Cephalalgia.. my foot!

Did you know that cephalalgia means headache!?

What else are they hiding from us?  How much more don't we know?  Look at this poor man!  He's in pain... pain with cephalalgia!  As I type this there is a dotted red line under the word cephalalgia!  Just like there is a dotted red line under the word unedyukayted.  That means my computer doesn't even know this word!  Yet there is a medical journal deadikayted to this crazy word "cephalalgia" .  Check it out! 

http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0333-1024

Chuck D.

I am a firm believer in the diversity of species being derived from a process of natural selection.  Anyone who just takes the time to read the original text by Darwin would have try hard to convince themselves that this process is not afoot.  However, with that said, I must come clean and admit that I do not think humans are part of this process.

The key to the evolution of species through natural selection is that the organisms in question make small, progressive steps to succeed within their environment.  They adapt to the environment, they have no power over the environment, unlike humans.  The plants, insects and animals we see around us today are, by no means the end product of that struggle, rather the versions of those organisms that have survived to this point.  

Evolution and extinction continue today as they have since the beginning of life on Earth.  Animals go extinct every day and no one notices, but in our lifetimes popular animals like the polar bear will no longer exist.  Imagine that for a moment.  Your grandchildren will live in a world where the polar bear is off with the dinosaurs.  This fact is entirely due to Human Beings.

It hasn't taken a long time either.  We didn't start destroying the environment 10,000 years ago, we started 170 years ago with the Second Industrial Revolution.  The planet is 4,000,000,000 years old, we fucked it up beyond repair in 170. That sucks. That really sucks.  How could an organism which has, hands down, won the struggle for existence destroy the Earth that quickly?  The reward for survival goes to the creature who can adapt to the changing environment.  Humans have never adapted to anything!  We  don't adapt, we CHANGE our environment.  Where did we learn to do that?  Not on Earth I reckon.  Somewhere out there, our true home among the stars.

Art, architecture, economy and electronics... these  things are unnatural.  They don't exist here, we made them up!  Maybe one day when the mother ship returns to take us home, the mountains on our planet will be shaped like sky scrapers.  Candy bars will grow on trees.  Rivers will run with Coca-Cola (a poisonous substance on Earth), and the clouds will be made of dioxin.  Ahhhhh, home at last, where the apples don't have seeds, they have microchips.  Animals grow polyester fur!  And "Son... there's plastic in them thar hills."

The Intruder

William S. Burroughs claimed to be possessed by what he called the Ugly Spirt.  I call it The Intruder.  The Intruder is a subtle but powerful thing that sits at the top of the brain stem and extends down the spinal column.  It is immobile, however has agents all over the body.  The most important are the ones in the hands, the guts, and the genitals.

How many people are infected is hard to tell.  The Intruders communicate with each other telepathically bringing together people of similar perversions.  They read our minds and exploit that information to control those around us.  They not only change our perception of our environment, they can manipulate the actual physical world in a very subtle way.  When you have an accidental encounter with someone you are attracted to,  beware.  There are many levels of communication at work.  One of these frequencies could be an Intruder com link.

I'm not sure when the presence of the Intruder became clear to me but I remember some instances when I was a child of fighting off an invasion of some kind.  I could feel an involuntary twisting in my legs and arms as I lay in bed, maybe six or seven years old. I thought it was the devil and tried to exorcise him by imagining a large plate of glass being lowered onto my body and passing through me like a filter.  When the glass passed completely through my body there was a large black stain left where my body had been.  I imagined wiping the vile black grease off with a rag and flushing it down the toilet.  It was from this time on that I felt I was never really alone.  Maybe that's why being alone, even for long stretches of time, doesn't bother me.

  

Its not impossible to fight the intruder, he does not have control, just a profound influence.  The real danger is in it's ability to find others and bring you in contact with them.  It's the others, the other infected people who can have real power over you.  They can make you do things that you don't want to do.  Or even worse tell you the things you are thinking are ok, and encourage you explore them.  Trust no one.

Dinosaurs Made My Tea

Yesterday I made a cup of tea.  It was hot.  Heat is energy.  The energy came from the burning gas on my stove.  The gas came from natural fossil fuels that contained the latent energy.  The fossil fuel got the energy from the bodies of animals that died and began decomposing around 300 million years ago.  The energy got into the animals from the plants they ate.  The energy got into the plants by the photosynthesis of sunlight.  The sunlight got into the plants after making the 8 minute journey from the Sun to the Earth about 300 million years ago.  The energy got into the sunlight from the thermonuclear reaction of hydrogen atoms inside the sun.  The hydrogen atoms got inside the sun by mutual gravitational attraction sometime shortly after the big bang about 20 billion years ago. I had to wait about 3 minutes for the tea to cool down.

Hammerhead

"Doctor, I'm having a terrible problem."

"What is it my son?"

"Every morning when I get up I drink a cup of coffee, then smash myself in the face with a hammer about ten times."

"I see...do you do this every morning?"

"Yes, and sometimes in the late afternoon."

"Ok, and what seems to be the problem?"

"Well I'm experiencing headaches, swelling, bleeding and the occasional shattering of teeth.  What can I do?"

"Well, I think those mysterious symptoms might be related to the hammering of your face, but there is no way to make sure."

"Oh God! Help me doctor!"

"I think we need to use a multi-pronged approach in dealing with all of your symptoms so your body can heal itself."

"Will it be expensive?"

"Yes, very."

"Ummm..."

"First, we must deal with the pain!  Im going to prescribe morphine.  It's highly addictive and can cause extensive liver damage, but it will be effective on pain of this severity.  Secondly, all of your teeth must be removed, this will prevent shattering, and cutting of the lips and gums by razor sharp tooth fragments."

"How will I eat?"

"You will have to be put on a liquid diet for the rest of your life."

"Won't I lose weight?"

"Yes and no.  You will lose weight on the diet, but we will give you medication that will slow down your metabolism. It may leave you weakened and lethargic, and could lead to depression.  But don't worry, we can take care of that with a colorful cocktail of anti-depressants."

"What else, doctor?"

"I suggest surgery on both of your shoulders as well as your forearms.  We need to go in there and get those large muscles out!  It's those muscles that are allowing you to hit your face with such force."

"Will I be able to use my arms!?"

"A little, you will still be able to lift and use a credit card, but nothing more."

"Are there any other options doctor?"

"You could stop hitting yourself in the face with a hammer, or at least cut down, but that would require you to change your behavior.  This approach has a staggeringly high rate of failure and has not been proven effective.  Also it would be totally unethical of me to suggest a course of treatment that's so inexpensive."

"Thank you doctor, I trust you."

"Ok, lets get you that morphine."