Posted by BlueRaja on April 14, 2005 – 3:05 am “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -Galileo Galilei
ok so today i was all reading through other peoples xangas you now and i was like all ‘omg! i just relized it is sooo appropriate to articulate my thoughts thru fragmented sentences and incomplete ideas using improper grammer and i mean you know? i orignally thought it just made me look stupid but now i c that it totally allows me to express my thoughts the way i want to in the way i totally like, think, you know.’ and then i was all happy for myself because i finally found god!!1 i mean religeon is so total rite for me! nevermind the inherent hypocrises and completely illogical premise, religien speaks to me in a way i just cant explain! its a feeling deep inside that says, hey, this is rite, nevermind rational thought, what did science ever do for any1 anyways LOL. i mean its not like proofs can be proven or anything. maybe if science didnt just guess at everything and could actually create things with its theorys, like a box that can display images of faraway places, or some sort of mode of transportation thats faster then walking, or a way of keeping time better then my sundial, or some sort of adding machine thats faster then using an abacus, or a machine that i can use to submit my journal to the public, then maybe it would hold more validity; but it can’t, only god can create things LOL. i mean, if you see a watchmaker, he must be wearing a watch, rite. besides, god must exist, otherwise who wrote the bible? LOL im so smart, i should be on tv or something im such a unique and freethinking individual my thoughts arnt influenced by any1else at all. LOL
well i have to go now, my church group (where we talk about how were supposed to live our lifes and how were supposed to act and how were supposed to think) is about to start and i still need to find my Old Navy pullover. you now, the one that matches with my Nikes LOL. well ttyl
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Posted by BlueRaja on April 11, 2005 – 3:01 am If any of you were considering moving to the South*, consider this: DON’T. The people are hard to understand; everyone’s religious; there are Confederate flags everywhere; and apparently the term “southern hospitality” is a euphemism for “get the hell out of my country.”
Actually, in all honesty, my extremely secluded personal experience of the South wasn’t that terrible. However, let’s take a look at the statistics:
The South:
- has the lowest literacy rate in the country, both functional illiteracy and total illiteracy;
- has the lowest average ACT/SAT scores;
- has the lowest average IQ;
- is the most religious;
- has the highest percentage of Republicans;
- has the highest percentage of wife-beaters.
Coincidence?
* The South, for those of you in Canada or living in the South, consists of about a dozen or so states in the south-eastern-most part of the United States. It’s the only place in the world, as far as my limited knowledge on the subject is aware of, that a homosexual man (in a love he cannot control) is denied marriage to another man, while a different man (in a love he can control) is allowed to marry his own first-cousin.
Welcome to America.
Posted by BlueRaja on April 6, 2005 – 12:00 am One last entry before I go away to Tennesee..although I don’t have much to say:
MIAMI (AFP) – Florida’s legislature has approved a bill that would give residents the right to open fire against anyone they perceive as a threat in public, instead of having to try to avoid a conflict as under prevailing law.
Outraged opponents say the law will encourage Floridians to open fire first and ask questions later, fostering a sort of statewide Wild West shootout mentality. Supporters argue that criminals will think twice if they believe they are likely to be promptly shot when they assault someone.
Republican Governor Jeb Bush, who has said he plans to sign the bill, says it is “a good, commonsense, anti-crime issue.”
The bill, supported by the influential National Rifle Association, was approved by both houses of the Republican-run legislature on Tuesday
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050406/ts_alt_afp/uscrimeguns_050406201103
I think this one pretty well goes without being said.
Posted by BlueRaja on April 4, 2005 – 12:00 am Meh…I’ll finish writing this tomorrow.
Posted by BlueRaja on April 2, 2005 – 5:53 am Several days ago it was announced to the nation that, at the tender age of 41, Terri Schiavo died of dehydration. Demonstrators quote “grieved openly with gasps, sobs, songs and prayers.” (CNN.com) However, as this fifteen-year long legal and moral dispute comes to an end, one question remains: what the hell is the matter with you idiots? Terri Schiavo was assessed, for all intents and purposes, legally brain-dead fifteen years ago. She was declared, by several of Michael’s own doctors as well as several more unbiased court-appointed neurologists, to be in a “persistive vegetative state” – the only doctors who claimed that she may still have a consciousness were those hired by Terri’s parents, who, like the Bush’s, used Terri’s condition as an outlet to force their skewed opinions upon others.
