We Thrive to be Heard!

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde

We all want to be heard... but for what reason?


I find my life is very segregated- well my body is not, but I divide my words, thoughts and subjects through out the Internet and I should consider consolidating them.


1.  Facebook- Is the real me that has real people that I currently (or at some time in my life) know.


2.  Twitter- @petpisces- Is the real, real me (but with a code name)because you can't see me, don't know me... and it might generate blog views.  I like twitter at times... sometimes I'll go through spells and tweet a lot and retweet cute "must haves."


3. Blogger- Is the really, really real me.  I'm still just a little skeptical about my comfort zone.  But I've crawled a ways out of my skin here.. if you can't tell by some of my radical posts.  Here I am more me than anywhere else.  The me I am in my thoughts.  The me you won't see in person because my opinions aren't popular and I'm not into debate- I'm pretty shy when it comes to being different.


4. Pinterest- Creative me...  Love pinterest!


I'm trying to delete my Facebook account because I feel I can't be me. I watch what I say.  Delete posts that I think may be taken wrong by particular types of people. I want to comment ugly things on posts that are ignorant.  I judge people by the photos they post.  I am all the time judging.  Most of the things I want to say will make it to a blog post at some point anyhow...


Do you have a "really, really, real" version of you that you keep secret?

Facebook- For Men

Most men acknowledge the Man Code Law, it's inherent in men. It works like other laws- they serve as protection and abiding by the law ensures two things-

1. A lady will know she has a real man

2. The man keeps his respect and the identity as a man.


This law gravitates and is applied to anything social. Facebook is a great tool to see who does and who does not obey the Man Code Law.

The man who keeps his man card status in check does not post up to the minute / up to date status updates. If he does post a status, it should be informative or applicable to a man approved hobby, sport, music, movie, etc..- this complete list was handed out at time of entering manhood.

How can you tell if a man on Facebook has lost his man card?

1. He posts (unless it's purely informative) about his relations with girlfriends (if you're not clear on a particular post, look at who comments or likes the post- Do more women respond or do more men respond?).

2. When he posts about his looks, his hair, his clothes or in any other way expresses that he thinks too much about himself, he is acknowledging he is fine and dandy with not having a man card.

3. He posts status updates that should be directed to one person (apologies, begs for forgiveness or outcries of undying love- no matter how subtle) ----should not be posted by a man card holding man on Facebook. Ever.

4. Status updates are being groomed, having been groomed or discuss grooming appointments for all of Facebook land to see.

5. If he earns frequent flyer miles for posting more than a couple times per week, he is expressing attention seeking behaviors that surely qualifies as ground for revocation of his man card.

Manly Pictures- Man card holders are entitled to one self-taken photo to share. More than this and he appears to be just darn weird.

Men should NEVER undress and stand in front of the bathroom mirror to capture this shot. Some of us are wondering if he just pooped, fixing to poop or needing privacy from mama. Bottom line, bathrooms are not backgrounds for your image.

There isn't a known remediation for the man who has lost his man card by breaking the Man Code Laws, however if you suspect that you are in the process of losing it, it is of best interest that you follow the guidelines listed on your man packet and try again.

****It is important to understand the man card isn't revoked for using Facebook. It's the behavior you display it that threatens your man status.

Last but not least- Men don't poke other men.



Until next time!!!!

My Christian Friends Think I'm Christian

My Christian friends think I'm Christian because I ventured in for a bit and really haven't declared my freedom from years of brainwashing..   I got sucked in to Christianity. Who am I?  I’m a searcher.  A griper.  A complainer and an extremely judgmental girl.  Not necessarily judging people according to my standards but according to theirs- it’s sort of like my life is all about calling bluff!

It is what it is.  There is no right or wrong in general, just right or wrongs based on individual standards. or legislature.

But what are my beliefs??? 
Science and religion are correct!

There is a Creator; an energy that created everything.  I believe the creator to be a mind and to be everything.  I believe God is in us.  Our heads.  Our minds.  We're connected to the power source that created us.  He's the wind, the energy, the sunlight, the rain.  The force that causes the Earth to be alive with wind, rain, volcanoes, avalanches, tornadoes, mudslides. 

God is Life.
He's like what makes a battery work.

Power. Force. Energy. Gravity.

I do not believe him to be a man, or a committee of three men.  I do not feel He is there and we are here.  He is in us as we are in Him; we're an extension of God; life, energy, and power.

We are here to experience life.  I believe we have as much time as we want here. 

I believe we are a soul- We were alive perhaps as energy before we got our bodily vehicles and we'll live after we have worn out our bodily vehicles. 


If I'm wrong, so be it.  I don't remember my life preconception and I can't see into the future so I'm not going to waste too much time arguing the afterlife.

We are here to experience a bodily life and to be happy.  or miserable.  or both. 


I think we're here because we wanted to be here.  We are in THIS body because that's the FLESH MOBILE that was available at the time of our arrival here. 

