Taking a break: Blogger Style

So I've been at my homework for awhile now... I'd say almost a good solid two hours. That's pretty awesome for me. I don't do large blocks of homework time. And the coolest part, I've been in the same place for it all! Wee! Again, another thing that doesn't really happen a lot.

SIDE NOTE: My A button is working properly... I think that I'm going to cry. Do you know how many a's there are?

So anywhoozle... I'm bored of the homework and I decided to blog a bit, add some cheer in a person's daily life. I doubt that I will really cause a lot of cheer. I'm rather sleepy right now. I didn't go to bed until 4 this morning and I was up by 10:30. *Glee!* Normally it wouldn't be soo bad but I was out dancing. I can sit and drink until all hours of the night/morning have an hour or so of sleep and be good to go went I wake up. If I go dancing... I get a headache, sore back, sore feet and really tired. But I love it. The actually dancing is worth all the pain that I go through afterwards... ahhh... good times. I really enjoyed myself last night. Dancing is my friend. While it does make me tired it prepares me for the up coming weeks of hell that I am about to go through.

I have so much homework in the next little bit that I may just have to resort to actually starting some of it early and finishing it early instead of how I normally go about it. I really prefer to just do things as they come up. That is no going to work with the stupid stupid amount of homework that I have in the next three weeks. And we're not even going to talk about hell week in October. Its just simple. I'll tell you about it after I survive. If you don't hear from me, come looking. I'll probably be in my room curled up on the floor rocking back and forth muttering something that vaguely sounds like: I have to get it done. All the homework... I have to get it done... have to... get... homework... done. Or something along that lines anywhoozle. Wee!

So what's new, asides from the fact that hell week is approaching... Not much. I got my hair cut and coloured. I'm in love. But then that's what Crystal does for me. She rocks... And! More importantly and permanently... I got two new tattoos. Weee! I got the ankh on my left wrist. It's a symbol of life and longevity. The Egyptian pharaohs carried it either in both hands or in the left hand. It represented their immortality and it was a symbol of kingship as well. On my right wrist I got the eye of Horus. Its a symbol of protection. It excites me! I've been thinking of getting them all summer but I decided against it because I was still working with kids. But now that I'm not again I got them done. It gives it a chance to heal for I really start in on my field placement.

Speaking of field placements! I'm so excited about mine! Wee! I can't wait but I'm also really apprehensive. It's the placement that I wanted but it's going to be a lot of work and I'm a little worried about how emotionally draining that it could potentially be. But it's a challenge and it's going to make me stretch my knowledge muscle... as well as my heart muscle. I'll be ok as long as I have someone that I can vent to. So if I come to you needed to vent please take pity on me and listen. I'm really going to need it. I can't actually say what my placement is, especially on here. But if you ask it what type of placement it is in person I'll tell you. Just don't expect a lot of details. Man... I don't even have a lot of details yet. I should know more Monday.

Well... It's now 4:30 and I have to be home at 5 to let my roommate in. He broke his card. Oh well. I'll say more later. See ya good people.

Until the end,
me.

Government Conspiracy: 9/11; Any Good Scientist

Watch me first: Loose Change Second Edition

Did you watch it? Please do. It'll make more sense if you watch it first. I realise that it's long but humour me... that is if you aren't on the dial up. Dial up users may want to avoid the link and it is a rather large download. I mean it is over an hour long video. (Trust me its worth it if you aren't on dial up.) Well, maybe. I'll let you decide.

Ok... Now I'm not normally I conspiracist. It's not really my thing. I lean a lot more to apathy than I would really like to more often than not, and when I'm not being all apathetic I am quite the libertarian. Its true really. conspiracy just doesn't float my boat. Well... except for a few but this wasn't one of them. I honestly lived in a world where 9/11 didn't matter. I won't deny that its a terrible tragedy but contrary to popular belief 9/11 didn't really affect Canadians. Well, not all of us anyway. I'm sure that some people were completely destroyed in one way or another but I was not really among them. So when the whole conspiracy towards 9/11 started popping out everywhere I was more or less oblivious. Well, at least as much as the media would let me be. I'm sure we've all heard of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. I mean it was hard not to.

