Today it’s weird, I have been more excited today than ever to write in this thing, but with that is pressure. With the rapid increase in readers…or so I think…there is the ever present possibility of failure which frightens me. I have no idea what I am going to write about as I set here. For the first time I have no idea where this is going to end up, if there is ever a time when you should stop reading in the first paragraph, its now.
Let me vent first of all on something that happened today. This might be where my advertisement of “school safe” ends for the blog. I had a sub today in one of my classes. The sub in my mind is there only for the 60 dollars a day. I have had her before in the same class and last time she let us leave for lunch early. A certain teacher who very few students have respect for…(we shall call him “M” for the sake of me getting in trouble and never being able to share my thoughts with you fine people again) decided he wanted to take matters into his own hands and told our teacher about us leaving 3 minutes early when she came back thus getting us a “your seniors you should know better” speech. This speech echoed in our minds for about 3 seconds at the time, that of course was until today when Miss 60 dollars is back and the same scenario is played out. This time she claims that we HAVE to go because she is locking the door and turning out the lights whether we are out or not. We happily but reluctantly go to lunch only to be greeted my big bad M again. He puts on his authority pants and rides his power trip stating that we are in “big trouble this time.” I politely laugh at his immaturity, but am completely thrown off guard when he uses the argument that we should have stayed in the room and got locked in because it was the “right thing to do.” I guess insubordination is no longer grounds for getting written up. I am still astounded at the illogicalness of his argument and am forever surprised at the power trip and arrogance displayed by SOME of the teachers at our school. I find it utterly hilarious that some teachers are so out of control of their lives that at the smallest opportunities to have authority they choose to exploit it often beyond the grounds of their job description. Let me say something to teachers….IT IS NOT A STUDENTS GOAL TO TICK YOU OFF AND RUIN YOUR DAY, IF YOU DON’T LIKE KIDS FIND A NEW JOB, YOU’RE A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER…ENOUGH SAID.
Let me say one thing before I close: The teachers that get most of our respect get it because they give us respect. They remember how much it sucks to be a teenager. They realise whats important in high school life. They realise their class isn't the only one we have. They have come to the conclusion that you cant reinvent the wheel and change the world, we are the way we are and nothing is going to change that by now. I'm not saying that they don't care or their class is the easiest, but they treat us a equal human being, realising why we are both there, and focus on developing some sort of personal relationship with the student, attempting to be a friend, not just a superior.
I’m already curious as to how that paragraphs ripple effects will rock the boat of my life. I’m sorry today’s entry was rather short. I will do my best to come back tomorrow with a little more meaningful entry. I thank all of you once again, and choose to close by challenging you to point out a teacher’s flaw to them just once over the next couple weeks……They point out yours every day.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
RELIGION...As I see it.
So I had a few more readers than the day before. Thank you so much for the feedback, positive or negative. What amazes me is the fact that some people act like they are above reading a blog and act like I am less of a person because I have opinions beyond the reaches of their intelligence. O well as long as there is at least one person reading every day I will keep writing.
So yesterday I wrote about sports and it was brought to my attention that I didn’t talk about one of my biggest topics of discussion over the last few weeks…BALL STATE. Besides it being a possible college choice of mine, the football team is abnormally talented this year….let me put this to rest once and for all…THEY HAVE NOT PLAYED A GOOD TEAM. Every team they have played has had some sort of direction or adjective in front of the state name. MARK MY WORDS: They will face a ranked team in a bowl, and get killed, by more than 2 touchdowns.
Ok so today I am writing about something that I think everyone has a view on it male or female, contrary from yesterday’s entry. Today I am going to talk about the other thing you are not to talk about at the dinner table: RELIGION.
First off let me give you a bit of a background about myself. I used to be an atheist. This are the questions that used to perplex my mind enough to doubt religion so much that I made a person cry, while ripping into them about religion. My biggest question was what is the difference? Let me explain, there are countless religions in the world and even more denominations of those religions. Which on is true, which one is more factual? All of them have members that are “100%” certain that their religion is the right one. What makes yours any different? It was like a cave that branches off in to a thousand different tunnels at different point and only one of them has a pot of gold at the end you have to find the right one, even though all of the tunnels have signs leading you to the goal, only one set of signs is the right path. To me the chance of one of these modern day religions being true was astronomical. I thought than religion was based on a series of myths that have been misconstrued over that past 2000 years. I also thought of the fact that religion itself is completely illogical. Most people who are religious call themselves logical human beings, they would say they make logical decisions, but how can you make the argument that going to a big building with a bunch of other people and drink what they think is the blood of a dead man, not just a dead man but a man who died 2000 years ago….
