Who Am I?

     Who am I? Is what I see actually me? Or is it just a ghost, a shadow of some long forgotten existence? If I am just a shadow, who is that long forgotten entity I am the remainder of; a hero, a jester, a knight or a knave? Could I have been a king or just a peasant; maybe a mighty wizard or a lowly apprentice? No matter who, or what I was, what remains of that person; the entire personality, core values, wants and needs or a mix of these things from that long forgotten man?

     Who am I? I have lived before, long ago in an age of danger and enchantment. A time when sorcerers held more sway in what happened than anyone, even a king. It was a time when dragons terrorized villages and castles without regard to human life.  But, who was I? My ‘now’ is the mirror image of my past. If this is true then I was nothing more than street trash, doing what had to be done to survive, no matter the cost to ego, self or reputation. I was a beggar, a thief, a sorry shadow of a human being willing to be whatever to whomever; a consort, a stable-hand, a soldier, a spy. I was as expendable as the morning chamber-pot. But, is that what I am now? Is that all I can ever be?

     Who am I? In this life, in this time, I have done whatever I needed to do to survive. I have been that beggar, that thief, stable-hand and soldier. My core values have been shredded more than once just so my family could survive. But, this is not everything. Those bygone days of yore left an indelible mark upon my soul; a mark that the gods of old branded me with so never to be released from my servitude. Zeus and Ganymede, Greek offerings, Egyptian ransoms and Roman perversions all are etched into my very soul.

     So who am I? I am a monster. An ambiguous sense of being that manifests nothing but harm to others simply for the enjoyment contrived thereof. A Kraken, a dragon, a vampire, a werewolf, all together in a man’s body, disguised as a moral human only to have the monster unleash its’ unholy terror when it feels compelled to do so. I am the bane of humanity. A curse placed upon this earth for the entertainment of gods long forgotten; Odin, Hel, Freya, Loki, Thor, Heimdall and a host of others, laughing and taunting me endlessly into the night and beyond.

     Instead of the question: Who am I? It should be asked: What am I? It is not feasible for an entity that is not human to be “who” but only a “what.” What I am, humanity does not recognize as being even close to human. I am a monster of such magnitude that if I were to unleash the totality of my horror the world would not survive. As it is, only a small fraction of a fraction is ever released at one time and that is more than the man can endure. The man is held captive by the monster for it needs a vessel for survival in this world.

     The man tears and strains against the bonds that hold him tethered to this hideous creature, only to find that even Fenrir could not break free from these bonds. Where is Tyr? Who will place their hand in the mouth of the Wolf now? Will the man be ever a slave to the monster or will the mighty gods of the Celts save him from his fate? The Norns are weaving and unweaving a life of misery, laughing at the suffering they cause. Oh, Frigg, save this mortal man, beseech the mercy of the All-Father so that the suffering might end.

     When two minds are battling for one space throughout eons, weariness overcomes the weaker and the stronger beholds victory. This battle is almost at an end. The monster has risen more frequently and more forcefully as time continues. I fear that what will become of the man is nothing more than a forgotten ghost, placed among those things no longer needed or believed in. The man will fade from existence and the monster will devour his soul and the hedonistic ways of evil will prevail. Woe to those who will behold the life left. Evil will prevail with no thoughts of family or friends. Only the desires of the creature will continue. No heed will be given to harm done to anyone or anything in its quest for the whim of pleasure, both physical and mental.

     I rue the day I am lost to this. The most foul of things from the darkest corners of Hades, the deepest pits of Tartarus could not contain the evil that will be set upon the earth. Neither foe, nor friend, will escape unscathed. Loved ones will turn to hate the man for all that will be done through him. They will not fathom the reason why he has turned away from good and just and right. Neither man, nor woman, will fail to catch his attention. Greek and Roman will prevail. Caligula, Augustus, Prometheus, all will bow to the deviant-ness of the creature.

     Behold the evil within us. All have it at their beck and call. Most keep it bound tightly, never allowing it a second of freedom. Once the freedom is tasted, it lusts after all it can acquire. Lust is all it knows. Both man and woman and yet, neither. It takes nothing more than a thought to provoke this part of the monster. A thought, a scent, a sight or even a memory can bring forth the desire of physical pleasure. Not just desire, but a need most powerful; a need not to be unfulfilled. This is the hedonist in the creature. This is what will destroy the man totally.

