Jew-dudes and Rasta-dudes

I'm no expert on religious matters so this is jut my view of the present situation. I might change my mind in the future.

It's funny how two quite similar religions have evolved into totally different directions. Both religions hope to return home some day and claim what they think belongs to them. At the moment the other group of people have decided to stay in Babylon and and continue life as it is. They've come to realize that peace is the way to go. The other religion is using every possible method to reclaim what they believe belongs to them. Of course I'm talking of Jew-dudes and Rasta-dudes.

Well of course Jew-dudes aren't really only a religion but a political movement as well.

Which group do you think lives in Babylon? The people who's king lives without the crown or the people who's king is desperately trying to hold on to his crown? Rasta-dudes don't want power and influence where as Jew-dudes want it badly.

So Rasta-dudes decided to chill while jew-dudes went in to action. Of course Jew-dudes have been in action more or less actively for the past 2000 years. Rasta-dudes dropped out of the globalizing world where as Jew-dudes are trying to keep up the pace with all the other groups of the world. Jew-dudes regained some of their country. They've gained some very powerful political allies. Of course with great power comes great responsibility like Spiderman's uncle used to say. How they've done with those powers? Well I guess everyone has their own opinion of that. I'm not going to tell mine because some might accuse me of antisemitism or being a jew-lover.

(By the way.. Don't you just love the freedom of speach. When your views are in line with others you are a smart man and when you think differently you are a hippie, communist, idiot, etc..)

Nowadays religions often have to join forces with political agendas and commercialism if they want to survive. They have to plan marketing strategies to send the right message to people and take care of their image. That's how the world works these days. Of course Rasta-dudes never really got to this marketing stuff and that is why it's not really a rapidly expanding religion. It's still quite a new religion so I guess we have to just give them more time. although I can't see Rasta-dudes trying to change their image of pot smoking dudes in the nature to something else mainly because they are so laid back that they don't give a rats ass what other people think of them.

Rasta-dude is the ultimate response to commercialism and that is exactly what marketing forces have used to make us consume more. They've made Rasta-dudes the new trend. “White boy take dreadlocks and you'll be an individual in this commercialized world!”

Rasta-dudes are cool, Jew-dudes are not. Jew-dudes want to be cool and they try to improve their image but they don't understand that you can never be cool if your trying to be something you are not. Jew-dudes religion isn't a laid back religion/culture that people want to relate to. World sees Jew-dudes as people who spent their time arguing and fighting. No marketing campaign is going to change that image in the near future.

Rasta-dudes are cool because they are real. It's as simple as that.

There is a third religion as well that is oppressed from their point of view. The Buddha-dudes have also lost their crown and live in exile. How do they react? They pray for their enemies and try to share peace and love to people around them. Dalai Lama went in to politics but as a neutral person who just wants to find a solution to current problems. He is using love and diplomacy.

Under some extremely hard times Buddhists some times stand up and fight but in general they do their best to sympathize and pray for their enemies. Buddha-dudes are also popular around the world. People rarely have anything bad to say about them.

So what is the ultimate difference between all these three religions?
I'll tell you what's the biggest difference. Jew-dudes are not considered cool!
How can I be sure of that?

If you travel around the world you hardly ever see a Jew-dudes logo on a t-shirt.

Animation of Lennon's interview

In 1969 14 years old Jerry Levitan interviewed John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto.

38 years later Jerry published the interview in youtube and after that Josh Raskin directed an animation of those 5 minutes.

I wanted to make this

It's been quiet

I haven't stop blogging, I've just been busy. New work takes a lot of my time and energy these days. Can't really tell a lot about the company since it's a secret. Some details about it can be found here.

For the past month I've been writing quite a but bit it's stuff that isn't that interesting to others.. yet. Anyways let's just say I've got some good ideas. The last good idea came today when I took a free traveling brochure from a book store. That idea needs some fine tuning but it's one of the best ones I've had in long time. It's a tv-show but more of that idea in the future.

Now it's time to watch who is the champion of Europe in football. GO SPAIN!!!

Who owns our food?

Interesting article about food production and it's history.

Hurry makes us consume

I'm living in friends flat. He's got two different jobs at the moment (his 9 to 5 job and his company that does business in the summer time). That means his in a hurry right now.

We had, or he had, a really tight schedule today and that meant we had to go to supermarket and eat real fast. That is why we bought ready made food from the supermarket and in a hurry I bought some basic groceries that I need to make breakfast and dinner for few days.

Afterwards I was angry with myself because I didn't really have time to check the products properly. I didn't buy these fair trade bananas, I wasn't able to find organic eggs and finally I just bought some noodles since they are easy to make.

Hurry made me consume like there is no tomorrow. In the car my friend said something like this:
"When my leisure time gets shorter I outsource my day-to-day tasks like washing the car, eating etc.. My free time is important to me and I want to maximize it and that is why I'm willing to pay a little extra from many things."

I can't blame him. Free time is important and this is how people act. Often the more money people make the less spare time they have. Rich people don't wash their pools because they are too busy.

I've never been rich in the true meaning of the word (I mean money wise) and that means I always have time to do almost everything myself, fix my bike, cook my dinner, walk to school, compare prices etc.

Of course it's everyones own choice what they want to do with their money. I'm just saying that maybe it's constant hurry that prevents us from thinking clearly how we should spent the money we earn. I don't have many option but the richer you are the more options you have. What I would like to see is people think before buying. In my book money doesn't bring you just options but responsibility as well. Of course we all have to same responsibility but money seems to be the thing that makes the world go round...

For readers living in Finland a nice documentary about consumerism problems in USA (video available until 4th july)

I moved

Sorry for not writing in a while but last few weeks have been quite busy. I graduated and moved to our lovely little capital. Or I don't know if you can call it 'moving' when you live in your friends living room on his couch.

Anyways new work start in two weeks time. That doesn't mean I'd be settling down or something. So far this work is just for the summer. If that one doesn't work out I might have some other plans. More of those later.

For now Nomad isn't heading home since he is basically homeless. If you have a nice/cheap flat for rent in Helsinki let me know.