enjoying the sun

Today I took in the sun and surf (well, lake) on my day off at ye olde Katherine Lake. I've spent many a summer at this lake camping, or just for day trips to lie on the sand and swim with child feces.

Yes, child feces. Well, at this point in the summer, the lake is perfectly fine to swim in. And very warm today! But by the end of the summer, there are so many small bodies in this small lake that the top layer is covered with a slime of sunscreen and baby poos float by every so often. Pleasant!

Ha ha. Anyways, my day in the sun was great and relaxing. See photo below.



Afterwards I ventured to the John Henry's Marina and store where I had the largest single scoop ice cream cone I've ever encountered in my life. Unfortunately I didn't think to photograph the cone, but I did get a shot of the harbour.



On a side note. I read an article this morning in the latest Cosmopolitan about women soldiers in Iraq. Firstly, it's no secret that I think war is retarded and we shouldn't even have soldiers in the first place. Why should innocent people fight the fights of those higher up than them?? Out of patriocy?? Hell no. Country borders are figments of our imagination anyways, we shouldn't be bound so rigidly to them.

Back to the article - this one female soldier noted that her most frustrating moment in Iraq was when she shot at an insurgent and he didn't die. Holy crap. That is so wrong.

"So honey, how was your day today?"
"Crappy, I didn't get to kill anyone."

sasquatch theory #1

Being back in their territory, I've recently become intrigued by the Sasquatch and their potential for existance. Seeing as my research has just begun, I don't have much to report on yet, but I do have one theory I would like to get out of the way.

The Sasquatch Origin Story:

Now, there has been little evidence to how the Sasquatch actually came into existence. I would like to offer my preliminary exaplanation.

It has been noted that Sasquatch hairs that have been found and analyzed come back "inconclusive" as to what species they are, but they have the feel and look of bear fur. While there have been those who believe that the Sasquatch is a primate, this bear-like fur and the lack of an opposable thumb leads me to another conclusion: that many many years ago a man mated with a bear and the Sasquatch resulted.


You may be thinking that animals cannot cross-reproduce, but the world is a strange and wonderous place, open to many possiblities and exceptions to the rule (just look at the platypus).

This theory would explain the bear-like stance of the Sasquatch, the non-opposable thumbs, the human-like walk, the size, and the bear-like "fur". Flawless.

More to follow.

thought is power?

The other night I watched the documentary movie: What the %&^# do we know?

This movie outlines, through vague references to quantum physics, how, through the power of thought, we can control our destiny, and perhaps even the destiny of those around us. While it is assumed that we can't change the past, and that we look to the past as a way to decide how we live our future - we do not often consider the possibility of controlling the future. And not controlling in a carpe diem sense, but controlling as in actively thinking through and changing the course of time.

The movie used an example of a buddhist monk who prayed different thoughts onto water, resulting in the make-up of the water to change. We were shown what distilled water looked like magnified: a slightly square blob. But the different thoughts produced different snowflake-like patterns in the water molecules.

The questions then results: if thoughts can do that to water, what could they do to you?

Basically, it comes down to the need to change our thought patterns to change our life. Any problems we are having in our life - emotional, physical, etc - all stem from negative thoughts.

One professor in the movie noted that each day before he gets out of bed, he "constructs" his day. He plans what he wants to happen, and plans it in such a way that he places the actual unfolding of these events in the hands of god.

This is where the movie lost me.

Much of the movie prior to this moment discredited the existance of god as mere arrogance on the part of humans. In the infinite universe, why would god care if some inconsequential humans sinned against him?? Really now..

So then why was this man placing his fate in the hands of god? (And probably not literal hands, seeing as why would WE of all things really be made in the image of god?)

All throughout history, humans have accredited what they don't understand to be the will of god. People got sick, it was because they sinned against god. People died, it was because god wanted them to go. The world was created because god wanted a place for humans. So on and so forth. This is why he placed his fate in god. While he constructed his day to unfold how he wanted, when the events actually unfolded as planed, the power of his thoughts most likely scared him. This fear of the unknown drives a need to have a belief in a god.

I once wrote that god is the vibrations of the atoms at the subatomic level. This is one of the last great mysteries of our earth, and as such, this is where I place god. How these vibrations manifest themselves is infinetessmal - placing god in everything and everone.