Sports and their minor relevance

In this world of placing trivial values on monumental consequences and monumental values on trivial consequences, I would like to offer the following. In the grand scheme of things, sports are not all that we have to live for. Sports do, however uplift the spirit on many occasions.

New Englanders have enjoyed two Super Bowls and a World Series since the year 2001. Two dismal professional teams facing ultimate defeat year after year rose above all the expectations. The New England Patriots recovered from a devastating injury to their starting quarterback, only to win the Super Bowl with a back-up quarterback fighting the odds every step of the way. In fact, the Patriots have transcended the yearly success by instilling an attitude of positivity and teamwork. They found men who could connect with each other to excel in their pursuits.

The Red Sox proved how going through life without taking things too seriously can relieve the pressures that each and everyone feels day to day. They too, showed us what it means to be a team. They also showed us why we should never give up. When all is said and done, they know that if they fail…it is because there was absolutely no way to succeed. Yet, even the times when it seemed there was no way to succeed, they proved that nobody should give up on their goal.

Sports in themselves, seem to provide trivial entertainment. Can a sports team affect your daily life? If you say it can, than you must realize that these two teams have provided a very important message. Don’t ever give up…believe in your teammates…meanwhile you will see why the human race continues to press on. You will see why it is unwise to give up or rest on your laurels. Either way, you will not be giving your best, and that will lead to regret.

debit cards

     I am concerned with the growing popularity of debit cards.  The reason I use them is partly because of the advertised convenience.  It is so easy to spend my money when I need it, even if I forgot to hit the ATM... and partly because I know that the money in my pocket is the same as the money in my bank account.  So if I keep the money in the bank, it doesn't get lost as easily. 
     This is where the problem comes in.  As you may or may not know, I'm a licensed electrician, doing business for myself.  I usually get paid cash, and when I get paid by check I usually go to the bank the check was drawn on to get my cash.  Many people like me, want to keep control of their own money, either for tax purposes, or, or...ok I guess it's just tax purposes.  Not me, of course...but let's just say that they convince us to use debit cards and checks and do away with paper money. 
     In that event, all of my money would have to be in a bank account in order to spend it.  Which means 1.  There is a computer record of all money that I have.  2.  All peoples giving me money would have access to deposit the money in my account.  3.  The banks would have control of the money.
     The problem is, some of us have debts to banks that don't allow us to have a checking account and some of us have even exploited a checking account to spend money we don't have.  If we are required to let the banks control our money, we would lose a way to help tear down the system that enslaves us and robs us of our labor.  That would help the government eliminate those guys that always keep all of their money in cash, and skirt their taxes.  Good for the government, bad for us.  Also, once we put our money in total control of the system, we could be robbed for more money.  How?
     When you get a ticket, you may be in a situation where you barely have enough to eat, let alone pay that ticket.  But with your money in control of the bank, the government can force you to pay that ticket.  An indirect result is that you will be forced to follow their rules, because if they find you guilty you could be seriously fucked.  Once that happens, they can pass any crazy law they want, and you will have no recourse...except of course to steal everything you need to survive.  As the thefts increase, the iron fist of government will impose even more laws, furthering the difficulty in your life.
     I would prefer to live in a world with no money, but that is another story.  As long as we slowly give up control of the tokens we gained by slaving over a job, we are actually helping them enslave us even more.
     No matter what, we cannot allow the government to do away with paper money.  As soon as they do, we are giving them permission to fuck us even harder.  In a hotel room in Las Vegas, that's not such a bad thing...but in day to day life?  You decide.

Thank god for the workers, we wouldn't want to bankrupt the multimillion dollar companies.

As the world spins in the turmoil of war and attempts at international exchange, we realize that an entire earth full of humans haven’t exactly agreed completely with one another. On the simplest level, humans share the need for food, water, air, and it helps to have sleep. Instead of destroying the humans that haven’t been around as much civilization as us, we need to find out what their ideas on life are…some of their ideas may be religiously based, but so are most of the morals in America. Once you get past the simple commonness, we web out into many ideas…it is those ideas, and the ability to share those ideas that make us great. War remains necessary until we realize this.

