Sports Are Stupid

Introduced to the machismo mentality on an over frequent basis I'm beginning to take to the asexual philosophy. The human animal is goal oriented and in a fashion fantasy fixated.

Notions like retirement seem rational. The ultimate goal for many is an arrival at

a familial familiarity. A true love. The ability of some to differentiate between prostitution and love making is non existent. They assume completion via creature comforts.

A home, wife, husband etc. seems to be peoples idea of totality. A man or woman come

to fruition.

My big issue is that people are limiting there psychic evolution with carnal complacency. A

temporary resolution versus something concrete or permanent. Many will go

through a plethora of relationships and find utter confusion at the lack of comfort.

Many wander mindless with their every other thought being the

satisfaction of the carnal. When watched out of context pornography

is an abstract. There is nothing vaguely rewarding.

Just animalism realised.

I can look at an attractive woman without considering the personal incentive.

Many or should I say most cannot. I mean should it be like school where we give

people a gold star for jerking off. Hooray, you're an animal!

A+!

I have no ego incentive in reguards to circumstances. If something occurs kewl

if the beautiful woman walks on by kewl. I'm utterly un affected. I have nothing

planned in reguards to my daily encounters. I've moved beyond.

We need to work on improving our schools of thought and avenues of thinking.

Solving problems. A lot of solutions are delayed because people are fuck

fixated. There wasting perfect competence and psychic resources on

useless notions.

There's a better humanity it's just been eclipsed by vanity. Yes, religion

is vanity. The notion that we hold an all important spot in the infinite is

bordering on egomaniacal.

"We lived our whole lives as Gods only to die and realise we're not that important."

I know people who feel incomplete if they're out of a relationship. To be single

for some is a failing. To me this is just an individual

who has some ingrained inability to deal with themselves.

I'm not saying end relationships (a fancy word for fuck).
Just solve yourself before you begin to solve others.

If you can't cope with your own issues don't take it upon yourself

to be a guardian to another. A helping hand red handed is

useless.

There's something more and we're wallowing in pornography.

Let's grow up.

AMEN

:)

SOMEWHERE

If there's one thing to remember guilty means GUILTY.

In a society of fear your convicted everytime.

You try to find the job, the apartment, the life.

You'll be judged and it won't be God.

Protect the prurient,

Once and forever deemed devient.

Remember you're alive in a dying world.

Not a corpse in a garden.

Variety is a luxury for those with the lawyers.

It's not fair who lied to you?

Redemption ammends?

You fool you.

We're the cause of our own problems in how we try to prevent future problems.

You do live in a police state.

Take a number and be ready to pay.

Looking for a cause and never knowing the mirror.

The devil is merely a reflection.

Lost in divine intervention.

We won't know until we get there ,

but by then it's too late.

So much for lucky number and the lottery.

Welcome to reality.

IT HAPPENED ON A TUESDAY

The Division Bell

We live in a society based on fear. We sell people billions of dollars in fear annually.

Fear is a deciding political factor. Everyone seemingly wants less crime. So, we get

tough and the crime rate rises. A recent example is public displays of property crime

offenders in the local paper. In addition to the DWI offenders. Is it just

me or does humiliation generally fail? It's not an effective deterent. You're more likely

to piss people off by turning one infraction into a modern day scarlett letter.

Plus, the whole police state connotations. Which was cemented with red light cameras.

In a way it boils down to inclusion or exclusion. Do we exclude said offenders of whatever crime?

Prevent them from employment, renting an apartment and similar circumstances? Essentially,

re-convict people every time they try to get an apartment or job?

In the name of the prurient interest a lot of oppressive policies have been enacted.

Is the public good and property values really in grave danger by leasing to tenants

with a mixed or not so kosher past?

It can be and the few gangsters,etc. who want to use an apartment for a base to

run drugs ruin it for people who truly want to better themselves.

The truth is we need to include individuals with shady records even if it's on a probationary

period. If they prove themselves then it's good. If they use the property to ill repute then they fail. I believe this much is at a corporations discretion.

Truthfully, background checks are a way of marginalizing a vast segment. It's taking

away a chance before it existed. Automatic exclusion will lead to enmass recitivism.

If you deprive an individual of all avenues of self betterment you invite criminal activity.

We as a whole must turn a blind eye by not being able to see at the outset.

Meaning background checks must be eliminated as a prerequisite on all rental agreements.

