Below are the 17 most recent journal entries recorded in revie_roo's LiveJournal:

Friday, September 5th, 2008
3:04 pm	The truth about God and everything. So I just wrote this up for the thinkers guild, but I like it a lot. I think Nate's the only person who reads my public posts (double shot for Nate), but if anyone else does: Here's a bit of Ravel for you. Humanity seems to be leaning away from the idea of God. Strict rationalism and science seem to be taking over all the aspects of society that God used to fill: When you're sad you don't pray, you take pills. When you feel guilty about things you don't ask forgiveness, you go to a counselor. When you feel like there is no one in the world who understands you or truly loves you, you don't find solace in unconditional love, you try to fill that space in your life with another person (in truth you have to love yourself to love another). There is no human soul, so there is no real reason for anything. It's all random mutation. God is no longer a source to turn to when things are just fucked and you don't understand why you're crying. ________ So are we really better off knowing the "truth"? It seems like we just told everyone in the world that there is no reason for existence, there is no real standard for morals, and then we put them all on pills. These pills aren't really helping though, they're just fucking everything up. God actually helped things, maybe it was just a placebo, or talking to a priest, or the idea that there IS A REASON FOR ALL THE HURT, but it didn't ruin people with drugs. So the church is bad and evil blah blah blah blah blah. Man fucks everything that he gets involved in. As if we wouldn't have come up for a reason to raid Jerusalem without the crusades? Stalin outlawed religion, and shit still went pretty badly, gays were still discriminated against and killed etc etc etc etc. More wars fought over religion then any other blah blah blah blah. Hitler's basis for exterminating the Jews wasn't religious, it was scientific. Eugenics were all the rage at the time and he was just trying to purify the gene pool. The evil isn't in church. The evil is in humanity, the church is just an attempt to curb some of that evil. It's an attempt to have men look into themselves for answers. It's the very best of humanity, the problem is IT'S STILL HUMANITY. So we have proof that there is no God now, awesome. Who hears you when you pray? No one hears you. --but don't you think it's a good thing to get down on your knees every now and then, and say, if only to yourself, all the things you are grateful for/mull over your problems/and believe that a change will be made? Read about it in "The Secret", or in any self help book. The key is believing in something, and remaining positive. Of course, faith is nothing like that. Of course, the comfort of knowing that everything happens for a reason doesn't help anything. Of course the idea of someone who IS bigger than yourself and is watching out for you, couldn't have any positive side effects on your life. IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER TO TAKE PILLS, THAN TO BELIEVE IN GOD. ________ So I hate it when people mindlessly bash religion. Realizing that there was no God is the worst thing that ever happened to me, but you can't argue with fact. I'll tell you what though, I still pray. It's the only thing that really helps me. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: The Raconteurs (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
6:48 pm	All you worried little buggers... Everything will, in the end, be all right. Smile, and keep going with life. It'll all work out in the end. I dont know where I'll be in 1 year, Stanislaus, Livermore, Santa Rosa, Southern California, Fort Bragg, or dead; but I know whatever the case I'll have bigger problems, more booze, more God, more parties and love. I just hope you all remember to keep your head above the water and keep a smiling face on said head. As for all of the problems we have now, fuck them. None of it really matters. If you can't change it then don't dwell, smile and keep going. Call me if you need me. Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Bob Marley (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 17th, 2006
11:21 pm	I'm at least mostly hypocritical. I hate people who lie about themselves to seem cool. I hate people who lie about what they think to make others happy. I hate people who are dependent on the approval of others for their happiness. I also hate apathy and boxers(the dog). People who can watch others get hurt and laugh make me sick. Someday I'll be rid of them all and be so very much happier. The world cannot possibly be so full of fools and bastards. Surely Livermore is a cursed land. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Random-itunes (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
11:52 pm	:-) <--------for you. I'm going to go ahead and say that today was one of the most relaxing days I've had in months. I took a bath and laid around. I didnt even watch TV, which seems like a chore, I just laid there and looked at the ceiling. Journalism did suck...a lot, come see me personally to hear me bitch about that, but it all worked out and most everyone will live to see next week. They should really stop calling me Editor though and change my position to "mediator in chief" all I do is keep the students from killing the teacher and visa versa. Everytime I write in Livejournal I feel the need to whine, but I'm in a wonderful mood. I'm worried about people, no one sees the glass as full anymore, but I think it'll be okay. After all, for a while there I forgot there ever was a glass, and here I am. Hit me up to cheer up ladies and gents, I'm on cloud nine. Smiles and Sunshine, Ravel Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Marcy Playground (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
