Expectaton Zero commercial

The following commercial is playing RIGHT NOW in the Dream Seeker Universe:

"Hi! I'm Tobey Macguire! You may recognize me from my days of playing Spiderman, a six, on the the big screen. Well, not only did I play a six, I AM a six in real life. If you're a six like me, I'm sure you know what it's like -- you watch a movie, and you just can't help picking apart the flaws on the special effects, or you stress about the continuity errors from one caveman commercial to the next ... meanwhile, you can't focus on your finances, your family, or your friends. If you suffer from this debilitating reflex, do I have the solution for you -- EXPECTATION ZERO. Yes, with Expectation Zero, you, too, can free yourself from this insane instinct to mull over minutiae...."

A woman's pleasant, yet rushed, voice: "Severe side-effects include losing purpose in life, nihilism, and may result in suicide. Some patients in the case study expressed a lack of empathy, appetite, and reduced sex drive. A very small percentage of patients in the clinical study spontaneously combusted."

Country Graces

The Traveller caught the following country song on satellite radio one day while driving:

Are those country graces you're showing
or are you a country racist?

The way things are going for you
I see country changes

You can't go on
wavin' ole' Dixie
cursin' islanders
showin' no pity

It don't matter
if they from New York
or Trinidad

Those days of country racism are through
you need some new country graces

You better learn what Neil Young meant
When he sang about southern change

You can't hide behind
your traditions
your barb-b-q
lip-service religion

You gonna haveta
learn to eat jerk chicken
and habla espanol

There's a real change a comin'
for your southern graces

Hurricane winds are a blowin' away
those burnin' crosses in your heart

You can't stand
to admit
but you just can't
deny it

Your life is good
and it's time to
share the wealth

This may sound liberal
but it's time to
share the wealth

We are all the top one percent
in the world's eyes
share the wealth

That Big Mac you eat
shouldn't be that cheap
share the wealth

Your neighbor
from across the seas
he needs a hand

Don't just sit there
Come on, now
share the wealth

Show him some real country graces

Counts

On the back of the balled up piece of paper, the Dream Seeker found these words:

The things that count
don't matter

In the pair
of eyes
of that
which rules reality

Ethical actions
and still, apologize
for being lied to
apologize, enlightened being
for doing the right thing
apologize, tender human heart
for not yielding
to bizarro world

Can you
count to 8
my friend?
Because
that
is
all
that
counts

Seven laughs
for Boss Hog Master
Count
ha
ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha
Ha

Words of Wisdom

The Traveller ran across this one day, surfing the web:

Words of Wisdom
I am simply human- no more, no less. I am not perfect, not a god, not a messiah, not a superhuman; I am human, and all that it implies. My views should not dictate anyone else's life but my own. Feel free to read these words with scrutiny, excitement or apathy. It matters not.

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Your perception creates your reality.

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Focus on the moment, but be mindful of the future.

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Recognize that your senses may be flawed, but they are at least a guide.

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Those who cannot change the fabric of their thought will never change their reality.

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Other people's perceptions of you should not create your reality.

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There is no good or bad, black or white, good or evil.

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The first act of insight is to throw away the labels.

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Race, religion, age, looks, politics, philosophy, education, sexuality, nationality, status, and handicaps are all illusions; we are all human first.

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Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but don't forget some people need glasses.

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Why look down upon a beggar or a homeless person? We are all going to the same place after death- the grave.

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Are you going to concentrate and focus on the life you have now, or make a leap of faith and concentrate and focus on the next life?

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Your thoughts are inside your mind, the outside cannot control them.

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A strong belief system leans and skews your perceptions, thus blocking the other views.

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A person should not die for a belief, a belief should die for a person.

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Truth and reality are clearer when being objective and not taking extreme standpoints.

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Would you rather be grounded in this reality or a flying in a magical fantasy world?

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Every event and action is based upon cause and effect; therefore, nothing is accidental.

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You are your final authority.

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You cannot depend on anyone- there is no ultimate guide, teacher, or authority. There is only you, your relationship with others and the world.

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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confidence, self-assuring, self-starting, self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying; when you have it, you know it.

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If you don't have faith or trust in yourself, who are you going to have faith and trust in?

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Only we can limit ourselves. No force is powerful enough to limit your spirituality, power, love, or happiness- unless you allow it.

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Knowledge without power is philosophy; power without knowledge is what the human race has been since the dawn of time; power is power.

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The power of the Will can conquer any disease- mental or physical. The power of the Will can change your life, and the world.

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Since we cannot be universal and know all what is to be known about everything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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Seize the day.

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Suck out the marrow of life.

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The only mistake is a mistake not learned from.

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No experience is a negative experience.

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Every moment living things grow, learn, and experience; all living things are dynamic, not stagnant, and everything and everyone changes.

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With great power comes great responsibility.

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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What is happiness without pain?

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Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering; and suffering is the path to the dark side.

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Desire, attachment, and delusion lead to suffering.

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If humankind has the ability to destroy the world 100 times over, humankind also has the ability to save it once.

