She Is Just A Child

If a 13 year old girl has a problem, does she need the help or permission of an adult or is she mature enough to make these decisions?

And should there be laws against her actions if she wants ...

To get a job.

To buy and take Midol at school?

To eat only candy and ice cream?

To stop going to school?

To smoke cigarettes?

To smoke weed?

To drink beer?

To to have sex?

To have sex with an 18 year old guy?

To buy birth control that has no bad side effects (condoms)?

To buy plan B birth control with a lot of bad side defects?

To buy the birth control pills?

To have an abortion?

To own a gun?

To sign sign a contract?

To vote?

To enlist in the military?

For a parent to say this child is not under my control and I have no responsibly for her, or her actions?

What are the limits on a child of only 13 years old?

Supernatural Synchronicity

There was a seemingly supernatural synchronicity between the two of us once. But that has ended in a way that makes me wonder if I am the only one who even remembers it? It was all strange, miraculous really. The sort of thing that leaves you knowing that it will always be life changing. It certainly could never be forgotten, hell it saved her life, how do you forget that?

When atheists tell me (and I heard it a lot from them), if God would only show me, tell me, prove to me that he exists, then I will believe in him.This was the sort of thing they were talking about. No one was left not knowing that it could only have been God. If not God then a person who has never had any signs of supernatural abilities before. She had them for a few weeks. I do not see that thought as being something that would not also shatter the beliefs of a secular materialist. But now I know why miraculous things are so rarely done. They can be put out of your minds, forgotten and dismissed as unimportant. Maybe they are not rare things at all, just forgotten and not spoken of.

Did it ever happen? It is almost like I was the only one there now. Will I also forget in the next few years? Is this the way of most little miracles. From unexplainable foreknowledge, past knowledge, and visions of present happenings a 1000 miles a way. From an unnatural synchronicity of minds. All that ends with a very natural messed up internet sync between two accounts.

Maybe it was just a good dream and soon to be forgotten.

Balancing on the edge

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Once I wrote that the worst advice you would every hear was to "follow your heart". There was much talk in the comments of a balance in your life. You need to care for yourself as well. Doing what you want to do is not inherently a bad thing.

I can't say I disagree with that idea, but I have never even seen a life so lived for others, that they lost themselves. Not doing what you want to do with your life, because you are so into helping others.Is that really so wide spread a practice that we need to worry about it?

Or is telling someone to "follow their heart" about like saying. "Drink when you are thirsty", or "breath when you need air". Not that the advice is bad, so much as it is unneeded 99.9% of the time.

Do we really need to be telling people, that they need to be more self centered?

In the comments in that other entry, we talked of a need to love yourself and all that. Maybe I have been living in the twilight zone, but I see a lot of self-centered living out there. Self-centered lives are the norm. I see very little selflessness out in the world. Where is anyone seeing this extreme selflessness that so many are so worried about? There was Mother Theresa but her type is rare to say the least. Oh and would anyone say she lived a bad life?

Be honest with yourself, do you really need to be more self-centered than you already are? Do any of us need to stop thinking so much of others?

Are we spending to much of our hearts and souls on things like charity, duty, and honor?

Circular Reasoning: Atheists

What is circular reasoning?

Example #1:

1. The Bible says it is the Word of God.
2. God only tells the truth.
3. Therefore, the Bible is entirely true.

Example #2:

1. There is no God.
2.  Miracles are the supernatural work of God.
3. Therefore, miracles are impossible.
4. The Bible contains reports of miracles.
5. Therefore, the Bible contains legendary material or historical misrepresentations.
6. Therefore, the Bible cannot be trusted.
7. Therefore, there is no evidence for God.
8. Therefore, there is no God.

Example #3:

1. There is no God.
2. Therefore, God can not personally reveal His existence to people.
3. When people say they are having experiences of God, this experience can be explained as having a naturalistic cause.
4. Therefore, people do not have experiences of God.
5. Therefore, testimonies of God’s existence do not prove that God exists.
6. Therefore, God does not exist.

Here is my favorite Example #4:

1. Evangelical Christians are controlled by irrational thoughts.
2. Therefore, they are no longer able to reason.
3. Therefore, their beliefs are not based on reason.
4. Therefore, we can reject their beliefs as false.
5. Therefore, their belief in the existence of heaven and hell is irrational.
6. Therefore, evangelical Christians are controlled by irrational thoughts.

Do you guys have any examples of circular reasoning?

Someone just said the atheists do not use the arguments I put forward. Lets stay with my last one. You tell me what the difference is between what these well know atheists said and the examples of circular reasoning I gave.

“It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.” Sam Harris

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” Richard Dawkins

Atheism equals reason!

Religion equals unreason!”

Why is atheism true?

Because it is reasonable.

Why is it reasonable?

Because it isn’t faith.

What happens if you reject faith?

You think atheism is true.

Now that is a beautiful circle is it not?

