You were born free … a bundle of tremendous potential.
You were loved, and loved unconditionally.
The concept of lack was foreign to you.
As you grew you started to question the world around you.
You hunted fireflies on warm summer nights and you put them in jars to light your room at night.
And the door to your imagination was never locked.
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.
You were ridiculed when you challenged the status quo.
You were judged … and so learned to judge others.
And so you allowed group mentality to sway your actions and decisions.
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.
But, your beliefs were formed by television programming.
And what your culture says you should believe about God …. pick one.
And by what your government wants you to believe about itself, and what you should sacrifice for blind Patriotism.
You sought news of the world … but were fed propaganda.
You were presented with continuous distractions to keep you from questioning the reality around you.
You were kept deliberately ignorant.
You were given hope … that you could effect change by voting. But hope was crushed when you realized both parties played the same hand.
So, you joined the rat race as no other options seemed evident.
You were trained to be a consumer.
You bought into The American Dream.
They fed you poison.
You acquired debt.
You ….. conformed. Is it any wonder you feel confused and hopeless?
But … you’ve felt it all your life …. that it’s all just an illusion.
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.
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).
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?
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.
You are what you believe. What you believe, you are. Mahatma Ghandi said, “Your beliefs become your destiny”.
The Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, said; “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” So ….
The universe is in your hands. You were born free, you will die free … but will you LIVE free? 
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Stucky Photo Essay: Your Life now UP on the Diner Blog!
http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2014/09/26/pictorial-essay-your-life/
I added a Header Photo to it Stuck. I think you will approve.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Hello. I am a fairly new visitor to your website.
I appreciated the happy messages and nice pictures. I do feel I need to correct one point raised, however.
The journey of a thousand miles properly should begin with a trip to the bathroom.
MichaelD —– that’s pretty funny, actually
SAH —– you still read here. wow. thanks. we all miss AWD.
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I appreciate that you put up some of my posts on your website, really …. especially since they don’t get a lot of comments there.
Ms Freud asked me to put this essay in a Word doc, and print it on high quality paper on our color HP printer. She wants to put it on the end table where the clients sit … and sometimes have to wait for her. So, I said “sure”, and will do so today …. but I was trying to come up with a suitable cover page, and that 2001 pic is absolutely perfect. Thanks!
I’m going to need a much better title than “Pictorial Essay …”, though. Got any suggestions … anyone?
Deep Thoughts by a Gay Deutchman?
Lloph , you crazy injun .You still in Europe ?Spending your hard earn money ?
This is llpoh’s dopple. Llpoh had to work a double at Waffle House.
Injun Waffle
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Reading this thread, it’s like Sock-Puppet Theater.
Can’t get anyone to jump on the “Let’s All Hate On Billy” Express, so you have to invent half a dozen fakes and have a conversation with yourself?
The same desperation those dirty stinkin’ halfbreed Mexicans show by raping children is evident in the sock puppetry… sad, really.
As far as trolling Stuck? You fucking people need a sense of humor… y’all must have had them surgically removed at birth… along with your balls.
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Billy – jr is stuck to the dog again and they are both howling like nobody’s business. Bring home a large can of Crisco ASAP.
PS you was born free hon, never forget that.
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Thank you for the above comment about your farm and family, hardscrabble farmer. I would encourage you to take the time to write a bestseller, but I believe your farm work to be much more important. A labor of love without question.
I miss AWD also, SAH. Not a week goes by that I don’t.
Thanks for the above post, Stucky. Great stuff.
Mr. Chen: You and Billy need to get together sometime in KY and have a few beers. In no time, you’ll be telling each other spic and cracker jokes and hooting it up. Great music comments (above) by the way.
Chen
Thanks for the great tunes – one so upbeat and one so melancholy and I love them both.
I saw the ageless Willie sing September Song at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. At age 80 he couldn’t hit the high notes quite as easily, but other than that is still totally on his game. He’s still willing to sing On the Road Again with gusto, which he could probably do in a coma.
Nice post and message. This Billy character above, is he always such a major asshole?
I was great with the piece up until the whole “limitless life” thing. Only people who do not come into contact with other people could believe that people in general are not extraordinarily….limited.
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“This Billy character above, is he always such a major asshole? ” — FwankL
Only to sanctimonious dickheads and humorless prigs, like you…
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Zero Hedge – congrats and well deserved!
It amuses me how many people stick to dismissing positive thoughts as “new age” stuff, worthy of not an iota of thought or energy.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~Napoleon Hill
And it works both ways.
I hate hearing, “I can’t do it,” which right next to “I won’t try” are two of the biggest self-limiters ever to pass my lips.
