Final

Ah….the last blog of the year…..

A time for memories, a time for reflection

NOT

I could go into the entire religion vs. non-believers thing, but I would easily insult people talking about the bigotry and ignorance of those in either sect.

by the “Belief-o-matic” 1st try, I am technically a Neo-Pagan, info can be found at http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/NP.html

But on the second try, I am 100% Unitarian Universalism. http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/UU.html

Looking at both, UU seems to be more accepting, while NP seems to be a stricter version of UU.

I really believe I am more UU, but that’s just my opinion, the person it’s about’s opinion.

Blog…..whatever

Ok I really hate having to write blogs right now……..

I wish that we would finally get an assignment, otherwise I only write when I feel like it, which does not happen to be every week on a Wednesday.

The issue with this is that there are alot of writing assignments throughout school that require you to do something that is normally free, and what you do as a choice of your own.  This puts undue pressure on the students that are not writing-inclined.

that is the end of this “blog”

Poetry

Poem came to me when I was at home with a migrane, and somehow, it rid me of the migrane:

Struggles

As the sky grows darker I look
At the fading light
The night closes in
And I think
What my life has become
How far would I go
To get what I want
What I need

My strength to go forth fades
And as I lie I think again
Of what our world has become
The darkness
The greed
The pain that we ignore

Darkness comes to me, too soon
But the thoughts stay in my head
My dreams relive the pain
Of how we have become
How close became so far
We lost what we once had
The pain becomes a bruise
An everlasting sting
Time goes by around us
Somehow I endure

Sometime in my dream
The answers come to me
Of how I can fix what life became
What our world became
The changing of our lives
And bring it back to what it once was
I capture these thoughts
hold on until the light comes
and say I’ll never let go

The darkness fades
The light has come
I feel a fleeting thought
And pass it as just that
no more

Suddenly I feel the pain
The pain that I once had a cure
I try to stop the onslaught
But not knowing where it comes
A memory of what I had
The thoughts
The dreams
The plan
It passed on long ago
I failed to hold on

It’s not often that I actually write poetry, and this was a surprising thing to come out, seeing as I was not feeling any of these feelings at the time.

Russian

Привет мое имя Шон.

Это иностранный язык, тот который Вы не должны знать.

Я не могу придумать ничто больше для идеи как история

Ok that was completely random…

and inconsequential

so you dont need to translate, though if you do, congratulations you wasted your time

I really have no idea what to do for a blog, I prefer when we have a set idea to write our opinon about, that means that I have a focus, which makes life sooooo much easier.

I speek goodly Eenglisch =)

Rant & Rave

Religion………

With over 30 religions, with over 500,000 followers each, how does one choose what deity, or deities, to worship? The answer is simple, don’t. You can easily be spiritual and believe in multiple religions at the same time.  Putting too much in store with one religion can limit your beliefs, though I would hope that that would be obvious.  Taking bits and pieces from different religions can expand your horizons and make life easier altogether.  The lack of believe, or atheism, will normally end up making you feel worse.  Religion is a way that man came up with to deceive himself and help him cope with the real world.  Without anything to take you away from the real world, your life will become sadder, and without anything to look forward to after you die.

Religion as a single belief can make life difficult, but religion that is a melting pot of others can help you with understanding life.

Commentary Example

http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2005/10/21/Commentary/Video.Games.Do.Not.Cause.Violence-1029668.shtml

This would be a very good commentary to use as an inspiration for my own. It has the same view as my commentary, and uses much of the same data that I have. The style of the commentary, along with the fact that it is the same topic as mine, would give me a template that would help the flow of my commentary.

The commentary sets up a scene that introduces a person who is very prevalent in the topic. He brings out examples for what Jack Thompson is attacking, and tells how they do not work the way that he would like them to. He uses studies to back up his opinion and degrade the opposing opinion. in the end, he talks about a way to fix everything, even if that way is already there and the people against his view just decide to ignore this way.

Video Game Violence?

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1723

Alot of people believe that violent video games create violent children.  The issue is that if the child is willing to recreate the violence in the video game that he or she played, then it was not the video game’s fault.  The children that are willing to do this are easily malleable, and as such, anything would be able to make them violent.  A descriptively violent song, poem, TV show, commercial, etc, would be just as effective as a video game.

Most people that say that video games cause violence have not yet accepted the fact that video games are in the world.  It is the “fear of the unknown” that makes them believe this.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20031215

This is a comic, yes that is true, but it also is a fairly true representation of the way people at least used to react.  Nowadays, people are more accepting of video games, though there is still paranoia about violent games, especially those rated M, or even just T.

Arguements

The last major arguement, and for that matter, the last few major arguements that I have had have been with my mom. I normally don’t have any arguements with any of my friends, they seem to be more of “heated discussions” or maybe “debates”.

Every arguement that I have with my mom has to do with either the video games that I play instead of paying attention to things and/or doing homework, or my so-called “attitude”. I don’t have an attitude………..

But what normally happens is I do something wrong, then she gets mad at me. Then I get really mad, because I didn’t notice what I did wrong. This just escalates it, and I get threated with things being taken away from me. I then shut up and don’t talk for a loooooong time.

If any of you haven’t already figured this one out yet, the outcome of such arguements is me losing…horribly. See, I don’t have the ability to take things away from a parent, seeing as they bought everything, and as such, they own it all. My mom on the other hand, can, and will, take things away.

The one thing that I would do to change any of this would have to be, not saying anything, or being careful in how i respond. This would solve all of my issues, though it would make it harder to let out the pent up anger that I have accumulated throughout the past few years.

Update on Feature Story

At this point, the interview is taking a little longer to finish than I had first thought, but I have a skeleton of a feature story.  The Lead and Nut Graph are both figured out, and the quotes and transitions should be to me by Wednesday evening.

Other than that, I found out that e-mail is not necessarily the best way to interview someone, even if it is the only way that is a possible route.

Featuring….

By this date, 9/30/2008, I have very little done for the feature story.

I know the subject of my story, my cousin.  He works in Nvidia, in graphics.

The angle could either be decided once he gives me a starting point, or the angle would be that of the repercussions on a child’s life when one or more parent(s) are a way for work more than 12 hours a day, most of that being away from the child.