UberPocky

So here I am at Christmas eve dinner thinking about everything going on in the world. “they send money back and forth… And back.” -Uncle Dan.

Sorry got distracted. I was thinking about the issues people have and considering the best was to fix peoples problems…

I further reinforced my theroy no matter how hard you try to help people you don’t know the best way to solve the problems of other people.

I could never just up and fix the various problems family members have and they would never ask me to. I can help if and when they ask me not before.

So, how can this governent help people they’ve barley met?

They dont know what the true problems are!

So I ask this new “I can’t wait to spoon later!”, “I can’t wait to kill myself” – cousins Jill & Kim.

Sorry distracted again. So I ask the new goverment we have: please stay out of my life!

Let’s start with this is pseudo-science science? OF COURSE!

There are still people out there who are trying to discredit psychology and sociology as “pseudo-sciences” I am not here to do that. I am here to express my thoughts of the definitions of both words, and some of the things that fall under those categories. The term pseudo-science has a negative connotation. I was speaking with a friend and honestly felt uncomfortable using the term because pseudo implies fake. That’s not what I mean! So let’s start investigating. continue reading…

All this hubbub about Obama’s Pastor in the last couple of weeks has got me thinking. What role should Religion really play in politics?

Years ago I would have said NONE!

That was when I was not religious. Since then I’ve realized religion can be helpful in life.  Religion is a good guide for morality. As long as Religion is supplemented with a healthy dose of reality and taken in moderation.

So what role should it play?

I’d like to see religion as an issue, an issue under a ‘character issues’ category, like economy is under ‘national issues’. I’d like each candidate talk about their religious beliefs, in a very candid way. However, that would never happen. I think most of them would sound similar.

I would use this litmus test: An’ it harm none, do what ye will.

A.K.A. As long as their religious beliefs didn’t condone harming anyone I could vote for them.

This would again, never happen, but I think it should.

Comments?

So today marks 5 years in Iraq. So I thought this would be a good time to talk about it. My opinions on this issue have ALWAYS been against the general public. My thoughts on this topic have always been “against the grain” The general public was for it in the beginning, and against it now. Which is rather interesting because I’ve been opposite that both times. I remember at the beginning of the war, there was a protest at my high school (I live in a very democrat anti-war village). I didn’t feel like I could support this protest for two reasons:

• Most of them seemed anti-war because: “War is bad.” This logic drives me absolutely insane. If you are going to protest a war have a reason to protest that specific war. Say your reason. I believe: “War should be avoided, but if it must be done it must be done” It is not something to be entered into lightly. (See my notes below on peace)
• I didn’t think that ditching my education, even if it was during a class that I hated, was a good idea. Actually, looking back, if there was a class that I would have liked to ditch it was the one during the protest. In fact many people went to the protest because they wanted to ditch their classes. The class I was in was almost empty

This does not mean I supported the war, In fact in the days following the protest a couple people asked me and I had to clarify, “No, I do not support the war, but no, I do not support your protest either” It was an odd position to take, in retrospect. I was not in support of the war in those days for one major reason: “It would be a distraction from the real conflict: Afghanistan & Bin Laden” Today, who talks about Afghanistan? It’s gotten better in the last couple of months, now that Iraq is getting quieter (I’ll get to that). However, during the time of the worst in Iraq, Afghanistan was never mentioned. That is the real war on terror.

I have much more to say but it’s far too long for the front page: continue reading…