8.31.2011

Whole Lotta Love

♫ Hello boys and girls! ♪

So I realize I haven't been writing an incredible amount since I started blogging again... I have avoided that with pictures and videos. I'm going to just use words in this post, to even things out.

I'm not sure what I want to talk about. I know that the primary nature of the blog here used to be a humorous one, but I have felt less invested in humor of late, as you can all probably tell.  I still think that humor has its place, and that it will return to the blog in full force at some point.  Right now, due to the nature of my turbulent personality shift, I'm going to continue focusing on this concept of love that I have been prodding at.  Just beneath that interest in universal and unconditional love are all of my old interests, which have all evolved in a way to become more... humanistic.

If any of you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you have probably noticed that I have increased my activity on those two social networks to a great extent.  Those of you who have known me for a certain amount of time will recall that I have been (at the very least) on the fence about social networking on the internet.  There have been times in the past when I have been completely down on Facebook and ready to delete my profile.  Today I have found a resolute answer to my personal predicament with social networking: social networking is of paramount importance for the next few years of humanity's existence.

I have come to believe that the internet is probably a better place for a self motivated, tech savvy individual to educate oneself than anywhere else.  I think that a big part of that "education" now is social networking.

Now, to be sure, Facebook and Twitter and Google + all have their various limitations and whatnot.  But I have to say that my biggest beef with Facebook in the past was the "spammy" seeming posts that came from games or other in-site apps.  And now that I have taken the time to block all of those things from my stream, I am really able to enjoy the stream of human consciousness occurring on my Facebook wall.

Speaking of "streams of consciousness," though, I have to explain to you guys how cool I think Twitter is now.  I didn't realize how powerful a tool it really was.  I have been using Twitter to search for terms of interest to me, such as "nuclear weapons," "world peace," and "Charmin Wet Ones."  Then I have to make sure to go to the actual "full search" stream, as opposed to the "top tweets" list.  What I have found is that this is literally like probing the common psyche of hundreds of thousands of people.  I can find people who are, in real time, talking about my topic of interest.  I can tweet @ them.  I am making friends with common interests by being outgoing and deliberate in the way that I am using Twitter.

I find it weird how I used to view Facebook and Twitter, at various times, as these little groups of friends, and never as ways to meet new people.  But, especially with Twitter, I find meeting new people easy and spiritually rewarding now.

It feels really good to explore different ways to push positivity out of me and into the world.  I find the internet to be the most powerful tool for that.  I think that it will both cause an intellectual revolution for people in my generation and the one following, and probably eventually unite us all so close to perfectly that we will attain a universal and shared sense of self-empathy.  A kind of oneness of perspective.

I wonder how you guys out there go about meeting people who have common interests to you?  Or do you?  I know many people who seem to have enough people in their lives. I used to feel that at times, although I know for sure that I will never feel that way again.  I will never stop wanting to meet the next person, until I have met and known them all.

What do you all think about Facebook/Twitter/Google + and whatever else? I have a Google + account now, but have not really used it at all. If any of you out there have Twitter and aren't following me, by the way, I'm @alkalibloo and you can friend me on Facebook with the link under my picture to the right.

I am interested in creating some more spiritual momentum, and right now I feel like meeting new people is the best way to do that.  If you guys know anybody that likes really funny shit, attractive men in their mid-twenties, spiritual stuff, political stuff, or anything else, you should direct them here for me!  I want to meet them!  And I want to know more about all of you! If you would be more comfortable talking in private than here in the comments sections on the blog (the best places to discuss) you can e-mail me at will.

Let me give you all the short list of stuff that I want to talk about.  Then everyone who reads this is obligated by my puppy dog eyes to leave me a comment and tell me what's up.  Even if you think I'm a raving lunatic. :-)

- languages other than English
-any kind of music
-abnormal psychology
-addiction
-communism
-anarchism
-transcendentalism
-free-market capitalism
-Barack Obama
-George W. Bush
-Near death experiences
-yoga practice
-meditative practice
-Lady Gaga
-tolerance
-game theory
-the board game "go"
-photography
-painting
-drawing
-astrophysics
-memetics
-evolution
-toilet humor
-sex
-taboos/deviancy
-queer culture
-racism
-Malcolm X
-The Bible
-The Quran
-terrorism
-radicalism
-brotherhood
-feminism
-nutrition
-energy
-religion
-spiritual awakenings
-the meaning of life
-my nuts 

Since we're going to live forever when the technological singularity turns medical science into the science of creating immortality, I should easily be able to meet most of the people that are my age or younger today. :-) ♡

Reach out to me! I need it! I love you all very much.

