Your brain saves everything your senses feel throughout your entire life. Everything is stored inside and by the time your checking out it carries something like two gigabytes of information. However of the between two and twelve million things you sense everyday, depending on how active you are, your brain will only remember between five and nine of these things. This is how much access you have to your own brain. Knowing this, why would you trust your brain more than your instant senses. Even if we tone it down a lot you only access a millionth of everything you need to make a decision. This is why we have instinct, your instinct is always right. However it easily gets clouded by poor judgement due to your stored information.
These things manifest themselves all around you. The biggest one is your smell, but all senses work together. If you remember back to a certain moment in life where something smelled just awesome and you remember being amazingly happy. Next time you smell the same smell, even if you feel down and it's ten years later your brain will make you think your happy. The same principle goes for relationships both in love-life and friendship. If you get hurt by a person, a friend or a lover this feeling will stick and keep reminding you until this is changed. Yes, changes do happen. But not fast and not to the extreme. In the meantime you can't help spending your time and your brains thinking about those negative experiences in the relationship the worse it gets and most likely together you can never change to the better.
I've seen a lot of relationship go down this way. And the people I'm talking about never found happiness in their lives until they walked their separate ways and kept growing as humans in each their direction. Building a relationship on almost pure positive energy however is all I will ever accept as good enough for myself.
"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it"
-W. Somerset Maugham-
So what makes us choose a path that doesn't benefit anyone? The only person you are really responsible for is yourself. Some of us are growing all the time and some of us stop early and die. Some of us are gardeners and some are plants. Some even manage to be all nuances at once. But a great gardener will always make sure that his or her garden looks the best. And will constantly tend to take away everything that doesn't fit in or stop the rest of the plants from growing.
Truth is that we as individuals rarely sees the whole picture and therefor make decisions based on what we already know. Problem is this is the past and plants don't grow backwards in any way. You never know how the plant is going to turn out until it's done growing. Say you have this one plant. One that keeps dying and there is no way to figure out how to fix it. Maybe it's just the climate. It might not be right, you can grow some pretty strange plants in weird places but if the plant keeps dying and you spend all your energy on this one plant the rest of your garden will suffer. And what makes a gardener but his garden?
Just an observation from one of the oldest trees in the garden,
Jack
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Please start feeling again!
This is going to be about how you can help me, yourself and a lot of others. You are going to do this without walking the long way around and let your brain be in charge of what you say, think and act on. Just for a while, or into eternity I'd like you to try approach everything in your life with your feelings. If this isn't for you, we probably aren't going to be able to communicate any longer, and you may just as well stop reading here. I believe that whenever I let myself be controlled by my feelings at all times; your perspective widens to an understanding of life and everything that can not exist in this dimension. All the time from your born, you're thought how to use your brain. But of course there is no school for feelings. Unless you're a special kind of monk of course.
Don't try anything, just feel. Relax and let yourself open to whatever comes to you. Do not try to reason with yourself, just let it go. I don not accept rationalized fear as an answer. Things are what they should be everywhere and with everyone but we are affected by the actions of others and this is me tapping your shoulder.
I do realize that we need our brain as well, but as in everything else in nature; balance is everything. I wouldn't be able to write this without using my brain and I wouldn't know what to write in this blog by not reasoning and maybe a little tact. Feelings very often make us confused and sore. Once isolated we start growing in one direction. Open to everything around us in a way that's not necessarily a good thing. There is a lot of evil feeling as well in this world and without a brain we wouldn't be able to make the choices we need to feel happy and safe in life.
"As long as I can still laugh, I can still live. As long as I can still live, I can love, and as long as I can still love, I can do anything."
-John Allen-
Love is a feeling just as strong as hate. What I say is: All feelings are just as strong if you let them. The big difference being that feelings come and go. They show up in company with all living things or are triggered by your senses. Your are in control of your brain but not your feelings. If you are in total control of your feelings - You're fooling yourself and I bet my soul you are not a happy person. Feelings may not be the right word, I'm sure trees and animals have another name for it.
Me, myself and I have been lucky enough to travel the world a bit. I still haven't covered a fraction of the physical world but I've been to some countries on different continents and some of the important things our brain learns are culture and languages. As a traveler, communicating with people is vital. I've got to tell you, this is never a problem until I or the other part start thinking. Whenever you don't let your brain be in charge your feelings will speak for you and this is how I can have a full conversation with someone in Thai or Bahasa Malay even though I don't understand a spoken word. As long as both parties turn of the brain and stop thinking too much for a while, we can speak Earth.
You will if your open to it like most people, especially parents, have the same relationship with a newborn child. We tend to say that children are innocent. And this is true, it's not until we are shocked by hate and evil feelings that they close down and become slaves to our brains, also called society.