The internet may teach us something about this.  On the simplest level it is a means for boxes of silicon (read 'computers')  to share ideas.  These ideas are then categorized.  On AOL for example, the 'welcome screen' has listings of topics to the left side.  Such as news, sports, jobs, kids, music, as so forth.  If you click on these they take you to other screens that are broken down into sub-categories...So many of the 'welcome screen' subjects I've never looked at...imagine how many sub-categories I haven't looked at.  It's up to each individual person to decide which of those categories interest them.

Without computers there would be ZERO categories, ZERO sub-categories.  Just like without food, air, and water there are no humans to become individuals.  I guess I'm trying to demonstrate how unimportant each individual is to having life exist on this planet.  Each individual is only in control of his/herself.  It's the sharing of these multitudes of sub-categories that may bring humans together.  Individual creativity was important for inventions born from necessity.  But whose necessity? 

Tell me why my car has a computer chip in the key to prevent it from getting stolen.  I don't care if my car is stolen, the insurance company does.  You may care if your car is stolen, and for you...these transponder keys help you keep your car.  Why should I pay $100 to get a new key for my car, when I could just go to Home Depot, and make a copy?  And why is it so important to save the insurance companies' money?  Aren't they one of the richest businesses in America?  Do you think they would buy my new transponder key under my insurance policy since it is their own money they want to protect?  No way, you're foolish if you think so.  So you and I, who probably earn the smallest fraction of the insurance companies' profits, are forced to spend even MORE of our hard-earned dollars to protect an insurance company...No fucking wonder we see so many frivilous lawsuits...people are PISSED OFF at the government, and all it's bullshit...but with the police, military, and the "threat" of terrorism, they are afraid to say anything.  My mother is afraid that the government will find out what I have been saying and put me in jail as a terror threat.  You and I both know that I am examining the government and it's practices.  Not trying to claim holy land, not to push my religious beliefs on you, and not under some mystical power that nobody has ever been able to prove.  Why is it that we can prove just about every facet of life by looking at the facts, but we can't prove the existence of any god?

Ok I'm rambling...keep searching.  If you live blind to what is happening to you, you may never realize how free you were meant to be.   

Please realize these simple truths

As I spit this shit at all the people who ask, I find myself realizing that many many people agree with what I am saying.  Most of them hadn't put a lot of thought into it, but some of them were even afraid to voice their opinions in fear of ridicule from the normal people.  First of all, there is mentally no such thing as a normal person.  A normal person only refers to physical characteristics...A living being that breathes air, drinks water, and eats food to stay alive.  After that, our individuality takes control.      

     Revolution is a scary thing.  It means war on our homeland.  It means the fear of fear itself.  It means that somebody somewhere maybe sacrificed.  If you look at our troops overseas, you will realize that we sacrifice humans anyway.  As the iron fist of the government starts to grip your soul with more laws to take your freedoms away, infinite inflation, more warning signs and labels, the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer...Sure the poor people make more $'s than they used to, but do those dollars buy the same things? 

     The revolution will come someday...unfortunately it may not even correct the problem, but it will get better...the more educated we become, the more history we have to draw on, the faster we will come to our conclusions.

what is time?

They say that money is the root of all evil. Having it lends yourself to the evils of being able to get away with the things that the have-nots get punished for ; the evils of judging and/or snubbing the people who don’t have money. Knowing that you can buy somebody else’s pride, imagination, intellect, and labor can lead you to become idle. Idle hands are the devil’s work is a popular cliché. Not having money lends yourself to the exploitation of the weaknesses of the people that have it. It causes you to lie, cheat, and steal to attain money, and all the luxuries it affords. That evil is usually directed at the people who have money. In reciprocation, the haves will try to oppress the have-nots which will lead to unsatisfactory living conditions. Is it easy to see how much evil is created by money?

