I am currently laughing out loud at the idiocy of some people in this world.

I have just been browsing the BBC site and came across and article called 'US chain drops terror scarf ad'.

The article ( i would add a link if I knew how!) is basically about a new US dunkin donuts advert featuring a popular american tv chef who appears on the poster wearing a black and white keffiyah 'Arab-style' scarf. You know the ones nearly everyone in the middle east wears as headscarfs and neckscarfs.
Also it was in fashion a few months ago and you can still see them being worn by emo/indie kids all around the country.

Well the advert has now been pulled because some absolute idiots think that the chef by wearing the scarf is showing support for terrorism!!!!!!!

What fucking morons!!! So are all the people that wear them in Britain as a fashion statement showing their support for terrorism? Are all the people who live in the Middle East and Asia that wear them all terrorists or something?
How can people be so small minded!

The fracas was started by American Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin the fucking idiot! Who seemed to be slightly detached from reality.
When my dad was younger he worked in Saudi Arabia and he brought back many keffiyahs that me and my sibling used to dress up in as kids and pretend we were rich oil sheikhs.
Unfortunately I now know my childhood fantasy was actually an advert for Al Qaeda, oh the mother fucking shame!!

What age would you like to live to?

Is it better to live fast and die young or grow old and jolly with a progeny of grandkids scurrying at your feet?

The age that human beings live to is ever on the increase, (although I read somewhere that my generation of early twenty-somethings are to going to be the first people to live a shorter life span than our parents) and it seems that degenerative diseases are also either becoming more common or just more in the spotlight.

I witnessed my grandmother suffer and eventually succumb to Alzheimers disease and it was very distressing for her and the whole family. I have also lost friends who were very young in a car accident.

Is death senseless or can it be a welcome relief? For my friends we were all very sad, however when my Nan died although we were obviously upset we were also happy that her suffering had finally ended.

So is euthanasia a practice we should have in Britain, or anywhere else for that matter?

Alzheimers can be passed hereditarily and I remember when my Nan was in her worst state my Mother told me that if she had the disease when she became older she would want to end her life before the final stage of the disease kicked in, which is basically a almost total vegetative state. By this she means she would want her family and friends to basically end her life for her is she wasn’t able.

Personally I don’t know if I could do that to my own Mother no matter what state she was in.

Does euthanasia show a disdain for life? Does it devalue the lives of the young who have it snatched away at any early age and have no choice whether they live or die?
Or is it a humane practice? We help our loved pets end their lives if they are extremely ill, of course they don’t have a choice though. So does it not make sense that humans should be allowed the same chance? Especially with our powers of choice?

What if they can’t choose though and if they are a vegetable, who doctors might assume to have no quality of life. Do we have the right to take it away to end suffering, or is all life sacred and no one has the right to take it in any circumstance?

My last point/question is a bit sketchy but with massive population growth, and particularly in England a population that is getting older and older is it better to live a good life and die young or get old and lose some of your capabilities.

P.S I am not bashing the old and I know all old people don’t lose control of their faculties and life rich full lives etc etc

I watched a programme last night entitled ‘Jesus camp’

The focus of the documentary was on Evangelical Christians in America and in particular their children.

The part of the show I found most disturbing was when the mother of one child fervently declaring that America was Gods Country.

I found this rather funny since if she had ever read the Bible she would have noticed there is not one mention of America in it! Plus the fact the native tribal populations had already chosen which God/Gods was Americas long before those old Christ lovers turned up.

It seems these people have a strange perception of Jesus. They seem to think that he is actually American, they seem to have no realisation that Jesus wasn’t white middle class like them and that he was in fact Middle Eastern (whatever that means!)

I have often thought this as reason why Religions are mostly Bullshit. The fact that God chose to only speak to the people in the middle east and neglected to inform the native American Indians or the tribes in Africa seems a bit strange for some all powerful omnipotent being, surely he’d just it’d let us all know about it in one go?

I personally do believe in God in some form, but I don’t believe in fundamentalist religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc, these can only lead to conflict.
One religion cannot hold a monopoly on forms of worship or the path to God.

A lot of people are worried about Islamic terrorists but I am more concerned about these Christian fundamentalists.= which has seen a sharp increase in Britain as well.

Who will save us from religion?

I was recently discussing British colonial history with a few friends of mine.

It is obvious that despite bringing immense benefits to Britain the Empire was extremely exploitative and discriminatory of the native populations it conquered.

So, should we feel guilty in this day and age for what our forefathers perpetrated in the form of the Empire? I know one of my friends does.

Or is it all ancient history?

Similarly should families whose ancestors were sold in the slave trade recieve compensation?

If so who should pay it?

Do you feel guilty that the land we live in was built on the back of racist slavers and exploiters of other nations resources?

And just for the Americans what is your position on native Americans and their status in modern society, do you feel guilty about the position your forebearers have put them in?

I am
Split down the middle
Cracked like eggs
Picked them shells up
Put the yolks back in again

I am
Finding my way through the dark
Hands out
Feeling for changes
Going no where
Visiting a million places

I am
Still
Meditate
Piloting
Astral planes
Is not so great

When we wake
I am blue

I am
Still I

You are
Still you

While observing the whole media rigmarole surrounding the release of GTA4 this month I began thinking about human beings and how we perceive and react to violence.

