Religion

People are complex polyhedrons of beliefs, ideas and attitudes. I mean that people are not just double-faced, but multi-faced. The modern American practice of Christianity is one example that bugs me to my core. So many people say they are great Christians, especially here in the American southeast. But how do they prove it? Sure they go to church every Sunday, offer as much as anyone else and believe in the Bible and all that their minister or preacher say. How does that make them extra-ordinary Christians? That would put them on the same level as every other member of their congregation and all of the other congregations that Christianity encompasses around the world. What makes a person a great Christian is how they act out of church. Most people who will make sure that you know they are great Christians really aren't. Many "great" Christians are the ones who work all week, while cussing their boss out under their breath, or to their face. Most "great" Christians get drunk on Friday payday, suffer through the hangover on Saturday, and maybe they confess it and ask for forgiveness on Sunday. Maybe not.

The great Christians are the ones you've never heard say a word against another person, except when it was needed and appropriate. The great Christians are the ones who may take real wine during Communion, but don't get drunk. The great Christians are the ones who help others, who don't hold grudges and who are kind. That is what Christianity is supposed to teach. Not to convert or kill all others, but to be tolerant and to respect others' beliefs and teachings. To love all as your neighbor, even your enemies.

I feel better. Your comment, thoughts, corrections?

Evolution vs. Society

The human species has stopped moving towards improvement. I'm speaking specifically about evolution, natural selection, the improvement of the species and why it doesn't happen anymore. When humans stopped migrating, became agrarian and stangnant and had an abundace of food, we formed a society. It made perfect sense at the time, as most things do. As time went on, rulers, governments, trade all came and made the world stronger, and the human healthier, and society more permanent. All the time, the desire to reproduce with the best mate availible fell to a lower priority. The humans that reproduced most were those who enjoyed the act. This eventually made the vast majority of human beings enjoy sex. This, though good for the survival of the species in general, thanks to safety in numbers, was not good for the individual, who was no longer created from people who were beleived by eachother to be the best possible mates, they were created by two people who wanted to have sex. This has and is allowing negative traits to remain in the gene pool. Humans are essentially stagnating in an evolutionary sense.

Life is a Dish

A metaphor we've all heard. "He's just got too much on his plate". The metaphor can be expanded upon, however. Life is commonly called a balancing act. Life is almost like trying to keep a plate balanced on a stick. Sometimes you put too much on one side, and you have to take some off, or put some on the other side. This is huge with time management and athletics. When you have a lot to do, you have to balance all of your responsibilities, so that every thing and everybody gets their due or needed attention. With many sports, you have to sometimes make a certain motion more extreme to teach your body to do the motion correctly when you're not thinking about it. You always have to keep in your mind the final, correct motion, so that you don't keep doing it so extremely. This is like temporarily raising your dish, so that some falls to the other side to balance out that part of your plate. If one side of your plate is raised, another side falls. Similarly, if you start doing something more than is right, you also start doing something less than you should.

A perfect life is a level , well balanced one.

Absolutism

Absolutism Does Not Exist

That can't be true. If absolutism does not exist, then the fact that there is not absolutism is not absolutely accurate, so absolutism must exist, by the very statement that states that it does not.

I think, though this is due to change at any given moment, that absolutism is something that human beings strive for as a way of simplifying life and its many problems, but that the concept of absolutism is otherwise foreign to the natural world. Throughout history, science has been the search of finite, unquestionable, correct solutions to questions we have about the world we live in. Mathematics, a human created scientific concept, is one area in which absolutism runs free. Math is also called the true science, because of the constant accuracy it turns out. The other sciences' most stark difference is their relation to the real world. Though math can be used to find solutions from the real world, that usually falls into some other field of science, such as physics or chemistry, in which it is virtually impossible to account for all variables, since nothing in the real world ever seems to happen as perfectly as it does in theory.

Brain hurts...need sleep...whatcha think? Any arguments?

Education

Is a bitch. All I really have to say about it. I'm tired of having to have crap shoved down my throat. There are so many ways to teach that are so much funner for everyone involved. America's (sorry the people in charge of America have) got this stupid idea that students are little books to be written in, and nothing falls out. If something falls out, its their fault they didn't work hard enough to hold the binding together. Sometimes there just aren't enough pages, sometimes it rains, sometimes the pen is just too hard to pick up. Sometimes the authors don't agree with each other.
What if school taught kids to want to write in their books? What if school taught that a full book was a cool book? What if school taught kids to like to learn? A cultivated interest in knowledge will go farther than seventeen years of knowledge learned for a few tests. An interest in knowledge could keep people smart all their lives, more interested in news, politics, the world around them. An interest could keep seniors tech literate and build bonds that are unimaginable now.
Almost everyone thinks, or has thought that being a scientist would be a cool job. Why? Because they get to discover things, they get to learn, they get to make the textbook, they get to know all there is to know. They all love what the area they're working in. What if everyone was a scientist. They could still be firefighters, burger flippers, politicians, or whatever, but they could all be adding to the world's unfathomable repository of knowledge. A sharing of ideas by billions of people. A social Internet. All through a change of educational attack.

