Why Miley Cyrus Is Important

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/living/outraged-parents-why-miley-cyrus-performance-sets-girls-and-women-back/?iref=obnetwork

"It's a damn shame that Miley is doing this to herself, making a vulgar joke out of her talents and her beauty..."

I was never a fan of Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montanna, or an pop garbage, but many people are, including young girls and young boys. These fans look at Miley Cyrus as some sort of a symbol or idol, this is only human nature. It is imperative for us as a society to examine what is going on, discuss it, and do something about it. Now, what is happening is Miley Cyrus is coming into her own and she has expanded herself to be much more sexual and mature, leaving the Disney image behind. With this transformation comes a great deal of consequences which will ripple across the continuum of society. For girls, it shows them that it is good to be a sexual object, to totally dehumanize themselves. For boys, it shows them that girls are only sexual objects to be treated as such. This type of degradation of women is very disgusting, and turns back the clock, way back to the days before Europe was civilized and the Welsh were running around naked with blue powdered butts.We as a society are descending back into tribal paganism in the absence of the influence from churches. As an honest observer of history, Europe was not truly civilized until it became Christendom.  It was not until Christian ideals were imparted to barbaric tribes that women were treated as people to be idealized and cherished. We are going back to our tribal nature in the absence of Christian ideals, and I admit that as a Jew. The transformation of Miley Cyrus is only a snapshot of western society as a whole. If we do no want to go back to the days of naked barbarians treating women as trophies, then we will have to go back to the idea which shaped the western world, Christianity.
-Kole Elyon

The War Machine Is Oiled and Ready to Go!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/politics/us-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

"The White House offered legal justification, with spokesman Jay Carney telling reporters the large-scale use of chemical weapons in Syria presented a national security threat to the United States that required a response."

It was about time the military industrial complex needed a new war. I have felt for a long time now we were probably going to be getting into Syria. I do not know how the corporate elite benefit from a military confrontation with Syria, but that will come to surface as time goes on. The bottom line is that we have absolutely no business in interfering in another country's civil war. It is their problem, not ours. We are not supposed to be the police of the world, period. There is absolutely no security risk from Syria, a backwards third world cesspool, to the United States, none whatsoever. The only reason why we might go into this is because our government has Muslim extremist sympathies. We trained Osama int he 80's and armed him, we armed and backed Libyan Muslim rebels, we backed the overthrow of Mubarack by Muslim fanatics, and now this is the latest adventure we will foray into with extremism. I have talked to many people from the Middle East and they say Assad and people like him are needed to keep the people in line, so the use of chemicals isn't as evil as it may seem. I just hope we do not have another Iraq, but if history is any indicator, we will be occupying Syria for a long long time.
-Kole Elyon

Animals Are More Human Than Humans

I was on a desert hike today, and when I walked through a patch of land there was a flurry of an electric sounding buzzes coming from the brush. I thought it may have been bees at first, but it was some type of beetle that was sending an alert to the other beetles about my presence. I was astonished at how the beetles communicated with each other about my intrusion into their habitat. Human beings would not only probably fail to say something, but would watch and wait to see what would happen to someone else if an intruder had appeared. Animals are much more humane to members of their own species than we humans. In a wolf pack there is no such thing as unemployment as each member of the pack has a job, even the old toothless wolves serve as watchmen for the pack. In human society we toss people deemed undesriable to the side and blame them for their life problems. We are the only species that spends so much time, energy, and resources on finding ways to systematically kill members of our own species off. When lion prides and wolf packs have encounters there may be fights, but the animals do no sit around spending countless hours figuring out how to wipe every other pack out of existence. There are breeds of birds and fish that stay with the same mate for life, even forsaking breeding if they become widowed!(Talk about dedication) Bottom line, we upright walking homo sapiens have a long way to go in treating fellow people better, and we can learn a thing or two from a thicket of beetles.
-Kole Elyon

