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Where Is Your Mind

Where Is Your Mind?

Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of drunkeness?
Is it way out there in a stupor of fiending and withdrawing from alcoholic consumption?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds, 
energy
psychedelic trips
adreline highs
epiphanies
temporal euphorias
creativities
pleasures
visions
calmness
and everything else you receive from doing and taking ecstasy
opium
phencyclidine
hashish
saliva divinorum
psilocybin mushrooms
tobacco
marijuana
Ayahuasca
Lysergic acid diethylamide
speed
herion
methaphetamines
peyote
alcohol
and all other drugs?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of energetic exhausted euphoria?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of madness insanity and craziness?
Is it way out there in a stupor on your mental health?
Is it way out there in a stupor on your mental state?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your physical weight and shape of your body?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your beauty or ugliness?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your attire?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your lost whomever and/or whatever?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your friends?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your family members?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your fans?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about your salvation?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about everyone else's salvation?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about finding yourself?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about fixing yourself?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about fixing everyone else?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about being offended by everything?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of thinking about being offensive soley to offend and laugh at everyone that is offended by it?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of converting the world to your ideologies
ideas
and belief systems?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of waking up the world by deconverting them and preaching only doubt and death are our only true gods?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in make-believe falsehoods believes and fictitious facts?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in self-denial?
Is it way out there in a stupor of spontaneity?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of hatred
anger
distraught
and depression?
Is it way out there in a stupor of seeking revenge?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in a stupor of realizing and contemplating entropy's importance on your existence?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your goals?
Is it way out there focusing on your achievements so far?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in your creativity?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your meanings and purposes here?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your insignificant existence as a minute piece of carbon?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your fear of death?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating your suicide?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in self-doubt and self-worth?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your stupidity?
Is it way out there focusing on your ignorance?
Is it way out there focusing on everyone else's ignorance?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on your intelligence? 
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there continuously focusing on the utter chaos
mayhem
and nonsense that is currently occuring?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there worrying about any victims of every natural disasters?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on being a worrywort about everything and everyone but never worrying about yourself?
Is it way out there worrying about only yourself?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on living your life as a servant to everyone else and never being a servant to yourself?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on living your life only for you?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there focusing on never caring what others think of you?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there always caring way too much about what others think of you?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there always taking criticism whether postive or negative as a personal attack?
Is it way out there wondering why everyone no longer wants to hear actual truths and no perceived subjective facts and truths?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not there are any absolute truths?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not life is any more than a cruel joke?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not life is truly a spontaneous combustion from nothing to something and eventually nothing anew?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not you should believe in something that you don't believe to be true but only say that you do to cover your butt in case a certain afterlife has certain consquences and you don't want to go there? 
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not anything is too sacred from making fun of it?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not a creator created us?
Is it way out there contemplating on whether or not any finite minded  person may ever truly comprehend anything about the infinite?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there being clouded up with air and everything else all at once making it hard for you to think about and stay on one subject for too long?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there being a brain-dead zombie due to being burntout on drugs, alcohol, and overloaded on everything and anything?
Wherever your mind may be
or even wander to, follow and contemplate your thoughts and your actions!
Where is your mind? 
Is it way out there in everything that is mentioned above and anything else that's not mentioned above as well?
Wherever your mind may be
or even wander to, never let it consume your insides and outsides!
Wherever your mind may be
or even wander to, truly don't worry about it!

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Autocorrect Questions

The AutoCorrect Questions

What the ducking duck is going on?
What is up with this ducking duck?
What the he'll are you doing?
What the duck is this biach think she is ducking doing?
What the he'll were you ducking thinking about you ducking duck?
Are you ducking dead ducking serious biach?
What the ducking duck do you want from me ducking biach?
What the ducking duck do you want me to do about it biach?
Did we duck really good last night?
Do you even a flying duck about me you dumb ducking duck biach?
Why the duck are we even ducking date we both can't ducking stand each other?
What the ducking duck you ducking biach ask can't?

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Truth Is

Truth Is...