Abortion or Miscarriage =  No vacancy for the soul to enter. 
The soul goes to the next Flesh Mobile available.  That's my best answer. 
Why? Because I don't think we have the ability to actually KILL - (sending "life" to heaven or hell)

Okay- here it is- I don't believe in Heaven and Hell.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN HEAVEN  to be a place to go after you die
IF you belong to the Republican party
IF you're good / 
IF you're saved / 
IF you're saved- BUT not gay AND don't have abortions BUT you can KILL in a war...
NOPE-No Heaven when you die.

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN HELL to be a place to go to after you die 
IF you belong to the Democratic party
IF you're bad, 
IF you're not saved, 
IF you kill babies 
IF you are gay

 there is NO COSMIC, Godly rule against GAYS, DEMOCRATS, INTERRACIAL DATING...etc.  

Christianity In a Nutshell:

*A belief in God, God in human form, and God in us. Trinity, you have to believe in all of them. 


*Ten commandments--You're not supposed to do anything listed there.  NEVER EVER.  But if you do, you can ask for forgiveness and it'll be okay- but ONLY if you ASK Jesus to be YOUR LORD and personal saviour-- because this REALLY MEANS that you don't even have to do the whole TEN COMMANDMENT thing... Nope you're exempt! woohooo! 


*Oh yeah, you can only go to Heaven if you have done that... if you don't you'll go to Hell.


*THE BEST PART ABOUT ALL THAT IS :  Once you've done all that- you can tell everyone where they are going if they do something against the Commandments (even if you don't know whether that person has asked for forgiveness and has Jesus as their Lord and personal savior)....You are RIGHTEOUS and get to do this :)


BACK TO MY OPINIONS

What do I think about Jesus?  I love Jesus.
Jesus got it (so did Buddha and Martin Luther King, Jr and lots others). 


Unlearn everything you were taught about religion, start fresh and read the Bible, really read in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John (this is where you read about Jesus)... You get something pretty close to this explanation here:


Jesus got upset at people and their religious Hypocrisy (the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have).

He thought about it- in fact he became concerned with what religion told him (at a very early age) that he spent a lot of time studying it.
He figure out God wasn't what they were teaching the people.  
He bashed religion.  and Church. 

He got it.  He got the meaning to life. He taught how to live.  How to be.  How to get what he got/ achieve the peace he achieved.  He was a teacher.  A loving teacher.


The disciples were understudies.  They were supposed to understand it as FULLY as Jesus.  They did most of it but it but Jesus died before they could REALLY understand what Jesus was teaching them.

This one man was getting followers and more were believing him and all this was upsetting the way the others (jews) had set up EVERYTHING! the way they lived; the way they had control over people.


They went after him.  This one man caused so much upset to disprove the wrong things in to make a change- a big change.  They killed him.  Can't have this ANYMORE.  

His followers made him a God.

You know how when someone is dying they tell you things.  They tell you it's important you remember.  You hear it, but don't understand it... but in time the "AHA" thingy clicks- out of nowhere... you realize what they needed you to remember. 

I think that happened. While grieving over the loss of their friend, their leader.  They mulled over their time together.  and it hit him- he had to be God.  This isn't what Jesus told them to do.....................

Then they went to tell people about it- EVERYONE. 

(Meanwhile)

Saul had been after them (the Jesus followers)- all of them who bought in to the "mess" that Jesus taught.  He killed all (the Jesus followers) he could because he fought for his religion. BUT ONE DAY- he got it.  The "AHA" thingy clicked.  He was in the middle of nowhere... probably mulling over the whole "good news" thing... and it bought knocked it down.  (the bible story is WAY more metaphoric).  but he thought about it and in order to believe it as a truth, God must confirm it.  But it seems so right... what if Jesus.... was... God...  He HAS TO BE, Oh my GOOODNESSSSSS!

Saul wasn't a persecutor anymore so he changed his name to Paul.
Paul went to tell everyone about it. (he was SOOO excited you can just see him running!!!)

(now he understood what Jesus had taught, but he added that Jesus was God to it so what he learned and understood wasn't the purpose of his sharing).

They started up a church because God came and taught us this stuff-
Then they made up rules... 
Then Paul sent letters trying to educate them...
and then they made more RULES to go by (and to correct the other rules) to ensure you understand it.

The teachings get lost to more as aspirations-- achievements if you were perfect. 

THE GOOD NEWS is this: if you believe what Jesus taught was true, then all that stuff is not real.


The teachings were realizations.  The teachings are things you have to REALIZE and then you have peace.

Then there were arguments and changes and better versions.

The people split into denominations and faiths.

Classic.

I believe in God, the Creator.
I love that Jesus taught me that all the man made stuff isn't the secret to Heaven (happiness).
I love that I am free to experience life as I wish- without condemnation.
I love Jesus.
I love Martin Luther King Jr. just the same.
EXTRAORDINARY, REMARKABLE, LOVING, LIFE CHANGING.


My friends think I'm Christian because I haven't told them the way I see things..... 

