Drag Kings

Like Drag queens, Drag kings are females that experiment with their gender.
It can consist of wearing masculing clothing, a bear and mustach, breast binding, shaving ones head, acting masculin etc... Some do it as a form of performing art, also incorporating dancing and singing. Others may use it as a way of expressing themselves, having fun or simply walking around like that.

You might have seen Lady Gaga dressing up like a man.

The first popular male impersonator in U.S. theater was Annie Hindle, who started performing in New York in 1867. British music hall performer Vesta Tilley was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a male impersonator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_king

Drag kings are said to be largely a phenomenon of the lesbian culture and can most often be seen at lesbian bars. But not all drag kings are lesbians.

This can be a fun way of expressing yourself and realizing you do not have to fit into the cultural stereotype of what it is to be a good "woman" of "man". If people judge others according to those standards, it shows their own brainwashing and cultural indoctrination.

What a female or male should look or act like has changed through the years. And really: who can decide this? And more: why would we obey to this?

What is our constant obsession with judging others when they do not fit into the picture we desire from them?

It is important to look at our starting point with whatever we do.

If one does this because of dissatisfaction with ones body , it is important to get to the root of why one feels like this. If we feel inferior, depressed, disgusted or sad about what we look like, then there is a problem involved. Because you are harming yourself through judging your physical body. While we could be comfortable within it no matter what we look like. This is the same as others judging you as being a "good" female or male, you are now judging yourself as less or more. And what exactly are those thoughts that make you think like that? Why did it start, when and why do you allow it? If you give it power over you in that specific area, there is no certaintly that it won't come back in other areas. You may be able to dress differently, but that has not removed the source of the problem.

If a woman wants to shave her head, then she can do that as much as a man. If a man wants long hair or wear a skirt, then he can do that as much as a female. Why would our genitals decide which clothing we have to wear, or how we have to speak and behave, or with which toys we should or should not play? It is actually more the general look that people judge wether you should act and look like a male or a female. Female face = act like a female.

Dressing like a female, a man, an elephant or a lepracon... can be fun, a way of expressing yourself. But we have to be on the lookout of hidden insecurity and judgement. And make sure others judgements do not become our own.

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Review of “ In Time” – Time is money

Yesterday I decided to go a long with my brother and his girlfriend to watch the movie “In Time”, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.

The story plays off in a not so distant future. Instead of money, people trade with “time”. Everyone is born with some kind of physical clock on their lower arm – and as soon as they become 25, the clock starts to count down from 1 year. That is how long you have left to live UNLESS you are able to get, buy or work for more time. Everyone works for a day..then they are given another day to live. Their paychecks are given out as "minutes" at the end of their shifts, which allow them to live to work another day.
Everyone also “freezes” on 25, so your appearance stops aging as well.

There are about 4 different “time zones”. A time zone is a zone with a specific population. You have on the extreme sides the super wealthy, and the poor who live in the ghetto. The poor don’t have much time, live day to day, often drop dead on the street because they run out of time.
The rich have time enough, some have 105 years on their arm, some even up to a thousand.

The main actor, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake ), meets a rich man in a bar in his ghetto. It is quite strange because normally the classes are separated. Going to the ghetto as a rich man is extremely dangerous because everyone wants your time.

And indeed, he is attacked by Fortis , the 75-year old mobster boss of a gang called the Minutemen, who are infamous for stealing other people's time by force.

Will ends up rescuing him , while finding out he actually wants to die. He does not want to live forever, and talks about the fact that the rich can live forever, because the poor die early. Because not all people can live forever, only the select few, so they make sure prices go up in the ghetto, taxes go up etc… so that the poor keep dying.
Will is shocked by this.

This rich man has 106 years on his arm. They fall asleep and in the morning Will wakes up, finding the rich man is gone. He looks at his arm and sees 106 years on it. The rich man gave his years to him and wrote on the mist on the window “don’t waste my time”. Will looks out of his window at the bridge and sees the man sitting on top of it. He hurries to try to get to him on time, but he is too late, and the rich man his time runs up, he dies and tumbles of the bridge.

So Will has 106 years now, and decides to go to the rich side, which is called New Greenwich. But the minutemen are after him of course, because they saw his face on a surveillance camera and tracked him, knowing he has the rich mans time, which they think he stole from him..

Will meets a very wealthy man in New Greenwich during poker, and he ends up getting together with his daughter. Some people in New greenwhich control time banks in the hood where they loan out time to anyone who is minutes away from Death and will pay any price to get it..they loan it out at a 40 percent interest rate. The wealthy man in New Greenwich also is one of the main figures who controles the time banks. He has a large screen in his office which show a map of the earth, with the numbers on it of time zones, and it notifies when there is a disruptance - when there is time in a time zone that is not supposed to be there. So that when they notice this, they can restore the system bad to it's polarity state of rich-poor.

The minutemen find him there, but Will can escape while kidnapping the daughter along, she is called “Sylvia” (Amanda Seyfried). She ends up becoming his helper in the battle against the system. They steal lots of time and hand it out to those in the Ghetto.

A few conversational quotes:

Will: "How can you live with yourself watching people die right next to you?"
Sylvia: "You don't watch. You close your eyes."

Phillippe Weis: "You put enough time in the wrong hands, you upset the whole system."
Will: "Let's hope so."

Henry: "How old are you? In real time?"
Will: "28."
Henry: "I'm 105. Does it show? The day comes when you've had enough. Your mind can be spent even if your body's not."
Will: "That's your problem? You've been alive too long? Have you ever known anyone who's died?"
Henry: "For a few to be immortal, many must die."
Will: "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Henry: "You really don't know, do you? Everyone can't live forever, where would we put them? Why do you think there are time zones? Why to you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure people keep dying. How else could there be men with a million years almost from day to day? The truth is, there's more than enough. No one has to die before their time. If you had as much time as I have, what would you do with it?"
Will: "If I had all that time, I sure as hell wouldn't waste it."

