While I no longer talk politics, war will always be the exception of that rule only when said politics lead to war. Mainly to point out, how stupid people are for doing it over it. This being a major example of it.

Near Poland's border with Ukraine, an explosion destroyed a farm killing two people. While it's not 100% certain, the Polish Government believes that the cause was a missile made by Russia. Now whether or not this was an intentional hit or some collateral damage in the crossfire, I don't know. That being said, should it be true, should it be intentional, then it means that Russia openly declared war on Poland on top of Ukraine.

Now in a situation like this. Usually, the country being attacked or hit, would no doubt upon given the go-ahead, start fighting and firing back. Giving Ukraine an ally.

However, remember, this is Poland. A country whom has once been the first to be invaded and Conqured by the Nazis in 1939. And has since endured a lot of shit including the Cold War. Needless to say, they, nor any countries that fought for them in the war, would want them to go through that shit again. So it could go either way. If Putin is really that stupid and intentionally ordered his troops to hit the farm, then everyone around the world would be knocking at his door, with Poland and Ukraine's soldiers being the first in line.

But that's just my thoughts on the matter I could be wrong. If I'm right though, then Vlady is gonna get busted. Also, should he get busted, I dare any soldier to play this on a stereo:

Update: I received numerous debates on what caused it. Some are saying that Russia deliberately fired at Poland. Others are saying Ukraine fired to make it look like Russia did it. Some are saying that it was an intercept gone bad. There are plenty of motive for it to be either way regardless of whose side I'm on. However I still think Russia was responsible I still think Putin was responsible and I'll tell you why. This was not too long after Poland started kicking out their diplomats, suspecting them to be Espionage agents. So needless to say Putin's probably still kind of pissed off about that and he has attacked people for petty reasons before. This war being the first thing.

When you get right down to it, Emotions are the other half of what keeps humans going. The first half being Logic. However there have been so many differing views on certain emotions, that it's often hard to gauge what the right ones.

There are some who think the idea of emotions in general is positive:

While others believe emotions are the downfall of society:

There are even some who think some emotions are good while others are bad and constantly argue which ones:

However when you get right down to it, despite how people think or feel about them, everyone reacts to emotions the same way. With emotions. One gets mad, for example others either sympathize, get scared or see the angry one as the problem or the fact that the person is angry as the problem and so on. Point being they blame anger and think that to shut it down, you have to suppress it, lest you humiliate yourself at worse or get in trouble at best.

Then there are people who believe that only positive emotions should be allowed and negative emotions should be snuffed out. That we should smile all the time even if we don't feel like it. An episode of the Simpsons called "Moaning Lisa" put that into play and as a result Lisa got taken advantage of by her fellow students and teachers. The whole thing started because Lisa was suffering from depression or sadness as she put it and Marge tried to help her by giving her the advice of smiling all the time. When she saw what Lisa was going through, she changed her mind and allowed her to go see her Jazz Idol Bleeding Gums Murphy, which elicited a genuine smile from Lisa, because Marge finally understood her.

Now what's my view on emotions? Well to do that, I'm gonna list the basic ones. I know there's more than them, but I'm listing 8 of them.

Happiness

On the surface, happiness should be a no-brainer. As it's a positive emotion we all strive to achieve. However when you get right down to it, the struggle to be happy is not worth the effort unless you're aboslutely sure you will be happy. The fact that my neighbours below the border have a constitutional right to pursue happiness shows, how much of a struggle that could be. As someone who's been happy before, it's a good feeling and an addictive feeling, but the more one tries to force it on me, the less happy I be. Kind of a mindfuck am I right?

Sadness

I've known sadness most of my life. Like most of you, faced many tragedies. However that being said, despite that, I wouldn't trade away this emotion no matter how much it hurts and I'll tell you why. Sadness is by all definition, the feeling when your heart breaks. And while that is a terrible feeling, it does prove one thing positive. That you at least have a heart to break. Better to have a broken heart than no heart at all.

Fear

Many people think fear is the mind killer and they are right. However, that being said, being completely fearless isn't the way to go either. Fear tells you where the edge is, it helps you be more cautious with your life. Without it, you die faster than it takes for it to kill your mind. The trick isn't to eliminate fear, it's to face it on your terms and not be consumed by it.

Disgust

While many people can do without this emotion, as reacting to things in disgust is just as bad as whatever disgusting thing people witness. Reactions could range from verbal call outs ("WHAT THE FUCK!!") physical reactions (Puking) and invoking another emotion (Angry enough to hurt someone.). However without this emotion, a lot of people would be getting away with a lot of depraved acts in human history a lot faster. Much like fear and sadness, we need our disgust to prove that we are human.

