Fear's Edge Opinion Page
Well now, it looks like Ash is doing opinions. Unfortunetly, his opinions are on RPGs and animes. Now, this is just fine, but I plan to delve a little deeper into peoples thoughts than that. If you would like to listen, I have opinions I will share with you based on:
Religion, Politics, School, Workplace, Sex, Conspiracy, Gangs, Drugs, Constitutional Rights, Racism, Industry, Human Nature, and if there is time:A Few of My Scientific Theories.
Here we go..........
Religion: Here is one of my favorite subjects of debate. I do not agree with most people as far as religion is concerned. I have very different views. I believe that out there somewhere there is a God that created the big bang. He(and I use the term "he" lightly) then has not done a thing. He does not control our lives in the least.
There is no soul, heaven, hell, or purgitory. I believe that matter cannot come from NOTHING, so it makes sense that an ethereal being of some kind made or helped to make the universe. However, most religions are a sham, something to make us feel better about dying. I am terrified of death because I do not believe in an afterlife. This is why people
take up religion. Plus some parents just bring there kids up in a certain religion and the kids stick with it when they grow up and do the same. Some people in other countries are forced to be a certain religion. This is a tragedy because they live thier lives by a certain code according to the religion they belong to, but in the end it will not matter one bit. They will die like the rest of us and only exist in memory. Religion: christiantity to be more specific, has ruined the lives of many.
Over history, many groups of christians would fight against other christians because oif a slight difference in thier views. They both clamed to be on the side of God, and both clamed the other side were heratics. This is still going on. Most wars in the middle east and/or europe has to do with religion. Think about this. World War One was about Germany and the rest of the Central Powers attempting to take land for world conquer, right? Wrong.
The Central Powers were fighting with the others because everything they were trying to take(just europe then) was already theirs. That is what they belived. Every king in the middle ages-the dynasties in which fought in World War One- were created because a man with power gave a high Catholic figure the power to make him king. They were convinced either by themselves or by that figure, or maybe not at all, they just wanted the citizens to believe that they were descended from God.
And in order to keep this divine, royal blood pure they would marry princesses from other kingdoms. This caused they to clame that that country they married into now belongs to them and fight over it! This is what caused WW1 indirectly! WW2 was a little different. It was a madman who wanted to take control for purification of humanity. Namely: killing Jews and any other minority he didn't like at any given moment. Christians for centuries have persicuted Jews directly or indirectly. Hitler basically formed his own religion
that hated all the others including christianity from which this new religion spawned. Now, it is more social perspective than religion, but we DO acknowledge that this veiw of Jews DID come form christianity The other, more controversial part of religion I will save until I discuss politics.*EFG* UPDATE:As of 8/4/00 I have discovered that in the bible, Genesis 3:9 says "and the lord god called unto adam and said unto him 'where art thou?'" Does that make sense? God SHOULD have known where he was. God knows all, sees all, is all powerful, and is everywhere. Why wouldn't he know?
Politics: This is also a hot spot in my debate area. Where shall we start? Well, for starters this country was formed originally, by a bunch or christians. This has caused a lot of our laws, origoninally, to reflect christian morals. Such as the place of women. It was not neccesarily in the bible, but christians for a long time thought that women should be in the kitchen, if you get the ENTIRE meaning of that. They should not be schooled, or have a job. Another thing is the constant gay bashing.
Now christians for a LONG time have hated homosexuals.Why? No good reason. GOD says so. This shows in our countrie's law against gays getting married(Hawaii is more liberal by far, that is why they allow it). There is no good reason why homosexuals shouldn't be alowed to get married. But the people of this country, mostly christians, voted a few times and said no. A lot of people are just afraid of what they don't understand. They don't understand a person's desire to have sex with the same gender.
This makes them afraid and this causes hatred. The CC(Christian Coaltion) controls at least partially what we read, watch on t.v., see at the movies, rent from blockbusters, play with, etc. Anything we want to get entertainment out of, they veiw it first. That is why we get such sucky Animes, because we can't see blood or hear cuss words, It would just kill our children to see the real world and think for themselves, wouldn't it?
