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Post by X factor on Jun 21, 2015 21:37:41 GMT -5
 Took this photo years ago on Indian Reservation either in New Mexico or Arizona, I forget. But will never forget the majesty of this alpha male stray dog. |
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Post by X factor on Jun 23, 2015 22:36:53 GMT -5
Old post reposted I needed a happy summer song to go with this portrait. A cheery 'every things going to be alright' type of song. I haven't been in a portrait taking mood in many months now. It's not something you can fake. You're either in the mood and spirit or you're not. And when in the mood, it just flows naturally, like you're out of body or something. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is an older post from 2013 I felt like reposting just to show how environment can really effect ones creativity. If living in deadening environment around deadening people, culture, you'll become dead like them, but when around vibrant people who encourage living and life and creativity, your potential is endless, remember that. Environment is key to many things.
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Post by X factor on Jun 25, 2015 0:35:42 GMT -5
Everything on TV seems ugly right now, graphic and gross. I think man has always been ugly, graphic and gross, but in the past it wasn't displayed so prominently to the world using media. I was napping, then awoke, turned sound up on TV and everything on air just seemed gross. As if for a moment, while napping, returned to a more sensible equilibrium of sensibility, then awoke and was jolted back into 'the now' of where man is at, and it all seemed gross. But we get, or most have gotten, so use to it that most don't notice how gross shows on TV and radio are. How deceptive it all is. How deceptive marketing is, and how shock value is used to lure viewers, or what some would simply call immoral. It has all become immoral, and most have become numb to it. News shows all focus on the ugliest stories of the day, which display the ugliest behavior of society. So that if you watch the news day in and day out the world begins to seem very warped. Same thing with talk radio, shock value is a marketing scheme, in that they only focus on the ugliest stories and situations of the day or week, and repeat these headlines over and over again. As I was in and out of sleep, TV was on, but sound down.  And every time I glanced at screen ugly imagery was on. I had it on Fox News, and every time I looked at screen there was some ugly story being high lighted, some ugly criminal, some ugly disaster, ugly this gross that, over and over again. And in subconscious state, it became apparent how deliberate it all was being done. It's all by design. Then turned onto HBO, again more gross stuff, every scene dealt with something visually gross, then turned onto one of those cable channel John Stewart type shows, where comedian mocks every thing like a parody, again all of it was gross. It's like 'gross' is being shoved down every ones throats daily, gross is becoming a daily diet for most, and one has to stand back and wonder what all this displayed grossness is doing to society, the world collectively? Again, the world has always been a gross place to live in, but at least in the recent past, gross was usually kept down town in some seedy district part of town.  Now it seems everything seedy and shady, shady tactics down town creeps use to use to lure customers, is now out in the open on TV, in the media, on display for all to see and hear. In the past 'decent' people kept that stuff hidden away from mainstream society, now it seems gross is mainstream, and wanting to remain moral and decent is back alley. If one reads to book of Revelations, or use to, just seems like that's where we're at now, society, the world. Evil is on full display for everyone to see now, and has become normal to most.  That one scarlet 'wh_re' and how they're described in the book of Revelations, when sin, the acceptance of sin, reaches it's max. And I believe the lady riding the beast represent society as a whole, societies indulgence in sin and wickedness. Just seems we're in that time now. Again, in the past such stuff was always relegated to seedy dark back alley parts of town and societies, nations, now seediness has become full blown mainstream. The 'back alley' is now mainstream, seediness is now mainstream and is how all companies do business. Slutty images all over TV now, news anchors dress up like prostitutes to attract viewers, jokes are becoming ever and ever nastier, and if you don't laugh at these nasty jokes you're now ridiculed by the very people who claim to be moral. In above picture of scarlet lady riding the 'beast', it's as if modern society is riding Hell, being carried along by hell itself, but it's only a matter of time until that ride ends. And there's always a price to pay for every ride. This is one time I envy the very rich, but only for this following reason, at least the very rich, those who are smart anyways, have the money and funds to shelter themselves from what is going on. If one is very rich, and moral, one has the ability to 'hide', to escape. To buy land, a home, far away from it all and raise family up and away from the mainstream trickery and ugliness which is everywhere now. |
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Post by X factor on Jun 25, 2015 1:32:36 GMT -5
What a wonderful cleansing time of the 24 hour cycle, it doesn't last long, but has a lot of meaning.
The body sleeps, and restores, so does the mind.
That moment when everything is balanced, there is no confusion, no outside interference.
For the sane, it truly is a wonderful time.