Ok so I don’t think it’s a secret but I am a bit ashamed of how I used to act. I don’t believe in any of those thoughts anymore. I have a made a complete 180. I now think that religion is inevitable, society must have religion or society itself will fail. Although most wars in the world is a result of, not political difference but religious difference. This is something that scares me. How can someone be so passionate about something they would die for it. To what extent will people go for religion… (this is rather ironic and I am taking it as a sign from god, but as I was writing this HOPE, by jack Johnson came on)
So my point is I now go to a Pentecostal church and rarely miss a service. I have been into my faith for only about 6 months and will have the new testament of the bible finished by new years and I will have read the bible in its entirety by my one year religion anniversary which is June 17. This is astounding for someone who 6 months ago was “100%” sure that there was no more to life than what we see.
Faith is defined by Webster as: Firm belief in something for which there is no proof….I want you to give this some thought. Isn’t there proof for Christianity, If you go to church are you a Christian only on Sunday, If you don’t go to church what do you do instead, how firm is your belief, If the rapture happened today where would you go, is religion worth it, is not having religion worth it, of all these answers HOW SURE ARE YOU???
Thanks again for reading, If you took the time to read take the time to tell me what you think.
So yesterday I wrote about sports and it was brought to my attention that I didn’t talk about one of my biggest topics of discussion over the last few weeks…BALL STATE. Besides it being a possible college choice of mine, the football team is abnormally talented this year….let me put this to rest once and for all…THEY HAVE NOT PLAYED A GOOD TEAM. Every team they have played has had some sort of direction or adjective in front of the state name. MARK MY WORDS: They will face a ranked team in a bowl, and get killed, by more than 2 touchdowns.
Ok so today I am writing about something that I think everyone has a view on it male or female, contrary from yesterday’s entry. Today I am going to talk about the other thing you are not to talk about at the dinner table: RELIGION.
First off let me give you a bit of a background about myself. I used to be an atheist. This are the questions that used to perplex my mind enough to doubt religion so much that I made a person cry, while ripping into them about religion. My biggest question was what is the difference? Let me explain, there are countless religions in the world and even more denominations of those religions. Which on is true, which one is more factual? All of them have members that are “100%” certain that their religion is the right one. What makes yours any different? It was like a cave that branches off in to a thousand different tunnels at different point and only one of them has a pot of gold at the end you have to find the right one, even though all of the tunnels have signs leading you to the goal, only one set of signs is the right path. To me the chance of one of these modern day religions being true was astronomical. I thought than religion was based on a series of myths that have been misconstrued over that past 2000 years. I also thought of the fact that religion itself is completely illogical. Most people who are religious call themselves logical human beings, they would say they make logical decisions, but how can you make the argument that going to a big building with a bunch of other people and drink what they think is the blood of a dead man, not just a dead man but a man who died 2000 years ago….
Ok so I don’t think it’s a secret but I am a bit ashamed of how I used to act. I don’t believe in any of those thoughts anymore. I have a made a complete 180. I now think that religion is inevitable, society must have religion or society itself will fail. Although most wars in the world is a result of, not political difference but religious difference. This is something that scares me. How can someone be so passionate about something they would die for it. To what extent will people go for religion… (this is rather ironic and I am taking it as a sign from god, but as I was writing this HOPE, by jack Johnson came on)
So my point is I now go to a Pentecostal church and rarely miss a service. I have been into my faith for only about 6 months and will have the new testament of the bible finished by new years and I will have read the bible in its entirety by my one year religion anniversary which is June 17. This is astounding for someone who 6 months ago was “100%” sure that there was no more to life than what we see.
Faith is defined by Webster as: Firm belief in something for which there is no proof….I want you to give this some thought. Isn’t there proof for Christianity, If you go to church are you a Christian only on Sunday, If you don’t go to church what do you do instead, how firm is your belief, If the rapture happened today where would you go, is religion worth it, is not having religion worth it, of all these answers HOW SURE ARE YOU???
