A Dissection of Myself

Who is Nick Jones? What is Nick Jones? What makes Nicholas Cody Jones Who he is?

As human beings, we all have:
Soul - The Existent Essence of Who we Truly Are, which cannot die, but go from One place or Another.
Spirit - Our fire - our passion, our driving Life force.
Mind - Our Intellect and Reasoning, by which we Live and function, and develop our thought, ideals, and philosophies.
Body - The physical container of everything we Are, custom-made for us by the Almighty. By this body is how we Live, how we relate to this Existence around us.
Heart - Not referring to the 4-Chambered muscle in our chest. A sidebar of Spirit, Heart is our Compassionate side. Even the most cold person alive genuinely cares about SOMETHING or SOMEONE. It is what gives us Love, Romance, Ecstasy, Euphoria, Joy, Grace, Compassion, Mercy, and such.

We each have individual:
Character - Our character is the sum of our manners, morals, and ethics. It is the "what" of who we are. I have been raised to say, "yes ma'am," "no ma'am," "yes sir," "no sir," "please," "thank you," etc. I have been raised and trained myself to be a hard, diligent worker, without complaining; being polite, considerate, helpful, and doing what needs to be done. That is "good character. There's more to it than that, but that's just an example. Speaking of which, I'll say this here and later, probably, I'm not trying to brag or anything, I can just most easily use myself as an example to explain my points. Anyway. Also, like God and Love. God's character is Loving. His Nature is loving, as well. But He is loving not because it is His Nature, but His Character, so it thus BECOMES His Nature. Your character is your "stuff."
Nature - Your Nature is "what you do WITH your stuff." You Nature is basically...your System, your patterns, what you are most likely to do based on how you generally conduct yourself. It is the "how" of Who we Are.
Personality - Our Personality is our reflection to the world around us of our Person - who we Are and in turn how we relate to Existence. Funny, outgoing, shy, timid, quiet, awkward, dumb, ditsy, comforting, compassionate, self-righteous, macho, girly, etc., etc., these are personalities. There's pretty much already been every kind of personality possible, and you can pretty quickly and easily categorize anyone you see into any of these. It is just another constituent of Who we Are. It is the "who" of who we are.
Ideals - My last Note, "Thoughts on Life, Christianity, and Government," which you should read, and if you already have, read again, deals with Ideals extensively. Anyway. Ideals are the Thoughts and Philosophies we develop about the World, Life, People, relating to people and Life - Living, and what to do with our lives, and Why. Our Ideals are affected by our upbringing, but mainly and hopefully by what we develop ourselves by Living, Learning, opening our minds, and educating ourselves, once we start thinking for ourselves, and purely ourselves, as we all should. If you don't think for yourself, nothing you say about anything is credible, you're useless, to yourself, and everyone else, and your Life is fundamentally meaningless. Sorry to break it to you. But don't worry - you can fix it. It's easy to do. All you have to do is start questioning everything you've ever been told, so you can find out the answers, to verify its Reality, OR, you find out that it isn't True, and you save yourself from believing Lies. It's really a win-win. Anyway. Our ideals are the "why" of Who we Are.

These above constituents of Who we Are are determined by our:
DNA - our inherited traits that we can do nothing about.
Upbringing/childhood - How we are instructed, disciplined (or lack-thereof-ed), in our ignorant, developmental years, in which a philosophy, what to expect from the world around us, is ingrained into us.
Friends - our influences, with whom we relate to in certain ways and do certain things with that carve into our character.
Family - Last, but not least. These are the people we have our DNA from, who we have grown up around. Immediate family definitely has a hand in our Foundation, other family, may or may not. I'm not really CLOSE to any family, except for my epic Brother, so I have no room to talk much about this.

What and how we think, what we do, how we relate to the world, how we Live, are all determined and affected by Who we Are. So, what makes us exactly Who we Are? One Person is a make-up of all of the above stuff, plus all of the experiences we go through in Life, which puts into play and shapes those above Features. What we go through, rather, whatever we allow ourselves to Become - how we DEAL WITH whatever we go through - most definitely affects our Personality and Character, which determines our Nature.

There's a general Blog about this whole issue. And here's the fun part - what the title's about. I'm going to dissect myself for the world to see here. Maybe this'll help. Somehow. Help what, exactly? I dunno.

I, Nick Jones, am: Physically:
An Entity of Existence (Existent)
Human Being (Homo sapien)
Male (Man)
Caucasian (Cracker)
Westerner (Of the Western World)
American (Of North America)
Texan (Of the State of Texas, and all of its Southern goodness. Minus the ignorance and racism.)
East Texan (Of the Eastern area of Texas)
Tylerite (Of the Rose Capital of America, the freaking great city of Tyler)
5'9
163 pounds
bed-head light brown/blondish(?) hair.
Solid Snake wannabe.

