I love this! For all you kinesthetic learners!

So it's a British guy comparing healthcares around the world. WITH GRAPHS!! I love graphs!!

I absolutely love this. Finally, something that just breaks it down for us. Enjoy.

What I especially like about this video is the mix of comments from Americans AND Europeans!! I think that you can say whatever you want about a system, but you cannot truly understand it until you talk to the people it affects.

Your Choice: BUT you can choose both!

there's this super creepy skit from Jim Carrey on SNL




or...........

You can check out this AWESOME (but a little older) article about CHEESE!!

themes: cheese, FDA, USDA, abusing trust of Americans. DOMINOS.. yea... DOMINOS

YYYUUUUMMM!!! Don't get me wrong, i love cheese. But this is just showing how sometimes you need to know who is behind the scenes to really understand what's going on, who's holding the strings and what their motives are.

This guy Maslow ova heeeeeya (said in strong NY accent)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Chart

Source: http://www.envisionsoftware.com/articles/Maslows_Needs_Hierarchy.html#Physiological_Needs

BEWARE: LONG POST. But it's worth it.

Anyone hear of this guy? If you have, this is going to be an overview, so sit back and remember!!

for the "have-nots," sit down and shut up!! no but really, listen up, this could change your life...

sidenote: i remember learning about this guy back in my earlier years of college and I guess I stored it in a part of my brain that used it but never realized it.

Long story short, this guy is BA (thank you brother.. Bad Ass) and I think it's worth knowing that even though he created it back in the 40s, it still holds truth and strength today


ANYWAY:



We start at the bottom of this pyramid and work our way up. And with every level we start with......

WHAT DO WE NEED??

1. Physiological Needs: Here we're looking at the basics:
-Air
-Water
-Food
-Sleep

**Can we all check these off our list?? If not, it's going to be a whole different kind of post. So for the sake of getting on with this, we're going to assume that everyone has the basics. REALLY look at this list, if you have these 4 things, you're already on your way!! Life doesn't seem all too bad now does it?? Damn Americans**

2. Safety Needs: This part of the pyramid is looking at the attempt to relieve yourself of daily threats such as:

-Do I live in a safe area?

-Is my job secure for me?

-Is my health ok? And if it is not, can I afford to fix the problem?

**So this is where it might start getting hazy for us. Our economy is low, our jobs are absolute shit, our food is now such shit that it might be the problem with our health. What do we do here? Again, a whole different post. But as a society, if the people cannot feel safe, they cannot move up the pyramid until this part is fixed. Think about how much time a parent thinks about providing for the family, 9-5 shit job, health insurance. Trying to focus on anything else seems miniscule compared to the worry of creating a safe environment for their family.**

3. Social Needs: Here is where we're looking at interactions with other people, including:

-Relationships with the opposite sex

-Friendship circles

-Finding a group you feel a part of

**Let's face it, we're not the kind of creatures that like to be alone for the most part. We do things together and like to know we are loved. And it's a vicious circle here: you don't feel loved because you feel threatened. You feel threatened because you don't feel loved. Round and Round. So get some love in your life!! And allow people to love you. The biggest problem I find in other people is their inability to drop their ego or guard and just let people LOVE them! (speaking from experience here)

4. Esteem Needs: I feel like everyone can improve on this, but I also feel that it takes both yourself and the people you surround yourself with in order to accomplish this level of need.

-Recognition from OTHERS

-Attention from OTHERS

-Feeling Accomplished (YOURSELF)

-Respecting YOURSELF

**Now here you have full power to choose who you surround yourself with and how you feel about yourself. This is where you start making your OWN goddamn decisions. You are what you eat? Well, you are also who you surround yourself with. Remember this.**

5. Self-Actualization: Enlightenment, Nirvana, call it what you want. This is where you go "holy shit! life is beautiful!" and "i now realize I know absolutely nothing"

-Wisdom

-Justice

-Truth

-Meaning

**I would like to say that I think I've gotten here. The problem with this stage though is once you're here, you realize you're never TRULY satisfied, but you're happy with what you have. Sounds weird, I know. But the more you learn, the more you realize you know nothing. But you are also so happy to be learning that you don't even care.