But I'm not going to get into the whole media thing right now. I have very strong views on the media sector. It would take a whole post just to cover my issues with them. Fun!

So... Yah. Loose Change. I'm impressed. The people that put it together did a really good job. I don't completely know if I agree with them but they do make a good deal of sense. And honestly, I like it. I think that its a great theory. But that's the problem, its just a theory. And as any good scientist knows all it takes to throw a theory off is one good piece of evidence to the contrary. Alas... I have no good piece of evidence. But I know who does. So do the people that made Loose Change. In fact they they point out to the world how the government could completely destroy their theory. However, the evidence that is there is probably Top Secret like who actually killed Kennedy! (Umm... this isn't one of my conspiracies either... I know squat about it.) Now... that's all I really have to say. I mean its just a conspiracy. There's no real proof that its true.

Are you wondering about my conspiracy theory yet? Two words: Mad Cow. I'll let you puzzle it out. But remember what I said. Conspiracies are just theories. And any good scientist knows about theories.

So what the fuck is she talking about?

Sometimes things are just the way they are because that's the way they are supposed to be...

This is my deep thought of the day. A way to rationalise the things that happen to me or around me or because of me, I guess. I'm not exactly sure. Fun!

What am I talking about? Ooo! Wouldn't you like to know? Look just because something specific happened to cause this blog entry doesn't mean you get to be privy to my inspiration... no you get something even better! You get the little moments of utter brilliance that happen because of the inspiration.

No, I will not reveal my muse... I have to keep some mystery about me. Besides I think that one's muse probably loses power when they are revealed. I wouldn't want my muse to stop inspiring me. You don't want my muse to stop inspiring me do you? Are you tired of my quirky and somewhat random ruminations? No. I doubt that you are. So don't spoil my muse. All will be revealed when the time is right.

So. Yes. Things are the way the are because that is the way the are supposed to be. What do you think? Here's what I've noticed in my own experience and life, as well as, how I feel about the whole bloody concept.

Sometimes it feels like no matter what choice I make something happens that I was trying to avoid. So is it supposed to be that way? And if it is, what does that mean? Well the first question I cannot answer. I am not an all knowing, omnipotent being. However the second question, that one I can answer. What does it mean if no matter what we do somethings are just going to happen that way because that is the way they are supposed to happen. It means that free will is obsolete.

BAM!

Ok. So I'm sure that if you are reading this you know how I feel about free will. If not see the previous post here. Yah and if you don't get my views on free will by the end of that... you have bigger problems. So yah... I'm pretty passionate about free will and the idea that it couldn't exist because something has to happen a certain way, no matter the choice I took, makes me a little crazy. And by little, I mean a lot. Joy.

Congratulations.

You may as well sit on your ass all day and do exactly what you want to because it's not going to make a lick of difference. I really hope that this isn't the case. I'd much rather believe that things happen because I acted on them. I am the change that I see in the world... blah, blah, blah. You know how it is.

Ok... So I'm done here. Give it some thought, tell me what you think. And don't blame my muse that this is sketchy at the very least. Muse did a good job, in fact there's really so much buzzing around in my head that I'm just surprised that I got that down as good as I did. So many assignments due, muse work, and I'm really quite tired. As well as there are some other things that I am pondering that have less to do with any of that but more to do with me. Yes. Pondering about your self is so much fun that me and my friends do it to start the time off hardcore.

Yah... Umm.. Right...

George and the Unbaised Debate; Abortion and why it Tickles so much

So as I was waiting for my dear Erika to come over and cook chili with me I decided that I would scroll on over to the nearest abortion debate to see what's keeping the kids busy these days. Yah... these are the things I do for fun and I don't even participate in the debate! I just watch everyone and see what they have to say. It's really quite entertaining, minus the mindblogging-ness of watching people make complete fool of themselves.

So where was I?

Right...

