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Monday, May 19, 2008
Beat Your Kids!I have the tendency to be too critical of people, especially our lawmakers, but I do
believe I am right
on the subject that's on my mind at this moment. I was listening
to The Bearman and Keith this week, when I heard
them asking a question I had never
put much thought into. Should a parent be punished for a child's lack of
intelligence?
The question arose after they read a story about a girl named
Brittany. Apparently, Brittany stopped attending school
when she lived with her
mother at age 16. Her father, as I understand it, had custody of her and a judge put
Brittany's
education on her father's shoulders. After Brittany failed her GED time
and time again, her father was sentenced
to 180 days in prison. Now, when I was a
kid, it didn't take much for my daddy to pull off his belt and whoop my
ass, but God
forbid you do that anymore, kids may actually learn discipline and respect! If you
so much as scold
your child these days you're considered a child abusing maniac who
needs anger management and psycho therapy. If
my daddy ever got sentenced to 180
days in jail because I was either too stupid or too lazy to finish my schooling, he
would have told the judge to tack on some abuse charges while he was at it because
when he got out, Curtis would have
been dead meat. I never thought I was abused
growing up and actually, I admire my parents for disciplining me the way
they did
because it made me understand the theory of actions and consequences. It gave me
respect and instilled
values in me. No, I didn't want to get smacked or whipped and
that was often the reason why I thought twice about
doing some of the stupid things
I may have done if I knew there would be no consequences. Pain is a wonderful device
of discipline when it's used properly. Pain is the freeway to the brain, it by
passes all emotion and other unneeded
obstacles to get information from point A (the
ass) to point B (the head). Pain is a direct root of travel into many
areas of the
mind. It instills fear which creates memories which arise in decision making. If you
whoop your child's
ass for taking money out of his mothers purse, chances are 20
years from then, when he has the opportunity to steal again,
that memory of a
traumatic ass whoopin' will pop up and cause a feeling of dread that will suppress
his urge
of thievery. If instead of a whoopin, you sit him down and explain why he
shouldn't steal, pat his head and give
him the money anyways as a sign of truce, all
he will remember is when he gets caught stealing, he still gets the cash.
So, in
closing, I say this: Unless this world wants the next generation to be a group of
stupid, lazy, useless,
disrespectful thieves, they need to loosen up and let us get
back to what we need to go and beat the unholy shit out
of these little heathen
bastard kids until they straighten the hell up. My daddy use to say, "On your feet
or
you dead meat!" and to that, Daddy, I can only say, WORD!
3:53 pm est
Sunday, May 11, 2008
ReligionThe religions of the world fascinate me. Soothing, inspirational, and yet
destructive and deadly depending
on the circumstance. I, myself, claim no religion
in particular and try to keep faith in the thought that this life isn't
the end of
my existence. Some religions grab hold of their worshipers so strongly they merely
cause more harm than
good. I've had debate upon debate with people from all creeds
and sects about faith, God and the afterlife and come
to the conclusion that the
only thing they can agree on is I am wrong and most likely going to hell if not just
dying
and ending any eternal life there after for myself. A devout Christian will
tell you God is all knowing and loving, yet
still maniacal enough to let you burn in
eternal darkness for infinity if you make the wrong choices, even though he
knew
you'd make them and did nothing to stop you. If I say to that Christian that I don't
believe in hell,
they immediately turn me into a fourth grader with no intelligence
or experience and label me as a poor, unknowledgeable,
lost soul before even letting
me present a rebuttal that may actually make logical sense if they'd take the time
to let it in their thick skulls. On the other hand, a devout Atheist will tell you
we are merely stardust with no real
meaning or purpose. This life is all there is to
existence and the soul is a figment of imagination that man invented
to make himself
feel special. If I even so much as mention the fact that I believe I am special and
have a
purpose and maybe there is something more to this universe than stardust, I'm
labeled as an unintelligent, backwards,
faith healer who still believes in the
boogey man. How different are these two people? Not very different at all if you
ask
me. They're so set in how they think and believe that they absolutely refuse to hear
the opinion of a free
thinker who gave them the respect to listen to what they had
to say with an open mind and heart. I believe that everyone
needs something to
believe in, but I also think this world, with all of its progression and
advancement, needs to
step off of its pedestal of "I'm right and that's that" way of
thinking and use something religion,
or atheism, isn't very fond of...logic.
