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45 Seconds Of My Time

March21

Okay, so it’s not quite as sexy as some of the artwork on the site, but I made this picture in under a minute in Photoshop. So I am rather proud of it.

http://trimidium.deviantart.com/art/45-Seconds-116602371

(if you click download it will show you picture larger than just clicking on pic)

I have figured it out. The solution to all of life’s problems.

March14

I have come up with a way to make the entire world happier, and give control to the people.  A way to make a democracy and socialism work.  A way to totally fix the economy and ALL of life’s problems. 

This post is just a teaser, as I want the words I am writing to be in my book and not initially on my blog, so the book I said I started writing will be stuck on the backburner to make way for my new line of thought. 

As this gets written I will divulge more information.  I assure you, this is the way to fix the entire world and if this idea happens it would cause the entire world to be a different place by the end of 2012.  So instead of people worrying that the world will end, they will see that it will have just changed and improved.  All life in the universe will be improved by this idea.  Every business will improve with this idea.  Every field of study will improve. 

That’s right, I am not making a small claim.  I am making a huge claim.  I totally believe my idea can fix the entire world, and I believe that people will demand this idea when it comes out. 

This is a mind blowing idea, so I have decided that I am going to do the following in order to start working on it right away. 

1) Try to finish everything I can on this website as quickly as I can in order to make it more self-sufficient.  Doing this will shorten my to-do list and get me over all the individual little projects that are building up.   

2) The ideas are in my head, and they are such powerful ideas that I know I can write this book extremely fast.  So I plan to get right to work and focus on these ideas as soon as I clear off my to do list. 

For those of you who are unconcerned with this idea and just want to see me get the new games page up, I assure you it will happen fast because I am spending way too much time not working on it and now I feel I need to get them all done since I have something important and world changing to do. 

I know that if I try to just jump into my world changing ideas I will put off my other projects until it starts to really bother me and other people who want to see them done.  You should start to see changes on the website by the end of the weekend and more to come after that.

So the procrastination list will disappear in a few days and everybody will start to see changes on site, but I might not be on as much once the changes are done.

Violinist in the Metro

March10

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.
He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.

He collected $32.

When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it.
No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

My additional thoughts would only be that so many people do things because they are “fashionable” that they forget to look at things with their own eyes, listen with their own ears, and appreciate anything with their own hearts.

Now I found this story at: egodialogues.com, however I am updating it with a YouTube video of him at the metro station.

Learning Some of Everything

March8

It has been difficult to try to come up with a specific subject to write my first book on. Just last night I taught somebody how to make a website in notepad in just a few minutes. He said he totally understood the concepts I was trying to convey and that I should sell the information on how to do what I had just taught him.

I thought about this for awhile trying to think if this was what I wanted to do for my first book. If I wrote this book I could call it “How to make a website this afternoon“. Yet I could only think of the size of the book the way I teach and seeing it as being so tiny that people at a book store would not be able to see the book. It would be only two or three times the size of my blog posts. So I continued to think of what subject really defines me as a person.

The result of my thoughts was that I am interested in learning a little bit of everything, and that I should write a book about everything. This way I can reference some great ideas I have had in those areas, as well as point out people who are truly masters of these areas or have had revolutionary ideas. Then I can link people back to their material to learn more on the subjects.

See I have come to different understandings in many fields, because I have spent my life learning little bits of many subjects. Doing this has allowed me to see how all subjects are connected, how we are all connected and how we create our own reality. Looking into the ideas of others shows us connections that they never saw because we have a different fundamental view of reality and a perspective that is uniquely our own.

I do not claim to know or understand everything in the fields that I will discuss, but rather I feel I understand the general concepts and can bridge the concepts of one field to another field. I think I can take a painter and teach him to understand biology, and I could take an auto mechanic and teach him to understand psychology. Since as somebody who is fascinated by learning I do my best to listen to others who are trying to teach and if I do not understand the lessons that they are teaching I try to look from their perspective to better understand them.

Our brain is not a hard drive that stores memories. Rather it is a tool to translate and interpret them, so the more perspectives we can see from the better we can understand and grow.

This will be my first book. It will be simple concepts in many fields, that when put together can help the entire world to understand the subjective reality that we all live in.