Anger

Many, many people think that this is the emotion that destroys us the most. When in fact it's not. It's how we deal with said anger that could make or break us. Laws have been put in place so that we can't use our anger to hurt people. Fair enough. However not everyone can simply not get angry. There are many people of varying disorders, myself included, that have little to no outlet for our anger. The way I handle mine is I tell it like I see it. Something pisses me off, I express it. Someone pisses me off, I let them know. Whether they respond or not is their business, but it feels a lot good after letting that shit out. If I feel I need to hit something....well I'll wait until I get a punching bag. However there are so many ways to channel that anger. Participate in sports, write an angry letter to a television studio/celeb (so long as it's not threatening), buy a heavy bag or in Mr. Rogers' case pound some clay:

Now you're probably wondering why I'm paying more attention to this than the other emotions. I am sick and tired of people telling me not to be mad, that anger isn't ok. Anger gives us strength, determination and the will to get things done when the odds are against us. It's a healthy emotion and I honestly think those trying to suppress it are trying to get people killed. You keep Anger or any emotion for that matter suppressed without any outlet to take it out on and you may as well say bye bye to your health. True Anger Management, isn't about not being angry anymore, but to channel your anger into more constructive pieces. Music being one of my vents.

Surprise

Now this one is a no-brainer. Surprise regardless if it's in the negative or positive is one of the best emotions to have. Mainly because despite what we say otherwise, human beings love surprises. They love learning something new at sudden because it makes them feel special to have learned it.

Love

Love is one of the strongest emotions there is. One that many people have either misinterpreted or tried to stamp out. However while love is a good thing, how one feels love varies. There are some people who think that if they love someone, they're entitled to them. If it's platonic, that means they want to force a friendship. If it's romantic/sexual...well you get the idea. Yet they fail to realize that if they want to find any sort of love, it has to be mutual. The person has to love you back or it doesn't work. There have been so many times people made this mistake and it's a mistake I don't plan to make.

Hate

Much like Love, Hate is a very strong emotion. And like love, the word has been abused to the point where people can't tell the difference between hates. For example, a guy could say they hate the weather, but some idiot who associates the word "Hate" with "Bigotry" would call him racist against clouds. Sounds stupid, but it does happen. But also like love, Hate has to be mutual for it to work. You could hate The President of The Unitied States all you want regardless of who they are, but if they don't hate you, even if you tell them in person, then your hate is meaningless. Which in turn makes you meaningless if all you ever do is hate.

Overall, you must learn to come to terms with all your emotions, if you want to be able to control them. Otherwise, they control you. Always.

While this was partially inspired by this article Big shoutout to @electricangel7482:

https://electricangel7482.newgrounds.com/news/post/1315616

It also stems from my own views of politics as well. As most read here:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1311074

While I still stand by my viewpoint politically, I think myself and this person, speaks for everyone when I finally say the following words:

FUCK POLITICS!!!

See, after reading that, I came to a realization and this applies to everyone all over the world regardless of their personal political views. We spend our whole lives balancing our right to live, with having to please a one or a group of collective assholes, who do everything in their power to improve their own lives, while collectively shitting on those they view as the dregs of society. Yet they convince us all that, they are our saving graces. That we wouldn't have homes, schools, jobs and other things to keep us alive if not for them. Maybe centuries ago when people actually gave a damn about their fellow humans, I would have agreed. Nowadays, bullshit.

Charlie Chaplin said it best "Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

We're not citizens, we never were. Slavery never got abolished, it just went under a different name. Most importantly these politicians, would get nowhere real quick if we'd stop falling for their shit time and again and just ignored them. All that education help they boasted about, wouldn't have been accomplished, had educator, student and parent alike didn't talk about it first. Job issues, wouldn't be the main thing Republicans and Conservatives wouldn't use to get their votes, had we not complain about there being so few out there. To put it lightly. We have been in a co-dependent relationship and the abusive boyfriend is politics.

Every single thing we complained about that we blamed on politicians. Such as the ever popular "Thanks Obama" or even the millions complaints about Trump, was never 100% their fault to begin with. Granted they did things to screw things up along the way, but when you get down to it, the majority of you all voted for these assholes, so you don't have a right to complain when they do things you didn't expect, such as breaking their promises.

As V once said "People shouldn't fear their Governments. Governments should fear their people." Which is true. They may run the place, but we outnumber them and they know it. Hence why they try to start fights with us. Say words that imply that one side of our respective countries is at fault for the crap the other side gets. When in fact it's neither one, it's them.

I propose that everyone on this site, save for any artforms that require political viewpoints, should simply ignore them. We are all the same. We may not think the same or look the same or feel the same, but we are all human beings. We should be defined by our actions, not our view points. Our hearts, not our status.

The only thing we should be focused on is the respective laws and our own lives. OUR lives. Not the lives of some asshole like Trudeau o Trump. They depend on our attention to survive. Let's not give to them anymore.