18 comments:

WJ said...

I definitely think that the internet has the potential to aid in overcoming some of mankind's most troublesome problems. It goes back to one of the solutions to war, "you shouldn't be allowed to kill an enemy until you get to know them." Acquaintance leads to understanding, understanding leads to tolerance, tolerance leads to coexistence, all of the above lead to empathy and humanity. Nice post.

geets said...

That Charles is quite a short list ;)

I am not really a fan of twitter, Facebook does enough to keep me occupied!! Social networking can be very tedious at times and to be honest with a demanding job at times I am barely able to keep up with my friends, even the ones I first made on ICQ those many years ago! I really hope though that you are able to use social networking to share your message.

I think I may have to send you an email an you list. One thing though, I suggest that you read the Shri Bhagavad Gita, which you can do freely on the website: http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/
It is one of the sacred texts to Hindus and personally I find it filled with so much knowledge.

Today my country celebrates 49 years of Independence from the British, we didn't quite fight for it like the Americans did, one of our watchwords is "Tolerance" probably because of our cultural mix it was chosen along with the other two watch words "Discipline and Production". I don't like it though, we should not tolerate each other, the way I have seen tolerate put into practice equates it to ignore. Why can't we all accept each other? We are as individuals all inherently different and will always be. After the differences of race,sex,skin colour,religion,origin,wealth and all others are stripped away we all are born, we all live and we must all die, why not accept each other and live a better happier life? Why do we deny ourselves the pleasure of human differences and nurture instead the hate and negativity ever present in prejudice? I'll keep asking myself that today as we celebrate Independence and Eid-ul-Fitr together!!!

Chris said...

If I had the choice to be immortal, I don't think I would want to. I don't see the death of my current body as the end of existence for me though.

A couple days ago one of my roommates walked into my room while I was wearing a dress (I'm clearly a man). That was pretty funneh.

Alright, now here is a picture of a squirrel kissing a dinosaur. http://i.imgur.com/b4E8q.jpg

Meredith said...

I, too, am interested in languages (and have a short attention span, which is why I only read the first item on your list ... is it on your list OR in your list?).

I was married to an Arab guy from Tunisia for a few years and during that time I picked up a little of the Arabic language. Simple phrases like "I want water/juice/food", "I love you", and "You are crazy!". But I also learned some more technical things, like how to make a word feminine or possessive ... as well as the alphabet.

I find it interesting when people talk about things like how to spell Muamar Qadhafi's name ... which is kind of hard to do in English, especially considering it is an Arab name, and many of the letters in the name are not sounds/letters that we even have in English.

My boyfriend now is from Japan. His English is pretty excellent and we often spend quite a bit of time discussion semantics, such as should you say 'The items on your list' vs. 'The items in your list'.

And that's all I've got for you for now. :)

Charles said...

WJ: I couldn't agree any more with you. Nice to meet you, by the way. What are your interests?

Geets: Yay for independence! :-) Also: I will read the text you linked me to, in time. You should ask me about it in a week. If i haven't read it by then, you should slather a little guilt onto me to get me motivated. Thanks for posting here. Do you have a twitter account at all then?

Chris: Did your roommate know previously that you occasionally wear a dress? If not... what was their reaction? I'm curious. Also: how many dresses do you own and where do you acquire them?

monkeyindatrea said...

I am still in need of you to show me what you know about facebook and twitter. . I need to jump past the learning curve to get what I am trying to start started. .

the Tsaritsa said...

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on those topics!

Chris said...

I think he knew. He might have looked through my stuff before.

He walks in, "and, you're wearing a dress!!!" Then mostly he avoided eye contact and walked out after a minute. Ha ha.

I don't own too many. Like 3, I have one favorite one that's super awesome and one that's actually really cool but too hot for summer. The one that's way cool I got from the mall. It was only like $18 after tax.

Nicki said...

I love Twitter. I love it in that way that I "in theory" love humanity though in practice it frustrates the living fuck out of me sometimes. I love that it's a sampling of the world-- the whole rioting, raging, tree-hugging, grammatically-challenged, Bieber-obsessed world-- and I love its brevity. I love its wit. I love its accessibility. And I love its occasional dick jokes.

