We need to be careful when it comes to religion and politics. Once these two things get together, bad things happen... from a historical point of view. Look it up and you will find out what I am talking about. Religion is fine and good so long as it stays away from any and all political agendas. Nothing good can possibly come from this convergence.

Mind control is very real and at the heart of it all is media/television. For good or for bad, mostly for bad, television has infiltrated our minds and our lives. It tells us what we don't want to hear, and then it turns around and tells us what to do about it. For example, if you're sick, you can get the symptoms right from the commercial and then acquire the prescribed remedy. That is mind control.
When a movie comes along that everyone has to watch, hairstyles change, language can change, and a whole new way of seeing the world can be realized... and it's all fiction even if it's based on real-life events. That is mind control and there is billions of dollars wrapped up in it.

I'm not sure anyone can reconcile the fact that we are all alone. We are alone when we're born, we're alone when we live, and we're alone when we transfer to the other plane of existence. Certain people exist that have already experienced that plane of existence. They have insights into the unknown. Whether their accounts are true or not is immaterial. The point is that people wonder and feel. We explore and operate with the conviction that certain answers can and will be found. However, nothing can take our loneliness away even after we have found certain answers that have eluded us over the years.

I do not think it is possible to remain positive at all times. It's just not feasible to even think about it. The human condition can only get "better" if there comes with it the occasional trial or test of will. Without these tests, without these certain and specific trials, learning and growth cannot take place. From learning and growth comes some form of wisdom. This wisdom can then be transferred to the younger generation and so on and so forth. It's okay to lose it from time to time. Life can be a bit overwhelming at times... for all of us.

Some people can be as free as a bird yet still feel trapped by their perceived circumstances. Thinking about things in the wrong way can weight us down and make us feel like we are carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. For example, as many as 75% of us hate our jobs. We feel trapped by doing the same things everyday and/or are harbored with feelings of being unappreciated. Real or fabricated in the mind, thoughts like these are what brings our spirits down. We may appear to be free on the outside, but in reality we are just being good social actors playing our expected roles.

The most important thing one can give to another is time. We all feel constrained by time. We never seem to have enough of it. Yet we spend hours upon hours on end watching television and movies. We have the time. We all have the time to talk with someone who needs an ear. In many cases, the ear one lends to another can make the difference between life and death. It can be that important.

Failure, time and time again, is what gives a successful person the necessary edge. While there are many definitions of success, there is only one constant in the process and that is failure. There is nothing to fear from failure, but at the same time you don't want to use failure as an excuse to keep failing for the sake of failing. That is a trap nobody wants to fall into. You have to learn something from each case, each instance of failure. This is how success is built.

Sometimes all we need as individual people is an ear to listen and eyes to see. Feelings of being alone or overwhelmed can be debilitating to certain kinds of people. It is hard sometimes just to get someone to listen, someone to just be there for the short and long term. We should all be so lucky as to have a friend like that. Since I have no friends like that, I choose to be that friend for someone else and at least one other person.

I see people living a lie and I look in awe and wonder. I wonder how they can get themselves together every morning (preparation for role-play) just to go to their place of employment (another role to play) of which 75% of American's can't even stand. They do it because they have to do it. They do it because bills have to be paid. Without that job, without that preparation in the morning, without role-play, there is no money for no roof or car or clothes of fun or anything. It is something many people must do in order to maintain some sort of sanity. It's like you have to be insane to maintain your own personal sanity.

Self image is everything. Watch enough television and you will start to question your own self worth. This is the design of media, all media. Identify "a" problem and offer up a solution. You may not even have a problem... with anything. But you watch enough media to know that something has to be wrong. So something becomes wrong and a remedy is needed. Good thing there are so many remedies.

In our lives today there is no more destructive force than television. Through television we get to see problems created and solved with advertising. We get to see murder and marriages, juggling clowns and magicians. We get to be divided politically as we understand ourselves less and less in a world where there is always more and more. .

We have so many selves that it is sometimes difficult to choose which self to use in certain situations. For example, there is a self in us that we never show anybody and there is a self that only our friends see. There is a self in us only our parents see, but not our friends. However, there is one self that is uniquely our own. It is the self that only we see and know. It is the center of our existence. It is who we really are. It takes courage to show that side of us to anyone. But when we do, it is a form of art that everyone will recognize.

If there is one thing that binds us humans together it is the fact that each one of us has doubt about ourselves in some subjective way. For one reason or the other we get hit with doubt usually at the most inopportune times. Like a baseball player striking out or a bowler getting a 7-10 split. If it happens once, doubt says that it can happen again. Overcoming doubt means that success is possible. It means that humanity has a chance to better itself. We all have that chance.

People talk down on philosophy for many reasons. But the most common reason is that they believe that thinking is the opposite of doing. That sitting around talking about life and the order of things is fine, but there ain't no money in it. Certainly it is an exercise in imagination when people engage in the "heavy" topics. However, those who believe that talking philosophy is a waste of time, that having a philosophical frame of mind is somehow damaging to the human soul, actually embrace the idea of having no philosophy. Having no philosophy is having a philosophy. It is the philosophy of nothing.

Have you ever had one of those days when you just weren't with the program? Well, I'm having one of those weeks right now and it's driving me absolutely batty. Every move I make feels like I am moving in slow motion under a strobe-light. Things are cloudy and my mind isn't thinking straight. I tried to take a nap, but my eye lids weren't heavy enough I guess. 

You have to start somewhere. Pick your spot and make your move. Know that the road will not be easy and you will be spending a lot of time alone. Once you get over the fact of being alone in your quest, you will feel more a part of things than you have ever felt before.

Life is a poem, a movie, a story as individual as one can imagine. Within the framework of life there exists ways to make your dreams come true. As long as your dreams are realistic, anything is actually possible. But dreams have to be deeper than money or fame or prestige-these things work just fine in the movies. They have to fit into your primary life, not the life that exists inside your mind (relating to media images and sounds). The dreams inside your mind, how you relate to movies and television programming; how you place yourself inside the story, are part of what is called The Secondary Life. It is fiction. It is where unrealistic dreams are manufactured and processed. The primary life is the day to day drag of having to do things you may not like doing for the sake of paying bills. It is difficult, but life is a poem in a movie... part of one great story.