Another side to politics is how Jews control it. Laugh all you want, but first let me explain. When I say Jews, I am not talking about Mister and Misses Goldstein down the road at the coner grocery store. I am talking about Isreal. They play on everyone's pity for what has happened to them for the last 2000 years. They caused all of the palesitinians to be moved out of palestine and the Jews just moved in and took their homes after WW2. They get a lot of money from the U.S. and other countries. They have their hooks in the U.S. so deep that we probably wouldn't be a ble to get rid of them if we tried for at least 6 months.
School: I hate school, I really do. It is so innefficient the way they teach us things. Most of the classes don't really mater because most of the idiots that are in high school today will end up being janitors, flipping burgers, or bagging groceries. They want us to have a well rounded education. BNut we will forget it withen two years of graduating. At least thats how it is for normal people. They should just test us at the beginning of they year to see what we know: to put us in the correct class, put us in a class according to what we know and don't know in a subject, teach it to us efficiently and thouroughly, testy us at the end of the quarter to see if we learned, if we did reasonably well move us on, if we didn;t move us into the class that explains what we missed. It is that simple.
But no, they have to put everyone in the same classes, with little variation. Then if we do extra credit enough, do all of the class work which we can easily cheat on, bomb the tests, still move on, and be morons in the real world. Plus the whole social part of school is rediculous. All of the time at lunch, passing time(between periods), quieting the clases down, and baby sitting the class idiots could be spent teaching us better. That is my little shpeal on school.
Workplace: Well, now! It looks like I have no work experience under my belt. I am only 15 years old, I have never had a job, BUT I do know how it works. Here are some basic things you gotta know about a real paying career. With a few exceptions, most successful people work too hard and and too long. My mom, for example, works 12 hour days and she is stressed the whole time. She is not payed what she is worth, and does not have enough contact with the rest of the family. A commen drama in movies is that a little rich boy is always left sitting alone on his birthday because his father works too hard. A lot of us experience this. Our folks don't spend enough time with us. We are rased by MTV, school and any drugs we come in contact to, even without our parents consent. How much time do they spend raising us, anyway? Moving on, the workplace is constantly making peoples lives worse and robbing them of their constitutional rights! Random drug tests is an example of this robbery. The fourth amendment of the constitution states that our possessions or person cannot and will not be searched unless we are suspected of a crime. The authorities are the only people with the power to search you, even when you are suspected. However, most companies won't even hire you if you don't agree to take the tests. This is outright violation of this right. Sexual harassment is another thing. I do not condone it, But there are instances when a women can get even with someone for claiming sexual harassment. There need be no jury, trial,or anything. You can lose your job, be docked pay, demoted, whatever. It is completely up to the company. Women can be too paranoid. If I were to cat call as a girl walks by, I could be kidding and it would mean nothing. She could sue me. Isn't that ridiculous?!
Sex: Moving right along, we come to sex. Since childhood we have been instructed that sex is evil and should be hidden away. It is a just a means of producing children. Naked bodies should not be veiwed until you are married, masturbation is a terrible sin(we all do it), and none of these things should be spoken of. This is cencorship at it's worst. We should not be deprived of the knowledge of how we got here, and what we got to do to pass on our genetic material. Personally, when I am a father, as long as the nudity and/or sex is tasteful, my kids can watch it. It is graphic pornography that I will keep from them until they are about 14. At this time, they will know, or should know, about it already from fellow class-mates. Why deny the truth? All of us heard about all of the nasties of sex from our friends and/or older siblings who got it from the same place. The whole reason a lot of things about sex is taboo is because of christianity. They preached it and pretty much controlled western civilization, so this has come to be. I have NO problem with homosexuals, bisexuals, incest, masturbation, oral, anal, threesomes, prostitutes, toys, pornography, beastiality, necrofelia, denderfelia(sex with trees), etc. I am that liberal. If this makes me weird, or bad, then so be it.