There needs to be something legally in place making felons a protected class in reguards to background checks.

Violent or sex related crimes should still be open record. Though we either give those

individuals options or we give them an open invite to remain

the anti-social individual.

This is common logic. Of course people will return to the bottom rung if you

cut away the upper steps of said ladder.

Our "getting tough" and fear is digging the trench of societal problems deeper.

Fear is understandable but living under it is unacceptable.

Haven't Raised a Fist in 30 Years

I'm almost thirty. I've spent over two- years

combined in numerous states incarcerated on misdemeanors, barring

one felony.

In all this time I've never been in a single altercation or fight.

Verbal arguments, shouting matches sure. But a physical fight never.

I literally don't get angry at anything to the point

where I'd fight.

As a kid. Grade, middle and high school nothing.

No shoving or even throwing objects.

It's just never happened. It's not a pacifist stance it's

more of a not being an idiot stance.

Someone could walk up and insult an ailing family member or

slap me and I'd ignore it.

I find the phrase : "I'm not a punk"

annoying. Well hooray for you. In a way I'm undefeated

because I never even began.

I have a perfect streak of non violence or involvement.

People think this is akin to me saying, "I've never told a lie."

Fighting is such an integral part of their makeup they cannot

fathom it's complete absence.

Well I'm the living proof.

My nose has been broken. My own drunken faceplants. My

shoulders, drunken accident.

I mean to see me it sure as hell looks like I'm a seasoned violence

afficionado.

I take advantage of this to avoid idiots.

If you looked at my legal record there's three domestic violences.

Why, I plead guilty to something I never did.

Me and my father were arguing. On one

occasion he hit me.

But I never hit him the worst I did was put a brick to his

windshield and take off.

Once again no physical violence on my end.

This was especially fun because I was relegated to domestic violence classes

with people who had real anger issues. Well I didn't and

finally during the one on one sessions after

many months the councilor finally

confronted me and said

"I don't believe you're violent. I think you just took a stupid plea to

something you didn't do to get out of jail. I think you did this

a few times."

Stupid, on my behalf? Absolutely, but the justice system is so

slow I'd have essentially served the majority of my sentence for said

violence by the time it got through court. I couldn't bail out.

So I plead out.

And I'm not the only one!

So, I hope I make it to the end of October without ever having been in a fight.

Hey a guy has to have a goal. Hell at this point it's become a mission.

MY PERSONAL TAKE ON THE UNDERCLASS

What needs to be known about the homeless posts is it's partially personal experiences and then it's observations of people in more dire circumstances with various mental abberations. In some ways in the same boat but in others in a very different boat. Chronically homeless versus occasionally homeless. If it's a struggle for me with a few more means at my disposal. Intelligence, sobriety, insurance money. Take away intelligence add some true delusions throw in some intoxicating something and it's quite clear as to the scope of the problem of homelessness if these factors or some variation are common occurance.

We've built as a society certain ways of obtaining normalicy and everyday living that seem standard. It's when you take away the standard when you have a subject that lacks the basics of the basics that we must re create whats expected of certain individuals. We need to offer certain people a true "clean slate". We must give them societal immunity from credit, background checks (to a certain extent) and various other standards. If they don't have it they don't have it. There is value in a second and even a fourteenth chance. Sometimes it takes that many chances.

We must give renters, employers and other agents financial incentive to employ and rent to the schizophrenic alcoholic with almost no work history. Even if it means marginalizing the task or job. Or requiring weekly inspections of rented property. Or even if the person has a really extensive prison record. There needs to be opportunities for the disenfranchised. Until we offer said opportunities there will be a continual eyesore and recitivism amongst the discarded classes of our society.

It is asking for a leap of faith on a grand scale. It may be the only solution. Yes, it'll cause problems but institutionalizing an entire segment of society is an expense we cannot afford on a moral or practical level.

PART 2: Even When The Homeless Try

Being amongst the bottom rung I've noticed a basic nail in the proverbial coffin. Say a indigent individual is actually trying to get on their own two feet, what are the obstacles? Well

a job, a criminal record, credit score. Now the job factor;

a. Most homeless individuals have sketchy or vague references.

b. Lack of phone (not everyone) but this is a wall blocking employment to an

extent.

c. Layered clothing. It's hard to hide homeless. Even in the warmer seasons, indigent people

can have excess layers. Which is glaring when you enter prospective employers establishment.

