I hate stupid people. I feel the the great bill Engvall got it right on how we should fix the problem. Give them all a sign that says "i'm stupid" and we don't ever have to wonder. They would always have to wear it no matter what they were doing or where they were. They should also have a special sticker that they stick on the back of their cars.
Recently I have learned that I feel very strongly that stupid people should not be allowed to drive when other non-stupid people are on the road. They make driving a living hell here in dc. Do you realize that one stupid person can add 2 hours to a 30 min trip! that is just too much. People should now have to take an iq test, and logic and reasoning skill test before they can operate any vehicle on the motor-ways. Cause well if you are not smart and can not think then I don't want you driving the big SUV next to me.
But stupid people are everywhere, and they are not always a bad thing. As long as you are not in a hurry they can provide wonderful entertainment. Let me tell you a story that happened to me the night I bough my Xbox 360 game Halo3.
I was waiting in the checkout line and realized that I did not have my check card with me, or enough cash to pay for my new very desired video game. However I did have a check, and although I feel that they are growing out of style Best Buy does still in fact take checks as a proper form of money exchange.
So about 20 min later I get up to the check out counter, and I find a kid there about 17 or 18. He looks to me to be American, and after he talked I could say for sure that he grew up here. So moving on now, he takes my game and scans it, and then tells me the price. I then proceed to write my check out for the correct amount. Once this is done I take the check and hand it too him a long with my divers license as I knew he would need it.
My DL is out of state, and for some reason people here in DC and VA seem to find it very confusing, and people always seem to be having a hard time interpreting the meaning of everything on it. I find this amusing as it is from AR, and come on, it is from AR how confusing can it be. So he looks at it then at me, then at the DL again. He hands both check and DL back and asks me to write the DL number on the check. I slightly chuckled to myself as I was realizing that he is having trouble, and perhaps some more will come.
Once this was done I handed it back, and he starts to set up the register to take my check, and he types some things into the computer, which I can see the screen of. I see him get to the "enter DL: state" field on the computer, and he typed in the letters "DL". I found this odd as I could think of no state that had the letters DL as there abbreviation, but that perhaps it was a code that you enter when you have an out of state drivers license.
After hitting the enter key the computer screen read that it had a problem, to which the person asked me if I had any other method that I could pay to which I responded no I do not. he called over his supervisor and updated him on the problem. After a few minuets of deliberation between the two, they tried to enter it in again, and this time the supervisor said that DL was the wrong thing to type, and that my drivers license is from Arkansas. The look of "oh ok" on the checkers face was great, but to make for an even better story, it was followed by a look of confusion.
He then asked me what the abbreviation for Arkansas is. I cooly said "AR" and then had to turn away due to my starting to laugh at realizing what had just happened. You see the Arkansas driver license and the state issued id are the same except on the small picture of the state it says either DL or ID one for drivers license, and the other for identification. This person ignored the big letters on my Id that read "ARKANSAS" and looked only at the DL letter, and then when he realized his mistake, he had to ask the abbreviation.
Now ok this is not that bad, but let me tell you how he pronounced my state. "Are-Kansas" not "are-can-saw" . How does someone who grows up here not know how to say that state. Clinton is from there even. You see if he had his 'i'm stupid" sign I could have helped him through this process of my drivers license a lot better, but he must have left it at home or in the break room.
So anyway I am going to stop now as I am hungry and would like to eat right now.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
One Nation Under God
There are so many things that I want to write about about but there always seems to be something better that comes up.
Today Mitt Romney gave a speech that was to say the least, amazing. He has done something that was is so risky, and yet if you stop and think about it for a moment, and forget all the other political crap you will know that he was right. That he did the right thing, and that his points are correct.
He talked about points that are near and dear to my heart, and also things that i am sure are to many of you as well. He talked about what "middle America" believes, he talked about what the hard working majority of this great country think and know is true.
I am not saying that you should vote for Mitt or not, he is still my choice, but it could change for sure. There are other people that I like a lot that could take my vote. I am saying however that you should think about what he said, and how he said it. You should think about who you want to choose for president.
Anyone who votes for Mitt cause he is a Mormon is a pinhead, and anyone who will not vote for him cause he is a Mormon is a pinhead as well. You should or should not vote for him because of his policies, and because of the nature of his carachter, and today shows a kind of character that I like a lot. He showed that he is not going to run away, and he is going to do what is right, and have faith in the American People.
We are a Nation under God, and we are founded by divine inspiration through the efforts of the founding forefathers. God Bless America, and may God forever have a place in this country, and in the hearts of those that live here whatever religion that they may be.
(below is the speech that he gave and is word for word.)
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Governor Romney's "Faith In America" Address (As Prepared For Delivery):
"Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind introduction.
"It is an honor to be here today. This is an inspiring place because of you and the First Lady and because of the film exhibited across the way in the Presidential library. For those who have not seen it, it shows the President as a young pilot, shot down during the Second World War, being rescued from his life-raft by the crew of an American submarine. It is a moving reminder that when America has faced challenge and peril, Americans rise to the occasion, willing to risk their very lives to defend freedom and preserve our nation. We are in your debt. Thank you, Mr. President.
"Mr. President, your generation rose to the occasion, first to defeat Fascism and then to vanquish the Soviet Union. You left us, your children, a free and strong America. It is why we call yours the greatest generation. It is now my generation's turn. How we respond to today's challenges will define our generation. And it will determine what kind of America we will leave our children, and theirs.
"America faces a new generation of challenges. Radical violent Islam seeks to destroy us. An emerging China endeavors to surpass our economic leadership. And we are troubled at home by government overspending, overuse of foreign oil, and the breakdown of the family.
"Over the last year, we have embarked on a national debate on how best to preserve American leadership. Today, I wish to address a topic which I believe is fundamental to America's greatness: our religious liberty. I will also offer perspectives on how my own faith would inform my Presidency, if I were elected.
"There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation's founders, for they, when our nation faced its greatest peril, sought the blessings of the Creator. And further, they discovered the essential connection between the survival of a free land and the protection of religious freedom. In John Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.'
"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
"Given our grand tradition of religious tolerance and liberty, some wonder whether there are any questions regarding an aspiring candidate's religion that are appropriate. I believe there are. And I will answer them today.
"Almost 50 years ago another candidate from Massachusetts explained that he was an American running for President, not a Catholic running for President. Like him, I am an American running for President. I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.
"Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the nation begin.
"As Governor, I tried to do the right as best I knew it, serving the law and answering to the Constitution. I did not confuse the particular teachings of my church with the obligations of the office and of the Constitution – and of course, I would not do so as President. I will put no doctrine of any church above the plain duties of the office and the sovereign authority of the law.
"As a young man, Lincoln described what he called America's 'political religion' – the commitment to defend the rule of law and the Constitution. When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your President, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.
"There are some for whom these commitments are not enough. They would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs.
"Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it. But I think they underestimate the American people. Americans do not respect believers of convenience.
Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain the world.
"There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked. What do I believe about Jesus Christ? I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. My church's beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths. Each religion has its own unique doctrines and history. These are not bases for criticism but rather a test of our tolerance. Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.
"There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.
"I believe that every faith I have encountered draws its adherents closer to God. And in every faith I have come to know, there are features I wish were in my own: I love the profound ceremony of the Catholic Mass, the approachability of God in the prayers of the Evangelicals, the tenderness of spirit among the Pentecostals, the confident independence of the Lutherans, the ancient traditions of the Jews, unchanged through the ages, and the commitment to frequent prayer of the Muslims. As I travel across the country and see our towns and cities, I am always moved by the many houses of worship with their steeples, all pointing to heaven, reminding us of the source of life's blessings.
"It is important to recognize that while differences in theology exist between the churches in America, we share a common creed of moral convictions. And where the affairs of our nation are concerned, it's usually a sound rule to focus on the latter – on the great moral principles that urge us all on a common course. Whether it was the cause of abolition, or civil rights, or the right to life itself, no movement of conscience can succeed in America that cannot speak to the convictions of religious people.
"We separate church and state affairs in this country, and for good reason. No religion should dictate to the state nor should the state interfere with the free practice of religion. But in recent years, the notion of the separation of church and state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life. It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.
"The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.
"We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders – in ceremony and word. He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places. Our greatness would not long endure without judges who respect the foundation of faith upon which our Constitution rests. I will take care to separate the affairs of government from any religion, but I will not separate us from 'the God who gave us liberty.'
"Nor would I separate us from our religious heritage. Perhaps the most important question to ask a person of faith who seeks a political office, is this: does he share these American values: the equality of human kind, the obligation to serve one another, and a steadfast commitment to liberty?
"They are not unique to any one denomination. They belong to the great moral inheritance we hold in common. They are the firm ground on which Americans of different faiths meet and stand as a nation, united.
"We believe that every single human being is a child of God – we are all part of the human family. The conviction of the inherent and inalienable worth of every life is still the most revolutionary political proposition ever advanced. John Adams put it that we are 'thrown into the world all equal and alike.'
"The consequence of our common humanity is our responsibility to one another, to our fellow Americans foremost, but also to every child of God. It is an obligation which is fulfilled by Americans every day, here and across the globe, without regard to creed or race or nationality.
"Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America's sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century's terrible wars – no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty. America's resolve in the defense of liberty has been tested time and again. It has not been found wanting, nor must it ever be. America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom.
"These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King. I saw my parents provide compassionate care to others, in personal ways to people nearby, and in just as consequential ways in leading national volunteer movements. I am moved by the Lord's words: 'For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me...'
"My faith is grounded on these truths. You can witness them in Ann and my marriage and in our family. We are a long way from perfect and we have surely stumbled along the way, but our aspirations, our values, are the self-same as those from the other faiths that stand upon this common foundation. And these convictions will indeed inform my presidency.
"Today's generations of Americans have always known religious liberty. Perhaps we forget the long and arduous path our nation's forbearers took to achieve it. They came here from England to seek freedom of religion. But upon finding it for themselves, they at first denied it to others. Because of their diverse beliefs, Ann Hutchinson was exiled from Massachusetts Bay, a banished Roger Williams founded Rhode Island, and two centuries later, Brigham Young set out for the West. Americans were unable to accommodate their commitment to their own faith with an appreciation for the convictions of others to different faiths. In this, they were very much like those of the European nations they had left.
"It was in Philadelphia that our founding fathers defined a revolutionary vision of liberty, grounded on self evident truths about the equality of all, and the inalienable rights with which each is endowed by his Creator.
"We cherish these sacred rights, and secure them in our Constitutional order. Foremost do we protect religious liberty, not as a matter of policy but as a matter of right. There will be no established church, and we are guaranteed the free exercise of our religion.
"I'm not sure that we fully appreciate the profound implications of our tradition of religious liberty. I have visited many of the magnificent cathedrals in Europe. They are so inspired … so grand … so empty. Raised up over generations, long ago, so many of the cathedrals now stand as the postcard backdrop to societies just too busy or too 'enlightened' to venture inside and kneel in prayer. The establishment of state religions in Europe did no favor to Europe's churches. And though you will find many people of strong faith there, the churches themselves seem to be withering away.
"Infinitely worse is the other extreme, the creed of conversion by conquest: violent Jihad, murder as martyrdom... killing Christians, Jews, and Muslims with equal indifference. These radical Islamists do their preaching not by reason or example, but in the coercion of minds and the shedding of blood. We face no greater danger today than theocratic tyranny, and the boundless suffering these states and groups could inflict if given the chance.
"The diversity of our cultural expression, and the vibrancy of our religious dialogue, has kept America in the forefront of civilized nations even as others regard religious freedom as something to be destroyed.
"In such a world, we can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion – rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.
"Recall the early days of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, during the fall of 1774. With Boston occupied by British troops, there were rumors of imminent hostilities and fears of an impending war. In this time of peril, someone suggested that they pray. But there were objections. 'They were too divided in religious sentiments', what with Episcopalians and Quakers, Anabaptists and Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Catholics.
"Then Sam Adams rose, and said he would hear a prayer from anyone of piety and good character, as long as they were a patriot.
"And so together they prayed, and together they fought, and together, by the grace of God ... they founded this great nation.
"In that spirit, let us give thanks to the divine 'author of liberty.' And together, let us pray that this land may always be blessed, 'with freedom's holy light.'
"God bless the United States of America."
Today Mitt Romney gave a speech that was to say the least, amazing. He has done something that was is so risky, and yet if you stop and think about it for a moment, and forget all the other political crap you will know that he was right. That he did the right thing, and that his points are correct.
He talked about points that are near and dear to my heart, and also things that i am sure are to many of you as well. He talked about what "middle America" believes, he talked about what the hard working majority of this great country think and know is true.
I am not saying that you should vote for Mitt or not, he is still my choice, but it could change for sure. There are other people that I like a lot that could take my vote. I am saying however that you should think about what he said, and how he said it. You should think about who you want to choose for president.
Anyone who votes for Mitt cause he is a Mormon is a pinhead, and anyone who will not vote for him cause he is a Mormon is a pinhead as well. You should or should not vote for him because of his policies, and because of the nature of his carachter, and today shows a kind of character that I like a lot. He showed that he is not going to run away, and he is going to do what is right, and have faith in the American People.
We are a Nation under God, and we are founded by divine inspiration through the efforts of the founding forefathers. God Bless America, and may God forever have a place in this country, and in the hearts of those that live here whatever religion that they may be.
(below is the speech that he gave and is word for word.)
------------------------------
Governor Romney's "Faith In America" Address (As Prepared For Delivery):
"Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind introduction.
"It is an honor to be here today. This is an inspiring place because of you and the First Lady and because of the film exhibited across the way in the Presidential library. For those who have not seen it, it shows the President as a young pilot, shot down during the Second World War, being rescued from his life-raft by the crew of an American submarine. It is a moving reminder that when America has faced challenge and peril, Americans rise to the occasion, willing to risk their very lives to defend freedom and preserve our nation. We are in your debt. Thank you, Mr. President.
"Mr. President, your generation rose to the occasion, first to defeat Fascism and then to vanquish the Soviet Union. You left us, your children, a free and strong America. It is why we call yours the greatest generation. It is now my generation's turn. How we respond to today's challenges will define our generation. And it will determine what kind of America we will leave our children, and theirs.
"America faces a new generation of challenges. Radical violent Islam seeks to destroy us. An emerging China endeavors to surpass our economic leadership. And we are troubled at home by government overspending, overuse of foreign oil, and the breakdown of the family.
