Knowledge desert, thirsty brain

[Acouwaila]

Yeah this is an issue that pretty much leaves people torn. I mean, I am by no means a dumbass, but I don't cloud my mind with information I really could care less about. And I certainly don't try to act like I know everything. All I'm sayin is it's better to be happy and enjoy the things in life that truely make you happy rather than exhausting yourself for knowledge that really isn't all that relevant WHILE AT THE SAME TIME making yourself look like a prick.


ps. Do you have any of your music online? If so I'd love to hear it!

"WHILE AT THE SAME TIME making yourself look like a prick."

Ok...sure people that point certain things out at certain times may LOOK like a prick or come off as a prick...but im sure that they are being 100% real and have no intention of making anyone or anything look worse than them....people that ask questions and hold the "understanding" type of knowledge don't try to be anything they are not...they don't try to be better than anyone, and they don't think they are better than anyone.....

maybe some do....but those are the ones who are ACTING like know-it-alls...

anywho...

yeah Ive got two songs I wrote before I went to college

I don't agree with the style of music I had, basically because I have a different understanding of music and art now...and also LIFE ...lol

www.myspace.com/wesherring

as of now, Im still trying to find my groove....My art in music that defines me and expresses my thought....

[crudemood]

its all mtvs fault.

[MagicalHerb]

"They keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be"
-john lennon

its all mtvs fault.

dude it is, sometimes i wonder if its a government plot to make knowledge and free spirit look "stupid" and "uncool" so they can finally eliminate the undesirables.

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

Beautiful poem man, it speaks the truth

and Acouwaila, you are right about the big game
everything is a game, a competition...

seems like there is little room for love these days

[GHoSToKeR]

I agree, Ermitonto. It's not a recent problem, although I feel it's getting worse. I'm going to university soon, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to find people willing to have some kind of intellectual conversation. Most of the people I meet in social situations bore me (and alot of my friends) to death. I've been insulted for being reasonably intelligent, laughed at, chastised for having an interest in things other than television or getting wasted all the time. My response is always just "fuck you", and then I move on. :P

[Oneironaut]

another thing that makes me kind of sad....is when most people look into the sky at night and see stars....sure...they all say its beautiful...

but I mean...isnt it mind blowing? I mean think about what you are looking at......

I know. It's the whole freaking universe! The sun is not just a light. It's a gigantic nuclear fireball bigger than we can possibly imagine with our puny monkey brains at a distance greater than we can possibly imagine with our puny monkey brains.

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." -Douglas Adams

And when that Sun begins to set, we see a bright light in the sky near it. That's the planet Venus. Besides the Sun and the Moon, it's the only celestial object you can see during the daytime. If you know exactly where to look, you can find it in the right conditions while the Sun is still up. The surface there is so hot it's melted all the probes we've sent there. And even though it's the size of Earth, it's so far away that it is just a point of light to us. That's pretty mind-blowing right there.

But once the Sun completely sets, then we see an even bigger picture. There are more suns out there than we can possibly imagine, most with their own planets. If it's dark enough, you can see the Milky Way galaxy, the giant swirling mass of suns whose suburbs we inhabit. And if it's really dark, you can even see our closest neighbor galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy.

I think the reason a lot of people are attracted to the idea of an infinite God is because it makes them feel small and humble. But you don't need a God for that. Just look up at the sky. I don't think it's any coincidence people have associated this humbling God idea with the amazing vastness of the heavens above us.

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan

[wayoftheleaf]

i was looking through many many myspace profiles recently, and i was startled by the amount of people who had *i hate books* or *i hate to read* or *ive never read a book in my life* on their interests.

My friend jared, who can read as fast as i can*i read the last robert jordan book in under 7 hours*just read his first chapter book. The gunslinger by Stephen King.

[REEFERDREAMZ]

Yea , Dr's should prescribe health, instead of prescription drugs. Some healthy natural fruit, veggies, tons of water.

sighs.. is discontent ..:wtf:

:jointsmile:I like my pills though.:jointsmile:

[Oneironaut]

I don't see what's wrong with pills. Doctors prescribe them because they've been scientifically proven to help the patient with whatever ailment they're suffering from. A healthy diet is a good thing to have, but it can't do everything. Sometimes people need specific drugs to combat specific ailments. Antibiotics being an important example. Do you have any idea how many lives have been saved by penicillin pills?

Although I am skeptical of these anti-depression drugs that are out there. As Jennifer Michael Hecht explains in her book The Happiness Myth which I am reading, the only reason our culture prefers Zoloft and Prozac to opium and marijuana (which have been among the primary happiness drugs in past cultures) is because clear-headedness is important in our culture that is obsessed with efficiency and productivity.

[chiqo76]

....Ignorance is bliss.....

This is the same attitude that keeps cannabis illegal today. Research the reasons and arguments for why it was made illegal and you'll realize its BS. Its not just cannabis, think of the war and many other things, like gas prices, etc., the list goes on and on. As long as people focus on material objects and become content with this false happiness that is thrown at them, then there will never truly be happiness as a whole.....


VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!!!!