I am beginning to believe that it takes someone wiser than us to surprise us. Although, maybe "surprise" is not the word I should be using. Let's see....."surprise" - "shock" - "blow your hair back" - is in essence, "revealing" - "mind blowing" - no that's too much, I'm going to say "mind opening." Yes that it's, it takes someone wiser than us to open our minds. Or at least open our minds on a specific matter. Wise people (and I am speaking from the unwise end) can enlighten others to a way of thinking that the person knew deep down was right, but just has not yet thought of it themselves. Wise people can see faults in almost everyone, but have enough understanding to not use it as a thumbscrew. Some people say this is tolerance, but tolerance implies the person disagrees. That is not the case in understanding. The understanding does not have to tolerate.
When my hair gets blown back it is a cross between feeling childish and solving a brain teaser. This feeling happens most times when I read, but it's more powerful coming from a person. And personally......I kind of enjoy the feeling! Later.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Integrity
It seems I'm taking time about once a week to keep this little operation of a journal going...still, in a perfect world it would be more often. Anyways, let's see what's been on my mind.
Integrity. Or more specifically, integrity for the average employee. I relate integrity with honesty, and with self honesty. What are the chances that an employee has of being completely honest with themselves in their job. Society and employers want all employees to act with integrity. Now let me say that again...ACT with INTEGRITY. When an act is nothing more than something fake, because after all why would we need to act if it was natural behavior to us. So really what they are saying is that they want us to to use fake emotions (act) to be honest with ourselves (integrity). Wow! that does not make sense at all. To lay it out on the table, that does not happen. No employee will ever be so suited to a position where they can be completely honest with themselves all the time. Employees do not tell customers what is on their mind or their true feelings. If we did, we would be jobless*. (*There is no line, but certain jobs require more acting than others) Nevertheless, my current position is calling for more acting than I am will to comprise my integrity for. I think there is only one thing left to do......start my own ball showing game. (note: if last sentence does not make sense, rent the DVD "Waiting")
Integrity. Or more specifically, integrity for the average employee. I relate integrity with honesty, and with self honesty. What are the chances that an employee has of being completely honest with themselves in their job. Society and employers want all employees to act with integrity. Now let me say that again...ACT with INTEGRITY. When an act is nothing more than something fake, because after all why would we need to act if it was natural behavior to us. So really what they are saying is that they want us to to use fake emotions (act) to be honest with ourselves (integrity). Wow! that does not make sense at all. To lay it out on the table, that does not happen. No employee will ever be so suited to a position where they can be completely honest with themselves all the time. Employees do not tell customers what is on their mind or their true feelings. If we did, we would be jobless*. (*There is no line, but certain jobs require more acting than others) Nevertheless, my current position is calling for more acting than I am will to comprise my integrity for. I think there is only one thing left to do......start my own ball showing game. (note: if last sentence does not make sense, rent the DVD "Waiting")
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Survivorman
A tribute to Survivorman. Survivorman is a show (Discovery Channel) that depicts what a man must do to survive the harshest conditions alone. He films it himself and usually it lasts seven days. Can you just imagine what this guy was like as a kid...he probably rode his bike somewhere he's never been, doing the voices in his head...."My pedal fell off going down the hill to Mikey's...I'm going to need a juniper bug and 14 blades of tall fescue. Will Survivorkid make it back for the ice cream man?...."
Friday, July 28, 2006
To Educate or Not
To educate or not to educate oneself is a question I have been thinking a lot about lately. (namely Middle-East Conflict) As a rational human being, should we care and learn about what is going on in the rest of the world?
Obviously one argument against knowing is that, there is nothing we can do about it. Which is in itself, narrow-minded. There is something we can do, it is something so difficult and so challenging even if we did do it, there is a good chance it won't make a difference. Another argument is that "I pay taxes, and our leaders are responsible."
