THE UNSPOKEN AND UNKNOWN TRUTH ABOUT ANABOLIC STEROIDS…

THE UNSPOKEN AND UNKNOWN TRUTH ABOUT ANABOLIC STEROIDS

Like everything else in our world human beings will always find a way to abuse things that have been designed to be helpful when properly administered.  Anabolic steroids which are simply synthetically manufactured testosterone were designed for the purpose of enhancing and intensifying the rate and quality of muscle growth.  In the real world they have enjoyed decades of successful application.  In spite of the miraculous medicinal success of steroids they have been demonized for reasons which are more political than practical.  For anyone interested in knowing more about anabolic steroids the question is not whether steroids are safe to use, rather it is when America is going to catch up with technology, take an intelligent look at how this drug is already doing miracles for the human body and support an intensified effort to develop and make available and legal more steroid-based pharmaceutical and grade products for recreational and clinical use. 

For athletes, anabolic steroids offer one very clear and irresistible promise, to allow them to jump higher, swim and run faster, lift heavier, and to achieve a greater level of endurance in competition.  Aside from the obvious medicinal applications as a medicine to rehabilitate people who have had severe atrophy due to accidents or disease the obvious application of steroids is to allow humans to achieve physical performance levels far superior to those capable given the normal levels of testosterone produced by the body.  It is not hard to understand why testosterone has gone the way it has gone because human nature is always focused on perfecting itself and this drug appears to be capable of providing athletes with superhuman physical capabilities.   Testosterone has also been linked to the aging process and its use in older men has successfully compensated for the bodies automatic drop in production as we grow older accounting for a renewed vivacity.   

Jesse Owens an American victor in he 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany

Politically, anabolic steroids are one of the greatest threats to the delicate sense of self-esteem embodied in the concept of nationalism.  During World War II the Nazis sense of ethnic superiority were stung by Black American athletes who defeated them in The Olympic Games.  Instantly after the fall of the Third Reich, during the cold war, The Olympic Games became a global hotbed for racial tensions awakened by Nazi Germany and transmogrified into athletic battlefields peopled by the communist and capitalist regimes who fighting as bitterly as if gold and silver medals were nuclear missile strikes!  

The 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany were intensely racially charged 

We know today those athletes from Communist China, and from the U.S.S.R.  experimented with steroids to achieve athletic superiority on the road to The Olympics and so did American athletes.  In order to achieve some modicum of order, to create a level playing field, steroids, which threatened to give one nation an unfair advantage over the rest, had to be demonized and made illegal on a global level.  Genetic engineering is one of the less discussed hallmarks of the cold war between the 1930’s and today but it played a huge role in world struggle for chemical and biological dominance.  Experimentation with steroids was just an offshoot of the larger cold war mission to manufacture a superior human being who could defeat his political adversaries intellectually as well as physically.  Athletes were truly the guinea pigs of unscrupulous cold war nations to determine if the trillions of dollars they had invested in secret genetic research had paid off.  In spite of its cryptic and undistinguished progeny anabolic steroids now comprise a vast range of uses in everyday products and medicines helping the world’s population manage sickness and injury. 

In spite of the politically driven, negative image given to anabolic steroids it continues to be used daily by millions of people around the world.  In America, we see the struggle athletes must fight to be able to legally use these sports enhancing drugs to do what they are paid to do in the first place… To Win!  It is my opinion that genetic engineering which includes the responsible use of steroids is rather the wave of the future.  The use of steroids and steroid-derived products will increase rather than decrease as we move further into The Twenty-First Century.  Steroid use will become commonplace and humans will not even remember when or why it was once banned.  After all steroids were invented as a tool to enhance athletic performance so it is only logical that we use them as originally intended.  Who creates something so potentially miraculous and then says, “You cannot use this”?  The whole case for making steroids illegal is political,   that is why so many people ignore the spurious warnings created to tap into the fear and guilt mindfuck manufactured by the same governments that created steroids in the first place.  We know that these governments secretly experimented with and continue to covertly refine them in hopes of developing some super-drug able to make some super human in the future, the cold war has never really died.    This contradiction bankrupts the government in its attempt to convince Americans that steroids are inherently physically harmful and morally evil therefore justifiably illegal.  Where did morals come into this equation in the first place?  We are talking about a goddamed athletic performance drug not something that will turn its user into a demon?  I’m so very lost by this argument that I finally decided to go the way billions of other people around the world have and ignore it altogether. 

