Pictorial Essay: Your Life

You were born free … a bundle of tremendous potential.

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You were loved, and loved unconditionally.

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The concept of lack was foreign to you.

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As you grew you started to question the world around you.

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You hunted fireflies on warm summer nights and you put them in jars to light your room at night.

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And the door to your imagination was never locked.

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Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”  But government schools were more interested in you becoming an obedient drone … and they wound up killing your joy of learning.

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You were ridiculed when you challenged the status quo.

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You were judged … and so learned to judge others.

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And so you allowed group mentality to sway your actions and decisions.

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The Powers That Be worked very hard to make you believe you have no power, no control. So, you did as you were told, and feared the consequences of what would happen if you did not. You became ruled by fear. 

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But, your beliefs were formed by television programming.

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And what your culture says you should believe about God …. pick one.

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And by what your government wants you to believe about itself, and what you should sacrifice for blind Patriotism.

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You sought news of the world … but were fed propaganda.

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You were presented with continuous distractions to keep you from questioning the reality around you.

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You were kept deliberately ignorant.

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You were given hope … that you could effect change by voting. But hope was crushed when you realized both parties played the same hand.

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So, you joined the rat race as no other options seemed evident.

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You were trained to be a consumer.

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You bought into The American Dream.

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They fed you poison.

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You acquired debt.

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You ….. conformed. Is it any wonder you feel confused and hopeless?

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But … you’ve felt it all your life …. that it’s all just an illusion.

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You let the past dictate your present, and you worry about your future. But you only have the present … living in the moment is all you can do.  Once you realize no one has power over your thoughts … you will never again act against your will.

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Just remember who you are … the same soul that was born all those years ago (though your years may be closer in age to the hands holding the baby).

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But, years of conditioning almost completely eroded your sense of who you are, and the power within you. Don’t you want to change? Will you roll the red die, or the green one?

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It’s your choice, completely. The labels you were given as you lived your life no longer fit. Simply choose to start believing again in your infinite potential.

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You are what you believe. What you believe, you are.  Mahatma Ghandi said, “Your beliefs become your destiny”.

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The Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, said;  “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”  So …. 

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The universe is in your hands. You were born free, you will die free … but will you LIVE free?

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Author: Stucky

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it.

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Billah's Wife
Billah's Wife

Billy told me to tell you he’s sorry for being such a rank anus on this thread. He’s mighty stressed these days cuz first Jr comes out homersexual, makes us start calling him Billette, then comes home with some kind of mongrel boyfriend with questionable genetics and Billy just don’t know what to say. So he acts out and embarrasses us all. On behalf of Billy, Billette and myself, along with Gayle, I bid you all a fond farewell.

Steve DeMotts
Steve DeMotts

You are a master at enabling. Throughout the pictorial I was reminded, fearfully remanded, of my minds’ imaginations while reading 1984. Through fear I am unable to read Orson Welles’ 1984 without frequent intermissions. This is not the first time I have read 1984, but it is the first time I have read it as a much older adult, an adult terrorized by how the closely the conditions in 1984 parallel the conditions in our beautiful country. As a younger man the story was just that…a story without realism in which the storied conditions were invisible and could not occur within my lifetime.

Billy
Billy

Stucky,

DOH! You sooo got me! 🙂

Dude, it ain’t MY fault the Air Farce hosts fag picnics… take it up with them if you’re embarrassed about it…

Gotta lubs dat inter-service rivalry… heh..

Blow me, Stuck..

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Billah's Wife
Billah's Wife

Don’t worry hon, Stucky gets real mad and says things he don’t mean. He tells llpoh he hates him forever once a week, but they always make up. He’s more temperamental than Billette.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

Rambo was based on My exploits in ‘Nam. Nobody woulda believed Rambo was from Kentucky with a full set of teeth but Stallone wouldn’t wear hillbilly teeth so they changed his race to Injun.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

I once parachuted naked from the second story balcony onto my wife’s bed. It was a hole in one, if you know whut I mean.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

I once stared down about twenty Iranian Joos in East Pakistan next door to Syria, it was the scariest thing I’ve ever done trying to buy some black market sausage but I was jonesing.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

A Air Force dude showed me how to bresh my tooth without shakin ma haid. He also told me it warn’t neseseeded to warsh ma hands after takin a piss, he sed jes don’t pee on yer hands, he told me. Golly, them Air Force is smart.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to my life of awesome online porn.