     Pleasure of the senses. Taste- only the finest mead, sound- only the most melodious of flutes, touch- naked flesh under the softest silk, sight-the most beautiful visions of man and nature and smell- only the odors of love will satiate the beast. This is what is to come of me. A man lost in a world unknown to him, yet, known.

     So, who am I? Just a man. A man hoping for forgiveness from those that may be harmed by the beast within. A man that knows he cannot fight the beast another day. A man who, as much as he tried, will fall to the whims of a mirthless god.

Why Are We Here?

Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Two of the most ancient of questions. Is there an answer?

We are born, alone in most cases. In the case of twins, triplets, etc., we are still actually born alone. We have shared the womb with another but enter into the world one at a time. Most of the time we are a welcome addition to this world, but there are those times that a child is far from welcome because of hardship or inconvenience. This is where the questions come in: Why are we here and what is our purpose?

In ancient days, actually up until the mid-20^th century, most children were born simply to increase population and/or assist in daily survival activities such as farming, hunting, and/or gathering. After World War II, when the soldiers returned home, families started to grow out of an earnest sex life that had been derailed by the war. The Baby Boomers were the first generation that was born out of pleasure instead of necessity. But, why are we here? I don’t mean as individuals but, as a whole. Why does the human race exist and what is its purpose?

The scientific explanation is simple enough. We evolved from a simpler life form into the intelligent species that we are; if you can call what we are intelligent. From that single cell ameba to the complex Homo sapiens over many millennia we have evolved. Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon to Homo sapiens; it’s been quite a journey for us.

The Biblical explanation is even simpler; we were created by God in his image. Period. Out of dust we rose by the will of an omniscient being. No evolution. No missing link. We just appeared in Eden as modern day mankind. Simple.

Now, back to the question. According to the Bible, we were created for one purpose; to worship God. That’s it. Oh, and to take stewardship over the Earth; nothing to worry about, nothing to think about, nothing to question. But, is this what really happened? If we just appeared approximately 15,000 years ago on Earth, after the entire Universe was created in the six days before, plus one day for the Creator to rest, how are the dinosaurs explained? How is it that science has determined that the Earth is approximately 20 billion years old and the Universe is much older than that?

For the topic, we’ll just assume that evolution, not creation, is how we came about. If mankind evolved from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon to Homo sapiens, why did we evolve into what we are? Why did we not just evolve into something more similar to apes?

Science has all kinds of answers to those questions. The big questions, though, have a more philosophical basis. Why are we here? What is our purpose?  Are we here just to be born, grow, and die? Are we here for a short time, pass on to another plane of existence to learn more and finally become deity?

We are born into this world helpless. As we grow, we become more independent and then, at the end of our lives we become helpless once again. Is that all there is to life? In today’s world we have about 16 years of dependence on others then take over our own support until we age to the point where we become dependent again. During that independent time of our lives what do we do? We work. We’ve had our fun while we were children with no cares. Once we enter adulthood, we work to pay for the privilege of living. Oftentimes we work so much that we really do not have time to actually live life.

In this scenario, we live for a few short years of living life, learning the entire time how to cope with others in society and to be able to effectively communicate and function during our adult years. Once we enter our adulthood, we work to support ourselves and our needs and wants. Do we actually live life during this time? Unless a person is financially well off, not really. We spend more time working to make money to survive and pretend to live life than we do actually living. We finally end up, dependent, once again, on the care of others before we pass from life to death.

What, exactly, is our purpose for being here? We come into this world, and have for thousands of years, and destroy that which keeps us alive. We cover the ground with trash or bury it. We fill the skies with smoke and toxic gases. We pull coal, oil, natural gas, precious metals and stone out of the ground to be used to further pollute our world.

To top it all off, we try to kill off every living thing that we can, including ourselves, from the buffalo to whales to bees, either for sport, to eat, or to use in various destructive ways. We are a species bent on self-destruction and we aren’t going down alone; we’re going to take everything else with us. Is that why we are here? Is that our purpose?

Through our adult lives we learn about greed, lust, corruption, and a host of other “sins.” The problem with that is we don’t just learn about these vices, we embrace them. Over the millennia we have fought each other over land, power, money, and, yes, religion. More people have been killed in the name of religion than any other reason. People will lie to each other to gain the upper hand over some small piece of real estate that sometime in the future will be taken over by someone else. We only rent what is here. After all, we only live so long then we return to dust taking nothing with us. Why do we need to have so much that it has to be taken from someone else?

