Blessid are the...

...Cheese Makers? Okay so that was taken from The Life of Brian but it brings up a very good point. That is; did everyone hear Jesus correctly? See in the movie there is a guy names Brian that parallels Jesus for many years and is often mistaken for the Son of God. In the beginning of the film however there is a great gathering and people in the way back of the crowd people thought Jesus said blessed are the cheese makers, and they looked at one another with perplexed faces until someone told them that the messiah said blessed are the meek.

So who isn't to say that over the past 2 millennia, no lets call it what it is two thousand years, there wasn't someone that tool liberties with the book of books and maybe changed things a little. There is thought to be a Gospel of Judas written with in a century or less of the Crucifixion (the only surviving copy is dated to 280AD +/- 60 years) and a Gospel of Mary found in 1896 written in Fifth century papyrus and argued to have been written some time around 120 -180 AD or even earlier if you subscribe to Hollis Professor of Divinity Karen King at Harvard Divinity School placing the writings to have been done during the time of Christ. Mary however has been lost to the Christians since it was Peter and Andrew that felt there should be no teachings by women so her accounts were disregarded and lost for just under tow thousand years.

 Now that we have opened this box of Pandora what do we do with the knowledge? Well most Christians would say this is not part of the New Testament and is to be dismissed as heretic writings. I however want to know why it is okay to learn and discover new things all the time, I mean look at the evolution in technology over the past 100 years and we all (well all that will find this writing at least) take this new knowledge and run with it. We use computers, cars, fly on planes, call our friends and family on our cell phones, surf the web on our iPads and listen to music or books on the go on our MP3 players but when it comes to a new idea or lost knowledge in our religion we are unable to bend at all much less embrace some more evidence in that a divine life had touched a few in such a profound way as to build a new and ever growing theology for millions in the years to follow. I challenge anyone to show me in the New Testament where it is written that all that is between the cover pages is never to be added to and is a final end all draft. The New Testament contains writings that we hold as Holy and the word of God, but written by man and some of those men do not hold the same values we do today such as women being equals much less teachers. Does that mean that the Savior of the religion and people of this world held the same narrow minded beliefs. I think not simply based upon the words in the New Testament. Jesus surrounded himself with those less favored and those that were shunned by society in hopes that people would see equality in flesh rather than a separation based upon status or holdings. Jesus loved everyone and respected everyone because his father gave them and us this life as a gift to behold and enjoy so why should anyone of us deserve to enjoy this life any less than the next person. Following the teachings of Jesus means following a life of constant sacrifice, giving until it hurts, until it no longer hurts, until the giving alone is the gift in return. Christians are a very giving group of people but when do they give so much as to take away a luxury from their own family. Example, take $40-60 a month off of your cable bill by cutting out all the premium channels and extras not needed to keep up in today's society and give that money to a charity or community group that is working hard to not only help the needy but working just to keep its doors open. That would be an effort to walk in the path of Jesus. The problem lies more in the children and how they are being parented rather than the willingness of the people to sacrifice. See by cutting out premiums then the parents would have to do more parenting and that means more talking with their children and please God we don't want to do that. Not that taking away movie channels would mean we would have to sit and talk more but we would be taking away something from the kids that they would in turn feel left out of when they go to school and then parents would have to explain things on a life level to their kids and aside from the few hours a week getting ready for and going to and coming home from church who wants to spend that kind of time and devote that kind off effort to their kids.

Look, I'm all for working hard for the joys of life and taking advantage of the luxuries we have in this country, I have an issue with those that use their religion as a soap box to sling their convenient bull shit to the masses in a vain effort to self indulge in masturbating their ego. THAT IS NOT WHAT BEING A CHRISTIAN IS ABOUT! Step off your high horses Christians and walk in the way of your faith. True faith is having and bearing sacrifices, and if you cant follow the faith to the letter then get the fuck off the soap box and stop looking down your noses at the rest of the world for being who they are just as you do. I point my finger sternly at those that feel the need in elevating themselves in their own minds and in front of their peers at the cost of someone else’s feelings in any way.

