End The Delusion of Time

"Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops - unless you choose to use it.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and 'allow it to be'. The compulsion arises because the past gives you identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Why is it the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the 'only' thing. It's all there is. The eternal present is the space which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when you life was 'not' now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being."

The Power of NOW by Eckhart Tolle

Extremes, Excesses, and Complacency

The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The Final Fifth

"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."~Marcus Aurelius (Roman EmpEROR, 161-180)

H911ywood C91nc1dence?

The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson is the first (1) episode of season nine (9), aired September 21, 1997:


The Matrix, released March 31, 1999 (passport expires September 11, 2001):


Fight Club, released October 15, 1999 (curious how their silhouette forms an "M" as the twin towers fall...):


Terminator 2: Judgment Day, released July 3, 1991:


Gremlins, released June 8, 1984:


Gremlins 2: The New Batch, released June 15, 1990:


The Big Lebowski, released March 6, 1998 (the Dude dates a cheque September 11/91 while Bush Sr. talks in the background. I believe it was this very date in this very speech when Bush Sr. says "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective — a new world order — can emerge: a new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace." I also must admit that the Dude's '91 aaalmost looks like an '01...):


Independence Day, released July 2, 1996:


The Patriot, released June 28, 2000:


The Peacemaker, released September 26, 1997:


Godzilla, released May 20, 1998 (8:55... 9 and 11):

Traffic, released January 5, 2001:


Trading Places, released June 8, 1983. As Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd approach the WTC buildings they discuss the day of work ahead:


"Nothing can prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness."

"Pressure? Here it's kill or be killed. Make no friends and take no prisoners."

"One minute you're up half a million, the next minute, boom."

"We've got to kill the motherfucker... we've got to kill them."

... and the very next scene... 8:55 (9 and 11). Just in time for work:


In the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, an X-File spin off series which aired March 4, 2001, terrorists hi-jack a Boeing 727 in an attempt to remotely fly it into the World Trade Center:

Enemy of the State, released November 20, 1998:


Rugrats in Paris, released November 17, 2000:


Super Mario Bros, released May 28, 1993:


The Mouse Factory presents Mickey and his Friends (curiously, Mickey has two left hands; his tail and "right" hand point to 9 and 11):


I'm certain the list goes on...

So is it all just coincidence or is there something much more sinister at work here?

That conclusion I leave up to you.

Meet Your Strawman!

Dream On

I found this among some of my old writings... if I had to guess, I'd say this happened about a year ago:

Man, I had a fucked up dream Thursday night. Very rarely do I ever remember my dreams after I wake up... but this one was kind of hard to forget…

As usual, only hazy glimpses of the entire story remain but what I do remember is that I was in my childhood room back at my parents house in Peace River with a hot alien babe. Yes, I said a hot ~~alien~~ babe. She wasn’t alien in the sense that she was a foreigner from another country… but alien in the sense that she was from another planet!

Now, for all intents and purposes she appeared 100% human. Actually, she had an extremely attractive human appearance… very well proportioned, if you know what I mean. She reminded me of Carmen Electra, so of course nobody would have been able to tell she was an alien at first glance.

Then how did I know she wasn't an Earthling?

Well, as I said, we were in my room back in Peace River. We started making out (oh yes, for some reason I’m dreaming about making-out with attractive extraterrestrials) and when I stopped for a moment to look into her eyes, which appeared entirely human, her pupils suddenly expanded! They got so big that the iris was entirely black. It was only a momentary flash, having the appearance of an uncontrollable reflex. Naturally, this was quite alarming but I didn't want to ruin our make-out session so I asked her as casually and nonchalant as I could: “So, what’s the deal with your eyes?”

Her response to me (obviously a fabrication) was that when she was a young girl, she had stepped on a frog with her bare foot. That's it... and for some strange reason I was supposed to believe this was why her pupils behaved the way they did. In the dream, it made perfect sense...

However, I knew she was lying. I knew the real reason was because she was an alien… I don't know how I knew, other than her strange eyes, but somehow I just knew she wasn't from Earth. I acted as though I accepted her explanation without question though. Nothing else was mentioned but she knew that I knew she wasn’t human; and I knew that she knew I knew she wasn't human... yet we both just continued to make-out until my parents called me for dinner.

At this point I get up from my bed and head upstairs. Perhaps she was following me to dinner, perhaps she vanished; I don't really know. As I get upstairs, I pass by the kitchen and see both of my parents over the stove cooking dinner and my brother getting something out of the fridge. The thing that really stood out however (if making out with an alien isn't odd enough) is that an obscure dark man I did not, or could not, recognize was sitting at our kitchen table in my dad's chair; nobody other than pops ever sat there. He looked angry and extremely out of place but since everyone else was acting normal, I ignored this peculiarity and went into the bathroom to wash up for dinner...

... and then... I woke up. Late for work.

It was one of the oddest dreams that I can remember but hey, this alien was a gorgeous blonde with a nice tan and a big natural rack… I wasn’t going to argue or question anything. And no, I didn’t get to 3rd base so I have no idea what kind of parts, alien or human, she might have had down there. Damn.

I guess that’s what I get for watching UFO documentaries right before bed.

I Still Love Watching TV

"While hypnosis may be considered an extreme or unusual solution to certain conditions, it only takes 30 seconds for us to be in a similar state when we switch on the television. Such were the findings from Professor Herbert Krugman in a study conducted in 1971. His conclusion was that we do not think about the information transmitted via television."

"It is regarded as one of the best types of control mechanisms by the General Secretary of the Prison Governors' Association. Prisoners are subjected to the tranquillizing effects of television which subdues behavior."

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Television PROGRAMS

Homer: So, Marge, ready for another episode of "Don't Go There"?

Marge: I'm tired of that show. But I've been hearing good things about "Talk to the Hand". Tom Shales says the writing "snaps, crackles, and pops"!

Homer: Okay, whatever takes my mind off my life.

[the TV comes on and the sitcom begins with a theme song]

Female Singers: Talk to the hand, the face ain't listening ...

Lisa: [overly romantic] Hey, look what I found! [Marge turns the TV off] Grandpa's old radio. Oh, wouldn't it be grand to gather 'round and have a listen?

Homer: Well turn something on! I'm starting to think!