspect. Intels poor processor performance even combined with the DDR2 speed was still no match for the AMDs of the day. This killed the market for the new DDR2 as well as Intel. It wasnt until AMD picked up the DDR2 and proved what it could really do that the market for DDR2 started to rise. Intell did soon follow in the performance rind with the release of the 775 socket wich brought us the duel and quad core Intels of today. With AMD just releasing the new Phenom 9000 series processors and Intel having to launch a new chipset to support the new DDR3 will this be another mistake by Intel? lets face it, since AMD release of the “64″ bit cpu Intell has been a tad behind ever since. Even there beast of a cpu the Core 2 Quad is still missing somehitng. It just doesnt have that…AMDness to it that makes AMD far more better. Even now ith the Intels performance marks just slightly higher than AMDs, the AMDs are still on top of sales. The only thing about AMD that has changed over the year is the price. Around the socket A days they were known to be the “cheap” alternitive to Intel. Now there running about the same price wich is anywhere from $60 to around $1200. I guess the point of all this is to say that if i was you i wouldnt buiy the DDR3 just yet. if you wait till AMD starts there support of the memory youll be alot better off.

My fellow Americans. Seeing as those words are tossed around, and continue to be followed by nothing but blatant lies, and widely accepted, that is how I choose to start this dialog. I will leave it up to you to determine whether it is true or false; I, unlike political officials, merely supply facts, to be backed by your own ability to interpret and accept new views, and your personal opinions. I will not brandish promises and compliment myself on reputedly fulfilled previous ones in an attempt to squelch some nagging insecurity or fear of conspiracy against myself, or simply to sedate my audience. This comes from me, my mind and heart. I understand the situation unfolding in the modern world. We have the radicals on both ends, both of which have those amongst them who are a lot more than a little paranoid. Thus you have the restriction of liberties by our government, and those who are “plotting against it”. Paranoia. Fear. These are our incentives. We all hate the world. There is no love in politics, other than the pursuit of power on one hand, and the love in the pursuit of correcting the wrongdoings of those in power.

My fellow Americans. We all have our opinions. We all have our hopes and desires. We all deep down want something to fight for and be recognized. But fear keeps us from doing it, and we write it off as not caring or wanting to get involved. The submissive mentality is; don’t read this. If you do, hate it and distance yourself from the writer, or attack them. The submissive person says, “Just give me my games, my phone, my television, and let me live in a sheltered world away from all this chaos… leave me out of it! All I want is to live in my little (X amount) square foot world!”

My fellow Americans. I know it is hard to believe, and no one likes a conspiracy theory. But what about those who do? What about those who question? What about the history of possible false flag operations that forms the very basis of the American world today? To recap for those WHO DID NOT WATCH THE ZEITGEIST MOVIE PAST THE “GOD-BASHING”: The Lusitania was deliberately sailed over German sub waters to be an excuse for America to enter the war. Same for America’s provocation of Japan before Pearl Harbor, when we cut them out of all our economy while giving supplies and other help to China, their great enemy at the time. The great depression, triggered meticulously by central banks and the Rockefeller foundation with the insertion of a few tidbits here and there in newspapers saying that the market was in trouble. The later of which simply goes to show how we ARE CONTROLLED BY OUR MEDIA. I am too in a way. Maybe I watched too many conspiracy movies. Terror Storm, Zeitgeist, V for Vendetta… list is endless. But I do like to think that I am questioning society and government for a good reason.

My fellow Americans. We stand on the brink of submission. With the impending election coming, some of us feel things will change for the better. No, it all goes back to zeitgeist/wizard of oz; “Don’t mind the man behind the curtain”. For so long, mass entertainment has placed such small lines and actions, that when dwelt on, apply largely to real life issues. Just as was said in “V for Vendetta”, “artists use lies to tell the truth, whereas politicians use lies to cover it up”. It’s always transparent for someone willing to look, which is which.

My fellow Americans. The USA PATRIOT act stands on the verge of renewal. The 55 Homegrown Terrorist act is already on it’s way to approval. Translation for those who have ignored my previous warnings; the government controls you. It controls us. Check with your mobile phone provider. Read that contract. The government is already monitoring all your phone calls. This isn’t something that MIGHT happen, it happened years ago. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the same way. They send the data of where you’ve been back to the government to filter out “terrorists”. Yes, the same government that MAY HAVE EXECUTED ACTS OF TERRORISM ON 9/11 AND DESTROYED THE THREE TRADE TOWERS. Watch Zeitgeist for the proof there (False Flag).

