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Look at this as a long rant, a few pages from a book which you have been reading. That book is called reality and it gets to you around you in full three-dimensional projection. It gives you senses to smell, look and hear; but there is more inside of you and that’s happiness and sadness, to be freightened and attracted to which lives around us. It’s because reality is so hard to change, because it happens day after day with cause and effect, where we have so little to say in. It’s time in it’s purest form.

To explain what reality really is, we don’t have to go Kansas to see Dorothy, Reality is like a bubble, which is around you, which spreads as your bubble gets bigger. The better your ideas are, the more people that will want to be part of that bubble. The worse those ideas are, the further you want to be away from that person so you don’t get affected by the wantings and doings of that particular person.

Some people want to control our bubble, or .. well, to be atleast part of it. We call it society as it is. What we saw as impossible about 12 years ago on American reality series, is all happening at our doorsteps. Both police and criminality is adapting to the standards of today, but also how people get approached. Criminality shouldn’t be taken lightly, although there are more frequent cases than ever of errors and recklessness around Europe taking down innocent lives.

Look at the news, the ever ongoing war, traffic problems all over, the drugs wars started in the US and ongoing with atleast seven busts a day in Britain, never ending taxes, smog; people being afraid of insults, getting shot, raids and assaults by police, also happening in Belgium! Our policemen are there to help society. The civilian for the civilian with the power to work in function; not to use or abuse that particular function, like some might think with their position. Lady justice holds her balance in the middle with the blindfold on; leave her deciding which is right and wrong, not those who operate in function to aid a good working society in peace; without too much military power to oppress it’s citizens.

It is not true, that which I wish for, that reality is not true at all! Every day recklessness is demanding lives of innocents every day. Zero tolerance is which gets top priority and the principles of a true gentlemen are no more. This brings a rather bitter and bad taste in your mouth, isn’t it? Reading the true reality around you, which is happening around you while you are sitting in your warm bubble. Probably not everything will not be in that collection of oddities around your taste and likes; but the true feeling of what most around us really crave for will not be in our living quarters for a long time…

So, where did we fast-forward to a society where everyone thinks about themself, where bankers have taken over the world and countries are getting technologically locked down more secure than Fort Knox with their citizens put captive in the net of “intelligence” where others have more rights above your privacy? Oh, or didn’t I mention already, that privacy is no more for a long time? It’s like the terrorists have won and our own people who got the power to change, have taken over to keep all the others in terror…

And the world keeps going on, we keep swallowing which we are given to eat and breath and keep accepting what goes on around us. We all call it the “normal way of living”, where we deal what gets on the menu by daily base. But, for how long exactly till things get really out of hand, where everyones comfort is at risk? Or atleast; which we used to call comfort in the old days as gentlemen, where one of the primary rules was to stay friendly to everyone at all times and discuss and relativate problems, instead of sponsoring the nearest hospital.

That reality … should not be true for any country around the world.

If you don’t like it, you can always try to bend reality to your own way by reading quantum space…

Does this data exist in Quantum Space?

Look through a box with a pinhole and you will see only part of which you are able to see; for as big that box really is. Remove the box and you will perceive for which your eyes will be able to see and process. You have been limited by the box and maybe even your mind, because you shouldn’t be looking trough a box in the first place. Same with thinking; try not to think in a vacuum which is created by/for you. Try to think outside the box, because that box is only just a protective vacuum of your limits.

The frequency of light will bounce against your eyeballs which gets translated in the brain to the physical object memorized by you. Mostly, you don’t remember the full details of an event which has happened years ago. Try for yourself and remember which color shirt your best friend had on your birthday ten years ago; in most cases these small details get discolored in the brain by other details. It could be even you’d remember green while the shirt was red. Try this with five years ago and the result could still be tainted.

Sound is another frequency, recognized by the brain, through a process of vibration with the ears. We try to remember as much as we can in that grey goo but still, details will get lost in time. This is because we make new neural paths in our head by the minute. So, go call me crazy in advance, but what if … our brain is a cache connected to a much bigger database and we are just being nodes of such system? I’m not talking about SciFi stories ala Matrix; but rather thinking further than that box is!

I’m not talking about the beginning of all times here, but I’m talking about the past, the present and the future. Look around you, everything you see are the decisions of you and all others around you; everything exists out of a particle of an atom in our universe. Your body is like any physical matter, it’s part of space, where reality is created by you; starting at your house. Your reality is your mind, your thoughts and the connections to any other atom on this universe.

six degrees of separation as defined at Wikipedia

That we are connected only with six degrees of separation should be of no surprise, since we all are connected on this world through another. Like said before “All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves…”

Matter is part of a frequency. Objects are built out of atoms. Structure of matter will change when you amplify it’s frequency. Our planet, sun and solar system works on a frequency. Light is part of the visible spectrum where the frequency variates. Maybe you have felt before, time is a growing constant; look to the world, technology, our environment like melting icecaps, environmental impacts and evolution; you will see time is running faster than ever.

Our electromagnetic spectrum as defined at Wikipedia

Our planet, sun and solar system all work on a frequency. Light and sound are frequencies recognizable in different ways and anything which reflects such frequency gets read by all of us on this planet through our perceptions. Not only electronic devices are having oscillators, but we, humans, are natural oscillators defined to search those which frequency matches us most.

Doesn’t that let you think about “what” we are in this universe? We are part of this universe, this planet, this little dot in the galaxy. We create reality as we live. Could it be possible, that all options possible with a decision do exist in an alternative universe as an atom? The universe could be a gigantic library of options possible where we merely selected those which we can really understand about. Our mind could be part of a gigantic library, where choices interact with eachother, just like a computer computes through algorithms.

What if some of us are possible to view such alternate realities or even possible to change the field where the atom is in it’s quantum reality; then you are in the field of time travel. What if what we really feel as fear is just a vibration of a dense frequency of which exists in an alternate universe?

Does coincidence really exist or is it just a form of alternate reality selected by how we choose to live our ways? Do we perceive time as we really do or is it just a measurement to be able to distinguish day and night? What if our protons and electrons stop contributing to technology? Would we still be able to plug-in so easy to this vast world of frequencies and physical matter?

Our space is already occupied with various of frequenties generated by our technology which is part of our evolution. I can tell my mind is sizzling with all these devices around me; I used to guess the frequency of a computer monitor by just listening to it. 72hz monitors where most annoying to me; I’m glad of this new world of LCD screens! Maybe a block in technology would clear our minds and perceive frequencies in the clear as they are long ignored by our own urge in technology? Maybe the famous 2012 would reveil this vast forgotten space of frequenties towards all? who knows….