Once again I am taking the time to celebrate Remembrance Day. As noted last year:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1226202

I've mentioned mostly the pattern of disrespect of the Holiday and I don't think this year is any different. However, that being said, much of the reason why people pull actions like this is pretty much the same reason why most people try to ruin everything for others. Simply because they don't like it. I don't know the exact name of this mentality, but until someone can correct me otherwise I'm calling it "Marge Simpson Syndrome". For those who only watched the Disney version of it, hear us Older Fans out. Marge Simpson, while an iconic character in her own right, became the definition of Wet Blanket and Moral Guardians gone mad. She first initially started out that way on a Simpsons Episode "Itchy & Scratchy and Marge" In which she accused the titular show of instilling violent tendencies on Maggie. Yet despite neither Lisa nor Bart (At least within this episode, it's still Bart), not being affected by it as much as Maggie is, Marge forces everyone in her house to stop watching and goes so far as start an all parents protest group. She succeeds, but said group ends up going behind her back to protest in her name against an art piece she happens to like. "Michelangelo's David." Long story short, they protest him because despite being thousands of years of historic Roman Art, he's naked. This was later brought up pointing out Marge's hypocrisy on how she can enjoy a nude statue simply because she views it as art, whilst she refuses to let her kids watch a violent cartoon, just because she happens to dislike it. Which seems silly until later on she literally says it word for word that she has to destroy stuff other people like, because she doesn't like it. And this in a later episode where she tried to protest MMA.

I used to laugh at people like this, because I never thought there was a way they could exist. However they do and if it's not TV show's they're going after it's a Memorial Holiday like this. By their logic, I should protest any holiday they happen to celebrate that honour their fallen. However I don't because that'd be disrespecting their dead. But I ramble on.

This Holiday, regardless of the context around it, was never meant to glorify, promote or even encourage future generations to take up an armed struggle perpetually. It was meant to celebrate what we as a human race all sacrificed, in the name of trying to attain and maintain peace. For the soldiers, it was literally life, limb, both or in the case of Johnny Got His Gun....worse. For those staying home, it was either time away from their loved ones to help the war effort on the home front or living in paranoia and fear that our friends and loved ones that may have joined, may not be coming back. As well as the fear that should everyone that got sent there died, the enemy, whomever they may be at the time would be marching towards us. Capturing or worse killing, anyone they consider an undesirable. In their twisted version of what the world should be like. We don't remember it for the people our relatives killed in Battle, we remember it for the fact that their decisions whether we agree with them or not, were done for our sake. Not the country or the government our sake. Those soldiers joined up, so we wouldn't have to. Now if some people on all sides took that hint, we wouldn't have this current bullshit problem we are still facing right now.

That said, like before, to those that celebrate, have a safe and happy Remembrance Day.

A long awaited follow-up to these:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1252702

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1254631

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1255578

Part of why this took so long was because at this point I'm past just wanting to make a healthy iced tea. I have now decided to go to phase two in which I can add other stuff to it, in an effort to turn this into the ultimate health drink.

If you read my previous articles of the subject, you'd know how I usually make my teas. This can apply to that procedure, however since I've misplaced my glass jar for the time being and was using equipment, such as the kettle that didn't belong to me at the time to make the tea, I have to improvise. So for this quick fix procedure I use the following:

1 Medium Sized 2 Litre Sauce Pan

1 Empty 2 Litre Soda Bottle. Ironically taken from the Brisk brand of Ice Tea I drank in the past.

8 Teabags of White Tea

1 bottle of liquid Chlorophyll Supplement

You heard that right. I'm adding Chlorophyll to the mix. I've done it before with Hot white Tea and the results were hit or miss, but I figured if I could add the metabolism boosting and fat burning power of White Tea with the power of nature's very blood itself, then maybe I may be one step closer into making it.

For this I boiled the sauce pan and let it set for room temperature. Unlike the kettle which had a more closed space, this took less longer to cool, because I had no lid to cover this. With the kettle it took 90 minutes to bring it to room temperature. With this? 45.

Once cooled, I placed 8 Teabags into the pot and set the timer to leave it steep for an hour. Since my teabags have that string flag stuff, I covered it with a lid to make sure they don't fall in. Since this is a 2L Bottle and 2 L equals roughly to 8 cups, one bag per cup.

Once the tea has finished steeping. I take the bags out, stir the tea and I pour it into the bottle. For now, it looks like this:

While I spilled it by accident, not quite making it up to 2L on the bottle, it has enough room for the next part.

Since the required amount is 5 Drops of Chlorophyll per 1 Cup or 5 ml to 250 ml. The 40 drops at 8 Cups or 40 ml at 2L should cause the Chlorophyll to make the tea look like this:

You can either shake it or turn the bottle slowly upside down and right side up to mix it, then once done, I put it in the fridge.

I will update on the taste and drink test on this article, so keep watch.

Update 4:08 AM Today:

After posting my Remembrance Day Blog I went to the Fridge and poured myself a glass of the stuff:

Despite the look on both it didn't make the tea turn black. It's actually a solid dark green. After trying the tea, much like other times I've tried the chlorophyll supplement before, I can't taste it. Which is good, because when I first tried this stuff I wanted to make sure it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. I can only taste the tea. So hopefully, if this works out, I will just be another step away from making the desired health drink.

