Friday, March 27, 2009

Anesthesia

Every time that I have a medical procedure which involved anesthesia, it is hard for me to try to ignore the fact that I should be hurting when I am not. Even if I am not able to feel a thing, there is a sense of wrong due to the cutting, severing or otherwise surgical procedure underway. Feeling numb is one of the most interesting experiences ever, and if you can tolerate it, I would suggest that you look at what is being done to your body while under the magical effect of anesthesia. However, not every person is able to handle this. To some, just the sight of blood can be reason enough to faint. Others, like myself, can stomach the situation without even blinking.

Is it the same with emotions? I draw an interesting analogy between the medical anesthesia and emotional anesthesia. This can be produced by drugs or even by the cognitive thoughts of the individual. In a way, psychiatric drugs are an emotion anesthesia. In some cases, the patient will not understand how is it that something that used to bother him or her does not have an effect anymore. Yet, like in medical anesthesia, the patient will now that there is cutting involved and there should be pain, but there is none. Interesting, no?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

So it's come to this

So it's come to this...


As I am writing this, my Youtube account unver the name "Voicesinthehead" has been suspended for good. Youtube has a three strike you're out policy. The first two videos that were pulled were the "Fuck you Inmendham (NY style)" and the "Fuck you Inmendham (Mendham style)". Apparently, Youtube does not look kindly at people who go around telling people "FUCK YOU". This is so different to when I first started doing Youtube. If the Amazing Atheist did the videos he used to do nowadays, he would have been suspended ipso-facto. The third video that did it was a video called "Patience", in which I basically said that a video was coming up. Ironically, I can see how Youtube would be pussy enough to remove the first two. But my video "patience" had absolutely nothing wrong in it. I guess Youtube grows less and less sympathetic as your strikes increase. So that's it for now. The account has been PERMA-banned. I still have two more accounts. Voicesinthehead2 and YeOldeSupex. The truth of the matter is that I care little about having my account suspended. Most people will think that I am only claiming "SOUR GRAPES"! But, to be perfectly honest, Youtube had started eating into my life. I started living for Youtube and ignoring the important things in my life--including my job. Now that Youtube is gone, I can do more work, less youtube and perhaps start doing more interesting and important things. In any case, Youtube has become pretty stale and I think I have obtained all the juice I could from it. It almost seems as if everything that could be said, has been said.


My friends. After the whole Gary and Mendham fiasco a lot of videos were made by supposed "friends" saying that what I did was wrong. Videos from Rozeboosje and this jackass:













Now, the interesting thing is how these people have come to show me their true colors. They think that being a friend is making videos trying to ridicule me and Naomi. They're not being friends. They are being jackasses who claim that they are doing "the right thing". In reality they are only being pretentious assholes who want to appear as having more "moral" ground. To all you people I will say this. I will not contest wether you think if what we did was right or wrong. A real friend would send me a private message expressing their concern about the issue and disapproving. A real friend would have tried to contact me before making it public. These are not friends. These are hyenas who are only making fire out of the dried up tree. Especially those who are making videos JUST NOW, seeing that I am gone and not willing to respond. And to think that these are people that I actually defended and was loyal too. At least I know that if they did something I disapproved of, I would not just come out and make videos trying to ridicule them. (But that's just me). Maybe I DO have a higher moral ground.


DMCA hypocrisy


Of the two things that have happened this month, there is one that shocks me the way people have reacted to. This is, the DMCA that Naomi filed against a video that was uploaded using bits and pieces of her own footage. People are OUTRAGED!! How can an atheist do this!? How can someone that calls themselves a freethinker file a DMCA against a Muslim?! The video that was taken down has been re-uploaded several times, usually by atheists, who claim that freedom of speech should be defended at all costs. That's all nice and good, but when I asked them if they thought that giving a platform to something that went against their principles was ok, even if it was in defense of freedom of speech, they all just ignored my question and went to make videos about how freedom of speech is awesome. Sometimes I feel like I am talking to complete morons. I even stated that I was not challenging the idea of freedom of speech, but rather challenging the method to fight "DMCA Censorship". Of course, they completely ignored what I had to say and just kept making videos attacking me because I was "against freedom of speech". I guess sometimes human emotion is so strong that when someone is asking something different, we choose to ignore it, and just attack what is easy to attack and was never said. So to state it clearly



I AM NOT AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH. I THINK FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A BASIC RIGHT AND WE SHOULD ALL HAVE IT. HOWEVER, I BELIEVE THAT IF FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS TAKEN AWAY FROM MY ENEMY, I WILL FIGHT FOR HIS OR HER RIGHT TO HAVE THAT FREEDOM, BUT I WILL NOT ENDORSE OR PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR HIS OR HER IDEALS.



