Random Rambles, Quotes, And Funny Stuff

Rights rights and more rights.

All the talk about rights and people ignore the thing that other thing. That shit known as responsibility.

Rights are all well and good. Everyone likes to talk about their individual rights. The right to make their own choices. Their freedoms, everything centered about and around the self.

Society has evolved to the point where individual rights are placed above those of the community. 

For example. It is my right to play music at home. Because it is my right to play music I can play it at whatever volume I prefer. If my neighbour tells me to turn down my music, I may get offended since he is now infringing my right to play music. Fuck him and his right to silence. We shall settle this in court.

We approach rights these days from an individualistic and selfish point of view. This has been a fairly recent development. 

I’m really lazy to point out a timeline, that should read I hate spoon feeding people and love to encourage individuals to go out and research shit themselves. Free thinkers are a dying breed these days.

All rights come entwined with responsibility. It’s there in law but most people ignore that part of it. We are responsible to each other and are collectively responsible for the actions and consequences of our actions.

Ahh, this world…

For every argument there is a counter, for every reason to do someting there is a reason why it shouldn’t be done. In order for me to live, numerous other living beings must die. Its all nice to be a vegetarian, but last time I checked plants were alive too. Maybe there should be a new subculture where you only eat food that is already dead. Like eat carrion. Like corbeaux (cobo).

I have to admire plants though. Plants rule the world. They can get by fine without us, but we can’t live too long without them, plants being autotrophs and all. I can hear the arguement forming in your head that we can kill plants and wipe them off the face of the planet if we want to, but just because we can do something doesn’t mean that we will ever actually do it.

What is power, what is control, what is free will? Everyday those concepts seem like just that, ficticious guidelines to follow but never to achieve. Is all life a big delusion? It just may be. That’s kinda funny when you think about it.

Yesterday while travelling home in a car, two adults, one elderly the other middle age, were having a discussion and they kept trying to involve me in it. I hate talkin politics, mainly because those types of discussions ended up being heated and passionate. I have observed that rational objective thinking and strong heartfelt emotions often don’t go hand in hand. I asked the question, what is the difference between a small wrong and a big wrong ?

I’ve noticed that people rationalize “wrongs” when it comes to themselves personally and demonize others for the very same things. That kind of hypocrisy is insane and is persuasive throughout most of society.

Maybe I’m too serious about things like this. Maybe I should conform and fit in and NOT ask questions. Maybe I should accept the rubbish the generations before me have done and the generations before that. Maybe I should accept the rubbish people are doing now even though there is only one logical outcome for all the shit that we do.

Those were a lot of maybes that I can’t bring myself to do. 

Happy Friday all.

Catch flies with honey and not vinegar

It amuses me when people don’t get that I’m only nice because I choose to be. I’m not anything in particular and choose to be whatever depending on the circumstances.

I am extremely unapologetic about that.

Kindness is not a sign of weakness when it comes to me and my life. 

And I detest bullshit arguments and excuses when applied to how people interact with me.

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

Fucking big tune

"Don’t give this hate a chance
We’ve got all this love to give, you know
That this dream’s alive, will still survive
Until no more people have to cry
Don’t give this hate a chance
We’ve got all this love to give, you know
That this dream’s alive, will still survive
Until no more people have to cry
Don’t give this hate a chance
We’ve got all this love to give, you know
That this dream’s alive, will still survive
Until no more people have to cry"

Jamiroquai - (Don’t) Give Hate a Chance

No one will ever love you if you cannot love yourself.

I hate to hear people complain about things that they chose to do in the first place.

If you hate your job, quit.

If your significant other is repeatedly stressing you out, leave.

If you make a choice and can’t deal with the consequences, make another choice and move on.

I’m not talking about someone feeling the consequences of some one else’s choices, rather I am talking about people who consciously make decisions that they know have a distinct possibility of a negative outcome yet insist on doing them.  

People who think that they have no choice in anything that they do scare me. Actually a lot of people in the world genuinely scare me. 

People who live in fantasy worlds, people who lie to themselves, people who deliberately do harm to other people, people who claim to know the truth of everything and are adamant that their views are the only views.

People who bitch and moan are people I rather not associate with. 

I’m bitching about something I have no direct control over. So from now on this is my general notice of “fuck you”.

"the burden of freedom is RESPONSIBILITY…which requires sacrifice…which requires you to filter you thoughts/actions w/regard to what responsibility entails. These requirements are both restrictive AND rewarding. outwardly, it reflects what we perceive as “freedom” …the reality is, SOMEBODY had to PAY for that perceived reflection, thus, it not being quite “free” at all."

Dallas (via dallastar)

That moment when I learn something new and when applied retroactively makes me realize how much I do not know and how things I once accepted are really fuckery.

"In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

George Orwell (via antonio-lopez-de-santa-anna)

(via amodernmanifesto)