Now, I know everyone has had one of those days where things just went wrong. It wasn't a horrible day, no one got hurt, you didn't get fired or wreck your car. It was just a "wrong" day.
I had one of those days yesterday. As the day went on, it seemed the harder I tried to make it better, the worse it got. Conversations with friends ended in terseness, my car decided it only wanted to start half the time, school was stressful for all, cleaning never seemed to end...It was just one of those days. And I'm really trying not to complain because as bad as it was, it was merely frustrating at most. However, it was still a fail. Not big enough to be epic, but a fail nonetheless.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Just for shits and giggles
A friend asked me today what my stance on gay marriage was. While I don't want this to turn into some crazily heated debate, it is my blog and I can write about whatever the hell I want to. :)
My opinion on gay marriage is this: You cannot choose who you fall in love with. Therefore, if you want to exchange vows dedicating your lives to each other, promising to stick together no matter what happens, you have the right to do it. It is my belief that you fall in love with the soul inside the body. In today's world you can make the outside look like whatever you want it to, but the soul(or whatever you want to call it) inside remains the same. You fall in love with the person they are, not what they look like, so who has the right to determine who you can and cannot marry just because you happen to be the same sex? I understand that there are religious...apprehensions about it. And because everyone deserves the right of religious freedom, I say right not privilege, that is completely fair. If a church does not believe two people of the same sex should get married it is their right to exercise their religious freedom and refuse to do so. However, there does need to be a place for gays to get married. After all, we all want the perfect wedding, right? ;) And I do believe that church and state were allegedly separated, so why is there such a big debate on whether or not it should be recognized? I know that the majority of our laws and such are based in religion at some point. However, all men are created equal, plain and simple. Two gay men or two lesbian women getting married and living a happy life together doesn't bother me in the least physically, emotionally, financially, morally or any other -ally. So why can't they?
If you're going to go the "it's a mockery of the sanctity of marriage" route, here's my argument to that: Marriage is already a mockery. Gays have nothing to do with that, nor could they mock it any further.
Not only are there the infamous "Las Vegas marriages" that last no more than hours or days due to drunken-ness or just plain stupidity, here is a link to other "mockers"(Keep in mind, I do not accuse anyone of purposely mocking marriage, I am simply informing you that if your opinion of gays marrying is a mockery, then these marriages must be, by default, mockeries as well.)
http://www.oddee.com/item_97042.aspx
My opinion on gay marriage is this: You cannot choose who you fall in love with. Therefore, if you want to exchange vows dedicating your lives to each other, promising to stick together no matter what happens, you have the right to do it. It is my belief that you fall in love with the soul inside the body. In today's world you can make the outside look like whatever you want it to, but the soul(or whatever you want to call it) inside remains the same. You fall in love with the person they are, not what they look like, so who has the right to determine who you can and cannot marry just because you happen to be the same sex? I understand that there are religious...apprehensions about it. And because everyone deserves the right of religious freedom, I say right not privilege, that is completely fair. If a church does not believe two people of the same sex should get married it is their right to exercise their religious freedom and refuse to do so. However, there does need to be a place for gays to get married. After all, we all want the perfect wedding, right? ;) And I do believe that church and state were allegedly separated, so why is there such a big debate on whether or not it should be recognized? I know that the majority of our laws and such are based in religion at some point. However, all men are created equal, plain and simple. Two gay men or two lesbian women getting married and living a happy life together doesn't bother me in the least physically, emotionally, financially, morally or any other -ally. So why can't they?
If you're going to go the "it's a mockery of the sanctity of marriage" route, here's my argument to that: Marriage is already a mockery. Gays have nothing to do with that, nor could they mock it any further.
Not only are there the infamous "Las Vegas marriages" that last no more than hours or days due to drunken-ness or just plain stupidity, here is a link to other "mockers"(Keep in mind, I do not accuse anyone of purposely mocking marriage, I am simply informing you that if your opinion of gays marrying is a mockery, then these marriages must be, by default, mockeries as well.)
http://www.oddee.com/item_97042.aspx
Friday, March 25, 2011
A question....
