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Sunday, October 2, 2016
Vote for Enrique portrait
My wife has been selected to be a part of a campaign, but alas needs votes. Its free to vote, add as many emails as you can to the vote box. She did a portrait of my son Enrique. She, we win a print campaign. Its very exciting and we still need 30 votes to beat this monster painting that we are voting against! PLEASE HELP I know this is not exactly life or death but it kind of is!! PLEASE PASS IT ALONG TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW SO THAT WE CAN GET MORE VOTES.
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Four artists have been selected to be a part of the new Artstarter prospect competition. The one with most votes will get her/his own Arstarter campaign :)
You can share this link on your social platform to get votes:
https://artstarter.io/#prospects
I have attached a photo you can use when sharing :)
Monday, January 12, 2015
The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same
History tells us that some of the ancient people of our day used human sacrifice as a way of worshiping Gods. We often times think of the Aztecs and other Mezzo American cultures when we think of human sacrifice. No one did it better than they in the history books. Never mind the Romans and all the killing they did in the coliseum. That was for entertainment history will argue which is different than sacrifice. Naturally Catholics remember Jesus being executed. This execution was so brilliant that people never want to forget how Jesus died. We as people in this day and age may not know or understand a whole lot about Jesus Christ but we certainly remember the execution, if nothing else. If Jesus Christ didn't get executed, I really doubt anyone would give a crap about all the other things he was said to have done. Not even turning water into wine would have remained in our memories like a good execution. It's not the miracles or the message of peace and hope that we remember, its the way he was able to suffer on the cross. After experiencing this torture, even Jesus had to leave the building so to speak. God must have known that in order to get the attention of the human a human sacrifice had to be made. However, we don't see Jesus as a human sacrifice by the Gods. Even if we did, we would find a way to make this act seem civilized. Thus dulling our minds to the fact that human sacrifice is a part of our daily understanding of religion. Now of course Christianity and the like are not the only religions. However, there is a lot of blood being spilt in the most famous religions. Human sacrifice is an essential part of life. Killing a human before natural death has always been a way of appeasing a God. Though I am sure there are some who would argue that there are cultures of people who did not believe in this human sacrifice, I argue that in life, an early death is necessary to sustain life. We kill plants and animals to sustain ourselves. We for example do not wait for a head of lettus to die of natural causes before we eat the lettus. We certainly don't wait for a cow to die of natural causes before we eat the cow. Indeed all existence depends on the early death of another species. I believe though that this concept is therefore extended to how species live amongst each other. Too many mouths to feed creates an over use of resources. Nature designed species to have certain life spans. Most life spans in the animal kingdom don't last for more than a hundred years. Those animals that do last a couple centuries like certain Whales and torus are for the most part vegan ore eat small plankton. Animals who kill and eat flesh have to live short life spans. Additonally, animals that are in great abundance have short life spans. Most animals on this planet have incredibly short life spans. Therefore, it is natural for a primitive society to feel as though killing by sacrifice its own species is appeasing their God. When you think about this in this way, they may be right. The less people there are, the more abundance there is as a result of less mouths to feed. Though this concept may be considered primitive, I think we still have killing of humans by humans for the same underlying reason. Wars, excecutions are usually avoidable and done to benefit a portion of society. In war, we have to accept that killing the other person or people allows for less competition for resources. It's a sacrifice to God saying "we are willing to die so that others may live. Please give us our bounty." War and fighting of any kind, especially when it involves death, is thus a sacrifice in much the same way as any human sacrifice in ancient history. I'm not trying to judge whether it's right or wrong. Maybe it's right. Maybe not. The one thing that is certain though is that we as a people have a built in desire to kill each other in the name of what is good and right and I don't believe that this is a coincidence. Furthermore, I don't think such sacrifices will end since by the looks of our human growth, we have multiplied ten fold over the centuries. I guess God has been answering our prayers. One minute we are running from lions and the next minute we are driving them into extinction. Dying on a pyramid in Central America thousands of years ago by human sacrifice or on a battle field in 2015, takes honor. Notice the term sacrifice is used when talking about what happened in Mezzo America. This is because those people who were killed were dying for someone else to live. It was an honorable thing to have done. That's why it was not called a murder I imagine. In just the same way, we refer to the people who are dying on the battle field as soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice. In short, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
You Owe!
Being the public isn't easy. We the public get screwed and then blamed for everything. The most common blame we the public get issued on us is voting. The people didn't get out to vote so now we have a republican house and senate. This is confusing since regardless of who votes, the republicans are going to win no matter what. They have made it so that although they have a 5% approval rating, because only their district votes are counted, they stay in power. How is that the publics fault? It's not our fault our votes don't count. Not to mention the voter suppression laws requiring people to have state ID as well as the ending of early voting and voter laws to compliment the legal cheating of voters. Now there is the voting purge accusing people who have the same name of voting twice regardless of the fact that the social security numbers don't match. Yeah but with all this it's still the public's fault. This is a common strategy of blame the victim. Progressives are good for this. It becomes confusing. We are told by progressives to get out and vote then in the same sentence we are informed that our votes don't count. The public is not stupid. We know we're being screwed. We know that elections are for the most part rigged. This crap I just mentioned is completely legal. It's just the tip of the iceberg. This is just the slop that spills out of the pan. The stuff they can't hide. I really don't think that this country is held together by a lousy vote by the people. Since when have what the people wanted ever mattered? None of the decisions that are made are made due to humanitarian reasons. Gas prices didn't fall because there was too much of a burden put on we the public. No one came forward saying that we lowered prices at the pump to help you people. In fact, the news is trying to make us feel guilty about falling gas prices by explaining how these poor oil companies are loosing money. Boo hoo! Where was the oil company's feelings for the last decade and a half? I don't see them feeling sorry for us. From mortgages to credit to student loans, the underlying reason for anything the public gains has to do with the corporation. The public is nothing more than a resource to be exploited for the benefit of powerful. Indeed we are taught to believe this is good. Indeed we are brainwashed to serve the corporate good putting ourselves last. We live a life of guilt. We constantly have to owe money to this company and that company. Phone bills, rent, mortgage, electric bills, education bills and the list goes on. We live our lives feeling like we owe and when you owe, it implies guilt. The words YOU OWE A DEBT usually precede something that indicates you're being ungrateful. Let's face reality, if there were solutions that gave us free unlimited energy and a huge decrease need for money, how likely would we be to have this luxury since we the people owe so much as it is? We are indebted to pay since we owe. Since this is so, it makes sense that we the people are getting screwed in the ballot box. After all, what right do we have to pick our public leaders when we are in fact the ones who OWE. Our leadership doesn't feel like it owes us, with the exception of a few. Yes we are the victims being blamed. We don't vote because we haven't earned the right since our votes dont count because we didn't pay our bills so therefore we OWE and we don't count. Instead we are being counted. We are indentured servants with no rights until we pay off our debt. Unless and until we pay back what you owe, we will never have democracy since in the minds of our political corporate economy, we are the ones screwing them. They who gave us electric, education, cars, homes and everything else. We are ingrates who should be punished and we are punished by a lifetime of guilt, rigged elections and ownership of our lives through debt, malnutrition, greed, need and unrest. But hey things could be worse.
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