We live in such a great world, don't we? This great world exceeds 7 billion population, and this great world has the ability to communicate from one side to the other in less than a second. The world today in modern society is amazing, is it not? So civilized is it not? The real meaning of civilized:
(ci: French, yes. vil: From Latin abreviated form of vile. Found in words as vilify, villainy. -ize: Suffix, used to make verbs from nouns. ex: energize, cause to have energy. ci-vil-ize: yes cause it to be vile.)
Since the year 2000 an estimated 100,000 people are murdered (//source?) each year around the world. 1 in every 6 woman in the US alone have experienced an attempted or completed rape. Yet we live in a civilised world? People often state how great life is and that we should live life and be happy, let me ask you a question. How can you be happy knowing that currently in Guantanamo Bay there are prisoners aged as young as 13 and as old as 98 to be interrogation for crimes that they probably did not commit or even know anything about.
There is enough food grown in the world for everyone. Yet we remain in a food crisis, over half of the grown food goes to waste and 1 in every 6 people cannot access enough of the waste and have to go hungry everyday, and yet once again we live in such a great world.
Now that we have covered some facts about the world let's start talking about why this all happens, it is rather simple really. This all happens because of greed. That is it in a nut shell greed for money, lust and power. People in their basic nature are evil and greedy. People are selfish in nature and there can be nothing done about it. Most people have an idea in there head that if you help one person another person suffers or a more well know portrayal of this is. If you help a fly caught in a spider web the spider will grow hungry and die. However if you just leave the fly it will be eaten by the spider. In the very end you are left with the same result one person will suffer no matter what happens. So people always chose to be the spider in life. people want to make life harder for other people as ling as it make it easier for them. This is seen on a daily basis.
Will Rogers once said “You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.” It really is that simple the only reason civilizations advance is to find a new way to take over other civilizations. You don't have civilization to help people civilizations are created because one man wants more power then he already has.
You are most likely thinking now well all this is bad but how can this be fixed. Winston Churchill said “Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will” It is the people such as you and I that can and have to change the world today and make it civilized when evil shows itself do not turn a blind eye and walk away and say someone else can fix it. Because chances are you are that someone else and you are the one to fix it.
We live in a evil world and it is up to us as once race of man to change the evil our ancestors did such an amazing job to create. Before you say that the world is good and that life is good first think about what really happens in the world this is your motivation to change it.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Are parents the ultimate hypocrites?
Well, I'm sure you will agree with me when I say, if I have children I do not wish them to lie to me.
But that's really odd, because will I still teach them about santa or the easter bunny? Would it be fair for my to lie to them during their most important years of their life and yet demand they do not lie to me?
Is it fair that they get preached to in school about a god? And yet I expect them to think logically and for themselves? Equally, not to lie. Is it fair I raise them to my religious beliefs even before they can understand them?
So, as a child I was taught about all the above.
My parents are not religious, but my gran is, and my gran and mother are superstitious (stupid I know), and I was taught about santa and everything, equally I was preached to a weekly basis. Now, how can my school and parents expect me not to lie? Isn't that just hypocritical? I was taught lies since I was born, it's there, in my brain nagging away, something I cannot change. I did not ask for this, and if I could I would have preferred never to have had any of these things. (Not new parents, just non-superstitious ones). I believe this is extremely unfair on children and very hypocritical to the children.
But am I wrong in denying my child something I was entitled to? Or should I teach them the truth? Not what I believe to be the truth, but what I know to be the truth.
Can a child really be religious? At 7 year olds you would all agree with me that very little children understand politics, therefore they have no stance on their views of it. So, what makes religion any different? If they are too young to understand politics aren't they too young to understand religion? We do not able children by their parents political views, now do we? I am not a labour child (I am SNP, but that is irrelevant), am I? No of course not, it is stupid, why would I be?
Yet if my parents were Christian I would be dubbed a Christian child! That is not fair on me.
Hell, I would go to the extent to say that teaching children religion before they can understand it is child abuse, and against their human rights to freedom of thought and expression.
So, why is society so screwed up?
But that's really odd, because will I still teach them about santa or the easter bunny? Would it be fair for my to lie to them during their most important years of their life and yet demand they do not lie to me?