"Over the last year, we have embarked on a national debate on how best to preserve American leadership. Today, I wish to address a topic which I believe is fundamental to America's greatness: our religious liberty. I will also offer perspectives on how my own faith would inform my Presidency, if I were elected.
"There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation's founders, for they, when our nation faced its greatest peril, sought the blessings of the Creator. And further, they discovered the essential connection between the survival of a free land and the protection of religious freedom. In John Adams' words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.'
"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
"Given our grand tradition of religious tolerance and liberty, some wonder whether there are any questions regarding an aspiring candidate's religion that are appropriate. I believe there are. And I will answer them today.
"Almost 50 years ago another candidate from Massachusetts explained that he was an American running for President, not a Catholic running for President. Like him, I am an American running for President. I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.
"Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the nation begin.
"As Governor, I tried to do the right as best I knew it, serving the law and answering to the Constitution. I did not confuse the particular teachings of my church with the obligations of the office and of the Constitution – and of course, I would not do so as President. I will put no doctrine of any church above the plain duties of the office and the sovereign authority of the law.
"As a young man, Lincoln described what he called America's 'political religion' – the commitment to defend the rule of law and the Constitution. When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your President, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A President must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.
"There are some for whom these commitments are not enough. They would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs.
"Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it. But I think they underestimate the American people. Americans do not respect believers of convenience.
Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain the world.
"There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked. What do I believe about Jesus Christ? I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind. My church's beliefs about Christ may not all be the same as those of other faiths. Each religion has its own unique doctrines and history. These are not bases for criticism but rather a test of our tolerance. Religious tolerance would be a shallow principle indeed if it were reserved only for faiths with which we agree.
"There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.
"I believe that every faith I have encountered draws its adherents closer to God. And in every faith I have come to know, there are features I wish were in my own: I love the profound ceremony of the Catholic Mass, the approachability of God in the prayers of the Evangelicals, the tenderness of spirit among the Pentecostals, the confident independence of the Lutherans, the ancient traditions of the Jews, unchanged through the ages, and the commitment to frequent prayer of the Muslims. As I travel across the country and see our towns and cities, I am always moved by the many houses of worship with their steeples, all pointing to heaven, reminding us of the source of life's blessings.
"It is important to recognize that while differences in theology exist between the churches in America, we share a common creed of moral convictions. And where the affairs of our nation are concerned, it's usually a sound rule to focus on the latter – on the great moral principles that urge us all on a common course. Whether it was the cause of abolition, or civil rights, or the right to life itself, no movement of conscience can succeed in America that cannot speak to the convictions of religious people.
"We separate church and state affairs in this country, and for good reason. No religion should dictate to the state nor should the state interfere with the free practice of religion. But in recent years, the notion of the separation of church and state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life. It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.
"The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.
"We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders – in ceremony and word. He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places. Our greatness would not long endure without judges who respect the foundation of faith upon which our Constitution rests. I will take care to separate the affairs of government from any religion, but I will not separate us from 'the God who gave us liberty.'
"Nor would I separate us from our religious heritage. Perhaps the most important question to ask a person of faith who seeks a political office, is this: does he share these American values: the equality of human kind, the obligation to serve one another, and a steadfast commitment to liberty?
"They are not unique to any one denomination. They belong to the great moral inheritance we hold in common. They are the firm ground on which Americans of different faiths meet and stand as a nation, united.
"We believe that every single human being is a child of God – we are all part of the human family. The conviction of the inherent and inalienable worth of every life is still the most revolutionary political proposition ever advanced. John Adams put it that we are 'thrown into the world all equal and alike.'
"The consequence of our common humanity is our responsibility to one another, to our fellow Americans foremost, but also to every child of God. It is an obligation which is fulfilled by Americans every day, here and across the globe, without regard to creed or race or nationality.
"Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America's sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century's terrible wars – no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty. America's resolve in the defense of liberty has been tested time and again. It has not been found wanting, nor must it ever be. America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom.
"These American values, this great moral heritage, is shared and lived in my religion as it is in yours. I was taught in my home to honor God and love my neighbor. I saw my father march with Martin Luther King. I saw my parents provide compassionate care to others, in personal ways to people nearby, and in just as consequential ways in leading national volunteer movements. I am moved by the Lord's words: 'For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me...'
"My faith is grounded on these truths. You can witness them in Ann and my marriage and in our family. We are a long way from perfect and we have surely stumbled along the way, but our aspirations, our values, are the self-same as those from the other faiths that stand upon this common foundation. And these convictions will indeed inform my presidency.
"Today's generations of Americans have always known religious liberty. Perhaps we forget the long and arduous path our nation's forbearers took to achieve it. They came here from England to seek freedom of religion. But upon finding it for themselves, they at first denied it to others. Because of their diverse beliefs, Ann Hutchinson was exiled from Massachusetts Bay, a banished Roger Williams founded Rhode Island, and two centuries later, Brigham Young set out for the West. Americans were unable to accommodate their commitment to their own faith with an appreciation for the convictions of others to different faiths. In this, they were very much like those of the European nations they had left.
"It was in Philadelphia that our founding fathers defined a revolutionary vision of liberty, grounded on self evident truths about the equality of all, and the inalienable rights with which each is endowed by his Creator.
"We cherish these sacred rights, and secure them in our Constitutional order. Foremost do we protect religious liberty, not as a matter of policy but as a matter of right. There will be no established church, and we are guaranteed the free exercise of our religion.
"I'm not sure that we fully appreciate the profound implications of our tradition of religious liberty. I have visited many of the magnificent cathedrals in Europe. They are so inspired … so grand … so empty. Raised up over generations, long ago, so many of the cathedrals now stand as the postcard backdrop to societies just too busy or too 'enlightened' to venture inside and kneel in prayer. The establishment of state religions in Europe did no favor to Europe's churches. And though you will find many people of strong faith there, the churches themselves seem to be withering away.
"Infinitely worse is the other extreme, the creed of conversion by conquest: violent Jihad, murder as martyrdom... killing Christians, Jews, and Muslims with equal indifference. These radical Islamists do their preaching not by reason or example, but in the coercion of minds and the shedding of blood. We face no greater danger today than theocratic tyranny, and the boundless suffering these states and groups could inflict if given the chance.
"The diversity of our cultural expression, and the vibrancy of our religious dialogue, has kept America in the forefront of civilized nations even as others regard religious freedom as something to be destroyed.
"In such a world, we can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion – rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.
"Recall the early days of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, during the fall of 1774. With Boston occupied by British troops, there were rumors of imminent hostilities and fears of an impending war. In this time of peril, someone suggested that they pray. But there were objections. 'They were too divided in religious sentiments', what with Episcopalians and Quakers, Anabaptists and Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Catholics.
"Then Sam Adams rose, and said he would hear a prayer from anyone of piety and good character, as long as they were a patriot.
"And so together they prayed, and together they fought, and together, by the grace of God ... they founded this great nation.
"In that spirit, let us give thanks to the divine 'author of liberty.' And together, let us pray that this land may always be blessed, 'with freedom's holy light.'
"God bless the United States of America."
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
This makes me upset!!
Ok I know that there are a lot of people in the world that believe different things about this that and the other. We all come from different backgrounds and locations. We are all taught differently and have different experiences in life that will alter the way that we think about issues and problems. Is there anything wrong with this? Of course not! You are allowed to think what you want about anything. In this country it is your right to do so.
We are all given the right to free speech in the US. It is a great thing, if we have a problem then we can state our opinion about something. There are some lines that should not be crossed, but in generally we should be allowed to say something and not be punished for it.(generally speaking)
this however is NOT the case in the US today. Some parties are allowed to do and say as they please, and others have to just shut their mouth cause you might offend someone. Is this fair? No it is not, and it is not right at all.
People are so worried about offending people that they will not say what they feel. the term "politically correct" is one of the few things that gets me angry just hearing about it. We the majority of people must shut our mouth cause you the minority might get your feelings hurt. That is what it is like to me when people try to be PC.
Well it is taking every ounce of will power i have to not type every politically INcorrect thing that I can think of. That is not what this is about. (but I may do another blog later with that one.) Instead I want to copy a link.
College in Florida
This is a transcript from the Glenn Beck show and you can see here that people need to quit complaining when the truth is harsh. You know what? I am going to put what they said here on my blog
"Radical Islam Wants You DEAD!"
you may not agree with me, and you know what? I leave the same challenge that the person in the story did. find me one that wants you alive. I submit that you can not find me one.
I feel that Islam is getting an unbalanced treatment. Or more rather that Christianity is getting the brunt of it. We can learn about the Koran in schools and jewish beliefs among others, but I can not talk about Jesus in school. Last I checked Christianity still wins in the US. i could be wrong on that one, but I don't think that I am.
I want to see people speak out about the war in Iraq, I want to see people say they hate Bush, and I want to see people say abortion is wrong. It is the right to say things that makes this a great place to be. If I want to say that I don't like something, or some organization I should be allowed to do so. I should not be allowed to threaten someone, or some organization as that is one of those lines I talked about before.
So if you are all about getting your PC on then DO NOT read my next blog that will be coming. You will not like it, as I am NOT going to be PC about that topic.
Is it really ok to treat some people better than others? Is it really about offending people that makes us be this way? Is it really the few that dictate what the masses can and can not say? Remember to think about what you just read.
p.s. if you don't like this then post about it,and if you agree comment as well. Free speech rocks!!
We are all given the right to free speech in the US. It is a great thing, if we have a problem then we can state our opinion about something. There are some lines that should not be crossed, but in generally we should be allowed to say something and not be punished for it.(generally speaking)
this however is NOT the case in the US today. Some parties are allowed to do and say as they please, and others have to just shut their mouth cause you might offend someone. Is this fair? No it is not, and it is not right at all.
People are so worried about offending people that they will not say what they feel. the term "politically correct" is one of the few things that gets me angry just hearing about it. We the majority of people must shut our mouth cause you the minority might get your feelings hurt. That is what it is like to me when people try to be PC.
Well it is taking every ounce of will power i have to not type every politically INcorrect thing that I can think of. That is not what this is about. (but I may do another blog later with that one.) Instead I want to copy a link.
College in Florida
This is a transcript from the Glenn Beck show and you can see here that people need to quit complaining when the truth is harsh. You know what? I am going to put what they said here on my blog
"Radical Islam Wants You DEAD!"
you may not agree with me, and you know what? I leave the same challenge that the person in the story did. find me one that wants you alive. I submit that you can not find me one.
I feel that Islam is getting an unbalanced treatment. Or more rather that Christianity is getting the brunt of it. We can learn about the Koran in schools and jewish beliefs among others, but I can not talk about Jesus in school. Last I checked Christianity still wins in the US. i could be wrong on that one, but I don't think that I am.
I want to see people speak out about the war in Iraq, I want to see people say they hate Bush, and I want to see people say abortion is wrong. It is the right to say things that makes this a great place to be. If I want to say that I don't like something, or some organization I should be allowed to do so. I should not be allowed to threaten someone, or some organization as that is one of those lines I talked about before.
So if you are all about getting your PC on then DO NOT read my next blog that will be coming. You will not like it, as I am NOT going to be PC about that topic.
Is it really ok to treat some people better than others? Is it really about offending people that makes us be this way? Is it really the few that dictate what the masses can and can not say? Remember to think about what you just read.
p.s. if you don't like this then post about it,and if you agree comment as well. Free speech rocks!!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Makin Some Music
Well to all of those who asked about me puting my voice on one of those shiny CD thingers. Well that time is almost at hand. I have oh my soul hungered done, and I Am wrapping up music of the night soon.
So if you want my to make a CD for you then let me know and I will do so. Let me know here or via e-mail.
So if you want my to make a CD for you then let me know and I will do so. Let me know here or via e-mail.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
An Inconvenient Review
I just picked up a copy of "An Inconvenient Book" by Glenn Beck.
Now let me tell ya this is one of the most interesting, politicly INcorrect things I have seen in a while. the person who wrote this must be nuts. There are things in here that insult my intelligence on many different levels, but let me tell you what. I love every stinkin word of it.
I am in the 3rd chapter already, and I expect to finish it before monday. When that happen I will give you my complete inconvenient review of the book. However don't wait for me to write my review before you get the book. Go to Barns and Noble or Books-A-Million or something and pick it up.
Now I must warn you, if you play to the mainstream media Gods, and believe everything that you hear on TV, and you are genuinely interested in what is going on with that Brittany spears woman, well this book may hurt you to read. I think that he calls people like you stupid, or something like that. Oh also if you're a HUGE fan of Al Gore, you should read this book for sure. this will enhance your views on Global warming in the first chapter making you more knowledgeable then before for when you talk to your friends about how we are killing the planet. (what I am saying is this will help you look smart, and not like a moron.)
So keep checkin back. And Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Now let me tell ya this is one of the most interesting, politicly INcorrect things I have seen in a while. the person who wrote this must be nuts. There are things in here that insult my intelligence on many different levels, but let me tell you what. I love every stinkin word of it.
I am in the 3rd chapter already, and I expect to finish it before monday. When that happen I will give you my complete inconvenient review of the book. However don't wait for me to write my review before you get the book. Go to Barns and Noble or Books-A-Million or something and pick it up.
Now I must warn you, if you play to the mainstream media Gods, and believe everything that you hear on TV, and you are genuinely interested in what is going on with that Brittany spears woman, well this book may hurt you to read. I think that he calls people like you stupid, or something like that. Oh also if you're a HUGE fan of Al Gore, you should read this book for sure. this will enhance your views on Global warming in the first chapter making you more knowledgeable then before for when you talk to your friends about how we are killing the planet. (what I am saying is this will help you look smart, and not like a moron.)
So keep checkin back. And Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
6 things you don't know about me
A friend of mine did this and I thought that it was a good idea. So I will now present you with,
6 things you don't know about me
1. I have lived in 13 different houses, and 7 different states. They are Colorado, Texas, Penn., New York, Arkansas, Illinios, and Virginia. No it is not cause my Parents were in the military, just life saw fit to cause us to move a lot. I have never been in one place for longer than 4 1/2 years. People ask me if I liked it, well I don't know any differnt so I can not really compair it.
2. I have restless leg syndrome. That is exactly what it sounds like. When I sit still I move my feet or legs. It is kinda annoying from time to time, but I really don't even notice it most of them time. So watch me when I am sitting in a reclined position, I will be moving my feet at least.
