There are mindless drones on both sides of the political spectrum. For every brain dead FOX News quoter there is a naive protestor with unquestioning faith in CNN. I'm not totally biased against the idea of a conservative government. I know there is a time and place for everything. My problem is in the religiously charged nonsense that has ruined countries for thousands of years (yes, long before the catholic church even existed people were being persecuted, let's not place all the blame in one place!)
My problem with the whole Prop. 8 fiasco right now, beyond my own personal beliefs of human equality, is that these forever hypocritical GOPers can sit there with smug faces calling President Obama a socialist(or condemn his practices as such) while donating their money to bullshit Proposition 8 Support groups (money that they turn around and bitch about being "over taxed") that actively oppress a minority group. How is THAT fair and just? Is THAT what freedom is, the ability to dehumanize people who practice things you, in your holy righteousness, don't agree with?
I love the signs that read along the lines of "Protect Marriage, Outlaw Divorce". They sum it up PERFECTLY. The majority of married couples in this country deface the "sacred union" every day with divorce, affairs, and domestic abuse. How dare these people stand in their pulpits telling us that WE are shameful, that WE are misled, and that WE are the source of evils in the world. Who is some ignorant man or woman in rural Utah to speak about the relation that two men or two women in California? NOBODY. Just like I have no place to say that shot gun weddings and socially acceptable marriages are ok or not ok (they end up speaking for themselves sooner or later). The issue here is so black and white, it is incredible how much grey some people have managed to inject into it.
Personally, I don't need anybody, let alone people I've never met, to tell me my feelings for another person are acceptable or okay. If I love somebody, I love them. I don't really understand why so many homosexuals care to be a part of the tradition of marriage in the first place (even though I'm sure I'll end up getting married, I'm just saying that it is an after action of already being in love).
And you know what, fuck the politics, the only groups who is REALLY at liberty to decide how they want to define marriage are the churches. This is really a no brainer on both sides of the spectrum. If I go to a catholic church with Scott Henley and they tell us to fuck off then I'm going to say "well, fuck em too. I don't want to be a part of that kind of bullshit anyways". If we get in the car and drive down the street to a unitarian church and they say "word! we're down, lets make it happen." Then who the fuck is the Government to step in and say "ahh...no"? Theres this crazy little thing called the Constitution of the United States of America that perfectly outlines these things and the people who are trying to use it as ammunition are the ones who are contradicting it.
wow. rant over
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
New ways of explaining myself
I need to figure out a better way of explaining my opinions than just coming out as a self righteous know it all on my little soap box of a blog. I have a tendency to ostracize the opposing view in similar form as that god awful bitch Ann Coulter, and boy is that the LAST person I ever want to share anything with.
I started writing this blog about how much of a joke the "War on Drugs" is, and how insulting it is that the participating governments and media continue to carry the banner on this nonsense like anyone who hasn't done some scratch-the-surface research on it still believes it is somehow worth spending another penny on.
I don't even NEED to explain WHY it is so absurd because if you have done nothing more than attend public school in the United States you have already learned about the failure of Prohibition in the late 1910's-early 1930's and how beneficial(monetarily) the relegalization of alcohol has been since. Just change the word "booze" to "drug" and the story is the same. Do you think you would even know the name Al Capone if there had never been a ban on alcohol? Do you understand that the United States Government essentially GAVE him the power to commit all the crimes of extortion and murder? Some people are going to cause trouble regardless. Some people are going to abuse substances regardless. These don't have to go hand in hand though!
My opinion on illicit substances are about the same as they are on abortions.
1) No authoritative body should be able to dictate what I do with my body.
2) Nobody needs to "protect me from myself"(If I make a poor decision and kill myself, then the world now has one less idiot there to destroy it. It's called Natural Selection)
3) Possibly the most important, JUST BECAUSE IT IS LEGAL DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO DO IT!!!!!!
