Ha...this title is an inside joke that only one person would get. So there's that.
Anyways I've always been close with my cousin. He's 4 years younger and has always been like this great little brother and best friend. It's pretty interesting how separate our beliefs are-Completely opposite. We haven't been in close touch for a while and we just recently had a couple of interestingly intimate conversations.
We talked like the old friends we were on the subjects closest to our hearts. He has found God and entrusted his life to Him who is I am through faith that the ideas he recieves in his head are instant messages from the almighty. Now I saw that with my snarky sarcastic use of humor merely for dramatic effect. He knows thats what he believes and he is proud of it-Many share this same conviction. I explained how I believe that his beliefs are the very source of the coming doom of our species. I explained how out-sourcing our responsibilities as sentient human beings to an invisible entity in the skies takes away our power to act. People who have faith in God and the Bible as the word of God believe they know whats to come. It's all in God's very capable and all knowing hands. This takes away any reason for us to act as a people against what we know is wrong. We accept that it's in God's hands and there is nothing we can do because it's all just too big and complicated. I say we and us because I speak of us as a species. We are human beings yet if you read my previous posts you'll see how we've been divided into subspecies and subcultures and groups and faiths and labels and blah blah blah.
We went back and forth explaining our beliefs and we realized we believed the same exact thing about the state of the world. We know that we as a species are divided by design. We see how religion is used to cloud the judgement of otherwise capable minds. He believes all that I do in that sense. That is the very reason he has completely given his life over to God. He told me it was a wonderfully freeing experience. I could imagine, like the weight of the world being lifted off his shoulders. All that responsibilty gone. His life is now completely God's will-Not his own. He even said the very ideas he gets in his head are from God himself. I asked if it was an audible voice and he was quick to point out: "I don't hear Voices!" LOL and he laughed. It's just that every thought he has is from God now. I completely believe he completely believes this and believes it to be a great honor to his creator for him to give his life over. He has pleased his God.
My cousin started to tell me the story of how he decided to devote his life to God. I knew immediately what he was going to say-I remembered it well. He was in love with this girl and it got crazy. I mean like most people in my family still think he's crazy. He was obsessed with this girl and it kinda seemed that maybe he thought God had intended them to be together. He realized it was exactly the opposite, she was the last test. He had asked God to show him, but chose not to accept it. He had to give up his entire life to God's will and that meant his wife. No, she wasn't his wife or even fiance, she was a symbol that stood for everything my cousin wanted in the life he was suppose to have given to God. He let her go.
He fights daily to only allow the thoughts that are from God to have any say in his actions. He has become the best christian I have ever known. He doesn't Judge or assume anything about anyone. He lives his life as an example of what he believes to be righteous. He has accepted poverty in order to travel and find needs to fill in strangers lives-hopfully planting the seed of the holy spirit in the process. The seed is to act as a kind of contacting device for opening the communication lines of God. No man who claims to be a devout christian and has not done what my cousin has is not giving his life to the lord. My cousin told me that he had to consciously give up his dream of marriage and children in order to accept his role as an instrument of the lord.
And you know what he told me. He said "It's great how we can still talk and we know eacother and listen. Everyone else thinks I'm crazy, but you get it and even though we're completely different-We're exactly the same." He was exactly right too.
I don't believe it's ok to give our responsibility and accountibility up to faith. I just don't believe that faith is enough to entrust our existence to. My cousin believes the complete opposite and encompasses everything every christian CLAIMS to be and strive for. He even believes the government is lying to us and leading us down a path of destruction designed by them. He believes christians are being mislead and used against the human race in a mass world wide conspiracy. He's just entrusted all his future actions to thoughts he believes to be sent from God.
I just told him that I hoped God thinks its important for us to act so you spread the word about that. He didn't really answer me. You see, he and I see the same signs of the coming apocolypse, but you can't forget that one little detail-we have completely opposite beliefs. I believe it is my responsibility as a human being that knows of a coming threat to my speacies to speak out and try to save my race. The friggin human race! My cousin believes God knows the outcome of this world and it is all in his hands. So even if he does feel the need to share with people that he believes our government was responsible for 9/11, he still believes that whatever happens because of it is whatever God intended.
