Contradiction Abounds

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We are a strange species. We fall in love...and we're foolish in love. We get our hearts broken...and we break hearts.  We make OURSELVES crazy with all of our emotions and obsessions.

We write poems and songs, so full of emotion...we give and love...we rage and murder...we medicate ourselves to keep from feeling...we hate our numbness and do extreme things, seeking adrenaline highs, to feel. We're contradictory in almost everything we do. We believe that we believe one way, but we find our actions are incongruent with our beliefs...we wonder IF we believe. We seek...we search...we find...then we bury much of what we learn of ourselves deep in our subconscious minds, hoping the truths, both beautiful and awful, will not find light again, for both the beautiful and the ugly within...call us to account.

We're painfully transparent...yet we also omit truths and hide our flaws, as though anyone equally human will believe our projected flawlessness. We lie. We hate liars. We condemn violent criminals to die for taking a life, or lives...we take theirs, payback's a bitch, you know....

We are so lacking in synchronicity. We are incongruent as a society, and often even within our individual selves. We loathe contradiction and hypocrisy...and we BREED it. Order and chaos...yin yang...polarity...would the Earth spin wildly off her axis if all of this contradiction ceased? Is it all part of the natural balance of human existence? Is that, in some strange way, what holy scriptures of all faiths tell us in their own historical and mythological accounts? They too are contradictory and incongruent within themselves. Perhaps there is some kind of strange magic in that truth...

Or perhaps...humanity is just completely and utterly insane.

Nothin' to Be Cranky About Today

I can't find any way to be cranky about this...my son, holding his son. Nope. Can't be cranky right now, that's for sure! All I can feel is....bliss. Grama Isn't Cranky. :)

Things That Make Me Go.... O M G

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And I don't mean O M G in a good way either.  I'm talking about the kind of O M G that makes you want to scream and pull your hair out when you say it.


I'd love to read your O M G triggers, too, so if you have a second to leave one (or more)...please do. Here are mine:

1. You know that driver that drives in the left hand lane ALL the time?
2. That friend that never EVER has a lighter, but every time they come over yours ends up missing
3. People that see a damn conspiracy theory behind every single thing on the news....and if there is one....I don't bloody flippin' CARE
4. The person that spit that gum out on the sidewalk, I mean....WTF?
5. Door to door salesmen, yeah....I'm sorry, I know it's your job, but you really should maybe try to get a DIFFERENT job, because I don't think I'm alone here in finding you utterly annoying.
6. People who fancy themselves scientific experts on things like chemtrails and UFOs and anything else you can think of, but have never even GONE to college, much less graduated with any kind of expertise on anything beyond belly button lint, but go on to proclaim their vast knowledge, usually in a very public forum like YouTube.
7. Stupid people. That's right....stupid people. People that just choose to stay stupid about important things, you know....like politics or breast feeding or how to keep their 4 year old child out of the middle of the street. Stuff like that.

Well there's my short list. I could go on and on, because....you know....bitching is a skill and I've allocated a lot of talent points to that skill, but....I'll leave it for now. Thanks for listening, and I'd love to "listen" to yours too!

World Gone Mad

This world has gone damn fucking crazy. Between all the gay teen suicides, Christine O'Donnell's obvious lunacy, the need to file a lawsuit against Fred Phelps and company for their moronic lack of common courtesy to families in mourning, the suffering in the Gulf coast that lingers from the toxins of the oil spill, crazy people that feel a need to burn the holy books of OTHER people, the war that continues to rage in the Middle East, vast numbers of people unemployed....honestly, right now....I just look at this world and see nothing but a bunch of IDIOTS.


It reminds me of a sign I saw once:

WRONG!

 

Extremism is Extremely ANNOYING

Image via WikipediaWell here it is September 11. I seriously hope this means I don't have to watch any more news reports about idiots who think burning ANY religion's holy texts is a good idea. WTF?  And I keep hearing other no-so-brights saying things like, "Well if people weren't afraid of them, then no one would be freaking out about this, so it just proves the book burners are right!"  Uhm....whaaat??

I am against any and all book burning of any kind. So no...."being afraid" has jack shit to do with it for me...and I wager that goes for MOST people that took issue with it.

I think all extremists are whacko. And guess what? Every religion....every single one....HAS THEM. The Christians and Muslims don't hold the corner of the market on having some stray loose cannons running around. And there are good, kind, wonderful people of every faith (and non-faith) in the world. I don't think burning texts that are sacred to any faith is "okay" because it's RUDE, inconsiderate, callous, unkind, and at the worst...downright hateful.

You would certainly think that adults (at least) would have learned how to voice their disagreements without resorting to the destruction of property..."holy" or otherwise. Seriously. I understand that the "crazies" are incapable of this, but...need the rest of us stoop to that same crazy level of self expression too??

I think perhaps consideration should be given to some sort of mental stability tests being administered before people breed. Not to prevent them from having children, but just so that we have some kind of forewarning that the world is about to be inundated with more potentially delusional, easily misguided, non-critical thinkers, who tend to behave like lemmings on crack (kind of an insult to lemmings, since even lemmings are smart enough to avoid crack).

And to the victims and families of 911....I hope for your continued healing and I am sorry that all this controversy overshadowed the anniversary of this day where you suffered...where some of you were heroes...where with great courage you tried to do all you could...to live and to help others.
And to the extremists who caused your suffering...both the political extremists and the religious extremists...Karma is a bitch and it works without fail. What goes around does come around whether you choose to believe it or not. I hope that you will stand as strong as the victims and families of 911 stood, and continue to stand, but somehow, I doubt that you have the backbone that they have.

Violence is cowardly. It takes much more effort to sow peace.

Amazing Grasp of the Obvious

Why...why do people find it necessary to say things to me like..."Wow you're really TALL!"  ??? What do they expect me to say?

"OMG...I AM?!!!  Like, I never NOTICED that before!  Thanks for letting me know!

I've only been living inside my body for almost half a century. You'd think they would realize that making that announcement...isn't really news to me.

Social Media Inebriation?.....hic!

I am overdosing on social media. Between Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Posterous, Vimeo, YouTube, Delicious, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, iLike, StumbleUpon, Amplify, Listography, and Blogger, just to name a few....I spend more and more time at my desk. So I bailed on Google Buzz (since it was the most annoying). I'm wondering if maybe someday I'll be able to buy medical insurance from any of these sites specifically for Fat Ass Syndrome, which doesn't seem to be covered on my regular insurance.....

Where is the Sock Gobbling Dryer Demon When You NEED it?

Dirty socks in the middle of the living room floor.  Teenagers.  That's all I'm sayin'.