Tim Tebow and Jesus Christ

I read an interesting thought on Deep Thoughts and was compelled to inject my opinion- For some reason I liked it and found my opinion valuable and so it became blog-worthy...


So the article is about a church trying to raise $50k to persuay Tim Tebow to speak to Christians.  The thought is good, the article is good- Read it: Would Jesus charge a speaker’s fee?

My Thoughts on the matter (commented on the blog):

What's interesting is the comparison of Jesus and a praying football player who has received too much attention.

The media AND the outspoken, bible pushing Christians hail Tim Tebow as if he were Jesus Christ gone Football!

Now, I'm not following everything said about Tim in the media and I really try to avoid it as much as possible because it sickens me to no end, however I don't think Tim is going about TRYING to talk about his beliefs and brainwash folks..

The mere fact that a religious organization is chasing after this man for Christian reinforcement is ridiculous-as if the Church is saying "we're losing, we need a celebrity on this."

In my opinion, he's an onfield prayer whom I assume to be christian and people have found a new martyr (to some extent he'll be persecuted).

I honestly feel bad for him- he will be judged if he kisses a girl or takes a drink THANK THA LORD he walked a straight line while in Vegas the other week! I bet he had a woman and some drinks in his room tho *wink!

I encourage your response- please comment-

Pro Life Pushers

...if life is so sacred, then stop supporting wars...

This has been eating at me ever since I read the news story that said .
they'll be showing abortion picture commercials during super bowl.

You haven't seen it? Click here: Pro Life ads to air during Super Bowl

If you aren't for something, then don't be apart of it and leave the darn government out of it.

If you are REALLY Pro~Life, stop supporting wars and capital punishment and hunting as well as abortion.

Life is life, whether is new, old or furry.

If you argue "we need to kill people in order to keep our freedom" then understand when a woman has to make the same choice. I'm pretty sure she ain't all excited about going through what she's chosen to do.

Some things are not your nor my business.

They sure don't advertise dead people on the news or commercials, and I'm appalled that they're even considering doing spots on abortion.

LIFE IS LIFE IS LIFE.  Treat it the same.

Please enjoy the wise words of Mr. Carlin:)












They sure don't advertise dead people on the news or commercials, and I'm appalled that they're even considering doing spots on abortion.


LIFE IS LIFE IS LIFE.





Treat it the same. Or just shut up and live.










Please enjoy the wise words of Mr. Carlin:)










The Chantix Dream

Since early December, I've been on the Chantix journey.  In the beginning, all I heard from others?  

"Just wait til you have the Chantix Dream!"

I began investigating!  I messaged people who've taken Chantix, I pulled them aside, I questioned on Facebook (of course, why wouldn't I have),

"Please, you must tell me what the Chantix dream is."

One guy told me that for him, the Chantix dream was very emotional.  He awakened from sleep all FORLORN and HEARTBROKEN for he had experienced true love and knew he'd never see her again.

Meanwhile, I had been reporting my dreams as if they were true trips I'd take nightly.

FINALLY THE CHANTIX DREAM CAME about 2 weeks in to therapy (hehe, therapy).  

And here it is:

I, along with a few other girls, am in a BIG old (70s) Plymouth car.

Driving.

We come to what may have been the Mississippi River. The road STOPS at the river bank.

It was HUGE and a sparkly iridescent blue- the most beautiful water imaginable.

The water is DEEP.

(I am afraid of water- like this)

We must drive into the water and float across.

LIKE A MILE or 500 BILLION.

Car dives in

I look around and notice the "boat of a car" afloat.

I became confident.

Then happy

Then EXCITED and raised my hands up in the air and shouted

"OH MY GOD!  BEFORE I WOULD HAVE BEEN SCARED TO DEATH but WITH CHANTIX I FEEL SO ALIVE!!

 

Have you had  "The Chantix Dream???" 

Always Do What You Can

 "Always do what you can to help and encourage others to help each other.  Don't do something out of pressure so step away if you feel you should."

It was late spring and some horrible tornadoes had ripped through several US towns leaving thousands homeless. It left thousands without clothes as well. I was looking at an overstuffed closet feeling pretty darn greedy. I wanted to donate what I could to these misplaced families. I couldn't. Red Cross doesn't accept clothing. So there I was. With too much. Wanting to help people. Cannot.

Why not donate to Goodwill? Because I know there are folks in my area that cannot even afford to shop anywhere, even if it's Goodwill. Then I think of how many people could be in need. And I bet they all don't happen to wear my size! Men, Women, Teen Girls, Teen Boys, Girls, Boys, Toddler Girls, Toddler Boys, Infant Girls, Infant Boys. I couldn't help much even if I announced that they could come by my house!

A month or so rolls by when I'm struck with an idea. The idea was overwhelming. I had to act. It was just one of those things.

I called up my (at the time) christian girl group friend and shared this news. I called the next. They were encouraging and embracing the idea with a sense of importance. I was motivated to set the project in motion.  It became the Community Clothing Swap and it goes like this: Announce location for a set date along with set hours. Folks in the community bring the clothes they want to donate and they shop through what others have brought. Perfect!

