We may or may not know who is this
Dear, my so-called parents.
Read this or else you would far more ignorant than I have surmised. If you consider yourself so intelligent, read this.
For years I have tolerated your mental and psychology abuse. I cannot do so anymore. I am sick of you constantly degraded and threatening your children. You will never make your children do what you want them do by threats. I understand that you’ve been raised in an Asian based society and culture, but in America this simply does not work. Implanted in you are social stigmas that were based on your culture and upbringing. Though that is what you were taught long ago, it is obsolete in this time and age.
I do not listen or respect what you say to me simply because you give me no respect nor do you respect any of your children’s wishes. Sure, you have be able to offer us little petty items of value but you do not allow us to move on in the overall bigger picture. Have you realized that none of your strategies in parenting have worked?! You have been doing all this time. Is what would be referred to in psychology as Authoritarian parenting. This is characterized by imposing of rules and expecting obedience; restrictive and punitive (high on punishment), There is little verbal exchange between children and the caretakers. The result is that when the children grow up, they become socially incompetent. Meaning they do not understand how to interact with the world socially. This is the way you’ve been trying to raise us for all this time. For the first 10 years of our lives. Everything we’ve known from you was based on threats and punishment. You know what is another result of this? Your child will end up hating you for not allowing them to act with their own will. Also, your kids will grow up without learning how to act as an independent person.
What I want you to start doing is to start using Authoritative parenting style. Which is characterized by demanding and responsive; set rules, but still are able to be open for discussion, independence with limits.
Be able to communicate with me as if I was another human being. Not your pet or item in which you have complete control over. You will never have complete control over me. You can only help guide me in the right direction. Controlling is not parenting, Guiding is.
As to how this applies to what happen today, you were barking commands and criticisms when I wasn’t doing anything majority incorrect. You were yelling at me, I will not respect whatever you’re saying if you’re yelling at me. Do you think anybody would respect what another person is saying when that person is yelling at them? I refused to say anything in the car because I was angry and frustrated at you for the sheer amount of ignorance that came out of you. That’s why I was trying to look for a piece of paper in the car. I did not want to talk to you.
If your child wishes to get a job, do not impede him, encourage him. You cannot just deny what he wants to do. Nor deny him the ability to interact with the world. You might be find without any contact with the outside world for days at the time but I’m at the time period at when communication with my fellow human beings is completely necessary.
Furthermore, what is with the ridiculous nature of not allowing me to drive the extra car when nobody is using it!? Literally everyone in the age range is allowed to drive and transport themselves, this is completely backwards parenting. And you don’t even try to ask for advice from your friends. If you even have them anymore.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Friday, February 16, 2007
Blaming The Media: Television
Media tend to distort and twist facts for their own purposes. There are two forms of destructive media, Spin Media and Nonsense Media.
First is "Spin Media," this type of media interrupts the facts for you with their so called "expert opinions." It's more or less telling you how to think and what to think without telling you any facts at all. This style of media is commonly used on "Fox News." Media like this is reminiscent of the constant blaring of propaganda used in the book "1984" in which there is always an enemy to slander.
The usage of keywords is very interesting in spin media. "Cut and Run" is a term the media uses as a metaphor for leaving Iraq while leaving a bad connotation. Would opinion change if they used the term "Tactical Retreat?" The same goes for "Stay the Course" which would mean that they would have to do show the strength of the country....a bit stubbornly I might add. "Stay the Course" could be changed to say..."Stay the course and hit an iceberg."
"Nonsense Media" creates and forces upon the viewer values and ideals in which makes little sense. It typically targets the younger generation and makes them in turn buy loads of useless products. MTV, which is short for "Music Television" is hardly about music anymore but it's more like propaganda. Shows like "My Sweet Sixteen" shows the viewer that money is the most important thing...ever. In these shows, teenagers bitch and moan about how they can't have way extravagant items, (booking a popular celebrity to be at their party, a really nice car or something) while children are starving in third world countries.
The other nonsense media is entertainment television that focuses on the private lives of celebrities... Why should we be so concern about what a certain celebrity eats for breakfast or where they go for the weekend? This just creating a reality in which the celebrity is one of the most important things in the person's life, which is clearly false.
Turn off the TV and use the internet ^___^.
First is "Spin Media," this type of media interrupts the facts for you with their so called "expert opinions." It's more or less telling you how to think and what to think without telling you any facts at all. This style of media is commonly used on "Fox News." Media like this is reminiscent of the constant blaring of propaganda used in the book "1984" in which there is always an enemy to slander.
