Social Groups

it's funny to me how there's so many different social groups based on things such as the color of skin. the majority of times you can figure out what a person believes based on it. allow me to pontificate. it's always rather interesting to me how somebody can believe something based on their social group. generally I try not to fall subject to being lumped into a category, but with any other person walking the earth, I'm not perfect. when I'm thinking to myself I always feel like it is much easier for a person to go with the popular social opinion rather than spend the time and say how you truly feel. that's why I completely disregard voting and polls as a barometer to what populous thinks. it's all just hogwash to me.

So true...

excerpt:
Tavis: I assume - I don't want to make an assumption, but I'm assuming for the moment until you correct me that you think he does deserve another chance to play, though.

Moon: I really do. I think anybody who goes to prison and does what they're supposed to do and comes out and lives their life the right way deserves a second chance. That's what rehabilitation is all about. If that was the case, Michael Vick, if he doesn't deserve a second chance, then what prisoner does that comes out of prison?

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200908/20090817_moon.html

"Is French health system a model for U.S.?" I say yes & no.

"Under the U.S. system, I never wanted to get sick, and when I did, I went to the pharmacy to try to find a way to treat myself," she said. "In France, you go to the doctor immediately."

As America seeks a better way to provide medical care, France offers an example of a system where everyone has government-provided, basic health insurance – citizens and immigrants alike. Expenses for such chronic illnesses as cancer, diabetes and multiple sclerosis are covered entirely by the state so patients can focus on treatment rather than financial ruin.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/051709dnbusfrance.40cc221.html

lol

People

Current mood:curious

I haven't really wrote on here in a good while. I have been talking to a friend of mine and feel like there are some cool people out there. I know a lot of people and I have some good friends but I have never really taken the time to just get to know them before I knew them. I love knowledge. To me knowledge doesn't always have to come from books. It can come from other peoples experiences. Other peoples thoughts. Ideas. I don't know but I really enjoy a good friend. I hope that I am that to others.

Thinking Older

Current mood:calm

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Not many times do people just sit down and think about or reflect on things when their younger. I by no means have lived my life, hopefully I will live a hundred percent, right now I am only thirty percent of the way. As I was saying, when I was younger it seemed that time just race before my eyes. Days seemed like only a couple hours. Now that I am older I find myself just sitting around thinking about life. I have not been schooled on philosophy or anything, but you do not necessarily need to be schooled in philosophy to have a pursuit of wisdom or to have that hunger to constantly seek out a general understanding.

All of this leads to me thinking about life, different human ideals, perspectives, and other things. I have children and mostly I tend to think about how the world will be for them when I become old and irrelevant, about eighty percent of my life. I wonder if I can help mold them and point them in the right direction. I want for my children to be successful by being at peace with their selves and their spirituality. I worry a lot because I am only one part of many components that will go into making my children who the are.

I have also been thinking about the ripple effect from action of others. There has been a huge shake up throughout my workplace, for lack of a better description. I just think of how far away from the point where the rock hit the lake this ripple at my work is. It's just crazy to think about things work sometimes. Now that I am reaching the downhill portion of my life when it comes to age in sports. I find myself having less of an opportunity to go out and play sports. Sports used to be and in a way still is my conduit to escape various issues for a time. Now a days all I have is my thoughts.

Getting Old Is Better Than Expected 

Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older.

Human Interaction

Current mood:annoyed

Human interaction is an interesting thing. By no means am I a psychologist, but I have been doing the human interaction thing for almost thirty-one years. The best I can offer is my perspective and what I have gathered from reading here and there. I am not going to lace this blog with 'in my opinion' talk, so as you read this know that everything contained in this blog is from me unless it's a link to something. I am so disgusted with...well maybe disgusted is not the right word. I need to structure this in my head first so all of the jumbled thoughts in my mind come out intelligible.