Update 9:07 AM:

I am feeling the effects of the tea and chlorophyll combo. The caffeine in the tea gives a good energy boost. The chlorophyll seems to suppress my appetite making me feel somewhat full. As well as a few cleansing effects that I won't go into further detail because I don't want to gross anyone out. Point being though is that it's slowly cleaning my body inside and out and making me physically feel better as well as mentally and emotionally. Still I feel there is something missing.

Update November 13 2022 4:36 AM

I've had a smoke at about an hour before I posted this update and so far, I have not craved another like I usually do. This may actually help people physically quit smoking.

To the kids: Trick Or Treat in Groups, avoid shady people, have your parents check your candy before you dig in. Other than that, have fun.

To the adults: Get drunk, get high, have fun and make sure you get home safe.

To the Wiccans out there, the Witching Hour is at Midnight.

To the horror fans out there, watch some scary shit.

To my friends and fans here at newgrounds have a Happy, hopefully candy filled Halloween.

I think "Ok Boomer" should be changed to "Ok Booger". Sounds more funnier.

This one is a bit cynical at first, but that said it's not all the way bad. Like my previous article on the subject this is only focused on one topic.

In this case, this is my view on people in general. The Human Race. What I think both it's ups and downs. This one will be divided in certain topics, but I will start off with my view of them as a whole.

To quote Agent K of Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky and dangerous animals and you know it." Which basically sums up my own mindset on people. When you get right down to it, we are walking contradictions. Trying to stand up for the group, but praising or gawking the individual depending on who they are and what they've done. Just nearly 3 years ago, when Covid Panic was on an all time high, we seen this quote come into play. Someone was convinced that Toilet paper of all things was the key to surviving a pandemic, as a result a major shortage. Just recently in my own country, due to a flu panic, every cough, cold and flu medicine has been stripped clean off the shelves. All because they think survival means getting it before everyone else does. However let's break things down.

Intelligence

From person to person it varies. Some can be smart, others stupid. Just to simplify it. However when a group unites under a common goal, despite how good their intentions may be, they often end up just as selfish, irresponsible and foolish and do more harm than good. This mentality existed way before the Europeans invaded North America, because as far as Europe was concerned, Earth is the Centre of the Universe and is flat. To think hundreds, maybe thousands of years of atrocities could have been avoided all because a bunch of idiots wanted to prove how smart they are. Yet when an individual says otherwise, they get burned at the stake figuratively and sometimes even literally. Other times, the problem with the world is that we as a group rely too much on one individual to show the way. Part of why Galileo didn't get the respect he deserved was because as far as the so called intellectual world was concerned, only Aristotle's word reigned true, despite others proving him wrong in the later generations. Yet once proven wrong what does the group do? Act like they are the first to come up with it, before eventually relenting and apologizing to the individuals they ridiculed long after they've been dead.

Morality

Much like intelligence, morality also varies from person to person. Each and every person has what they consider their moral centre. Some of which differs more than others. Myself for example, my morality is calling it like I see it. I see someone acting like a creep, I call them a creep. Others however both individual and group have such skewed ideas of what is moral or not, which could be attributed to the following things:

1. Cultural differences. To put it simpler, sex and consent. To the western world, any type of sexual relationships under 18, is considered immoral, whereas in the East, because the age of consent is different, so is the mentality and morality over it. Someone in America would be disgusted by someone in Japan, whereas the Japanese individual would genuinely be confused to why they are disgusted in the first place.
2. Environmental Influence. Most of the time, even within the bounds of the law, we all gain our moralities from outside influences. Whether it's friends and family, a favourite celeb or even the media we consume. In terms of the former, it's because we trust these people to guide and protect us from the horrors this world has to offer so needless to say, even if what they say is 100% bullshit, we are obligated to stand up for them because we love and trust them that much. In terms of both latter's we admire the person and content they offer and often try to model our lives after the examples set for us in these mediums.
3. Experience. Whether it's positive or negative, we develop our moralities based on the experiences we had. Some people take things too far in the negative and blame certain groups for the shit individuals did to them in the past. For example, a white person gets robbed by a person who happens to be black. Does that person call the police? No. Instead they decide to dedicate their lives in destroying the group demographic, based on the incident of one person. Which in turn causes said demographic to label all white people as bad as that person. It's an endless cycle that should have been broken centuries ago. Even positive experience doesn't help matters because for all you know the person or demographic they came from that helped you in the past could most likely be a Nazi.

Teamwork

This one is a tough one. Sometimes people can come together based off a certain goal, but often or not, many people end up screwing up said team and said goal based on the following factor. Humans individually, myself included are vain. Each and every one of us believes us to be the protagonist of our own stories and ergo believes we should lead the team rather than follow someone else, even if said person has the right idea. In-fighting breaks out and they end up back to square one. Ready to fuck things up again. If people could at the very least, put their vanity and ego aside and work together using common ground, then the world would be a better place. Part of the reason why the world is so depressing is because so many people are looking for more excuses to divide the human race, rather than unite them. Literally the only time we may cut the bullshit is if some alien race were to show up threatening us.

