Remembering...

Do you want to remember? Start reading.

Here are a few places to get you started. Their words. Their history. Their stories. I`ll start in Canada where I live and where I'm from. If you're from elsewhere, you might want to look around here and at the World Veteran's Federation.

Just take a bit of time from your busy day. Read a bit about how we got here. What some people had to endure. How someone took the time to stand between two opposing forces and stay the peace. Here we are now.

The Royal Canadian Legion

Canadian History Of Peacekeeping

Canadian Association Of Veterans In United Nations Peacekeeping

Canadian Armed Forces General History Of Operations

This represents a portion of the whole that makes up the world and Canada's contribution to that whole. There are many other stories from many other people and places in the world. People who've made sacrifices for the rights and freedoms that we all enjoy today. We learn the most from people who've had to fight for something that we take for often take granted.

There are many stories the world over and much to be learned.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and anything on this blog,

Brian Joseph Johns

Two New Friends, Two New Blogs...

One Fish, Two Fish.

Red Fish, Blue Fish.

Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel

Here are my two new fish in their first appearance. Believe it or not, they posed for this picture and I'm serious in saying so. Fish are great and much more clever than most people would think.



And Now For The Adults

Two new blogs have gone up, one is Tales Of The Sanctum which is a random collection of stories from the world of A Lady's Prerogative that I am just starting out. The second is called The Butterfly Dragon, and will contain a random collection of stories pertaining to the world of that mythos. Both sites are adult and mature in content, meaning that I will be going to a more graphic novel style of writing and they are not meant for younger readers like the original Heroes Of Our Own.

I made this move to address some aspects of storytelling that I'd like to delve into but have kept clear of on this blog although A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth has turned into a whirlwind of controversy.

I suspect that I will continue building the world of A Lady's Prerogative and Heroes Of Our Own on those blogs. One of the stories contains a spoiler about the upcoming story elements in the climax of Wounded Aerth, which I've been holding off on writing while waiting for the local stalker storm to calms down. It is in the works with a bit of a rewrite of the most recent chapter as it is just a little too cliche, and the Power Lords and Culdar Rath are much more well prepared for this battle. They've been preparing for it for four thousand years. Thiara deserves a bit more or a dramatic confrontation with them and a showcase for why she's the Matron of the Night Wytch.

Anyhow, enjoy.

Brian Joseph Johns

Another story finished.

Well I am proud to announce that Heroes Of Our Own is officially finished and available for your reading pleasure (or dismay depending upon your tastes).

I apologize for the lack of recent posts but I've been busy with a lot of other things and fending off the occasional stalker attack and around here it gets pretty bad for that not to mention having others steal what you create as you create it. They seem to use an eavesdropping technology that allows them to steal it as you write it and share it with a large audience of people who are members of a club or collective of some form illegally.

I've got some articles lined up that will highlight a bit more about some of the people that I admire so I will be posting them in the near future and giving light to many of the other creative people I've taken the time to put on this blog. Consider that a coming soon.

To all of those out there creating and fighting the good fight,

Stay Safe And Be Well
Brian Joseph Johns.

A Philosophy Lesson... Making Sure That Others Earn Your Love...

Brian Joseph Johns

Here's a bit of a philosophical post related to Love and Hate and how to avoid being tricked by those who reverse their definition.

How To Overcome Love Hate Definition Reversal

Some forms of Love/Hate ideology are abused by some people to trick you out of what you have to share with those you love and admire.

As I've said before, you can make someone hate you because that emotion is largely governed by hormones in your body, cortisol and adrenaline are some that affect that emotion. If you can trick someone's body into producing those hormones, and then harass them to no end, they are likely to react in a way that is harsh and hateful.

You cannot make somebody love you. There is no hormone that can do so and no Spanish fly that can make you fall in love with another person. Love is something linked directly to consciousness and is something that always must be earned and sometimes in the rare case, it is intuitively shared by two people immediately. That is why there are people who try to swap the two definition of the two emotions, because you can make someone hate, so if you reverse hate to mean love, then provoking someone to a hateful reaction is akin to making them love you and accordingly that is the means by which you share your good with others.

In this abusive form of love hate ideology, the only way that you share with others is by whom you love or have good feelings for so people literally have to earn it. They cannot trick you out of it, or can they? By swapping the definitions of love and hate a group of people are making it so that other people can milk you of your good deeds without having to meet your requirements for whom you share with and whatever else you have to share, by provoking you to a hateful reaction. So that is why I never, and I mean never reverse the definition of the two. Once you start down that road, its impossible to find your way back.

If you need to stop it or find your way back, here's a trick.

Polaris. The North Star.

In order for the love/hate definition reversal thing to work, it requires that there is always an opposite present to accommodate the term or idea to which you refer eg up leads to down, left to right, hot to cold, full to empty etc. In the paradigm, you might say you like someone, and to the cult it will mean that you dislike someone and that's how they'll distribute your good and bad accordingly. So someone that you love might end up with the bad things, and someone that you don't love and really dislike might end up with your good things. If definitions are reversed, how do you argue or reason your way back to the correct definition without using the words in the definition themselves? 

For the North Star, Polaris, there is not equal opposite on the south pole of the Earth that is exactly like Polaris because the southern sky is not a mirrored reflection of the northern sky. So the fact that the North Pole nearly exactly points at Polaris is the foundation from which to build from in defining the polarity correctly in such a way that cannot be reversed. Even referring to the North Pole as the South Pole won't work because there is no accompanying star similar to Polaris at the real south pole. From that point you can build a solid definition for up meaning the direction that points directly away from the center of the Earth and down being the direction that points directly to the center of the Earth. So its as simple as the fact that the North Pole points almost directly at Polaris. From there you can define polarity in terms of the definition of words correctly. 