It’s my opinion that as a species we have a propensity towards acts of violence. I would take it as far as that we all have the innate ability to commit and enjoy acts of violence against each other and it is ‘society’s’ indoctrination of us that prevents it.

It is the people most removed from ‘society’ whom commit the most violence, in England at least. It is the underclass. People who don’t attend school for their daily lesson on how ‘we’ should act, the people who have no job and don’t own their own house and therefore have no stake in the economy. It is also people who realise that they enjoy it and do it for fun. More often than not I believe these are the same people.

If you have been angry before you will know, like everyone(?), the desire to tear and rip and batter. In those moments would you not find it enjoyable to smash something up?
Does the victim of a bully not desire to smash the bullies face?

I was on the bus the other day and my mood was not particularly great. A youth of perhaps 19 was abusing the bus driver because he was Polish. I suddenly felt the red desire to wrap my hands round said youths neck and start squeezing. I imagine I was not the only one. Of course being a well educated young man I didn’t do that, I’ve been ‘taught’ not to. If he had been threatening me personally with I would no doubt have acted on my desire, in the interests of self preservation.

If someone threatens your family or your friends do you not want to hurt them? To stop them?

It is my opinion that our lives in a modern Western society have only within the last two hundred years perhaps become disengaged from day to day violence. In a harsher harder world in the past, violence and it’s connotations would have been a daily thing.
I believe this is demonstrated when we look at other less ‘developed’ countries and the way in which, particularly in Africa and South America, violence and local militias compete and kill as a daily thing.

So when I see the up roar about how video games and movies are making us a more violent society I have to laugh out loud.

Opinions?
Opinions?
Onions?!

Dust Sawdust

Beginning again,
Time slips
Feel the earth turn
Solar systems spit

Ant crawls
Ant flies
Ant stumbles
Ant dies

Arc of the Universe
Just behind the eyes
Infinitesimal infinity
I lie, he lies, she lied

Falling asleep
To higher plains
Dying of thirst
Soaked in rain

Man crawls
Man flies
Man stumbles
Man dies

He lies, she lies, we lie mans lies

This week you might…?
Begin your life anew for the last time. You will not take it a day at a time but a decade, in one leap of magnificent fore-thought and inspiration your path will be set and journey started.
You will eat properly and at the right times, making amends for previously apathetic meals.
Your house will be picturesque and perfect, book shelf stacked rightfully, occupied by those who previously slept on the floor and by those who have been lost in hiding. Cd’s will find their soul mates in the right cases and clothes will be ironed, folded, and stacked by type, colour, size and popularity.
Exercise. You will not forget to stretch or warm down. And be better for it.
Stop lying and tell the truth to everyone, make life harder for yourself.
Girls/boys will not be a distraction; sex shall be an afterthought of a loving relationship with your grow-old-life-partner. Together you will make love and stop fucking.
You will mow the lawn, and kill weeds and probably lay a patio.
Cash money will be under adult supervision in case the pennies neglect the pounds.
Inside?
Outside?
A new life?

So, I have a theory that everyone barring mental illness, knows their own level of physical attractiveness compared to others.

It annoys me when obviously beautiful women moan that they are ugly or fat when they are clearly gorgeous, all it takes is one look in a mirror and they'd know, no doubt they do already.

Sometimes if I meet a friend of a friend who's a girl and I comment that she's a bit of an uggo then i get berrated with 'she's beautiful, she's really pretty!' and accused of being spiteful or mean. This when my friend blatantly knows her new acquantance is rough.

Alot of men also claim to not be able to judge physical attractiveness in other men which is rubbish in my opinion. It's not hard to tell, it's just most men in my opinion think that admitting to this is 'gay'.

I believe this is something innate that we all have, as soon as we look at a face we start judging it.
There have been studies(this is from research I looked at while studying psychology at A-level so it's hardly conclusive!) that support the idea that we are attracted to faces that are the same level of attractiveness as our own.

Also there is an idea in similar that someone who is really goodlooking might be attracted to someone who is really intelligent as it creates a balance, for instance Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe.

Thoughts?

Today while getting my daily dose of wikipedia I've been learning about Native American Indians.

In particular Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. One aspect of the culture I find fascinating is the way they are named and the names they give each other.

It seems that at birth you were given a name and then as your life progressed you would take on a new name of you own choosing or one your peers would give you one. For instance Sitting Bull at birth was named 'Jumping Badger' but later was named 'Sitting Bull' after his Father whose name then became Jumping Bull.

Some of the other ones I liked were:
For females: 'they are afraid of her', 'looks at it', 'Good voice woman', 'kills Enemy', 'red Leggins'
For Males: 'Worm', 'Slow', 'Stands Up for Him', 'Iron between Horns', 'Conquering Bear'

Although I'm sure alot of what they are meant to mean is lost in translation i still like them.

Wouldn't it be good if we all had names that reflected our characteristics or would that be terrible?

What would your native american name be?