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Thought Warfare

August 20, 2014
By Jacob4Peace GOLD, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Jacob4Peace GOLD, Reynoldsburg, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”


 

The mind is a battlefield my friends

 

And a crazy one at that

 

Our minds are so vast, yet so small at the same time

 

Right now there is a war going on in your mind

 

And you probably don't even know it

 

So let me paint a picture for you, in words of course

 

You're sitting down at your desk

 

And you pop open your new laptop you just bought %10 off at best buy

 

You are so excited and you can't wait to customize it and do what ever you do on your laptops

 

So you make a password for your computer

 

But once you enter it, it says wrong try again

 

And you're like “What?!?”

 

How could this be wrong when its my computer

 

And I want to protect it with a code like catlover123

 

Well I'll tell you why because someone thought that your thought of a password

 

Isn't thoughtful enough to protect your computer

 

So they give you a list of thoughts that they thought would be a better way to think of a password to protect your computer

 

But of course your thoughts are different than their thoughts so there will be some sort conflict

 

But you still want to protect your computer so you go along with their thoughts and think of a password according to their guidelines

 

You end up with something like CaTlover353 by the time your finished

 

And you decide to hop on facebook to see the thoughts about thoughts of other people

 

And as you're scrolling down through all the thoughts, you see an article

 

It says “Death penalty, Now Illegal in the United States”

 

So of course your first thought is to click on the link

 

And once you read about all the thoughts on the topic from the author

 

You scroll down to look at the thoughts of all the people who commented on the article

 

You scroll through tons of thoughts

 

And you get the urge to express your thoughts in the comment section because there are people who disagree with your thoughts

 

So you pound away at your keyboard with your thoughts flowing through your arms and out through you finger tips to make your thoughts visible.

 

But Wait. Now It is no longer considered a thought but instead a piece of writing

 

And people forget that that piece of writing was once in someones head floating around

 

Fighting with one thought after another

 

From your mind and others

 

But that's okay

 

Our thoughts are what makes us human and alive

 

We can think and it can get confusing sometimes

 

It can seem like a battlefield

 

But that's okay too

 

Because we all have a war going on in our minds

 

A war that needs to be fought

 

But its not okay to think the same way as someone else

 

Just so you can “Fit in” or be “Cool”

 

Because it causes us to become programed to a society that isn't looking out for us

 

But rather for the rich and the powerful

 

Just so they can become more rich and powerful

 

So its okay to make some allies along the way

 

But don't turn over your guns or wave the white flag

 

Because then a genocide will occur

 

A genocide of thoughts

 

And Instead of shooting guns

 

Their will be people telling you this is okay and that's not

 

Don't let them control you

 

Take control of yourself

 

And use your Thought Warfare

 

Its an arsenal that will be with you forever

 

 


The author's comments:

Something I wrote because I felt like it needed to be out of my brain and in written form.


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