I say fuck faith. Look, I mean I'll marry a woman and have a kid and go to church and allow you to try to save me. Maybe God can break through my hardened heart and show me the light. I will allow you to do that. You just have to accpet that even if you're right and God is up there watchin and sending text messages to people via brainwaves that I have something to say about the state of the world. Forget gay marriage it's gone. I don't care who the hell can get a divorce when things get bad and they want to fuck other people. Seroiously-This is way more important than being able to kill your baby when it's too tiny to say stop. We'll give you all this if you accept that maybe your God is spekaingthrough us to tell you take responsibility as a human and stand up for your rights. Not as an American, not as ANY nation or creed or race. As a human being. We act like we are so above racism and predjudice yet our faith in based in exactly those ideas.
Alright whatever. This is me high. Drugs are dangerous, but not in the way they tell you.
-Stevencody
Friday, August 24, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Faith in Man
I want credit for my actions. Good or bad I'd like to be acknowledged for what I do and accomplish. I'd thank all those in my life who helped me with any given situation of course. I want to be acknowledged as a human being who deserves better than what we have. We ALL deserve better. I am a human and so are you. We make choices and decisions every second of every waking hour of every single day of our lives. WE are responsible for the lives and deaths of our fellow human beings with every choice we make. We, as human beings, have total control over everything that happens on this planet. WE are responsible.
I wish everyone could see and hear and understand what I'm telling you. Sadly, even though many will agree with me, still more will not hear me. We have ultimate control, but I think we got scared of all the responsibility-So we out sourced it to an invisible bully in the sky. This will be the part where I think I'll lose a large majority of readers. Bye.
How can we ever accept the responsibility we have for this world if we've given it up to the stars. On our journey to top dog of the hood we, as a species, sought explanation. We are a curious creature that seeks understanding. At first our understanding was placed in the things we couldn't understand. We made the ruler of our days the very thing that gave us day, the sun. This was our first great accomplishment and our worst mistake. We were young as a species and underdeveloped, but we understood that the sun gave us day and when it went away we had darkness. There is a reason why many are afraid of the dark. When we first deified the sun we gave it an opposite and an antagonist in the moon. Light and dark were soon equivalent to good and bad. We gave them names and histories and put them in control of our existence. We gave them the authority to flood our villages and suck up our homes in a mighty whirling wind sphere. We gave them the power to shake the earth and light the sky with fire. We made God's to rule over us and give us meaning.
Now that we explained in our infantile minds how and why things happened we elevated ourselves to a new level. We began our search inward and sought to explain why we are here. If they are gods in the heavens to rule existence then why are we here? What is our purpose? Why do we love and lose? Why do we feel? We decided to apply our celestial rulers to our minds. They are the reason we think and dream and love and kill. We now have discovered our influence, our benefactor. This is where we lost control. We gave up our responsibility for our choices. We evolved.
Mankind has evolved. That fact is undeniable. Our minds have discovered reason and overtime we discovered science. We can split the atom and we know why there are rainbows. Rainbows are light refracting off the moisture in the air. That's pretty simple, right? Why would I even feel the need to explain, or do you know where I'm going with this? We once believe the rainbow to be from our gods. A beautiful promise of brilliant colors that we would never be drowned in a horrible flood. OOPS. We are still young comparatively and we could have a wonderful future if we can shed our naive and false beliefs and continue on our journey of self discovery and evolution.
We once believed that bleeding someone who was sick was an efficient cure-all.
We once believed the world was flat.
We once believed that black men were meant to serve as slaves. Some still do.
We once believed people of different color needed different toilets and schools less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed Rosa Parks had to give up her seat to a white man less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed women weren't equal to men less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed people actively choose who they are sexually and emotionally attracted too like 10 years ago,MANY still do.
I think you can see what I mean by evolution. Oh, I applaud all who are still reading. Thanks.
We have shed our naive past beliefs on many things. We still have a way to go, but we are heading towards being human once again. There is a problem though. Some of our hang-ups with outdated beliefs are actually leading us toward our doom. If we are unable to overcome the affliction we imposed on ourselves when we were young and ignorant then we will die out as a species.
My main question to you is: How can we care enough to save this world if we still believe that what comes after is better?
More people than you know are aware of this. Sadly, some have taken advantage of your ignorance and become the physical manifestation of the invisible god you think has taken the wheel. If you have faith in god then there is no reason to worry. That is so convenient for them, that is what you must overcome.
