Trump Impeachment/The Left, the Right, Extremist, Who Is Right?

There are two topics I try to stay away from, religion and politics. Those two topics are dangerous to get into and can get very heated. Every once in awhile though I want to express my thoughts on these subjects because things just keep bugging me. 

Where do I start, I guess with the impeachment. There are so many different opinions about this. Do I think Trump played a part in the storming of the capital? Yes. Should he and others be held for their part in it? Yes. Is Trump fully responsible? No. Aren't the people who stormed the capital responsible? Yes. There are so many layers to all of this.

Anytime a leader opens their mouth, they are responsible for what they say. If what they say happens to lead the followers to do something bad, that leader is partly responsible for it. A leader holds great power. People look up to them and in some way treat them like a God, it's just human nature and we all do it even towards celebrities. When that leader says jump, the followers say how high. The followers will listen to the person they admire and look up to no matter how crazy the leader may or may not be. Take a look at Hitler and cult leaders. Those people have said some crazy shit and yet they STILL had/have followers who react to what is being said. Now I'm not comparing Trump to Hitler or cult leaders, I'm just stating how much power any leader has over their followers.

People listen to what their leader says and will believe in what they say even if it's a bunch of lies or twisted truth. This why is any leader has to be careful what they and how they say things. Trump has ever right to believe the election was rigged, to be angry about it and try to fight it. He still should have been careful how he said things same with the other leader type people who stood up for Trump. Everyone knows that chaos can easily be created by what they say. Trump may not have actually said to storm the capital and hunt down those who opposed him to make them pay but what he did say during the rally was just as bad and might as well have said to go do all of that.

He knows how much power he has/had and that people will take him up on his word. Trump could have said his speech in a much better way that didn't sound like he wanted some kind of chaos. Because he and the few other leader type people that worked for him said their speeches the way they did, it caused people to feel like they need to take action and do something about it. That's when they said okay, lets go fight and stormed the capital, beating people up, breaking into the capital, killing people and trying to hunt down the people that opposed Trump. For some reason the people that did this lost all sense of humanity and respect for human life. So yes Trump and others were partly responsible for the storming of the capital and should be held accountable of inciting knowing full well that what they said would cause people to react badly. Also, Trump should have called in the national guard way earlier. Hell they should have been there in the beginning. 

With all of that being said, people are responsible for their own actions no matter what their leader says. They should have the common sense and humanity to not go do what was done. A police officer lost his freakin life trying to do his job because someone decided to use his anger and beat the cop to death. Cops are people too and should never have to go through something like that. It's disgusting that some people think that that kind of behavior is okay just because they are angry and hateful. The other people that lost their lives shouldn't have lost their lives either. Sometimes a leader might say something that is completely wrong and the followers have their own responsibility to say "hey that is too far" and make the choice to not participate. What they choose to do or not to do is their part of responsibility.

For years and years, people have always blamed the right or the left for things that are wrong in the world. During the past four years and the capital incident, it got worse. Now people are blaming different extremist groups. So who really is to blame? How about just people, people are to blame. We need to stop putting everyone into groups then blaming the groups as a whole. This never worked and never will. When are we going to learn this? White people put blame on other races and Jews for things, other races/nationalities blame others that are not them, we blame other people, religion, the far left, the far right but when are we going to realize we need to blame individuals?

By blaming a certain group of people of something only creates more separation, hate, anger and violence. We are going to destroy ourselves if we keep doing this. It's not the far right, the far left or extremist, it's individual people. There are both good and bad in every group (even in hate groups). Some are violent on all sides and some are not. We need to put our differences aside and work together to make this world better and stop blaming groups of people for everything. I think this angers me more than anything that I am talking about. There have been violent democrats, violent Trump supports but there are also good ones. We can have different beliefs without separating ourselves from our loved ones or others, we can think differently without putting blame on another group. We are so much smarter and better than this crap.