Some viewers may watch this movie and think of how cruel such a world is. But actually it is exactly the world we are currently living in. We, the ones with a pc, are part of 4-5% of world population with a computer. We have a minority of extremely rich people making up 1% of global population who own 50 % of all wealth. We have a middle class who does reasonably well, and a majority that is on the bottom and struggles.

The rich can buy whatever they like, they can get to healthy good food, health care ,great education, good networks, sports and entertainment services, plastic surgery and creams to look younger and age slower (supposedly ), some have maids etc…
While the poor struggle to survive, live paycheck to paycheck hoping they’ll get buy. Have to buy food that they can afford which is not always the best, no proper education, sweatshop labor, starvation, no good networks etc….

“Philippe Weis: Of course, some think what we have is unfair. The time difference between zones.
Will Salas: I've heard that.
Philippe Weis: But, hasn't evolution always been unfair? It's always been survival of the fittest. This is merely Darwinian capitalism. Natural selection.
Will Salas: Absolutely. The strong survive”

The rich often use this as an excuse, because it serves their self-intrest. In that way they can justify their egoism, greed and abuse.
The fact is, we all accept this, because it is so known and common to us. We are also blind for what’s happening in our global system. "You don't watch. You close your eyes."

Will upsetting the whole system stop this? What will stop this is standing together and working together to create a replacement for our current system. A system of equality and dignity, for the common good of all. We can do this, and if your don’t think so it simply means you have been brainwashed to give up and stay an obedient slave to the status quo.

10 most Embarrassing Beauty Problems solved! Orly?

I get junk in my mailbox sometimes. Well... actually more than just "sometimes". This time it had a heading saying "10 most Embarrassing Beauty Problems solved". I was curious. I thought to myself: what would they define as "embarrassing"?
So I clicked, and found out the 10 things we should all be very embarrassed about!
1.Cold sores
2.Dandruff
3.Warts
4.Cystic Acne
5.Hairy moles
6.Bad breath
7.Bacne (acne on your back)
8.Ingrown bikini line haires
9.Bruised toenails
10.Dark armpits

Start to become embarrassed people!
I score a 3 out of 10 on this. So I should be a little less than average embarrassed but still enough to be pretty uncomfortable with myself.

Seriously, this shit is bullshit. Girls (and guys), if you read shit like this, skip it or laugh about it. There is no need to be insecure about any of such things, no need at all! Unless you desire a world where people go around judging each other and themselves constantly. Oh oops.. we already have that world.
But it doesn't have to be that way. We can change it and the best prove is by starting with yourself.
By releasing your own shame and accepting your body for what it is and stop allowing fears about other people's judgements. If they are that shallow and ignorant to judge such things, it tells you a lot about who THEY are and not about who you are.

I got dandruff since years, my dad has it, his dad has it as well. I dont use shampoo, they try to use all kinds of shit. Does it help? Nope. Does it embarrass me? Not in a million years.

We have created this world, where everything revolves around money. This system feeds off people's insecurity because that way it can sell. People will try to releave the insecurity by buying the stuff that will "cure" them and make them stop being embarrassed or insecure. And why are they insecure? Because they are told to BE insecure! If you are not trained to feel insecure about these things, if you are not around judgemental people, and around people who care about you as a living being - you will in no way develop an insecurity. Only in a society of competition, judgement, hostility and gossip will these feelings spring up.

So this money system does not only create the most obvious abuse such as hostile competition, corruption, sweatshop work, crime, poverty, starvation ... it also creates internal abuse and the feeding thereof. It uses slogans and images to manipulate the minds of young people and children. Ofcourse also adults, but these things start early  in childhood.

It is about time for a change, and a change will go gradually, starting with the Equal money system. A system based on life, respect and equality. From there on, a new human being can develop. A human being no longer brainwashed by the money machines that keeps everything in chains.

Will plus size become the new skinny ?

I was checking the newspaper today, and one of the titles was: " Glamour chooses more naked plus size models". (http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20110816_041)

We have all heard people talking about how in the past, heavier woman were considered to be the most attractive. And these days, being skinny is the main beauty standard in a big part of our society and culture (western) and some others.

In the september issue of the American Glamour magazine, were naked pictures of the 20 year old model Lizzie Miller. She was only wearing a thong and looked abit fuller than the average model.
The result was a flood of positive reactions from readers. They wanted to see more of these kind of models. Thats why Glamour (who follows the money flow) is planning a november issue with more naked plus size models.

Glamour tries to re-awaken the dialogue that the readers had started. Angry tongues say the magazine only publishes the picture as a publicity stunt. Glamour ofcourse argues the opposit.
The makers say more magazines should show models with a realistic figure instead of 0 sizes. So they call to designers to make bigger clothing, and not only for woman with size 0.

In this system where insecurity feeds the market, will they seriously do what is best for all? As long as profit is behind it, they need to create the things that will make them profit. They need to create the desires and standards for people to buy buy buy and feel insecure enough to buy it. It needs a certain "im not good enough" culture to do this. It also requires a big mass of working ants to create all these products and a commercial business to promote it to the people that dream of becoming more and better.

I agree that the whole 0 size thing is insane. I am a slender girl myself but I cannot imagine fitting in a size 0. I have a size 38-40 in my pants and I am 59 kg and 1m76. What the hell would I require to do to get to a size 0? I would have to start dieting, and get to an unhealthy weight which includes all kinds of health risks. You can get hormone problems, heart disease, brittle bones, infertility etc... Not only that, you are also mentaly destroying yourself to fit into a certain image. Saying to yourself that your not good enough when your not THAT image. After a while models get used to it and claim this is their natural self. But it has been programmed, and it is a business that is shown to us since we are little children. Its everywhere, even during the commercial brakes when your watching cartoon's.

