| HEY! |
[Oct. 4th, 2008|03:49 am] |
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Yo this is for all my buddies who still read an LJ every once in awhile. Whats up??? Throw a comment over here or something because I have a response. Best of wishes. peace. |
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[May. 13th, 2008|08:38 am] |
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FL is almost over. I'm making up for the past 4 years; went to Disney, had a party, went to the beach, now I'm going to Islands of Adventure. FL and the people that came with it will be missed. |
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| My problem with Atheism |
[Sep. 22nd, 2007|12:06 pm] |
My main problem with Atheists is that they are so certain that there isn't anything out there. I don't understand how someone merely human can make such declarative statements about the universe. We can't even get past the moon, prevent dying, create life, or any of the sort that nature has obviously ruled for so long, yet we think we gave absolute knowledge about the supernatural and theistic properties of the world? At least Agnostics admit that there is no way of knowing these things, admit that the human mind isn't infallible in its reasoning. So there is no empirical evidence of Gods or entities or supreme beings. Ok, have these Atheists ever condsidered the fact that what's observable to us isn't the only reality out there. I just don't understand how when there is so much in the world that people don't know yet, but we at least try to know, we can be so sure that things don't exist outside of the physical world.
I'm acknowledging the fact that there are different forms of atheism and not all of them necessarily deny anything supernatural. And maybe I have the wrong idea about Atheism, but the whole concept of claiming knowledge about the unknown seems just as naive to me as claiming you know there isn't life on other planets. |
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| This is my favorite |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|04:35 am] |
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bichcatmyazz (4:34:03 AM): i'm just glad you smoke and that you liek games |
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[Aug. 20th, 2007|11:03 am] |
School's starting again. I took a few summer classes but it just seemed a little different than an actual semester. I realized I am kind of looking forward to this one. I'm taking some cool classes and 3 of them are online, so its a little more work and hang out friendly. Only gripes I have is I have a 3 hour break in between my two on campus classes, form 12-3, and I have to still take General Anthropology if I want to graduate.
Language and Culture - Tu Th
Sex Gender and Culture - Tu Th
General Anthropology - Online
Sociology of Popular Culture - Online
Religious Quest and Human Dilemma - Online |
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| I took it mat |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|09:36 am] |
Neutral-Good
Your Score: Neutral-Good 86% Good, 52% Chaotic 
Plane of Existence: Elysium, "Blessed Fields". Description: The plane of peace. Notable Inhabitants: Guardinals - noble immortal humanoids with bestial features.
Examples of Neutral-Goods (Ethically Neutral, Morally Good)
Cloud Strife (FFVII)
Boogenhagen (FFVII)
Mother Theresa
Ghandi
Sidhartha Gautama (the Buddha)
Gandalf
Bilbo & Frodo Baggins
Samwise Gamgee
Indiana Jones
The Dali Lama
Ben (O-Bi-Wan) Kenobi
Luke Skywalker
Harry Potter
Hermionie
Dumbledore
Often goes along with the laws and desires of the group as being the easiest course of action, but ethical considerations clearly have top priority. May pursue quite abstract goals. Often aloof and difficult to understand.
Will keep their word to others of good alignment
Would not attack an unarmed foe
Will not use poison
Will help those in need
May work with others
Indifferent to higher authority
Indifferent to organizations
Neutral Good "Pure Good"
"Benefactor"
A neutral good [person] will obey the law, or break it when he or she sees it will serve a greater good. He or she is not bound strongly to a social system or order. His or her need to help others and reduce their suffering may take precedence over all else. Neutral good [people] do good for goodness' sake, not because they are directed to by law or by whim.
This alignment desires good without bias for or against order.
Other Alignments and Tendencies (Tendenices are what you would more often sway towards; esp. for Neutrals):
0-39% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Evil
0-39% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: Neutral-Evil
0-39% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Evil
40-60% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Neutral
40-60% Good, 40-60% Chaotic: True Neutral
40-60% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Neutral
61-100% Good, 0-39% Chaotic: Lawful-Good
61-100% Good, 61-100% Chaotic: Chaotic-Good
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 16th, 2007|09:42 pm] |
Update of life
- Moving into house pretty soon hopefully. There have been minor setbacks and such and the lease still isnt completely signed 4 days before move in date but hopefully it will all go as planned.
- Have enrolled in all my classes until I graduate, summer, fall and spring, It will be a busy year but graduating will be worth it.
- Still dont know what im going to do after graduating, but thats not to know until its time to do it.
- Getting much more than I expected from my philosophy, religion, and popular culture minor.
- Need to find new job, hopefully serving in avalon, good money and close. Sushi restaurant if life feels like being awesome.
- Once settled in, much more fun time needs to occur.
- I really enjoy cereal. |
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| LJ goes astronomy for the new season? |
[Dec. 6th, 2006|11:20 pm] |
Any websites you guys ritually go to?