So the only think that you need to do to reinforce the definition of love and hate is state and recognize that the North Pole, an imaginary line that runs through the Earth along its axis of rotation, points directly at the North Star or Polaris. So that direction is North. Therefore the definitions of words are lined up as they should be and how they are defined in the dictionary. 

What motivated me to formulate that? Love. I don't want the people I care about ending up with bad things sometimes dumped on me by others to hit the people that I admire and care about. I want to make sure that the people I care about and the cultural group of my love interest (she's Oriental I've mentioned) end up with what good I have to share, so they'll know I'm worthy of theirs. Likewise for the people that I admire and who've helped and inspired me in life. I enjoy dualism, but not when its abused by some to take from you what others have to earn the real way. I posted this short article on my gripes blog a day or so ago. My gripes blog is the place where I put most of the garbage that comes my way as a result of abusive stalking etc. so its a bit negative at times but every once in a while it has a nugget of gold. This was one such thing.

Updates To The Stories

Nothing new as of recent as I've been working around the clock on an upcoming software release. I'll be adding to the stories in the next couple of days along with a few articles and posts about some of the people out there whom I admire. Make sure that others earn what you have to share, and that definitely means earning your love.

Stay Safe And Be Well
Brian Joseph Johns

Copyright © 2014 Brian Joseph Johns

A New Chapter, A Returning Series, Some New Ones...

Back again with another post and another chapter for Stories From The End. I finished it on the weekend that just passed.

In this chapter, a new element is introduced as society begins to break down, the Nomads, a group of city staff from a major centre set in to preserve what little order their is. Cale and Tweak are back along with Chang and their effort to uncover a hidden secret, in the chapter The Nomads.

Heroes Of Our Own and A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth will get fairly regular updates too though I've got to clean up the last chapter of A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth as I wanted Matron Thara's participation in the battle of the Sanctum to be tantamount to the outcome.

SHIELDed on Tonight 

In the television department, I am very much looking forward to the new season of Agents of SHIELD. I've been a fan of Marvel comics my whole life and its great to see SHIELD and HYDRA getting screen time in a major way. Great cast, characters and plot lines are definitely a strong point on the show not to mention the movie tie ins. I'd also love to see an episode or two with the involvement of Damage Inc., who are of course the Government funded company and organization that clean up the damage to buildings and property after a major super powered battle. 

They've made appearances in the print version of The West Coast Avengers, The Incredible Hulk (after a major show down between Thor and the Hulk himself), Fantastic Four (Benjamin Grimm aka The Thing of course said something that got the poor Hulk all riled up and well... you know the rest), and the X-Men (during the mutant wars) and probably cleaning up after much of the damage caused by the Sentinels and Trask Industries. They definitely work closely with SHIELD and what a great tie in it would be to have SHIELD and Damage Inc. show up in the aftermath of a battle with references to The Avengers or The Fantastic Four. Stark Industries and The Fantastic Four also fund them.

News Flash

In the DC department, they've finally returned with a new revamped series of the streak known as The Flash. From the looks of things the effects look great and there's definitely a lot of euphemisms for speeding present. I still remember original series from the early 1990s which was reminiscent of the stylized world DC and Tim Burton had created around the Batman movie of the time. Speaking of the the Dark Knight's stomping grounds, there's even the new show Gotham, which features Gotham city in its early days long before the Bat signal sat atop of the GCPD Headquarters. This show looks to be dripping with the same atmosphere that was present in both Burton's and Nolan/Goyer's interpretations of Gotham with its own signature.

Oh and by the way, my love interest is Oriental (I haven't been in a relationship for four years and four months) and I don't believe in hate. Hate is not love and love is not hate and I don't ever swap their definitions. She doesn't have a child either that I'm aware of but I get along fine with kids, after all I'm a big kid myself. Just in case anyone is trying to imposter themselves as me. Believe me it happens though I don't know why. I think that my stalkers want others to believe that I am someone else in a relationship with a member of their club. Its that same bizarre form of identity theft of others masquerading as your online identity. So if you see me on the streets, chances are I'll be alone (for now), wearing shorts in the summer (I'm a sucker for warm weather and using bicycle as my main mode of transportation).

I think that the stalkers try to set up a dualistic approach to the things that you do in terms of good (this blog) and bad (my gripes blog), trying to make you compete for your own good, versus someone else they select for such a game. In this sense the cult are thieves of your deeds and do so trying to dump their garbage upon you. So they'll impersonate you as best they can, then try to steal the repute for the good things you do by having a gang of their friends or fellow cult members attack you to put you to the "bad" side of things. The cult then treats the other person as being responsible for your good while you inherit their bad. I am not a member of any such cult by the way that would do such a thing.

I should say hi to my friends from FFP Ltd. (some knew it as Ferretina Film Productions and before that Animation Group Ltd). I hope you're all staying healthy and that life is treating you well and the same goes for you Andrew R. and Tom B. All's as well as it could be given circumstances and maybe soon in the near future it will be a little bit better.

Stay Safe And Be Well
Brian Joseph Johns

A New Chapter For Two Books...

Brian Joseph Johns

There's two more new chapters since the last post here. There's one new one for A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth and another for Heroes Of Our Own.

Enjoy, as I've got to go and post a gripe to my gripes blog. It was another bad attack by the cult today right from the morning, and an attempt to push a lot of hate onto me. I'd never join any such cult for certain.

Stay Safe And Be Well

Brian Joseph Johns

New Chapters

New chapters on Heroes Of Our Own and The Archive. New software coming soon.

Sooo tired. Must sleeep...

Stay Safe And Be Zzzzz...

Brian Joseph Johns

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