When plus size would become the new skinny, again a market would be made of of it. Now they have it going well you know, all the diet products that battle against the junk food products and the people inbetween, the various therapies and the docters who get money from all the sick anorexic and obese patients, the media who gets attention with it and lots of viewers and thus money, lipsuctions, personal trainers etc... If they bombard plus size as the new standard they would start making a big business from it again (as long as profit is the drive). You can have new clothing styles, good sales of food as well, same for the media and readers, plastic surgery also to get the "right curves". People would feel alright with emotional eating or eating things that are damaging to their body (not saying that this isnt already the case).

So a solution within a profit driven system is actually not really possible. 1 thing which they desire to improves, leads to abuse on other levels. Money is nr 1 and will always be in such a system. Females will want "normal people" in magazines to feel better about themselves, but it has to sell or they wont do it. It has to sell equally as good and profit has to be made from it.

http://www.equalmoney.org

This hype around pipa middleton - WTF!?!

Since the marriage of her sister Kate Middleton, pipa has been all over the news - and it all started with ... her ass.

Sooo... the woman has an ass put her on the front page of every magazine and paper!!
LOL.

This article is not to complain about Pipa the person, the human being. Im sure Pipa herself didn't ask for it, she came to her sisters wedding and the next day she was all over the media. Although I don't know if this was set up or not. It irrelevant to the message I want to get across with this blogpost.

Because of the possitive attention her body gets, woman get jealous and even a facebook fan page has been created in her ass's honor.

The UK has also seen a rise in tanning due to the younger Middleton, and now they are reporting a spike in plastic surgery procedures as well. The tabloid also reported that one such clinic has even gone as far as to name the surgery "The Pip Package Perfect Posterior".

Since the first day I was like "wtf". And now after months I am still "wtf" with an added o_O.

All I see is a regular woman, with a normal body. But the media has kind of bombarded it as something more than it is and now people jump on it like puppets. It's pipa now and someone else in the next few months, thats how it goes. And you know why? Because it makes money. People go and look to be that way, get plastic surgery, get a gym membership, go tanning, buy her clothing or clothing that will make them look like her or equaly as "good", buy extra make up, maybe hair color, special diets and god knows what.... And this always happens time and time again. The system simply feeds off our insecurity and the sad thing is that we are the creators and maintainers. Who is in charge of beauty salons, of magazines and media, of beauty products and fashion items? People, people like you and I. Who is in charge of companies, of those promoting and teaching skills to get more buyers and pursuade people to consume and buy? People.
This is a world of people, programmed people. And we always seek to blame something or someone else, while we should really start by taking a good look within. We haven't been taught to think, we have been thought to copy and follow the thoughts that pop up into our minds or get taught to us.

At desteni we stand for the rebirth of humanity, the rebirth of yourself without the fear and shame and insecurity. To bring about the equal money system and live as the equals that we are. No one is better than another. When will we stop being these actors walking around with our gigantic ego's trying to pursuade others or buy their attention. Like those who walk around portraying the attitude of "look how important I am". Actors in their suits with their mansions and big boats and cars. When it comes down to it, we are all just living beings. Strip us naked and put us next to each other, and gone is all this seperation.

So don't wait for the rest to follow, start with yourself.

Review of "Beastly" the movie

Kyle is a senior at the Manhattan prep-school and has a very shallow and narcissistic personality. A few of his saying are:
"should you vote for me because Im rich., popular, good looking guy.. Hell Yeah!"
"My dad always said how much people will like you is directly proportional to what you look like, not your thing"

(Read more: http://authspot.com/quotes/beastly-quotes-2011/#ixzz1RLJb1ce7)

He insults people who he sees as ugly, and will redicule them in public. One of them is a witchy fellow student called Kendra (played by Mary-Kate Olsen). She is supposed to play an ugly witch although she is not ugly at all in the movie.
One day, Kyle tricks her as if he invites her to his party, but once there, he mocks and insults her infront of everyone. Kendra as a result puts a spell on him which makes him As agressively unattractive outside as he is inside. (Although I think he looks pretty cool haha).

The only way this spell will go away and that he will turn back to his normal "beautiful" form, is to have someone who will say “I love you” to him within 1 years as who he is or he will be forever beastly. As a result, he goes to hide in a luxury condo-hideout provided by his father who, as a narcissistic broadcast journalist, shares his son’s distaste for unattractive people so can’t wait to eliminate his son from his life.

Vanessa Hudgens plays the girl that will fall in love with him and say the magic words which will turn him back to normal. Same as in beauty and the beast. He has a secret crush on her and one day finds her and her dad in trouble because her dad is a drug dealer. Anyway, she has to be kept safe in his house and their bond grows. There are a lot of similarities with beauty and the beast. Like the roses, he builds a rose garden for her, also on the "tatoo" on his arms some roses appear when his time is almost up. Also like Belle, she is kept in his house without her wanting it at first. She dreams about escaping. Also the guy is a "beast" but he is stinking rich, same as the guy from beauty and the beast.

There are also a couple of touching moments in the movie, like when she actually values him for who he is inside, or when they watch a movie of a mother elephant that returns to the skeleton of her babies that died each year, where he asks "can you imagine such love"? It made me think about how much judgement there is in the world, about peoples looks and just in general as well. How people often don't really love each other, but more have attachments or desires they use the other for to fulfill. Like very conditional forms of love. Like you have to give sex, you have to look pretty, etc... Fill it in yourself.

The reason why I saw this movie was because of my friend Leila, who wrote a cool blog about it. She compares beastly to beauty and the beast and exposes some really cool stuff, so check out her blog!
http://ylaww.blogspot.com/2011/06/beastly-vs-beauty-beast.html

Often girls or woman will love unattractive males, when they are stinking rich. How many of those woman would want the same guy, if they were broke? Their numbers would decline seriously. Really we don't fully understand what real love is. Loving someone as the essence, as an equal to yourself. It doesn't mean wanting to have sex with them or feeling lovy dovy all the time. If love depends on those emotions, it comes and goes. Sometimes love is doing things which may hurt others at first, but are actually best for them. By not allowing another to be less than who they are as life, to not hold another as a prisoner by how he/she is programmed. Love is not jealousy, it is not possession.

