How often...

...do you think about what other people are thinking and think that you are right?  I had an english teacher who took things that a character was saying and drew a more "subtle" meaning from it, a meaning that I really don't think applied at all.  And I think this happens in real life sometimes.  You misinterpret how another person reacts to you and you get the wrong idea from them.  But you know, I  think that misinterpretation can be humorous, in a morbid kind of way.  Someone is crying and you think about why they're crying, and then you think that they're not really crying they're laughing! HAHA!  Sort of not really.  Just a different way to look at things.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Control

Pretty sure I talked about this before, but I kind of feel like I need to again.  Control.  Why do we need it?  The need people have to be higher than someone else.  Ok, maybe I am talking about something else here, but I'm convinced it is the same thing.  If you place yourself higher than another person, you are telling them that they can't really measure up to you, sometimes enticing them to try.  Reminds me of the parable when Jesus said that you should take the lowest seat and be moved up at the party.  It just seems really awesome if that always happened in real life.  Humble yourself and you will be exalted, exalt yourself and be humbled.  That would be an awesome way to live.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Need to start getting on this more...

Sorry that I haven't been on this that much.  I just haven't had too much time for anything recently.  I should be posting fairly regularly from now on.

So.  There are some times when I feel like something I do is emotionally insensitive to a certain situation.  Sort of like making a loud noise at a silent movie...it's just kind of awkward.  It just sort of makes sense to me not to do something I would regularly have done under different circumstances.  Not sure what my point is with that, but I thought it was worth bringing up.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Why are people so rude???

Why would a person ever just make fun of deaf people as a whole?  I was watching Celebrity Apprentice (yay for DVR!!!) and there was a deaf person and another person was talking about how no little kid wants to read about a person who is deaf because it is sad and it would make them feel bad.  All this to a person who has been trying to break over barriers like this for HER WHOLE FREAKIN' LIFE!!! Seriously?!? That is just ridiculous.  I just don't get how a person can get so callous and rude!  To anybody who has a handicap, which I think most of us do, by the way, the most demeaning thing to tell them is that they should just hide in the shadows because they make people feel bad.  And that person doesn't care about the person they're talking to?  That's just ridiculous.  Ridiculous.  Since when has the human race been degraded to that almost animal order of intelligence?  I'm ashamed.  But then, why should I?  I know that there are some people in the world who do things like this all the time.  I know there are some good people in the world.  But I also know there are substandard examples of humans as well.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Why is childrearing so difficult?

Why do parents want only the best for their children?  It seems to me as if parents always push their children into what the parents think is best for them.  I've have also seen the trend of children not wanting to be like their parents and resolve to be better to their children.  I think part of the reason this sometimes does not work is that all children are different and will respond to different stimuli than other children.  But this still seems interesting to me.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Where do the lies end?

or the truth start?  Do I lie to you all the time?  Could everything I say be an inaccurate mask hiding what I really mean until the mask fades away and becomes the horrible face that is underneath.  I feel like I'm so fake.  I feel like I'm just a machine or a robot, following someone else's will until I find myself enough to make my own decisions.  That or become so overwhelmed with the horrible person I am.  Really overwhelmed.  I just want to curl up and play some music or run or something.  I can't go on like this.  I need something else.  Music.  Pain.  God.  Something.  Probably God.  But all things come from God.  Because I certainly can't get it from other people...

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Man is not machine...

...and never will be
following another person's track with this one
Recently, a computer competed on Jeopardy and won, making people believe that they will sometime be replaced.  This seems ridiculous to me, because computers cannot possibly do everything a person can do.  They cannot "hand-make" anything.  If something goes wrong, they have a limited capacity to fix a problem.  They cannot make their routines better.  All things that humans can do.  I don't care about how far robots get because I know they will never be able to think and reason like real humans do.  You can disagree all you want, and I may as well be wrong, but guess what--I'm still right.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

The Myth of Superiority

Why do other people always have to act as if they always know better?  Why cannot they admit that other people who perhaps seem to not know better have some valuable insights that would be beneficial in many ways?  Why dominate a conversation when you can broaden your scope with more variety?  I just don't understand why people are so eager to hold on to their own beliefs, when they are obviously wrong.  Just kidding.  But just that one sentence.  Everything else is right.  That is why we have DISCUSSIONS not one sided conversations.  Even if you want to wrongfully call that a discussion.  So listen up people!!!