(Now once again, I'm not trying to brag, or be holier-than-thou, or put myself on a pedestal, or anything of the sort. I'm just dissecting myself for all to see here, so everyone may know exactly who I am, and maybe I can figure out how to fix myself in some areas. Mmk? Mmk.)

My Character:
I was raised by Bo Jones, Big Boss, and I am definitely full of Bo Jones DNA. And as such, I was raised to have good manners, work hard, respect my elders, etc., etc. I'm polite, kind, hard-working when I believe in the cause, studious, diligent, timid, soft-spoken, more quiet in recent years than I ever have been. Don't really know why. It seems like the world around me has just gotten more obnoxious, and my friends seem to do enough speaking for me, and everyone else, so, plus my low self-esteem, I really just don't feel the need to say much. Not that I don't have anything to say, my two cents just doesn't seem worth the effort. And I'm never been good at small-talk and high-school talk, so I really don't have much conversation to offer my peers. And don't get me wrong, it's not like I DON'T talk, I just uh...don't talk MUCH. As much as people annoy me, I honestly do care for people.

I recently read The Cross and the Switchblade, which is a [true] story about David Wilkerson, a Pentecostal pastor who ended up moving from his little town of Philipsburg, Pennsylvania to New York City to start a ministry to get kids off drug and off the streets. Now, look: I do not read. Never liked to, and I LOVED that book. It's short, simple, and amazing. Please read it. Please. Don't watch the movie and say, "Ok, got it." Read the book. Read the book and underline and highlight in it. I feel terrible not just for drug addicts, but for anyone who lives a life of such pain. They don't know the truth, they don't know love, they don't know God, they don't know Truth - and they're dying. Drug addicts, prostitutes, criminals, atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Deists (WHICH OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE NOT,) etc., they're all dying, in one way or another; missing out on the Truth and Joys of Life.

My Nature:
Honestly, I don't do much, so I don't have much of a Nature. I'm definitely a homebody. It's not like I don't like to get out, it just isn't worth getting out much. I don't have an income, so I simply can't afford to be going out often. It's a hassle, so I usually don't bother. I love Nature, and we (well, my Dad's dad, Granddaddy Gaylon Jones) actually own 69 acres of Nature off 69 down by Kippersaw, the "Land of Beef and Wine." Anyway. Uh...I'm good-natured, I guess. Except for one little habit I picked up from idolizing Big Boss and Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, but that's beside the point. Actually it's right on point, but let's move on. I'm loving by nature, surprisingly. I get along with people fine, have good friends, though I'm not great at making friends, I'm good with kids, and worked at Grace Community's childcare for dang near two years; But that's a whole other terrible story. All my fault. Anyway.

My Personality:
Oh boy. Gosh, that Italian family over at the next table sure is quiet. Anyway. Uh. I'm awkward. Let me be the first to say it, please. So now you know. Long hallways are the worst invention in the world. Never is there a more uncomfortable situation than walking up a long hallways with someone walking toward you. It isn't so much the case with old people. You can always smile and give a little wave to an oldie. But man. When do you look up? DO you look up? What if they just want to make it to the opposite end of the hallway without any disturbances? But it seems rude not to. Ok, you know what, forget it. I'm gonna look right at them and just give a dumb little smile and, "How you doin'?" God forbid they actually stop me, grab my arm, and start talking about their recent breakup, or their hip surgery (?), or their bankruptcy, or our new President taking their money away from them and spreading it around to give to people too lazy to earn their own keep. I mean who knows? Actually, I would like someone to just spill like that to me. That would at least be real. Out of the ordinary. Against the System. So anyway. I don't hate people, but I'm awkward. I apologize in advance to you for whatever awkward situation I WILL cause between us. I don't mean to, and I don't like it, but it happens. Not always purely my fault, either, but still, I'm no help.

I'm also funny. At least, I think so. I used to be. I love making people laugh. I'm good at impersonating people; a skill heavily employed by my brother and I. But I've found what makes people laugh the most is self-deprecation, making a moron out of myself. And I have a lot to work with there. I love laughter. I have a ridiculously overactive imagination and sense of humor. It all started with my brother and I as kids. We found the funniest thing ever was to make fun of people. It could be anything, about anyone. People we didn't like, people we didn't know at all, and our own friends and family. We looked for anything about anyone to make jokes out of. And it just grew from there. Still do it. Definitely. We could totally make a MADtv/SNL-type show. That's pretty much the jokes we make. Pure exploitation of everything exploitable about anyone. No personal feelings have anything to do with it. It's just capitalizing laughter off of a comical situation.

