The Theory of Doogielution

 

I dream of living in a cabin.

I see them in movies

they all have fire places

or wood burning stoves

 

I could install a wood stove in a cabin because it would just be us against the weather

 

but I can't seem to install one in our trailer because it needs to be done "right"

 

why is that

 

One of the best things about Arkansas is the lack of regulations. I made sure before I bought this land that it had "No Restrictions" on it. I can put anything out here that I want that isn't an environmental hazard except for a septic system which is regulated.

 

I can build a tar paper shack or move a house trailer in without asking the law if its ok

 

so what is my problem with the wood stove?

 

Our place already leaks so bad that another leak wouldn't make a bit of difference.

 

am I afraid of fire?

 

I don't think so

 

I have read and reread the safety requirements

 

I know how to do it safely

 

 

there is just something different about structured life and the wilderness

 

I don't understand it.

 

This isn't the only situation

 

When it comes to welding

 

I can't hook up our welder

 

I can't hook up our electric stove

 

its all too real

 

I can study it

 

I know how to do it

 

I have read the instructions and the theory behind why these things work and how to make them do what they are supposed to do

 

but actually doing any of it is beyond my minds ability to see it as a reality.

 

 

 

Yesterday I changed the tires on our trailer. I used the manual tire changer. It went just as I had read about and studied about. It was awesome

So our wood burning stove, our kitchen stove, our table saw, and our welder, all sit unused.

but why

We have the wood to build the things that we need to build

 

But it sits outside under a tarp

We have a BMW and a 68 Mustang in our yard

but they sit

unused

untouched

alone in their forgotten world of yesterday

and I sit here

just dreaming

We have been paying rent on our store for over two years

and it just sits there

it is a dream

is that all that will ever be?

will I always be a virtual person?

This week I felt like there was a chance that the virtual stuff was in the past

but today

I can’t wrap my mind around reality for long enough to make anything real.

I fear that I shall pass from this world

and I’ll only be an untested theory

that will someday be proven

 

To have been somebody’s crazy dream

 

A dream that served little purpose

 

Other than being a distraction

 

From reality

For a weak mind searching for answers

 

In a world where kindness and peace

Have no place

Other than in the mind of weak men.

The Drinking Age

         

Our drinking age in America is 21 years old

An 18 year old

isn’t old enough to consume alcohol

and

they aren’t old enough

to put a quarter in a slot machine in Las Vegas

In America

At the age of 18

 

Our young ladies can strip for dirty old men

 

Our young people can get blown apart

in the service of our country

 

and

they can vote in our elections

 

I’m not saying to lower the drinking age

Or to

Raise the age that young people can

Join the military

 

But

I think that we should be consistent

 

If 18 is too young to drink or gamble

then it is too young

to make a decision

 as important as deciding

to join the military,

take your clothes off in a club,

or to chose our president.

 

If 18 is old enough

to die for your country

then it is old enough

to do the rest of those things.

 

I don’t care

which direction

that we go with it

but what messages

are we sending our youth

 

your old enough

for us to exploit

your bodies

and your enthusiasm

for your country

 

but your still a child

and you’re not old enough

to make certain decisions.

 

Personally

I think the age should be 21 for making adult decisions

I think that graduating high school should be mandatory and there should be some sort of system in place that says if you don’t get your associates degree then you will not be eligible for welfare, food stamps or for Medicaid.

If you get a college education you have a better chance at being able to get and hold a job.

If you choose to drop out then you choose to fend for yourself if things don’t go as you planned.

Welfare, food stamps and Medicaid are good things to have as emergency nets to catch good hard working people if they lose their job but they were never meant to support people that chose to drop out before they acquired the skills that they need to succeed in life.

Many people don’t come from a home life that teaches responsibility, either in actions or in financial situations.

For those that come from a family that provide those good things the college would just be a bonus boost.

For those that had parents that were financially irresponsible

College would help to provide them with the basic skills to succeed.



None of this really matters anyway

Because it is only my opinion

And I’m just one man

In a world full of people

With different opinions

 

Negative Calorie Foods

Don’t let ignorance and your lack of interest

in doing your own research

let you become one of the people

that spread false information.

Why are there so many people that don't believe that there are negative calorie foods?

Let me clear this up.

Negative calorie foods aren't foods with less than zero calories.