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Different Version, Different Story

There once was a rabbi and there were some people.  In a marketplace, there was a woman who committed adultery and she was going to get stoned by the people, as was the practice back then.  The rabbi said, "Those who are without sin, let them throw the first stone."  All the people dropped their stones.  The rabbi then said, "Nevertheless, this woman has sinned and needs to face the consequences," and subsequently raised and dropped a stone over head and dashed out her brains upon the ground.  I guess not everything turns out the way you think it will.  Perhaps that is why there is not mercy for all.  Because if there was, some people would get away with far more than they should.  Therefore, we should think ourselves lucky when we receive mercy when we feel that we should not.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Haven't been on this for awhile...

...but I'm back now.  Sort of.  I'll be out for a little bit next week.  Somehow the pageview number jumped for a little bit.  I've been really busy, so maybe it becomes ironic that that is when people choose to look or not look at this thing.  Finished the next book in the original Ender series.  I'm sort of going through them all again and writing down ideas at the end.  I can't write while I read.  It messes up the mood and everything.  I use A LOT of paperclips.  I'll take a picture sometime.  The current one had to do with foreign species and their underdevelopment and reliance on a virus for their well-being that is sometimes harmful to humans.  It is really interesting.  Also giving the books to a friend who is just reading them for the first time, which is really exciting.  Gives me a lot of good things to think about.  All the characters are just so deep.  Which got me thinking?  Why are all the characters in the stories highly intelligent?  It is his world and everything, but is everybody really intelligent?  I'm starting to think that there are people who are a whole lot more intelligent than you would think.  Which is completely new mindset for me.  Sort of.  I mean, there are a lot of smart people, but some of them hide it really well.  At least that is what it seems like to me.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Why Does God Give us good Things?

When all things that we do have some negative consequence?  Okay, not all, but a lot of them do.  Don't try to catch me in this one, there are many good things in the world.  Maybe you should stop trying to pick up inconsistencies in this and actually read what I'm writing.  Anyway, there are good things in the world that show us that even from our negative consequences will spring something good that helps another person.  That may be a redundant statement.  That's right, only I'm allowed to point out inconsistencies, you concentrate on the important things.  God gives us good things to remind us that not all in the world is bad.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Have I Done Right?

Do we ask ourselves sometimes if we are doing what is right?  Of course.  At the end, will we ever think that all we did our entire life meets our goals or someone else's that become our own.  Do we ask, "Did I do it right?"  What will be the answer?  What is right?  Is the goal happiness?  If anybody reads this, I would like them to reply to the question of what a good life entails.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Flying

I have always wanted to fly.  So has the human race.  There is a story about a guy with a sun named Icarus who flew to close to the son and fell into the sea and died.  Yes I know I switched the two suns.  Maybe I did that for  a reason.  But why should I if no one reads this thing anyway.  My point is, human's don't want to be encased somewhere.  They want to have no limits and go "where no man has gone before."  And yet we have "problems" like swine flu and this fiasco in Egypt to distract us from what we are trying to accomplish.  Money and dwindling attention are, I believe, some of the biggest problems in the world today.  When no one cares about science, science gets no funding.  Knowledge is the best and hardest thing for money to buy.  At least that's how it looks from my neck of the woods.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