I'm a gentleman. Women, ladies, are to be treated as princesses. We are to treat them with respect, dignity, chivalry, and care. We are to protect them. We are to provide for them. We don't have to understand them - that's impossible - but we should BE understanding. To the guys reading this: If you don't agree, then you're a moron, and don't deserve the Love of a woman. Just so you know. I don't know where I got this inherent reverence, this natural want to protect ladies. Along with this innate care, I absolutely hate seeing harm befall women. On movies, TV, real life (especially,) it just makes me seethe with anger. I cannot watch slasher films or horror films if a woman dies or gets eaten by some kind of beast, it's literally physically painful, and makes me sick, and angry. The terrified scream of a woman is absolutely the worst sound in the world to my ears. It makes me sick. I don't see how these people live with themselves that make these freaking horror movies.

I love Business. Buying, selling, profit, total profit, marginal profit, money, win, loss, money, customer service, public relations, marketing, money, etc., etc., money, etc. I have a very systematic, analytical mind, which, hopefully will help me in business, but combined with my low self-esteem and subsequent need to not EVER screw ANYTHING up, leads me to massive overthinking, and making everyday things simple for a normal person an arduous trial with me. Anyway. Money = opportunity, why I want to get into business. I'll explain this more in the My Ideals part.

I love just about all music. I hate hardcore/death-metal/Viking-metal/screamo/metal/whatevertheheck all that crap stuff, though. And I can't stand Retards Attempting Poetry, I mean, RAP, most of the time, but there are a few songs I like. My favorite music is Video Game music. Metal Gear Solid, Medal of Honor, Tales of Destiny, Tales of Phantasia, MegaMan, F-Zero, Super Mario RPG, Harry-Gregson Williams, Hans Zimmer, it's all epic stuff. I love Japanese Pop, too. Thanks to my brother.

I think that's about it for Personality. Not too much of one to write about.

My Ideals:
I'll try to make this short. If you really wanna know, just go to my last note, "Thoughts on Life, Christianity, and Government," and scroll down to the "What I Believe" part. Now, about money. Don't get me wrong. I don't love money. The love of money, GREED, (NOT MONEY ITSELF,) is indeed the root of all evil. I just recognize that in Existence, this thing "Money" gets you stuff. Money = opportunity, blessing. See, I want to get the absolute most out of Life. That means not having to worry about not being able to get something if I want it. It's not a big deal. I want to be rich simply so I won't have to worry about money - so I won't be needlessly limited and constrained by lack of money. That's what it's all about. it has nothing to do with prestige or power. It's just about opportunity. I'm on this world for about 420,000 more hours (sleep excluded,) so I want to do everything I can, experience everything I can in those 420,000 hours.

Allow me again to explain The System, a term I use often, as I did in my last note. The System is essentially everything bad, and needless, and stupid, and pointlessly complicated about our society, and Existence in general. Awkwardness and Insecurity being the primary problems of the System, there's also political correctness, greed, selfishness. The System was born out of the Fall of Man, and beats down Existence as it is supposed to be. However, when I use the term System, I'm usually just referring to the way people relate to each other. Awkwardness and insecurity are so stupid. Why do they even exist? It's simply a matter of one's own low self-esteem, which cripples one in relating comfortably to other people. If everyone would stop worrying about what others think, there would be no problem, but that needless worry is ground deep into us. In referring to how we relate to each other, my main bone to pick with the System is its crippling affect on Romance.

You see, we live among an asinine generation and culture which has taken Love and made a ridiculous game out of it. "Dating," "boyfriend," "girlfriend," it's all asinine. Human Error completely screws it up. Human Error feeds the System, and makes romance completely complicated. It's so funny and pathetic to watch Sex and the City. That's not just a TV show, people everywhere live like Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte, and all of the ridiculous men they meet and "break up" with. But what I've realized is, as ridiculous as it is, it's nigh impossible to avoid. In my last note I say things like, "It's completely unnecessary! They're just useless labels we put on each other which screw everything up! You just need to make sure you're ready to share your life with someone, before you go initiate one of these ridiculous 'relationships', which is just a little test-marriage, which only ends in hurt." Yeah, stuff like that. Some people DO happily marry the only person they commit to, and don't have to go through the typical junk. God bless them. I wish that would happen to me. However, I recently went through a little...experience, which has taught me a bit about women, and Human Error, and relationships. Like any video game, the only way we learn, and grow stronger, is by experience. We go through trials, and we gain experience points, and yes, it hurts, but it teaches us about ourselves, and our weaknesses. We can then use that knowledge to strengthen ourselves, and improve ourselves.