Truth is whatever you want it to be!
Truth can be both or neither conceptual and perceptual!
Truth can be both or neither objective and subjective!
Truth is can either relative or not relative!
Truth is truly in the eye of the beholder!
Truth is truly in the eye of the believer!
Truth is truly in the ears of the listener!
Truth is truly in the mouths of the sayers!
Truth is whatever you want it to be!
Truth is whatever you believe it to be true!
Truth is whatever you think it to be true!
Truth is whatever you need to believe it to be true!
Truth is whatever you desire it to be true!
Truth is whatever you follow that others to be true!
Truth is a falsehood to some and a fact to others!
Truth is whatever others have forced you to believe to be true!
Truth is whatever you think is popular in today's society!
Truth is whenever you believe in unpopular facts to be true!
Truth is whenever you speak against and oppose so-called fictitious-facts!
Truth is whatever opinions that you want to believe in! 
Truth is whenever you satirize and expose corruption in everything and everyone!
Truth is whenever you don't believe in politically correctness and aren't ever politically correct, because certain people don't want to be offended by your truths, and instead they want to take away your freedom of speech by making it hate speech!
Truth seems to be almost non-existent these days because it's not the same as it once was!

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Do You Wanna Know

Do You Wanna Know?

Do you wanna know if there was an actual beginning of this universe?
Do you wanna know if there will be an actual ending of this world and our universe?
Do you wanna know if there is an actual meaning and purpose in life?
Do you wanna know if whatever you believe to be true is actually true?
Do you wanna know what your future holds?
Do you wanna know when, where, how, and why you die?
Do you wanna know the importance of your ancestory?
Do you wanna know everything about anything?
Do you wanna know anything about everything?
Do you wanna know anything about anything?
Do you wanna know everything about everything?
Do you wanna know which so-called absolute truth is actually the correct one?
Do you wanna know whether or not there are even such things as absolute truths?
Do you wanna know what it means to doubt everything and not believe in anything?
Do you wanna know what it means to be enlightened?
Do you wanna know what love is, and even if love actually exists for you, or not?
Do you wanna know where masculinity has disappeared to?
Do you wanna know how feminism seems to have taken over masculinity's stead?
Do you wanna know about everything sciences have to offer you about the make up of everything on Earth including ourselves?
Do you wanna know what every religions, mythologies, fairy tales, folk tales and fables are?
Do you wanna know every philosophers' philosophy means and how to apply it to your lives today?
Do you wanna know the history of everything?
Do you wanna know how corrupt politicians are?
Do you wanna know how many sexual allegations accusors are actually lying?
Do you wanna know if you feel the same way that I do about anything and everything?
Do you wanna know why nature's purpose is only to live, reproduce, and pass on their legacy through their offspring?
Do you wanna know everything and anything about pyschology and psychiatry, have to offer you?
Do you wanna know everything and anything about the microcosms and macrocosms?
Do you wanna know about anything and everything or just continuously live in your in your so-called truths?
Do you wanna know why mankind is a curious animal by our very nature and why we have made up zillions of answers to the zillions of questions that we have made up as well?
Do you wanna know everything in nature, including human beings must suffer, in order to fulfill their potentials?
Do you wanna know want everything and anything about every -ism, and -archies, have in store for you?
Do you wanna know what pleasures, pains, and pleasurable-pains that drugs and alcohol have to offer you?
Do you wanna know the importance of literacy in today's society?
Do you wanna know the importance of having safe sex?
Do you wanna know about how big pharmaceutical companies who make millions off of sick people and people dying from different diseases which are man-made, by keeping them alive and charging outrageous prices for medication, procedures, and visits as well?
Do you wanna know how injust and inhumane our justice system is?
Do you wanna know how injust and inhumane our prison systems, and jailhouses are?
Do you wanna know what the mysteries of the universe are?
Do you wanna know how messed up our education systems are?
Do you wanna know everything mentioned above and so much more? 
Go seek out whatever answers that you're looking for and hopefully you may find them!