I like to make fequent visits to
ign.com - where I get all my gaming news from
wikipedia.com - where I get all my random information from
isohunt.com - where i get all of my illegal music and video
livejournal - where i get a couple interesting posts every once in awhile, they seem a lot less frequent lately, maybe i just need to find more friends
myspace - i dont know why i go here, there's rarely anything new
gamefaqs - i go there to look at the forums see what people are saying about the games
imdb - where i get all my movie and tv inf
youtube - i dont think i go here enough but im trying to, its just hard to find the right videos
discovercard - pay credit card bill
suntrust - keeptrack of bank info
brighthouse - pay internet bill
progress-energy - pay power bill
hookahforum - get hookah info
google - random searches
Netflix - pick which movies im getting
Other than these sites I dont think I go on much else. Seems like a lot now that I look at it. Any super cool ones Im missing?
One exam left hoorah. Planning a sushi celebration, who wants to come? |
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| Live prayer with Bill Keller |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|02:06 am] |
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Has anyone ever watched this show before? Around here it come on at 12 am on one of the Christian channels. Tonight he was talking about how Islam is a false religion and Muhammad is a liar and how anyone who follows that path is going to hell. Its pretty interstng in a way becasue the guy really doesn't hold back on anything. People call in and if he doesn't like what they're saying he'll say its theological nonsense and hang up. He talked about how slutty the Bratz dolls are also, and how your growing your child upto be a street walking prostitue, there is a black doll and a latino doll. Check it outif you havnt seen it. |
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| Progressive Perception |
[Nov. 11th, 2006|04:43 am] |
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I've been thinking about this idea of the progress of perception and it just seems to be going so slowly. I think about it and it really depresses me. The fact that so many people still think they are better people because they might be a certain race, a certain sex, have a certain income, a religion, where they live, the clothes they wear, their interests, or even the music they listen to. How hard is it to realize that everyone is born the same, everyone is equal in every way possible. People may be born with disabilites or cheimical imbalances, but that is what they were dealt with. Now am I saying that because someone who was born to be imbalanced and become satisfied only when killing and eating other humans that they should be treated with the same respect that all other humans should be treated? No. Am I saying that someone raised to believe that blacks are theives and Jews are out to get your money should be smiled upon and said their opinion is ok because everyone is entitled? No. Should an African Nuer tribesman who beats his wife when he is upset, because he was taught this from a child, be treated with the same understanding of someone who knows that beating anyone is terrible and resorted to only when animal instincts overcome human ones? No. Now I'm still young so I have no definite opinion about most things. I am sure about some things, and I can be told well what makes you so right, and arent you a bit full of your self to think that you are right and others are wrong. Isn't everything relative? Because the murderer justifies what he is doing, doesnt it make it right in his own mind, and therefore someone in the universe thinks that what he does is not wrong? So if blank slates are compared, why would my unmurderous opinion be any more acceptable then his murderous one? And I use extreme examples because they are the most understandable, but any example can be dropped down to different degrees of reference.
There is much more to this. The idea that I have some thought that was passed down from some pre-human a million years ago, amazes me. Some Homo suddenly thought, I will make an axe to cut things, some human embelished upon this idea, this axe thought continued being passed down generation upon generation, century upon century. People would adapt the idea and pass that adaptation along. Now we have chainsaws to cut the wood, heavy machinery, firepower to chop down our enemies, scientific bombs to wither them away. This clearly shows that technology is progressing. Any thought or idea that is passed along, that clearly shows a benefit, can be thought of as progress. What is the point of progress if it is perceived incorrectly? Technology can surpass every imagination, but if we have a device the size of a pinpoint that can create enough energy to power the entire planet and the only thing the seperate nations can think of is how to use it in war, arent we right back to the animal days where one animal evolved a couple teeth and decided to use it on an animal without?
So why does the progress of perception go so painfully slow? Why have we gone from rocks to rockets but Man is still man and woman is still woman? Joe better than Jane and all that. Grow some balls. You're a pussy. You throw like a girl. My countrys better than yours. My God is better than yours. My Arian brothers! Lazy bum. Chink. Jew. Christian. Imbecile. Retard. Geezer. Mamas boy. Slut.
The intollerance we put up with and live with and see as normal is just ridiculous. It takes just one day to go without my blinders, my distractions, my nintendo and TV, to realize how bad it is. Its always there in the back of my mind, when concentrated upon it become unbearable. And what can I do? What can anyone do? When perception progresses so slowly. Someone said he needs to keep his Vagina happy, refering to his girlfriend today. Who does that? Since when was a person summed up as a part of their anatomy?
