Faith, and why Faith is the most important aspect of belief

Whats this anti-faith thing? People dissing on people who believe in things you can't prove.

But i ask, in the end, can you prove anything? How do you know scientests are not making things up? How do you know that, what is written in history, was not the way it went, but instead a collection of fiction novels of the past? How do you know that jupiter exists? How do you know that life is even real? Faith. You must have faith in all off this, as you can not prove it yourself, without having faith in whoever brought you this information.

Whats wrong with people believing in god or gods? What is wrong with someone trying to make their lifes seem worth while? Faith makes these things, wonderful things, possible. So why feel above these people?

What is the difference between having faith in the bible and faith in history? They are both made of written accounts of people we can't prove had anything to with the events written, with little evidence, but enough to know there is a element of truth to both storys. Yet, we have unwavering faith in history and none in the bible. The difference is people are to stupid to understand what they cannot imagine. Thus god isn't real.

Even if god isn't real, why does it matter that people have faith in him/her/it? If it makes their lifes worth while, thats the purpose. After all, their is nothing life affirming about atheism, the believe that life is worth shit then you die. I rather be ignorant then depressed.

Don't get me wrong, i have no personal problem with atheists, but i don't get why someone would chose a depressive theory over a life affirming one, and why people would want to impress such believes on others. If it doesn't bother you that life is worth nothing and nothing comes of life, thats great, but don't diss those who go for the alternative.

The 9/11 conspiracy, all about the goverment going bump in the night!

I'm not a fan of the goverment. Not this one, not the last one, not the next one. I can not, however, blame it for everything that goes wrong. Im sorry my conspirist friends, i grew up.

I spent last night watching Loose Change(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501) and pouring over the loose change guide(http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html). With both sides of the story being fed to me, i was able to come up with a good opinion about it.

I don't think loose change is really that great. It did pretty well with the pentagon, and survived on "squibs" with the towers. The flight 93 part sucked big time, because it reeked so much of conspiracy that it was unbelievable. Most of the movie was taking things out of context, or acting in true conspiracy nature, explaining that the goverment gave us clues. Why would they do that? If i was planning to blow up towers, i probably would not make a handbook for my emergency officials include the towers i planned to blow up. That would be silly of me. Then they go to norad not acting. They really don't prove much in the way of conspiracy in this part, just that norad was on the incompetent side. I mean, this wasn't an everyday occurence, so i figure they figured nothing was going to happen.

I really don't want to go into detail, because the loose change guide is better at it. But ill put in my spare cents. Lets recap. The goverment, using hundred of its own agents, and possibly even proffesionals in the building demolition field, kills thousands of its own citizens in a false flag attack, manages to keep even a peep from coming out of those involve, then shuttles flight 93's passengers and makes them disappear (probably took them to area 51 to meet up with some aliens). Then, they somehow get all the witnesses of the pentagon to change their minds on what the saw, not only that, but tells them all a different story. They also fail to change anything to the witnesses of the wtc was to say, since they all heard the extra explosions(now is the time that the loose change guys go from not trusting witnesses to relying on them, the inconsistent bastards). Then they just make the ground go boom in pennsyvania(oddly half-ass for such a detailed plan).

I am glad they didn't use the bush reading to kids and not leaving like the other ones do. Anyone who thinks this is a point should never been in a place of authority, because getting up, screaming "the world is ending!" and flailing your arms is not what a president should do.

My favorite part is near the end where they do the we are so abused skit. Everyone making fun of them (like these people should) and proving them wrong, and there is no defending themselves, its just "those guys are meanies!". I laughed. It was funny.

Basicly if you believed loose change, your either gullible or mentally retarded.

On a side note, here is a video i found that is a must watch in the subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHs6J0OXVI

I think he is on to something!

Do animals have rights? A somewhat foolish debate.

Not a whole lot to write about, might as well touch another silly subject.

I hunt. I fish. Figured i would put that out there just before i went on.

How should we treat animals. Well, i hate to break it to all those who are advocates of PETA's style of animal rights, but we should treat them how they were made to be treated.

The world is not a nice place. The wild is even meaner yet. The eco-system was not built to be nice. It just works. As such, it is neccessary for animals to be hunted. Some people feel that hunting is cruel. Again, its just life.

We, the humans, are omnivores. Built in such a way that we hunt for meat, but when not able to get meat, we can survive on vegetables. This will make us more fit, so we can hunt better, then the meat will fatten us and give us what is neccessary to live out healthy lives in the long run. In short, meat eating is not wrong.

As such, we are also predators. We hunt. That means that other predators will not like sharing territory with us. Thats why wolfs rarely walk in well populated areas. This means we now have been givin the task, by nature, to hunt the herbivores in our territory. Herbivores are used to this. Thats their lives purposed, to eat and deal with the plantlife while sustaining the predators. The herbivores don't have natural inclination to leave a predators territory, that's why it is not uncommon to see deer around well populated areas. The circle of life. This is the way it was supposed to be. We, as primary predator, we should hunt the herbivores so they don't overpopulate.