Your "faith" is destroying your kind. I wouldn't even care so much if it only effected you, but there is a bunch of other people here and you have the fate of our existence in your hands. Your everyday choices are responsible for the lives of every single individual human on this planet.
It won't be easy. You have been programmed to ignore me and your own lingering doubts.
Wake the FUCK up!!!
PLEASE
I wish everyone could see and hear and understand what I'm telling you. Sadly, even though many will agree with me, still more will not hear me. We have ultimate control, but I think we got scared of all the responsibility-So we out sourced it to an invisible bully in the sky. This will be the part where I think I'll lose a large majority of readers. Bye.
How can we ever accept the responsibility we have for this world if we've given it up to the stars. On our journey to top dog of the hood we, as a species, sought explanation. We are a curious creature that seeks understanding. At first our understanding was placed in the things we couldn't understand. We made the ruler of our days the very thing that gave us day, the sun. This was our first great accomplishment and our worst mistake. We were young as a species and underdeveloped, but we understood that the sun gave us day and when it went away we had darkness. There is a reason why many are afraid of the dark. When we first deified the sun we gave it an opposite and an antagonist in the moon. Light and dark were soon equivalent to good and bad. We gave them names and histories and put them in control of our existence. We gave them the authority to flood our villages and suck up our homes in a mighty whirling wind sphere. We gave them the power to shake the earth and light the sky with fire. We made God's to rule over us and give us meaning.
Now that we explained in our infantile minds how and why things happened we elevated ourselves to a new level. We began our search inward and sought to explain why we are here. If they are gods in the heavens to rule existence then why are we here? What is our purpose? Why do we love and lose? Why do we feel? We decided to apply our celestial rulers to our minds. They are the reason we think and dream and love and kill. We now have discovered our influence, our benefactor. This is where we lost control. We gave up our responsibility for our choices. We evolved.
Mankind has evolved. That fact is undeniable. Our minds have discovered reason and overtime we discovered science. We can split the atom and we know why there are rainbows. Rainbows are light refracting off the moisture in the air. That's pretty simple, right? Why would I even feel the need to explain, or do you know where I'm going with this? We once believe the rainbow to be from our gods. A beautiful promise of brilliant colors that we would never be drowned in a horrible flood. OOPS. We are still young comparatively and we could have a wonderful future if we can shed our naive and false beliefs and continue on our journey of self discovery and evolution.
We once believed that bleeding someone who was sick was an efficient cure-all.
We once believed the world was flat.
We once believed that black men were meant to serve as slaves. Some still do.
We once believed people of different color needed different toilets and schools less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed Rosa Parks had to give up her seat to a white man less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed women weren't equal to men less than 100 years ago. Some still do.
We once believed people actively choose who they are sexually and emotionally attracted too like 10 years ago,MANY still do.
I think you can see what I mean by evolution. Oh, I applaud all who are still reading. Thanks.
We have shed our naive past beliefs on many things. We still have a way to go, but we are heading towards being human once again. There is a problem though. Some of our hang-ups with outdated beliefs are actually leading us toward our doom. If we are unable to overcome the affliction we imposed on ourselves when we were young and ignorant then we will die out as a species.
My main question to you is: How can we care enough to save this world if we still believe that what comes after is better?
More people than you know are aware of this. Sadly, some have taken advantage of your ignorance and become the physical manifestation of the invisible god you think has taken the wheel. If you have faith in god then there is no reason to worry. That is so convenient for them, that is what you must overcome.
Your "faith" is destroying your kind. I wouldn't even care so much if it only effected you, but there is a bunch of other people here and you have the fate of our existence in your hands. Your everyday choices are responsible for the lives of every single individual human on this planet.
It won't be easy. You have been programmed to ignore me and your own lingering doubts.
Wake the FUCK up!!!
PLEASE
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Awaken the voiceless why.
VOICELESS
I have something to say. I have beliefs and an opinion, but I have no voice. It was stolen, stolen by a sickness of words. A disease of language passed down from my ancestors. It is important that you can hear me and I have found a chance to reach you. I want to overcome the words of labels and lies and beat this affliction. Will you hear me? If you choose not to listen to me or hear my words then ask youself 'why?'. Keep asking yourself this until you find the truth. Then you may not need me.
