D33P 8LU3

I'm ready to live the dream.

Literally. I've reached the point where I can accept that life is just another dream I'm sharing with the rest of this universe we 'live in'. More accurately we should say we 'live with' the universe. Either way, my part in this dream is in the end, controlled by myself. At least, some part of my being. Right now, I have trouble getting what I really want efficiently and weekly. Like wellbeing, health, healing for my eyes so I never wear glasses again. To me that would be the most uh, visible sign that my life has truly become my own, consciously. I don't want full control, not by a long shot. I like synchronicity, seemingly random happenstance. What I want is more control. I don't want to wield the full power of a being shaping all of reality to match it's every whim. I just want to have all the money I'll ever need for my family, and start helping others full time with living their dreams.

Back to the life is a dream part. Sometimes when we wander the dreamy worlds we wander through, there are times when we find ourselves in control of the story. We can change things for the better, to stop something bad from happening. Or just to enjoy the dream a little more. That is called lucid dreaming if I'm correct. If you can have a lucid dream where you can suddenly fly around town instead of having to walk everywhere, or teleport back and forth through every house you ever lived in, even if it no longer exists in the 'now' as we think of it, then we can do this in our 'waking reality'. This is just another dream, and if we can have lucid dreams in our 'sleep', then we can do the same thing while 'awake'.

This is why I want to begin the D33P 8LU3 Mission. D33P 8LU3, as already stated, will be my effort to help change the future for the best. What I want to do with D33P 8LU3 is these things:

Help others realize their dreams.

Set up a group of people who are geographically stationed throughout the world to promote peace, freedom, and brotherly love by helping them learn to meditate on peace as long as possible.

When I can, financially start a company that pays people by the hour to manifest peace in themselves, and through them, the rest of the world.


That's what I intend to accomplish with D33P 8LU3. At first I'll probably be looking to help people learn to meditate on feeling peace in themselves for free. Who wouldn't want to enjoy feeling peace within for hours a day? People who can do it for free are of course those who can start the D33P 8LU3 Mission immediately. But for those who struggle with everyday jobs which they don't want, but don't see a way out of, I hope that soon D33P 8LU3 will provide them with an answer. Learn to meditate for 8 hours, feeling peace within, then get hired to do it for a living. The hard part, and what may require some relocating people throughout the world, is building local groups within every city and town around the world, within each and every country, who can live the dream, and embark upon the D33P 8LU3 Mission. In a small village with a population of 400, only 2 people would be needed. To figure out how many people any city or town requires, knowing the population that lives there, you only need the square root of one percent of the population. One percent of 400 is 4, and 4 is 2 * 2, thus 2 is the square root of 4. If we can get even a rough guess to the population, we can both send in a D33P 8LU3 team to start working there, and train more than enough people to carry on the mission when the team leaves town. In a small village where our population is guessed at 409 for instance, we can round up to 410 for instance, one percent of the population is still basically 4 people, or we can round up to 5 people just to be safe, and the square root would still be two whole people, not quiet three, but D33P 8LU3 can train 3 people just to be safe. In the end, we'll train as many people as are willing, and are necessary to blanket each town and city in peace and joy. Personally, I'd like 24/7 coverage, but I'm only in control of myself, somewhat, and while I want to encourage and inspire people, and make their lives better, I know that some people would not want to be a part of such a society, and that some just want to do evil things. Hopefully they won't feel like doing anything evil in D33P 8LU3 areas, and will eventually congregate all on one little island somewhere (or maybe antarctica) where they'll destroy their civilization, or realize they're better off with the rest of us. The idea is not to stop things from happening necessarily, just help people feel like doing good, helping one another, sharing what they have, playing games together instead of alone in their apartment. Help people stress less about life, while doing a better job because they're happier about everything.

It sounds a lot like a silly euphoric utopian dream. But its a harmless wish until people take it seriously, and really feel it's already here. My biggest goal is to help us all wake up tomorrow and realize it truly is here, we've just been ignoring the possibility, or letting ourselves be taught something different. By the time I make my next blog, I'll have designed some D33P 8LU3 T-Shirts to help fund things. Hopefully I'll be able to find ways to start getting the shirts printed and shipped to people before they start placing orders!

Oh, my inspiration for today's blog, is namely the book "The Spontaneous Healing of Belief" by Gregg Braden. If you can, and want to start living the dream before you meet me in person, order the book online. Gregg has his own website. If you need more 'proof' that other people think this stuff is possible, look into "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield. His ideas of how heavenly life on earth can be are very similar if I remember correctly.

I'm ready, today's the day, let the sun set on a D33P 8LU3 world. (or if you'd like, pick whatever color suits you)

A Passionate Plea

Life can be hard. Not only that, but we can often imagine it is as horrible as it can get. We also imagine that it will never get any better. Unfortunately, what we imagine often isn't always exactly what happens. But for our own sake, we should imagine that life can always get better, that there is always a brighter day coming tomorrow, and that we will continue to become wonderful people, a wonderful human race, and a wonderful planet. In the end though, we often despair of a strange loneliness we can not fully understand. I believe this loneliness is a longing to rejoin the rest of the universe and the full consciousness of all life around us. Here's the basic idea:
We are never alone. Never. We should never feel alone.
Every quark, every photon of light, every atom, molecule, and inanimate object is full of consciousness. However minute, however different it is from ours, life is energy and consciousness and everything is made of energy and consciousness. Therefore everything is full of life! What often escapes us, and perhaps what we have as a race of people forgotten, is how to interact with all this life around us. Not only is there the life within what we see, like cars, computers, desks, trees and etcetra, but also in what we don't see. There are countless realms of consciousness and energy that can all overlap invisible, and all of it is open to us, if we are open to it. The question is how to open up to all of these realms, how to communicate with the consciousness and energy that flows through our 'inanimate' objects and through the ones that are 'animate' but whose languages we don't understand at all.
Here's my passionate plea. To every broken and battered soul and heart, don't give up. Don't stop living, every time you consider it, remind yourself that you are surrounded by invisible help. Here's the next part. Start learning. Search the world for every piece of the puzzle you can find. Learn to communicate with this invisible help. Learn to listen and talk to anything you can, learn to see anything you can, feel and smell anything there is to feel and smell. It will be worth it. Last but not least, reach out to others for help. If you want, send me a letter, or a small postcard, here's my p.o. box:
StatisticBox 71Laurel Hill, FL 32567
It may take a while for me to reply, especially if I get swamped with letters... but part of the reason I give you a p. o. box is because I promise to write you back, and there's something for you to wait for that much longer. By the time I reply, you may find far more help than I could offer with a few more friendly words...
Don't give up. Send a letter, read a book, search all of heaven and earth for ways to contact those who can help you both seen and unseen, and those you can help, they are out there, and they need you too.