The usage of keywords is very interesting in spin media. "Cut and Run" is a term the media uses as a metaphor for leaving Iraq while leaving a bad connotation. Would opinion change if they used the term "Tactical Retreat?" The same goes for "Stay the Course" which would mean that they would have to do show the strength of the country....a bit stubbornly I might add. "Stay the Course" could be changed to say..."Stay the course and hit an iceberg."
"Nonsense Media" creates and forces upon the viewer values and ideals in which makes little sense. It typically targets the younger generation and makes them in turn buy loads of useless products. MTV, which is short for "Music Television" is hardly about music anymore but it's more like propaganda. Shows like "My Sweet Sixteen" shows the viewer that money is the most important thing...ever. In these shows, teenagers bitch and moan about how they can't have way extravagant items, (booking a popular celebrity to be at their party, a really nice car or something) while children are starving in third world countries.
The other nonsense media is entertainment television that focuses on the private lives of celebrities... Why should we be so concern about what a certain celebrity eats for breakfast or where they go for the weekend? This just creating a reality in which the celebrity is one of the most important things in the person's life, which is clearly false.
Turn off the TV and use the internet ^___^.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Vegetarian "I don't eat meat because I don't want to animals to die."
There are plenty of reasons to become a vegetarian. To lose weight, better nutrition, to live longer, all valid reasons to become a vegetarian but not wanting to kill animals isn’t one of them.
If we can’t even take care of each other, can we be trusted to correctly take care of entirely different species? Mostly people who become vegetarian do so to feel morally superior about themselves. Vegetarians mostly would argue that are hardly any differences between animals and humans and that it’s not fair to kill other animals to feed yourself.
…First of all, the only reason we are smart enough to even contemplate if we should eat meat or not is because nearly humans were able to gain enough proteins from meats to allow the development of bigger brains. So it’s only natural to continue to eat meat.
Also, what is the difference between plants and animals? “Oh, but plants don’t have feelings!” I’m afraid that you’re wrong with that too. There have been numerous tests where they hooked up plants to polygraphs and detected stress off the plants.
For example, there was an article that I’ve read a while back in which scientists put 20 plants in a room and got a volunteer to destroy one of the plants. (I fail to remember to find the article again though…it was on digg somewhere) The other plants responded this with stress signals. The volunteer leaves the room and then comes back. Once he comes back, the plants activate the stress signals again.
Even without that, vegetarians are always arguing about equality. What makes animals so much better than plants? Just because they can’t move or defend themselves, doesn’t mean whenever you eat you aren’t taking potential life away.
Just by living we impact on other species. So, the only good reason that people say they don’t want to eat meat because they don’t want to kill animals is that they just want to see themselves as morally superior. I’m bursting their reality bubble though. :3
If we can’t even take care of each other, can we be trusted to correctly take care of entirely different species? Mostly people who become vegetarian do so to feel morally superior about themselves. Vegetarians mostly would argue that are hardly any differences between animals and humans and that it’s not fair to kill other animals to feed yourself.
…First of all, the only reason we are smart enough to even contemplate if we should eat meat or not is because nearly humans were able to gain enough proteins from meats to allow the development of bigger brains. So it’s only natural to continue to eat meat.
Also, what is the difference between plants and animals? “Oh, but plants don’t have feelings!” I’m afraid that you’re wrong with that too. There have been numerous tests where they hooked up plants to polygraphs and detected stress off the plants.
For example, there was an article that I’ve read a while back in which scientists put 20 plants in a room and got a volunteer to destroy one of the plants. (I fail to remember to find the article again though…it was on digg somewhere) The other plants responded this with stress signals. The volunteer leaves the room and then comes back. Once he comes back, the plants activate the stress signals again.
Even without that, vegetarians are always arguing about equality. What makes animals so much better than plants? Just because they can’t move or defend themselves, doesn’t mean whenever you eat you aren’t taking potential life away.
Just by living we impact on other species. So, the only good reason that people say they don’t want to eat meat because they don’t want to kill animals is that they just want to see themselves as morally superior. I’m bursting their reality bubble though. :3
Popping The Reality Bubble
People live in their own personal reality bubble. As discussed before, reality is perception and perception is the deception of one's mind. Even the colors that you see everyday aren't concrete. The mind interrupts light that is reflected off objects in your eyes. Thusly, you can't be sure that the colors you see are actually real. Many species see colors that we can't see. Colors were created so we can tell the difference between objects other than shape..If the evolution of our species were slightly different, we could be seeing totally different colors than what we see today.
