Years Wasted?

As of yesterday I am a high school graduate, but what does that mean? I'll tell you how the education was, I walk into class, the bell rings, open a textbook, teacher tells me to teach myself, and a worksheet is due in five minutes. The majority of my classes were like that over the past four years... but it didn't feel like that always. At first I got along with virtually everyone, had my plans filled on the weekends, had some very good friends, etc. A year goes by, had a band of honestly some of the coolest kids I could ever ask for. We did just about everything together and somehow I managed to make plans with my best friends on top of that. Come back after tour, School starts just like every year except My best friends refuse to hang out with me because they started smoking weed every weekend which led to virtually every day and I'm assuming they didn't want someone judging them, even though I wouldn't , and eventually we basically lost contact after every time I asked if they wanted to hangout they decided to hang out with the same people and never get back to me. I still had my band so at least I had some good friends, but no, band crumbles to pieces and we all lose contact, which I honestly don't care about with the exception of one other person, and this is where my junior year ends and my senior year starts. A summer spent at home turns into a year. I gained 15-20 pounds, lose everyone I cared for in school, and lost almost all care in general, but if I told you it was pointless I would be lying to you, this past year I've learned more than ever about the world, myself, emotion, religion, the government, music, etc. So, these past years really weren't wasted. I didn't get a piece of paper with my name on it saying I passed all my classes in the past four years. I got a piece of paper with my name on it stating I survived.

Here comes the rest of my life.

Your God Isn't Who You Think He Is

All mainstream religions believe in a higher power. What if this "higher power" isn't an ultimate controller of the universe, what if our ancestors misinterpreted what they heard and saw simply because it was so "out of this world". It is quite possible and more logical that what society sees as God is actually a more intellectual being then themselves.

You know how if you start a story and pass it on, it will come back to you differently? Well the ancient Sumerians, the creators of the first written language, believed that a group of extraterrestrials visited Earth and influenced humanity. The story in Christianity is God, his son, and angels taught humanity how to act in order to go to Heaven. Two sentences written about the same thing, with a different choice of words...

 

What Have You Been Tripping On?

Imagine a world where every being hallucinates on drugs. If you thought something far from reality
 guess what, you're wrong! Welcome to a world, and possibly a universe, where every living thing has
 tripped on dimethyltryptamine. Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a chemical compound that is produced
 in the penal gland in the brain of every human being. How is it accessed? Every time  you sleep DMT is
 being released therefore you are experiencing an extreme hallucinogenic while you're unconscious.
 According to The United States of America you should be in jail. That's right. The U.S. scheduled DMT
 as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Time to arrest everyone! DMT is
 vaporized and ingested to experience it consciously. It is known to cure alcoholism and heroin
 addicts, has no harm to the human body, caused no suicide, nor homicide yet our government
 refuses and discourages us to use this eye opening experience to our advantage.

Where is the Music Industry Going?

Classical music, possibly the most technical genre of music, had a major role on history during the 1700's and was performed to virtually only royalty and the wealthiest people on the planet. Where are we in 2011? Society has become so ignorant that we honestly have unintentionally sabotaged ourselves. How? We support music coming from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, etc. Don't get me wrong I fully support people to follow their dream and make music, however I strongly disapprove society leaving musicians, song writers, and lyricists that have a lot more talent to rot, living life check to check, while the virtually talentless to live "The American Dream". My point is please educate yourself, see what else is out there, and when you listen to a song next time ask yourself, does this piece have a message? Is it too repetitive? did it take talent to write this? Before you spread your ignorant opinion by word of mouth, listening to it on the internet, or even wearing a t-shirt.

The more you educate yourself the more the industry will be forced to change.