Brainwashing in 21st Century

“We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?'

You know how I interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Life is Unfair!!

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...

...and you finish off as an orgasm.”

Poetry by Remco Campert

I never cared much for beautiful poetry
unless you didn’t notice it was beautiful
quick as the light
skimming along a rail track
or snow flake melting on a paving stone
apart from that I’ve never cared much for beautiful poetry
unless it was very beautiful
like the time you stood at the tram stop
and I glimpsed you in passing

The 19th Commandment

1 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in the fruit salad!

2 No one is listening until you fart.

3 Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

4 Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

5 If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive or dead, try missing a couple of mortgage payments

6 Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

7 If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

8 Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

9 If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

10 If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

11 Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree. Don’t worry; it only seems kinky the first time.

12 Good judgment comes from bad experience … And most of that comes from bad judgment.

13 A closed mouth gathers no foot.

14 There are two excellent theories for arguing with women. Neither one works.

15 Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving.

16 Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it..

17 We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our butt – then things just keep getting worse.

18 Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

19 Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. do not walk beside me for the path is narrow.. In fact, just p*ss off and leave me alone.

Karma

Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead,
What in the world you thinking of,
Laughing in the face of love,
What on earth you tryin’ to do,
It’s up to you, yeah you.

He might be right after all...

“To put it in gentleman’s terms if you’ve been out for a night and you’re looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they’re good looking and some weeks they’re not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn’t the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let’s have a coffee.”

-Ian Holloway, after an ugly win against Chesterfield.-

Burglar

"If you’re a burglar, it’s no good poncing about outside somebody’s house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out". - Ian Holloway