I Don't Know Why I Can't Remember stuff for these

Why can I never remember these?  Stupid Human.  You can never remember anything important.  Just wondering how a young person or anyone at all can get into the mindset to kill people.  Maybe that's why children are so naive, because they want to play and have fun and stuff like that.  Nobody is reading this!!!  Sorry.  Just had to put that in there.  How can a 14 year old strap a bomb to himself and go out and kill people.  He knows he is going to die.  He knows other people are going to as well.  How can someone ever get psychologically into that mindset?  I heard a story once of a person giving a machine gun to a kid and tell them not to shoot until they say.  They say, the kid shoots, and they take the hood off the kid and say, now you know what it is like to kill people, and there is a murdered "bad" person.  I just don't understand.  Maybe this is another example of the stupid human.  I'm pretty sure it isn't.  More like *expletive* adult.
~another musing of the ill-informed~

Quote Qwednesday

Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface."-Don Quixote
This quote shows how people try to differentiate themselves from people who are seemingly worse.  But of course, aren't we all people?  Why do we try to feel better than someone else?  We're all human, and humans are usually bad.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

How can you possible know someone else?

You don't know what they think or feel all the time.  You don't know their innermost thoughts.  This leads me to the premise that I am the worst person I know.  Because I most certainly don't know you.  Thus accounts for my very low self-esteem, even though I may seem like I have a very high image of myself, and in some cases I do, but in most cases I don't, if that makes sense.  Wow.  That's a really short post.  Congratulations go to being straightforward.
~another musing of the ill-informed~

Stupidity

Ha!  In my last post, I commented on how bad humans are.  Well, there are some advantages to this as well.  Have you ever done something that you think could be hurtful to someone else, and you think they noticed, and you want to apologize?  Then you go to apologize and they didn't even realize you hurt them?  And you feel so stupid?  Because you thought that they were really hurt and you wanted to apologize when you didn't even need to.  Sometimes humans are just so stupid.  If only sometimes we could just be on the same wavelength with people, literally.  So many more things would be accomplished.  But then there wouldn't be any creativity.  So mabye things are better the way they are.  But what if we could turn off this connection.  If you read this, read for other posts, because as you may be able to see, you never know what may show up here.  And I promise you that what you see on here will be among the most interesting things you see all day.
~another musing of the ill-informed~

Why do I keep forgetting what I wanted to put on here?

Carpe diem.  Which is exactly what I seem to not be able to do currently.  Why don't I just write things down when I think about them?  Also, I heard my very idea expressed to me by someone else.  I just cannot believe I can't remember these things.  Stupid human fallibility!  Getting limited by brainpower is infuriating!  Well, I did take cool pictures of my cat.  That was fun.  He kept wanting to drop down.  You'll see what I mean later.  Had a late concert.  That was a little boring.  People talked for way too long.  I don't know if anyone is looking at this.  Maybe I just haven't been posting regularly enough.  I really think people should check this on a regular basis.  I'm on here at least twice a week...
~another musing of the ill-informed~

Dreams

That strange realm.  Where things that could never happen can and where things that might happen will.  Not sure what to say about this, but dreams seem powerful to me.  Not exactly sure why.  It seems to me like just another way everything was planned.  To be able to experience your wildest dreams is a gift beyond belief.~another musing of the ill-informed~

Quote Qwednesday the Second

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.-Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game  This quote, from one of the greatest authors ever, comes from an interesting context.  Little Ender on the operating table to lose his monitor, a device that monitored everything that happened to him over the previous years, reacts to something the doctor said.  The doctor had said that the operation would not hurt a bit.  Andrew (his real name) took this as an accurate prediction of the future, as adults think that children cannot endure much pain, and therefore assured him that a very painful procedure would not hurt.  In this case, the lie was more dependable than the truth.  This also was shown later when Ender was told a lie about who he was playing against in order to defeat an entire alien race.  But that's a whole other story.  I suppose the ironic thing is, during the operation, Ender almost died, so perhaps the human race would not have been saved after all.  Isn't it interesting how precarious tend to be when seen in hindsight?

~another musing of the ill-informed~