from your lips i heard the serpents words
"You only have to worry about your self and your family, any thing else is beyond you. It's not reasonable for you to take justice as your cause. just ensure those you care about are safe.
it is not your place to try to cure the worlds wrongs, enjoy your blessings and leave those that suffer to god... if god wanted them to not suffer he would have blessed them as you have been blessed."
YOur words when i asked about some trifle of world dissent.
I decided then i'd take this fight to hell.
Let me burn for an enterinty rather than accept the lies you feel you need.. let god bless you and the fires of hell baptize me.
maybe if i allow your naivety drive me, then your sin could later be deemed necessity , later still...as grace.
"For I have no child of my own all children are mine." and the evil that i can see ill fight. every sliver, every shade no matter how distant, i refuse to accept that this is a world of necessary sin. necessary pain necessary hate. This is the only life i know i have control over and as such the only life i can use to fight what is wrong. God may have the luxury to forget or neglect or leave sections or all of this earth... I have not the choice. It is my only home , my only life, my only people , my only existence.
you may think that we could let this burn for when god returns he'll take you away.
I say this is my world, lets make it so if god passes by he'll want to stay.
we as people have proven that we are in control of this life. WE cause all the pain We cause all the suffering, as well as the joy and peace. US. PEOPLE.
let me die, one- screaming to the masses, a few- calling to the crowds or all- the victim's of a tyrant; we will LIVE FOR A FUTURE. we will burn out time for a better time. I (WE) will not live this life in hope of the next. but to live this life to ensure a better future for this existence, and should we pass into another life after this, be sure we have trained to make that place better as well.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
an answer to Cheryl
i dont know how my ideas can help, I've been told my ideas are a bit twisted.
I hear of eternal life in a peace-filled city full of subservient people and i think hell! seriously nothing to complain about, no problems to solve, no cause to flair the emotions...FOREVER, think about one week of doing nothing you'd have nothing to talk about , and no philosophy, cause the answers are right there. I feel alive when creating or destroying, when solving a problem reaching for a goal, having a righteous cause. and I'm supposed to live without that FOREVER!
No give me this world with meaningful problems to solve, meaning full victories and defeats.
do you think Einstein would be happy if the answers just appeared before him? or do you think the "high" of discovering new ideas was what drove him?
would even cliff jumping be any fun if there wasn't the fear that you could hurt yourself... think about it, how fun is walking?
Heaven and hell were concepts fed to the populous from those controlling them. Look at the stories and you can see the simple message, Obey and things can be easy ie. heaven, disobey and you're going to be hurt (hell). the obedient are promised days of picnics at the feet of the boss, well bad boys and girls will be whipped and burned. notice in both scenarios that you are not in a position of control over your life.. er afterlife.
framing the argument is a common tool used for manipulation, from parents asking if a child would like to do their home work before or after supper, (neither thanks i want to jump on my bed, skip supper and just have desert) or political parties asking if you prefer higher taxes or lower services.
the heaven/hell stories have been told for so long, that people don't question the intent any more. (and as i don't want to give my self a hand cramp, I'll leave my diatribe about the pope having the most powerful army and dictating the rights of kings, out. unless asked)
I hear of eternal life in a peace-filled city full of subservient people and i think hell! seriously nothing to complain about, no problems to solve, no cause to flair the emotions...FOREVER, think about one week of doing nothing you'd have nothing to talk about , and no philosophy, cause the answers are right there. I feel alive when creating or destroying, when solving a problem reaching for a goal, having a righteous cause. and I'm supposed to live without that FOREVER!
No give me this world with meaningful problems to solve, meaning full victories and defeats.
do you think Einstein would be happy if the answers just appeared before him? or do you think the "high" of discovering new ideas was what drove him?
would even cliff jumping be any fun if there wasn't the fear that you could hurt yourself... think about it, how fun is walking?
Heaven and hell were concepts fed to the populous from those controlling them. Look at the stories and you can see the simple message, Obey and things can be easy ie. heaven, disobey and you're going to be hurt (hell). the obedient are promised days of picnics at the feet of the boss, well bad boys and girls will be whipped and burned. notice in both scenarios that you are not in a position of control over your life.. er afterlife.
framing the argument is a common tool used for manipulation, from parents asking if a child would like to do their home work before or after supper, (neither thanks i want to jump on my bed, skip supper and just have desert) or political parties asking if you prefer higher taxes or lower services.
the heaven/hell stories have been told for so long, that people don't question the intent any more. (and as i don't want to give my self a hand cramp, I'll leave my diatribe about the pope having the most powerful army and dictating the rights of kings, out. unless asked)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Your Special,
the meaning of life is not a secret, its easer to find and understand than a high school physics course. the thing thats hard to understand is that no one wants to know. All people really want to know is how to be special, or failing that, how to be rich. Is it any wounder that in the age of information, all we devote our attention to is trading products to make us feel special for money to make us feel rich?
one would think that we could find one person to make us feel special and that would stop the cycle. but for some reason we feel the cost of making that person also feel special to be too high. so we allow our relationships to wither and die, amongst arguments about money, stuff and how special we think we deserve to be.
but viewed in this light, prostitution is not only the worlds oldest profession, its the worlds ONLY profession
so the secret to finding love, and the secret to finding wealth are set out cleanly for you.
all you have to do is think about what side of the equation you want to be. if you want to be wealthy find a way to make people feel special, trade that for their money. if you want love, find some body and make them feel special, trade that for them making you feel special. admittedly this is a little harder than the first one. but still easer than getting a c+ in calculus. It can take some work, but its totally doable. this just requires that instead of 'fate' you decide what you want for your life... if that sounds difficult, might i suggest you take some time to search for the meaning of life first.
(and if you ask me about the meaning of life, just know that it'll make me feel special!!!)
:P
one would think that we could find one person to make us feel special and that would stop the cycle. but for some reason we feel the cost of making that person also feel special to be too high. so we allow our relationships to wither and die, amongst arguments about money, stuff and how special we think we deserve to be.
but viewed in this light, prostitution is not only the worlds oldest profession, its the worlds ONLY profession
so the secret to finding love, and the secret to finding wealth are set out cleanly for you.
all you have to do is think about what side of the equation you want to be. if you want to be wealthy find a way to make people feel special, trade that for their money. if you want love, find some body and make them feel special, trade that for them making you feel special. admittedly this is a little harder than the first one. but still easer than getting a c+ in calculus. It can take some work, but its totally doable. this just requires that instead of 'fate' you decide what you want for your life... if that sounds difficult, might i suggest you take some time to search for the meaning of life first.
(and if you ask me about the meaning of life, just know that it'll make me feel special!!!)
:P
Friday, July 31, 2009
yet another path to Not logical morality
All the theory's I work up stem from the “fact” that all men are created equal, or at least there lives are of equal value.
This leads many of my theories to emotional crescendos. However, as I am fond of cutting the basic theory out from under others belief structures, and there is no one else around right now; I'll try to examine the everyone is equal theory.
First it is obvious that not every one is mathematically equal. We vary in a number of important aspects. Height weight speed intelligence attractiveness ect.
Then what we mean when we say that one is equal is that one person ought to be of no more value than another.
But here we come up against reality. We each value ourselves much higher than we value strangers on the other side of the world. When we buy groceries, we claim most for our families and friends and spare little if any for the homeless. And as a plain fact I value my mother more than i value most others on this planet. I think most other people do as well. As a species who remain helpless infants for such a long time, it is difficult to imagine species survival if we didn't place a much higher value on our selves and families than on outsiders.
So then if people are of differing values to each of us, how do we then justify claiming all men are equal? The argument that to each man he is most valuable cant stand up once you factor in suicides and acts of extreme bravery when protecting others. As well; using the general value every one places on each other as that's persons actual value, presupposes that each person is equal in there ability to assign value?
Why would i have to accept the opinion of a person whom i value so little that i will allow them to starve to death? (we allow people to starve in every city as we waste our money on frivolous things like clothing).
In fact as its obvious that once hes dead he is unable to have values, this would tend to justify my killing others in order to have my values and wishes expressed.
This seems to play in to the “might is right” mind set.
Now far be it for me to challenge the equality of man, and stop because might is right sounds overtly aggressive.
Supposing for a second that, a logical morality did boil down to brute force. This doesn't necessarily lead to a master slave relationship. Because as I learned from both the smurfs and gummy-bears, one twig is easily broken, but not a bundle. There is strength in numbers. This would lead us to conclude that we ought to value those who would band together with us and further our causes. accepting that we would also want to further there causes. But this is nothing like equality, for we needn't value all that would support us the same. The stronger (and more powerful, assuming money/power needn't need strength) a member of our group, the more she is to be valued. And the weaker the more dis-valued. Now i admit this sounds closer to the world we do live in than any notion of actual equality. But I'm not ready to admit that the out come of a logical morality is the feudal system that has already crumbled. It is no logical to persist in acts one knows will lead only to failure.
So either we have to either turn back and find another path from might begets right, or back farther and realize its illogical to value people differently. Or develop a parabolic equation on how we value others , one that can't allow for us allowing for others to die.
This leads many of my theories to emotional crescendos. However, as I am fond of cutting the basic theory out from under others belief structures, and there is no one else around right now; I'll try to examine the everyone is equal theory.
First it is obvious that not every one is mathematically equal. We vary in a number of important aspects. Height weight speed intelligence attractiveness ect.
Then what we mean when we say that one is equal is that one person ought to be of no more value than another.
But here we come up against reality. We each value ourselves much higher than we value strangers on the other side of the world. When we buy groceries, we claim most for our families and friends and spare little if any for the homeless. And as a plain fact I value my mother more than i value most others on this planet. I think most other people do as well. As a species who remain helpless infants for such a long time, it is difficult to imagine species survival if we didn't place a much higher value on our selves and families than on outsiders.
So then if people are of differing values to each of us, how do we then justify claiming all men are equal? The argument that to each man he is most valuable cant stand up once you factor in suicides and acts of extreme bravery when protecting others. As well; using the general value every one places on each other as that's persons actual value, presupposes that each person is equal in there ability to assign value?
Why would i have to accept the opinion of a person whom i value so little that i will allow them to starve to death? (we allow people to starve in every city as we waste our money on frivolous things like clothing).