So, I overheard a statement (made by someone anonymous) try to console a little girl who was afraid of ants. This person said "You're only afraid of them because you haven't killed one yet. Once you do that you won't be afraid of them anymore."
This got me thinking. I know they were just talking about ants, but at what point do we decide that something is insignificant enough to kill just so we won't be afraid? There are so many directions my mind went in at hearing this statement that I'm overloaded and can't remember most of them. Where do we get off being humans and thinking that just because we're bigger we can do as we please?
Also, at what point do we decide something is sentient? Just because we can't communicate with something the way we want or are used to doesn't mean it isn't sentient or can't communicate. The places I could go with this....
This got me thinking. I know they were just talking about ants, but at what point do we decide that something is insignificant enough to kill just so we won't be afraid? There are so many directions my mind went in at hearing this statement that I'm overloaded and can't remember most of them. Where do we get off being humans and thinking that just because we're bigger we can do as we please?
Also, at what point do we decide something is sentient? Just because we can't communicate with something the way we want or are used to doesn't mean it isn't sentient or can't communicate. The places I could go with this....
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sometimes, late at night, I can swear I hear the TARDIS....
It is extremely egotistical to even entertain the idea that planet Earth holds the only life in the universe.
I recently had a discussion with someone about the search for life on Mars. What really bugs me, and I don't know if they have thought about this or it just never gets said, but it seems common sense to me that if you are looking for life on a planet that does not have an atmosphere like ours and lacks oxygen completely, that the search for oxygen-based life-forms would prove non-existent and is a complete waste of time. There is no oxygen therefore there will be no oxygen-based life-forms. If the atmosphere is carbon-based, then you should be looking for carbon-based life-forms. It seems that "we" are just looking for proof that "we" existed on other planets. Which may be true, however, shouldn't we be looking for life that is not human? They would be aliens so shouldn't we be looking for them and not remnants of mankind? Am I the only one who thinks this way? Has this already been explained at some point and I just wasn't paying attention?
Also, as much as I would LOVE, and I do mean L-O-V-E, to have Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century become a reality, we haven't even fully explored our oceans. Don't you think we should do that first? Not to mention, once we've established a working colony on the moon or mars or wherever, it's obvious that we'll just say "to hell with this planet, we can start over somewhere else."
Now, this might actually be a good thing for Mother Nature because then she can just take over and correct what we've screwed up, however, with the reactors going the way they are in Japan, I'm thinking not so much.
I recently had a discussion with someone about the search for life on Mars. What really bugs me, and I don't know if they have thought about this or it just never gets said, but it seems common sense to me that if you are looking for life on a planet that does not have an atmosphere like ours and lacks oxygen completely, that the search for oxygen-based life-forms would prove non-existent and is a complete waste of time. There is no oxygen therefore there will be no oxygen-based life-forms. If the atmosphere is carbon-based, then you should be looking for carbon-based life-forms. It seems that "we" are just looking for proof that "we" existed on other planets. Which may be true, however, shouldn't we be looking for life that is not human? They would be aliens so shouldn't we be looking for them and not remnants of mankind? Am I the only one who thinks this way? Has this already been explained at some point and I just wasn't paying attention?
Also, as much as I would LOVE, and I do mean L-O-V-E, to have Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century become a reality, we haven't even fully explored our oceans. Don't you think we should do that first? Not to mention, once we've established a working colony on the moon or mars or wherever, it's obvious that we'll just say "to hell with this planet, we can start over somewhere else."
Now, this might actually be a good thing for Mother Nature because then she can just take over and correct what we've screwed up, however, with the reactors going the way they are in Japan, I'm thinking not so much.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Superheroes
So, with the radiation from Japan leaking into the air and all this conversation about Nuclear Reactors/plants in the news, I've been thinking. Are true superheroes in our future?
Now I'm not thinking Superman or Spiderman yet, but is a Batman coming our way? With the way things are going the rich seem to be continuing to get richer while the poor get poorer and with the Parkour craze coming about, the Real-life Superheroes movement and all the civil unrest in the middle east that seems to be spreading throughout the world(think Wisconsin again) Sin City doesn't seem to be all that unrealistic.
