How to Be Less Superstious and Less of a Jackass

*Camera, lights, boob strips, action*... Superstition is the scourge of humanity. Actually, let me rephrase that.. anthropormophism is the problem.. well to be more succint.. people are the fucking problem. *cough*

Why are people the problem? Because people are fucking idol making, sun-worshipping, anthropromorphising, idiots (and i mean that in the most loving way of course). Only humans have the ability to use their power of collective symbol making to create ideas that enslave and institutions to reinforce; trees that talk and spirits to tend them. It's a fucking human thing.. we've been doing this shit for years.

My big problem is that so many people seem to be feeling all snuggy and warm about their stance against such dumbness, but I wonded if they have asked themselves these simple questions.

• Have I ever talked about the earth as if its running its own systems
• "the earth wants to keep equilibrium..."
• Do I talk about evolution as if it is an intellectually driven process?
• "evolution will adapt so that... "
• "this happened because evolution knew that we needed to..."

Because that's all supersition as well.

The earth systems dont' happen because the earth "needs" them to be in equilibrium: the shit happens because the laws of the universe lend to equilibrium.  The earth happens because of the draw of gravity on matter*, and the interaction of energy with gasses and liquids and solids: not because it "HAS" to.. but because that's the way the shit works. And you could change the entire galaxy and the "earth" wouldn't give a fuck, because the shit that makes up the "earth" and its systems, will react to whatever new environment its introduced to, molecule by molecule, atom by atom. Tear the shit apart.

Evolution is the same way. A big word given to a process that happens over a fuck-load long time, because life has developed in a manner that offers change. Evolution has no driving force behind it looking for the best thing to happen. Evolution is merely a description of survival. And as we all know, what survives isn't necesarrily always the best, its just whatever survived (watch The Phantom of Menace again and tell me that Jar-Jar Binks was the best thing for Star Wars, if you want to argue this ). 

So whats the point? Just realizing that we're all the problem. A lot of people hating on religions (mmm.. love me some good religion basing), and you know what? Im kinda down with it*.  But I do think its kind of stupid to go after one source and ignore another. Sort of like going after the leaves of a tree rather than its roots.

Here's a few more questions you can ask yourself:

• Do I believe in Karma?
• Reincarnation?
• Do I read my horoscope daily?

So let me just go ahead and say it. If you're gonna be a hater, than be a sincere hater. Hate the shit in you as well. Not only can we move towards a supersition free world, but you might not be so fucking obnoxious either.

*(dont worry if you're religious.. the concept of a creator can still exist.. you just cant override physics with it anymore)

The Truth is We're All Douchebags

So i took a "douche-bag test" the other day on Facebook. Im sure it was all scientific as fuck because at the end of the test, the results just totally nailed me (right? ;) ).. anyway, the bottom line... Im a part-time douchbag (thank you very much). .Which makes sense to me.. because im actually a pretty nice guy, but i have my douchey moments...  albeit, generally its in the wake of general doucheyness all around me.. but regardless, Im a part-time douche. touche! (i only wrote that last bit because I never realized the similiarity in the two words).

Full time douchebags

Anyway, this got me thinking.. i know im not the only part-time douche out there, because I run into fuckheads all day long.. mostly well-intentioned fuck-heads. Again, most of these people probably aren't douchebags all day long, to everyone they know (allthough, there are those special ones amongst us). The truth is they are also part-time douchebags. In fact, everyone is at least a part-time douchebag.  I gave the test to my friend and turns out he has "douchebag tendencies" as well. Surprise surprise (no, i dont really think this test actually means anything.. quit being such a fucking douchebag). Does this mean that people arent worth hanging out with or investing time in? well some can definitely get stuffed, but no.. in general people are reasonably nice and simply unaware of their douchey tendencies (i honestly dont think most people realize how douchey they are). Which doesnt make it feel any better, but you know.. 

So where does that leave us? Well, maybe we just need to realize that we all have a douchbag gene. Like take you for example. Im sure you're probably a nice guy or gal (nice ass), but I'm sure you're a douchebag every once and awhile. But maybe if you realized that you are a douchebag, you might be more likely to catch yourself in the moment and totally undouchefy.Which would actually be kind of a cool thing to do. Go figure... whatever.


*picture by Cavaletto / Flicker