Most people will not get the above. They are so set in the "freedom of speech" is great rhetoric that it will just slip their minds what I am actually saying.


As for the hypocrisy--like I stated above, many people complained about the video being removed and have made an immense amount of videos explaining why the DMCA is frivolous (that is, without merit). The term "false DMCA" isn't really adequate because the DMCA did occur and had all the inclosuins necessary. I will not argue whether the DMCA is frivolous or not, or if it holds in a court of law. I will however say the following:


When Inmendham filed DMCA's against my video and those of JonesR and BCJ and theyoutoobpolice and all those other people who were included in his "slander" lawsuit, nobody--I repeat NOBODY reuploaded my video or any of the above. The circumstances were pretty much the same. In fact, the video DMCA'd by Gary contained about 2 seconds of a still image of his face. Where is the outrage in the community? Why wasn't my video re-uploaded a hundred times? Inmendham is also an atheist, and a "free thinker". So what is different? Nothing really, just the fact that we are all hypocrites in this game. Naomi filed a DMCA and that rendered a storm of shit. Gary has filed DOZENS of DMCA's (DMCA's that have no merit), and there is no outcry from the community.


Here's my plead to the community: If you really do think that DMCA's are wrong... will you re-upload that video that Gary DMCA'd? Or are you just complete and utter hypocrites? Yeah, that's what I thought...


Invasion of Privacy


LEGAL STUFF


Some people have called us stalkers, and have said we are bullies. I can understand that the idea of going to someone else's town is edgy and can make people a little nervous. However, they use charged words to get their points accross. Let's take a look at some facts:


  • March the 1st I rented a car in La Guardia airport with the intent of going to a town called Mendham, NJ
  • I drove with Naomi from New York City to Mendham, New Jersey. The road trip was a little over an hour.
  • The primary reason of our trip was to get out of New York City. Since I come from a very large city that is very similar to New York, I wanted to do something different outside of the city.
  • I will not deny that part of the reason I chose to go to Mendham, was just so that I could make a video against Gary.
  • We never stepped on private property.
  • We never knocked on anyone's door.
  • It is perfectly legal to show a house on the internet. There is no way around this. According to the Supreme Court of the United States, if you can see it from Public Property, you can film it, and you can upload it. (This does not apply to showing people's faces).
  • The first amendment of the constution of the United States protects the right to peaceble assemble. This means that I have the right to go to Mendham or any other town in NJ if I wish to do so. Regardless of whether someone I know lived in that town or not.

  • If Gary could prove that I am in any way a threat to him or his privacy, he could file a restraining order. No such order has been filed. Nor will it be, because there are no grounds for it.

    That is it. What we did was 100% legal.


    TASTELESS


    Apart from being said that what we did was "illegal" which I already disproved, it is being said that what we did was immature, tasteless, classless, retarded, stupid, moronic, obsessive. Apart from that, people say that we have no lives, that we are lame, and that we "should not procreate". You know what? You are absolutely right. It was dumb, stupid, childish, immature, tasteless, etc. And it was also fun. We had a great time doing it and I don't regret it. If people don't care for what I do in my spare time, that is their problem and not mine. However, the funniest part is watching all these trolls critizising. Especially those who have become obsessed with Naomi and I. They are spending so much of their time attacking us, and yet they're spending their own lives saying that we have no lives. So, if we in fact have no lives... what does that say about the troll who spends hours and hours attacking those who have no lives? I will soon start worrying about those who worry and getting angry at those who get angry. To those faceless pathetic losers who are obsessed with Naomi and I, all I can say is: Matthew 7:3-5



    Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.



    I hate quoting from the bible, which is a book full of garbage. But this tract actually fits perfectly those who have become obsessed with us.


    WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?


    There is a very good reason as to why Naomi closed her accounts, and I am keeping mine private for a while. I do not wish to discuss these reasons at the moment. I'll just say that what is being done to her is much much worse than what we could have ever done. It has nothing to do with the DMCA or Gary. For now, it will stay this way and I cannot assert if I will make more videos or not. If you want to contact me you can do so at supexcellency@gmail.com

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