So what did we do? Well, we got in touch with the local Ruritan Club and they agreed to host our event. I went on the radio with the Mayor of our town and promoted this heavily.

And so we had it and so it was great!

There were leftovers- A LOT. People had donated trash bags full of clothes and shoes and more. When my group discussed this before the fact, we agreed to have a charity pick it up. This didn't happen. One of the girls called up a local church and wanted to store all this stuff. I'm talking 3 truck loads of stuff.

I wasn't happy. I mean this isn't my business and I'm not the president of the event, per say, but I still felt pretty pissed! This isn't what was discussed. Moreover, it was an incredibly freaking hot ass day, not to mention record high humidity and we're packing the shit up. (sense the giving heart has turned).

Alright, we schedule our next swap- I handle the website, the contact with mayor the poster designs and printing. Meanwhile, I am arguing back and forth with the group about storing (now crap) in between Swaps! Their argument was that GOD blessed them with all the clothes and it should be kept, no matter how much hard work had to go into it.

My argument was, the first swap went fine... after another swap, we'll be overwhelmed. I will tell you, I am not a fan of too much work. Besides, if GOD blessed the first swap, would he not the second? Geez.

And then a second swap- we went to the church and picked up the 3 truck loads of stuff. It had been stored in a basement, inside cardboard boxes. Guess what that combination invite? mold and roaches.

There were some people who came to the swap that felt in their hearts to donate money. One of the girls took it.  I was pissed.  We are not charity.  We don't take money.

Their argument- it'll be used to buy storage boxes.  Then someone donated a baby crib.  One of the girls rallied to AUCTION the crib. I was pissed.  We are not charity.  We don't take money.

Their argument- we can get enough money to pay for a storage unit to store all this stuff.  I announced I was out.  I was out of it all.  I had become so infuriated that I am no longer friends with the 6 girls.

Next thing you know, they are auctioning off "big ticket items" that have been donated at swaps for money- their goal- $1000.  No accounts.  No accountability in money handling.  I saw a money making thing that I wanted no part of.  Everyone on the outside was upset with me because I didn't keep the swap, since it was my idea. A part of me felt the same way. A part of me wanted to keep the Community Clothing Swap as my own thing.  But I was struck with a comforting feeling. And I was reassured....I wanted to have a swap and I got to have a swap. Two of them, actually! Mission completed.

Moral of the story is this.  Always do what you can to help and encourage others to help each other.  Don't do something out of pressure so step away if you feel you should.  

Duke Energy- Money to be Made in Winter

Have you considered this?  Duke Energy, just as the cold months were approaching, bumped your utility bill and heard your cries of affordability.  

Doesn't it make you mad to hear the "Sweater Ad?"  Doesn't ring a bell? It's the one Duke airs on the radio suggesting that  "if YOU want a lower energy bill, how bout you drop the thermostat down some, punk."  

Yep, You're gonna have to keep your 2° cooler if you'd like to see 3% decrease in your bill!

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Military Bullets

This is one of those posts that will piss off majority of its readers.  But mostly it will because of their 'in box' thinking.  Guess what, this is my blog and these are my considerations.

One day, I began writing a letter to God because I thought I could be more open and honest with my thoughts- I mean, we just can't mask what we really thing from Him, ya know!

I'm sharing the nutshell of the letter from September; the time when patriotism rings her loudest.  I don't ask that you agree with me, nor hate me for my attempt to understand things at their basic level.  I only ask you consider what is before you.

Freshly on mind is the military support arguments.  Apparently, everyone but the government supports them according to the media and the folks who talk about what they saw on the news.  Here is my attempt to look at the basics of this matter- as this is my attempt to look at it, consider it, accept what I understand and to reject what isn't rational.

• We have a military in place to protect US soil
• but isn't this God's soil?
• If we are protecting US soil, why are we active in all the other territories but our own?
• Why does the US think he is world government to say what is right and wrong and to invade other countries?
• Why do people "join" the military?
• If people join for 'manly', patriotic reasons, why is compensation required AFTER service? Shouldn't he simply do his job? Why is getting benefits forever needed?  
• Is this to persuade men to enlist?
• If they join for 'freedom' purposes, tell me what is freedom?
• If a man chooses to join a branch of military, he is agreeing that he will fight and kill others as needed as directed by his officials.  He signs up knowing the probability of going to war.
• He knows that by going to war, he will be away from his loved ones in the US, he will be living in conditions that he is trained to survive in, but not accustomed to living in.
• Reiterating that he decides to join the military, knowing all the above mentioned details.
• Okay, then we look at the common American, the ones who "support our troops"
• Why do they rally them on?
• Why do they really think the war being fought is needed to keep our land- when our land isn't being fought over?
• Why must we send care packages when they chose to do this job, away from many items and away from "love"
• Why must we go on and on about patriotism and claim that You are on OUR side?
• Why do we think we are right?
• Why do we think others' affairs are our business?  Doesn't peace come when we MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS?
• God, if we are praying to win these fights, I can only imagine our enemy's are praying the same prayer- which puts You in the position to choose sides!  What a dangerous tug of war we get ourselves into.
• Lastly, what pisses me off is hearing that people join the military for a free education and gripe when they are called to duty.  

