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Thursday, December 10, 2009
cult op3
For my final cultural opportunity I read the book my Ayn Rand entitled Anthem. In this book miss Rand portrays a man in a world in which no one thinks for or about themselves because everything is ran by unions and no individual is really that important, the only real importance is of the unions as a whole. The man belongs to a street sweepers union, so the goal of his life in this world is to not be an individual but only as an end to the goal of keeping the streets clean. The man did not pick to be in this job he was appointed without having a say in it. The man did not have a name he was simply a number with the title of his union in front of his name. The man being a street sweeper fondles with science, and upon his discovery of electricity, he shows the science union his discovery but they chastise him, so the man exiles himself with the electricity. The book is supposed to symbolize independence of every individual, and how treating people as the end of a job, which is what the unions depicted in the books do, ultimately ends in a ignorant conformist mind set. The book was for sure one of the most unique books I ever read and It certainly brought a new perspective of individual right to me. It is a must read book for anyone who is interested in social philosophy.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
cult op 2
For my 2nd cultural opportunity I traveled to the ICC art exhibit on the first floor of the school. Upon my arrival, to my amazement I a wider variety of art than I had anticipated. Though there were lots of good paintings there were plenty that were extremely dull and boring. Most of the ones I found to have these characterizes were the painting that expressed no emotion, and the majority of these were the twig paintings, which there were many that laid on the wall. I felt that the art work of the painting labeled blue to be very elegant. It depicts a blue women, drawn very enjoyable to the human eyes. I felt a strong attempt to frighten an art viewer, when I saw the art work labeled wrath. This picture depicts a horse, in rage. The colors in the pages blend in an eerie way. The art exhibit at ICC was a very enjoyable trip and I hope the everyone that goes there has the same experience.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
this heres the queen of my double wide trailer
Abortion,
My mother had an abortion. The baby was not conceived of rape, or incest. She had consensual sex with my father before the conception of my oldest brother. That child would have been my mother’s 1st child. This should have came to her as a blessing for she was predicted by a medical professional before she was pregnant that she would never be able to have the joy of childbirth. I believe she was 17 years old when she became pregnant with the aborted baby. The reason for her abortion is rather odd. The reason was not derived from poverty or she would have aborted us all, the reason was not her age my oldest brother was born less than a year later. The reason for her abortion was that she read the lines on her hands, and that predicted how many kids she could have and when. My father was not part of the discussion about, either turning my oldest sibling into a red chunky smoothie, or having a doctor dislimb with tweezers objects (then assembles the limbs like a puzzle to make sure they got IT all), or pulling the baby halfway out of my mother then shoving a tube in its head to suck ITS brain out, no my father had no say in this action. I find almost everything about abortion vile, and disgusting. I don’t believe abortion should be carried out unless under severe circumstances. However I don’t believe I have any divine presence that tells me that I have the solution to this answer. I do not believe there should be laws restricting this monstrosity. As stated previously I believe the actions of making laws should be regional, the smaller region the less people fascist hurt by the outcome of the laws that are in place. States for the most part are very large, but I believe that the states controlling the abortion’s rights is still way better then the federal government stomping its enormous foot down and saying that abortion is ultimately right for everyone everywhere. I for one would be more at ease knowing the state that I lived in did not allow such act, again I make no claim as to knowing when life begins but I am not an advocate of this. I know that not ever circumstance is as odd as my mothers, but I know people need to understand cause and effect. (Rest of abortion pretty ranty) I have heard that no one is pro-abortion, that no one likes that abortions happen, if this were true then why do so many have unprotected sex(hopefully everyone knows that incest and rape abortion accounts for less than 10 percent of abortions). If they are ignorant of the fact that, the action of unprotected sex often leads to pregnancy shouldn’t the mega behemoth government do more to educate them on that subject, and by this I do by no means mean just hand more money over to the people who are teaching them about sex now. I believe (make no claim that it is right) we need to find the best way to teach the people who are most susceptible to have abortion, of the consequences of it. I suggest this over the alternative, have all the unprotected sex you want, and if you have an unwanted pregnancy just abort (kill, maybe?) it.