Time is money. Notice how you spend time, and spend money? The grammatical interpretation would be that you use the same word, spend, to describe your actions with time and money. Application of that statement, however, runs much deeper. You have to spend time to make money, and spending money can save you time. How much of each usually depends on where you fit in to the social class system. If you use your time to help save another entity (one or many humans) time or money, you can make money for yourself. If you don’t have enough time to help yourself, you can use that money to save time. If I install a light in a room with a switch near the door to enter the room, I am saving time for the owner of that room. They don’t need to find a flashlight and make sure it has batteries to find their way in the room during the dark hours. On a more natural level…they don’t need to find a candle and light that candle to enter the room. They simply need to flip a switch as they walk in the room. For this, they will spend their money to give it to me. If I don’t have enough time to do my laundry for clean clothes, I can spend some of that money to have somebody do it for me. While I spend that money, I could possibly be out making more money while somebody does my laundry. I could also spend the time that I gained by spending money, by doing another task that I need, or even spend the time to do something I enjoy.

When you cause the masters of money to lose some of their money, you may be taking away some of their time. If they catch you, they will demand that you spend time or money to repay them. A fine or retribution may repay them to their satisfaction. Sometimes you may be allowed to spend your time helping the community to repay them. By helping the community in this way, you save the master’s charity money, which in turn saves them time, or allows them to use the money on other helpful causes. If you can not repay the master in these manners, you must spend, or waste your time in jail or prison. While in prison you lose a lot of time and money, but the masters, and effectually your tax-paying peers also lose money. They use some of your time to save money on the costs of running a house for your criminal peers. The only way to avoid all this is to spend your time being cautious not to waste the master’s money, or to spend your time avoiding this fate by devising plans to avoid being caught, running from the police, or hiding from the police. In the end you spend time or money when you waste the master’s money. How much you lose isn’t completely uncontrollable, but it is inevitable.

Money makes the world go ‘round. The desire of the have-nots or even the have-not-as-muches to become the haves can quite possibly be the reason anything gets accomplished under a system of money. Somebody needs a house, somebody builds it for them for monetary compensation and the result is another place of shelter for humans, and money for another human to spend on his needs. In this way, development and advancement can occur. Under a monetary system it is virtually the only way advancement occurs. Time, in it’s true definition, is a measure of the world going ‘round. Each time the world goes around 360° , we label that measurement “a day.” Shorter and longer amounts of time can be measured by: Is the sun in the sky, or not? (day and night) What angle does the sun’s rays hit the Earth? (seasons) How much of the moon is illuminated? (weeks) Has the moon completed it’s illumination cycle? (months) Is it high tide, or low tide? (Hours)

If time is money, and money makes the world go ’round…isn’t it time that makes the world go ’round? If money is the root of all evil, isn’t time the root of all evil? If money makes the world go ’round, then the root of all evils makes the world go ’round. So should we accept that we live on an evil planet? The ridiculousness of some of these notions will hopefully cause you to reconsider some of the ideas that you have been following. Time is relative,it is not the same for even each of us human beings, let alone the pets that live an entire life in 7-10 years or the housefly that lives it’s entire life within a day or two. Just remember…a stitch in time saves nine…dollars.

Coming soon!!!!

Yeah right, like I'm gonna spoil this beautiful personal forum with advertising.  Get a life.

I pulled this out of an article on the web

I had to shorten this a little bit, but I did not change the intent, or content...or the intent of the content...or something.

The availability of clothing for breastfeeding mothers may also reflect cultural taboos. Sexy lingerie is available in plentiful supply in major department stores and specialty stores alike. But shopping for a nursing bra can be a daunting task. The nursing bras are often behind the counter, if they were available at all.  The unspoken message is that breastfeeding should be kept behind closed doors and is inappropriate for public display, while displaying images of women's bodies to help attract customers is just fine

I swear...haha (refer to music listening thingy)