Last quote from Leila's blog:

"So what does this say about Relationships and what a girl wants?
Girls like MONEY –in fact – everyone wants money!!!
So we should just give it to everyone so that everyone can develop proper relationships with one another without fearing for one’s survival or whether someone’s going to stab you in the back for money."
www.equalmoney.org

I want to add to that: some want money to survive, which is obvious, we need money to have enough food, a roof, electricity, clothing , water etc... That is the way our system works. But some woman want more money than they need, money to spend on luxury, on thousands of shoes, animal tested make-up products, things to try and boost their confidence, living a shallow life filled with material things trying to fill whatever gap is there. All these things require massive production and energy, and creates a lot of garbage.
So we have to take all into consideration, because equal money does not mean that everyone can just have all the riches they like. If it is abusive towards the whole, it cannot be allowed. Because today the very wealthy live like they can, because there are a lot of people on the bottom.

Does getting your periods make you a woman?





I first got my periods when I was 14 years old, in Spain on the 6th of august. We were drinking something at a restaurant outside and I went to the toilet and suddenly... there was blood!

So I instantly knew, I have my periods. I went outside and told my mom. She then told my dad and we drove to a nearby supermarket to get me some menstruation pads for the first time ever. My mom and I talked about it, and I said I would use menstruation pads and not tampons because I didn't dare to stick anything inside me. It felt abit strange to get my periods but overall it wasn't that different.

When we went back to Belgium my mom told my grandma which sais: she is a lady now.
I kinda smiled at that, not because I wanted to be a woman, but because of the way she made it sound. Like it was something to be proud off, getting your periods. Later on also my friends knew who acted as if it was something special. So that made me feel good, like I was better or something, like more of a girl/ woman.

It is intresting because you again get a label on you, like: now you are more of a woman.
Because you become fertile, because you can make babies. My grandparents are not so happy about the fact that I dont want a husband or babies now, which they didn't expect because "that is not how they raised me". Because from when we are young we are pushed into gender roles, with specific habbits and markings, specific behavior to do or to not do. If you are a lady you have to be pretty, polite, not fart or burp... shit like that. We give our children these rules, often simply because that is what we were taught ourselves. But it is like this breeding program where we already want our children to fit in and one day be a proper lady or man to find a good mating partner. Because if you are a woman but dont act like a lady, or dont look like a lady, which man will want you? People dont always think as blunt as that, but it is this pattern which is accepted, even when people are not aware of it.

And after a while, when boys and girls grow up - they start to judge each other on that behavior. They will even tease their peers for not fitting in that image, even bully them! There was once a girl in my class which looked like a boy and she got bullied a lot. It was in age group 13, quite young. But this gets taught to children. As if when a girl looks like a boy, suddenly they are inferior and treated inferior. If they wouldnt have known she was a girl, would they have done that? Probably not.

So parents, be careful of what you say to your children, and what you project and the limitations that you may box them into. Because this has a bigger effect than you can imagine.

Just look at the world, and you got your proof.

To discuss gender issues, please visit the forum of Desteni .

Which mask are you wearing today? Celebrities without make up

All over the web you can find pictures of celebrities without make up.

Anna Kournikova

Alicia Silverstone

Kate Moss

Courtney Cox

Penelope Cruz

Christina Ricci

Cher

Avril Lavigne







Often these pics come together with comments such as:

"Check out some more pictures of celebrities without make up at the following links. Yikes!!! No Makeup!"

"Some celebs look great without the paint! Some, well, er, um, yeah..."

'Yikes', as if it is something horrible. There is a constant focus on beauty, on looking a certain way, on creating a certain picture to be liked by others. This is the product of a world devided, a world without real care for beings as who they are, a world obsessed with money and ego. What are people really dressing up for? Money, it makes money. It is like buying peoples attraction with your looks.

The population loves these kind of pictures because it shows them that they are not "perfect" either, as what the media portrays "perfect" and what is presented in photoshopped magazine covers or by people who spend their entire day on keeping up a fit trained body and so called "perfect skin", all to fit into this ideal and have the "positive" attention from others.

It is easy to look like a celebrity, like someone in a magazine. You get make up put on, your hair done in the style that according to our culture "suits you best", maybe some photoshopping on your pictures and done.

But does this all make people happier? By constantly worrying about what others think about them, by feeling shit when people don't think good about them, and feeling good when people do? Is this really the life we want to live?

Our cultures acts as if it is bad when you have certain features that they see as "flaws", and that you have to cover up. Like: "do not wear three quarter pants when you have short legs", or "do not wear socks in sandals". Who the fuck cares. Seriously, I couldnt care less if someone weares socks in their sandals, if that is comfortable for them, go for it!

The way to stop your insecurities, and the emotional ups and downs attached to your picture presentation, is by a process of self-honesty.
By looking within yourself, to find out which thoughts trigger your emotions, make you feel insecure, bad, depressed, unworthy, not good enough etc...
And to lay out these patterns so that you see how they are programmed within you, and that they do not serve you or anyone else. And to realise that you do not have to be a slave to those thoughts! You do not have to follow them. You can breath, stop, and let them go and remain present in the moment.
And that is what I have done through and by my participating with desteni. I started to see these patterns within myself and slowely but surely take responsebility for them. Because I don't want to live like I did before. I don't want to keep judging myself and feeling bad about it. I don't want to grow old and dislike my wrinkles or my sagging body. I want to accept my body, and not punish myself because someone said that it was/is not good enough.

Because without these cultural judgements, would we even feel insecure about it?
If you look at all various beauty standards in all culture around the globe and throughout history?

The change begins with ourselves. Don't underestimate yourself.

OMG reincarnation is fucked up!

