Talk to me Hugh Roy

I should be doing homework.

Now that's a strange thing to say at 29 years old. But then, it doesn't really seem strange at all. I spent 20 odd years in some school or another. It comes naturally. I've had quite a few jobs, but none since I closed my last business. I'm starting a new company called Open Mind LLC, but the one thing I can almost guarantee you, is that it won't be doing much, at least not much for the moment. I don't do much. In fact, I'm not really sure there's too much to do.

A professor gave me some advice today. One of the things he suggested was that I think about law school because he had a feeling I wouldn't want to deal with the bullshit of a more academic masters or PhD program. That could be good advice.

[ALRIGHT I'M CUTTING MYSELF OFF RIGHT HERE! I HAVE TO TAKE MY DOG OUT AND WRITE THREE PAPERS. DO I REALLY WANT TO BE LIVING ON SOME ISLAND IN HAWAII IN THE JUNGLE IN PARADISE GROWING MY OWN FOOD ON THE FREE EDUCATE YOURSELF PROGRAM?] NO MAYBE I SHOULD JUST STAY IN SCHOOL AND GET SOME LETTERS AFTER MY NAME AND PRETEND THAT ITS MY JOB TO SAVE THE WORLD. I'M STARTING THE DO NOTHING CAMPAIGN. ENOUGH WITH TRYING TO MOVE ISRAEL TO UTAH FOR THE SAFETY OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. ITS TIME FOR SOMETHING NEW.

click the title to read a little ditty on my great great granddad. He did a lot and gave a lot away. I'm thinking of doing nothing. Jungle or city? Talk to me Hugh Roy. What should I do?

What if every single one of us, was in each one of us?

something corny that I'm sure has been said before. But it jumped into my mindhead.

Man doesn't perform the miracles. The miracles perform the man.

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So lest anyone think i'm just too corny with all this positive we're all connected stuff.

All this we're all angels stuff,

all this one beautiful human race, guardians of this earth stuff;

I know it's a little hard to swallow what with all the ultra-violence, murder, rape, and Three Stooges. I think it's true though. You bet.

But it's also true that we're fuck ups.

We're fallen angels. You bet. We're the children of Satan.

You bet.

But let's not forget, that makes God our Granddad.

And you can bet that God always loved his fallen son Lucifer. And so what if Papa Satan and his offspring killed off pretty much all the rest of the angels, and took to raping their Mother Earth for profit?

We're just doing the best we can. We have to give ourselves a break.

We're only human.

This Guy is a Nutcase... Man on Mars by 2031? (click here for more on the story)

Buzz Aldrin thinks we should spread mankind to Mars. This is idiocy. What a magnificent waste of money, time, brains, and resources. We could feed all the poor on earth 10 times over on the amount of money we spend figuring out how to shoot rockets and people into the unlivable environs of space. Sure, we can insulate ourselves out there in our little mini space-station atmospheres, but don't get the wrong idea. Space is not where we want to be living. There is no water. There are no trees. There is no life. With all our powerful telescopes, helping us look out into the vast infinities of space, we still have not found anything that looks like the paradise we have on earth. But we just keep searching as we destroy our little life giving Planet with overpopulation and an ever exported obsession with our consumption driven, selfish and individualist culture. We could be putting all the money we put into our spaceships into developing green energy. At minimum we should halt all space exploration until we can do it without burning any carbon fuels or creating any environmental waste. Buzz Aldrin, old decrepit man that he is, should be shot into outer space with the rest of the idiots on the last rocket from Cape Canaveral.

Well listen here Cowboy

Old peckerwood
out in the thicket
drifting in and out of sleep
running down the branches
then he spoke to the river people
and said
in his Texas drawl
The only thing I know, you little peckers, is that I don't know anything.