Or maybe the radioactive rain will give us something to talk about. I'm thinking a tall, lanky Hulk. (haha) Or a Professor X. That would be cool. Perhaps Nature's way of getting back will be to evolve a few hundred humans into "mutants" like the X-Men. Any opinions?
Now I'm not thinking Superman or Spiderman yet, but is a Batman coming our way? With the way things are going the rich seem to be continuing to get richer while the poor get poorer and with the Parkour craze coming about, the Real-life Superheroes movement and all the civil unrest in the middle east that seems to be spreading throughout the world(think Wisconsin again) Sin City doesn't seem to be all that unrealistic.
Or maybe the radioactive rain will give us something to talk about. I'm thinking a tall, lanky Hulk. (haha) Or a Professor X. That would be cool. Perhaps Nature's way of getting back will be to evolve a few hundred humans into "mutants" like the X-Men. Any opinions?
Saturday, March 12, 2011
It was bound to come up
Okay. 2012. Once we found out we were unable to stop death from occurring (although I'm sure we've never stopped trying to find a way) we have been obsessed with the how. How/when am I going to die? While I hope I die an old, old woman peacefully in her sleep I am resigned to the fact that that's not going to happen. But that's another thing.
As movies show us, we've pretty much thought of everything: aliens, zombies, vampires, werewolves, meteors/asteroids, chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, etc. We've also done the whole y2k/technology-is-going-to-take-over thing. Think Terminator. So it doesn't come as a surprise that the Mayan/2012 thing has come up. We've used Nostradamus, astrology, astronomy, the Mayan calendar, and numerous other things to justify the accuracy and potential of Armageddon in 2012. While this post is not necessarily to confirm/deny this happening, I do have ideals about it.
Nature has us in her sights. It's undeniable and you would be stupid to ignore it. It has been proven that once a species gets too damaging/overpopulated nature rectifies the situation by either creating(or evolving) a species to take care of it or by simply wiping the slate clean and starting over. Think Ice Age. I must say though that mankind is possibly one of the heartiest problems she's had.
The human species is seriously over-populated. There are no longer any places(with the exception of our oceans) that have not been explored. China has an edict that each family is allowed only one child. While they are the only country that has this edict(as far as I know) there are still over 6.9 billion people in the world and this number is growing quickly. How long can we expect to survive?
Even if we somehow get around that problem, we've over-fished our oceans, demolished nearly two-thirds of our planet's resources and habitats and proceeded to annihilate our atmosphere. At what point will we go "this isn't good for us and we need to solve the problem now." In my opinion, it'll happen when the shit has hit the fan and we're looking death in the face. We have long since passed the point of no return.
Which brings me back to the point: will 2012 actually happen? I believe that yes, it will. Maybe not in 2012, and it definitely won't be what we are expecting, but it'll happen soon. I give us 15 years. 20 tops. All this civil unrest, the earthquakes that are rocking Japan's world, in Yellowstone the caldera is rising in a super volcano, Hawaii's volcano erupted out of the side...I can go on and on. I think nature will be the catalyst, the beginning if you will, of Armageddon. Civil unrest won't help things at all, in fact, they'll just make it worse because when we get to the point of civil war (and we will if our government continues its course; look at Wisconsin) nature will seize that opportunity to strike down. We'll be separated in mind and emotion as well as physically(supposing we survived nature's wrath).
Then we have to look at the sun, who is having a major solar flare-out. Now, I'm sure it won't "go out" anytime soon, most definitely not in my lifetime, but it has an effect. In 2012 it will align with the center of our universe. This is the thing everyone's so worried about. What will happen? Who knows. Certainly not me. Maybe aliens will come down and save us. :)
As movies show us, we've pretty much thought of everything: aliens, zombies, vampires, werewolves, meteors/asteroids, chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, etc. We've also done the whole y2k/technology-is-going-to-take-over thing. Think Terminator. So it doesn't come as a surprise that the Mayan/2012 thing has come up. We've used Nostradamus, astrology, astronomy, the Mayan calendar, and numerous other things to justify the accuracy and potential of Armageddon in 2012. While this post is not necessarily to confirm/deny this happening, I do have ideals about it.