In fact as its obvious that once hes dead he is unable to have values, this would tend to justify my killing others in order to have my values and wishes expressed.
This seems to play in to the “might is right” mind set.
Now far be it for me to challenge the equality of man, and stop because might is right sounds overtly aggressive.
Supposing for a second that, a logical morality did boil down to brute force. This doesn't necessarily lead to a master slave relationship. Because as I learned from both the smurfs and gummy-bears, one twig is easily broken, but not a bundle. There is strength in numbers. This would lead us to conclude that we ought to value those who would band together with us and further our causes. accepting that we would also want to further there causes. But this is nothing like equality, for we needn't value all that would support us the same. The stronger (and more powerful, assuming money/power needn't need strength) a member of our group, the more she is to be valued. And the weaker the more dis-valued. Now i admit this sounds closer to the world we do live in than any notion of actual equality. But I'm not ready to admit that the out come of a logical morality is the feudal system that has already crumbled. It is no logical to persist in acts one knows will lead only to failure.
So either we have to either turn back and find another path from might begets right, or back farther and realize its illogical to value people differently. Or develop a parabolic equation on how we value others , one that can't allow for us allowing for others to die.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
project 365
I want to do a project 365.
For those of you who have lives enough not to know what a project365 is, I'll tell ya.
the nearest I can tell (from less that 3 minuets on Google) is its typically a photo thing. You take a photo every day for a year to post on a blog or picasa or whatever. I've seen some verry cool ones that are more than photos like
http://skulladay.blogspot.com/
for instance.
If i were artistic I'd start a paining-a-day or some sorta thing. but i'm not!
so after staring blankly at my screen, not allowing myself to play free-cell or any music for 20 minuets, I have compiled the following small (and kinda sad for 20 min of trying) list;
My project 365 ideas
1 draw your own web comic
2 learn a chord
3 push-ups/working out
4 write a letter
5 burn something
6 pierce something
7 get a strangers phone number
8 photo
9 draw
10 kill
11 learn a new 7 letter word
12 make a video
13 sound byte a day
14 video a day
15 ass hole a day
16 social game a day
17 ...
this is just brainstorming people! number 10 ought to prove not all ideas have to be good or worthy... besides Halifax doesn't have the population to support 365 murders! (Edmonton maybe)... oops digressing again...
Any way any ideas you may have good or bad would be appreciated.
This weeks project is to get ideas and prepare for my very own project 365.
Hopefully to be announced on Canada day!
so come on fire me some ideas yo...
For those of you who have lives enough not to know what a project365 is, I'll tell ya.
the nearest I can tell (from less that 3 minuets on Google) is its typically a photo thing. You take a photo every day for a year to post on a blog or picasa or whatever. I've seen some verry cool ones that are more than photos like
http://skulladay.blogspot.com/
for instance.
If i were artistic I'd start a paining-a-day or some sorta thing. but i'm not!
so after staring blankly at my screen, not allowing myself to play free-cell or any music for 20 minuets, I have compiled the following small (and kinda sad for 20 min of trying) list;
My project 365 ideas
1 draw your own web comic
2 learn a chord
3 push-ups/working out
4 write a letter
5 burn something
6 pierce something
7 get a strangers phone number
8 photo
9 draw
10 kill
11 learn a new 7 letter word
12 make a video
13 sound byte a day
14 video a day
15 ass hole a day
16 social game a day
17 ...
this is just brainstorming people! number 10 ought to prove not all ideas have to be good or worthy... besides Halifax doesn't have the population to support 365 murders! (Edmonton maybe)... oops digressing again...
Any way any ideas you may have good or bad would be appreciated.
This weeks project is to get ideas and prepare for my very own project 365.
Hopefully to be announced on Canada day!
so come on fire me some ideas yo...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
your world
you live in a country governed by the rule of "law" yet you don't study it and don't fight as long as your only marginally infringed upon.
You live in cities of thousands of people, yet you don't study human behaviour?
You created something called economy, gave it the power to force starvation on yourselves and others, every day you participate in it, yet you don't truly understand how it works and have devoted absolutely no time in learning about it.
You are willing and eager to computerize everything you possibly can, and have zero understanding of how computers work.
Yet when one who has spent some time investigating the the structures that control you, tries to warn you of a need to alter your actions, you look to the other unaware for your cue to act?
Fuck you all!
I refuse to spend my time trying to inform the wilfully ignorant.
If you choose to look to the heard before action, you will be driven off the same cliff as the others.
I ask you plainly and directly, make your choice, are you sheep or shepherd? Red pill blue pill?
realize your actions and not your words will be your answer.
If you choose to remain unaware and untrained, you will be lead and slaughtered with the rest.
I am stepping away from my role as informant to the deaf. its been fun.
But the collie dose not heard the sheep from with in the pack.
You live in cities of thousands of people, yet you don't study human behaviour?
You created something called economy, gave it the power to force starvation on yourselves and others, every day you participate in it, yet you don't truly understand how it works and have devoted absolutely no time in learning about it.
You are willing and eager to computerize everything you possibly can, and have zero understanding of how computers work.
Yet when one who has spent some time investigating the the structures that control you, tries to warn you of a need to alter your actions, you look to the other unaware for your cue to act?
Fuck you all!
I refuse to spend my time trying to inform the wilfully ignorant.
If you choose to look to the heard before action, you will be driven off the same cliff as the others.
I ask you plainly and directly, make your choice, are you sheep or shepherd? Red pill blue pill?
realize your actions and not your words will be your answer.
If you choose to remain unaware and untrained, you will be lead and slaughtered with the rest.
I am stepping away from my role as informant to the deaf. its been fun.
But the collie dose not heard the sheep from with in the pack.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Do-not call list appears to be working: Poll???
they called people on the do not call list to see how well it was working???? am i the only one who sees the problem with that?
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/598732
seriously i cant make this stuff up
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/598732
seriously i cant make this stuff up
Saturday, March 07, 2009
an enlightend moment
capitalism exists in that highly improbable notion that you are special. of the 6 billion people on the planet, you are the special one. if every person alive were to file in front of you, it would take for ever because of the rate of birth. and you are special, because why? because they are filing in front of you?
Imagine that in one moment you had all the knowledge of Jesus, Einstein, Hitler, Mohamed and the Buddha. how do you think you would feel working at subway, barely able to afford your rent. you think if you had this knowledge you would toil away for a living? or do you instinctively believe that with all the knowledge of Christ, you would not have to partake of the menial labour? after all your talents would be better put to use in other fashions.
surly if such a person were to exist, we would deservedly place the moniker of special on him/her. the complete understanding of Buddha and working in a fast food restaurant? hardly seems fair. such a special person ought to be doing some thing more. we can justify such a person not cooking for them selves even because of the "good" they may be able to do for humanity as a whole.
Now imagine its you. special little ol' you. you have just gained the knowledge of Jesus, Einstein, Hitler, Mohamed and the Buddha and of your self! The first thing you would have to do is find away to gain a position of not having to go through your chores , of being tethered to your job by your bills. in short a way to gain power off your blessing. to capitalize on it. this means then that the purpose of enlightenment is personal gain? we justify one having differing duties because of them being special, us being special. its the central post to the capitalist system.
but in this system all knowledge is only useful if one can gain power from it.
so now ask you self, your special special self how do you capitalize off enlightenment?
--sideline some will ask why i included the obvious outsider in my list of people.
well i wanted the Buddha there to show that all visionary need not lead to mass murders.
Jesus/Mohamed: holly wars
Hitler/ Einstein: ww2 and the atom bomb
the Buddha, gross smelling incense ... im just saying
Imagine that in one moment you had all the knowledge of Jesus, Einstein, Hitler, Mohamed and the Buddha. how do you think you would feel working at subway, barely able to afford your rent. you think if you had this knowledge you would toil away for a living? or do you instinctively believe that with all the knowledge of Christ, you would not have to partake of the menial labour? after all your talents would be better put to use in other fashions.
surly if such a person were to exist, we would deservedly place the moniker of special on him/her. the complete understanding of Buddha and working in a fast food restaurant? hardly seems fair. such a special person ought to be doing some thing more. we can justify such a person not cooking for them selves even because of the "good" they may be able to do for humanity as a whole.
Now imagine its you. special little ol' you. you have just gained the knowledge of Jesus, Einstein, Hitler, Mohamed and the Buddha and of your self! The first thing you would have to do is find away to gain a position of not having to go through your chores , of being tethered to your job by your bills. in short a way to gain power off your blessing. to capitalize on it. this means then that the purpose of enlightenment is personal gain? we justify one having differing duties because of them being special, us being special. its the central post to the capitalist system.
but in this system all knowledge is only useful if one can gain power from it.
so now ask you self, your special special self how do you capitalize off enlightenment?
--sideline some will ask why i included the obvious outsider in my list of people.
well i wanted the Buddha there to show that all visionary need not lead to mass murders.
Jesus/Mohamed: holly wars
Hitler/ Einstein: ww2 and the atom bomb
the Buddha, gross smelling incense ... im just saying
Thursday, March 05, 2009
cyborg out line
last week doctors finally put an artificial eye in to a person allowing some one who's been blind for 30 years to see (albeit rudimentaryly) Sony announced its new bio-battery. with plans to increase efficacy and decrease size (isn't that always the plan?). the first mechanical chip has been approved to be implanted in the head to "cure" obsessive compulsive disorder. the leading thoughts on how our mids work have come to the conclusion that our thoughts and actions are the result of neurons passing electrical and chemical signals amongst them selves. that is that our "Us-ness" is chemical. the debate over our sole is relegated to the sidelines, because regardless of our sole, MDMA makes you enjoy touching stuff, and serotonin levels induce love. as our understanding of us grows so will our vocabulary. "I am hunger." will be replaced with "I have low blood sugar". I have a cavity. And the wireless head set i use to listen to music as i walk home was running low on batteries so my music kept cutting out.
ok let me put these seemingly random pieces together for you.