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Post by X factor on Jun 27, 2015 4:59:04 GMT -5
The Twylightzone is like a Picasso Painting, full of many abstract illustrations, that viewer or reader has to abstract on their own 
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Post by X factor on Jun 27, 2015 20:30:30 GMT -5
Saturday NightDon't feel like going anywhere, not even up to store, just don't feel like leaving place even though running a bit low on supplies, just don't feel like going anywhere. I need at least one day of the week where I don't go anywhere and take a break from all mechanized vehicles. I guess that would kind of be like my one Sabbath day of the week, even though I'm not Jewish or Adventist. My Sabbath rest doesn't come with a lot of legalism, I watch TV, clean place up, open cans, and other things that Jewish and Adventist would never do. Long ago I use to keep the Sabbath for spiritual reasons, but not anymore, now I just like to relax on Saturdays for physiological reasons, so that the body and mind can rest, recover. Also depends on what you do during the week and how much you love what you do, during the week, and whether or not it's physical in nature or administrative in nature. If one sits behind a desk all week, than come Saturday I'm sure the last thing one wants to do is lay around, but if one is physically active all week, than the last thing one wants on Saturday is more physical activity. But again it just depends. Lot's of variables. Even type of vehicle owned can effect whether or not one wants to go out or not. The newer the vehicle, sportier the vehicle, the more likely one will want to go out daily, just to enjoy ride. But if vehicle older, used, no A/C, dirty, such a vehicle discourages misc driving. No one wants to drive across town not knowing if they're going to make it back. If I had spanking brand new vehicle, I probably wouldn't be here now, would make up excuse just to go out, to cruise. Cruising is only fun when in brand new vehicle or classic hot rod type of vehicle, but cruising in older vehicle really makes no sense. Cruising, boy I remember those days when you'd just go out with friends and 'cruise around'. Again you either have to be very young and dumb and in old beat up car with friends to do that or newer rimmed up vehicle. Can't really cruise up and down the Avenue in a old Pinto.  But if had a brand new Camera, ye, for sure, or brand new Corvette, or brand new Porsche, ye, but Pinto, no. Anyways I'm staying in this evening. Spent all evening cleaning place up. It's quiet, just the way I like and need it. Not even the TV is on. later.
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Post by X factor on Jun 28, 2015 21:53:29 GMT -5
Love will keep us togetherLove will keep us together, here, in the Zone, the Twylightzone. A collection of odd weird, different diverse thoughts and expressions. I love you, cause you're unique. In the Zone you're valued. We may not always agree on all issues, but your value isn't diminished because of that. If you can think, capable of rational thought, are fair, and if your aim is justice and fairness, than you're welcome here. Live long and strong. Nothing you do goes unnoticed... Every time you're nice and kind, and think no one notices, nope, it's noticed. You're in the Zone, very few people on planet Earth find this place, but you did. 
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Post by X factor on Jul 4, 2015 20:28:03 GMT -5
 Happy 4th, I guess... I'm not really feeling it. Never really do. But hope you're enjoying the 4th, and getting the most out of life, regardless of how I'm feeling right now. |
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Post by X factor on Jul 5, 2015 6:17:38 GMT -5
Get tired of TV commercials that display shocking images of starving folks in Africa or Asia, or even parts of Europe.
There's enough billionaires on this planet, trillions of dollars of money locked up in peoples accounts, that if the billionaires wanted to end that suffering than they could.
Like 1% of the people own 95% of the wealth?
Or similar to that.
So one would think if world hunger could be ended, it would.
And we all know by now that most of it has to do with dysfunctional Governments, corrupt regimes that simply end up taking food, donations, before it gets to intended people.
I'm sure lots of common people feel bad when they see these 'help the starving' commercials, but it's hard to help out others across the world when one can barely pay light bill here.
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Post by X factor on Jul 5, 2015 13:24:28 GMT -5
Why moving forward, at all costs, is so vital to your personal health and happiness
You've heard it on here before, but it's so true, and that is...
'If we stop moving forward in our lives, hell will catch you, us'.
It's so true.
The spirit within all is happier moving forward, taking risks if nessisary, rather than sitting still and rotting away.
You feel better about yourself showing up to a game, even if you loose, than not showing up at all, and cowering at home in fear.
The next day will feel better for having showed up, than not showing up at all.
The game of life is the same way.
Looking back you'll feel better to have tried and lost, than to not have tried at all.
And even in current time, the spirit does better to try, put forth effort, than to not try at all and end up wasting effort on other lesser things.
Everyone has their own unique hell that will catch them
There is no one hell that fits all, in reference to not moving forward, but there is a hell, personalized hell waiting everyone who fails to move forward in life.
Some of those hells could be but not limited to...
1. Drug and alcohol use, brought on by depression, and used to distract from disappointing life.
2. Divorce, as a stagnant spouse who doesn't grow, stays the same, tends to loose the interest of wife or husband.
3. Bad friends, bad environment...when fail to move on, the only people who seem to catch up with you are those who are up to no good, those themselves who have given up long ago, and see no potential in you.
4. Illness brought one by any of the above.
When un happy and depressed, ones health tends to deteriorate quickly, bodies immune system stops fighting off viruses, diseased, even colds.
And that's just a few ways hell can catch you if you fail to move forward.
Yes, moving forward can be scary, especially if alone and without support and short on resources.
A rich person has their money to fall back on, a poor person only has the ground to catch them.
Move forward, moving forward will bring the best out of you, standing still will bring out your worst traits and vulnerabilities.
