living green

i just browsed through a washington post article and it had a lot of ways to be "green." i think there is a lot of things people can do, but i am more excited about more efficient electrical products. these products will allow people to live their lives without change and still improve the environment. people really are not going to change how they live their lives, but when governments pass legislation for companies to better their products it lifts the responsibility from the average person. for example, if new technologies consume 33 percent less energy, then like it or not you are helping the environment. i think these will make the biggest differences. like power adapters that charge all of our electronics, if they are not pulling electricity from the wall all day while your device isn't charging, then that is a big improvement considering these are in everyones household.

lazy...

This is from a bbc news story

Dr Ted Bianco, of the Wellcome Trust, said: "Over 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity in England alone, so there is a clear need to develop a treatment to tackle this problem.

i think people need a little self-discipline, or if you significant other plumps out then leave them. it all goes back to self-accountability.

movie and bills

i just watched an inconvenient truth and it was pretty good. it is hard for me to understand how people so easily disregard global warming.

previously i had the idea of offering tax incentives to get companies to promote tele-commuting. image the effect 20 percent of americans could have if the tele-commuted one a week. honestly i'm not sure what the effect would be, but i think it would be a tremendous step in the right direction.

global warning and condoms

man, some people beliefs astound me. there is a slashdot article about the a seattle school board and how they put a placed a moratorium on screenings of 'An Inconvenient Truth.' and they are also quoted saying "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher."

I'm not sure what pisses me off more the resistance to believe in global warming or condoms? I just gets me deep inside why everyone needs all this control. if people are fucking like rabbits then let them. it is retard to stress abstinence. why? because it doesn't work. people are going to have sex. like it or not. these evil bastards probably don't let you even masturbate. teaching them that it sacred thing or that people should wait till marriage is a joke. marriage is a joke all by itself, but that is a different story.

people should not discard a believe because some 2000 old piece of literature tells them to. you are a lot more powerful then you think. people do have to ability to change the earth. please take a second to load up google images and search for pollution. after looking through some of the images and seeing rivers filled with garbage from bank to bank, i hope you cannot honestly look me in the and say, "wildlife can continue to live in these conditions." if you don't think you can say this, then can you explain why we clean up oil spills?

to say that we cannot change the environment is ignorant and a reckless state of mind.

sorting things out

does anyone know how to sort an array of objects in ruby. say i have an object that consists of a name, type, and location and i want to group the elements by their type then location and then name. either this is kinda hard or my getting weak in my googling skills... i might post this post in google groups.

right now i'm hacking out a solution, but it won't be as sweat rubyesk solution =(. actually it is kinda dirty, hehe.

paul newman

i love paul newman and his chocolate chip cookies are not bad either.

iphone and god, love and hate, respectively

sorry i didn't proof this have to go to a movie

first things first. i soo want an iphone. they look so pimp. it is just a sleek and sexy as their powerbook, excuse me, mac book pro, and their os.

second thing, a guy at work said something to me right before leaving work that pissed me off. he said, "a man without god, is not a man at all." i found this completely absurd. when people say crap like this it really makes me want to take action. hell i'm even writing in my blog.

it made me want to write or create a list of reasons that could be handed out in a pamphlet for general reasons against god or religion. below is a start on my ideas.

self-accountability: when believing in a deity one is out sourcing their accountability. your actions can justified by this deity or you can "ask" for forgiveness. i have made this a center point of many arguments. as it is a general problem in society and can be applied almost anywhere, namely frivolous lawsuits, general excuses, etc. how self-accountability directly applies to religion is people are less likely to take charge, but are able to hide behind the blanket of prayer and belief their is an outside force guiding our lives. if you give me ten people are willing to make sacrifices to create change, they will probably all achieve the change they want in their life. give me ten people who want to find a better job and have them pray for it, i doubt any of them will obtain their goal. hard work and determinism with tackle any hurdle. one should also acknowledge some things are not meant to be. a specific love of your life may let you down, or you might not get a specific job. but if the effort is there, other lover and other jobs will be out there. i don't think this parameter ended up where i wanted it to end.

i think children and parents are a good examples of self-accountability. often children made choices and others are blamed. say a child brings a gun to school and kills someone. who fault is this? the gun manufactures? video games? or maybe the parent? i would go with the parents. now this is going on a really big tangent. i guess the point is, no one wants to be accountable. to make this short, i think if the parent(s) would have made better decisions with their life, their child wouldn't have one this action as a cry for help. maybe if the parent(s) are not ready to have a child then they should wait for relationship reasons or financial reasons. if you cannot financially afford to raise a child then maybe working 3 jobs and never see the child isn't to good of an idea. this child will probably not get to proper direction needed to live a positive lifestyle.

false hope: right now, this is linking to self-accountability. by believing in god, a person is fooling themselves in to thinking someone is taking care of them. don't get me wrong, this is a very power and probably a get source of encouragement and empowerment.

and i need to think more to create a argument for this.

purpose: people who believe in god have purpose bring into their lives. they get up in the morning to serve their god and carry out his word. i say make life your purpose. go out and do good in your community without the afterlife as a motivating force. being nice to people and doing good for your acceptance into heaven seems incredibly selfish.

answers to questions: this is related to the above question. what is the reason of live? why are we are? who am i? who created me? these are all valid and interesting questions and i would love to know the answers to all of them. but i think some questions are not yet answerable. and people need to be confident in saying, "i don't know." what is wrong with admitting that you do not know something? yes it is very tormenting to not know some of these answers and yes i wish i know them, but it isn't fair to yourself to fill in this gap. these question can not be proven. this is mainly due to faith. people base an idea and way of life on an allegiance on a set of beliefs. it just baffles me to think people can so deeply hate one another based on faith.

justification for religion: peer groups ( to be continued... )

dalton is an amputee

dalton is home from la for a week or so. i went over to his house and hung out last night. when i got there i was just in time for dinner. i got to enjoy some nice homemade meat loaf. shortly after finishing dinner i mentioned reading an article about ( cannot remember right now ) and we got on the topic of global warming. that was a fun time, hehe. after that we went down stairs and wallie got me hooked on an atari game xengzoo (i looked it up and it is called Xevious ) or some crap. it was one of those controllers that can be hooked up to your tv. the game was pretty fun. and now here comes the reason for this entry, dalton and robin mentioned a website, namely http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/. he gave me a brief explain of the authors main point, "why won't god heal amputees?" which basically says most positive things can be explained by coincidence. leaving the thought out there if miracles exist and happen why don't there ever happen to amputees?