Yes, I agree, it is good for some things. If there really are terrorists who are insane out there, I’d want them to be contained. But I know enough and am vocal enough about it to possibly considered a “terrorist”, but I love my country. I can’t see how anyone couldn’t. We live in one of the proudest, most Amazing nations in the world in my opinion. I love it. However, our liberties are being stripped, raped, and stolen from us one by one. And we don’t even realize it, or care. This is why I am shocked, if not slightly scared.

Reading the State of the Union Address, a recent speech given by George W. Bush, which can be found <a href=”http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html”>here</a>, I couldn’t help but question the authenticity of some of the aspects of the speech. My favorite mistake is in the 9^th Paragraph, which states;

“Inside the United States, where the war began,

We must continue to give our homeland security

And law enforcement personnel every tool they need to defend us.“

Where the war began; The war did not begin here. It began with the death of the Prophet Muhammad on June 8, 632 AD (American calendar), and was escalated with the unifying of all these peoples of different race and religion into one little nation after the Great World War.

We must continue to give our homeland security; Homeland security currently is keeping tabs on all American citizens, on the grounds of weeding out terrorists. Doing a good job, everyone is too scared to speak out against it, either that or unaware, or silenced by it.

Law enforcement personnel every tool they need to defend us; The Homegrown Terrorist act prevents US citizens from banding together in arms and speaking out against the government. Google it, it’s the first 114 things. So, let me get this straight. We surrender ourselves to the abuses of the government, and submit? Hell no I WILL NOT KEEP SILENT. I believe in what this nation was founded on, not what corrupt officials and paranoid followers are trying to make it.

So… Still not beleiving me? How about this…

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA Pub. L. 99-508, Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1848, 18 U.S.C. § 2510) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer.

<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act”>-Wikipedia</a>

My fellow Americans. The time is now. Our children are growing up in a world that is increasingly less private, and increasingly more revolving around “security” over liberty. It is not our decision what security is. Instead, it simply means the government controls all aspects of our life, or else spies in on it. We are so strictly regulated, in every aspect of our lives. We gradually are becoming our’ institution’s cattle. Very soon, a government-sponsored card will be issued to all Americans, that has a GPS and other surveillance equipment wired in. Passports and other government-licensed products and documents already contain such chips. The ultimate destination is chips to be placed within our body.

My fellow Americans. The time to act is now. It is not too late. We are not terrorists, and we are not toys to be played with at will by our government. The experimentation has gone on long enough. I for one am no longer submissive. I have awakened. The state of the world grows ever worse, and we are more aware on an increasingly vivid picture of what is to come. True, some organizations and people are there purely for the good of America and the world. And maybe all that I speak of is for the better. It is all up to us as individuals. I believe you are more aware now. Perhaps, like me, you have awakened, or else are further down the path to ascension. I can only hope… and pray.

I thank you sincerely for your time…

-Cooltrainer Josh

Last night I had a conversation with a friend of mine and he told me something that will probably end up bothering me for a while. He told me he had gone to dinner that night with another friend. When they got back to his house they went in and he started showing him the site and even some post that he had been leaving around the web. He showed him this one video that he had been posting around to help spread the word a little. When this guy saw the video he said something that goes to show how prideful and oblivious the majority of the American people are. The guy in the video first off doesn’t look that bad. He is dressed decent. Has some nice American flags on the wall. Looks like he did some research and found something that he though the people of this nation should know, that’s all. After watching this video the guy looked at my friend and said it was all wrong. That he didn’t look profession and he had head phones on and everything was on notes. Ok first off, who gives a speech for anything and don’t have it on paper? And what he isn’t wearing a suit with all of Hollywood’s best equipment behind him? Does that mean that he doesn’t have a right of free speech? Does that mean that what he is saying isn’t important? The “professional” people aren’t going to care about a revolution in this county, they have everything they need. Its going to be the people that have nothing that don’t want there last bit of freedom taken away that will rise against the corrupt of this nation and not back down. It will be the person that has nothing that will be on the street corners screaming to the top of his voice telling people that America needs to change. It doesn’t matter if anyone listens to him or not he is an American and he knows something isn’t right so he will stand for what he believes in. Americans now days have this thing that unless you have money and a caddy then it means your stupid and you have nothing worth saying. If I get on a street corner and no one listens to me they ill just scream it a little louder then. This country needs a revolution. How much more freedom will they take before you realize what there doing? Just because someone said something with headphones around his neck and a t-shirt on don’t mean this country isn’t in trouble. WAKE UP AMERICA. Stop looking at what you see on the TV happening all around the world and worry about what’s going on in your back yard. The corrupt of this nation is tearing at your back door and there taking the world with them. The people already trying to tell you something aren’t terrorist, they aren’t anti-American. They are Americans that love this country and want to see its people free like they were meant to be. Don’t matter what you have or what you don’t have, if you have something to say it. Nothing will ever change if you say nothing. Everyone in history that has changed the world for better or for worse came from nothing. Never under estimate the power of the minority.

