Donations to BC Children Hospital.

Donations are nice things - we all know about this. They help, they save life, they show that people care - amongst other things. We come for grocery shopping to the supermarket and see another call for donations, this time for BC Children Hospital. Is it not a great idea to withdraw - let me assume roughly - only two military helicopters and their personnel from this idiotic war in Afganistan that Canada got involved with and shift all the released funds for BC Children Hospital? I bet all the hospital's needs will be covered in the entire province from that simple and easy operation. Hospitals and their funding are the responsibility of the government through the tax policy. At the bottom line we have already paid to fund the hospitals so why grocery stores try to collect money from us? But - wait a minute - we already paid to fund the military, too. These guys go for stupid war games to Afganistan and kill other people (and their children too) just because they didn't do anything wrong to Canada - we all know that. It seems that the government, in the name of showing support for their partners, have more arguments behind them to fund the military who kill people than to fund the institution that fixes and saves people's life. It seems that - in the eyes of government - there's more justification to destroy life than to protect it. Is it not something "deadly" wrong that in democratic society the "government of the people, by the people, for the people" don't give a bloody f***ing shit to recognize the fact that they have to serve people and others, who never did any harm to us, are humans and have their kids too? How about military guys donating some money to children hospital in Kabul or Kandahar once in a while? Doesn't sound too good to be true?
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Canadian government, let alone their military servants...

Tips for better life.

Everyone of us gets these chain e-mails once in a while. Some of them are funny, some irritating and some have that special knowledge that we want to share with others. I got the e-mail titled TIPS FOR BETTER LIFE and used the asterixes to answer it.

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
***** Especially when a patrolling cop is pulling out the taser for no bloody reason.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
***** And watch FN news ticker at the bottom of your magical plasma black box. In the time of financial crisis this will finally calm you down and will take your breath away for exactly 10 minuts.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
***** If your neighbour’s barking dog doesn’t wake you up at 5 AM
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
***** Some say 3 L’s – live, love, laugh
5. Play more games.
***** Chess is always good…, it has a lot of meditation but how about the “stony face” social game – any takers?
6. Read more books than you did in 2008.
***** is “Italian war heroes” considered a book? If it is, I’ve passed the first step already and am happy for my 2008.

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
*****… especially when you make your way thru the rat’s race on a busy (looking like a parking lot) highway early in the morning.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
***** prepare to yell – to older folks because they can’t hear, to younger brats because they can yell louder than you.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
***** … and then go and buy a few coupons for 6/49 draw
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
***** remember that the Cubans make good on sugar cane and the Africans are really good at growing bananas.
11. Drink plenty of water.
***** Evian, Canadian Spring, Aquafina and other kinds – they are all distilled waters, the genuine one is in beer.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
***** a cop, your financial adviser and Leonard Cohen
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
***** don’t forget that the Hollywood people are ever present on Oprah, ET or Dancing with stars and you love these, don't you?
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness
***** tell your ex- how much you love her/him and remember that their fuckups made you a really happy and better person.
15. Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
***** Forget NWO, G-7, G-20, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group - you can't really control them. But remember that the Iranian and Israeli nuclear physicists invest their time and energy for brighter future too.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class - but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
***** the problems in life are like skipping classes at school – the more you skip the more problems in life you (will) have and algebra will show the signs of discontinuity.

17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
***** tell the first part to the people in Africa and the last one to the people in North America and Europe.
18. Smile and laugh more.
***** but remember, the cosmetic surgeons are waiting to iron your wrinkles you will acquire while laughing
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
***** Love all those happy blue-and-white toy-soldiers playing with real bullets with Palestinian kids.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
***** remember George W. Bush? – he set a perfect example, follow him!, ALWAYS!
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
***** But Johnnie Cochran did it for OJ Simpson – how could this have been possible?
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
***** Forget the future and concentrate on the present, some people say that “living in the NOW” is what it counts, so does another "holiness", Dalai Lama.

23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
***** instead, let the CEOs and other bankers compare their life to yours, maybe they will learn something special from you and you will finaly start walking in their shoes. Share this idea with them and wish yourself good luck!
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
***** … so don’t worry, be happy... (Bobby McFerrin).
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
***** Forgive George Orwell for his theoretic ideas and Zbigniew Brzezinski for the near future practice.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
***** … but sometimes I want to know what the Revenue Canada think when they see my papers after April 30th.
27. GOD heals everything.
***** announce this fantastically bright revelation to all those who die of cancer,…, any cancer, anywhere in the world! This revelation will help people understand the true nature of God much better so they can die peacefully without asking any more stupid questions.
28. However good or bad a situation is - it will change.
***** Murphy’s law says – whatever is going to go wrong, it always will.
29. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
***** Start getting together with your friends in the bar more than working with them
30. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
***** garage sale events are the ones that are designed just for getting rid of unnecessary things.
31. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
***** Ask the average Palestinians if they have free access to fresh water, shelter and if they can have a spare pair of shoes once in a while.
32. The best is yet to come.
***** That’s why I am still reading it, until the end, to find out what’s best for me.
33. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
***** middle finger to slow drivers in a fast lane too???
34. Do the right thing!
***** well, I am writing the comments to this e-mail and take nothing for granted. How about you? - say NO to drugs and be politically correct, pay taxes and die unless Bruce Willis saves you. Oh, save the Earth and use the sunblock too.