So not only is it not immoral to hunt, its actually immoral not to hunt. It is understood by us who do that many who don't just can't handle the notion. Thats ok. We take care of your duty as a member of the world. You should thank us, praise us. Hunters are the good guys.

Other people ask if animals feel pain. I say yes, a lobster in a pot probably feels pain. But they probably don't suffer. You are more and likely going "bwuh?" right now, but i stand by this. I personnally believe suffering is not caused by pain, but by fear of pain. We know we can die, animals aren't granted with such curse. They are thinking "ow! ow! this hurts!". We are afraid it will kill us, they can't understand. Thus they feel pain, but do not suffer from it. Most of what is going on will be reflex.

As for pets, pets should be taken care of because you did not take them in as food, but as a friend of sorts. You would not abuse a friend, don't abuse a dog.

I have killed deer. People have asked me if i felt guilty, well not really. I will tell the story, but warning, this might be just a bit graphic. Not to bad, just a bit.

It is getting dark, im out and getting cold, and as i walk back, a small herd of doe jump infront of me. I rather something more in the direction of a buck, but with one last day ending i figure the meat was worth it (venison rocks, don't question). I shoot at one, i miss. As i load, they look at me(remember, i shot, they just stood there like idiots, "natural selection" stands here pretty well). I shoot again, one jerks up and walks...funny... into the woods a bit, not all there but still going. I go in and find it. (graphic part) Apparently i had deattached its heart from the lungs. Ouch(graphic part over). That actually was my first. I had gotten close before, and had seen others downed by friends and family. Well, being my first, i got hit by a "holy shit! i just killed something!" thought. Being an ever so thoughtful person, i reasoned it out...

...we all kill. Many of us will stomp spiders or kill ants. Pests. but just as alive as anything else. Actually, because it's the hunt we go for with deer and foolish fear with spiders, killing deer is by far more ethical then spiders. Even those who haven't done that have probably taken cold pills or some other medicine. Thats killing. Death is part of life. Its just one of those really shitty facts. We must simply live as we were made, because not hunting further increases the damage we do to the earth, as we do not want that now, do we?

So now you know this, go up to a hunter you know, give him a pat on the back, and thank him for doing the dirty work that nature charged you with.

I salute you all, hunters of this world, heroes of nature!

Of Bush and Bush bashery.

This ones dedicated to all you bush bashers out there, where ever you may be, however you maybe making a fool of yourselfs.

Ok, lets face it, bush is not the best president we have had. With the restrictive policies and the thing with iraq, he is no lincoln.

But that doesn't give any of you idiots an excuse to be total douches. I mean, what the hell are you thinking? If your not making fun of how "stupid bush is", your telling me is ingenius plans to conquer the world! Way to contradict yourselfs dumbasses! "Bush can't spell, but he planned 9/11 and is stealing oil from the middle east!". I personally think is in cohorts with, like, darth vader. I wouldn't be amazed if you idiots believe that, since you believe everything that is named a "scientific study". I have one here, 100% of darth vader is in cohorts with bush(this is a study done by the university of gofuckyourselfia)

I mentioned this to a liberal friend of mine, and he thought for a minute, and without a shread of evidence, said "it was cheney!". The friend then proceeded to flap his arms and yell "haliburton, haliburton" until he passed out. At least you could have picked someone less obvious so i didn't know you were just making it up.

Then we go to the war. Yes, war sucks, i agree. Yes, the war was unneccessary. No, it was not about oil. No conspiracies, for they rot your brain. What happened. Bush got bad intelligents and made a mistake. Is it so hard to believe that presidents make mistakes? Ughh! They do! We have had it happen before. Remember clinton, the last fodder for your stupid jokes? He messed around with a woman. The president let his pants down, it would have been easy for monica lewwhoevershewasagain to have been an assasin. Pfft, Bin laden should not have wasted all those men, just sent one particularly nice looking terrosist female and "BAM" they got the prez right were they wanted him. But enough about clinton, thats old news. Back to Bush.

Alot of people have been telling me this is the only war we went to on false pretenses that had hidden gain for us(or our leaders). This is not true. One of the more lesser known wars in american history had a similar story.