Consequence

In conclusion though, whether we stand together or stay apart, regardless of how reclusive we can be with them, our actions have world consequences. Even the smallest thing could cause disaster halfway around the world. However much of the reason why not a single one of us fixes it, is because of the following factors.

1. As individuals, but also even as group, we refuse to take responsibility for our part in wrecking the world. Be it through War or affecting the environment. Ergo, we don't see it as our problem and leave it to someone else.
2. We also have a tendency to blame others. Simply because we are too self-centred to realize maybe we are to blame. Trump does something, we blame him rather than the idiots that voted for him. Putin invades Ukraine, we blame him rather than blame ourselves or our countries for buddying with him before he pulled his shit.

Differences and Similarities

The biggest thing that has been the result of many conflicts is that the world has trouble either focusing on what makes us different from each other rather than what makes us similar. For that we're partially to blame too due to the hypocrisy of it. Certain races, orientations, gender identities and so on, want to be treated as equals, but at the same time don't want to lose their individual differences as the result because it makes them feel special to be different. Well I have news for everyone. Regardless of our skin colour, country, religion, orientation and gender identities among most things, we're really not all that different from each other. We all came to this world, thinking our way is the only way. We all clash with each other over it. To top it off, we all want to be heard. The only differences between us are not even important in comparison to the goal we all share. Either accept that, or remain in the cycle until you die.

Mob Mentality

This is the biggest problem ever. Whether it's something minor blown out of proportion or something major, but has little to do with some people, Mob Mentality is the ruin of us all. The second we hear something we don't like, we immediately jump on the bandwagon, judge and condemn before we even remotely hear the other side of the story. We simply take the words of strangers whom should have no impact on how we should think and feel. The key word Think and Feel. If one were to take a moment to stop and think, then maybe there would not need to be a mob formed every time. To top it off half the mob doesn't even care what happened, they just want to be in the spotlight and make it more about them. These people could care less about a murder or rape victim, as long as they themselves talk about how they feel in the event. Shows like South Park and just recently the Halloween Trilogy, showed the consequences of bullshit like that.

Over all, it's neither individual nor group that is solely responsible. It's both. If we could just get our heads out of our own asses, own up to that, we can work better together.

This one is a little more tongue-in-cheek than my last one:

https://cieirmusic.newgrounds.com/news/post/1311074

As it is more focused on one topic, but my opinions remain the same in no exaggeration. In this case Social Media. Now when this stuff first came out, depending on the platform, it either gave me excitement or a crippling headache. Excitement due to the many merits of it and there are some. While at the same time there are a boat load of faults. Here's my take on them, not just from personal experience, but from what I've witnessed others doing in my life. Now I'm not gonna cover them all because God knows, there are and still will be new ones popping up, but I am gonna cover the more well known ones:

Youtube

In it's heyday it was one of the most brilliant pieces of social media platforms on the planet. Just people coming together making videos for the hell of it or in some cases showing clips of their favourite medias. Some of which even gave rise to stars like James "The Angry Video Game Nerd" Rolfe. However, due to piracy law on the latter and a huge complaint on the safety of the users on the former things changed for the worse. Nowadays it's a bland stale floor of what it used to be with plenty of Eggshells to walk on. And that's not even getting started on the greed of both user and staff alike. While my views on the platform vary, I disagree with COPPA. If you want kids to watch youtube, then let them Watch Youtube Kids. Much like TV, kids shouldn't even be watching adult programming or engaging in adult conversations with adults online. Which should also apply to many sites including this one. One of the things that really piss me off about that is that due to the anonymity of these places, you never know you're arguing with a kid until they tell you and even then it's often hard to take that at face value.

Facebook

I first heard of Facebook around the same time as I heard of Youtube. In Highschool back when it was fresh and new. Teachers hated it and would even go so far as send kids to the office for using it on School computers. I never understood why until some of my friends and family started getting their own Facebook accounts. Literally with the selection of a select few, every one I ever knew has at least one Facebook Personal Account. I hated every moment of it and I'll tell you why. It was like their eyes were glued to the screens. Be it on their computers or recently their phones.

As if they turned into Zombies interested in human drama. As if things can possibly get any worse, The Social Network hits theaters, making Facebook more popular than ever before and all of it because some creep wanted to stalk his girlfriend. When I first heard the name Mark Zuckerberg in the movie my thoughts were "Great, if I have a time machine I'll at least know who to kill before they make that." And that is not even getting started on the scandal that happened years back.

Whenever someone asks me "How come you never get a Facebook account?" I say to them the same three answers:

1. It's turning people into Zombies.
2. I don't want my personal information to be sold to the fucking CIA or Terrorist orginizations.
3. The most mundane one compared to the other two, because it's so easy to find people on Facebook, friend, foe and family alike, I fear running into someone I pissed off in Grade School.

Facebook is one of the worst platforms to ever exist.

