Posted by Raul on August 26, 2010
Isn’t it the place where so many people cultivate themselves with a good book? Or get thoroughly informed with the daily newspaper?
The place where we learn, get informed, think about important issues and, in general, can truly spill our guts out in search of relief and wisdom.
So how comes that we don’t give the toilet its important place in our lives? We just keep it there, in a corner of the house, like we do with someone we claim is our loved one, waiting for us when we need them.
I’m not saying go now and give your toilet a hug, show it your love and real feelings, but how about a little more respect for such important artifact in our pitiful lives?
For instance…
Thank to the toilets we can be honest people; just think about it, and I‘m not kidding in this one; if it wasn’t for the toilets we would be, literally, full of shit
How important is that a toilet can receive and hold all our shit so it doesn’t hit the fan instead, have you thought about that?
When a water tap breaks you can cut off the water from the main source, call a plumber and wait until he arrives to fix the problem; it is not the best situation but you can manage in the meantime, but when the toilet back flushes you’ll be on the phone screaming: “I NEED YOU TO BE HERE NOW!”
And that’s a really sad situation (when a toilet back flushes) because your own shit comes back to you, and not only that, your neighbor’s shit comes along, so you start thinking; “What am I doing wrong? Could it be Karma?”
So what is the real meaning that in the end we are all connected by the same sewer pipe?
Another point to consider is that, no matter who you are, a president, a dictator, a saint, the Pope, a millionaire, a thief or simply an anonymous pedestrian, we all have in common that, at some point, we will have to stop by the toilet, so why then go on in this life pretending to be the smart one, the powerful one, the saint one, the “above the rest” one; we all end up in the toilet at some point, which proves we all have been carrying our own shit inside.
For those reasons, when I am in that less than elegant situation, I can feel myself as part of the human race, as another true human being; in that precious point in life when we are all equal.
To the toilet we show our real face!
Maybe replacing seats for toilets at the Senate would help reach better and faster agreements!
My apologies for the extensive use of the word shit, but in this situation the word “poop” just didn’t seem to make it, not with the same meaning, or at least the same “intensity”
Now, let me ask you a favor; if you feel that this post can be of help in someone else’s enlightening, then please feel free to re-tweet the shit, I mean, the post; thank you!
Raul
UPDATE
Marion, from The Second Half of My Life sent me this funny picture, she said: “It was taken in Bangkok where western style toilets in public places are a new introduction”
Thank you Marion for the picture; it is really funny 
Raul
Posted by Raul on August 12, 2010
When you are in pain, confused, lost, or simply bored, go to God Google.
When you need to receive advice, directions, information or amusement, go to God Google.
Even if you have sexual desire to satisfy God Google will give you the information and connections you need to get the relief you seek.
Our new God Google is here to help us, protect us, guide us and even entertain us without imposing rules or commandments.
Do you remember the times before God Google?
You had to go all the way to the library for information; you had to ask around to countless people just to get a vague answer to your queries; you had to read books, newspapers and magazines to see if your specific question would be answered in one of those pages.
You had to invest so much time and effort to satisfy your needs of information or curiosity.
You had to go through so many tribulations in order to reach the desired wisdom of such information.
But no more!
God Google is here for us.
Forget all the previous gods taught by the older generations that gave you just the possibility to pray but no instant answer.
With God Google you get not only the answer to your questions in about 1.35 seconds, but you get alternatives to go thru if the first answer doesn’t satisfy you.
So don’t forget to pay your Monthly Contribution (bill) to your Chosen Church (internet provider company) so you can be connected to your God Google.
Fight for your God Google! Defend It from anything and anyone that try to destroy It.
There are countless Evil Search Engines that will try to tempt you into the wrong ways, so be on guard, become a Saint Soldier that’s willing to surrender his/her life to defend and protect our new God Google.
God Google is good and doesn’t try to be the only one for you and take your total attention making you forget about your own personality.
No matter what religion, belief or concept you have, God Google will let you connect with those personal beliefs because God Google is Mighty and Magnanimous and doesn’t need to capture and retain all your attention so to keep you under It’s only light and darkness around.