Socialism in the United States from a child observer
As suggested in the previous topic I come from a very poor family. My family has repeatedly turned to the government for help, and the government has always been there to answer the request. At what expense though? My grandfather worked for a coal mine in Alabama when he was a kid, the specific age I do not know. For the coal mine he told me that was the longest job he ever had which didn’t last very long. He was a pretty much a drifter, a hitchhiker, he traveled the whole United States in his day (or so he says), but was never able to hold a steady job, for the simple fact that he never wanted to stay in one place long. Ultimately he did in Illinois, Peoria around the late 70’s, even though he was unable to hold a job. From here to the late 80’s I don’t know much about his life. Around the late 80’s he married his 3rd wife, who was mentally unstable and collecting money from the government because of her disabilities. Apparently my grandfather saw this, and wanted some of that precious tax payer money. He claimed he was disabled even though he wasn’t and has been collecting tax payer money ever since. My father was on the low class of society to, which was how he meets my mother. My father has never held a job that was ever that good, and never really had the ambition to try. My father dealt drugs and worked horrible jobs, when he didn’t have enough to sell, and he didn’t have work, the good all U.S tax dollars were there to help. As a child in this situation (my mother’s was non to much better than my father’s I assure you) the government money absolutely did help me as a small child. Though I can’t help but contemplate that maybe if the government assistant wasn’t there that maybe my grandfather would I have gotten a good job that was stable for his lifestyle, or that maybe my father wouldn’t have been able to fall back on the government at the time of ‘droughts’ he would have pursued a better career (which my uncle his best friend did who was born in pretty much the same class as he was). I believe that he would have chosen a better career but I do not have anything to compare my experience to. I believe strongly that nobody (sane) is stupid and that my father would have not, with a grateful heart seen his children starve to death, the scenarios I break it down into is either I would have been adopted by a more economically stable family, or my father would have manned up, and became more economically stable which both would have been better than what was experienced by me as a child. I currently use (not abuse) government help, I’m trying to do nothing more than break free from the cycle of poverty which I was born into. At my time at the bottom I have seen no one, no one, no one use the government socialist helps the way it is intended. I have seen multiple families sell food stamps for well under their worth for drugs (the only thing I can say I am proud about my father for his use of socialism is he never did this), I have seen people purposely injure themselves so they could ill use medical cards for their prescription drug needs, I have seen multiple ill use of unemployment. I know that the situations I have seen are not the only situation possible, but during my time at the bottom I have seen many people on these socialist programs, and virtually all with few exceptions have exploited the purpose in which these programs were intended. which brings me to my stance that government help is the worst help to get. I would like to finish my last blog with two quotes that strongly affected the person I am.
"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
Ben Franklin
“The scariest words in the English language are I am from the Government and I am here to help”
Ronald Reagan
My mother had an abortion. The baby was not conceived of rape, or incest. She had consensual sex with my father before the conception of my oldest brother. That child would have been my mother’s 1st child. This should have came to her as a blessing for she was predicted by a medical professional before she was pregnant that she would never be able to have the joy of childbirth. I believe she was 17 years old when she became pregnant with the aborted baby. The reason for her abortion is rather odd. The reason was not derived from poverty or she would have aborted us all, the reason was not her age my oldest brother was born less than a year later. The reason for her abortion was that she read the lines on her hands, and that predicted how many kids she could have and when. My father was not part of the discussion about, either turning my oldest sibling into a red chunky smoothie, or having a doctor dislimb with tweezers objects (then assembles the limbs like a puzzle to make sure they got IT all), or pulling the baby halfway out of my mother then shoving a tube in its head to suck ITS brain out, no my father had no say in this action. I find almost everything about abortion vile, and disgusting. I don’t believe abortion should be carried out unless under severe circumstances. However I don’t believe I have any divine presence that tells me that I have the solution to this answer. I do not believe there should be laws restricting this monstrosity. As stated previously I believe the actions of making laws should be regional, the smaller region the less people fascist hurt by the outcome of the laws that are in place. States for the most part are very large, but I believe that the states controlling the abortion’s rights is still way better then the federal government stomping its enormous foot down and saying that abortion is ultimately right for everyone everywhere. I for one would be more at ease knowing the state that I lived in did not allow such act, again I make no claim as to knowing when life begins but I am not an advocate of this. I know that not ever circumstance is as odd as my mothers, but I know people need to understand cause and effect. (Rest of abortion pretty ranty) I have heard that no one is pro-abortion, that no one likes that abortions happen, if this were true then why do so many have unprotected sex(hopefully everyone knows that incest and rape abortion accounts for less than 10 percent of abortions). If they are ignorant of the fact that, the action of unprotected sex often leads to pregnancy shouldn’t the mega behemoth government do more to educate them on that subject, and by this I do by no means mean just hand more money over to the people who are teaching them about sex now. I believe (make no claim that it is right) we need to find the best way to teach the people who are most susceptible to have abortion, of the consequences of it. I suggest this over the alternative, have all the unprotected sex you want, and if you have an unwanted pregnancy just abort (kill, maybe?) it.
