This weekend was my birthday and I really enjoyed it! all the money I got this weekend (and a large contribution from my wife) allowed me to buy a brand new T.V. for the first time in my life, no joke, I've always had hand me down T.V.'s. I still don't have it hooked up to cable or even local channels, but its great in our room for movies. I really want to buy a blue-ray player to go with it because it's an HDTV and I can already tell a difference in the quality of the picture.
I don't like watching T.V. a lot, but I am a movie buff. I don't watch shows until after they have gone off the air.I hate waiting for new seasons and show that take 7,8,910 seasons to get to the end. I think MOST shows should only run to 5 seasons at the most. The reason I say most is that shows like mythbusters, or Penn and tellers Bullshit don't have a story line or plot to follow, so you can jump in any time and not be in the dark. Also you can watch one episode and not have a cliff hanger at the end forcing you to watch another week if the show starts to suck, like lost, CSI or a thousand other shows. The other problem I have with T.V. is the time consumption. I have a couple of friends that I will invite them to go do something and they will decline saying "the show ____ is on tonight." I understand relaxing and zoning out for a little while, but when it is your daily routine to watch 3 hours of T.V. a day you have a problem. So to make a long story short I only hook up DVD players to my T.V. to avoid getting sucked into watching shows that add nothing to my life. I do how ever miss shows from discovery channel, animal channel and some other non-drama shows.
Thanks for the T.V. everyone who gave me money for my birthday, I really enjoyed watching irobot on it this morning as I cleaned my bedroom.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Okay, I'm done.
I've tried to be a logical rational person when explaining my religious views. Now I'm just going to point out the problems in other peoples views. it's a lot easier to poke holes or attack other peoples beliefs than come to your own. so I'm taking a page from religious peoples book and returning the favor with this. The bible debunked.
I don't say this enough!
I have the most amazing wife in the world! She is the thing that keeps me going, she makes me so so happy.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Gay marriage
With gay marriage so heavily in the news lately I felt like sharing my opinion. Let me be open and honest about my feelings regarding gay marriage. The government (or it's people) have no right to tell people what they can and can't do in their own bedroom, and who they can and cant have sex with. That is what gay marriage is all about, telling people what they can and cant do. I will show you legally why I think gay marriage is okay, then morally why it should be okay.
Legally: Gay marriage is a moral or "religious" issue. Religion MUST be separated from government. As long as the GOVERNMENT issues marriage licences they can not discriminate based on sexual preference. Now if licences were not required by the GOVERNMENT, and CHURCHES were responsible for deciding who they would and wouldn't marry then this would be a non-issue. but as long as the GOVERNMENT issues licences to be married, RELIGION can not dictate who can get married OUT SIDE of their church. That's like catholics telling Mormons they cant baptize people because they aren't a real church, gay couples are just that, COUPLES, like you and your wife, or me and mine.
Morally: This is a touchy subject to religious folk, mostly because homosexuality is a sin, but if it's such a HUGE sin why did Jesus never once talk about it in the bible? The truth is that the bible does say that it's a sin to lay with another man. How ever the bible also says that it's okay to rape a virgin as long as you pay her father and then marry her after you rape her (because I'd want to marry the man who raped me). The bible also says that you can beat your children to death if they are disobedient, and many many other morally objectionable things, so I don't use the bible as a moral compass. People are scared of the unknown, and how one man could let another man have sex with him is beyond me. I have never looked at another man and thought "I could tap that..." Which tells me homosexuality is not a choice. Why would someone choose a life of segregation, precaution and struggles for the fun of fooling around with someone of the same sex? couldn't they just fool around with someone who is the opposite gender then them? NO! for the same reason I couldn't have sex with a man they cant, They are not attracted to people of the opposite sex.
"Think of the children!":
As for the people who say "If they get to marry they can adopt kids." or "children need a mom and dad." Well plain and simple screw you! more that 50% of marriages end in divorce, where the children no longer have a "mom and dad" in the same home. Marriage is the unspoken joke in Christianity, religious people have screwed up marriage so badly that it is worthless anyway, let the homo's have it, your sure not taking it seriously. Besides homosexuality and pedophilia are two completely different things. One is two consenting adults having sex, the other is a adult praying on the innocence and gullibility of young children.