Twitter:

Great for advertising and trying to talk to celebrities, but shit for everything else. The second you get sucked into any drama situation you'll either fight to you're suspended or delete your account before it messes with your life. And that is not even remotely beginning to cover all the disgusting individuals such as the MAPs and NO MAPs I ran into there. You think me defending Jes is evil, try arguing with a bunch of pedophiles that honestly don't think that having sex with children is wrong. Or Shota and Lolicons that think that just because it's fictional it should be ok to Jerk off to. Then just when you're in the heat of it, you're the one getting suspended for "Harassing" them. The only benefit that site gave me was that it gave me my first paying fan at the time as well as the banner and logo I use.

Tumblr:

Personally I think this place gets a bad rep unjustly. Don't get me wrong I understand why as it was one of the breeding grounds for the Social Justice Warrior movement among most things, but it's more harder to get sucked into drama there, when you're only using it as an advertising ground.

TikTok

Now I've only heard some things about this site, but from what I gather there are multiple reasons to both like and hate it. On the like side of things, it allows people to express themselves in short videos. I even once watched a TikTok on a girl who was very good at identifying psychological triggers and how they work. However on the bad side of things addiction, certain disgusting content that shouldn't be shown, racial bias, misinformation and ironically censorship among most things.

Instagram

Good for advertising, but I honestly think that it shouldn't be a mobile only Social Media.

Snapchat

Fun, but unless they have fresh and new ideas, the novelty wears off right away.

However while there are praises and merits of these ones. However surprisingly they and every other social media are not at fault for the biggest problem they have been accused of causing. Mainly just guilty for enabling them. Much like the internet it stands on, Social Media, when you get down to it, was meant to unite the world for the better. 2 Decades ago I wouldn't even dream of talking to people all over the world as I would at home, due to how impossible that seems. Nowadays I am talking to people be it friends, foes or fans alike from all parts of the world as though they are in the living room with me. That's an amazment I give credit for. However there lies in the problem. Before, not many people had a means to express their voice and views all over the worlds, because computers were so few and between and Cellphones haven't had internet access yet. Nowadays, thanks to social media and the tools we use to access it, rather than unite the world for the better, we instead are the net equivalent to all being pushed into a crowded room and fighting each other for the last pocket of air. Twitter alone sickened me on how many disgusting people were put in with others who aren't even remotely bad.

I know people have asked this question before for many reasons just or not, but I honestly should ask this. What in the flying fuck is this world coming to?

For many people it's hard to just let whatever shit they argue about on Social Media go and just look on the outside world for what it is, because everyone is so focused on who's right and wrong that nothing else seemed to matter on this.

I should know, I was one of those people.

Anyone reading this on a phone, shut it off now and take one long look at the world while you still can. Because if you're not gonna go blind from constantly staring at a screen, the world itself as you know it would be gone and you'll wonder where it went. All because you decided to argue with someone on pointless bullshit.

I figured for this one I should give people an article of what my views are. More or less because a lot of people regardless of how good their work is or how bad their work is are often judged more on what they think rather than what they do. Which I think is 100 percent bullshit and I'll use myself as an example. For this I'm only gonna list the majors as well as a few hot button issues that have been talked about for over a century.

Poiltical Views

In terms of Politics I qualify more as a centrist than most things. Which a lot of people consider at best lazy or at worst catering to the worst parts of the political spectrum. However I would like to reiterate on this one.

In terms of my political views, I believe that with the exception of Nazism and Cold War era Communism, that each and every political party in one country or another has both their merits and their faults. The Democrats for example have John F. Kennedy as the prime example of a Good democrat, while Lyndon Johnson who succeeded him, is the prime example of a bad democrat, due to him saying yes to 'Nam. Whereas Republicans for example. They have a bad rep because there have been a lot of bad people that earned said reputation. However if you want a good example of a Good Republican. Look no further than the statue of a giant man on a chair in Washington. Honest Abraham Lincoln. Any one else in his position would have had no problem with slavery in the south being legal, he instead risked his career and eventually his life to put an end to it and as a result of the latter some people from both parties try to follow his example. The key word try.

My stance on it is plain and simple. "You're all fucking nuts, but if you worked together and hashed out what sucks about each other, then a lot of problems would be solved."

Religious Views

In terms of my own personal religion, I'm Pagan. Specifically Wiccan derived from worship of the Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses, with a bit of Gaelic, Celtic and Native in there.

However, I do believe in the right to express one's religious views so long as no one is physically getting hurt by it. You could be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or many others, but as long as you got a good heart and keep your nose clean from trouble, then you're alright in my book. It shouldn't matter who is right or wrong. There shouldn't just be one big religion that dominates all. People should be free to do it. That being said, there is a catch to this. If your sect of the relgion happens to directly be involved with or sympathetic to the cause of extremists. Whether it's KKK for the Christians or Taliban for the Muslims, then I will not give you the time of day. Especially if said people try to sweep past atrocities under the rug.