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Post by X factor on Jul 8, 2015 19:49:03 GMT -5
Journey to the Stars This song just happen to be on as I was getting in the mood to write. There are so many incredible non pop music artist out there that are really good musicians whom just never get commercial attention. Kind of like the zone. I write the way they play...(I really hope some listen to song as they read). Cause the key pad is my piano.  This is my piano, and with it I make beautiful music for others to enjoy and relate to. I came home today thinking I wanted to write about one thing, or things, then had change of heart. If you're always responding to the absurd or absurd people, comments, ideas, then soon you'll become absurd, and never be able to relax. Always feeling like you have to correct the absurd can drain you of your own sanity at times. Some times, most of the times, it's best to come home and let all the gunk you heard throughout the day on media just fade away. I mean that's what home time is for. Many out there in the media get paid to 'agitate', to say things to deliberately rile audience, listeners, it's a sick, very dishonest medium to be in. Every things a formula in the media, nothing is done are said by accident, all designed to suck viewers or listeners in, and often in dark negative ways. So why focus on it when at home. Like the song playing right now (I have it playing on different browser), such a soothing song. Music like this takes you away from it all. I call it 'non attitude music'...cause there is no trend or attitude to it, it's just soul soothing. This type of music repels some, and draws others. Kind of like Holy water I guess. I miss being around people who listen to music like this. In closing will leave you with another song by this artist...true Jazz, classical Jazz with a modern sway to it...
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Post by X factor on Aug 1, 2015 17:54:02 GMT -5
It's been whileYes it's been a while. But I've got to move forward or will die. We all will, I mean die while still living, if you don't continue to move, trek, forward, hell and all your demons will catch you, that's so true. Move forward, even if others around you don't want you to, even if others around you want to tac you to one point in time and history...  Some people just don't want you to grow, need you to be their own definition, which isn't accurate. It's more important for them to be 'right' than to be truthful. Remember that. Here in the zone logic, common sense and reason will always prevail...
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Post by X factor on Aug 2, 2015 7:19:17 GMT -5
Moving forward is so very important Most non clinical depression can be related to not moving forward, not making progress. Standing still for to long can have a dampening effect on ones over all mood and out look. It can be depressing when week after week, Month after Month, year after year goes by and there is no change or progress in ones life. Change for the better is what invigorates people because it becomes intoxicating to see what's around the next corner. There's different kinds of change, but it's all related, fiscal change is related to social change is related to relationship change is related to job or employment change is related to spiritual change or growth is related to political change or growth and so forth. It's all related. But if there is no effort to change, everything eventually becomes mud. Social life dwindles, the prospect for romance dwindles, job opportunities or growth dwindles, spiritual life begins to dwindle, if married, that will begin to dwindle also. Even ones on health will begin to dwindle. Moving forward does require taking risks at time, and uncertainty at times. Donald Trump is always so energized cause the man is constantly moving forward, tackling new ventures. Notice how the most energized people are the ones who are continually moving forward. And notice how those whom are usually the most unhappiest are stuck in one spot. If you sit still and wait for things to come to you, they won't, at least not anything good. Even in nature, the only things that come to you or an object that sits still to long is mold, cobwebs and rust and decay. Don't let your life turn into a life of cobwebs.  Move forward, in fact lets move forward together and see what awaits.
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Post by X factor on Aug 3, 2015 7:13:23 GMT -5
Has Robo Cops time finally come? With all the recent negative public/Cop interaction I wonder how long it will be before police officer duties are robotized? Where instead of cops following you, pulling u over on street, drones follow from above and or cameras placed on every city block monitor location. And where radar detectors are stationary and just write tickets or summons automatically...(ye I know I know, where would they send summons) (cause sometimes person driving the car doesn't live at address plates registered to)...I'm sure all this could be worked out. To be honest I'm quite dismayed at recent video footage of cop, motorist, interactions where motorists refuse to follow even the most basic of commands. Example Cop] Step out of your car pleaseMotorist]why?, why do I have to step out of the car? Cop] Ma'am Sir please step out of your vehicleMotorist] Uh ah, I ain't stepping out my car, I don't have to Cop] Look ah here you oversized, greasy food eating, slouch, step out the car now or I'll rip your throat out!Well it doesn't quite go that way, but sometimes it does, motorist refuses to obey even the most simplest of commands and officer then begins to elevate situation. Me, when I've gotten pulled over in the past, I keep tone low, even, and obey. Not cause I'm an obedient type, but rather cause I have a brain, and no that acting cocky for no good reason will only escalate situation. I mean why turn a simple tail light warning into a felony? I feel for both sides, I feel for the cops that are more and more having to deal with cocky, arrogant motorists, and I feel for certain innocent motorists who sometimes happen to be at wrong end of enraged officers behavior. But one thing for sure, most cops, officers, are mono tone, and will leave you a lone as long as you co-operate.
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Post by X factor on Aug 9, 2015 19:47:52 GMT -5
I love peace, quiet and no movement at timesRight now I wish I were in a large cosmic swing set.   A cosmic swing set where all was quiet and all you could here were the sounds of atoms brushing against you as you whisked by. Man doesn't know how to sit still anymore.
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