Writing and the great

I was watching Alexander the other day with my partner (yes I know raunchy gay sex)
And it piqued back up my interest in how much change a person can make in the world.

I have always been fascinated by Egypt, more than their ability to create the oldest ancient wonder of the world, the only one still intact, and one that modern day engineers are a bit unsure as to how they did it, (besides that they killed thousands of slaves) was the fact that they created writing! Every person reading this owes that to them (I say them as no one is sure who wrote the first hieroglyph) and so we have been able to record human history over the last 5 and a half thousand(ish) years. The mind boggles to think what happened before then, were we simply animals before that stage? I doubt it, as marks of 'civilisation' were around long before that.

Something else that sings to me about egypt, is the show of pure will, how one person can control so many, without the need for physical dominance, the power of the human mind as I went into in my last post. That power is limitless, which is why I can't definitely say that any religion is wrong, or that at one time in history witches and wizards did not exist. I am a believer that anything is possible, if you TRULY believe in something, it can manifest itself as 'real', too many times children are told that they can't do something, and that the world is harsh, and the world is a BAD place, and so they grow up with this belief, and you know what, the world IS a bad place, but not because of the things that happen, the 'bad' things happen because people believe in them. Of course it would be impossible (near ;) ) to change everyone's beliefs on this in an instant, but if you look at all of the historical figures throughout history who achieved anything humongous, you will see it started off with a belief!

But I digress, this does not tap into the origin of writing, and its meaning to me. Writing, gave the less physically powerful, a means to be powerful beyond what the most muscled up 'alpha male' could ever hope to acomplish. The power behind words is huge! In the end, there is only one thing that a person can change that will effect their life and all that they do, and all that they experience, and that is their mind. So in saying that, if you are able to change someones mind, you essentially have a higher level of control, and people wonder why there is such a huge gap between our rich and our poor, they are afraid to lose this power.

I went to a comedy festival gig last night, and I saw Will Anderson, very funny, I would reccomend it to anyone, but there was one point he made that really stuck with me; 85 people have as much resources at their disposal as half the world (3.5 billion people) now this is staggering, there has never been a time in history when the ratio has been so large in proportion, (mostly because the population only hit 1 billion, just over 200 years ago) and yet, I don't know of any of these people doing any AMAZING things (in my mind) to compare with the pyramids. This is because, they too are trapped, constantly striving for an increase of a number on their screen, the money isn't even real any more, it's now just a meaningless number, most of which will not be used by themselves, what most people don't understand is that money isn't actually valuable, money is a concept, a concept the numeration of the value of products and services.

One day I plan on being VERY rich, first because I want to live in comfort and not have to do anything that I want to do, admittedly selfish, but that's fine with me. And secondly, to put me in a position to make REAL change in this world, I will start a revolution in my time, the world WILL NOT know what hit it, too much injustice, too much wrong with this world, I'm not saying I will fix it all, but I'm going to fucking try!

As always, love to you all

Tom

The power of the Human Brain!

Hey world :)

About time I wrote another post, and today is a joyous occasion, because yesterday I went to court, and I got a diversion. For the last couple of weeks I had been worrying about this court case coming up, it was stressing me out, it was putting pressure on my relationship with my lovely partner :( It was really starting to get me towards the end, right up until somebody mentioned that I would be getting a particular judge, who was notorious for being completely unreasonable (there are stories here of my brother and a close friend who got screwed over by this guy). All of a sudden, I remembered something that I have told other people all my life, YOU decide what YOUR outcome is going to be, suddenly my worries disappeared, I felt like laughing! I was in the middle of my family and friends, who expected me to take this matter very seriously, all I said was one little comment to my partner "I'll just have to stop myself from smiling the whole time" And she looked at me like I was absolutely nuts!

Maybe I was crazy, I don't know, but all I knew was everything was going to work out fine, I had spent too long listening to other people, and it had nearly got in my head, I had nearly given in to despair, but at the last minute I DECIDED; that I would walk out of the court that day a happy man.

You know what happened?

Suddenly out of nowhere, there was a different judge, not the one who screwed over a best friend and brother, but another man, a new judge! I nearly laughed my ass off, my lawyer then went into his speal about my early childhood, my achievements etc. Eventually the judge asked a question about whether we had applied for a diversion or not? Which of course we had, but the informant (police officer charging me) had refused to go down that path, Lo and behold, an hour later, I walk out of there with barely a slap on the wrist ($250 fine and a 6 month good behaviour bond) and most importantly, no criminal record.