Is it fair that they get preached to in school about a god? And yet I expect them to think logically and for themselves? Equally, not to lie. Is it fair I raise them to my religious beliefs even before they can understand them?
So, as a child I was taught about all the above.
My parents are not religious, but my gran is, and my gran and mother are superstitious (stupid I know), and I was taught about santa and everything, equally I was preached to a weekly basis. Now, how can my school and parents expect me not to lie? Isn't that just hypocritical? I was taught lies since I was born, it's there, in my brain nagging away, something I cannot change. I did not ask for this, and if I could I would have preferred never to have had any of these things. (Not new parents, just non-superstitious ones). I believe this is extremely unfair on children and very hypocritical to the children.
But am I wrong in denying my child something I was entitled to? Or should I teach them the truth? Not what I believe to be the truth, but what I know to be the truth.
Can a child really be religious? At 7 year olds you would all agree with me that very little children understand politics, therefore they have no stance on their views of it. So, what makes religion any different? If they are too young to understand politics aren't they too young to understand religion? We do not able children by their parents political views, now do we? I am not a labour child (I am SNP, but that is irrelevant), am I? No of course not, it is stupid, why would I be?
Yet if my parents were Christian I would be dubbed a Christian child! That is not fair on me.
Hell, I would go to the extent to say that teaching children religion before they can understand it is child abuse, and against their human rights to freedom of thought and expression.
So, why is society so screwed up?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Finding the balance
Today at school, while I was sitting in the library, the urge to donate a book of mine suddenly struck me. I've carried this book with me for months - I've read it multiple time - and I decided that I wasn't finished with it yet, but when I picked it up off the table it seemed to repel my hand. When I returned home I realized why this urge had come over me.
While I was on my way home I spontaneously imagined myself speaking with a psychologist. It began as an usual conversation, but when he inquired of me my spiritual and theological ideas it became something else. I first described to him my introduction into philosophy; a few years ago I wanted to become a pathologist and save lives, but early in my personal studies I was perplexed by a number of difficult questions. It was those questions that lead me to philosophy.
Eventually I grew tired of the systematic mechanics of "reason" that you find in much of western philosophy. My studies ventured east and I found the Tao Teh Ching. I grew very intimate with this book. Regardless of my discoveries I, still, couldn't find direction. My first lesson was to seek a more personal truth: intuition. One day I spontaneously, from intuition alone, found Christ. Christ was the answer, but not for long. Sometimes I would be a fundamentalist Christian. Sometimes I would be a radical intellectualist. Sometimes I would be a devote Taoist. Sometimes I would be carefree. Sometimes I would try to correlate my ideas. Sometimes I was sure I was going insane.
Needless to say, what once was a series of emotional fluctuations became a vicious circle. This "circle" prompted my next discovery.
I was told by a stranger, some time ago, that true knowledge arises out of necessity rather than desire. "First you must find your balance, only then will you venture further down the rabbit hole." Sometime later I had a dream; I was in the wilderness, in a valley, and there was a relatively large hole in the ground. I was wandering in circles around it trying to lose my balance, but I couldn't fall in. This seemed to relate directly to the tip I received. I then realized, because of my book, that it is solely because I am trying to fall into it, trying to lose my balance, that I cannot. I must let go of Christ, of the Tao, of Freedom, of Knowledge, to find balance, for each of these anchor me to the circle. I must really unlearn my learning to fall into the center. I must really unlearn my learning to follow the Tao.
Each of these small events has lead me to such a distinct and powerful, yet simple, discovery. It struck me like a bolt of lightning... Is it destiny?
Discoveries such as this seem to be becoming more frequent. I don't think I need that damned book anymore.
While I was on my way home I spontaneously imagined myself speaking with a psychologist. It began as an usual conversation, but when he inquired of me my spiritual and theological ideas it became something else. I first described to him my introduction into philosophy; a few years ago I wanted to become a pathologist and save lives, but early in my personal studies I was perplexed by a number of difficult questions. It was those questions that lead me to philosophy.