Yes, I believe we need every branch of military.  No, I am not knocking them.  Really, it's the rallying dumb-asses stateside crying for military rights and benefits that get under my skin.  The "If you won't stand behind them, then stand in front of them" people I'd really like to slap.  Get real people.  Joining the military is a choice. Everyone has to be on a bandwagon at some point.  I'm just on the one that bitches!

Day at the Races- the Presidential Races

Well it’s here- the point in the race that makes you think that running for president is a big fat joke.

Let’s face it, what human being has not done bad things?  Every person who has held office had done something bad at some point in his life, if not every day.  You are just as qualified in the “I’ve done good things” department as any candidate in this 2012 presidential election and not all “bad things” in his closet disqualify him from being able to move this country forward. Okay? accept it. 

It's obvious the “good man” persona has fallen away from the republicans and they have now resorted to mudslinging.  Are you going to choose your leader to be the winner of a mud wrestling contest?  Get fed up already!! It’s high times you do!

So what’s the joke?  They all laugh now- apparently presidential candidates’ coaching techniques change through the years, so now you see them doing a lot of laughing these days.  GROW UP.  Laughter doesn’t make him closer to you, nor does it make him more likeable; he looks like a nervous idiot displaying faux confidence.

The fact is being President of the United States of America is the biggest position one can hold.  Some folks vote by party, some based on religious views but at the end of the day the vote should be based on WHAT IS THE CANDIDATE  OFFERING TO DO FOR YOU.

Fellow Americans, have you forgotten that the fate of this country is in our hands?  Take your attention away from the mudslinger and look to the one standing there in front of you with an objective to put this country; to put YOU back on your feet.

One man has a plan.  Review that plan.  Does it work for you?  If so, vote for him. One man just wants to be president and will do anything to get your vote- he doesn’t have a plan to help YOU- he just wants to throw dirt at the man who does.

Lastly, if no cadidate offers anything for you; if you do not believe in any of them; if no candidate secures your vote- DO NOT VOTE.

FALSE: OMG! It's is an Epidemic!

"Here's the thing, folks- Our bodies were designed to maintain and repair itself.  In order to do so, you must give it what it needs to function- not just 'oh I ate healthy today' because really you did nothing for yourself, you must refuel your body with what it takes to run as it uses it."



Cancer is going to kill us all...RUN!!!

 People respond to disease in this manner "(insert ailment here) attacked and is killing"... "OMG  (insert ailment here)  is an epidemic."  Cancer is a personified villain roaming the streets taking out the good people.


Cancers, Diabetes, will never be curable.  Pills are great in masking pain, but the truth is, research is just a money making industry.


You must decide here and now your destiny.  This is up to you and you alone.  Natural Selection is already at work and he may have your number on his "next to be called list."


I sit among my fellow humans and observe the behavior and this is what I can report- They don't eat for shit; the live on fast food, pizza, cheeseburgers, french fries and chicken nuggets.  They make fun of brussel sprouts and garlic and free time is vegging out on chips and Oreo's on the couch, while loading up on Red Bull or Budweiser then top it off by smoking cigarettes saying "smoking don't really hurt people."


If this you, Natural Selection has your number and don't be so alarmed when your doctor wants to give you synthetic chemicals to slow the process.

Food, The right food, is a life saver.  But you must act now.

Each of us sat in Health classes.  Each of us learned about the food groups.  Each of us learned there are nutrients in certain foods that are good for us.  Sadly, what we learned in grade school is this- Calcium builds strong bones and you get it from Milk.  Carrots are good for your eyes but mama only puts them in stew.  Greens keep your back straight.  That's probably the extent of it.  Then we looked at a food chart that was in the shape of a triangle (below):

This food chart is directing you BUILD up.  Breads and grains should be the foundation of every meal. Next, add your fruits and veggies then build up accordingly.  The problem with the picture is that it has been viewed by mostly stupid ignorant people and this is how the triangle is interpreted- Fats and sugars are on top of the totem poll, breads and grains are at the bottom.  Don't believe me?  Look at the average dinner plate...........

Here's the thing, folks- Our bodies were designed to maintain and repair itself.  In order to do so, you must give it what it needs to function- not just 'oh I ate healthy today' because really you did nothing for yourself, you must refuel your body with what it takes to run as it uses it.

Being overweight is a symptom, not a condition.  An overweight body is saying "I cannot handle what you are doing to me."  Guys, cut it out- you're giving your body something (or more than enough of somethings) that it cannot pass.  

