dear future me,

when you come across this blog ten years from now, laugh

you may tire of me
as our december sun is setting
cause i'm not who I used to be

i remember this

Matisse Tolin
COMS 151

Eulogy for the Last Human Being

I stand before you today to speak about and honor the memory of a life. He was found during our mission to the Milky Way galaxy, on a planet called ‘Earth’, the last member of the human race ever to live. I speak today as a member of our people, on behalf of our beloved planet, before a world in shock upon hearing the news of another intelligent life form being discovered in our universe.
For millions of years our race has struggled in vain to find and identify any further signs of life in this endless universe. As time progressed we were able to send our vessels farther and farther into the deeps of space, in hopes of making contact with anything or anyone out there. Finally, upon the 10th day of the week, in the 14th month of our year 7024, planet Earth was discovered.
It is now known that there was life at one time on this planet, perhaps for millions of years. Our probes found cities in ruin, where at one time we believe the human beings flourished. Under the rubble and on other parts of the planet, green was discovered, which we believe was the plant life on this particular planet. Although our research is inconclusive thus far on how all life was ended on Earth, evidence suggests a great war erupted some three thousand years ago, wiping out most life on the planet.
Out of the bodies we were able to bring back for research one particular man was discovered to be the last human being ever to die. He was discovered in the lower western hemisphere of the planet. His skin is a light brown. He had two slits in his face for visional use and breathed through what the race called ‘lungs.’ But for our researches, his physical appearance is not what was the most captivating. For after doing a memory scan through the human’s head we were able to see scattered memories of his life, and received clues to how this human race functioned.
It seems the humans were always too slow to see their destructive behavior. They had conquered the elements, tamed wild beasts, set foot on the nearby planet mars, and yet were incapable of connecting the dots when it came to their own conduct. Because, while the humans were capable of loving, they let selfishness and hate lead their actions. Human arrogance led some to believe in a higher power and seek meaning through the promise of salvation from the very planet they inhabited. Perhaps it was the clutter of the millions of belief sets and doctrines that had formed throughout their existence that led to their demise.
Every single one of them was different from the rest. But something as beautiful as individuality was the very thing that caused their fighting. Our research shows different parts of the planet being inhabited by different colored skins and different looking humans. To us, it seems ironic how this is what caused so much fighting. As we see it, they were all part of the human race, they were all part of one collective being.
It is a pity that their civilization was cut so short. These humans…. had potential. Indeed they created things that were beautiful and that we will continue to be perplexed by as we search their planet. We’ll never know the things that they could have accomplished had they not destroyed themselves. So many lives had inhabited this small planet, each one with their own smile, their own laugh, and their own wishes. I wonder the thoughts of this human, here in front of us today, when the lasts bombs went off, and his friends and fellow humans all perished before him. Did he know this was the end of the humans for eternity? Or did he simply pass away into oblivion? We hope that there was at least the slightest amount of hope left in him. Hope that one day, others would find his poor planet and the humans there, and that the memory of the human race would live on, and never be extinguished. It is hope, my fellow people, that kept them going, and it is hope that keeps us going. We work towards a better future so that one day we will be remembered. The last human being never died. He will live on forever.

The 5 percent nation

-The 85%, easily led in the wrong direction hard to be led in the right direction, who are the humble masses, mentally deaf, dumb and blind to the truth about themselves and the world in which they live.
-The 10%, who understand much of the truth but use it to their advantage to keep the 85% under their control through religion, politics, entertainment, economics, and other methods.
-The 5%, who are the enlightened divine beings, having repossessed knowledge of the truth regarding the foundations of life and of oneself, and seek to punitively liberate the 85% through education.

lately

I went to the one hour photo today
And the only pictures that came out were the ones of you
I admit I'm new at this
Cause taking pictures and love are hard things to do

I saw you drive by today on your bike
It's been a while since we've talked
I'll let you know I'm still here
And I remember the places we used to walk

You were ready to end it all tonight
That's what you said in your call
I told you that I needed you
And without you I wouldn't be here at all

Lately I've been thinking
About these stories of mine
All the people I know and don't
Maybe it's all a sign

Stephen Pearl Andrews hits it right on the nose

"There are mainly three ways of effecting changes in human habits: first, maternal force directly applied; secondly, legislative injunction or prohibition, with its moral sway first exerted and then backed by an ulterior appeal to force; and, thirdly, what is loosely named and conceived of at present as moral suasion.  This last subdivides, however, into, first, mere unorganized, unscientific and individual appeal, and, secondly, scientifically-founded opinion taught and morally enforced through a competent special organization to that effect."

"Let science decide on and distinctly define what ought to be; let, then, the religious sentiment of mankind, the most universal and powerful of our sentiments, be converged on the persuasion and conscientious devotion of the whole people in behalf of the truth so defined; and let the Church be re-organized into the potent instrument for so converging the religion of the world upon that conduct, the necessity or desirableness of which science may have determined.
Religion is able, to-day, to keep millions of ignorant men and women from eating meat on Friday."

This of course leads to the prediction of cloning:
“Desirable as it might be to see the programme of Mr. Andrews carried out, we have no faith in its voluntary adoption. If it be deemed advantageous to stirpicultivate the human race up to the highest point of physical and mental excellence, it is folly to rely on moral suasion. Surgery is surer. If man and woman are to be bred like [sic] the farmer breeds cattle, then we must deal with our scrub men as the farmer deals with his scrub pigs. If the question were left open, every man would deem himself “physically and mentally” qualified for the work of improving the stock, whatever he might think of his neighbor.”

http://www.spirithistory.com/stirps.html for more

Great stuff, really

Past Point B

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."

Leonardo de Vinci said that. And he did a lot of shit for this world.

The statement reminds me of a premise me and a friend were talking about. I call it 'getting past point B.'
You see, in life we can become successful and make money. That should be the starting point. There is a whole point C that most people never shoot for. It's what you do with your life after you've made the money. There's gotta be something past the point of being financially successful. I'm not talking adopting a kid from africa, nor am I talking about donating money. I'm talking about YOUR GREAT CONTRIBUTION. the thing that you will be written about in books for.

That is point C. Most people are content at point B. But point B should be achieved as soon as possible. and u cannot stop once you reach it.