Negative calorie foods, such as raw cabbage, take more calories of energy for your body to break down than there are in the food itself.

Hypothetical example.
One cup of raw cabbage has about 22 calories.
It may take 30 calories of energy to break down that cup of cabbage.

you actually used 8 calories by eating the cabbage.

Keep in mind that a calorie is a unit of measurement - "unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure "

That's all a calorie is, a measurement of heat an object can generate if it is burnt. Some foods take more energy to break down than they contain. These are called negative calorie foods.

Tim Tebow – One Wiccans Opinion

This is just one man’s opinion.

 

          Most of us have heard of Tim Tebow. He is a football player that makes public displays to glorify Jesus.

 

I want to start out by saying that I really don’t like where this is heading. There are people that are building him up to be way more than he is. When his passing record hit 316 yards it was like people were starting to think that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
         

The problem with that, at least in my opinion, is that Tim is just a man. He isn’t trying to make you believe that he is the second coming. He isn’t trying to bring glory upon himself. He isn’t using God’s name like the politicians do. He isn’t asking you to send him money to pray for you like some of the big television evangelists.

          Tim is doing one thing. He is praising his God. I don’t see anything deceptive in his actions. He is genuine and that is commendable.

          If we build him up as super human we are setting him up to take a fall. He is just a man. He will make mistakes and he will make bad choices and that’s ok. If we build him up as more than he is then we take away from his simple act of faith. His future mistakes will become something more than they are, just human mistakes, and that would be unfortunate.
         
Do you think that he would want to be thought of as someone special in a religious aspect or do you think that his intent is to just be a great football player while he is showing his love to his God?

          I don’t believe that Tim would be happy with the focus that is being put on his stats as some kind of sign from God.

          In my opinion I Think that he would want you to take away the message that Jesus is great and through him we can do all things.

          I’m not a football fan or a Christian but I like Tim Tebow. I appreciate his honest faith in his God and I respect his dedication.

          That being said I still enjoy a good joke about him and Jimmy Fallon’s little skit “Tebowie” was hilarious, well done Jimmy.

          Keep the faith Tim, you’re doing just fine.

This One’s For You

Later tonight I'm going to have a drink in honor of all of my homeless Military brothers.

 

I spent a lot of time in counseling with many military brothers that just couldn't get past what they've seen and done. I know a lot of them are shivering under the overpasses tonight in this cold weather.

 

I can't express to you how much I wish that I could help them but the truth is that nobody can. There depth of pain is unimaginable to people that lead normal lives. Being out in the cold is just a miniscule part of their hard lives.

 

They gave up who they were for us and we just seem to let them fall between the cracks. I know, they should be stronger, they should get a job, they should earn money and get themselves off of the streets, but I've sat in those rooms with them and I've heard the stories. I've seen the biggest, baddest men that you've ever seen crying like a baby.

 

One friend that I met lived life just like everyone else but he kept getting angry with himself for falling in to a depression at times. This man was an older man and he just didn’t understand why he wasn’t strong enough. He had been in a situation where they had been receiving incoming artillery and mortar fire day and night for over 70 days. He had been close to ending his life on several occasions because he thought he was weak. He didn’t understand that the scars from psychological damage are just as valid as those that are visible.

I can’t tell you the details of the stories because of confidentiality but sometimes when I start to think that my life was hard I stop to think about those men and the things that they've seen.

When I’m sitting in our house and its a nice warm 58 degrees I think about those men that are huddled under newspapers in cardboard boxes in temperatures that are below freezing. Sometimes when I’m home alone I turn the heater down so I can feel some of what they feel.

Many of the men and women that are fighting now will be the future homeless, the troubled ones, the ones that wake up screaming each night. They will be the ones that most of us don’t see, or at least pretend that we don’t see when we pass them on the street.

Tonight, I’ll drink one for them.

Under the Forest Moon


Grey Black sky

 

Skeletal oak

Silhouetted by the

Full moon

 

Dead leaf

floating on the breeze

 

distant lone wolf

calling to its mate

 

fingers of cold

pull at my soul

 

involuntary shiver

 

time stands still

the smell of rich earth

enters my lungs

 

my edges blur

 

melting in to the woods

I return home.

