Day: April 17, 2015

  • Life and death viewed by the angry young man

    Life and death viewed by the angry young man

    Cancer is a horrid circumstance.. a outright awful ailment, and a continuous plague that hits without forgiveness or mercy.

    I trust that you, the reader, most likely have been faced with a family member of friend succumbing to this affliction.. There are endless tales of horror from children’s hospitals and nursing homes. No one can escape this scourge, so often..

    I am writing this brief post tonight to get some emotion off my chest.

    Recently, my uncle and godfather passed away after too long of a fight with cancer. He fought to stay alive. Fate would have it another way. When he lost his battle, he left behind a family of people who have yet to stop completely grieving his death.

    And now, this night, a close friend of mine finds himself in an unsettling place: A hospital bed with tubes and monitors attached to him.. he beat one form of cancer only to find out it spread to another place. Suddenly, he has taken a major turn for the worse..

    I hate cancer.
    I hate all disease actually.

    I’m 34. Half my audience may think I’m ancient. The other half probably thinks I still have a world of life ahead of me.  But as I age, I find myself becoming more serious in my studies of many things.. contemplating morals and justice becomes difficult with time, however. Billy Joel’s ANGRY YOUNG MAN described a person who once believed in causes and had a pointless point of view but life went on no matter who was wrong or right. Those lyrics become truer by the day. By the moment..

    As you age, you also say goodbye to many people you loved or befriended.

    And often they leave with the help of a disease…
    With cancer..
    With the ultimate boogeyman of the medical system.

    I bet any money that you–the reader–is also dealing with loss, or recently has dealt with it.  You have probably even read a self-help book or website explaining how to deal with loss.. maybe you have tried to vacation. Get away from things.. But it never goes away. There is no alternative to the life we have now besides not living it. While we inhabit our temples of the soul, we will be hit with crises and upheaval.. Sometimes smiles. Sometimes frowns. And sometimes, just like those we see dying before our eyes, the same sickness that took them..

    I am angry tonight.
    Sad..
    Accepting of it all, too.
    A mixture of emotions.

    But that is what life has become.
    Either it’s a mixture of emotions or it turns into the final scene of THE MEANING OF LIFE..

    So many highs.. so often lows.  So many twists and turns and ironic shifts of fate..

    x x x

    People sometimes become mentally disenfranchised after being drained by loss. The human ruin–one we hardly see..

    Everyone has a story. Each and every person who walks too slow in front of you, or who is trying to pass you on the interstate.. the man who glances at you as you walk on a street.. or that elderly woman who vacantly stares out of a window of a dark and dingy nursing home.

    Our stories are filled with joy and raw horror.
    But we all have a story.

    Maybe it’s time we stop just judging everyone else and start accepting our differences, move on and stop caring about those causes that the ANGRY YOUNG MAN couldn’t realize didn’t matter before it was too late.

    And find a cure for cancer..
    Because that has to go away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYV6XTA4b0M

  • FORD IN HIS FLIVVER: THE MODEL T ALIEN NEAR THE SUN?

    FORD IN HIS FLIVVER: THE MODEL T ALIEN NEAR THE SUN?

    I found a few interesting links in my night owl reading last night about UFOs .. The UFO SIGHTINGS BLOGSPOT peaked my interest with a post about NASA’s sun observation satellite SOHO (the Solar and Heliosperic Observatory) on April 12, 2015 capturing some sort of a “T” shaped object or thing near the sun.  The story was picked up by BEFORE IT’S NEWS..

    Also, a few years back, some speculated that there were photos of a UFO ‘powering up’ from the sun. With images, they said then, to prove it.

    There have been some other recent oddities near the sun. Such as this from January, when a speed of light ‘UFO’ was captured and shown in a YouTube video..  In March, there was a report that NASA may have been attempting to smudge away evidence of a UFO near the sun.. STREETCAP1 was the source on that.

    But this T shape is interesting. Because to some it could be the proof they need of a UFO. To others, it could be a hoax, scam, or simply camera error..

    Since the UFO blog posted this and it was picked up by one of the biggest conspiracy sites online, there has been a deluge of other websites–I guess you can now include the HORROR REPORT in this–reporting and re-reporting the T shape.

    But I am attempting to find credible information about this T Shape on Lasco Satcam and simply am unable to. Perhaps because ‘they’ don’t want me to.. or maybe because there is smoke but no fire, just a small cigarette that someone forgot to out..

    While UFO blogs and other sites are reporting about this, the information of the T shape appears to have  come from the YOUTUBE user STREETCAP.   There is a collection of cool UFO videos on the Streetcap Twitter feed, as well. Including the T shaped oddity spotted by Lasco Satcam..

    So I figured out the answer to this mystery: Let it be a mystery. Let people speculate.. SreetCap’s video raises eyebrows. People will debate whether it’s a lens mess up or an alien race in the shape of a T..

    Or something else.

    After watching this clip from AUSTIN POWERS, we may have our answer: