Blog of a crazy man

Warning:
The following post may be deemed “inappropriate” by some of my reading audience. I don’t normally talk like this, but I wanted to make a point.

Stern will take his show (and presumably a significant chunk of his listeners) to Sirius Satellite Radio, in exchange for $500 million over five years. In the business, they have a term for that kind of money: a shitload.

If that bit of highly specialized vocabulary makes it to the newsstand, I will have Stern to thank. You could talk about Stern and his effect on mass culture without resorting to vulgarities, but why would you want to? Like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, Stern has fought to make the world safe for smut, because smut makes people laugh. And if you don’t think that’s a worthy cause, go screw yourself.

And, really, have fun doing it. I can recommend some books.

I was reading Wired Magazine online and saw this. I don’t like Stern. But, no matter how much I would like him to shut up, he should be allowed to say whatever the fuck he wants to, broadcast or satelite. I’d really rather not listen to Stern talk smut, but free speech isn’t about what I want. It’s about what somebody wants to say and is allowed to say. He can talk shit and I can tell him to go fuck himself, but what makes this country great is that I can publish this sentence.

I got an essay doubleshot for you. First is the essay that I wrote for History, then later I’m going to put up te essay I wrote for English. Before I give you the first essay I should give a little background info. We just finished discussing the Civil War, and during the discussion my teacher had been trying to give us examples of the “human face of war”, these were various instances showing what people went through during the war. On the test she gave us the essay, “Describe the human face of war.” This was my responce, enjoy!

War has no human face. It drags men along helplessly forcing them to either slaughter their brothers, or be slaughtered themselves. It causes loved ones to be lost, families to be broken, and lives of survivors to be destroyed. In some cases, as in the South, it causes those not on the battlefield to face starvation and shortages of clothing and basic necessities of life. War has no human face, and this war was no different.

The second in my essay doubleshot.

Difficulties are something everybody encounters. At some point in life everybody meets a problem that seems too difficult to handle. While everybody has them, how someone reacts to them is what truly determines how difficult they actually are.Some will immediately say that circumstances, not reaction, are responsible for determining the difficulty of a situation. They are simply mistaken. Circumstances can only have so much influence, because they are, in fact, circumstantial. A circumstance can be avoided, it can be changed, and, in some cases, it is brought about only by someone’s reaction to other difficulties. If a person reacts to a difficulty by assuming that he cannot fix it, then the difficulty will only get worse as it continues to fester and grow unabated. If someone reacts with an attitude of being able to conquer any difficulty, he is more likely to succeed in removing the difficulty from his life, as he will attack it head on and go straight for the root of the problem.

It is true that, no matter what someone’s reaction, he can’t control the reactions of others, which can make the situation even worse. This is a good argument, but it misses a very important point. Others reactions are, whether a person admits it or not, influenced greatly by someone else’s reaction and attitude. People are naturally inclined to take on the attitudes of those near them. As the illustration goes, if several lightly positive people are put in a room with one strongly negative person, by the end of the day the entire room will be negative. Conversely, if several lightly negative people are put in a room with one strongly positive person, by the end of the day the entire room will be positive. If the individuals care for their own reaction, the rest will follow suit.

Even with the effects of reaction on others and the difficulty, those effects mean nothing without the last effect of reaction. This most important reaction is whether or not someone chooses to rely on God to carry him through his difficulties. The best thing someone can do is to ask God for help, because He is the only one capable of changing everything.

Reactions are the most important thing in determining how difficult a situation is. No matter what someone faces in life, his reactions are what make the difference. Not circumstances. Not people.

I bought the domain jmweirick.com yesterday. I pointed it to this blog for now, but hopefully sometime in the future (when I get a job) I’ll find a webhost and start expanding the site. I’m going to put up some forums and make it into a comunity site, kinda like what JErm has.

The Global Consciousness Project is a project that has 65 random number generators placed around the world in 41 different countries. The data fromt he genreators is fed to a central location, via the internet, where the numbers are then graphed. The graph usaully remains as a straight line, but the project discovered that one occasions where a large number of people felt emotion, such as the New Years Eve or the death of Princess Diana, the graph would jump. For the past several years the project has witnessed the graph jump every time a major world event happened. In and of its self, this is cool, but useless.

What makes this really cool is that when 9/11 happened, the graphs registered, as would be expected, but four hours in advance. This would be dismissed as just a mistake, except in December the graphs registered another spike, twenty-four hours before the earthquake that caused the tsunami in South East Asia. The reason behind this isn’t fully understood, but something is happening.

I’m still skeptical, but who knows?

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My mom’s boyfriend got his cell phone bill today. Apparently somebody forgot to include in network calling on his plan, because he now has a bill of over $1,600! Verizon disconnected his phone until he pays them, so he’s gonna use mine - I don’t use it - until he sorts it out.