Socialism in the United States from a child observer
As suggested in the previous topic I come from a very poor family. My family has repeatedly turned to the government for help, and the government has always been there to answer the request. At what expense though? My grandfather worked for a coal mine in Alabama when he was a kid, the specific age I do not know. For the coal mine he told me that was the longest job he ever had which didn’t last very long. He was a pretty much a drifter, a hitchhiker, he traveled the whole United States in his day (or so he says), but was never able to hold a steady job, for the simple fact that he never wanted to stay in one place long. Ultimately he did in Illinois, Peoria around the late 70’s, even though he was unable to hold a job. From here to the late 80’s I don’t know much about his life. Around the late 80’s he married his 3rd wife, who was mentally unstable and collecting money from the government because of her disabilities. Apparently my grandfather saw this, and wanted some of that precious tax payer money. He claimed he was disabled even though he wasn’t and has been collecting tax payer money ever since. My father was on the low class of society to, which was how he meets my mother. My father has never held a job that was ever that good, and never really had the ambition to try. My father dealt drugs and worked horrible jobs, when he didn’t have enough to sell, and he didn’t have work, the good all U.S tax dollars were there to help. As a child in this situation (my mother’s was non to much better than my father’s I assure you) the government money absolutely did help me as a small child. Though I can’t help but contemplate that maybe if the government assistant wasn’t there that maybe my grandfather would I have gotten a good job that was stable for his lifestyle, or that maybe my father wouldn’t have been able to fall back on the government at the time of ‘droughts’ he would have pursued a better career (which my uncle his best friend did who was born in pretty much the same class as he was). I believe that he would have chosen a better career but I do not have anything to compare my experience to. I believe strongly that nobody (sane) is stupid and that my father would have not, with a grateful heart seen his children starve to death, the scenarios I break it down into is either I would have been adopted by a more economically stable family, or my father would have manned up, and became more economically stable which both would have been better than what was experienced by me as a child. I currently use (not abuse) government help, I’m trying to do nothing more than break free from the cycle of poverty which I was born into. At my time at the bottom I have seen no one, no one, no one use the government socialist helps the way it is intended. I have seen multiple families sell food stamps for well under their worth for drugs (the only thing I can say I am proud about my father for his use of socialism is he never did this), I have seen people purposely injure themselves so they could ill use medical cards for their prescription drug needs, I have seen multiple ill use of unemployment. I know that the situations I have seen are not the only situation possible, but during my time at the bottom I have seen many people on these socialist programs, and virtually all with few exceptions have exploited the purpose in which these programs were intended. which brings me to my stance that government help is the worst help to get. I would like to finish my last blog with two quotes that strongly affected the person I am.
"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
Ben Franklin
“The scariest words in the English language are I am from the Government and I am here to help”
Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
don't come home ah drinking with loven on your mind
I consider myself a very opinionated person and so for my last blog I felt that it is only right to throw down my opinion on several major issues that I feel passionate about.
My political beliefs.
In past blogs I have spoke about specific issues, and on what sides of the issues I stand on but I don’t ever think I have an overview of how I really feel about the government. To sum up my beliefs I consider myself libertarian leaning conservative. Do not be confused by the term conservative, because the Republicans have stolen it and twisted the meaning. Republicans and Democrats are both socialist and fascist just in different aspects. For fascism the Republicans have anti abortion, which I do not believe in abortion, but I will speak more about that later, they also try to force religion down the throats of every American which I don’t agree with it. The Democrats fascism is affirmative action which tells companies that they have to hire so many people of different ethnicities as opposed to hireling the most qualified which is utterly fascist, also they are pro abortion (I’m sorry pro life), which is fascist, also their views on gun control laws are fascist (keep in mind I am generalizing the common beliefs of both parties, and also they both have more fascist ideas I am just using these few to get my point across.). So what is the solution to this travesty, an answer that would please everyone (or almost everyone), extreme states rights. I don’t believe this would eliminated the fascism from the parties I believe however that the fascism would not be able to hurt anyone this way. When the federal government, tells America that people are allowed to have unprotected sex with an unlimited number of partners without the possibility of having raise any children some people sit over well with this idea, but for others it’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, you know it’s going to be hard to get it in there but you’re going to try like hell to make it fit. Keep in mind this is just an example if there were no federal laws about abortion for it or against it the states would be allowed to make the laws that they feel there people want, if you don’t like how the states handle the decision you could move to a different state that does support your beliefs, bingo bang boom everybody’s happy. The only thing the federal government should do is have a military, a federal reserve, and a few other things but certainly they should not have as much power as they do. On of the main problem with big government is when a major event happens (our current economic crisis) and the public wants answers the answers we get are pretty much two little kids pointing the finger at one another. If the government was smaller it would be a lot easier to find the culprit of major event, instead of playing the blame game.
