I've not yet learned a thing.

I've not yet learned a thing. This is the only truth you are allowed to take from my twenty years of age. I am a man who searches for absolute and complete truth. I demand change, not from you but myself.

If you are reading this, I pose a question. Do you also feel like there's more to life than just going down the rabbit hole? Many men have walked upon this cold, hard ground. There have been those that I would be utterly afraid to merely walk a foot in their shoes . One that "The Voice Crying Out In The Wilderness" declared, he wasn't worthy to untie the straps of His sandals. 

Incredible men have walked on this planet. Those who were not considered such because of the wealth they acquired or education they obtained but because of the sole reason that they lived with the type of integrity and honor that normal humans just don't posses naturally.

I lose sleep tonight because of this simple fact: I am not one of these men. 

I count my life as shame if I continue to be so complacent. 

Life has a much grander purpose than just being and existing. Though, most of us only do so. Will we ever wake up and understand that nothing we do truly matters unless we are doing it for someone else?

In this age of freedom and independence, we have missed the concept that we are not free! You are a slave to whatever you hold closest to your heart. If that is wealth, education, infatuation or existing you are a slave tied down and bound by shackles and chains.

In this infamous search for what is truth, we find that science never gives us all the answers that we need to be able to lay down at night and feel at ease with the question, " What if I die tonight?"

My mind always turns back to religion. I've studied each one and concluded only one logically seems to be solid. The only infallibility with this is no religion is represented correctly from it's followers. At least the majority who would "represent" it. 

So the teachings of each are what I must look at and in turn my life is what you must look at to judge correctly if I am making any ground in becoming a real man. Again I note, I've not yet learned a thing.

Riverdale Class of 2010

It's 9:04 a.m. and today is the day! You have been studying for this test for weeks and weeks on end. Class starts within the next hour and your professor is up bright and early in preparation for the exam of your life. You roll out of bed with the remnants of sleepies that the sandman left behind in your eyes, hurry to shower while attempting to collect your thoughts on the hour to come, and suddenly are alarmed by your annoying ringtone you've been meaning to change. With all of this happening at once you find it hard, if not impossible, to think about life and the grand scheme of everything. 

But what if..

What if one day everything that you knew ceased to exist?

Since high school, each one of my fellow classmates have changed. Some I have talked to and others I have not. 

The class of 2010 has brought forth mothers and fathers, druggies and scholars, nobodies and television stars. I mean we have our diversity.

But who remembers Alisha Nance?

At the time of her car wreck, I was the Fellowship of Christian Athletes president. At the time, I said that I believed in God. I led devotion every morning in the gym. I specifically remember Natalie Lanning coming out of the basketball girls locker-room each and every morning. She always looked at me and I always felt pressured when she did. For it brought me back to being an insecure shy middle schooler when I first met her. I was a senior now with few insecurities. I was leading a group of 60 people every morning but I was doing too much and God wasn't doing enough.

From the age of 10 years old, I felt the drawing of God calling me to surrender my life to him. Yet, I always failed to do so. I always held onto something. That is what I was missing. I never fully let go. In order to find Christ you must fully let go of everything. 

I hate Christianity in our country today. It has corrupted everyone's perception, even mine until I researched without bias. What you find in Christianity today though is self-rightoues, egotistical, holier than thou hypocrites who try to clean up the way they dress, talk, and act but they are still as atrocious as the most vile human one could think of because they still have evil minds. 

They care about themselves and their best life now. The American dream has defiled the church to such an extent that I would hate to call myself a member of nearly every one that I have the patience to sit through. 

Christ demands a radical change! Your whole life turns complete circles. You are not who you were before! And wouldn't you want that from something real? If you are to believe that Christ healed the sick, blind, lame and deaf should you stay as troubled and selfish as you were before? No! You would be completely new. 

But in high school, I didn't grasp the truth completely and most churches you walk into today don't. They don't because they are taught that you repeat a prayer after a preacher and you're saved from hell. How absurd! Christ isn't a toy in the kids meal! Anyhow, I never grasped Christ completely in high school though I looked like a goodie two shoes on the outside.

Well, during the time of Alisha Nance's accident I was the leader of the "Christian" club. Natalie Lanning called me and asked if I would conduct the prayer service for Alisha. Of course I agreed. And so I did. Though I led the prayer, I honestly thought she was going to die. I had no faith at all that she was going to pull through. As I had been a pastors son my entire life and stood beside too many coffins to count. I definitely thought she was gone. 

And thank God that my doubt was ignored because she made it! Christ gave her life. Those of you that prayed in that meeting, I still remember. God heard your prayers. 

So let's take time to think about the God of the Bible thats still performs miracles and still is alive and almighty. You of little faith surrender to Christ Jesus. 

I ran for too long. 

"Time" What a terrible thing to waste!

Time is such a discreetly used word. Even though, our entire lives revolve around the idea of time. Everything in our universe has order under the concept of time. Stars are born and then they die. Black holes are believed to reverse time! Anything that has some sort of existence has to deal with it.

Upon awakening today, my immediate thoughts surrounded this blog. Why do we allow time, which is running out, to control our lives? It's such a blessing and curse, a catch 22! In reality, if not for time the whole universe would be a gigantic mess, yet with it things stay orderly. So my next question asked is not about time but perception. It's how we perceive it. Things control us once we allow them to. So this is why we are so trapped by this never-ending continuum of events. 