What if our minds are connected to a central node? Or to your personal space? Our brains could be the cache inbetween. Options may vary in quantum singularity because it is still just theoretically. Taking myself as example; I’m already thinking in forms of trees when I need to analyze a problem. I always analyze all pro and con’s of a solution and choose the middle way which looks best to me at that time. Only when I’ve analyzed most of the outcomes, I will take a choice. What if we got that choice stored in a way with a stach of a dozens other options?

It could be strange, but what if all those analyzed options do exist on parallel worlds around us ? …

Does this data really exist in quantum space?
Always welcome to post your own theory or reaction to this!

updates:

29/10/2009: video (consiousness) added which seems to support my theory while searching for “mind over matter” …

So, a lot of people still own an explanation of me what’s going here. The site has changed; the front has changed and all the photo’s are gone?

Don’t worry. I’ve had to switch servers, which means everything is still under construction as we speak. I might be dissapointing some under us, but the three galleries (first gallery, Second Phaze and Trianguality), which were on-line for over 10 years, will be reduced to one gallery. This gallery will be having the best artistic photo’s available.

Ideas change over time, the mind grows older and yet the soul stays young. I’ll be creating more art around photography with and without myself in it, music and drawings as long as my mind stays connected to my hands. Expect the best of the past to be back soon and for sure be ready to embrace the future; since I’ve got a lot more waiting for you !

Be sure to check out the dynamic front page for your fast links, it has a new system in it which will give you the latest news around the site!

Always expect the unexpected!

ZKboi!

As you might have noticed, the site has been changed drastically. I’d rather call it a dirty port instead of a succesful migration of all my data; although, after working for over 11 years in ICT, I’d have to give up my personal server for the business cause. This has made a few nasty inconveniences for both you and me. Sorry for any missing data; although, relax, I still got most of it in backup. Most article URL’s are auto-pointing to the right articles and the blog is immediately reachable through blog.zkboi.com. The old statistics will be added very soon.

Moving the site was both a heaven and a burden. By moving from Coranto to Wordpress, I’ve made a huge step. The template has been ported as much as it could be ported and the extra sidebar functions will be added again as soon as they become available. The result: a much more clean site, cleanup of the articles and most of all, a more consistent whole of the entire ZKboi space.

The photo libraries will be filtered towards todays standards and all artistic material will be on-line again soon with new whistles and features. Since I’m on the move in real too, you’ll have to grant me a bit of patience to get this eyecandy back in order …

The site is hosted on ArtistBlog.ME space, where artists are free to promote their works through the web without the background of any technical information. ArtistBlog.ME allows me to focus on the content instead of worrying about program functionality, Internet connectivity, search optimimalisation and much more required to run a good blog.

I hope to serve you soon with a lot of new stuff!

Till then!

ZKboi

Honestly, I’ve never been that shocked in my life as I’ve been the last hour and a half. This documentaire discusses the different aspects of animal cruelty for our own behalf.

Just like we are a group of social living creatures; animals sure deserve “their place” on this large world too! We should think better before slaying animals with pain just for religion or fashion.

We often don’t see what happens before with those clothes we wear, the dinner we eat and the pet we got. This movie is a strong outline of what would happen if all of these production facilities would have glass walls.

Do think, is it really worth it that much to be wearing the latest fashion linked with often dozens of minutes of pain? I’m not asking you to become veggie; although; do mind the steak you are trowing away might have been a real painsteak before!

If you can’t do something about it, think about it, because by ignoring this fact the horror will continue till there is no link anymore between us, humanity and the rest of this beautiful world!

I’m going to dedicate an entire section on my site about my encounters with technology. The good and the bad sides. I’ll discuss these throughout with my wits and perspective.

In some parts I’d already be dreaming of gadgets which are still not available on this planet. The current age has created us toys which can be as small as a phone, to the size of a cricket.

Still, I am amazed what this world spawns. From armored card machines to automatic vacuum cleaners. Still, with an expense. The software is often out-to-date, slow, not userfriendly or even insecure to use while sitting in that nice armored behemot.

Topics to be opened soon (with short introduction):

• Personal Computer Widescreen is the only way to go?You can’t walk over the street without seeing these fancy laptops with glossy screens. I can’t stand glossy but I must say this is rather a preference. Still, where are those normal LCD screens which are NOT widescreen? I have to buy a 22″ widescreen before I can use the normal resolution of a normal 20 inch screen!
• Computer systems a menace for the tactical audiophile?Lot’s of DJ’s prefer MP3’s and computer systems to mix. I don’t give a damn, these things don’t give any tactical feedback at all. Same for the production of music. Fruityloops, Cubase, Reason or good sequencer can be used for dance tracks. One small detail, you’re working on a screen without any buttons, unless you got your controller placed in front of you. Still, where’s the fun of having seperate devices and using them modular? Different outputs, controls, feedback and learning curve. Everything can be done in software but you’ll still be limited by that software. I’ve been working with software for over 10 years, abandoned it for real hardware and have been producing ever well since that change!
• Noisy slow computer-systems everywhere!Last time I was sitting at a desk I was terribly annoyed by the vacuum cleaner next to my ear. Not only this vacuum cleaner had an alternating noise, just like my PC has at home, but it was slow as freak too. Remarkable, like the PC at home too! I am missing that age of silent computing. The P3 and P4 were pretty stable in sound, why do these newer CPU’s have to immitate that 5$ vacuum cleaner you found at the pawn shop?
• Data storage, a window to a black age for the greedy?
  