There is something fucked up about the believe in karma and reincarnation.
I just got a reply from someone saying that rich people deserve it because they have reincarnated and did good things in their past life. That is why they are wealthy right now or got the opportunity.  Lol, but think about it.
If that would be true, look at the rich and wealthy, how many abuse they support, and even create the abuse themselves sometimes, like corporate owners who have people slave for them in sweatshops, who purely live for their own self-intrest, who don’t give a shit, who gossip, who hate, who place themselves as superior etc… which means in their next life they gotta suffer again since they abused and were so “bad” in this life. LOL .
And the ones being abused now, according to that person, deserve it because of their previous life. But they cant remember it so how can they learn from that? + The abuse is brought to them by others, often with more wealth, which means that it is a never ending circle :P Kinda insane!

So you Have;

Person A, was a bad person ------à  reincarnates in a position where he/she will suffer
Person B, was a good person --à Reincarnates in a position of wealth and opportunity

Both of them ===è Don’t remember a damn thing about their past life

Person A is now a child starving to death
Person B is the boss of a corporation who only cares for himself and does not care about the world which he contributes to every day, a system that exploits life and which he participates in.

Person B, who previous was the good person, is thus now the bad person, who allows and creates suffering.
RIP person B  -à reincarnates in a position of suffering
Person A, child that died of starvation, is thus now a “good innocent” person
RIP person A è reincarnates in a wealthy family

Person A is brought up being spoiled and projects this in his life. Also not giving a damn, just wanting to have fun and think poor people got it coming.
Person B now reincarnates as a suffering animal in a slaughter house.

RIP person A è person A been bad again thus reincarnates as a suffering being
RIP person B è was innocent, did nothing wrong, thus reincarnates in a good position

Etc…..

Isnt that fucked up? Lol!

Is Stephen Hawkins going to hell?

Hawking said in an interview this week that he doesn't believe in an afterlife, and he said the notion of heaven is a "fairy story."

He told the British newspaper, The Guardian: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers."

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/19/stephen-hawking-calls-heaven-a-fairy-story-do-you-agree/

22 may.
Now the rapture is over, we see how an asshole God is because he left my innocent dog here to burn and suffer in Armagedon. What did he ever do to piss off God so much? There are children running around outside, maybe God decided to leave them here to make doomsday abit more spectacular, with screaming fearfull children everywhere. A doomsday simply isn't complete without it.
I survived the rapture, and so did you.

Now let's get serious, the whole rapture-scenario again failed. We have been busy with these kinds of predictions for thousands of years. It is not hard to make predictions, you say something will happen without a specific date (or something people can read into), and then you have eternity to wait for something like that to happen. Isn't that wonderful :) When something like that happens, it doesnt even mean the prophecy came true.

Humanity has this hope for dramatic events. They like to wait and fantasize about it, but when it happens, they soon realise it is not as fun as it looked inside their mind. Because fear sets in, anxiety, pain...

We don't realise how evil we are by desiring such things. We don't realise how blind we are for believing books of religion and automaticly believe the creature in the book which calls itself "god" to be good, and then we blindly follow it and worship it. It is exactly what we do in this world with our leaders. We wait for them to change things, we hope they will change things and we blame them when things go wrong.
We place them on a higher level than ourselves, while they are just living beings like us. We place them on top because we want them to make things better for us. We always look for sheppards, so we can be the sheep. This is an abusive design, programmed within many, and easy to see for yourself.
If we do not learn to take self-responsibility and realise we are equally as powerful to change things - if we dont, then things will never change and we will remain in our loops of ups and downs. For some way more downs than ups.

So doomsdays come and doomsdays go...
Here are 10 Doomsday precitions which failed to materialize:

The Prophet Hen of Leeds, 1806It seems that a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. As news of this miracle spread, many people became convinced that doomsday was at hand — until a curious local actually watched the hen laying one of the prophetic eggs and discovered someone had hatched a hoax.

The Millerites, April 23, 1843A New England farmer named William Miller, after several years of very careful study of his Bible, concluded that God's chosen time to destroy the world could be divined from a strict literal interpretation of scripture. As he explained to anyone who would listen, the world would end some time between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He preached and published enough to eventually lead thousands of followers (known as Millerites) who decided that the actual date was April 23, 1843. Many sold or gave away their possessions, assuming they would not be needed; though when April 23 arrived (but Jesus didn't) the group eventually disbanded—some of them forming what is now the Seventh Day Adventists.

Mormon Armageddon, 1891 or earlier
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, called a meeting of his church leaders in February 1835 to tell them that he had spoken to God recently, and during their conversation he learned that Jesus would return within the next 56 years, after which the End Times would begin promptly.

Halley's Comet, 1910
In 1881, an astronomer discovered through spectral analysis that comet tails include a deadly gas called cyanogen (related, as the name imples, to cyanide). This was of only passing interest until someone realized that Earth would pass through the tail of Halley's comet in 1910. Would everyone on the planet be bathed in deadly toxic gas? That was the speculation reprinted on the front pages of "The New York Times" and other newspapers, resulting in a widespread panic across the United States and abroad. Finally even-headed scientists explained that there was nothing to fear.
Pat Robertson, 1982
In May 1980, televangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson startled and alarmed many when — contrary to Matthew 24:36 ("No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven...") he informed his "700 Club" TV show audience around the world that he knew when the world would end. "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment on the world," Robertson said.
Heaven's Gate, 1997
When comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1997, rumors surfaced that an alien spacecraft was following the comet — covered up, of course, by NASA and the astronomical community. Though the claim was refuted by astronomers (and could be refuted by anyone with a good telescope), the rumors were publicized on Art Bell's paranormal radio talk show "Coast to Coast AM." These claims inspired a San Diego UFO cult named Heaven's Gate to conclude that the world would end soon. The world did indeed end for 39 of the cult members, who committed suicide on March 26, 1997.
Nostradamus, August 1999
The heavily obfuscated and metaphorical writings of Michel de Nostrdame have intrigued people for over 400 years. His writings, the accuracy of which relies heavily upon very flexible interpretations, have been translated and re-translated in dozens of different versions. One of the most famous quatrains read, "The year 1999, seventh month / From the sky will come great king of terror." Many Nostradamus devotees grew concerned that this was the famed prognosticator's vision of Armageddon.
Y2K, Jan. 1, 2000
As the last century drew to a close, many people grew concerned that computers might bring about doomsday. The problem, first noted in the early 1970s, was that many computers would not be able to tell the difference between 2000 and 1900 dates. No one was really sure what that would do, but many suggested catastrophic problems ranging from vast blackouts to nuclear holocaust. Gun sales jumped and survivalists prepared to live in bunkers, but the new millennium began with only a few glitches.
May 5, 2000
In case the Y2K bug didn't do us in, global catastrophe was assured by Richard Noone, author of the 1997 book "5/5/2000 Ice: the Ultimate Disaster." According to Noone, the Antarctic ice mass would be three miles thick by May 5, 2000 — a date in which the planets would be aligned in the heavens, somehow resulting in a global icy death (or at least a lot of book sales). Perhaps global warming kept the ice age at bay.
God's Church Ministry, Fall 2008
According to God's Church minister Ronald Weinland, the end times are upon us-- again. His 2006 book "2008: God's Final Witness" states that hundreds of millions of people will die, and by the end of 2006, "there will be a maximum time of two years remaining before the world will be plunged into the worst time of all human history. By the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power, and no longer exist as an independent nation." As the book notes, "Ronald Weinland places his reputation on the line as the end-time prophet of God."

