Are all the work done by children?! Not the whipping...

Don't be alarmed... that Phrase as off putting as it is was a quote from the show Futurama.
I love the show, it's very funny, smart and frankly the best Animated show on Tv to date if not dare I say ever!
In context the quote is funny because it puts the reality of the 3rd world in front of people's faces and in a interesting way.
I think you can do anything in comedy to get a little chuckle out of people but then they think about it, it's face to face with people.
As a matter of fact I was talking with someone on the 28th about how there are Children in other countries who pretty much live on a dump, sorting through filth and garbage for little money, not going to school because they need to help their family.
I have gone to Jamaica twice and both times we went to orphanages, that was very hard because those kids were so love deprived it made it hard not to want to take one home with you...Truly Heart breaking.
In this economy it's hard to do anything other than worry about what will happen to your own family let alone another person in your own town, state, country or even half way around the world.
We're supposed to be socially aware and it's good that people go to other countries to help where needed.
Now that I said that let me say this...

We are a broken country, it's left vs. right and we are all broke in this economy with 10% of people unemployed at the moment.
we have people loosing their homes, barely making ends meet to feed their families.
That's here and it's sad that in a country like ours we should have to see anyone wind up in that situation.
Look, I'm all for Helping our fellow man, in fact when I have money I buy someone a meal that is hard up.
If you donate to charities let me say that's great but also maybe think about finding one that can help here in the states because how can we help others when there are still problems in this country?
Yes I realize that we have programs here that help or are supposed to but often time there's so much red tape it's redonkulous!
If you know a family in need maybe you can help them out, help out in a food pantry, Shelter or things like that.
I've heard of people taking their kids on Christmas to show them how fortunate they are and show them how to give a real gift and what the season really means.
Maybe you think I'm a jerk because I'm saying we need to put our own before any other country but we need to look out for our own because no matter what your stand is we are all American first and foremost which makes us all brothers and sisters.

I usually get a lot of guff for what I'm going to say next but I'm saying it anyway because it needs to be said.
We have helped how many countries out over the years and how many help us when we need it? China bails us out but now we're working for them.
Is it any wonder our economy collapsed when all our stuff is from other countries and we don't do nearly as much exporting?!
On top of that the Banks gave out freaking loans to people who they knew can never pay it back.
There's too much to put down about why our economy is screwed up as it is but I won't go into that now.

I'll leave you with these quotes...


I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~Mother Teresa


Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev

Stop the world I want to get off!

If you have been wondering why I haven't been writing it's because I've been Preoccupied with what's been going on in my life.
I don't like where I am in life, I look around and I see what's going on with everyone else and I feel as though I should be farther along with my life.
I'll be turning 30 at the end of the month and I have nothing to show for it, my Younger brother just got married not long ago, it's like that with a lot of people I know, My brother has built a place for Himself as a manager where He's worked for 11 years.
Granted I know He wants more but at least He's got something stable to hold onto which is more than I can say for myself.
I'm unemployed like 10% of Americans but even before that I had a hard time finding or holding a job although it's nice to blame a downed economy so I don't feel like such a failure.
Living with your parents is not the most Ideal place to be even though I understand more people my age are living with parents.
Well the unemployed thing isn't totally true I guess, I mean I work as a media Manager for a friend of mine but my pay is based on a project we're doing and that's on hold for now so I won't have income until the project is done.
I feel bad because all I can do is Help out, I don't have any money to give my parents and most often I'm asking for it, mainly for eating if I do go out which lately hasn't been much.
I've cut down on the places I go so it's a bit easier but it's still hard on everyone across the board.
Sometimes I just want to pick up and go somewhere but then I think about it and have no clue where I would go.
I have friends in different places but then I would want to move somewhere warm but I don't know people in warm places...
What sucks the most is the fact I have no dating life, I know I need a job before I can date because I'm responsible like that but even if I did find someone to go out with it's not very Ideal that they would want to go back to dear ol' mom and dad's place.
Not that I don't love my parents but let's face it, I'm not a teenager anymore even though I didn't really date in my teen years either but that's another story all together.
I feel even more torn by the fact that I kind of want to go back to school but I have seen too many bad things with going back to school to doubt if it's even worth it to go.
I've seen people, get student loans and then head for 4 years of college or trade school, they get done only to find that either...

1. They have to go back to the same crap work they were trying to get away from.
2. They have nothing to come back to only to have to keep paying back student loans that they will never be able to pay back.