A person can spend only so much money in one lifetime. Yes, if there is a surplus at the end of your life you can will it to someone else so that they don’t have to work for it. But is acquiring a mass fortune so important that a person needs to lie, cheat, steal, to get it from someone else?

Power over others is also a temporary thing. From the ancient beings that came before Homo sapiens to the kings and rulers of today’s world, power over others has been sought after and fought for. A person can only rule so long before they die.

Is that what we are here for? To rule over others and take what we can from them? Is the human race so arrogant and egotistical to believe that power and money will make us immortal? On average a human being will only live around 75 years. For those that seek power and money, those years are wasted. They live only to take from others for their own gain only to leave this world empty handed, alone.

Capitalism, freedom, liberty, socialism, oppression, control, war, peace, poverty and wealth are all just concepts that the human race has developed to categorize and divide with. The ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots;’ the rulers and the ruled; the free and the oppressed are all the same. Each human being on this planet is essentially the same as every other human being. We all bleed red. We all breathe oxygen. We all drink water. We all eat food. We all love, hate, laugh, cry… we are all part of the human race. None of us know why we are here. All we know is that because we are here we are going to fight, kill, maim, and destroy our home and each other for nothing more than temporary gratification or a misguided set of beliefs that one is better than another.

Is that why we are here? Is our purpose just to destroy each other and the one and only home we have? It seems that it is. That is what we, as a race, have done since the beginning of time; since before we were the ‘intellectual and civilized’ species that we are. We continue the destruction today and probably will until there are no Homo sapiens or Earth left.

That, my friends, is our purpose; the reason we are here. If it weren’t, we would have learned long ago that the seven deadly sins are a waste of time and energy and there would be peace on Earth and the world would not be taken advantage of to the point of destruction. We are born, we grow, we destroy, we die and leave a world worse off than what we started with.

If Creationism is the true beginning of mankind, the Creator made one big mistake. If science is the true beginning, we - mankind, the human race, have made one big mistake. Christianity says, “When I was a child, I thought, spoke, acted like a child. When I became a man, I put away those childish things.” Paganism says, “In all things, harm none.” Isn’t it time we grew up and learned to share this world with each other and leave the pettiness of childhood behind us, harming none as we go about our lives? I think so.

The Monster and the Saint

By Jay D Evans

      In long forgotten days, many eons past, I was a king. I ruled over many millions of subservient subjects that would live and die by my words. With the wave of a hand a man could lose his life or gain land and title. I was a god, worshiped and praised. Without thought or concern I would rule my people. Justice was meted out swiftly and without mercy. I was a tyrant.

     In those years of my rule, two millennia long, my governance went from one small kingdom, lesser in size than most modern day cities, to an Empire that made Rome seem small. It’s been said that at one time the sun never set on the British Empire. This is true in that Britain held lands scattered across the globe, but there was no continuity. My Empire was almost the entire continent. This was a time before time when the world was only one large continent and one ocean.

     I was not alone in my rule. As I conquered I found one that could be, was, my equal. I conquered his kingdom yet he stood before me with pride instead of fear. As he raised his sword to strike me, I looked up at him on his dais and laughed. Not to humiliate him but in mirth. The unmitigated gall of this man to stand up to me, a god, was immeasurable in honor and courage. Instead of striking him dead, I offered a partnership. We would rule together. He with his wisdom and courage, me with my might and savagery. Strength to weakness, weakness to strength. I was chaos and terror, he was order and justice.

     My armies lived to follow my every command. Either that or they died by my hand and my hand alone. Fear, respect, loyalty. All were demanded of every soldier from the lowest footman to the highest ranking general. No matter what the order it was to be carried out immediately; whether to conquer another, weaker, kingdom or to execute his wife, a soldier followed his orders without question and with hast. To tarry would mean death to him, his family and most likely his entire village. I was a monster

     A tyrant and a monster was I before Salai and his fairness. His temperament softened my ferocity. In matters of court, decisions were made on hard evidence, not just hear-say or the word of the accuser. If, in our eyes, the accused was acquitted of the charges against him, his accuser was sentenced for the crime. In this way there were no false accusations against innocent people. Land and title were given to the most loyal and deserving, whether from royal blood or commoner. Extortion, bribery, treason, theft and murder were dealt with instantly and mercilessly at the end of a sword. It was by my hand that thousands were executed before violence ended and peace came to that barbarous land.

