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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

A lot of people talk about how 40 is the new 30 or 30 is the new 20. This bullshit's gotta stop. There are no universal guidelines of how you're suppose to act in regards to your age. And there shouldn't be. Your age shouldn't be a factor in you deciding how you go about your day. We live in exciting times, with opportunities available to us that were previously unavailable.

Why limit yourself?


If you happen to be 40 years old, but you want to participate in an activity that 20 year olds participate in, then you should do it because it's what you want to do. Unless that activity involves scoping out high school chicks, but that's a whole other issue. But again, why limit yourself? Why let others dictate how you live your life, just because they don't think a person of your age should be allowed to engage in a certain activity? It's your life. Go do it if it's really what you want. Break free from the prison of social acceptance. Cause the bottom line, you don't want to be in your death bed, looking back, and thinking to yourself - I never did anything cause I was always too old. YEAH!!!!

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

Being the average guy, I enjoy seeing a nice pair of female breasts. I specifically say female, because with the current percentage of childhood obesity listed at 50% in this country, there will be a significant amount of American men with C cups. Unfortunately, our appreciation for the female breasts brings a burden upon our civilization.

Here are the facts. In 2005, approximately 5,320 board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States performed about 291,000 breast augmentation procedures. At an average cost of $3,373 per procedure, we're talking about - $981,543,000 close to $1 billion dollars. What exactly does $1 billion dollar buy? You can buy a happy meal for every American Citizen, every person currently visiting here from abroad, including those who are here illegally and still have a few million left over. $1 billion dollars would far surpass the annual budget for education of any medium-sized city(population 100,000-200,000) - K-12, as well as colleges and technical schools. $1 billion dollars would buy about 50 million lap dances, which would more than cover the costs of thousands upon thousands of stripper's drug addictions as well as their college tuitions. Bottom line, if you took a billion dollars and put it into the economy, it would create several thousand jobs which would then generate even more tax dollars.

The more disturbing issue deals with the fact that 5,320 plastic surgeons busted their ass through college and medical school, in order to perform these unnecessary procedures. I say they are unnecessary because no woman has ever died from having small breasts. Unless, of course, you're a woman who engages in activities where you often get shot at in the pectoral region. If that's the case, you might want to get breasts implants made out of kevlar, which would essentially make you're breasts bulletproof. Again, 5,320 people devoted their entire educational pursuit for this. Any one of these 5,320 can potentially use their knowledge and ability to find a cure to cancer, diabetes, AIDS, etc. People who are in hospitals right now, may not have been there in the first place had the 5,320 doctors been used to work toward other important health issues. And think about how much money we, as a civilization, would save because we aren't spending it treating people with these horrible diseases. Again, we're talking about several billion right there. Billions that could be used...... You get the picture.

Unfortunately, there is more. Every year, thousands of women become ill from their implants when they rupture or get infected. Additionally, a 2003 FDA study reported that women with ruptured silicone breast implants report more severe pain and chronic fatigue. Notably, more women with ruptured implants than those with intact implants had debilitating chronic fatigue, postexertional malaise, impaired short term memory, and multi-joint pain. Again, this stuff cost us money. And for what? So a woman will feel more desirable to guys who probably already wanna fuck her?

And with all of this, I'm ashamed to say that I still enjoy seeing a nice pair of breasts. I'm trying to be the shepherd, unfortunately, I'm still a wolf. But, I'm making progress everyday. Now, I only play with real breasts which means that I've been playing with a lot of A's and B's. I won't play with C's unless I get a doctor's note. But seriously, for the ladies out there, if you want implants, consider who you might be hurting. For all you know, it might be you or someone that you love.

When it all comes down to it, it's much more beautiful when you can----->

Keep it Real!!!!!



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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 

Category: Romance and Relationships

When you're in love with someone, did you just fall in love with them, or did you manipulate yourself into it?



I ponder this question because it seems that most people are attracted to the idea
of being in love more than the specific person that they are in love with.
Love is a very intense emotion and a wonderful thing to feel
but it is yet like any other emotion like anger.
People deny the idea that they may have manipulated
themselves into falling in love with their significant other.
The possibility makes them feel uncomfortable.
You can manipulate yourself into feeling anger,
why do people believe that love is different?

If you could just fall in love with a person, why do people spend the first few months
of a new relationship putting forth their best effort to make the best impression?
They dress up in their best clothes.
Their apartment is cleaner and more organized than usual.
They spend more money when they go out.
They overlook the negative qualities of the other person.
If you could just fall in love with a person,
why even bother putting forth any effort?
Why deviate from who you are and your routine?

Again I pose that people are attracted to the feeling of being in love
more than they are the person that they are in love with.
I equate it to a crack addiction.
A crack addict doesn't necessarily like crack, they like the feeling that crack gives them.
A person in love doesn't necessarily love the person,
they love the feeling that loving the person gives them.
In the beginning stages of a relationship people are excited because they anticipate
the possibility that this may be the person that they will give and receive love with.
They get excited in the same way that the smell of
a freshly-baked apple pie makes some people salivate.
Since many people want to find love or to be in love, they will put themselves
into a state of mind where they believe that they are there.
Again, they overlook negative qualities of the other person
because they don't want anything to get in the way of the benefits
that loving someone, anyone gives them.
In drunk terms, they don't want anything to kill their buzz.
Let's take this down to the basic level.
Most people believe love works like this:

Boy meets girl.
Boy and girl get together.
Boy and girl live happily ever after.

