An overview of opinions and observations for the month.
Sunday, 31 August 2014
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Appreciation
The majority of people who are unhappy in life suffer from a preoccupation known as "destination addiction" which is the ideology that happiness is a fixed point which you can arrive at.
People who suffer from Destination Addiction believe wholeheartedly that once they achieve a particular goal or overcome a specific obstacle, then they will be happy; and furthermore, that this happiness will be perpetual.
If only it were that simple. The problem is that once the goal is achieved, or the obstacle overcome, another will be set. Nothing is ever enough, and your happiness is constantly tied to the next requirement.
Happiness comes from being content with your current situation; it comes from appreciating what you already have, and not resenting what you do not. It is about being grateful, thankful, and cherishing the blessings in your life. It means not competing to "keep up with the Jones"; there will always be greater and lesser people than yourself, more successful, more rich, more attractive; life is not a competition.
Happiness is the active choice to appreciate your life.
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People who suffer from Destination Addiction believe wholeheartedly that once they achieve a particular goal or overcome a specific obstacle, then they will be happy; and furthermore, that this happiness will be perpetual.
If only it were that simple. The problem is that once the goal is achieved, or the obstacle overcome, another will be set. Nothing is ever enough, and your happiness is constantly tied to the next requirement.
Happiness comes from being content with your current situation; it comes from appreciating what you already have, and not resenting what you do not. It is about being grateful, thankful, and cherishing the blessings in your life. It means not competing to "keep up with the Jones"; there will always be greater and lesser people than yourself, more successful, more rich, more attractive; life is not a competition.
Happiness is the active choice to appreciate your life.
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Saturday, 23 August 2014
Charity
I don't mean to offend anyone with this post, and it isn't supposed to make you feel like a fool if you've already partaken, however this is why I won't be taking part in the Ice Bucket Challenge, or if I do, I sure won't be donating.
The 2013 Tax Returns for ALSA (the charity everybody is donating to recently) is available online, from their own website (therefore you cannot deny it's authenticity). Last year, the ALSA spent £7,5 million on labour costs; the President of the charity was paid £220,000 for working 40hrs a week, the Chief Financial Officer pulled in a healthy £130,000 for working the same, and the Public Policy Officer took home a handsome £121,000 for his 40hr a week employment. (page 8 of the Tax Return).
The ALSA don't make any excuses, or even deny that they spend only 28% of the total money received on actually researching into cures and treatment - want to know what's ironic? That 28% is only £7.2 million, meaning they spent £300,000 more last year on lining their own pockets than they actually spent on doing what they were donated money to do.
ALS Assets Tax Return (found at: Hosted)
I don't donate to charity, because most of the donation just goes into the pockets of overpaid white collar criminals. I'd rather buy a homeless guy in Hanley a couple of pies from Wrights; at least then you know that somebody in need is actually benefiting from your charity, not some overpaid douche in their designer clothes.
Furthermore it is my honest belief that the media is engineered and manipulated to distract the public from reality, consider this: lately social media and RSS feeds have been spammed full of videos of celebrities doing the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS... it came from nowhere, suddenly flourishing into a media frenzy that saturates your vision. Why? What could the media want to distract you from so badly?
In the last six weeks, the death tolls from Gaza:
- 2,070+ Palestinians, mostly civilians.
- 67 Israelis, mostly troops.
The ice bucket challenge doesn't keep me blinded. On this note, people who defend Israel over the Gaza situation dumbfound me. It amuses me that their predominant argument is "Hamas started it. Hamas fired 3,000 rockets and killed 1 Israeli civilian." Allegedly that justifies wiping out an entire populated area? It's the equivalent of your neighbour chucking a pebble at your window, so you move away and then nuke the entire estate. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe. #FreePalestine
Moving on, a brilliant video that adds weight to my argument about how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is nothing short of a distraction tactic that has swept the social media attention of the world away from the real issues at present such as Gaza, Syria, Ferguson etc is that of Orlando Jones.
Yes, ALS is a problem, and yes, of course I condone people supporting it; but realise that it didn't just pop up overnight, ALS has been around for a long time... I don't believe that it's a coincidence that the media frenzy around it just conveniently coincides with the perfect time to distract people from real world issues.