Darkest night, Brightest Day

I'm considering shorter blogs on eternal hope. But I might get chatty. Every little step I take lately seems to be filled with thousands of little things. Most of them seem designed to test me. Make me mad, angry, resentful for having to go through this swampy time of life. Many seem designed to push my nerve, to see just how determined I am to keep going, to gain and lose everything time and again for the sake of learning something valuable in the end. I admit, there are times when I just want to lay in bed all day, and wish for the house to explode. I am working on building a hedge of protection around me, a shimmering glow of magical energy that will turn all things to golden hope when I look at them, when I persevere through whatever life hurls at me. So I come to this thought today.

The darkest night will test us more than any other night, but will often be followed by the brightest day we have yet lived.

I'm not going to say that this is always the case, but indeed, when you are left in utter darkness long enough, even the ordinary light seems brilliant. Which in the end, means that maybe our darkest nights are not always the darkest night that anyone will have to go through, just the darkest night we know of, or dare imagine. Our perspective counts for a lot. I've picked up a neat book, Norman Vincent Peale's Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm. It's full of quotes and comments on joy, and enthusiasm, and how much living a life full of joy and enthusiasm helps those around you live lives of joy and enthusiasm. Even at the worst time in my life, I don't just pretend to put on a fake smile, I try to smile like the people I smile toward are worth smiling about. It may not make a difference to them, but I think it helps pull me out of my bad moods.

I've learned that life is probably going to be full of challenges, and countless moments of unspeakable troubles. But it allows us to show that we are children of God. Capable of using all the energy we can draw to ourselves to overcome any obstacle, any problem. Capable of changing our minds, then changing the world around us forever. Maybe the darkest night will be the one when you learn to shine, and the next day will dawn to find you rising triumphantly over the horizon casting light and hope to all who look in your direction, and blinding them with the brilliance of your soul.

Every Penny Counts

You are probably aware that one dollar is a hundred pennies. Ever imagined how many pennies that actually is? Or seen it? Now imagine ten dollars. That would be a thousand pennies. Whoa. But wait, a hundred dollars is ten thousand pennies. Where would you store ten thousand pennies? I think that would be enough to fill a small closet or something. A thousand dollars though, is a million pennies. A million pennies. Imagine, if you saved a penny every second, you would have sixty every minute, every hour you would save three thousand and six hundred pennies. By the end of one day, you would have saved 86,400 pennies. That is eight hundred and sixty four dollars you saved in one day. In 365 days, a.k.a. one year, you would have saved 315, 360 dollars. In just three years you have 946, 080 dollars in the bank, and should be able to live off a 1% interest dividend every three months. After all, that breaks down to a monthly dividend of 3,153 dollars, and sixty cents. That's twice what I ever made in the military. But what's the point of talking about saving 864 dollars each day, when most of us don't make that much in a month? Because it can be a reminder that each and every penny we drop onto the sidewalk, is another piece of your future retirement. Just think about how many pennies people let fall to the ground. "Oh it is just a penny, no real loss" they think. But if you drop a penny every second, it adds up to 864 dollars you 'dropped' in one day. Nobody would drop that many pennies in one day, I hope, it would be hard to have that many in your pocket to begin with, but the point is the same. You don't have to toss your change to the ground hoping it'll be found by those who need it. You can save it up until you can give it away in such large amounts that it changes lives overnight. Sometimes change is good, especially if provided in large amounts. Sometimes it is good for change to slowly build up until it is no longer needed and can slowly be used up. By the way, I'm not just talking about pennies or quarters when I mention change. Changes in our lives is a lot like the change in our pockets. We can use a few cents a day to change a life slowly, or save it up and pay for a book that will change someone's life overnight. There are so many ways to help others, whether with small change from our pockets, or just a change in our hearts. People can be compared to pennies. One person can change someone else's life, but may not be able to change the world instantly. Instead sometimes change will happen one person after another, like small donations over months that add up until the organization you donate to has enough to keep saving lives for another twelve months. Sometimes whole communities, whole nations will change drastically, within weeks or months, so suddenly the rest of the planet is shaken and has to adjust, or change, over years afterwards. Like a big donation that pays for hundreds of books sent into a foreign country to inspire hope and goodwill in people lost in despair and loneliness.

In the end, save your pennies, or give them to someone else who you know can use them to help others, or send them to me! But don't forget to accept the way your life can change for the better, and the ways you can change lives all around you. Even the smallest stone knocked loose can start an avalanche.

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My wife has a quote she loves. We have summed a bible verse, which one I'm not sure anymore, into a phrase we use around here, "steady plodding". I could describe it as basically putting one foot in front of the other, long after you thought about quitting, trusting that sooner or later you'll see that you have, indeed, made progress even though at the moment, and perhaps for many moments before, you felt like you were simply walking in circles. Of course, if you finally realized that you had been walking in circles, the realization itself could serve as the progress you have indeed managed to make, and would prepare you to do something else, say, walk in a square...