     As we rode among our people they would bow down before us. Our people adored us as much the monster as I was. Salai had softened the edges and placated the people. None were hungry nor were they living in poverty. Even the women and children could walk at night without fear of being accosted by another. Our people were protected better than any other ruler had ever protected them. The only thing they had to fear was me.

     As our reign came to an end after two millennia, our Empire began to crumble. With my advanced age I was weak. I could not travel as I had as a younger man so others thought to occupy our far-off land. Salai, also, was far weaker than he had been. We secluded ourselves in our fortress venturing out only when desperately needed.

     First to be overthrown was the far south. Furthest from our home it was least protected to this kind of action. As a younger man I would have sailed the seas or rode across the land and crushed anyone that attempted to take my lands but, as time had been a predator and finally had clutched my life in its’ massive jaws, I could not make the journey and our people cried with anguish as they were overthrown. Rape, murder, arson and theft of property was the life this former peaceful land would now endure until a different time when more peaceful rulers would come and conquer the savages.

     Next was the far north. The people of this land separated into several different tribes to protect themselves from the conquering forces. Faring better than their southern neighbors, they fought the good fight and continued on as guerrilla warriors against those that would unjustly rule them. Hunger and poverty, fear and anger were what was left as this land fell from our Empire.

     It took another millennia for our Empire to completely crumble into what it started as; a small kingdom settled into a valley in the far west, protected by high bluffs and the ocean. Our armies, nothing more than an assembly of militia with broken swords and no armor, would be massacred if attacked. Our palace was no more than a shack among the other broken down dwellings of those closest to us. With no defenses, no weapons and weakened beyond caring we lay in our bed, shadows of the gods of the glory days. The Fates had caught up with the gods and laughed as we lay there, debilitated, unable to even reach for the chamber pot to relieve ourselves.

     After two thousand years of glory and godhood we were alone, save for the ghosts that haunted our memories and tortured our souls. Small and afraid, we begged for death to take us. Lying there, cold and filthy, we begged Death and he laughed. It was not to be that easy. Another half millennia passed before there was nothing left of our kingdom except our humble shack. Ruins all around, uncovered windows allowing the cold and the rain to enter, no door to keep the wolves at bay made our pitiful ending even more pitiful. It was then that Death decided to come and take us. As he carried us across the dark divide he laughed and recounted all my failures and vices. He told me of my crimes against my people and those that I conquered. I had paid the price of being the tyrant and the monster and now it was time for my eternal rest. Hel welcomed me home into her realm of the dead and I accepted my fate.

     Hel told me once again of all my transgressions but she added in all the good that Death had left out. The best, and worst, thing that I had done was entice Salai into ruling with me. He was my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. Hel understood that he had been the other half of a divided whole. It was not until I had bargained with him to rule with me that I had become a whole ruler, a whole man. Salai, also, had been only a half. He was too kind with his subjects; I, too strict. Together we became great leaders, well rounded and well loved.

     Because the ruler of the Underworld could see that we needed each other, that together we comprised a whole but apart we were but shades, she blessed, and cursed, us both. She cursed us to an eternity of life and death. Until we could love each other as we had in our lifetime as kings, we would be sentenced to living and dying over and over. During each life both of us would find the other and we would become the team we had been, with one great exception; our future lives would be filled with hurt, heartache and betrayal. Salai would be cursed with the ego of a god while I was cursed to endure his idiosyncrasies until he would once again be the man, the partner, the other half that he had been. Only then would our sentence be served and we could pass from this world to paradise, never to return to the earth to roam as men. We would be free from the bonds of life and death.

     The dark Lady of Death further sentenced me with Salai not remembering our life together while he was in mortal form. He would rebel against any idea of our past or future together. Only vague shadows of moments long past would haunt his subconscious but he would dismiss them as dreams or fantasy. It would be up to me to nudge the past into his consciousness and the memories long forgotten to re-emerge and bring him home. Through it all his deep love for me would be hidden from him, surfacing then going back into hiding.  He would be easily misled by others that would want him for his beauty, physique and charm but not for who and what he was.

