I recently joined the P90X cult, I devote an hour, to an hour and a half a day to sweaty prayer to the alter of Tony Horton. What do I get out of it I feel better, starting to look better, eating right and best of all I'm gaining a grip on my own life that I didn't expect to gain in such a small period of time.
I have done plyometrics, yoga, cardio, and weight training. This cult is beneficial for me in many areas.
But as any cult there are downsides, the evil "Up Sell." They have a whole line of products like recovery shakes, vitamins and work out equipment that are on a sliding scale of necessity. Hey people have to make money off of this never mind the $120 I spend to be inducted into the cult.
I hate how cult is an word that insists evil and religion is a word that insists spirituality. But my tight definition of cult most anything is a cult and, by the numbers, religion has killed more people than work out videos (-Jane Fonda) or online gambling. And yet the problem I have with anything religious or cult-ish is the dreaded up sell.
P90X, and any cult, loses a little credibility when asking for money or more money. Religion and workout programs are always doing this. So here's my line in the sand, selling products that's have a tangible result seems to be OK. Giving a church 10% of your income doesn't insure you will have a nice loft over looking the orgasm pond in heaven. I buy a pull up bar and I do pull up's, I give to the local church and get.. that feeling that I somehow I bough a little salvation, however we disguise it as "Being a good person". It's more rewarding to go down to a soup kitchen and feed people in need, yet a pull up bar will make your back and arms look sexy.
Which raises the question
So where is all the money going?
I buy an item and I have that item at my disposal, I donate to a local cult and get a verbal promise that they will do right by the donations to help the people whom need it.. sound good huh?
I dated this bitch, whom will remain nameless, mainly because I honestly feel if I state her name three times she will appear and continue to fuck up my life. She had some crooked grandparents, they converted their half a million dollar mansion's living room into a church. So they don't pay taxes, they got ordained - Mainly it seems to drink more boxed wine during the services. Man they got ordained off their asses! Then the collection plate comes around not once, not twice, but three times during the service's.
The only thought I had was "Why the fuck doesn't anyone here see that were in a mansion!?!?"
A good portion of the money went to the boxed wine and lunch money for my ex.
Modern society - I refuse to use the term civilized - has two basic levels from what I was able to see.
Broke: Broke people have little to no food, work at labor halls and have limited funds to grasp anything that can get them a foot hold to a better life - doable but damn near fucking impossible.
Non-Broke: These are people whom no longer worry about were the next meal is coming from and can afford a few minor luxuries like heat, electric, computer and a car that doesn't constantly needs repair - but if it did they can afford it.
Non-Broke is now the American dream! Via good job or Scratch off ticket and drastic change of life style from Broke to Non-Broke is what over 60% of the country is hoping for.
The rest of the country is comfortable for lack of a better term - Then there is the top %2 of Americans who are loaded! Lets call them Dicks - BROKE - NON-BROKE - DICKS. Some whould say why don't you just state it as lower class, middle class, and upper class. Well that did work for a while, but it's blurred now - Here's the difference:
In the Animal kingdom food is currency, They hunt for food and eat food they need food to be alive - The more food the better the animal is, "Healthier." (some animals actually trade food for sexual favors)
The Non-Broke Animals eat their share and leave the rest to the pride or the gaggle or whatever animal you were thinking.
So in the animal kingdom Food = Money
In the Modern society Money = Food
What most people forgot is we are still animals (If you don't believe me I would like to reference The Blood Hound Gangs 'Bad touch' as states evidence A)
Too many people wake up everyday with one thought "Fuck I gotta eat!"
Maybe they will, maybe they wont. Whilst others wake up and think "Burger king or Chinese buffet?"
And 2% of American wake up thinking "Fire up the Jet Jeeves I want waffles from Belgium after my morning caviar Blow Job!"
In the animal kingdom if %2 of the Forrest was hording %98 of the food.. it would get fucking ugly fast. From time to time it has, people have made some pretty desperate decisions with nasty consequences. If the Forrest was handing out food twice a day between 6 am and 10 and again at 4pm-8. The uprising of animals that want to destroy the hoarders are sashayed for a period of time. So are soup kitchens helping or just a nice middle ground between the poor uprising and the killing the rich for our modern blockage between them food, Money, or their own apathetic demise.