Anyways, I've had this site since February (ironically, since before I got my job at a certain gas station I quit working at once before). Now I'm poised to work at a gas station, and take classes in college working on my computer engineering degree. It's been nearly half a year, or perhaps it has been half a year since I've been leaving little 'encouraging' thoughts online here, and finally, today, I got online to find that my work has indeed left an impression upon, well, at least two people. That's wonderful news! I think my wife would agree that indeed, though for half a year or so it would have appeared that even though I mentioned this site to different people here and there, nobody saw it, or indeed, had nothing special to say about it to the creator. I'm one of those people who if I see something I like, I want to tell the people who had a hand in making it happen, or building it, or whatever. I wish I had a bank account large enough I could reward people I think are doing a good job. Perhaps in the future. Speaking of which, it is long overdue for me to get another set of Golden Fuzion coins to share with the world locally.

Steady plodding makes me think of the very first post I made. Never Give Up. Sometimes even when we see nothing happening, it doesn't mean we are not getting something done, it just means that perhaps the effects are too small to notice at first, and that given enough time, we just might see a little magic. That should encourage us to keep plodding, and look forward to seeing even more magic later! I hope all of your ventures will grow great and mighty, and that your life will become more and more what you hope and dream it will be.

Where do you draw the line?

Where do you draw the line? I'm sure you have done something that you wish you had not, something you probably still do. Something that if only you had never started, you could imagine that even now you would not have begun to do it. But now you are stuck. You try and try and try to quit but find yourself finding one reason after another to do it again. You should have drawn the line back then, you should have told yourself that you simply would not, and could not cross that line, and that was the end of it. It would have been. Once you thought about drawing a line, then decided to cross your invisible line, you were set down a path you would struggle to find a way off of for your lifetime.
But how many others are there who have so many other lines they have yet to cross? Where do you draw the line? Where do you stop crossing lines that you never crossed before? When does your desire to do something or another take a back seat to what you know you will regret forever?
If you ever come across an invisible line, one you haven't crossed yet, or maybe even drawn across the sand yet, do yourself a favor. Learn this one lesson before you pay the tuition for the rest of your life. Don't cross it. Choose to never cross it. Not even once, not for a second. Because there is no taking it back. There is no way to ever go back and know for sure that you didn't cross the line once, not once. Not unless you never crossed it that first time.
This alone could be one of the greatest lessons in life.

Last night someone ruined my expectations of them. My respect, my ideals about their honor, their worth as a human. They ruined it pretty well. They ruined it for two beers. And five dollars. They lied, and cheated, and stole from me for five dollars and two beers. This will be recorded within the consciousness of all humankind and all beings greater than us who watch us daily. It will be forever known that this person treated another person as worthless, or at least, as worth less than two beers, and five dollars. Would you want to be the person who did that? Or the person who was treated like that? In the end, when all the universe knows about this, will it be worth those two beers, and five dollars to have disrespected a fellow being of this universe? Will it be worth it? But what are the odds he crossed this line long ago? Will he stop at two beers and five dollars? Or is this just the beginning? If he lied and cheated and stole for five dollars and two beers, what next? Will he rape? Will he kill for five dollars and two beers? Where and when will it end? Where will he draw the line? Or is it already too late, already over? Obviously two beers and five dollars are not enough for me to lie, cheat and steal for. No, I'd have to lie, cheat, and steal for much, much more. If I'm going to lie, cheat and steal, its for the big money. Like a thousand trillion dollars. But how many people will I lie to? How many people will I cheat? How many people will I steal from? In the end, everyone I meet, and most importantly my first victim, myself.

Power Converters

If you look hard enough, you can find information to confirm just about anything... whether or not it is actually true may be one of those finer mysteries to life we'll have to wait until life continues somewhere else though.

Still, all in all, I've found to my delight that some of my 'cute ideas' I have tried to share with my wife may have more fact in them, than fiction.

Namely this idea, that you can transform your energy body (the whole thing, which I tend to call a soul, made up of the astral, causal, physical, emotional, and whatever other 'bodies' we have and are) into a 'power converter' of sorts.

What does that mean? It means you can train yourself a little every day to develop your soul to absorb any and all energy, converting it to 'positive energy' or energy you can use to uplift and refresh yourself and others. Instead of seeking out people who you enjoy being around because they seem to have a very 'positive' effect on you, you can turn into one of these people.

Earlier tonight I found a website which in a sense confirmed that my idea could be a very real possibility. It was all about centering, grounding, and shielding your soul, including cleansing your aura. One of the things it mentioned to cleanse the aura is to imagine a violet flame all around you. Violet as the 'highest' of the colors they said has the ability to transform (or convert) lower energies to higher energies ( to me that means that it could transform negative energies to positive energies).

So there, amazing things can come out of your mouth that you can only guess how real they truly are, and how much fact lies therein. Listen to yourself, learn for yourself, and be amazed at how much you know before you learn you knew!

After all, deep down inside each of us, is the eternal being connected to the rest of the universe, all of it, the 'temporary' and the eternal. All we have to do is learn how to maintain the best connection to that part of our being, and share what we can know with others who could use the help.

Finding Eternal Hope in Mortal Life

The greatest adventure is discovering how we could possibly be an eternal spirit-being, or soul, experiencing a mortal life.

The greatest joy and hope is letting go of so much of our fears and doubts about life, because we accept it will be temporary, and limited, but we are neither.

The most wonderful thing to look forward to while alive, is the day we'll wake up, and think, "Wow, what a neat dream that was!" and then find out we lived that dream here, and when it was over, we awoke, and found something greater, better, and somehow, all that this dream seems to be missing.