I re-read the script written to me in a previous entry...very well organized writing...He mentioned that religion likes to step in to answer the universal questions about the mystery of life.  For the record, I abhorr religion itself.  I'm more of a "believe what I see guy."  What I see is people giving up their human rights in hopes that somebody else will do the thinking for them.  My real question is, "Why would you want to stop thinking?"  So far I've noticed that humans have been led to believe that other humans such as politicians and religious leaders are in control.  Creativity gets suppressed when a living being is forced to live under circumstances that thier conscienses haven't invented.  Instinct is the only real natural power.  Instinct is what made life prosper on this planet.  When your insides tell you how to handle your life, you have the best chance at surviving.  A big uproar of the extinction of buffalo is going against nature.  Nature provided a beast that had so much food and clothing for man, but it did not give it the ability to save itself.  It was a slow, large and lumbering animal that had no way to defend itself.  Nature admits it's mistakes with extinction.  A cow should not survive in nature for the same reasons, but we have corraled this beast, and used laws to protect its existence.  In the interest of society, this move proves to provide food and clothing for many people.  My worry is that humans believe that we should dominate all nature.  A very frequent theme that we learned in literature classes is Man vs. Nature.  We are winning this war in one way...the human population continues to grow across the land.  But are we sacrificing a future, to live in the here and the now?  If so, nature created us, but had no plans for us to survive eternally.  That doesn't have to be a bad thing...but, I believe that the "powers that be" have robbed your present by convincing you that you needed a future.  If we are truly the greatest nation, all humans would want to be a part of it.  Why don't they?  Instead of ridiculing one nation or another, I propose that we use all of society's beliefs to form one common way of life that extends itself to our individuality while allowing us to help each other with our own ambitions.  Ambitions that came to us instinctively, and not ambitions that others have forced us to recognize.

I command you to follow me!!! Just kidding.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler wrote a book called Future Shock back in 1970.  His research into history has led him to believe that the agricultural revolution was the first wave of humans extending themselves to provide for more than just each's own interests.  Before then, humans tended to achieve their own personal needs.  I am sorry to report that I haven't spent a lot of time researching this first wave...so lets move to Toffler's second wave.

The industrial revoulution was a second wave immediate advancement.  It occured and affected human society as we know it in a shorter amount of time than the agricultural revolution.  Factories were introduced, and humans were given a new reason to be alive.  To manufacture machines that would make our lives better.  Don't forget though, that human population steadily increases as time goes on.  In my opinion the time saving machines only kept us as productive as before.  Had the industrial revolution not been successful, we would be nowhere near the status we enjoy now.  Look at third world countries for an example of a social group that could not join that industrial revolution.  But since then, there has been a third wave of advancement.  Coming sooner after the last non-political revolution than the industrial revolution occured after the agricultural revolution.

     The technological revolution has truly exploded upon this earth.  It seems that we advance faster and faster as time goes on.  How long did it take to invent the radio?  How long after that did it take to invent the television?  How about color television?  Now compare how quickly we invented forms of recording these mediums, and how quickly we advanced; first from record vinyl to 8 track to cassette tape to CD, and now MP3's.  How about the advancement from film reels to Beta, VHS, a brief stint of laser discs and finally DVD's? Every day we invent bigger, better, faster, and more ways to enjoy this technology. 

     Although I do not know the exact timing of the agricultural revolution, U.S. history has taught me that the native americans taught colonists how to use the earth to produce food.  So if that was the agricultural revolution, that happened in the 1600's.  The industrial revolution happened in the early 1900's.  The technological revolution happened in the later 1900's.  Alvin Toffler's ideas are that the acceleration of these revolution's timelines is a growing trend.  Things move and change faster and faster as we live as a human society.  We started with walking...then chariots and horse and buggy.  We finally invented the steam engine which spawned faster ways of moving across this land.  Skipping ahead we learned to fly in the air at ridiculous speeds, eventually being able to break away from the earth's gravity into space.  What does this history mean for the future?

     The real question is, "Are we ever going to slow down?"  How often can you realize that time slips away faster and faster?  Things change faster and faster.  Where does it end?  Does it end?  At this rate, we will experience changes that blow our minds day to day.  Turn your attention to culture shock.  It has been said, (I can't accept or portray this to you as fact until I experience it myself) that when a human traverses the earth and lands in another land, completely unlike the one he has grown up on, he will experience culture shock.  He will have no idea why the inhabitants would live the way they live because it completely different than anything he's ever seen.  This is how Toffler makes his point.  There will be a day when technology changes things so quickly that you may find yourself in a state of shock.  On a smaller scale, how many times have you heard of these cliches: "What is this world coming to?"  and, "What will they think of next?"  Usually muttered by older people.  People that grew up in a different speed than the younger people have experienced.  Is there a way to prevent this?

    Let's go back to the quote from Toffler that preceded all that I've typed in this entry...