Then my last thought is about my girlfriend. She is so wonderful. She's loving, kind, gentle, and patient. Everything that one could ask for. And also...she cooks! Well at that! It's remarkable that you can find someone so great. And as I rejoiced at this thought in appreciation my mind fell back onto time. 

You see that is the only thing that separates my girlfriend and my grandmother from knowing each other. A few short months and I could've shown my granny what great of a woman I have found. I know people love to fantasize and say, "Well she's looking down for

Heaven smiling right now." A cute thought but I don't buy into it. 

What I understand is time has separated me and my Granny. With that, it also separated her from my life that still revolves around time. The thing that saddens me is in my mind she's still alive, for it hasn't been that long ago. But in the real world, she's as gone as the last second I spent typing this. So time goes on.

Veggie Tales

Veggie Tales

One word. Vegetarian. This word, idea, or lifestyle conveys an extensive series of various misconceptions.

Everyone is raised in a different way. Traditionally, most people take on very similar roles of their parents, especially in the later years of life. 

This is a pattern that has exsisted for milliniums. I mean, you're molded by what your taught and experiences you have went through. Since that generally tends to be the case, the line up for my life was this:

Diabetes

Obesity

Mental disorders

High Blood Pressure

Arthritis

Multiple types of Cancer

Strokes

Asthma

The list can go on and on. And will unless CHANGE is made. So as I began looking into my future and not just my next ten years but thirty and fourty, I realized most of my family lived until their late sixties and the latter years they struggled to live by fighting disease and taking prescription medication.

Watching my Grandmother struggle the last years of her life didn't motivate me to continue on in a disastrous lifestyle of harming my body! It inspired me to better myself. Make changes now that will effect my life and those around me in the future.

My future wife needs a strong husband, children need a wise and capable father and their children along with anyone I come in contact with needs my presence in this world. You may see that as a cocky statement but interpret it as this: As a person on planet earth you can either make a positive impression or a negative one but you will undoubtedly make one! Therefore, you need me and I need to be the best for you.

Now on to the huge topic, food. We love food. It controls every part of our day. Wake up, eat. Lunch break, eat. Winding down, eat. We love to eat. That in itself is natural and awesome! But what you eat may not be. 

The FDA is an organization in charge of regulating what foods are safe to sell in the United States of America. Though I have so many opinions on how scandalous and atrocious I find the FDA, all I'm saying for now is the current food pyramid for America is completely wrong! The FDA continually approves things they know is harmful to people. Fluoride in our water, hormones in all of the meat you eat, humanly engineered vegetables! These are the same people over tobacco companies. Don't think they care about your well being!

It is so important to watch what you put in your body. Read ingredients. Research what it is you're eating! I guarantee someone reading this now is eating something...right? Read the ingredients and google those words you don't understand. 

I did this and when opening up my mind to figure out why I was always so tired? Why was it that food made my stomach hurt? Why was my immune system always breaking down? It was the old saying speaking to me, "You are what you eat!" So I decided to give it a try. No fast food. No meat. Only a healthy diet that consisted of every essential vitamin and mineral needed to live a prosperous life. I studied the Singapore food pyramid, which they are the healthiest country in the world, 2012. I took measures into the hands they should've been in, Luke Humphrey's.

On average, men who don't eat meat live 7.28 years longer than those who do. That is two thousand sixty two (2062) more days. Women, 4.42, which is a thousand six hundred thirteen (1613).

All because they don't eat meat!

You don't even like meat. You really don't care if you go without it and honestly learn to hate it once you realize how it harms your body. 

You're trained to eat meat, there is no nutrients that it provides for you that you can't get more of at better percentages through a vegetarian diet.

And a vegetarian diet isn't people who only eat broccoli. The foods that I eat now in taste value annihilate anything I ate when unconscious.  

If you don't like the no meat idea, do think about organic everything. Farmers markets are the best places to buy your foods. Grass-fed animals aren't just better for you but they taste better too. 

And one argument I used once back before I was enlightened is this:

"It cost more to be a vegetarian and buy organic."

False! It is less expensive to live the right way. Study for yourself. Use knowledge.

kNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

Don't be defenseless against a lying society. Please feel free to talk to me one on one by emailing me at lukehumphreymusic@gmail.com.

I would love to answer questions or learn more on this topic if you have more information.

The Change You Really Need

For those of you who don't know me particularly well, and that's probably anyone that hasn't been in contact with me in the last three months, I am joyed to inform you that I have been going through many changes!


Change is a good thing! A lot of people clench up at the very thought of the word. In some situations it can be scary. Many times it can be drastic and perpetual. Nevertheless, it occurs daily and it is something we all must endure, or enjoy, depending on how you view it.


I've underwent a countless number of various changes in my lifetime, but never as great a number as I have in the last year. For example, I've switched jobs three or four times, switched relationships (which I must emphasize my current one is the most amazing that I've ever dreamed of experiencing), and came face to face with the recent loss my beloved Granny. She was an incredible and loving woman. I thank God for putting her in my life. So you see, I am greatly familiar with change because I have experienced and dealt with it's vast number of different faces. So when reading this you will always know whatever I decide to address always comes from a place of knowledge and experience.


I want to be informed. Simple yes? We all want to be intelligent and informed in order to make more precise decisions on what views we each hold. I don't know if your interest is in education, health, fashion, arts, religion, politics, music, etc. I have no clue what you think about, but I do know what I think about and that is EVERYTHING. So I hope you find some insight reading what I may post in the next few days. I can assure you I will bring topics to the table that you may or may not be aware of, either way you will not only be informed, you will also be changed!


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