100% PURE MAN
People attacking me.
2011-09-13 4:44 PM PDT
Public Enemy #1:
Hades Warpig
He has verbally attacked me for the last time. I am making this blog for definitive action!
http://www.xfire.com/forums/182619/topic/3077658/?p=2#post11640055
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Hades Warpig
He has verbally attacked me for the last time. I am making this blog for definitive action!
http://www.xfire.com/forums/182619/topic/3077658/?p=2#post11640055
http://www.xfire.com/profile/sjja3/screenshots/?view#118012294
My Summer
2011-05-29 6:09 PM PDT
For those of you who do not know and have not noticed my new sleep pattern: I am attending Coast Guard Basic Training this summer. After submitting a ton of paper work and getting interviewed, I was accepted to the Coast Guard's CSPI Program, which will pay my way through college my Junior and Senior years. I leave on June 6th and will be gone for eight weeks. Enjoy your summer everyone.
Let's hope I get through mine.
Let's hope I get through mine.
New Favorite Quote
2011-05-29 6:09 PM PDT
I have a new favorite quote from Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Smart Friend Auditions
2011-05-03 11:10 PM PDT
My most academically acclaimed friend (has an MBA and is younger than me) is moving to India with no internet for six months to a year. Post your academic credentials (GPA/latest English class grades) here so I know who to have peer review my future papers.
A Pivotal Moment in United States Histor...
2010-03-20 9:51 PM PDT
The American political system is too convoluted. It is so intricate, with its many moving parts and people, that by the time anyone has thoroughly and justly analyzed an aspect to the degree it deserves, another aspect changes which affects the entire system. Only in history can we rightly determine the wealth of any outcome.
6:16
2010-02-25 7:23 PM PST
In my first semester of college, the class was asked to write a two page narrative essay. We had three or four options to choose from and, naturally, "A narrow escape," really stood out for obvious reasons if you know my past. In keeping with my ballsy attitude, I decided to write about my shenanigans the previous year. I decided to share it now because this is around the two year anniversary of when it all started in late February 2008. I already have a more detailed description of my adventures, but consider this a TL;DR version of my Midnight Casanova entry.
My Most Narrow Escape
The cool morning dew still gleamed on the grass and the warm covers slowed my farewell from the dreamworld. Something stirred next to me, moving the covers. Suddenly, I was sharply awoken by four words that have never struck such terror in my heart: "The sun is up." My sleep laden eyes flashed open to a living nightmare. My tale is of a narrow escape that I made through a combination of sly cunning, careful planning, and dumb luck.
If I was not so dexterous, I may not have been able to escape unscathed. Chelsea, my girlfriend, and I quietly crawled out of bed and I got dressed at breakneck speed. While I held onto the noisy metal end of my belt and nimbly threaded it through the loops in my pants, I heard her parents and brother walking down the hallway. My heart was pounding with a searing pain that I would have thought forebode a heart attack if I was not so young and healthy. I ducked through her window and, creaky old frame permitting, silently eased myself onto the chair waiting below.
Anticipating my dilemma, I had calculated my escape in my mind weeks earlier. I picked up the chair, making sure to rub the dirt where the legs had left impressions in the soil. When I moved the chair hours earlier, I had taken acute note of its position in relation to other objects. After shaking off lose dirt from my shoes, I raised myself onto the porch, placing the chair in the exact...
My Most Narrow Escape
The cool morning dew still gleamed on the grass and the warm covers slowed my farewell from the dreamworld. Something stirred next to me, moving the covers. Suddenly, I was sharply awoken by four words that have never struck such terror in my heart: "The sun is up." My sleep laden eyes flashed open to a living nightmare. My tale is of a narrow escape that I made through a combination of sly cunning, careful planning, and dumb luck.
If I was not so dexterous, I may not have been able to escape unscathed. Chelsea, my girlfriend, and I quietly crawled out of bed and I got dressed at breakneck speed. While I held onto the noisy metal end of my belt and nimbly threaded it through the loops in my pants, I heard her parents and brother walking down the hallway. My heart was pounding with a searing pain that I would have thought forebode a heart attack if I was not so young and healthy. I ducked through her window and, creaky old frame permitting, silently eased myself onto the chair waiting below.
Anticipating my dilemma, I had calculated my escape in my mind weeks earlier. I picked up the chair, making sure to rub the dirt where the legs had left impressions in the soil. When I moved the chair hours earlier, I had taken acute note of its position in relation to other objects. After shaking off lose dirt from my shoes, I raised myself onto the porch, placing the chair in the exact...