My relgion has past atrocities too, many of which are enough to make even the most tolerant of religion sympathizers puke their guts out. I know that, I accept it, I own up to it and I move on. Why? Because with the exception of a few puritans out there, we have since evolved from those atrocities and found better ways of worship that don't even involve the taking of a life. If we can evolve so can the other religions.

Racial Views

In my overall stance, it may sound cliche, but it stands to say it. When it comes to the topics above and this one, I love and hate everybody equally. I would try my hardest to do my part to help make this world a diverse place, but at the same time, would have no problem calling out those who advocate the same for their bullshit and hypocrisy, should I suspect anything shady and if said groups call me racist, well the feeling's mutual.

Sex Views

In terms of sexual orientation, so long as Bestiality, Necrophilia and especially Paedophilia is not one of them, you all can do whatever the fuck you want so long as it's legally consensual. That's my stance on it. Any assholes on there that try to lump those three Categories with groups like LGBTQ, both those against it and those for it, can go straight to Hell.

In terms of Gender Identity. So long as you can prove what you identify as regardless if you were biologically born with it or not, you're ok in my book. If you're one of those assholes just abusing the system for your own benefits, then you're scum because you're not only hurting the people you intend to hurt, but also the people that otherwise would have welcomed you with open arms and vowed to protect you. Mainly because those dumbasses that follow everything bigots say would lump some innocent transgender person in with the same category as say some rapist who decided to dress in drag so he could rape a woman in the Girl's washroom.

In terms of actual sex. I believe in sex for love and sex for fun, so long as like I said before, it's legally consensual. However on top of that, I honestly really hope those that do it don't fuck things up like giving each other an STD or an unwanted pregnancy. Other than that go nuts.

War

This was a tough one, but I am neither pro-war or anti-war. I am pro-necessary war. Some Anti-War demonstrators can never differentiate between wars. To them all wars are the same because soldier and civilian alike get wounded or killed in the crossfire. Fair enough. However I myself know the difference between when war is necessary and when it's not. Surprisingly some agree that World War II was a big example of Necessary War, because the Allies were working together to stop a great Evil. Whilst wars like Vietnam and The War on Iraq were grossly unnecessary.

World Aid

This one is also a tough one. While I do believe people should help each other more often, those that do at the expense of their own countries, fail to realize the consequences about it. As much as I boast about Canada's multi-culturalism, there's a huge darkside to it. Years ago when Pierre Trudeau did his policy on immigration, in the 80s he fucked up royally. Granted his intentions were good and it gave him good PR, but he didn't forsee the consequences. Consequences that still happen to this day, but none so worse than the 1983 - 2009. Does that timeline sound familiar? That was the time period of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Now whenever a war breaks out, it's natural for those who don't want to get involved in it to flee the country until at the very least it blows over. This was no exception. However what Trudeau failed to realize at the time was that when it comes to a Civil War, the last place you want both sides of it, soldier and civilian alike to be in the same room together. What does that fucker do? He not only pushes them in the same room together, but in terms of emergency housing, puts both sides of the fucking war in the same housing buildings together. If they weren't trying to kill each other, they'd assault, maim and even murder anyone dumb enough caught in the crossfire. I used to live near one of those buildings when it happens. If I didn't see it myself, my family and Neighbors would be seeing it. What Trudeau should have done, was screen them for any affiliations then just move the warring sides as far away from each other as possible.

Long story short, you want to help people, help them, but don't fuck everyone else up around you to do it. And that's just aiding through war. In terms of the other major woes like famine and disease, by all means help, but don't bankrupt yourself or if you're a world leader, your country in order to do it, because by the time they get back to their feet, you're the one that ends up with the third world country.

Economics

In terms of economics, my main stance is this. Not one of us should pay to live. When it comes to food, shelter, personal hygiene and comfort, you're condemning those who can't afford to do at least one of those things, to die. The basic living should not be a privilege. It should be a right. However because someone convinced us we need big numbers on small pieces of paper and plastic to get those things, we basically condemned the entire world for the worse. The way I see it. Living should be free, but if want luxuries that's when you should work for it.

Class

In terms of class I don't judge the class, I judge the person of that class. You could be a multi-trillionaire or so poor that you can't even pay attention for all I care, but if you're a nice person, you're ok. Yet some people seem more inclined to blame the entire class for what some people do and it's on all sides. The bad apples in the Upper Classes view anyone below them as a burden on their life, yet the only reason why they don't have them exterminated is because they depend on them for the things they need. Yet the middle to working to low class, both good and bad seem inclined to blame all High Class people for their problems. Even going so far as blasting fictional characters, like Superheroes, simply because they are rich. That 99 vs 1 percent rally being the biggest fucking joke of an example. Myself I grew up in a working class family, yet I never looked my nose down on anyone that have it better than me, unless they looked their nose down at me first. Much like politics I think the whole world would be a much better place if they just worked together rather than try to oust one and other.