3. I can feel very well. I have never really been able to explain this well, but I will give it a try. I feel everything. Any and all conact with my skin no matter how small, I can feel, and feel very well. (yes that is why it makes me itch when you do that) When I was younger my mother had to put a blanket between me and her cause i did not like to have things touch me other than cloth. I know it is pretty odd but it is true. so yea little things crawling on me? yea not a fan so much.
4. I never sang a solo till I was 19 then not again till I was 20. For those of you that know me and how much I enjoy singing this may or may nor shock you. (I know this makes me look slightly proud of myself but this is a blog about me) I never liked to do that kind of thing in public. Not even in front of my family. Only in the last couple of years have I gotten over my fear of being in front of people. I used to get panic attacks really bad before I would go on stage. It is not like that now, I still get VERY nervous, but it is now much more managable.
5. My great great grandfather on both sides were full blooded native american. Choctaw and Cherokee (yes like the Tim McGraw song) So I am 1/16 Native american. This may not seem that interesting but it is to me, that is all that matters :P
6. I have never left the US (Canada does not count in my eyes). I have been all over the US but I have never left the US at all. Never even had the chance. I meet people all the time that are like, "yea I have been here" or "I have been there", but not me I have just stayed here my whole life. will I every leave the US? I would like to think so, but I just don't know where I would want to go. hmmmm choices choices.
6 things you don't know about me
1. I have lived in 13 different houses, and 7 different states. They are Colorado, Texas, Penn., New York, Arkansas, Illinios, and Virginia. No it is not cause my Parents were in the military, just life saw fit to cause us to move a lot. I have never been in one place for longer than 4 1/2 years. People ask me if I liked it, well I don't know any differnt so I can not really compair it.
2. I have restless leg syndrome. That is exactly what it sounds like. When I sit still I move my feet or legs. It is kinda annoying from time to time, but I really don't even notice it most of them time. So watch me when I am sitting in a reclined position, I will be moving my feet at least.
3. I can feel very well. I have never really been able to explain this well, but I will give it a try. I feel everything. Any and all conact with my skin no matter how small, I can feel, and feel very well. (yes that is why it makes me itch when you do that) When I was younger my mother had to put a blanket between me and her cause i did not like to have things touch me other than cloth. I know it is pretty odd but it is true. so yea little things crawling on me? yea not a fan so much.
4. I never sang a solo till I was 19 then not again till I was 20. For those of you that know me and how much I enjoy singing this may or may nor shock you. (I know this makes me look slightly proud of myself but this is a blog about me) I never liked to do that kind of thing in public. Not even in front of my family. Only in the last couple of years have I gotten over my fear of being in front of people. I used to get panic attacks really bad before I would go on stage. It is not like that now, I still get VERY nervous, but it is now much more managable.
5. My great great grandfather on both sides were full blooded native american. Choctaw and Cherokee (yes like the Tim McGraw song) So I am 1/16 Native american. This may not seem that interesting but it is to me, that is all that matters :P
6. I have never left the US (Canada does not count in my eyes). I have been all over the US but I have never left the US at all. Never even had the chance. I meet people all the time that are like, "yea I have been here" or "I have been there", but not me I have just stayed here my whole life. will I every leave the US? I would like to think so, but I just don't know where I would want to go. hmmmm choices choices.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
My Music CD
I would not normaly advertise about somthing like this, but as some of you have asked about it I will be posting updates here.
I do infact have some recordings of me singing. I am in the process of redoing a couple of them. When I get it done I will let everyone know so that those of you that want one, will be able to get one.
I will be recording the song that I sang on church "Oh My Soul Hungered" and one more that I am not sure about yet.
I am also in the process of recording a CD for Christmas.
I do infact have some recordings of me singing. I am in the process of redoing a couple of them. When I get it done I will let everyone know so that those of you that want one, will be able to get one.
I will be recording the song that I sang on church "Oh My Soul Hungered" and one more that I am not sure about yet.
I am also in the process of recording a CD for Christmas.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
I like My Christmas
Christmas is being taken from us! If you don't think so just turn on the TV listen to the radio, or just go shopping and hear someone say "Happy Holidays!" Well I am not a fan of this. I want my Christmas, and I am going to fight for it!
So if you are a fan of Christmas, well then listen to the new Chris Terrell Podcast (I know the name is lame I will come up with something better later.) the link is below.
Yes that is right I have finally done one again. So Enjoy. And don't forget to think!
Christmas is being taken!
Enjoy!
So if you are a fan of Christmas, well then listen to the new Chris Terrell Podcast (I know the name is lame I will come up with something better later.) the link is below.
Yes that is right I have finally done one again. So Enjoy. And don't forget to think!
Christmas is being taken!
Enjoy!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A Time to Ponder
The following is a partial entry. if it gets some comments I will finish it. It is a little old, like 2 months, but I wanted to get something up.
Podcast comming this week so keep a watch out for it.
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I have gotten a little behind on this yet again. There has been a lot things going on with me, and I am sure that all of you are just itchin for me to enlighten you. Well sorry but I am not going to do that here at this time.
The question for today is.. . . .
Is it really the things that we know that make us smart? or not smart?
We all think very differently. Some people have earned the title of "smart" and others have earned the title of "not as smart" (word that how you will). Why is this? why do some of us get these different titles? I know people that have different titles, both of which are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Am I smart? I often wonder if I would be called that, or if I would be just called dumb. I don't think about it too often, and I know that there are things that I am very smart about, and other things that I am not. But in the eyes of those around me I wonder what they think about me from time to time. If I am the kind of person that they would come to for advice.
Does it really matter what others think about us? I guess in the great scheme of things it does not really matter what others think. We seem to all know this, and yet we all seem to forget this as life goes on. The ones that truely ignore what others think about us seem to be happier. What is so special about them? I don't know, perhaps it is the ability to sustain their own lives with out the need of other people attention.
I often try to separate myself from the need of other peoples attention to be succsesfull, or to find pride in my work. I have found however that it is harder than it seems to do that. lets give an example of what I am talking about:
I used to work for a cleaning company, and at that time I was a supervisor at a building over the night shift. I was wanted to do something to spice up the look of the building with some detail cleaning. So I elected to clean the push plates on all of the doors. So I got the tools required to polish them and then begain to polish. Well when I was done, I realozed that they were all clean evenly. That in reality most people are not going to notice cuase they are not going to have anything to compair it to. so to let people know about all of the work that I do, I left half of some of the push plates unpolished.
The next day I got a call from the facility manger and he told me that he liked the work that I had done and asked when I would finish the rest of them. I told him the I was going to do so that night, and of course I did.
Now would this guy have noticed the job that I had done if i had not left half of it incompleted? I don;t know nor will I ever I guess, but the point is I was looking for the approval of this person to alllow me to think that I did a good job. Is it not good enough that I could have.
Podcast comming this week so keep a watch out for it.
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I have gotten a little behind on this yet again. There has been a lot things going on with me, and I am sure that all of you are just itchin for me to enlighten you. Well sorry but I am not going to do that here at this time.
The question for today is.. . . .
Is it really the things that we know that make us smart? or not smart?
We all think very differently. Some people have earned the title of "smart" and others have earned the title of "not as smart" (word that how you will). Why is this? why do some of us get these different titles? I know people that have different titles, both of which are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Am I smart? I often wonder if I would be called that, or if I would be just called dumb. I don't think about it too often, and I know that there are things that I am very smart about, and other things that I am not. But in the eyes of those around me I wonder what they think about me from time to time. If I am the kind of person that they would come to for advice.
Does it really matter what others think about us? I guess in the great scheme of things it does not really matter what others think. We seem to all know this, and yet we all seem to forget this as life goes on. The ones that truely ignore what others think about us seem to be happier. What is so special about them? I don't know, perhaps it is the ability to sustain their own lives with out the need of other people attention.
I often try to separate myself from the need of other peoples attention to be succsesfull, or to find pride in my work. I have found however that it is harder than it seems to do that. lets give an example of what I am talking about:
I used to work for a cleaning company, and at that time I was a supervisor at a building over the night shift. I was wanted to do something to spice up the look of the building with some detail cleaning. So I elected to clean the push plates on all of the doors. So I got the tools required to polish them and then begain to polish. Well when I was done, I realozed that they were all clean evenly. That in reality most people are not going to notice cuase they are not going to have anything to compair it to. so to let people know about all of the work that I do, I left half of some of the push plates unpolished.
The next day I got a call from the facility manger and he told me that he liked the work that I had done and asked when I would finish the rest of them. I told him the I was going to do so that night, and of course I did.
Now would this guy have noticed the job that I had done if i had not left half of it incompleted? I don;t know nor will I ever I guess, but the point is I was looking for the approval of this person to alllow me to think that I did a good job. Is it not good enough that I could have.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Life is like unto a game of golf
It is early Saturday morning. As you inhale slowly taking in the cool morning air, you can smell the faint smell of the moist grass, and the wonderful smells of early morning. It is just starting to get light, and you can feel the cool breeze. You’re still a little cold, but you know that soon you will be warm, with sunglasses on enjoying the sunshine. It is the perfect time of day. Peace, quite, still, relaxing, these are just some of the words that one can use to describe the feeling felt at the tee box of the first hole.
You reach down to place your ball on the tee. Trying to get it to the perfect height to perch your golf ball on. Once set you place your ball on top making sure to line up the line you drew on your ball with the distant flag. You back up and stand behind your work, and stare down the fairway at the large patch of green off in the distance. You stand and ponder your plan off attack. Do you go for the green or do you just lay it up in the fairway leaving yourself a good safe second shot? Just a couple of the many questions you ask yourself before you take your first shot of the day.
After a few moments of contemplation you’re ready for your shot. You take your place next to the ball with your club in your gloved hand. You line up for the shot and in the very brief moment before you begin to swing the club back you take into account the slight change in wind and recheck your grip. Once this is done it is time, you begin to swing back and you feel your left shoulder slightly push against your chin letting you know you have gone back far enough, a momentary pause and then you release. Feeling calm and loose you swing your club forward, and as you strike the ball with a very satisfying metallic sounding pop you continue with your follow-through allowing your right shoulder to push your chin to the left, your body following along to watch the ball almost effortlessly fly towards the green. You stop, you don’t move for some reason, it is almost as if you do you just might alter the path of the ball.
Once the ball has landed you allow yourself to drop your club and relax your stance, squaring yourself with the far off green. Your choice to go for green has paid off. You did not quite make it, but instead your ball in a cool 20 yards to the front left of the pin. An easy chip you think to yourself. Your heart beats slightly faster as you consider the fact that you have the potential to open the day up with a birdie. You whisper to yourself “I love golf” as you slowly walk off the tee box to your bag to replace your driver to it’s proper location. And allow your friend to take their shot.
There are few other games like golf. It is something that once you play you either think to yourself “eh it is ok but not that fun” or you just simply can not stop thinking about it. There are many wonderful things about this great game of golf. Now I am not going to try to convince you that you need to start playing golf, although I would be happy if you did, I am just going to compare some similarities, or parallels between golf and life.
IN life we are all to often presented with choices that we need to make. Some of them are simple and others are not so simple. Some of them we have made before and others we might have to try something a little more risky to make it work. In golf it is fairly similar. We often times hit the ball in a similar place as before, but at other times we may do much better or far worse, landing you in the trees to the right of the green, or even worse right behind a tree. What do you do? Do you go around, what about trying to thread the needle and go between two trees? What about when you hit the ball into the water? It is worth it too you to go in after it? Or do you just let it go and take the 2-stroke penalty? Ahh the joy of making choices.
You may be playing an average game of golf one day. Something that is not very memorable. You will probably forget about it in a month, but then on the 11th hole you strike a ball off of the tee and it lands 5 feet from the hole, or you sink a chip from 30 yards out. All of a sudden all of the tough things that you have gone through don’t seem to matter, because that one shot makes the whole day worth it. In life it is the same, we may go though a lot of crap, but when you get the one great shot it was all worth it to get there.
In reality life just like golf is not that complicated. The method to fixing problems is typically the same; just the terrain has changed from last time. You may change from a 7 iron to a 6 iron, however you still know what to do. When you overcomplicate it you just make it worse, and when you stress about the next shot you make it worse. Just make the shot and you will do fine. So what you land in the sand, life will move on and you will be fine. You may not get the 8 over par day you hoped for, but it is the joy in playing the game that matters, not the score. However it sure is great when you get that score you were hoping for. But you will get it. It may take some time. You may have some bad games, but you must. It is part of the process of getting better and better every day.
Is it really that simple? Is it really that similar? I think so. You may or may not see what I am talking about. I am vague by design, remember do what we all so best. Think.
You reach down to place your ball on the tee. Trying to get it to the perfect height to perch your golf ball on. Once set you place your ball on top making sure to line up the line you drew on your ball with the distant flag. You back up and stand behind your work, and stare down the fairway at the large patch of green off in the distance. You stand and ponder your plan off attack. Do you go for the green or do you just lay it up in the fairway leaving yourself a good safe second shot? Just a couple of the many questions you ask yourself before you take your first shot of the day.
After a few moments of contemplation you’re ready for your shot. You take your place next to the ball with your club in your gloved hand. You line up for the shot and in the very brief moment before you begin to swing the club back you take into account the slight change in wind and recheck your grip. Once this is done it is time, you begin to swing back and you feel your left shoulder slightly push against your chin letting you know you have gone back far enough, a momentary pause and then you release. Feeling calm and loose you swing your club forward, and as you strike the ball with a very satisfying metallic sounding pop you continue with your follow-through allowing your right shoulder to push your chin to the left, your body following along to watch the ball almost effortlessly fly towards the green. You stop, you don’t move for some reason, it is almost as if you do you just might alter the path of the ball.
Once the ball has landed you allow yourself to drop your club and relax your stance, squaring yourself with the far off green. Your choice to go for green has paid off. You did not quite make it, but instead your ball in a cool 20 yards to the front left of the pin. An easy chip you think to yourself. Your heart beats slightly faster as you consider the fact that you have the potential to open the day up with a birdie. You whisper to yourself “I love golf” as you slowly walk off the tee box to your bag to replace your driver to it’s proper location. And allow your friend to take their shot.
There are few other games like golf. It is something that once you play you either think to yourself “eh it is ok but not that fun” or you just simply can not stop thinking about it. There are many wonderful things about this great game of golf. Now I am not going to try to convince you that you need to start playing golf, although I would be happy if you did, I am just going to compare some similarities, or parallels between golf and life.