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
-Woody Allen-
What I'm trying to say is that if you want to be a happy person, one that send out positive energy that will not only help yourself but everyone you surround yourself with - you should cut away as much negativity in your life as possible and start listening to yourself and look for good things to live for. Your brain will choose for you unless you really follow your instinct feelings. I only say this because I want you to be happy. I don't know how much you know about the energy-grid that surround the whole planet but in a sense even if I don't know you; If you are not entirely happy - neither will I be.
Please let me help you help me and everyone!
Jack
Don't try anything, just feel. Relax and let yourself open to whatever comes to you. Do not try to reason with yourself, just let it go. I don not accept rationalized fear as an answer. Things are what they should be everywhere and with everyone but we are affected by the actions of others and this is me tapping your shoulder.
I do realize that we need our brain as well, but as in everything else in nature; balance is everything. I wouldn't be able to write this without using my brain and I wouldn't know what to write in this blog by not reasoning and maybe a little tact. Feelings very often make us confused and sore. Once isolated we start growing in one direction. Open to everything around us in a way that's not necessarily a good thing. There is a lot of evil feeling as well in this world and without a brain we wouldn't be able to make the choices we need to feel happy and safe in life.
"As long as I can still laugh, I can still live. As long as I can still live, I can love, and as long as I can still love, I can do anything."
-John Allen-
Love is a feeling just as strong as hate. What I say is: All feelings are just as strong if you let them. The big difference being that feelings come and go. They show up in company with all living things or are triggered by your senses. Your are in control of your brain but not your feelings. If you are in total control of your feelings - You're fooling yourself and I bet my soul you are not a happy person. Feelings may not be the right word, I'm sure trees and animals have another name for it.
Me, myself and I have been lucky enough to travel the world a bit. I still haven't covered a fraction of the physical world but I've been to some countries on different continents and some of the important things our brain learns are culture and languages. As a traveler, communicating with people is vital. I've got to tell you, this is never a problem until I or the other part start thinking. Whenever you don't let your brain be in charge your feelings will speak for you and this is how I can have a full conversation with someone in Thai or Bahasa Malay even though I don't understand a spoken word. As long as both parties turn of the brain and stop thinking too much for a while, we can speak Earth.
You will if your open to it like most people, especially parents, have the same relationship with a newborn child. We tend to say that children are innocent. And this is true, it's not until we are shocked by hate and evil feelings that they close down and become slaves to our brains, also called society.
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
-Woody Allen-
What I'm trying to say is that if you want to be a happy person, one that send out positive energy that will not only help yourself but everyone you surround yourself with - you should cut away as much negativity in your life as possible and start listening to yourself and look for good things to live for. Your brain will choose for you unless you really follow your instinct feelings. I only say this because I want you to be happy. I don't know how much you know about the energy-grid that surround the whole planet but in a sense even if I don't know you; If you are not entirely happy - neither will I be.
Please let me help you help me and everyone!
Jack
Monday, June 18, 2012
One day of thinking
Things said can not be taken back. Once someone create a reality for you it is true.
"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
-Franklin P. Jones-
However you will always be the one in charge of your life. You are the one that rules the final decision on whatever concern yourself. If you let other people get to you before yourself, your not in charge of your life anymore, witch sucks.
I've got to admit that when I started this blog this morning, I didn't know what I was up against. Without thinking I wrote the first two sentences and then stopped. I realized that I didn't know how to finish this text, so I waited. Of course throughout the day I've lifted my heart from the boundaries that I woke up with and also got the conversation and answers that I needed. When I woke up this morning I almost fainted due to lack of water. My body is just not used to these kinds of temperatures, also because of the storm last night my windows were closed. I literary had to hold on in the shower not to fall over. It was a bit scary, but since I understood right away why my body acted like this I got myself some water and a snack with some salt to hold the liquids. I still had trouble for a couple of hours even just speaking the words I was thinking. Be careful of the sun, it's not just feelings that can hurt. You're biggest enemy, the sun, will kill you inside the house if you're not careful.
Days go on and I do feel that I have all the conversations needed today to empty my heart of the things that has been setting me off my game all weekend. I feel like I've got this huge rock off my chest and heart in one day. I would think that the trick is and will always be communication. To find people that you can be honest with and not hide the truth for is a gift in life. I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by these people now. There is people here that trust me and cares about me. Better even, they love me. It's wrong to say that people don't love me at home, they do. But they don't really care about anything but themselves unless it's posted on facebook or interact with their schedule. I do blame facebook for a lot of things, this does not mean it's entirely their fault. Not at all! There is plenty of positive things about facebook. But as an ancient soul I say this again; Facebook should never rule your social life. Let's put it this way instead; You will never really grow as a human without human interaction, everything is then going to be what I would refer to as Wikiality. It's a great source of information, but you always have to pick your facts with care. And don't let people put words in your mouth. This place is where the strongest mouth their voice. But it will never be the strongest that survive, it's gonna be those who adapt.