Eventually I grew tired of the systematic mechanics of "reason" that you find in much of western philosophy. My studies ventured east and I found the Tao Teh Ching. I grew very intimate with this book. Regardless of my discoveries I, still, couldn't find direction. My first lesson was to seek a more personal truth: intuition. One day I spontaneously, from intuition alone, found Christ. Christ was the answer, but not for long. Sometimes I would be a fundamentalist Christian. Sometimes I would be a radical intellectualist. Sometimes I would be a devote Taoist. Sometimes I would be carefree. Sometimes I would try to correlate my ideas. Sometimes I was sure I was going insane.
Needless to say, what once was a series of emotional fluctuations became a vicious circle. This "circle" prompted my next discovery.
I was told by a stranger, some time ago, that true knowledge arises out of necessity rather than desire. "First you must find your balance, only then will you venture further down the rabbit hole." Sometime later I had a dream; I was in the wilderness, in a valley, and there was a relatively large hole in the ground. I was wandering in circles around it trying to lose my balance, but I couldn't fall in. This seemed to relate directly to the tip I received. I then realized, because of my book, that it is solely because I am trying to fall into it, trying to lose my balance, that I cannot. I must let go of Christ, of the Tao, of Freedom, of Knowledge, to find balance, for each of these anchor me to the circle. I must really unlearn my learning to fall into the center. I must really unlearn my learning to follow the Tao.
Each of these small events has lead me to such a distinct and powerful, yet simple, discovery. It struck me like a bolt of lightning... Is it destiny?
Discoveries such as this seem to be becoming more frequent. I don't think I need that damned book anymore.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The school yard
A moral issue, many of us will face within our life time, maybe we are the bully, the bullied or the randomer standing in the corner; it happens, we know of it, yet schools have a hard time stopping it.
Like I said, many of us have experienced it or is experiencing it, we all know what happens in the school grounds at lunch & at interval, squabbles and arguments, rumours and tales; but how much of it is true & why does it still happen?
Well, firstly we need to understand the schools 'chain of command' as such; popular kids being at the top, and geeks, or 'intellectuals' at the bottom. It's cruel how we live in a world where the popular feast upon the smart, the smart are our future, not these bullies. Although, I am not saying for one moment all popular children at bullies, not at all. But when was the last time the intellectuals doing the bullying, lets be serious here.
I could easily sit here and blame it on many things, jealously, they know that they are the future, and they will be spending their life cleaning out gutters (a job is a job, right?) while they are making money doing what they love to do. I could also say that their ego is forcing them to do, that if they do not bully, they will become the bully when their 'friend' turn upon him/her for being 'weak'. Or, in realism manning up for the truth and the moral.
We could also say insecurity that they feel insecure in their lives that they must make others feel bad in order for them to feel good about themselves, sad really. We equally could blame it on the parents for raising a beast; not a child.
But, at the end of the day, we do not know what happens in the school grounds, and that may be a good thing; but we do know this is happening and it is really sad. If they acted like this in the 'big bad world; they would be literally eaten alive, yet they still do in school. Can we really stop this or has this became part of our society, that we expect the smarter ones to have their life ruined because they listen in class, or teased because of their test results, no, not really. They do not. And for a lot of intellectuals, this will be the worst years of their life.
With the age of modern technology people are now taking to cyber-bullying; perfectly fine for your good old cyber geek. But for other intellectuals, not so. These people go to school & get hell; yet they cannot escape it in the vast array that we call 'The Internet', for some people it is a hell hole. For most, when school bullies would come up and hit you and that would be that, you would fight and it's over, are far gone, long gone. These people prefer to destroy their 'victims' life, slowly, emotionally and mentally. Some even try 'cyberly' now as I have said. It's a shame.
This should not be happening, yet it is. What is our world coming to.
- By Ally Mac
Like I said, many of us have experienced it or is experiencing it, we all know what happens in the school grounds at lunch & at interval, squabbles and arguments, rumours and tales; but how much of it is true & why does it still happen?
Well, firstly we need to understand the schools 'chain of command' as such; popular kids being at the top, and geeks, or 'intellectuals' at the bottom. It's cruel how we live in a world where the popular feast upon the smart, the smart are our future, not these bullies. Although, I am not saying for one moment all popular children at bullies, not at all. But when was the last time the intellectuals doing the bullying, lets be serious here.