Here is the video that he let the guy watch.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DTApZVG8dlw

Synopsis

In a nutshell, the world is now under a permanent curfew, there is a global government, chips inside everyone’s body, yada yada yada. The world is pretty much suppressed, but the global economy is doing fairly well at the expense of individualism and personal liberties and freedom.

Now, the protagonist is a young male who never had the chance to see the “old world”, where people were free to do as they wish and there was this thing called the Internet, and television, which no longer exists. He cannot understand why the society and culture of the past was so subdued by those who articulated the plan to take over the world, so deluded by popular opinion supplied by the media.

Enter on the scene vampires and the apocalypse. Not the god damn cuddly romantic fucking vampires, but bad ass fucking “kill-you-for-reminding-me-of-what scum-you-are-as-a-conformed-human” vampires.

The main goal I wish to accomplish (I actually have one this time!) is to leave the reader realizing how free they are today, and how little we have to worry about, and encourage them to so stand up for their beliefs (in politics, society, etc).

My Work

Think of all you know. All you cherish. All the freedoms you enjoy. Now think of all of that being stripped of you. This is the logic required to create a universal society that suffers no conflicts. Necessary evil done to create a perfect world. It is our future, our destiny.

Imagine clandestine entities not of our heritage conspiring to destroy our legacy, prey upon our people. These abdominal beings, which come to see us as cattle, despise the weak while manipulating the strong amongst us. Namely, vampires.

This is a tale of ambition made paramount, where a powerful government reigns supreme over the world, and a few bands of next-generation revolutionaries aspire to overthrow a system they find wrong and unjust. This is the apocalyptic tale that, through harsh situations and bleak chances, brings to light mankind’s humanity, love and generosity in times of grave despair and desperation. A tale of the silent violence in peace, and strides for peace in chaotic times.

This is a tale about the ties made between heroic souls that demonstrate outstanding amounts of courage in the face of utter annihilation.

In the new age, all men are created equal. The world government sees to that.

In the new age, there is no poverty. There is success, and those who do not comply.

In the new age, the system is flawless. There is no need for obstructions of justice; there is the law, and then there is wrong. There is no in-between. You are a compliant part of society, or you are dead. There are no perpetrators, no criminals.

In the new age there is only one spoken belief; and that is that the system is flawless. Mutterings of corruption or unfairness are criminal offenses of the utmost sacrilege. There is no longer any need for media or religion; they were instruments of the past that simply served as sterilizers or sedatives to the masses. Thus the world government has long since seen to their removal. The Internet no longer exists, save for among those select few that had been at the top when the Global Government came into effect. Televisions are taboo, and for the most part have all been destroyed. No programs or stations exist to make them of any use if there was not a ban on them.

The new age is a culmination of ideals fabricated by the secret suspicions, fears, and evils of the old world. Through governmental terrorism within a entity once known as the United States, a blindfolded utopia founded on the principle of democracy, and destroyed beautifully, albeit tragically, by abusers of it’s economical principle, capitalism, we have allowed the creation of such a global society, surprisingly, with only the help of a very few families’ legacies; the corruption of central banks who’s officials created market crashes, thus freezing assets and buying up large corporations at marginal rates, and entered of wars all for profit when more power was needed, all culminating in the appointing of leader figureheads who helped keep the public in good favor of the outward appearance of things by filling common media with remedial issues and when necessary, blatant lies.