So im walking home from a computer programing class. past a row of recycling bins. the smell from the "organics" one wrestling my nostrils as my music keeps cutting out on my head phones. every so often the cinnamon gum I'm chewing falls in to the tooth that has the cavity giving me a singe of pain. i naturally keep sticking my tongue in the hole. feeling where the dentist will have to put his plaster mixture. somewhere, formed from the mixed beat of my steady walk, syncopated music, and gum-pain-tongue dance, it dawns on me. If my blue-tooth head set were actually in my tooth I would have a way more enjoyable walk. also, my conversations would have better sound quality. the speaker could be replaced with a solid vibration allowing the sound to reach my ear strait through he bone. no more worries about traffic noise. and the mic? well its in my mouth all ready! the only down side is that having to sleep with the charge cable hanging out of my mouth would be a hassle... especially considering i have been known to grind my teeth. if you dislike the small jolt of electricity thats released when you bite on tinfoil with a filling, imagine waking up to a jolt of electricity after you chewed through a cord in your sleep!
thats when i remembered the news article of Sony's bio-battery. It had said you could probably run a car for over a hundred miles on a single bottle of Pepsi. well if they can shrink that system down, my blue-tooth tooth could charge its self just from the food i already eat. people this is going to happen! I'm not near as addicted to my cell phone as most of the people i see in school. and id opt for this in a heart beat. the absolute only 2 things that could hold me back are,
- the cost
- its not real yet
cause lets face it i cant afford to get the cavity thats causing me the most part of this pain fixed to begin with. and the whole mark of the beast, you cant buy or sell with out technology stuff, well if I'm going to hell its for worse actions than having an awesome dentist. if i believed that stuff id give up my interac card... aint gunna happen yo!
think about it this is going to happen. seriously think about it, because every thing from here forward is cantered on this fact. it was a long walk and i had plenty of time to think about it. so ask your self if you can accept that ill some day have a blue-tooth in my tooth.
what an advantage this would be. if i had one of those smart phones i could have all the information in the world put straight in to my ear at any time. not just collage tests, but think about how much of an advantage you would have over every one else at your place of work if you could get any answer from Yahoo instantly. imagine what a disadvantage you would have if every one else where you work could instantly get any answer and you would have to go back to your desk and google it?
so when this happens, its going to be popular. you will have very little choice. either get one or get a way worse paying job. it will be the equivalent of just saying that you refuse to use telephones nowadays. oh ya and even the jobs that don't require you using a phone... you cant get those jobs if theres no way for the employer to get a-hold of you for the interveiw...
one of the news articles about the man with the electronic eye quipped about this man being the first cyborg. I'd say not truly a cyborg, but an interesting notion. he is the first to have an electronic eye that sends information to his neurons but this is how its going to happen at first small peripherals that we can plug in to our selves then more and more integration. this is going to happen!
then consider as we look more and more to our brains as chemical computers. we aren't very good at it now but we are trying and devoting billions of dollars to research. anti depressants and Ritalin and a whole slew of drugs are coming out trying to alter the flow of our brain functions. to correct the machinery that houses us. they have even come out with a chip that can be surgically installed in the brain to help those with ocd. in short we are actively trying to "hack" the brain. we want to be able to program the hard ware to run the way we think it should.
the part to worry is we are going to be able to do it! I'm no Luddite, I'm not trying to scare you of this brave new hybrid world. Its Going to happen! trying to stand against the growth of new ideas never works. we couldn't unmake the atom bomb, and saying no to nuclear energy only works in places where there is little financial gain to be made. if you doubt this consider that we thought we had eradicated smallpox from the face of the earth. mankind's greatest victory! Then some one realized after the terrorist attacks that a person could gain from having the smallpox virus and using it as a weapon. suddenly we started to manufacture it so we could work on new cures. eradicated doesn't mean comes back.
so back to the worry part. as we develop ways to bend our minds and bodes to our whims what we need to do is seriously think about what those whims are. or are going to be. currently we value money, it makes you afford to look good and to be comfortable. others see you look well and are drawn to like and trust you. so we are likely to want to make our selves better to earn.
if we look at Ritalin we can start to see why long term planning and work needs to be done now. what this drug is designed to do is to make children better students and easer to control. well making them better behaved students, is one thing we miss that many grow up to have dependencies on other drugs. (illegal and not)
our current values of "good child" is making for reduced adults of the same people. we can be an incredibly short sighted creature. (ahem environment)and one that is after the immediate reward. well if we continue to develop our values around monetary things and image, as we hack our brains it will be to make us better earners and spenders. our developments will make us happier to earn and work and spend. in short we truly will become "cogs of the machine"
if we concisely spend our time trying to teach better values to our youth than we hold (I am aware of the inherent contradiction) then as they grow and start writing the programs and chemicals that we all will implant, maybe they will have loftier goals and a brighter version of the future. this is going to happen, but what are we going to do with it when it does is determined by what we do now.
Monday, February 23, 2009
rebel-less
I was reading an editorial in the metro...
bare with me for a second;
It was about how the people who disrupted a lecture at st Mary's university.
The lecture was a pro-life series that likens abortion to the holocaust.
The editorial was about how all though the writer didn't agree with the lecture, those who disrupted it were in the wrong. not only did they look like zealots leaving the speaker to look like the rational one;but because if you don't believe in free speech for those you despise, you don't believe in free speech.
The editor' s point seemed to be to give the protesters a little verbal spanking... but what he failed to realize is; The majority of people don't believe in any of the 'fundamental freedoms' anymore. Freedoms have been appropriated by special interest groups and businesses for so long now that it doesn't seem to have any bearing on our daily lives. Try to ware a politically charged t-shirt on casual Fridays, and you'll see that your freedoms are secondary to the corporate image. We are used to people being "asked to leave" if they use the "F-word" in public. and we know you cant swear in court. think about that for a second. In court of law, where your freedom to be free, is on the line. they system that we use to uphold the law; has no place for your legal freedom to free speech?
I'm sure this editor thinks he believes in free speech. After all his career relies on being able to stand behind that particular banner if dragged in to court. But I noticed that he never once let his dialogue push close to the edge. I'm not asking to read fuck in an editorial, (but it would be nice)but it would be prudent to at least venture out of the sanitized accepted phrases and tone.
The people who were disrupting a little lecture at school, maybe didn't think to much of free speech. But none of us seem to any more. we would rather force conformity on ourselves and others than uphold some ideal.
the real problem is that we have decided to suppress rebellion in people. the rebel is an image to be sold by the gap, not a lifestyle. But if we don't stand for that lifestyle, if we don't encourage the rebels we have, then we will be more sanitized, cubical-ised, and controlled. Our freedoms, the ones we take for granted, were thought up and fought for by rebels. and every day you- WE don't push the limits, we loose. the limits are pushing back, and ground is lost all the time.
so do something today, rebel in some way. anything not allowed is good. look for the rules that govern you and brake them. if you see someone brakeing a rule, cheer them on!
We all benefit from rebellion! so let your inner rebel out.
bare with me for a second;
It was about how the people who disrupted a lecture at st Mary's university.
The lecture was a pro-life series that likens abortion to the holocaust.
The editorial was about how all though the writer didn't agree with the lecture, those who disrupted it were in the wrong. not only did they look like zealots leaving the speaker to look like the rational one;but because if you don't believe in free speech for those you despise, you don't believe in free speech.
The editor' s point seemed to be to give the protesters a little verbal spanking... but what he failed to realize is; The majority of people don't believe in any of the 'fundamental freedoms' anymore. Freedoms have been appropriated by special interest groups and businesses for so long now that it doesn't seem to have any bearing on our daily lives. Try to ware a politically charged t-shirt on casual Fridays, and you'll see that your freedoms are secondary to the corporate image. We are used to people being "asked to leave" if they use the "F-word" in public. and we know you cant swear in court. think about that for a second. In court of law, where your freedom to be free, is on the line. they system that we use to uphold the law; has no place for your legal freedom to free speech?
I'm sure this editor thinks he believes in free speech. After all his career relies on being able to stand behind that particular banner if dragged in to court. But I noticed that he never once let his dialogue push close to the edge. I'm not asking to read fuck in an editorial, (but it would be nice)but it would be prudent to at least venture out of the sanitized accepted phrases and tone.
The people who were disrupting a little lecture at school, maybe didn't think to much of free speech. But none of us seem to any more. we would rather force conformity on ourselves and others than uphold some ideal.
the real problem is that we have decided to suppress rebellion in people. the rebel is an image to be sold by the gap, not a lifestyle. But if we don't stand for that lifestyle, if we don't encourage the rebels we have, then we will be more sanitized, cubical-ised, and controlled. Our freedoms, the ones we take for granted, were thought up and fought for by rebels. and every day you- WE don't push the limits, we loose. the limits are pushing back, and ground is lost all the time.
so do something today, rebel in some way. anything not allowed is good. look for the rules that govern you and brake them. if you see someone brakeing a rule, cheer them on!
We all benefit from rebellion! so let your inner rebel out.
Monday, February 16, 2009
boom and bust
the single largest economic force in history, is Retiring! which at first thought seems great for them. but (sorry mom) its going to suck. you see our politicians have been pandering for votes in order to push through there privet ideologies for so long that none have bothered to look ahead. we always hear doom and gloom stories about how our health care service is going bankrupt. well how well do you think its going to go when 60% of the workforce (the ones who pay taxes) are going to instead retire and rely on those services. the 30% left working had better be educated and in a high enough tax bracket to cover the costs. But nun of thew parties in the last election even hinted toward education. it seems they believe that allowing tuitions to rise each year and limiting student loans down is a completely logical solution to the problem. now i understand we are currently in a "global economic crisis", but if the whole planet is in it, it seems that as a planet we should be looking forwards.
on the current "service industry" plan we are looking toward most of the people retired and having there policing and heath care and fire and street cleaning being payed for by sub-way sandwich artists. good thinking. i understand that the current thinking from parliament hill is that health care will have to be auctioned off to American company's. Problem solved. those who have the funds now... wait its a bit late now... those who had the funds in the early 90's and invested well will get the care and the rest will disappear. I don't think they understand there is no disappearing thats going to happen they are going to suffer then die.
just victims of the invisible hand.
I cant be the only person who thinks this is a bad idea.
I know some of you are politically opposed to my views, but why the hell you cant try to explain to me why this isn't a problem, i don't understand.