In the end, our real world is missing so much. So much is left out, so much is lacking, so much is incomplete. That so much is what we left behind, and we often live throughout life complaining that we didn't want to come here, and didn't want to leave all of that behind. Yes we did, who are we kidding? Ourselves, actually. But oh wait, here's the kicker. Yes we left it all. We went camping, leaving our mansion of wonders and joys beyond compare. We came out here, set camp, in the swamp, during the rainy season, fighting mosquitos and slowly starving because the fish don't bite when it rains. We not only came down here, we volunteered. Still, like they say, this little adventure will leave us with a deeper appreciation of all we left, when we get back. So suck it up, grit your teeth, and bear it out. Fight for your right to stay as long as you can, and endure all you can. After all, whether four years, or forty, or four hundred, as far as we can tell, it will eventually come to an end. Nobody has survived on this side of the 'veil'. Everyone who 'survived' and 'beat death' actually went to the other side, just like we will. They may not have had to suffer during that transformation, and for many of us, we may not have to suffer either. But in the end, they all went to the same place, where we'll go. Of course, some of us will come back, or perhaps go somewhere else, not earth but some place similar, to learn other lessons about how much we are capable of doing, and enduring. In the end though, the story is basically the same. We are prodigal sons, down here in the slums of the city, trying to have a good time and all the time missing our father's house. But in the end, let's not get too caught up in the end of the story. We won't enjoy returning home, until we run completely out of our personal 'inheritance' while away from home. Even then we should try to make the best of a bad situation. Look for work, try to find a job that pays the bills, and lets you eat without having to steal food from the company. After all, what we always can use more of, is different perspectives. Alternative ways to look at every situation. Only when we see them all, are we ready to move on to the next situation. Of course, eventually, when we tire of this game, and those watching over us know we won't learn any more from it, will we be reminded this isn't our home. Although for some of us, me included, I'm here to play this game to the end, and only after I see the clouds spell "game over" will I know it's time to shut everything down, and return to the 'real world'. Of course, I know its a game. That's part of what makes it funner for me, and it gives me hope that no matter what happens, it'll work out all right.

So here's to the Eternal, the Hope of all men, that we are more than mere mortals, but eternal souls having a 'mortal moment'. May we all wake up to realize we certainly put ourselves into the game, and won all the eternal treasures we deserve. Although, I'm sure many of us wish we could win a few more to enjoy here, before it's over!

Transformation

I've been reading a lot lately. Many good books. Many books that I believe are a part of me, just like the rest of the universe. These books are already deep down inside of me, and as I read them, I am only reminding myself of what I am capable of. If that doesn't make sense, then let me apologize. It hardly makes sense to me. But it is going to work.

I'm reading these books so I can let myself accept the truth. The basic truth that everything is made of energy, that this energy is basically eternal, universal, and infinite. That I am made of this energy, and through this energy, I am connected to everything eternal, universal, and infinite.

The next step after accepting this, is beginning to live it, and see it change everything in my life. I have to live like I'm connected to this computer, and the trees outside, and the fire my wife wants me to build when I post this. In the end, I plan to fly like an eagle, soaring through the sky, carried on wings of light, or another word for light, energy. I plan to age like a tree, for five hundred years, then reverse the process and grow young over the next five hundred years. Then I'll be '40', but physically I plan to stay about 30.

I believe that we can all be super-human. I believe we can be eternal humans in an eternal body. I believe the only thing holding us back is ourselves, and thousands of years of telling ourselves either "never" or "not yet". But why would we do that? Or, what are we waiting for?

friends online

Recently, my efforts to share my time online with others has produced a growing group of friends on myspace. People I have actually never met, who still have heard pieces of my mind, and decided to be friends. I don't know how many of them have seen my blog here, which I mention to just about anybody sooner or later, but to all of them I want to say Thank You.

Thank you for reading, thank you for chatting, thank you for giving me hope that the things I do online do impact lives, and can do more good than they may seem to do at first. I hope you all will also remember that, and thank those who help you through anything you go through.

I also want to thank family and friends new and old for their time, energy, and whatever else they have given to me over the years or days, those especially who I face everyday or less than once a month. Thanks to each of you.

Today's thought for eternal hope is this: Life is most enjoyable with people who you can trust and enjoy it with. But you have to believe you can be someone people will trust and enjoy life with and believe they can be too. Not everyone will be trustworthy, or truly enjoyable, but like any diamond among coal, finding even one true and enjoyable person to spend your lifetime with is a part of life you will want to keep forever. In fact, I'm certain that all of my friends and family are worth a Thousand Trillion Dollars each. If only I could give them their worth. But I might have to give them their worth in Golden Fuzion Coins...

Where do you see hope?

The title is a question I think everyone should ask themselves. After all, nobody knows you better than yourself. At least, usually. In the end those who seem to can probably read your aura or something making them technically not any more knowledge-able about you than anyone else who can read or see things you can not. Like how you act, or talk, or write, or sing, or play or fight. Anything you do can hint at who you are, but still, seeing the aura probably is more direct, and probably hints closer to the true you hidden behind all the acting we are taught to do as children.

Back to the question though, where do yo see hope? I see hope when I beat a video game. I see hope when I get a new pinball high score. I see hope in flowers, lights that still come on when I flip the switch at night, glow-in-the-dark stones and LEGOs. I see hope in birds and squirrels, dogs, cats and deer, and other animals as they continue to live their lives often with just a vague notion of the danger of a road, and hardly any good sense to look both ways or stand still and wait for a car to pass. I see hope when I pass by a car on the side of the road with a flat, and another car behind it belonging to the person changing the flat. I see hope when people give money to children raising money for ball games, mission trips, or just their local girl scout group so they can do fun things. I see hope in sunrise, and sunset. I see hope when I look up after dark and see the constellation Orion and his 'belt'. I see hope when I look up at the moon. I see hope in movies with a happy ending, or books with a happy ending. I see hope when I find a job opportunity that I didn't see a week ago, and they accept my application. I see hope when my wife smiles. I see hope when I make a goofy face in the mirror. I see hope when I put on my hawaiian shirt my wife made.

There is more. Hope in little, daily miracles that I can find every day I look. So I ask you, where do you see hope?

