A Fictitious Design

Sitting here tryin to sort the the thoughts in my mind
There I find, that time is a fictitious design, assigning people tasks

To those who decline to ask. To those who wear masks

I bask in the thought that I don’t believe in time

Only believing in this instance, this worded sentence 

For it’s the only time that I’m given the chance for repentance 

This secular body, will soon breathe its last breath 

So I illustrate no fear of death, because my soul can never die 

I defy to imply that this world is all there is, and as a kid I always did 

So I trust that my soul will live for a timeless existence, 

I’m defined as subsistence, as God views me from a distance

The Somebodiness Of Me

     As this is a continuation to the previous post 'If anything matters, Everything matters'. My Friend Aron found this video of Ruby Dee, Dee is a well-known civil rights activists. Among others, She also is a member of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dee was personal friends of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.


   As I was listening to her to speak about "I am somebody because you, you make me somebody, because you, you are apart of me."  She conveys my whole post into a poem of passion, beauty, and grace.  She allows the audience to be apart of the poem, and most of all Ruby Dee shares the 'The Somebodiness of Me', and for that I thank her!

Faith, Hope, and Love

If Anything Matters, Everything Matters

    It is a simple saying yet, so abstruse. Any action you are participating in or any choice you eventually make, each of them, are like drops of water into a bigger body of water. Those drops of water no matter how small cause ripples on the surface, no matter the size of the puddle, creek, lake, or ocean.  That action or choice whether right or wrong, good or bad, causes a rippling effect in the world around us. You or me might not be aware of it's affect to others or our environment, but those actions and choices cause ripples in my water and others as well.


   These small drops create splashes and waves in the water that cause the surface of the entity to change. Those drops of water can be as simple as a march through the south for equality, and those drops of water can be as cruel as Katrina.  They can ripple through time for people who stand for change; those that swim against the current of conformity and those same drops can enslave a man for the color of his own skin or religious belief.  Those drops can create peace like Nelson Mandela or Genocide in Darfur.


   Hatred and Love are taught at least in my opinion, taught from the ripples of the actions of people who are unaware that their choices not only change themselves but the entity as a whole.  Whether the rippling effect is producing joy or pain is up to you, because If Anything matters, Everything matters.



Faith, Hope, and Love

You Just Can't Fix Stupid

   I feel that I may actually be deathly allergic to dumb, close minded people.  I heard via  a friends update on their facebook page, "that you just can't fix stupid".   I'm usually one to argue just about any topic, but this comment I relate to.  Can you really teach someone something if their cup is already full?  They feel like they know more than you because naturally their ego tells them that they are. The ego can tell the best lies quite often. Naturally you'll believe them eventually.

   Take for example this article I read the other day.  (http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/08/24/dumb-things-americans-believe.html)  I mean 1 in 5 Americans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. 61% of Americans do not believe in the theory of Evolution. That means only 39% believe Darwin with evidence in nature all around us. This leads me to the point that we as a society focus on things that are totally irrelevant instead of the "Real" problems of the world.

   If every American would read this article (http://www.buzzfeed.com/aestheticoctopus/facts-of-life-u4o) at least once a day, I feel maybe their ignorance could be lifted like a veil over the blind lambs eyes that follow the road to conformity. The one statement alone leaves me speechless "If you have money in the bank, your wallet and some extra change in your pocket you are among the top 8% of Worlds weatlh", more than 92% more than the rest of the world. It just baffles me to the point where I feel like I might lose faith in our system or worse become contaminated with their illness or catch the blindness that seems to be running rampant!  

   I feel like America has been conned right in our own home, and like any con the only person you can blame is yourself.  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe one said that "We can never be deceived; We only deceive ourselves" I follow this guy on twitter who Aron my friend referred me to, @umairh, who really is a revolutionary at least in his thinking and ideals. His Generation M Manifesto (http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2009/07/today_in_capitalism_20_1.html) is a summary of the problems formed from the stupidity of others in this country.  Our Ignorance has lead us to this collapse of our moral and economic systems due to greed and foolishness. People selected greed over steady growth, and my favorite excerpt from his article as it was written for the Old People that run our Country "You wanted to biggie size life: McMansions, Hummers, & McFood. We want to HUMANIZE LIFE.

Faith, Hope, and Love