True Power
2009-01-12 8:28 AM PST
Power
1 a (1): ability to act or produce an effect
2 a: possession of control, authority, or influence over others
True power is not expressed, it is implemented. One who understands this is often the most dangerous. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" by Theodore Roosevelt is one of my favorite quotes. In essence, he is saying, be polite but be prepared to enforce yourself. When Columbia refused to let him construct the Panama Canal, did Roosevelt verbosely protest? No, he funded a revolution.
Only people that feel powerless raise their voice in an argument. Conversely, anger, frustration and/or a variety of other emotions more specifically cause shouting, however these are spawned from feeling powerless. Yelling in a dispute is useless. People may as well be swinging their fists for the effect they are really achieving.
You are the sum of your words. I agree with the saying "Actions speak louder than words." Nonetheless if your words are meaningless or irrelevant, most people will not stick around long enough to see your actions. In person, I generally speak only when I feel like I am productively contributing to the conversation. Otherwise, I will listen and contemplate or altogether tune my dinner mates out if their present discussion is insipid.
In reality and fiction, think of characters that are truly superior protagonists. How often do they raise their voice? How often are the words they speak unnecessary? The answer is usually no. Spoken threats are wasted energy when one can actually be taking proactive steps towards their goal.
1 a (1): ability to act or produce an effect
2 a: possession of control, authority, or influence over others
True power is not expressed, it is implemented. One who understands this is often the most dangerous. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" by Theodore Roosevelt is one of my favorite quotes. In essence, he is saying, be polite but be prepared to enforce yourself. When Columbia refused to let him construct the Panama Canal, did Roosevelt verbosely protest? No, he funded a revolution.
Only people that feel powerless raise their voice in an argument. Conversely, anger, frustration and/or a variety of other emotions more specifically cause shouting, however these are spawned from feeling powerless. Yelling in a dispute is useless. People may as well be swinging their fists for the effect they are really achieving.
You are the sum of your words. I agree with the saying "Actions speak louder than words." Nonetheless if your words are meaningless or irrelevant, most people will not stick around long enough to see your actions. In person, I generally speak only when I feel like I am productively contributing to the conversation. Otherwise, I will listen and contemplate or altogether tune my dinner mates out if their present discussion is insipid.
In reality and fiction, think of characters that are truly superior protagonists. How often do they raise their voice? How often are the words they speak unnecessary? The answer is usually no. Spoken threats are wasted energy when one can actually be taking proactive steps towards their goal.
The Extinction of the Family Unit
2009-01-07 8:20 AM PST
The second World War brought many social changes to the United States. With nearly all able-bodied men on the front lines, women had to enter the work place to power the war machine. Women found themselves earning a paycheck and capable of independence. When the men came home, those women that had been mistreated before applied for divorce.
All women should have the option of independence. No woman should have to remain in an abusive or disrespectful relationship without an alternative. The problem nowadays seems that independence is encouraged merely for the sake of it and divorce is all too common. Prior to the late 1940's, divorce was almost unheard of. I believe this is detrimental to the traditional family unit of caretaker and provider.
A caretaker is needed to take care of the family, make sure the kids have a lunch packed, make sure they do well in school, and look after the home. A provider is needed to work to support the family and home. Families can, and do, manage these responsibilities split between two people. However, as Adam Smith theorized, work is done most efficiently when the tasks are divided amongst people with an area of expertise or specialization.
Going back to the dawn of time, groups of people had specific tasks of hunting for food and taking care of the children, much like many animals still do. Traditionally, men have a stronger build than women. Men are work horses, designed for labor and less sympathetic when it comes to children. Traditionally, women are often smart multi-taskers, sentimental, and caring -- the bond that holds families together. Together they are the ideal team.
It is disheartening that so many relationships end in failure. Fifty percent of marriages fail -- at least that is the often quoted figure. That is not even counting the unhappy married couples or the ones that stay together until the kids grow up and leave. "Irreconcilable differences" is the usual reason for divorcing. I think the problem today is that our...
All women should have the option of independence. No woman should have to remain in an abusive or disrespectful relationship without an alternative. The problem nowadays seems that independence is encouraged merely for the sake of it and divorce is all too common. Prior to the late 1940's, divorce was almost unheard of. I believe this is detrimental to the traditional family unit of caretaker and provider.
A caretaker is needed to take care of the family, make sure the kids have a lunch packed, make sure they do well in school, and look after the home. A provider is needed to work to support the family and home. Families can, and do, manage these responsibilities split between two people. However, as Adam Smith theorized, work is done most efficiently when the tasks are divided amongst people with an area of expertise or specialization.
Going back to the dawn of time, groups of people had specific tasks of hunting for food and taking care of the children, much like many animals still do. Traditionally, men have a stronger build than women. Men are work horses, designed for labor and less sympathetic when it comes to children. Traditionally, women are often smart multi-taskers, sentimental, and caring -- the bond that holds families together. Together they are the ideal team.
