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SuprchrgedSi
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Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 5/4/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: guitar, music, a connisseur of sitting on my ass (hell yeah)
Expertise: I'm now an attendee of the University of Texas at Dallas Electrical Engineering department. In my spare time I love to act and more than that love to play the guitar like a maniac. That's pretty much the long and short of it.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
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AIM:  SuprchrgedSi
Member Since:
1/26/2004
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| It's been a while, and for good reason. I don't really think blogs are all that terribly great.
Anyway, if you're still listening I'm assuming I have your attention. Today I saw an article about how in Omaha Nebraska, smoking in public places has now been put to the people as a crime that should be reported, like murder. If you see a man jaywalking, or maybe beating up on a mailbox, don't worry about it, but if you see a mna dirtying up your air, high tail it to the phone like the motherfucking roadrunner.
I thought this counttry could sink no lower towards our fellow citizen. People seem to think that smoking outside is a horrible crime against their health. Inside in an enclosed area is understandably put to a negative stigma, as it makes many people uncomfortable in their surroundings, but we have put smokers down to the level of criminals, having to duck in and out of the view of people to do what they had the right to choose to do. Outside, where health safety can't really extend to the realm of plausible arguments against it, people still refuse to allow people to do what they are allowed to do. Honestly, when did smoking become a crime?
I myself don't smoke, but I have never ever told someone they can't or thought that they shouldn't be allowed to. I have watched this country dissolve into the selfish versus the more selfish all my life. We have created this culture of me vs. everyone else, which is extremely arrogant and egotistical, thinking that we deserve that kind of recognition. What happened to the communities of time past? Where did our great strength as a people go? We traded it for instant gratification. I look at myself and see how easy it is to do this and how much I do it, too. When was the last time it was the norm and the right thing to think things through before we went out to go do them, rather than acting on a whim and just pleasing our "here and now " whishes. When did we trade in our great feeling of true nationalism for the feeling of what my country can do for me? This iMe generation has infuriated me for years.
I don't believe people who smoke are saints, but why do we treat them like sheep that need to be herded to the right decision? Why does our will even matter to their sensibilities? Shouldn't we reconcile our differences as a people and agree that we are all allowed to make decisions for ourselves and our posterity, as long as we don't harm others? What is someone else's cigarette outside on a rainy day gonna really do to your health, as you're already running away to wherever you're going?
Just give other people a chance to live in peace; what would you like? What if someone thinks that college always lead to people who forgot about God and decided to try and ban college? You'd laugh in his face, but his cause is based on the same principles that the witch hunt on tobacco has come to. Just remember peace and security is protected for all.
Rambled for too long I suppose. Night Guys
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| I have witnessed the birth of pure unadulterated awesome, and it is Snakes on a Plane. Easily the funniest movie this year, this amazing picture will take you on a journey through the world of film and make you a better person. If you do not leave the theater laughing and crying, you are not fit to live and should be executed. This film will change your life.
That is all.
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| It's no secret that I dislike this country's faults immensely. Even through that, I'm left on memorial day feeling a little ashamed of that. I know that it's perfectly ok for me to do that, and want out because of it. Even after all that, I still look at all the sacrifices for what this country once stood for, and I am happy for a day remembering that this once-great nation used to never get hung on the details and people felt community towards each other.
We are channeled immense power and resources like the world has never seen, and all it does is turn our focus to ourselves and our own wants. Self-serving and self-motivated, with no respect for one-each other beyond what we can get out of each other. Where did the cities of old where neighbors were friendly and did things for the sake of others? Did these people fight and die for us to bicker over stupid little shit? We can connect to people other places in ways the human imagination could not conceive 40 years ago, and all we do is bitch and moan because people are mean and selfish, each of us following the inevitable down the same road.
Now I'm not saying it's conscious, but next time you're bitching someone out on you're sites or bitching about how your girlfriend or boyfriend isn't being nice, think about how superficial you're being. This is not positively influencing anything at all. If someone is mean, just grin and bear it. This life is all there is. Don't waste it on pithy arguments, but I say try to see above all of it. While I'm as guilty as anyone many times, I try to always be the good person I've constructed for myself over these past few years and just accept things. Just remember that people died so you can live like this. Is this what you want?
Night
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| I know that it's a tired subject, but I really think people miss the point every day who are seeking control over their own lives by controlling others' decisions. This issue is the human right, that's correct, our right to think and do as we please as long as we don't breach our social contract others. I saw Thank You For Smoking today, which is completely based on a tobacco lobbyist doing his "evil" work. Yes there seems to be a high correlation of data pointing to tobacco products and cancer, but it's not my place to tell you not to smoke. It's my own personal choice to avoid tobacco, drugs and even alcohol, despite the pressure placed on me by many people to do these things. That's my choice. But I am increasingly getting the feeling around me that people are buckling to the will of the government and the propaganda spread by it about everything from drugs to oil.
I get the feeling more and more of people doing things just because its what society wants. It may just be that around me the rebellious teens of before are finally calming down and becoming what society wants of them, or maybe it's just that it's easier on people to not even think about decisions before they choose things. I say things and mean them and that's my right, I just wish others could do the same, and not force me to think like them. Well, I'm done but just please think about what I've said if you're listening, tomorrow when you "have to go by this shirt from Hollister", go to Wal-mart, or a thrift store, or even your own closet, and look for that shirt from years ago you don't wear anymore and ask yourself why it has to be today and it has to be Hollister, or American Eagle or Abercrombie. Just think through your decisions more and don't force me to do what you think is right, especially if you haven't thought it through.
Love,
Jimmy
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| I've finally discovered what is my problem with society. We are too ok with just being comfortable. Nobody gets inspired anymore, and we just do things to keep our comfort high and our work low. I myself am guilty of this as anyone, by just being an ee major. I chose this path because it would please my parents, I got a lot of scholarship money for doing it, and I will have a very good chance at success for the rest of my life. I couldn't stand outside of the comfort zone and become what I really wanted to be, a musician. I have decided that music is more important than anything to me, and am going to spend, if possible, more time on it because it's the only thing that keeps me going and gives me the will to live outside of the everyday. Look inside yourself today and see what really touches you, what moves that soul to new heights. If it's what you're doing now, you are the luckiest person alive.
Don't plug into generation e just for the sake of comfort. Yeah cell phones are great, blah blah blah. We got along fine 15 years ago without them. See how much art has declined in 15 years. You know what came out 15 years ago, the series of the greatest animated movies ever made, from Beauty and the Beast to Aladdin to Lion King. Kurt Cobain was on the rise and warning us about just what has happened. Plugging into this system that cannot stop feeding upon our comfort. We've traded our inspiration all away for easy living and big talk. In the 60's we worked hard to gain our position as the greatest place in the world. Now we just rest on our laurels and sit back with a potbelly and a beer. I'm sick and tired of it and I will not perpetuate it for myself. I'm going to do what inspires me and never rest on comfort again.
Much love,
Jimmy
Don't trade inspiration for comfort.
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