IN life we are all to often presented with choices that we need to make. Some of them are simple and others are not so simple. Some of them we have made before and others we might have to try something a little more risky to make it work. In golf it is fairly similar. We often times hit the ball in a similar place as before, but at other times we may do much better or far worse, landing you in the trees to the right of the green, or even worse right behind a tree. What do you do? Do you go around, what about trying to thread the needle and go between two trees? What about when you hit the ball into the water? It is worth it too you to go in after it? Or do you just let it go and take the 2-stroke penalty? Ahh the joy of making choices.
You may be playing an average game of golf one day. Something that is not very memorable. You will probably forget about it in a month, but then on the 11th hole you strike a ball off of the tee and it lands 5 feet from the hole, or you sink a chip from 30 yards out. All of a sudden all of the tough things that you have gone through don’t seem to matter, because that one shot makes the whole day worth it. In life it is the same, we may go though a lot of crap, but when you get the one great shot it was all worth it to get there.
In reality life just like golf is not that complicated. The method to fixing problems is typically the same; just the terrain has changed from last time. You may change from a 7 iron to a 6 iron, however you still know what to do. When you overcomplicate it you just make it worse, and when you stress about the next shot you make it worse. Just make the shot and you will do fine. So what you land in the sand, life will move on and you will be fine. You may not get the 8 over par day you hoped for, but it is the joy in playing the game that matters, not the score. However it sure is great when you get that score you were hoping for. But you will get it. It may take some time. You may have some bad games, but you must. It is part of the process of getting better and better every day.
Is it really that simple? Is it really that similar? I think so. You may or may not see what I am talking about. I am vague by design, remember do what we all so best. Think.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Where Can I Turn For Peace?
In the world today there is so much that can make life difficult, and oft times difficult to deal with. Life has this way of throwing things at you that test and trys one to the breaking point. And yet through all of this, life always seems to work out. I don't really understand how that works out, however I do know that it does. It always has, and always will.
Recently I found out that a friend is going through some tough times. always hard to hear about friends having difficulties, esspecially cause there is normaly nothing that we can do about it for them, except perhaps just be someone that they can talk to.
But as a result of this I have thought to myself "what do I do to find peace when the winds of change or tribulation are hitting me?" Well I have thought about it and I realize that there are some things that I do over and over again to help. I don't do it consciously but I am just drawn to things to help. So I shall share a few of them with all of you that may be reading this. I am not sure if there is anything that will help you, but who know there just might be something that might help out a bit.
one thing that I alwasy like to do is to play the guitar or sing. I love music, life is so simple when I am playing or making music. There is a song for every phase in life. Music can comfort one and take them somewhere where the troubles and worries are not, even if it is just for a couple of min it is always nice to have. Recently I have taken back to practicing the guitar agian. I primarly play classical music but I like to play other stuff as well. The reason I like the classical is due to the fact that it is hard. When I am playing it er rather trying to learn to there is not much else I can think about other than trying to make good music. I am sure most of you have your own thing with music, but for me it is a great tool to help.
The other thing that I like to do is play golf. I don't do it often, but when I do it really brings great relief to me. The reason why is cause when you are playing there is not any energy left to think about the troubles of the world. When your biggest worry in life is that you just hit a ball into the sand trap or the rough grass it is a good time. Cause you know what? Who cares where that ball lands? the game will go on and that one shot makes a whole day worth it. (hmm I think I know what my next blog is going to be about)
Now for the next couple of things that I like to do I am going to go the the gospel path. For those of you that may not know, but I am sure that most of you do, I am one that goes to church. I at times can be a little churchy, but I try hard to keep it personal, and between me and my closest friends, and family. However with that said one thing that I always do when life is hard, and I don't seem to have anywere else to turn I turn to prayer. I may not always get the answers, but I always get the peace, and I know that someone hears it. There is always an ear that is ready to hear me, even when it seems like there is no one that cares. that very thing has helped my more then anything. I find that when I forget this, and I forget that I need to throw a shout out to the Lord life thorws some serious curves at me, and they often drive me to my knees. These times have made me a better because of it. But anyway I don't want to go to much more into that, but it works, and it helps.
The other thing that I do is I try to help others. I find that when I go and help others that I forget about my own problems, and I get caught up in giving assistance to others, and makeing their life better. I am always glad to do that, and it help me keep perspective in tough times.
The last thing that I like to do is go up to the DC Mormon Temple. It is a great place, and when you are there you just feel a peace that you don't feel many other places. Even on the grounds. I love it there. Many a hard choices came from thinking there.
Well anyway, I hope that this is of some use to someone somewhere. I know that this all sounds simple. I know that when life is beating you down and down that it is hard to get the peace of mind that we all seek. However it is there, and there is some other power somewhere that is looking after us and is trying to help us.
Is it Really. . .something that we can handle? Is it really ever going to be better? Two questions that I know from time to time that I ask myself.
"In your hour of doubt
lonliness or fear
just listen to your heart
and this is what you'll hear
You're not alone
even tho right now you're on your own
you are loved in ways that can't be shown
you needs are known
your not alone
And when you cry
you're just letting go a heart ache deep inside
So tomorrow there'll be sunshine and sky
and love close by; You're not alone
And I know that it's not easy
but I know that it won't last
Cause one who loves you more than me
He is sending his blessings fast
you're not alone
say it one more time, "I'm not alone"
And even when it's hard to find the words
your prayers are always heard
your not alone"
Michael McLean - "You're Not Alone"
- this song has brought me so much peace over the years singing it to myself. I hope that perhaps it can bring you some as well.
Recently I found out that a friend is going through some tough times. always hard to hear about friends having difficulties, esspecially cause there is normaly nothing that we can do about it for them, except perhaps just be someone that they can talk to.
But as a result of this I have thought to myself "what do I do to find peace when the winds of change or tribulation are hitting me?" Well I have thought about it and I realize that there are some things that I do over and over again to help. I don't do it consciously but I am just drawn to things to help. So I shall share a few of them with all of you that may be reading this. I am not sure if there is anything that will help you, but who know there just might be something that might help out a bit.
one thing that I alwasy like to do is to play the guitar or sing. I love music, life is so simple when I am playing or making music. There is a song for every phase in life. Music can comfort one and take them somewhere where the troubles and worries are not, even if it is just for a couple of min it is always nice to have. Recently I have taken back to practicing the guitar agian. I primarly play classical music but I like to play other stuff as well. The reason I like the classical is due to the fact that it is hard. When I am playing it er rather trying to learn to there is not much else I can think about other than trying to make good music. I am sure most of you have your own thing with music, but for me it is a great tool to help.
The other thing that I like to do is play golf. I don't do it often, but when I do it really brings great relief to me. The reason why is cause when you are playing there is not any energy left to think about the troubles of the world. When your biggest worry in life is that you just hit a ball into the sand trap or the rough grass it is a good time. Cause you know what? Who cares where that ball lands? the game will go on and that one shot makes a whole day worth it. (hmm I think I know what my next blog is going to be about)
Now for the next couple of things that I like to do I am going to go the the gospel path. For those of you that may not know, but I am sure that most of you do, I am one that goes to church. I at times can be a little churchy, but I try hard to keep it personal, and between me and my closest friends, and family. However with that said one thing that I always do when life is hard, and I don't seem to have anywere else to turn I turn to prayer. I may not always get the answers, but I always get the peace, and I know that someone hears it. There is always an ear that is ready to hear me, even when it seems like there is no one that cares. that very thing has helped my more then anything. I find that when I forget this, and I forget that I need to throw a shout out to the Lord life thorws some serious curves at me, and they often drive me to my knees. These times have made me a better because of it. But anyway I don't want to go to much more into that, but it works, and it helps.
The other thing that I do is I try to help others. I find that when I go and help others that I forget about my own problems, and I get caught up in giving assistance to others, and makeing their life better. I am always glad to do that, and it help me keep perspective in tough times.
The last thing that I like to do is go up to the DC Mormon Temple. It is a great place, and when you are there you just feel a peace that you don't feel many other places. Even on the grounds. I love it there. Many a hard choices came from thinking there.
Well anyway, I hope that this is of some use to someone somewhere. I know that this all sounds simple. I know that when life is beating you down and down that it is hard to get the peace of mind that we all seek. However it is there, and there is some other power somewhere that is looking after us and is trying to help us.
Is it Really. . .something that we can handle? Is it really ever going to be better? Two questions that I know from time to time that I ask myself.
"In your hour of doubt
lonliness or fear
just listen to your heart
and this is what you'll hear
You're not alone
even tho right now you're on your own
you are loved in ways that can't be shown
you needs are known
your not alone
And when you cry
you're just letting go a heart ache deep inside
So tomorrow there'll be sunshine and sky
and love close by; You're not alone
And I know that it's not easy
but I know that it won't last
Cause one who loves you more than me
He is sending his blessings fast
you're not alone
say it one more time, "I'm not alone"
And even when it's hard to find the words
your prayers are always heard
your not alone"
Michael McLean - "You're Not Alone"
- this song has brought me so much peace over the years singing it to myself. I hope that perhaps it can bring you some as well.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
I wish I knew everything. . .
You know I wish that I knew everything. yea no I don't that would kind of suck. There would be great aspects of it for sure, but at the same time it would take the spice of life out.
I am talking mostly about know what will happen after we make choices. What is on the other side of that equals sign. There have been many times in the last while that I have had to make a choice about different things, and at the time I sure would have liked to know what was going to happen as a result of it.
Well life does not allow for that to be the case, we must make choices and learn for ourselves what will happen. Now most of you may think that i am crazy, and wondering why I would not want to know what is going to happen next. There is a reason for this though process. Allow me to elaborate on this.
When I make a choice and it turns out good or bad, it does not really matter which, and it comes time to make that choice again I know what I am going to do, or what I am not going to do. Some times I don't get it the first time or the next 8 times, but sure as rain i'll get it one day. And that is the fun part, when you come to a choice and it is a repeat and you know how to handle it. That knowladge is yours, and you learned it good o'le fashoned way. The school of hard knocks, a place where the teachers are . . . .rough.
Like it also teaches us to takes risks, which can be quite fun and enjoyable, and other times it can be painful, but all in all the journy is allways worth it I guess. I like the learning what choices to make, even though sometimes when I am in the thick of it I lose perspective, as it is so easy to do.
There are no great life changing choices that I am going to have to make here in the next month (at least that I am aware of) nor in the last little bit, otherwise I could give a good example perhaps somthing shall come up and I can give an example of how I don't have a clue what to do.
Is it really better to know what will happen? or Is it really better to learn for yourself? I leave that up to you to decide for yourself.
I am talking mostly about know what will happen after we make choices. What is on the other side of that equals sign. There have been many times in the last while that I have had to make a choice about different things, and at the time I sure would have liked to know what was going to happen as a result of it.
Well life does not allow for that to be the case, we must make choices and learn for ourselves what will happen. Now most of you may think that i am crazy, and wondering why I would not want to know what is going to happen next. There is a reason for this though process. Allow me to elaborate on this.
When I make a choice and it turns out good or bad, it does not really matter which, and it comes time to make that choice again I know what I am going to do, or what I am not going to do. Some times I don't get it the first time or the next 8 times, but sure as rain i'll get it one day. And that is the fun part, when you come to a choice and it is a repeat and you know how to handle it. That knowladge is yours, and you learned it good o'le fashoned way. The school of hard knocks, a place where the teachers are . . . .rough.
Like it also teaches us to takes risks, which can be quite fun and enjoyable, and other times it can be painful, but all in all the journy is allways worth it I guess. I like the learning what choices to make, even though sometimes when I am in the thick of it I lose perspective, as it is so easy to do.
There are no great life changing choices that I am going to have to make here in the next month (at least that I am aware of) nor in the last little bit, otherwise I could give a good example perhaps somthing shall come up and I can give an example of how I don't have a clue what to do.
Is it really better to know what will happen? or Is it really better to learn for yourself? I leave that up to you to decide for yourself.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
be that friend
Life sometimes is really tough to say the least. There are many things that help us get through the tough times. Over the course of the last year I have discovered many different things that help me during the tough times. Over the course of the last year there have been some interesting times in my life and some interesting choices that have been made. Some of the choices are very small, and some of them where quite big, some that the effects of have already come and gone, and others that the effects will ring in my life till I die. But I have learned a lot the last year and now that I am where I am I guess that I would not change any part of it. Even the parts that at the time seemed so hard that I was not sure if I could handle it, or that I would make it through them.
This Blog entry is going to be a bit more personal than normal, and well . . .that’s ok cause this is mine, and I can do that. So I am going to.
Anyway back to my life, there have been some tough times, and there has been so many things that I have learned over the last few years. I guess the good Lord saw it fit to give me lots of learning opportunities in the last year. There has been no shortage of them. He definatly has played a part in my life, and I can see that now, there are times when I was asking over and over for things, and I wanted them so badly, and nothing would happen all to often and then a few day, weeks, and sometimes even months later I would see why it happened the way that it did.
Well this is not about where I am now, but rather some of the things that happened to help make my life a little more manageable during the tough times. As I said the good Lord saw fit to make life challenging but he did not leave me alone that is for sure. There have been many different people, events, ect that have happened to me that I can see that there is a hand in it.
The one thing that has helped me through all of the tough times has been the blessing of some really great friends in my life. Since coming here to good ol’e Washington DC I have made some really great friends. Some of them have played such a huge role I wonder if they will ever fully comprehend how much they have affected my life. I feel sad that I know that I may never be able to repay what some of them have done for me. I try all of the time to do so, but it just never feels like I do enough in return.
Over the last year I have gotten to see who is truly my friends. I had a question posed to me, or actually it was more of a statement that got me thinking. A very close friend of mine said that he/she was driving to the church and an ambulance was driving past with the sirens on in the general direction of the church. And it got this person thinking, if it was going to the church whom would it be for? And if it was someone I knew, what would I do? (And then the big part for me) Who would it need to be for me to want to ride in the Ambulance with them? Well this person said that if it were me that they would make sure that they were in the ambulance with me.
That really got me thinking. If it were this person I would be in the ambulance as well. I would make sure that I was in there. But that made me think about who else would I make sure that I was in there if it happened, and or who would I want in there if it were me that was hurt? I realized that there are a few people that I would want to be there. And that thought led to another, who of those that are my friends, that when things are tough, who do I wants to talk to first? I realized that I do have some people like that.