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
-Edward P. Tryon-
I do realize that I'm being one that don't adapt to this thing. Right now if you look away from this blog. I spent about two hours deleting my facebook-account cause it's just not that easy to erase a personality from existence. This is now four years ago. And people I know is starting to loose interest for the whole facebook-mania. I'm worried that a lot of people are going to sit back with nothing but a broken heart. A million broken hearts are going to have the same affect on the worlds energy-grid as 9-11 had. People are to dependent on getting information about others. Just because the western world has embraced facebook as a savior for everything that is happening today. It has forgotten how the energy of another person smiling next to you will make you feel happy. The person next to you on the streets that just suddenly say "hi" and makes you smile. Even the angry man that passes you every day on his way to work is no more. Did you forget that he tough you to never become like him?
"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
-Cyril Connolly-
Alright I haven't really been answering my first words in this blog. But then I figured that it's actually just a blog. Not everything can be written or described with words. Some things you'll have to live through and learn from as you go. Internet is a very good guide to life, but only you can make it happen. Yes, people have done and said things to me that can never be taken back or redone. I've just decided not to act on their honesty and fear, cause when people are as scared as you'll find the world today; they just might attach you if you tell the truth. However, you can't really tell who you're friends really are before you're being honest with them.
That's it for today, I feel like sleeping now,
Jack
"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
-Franklin P. Jones-
However you will always be the one in charge of your life. You are the one that rules the final decision on whatever concern yourself. If you let other people get to you before yourself, your not in charge of your life anymore, witch sucks.
I've got to admit that when I started this blog this morning, I didn't know what I was up against. Without thinking I wrote the first two sentences and then stopped. I realized that I didn't know how to finish this text, so I waited. Of course throughout the day I've lifted my heart from the boundaries that I woke up with and also got the conversation and answers that I needed. When I woke up this morning I almost fainted due to lack of water. My body is just not used to these kinds of temperatures, also because of the storm last night my windows were closed. I literary had to hold on in the shower not to fall over. It was a bit scary, but since I understood right away why my body acted like this I got myself some water and a snack with some salt to hold the liquids. I still had trouble for a couple of hours even just speaking the words I was thinking. Be careful of the sun, it's not just feelings that can hurt. You're biggest enemy, the sun, will kill you inside the house if you're not careful.
Days go on and I do feel that I have all the conversations needed today to empty my heart of the things that has been setting me off my game all weekend. I feel like I've got this huge rock off my chest and heart in one day. I would think that the trick is and will always be communication. To find people that you can be honest with and not hide the truth for is a gift in life. I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by these people now. There is people here that trust me and cares about me. Better even, they love me. It's wrong to say that people don't love me at home, they do. But they don't really care about anything but themselves unless it's posted on facebook or interact with their schedule. I do blame facebook for a lot of things, this does not mean it's entirely their fault. Not at all! There is plenty of positive things about facebook. But as an ancient soul I say this again; Facebook should never rule your social life. Let's put it this way instead; You will never really grow as a human without human interaction, everything is then going to be what I would refer to as Wikiality. It's a great source of information, but you always have to pick your facts with care. And don't let people put words in your mouth. This place is where the strongest mouth their voice. But it will never be the strongest that survive, it's gonna be those who adapt.
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
-Edward P. Tryon-
I do realize that I'm being one that don't adapt to this thing. Right now if you look away from this blog. I spent about two hours deleting my facebook-account cause it's just not that easy to erase a personality from existence. This is now four years ago. And people I know is starting to loose interest for the whole facebook-mania. I'm worried that a lot of people are going to sit back with nothing but a broken heart. A million broken hearts are going to have the same affect on the worlds energy-grid as 9-11 had. People are to dependent on getting information about others. Just because the western world has embraced facebook as a savior for everything that is happening today. It has forgotten how the energy of another person smiling next to you will make you feel happy. The person next to you on the streets that just suddenly say "hi" and makes you smile. Even the angry man that passes you every day on his way to work is no more. Did you forget that he tough you to never become like him?
"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
-Cyril Connolly-
Alright I haven't really been answering my first words in this blog. But then I figured that it's actually just a blog. Not everything can be written or described with words. Some things you'll have to live through and learn from as you go. Internet is a very good guide to life, but only you can make it happen. Yes, people have done and said things to me that can never be taken back or redone. I've just decided not to act on their honesty and fear, cause when people are as scared as you'll find the world today; they just might attach you if you tell the truth. However, you can't really tell who you're friends really are before you're being honest with them.