I'm not saying we are to live perfect lives, just that we should all do what we cant to not step on others in the process of enjoying the gift we got, don't take away the gift that is life from anyone in anyway if you can help it, at least try to do Whats right and when you do wrong learn from it and make things right even if it hurts you in the end.

I may seem to be picking on Christians but I consider myself a Christian but in the eyes of other Christians I am a lost person in a sea of sin. There is the catch 21, we could argue this until Jesus comes back again =) There is no way to prove with tangible evidence that my faith is right and your faith is wrong. I just hope that this falls on one good receptive ear and it makes a difference. That’s the least Jesus hoped for.

So whats eight inches long...

...And starts with a P? My morning crap. So if you were thinking I was going to talk about my wiener this morning you might be mistaken, but I'm not sure where this rant will go so there is hope for a dick joke. So I want to talk about misdirection this morning.

Like in my little funny I misdirected you to think one thing and finished with an other, and ZING! a joke is born. To bad that same practice is not solely used in Jokes but al too often it’s used in media and by all sides of the political coin. The media plays on the fear of the common man and the known fact that most people are way too uneducated for the decisions that need to be made every day in this country. So media relies on making us all scared and in doing so swaying us to follow the views of our media provider. Glen Beck uses words predicting Armageddon and Keith Olbermann insisted the other side is uncaring brutal and heartless but both sides use a form of fear mongering to drive their point home. They do so much of this my misdirecting thought and forcing us to believe a false view of reality. This all brings me to my case in point. The health care reform bill.

I challenge anyone out there to point out where in this health care reform bill are there any improvements to the actual act of heath care. You are probably reading this and thinking what the fuck is this guy getting at; the bill is trying to enable everyone to get heath care right. WRONG!!! Here are the facts, in a basic as I can state them way. EVERY ONE IN THIS COUNTRY CAN GET HEATH CARE RIGHT NOW AS THEY NEED IT AND CAN’T BE TURNED AWAY. Since we have the best care in the world what are they trying to reform? Oh the health care billing! That’s what they are trying to fix but they cant call it reform of the insurance industry because people would not think its so much of a big deal, but as soon as you plant that seen in the uneducated minds of the American majority that they are entitled to better "Health Care" than that is being offered to them today.

So what am I getting at, I'm getting at calling the issue what it is and not misdirecting people in to thinking they can't get care right now or that there are people in this country that are not able to get care at any one moment. This is a lie, we have a great medical law that states everyone is entitled to getting proper care and can not be turned down. Now a medical facility can turn away the uninsured and send them to a facility that is set up to take care of the uninsured but they can't do this until said patient is stable and no longer in eminent danger. There are medical colleges and clinics all over the country that will take care of anyone and bill them later. So the question is not if we can get care but what do we do about the rising bills. I just want the politicians to stop being fear mongers and call things as they are and stop calling this shit health care reform, its health insurance reform we need in this country. Too many people sit and suffer and roll the dice with their own wellbeing simply because they are too afraid of the bill they will get and a log of them don’t want the sub par health care that is often received a many of these clinics. By the way universal health care will create a ton of those sub par health care clinics. Take away the ability for doctors to make a good living and those doctors will become other things where the money is better. Sounds bad and uncaring but lets face facts people this is America and we are a money driven people. Again let’s call things as they are and stop trying to misdirect people’s eyes as to the real problem.


I could be totally wrong but I could be on to something. As long as we all think, we are on the right track.

Until next time...

Hurry up...

...I'm growing a tail over here! Think about it for a second and if you don’t get it you might not be immature enough for this blog. So that was a line I heard on Tosh.0 last night. What a fucking funny show that is and that bring s me to my topic for today. Wikileakes and sites like it...

