Home is where the sharks are.

What are you going to do when it’s too hot to even go into the water? It had better cool down because it’s almost August on the Pacific coast which means Abalone will soon be of prime concern to those like me that cannot seem to stay out of shark infested waters.
I don’t know if it’s the primordial soup calling me back home or just the brilliant colors of another world that we can only visit but never again live in.
Although I do truly love to dive for and then eat the giant snails I doubt it’s the prey that keeps bringing me back as I still have a couple in my Kenmore, more like the hunt I suspect.
There is something calming about being in the ocean and seeing things that are both familiar and surprising at the same time. These sights have probably been genetically imprinted on our gray matter for eons but having built a world outside of the Earths womb in order to show off our thumbs, we have, most of us; forgotten that part of us that now only lingers in our sleeping thoughts.
Every type of activity has its following of crazy’s, skydivers, rock climbers, surfers, bikers, scuba and free divers, they are all the same only different. Different in the way they see themselves against the backdrop of normal life. They tend to hang together to limit having to explain to people who don’t get it. But they also play off each other, pushing themselves to ever-greater lengths, mostly for the purpose of perfecting their skills but also for that rush that the sport holds for them. I have done them all and totally enjoy them all but, the one thing that diving does that none of the others can do is put us back where life on this planet began. It’s a feeling of belonging and being in an alien environment at the same time.
For me, there’s nothing quite like driving to the coast parking in a lot on the beach where people of various shapes, ages, gender and varying degrees of “hotness” are half naked either changing to or from their wetsuits, drinking cold beers from the back of their vehicles and showing the world that at least for an hour or so they are totally free.
The strange thing is that everything in the ocean is beautiful, brightly colored and extraordinary to look at while it’s in the ocean. But once removed from the water and held hostage in dry dock it turns ugly and useless. Makes me think, maybe humans should have quit while we were ahead. While we were still beautiful.

Way Back - An earlier writing

Going back - Way back!Imagine the day is just dawning, the sun has already started warming the earth and you know the day will be beautiful, sunny and warm.You find yourself standing in the cool sand at the edge of the Pacific ocean marveling at the awesome power of it all. Something tugs at your very soul when you look out to sea. Something primal and raw and powerful!With your fins in your hand you step into the sea, pushing your float tube ahead of you until you get deeper.Finally you bend to slip you feet into the fins, fall forward onto the tube and set a course for your site, the location you've picked to do your hunting.While kicking out to sea you bury your masked face in the water and watch schools of fish large and small, decked out in every color known to man and some you've never seen before. Life everywhere going about it's daily activity of survival mostly ambivalent to you.Once at the dive spot you start looking in earnest at the bottom, at rocks on the sides of rocks and underneath ledges until you spy the query. Abalone, stuck to the rocks underneath their army helmet shells covered with camouflage.You grab onto some kelp to anchor your position while digging in the float tube for your ab bar and ab gage.Now you start hyperventilating 2, 3, 4 big deep breaths. Exhale as much as you can and immediately inhale as much air as you can get into your lungs and dive!Bend over as though you're doing toe touches and once your body is inverted head toward the bottom, toward the rock, toward dinner!Go slow and easy, you don't want to expend any more energy than necessary to reach the bottom.Slide up on the Ab and ram the bar underneath between the creature and the rock. Now pry toward you fast and hard, break the suction and pull the giant mollusk off the rock!Grab it and head toward the surface. Do not give in to the spasms racking your lungs, do not give in to the need to breathe, do not give in to that overwhelming urge to open your mouth letting the spent air rush out of your aching lungs and replace it with the burning sea that would spell your end. Kick baby kick your way to the surface, kick your way to blue sky, sun, wind and oxygen.When you break the surface you look and feel like a missile coming out of the water! Take that first life giving breath and feel the pain and fear leave you like it always does.Grab the float tube and check the Ab once again to verify its of legal size. Now drop it in to the float tube and bury your face in the ocean again and start looking for another Ab.Three Abalone 7 inches or larger is your limit, you've done good. Now flop your tired rubber body onto that tube and head toward shore.You have one prize waiting on shore, in the ice chest your brought with you, yes that ice cold beer that always says - job well done!