After thirteen years, nineteen different judges in six separate courts (and more than thirty different rulings) were all convinced that Terri lacked a consciousness; that Terri had no hope of getting better; and that Terri would rather have been euthanized than have spent the rest of her life as a vegetable. The only reason she wasn’t allowed to simply die a peaceful death back then was that Jeb Bush decided to step in and claim to be the authority on all things moral. Yes, you’re a Republican; yes, you’re a Christian; yes, you’re an idiot; and yes, you still somehow managed to become governor of Florida: now stop rubbing our faces in it.
There are thousands of people dying every day because they can’t afford medicine, surgery, or health care; and if that isn’t bad enough, most of those people don’t even deserve to be sick – Terri Schiavo brought her condition upon herself (her heart attack was direct result of her bulimia). Yet still, you religious radicalists decided to spend tens of thousands of dollars – money that could have been spent saving the lives of many innocent young children, or possibly been used towards finding a cure for cancer – hiring attorneys to keep a brain-dead woman hydrated. Congratulations – I hope you’re proud of yourselves, jerks. Hey, at least now a few more people agree with your twisted ethical views, right?
[edit] According to the USA Today, twice as many children yearly have died of malnutrition in Iraq since the US invasion over three years ago – why isn’t there anyone protesting their deaths with picket signs?
Posted by BlueRaja on March 31, 2005 – 5:35 am Well, starting today, I’m officially A+ certified; that means that ours (Joe’s and mine) is the only computer repair business in town with any certification. However, A+ doesn’t exactly entail bragging rights…
Each test costs $145. I say each test because, in order to actually become certified, you need to pass two separate tests. For $290, you get to take the worst written, most poorly regulated, most ambiguous test anyone could imagine. If I’m going to pay them $290 to take their stupid tests, the LEAST liberty they could grant me is to run the damn thing through a spell-check first…unless the Opreating System is a new term that I’m not familiar with…
I hesitate to write this, as someone from the exam might come across this and feel that it is a breach in the contract I signed; that is, not to disclose any information about the test. However, I don’t think that telling people that the words “Opreating[sic]” and “System” occur in the Operating Systems Test could be considered a breach of that contract.
But…in the unlikely event that someone from CompTIA does come across this, I would like you to keep in mind that I have nothing against you personally, everything I write is satire, I didn’t mean it I’m sorry here’s the deed to my soul etc. etc.
Posted by BlueRaja on March 29, 2005 – 12:00 am Don’t ask how I found this site, but Nex and I spent about an hour following the links and laughing at everything:
http://www.puberty101.com/
Posted by BlueRaja on March 26, 2005 – 5:12 am Hmm..I feel that I’m entitled to at least one mindless teenage rant every once in a great while…
Today, my parents drove Valerie and me (along with my brother and his friend Jacob) down to Appleton to meet with my grandparents; we all screwed around at the new all-you-can-eat restaurant, then walked down to Petsmart to visit the fishies. After that, the four of us (Ryan, Jacob, Valerie and I) went to the movies while my parents walked around the mall. There was time before the movie, so Valerie and I played air hockey, DDR, some other crazy japanese game…
Then we all went to watch the movie: Hitch, with Will Smith. It was pretty good, although watching it with Valerie made it much better; especially the ending.
After that, we went back into Funset Bvd., played some more DDR, raced a few times, played a very stupid guitar game, and sipped from the same cup of Root Beer (I know, romantic, right?).
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Typical teenage rants go as follows:
- I hate my parents.
- I hate my life.
- I hate everything.
- I love my girlfriend/boyfriend.
- Either I had a wonderful day due entirely to my boyfriend/girlfriend; I had a horrible day due to my hormones and general ineptitude, although I’ll blame it on everyone other than myself; or I had a mediocre day due to my excessive apathy, although I’ll once again put the blame on everyone else.
Although I’m not going to say that I hate my parents, because I don’t, nor will I say that I hate my life, because I’ve never been dramatic (hormonal) enough to believe that I do, I will say this:
Despite the fact that I’ve condemned more than one teenager on more than one occasion for saying this kind of thing at such a young and impressionable age, I truly believe that I’ve fallen in love with Valerie.
I doubt there is any more pleasant a note I can end this entry on.
Posted by BlueRaja on March 5, 2005 – 12:00 am Today during church (apparently it’s Good Friday, though I don’t see what’s so good about it. Isn’t this the day that Jesus died?), the pastor went into a long, drawn out prayer for just about everyone imaginable:
“…and let us pray for those who have passed; and let us pray for the President, and all other leaders; and let us pray for the evil-doers…”
When I heard this, I nearly burst out laughing, although I was able to contain it (after Valerie elbowed me in the ribs). However, when I got home I immediately cracked up…
“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a facist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to great danger.”
—Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials (1946)