Politically driven propaganda has caused the use of anabolic steroids to be demonized not because they do not work safely and effectively when properly administered but because they do not support the idealised image perpetrated by a government that manufactured them in secret and became embarrassed, having to save face when it became an issue of global concern.  Instead of admitting its development and experimentation with steroids as part of a larger genetic engineering program and initiating negotiations for some kind realistic understanding of anabolic use among athletes America chose to get on the global bandwagon while continuing to do extensive research with steroids.  Today the real reason why steroids are banned is shrouded by lies and fear intended to cover up the role America played in the development of that substance.  Many Americans are honestly not operating on an informed level when it comes to steroid use, relying on absurd myths such as the shrinking of the male scrotum or the intensification of aggressive behavior.  Like the pornography industry in America, homosexuality, and a host of other precious and taboo issues about which Americans are in denial, the actual number of steroids users would startle you, its big business and the government knows it!  So while the average American may deny use of anabolic steroids the reality is that there is a high likelihood they will use it, are using it or have experimented with it in the past.  Of course this does not make it legal or healthy.  

Example of false anabolic gimmickery

The point of this article is to expose the reason why anabolic steroids are illegal in America which has nothing to do with whether it is truly safe, we know it is safe, (or we hope it is), because everything from our asthma inhaler to the thousands of over the counter pharmaceuticals we use on a daily basis are derivatives of some kind of steroid.  The question is not whether steroids are safe to use, rather it is when America is going to catch up with technology and take an intelligent look at how this drug is already doing miracles for the human body. 

Let us dispel the myth of the shining American athlete who is above using sports enhancing drugs in order to achieve an edge over the next guy… isn’t that what sports is all about anyway?  Being the fastest, strongest, biggest you can be?  Who wants to pay to see a scrawny pip-squeak who has the same abilities you do?  Americans want to see a picture that is larger than life, a freak show… and that is what entertainment is typically all about anyway!  Nobody is more in denial about this than our own government.  America may not have invented steroids but during the cold war they quickly got on the genetic engineering bandwagon and have never jumped off.  Why not end the hypocrisy created by investing billions of dollars in genetic engineering programs hidden from the taxpayer and then pretending that it is a practise of such paramount immorality and perilous danger!  If Americans want to pay to see athletes who do not use sports enhancing drugs let them demonstrate this at the box office, otherwise my money is with the big boys!  The government should not be passing moral judgment about private and recreational sports events anyway.  If The Olympics were privatized then governments would not have a say in them to the extent they presently do.  I conclude that the Olympics maintains a standard of human mediocrity rather than excellence and that it is time for one that pushes the physical limits like never before allowing the safe and responsible use of anabolic steroids as a means of catapulting sports performance into the next century! 

David Vollin

MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN…

MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN…

I am always astounded when I discover that a gentleman is well groomed and goes out of his way to have a pedicure, manicure and regular sessions at a men’s grooming salon or that he retains a regular barber who pampers his face and hair at regular appointments.  Many men are so meticulous they groom themselves and have amazing collections of facial and body scrubs, masks, salves, creams and other elixirs.  It is almost inevitable that these men also have extraordinary collections of colognes and fragrances. 

One of the first things that catch my eye is a well groomed gentleman.  I love when a gentleman walks by and leaves his handsome scent lingering in his wake, it makes me want to follow behind to complement him.  I love to see that a man’s facial hair, if he has any, is neat and clean, that he has  taken time to condition it and oil it, that he has taken special interest in his presentation and is confident, not vain, about his appearance.  A man’s skin and nails are also very important elements of his overall grooming.  I like a man who maintains a healthy, masculine look that has a bold but reserved handsomeness. 

Next I look at what a man is wearing from head to toe.  A gentleman should always be neat and cleanly dressed whenever he steps outside of the door.  A man who is truly handsome does not need any particular brand of clothing to look good in his clothes and to make a statement about his personal style because his apparel suits his personality and it is clear that it is an expression of him rather than he of it.  A gentleman always knows what apparel complements his manhood best.  A gentleman takes time to compose his wardrobe and is confident when he leaves out of the door, he does not make torturous or vain public demonstrations to adjust his clothing, he leaves out handsome and composed and remains confident whilst he is out and about.  I never judge a man by his clothing; I always try to look beyond his clothes to see his personality.  I have always had a great deal of disdain for men who deliberately understate themselves, going out of their way to appear bucolic, unsophisticated, ghetto, or poor as a vanity to deceive others, as a means to invoke a prejudiced reaction.  Such men are excited by tricking the eye so they can, in their minds eye, proclaim their affluence as a rebuttal, this vain, immature and ungentlemanly show of conceit is never sexy or manly.  A gentleman is proud of what he is and makes no show of it nor deceives others with the intent of “amazing” them to serve the benefit of his own vainglorious aggrandizement. 