So I scrolled over to the nearest abortion debate to see if its changed in the last while since I took Bio-ethics back in the day. And I've decided that people are no smarter or more mature about the whole thing. It is fun to watch the train wreck though. Even if it does make me want to tear my eyes out. As always there are two sides to the debate. The Prolifers/Antichoicers/Antiabortion and the Antilifers/prochoicers/Proabortion. Fun! The debate is the same as it always is.

My side is right because I say its right! And you're a bunch of religion bashing bigots!

No Fuck you. My side is right because I say it is and you're a bunch of religious freaks!

And here's me: Wow... most of you are complete idiots. Joy. *attacked by angry mob* Ahh! Flee!

Fun. *feel the sarcasm as it come at you through the screen* So yah... there's me reading this latest bit of what can only be described as the daytime soap-opera of the socio-political world. Don't misunderstand me here; there are intelligent people that occasionally participate in the debate. And when they do its earth shattering. I love it when smart people actually have something to say. See the difference between your average Joe debater and the George the wonder-debater is that George actually takes his time and studies the other side of the debate. He doesn't fight with people about issues that are dead in the water he talks about things that make sense in the grand scheme. And this regardless of what side he is on.

But enough about George the wonder-debater... I want to talk about Joe. Because while George is awesome and earth shattering in a way that I can only hope to be one day (and I'm working on it believe me), Joe is still ten times more entertaining, albeit frustrating.

See Joe neglects to look at the bigger picture. We'll start with Prolifer Joe. Why? Because why not? So there's Prolifer Joe. Seemingly innocent enough; generally some form religion to his name... and while not all of this breed are religious I'm going to focus my effort here. Why? Because I can and honestly these are the ones that tickle me the most. The other Prolifers tend to have less pizazz about them. And when I say religious I should say evangelicals and get specific. Because a lot of people with religion don't let it run the debate as much as the evangelicals do.

So there we have Evangelical Joe the Prolifer. Does his best to make sure that the world is better place. Always kind and honestly a good person. That is until you question his beliefs or ask him his opinion on something. Beware! I caution strongly against this! He is not to be toyed with lightly. Anywhozzle...where was I again?