Thanks again for reading, If you took the time to read take the time to tell me what you think.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
sports...as I see it.
After the deepness and seriousness of yesterdays entry today I feel called to discuss something a little lighter, something that may appeal to someone other than just the three girls that decided to leave a comment or the four people who decided to tell me they took the time to read through it.
Today’s entry is about something that shapes society and the economy more than I think most of us realize. It brings families together, yet sometimes puts a barrier between members. Today I am going to write about sports. Now I hope regardless of the topic, that you at least critique my writing if you don’t have anything to say about the material itself
First off let me ramble about some current events. College football is a joke. People watch so much of it yet in the end there is no real ending. There is no real way of settling deputes that one team is better than another. Instead we are faced with 3 weeks of pointless “bowl” games that have virtually no real meaning. Every year we laugh at the new random bowl those two teams we have never heard of play for a large pretzel or something that merely promotes a large company on a national level. My proposal is that there is a playoff system similar to the NFL where the conference e champions (based on record only not a championship game or rankings) and maybe one or two wild cards are put into a playoff style format. Yes this may make the season longer but it will pay off for the teams in the long run. NCAA should approve all schedules to ensure that everyone has as equal schedule as possible. All this would put an end to this retarded system we have no where Oklahoma is ranked ahead of Texas regardless of the fact that Texas beat OU in the regular season. OU has been rewarded for running up the score on teams, something that is usually frowned upon in American sports.
Next let me move to Major League Baseball. This is a mess all around. First let me say that regardless of my criticism I am a bigger fan of baseball than any other sport. I love going to games in the warm summer sun, and I love watching the Yankees not live up to my expectations every year. On to the actual subject matter, a salary cap in baseball is stupid and pointless. Part of the reason I like baseball is that the team has so many people and the season is so long it forces each organization to search deep within its farm system to find a young prospect that will be tomorrow’s next big star. You may ask yourself when the last time this happened is. to which I answer EVAN LONGORIA. He was AL rookie of the year, he sat more records his rookie season than BABE RUTH. He would have never been given this opportunity unless the Rays had not been running short on money and were forced to take a gamble.
For some reason as I started typing my material faded fast but am going to leave you with a rapid paragraph that I hope will entice discussion, pride, or maybe just plain hatred for me. This part will consist mostly of opinions that have some facts that back them if you choose to email me I will be glad to answer. Here we go: THE RED SOX SUCK, THE YANKEES ARE THE GREATEST SPORTS FRANCHISE IN HISTORY, BUD SELIG IS A GENIUS, THE RAYS WERE THE BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL, NOTHING GOOD EVER CAME FROM BOSTON OR PHILIDELPHIA, THE PATRIOTS ARE OVERRATED AND ARE NOW PROVING MY POINT, FANS IN INDIANA ARE BAND WAGONERS, THE PACERS ARE GOOD, THE COLTS USED TO BE, THE COLTS WILL MAKE THE PLAYOFFS, THEY WILL GET BEAT FIRST ROUND, BARRY BONDS DIDN’T USE STEROIDS JUST LIKE O.J. DIDN’T MURDER, SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD CHANGE THE NAME OF THEIR MASCOT, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT A HOOSIER IS, TORONTO MISSPELLED IS HOCKEY TEAMS NAME, SPORTS PLAYER GET PAID MORE TO PLAY A GAME THAN THE PRESIDENT DOES TO GET HASSELED ABOUT MONEY, AMERICANS NEED TO WATCH HOCKEY MORE, THE NBA IS NO LONGER COOL, STOP WEARING SPORTS JERSEYS UNLESS YOU ARE BLACK OR AT A GAME, IF YOUR GOING TO WEAR A SPORTS HAT OR JERSEY KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEAM.
If you read this whole thing in its entirety I implore you to go outside and get a life, just kidding, thank you for reading please leave your remarks. I promise I will keep a variety of topics coming through to interest everyone. I am open to suggestions on topics; I have an opinion on just about everything.
