Why the World is Going to Shit (part two), Ignorant Comments

After writing some of my thoughts in the post, “Why the World is Going to Shit,”  on this generation’s lack of touch with reality, pertaining to the attention given by so many on the issue of Starbucks’ closing of 600 stores nationwide, and peoples response to one article, I received some comments. Although I respect everyone’s right to have an opinion, I will be honest as to the fact that it is out of respect to the right only. I do not, however respect the opinion written in one of the comments and as I replied to this persons’ comment I found myself writing a new post.

Iffi’s comment to my post:

“why do ppl tend 2 do bad thngs???y can world leaders come to a conclusion and produce result in any issue?????F*** Israilis and also dos ppl who hurt other ppl be it Muslims or non-muslims…damn all of u!God…grant peace 2 all and bless us!”

 

This is my reply to Iffi:

 

There are countless reasons why people do bad things. Some people do bad things because they feel that their cause is good and that there is no other way to get results. In some cases they are right: Revolutions against oppression for example, to gain independence. And many times they are wrong. Some do it for the welfare of others and some do it for their own welfare. But it’s not that black and white either. People suffer no matter the cause.  There are many different opinions as to why people do bad things and what defines whether they are bad or not or even what is “bad.”

 It is not only up to world leaders to make things better. World leaders are a handful of people (o.k., probably more), but compared to the rest of billions of people that populate this world, they are too few. Although they are a good tool for getting results, it is up to us to show more interest, involvement, and determination.

The way you are expressing your distaste for Israelis and Muslims is just what the problem in solving these issues are. Many people say “fuck you” and have no idea what they are saying it to, or why. These same people vote for laws and mayors and presidents, or even become them. It is very hypocritical to insult a country and an entire religion and pin only them for the “bad things” that happen and then say, god bless us.  You show no intention of doing anything to help and have resigned to leave it up to the “leaders”(why not god, or Santa, or the tooth fairy?) to fix everything. Then you go on to unconstructively and, in contradiction to your own opinion, show how you have the same attitude which you seem to detest.    

The only ones that can grant peace is us, the humans living on this planet, not god. Inform yourself a little more, read the news from both sides and point of views, read about other countries and their situations, cultures and beliefs, do some research, analyze, and then, maybe, you can come up with a better, more informed way to have an opinion that will contribute to a solution. Don’t display your ignorant hatred for everyone to read, because that will make you part of the reason why things can’t get better, even if your intentions are good.

Why the World is Going to Shit…

   

           I was online about to check my e-mail and I clicked on to this article about Starbucks. After I finished reading the article, I read the comments and I was not amazed.  I wish I could say that I have never read such stupid comments from such stupid people.

            How sheltered are the lives of so many, when they demonstrate how they spend all their time following this weeks trend, drinking expensive, cheap coffee and commenting on something as irrelevant as the closing of 600 stores of a multi billion dollar corporation, and then go on to defend it as if they were doing everyone some kind of favor by making its money through manipulating people into thinking they need to overpay for a product you can get anywhere else. meanwhile the world is getting hotter, religion more extreme, wars closer to home, jobs being lost, people are starving next door, education is not educating, ignorance is globalizing, cultures are being lost and replaced with corporate lifestyles, oil is too expensive and contingent to global warming which is causing animals to rapidly become extinct and history is repeating because it is an unreliable source……

so much more is happening in the world that deserve the attention that has been obviously reserved to the worries of losing one of the two stores in the block where some people get the latte that, marketing and good PR, has made them think is both good and cool to pay more for…..

Next up…..why gum sales is more important than the rising price of food…hence my title.

 

Check out the Article:

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/07/18/starbucks-real-estate-savvy-gone-bad.aspx?PageIndex=20

watch The Tudors free online

I found an awesome link to watch The Tudors, 24, Lost…..and many, many, more…..here’s the link:

LINK

…and personally I’d rather watch Lost on the various links that this site offers because it’s commercial free, unlike the ABC website.

Enjoy!