Alright,

so here is the deal. I can't shut up. My brain keeps going and going, and I can't help that I enjoy thinking, and then the talking just happens. It's like thinking out my mouth. "Dynamic." In my case, as one of my favorite people on earth, and best of friends, just reminded me, that translates to "your loud, and you talk to much." A dose of reality is always good. He's absolutely right, that just about sums me up. I'm a loud monkey that likes the company of other monkeys. That's why I need to become either a preacher or a stand-up comedian (as if there is a difference), because I just need to get this shit off my chest. It's either about my stupid little story, or about what needs to change in the world, what's wrong with the world blah blah blah. It's just the way I'm wired. So if I can just talk for my job, then I won't need to jabber to the people I care about. The truth is there is nothing really to say. But I just keep saying it. People on the whole just don't care. They don't want to hear it. And that's understandable. I don't want to hear it either.

We're just here. I can't shut up. Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Some things in life you just have to accept as being the way they are. Thanks to all those who listen to my jabberings. I spent years sitting back and talking to a psychiatrist. I think it became a habit. I seem to treat everyone across from me like a psychiatrist. I don't have many secrets. I'm kinda like that clawed open chested depiction of Hanuman. Anyhoo. That's just me. The Reverend idiot, aspiring to be a better man. Some of us are called to play the fool. Is there even any point trying to be different than what comes naturally?

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It all depends what we put between the quotation marks.

Man

Ain't it cool that we're just about pretty much made of God. What's up little molecules!?!?

nothing ever goes anywhere in this infinite universe of ours. It just changes. Energy becomes energy becomes energy

people are beautiful

So I went in this antique shop and the owner, Vladimir, had all these really old hand painted Russian and Greek Christian murals. They reminded me of Buddhist and Hindu spiritual representations I had seen before. Jesus was depicted in sitting postures with his hands in poses reminiscent of Shiva, Ganesha, Krishna and the Buddha.

Was Christianity simply a reaction to the Monotheism of the Jewish faith which left man the inheritor of God's wrath and anger? Was it simply a reaction of man to his own fallen nature? Jesus Christ represents the divinity of man. Were we tired of feeling guilty? Were we tired of feeling doomed? Were we detached from our divine nature? Why do we worship Jesus? Did he not tell us that if we wanted to find God, we should look within? He did not want to be worshiped. He was a teacher and a preacher, who was forsaken on the cross by his father, the Lord. Yet we retold the story, making this torturous death of a prophet, our own redemption. He died for our sins. Yes, he certainly did, because it was we who killed him. Man killed man, or, as we have been taught, man killed God. But somehow we came out of this forgiven, well, at least those of us who believed, who accepted Jesus Christ in our hearts. We were forgiven.

Originally you had to be Jewish to be a Christian, that is of course until Paul started writing his letters, opening up the religion to Gentiles. The fact that the fledgling church was not going to get far without new believers may have played into this strategy. Many Jews didn't seem to want to get off the hook. They wanted to keep on wearing their little black caps. They wanted to keep on being the recipients of God's punishment and wrath, reaping the rewards of the fruits of our banishment from the Garden.

Anyways, all I was really trying to say is that walking down the street today, and seeing a blind man grasping at a wall, looking for a door that wasn't there, and then watching myself and another tattooed bad ass looking white boy, rush to help the blind black man, both asking him if he needed help, the other gentleman gently grasping the blind man's arm. He was looking for the barber shop, which was just 3 or so feet from where he was looking. We said "hey man, you're right there." We helped him in, and looked at each other knowingly, and I thought, on the verge of tears, man, people are beautiful. People are divine. People are angels.

to be continued...

So it was in june of 2009 that I decided to seek out a priest, a rabbi, a minister, a monk, a yogi, a guru, and any other spiritual authority I could find in order to find my own place as a shepherd in this bizarre world of ours. Now, admittedly, it may seem strange that a man with a strong taste for drugs, women, and rigorous self-analysis would be called to the cloth. But God works in mysterious ways. I was ordained in February of 2008 by the illustrious and reputable Universal Life Church Monastery, but it was really an ordination without education, a certification with little substance beyond my own covenant with the Lord. At the time my brain was overloaded with it’s own natural chemicals, at levels above what would be termed “normal.” I was full of energy, full of spirit, full of inspiration, but unfortunately also still full of ego. I was experiencing what would medically be diagnosed as hypomania. I was not psychotic. I would find myself beyond the pleasantries of hypomania, in full fledged manic psychosis about a month later. That would be my first psychosis as an ordained minister, and appropriately it happened outside a church, as I had the revelations.