Most of the time, people dwell in their personal bubble until something big enough happens to disturb their reality so that they are forced to get involved or open their mind. People don't care what happens with the world as long as they don't think that it affects them. Thusly being ignorant is a valued commodity. It allows people to freely live their lives without much worry.
Popping the "Reality Bubble" requires a person to become informed with what is going on in the world and be able to think for one self, instead of letting the media control your mind.
Most of the time, people dwell in their personal bubble until something big enough happens to disturb their reality so that they are forced to get involved or open their mind. People don't care what happens with the world as long as they don't think that it affects them. Thusly being ignorant is a valued commodity. It allows people to freely live their lives without much worry.
Popping the "Reality Bubble" requires a person to become informed with what is going on in the world and be able to think for one self, instead of letting the media control your mind.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Potential of Humans as a Collective
By ourselves it seems like we can barely do anything, but as a collective we have the potential to be become even greater than the gods themselves. Think about it. Once we started to work together to build communities and cities, the exchange and advancement of ideas and technology made us the dominate species on the planet.
As a collective, we humans have the potential to rival the gods. The internet is evidence of that. Ever wonder why web 2.0 websites are so successful? (Digg, you tube, wikipedia) It's because of the accumulation of knowledge and data make these websites much more effective and useful then other sources.
Once we stop fighting together and start working together, we'll be able to do just about anything. (Yesh, classic hippy comment)
As a collective, we humans have the potential to rival the gods. The internet is evidence of that. Ever wonder why web 2.0 websites are so successful? (Digg, you tube, wikipedia) It's because of the accumulation of knowledge and data make these websites much more effective and useful then other sources.
Once we stop fighting together and start working together, we'll be able to do just about anything. (Yesh, classic hippy comment)
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Medical Industry a Detriment to Human Evolution?
Though this idea is morally wrong,(Imo) I cannot help but think this. According to how natural selection and evolution works, species evolve by defective or less adaptive genes dieing off and genes that increase the chances for the species to survive live on...
Medical facilities artificially let people with genetic diseases survive and reproduce.. In turn the world gene pool continuously fills up with defective genes. This could be called devolution.
The solution would be (though very nazi like D=) to castrate everyone with genetic related diseases. The other possibility (Which is much more optimistic) is that we developed genetic engineering to the point in which we can alter and fix human DNA sequences.
Medical facilities artificially let people with genetic diseases survive and reproduce.. In turn the world gene pool continuously fills up with defective genes. This could be called devolution.
The solution would be (though very nazi like D=) to castrate everyone with genetic related diseases. The other possibility (Which is much more optimistic) is that we developed genetic engineering to the point in which we can alter and fix human DNA sequences.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Everyone Lives in their own False Reality
One must first define reality to determine if it's false or not. What is Reality?
According to Dictionary.com
re·al·i·ty /riˈælɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ree-al-i-tee] –noun, plural -ties for 3, 5–7.
1. The state or quality of being real. 2. Resemblance to what is real. 3. A real thing or fact.
But how can one be certain things are real? The mind is a powerful delusional tool and people view things in many ways. When a person gives testimony to a detective and another person gives their testimony that denies the one before it, both of them cannot be right. The human mind can't remember things exactly the way it was.
Views and perception come into play. How you perceive things will often change your memory and the very reality you live in. With enough convincing of the mind, one could think that anything is possible. Delusions are the breaking down of things in the environment to perceive things in a more manageable way of the environment.
The human mind can’t analyze everything unemotionally and without bias like how computers can. As a result, we see everything with tinted glasses. As a result, misunderstandings take place and wars are fought. D=
While there are many more ideas related to this that can be talked about, they will probably be addressed in the future. (Like religion for example)
According to Dictionary.com
re·al·i·ty /riˈælɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ree-al-i-tee] –noun, plural -ties for 3, 5–7.
1. The state or quality of being real. 2. Resemblance to what is real. 3. A real thing or fact.
But how can one be certain things are real? The mind is a powerful delusional tool and people view things in many ways. When a person gives testimony to a detective and another person gives their testimony that denies the one before it, both of them cannot be right. The human mind can't remember things exactly the way it was.
Views and perception come into play. How you perceive things will often change your memory and the very reality you live in. With enough convincing of the mind, one could think that anything is possible. Delusions are the breaking down of things in the environment to perceive things in a more manageable way of the environment.
The human mind can’t analyze everything unemotionally and without bias like how computers can. As a result, we see everything with tinted glasses. As a result, misunderstandings take place and wars are fought. D=
While there are many more ideas related to this that can be talked about, they will probably be addressed in the future. (Like religion for example)
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