LooseBunch of Change

This blog will be insightful and informative. This is my small slice of heaven where nobody knows my name, I get to say what I want and I get to be free!

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Open or Closed?

By Austin Horness

I am writing tonight to ask anyone reading to begin each day with an open mind. We as a society need to stop rejecting ideas and cultures just because they seem weird or even impossible to us. I’m asking you to start each day with an objective outlook, to view each person and situation you encounter with an open and understanding personality. Take each opportunity you have and make it yours, realize that each of our lives are like a fingerprint and each part of our day is part of that fingerprint of life, unique. 

The culture in America has become stagnant because of the outlook of most Americans, we only see what is right in front of us, we only care about ourselves, and most don’t even know what is going on right around them, until it effects them and then the shit hits the fan. Americans are relentless consumers and are becoming brain-dead to actual reality. 

So I’m simply asking you to wake up, look around, and make the day good for everyone around you, including yourself. The amazing things that happen when you have an open perspective will pleasantly surprise you, the outlook you have can make anything possible.

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The United States of Conflict

By Austin Horness

Why are our nations laws here in America so skewed and drawn out that lawyers can barley make sense of them these days? Why do our nations laws prosecute and give harsh sentences to those who commit victim-less crimes and yet criminals who commit violent crimes receive less harsh sentences. This is really frustrating to me and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that. I believe it is one of the big reasons why our countries people are at such a high level of unrest. 

I recently read a story of a mother who is facing 30 years in prison for treating her daughter’s epilepsy with cannabis oil drastically reducing the number of seizures her young daughter had, giving the child a more normal and comfortable life. Then compare this crime with the crime of a police officer, where the officer raped the victim of a car crash and only received a six month jail sentence. Of course this seems insane! But it is our reality in present day America. America has become a place where those in power can severely abuse their power and virtually get away with it scot-free. America has become a place where the innocent are being persecuted for crimes that go completely against common sense. America has become a place where animistic behavior has become accepted and normal, which is a very scary thought, this means we as a society are regressing!

There is literally countless laws and regulations on the books that as American’s we are expected to follow to a T, or face who knows what kind of penalty even though these laws and regulations aren't taught in the school system, so I guess we are all suppose to kind of just figure it out. I think this lack of knowledge that could be used in order to protect ourselves is withheld purposely throughout our education and is used as a tool by the government to strip us of our rights. Nobody pays attention to the laws being drafted up and passed everyday, laws that effect our freedoms and our own bodies. All these laws need is a pleasant sounding name like “The Patriot Act” and BOOM, more of our freedom is gone just like that.  

We have been backed into a corner by government, by all these unjust laws and regulations. We have become furious over the lack of common sense demonstrated by the authorities and by our law makers. They no longer have the peoples interests as their number one priority. We are no longer fairly and equally represented and this has resulted in the wide spread revolts we have seen spreading across the nation. I believe it will become a whole lot worse before anything gets better. All we can do is arm ourselves with knowledge, it is the most powerful weapon we the people have! 

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The Times, They are a changing...

As a new era in America approaches with Barack Obama leaving office and the wildly publicized Donald Trump taking office I sit back and wonder if there will be change, if racism will be worse, and mostly if America will truly be great again (I feel corny even writing that). However it is a truly important question to wonder. 

I think in the next four years we will see a softening in cultural tensions, as weird and backward as that sounds as Trump takes office, I predict that there will actually be less racial tension. For some reason under Obama, despite his historic presidency, it seemed to be racial tensions increased. I do not think this was Obama’s fault, however under his watch there were a record amount of police brutality against African Americans by police broadcast-ed nation wide by our trusty media sources (wink-wink). What I’m getting at is that I think President Obama allowed extreme sensationalism through-out the media to spread his redirect, you could say Obama used propaganda propelled by the media to push his redirect and policies. He was very skilled at this and flew under the radar almost his entire presidency, always seeming level headed and soulful. Not saying that he faked that, but it did allow him to get away with more then other presidents in the domestic sense. He changed the culture in America instead of focusing on getting other countries oil and starting new wars, he simply let what was going on, keep going on abroad for his entire eight years. All the while at home he indirectly caused small civil up rests across the nation on a consistent basis. Think about it for a second, there were plenty of occurrences where there were police brutality against a minority, where Obama would jump all over the opportunity, having press conferences, inviting the victim/victim’s family to the White House, and so on. While at the same time if the same thing happened to a Caucasian, there where crickets. Take for example the recent case of four African Americans kid napping and abusing a handicapped Caucasian male. I feel if the tables were turned there would have been a giant media up-roar, and we would have heard from the president, but in this case, we heard very little. Again, I’m not saying President Obama has anything to do at all with any of these heinous crimes, but he defiantly does have something to do with how he chooses to publicize each civil occurrence.  