  Data storage opened a portal to many ways. For audio and video it was the solution for high-definition productions. It opened an entire new door to distributed computing, bloated software and operating systems with the size you could yank “MOMMA?” at! It also opened a bad doorway to those who are greedy and out of empowering their wealth. Data collection happens at governmental level but in end 2000 also at corporation level. This data can be used and abused at any given time; for as long as it exists. Do you still feel safe with that innocent mail which became illegal 50 years later?
• Immortality at a price of knowledge.Want to be immortal? Too bad! You got to die! Still, you can be immortal in many ways. The information high-way has evolved to an entire incorporated society which can pass your soul for many ages! Immortality at the price of bandwidth. If you create content which is worthy surviving for eternity you should sure think about the Internet to do so!
• Updates & Windows still not the safest way to go!Those updates, together with one of the top-best virus-scanners are still not best. This month a hacker tried to access one of my XP systems while I was working on it. Stupid. This system was fully patched, fully firewalled with F-secure Internet Security. It didn’t help. After cleaning the system completely of any backdoors (and there were 3 installed!) I noticed another box popping up. A nice Courtesy Shell. This was time to reinstall this machine, put it on another IP, firewall it externally and honeynet this attacker. Bottom line of the story: Updates and firewalls installed on machine level are not always as safe as you think!
• Defective public transportation automation.In Belgium we got these armored machines, running under a very cheap system which provides tickets to use the public transportation. It’s a nice system when it’s broken for sure! If only these tram-drivers would have the guts to price for the normal price when it’s broken!
• Cards everywhere! Do I need a new wallet?A card for these 2 shops I go to and one for the bakery where I buy croissants at, two to get a pizza at the corner, one for these office supplies, credit card, SIS card and I’m for sure not ending here. These cards often are not fully understood in policy…
• Windows Vista, is bloat really necessary?Windows Vista, the new flagship of Microsoft is not really more than an upgraded XP, with new screen/presentation enhancements, much slower and uses lots more memory. Together with the vacuum cleaner mentioned before.. Great! I knew there was a reason to live!
• Lots more …

When GB started having cards to save points I’ve lost one card. Because the card was used together with my partner, I’ve ordered a new one as soon as Happy Days was introduced. I have never received any disclaimer until last week.

As any good citizen, I fill in the new form at GB for the transfer of the old cards to the new card. The new card was activated and the old cards were terminated. I’ve again received no rules and no mentioning about termination dates, till today at the phone.

These saved points were not transferred after 5 months which made me demand more information by phone. Both cards were lost in their administration, although I’ve had a copy with the barcode which saved my account. Finally they fixed the malignant balance with the one card I’ve had in copy. First time I’ve lost points with Happy Days but cheer up, it won’t happen again, will it?

Today, I’ve decided to transfer my old card and all tickets which I’ve saved under the spare GB card to the new Happy Days card; which I’ve registered just a week ago with a brand new package, including 2 cards, a paper form and a disclaimer; certainly something new afterall.

The lady at the phone responded both my 2 old cards were terminated. The +1400 points could not be recovered. Not only the card was terminated but 80% of my tickets were scrap because, if you don’t shop your account gets terminated after 6 months.

Conclusions of me?

1. You have to shop inbetween 6 months or you are terminated.
2. There goes my trip which took more than a year before!
3. The lady could see the identity was missing on the previous card but cannot see the balance?
4. I’ve put 2 weeks of labor to transfer my old GB cards to the new Happy Days card and my identity is missing?
5. Happy Days lost 1 of the 2 old GB cards!
6. The lady mentioned every GB ticket mentions the 6 months invalidation but none does!
7. I should be mentioned by the cashier about the expiration terms was the next answer…
8. I received no disclaimer till past week mentioning me expiration dates of cards.
9. I’ve lost over 4 years of saving because of rules which are created without the customer knowing?
10. Happy Days lost my points before, which of one card was retained using a copy!
11. I’ve been deliberately waiting because I wanted to get everything done in one step, to avoid too much administrative hassle (like before with GB to Happy Days!), this together with my partners card.
12. So practically, I saved all that time for nothing!

Because of database cleanups I have become virtually non-existant unless I use their stores inside their terms. Great!

Happy-Days, thanks for putting years faith in you
I’ll sure remember you .. RIP in my wallet!

Yesterday I went to the local electronics store where stuff gets sold for audio, video, oscilloscopes, multimeters, solder, crocodile clamps and lots more…

I needed to make a cable for the Fluke CableIQ qualification tester to check pin by pin; since this cable was not in stock at the dealer and it would probably cost 100x more anyways. I went in the store in a hurry, got the equipment with me and we had the following dialog:

[me] Hi, I see you got fluke in your etalage, do you sell these testleads?
[shopkeeper] No I’m afraid we don’t have these.
[me] do you got any test leads which I can use to make a cable for this device here? <while taking out manual>
[shopkeeper] I don’t got any separate leads.
[me] Do you got any colored crocodile clamps? I want to be able to make this cable, I already got the connector to go to the device but I’d like a nicer solution for the ending leads
[shopkeeper] Let me see what I got
… <after a time> …
[shopkeeper] I got these crocodile clamps, but only in red and black.
[me] That’s better than nothing, how many of these you got? I’d like to have 5 of each.
<to be sure because these things do break around the plastic too>
… <after a time> …
[shopkeeper] I got 5 of these and 4 of these.
… <In the whiletime an older man with a beard comes in> …
[me] Where is the time when you had these in colored?
[shopkeeper] That time is already gone for long, it’s not being sold anymore…
[me] But you do still sell soldering irons I hope
[shopkeeper] No, as a matter of fact even Dynatek is stopping with multimeters. Soldering irons do not get sold anymore, everything is getting micro-smd etc..
[me] Where is the time when we learned about these things, using resistors, capacitators, making stuff?
[shopkeeper] Now they learn to draw in schools, but most of the electronic parts we have abandoned because it does not sell anymore.
[me] That’s bad, we with the soldering irons are getting extinct, so everyone just throws everything away??
[shopkeeper] Basically yes, most stuff cannot be repaired or gets swapped with modules.
[me] Do you still got those packages with many 5 or 10 testleads in one?
[shopkeeper] Yes let me see.
[guy with beard] The challenge seems to be gone for most around us, it’s sad, although not everything is new and small and smd
[shopkeeper] I have these?
[me] <while looking> yes, these are a lot better and are which I search for, I want two packages of these.
[shopkeeper] that will me 8 euro 70 cents together please.
… <taking my money and paying< …
[guy with beard] Also a package of test leads please and pays up

Moral of story ..
Do we need to throw everything away when it still can be fixed just for the sake of having the newest model or type on our desk?

It’s always the easy way,
talking words through the Internet highway,
golden words, golden thougths, “the golden promise”,
although I am not exactly named Saint Thomas…

It’s always the easiest way,
mostly it doesn’t make the 21th day,
everything is so great over that computer chat,
but in real everything could be not really all that…

People try to change you in a fast draft,
while not looking to their own backyard,
then deciding things don’t go along,
and yet we got to sing this song…

It’s always the easy way,
when you can’t be changed on the third day rush away,
words get silver scrap worth an Euro ninety nine,
as if things run like everyone wishes in such a short time..