If we can teach an unwilling senior calculus, I think we could teach someone to love Biology.

Or I could be wrong?

Or..

I have had another epiphany about government. What about a layered democracy? My civics teacher had a good point that a pure democracy just wouldn't work. People in Orlando wouldn't care if a road got paved in Seattle, so their votes wouldn't really count. But what if people in Seattle voted for the road in Seattle, the people in Orlando voted for the new airport in Orlando? What if the people in Georgia voted for a new interstate that would go from Atlanta, to Savannah, to Alabama? What if the people in America voted for war? A great quote from someone was that it is impossible to govern without the consent of the governed. In my idea, the governing would be the governed. A small administration would still have to exist to decide which laws were voted on at which level, and interpret the laws in place for that purpose. This could lower taxes, because we wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to have people choosing crap the people they're representing could buy, we could just do it ourselves and save the money. Taxes would still have to be around, of course to pay for that small delgation and public services, like roads. Everything else, like electricity and phone lines, could be commercialized, and kept competitve for the consumer, the public.

Any thoughts?

USA's Got a few Probs

This isn't a country-hating, flag-burning rant of teen angst. This is my explanation of what's up with the USA.

Let's start with the schools. Due to the international and domestic intellect competitions, schools have had to become more focused on cramming knowledge in our heads than making learining a fun process. Once kids get out of school, they have no desire to learn, so they only get stupider as they forget what they learned. The outcome has been that schools have seen the solution to be to cram more stuff for us to forget into our heads. This means that kids have harder courses, less free time, no recess. No fifth grader should ever think that he's stupid becuase he doesn't know how to spell onamonapia, or however you spell that. Standardized testing has become overwhelimingly oppresive at all levels. School, contrary to many teachers' beliefs, is not just somewhere to learn, it is a place for social development. If we don't learn to communicate and live with people in school, when will we? Gone are the days where a kid had reccess, and learned to enjoy playing Which leads me to weight. Since no one ever learns to enjoy physical activity (remember middle school PE anyone?) why would they ever do it? If no one likes to move, no one will. If they aren't moving, they're being lazy bums. Lazy makes more lazy, so houses and offices fall into disrepair because no one moves to clean them. Kids learn to entertain themselves by sitting at the computer, or in front of the TV instead of by swimming or exploring or anything that requires more than a thumb movement.

While these people are sitting in front of Youtube or the boob tube, they are exposed to some very extreme views on the news, blogs, and on strange Myspace bullitens. These views shift people's views to the point that they are diehard supporters of views on blogs that have no credibility. Then they go to the social settings they never learned to deal with, and argue and fight over these views.

Get a bucket. Politicians. Just the word makes you wanna throw up, right?
Politicians say that monetary fundraisers and donations are a political reality. Government, like most other human creations, dosen't work in reality. It only works in an ideological situation. Thus politicians need to be exposed only to the realitites they need to fix, and the idealism of what they are doing. They are in charge a country of hundereds of millions of people. They need to back off of the realities of getting elected, and into the ideals of what they are going to accomplish once they win. If that's enough, they'll get in. Once they're in, they shouldn't totally change their position. That's exactly what the country hates: slimy, lying, shifty politicians.

People can't whine if they don't participate. That's like saying that it's so unfair to Salvation Army that they aren't getting any donations, and then throwing everything away. HYPOCRITES!!! Even hypocrites hate hypocrits, which is really hypocritical of them. If you don't like how the government is going, vote for the people you think cold make it better.

People have become so obsessed with others. Others like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Eminem. Who cares who was cheating on who? Its their private life. If they have sex in Central Park, that's public. Don't do crap like that in public. Why do we send helicopters to watch a wedding? It probabaly messed everyone's hair up and ruined the reception. Great, you ruined the greatest moment of their lives.

What the f**k is wrong with being gay? If a gay person's hitting on you, go ahead, insult them. Otherwise, what's gonna happen because the two guys next to you on the plane are kissing? They probably think its strange when you and you're boy/girl friend start holding hands. Is your arm gonna fall off because two chicks in California got married? If so, you need to see a doctor about that.

Human beings screw everything up. Religion, government, social systems. Everything works in an idealistic situation. Then the reality of the human race, and specifically it's scum come and mess it up.I eagerly await your arguments, compiments, and miscellanous comments.