The most meritless claim a man can stake is any kind of privilege by birthright.
Yet there is a whole population of people who think that they are specialer than others merely for the circumstances in which they were born. Circumstances they themselves had no influence over.
That population I am referring to are the U.S. citizens who act as if it's wrong for undocumented immigrants to seek refuge in our country. These people think that only they and their fellow born-on-U.S.-soil folk get to enjoy the fruit of the location, and that all them foreign folk should get 'Fuck back into their country. It's as if this is their land. If asked whether the United States of America should give the entire continent back to the Natives who lived here first and who had their soil violently torn from many of their lifeless fingers, how do you think said two-faced folks would respond? I'd give you a hint, but then I'd have to slap you.
It's one thing to fight for "your own" I expect nothing less from anyone. But it's another thing altogether to act as if you fight for this "right" that you and "your own" possess merely because you were born a certain way, or under certain conditions. Have some respect and definitely some humility because you look like nothing more than a selfish, short sighted monster when you treat other people like you get the special treatment just because you were born in a specific spot on this planet.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
This Really Scares Me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWk50yISKaE
When a public representative can go on national t.v. and essentially become a soulless robot, stringing out sentences of keywords, utterly ignoring the questions being asked there is obviously something to worry about.
I mean this man wants power, and the way he's going to do that is by being a refined propaganda machine! What does that say about his intentions and capabilities as a leader of people? It says he's going to appeal to the non-thinking parts of his voting constituency, and that the vote is all that matters. Beyond that, there needs to be no substance because he'll just fall back to steamrolling your needs with propaganda when he lets you down from a seat of power.
Many Nights DTC,
Addison.
When a public representative can go on national t.v. and essentially become a soulless robot, stringing out sentences of keywords, utterly ignoring the questions being asked there is obviously something to worry about.
I mean this man wants power, and the way he's going to do that is by being a refined propaganda machine! What does that say about his intentions and capabilities as a leader of people? It says he's going to appeal to the non-thinking parts of his voting constituency, and that the vote is all that matters. Beyond that, there needs to be no substance because he'll just fall back to steamrolling your needs with propaganda when he lets you down from a seat of power.
Many Nights DTC,
Addison.
Friday, July 16, 2010
O Atheist! O Atheist!
Thy Leaves are So Unchanging!
It had to come up eventually: Atheism.
I once considered myself one, although I always hated the name. It was an ideology that I naturally flocked to because it represented living aware, and against a system that the masses sucked on despite all of its bitter flavors.
Much has changed since those times and today I have a gripe with the group as a whole. My observations of most Atheists to-date has led me to see a very deep crack in the armor of contemporary mainstream Atheism: it's merely a shadow image of big brother Religion. That is to say, most people who call themselves Atheists define that self-imposed identity by what they find absurd in holy scripture (Bible, Quran, etc).
"I don't believe in old men in the sky w/beards, or talking fire-bushes. I only believe in science; that's met its burden of proof."
"That book has fostered inhumane and irrational wars in the name of a God. Women have been raped and killed because of the Hoh Kus Poh Kus 'men of faith' teach. 'Witchcraft' never came from an Atheist."
"Two of every animal on earth in a single boat? Hah! Only an idiot, a SHEEP, would believe that shit. I LAUGH at those fools."
I hope I've said enough to clarify my point. Basically, Atheists are little more than pragmatically aimless rebels with an anti-cause. Not all of them, I'm sure. But I have yet to meet one that stands out from the pack. They thrive on comparing the stupidest parts of Religion to the best parts of Science/Rationality.
I once had a debate w/an old friend who I consider a pretty smart guy. He's an avid Atheist. It was funny because as we argued, he kept trying to back me into the wall he was so used to people backing themselves into. Once he realized rational, and logical arguments could be made against his own system, he inevitably had to back down, resorting to what I call "equal parts faith."
What this mentality has done is effectively polarized the field into one that looks all too familiar. Skeptics on the Left, and Believers on the Right. Skeptics so eager to prove the Believers wrong, and the believers so ready to dismiss any rational understandings of their own doctrines that both sides are blinded to the inherent necessity of the other.
Where there was once great potential, there is now only another piece of the establishment. Although this article is about the Atheist, it speaks true to the other side as well. But to the original point: Atheists as a whole have failed to see the flaws in their own doctrine, and to build from it a better solution. A solution that presents a view of the world, and humanity that even the believer folk can get behind. One that undigs the trenches this unnecessary war.
I'll end this with a point given by Mahatma Ghandi that speaks sooo many truths: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Paving a better path requires more than just sitting pretty and merely pointing at a broken system.
Many nights DTC.
Addison
It had to come up eventually: Atheism.
I once considered myself one, although I always hated the name. It was an ideology that I naturally flocked to because it represented living aware, and against a system that the masses sucked on despite all of its bitter flavors.
Much has changed since those times and today I have a gripe with the group as a whole. My observations of most Atheists to-date has led me to see a very deep crack in the armor of contemporary mainstream Atheism: it's merely a shadow image of big brother Religion. That is to say, most people who call themselves Atheists define that self-imposed identity by what they find absurd in holy scripture (Bible, Quran, etc).
"I don't believe in old men in the sky w/beards, or talking fire-bushes. I only believe in science; that's met its burden of proof."
"That book has fostered inhumane and irrational wars in the name of a God. Women have been raped and killed because of the Hoh Kus Poh Kus 'men of faith' teach. 'Witchcraft' never came from an Atheist."
"Two of every animal on earth in a single boat? Hah! Only an idiot, a SHEEP, would believe that shit. I LAUGH at those fools."
I hope I've said enough to clarify my point. Basically, Atheists are little more than pragmatically aimless rebels with an anti-cause. Not all of them, I'm sure. But I have yet to meet one that stands out from the pack. They thrive on comparing the stupidest parts of Religion to the best parts of Science/Rationality.
I once had a debate w/an old friend who I consider a pretty smart guy. He's an avid Atheist. It was funny because as we argued, he kept trying to back me into the wall he was so used to people backing themselves into. Once he realized rational, and logical arguments could be made against his own system, he inevitably had to back down, resorting to what I call "equal parts faith."
What this mentality has done is effectively polarized the field into one that looks all too familiar. Skeptics on the Left, and Believers on the Right. Skeptics so eager to prove the Believers wrong, and the believers so ready to dismiss any rational understandings of their own doctrines that both sides are blinded to the inherent necessity of the other.
Where there was once great potential, there is now only another piece of the establishment. Although this article is about the Atheist, it speaks true to the other side as well. But to the original point: Atheists as a whole have failed to see the flaws in their own doctrine, and to build from it a better solution. A solution that presents a view of the world, and humanity that even the believer folk can get behind. One that undigs the trenches this unnecessary war.
I'll end this with a point given by Mahatma Ghandi that speaks sooo many truths: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Paving a better path requires more than just sitting pretty and merely pointing at a broken system.
Many nights DTC.
Addison
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