I'm more than willing to explain my thinking and what I've deduced. if theres a flaw in my logic please tell me.
not just for my sake but for my mothers as well.
on the current "service industry" plan we are looking toward most of the people retired and having there policing and heath care and fire and street cleaning being payed for by sub-way sandwich artists. good thinking. i understand that the current thinking from parliament hill is that health care will have to be auctioned off to American company's. Problem solved. those who have the funds now... wait its a bit late now... those who had the funds in the early 90's and invested well will get the care and the rest will disappear. I don't think they understand there is no disappearing thats going to happen they are going to suffer then die.
just victims of the invisible hand.
I cant be the only person who thinks this is a bad idea.
I know some of you are politically opposed to my views, but why the hell you cant try to explain to me why this isn't a problem, i don't understand.
I'm more than willing to explain my thinking and what I've deduced. if theres a flaw in my logic please tell me.
not just for my sake but for my mothers as well.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
internet kills God, film at 11
after watching this video on the Internet,
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/12/even-the-title-of-th.html
the pope called an emergency press conference.
announcing the final closure of off all catholic churches effective immediately.
"after seeing this video there is no reason left to believe that God could have had a master plan.
in fact it now seems clear that any reasonably intelligent creature could not have allowed this to come in to existence. It is because of this fact that the church will begin selling off its holdings and temples." the pope continued saying, "we have been aware for quite some time now of theory's involving the death of God, or his lack of existence in the first place."
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/12/even-the-title-of-th.html
the pope called an emergency press conference.
announcing the final closure of off all catholic churches effective immediately.
"after seeing this video there is no reason left to believe that God could have had a master plan.
in fact it now seems clear that any reasonably intelligent creature could not have allowed this to come in to existence. It is because of this fact that the church will begin selling off its holdings and temples." the pope continued saying, "we have been aware for quite some time now of theory's involving the death of God, or his lack of existence in the first place."
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
what i thought was an innocent way of attempting to reach out to my friends and family, apparently was hurting some peoples feelings. so no more all about me letters. ill just go back to screaming at my walls. they don't hear nor respond. but at least i don't feel like shit for trampling on people's feelings. if you want superficial always ok conversations about safe topics. get them from some ware else. i'm already lonely enough, i don't need to compound it.
by discussing topics we don't care about, and ensuring that every thing we say is safe and sanitized. in short, by not expressing who we really are, we exasperate the alone feelings and ensure that we will no longer grow closer.
so i will post my feelings and rants here on my blog, your not reading it any way so it cant hurt you.
i can't make people live engaged relationships. but i can sure as hell refuse to be part of the fluff bullshit fake ones you wish to impose on me.
the conversation IS the relationship.
by discussing topics we don't care about, and ensuring that every thing we say is safe and sanitized. in short, by not expressing who we really are, we exasperate the alone feelings and ensure that we will no longer grow closer.
so i will post my feelings and rants here on my blog, your not reading it any way so it cant hurt you.
i can't make people live engaged relationships. but i can sure as hell refuse to be part of the fluff bullshit fake ones you wish to impose on me.
the conversation IS the relationship.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
an open letter to my roomate
how have you been lately?
ill let you in on a little secret.
when people ask how are you, or hows your day,
its bullshit
absolute and utter crap
nobody, absolutely nobody really cares how your really feeling
we say it because if we feign interest in your life,
you'll feign interest in ours
its bullshit, yes
but in the absence of any real answers
the entire planet has decided to go with it.
even a misanthrope such as you
you enjoy when someone inquirer's about your opinion
its actually amazing when you think of it
on this planet we still kill each other over our ideas of the afterlife
we cant decide to allow everyone the dignity to eat
the Internet is abuzz with conflicting opinions regarding every piece of cinema ever made
nothing else can we agree upon
but this
this one piece of bullshit
we mostly agree its bullshit as well
but this is the only unifier
ill pretend to care about your problems if you pretend to care about mine.
its the real social contract
So Mitchel,
before you go off on a tyraid about how your being disrespected,
pause, and think for a second;
have you pretended to care about what i feel?
if not...
What makes you think I'll even PRETEND TO GIVE A SHIT about you?
by the way...
hows that stuff you care about going?
ill let you in on a little secret.
when people ask how are you, or hows your day,
its bullshit
absolute and utter crap
nobody, absolutely nobody really cares how your really feeling
we say it because if we feign interest in your life,
you'll feign interest in ours
its bullshit, yes
but in the absence of any real answers
the entire planet has decided to go with it.
even a misanthrope such as you
you enjoy when someone inquirer's about your opinion
its actually amazing when you think of it
on this planet we still kill each other over our ideas of the afterlife
we cant decide to allow everyone the dignity to eat
the Internet is abuzz with conflicting opinions regarding every piece of cinema ever made
nothing else can we agree upon
but this
this one piece of bullshit
we mostly agree its bullshit as well
but this is the only unifier
ill pretend to care about your problems if you pretend to care about mine.
its the real social contract
So Mitchel,
before you go off on a tyraid about how your being disrespected,
pause, and think for a second;
have you pretended to care about what i feel?
if not...
What makes you think I'll even PRETEND TO GIVE A SHIT about you?
by the way...
hows that stuff you care about going?
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
All Bout ME Novemberween
as i sit waiting to find out if FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) works as well in politics as it dose in software, it dawns on me that regardless of the world situation, i haven't talked about my self for almost a month now!!!!! I must prioritize!
So here's all about me novemberween.
First of all id like to thank all the people who have herd my pleas for emails and decided to send me little notes on the goings on in there lives... both of them. its probably the fact that as i wax philosophical, my letters tend to become a bit verbose. so in case you don't make it to the end of this. . . HAY PLEASE EMAIL ME STUFF!! i want to know whats going on in your life (yes you in particular, you know who i'm talking to, YOU!).
but I can sympathize, this letter was just about not typed. several parts were rehearsed in my head as i walked home each night from school. (see i think of you). But as i have a poly-sci final this afternoon,( went to double check on web to make sure it was evening not morning) and my memory seems to be plaguing me with insecurities (but i was right it is at 7 pm). -um what was i saying??
oh ya right! so my main laptop had to be sent back to HP to have them fix the touch screen. its not that it was really broke , it just had a tendency to think that it was being poked in places that it wasn't. leaving my cursor to randomly jump around within the document i was typing in. Now i know you don't notice it in my letters, because of the myriad of paths i branch off on while bashing out my views. but when typing a program for computer sciences it can be hell. ( a misplaced {or ' can crash a program or cause my computer to freeze up. (and as I had to use vista-shudders- restarts can take up most of my home work time.) - what oh ya close the other brackets)
So my main computer is away. I still have my little netbook. But typing on that is absolute hell. When i first got it i noticed that the 'i' some times wouldn't register. And i was going to send it in to be fixed. but because i thought it may partially be my fault for being a bad typist, and it was a 20 min bus ride, i put it off. deciding instead to mention my problems with it every time some one intercepts me using it to ask about it. (this happens All the time!) now warranty period is up and the missing has spread to the 'o'. Just 2 of the vowels. How many words have vowels in them? oh ya. so 2/5 of the monosyllabic words i write i have to go back and correct. That is ONTOP of the spelling errors i make because of my inability to remember spelling rules. was it 'i' before 'p' except after 'b'?...
so i wasn't going to wait to send in my good computer. see i do learn...
but you see studying for a poly-sci test is virtually impossible when every time politics crosses your mind you have to check google to see if the Governor General has got off a plane yet.(gotta check...nope not yet) Isn't it nice to see how Harper can bring people together across party lines in an embrace of ... well, hating Harper.
The good news is i'm using all the vocabulary words from my course all across facebook, and no one has yet to tell me my vocabulary is incorrect. And if the insults are any indicator they are reading me.(i feel validated when people respond to me on facebook, kinda sad but true.) On the other hand, its difficult to read between the lines when the entire response is 2 words. the first one ending with a 'k' and the second one is 'you'.( it still makes me feel validated. take that, facebookers! your insults only go to foster my self worth!!)
AS the primary purpose of this email (as always) is to solicit responses; i'm left wondering if i ought to put in my 2 cents here. they say you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. BUT flies flock to sh- er manure.
as i decide i'll aside.
On one of my many forays in to google news, i came across this little diddy. It seams the the US intelligence (there oxymoron not mine) has stated that a WMD (remember them) attack on the USA is probable in the next 5 years. All i'm going to say about it is; If it happens before Obama takes office, that little prick Bush will declare a state of emergency and he'll never leave.( its here http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6378675&page=1 I don't make this crap up!)
Remember the olden days of Chretien, where the biggest political problems facing the country were medicinal marjiwana, and weather gays could joint file tax returns?
ok for the sake of not wasting your entire day perusing my ramblings, the quick facts.
Classes are all done for me, just finals to write (no essays) so its just studying till the 11th.
the 15th i'm back in Edmonton. Hopefully ill have my computer back by then, so i can read all of your emails. and the inevitable using too much bandwidth complaints from whatever ISP i'm connected too. (but i'm sure Chad will let me use his computer if mines not back, so don't hold off on emailing me because of that.
I think Christmas will be boxing day at the farm, and my return flight is on the 3rd. so i'm free other than that for drinks or cookies, or just about any thing else. call em email me facebook, whatever is your preferred way of making plans.
now if your the type of person who would put-off, or just not make a reply to an email that may insult your political opinions; stop reading after this paragraph. I most likely miss you, want to spend time with you, value your opinions and look forward to seeing you as soon as i can. Have a merry Christmas ( but try not to be to consumerist with it). i wish you Luck Love and Laughter in the new year.
for every one else;
I still most likely miss you, want to spend time with you, value your opinions and look forward to seeing you as soon as i can. and Still hope you Have a merry Christmas ( but try not to be to consumerist with it). i wish you Luck Love and Laughter in the new year.
ok from what i can tell the people who oppose the coalition government have a few things in common. and they are loosely related things as well.
first of all they don't seem to have a true understanding of Canada's parliamentary system. This tends to be a result of confusing us with the USA. They also are more likely to NOT be followers of politics at other times. This may be part of the reason they don't remember Harper making deals with these same "separatist and socialist" to prop up his previous governments. the fact that the current Conservative party is a coalition of the reformers and the progressive Conservative party. As well as Harper's attempt to do EXACTLY the same thing when Paul Marten had a minority government.They tend to fall for catchphrase politics and thus supported the Conservatives in the last election. they feel like they are loosing there gold medal because of drug testing.
well the drugs were banned and Ben Johnson was NOT robbed.
