The holiday's, LAME-SAUCE!

So after much though, and much personal secret anguish while narrowing down why the Christmas holidays bring so much distress, there are some conclusions found as to the root of it all.

The holidays are all supposed to be about the celebration of the life of Jesus, as long as you are of a Christian based faith, if not, it's all about the spirit of family and friends, food and fun, warmth and caring, loving and sharing, but they aren't.

The associated 'Christians' get a free pass to a season of hypocritical redemption, while hanging little pictures of Jesus on their door, maybe a few ornaments of various other Saints on their tree as decoration, donate a whopping $10.00 to unicef, and make sure that everyone knows that they are 'Christian'. It becomes a season of public advertisement in hopes that it will be enough to last the year out of redemption. The week passes, the consumerist advertisements of a religious nature gets packed up until the following year, the in laws get dropped off back at the retirement home, and the sin begins again. Churches get a break from the over crowding that happens during the one Sunday a year that holds it highest attendance rate being the Sunday before December 25th, and it all digresses back. Prayer stops, the kids get yelled at, and the needy become hungry yet again.

If one is agnostic or atheist as myself, the Christmas has an entirely different list of hypocrisy. It is a season of riding the train that the Christians built while denying any such form of recognition of the efforts put forth by those persons. Its a time of faults smiles, empty wallets and pressures to out perform ones friends and family with a degree of competitive gift giving, food cooking, party hosting, drinking, bragging, debt, and reuniting with purposefully forgotten distant relatives. At the end of all of this, all that is left behind is the residue of rotten fruit cake, bags of garbage, and the stale taste of a lonely faithless existence. We then dispose of the used "Chris"mas tree, throw out the decorations, sweet the floor, put away all the gifts and call it a night, ready to take life on in the morning, which we've been saving little bits of cash here and there in preparation for a selfish boxing day experience of fist pumping desperate rage.

If your lucky enough to neither be Christian nor Atheist, you can be considered lucky. No need for any of this. One can sit back, and bask in all the glory of the break from life that one can get. Perhaps even stay at home and laugh about the grind and stress that the rest of the world is experiencing at that moment and literally laugh out loud! Ironically the Christians shun choice, and the Atheists point, laugh, and ridicule the smart ones.

Who actually has it right?

Next continues to New Years eve. And the cycle continues over.



Joshua FACT!
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The negative consequences of a lack of inspiration.

Usually speaking, there are certain moments of life that can inspire very separate reactions to follow the origin of a feeling, hence making it an inspiration.
The things that I look for in the world for inspirations to wright are in copious amounts and can be summed up quite simply as the world around me. There has yet to be a day to pass when there has not been some kind of an encounter of one kind or another to tip the scale a little farther towards the side of 'humans are the injustice'. However; at this point, these are not the subjects or inspirational material that is being discussed. The real issue of the evening is the lack of any sort of creative inspiration to create. As it turns out, a deeper amount of emotional involvement with the drama that is causing the complete social decline is what is required in order to gain said power of creativity.

There is a challenge and a lesson here to be learned.

On one hand there is the option and opportunity to 'cure' the ailment of an under-stimulated brain by over compromising personal morals and values while diving deeply back into the trenches that I have spent an extreme amount time, energy, and effort in alleviating myself from to regain the hope of being frustrated and depressed enough to succeed at the ultimate goal.

On the other hand, one must way out the second option against the first. There is the option of a continued avoidance of old dramas, stresses, and dramas in order to maintain a somewhat stress free yet dismal existence while always having the self treachery affixed onto the shoulders like a cancerous balloon of knowledge of having more potential to create great things yet never having the truest chance of success.

Perhaps this is the time in which to consult with a few of those 'hair in the face, wear the younger sisters tight jeans and mope around all the time' emo kids, and figure out what their proverbial 'chip' of depression is about, and probe to find out if there happens to be a worthy cause for their public cry for affection and emotional security.

As it would seem, this entry is focused on yours truly.

At least I can recognize that I'm equally as fucked as the rest of the morons.



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The rudest of the homeless...

Here in the city where I live there is a significant amount of homeless people. Some of them are homeless for valid reasons ie. injury without WCB or a rejected employment insurance claim, a mental disorder like schizophrenia or something of the like. However; there seems to be a mass majority of lazy jobless welfare using tax draining bums that want a steady hand out.

The free loading bums are the ones that can be the most vexing. The one way that I have generally dealt with it is to simply ignore, it keeps me from shouting and/or cursing and/or both for that matter. There have been many tactics discussed over various dinners and coffee outings with close friends and the leading method that is most recommended is to walk quickly while listening to music at volumes that may be harmful to the ears but also drowned out the cries of faults desperate. attention.