Knowing IS Half the Battle!

GI JOE WAS RIGHT!

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

-Socrates

Now You Know [Nothing]

Sorry, I've been in Australia

It was fun, thanks for asking.

anyway, this video got me thinking...



ok so my question throughout the entire thing was "why?"

why did we go there again? and furthermore, was that the REAL reason why we were there.

and this question doesn't just come up with the subject of war, but with EVERYTHING. and this question SHOULD come up with everything else.

why do we blindly trust?
why do we blindly ignore?
etc
etc

on any level of things... i think it's a question that brings up sad and scary conclusions, but truthful conclusions nonetheless..

start asking "why" more and get down to the bottom of things.

This is fun!

And getting more fun by the second!

http://costofwar.com/

Oh and THIS

North Korea attack 'totally out of the ordinary'
North Korea has fired dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border, with South Korea returning fire and scrambling fighter jets, according to official reports. At least one South Korean marine is said to have been killed during the attack.
Donald Kirk, of the Christian Science Monitor, said that North Korea fired 200 rounds and South Korea responded by firing some 80 rounds back.
But he told Today presenter Sarah Montague that it was not believed that South Korea would take any retaliatory action. He added that stocks of fish in South Korean waters around the island may have been a factor in the attack.
The incident comes as tensions have been raised following North Korea's claim that it has a new uranium enrichment facility and just over a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il unveiled his youngest son Kim Jong-un as his heir apparent.
The BBC's Chris Hogg told the programme that Kim Jong-il "felt he had to keep the North Korean military onside" over the succession, adding that the military was "allowed to do what it wanted".
"China has been surprised by its lack of influence" over North Korea, he said. A Chinese spokesman has said that it was aware of the incident, which it viewed with "concern".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9218000/9218753.stm

scary? Do you even care? Do you even care that South Koreans sleep with a little more ease because they know America will take care of it? Actually, just stay tuned to Dancing With The Stars. I'm SURE they'll have full coverage on the subject. Maybe they'll even have an interpretive dance showing the relation between north and south Korea. I don't know. Im all out of ideas for these n/dumb Americans.

Now You Know

And then there's this

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with the pope's justification for ok'ing condoms? For prostitutes? NOT because we have a population problem. But to protect prostitutes. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm pulling my own assumptions a little, but it was still said!

From BBC today
'Condoms OK in some cases' - Pope

The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance on contraception
Pope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is acceptable "in certain cases", according to a new book.

He said condoms could reduce the risk of infection with HIV, such as for a prostitute, in a series of interviews he gave to a German journalist.

The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts on Saturday.

The comments appear to soften the Roman Catholic Church's hardline stance, which until now had banned the use of any form of contraception.

When asked whether the Catholic Church is "fundamentally against the use of condoms", the Pope is said to have replied, in the book entitled Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times:

"It of course does not see it as a real and moral solution.

"In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a first step on the way to another, more humane sexuality," he said.

The Pope gives the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as "a first step towards moralisation", even though condoms are "not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection".

The pope says that the "sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalisation of sexuality" where sexuality is no longer an expression of love, "but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves".

Aids crisis

The Church's hardline stance over contraception has led the Vatican to being heavily criticised for its position in the context of the Aids crisis.

On a visit to Cameroon last year, the Pope said the use of condoms could endanger public health and increase the problem of HIV/Aids, rather than help to contain the virus. This drew criticism from several EU states.

Campaigners say condoms are one of the few methods proven to stop the spread of HIV.

The book is due to be published on Tuesday.

Now You Know

on Imperialism and the spread of Awareness

I'm sitting here trying to surf facebook while simultaneously watching CSPAN discuss the cyber warfare we're faced with in the next couple of years by Japan.

And while I TRY TO DESPERATELY to equally focus on both items of attention, i cant help but think about how blind most of us are in terms of what is really going on in our life (truth)

so then i remembered my fascination with this photo:

so i went to look it up on my phone and THIS is what first popped up.. which i think is equally as amazing:

[in robot voice] "cannot compute. mind.overload.over."