In conclusion, what I am trying to say, as crazy as it sounds is that we may be on a much more even keel under Trump. I don’t think Trump will sensationalize the media like Obama did. Sure Trump may draw attention to himself, and Obama tried everything not too, but this may not be the worst thing in the world people. You don’t have to like the plumber that fixes your toilet as long as he gets the job done, and as funny as it sounds that’s how we must look at the Trump presidency.

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Future Human

12/28/2016

I predict that in the future there will be a super athletic, and super rich, subdivided human race. This is visible presently, Take for example the University of Duke basketball, a lot of rich white kids that are good at basketball, right, and the majority of Caucasian white collegiate basketball players are well off. This is just a precursor to the fact that I plan to present. As these white ball players become more and more prominent, it is natures call for them to re-produce with the finest female specimen available, thus producing better and more capable humans as the blood line continues. As my theory continues this would mean that the white rich get richer and more athletic as time goes on, leaving us lowly middle class dwellers to do the blue, white, and pink collar work. Moving on, my theory of athletic human evolution is proven in my mind in recent history with the African American slave trade in the United States in the past, these people were intentionally bread against there will with the biggest and the best available in order to obtain the best physical specimen capable of doing the most and best work. So yes, this may be very controversial but I do think slavery helped African Americans be more athletic in today’s sports world, if you think about it I think most will agree. 

Moving on, now that all these super human athletes are making millions of dollars and constantly in the lime light there is no doubt that they will start intertwining with each other, rich, celebrities, and athletes alike, possible creating a super human race, far under-meaning the peasant middle class and furthering the wage gap. I also think this theory can transcend athletics and jump into the business world, and may have already begun to seep. History repeats itself.

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12/30/2016

So what I was getting at above and something that I want to clarify is that my theory is that evolution will literally cause a greater divide among people because of the constructs of our society and natural human attraction. Just as the old saying goes “the rich get richer”, I believe that will remain true but also that athletes will get more athletic, ugly will get more ugly, beautiful will become more beautiful, and the have not’s will become more unwanted and sink deeper into the cracks of society. To me this seems obvious and you can look around and see it happening. Typically beautiful people pro-create with other beautiful people, and athletes and others with talent. These people are also typically rich. As evolution progresses these family lines will become more and more what they are, athletes, beautiful, and rich. This divide will effect the middle and lower class most adversely. 

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Pre New Year Resolution

I have found myself wondering lately what is important to me? What do I want from my life to feel successful. I guess that is one thing that I know I want and that is to feel successful. I’m not even sure if it’s important that other people recognize my success as long as inside I can feel the comforting feeling of have success in my own mind, I guess that is really what is important anyway. 

The next step for me was to figure out, what kind of success do I want, how do you know what to do to become successful and at what? I know the easiest answer is to find something that you like and excel at it, but just like in the movie “Office Space” I identify with the main character Peter and his quest to do nothing. Not that I actually want to do nothing but I really do enjoy simply relaxing . Naturally the next question is how do I get passionate about something enough that it trumps doing nothing. I found myself wondering if I simply do not have any interests, or if I’m a boring person, or if I’d ever care, and the only solution and answer I can come up with is that it all has to start from within. I think we all internally know what we have to do to fell inwardly successful, and thats where it has to start anyway, before people will start taking note. For me I think it will come from life style changes, and the want to work harder. Only time will tell what the outcome of this little glimmer of self worth will be. I guess the point here is that we all have self worth inside of us and nobody can take that away, and deep inside we all know what we need to do, the biggest thing is simply doing it. 