I believe in True Love more than I believe in anything. I want it. Very much. I've been praying about this for 3 years. I didn't experience anything like it until recently. It was amazing, but uh..I guess it isn't the right time. Maybe not the right person. But I would like to think so. But I don't know. I'll just see what Happens. It's up to Providence. I don't trust myself not to screw it up. Anyway. I see nothing more outrageously, insanely wonderful, and amazing, and joyful, and fulfilling in Life. True Love, with a person who loves you exactly for who you are; who you can succeed in Life with; who is filled with joy to see you; who wants to be held and embraced by you. The person you would do absolutely anything for. The person you want to protect, and love, and just see happy, and healthy, whose smile and laugh makes your heart melt. The person you have the time of your life with just by her drifting off to sleep in your embrace, watching a movie, stroking her hair, and holding her tight, just to make sure she's even there, that it's really even happening. The person with whom you can let down your guard, and be vulnerable with, embracing each other, literally feeling your Spirits intertwine. Man...

Having that stripped away, for no other reason than the fact that the time isn't right, hurts. What's more ridiculous is, the things that are happening that make the timing not right never should have happened to begin with; not to her, not to anyone - especially her.

Anyway. I'm a hopeless idealistic romantic. So obviously, Reality definitely sucks for me. The thing is, it won't ever change, either. If anything, it is only going to get worse. The life of an idealist is one chock-full of disappointment and pain.

So here's what I am:
Idealist
Existentialist
Romantic
Stubborn
One-man army
Dork
Gamer
Realistic Christian

We are all made up of good traits and bad traits - we all have character flaws. And our character flaws effect our good traits.

Let's take, for example: my Romanticism.

There's nothing wrong with being a hopeless Romantic or an idealist, and it's good to care for people, as I do. However, my social ineptitude puts a negative spin on my heart for people. You see, I'm not great at making friends, and I was definitely never good at making girl--friends. I don't have a sister, I was homeschooled, I had low self-esteem, and was awkward. Obviously, I just didn't have it in me. I still don't, really. I'm a loner, and so I'm fine not having girl--friends that I actually get close to. I HAVE girl--friends, but you wouldn't say we're close. And I'm fine with that. But having such a strong desire for True Love basically renders me incapable of getting close to a girl without definitely developing romantic feelings or her and wanting something serious. I realize that to ever be more than friends, you obviously, logically, have to be friends first. I just don't really know HOW to do that. So my problem is that I move too quick, I guess. To me, Mr. Idealist, that shouldn't be a problem, but I forget that I live in Reality, where it is a problem, thanks to Human Error. So I just get hurt. I've concluded to just let go, and try hard to leave it to Providence. Actually, I already did that. See, that's why I was so sure about this last...experience. I honestly thought it was God's answer to my Prayers. For all I know, it is, just not YET. Anyway. I need to just Live, and Pray, and take it easy, and see what Happens.

Another example. I'm the jealous type - to a pretty ridiculously unhealthy extent. Character flaw. Combined with my insecurity of comparing myself to other people, it makes it impossible for me to stand the thought of the lady friend I care about even interacting with another guy, at all. Unless he's family, gay, at least 20 years older, or at least 10 years younger, not allowed. Drives me insane. Especially seeing another guy make her laugh - please kill me now. This has ofttimes caused me to even strongly resent my best friend, who I won't name, but he and maybe some of you know who I'm talking about. So this cancerous jealousy problem, a massively negative aspect of Me, puts a giant hindrance on my ability to care for/relate to/be secure in my relationship, a positive thing, with said lady friend.

Another example. I'm a thinker, and a carer (is that a word? o_o), which are good things. However, I'm definitely a worrier. Worrying = not trusting God or the other person/people. I've constantly learned that the hard way, and will continue to learn it the hard way, because I feel like I have to do something about it, and I can't just stop worrying, and put it on the Altar. So, my negative insecurity and worrying negatively affects my positive thinking, and caring. Character flaw.

I'll be bald with 5 ulcers and baseball glove skin by the time I'm 24 if I don't learn to let go, and be Confident..

Another example. I'm a thinker, and analytical, which are good things, but ever since I was a kid, I've been a little on the bossy side, and that negative trait puts a negative spin on my positive trait. I like to have debates, but I definitely like to be right, and hate to be wrong. Often I get defensive and tend to belittle the other person in retaliation, which is bad.