Lets set the scene. It is 1898, cars are new, no evening news, music was pretty bland, america was young. William mckinley is president (republican). Theodore Roosevelt is assistent secretary of the navy. Due to the absence of the secretary of navy, roosevelt stands in for him as secretary when the shit hits the fan. What shit you ask? Oh! The Usa was not on friendly terms with the spanish and their tyrannical and abusive rule of the cubans (think saddam and sunni vs shiite). We send a boat down there to keep an eye on things (uss maine) (think un inspections that went on constantly in the ninties and beyond). The ship blows up(think discovery of wmds in the ninties). Roosevelt helps along a little war. We fight, spain loses, cuba is free. Catch? The explosion is detemermined to have been cause by a explosion from a coal bunker catching fire to the powder and such. Boom. The spanish had nothing to do with it, pretense for war are false(think lack of wmds). This is where it gets intresting. We had incentive, as we would gain the phillipenes, cuba, puerto rico, ect ect ect(think oil conspiricy). Did the incentive do much, for a while, yes, but the phillipenes fall to japan in world war two and we forget about them. Cuba hates our guts now. Puerto rico is still in out hands, but it won't become a state thus it doesn't pay taxes. Not really worth it.

I seriously hate people like you guys, the bush bashers, the pinnacle of human failure.

An Open Letter to Christianity

COMFORM!

My fellow christians, our religion is dying.

We have killed it.

Since the begining of christianity, our religion has conformed. Christ conformed his teachings to fit with those of the jewish, the early church conformed christianity to include bits and pieces of paganism so as to fit with it. The protestent reformation made christianity conform to fit with a new, more thoughtful and aware human race, the conquerors of the americas made christianity conform to the believes of the native in the new lands.

We sit now on a religion built from parts of others. But now we deny science? Modern science can easily have into it, placed a creator. But scientists have tried everything to avoid that fate, though it stands out in the gaps they find in many theories. Its not because they want to, but because we drove it away. Evolution does not deny christianity, and the funny thing is, the bible does not deny evolution. Its say god created all living things, but it doesn't mention how they were created, just that they were.

Even if some things in science do disagree with those in the bible, is it this trivial information mean we should deny it altogether? At this moment, many say "Yes", but think, isn't it the basic teachings of jesus christ what matters in the end? If the early church had not conformed to earlier believes, none of us would have learned those teachings. History repeats itself. We are denying all future generations these teachings, the teachings of jesus. Would you do this? If your not willing to give an inch, christianity will disapear of the face of the planet. Remember, christ left it up to us, his disciples, to carry on his teachings.

Conform to science, or christs teachings will not reach the generations of the next many hundred years. They will not know such love

The Three Evils

In my personnal philosophy, i have narrowed three things down as being the worst things in the universe, and by this i mean if these things were taken away from the world we might live in a utopia. These things are...

1:Goverment

2:Offendabilty

3:Emotionality

Number one is quite simple, the goverment is rarely good. When power given, power will ultimately be abused. As the old saying goes, "Absolute power corrupts Absolutly." Now we have abused power, we have an abused people.

Number two is a little more complicated. I personally believe people being offended by anything created only problems. It could be as much as a entire religion being offended by anothers life style, or a single soul being offended by another persons bad choice of words, the person who has became offended has essentially created another problem for the world. People should not be offended, as nothing is worth what comes next. Terrorism, War, broken friendships, and broken lives all stem back to someone being offended.

Number three is the most difficult for me to explain. I think its better said as "abused emotionality", as i understand people crying at funerals, but if a person uses their emotions liberally, then one will do nothing to help the world. Lets take worrying. Worrying could be defined as "putting everything foward mentally to achieve nothing". Sounds great, doesn't it? You wreck yourself and gain nothing in return. You could take crying. Yes, like i said, when there is something truley upsetting like death, i understand crying. I don't like people crying because they are offended, annoyed, frustrated, or just somewhat distressed. I grew up in the ninties, and being "sensitive" was pounded into my head, so im used to "crying is good", and im well aware of the persecution of people who hide or advocate hiding their feelings. Maybe the formentioned are right. Hiding you feelings might suck just a little for you, but not hiding them sucks for everyone else. Society suffers in the noise of fake sadness. Have you ever met an emo you liked? I think not!

These rules are something to live by. Live by them.

Paris Hilton goes to prison, the world stops revolving

What is it with Paris Hilton? Why do we have to hear about her on the news? I don't get it. So what, she got drunk and drove, so she went to jail, that happens all the time. What makes here different from all the other people who drink and drive that she gets in the news? Shes rich, so what. She never lifted a finger to make that money, its was all given to her by her father, so shes not something special. You drink and drive, you go to jail, nothing spectacular about that one.

What makes this worse is she got out for "medical reasons". She looks healthy, what gives? She probably had split ends and freaked out.

But the whole thing still bugs me. She never does anything! She can't sing, she can't act, and apparently she can't survive in prison. She's a born loser who somehow won. Its a testiment to how stupid america is. We invest all our efforts in watching the lifes of idiots. Most of everyone ive met agree she's annoying, and ive heard she got voted most annoying celebrity[citation needed]. If this is all so, why do we still here about it? Some loser(s) got to like her, aside from here parents(who are apparently not losers), of course. Every night on the news, "Paris goes to jail", and they sweep aside the important things. Ya know, about the war and such.