Charity; sometimes it's a convenient distraction.
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The 2013 Tax Returns for ALSA (the charity everybody is donating to recently) is available online, from their own website (therefore you cannot deny it's authenticity). Last year, the ALSA spent £7,5 million on labour costs; the President of the charity was paid £220,000 for working 40hrs a week, the Chief Financial Officer pulled in a healthy £130,000 for working the same, and the Public Policy Officer took home a handsome £121,000 for his 40hr a week employment. (page 8 of the Tax Return).
The ALSA don't make any excuses, or even deny that they spend only 28% of the total money received on actually researching into cures and treatment - want to know what's ironic? That 28% is only £7.2 million, meaning they spent £300,000 more last year on lining their own pockets than they actually spent on doing what they were donated money to do.
ALS Assets Tax Return (found at: Hosted)
I don't donate to charity, because most of the donation just goes into the pockets of overpaid white collar criminals. I'd rather buy a homeless guy in Hanley a couple of pies from Wrights; at least then you know that somebody in need is actually benefiting from your charity, not some overpaid douche in their designer clothes.
Furthermore it is my honest belief that the media is engineered and manipulated to distract the public from reality, consider this: lately social media and RSS feeds have been spammed full of videos of celebrities doing the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS... it came from nowhere, suddenly flourishing into a media frenzy that saturates your vision. Why? What could the media want to distract you from so badly?
In the last six weeks, the death tolls from Gaza:
- 2,070+ Palestinians, mostly civilians.
- 67 Israelis, mostly troops.
The ice bucket challenge doesn't keep me blinded. On this note, people who defend Israel over the Gaza situation dumbfound me. It amuses me that their predominant argument is "Hamas started it. Hamas fired 3,000 rockets and killed 1 Israeli civilian." Allegedly that justifies wiping out an entire populated area? It's the equivalent of your neighbour chucking a pebble at your window, so you move away and then nuke the entire estate. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe. #FreePalestine
Moving on, a brilliant video that adds weight to my argument about how the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is nothing short of a distraction tactic that has swept the social media attention of the world away from the real issues at present such as Gaza, Syria, Ferguson etc is that of Orlando Jones.
Yes, ALS is a problem, and yes, of course I condone people supporting it; but realise that it didn't just pop up overnight, ALS has been around for a long time... I don't believe that it's a coincidence that the media frenzy around it just conveniently coincides with the perfect time to distract people from real world issues.
Charity; sometimes it's a convenient distraction.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Currency
My comments on social media regarding this have garnered attention and incited a verbal debate. Given the recent tragic news of Robin Williams' death, I have posited that celebrity suicides prove that money cannot buy happiness.
Despite common consensus, your value as a person is not defined by the numbers on your paycheck or the amount of metal coins in your pocket. Currency is just a control system designed to facilitate your submissive slavery. You work to earn the money that you are brainwashed by advertising into wasting on a false economy.
You work a job that you hate, to afford things that you don't need, to impress people that you don't like. And whilst you continue to feed the system, you are taxed so that others can prosper from your ignorance.
I don't have the answers, but I have the perspective necessary to ask the questions, and to see beyond the transparent veil that so easily blinds the majority. Money and materialism are superficial ideologies that suffocate the things that actually matter; peace, love and unity.
Compassion and humanity are the cornerstones of true freedom.
Money cannot buy happiness.
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Despite common consensus, your value as a person is not defined by the numbers on your paycheck or the amount of metal coins in your pocket. Currency is just a control system designed to facilitate your submissive slavery. You work to earn the money that you are brainwashed by advertising into wasting on a false economy.
You work a job that you hate, to afford things that you don't need, to impress people that you don't like. And whilst you continue to feed the system, you are taxed so that others can prosper from your ignorance.
I don't have the answers, but I have the perspective necessary to ask the questions, and to see beyond the transparent veil that so easily blinds the majority. Money and materialism are superficial ideologies that suffocate the things that actually matter; peace, love and unity.
Compassion and humanity are the cornerstones of true freedom.
Money cannot buy happiness.
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