WHOOOOOO ARE WE
Can you see me? If you think you can see me then ask yourself what you see. Who am I? A man. White. Gay. Liberal. Crazy. Paranoid. Am I a label?-complete with corresponding instructions? Can you completely shut me out based on my label?
Would you? I didn't choose my label and you do not have to act according to yours. You see? Thats the real dangers in labels- you start to believe your own...and act accordingly. The funny thing is: your label has as much to do with what you are "not" as much as it does what you are. We've become the negatives of our opposition. If "they" are this then "we" are not. We're pitted against eachother in order to define who we are. Do we really need an enemy to define ourselves like some saturday morning cartoon. Every good hero needs a great enemy. You know you've heard it. Their very struggle defines them. Is this true for real life? According to our actually history and corresponding beliefs and actions then yes it does, absolutely. I think, somewhere along the way, we fell in love with the fight and forgot who we were fighting . We have been divided as a race. Look around what do you see? Americans-Christians-Muslims-Blacks-Whites-Iraqis-Gays-Men-Women-Democrats-Republicans-Liberals-Conservatives-----Did any of those words make you cringe even just a little? Have you ever thought negatively of any people associated with those groups at any given time? Are any one of those words NOT a 4 letter word to descibe the "opposition"? Maybe it's just me, but I doubt it. Is this all we are? We are human beings and we deserve better than this. Be you.
WHY?
Why are you who you are? To be or not to be? That is really really the question isn't it? Are you what you choose "to be" or what you choose "not to be". Apply this question to many truths. Don't be affraid to question. You have been taught to accept and that to question is wrong. Just ask-Why?
Q: Why am I comelled to write this?
Q: Why do I feel the need to stand up and speak out?
Q: Why am I being so annoyingly wordy?
A: I am passionate about my beliefs and feel they are important.
A: I believe you are in trouble and I want to warn you before it's too late. I will accept the ridicule in exchange for the chance
to reach one other soul who may be inspired to reach another.
A: I am just annoyingly wordy.
The purpose of the silly questions is to state the obvious: Motivation. What motivates me, what is my "agenda". My answers are the truth, I have no reason to lie. Yet my reasons are not what you see. I have a label and it came with an agenda. Agenda is a universal label enhancer usually attach to one of the previously mentioned labels. But what is agenda? Well according to this big ass dictionary next to me it's: "A list of things to be done, especially the program for a meeting.". Hardly sinister as a definition. Yet, somehow, if I said "Gay Agenda" I think I would be hard pressed to find someone who hears that as a positive. This may seem very silly, but some people believe there is an actual "gay agenda" to destroy the american family by ruining the institution of marriage and raising children to be gay. Although I'm sure some gays have a to do list that may even include "fight for equal rights" near the top-I doubt they have any intention on destroying the institution of marriage let alone recruitment. The same goes for the "Right Wing". I doubt that the active "Right Wing Agenda" is to be biggots who dish out God's will like mash potatos at a soup kitchen with an adversion to equal rights. It may be the belief of either side that the agendas above are true. The sad thing is that we allow them to be. We have chosen to be our labels. We have become the negative of our "opposition". Now we are divided and sorted into groups then guided along by our chosen leaders. We see the fight rage everyday between them and us, but its not them and us fighting. The fight we see is a coreographed play. Don't look behind the curtain...you might find reality.
I have heard many people referred to as "Hating America" because they don't agree with the war. I have heard peopled called "unpatriotic" because they want the troops home. I have heard many people called stupid conspiracy theorists because they don't believe the official 9/11 comission. Have you ever asked why?
Never forget the facts. Wether ot not you choose to believe any given evidence for any given reason-you simply can't ignore the facts. I just say that because sometimes the facts seem to be left off the label.
Wake up and ask why.
Awake
I'm awake and it sucks.
Everyone else is still sleeping and theres nothing I can do
I'm bored and have no-one to talk to
Oh no!!! There is a snake coming towards you!
He's in your bed! Wake up! Wake up!
You have to hear me! Wake up!
Why can't you hear me!!
Why why why!!! Wake up!
Wake up!!!!
Why?!!?!?! Why won't you wake up?!?!??!
Why??!?!
-Stevencody
I have something to say. I have beliefs and an opinion, but I have no voice. It was stolen, stolen by a sickness of words. A disease of language passed down from my ancestors. It is important that you can hear me and I have found a chance to reach you. I want to overcome the words of labels and lies and beat this affliction. Will you hear me? If you choose not to listen to me or hear my words then ask youself 'why?'. Keep asking yourself this until you find the truth. Then you may not need me.
