Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, although late. What with the holidays and all I haven't had time to blog.
In answer to the comments posted on my last rant, I have to admit that I'm curious to watch Twilight too, just to see what all the hubbub is about. -sigh- But I can't admit this to the world because...I would lose any self-respect for myself. XD I kid I kid. But the sparkly vampire thing intrigues me.
A friend of mine at school was giving me a short synopsis of the 2nd and third books. Apparantly Bella goes to a surprise birthday party given by her boyfriend and his sparkly family (I can't let it go D8) and cuts herself opening a gift. Seriously. SHE CUTS HERSELF OPENING A GIFT. ("Hello, this is 911, what's your emergency?" "Uh hey, um, I just CUT MYSELF taking my new Bedazzler from its box") How do you manage to start bleeding from opening presents?? We should start worrying about the health of our children Christmas morning. THE NEW NATIONAL TERROR.
So yeah. And I agree with Marz's comment too, that people don't know where to draw the line.
But, as you can tell, I've been on a social/political rampage and I'm not going to get into this. Taking a break from my maddening flailing over the state of our nation, I'll go on to some happier topics.
The other day I was with my mom in the car and I was switching radio stations. Well, it stopped at 107.9 and "Womanizer" came blasting through. After listening to the chorus for about 30 seconds and laughing, I switched it to prevent my ears from bleeding. A few minutes later, my mom parked the car and we got out. My mom was absent-mindedly getting her stuff out and all of a sudden started absent-mindedly singing "Womanizer, woma-woma, you're a womanizer..." then she stopped, looked up at me, horror in her eyes and said "Oh my gosh, what am I singing?".
"Garbage. Catchy but still garbage."
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Truth from the Tube
Take that, mothers everywhere. Take that, I say. I have discovered that you can learn something from television after all. So I have to blog about this before my inspiration goes away. (lol)
Watching the latest episode of Bones, in which a wealthy little girl who goes to a prestigious private school, who shall be known as Billie Mae Ashley Sparkly Tiffany, was discovered by her "manny" (lol that word is hilarious) to be cheating at some school project (probably a research paper on demented homeschoolers) and so she pumped him full of lead. And no, I don't mean that as in Xmen 2, kill Ms. Oh-Look-I'm-Invincible with molten lead. I mean she filled the manny with buckshot from a rifle. So the parents are sitting down with Booth (I'm sorry but that man is beautiful >.>) and Brennan who're like "Hah, your kid is a murderer and mommy is going to jail, sucks for you". Daddy starts blaming everything on Mommy and Ms Sparkly Tiffany sits there looking pretty (Somewhat like the vampire in Twilight, and no, don't worry, I haven't seen the movie. I'm still somewhat sane). Mommy blames everything on her motherly instinct. She had to "protect her daughter". At this point, Brennen leans over and says "It's counter-productive to raise children in a world without consequences".
So let me get this straight. Children should be disciplined? We should be taught that whatever we do has a consequence, moral or legal? Funny, that's not what society seems to think.
Today's culture is plagued by moral relativity and a lack of objective truth. Everyone is ok to "do their own thing" as long as "it makes you feel good". You should be allowed to do whatever is comfortable. Throw out morality, ethics, and every thing that hinders your quest for happiness. There are no consequences for the choices you make. If you feel like doing drugs, that's ok. If you want to sleep around, go ahead, as long as your happy. If you want to fly into town in your fancy jet plane to ask the government for money for your company, while everyone on the bottom of the corporate ladder is losing their home, it's all good. If you want to have someone reach into you and snap your baby's neck with pliers while it's still alive and then suck out all its pieces, it's all fine and dandy as long as that baby in your womb doesn't stop you from doing whatever you want.
I find the lack of ethics in this country disturbing. And its not that I want everyone to be religious and pious. If you want to believe in some other religion, or don't want to believe in anything at all, go ahead. But c'mon people, don't you have any morality? What happened to ethics? What happened to "Treat everyone as you would yourself"? What happened to doing the right thing?