     There would be times we would be inseparable and others when we would be torn apart. Neither one truly living happily unless with the other but not realizing that is what it would take. Hardship would hound us through the ages as would strife and war. As long as we remained together there will be nothing that could stop us but apart our lives would feel incomplete and misery would invade where happiness should be. It was to be my task to bring this to fruition. Salai will be the clay for me to mold into what he once was.

     This was my time in Hel’s realm. Torture to say the least. To lose my soul mate was bad enough but to be told that I would live until the end of time, over and over, to find him and lose him was more torturous than living in the darkness never seeing him again. To know that it was him, yet not, over a thousand million lives was almost unbearable. To risk reaching out to the one that is my life and knowing that he knows, but doesn’t, that I am what he needs was heart wrenching to say the least. Hel said it would not be an easy labor but would be worth enduring in the end. Salai would, at last, become the man he had been and see with clear eyes. It would be then that we would rule again gloriously and then finally come to our eternal rest in Paradise.

     Salai fared far better than I. He was taken into Paradise to spend his time until he was reborn in another place and time. His had been a far better life than mine and for his suffering alongside this tyrant, he was given a gift beyond compare. The gods took mercy on him and took the memories of the suffering from him. All he remembered was the good, the glory, the honor. It was his just reward for what I had forced upon him. I felt no bitterness for I loved him as a brother and more. We had spent several lifetimes ruling as gods. He the god of justice and me the god of chaos. Until we returned in another time and place, he would repose in Eden, not knowing our future. All was as it should be until that time we were reborn into the world.

Why Is Obama Above the Law?

     Back in the 70s as soon as it came out that Nixon’s minions broke into the Watergate Hotel complex, the investigation started and he was impeached. In the 90s it was Clinton and Monica Lewinski… again, investigation and impeachment immediately. Now, with all that is being said about Obama, all that the man has done, nothing.

     Why is it that Barack Hussein Obama can get by with circumventing the Congress, signing into law unconstitutional mandates, forcing things upon the country that we don’t want and literally telling the country that he doesn’t care what the Constitution says, he’s gonna do it his way?  Why is Congress ignoring what the country knows and is broadcasting everywhere from Facebook to the national news? Why is Obama immune to the legal system set forth by the Constitution?

     Is this country so far gone, so complacent, so….needy that the people are willing to give up over 200 years of freedoms? Does the War of Independence mean nothing to these people? What is wrong with everyone? I, for one, have tried for over 20 years to get people to see what the government was doing, what they were planning and have finally decided that the people of this country, the SHEEPLE of this country, aren’t worth the effort. The stupidity and greed (yes, I said greed, because it is greed that makes people want to receive something for nothing) of the people of this country is so down-heartening.

     I am a conservative when it comes to politics; less government, more personal responsibility. I don’t want some person that doesn’t know me at all telling me what I can and cannot do or how to do it. I don’t believe that what I work for needs to be reassigned to someone that won’t work. I don’t mean the ones that actually need help like the elderly or the disabled. I’m talking about those people that have learned how to abuse a system set up as a temporary help. I know many people that won’t work that can because the government pays them to sit on their asses and do nothing. I don’t want a government that will give me what I want or need while taking from those that busted their butts to get more than me.

     I work and pay taxes and still I scrimp and do the best I can because I don’t make much. I am a single parent with two kids at home. My children have medical coverage through the state and we do receive enough food assistance to feed them for about a week. I know what it is like to need help. That does not mean that I want to take from someone else that has spent years building their wealth. That is theirs, not mine.

     The point of the last two paragraphs is not off the subject, it is the subject. Obama is bound and determined to make everyone dependent on government. Obamacare, that Affordable Health Care Act, is the catalyst to bring down the insurance industry by making the insurance companies cover things they never did before, and charge outrageous fees; the auto industry bail out… another way to centralize industry. Government wants to take over our lives and we, as a people, are allowing it. This man should be investigated, impeached, found guilty of whatever crimes he is found guilty of, removed from office and then probably charged as a civilian.

     We haven’t done it. We have not forced the Congress into action over this. Why? Why does Congress not take the initiative and start the proceedings? What do they know that they aren’t saying? My opinion is this… Obama is a self-proclaimed king, untouchable by anyone. He’s practically said it himself. I hope I am wrong. I hope the country comes to its’ senses and rises up out of the ashes to once again be the white knight of the world.

