The ‘opinion’ Category

thats corporate america for you

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

This video is fairly old now as it’s stated in the video that they are on day 53 of the oil spill which made it to a stunning 87 days before being capped. If you think there weren’t major PR efforts on BPs part to try and control the situation from a media standpoint you’d sadly be mistaken.

You know I remember some simple truths that I was taught as a kid when it came to making a mistake and being in trouble. That lesson was that it was better to admit it and seek help rather than hiding it or lying about it. I guess that doesn’t apply to a company when billions of dollars and the opinions of the many shareholders and the entire human race are at stake. It’s my two cents that I would be more sympathetic of a company that would just admit how bad the problem is and say we messed up and we need a lot of help to fix this. But that isn’t what they did. They decided to buy search engine search terms to try and control what information people we’re getting when the searched for “oil spill” and other relevant terms.

At the end of the day an estimated 18 million gallons of oil has spilled into the waters of our planet. And those are the modest low end estimates. That figure is based on the belief that the well was spewing about 5000 barrels worth/day into the gulf (a barrel contains 42 gallons). A senior BP offical admitted to congress that the well could have been flowing as much as 60,000 barrels/day. If that is true the total in gallons would be in the neighbourhood of 219 million. It’s so disgusting to think what has happened to our planet because of our dependence on this substance.

Did you know that North America (U.S and Canada) used 21.7 million barrels worth of oil/day in 2008 according to rates posted in a wikipedia page? Using the high estimates, the recent spill would total 5.2 million barrels. That means the spill only represents 24% of our daily… yes daily use as a continent. I am not saying that in anyway to downplay the size or severity of the spill. Rather I am using it to contrast it to the astronomical volume we use. Where is the desperation for using a cleaner or renewable energy source(s) by our leadership?

Now consider if that oil had not been spilled into our water it would have been used in products that pollute our ground and add to the volume in landfills. Or it would have ended up in vehicles, machines and power plants that emit pollution into the air. So at the end of the day we have 21.7 million barrels/day (911,400,000 gallons) that end up hurting the planet in one way or another any way. Does that fact taint the luxury that we enjoy as a continent at all? I know it does for me.

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my reaction to zeitgeist

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

In an effort to keep this post to a reasonable length I am going to focus on the first third of the movie which is titled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”. The title is intended in jest towards the Christian “story”. Below you will find a list of counter arguments and issues (Some my own, some repeated from the sermons I provided in the last post)that I have with what the narrator says or implies.

Again I will state the best rebuttal is found in the two sermons from the last post. Please click here if you would like to check them out. Here are the five points I would like to focus on.

Why focus on only Christianity?
This is by far the biggest one for me, hence I will make it first. The movie claims that religion is part of the systems of control that the secret group of elites use to control the masses. To put it simply if religion is a form of control for the masses why did the movie only attack Christianity? There are many religions out there. Some of the main ones are Islam, Hindu, Buddhism, Judaism, Scientology and Shinto to name a few. Lets not forget the approximately 16% of the world’s population that is non religious all-together. If the film was interested in being thorough it would have needed to spend a little portion of time to ruin the foundation of all those religions, but it didn’t. It is my opinion that the film only wanted to attack the one and only true religion. I have seen this documentary about 5 or 6 times now and I believe very strongly that the films motive is to mix truth with untruth in order to deceive millions.

Jesus is not a means of control
Either the film is lying or the writers did not do their homework. I’ll make a strong argument that it is the probably just the first of the two, but maybe both. If the writers knew anything about Jesus it would be blatantly obvious that Jesus is not a means of control but rather a means of freedom. As a quick snap shot of what Jesus promotes is loving your neighbour as yourself, helping those in need, not being slave to materialism, keeping desires for money and wealth at a distance, refuse violence and control your temper and serve God with every ounce of your being. The results of which would be a drastically changed world. If you understand one thing  understand this; the makers of the film have just thrown a bunch of rocks into your pond to muddy the waters and cloud your mind. The fact of the matter is that if right at this very second everyone in the world decided to stop what they were doing and live a life like Christ the world would be instantly transformed and all the power that “they” have worked to gain would be lost. That is why “they” work so hard to keep your attention away from this truth. The power “they” have is power we give away. It wouldn’t take a single gun or fist being raised to change the world, just a life like Christ has asked us to live, modeled after his example. That’s one reason what God is so awesome.

Dates of another god(s) as being the 25th of December
To me this is a ridiculous argument. Ancient Egypt didn’t have a calendar like we have today, therefore making that link is absolutely preposterous. I will admit that its a heavy argument in favor of what the film is passing off as truth but it simply is not. Here is a link to a brief history about the calendar. If the film was trying to make a link to the winter solstice then it missed with that as well as solstice dates occur on the 21 of December, sometimes on the 22nd. Lastly the most recent changes to the calendar happened in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII declared the Gregorian calendar to be the new and recognized calendar. So to think through time that all these gods shared the same birth date as Christ is not a solid argument. Plus to be entirely transparent we don’t even know the exact date Christ was born, that is just the day it is recognized, or should I say commercialized.