That's it for today, I feel like sleeping now,
Jack
Sunday, June 17, 2012
iFear
Another thing about traveling is how you'll learn to deal with your own mind and your own person. Me, I'm writing, not only this blog. But stories, plays and ideas for projects. Some of my friends will tell me to keep my feelings inside, and not talk to them about it, just like they do. That doesn't work for me at all. I need the conversation and the stimulation of human contact. As a person right now I would say there is two big problems in my life that I'll have to work with. The first one is fear of my own success. Let me tell you a little story:
There was once a boy that grew up to become an amazing running athlete. He was working hard and set is goals high, he kept his focus witch made him to a hard competition. He found himself running in front of the others. He then starts to loose focus. Thinking about those behind him. What were they thinking, would they catch up? He then starts to feel that being in front of everyone else isn't right. He loose focus completely and end up without interest, the joy of running is gone. The athlete keeps his smile but everything he's worked for is no more. He have to do some serious work with himself. He was blind not to see that in front of him was another runner called time. And he could always be chasing time, an invincible and unbeatable competitor. If someone were to be the president of the whole world that would be insignificant in the context of the whole universe.
This highly self-sabotaging view he had on himself made him vulnerable to new situations and also in dealing with time. With success comes more challenges and responsibilities, this can feel very threatening to anyone that have this subconscious problem. The athlete is now paralyzed in fear of his own success.
Success can expose you as a person, it can show your weaknesses and flaws. The Athlete went deep in himself with help from a coach and was asked to keep his eyes pointed forward on the runner in front of him. To sustain his success he would have to overcome his fear of not being good enough to be in the lead. When he ran alone and in front of everyone else he felt the fear of being himself, the strong and lonely athlete.
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
-Mark Twain-
The next problem is just as complex; Fear of failure. Either one of these terms are absolute. No one can be a total success and no one will ever be a total failure. It's just not possible. People often do the mistake of seeing also these little words as an constant. But like everything else there is no such thing in the world as black and white, there is always a whole rainbow waiting if you just manage to open your mind for the full picture. Even if things doesn't go the way you want them to, you are not being a failure. It just means that things doesn't go the way you want. The athlete had to learn how to relax with his success and also learned that ones success was never just about him. There will always be people benefiting from others success. Also true for failure.
Relax with yourself,
Jack
There was once a boy that grew up to become an amazing running athlete. He was working hard and set is goals high, he kept his focus witch made him to a hard competition. He found himself running in front of the others. He then starts to loose focus. Thinking about those behind him. What were they thinking, would they catch up? He then starts to feel that being in front of everyone else isn't right. He loose focus completely and end up without interest, the joy of running is gone. The athlete keeps his smile but everything he's worked for is no more. He have to do some serious work with himself. He was blind not to see that in front of him was another runner called time. And he could always be chasing time, an invincible and unbeatable competitor. If someone were to be the president of the whole world that would be insignificant in the context of the whole universe.
This highly self-sabotaging view he had on himself made him vulnerable to new situations and also in dealing with time. With success comes more challenges and responsibilities, this can feel very threatening to anyone that have this subconscious problem. The athlete is now paralyzed in fear of his own success.
Success can expose you as a person, it can show your weaknesses and flaws. The Athlete went deep in himself with help from a coach and was asked to keep his eyes pointed forward on the runner in front of him. To sustain his success he would have to overcome his fear of not being good enough to be in the lead. When he ran alone and in front of everyone else he felt the fear of being himself, the strong and lonely athlete.
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
-Mark Twain-
The next problem is just as complex; Fear of failure. Either one of these terms are absolute. No one can be a total success and no one will ever be a total failure. It's just not possible. People often do the mistake of seeing also these little words as an constant. But like everything else there is no such thing in the world as black and white, there is always a whole rainbow waiting if you just manage to open your mind for the full picture. Even if things doesn't go the way you want them to, you are not being a failure. It just means that things doesn't go the way you want. The athlete had to learn how to relax with his success and also learned that ones success was never just about him. There will always be people benefiting from others success. Also true for failure.
Relax with yourself,
Jack
Little Lou
Everything turns green when a tornado comes around. thunderstorms and hard rain makes it a little bit harder to move around without a car. This means I have to go between coffee-places between the T-storms.. I've been watching three dogs and a cat for a couple of days. They aren't exactly fans of the rumbling sky. I kinda like it, I like to see the world at work and the smell between the rainfalls are amazing.
"What a waste, I could've been your lover
What a waste, I could've been your friend
Perfect love is like a blossom that fades so quick
When it's blowing up a storm in May"
Five days on the road feels like ten days at home, but then days go a lot faster at home. Great long days with enough time to sort out thoughts and frustrations, experiences and impressions. Funny is it how my energy is just growing by the days. Up at six in the morning and in bed after midnight.
