Brian Battles Bureaucracy (Part 2)

     Today I woke up almost too tired to continue my odyssey, but I kept trucking on. I hitched another ride with my mom to her work, but this time she didn't just dump me on the side of the road, I accompanied her to her place of employment (at least the parking garage). So she went to to go clock in and make me the necessary copies of my response as I curled up and took a nap in her car for a lovely additional hour of sleep. But alas, it was only one hour and she returned with my copies and the beginning of the days journey.
     I then walked the few blocks from my mother's employment to the Gold Line and hopped aboard. Again making the trek all the way to Van Nuys from Pasadena. I reached the courthouse today now knowing where to go, so no wrong buildings (hooray!) I step into the clerks office and get in line to file my form. The lady starts the transaction and states to file it will cost $200. And I think to myself, "$200? $200? How in the Hell can filing this little two page response cost $200?!?" I have still yet to find out why. So I ask for a fee waiver, she tells me how I need to take a number and wait in the other line. I sigh and go grab a number, '74' is the number my little deli machine gave me as they current service number is '51'. So I sit back and people watch as time staggers forward at a snail's pace. I waited roughly 45 minutes for my number to be called to ask for a fee waiver that took 45 seconds. The clerk behind the counter even asked if that was all I needed.
     So I go out into the hall to fill out my fee waiver taking me another 10 or so minutes to make sure I cross every "T" and dot every "I" needed. I then decided to hop in the short filing line the other side of the room to find out I couldn't file it there because that was the "Unlimited Jurisdiction" line as opposed to the line out the door that I needed to be in for "Limited Jurisdiction." Again I wait, finally I reach the window and I give my papers to the lady behind the counter. She said that it will be $200 to file and I then handed her my fee waiver, she looks it over and tell me its been granted. She stamps everything and after two days and the past three hours loafing around the clerk's office I had defeated the demon that is known as the courthouse! Brian wins and cosmic balance is restored to the Universe!

Brian Battles Bureaucracy (Part 1)

     So on November First, Twenty-Ten, I was served. No not that I got pwned in a dance battle, as in I received a subpoena. And so in order to respond to it, I have to go to the Van Nuys Municipal Court House. Problem is I now live approximately 40 miles East of there. So today I woke up at 6AM and had my mom give me a lift to the Gold Line station on her way to work. So taking that all the way to Union Station, then hop on the subway to the North Hollywood Station, and take the Orange Line to the Van Nuys Court House. This trek took me a little over an hour, not too shabby. The fun really began off the bus. I had never before been to the court house, having never needed to prior to now. Fortunately, I did however know the general area. So I get off the bus and walk a block North to the court house area to find numerous buildings set up in a similar fashion to that of a college campus, so I say to myself, "Great! I have to find the clerks office out of these dozen buildings." So I look around at each building trying to guess where I need to go. I stumble upon a building made of glass and steel, much more modern architecture to the more elaborate stone buildings that fill up most of the judicial campus, and it said, "Van Nuys Municipal Courthouse." So I say hot dog to myself and walk through the doors to find myself in line for a metal detector. Wasn't what I was expecting, but understandable. So puzzled beyond my liking I try to find a directory, no such luck. So I go up the escalator to find a line covering the whole floor. Again puzzled, and now dumbfounded, I set forth to see if I am in the right place. I scour the floor looking for information signs or an employee to ask, again no such luck. Then I see how the clerk windows are sectioned into three parts. But once again I find myself dumbfounded since I only saw signs for two lines, and of course I needed the seemingly non-existent line. So I get into the longest line because window 11 was classified under the section I needed to be in line for but wasn't sure if in the right place because the line I was waiting in said it was for traffic related inquiries from windows 1 - 11. So I wait about 20 minutes in the line and converse with some line goers after being asked if this was the line to pay for a traffic ticket. I said I assume so even though thats not why I was in line. (I thought to myself how funny it is that no one really knows where to go in this place and how there's not really any way to find out.) I then realized before waiting eight eons in line to be told to wait in another line I decided to search once more for the fabled missing line. Lo and behold! I found it, problem was was that there was no wait, hence there wasn't a third line, so I walk up to the girl at the window to find out that I know her! Turns out we both work at Universal Studios Hollywood together, how serendipitous!
     So I hand her my paperwork and ask if I'm in the right place, she takes a look, and as luck would have it, I'm not even in the right building. So she directs me to the right building and we say how nice it was to see each other. I then leave and walk through another metal detector, reminder: don't wear a belt with a buckle, unnecessary hassle. I then find the clerk's office and find virtually no wait, I get my form I needed the clerk said to fill it out and return it. I left the desk and discovered, I don't have a pen on me. Smart right? So I ask another clerk if I could borrow a pen, permission denied. He did, however, tell me that on the second floor I could purchase one for maybe 50¢. So I scamper upstairs, again puzzled, I ask the sheriff/ security guard where this fable from the clerk downstairs can come true, he says to try the cafeteria behind him. I peruse the items in the cafeteria to find nothing beyond eatable products.
    I then precede to leave the building to maybe find a 7-Eleven on Van Nuys Blvd. I then run into a man that hands me a business card for paralegal assistance, or some such matter, and I ask if I can borrow a pen, and he was so kind to have a pen I could borrow. So I sit down at the nearest bench, whip out my paperwork, stare at it, and realize I have no idea how to fill it out properly. There's something High School Life Skills class can teach you, how to fill out legal documents. The man who I borrowed the pen says that I should take the forms home and get them copied. Frustrated at how I can't accomplish my task all today, I return the man's pen to him and set forth to gallivant in the San Fernando Valley with the rest of my day before returning home in the evening to ask my mom how to properly fill out the form.
     Now with the form filled out, I now set my sights for tomorrow where I get to do it ALL over again. Round two! Bring it on!