Illegal immigration.
Everyone has heard the stories of people jumping over the boarder so they can live a better life in America than they were living in their country, and these people should be forced to stay persecuted in their own country as opposed to stealing our job’s, just kidding. Honestly how effective are the people who lost their jobs, at their jobs. The answer to this is if people really care that much about their job gets a job with better job security, duh. There are lots of people though that do happen to come into the county not to pursue a better life but to peddle drugs, and I shall address this topic later. The answer to the illegal immigration debate I believe is periodical open boards, and amnesty. Give all immigrants the right to be citizens so they can pay their taxes and contribute to the progression of society. If every immigrant paid taxes we would certainly have enough revenue to build better borders. Which by the way I believe the borders should only be closed in war time, and times of economic hardships, everyone should have the right to the American dream. If this were to happen we could easily have the true illegal immigrants that only want to pedal drugs easily escorted out of the country, fairly easy with the newly acquired revenue. We need to stop telling other counties to keep their tired, their poor and their huddled masses, we need to tell the countries we will take their tired, their poor and their huddled masses like our ancestors did a hundred years ago when the statue of liberty was brought over.
And on God.
My vision of god I believe differs greatly than what most people are used to hearing. My belief in god came to me after reading several works of Plato, and Tomas Aquinas’s treaties on god. It summed up is merely god is not really a being, or a person; god is merely a characteristic something can have. Essentially that characteristic can only be given to something inconceivable; the inconceivable thing is given the characteristic of good. By that I mean god is merely everything that is inconceivable, and good. To give an example of this the big bang theory, the big bang brought everything into existence, since the big bang is still surrounded by many questions it is still inconceivable of how it happen and I am sure many would agree with me that whatever really created life is good, there for the big bang if it is true, which is impossible to know, has the characteristic of being god. I will now put my theory into a biblical story that is renowned to be true. Moses leading the Jews across a split red sea. There are many documents that state that the red sea actually did split, in the manner depicted in the bible. What made the red sea split however is inconceivable, and it is renowned to be good because it allowed many people to escape slavery.
This are just a few of my beliefs question them If you must I will do my best to defend my positions. I am for sure I did not layout all my idea’s, and for that I am sorry, also sorry if I left anything out of these, ideas of mine.
My political beliefs.
In past blogs I have spoke about specific issues, and on what sides of the issues I stand on but I don’t ever think I have an overview of how I really feel about the government. To sum up my beliefs I consider myself libertarian leaning conservative. Do not be confused by the term conservative, because the Republicans have stolen it and twisted the meaning. Republicans and Democrats are both socialist and fascist just in different aspects. For fascism the Republicans have anti abortion, which I do not believe in abortion, but I will speak more about that later, they also try to force religion down the throats of every American which I don’t agree with it. The Democrats fascism is affirmative action which tells companies that they have to hire so many people of different ethnicities as opposed to hireling the most qualified which is utterly fascist, also they are pro abortion (I’m sorry pro life), which is fascist, also their views on gun control laws are fascist (keep in mind I am generalizing the common beliefs of both parties, and also they both have more fascist ideas I am just using these few to get my point across.). So what is the solution to this travesty, an answer that would please everyone (or almost everyone), extreme states rights. I don’t believe this would eliminated the fascism from the parties I believe however that the fascism would not be able to hurt anyone this way. When the federal government, tells America that people are allowed to have unprotected sex with an unlimited number of partners without the possibility of having raise any children some people sit over well with this idea, but for others it’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, you know it’s going to be hard to get it in there but you’re going to try like hell to make it fit. Keep in mind this is just an example if there were no federal laws about abortion for it or against it the states would be allowed to make the laws that they feel there people want, if you don’t like how the states handle the decision you could move to a different state that does support your beliefs, bingo bang boom everybody’s happy. The only thing the federal government should do is have a military, a federal reserve, and a few other things but certainly they should not have as much power as they do. On of the main problem with big government is when a major event happens (our current economic crisis) and the public wants answers the answers we get are pretty much two little kids pointing the finger at one another. If the government was smaller it would be a lot easier to find the culprit of major event, instead of playing the blame game.