"Travel south until your skin turns, woman
Travel south until your skin turns brown
Put a language in your head and get on a train
And then come back to the one you love"
Live music every night, if you want it. Plays are plenty and so are the people. The temperature is doubled and so is the humidity. I'm not quite used to this yet but I can feel my body adapting.
"Yeah, you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling"
A midsummer-night dream is in my future, I can already hear the crackling from the bonfire. The calm of stars on the sky and hate towards mosquitoes. A feeling of freedom and friendship, laughter and dance on the grass by the water.
"Cry at night, you see the TV's glowing
Cry at night, you hear the walls are awake
Being you, I'm getting out of a party crowd
Can I see what's underneath your bed?"
Time will show how long these times will last. When traveling you learn to appreciate every moment of your time, either if you spend it alone or with others. Friendships are made and old ones nurtured. The closer you get to another person, the more necessary is it to show courtesy and respect. Everyone has to leave it to their friends to learn unpleasant things from their enemies.
"Can I stay until the milkman's working?
Can I stay until the cafè awakes?
Do you hate me in the light? Did you get a fright?
When you looked across from where you lay"
The empathy is strengthened a thousand times. Knowing how to use your shield is the most important thing you learn. Most people don't know their stealing your energy and if you don't shield yourself, you might be the biggest thief of them all.
"Yeah, you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling"
Being indefinite is also a choice you make. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thought and vast wishes. Are they really? In a way he's right I guess.
"All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John
All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John"
All that's left tonight is to enjoy live music and a warm cup of coffee. Everything looks perfect from far away, I try my best to leave.
"What a waste, I could've been your lover
What a waste, I could've been your friend"
Happy father's day,
"What a waste, I could've been your lover
What a waste, I could've been your friend
Perfect love is like a blossom that fades so quick
When it's blowing up a storm in May"
Five days on the road feels like ten days at home, but then days go a lot faster at home. Great long days with enough time to sort out thoughts and frustrations, experiences and impressions. Funny is it how my energy is just growing by the days. Up at six in the morning and in bed after midnight.
"Travel south until your skin turns, woman
Travel south until your skin turns brown
Put a language in your head and get on a train
And then come back to the one you love"
Live music every night, if you want it. Plays are plenty and so are the people. The temperature is doubled and so is the humidity. I'm not quite used to this yet but I can feel my body adapting.
"Yeah, you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling"
A midsummer-night dream is in my future, I can already hear the crackling from the bonfire. The calm of stars on the sky and hate towards mosquitoes. A feeling of freedom and friendship, laughter and dance on the grass by the water.
"Cry at night, you see the TV's glowing
Cry at night, you hear the walls are awake
Being you, I'm getting out of a party crowd
Can I see what's underneath your bed?"
Time will show how long these times will last. When traveling you learn to appreciate every moment of your time, either if you spend it alone or with others. Friendships are made and old ones nurtured. The closer you get to another person, the more necessary is it to show courtesy and respect. Everyone has to leave it to their friends to learn unpleasant things from their enemies.
"Can I stay until the milkman's working?
Can I stay until the cafè awakes?
Do you hate me in the light? Did you get a fright?
When you looked across from where you lay"
The empathy is strengthened a thousand times. Knowing how to use your shield is the most important thing you learn. Most people don't know their stealing your energy and if you don't shield yourself, you might be the biggest thief of them all.
"Yeah, you're great, you're just part
Of this lifetime of dreaming
That extends to the heart
Of this long summer feeling"
Being indefinite is also a choice you make. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thought and vast wishes. Are they really? In a way he's right I guess.
"All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John
All the history of wars I invent in my head
Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John"
All that's left tonight is to enjoy live music and a warm cup of coffee. Everything looks perfect from far away, I try my best to leave.
"What a waste, I could've been your lover
What a waste, I could've been your friend"
Happy father's day,
Jack
Big daddy
Alright, five days on a roll, that's just awesome. I am lucky enough to have a whole day to myself this Sunday. It's fathers day in America and only there, so congrats to all American dads. Fathers day was an American custom that joined us in Europe just after second world war. I find fathers day one of the dates that move around the most. In some countries they combine fathers day with the celebration of St. Josef the guy that supposedly knocked up Maria without a touch. I guess it was alright at the time to do an incubation while we today are raging against it. After all, we are talking high class members in one of our societies.
I really do have some great friends. Close friends that have been around for years, and then some new ones that enter my life with a great big smile. Of course over time I've also lost some friends, maybe just for now, but I have to say Facebook stole most of them. I sent an email to the editor of VG, the largest newspaper in Norway and pleaded that they opened the possibility of comments on articles also from people that are not on Facebook. It's not the first e-mail I sent, but I guess there is someone pushing the buttons cause I never get an answer. Is it that hard to understand that not everyone of us wants to be on Facebook?