Conspiracy: When I talk about conspiracy, I am not talking about the Daily Enquirer saying the moon demons control our minds. I am talking about the governments outright robbery of the truth about our current technology level and alien cover ups(weather balloon my hairy white buttocks!). First off, the government has a project called "Star Wars". It is military lasers from orbit. I believe firmly that they have already attained this. As well as cameras from orbit acurate enough to read our watch, radio interceptors, and bugs. Their is definetly aliens out there and the government is covering it up. THey do not want mass hysteria. It is understandible, but if they broke it to us slowly as soon as we made sightings, I don't think there would be much of a problem. The government could be telling us anything and we would believe it. There could be a society of human intellect apes in antarctica. No? Ever been to Antarctica? Then don't say there COULDN'T be.
Gangs: This won't be particularily long or intrigueing, but I thought that I should talk about gangs. First off, the only people that are in gangs are afraid of fighting for themselves. They just want to be cool. I am sure we have all heard someone say "I'll get my boys on ya!" or some form of. This is merely a childish way to intimidate people. Most of us want to feel accepted. This is natural for all humans however, it is not right for us to join gangs merely as a way to harm people and get away with it. Gangs fool people into joining because they act like they are all a big happy family. I have seen this. "My parents hate me! You guys really care about me!". I am sure you have all seen a movie or show that had something like this. This is really how it is done.
I personally hate the presence of gangs in this country. It is only making it worse to live here for us INDIVIDUALS.
Drugs: You have all waited for this one, haven't you? Who doesn't want to hear about drugs? Here it goes.
I think that anything you want to do to yourself is your problem. You want to overdose on crack and die? Your problem, NOT mine. It is not the business of the government or anyone else to restrict self destruction. You wanna know what I think about drugs themselves, yea, I know. I think that the reason why tobacco and boose are legal and weed(I call it Jesus he WAS a pot smoker, ya know) isn't is a social issue. Lets look at history. First alcohol. ALl of our past societies pretty much had some form of alcohol. The reason was primarily to kill bacteria. Who drank water up until this century? Pretty much no one. It just wasn't safe. America tried prohibition early on this century and it didn't work. Us Americans cannot let go of our boose.
Now tobacco. Europeans discovered tobacco in the Americas in the 16th century. The native americans knew what it was and at first the Europeans didn't pay attention. Soon the world exploded with the stuff. They got rich because of it's addictive affects. Why did they smoke then? Why do people smoke now? Because they were stupid. The government now hasn't outlawed them because of the humungeous ammunts of money they get from taxing it.
I think that Jesus is the perfect drug. It is euphoric(makes you happy), doesn't kill you or cause cancer, and it makes you hungry(I like to eat). But the government doesn't see eye to eye. In thne 60's, a lot of marches and things were going on. Who mostly did theses things? Hippies. What do people associate with hippies? Long hair. What else? Jesus. To help quell these things, they outlawed a lot of drugs. Jesus being primary. And they still havn't legalized it because of the way they have made the poeple think about it now. Why teatch people to hate it then bring it back. It would hurt there image.
Any other drugs are fine with me. I could care less what anybody else does. Magic powder, liquid, paper, herbs, cylinders, whatever. I am not saying it is good for you, though.
Constitutional Rights: I have already covered this area a little in the workplace section. But it deserves personal attention, so First I will list each amendment and explain what it means, then say if it has been violated on a large scale.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The government shall not infringe your right to the press, religion, speach, or assembly. What happened in the 60's? A lot of marches. The government broke them up, sometimes brutally beating people and/or shooting them.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
We can keep our guns and it shall not be restricted. In anyway. People say that since there is no militia, that this is overturned. Look at the last part. THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Soldiers can't be in your house without your permission, period. No major violations here.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Already covered this puppy up in workplace.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
No person can be held for a capitol crime unless by a grande jury, Except if you are in the military. You cannot be tried twice for the same capitol offense, you cannot be compelled to be a witness against yourself, you cannot be punished without first going through the normal law process, and your property cannot be taken without you being payed back. The government is constantly taking your things"comandeering" your vehicle, is an example.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
You get a fast and public trial, where the crime was committed, you have to be told what you did, you can confront the witnesses against you, you have the right to an attorney and witnesses in your favor. There is a man who has been imprisoned, for over forty years after being suspected for killing a fellow FBI agent. He has never had a trial or told what he has done.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
If what is damaged is worth more than $20, the court has a jury, any fact tried in front of a jury shall not be reaxined in any court in the USA. No major violations here.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Pretty self-explanitory. But it has been violated numerously. If the judge does not want you to have bail, they just instate an extremely large one. The cops hold phone books up to people and hit them. It doesn't leave a mark and hurts like hell.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Everyone has the same rights. No rights can be taken away from any citizen of the USA. Prisoners are mistreeted all the time(use you imagination).