Don’t change your habits that fast,
Always let your own values and principles last,
Don’t take the easiest way,
because at the end only you will pay…

Take words not like brass,
don’t go the underpass,
talk and think words as they are silver,
mean them like golden as if you are eachothers caregiver…

Mean your words golden with a smile,
and have some patience, knowing eachother makes a while,
short term plans cannot determine your entire life,
because that’s what defines the word “no it’s my wife!!”

Respect eachother, respect your elders,
because you got eachother wisdom, be eachothers welders,
use it as a gift, don’t reject,
but embrace eachother, learn, observe and respect!

Make your world a better place,
always keep looking at yourself in the face,
because you mostly make the same mistakes rise,
and mostly not one time but even twice as nice!

Don’t get your words sold to heaven,
because they will become hot air and blow at eleven,
stand on them, talk, relativise and think,
think life as it has just given you a wink…

Learn from your problems, experiences, words and deeds,
learn from your toughts, be sure to learn from your mistakes
but never go the easy way,
by giving up, throwing everything you have built away …

If you are friends, boy or girlfriends or married in a way,
talking works only work if they are meant in every way,
if they respect your friends decisions, mind and thougth,
then you know what you’ll earn after you fought!

Still, people take the easy way,
when you hear it coming, it’s the ultimate judgement day,
it’s the step back into the past,
while the future will loose it’s final blast…

The clock is ticking, the time is now,
don’t strive to eachother but take a bow,
don’t take the easy way because it will always stay,
it will always be that easiest way!

And still, my friend, if you take that easy path,
and you decide it was “just” all that,
I did fight for a way which was for both a good stay,
if you just give up like that, you go your own damn way!

© 2007 by ZKboi, GV.

“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”
“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”
“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”
“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”
“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”
“Maybe they’re like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage.”
“Nope. They’re born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn’t take long. Do you have any idea what’s the life span of meat?”
“Spare me. Okay, maybe they’re only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside.”
“Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They’re meat all the way through.”
“No brain?”
“Oh, there’s a brain all right. It’s just that the brain is made out of meat! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.”
“So … what does the thinking?”
“You’re not understanding, are you? You’re refusing to deal with what I’m telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat.”
“Thinking meat! You’re asking me to believe in thinking meat!”
“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?”
“Omigod. You’re serious then. They’re made out of meat.”
“Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they’ve been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years.”
“Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?”
“First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual.”
“We’re supposed to talk to meat.”
“That’s the idea. That’s the message they’re sending out by radio. ‘Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.’ That sort of thing.”
“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”
“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”
“I thought you just told me they used radio.”
“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”
“Officially or unofficially?”
“Both.”
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”
“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’ But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?”
“Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can’t live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact.”
“So we just pretend there’s no one home in the Universe.”
“That’s it.”
“Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You’re sure they won’t remember?”
“They’ll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we’re just a dream to them.”
“A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat’s dream.”
“And we marked the entire sector unoccupied.”
“Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?”
“Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again.”
“They always come around.”
“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone …”

— Terry Bison’s 1991 Nebula Award nominee short story,
“They’re Made out of Meat”

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As I am silent, as also very reliant,
I am in a lot of grief, Someone nice had to leave,
Troy, a name to mention, causing me a lot of tension,
One of my best friends died, so hoped he had won his fight,
You always had advice, where a true friend relies,
Even you lived miles away,
You teached me to be open,
You showed me certain ethics, language and lyrics!

your soul is in these sounds, but it’s just a tease,
Troy, best friend, rest in peace (06/03/60-23/08/06)…
a name remembered as Troyboy!

Let the angels sing for you every day!

A tribute has been created, in dedication for Troy!

Your friend…

I don’t got a lot of words for what happened to you John, I know you for about 10 years, you where 7 years my record supplier and brought me sometimes the best (and also worst ) music I could imagine.

We’ve not seen eachother a lot outside nightlife although I do miss you very much around here, you where a very big musical influence on my life ..

Groove in peace, Johnnieboy!

ref: John, Emiel Vangeenhoven

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Troy … it’s kindof a special name …
I have heard it before, as the horse of Troy,
but also as Troy in the movie(2) and also with the nice vocals of Sinead O’Connor(3) (only this Troy I know is sure NOT a lawyer!)

Troy, the guy I know, is somebody I will remember for my entire life … He changed me in a lot of things, he learned me to be extrovert instead of introvert.

We had many talks together, we had a lot of common music interests, we shared a lot of time … I can really call him “my best friend” and .. as he called me a brother .. I could also call him a brother to me…

I am so happy he was there every day, someone interesting, always something new to discover, some days I could say “Troy???” …

He gave me a chance to play at the bar I work at, Rubbzz, and soon other DJ’s followed… His choice .. was godless!

He is a legend, know by many people … and will live on for a long time, and, if I could decide, lifelong. Which is worth for knowing what friendship is.

Troy, I need to say,
I miss you guy,
The times you called me G ..
You always supported me…

I supported you,
Like you did too,
I was there,
We were both honest and fair…

You trusted me like a real friend,
and I will always be happy to defend,
the person you are, as vurnerable as a child,
only you really did it, you found your freedom in the wild!

Troy, I got to give you,
You’re a wonderfull person, I kindof love you,
you are unique .. One of a kind (1)
and will never be off my mind!

You where always correct,
sometimes you yelled, always mostly it had a nice effect,
you where that soul around us,
the friend of (R)’s!

I can always say, you deserve to be known,
I hope to see you soon,
We have seen lots of weird anomalities,
At least, lol, it was all a kind of a life tease

Troy, rest in peace my man, have your own time,
you deserve it for sure, after those many years of fame

(1) = Dee-lite, Unique
(2) = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452/ (imdb: Troy)
(3) = Sinead O’conner, the text does not really compare to Troy but if you want to have a nice comparisation, try “Nothing compares to you”, also by Sinead O’connor …

(4) = If I need to describe Troy, I would really say he is unique … Kindof a stubborn boy with a heart that is really on its place … Even if I might shock him with that line, he is a boy who deserves friend(s) and deserves his life to the fullest. He is a manager as I never have seen, he has supported lots of people I know, he has supported me. I have been knowing him for 5 and a half year, and almost 3 years we had a nice friendship and similar interests in music and movies. I really really needed to put this on my site, since, that boy, Troy, is being part of my life. And I wish him a very good journey… and whatever he decides to stay or to come back, he will always be welcome around here. I promise that!.