http://www.livescience.com/7926-10-failed-doomsday-predictions.html

Have we had enough already? Isn't it time we start to work with what is HERE on earth? The suffering that is present on our planet, created by our human installed system, and has been here for thousands of years.
If you want heaven, you will have to create heaven.
Because this world is simply the sum of all us individuals together.

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21 May - The Rapture is Here!! Wait.... where is it?

According to some christian folks, the rapture is today, thats right, RIGHT NOW!
In case it's true... RIP everyone!

Here is one of the pages that claim today is judgement day :
http://judgementday2011.com/
There is another person, the host from Family Radio who sais he is 100% certain. I have tried to contact him that maybe he could donate the remaining money he has to the Equality movement, but I got no reply. To bad...
Oh but wait people, do you know why we see nothing?
Because the "chosen ones" are probably taken up into heaven and we are left to suffer a horrible death of extreme suffering. And my little nephew is still here, wonder what he did to make God so freaking angry that he nows has to suffer an excruciating end.
"The May 21st End of the World prediction only applies to those who will be saved on Judgment Day 2011 in the Rapture.  Those who aren’t saved in the May 21 Rapture will suffer a different fate, and an End of the World date 5 months after May 21st."

May 21st Judgement Day is going to be the decisive day when Jesus returns for the Rapture.  True believers will be brought to Heaven, and that will be the End of The World for the approximately 3,000,000 people will be saved, according to Harold Camping.

If people who blindly believe in a book, installed by corrupt elite religious institution, get saved and the rest can fuck off for not blindly following an idea/believe... Then I dont want to be part of that heaven in the first place. Imagine being there with people who blindly follow anything that calls itself God. Do you know how dangerous that is. Seriously, it can be a demon in disguise or an evil alien and people would follow it's every command. Thats fucking scary! Imagine being stuck with those people. Whenever you have a question like: "Hey, God why did you place those demons into pigs and make them run of a cliff? Why didnt you just... kill the demons? ". People would go like: SHUT UP YOU BLASPHEMIST! YOU CANNOT QUESTION THE ALMIGHTY.
"but...what if the almighty is.. evil..."
AAAAAAAAH BURN THE WITCH!

lol. The idea of worshipping a god is so deeply installed within us. We hear the word "god" and immediatly we connect it to something that is good and much better than us.
This is not the way we will sort out this mess on Earth. But that is what many christians dont care about, which shows what a trap religion is. It is like "don't do anything, just believe and wait for heaven and try to convert as many others in the meanwhile". It used to be a great tactic in the older days to keep the poor serving and obedient to the rich elite (which the church was part of), and to not have them go for any change and keep them numb. And well well well... it is still happening even today!

So if such a rapture commes, ask yourself if you really would want to be part of such a thing, and blindly follow a being that claims itself to be god, but is not in actions. If the rapture does come, all starving children should today be removed from the planet, will it happen?

There have been doomsday dates and scenario's for ages, they have always existed. It is time we stop waiting for these events, or imagine about them, and fix what we have done on this planet. Stop the abuse we allow every single day. Fuck an armageddon! For many people, doomsday is every single day. For the child prostitute who has to have sex with old dirty men, for the starving person who's body suffers in pain due to malnutrition and cant even whipe the flies from his face because of weakness, for the families running from bombs and guns , their houses and everything destroyed ...

Stop waiting for a rapture, let's create heaven on earth.
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How To Speak Na'vi

The chances are high that you have seen the movie "Avatar" and were quite amazed with this movie and the message it brings. I can say that I really enjoyed that movie and is probably the best I have ever seen.

However... (you knew this was comming didn't you?)

There is something we have to consider. When we watch such spectacular movies, we get this feeling over us when the movie is finished - you know this "special" feelings that makes you want to be part of a world as presented in the movie. Lot's of people who saw that movie say it is their ideal planet, that it is how they would like to live.
Just check this Facebook group called: "Earth sucks, I want to go live on Pandora"

Who's fault is it that "Earth sucks"? Our fault. The Earth itself did not pop up banks and corporations that demolish life for profit, it did not pop out religious institutions that keep people blind and obedient, it didn't pop out atomb bombs and corruption... We popped all that shit out of our minds. We have created it , using the resources from Earth. With all the directions we could take with it, we chose a very destructive way of living. We didn't decide to live in harmony and cooporate, we decided to follow our pre-programming and destroy and compete. We have even destroyed entire nations with atomb bombs, we go to war for the resources of other countries so we can make money and they... we'll, we apparantly dont care about "them". They are not our family anyway right? We are pretty safe here, in our houses which look like castles to a starving person, with our pc's and tv's we spy on the world and read all the gossip. We read about poverty and crime and think "oh that is so bad :'(" , while we click the "I sign this petition" button and get on with our lives of not giving a shit.
Because giving a shit shows in our actions and what we direct our lives towards, not in our words and feelings. You can say you care, but if you don't live up to your words it doesn't mean anything.