Another argument is that if children are raised in a home with homo parents that they will turn out gay. That could not be further than the truth. Studies show that children raised by same sex couples are no more likely to be gay than any other children.
In short there is no logical reason that gay people shouldn't be allowed the same things straight people should. It's out of fear, religious hatred and irrational feelings that we continue to persecute people who are different.
Legally: Gay marriage is a moral or "religious" issue. Religion MUST be separated from government. As long as the GOVERNMENT issues marriage licences they can not discriminate based on sexual preference. Now if licences were not required by the GOVERNMENT, and CHURCHES were responsible for deciding who they would and wouldn't marry then this would be a non-issue. but as long as the GOVERNMENT issues licences to be married, RELIGION can not dictate who can get married OUT SIDE of their church. That's like catholics telling Mormons they cant baptize people because they aren't a real church, gay couples are just that, COUPLES, like you and your wife, or me and mine.
Morally: This is a touchy subject to religious folk, mostly because homosexuality is a sin, but if it's such a HUGE sin why did Jesus never once talk about it in the bible? The truth is that the bible does say that it's a sin to lay with another man. How ever the bible also says that it's okay to rape a virgin as long as you pay her father and then marry her after you rape her (because I'd want to marry the man who raped me). The bible also says that you can beat your children to death if they are disobedient, and many many other morally objectionable things, so I don't use the bible as a moral compass. People are scared of the unknown, and how one man could let another man have sex with him is beyond me. I have never looked at another man and thought "I could tap that..." Which tells me homosexuality is not a choice. Why would someone choose a life of segregation, precaution and struggles for the fun of fooling around with someone of the same sex? couldn't they just fool around with someone who is the opposite gender then them? NO! for the same reason I couldn't have sex with a man they cant, They are not attracted to people of the opposite sex.
"Think of the children!":
As for the people who say "If they get to marry they can adopt kids." or "children need a mom and dad." Well plain and simple screw you! more that 50% of marriages end in divorce, where the children no longer have a "mom and dad" in the same home. Marriage is the unspoken joke in Christianity, religious people have screwed up marriage so badly that it is worthless anyway, let the homo's have it, your sure not taking it seriously. Besides homosexuality and pedophilia are two completely different things. One is two consenting adults having sex, the other is a adult praying on the innocence and gullibility of young children.
Another argument is that if children are raised in a home with homo parents that they will turn out gay. That could not be further than the truth. Studies show that children raised by same sex couples are no more likely to be gay than any other children.
In short there is no logical reason that gay people shouldn't be allowed the same things straight people should. It's out of fear, religious hatred and irrational feelings that we continue to persecute people who are different.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Religious Posts
I know that I put up a lot of post about religion, particularly the L.D.S. church, but it's for good reason. I am surrounded by it on a daily basis and it effects every part of my life. My family is all L.D.S., my coworkers are all L.D.S., most of my neighbors are L.D.S. and the majority of the people in my state are L.D.S. and finally the rest of them are mostly Christians. So needless to say religion comes up quite often no matter how hard I try to avoid discussing it with people. Its ironic that if someone challenges my beliefs they are trying to save me, but if I challenge theirs I'm tearing them down or I'm anti-whatever. its the biggest double standard I have ever seen.
This last Friday I was at my grandpa's house helping trim some trees and enjoying being with my brothers and father. At lunch time my grandpa asked me to say the prayer. normally I would have said no thank you and asked if someone else would like to, but I felt he did it to start a group "lets save Scott's soul" conversation. So I just sucked it up and said the prayer. I felt like such crap for cowering to another persons religious beliefs I had to write apology letters to both my brothers explain why I had made my self a hypocrite. Why don't people accept that you can be a great person with out religion? When asked what he believed, Abraham Lincoln said, "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion."
Lets just live and let live people!
This last Friday I was at my grandpa's house helping trim some trees and enjoying being with my brothers and father. At lunch time my grandpa asked me to say the prayer. normally I would have said no thank you and asked if someone else would like to, but I felt he did it to start a group "lets save Scott's soul" conversation. So I just sucked it up and said the prayer. I felt like such crap for cowering to another persons religious beliefs I had to write apology letters to both my brothers explain why I had made my self a hypocrite. Why don't people accept that you can be a great person with out religion? When asked what he believed, Abraham Lincoln said, "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion."
Lets just live and let live people!
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