Today’s entry is about something that shapes society and the economy more than I think most of us realize. It brings families together, yet sometimes puts a barrier between members. Today I am going to write about sports. Now I hope regardless of the topic, that you at least critique my writing if you don’t have anything to say about the material itself
First off let me ramble about some current events. College football is a joke. People watch so much of it yet in the end there is no real ending. There is no real way of settling deputes that one team is better than another. Instead we are faced with 3 weeks of pointless “bowl” games that have virtually no real meaning. Every year we laugh at the new random bowl those two teams we have never heard of play for a large pretzel or something that merely promotes a large company on a national level. My proposal is that there is a playoff system similar to the NFL where the conference e champions (based on record only not a championship game or rankings) and maybe one or two wild cards are put into a playoff style format. Yes this may make the season longer but it will pay off for the teams in the long run. NCAA should approve all schedules to ensure that everyone has as equal schedule as possible. All this would put an end to this retarded system we have no where Oklahoma is ranked ahead of Texas regardless of the fact that Texas beat OU in the regular season. OU has been rewarded for running up the score on teams, something that is usually frowned upon in American sports.
Next let me move to Major League Baseball. This is a mess all around. First let me say that regardless of my criticism I am a bigger fan of baseball than any other sport. I love going to games in the warm summer sun, and I love watching the Yankees not live up to my expectations every year. On to the actual subject matter, a salary cap in baseball is stupid and pointless. Part of the reason I like baseball is that the team has so many people and the season is so long it forces each organization to search deep within its farm system to find a young prospect that will be tomorrow’s next big star. You may ask yourself when the last time this happened is. to which I answer EVAN LONGORIA. He was AL rookie of the year, he sat more records his rookie season than BABE RUTH. He would have never been given this opportunity unless the Rays had not been running short on money and were forced to take a gamble.
For some reason as I started typing my material faded fast but am going to leave you with a rapid paragraph that I hope will entice discussion, pride, or maybe just plain hatred for me. This part will consist mostly of opinions that have some facts that back them if you choose to email me I will be glad to answer. Here we go: THE RED SOX SUCK, THE YANKEES ARE THE GREATEST SPORTS FRANCHISE IN HISTORY, BUD SELIG IS A GENIUS, THE RAYS WERE THE BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL, NOTHING GOOD EVER CAME FROM BOSTON OR PHILIDELPHIA, THE PATRIOTS ARE OVERRATED AND ARE NOW PROVING MY POINT, FANS IN INDIANA ARE BAND WAGONERS, THE PACERS ARE GOOD, THE COLTS USED TO BE, THE COLTS WILL MAKE THE PLAYOFFS, THEY WILL GET BEAT FIRST ROUND, BARRY BONDS DIDN’T USE STEROIDS JUST LIKE O.J. DIDN’T MURDER, SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD CHANGE THE NAME OF THEIR MASCOT, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT A HOOSIER IS, TORONTO MISSPELLED IS HOCKEY TEAMS NAME, SPORTS PLAYER GET PAID MORE TO PLAY A GAME THAN THE PRESIDENT DOES TO GET HASSELED ABOUT MONEY, AMERICANS NEED TO WATCH HOCKEY MORE, THE NBA IS NO LONGER COOL, STOP WEARING SPORTS JERSEYS UNLESS YOU ARE BLACK OR AT A GAME, IF YOUR GOING TO WEAR A SPORTS HAT OR JERSEY KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEAM.
If you read this whole thing in its entirety I implore you to go outside and get a life, just kidding, thank you for reading please leave your remarks. I promise I will keep a variety of topics coming through to interest everyone. I am open to suggestions on topics; I have an opinion on just about everything.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Politics as I see it: CHANGE?
So i feel like this is really my last chance to write about politics since its about time to move on but i just thought i would get some things off my chest.
First off my political views are properly labeled libertarian. I would call it something along the lines of a liberal republican. I am in the middle on very few things, and the opinions i do have are far left or far right based on the topic or issue. I hope that after a few times of reading this blog you will gain a better understanding on whether you agree with it or not.
I would like to say that my views have drastically changed since the beginning of this circus we call an election. During the primaries i thought that democrat was the way to go, contrary to my families background. I was set on the fact that Obama was the key to success, although i never had that big of a problem with president Bush. I think he is a great guy, that had great ideas, but was dealt a very bad hand. On the republican side their wasn't much to get excited about. Nothing more than every other election, a bunch of old white guys badgering the people that they pretend to like at work everyday.
After the primaries were settled by states no one cares about we were faced with a mediocre decision of Obama or McCain. This was about the same time i was discovering religion which I'm sure i will talk about in a later post, but this newly found spiritual refreshment subtly changed my political views more than i realised.