Right now it seems like I would have nothing to loose, I mean after all I'm already unemployed right?
Well see the thing is that I went for 2 years to a trade school and came back to nothing and I don't want to waste my time to come back to nothing again.

Another problem is that I have too many things I want to do if I did go back to school.

I want to be a better writer.
I want to go into art.
I want to go into animation.
I want to go into Film.
I want to go into Audio recording.

all these things would coincide with one another but would take years upon years to do, Right now I'm 30, even if I did do only 2 years each and passed, did well, I would be 40 by the time I got everything done and with no real promise of ever getting a Job.

My problem is that I am so scattered right now, I'm trying to write my novel and get it done but I'm so stressed out because I need money now and I keep getting side tracked and it's driving me nuts.

I know God has everything under control but I feel like I don't know what I should be doing right now, I want to pay my parents for staying here but it's so freaking hard to find something I won't fail at.
that's another story though...

People my age already have careers, wifes, houses and children of their own by now, all set and it drives me nuts that people younger than I am already are farther along in life than I am.

Sometimes I wonder if it's even worth getting out of bed anymore.

I'll leave you with this Quote...

"No amount of sizzle will make a bad steak good." - Anonymous
“School's a weird thing. I'm not sure it works.” - Johnny Depp

Happy Birthday America!!

Well not really, I mean the 4th wasn't really when we were founded but it is when the day was picked.
It's amazing how fast time goes by and it's another year of fire works but fireworks weren't really a big deal for me.
Yes they're pretty and I saw a big mess of them at warner park on the 3rd for Rhythm and booms, if you're not familiar let me enlighten you, then again you could just look it up too. lol
It's the biggest fireworks display in the mid-west no doubt, put to music, frankly it was ok but then like I said I'm not big on fireworks.
My Dog is cowering at my feet as I type because shes a scaredy Dog and she doesn't like the booms. lol
I went down and hung out with friends and that and watched fireworks but then I got lost on my way back to our seating because I had walked over to a gas station across the street to go buy water because they were freaking charging $3.00 for it!
Mama didn't raise no fool so I bought mine a $1.00 earlier in the day but then when I went back to buy more they closed early and that's when I lost my group, had to call a friend to find them again.
After words I sat in traffic for an hour trying to get home... fun. o.0
So today I went to church, after which I came home and took a nice nap, it's weird to hear yourself say that when you get older.
I woke up refreshed and headed to another 4th of July party but left before the Fireworks because it looked like it was going to storm.
This Holiday weekend was good, good food and friends... I hope all of yours went well also.
I suppose this is the point I could pop in with something about God and our forefathers but I've done that in the past and I'm kinda tired so I'll just leave it at have a happy fourth everyone. :)

The hardest thing anyone could ever do.

It's already June and I've been preoccupied with relatively unimportant things but I'm hoping to change some habits I have when I move which isn't too far away.
One of those habits is speaking my mind, Now It's only my opinion but by far the hardest thing anyone can do is holding their tongue and not speaking their mind.
I've been pretty good about it and learning to not saying anything but I still have a long way to go with that and it has a way of sneaking up on me from time to time.
The worst place I have trouble in is online, this is not a medium for arguing with anyone mainly due to what I call Verbal delay.
When you talk it is mainly a reactionary thing where you can talk back and forth with fluid motion with no guessing needed on intent of How the words are both presented and tone of voice.
When I'm in a one on one conversation I can respond to something with immediacy and expand on it as needed so there is no mistake with intent.
However the same cannot be done online due to the following reasons...

1. Short space.

There are two parts to this.
A.} Often times you only get so many words to convey your statement and often times you cannot fully explain your intent so you have to compact often resulting in people thinking you're not thorough enough or misinterpreting your message leading to people thrashing your opinion.

B.} In the case of where you do get plenty of room and can fully write your full thoughts out you are forced to shorten your thoughts into the best way possible due to the fact that no one wants to read long expounding essay's.
Often times instead of reading your full thoughts people skim the words and/or subconsciously skip a word that is vital in conveying the point.
For instance... If you write "Lindsy is not a whore." people skip over the word 'not' and the words turn into "Lindsy is a whore."
I don't know why this is but it does happen very strangely and I am confident that it is subconscious and not intentional.

