Future

It's been a year and my hands can almost feel

It's been a year and my ears can start to hear

It's been a year and i'm starting to see again

It's been a year and now its my turn to fly away

Since I'm on the job hunt I had to dig through my computer to find my resume and while i was at it i found some old papers.  I found one that i liked enough that i wrote a song on the topic.  It's nothing brilliant but it gives me a good excuse to post up a song, here's the opening paragraph:

What do you do with criminals? Torture them, incarcerate them, banish them, enslave them, or join them? How do we get rid of them, stop them, prevent them, and get back at them? How do we make life safer, decrease crime rates, and stop recidivism, without harming society? What’s the best theory you have to offer so that we can apply it to the world to make life better? These are the questions we ask in the model of rationality and practicality. A rational choice theorist’s nightmare, yet at the same time the food that feeds his thoughts. Let’s dissect the world, find the problems, figure out the solutions, weigh the consequences, then claim moral victory. We will progress as a society with every ground breaking theory that will fix the world, our children will have better lives, better toys, better cars, better sciences, and better knowledge.

note the sarcastic cliff hanger...

well that doesn't exist anymore. try www.girlbandrocks.com

I've commented on some other people's sites about beliefs and what no so i decided to make a post here rather than taking up their space.  Of all your beliefs which ones are false?

I'm sure we're all wise enough to know that we can't possibly be perfect and that all our beliefs are the supreme Truth, so we've set up systems to attack other people's beliefs while giving countless points to show the rational basis to ours.  But something's going completely wrong with this process.

Where does the need to be rational come from?  I'm not about to embark on a criticism of rationality, because that would be a contradiction to use reason to bash reason but I want to show that an urge to mechanically explain life is underlying all our assumptions. 

Since science has improved and shown us that there really isn't any reason to believe in the Christian God we've been left stranded in our worldview.  We have no need to believe in an omnipotent creater so that's left the world looking pretty dumb.  We've replaced the christian view with the mechanical view of the universe.  We can thank Newton for showing us these "blind" forces that have created the universe.

This mechanical view of the universe has infiltrated our philosophies and it has paralalyzed psychology.  Freud's theories all depend on the "blind" energy of the world.  The libido is an uncontrollable blind force acting at will but being suppressed by the id/ego.  The problem is, if we're intelligent how could we come from an unintelligent universe? We think rocks are stupid pieces of mineral, but in fact they're not!  People didn't inhabit earth, they came from it.  Earth "Peoples" the same way an apple tree "apples".  But we don't have this as common sense.  What is common is for children to ask "how was i made?"  We have the view that we are parts put together, not that we are an organism that grows.

The danger is people feel alienated from the earth, which gives way to the human desire to conquer nature.  We're trying to conquer how we think, how our brain works, again as if the brain is a machine.  We're trying to size up beliefs, label everything we observe, which is really just pushing us further from the truth.  The truth that you are IT.  you are the universe, you're ego is really you, your body is you, not yours.

It's only no wonder why people could easily reject buddhism because they can find flaws in the dogmas and belief systems they've pulled from it.  They're mistaking the finger for the moon.  Becareful not to suck on the finger for comfort, which christians do instead of following the teachings of jesus, they worship him.  Again missing the moon for the finger.  If HypeManic is reading this, i'm addressing your view of buddhism.  You understand buddhism with the christian view of religion, because in fact buddhism is the religion of NO religion.  This is probably too much for a xanga post so i'll stop, let everyone get a glass of water and continue they're porn search.