The Malaysians

Somehow I have managed to have been on Xanga since 2006 and still not fully understand who the "The Malaysians" on Xanga really are?

And what the hell is the controversy with them?

Please explain it to me?  I cant be the only person who has been left ignorant by all this.

In my case I seem to have been labeled an anti Malaysian by at least one of "The Malaysians".

I do realize that being one of "The Malaysians" has little to do with them being from Malaysia.

Happy Easter

What would a very Orthodox Roman Catholic, think of having his own birthday celebrated instead of Easter?

"We seek, and have, the support of the Church in what we do.  At the head of the Pilgrimage we carry LA VIRGEN DE LA GUADALUPE . . . because she is ours, all  ours, Patroness of the Mexican people.  We also carry the Sacred Cross and the Star of  David because we are not sectarians, and because we ask the help and prayers of all religions.
All men are brothers—sons of the same God; that is why we say to all men of   good will, in the words of Pope Leo XIII, “Everyone’s first duty is to protect the workers from the greed of speculators who use human beings as instruments to provide   themselves with money.  It is neither just nor human to oppress men with excessive  work to the point where their minds become enfeebled and their bodies worn out.”  GOD SHALL NOT ABANDON US."--César Chávez

He was a good man read about him when you come home from Easter services

 Link César Chávez

Gay Marriage or War?

In the news the last few day North Korean has been threatening war. Moving it artillery and troops up the border and aiming its missiles at US bases in Hawaii, Guam and South Korea. And yes they do have missiles that can do it and nuclear weapons

No one seems to even know this is going one all the talk is about a long running drama in the USA call gay marriage

Is nuclear war an insignificant issue compared to gay marriage?

Or are the people of the USA horribly uninformed about anything outside of its borders, and most things inside of them?

Unless those things involved celebrities or the issues that celebrities care most about. Legalization of weed, gay marriage, etc.

You can go back to pop culture and other stupid subjects. Its only war, nothing important at all really.

Boys will be Girls & Girls will be Boys

Homosexual marriage is over covered right now. And I have not been keeping current of the legal arguments in the two supreme court cases on that subject. Most of the writers writing about it act like they are talking about the law. But wow they do not know what they are talking about. Dudes read the court cases and arguments before acting like to know what you are talking about. These cases have nothing to do with red equal profile pictures on Facebook. I do not want to be another ignorant writer nor do I want to rerun my libertarian ideas on the states licensing so called rights. Hint look up the word license and read what it means.

Can a boy ever be made into girls? I am not about to touch the born that way vs not born that way discussion. This is not about the rarest of rares "hermaphrodites". This is only about transvestites. Those poor folks who see themselves as being born a sex, they do not want to see themselves as. Guys who feel more comfortable as girls and girls who see themselves as a boy in the wrong body. A lot of laws are being passed saying that a transgender must be treated as the sex they want to be. And are in the process of cosmetic surgery and hormone replacement to make themselves appear to be.  Legally treating transgenders, as the sex they want to be and often look like, seems fair until you start to look at ...

The undefeated Fallon Fox

She has never lost a fight and none of her opponents have ever gone a full minute against her. She just over powers them all. Almost like a male fighter can do to a female fighter. Six years ago he (Fallon Fox) started becoming a woman. The reaction to this news

"She wants to be able to fight women in MMA? I say no fucking way! I say if you had a dick at one point in time, you also have all the bone structure that comes with having a dick. You have bigger hands, you have bigger shoulder joints. You’re a fucking man. That’s a man, OK? You can’t have… that’s… I don’t care if you don’t have a dick any more."

Do you see a case for job discrimination in this one case? If you do isn't that an admission that Boys can never really be Girls and Girls can never honestly be Boys?

Sometimes life is not fair and maybe we should not lie about that.

Cat Hunting

I am taking a break today I hope you enjoy this video

I do not hate cats

Help!

I'm ultra busy right now. And when I am not as busy, I have found the empty screen looks rather intimidating.Words do not flow so easily today.

The thoughts are there, I still want to tell  my tales and give my opinions.

Its all there, wanting to come out, but it seems a wall separates my ideas from this blank screen

 I'm asking for help.  What should I talk about on tomorrows blog entry?

  Real stuff and it need not be politics.

Blank page

Lonely, staring up at me
Daring me to try to be
Simple yet profound

Words alone
For all that consciousness allows
Find I'm at a loss for how
To say just what I've found

I entered through an open door
Left by all who came before
With thoughts so rich yet words so poor
For truth's already spoken for

Reach within
To find a misplaced bit of truth
In love or hate or age or youth
In what prized piece of mind

Close the book
Evasive truth still yet to find
Of rhythm felt by twisted rhyme
When words get left behind

Well something snaps and then you learn
Chasing words is no concern
Then one by one they die and turn
To mild regret and hopeless yearn

Blank page
Lonely, staring up at me
Escaping my apology
From a blank page left unsung