Copyright © Eric Nelson Manley Shelman | Year Posted 2018

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Ghosts
Ghouls
Goblins
Spirits
Wines
Pumpkins and their spices
Jackolaterns and their flickering candles lights
Scarecrows
Spiders and their webs
Skulls
Bats
Rats
Black Cats
Crows
Skeletons
Undead
Witches their spells and witchcraft
Warlocks their spells and witchcraft
Necromancers dead-talking
Divinations
Ancestors
Rituals
Rites
Vampires
Werewolves
Mummies
Shapeshifters
Gargoyles
Bogeymen
Monsters
Creatures
Creepy Crawlers
Grim Reapers
Devils
Cemeteries
Tombstones
Crosses
pentagrams
pentacles
tricks or treats
truths or dares
haunted houses
haunted hayrides
Netherworlds
Paranormal
Macabre
Weird
Ghastly
Gorey
Creepy
Cute
Nerdy
Sexy
costumes
Food
Harvest
Candy
Festivities
Beautiful Decay of Nature
Full Moons
Thinnest line between our world and the spiritual realm, which allows beings to crossover
Myths
Legends
Superstitions
Songs
Poems
Books
Death Symbolism
Evil symbolism
Cool Weather
Foggy Bogs
Horrors
Terrors
Scares
Screams
Gothic Elements
Samhain and Day of the Dead Origins
Worshippers
Corporatism and
Consumerism both make money off it and ruin it!

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He's Just a Man

He's Just A Man!

He's just a man
living in 2018
being accused of sexual allegations by too many women!
He's just a man
living in 2018
trying to survive it in a world of women accusing him and so many other men with sexual allegations!
He's just a man
living in 2018
always on his guard and being 
forced to always prove his innonence everywhere he goes!
He's just a man
living in 2018
trying to survive in this world of too many women crying rape as if it is the new old crying wolf saying!
He's just a man
living in 2018
being found guilty in the courts whether he is guilty or innocent
and being sentenced to any amount of years to life in prison!
He's just a man
living in 2018
being forced to accept third and fourth generation feminism and women empowerment, and women being better than men, being forced onto him and other fellow men as well!
He's just a man
living in 2018
always wondering and asking where has all the masculinity gone to?
He's just a man
living in 2018
wondering and pondering
why women of today are redoing old movies which originally had male dominant roles, and replacing them with female dominant roles?
He's just a man
living in 2018
wishing he had recorded
every second
every minute
every hour
every week
every month
every year
of his life
in order to have actual video footage evidence proving his innocence from power-hungry and gold-digging women as well!
He's just a man
living in 2018
always wondering and pondering
what the hell has happened to today's society and generations!
He's just a man
living in 2018
being blamed for being a chauvinist because he believes in being a macho man and hanging out with other men and wants to bring back the old times which he fantasizes about being in again!

Copyright © Eric Nelson Manley Shelman | Year Posted 2018

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Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity

Unsung Laborers Day of Humanity!

Hail to the unsung laborers who labor every day for a year, and at least up to eighteen more years!
Hail to the unsung laborers who labor as they carry a child inside of their womb for a whole year!
Hail the unsung laborers who have to deal with weird food cravings, crazy mood swings, nausea, morning sickness, exhaustion, and so much more!
Hail to the unsung laborers who give birth to their child and/or children and almost die while giving birth!
Hail to the unsung laborers who every
day
night
hour
minute
love
nurture
care about and take care of
teach
challenge
encourage
support
discipline
protect
feed
water
shelter
instill in
pay for school and sometimes even college, and so much more for their child, and/or children!
Hail to the unsung laborers who give up all of their time and goals in order for their child and/or children to succeed, and even giving them all the attention that they need!
Hail to the unsung laborers who wash, dry, fold, and put up unlimited piles of laundry, clean up mud stained bathtubs, read mountains of books, accompained bathroom visits, endless readings of nursey rhymes, knock knock jokes, endlessly hearing why, and so much more! 
Hail to the unsung laborers who are and were ancestral mothers, great great grand-mothers, great grand-mothers, grand-mothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, daughters, cousins, nieces, and wives, who do so much more than they ever get credit for!