I do not want to get into naming people; I just hope that I make it known how I feel through my actions towards them. But there are some people here in the DC area that mean the world to me, and that I would do anything for. Some people that have helped me so much that I am honored to call them “my friends”.
We all need to have friends like that; I know that I would not be where I am with out the assistance from great friends. But I also have learned that if you want to have best friends then the most important part is to be that friend. I try hard to be that kind of friend. I know that I fall short and that I do not always meet the need, but I sure do try to, and I guess that counts for something right?
Well I am going to wrap this up now, but I want end this with part of the lyrics to a great song about this
“Be that friend, be that kind
That you prayed you might find
And you always have a best friend
Come what may”
Thanks to those of you that are being that kind of friend.
This Blog entry is going to be a bit more personal than normal, and well . . .that’s ok cause this is mine, and I can do that. So I am going to.
Anyway back to my life, there have been some tough times, and there has been so many things that I have learned over the last few years. I guess the good Lord saw it fit to give me lots of learning opportunities in the last year. There has been no shortage of them. He definatly has played a part in my life, and I can see that now, there are times when I was asking over and over for things, and I wanted them so badly, and nothing would happen all to often and then a few day, weeks, and sometimes even months later I would see why it happened the way that it did.
Well this is not about where I am now, but rather some of the things that happened to help make my life a little more manageable during the tough times. As I said the good Lord saw fit to make life challenging but he did not leave me alone that is for sure. There have been many different people, events, ect that have happened to me that I can see that there is a hand in it.
The one thing that has helped me through all of the tough times has been the blessing of some really great friends in my life. Since coming here to good ol’e Washington DC I have made some really great friends. Some of them have played such a huge role I wonder if they will ever fully comprehend how much they have affected my life. I feel sad that I know that I may never be able to repay what some of them have done for me. I try all of the time to do so, but it just never feels like I do enough in return.
Over the last year I have gotten to see who is truly my friends. I had a question posed to me, or actually it was more of a statement that got me thinking. A very close friend of mine said that he/she was driving to the church and an ambulance was driving past with the sirens on in the general direction of the church. And it got this person thinking, if it was going to the church whom would it be for? And if it was someone I knew, what would I do? (And then the big part for me) Who would it need to be for me to want to ride in the Ambulance with them? Well this person said that if it were me that they would make sure that they were in the ambulance with me.
That really got me thinking. If it were this person I would be in the ambulance as well. I would make sure that I was in there. But that made me think about who else would I make sure that I was in there if it happened, and or who would I want in there if it were me that was hurt? I realized that there are a few people that I would want to be there. And that thought led to another, who of those that are my friends, that when things are tough, who do I wants to talk to first? I realized that I do have some people like that.
I do not want to get into naming people; I just hope that I make it known how I feel through my actions towards them. But there are some people here in the DC area that mean the world to me, and that I would do anything for. Some people that have helped me so much that I am honored to call them “my friends”.
We all need to have friends like that; I know that I would not be where I am with out the assistance from great friends. But I also have learned that if you want to have best friends then the most important part is to be that friend. I try hard to be that kind of friend. I know that I fall short and that I do not always meet the need, but I sure do try to, and I guess that counts for something right?
Well I am going to wrap this up now, but I want end this with part of the lyrics to a great song about this
“Be that friend, be that kind
That you prayed you might find
And you always have a best friend
Come what may”
Thanks to those of you that are being that kind of friend.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
re: new podcast
This is a new pod Cast the Viddy and I are doing.
This is going to be here on a temparay basis till I get the new blog for it created.
http://www.switchpod.com//users/solo2070/podcast2.m4a
This is going to be here on a temparay basis till I get the new blog for it created.
http://www.switchpod.com//users/solo2070/podcast2.m4a
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A Time to Ponder
The following is a partial entry. if it gets some comments I will finish it. It is a little old, like 2 months, but I wanted to get something up. Podcast comming this week so keep a watch out for it.
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I have gotten a little behind on this yet again. There has been a lot things going on with me, and I am sure that all of you are just itchin for me to enlighten you. Well sorry but I am not going to do that here at this time.
The question for today is.. . . .
Is it really the things that we know that make us smart? or not smart?
We all think very differently. Some people have earned the title of "smart" and others have earned the title of "not as smart" (word that how you will). Why is this? why do some of us get these different titles? I know people that have different titles, both of which are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Am I smart? I often wonder if I would be called that, or if I would be just called dumb. I don't think about it too often, and I know that there are things that I am very smart about, and other things that I am not. But in the eyes of those around me I wonder what they think about me from time to time. If I am the kind of person that they would come to for advice.
Does it really matter what others think about us? I guess in the great scheme of things it does not really matter what others think. We seem to all know this, and yet we all seem to forget this as life goes on. The ones that truely ignore what others think about us seem to be happier. What is so special about them? I don't know, perhaps it is the ability to sustain their own lives with out the need of other people attention.
I often try to separate myself from the need of other peoples attention to be succsesfull, or to find pride in my work. I have found however that it is harder than it seems to do that. lets give an example of what I am talking about:
I used to work for a cleaning company, and at that time I was a supervisor at a building over the night shift. I was wanted to do something to spice up the look of the building with some detail cleaning. So I elected to clean the push plates on all of the doors. So I got the tools required to polish them and then begain to polish. Well when I was done, I realozed that they were all clean evenly. That in reality most people are not going to notice cuase they are not going to have anything to compair it to. so to let people know about all of the work that I do, I left half of some of the push plates unpolished.
The next day I got a call from the facility manger and he told me that he liked the work that I had done and asked when I would finish the rest of them. I told him the I was going to do so that night, and of course I did.
Now would this guy have noticed the job that I had done if i had not left half of it incompleted? I don;t know nor will I ever I guess, but the point is I was looking for the approval of this person to alllow me to think that I did a good job. Is it not good enough that I could have.
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I have gotten a little behind on this yet again. There has been a lot things going on with me, and I am sure that all of you are just itchin for me to enlighten you. Well sorry but I am not going to do that here at this time.
The question for today is.. . . .
Is it really the things that we know that make us smart? or not smart?
We all think very differently. Some people have earned the title of "smart" and others have earned the title of "not as smart" (word that how you will). Why is this? why do some of us get these different titles? I know people that have different titles, both of which are on opposite sides of the spectrum.
Am I smart? I often wonder if I would be called that, or if I would be just called dumb. I don't think about it too often, and I know that there are things that I am very smart about, and other things that I am not. But in the eyes of those around me I wonder what they think about me from time to time. If I am the kind of person that they would come to for advice.
Does it really matter what others think about us? I guess in the great scheme of things it does not really matter what others think. We seem to all know this, and yet we all seem to forget this as life goes on. The ones that truely ignore what others think about us seem to be happier. What is so special about them? I don't know, perhaps it is the ability to sustain their own lives with out the need of other people attention.
I often try to separate myself from the need of other peoples attention to be succsesfull, or to find pride in my work. I have found however that it is harder than it seems to do that. lets give an example of what I am talking about:
I used to work for a cleaning company, and at that time I was a supervisor at a building over the night shift. I was wanted to do something to spice up the look of the building with some detail cleaning. So I elected to clean the push plates on all of the doors. So I got the tools required to polish them and then begain to polish. Well when I was done, I realozed that they were all clean evenly. That in reality most people are not going to notice cuase they are not going to have anything to compair it to. so to let people know about all of the work that I do, I left half of some of the push plates unpolished.
The next day I got a call from the facility manger and he told me that he liked the work that I had done and asked when I would finish the rest of them. I told him the I was going to do so that night, and of course I did.
Now would this guy have noticed the job that I had done if i had not left half of it incompleted? I don;t know nor will I ever I guess, but the point is I was looking for the approval of this person to alllow me to think that I did a good job. Is it not good enough that I could have.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
My 60 opinions responses
Well I have gotten some decent responses to the last post that I did. I did not think that I was going to get out another blog before my next podcast, but I guess I am going to now. I want to get this done while it is on my mind or I know that I will forget to do it.
Well I am going to respond to an e-mail response that I got today. (by the way I love to talk about all this stuff so feel free to comment or e-mail me.)
the first one is
opinion: I am for the Iraq war and I think that we should stay there and get the job done.
E-mail: What Constitutes Get it done?
Response: Well that is a LONG conversation in and of itself, and I fully intend to post something in depth about the Iraq war, but it will take some time as there are a lot of things that are happening right now that I want to see what happens first.
But to Clearify that one a bit more. We should help the Iraqi people build up a stabel Democoracy. I know that it will take time but it is War, and things do not and will not always go as we want them to. If we turn and run away and "lose" this war everything that we have fought for and everything that people have died for could be in vain and all for not cause Terror could take over there. Also this would in the future effect us, as it would be on emore place for it to grow. We will be attacked again. I just want to make it be as FAR OUT as possible. so if there is one less place for them to be then well lets make it that way. If not we will be there again but I think that it will be under far different circumstances.
Opinion: I think that The US is losing its drive to get the job done.
E-mail: Why do you think so? Is it something that should include the international community? Do we need to look at the roles that the int. community played in our civil war to see what we can justify thru PR to the citizens of our country?
Response: That one is a tough one to answer also and keep it brief. Lets give it a try.
The Iraq war has and is full of twists turns, and failures. There are also many things that have and are continuing to go well. With out getting into the sticks about this one, all in all the war is "behind schedual" We have not met all of the deadlines that we wanted to meet at the appointed times. Well as a whole it seems that America(at least all the loud ones) are saying that we should leave. Well they are saying this when the going was getting tough and we did not seem to be making any headway. If your boss tells you to do something and have it done by Friday, and you do not do you then not do it? Of course not! you do what you gotta do to get the job done and soon. Well that is what we are doing. We are trying to get the job done, and we ware trying to get it done yesterday. there are setbacks, but jsut because we do not acheive our goals that does not mean that we should quit! We should continue on and make it right.
I feel that I am going to drift off of this one. Let mill over how to word this one better and I will get back to everyone on that one.
Opinion: I think that the General is a great man and that anyone that attacks him personally is a cold gutless individual, and that his honor has no reason to be questioned and that it is a great insult to do so.
E-mail: I see your point, but no one is perfect. I am sure that he has made mistakes, even into policy at large. If you can't take criticism then I don't think you belong in positions of power or in the public eye. That is everyone from the General to the President to Britney Spears.
response: Today the President of the United States said something in his press speech. "It is one thing to attack me." We all know that people of power will be attacked when they say things. My comment was in direct response to the Moveon.org ad that was run. It was as the President said "disgusting". That attack was personal plain and simple. It was an attack on the mans charachter, and also on our Military.
I wish that there were more people that would have said anything about the Ad that was run. However there was not much nor enough said, till today. I feel that our President put it all out there and it was the honest truth. I think that he sees that clearly how it really is. If you all search your heart you will know that what they did was wrong, and should not have been done. There are lines that should not be crossed, and that line was crossed by Moveon.org.
It is ok to not like what someone says? Heck yea it is. I am doing it right now. But if you must disagree do it with class. Not like they did. We are all on the same side here. We are all Americans. That is all I would liek to say about this about the current moment.
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Well there are 4 more to respondo to and I am sick of typing so I will post those later.
Ask yourself, Is it really about the war? Is it really personal what was done? Is it really. . . .you fill in the rest and ask yourself.
Be safe all and God Bless.
"How are you today?" the man asks, and the happy man replies "Better than I deserve!!"
Well I am going to respond to an e-mail response that I got today. (by the way I love to talk about all this stuff so feel free to comment or e-mail me.)
the first one is
opinion: I am for the Iraq war and I think that we should stay there and get the job done.
E-mail: What Constitutes Get it done?
Response: Well that is a LONG conversation in and of itself, and I fully intend to post something in depth about the Iraq war, but it will take some time as there are a lot of things that are happening right now that I want to see what happens first.
But to Clearify that one a bit more. We should help the Iraqi people build up a stabel Democoracy. I know that it will take time but it is War, and things do not and will not always go as we want them to. If we turn and run away and "lose" this war everything that we have fought for and everything that people have died for could be in vain and all for not cause Terror could take over there. Also this would in the future effect us, as it would be on emore place for it to grow. We will be attacked again. I just want to make it be as FAR OUT as possible. so if there is one less place for them to be then well lets make it that way. If not we will be there again but I think that it will be under far different circumstances.
Opinion: I think that The US is losing its drive to get the job done.
E-mail: Why do you think so? Is it something that should include the international community? Do we need to look at the roles that the int. community played in our civil war to see what we can justify thru PR to the citizens of our country?
Response: That one is a tough one to answer also and keep it brief. Lets give it a try.
The Iraq war has and is full of twists turns, and failures. There are also many things that have and are continuing to go well. With out getting into the sticks about this one, all in all the war is "behind schedual" We have not met all of the deadlines that we wanted to meet at the appointed times. Well as a whole it seems that America(at least all the loud ones) are saying that we should leave. Well they are saying this when the going was getting tough and we did not seem to be making any headway. If your boss tells you to do something and have it done by Friday, and you do not do you then not do it? Of course not! you do what you gotta do to get the job done and soon. Well that is what we are doing. We are trying to get the job done, and we ware trying to get it done yesterday. there are setbacks, but jsut because we do not acheive our goals that does not mean that we should quit! We should continue on and make it right.
I feel that I am going to drift off of this one. Let mill over how to word this one better and I will get back to everyone on that one.
Opinion: I think that the General is a great man and that anyone that attacks him personally is a cold gutless individual, and that his honor has no reason to be questioned and that it is a great insult to do so.
E-mail: I see your point, but no one is perfect. I am sure that he has made mistakes, even into policy at large. If you can't take criticism then I don't think you belong in positions of power or in the public eye. That is everyone from the General to the President to Britney Spears.
response: Today the President of the United States said something in his press speech. "It is one thing to attack me." We all know that people of power will be attacked when they say things. My comment was in direct response to the Moveon.org ad that was run. It was as the President said "disgusting". That attack was personal plain and simple. It was an attack on the mans charachter, and also on our Military.
I wish that there were more people that would have said anything about the Ad that was run. However there was not much nor enough said, till today. I feel that our President put it all out there and it was the honest truth. I think that he sees that clearly how it really is. If you all search your heart you will know that what they did was wrong, and should not have been done. There are lines that should not be crossed, and that line was crossed by Moveon.org.
