For anyone who stumbles upon this BLoG, I have a little exercise for you.
Try going through one day without using the word “is,” and instead replacing it with “it appears to me” or “it seems to me.”
It’s called E-Prime, and you can read more about it HERE via Wikipedia. This is something I first learned about by watching a YouTube video with Robert Anton Wilson.
Now, this may be very hard for some people to do(at first), but if you try it, you will start to notice a change in the way you analyze things in this world.
How can you prove that something really “is?” Something may appear to you in one way, but to someone other than yourself it could seem completely different.
Here’s a really short and “sweet” poem I wrote in high school. I just recently dug it up, and decided to share. Enjoy!
Only Human
By Ego Mnemonikos
Clueless are our minds
Consumed by fictional greed,
The ones who are much stronger
Stand back to watch us bleed…
What does this poem mean to you?
-Ego
You're All Doomed!
BREAKING NEWS!
The Large Hadron Collider(LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, just got it’s own live webcam feed! It has two cameras that stream a live continuous feed around the clock and are available for public viewing on their website.
Great news everyone!, I just received my “Economic Stimulus Bailout Paper” from Nielsen!
Yes, you heard right, the TV rating company sent me $2 today!…at least someone cares about the little guy.
Although, they won’t be receiving their survey back from me anytime soon…Seems how I’m prohibited from participating in the survey, the policy clearly states that it’s for the blissfully-conforming-sheeple only. ..tisk…tisk…
Proof!
Now I gots me two crispy dollar bills!
Woohoo!, value menu here I come!
Er…I did notice that the bills were printed in 2006, does this mean that these bills are worth more than the 2007 or 2008 editions? Hmmm…
If the bills were included as a “Thank You” for completing their survey…then, why does it feel like a bribe?
-Ego
Welcome back…
Let us explore the concept of Reality Tunnels.
Here is a neat video that begins to explain Reality Tunnels and what they are.
As told by ‘Master Bob’ a.k.a Robert Anton Wilson.
Reality Tunnel via Wikipedia.org
“The map is not the territory” -Alfred Korzybski
-Ego
I recently started reading a book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, entitled Freedom From The Known.
It’s a really good book that talks in depth about freeing yourself from pre-conditioning/programming that parents and society provides.
I’d recommend it to anyone looking for freedom from negative/useless conditioning.
It gave me inspiration to create the piece below, it will have it’s own unique meaning to each person who views it.
Oh Gnome!!!
**Edit:
A lot of you have been stumbling onto my page by looking for the age old question:
“Who came first, the Travelocity Gnome, or the Gnome in the movie Amalie?”
Look no further as I have the answer!
The movie Amelie was released in 2001, while the Travelocity Where’s my gnome? commercials started in 2004.
The Travelocity gnome was inspired by a really cool prank.
Also…
As a child I remember watching The World of David The Gnome on Nickelodeon, which was actually a Spanish cartoon brought to the U.S. in 1987, the foul year of my birth.
-Ego