Harper Knew he had a minority government. just 2 days after the election he released that the Conservatives had enough funds to run another election. This was obviously meant as a thereat to other parties. in fact i believe the only reason he tabled such an asinine bill in the first place was he wanted to cause an election. so he could campaign that a majority is needed to run a country and any thing else will just put Canada in a stalemate. he doesn't want to have to confer with others he wants the all encompassing power Mulroney had(the Conservative that brought us the GST) .
we (most Canadians) leaned then that we don't want runaway ideologues running us. forcing governments to reach consensus with differing points of view tends to make sure that we all have a safer future. It was another runaway Majority that brought gay marriage that many of you Conservatives didn't want.
Canada has had cotillion governments in the past and this is nothing new. As well as most European countries run just fine on minority coalitions. (the Swiss are almost exclusively coalitions). In fact the only 2 party system that has any -ahem success, is the States. but our system is nothing like theirs.
and just so as i don't let any one off the hook,
The supporters of this move ought to remember the harsh words we have had about being in bed with the bloc. we weren't so quiet when Harper's attempt to do EXACTLY the same thing when Paul Marten had a minority government. It seems our own memories may not be so clear. the differences are of course simple. Harper kills kittens!
I do love most of you and like you all; now i do have to study for my final... after just one more look at the news......\
So here's all about me novemberween.
First of all id like to thank all the people who have herd my pleas for emails and decided to send me little notes on the goings on in there lives... both of them. its probably the fact that as i wax philosophical, my letters tend to become a bit verbose. so in case you don't make it to the end of this. . . HAY PLEASE EMAIL ME STUFF!! i want to know whats going on in your life (yes you in particular, you know who i'm talking to, YOU!).
but I can sympathize, this letter was just about not typed. several parts were rehearsed in my head as i walked home each night from school. (see i think of you). But as i have a poly-sci final this afternoon,( went to double check on web to make sure it was evening not morning) and my memory seems to be plaguing me with insecurities (but i was right it is at 7 pm). -um what was i saying??
oh ya right! so my main laptop had to be sent back to HP to have them fix the touch screen. its not that it was really broke , it just had a tendency to think that it was being poked in places that it wasn't. leaving my cursor to randomly jump around within the document i was typing in. Now i know you don't notice it in my letters, because of the myriad of paths i branch off on while bashing out my views. but when typing a program for computer sciences it can be hell. ( a misplaced {or ' can crash a program or cause my computer to freeze up. (and as I had to use vista-shudders- restarts can take up most of my home work time.) - what oh ya close the other brackets)
So my main computer is away. I still have my little netbook. But typing on that is absolute hell. When i first got it i noticed that the 'i' some times wouldn't register. And i was going to send it in to be fixed. but because i thought it may partially be my fault for being a bad typist, and it was a 20 min bus ride, i put it off. deciding instead to mention my problems with it every time some one intercepts me using it to ask about it. (this happens All the time!) now warranty period is up and the missing has spread to the 'o'. Just 2 of the vowels. How many words have vowels in them? oh ya. so 2/5 of the monosyllabic words i write i have to go back and correct. That is ONTOP of the spelling errors i make because of my inability to remember spelling rules. was it 'i' before 'p' except after 'b'?...
so i wasn't going to wait to send in my good computer. see i do learn...
but you see studying for a poly-sci test is virtually impossible when every time politics crosses your mind you have to check google to see if the Governor General has got off a plane yet.(gotta check...nope not yet) Isn't it nice to see how Harper can bring people together across party lines in an embrace of ... well, hating Harper.
The good news is i'm using all the vocabulary words from my course all across facebook, and no one has yet to tell me my vocabulary is incorrect. And if the insults are any indicator they are reading me.(i feel validated when people respond to me on facebook, kinda sad but true.) On the other hand, its difficult to read between the lines when the entire response is 2 words. the first one ending with a 'k' and the second one is 'you'.( it still makes me feel validated. take that, facebookers! your insults only go to foster my self worth!!)
AS the primary purpose of this email (as always) is to solicit responses; i'm left wondering if i ought to put in my 2 cents here. they say you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. BUT flies flock to sh- er manure.
as i decide i'll aside.
On one of my many forays in to google news, i came across this little diddy. It seams the the US intelligence (there oxymoron not mine) has stated that a WMD (remember them) attack on the USA is probable in the next 5 years. All i'm going to say about it is; If it happens before Obama takes office, that little prick Bush will declare a state of emergency and he'll never leave.( its here http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6378675&page=1 I don't make this crap up!)
Remember the olden days of Chretien, where the biggest political problems facing the country were medicinal marjiwana, and weather gays could joint file tax returns?
ok for the sake of not wasting your entire day perusing my ramblings, the quick facts.
Classes are all done for me, just finals to write (no essays) so its just studying till the 11th.
the 15th i'm back in Edmonton. Hopefully ill have my computer back by then, so i can read all of your emails. and the inevitable using too much bandwidth complaints from whatever ISP i'm connected too. (but i'm sure Chad will let me use his computer if mines not back, so don't hold off on emailing me because of that.
I think Christmas will be boxing day at the farm, and my return flight is on the 3rd. so i'm free other than that for drinks or cookies, or just about any thing else. call em email me facebook, whatever is your preferred way of making plans.
now if your the type of person who would put-off, or just not make a reply to an email that may insult your political opinions; stop reading after this paragraph. I most likely miss you, want to spend time with you, value your opinions and look forward to seeing you as soon as i can. Have a merry Christmas ( but try not to be to consumerist with it). i wish you Luck Love and Laughter in the new year.
for every one else;
I still most likely miss you, want to spend time with you, value your opinions and look forward to seeing you as soon as i can. and Still hope you Have a merry Christmas ( but try not to be to consumerist with it). i wish you Luck Love and Laughter in the new year.
ok from what i can tell the people who oppose the coalition government have a few things in common. and they are loosely related things as well.
first of all they don't seem to have a true understanding of Canada's parliamentary system. This tends to be a result of confusing us with the USA. They also are more likely to NOT be followers of politics at other times. This may be part of the reason they don't remember Harper making deals with these same "separatist and socialist" to prop up his previous governments. the fact that the current Conservative party is a coalition of the reformers and the progressive Conservative party. As well as Harper's attempt to do EXACTLY the same thing when Paul Marten had a minority government.They tend to fall for catchphrase politics and thus supported the Conservatives in the last election. they feel like they are loosing there gold medal because of drug testing.
well the drugs were banned and Ben Johnson was NOT robbed.
Harper Knew he had a minority government. just 2 days after the election he released that the Conservatives had enough funds to run another election. This was obviously meant as a thereat to other parties. in fact i believe the only reason he tabled such an asinine bill in the first place was he wanted to cause an election. so he could campaign that a majority is needed to run a country and any thing else will just put Canada in a stalemate. he doesn't want to have to confer with others he wants the all encompassing power Mulroney had(the Conservative that brought us the GST) .
we (most Canadians) leaned then that we don't want runaway ideologues running us. forcing governments to reach consensus with differing points of view tends to make sure that we all have a safer future. It was another runaway Majority that brought gay marriage that many of you Conservatives didn't want.
Canada has had cotillion governments in the past and this is nothing new. As well as most European countries run just fine on minority coalitions. (the Swiss are almost exclusively coalitions). In fact the only 2 party system that has any -ahem success, is the States. but our system is nothing like theirs.
and just so as i don't let any one off the hook,
The supporters of this move ought to remember the harsh words we have had about being in bed with the bloc. we weren't so quiet when Harper's attempt to do EXACTLY the same thing when Paul Marten had a minority government. It seems our own memories may not be so clear. the differences are of course simple. Harper kills kittens!
I do love most of you and like you all; now i do have to study for my final... after just one more look at the news......\
Sunday, November 23, 2008
what direction is hate?
I received an email with a racist bent, what surprised me was how the people forwarding it were slipping in to old patterns of hate.
Please do not forward me your hate mongering.
a quick note about nations.
A nation is a form of self-defined cultural and social community.(Wikipedia) not a country.
Many countries are "nation states". ie Germany.
CANADA is a MULTI-NATION country.
If the Québécois, can be a nation within Canada, and have the official anthem changed to be part English and part French, then what is to prevent any other nation in Canada from doing the same. Canada has a large Cree nation and a large Hindi population (not yet an official nation), and we have opened up the floor to this discussion by not labelling separatists as treasonous.
In Quebec at the moment they are actively trying to disallow the vote to non French speaking citizens. (thats right California is not the only place human rights are going backward).
1)OBVIOUSLY a person dose not deserved to be fired for speaking ones mind in Canada. Anyone! Not even misguided racist hate mongering fools. (many of the people in this email qualify)
2)If Hindi's wish to petition the government to be recognized as a nation, thats there right. The same rights many died to defend.
3)Adding more official nations to a united Canada, makes the nation stronger as well as reducing any other nation in Canada's ability to act unilaterally.
the feeling in this email resonated with racism, please ask your self before you forward such, if its possible that what your feeling is a fear of loss of the Anglo-Saxon's dominate position. Or is it a genuine problem to be fixed?
Yes we need to petition to have this mans job reinstated, but lets do it with out becoming misguided racist hate mongering fools.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Lainie S wrote:
> This is the first time I have forwarded a racially specific complaint. but I
> DO agree--enough is enough.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: manof lamancha
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> I agree 1000%. I find it interesting and very aggravating that these people
> do everything they can to get to Canada and then spend the rest of their
> time trying to change Canada into their old country. If you don't like
> Canada the way it is GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
> Why did you come here to begin with. You want freedom of religion, freedom
> to speak in your native tongue, well so do I and I was born here. My family
> has served to protect the rights we enjoy, the same rights that you have
> come to Canada to take advantage of. What have you done to deserve the right
> to force your wants on me. You claim racism against you. If we were racist
> against you we would NOT have let you in to Canada. If you want a national
> anthem sung in your native tongue GO BACK TO WHERE EVER YOU CAME FROM AND
> SING THE ONE WRITTEN IN YOUR NATURAL TONGUE AND LEAVE OURS ALONE.