It is ok to not like what someone says? Heck yea it is. I am doing it right now. But if you must disagree do it with class. Not like they did. We are all on the same side here. We are all Americans. That is all I would liek to say about this about the current moment.
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Well there are 4 more to respondo to and I am sick of typing so I will post those later.
Ask yourself, Is it really about the war? Is it really personal what was done? Is it really. . . .you fill in the rest and ask yourself.
Be safe all and God Bless.
"How are you today?" the man asks, and the happy man replies "Better than I deserve!!"
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
My 60 Opinions
I am going to do something that I have needed to do for a while but have not had the stones to do so. Well I am going to do it now. I am going to tell everyone where I stand on different issues.
There will be a couple of things that will not make it up here cause that means that I have a podcast in the plans to cover it.
Well here they are, feel free to comment but I am not looking to have them changed, most of them have plenty of info that is leading me to my opinions but I don't want to put them all here. Some of them will make people think differently about me, and might also cause people to no talk with me about some topics, that is ok with me. So with out further delay here they are.
Well there are some things that I wanted to take stand on as a person. These are all my opinions, and I have no problems with anyone that has different ones. I wish that we can all get along and I want to be friends with all. I wan to be a kind person, but I have allowed that to allow me to be stepped on too much. So if you think differently about me cause of this list I am sorry and I hope that we can be friends and know that I will try to be yours even if you do not want to be mine.
so ask yourself, do you know where you stand? Are you ok with where you stand? Do you really know what you're talking about? Are you OK with the fact that I and many others are different than you? I am. That is what makes this world a great place.
Live everyday to the max and always remember that it is a great day to be alive. We are all very luck to be alive and I am proud to be an American, and I will stand by America no matter what.
God bless all.
There will be a couple of things that will not make it up here cause that means that I have a podcast in the plans to cover it.
Well here they are, feel free to comment but I am not looking to have them changed, most of them have plenty of info that is leading me to my opinions but I don't want to put them all here. Some of them will make people think differently about me, and might also cause people to no talk with me about some topics, that is ok with me. So with out further delay here they are.
- I am for the Iraq war and I think that we should stay there and get the job done.
- I think that The US is losing its drive to get the job done.
- I think that the General is a great man and that anyone that attacks him personally is a cold gutless individual, and that his honor has no reason to be questioned and that it is a great insult to do so.
- I am a conservative, and not a republican.
- I can not stand Party division
- I think the presidential elections test the very core of a honorable society.
- I am going to Vote for Mitt Romney currently(yes it can change)
- I am not doing it because he is Mormon
- Yes I am a Mormon
- I am doing it because I like his policies and religion has nothing to do with it.
- I do think that many (not all) Democrats attack Republican people in a very different way. I think that they are always attacking and republicans generally are defending.(that is not an absolute)
- I feel the Mormons receive undue and unjust treatment from society
- I feel that what happens in people life is their fault a majority of the time.
- We attract things into out life
- Positive thinking, Attraction, Intention, Karma, and Good and bad luck are all real
- God is there
- When we remove him from life and society we will have problems.
- I support President Bush and I would vote for him again.
- I DO NOT like Hillary.
- Nor Bill Clinton.
- I feel that most people that liked/like Bill don't have a clue what they are talking about, and that he did not do that many good things, but rather was president in a good time.
- I hate Dyslexia
- Socialized Health Care is a bad idea no matter what
- There is a problem with our health care
- Mostly with insurance as out health care just plain rocks
- I think the HSA is WAY better then HMO or any other plan (and that politicians should mention this and not "their" plans. AKA govt health care.)
- The housing market sucks
- ALL DEBT IS BAD!!!!!
- I love Toyota's
- Chevy over Ford any day
- the movie Sicko flat out lies at some parts to us
- I do not feel that movie rating systems mean anything.
- 3:10 to Yuma was a great movie
- Stereotypes are funny
- Hollywood is corrupt, and there are a lot of evil people there
- Man and Woman should not live together.(unless family or married)
- Judging others by their beliefs is wrong.
- Let me clear that one up. not liking someone cause they feel different about things than you is wrong. You should be friends with all people, and the fact that you do not like Gays, and yet someone else does, does not mean that you should not like them
- Dating is way to complicated at times
- There are too many people in this world that do not think.
- I feel bad for people that are victims to profiling, but do not under any circumstances think that we should quit doing it. I mean think about it, if it is a stereotype there is some truth behind it. And if I fit a profile CHECK ME!!!!
- Hillarycare is a BAD PLAN!!! and it WILL move towards socialized health care at some point if it happens.
- Barak is not old enough to be president.
- again to restate, I mean not experienced enough
- people that vote for Hillary just cause she is a woman are not people that think logically or grasp the importance of the fact that it is for the role of PRESIDENT!!!
- The fact that she is a woman does not mean anything to me.
- And yes I am not a fan of her and she scares me to be honest.
- If you want all of the troops to come home you do not support the troops. They are there to win, and not to turn and run.
- I am very interested in politics.
- I think that women are not treated well enough in the world anymore.
- Being a stay at home Mom is one of the greatest things that a woman can do, and it is a Mans job to make that a possibility.
- Women abuse Men way more than we all realize.
- Not enough Men do not know how to treat women well.
- The Man should go get the money.
- There is nothing wrong with a woman working when there are no kids in the house.
- yes there is a flip side to that one.
- Too many people in the US don't know how to keep commitments and you can see this in marriages.
- Marriage is the number one cause for divorce. When we say I do we mean that I will try, when we say I will mean I will give it a test shot and if not then I will give it up.
- That is not a slap in the face to anyone that has been divorced it is just reality.
- Men should open doors for Women.
- It is Rude to smoke in public. It was clean air first and non-smokers outnumber smokers so we win.
- I mean come on smoking sections are like peeing sections in swimming pools.
- I have Many problems as a person, and so do we all. I try to improve myself everyday, and some days I do well and others I do not, but I still can and will try to help others along the way.
- I am a hypocrite and so are YOU!
- People are naturally good people and want good for others.
Well there are some things that I wanted to take stand on as a person. These are all my opinions, and I have no problems with anyone that has different ones. I wish that we can all get along and I want to be friends with all. I wan to be a kind person, but I have allowed that to allow me to be stepped on too much. So if you think differently about me cause of this list I am sorry and I hope that we can be friends and know that I will try to be yours even if you do not want to be mine.
so ask yourself, do you know where you stand? Are you ok with where you stand? Do you really know what you're talking about? Are you OK with the fact that I and many others are different than you? I am. That is what makes this world a great place.
Live everyday to the max and always remember that it is a great day to be alive. We are all very luck to be alive and I am proud to be an American, and I will stand by America no matter what.
God bless all.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Bush & His Talk to the Nation
I am going to start doing podcasts now. Here is the first one of many I hope. I know that it is a little scattered but I will do more and I will make them a lot better, and more structured.
I am going to try to keep them around the 5 min area, but I may do ones that are longer from time to time, and if so I will post that it is a longer one.
There will be video podcasts which I will do from time to time as well.
Same rules apply these all are ment to get thought going.
podcast
I am going to try to keep them around the 5 min area, but I may do ones that are longer from time to time, and if so I will post that it is a longer one.
There will be video podcasts which I will do from time to time as well.
Same rules apply these all are ment to get thought going.
podcast
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Fly your flag with pride.
I was driving today out to Reston to my favorite establishment. The Buffalo Wing Factory man they got good food, but anyway back to what I was saying. I have XM radio and I was surfing like three different talk show radio channels, and I came across the Factor on Fox News Radio and I heard a news story unlike anything that I have heard on the news. There are people apparently that do not want to fly the American flag. For various reasons, none of which that sound very good, but they do indeed.
So you gotta ask yourself? Do you fly the flag? Do take pride in the flag? People were calling in to voice their opinion on why they don’t fly the flag. One man said that It is just a pointless symbol and it is better to be informed than to fly the flag. Ummmm ok yea that does not make sense to me. I see his logic (if you can call it that) but I don’t agree. The flag is a symbol yes, but it seems that people are forgetting what that means. I will get to that in a sec. first I want to say one more reason why people don’t want to fly the flag with pride.
People say that if they fly the flag or wear a lapel pin or anything like that, that they are agreeing with the current policy, and things that are happening in the country, that they are taking a stand. Well yea you are, a stand FOR AMERICA! You know that great country that we live in that allows us to say what we want. That allows us to have freedoms that many around the world can only dream of. We live in one of the greatest nations in the world. Sure we have things that we can improve on. What country does not? There are times when we don’t agree with what is going on, but the flag is a symbol of our freedoms, and the price that was paid to have all 50 wonderful states. (Even if some of them are kind of flat and dull) and not the current presidents policy on immigration, or foreign policy.
There are other aspects of this, and some of them I really don’t want to get into here. But they varied from Slavery, to the war in Iraq, to taxes. All I gotta say is the flag is a symbol of our great nation. When things are tough we should fly it proudly.
I leave you now with a picture that I took, and a quote about the flag that I really like. but before you look at it as yourself a question. Is it really just a flag? Or is it something more?
Click the link to see the picture. It is too large for the blog. ~~~~> Here. for the full size, but below is a smaller size, however it is hard to see the text.
So you gotta ask yourself? Do you fly the flag? Do take pride in the flag? People were calling in to voice their opinion on why they don’t fly the flag. One man said that It is just a pointless symbol and it is better to be informed than to fly the flag. Ummmm ok yea that does not make sense to me. I see his logic (if you can call it that) but I don’t agree. The flag is a symbol yes, but it seems that people are forgetting what that means. I will get to that in a sec. first I want to say one more reason why people don’t want to fly the flag with pride.
People say that if they fly the flag or wear a lapel pin or anything like that, that they are agreeing with the current policy, and things that are happening in the country, that they are taking a stand. Well yea you are, a stand FOR AMERICA! You know that great country that we live in that allows us to say what we want. That allows us to have freedoms that many around the world can only dream of. We live in one of the greatest nations in the world. Sure we have things that we can improve on. What country does not? There are times when we don’t agree with what is going on, but the flag is a symbol of our freedoms, and the price that was paid to have all 50 wonderful states. (Even if some of them are kind of flat and dull) and not the current presidents policy on immigration, or foreign policy.
There are other aspects of this, and some of them I really don’t want to get into here. But they varied from Slavery, to the war in Iraq, to taxes. All I gotta say is the flag is a symbol of our great nation. When things are tough we should fly it proudly.
I leave you now with a picture that I took, and a quote about the flag that I really like. but before you look at it as yourself a question. Is it really just a flag? Or is it something more?
Click the link to see the picture. It is too large for the blog. ~~~~> Here. for the full size, but below is a smaller size, however it is hard to see the text.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Faith and our goals
Welcome back to the world of is it really? What shall we talk about today? Well you are in luck I already know what I am going to talk about so you will not need to rack your brain to help me on this matter. Now I feel the need to warn any of you that I am going to be talking about religion. So if this is going to bother you then don’t read it. But I think that most of the people that are reading this are going to be just fine with it.
I received an e-mail today that sparked this whole thing. I will copy and paste bits and pieces from it. The following is an exerpt from the e-mail that I shall give some commentary to.
“A few thoughts about faith. To me faith is the principle of all our actions or ininactions that we take day to day. It is when we lose faith that life is such a struggle. Despite what challenges we have before us, if we have faith, we will know that all will be OK, in time.
There is a saying in the scriptures that is something like, faith without works is dead. To me faith without a goal is waste. If we do not have strong goals then we do not to exercise faith and we do not do our part which is to think through and determine what we want and then have faith that we will have our goals manifested in our lives.”
Ok so I find this to be a great two paragraphs about faith and what not. The first one really sums up why we have problems when we try to take care of our future. We lose faith that it will all work out in the end. We forget that there is someone out there looking out for us and has our best interests at heart.
We all have problems and we all have things that get in the way of our goals. No one is immune to this fact. Does this thought make us feel any better when life is . . . well not going how we would like it to? Of course not, but at least for me it is nice to know that others know what I am going through, just the names and faces have changed.
So now on to the second paragraph with really compliments the first one quite nicely. The goal. We often are bummed about how life is going, but we really don’t know where it is we want to go. We know that we want to be happy, but we don’t know where we really want to be. If you have no goal or heading your odds of getting happiness is reduced. Sure people just happen upon something that makes them happy, but that is not the norm. A ship with no heading or destination does nothing but roam the sea.
You gotta of course have a goal. That is that hard part that we all have to deal with. Choosing what it is that we want. Sure it is ok if it changes from time to time. But it helps to have something to work for. But I am not going to talk about that aspect right now.
In this e-mail there is a fantastic quote, and it is as follows “Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to.” The person who said that is unknown. But it is a true concept. That is really when we find out what we are made of. When we have nothing else to hold on to. When you have no one to turn to on this earth that is when you grow the most, and when you grow your relationship with God. It is amazing how people can forget him when things are going good, but when things are going wrong most people are quick to call him again. The entire thing about how there is never an atheist in a foxhole is true. You have no one else to turn to for help when your there. And I am sure that when a lot of us are in our figurative foxholes in life we remember God and how he can help us.
So now that I am off of that soap box I can talk about the last thing in the e-mail. It is about blocking our dreams from us. “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." - Mary Manin Morrissey
That is so true. When we allow the task of getting there become to daunting then we will never get it. Don’t let it scare you, go for it, and move forward one day at a time. School for example. It is a really long thing. If you think about that all the time then it is going to be hard to keep the focus. But when you know where you are going to be, and you don’t get caught up in the nitty gritty it helps a lot. Keep the big picture in mind.
Well I think that I am growing tired of typing now so I am going to stop now. Should you want the rest of the e-mail let me know and I can send it to ya.
So is it really about Faith? Is it really what makes a difference in getting your goal or becoming happy?
I received an e-mail today that sparked this whole thing. I will copy and paste bits and pieces from it. The following is an exerpt from the e-mail that I shall give some commentary to.
“A few thoughts about faith. To me faith is the principle of all our actions or ininactions that we take day to day. It is when we lose faith that life is such a struggle. Despite what challenges we have before us, if we have faith, we will know that all will be OK, in time.
There is a saying in the scriptures that is something like, faith without works is dead. To me faith without a goal is waste. If we do not have strong goals then we do not to exercise faith and we do not do our part which is to think through and determine what we want and then have faith that we will have our goals manifested in our lives.”