So most of us, would be part of the humans destroying Pandora. You may not like it, but you can easily be brainwashed to agree with the status quo keepers, so you would probably stand numb at the side. "Let those on top take care of it". Those on top are on top because they crave power, why trust them if you see how the elite of the world is controlled by profit. Why do you think that suddenly they will start to work for the common good while they never did? Are they more than you, better than you? No. They were once born as babies, with their diapers and their toys and they grew up within a society corrupted by profitdrive and various other factors related.
All of us are equally responsible for this world and ourselves. It is time we stop placing ourselves as inferior because it is very easy to do that, nice excuse to not having to do anything when you can say "I am not this enough or that enough". Skills can be trained, and speaking up does not require vast amounts of knowledge. It takes your will and common sense and self-honesty.

By reading what I just wrote, you now learned to speak Na'vi, which can be spoken in any language existing. Because it is the language of the common good of all, and the protection of our planet and all living beings on it.

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Culture of Alcoholics

There was a comment recently by someone saying that alcohol should be allowed for the mere fact that people need free choice because else you live in dictatorship and that is never good.

But let me tell ya... the population is so dumbed down, and manipulated, that it is already dictatorship what people do, care about and buy. We just dont see that, it is well hidden. We cant allow abuse as long as this happens, it is not even personal freedom. And I would never for example allow "my personal freedom" if that includes the harm and abuse of the common good. We can't talk about free choice in this world, our choice is not as free as we think it is. Look at beauty, very culturally defined as I have shown in my previous blogpost. And thus money will go to the items that make one more "beautiful" considering the current culture and standards. Same with make up, it gets tested on animals, this is often hidden from the consumer. Or children, being brainwashed by cartoons to be a certain way, or make to desire new toys constantly, bombarded with commercials which will shape them as well. Why do we still believe this system does what is best for us, when we clearly see how many people worldwide are being abused within it and how often corruption happens, manipulation, and how profit is placed above life. How can we believe that that system, actually has our best interest in mind?
Common...


let me give you some facts about alcohol abuse in this world:

-Alcohol consumption by college students is linked to at least 1,400 student deaths and 500,000 unintentional injuries each year
-More than three-quarters of female victims of nonfatal domestic violence reported that their assailant had been drinking or using drugs
-Alcohol does not releave depression - it makes it worse. Alcohol is a depressant
-One third of suicides are associated with alcohol misuse
-10% of alcohol health care costs are for care of fetal alcohol syndrome
-More than 18 million people who use alcohol need substance abuse treatment
-Health care costs attributed to alcohol abuse in 1995 were nearly twice those of drug abuse-related costs ($23 billion vs. $12 billion).
-alcohol misuse costs Australian community 15.3 billion dollars each year when factors such as crime and violence, treatment costs, loss of productivity and premature death were taken into account
-over 3 000 Australians die each year as a result of harmful drinking
-Spending for alcohol ads on T.V. by the alcohol industry grew by 22%, to more than $990 million in 2002.
-Alcohol is often not thought of as a drug, yet it is a hard drug.
-One third of homicides are associated with alcohol misuse
-One half of car accidents are associated with alcohol misuse.
-Alcohol and drug abuse are factors in the placement of more than three-quarters of children entering foster care
- Some 40% of violent crime, 78% of assaults and 88% of criminal damage cases are committed whilst the offender is under the influence of alcohol
-Over 1,000 young people under the age of 15 are admitted to hospital each year with alcohol poisoning
-of those involved in acquaintance rape, 75% of men and 55% of women had been drinking or taking drugs prior to the incident.
-Alcohol causes one to be mind-possessed, oblivious to the reality we live in, and having no self-responsibility what so ever.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
~Robert Benchley

And the Health risks:

-Extended alcohol abuse can cause blood conditions including several forms of anemia and blood clotting abnormalities. These conditions could result in susceptibility to bleeding and bruising. Prolonged alcohol use can also impair white blood cell function and thus makes the abuser more likely to become infected.
-Half the cancers in the esophagus, larynx and mouth are linked to alcohol. Additionally, intense vomiting from excessive drinking can tear the esophogus.
-Excessive and prolonged alcohol consumption can cause contribute to conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease and heart failure.
-Osteoporosis and and some forms of arthritis can be advanced by alcohol abuse. Further, alcohol can lead to muscle atrophy, which can cause sharp muscle pain and weakness.
-Prolonged heavy drinking can cause kidney failure.
-Alcohol can reduce the amount of digestive enzymes secreted by the pancreas, thereby inflaming and leaking digestive enzymes, which subsequently attack the pancreas itself.
-Because of alcohol's affects on the brain and alcohol's effects on the kidneys, hormonal production is affected.In men, this could mean that the
production of sperm and testosterone are affected, and that can lead to impotence and/or infertility.In women, estrogen metabolism in the liver can be decreased, which boost estrogen levels in the body. These changes can contribute to menstrual irregularities and potentially infertility.
-Alcohol can damage the cells lining the stomach and intestines, which can block the absorption and breakdown of nutrients in those organs.Also make you age faster.

If alcohol has more negative side effects and higher costs than any other drug, When it gives false feelings of happyness and confidence - but leaves many drained and depressed afterwards, When it is involved with more violence, rape, accidents, child neglect and death....

Does the argument of:
"I like to get drunk"

still stand?

Some use the excuse that "a glass a day is healthy".
But so is healthy eating and not eating sugar and junkfood. But you know as well as I do that those things are an excuse for many drinkers + many people cannot hold to the standard of "1 glass a day". and if they really care about their health they would do everything to be a healthy as possible. And many of them simply dont.I know some people who say that it is "healthy" to drink a glass of wine a day. But then on the other hand, they get drunk every week, eat junkfood, are overweight, have had numerous of diseases and even blood cloths etc... It doesnt make any sense, the words dont match their reality and what they do.

