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This is one of the first blog entries that I have ever written. This is not because I do not like to write, but instead it is the fact that I think blog is a strange word. Blog sounds like something you would hear on star trek or one of those sci-fi movies. So as time progressed the more I heard this word the more I loathed it. When I loath something I protest it by not doing it. Then over time I give in to the trend and start doing it myself. I did the same thing with myspace. At first myspace seemed like something so trendy that I wouldn't have any part of. Finally I discovered my Mom had one, and lets face it when your Mom gets something like a myspace the trend has hit the extreme. This made me hate myspace even more. Well then I started feeling left out (go figure) so I decided to make one. I then discovered that myspace can be very addictive and yet safely fun if used correctly.
I guess the whole point of my ramblings here is one of the first glimpses into this weird brain of mine. I am very anti trend. Sometimes I will give into the trend, but most of the time I stick to my guns until death. It is kind of like Winnie the Pooh. This cute lovable bear in this cute lovable cartoon annoys the holy living crap out of me! Why??? The reason is because everyone else loves him. Everybody buys watches, clothes, purses, decorates their children's room with this lovable bear. It makes me sick. I hate trends I refuse to like something just because everyone else does. It is also like Brad Pitt. Yes, he is not bad looking. Most people, however, found Brad Pitt so attractive is simply because everyone else does. So therefore I hated Brad Pitt. I boycott trends and will until the end of eternity with the exception of some things like my giving in with myspace, and now the evil "blog".

Ok so this blog writing thing may have something to it. I do like the idea of expressing myself even though I am pretty sure no one is reading these. I was not exactly sure what to make today's topic, but my best friend gave me an idea without even knowing she did. Today's topic will be about stupidity. This is an even bigger pet peeve of mine than trendiness. Don't get me wrong people are entitled to make mistakes I have no issues with that. I am talking about people who have a brain but choose not to use it. An example is someone does something wrong like bump into you with their shopping cart, or go down the wrong way in a parking lot that has directing arrows. Then after doing this they look at you like you were the one in the wrong, and often times even cuss you out! This is stupidity in its finest form. Then again is this particular situation just stupidity, or could it be an added touch of arrogance. Then continued downward spiral of humanity where people think the world owes them something. Then again this is something for a whole other "blog" entry. These same people come into a fast food place then yell at the people who took their order when they don't get what they asked for. They don't seem to grasp the concept that in most cases the people who took the order did NOT cook the food or prepare it. It is insane to yell at someone for something they have no control over. I worked at a grocery store years ago and was often yelled at for some of the prices being to high. I never could get over this. I have to pay the same prices for my groceries as they do, and I have no control over the prices. In most cases in fact I made less money then the people complaining. Obviously if I had control over the price of groceries they would be much cheaper so people like me at that time could afford more. Then you have these people that no matter what you say to them to convince them they are wrong, or even what proof you have to show them they will never believe any differently then they do now. While I have no issues with the original concept of the old school goth era I have a major problem with the new "trendy" goth era. These people claim to be "individuals" yet the entire time they are acting just like all of their friends. In high school I was what I call semi-goth. I never really got into the piercings or wearing all black. I did listen to the music, and hang out with them, believed in being my own person, exploring who I was, and all the other things that went along with the concept. All in all though being your own person means being who you really are. If your dressing all in black, and worshiping vampires, and many of the other things that come with the new "trendy" goth just to be like your other "trendy" goth friends then you aren't being an individual. You are just as much as a conformist as you claim everyone else is. This is being stupid! Not to mention contradicting yourself. While on the subject of contradicting yourself this is another problem that I have with many of the stupid people I am discussing now. There is one last group of people I haven't touched on yet. This is my most hated group of stupid people yet! The out of touch with reality people. These are the people that read a book, see a movie, or watch a tv show, and forget it is not real. These are the people who watch Twister, and then want to be a storm chaser just because it looked cool in the movie. These people are the ones who read one too many Harry Potter books, or watched one too many episodes of Charmed, or saw The Craft, and thought hey that looks cool I am going to be a witch now. Don't get me wrong I am not discriminatory over religion, but in this case they only chose it because of the movies. I mean I am all for a good movie, and I love horror and the like. I will not, however, want to be a zombie. This is form of stupidity in my opinion is hardly ever discussed. I guess this is because of the worlds belief in not wanting to offend. Come on people offend these people. They need to be committed. Is it not true that it is a form of insanity to not know the difference between reality, and fiction. Anyway as you can see I can go on about this forever. My point in all of this is that the world really needs a rude wakeup call that will never happen unfortunately.