No Style No Substance

I can't but help at my generation and think we have no substance. I mean it seems everyone needs some type of gimmick to stick out whether it be tattoos, piercings, or some type of crazy fashion piece. Take for example Nicki Minaj, she is just a walking gimmick who contributes little to nothing besides that. In other words, without the wigs, fake breasts, and fake ass she would be a nobody. If you take that in contrast with someone like Alicia Keys who is a total class act, then the difference becomes clear. Alicia can just use her pure talent and substance to radiate sexiness and style while holding a crowd. The same can be seen in something like Jay-Z vs. Lil Wayne. Jay-Z has been wearing Polo's in his videos since his early days, while Wayne has the tats, crazy voice, and stupid fashion choices. Jay-Z is all substance while Wayne is all gimmicky crap. Even the people you see walking around on the street fall into these type of contrasts. The person with the outrageous fashion and tattoos all over the place have little in terms of substance, there are exceptions of course but the norm is definitely what I have been talking about. I'll take a button down shirt with a part in my hair at a party and still hold the attention of everyone, so I do not need all the gimmicky crap that other people use to draw attention to themselves. I just wish my generation had a better sense of style like the gangsters of the  20th century had. The Capones and Siegels were true symbols of style. Marylin Monroe was an icon who could still hold her own today, while we have all these nobodies who will be forgotten in 15 minutes.
-Kole Elyon

Ahead of the Evolutionary Curve

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201005/why-night-owls-are-more-intelligent-morning-larks

"...more intelligent children grow up to be more nocturnal as adults than less intelligent children."

Screw the early bird catching the worm, the night owl crushes the bird. I have found what I have been suspecting for a long time, that is, nocturnal people or people with insomnia are not weird or freaks, they are simply more advanced then the average human. I am a night owl myself, and find myself to be at with most people, and that is because I am simply ahead of them, figuratively and literally. The scientific literature has shown that night owls are not only smarter then people who are "normal" and are up during the day, but are very so much smarter, IQ's for people who are night owls are exponentially higher then people who are not. So, if you are a night owl like me and recieve some sort of ridicule from friends, family, or co-workers, just try to understand them. I mean, understand they are still playing catchup to the evolutionary curve, and this is literally most of the human species. Remember, you are not abnormal, just advanced.
-Kole Elyon

Illegal to Survive

In this country it is illegal to survive and live self sufficiently. Think for a minute and realize that the matrix known as "society" ties you in without a choice. If you grow and distribute food without a "permit" then the FDA will crack down harder on you then a bull whip in the name of "sanitation", but the food they gives us is genetically engineered garbage. If you try to light a fire to produce heat or cook, the fire marshal is down on you. If you want to buy or sell without letting the government get its "piece", then you are arrested by the IRS. If a person tries to power their house without the use of utilities owned by the corporate-government complex, then they are arrested. Own a few guns, and the government deems you "armed and dangerous".Refuse to work with the crooks in the bank, and you are deemed not credible which prevents you access to vehicles, housing, and even a job!
We live in a country with ID cards, fingerprint registries, and now they want our DNA! With a government that regulates people to death and punishes people who dare to step away, we have a prison as a country. We are taught from an early age to just "be part of the group". It is sickening! If I had my way, I would be completely out of the grid with no social security number, no ID, no way of being tracked. My dream is to be able to grow my own food, power my house using sunlight and other renewable energy sources, and to be left alone, not alone completely by I want to be left alone to work for my living doing something I do not need a corporate puppet master backing me and be able to raise my family without the interference of the do gooders of this country. in all, it is up to each individual to unplug themselves from the matrix, and the more that do it the more the leviathan will slowly start to die.
-Kole Elyon

Divine Dieting

Daniel 1:11-16

¹¹ Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, ¹² “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. ¹³ Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” ¹⁴ So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
¹⁵ At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. ¹⁶ So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.

I was reading the Book of Daniel last night in the Torah, the Jewish bible, and I saw a very interesting piece of advice which came to me, perhaps God is trying to help me stick to eating healthier. In the story here, the Jewish wise man Daniel who is exiled in Babylon was told to eat the king's food, the Budweiser and Big Macs of his day. Daniel did not want to eat this food, so he abstained from it, probably because it was not Kosher. Then a guard questions Daniel as to why he is looking washed up, and Daniel tells him that he does not want the kings food. Next, Daniel tells the guard to give him vegetables and water instead of the fatty meat/wine that the others ate, so after a period of ten days Daniel looks even healthier then the people who had been engorging on the king's food all along. This is another example of how moderation, self control, and good choices benefit people. The vegetables/water were much better than the meat/wine then and are now. So, I'm going to cut back on my meat, soda, and alcohol to see what benefits come from it. The bible has always proven to be a book of wisdom which has helped me my entire life, and I doubt it will let me down now.
-Kole Elyon