9:56 pm	For Nate Doors Ha HA aH ahahahahahaah ha HA HA HA, Never Stop, Laugh ‘till you die, Holy holy holy holy holy CRAP, Nothing is holy, Sacred? Sacrifice your morals for LIFE! The world is saved by it, Smile at your elder and KISS HIM, Kiss the teacher and tell him he was GOOD, Live, stop preparing for life, For in preparation TIME IS WASTED, Dive, Run, Leeeeap, Straight IN without a care, Death-Age-Poverty/FearNOTHING, nothing is worth your fear, For in fearing we DO nothing, and nothing is something QUITE FEARFUL, It is better to have lived and died the to have MADE READY TO DIE, Give way to love Let it come and Devour you, Let it consume you and set fire to your soul and ALL it’s reservations, Stab through the heart all of your petty dreams, Dream for a world that still can, Dream larger, DREAM WORLDS, Remove your shirts and burn Your Clothes, Run naked and BECOME MAN, Earn back your rightful state BECOME ANIMAL, Mr run go fast! ME eat! Happiness is found not in the preparation of a task but in preforming, Stop preparing for LIFE, Sin, live, fly, read, burn, NEVER CONFORM, NEVER DIE, Grow stronger and never weaker, LIFE IS SHORT, We only get one and it is so often WASTED, Stop pretending Stop PRACTICING LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE LIVE!! Give way to ALL OF YOUR INSTINCTS, MAKE LOVE, DRINK! BE MERRY, STOP WASTING EVERYTHING! Wasting life, BE WASTED Travel and SEE ALLIGATORS, LIVE IN PARIS, SKYDIVE, SCARE YOURSELF! Be the weird relative, AND FOR THE SAKE OF MAN LAUGH! Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Steve Miller Band (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
3:15 pm	What the fuck man? Whooooooo! I'm in a terribly wonderful mood!!! I just though you should all know this!!! Whooo! No one is posting anything anymore. party tomorow! Whoo! I'm so psyched for life man. I have soo much to do! Fuck man. I have nothing to say, but this: Happy! Smiles and Sunshine. Current Music: Stupidly Happy...and shit. (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
2:17 pm	It just keeps getting better and better. Okay so here's the update. I get an oodle of money when I turn 18, in three days. I'm learning to drive (Pauls mom took me out today). I enjoy work. I have a new E-mail adress. revelinravel@gmail.com and I have a totally new idea for a life plan, if my original plan doesnt work out. (ask me about it if you're curious) Come see me at Quiznos on Friday, Saturday, or Monday of any week and I'll give you some pretty good discounts. 4-9 on those days. Well, I hope everyone is smiling. :-) Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Tall cans- Transplants (Comment on this)
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
1:28 pm	Sunny Day! Wow, so I thought that the interview went poorly and I didnt get the job. The guy told me he would call by 8 last night, and when he didnt I thought I hadnt got it. Apparently he was "busy" yesterday and couldnt call me until today. I start as soon as I get my work permit in. :-) I'm pretty stoked. Everyone has to come by and see me, order sandwiches and stuff. It's the Quiznos on Vasco, by PW market. Now I finally have something to do every day, :-). Well, talk to me at school or get ahold of me to find out when I work. Smiles and Sunshine everyone. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Fight Club (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 21st, 2006
4:22 pm	"The greatest thing we'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"-The Magical Sitar So I'm just sitting here with absolutely nothing to do today. Paul is at work and I don't have anything that I need to do. I could watch movies, but that's just depressing. I think I'll read a book. The Mummy or Ramses the Dead, by Anne Rice. I love her books and I've had this one sitting here for far too long without picking it up. I applied at a few diffrent places down the street from here for a job and Quiznos wants me to come in tommarow for an interview. That's pretty exciting. I'm almost entirely over my head cold; still a little light headed but nothing crazy. I just need to start being able to be taught when Ian wants to teach me how to drive, instead of running off and all my life will be falling into place. I watched Moulan Rouge today, the music is soo nice. I think I have watched that movie and Jesus Christ Superstar like four or five times in the last few days, and it never gets old. "What's the buzz tell me what's happening" Well that's how I am today, mostly. Other then that I'm just the same as I've been. If anyone needs me, they no where to find me. Smiles and Sunshine for everyone, enjoy. P.S. Pirate Club Coat Drive, Someone remind me! (It's happening) Current Mood: N/A Current Music: Apple Shampoo- Blink182 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 6th, 2006
6:52 pm	The suicide of Tooko running man... So once I ran all the way to Pakistan I only used my own two legs I swam across the ocean this took me several days When it grew dark I just called out and soon some help was there I've slept on sharks and whales which sing but I was never scared I ran across the desert which I admit was quite a fright its oh so hot in morning there and oh so cold at night but here I am before you and you may ask how so because say I, I cannot die for death is much too slow You see its him that drove me there so very far from home he's after me, and you'll agree that I am quite alone I see my friends but once a year its quite a dreadful thing for I have not stopped running since Colombus crossed the sea my name is Tooko running man and that is all I do I am quite bored a little sore and tired through and through so now I shall stop running I'll see what death can do. Current Mood: sympathetic (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
