A River Runs Through It

Japan's rainfall water runoff management rivers:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2407877562_7b01b62506.jpg?v=0

Los Angeles' rainfall water runoff management rivers:
http://incubate.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/44758696.jpg

HV

Righteousness

Dying? No, I'm not afraid of dying. I know that the intent of living is to create, expand, and thrive. That is the purposes we have given ourselves, that we have defined. That is the drive we have been instilled with since long ago. We are ordered to function within a certain capacity, achieve specific goals, and then regurgitate the message to the next generation. As a result, we achieve righteousness. The fear of dying is therefore not the end of life, but the failures of living. The 'fear' is to have lived below our capabilities; capabilities according to doctrine. The result is a necessity to establish an extension of life so one may truly live, truly be happy.

Righteousness is an application passed down through generations as a goal to achieve, follow and be restricted by. It is not a measure of holiness, it is a control unit as well as a compensation of incomplete work: mortality. And through this filter only some will live to the fullest extent - the fullest potential of all capable expression and experience. Those that remove themselves from righteousness have removed themselves from doctrine - from moral regret. This is where righteousness cannot exist - as only comprehension and acceptance reside here. The fear of dying now becomes the restrictions upon instinct and the inability to experience life. The result is a desire to learn, to create, to live. The fear then no longer applies as the role of 'create, expand, and thrive' has been realized within a lifetime.

With this said, our capabilities are continuously regulated: by history, by religion, even by your own parents. How else would doctrine resonate? How else would our children carry our selfishly imposed legacy to ensure history remembers our actions? Remove the regulations, remove the history, remove the blind traditions - and we experience life within human instinct, creativity and expression - not as slaves to doctrine.

But how? How can one achieve this ideal while still regulated to communicate with the embedded teachings of canon law from centuries ago?

And what of our history then? What is the purpose of advancing our knowledge if it is not taught as doctrine? We must change the course of education - but that is a later discussion.

HV

Action!

You are, on average, recorded on camera 200 times per day. Try lying to the prosecutor as to your whereabouts between 2-4 a.m.

HV

The Wish

"I wish this would all turn out well." I stare at the page, at the words - and I simply wish this would all work itself out. It makes sense until I write it down. Then I'm forced to ask, "Does it make sense to you?" It doesn't matter to me, and it shouldn't matter in the end. But I toil over and over with the words and the future words - will it make sense? I remember being told, "If only one person gets it, then it's a success." I'm ok with that fact, but it has to make sense to more than just one person. Otherwise, its just a blog entry...

HV

This Here, Now

This all stems from something deeper, something greater that we fear. Inadequacy. Generations of failure followed by your own.

HV

To War!

Stop declaring 'war' on everything. Start employing solutions and safe guards. We have 'declared war' on too many non-physical entities for decades. War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Guns, War on Terrorism - and yet, there are still drugs, there is still poverty, there are still guns, and there is still terrorism; which suggests one inevitability: there will continue to be all of these intangibles until policies change, until mentality changes. You can't fight poverty, you can provide care and shelter against it. You can't fight drugs. They are grown, they are distributed - and they have been for centuries. You establish the reasons someone would even need drugs to begin with - and then you prevent that. You can't fight terrorism, you can quell its supplies, its reach and most importantly, its recruits with a message of respect, inclusion (or exclusion) and peaceful expression.

But you can't fight these things with a declaration. Terrorism is an ideal created by dedicated loyalists to a cause - no matter how skewed. You want to eliminate them - or any of these decade long 'wars'? Eliminate the cause. Eliminate the need. Eliminate the fear.

If we remain dedicated to the concept that with each new challenge, a forceful response is required then, by all means, lets go to 'war' on with anything against Us to sell Our ideal, Our advertisements, and a Our catch-line to march to. Its easier to promote intolerance than actually build a system to prevent it.

HV

Imagine

I was imagining the possibility of developing my creativity this week. I wanted to expand on some conceptual ideas I thought of this weekend by combining some elements of various art forms. I was hoping to sneak in some time to design some concepts or rework some previous ones for my portfolio. I've carried around my portfolio notes and sketches for days now. I keep getting interrupted by work. Meaningless, conventional work. The kind of work that will be arbitrarily revised to meet codes - to meet predestined conditions. And yet, when I do find a moment to do as I please, the meaningless work has negated my motivation. It always does. It always wins. And I seem to have no defense against the uninspired. Cyclical kills. That's why I seem to have to 'imagine the possibility of being creative'. I never get to.

HV

Reintroduction

Self-deception has led me here. I tried to get into this concept and it has failed - mostly. There is a delicate balance between private reflection and public exoneration. So I have decided to reintroduce and reinvigorate this with more dedication and more revelation that will help lead me to my ideals.

HV