The system works this way- food goes in mouth, digestion begins.  Digestion is your body coming and looking at what you just gave it, it tears it to pieces like scavengers and taking away valuable finds (hint, nutrients).  After this process, the remains get trashed.  You aim to speed up this process (high metabolism) because the quicker the waste gets out of there, the less time you have for infection setting in the intestines from aging bacteria.  YUCK!  So for this reason, add fiber to your meals.  Fiber makes the waste heavy and it'll pass much faster than when lighter (imagine big kid on water slide versus the little skinny kid).  Promise- Google it :)

Here are some great links that can kick off your education.

First, you should know exactly what vitamins and nutrients you should be giving yourself EVERY DAY (this is why you see % of Daily Value on the side of the box when you read the serving size).

Daily Value Chart

This link below tells you what they do for your body.  Really read it- are you looking for a cure for a disease you have or wish to prevent it? 

Functions of Nutrients, Viatmins and Minerals

Okay, so now you know what they do for ya, how do you get them?  First you should know that you can take supplements, however if you want to be sure your body absorbs it- it's best to intake goodness with food..  The link below tells you from which foods you can get your nutrients.

Nutrients and their richest food sources

Dating Do Nots

I had a difficult time naming this entry because this isn't necessarily a guide to catching a keeper.
It's a "How to Behave" type of entry.

Step outside the box just for a minute and reflect on your behavior in your current courtship, but first, let us look at the facts:

1. You have children

2. You work to provide

3. You are rearing them

4. You cook

5. You have a house

6. You do the laundry, yard work, dishes, clean toilets and floors and take the trash to the dump and even fix crap you despise fixing simply because you have no choice.

7. You pay your bills- on time/ late but you stress and aim to do it- because you have to.

8. I could go on and on

When everything is quiet, you read when you can, watch movies, paint your nails, take a hot steamy baths and go shopping... when you can and if you can afford to... Sometimes, you want a man. Of course! Look at what all is going on! You're alone! Imagine the stress from the list above you could cross out if only you had that partner in life.

So what do you do? This is what you SHOULD NOT DO!!! Don't woo him, flatter him and beg him to be your man. Don't wait for him, caress him and tell him how bad you want him. Why?

I wrote another piece on this- read it- Leader of the Pack

We're all animals on this earth. You are the alpha female. He should pick you out, woo you, flatter you and beg you to be his woman. He should adore you so much that he just can't rest without knowing he'll be taking care of your kids and you.

You have everything in your world. Let him prove himself- and don't go committing your destiny to this guy if he hasn't proved to be the following: to be big enough, strong enough, friendly enough, and smart enough to be the leader of your pack.

Do not chase the man.  Do not invite him out.  Do not ask him to stay. Do not be waiting for him.  Do not stop your routines because you meet someone new.  Do not REARRANGE your calendar or stop everything for HIM.

UNLESS you meet this criteria right here---> you are homeless.

I thought I was done but I must put this out there. If you are single and dating...if you have a home, a job, a car- KEEP THEM! They go by another name- Independence.  Do not drop everything you have in life to be "kept" because at that point- he owns you. DUH.

If you are not married, he should NEVER co sign... on anything. If you can't get it on your own, you don't need it.

We are Wolves!

It's easy to understand families when you learn to understand wolves.  It may also help in the dating world because it's apparent that men and women alike tend to forget their place.  When you know your place, you'll know what you're looking for. I'm sharing the wolves information as taken from another blog, Terrierman's Daily Dose for my comparison.  Do read on!!!

This is describing the make up of a wolf pack- which I compare to human family:

You see, a wolf pack is made up of a single dominant male, a single dominate female, and several satellite females, generally from previous whelps. Male wolves are driven out around or by 18 months of age because by then, the young males of these respective species are big enough to hunt on their own and yet they are also beginning to become potential rivals for females. The top male cannot have that.

It is suppose to work this way in the human world too.  Father, mother, children.  They should leave the home.  period.

Reiterating that you need to prepare your children to be adults.  They must leave the home:

Dominance creates wolf packs and dominance maintains wolf packs. The driving out of adolescent males is at the core of how wolf packs are created and maintained. This is dominance. And it is Wolf Pack 101.

And here's the human mama- she's wolf like too:

What about females? The female wolves in a wolf pack also have their dominance issues. You see with wolves, there may be many mature females in the pack, but there will almost always be only one female who will come into estrus, be mated, and whelp.


How it works.... Pay attention ladies!
How is that "top female" determined? Well, the male picks her, of course (or vice versa if the pack has lost its alpha male). The individual picked is generally the healthiest and strongest female in the group - the one that all the other females are submissive to.


Family started, then what???:
A strong and lucky male may hold a top slot for as long as a decade, but more often that not the top male will die from injuries or disease long before that. And with that male's death, a new male, from outside the pack, will be recruited and a complete out-cross achieved.


Single mama now?  What to do?:
This doesn't happen overnight. A new Alpha doesn't just "get to claim territory,"The Alpha Female of the pack, will let a new alpha male spend about 6 hours, bowing, flexing, strutting, sniffing, and facing down all the females in the pack before he is deemed to be big enough, strong enough, friendly enough, and smart enough to be the leader. And in the end, the older, but still fertile, alpha female can be won over and the old leader's slot be handed to him.


