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I was born in Texas, spent the first 6 years there, living free-range and loving every moment of it. There wasn't anyone getting between me and the great unknown that was all mine to explore at my own pace, in my own way, day in and day out. Dad kept a distant eye on me as his focus was perfecting his skills a a concert violinist. As long as I stayed within earshot of the house, there wasn't anyone I couldn't visit, any tree I couldn't climb, any animals I couldn't pet, any fence or low-lying garage roof I couldn't jump off into flight as Superman, my red bathrobe-cape waving behind me the whole way down that 4 foot drop.

I was like a free-range rooster-chick, sprouting feathers and learning how to crow, until they took me away from my dad and stuck me in the barnyard where I went from rooster to chicken to sheep, while my curious kid asking questions and refusing to buy the bull-shit, got tired of being ignored and finally went to sleep for the next forty fucked up years.

What passed for living could hardly be considered an existence, let alone a life.

Six years ago, I awakened from what had become a terrifying nightmare in which I was one of the living dead. Life's only pleasures allowed by society were the ones we were promised after we were dead, provided we did what we were told and obey God's commandments to bend over and keep our heads down while we allowed Him to do His thing through the ones He has leading our great Christian nation.

BARF!

When I finally managed to find The Kid, he was asleep deep inside that prison of irrational fears they used to lock my mind shut. To bust out we had to kill the guard - Arrogance - and then find the right reason which opened each of the irrational fears locking our minds shut so tight we couldn't see the only thing which we were keeping safe were the criminals who were afraid of us waking up and coming after them. No way could we see that the very people who put the locks on our minds were the only true criminals. We believed these thugs when they told us the evil doers were drug lords and terrorists. We believed in God's plan being known only to God and Dick Cheney, subject to change only by Dick Cheney. When my Kid awakened and found out I bought into so much crap, he got so mad, the heat alone drove off 90% of the fog of fear clouding my judgment. The last was still the hardest for me to break free from that "what does it hurt to believe in the Bible - better safe than sorry." It broke right nicely in two, one fine day when I connected the remaining dots that linked all the world's problems we humans have are directly due to the Judeo-Christian values that lead to the distorted 2 dimensional world-view that we all are on one side or the other in a Good v. Evil war for our souls.

It suddenly became so clear how easy ALL human problems will disappear once we all let go of the need for faith that irrational fears and irrational fictions are in fact true. When I realized what I had to ignore - truths that I could no longer close my eyes to and pretend they weren't there - and what I had to invent - lies that were so preposterous I could no longer keep my eyes closed in the fear that upon opening they'd see the boogeyman Satan with his pitchfork and red horns waiting to grab and toss me into the gates of Hell, it was like turning on a light switch.

It WAS turning on the lightswitch. A lightswitch that can't be turned off. It opens the lines connecting us to the universal life force - that incredible energy which fills us so fast and full of breathtaking amazement and wonder at all which the mind can barely imagine - more than we need to keep us energized with the zest for living to learn all we can before we die - knowing that the unknown is all we can say about the future for us after we die.

End of story. This life's story, that is. Whether it's the beginning of another we won't know, but if some part of us can when it leaves the rest of us here to rot, wouldn't you love to not waste time on bullshit crazy questions when we've got so many pressing questions we have plenty of reason to think CAN be answered in this, our only lifetime?

YOU BETCHA!

So FUCK YOU MEAN PEOPLE THAT BITE.

You are the ones getting rich off a world which preaches love is God and God is love but teaches by example that humans aren't any more special than any other animals who need to be domesticated so that their natural instincts for freedom are tamed and a life of mental retardation is designed by the lobotomies performed by dogmagicians in places like churches, synagogues and mosques.

Yep. We're sheeple with the Cuckoo's Nest scar across our foreheads in the shape of a cross, a six pointed star, or a crescent moon and 5-pointed star.

Each religion will throw any human in jail if they are caught teaching children through live or videotaped examples of people actually performing the act of creating new life - it's called obscenity and pornography.

Each religion will also throw money at any human who can keep children's interested in watching a human using violence to deliberately end another human life.

GO FIGURE IF YOU CAN!