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Unknown Nothings

Unknown Nothings

Infinite amounts of prophecies
philosophies
sciences
ideologies
ideas
dharmas
karmas
and dogmas of 
beginnings
endings
afterlives
heavens
hells
nirvanas
enlightenments
salvations
damnations
repentances
reincarnations
meanings
purposes
life's suffering
trials and tribulations
creators and creators' adversaries
over-exaggerated
over-analyzed
over-interpreted 
over-exhausted
over-excerted
epic poems that have been canonized and turned into sacred texts and turned in religions spiritual philosophies
mythologies
folktales and fairytales
promisings of estimated non-testable hypothesises through the Scientific Method but by faith and fictitious facts alone without any substantial evidence
instructions on how to live
who and how to worship and who not to worship
who to give praise, sing, dance and play music to
who to not give praise, song, dance, and play music too
explanations claiming to know every answer to every question that mankind had ever asked especially in the grey areas of life because it's not just black and white all of the time
selling speculations of so-called truths
claiming to be the one and only absolute truth
promising absolute certainities
revelations
visions
visitations
communications with invincible beings
forcefully feeding non-believers their truths in hopes of converting them over
controlling
coercing
manipulating their believers into doing whatever they are told to do
executioning non-believers
inquisting non-believers
promising to solve all of your problems
promising to offer you hopes
comforts
meanings and purposes
promising you eternal salvations
promising you eternal Nirvanas
promising you eternal happiness
promising you eternal joy
proselytizing and catechizing their truths to the world
each of these things supposedly offer everything above and so much more but the truth is that nobody truly knows any truth about anything mention above and so much more
isn't it funny mankind has come up with and even made up so many answers to everything but there are still people who doubt everyone of them and don't know why they think that they are the one and only truthsayers?

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What Wasted Wastes

What Wasted Wastes!

Wasted debates
Wasted dialogues
Wasted breathes
Wasted efforts
Wasted energies
Wasted times
Wasted days
Wasted weeks
Wasted months
Wasted years
Wasted lifetimes
Wasted knowledges 
Wasted secrets
Wasted powers
Wasted egos
Wasted loves
Wasted emotions
Wasted existences
Wasted pleasures
Wasted pains
Wasted pleasurable-pains
Wasted gains
Wasted seeds
Wasted ideas
Wasted beliefs
Wasted facts
Wasted fictions
Wasted thoughts
Wasted minds
Wasted actions
Wasted words
Wasted poems
Wasted proses
Wasted poetic-proses
Wasted spoken words
Wasted literatures
Wasted artworks
Wasted philosophies
Wasted books
Wasted injustices
Wasted justices
Wasted priniciples
Wasted ethics
Wasted values
Wasted morals
Wasted proofs
Wasted evidences
Wasted sciences
Wasted religions
Wasted myths
Wasted fairly tales
Wasted fables
Wasted legends
Wasted histories
Wasted everythings
Wasted anythings
Wasted nothings
Wasted waste we are
Or are we not wasted waste?
are we not wasted nothings?

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Autocorrect Writing Exercises

Auto Correct Writing Exercise!

Once there lived a beautiful duck
who was always ducking about literally, physically and figuratively
who always waddled into dumber ducks than her
they would always ducking ask her dumb ducking questions
like don't you love ducking about literally, figuratively, and physically?
she would ducking say well, of course I do! it is dam ducking pleasurable don't you ducking think?
they always replied with If you ducking love it so much than ducking bend over and let us ducking duck you right now
she would always ducking say no ducking way you dumb ducking ducks ducking sex is sacred didn't you ducking know that you ducking dumb ducking ducks
they would ducking say come on don't be a ducking biach or a ducking can't
she just slapped the shot out these ducking ducks and left them lying on the ducking ground like a ducking who're leaves their ducking ducker before satisisfying him but already taken his money!

Copyright © Eric Nelson Manley Shelman | Year Posted 2018


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