If you come back, you will have a huge welcome party with everyone, if you stay, I wish you a very happy life “live long and prosper”! (lol! you know we are the only ones who can do that Vulcan thing !! lol!!)…

Gunther.

Definition of a friend?

All I want is someone to trust,
putting your worries to dust,
Words are free, nothing to withold,
whenever they could be warm or cold…

Someone being able to know,
someone who listens, ready to bow,
Where feelings are one,
someone that takes ready-to-bow equally as poke fun…

Someone to be proud to have,
that one thats ready to save,
Someone I know we will never leave,
just that one thing that makes life a relief!

That one that is there,
even when you are flying above the clouds,
above the world, above the sky, in the air,
The one I will give my word of ‘I will be there’!

It’s such a filling feeling,
the one that gets you off (or on) the ceiling,
That one that sometimes brings mess,
being to be able to confess …

Someone who you could trust your tiny life,
even if he is man or wife,
A word is worth a 1000 lines of feelings,
you’d better be less on those ceilings !

He accepts you whoever you are,
Whenever you like the sun, the moon or any star,
Defends you whatever you stand for,
The one you want to be in front of your door!

A word of honesty towards eachother,
someone which will sometimes bother,
slight compassian, twist of humor,
He’ll bother you back anyways, just don’t get a tumor!

A friend you could never leave,
That one that always gives you a relieve,
Hope seeing him back soon again,
That’s a true friend, that one that’s most humane!

Well, such friend,
There is always that fifty/fifty procent,
Whenever even when you need to get or need to pay,
You will always be gay, that number (1) !!!

Written by ZKboi,
Don’t treat friendship as a toy,
This text can be used everywhere and anywhere,
if U send to someone else!

http://www.zkboi.nu/truefriend

—
references:
1 GAY: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer;
“a cheery hello”; “a gay sunny room”; “a sunny smile”…
(ref: Princeton Wordnet)

“Definition of a true friend?”
ref: ZKboi 21/03/04@03:00/15m_v1.0_txt
http://zkboi.nu/truefriend.

My soulmate wanted to rip the CD to put on his Archos Jukebox, since he is not using CD’s anymore but still buys them to be legal and to have the full version.

Since I have put in the CD I can’t run my company invoice system anymore, can’t do anything at all with that cdrom drive, can’t even play a game. Every time I put in the CD it cannot be recognized by my system.

I already tried to uninstall the software but the problem stays, which forces me to reinstall the PC completely (which I definitely don’t have the time for now at the moment and will cost me days to get my invoicing and updates done).

Is this legal ? Can this be allowed ? I am literally loosing money now just because I wanted to rip that legal and bought cd for him straight to his Archos. It’s not even music I like to listen to… (no offense intended to all fans around here) …

Apparantly it is legal folks ..
CD’s that demolish your PC ready to reinstall!…

I am really starting to get even more annoyed since I do not know which CD’s I can even TRUST anymore without the need to re-install my PC? To stay on topic ; A lot of data is on backup but also a lot of data (my vinyl and protected CD’s ripped to WAV format) will be lost after this re-install.

These copyprotections are taking more time than I have; to be even more specific, certain CD’s like Solid Sounds I need to rip manually to be able to USE this CD in my older car cd player and pro Denon DJ CD player!!! Since I am DJ and using vinyl and CD’s a lot I find this unacceptable. Put in this pro-DJ player and you got to wait up to 6 minutes before the CD *might* get read; which is too long for a clubDJ to mix to the next song; unless I have a 8-10 minute song running from vinyl…

Is this copyprotection a convenience only for the record company or should the audio CD be a convenience for the listener? Where’s the time you put in the CD in your favorite cd player you like to listen to the music you like ? The time of putting your cd in your car cdplayer, cd-rom drive or professional CD player is over and it’s only getting worse, looking to this example of the latest CD I tried to rip for my friend.

And this is not even the end, my soulmate has bought 2 other CD’s, which one of them is the new Faithless CD (the other one I can’t remember because we have a different taste (and yet the same) of music) and he can’t rip it to use on his MP3 player *and* he can’t use it on his home CD player (unreadable disks).

I used to buy 2 to 5 cd’s a month, since I am not sure anymore which cd’s work or not I started buying more vinyl again, but hell, I do not want to buy ANY releases of the same producers that cripple the audio CD’s I have bought for 20 EURO or more!

The recording industry has lost at least 600 EURO last year only because I do not want to buy or use cd’s anymore.. what’s the use to buy a cd if I can’t use it?

I have built up a nice record collection of +30000 vinyl records and +2000 cd’s. Probably the collection of my cd’s will not be updated anymore as I protest to this kind of behavior towards the consumer. I currently have about 62 cd’s of the last 2 years that I cannot use at all unless I rip it and copy it. This is about 1200 EURO/$ I have lost because I cannot use them as DJ.

This will conclude the recording industry will not get MY money of minimally 720 EURO/$ per year anymore, which I will spend on independent vinyl recording companies which are not related to the ones that cripple MY cd’s I have bought with my well-deserved money which I pay my taxes on.

For so far my rant … for the ones that care ; I started to care a lot since I have lost my cd-rom drive on a very mysterious way

Saturday night, 14th may 2004, me, Pi (my soulmate) and Jo (a good friend who wanted a ride to central station) went to my car. At the other end of the street there are 2 heavy men with black uniforms walking towards us.

Jo wanted to close the door while I was already standing at the door of the drivers side. Suddenly the 2 guys jump to the door of Jo, pull it open and the guys start to bash Jo in my car by kicking in his face with combats.

Pi was sitting in the back all safe, Jo tried to protect himself and I did not know what was happening when I saw it happening through my window of the car. Jo and Pi heard them shouting “vuile flikker” (which means “filthy faggot”).

I was getting very scared they where going to kick Jo to death and tried to intervene. One of the guys went to me and started kicking with his fists on my face, nose and throat, kicking inbetween the groin, …

I ran away (else I was being severely beaten) and the 2 guys ran out of the street. A mate I see when I go out saw everything happening in front of his car; I asked him to follow these guys directly. 15 minutes we have been following both guys till they splitted. Another 7 minutes we have been following one of the guys around the Katoennatie in Antwerpen.

That man tried everything to shake us off, trying to run back, crawling behind a bus, waiting on the corner and running like hell, ….

While we where following I was waiting +7 minutes in hold on the policeline (which is a scandal to my opinion) to hear they do not have any policeman available to help us. I had to redial 4 times because there were still no agents available.