In the new age, individuality is no longer an option, for it’s forceful eradication was necessary to banished those who so spoke out against the corrupt officials who complied with the ill-begotten power without questioning authority. No man speaks out against the new system and is allowed to keep his ideals in this world. It is perfect, and no stain of foolish pride is allowed to blotch the fluid, mechanical system.

All of this so allowed the implementation of monitoring chips to be placed in first required (though illegal, until the last remaining human liberties were stripped, that which was accepted by the masses with gentle, more innocent connotations slipped to the media) government ID cards, then later, human bodies. This being the beginning of the final steps of the master plan, devised and implemented by so few, the world succumbed to submission to those who worked so hard to create the world government, with so little opposition. Those who opposed, were declared too radical, and had no tangible evidence of an evil conspiracy. Thus, this submission was totally accepted by a free nation that could not define, let alone understand, what they had lost.

The world is all one organism. All it’s people are one entity. There is only prosperity. Thus, some sacrifices had to be made. Liberties, and free rights, for example, allowed individuals to create institutions that may cause conflict. So the chips are all synced to the MotherBoard, a monolithic computer designed in secret over the years that has the processing capabilities to monitor every human in the world’s location, speech, action, and, to some extent, thought. This ensures the system’s efficiency. It’s very existence is seemingly legend; though few dare test it’s existence or capabilities, seeing as the system takes care of those who stand against it almost simultaneously as their acts of individualism.

This is the story of that world. A world where there is nothing to fight for. No evil, no corruption. Freedom no longer exists. All the world’s people are part of a global society, and all work for the greater good of mankind. There is no flaw. There is no reason to resist, as the state was accepted willingly. Where resistance does occur, it is snuffed out by a simple turning off of the governing chip. Those chips spread to reach all populated corners of the globe. There is no religion. There are no more wars, seeing as all men and continents are united.

Or so was the case… Until it happened.

A series of events started in 2012, climaxing in the dying of the planet, and unleashing of strands of prophecy; corrupt men became bent and deformed to better engender fear and hopelessness. The very religion and prophecies made by the institution become reality, and come to haunt the world that created it when necessary and betrayed it once it fulfilled it’s purpose. Forms of malevolence materialize in places of authority and take over, while shades of forms of benevolence come to support and aid those few remaining believers, those who would oppose the final form of corruption made paramount.

New Take on Things:

Inspired by the manga adaptation of “Battle Royale” by Koushun Takami & Masayuki Taguchi, I have decided to change the main plot to the World Government’s conducting of an experiment in which several people are hooked up to a machine, and their mental selves transmitted as data into a server computer where they participate in living in a virtual world, where each individual has their own supernatural powers (sorry no vampires!).

Newest Take:

Classified! In progress, but it’s awesome! Best one yet! Eric knows

This is an article I found quite interesting on MSN; http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/TheSecretToSuccessInTheMiddleClass.aspx

It is about how the middle class is apparently disappearing; I interpret it as there are those who choose to succeed, and have the proper resources available/are able to acquire them; and those who choose to fail, or else succeed and are unsuccessful at obtaining the required resources, or unaware of which to obtain.

Either way you look at it, it is more than just a biased statement. I mean, there are those who’s whole lives’ depend on other people’s tax money and the federal/state minimum wage regulations, and those who either were born with the riches/career path, or else accumulated it and no longer need intervention, yet must continue to support the former bunch by contributing taxes, etc.

The mentality of the two opposing views on this issue are both clear to me. Having lived my whole life earning everything I’ve ever wanted, and having to go hungry just to buy my first car, I understand the middle-class perspective. However, being somewhat lazy in looking for a part-time job while attending full-time college (I tried this before, working part-time with college full time, didn’t work out), I can understand the “economically stable and self-sufficient” crowd’s pessimism towards those less fortunate. I despise my current situation, and if I were to complain to someone of a higher level of my hating it, I would expect nothing more than being ignored, and perhaps chided for my lack of decency, laziness, or pessimism.