Watch 10,000B.C. Free Online

I found the movie to be more about Special Effects and less about the content. This is just my opinion. It also bears the would be beginnings of the superstitious human being and Egyptian pyramids which had not yet existed in this era. So historical accuracy failed, special effects where great, and story line was a love story with coming of age with others all jumbled together and not really all that interesting.

 

If you liked it then I’m glad you enjoyed it, and if you haven’t seen it yet then here is the link.

 

                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lost, season 4 episode 1

WTF!

Is anyone else P.O.’d at the Supposed 2-hour premier? I wasted one hour of my life yesterday night when I realized that the whole first hour of the “2-hour” premiere was just a recap of the last 3 seasons. I thought they would have two hours worth of the show. People knew about the premiere so if they didn’t take the time to catch up then why should we pay…..ABC is milking this thing for every episode…..commercialist bastards!!!!

glad I got that out of my chest!…lol…but really.

anyway here is the link to the first episode if you missed it.

…and further more what was that oceanic airlines commercial about? Its a kind of Internet scavenger hunt to find hints about upcoming episodes…or something like that. Check it out by clicking here.

A heated discussion between Atheist and Christian

I have been taking part in a heated discussion between an Atheist, Ron and a Christian, Colin….you’ve got to read this…

http://theframeproblem.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/doubt-in-and-faking-of-faith-and-the-need-for-secular-alternatives-to-religious-communities/#comment-1494

Don’t Eat the Shit!

Today my sister asked me if I am an atheist. She asked me this because she does not believe in god and wondered what I am calling myself these days. I’ve been thinking about the answer to this for a long time, around 7 years now. After much thought and questioning, I have come to the conclusion that I do not consider myself to be an atheist. I have been reading up on atheism and I have chosen to not label myself. It took me a long time to realize I wasn’t catholic and that I didn’t believe in god. I even have flirted with the belief that there is something out there that is unexplainable and bigger than me and I realized, I don’t even know what that means. I won’t pretend to know everything or even much about atheism, all I know is that I’m free. I’m free to think what ever I want to think and to see myself as just me. Atheism is undergoing constant changes, some would say it is a religion (I disagree, that’s absurd), some define it as a philosophy, some a state of mind, a movement, even a disease (those pledging to the god of bigotry and ignorance). In reality I believe it to be a matter of perspective.

I’m very afraid, however, that categorizing it and becoming a movement consisting of more than one person will make atheism just another cult or a group of revolutionaries by the media and religious groups. Each individual that I’ve asked and those whose opinions I read about seems to have some similarities and a world of personal differences. I don’t want to be part of a group. I don’t want a word like atheism or any other word defining me as a person. I want to think for myself. I don’t want it to dictate my life and what I’m allowed to think and believe from this point on. I don’t think that life should be consistent or a routine. I change my mind a lot. I like changing my mind, I think it’s healthy and important to be able to change and mature and learn other perspectives. I also think that if I label myself or categorize myself I will just become a slave to my own mind and the perception of others. In middle school I called myself  a “head banger” because I enjoyed rock…when my friends saw me listening to jazz or classical music or rap they would call me a “poser” and they were right…..I was claiming to be and represent only one aspect of my personality.

            Bob Dylan’s personality was confusing to many. He put so much effort in opposing all attempts to pin him down and label him as this or that by the media and his fans. All the guy wanted to do was just make music. He wasn’t a messiah or the voice of the people or any of that…..I am in no way comparing myself to him….I don’t write music and I sing for my family and myself in the shower. I like to write and I don’t have a favorite color…..I don’t think that because I live a certain way or like a certain thing now that I have to be tied down to it forever. I am. I just am.

