New Age Birth Control? Intelligent use of Resources?

So to be controversial, and split a lot of hairs, I've recently read Freakonomics, and it was incredible. So much, I read it in a day. I've never done that, it was only several chapters, but I couldn’t stop reading. I recommend people read this book.

The evolution of us humans, if we manage to continue our race, is an incredible thing. Most mistakenly, it’s looked at as though it takes thousands of years for us to 'evolve,' but I think that's because we've always looked at the past, and tried to apply our ideas of evolution. Sure evolution means things like growing lungs to breathe air, or growing a fifth finger on our hands. But what about all the other things we as humans do to change, on an everyday basis? What about laws that we pass to control bad behaviors, or rehabilitation services to help the sick that may be mentally ill, or just assisted living programs to prevent them from doing harm in society, and I guess, perhaps, propagating their genes.... (Does that make me prejudice?) All of these things we have done to help people, each other, society as a whole, and society as a whole, along with everyone in the society. It’s kind of like Karma, what goes around, comes around, Didn’t JC say “do unto others, as you would want done unto you”? I mean, that’s basically it. If you (the plural ‘you’ I suppose I could say y’all but that’s just simply lame) are nice, and understanding towards everyone else, and not hateful, angry towards other people, think how much better a world we would live in. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m just saying we need more respect for everyone and everything in this world that we all share.
I support the one child law that China has pioneered the last few years to help combat their insanely ballooning population, still managing to have over a billion people. That’s too many. Plain and simple, it’s too many people. I think China should go further, or maybe the US, and instating requirements to propagate, and if the requirements are met, they could possibly have two or three kids. I know how racist, prejudice, or whatever, but if you ask my opinion, that’s Intelligent Design. But I’m not writing this about government control of births, I’m more thinking of a natural mean that has always been around, and permeates every level of our existence.
With all that being said, homosexuality has been an underrated and underrexaminated, basically just shy of taboo topic, when it comes to anything. But I guess one of my first questions is, “Is the increased awareness and concern of homosexuality rights and fair treatment of recent, somehow a natural response to the burdens and strains of overpopulation?” This is part of the natural order. It seems to me to be a basic concept. It seems to me that if you love the earth, and everything living thing, you can respect each other’s religions, decisions, and choices, would allow them to make them, and respect them for that. I guess this is where it gets controversial with religion and decisions. I’ll just say religion has not been around as long as the Earth, or even us humans. Many religions have much great teachings when it comes to moral and ethical behavior towards each other, but then some other messages get muddled and exaggerated. But there are times when there are plants and animals in nature that are gay, hermaphroditic, and even asexual. Assuming god made all these things, why would he want us to hate them. To say that god put everything including all living things on this earth for us, for our use, for us to exploit, it is just toooooo narcissistic for me. If I will believe anything, it is that god put us all here, to all live together, and respect each other.

And regarding choice, Roe v. Wade allowed the mass murder of thousands of babies. These babies would have grown up, most likely in poor conditions, contributing to the degrading state of society, becoming criminals, committing violent crimes and being sentenced to death, or just spending decades -in jail. If we want to incarcerate people for countless crimes, we should come up with a way to constructively use the prison labor, or try to educate them, with science, math, and humanities courses.

Strugglin

every day is a struggle anymore, in many ways, by being surrounded by flesh eaters. This isn't all a bad thing, because, instead of being surrounded by like-minded individuals, I have the opportunity to educate people, and disseminate vegan, raw, and various diet literature. I enjoy talking to people about various diet and lifestyels. I've always been willing to do that, which is easy, but the difficult part is to be immersed in a culture, and fight kicking and screaming to keep your head above water. Most people dont even know what entails a vegetarian diet, let alone vegan, raw, pescatarian, flexitarian, or whathaveyou. I talk to all sorts of people, about my diet, and my choices, but my favorite are the youngbloods. People may be a little dumber with age, in the opposite direction, but that just means they have more opportunity to grow, learn, and be educated to make more intelligent decisions.
I want to help people that mainly want it, but I also want to be able to helpe people that may not necessarily know what they want. I've come across many people troughout my life that respect me, that don't respect me, that dont appreciate what people do. I must say we are all one species, and we should love each other, and every living thing, this planet included.
I can and do appreciate a great conversation about intelligent topics, as well as recommended readings. I also have books to read, and if that isnt enough, i can make you dinner.... Lasagna or Pizza, Falafel and Hummous, Tacos and Guacamole, Scrambled Tofu and Tempeh..... the list goes on and on, and i know you are hungry.