Why is it the consensus that to have fun means to do drugs, party, and act sophomoric? I do not argue the fact about being around people to a certain extant is fun. It's just that some people are as religious about that lifestyle as the are about working. It becomes so watered down and habitual to me that it loses the point. If the mood is right, or if I am with someone then I don't mind going out from time to time. I just don't want it to become a every time thing. I enjoy going out to eat, watching a movie (when they're good), and maybe going out to a social gathering (whatever your interpretation of that may be).

For instance if I went to college and received my four year degree without necessarily parting or fooling around after classes, I would be looked at as not having fun. The flips side to this is parting, doing fraternity shenanigans, and what have you. Neither is bad, but what the former is looked as being boring. I like to be at home, hell I pay enough for it that I want to be in it more than I am now, but that can't happen because of the whole work issue.

Another qualm I have about these perceptions is involving raising children. I have never took a parenting class before, but I like to think I have sound morals and ethics which are critically important in raising children. A couple of ground rules for me are first off, no talking back. That's something I picked up from my mother. I can see how that would be a problem. Once the line is crossed between child and adult, the parent/child relationship will always be fuzzy. Another ideal I value is children in high school seriously dating, not necessarily dating because that will happen with or without the parents knowledge regardless. The 'dating' I am referring to is when it becomes sexual.

For adults, sex changes the relationship. It elevates the level of the relationship to a place where more matters. Unless you are being purposely promiscuous. Then that is another subject. It is rare that you will find a teenager mature beyond their years although most will describe themselves as such, as will ninety-eight percent of inmates proclaim their innocence. My hope is that I raise well educated children with vast amounts of opportunities in life created by themselves and for my children to understand my unconditional love for them. No doubt I will always be there for them, but for the most part I would want my children to be able to fend for themselves if need be.

My reason for stating a couple of ideals I have when it comes to raising the young ones is that most of the time...well all of the time it takes two people to have a child, after that, most of the time you have two different people's opinion about how the child will be raised. This is where my human interaction topic comes back to the point. I think having all the party 'fun' most people talk about isn't needed. Teenagers can find fun in doing things more constructive with their time. It sounds like an old person talking, but I am not saying no parties and etcetera ever. It is just that is all that really necessary? That does not have to be the only version of fun. I had fun doing the things I did when I was younger, and it was not really parties and or drugs. By me explaining to my child where I stand on raising him or her,and how they should value education, my hope is that this should clear up any deceit looming in the future I feel. Every child is different in their own way though so it's unpredictable.

Human interaction is a tricky thing. I think every person has their own views on life and how to traverse it. One thing though....mine is always right. Ha ha.

'Dating' Teenagers

Bad Kids

Hugh Jackman & the Movie Industry Can Kiss My Butt

Current mood:angry

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I was thinking about something in the shower last night.  I was listening
to Howard Stern show and some dummy was going to send him a bootleg copy of the new X-Men Origins movie about Wolverine.  So I guess some douche bag guy that I guess works for the movies publishing company got word back to them about this bootleg.  So they talked to Howard Stern, and he was all like messed up over it.  So to make a long story short I was thinking about this whole bootleg situation.  You know what I really don’t care.  At first it usually tugs at my moral strings, but then I got to thinking about what Chris Rock said about the whole
O.J. Simpson thing.  If a man is making $20 million and the wife wants half you will be good still, but if you make $30 thousand and she wants $15, you might have to kill her lol.  I am not going to recite the whole skit, but you can check it out HERE if Youtube hasn’t bitched out and asked people toremove it.  The joke I am talking aboutis at about the 1:40 mark.  

                
So anyway the point being is this.  Hugh Jackman is not hurting.  He may lose some viewers of the movie, but all in all he is doing well. Why do I really care if he make millions more.  He damn sure is not going to spot me anything.  The same thing goes for anybody in the music industry.  Putting out all that garbage and raping people of their money.  I
am fed up with greedy people and I really don’t care about it anymore,
and the more I think about the more I realize how f’ed up it all is.  Seriously think about it.  I am all about people getting theirs, but for real?  I don’t really care much anymore about it.

Hugh Jackman "Heartbroken" by Wolverine Leak

RIAA / MPAA bust major U.S. piracy gang