She's baaaaack!

Sometimes I truly believe there's no better feeling then after perfectly crafting your original piece of writing, you print it off, staple the pages, and shove it into the submission box! Even when you get back your mark, and you do really well - it's too instantaneous a joy. There's something much more exciting about prolonged happiness. Anyways, the important thing is that I never have to write another 3000-4000 word paper for this program again! It's two 2500 word papers and a 15,000 word dissertation...come to think of it, my current completion 'high' will be very short-lived.

Oh and don't worry, I won't go on talking about the content of this paper - I think there's been enough patriarch-bashing for one blog...but I will share the title with you (just because I was so proud of myself for coming up with such a creative heading): Mommies, Mall-Rats and Mistresses: Miss. Representation in the Media. Isn't it great? Alliteration, double-entendres...gotta love those literary devices. Hope it goes over well with my professors. Sometimes academia gets this awful reputation of being elitist, needing to sound so formal and complicated all the time. It's only a good theory if it's a complex one is the idea. But I've always thought that academics needs to be more accessible to the public. To me, it shows more skill and intelligence if you're able to explain your ideas simply. I mean think about it logically, the theories that scholars develop and write about are meant for society to adapt. Well if you're offering solutions to people's problems, why are you coding it in language that nobody will understand (except for your colleagues of course)? It's like there's this gap between the academic world and the real world. It's too bad really, because there's a lot of great ideas out there that never get implemented because they're too theoretical and no one understands them.

Which is why I've always preferred writing in a more casual, un-pretentious tone. Sometimes you have the unfortunate experience of a very traditional professor marking your paper - who believes that the harder it is to understand, the smarter the writer. Luckily that trend is nearly out-dated, and once you become a post-graduate student, people are much more accepting of creating your own writing style. So it's been a very liberating experience to finally have the freedom to express myself without compromising my grades.

I just wanted to take a moment to say how appreciative I am to have spent time with all my friends and family at home over the past break. I know there were a few of you I didn't get to see, and I’ll have to make that upto you next time I’m in town (sorry!). It was especially encouraging to know that so many of you actually follow up on my weekly posts, and are interested in what I have to say. Sometimes I'm not sure if my writing is falling on deaf ears (or blind eyes in this case) so it truly motivates me to maintain my blog when I know that someone's reading (besides my mom :p ).

So in my last entry, I posted a link to a youtube clip about the creation of a North American Union (similar to the European Union) that would be part of a goal by a group of elite men to have a one world government, where every citizen is chipped with an RFID implant (that's Radio-Frequency IDentification) which will control every aspect of life. All new American passports already have these tags embedded in them, and families have already volunteered to be inseminated with these tags as a safety precaution. So if it sounds like it could never happen: it already is. Eventually the entire world could run on an entirely electronic system. Paying for groceries, using the subway, all possible with a simple scan of your arm. So what would happen if you fell out of line with the government's laws? They could simply turn your chip off. Or in other words, disconnect you from the world.

What I discovered more recently about this clip, is that it's actually from a documentary called Zeitgeist (click to watch). The film is divided into three parts, each attempting to prove a theory:
1) Christianity and all world religions, are false myths based on pagan worship of the sun, and other astrological signs.
2) The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre were actually planned, funded, and executed by the American government.
3) Since WWI, the rich have been secretly manufacturing wars and other financial collapses to control the populace and become even richer and more powerful.

I know. It sounds like just another wonky conspiracy theory, right? Wrong. The truth is, that as radical as these ideas sound, for the most part, other people have been talking and writing about them for a long time. The difference is that this film neatly packages all three into a 2 hour documentary, leaving the viewer to make her/his own judgment call on whether there is a relationship between Christian ideology, International Bankers, and 9/11. The other big difference is that the website where you watch this movie (for free) has a separate references page, containing all the sources used to compile the film. From what I can tell, it all seems highly credible and logical.

I thought you would need some convincing to even watch the film let alone believe it's content. So below is a tiny snippet of what you can expect:

The biblical reference to the star in the East is in fact known as Sirius (the brightest star in the sky), which on the 24^th of December aligns with the 3 brightest stars in Orion’s Belt: also known today and in ancient times as the ‘three kings'. These stars all point to the rise of the sun on December 25^th, which is why the three kings are said to follow the star in the East, in order to locate the sunrise, the "birth of the sun" (aka God's Son). In ancient times, the sun was worshiped as the provider of life, the ultimate God. It makes perfect sense in these terms, that the sun would be anthropomorphised or personified by other religions as spiritual leaders.

The Virgin Mary comes from the sign Virgo (which means Virgin in Latin). The ancient glyph for Virgo is an altered M – explaining why the names of many religious figures’ mothers begin with an M (such as Adonus’ mother Myrra and Buddha’s mother Maya, and of course, Christ's mother Mary).

Although Zeitgeist makes a solid case to prove the myths of religion and unveil the truth behind 9/11 and international bankers, the greater point of the film, is to stop believing everything you hear. Don't blindly take what is written in newspapers and broadcasted on television for face value. Learn to do your own research - even with regards to the claims made in Zeitgeist. If you do a thorough enough job, the director believes you will reach the same conclusion he has. I know it's a lot to ask, to take the 2 hours to sit and watch this film on your computer. But after seeing it, I can tell you that it was an eye-opening experience (Sidenote: you may want to skip past the first 20 or so minutes, as it’s a continuous flash of war-related images). I've never been the most knowledgeable when it comes to History and Politics, and so for me, I learned a lot from watching this movie, and I think it's message is one we should all aim to practice:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace" (Jimi Hendrix).