The final touch of a gentleman’s grooming is his personality.  A man’s personality adds the final dimension of handsomeness and manliness to his overall presentation.   Character, charm, charisma, confidence, congeniality, manners, etc., are not commodities that can be obtained in a men’s grooming salon nor in fact can they be purchased at all, they have to be learned and practised until they become an integral part of a gentleman’s personality.  As all things are, a gentleman’s personality is something that must be groomed and built up over time.  

Written By D. Vollin

MUSINGS OF A LONER CAMPING OUT FOR LOVE

MUSINGS OF A LONER CAMPING OUT FOR LOVE

I thought I was on love’s tip

i thought I was standing on the tip of love

i felt as if I was elevated above the pain and circumstances

suffered by the seekers of…. (love)

but I’d lost my grip,

My status was at love’s base

my heart was buried at the base of love

when I fell beneath the casual dates, mates, and other sexual affiliates

victims and casualties of…. (love)

i could not save face,

But I climbed up to safety and O’ did I regroup

making a warm encampment on the bright side of the mount, (and oft I’d shout)

contented only to glimpse its gilded hide, to bless it’s beauty “gainst” the sky

to cheer on young explorers and warn those too old to count

for I’d retired from love and happily sequestered myself from its loop…

i’d found contentment as a loner camping out upon loves stoop…

By David Vollin

GETTING OUR INTELLIGENCE BACK; A Candid Look At Evolution

ON THE HISTORY OF LEARNING IN HUMANS…

Whilst conversing with an old colleague of mine about, of all things, ADHD, it occurred to me that we humans may have completely overlooked an obvious feature in our physiology that might change the way we theorize our genetic evolution.  Casting my own theories of ADHD aside, I found myself developing an amazing theory on human evolution itself!  As I understand it, the one of the accepted practises for treating ADHD is to literally “Slow-Down” the brains rapidly firing thought process to allow an individual to focus on a singular task.  This elusive focusing ability is typically induced by administering chemical medication that, (at least in theory), will slow down the brains meanderings allowing the patient to “Sojourn” at some particular juncture in their musings in time to process all the many details associated with whatever it is they muse. 

Skull of Homo-Australopithecus, Circa 3.2 Million years old. 

Why on earth anyone would want to slow down a literally transcendentally prolific thinking machine is the subject for another discussion but let me say that perhaps our society may want to catch up with these “Complex” thinkers in order to achieve a quantum leap in human evolution or to at least regain one now lost to evolutionary antiquity.  Is it not the goal of humanity to someday achieve a high level of intellectual prowess enabling us to process an infinite array of data simultaneously similar to the functions of a computer?  Perhaps we need to closely examine the workings of those minds which clearly work faster than most human brains and not as a clinical exploration of some potential disorder, rather as a link to our intellectual future!

Using a jaded and as yet unproven model that asserts genetics is an evolutionary process I will attempt to briefly explicate my theory for you.  It is a well-established belief that humans do not use a significant portion of our brain.  If the theory of genetic evolution is true, that is, that organisms evolve to address specific needs, then at one point if may be we humans did utilise 100% of our brains.  If this theory is true then what catastrophic event now lost in the chaos of what we do not and may never know about human evolution might have caused us to forget the simple process of thinking and have to undergo the millennia’s long process of re-learning to utilise our brains?  

Image of Homo Zinjanthropus, Circa 600,000 years old.

Can science prove that the four distinct compartments that comprise a cow’s stomach evolved simultaneously or did the stomach evolve to accommodate a much more primitive model in prehistory?  If so, if we are to believe that simple one celled animals one day climbed out of the belly of the primordial seas  evolving into gargantuan dinosaurs then surely we can imagine a much simpler humanoid having a much smaller brain, perhaps the very size of that portion which humans use today, evolving an increasingly larger brain out of necessity to store all the processes of daily life.  But what happened then?  Is it typical for organisms to evolve organs that are unreasonably larger than their needs?  Is there some genetic rule of thumb that says, “Evolutionary updates to physiology generally comprise a ?% to ?% range above that needed to perform the task that induced the change?  For instance, a mother’s womb is highly flexible to accommodate the variable range of infant volume but it is never two or more times the size necessary to perform the task efficiently.  So goes the human brain.  If genetic evolution is true at all then at some point we humans utilised more than 10% of our brain capacity!  It makes no sense for an organ to evolve with a 90% deficiency built in and there is no other precedent for this example in any organism unless it is an organ that has devolved for some reason.  

