Sometimes life provides us with the unique and extraordinary ability to see society and the human experience with clarity. Sometimes it only provides us with frustration and chaos.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

A New Study (Really)

A new study in The International Health and Science Magazine recently published a study on the cause of early onset color blindness. The study shows a direct correlation between early exposure to black and white stimulus color cards and colored cards. The study was done using a control group of infants ages 1month to 4 months. The results after following the child’s nero pathways over a course of six years found surprising results.The group exposed only to the black and white stimulas had a larger result of red/green color blindness. The other group had only a 2% rate of red/green color blindness. These finding suggest the nero pathways are formed by early exposure thus affecting the vision from its restrictive environment.
If you read this article and fully believe the above you are easily fooled. In today’s society where there is study after study one must be cautious about what is fact or fiction. Scientific studies need a lot of time and resources to do properly. Just the other night on CBC news a well-known Canadian researcher was found to do numerous fraudulent studies. How many others are out there. I wrote the above from the bullshit side of my brain. I am not a researcher, nor doctor. With the medical world a lot of what the common folk read is difficult to understand, not only that but statistics can be very misleading. The idea that one must do the foot work to prove the theory’s and claims of many resheachers is very expensive and time consuming. Therefore much of the research that is published or many claims have not been proven. We are gullible from our own laziness and lack of questioning. The next time you read something referring to a study, question it; even consider the possibility of fiction.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Canadain Election Results

Watching the Canadain Election results only one thing came to mind.
A song, that fits our situation.
Maybe you know it.
It's a 70's tune by BLONDIE.

"One way or another, I'm gonna find you, I'm gonna get ya...,getya...,get ya....get ya."
"One way or another, Maybe next week...I'm gonna find you, I'll get ya.... ya know."
"You........ think that your so sublime, I think that your not so fine."

But with no choice........what else can you do.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The Evil Do-Gooder

Do you know an evil do-gooder. An Individual whom is always on the complaint list. Someone who is always looking for the next waitress to blast, or store clerk to yell at. We all have evil do-gooder traits inside us. We think we can better people and our world. We make judgement calls and accusations about others, than try to alter them accordingly. Although sometimes you find an evil do-gooder whom has no limitations, no conscience. They look to destroy others out of anger and frustration. They do more than critiize the waitress but see she gets fired. They are power hungry, cruel, destructive individuals. Walking around this earth blaming others for their misery.
These are individuals who lack empathy, they are unable to understand the feelings or situation of others. Our world is full of them, and that thought scares me. They cannot be stopped, or controlled. Confrontation only increases their destructive nature, and thus they will seek to destroy you.
I do not believe in heaven vs hell. I feel that the devils walk amougst us and we must watch our steps, where we tread, and be cautious of the evil do-gooders. They are here to make our lives a living hell.

Friday, January 13, 2006

Grandparents

I found this little blub, and it did make me chuckle so. The author children.
Enjoy.

Grandparents are a lady and man who have no children, so they like children.

Grandparents don't have anything to do except when we come to see them.

They are so old that they shouldn't play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the store and have lots of money for us.

They never say hurry up.

When they take us for walks they slow down to look at caterpillars and leaves and stuff.

Usually Grandmothers are fat, but not too fat to tie your shoes.

They all wear glasses and lose their glasses.

They can take their teeth and gums out.

When they read to us, they don't skip.

A six year-old when asked where her grandmother lived: "Oh, she lives at the airport and when we want her we just go get her. Then when we are done having her visit, we take her back to the airport."

It's funny when they bend over and you hear toots and they blame their dog.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

The New Discipline

Straps went out years ago, with the new concept of reasoning discipline. Although in my days the strap was still used in schools. I never got the strap as the fear of it and the shame of explaining to others why you received it was nerve racking in its self. The hidden rumors about the strap, all untrue, salt wounds, cuts and welts, the hair effect were all needed propaganda to help make it a successful deterrent.
Just recently I was horrified by the new form of discipline that is occurring in our Canadian schools.
You yourself may not even be aware of it. The isolation room.
It is indeed a cell, or closet, as some children describe it. Each school has a different style, some in areas where teachers and staff are present. Some contain locks on the outside of the door, where the child is locked in this small space, alone with no one around.
Time out is fine, but to be locked in a confined space, for extended periods of time seems almost inhumane.
We try to save our animals, protesting confined cages, small pens and kennel time.
Our jails have discovered that solitary confinement actually increased violent behavior.
Not to mention a safety issue of a fire, hidden health problems or phobias.
Our children are not harden criminals, nor animals. They are learning tolerance and understanding, socialistic, understanding, and compassion. Is this the method to help build good character traits.
A strap, simple punishment, the fear it's self is enough. The discipline of the strap is like that of touching a hot stove when told not too. A physical pain, minor and short lived that reminds them of the consequences of their actions. No physiological side effects, emotion scars, or planted phobias created.
Confinement and isolation is a crime, a sad look at how society loses common sense and logic. A part of the strap was to look into the eyes of another whom is disappointed with your behavior, a way to build conscience and shame. It was in the eyes of another, not staring at a blank wall that we understand how our behavior negatively affects more people than just ourselves. Like that of lying to you Mother or Father while looking them in the eye, our guilt and their hurt ingrains an awful feeling that builds responsible moral.
I am truly disgusted by this isolation solution. We are teaching kids to avoid finding solutions to problems. If it's troublesome lock it up in the closet, and maybe the problem will go away.
Really?

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Behind The Written Word

Many people like to write. It is a way to express oneself, unlease hidden emotion, and explore creative possibilities. Though their is a hidden truth about writers not often talked about.
Writting is a place to hide. A secret place where no confontation or debate takes place.
You are not cornered by your comment, or ideas. The reader simply has to hold their breath and continue reading, or not. They cannot stop you mid sentence, or debate your ideals.
No matter what you are in control of information being expressed.
So does that make writers wimps, fear bearing individuals. Perhaps. Somewhere behind every story is a vunerability. A question, will they read it, do they enjoy it, did they understand the message. There is also that sence of security, no heated debate, if feathers are ruffled you remain a safe distance away. An conflicting emotions or feelings can not be redirected at you, the writer.
So what does that say about writers personalities? Perhaps it would be humbling to think about.

Friday, January 06, 2006

Reading With Your Eyes Wide Open

Just recently I was given a book to read called,"The Da Vinci Code." An interesting personal perspective building a enormous conspiracy theory based on the origin of Christian beliefs and ideologies. I have to admit that my belief has always waived on the possibilities of manipulated history for the benefit of governing control. However this book dips much deeper, purswaying you to think the possibilities of religious symbolism could infect be all but metaphorical with a completely different intent. Even art it’s self is questioned with the persuasion of hidden motivations and intent.
I tend to be a cautious reader and although I did find this novel fascinating I had to wonder if it somehow paralleled with the old fairytale,"The Emperor’s New Clothes."
The author somehow manipulated you to believe that he knows more than you. Perhaps so much so that like that in the ,"Emperor’s New Clothes," You start to not only believe in the invisible thread but see it. Dangerously we embrace theories and ideas without question. Even though this book contains a lot of reshearch and fact. It has many loop holes filled in nicely by the author. After reading you feel somewhat outwitted, perhaps this is where the innocents of individualism in beliefs can protect you from the invisible clothe you find yourself so eagerly willing to wear. Than again this book is fiction. May that leave you with enough warning. Like that of the conspiresy theory the author so suspensfully unravels so too does he wish to start his own. Enjoy.