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You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

C. JoyBell C.

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Lucky

Today we need to be thankful, thankful for who we are and what we have, because if your still breathing things could be worse. We all may feel miserable from time to time, working monotonous jobs that we don’t feel appreciated at, or struggle financially, maybe we even get in a little trouble from time to time. Yes, life can be stressful, and sometimes it seems like there is no home and that the days are dark, but seriously would you rather be living in poverty or a third world country, for if your reading this you already have it better then most. What would you do to end your suffering? Is life really so bleak that you would rather be dead? Wouldn’t you rather stick it out and see what happens? Because although like can seem painful, and monotonous, life itself is a great blessing filled with unthinkable surprises, unknown happiness, and one giant adventure. That alone makes life worth living and everyone of us lucky.    

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The Materialism Virus

It is truly sad how materialistic our society has become, at this point I fell it is an irreversible virus that has plagued the entire human race from birth on, materialism has encompassed the entire human race in a giant bubble and the most worry-sum part about this all is that people don’t think about it, because they don’t realize it, it simply is life, its like there is no escape from the virus of materialism, it is like a giant man made storm of consumer goods, TV’s, cell phones, and only God knows what hailing towards us with a dark veracity, it does not care about age, gender, orientation, race, or religious preference. The storm is inescapable no matter who you are, some people live in the calm eye of the storm, those are the people who can afford the best and latest, for these people are treated as if they are God’s for what they can buy and not who they are. Of course there are those on the fringe of the storm who can summon enough to buy the new iPhone and or tablet and a smart watch, these people feel they are keeping up, there running in second in the rat race, a race they cannot win. Then there are the people in the dark of the storm as it whirls around them, these are the ones who cannot afford the newest gadgets, and do-dad’s, these guys have it maybe worst of all because they are the social outcasts of the materialistic society, they are not cool, no, without those must have consumer goods they are out of place. 

Its stunning to me how truly blind we are to the bigger picture, how far of path humans have gone. We’ve lost track of what really matters in life, and that is life itself. We are all great miracles and fortunate to be able the experience of life. The materialistic virus breeds false ego, we live in a world where people gain enormous ego’s from simply living life that has already been lived, and doing a job that has already been done, this is killing creativity, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship, and its getting worse every generation. Our superficial connection to our prized consumer goods is to blame. The great Joe Rogan once said “The quicker we all realize that we’ve been taught how to live life by people that were operating on the momentum of an ignorant past, the quicker we can move to a global ethic of community that doesn’t value invented boarders or the monopolization of natural resources, but rather the goal of happier more loving humanity.” In that quote Joe Rogan tied it all together, and finally that brings me to the face that the materialism virus breeds unhappiness, and with that unhappiness comes a new kind of inequality, an inequality that targets you not for who you are, but what you don’t have, and once again it does not discriminate.

We all need to take a step back each day and think about what really matters. The fact that we get to experience life, family, health, and most importantly a progressive, happier future for all.    

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Present

We must push ourselves for what we want. I think the old homage, “hard work pays off” is the only way to get thing’s done. I know it probably seems dumb that this comes as epiphany like to me but I think that is probably the overwhelming problem millennials have. Yes, we all mostly have jobs and do the daily routine, but for some reason there is a whole lot less flavor in the whole mix of things...a whole lot less inventiveness, thus leading to less entrepreneurs. The age of the start up mover and shaker is dying and that is a sad phase in America, the stronger corporations get the harder it is for US to make a name for ourselves and this automatically leads to less freedoms . The illusion of freedom is TOO real today.

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The tingle

Weird twinges in the morning inches, where a mile away bout an ocean a part, what can I say I’m just forging touch, well quiet we may even as the usual slay, this be forth and this be this, the only one who wrote this is a trip, just take it from the heart and go from there, from this point on don’t be scared, because we are tough and we are one, don’t spit spegehti in this song 

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Our little lives

This life of ours, trivial as it may be is actually very simple if you ask me. We tend to over think and shutter around as we watch the vintage clown, he takes all the fame, the light and power as you sit and wonder. Where did you go wrong in this life, what has happened to deserve this strife. Yes, life is hard, and sometimes a struggle, we work away for the better good and try to make our way where we think we should, whatever feels right is what I would say, but maybe that is where we tend to stray, refreshed morals is what we need, in this common era of greed. Even with all this turmoil and lust we need to remember to stop look up and trust, that there is a plan, a plan for us, we just need to follow what we feel we must. The life we live is more then just luck.