Billah's Wife
Billah's Wife

Remember the story Billy told about seeing his dad catch the wake of a steamship in a canoe, and getting filmed unbeknownst to him, but Billy happened to catch it years later while channel surfing? He has got to be the biggest blowhard idiot in the whole south. His stories are so patently false and self agrandizing that you know, without a doubt, in real life you would avoid ever having to converse with him at all costs.

But Stucky will still make up with him.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

I oncet dated a Skandinavian chick what lived in Hog Waller up the way, she wuz beyootiful owing to she had most of her teeth but we had to part ways when ma uncle sed thet was his daughter.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

I was in Iraq when some Ebola terrists attacked our troop and they threw a hand grenade at us but I picked it up and threw it right back at them.

overthecliff

This thread degenerated from touchy feely to a bbunch of shit thrown by monkeys. I had to wait to comment because I was laughing so hard . Damn the regulars on this site are fun. Admin this creation of yours is the best on the nnet.

BTW because of the creativity on this siten any high profile celebrities should be honored to be interviewed by JQ.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

DId I ever tell you about the time I was fighting in Da Nang back in ’70?

I’m telling you, I was killing gooks with my bare fucking hands, left and right, 30 of ’em.

I was some kind of bad-ass, I can tell you that!

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in Ka-San in ’50?

I’m telling you, I was killing slants & chinks, anybody that drew near, they was dead fuckin’ meat, I can tell you that!

Kill ’em all. Let God sort ’em out. That’s what I always say.

Stupid Shit That Billy
Stupid Shit That Billy

Did I ever tell you about the time I landed on Normandy beach?

Look, the German people are the finest people in the world. I mean, they’re the best at everything! And the German wimmens. Well, you can just rest assured that the spoils of war go to the victors. And that’s all I’ll say about that. Unless, of course, you aks me, and then I’m glad to tell you about how I was bangin’ hard and strokin’ long.

But, in this case, I had to follow the orders that was given to me. And I was given orders to kill them fuckin’ Krauts. So I did. I killed more Krauts in one day than the rest of my platoon killed in a week.

I was a beach-stormin’ mo-fo. I can tell you that.

Billy
Billy

Stucky says:

“Billy

You are an asshole, plain and simple. There will be NO make-up stuff after the shit you pulled on this thread. NONE.”

Yeah, I’m an asshole – I freely admit that. But dude, come on… just having some fun and you start acting like a Special Snowflake. I thought you had balls, bro… the whole reason I poked some fun is because this post was so unlike you. It is so unlike you, out of all the posts you have made, it is likely unique. I didn’t even think you were the author, at first. Never figured you for the hippy-dippy shit, so I wanted to have some fun… geez…

“You are an angry old fuck who hates and belittles virtually everyone. I have no use for you. Can’t you just go away?”

I don’t hate EVERYONE. But everyone usually gets belittled sooner or later, at some point.. I don’t follow people around for the sole purpose of mocking them. I’m not that obsessive. But, I will take advantage of a target of opportunity when it shows up…

“The only question remaining is whether or not there will be a shit-fest on every thread we both comment on.”

No. I don’t have any ill feelings towards you at all. You went off the reservation and posted some hippy shit, and I had my fun. The End. Far as I’m concerned, this will be my last post in this thread and I’m going to leave all this shit here… what you choose to do is up to you.

“I just as soon you fuck-off and leave me be. We’ll see how that goes.”

Whatever you want. If you want me to consider you Persona Non Grata, I can do that…

“Hey, I found a picture of you in your service days …. gives a whole new meaning to ‘service’, that’s for sure.”

Heh… good one. 🙂 THAT’S the spirit! I knew the old Stucky was in there behind that Special Snowflake…

For what it’s worth, your OP was all right…. not my cup of tea, but it was okay…

“Stupid Shit That Billy, aka Chen, aka el What-the-fuck-ever …… you’ve turned into a dick. Shame on you.”