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Any law by the Federal Government cannot be overturned by state laws. No major violations here.
Racism: Here is a good one. What are my veiws on racism. People have no right to discriminate because of race. It is just a ridiculous thing to even consider. Nonetheless, there are a LOT of people out there who feel different towards people of different race. As long as they are in this country this belief MUST be respected. If we have the right to believe it's wrong, they have the right to believe it is correct. That is not all I have to say. There is a different kind of racism called many things. I prefer to call it natural selection. You see, the way our society works, evolution is becoming impossible because all of the people who have bad genetics can pass there genes on. This causes the inevitable weakening of our species. I cannot stanmd stupid people that serve no purpose. I believe they should be shot. I could never even be friends with them, it would just iritate me too much. I am a racist in this sense, think of me what you will.
Industry: Now, this may not be a big spot for discussion, but it deserves a little time. You see, things used to be built to last. That is why we have cars from the 50's that arn't pieces of crap. Granted that they needed some maintenance(spelling?), but not half as much as a car nowadays would need. You see, companies build things to break so you have to replace or repare them. This helps get repeat customers. There are also some things that they do that are just as devious. Take the new cell phones that supposedly don't rot your brain with radiation. The normal cell phones produce less radiation than the reaches our bodies from the sun. The radiation exists, but it would take like 20 years of constant talking for it to do any serious permanent damage. They make new cell phones that don't cause as much radiation, that cost like 3 bucks more to make, and charge 30 more bucks per phone. Who released the info on the cell phone's harmful radiation? Their research teams with their funding. What do you think of that?
Human Nature: I hope you knopw what I mean by human nature. I mean our endless need to inflict pain and sorrow on others. What causes this? Horomones mostly. Look at what our world has become, parents are beating children, kids are killing each other, we are fighting wars over religion where endless numbers of innocent millions perish neelessly, we are killing off species, poisoning every frontier of the planet, sucking out all of it's natural resources, when will this madness end? I am no saint, hell, at school I beat up on Ash a little to toughen him up, but I know when something is wrong with our planet. My fear is it will ot get better only worse. I wish that everyone in the world would just accept each other and stop inflicting pain! But as long as there are individiuals on this earth, different from each other, there will be conflict and pain. And individualism will die hard if at all. We need to at least wake up to this horror, instead of sensoring it out of our childrens TV. They need to know what is going on so they can at leats make an effort to fix it in their short but hopefully meaningful time on Earth. Maybe this whole information age is a good thing afterall.
My Scientific Theories: E equals MC squared.
Most people know that Einstein invented it, and that it has something to do with the theory of
relativity. But most people don't know how to explain it. I can. E is energy M is mass and C is the speed of light: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. This means that as you pick up speed, your mass increases, therefore the energy required to maintain speed increases. Once you reach the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, therefore the energy required is infinite. This proves that it takes infinite energy to reach the speed of light, so the speed of light cannot be reached or surpassed. A lot of people have heard the term"curvature of space/time". This means that the more gravity is apparent, the slower time is for you. This explains why going faster slows down time. As you pick up speed, your mass increases, which increases your own gravity, which slows time. As you reach the speed of light, you mass is infinite, therefore your gravity is infinite, which causes infinite curvature of space/time. Therefore, when you reach the speed of light, time stops completely. pretty cool, huh?
Time Travel
Although it is impossible(proven mathematically, please don't ask me how!), time travel in the movies is completely wrong. Take going back in time, for instance. They say anything you do can change the past dramatically. Wrong. It already hapened. What do I mean? If something happened in the past, IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST. No changing the future. IT CANNOT BE CHANGED.
I think that's it. It was fun, I hope you learned something.
You want my opinion on something? My email is greelan@hotmail.com
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