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12/30/2002 Entry: "up the hill backwards"
the best album david bowie did (IMHO) is 'scary monsters' so go pick it up today. they remastered it recently, and you'll know what i'm listening too these days.
yeah.
um i've been at my uncles farm.
which reminds me of camp. the smells. not wearing any shoes. but camp was loud and there was always a million things to do. and all i've been doing is reading. i finished the fountainhead by ayn rand. it's a good book, she has some good ideas. some of her ideas are....too much, i think. she's reacting to christianity, religon in general. its so easy to look at religon and be like, ok, if this is the best god can do to represent himself, he must be an idiot! i mean, look at this, in the name of god we have crazy people killing each other in the middle east, at the border between india and pakistan, not to mention, not even to mention the history of christian missionaries who kill everyone in sight if they don't convert! 'we've got to civilize these savages' so yeah its easy to look at all of that and say, no thanks, not me i don't believe it, i don't buy it, if that's what god represents, if these people speak for god i'll just take my chances.....
yeah. but....the problem is that the original ideas, the ideals and the teachings have been grossly misconstrued and twisted to support the selfish egos of a few people, 'in the name of god' i mean people used to use passages from the bible to support the idea of slavery, segregation, etc. the best thing to do is to go to the texts themselves and read them and decide for yourself, instead of listening to these incompetent morons blather on about jeeeeesus and maaaaary and jooooooeeeeeseph and the glooooooorrrrry of GGGGGGGooooddd. these people, the so called 'ministers' and 'bishops' and the pope and all that, they are not fit to sell water to people in a desert.
so the farm, the farm the farm.
it's really peacefull. all i've been doing there is reading, playing the guitar, and reading and reading and eating and sleeping and chanting a little and looking at the sunrise and the sunset and the stars, the stars the stars. you wouldn't believe the stars here they're bright like candles they're crazy bright.
the only noise is the 'music' i make with the guitar, and sounds of nature. it's rockin. i like it.
so i'm gonna visit some temples, but if i can stay here i'm going to for a hot minute. it's good stuff.
so i finished the fountainhead, it was good, good reading. now i'm reading some krsna books, some different stuff, the Ramayana, some meditation books, some buddhist stuff. yup. good stuff. so i guess it's getting prettty heavy in the usa i'm sorry to hear that i would escape to canada if i was there, maybe not now, but in the next year or so the way it feels to me from over here is that stuff is gettting prettttttty heavy...... i couldn't read the drudge report cause it was too heavy. i just glanced at it. cloned humans, north korea, 'the war on oil, i mean terrorism' etc.
ok yeah hows' everyone doin? let me know.
i'll check in some time.
later lovlies
cHOKE
replies: 3 comments.
yeah the chai is awesome the best american chai sucks by comparrioson....
nick...maybe i will be a camp counselor this summer otherwise i will be in clevebland doing some kind of slacker work/activism/rockandroll type dealio.....
i'll let you know when i'm gettincloser to gettin back.
ok rock on
posted by grand master cHOKE @ 01/02/2003 02:03 PM india
have you tried the chai???
posted by a low flying donut @ 01/02/2003 02:59 AM india
"pretty heavy" ...well, yes. i'd say so. but it's all in the spirit of 2002. it's that time of the year again, when the media looks back at the stories they covered in the past year. and so we've got drama in the present and all this drama being regurgitated at us now. it's been an interesting year, to say the least.
chris: i'm reading your journal and wondering what your plans are when you get back to the states. you've got quite a lot of commentary from the outside perspective, so i am curious if you've got some long term goals ahead? i don't think i'd really be feel responsible running away to canada. it would be so nice (healthcare!) but i'd be leaving behind the boundless physical country of the united states and all it's spirit from the past. revolution? maybe. i'm working to try to make the best of this country right now, and my future plans are always optimistic (or maybe thats idealistic).
posted by nic. @ 12/30/2002 11:58 AM india
add your thoughts...