35. Call your family often.
***** remember, however, that your call “is monitored for security reasons” so don’t sound unsecured for your family.
36. Your inner most self is always happy. So be happy.
***** a healthy puff of grass will help you realize your state of ultimate happiness.
37. Each day give something good to others.
***** spend another quarter of a dollar to those very poor folks in Vatican who work REALLY hard to make your brighter future after you die.
38. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
***** Don’t speed, don’t drink, don’t overwork yourself, don’t make too much money and don’t have sex too much…, you know your limits already, don’t you? Oh yeah, I knew it!
39. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
***** … and then go and watch the 1st part of “Zeitgeist”
40. Please Forward this to everyone you care about.
***** That’s why I want to share it with you hoping that you will add some of your comments. Thanks a lot!

The case of 2012 - gimme break...

OK, we all have to get ready for this. We must know this right away because the Mayas and Nostradamus had known it long time ago and all the wave of New Age zealots have known it for some time now so we have to listen to them. We have to blindly follow them as they are the only ones to have known the real truth. There are not only them – whole bunch of visionaries who claim that they just got “the message”, know perfectly the date when the Earth will change its magnetic poles. It doesn’t matter that the Earth has already changed its poles in last 150 days ago or so. The Nibiru will hit the last nail into our coffin. After that catastrophe, we will all change our conscience and much better world will emerge but what happens if the huge waves of Armageddon will flood the Earth washing us all away? But anyway, it doesn’t matter, only those whose conscience is about to change for better will survive the flood and Harmonic Concordance was the first significant event that announced very positive changes to come. You didn’t notice that? – oh well…, your conscious was riding wild and crazy in another direction when those “spiritually” selected saw it clearly.

What’s the protection and getting away with life in the time of the flood? Well, you can join the Perfect Vision project and buy shares in South Africa because the end of Maya calendar doesn’t apply for the region of Drakensberge. Great idea – join it, just do it!

Remember the case of Y2K?, everybody was getting ready for this. No joke - some government employees in Vancouver were called off from the new year’s eve party to slowly watch their computers changing the clock and the world depending on them supposed to be doomed in one second…, and soon after. These dedicated employees, sacrificing their private fun time on the turn of century saved our life and we are grateful for them for that. I am sure that the presence of these responsible ones saved our life at that very moment. Thanks to them, a special wave of bullshiters sat at their still working computers and have littered the internet with their ideas of possible scenario at the end of 2012. I have another question to ask them - if you guys see it so clearly, could you, please, give me six numbers between 1 and 49 for the next 6/49 draw? You don't know?, you can't? or this is the mystery of those "spiritually" selected? - ya right... By the way, I can't help but wonder if printing companies will stop printing calendars ending right after December 20th, 2012...
Who, this time, will save us? We are now waiting for those spiritually selected - forget the government employees - to come out.
Only you - spiritually selected - will save the planet, you are our future,... damn it!

Map cards collection.

They started coming to me at some point of time and - thanks to my friends and family - have been coming since, now combining a collection of a few thousand. Colurful and artsy designed, sometimes really cheesy looking, sometimes high-tech reproductions, showing an area enclosed to a size of a rectangle with an imaginable possibility to see something in real space with one look of an eye. Ready to bring the distant reality from thousands kilometers away that can be held in one hand, located easily in between two fingers. Telling something about the distant area of a land or island, line of a river or coastline, texture and shape of a mountain, zigzagged with lines of streets or highways, documenting before-and-after reality, and showing why people thought it was an important part in their life. Marked with flags, national emblems, state birds, additionally describing other attributes of distant reality. As a learning tool (and teaching, too), running the imagination high and being a direct reason to make further plans for possible visits. Changing the touch of a small cardboard into a real time exploration experience for all the senses and learning about other places, its people and different cultures.

Waves and wires of communication.

There are the moments where it seems that all the wires and waves of communication are either going weird or just completely broken. Sometimes it's hard to communicate with people when calling them, leaving a message and there's silence for a long while. Sometimes there are repeated calls to someone and no answer, like nobody has ever been there or had a phone at all. "Please leave your message, I will call you back..." and after yet another message left, nobody is responding at all. Sometimes a series of days happen when it's hard to either express what's in mind or otherwise explain an idea or - again - nobody's responding. Sometimes, when talking live or over the phone, it's hard to either explain an idea or be understood. Very often something, somewhere and somehow is breaking the lines and waves of communication. Is it a special layout of stars or planets or a festive time or upcoming weekend or a political, sport or cultural event, illness or other personal happening that makes people deconcentrate, neglect, ignore? Why is it all going that way? What's weird on the way? It's neither the phone itself nor even its cellphone culture (..."sorry, I have someone on the other line"...) that makes people stop the conversation, changing the topics or fumbling with the words once it's finally progressing. What the heck is going on with this communication thing?

Are you ready...(what's wrong with the picture)?

Are you ready to show your two middle fingers to theory and practice of the Catholic Church as the institution? Are you ready to finally say your loud "NO" to lies, bullshit, deception and extortion of money for ages? Are you ready to say "NO" to the elite of Vatican and their level of life that has nothing to do with what Jesus Christ used to do as the first (supposed to be...) precoursor of the Catholic Church? Will you ever agree for people very much impacting your life and representing the institution that has claimed your minds already? Will you finally start asking questions and get the right answers from those who say that they are in between you and the God? Will you ever try to dig into the infamous history of the Church and ask why they have always been on the side of the powerful and the mighty rather than on the side of the poor and the needy? Will you ever try to answer the question why their greed for money is the mark of their lifestyle that has evolved much from that of the Jesus? The picture shows the president of a free European country visiting Vatican on his first visit abroad. How come the president of 40 milion people (who came to Vatican to kiss the "Holy Father's" rings) can be an effective president in his own country? How come the "holy" term applies to the man on the right side of the picture? What's on the picture is really disgusting to me to the bare bones, but maybe not only to me.
Do you think that religion can intersect the life of a state and be a part of the country's constitution?
What do you think is wrong with the picture? (This picture, unlike all others on this blog, is not mine.)