> One more thing.
> It is this kind of thing that really should show us true Canadians that
> maybe we should quit being so complacent and "nice " to everyone else in the
> world and start to stand up for our rights. Quit allowing others to
> constantly run over us like door mats and stand up for what we believe in.
> "I am Canadian" is more than just a beer add. Try being as patriotic about
> the rights that our soldiers died for as you are about your brand of beer,
> kind of vehicle you drive, or the coffee you drink and maybe we wont have to
> put up with this crap.
>
> I AM CANADIAN
>
>
> I agree with this piece totally! My grandfather died at Vimy; my uncle, an
> RCAF flight officer, died for his country, so that we could sing with pride,
> "OH CANADA". Did they sing China's national anthem in Hindi at the summer
> olympics. Don't think so! And, will this be allowed when Great Britain
> hosts the Olympics? Don't think so!
>
>
> I know this has been around many many times so it just goes to show everyone
> we do all feel the same way.
>
>
>
>
>
> Please read and tell me what you think!!!
>
>
>
> You SHOULD be concerned.
>
>
>
> Our National Anthem - at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
> Please read and forward to as many Canadians you can think of – thank you
> WE ARE PROUD CANADIANS
>
> Bruce Allen is on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee and new Canadians
> (specifically Hindi's/Indian's) want him fired for his recent comments
> outlined below:
> I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in
> Hindi - enough is enough.
> Nowhere or at no other time in our Nation's history, did they sing it in
> Italian, Japanese, Polish,
> Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because
> of immigration.
> It was written in English, adapted into French, and should be sung word
> for word the way it was written.
>
> The news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation - which was
> not even close to our National Anthem. I am not the least bit sorry if
> this offends ANYONE, this is MY COUNTRY; My Grand Dad served in the
> military, other family members also served, as well as my wife & I served a
> combined total of 56 years between us. We made many sacrifices for our
> country and do not feel we should feel obligated to allow invited people
> we've welcomed with open arms to influence & change our society to better
> resemble the one they chose to leave to come here!!! - IF YOU AGREE ABOUT
> THIS GREAT COUNTRY, SPEAK UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
> -- please pass this along .
> I am not against immigration. In fact I believe we need more, my ancestors
> were immigrants -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; a
> place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the Rules AND
> LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and LONG
> LIVE CANADA!'
>
> It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political
> Correctness crap. His comments were anything but racist, however, there are
> far too many overly sensitive 'New Canadians' that are attempting to
> change everything we hold dear.
>
> ARE you PART OF THE PROBLEM ??? Think about this: If you don't want to
> forward this for fear of offending someone, will we still be the Country
> of Choice and Still be CANADA if we continue to make the changes forced on
> us by the people from other countries who have come to live in CANADA
> because it is the Country of Choice??????
>
> Think about it!
>
> IMMIGRANTS, NOT CANADIAN'S, MUST ADAPT.
>
> It's Time for CANADIANS to speak up.. If you agree ? Pass this along; if
> you don't agree?
> Delete it and reap what you sew because of your complacency!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
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>
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Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign - John Stuart Mill
Please do not forward me your hate mongering.
a quick note about nations.
A nation is a form of self-defined cultural and social community.(Wikipedia) not a country.
Many countries are "nation states". ie Germany.
CANADA is a MULTI-NATION country.
If the Québécois, can be a nation within Canada, and have the official anthem changed to be part English and part French, then what is to prevent any other nation in Canada from doing the same. Canada has a large Cree nation and a large Hindi population (not yet an official nation), and we have opened up the floor to this discussion by not labelling separatists as treasonous.
In Quebec at the moment they are actively trying to disallow the vote to non French speaking citizens. (thats right California is not the only place human rights are going backward).
1)OBVIOUSLY a person dose not deserved to be fired for speaking ones mind in Canada. Anyone! Not even misguided racist hate mongering fools. (many of the people in this email qualify)
2)If Hindi's wish to petition the government to be recognized as a nation, thats there right. The same rights many died to defend.
3)Adding more official nations to a united Canada, makes the nation stronger as well as reducing any other nation in Canada's ability to act unilaterally.
the feeling in this email resonated with racism, please ask your self before you forward such, if its possible that what your feeling is a fear of loss of the Anglo-Saxon's dominate position. Or is it a genuine problem to be fixed?
Yes we need to petition to have this mans job reinstated, but lets do it with out becoming misguided racist hate mongering fools.
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Lainie S
> This is the first time I have forwarded a racially specific complaint. but I
> DO agree--enough is enough.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: manof lamancha
>
> what do you think?
>
>
> I agree 1000%. I find it interesting and very aggravating that these people
> do everything they can to get to Canada and then spend the rest of their
> time trying to change Canada into their old country. If you don't like
> Canada the way it is GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
> Why did you come here to begin with. You want freedom of religion, freedom
> to speak in your native tongue, well so do I and I was born here. My family
> has served to protect the rights we enjoy, the same rights that you have
> come to Canada to take advantage of. What have you done to deserve the right
> to force your wants on me. You claim racism against you. If we were racist
> against you we would NOT have let you in to Canada. If you want a national
> anthem sung in your native tongue GO BACK TO WHERE EVER YOU CAME FROM AND
> SING THE ONE WRITTEN IN YOUR NATURAL TONGUE AND LEAVE OURS ALONE.
> One more thing.
> It is this kind of thing that really should show us true Canadians that
> maybe we should quit being so complacent and "nice " to everyone else in the
> world and start to stand up for our rights. Quit allowing others to
> constantly run over us like door mats and stand up for what we believe in.
> "I am Canadian" is more than just a beer add. Try being as patriotic about
> the rights that our soldiers died for as you are about your brand of beer,
> kind of vehicle you drive, or the coffee you drink and maybe we wont have to
> put up with this crap.
>
> I AM CANADIAN
>
>
> I agree with this piece totally! My grandfather died at Vimy; my uncle, an
> RCAF flight officer, died for his country, so that we could sing with pride,
> "OH CANADA". Did they sing China's national anthem in Hindi at the summer
> olympics. Don't think so! And, will this be allowed when Great Britain
> hosts the Olympics? Don't think so!
>
>
> I know this has been around many many times so it just goes to show everyone
> we do all feel the same way.
>
>
>
>
>
> Please read and tell me what you think!!!
>
>
>
> You SHOULD be concerned.
>
>
>
> Our National Anthem - at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
> Please read and forward to as many Canadians you can think of – thank you
> WE ARE PROUD CANADIANS
>
> Bruce Allen is on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee and new Canadians
> (specifically Hindi's/Indian's) want him fired for his recent comments
> outlined below:
> I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in
> Hindi - enough is enough.
> Nowhere or at no other time in our Nation's history, did they sing it in
> Italian, Japanese, Polish,
> Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because
> of immigration.
> It was written in English, adapted into French, and should be sung word
> for word the way it was written.
>
> The news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation - which was
> not even close to our National Anthem. I am not the least bit sorry if
> this offends ANYONE, this is MY COUNTRY; My Grand Dad served in the
> military, other family members also served, as well as my wife & I served a
> combined total of 56 years between us. We made many sacrifices for our
> country and do not feel we should feel obligated to allow invited people
> we've welcomed with open arms to influence & change our society to better
> resemble the one they chose to leave to come here!!! - IF YOU AGREE ABOUT
> THIS GREAT COUNTRY, SPEAK UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
> -- please pass this along .
> I am not against immigration. In fact I believe we need more, my ancestors
> were immigrants -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; a
> place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the Rules AND
> LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and LONG
> LIVE CANADA!'
>
> It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political
> Correctness crap. His comments were anything but racist, however, there are
> far too many overly sensitive 'New Canadians' that are attempting to
> change everything we hold dear.
>
> ARE you PART OF THE PROBLEM ??? Think about this: If you don't want to
> forward this for fear of offending someone, will we still be the Country
> of Choice and Still be CANADA if we continue to make the changes forced on
> us by the people from other countries who have come to live in CANADA
> because it is the Country of Choice??????
>
> Think about it!
>
> IMMIGRANTS, NOT CANADIAN'S, MUST ADAPT.
>
> It's Time for CANADIANS to speak up.. If you agree ? Pass this along; if
> you don't agree?
> Delete it and reap what you sew because of your complacency!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Message
>
>
> ________________________________
> Turn email contacts into buddies, and you could win. Enter today.
> ________________________________
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
> Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.8/1801 - Release Date: 11/20/2008
> 9:11 AM
>
> ________________________________
> Messenger wants to send you on a trip. Enter today.
>
>
> --
> How to fly: "Spread your arms, hold your breath and always trust your cape".
> Guy Clark
>
>
--
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign - John Stuart Mill
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Really about me October-ish edition
Lets see what can a student who does nothing tell you about?
I could go off on the usa 'lection, or Canada's. But unsolicited political rants arn't my style.(YA RIGHT!!, just don't feel like it, I'm a little politicked out right now.)
Now we do know how I love to brag. To be fair we all do. Sit back and count many “I me my” sentences you and your friends use in a regular conversation. It'll show you how surprisingly ego-centric we all are. Then quickly get over it. After all sharing your inner reality with others is more fulfilling than endlessly droning on about the weather. Which brings me back to my point. The other down side about bragging about the gorgeous weather, (and this city is BeauTIFUL in the fall,) is its not really about me. It doesn't really dig at anyone, and thats another part of bragging, its to get that dig in to someone. Like yay, I moved to a place after absolutely no consideration of the weather, But YAY ME, its nice... .... ... see what I mean, not worth bragging about. in fact id delete all of that if it wasn't for the fact I'm a painfully slow typer and i cant bare to see 4 hours of my work just disappear.
