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The first thing involves North Korea and the serious situation that is going on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear
I hope that cooler heads will decrease the potency of this situation so that we don't find ourselves active in a third major war. If they don't however and we go to war (again) with South Korea, I hope that we do it right. Mobolize the entire country for a major conflict, tell the American people that this could get very bad and there will be sacrifices the country will HAVE to make in order to win. Wars are started with something as simple as a look or a word. Lets hope that things don't get that far.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6634282
This is just asinine people I'm sorry. Part of driving is learning how to deal with the consequences of our choices on the road. Speeding, aggressive driving, or whatever and getting a ticket from it is just part of the process. So what if it allows a parent to talk to the driver? A police car with flashing lights is more intimidating than a parent for a 16 year old. Not to mention the fact that by allowing parents to yell at their kids through this thing DISTRACTS their kids from driving! DUH!
If a kid is going to disobey the rules that are going to no matter what. Whats to stop them from smashing or taking the damn thing off to begin with? This is the REAL world people and in the REAL world no one is going to know anyother person EXACT movements or actions. If you don't trust your kid so much that you use this damn thing, then I have to seriously question your parenting up to that point. Besides if anything its called:
PULL THE KEYS, CAR, AND LICENSE DUMB ASS!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Abandoning religion
So I had a few friends at work ask me why I chose to be agnostic even though I was raised in a semireligious house. This was my response to them and figured I would post it for everyone else who wanted to know. I tried to make this easy to follow lol. This is mostly just the big reasons I chose to abandon religion and become agnostic.
Every religion is FULL of contradictions. For example, how is it that god can have so many human emotions, such as jealousy (one commandment states "have no other god before me" which I interpret as jealousy) and yet some of the very same emotions are "sinful" for humans to have? God can act human but humans can't act human? Makes no sense. Also how can god "love everyone" and yet turn around and condemn them to "hell" for "sinning"? Any parent (god is considered a parent in religion) worth an ounce would NEVER be able to condemn his/her child to pain and suffering. The bible also talks about stoning people who commit adultery, mostly women, and yet by supposedly impregnating Mary (a married woman) god is committing adultery AND rape since Mary was never asked by it. Not to mention if god is so apt at creating life then why does it need to use a human to have a supposed son? God can create life but not without a human? Or why is it "required" that we all have bunches of babies and yet god can't seem to have more than one? So wouldn't it reason that god should in turn be stoned, or punished in some way, as well?
Also with contradictions. How can religions claim to be tolerant of everyone and opposing views and yet turn around and try and convert people? The very act of trying to convert someone is an act of intolerance, because by telling people to convert to this religion or that religion, you are in effect telling those people that EVERYTHING that have believed in up to that point is wrong and they won't be "saved" unless they change their views. If religions truly were tolerant then they would never send missionaries and try to convert others.
Another big reason, is that religion has its hands soaked in blood of innocent people. From the Crusades and the Inquisition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, religions have been constantly fighting each other. How can a religion be pure and the followers of god when their hands are soaked in blood because they all think they are the one "true" religion. We are all supposed to love one another and yet if someone is the wrong religion that opposes us then we must destroy said "infidel"? Please.. To me if any god exists then it would be more impressed with the people who weren't religious because of all the war and bloodshed caused by religion killing in god's name.
Religions also DETEST people who question them. Questioning your religion seems to be the same as "sinning" to most religions. Any organization, religion, or whatever that refuses to be questioned by others and by its members is not worth belonging to in my mind. Questioning is part of life and there is nothing wrong with "I don't know answers" and yet religions refuse to say that. They would rather people be mindless and follow their religion with no ifs, ands, or buts rather than actually fully use their minds. If we are made by a god, then it would fit that we were given a brain to fully use and be independent thinkers, rather than mindless followers who never question.
Thats pretty much the biggest points as to why I'm agnostic. There are some others but they kinda fit into what I have already said. I figure if there is some sort of god that seems to have tons of time to watch every little move we make and made us all, then it can't complain and condemn me for who I am and what I think.
Every religion is FULL of contradictions. For example, how is it that god can have so many human emotions, such as jealousy (one commandment states "have no other god before me" which I interpret as jealousy) and yet some of the very same emotions are "sinful" for humans to have? God can act human but humans can't act human? Makes no sense. Also how can god "love everyone" and yet turn around and condemn them to "hell" for "sinning"? Any parent (god is considered a parent in religion) worth an ounce would NEVER be able to condemn his/her child to pain and suffering. The bible also talks about stoning people who commit adultery, mostly women, and yet by supposedly impregnating Mary (a married woman) god is committing adultery AND rape since Mary was never asked by it. Not to mention if god is so apt at creating life then why does it need to use a human to have a supposed son? God can create life but not without a human? Or why is it "required" that we all have bunches of babies and yet god can't seem to have more than one? So wouldn't it reason that god should in turn be stoned, or punished in some way, as well?
Also with contradictions. How can religions claim to be tolerant of everyone and opposing views and yet turn around and try and convert people? The very act of trying to convert someone is an act of intolerance, because by telling people to convert to this religion or that religion, you are in effect telling those people that EVERYTHING that have believed in up to that point is wrong and they won't be "saved" unless they change their views. If religions truly were tolerant then they would never send missionaries and try to convert others.
Another big reason, is that religion has its hands soaked in blood of innocent people. From the Crusades and the Inquisition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, religions have been constantly fighting each other. How can a religion be pure and the followers of god when their hands are soaked in blood because they all think they are the one "true" religion. We are all supposed to love one another and yet if someone is the wrong religion that opposes us then we must destroy said "infidel"? Please.. To me if any god exists then it would be more impressed with the people who weren't religious because of all the war and bloodshed caused by religion killing in god's name.
Religions also DETEST people who question them. Questioning your religion seems to be the same as "sinning" to most religions. Any organization, religion, or whatever that refuses to be questioned by others and by its members is not worth belonging to in my mind. Questioning is part of life and there is nothing wrong with "I don't know answers" and yet religions refuse to say that. They would rather people be mindless and follow their religion with no ifs, ands, or buts rather than actually fully use their minds. If we are made by a god, then it would fit that we were given a brain to fully use and be independent thinkers, rather than mindless followers who never question.
Thats pretty much the biggest points as to why I'm agnostic. There are some others but they kinda fit into what I have already said. I figure if there is some sort of god that seems to have tons of time to watch every little move we make and made us all, then it can't complain and condemn me for who I am and what I think.
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