Ok so I find this to be a great two paragraphs about faith and what not. The first one really sums up why we have problems when we try to take care of our future. We lose faith that it will all work out in the end. We forget that there is someone out there looking out for us and has our best interests at heart.
We all have problems and we all have things that get in the way of our goals. No one is immune to this fact. Does this thought make us feel any better when life is . . . well not going how we would like it to? Of course not, but at least for me it is nice to know that others know what I am going through, just the names and faces have changed.
So now on to the second paragraph with really compliments the first one quite nicely. The goal. We often are bummed about how life is going, but we really don’t know where it is we want to go. We know that we want to be happy, but we don’t know where we really want to be. If you have no goal or heading your odds of getting happiness is reduced. Sure people just happen upon something that makes them happy, but that is not the norm. A ship with no heading or destination does nothing but roam the sea.
You gotta of course have a goal. That is that hard part that we all have to deal with. Choosing what it is that we want. Sure it is ok if it changes from time to time. But it helps to have something to work for. But I am not going to talk about that aspect right now.
In this e-mail there is a fantastic quote, and it is as follows “Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to.” The person who said that is unknown. But it is a true concept. That is really when we find out what we are made of. When we have nothing else to hold on to. When you have no one to turn to on this earth that is when you grow the most, and when you grow your relationship with God. It is amazing how people can forget him when things are going good, but when things are going wrong most people are quick to call him again. The entire thing about how there is never an atheist in a foxhole is true. You have no one else to turn to for help when your there. And I am sure that when a lot of us are in our figurative foxholes in life we remember God and how he can help us.
So now that I am off of that soap box I can talk about the last thing in the e-mail. It is about blocking our dreams from us. “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith." - Mary Manin Morrissey
That is so true. When we allow the task of getting there become to daunting then we will never get it. Don’t let it scare you, go for it, and move forward one day at a time. School for example. It is a really long thing. If you think about that all the time then it is going to be hard to keep the focus. But when you know where you are going to be, and you don’t get caught up in the nitty gritty it helps a lot. Keep the big picture in mind.
Well I think that I am growing tired of typing now so I am going to stop now. Should you want the rest of the e-mail let me know and I can send it to ya.
So is it really about Faith? Is it really what makes a difference in getting your goal or becoming happy?
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The jobs that we do.
There is something things that we all must do. We all must breathe for example. We all must beat our heart. Of course those are very fundamental things that we all must do. However even though we do them, we do them in different ways. Some are more diligent is making it happen or not. I am not going to talk about how we all breathe differently but I was just trying to paint a pic that even with the most basic of things we still perform them differently.
The aspect that I am going to talk about at this time is working. Some of us have a Job. Others perhaps have a Career. Within each of those we all have a different mentality about how we view it. Some of us are just there to make a paycheck, and others are there to get the job done because it is not about the money, and everything in between.
So what are you doing where you work? Are you just there to get your paycheck? Are you just like every other person in your place of work? Or do you come to work and try to learn more, and become the best at what you do?
I have had the wonderful opportunity of being a “boss”. With that came firing and hiring people. I had to choose when to give people a promotion, or when they needed a raise. With doing this I have seen lots and lots of different kinds of people come to work for me. I work in the cleaning industry and the bulk of those people that I had under me were cleaners. At various level of course with in the cleaning field. Some were just hourly cleaners and other were supervisors of an account. There were others that did not clean at all, but performed some other task that I would need done. No matter what the job there was certain qualities that I saw made a great employee.
Some were there and took great pride in what they do. They came to work and worked hard, and got their job done, and went above and beyond the scope of what they had to do. There were others that had a more prestigious job position, and they just “did their job”. Are they a bad person or worker for this? Well no of course not they just have a different mentality about their job than the other person does. So who would get more opportunities to grow and become more successful? Well the first one of course. A person that works like that is going to learn, grow, and become better at what they do no matter what I do. I can give the other person more opportunities to grow that they are still going to do “just a job”.
So what is the point that I am trying to get across to you blog people? Well I don’t know if there is much of one other than what I asked. Do you just do your job, or do you do more? Do you take pride in whatever it is that you may do? It is not the job that you do that matters in the great scheme of things, but rather it is how you do the job that really matters. I guess this could be a pep talk that you might get from an employer that wants to get a little more out of you. Tell them that they can thank me and send me money if they would like. I know that when I work hard, and get better at anything, no matter how unimportant people may think that it is. I feel good about myself. I feel like I got something done.
Is it really how you do the job that matters? It is really that big of a deal if I want to just make a paycheck? I guess in your life you will see and find out for yourself.
The aspect that I am going to talk about at this time is working. Some of us have a Job. Others perhaps have a Career. Within each of those we all have a different mentality about how we view it. Some of us are just there to make a paycheck, and others are there to get the job done because it is not about the money, and everything in between.
So what are you doing where you work? Are you just there to get your paycheck? Are you just like every other person in your place of work? Or do you come to work and try to learn more, and become the best at what you do?
I have had the wonderful opportunity of being a “boss”. With that came firing and hiring people. I had to choose when to give people a promotion, or when they needed a raise. With doing this I have seen lots and lots of different kinds of people come to work for me. I work in the cleaning industry and the bulk of those people that I had under me were cleaners. At various level of course with in the cleaning field. Some were just hourly cleaners and other were supervisors of an account. There were others that did not clean at all, but performed some other task that I would need done. No matter what the job there was certain qualities that I saw made a great employee.
Some were there and took great pride in what they do. They came to work and worked hard, and got their job done, and went above and beyond the scope of what they had to do. There were others that had a more prestigious job position, and they just “did their job”. Are they a bad person or worker for this? Well no of course not they just have a different mentality about their job than the other person does. So who would get more opportunities to grow and become more successful? Well the first one of course. A person that works like that is going to learn, grow, and become better at what they do no matter what I do. I can give the other person more opportunities to grow that they are still going to do “just a job”.
So what is the point that I am trying to get across to you blog people? Well I don’t know if there is much of one other than what I asked. Do you just do your job, or do you do more? Do you take pride in whatever it is that you may do? It is not the job that you do that matters in the great scheme of things, but rather it is how you do the job that really matters. I guess this could be a pep talk that you might get from an employer that wants to get a little more out of you. Tell them that they can thank me and send me money if they would like. I know that when I work hard, and get better at anything, no matter how unimportant people may think that it is. I feel good about myself. I feel like I got something done.
Is it really how you do the job that matters? It is really that big of a deal if I want to just make a paycheck? I guess in your life you will see and find out for yourself.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Just say it, Don't let your ego get in the way
It is time for a new blog, and one that is not a rant.
This week I am bringing you something that touched on a previous blog. Just saying the words I don't know. People as they get smarter have a hard time saying this. It seems that most people do this. I know there are a few people that don't have this problems but, that number is a very small one.
So Instead of talking more about this I have a video clip that I would like to share with all of you about this.
This clip is from the movie "The Core" and there are three scientists on the craft and you will see one that does not know the answer but just can't say it. He is a very smart man and people think that he is smart. He has allows his ego to prevent him from just being normal and by him not saying I don't know he looks like a moron.
Enjoy
p.s. Crank your speakers it is quiet. I am sorry about that.
This week I am bringing you something that touched on a previous blog. Just saying the words I don't know. People as they get smarter have a hard time saying this. It seems that most people do this. I know there are a few people that don't have this problems but, that number is a very small one.
So Instead of talking more about this I have a video clip that I would like to share with all of you about this.
This clip is from the movie "The Core" and there are three scientists on the craft and you will see one that does not know the answer but just can't say it. He is a very smart man and people think that he is smart. He has allows his ego to prevent him from just being normal and by him not saying I don't know he looks like a moron.
Enjoy
p.s. Crank your speakers it is quiet. I am sorry about that.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Sports and egos
I just got back from playing one of my favorite sports. Thats right the wonderful hippie sport of Ultimate Frisbee. I really do enjoy it a lot. It is a fun sport and it usually has great sportsmanship with it. Even with playing "for real" as in with a set team that practices together and goes to tornys and what not, the sport is self . . . .regulated? I am not sure the word that I am looking for but I am trying to say that there are no refs.
Well now this is normally a very fun thing, people are honest and get along and what not. All the time?? Not so much. I wish that were the case.
Now I know that you are not really wanting to read a Blog about Ultimate Frisbee, but it was what I was doing when the thoughts came to me so there for it will be the example for tonight. But feel free to use anything else, as this seems to be something that is EVERYWHERE in the casual sports world.
So what was happening is we would have a lot of people some to play every Thurse night. Well here in the DC area we have a large influx of new people that come to play, as there are a lot of interns and people home for the summer from school. So people all have different ways of playing this sport. Now granted just like almost every sport other than Cavlin Ball, there are "set rules" that exist. You can look them up online, shoot there are even books with this info in it. So anyway people generally don't know anything for sure when it comes to rules. (check out the last blog)Of course people are not going to say the words "I don't know" I mean you would look ignorant and no one would care, what you say from then on out and you must not know how to play.
Okay of course that is not how it would be. but people seems to think that is will. So as we are playing there is a slight confusion about the rules. The problem was about standing there and not throwing the disk. Normaly you are supposed to count and if you have not thrown it by that time then you give up the disk. Pretty standard rule right? Well for some reason the person who started it all up here where we play elected to not have that rule (among many others.) Well tonight some one said that I held it too long. Ok fine I will give him that, but there is no rule saying that I need to get rid of it. So I am going to wait till there is a clean throw. Well I responded to the person, start counting then. They said ok I said as long as we all agree then hey we are cool. I did not hear any complaints, and we were not quiet about it either so we moved on.
Well as we started someone just sat there I yelled to my team to start counting which they did. Some one else on the other team wigged out and was like whats that? I asked him if he did not hear that we are going to start counting to 10. he said no, and so I the repeated myself and said that the defender has the option to count if they so choose (as the real rules states(yes I have read them, and even have them memorized)) He seemed to be ok with it and then later could not seem to be ok with it when ever we counted, and yet we held on to the disk and they would not count. They then in turn would get mad at us for just hanging on to the disk.
Wow this sounds like a rant about what happened. Anyway I am getting to to point now. So we have people that all want things done the way that they are used to it being done. When you introduce change to it, it seems that people just generally have a problem assimilating it into there brain. Something as simple as a rule in a sport. So the ego kicks in and people then start to bicker. It was starting to happen there but I left before it did cause I did not want it to get to that point with me there.I
It seems that men are worse than girls. but. .. . .you know what? I just lost interest in this so I am going to stop now. All I gotta say is, "People quit being stupid, just say I don't know figure something out, and stop fighting. You look retarded when you argue about something stupid anyway."
Peace out all
Well now this is normally a very fun thing, people are honest and get along and what not. All the time?? Not so much. I wish that were the case.
Now I know that you are not really wanting to read a Blog about Ultimate Frisbee, but it was what I was doing when the thoughts came to me so there for it will be the example for tonight. But feel free to use anything else, as this seems to be something that is EVERYWHERE in the casual sports world.
So what was happening is we would have a lot of people some to play every Thurse night. Well here in the DC area we have a large influx of new people that come to play, as there are a lot of interns and people home for the summer from school. So people all have different ways of playing this sport. Now granted just like almost every sport other than Cavlin Ball, there are "set rules" that exist. You can look them up online, shoot there are even books with this info in it. So anyway people generally don't know anything for sure when it comes to rules. (check out the last blog)Of course people are not going to say the words "I don't know" I mean you would look ignorant and no one would care, what you say from then on out and you must not know how to play.
Okay of course that is not how it would be. but people seems to think that is will. So as we are playing there is a slight confusion about the rules. The problem was about standing there and not throwing the disk. Normaly you are supposed to count and if you have not thrown it by that time then you give up the disk. Pretty standard rule right? Well for some reason the person who started it all up here where we play elected to not have that rule (among many others.) Well tonight some one said that I held it too long. Ok fine I will give him that, but there is no rule saying that I need to get rid of it. So I am going to wait till there is a clean throw. Well I responded to the person, start counting then. They said ok I said as long as we all agree then hey we are cool. I did not hear any complaints, and we were not quiet about it either so we moved on.
Well as we started someone just sat there I yelled to my team to start counting which they did. Some one else on the other team wigged out and was like whats that? I asked him if he did not hear that we are going to start counting to 10. he said no, and so I the repeated myself and said that the defender has the option to count if they so choose (as the real rules states(yes I have read them, and even have them memorized)) He seemed to be ok with it and then later could not seem to be ok with it when ever we counted, and yet we held on to the disk and they would not count. They then in turn would get mad at us for just hanging on to the disk.
Wow this sounds like a rant about what happened. Anyway I am getting to to point now. So we have people that all want things done the way that they are used to it being done. When you introduce change to it, it seems that people just generally have a problem assimilating it into there brain. Something as simple as a rule in a sport. So the ego kicks in and people then start to bicker. It was starting to happen there but I left before it did cause I did not want it to get to that point with me there.I
It seems that men are worse than girls. but. .. . .you know what? I just lost interest in this so I am going to stop now. All I gotta say is, "People quit being stupid, just say I don't know figure something out, and stop fighting. You look retarded when you argue about something stupid anyway."
Peace out all
Thursday, May 24, 2007
my life is complicated
So anyway onto my life. I look back at my life over the last 6 months and I see a lot of interesting twists and turns. When I was on them it sure did throw me for a loop and I was not too sure what to think. I know that maybe only 2 of you know what I am talking about, and that perhaps maybe there are 2 or 3 that are even interested that don't know. I think that I will just forgo the story. We all have one, I don't claim that mine is better or worse, however you want to look at it than yours. But I too have had many tough times, and there have been days when I just wanted to stay in bed and not do anything. Fortunately I have been learned better than that and I get up and try to live that day like it was my last. Or well at least I try to do that.
So these stories that we all have about our tough times, what do we do with them? I know some people just like to forget they happened and move on with life. Others perhaps like to continue to relive them again and again and again. Neither of those I guess is a healthy or wise choice. I like to find a happy middle place. I try to remember them, but move on from the hard times. Sometimes that is simple, and other times. . . well not so much, but I make do. Think about it for a second, it is not like one has a choice. Life is going to move on even if you don't want to be a part of it. Might as well be a part if right?
