When Nobody is Watching

When nobody's watching doesn't exist anymore.

Adware spyware google Microsoft NSA CIA FBI and all the other acronym organizations watch us all the time.

Cameras on the street corners to keep us safe, neighborhood watch to snitch and gossip on the greenest of your lawn.

When nobody's watching hen you really alone in those moments of darkness where the darkness lives and our anger lets loose, our perversion tips out, the mind goes numb.

How much do they kno, how much can we get away with, when everybody is always watching?

Who You Are Isn't a Weakness, It's Your Strength

 Sometimes strange things happen. You call out to the universe and the universe responds. 

Is this apart of Non Local intuition? 

Non Local intuition is tapping into universal intelligence. A source of information art of the ether.

A type of mystic epiphany that appears when you need a solution to a problem. 

In my last post about Self-Loathing, I focused on my weaknesses and wallowed in self-pity that I wasn't born as beautiful as I see many others to be. And then a podcast episode appeared from The Gary Vee Audio Experience on Monday, April 5th titled: 4 Words for When You Feel Like You're Not Good Enough.

In the episode, Gary talks to a man who is a real estate agent in Florida. He describes himself as being fully covered in tattoos and has turrets, a medical condition that plagues people with involuntary movement or a tick. Ticks can be head shaking, rocking back and forth or blurting out words or sounds at an uncontrollable volume.

The man explains how these parts about him make it difficult to be taken seriously in his profession. And what Gary tells him to fuck all that. Those aren't your weaknesses, they are your strengths.

And he's right.

I focus a lot on how I'm not like other people, but I don't want to be like other people. I want to be me. I want to be my authentic self. And that includes my devil smile and body of moles.

Gary goes on, there are people out there just like you. And they need you. They need you to show them that having a condition like yours isn't a weakness, it's a strength. That the bullies, the haters and the ones who are put off by it are wrong. Because if there's something you don't like about yourself and think you can't achieve your goals because of them, remember: Everybody else sucks too.

Even the most perfect of people have their troubles. Things they don't want, things they want to improve. And that is a good thing, to want to improve. 

Exercise, healthy diet lifelong learning and creative outlets help us improve and feel better about ourselves. It doesn't get rid of the things we can not change, yet to feel good in who we are is to seek constant growth into who we want to be. No matter how old or where you are in life. Having a growth mindset is more valuable than anything else other than the your loved ones of course.

So I don't know how it happens. How the universe knows. I don't believe in Non Local intuition. I believe all intuition is based on your own knowledge, records and observations of the world. And Non Local Intuition is the sharing of ideas in the world that we pick up on through reading, listening, watching, doing and experiencing without knowing we are picking up on them until one day we need them.

This isn't magic or a muse who speaks into your ear. This is you searching and asking questions while your brain processes the information and presents you the answer. This is why one answer is often different from another, yet sometimes are the same or similar enough to give you chills.

Which means some of us are absorbing the same information, asking the same questions and coming up with the same answers. And shows us how we are all living in the same world. A shared reality.

A reality that that I don't deny has mystical qualities and strange occurrences. I've seen and experienced first-hand strangeness for myself enough not to put my foot down in condemnation of what Non Local intuition is or isn't.

I'm just skeptical in believing that it is one thing and not anything else. And skepticism is a strength, otherwise I could believe, like I think some people do, that Non Local intuition comes from God. And thus, people believe God is speaking to them. Then convince others God is speaking to them and create a cult based on this belief that is really your brain telling you the answers to the questions you are asking that you have all ready decided, but needed Non Local intuition to beam into your brain as a supernatural event before you can act on it. 

And this is when it becomes dangerous. Because that important epiphany that you were waiting for is probably something evil. Something you couldn't act on alone until you had justification, the message from God, to act on it. And these messages always end up doing harm to specific groups of people through their race, gender and age. And always require you to give your money to them as they do God's work.

Is this strength? Not to me. Blind following isn't strength. Blind belief isn't strength. Manipulation is weakness, given or received. 

This isn't a condemnation on religion or belief. If through reason and evidence you come to the conclusion of belief in higher power, you've made a thoughtful decision.

This is a condemnation on manipulation. If a person convinces you through nefarious schemes, lies and dirty tricks, then you've been manipulated. People often say, "it's how I was raised." I'm sorry to say, your parents have manipulated you. And school has manipulated all of us.

The argument that we don't see true reality because we don't need all of it to survive is becoming my reality. I can smell many smells, but my dog can smell a thousand more. There's a reality hidden from us that nature has decided we don't need to see. And if we let it, society can do the same. History and science can be hidden from us because the authority in charge can decide we don't need to see it.

The difference between Authoritarianism and Fascism is Fascists will use violence and force to make you submit to their beliefs. Authoritarianism will manipulate you into believing using their ordained truth and hiding everything else by silencing and restricting news, journalism, media, communication, internet access, technology or anything that can make you believe anything other than what they want you to know.

So Authoritarianism is hard to do. It's hard to cut off from the entire world and only present one worldview for everyone to believe. But Fascism is quite easy, if you have the stomach for it. And most people do, which makes most people fascists whether they know it or not.

To steal Jeff Foxworthy's You Might Be a Redneck routine; if you go on the internet and make fun of someone because you didn't like their outfit, you're a fascist. If you believe your opinion is better than everyone else's and should be followed no matter what, you're a fascist. If you start a sentence with, 'I just think ...', you're a fascist. If you're unable to accept a person for who they are and insists that they conform to their way of life and standards, you're a fascist.

This doesn't mean you have to like everyone or love every person you meet. But, you have to respect them and acknowledge their right to exist. Because if you don't, those people are going to get together and deny your right to exist.

And as the Beastie Boys sing, "You got to fight, for your right, to party!" Find strength in your authentic self. Moles and all.

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