Logically speaking, would a creator of the universe make it so vast with
so many
countless stars and planets and only create life on one? Would he give his
"children" free will
and then apply rules that go against every natural instinct of
how that creature is designed to test its loyalty, and
if so, if that creature could
not abide by these rules would he then sentence it to eternal damnation in a place
he
created for the wicked? If he is the know all be all why would he create the
wicked in the first place? If he gave free
will and didn't like the outcome why not
just take it back? And logically speaking we may have all come from stardust
but
does that eliminate the possibility that there might be energy and substance within
all living things the human
race is yet to discover? Does that mean we should all
just give up on the notion that there might be a greater life outside
of this one?
Does that mean that every thought, feeling, dream, emotion and unexplained phenomena
is just connecters
and wires or mere coincidence? I think the majority of this world
is missing the big picture. We need to realize that
all is unknown until its over.
No one can claim to be "right" when the only way to do that is to die. You need
to
not live by the order of death and enjoy your life. Do what you can to be a good
person and treat others right.
You'll feel it if you are and if this life is all
there is, they why spend it fighting for the fact itself? Enjoy
yourselves and leave
others do the same. There is no reason to persecute someone for their beliefs. If it
works
for them, it's a beautiful thing, and if it doesn't directly effect you, leave
it alone. Dream on, live free,
and stop asking me to join your church. :) -Word-
4:42 pm est
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Who You Votin For?Election time is right around the corner and once again we’re left with a grab bag
of admirable
and inspirational candidates to choose from to be our fearless leader.
For anyone who isn’t from this planet, that
was sarcasm. We are so far beyond the
point of no return that there is no real change in sight. You will hear the
candidates speak of the glorious changes they will make to better our country and
our lives, and to be honest, I’d
trust mud wrestling a starving cannibal with a
steak knife before I’d believe anything these power hungry word
robots have to say.
Before you judge my lack of confidence as being ignorant, please hear me out. Who do
we have
to choose from? Well, on the Democratic side, we have Barack Obama. The
Golden Boy. Our countries Savior of Change and
Progress. What does he promise? A
stronger economy, ending the war and strict gun laws if not making them illegal all
together. Ok, try to take my guns Mr. Obama and see how far out my front door you
get. You see, whether or not this
country full of uneducated sissies realizes it or
not, making guns illegal only takes them away from the good people
who intend to use
them correctly. The bad guys will always have fire arms, legal or not and use them
in crime and
punishment. I wouldn’t call myself a gun advocate, but I’m sure if the
victims of Virginia Tech were raised
like myself, with respect for guns and
understanding in what they are to be used for and if they were all armed, there
would have only been one victim...the assailant. The problem is this world has
evolved into an unknowledged fraternity
of sissies who don’t even know what
confrontation feels like because their overbearing, overprotective parents
never
exposed them to the real world. Thus, a lack of control when someone goes nuts and
wants to kill. So Mr. Obama
will take guns away from the small percentage of people
who still have enough brains to use them properly. Then we have
little Miss Hilary
“My name is WOMAN” Clinton who lies about being shot at just to seem like some kind
of heroine, only to make a complete ass out of herself in front of the world. I’m
sure in her mind men are useless
scum just because she couldn’t satisfy her husband
enough to keep him from mouth humping some fat intern while
in office, therefore she
will liberate the already overprotected and over privileged female population and
euthanize
all male species with a carnival of laws and rules that will supress men
everywhere until we are dead in our coffins
filled with Oprah and the Lifetime
Channel only to burn our already beaten lifeless bodies with flames made of
estrogen.
Then on the Republican side we have Mr. Hero himself, John McCain. This
pissed off white man is nothing more than George
Bush with a vocabulary and a
vendetta against anything that isn’t American. He can’t even talk about Iraq
without
flashing back to Nam and trying to pull imaginary bamboo slivers from under his
fingernails. I’m sure
he gets an erection just thinking about anything that has to
do with camouflage and probably still keeps a bullet in
his pocket just in case
“Charlie” jumps out of the bush. To be honest, regardless of what they say, all of
these candidates are still endorsed and influenced by the huge corporations that
have always been endorsing politics
and those companies and people will always want
the same thing from the people they helped get into office and they will
always come
before you and me. So, will things ever really “change”? No, but we as a society let
it
get this way so all we can do is blame ourselves. Curtis Jones says vote for none
of the above and let this monopoly
of lies and dishonesty collapse so we can rebuild
a society that we can trust. Let us not forget, there is hope. -Word-
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