Welcome to the January 2025 mish-mash!
…the mish-mash is a slam-jam of all the rammer-slammers I sent off into the sunset instead of the spotlight, and that’s the honest truth.
sick post with black and white images last night (tonight). I started commenting, but as i felt urged to say more and more, I thought it might be a fun post to just share some random thoughts.First, shout out to my buddy @cmplxty. I saw this
Let’s start with the post.
[…] largely overrun by assholes who complain about everything
Thats a sad state of affairs for a fire pit, but still the wording cracked me up!!! I hate few things more than swarms of whiny assholes!
Sweet pics brother!
Glad to see you still at it man - I keep trying to bring myself back into it, but finding one hindrance or another being just enough to keep me from tapping into my literary voice…maybe I’ll just write about that tomorrow and see where it takes me. Lately I’ve just been trolling more than anything - but mostly just practicing my lock picking and diving deeper into cleaning up my life, which isn’t really a bad thing honestly.
Anyway, seriously, it was really cool to come back this evening and see this up at the top of my feed - I’ve got some really cool friends here on Hive, and feel somewhat remiss that I’ve been less engaged than at other times in the past…I’m thinking you, DNA’s.
Dangerous
I’m listening to Michael Jackson’s Dangerous album this evening - man, I remember blasting this on a portable tape deck out in the neighborhood when I was like 9 years old and really thinking I was hot shit 😎 - and listening to it now, I feel no differently.
Credit for this image, I give straight to MJ. Not Paul McCartney, nor anyone else who now owns his estate and intellectual property, nor whoever posted his album cover online at some point. I screen shotted it from Spotify, and all credits go to the man in the mirror.
I know he’s had a lot of accusations thrown at him, but I don’t know that I even believe them. His lyrics just speak to such a different person than the one we were told to see in the later years of his life.
Call Me What You Will
This section is going to step a bit outside of what I normally do, and I apologize in advance for that. Let’s see if anyone sticks it out for this part 😬
Between 2016 and 2019, several new vaccines and updates to existing vaccines were introduced for children globally. While specific vaccine introductions vary by country, here are some key examples:
1. HPV Vaccine for Younger Age Groups
2. Dengue Vaccine (Dengvaxia)
3. Updated Influenza Vaccines
4. Rotavirus Vaccines
5. Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine (IPV)
6. Meningococcal Vaccines
7. New Combination Vaccines
My sister and I both had our first children in 2016 (not together of course), no allergies or skin problems. We both had our second children in 2019, and both have terrible eczema, respiratory issues and deadly tree nut allergies.
I took no vaccines after I was discharged from the army. I just always thought they were stupid (not the people who take them, I just thought, you get what you get, and life goes on - that was my personal preference when it came to pre-emptive injections, and largely still is…but I hold no judgement or grudge for people who feel otherwise). Now, in fairness, I actually got tetanus in 2014, and got vaxxed and boosted and it was night and day. Lockjaw sucked ass, it was like having intense painful cramps spontaneously igniting in all my muscles and it was awful. I was fortunate to catch it in time, and believe that vaccine really saved me from whatever was gonna happen next. But in 2017 I got the flu really bad, so in 2018 my wife suggested I should get the vaccine, and i did. I also got the first covid vaccine, under duress. Since around that time, i have had eczema behind my knees, inside my elbows, and on my upper thighs. It itches so bad i scratch til it bleeds and still want to scratch it more. My poor baby girl has it all over her body, and she scratches herself bloody in spite of all the triamcinolone, mometasone, cortisone, and whatever the hell else the doctors have given us. Every night she screams and fights as we lotion her skin, and it breaks my heart into a million pieces to see the suffering that poor child goes through daily. (If you know any naturopathic/homeopathic remedies that might help her, I’d be so grateful if you shared and could help me help her.)
Am I saying the vaccines caused this? No. But I’d be lying if I said I’m not suspicious. I can say, I don’t have a lot of love or trust for the government or the pharmacological industry.
I had a big blow up event a few years ago, the blow up of long unresolved mental health issues that resulted from my involvement in America’s destruction and occupation of Iraq. I won’t get into it much cuz I already posted about it when it happened, and I think it mostly just made people uncomfortable. Long story short, I lost my shit, scared the hell out of my family and tried to eat a shotgun. The cops confiscated my shotgun and, after a pretty impressive struggle, forced me into the backseat of a cruiser and took me in shackles to the local hospital. Looking back from the position of being in a much better place, I now believe these weren’t mental issues, but spiritual. My spirit knew there was nothing right about what we did, but my mind was still holding onto the idea that I had been fighting to defend our democracy.
There are two lies there. Lies that my soul recognized and could not let slide. The first is that America was not built as a democracy, but rather, a constitutional republic…and yes there is a difference. The second, much larger lie, was that I was fighting to defend this thing. Having come now to terms with all this, the point I am getting at is that I have good reason to bear distrust for government. There are people in powerful positions who would kill hundreds of thousands for a profit and not lose one night’s sleep…so yeah if vaccination is making a shit ton of money for a select few and causing suffering for untold countless children, I don’t think it would be prudent to assume they’d turn down the profit. Plus, with chronic issues like eczema and respiratory distress, lifelong customers only equate to more profit. Is this whats’s happening? I don’t know. All I’m saying is, I have no reason to blindly trust that it isn’t. Also I would point out that Amish communities have nearly zero cases of eczema, autism, demtia, alzheimers, woo woo woo. Make of that what you will.