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler

     All great things have come from somebody taking chances.  Ben Franklin, the Wright brothers, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have all risked their lives to seek advancement.  Not one advancement has come from caution.  If this teaches you nothing else, let it teach you to dispel the notion, "better safe, than sorry."  Hopefully as time advances at blistering speed, we humans can learn to deal with the changes by staying in the moment, and always being aware of what, who, when, where and why things happen.  Otherwise, you will lose control of your own life, happiness, and well-being.

1.  The playing field: RMV or DMV
2.  Objective: obtain replacement drivers license
3.  Number of players 3
     you, customer service representative, clerk
4.  Game play
     Enter the playing field, advance to the customer service representative.  If you have a clear idea of what it takes to move past the rep, you will only need to inform the rep which form you need to fill out.  If you do not know how to obtain your goal, you must ask the rep what you need.  Your first hope is to clearly identify your situation to the rep.  Your last hope is that the rep is in a good mood.   
     Once you obtain the proper paperwork, fill it out, and go back to the rep.  If they accept your paperwork, you will be given a number.  This is the occasion when you will be allowed to enter the main body of the playing field amongst other players.  Keep in mind, these players are NOT participating in your game.  They are playing their own game. 
     Watch the number screen to monitor your status in the game, or wait until you hear your number to avoid anxiety.  When your number is called, that is when you will be allowed to advance to the final stage of the playing field. 
     Advance to the clerk's window.  Present your paperwork.  If there is a problem with your paperwork, you may be asked to go back to the rep.  This is a serious setback.  If your paperwork has been filled out properly, the clerk will check the computer, for for reasons to dismiss you from the game.  If the clerk presents information regarding unpaid government fees, suspended license status, or warrants for arrest, you will be thrown out of the game, unless you can present "money" to settle those situations.  If everything checks out, you will be asked to use your "money" to pay the fee required to obtain your replacement license.  If you can accomplish this, you will be issued your license.  This is in effect the end of the game, even before you exit the playing field.
5.  Deciding the winner.
     You win as long as you exit the playing field with your replacement license.  Or you can determine your success by having the fewest minutes spent on the playing field, or leaving the playing field with the largest percentage of the the "money" you brought to the playing field.

the games of life

Time to realize that life is just a game...I hope you will play this little game with me Here's an example (copy this and then add your own game):

1.  The playing field:

2.  Objective

3.  Number of players

4.  Game play

5.  Deciding the winner.  

1.  The playing field:     The supermarket

2.  Objective         To get the products you need and to get out of the playing field

3.  Number of players         Variable number of players decided by time of day, size of playing field, popularity of store, among many other minute details.

4.  Game play        

     Enter the playing field.         

If you have a list, look for the signs indicating where your products are.  If not, start at one side of the field and work your way to the other side.  You do not have to follow this rule in order to play the game

         Find your products on the shelves and attempt to retrieve them.  If another player is in your way, you may try asking politely for them to move.  Don't forget, other players may not want to make your game play easier.  In this case you have two options.  1.  Wait for them to move along the playing field, or 2.  Push them out of the way with verbal or physical abuse.  Also remember that finding the products with the lower money designations may benefit your resources, but may not be the quality of the higher designations.

         As you get your products you can either carry them in your hands, or use a shopping cart to hold them all.  Remember, a shopping cart can hold more items, but will slow you down as you make your way through the playing field.  Of course there is the option of using your pockets, but if caught you could be penalized, and taken out of the game.

         When you have all the products you need, make your way towards the exits.  You will have to choose a register to purchase your items.  You must carefully weigh your options by noting how many players are in line in front of each register, How many products each of those players are attempting to purchase,  how fast the register operator moves, and even the registers proximity to the exits.  Again, you can choose to bypass the register and head straight for the exits, but again, if you get caught you will be penalized, and taken out of the game.

          If you get to a register, you must put your products on the sorting conveyor belt.  Your products will be tallied, and you will be asked to "pay" for the items.  You may use cash, or if available, credit/debit cards or checks.

         Once you have done that, you will receive a paper token (receipt) signifying that you have paid for your items.