When you say, “I can’t do it,” your mind BELIEVES that. So you can’t.
This is what I know, it is scientifically proven, and being reinforced with every fairly run research group, I know that continuously feasting on negativity, breeds more negativity.
Positivity breeds positivity.
NOT “new agey” but HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
Years ago I worked for a door-to-door insurance agency. One of the world’s largest that nearly no one “knows” from the name (now gone).
It was started by W. Clement Stone during the depression. He soon found Napoleon Hill and they began a friendship that enriched Stone’s life in many ways. Then his company enriched mine.
Some of our sayings stuck with me and I still use/altered and use. One of them was the way we began every meeting, by saying, “I feel health, I feel happy, I feel terrific.” It is hard to remain depressed after standing on your feet and chanting that with your fellow asylum inmates.
Over the years I’ve changed it a little, and I use it more for health than anything. When I get sick, or my daughter gets sick, we say, over and over and over and over, “I am healthy, my body is illness and disease free.”
Some may laugh at this, but I KNOW that I once had a lump in my breast that was scaring the hell out of me. I used my little saying all day, everyday, for over 2 weeks. Traffic, shower, anytime I was alone.
By the time I got into my doctor there was no more lump, it was just gone.
Believe what you want O’ Doubters, I know that there is much more to this world – and our own bodies – than Big Pharm, Big Religion and Big Government want us to realize.
My bad – I meant SGT – but still well deserved!
1. I have no quarrel with the writer known as Billy. I hear he’s quite a good neighbor. His persona here is detestable yet entertaining.
2. This is a great Pictorial, Stuck, it tops your castles pictorial.
3. I miss AWD’s acerbic sense of humor. He could pull out his light sword in and instant if you messed with him but he replied with a wonderful bedside manner if you asked a serious question.
4. Gayle, Autumn has this sobering effect on some of us. The boffins suggest that the decreasing light may be to blame, the shorter days, it takes getting used to and then there is another gradation in late December. This may have inspired the myth of Persephone. There is a short story on this theme, called “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield. In it, the young girl enters the house of an accident victim, it is almost dreamlike, good story if you can find it.
T E ,because new age paganism is really old age paganism in a different wrapper.That’s why my darling .
Stucky , this post has gotten 80+comments so far or have you noticed.
My Darling? Are you a southern gen’lman, bb?
Some of these New Age thoughts are part of the Charismatic church teachings disparagingly called, Name it and Claim it. I could say it is their biggest draw but I don’t really know why other people go to church, I know why I went, I’d be dead now if not for that wise choice.
Big time Stuck…big time..
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-26/your-new-normal-life-pictures
“It amuses me how many people stick to dismissing positive thoughts as “new age” stuff, worthy of not an iota of thought or energy.” ————– TE
That’s why you’re my internet girlfriend …. you have a beautiful mind.
Mention the “mind” and the power it has and some people roll their eyes. Those are the skeptics. That’s OK … I am a skeptic myself in other areas. But, what rubs my ass the wrong way are The Real Dickweed Idiots …. those who feel it’s their duty to mock even the idea.
The real questions is …. and I know you know this …. is the mind merely an appendage of the body? The heart supplies it blood, the white cells provide defense, the liver cleanses, the brain houses it, etc., and so, the mind is “just there”, an innocent by-product of all the body’s other functions.
Or, does the mind control the body? (Probably both, eh?)
— I know if I walk on hot coals that my feet will burn to crisp and I will be in tremendous pain. It MUST be that way for reasons concerning SCIENCE. Yet, I know folks who can do this with nary a singe on the bottom of their feet? Are their feet different than mine? Are they not flesh and skin, like mine?
— I know my heart rate is about 70 beats a minute. It MUST be that way, and I (we) can NOT control it. Yet, I know practitioners of meditation, especially Buddhist monks, who can lower their hear rate to a few beats per minute. Their hearts must be different than mine.
— I knew this lady (she died last year), my mom’s friend for 50 years, who was chronically SICK her entire life. I believe she had every disease under the sun at one point. But, doctors never ever found a single thing wrong with her. She was a true hypochondriac. Her brain … her beliefs … made her sick. But, noooo, it CAN’T work the other way around (where your brain … your beliefs … can make you well. No!!)
— Medical science STILL can’t actually explain the PLACEBO effect, where a sugar-pill has virtually the IDENTICAL effect as the medical drug …IF the patient believes the sugar pill was the real drug. True story follows, from a book called ‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat, and other clinical tales’. A man with cancer is given two months to live and is offered a new “miracle” drug. Only it’s not a “miracle” drug, it’s a sugar pill. He gets well! In fact, the cancer ……. totally disappears. He finds out later that he was given a placebo. He is so distraught that the cancer comes back pronto, and he’s dead within two months.