5:11 pm	Welcome to 2006 Its a funny thing how two common sayings are. "High School was the best time of my life" and "Its hard to fit in and find yourself in those years" Maybe we're only happy when we dont know who we are. I hope that the first saying isn't true. I don't think I could stand it if this was the pinnacle of my earthly existence. I guess the second must be true and I feel quite lost. The "crazy adventures" must come to an end. I was hoping that the last two weeks would have come as a much needed break and would kind of be a breather from all the stress that the school year brings. Alas it has done none of this for me. The spaces that were empty were quickly filled with more, perhapes less serious, problems. I kind of want to be old and be done with this whole "prime of your life" buisness. I think I just want a little dog and a rocking chair. I don't think that my dreams ca be fulfilled. I have too many and they are too spread out. My wish to be successful is overshadowed by my desire to see the world and have fun. We only live once right? So I am faced with giving up my prime to dimly lit rooms and scores of books and giving up a comfortable life and having to skate by for all my years. In the end I know its my prime that will go. I just hope their is some time left for me to really live. College it seems, like the rest of your school years, prepares you for life. In this school you gain the needed education so that you can go out and get a job which will make an alright, or perhapes even good income. After College we go out and work at our job, sitting behind our desk for 254 days per year rifling through papers and such, going home on the weekends and watching TV or on an exciting weekend going camping. We then get a one week vacation in which we can enjoy ourselves, travel around and and have a generally good time. We continue this horribly mundane program until we hit age 60 or so and begin to see poorly. Then its the good life, if you have invested well then you can retire and spend the rest of your days polishing wood ducks, gardening, and taping all your favorite shows. Then eventually you hit about 80, if you're not dead and they take away your ducks, your shows, and your garden equipment and make you take pills, so you dont get too excited. Your "legacy" has managed to pay for a wonderful retirement home and you get to have other people clean up for you and change your diapers until one morning you dont wake up. Then everyone cries and says that they should have seen you once a month not once every two, and they bury you and divide the menial funds you have left. Your oldest son sells all but one of your ducks and all the tapes you made are thrown out. Your house is sold and they have a garage sale to see if they can get rid of your furniture before the dump run. All those years wasted so that you can enjoy the one week vacations and duck polishing. There is the alternative of not going to college. In which case you can travel around a bit in your youth, do some crazy things live a really top notch life. Except you work yourself to death in a manual labor job and eventually suffer from an injury that makes you eligible for welfare. You have back problems for the rest of your days, which aren't many, and cant afford ducks, or a VCR. I am searching for a medium. The only ideas I have managed so far are striking it rich soon after college so I can retire early and travel, or getting a job which enables me to travel. Either way college has more opportunities, so its there I'll go. It's like Achilles ,Live long and be forgotten or Die young and be remembered forever. I miss the ocean. I have no doubts about where my future will lead. I'll find a way, its only a matter of time. I'll learn to tango. I'll walk along the great wall of china. I'll see everything and die old and rich with oodles of grandchildren. I just know it isn't going to be easy. And you wonder why I believe in God. Current Mood: giggly (Comment on this)
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
7:34 pm	Merry Christmas Crazy night last night. and the night before and the night before " " " " Christmas break has been alright. I have a lot of fun painting warhammer figures, but I think I need some time out side of the house...breathing air.. I'm going to try to get to brentwood tommaorw. To spend time with my family. I hope everyone is happy this year. Everyone deserevs a happy Christmas. A new year is right around the corner. I'll be 18 in > two months. I'm getting rather tired of the good ole' USA. I'd really like to travel a bit and go see somewhere new, or even somewhere old. Somewhere other then here. Jon, Eric, and I might go to FB on the 29th-30th. I think I'm ready to retire. I've lived quite a life already and its starting to bother me that it's only just begun. I really am ready to start a new life,or at least progress to the next stage in my own. These adolecent/party hardy/stress from school years have done a fair amount of damage. I need a grand adventure, or else a new road to travel. I'm not sad, just full of anticipation. Merry Christmas everyone. Current Mood: with life Current Music: the buzzing in my ears (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
