The Magickal Reality

Today I did start a blessing ritual. The person blessed behaved like a total ingrate when the situation of the blessing was more important than staying in bed. I'd like to know what the hell one does to confront such jackass behaviour? I'm continuing the blessing as this person is more important to me than the momentary hoser act. It just pisses me off that you try to do something nice for someone and they completely throw it back in your face. Dear World, If you want anything good out of me remember that a gift demands a gift of equal value. Thus if I bless you don't spit in my face for it or that blessing will become your undoing.

Living Two Steps Ahead

Think a while on this, if you knew your own future years in advance, could you live with yourself for that knowledge? If you knew major life events before they happened how would that change your behaviour? Would you try to stop the event or speed it up? How would you feel about the inevitability of what you could not change? Dread or Hope, maybe something else? While there are a few situations in which no psychic ability is needed to feel this way, e.g. a dying loved one. It does come as a question of how that knowledge has effects on our choices; beliefs and feelings in life. Does it really make for better or worse to be living two steps ahead of the world as it is now?

How To Series

Identifying Friend Spam and Online Supercreeps.

For the Spammers, logical inconsistency is the first flare of something being wrong with them. If the gender doesn't fit the picture or they claim not to know how to fill out a profile and are linking you to their profile on a dating site-here's your sign. Deny it immediately and if there's a method for it report the account as a spammer. Show no mercy to the plague of your inbox.

The Super creeps are people who want cybersex or some sort of relationship with you after five minutes on the Internet and know nothing about you. If you're in a relationship and tell them so they usually don't get the hint to bugger off and will continue until you ignore them long enough. These people are either parasites or police so don't get yourself into trouble with them. I don't want anyone who reads this to be showing up on a dateline NBC episode because they didn't pay attention to this. If you're on an online adult web cam site then feel free as far as your wallet and imagination can take you otherwise, it's a risk that's way beyond any reward or good that could come of it.

"It's Green..." -No thanks.

Perhaps it is due to over exposure to Celtic individuals and the cultural biases that they have individually possessed that turns me off from the celebration of that culture. I've run into similar behaviour among groups other than Celts that practise this sort of Chauvinism and it still turns me off in the same way. So, here's my bit to say. I'm not responsible for the actions of entire races or ethnic subcategories thereof, I'm only responsible for myself. I feel no "white guilt" because to be quite honest my family had nothing to do with slavery in the new world, I'm only the third generation born on these shores-sorry about that. Moreover, I have little concern when it comes to the indigenous population because of the Chauvinism they have displayed toward me personally. If these cultures were anything worth applauding they would have learned to appreciate the exotic by now. The only thing I really appreciate about these Chauvanistic cultures is that by displays of symbolism so overt I know to avoid the individual who is displaying them. So go on and put up that flag; wear that kilt, give me the finger when I walk by because I'm not exactly like you, why? It saves me the time of talking to another useless bigot.

What can I say more than this?

Hell knows if you've ever taken a correspondence course you can sympathize here. It's been nearly two months since my last lesson was sent by mail so I'm a bit upset with the delinquency of the educational establishment. Moreover, the tutor I have isn't much in the way of due diligence either. My advice to all of you doing distance education is to do it online with the most immediately processed results. Computers may not be able to debate questionable questions or be humane but, they're not prone to the human errors of disagreeable personalities; ego trips, job security issues, hangovers, sloppiness, and most importantly they get the job done in a timely manner. Dear teachers, our time as student's is valuable whether you would like to admit it or not we justify your existence not the other way around.

Like you didn't see this coming...

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Stratification in my pocket

A device of elegant simplicity that I carry daily has a strange effect on those who encounter it for the first time. It tests their common sense. Some don't even know what it is; they're truly the bottom of the heap, Others stare at it and ask where the wick is while others will try to strike the flint without revealing the wick- above the adverage but, certainly not genius. In the last and by far smallest groups are those who figure out how it works on sight and the even more rare are those who know what it is and how it works a priori.

Yes kids, a trench lighter can be a tool of psychological warfare.

Not so Safeway

For those who don't know, Safeway stores have a security measure you'd rather not encounter personally. Plain clothes security staff that act as Blackwater Wannabes physically assault those they deem to be shoplifters. No matter how much the "suspect" tries to cooperate, they will tell the person that they are resisting-even if you're a M. Ghandi type. Police are no help to the person that these private goons have just savaged. As far as they are concerned you're guilty until proven innocent. So if you're a masochist, shoplift here and try to return the items. If you support Corporate Goons than keep shopping, you're paying their salaries with every dollar you spend. For those of us who are in niether category feel free to Boycott them.

How To Series

Surviving a week without the Internet in your home.

1. Movie marathons can take up a lot of spare time, James Bond fans have an advantage here simply because there are so many titles that even an insomniac could not get through all of them in a single day.

2. Catch up on your printed reading materials, you remember what books were like.

3. Shag, it's a great antidepressant and you're pretty tired afterwards so feel free to sleep with and next to your significant other.

4. Pull out your Cd's and Tapes it's time for tunes!

5. Radio.

6. Go out on a date with your significant other, even if you've been married for years it still is quite nice to be able to get out of the house and be romantic to the best of your ability.

7. Show some extra attention to your pets, they'll appreciate it even when humans do not.