The most recent run in that I've had with a self destructive unfortunate went just as predicted, at least started off that way. While attempting to make my daily commute to the dismal place of my less then high paying or respectable place of employment, I encountered one of the homeless that was quite the exceptional attention seeker. I had my iPod as loud as it would go and was trekking at a more then regularly high pace as I was running a little late, when I glanced out of the corner of my eye and there he was. The abominable homeless man, standing at approximately 6' 6" tall, and roughly 190 LBS of cloaked danger was directly behind me and pacing along almost at my heals. I could tell he was attempting to get my attention for quite some distance, perhaps for a 3 block radius. I was keeping a solid composure when to my dismay, a red light at the cross walk, at that moment I know that there was going to be a direct confrontation. He makes his move, waving his hands in front of my face, I give a glance of extreme disapproval before removing one of the ear buds that I have jammed into my skull in an attempt at keeping my sanity when out comes, "Hey, do you have a smoke or some change?". I ponder the situation briefly before formulating a simple reply that I could only hope to have some kind of an impact. With courage in my thought, I open my mouth, chuckle and burst "With all the energy you've used while tailing me, you could have easily asked a few other people for some remedial employment that would give you an opportunity to earn the funds required to purchase a pack of cigarettes of your very own." The bum stands in shock, I add "Just get a fuckin' job!". To my astonishment, "Fuck you buddy, you don't know me!" emerges from the scruffy mans beard and mustache.

I'm quite unsure as to why there should be such an exchange of words like this. All that I could hope for is that the hint would be taken, but alas, I was hoping for to much.

This is a sad day now that I've even lost faith in the wit of the homeless.



Joshua FACT!
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Is it so difficult to type as an adult??!!

There has to be some kind of a social limit to where the line is drawn when it comes to lame ass lazy linguistics while typing text messages, instant messages, etc.

Call me a jerk for having some kind of appreciation for the language that we are lucky enough to have as a mother language

‎​I fail to see the vast amount of time saved while dropping 2 characters of a 3 character word into an improper abbreviation. I could understand if one is to abbreviate "for example" into "eg" or "et cetera" into "etc" however "you" into "u" "are" into "r" and the worst is the confusing "your or you're" into "ur", almost seems like they are purposefully misused words that really brings the sophistication of a perfectly beautiful language to an all time low.

The only valid excuse that I could possibly fathom for such self mentally destructive abuse would be if one was from a trailer park and lacked the ability to obtain any form of a proper education, or if one is actually mildly special needs.

The part of this whole ordeal that rubs me in the wrongest of ways is when people are struggling to learn this language and yet they insist on using these horrible short hand versions of the language that they are showing some kind of interest in learning something real, then have to attempt at re learning something proper.

We're adults, not little fucking kids!!



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Wow!!! What a great scam!

This is a direct copy and paste from an alleged 'booking agent/photographer'.

Followed by my reply, I have yet to hear anything back. I assume he wasn't ready for any sort of intelligent reply.

From: Ivan Bajic <ivanbaijic@yahoo.com>
Subject: Bookings......

My name is Ivan Bajic, A professional photographer/Manager. I got your
profile on model Mayhem
and I've a client who wants to update her Catalog with her new year
Fashion outfits release & I'm interested in you for the
shooting.your pay for the job will be $4,500. Get back to me with an
acknowledgment of my mail.

 Job Location
The shooting will
hold at a rented photographers studio in your location,so you don't have
to worry about traveling,the name and address of the studio will be
forwarded to you before the date of the shooting,all make up will be
taken care of in the studio.You can come along with any body of your
choice on the day of the shooting,your mum,dad,friend,body-guard anybody
you wish to come with just for you to feel more comfortable.

Job
details
You have 15 different Fashion outfits to cover,which would
be
provided by our client on the day of the shooting.

Types of
cloths;
Jeans and Jackets

Name of client;
Laura Grant

Company
Name;
Fashion.Bg

Job percentage;
The total pay for the
jobs is $4,500 and you get $1,100 as your part payment.

Shooting
Date;
The date for the shooting is not fix,I will have to make
arrangement for that ahead from now,I will email you the exact date for
the shooting a week before as soon as the arrangement is completed with
our client.

Requirements;
Very Attractive,Classy,In Great
Shape,Extremely Outgoing & Personable,out spoken,Must be Reliable.

Payment
Policy;
As part of my working policy and ethics,I receive part
payment from any client before I proceed with any job and balance
immediately after the shooting,this is to identify a serious client and
ascertain the job,I hope you comprehend this fact.