TSA’s Priority List

March8

I make $0 from this website. Actually let me rephrase: This site costs me $30 a month. Since this website is too bloody large for me to do all the things that I need to do I have to start taking donations and putting ads on the site.

So I have devised a method that will allow everybody to get what they want… Since nobody seems to have any problem sending me emails telling me all the stuff that I should be doing with my time.

1st you will notice the Priority list on the main page. It’s pretty hard to miss…. The top item I need to do to survive at this point, and it is taking 90% of my time since I am broke so I am advertising slowly by walking around and telling people that they need my services. Until income starts flowing nicely that one cannot be changed in priority unless a sizable donation comes in.

All other priorities can be moved up. It costs $1 to move an item up in priority, but it only moves one number. So if you want to move item 10 to number 2 then you would have to pay $8. However by doing this you will guarantee that I will work on that task within 48 hours and if the task is small enough I will complete it then.

Please note that all donors will also be logged and prominently displayed once I get the login / profile pages created for the site.

There are other things that can be done to support the site. One of them is picking a task and helping me with it. For example: I am more than happy to teach people where to find movies, and how to add them to this website. If a bunch of people were to add just a couple movies a day then I could remove it from my priority list all together!

If I get enough donations I will buy a better, faster server. NOTE: I won’t upgrade unless I am at least doubling my ram and processing power from what I have now, but this would make an amazing difference.

Either way, if you donate or want to help just use the contact form to send me an email. All help is appreciated and goes to support the site.

Thanks in advance,
TSA

TSA Explains The Meaning of Life

March4

As I think of how to put these ideas into words that are understood I know that words do not do justice to my meaning and intent, since each person has their own meaning and understanding of words. Everybody has made their way through life almost entirely on subconscious associations and internalized teachings based on their own observations of how to survive in the world. However since I have not had all of your experiences I cannot convey this message in a way that all who read it will understand and agree. Since it is our nature to look for fault and differences in people and their beliefs instead of wisdom and similarities.

We all start our lives with a set of blueprints that we call DNA, the instructions we are given are based on the combination of our parents life purpose and their beliefs. The debate has always been “Is it nature or nurture?”, but really it’s both, because we have free will. So despite being given a clear code and life purpose the people around us have a different purpose. So the environment we are put in shapes our subconscious associations just as much as our genetics.

The meaning of life is so simple I can sum it up in two words: To Evolve

Now the instant you heard my above statement in your mind you judged it. The judgment was based on your own beliefs and chosen affiliations. For none of us are completely open minded and we all put a different spin on those words.

For example If you are an Atheist and subscribes to the Darwinian belief on evolution you might say this is no surprise as life was just randomly created and nature will continue to evolve. You only read this post because you figured I am often funny and might have got a good jab in. Perhaps to you there is no meaning to life, but you figure while you are here you will still make the best of it and enjoy what life has to offer.

Now a Buddhist might tell me that the path to salvation is through ending suffering. They would probably say that all we need is within ourselves. If they are willing to bend their wording on Buddhahood they might see that one personally evolves until their fear and suffering is gone.

If you follow Wicca, you are used to people not understanding you. You live by a simple rule that says Do No Harm, and otherwise do as you will. You make magick and spend time focusing on your thoughts to try to help you improve your life and those around you using all the energies you perceive to exist. You see evidence for God all around you, and disbelieve in Darwinian evolution but you have an open mind and would listen to a new definition of evolution.

If you are labeled as a New Age person then your beliefs are extremely varied since you have observed life around you and seen value in many different philosophies. To my knowledge a large portion of the New Age movement believes in evolution, but calls it Ascension since we are all just energy trying to reach a higher state of consciousness.

If you are a Christian, you might have decided that evolution is blasphemy because God created us in his image and we do not evolve. We simply reproduce until death when god forgives our sins and sends the believers to Heaven. This may not be the case with all denominations of Christians, but our real problem is that a predefined denomination means that we chose to let other people interpret our beliefs for us by their understanding of a book that has been changed and translated many times since it’s initial writing. These are very good meaning people, who want to save us all but they live in constant fear of a vengeful god. For when Jesus walked on water he said that everybody could do it if they just believed and then Paul started to walk on the water, but he got scared and he fell in. Fear protects us, but also prevents us from evolving.