Nature has us in her sights. It's undeniable and you would be stupid to ignore it. It has been proven that once a species gets too damaging/overpopulated nature rectifies the situation by either creating(or evolving) a species to take care of it or by simply wiping the slate clean and starting over. Think Ice Age. I must say though that mankind is possibly one of the heartiest problems she's had.
The human species is seriously over-populated. There are no longer any places(with the exception of our oceans) that have not been explored. China has an edict that each family is allowed only one child. While they are the only country that has this edict(as far as I know) there are still over 6.9 billion people in the world and this number is growing quickly. How long can we expect to survive?
Even if we somehow get around that problem, we've over-fished our oceans, demolished nearly two-thirds of our planet's resources and habitats and proceeded to annihilate our atmosphere. At what point will we go "this isn't good for us and we need to solve the problem now." In my opinion, it'll happen when the shit has hit the fan and we're looking death in the face. We have long since passed the point of no return.
Which brings me back to the point: will 2012 actually happen? I believe that yes, it will. Maybe not in 2012, and it definitely won't be what we are expecting, but it'll happen soon. I give us 15 years. 20 tops. All this civil unrest, the earthquakes that are rocking Japan's world, in Yellowstone the caldera is rising in a super volcano, Hawaii's volcano erupted out of the side...I can go on and on. I think nature will be the catalyst, the beginning if you will, of Armageddon. Civil unrest won't help things at all, in fact, they'll just make it worse because when we get to the point of civil war (and we will if our government continues its course; look at Wisconsin) nature will seize that opportunity to strike down. We'll be separated in mind and emotion as well as physically(supposing we survived nature's wrath).
Then we have to look at the sun, who is having a major solar flare-out. Now, I'm sure it won't "go out" anytime soon, most definitely not in my lifetime, but it has an effect. In 2012 it will align with the center of our universe. This is the thing everyone's so worried about. What will happen? Who knows. Certainly not me. Maybe aliens will come down and save us. :)
Doggie birthdays
My grandmother's cousin is blind and her seeing-eye dog's birthday is today. A wonderful gesture though I'm sure the dog, Galaxy, is more partial to the dog treats and toys rather than the party hats and photos. As I'm sure every seven year old is :)
So we're celebrating her bday. My dog and my grandmother's dog are having a blast playing with their "special day" playmate.
Today made me think of my dog's birthday. She was born in may but I honestly cannot remember the day. I got her from the humane society when she was eight weeks old. Considering they didn't know what breed she was (she's Australian Kelpie yet they told me she was a rat terrier mix) I can't say that I'd trust them when it came to her birth date.
So we've decided to throw a birthday party for my dog on the third Friday of May. Right this minute I don't know the actual date but I don't care. We will celebrate it on a different day next year and so on and so forth. A little change will do some good. Mom wants to dress her as a cowboy. Not sure how that's gonna go down. :)
So we're celebrating her bday. My dog and my grandmother's dog are having a blast playing with their "special day" playmate.
Today made me think of my dog's birthday. She was born in may but I honestly cannot remember the day. I got her from the humane society when she was eight weeks old. Considering they didn't know what breed she was (she's Australian Kelpie yet they told me she was a rat terrier mix) I can't say that I'd trust them when it came to her birth date.
So we've decided to throw a birthday party for my dog on the third Friday of May. Right this minute I don't know the actual date but I don't care. We will celebrate it on a different day next year and so on and so forth. A little change will do some good. Mom wants to dress her as a cowboy. Not sure how that's gonna go down. :)
Friday, March 11, 2011
I wonder sometimes....
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Everyone knows Newton's third law. But I wonder who really thinks about it.
For example: we drill up oil and replace it with with co2 (I hope I'm correct in this but I'm too lazy to double check it at this moment). What I wonder is what do people think is going to happen after this? The oil is there for a reason, taking up space and while we do replace it, we replace it with an extremely flammable substance. Does no one think that this might end up a bit problematic? Aren't volcanoes underground? Wouldn't an earthquake cause some sort of breakage in the containment of this replacement?