Atheism is rapidly becoming a label that entails countless things that I don’t know or don’t agree with. I sometimes act like I am one…I sometimes wake up and hate religion, sometimes I insult, sometimes I’m more peaceful and understanding, sometimes I am more rational…sometimes my husband blames it on my hormones…lol, and then I forgive him for not thinking before he speaks…he’s not perfect and neither am I. atheism is not perfect either, neither is science…so when I have to fill out an explanation of how I can prove that I am an atheist to join the atheist blogroll, because I find the subject very interesting among many others….I feel pressured to say that in part I agree with the general concept but don’t want to marry it. and maybe they’ll consider me worthy and maybe not. Atheism may preach open-mindedness but not all of the people who claim to be atheist are…their human….

My father used to tell me something when I was small that was so funny to me and yet so true…..he would tell me that some people will do what ever you can convince them of doing (the discussion was mostly about religion) and then mentally show me his campaign…..:

Eat shit! Billions of flies can’t be wrong….!

How about that for a lesson?

Here’s another link to watch “Lost” free online

I’ve been searching around to see if maybe I could find leaked episodes of Lost Season 4 with no such luck. I did find an other good site to watch seasons 1-3 however. I will continue on my search, but until then, Enjoy the new link!

 here is my other post about lost aswell.

In Disagreement with Christopher Hitchens

I am currently reading, “god is not Great: How religion Poisons Everything” By Christopher Hitchens. So far the book is very interesting and although his tone seems very angry at times, his skills as a writer are undeniable. I also agree with many of his opinions but I came across a section in which he’s not 100% accurate and although it is just a small technicality, it made me think about what else he could have slipped on in-order to exaggerate or prove his point. It is little slips like this one which, although minuscule, make the author lose a little bit of credibility. I still enjoy the book, and will continue reading it. But I just had to bring this to the attention of the readers.

This is the quote: the subject is the Mayans.

“It is a certainty that these people, too, had their creation myths and their revelations of the divine will, for all the good it did them. But they suffered and triumphed and expired without ever being in “our” prayers. And they died out in the bitter awareness that there would be nobody to remember them as they had been, or even as if they had been.”

Now, although this is probably true for the Incas, Olmecs, Aztecs and many other smaller tribes, It is not true for the Mayans. In fact the Mayans still live today. I had the opportunity to travel to the Yucatan and have met many of the ancestors of the original Mayan civilisation. They never died out and are more numerous in south Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. The Mayan empire collapsed in the early 900’s (A.D.), The Spanish didn’t show up until the 1500’s, long after their collapse. The survivors of this grand and ancient civilization still live in the surrounding areas of their pyramids and temples. They are now poor farmers, living in huts, as the ancient ones lived (Mayans did not live in their temples). Some of them still speak Mayan or one of the dialects of the language. There are even some tribes of Mayans that may still practice their original beliefs and that live in remote areas of Guatemala’s and Honduras’s jungles. On a tour through the jungle in Honduras (we were trying to find a fertility stone, which is a statue of a frog with a platform. The place where pregnant Mayan women had to travel to and give birth),my family and I had a strange encounter with a beautiful, young, Mayan girl who was bathing under a small stream of falling water. I felt as if I had traveled through time. In any case, Christopher Hitchens was incorrect when he stated that this civilization was wiped out by the Spanish. Many of them did die when the Spanish arrived in the 1500’s , and many were also converted to Christianity, but not all and they’re culture is still very much alive. and to state that, even if it helps to make your point of making these Spanish inquisitors seem like savages, which they really don’t need much more help to make, is just a little bit irresponsible in his part.

Watch Lost free online

Hey you Lost fans, don’t forget to watch the two hour premier of season 4….And as soon as I find it online I will post it for those of us who can’t wait and want to watch it all at once.

If you haven’t caught up yet, watch seasons 1-3 online for free at this site.

 

 

“The Beginning of the End

Thu Jan 31 8/7c  on ABC

Feeling that their rescue is close at hand, the survivors don’t know whether to believe Charlie’s final message that the people claiming to liberate them are not who they seem to be. The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must continue to work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain if they want to stay alive. But as they have discovered during their 70-plus days on the island, danger and mystery loom behind every corner, and those they thought could be trusted may turn against them. Even heroes have secrets…”

Here’s my other post about watching Lost.