I hope this resonates with you. 

Single ladies,

Stop hunting for your pack leader.  When you're approached by a man, let him bow, flex, strut and all that.  Let him work to get your approval.  Don't just make him leader because he's the first one that comes around!!!  

Read more about wolf behavior here: Dominance Creates and Maintains Wolf Packs

I would love to get your feedback- please leave a comment!!!

Cure for Allergies

Allergies have risen nearly twenty percent in the last decade- both food,pollen, animal dander alike.

After following my thoughts on the subject I've accepted this idea: Imported fruits and vegetables are to blame for the seasonal/pollen allergy crisis.


It's a known remedy or myth that eating local honey would immunize your system from these threats. 


I bet if we looked into the last hundred years, I imagine these allergies did not exist- why? Because people ate what they grew or bought from a local gardener. 


All fruits and vegetables contain local pollen and when digested, the body is then able to accept/ properly fight off anything harmful before exposure to the respiratory system. 


This is NOT like receiving a flue shot---it's better!


What we have now is imported fruits and vegetables containing pollens and air contaments not common in your residing location. In NC, our markets offer oranges from Florida, grapes from California, corn from Nebraska, and we even partake in exotic fruits outside our continent.


I believe this earth offers only good stuff to keep our bodies healthy, it is up to us to relearn the important factors.

Self

Self becomes reliant on another for life and happiness when the only nourishment source comes from another self that occupies another body. Forming a dependence on having a relationship with another self as means of survival is a mind game one places on his own self.

He becomes depressed when refused happiness but it is self who negotiates and defines what should make him happy.

Self must learn to look out the window at freedom and take hold of the key he’s swallowed that locks him into his own captivity. He must run away from the confines he places on himself. A relationship with another self is great and should be enjoyed, as with all activities. A relationship should never be the ones source of happiness.

Selves are created equally. All selves are supplied with the same ingredients. It's the ability to grow the self that sets him a part from the others. Self reliance is bravery and envied by other selves. Self learns dependency at an early age and it's the strong, successful is the parent who teaches the little selves to be self reliant, to create his own world and to grow it.

Unity is to become one. This cannot exist. Until the self realizes there is no other self to complete the self, he'll never realize his value and purpose. Two cannot become oneself, nor one- whichever he feels he desires. Another cannot complete in one that one needs to fulfill on his own. Completeness is created in the mind by self nourishment.

Follow your thoughts and dreams because that is your expression of life.
One's role model should only be those who are self reliant.

Self is responsible for his learning. Knowledge is free. Schooling is the foundation for methodical learning and a degree is but a label of establishment in order to impose a learning.

Learn how to learn. Teach how to learn. Encourage to challenge your own abilities.

Breathe.

There is no enemy nor hero but the self.
There is no life but the one experienced by the self and death is the denial of self.
Self can only be caged by his own will.
He can only be victimized by his own will.
He can only be hurt by his own will.
He negotiates his own terms for living and means of happiness.

The Brain is Like the Universe

True liberation is the spirit on the mountaintop arms wide open because no one thing in the world limits its ability to think. 

Break away from the world’s attempts to suppress and repress the soul’s understanding; honor the mind's invigorating motive to explore every outlet of the neocortex.


The mind is as infinite as the universe. You can never reach an end to a thought, you’ll only reach a point of satisfaction of a thought and that happens when you accept an understanding of a subject. 


Knowledge is growing the thought patterns, following them and building them by exploring thought. No thought is erased. No idea is lost as it will resurface in its due time.

Save Humanity, Not the Earth!

I'm considering the "Save the Earth" slogan and really it's is not saving the earth at all, it's "Save Humanity," as pointed out by a friend. 


We're not destroying the earth with our garbage, we're simply making inhabitable over time for the humans. So, I was right- it's not to"Save the Earth" our reasons for going "Green." 


Quite frankly- everything made on earth was made by something of the earth. The earth has and endless supply of all kinds of goodness. 

And just when the earth has had enough, she erupts her volcanos and desolves human work; she releases her winds to reclaim her landscape; she implodes her waters and spits it ashore to digest our efforts to defeat her.

Man will continue to try and dominate the earth, the earth will always prove to be bigger, better, faster, self sufficient and self reliant. She will always win.

Heaven

It is my heaven to be lost in my thoughts with my pen. When in need of inspiration, I return to a book whose author embraces his heaven and invites me into it; it opens up a new window to my heaven.  Glory is the revelation to understand his picturesque language of choice that so intricately defines his heaven to an extent that grows my heaven!  The world is of thought and heaven is experienced as soon as we visit or feel it.  To be filled so fully with wonder and inspiration, to allow the Kingdom of Heaven be realmed inside of us is baptism and this is the true experience of love.

No material thing in this world could ever provide the pleasures of heaven.  Beauty lies within the heart; the mind, not in looks but in the awakening from within.   The world forms us to be outward in action but you must wake up your inside!  Observe, not to judge what you see but to build your heaven.  This is our meaning.  Life is in the waters that flow within!  People are the winds that create the currents, yourself- the boat with a destiny.  Let the waters take you where it may and heaven is the experience of peace!