         The game is over when you have maneuvered yourself, your products, and your cart (if applicable)  out of the exit doors.

5.  Deciding the winner

         This game can be played once, or you can keep score.  If you are on a budget, getting out of the store quickly may not be as important as using minimal resources (money) to get your items outside of the store.  If you're on a schedule, getting out of the store quickly without upsetting your schedule, can declare you the winner.  If you have enough items to satisfy your needs until your next game, you win. 

another letter from a friend...

I tried to respond to the "essence," but it requires a logging in and the attempt to create an account bugged me so I'll respond this way.    I think every American, in some way, passes these or similar thoughts through their heads and I'm inclined to believe that probably all humans, regardless of country, probably deal with these same issues.    Unless I'm totally wrong, what I hear is you dealing with the universal mystery of humankind. What, how and why are we here.  Religion is born of these questions. All the major religions offer a believe system that takes the questions you're asking and gives answers.  Example: Who made the world?  God made the world. Oh. Since God always was and always will be, and God made the world, we can stop asking how the world started. Religion calls that "faith."    If religion doesn't have it right, maybe the philosophers, writers, quantum physicists have a better answer. (BTW - a new film called What the Bleep do we know is appearing at the Avon theater in Providence and the Loew theater in Boston - you'd love this flick. Try and see it before it leaves town. http://www.whatthebleep.com/showdates/#MA)    Stage theorists, such as Jean PIaget and Gail Sheehey (sp?), offer us a series of stages that we would pass through on our journey through life. And, as you point out, there is a group of older people (by which you mean older than you) who have passed through the other stages and there is a group of people at your stage.  Each of those groups and all the other groups (or stages) live together on the planet and bounce off of one another like molecules.  Example: There was a time when I liked my music loud and thought that everyone should. Now other people's music annoys me, especially when it comes from a car passing my house.  Does that make me wrong/bad/old? I think not. It simply means I have finished with the loud music stage and rather enjoy the quiet sounds of nature stage.    Somehow I find us to be a collection of upright bipeds divided by geography, thence by customs, religion and language.  The geography piece is beginning to be less relevant because we can get around it so much quicker, but the customs and language part still divides us clearly.  In addition to these divisions are the economic and power divisions. That's where the real fun begins. Religion was the first to figure out that power led quickly to riches and religious power can trump political power. It did, and it does.    All rich people are not bad. They are, however, wealthy and their wealth allows them to purchase products you & I can't afford. People is a product they can purchase. A maid, a gardener, a private pilot, boat captain, or soldier.  They can also purchase workers such as factory workers who, in turn, produce more wealth.    America has it's constitution and proudly declares that all men are created equal. However, it does not address equality of wealth. That is where the disparity begins. The wealthy, and those born into wealth, enjoy perks from their beginnings - even pre-natal with access to specialized care, pampering, preparation.  The rich profit handsomely from the poor. The rich need the poor.  The war in Iraq is not about Saddam, it's about money and the rich need the poor (soldiers and undereducated Iraqies) to accomplish the larger objective - Money.    We walk a journey through our years. We dream, we wish, we produce, ... we live. Others impact our living, as does nature. We are not, and can not, be completely "in control" because we share the planet and the universe with others. You and I can't control the impact of an asteroid, the path of a hurricane or the path of an oncoming car. Mostly those things miss, but every day someone is whacked by a car. Even Princess Diane. Who do we blame?    OK, this has been fun. Enjoy your next decade. I'm going to enjoy mine.

Is this guy serious, or what?

Why does ‘U’ have to be the 21st letter? It should be the first letter. But since it’s not…let’s examine the number 21. Most youngsters believe they should be adults at 18...the old timers want them to be adults at 21...actually old timers want you to act like an adult way earlier than that, but they still put new boundaries until you are at least 35. When you are thirteen…they want you to start being responsible. They allow you to go to a movie theater on your own to watch a PG-13 movie. Thirteen, give or take a few years, is the age when boys start developing pubic hairs, and sexual thoughts. The girls start to bleed monthly, and start wondering what it is about guys that attracts them so much…

At age fifteen, again give or take a few years, we have been thrown into high school. Many of us have lost our virginity, our innocence. Our natural instincts have been persecuted as the loss of innocence. In my days of being 15...the year 1990, we were able to secure a couple of permits. One permit to drive with an adult…and one permit to work a job. At 16 we could become LEGAL to work, and to drive. We also are presented with the chance to skip high school, and opt for the GED. At 18, we are allowed to buy some of the necessary evils of the world. Pornography, cigarettes, rolling papers, and explicit lyrics CD’s. We are also “allowed” to die in wars for our country, pay taxes to support our country, and go to jail for defying our country.