What are the reasons for devolution?  Well if an organ has been replaced by another process it will gradually be allowed to go dormant and shrink until it no longer exists.  If an organ is just not being utilised any more due to some external factor that did not previously exist such as a social or physical catastrophe affecting the organism’s environment it would trigger a devolutionary response.  If we examine the skulls of prototypical humanoids do we find larger or smaller skulls?  If the human brain is only utilised up to 10% of its capacity then at some time we forgot virtually everything we ever knew!  Let me repeat this in order to deliver the shock value it truly deserves… “AT SOME TIME WE HUMANS LITERALLY FORGOT EVERYTHING WE EVER KNEW RETAINING ONLY 10% OF OUR INTELLIGENCE”!

Image of Homo-Zinjanthropus.

If this theory is not authentically food for thought then what is?  Are we humans a devolved organism that suffered some catastrophic event which thrust us into a perpetual dark age?  Because of the inability to know the specifics of our evolutionary history and our cosmological history this is a topic that cannot ever be known short of an “H. G. Wellsian” time machine and that is not presently going to happen outside of a Hollywood dramatisation!  So for now I will hold to my own private theory on the evolution of human thought and intelligence, that we were much more intelligent at some remote time in antiquity, that our knowledge was lost through some unknown preternatural or deliberate event and that now we struggle to recapture what intelligence was lost at a time far from our reckoning.  Let me say about ADHD treatment, that slowing down the brains processes does not appear to be a promising means by which to recapture our former intellectual glory!  Slowing down the brains ability to think is, in my opinion, an attack on the expansion, history and evolution of learning in humans!

A Modern Human Skull

Written By David Vollin

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Dr's, Mr. and Mrs. Leakey Holding Zinjanthropus' Skull.

O'LE PAPPI SAY'ES

O’LE PAPPI SAY’ES

Whey’uh, I’s hed’ded up dhey mount’n but I’s got a’ways t’uh gohw,

An t’awl whey’es mehk’s zit’easiuh when d’hey’s udduh fowks t’uh knohw,

But my pappi sayed’t yurr’s a’gohw,

You is dhey ownley’es ma’yahn t’uh knohw,

Whey’n yew’s cliamb’d sohw hiah dha’t t’aint no mohw,

An d’hat’s whey’en yew’s uh ma’yahn.

Written by David Vollin

THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

Lie down and speak no more,

let senility forget your mouth,

die now and let us forgive,

the sins of the antebellum south,

time has rusted through your soul,

vermin violate your graves,

underneath the slave-tilled soil,

your rebels flag no longer waves,

let the dust choke your breath,

silencing you to every man,

the antebellum south is dead,

it shall never rise again…

Written by David Vollin

DHAT’S MAUH MA’YEHN DHEYAH !

DHAT’S MAUH MA’YEHN DHEYAH !

Doan’ e’ d’hink dhat choo cayeh’n hab ee’ry dhing yue see’s,

dhat deyuh ma’yhen! aw say’s hee b’lowng’s t’uh meh,

i’s luv’d dhat ma’yhen seyn’se t’baccuh grew’d high,

mess’n en dehy cohwn feey’es unduh dhey skhy,

i rek’in we’s mhurried aftuh auhwl dhis thyme,

i ain own’s nuff’n but I’s spek’s heyes mhines,

i’s dreem’n bhout dhat ma’yhen auwhl de thimes’

dhat’s  mauh ma’yehhn dheyah.

You taik baik y’awl flhurt’n cuz t’aint gowhn be rh’turn’d

dhis h heyuh bees dhey hansum’es less’n yew dhun eehvuh lern’t

thake kare dhat y’awl mines meh kase y’awl hapen’s  t’uh git bowen’d

dhis dheng y’awl wunt’s eeseh es ghot t’uh bee urrn’t

so eye ain gown fret y’awl git’n y’awl eye’s bleyehs’d,

cuz mauh ma’yen es mow hansomuh dhan dhey res’

eyeh rek’uns  whin y’awl kums a’ coat’n es eh teyess

but dhat’s  mauh ma’yehhn dheyah.

eye’d sweyah t’uh dhey bibuh anywheyuh…

dhat’s  mauh ma’yehhn dheyah.

FIN

Written by Bigdaddyblues aka David Vollin