I could easily sit here and blame it on many things, jealously, they know that they are the future, and they will be spending their life cleaning out gutters (a job is a job, right?) while they are making money doing what they love to do. I could also say that their ego is forcing them to do, that if they do not bully, they will become the bully when their 'friend' turn upon him/her for being 'weak'. Or, in realism manning up for the truth and the moral.
We could also say insecurity that they feel insecure in their lives that they must make others feel bad in order for them to feel good about themselves, sad really. We equally could blame it on the parents for raising a beast; not a child.
But, at the end of the day, we do not know what happens in the school grounds, and that may be a good thing; but we do know this is happening and it is really sad. If they acted like this in the 'big bad world; they would be literally eaten alive, yet they still do in school. Can we really stop this or has this became part of our society, that we expect the smarter ones to have their life ruined because they listen in class, or teased because of their test results, no, not really. They do not. And for a lot of intellectuals, this will be the worst years of their life.
With the age of modern technology people are now taking to cyber-bullying; perfectly fine for your good old cyber geek. But for other intellectuals, not so. These people go to school & get hell; yet they cannot escape it in the vast array that we call 'The Internet', for some people it is a hell hole. For most, when school bullies would come up and hit you and that would be that, you would fight and it's over, are far gone, long gone. These people prefer to destroy their 'victims' life, slowly, emotionally and mentally. Some even try 'cyberly' now as I have said. It's a shame.
This should not be happening, yet it is. What is our world coming to.
- By Ally Mac
Saturday, October 23, 2010
What is marriage ?
The union between two people, to form a couple whether it be for legal reasons or love. I say legal reasons because throughout the world there are arranged marriages or different types of marriages where there is not a special bond or love between the two people. I refuse to declare marriage as a "holy union" between two people. Atheists can get married, as well as anyone. Indeed it may derive from that, but it doesn't necessarily make it such. At a social level, to an extent it represent commitment and devotion to one person, rather than going out and possibly sleeping with a different woman every now and then. It also commonly I believe represents the sudden possibility of children. Of course marriage is not some kind of pre-requisite to having children, but commonly people get married after discovering they're having a baby, or marry and have kids. I suppose in a way it could represent part of life, and filling a void of loneliness (although some people are fine alone, don't get me wrong). I honestly think many people don't take marriage seriously enough today. All around me where I live, you can just talk to adults and every 1 in 5 or so will have divorced at least once, it's ridiculous. Then there's the cynical, and slightly comical point of view of marriage. The people who joke and say marriage is the beginning of the end of your life. Dragging your sorry ass home every day, sitting down, eating dinner, and asking "How was your day today?", them replying it was ok and asking how yours was, and you rambling on about how your boss is a bitch and you really wanna' just retire. You go to bed, maybe get a little action, but ultimately end up talking about random shit no one cares about in the first place. Of course this is just one point of view, there are many pros to being married, but I'm speaking in terms of the cynical/comical side. Once you marry you say goodbye to many things perhaps you take for granted. The odd day your spouse will say "We're going to the [name here]'s place for dinner", you reply "Oh **** but I hate them!", but end up going anyways. This in a way is how I feel on the situation about marriage. Too many marriages are so boring without any romance, that you become a pathetic excuse for a living being, but alas, I digress.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
What is forgiveness?
Forgiveness is being able to stop holding someone in contempt or stop being angry at someone who possibly did something that angered you. Of course forgiving can also include not holding someone in contempt or being angry at them in the first place. I think it takes true heart and character to truly forgive someone. More often than not, when someone does something that we react negatively to, our first instinct is anger and revenge, not forgiveness. I think sometimes people can anger us so badly, that we literally react before we have time to think about what the repercussions of our unplanned actions will bring us. I truly admire, people who are able to nearly instantly forgive someone, it's definitely a positive quality. That is what I think forgiveness is.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
How can I prove you that I exist?
In short, I can't. After all, one of the great problems with modern Science is that we are limited to what we can see. We can't discover what we can't see and it has been scientifically proven that exactly the same parts of the brain light up when imagining something as when seeing that same thing in front of your eyes. For all we know this entire life we know could be a total dream invented by some sort of higher life form. We could be a more realistic version of The Sims for someone....
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