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Sick and Tired of Surfing the Web? Well Try Smurfing It Instead!

Yes, you heard right, you and your friends can now smurf the web to your hearts content!

How, you ask?…Well, let me tell you!
By utilizing the latest in Smurf-ing technology!

…You take any website URL and pop that bad boy into the designated WebSmurfer area:

Web Smurfer

Have fun and be sure to tell all your whack-ass friends about the WebSmurfer!

Gargamel would be so proud!

-Ego

P.S. If you’re left wondering what the hell a Smurf is, then just click HERE.

No really, they do have an iPhone application for everything…seriously!

Slack off at work!

Slack off at work!

Today’s wacky product is an iPhone app called iNap@Work and it will help your iPhone create ambient ‘work-related’ noises to keep unsuspecting co-workers from knowing your sleepin’ on the job.  Now that’s what I call a true Slack app!

The app was created in a collaborative effort by Trieu Pham &  Silent Logic Studios in San Jose, California.

It’s available in the iTunes app store and can be downloaded for only 99 cents!!!

To read a great article about this app, Click HERE

-Ego

Interpret This! [Quotes] pt. 2

Interpret This!

Welcoteme to the 2nd installment of the Interpret This! series, brought to you by your ‘single-serving’ narrator, Ego, from HalfassBackwards.com

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1). “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning doesn’t stop when formal education ends, life is a constant learning process. Take every situation you encounter as a learning experience. Tell yourself  “I can’t fail, I can only learn and grow!” Learn from other people’s mistakes!

2). “A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” -Allan Watts

Just think about the time the first ‘humans’ began to question their existence, and all of the weird explanations/rationalizations that were made, and then finally settled upon. The more popular ones were taught and passed down from generation to generation. Consider what I just typed when pondering the subject of religion and spirituality.

3). “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” -Albert Einstein

I ask myself this one all the time, but I keep deciding that neither seems to be true, we’re all crazy to a certain extent. Humans controlling humans, creating fear, starting wars, and enabling ignorance to persist. Trying to answer such a question clouds the mind.

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Now wasn’t that fun?
Care to make your own interpretation?

-Ego

Attend A Tea Party Near You!

Ok, so I’m a bit late on this post…seems how today is Tax day! But, none the less I’m still going to write about it.

Batteries Required!

Batteries Required!

Check out TaxDayTeaParty.com for the location of a “Tea Party” near you!(not to be confused with a lemon party…)

At first glance you might view the people attending these rallies to be radical idealists, or gun-toting Americans…but, what you’d be missing is these people are exercising their 1st Amendment rights, and are voicing their displeasure on the way things in Washington are being handled.

If it weren’t for people who take a stand against the government, who knows where we’d be right now…

Take a look at my post about “What Does The ‘Bill of Rights’ Mean for You?
If that doesn’t get you motivated to use YOUR VOICE, then I don’t what will!

-Ego

Welcome back!

Today we are going to look at #3 of Celine’s Laws, made famous in The Illuminatus Papers by Robert Anton Wilson, and how it may be manifesting itself through the likes of President Barack H. Obama, and his administration’s seemingly inadvertent march towards limiting Americans freedom’s.

Here is Celine’s Third Law:

An honest politician is a national calamity.

Celine recognizes that the third law seems preposterous from the beginning. While a dishonest politician is interested only in bettering his own lot through abusing the public trust, an honest politician is far more dangerous since he is honestly interested in bettering society through political action, and that means writing and implementing more and more laws.

Celine argues that creating more laws simply creates more criminals. Laws inherently restrict individual freedom, and the explosive rate at which laws are being created means that every citizen in the course of his daily life does not have the research capacity to not violate at least one of the plethora of laws. It is only through honest politicians trying to change the world through laws that true tyranny can come into being through excessive legislation.

Corrupt politicians simply line their own pockets. Honest idealist politicians cripple the people’s freedom through enormous amounts of laws. So corrupt politicians are preferable according to Celine.

Obama, at face value, appears to be on a mission to do good and correct the wrongs of the former administration. Although, I cannot know for certain, nor can anyone else…not until it’s too late, at least. 

…I thought it was an interesting ‘thought-scenario’ to play around with…that’s fun for me…and others, I’m sure.

-Ego

Today I recieved an awesome response on one of my past posts entitled, “Thought Exercise [Eliminating 'is'].”
(check out the comments)

…and It was such a good response, it got me thinking about what ‘GOD’ really is, and I would like to share with you my response, which can be read, out of context, and still hold ‘water.’ 

Me…er…Ego…

I am constantly changing, both in my physical and mental ‘world,’ and the more I read into spiritual and religious subjects, I find that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for me to pin-point what ‘proof/evidence’ of “GOD” really is.

A lot of what I’ve been reading talks in depth about how we each ‘create’ our own unique perception of the world. Mind over matter.
All of this leaves me thirsty for more, and on as I go, I find I know very little. So in a sense it confuses me as to why so many people are firm in their own beliefs, yet without hard-evidence(and many cease to question & refine).
But I guess evidence could mean ‘something in a physical sense’ but it also can differ depending on that individual’s own unique definition of what ‘GOD’ is or is not.

Question:
Was ‘GOD’ found when Albert Hofmann discovered LSD-25? Many people have had a religious/spiritual journey while on LSD, and most come out with an overall feeling of interconnectivity with mankind as a whole.

I guess what I am getting at now, is that “GOD” seems to be unique to the thinker, just as a fingerprint is.

 

-Ego

In keeping with my ‘distorted-mass-media’ theme, I’ve decided to go off again and point out the halfass backward-ness of how people go around repeating things they’ve heard on television.

Tune In or Be Left Out!

Tune In or Be Left Out!

Ok, go…

It’s interesting to note the amount of people who hear something once and then repeat it to someone else as fact.
What’s even more alarming is the amount of people who repeat things they heard on the news(television), without having researched this information for themselves.
Very seldom does someone hear something and look further into it(self-education).

Rule of thumb:
Just because it’s on T.V. doesn’t make it real/factual.
(Just because the news reports it doesn’t make it true.)

There is a VERY closely calculated formula in News media.
This is the result of years and years of research and development.
The people who write the anchors’ scripts use key words which have been researched/polled to capture and hold(hostage) your attention.

For more on the manipulative-biased-media-formula read my post HERE.

Don’t be so trusting of anything coming out of the T.V. box…

Here is an excellent post on “Detecting Bias In News Media,” from fair.org

-Ego

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