How to control the poor has been a issue for centuries. In Edinburgh for years it was unlawful to be homeless and with no shelters once you lost your ass you were forced to live in the sewers or be killed. Vald "The impaler" Tepes actually hosted a banquet for all the homeless people in his domain to a feast.. it was located in a giant wooden dinning hall... that was sealed up a torched.
So why are the homeless so bad? Well they don't bath often which to any modern person lowers their value as a human. Some homeless and uneducated, which also make them worthless in the eyes of the people. Some homeless people are insane which screws them right out of anything. I'd go bat shit crazy too after living on the streets for a few years. So what do we do? The approach of shelters and daily breads in a wonderful compassionate idea, asylums or "Mental Health Retreats" is the legal equivalent of shipping them crazy fuckers out on their own island, however the DICKS hoarding 98% of the money - The same DICKS who do not want to have a poor uprising because they have to most to lose - yet don't spend anywhere close to what they could to help places like these function - instead they need a more hot tubes made from amethyst geodes... actually that would be sweet.
Well, how about programs that help and teach the homeless and poor and broke to better themselves they are out there and the government helps but the programs are weak so they need to charge more taxes... well who has the most money they won't miss? Instead they get tax breaks.
"You're fair share aint in my pocket!"
"No thank you I'll keep my 'CHANGE!'"
But the fucking problem is were sorta a free country.. I stress sorta. They can hoard the money, they earned it, or inherited it - or legally took over another company and sold it. They also have the right to bitch about the socialistic ways were spending the money.
"Lazy ass homeless people need to get a job!" No truer words have been spoken.
"All the homeless do is mooch!" Unfortunately some do abuse the system, your a little right there.
"Why should I give any of my hard earned money to help anyone else less fortunate than me, when I worked my way up from broke to non-broke? No one helped me!"
Well, No two situations are exactly the same and you are a very strong person for being able to get to non- broke. Why should you help them at all? Here, I believe, is a good reason..
BECAUSE ONE DAY THEY WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!
If the next president says "Fuck'em! Let the homeless fend for themselves!" Shutting down all government funded programs.
I promise you with in the next three hours thousands upon thousands of shopping carts will fill the aisles of every Walmart, kmart, Aldi, and Win Dixie and all the food would be gone! Stinky Riots will flood the streets! They will easily out number the police and national guard 500 to 1! They don't need to be organized they just need to be pissed off! Shortly after they digest, they will go for whatever weapons are left that the REALLY pissed didn't take. Like a wave of Zombie's they will hit every major super market in America and once that's done they will go for the homes.. some of the lazy will go to the modest homes, but the house with the 324 rooms and the 5 pools shaped like the Beatles are going down hard. They will kill the residents and move in!
Who will be safe? Possibly the middle class! Sure they will have seen better days, but once all the wealth is spread everyone will then be upper middle class. Well the 60% of Broke Americans will be happy.. sorta.
The armed forces will be forced to attempted martial law but it's hard to enforce martial law when the offenders are everywhere! When the fighting die's down squatters rights would have to be completely reevaluated. People would have to rebuild starting with food, some people would have to start farming again, this time not on Facebook! Slowly America will have to learn to tolerate thy neighbor. Crime will go down to a whisper (after all the looting) because people have what they need/want. Companies will have to charge less because of the economic fall out. Starting over completely. Prices for about everything will reflect prices from the 1920's! Even this too shall pass and society will hit a equilibrium were everyone works and everyone spends and everyone has a place to call home. People will have to learn to work with each other helping each other learn from the mistakes from the past.
Lincoln said, "A house divided can not stand"
Maybe even a lovely world were the words republican and democrat mean "The old ways"
Where religion is practiced privately and people's interactions are only judged on their actions.
Now we help one another to make everyone richer and healthier - No such thing as a second hand citizen.
Sure there will be small groups of people who hold on the to old ways like militias in the south waiting for it to rise again.. but lets pray it never does.
The government will topple and the constitution will read as it does today but with a small change:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
WELCOME TO AMERICA: TAKE 2!
Then again it can all just go straight to goat shit...