Maybe I should tell you about the fights I'm having with my teachers. But none have come to an interesting crescendo yet. There was the let down of my Philosophy teacher. OK quick back ground; Utilitarians take the view that all moral decisions ought to be chosen by what ever will cause the most happiness. Well my prof goes on to explain that if every one just wants to make every one else happy, and the only way to make others happy is to give them something they want, then you can only make them happy by ruthlessly pursuing what ever your heart desires. therefore negating everyone else's happiness. NOW, I'm ok with people having OBVIOUSLY wrong ideas about the nature of love, life and the world. some of my friends and family fall in to this crowed, (come on try to figure out who I'm talking about, its the new funner game!) and it doesn't alter my feelings toward them at all. But they are not in a position to force me to regurgitate their falsehoods. In fact as soon as this pile of fly attractant had fallen from his mouth, my prof ended class. the next Philosophy class was the test. Grinding my teeth I carved this stupidity in to the test paper.
With my class schedule i have phil. on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. so it was an entire week later that i was able to make my case. I sat through the lecture waiting for my chance to ask questions. It was a long class. A really really really long class. But finally it was question time so i asked why a smart person wouldn't develop a secondary goal, thus giving others something they can give you to make you happy. which would make them happy, which would fulfil the goal of making others happy. Thus making his argument against utilitarianism null and void! VOID I tell ya, VOID!!! Boo-ya! Now he was going to tell me that he was no longer going to teach these young impressionable minds lies, and the world was going to be just a bit better of a place.!!! With no voice inflection at all he said, "That might work.". he hadn't even finished saying might and he was pointing at another student prompting for the next question.
In a word; Deflated.
Or i could go on about how I'm soooooo NOT looking forward to flying back to Alberta for Christmas. As it turns out I'm not a good passenger in a plane. At least in a car I can pump the imaginary brake peddle on the passenger side. But in a plane, not only do they not have brake peddles, (I think the peddles control wing flaps... but I don't really know how the controls work, which means my imaginary ones are useless to me... more useless than... well any way), you can't even see the driver. Is he distracted, drowsy, was he taught faulty logic in school...?
My mom has told many about how how inner ear doesn't work for balance. Mine on the other hand is amazing! I can tell every pitch and turn of the plane!, which conflicts with what my eyes see, a 4 inch lcd screen that only shows the dumbest of reality tv. Come to think of it now I'm not so sure what was causing my nausea.
but if I went on about that people might think that I'm not looking forward to seeing them. which just simply isn't true.
so maybe i could just give some useless facts, like how my spell checker has a problem with lowercase "tv" and "ok", but is completely un-bothered by "funner". Really! it did at least stand up against "funnerest" and "gooder". Perhaps the battle for grammar, is akin to the battle to end crappy pop tunes on the radio; unattainable. Or at least less worthy of our effort than other more compelling crusades.
Well now if you find yourself with a little bit of free activist energy, and are unsure of what to do about it. Might I suggest you pick up a copy of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".
The last hundred pages are just her sources and the like so don't be deterred by the size of the book. If your jaw doesn't drop at least once in amazement while reading it...(trying to think of a suitable finish to that statement. One that can span the gambit from Granni to Bri, and be relevant...).
Any way as you can see i have nothing to write about and am feeling distant from my audience. In short a complete case of writers block. so no real "all about me October-ish edition". Just a note to say i miss most of you. Ill get around to missing the rest of you later this week.(planning your time well is the only way to get through school).
As per usual if your reading this somewhere other than your e-mail and want me to include you in my mailing list, (Ohh listen to me 'mailing list' and all i may have a problem with being pretentious, you think so?) just e-mail me at
livesin@gmail.com
or if i'm sending it to multiple of your email addys tell me which one you actually read.
Or just email me and tell me about your life and such. all i ever find in my inbox are adds for pills to cure problems i don't think i have.
--
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign - John Stuart Mill
I could go off on the usa 'lection, or Canada's. But unsolicited political rants arn't my style.(YA RIGHT!!, just don't feel like it, I'm a little politicked out right now.)
Now we do know how I love to brag. To be fair we all do. Sit back and count many “I me my” sentences you and your friends use in a regular conversation. It'll show you how surprisingly ego-centric we all are. Then quickly get over it. After all sharing your inner reality with others is more fulfilling than endlessly droning on about the weather. Which brings me back to my point. The other down side about bragging about the gorgeous weather, (and this city is BeauTIFUL in the fall,) is its not really about me. It doesn't really dig at anyone, and thats another part of bragging, its to get that dig in to someone. Like yay, I moved to a place after absolutely no consideration of the weather, But YAY ME, its nice... .... ... see what I mean, not worth bragging about. in fact id delete all of that if it wasn't for the fact I'm a painfully slow typer and i cant bare to see 4 hours of my work just disappear.
Maybe I should tell you about the fights I'm having with my teachers. But none have come to an interesting crescendo yet. There was the let down of my Philosophy teacher. OK quick back ground; Utilitarians take the view that all moral decisions ought to be chosen by what ever will cause the most happiness. Well my prof goes on to explain that if every one just wants to make every one else happy, and the only way to make others happy is to give them something they want, then you can only make them happy by ruthlessly pursuing what ever your heart desires. therefore negating everyone else's happiness. NOW, I'm ok with people having OBVIOUSLY wrong ideas about the nature of love, life and the world. some of my friends and family fall in to this crowed, (come on try to figure out who I'm talking about, its the new funner game!) and it doesn't alter my feelings toward them at all. But they are not in a position to force me to regurgitate their falsehoods. In fact as soon as this pile of fly attractant had fallen from his mouth, my prof ended class. the next Philosophy class was the test. Grinding my teeth I carved this stupidity in to the test paper.
With my class schedule i have phil. on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. so it was an entire week later that i was able to make my case. I sat through the lecture waiting for my chance to ask questions. It was a long class. A really really really long class. But finally it was question time so i asked why a smart person wouldn't develop a secondary goal, thus giving others something they can give you to make you happy. which would make them happy, which would fulfil the goal of making others happy. Thus making his argument against utilitarianism null and void! VOID I tell ya, VOID!!! Boo-ya! Now he was going to tell me that he was no longer going to teach these young impressionable minds lies, and the world was going to be just a bit better of a place.!!! With no voice inflection at all he said, "That might work.". he hadn't even finished saying might and he was pointing at another student prompting for the next question.
In a word; Deflated.
Or i could go on about how I'm soooooo NOT looking forward to flying back to Alberta for Christmas. As it turns out I'm not a good passenger in a plane. At least in a car I can pump the imaginary brake peddle on the passenger side. But in a plane, not only do they not have brake peddles, (I think the peddles control wing flaps... but I don't really know how the controls work, which means my imaginary ones are useless to me... more useless than... well any way), you can't even see the driver. Is he distracted, drowsy, was he taught faulty logic in school...?
My mom has told many about how how inner ear doesn't work for balance. Mine on the other hand is amazing! I can tell every pitch and turn of the plane!, which conflicts with what my eyes see, a 4 inch lcd screen that only shows the dumbest of reality tv. Come to think of it now I'm not so sure what was causing my nausea.
but if I went on about that people might think that I'm not looking forward to seeing them. which just simply isn't true.
so maybe i could just give some useless facts, like how my spell checker has a problem with lowercase "tv" and "ok", but is completely un-bothered by "funner". Really! it did at least stand up against "funnerest" and "gooder". Perhaps the battle for grammar, is akin to the battle to end crappy pop tunes on the radio; unattainable. Or at least less worthy of our effort than other more compelling crusades.
Well now if you find yourself with a little bit of free activist energy, and are unsure of what to do about it. Might I suggest you pick up a copy of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".
The last hundred pages are just her sources and the like so don't be deterred by the size of the book. If your jaw doesn't drop at least once in amazement while reading it...(trying to think of a suitable finish to that statement. One that can span the gambit from Granni to Bri, and be relevant...).
Any way as you can see i have nothing to write about and am feeling distant from my audience. In short a complete case of writers block. so no real "all about me October-ish edition". Just a note to say i miss most of you. Ill get around to missing the rest of you later this week.(planning your time well is the only way to get through school).
As per usual if your reading this somewhere other than your e-mail and want me to include you in my mailing list, (Ohh listen to me 'mailing list' and all i may have a problem with being pretentious, you think so?) just e-mail me at
livesin@gmail.com
or if i'm sending it to multiple of your email addys tell me which one you actually read.
Or just email me and tell me about your life and such. all i ever find in my inbox are adds for pills to cure problems i don't think i have.
--
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign - John Stuart Mill
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
all about me again
this was sent as a mass(sadly small) email to the names i have in my gmail account. if you never received it, that means you haven't sent me an email.. how sad. so please do to get the next one.... when ever that may be
So its been a month. I figure ts time for an update.
After all the shareholders deserve to see that there investments are being put to good use.
The only class so far that I've had any tests in is computers, so I'm doing awesome. Grannie will be happy to know i never wasted any of the money she sent; i bought a counter top dishwasher. It'll be with me for life and every day it makes my life nicer!
I have 2 roommates, well 3 if you count the guy who doesn't talk. He can i know, because hes asked the rest of us to “keep it down” one night. He spoke as though he was appealing to our humanity and we ought to respect him as a person. My question is, when i say “good morning” when i see him in the kitchen, or “hay, hows it goin” if i see him in the living room. Would not that same humanity state you go through the arduous task of muttering a “hay” in return? So after 3 weeks of him acting as though he was a conscientious objector to our occupation of the house, I've decided, that the laws of war apply. As the occupier i must assume that i was the victor and thus the stronger party. Therefore, i must do all in my power to quell the dissidents. Of course i would prefer to do this by making the “natives” feel at home and like they belong... but Machiavelli also has a bit to say on the matter. (just kidding, i don't have time to have a little war at home. I have a polly-sci teacher who has an unhealthy Conservative bent who requires most of my attention.)
I KNOW! A CONSERVATIVE PROF!!!! Well I'm sure she thinks of herself as liberal as the rest of “intelligentsia” but shes got a thing where she still believes that Conservatives in this country are libertarians. Like the fact they want to regulate the citizen but not the bushiness is not to be discussed in class, just that Laissez-faire economics means that your less regulated... I digress.
Maybe i ought to have made that its own paragraph. Its more of a complete idea unto its self, than a closer to the previous thought.
I Digress.
If ever write a biography thats what I'll call it.
or maybe put that on my tombstone; Scott Sinclair: I digress.
