2.) VW has is now marketing the most expensive sports car which can go up to like 290 mph and goes from 0 to 62 in 2.5 seconds. Here is the ultimate toy for the man in your life with an itty-bitty, teeny-tiny penis. Honestly, I can't think of any other reason why someone would need a car like that....
3.) The administration sounds like a big, spoiled baby when it comes to its sorry-ass excuses for not going along with International efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Excuse number 1 – “It might hurt the
4.) Along the same lines, Don't tell the Bush Administration, but polar bears may become a thing of the past, thanks to global warming. Accorording to scientists, Polar Bears are drowning due to melting ice caps. Wow, for a hoax, global warming seems to be causing some real problems...
5.) I am growing sick and tired of the "choose life" bumper stickers and license plates. Dude, no one is suggesting anyone "choose death." I DO, however, have a suggestion for making the entire abortion debate almost completly moot - "CHOOSE BIRTH CONTROL!!!!" It's simple. Oh wait, I forgot the crazy fundies don't like birth control. I think they would rather continue pushing their shitty abstinence-only education which results in uneducated, knocked-up teenage girls who go get abortions. You see, this gives the fundies something to bitch about, helps the republicans get their religious fan-base to the polls on election day, and allows the ultra-pious, bible-beaters to feel like they are better than everyone else.
6.) The "Happy Holidays" debate has really made me think about what bothers me about fundamentalists - an extreme lack of EMPATHY (Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives). I really and truly believe this world would be a better place if we all just thought about what it would be like if we were in the others' shoes. Unfortunately, some people so completly surround themselves with people who are exactly like them and vilify everyone else that they are incapable of empathy. I'm not saying I am an expert at empathy. Often, my tyrades agasint conservative christians sound a bit harsh and I know that in my day to day life I do not always consider the feelings of those around me. All I'm saying is that a little empathy and a lot of the golden rule would make this world a much better place. Sure, it sounds corney and I can see you now, reader, rolling your eyes at my naivety. But if everyone seriously and honestly treated others as they would want to be treated, this world would be remarkably different. Maybe that's why every religion and/or philosophy includes a "golden rule" or a teaching about the ethics of reciprocity. Unfortunately, it seems that people only like to apply the golden rule to fellow believers and not to all peoples.... But, I choose to believe it is possible and a global ethics of reciprocity can be achieved....
7.) The other day I had a profound revelation about the nature of man. First of all, no matter what you learned in sunday school or what you were shamed into believing by the caring adults in your life, there are no GOOD or BAD decisions when it comes to sex, drugs, and other SINS one commits agasint him/herself. You are not a bad person if you use drugs or screw the entire football team in one night. Instead, there are physical and emotional consequences that you must be prepared to deal with as a result of your actions. The action itself is neutral - now, are you prepared to deal with the consequences of your behavior?
Maybe it's easier for parents, teachers, and religions to tell kids that sex is bad and abstinence is good. However, I think we cheat them, insult their intelligences, and leave them with psychological baggage. In addition, I feel like we are shifting the locus of control. If sex is "bad" because my dad or god says so, then I have no control; that decision is already made for me. All I can do is violate that decision and do the "bad" thing or not violate it and be "good." But if sex is neutral, then I have the power to determine if, based on the possible physical and emotional consequences, the decision is going to be worth it and if I am prepared to deal with the possible results of my actions. Here, I have complete control over the decision and the decision-making process. And, there is no guilt or shame when I make a decision. Instead, there are only the resulting consequences.
2 comments:
Well, I agree with #2 in the sense that only a man who needs to compensate for something would ever purchase such a ridiculous car.
#3 I think is an excellent description of George Bush as a child.
I am very saddened by the loss of so many polar bears and assuming there are any left when you become president I hope you can find some way of saving them.
Concerning 5 and 6, you know what my life is like at Gardner-Webb so I'm sure you know that I understand. I'm so sick of people treating others like shit simply because they have different beliefs. Honestly if those people would sit down and really learn about what it is that they are preaching they would realize that in their own actions they are going against what they claim to believe. And maybe I’m just as naïve as you are, but it makes perfect sense that if we as people take into account the feelings of others then the world becomes a better place. It’s simple.
Just a note about the last two paragraphs, as I was reading I definitely felt you slip into "the teacher voice". But I agree with everything you said. If society would teach kids that it is the consequences and not the decision that can be bad, then so much "psychological baggage" would be lifted. I know it helped me when we talked about this stuff on the phone. And I think it would have been easier had I been thinking like this from the beginning.
choose freedom, take the pill! damnit.
thats what i want my bumper sticker to say.
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