Beyond Coincidence

About the last post. I think it is a great idea, but I admit, I don't want to throw away the whole economy that exists today. I just want to be able to enjoy it. Everyday. I want to go get something to eat somewhere else if I want to and not have to worry about how to afford it. I want to buy a $400 dollar video game system once a year. I want to be able to buy a home or have one built soon, or if not that, be able to rent a place without spending all my rent money on gas. I do not think I am the only one who feels like financially, life could or should lighten up on all of us. Whose to blame? I think all of us are to blame at least a little. The efforts to make life better for everyone are usually hindered by those who are already enejoying life now. Those who barely scrape by often complain about things, but don't gather in massive groups to work out something better. But we could. Millions of people working together can make life better for the billions of people alive today. Thousands of people working together could make life better for millions of others. The way my wife talks about economics, it seems like a system that can not change or be any different, because that just would not work. But I don't think this 'economic system' is working very well at all, and that there has to be something better.

Speaking of something better, I have recently finished reading The Celestine Vision by James Redfield. He has a very wonderful view on life, and on the amazing way our lives work out for our best. He avoids using negative language and truly encourages positive energy flow in peoples' lives just the way he talks. I want to be more like that. I need to be more like that. This blog is one way I am working on bettering myself for the benefit of others. I believe what James has written in the book, about those moments we often call coincidences, but are more like divine orchestrations bringing two sounds, two notes together at the right time to make better music on the eternal, heavenly scales. Right now I need that kind of moment to both encourage me, and uplift me to higher levels of energy I so I can find where in the current economy I could fit, and what else I can do to help everyone I want to help.

Whatever happens, I will not give up and leave my life willingly. I will work to make it better, and I plan to keep working on it for many more years.

Paid to Live

I have only been alive for twenty-seven years, but I have to tell you all, that I think the modern capitalist system has a really big gaping hole on the bottom end of it, and I also think that wonderful, and especially talented creative people are falling through this hole.

The essential problem of the capitalist system can be summed up in one basic phrase, "You are paid to work".

That to me leaves a big gaping hole. The biggest problem of course is not just the capitalist system, but the definitions we use to explain it. Certainly there are the fabulously rich people out there who have worked hard, and have in many ways gotten rewarded for it in their lifetime. There are also those who have worked hard and gotten few rewards for that hard work. Then there are those who simply struggle with the whole concept of work.

I personally continue to struggle to find a place in this system we have, and I feel very strongly that my greatest problem is not me, but the system. I believe it is time we work on building a new system. I believe millions, if not billions of people all over the world should start working on this tomorrow, if not tonight while I'm asleep and getting a little rest before going 'to work' tomorrow, for the first time next week, and maybe the last (besides looking for work).

To me, the best future possible for mankind is to realize how valuable every person we meet is to us, and to start investing in these people. Not just the people we meet though, but also the people who we will never meet, but whose fruit we will be blessed by throughout our lives. I believe that we should build a system where humans, and other beings, are paid to simply live. Yes, that is what I think. I think every government on earth should sit down and that every person on earth should make sure they do sit down, and start to write the global economy in a way that will change our lives for the better. By deciding that our next currency system will be based upon a standard of human value given to us by the universe that allows us to live, by the universe that sends us to live. I think this value is in the trillions of dollars, but for the sake of being able to build a new economic system on this concept, I would start by simply deciding on a universal system that gives us a daily paycheck(or direct deposit) for being here. Something like $100 dollars in the U.S. (at least, where I live that would work rather nicely). After we all are given a small credit (based on a very low percentage of our true universal value) meant to cover only our necessities, we can then work on earning 'fun money'. In other words, our jobs and our work could be only things we wish to do, not things we 'have' to do. Doesn't that sound better? Not only that, but anyone and everyone could use their $100 a day to buy food, clothing or perhaps shelter for the night, while saving up to start a new business, or buy a house, etcetra, whether or not they were capable of being hired to flip burgers! Authors could spend their first thirty years writing a book from hotel rooms without having earned one penny for their writing, and finish the epic trilogy that only the next generation will appreciate. Instead of building houses and plumbing for a living, and falling dead of sudden complications before they finish their first book which was given second place to 'working for a living' and instead became their 'hobby'.

In fact, we can still take this idea even further. Once our needs are met, whatever else we have to give we can truly give willingly and freely. Including large tips to pizza delivery people who work for the fun of delivering pizza. Including giving something or buying something for friends, family, or even getting something for a stranger who we came across when we needed their advice, or friendly smile. Our economy would adapt, and the change could help propel humankind into a brighter future. If we would only allow it to begin now.

Seriously, aren't you worth it? I think God thinks we are worth it, or else we would not be here. Some others may disagree with that logic, but I think they are worth it too. Here is an example: What if my purpose in life is to write this blog? Will I get paid for it? I haven't gotten paid to write one word so far. But if it helps you, shouldn't I be given the basic needs of my body at least to allow me to continue to live so I can continue to help people with the words I write, and if you think I help people with the words I write, imagine what I could do if I had nothing else to do all day, and saw people in another yard, in the store, on the side of the road, who could use help from me there? Shouldn't living to help others without having to worry about whether or not we'll be able to eat dinner be allowed by everyone? Shouldn't everyone be allowed to choose to live to help others, instead of make money?

I think so. I always will. Let's get paid to do something we don't have to try or learn to do, let's get paid to live.

Positive Change

I have noticed that most of the news, and most of the forecasts I hear about the world are decidedly negative. Crime at an all time high. Value of the dollar is falling like a satellite from orbit. Nature herself beats us with meaner, stronger, faster storms and more earthquakes than ever before. So on and on and on.

It is also said that this is meant to happen. That we approach that great and final end of time for humankind. This group will be slaughtered because they don't side with all the rest of the misled and evil people, and thus get to go to heaven. This group will finally be able to watch their Lord descend from heaven and destroy the evil infidels, and burning fire will cleanse the earth, paving the way for a better, holy, perfect paradise. So on and on.

