If you’re a regular reader here I am sure you have noticed that I like to touch on controversial topics in some of my blog posts. That’s because controversial blog posts are the most interesting, and they generate the most discussion — whether the discussion is in the comments threads, facebook, twitter, or on other blogs, a little bit of controversy will always get people thinking, choosing sides, and voicing their opinions.

Hate-mail

Writing about controversial topics will inevitably get you some hate-mail and negative comments, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The hate-mailers and negative commentators actually attract more exposure for your blog posts by encouraging discussion between other commentators who will often message their friends and invite them to join in on the heated debate that is your comment thread.

Dealing with hate-mail is easy. Delete it.

If you feel like reading some of the hate mail you receive, do so with a sense of humor and don’t take anything too personally. Getting upset about hate-mail is a waste of time and gets you thinking negatively. Don’t fall for it! It’s a distraction from what you should really be focusing on.

Don’t get caught up in flame wars in your comment threads or on forums. Flame wars are never a good way to spend your time, they will rarely change anybody’s mind about anything, and they will only eventually lead to you looking stupid for being involved in such a silly internet bickering match. Spend your time writing good articles and doing research, not combatting tards.

No matter how controversial a stance you take, there will always be people who agree with you, too. It’s these people who are important to you as a blogger, they might become loyal fans or subscribers because they feel that what you said in your article was in line with their views on the subject, they may even be very pleased to have found someone who shares a similar point of view. These people will also carry on your flame wars and comment threads for you, so you can focus on producing another awesome article instead of engaging in pointless bickering.

Controversy encourages discussion

Encouraging discussion on your blog is important, and replying to comments and emails is a great way to build a relationship with your readers, but when the comments turn into arguments and flame wars it’s always best to steer clear. Taking part in flame wars is potentially risky business because it could lead to you wasting a ton of time on pointless tasks like replying to trolls, or worse, the trolls could make you look foolish on your own website! You don’t want that, now do you? So my advice is to steer clear of internet flame wars all together, even on your own website.

That said, getting other people to comment and/or talk about your posts on other websites and blogs is one of the best strategies for a blogger trying to attract a loyal readership and lots of traffic. Writing about things that people tend to have strong opinions about is a good way to get the discussion going, but it’s not all butterflies and rainbows.

To take on controversial topics you have to be willing to face people who are strongly opposed to your views, and you have to be prepared to lose some friends once in a while, too. But you’ll also gain a ton of new friends by writing about controversial topics, so I guess it kind of balances out in a way.

It’s kind of fun to watch my facebook and twitter friends lists go up and down each day, depending on what I’ve been posting about, but the effects of controversial blog posts extend beyond the confines of the interweb, too. I have had many real life friends get upset about things I’ve written about on my websites over the years, and I’ve even lost a few of them permanently because of things I’ve said or done online. This is something that new bloggers should be prepared for, and something that experienced bloggers are all too familiar with.

The alternative path

The mainstream lifestyle has always seemed weird to me, I intuitively knew something wasn’t right from a very young age. I’ve always been interested in ‘alternative’ type information and subjects.

On my journey I seem to have been discovering one piece of the puzzle after another, and the ‘alternative path’ makes more and more sense as each piece of the puzzle is fitted in with the rest — in the beginning the individual pieces don’t always make a whole lot of sense, but eventually everything comes together and a bigger picture can be seen.

Because I’ve gone into so many ‘controversial’ areas of information so far in my life I am fairly used to having people disagree with me — sometimes violently. Last summer I was kicked by a random girl at a party for talking about reptilians – haha. But, if you want to blog about controversial issues, you’re going to have to be ready for that kind of opposition from time to time.

Once you start realizing some of the ‘alternative path’ puzzle pieces, you begin to see that the world has been set up intentionally to lead us astray. And it’s been constructed in such a way that it does a very good job at keeping people from the truth. I’m not saying I know the truth, but I’m certainly much closer to it than most. For most people, many of these truths are so far off from what they have been told to believe, that they simply deny them and label it ‘crazy conspiracy theory’ or something similar.

On the surface many of these alternative topics may seem like crazy conspiracy theories, but that’s only because the rest of the puzzle pieces haven’t yet been fitted together to allow the bigger picture to be seen, only then will the puzzle make any sense to the casual observer.

When I was young I was always interested in things like UFOs and ghosts. I’d read tons of books on paranormal things, and liked to think about things that were ‘outside’ of the boring old every day reality. In high school I became interested in less common religious philosophies like the pagan and wiccan religious beliefs, but I soon realized that they were just older versions of the same mind-prison religions of today’s main-stream, and so I basically rejected those as well, opting for my own ever changing belief system as opposed to any organized or ‘official’ religion.

I also became interested in cannabis, and started to realize the amazing potential of the great healing herb. As I learned more and more about cannabis, I started to wonder why it was kept illegal when it was so good. I began to notice that there was a ‘force’ keeping it illegal not because it was bad or dangerous, but because it could bring down the giant pharmaceutical, medical, plastic, pulp & paper, and oil industries all by itself. One single plant could tear down the worlds most corrupted and evil institutions! That’s why it’s been kept illegal!

I started to realize that there was some sort of ‘conspiracy’ if you will, to keep people from waking up to the truth about cannabis, and so I started looking deeper into the who and why of the ‘conspiracy’. I became interested in alternative health topics because they made more sense and are more trustworthy than the ‘science’ behind big pharma and their pill pushing ‘doctors’, many of whom, for the amount of time they spent in school, know virtually nothing about health at all!

I started to adopt a more natural lifestyle which continues to this day. I’m constantly making changes and tweaks to my lifestyle that bring me into better alignment with truth, love, and power. This brings with it far more health and happiness than I’ve ever experienced in the past, and it’s all because of my ‘alternative’ life choices and beliefs.

On my journey I have researched many areas that most people would consider to be controversial, this is why it’s so easy for me to write blog posts that touch on controversial topics without even realizing that what I’m writing about is controversial to begin with! Sometimes I am surprised at the comments I get from people who just can’t seem to understand where I have come up with such a crazy idea when the post is about something that I feel is (or should be) common knowledge and not controversial in the least. I guess I’ve just been so absorbed in my own reality that it seems normal to me, but yet it seems so far from reality to those who subscribe to the mainstream view of things.

This makes it easy for me to create controversy with my blog posts. You will notice a lot more controversy on this website as we move forward, I have tons of stuff I want to write about but have been ‘holding off’ for what feels like the right time to touch on some of the subjects.

If you become a regular reader of my blog, be prepared to read things that you will not agree with, things that will be at odds with your belief system and things that will make you think ‘outside of the box’. In truth, a lot of the times you won’t be ‘outside of the box’ but just in a newer, slightly bigger box from which you will eventually escape — just to find yourself in yet another bigger box. This seems to be the general pattern I have noticed, but eventually we’ll get out of all these boxes and be able to see the bigger picture as a whole — no more boxes to climb out of.

Ultimately, that is my goal with this website. To help people become more conscious and to start thinking outside of their boxes. It’s a long process, but it’s one that must be completed for the betterment of all humanity.

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