I still sweated through the hearing, but I was actually kind of excited, (not that I ever want to go back there again) I learned a lot from this whole episode.

First, drinking is bad and can make a fool out of the best of people.

Second (and most importantly), I should not let anyone's beliefs influence my own so easily.

The world is your oyster! You can have ANYTHING you want! The only thing stopping you from achieving whatever you want is YOU. And last of all I want to quote (possibly misquote) something a good friend of mine said recently, and who also inspired me to start my own blog, "The only thing you need to change to be happy, is your MIND"

Peace and love to you all

Tom

Money and Technology, How the world will change inside our lifetime

I think to anyone that really looks, they will see that the world is changing faster than we could have ever imagined it, technology is growing at such an exponential pace that even the younger generations are starting to fall behind. Politics, money and technology, none of these things can stay the same, or else we will surely stagnate and die, people often are willing to accept the harshness of life, they let the government stick their hands in their pockets, because they are taught "this is the right way", "the nice policeman will look after you", "the government has our best interest at heart", "this party is better than that party", ALL a some sort of SICK JOKE.

Well I say no more! we can't live like this, we are trading freedom for ownership of objects, we replace ideals with routine, and all we do is consume, consume, consume, and all the while the "fat cats" sit back and laugh at us, because we run around like good little boys and girls and play the game according to their rules!

I tried introducing a concept to some friends, a concept where everyone benefits, I benefit, they benefit, children in 3rd world countries benefit, the environment benefits, and it was labelled a "scheme", a "scam" and some other nonsense, without ever taking the time to look into it, because they have been taught that "the world is bad, you can't trust other people, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" why is the concept of a world where the benefits of our shopping, our consuming nature, don't only benefit the rich and powerful? Are they that well brainwashed? I offer to anyone willing to listen, a way to create a bright future for themselves, a brighter future for others, and a brighter future for all our future generations, and now heres the point where you say, "so whats the catch?" the catch is nothing, why does there have to be a catch? Join Free, benefit immediately, and do good by providing funds to those in need, and providing funds to a more sustainable future, without ever taking a dollar out of your pocket, the corporations pay this for you, to say thank you for shopping with them, doesn't this sound quite Utopian? Well it's actually quite real, I can show you how to do this, for FREE, the catch is it may take a little bit more organisation/effort than your average couch potato might have, and even then its barely.

I don't plan on trading my time for money much longer, I will help anyone who is willing to be helped, I have great vision for the future of this world, I have been held back long enough listening to other people's beliefs. Hold on world, if you can't see what I see, that is your issue, and to be honest I don't really care, I know people out there will care, try to hold me back, and I say good luck to you, you'll have to kill me.

Love always,

Tom
tomj.nicholls@gmail.com

Today I want to talk about money, money is a pretty strange concept when you think about it, it is relatively worthless in itself, yet it is given value because people believe it has value.

The largest problem with our current monetary system is that once you have money, it becomes a lot easier to get more money, an interesting phenomenon, because people want your money, you can exert control on them, and as such being in the position of power are able to get more money in your pocket. (and so on and so forth)

Money has always intrigued me, and I've always wondered about the whole "power corrupts" scenario, but I essentially believe that no matter how many outside influences you try to blame it on, your corruption stems from yourself and your own decisions. I believe that when I am a billionaire I will use the control that I am able to wield for good, rather than evil. As a child when I told adults that I would be rich, I was called all sorts of nasty names, "arrogant", "naive" just to name a couple, why is it that people put this evil stigma on money? Money is not evil, money is a concept, a concept that people believe in, and a concept people are willing to follow to their graves (sounds like fanaticism hey?)  and I for one want to create A LOT of money, but I plan on doing A LOT of good with this money.

Money, essentially, is a religion, and much like any religion, to retain its control, it must keep the masses in ignorance. We are brought up to believe, that we have to "go to school", "don't do drugs", "follow your career path", because we are told, this is the best way we can earn money, when essentially, no matter how hard you work, no matter how far up the corporate chain you go, you will be working for somebody else, and I promise you, you will be earning peanuts.