My platform here isn’t built around politics or dissent, regardless of my personal feelings, so I’ll cut this line of thought here…with a third child soon coming into the world, this is just something that’s been keeping me from writing lately as I’ve been doing loads of research on these things - so I thought maybe if I lean into it and write a bit about it, maybe I can get it out of my head and get back to writing the way I used to. That’s it. If you made it through this section, kudos and gratitude.
Fight Club
We got the fight club back together this weekend, and man it was great! I really got my ass kicked out there 🤣
We had a new guy this time, Will. Well, I guess he’s not new, it just was the first time I had the pleasure of meeting/fighting him. This guy was about the same size as me. I thought it was going to be refreshing since I’m pretty much the smallest regular in the club - finally someone who didn’t have several inches of reach on me! …but it turned out Will trains with an actual coach. He was a tremendous fighter, his discipline and skill were noteworthy. Of course I got some good hits in as well, but it was ultimately clear that I was outmatched - the perfect scenario for learning a lot, really fast. After we were all done and he’d watched me fight some of the others, he showed me some really awesome places where he identified that my footwork was causing me to get hemmed up, it was fascinating to have the opportunity to learn from someone else with so much awareness.
Notice though, I stayed true to the barefoot regimen, even with snow still on the ground. It really enhances mobility. For all there may yet be for me to learn about this exhilarating sport, I am super excited to see the growth I’ve had so far - particularly when it comes to keeping my eyes open. When I first started, I tended to close my eyes whenever I thought I was about to catch one to the face. Funny thing is, when your eyes are closed, the monsters are still there - you just can’t see enough to do anything about them. What a weird natural response then, innit?
Lock Picking
Some of you may have seen my recent work with locksport, or maybe not, but I randomly decided like a month or so ago that I should have the basic tooks and knowledge to pick my way in or out of trouble, should the need ever arise. It started out as an EDC/preparedness type skill, but immediately became a fun and exciting way to keep my hands busy.
There are tons of books available on the subject, as well as a plethora of youtube pros who are happy to show you what it looks like when a pro gets down to business, but ultimately what it comes down to, is learning how to feel your way through it.
I’m a long way from being good at this, but as I said, it is legitimately fun to practice - especially when you get a lock open by deliberate and methodical single pin picking. Sometimes I can rake one open in less than 20-30 seconds, but that always feels cheap, like sheer luck with no real fundamental understanding. When you open a lock with single pin picking, and actually feel each pin going into place, man that feels so good!
The New Testament
A few weeks aho, we took the kids bowling. At the time, I was hyper fixated on building out a solid EDC bag, and while we were bowling I thought, I really would like to get a small bible to put in there, so I can read when I have down time, instead of scrolling. Two days later, I had an appointment at the VA clinic, and there they were! I found a book shelf loaded up with free pocket sized bibles! Ask and you shall recieve, no?
I’ve found great joy and hope in reading the gospel. The old me would have kept that to myself, for fear of losing readers. The new me not only doesn’t care, but welcomes the opportunity to stand as witness to the life changing power of the new testament of Yeshua Ha Mashiach, the king of kings. Have I been perfected through it? Nope, still human. But I do try to honor Him in all that I do (and don’t do). I fall short of His glory daily, even constantly, but I find solace in knowing that He loved us enough to suffer the immense burden of prosecution and the crusifixion that our souls may be freed from bondage in His name. For all the years I spent deeply and truly searching for wisom and spiritual knowledge, the New Testament was the only place I refused to look…until finally it found me.
I don’t have much to say on that at the moment, but this mish mash is mostly about me catching all my friends on Hive up with what’s been going in in my absence, and it would be dishonest of me to leave this out. Many times over this long time away from Hive, when I could have come back to write my silly posts, I instead found myself with my nose buried deep in those thin whispy pages - and many times will it yet again be so. The world is a crazy place, but the Bible has delivered me from a place of worrying about how I will navigate the madness, to wonderment and gratitude for the fact that I have made it this far to begin with.
Although I don’t plan to preach or evangelize, I did want to close today’s post out by at least sharing that.
Closing Notes
…and for those of you who may be wondering:
Yes, I did get that shotgun back from the police. It took almost a year, but only because of logistics, not policy or the department trying to keep it from me.
No, I do not hate government in it’s entirety. I do recognize that there are good people in the government who are there to serve and protect. I recognize the necesity for government in a large society and am grateful for those public servants who strive against corruption.
[place holder for when someone helps me out with a homeopathic/naturopathic solution for @lucygoose’s eczema.]
Just kidding. There is no number four, that’s all I have to say tonight.
If you made it through all this, man, youre a real trooper - my hat goes off to you! Thank you for taking the time to read it! If you’d like to dig deeper on any of these things, whether you’d like to see me post more in depth on something I touched on, or if you’d just like to ask a question in the comments, I am happy to go into greater detail on any if these subjects, or on any other subject on which you think I might have something to share!
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Damn this is a good and long one man! I’ll come back to this later! Glad I inspired you to do a bit of a mixed bag post hahaha.
For the kiddo - one of the things we JUST learned about is biomagnetism therapy. It apparently really helps get rid of nasty ingredients and issues like Lyme disease. Do some digging into that man!
Holy mackerel yes - I will! Thank you!
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