So when I ask the left, the right, extremist, who is right? I say no one group/side is right nor wrong. Individual people are right or wrong or even responsible or not responsible. Blame individual people, not groups. Hold any leader responsible for their role in what happens when given a speech and get people riled up. This is my opinion and thoughts on things.

Humans On Other Worlds

 Whether you believe in aliens or not, there are millions of other planets and galaxies. Because of this, we can't possibly be the only living creatures in the entire infinite universe. I like to think that somewhere out there, there are other humans or human types living on distant planets especially if the planet is similar to earth.

I wonder, would the humans look exactly like us or would they have both same and different charistics as us? Would they have evolved like us or would their lives be completely different? Would they be far advanced, about the same or far behind in technologies? Would they have music, tv, movies & video games? If so, how different would it be from us?

I wonder if they would live in a utopia world or like ours with borders and wars. What language(s) would they speak? Would they have the same kind of animals as us? How about religions? Would they have wars, dictators, racisms etc? 

There are so many different possibilities on how their world could be. I like to think they are pretty much like us but maybe a little more advanced, that it's a utopia world but still have borders and now bullshit that tends to happen on ours. Although if they have free will, I am sure they have their issues too.

I sometimes think about these things and questions especially when I hear about how they found a new planet that is similar to us. I really hope one day we can find out. I know it most likely won't happen in my lifetime but it still would be nice if one day we can find out the answers to these questions. Just thought I would brain storm my thoughts and ideas on the matter. Hope all is well, take care 😀

How Bad Is Satanism Really?

 So, I just got done watching a documentary on Hulu called 'Hail Satan?' For me personally, I was always confused on what it really is and just figured Satanism was just bad. I'm not into religion but I do believe in a God and have my own thoughts on what God really stands for.

This documentary was very interesting. It wasn't just all about Satan. It did talk about what they really stand for, the battle between them and Christians and when both Christians and Satanism wanted to have their monuments at a state capital. This is what made it interesting to watch and learn something knew.

First, I do think church and state should always be separated. Everyone believes in something different and no one religion or God should be forced onto another nor should everyone follow the same beliefs from one religion. It's wrong. Therefore I think having any religious monument on any state property shouldn't be allowed. If there is one, others should be allowed as well, period. No one religion is better than the other.

Watching this documentary, I got a more insight of who true modern Satanist are and my initial thoughts just like everyone else's I'm sure, is wrong. They actually seem to be a decent group of people. They are basically Atheist but decide to come together and stand up for human rights especially if something is trying to force religion onto someone else. They don't actually worship evil and demons. 

The movies, media and religion has painted an un-true picture of them so now everyone has wrong thoughts in their head. There are of course bad ones who call themselves Satanist and do bad rituals, killings and worship demons. Those two groups are completely different and should be looked at as such. There are both good and bad in every group of people and that is what we should always remember before judging others.

The conclusion, one should always educate themselves about something before passing judgement on others, there is room for all beliefs and they are not bad people; they are like us just trying to get through this thing called life. I highly recommend this documentary. As I end this, below is their seven tenets which is like the ten commandments. They are pretty standard and just like some of the commandments, people in general should follow.

"The mission of the Satanic temple is to support empathy between people, freedom, unwillingness to tyrannical power, and protest against injustice,"

The seven tenets are as follows:

1) One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

2) The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

3) One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

4) The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach  upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

5) Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

6) People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

7) Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

A Messiah

I recently watched the Netflix show Messiah (review of it click here). While watching it, it got me thinking about things so besides doing a review about it, I decided to do this regular blog.

How do you think the world would react if all of a sudden someone claimed to be the new son of God? I am sure on a daily basis there is someone saying they are God or a son of God but those people sadly have something wrong in their brain. So would we react any different if there was an actual new son of God here on earth? Would what it take for people, for you to believe that what this person is saying is true? Even if you haven't seen the show or don't even believe in a God, what would make you believe?

Just like in the show, I am sure some would believe and follow, some would not believe and the government would want to investigate thinking he might be a terrorist or a dangerous cult leader if certain things happened. I think that's what helps make that show great, it pretty much shows how collectively the world would behave.