We long to do things in the flesh- vacations to mountains and coasts, to tropical isles and sunny deserts but that is not where the satisfaction is.  There will only be dissatisfaction in the flesh but the experience in the mind, in the thought, in the language that builds the idea or the dream that creates a smile in the heart.  The answer is within!  No medications, nor foods, nor man's interpretations can satisfy the hunger for heaven and the longing to return to it!

It is a disease that we suffer works, giving ourselves to employers, to works for people and arguments over views of anything.  Once heaven is experienced by anyone, the answer is known to him.  For we long to return to heaven while we are away doing the fleshy things man requires of us.  The pressures we bring upon ourselves, making us slaves to anything, to any person, to any object.

Blessed are the homeless, the jobless, the fatherless, the childless and the friendless.  For the freedom of heaven is his, without interruption!  Nothing pulls him away from heaven to answer to the world.  He is in the world, but not of it and therefore it serves him.  He submits to no one, nor is he forced to be anyone who he isn't.  He lives in his privacy and God is with him.

What man calls disfigurement or deformity is not of the individual for he is most honorable!  Blessed is he whose embodiment is immobile as his expectations to perform in this world is not demanded.  Notice how he smiles!  He may be without communication or expression to tell you about it, but he has it!

How stupid is the one that gets caught up with the world and with performances! Emerson best paints with vocabulary his understanding.  The blessed man invited me to share the secret to heaven.  Seeds are thoughts and oh how they grow! They grow as the reach the paper- never to be forgotten.  Perhaps heaven, of thinking and writing his world, belong to the poet.  But aren't we all poets?   Dreams, imaginations and vacations are a piece of the mind, escape routes from the prisons of the world.

Free is the man locked up in solitude for he is able to experience heaven should he seek it.

Blessed is he who can forget the fears man has instilled in him.  Blessed is he who shows this instruction effectively to his children.  Blessed is the relationship when the couple both embrace heaven and fleshly requirements to fulfill a fleshy need.  Blessed is the humbled spirits and the unison of the two.

Cursed is the worldly man who work for desires.  For heaven will not be gotten.

Pen and Paper

Writing is Love...

Let the pen touch the paper, who longs to feel pen's smooth and simple touch. They were made for each other, for their togetherness is forever permanent unlike the pencil, whose color is gray and dull and forever correcting itself. The paper is true and humble, she accepts the good with the bad, the wrong with the right. Paper lies in wait for her mate who'll forever leave his impression on her heart.

Writing is a Dance...

When pen and paper touch a dance takes place. Paper, the foundation for the pen to show his stuff. His cursive language is beautiful as the curves of the letters seduce the lines- and often crosses them. As the paper smiles, the pen adds a few more curls to his loops and swagger to his moves- Paper to forever remember.

Writing is a Gift...

Because of words a ledger was created, first by pictures and simple symbols serving as instructions or clues then the alphabet took the lead.. Oh how precious it is and the art is overlooked! how we can communicate without speaking. One is never alone as long as he has a pen with no plans and paper looking for a touch and to create a world you don't even have to write much! The new world takes form and it's your duty to explore the new land. Each stroke of the pen adds color across the hills, flowers and clouds fill landscapes and birds take flight into the air. The imagination builds the ship that sail seas and gulls that calls overhead. Beautiful are words. Beautiful are thoughts. Beautiful is the pen and is the paper once you lived on it!

Recording Thoughts

"Follow your thought until you have thought as much about it as you can with the amount of knowledge you posses.  If you are reaching a conclusion on a matter, no matter the matter, let it satisfy you and you alone."

In a day, one can skim over thousands of thoughts.  If thoughts aren't fully thought through, where should they go but forever retained or suppressed into the subconsciousness and forgotten.

The many mini thoughts are perfectly happy in the subconsciousness- they are mostly mental notes of images and activities- snapshots.

But what about the subjects you wish to investigate?  You mustn't let it go, you must consider whatever subject it may be. A broken thought will lead nowhere therefore do not break it.

Record your mental note; write it down.  The road starts paving the way to the final destination; the conclusion.  

A fully thought out idea is a historical movement and shall serve good purposes to the future reader of the recorded thought. He may accept or reject the idea but that is neither here or there as the purpose is to show the reader the thought has been considered to the matter and what you've written shows how far you've gotten with it.

He either adds to the thought, uses the thought elsewhere or the written thought induces a whole other thought.  Recording thought is, in itself, a thought provoking process.

Follow your thought until you have thought as much about it as you can with the amount of knowledge you posses.  If you are reaching a conclusion on a matter, no matter the matter, let it satisfy you and you alone. 

Noting the thought as you think it paves the road so that the thought does not die.  A recorded or written thought becomes factual.

We are here because of thought and we are the cause of thought.  

We do as a result of thought and we have because of thought  

We will once we have thought it but cannot until we think it.