Any way...
so no less than 2 hurricanes have blown past and neither one was much of a storm. I'm sorrily disappointed. No lightning at all. I do realize that I'm from Lethbridge, but even the winds were calm. Just a little rain and thats it. I remember the day god killed my rabbit with a flash hail storm. That little diddy will remain in my memory long after these so called hurricanes have faded in to the ever growing library of unimportant moments in my life.
Did i do something wrong? Like the “Hockey riots” i was in were not ciaos, it was thousands of people, being relatively law abiding, (a little public drunkenness, but that was all for the most part.) never got to see a tornado despite all the time i spent in central Alberta trailer parks trying to sell vaccumes. I've lived with prostitutes and drug dealers, purposely walking down dark alleys alone. And now 2, 2! hurricanes and still no ciaos. As i pause on my birthday to see if I'm doing anything worthwhile with my wobbles around the sun; the most chaos i have encountered is the fragments of dreams that have stuck with me from my youthful night terrors. Its clear that a modicum of intelligence and an alert guardian angle is all that is needed to make the western world safe. Don't get me wrong. I don't like pain. And i definitely don't want to die. But I'd like to experience some of the events that people talk about with that “awh” tone that separates events, from conversations of deck stains... and of course bathroom functions at the dinner table.
^^
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that is not me digressing. ( is digressing a word? Either way this is definitely digressing now, ill just close the brackets and get back to it.) that is the biases of me starting to formulate a plan. I want to spend my summer over seas. Perhaps in a 3rd world country. Too see what life is like amongst desperation. I'm not sure if I've got the balls to go to Baghdad right off the bat. But i want to see if maybe its all hyped a little too much.
I figure either way i win. If its as bad as they say i can have my fill of WOW moments, allowing me to live life with out taking needles risks. Or it is hype, and i can come back with the smug knowledge that I know and no one else does. I like feeling smug, admit it you do too. In fact doesn't hiding how smug you are make you feel a little better; not only do you fell smug for what ever reason, but you can feel smug about how your soo much better at hiding how smug you feel than everyone else... if they only knew....
ahem.. ya;
So any ideas as to how i can put this plan in to action would be helpfull. I think i herd it was rebeca that just came back from a mission. So maybe thats an option. I don't know.
Well i need to get to class (maybe get some class) so i'll let you all get back to your lives.
Halifax is beautiful, and if i can get facebook to allow me to upload pictures ill show you all there.
One month in and every thing is going so well that my complaints are (obviously) trivial.
My email (livesin@gmail.com) inbox is too often empty HINT HINT!
I love you all and miss you lots!!!!
remember
people vote conservative because they are scared of the future
people vote liberal because they are scared of the Conservatives
What are you scared of?
I'm voting NDP this time.
--
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut
So its been a month. I figure ts time for an update.
After all the shareholders deserve to see that there investments are being put to good use.
The only class so far that I've had any tests in is computers, so I'm doing awesome. Grannie will be happy to know i never wasted any of the money she sent; i bought a counter top dishwasher. It'll be with me for life and every day it makes my life nicer!
I have 2 roommates, well 3 if you count the guy who doesn't talk. He can i know, because hes asked the rest of us to “keep it down” one night. He spoke as though he was appealing to our humanity and we ought to respect him as a person. My question is, when i say “good morning” when i see him in the kitchen, or “hay, hows it goin” if i see him in the living room. Would not that same humanity state you go through the arduous task of muttering a “hay” in return? So after 3 weeks of him acting as though he was a conscientious objector to our occupation of the house, I've decided, that the laws of war apply. As the occupier i must assume that i was the victor and thus the stronger party. Therefore, i must do all in my power to quell the dissidents. Of course i would prefer to do this by making the “natives” feel at home and like they belong... but Machiavelli also has a bit to say on the matter. (just kidding, i don't have time to have a little war at home. I have a polly-sci teacher who has an unhealthy Conservative bent who requires most of my attention.)
I KNOW! A CONSERVATIVE PROF!!!! Well I'm sure she thinks of herself as liberal as the rest of “intelligentsia” but shes got a thing where she still believes that Conservatives in this country are libertarians. Like the fact they want to regulate the citizen but not the bushiness is not to be discussed in class, just that Laissez-faire economics means that your less regulated... I digress.
Maybe i ought to have made that its own paragraph. Its more of a complete idea unto its self, than a closer to the previous thought.
I Digress.
If ever write a biography thats what I'll call it.
or maybe put that on my tombstone; Scott Sinclair: I digress.
Any way...
so no less than 2 hurricanes have blown past and neither one was much of a storm. I'm sorrily disappointed. No lightning at all. I do realize that I'm from Lethbridge, but even the winds were calm. Just a little rain and thats it. I remember the day god killed my rabbit with a flash hail storm. That little diddy will remain in my memory long after these so called hurricanes have faded in to the ever growing library of unimportant moments in my life.
Did i do something wrong? Like the “Hockey riots” i was in were not ciaos, it was thousands of people, being relatively law abiding, (a little public drunkenness, but that was all for the most part.) never got to see a tornado despite all the time i spent in central Alberta trailer parks trying to sell vaccumes. I've lived with prostitutes and drug dealers, purposely walking down dark alleys alone. And now 2, 2! hurricanes and still no ciaos. As i pause on my birthday to see if I'm doing anything worthwhile with my wobbles around the sun; the most chaos i have encountered is the fragments of dreams that have stuck with me from my youthful night terrors. Its clear that a modicum of intelligence and an alert guardian angle is all that is needed to make the western world safe. Don't get me wrong. I don't like pain. And i definitely don't want to die. But I'd like to experience some of the events that people talk about with that “awh” tone that separates events, from conversations of deck stains... and of course bathroom functions at the dinner table.
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that is not me digressing. ( is digressing a word? Either way this is definitely digressing now, ill just close the brackets and get back to it.) that is the biases of me starting to formulate a plan. I want to spend my summer over seas. Perhaps in a 3rd world country. Too see what life is like amongst desperation. I'm not sure if I've got the balls to go to Baghdad right off the bat. But i want to see if maybe its all hyped a little too much.
I figure either way i win. If its as bad as they say i can have my fill of WOW moments, allowing me to live life with out taking needles risks. Or it is hype, and i can come back with the smug knowledge that I know and no one else does. I like feeling smug, admit it you do too. In fact doesn't hiding how smug you are make you feel a little better; not only do you fell smug for what ever reason, but you can feel smug about how your soo much better at hiding how smug you feel than everyone else... if they only knew....
ahem.. ya;
So any ideas as to how i can put this plan in to action would be helpfull. I think i herd it was rebeca that just came back from a mission. So maybe thats an option. I don't know.
Well i need to get to class (maybe get some class) so i'll let you all get back to your lives.
Halifax is beautiful, and if i can get facebook to allow me to upload pictures ill show you all there.
One month in and every thing is going so well that my complaints are (obviously) trivial.
My email (livesin@gmail.com) inbox is too often empty HINT HINT!
I love you all and miss you lots!!!!
remember
people vote conservative because they are scared of the future
people vote liberal because they are scared of the Conservatives
What are you scared of?
I'm voting NDP this time.
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Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, July 10, 2008
a limited veiw of life or god
OK I got goaded in to a discussion on gods plan, and the nature of man while i was off white watter rafting. the people i was talking with either had a very limited view of god or of life or, heaven help them, BOTH. on issues such as Gods plan; they pshawed when i told them that it was gods plan that i once stole a carton of cigarettes. To them it seemed impossible that gods plan could include such a blatant sin as theft. the thought that i am needed to do more on this earth, and need the correct skill set to do that, some how escaped them. to them "Thow shalt not steal" is the be all end all. OK i get it was literally written in stone, however; Getting caught stealing that carton of smokes, had a major effect on on my life. not only did i learn a "valuable lesson" but i was exposed to many other situations causing me to learn many more things and altering my perspectives, my experiences. Altering me! As someone who believes that I'm am on the course that God has planed. it is impossible to at the same time believe that stealing those 200 cigarettes was not gods will.
I understand that respecting others property, and not stealing are important. I am NOT advocating the wanton disregard for others and their property.
i AM saying that we are obviously altered by our experiences. Gods plan would have to include learning and growing. Have to.
the entire conversation had been started by Rick, (innocently enough) asking why there weren't more men in church. I for one enjoy debating, learning the deeper points of an issue. this an activity that is easier to find by going to the bottom of a bottle of rum with a friend than by going to a tabernacle.
This predominately church going group found deeper meanings either meaningless or were incapable of looking for them. what passed for depth amongst this crowd, was that because one member loved his daughter her life was not her own! my obviously blasphemous assertion that god gave me/ us all free will and there for we own our own lives, was met with more pshaws. he said "i look at my daughter (1yr old) and i can tell you her life is not her-own."
At that age maybe not, but my mind filed with the fights this por lad was going t have in 3 or so years as his own flesh and blood proves him wrong. Isn't part of loving some one allowing them to be themselves?
weather by car wreck or enlightenment i think god needs t cleans his house of the mind-locked arrogance found building up there. But that is just my first instinct, perhaps that is where it belongs.
I understand that respecting others property, and not stealing are important. I am NOT advocating the wanton disregard for others and their property.
i AM saying that we are obviously altered by our experiences. Gods plan would have to include learning and growing. Have to.
the entire conversation had been started by Rick, (innocently enough) asking why there weren't more men in church. I for one enjoy debating, learning the deeper points of an issue. this an activity that is easier to find by going to the bottom of a bottle of rum with a friend than by going to a tabernacle.
This predominately church going group found deeper meanings either meaningless or were incapable of looking for them. what passed for depth amongst this crowd, was that because one member loved his daughter her life was not her own! my obviously blasphemous assertion that god gave me/ us all free will and there for we own our own lives, was met with more pshaws. he said "i look at my daughter (1yr old) and i can tell you her life is not her-own."
At that age maybe not, but my mind filed with the fights this por lad was going t have in 3 or so years as his own flesh and blood proves him wrong. Isn't part of loving some one allowing them to be themselves?
weather by car wreck or enlightenment i think god needs t cleans his house of the mind-locked arrogance found building up there. But that is just my first instinct, perhaps that is where it belongs.
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