Another example: Extinction.
An excerpt from wikipedia states: Humans can cause extinction of a species through over harvesting, pollution, habitat destruction, introduction of new predators and food competitors, over hunting, and other influences. Explosive, unsustainable human population growth is an essential cause of the extinction crisis.[11] According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 784 extinctions have been recorded since the year 1500 (to the year 2004), the arbitrary date selected to define "modern" extinctions, with many more likely to have gone unnoticed (several species have also been listed as extinct since the 2004 date).
This makes me think about what Mother Nature has up her sleeve. Many know the quote "you build a better mousetrap and nature will always build a better mouse." But do we actually think about it? I mean really think? So many species have gone extinct because of over fishing, pollution, habitat destruction, etc that I wonder what is in store for us as payback. We've already seen evidence of new viruses that have no cure, cancer, AIDS and other terminal illnesses that have begun to hack into our surplus of species but what about natural disasters? Would they count as well?
Hurricane Katrina, Haiti, recently there was Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Now, I want to be sure and state that I don't believe these happened because of some religious you-did-something-wrong-and-have-proven-yourself-unworthy-of-life or something. And by no means does anyone deserve to be hit by a quake and tsunami within thirty minutes of each other, but it just makes me think, is this nature's way of payback? Natural disasters seem to be the only thing we can barely predict let alone prevent or protect ourselves from. To be honest, I wouldn't blame Mother Nature for doing it as we seem to have caused a lot of problems for her.
For example: we drill up oil and replace it with with co2 (I hope I'm correct in this but I'm too lazy to double check it at this moment). What I wonder is what do people think is going to happen after this? The oil is there for a reason, taking up space and while we do replace it, we replace it with an extremely flammable substance. Does no one think that this might end up a bit problematic? Aren't volcanoes underground? Wouldn't an earthquake cause some sort of breakage in the containment of this replacement?
Another example: Extinction.
An excerpt from wikipedia states: Humans can cause extinction of a species through over harvesting, pollution, habitat destruction, introduction of new predators and food competitors, over hunting, and other influences. Explosive, unsustainable human population growth is an essential cause of the extinction crisis.[11] According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 784 extinctions have been recorded since the year 1500 (to the year 2004), the arbitrary date selected to define "modern" extinctions, with many more likely to have gone unnoticed (several species have also been listed as extinct since the 2004 date).
This makes me think about what Mother Nature has up her sleeve. Many know the quote "you build a better mousetrap and nature will always build a better mouse." But do we actually think about it? I mean really think? So many species have gone extinct because of over fishing, pollution, habitat destruction, etc that I wonder what is in store for us as payback. We've already seen evidence of new viruses that have no cure, cancer, AIDS and other terminal illnesses that have begun to hack into our surplus of species but what about natural disasters? Would they count as well?
Hurricane Katrina, Haiti, recently there was Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Now, I want to be sure and state that I don't believe these happened because of some religious you-did-something-wrong-and-have-proven-yourself-unworthy-of-life or something. And by no means does anyone deserve to be hit by a quake and tsunami within thirty minutes of each other, but it just makes me think, is this nature's way of payback? Natural disasters seem to be the only thing we can barely predict let alone prevent or protect ourselves from. To be honest, I wouldn't blame Mother Nature for doing it as we seem to have caused a lot of problems for her.
In the beginning....
So, this is it. I have finally joined the ranks. I am a blogger. Yay for me.
I guess I've started this for myself. Some place for me to write down random thoughts so that others can comment on(if I actually have any readers) There are a lot of times when I'll think of something and want to get a diverse opinion on it. So, here we are. Ah, the joys of the internet. Anyway, I'll leave off on one of my favorite statements: Ham and eggs; a days work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
I guess I've started this for myself. Some place for me to write down random thoughts so that others can comment on(if I actually have any readers) There are a lot of times when I'll think of something and want to get a diverse opinion on it. So, here we are. Ah, the joys of the internet. Anyway, I'll leave off on one of my favorite statements: Ham and eggs; a days work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
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