I don't buy into it all. I do think things are changing on a global scale. Like never before we as humans can actively work together on a global scale, and I think this is our time to shine like never before. Seriously, if we can work together on a global scale and working together save the lives of millions, I think we'd continue to grow and change as a species, and we'd be developing toward being able to work together on a star system scale, then a galactic scale. We may even get help from other civilizations.

The point is, even if things are getting bad, we can choose to look forward to things getting better in the long run. We can also look forward to making ourselves better, and doing what we can to make life better for everyone around us. If the world insists on changing, then let's change, and let's use whatever influence we have to change it for the best.

Hope in Humor

Throughout my life, in many situations I would rather not have been in, I have found a good joke, or a funny thought to be a most wonderful companion. Often I look forward and practice talking to my wife about things waiting for the moment a funny joke or comment will enter my head and allow me to share it with her. I have not made a serious effort to create my own collection of funny jokes I made that are always funny to others, but eagerly anticipate and look forward to the very next comment or joke that will enter my head. I will enjoy a series of funny thoughts related to one another long after the moment when they first became funny to me and others, and after everyone else finds the humor of the funny thoughts long dead. I suppose because my dad had a tendency to tell jokes that were often not very funny or left me feeling in trouble for something I developed a secret joy in taking any obvious joke too seriously, even to the point of acting like I took it too seriously, which I still do to other people today. It is funny when someone says something they think is funny and you act like you just thought they were being serious. Especially when you catch the joke, but they don't realize you are only acting serious! But there are times when I do enjoy a joke and enjoy sharing the good humor of someone else with them.

When all else fails, let's stop for a moment, and look to see if we can find a silver lining on the clouds of doom. Perhaps, we might even find a good joke too. In some cases, the best jokes are always in the mirror. I still enjoy making faces when my wife seems mellow, and we are not doing anything else. I think one of the greatest gifts a joke can unwrap, is a smile full of warmth and perhaps a bit of humor.

For the sake of all of you who could use a joke, hopefully unrelated to your situation, I present one of my all time favorites.

A man walks into a bar...

I bet that hurt!

Unseen Company

When the hard times of our lives make it hard to have hope, it helps to think we are not alone. Not only to think there are others who are in similar situations around the planet, but also people who have had their own lifetimes of troubles to live through, and beings who perhaps understand the often long, hard process of growing up strong in mind and spirit.

I don't trust any church or organization of good will like I once would have. It seems to me that too many of them focus on the life to come, and leave the present life to those who care about it just as much as the next life. Of course, another thing I've struggled with due to religious influences, is whether or not to believe in a next life, especially one in some form of spirit body that I already exist within, and can use whenever my physical body seems to fail me.

To be honest, even though I have lost a lot of respect for religious institutions and in many ways their teaching programs, I still find myself openly willing to confess that I believe Christ lived, died, and rose again. I'm not certain the written story is the full account, or the absolute truth, but I firmly believe there is a certain amount of truth behind most myths. Some are easier to believe than others though.

Despite my faith in Christ, I do not agree with a number of creeds which distinguish christians from others. In fact, more often than not, I would probably find myself on the side of the others. But I don't think anyone should have to take sides in any place for any reason. Humankind should have only one side to ally with, our side. If there are gods, goddesses, angels or aliens out there, then I hope they take our side as well, as we forge the future that our children will have to live in.

Which brings me to the point. Our children will have to live in a future we are currently designing and planning, from big governments planning big changes or little changes, to individual people making their own little plans. From non profit organizations trying to feed everyone, to church groups trying to save every soul that wanders the Earth in flesh and blood.
What I want for our children is for all of these groups and individuals to work for a better tomorrow. One that is more like the 'heaven' we dream about whisking off to when the rest of the world turns into a collection of mushroom clouds. I personally think that is the goal of those beings and spirits who help us in our daily lives. One by one, time after time, they do things to change us for the better, and that in turn slowly builds a better future.
I want people to be able to live without many of the cares and concerns I have, unless it becomes absolutely necessary that they get a spiritual 'slap in the face' to wake them up from self-involved daydreams about what would make their lives better. I also want everyone on earth to become more closely in tune with the Divine Presence that exists within each of us, and that permeates the universe all around us. I think that would be for the best.

One of the most important lessons I think we can take from the life of Christ is this: Each person is the Temple of God, not that building built by men. We should honor and cherish one another as one would honor and cherish another holy temple to the same God. As we grow more used to seeing God within each other, perhaps it will get easier to see God hiding in the trees, the fields of grass, the clouds in the sky (including that one that looks like a rabbit). I say let's do it, and if not for one another, then for our children. Life will still be full of pain, suffering, and death, but at least we can work together against it, as a single human body, perhaps even the Body of Christ.

Redeeming the Night

Shadows and darkness have been tainted to the human mind for centuries now. It is an unfortunate misunderstanding or deliberate attempt to cut the universe down into managable parts. One of my favorite ideals expressed through the wonderful work of J.R.R. Tolkien is the redemption of the night. Once the abode and retreat of evil things, when filled with the glory and presence of sacred and holy beings, even the night and shadows can be a place of comfort and peace if not of joy as well. I know for a fact that there is one moment every day when I enjoy the embrace of darkness, of shadows. When I lay down to sleep, nothing helps me fall asleep faster than laying down to see almost nothing at all, then slowly, it all fades away. Sometimes I play, trying to hold my eyes open as long as I dare, and the dark shadows always had a way of seeming to grow, to spread out as they swallowed everything in the room. Now I think this 'trick of the eye' happens as my eyelids slowly close up while I try to hold them open without even a blink to keep me from witnessing the growing darkness.