I will keep
you updated as to when
our client wants to make upfront payments.

Expectation;
You
need to have good and attractive poses .(start practicing) Basically
this is all required of you,for your make up my client will be taken
care of it,you don't have to be bother for any make up,please get in
touch with me if you will take the job and we can go from there,just let
me know if you will take the job to commence with next arrangement.

Please
I'd like you to check your email on a regular bases, I might have
updates for you.

Ivan Bajic.

And my reply is as follows:

Subject: Re: Bookings......
To: Ivan Bajic <ivanbaijic@yahoo.com>

Please spare me the opportunity, as I'm not into cashing fake checks,
giving banking information out or being strung along on a useless ploy
for you to drain my bank account for some ridiculous amount.

I appreciate you taking the time out of your oh so precious day to
troll through the model mayhem pages in order to attempt at praying on
a few under intelligent aspiring models with promises of riches and
stardom in search for one that might fall for the scheme, scam, game,
or whatever you may so choose to call it.

I also appreciate the efforts that went into the plot of it all and
the drama and the copy and paste of the generic offer that you've come
up with.

What my questions to you are,
How many people have actually fallen for this?
Would you say that if you invested this amount of intellectual
manipulative genius into a legitimate business eg actually becoming a
real photographer or agent, that you would actually have more success
and more money without guilt or stress?

What an ass hat!



Joshua FACT!
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Blah blah, the weather this, the weather that.

Why is it that people can hardly ever talk to each other with real words and share actual expressions for one another. There is so much time spent in hibernation within ones own brain, iPod, book, etc. that nobody knows how to interact with one another and therefore it seems that they just simply give up.

Give up anything new, give up trying something out, give up talking about something that actually has any real social bearing on anything at all.

I realize that I am probably one of the biggest social outcasts because of my huge flapping gums, lack of shame, and disinterest in kissing ass to every new prick that I meet just to get on their good side for god only knows what random reason that the future could bring. At least I should get some kind of a social political point for my brutal honesty and attempt at being real. There just really seems to be some kind of an unreasonable irreversible human retardation that leaves us only capable of saying "Oh well would you look at the rain out there." Or "Did you see its -42 degrees in Edmonton today?". "Tiger Woods is in the paper again".

WHO ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THAT GARBAGE?!?!

Are friendships or relationships actually built upon that degree of utter bullshit these days?!?! If that's what us (21-35+ years old) are actually talking about, just imagine what the younger generations is really sharing with each other! "Duh, I like soup...". "Yeah, I like crackers... And soup too". This just isn't very good at advancement.

From what I've noticed, whenever there are serious local issues, the people can relate and talk about it and share opinions, and as the issues dissipate, the brain turned into a moronic gelatinous goop that drools on each other in public transit while half hearted clutching at its own purse for fear that another idiot will actually get the motivation to steal some valueless photo of an ugly grandson. Have we really evolved so much that there is a requirement of tragedy in order to have any kind of real thought? Why can't anything positive give the same kind of neurological stimulation to keep the human populous running at optimum at all times.

We're already in the gutter and we're too dumb to know it.



Joshua FACT!
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Some skewed yet realistic ideas about hippies.

There are some things about the life of a hippy that I can totally agree with and encourage.
Down with corporate america.
Support local farmers.
Treat your body as a temple.
Cook food on a stove and not in a microwave.
Research what your getting before you get it.
Go green.
Ride a bike.

However there are some consumerism products that cannot be forsaken as they lead to the utter discomfort for all those that are around.

Get some fucking deodorant!!!
Buy some fucking shampoo!!!
Take a fucking shower!!!
Use a fucking tooth brush!!!

There should be some kind of a happy medium, the awareness of a hippy with the willingness of consumerism.

People suck. No one is happy.

Joshua FACT!
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Get a job! Be somebody!

They tell you, go to school, get a job, buy a house, get married, pump out babies, live a cookie cutter life and all will be well.

There are a few questions that I have about this, who are 'They' and why are they allowed to run my life. Who made 'Them' king of my castle. They should leave me alone, and let me take my own route.

The notion of following a dogmatic order of life is the same idea that everyone should enjoy the circus, it has its benefits like a temporary moment of entertainment however, there is no permanent substance to it.

Humanity has been following the routine generation after generation and have yet to make any significant impact on society, only following and never leading to real change, marriages fail, student loans build up, kids move out, the house needs repainting. The more cookie cutter you are, the more you realize that its a failed structure to base your existence on.

I for one have a job, and it brings me no more happiness then I had before acquiring said employment. I've gone to school and make no more of an income then I would have other wise.

This north american propaganda can suck it!



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