I have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) Not bad, but a little. For instance: Many times, if I touch an object with my left hand, I have to counteract that and touch it with my right. I have to cancel out the one touch, and then touch it an even number of times, to make up for ever touching it with my left. Usually I do everything in increments of 4, at least 4 times, so usually at least 16 times. I say in my head, "1, 2, 3, 4,", "1, 2, 3, 4," "1, 2, 3, 4,", "1, 2, 3, 4." rapidly. It sounds crazier than it is, I promise. Sometimes it's just 4 times, and it's not EVERY time I ever touch something with my left hand. Oh, the same goes for my feet, legs, pretty much the entire left side of my body. I don't know why. It doesn't make sense. It's like I have a resentment for the Left. Well, I do hate Left wing politics, and I'm Right-handed/sided, so in my mind, Left is inferior to Right in general, so Right must counteract Left. Also, the TV volume HAS to be even, and things in general have to be in even amounts. I hate odd numbers. So...unfair.

I miss Childhood. You have no idea how much I miss Childhood. Fun was my life. There simply were not worries, responsibilities, awkwardness, self-esteem of any kind. Toys, video games, make-believe, friends, Kids WB, Trix, Captain Crunch, Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, Dexter's Laboratory, Slime Time Live, Power Rangers, my cat Captain Hook, my dog Sandy, who I miss more than anything and WILL see in Heaven, Christmas, when it was still magical, Halloween, when it was still...more magical, ohhh man. I miss it.


ANYWAY. That's me. That plus my last note is absolutely everything I am. So far, anyway. I hope this helps explain....something, or helps you in someway somehow. Or just made you laugh. Whatever.

Thanks for your time.

"We're not tools of the government, or anyone else." - Gray Fox.

Thoughts on Life, Christianity, and Government

I don't blog a lot, because like the Dunkers that Benjamin Franklin mentions in his autobiography, as I've been learning, and growing up, especially these past two years, I don't like to say absolutely what I believe in or don't believe in, because people change, circumstances change, and my mind changes..a lot.

BUT. There are thusfar several things I believe in for certain, and many things I've drawn conclusions about, from looking at just about everything in a Christian point of view vs. a secular point of view.<--that's a huge point I'll get into later.

This is a total outpouring of things I've been thinking about and things that have been brewing inside of me the past couple of years I'll be making several paragraphs to at least TRY to make this look shorter, so you'll be more inclined to actually read all of it. If you are going to, please read all of it, not just bits and pieces. If you don't have time right now, make time, plzkthx. ^_^

Have you ever really stopped and thought about life, in general? Not necessarily ideals, people, places, things, colors, or anything specific, just..life. There are six billion human beings on this little planet Earth. Politics, religion, and race aside, there are 6,000,000,000 of us here, all in it together. It seems big to us. Our state seems big, North America seems huge, the western hemisphere is gigantic, and the world is enormous. The enormous earth is only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the Universe that the God of Nature created.

And as spectacular as the galaxy is, my main point of this note isn't about that, but something even more fascinating - IDEALS. Ideals are the things you believe in. There's never been a bigger can of worms than ideas. What do you believe in? Why do you believe that? What does believing in that get you? I'm not sure how to write down what I want to say next, so I'll tell you a little story, about me. This doesn't just apply to me at all, though. I'm just using myself as an example to get my main points across.

My Early Life

I have grown up in a Southern Baptist Republican Conservative home, and I live in an area referred to as the Buckle of the Bible Belt, and so naturally, I was tagged as a Republican Conservative Southern Baptist Christian. As a kid, I didn't know anything, so yeah, why not? That's what was right to me. I was essentially taught that Liberals were bad, stupid, evil people who would only hurt America. I was essentially taught that non-Christians just didn't know God, and they were wrong, and bad, and if they really thought about it, and wanted to be good, then they would eventually turn around and be Christians. Being a young child when this God-forsaken Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003 didn't help anything, either. At that time, The Middle East = America-hating, terrorist, bad, evil Muslim people. As I grew, and slowly began to actually THINK FOR MYSELF, I started hearing the opposite sides to every argument I've ever heard. I started hearing the reasoning of liberals, atheists, Muslims, etc.. I heard them attack us, like I grew up hearing them be attacked. This was just within the last 3 years, too. o_o So, I've started thinking, "So...why are we right, and they wrong?" To start, you need to open your mind and look at an issue from all sides, and look at the pros and cons, only then will you be able to make a logical decision. It's impossible to hear the truth from the media. Even "Fair, un-biased" Fox News is obviously Conservative, so they're going to have a Conservative bias, whether they make a point of it or not. I'm not saying Fox News is bad. What I'm saying is, how do we find out the truth? "Truth" - the true or actual state of a matter. NOT "what a certain person tells you about something." People are unreasonable, erratic creatures. The only way to find out the truth is to find out the FACTS. And FACTS speak for themselves. Facts don't side with a certain political party or religious denomination. In short, don't believe something just because you've grown up, the only way to be absolutely certain in what you believe is to doubt it, and question it. Then, if you're able to prove your doubts wrong, and only then, you can certainly believe it, and know it's true, regardless of what people tell you.