I think a lot of those radical "Christian" hate groups have this warped idea that the "Godless Culture" of today (which is silly enough in itself once you crack a history book and realize that nothing we are doing today is worse than anything any previous generation has done. in fact, we're probably more moral and responsible than most past cultures!!) fancies a lifestyle out of getting pregnant and then sticking it to the Pope by running over to our local Planned Parenthood for an abortion, laughing all the way.
...And here I am going to stop myself. Do you see what I was saying earlier about the Ann Coulter comparison? I hope anybody who reads this blog takes it as a grain of salt and, if nothing else, gets a chuckle out of my ability to get bent out of shape too easily. I really do have these opinions, I just have weird ways of putting them into words because as soon as I start writing them down I become 110% convinced that my opinion is flawless and that I see the world more clearly than anyone else. Obviously these are both UNTRUE facts, but you know what it's like to get caught up in the heat of the moment!!!
love
I started writing this blog about how much of a joke the "War on Drugs" is, and how insulting it is that the participating governments and media continue to carry the banner on this nonsense like anyone who hasn't done some scratch-the-surface research on it still believes it is somehow worth spending another penny on.
I don't even NEED to explain WHY it is so absurd because if you have done nothing more than attend public school in the United States you have already learned about the failure of Prohibition in the late 1910's-early 1930's and how beneficial(monetarily) the relegalization of alcohol has been since. Just change the word "booze" to "drug" and the story is the same. Do you think you would even know the name Al Capone if there had never been a ban on alcohol? Do you understand that the United States Government essentially GAVE him the power to commit all the crimes of extortion and murder? Some people are going to cause trouble regardless. Some people are going to abuse substances regardless. These don't have to go hand in hand though!
My opinion on illicit substances are about the same as they are on abortions.
1) No authoritative body should be able to dictate what I do with my body.
2) Nobody needs to "protect me from myself"(If I make a poor decision and kill myself, then the world now has one less idiot there to destroy it. It's called Natural Selection)
3) Possibly the most important, JUST BECAUSE IT IS LEGAL DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO DO IT!!!!!!
I think a lot of those radical "Christian" hate groups have this warped idea that the "Godless Culture" of today (which is silly enough in itself once you crack a history book and realize that nothing we are doing today is worse than anything any previous generation has done. in fact, we're probably more moral and responsible than most past cultures!!) fancies a lifestyle out of getting pregnant and then sticking it to the Pope by running over to our local Planned Parenthood for an abortion, laughing all the way.
...And here I am going to stop myself. Do you see what I was saying earlier about the Ann Coulter comparison? I hope anybody who reads this blog takes it as a grain of salt and, if nothing else, gets a chuckle out of my ability to get bent out of shape too easily. I really do have these opinions, I just have weird ways of putting them into words because as soon as I start writing them down I become 110% convinced that my opinion is flawless and that I see the world more clearly than anyone else. Obviously these are both UNTRUE facts, but you know what it's like to get caught up in the heat of the moment!!!
love
Monday, May 11, 2009
If you watch Fox news, I feel sorry for you
I'm just chilling, waiting for work to happen. studying and trying to get myself up to speed on the whole "electricity" thing. Trying to get involved in some other stuff so that I can stop going to bed feeling slightly bored. Last night we ate dinner at Carrie's with a group of people and Kim made a comment about how she misses the subculture and activity of the East Coast. That totally hit the nail on the head when I thought about it. I was trying to figure out why I seemed to be surrounded by forward thinking people, yet not having as much involvement in any specific activity and I realized that things just aren't very organized out here. It is nice to be away from the dominating social cliques that tend to take a lot of metaphorical dick sucking to even be invited into, but at the same time it's unfortunate to see a whole lot of small circles meander aimlessly with no greater purpose. I don't know exactly what problem I'm trying to solve or what cause I'm trying to support, but I definitely feel a little less important not participating in any sort of big picture events these days. I know it still has something to do with not knowing as many people as I did in Richmond and not being as familiar with the events and places that they are "happening", but I also don't want to let myself use that as an excuse. I need to spend some time pondering what I want to accomplish and start working on how I'm going to do that. I'll let you know when I know.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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