Jay said...

Second attempt at commenting, fingers crossed. I deleted my Facebook for a few months, but I reactivated it last week because my boyfriend told me I should to talk to my family more often.

Sir Lancealot said...

Cool post man. Wrote about facebook on my blog http://sir-lancealot.blogspot.com/. Check it out if you have some time.

Doug Stephens said...

I don't think the homosexuals like their culture described as "queer."

Also, I find it disheartening that MY nuts are not on your list.

Further also, I don't think "memetics" is a real word. You are trying to make yourself look smart by professing interest in imaginary subjects.

Furthest also, while I believe you are correct in saying social networking is a great way to become educated about people and the way they think, I'm afraid that if we as a society become too dependent on it we will lose the social skills necessary to deal with people in actual physical situations.

5. Uniting perspectives. Really? I don't see how that would happen, and even if it was possible, I'm not sure it would be a good thing. We need our differing perspectives to continue to grow as a society and as individuals.

r) You love me. That's so gay.

Charles said...

Chris: You tha man. Your dress wearing inspires me to be more true to myself.

Nicki: here is my favorite FAVORITE english joke. Ready? Here you go: "Brevity is... wit" But you have to know what Shakespeare said about brevity to get it. But it looks as though you know what he said....

Jay: How hard is it to delete an FB?

Lancelot: I'll peep it. Thanks :-)

Doug: I'm going to poll my facebook on the "queer culture" thing. I'm posting a status like this:

"Someone told me that, possibly, my use of the phrase "Queer Culture" could be offensive. I feel that I use the words the same way my gay friends do, and I do not find the term "queer" to be a disparaging one any longer. But I don't wish to offend anyone unduly. So I'm bringing this to you guys. Discuss."

Im not probably going to stop using that word though. I find it endearing.

Your nuts are my nuts in this obommunist wonderland sir. Your testicles are in fact the last item on the list.

I have little investment in making myself "appear intelligent" or "educated," as evidence by my attire and frequent public reference of my testicles. I think that you should tell me why memetics becomes irrelevant just because it is a conceptual and not concrete science.

I agree that it is important to maintain physical human interactions. We should all walk together more. Hike together more. Cook together more. We should all break our televisions together, if we feel like we are giving our TV's more attention than our lovers and sons. I completely agree with you and I would prefer at ALL times to be connected to you face to face. technology is no substitute for a real life doug.

perspectives i think have no option but to unite as spiritual and scientific knowledge become more precise. But certainly I have no interest in homogeneity. I want people to act crazy for real. Mohawks and dick piercings and Michael Jacksons and the Ginsbergs and the Thompsons... We need freaks...

My love for you cannot be changed. :-)

darev2005 said...

As far as the word "queer" goes, it's another case of who is using the term. I have had many LGBT friends over the years who referred to themselves as fag, queer, queen, homo, lez, dyke, etc. And they use the term amongst themselves without fear of repercussions. Amongst the alternately sexualed community, the words are acceptable in the same way that blacks can refer to themselves or others in their community using the word "nigger", a practice that I despise. The same way that latinos will use "bendecho" (I may not have spelled that right) with each other. It is acceptable within the community but not at all acceptable if used by an outsider.

So, what is it about your nuts that you want to discuss? Is this a medical problem or some sort of fetish or do you just want to brag?

hypnosis for change said...

Social networks comes handy yet a little stressful at some times. Glad you're having a hang and an awesome time using them as much as we do!

Summer said...

I love WJ and geets comments. I never looked at the word Tolerance that way before but it is Acceptance we should be after. People's differences are what make them interesting. If you hate others for being different than you it seems to me you don't have much faith in your own beliefs.
I too love the word queer but don't use it because I'm not. I did use it on a words with friends play but felt compelled to send my opponent an apology and explanation. It was worth over 30 points yo! I think it's one of those things that if your gay friends are okay with it you can say it with them but be prepared to offend others. My best friend is Mexican and we call each other all sorts of insulting words but would never use them in conversation with anyone else. Prejudice sucks! It ruins so many things, even some words.

geets said...

Thank you Summer, on the lighter side of things in my part of the world we don't call gay people "queer" we call them "funny" and I totally agree prejudice sucks.

Nicki said...

Re: Shakespeare joke-- HAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHHAA. And one of my favorite Shakespeare lines just got EVEN BETTER. Thank you for that!

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