Rarely is this ever the case.
Usually it goes a little bit more like this:

Boy meets girl.
Boy tries to impress girl.
Girl ignores him.
Boy tries harder.
Girl finally caves in
And boy and girl go out together.
Boy and girl, both have a nice time.
Boy and girl continue to go out until
Boy screws up and creeps out girl.
Girl has restraining order put on boy.
Boy moves on and meets other girl.
Boy and other girl hit it off right away.
Girl sees boy with other girl.
Girl gets jealous and calls boy.
Boy and girl get back together.
Boy and girl live happily ever after.
Other girl calls the first girl
a bitch and a two-timing slut.
First girl says you're a horrible sister.

In the real world, the second scenario is more the norm than the first.
Why is that?
If love is suppose to be one of the most wonderful things to feel,
why do we limit ourselves from feeling it?
Why do we treat it as such a scarce commodity?
Take some time and ask yourself -

How do you know when you're in love with someone?


What does it feel like, look like, smell like, taste like, sound like?
Ask a few of your closest friends the same question.
Chances are, when you asked yourself that question, your eyes automatically
looked up, maybe a little to the left or right.
Observe what happens when you ask your friend the same question.
You and your friends probably never thought about it before.
If you've been in love before, how did you know that what you were experiencing was love?
When did you come to the conclusion that what you were feeling was love?
How do you know that love is suppose to feel the way that you were feeling?

All I'm saying is that even if manipulation was involved in the union
of two people in love that it's not a negative thing at all.
Think about what kind of world this would be if we weren't manipulated
into thinking that it's a good thing to put on deodorant.
Love doesn't have to be hard.
It doesn't have to be the scarce commodity that we treat it to be.
Let yourself fall in love.
And if you're already in love, let yourself stay there.



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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 

Current mood:  peaceful
Category: Religion and Philosophy
If you're like me, sometimes you sit up late at night trying to find an answer to the question -

Who am I?

It breaks down to this:

You are a combination of
who you think you are,
who others think you are,
who you think others think you are,
who others think you think you are,
who you think others think you think you are,
who others think you think others think you are.



If you can come up with a conclusion, then and only then do you know who you truly are.
But there's a lot to consider.
Growing up, people used to say things like - be yourself.
If you want people to like you, just be yourself.
If you want that girl to like you, just be yourself.
What does that mean to be yourself?
Because here's the thing.
When I hear someone say to be yourself, what they're really saying is to be the version of you, that they're familiar with.
In their eyes, if I am acting in a way that is counter to what they're accustomed to, I am not being myself.
And to me, that seems pretty arrogant of them.
How do they know who I truly am?
At what point did they become experts on me?
They're not with me 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
They don't know about every single experience that I've ever had.
None of these people know all my thoughts, my dreams, what makes me happy.
And even if they did know all these things, they still wouldn't know me.
Because in order for them to know me, they would have to use their perspective in order to understand me.
Since they're using their perspective, they're knowledge of me is biased.
And since, it's biased, they can't possibly know me completely, 100%


So you might now think that only you can know who you are.
But do you really?
Because who you are is based, a lot of times, on what you've learn about yourself.
How you learn about yourself comes from the input given to you from outside sources - your mom, your dad, brother, sister, friends, enemies, teachers, neighbors, classmates, evaluation reports, co-workers, bosses, customers, teammates, your children, etc.
This input helps you form a perception about who you are.
You live them and you fulfill them.
For instance, if you spent most of your childhood overweight, people might have treated you in a way where since you were overweight, you were also lazy, lacked self-control, you were a loser, etc.
And over time, you start to accept these beliefs.
You begin to fulfill your own and people's expectations about who you are based on these beliefs.
On the surface, a lot of this seems unfair.
Because you could be fat, not because you're lazy, or you lack self-control, or you're just a loser.
Maybe your biochemistry dictates that you will have excess weight during your childhood, no matter what your diet is or how much you exercise.
Over the years you grow up being the fat kid, the athlete, the smart kid, the pretty girl, the kid whose parents have a funny accent.
Eventually, you become the even fatter adult, the former athlete who's now a drug addict, a CEO of a fortune 500 company, the wife of a rich lawyer, etc.
But are these things really who you are?
Would you end up being who you are if you had absolutely no influence from others?


The first clues about who you are come from your parents.
They possess a great responsibility in helping you learn who you are.
You hear your parents making sounds.
These sounds become familiar and then your recognize them as words.
You have absolutely no idea what these words mean, but you hear them over and over again.
Over time your learn what these words mean.
What you don't get to do is choose what these words mean.
The meanings are chosen for you.
And since you are using words, whose meanings that you didn't choose, to understand some of the first clues about who you are, your understanding is someone else's interpretation.
Then you start school.
Your teachers now have a say in your development of who you are.
But you don't get choose how a teacher will develop you.
The teacher will make judgments about you based on their own ideas about who they think you are.
They'll evaluate your intelligence, your personality, your potential.
These judgments aren't based on facts, but their own opinions.
They also pass along these ideas about you to your future teachers and they in turn will form their own opinions about you but these opinions have been influenced by the opinions of others.
While the teachers are doing that there are other people around your age that are going through the same experiences as you.
Some of these people become your first friends.
They do the same thing to you as your parents and your teachers, except, they are as clueless as you.
So at this point, at the very minimum, you've got parents who have influenced you with their ideas, teachers who are influencing you with their ideas, and clueless kids influencing you as well while at the same time you're influencing them.


Looking back all of this seems unfair.
Did your parents, teachers, friends understand the impact that they had on you?
If they did, would they have treated you differently?
Would they have been more positive or negative?
Would they have been more supportive or more critical?
How much of a say do we really have in becoming who you are?
So the question becomes, do we determine who we are or are we given an identity?
Is it possible to have 100% say in determining who you are, when you are very young in age?
And if you could, would you be able to trust it?

Who am I?


Tough question to answer, huh?


More on this in a future blog

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