The strangest thing I have ever found about money, is people's attitude towards it. Take a modern day, aged 35+, 9-5 office worker for example, I'm sure you have heard all sorts of comments like: "I'm broke", "I can't wait for pay day", now don't get me wrong, for most teenagers, mid twenties and so on, I kind of expect them to blow their money at the nightclub every weekend. But WHERE are these people spending their money? now I'm not stupid, I understand there are all sorts of expenses, all sorts of reasons why they might be running short on money, but to live pay cheque to pay cheque is absolutely absurd!

We live in a country where one can live off the minimum wage, relatively comfortably, but are we just too lazy and too greedy to live off double that? Or should our society be teaching people how to save money? and more importantly, how to utilise their money correctly? Or would this be bad because it would interrupt our consumer driven economy? I don't know, all I know is there is no WAY I am repeating the mistakes of previous generations, I want to be the change that I want to see, I don't know who will join me though.

I could go on forever about money, but I'll leave it at that, because I want to go back to focusing on LOVE :)

Tom

Welcome to my mind

I've often thought about writing my thoughts down as they come to me. As most people who know me already know, I have an opinion, and some information, stored in my brain, on just about any subject that comes up. Information fascinates me, I love hearing it, I love reading it, I love discovering it. The problem I have with information, and a reason why a lot of people aren't going to like my writing style, is because to me everything is information, and I often forget how people feel about that information, as you can imagine this can cause some conflict.

Some background; As a kid I never understood how everyone else functioned, it never seemed to make any sense, it was all an elaborate set of rules that were ever flowing, ever changing, depending on a whole host of different factors, that instinctively they all seemed to know. I felt somehow incomplete, insufficient, and often very lonely.

To avoid the real world where nothing made any sense, I dived into books, small books, to novels, to huge 1000+ page books, you see none of these books had any logical rules in them (which was how I viewed the whole world at this time), at this stage I did not enjoy reading history, I enjoyed teens that turned into animals, and books with dragons and magicians, and elves and dwarves, because all these things seemed much more exciting than real life, yet at the same time, seemed to make as much sense as how people reacted to being corrected by a 5 year old. Now how people react to being corrected by a 5 year old might make sense to you, of course he is being a "smart ass" etc, but to me I did not understand why they talked about being a "smart ass" like I had just done something extremely naughty. This was one of the most confusing statements of my early life, in fact because I had no understanding of what they meant by this, I took it to mean "I am intelligent, and that is BAD" and I took up a habit of hitting my head on things, because I knew this would kill brain cells and maybe I could fit in with everyone else.

Now, I don't blame my parents for the way I was brought up, in fact I believe I am quite lucky as I could have had much less tolerant parents, but I don't believe that they were prepared for how I am.
I will probably go into alot more stories(in future posts) about times I have made complete social, and emotional "f&#k ups" if you'll excuse my French, but today I just want to introduce myself, and this is one part of my make up, that I have found has drawn people to me, but more often pushed them away (often very quickly), with not much of a middle ground.

Now I never understood what there was about me that made me so different to everyone else, (try looking up, why is everyone so crazy? why doesn't anyone make any sense? it doesn't get you too far) until YEAR 9, and a book called "the curious incident of the dog in the night time" All of a sudden, WOW I had something I could look into (research, research, research), there are other people out there like me, there are other people out there even further on this "spectrum" who would be insanely jealous of my social and emotional intelligence and abilities. Funnily enough, my elder brother had to read this book in previous years for school, and I remember asking him about it, and he said it was boring and not to bother reading it, so I didn't. This is the only book that I had to read for school that I truly ever thought was worth my time.

In a post soon, I will probably go into my development/journey from being completely inept and close to non functioning, to being able to fool people who I first meet into never knowing that I am in the least bit socially awkward or often emotionally incapable. From hardly knowing the difference between a sad person and a happy person beyond cartoon pictograms of :( and :) to being able to read someone at a poker table and clear them of all their money.

This blog will often be filled with random thoughts I have of space-time, media control, world poverty, technology, history, sport, and a whole host of other subjects, but I will often come back to this subject, as it really is important to me, if you follow these posts, you will see how I have spent so long delving into other people's minds, that sometimes I forget that my mind may be as interesting to others as yours is to me. I doubt I will proof read most of what I write, but I am always happy to answer questions and I apologise for any errors in spelling and punctuation.

Thank you for reading, your mind is beautiful and don't let anyone tell you what you are or aren't