After 22 minutes we saw a policecar passing by (which was FREE and not even knowing what was going on!?!) and I jumped out (the still driving car) and started shouting and holding the police that they needed to arrest the guy we where following. That guy was arrested and currently already back on the streets.

When one of the guys was hitting me on the throat I pulled away and that guy hitted me on not even a centimeter next to my adamsappel. After the doctor examined me it seemed that he aimed on a deadly spot. (I’M ALIVE !!!!!!!!!!!). I didn’t even feel the kick in my groin (UGH?) and I also wonder if this wasn’t “a attempt of murder”. Considering how they where kicking with boots in Jo’s face and tried to kick me straight on my adamsappel.

I had a little cut in my throat causing me to bleed inside (which is going a little bit too far to my opinion). My car is broken on my brake, cellular phone, gearshift, outside.

They did it probably for fun, the kick, because we did not have any contact with these guys, we didn’t even know them.

I really wanted atleast 1 guy to be taken into custody, he’s Belgian and the 2nd one I don’t know anything about. The other guy had a black shirt with round logo on his back, short hair and is for as far as I know not been found. One is arrested at the Katoennatie.

Jo was quite beaten on his head, his hips where fully blue and there were 3 minor cuts on his head and a brain-shake. I had a blue eye, my throat was damaged, head, nose and inbetween my legs.

I think I hereby informed enough about the current condition of:

(1) how this society is these days and
(2) what the current condition of my health is.

I have difficulties living in such demotivating society where you NEED to learn how to beat to survive.

updates:

25 may 2004 – 29 may 2004
At night I was getting very sick. Vomiting blood, oversensitive (pain) for light and sounds and fevers of 39 degrees celcius. This probably because of infection in my throat.

30 may 2004
my fever has dropped to normal levels, 37-37.5 celcius, my head still hurts like hell and I am less sensitive to light and sounds. I am still caughing up blood.

well .. this update is one year later 2 september 2005 … The guys got free from everything, the lady justice has her blindfold on proving she is really blind!

ZKboi

As you might have noticed, my new version of the site is as good as finished. Certain tweaks need to be undertaken but everything is running perfectly.

I’ve had this design already waiting unfinished for over a half year and it was getting time to get it finished and implemented. The design is fully themable which means I can add special stuff on special occasions *hmmmz*…

To go back to the old design, out of luck …

If you see any errors or got any comments about the new design, feel free to contact me

A few things are not finished/implemented yet, since I also have a daily job to attend that will happen in my free time, check out later for these implementations …
What has not been finished yet:

1. The photo album is still in old format
2. The guestbook needs to be rewritten
3. The category icons need to be redone (orange to blue)
4. mood-o-meter needs to be implemented

Enjoy your trip, and let me know if something is wrong !

ZKboi

Since a lot of people ask me what I do in life, my hobbies, work etc… I will try to make things more clear about myself in this article. I also try to let you know how I think, what my values are in life.

I am a very complex somebody, I have my own words, my own ways, my own tougths and my own way of acting. I do not consider myself part of any selective society. I am part of a lot of cultures on this world. I consider myself most to be skater because of my clothes and my hobbies. I do not consider myself to be 100% pure Belgian. Do I actually belong on this planet???

I like freedom, I like artistic behavior. Being artistic is a free expression of the mind. A lot of people are artistic in one or another way. I like to do it audio-visually mostly.

Honesty is the best way to go:
Lying, cheating, discrimination, racism, naivity, ignorance and superficiality are things I see (and feel) daily. I will never support these kinds of behavior; I’d rather die alone than living in a ignorant world.

This article has been changed. Certain topics have been taken out because there are people out there with malicious purpose. Since I cannot be completely open towards the world and protect my life at the same time I decided to censor my own article for a bit. I am sorry, if you want to know more about me you will need to ask me.

My hobbies
My hobbies are mostly being artistic …

• I draw…
  a lot of example drawings can be found at Project (A)(R)(T).
  I also like to do image manipulations and design.
• Philosophy is a nice way of living too;
  Since I am a thinker, I tweak myself on my own values in life, I think and learn about my mistakes and victories in live …
• I like to skate and swim.
• I like to sleep;
  my bed is holy (since I don’t sleep a lot).
• I like to watch movies;
  Some favorite movies are Donnie Darko, The Never Ending Story, Memento, Requim for a Dream, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Dark City, Indiana Jones, Dune, Pulp Fiction, …
• I make music, I collect music, I love music.
  I am quite strange though with which style I like. I am totally not commercial and I never listen to the radio because I do not like to be brainwashed with the newest tunes for about 5 times a day …
• I like artistic photography;
  have lots of (new) ideas and once I will be working on these ideas if I find a good photographer who can understand my tougths.

What do I like or dislike?
Tastes differ and probably this list is waaaaay far from done but it’s better to start somewhere instead of starting nowhere …

• I like milk, green tea, SPA blue (no other!).
  Sometimes I like to drink Fanta, glennlivet, glennfiddich, Stoley and Tequilla (since it doesn’t affect my mind too much).
• I dislike narrow minded people, demotivation, intolerance, discrimination, racism, hatred, …
• I like steak, turkey, bananas, chicken, spinash, oranges, salad, yoghurt, cherrys, cheese, mussels, herring, salmon, fries, cheeseburger, and this list goes on …
• I dislike sprouts, asperges, anything of internal organs, beans, beer (tastes like pee!), gin (tastes like vomit!), …
• I like to be organized but doesn’t work out always
• I dislike psychological games, fights, loud/noisy people, superficiality …

This list is way far from finished but as I told, anything is better to start with … Now you know what to get me as drink when you see me *evil grin*.

My work
Since I need to protect myself I cannot tell a lot about my primary job, I am self-employed and I got my hands full every day to support my company.

• I used to work in the Internet world (no further comments).
• I used to work as bartender and DJ @ Rubbzz for 10 years!
  It’s a very interesting job, sure because you meet and talk with people “in another perspective”…
• Currently I’m having my focus on audio-visual productions.

How do I look on the inside?
Messy for sure, I am sure I have a heart, a pair of lungs, blood vessles and do I really need to continue describing how I look like on the inside? To be more specific .. I look “tough” on the outside (which is my protective shell) and I am quite “soft” on the inside …

• I am shy in a lot of ways.
• I am very openminded.
• I am overprotective towards myself.
• I am very open in thougths.
  If anything is wrong I will sure tell.
• I am someone who lives on feelings and emotions.
  It’s a tough life ya know …
• I am stubborn.
• I am loyal.
• I am trustworthy.
• I am sometimes (too) messy.
• I need to be “free” in tougths, words and have my own way of living.
• I am sometimes depressed.
• I have ADHD.

