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