— Here is a very simple experiment that anyone can do. Close your eyes, and think about a horrible experience in your life. After a while guess what WILL happen? Your blood pressure will rise! Just from thinking … but, no, the mind does not control the body.
— There are literally — and I mean literally — thousands of people who practice visualization as a means to getting their bodies to do things above and beyond what would have been ‘normal’ for them. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he sculpted his body in his mind through hypnotic visualization before producing the results for real. Bodie Miller does it … in fact, many Olympians do it.
But, no, mention positive thinking for a mere mortal such as you and I, and we are greeted with rolling eyes and dumb-ass commentary befitting a retard. They’ll rip apart every example given above, and any other possible example, and feel proud of themselves because … goddammit, it’s all bullshit, and they just set all of us positive thinking believers back on the right path. THEIR path … the path of denial. One should not befriend, or associate, with such people. THEY are a cancer to your soul, and they will bring you down. Discard them as chaff, and be done with it. I know I will.
Stucky
Hearty congratulations for your post at Zerohedge!
That was worth a separate post, big guy.
Billy! Jr replaced yer confederate flag with one of them rainbow banners agin. He’s up on the trailer singing wind beneath my wings at the top of his lungs. Please come home soon, and pick up a six pack of mineral spirits.
PS Congrats stucky!
BRAVO Stucky, BRAVO. Have shared this with my two children and my grand daughter. Well done sir !
Excellent! Just pure excellent.
From a father of two girls and a boy,
with three grand-daughters.
Yes, I’m very fortunate. .
Billy!
I jes imagined my belly button was smaller than a grapefruit, and I’m pretty sure it worked!
No problem-o, Admin.
I will be gone most of tomorrow to attend to my parents. Hopefully, you’re back, or if not, some of the other regulars can chip in.
Zero Hedge. Wow. When will they send me mah mooney?
Stuck
The check is in the mail. ZH has published hundreds of my posts and I’m still waiting for the check. I’m betting your article gets over 40,000 reads on ZH. And at least 3 of the 400 comments will actually refer to the article.
Outstanding Stuck, and congrat’s on the dissemination, justly deserved.
Admin
LOL
“I have no quarrel with the writer known as Billy. I hear he’s quite a good neighbor. His persona here is detestable yet entertaining.”
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Ah hell… good snark spoiled by poor execution… it will embarrass you every time…
What ev’s… this shit is getting old anyways…
Well, now, Billy is the last to get tired of his own shit.
BTW, Queer of de Nile, I’m not the one behind Billah’s wife and other gag commenters,
I also cannot post pics, so that aint me. That be some of your glee club fans here.
Now let’s see your Dar Vader dance to that.
Not to say I don’t appreciate your military service, I give you my one finger, mocha latte salute for that.
Hon
Them bloody warts is back on my hooty hoo. Better make it two cans of Crisco…
Stucky.
Well done. That shit made me cry. Good post. Thank you.
Congratulations, Stuck. That was an easy hundred with no shitfest even.
Chen says:
“Well, now, Billy blah blah fuckin blah, some bullshit, blah…
BTW, Queer of de Nile, I suck dick and get assfucked by niggers behind a dumpster.
I also cannot get an erection, even with Viagra.
Now let’s see your Dar Vader dance to that.
Not to say I don’t appreciate your military service, since I’m too much of a fucking coward to do anything like that… so, I disrespect the shit out of you and all the guys who came before you, and I give you my one finger, mocha latte salute for that.”
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Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to my life of awesome…
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Billy Billy Billy dint I say I was in the Air Force? If you had applied yourself,maybe you could have passed the ASVAB and maybe qualified for the Marines at least.
Why is my Avast antivirus software bitching about the second picture, the one about being “loved unconditionally? It thinks there’s malware hidden in it somehow; is it?
Australian rap video about MSM BS headlines and propoganda. Why did I only find out about this yesterday? These guys are in my city and I had never heard of them.
Chen says:
“Billy Billy Billy dint I say I was a big fuckin pussy and was in the Chair Farce? If I had applied myself, and actually grew a pair, I could have passed the ASVAB and maybe qualified for the Marines. But, since I’m a big fuckin pussy and I look FABULOUS! in a blue suit, I chose some bitch job instead of being a real man. Plus, it was an easy way to fast track my US citizenship… I mean, it’s the AIR FORCE! HAHAHAHAH!! Not like I was gonna have to, you know, actually DO anything… ”
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