Illegal immigration.
Everyone has heard the stories of people jumping over the boarder so they can live a better life in America than they were living in their country, and these people should be forced to stay persecuted in their own country as opposed to stealing our job’s, just kidding. Honestly how effective are the people who lost their jobs, at their jobs. The answer to this is if people really care that much about their job gets a job with better job security, duh. There are lots of people though that do happen to come into the county not to pursue a better life but to peddle drugs, and I shall address this topic later. The answer to the illegal immigration debate I believe is periodical open boards, and amnesty. Give all immigrants the right to be citizens so they can pay their taxes and contribute to the progression of society. If every immigrant paid taxes we would certainly have enough revenue to build better borders. Which by the way I believe the borders should only be closed in war time, and times of economic hardships, everyone should have the right to the American dream. If this were to happen we could easily have the true illegal immigrants that only want to pedal drugs easily escorted out of the country, fairly easy with the newly acquired revenue. We need to stop telling other counties to keep their tired, their poor and their huddled masses, we need to tell the countries we will take their tired, their poor and their huddled masses like our ancestors did a hundred years ago when the statue of liberty was brought over.
And on God.
My vision of god I believe differs greatly than what most people are used to hearing. My belief in god came to me after reading several works of Plato, and Tomas Aquinas’s treaties on god. It summed up is merely god is not really a being, or a person; god is merely a characteristic something can have. Essentially that characteristic can only be given to something inconceivable; the inconceivable thing is given the characteristic of good. By that I mean god is merely everything that is inconceivable, and good. To give an example of this the big bang theory, the big bang brought everything into existence, since the big bang is still surrounded by many questions it is still inconceivable of how it happen and I am sure many would agree with me that whatever really created life is good, there for the big bang if it is true, which is impossible to know, has the characteristic of being god. I will now put my theory into a biblical story that is renowned to be true. Moses leading the Jews across a split red sea. There are many documents that state that the red sea actually did split, in the manner depicted in the bible. What made the red sea split however is inconceivable, and it is renowned to be good because it allowed many people to escape slavery.
This are just a few of my beliefs question them If you must I will do my best to defend my positions. I am for sure I did not layout all my idea’s, and for that I am sorry, also sorry if I left anything out of these, ideas of mine.
Monday, November 16, 2009
(PC) What do you mean i'm moraly gifted.
It has recently been brought to my attention, the stupidity of political correctness. I understand the purpose of political correctness is to try to sugar coat everything, so certain things don't sound as bad as they really are, but enough is enough. I have tried to think of this subject not only as a white man, (yes white not colorly challenged, yes man not y chromosomally gifted) but no circumstance have I ever felt offended by the words of another, not when I was called a white boy, or honkey or white bread in the Peoria schools, or when I was called a fundy for my Christian beliefs and you mean to tell me people are getting upset of these moronic things., I have read accounts of stores being ridiculed for selling 'Christmas trees' apparently there supposed to be holiday trees what garbage is that, who gets hurt in calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, or black board a blackboard as opposed to chalkboards, or man holes being called man holes as opposed to personal assess units(supposedly offensive to women?). These things are just words why get offended by them, why do people try to derail the entire societies way of thinking because a very few people (which I don't even believe) get their feelings hurt. The only instance I can think of that I would ever use PC would being referring to someone as mentally challenged as opposed to retarded, even though I don’t understand why this is offensive completely because the definition of retarded is "characterized by retardation: a retarded child" thank you diconary.com these words are not meant to hurt anyone, they are meant to be used as all other words are simplify how we communicate, does anyone call a fat person horizontally gifted, an anorexic person horizontally challenged, a criminal morally challenged, no I don't think so. The English language is already considered one of the hardest language to us effectively let’s keep it as simple as possible. A fat person is fat, a criminal is a criminal, a Christmas tree is a Christmas tree, a whore is a whore, and they are not sexually gifted. We live in an extremely culturally varied world, this is non deniable, but honestly who gets hurt from these words, they are not slurs, and they should not be sugar coated.
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