I've met friends this week that I haven't seen in five years or more. It's been an amazing experience. I had no idea I'd left such an enormous footprint nine years ago. Funny is it that half of the people have been telling me that they all have been either talking or thinking about me within the last week. It was like they knew we were gonna meet up very soon.
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
-Mark Twain-
-Mark Twain-
In 2013, as I turn 27, the Norwegian father's day will be on my birthday. The first to celebrate father's day was Sonora Smart Dodd from Washington in 1909 who started the tradition in honor of his father William Smart, a veteran of war. Praise those who carries weapons that hurt others...
Jack
Romeo and Julian
"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at."
-Carlos A. Urbizo-
-Carlos A. Urbizo-
I love someone. If you're lucky enough to love another person and hopefully be loved back your life will seem very bright. Getting consent on love is critical.
I do realize that waiting around doesn't pass in a few days. But there is limits for how far you can stretch your heart. At least if you're looking to live a full life even if you fail at love. To shut down the heart completely however might not be the solution, it's probably fatal.
"I'm unusual, not so typical
Way to smart to be waiting around."
-Hanna Montana's lyricwriters-
I've got some really wonderful friends that cares about me. I don't know what to write right now, I'm overloaded. I'll leave it to other artists to express my feelings tonight.
Say it's possible:
I SEE THE LIGHTS ARE TURNING
AND I LOOK OUTSIDE THE STARS ARE BURNING
THROUGH THIS CHANGING TIME
IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING WE WANT
IT'S FINE
SALVATION WAS JUST A PASSING THOUGHT.
IT WAS JUST A PASSING THOUGHT
DON'T WAIT ACT NOW
THIS AMAZING OFFER WON'T LAST LONG
IT'S ONLY A CHANCE TO SAVE THE PATH WE'RE ON
I KNOW THERE ARE MORE EXCITING THINGS TO TALK ABOUT
AND IN TIME WE'LL SORT IT OUT
AND IN TIME WE'LL SORT IT OUT
AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW(I'LL) HOLD ON
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
AND TRUTH IS SUCH A FUNNY THING
WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE KEEP ON TELLING ME
THEY KNOW WHAT'S BEST
AND WHAT TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
AND ALL THE REST ARE WRONG
THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT US
AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW(I'LL) HOLD ON
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
I'M NOT ALRIGHT...
I'M NOT ALRIGHT...
I'M NOT ALRIGHT...
I'M NOT ALRIGHT...
AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW(I'LL) HOLD ON
TELL ME THAT YOU WON'T LET GO
AND THOUGH THEY SAY IT'S POSSIBLE TO ME
I DON'T SEE HOW IT'S PROBABLE
I SEE THE COURSE WE'RE ON
SPINNING FARTHER FROM WHAT I KNOW(I'LL) HOLD ON
THIS COULD BE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
COMBINE OUR LOVE INTO SOMETHING WONDERFUL
BUT TIMES ARE TOUGH I KNOW
AND THE PULL OF WHAT WE CAN'T GIVE UP TAKES HOLD
Aman dan cinta,
Jack
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Surrender now!
Now, I have a couple of notes on our use of television. It's an perfect example of our growth in both ignorance, power and pure indoctrination of our people. The basic history of television we know from school. The first demonstration of a television-system that delivered pictures in grays was done by a man I bet you've never heard of before called John Logie Baird. He was from Scotland and build his own first complete system to broadcast TV signals. At the time he sent five pictures a second. At that time he could only do it inside his lab. But it wouldn't take him more than two years to demonstrate a system that sent colored pictures over the Atlantic oceans. The fully finished system however needed help from other scientists like Philo Taylor Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin. The first public demonstration was held august 25th 1934.
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
Yes, it's 1934 though the television still isn't in everyone's home¨. But I you bet your ass the world elite was watching the development. Hitler himself called it a "mass training system" It was the perfect successor to movie theaters. They start sending regularly in countries like Great Britain, Germany, France and the Soviet Union. And then, out of the blue sky (!) came the war. America spent this time well along with Central Europe to expand systems for television. The war didn't end until the television started to show pictures of what war brought along. The people stood up against their governments and it didn't take long before the war was over.
Television in Norway didn't start until the late 1950's (about at the same time as the Berlin wall was built) The first things they used to air was shows on how to eat with knife and fork and how to wash your hands correctly, how to sit by the table and how to cut your hair, at the same time Americans released their own "duck and cover". This and children's shows that today would seem like the most naive radical puppet shows around.