Is it too far a stretch to think of goodness, of hope hidden within the darkness all about our lives? I do not think so. I think it has been said before that there is evil that presents itself as 'an angel of light'. Is it too much to think that if evil can dress in white robes, that perhaps good beings can hide in the multitudes of shadows? That the dark spaces between the lights of the heavens could be filled with an overabundance of joy, and hope?

Perhaps there is places where darkness and light are full of good, and places where darkness and light are full of evil. Maybe, just maybe, our world, or universe as we call it, could be hovering somewhere in between. Like the thick blanket falling over me as I lay down to sleep, I will find hope in the darkness, just as much as I find hope in the stars and the moon at night, and the sun that rises in the day.

Another benefit to the darkness, another blessing bestowed by the Architect of this manifestation of life, and this is only theoretical, is the sight beyond the physical world. When we can not see with our physical eyes, I believe it is often easier to see with our spiritual eyes. In a similar fashion, silence could be considered darkness to the ears. When there is nothing for the physical ears to hear, we can listen with our spiritual ears more easily.

Of course, the simplest illustration to the blessings of the night, of darkness and shadow, is perhaps that even the most horrible bad day will come to an end, and we will have a chance to rest in the night, before another day dawns.

Belief

I believe the world is getting better. It is far from perfect, but also far from absolute ruin. I believe we can make so many little miracles happen with our own faith, that God and all the angels of the heavens and earth will not have to intervene because of a horrible extreme emergency. I believe deep deep down, everybody wants to believe these things too. Once we start to believe anything else, we allow ourselves to glimpse horror after horror as evil multiplied by evil, and we fall under the idea that any high tide in evil is only the beginning of an exponential curve that will only end with mass destruction on social, economic, environmental, spiritual and physical levels.

I believe that is a spirit of fear that others too often bear, and try to share that burden with us. I believe it is time to take a high road of faith. I believe it is time to believe in God, His Angels, and ourselves as instruments of miracles, instruments of glory, instruments of love. I believe it is time to say that the dawn is ever before us, this sunrise will last for an eternity. I believe we should look at that sunrise, seemingly frozen in our minds as a future event, and realize that it is coming, and everything is being flooded with a brilliant light full of life, love, and hope. I believe it is time for humankind to lay down our heavy burden of fear and hatred, and embrace Eternal Hope, with a smile.

Not just another statistic

This time, I will say a little bit more about myself than I plan to in the blogs I write. More often, you should get a better glimpse of my train of thought, and thereby discover mystery by mystery more about my beliefs, ideas, and why I am becoming a constant source of eternal hope.

For now though, let me tell you about a sometimes pretty lonely guy. Alright, I am married, I do live with my wife's parents. How could I possibly be lonely? Because one of my best friends is a machine. Pick one, the computer, or the X-Box. Either way, I actually do try to spend an hour or so a day playing some game which pits my wits against the cold hard logic of a computer, who is programmed to cheat (sometimes). But a computer can get downright predictable sometimes. Especially when you learn where everything is and what works best against this thing or that. Eventually you start daydreaming and exploring alternative ways to entertain yourself when you no longer feel excited to fight forever and ever against the same old computer A.I.

Don't get me wrong, I want to play against other humans. I have tried to talk my wife into it several times. It doesn't seem to be working. I can't afford any kind of fast internet connection, and I have already found out my slow internet connection (and sometimes antiquated equipment) is not competitive to other people online. Unfortunately, most of the people I meet locally do not play the games I am addicted to either. So I am left playing alone, and wondering how many times I will die by the virtual hands of the computer before I manage to get the flag from his base to mine.

Which is precisely why I took upon myself the nickname Statistic. I decided it sounded better than Target, which is already taken by a big company too. Besides, even though a statistic isn't usually the 'winner' of a game, I can still be a better statistic than someone else.

The name Statistic also bears to me a solemn reminder that my life is slowing fading, moment by moment I am closer to joining those who have already kept the legacy of one of the greatest statistics known to man, ten out of ten people die. I firmly believe that death is like a gateway, an interdimensional gateway that we pass through, in spirit. The body has to be left behind. One day it will be all over, for this sack of meat. But I'll go on. Maybe, I will get to come back to Earth again too. After years of planning, thinking, growing, I will decide to play this "game of Life" again, and I'll do what I do when I die over and over in my favorite video games. I'll press the Start button again.

Until then, this game isn't over, and I'm out to make this Statistic absolutely Legendary. If I can do it, so can you. Chances are, you are Legendary to somebody else. That is what this blog is all about really. You are Legendary to someone else. There is somebody in your life who is Legendary. If we could realize how much we encourage others by just being ourselves and playing the game, never giving up; if we could glimpse how Legendary we can be to others, then maybe we'd all be able to ride through life on rivers of Eternal Hope.

Golden Fuzion Coins

The Golden Fuzion Coins were a small project I started, essentially, to tap into my 'spiritual abundance' and realize just how 'rich' I really am, I decided to 'create money'. I spent several days designing a coin to perfectly express just how rich I really am, just how blessed. On these coins I expressed my deepest beliefs, or at least, the most basic beliefs I currently hold strongly to. Even then I had to make the wording almost cryptic. Still, I realized these coins could be inspirational to others, showing them the value the universe, God, and the rest of us put into them existing alongside the rest of us. While alive, we interact within many different perspectives of what is meaningful, and why. But I think there is a more fundamentally basic perspective, the 'eternal hope' perspective. In this perspective, we are all very valuable, as an active part of the universe our value is nearly incalculable. If only we all agreed on that! Every person, every creature, has so much more value than we often willingly give them.
But we can change, can't we? Well, that is debatable. Some say yes, some say no. I think that perhaps there is some truth to both. Some things, within us, or beyond us, we can change, and some things we can not change. Personally, the things about myself that others would think I should change, don't change often because my personal desire to change them is too wishy-washy. One day I may hate myself because I did this. The next day I may simply love being myself, and I willingly forgive anything I may have done recently, especially because part of me remembers that little 'evil' in a fond light. But there are things about me that have changed, and for one month or so, those around me almost couldn't stand me and my 'changed' beliefs. When I decided my 'faith' was doing more damage than good, I changed my beliefs, to something more, basic.
So some things can change, some can not, perhaps. Still, I will describe the Golden Fuzion Coins I created, and allow you to change or not change your perspective on the value all of creation places on each of us at birth, if not before.