Since everyday there is someone out there claiming to be the word of God, God himself or his son, I think a real Messiah would have to really prove himself to be legit. Although, we would probably just think he was an illusionist. It would have to take some real "magic" to make most of us believe he was the real thing. Just automatically believing a guy like that can be dangerous if they are mentally ill and/or just trying to start a cult.

So let's say it has been proven he is the real deal, now what? If you talked to him, what would you ask? How would you feel knowing that there is a God and his son is standing before you especially if you didn't believe in a God beforehand? How would the world change by him being here?

I like to think the world would be able to heal and become better. There might be religious wars on the street and chaos at first. Places like North Korea might be harder to break through since they cut tend to cut themselves off from the world. Maybe he will have answers on how to fix our planet and to end the "religion wars" that we tend to have. He would be able to set the record straight. I know he wouldn't be able to give away all the answers but I like to think he could answer a lot of them.

Since I believe in a God but not religion, it would just confirm my beliefs. I have no idea what I would ask. Maybe things like, what does he think about all the "sins" people say are against God? How does he really feel about LGTBQ, horror movies, exorcisms and other paranormal things. Does things really do happen for a reason? How is my mom doing and can she really hear me when I talk to her? How can the world fix things like hunger and the homeless? I am not sure how I feel if he was to stand before me, probably cry and my anxiety would probably kick in. The only thing I would want from him is to cure the few health issues I have going on that can sometimes interfere with my life.

So those are my thoughts and feelings. If I had the right microphone and didn't have anxiety, I would probably do some Youtube videos and this blog would be one video I would make so I could read other people's thoughts on this subject and more. Maybe someday.

Buffy: How many times did Giles get knocked out?

While watching Buffy the vampire slayer tv shows over the years, I've come to realize that Giles (the watcher), has been knocked out way too many times to still be able to function. I looked on-line to see exactly how many times but there is nothing. I decided to try and do that count myself. I didn't think to write down the episodes he got knocked out etc until after I already did the count and I wasn't about to watch them all over again since that is a lot o episodes to go through. Anyways, here are my results for those who are curious.

Times knocked out in the series: 9 times, most of it happened in the earlier seasons.
He also was tortured but Dru, chloroformed and had his head banged up against the wall several times in one episode. He was beat up pretty bad and almost died in the episode where Willow is all powerful and in the very last episode of the series, he is banged up pretty bad.

WOW! There is no way that Giles could get out of all of that without being messed up or dead. He would be in a coma, have brain damage or just  dead. Good thing it's just tv.

So there you have it, a short run down on how many times Giles was knocked out and banged up pretty bad. 

Exorcisms/Possession - Real, Fake or Metal Illness

Exorcisms come up a lot in the paranormal and religion cultures and even in movies. Some believe in it and others don't. For me personally, well I have mixed feelings on it and that is why I decided to write a blog about it.

First lets look at the movies. Usually the face of the possessed becomes very creepy, things happen that the human body can't do and anything else they throw into a movie to make it scary. Even if it's so called based on true events, they make it seem like it's one of the most scariest thing on the planet. They have to in order to draw people in and to scare the shit out of us. Even if possession is real, they over dramatize it (not a bad thing though)and have us wondering how much of it is true. Some of those movies are terrifying to me and others are kinda boring.

Getting into the religion/paranormal aspect is confusing and spreads out into different branches. You have the group of religious people that use it to control people. What I mean by that is, if someone does something that is against their beliefs, they automatically say that person is possessed. They use possession to try and keep people inline. This makes it hard to believe in possession because we all know that person doesn't need an exorcism, they just need to leave that group of people/religion. This way of exorcisms gets abused especially if it's real or a mental illness.

You have people who are into voodoo that have their own different views of possession/exorcisms which can also be complicated on it's own. I really don't know much about so I can't really get into it, I just needed to bring it up since they also believe in it and practice it.