Grass

Grass, not just a Sunday morning activity anymore. Drinking wheatgrass is wonderful, decreasing my appetite, and increasing my energy, my juicer has been my best investment ever. And to mention its use in the evening when the juicing of the carrots, celery, and beets beetgin is where my diet goes raw. I need more juice directions, for different flavors and tastes and effects.
Sunday morning usually accompanied with muffins and coffee, but today i opted for some scrambled tofu, not raw, but the wheatgrass is.

Looking through my various vegan/raw literature, trying to make sense of it all, i need a card cataloug for all this shit.

Hangover Cafe with Fat Tim Rocking out a little "Burn One Down"

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down
my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to bo
and if you're causin' no harm
then you're alright with me
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down
herb the gift from the earth
and what's from the earth
is of the greatest worth
so before you knock it try it first
you'll see it's a blessing
and not a curse
if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

Numbers and Facts, For Everyone

Excerpt from Student's Vegetarian Cookbook by Carole Raymond C1997

Livestock consumes 70% of US grain production. Twenty million people die each year as a result of malnutrition and starvation. American s could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their intake of meat by just 10%
One acre of prime land can produce many pounds of edible product. Here are a few examples:
30,000 pounds of apples
40,000 pounds of potatoes
50,000 pounds of tomatoes
250 pounds of beef
Livestock-cattle poultry, goats, sheep-totaling 15 billion worldwide now outnumber people three to one. Livestock graze on half of the world’s land mass. The explosion of livestock populations has resulted in a parallel explosion of animal wastes that pollute surface and ground waste. US livestock produces 230,000 pounds of excrement per second. The amount of waste created by a 10,000-head feed lot is equal to the waste of a city of 110,000 people.
World livestock production is now a significant factor in the emission of two of the four global warming gasses: carbon dioxide and methane. Every steak we eat has the same effect as a 25 mile drive in a typical American car.
Each year, an estimated 125,000 square miles of rain forest are permanently destroyed, bringing about the extinction of approximately 1,000 plant and animal species.
Producing one pound of feedlot steak results in the loss of 35 pounds of topsoil. It takes 200 to 1,000 years to form on inch of topsoil.
It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of beef. It takes 49 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of apples.
Eighty percent of the meat produced in the United States contains drugs that are passed on to you when you eat meat.
Animal products contain large quantities of saturated fat, cholesterol, and have no dietary fiber. The US Surgeon General has stated that 6-% of all diseases are diet related. A diet rich in fruits vegetables, and grains (and free from animal products) can prevent, improve, and sometimes cure breast cancer, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, impotence, and obesity.
Seventy-five percent of federal poultry inspectors say that they would not eat chicken.

On Stencil Graffiti

In a world saturated with high priced corporate imagery, beyond just having a charming aesthetic, the stencil is a cheap and effective way for an artist or activist to put their work in front of the public and level the playing field.

The idea of using the urban landscape as a canvas remains constant. if you want to get your point across there's only one way to do it: get your message to where the public can see it. Poster, sticker, stencil and cover the streets, signs, walls and whatever else is out there.

Internet is to tv, in the same way the stencil is to the 'urban landscape' that is used for posting bills. The individual's independent thought becomes and alter means of information distribution. This new radical form of dissemination is becoming more popular. The stencil combined with other sticker and poster styles, form the groundwork for a new frame of thought and information experience.

disinformation

rude boy skankin

self explanatory

and now you have all you need to get started.
just cut out the black sections with an x-acto knife. it helps if you laminate the paper, or use a piece of cardboard, it gets soggy with paint after while. You can use pieces of plastic from packaging, or chipped cardboard works better, the non-corrugated.