2.There is a delayed reaction.
Because there isn't an auditory response of physically Hearing you often times get caught with having to wait for a response from the person or if it's an open forum of any number of people waiting to type their opinions.
It takes a while to type a response to these people and so a normal conversation that would not take long can go on forever getting nowhere in the least because another thing that happens is that people who haven't seen the whole conversation tend to repeat things that have already been talked about variably starting a lot over because no one wants to go through Days weeks, months if not years of chat logs depending on how long the topic was posted and how heated it got.
Not to mention pages upon pages of logs.

Inevitably posting anything online causes a never ending up hill battle that no one wins because no one gets their point across without a huge backlash from one side or the other ultimately becoming useless in all aspects.

So even in knowing this I still have the habit of speaking my mind which logically and literally is insane because I keep hoping for a different outcome other than a never ending battle which never happens.
I've been seriously trying to stop online debate knowing that it will never go anywhere and just let it go because if I don't stop it at the start It'll be very hard to stop myself from stopping.
I've gotten much better in the real world and holding my tongue and being better at lowering my level and even letting things go, now all I have to do is just keep reminding myself not to start in the first place.
I just have to let others be wrong and have me not say anything which is really hard for me to do, when someone says something incorrect I feel a very strong urge inside pushing me to correct others.
A big part of this has to do with the Asperger's in me and I'm not using it as an excuse by any means but more of the fact that it Helps me understand myself Better and have a better understanding of what I need to correct in my own life and how to go about doing that.

People often times don't understand why I am the way I am or why I'm loud, speak my mind so flat out boldly, see things in black and white and why I sometimes get so obsessed with things.
I think my obsession more times comes out in the form of wanting to correct people with misinformation and in doing so I won't let go most times until it's corrected.

Recently an old friend of mind posted something on His Facebook page to which I was not the only one to jump in and correct Him in His mis-beliefs on a subject.
For some reason a friend of His {Not mine} proceeded to suggest that the only mission in my life was to only prove my friend wrong as if I stayed nestled by His page waiting to strike and lash out like I had nothing better to do with my life.
They also said a few other things to me which I won't get into and so in defense to correct this misinformation I Private messaged them because I wouldn't want to get into anything on a public forum since it can get very crowded quickly.
I do this with everyone and anyone who talks to me because it's only proper to at least give defense to an attack.
In doing this my friend got upset simply because I messaged His friend whom I didn't know despite the fact that their friend openly attacked me and I was at least nice enough to private message that person rather than getting into it on a public forum.
Long story short they unfriended me which is their right to do so but they did not see my right to defend myself against a threat.
I do wonder, should I just let people carry on with false information and passing it on to others or do I take the risk of correcting that despite being right and backed and vindicated by others will turn into a never ending battle?
I don't have that kind of time to waste on ignorant people and yet the drive inside me doesn't want those people to keep being ignorant either.
It's a Paradox...
I think from not on I'll be trying my darnedest to stick to verbal correction and leave online ones out.
God holds us accountable to that if we do not at least try to correct misinformation and God will hold false teachers accountable for all those who they led astray with their misinformation.
I swear in my near 30 years of life this is my greatest challenge yet of personal growth and I'm sure there are more to come.

Let no man say I wasn't fair

I keep getting behind on my blogging and it's getting a bit frustrating because I know I should do it but get caught up in other things so I know I need to spend less time on my Facebook account and more writing Here and finishing my novel.
Now onto my Title>
It's no secret how I feel about Obama, I dislike what He's doing and I'm not shy about saying my opinion either, I don't wish death on Him, I just wish He would get out of office.
Now over that I must say lately I have seen a few things here and there that caught my attention that were good.
Like the fact that He opened a new Nuclear Power plant and opted to go for our own drilling while we wait for clean energy to kick in a bit better.
Now I'm not oblivious to the British Petroleum situation and I'm not blind to what a tragedy that was and how we're going to be cleaning it up for quite some time.
Now saying that I must say that it was still a good call because we need it, I know most would question why I would say continuing to drill for oil after such a tragic thing happening is good and I can only tell you one thing.
Other countries are continuing to drill.
Do you think that we're the only one's who do off shore drilling?
We need to think about the cost of gas, Yes life is important too but think about the fact of how the economy would be boosted if gas was only $1.00 or less!
With gas prices down business owners would have to pay less for shipments and in return product prices would go down, we could go places and tourism would be up around the country.
What a positive effect low gas prices have don't they! :D
Now on the other hand besides off shore there are plenty of places that are land locked that have oil, as a matter of fact there is so deep of a reserve our grandchildren would have low gas prices through their lifetime also!
Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for taking care of the earth and being good care takers, after all if we poison our own water supply what good would that be?
I'm all for new power and energy sources but at the same time I don't think we need to fret either about the scam of "global warming".
I'm kind of in the middle between making sure we are responsible and not being so uptight that we don't progress to make life better for people.
Getting back to what I was saying before I got side tracked, I may not agree with nearly anything He's done but I must say that With at least those two things He's been bumped up from a flat out F to a D- as far as grades go.
Don't get me wrong, He's still got a long way to go before I up His grade again for a while but still I'm giving Him a fair shake on that.
Now all He has to do is support Arizona and follow their example for Illegal immigration , cut back spending which includes NOT bailing out Greece and other countries!, Repeal the Social healthcare bill and the list goes on.
Let no man say I wasn't fair in my views because this should be proof enough that I do give credit where credit is due when it's earned.