Maybe Im being crazy, but I doubt it. Are people better then what I think? Is humanity progressing quicker than Im saying? Am I completely wrong, have the wrong ideals, and am I just completely full of myself, for thinking I might have the right idea while most everyone else seems to be wrong? I wonder sometimes. Its hard to fight it sometimes. My first impressions arent the same ones as my rational impressions. It's becausae of the society I was brought up in. The TV I watched. The news I witnessed. The thoughts and jokes I heard. I think irrational thoughts all the time, and I know they are wrong after a moments thought.
I don'tknow where I am going here. This started off as a supposed post about perception but ended as a couple paragraphs of my thoughts. Read into as you will but please don't make snap judgments. Snap judgements plague the universe and prevent any type of progressive thinking. A conservative isnt a gun slinging, rich, destroyer of the enivornment, as much as a liberal is a baby killing, nazi, hippy, hater or God.
And what makes me feel a word I cant think of in the english language, is that the Grand Illusion just came on. A song by a group of humans called Styx. "If you think your life is complete confusion, because your neighbor has it made, Just remember that its a Grand Illusion and that deep inside we are all the same." "And still we wonder who the hell we are"
Well I have tomorrow off so I will look on this post and try to refine it a little bit, I have these ideas and I need to put them down it written form or else I soon forget them. And something forgotten cant be progressed at all. I realize I left a lot of thoughts unfollowed in this post, Ill try to solve that for myself later on. |
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| Hey everyone |
[Oct. 23rd, 2006|01:26 am] |
I don't normally do this but I found a lot of the debates going on in this thing were kind of interesting. It's a lot to read through and has a lot of junk to sort through and very little to do with the article, but if you feel like it check it out. Just trying to spread something interesting.
http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/35285/Someone_Should_Have_Assassinated_Bush
I mainly liked it becasue of the internet characters. It's a lot like a play with good guys, bad guys, dumbos, crazies, and nobodys. I don't know, if you take any time to read it, tell me what you thought. |
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| Best advice |
[Oct. 11th, 2006|11:51 am] |
"If you wait until the last minute it only takes a minute."
Sounds simple enough, I think its some of the best advice ever. Thanks Dad. |
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| Unification Theory |
[Oct. 2nd, 2006|12:23 am] |
Definition from Wikipedia.
Unification theory is the philosophy that every existing, theoretical and nonexisting field of science, philosophy, art, consciousness, emotion, religion, indeed every unthinkable aspect of the Universe is the sum of one fantastic equation. It supposes the possibility of expressing the whole of existence as a simple logic statement or equation, that -- if it could be understood -- would launch mankind into a higher level of being beyond our wildest imagination, or some equally interesting event.
The, "or some equally interesting event" part, makes me laugh a little. |
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| Franz Boas quotes |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|06:27 pm] |
"We should look on foreign races with greater sympathy and with conviction that, as all races have contributed in the past to cultural progress in one way or another, so they will be capable of advancing the interest of mankind if we are only willing to give them the fair opportunity"
"I cannot visualize how reasonable people and nations which are "leaders of civilization" can conjure up such a terrible war.... If people would only realize what a source of hatred and misfortune the highly praised patriotism represents. That one cherishes one's way of life is a natural thing. But does one need to nourish the thought that it is the best of all, that everything different is not good but useless, that it is right to despise the people of other nations? In our private lives we would not follow such an unethical rule. Why should it prevail in our national life? If one could only exclude this "patriotismus" from our school and teach our children the good in our culture, and appreciation of the good in other cultures. Instead they artificially culticate envy and rivalry."
"Science alone is not the greatest good. I believe one can be really happy only as a member of humanity as a whole, if one works with all one's energy together with the masses toward high goals. And what I want, for what I want to live and die, is equal rights for all, equal possibilities to learn and work for rich and poor alike. Don't you believe that to have done even the smallest bit for this is more than all science taken together." |
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| The "Bitch Drink" |
[Sep. 9th, 2006|02:55 am] |
I am trying to understand the concept behind the "bitch drink."
It comes across as making sense like this,
There are drinks that only men can drink, only men can drink these drinks becasue men are so strong they can handle the absolute nastiness that comes with drinking such a drink.
There are drinks that only women can drink. Only women can drink these drinks becasue they taste of roses, strawberries, and many other pretty things.
For a man to taste such a delectable drink would submit him to ridicule for he has now proven himself unworthy of being a man.
Why? Becasue real men are too strong for nice things.
Now since women are inferior in strength to men becasue they can not handle the stronger tasting alcohols, and have to resort to drinking the light fuzzy niceness, all such drinks have been put under the category of "bitch drinks"
A man drinking a bitch drink, is in turn a bitch. Equal to a woman, the most lowliest of the human species.
What do the actual drinks have to say about the matter?
Nothing, they are freaking drinks, they don't care who the hell drinks them. Although I think I did hear a cranberry and vodka scream bitch as loud as it could as it went down the throat of a hairy man creature.
Maybe that was just a cultural illusion though. |
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