Technology is becoming a parent.

As technology seems to be at the forefront of every human’s life, we should really stop and ask ourselves what we are setting the future up for. A future where boyscouts are using google on their Android phones to find out which berries are edible. A future where the “Boyscouts of America” (the very supposed aspect of learning “survival”), embrace a computer as if it might be growing near a mushroom next to a waterfall somewhere.

We are slowly, but surely destroying the basis of human communication and knowledge, and replacing it with the cool, sleek modern interface of an operating system. We’re so “advanced”, that in about 5 years there will be children googling on how to tie their shoelaces because Mommy is chatting on Facebook all day while Daddy’s looking at porn in the basement.

Ultimately we should be asking ourselves what the true draw is. I would have to say it’s that everyone is somewhere at the same place, and you can talk to them all at the same time. Subconsciously it’s somewhat like this big party, just for you, where anyone and everyone in the world can talk with you, while the real-life repercussions are detachment from societal forms of communication due to lack of actually using it. The more that people work in “Yeah, here’s my e-mail”, the more that people begin to see it as a possible means of actually knowing who someone is. Here’s the psychological-psychotic kicker……

In reality when someone says something to your face, there will always be the judgement aspect of us that recognizes if they are being deceitful, or if what they say is the truth. Technology creates a “buffer”, where people no longer have to worry about such things. So you get people hooking up online all the time, and having “online relationships”. It’s similar to a romance novel, other than one pitfall. The responses might as well be a script from a shitty Hollywood movie. They’re thought-out, well organized, sardonic, but completely lame. While we revel in the ability to be “witty” on the internet, we lose the most important aspect of what it is to be a human being…. Shooting from the hip.

Inner peace is a load of crap.

I truly hope that the many spiritual gurus and “walkers” of paths find a reason to debate my philosophy, to not only allow the disproving of the peace that supposedly exists in their teachings, but to also prove themselves ignorant enough to try and disprove a personal perception written up on a net blog.

In life, we often find ourselves needing to feel that we found something “right” in our lives, or an “answer”. The interesting fact is that I personally never wanted or needed this until I was told I needed it at a young age. We can’t simply let people live in contentment of life alone… No no no… That would be wrong to let someone simply enjoy their life on planet earth. We should instead create a story or belief that makes their lives feel small and inconsequential in comparison to something else.. But what? Let’s just call them “Gods”, and let’s say that you aren’t good enough just being you, but that you need to be “enlightened” or something. As if just being yourself would ever be enough…. Well hmm… I guess spirituality is run by people who don’t want me to be just me? Suddenly your carefree attitude and endless childhood days are shadowed a dark thought pattern.

Now there are these new things in your life that you can’t see, hear, or talk to, but they apparently have divine judgment, and everything you do is a tally mark on what they decide happens to you in the after life. Sad to say, this belief structure provides nothing but 1. the ability to shift blame onto something imaginary (a deity) 2. A scapegoat and excuse and/or cover for being “unique”/special 3. A reason to argue or disagree with others based not on principles, but “faith”. While contentment and mind relaxation/inner realizations can help us grow as individuals, ever since I have heard the term “inner peace” it’s been like a frickin foot race to see who the most fakey “spiritualist” is. It’s like a world full of actors who actually ACT spiritual.

The darker aspect of this spiritual cloud of crap are the people who are convinced that they need to “seek inner peace”. Well that’s funny…. I never received inner peace in the mail, but have been having a decent time without it. In fact, now that I think about it, I only felt bad when some piece of crap told me I didn’t have it. This is unfortunately the equivalent of pretending to have something special or different that elevates one’s self above others. In a supposed world where true spirituality is that we are all unified, living beings, you’d think that reverence would have gone away with the feudal ages and the inquisition, and we’d probably be cracking jokes with the pope more often.

To elevate one’s self above others in any way, shape or form is to simply (and subtly) be a part of the new breed of hate that exists in the world. It’s essentially a form of being upper class for people who can’t truly afford to be. Anything for any of us to be able to snub our noses at each other in some subtle way. God forbid if we all agreed on one common bond and mystery – life itself. Apparently it’s not enough anymore, and we need things like a dude on a cross, some prophet who can see the future, dragons, 8 armed elephant headed gods, and angels flying around with trumpets out their asses.

The true beauty is that we get *so* offended when someone insults these conceptual ideologies, that we have war, death, and argument, yet everyone fails to see that throughout it all, the “deities” haven’t showed up…. once.

Lost Cause?

We’re brought into this world fed a bowl of lies. Either there is some fluffy guy with a beard in the clouds who has spent forever and a day making *only* your life perfect and orderly, or that same guy in the clouds killed his own kid because he thought you were cooler. We always seem to hear what we want to hear to make us feel comfortable instead of the truth.

The downside to this philosophy is that it’s believing a *possible* truth. Any religion, dogma, belief, or occult is just that – a belief. I decided to walk away from all of these and spawn my own belief system, Idon’tknowism. It’s very simple in the fact that the name of this belief also describes what the basic belief is – Admitting to not knowing the answers. Religion, throughout history has been the number one contributor for war and death, yet we can’t seem to jump over that hurdle. It’s very crafty in the fact that it condemns those who would dare speak against it, and so I decided to steal this model for my belief structure as well.

If we turn the tables, and reflect religion back upon itself we begin to see the irony. Imagine if people had been slaughtered for having any belief whatsoever. This would have made the Spanish Inquisition much more interesting.

I think the truly disturbing aspect of beliefs is that so many people never read for themselves. Among many of these religious texts you’ll find the prophets/soothsayers speak against organizational fraternization, yet we are taught these things by that structure itself. The core practices (on average) speak of being kind to anyone & everyone, which is a very simple concept. What if a Mormon and a Muslim hook up and have kids? You laugh at the very thought of it, but that fact alone demonstrates the rift that religion has caused between humanity itself.

Is it logical to kill someone based on belief?

Is it logical to be unkind to someone based on belief?

Is it logical to that belief should destroy/affect relationships?