After suffering from the nothingness known as 19...we escape teenage, fly through 20, and land on 21. Now we are allowed to buy and possess alcohol. We no longer have fear of being drunk, because we have the legal right to be so.

It’s not until you are 23 (conveniently after a ‘normal’ person would have graduated college) to get financial aid for school, disregarding your parents status (you must provide your parents income for financial aid, despite whether or no t they will support your thirst for knowlege.) When you are 25, the insurance companies start to respect you as an adult driver, and afford you cheaper car insurance. When you are 30, you are viewed as a full blown adult. We all say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that you should love yourself, if you want somebody to love you. But when people hear that number 30...it brings about many thoughts. What have you done with your life? What do you hope to accomplish?

*Of course the answers are measured against what society tells you. I will footnote this statement after I finish this timeline…

When you are 35, you are full fledged allowed to run for president of this U.S.A. As time goes on, though, we realize that a man 35 years of age 200 years ago (when the constitution was written), was relatively (in respect to his peers) further than a man of 35 today. Is it right to follow a man who isn’t as wise as his predecessors of the same age were? Or is he more wise, by having learned from history?

 

*Who are the people that control this country? Is it the do-nothing generation of older humans, having paid their dues, done the dirty work, and now hoping to reach their goal of ruling the country? Or is it the do-nothing generation of people, who built, organized, and pushed for advancement that should run this country? We are allowed to vote at 18...something I purposefully left out of my time line. Wouldn’t it make sense that the people that make this nation work, be the ones that make the decisions? Why have we become completely bored with politics? Why does it seem like there is too much confusion to advance our new found ideas? We are the people. Why don’t we stand up, and fight against everything that we complain against? If we complain, it must be wrong. If it is not wrong, let somebody spell it out for us…otherwise, what the fuck are we doing? Can we not admit mistake? We see the media pointing out the mistakes of other humans. We all know that there are other crimes against humanity that never make it to the headlines. So can we all feel like we’ve never made a mistake? Sometimes we learn from our own mistakes…and sometimes we learn from others, mistakes…Why be ashamed of a mistake, when we know that our fellow humans have committed mistake after mistake, just like us?

which one did I write first?

I'm grounded.  While I am grounded I will remain on the ground, and take this opportunity to write, while the baseball game is in the background.  This isn't groundbreaking news or anything.  I hate to ground your high spirit, but this is my playground, and I stand on the grounds that you will learn something.  Otherwise you will remain on the ground, while the rest of us fly.  We inhabit this ground.  This ground is shared by all.  When the water rises, find higher ground.  But believe it or not, we are all on common ground.     

Just for fun

So here we are, on common ground.  What is common?  What is ground?  It is obviously debatable, but common means other big words like prevalence, conformity, and equality.  It means simple words like popular, normal, and typical.
None of these words describe common to a tee...or T...or tea.  In fact, no one word means exactly the same as another one word, otherwise we wouldn't need two words.  Sometimes though, words can have a way of being extremely similiar.  It's only the intricate details of the words that set them apart.  In this way those words are common.  Their definitions are common to each other.  Sometimes one word is commonly used to depict a variety of different things.  Sometimes a variety of words are used to depict a common definition.  Now looking at this text will lead you to believe that the word, "common" is commonly used by this post, or even this poster.  But that would be a common mistake.  Push the limits of the common ways of speaking.  The internet has common abbreviations that everybody understands, such as LOL, A/S/L, NM, and N/M.  Also internet users may commonly spell words differently to save typing effort, such as wat, k, and puter.  Before the internet became so big, these abbreviations were nowhere near common knowledge.  OK...I'm sure the readers of this message are commonly annoyed...so I shall stop.