There is a point in the year where the sun would not move for three days before rising again
I find this to be an interesting point. After some research I could not come up with anything to support this point. What I do know is that at the arctic poles they experience abnormal day and night times through out the year. That’s not to say what the film presents is untrue. but consider this; where in the world does that phenomenon occur and does it occur where the majority of people lived in the Egyptian times? Well Egypt isn’t very close to either pole so to me it stands to reason that this portion of the story is not accurate either.

Crown of thorns =  sun rays
To me that was a comment that is reaching. I think the writers just got greedy here and thought they were being clever. Fail.

To conclude I feel this first third of the movie is out of line with the other two thirds. It doesn’t really go onto say how religion really fits into the scheme of control. Everything else leads into other arguments where as religion is just set up as a pinata, they take a few swings at it blindfolded then move on.

Towards the end of the movie the narrator gets onto the topic of micro chipping the population of the earth for total control… might be helpful if they bothered to mention this piece of Bible scripture:

He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17

It seems to me God was the first one to warn us about being marked and controlled. If you want the truth, go to the word of God. It’s the only place you’ll find it. Those that are working to bring about your distruction will lie to you. The one trying to save you will tell you the truth.

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seen zeitgeist? listen to this…

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

This week a couple people approached me about the documentary film Zeitgeist. It was the first time they had seen it and they were concerned about the material presented in the film. That movie was by far not new for me and I am quite well versed with the content contained within.

The movie is a three part documentary which covers aspects of religion, government, banking, war and the desire for totalitarian control by a group of elites that wish to rule the world. The primary concerns for these people surrounded the first third of the movie which, to put mildly, is an unbridled assault on Christianity. I’ve heard that this section of this movie has really challenged people and in some cases all-in-all destroyed their faith. If you have seen this movie and had your faith challenged or ruined… or your a person that has always been a non-believer and have looked to this film as final proof for your “soul” to be at peace your non-belief, you need the two audio links below.

They are two sermons that were delivered by Bruxy Cavey, lead pastor of The Meeting House Church. They are in response to the Zeitgeist movie and man-o-man, does he put that film in its place, at least the first third anyway. It’s a must listen, whether you’ve seen the film or not.

Zeitgeist Sermons
Sermon One |  Sermon Two

I really do recommend you watch the documentary…

Zeitgeist Movie
Part One |  Part Two |  Part Three

My opinion of the film
To focus on the first third of the film, my main question would be why does it only focus on Christianity? The film spends a third of it’s time working to discredit only one religion. If all religions are part of a system of control it would stand to reason that the film would need to inform us and discredit all organized religion. Buddha, Allah, Krishna and so on, not only Jesus and the Christian church.

What I think this film aims to do is to scare people and to kill hope. The last two thirds of the film focuses on the history of wars, government and banking painting a picture of lies, manipulation and deceit. It is all orchestrated into one motive - a one world government and totalitarianism at the hands of a small group that rule a micro chipped population of people. So to summarize the movie delivers a “you’re screwed” message.

Well, this isn’t true…

I am short of time at the moment so I have to call it a rap here. Please watch the films, listen to the sermons, leave some comments. I will expand upon this in my next post, I may re-watch the documentary and get in depth on the subject. Following that I want to finish the second half of a series I started a while back on the ten commandments. Bookmark this site, subscribe to the RSS feed… stay tuned… do your won research… message me… this will only get more interesting as we go.

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one of the most frightening things i’ve read in a while

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Last week this story was sent to me by a co-worker. The snap shot synopsis is that Massachusetts has passed a law forcing is residents to get the swine flu/h1n1 vaccination. I think that is a very bad step in an incredibly dangerous direction from a human rights standpoint. Sure, on the outside the reasons seem good in nature but lately I have become a bit of a skeptic on the  needles and vaccines front. Personally I haven’t had a flu shot for 5 winter running and I am yet to have the flu once in that time. Many people around me that have gotten the shot have battled some of the toughest sicknesses I’ve seen.

There is a lot of contreversy surrounding all the vaccines that we are told we need. Check out the links below:
Massachusetts Passes Vaccine Law
Flu Vaccine Exposed
Thiomersal Controversy (mercury in vaccines - mercury is a poison to the human body)
Vaccine Controversy

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blue skies over bad lands

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

As promised, and entirely to late in arriving, here is my dissection of blue skies over bad lands… a great song by Matthew Good.

The song sets the stage in the middle of the night and a person unexplainably awakes from their sleep and wanders outside without shoes.

What if you woke up in the middle of the night
And in your bare feet you walked outside

I think here the song takes a turn from someone being awake to someone thinking their awake but really find themselves in a vivid dream in which they can fly anywhere.