God Google knows that whatever your beliefs are now, you will recognize and accept It’s Mighty so doesn’t need to create Holly Wars to retain you.
What would it be to go back to the Dark Times before God Google?
Recognize that you’ll be lost if from this moment you loose the connection with God Google.
You wouldn’t know what to do or where to start when in need of information.
You’ll be lost in the dark, trying to remember how to live and do things in the very inefficient way it used to be.
Time has come to change the saying to: “Oh my Google!”
We live in the Information Era so the Information God is here!
Kneel in front of our new God Google!
Father Raul
Posted by Raul on August 9, 2010
Guest posts seems to be the way to go these days, so to not get behind, I asked my good friend Mr. Rabbit to write something for this blog. Please let’s give a nice welcome to Mr. Rabbit.
Thank you, thank you! I’m happy to be here today and have the opportunity to talk about some issues that might not be considered as they should.
As Raul has mentioned before in another post, the exponential growth in housing for the past several years in the area where he works and I live, the rabbit population has experienced an out of control growth that creates a problem.
ROLE REVERSAL
With the past construction boom that lead to indiscriminate housing expansion for the past ten years, the natural habitat of rabbits, foxes, coyotes and wolves have been completely transformed into fancy neighborhoods occupied by big houses, expensive cars and well cared lawns.
Because of this, foxes, coyotes and wolves have suffered the indignity of being expelled from their natural habitat and rabbits, being such small and silent creatures, had the opportunity of uncontrolled multiplication since just a small, thick bush will provide enough shelter from weather and now the inexistent natural depredators.
At the other hand, many people, after experiencing a comfortable financial situation, have moved to these new areas of fancy houses that attempt to resemble the place for the “Rich and Famous”, but with the economic fall and the imposed burden by the reduction in jobs and salaries, these same people have found themselves in the position of having to literally abandon their dream homes to go back to their already forgotten original financial and social situation or simply remain with the remote hopes that things will improve in the future, but forced to survive in the meantime in a precarious financial situation.
The result is by now we have people who are scared of their future while rabbits seem to be loosing the old fear to human beings. Because of this situation, rabbits have taken the streets to spend their time mostly loitering with complete abandonment of careful planning and continuous precautions about what the dangers are for their particular specie.
At the other hand, people seems to be scared of even venturing outside their homes by the continuous fear of finding themselves in the presence of a neighbor that might ask them “How are you doing” and not having a good answer to such terrible question.
So it seems roles, slowly but surely, have started to invert between people and rabbits and now we have fancy neighborhoods with scared people and pretentious rabbits that have started deadly games among them like running in front and across of a passing car as to prove their might. Sadly, the rate of successful attempts is just of 15 % (squash!)
Because of these situations, rabbits show signs of urgent psychological help to prevent these suicidal games that, not only are changing their natural behavior, but also generate the destruction of fancy make up work by the ladies driving sport utilities that cannot help but make a face of disgust (eww!)
It becomes imperative then that the proper roles assigned by Mother Nature to its creatures be restored, so we can have people that don’t live in fear and rabbits that recover their natural survival instinct as the way it should be.
Thank you for your time.
Mr Rabbit
Mr. Rabbit works as a counselor and therapist for highly stressed rabbits that require assistance in adapting to a fast changing world. Right now he is in the process of starting a blog to document his discoveries in the field of rabbit psychology, as soon as he can get around the problem of typing without fingers; for that reason no email address is available at this time.
To contact Mr. Rabbit please send written letters to: Bush #7, West Side Park, Centennial, CO. 80016
Posted by Raul on August 5, 2010
Just for the fun of it!
Have you felt sometimes like something is wrong about life? Like things are out of place? Not in the way they should be? Well, I discovered the problem!
We are born the wrong way! We should be born old people and die as a baby.
Let me explain:
We should be born as an old person, with all the experience and knowledge of a lifetime accumulated, having a pension already so parents wont have to worry about our sustenance.