Our Founding

This brings me to my idols, the Founding Fathers. They were incredibly smart men - products of the Age of Enlightenment. They recognized our natural rights - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, what most people don't know is that our Founding Fathers said things such as:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of [Islam]; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any [Islamic] nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." - John Adams, Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli.

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

"I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his (Jesus's), and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill (the rest of Scripture). The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines." - Thomas Jefferson, on his Jefferson Bible. Did you catch that? Thomas Jefferson just called the Bible a dunghill, a hill of crap, and rejected the divinity of Christ. I remember I asked my teacher once about this in class, and he told me that the reason Jefferson did this was to show that even without miracles, Jesus was still uh..what's the word...not 'divine', but along those lines. That's just one example of how important it is that you CHECK THE FACTS, and DON'T JUST GO BY WHAT SOMEONE TELLS YOU.

"I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible)." - Thomas Paine.

"America is not and must not ever be considered to be the land of a particular form of religion and to do so is a horribly ill-conceived notion. I have no problem with personal happiness, comfort, identity or rock-bound belief in one's own PERSONAL religion. But it is absolutely 100 percent dead wrong when one tries to impose one's personal beliefs upon others. - James Madison

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies." - Benjamin Franklin

That is just a few quotes of the Fathers' disparaging remarks about Christianity. This had me in a tizzy months ago. However, I've concluded several things from this: 1.) Thomas Jefferson doesn't speak for Paine, Franklin, Madison, or Adams. 2.) Thomas Paine doesn't speak for God. And I like Paine. I did a report on him for American History. However, his Deism and attitude led to him turning into a rebellious lunatic in France, and thrown in jail. He was saved by James Monroe, and later in 1802 brought to America by the invitation of President Jefferson. He showed up just in time for The Second Great Awakening, when he wrote The Age of Reason, which was full of anti-Christian propaganda, and he died 7 years later, an un-liked drunk. 3. ) None of these men speak for the other 52 delegates (Paine doesn't count, he was a foreigner) to the Second Continental Congress, the wise committee that established our nation.

Sorry, that was a huge rabbit trail. My original point was that the Founding Fathers were incredibly smart, free-thinking men. George Washington was a fervent believer in God, whom he called Providence. This reminds me of the Greeks. The ancient Greeks had such a fear of God, (though I think at that point in time, it was probably straight-up fear, not the Christian meaning of it,) that they wouldn't even say His name, "God." Neither did Washington, and I don't really like to, either, partly because of the Greek attitude, and partly because the very term "God" gets terribly misused, over-used, and abused. Washington recognized the Hand of Providence in the War for Independence, and the establishment of our nation. He also strongly believed in UNITY - all of us sticking together, being civil, trying to get along, etc. With this idea, Washington warned us in his farewell address, one of the greatest speeches ever, about several things. He warned us not to have political parties which he called "warring factions,", saying said this would lead to division and turmoil that would be bad for the country. He also told us that we should seek harmonious relations with all nations, but avoid "entangling alliances," basically deals with strings attached. Our foreign relations has sucked, and gotten us into war and debt. And about his faith, what's that you say? Yes, I know he was a Freemason. So what? Does that mean that he didn't love God? Absolutely not. We took logic class, people - you can't say that because he was a Freemason, he didn't believe in God. I forget which fallacy that is, but it is one. By the way, Franklin has a bad rap for being such a free-thinker, but if you look at his quotes toward the end of his life about Christianity, he explicitly states that it is the right thing to believe. He was a practical thinker who denied Deism if not simply because he saw that those who reject Christianity lead wicked lives - no values or ideals. During the founding of America, the Constitutional Congress couldn't see eye-to-eye on anything. The arguing was insane, but Franklin stepped up and said, "All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" He then led them in prayer, and from then on, every meeting began with a prayer.