Abortion

Ya I'm going there. First and foremost, in terms of my own personal stance on the matter, I am what is considered impossible for both sides. Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. To put it simple I'm morally against abortion, but legally I respect the rights of someone who needs one. For any reason be it stem cell research or an unwanted pregnancy through rape or reproductive abuse. But to expand on it a little let's take a look at the main argument.

On the Pro-Life side of things, their main argument is "It's a life." on the Pro-Choice side of things "It's a mass of cells." Now much of the reason why Pro-Lifers lose the argument is because they only delve in the moral and religious implications of the act of an abortion. They dismiss anything scientific because they feel it makes them look like hypocrites. However if they did get into the scientific aspects of it, they'd have more room to hold their own in an argument.

With me. "It's a life." or "It's a mass of cells." Both. It's a Mass of Living Cells. Even if it's not a full life, it's still a life or more specifically a community of life with the egg and sperm being the founding members of said community. Starting off with one sperm and one egg, that's the founders, combining themselves into one world leader. The first cell or Zygote. By the time the baby is newborn they have 26 billion cells. If each and every one of those cells were the size of a human being and put on earth, you'd have a hell of a population problem. For all we know, we couldn't even be people ourselves, just living cells on something else's skin. Point being though is prior to becoming a host for a bigger organism, those cells have a life and possible consciousness on their own and it's still killing them.

However that being said, I do not infringe on the rights of it. I understand if due to certain circumstances or even your own view points, that there are multiple reasons to have an abortion. Such as an unwanted pregnancy from a rape victim or an unexpected mother, as well as simply furthering the process of Stem-Cell Research. Hell if I knew the nearest clinic I'd send anyone looking for one there. That's my stance on the whole thing. Take it or leave it.

Environmentalism

I believe Global Warming is real, but that's the extent of it on that one.

In terms of the ethics of meat eating, I'm a meat eater, both by preference and by mentality, as an autistic kid growing up I was a severely picky eater and even then I wouldn't eat some meats. Mainly because it was one of the few things in my life I can control. However over the years I've learned to enjoy it at the very least for my own individual survival. I feel bad that another animal has to die to feed me, but at the same time it wouldn't stop me from eating a burger, but that doesn't mean I don't care. I've looked up many alternatives surprisingly much of them don't really appeal to me. An impossible burger for example, would look, taste and smell like a burger, but I wouldn't eat that, because it's just switching the problem from meat to plant. It's the same greasy crap in a box just from a plant instead of a cow. Anyone that says it's healthier is as big a douchebag as those hipsters who promote vaping over smoking. You're still consuming nicotine and dangerous chemicals they're just not on fire. In fact there is already a better solution. Mosa Meat. That's real meat, but made without killing or even severely harming any animal. Look it up.

Same with the ethics of wearing animals for clothes. Fur, Leather, you name it. While I sympathize with those against animal cruelty the substitutes for certain things like fur do little to almost nothing to keep some people warm in the winter. As for those who wear it to express their social status. Fuck you on both accounts. On one hand how many minks had to die before you go your perfect coat Cruella? On the otherhand all that fur you use to flaunt your status would be more useful as a blanket for a homeless person. Considering you wear that shit in the summer and a winter. But that said, it's one's right to do so regardless of what I think. If only there was a solution where you can wear quality clothes without the guilt of killing an animal. Oh wait there is. Qorium. The same guy that founded Mosa Meats, used the same tech he used to cultivate his Burgers to make leather. Using skin cells instead of muscle cells. Now if it's so easy to make Leather out of this, then fur is next step.

As for the overall environment. In my expert opinion we shouldn't pay for the mistakes generations before us made in terms of my morality on the subject. Especially considering that for the past century we had the tech that would have reversed damages for that long. Just last year a Battery Factory was made in Ontario in an effort to lower Carbon Monoxide in cars. They treated it as if it was this new thing, when in fact that battery, which could have not only been used for cars, but could have helped power houses and other forms of places that require electricity has literally been around for as long as there ever been batteries. Had they implimented then, there'd been nothing to complain about on that alone. I get more shit over the whole NFT thing than these people whom have done centuries of damage to the environment. Does that even make a lick of sense? This being a big example about it.

In terms of reversing the damage faster, I honestly believe it's possible, but no one found a way yet and should I have enough money for one of the goals I mentioned before, even if it was through NFTs, I would spend every dollar I earned from it at least trying to prove that right. People can talk all they want about people damaging the environment for money, but no one ever wonders how some people would even spend said money.

That's just a fraction of my views. I could go on, but at this point I'd probably need more articles for that. Point being is that unless I directly apply it to my art. My stuff does not reflect on my views. I've done things out of my views simply because despite the views of those that are my influences, they managed to make something entertaining. Rogers Waters recently took a lot of shit due to his opinion of the Russian-Ukraine war and while I disagree with him like most people. I do not take that out on his music. While a lot of his work solo and in Pink Floyd has some poltiical subtext to it, it doesn't mean I agree with it, it just means I like the song.

Let me know what you think of all this.