You have others that believe in true possession (not the kind that is used to control people). The Catholic church has gone back and forth on this subject and from what I hear, there needs to be extensive investigations into each case so everything else can be ruled out before the send a priest to do an exorcism. This is the more common one and the one that is more believed or easier to believe in. I don't know what other religions believe in when it comes to this subject. There are so many different religions, it would be almost impossible to do that research. Maybe someday if I have the time, I can start that research and write about it. 

You have the people who don't believe in it at all. Then there is the thought that maybe it's a mental illness of some sort. This can be a very real possibility, or is both real and mental illness? Then there is just plain fakes.

Lets take a look at some of the side effects of what one may go through if they are possessed. Speaking in a different language (usually a dead Latin language), foaming at the mouth, super human strength, another voice coming through that sounds demonic, floating or walking up walls, foaming at the mouth and other weird things that most people just don't do. 

A lot of those can be easily faked. Some are hard to believe that they really happened even if a witness swears by it and other things they can be done especially if someone has a mental illness. 

Lets take a look at the mental illness issue. There are a lot of mental illnesses that causes people to behave in weird, scary and violent ways. Centuries ago before we knew anything about the brain, people thought the simplest thing was something evil, someone must be possessed there for they need an exorcism. All along, it was just a mental illness that doctors couldn't explain. With lots of research, they figured out the weird behaviors were just a mental illness. Although, some people still believe that a mental illness is caused by the devil and they need to be exorcised (basically what I talked about above) which can be pretty dangerous.

Even though we have come along way with mental illness, there is still so much we still don't understand about the human brain and about the different illnesses that are out there. Because we still don't understand it and what it is really capable of, what if these possessions are just some form of mental illness that we haven't discovered yet? The brain is very powerful and if under some kind of short term illness, it can unlock something in our brains to have us behave in certain ways like speaking in tongue, growling, not liking religious stuff, foaming at the mouth etc. It doesn't explain floating, walking up walls or other paranormal stuff that a "normal" human usually wouldn't be able to do but those things can also be faked; look at illusionist they can seem like they are floating all the time. Plus, just because someone says it happens or shows a video, doesn't mean it is real.

It is very possible that something clicks in our brains to cause us to have a short mental breakdown and do these things. Yet, no one seems to look into it, that I know of anyways.

My thoughts, I am really on the fence about possession. I think it might be a short mental illness (if it isn't just flat out faked)from stress or something big going on in our lives. I can't explain the really paranormal things that may or may not happen but then again, maybe that is faked with the help of a family member so they can get help from a priest since they think it is possession. In the end, I just don't know and I REALLY DON'T want to find out. This is one paranormal thing I want to stay on the fence about. What are your thoughts? 

New Kids On The Block Mixtape Concert 2019

I have been a fan of New Kids On The Block since the 80's and I will continue to be one. Luckily I have been able to see them in concert every single time including the ones since they have been back. I have never been able to get a ticket to meet them backstage but one day I hope to do so. I did get a chance to meet Joe McIntyre two years ago when they were here in Denver. I just stood by the tour buses and he came out to great the few of us that were there (yes I am that fan 😃 ). This year I couldn't stand by the buses because it was raining off and on.

I was so excited when I found out they were going to do another tour. The other people that are touring with them are Debbie Gibson (which I was pretty happy about), Tiffany (that it would be cool to see her), Salt and Pepa (only like a couple of songs of theirs but still cool) and Naughty by Nature (don't really know their music so this was meh for me). They call their tour this year the mixtape tour. 

The guys came out with two new songs and added them to the anniversary album of Hangin' Tough. I love the new song 'The boys in the band' and couldn't wait to see it live. It's a great song that pays tribute to boy bands. The video is funny and cool which you can Click Here to see the video.