There are so many things I see, and hear almost on a daily basis in this country that confuses me. As many of you know I am an avid talk radio listener. This brings up my next subject Happy-Mediums (so don't know any other word for it). I have even touched on this a few times in some of my college papers that I had to write in the last college I was in. My first instance of this problem is the whole evolutionist versus creationist. I am a Christian and I do very much believe in God, and creationism. There is, however, evidence that some forms of evolution has taken place over the earths existence.
On one hand you have people who believe that only evolution happened as well as the big bang theory. Then on the other hand you have people who believe that God created the earth in 6 days, and everything that is here is the same as it was during creation. Well why not have a Happy-Medium and realize that yes there is some evidence of evolution. Believing in evolution does not disprove the existence of God. Many Christians do not get it. In fact it would strongly strengthen their debates with evolutionist if they looked at this in another perspective. Wouldn't believing that some (certainly not all, especially that whole "we came from monkeys" thing) prove that God is even more amazing then just creating the earth in 6 days. I mean think about it. He made us and all living things with the ability to adapt to our environment over time. Instead many Christians believe that looking at it in this perspective would be wrong. I don't recall seeing that anywhere in the Bible. I may go into this subject deeper at another time.
My next example is the welfare system. On one hand you have a group that believes the welfare system should punish you for being married, and for bettering your self in any way. Support you for pretty much the rest of your life. All the while keeping you poor, and never let you progress past barely surviving. Then on the other hand you have those who don't wanna help you at all past some Church assistance. There should most certainly be a Happy-Medium here. The problem with punishing you for being married has been greatly lessened since Bush took away much of the marriage penalties (any liberal reading this will argue this I am sure of it, but I know this first hand). Why not have a system that increases education, and the affordability of it. Why not have a system that encourages getting on your own feet with some assistance. That rewards you for doing the right things to better yourself. I have written a whole paper on this subject in college. I could go much further in detail, but for the sake of time I won't.
These are just a two examples on Happy-Mediums needed in this country. I have often thought that instead of Democrat or Republican there needed to be a third party. The Happy-Medium party. That takes the idea of both parties, and makes a compromise. I think there would be less anger, and bitterness among the parties if we could come to this. I am sure I will think of many other examples and write a part 2 to this one of these days.

I know I haven't written a blog in a while, but I have been very busy. My surgery went fine, and I am feeling completely myself again already.
I am amazed to find out more weird things about stupid people. A thread in my message board that I frequent had a subject about stupid things you hear in the news. This got me to thinking about my next topic. First off I am not a Harry Potter fan whatsoever. This is not due to religious beliefs or anything of the like. The main reason is because it was meant to be a children's book yet it has turned women, and men of all ages in to screaming twelve year olds worse than any star wars freak around. The next reason is I am not into the whole story line of the book. Then it also falls into the whole trendy thing that I hate. Last but not least almost everyone who reads this book becomes so obsessed with the story that they think they are living it in everyday life, and have lost complete ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. I just found out that this book series has come to its end, and due to this some people are so distraught that they need grief counselors to cope with its finality. While I am not a fan of the book I have nothing against the people who read them or love them despite my feelings of it. I do have a problem, however, with the people who become obsessed with it. If you need a grief counselor to help you get through the trying time of children's book you may want to consider a real counselor to determine if you should be taking care of yourself and others.
Another thing that I brought up myself in this thread was people who protest the war by beating people up. I am not a huge fan of the war, but I support my troops fully. I do think it is completely counter productive to be speaking of the desire for peace while acting in violence. It is a huge contradiction in terms. This brings up a whole new group of points that need to be made in peoples contradictions. First off it is no secret that I am completely anti abortion for many reasons that I will not cover at this time. Everyone has their beliefs on this one and everyone feels strongly about it. I do think it is really stupid to protest the murder of human being children by blowing up and killing other human beings. What did you prove? Absolutely nothing! On the other hand we have people who work and support PETA a group that is against cruelty to animals. These people have been known to harm people to keep them from harming animals. I am sorry but the day you put an animals life before a human is when you seriously need to think about moving in with a pack of wolves, and leaving society as you are no good to us any longer. Another strong point on this is most if not all of PETA members are pro-choice so I am surprised that they don't all have bumper stickers that say "save a whale, kill a baby"! This however is just my own opinion and means little in the long scheme of things.