It took you till now to figure that out? I had Balls On My Chen figured in the first 5 seconds, even without him bombarding the thread with garbage, as if quantity outweighs quality… one good snarky post from you is worth 1000 of his bloody queefs added together…

Laters, Stuck…

llpoh
llpoh

Billah’s wife called it.

Chen
Chen

Don’t that beat all, this was a two ring circus along with POW thread, Billy went full moron on that thread but here, he plays the victim. The moral of all this is never interfere with a lover’s quarrel, while they are kissing and gargling each other’s spit, old Chen get called a fucker and a dick. Then petulant Billy adds, yea Stuck,Honey, I knew et wuz him all along…No it wasn’t, it was you, you mountain moron, and your pretend sock puppet theater is a real protester, Dang, your thick headed.

Chen
Chen

Stupid Shit that Billy, Billy is an Idiot, Billah’s Wife and other insurgents fighting to liberate TBP of the Purveyor of Ignorance, Huzzah. Carry on.

Llpoh
Llpoh

I have not posted on this thread til now. I was watching a bit, then saw it disintegrate into total bullshit.

Some folks were enjoying this thread and then some assholes ruined it.

TE
TE

Stuck, great comments on the mind, ah, your internet girlfriend. I know that shouldn’t make me so happy, but it does!

I once knew a young lady who had both a mother and a father get cancer within a couple of years of each other. Every time I saw her for the next two years she would mention “I’m guaranteed to get cancer now.” Every time.

Three years after her mother was diagnosed, so was she, Twenty eight years old with breast cancer and no other contributing conditions.

She survived it, but I often wonder what she is battling now (my ex got her in the divorce).

Ah bb, the power of the mind isn’t a “pagan belief,” but Christmas sure as hell is/was. Food for thought

tvdog
tvdog

Stucky’s post was on Zero Hedge. An odd post for them, that’s how I ended up here.

An amazing post, Stucky. Chen, “The Garden Party” was quite a story. hardscrabble farmer, also quite a story.

SSS

Thread went to hell in a hand basket. Maybe another dog and baby pic will wrap it up.

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Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion (feat. Larken Rose)

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable…” – H.L Mencken

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.” – George Washington

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” – Henry David Thoreau

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”- Thomas Sowell

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Jack
Jack

Not usually one for the photoessays but this was a good one. It was interesting too, the colors you used in the text. Blue for the blind acceptance and just giving up part and green for the daring to be open to the potential part. Then green dice for yes to change and red dice for no. Did you choose those colors purposefully or just by chance?

It’s kinda hard to explain but these colors represent ideas. Red is more of the masculine color and is more associated with domination whereas blue is the more feminine and is associated with submission. Then you have green which is the balance point.

The balance point is where we no longer feel the need to dominate others nor do we feel the need to submit to others’ domination; where we see the inherent power within us and the potential in those around us; where we realize that we don’t have to live in a world built on coercive force (ie violence) but could, if enough people realized this too, build a world on mutual respect and voluntary association.

This is why, as you say in the essay, that so much time, energy and resources are devoted to breaking us into “blues” and “reds”. Notice the colors of the Democrats (blue) and Republicans (red) and that they generally take two roles, the Democrats are the “nanny state” which embodies the feminine and the Republicans are the “war state” or the authoritarian “father” figure which embodies the masculine.

At any rate, what you’re talking about is very real and questions about what our minds are, what we are, why we are here and just what exactly “here” is are precisely the kinds of questions we should be asking. The answers are out there…actually the answers are inside us. As the sign at the oracle at Delphi said, “know thy self and you will know the Universe and the gods.”

If you’re at all interested in pursuing this line of thought and questioning I highly recommend Mark Passio’s Natural Law Seminar http://youtu.be/C1pkJaNbzLU

It’s long and he’s not the most engaging speaker (I find him so but I’m a weirdo), but the information is fantastic and it’ll make you think. There’s far more being hidden from us than anyone realizes.

Jack
Jack

Very cool. I was thinking it was a bit of synchronicity but it’s better that you did it purposefully. It’s nice to know that there are more and more people out there thinking about these things.

I actually saw your Castles one, it was posted on LRC as well.

Maggie
Maggie

Very nice post to return from my trip to the Ozarks and see. Thanks

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