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Hey....I know I haven't written in like a week...it sucks....but now I'm finally back on and I have some things to share, thank God...it's been a slow week. The main thing that happened this week was that I started back at school after a super long three week summer break in which I did absolutely nothing, and a good friend from work started with me. His name's Chris. It was neat. It was my first day back on campus, and the first thing I do is go to the book store to get a notebook, because I'm a nerd like that...and guess who the first person that I see standing there checking out is....Chris, 'cause he's a nerd like that too, lol, that's why we cool. And yes I said we. I speak Ebonics when I'm bored...got a problem. mad That's what I thought? Lol, but so anyway....we ended up hanging out the entire day...I introduced him to all of the people I know there, and they like him. That's a really good thing, because I've been witness to a lot of friend against friend scuffles....ya know, when someone you know doesn't like someone else you know from somewhere else....it can get ugly. stare But so anyway, he fits in, and he's finding his place, and a role in activism. His first week there and he's already got a petition out. I won't say what he's petitioning for, TMI, but I'm proud of him none the less. I'm glad he didn't go too crazy with classes his first semester, even though I know he could handle it, he's only taking 4 I think, and they're basic classes, but I have one friend that's taking 18 credits exclaim Geez, she's gonna fail....and...and...she's got two jobs and she baby sits on top of that. What kind of life is she going to have for the next 4 months. I do 30 hrs at work and 3 classes max, I know my limits. But anyway, I'm taking Anthropology. I wanted something that was close to Biology, but not exactly the same thing. I could have taken Micro this semester if I wanted to, to get my last science credit, but my teacher suggested taking something else because it would probably be too much repetition. So, I started with Anthropology...and it's pretty cool so far...I read the first to chapters, and from what I can gather, it's like a mixture of Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy....especially when it comes to ethics....and I like all three. The most interesting thing I read from the book so far, which is kinda why I'm posting, is a question that they posed as a deep thinking activity, it was on genetics, and lengthening the life span of one individual v. having there be a risk of development of the desease in his or her offspring....it was posed as an ethics question. Which would you opt for, given the opportunity to take life in your hands....Would you....A) Cure a person of the desease so that it doesn't affect them, but they still carry it in their DNA, and can pass it on to their children, and have the same problem occur....or, B) Do you let everyone with that defect die out, and the disease with them. One for the many....many for the one? I would feel bad about doing it, but if I had to make a split second decision I would actually probably opt to kill off everyone with the desease and have it end with them. Hospitals are over crowded. Why keep genetic deseases circulating throughout the centuries when we can actually do something about it? I was planning to go into my reasons for how this would be ethical, but I didn't like the answers I came up with....a lot of it had to do with faith, and so therefore I left myself open for an attack from readers about how Jesus taught not to discriminate no matter what issue you have with the person, and the fact that the person has a spreadable life threatening desease, is not enough of a reason to say that person has no right to procreate. Whatever. I'll do better to just not go there. I've gotten myself in enough trouble over that in the forums. Oh, by the way, after I wrote that last entry, I did meet a girl who had gone to the foums unawares, same as me, and it was like her 2nd day, and she came to the newbie forum crying that someone had treated her bad too, and I was like girl, I know exactly how you feel. She's on my friends list now. I might petition (probably not) to try and get it taken off the newbie tour, because like I said, you just need someone to like take you by the hand to the forum on your first trip, and post with you, let you see how they do it, let them teach you the ropes, or else you're going to get burnt really bad. I did go back to the forums once, so far, and I posted one time in the Religion and Ethics forum, and a whole bunch of heathen pagans ganged up on me and told me to go screw basicly. Again, never a positive experience in the forums. But, people have the right to their opinion. Someday I'll come out looking like the a*****e in a forum discussion, rip some democrat a new one...some topic like abortion....or legalizing MJ. I think SMOKING's bad for you. Let alone anything that would constitute as illegal substances. Jail's are overcrowded too, damn it. They need to get people off of that stuff, not encourage it. They say if you legalize MJ no one would be using it, simply because there's no thrill to it anymore. Bullshit! That's like saying if you legalized street racing there will be fewer hit and runs. Or if you tell your child he has no curfew he's gonna go to bed early. If you tell your kid he has no curfew, he's going to get into even more trouble than he would if you told him he did...because ok, yeah, the risk factor does come into play, but guess what, once you make something ok, the kid, no matter how old is going to look for that next hot button issue that he can try to manipulate. So not only are more people going to be smoking pot than ever before, they're going to be looking for other things that they can do that are even worse. Am I the only one that sees that? stare Ok, so maybe I got up on the soap box a little too much for one day. I'll write sometime later this week. Yeah, this post is long enough, I'll have an overlap onto the next page. But you know my opinions matter, I know that too, and that's why I post, lol.
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