The Tyrannical Rule of the USSA

Way back in the Stone Age, somewhere in the early 1970s, America’s president was Richard Milhous Nixon. What a lot of today’s kids don’t realize is that Nixon was impeached, we watched the impeachment process every day for months on television, and resigned because of it. Why did the Congress impeach him? Because he was president and he ordered his minions to break into the Watergate Hotel complex where the Democratic National Convention was to find out what they were doing. To top it all off, he lied to the American public.

Fast forward now to the 90s and the Clinton Era. William Jefferson Clinton was also impeached. Why was he impeached? Once again a president of the United States got caught doing something he shouldn’t. This time it was sex in the Oval Office but that was not put before the Senate because of it. He lied to the American people. This time, however, the president did not resign nor was he removed from office as the Constitution dictates. He finished out his term as Commander in Chief and is now living large off the coffers of the US Treasury.

Fast forward again. This time to 2008 and a campaign that made history for this country; the first black person to run for the Big Office was nominated by the Democratic National Convention when Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded her run for the job. Wow! History in the works; here we have the first woman and the first black in the same race and the woman concedes, even though the two were equal in the polls. The funny thing about it is that we all knew Mrs. Clinton. After all, she was the wife of William Jefferson Clinton. What we didn’t know was who this black man was. Barack Hussein Obama, a first term US Senator from Illinois, a former Illinois State Senator and before that a community organizer (whatever that is).

Throughout the campaign Mr. Obama stated over and over his mantra of ‘hope and change.’ He promised he would change the very face of this nation; that he would bring in a new era for a nation in need of change. Over and over again he, and his wife, said that he would do for the people, help the down-trodden rise up and meet the over-bearing rich. He would fight for the poor and make the rich pay for their greed. He would end the war that no one wanted to be in. He was going to make it all equal.

The nation, or so we were led to believe, loved him almost as much as Austria loved Hitler when they voted him in as their ruler. Needless to say he won the election, albeit by a small margin. The thing about this man is that he would not produce a birth certificate stating he was a natural born American; the Constitution states that he has to be to become president. He refused and, even now his birth records are questionable. Mr. Obama’s parents are of two different national origins. His mother is an American and his father is, I believe, Kenyan. Where was this man born? He says in Hawaii but that state does not recognize the botched certificate of birth.

Since Mr. Obama was first inaugurated into office on January 21, 2009, he has done exactly what he said he was going to do. He has circumvented the Constitution by signing Executive Orders that allow him to do things without the consent of Congress. He has bullied his policies into law regardless of what the people of this country, and even the Congress at times, want. He has alienated our allies while embracing our enemies. He has effectively castrated our armed forces while arming our enemies and he has even openly gone against the Constitution numerous times by forcing his way upon the people of this nation with laws that are unconstitutional.

One of the worst things he has done since taking office was during his first term when he went on his ‘Apology Tour’ and told the world that America has been, is and always will be in the wrong. He bowed before a foreign leader, something that no other president, or foreign leader, has ever done. The Obama’s have downgraded and disrespected this nation and those that have fought 3 major wars, a police action, a conflict over 237 years and now three other wars at one time. They have basically proclaimed themselves King and Queen of the United States. They are the law and they are above that law.

Where once America was the White Knight of the world, the most powerful nation, the most respected nation, we are now so far in debt to other nations that our grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying it; the world hates us because of our arrogance; we are so complacent that we won’t even try to rid ourselves of the pestilence of a tyrannical ruler. The Founding Fathers of this once great nation are rolling in their graves, the soldiers who fought and died to win, and keep, our freedoms are rolling in their graves and the patriotic citizens that back those soldiers, that lost sons, daughters and parents are doing the same.

To those that look down on us as a nation, please don’t hold the people of this nation responsible for the actions of the government. The government is acting against the will of the people that entrusted it to do what was right. We have become sheeple, weak and wretched. It is our responsibility to put people in control that will do our bidding, not the other way around. The Obama’s have entrenched themselves so deeply that we are finding it almost impossible to rid ourselves of the vermin that call themselves our representatives. Like Austria, there is the majority that wants to be controlled by a tyrant as long as that tyrant is giving them what they want. And, like Austria, that tyrant is finally pulling down the façade of decency and showing his true face; the face of a demon bent on the destruction of an entire nation.

Love Will Make You Stupid

“Love will make you stupid. You won’t listen to anyone, not even your own common sense.” This is a quote from The Chronicles of Nick by the great Sherrilyn Kenyon. This woman, this writer, this genius, can articulate so well that most of her work of fiction can be used as everyday quotes.

