Welcome To The Machine

Artist: PINK FLOYD

Song: Welcome To The Machine

Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine

Where have you been ?

It's alright we know where have you been.

You've been in the pipeline, filling in time

Provided with toys and "Scouting for Boys"

You bought a guitar to punish your ma

And you didn't like school

And you know you're nobody's fool

So welcome to the machine

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine

What did you dream ?

It's alright we told you what to dream.

You dreamed of a big star

He played mean guitar

He always ate in the Steak Bar

He loved to drive in his Jaguar

So welcome to the Machine

Hello, how are you all? Can't stop rat-racing? Are you struggling yet, getting pie in the sky? You are doing it again and again! What exactly do you want out of this competition? Still can't feed your greedy desires! Can't get out of this damn loop, this routine! So, welcome buddy! Welcome to the machine!

Oh, this machine is eating you. This machine acts like a mathematic function. It has got some inputs and some outputs. What is the function it's doing over you and your life? I am sure you know it. So, do you know it or not? Well, if your answer is: "NO", then let's take a look? What are the benefits and losses of this man-made civilized modern world (even if you can call it fantastic, fiction, fake world)? I am sure it has lots of losses than benefits. But, how you can ask a blinded man this silly question? (A question about seeing something and his description about what he sees.) The whole mankind at this state of life is like this blind man that can't see things. Just He is able touch the things and feel in mind that, the thing is good; but is those goody good thing at all? I do not know. I am just asking you about it.

Look at what he has done to the globe. He is building skyscrapers reaching and going over the clouds in the sky. He flies with big giant airplanes through continents and countries. And so and so such like things.

This civilized big cities have got several things in it absorbing fools. Everything you need to do is to get in to this circle, to this loop and just obey and obey the rules. The rules like going schools, colleges, and universities and at the end working like a fool, working in this routine. Majority are doing it while I am watching this repeating function of this machine. I like to stand in the minority, even alone with no one against it. Certainly it's not easy swimming against the tide, but I'll like to try!

Yes, the mankind by himself has built this machine. This machine is consist of a big matrix. An N*N matrix with lots of dimension. It really looks like a big maze. Not a simple 2*2 maze that you can imagine it on the ground but an N*N maze. Why does man make things so complex and try to run away from the simple immaculate life? What is the benefits of this so-called technology that still some man starving to death. Does it need expansion or development for extinction? Yes, even if this man doesn't want this, but he has acted like this for centuries? I think at the end he is going to extinct his own species as he extinct many animal species and condemned their life to death before. Yes, he is going to kill himself by his own hands. He is like a blind man falling in a hole and struggles digging it over and over with the hope of getting out of it.

What did he dream? It's alright I tell you some parts of this dream. He dreamed of a big civilization with highways and skyscrapers in the sky. He dreamed of machines that do everything for him; but finally he made himself a slave for the machine or that system, not the machine a slave for his own. He is changing his role in this game gradually.

Everyone of us loves to drive in his own exotic convertible car with hundreds horse-powers using more and more gas. Some VIP go farther and traveling on their own private jets. Oh, what a sweet dream! What greedy bastards! Oh, we are using the sources of this world like viruses do the same.

So welcome, my son, welcome to the machine!

Seven Deadly Sins

I am not religious or church-educated guy but I believe in existence of seven deadly sins in human life. So, I go to Wikipedia and search for it. Of course, the sins are known and defined in religions different from each other but I think you can adapt their definition and belief of sins to these seven sins.

• Lust
• Gluttony
• Greed
• Sloth
• Wrath
• Envy/Jealousy
• Pride

I want now mention some descriptions I've got from Wikipedia here at it follows:

Lust (excessive sexual appetites)

Lust is usually thought of as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Unfulfilled lusts can lead to sexual or sociological compulsions and/or transgressions including (but obviously not limited to) sexual addiction, adultery, bestiality, and rape.

Dante's criterion was "excessive love of others," which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. However, lust and love are two different things; while a genuine, selfless love can represent the highest degree of development and feeling of community with others in a human relationship, Lust can be described as the excessive desire for sexual release. The other person can be therefore seen as a "means to an end" for the fulfillment of the subject's desires, and becomes thus objectified in the process.

Gluttony (over-indulgence)

Modern views identify Gluttony with an overindulgence of food and drink, though in the past any form of thoughtless excess could fall within the definition of this sin. Marked by unreasonable or unnecessary excess of consumption, Gluttony could also include certain forms of destructive behavior, especially for sport, or for its own sake. Substance abuse or binge drinking can be seen as examples of gluttony therefore.

Greed (avarice)

Greed is, like Lust and Gluttony, a sin of excess. However, Greed (as seen by the Church) applied to the acquisition of wealth in particular. Thomas Aquinas wrote that Greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." "Avarice" is more of a blanket term that can describe many other examples of sinful behavior. These include disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, or treason, especially for personal gain, as the case when someone lets oneself be bribed. Scavenging and hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery, especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all actions that may be inspired by greed. Such misdeeds can include Simony, where one profits from soliciting goods within the actual confines of a church.

