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Status check time. Things are good. School is going well, I’m into my 5th week now. I don’t find it to be that hard to balance working and going to school full time. It sounds like a lot to deal with, but I really have found a lot of truth in the quote that says, “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” Sure I’m in classes now and I’m having to do schoolwork, but I really don’t feel that my life is any harder because of it. Actually I feel grateful that someone is finally asking me to think after 11 years of working jobs to pay the bills.

In the past few days I’ve been reading some interesting websites that totally and thoroughly debunk many of the claims made one of the movies I mentioned in my last post, Zeitgeist. The people debunking these conspiracy theories are pretty convincing, citing multiple credible sources for each of their claims. I’ve learned that it’s important to so easily believe what you see in movies. Just because something goes against the status quo doesn’t make it right.

Most of all this has reminded me that it’s important to keep an open mind and always be willing to challenge what I believe to be true. I must remember that if someone proves me wrong it’s not a shot at me. On the contrary that person is elevating me to a new level of awareness and I should be grateful. Well I’m grateful to know that I may have been wrong to so easily buy into the ideas of these movies. I encourage anyone who has seen any of the movies that I listed in my previous post (Zeitgeist, Zeitgeist Addendum, Endgame, America: From Freedom to Fascism, Collapse, We Become Silent, Our Technical Reality, Food Inc.) go and search for the names of those movies along with the word “debunked” and have a look around. So far I’ve only read about the misinformation in Zeitgeist, but the point is check sources and do your own hands on research before going around touting any particular belief as the truth. Especially if you’re going to yak at me about it

Goodnight!

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
-Carl Jung

So I’m a few weeks into my very first semester in college. I’m taking 4 classes and so far it’s awesome as hell. Writing and Speech class are definitely the harder classes. I have to write an essay by Monday and I have an 8 minute informative speech due in a couple weeks. Being challenged again is enlivening. I’ve been learning about a lot of different things on my own too lately. Money for example. I’ve been trying to learn as much as I can about money, investing, saving, etc in the last few weeks. A friend recently told me about a book called “The Richest Man in Bablyon” by George Samuel Clayson. This book is AMAZING. It’s so damn inspiring, if you’re looking for a book to help you with motivation for saving money read this book! Also I’ve been watching some movies about the state of world today that have totally blown my mind. These movies include:

Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist Addendum
Endgame
America: From Freedom to Fascism
Collapse
We Become Silent
Our Technical Reality
Food Inc.

I feel grateful there are people out there exposing these things and awakening people to the truth so that we can educate people and work toward a global awakening and a better world. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and I’m grateful to have learned all of these things before making that decision.

Anyway things are good. Still playing music, running, hitting the gym and just enjoying life as much as possible. Time to sleep. Peace

“You can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.”
-Walter Wattles