I am using this one today because it has a relevance to what is going on in a couple of people’s lives that are very close to me. I will not divulge names, they know who they are, but I hope that they will read this and get a clue.

If a boy, or girl, is in a relationship, whether legally married or just ‘shackin’ up,’ they have made a commitment to their significant other to stay true to them. If said boy, or girl, decides that they no longer want to be with that person then they break up. If they are married, it takes a little more than just saying, “I’m leaving.” A divorce takes a little bit of time and a lot of money, especially if there are children involved. There are the two main types of relationships and each will be examined.

First is the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That is where two people are basically just dating each other. They have made a promise to each other that they will stay true and not see other people. If one of them decides that the other isn’t what they want, they break up and find someone new. That is the easy one; unless they stay with their significant other and see one or more others on the side secretly. This is the way it seems to go these days. No one stays true to anyone. They say, “I love you and will forever,” but what they are actually saying is, “I’ll stay with you because I like what you do for me until I can find someone else that can do more.”

It seems that what kids, and some adults, want is to have someone to have sex with whenever they want while all the time playing the field. No commitment, no loyalty and no worries… until they get caught be their ‘main squeeze.’ It is then that they back-peddle and try to smooth things over and keep the one they know will be there all the time. Really? Are people that stupid? Yes they are.

Now we go to the married couple. One is not happy in the relationship for one reason or another, it really doesn’t matter what the reason is. Let’s say the man is cheating on his wife He will say that he’s working late, going out with the guys or some other lame excuse he knows his wife will accept. All the while, he is out with his girlfriend doing the dirty. The girlfriend is happy because she is getting what she wants – he tells her he loves her and that he will leave his wife and they will get married and live happily ever after.

Maybe it’s the wife that is cheating. She makes all kinds of excuses to go out on the town without her husband with the same results only with some boy. The thing here is that neither one is leaving their spouse while seeing someone else. Why, if they are so unhappy, do they not file for divorce, get the divorce and THEN start seeing someone? It doesn’t matter if a person is ‘legally separated’ from their spouse, they are still ‘legally married.’ They did not take the sacred vows of marriage seriously.

The major point to this rant is this: if a person is willing to cheat on their significant other, not take their promises or vows seriously and lie to that significant other then they have no sense of commitment or loyalty to anyone. If they are more than willing to go behind their significant other with someone they think, or that actually is, a good, decent person, what makes that good, decent person think for one minute that cheater won’t cheat on them? It is my opinion that they will. A person that is willing to cheat on their partner, no matter what the circumstances, they will cheat on the person they are cheating with.

Some will say, “Well, their wife/husband has beat on them, cheated on them, done this or that to them….etc.” That may well be. If it is that bad then get the divorce, break up, whatever… but get it done and over with before you go jumping in the sack with someone else.

I come from a time when commitment meant something. If you were taken, had a partner, you didn’t cheat for any reason. If there were problems you talked about them and fixed them; you didn’t throw away a relationship because you were tired of that person. If it was an abusive relationship then the family took care of it. Most, not all but most, abusive relationships are not that abusive and, a lot of the time, the one being abused has gotten the abuser so peeved as to not know what else to do. Through experience, I would have to say that if a man hits a woman (I do NOT condone this action) she has done him so wrong that he feels she deserves it. Usually she has cheated on him numerous times or complains about everything about him or tries to control him to the point of obsession or control freak abuse herself.

Some of my observations may not be the norm, some may be way off mark but, you have to understand that after half a century of studying people that I do have a little bit of experience with a lot of different social situations. Relationships are a dime a dozen anymore because they don’t last due to lack of morality and commitment. When it comes to other people I can usually tell you within minutes how they are with the person they are with, whether they are good or bad and whether they are sincere or fake. I just wish I could do it when it comes to my own life and relationships. In that respect I fail miserably.

My Sincerest Apologies

I really must apologize for my lack of posts. I realize that it has been a while and the ones that I have posted aren't up to my usual standards. There is a reason for this.

Most of my ideas come from talking with the one I like to classify as my best friend and for the last several months my friend has been otherwise occupied and hasn't been around much. Needless to say, the conversations have been lacking where I get a lot of ideas from. I am hoping that this will be remedied in the near future so that the creativity will return.

So, please accept my apologies for the lack of entertainment from my twisted mind and for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.