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Tuesday Roundup 28-08-2007

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

Enjoy!

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  1. Chota?
    I had never heard the term “Chota” as referring to the offspring of goats that are still feedin of their mother’s milk.

    I’m no farmer though, I’m your regular city boy, a “chilango” to be precise.

    I do however, know the term “Chota” is sometimes used when referring to the police. So when a street thug yells to their friends “Ya nos calló la Chota!” (The Chota is upon us!) he’s not really that afraid of being sucked dry…

    This concludes today’s lessons of mexican street lingo. Tomorrow wel’l discuss the terms “Naco” and “Mota”. Till then boys n’ girls 😉

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  2. As a man thinketh….. (proverbs)
    Well that Connie Schmidt person seems pretty useless to me.

    I won’t defend The Secret, though I think its underlying premise is closer to the truth than the extremes of either religious dogma or pure materialism.

    I prefer the Seth books by Jane Roberts or perhaps Wayne Dyer’s stuff –or the growing legion of quantum-types trying to bridge science and spirit.

    The Secret seems a bit simple-minded, yet I feel the folks who are so busy bashing it just look foolish.

    I hope the Secret folks are laughing all the way to the bank while the skeptics go about their dull suburban lives trapped in a flatland of their own limiting beliefs.

    1. You mean…
      You mean reading a 200-who-know pages book AND watching a DVD is NOT enough to find the real secret of life, the universe and all that??

      CRAP!!

      Well I guess there’s nothing to it for me but return to Catholic church and throw out ALL my porn.

      Then again, I COULD turn muslim… you know, those 70 virgins man. I mean, they’re VIRGINS! It’s a compelling argument.

      Buddhist? Nah! All that non-violence bull… I bet the Dalai Lama is LOUSY at Gears of War, I just KNOW it.

      (sigh)

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

      1. don’t you know it!
        mr junkie..lol

        All this enlightening stuff is a bit much sometimes. I have The Secret and have read and heard Wayne Dyer stuff and etc etc etc.. not to sound to King of Siam on you all here.

        The basic ideas are very good, and healthy and do work to make life happier and more fulfilling. Even my great grandmother was a supporter of thinking positive and directing one’s thoughts away from negativity.

        I do not think, however that it is just the thinking that makes it work. A lot of the ‘teachers’ on The Secret go into greater detail as to how to make it work for you.

        For a price…

        a BIG PRICE

        I do get a lot of info free by subscribing to the newsletters and interviews they offer. If you do that you have to accept receiving e-mails offering you a whole 20 percent off their regular program which is listed at an ungodly amount of money in my opinion.

        I can certainly see how THEY got The Secret to work for them. It took them some real planning and hard work and persistence…

        wait…

        We already knew it took that didn’t we? lol

        So.. maybe we should just think positive and go after what we want with passion, planning, hard work and not give up!

        The whole movement isn’t a bad idea. It is getting people to realize their self defeating behavior. I have gotten over a lot of my whining…see.. isn’t that nice?

        hugs

        marissa

        1. You know?
          It’s funny, because all those self-help books tell the same thing: You aren’t happy because you don’t have (insert craving here)and until you get it you’ll life will be a miserable cesspol of sorrow… but we can tell you how to get it!

          But I read they made a study to compare the level of “perceived happiness” among nations, and guess what? turns out mexicans are WAY happier on average than americans or japanese, who earn triple or quadruple the income of my countrymen plus 4 SUVs parked outside their McMansion (one for the hubby, one for the misses, one for junior and one for the family cat), a 200″ plasma TV and an olimpic pool at the backyard.

          So what does that tell you?

          Either a) Mexicans are morons (hey, I don’t dismiss it, have you seen our politicians??)

          or b) It’s not about the money and all those things it can buy, and no self-help book is going to tell you that because that will be the end of THEIR happiness… what do my countrymen have so they perceive themselves as more happy than other people? I don’t know; maybe is because mexicans have families, HUGE families that are close and help each of their members; mexicans also value friendship, to a mexican his COMPADRE is like his brother; mexicans have their faith.

          Hollywood stars are some of the main costumers of these new-age gurus, and meanwhile we keep hearing about Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and now Owen Wilson. What does that tell us?

          Sure I would like to have more money. It’s horrible to go driving at gridlock time and suddenly smoke starts coming out of your car’s trunk. It’s horrible knowing that in case you suffered an accident you wouldn’t be able to pay the hospital bills. People that suffered the most at Katrine were the poorer citizens of New Orleans; this is how it works.

          But I think we shouldn’t pay more attention to all those books that are so eager to show you how awesome your life could be if you had a Ferrari. The fundamental flaw in all these pamphelts is that they pretend to help people reach out what people think they want in order to be happy. But I have come to realize that we people DON’T REALLY KNOW what we want; we think we know but it’s a lie.

          —–
          It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
          It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

          Red Pill Junkie

          1. I would think
            that getting all that stuff you think you wanted and found out you didn’t would be a bit depressing!

            I see it every where.. conspicuous consumption.

            They go from one thrill of something new to the next. Finding they have not gotten any satisfaction.

            hugs

            marissa

          2. Self Help
            If you want to indulge in self help, why do you need self help books to help you?

            I’m fanatical about moderation

            Anthony North

          3. For the same reason
            They sell so many books about how to have SEX, I guess…
            🙂

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          4. monthly diet
            And then there are regularly appearing magazines. Like “Style”, Glamour” and so on.

            Do they help ? Do the consumers or these things end up being stylish or glamorous?

            —-
            You can observe a lot, just by watching. (Yogi Berra)

          5. subliminal
            or not

            They have proven that women who look at those mags have a measurable lowering of their self esteem.

            Just say no to slick magazines people.. just say no!

            When you think that most people.. of course no one here.. but most people tend to live on a reactive basis. They don’t have active thinking, they simply react to events etc.

            We are not using enough of the “little gray cells” as Poirot would say. I cannot imagine being led around by mags or tv if we engage da brain.

            m

          6. ballast
            There are many good uses for heavy stuff. Called “ballast”. It serves well to keeps roads in a reliable place, for example. It is useful for controlling where the center of gravity is. Put these things at the bottom, and gravity will help you stay upright.

            —-
            You can observe a lot, just by watching. (Yogi Berra)

          7. Modern media
            I think modern media uses a concept perfected by Christendom. Christ, or a ‘saint’ became an unachieveable symbol, but people were encouraged, nonetheless, to reach those heights. Of course, they constantly failed, and were ‘sinners’, which added angst, through which they were hooked.
            Modern media uses the same ‘mechanism’ to power consumer spending. Models, glamour, etc – impossible to emulate so angst turns shopping into therapy.

            Reality, like time, is relative to the observer

            Anthony North

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