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Doesn't suffering arise from anger, hatred, violence, and war? So why does humanity continue down this path?

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An eye for an eye will make the world blind.

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All living things are part of the whole.

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All living things have a symbiotic relationship.

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When you destroy or hate something, you are destroying and hating part of yourself; when you help or love something, you help and love part of yourself.

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Live simply so others may simply live.

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How do you, your society, your world, and nature benefit when you harm yourself or another living being?

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Contentment is not complacency; contentment is happiness; complacency is accepting your current situation.

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People tend to detest what they see in other people because they see themselves.

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All of our thoughts, feelings, expressions, and actions have consequences- it is our responsibility to be aware of this.

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Only help those who asked to be helped, or if their actions dictate that they are in need of assistance.

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We can't help people who don't want to help themselves.

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You cannot put a yak's head on a sheep's body, and visa versa.

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Regret inaction, not action.

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If not now, when?

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Why continue to make apologizes? Why not prevent the harm from happening in the first place?

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View unhealthy people as a challenge to your discipline, not as your masters.

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There is not necessarily a correlation between chronological age and age of maturity.

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Empathy leads to compassion, compassion leads love.

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Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself?

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Think before you act- but not too long.

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It is much easier to push a boulder down a steep mountain than to pull a stubborn donkey up the slope.

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Hard work does not guarantee success or enlightenment; intention does.

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The first step on the path to anything is realizing that the path exists.

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The journey is more important that the destination.

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A student who does not bow to his master is not a student; a master that does not bow to his student is not a master.

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Everyone is responsible for their own actions.

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We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong; the amount of work is the same.

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Go through obstacles, not around them.

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Confront your greatest fear.

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The most common sort of lie is one muttered by oneself.

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Learn from the past, but do not live in it.

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To conserve anger is to control it so it can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

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We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves.

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Perfection does not exist, therefore those who strive for it will always be disappointed.

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There is no such thing as failure.

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Your feelings are more important than anyone else's.

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Whoever fights monsters should see fit to it that in the process they do not become monsters.

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We should be skeptical to those who claim they know the Truth and hold the key to your salvation.

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Not one theory, philosophy, religion, belief system, ideology, science, book, history, or society alone can possible discern the Truth; each idea is merely a pinhole in an infinite universe.

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Ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is ignorance.

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Intelligence does not imply wisdom.

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Language limits our thoughts and expression, that's why there are other ways of expressing what we feel.

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The true hero does not necessarily have to blow up star ships and save the galaxy; the true hero needs to just smile at a stranger.

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Only in growth, reform, and change can true stability be found.

9-6-99

Dry Stream of Consciousness

The Dream Seeker found a balled up sheet of paper one day while strolling through a park, that had the following written on it:

Dry
No Lubricant
Merciless
888 -- the infinite beast times three
won't set me free

Nice guy
Nice gal
Married
Loving
Flowers

Crushed
Ground
Mud
Wheels
Monster Truck called life

Injustice
pointed out
Offense
Taken
Those who dish out
Demand apologies
From those they hurt

And they get them
Oh yes, they get them

We can't all be Charlton Heston
Or Steinbrenner
Or Cruise

We can't all find our voice at the right moment
We can't all be listened to
We can't all be aggressive

Some of us work!
Some of us commute!
Some of us sweat!
Some of us tire!

How can we be held accountable
For the agreements we make
while coerced by smiling devils,
and under the influence of exhaustion?

But we are
Oh yes, we are

Hold him accountable!
Hold her accountable!
Hold them down!

Dry

Call for the Realtor at Tashman

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Hospital
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:19 PM
To: Tony DeCarvalho
Subject: Just got a call here at Tash...


"Hi, is this The Realtor?"
"Uhm...no."
"Okay, sorry. Bye."


*****


-----Original Message-----
From: Tony DeCarvalho
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:24 PM
To: 'Damian Hospital'
Subject: RE: Just got a call here at Tash...


LOL

[Insert Twilight Zone music]

And now ... the Dreamscanner

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Hospital
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:18 AM
To: Tony DeCarvalho
Subject: And now...Dreamscanner


I unlocked a secret song/stage in Dance Revolution...awesome techno song
by an artist named..."Dreamscanner"!!!


Tony DeCarvalho wrote:

That's funny. Scanning the world for dreams, one person at a time....



-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Hospital
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:36 AM
To: Tony DeCarvalho
Subject: Re: And now...Dreamscanner


How about microfilm scanning dreams at Tashman....



Tony DeCarvalho wrote:

"We've discovered a way to scan dreams ... a biproduct of the memory
enhancement and telepathic communication implants is that residual dreams
are being transmitted along with conscious thoughts," says the discoverer of
the Dreamscanner.

"We expect the Dreamscanner upgrade to rake in $100 million in revenues in
the 3rd quarter," says a CNBC talking head.

"People are fascinated by dreams ... now, you get to see all your dreams,
not just the ones you happen to remember when waking up," says the spokesman
for the Dreamscanner.


-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Hospital
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:52 AM
To: Tony DeCarvalho
Subject: Re: And now...Dreamscanner


lol...great press release.

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