I’m probably a bit late for this post but I reckon you still mite be checking for feedback due to your lack of self esteem issues

Absolutely, positively, without a doubt, damn straight that listening and watching the news is a bad thing to do!!!!!!!!! It’s bad for your soul, your heart and your mind. There is not a shred of good that comes from filling your head with that rubbish. Why? What are you going to do about that young boy who was kicked too hard in the head while at a party and has suffered so much brain damaged that his grief stricken partents decided to turn the machine off on their baby as he was destined to be a vegetable for the rest of his life? The young punk was out the following weekend pissed and partying like nothing has happened. Even writing those words I could cry. I have to protect my heart and soul from ugliness like that.

The world is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people and places. There is goodness being preformed every day and miracles happening everywhere. Why can’t we hear about that and empower our people rather than make them paranoid and scared and victimised by the other stories the Media insist on feeding us??

For example – there a hundreds of thousands of people who go out on an average weekend in Melbourne. Agreed? Tens of thousands anyway. Parties, dancing, eating, laughing, singing, fornicating, whatever.. they are people being people. Naturally drawn to each other and having fun. A couple of people do the wrong thing and for the next week we hear about ‘violence in the streets’, ‘not safe in the city area’, ‘innocent victims….’, The Media go into a tailspin with the couple of stories and blow the whole weekend out of proportion and fill everyone with dread and fear for the rest of the week. What about all the other thousands and thousands and thousands that all had a great time? The next week there will be a couple of more scumbags on the streets because it all sorta sounds ‘cool’ and the repetition of hearing stuff like this over and over and over again makes it all sound ‘nrmal’ so these dead heads go out and try to get their claim to fame by bashing someone. And the story goes on.

If you give something attention you draw more and more of the same attention to it. It’s nature. It’s law.

Did you every watch Bowling for Columbine? The TV stations in Canada showed ‘happy’ tv deliberatly to allow people to feel good. It was proven that this type of veiwing kept crime down and people naturally were happier and more confident in themselves. They even slept with doors unlocked. While accross the river in New York they are literally killing each other every couple of hours.

The Media is very powerful but it is in the wrong hands. Someone with a holistic view should head this significant part of our community rather than money hungry self serving morons.

If I don’t read the paper for a few days I find myself calmer and happier. And it’s a direct link.

‘nuf said

I escape looking for validation and signs that ‘out there’ is in a worse or equivalent state than me ‘in here’.

Too bad if I change the ‘me’ to match what the image the ‘out there’ deems at present to be sexy and attractive.

Too bad if I don’t feel at one with the pure image of ME ‘in here’!

Too bad a gardenia or rose cannot smell it’s own scent.

btw.. atm.. I do escape the me by sailing the World single handed….by just going to the news of 16 yr old Jessica Watson on her blog.

News of Jessica on her boat….keeps me grounded!

http://www.youngestround.blogspot.com/

First, if we put our energies towards this sort of thing it might happen. Second, 2012 is a film. One cannot doubt the physical, human and animal earth has gotten more violent and that storms etc are worse. But it is simplistic to just lay it all on Nostradamous or the Book of Revealiations. That is not to say these things and views may not be true, but even if the world ‘ended’ whatever that means, energies and life will simply go on in some other form.

And to be morbid if there was some sort of cataclysm then I would like to go quickly as I have done all I want on this earth, anything more is a bonus I am happy. But to sit around going my children won’t live after 2012, etc A) if it where true can’t do anything about it and B) who says 100% for sure this will happen. I bet in 2020 Craig will still be on this blog or whatever it will be now forcing us oldies into bicep curls

For my money, I spent years terrified in the 80’s of nuclear war and guess what – it is 2009 and I’m physically still here, so fear robs us of enjoyment. I feel guilty when I read of those people who are affected by war etc, but time out sometimes and being an emotional wreck isn’t going to help them.

I like to stay informed and know what could happen, like amagedon in 2012. Nostra damas has predicted that the world will never be the same after 21st of December 2012. I watched a story on it on the History Channel last night, and it terrifies me to think, that the world could end and my children could die in a few years time. He predicted the war in Iraq, the sunami, hurricane katrina, global warming and the weather and climate change and also predicted the GFC just to name a few. Lets just say, that I have become more spiritual in the las few months.
I think its important to be informed on news and current events, what if you saw a missng peson or live next door to a murder whose mug shot is shown on tv. If your unaware you might not be able to help somebody in need or you could put yor own life at risk I don’t think ignorance is bliss, ignorance is ignorance.

Thank you for your great comments. It’s always fascinating to read about such a wide range of experiences and opinions – that’s one of the best things about him-dot-com, isn’t it?

And a big, smoochy (with excellent salivary control) welcome kiss to our former-lurkers Dodi and Renae. Looking forward to hearing more from you guys.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. Whatever you have planned, make sure that you enjoy it.

CJ xox

Ps. Tania: Who is Jenna Jamieson? Actually, don’t answer that. It’s probably best that I don’t know. I have enough insecurities

See you then… xx

My kids fall about laughing when I admit that but it’s true – we were much more naive then (notice I use the word ‘naive’ rather than ‘innocent’ )