Mystics and schizophrenics find themselves in the same ocean, but the mystics swim whereas the schizophrenics drown.
R.D. Lang
(via
entheognosis
)
Now that the new IT is out ( because no one can come up with any new ideas ) everyones all batshit about stephen king again. We can walk up and slap the guy, hes cool but hes you know, not that big a deal to us, hes there, he writes books.
Us New Englanders, we’re writers, and as you can tell we’re pretty cunnin in the looks department too, yessah.
The present state of theoretical physics implies that empty space has all this energy and that matter is a slight increase of that energy and therefore matter is like a small ripple on this tremendous ocean of energy, having some relative stability and being manifest. Therefore my suggestion is that this implicate order implies a reality immensely beyond what we call matter. Matter itself is merely a ripple in this background.
David Bohm (1917-1992),
Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity
(via
entheognosis
)
All Alcoholics and Junkies talk about is how many days since they’ve done blank, and how great it is to not be on blank, and how last nights meeting about blank was inspirational.
But blank doesnt still control their lives, it’s their every waking thought, but it doesn’t control them...
" The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The United States, we lock up more people than anyone, BY FAR,
" In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners. "
4% of the world has 22% of all the worlds inmates, and it’s not some scam for money somehow I’m sure. The last statistic I heard was the average prisoner only costs the prison around 90 cents a day, that’s food, water, heat, about 90 cents, and they not only still do that chain gang shit in the south but they’re bringing back the free labor road project type inmate of the early 1900's acrossed the country.
" In state prisons, African-Americans are incarcerated at 5.1 times the rate of whites. "
Sounds like legal slavery to me, THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN. But i know you're thinking, well what's the south have to do with this demographic? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED BUCKY!
" Twelve states have prison populations that were more than half black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Maryland has a prison population that’s 72 percent black. "
Yes there are SOME non confederate states on that list, but really the proofs in the pudding, and the pudding says the south decided if they couldnt have slaves, theyd just do it this way, " usin them there fancy yankee laws "
America, home of the free ( Unless you're black, or poor, but especially if you're both )
Musings and more of a despondant 30 year old man, former drug addict, current writer/alcoholic. I'm unmarried, I have no children, and all my dreams are dead, I've wasted my life, and you can too! Never say never. Sometimes prolific, mostly offensive observations about people, life, and the nature of the universe. I'm a communist, your god's a lie, hate mail welcome.
221 posts