The Golden Years

Have you ever stopped and thought about the rest of your life? I don’t mean in the way you might think about doing something or getting something or living somewhere. I mean just think about the rest of your life. If it continues on like the present, no change, which is probably the way things will go. After all how much has your life truly changed in the last five or ten years? Again I don’t mean material objects or knowledge/experience gained but true changes. Are you living differently, are you in a different place seeing completely different people and doing completely different things than before?
This planet we call home is a good place for a dog. But for a human it sucks because most of us want more than we will ever have. There is no peace or contentment to be had, only the knowledge that we will never have it.
Do you see yourself getting old? What will you do? Will you spend your time sitting on the bench that you now pass by every day without thought? Will you sit in the old bar on Main Street or at the edge of town where although many “oldsters” hang out; you wouldn’t be seen in now?
What do you do now for fun? Will you continue to do that then? Will you be able to afford it?
Every one seems to think that retirement is the “Golden Age”. Ahh, just think about it, no more meetings, no more getting up and going to work at a certain time, no more tasks that must be completed. Ahh yes, just… what? Sleep in? Sit around? Watch TV all day? Drink beer until your drunk and then drink until your sober and then start over?
Okay that’ll be fun for a week but then what?

Muslims are just children that need a good spanking!

My first reaction to the latest Muslim terror attacks was to just kill all Muslims in the world.
WHY NOT?
Actually there is no logical answer to “why not?” from my perspective.
If all Muslims in the world were gone, what would it matter? What do they really contribute to the world other than to create suffering and to keep the people who follow Islam oppressed and ignorant?
Why does the world need Muslims? Who would miss them?
NOONE!
The problem is if we killed them all, they would come back over and over and over again. Maybe not in the form of Muslims but in some other ignorant childlike people who seem to be indigenous to the Middle East.
Is there really a GOD? No.
Is there really some disembodied energy floating around in space watching after us? No.
These are all myths started in the Middle East to control mindless ignorant people who are incapable of managing their own destiny.
Because they are “managed” they’ve never evolved and progressed with the rest of the world.
I am completely amazed at the rest of the world’s belief in religion when they know where it all supposedly started!
The world knows people in the Middle East are ignorant and stupid. The world knows that these people are backward by design and have always been controlled by mass psychological concepts like religion.
The rest of the world knows that pretty much all the beliefs and concepts in the Middle East are ridiculous and only those that have not evolved could even believe in such non-sense.
But…….
The rest of the world has bought into the whole religion theory hook, line and sinker. Why? Because human beings are nurtured after birth for so long, 18 years that after leaving the nest the idea of not having a parent watching over us is too foreign to even imagine.
Humans in general have the parent, protector concept so imprinted on our psyches that we can’t let go of it. Thus the whole GOD concept.
GOD doesn’t exist because he’s real; he exists because humans need him to feel safe.
I believe in the early stages of Judaism that the Jews “Country” was basically named because of everyone asking about their beliefs and they constantly had to tell people that God is real. Thus Israel was born. (I know Is real;(English) didn’t exist yet but hay it sounds good.
How does this all fit into why we won’t gain anything by killing Muslims?
Because it isn’t just Islam that is “crap”! It’s religion as a whole.
Without yin you don’t have yang, without light you can’t grasp darkness, without good there is no evil.
Without religion there is no Islam, just a bunch of poorly dressed nuts running around in dirty laundry.
Muslims hate the rest of the world because they are basically jealous of what the rest of the world has become with their God and they can’t understand why Allah has let this happen to them.
Since they believe Allah is the one and only true God why has the rest of the world evolved and prospered when they have not.
The only answer their tiny little minds can construe is that they have been “true” to the old rules and that is what Allah wants them to do and therefore the new ways are wrong and they must do everything they can to destroy it in Allah’s name.
After all if their God is real and the new ways were the “right way” wouldn’t they have it all?
As long as religion is allowed to exist then Islam will exist or some other cult or force in the world that will continue to drag the world down.
When religion is finally debunked and the world takes that energy and resources and focuses it on peace and invention and the quest for scientific knowledge the world will truly become one and the ignorant people of the world will be bathed in the light of understanding.
God said, “Let there be light, and there was light and the light was good.”