This is Martin Luther King Day.  Where we celebrate the life of a man who proved beyond a doubt that speaking freely, being too idealistic, and expecting people to be reasonable and sane can be lethal.



It seems the best way to destroy any item is to simply use it a lot.



The difference between being unique and being weird: 
 Being unique is when you're different, but your idiosyncrasies are creative, enhancing, or an improvement over the ordinary.
Being weird is when your differences are merely capricious, counterproductive, pointless, destructive, or just confusing and unnecessary and often throw things off-track.







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      If Texas ever should secede from the United States:


One would need a passport to visit Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, the site of Kennedy's assassination.

U.S. 71 in Texarkana would be among the more complicated international borders.  One would need a passport just to make a U-turn or to eat at a restaurant on the other side of the road.

Astronauts on manned U.S. spaceflights would radio back:  "Houston you have a problem.  You're now a foreign entity."

Celebrities like Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, and Selena Gomez would now need passports and work VISAs in order to perform in the U.S.

One would need a passport to visit the Buddy Holly memorial in Lubbock.

Texas authorities would be on their own when dealing with the mayhem between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. 

A trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles would require a sharp detour to the north from Shreveport into Ft Smith then west into western Oklahoma, a sharp north into the western Oklahoma panhandle, then west on into New Mexico and Arizona---then on into L.A.

                                           NOTICE

         This parking lot is reserved for patrons and U-turns only

                       The motto of the United States

DON'T TREAD ON ME!!!  HOWEVER IF I WISH TO TREAD ON YOU IT'S MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DO SO.  AND YOU WOULD PROBABLY DESERVE IT ANYWAY FOR BEING SUCH A FUCKING CREEP.

I've mentioned before that freedom is but a commodity, much the same as is money or material possessions.  And, as such, there is only so much to go around.  No-one is ever going to have an equal amount.

If one feels a sense of dubiousness about that notion let me give you a classic example of what I mean:
Let's say you have a two-story apartment building---multiresidential multistory unit.
One of the tenants likes to party and get wild and loud.  Someone who lives in another unit insists on peace and quiet. 

Well, if the "party animal" is to have his entitlement to being loud and wild it's going to cost the other tenant is right to enjoy solitude and peace and quiet.
And if the other tenant is to have his entitlement to peace and quiet the "party animal" is forced to stifle and self-repress his tendencies.  No more "cutting loose" and "letting go".

Obviously it's impossible for both tenants to have their rights honored and respected simultaneously.  Only one is going to get things his way while the other is forced to sacrifice. 
                                              (Remember:  Freedom belongs solely to the Liberty Thieves.)

One misunderstanding of the ADAM & EVE story is the notion that it deals primarily with puritan agendas about sexual sins.
But, actually, it's about God's disdain of mankind's propensity for hubris.

God had no problem with mankind being sexual.  In fact, after He metamorphosized the first human from being a singular unit to that of being two of the opposite gender (being physically similar to all the other conscious beasts of the earth in terms of now being able to reproduce, as symbolized by the story of "the rib of Adam" being removed and used in the creation of Eve), His first command was to "be fruitful and multiply".

Mankind was created with the gift of free will, the ability to decide for themselves which way they want to go in any given situation.  But, in order to remain blessed, humans had to stay loyal to God unequivocally in heart, mind, and spirit.

So, in testing that loyalty, He commanded them to abstain from including a specific fruit of the garden as part of their diet (namely, the apple), warning them they could die if they disobeyed this particular directive.

As the story goes, temptation and curiousity (symbolized by Satan as a serpent sucessfully cajoling them by exploiting their weaknesses), a consequence of having  aptitude for free will, eventually overtook them.  So they took a bite of the "forbidden fruit".  Of course they didn't die---not physically, anyway.  God knew the apple wasn't actually toxic, that it's simply just another fruit.  But that's not the idea, whether or not that particular fruit is or is not toxic.  It was whether or not mankind would commit all their trust and faith in Him, knowing Him to be the Creator.  Or whether they would develop a lust for power and control, including the desire to "control their own destiny" and rely on their own aptitudes in spite of man's limited capacity for ever being able to understand everything around him and in spite of never being able to learn about everything that exists around him either on earth or in the heavens (outer space). 

That they chose the latter is now a matter of legend.

When they were ran out of the Garden of Eden it symbolized that mankind was now on his own to handle his affairs by using his own mettle and to suffer the results of his collective ignorances and limited perspectives, and to be subjected to his own ego and all other earthly desires.

Mortality, self-reliance, and detachment from the-all-knowing-source-of-all-things-created would be the sum total of human existence from that point on.

The "mortal sin" is hubris, which in turn leads to all the other mortal sins.

When it comes to those you don't know, there are usually two types of strangers:  Those you can't trust and those who don't trust you.  Those who are "out to get you" and those who think you might be out to get them.

The individual is like a nation, and like any other nation has certain secrets to protect.  Things that could discredt oneself, even if not all that bad but is prone to being misinterpreted in an adverse way.

You get too comfortable with someone you don't know that well and you divulge some deviant element of your past or of your character and suddenly they're like:  Is that so?
And you realize:  Did this person just entrap me?

That's the problem with people:  Either they're the type to pull a fast one on you or they're the kind who never seem to be able to trust you enough to be willing to give you a chance to prove yourself one way or the other.
The concept of the "normal person" is essentially the stuff of collective popular legend.   People are not those passive naive affected dorks one assumes most people to be.  They're proactive, dominating, sometimes aggressive, even spies, often conspirators.

The governments are not the ones who invented the concept of surveillance, although they're the ones who've perfected the practice.
But it was the paranoid average Joes and Janes who first initiated it.  In many a small town or suburbia setting outsiders, reclusives, and newcomers will find themselves frequently stalked by locals who circle around in their own vehicles while staring them down.

The trademark characteristic of any kind of paranoia is the way those who feel conspired against will themselves behave conspiringly toward the alleged perpetrators.