Ancient Civilizations Older Than We Think

So everyone's heard of Atlantis, or at least most people. But of late this subject has peaked my interest again. All of this started when my friend told me about his findings of vimanas, ancient Indian flying crafts. So we did the first thing any scientifically minded youngsters of our time do, we Googled it. We discovered that there were actual blueprints found about the crafts and that when made into models actually fly. The most intriguing facts though are that the documents about vimanas are dated over 10,000 years ago. Why is that so intriguing you ask? Because Homo sapiens have been on the Earth about 200,000 years, reaching full behavioral modernity for around 50,000 years, and modern archaeology says that we were hunter gatherers living in caves until around 6000 years ago. So if there modern archaeology is right, then where did these documents on vimanas come from and why are they dated over 4000 years prior to the "birth" of civilization?

Along with writing of the ancient Indian airships, vimanas, there were also accounts of a huge land mass that is now submerged that connected the Southern tip of India and Sri Lanka to Madagascar and the Western edge of Australia called Kumari Kundam. This place is just as legendary as Atlantis, just not as known in Western civilization because we don't seem to care about anything past this side of Constantinople. But why if such a large landmass existed, is it now submerged? Well the last ice age we had fully melted around 9000 years ago, raising sea levels that submerged roughly the same amount of land as Europe and China combined. So if Kumari Kundam was just at a lower elevation than everything, that would explain why its now submerged. This too would also explain why Atlantis would be submerged.

So back to Atlantis. Plato is the only one in Western civilization to have accounts of Atlantis that we know of. And he said that it was outside the Pillars of Hercules, which is believed to be present-day the Straight of Gibraltar.

More recently others have thought Atlantis could be in the Caribbean Sea near the Bermuda Triangle. Which is understandable when seeing things like Bimini Road and the Pyramid like structure Paulina Zelitsky found off the West coast of Cuba. But I believe its right where Plato said it was, in the middle of the Atlantic, but I'm not saying that cause I'm a hardcore Plato fan, but because I looked it up, but where else, yes Google! I Google mapped the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and guess what I found, I found a couple of small islands atop of a sea mount range. (Zoom out from the link on Google Maps and you'll see the islands' placement)
What I don't understand is if I can find that via the internet on a consumer grade computer, hell, I did it first on my iPhone, but why can't archaeologists go search around there for any submerged structures or artifacts? With enough searching I'm sure they'll find something.

I've spat out a lot of info your way and its a little late (at the moment), so continuity might be a little askew. My main point is that modern mainstream archaeology doesn't seem to be up to date. Once I heard that we've have had our current full mental capacity for over 50,000 years and that civilizations have only been around for 6000 years I knew there was something wrong. If we've come this far in the past 6000 years, not even, the past 100 years, HELL, the past 10 years technologically; then why the hell can someone think we did nothing but live in caves for over 40,000 years doing no more than discovering fire, the wheel and painting on the walls? Its ignorant to think that for six times as long as we have had civilization recorded we did nothing with that time.

My friend and I came across ancient Indian stories about how Atlantis and Kumari Kundam use to wage war against one another, being the two most technologically advanced powerhouses on the planet at the time. And how they had the vimanas and weapons of great power, they describe what would be similar to laser guns and radiation beams. And how their final battles blew each other up and submerged both continents causing the world to go into a dark age. And with this information added to how long we've had our mental capacity, I can completely believe that mankind, over 10,000 years ago, was more advanced then we are and blew each other up so bad that it created a dark age and all documents were virtually lost. With 40,000 years of development I can believe this planet has seen flying crafts and atomic weaponry when mainstream archaeology says we were living in caves. There have been numerous dark ages, the most famous being Europe's around a 1000 years ago.  

There are so many more things yet to be discovered in this world, about our past and whats yet to come.