Right... So Evangelical Joe the Prolifer. So what is he like in the abortion debate? He brings fire and brimstone to all. Declaring that GOD and no one else should be aloud dictate life and death. A baby has life at conception! Sanctity of life and all the jazz. Abortion is Murder! I hold the TRUTH because I believe in GOD! GOD! BIBLE! Look-y here at what the Bible says! Jeremiah Chapter 1, Verse 5: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you!" GOD! BIBLE! GOD! And so on and so forth. Their entire argument is based on and entity that may or may not exist and a book that while well written was written for a civilization that existed more than 1000 years ago. Too many people read the Bible and declare it FACT. That it was written by GOD through man. Let's suspend reality for a minute here: Let's assume that for a might we can prove that GOD is really real and he is as it is written... Infallible. Ok. We are now suspending reality. GO! OK. We're good. We now have an infallible GOD that wrote his Great Book through a... wait for it... A Fallible man! Yes. That's right people. Regardless of whatever GOD is, real, imagined or otherwise. His Great Book was still written by man. And let's face it. We've got some pretty awesome character flaws. To make it really simple. We are capable of really really big mistakes.

~~~~ Back to Reality~~~~

So when we look at the Bible. Asides from having to realise that it was written a good 1000 and more years ago; the Hebrew Scripts are more like 2000 years old in some parts. We have to remember that they were originally written by man that long ago. Oh... and wait... let's add insult to injury here... they've been translated so many times that the passages may not even say today what they said then. You look at any Bible, Any Bible and there are footnotes galore about what this word could be according to this and that translation. And if you are clever enough to be reading the King James Bible: one, I'm not going to take you seriously and two, you are reading a Bible that was made to King James' exact specifications. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!" While we may not know the context of the original word, or the original word itself. There is a good possibility that King James' translators used the word witch because they were asked to. James was notorious for his persecutions of witches, real or imagined.

Ok... now that I've tore that argument up at little... I know not everyone will agree with me on it. And yes... some of it is subjective on my part. Like the concept that witch was added because James wanted it added instead. But then really... I can admit my biases. Can Evangelical Joe the Prolifer? I would like to think so but it has been in my experience that no, he cannot. C'est la vie. I will not persecute him for his beliefs as he may for mine. His beliefs are his and the work for him. And furthermore, who's to say that he's not right? We don't know for sure? But then I'd rather not believe in something just to err on the side of caution. Belief and faith are two things that many people do not have the courage to do. And trust me, it is a type of courage to completely believe in something that you have no proof of. I admire and respect people who can believe with such conviction. But... that is another topic for another day. Back to the task at hand. The next little bit that I want to break down is the Prolifer's use of the terms Antilife and Proabortion.

I'm going to get into this from two sides so follow along closely alright? This is going to be where I all of a sudden switch and start bitching about the other side of the coin.

What? You're presenting two sides and bitching about both of them? While then Bobbi... which side are you on? Huh?

You figure it out!

No... I will explain all in good time. If you can figure it out by the end I will tell you.

So yes... back to the topic at hand. My issue with the phrasiology, as it were, with surrounding the whole abortion debate is that none of our current terms work well enough. Prolifers call the otherside antilife and proabortion. But that doesn't work. Many people on that side of the debate do not agree with abortion and believe in the sanctity of life but also believe in the woman's right to choose and that everyone has a right to autonomy. Everyone. It makes the issue really sticky for them. Because they are prolife, because they want the baby/fetus/grouping of cells to have a chance at life. They believe that it is alive. However they also believe that women have a right to choose what goes on with her body. See the stickiness? They are neither proabortion, because they believe that it wrong and that, that life needs to be protected, nor are they antilife for the same reasons. But yet they believe that a person should have the right to choose what happens to them. See how the terms don't work? And I bet if you ask anyone they will not tell you that they are Proabortion. Proabortion has bad connotations. It's like staying that the person believes that if you get pregnant you should go have an abortion because babies suck or something along those lines. While I realise that some people do use abortion as a form of birth control that's not what the one side of the argument is trying to create. They are trying to protect a person's right to choice.

Do you see where I am going with this? Have you figured out where I am on this yet?

Too many people that are on this debate neglect to realise that the issue isn't a dichotomy, its a spectrum and continuum, as is almost anything else that involves morals and values at it's centre. It's not which side of the debate are you on but where do you lay on the continuum? And for some people it matters not at all, until they are faced with that choice and have to deal with it. It is something that few on either side of the debate understand or even care to acknowledge.

Anywhozzle... I think that this has taken a different tangent then I had originally intended so the rest of what I had planned seems utterly pointless and contrived. It wouldn't make sense. The only thing is that I'm sorry that it was only the prolife/antiabortion/antichoice "side" of the debate that took the brunt of my hostility and sarcasm. Please do not misunderstand. The prochoice/proabortion/antilife "side" of the debate deserves just as much of my hostility and sarcasm as the latter received. I may decide a later time to subject them to wonders of my sarcasm but now is not the time... especially when I have so artfully pointed out that there are really no sides and that so many people fall into the middle somehow.

So where do I fall? Isn't it painfully obvious? As an extremist of one end or the other I would fail to see the artfully laid out continuum that allows for numerous untold ideas and opinions on the subject matter. I would not be able to see past my blind convictions. I, my friends, lay somewhere in the middle. Where I can see everyone's point of view, though I may disagree with it and at times ridicule their fervent and somewhat flawed defence of their belief.

I strongly believe that everyone, no matter who they are should have the ability to choose for themselves. And when that ability is not present that they should have someone to advocate for them. I believe in the autonomy of a person and that their body is their body. No one can dictated what they can and cannot do to it. No one. End of discussion. It makes for some hard choices but that is that. I don't agree that someone should drink during pregnancy, there is more than enough evidence to suggest that it can cause FASD but we don't know how much or how little. So if someone wants to drink while they are pregnant then that is their choice. I just hope that they realise the repercussions and possible side effects of that choice. Free will is a bitch, but for better or worse it's what I hold dear.