However, to the issue itself, I have noticed over the past decade how, unfortunately, it is getting harder for those who are at the bottom wrung to survive, let alone enjoy their own lives. This also overflows into other factors, such as violent crime; the poor kill the poor. Same thing for drugs and other illegal trades; a easy way to make a quick buck off of an illegal institution is very comely and welcome to someone who is already bellow the chart of economical standard.

So what can we do? Income tax is a cop-out in my opinion. Raising minimum wage only causes deflation of the value of the American dollar in the long run. There are a few ways to lower the standard of living, but those are typically out of the question. Nothing is free, TINSTASFL. No one wants to reach out if there isn’t something in it for them, the thought of being generous and good-natured included. Mankind as a developing entity, is very selfish. However, there are those who can evolve mentally and philosophically. It doesn’t have to happen once financial stability is reached, it can happen at the poverty level; just look at Gandhi. However, at the level of financial security, there are role models such as Opera. Mankind has tried tangible, secular, and legal approaches to solving the problem of distribution of wealth, however it has shone very little light into the region of ethics and morals, it would seem. Sure, there are plenty of debates. But just look at this one little word; simpatico. There is no English adaptation or translation for this word, and such is very accurate in that very fact. If it were to be translated, it would be a visionary word, an irrelevant utopia-bound wish. The dictionary (dotcom) site’s definition is so inaccurate. It claims that it means “like-minded”. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/simpatico) It couldn’t be more wrong. What it means, in context of it’s people’s culture, is “displaying qualities of a good nature, being friendly, caring, helpful”; having a do-good character.

Think about that for a second. I don’t want to become to idealist with my argument, because I don’t see this ever becoming possible in America so long as we gripe and moan about “recession” while complaining doesn’t help anything. If you look at media, there is no wonder we are as we are. The media defines us. And we define it. So there you have it. Whoever controls your source of media, controls you. It is up to them to offer you fulfilling good, and up to you to seek that out. This is my solution to the problem, though not just a bit farfetched. Mudvane once said, “turn off the radio, turn off the tv”. I don’t follow that, I’d say “keep your mind open and don’t believe everything you hear; question it”. We are blessed with minds, and I consider them as hard drives; we fill them up with all the shit we see and hear, but in the end, if we don’t sort that out, we’re bound to get some viruses and malware. Doesn’t matter what programs you watch or use to filter it, because those too are biased. It’s up to YOU to decide, it’s up to YOU to get involved in sorting out the good from bad, the truth from lies, the wrong from right, the fact from opinion. Gathering all the information you can find and sustain is pointless if you fail to sort and organize it.

To hit on one last point, I know the media is blamed constantly. That in itself is a sedative. It simply casts a shroud for a few minutes after hearing it the first few times, and then settles down at the back of your mind like a time bomb set to detonate whenever someone validates that a previous “fact” sustained by the media is proved wrong (sometimes inevitably) at a later time. This generation is not without ambition, but it is not without laziness either. Shortcuts are taken, entertainments are indulged and confused with standardized fact. Time and thus money are wasted. This is the worst part; some who would wish to be successful throw away all else; I know about 40 kids my age (more or less) who claim to be going into nursing; when questioned by myself, they slowly begin to question their career path. What is worse is those who don’t, who choose it, knowing they’d rather do something else, that might net a whopping 6-10 grand less a year, but they’d enjoy more. In this mindset, we are flooding (more like spamming) people who hate their jobs prematurely into fields they don’t like or couldn’t care less for. Look at politicians. They talk as experts on things they don’t have a bachelors degree (let alone PHD) in, and are widely accepted as genuine and professional. We are so much creatures of conformity, we have pulled the wool over our eyes. I will wrap this up, but I will have to post on the relevance of the Ionian Enchantment tying in here at a later time.

In sum, the Middle Class true is slipping. There will soon be no room for middle men, those most needed in a world of gradually worse extremes between the rich and poor. I have grasped this much. It cannot be denied, outsourcing can only last so long. Soon China will mushroom, and they will be the world’s leading middle class. It is inevitable. What will happen then is America’s middle class will be wiped off the map. We will have the uber-rich, and the depressingly poor. Of course, then we can just find cheap labor within our own nation. And thus the spiral will continue eternal. It’s time to wake up America. This is how I see things in my current state, but I leave it up to everyone to debate…

-Cooltrainer Josh

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