Certain norms and values I have
This is a subject I have removed for now. Because it has too much information that can be used against me. There are unfortunately people with malicious intents on this world and I already have met one who has tried to use this information on a bad way.

If you want to know me you will have to talk to me or meet me in person.

To tell you in short what used to be in this topic:
No-one is perfect; I have respect for anybody/anything on this world; violence is the voice of the ignorant heart; I’ll never put anyone in danger; prejudice is bad; I like to observe; I will do anything to protect myself: my mind, my soul, my body and the one I love; I have positive and negative sides and if you are that much interested in those sides, you better get to meet/talk to me ASAP.

I hope this was an interesting and descent answer on the questions “Who am I, and what do I do in life?”… If you got any other questions or remarks you can always mail me and I will add them to this list.

Cu!
ZKboi

Hey Tom,

I remember you as someone funny and nice,
I remember you as someone caring and stubborn,
I remember you as someone sweet, cute, having nice ties,
I remember you as someone who was there when I needed you…

I have talked a lot with you, did things with you, never had any problems with you … Whenever you dropped by my place I always had that funny and happy feeling because of you …

You where a certain sun around me, you had the warmth and you had the light … You told me things in trust, which I gladly accepted and kept in my heart and soul …

I like you a lot, and I find it terrible this has happened, we’ve lost you Tom … It feels so bad … Unacceptable …

~=~ -=- ~=~

~=~ -=- ~=~
Something you deserve is peace now,
It where 5 wonderfull years knowing you!
Hey lil Tom,
Rest In Peace

Your friend,
Still there,
knowing you,
in grief,

Gunther.

08/02/2004 – Seems to be this has an enormous impact on my life …. Missing you …

article ref: Tom Spruytte / http://zkboi.nu/tom

Past year I have bought a Casio Protrek (PRG-40) in Emmen, NL. This watch has a lot of functions including a thermometer, compass and barometer. Because I am very satisfied with my previous watch which was a G-shock from Casio, I considered buying that watch. The watch costed 250 Euros which is a fair amount of money for a watch.

The watch looks sturdy, which I really need. Any other watches I have die after 3-4 months, just like my shoes and clothes; that’s why I buy less in quantity but more in quality.

In the beginning when I bought the watch there was one problem, which appeared to be normal (to my opinion). A button was a lil bit looser than the other buttons.

I have a lot of pleasure with the watch, it looks (and is) very sturdy but at 15 september 2003 it died completely. NONE of the buttons where working. I brought it back in and asked if this could be repaired under warranty and I immediately had the answer the watch probably has collected dirt, which does not fall under warranty what-so-ever.

I delivered the watch at 15 october 2003, waited for a full month and the buttons (and glass/wristband because of usage) and it was still not in, which brought me to a friend who repairs/sells watches. He replaced the batteries in the watch and said the button was loose because of a missing “clip”. That missing clip is a manufacturers error and is supposed to be under warranty.

I searched for the support site and it seems “Tapernoux” in Brussels is the official sale distributor for Casio. I sent an email to Casio (via the support site) and to Tapernoux and never got any Email back.

Today, I contacted them and I had the pleasure to talk to a lady who could absolutely not help me over the phone. I explained that clip was missing and in no way she wanted to help me further if this is under manufacturers defects or not.

Now, according the warranty in casio’s booklet, provided with the watch, the watch is covered under warranty if there is any manufacturers defect. I already paid 250 EUROS for it and now it seems to be I need to pay almost 100 EUROS extra because the watch died after +/- 6 months.

Talking about a piece of sh*t if it is going to cost me 100 EUROS every half year ?!?!?

What’s wrong with customer service these days? I got sent away, tomorrow I will have my watch back (I AM GLAD! after almost 2 1/2 months of waiting!) repaired, but fully paid by me.

This rant is about a certain manufacturer, called Casio, who does not comply to it’s own warranty. There is no customer support at all by email and the only thing I hear is that I need to send in the watch and pay for the parts & hours of repair. Is this customer service ? I find to be treated unrightfully and this will be the place where I put my rant about watches …

Cu next time!

ZKboi.

5am in the morning, my PC starts making sounds of emails that arrive in my mailbox. About 200 replies from Postmaster from different sections of the world telling me the “user does not exist and the mail could not be delivered”.

The origin of this message seems to be ME.

Some spammer has started spoofing (imitating) using the zkboi.com domain to spam other people.

I find my domain is being raped by an assh*le on the net.

For the people who have received spam from my accounts (zkboi.nu, zkboi.com, zkboi.org, zkaterboi.nu and zkboi.net) please send the FULL email WITH headers to me.

I am going to remove my email address soon from my main website because spammers seem to harvest for existing email addresses and (mis)use this email address to send their own spam under MY name.

I start to feel very bad people misusing/invading my property because of “commercial reasons”. First it’s my guestbook that gets misused to put generic words in them and now it’s SPAM being sent from my email address. Currently, 12 at noon, I am having more than 900 messages from postmaster, seems to be the spammer is using generic names sending to everywhere.

Happy Happy Happy, Joy Joy Joy !!!

A frustrated ZKboi…

What if your heart was a teddybear,
I would not be able to get away or to get near,
So I would need to hug you as close as your heart,
That’s how nice you are, you are somebody apart…

This is not a poem of love,
though a certain freedom I felt .. like a flying dove,
free in the sky, a pleasant feeling, a pleasant stay,
I find it nice to make you that bit happy, all the way …

Don’t be afraid, I won’t be touching your heart,
I am just feeling confident with you as a friend apart,
I am sometimes having the feelings to hug somebody,
and that would be rather you than anybody…

Short poem for somebody I dare to respect,
A poem from somebody with words that give a big effect,
A poem for somebody who is nice and sweet,
A poem from somebody who does not want you to be sad with any need!

From Me to You !

I am writing this article as a “cry for attention”, because I don’t really feel home anymore in this society. I see a lot of things changing and I don’t find it positive at all.

I see lack of respect, lack of principles, lack of safety, less friendlyness between people, more and more egoistic people (on the road), more demand to power and money, more criminality, more trash, discrimination and I see a society that’s really killing eachother …

I hope by writing this article to reach certain (groups of) people who might think “this is true” or “yes, I could help to change this”, maybe that little step could be a big change in society to get it living again…

People are very easy influenced, some are influenced by talking, discussions and some are influenced by media like movies, television, newspapers, books, etc… A lot of people are thinking like a collective, there is a leading party and they just follow. I can understand a lot of people are less individual and counting on the support of the society, but, is that support really there when you really need it? Or do you feel accepted if you are (a bit) different in certain views or actions?