Our Government

I know I'm writing a lot about the Fathers, but it is absolutely extremely essential to understand our founding, and specifically the Declaration of Independence, which explicitly explains the reasons for our separation from England, and the ideals that we are FOUNDED ON. "We hold these TRUTHS to be SELF-EVIDENT, that all men are CREATED equal. That they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain, unalienable RIGHTS. That among these RIGHTS is LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of HAPPINESS. That to SECURE these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the GOVERNED. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT..." When Jefferson wrote the Declaration, "pursuit of happiness" originally was "pursuit of property..." Now, in the 17th century, there was a philosopher named John Locke, who the Fathers were greatly influenced by. Locke defined 'property' not just as land, but as your life, your body, your works, your ideas, and more. All this is your property, and these are endowed to us by God. I actually just now added "and Government" to the title of the note, because this is another point I want to make. The purpose of government is to protect us, and to uphold our rights - all of these rights, as listed above. Unlike people think nowadays, it is not supposed to be our mommy and daddy, or clean up after our messes (i.e. welfare, abortion, bail-outs, stimulus packages, tariffs, etc.) Most of these problems have been brought on by the very simple fact that there are simply too many people on earth. There is massive over-population, not to mention the millions of illegal immigrants stealing property and draining our economy.

The bail-out is a crutch. The government shouldn't be sticking its nose into business in the first place. Our government is full of idiots, who make idiotic things happen that we all pay for. And speaking of paying, my generation, my kids' generation, and my grandkids' generation is going to be paying off the debt of this bail-out. How's that sound, guys? You know what's really bad about this? We put those idiots into office. We vote them in. We put people in that hurt us. How smart does that make us? America is straying further and further away from our founding ideals, and from God, and society just gets worse and worse.

Life, and Christianity

Let's get away from politics now, shall we? *Wipes off hands* Now I'm going to get back to life and living in general - An agonizing, arduous struggle. This part is really the main part of the whole note, the thing I've been thinking about/struggling with the most, every dang day.

Here we go. As we grow, and begin thinking for ourselves, and hearing both sides of an argument, hearing things we've been shielded from or just haven't bothered to hear, what are we supposed to believe? How do we know how to judge what we should and should not believe? What is the standard on which we base what we believe or not? It's hard to answer these questions, because people want different things, and what you believe is many times based on what you WANT to believe, which is based on what you want out of life. Not only that, but what about people who don't grow up in America? This blog for the most part only applies to us, but this issue on ideals applies to everyone, and many people grow up not hearing Scripture. We have to look at this in a whole other viewpoint. Now, as I said, you shouldn't accept Christianity just because you grew up with it anyway, but what about these people who don't hear about it until they're adults? What about those who don't hear about until they're old and set in their non-Christian ways? These people, as many have, can have a change of heart, and accept Christ, but that depends on them. But what about those who simply never hear the Gospel? What the heck happens to them? And don't give me Romans 1:20. It doesn't make sense to say that every single person that lives knows that there is God, and they have no excuse for not accepting Christ. There have been people that literally have lived their entire lives and died without ever even hearing about the Bible, or the Gospel. So what about them? And take this note, for example. Is this only applicable to Western culture? Are personal beliefs all subject to where you live? Based on government, society, and culture of the times? And do we just accept what we've been fed our whole lives? NO. DO NOT DO THAT. People who do that end up abandoning everything they've been taught, rejecting church, rejecting the Bible, rejecting home-grown values, because it was basically forced on them. That's why it is important for EVERYONE, as early as possible, to THINK. FOR. YOURSELF. Open your mind. Think freely. Consider different view points. Get facts. Seek the truth. Be your own person. Now it's easy for me to say "Be your own person" in a country where you CAN be your own person, but what about, ohh I dunno, India, for example? In India, if you're born a waif, you live and die on the sidewalk as a waif. You are what your father is, and if you're in the lower-class, you're just plain S.O.L. So what about these people? Why are they in this situation? They're helpless. Can they fight back? Is it possible for these people to follow our suit and abolish the old, oppressive government, and establish a new, reformed one? Are they being punished by God for not being accepting Christ? Do they even know about Christ? I wish I could answer these questions, but I can't, because I don't know what life is truly like for an Indian person. I don't know what they think or believe. It is a strongly Hindu nation, but who's fault is that? Do they even realize they don't have to accept their family's religion just because? Is this entire idea of thinking for yourself and being your own person exclusive to the West? A thousand questions...

My personal beliefs are what I have arrived at from all of my different experiences, observation, reflection, and living. And I'm not saying that because I'm so positive about them, you're wrong if you disagree. I have certain goals, and a certain mission and purpose from God, and a unique personality and character which are all different from everyone else. All this combined leads me to my beliefs and values, which don't necessarily apply to anyone else. This doesn't make me more right or smarter than anyone else, and this doesn't make anyone who disagrees with me wrong for doing so. What it does mean is that you can't tell me "That's wrong," or "You're stupid." What you can tell me is "That doesn't apply to me." And that's perfectly fine.