We had to gain back control over media once before, but now since last time The elite have had over fifty years to break up and set communities and families against each other with indoctrinating information through so called entertainment and not to forget commercials. Short postcards of moving pictures with information on everything you need to make yourself happy as long as you spend more money. When a young person from day one sees the same shows or the same commercials, people die, families breaking up, how to party, how to live and how to die. People getting shot by a total stranger on the street, this will manifest in the viewers reality and now, after decades of seen thousands of dead people our world is filled with hyper-confused humans that have learned how to use drugs on television and now to shoot your best friend for a nickel.
I'm just saying... watch your influences.
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
Yes, it's 1934 though the television still isn't in everyone's home¨. But I you bet your ass the world elite was watching the development. Hitler himself called it a "mass training system" It was the perfect successor to movie theaters. They start sending regularly in countries like Great Britain, Germany, France and the Soviet Union. And then, out of the blue sky (!) came the war. America spent this time well along with Central Europe to expand systems for television. The war didn't end until the television started to show pictures of what war brought along. The people stood up against their governments and it didn't take long before the war was over.
Television in Norway didn't start until the late 1950's (about at the same time as the Berlin wall was built) The first things they used to air was shows on how to eat with knife and fork and how to wash your hands correctly, how to sit by the table and how to cut your hair, at the same time Americans released their own "duck and cover". This and children's shows that today would seem like the most naive radical puppet shows around.
We had to gain back control over media once before, but now since last time The elite have had over fifty years to break up and set communities and families against each other with indoctrinating information through so called entertainment and not to forget commercials. Short postcards of moving pictures with information on everything you need to make yourself happy as long as you spend more money. When a young person from day one sees the same shows or the same commercials, people die, families breaking up, how to party, how to live and how to die. People getting shot by a total stranger on the street, this will manifest in the viewers reality and now, after decades of seen thousands of dead people our world is filled with hyper-confused humans that have learned how to use drugs on television and now to shoot your best friend for a nickel.
I'm just saying... watch your influences.
Friday, June 1, 2012
A cup of tea
I'm so tired of terror... actually.. I'm sick from it. Not scared or afraid. I don't believe I will die of a terror attack or a bomb or anything like that. I'm not worried at all about dying, but the terror might just still put me of of my game. What takes me out is the constant treat of other people hurting and tight societies that brake up and are now in "war" against each other. This is a silent fight, at least until we've had a few glasses or get our feelings hurt by words or actions by others (or sometimes even ourself).
I never understood racism. Not until I traveled the world and visited small towns and villages with people were most of them had never seen a white person in their life. Most people are interested in you and not shy about it at all. They'll touch your face and stroke your white hands. But then every place there is always a group that will never come over. I've noticed that this is mostly young fathers and young males, also a bunch of grandmothers. They are scared of me. I don't think I could hurt anyone with purpose if I tried and honestly think my body language will tell you the same story before you even say hi. But I do recon I'm different from the villagers (no point in hiding that) Everything new is for most people a scary thing. At least as long as you have not learned about the dangers. But now? When I was a kid there was really not that many immigrants in Norway at all.
It's said that we need three generations to accept big society-changes. We are still early in the second and I fear that we wont be able to change our views before it's to late and the third world war is a fact. I doubt you'll see the peaceful Europe we know in the future. I believe that the future years, probably many of them, will be a very hard and confusing time for everyone.
The human frustration you can see all over the world these days and probably feel yourself is getting deeper and deeper manifested in our Wikiality. It doesn't help that we are now interconnected and get news feeds about terror and war at least once a day. I just don't understand why it's so freakin' hard with change. It is true that it will never be the strongest and the fittest that survive, it is those who adapt and embrace change. I'll try to recite an old story from India:
An University professor went to India to visit a Zen-temple and talk to a monk and learn about Zen. He sits down, folds his stiff legs and wait for the master to talk. Instead of saying anything the master sets down to cups and first poor himself a cup of tea, all the way to the top. He then starts filling the professors cup, when the tea reaches the top he don't stop, just keep poring tea in the professors cup. The two men look at each other. The monk shows no signs of stopping. The professor don't know what to do, but when the tea starts running on the floor he stops the monk; "It's full!". "Exactly" the monk says, "you come to me to learn about Zen, but your mind is already full and you already have an opinion and feelings on Zen. If you want to learn about Zen, I suggest you empty your cup and let me poor you some tea."
***
Also I'd like to make a note: Something totally different: To countries that do not practice strike as a way of getting better paid. This is NOT the way to go. Well, it might be, but not if your a wealthy country like ours. There's a system that will provide pay for the striking workers for as long as their holding up. If they get it their way and get better paid the grocery-prices, services and taxes will fly like a rocket and in a year we have another strike for yet more money. The result is a huge waste of money and resources for all the people that are affected but not in strike. This mean that people like me and most of everyone around me will suffer from others greed.