Humanity at this stage cannot be trusted with alcohol, we have proven this.Some may be able to use it in moderation, but the masses abuse it extensivly.I would say ban until we are responsible.
We cant allow ana busive substance that is misused by the majority who prove they cannot take responsibility, hoping that some day they will realise and not be dumbed down and that all corporations and elite etc...will give proper education, not hide things, and create a world of value.

We will have to do that, together - so a world of responsible beings can emerge where things dont even have to be forbidden.

And why is weed banned in a lot of countries, but alcohol allowed? It is insane, given the above facts.
Alcohol does do a good job in keeping the population dumb though... So that may be one of the reasons. Oh, and money ofcourse.

And we even support this because we forgot to use our common sense. We even try to pursuade our peers into consuming drugs (which alcohol is). And may even reject them when they decline. We have become our own slave masters. Easy, then no one else has to do the dirty work.



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The Hollywood Syndrome

A horrible condition where more and more people suffer from these days.
People who feel as if they are superhero’s, or feeling famous/ having the desire to be seen as famous, people who claim that the CIA is following them,  or that something evil has it’s eyes lurking at them…

Movies are specifically designed to get to the emotions and feelings connected to our desires and fears. Many people will feel “special” when they walk out of a movie theater where they saw a movie like X-men or Avatar. It creates this temporary grand feeling which gets people to feel good or special within themselves.
But it is nothing special or unique at all.

People have this desire to be famous, this desire to be seen or to be in the center of attention. The many reality TV shows give people their 15 minutes of fame. And look at the Veterans who talk about their time at war as if they are great heroes and should be recognized for that, or the old accountant who talks about his long gone football career as if it has changed the world.

And look at those who have seen so many romantic movies, making them dream of a life of ignorance, with a “perfect” male component and living happily ever after. Even copying what they have seen on TV and in the movies because it looks so nice. And of course to do that, you also need to look a certain way. Looking saggy and wrinkly is not allowed anymore. You have to get Botox and fillers and dye your hair. Because age is bad, it is a sin!

Let’s get over ourselves already.

We are not some kind of superhero mutant with special powers

We are not better than another or the Hulk because we have some muscles (while continuously thinking about how good those muscles look on us – isn’t that a female trait guys ;)? It is not so tough when you are pre occupied about LOOKING muscular).

A limousine does not show how great you are – it simply shows the size of your ego and your desire to be seen by others as successful (which is based on insecurity)

Fairytales do not have a happy ending

@Dina Goldstein

The many cartoons and films about violence create a tendency in youngsters to act upon it, and desire to be a superhero. It is portrayed as something awesome and great and masculine. While girls are indoctrinated with movies such as Cinderella and cartoons and adds about Barbie – being sweet, pretty and desiring a boyfriend.

Gender roles are created by our culture

Culture definitely aids in the determination of gender roles. Socialization in all cultures is directly linked to the final product of a human being. Culture dictates, at a very young age, how boys and girls are supposed to act, feel and respond to certain situations.

Boys and girls are separated by gender at birth. Boys are wrapped in blue blankets and girls in pink. Before a child is born, everyone close to the family wants to know what the child will be, so they will know what to purchase. This is very common practice throughout our society. Boys are taught to play with trucks, trains, male action figures, swords and guns. These items aid in defining masculinity. Girls, on the other hand, are taught to play with dolls, toy stoves or easy bake ovens, and other toys to aide them in identifying with nurturing. These factors lead to identifying gender roles by our society. Anything that deviates from this is considered somewhat abnormal. For instance, if a small male child wants to play with dolls, most fathers will immediately intervene and provide them with a more masculine toy. At the very least, he will show disapproval. Girls, on the other hand, may be labeled as a tom boy if they show interest in his truck.

These actions move through adolescence and well into adulthood. Our society is changing true enough. However, these actions are very much in line with the traditional American family.
Certain items labeled as household chores are also fitted into this formula. Boys mow grass, take out the trash and do most of what is determined to be “men’s work.” Girls are expected to wash dishes, mop floors, wash laundry and other feminine chores. Our society has seen numerous changes in these roles, yet our culture has dictated these changes and made them acceptable.

http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=28763

The Hollywood syndrome creates illusions of grandeur. A world of competition and inequality. Pushed into a role - primarily because it sells . Check out how gender is defined within our culture and all the various products that play in on that - so that males and females will buy it to fit into their gender definition.

For girls=
Barbie, make up, health shakes for a slim body, pink stuff, girlie and sexy clothing, high heels, beauty treatments, corsets, movies about princesses and girly girls who go after boyfriends etc..;

For man=

Action man, muscle building supplements, movies about fighting and hero's and about the man being the savior and dominator, "masculin" clothing, special deodorants, car toys, non-pink stuff etc...

The list goes on and on, these are just the first examples that I think of.

Toys are more gender-specific than ever before, according to the preliminary findings from a new study carried out by Becky Francis, Professor of Education at Roehampton University.
The study, funded by the Froebel Educational Institute, shows that toys identified by children and their parents as favourites are extremely gender-differentiated, and stereotypical.
As part of the study, over 60 parents of children aged between three and five were asked to nominate their child’s favourite toy. Many of the toys and DVDs selected contained clear messages to users that supported gender stereotypes and notions of gender difference

Dr. Vicki Panaccione, child clinical psychologist and founder of the Better Parenting Institute, agrees with Gussman’s assessment. “I have seen time and time again that young children will, primarily, gravitate toward gender-specific toys,” she says. “Put children in a room, and the boys head for the trucks, blocks and army guys, while girls go to the dolls, kitchens and girly things. I think they are probably hot-wired.”
However, she adds that it is a good idea to expose kids to a variety of toys and be allowed to choose, explore and try out different things. “Children need to be allowed to seek what they seek,” Dr. Panaccione says.
http://www.therealsupermumblog.com/?p=1022

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