The media keeps giving here to much attention! These people on blogs keep posting rants about here, making it more of a thing! Kill all the people ranting on blogs and such so nobody cares and we won't have to hear about her anymore! Kill the paris ranter bloggers! Like...uhh...wait, im a blogger, and this is a rant about....

Oh shit!

Ack! My global is warming!

There has been a lull in good writing topics of late! So i guess, just for the halibut, ill write some shit about Global Warming(tm).

Its an interesting topic indeed, and issue thats so deep, its difficult to see the bottom, so all you can do is stand at the top and kick rocks in hoping you hear a "thump", and then can figure your way down.

Its pretty simple, but for anyone who is so ignorant as to not have already heard something about global warming, i shall give you the low down.
Its like this, since the industrial revolution revoluted or...whatever it did... our little part of the universe, the earth, or global as we call it in the situation, has been heating up. Assuming it keeps heating, we will have some weird shit going down in the next few decades and centuries. First, we got the poles melting, which will annoy the hell out of penguins im sure. Once they melt(poles, it takes a lot of heat to melt a penguin, trust me), we got floods from all the ice above water becoming...water. This pretty much takes out places along the coast, and might help make the midwest usa beachfront property. Then, we got hurricanes and such messing up alot of stuff it shouldn't. Theres also the probability that the oceans will turn to acid, which would suck for fish im sure, unless it, perchance, it turns to citrus acid, then it might still suck for fish, but we would have a big salty orange drink sitting right there, and we could be the first planet to be covered in orange drink. Sadly, it will more and likely turn into carbonic acid, which doesn't taste so good. Then there will be issues with the eco-system, with cold become hot and hot becoming hotter, which will again suck for penguins. With all that heat, things will burn, which means forests will go ablaze, houses will be in danger, and penguins might even spontanously combust, which, yet again, will suck for penguins.

Basiclly, you know that one summer where it was really hot? This will be alot worse.
So what are we gonna do now?

Well, since the industrial revolution came around the same time global warming did, it is suspected that the C02 that it produced might have something to do with it(that, and a bunch of silly little air tests). Well, the solution seems to be take it out, the new problem is we cant just say some magic words and it disapears.

To make things worse, Al Gore came along and decided this shouldn't be a problem all man kind faces, this should be a political tool to use for gaining him and his buddies some votes, as well as make him someone somebody aside of his mother cared about. He succeeded. Now he has made the conservatives and republicans butt monkey mad because its somehow illegal for them to agree with gore(this is not a jab against conservative/republicans, to be fair the same rule applies for liberal/democrats in the terrorist issue, who say "Oh no! there are no terrorists! bush hired magical fairies from pixie land to destroy the towers so he can get some oil to do nothing with, since even we agree its illogical he sold the shit because gas is three fucking dollars a gallon".

So now we got the eco-friendly cars and such. This is worse yet, cause now we don't only have polticians politicizing Global Warming, we has corporations incorporating it. I mean, if they really wanted to save the planet, the would give the things out free. At least at a reasonable price. You know, one everybody could afford. Not just upper/middle class assholes who want to feel like less of an asshole by "saving the planet". Which they don't.
Then you got the hypocrits. I was talking to someone on the internet the other day, who told me i should stop using electricity because im using energy and thus killing the planet. When i pointed out he to was doing such, he admited his hypocrisy and beat himself up. I applauded and moved on. Its like the picture of the woman holding the sign saying "Save animals, kill yourself", people never do the outrageous things they tell others to do. I am not going to become a cave man because you won't.

I really don't think there is an answer to this problem, besides put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. If their is, come up with it. It should not include destruction of civilization, killing off humanity, eating tofu(yuck), killing penguins, or anything stupid. No stupidity. Bye.

Here Ye! Here Ye!

Here standeth my real introductory blog post. Ive always thought it would be entertaining to have a place to just post my idiotic rants so i feel better, and this seemed like such a place. I don't care if i have no readers, or all of the world reading this, its really just a dumpyard for my opinions. If anyone does read this, good, i hope i enlighten somebody, and if not, at least i will have tried.

But first i shalt outline my basic perception on things. Politically i am a libertarian, a freedom nut if one will. Religiouslly i am a christian, a real one at that, not a fundamentalist or bible thumper, but rather a "love thy neighbor" type. As for my life im sort of a succesful geek, the sort who gets into college quite young(pre-eighteen), and holds down a good job. My little arrowman thing comes from my love of drawing little arrows going through things when i get the chance, similar to the way some people black out teeth or eyes. I guess the stick guy evokes images of Robin Hood and other such underdog heros, as well as that annoying kid who keeps shooting arrows at my shed.