I couldn't give a crap about the extra 3 NOK ($40p) an hour when they could just as well take this from the money they get while being on strike. (Some even get better paid while on strike) Because of this strike a prison in Norway just released 57 prisoners before their time. I guess this was awesome for the inmates, it's spring after all. But how in hell does this benefit society? Problem now is that you'll never see the really low-paid go on strike. They're not organized, cause most private businesses prefer that you're not. This so they can make you work around the clock for a very low pay, (within reason and the law) without anyone to support you when you feel unfairly treated. It's not right, but it's reality and it's been like that forever. When did you last see a waiter on strike?
Strike would never work in the private sector, problem is: If people keep striking our dearly beloved government will probably have to outsource to private sector. Two Norwegian mayors have already gone to media with this information. This again will give them less paid and let's face it. Which private business would be able to afford hiring as many people as the government already does, paid with my tax-money?
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
-Oscar Wilde-
Yes, and I don't like grocery stores that close on Sundays, just because God was tired on the 7th day? Well I'm not. I was when I used to party every weekend but the last years it's been a weekday like any other. The only day that still feels a little special is Saturday. I've noticed that people tend to smile more on Saturdays, I like that.
Have a great day,
Keep walking,
Jack
I never understood racism. Not until I traveled the world and visited small towns and villages with people were most of them had never seen a white person in their life. Most people are interested in you and not shy about it at all. They'll touch your face and stroke your white hands. But then every place there is always a group that will never come over. I've noticed that this is mostly young fathers and young males, also a bunch of grandmothers. They are scared of me. I don't think I could hurt anyone with purpose if I tried and honestly think my body language will tell you the same story before you even say hi. But I do recon I'm different from the villagers (no point in hiding that) Everything new is for most people a scary thing. At least as long as you have not learned about the dangers. But now? When I was a kid there was really not that many immigrants in Norway at all.
It's said that we need three generations to accept big society-changes. We are still early in the second and I fear that we wont be able to change our views before it's to late and the third world war is a fact. I doubt you'll see the peaceful Europe we know in the future. I believe that the future years, probably many of them, will be a very hard and confusing time for everyone.
The human frustration you can see all over the world these days and probably feel yourself is getting deeper and deeper manifested in our Wikiality. It doesn't help that we are now interconnected and get news feeds about terror and war at least once a day. I just don't understand why it's so freakin' hard with change. It is true that it will never be the strongest and the fittest that survive, it is those who adapt and embrace change. I'll try to recite an old story from India:
An University professor went to India to visit a Zen-temple and talk to a monk and learn about Zen. He sits down, folds his stiff legs and wait for the master to talk. Instead of saying anything the master sets down to cups and first poor himself a cup of tea, all the way to the top. He then starts filling the professors cup, when the tea reaches the top he don't stop, just keep poring tea in the professors cup. The two men look at each other. The monk shows no signs of stopping. The professor don't know what to do, but when the tea starts running on the floor he stops the monk; "It's full!". "Exactly" the monk says, "you come to me to learn about Zen, but your mind is already full and you already have an opinion and feelings on Zen. If you want to learn about Zen, I suggest you empty your cup and let me poor you some tea."
***
Also I'd like to make a note: Something totally different: To countries that do not practice strike as a way of getting better paid. This is NOT the way to go. Well, it might be, but not if your a wealthy country like ours. There's a system that will provide pay for the striking workers for as long as their holding up. If they get it their way and get better paid the grocery-prices, services and taxes will fly like a rocket and in a year we have another strike for yet more money. The result is a huge waste of money and resources for all the people that are affected but not in strike. This mean that people like me and most of everyone around me will suffer from others greed.
I couldn't give a crap about the extra 3 NOK ($40p) an hour when they could just as well take this from the money they get while being on strike. (Some even get better paid while on strike) Because of this strike a prison in Norway just released 57 prisoners before their time. I guess this was awesome for the inmates, it's spring after all. But how in hell does this benefit society? Problem now is that you'll never see the really low-paid go on strike. They're not organized, cause most private businesses prefer that you're not. This so they can make you work around the clock for a very low pay, (within reason and the law) without anyone to support you when you feel unfairly treated. It's not right, but it's reality and it's been like that forever. When did you last see a waiter on strike?
Strike would never work in the private sector, problem is: If people keep striking our dearly beloved government will probably have to outsource to private sector. Two Norwegian mayors have already gone to media with this information. This again will give them less paid and let's face it. Which private business would be able to afford hiring as many people as the government already does, paid with my tax-money?
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."
-Oscar Wilde-
Yes, and I don't like grocery stores that close on Sundays, just because God was tired on the 7th day? Well I'm not. I was when I used to party every weekend but the last years it's been a weekday like any other. The only day that still feels a little special is Saturday. I've noticed that people tend to smile more on Saturdays, I like that.
Have a great day,
Keep walking,
Jack
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