When the tickets went on sale, I couldn't get them because I didn't have the money (which is usually how it happens) so I was hoping to be able to get a good seat later on. Then something really bad happened in my life; On Jan 12th, 2019, I lost my mom to cancer that nobody knew she had even her. She didn't get really sick till towards the end (I may write about all of that at a later time). Well when my sister, my dad and I were going through her stuff, we found a little bit of money that she had. 

My sister and I split it and decided to do something nice for ourselves with it. One of the things I did was get a ticket to see NKOTB. I could have used what I had to get a VIP ticket but I also wanted to get tickets to see someone else I like, The Piano Guys (you should check them out, they are pretty cool) and hopefully some photography stuff. I also wanted to bring one of my roommates with me since she is a fan but I couldn't find 2 tickets that were decent seats that didn't cost too much so I just got the one sadly. The good part in all of this, I was able to get second row from the stage on the side. This was the best seats I have ever had at any concert and made me more excited but sad at the same time.

Finally the day came, June 7th at the Denver Pepsi center. The whole night gave me mixed emotions but I still loved every minute of it and I so needed that night to happen after what I have been through this year (not just my mom but other things too).

The show was supposed to start at 8:00. When I got to my seat, I was VERY happy where I was sitting. Eight came and the DJ from Naughty by Nature and one of the other guys from the group came out onto stage 2 which was a small circle stage by the back of the place. They played a mix of mostly 80's songs getting the crowd pumped up (not that really needed it lol). A little after 8:30, the guys came out. I can't remember for the life of me what order they sang their songs in (I was living in the moment) but I know it was their older songs. At one point Donnie looked and pointed at me, it helped made my night. I'm not one to be "OMG so and so pointed/looked etc at me" but it still feels nice to be seen by someone you like. 

After a few songs, Debbie Gibson went onto the 2nd stage and sang a few songs then Tiffany on the main stage. I think NKOTB came back, then Salt and Pepa, Naughty by Nature, etc etc. It was like that the whole night, all of them taking turns being on stage. At one time Joe sang with Debbie when she sang 'Lost in your eyes'. I loved that. The last song was one of NKOTB's new song '80's baby' which also has Debbie, Tiffany, Salt and Pepa and Naughty by Nature singing. So all where on stage bringing the house down one last time. 

During the guy's new song 'The boys in the band', they went into different parts of the audience. They also had the cheerleaders from our football team the Broncos come out. They went down the side aisles and up onto the stage dance with their pom poms (they have cheerleaders in the video for that song so during the tour, they have them too). That was pretty cool and they stayed for a few songs. They guys did end back up on the stage with the girls. They guys also had a small mix of 80's songs play while they pumped up the crowd even more. Donnie said that so far we were the loudest crowd yet and I believe it because I had to plug my ears when the big screaming happened. I still walked away with plugged ears for 2 days and sharp pains happening every so often.

I had a blast and loved every minute of it (even when my ears hurt and during Naughty by Nature). Like I said, I did have lots of different emotions going on that night and wanted to cry more than once. I really wish I had the money to get my roommate a ticket because it can get lonely being at a show by yourself, she would have enjoyed it and she needed it too. They at one point had a kiss cam on couples, I missed my hubby during that time. I also thought about my mom a lot, it felt like she was there with me. Even though I had an amazing time, I wish I could give it back to have her alive again. Since I can't, I enjoyed and celebrated life that night the best I could.

I love NKOTB and seeing them live. They give so much energy (don't know how they do it night after night) and love, you can feel it. It's one of the best feelings. I can't wait to see them again and hope I can get those VIP ticket(s). Their set list is on spotify so I can list the songs that were played (not in the order they sang them): 80's baby (sung by everyone), you got it (the right stuff), step by step, I'll be loving you forever, tonight, hangin' tough, push it, o.p.p, single, the way, summertime, please don't go girl, lost in your eyes, I think we're alone now, cover girl, boys in the band, keep on smilin', if you go away, hip hop hooray, shoop, only in my dreams, my favorite girl, electric youth, jamboree, whatta man, dirty dawg, could've been, didn't I blow your mind and thankful.