No, but now, moral relativity is the prevalent religion. There is no right or wrong, it's all about whatever you want to believe. Now listen, I'm not about forcing my views on anyone. I'm not saying that I want everyone to believe as I believe. That's not what I mean. What I mean is this:
There is truth. There are facts. Logical, reasonable, rational, facts. And to deny them is to be unrealistic and fanciful.
There is a truth that you cannot deny. There is no "subjective truth". There is only an objective truth.
I can throw a rock at your head, and even if you deny it, even if you believe that the rock did not hit your head, it did. It doesn't matter what you believe, the rock hit your head, and I threw it. Therefore subjective truth cannot exist.
There is a truth. There is a right and a wrong. Society, please, get your facts straight and stop pretending that you don't know one from the other.
I'm rambling now, I know, but this is a way for me to vent whatever I have lodged up in my head.
So this whole rant sprang from one sentence on a tv show. Thank you television, for giving me material to start rambling on about.
Watching the latest episode of Bones, in which a wealthy little girl who goes to a prestigious private school, who shall be known as Billie Mae Ashley Sparkly Tiffany, was discovered by her "manny" (lol that word is hilarious) to be cheating at some school project (probably a research paper on demented homeschoolers) and so she pumped him full of lead. And no, I don't mean that as in Xmen 2, kill Ms. Oh-Look-I'm-Invincible with molten lead. I mean she filled the manny with buckshot from a rifle. So the parents are sitting down with Booth (I'm sorry but that man is beautiful >.>) and Brennan who're like "Hah, your kid is a murderer and mommy is going to jail, sucks for you". Daddy starts blaming everything on Mommy and Ms Sparkly Tiffany sits there looking pretty (Somewhat like the vampire in Twilight, and no, don't worry, I haven't seen the movie. I'm still somewhat sane). Mommy blames everything on her motherly instinct. She had to "protect her daughter". At this point, Brennen leans over and says "It's counter-productive to raise children in a world without consequences".
So let me get this straight. Children should be disciplined? We should be taught that whatever we do has a consequence, moral or legal? Funny, that's not what society seems to think.
Today's culture is plagued by moral relativity and a lack of objective truth. Everyone is ok to "do their own thing" as long as "it makes you feel good". You should be allowed to do whatever is comfortable. Throw out morality, ethics, and every thing that hinders your quest for happiness. There are no consequences for the choices you make. If you feel like doing drugs, that's ok. If you want to sleep around, go ahead, as long as your happy. If you want to fly into town in your fancy jet plane to ask the government for money for your company, while everyone on the bottom of the corporate ladder is losing their home, it's all good. If you want to have someone reach into you and snap your baby's neck with pliers while it's still alive and then suck out all its pieces, it's all fine and dandy as long as that baby in your womb doesn't stop you from doing whatever you want.
I find the lack of ethics in this country disturbing. And its not that I want everyone to be religious and pious. If you want to believe in some other religion, or don't want to believe in anything at all, go ahead. But c'mon people, don't you have any morality? What happened to ethics? What happened to "Treat everyone as you would yourself"? What happened to doing the right thing?
No, but now, moral relativity is the prevalent religion. There is no right or wrong, it's all about whatever you want to believe. Now listen, I'm not about forcing my views on anyone. I'm not saying that I want everyone to believe as I believe. That's not what I mean. What I mean is this:
There is truth. There are facts. Logical, reasonable, rational, facts. And to deny them is to be unrealistic and fanciful.
There is a truth that you cannot deny. There is no "subjective truth". There is only an objective truth.
I can throw a rock at your head, and even if you deny it, even if you believe that the rock did not hit your head, it did. It doesn't matter what you believe, the rock hit your head, and I threw it. Therefore subjective truth cannot exist.
There is a truth. There is a right and a wrong. Society, please, get your facts straight and stop pretending that you don't know one from the other.
I'm rambling now, I know, but this is a way for me to vent whatever I have lodged up in my head.
So this whole rant sprang from one sentence on a tv show. Thank you television, for giving me material to start rambling on about.
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