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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Some of My Recent Annoyances

What can be said of opinions that havent' already been said.  We know that like assholes everybody has one, and that assholes especially have them.  We are far to easily offended and insist on stating our own opinions as fact when we rebuttal someone elses view.  Or if someone offers a different point of view to our own we are quick to attack them, and tell them that they are wrong.  But then again who is right.  It is another thing we are easy to do, say that well its just my opinion.  Then where is the offense coming from exactly, why do we feel the need to state our opinions and say that it is just our opnion when it is plain it obviously is our opinion because when you are offering a viewpoint that is your own it is an opinion.  Perhaps you can back it up with various research and facts, but others can then come up with their own research and facts.  And then thats when the debate begins.  That is when the argument starts and mostly over stuff that honestly in the grand big picture doesn't matter.

This brings me to the points I wish to discuss.   A few things that keep cropping up over social media or in general just on everyday interactions.

I'll start with a couple big ones.   It is my opinion if you want to send people off the hook, and get them really pissed off and free to come up with the most hair brained excuses just talk trash about smoking and guns.   There is hardly anything else you'll bring up that people will become excessively pissed off over than when you question their insistence on smoking cancer sticks, or owning firearms.   The minute gun control is brought up the immediate response someone on the opposing side has to bring up is that the government wants to take away our guns.  Wants to walk in and take our property, this is hardly the truth.  Gun control does not equal removal of all weapons, its simply making them harder to get, having more extensive background and mental health checks.  No one wants to hear this.  Whats so wrong with more regulations?  If you are in your right mind what do you have to fear honestly?

Smoking is another one.  It was a few years ago that an old classmate of mine remarked about the ads that played before movies and how he didn't understand how someone could keep smoking after seeing such an ad.   Sure enough a smoker saw this post and had to defend their addiction.   I'm all for someones right to smoke, go on knock yourself out, smoke to your hearts content.  But don't act like its not gross.  You are inhaling smoke, smoke is the offshoot of burning things to nothing.  Scientific studies and the surgeon general have warned us that its bad.  How can you be pissed off that someone would comment that smoking is bad, when it point in fact is bad for you.   I don't care if your fathers father smoked cigarettes all their life, they are still a cancer risk they still contain toxins.  When smoking was banned in restaurants and public places it was a good thing.   Yes your right to enjoy your cigarette wherever you chose was trampled upon but considering that what you smoke is poison, it isn't fair to make other people have to inhale the same smoke.  It was a good decision on the part of the government.

The not so environmentally friendly are my next irritation.  Thesre are the people who act like they are saving the planet one properly thrown away cigarette butt at the time.  Who talk about how good they are because they pick up after themselves.  Let me tell you somehting, you are good for doing that, but you are not the problem.  Why not pick up other peoples trash.  Why not volunteer to plant some trees or clean up pop rings along the beach.   Why not stop getting your pets drunk or high, because they do not like it.   You are not one with nature because your mind is altered and you've reached some higher plain of existence.   and you don't have to be arrogant about it.  You aren't saving the world by cleaning up after yourself you are doing a common courtesy.

This whole misunderstood pitbull craze.  I find it funny that we need causes that we don't feel hopeless with to feel like we are making a difference.  I'm all for animal safety and rights, but no misunderstood pitbulls are not the same as warn torn countries.  Are not more important than the bombings in the Gaza strip or the terrorist group ISIS.  Its not just pitbulls there all sorts of stupid small causes that people take up.  And let me tell you something sitting around on your ass is not going to make a difference, talking about how you support or don't support something is not going to make a difference.  Not bettering yourself for higher paying wages is not making a difference, wasting your money on music festivals, on DVD's, on bongs, or on make-up or concerts is not making a difference.  here's where I fall in.  I sit around on my ass and I see the horrors of the world and it frustrates me, it motivates me to want to write to strive to be good enough to be paid enough to make some sort of differnce I dont sit around and bitch on the internet about these atrocities becasue I haven't done anything, and I feel like I can't make a huge difference yet.  I want to succeed in order to be able to make a difference.  Money is an important part of this life, and it makes the world go round for good or ill.  Not love, not good vibes, or good intentions.  With some action it helps, with some money it helps.

Lets talk a little bit about Israel and let me be fully honest, I dont know all thats been going on.  But if you are a christian and you are being told to support Israel no matter what, and you are a proud supporter of "pro-life" causes well you can't do both.   You can't say you love babies, while you support a country who is killing many many children and innocent people.  You can't be pro-war and pro-life.   There is no excuse, if you are pro-life it doesn't end with abortion, why not go look at some of these kids who are having limbs blown off or who are in indistinguishable pieces and don't tell me you care about life.  You hypocrites.

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