“The lack of individualism is destroying the society !”

A lot of people are currently living in their “protected environment” called society .. but is it really that safe? Are you really protected or could it be you can be a danger for other people by thinking like that? Are you protected by the society? In a certain way you feel very protected, you feel you have help whenever you need to but what if “the bug” of society hits you in the face?

If you think very deep about it you might find your answer. Below here I am going to give a few examples and I only ask you, think about it, but look at it very sober, without pink-glasses …

You can tell “look at it on the bright side” but what if that side is not bright at all? Why would I need to believe and look to an illusion? Sometimes I wonder if I am the only person seeing all these changes but then, sometimes I find somebody who is also thinking the same and even understanding me … These people make me feel better because I am not the only one and there is a problem …

The problem is growing bigger and bigger and as a single individual I could not change this, a lot of individuals could change this.

Do not ask me to change myself to “the” society and change my basic principles I grew up with because I simply cannot do that, they are me, my personality, my strength and my believe. I believe in myself, I believe in what I do and I believe in 100% respect for anything on this world, sure for humans, animals and the rest of the nature. A lot of people are not having that 100% respect or do not think straight enough about the consequences …

Hence, a lot of people seem to not live their live but let others control their live! How pathetic and cynical does the word “living” mean to them?

Some examples …

1. I see lack of respectThese days I see a lot of lack of respect for animals, the nature and mainly for other humans. A lot of people are not being listened to, fights … Having respect for somebody or something is caring for that somebody/something as if it is your own blood, your own property. I respect everybody, even my worst enemy, for 100%. I will still try to understand, talk, take care of problems with respect in a decent way. I will not go fighting over something that can be solved by talking, neither I will use somebodies property for purposes it should not be used for …
2. lack of principlesPrinciples are for me the basic rules in life. One of my principles is that I will not hurt anybody, no humans, animals or objects (which cannot be hurt but rather broken).
   I will not bring somebody in danger, I will care about anybody I see and I will help wherever really needed.

   Another principle is that I will respect anybody or anything for 100%, I will not change that respect. This does not mean I trust anybody I see. My trust is 50/50 with people, some people deserve my trust and some not; partially because it’s my life and my safety.

   Discrimination is another principle, I will never discriminate in colors, size, race, or whatever you can discriminate on. Everybody is equal in my book. Somebody trying to hurt me in one or another way will not get my trust and I will protect myself but I will never look to a group of people as it if would be “their fault”. It’s not because there are Belgian criminals every Belgian citizen is a criminal.

   I have a lot of principles and certain principles are literally being broken by others. This feels very bad. My principle in safety is continuesly being broken on the road, in my life by other people … This feels even worse than bad!

   I really start to wonder how much people really do have principles in their life in these dark times …

   I wonder even more how many people are really keeping themselves on their principles, not breaking them all the time …

3. lack of safetyLook at the roads, how many people are actually still using their direction lights? How many people think about you while you want to pass by with your car? How many people are so egoistic thinking the road is only for them only while driving ONLY on the left lane while the right lane is completely free? A lot of these people are causing a lot of danger on the roads, safety is a oxymoron if you do not participate with it … Enough said about the road…Safety between people is also a problem these days, for example in sex. More and more people are doing unsafe sex infecting other people while mostly not even knowing this.A lot of people think “everything will be allright” but it won’t be allright by itself, nature will not help you in safety, YOU will be the piece in the chain of safety to help in a better and safer future …
4. less friendliness between peopleHow many people say thank you these days? Or how many people greet you on the street? Do you say goodmorning at your baker? Do you talk to your neightbours or do you really care about your friends? I have a very friendly pharmasist who says “hi” every time I see him and I say “hi” back. This because we do exist and we like that both, that can be expressed by simply saying a “hi” to your neighbour…Customer support is also getting scarce, it seems to be the customer is no longer the king but the corporations want to be the king. Do not forget that corporations ONLY exist if there are customers … Treat them right and you will keep them but treat them wrong and eventually your business will die….
5. more and more egoistic people (on the road)As I told in the “safety” chapter, people are getting more and more egoistic… I added the “on the road” part because I see that problem mostly on the road, in the car, on the streets, at the sidewalk …People are thinking more and more about themselves and their property only. Their selfimportance. I can only say one thing to all the people…“Take care of your fellow human and that fellow human will take care of you, be egoistic and you create egoism back”What will it be if the world will be full of egoism? Thinking only about their own goal, vision, property?

   I can tell, it will die, slowly, with pain, humans are made to be with eachother, to interact with eachother, not to fight or to only protect your own property but also to protect eachother … To care about eachother – the least you can do!

6. more demand to power and moneyBecause of egoism there is more and more demand for power and money. Currently there are leaders at the top of their country and citizens using their power on a wrong way. They want more power or want to use it for wrong purposes.Mostly this power is connected with money, more power is more money. Look at the mega-corporations, scams, criminality and maybe your government…Do you still believe you are not being influenced by people who are really having the power in influencing you? Mostly because of money ? The “economy” rules the world this time.
7. more criminalityThere is more and more criminality these days, less respect means harder crimes. Living is getting expensive, power is expensive and money is for some people a problem. Does this mean society is blowing up itself?
8. more trashIf I look outside I see shit lying on the curbs, I see trash lying in my street, this while I am living in the better areas of the city of Antwerpen. If more people would care about their fellow-citizens the cities would be a lot cleaner to live in. I need to watch my step or I have dirty shoes.
9. discriminationDiscrimination is a very bad bug in society. It’s getting worse and worse in time. There is getting a difference between poor and rich, black and white, heterosexual and homosexual, Christian and Moslim, Belgian and Hollander, …Why is there a difference while we are all humans? What makes me different of being a Belgian? Why do you need to be having money before you can be part of society? Why would I be different because I have a white skin instead of a black skin?We are all different, unique, but being white or black is not the difference, your thinking, feelings and expression is the difference … Please people, think about this, think about your fellow human… It will only be better to like eachother instead of hating eachother just because that color or that one difference …

I hope to have reached somebody and something by writing this article, I translated it to dutch especially to reach the most people …

Please think about it.. ok?

ZKboi