WHOOOOOO ARE WE
Can you see me? If you think you can see me then ask yourself what you see. Who am I? A man. White. Gay. Liberal. Crazy. Paranoid. Am I a label?-complete with corresponding instructions? Can you completely shut me out based on my label?
Would you? I didn't choose my label and you do not have to act according to yours. You see? Thats the real dangers in labels- you start to believe your own...and act accordingly. The funny thing is: your label has as much to do with what you are "not" as much as it does what you are. We've become the negatives of our opposition. If "they" are this then "we" are not. We're pitted against eachother in order to define who we are. Do we really need an enemy to define ourselves like some saturday morning cartoon. Every good hero needs a great enemy. You know you've heard it. Their very struggle defines them. Is this true for real life? According to our actually history and corresponding beliefs and actions then yes it does, absolutely. I think, somewhere along the way, we fell in love with the fight and forgot who we were fighting . We have been divided as a race. Look around what do you see? Americans-Christians-Muslims-Blacks-Whites-Iraqis-Gays-Men-Women-Democrats-Republicans-Liberals-Conservatives-----Did any of those words make you cringe even just a little? Have you ever thought negatively of any people associated with those groups at any given time? Are any one of those words NOT a 4 letter word to descibe the "opposition"? Maybe it's just me, but I doubt it. Is this all we are? We are human beings and we deserve better than this. Be you.
WHY?
Why are you who you are? To be or not to be? That is really really the question isn't it? Are you what you choose "to be" or what you choose "not to be". Apply this question to many truths. Don't be affraid to question. You have been taught to accept and that to question is wrong. Just ask-Why?
Q: Why am I comelled to write this?
Q: Why do I feel the need to stand up and speak out?
Q: Why am I being so annoyingly wordy?
A: I am passionate about my beliefs and feel they are important.
A: I believe you are in trouble and I want to warn you before it's too late. I will accept the ridicule in exchange for the chance
to reach one other soul who may be inspired to reach another.
A: I am just annoyingly wordy.
The purpose of the silly questions is to state the obvious: Motivation. What motivates me, what is my "agenda". My answers are the truth, I have no reason to lie. Yet my reasons are not what you see. I have a label and it came with an agenda. Agenda is a universal label enhancer usually attach to one of the previously mentioned labels. But what is agenda? Well according to this big ass dictionary next to me it's: "A list of things to be done, especially the program for a meeting.". Hardly sinister as a definition. Yet, somehow, if I said "Gay Agenda" I think I would be hard pressed to find someone who hears that as a positive. This may seem very silly, but some people believe there is an actual "gay agenda" to destroy the american family by ruining the institution of marriage and raising children to be gay. Although I'm sure some gays have a to do list that may even include "fight for equal rights" near the top-I doubt they have any intention on destroying the institution of marriage let alone recruitment. The same goes for the "Right Wing". I doubt that the active "Right Wing Agenda" is to be biggots who dish out God's will like mash potatos at a soup kitchen with an adversion to equal rights. It may be the belief of either side that the agendas above are true. The sad thing is that we allow them to be. We have chosen to be our labels. We have become the negative of our "opposition". Now we are divided and sorted into groups then guided along by our chosen leaders. We see the fight rage everyday between them and us, but its not them and us fighting. The fight we see is a coreographed play. Don't look behind the curtain...you might find reality.
I have heard many people referred to as "Hating America" because they don't agree with the war. I have heard peopled called "unpatriotic" because they want the troops home. I have heard many people called stupid conspiracy theorists because they don't believe the official 9/11 comission. Have you ever asked why?
Never forget the facts. Wether ot not you choose to believe any given evidence for any given reason-you simply can't ignore the facts. I just say that because sometimes the facts seem to be left off the label.
Wake up and ask why.
Awake
I'm awake and it sucks.
Everyone else is still sleeping and theres nothing I can do
I'm bored and have no-one to talk to
Oh no!!! There is a snake coming towards you!
He's in your bed! Wake up! Wake up!
You have to hear me! Wake up!
Why can't you hear me!!
Why why why!!! Wake up!
Wake up!!!!
Why?!!?!?! Why won't you wake up?!?!??!
Why??!?!
-Stevencody
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