Sloth (idleness)

More than other sins, the definition of Sloth has changed considerably since its original inclusion among The Seven Deadly Sins. It had been in the early years of Christianity characterized by what modern writers would now describe as apathy, depression, and joylessness — the latter being viewed as being a refusal to enjoy the goodness of God and the world He created. Originally, its place was fulfilled by two other aspects, Sloth and Sadness. The former described a spiritual apathy that affected the faithful by discouraging them from their religious work. Sadness described a feeling of dissatisfaction or discontent, which caused unhappiness with ones current situation. When St. Thomas Aquinas selected Sloth for his list, he described it as an "uneasiness of the mind," being a progenitor for lesser sins such as restlessness and instability. Dante refined this definition further, describing Sloth as being the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul." He also described it as the middle sin, and as such was the only sin characterized by an absence or insufficiency of love.

The modern view of the vice, as highlighted by its contrary virtue zeal/diligence, is that it represents the failure to utilize one's talents and gifts. For example, a student who does not work beyond what is required (and thus fails to achieve his or her full potential) would be slothful.

Current interpretations are therefore much less stringent and comprehensive than they were in medieval times, and portray Sloth as being more simply a sin of laziness, of an unwillingness to act, an unwillingness to care (rather than a failure to love God and His works). For this reason Sloth is now often seen as being considerably less serious than the other sins.

Wrath (anger)

Wrath may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. These feelings can manifest as vehement denial of the truth, both to others and in the form of self-denial, impatience with the procedure of law, and the desire to seek revenge outside of the workings of the justice system (such as engaging in vigilantism), fanatical political beliefs, and generally wishing to do evil or harm to others. A modern definition would also include hatred and intolerance towards others for reasons of race or religion, leading to discrimination. The transgressions borne of Wrath are among the most serious, including murder, assault, discrimination, and in extreme cases, genocide. Wrath is the only sin not necessarily associated with selfishness or self interest (although one can of course be wrathful for selfish reasons, such as jealousy). Dante described Wrath as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite".

Envy (jealousy)

Like Greed, Envy is characterized by an insatiable desire, they differ, however, for two main reasons: First, Greed is largely associated with material goods, whereas Envy may apply more generally. Second, those who commit the sin of Envy desire something that someone else has which they perceive themselves as lacking. Dante defined this as "love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs."

Pride (vanity)

In almost every list Pride is considered the original and most serious of The Seven Deadly Sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to give compliments to others though they may be deserving of them, and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God). Dante's definition was "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor." Pride is the deadliest of all the sins and can lead someone directly to the damnation of the famed person. In perhaps the most famous example, the story of Lucifer, Pride was what caused his Fall from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into Satan. Vanity and Narcissism are prime examples of this Sin.

Against these seven sins or vices we can have seven virtues. Trying to do these virtues surely helps to give up vices instead.

Vice	Virtue
Lust (excessive sexual appetites)	Chastity (purity of soul)
Gluttony (over-indulgence)	Temperance (self-restraint)
Greed (avarice)	Charity (giving)
Sloth (idleness)	Diligence (zeal/integrity)
Wrath (anger)	Forgiveness (composure)
Envy (jealousy)	Kindness (admiration)
Pride (vanity)	Humility (humbleness)

At the end I believe among these seven sins, "Pride" is the deadliest of all the sins and favorite sin of Satan.

Beware of "Vanity" and "Narcissism".

Fake World

It seems we've got more unemployment people everywhere. All education systems sucks! Oh why? They educate us for the life or for making us a good tax payer, a fool that obeys their rules of the game. Ok, so let's see what's coming out of this factory? People with suits rushing street, making traffic by driving their car to the work, and also forgetting that they are a human, not a zombie or machine with certain daily routine operation has to do.

I was crossing the street. A young boy gave me an advertisement paper. A paper full of fake things and really bogus pretending. I was seeing big advertising billboards advertising fake things. Even shops writing lying stuff on their windows to absorb more clients. I'm sure you've never watched a program on TV without an advertisement in the begging, in between, or at the ending of it. In the Internet it is more worst. When you search with Google or any search engine they are showing you results in a way that leads you to something with advertising intention. Even the news are going to be fake and made before its happening. Hey what a crazy wild, wild world is this fake world!!?

Hey, what's up? Where are we going? Are we making a robot out of ourselves? Are we sentencing creativity, genius, and masterpiece work of arts to death?

Why are they calling these bullshit noises, the music and making them, the best selling with just propaganda and ads? Why we haven't even time for thinking in buying things and obey the day-to-day fashion?

Anyway, I like this fake, ad world? You know, Why? Because billion times when I watch, read, look, listen, and ... in everything they are guiding me to this fake advertising world. It seems they are torturing my eyes, ears, mind, and feelings to choose what they want to. Are they doing this job perfectly? Yeah, certainly they do.