Me personally, I need to know. I need to know why they are fighting, what they are fighting for, and what they need to stop fighting. Also, I know I'm not going to do anything, I'm not going to fly there and help rebuild, I'm not going to go preach a non violence speech. I believe all I can do is try to understand, so that in the future, choices I make, decisions that make up my life, will be better. Or at least better than not knowing. It goes back to the idea that "knowledge is power." And if knowledge is power, we are stronger with an education. So I say weigh the time it would take to educate yourself against the time you could be doing something else, and decide for yourself.
Obviously one argument against knowing is that, there is nothing we can do about it. Which is in itself, narrow-minded. There is something we can do, it is something so difficult and so challenging even if we did do it, there is a good chance it won't make a difference. Another argument is that "I pay taxes, and our leaders are responsible."
Me personally, I need to know. I need to know why they are fighting, what they are fighting for, and what they need to stop fighting. Also, I know I'm not going to do anything, I'm not going to fly there and help rebuild, I'm not going to go preach a non violence speech. I believe all I can do is try to understand, so that in the future, choices I make, decisions that make up my life, will be better. Or at least better than not knowing. It goes back to the idea that "knowledge is power." And if knowledge is power, we are stronger with an education. So I say weigh the time it would take to educate yourself against the time you could be doing something else, and decide for yourself.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Breaking News
MSNBC is taking the fast track to get on my shit list. No wait...they are already there and there is no turning back. My question is this. Why do they put in large bold font, "BREAKING NEWS" Israel is bombing Lebanan, or Hezbollah is attacking Israel. This is not breaking news, Arabs and Jews have been going at it for longer than any one can remember. Even people who don't know what this is about knows that their is confilction in the Middle East. "BREAKING NEWS" would be if one side actually won. "BREAKING NEWS" would be if they came to a permanent agreement. By the way, since I can't seem to get off the subject, Bush commented that the real reason the fighting is going on is that of "terrorism." OH MY GOODNESS! BUSH JUST SOLVED THE PROBLEM! ....bullshit. He needs to ask himself why there is terrorism to get to the real problem. The real problem is debateable...call it religion, call it defining a home, call it anything but simply "terrorism." He is so narrow-minded, these two states will not see peace, fighting happens, it defined our country, it defined our borders and every other border between two nations. The simple fact that our borders were defined in the 18th and 19th century is completely irrelevant. I'm not saying let them fight, but just stop looking at the problem as a terrorist problem. Hezbollah officials won the governed election, that's what they voted for...how can you call that extremist.
Bottom line....religion once again tops reason...a reason that would end wars, and undefine borders...religion is conflict.
Bottom line....religion once again tops reason...a reason that would end wars, and undefine borders...religion is conflict.
Sunday, July 9, 2006
Life Is Fair
Everybody has heard it and most of us have said it..."Life is not fair." Those four words will never leave my mouth again. I was reading a quote the other day by Lillian Hellman who said "It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you." In my ever increasing quest for knowledge and open-mindedness, I realized that life IS fair. Gravity is constant, air is everywhere, and food and shelter are easily attainable. After that, it's all a bonus. So next time little Britney gets cut off talking to her friends on her $200 cell phone and throws around attitude, just slap her in her stupid face and repeat Dennis Leary's best line ever "Shut the Fuck up...NEXT!"
Sunday, June 25, 2006
No Drunk Apologies
Drunk people trying to apologize might be one of the lowest life forms on our planet. Let me google that real quick....yup, I was right...they got the spot just behind plankton. I stopped accepting the words "I'm sorry" a long time ago...I don't say the words, and I don't respect anyone who feels they have to use them. If you don't have enough control of yourself to keep yourself from doing stupid shit, then you shouldn't be drinking. (NOTE: This does not apply to the "first time drunk" people). It's not an excuse for acting like an idiot, it is a method of bringing out who you would be without any sense of self worth. So with that, I am going to go have a bottle of wine, and be the unsympathetic asshole I know I am. CHEERS!
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