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The State of the State

As I look around at my fellow humans I can’t help but sense a general dis-content swelling inside the masses. I myself feel this from time to time. I find myself wondering what is the source of this dis-content, this lack-luster attitude that I feel so many millennials share, is it because we are searching for answers to questions that are falling on deaf ears or just straight up being ignored, is it because we are searching for our identity as a generation in an increasingly corrupt and confusing world, where banks and corporation’s rule, rule everything, the world and its resources, they rule our lives and how we dress ourselves, they rule the currency and make money the most important thing in peoples lives when really what is important? Health, family, peace, for god sake...no the corporations and global elite would never wan’t those things to trump the all mighty dollar, their goal is to keep our mind in the gutter, to focus on material goods, false agendas, and what ever magnificent story they can spin next to fill the airways, and our news, only to throw shade on what is really important and what really is going on in our world. This may all be reason for the dis-content we feel, are these issues bigger then generations past? Or is the oppression of the average human at an all time high? These are important questions to ask because to find the answers we are looking for sometimes we must look inward. We have to ask ourselves the important questions. Is there a way that we can relieve ourselves? What can we do to become fully and whole heartily happy? We must each take action in our own way, everybody has something special that they can input to make a movement happen and actually be successful, maybe were not yet sure of the direction of our revolution but I think its fairly certain that a movement is coming. We need to get away from the hatred that is being thrown around, weather it be in politics, race, or law enforcement, we need to remember we are all humans, more alike then we are dis-alike, and we are all feeling the same way, we feel uncertain, we might feel scared, but most of all we feel a burning dis-content, and we can use this to fuel our direction. We each need to do what feels right and if we all do that nobody will be able to stop our collaboration and positive movement, we the people still do matter, we just need to remember that, and together we can make something of our lost generation and end the dis-content,

To be continued...

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Life

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

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The Outcast

We have all been taken advantage of sometime in our lives. The only difference between situations are the severity and the circumstance. Also we all have different states of mind and different levels of forgiveness, and to say something is unforgivable or unforgettable is useless because everybody has a different perspective. However in my many circumstances I have found that it is far easier to forgive someone than forget something that has been done to you. Again this all depends on how you perceive the problem. Sometimes when your taken advantage of or wronged in someway your labeled a victim, by doing this the individual feels even more outcasted. This also effects how long it takes you to forgive and forget the situation. Everybody can find ways to forgive someone else, especially depending on how close you are to that person. You can make the situation right in your mind and keep covering it up until you think it's gone. I think doing this however is the beginning of some possible deep seeded problems mentally and emotionally depending on what the severity of the situation is. So in a way you will never forget. It also depends on how much you rely on the person your trying to forgive. If you need the person your going to have to try to forgive them to possibly keep your life in order. If you don't need the person then you can just write them off and not forgive them or forget, just put them out of your life completely. In most of my personal experiences in this particular indever I have discovered that when I feel like I was taken advantage of I become vary angry and unforgiving for the first while, usually about a week. After I cool down I can usually forgive the person, but I don't ever forget. It'll be always looming in my mind waiting for the opportune time to pop back up. Re-fuel the flames of what had happened in the past. Of course there have been situations where there were minor incidents that I have forgotten about or just didn't care enough to hold it in regard. Also there was a situation I encountered where my apartment was broken into. We caught who did it and confronted them. Of course they denied it like typical cowards, I wasn't very close to these people so I just wrote them off and put them out of my life. I didn't forgive them, and I won't forget about it. That is just how my mind perceived the situation. I'm sure everyone has a different perspective on situations of like nature and all I'm saying is you have to do whatever feels natural to you, in this case it is ok to put yourself first because it is of most importance to keep your sanity. There are some instances that I feel deserve no forgiveness such as murder, rape, child abuse. These crimes victimize the individual parties to levels of insanity at times, and no one should have to deal with something like that. So in conclusion I feel you can forgive, but you can't forget.     

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Week Eight Power Rankings

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I think my Pack deserve a little more love here!

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Do you know a person like this?

Seems like there are more people like this everyday...

Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview. -courtesy of rationalwiki.org

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Yup gotta keep on keepin on!