So there are a few (compared to the population of the world) people out there that feel it is their right or even duty to break in to information sources and take what they find and expose it to the world for all to see. Now I have a mixed emotion about this since some of the info leaked has provided good results but my fear is that what happens when it ends up being a Geraldo drawing troop movements in the sand during Desert Storm. Some of the info we have needs to stay a secret but there is info that we as members of this Earth should be told about. But who do we put in charge of this debate of what we should and what we shouldn’t know. I don’t have an answer to that but I think I do have a good solution. Like everything in life we have to take the good with the bad, its just the way things are and always will be. You can’t make every one happy all the time, so you will just be banging your head against a wall thinking this can be accomplished. Unlike pack animals we don’t fall in line based on out instincts in to some primal order. No, too many people feel they have some right to be the best at what ever they do. I blame their parents for being too nice and not realistic enough. Stop telling your children that they can be anything they want to b when they grow up. No wonder so many people are pissed off in life. They actually believed their parents and were hoping to be rich and successful but in fact they were born with average physical and mental abilities so finding the proof for the higs bosom is not in their cards but being a top end ditch digger might be. Now there is nothing wrong with that and we all should strive to find what ever it is we are good at and be the best we can be at that. That makes up good humans, but too many of us grow up thinking they have been granted more freedoms than they really have and they do stupid shit like Wikileaks. I say let them play their game of breaking in and stealing info, I also say make the penalties for doing this act harsh as shit. I like things like hard labor for crimes and if these fat ass key mashers can’t do the hard labor, start them off with a good healthy diet and lots of physical activity so they will one day be able to perform their duties and repay their debt to society. I also say that if these people produce something that should have been known and we as society benefit from it then they should be praised. So the reward or punishment should be determined by the people affected by said leak of info. So you do well and you are a hero do poorly and you dig holes. Have you ever seen that movie Holes with a young "that dude from Transformers" in it. Good movie and aside from the abusive warden is a very good concept. So I think we need to start leaning toward a more pay to play attitude toward the actions people do and be a little harsher but also be more giving for the good deeds as well. So how does this pertain to Tosh.0 you ask (if you made it this far) well if it wasn’t for those people that feel everything should be available for every one to see then shows like Tosh.0 and Web Soup would be around for us to laugh and yell FAIL at all the time. That sense of unearned right is what I'm getting at and since everyone has these rights they need to accept the cost of playing the games. Like being made fun of on Tosh.0 and laughed at by millions or ending up in jail for leaking info that got 15 NATO troops killed because you felt that the world should know said info. I guess it boils down to this; think before you act cuz there is a price to pay.

I could be totally wrong but I could be on to something. As long as we all think, we are on the right track.

Until next time…

First things First!

...where's your shitter I got a turtle head poking out!
Now how is that a way for an adult to start his very first blog. Well it says volumes really. I'm a thirty something male that still giggles at farts and poop jokes, loves slapstick and is passionate enough with life to take a moment from time to time to write a bit and try and get people to think a little laugh a little and maybe in the end realize I'm not trying to change any ones mind just simply would like people to accept and understand that others might not think like you do and that's ok.

So I'll start off by pointing out that yes people do think differently and if we all didn't there would be no change in life other than physical changes. But if we all thought the same we would fail to evolve mentally really. Mentally we would end up being a family that lives in the deep wooded mountains of West Virginia, not a lot of branches on the family tree ya know. I think that we need to challenge each other in thought but never stifle. I think that we are all too afraid to be wrong in life. Being wrong does not make us bad people. To be bad at being a person is so much more than being wrong about anything; it’s the unwillingness to do anything about being wrong. Those of us out there that refuse change or refuse to admit that there is a better way or thought, the unwillingness to bend at all is where too many people fail at being people. Here is the funny thing though; those are the people that lead us through our lives. Look at all the politicians running not just our country but the world. They all think they are smarter than you and I, and even thought they are elected to office and promise to represent us in our best interest they end up forcing things down our throats because we are not able to come to conclusions on our own with out having our hand held all the way. So maybe those flip-flopping politicians are more in tune with the ebb and flow of popular opinion and the ever changing needs and wants of the people.

I could be totally wrong but I could be on to something. As long as we all think, we are on the right track.

Until next time...