November 19, 2000

I chopped the site into two pages, so this front page only has the last month and a half of content or so, so it should be loading faster from now on.I’m tellin’ ya, my friend is gonna be the only Jewish person ever to go to Hell. Y’see, there’s no hell in Judaism (although I’m an Atheist anyway, so why the hell do I care, heh). Suffice to say, anyone who steals something from the place they’re applying to work at and does it during the same trip they dropped off their application has no chance of avoiding hell. He will single-handedly bring hell to the Jewish religion.

Does this article make you want to buy a cell phone or what? I love the English’ newspaper headlines.

I caught the 6th Day yesterday. It was pretty decent, and, as we all know, Ah-nuld is the man. The only thing I really hated was that the entire premise of the movie was impossible. When you clone something, it does not come out exactly like what you cloned. You can only clone one stem cell, and grow a body from there. It drove me crazy, heh. Now all the dumbasses of the world (and we know there are a lot of them) are gonna be scared of the “horrors” of cloning, just like all the retards who are against Genetic Engineering. This study by Novartis notes that “The developing countries are faced with the formidable task of doubling their food output over the next 25 years”. The people against Genetic Engineering are not the ones starving in Liberia and Bangledash. The people complaining are the ones who are rich as hell spoiled brats in America and Western Europe. Same goes for globalisation. The countries that took up globalization early are the countries that are well-off now. Compare S. Korea to China: both were in a similar place 50 years ago. Same with Malaysia vs. Vietnam.

Go see either the Grinch or 6th Day this weekend because the Final Fantasy Movie trailer is out. That movie is gonna kick some serious ass. Next year is gonna be nuts: we have Hannibal, Final Fantasy Movie and A.I. all coming out. Then Matrix 2 and Star Wars: Episode 2 in 2 years. I needa save up now, heh.

Sandstorm, my favorite techno song, is finally out in the US. It’s at #5 on the Billboard Club Charts and rising. Ten bucks says by January, nearly anyone who cares about music will know who Darude is.

A guy I know from Long Island was telling me about his school the other day. It’s a Catholic High School. With Uniforms. And 68% Female. How the brothers there concentrate on school, I don’t know.

I went to a Thai (might have been Laotian or something, but close enough) restaurant for my mum’s birthday the other day. Suffice to say, I’m not a fan of Asian food. But then I started thinking: What’s the point of not enjoying a food? Seriously, it’s not hard-wired into someone, so whether one likes or dislikes a food, I believe, is entirely in the head. So I’ve decided that if I don’t like something, who the hell cares, eat it anyway. Taste is in the mind. So now, hopefully, I’ll never dislike another meal again. I got thinking about this in the first place because of my feelings concerning stress, depression, and the like. Such things are what we call psycho-somantic diseases. This paper professes that only freaks would believe in it. I disagree. Things such as stress (the cause of many headaches) and depression involve no foreign agent, such as a virus or bacteria, and are not the result of any part of the body disfunctioning, such as a torn ligament. In fact, there are proven studies where people have had such things as paralyzed arms from a stroke, and regained use of their limb after “thinking correctly”. Thusly, I believe (although I will note that this is probably not the prevailing view in some scientific circles, even though it is logically sound) that, if you think correctly, you won’t have any stress or depression. They are diseases of thinking processes which are too weak to process the world around you. In order to control things such as this, you need to be able to control your “emotions” or the chemicals such as cortisol and adrenaline which can unduly influence how you would otherwise rationally think. There are many ways to do this, although the best is to not be afraid and to not get angry. A tough proposition for many people.

Following from this reasoning, I believe that is possible to control pain if you can control your thinking enough. That’s not to say you won’t become sick, or won’t break a bone. You will. What I am saying is that if one can hone his or her mental abilities enough, one should be able to concentrate rationally through pain. I’ve had a damn big headache most of the week, and I’ve noticed I can “put it out of my head” on occasion, although I certainly dont’ have the “synaptic memory” yet to fully control pain. If you think I’m nuts, look at certain ascetics and people around the world such as yogi who can walk on fire, or lay on spikes, or whatever and not notice the pain. Pain is good in that is a good indication that your body has suffered a physical injury or is nearing one. For instance, running a marathon when you have a splitting headache will probably hurt you badly. Pain is bad when it makes it so that you can’t do your normal mental functions.

Here’s my suggestion if you want to control pain better (or even just make it so that you have a serious illness, the pain will not feel as bad, relative to what you’ve experienced): Don’t use Advil, Ibupofin, or Aspirin unless you *really* need to. Actually, don’t use any medicine for any psycho-semantic disease. If you have the flu, go for it on the Tylenol. If you have a headache, try and see if you can work your way thru it. Serious, it’ll be much, much better in the long run.

MP3 Prime Cut: To Be Free by Emiliani Torrini
I dunno how to explain this one, it’s a good song though.

MP3 Prime Cut Extra: Dawg Call by 12 Gauge
Betcha didn’t know that Who Let the Dogs Out was a sample.



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