With that experience and knowledge, we would know exactly what we want from life and what to do with it, so there’ll be no wasting time learning and searching for “what to do with ourselves”
As time goes by we would grow stronger so accomplishing the required tasks to achieve our dreams would be easier and easier.
After the first ten years of our lives we would be already in the right track to reach our biggest accomplishments and become famous and filthy rich.
As time keeps going by we will become younger, stronger and handsome, plus the already earned fame and riches, so we would be able to enjoy all that fame and money in a young, strong body and simply blow out all our riches in parties, drugs and fun.
By the end of our lives we would be cute, little babies and our parents will take care of us (no need for nursing homes) and at the moment of our death everybody would cry from their hearts (who doesn’t lament the departure of a cute baby?)
So there you have it! We are born the wrong way and that’s why things seem to be upside down in this life.
Just kidding!
Raul
Posted by Raul on August 2, 2010
Why should I see this? Why is it always like this? The noise, the smog, the trash all around, the fake smiling faces; the smell of rotten ideas that form the surroundings wherever we go.
I don’t want to see this ugly world anymore! I don’t need my vision, I don’t need to see all this trash around, I would be better without the vision of my eyes, better darkness than this ugly world in front.
“So the vision goes away and complete, permanent darkness take place all around.”
Without the vision it becomes better to introspect about the world, only…I can still hear the strident noises, the lies, the gossip, all the unpleasant sounds that surrounds me all the time.
“So the hearing goes away and complete, permanent silence takes place all around”
Isn’t that better? No vision that shows an ugly world and no hearing that allows noises to interfere with thoughts, only…I can still smell the trash and the rotten world that surrounds me.
“So the sense of smell goes away and no offensive, rotten world can be perceived.”
In the dark, silent new surroundings, all the thoughts can dance at will with no interference from the outside world that destroy the peaceful moment, so it can be enjoy at will, only…I can still taste the bitterness of the world around by the foods that I have no choice but to consume.
“So the sense of taste goes away and the foods are just nourishment without the bitter message of the world.”
And perfection is achieved! The perfect environment for reflection where no external elements interfere with thoughts, only…my body still perceives the cold and heat of this trashy world.
“So the sense of touch goes away and no wind, cold or heat can be felt anymore.”
Reaching the perfect point of independence, the perfect place for introspection, away from everything and everyone, yet in the same original place…happiness!
Thoughts fly by in front of me and dance to the sounds of my feelings; imagination gets freewill to express itself to the largest extent without limitations imposed by a decadent world around…I’m reaching perfection!
As the time goes by the thoughts seems to be the same, just with little variations in their tone and intention. The original state of independence starts to feel a state of loneliness without external constant feeding.
What once was the happiness of individualism becomes the desperation of being alone, abandoned by the surroundings that no longer can touch and influence the being behind the thoughts.
Crying in desperation for a longed connection with another being, so loneliness can go away and be replaced by the continuous, never ending input received throughout life, together with the perception of the elements that conforms the physical surroundings.
“So the sense of touch returns…”
The shapes! The textures! Even the temperatures that can be perceived with a single touch of the object…amazing!
“Then the sense of taste returns…”
Flavors…so many of them! And the desire of trying them all, one by one, all at once! If I could know more about them!
“So the sense of smell returns…”
Not just the food, but the flowers, the trees, the humid dirt after the rain, even the acrid smell of waste seems to be an outstanding experience! If I could only have more!
“So the hearing returns…”
What is that…music? And birds and the wind and voices all around that feed the senses with sounds and information to process and play with, but I want more!
“So the vision returns…”
Colors for everything and everyone! The complete understanding of the shapes of the objects experienced only by touch, now undeniably acquired in the brain, the mind.
Standing here makes no sense when there’s so much to be seen, to be heard, smelled and touched. There is a whole universe of physical element to be experienced and enjoyed throughout life.
And the thoughts that conform the mind get expanded and colorful with diversity when fed by so many physical elements and situations that can be experienced.
And people! With all the variations that can be encountered and all the different thoughts, opinions and experiences that can be learned and enjoyed from.
So questioning stops…and living begins!
Raul