Now I have of course just generalized and in doing so will surely get many people telling me I have misinterpreted their beliefs. So instead of more examples I will instead define my beliefs, since this is the viewpoint from which I write. I believe in god, but I define god as the universe and energy that surrounds me and connects me to all things. The world I live in is very gray. To me reality is almost totally subjective and we all live in our own little world, which we have created with our thoughts and perspective. I see that just because one person’s reality doesn’t mesh with my own, it may be exactly what they need to believe in to accomplish their own life’s purpose. I do feel that there is some real objective reality however my eyes cannot perceive it because it exists in a higher dimension.

As a human we see ourselves as individual entities but anybody with a microscope can tell you that our bodies are made up of the same elements that are seen everywhere in nature and that there are living creatures inside of us. In fact there are nearly 50 trillion living creatures that make up a human being and each one works just like we do. It lives in an environment made up of the same elements as our environment, and each cell sends signals out into it’s universe asking for what it needs.

If we pollute our bodies with “toxic waste” like pharmaceutical drugs and heavily processed foods we start to get sick, and then we pollute ourselves some more to suppress the sickness. By this time the environment inside our bodies has become disgusting and our cells are no longer able to send correct signals. This doesn’t stop the cells from replicating though so now instead of giving birth to new healthy cells, they give birth to little mutations that will be able to survive in this new toxic environment. These “bigger, stronger, faster” cells start converting the rest of the cells so that they too can survive in toxic waste world, because the body thinks that’s what it needs because nobody is telling those cells any differently. What we need is a housekeeper to come and clean out the waste product so that we are free to send good signals out again.

The reason doctors have a hard time making a pill that will cure cancer is because any cell can get pissed off at the world it lives in and decide to create garbage but this is self-evolved garbage, so our pills targeted pills don’t understand it. In the same way that this happens we can cure all of our problems and diseases simply by cleaning up our own environment. This applies not just to the quality of food we eat, but the environment we live in, the stimulus we give ourselves and the thoughts that we think (Placebo is proven to work better than all drugs when properly administered).

Bruce Lipton, Ph.D writes: This new perspective of human biology does not view the body as just a mechanical device, but rather incorporates the role of a mind and spirit. This breakthrough in biology is fundamental in all healing for it recognizes that when we change our perception or beliefs we send totally different messages to our cells and reprogram their expression. The new-biology reveals why people can have spontaneous remissions or recover from injuries deemed to be permanent disabilities.

The functional units of life are the individual cells that comprise our bodies. Though every cell is innately intelligent and can survive on its own when removed from the body, in the body, each cell forgoes its individuality and becomes a member of a multicellular community. The body really represents the cooperative effort of a community of perhaps fifty trillion single cells. By definition, a community is an organization of individuals committed to supporting a shared vision. Consequently, while every cell is a free-living entity, the body’s community accommodates the wishes and intents of its ‘central voice,’ a character we perceive as the mind and spirit.

You should know that “The Secret” is real and so is the placebo. If you wish to find value in life, then you need only to look for it. If you wish to just see misery and corruption in the world then you will find it. Do not try to solve all the problems of the world but rather be grateful that you live in a magical world filled with so many things to do and learn. Spend your time as best as you can trying to focus on good things. You optimism will not only improve your life but it will infect all those around you to some degree and they will in turn infect other people. This group of people you have infected are how evolution works, because we evolve the fastest when we are working together with others of a common goal.

Saying that evolution is the meaning of life does not mean that is your purpose in life. For a cell in my ear that makes earwax has a different purpose than a cell that produces urine. It would be a sad day if one day they decided to produce the opposite without moving places in the body. Yet each one of those cells was formed from from the exact same chemicals and protons. Each cell was born and figured out what it needed to do, and if it decided to do something else with life another cell was born that would take it’s place if the body still had need for those cells. Such is your purpose in life. Do not be hung up by the beliefs of the people around you because their beliefs got them to where they are, not to where you are and they will never understand the universe quite as you do.

The earth is just an organ in the great body that is our universe. There is an abundance of energy and resources that we need to live so there is no reason to live in fear. If you live for the moment and something bad happens, you can just deal with it when it happens. If you spend your time worrying and dwelling you are giving power to the things that you fear.

So live well and continue to find and create new things and ideas so that the our universe and our thoughts continues to evolve.

A Second Opinion (Bill Hicks):