Side One: A dull golden-yellow colored disk with a spray of brighter yellow and white to give it an almost 'burning sun' like look. Over this basic background is a purple/blue spiral spray that illustrates universal energy of which we are all a part. Somewhere around the center is the Statistic Angel Egg image, the cloudy image of an egg, with smoky wing-like protrusions, and a halo. Along the outer edge of the coin is the value, 1,000,000,000,000,000. That is roughly a thousand trillion units ( I personally think 'dollars'). Along the edge, starting after the value, is the phrase, "Believe it's always spiritually abundant." The idea is that this is our value to the universe, and it is always willing to give us a dividend or something based on this value, we just have to believe it, and ask for it, and look for it. Unfortunately, most of us may have trouble translating this spiritual currency into U.S. Currency. But let's deal with that later.

Side Two: The same background, all the way up to the spiral. Instead of the Angel Egg, I have the 'plump smile'. Imagine one of those Buddha statues where he is smiling almost like a little, chubby baby. The eyes fade into what looks like two frowns, but they are the eyes smiling 'from ear to ear'. The mouth is a smile, that fades into the chubby dimples on each side of the face. The impression is supposed to be sheer joy, a fountain of happiness. Along the outer edge is the words, "Love Laugh Learn Live Always" and the phrase, "You Are Worth It!" That is the basic idea of the Golden Fuzion Coin.

Now for the story. I had intended to print these out on cardstock paper, two sided color. But the images of each coin, never alligned. The first side was a few millimeters off from the second side. I feared I could not even cut them out. I actually only printed one sheet, then hesistated between throwing it away, and keeping it as a reminder that these paper coin ideas of mine don't translate well into print. But then my wife was cleaning out the car, and found my sheet of Golden Fuzion Coins. She liked them, like I had, but decided she would cut them out. She cut out one side, then flipped the paper over, and cut out the closest image of the second side. Then she glued the two sides together. I realized that this had been possible the whole time, but I had never considered it. My own faith in the value of these coins had been shaken when they didn't 'turn out as expected'. Because of that, I almost ended up throwing out a sheet of Golden Fuzion Coins, which, is spiritually estimated at around at least 27 thousand trillion dollars. But I helped her cut them out, and now, I have a handful of Golden Fuzion Coins to pass out to a few people, and maybe help them see how valuable they are to the rest of us. I can print more, cut them out, glue them together, and send them to people, but it'll cost 'real' money. Since I can't take one to the bank and 'deposit' it, I just have to work to earn 'real' money, or someone has to send it to me with a note "hey I want as many Golden Fuzion Coins as possible". Well, if you want to see one, or buy a sheet's worth, e-mail me.

Update: As you can see above, I have made this post fresh with the inclusion of the Golden Fuzion Coins back and front sides. Now everyone can view them online before deciding to order their own or as many as they can afford to give away to friends, family, and strangers. I'll go ahead and say it here, you'll probably see this image again throughout internet advertising sites as I advertise my Golden Fuzion Coins. (:

Shining Stars

Here is a song, based on a short quote I thought of while making a nice background for my computer. The background turned out great, but I thought the quote could use a little elaboration, so I made it into a song.

I was there, when it all began.

I watched as the sun set.

I stood beside you, and fought.

Among the moons we watched the sun cough and die.

I was there, in deepest shadows.

I watched the moons leave.

I stood beside you, and fought.

Among the clouds we watched the moons shatter.

I am here, in a night without end.

I stare up into a universe of lights.

I stand beside you, and we'll fight.

For the billions of stars that are left.

Don't you see, don't you see them shine?

They shine brighter, brighter than ever before.
They shine for you, they shine for me,

They shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing still a song of hope.

Won't you see, won't you see us shine?

Let's shine brighter, brighter than ever before.
Let's shine for you, let's shine for me,

Let's shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing still a song of hope.

Somewhere a star is born.

Somewhere moons are caught.

The death of all we knew,

is just the start of something new.
Let's start over, let's start something new.

Let's shine for you, let's shine for me,

let's shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing now a song of hope.

That's the song. I think it tells the story well enough. Beings, fighting for life, and light, fought through the heartbreak of losing their sun, then the moons (I think in their lands, the moons still glowed at night magically after the sun died). Even after they lost those symbols of light and life that were the brightest in their sky, and indeed, the source of their 'day', they choose to keep fighting against the odds to save the rest of the stars in the sky above. I think it is a great and noble sense of what we should all dare to live like. Let's shine, and sing a song of hope.

Never Give Up

Life is like a war. We fight, and fight, and fight, with all we have and sometimes anything we pick up from the bodies of our comrades who have already fallen. Unlike the other wars on Earth though, this one begins when we are born, and ends when we die. We live through campaign after campaign, mission after mission, battle after battle. Still the war goes on. Many of us will fight for decades, some for centuries. A few will fight for a few years, then kill themselves in despair. I wish no one considered that an option. Throughout this battle, we get to enjoy countless moments of joy, peace, love, and otherwise momentary euphoria. My hope is that those of you who read this will be encouraged, to fight until the very end. To spend every last minute you will have fighting, and enjoying this fight. Get the most out of it that you can. Learn every move, every tactic, and of course, everything it will teach you about yourself. Never Give Up. Lose a battle. Lose a mission. Lose a campaign. But don't give up. Every loss will teach us more than a thousand victories ever could. Never Give Up, and win as much as you possibly can before it is over. After this battle ends with our death, we take every lesson and experience with us. These are our spoils. Enjoy them now, and forever.