8:06 pm	Euorpe Trip Okay kids, so here's the deal . The airfare should cost $1,240. The rooms should cost $960.40. The travel around Europe should cost around $1,000. Total <------$3,200 The rest really depends on your tastes and desires. You should budget at least $10-20 a day for food, but you could spend $40 on food for the entire week if you really wanted to. You should also take into account the souvenirs, which can cost as much as you make them. Some museums also cost money as an enterance fee, so a little $30-70 would be cool if you wanted to do that cutural stuff. We would be traveling to: Dublin, Ireland Edinbur, Scotland London, England Paris, France Marseille, France Barcelona, Spain Flourence, Italy Rome, Italy Venice, Italy Lucern, Switzerland Prague, Czech rep. Berlin, Germany for 3 days each Amsterdam, Holland for 5 days So that is the super crazy European Dream Trip extravaganza! If you guys think this is a bit much then we can make cuts on countries. If you're interested then e-mail me fb_ravelh@hotmail.com or otherwise contact me, thanks. Current Mood: relaxed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
8:01 pm	Mmmm...life....kinda So lifes rather stressful right now. Too much homework, not enough sleep (not that I do anything to help that) and I am straped for cash(not that I'm doing anything to help that) All and all most of my problems are self made, but hell if I'm gonna stop them. Pirate club is going good. I might be going to Ecuador or the Netherlands, or that might just be a silly dream. I'm moving in to a house on Monday, which is the "Mmmm" part of the subject, Its on California way. So yay! House! I'm pretty stoked. Now I just have to fight for a room and try to get my phone back on...one step at a time, right? I cant wait to go to work everyday and preform meaningless tasks, that simple nothing sounds beautifl right now. Fuck complication. I just want a simple life for a while. Current Mood: grateful Current Music: TV background noise (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
7:14 pm	So here I am, I have to move in like 24 days, my mom is in the hospital and I'm not yet sure where we're going. I'm a little freaked out because I dont know if my mom is going to be okay, something about the blood-clot going to her lungs, heart, or brain. Then there's the whole if she is okay we still have to find a place to live thing which she has not even begun to look in to. Other then that I'm in a pretty good mood. I'm looking forward to the football game this friday, and the weekend in general, and hopefully some kind of super fun thing will happen. Well thats that... Current Mood: Alive Current Music: I-pod on shuffel (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 20th, 2005
6:01 pm	Something Interesting to think about. Okay, so you have a group of monkeys, all normal, all banana eating, poop flinging monkeys. They live in general harmony, getting along playing money games, having monkey sex, all that good stuff. Until one day, you pick one monkey out of the crowd. You take this monkey home, shave it(that’s right you perverts your shavin' the monkey ;) ), then you paint it pink. Now the monkey is knocked out the whole time so it doesn’t remember any of this, then the next day you take it and put it back in with all the other happy, little, game-playin, poo-flingin, sex-havin' monkeys. Now the other monkeys don’t see there little friend at first. They smell him, they smell that he is back, and that the big white god-person (you) have returned him. So they run gleefully to their good old friend (hereon referred to as Pinkmonkey). However when they arrive to find him in his groggy daze they are astounded. His wife-monkey (Betty-monkey) is appalled at the loss of his pristine coat. And the other monkeys circle him with malice in their eyes. Pinkmonkey looks up in bewilderment and is terrified; he recognizes the rancor in their hearts and is very frightened indeed. The monkeys instantly pounce on him beating him to a pulp, they don’t kill him though, just injure him. As the next few years go by you keep Pinkmonkey pink. And although ostracized from society he survives. He is beaten regularly by the other monkeys and has to hunt alone and such. Now, over the years one of two things happens to Pinkmonkey. Result one(weak-pink): Pinkmonkey over time becomes weaker and unable to keep himself alive, eventually he is beaten badly enough to sustain fatal wounds and perishes an outcast and for some of the monkeys (Betty-monkey included) he becomes a meal. Result two(strong-pink): Pinkmonkey over then years has grown strong from his beatings and self-efficient behavior. He has learned to be effective on his own and over the years has become an expert in fighting off the other monkeys. Eventually He becomes Stronger then the others, and beats them when they come for him. The female monkeys (Betty-monkey included) see him as a strong and sexy monkey. he becomes the Pimpin-Pinkmonkey. The male monkeys in the area begin to follow him and do his bidding in fear of being chastised. Pinkmonkey is now the supreme monkey. He rules all of the other monkeys and reproduces without flaw. Now ask your self these questions: Are you a pink, or a brown monkey? Are you a strong Pink or a weak pink? Are you going to beat the pink monkey?(haha) Are you going to eat the pink monkey? What do you want to be? Pink or brown? Is the possiblity of being a weak-pink worth the glory of being a strong-pink? Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: Gilmore Girls background (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 5th, 2005
12:18 am	Hola Okay so I'm livejournaling I've given in to this whole deal... I have had a pretty good day today, Nates pool party was fun. I think I want to make some of that fried rice that I absolutely suck at making...mmmmm then I think I might just sit up here and play a game. Thats right guys, I'm livin life on the wild side I'm craaaazy....I was just thinking what if you had to apply to be peoples friends in real life: sorry Kelly has denied you as a friend you may not speak to her. ohh that would be good. Well summer is coming up. Whoo! Current Mood: amused Current Music: Americas funniest home videos (background noise) (Comment on this)