Now you may be wondering as am I what the point of this is. Well I guess there is really no point to it. You may take from this whatever you feel so inclined to and then do what you will with it. Perhaps you can add this to your story that you call "my life".
I once asked someone a question, if you lost your memory of the last 5 years did you ever really do any of those things? If you have no recollection of them do they still shape your life. Some may say "well of course they do". Others may have the opposite viewpoint. I wish I knew but I do not know. Can a person really change who they are? If you lose your memory are you free to be a new person. Go from Bad to Good? Are you still a bad person should you lose your memory and forget that you were? If that is the case can you perform the same change when you never lose your memories? If not I guess it is our memories that shape us into the person that we see in the mirror everyday.
Well I hope that makes some sort of sense, but I think I am going to wrap this up now and move on to make some more memories. I just hope that I can make many more of them and that they can be great memories. So that perhaps I can be a good boy.
So these stories that we all have about our tough times, what do we do with them? I know some people just like to forget they happened and move on with life. Others perhaps like to continue to relive them again and again and again. Neither of those I guess is a healthy or wise choice. I like to find a happy middle place. I try to remember them, but move on from the hard times. Sometimes that is simple, and other times. . . well not so much, but I make do. Think about it for a second, it is not like one has a choice. Life is going to move on even if you don't want to be a part of it. Might as well be a part if right?
Now you may be wondering as am I what the point of this is. Well I guess there is really no point to it. You may take from this whatever you feel so inclined to and then do what you will with it. Perhaps you can add this to your story that you call "my life".
I once asked someone a question, if you lost your memory of the last 5 years did you ever really do any of those things? If you have no recollection of them do they still shape your life. Some may say "well of course they do". Others may have the opposite viewpoint. I wish I knew but I do not know. Can a person really change who they are? If you lose your memory are you free to be a new person. Go from Bad to Good? Are you still a bad person should you lose your memory and forget that you were? If that is the case can you perform the same change when you never lose your memories? If not I guess it is our memories that shape us into the person that we see in the mirror everyday.
Well I hope that makes some sort of sense, but I think I am going to wrap this up now and move on to make some more memories. I just hope that I can make many more of them and that they can be great memories. So that perhaps I can be a good boy.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
What is right?
Hello to all of my fellow blog viewer people. I have some more thoughts to put out here for all of the world to view, read, debate, ignore, or whatever it is that you do with them.
A friend once posed a great point that has stuck with me for years. I think that it is time that I share it now with all of you. He did a wonderful job of illustrateing the point to me, and I hope that I can do the same for you.
I told him something once, what it is I don't remember and it is not too important right now, and he asked me this great question. "How do you know?" How do you know your right? What I said was a fact, er well at least the way that I said it it was. However he was exactly right. How did I know that I was right? He asked me how I knew what I was telling him was true and told him some one told me. Well how do I know that they were right? I can't really.
There are so many things that we just take as fact and then tell other people and just because we heard it. From the most complex concepts down to the most simple of ideas. We, being you and I, are really experts and know FACT about very little, and yet we act like we know more than we do. There is nothing wrong with this behavior. It is something that we need to do from time to time. But when your just talking amongst friends? Why do this? Why not just simply say I don't know?
I don't know. That is something that we are afraid to say, and it seems that the smarter we get it gets harder and harder to say that. The more we get involved the more we start to dread saying those words to others around us. Sure we think it, and we wish that we could tell people but the fear keeps us from doing so.
I am guilty of this behavior all of the time, and I forget that there are things that I don't know and that it does not make me any less of a person for saying those words. When I see others say those 3 words if anything I like them more cause they did not feed me any BS about what I asked. When I ask a question I want to know the facts and the answers and not to be given a answer in such a way that I think that you really knew what you were talking about. I assume that all other people feel somewhat similar to this.
Well I need to leave the panera bread and go on with my activities for the evening. I hope that this makes sense, and if I get the motivation required I will come back and add to this.
So remember to ask yourself, Is it really. . the truth? Is what I know right. Can I say I don't know?
A friend once posed a great point that has stuck with me for years. I think that it is time that I share it now with all of you. He did a wonderful job of illustrateing the point to me, and I hope that I can do the same for you.
I told him something once, what it is I don't remember and it is not too important right now, and he asked me this great question. "How do you know?" How do you know your right? What I said was a fact, er well at least the way that I said it it was. However he was exactly right. How did I know that I was right? He asked me how I knew what I was telling him was true and told him some one told me. Well how do I know that they were right? I can't really.
There are so many things that we just take as fact and then tell other people and just because we heard it. From the most complex concepts down to the most simple of ideas. We, being you and I, are really experts and know FACT about very little, and yet we act like we know more than we do. There is nothing wrong with this behavior. It is something that we need to do from time to time. But when your just talking amongst friends? Why do this? Why not just simply say I don't know?
I don't know. That is something that we are afraid to say, and it seems that the smarter we get it gets harder and harder to say that. The more we get involved the more we start to dread saying those words to others around us. Sure we think it, and we wish that we could tell people but the fear keeps us from doing so.
I am guilty of this behavior all of the time, and I forget that there are things that I don't know and that it does not make me any less of a person for saying those words. When I see others say those 3 words if anything I like them more cause they did not feed me any BS about what I asked. When I ask a question I want to know the facts and the answers and not to be given a answer in such a way that I think that you really knew what you were talking about. I assume that all other people feel somewhat similar to this.
Well I need to leave the panera bread and go on with my activities for the evening. I hope that this makes sense, and if I get the motivation required I will come back and add to this.
So remember to ask yourself, Is it really. . the truth? Is what I know right. Can I say I don't know?
Monday, May 21, 2007
"The Secret" or well the lack of.
The following is a copy of a blog from somewhere else to help me get this one started. I don't have the brain power right now to type a whole new one and I am every tired. So enjoy
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I am thinking about starting my video blog pack up again. We shall see how motivated I get to do that.
Well now on with the rant and blogging.
As I am sure many of you out there in cyberland, and even the rest of you that are not have heard. there is a new DVD out. Well I am not sure if it is new, but it is really starting to get out there in the word for people to see. The DVD is "The Secret". Now I have seen it many times, and I saw it at the first of the year, before it had gotten out in the major bookstores.
Something so odd is the title "The Secret" is ironic as this DVD is far from secret. As it is now ALL OVER THE PLACE. I see it everywhere on the web, and it does not even seem to have a trend as to the type of web page that it apears. It is something that people seem to just fall in love with.
Now jsut to preface this just tad, this is a book about the priciple of the Law of Attraction. (now call the LoA in this blog.) Which is everything that happens in your life you attract into it. It does not matter if it is good or bad or if you want it or not. Just to sum it up in a nutshell.
Now when I first saw this, I fell in love with it and the concept of anything that I want I jsut need to think about and want it a lot and it will be here to grace my life. The DVD does a wonderfull job of teaching this concept to you and if you want to truely understand it then you need to watch the DVD as they have carefully planned how to teach it to you so you learn it all and alos will be captivated by it.
Now if you do not know what the LoA is then you might not understand the rest of this from here on. I am going to assume that you all know what the LoA is fully from now on.
I highly recommend the DVD to anyone that wants to improve on the quality of their lives. I truly do want people to see this. the thing that I do not want is for people to believe all aspects of what they teach in the DVD. There are many things there that do not seem to fit for me. They just don't make sense. I am only going to talk about those points as the DVD covers all of the good stuff very well.
According the the LoA if your car was broken into you attracted it to you. or if you found a ten dollar bill on the road you attracted it to you. Or if you got the flu then you attracted it to you. Or perhaps you got a new car you attracted it to you. Or if the 8 year old girl that does not even know what rape is gets raped she attracted it to herself. Now all of those are true according to the LoA. Even the girl that got raped. According to the LoA it is her fault that it happened. Some of you right now are thinking that is crazy, she could not have. Well if you are a true abstractionists well then yes she did. Now I do not believe such a crazy thing.
Ok how about a new one. you want a million dollars and you find a lotto card on the road that has not been used yet. so you take your finger do some scratching and BAM!! your now a millionaire. You attracted it to yourself, congrats.
so how come most people have an easier time believing that we attract the good things in even if they are extreme and yet we have a hard time accepting the bad things. Like when someone get killed. Oops you should not have attracted that killer to come to your house, steal all of you things, rape and then kill you. Tisk tisk. Ok come on that is a little harsh Terrell. Ok as I said I do not fully embrace the LoA. I think that there are good and true principle and concepts that go with the the LoA.
I believe in the life force, and energy given off. There is too much out there that shows that is all real. I believe that positive thinking works and is a real thing. However. you can have all the life force you want shooting out of your brain think as positive as you would like and run east and look for a sunset. I is not going to happen sorry. Every day you will be sad and disappointed.
But the LoA says that if you could attract anything to yourself. Well I want. . . blank. The concept is so enticing that we as humans just lap this stuff up. We want more and more and more of it. It is the more for less concept. something from nothing. It is magical. I am a magician on the side and I want so badly for magic to be real. and there are tricks that when I see them performed and I think wow that looks like real magic. I could do real magic. then I learn how to do it, and I am always sad to find out that it is FAR from real magic. there is always a trick to it no matter how real it looks.
Well The LoA is not magic, no matter how much you attract it to be. It is not going to end all of your problems. Sure it will help you feel better, but it is not as real as we all think it is. As I said before there are things that go with the LoA that are very very real, and I embrace all of the true parts of it and I am glad they are getting out there, but I am sorry to tell you that there are lies and twisted truths in this DVD. If you would like to know more in depth please by all means message me and I will be glad to direct you to what they are.
Watch the DVD and take things away from it, but please think about all parts of it first. I refuse to believe that we attract all things in our life both the good and the bad. I am a religious man and I am not going to take the religious spin on this, but I will have a later blog that will tell you my viewpoints on that aspect of it. Then you will really see where I am coming from as the religious angle is a very large on for me and my belief system.
Farewell to all and until next blog be safe. and don't attract terrible things in your life. Only the good stuff.
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So I say, Is it really true? Does it work? Choose for yourself. You can see the DVD at http://www.thesecret.tv/ But part of it is below for your enjoyment.
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I am thinking about starting my video blog pack up again. We shall see how motivated I get to do that.
Well now on with the rant and blogging.
As I am sure many of you out there in cyberland, and even the rest of you that are not have heard. there is a new DVD out. Well I am not sure if it is new, but it is really starting to get out there in the word for people to see. The DVD is "The Secret". Now I have seen it many times, and I saw it at the first of the year, before it had gotten out in the major bookstores.
Something so odd is the title "The Secret" is ironic as this DVD is far from secret. As it is now ALL OVER THE PLACE. I see it everywhere on the web, and it does not even seem to have a trend as to the type of web page that it apears. It is something that people seem to just fall in love with.
Now jsut to preface this just tad, this is a book about the priciple of the Law of Attraction. (now call the LoA in this blog.) Which is everything that happens in your life you attract into it. It does not matter if it is good or bad or if you want it or not. Just to sum it up in a nutshell.
Now when I first saw this, I fell in love with it and the concept of anything that I want I jsut need to think about and want it a lot and it will be here to grace my life. The DVD does a wonderfull job of teaching this concept to you and if you want to truely understand it then you need to watch the DVD as they have carefully planned how to teach it to you so you learn it all and alos will be captivated by it.
Now if you do not know what the LoA is then you might not understand the rest of this from here on. I am going to assume that you all know what the LoA is fully from now on.
I highly recommend the DVD to anyone that wants to improve on the quality of their lives. I truly do want people to see this. the thing that I do not want is for people to believe all aspects of what they teach in the DVD. There are many things there that do not seem to fit for me. They just don't make sense. I am only going to talk about those points as the DVD covers all of the good stuff very well.
According the the LoA if your car was broken into you attracted it to you. or if you found a ten dollar bill on the road you attracted it to you. Or if you got the flu then you attracted it to you. Or perhaps you got a new car you attracted it to you. Or if the 8 year old girl that does not even know what rape is gets raped she attracted it to herself. Now all of those are true according to the LoA. Even the girl that got raped. According to the LoA it is her fault that it happened. Some of you right now are thinking that is crazy, she could not have. Well if you are a true abstractionists well then yes she did. Now I do not believe such a crazy thing.
Ok how about a new one. you want a million dollars and you find a lotto card on the road that has not been used yet. so you take your finger do some scratching and BAM!! your now a millionaire. You attracted it to yourself, congrats.
so how come most people have an easier time believing that we attract the good things in even if they are extreme and yet we have a hard time accepting the bad things. Like when someone get killed. Oops you should not have attracted that killer to come to your house, steal all of you things, rape and then kill you. Tisk tisk. Ok come on that is a little harsh Terrell. Ok as I said I do not fully embrace the LoA. I think that there are good and true principle and concepts that go with the the LoA.
I believe in the life force, and energy given off. There is too much out there that shows that is all real. I believe that positive thinking works and is a real thing. However. you can have all the life force you want shooting out of your brain think as positive as you would like and run east and look for a sunset. I is not going to happen sorry. Every day you will be sad and disappointed.
But the LoA says that if you could attract anything to yourself. Well I want. . . blank. The concept is so enticing that we as humans just lap this stuff up. We want more and more and more of it. It is the more for less concept. something from nothing. It is magical. I am a magician on the side and I want so badly for magic to be real. and there are tricks that when I see them performed and I think wow that looks like real magic. I could do real magic. then I learn how to do it, and I am always sad to find out that it is FAR from real magic. there is always a trick to it no matter how real it looks.
Well The LoA is not magic, no matter how much you attract it to be. It is not going to end all of your problems. Sure it will help you feel better, but it is not as real as we all think it is. As I said before there are things that go with the LoA that are very very real, and I embrace all of the true parts of it and I am glad they are getting out there, but I am sorry to tell you that there are lies and twisted truths in this DVD. If you would like to know more in depth please by all means message me and I will be glad to direct you to what they are.
Watch the DVD and take things away from it, but please think about all parts of it first. I refuse to believe that we attract all things in our life both the good and the bad. I am a religious man and I am not going to take the religious spin on this, but I will have a later blog that will tell you my viewpoints on that aspect of it. Then you will really see where I am coming from as the religious angle is a very large on for me and my belief system.
Farewell to all and until next blog be safe. and don't attract terrible things in your life. Only the good stuff.
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So I say, Is it really true? Does it work? Choose for yourself. You can see the DVD at http://www.thesecret.tv/ But part of it is below for your enjoyment.
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