Just a bit of Ranting before I get to work.

Well first off, I'm feeling quite well. Long day. Had to engage the brain. Signed up for this Global Affairs course at NYU that is way more intensive than I expected, 6 classes, 1 semester worth of work each one, all in 1 month? Jesus, where did I miss the fine print. I thought seminar meant it was going to be a mellow affair. Not so much.

But getting to the point, I'd like to talk about the stuff that I don't quite yet know how to incorporate into the Church of the Open Mind. Now i've already written there, and here for that matter, that we are all Jews. Why? Read the Old Testament, it's the main Jewish text, you may have heard it referred to as the Tanakh. I'm sure you've heard the story. God created the heavens and the earth, and he created Adam and Eve, the first people. Well then we took Anthropology and found out that Adam and Eve were monkeys, or pretty damn close. Do we doubt that they were monkeys? Well try the Biblical "fact" that they were running around the jungle naked unaware of their nakedness. Sounds like a monkey to me.

Until of course they disobeyed their father and ate of the tree of knowledge. I've heard it written that it wasn't actually an apple, this tree of knowledge, it was actually like some kind of wheatie treat. Could be that it grew fungus, which looked on a molecular level, a little bit like LSD. This fungus, if ingested, would reveal the true nature of reality... the game... the tree of knowledge. Anyways. After they ate of the tree of knowledge they weren't Monkeys anymore. They were Assholes. Gods little pain in the ass. They were still in Africa, and me thinks they were black. Or should I say: WE WERE BLACK? It took some moving around. It took this guy Abraham running off from a group of polytheists who he didn't agree with. And then we were Jews. So that's why we're all Jews.

Now I don't want anyone getting the idea that i'm extra special picking on the Jews. I could say what I'm about to say about Iran as well. Religious states just give me the Heebie Jeebies. Along those lines, so long as Jews keep thinking that the rest of us aren't Jewish, and therefore want a Jewish State/homeland all for themselves, instead of sharing the world with the rest of us Jews, every single one of us including the Atheists, the Christians, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Zoroastrians, Scientologists, and the rest, I think the only place they will be safe is Utah, surrounded by Mormons.

So that's what I wanted to say. Utah should open a section up to be the new Jewish state, safely encapsulated by America and no longer in the midst of enemies who have sworn to destroy it. It would be like a last resort safety escape plan, in case the Middle East gets too sketchy, and the Israelis want to try out a new Zion and fulfill the Mormon version of the Bible.

Anyhow. Israel wasn't ours to give, and it was in the midst of other people's land. So it was our mistake. We should make Utah available, because it is the right thing to do. We can leave it to the Latter Day Saints and the Jews to fight it out over who gets the rights to Zion National Park. Let them battle it out for who gets to control which part of Salt Lake City. Just get the Jews the hell out of Israel before God comes back to earth and tears down the Temple walls again and we all get burned up in the fire. Peace.

what if

The Big Bang was when god ripped positive and negative apart from each other? It's never been the same since. Then he sent us down here to collect reports and fuck each other.

Happy 4th of July from North Korea

Ooh. I'm so scared. North Korea fired seven scud missles, each with a range of about 312 miles. Is that what you call a fireworks show? We'll have more arsenal in the skies above New York and DC tonight than those little pansy missiles. An act of defiance they call it. Hah. More like a little fuck you with a big smile wrapped around it. Give me a break. It's not exactly a nuke fired at Hawaii. But we toast you in return with a glass of champagne. We love you North Korea. Baby, you don't want the pain. You are our brothers and sisters. Aloha.

I dreamed last night that I was on a private flight with John McCain, the pilot died, plane shot up, I jumped out the door and floated down to the ground with the help of a yellow balloon. I shit you not. After braving the swamp, alligators, snakes, spiders, I ended up in the same field where I landed. Then I walked to Hawaii, wondering why I entered that swamp in the first place.