And realizing that you were awake that you could fly
Out over the world

This person then finds them self in a place they do not know but have only heard of, maybe in school, but presumably on the TV. I interpret the person in this song is somewhere in the middle east and is seeing people that the news has “sold” as evil people and terrorists, or in his words, murderers. Matt is pointing out that we really don’t know the people on the other side of the planet. We only know what the government, TV or the newspapers tell us.

To places that you’ve only heard of
See faces that you were sold as murderers

He suggests that they are people just like us. They are struggling with life and emotionally lonely like most people everywhere.

But just like you they’re only lonely boys and girls
Like all over the world

The question is asked, what if we could do something to change the situation. What if we could take some accountability for our role in the world and do something that would make times not so rough for other people that struggle too.

What if you could lift them up?
What if you could make it so that times weren’t tough?

The result of personal accountability would leave nothing but the weather to be reported on the news everyday.

So every morning when the world woke up
There’d only be weather on the news

Then something interesting happens. Matt reverses the situation with us back at home and our perceived enemies flying around above us. A lot of people don’t realize that people in the middle east live in the same situation as we do… fed lies to keep us scared and fighting with each other.

And what if you were back in bed
With one of them floating over your head

The next statement, I think, is the most powerful in the song. So many of us hate people we don’t even know. Really, what would you say to someone you “hate” when you don’t really know what kind of relationship could have existed had our minds not been poisoned.

What do you say to your enemies
When you don’t know what it is that could have been between you?

Then in concluding Matt says the following statement which conveys that there is nothing good going on anywhere. Even when it seems like a pleasant day there is still this ugliness in the air. It may be unseen but it is there.

There ain’t no blue skies over bad lands
Even if it ain’t raining in the mornings

Lastly, a very modest statement. We don’t have to have dreams and fly anywhere to get whats going on. We just need to have understanding of each other and compassion, not being swept up in the media hype.

But you don’t need to fly to understand it
Just understand understanding

The image I created focuses on the aspect of being sold lies and I chose to pick on Capitol Hill. I think most of the information that is brought to us from that building is very self serving and skewed. The blue dark sky is dreamy and ominous in nature. I inverted the image with the intent of communicating that a lot of news is confusing and in reality upside down in nature. This also puts the blue sky under everything… making no blue skies over bad lands.

Please view this post if you want to hear the song, it is the second video in the post.

This is such a powerful song. How does it make you feel? Do you have any opinions? Please share, I would like to hear from you.
this is an interpretive image I design inspired by this song... I think it's as moody and heavy as the song.

this is an interpretive image I design inspired by this song... I think it's as moody and heavy as the song.

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let’s get this out of the way

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
how uncle sam should be seen

how uncle sam should be seen

This is going to be self evident soon enough anyway so I am going to smack this hand down on the table and just show you the cards. I am not a fan of government. The reasons are long and varied but pretty much all point to the same general problem. In my opinion, and as demonstrated in previous posts, I am of the belief that all of the control is used for the purpose of bringing about a one world government. But while a lot of people stop there, I firmly believe the NWO’s sole purpose is to crown Satan the public lord and master of the world. If you have been a regular reader so far, I hope I didn’t lose you on that last sentence.

Lets look at the word government for a moment. I have read that the word government comes from two latin roots. When broken down, govern means control and ment means mind. That is quite a realization if true. So government means mind control huh? When the veil is moved aside and you look really at what government does, that seems pretty accurate. Government is always engaged in some sort of activity and are always justifying their actions to the public through the media, therefore influencing our opinions and thought.

Some areas I have been interested in over the last few years include:

The list could go on and on, but here is my point. There is a common thread here of distrust, confused facts, misinformation and heated debate over all these situations. Where there is smoke there is fire. Click on anyone  of those above and you will  find thousands of links, videos and resources that have more than reasonable counter arguments and evidence to contest the “official versions” handed out by the government and media.

I guess I just want you to think about this stuff. It is so important to be informed and realize what is happening around you. Even if there is nothing you can do or your not willing to do anything about it. Its so freeing to see how the world really works. The world makes sense to me now, its as crazy as ever but the purpose for all of it is visible. I once heard a saying and it always stuck with me. It went something like this;

The truth is in the results of everything. If a child is regularly sick from school and you don’t know why or see a pattern, but eventually the teacher calls and says that little Johnny has missed his fifth test this semester and is in danger of being held back, the truth of the situation is revealed. To pick on one example I’ll glance on 9/11. The US was itching to get over to the middle east… then TA-DA! buildings fall down and the finger pointing begins.

If governments job is to serve the public and provide for them stable, safe and prosperous days they are failing miserably. Like in the example above, that is not their purpose and the truth is in the result. Government is doing exactly what they are supposed to. I am going to chop this off here because this could get into a never ending rant and I want to stay focused and on topic. Just look for yourself at the list above and know there are so many more issues. Thank God for the internet and freedom of informantion here. Enjoy it while you can, I don’t think things will be like this forever, but thats another post.

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