Let me leave you with these quotes...

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. -Brit Hume

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The National day of Prayer: Becoming an outlaw for God.

I'm going to do something different than what's on the list and I've been so busy with my other Projects that I haven't gotten to anything on my list of Topics.
I did get to thinking though, Today is the National day of Prayer and a governmental Judge said that it's "Unconstitutional" to pray.
What kind of world are we living in that it's against the law to pray where we want to in public?
It's our right to pray, despite popular belief this country was founded on Christian principals as seen in their writings, our founding Fathers meant for us to have freedom to choose a religion and to Keep the government out of the churches business in dictating what people can and can't believe or telling the people what Churches they can or can't belong to.
It was not to keep Religious Principals out of Government, It is the Ethics of the people that keep the Government in line and keep our freedoms in tact.
This was because of the Fact that there was Religious oppression coming from England and the founding Fathers were trying to escape that Oppression.
Now there are people in government who are stripping our rights to worship in our way, all we wanted was to recognize our heritage on a national level, we weren't trying to force people to pray or forcing people of other beliefs to convert.
We would like to see that happen on people's own accord but what's strangely sad is it seems that while Christian rights are being stripped other religious rights are being presented, what do you think would happen if the government said that Muslims couldn't pray?
May the 6th we move forward and we are praying anyway with or without the government's permission and there is an outcry by anti-Christian groups because we're still praying despite them not recognizing it as a national thing.
WE the people will bring this to the forefront and recognize the National day of prayer as our right.
They can't stop people from praying, The can't tell us what we can Believe, It is our rights as Americans and most of all it is our Human right.
If it is Illegal to Pray then I will be an outlaw, I am not accountable to Men...I am accountable to God.
If you are a believer please keep praying for our Government because those in office need guidance.
If you do not believe that is your right but please respect our right to pray, we're not forcing you to pray and that is not the goal of the National Day of Prayer, the goal is to gather those who do believe to pray peacefully for our nation, our leaders and most importantly the world.
Yes we can pray any time of the year but it seems so scattered that if we have one day to band together it brings us together as a Church whole, no matter what Denomination.
We are the Body of Christ and we must keep our spiritual freedoms in tact because if we don't it won't be too much longer until Prayer really will be Illegal.

Let me leave you with this quote from the movie Kingdom of Heaven>>
"A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that."

Upcoming Topics

It's been a hard thing to choose a next topic to talk about so I'm going to make a short list off the top of my head and go from there.

The Differences between Killing and Murder.
The Evils of Socialism and the Deceiving of America
Abortion.
Decisions and how they affect and Shape us and our world view.
Having the Heart of David: Chasing after God.
Drinking Deeply in thought and Spirit.
The Watered down Mentality.
Changing vantage points of us and how we view the Bible.
Forming the Well.
Standing on the Precipitous.
We are Trees: Taking root in your Faith.
Faith and Logic.
Sailing in your Worship.
Judging, Rebuking and God's laws.
Letting your Dreams die.
Sound of silence:Death of noise pollution.
Getting off the bottle: Growing your teeth for the Meat of the Bible.
Gaining Wisdom.
Walking away: Starving your Ego.
Owning up: Taking responsibility for our actions.
No Regrets: Not living in guilt from the past.
Christian: Christ in us being a "little Christ"
Body of the Church: God's dwelling place.
God's investment in us.

These are just a few things I've wanted to talk about because there's a lot of Misconceptions about things or just flat out lies people have accepted in their thinking.
I don't think people truly think about these things or see them at skewed angle so they don't fully see things for what they are thereby missing a lot.