Women are Weak

And they Shouldn’t have equal Rights


Did the title get your attention?
Good
Maybe it will get the attention

of a lot of people

and get this important message out



Are any of you old enough

to remember that mentality?


Do any of you remember
your mothers or grandmothers

talking about being

second class citizens?

For those of you

that aren’t old enough

to remember

Women couldn’t vote

they couldn’t own property

There was even a time when

It was acceptable

for their husbands to hit them



Does that sound familiar?


Does that sound like the way

that we treated the slaves?

 

I have a challenge

for all of you modern women

 

Go about your day today

And look at everything that you can do

Look at what you are capable of

That women years ago

Weren’t allowed to do

 

Now think about this

 

 

What would it be like

to be told that you

shouldn’t have those rights?


Over the years

women have become equal citizens

and rightly so

they deserve equality

and we as a society are

better off because of it.

 

One more thing to think about

 

How can you

after overcoming years

of unfair treatment

even consider

doing the same thing

to gay people

 

If you think that Gay people

don’t deserve rights

because the Bible says so

 

then look at what the Bible says about women

 

1 Timothy 2 (King James Version)

¹¹Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

 ¹²But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

 

Genesis 3 (King James Version)

 ¹⁶Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

 

Exodus 21:7-10 (King James Version)

 ⁷And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

 ⁸If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

 ⁹And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

 ¹⁰If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

1 Corinthians 11:3-9

King James Version (KJV)

 

⁷For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

 ⁸For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

 ⁹Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

I haven’t written any of this

to put down the Bible

I’ve written it to bring to light

that women are

looked at

as second class citizens in the Bible

 

How do we see those words

After we realize the value of women

In modern society?

In my opinion

We see them as old

And out dated

They have little to do with

How we see reality today.

In fact most people

Disregard them

As the old way

that things were done

yet

we look at the parts of the Bible

that place gay people

in a similar category

and we

accept it as Gods Law

 

Isn’t it time

That we look at the Bible’s

Ideas on Gay people

The same way

As we do with the Bible’s

Ideas on Women

 

and we accept

that

it was just the way

things were done

before people realized

the capabilities

of women and Gay people.





Just my opinion
Nothing more

My Crazy dream

 

I was hired for 2 full time jobs at the same time. The details are fading as I write this but one was a software sales company that dealt with the cover art on the software boxes. They also were some kind of restaurant.

 

The second job was a computer programming job. I really wanted this job.

 

It was really strange because I wanted both jobs and both places wanted me. They also knew about my job with the other companies and they were giving me time to decide.

 

I really wanted the programming job but I told the other company that I didn't know if I could do it because it had been years since I had written code.

 

The job with the software sales turned in to the restaurant. I was in my element. I was cooking and doing prep. All together I have about 9 years experience with restaurant work.

 

Something happened half way through and I just slipped back over the edge. The hallways were full of police and I went after my gun in a different room. I remember smiling a deceitful little smile and saying "I'm gonna kill someone". Everyone that knew me took off, the rest stayed. I ran down the hall laughing maniacally. I got my gun and started killing everybody. I had become some sort of reloading expert. I killed everybody there and went outside.


We were in the city and there was a line of dark skin people running up behind me and singing. They passed me because I was overweight. I could tell that they were disgusted by my obesity. They were part of some kind singing group like a high school choir or something. They were running to a place ahead of me so they could perform. I turned the corner and the street turned in to a scene from mardi gras.

None of that mattered because I had to get to my job at the computer programming place. After I was there for a while I had been talking to my boss and he gave me a few days to decide if I wanted to stay there or go to the other job. 
My fear crept in to every cell in my body as I asked him what language that we programmed in. His reply was that we program in “C”.

I never learned “C” but I didn’t tell him. I decided that I wanted the job but I only had 3 days to learn “C” .

I figured that it wouldn’t be hard since I had programmed for years. The logic would be the same, I just had to learn the syntax.

That’s when I woke up.

USS Kid

The captain and crew of the USS Kid

Have shown the world America’s true colors


To rescue the crew of an Iranian fishing vessel

As we stand on the verge of war with Iran

Shows the true honor

That the American military has

This reminds me of the America
of long ago



Honor above risk to life and limb

Honor above profit

Honor above all else.

That’s the America

that I’d like to see come back


Doing the right thing is never the wrong answer.