Why? Because even in summer there's the odd cold day and if they're stuck outside at night it's cold. If it's eighty outside and you're wearing a backpack with a coat around your waste

many employers will write you off. It's bias but hey it's life.

d. Professional references. Have you read the above:)

Now the criminal record. Many people end up on the streets because of jail. A high percentage

of homeless individuals have been arrested due to officer profiling or affiliated non sense. This also factors into the whole job thing.

Now the big one credit check. To get into an apartment, work, get a cell phone. It matters!

Should the credit gestapo have such a hold? No. We've dug our own well (or grave) and personally I'd

never put myself in the credit death trap. There's debit cards true. At least there you can back up the said purchases.
Do I need to say this; a lot of individuals on the street have no or bad

credit.

Fuck : equifax, transunion, experian and any others who take said advantages. First

lets take an apartment. It's not akin to an extended hotel stay. Hey, here's March, here's

the keys to 22. :) The ask for history. Employment, credit, rental, bank, etc....

The subjects of this article are homeless. Maybe they should have something

akin to apartment-hotels? For people who don't have great or verifiable history. To tell the truth

these things would be full in a second. Or do a program similar to seattle where organizations

bought a set number of apartments and just let people live there........ On this very premise. I.e. . individuals couldn't provide certain requireds. They did it because of the large number of homeless individuals who weren't getting into shelters, were chronically homeless and were freezing to death. I think similar pilot programs have occured. Like the wet programs where you can drink.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/us/05homeless.html

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/wet-homeless-shelters-can.html

http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/wet_shelters_save_money_and_lives

You thought I was shitting you! It does kind of make sense. Personally, I've had an extensive substance abuse history. While I'm clean and sober, there's just some you're never gonna convert. They'd rather die than lack their fifth.

Kids These Days

I was on a morning bus at Godawfull thirty trying to get warm. I'm near the driver and there's an older gentleman, I'd say in his 50s ranting. Which would be intolerable in most circumstances but given the form the argument took became unbearable.

It went something like this;

"Kids these days are lazy, they don't want to work.

Back in my day I got something out of an honest days work.

I was talking to my nephew and he doesn't have a job. He's

22 and says he has no references. What I think it is? He doesn't

want to work."

Reguardless I didn't give up my elderly handicap seat to him. In fact

when he came to sit down I put my backpack in the prospective seat. He walked away

grumbling about "no respect for elders" or something similar.

You want the truth. No I don't automatically respect my elders. I don't care if your ninety

if you're an asshole you're an asshole. Respect isn't a birthright nor is it a given. It's earned.

Give me reason to respect. Unless I have something tangible you can go screw. Especially,

in this case where said individual pissed me off. Now if he was handicap thats different,

I'd have gotten up out of my seat. But he was fully mobile.

The problems I have with his argument.

a. He automatically writes off millions by the actions of one person.

b. He gives his nephew no benefit of doubt.

Having no references (verifiable) at "thirty" I can vouch

finding employment is a task. As far as employers are

concerned I may as well spent the last decade in prison.

c. He exemplifies his generation above all others.

Well grandpa, first off unless you have amnesia the golden years weren't so golden. Every

generation has it's share or shit and even "back in your day" there were

slackers. Slackers are a omnipresent figment throughout time.

Laziness isn't exponential.

I heard a similar "kids these days" argument in reguards to music. A man told me, in his

50s,
"you kids don't know real music back in my day the music was MUSIC."

My problems with his argument.

a. Thanks for dumping me with the glam rap and pop idiots.

b. Sorry with the advent of the internet this argument is dead.

Why b? Well, most teens I've met like a wide range of music spanning decades. They have

instantaneous access to any genre, era or generation. Internet killed radio and mtv. The only thing billboard tells us is the stuff idiots are listening to and buying. Purchase power is the key factor. It's becoming a rarity to sell more than a million units. Thank God. The online media evolution is the ultimate in quality control and crap festering. Are the "big name" artists the ones that are making the mark. Some mark but it's a dying breed.

I met a guy who's IPOD included Ella fitzgerald, 2pac, Robert Johnson, the blues brothers, Bach, the pixies, weezer, CBO, South Park Mexican, Dj Shadow, Jerry Lee Lewis , Hank Williams,Cro Mags, etc..

Etc. in case you don't know is a major talent :). JK It's just a sample of modern tastes.