Unbelievable Links

Holy Wow.

http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/3652/

http://www.cafepress.com/antivegitarian

http://bethkujawski.blogspot.com/2006/05/anti-vegan-with-vengeance.html

Older Culture View of the World

(Excerpt from "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight")

We are part of the world. We are made of the same flesh as other animals. We eat the same plants. We share the same air, water, soil, and food with every other life-form on the planet. We are born into life by the same means as other mammals, and when we die, we, like them, become part of the soil that will nourish future generations.
It is our destiny to cooperate with the rest of creation. Every life-form has its special purpose in the grand ecosystem, and all are to be respected. Each animal and plant has its own unique intelligence and spirit. We are permitted to compete with other plants and animals, but we may not wantonly destroy them. All life is absolutely as sacred as human life. (even using the word “sacred” here is difficult, because it implies that something else is “not sacred.” In these older cultures such distinctions do not exist. Life is, and that is a thing of extraordinary importance, at the very core of all existence.) although hunting and killing for food are part of nature’s order, when we do so it must be done with respect and thankfulness.
Older Cultures are most often cooperators, not dominators.

Slaves know when they are slaves, regardless of the words used to describe their slavery. And they’ll seek escape from the slavery, be it in increasingly powerful drugs, increasingly intense “entertainment,” or psychopathic or violent behavior.

What do you want in 2009 and the next four years?

(Excerpt from "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight")

Imagine reading this in a history book:
About 120 years ago, spaceships discreetly appeared over cities around the united states and disgorged robotic machines to mingle among the humans and convert human life into sustenance for the robots themselves. While these machines are not alive and don’t breathe, eat, reproduce, or die, in 1886 the United States Supreme court- operating outside the boundaries of normal court procedures and without ever issuing a formal written opinion- altered the law of the land to recognize them as “humans” with all the rights of a human citizen. Actually, they gained more than all the rights of an American citizen, because the robots could live for hundreds of years, and if they broke laws or caused the death of real humans – even intentionally – they couldn’t be put in jail or executed. (technically it was possible that their operation could be terminated, but that had only happened a handful of times in over a hundred years and in each case they simply reinvented themselves.)
These robots began a systematic enslavement of humans and the Earth.

First, they approached the humans with a Faustian deal: give us your life and your loyalty, and we’ll give you safety, security and entertainment. At first, many of the humans refused, preferring instead to start their own family-owned or small, local business or operate family-owned farms. Over a 150-year period, the robots used their economic and political power to systematically destroy those businesses through a process the robots euphemistically called competition, and by the twenty-first century more than two-thirds of American workers depended on the robots or the government the robots had come to control for their security, health, and lifestyle.
The robots learned from watching the ancient Romans that “bread and circus” were essential to keeping people from becoming resentful of oppressors: so long as humans were well fed and entertained adequately, they’d submit to increasingly draconian intrusions into their private lives. Thus, the robots began to supply food and entertainment to the humans of the world.
And it goes on….

Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

For the first 194,000 years of humanity’s 200,000-year history, humans viewed the world and its living creatures as sacred, as having souls or spirits. A person who caused permanent harm to that world was condemned as insane and banished from the tribe. The members of the tribe realized that he was destroying the world of his children’s children, an unthinkable and aberrant act. The ancient peoples understood: when you kick your Mother (Earth), she kicks back. She does not roll over and submit to her own death.
Does the world consider human life more important than a tree or a fox? Does the forest “prefer” men to deer? Do the oceans thrive as a result of our presence? Is the planet healthier for our having inhabited it these past seven thousand years since the rise of the city-state?

How Many Times do i have to say it?

(Excerpt from "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight")

Why does it seem that our culture is becoming progressively less mature, rather than more mature?
The primary “immature” cultural concept – “You are the most important person in the world” – is shouted at us daily through TV, the primary spokesvehicle of our culture. The constant reinforcement of this message keeps our culture immature and prevents us from growing in maturity.
The reason for the persistence and intensity of these messages is simple: when people behave like children, wanting immediate gratification for their every desire, they are ideal consumers. Only when we turn off the messages can we begin the process of maturing – and this is rarely done.
A Stanford University study of 1,533 ninth-graders found that youngsters who rented movies instead of watching commercial television were less likely to start drinking alcohol while in school. Just one hour of television a day produced a 31 percent greater risk that in the next 18 months a child would begin to drink, and every additional hour increased that risk by another 9 percent.

Turn Off the TV, and sit quietly for just 10 to 15 minutes each day. Take another few minutes a day to walk outdoors. Your life will change for the better, and in that way you contribute to the healing of our planet.