It is disheartening that so many relationships end in failure. Fifty percent of marriages fail -- at least that is the often quoted figure. That is not even counting the unhappy married couples or the ones that stay together until the kids grow up and leave. "Irreconcilable differences" is the usual reason for divorcing. I think the problem today is that our...
My Philosophical Views 2.0
2009-01-04 10:05 AM PST
Religious and otherwise spiritual debate has existed since the first god was conceptualized. You may disagree on a few of my points but I hope that does not dissuade some of my more "religiously cautious" readers. I will not be offended if you skim over certain parts.
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I believe everyone has a right to their own version of spiritualism as long as they do not expect others to share the same view. When religious believe is forced on others and used as a means of separating people, then it has overall lost its enlightenment benefits. One need not be reminded that no matter how we may wish it, we can not make a blind man see. It is my personal opinion that agnosticism is the wisest choice of spirituality because no one can definitively prove how existence started.
I see strong devotion to any idea or cause as a blight upon the progress of intellectual thought. Throughout history, religion is often used as an instrument for classifying people into superior and inferior groups based solely on their beliefs. Persecution commonly escalates to something more: violence, utter disregard or even worse, thereby exacerbating the original injustice that was the criminalization of self.
The two most popular theories for how we came to exist are the theory of "Intelligent Design" and the "Big Bang." In the former, an all powerful being created the universe at will. In the latter, a tiny little ball containing all the matter of the universe exploded. In both theories, one must challenge the details. How long did either of them exist before "existence?" Who created an all powerful being? Where did the tiny ball containing all matter come from? What triggered either one to suddenly create the universe? No one can answer those questions conclusively because no one was present to witness the beginning of existence. This is why the debate has continued for so long.
Science no one fully understands cannot disprove mythology based on what may honestly be little...
My Character
2008-12-29 11:30 AM PST
This is generic information that you may or may not find interesting.
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General Information
I am very organized but am capable of tolerating disorganization. I was raised by a man who was not responsible for my conception, and I admire that patron quality. While walking down the street with the night air in my nostrils and a chilly wind across my face, I feel most in tune with the world. I do not like it when people talk just to make noise. I find materialism unattractive. For now, my love is writing and my passion is pursuing self-sufficiency. At seventeen years old, I spent late nights physically living the tale of Romeo and Juliet. At twenty years old, I spend late nights studying college homework and preparing for my life ahead and wherever it shall take me.
Convictions
I am a humanist and a rationalist with nihilistic views. I believe that if people kept to their own affairs, the world would be a much better place. It is my solemn believe that uniform scholastic education is a distraction from the discovery of personal wisdom. As Mark Twain said, "I never let school interfere with my education." My personal ideal of intelligence is the type of priceless knowledge that cannot be gained in a classroom but from personal experience as well as independent contemplation. It is my opinion that one can learn more in the moral of the story than the tiresome details.
Education
I was home-schooled after first grade due to failure on the part of the school system to adjust to my prowess. I would finish my work long before my classmates. I made up games to occupy my time until the class moved on, and the teacher turned my desk around to stop me. My mother witnessed this and asked me to be moved up a grade. She was refused and took me out of school for the next ten years. I enrolled in a college Adult High School Diploma program for twelfth grade because I intend to join the military. Now I am in college.
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General Information
I am very organized but am capable of tolerating disorganization. I was raised by a man who was not responsible for my conception, and I admire that patron quality. While walking down the street with the night air in my nostrils and a chilly wind across my face, I feel most in tune with the world. I do not like it when people talk just to make noise. I find materialism unattractive. For now, my love is writing and my passion is pursuing self-sufficiency. At seventeen years old, I spent late nights physically living the tale of Romeo and Juliet. At twenty years old, I spend late nights studying college homework and preparing for my life ahead and wherever it shall take me.
Convictions
I am a humanist and a rationalist with nihilistic views. I believe that if people kept to their own affairs, the world would be a much better place. It is my solemn believe that uniform scholastic education is a distraction from the discovery of personal wisdom. As Mark Twain said, "I never let school interfere with my education." My personal ideal of intelligence is the type of priceless knowledge that cannot be gained in a classroom but from personal experience as well as independent contemplation. It is my opinion that one can learn more in the moral of the story than the tiresome details.
Education
I was home-schooled after first grade due to failure on the part of the school system to adjust to my prowess. I would finish my work long before my classmates. I made up games to occupy my time until the class moved on, and the teacher turned my desk around to stop me. My mother witnessed this and asked me to be moved up a grade. She was refused and took me out of school for the next ten years. I enrolled in a college Adult High School Diploma program for twelfth grade because I intend to join the military. Now I am in college.