I came to the conclusion that politics became a fad of the times. I came to the understanding that most kids my age liked Obama because it was "cool" to like him. Few people actually cared about the issues although a few did. It was also part of the times to completely trash George Bush's name using second hand facts that adolescents got from their parents or a teacher.
Now that it is all said and done i can only talk about the facts which is basically the reason i wrote this. The previous paragraphs were basically an intro. You thought you were reading something important didn't you? Any way back to my topic....
We were promised "The Change we need" I find these words startling lies. First off let me point out the obvious OBAMA IS BLACK, he appeals to black people, It was said by the most intelligent Kanye West that "George Bush hates black people" let me say that George Bush appointed more minorities to his cabinet than any other president in history. So how can he hate them....hmmm.....OH! and MR. OBAMA is supposed to lift up the african american cultrure, Obama has yet to appoint 1 minority...THAT IS A FACT...unless you count Hillary Clinton as a woman, i will leave that one to debate. Everyone of the first 41 people he appointed 31 were white males that had some part in the Clinton administration.....correct me if I'm wrong but I'm missing the change here.
And finally Obama so proudly promoted a taxation of everyone who makes over 250,000 which appeals to african americans because most of them live in the inner cities and wont see this much money unless they take a trip to the drug dealers apartment. Don't get me wrong I have black friends I'm not racist these are generalizations that i didn't make up and I'm not bringing up anything about the culture you didn't already think. Any way, I am curious how Obama is going to issue this tax, because congress has to pass this vague proposal....will you do me a favor and look up how much a senator makes....would you vote to tax yourself???? just curious
For those of you who read all of this i applaud your enthusiasm and would love to hear from you whether you agree or not....just to know I'm not talking to myself.
First off my political views are properly labeled libertarian. I would call it something along the lines of a liberal republican. I am in the middle on very few things, and the opinions i do have are far left or far right based on the topic or issue. I hope that after a few times of reading this blog you will gain a better understanding on whether you agree with it or not.
I would like to say that my views have drastically changed since the beginning of this circus we call an election. During the primaries i thought that democrat was the way to go, contrary to my families background. I was set on the fact that Obama was the key to success, although i never had that big of a problem with president Bush. I think he is a great guy, that had great ideas, but was dealt a very bad hand. On the republican side their wasn't much to get excited about. Nothing more than every other election, a bunch of old white guys badgering the people that they pretend to like at work everyday.
After the primaries were settled by states no one cares about we were faced with a mediocre decision of Obama or McCain. This was about the same time i was discovering religion which I'm sure i will talk about in a later post, but this newly found spiritual refreshment subtly changed my political views more than i realised.
I came to the conclusion that politics became a fad of the times. I came to the understanding that most kids my age liked Obama because it was "cool" to like him. Few people actually cared about the issues although a few did. It was also part of the times to completely trash George Bush's name using second hand facts that adolescents got from their parents or a teacher.
Now that it is all said and done i can only talk about the facts which is basically the reason i wrote this. The previous paragraphs were basically an intro. You thought you were reading something important didn't you? Any way back to my topic....
We were promised "The Change we need" I find these words startling lies. First off let me point out the obvious OBAMA IS BLACK, he appeals to black people, It was said by the most intelligent Kanye West that "George Bush hates black people" let me say that George Bush appointed more minorities to his cabinet than any other president in history. So how can he hate them....hmmm.....OH! and MR. OBAMA is supposed to lift up the african american cultrure, Obama has yet to appoint 1 minority...THAT IS A FACT...unless you count Hillary Clinton as a woman, i will leave that one to debate. Everyone of the first 41 people he appointed 31 were white males that had some part in the Clinton administration.....correct me if I'm wrong but I'm missing the change here.
And finally Obama so proudly promoted a taxation of everyone who makes over 250,000 which appeals to african americans because most of them live in the inner cities and wont see this much money unless they take a trip to the drug dealers apartment. Don't get me wrong I have black friends I'm not racist these are generalizations that i didn't make up and I'm not bringing up anything about the culture you didn't already think. Any way, I am curious how Obama is going to issue this tax, because congress has to pass this vague proposal....will you do me a favor and look up how much a senator makes....would you vote to tax yourself???? just curious
For those of you who read all of this i applaud your enthusiasm and would love to hear from you whether you agree or not....just to know I'm not talking to myself.
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