Now look at what I just said. What that paragraph is basically saying, if you don't read it carefully, is what's right and what's wrong to believe is relative to each person. And that's wrong, because truth is not relative, so let me clarify. Right and wrong are not relative, but VALUES ARE. What you do and how you do it - your mission and purpose, determine your values. Example: My fellow classmates. I disagree with several of my fellow classmates on several issues. For one reason because we have completely different goals in life, and another because we have had different upbringings, and thus have generally different personalities, character, and mannerisms. And for a big reason, because of our upbringings, we belong to different denominations. I don't like the very idea of denominations. It's incredibly ridiculous. How do we expect people to join Christianity when we break apart into factions and argue with each other? That's a pretty picture, isn't it? It all started yeeaaarss back, too. There were Baptists, Calvinists, Quakers, Dunkers, Methodists, and more. Why couldn't these groups sit down with each other and discuss their differences? Even if they didn't see eye-to-eye on everything, why would they feel the need to split, and divide? Division only leads to further division. Now there's entire denominations that just sound like names of a church. "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints," "First Assembly of God," "Church of Christ," not to mention there are still those listed above, including 3 or 4 different TYPES of Baptists, and endlessly more. Something Mahatma Gandhi said really sticks with me: "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." That hurts. I take that personally. We are responsible for that.

Speaking of Values...

Every time I think of values, the scene from Secondhand Lions where Hub (Robert Duvall) tells Walter (Haley Joel Osment) a tidbit of his "What it Takes to be a Man" speech: "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage and virtue mean everything. That power and money, money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And I want you to remember this: that love, true love never dies. you remember that, boy...A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in." Though I don't agree with all of that, it's generally a nice thought.

Like I said, truth is not relative, and just to be clear here, yes, the Bible is truth. Again, I'm not saying it isn't, I'm just telling you to not blindly accept it. I don't, either. A few months ago, I hardly accepted much of it at all. That was because there were specific verses I disagreed with, and you either accept all of the Bible or none of it. That was until I realized that to understand a verse, you must read the surrounding verses, and not only that, but figure out what the words themselves actually mean. You have to remember that the Bible was not written in our language. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and the New in Greek. That was translated to Middle English, to Modern English. Not to mention the plethora of translations just in the past century, and even the past decade. But despite this, remember that the Bible is God's Word, and God is not out to hurt us or make us miserable.

I went off topic a little, back to values. I pretty much covered it I think, but just to be crystal, let's define it. "Value" - the ideals, customs, institutions, etc., of a society toward which the people of the group have an affective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom, or education, or negative, as cruelty, crime, or blasphemy.

That definition makes the relativity factor a lot clearer. Anyway. I figured I'd use myself as an example of what I'm trying to say because..I honestly can't figure out how to intelligibly get it out otherwise.

I pretty much explained my philosophy in a MySpace blog titled "Battlefield Philosophy" 'bout a year and a half ago, and it's still pretty much accurate, but that was Sophomore year, and that's when I was a jerk, just beginning to do all this "thinking" business.

What I believe

Here we go:

Unlike Hub, I believe people are basically idiots. Not necessarily unintelligent, but just generally idiots by nature - awkward, selfish, unreasonable creatures. I'm not saying I hate people - not at all. I just recognize our nature, and am endlessly annoyed by it. It's part of the System, which I'll explain later.

We only have this short, un-fulfilling life here on Earth once, and I believe we should make the absolute most out of it. We should aim high, dream, hope - don't be afraid to be an idealist. Believe in yourself, and work hard, and you can do anything. Only fools are satisfied. Never settle or compromise your dreams. Do great things. Don't be afraid, don't be weak, fight for what you believe in.

Things shouldn't be sugar-coated or politically correct. Like in my first point, I didn't say "People at times show less intelligence then they ought should." Nope, forget that. Be honest and straight-forward.

Fundamentalist Christians make me sick. These are the "Christians" that make us all look like retards. Example: there was this show on A&E about a girl who goes to a fundamentalist Christian dance camp. I wanted to strangle someone watching this. First of all, the girl, around 10 years old, was talking about her dancing and she was like, "Sometimes I get carried away and I start dancing in the flesh, and I need to stop doing that. I need to only dance in the Spirit." what does that even men? This girl is using the gift God gave her, of dancing. There is no "dancing in the flesh" or "dancing in the spirit." That doesn't even make sense. This little girl is feeling guilty for no reason. At the camp, the speaker was talking about the purpose of the camp, their mission, etc., and out of nowhere, she goes, "And let me tell you something about HARRY POTTER! Wizards are enemies of God! You do not make heroes out of enemies of God!" And more. I wanted to punch her in the teeth. WHO CARES? I'm a Christian, and I like Harry Potter. My bother, who is 10 times the Christian I am, likes Harry Potter. Friends of mine, Christians, like Harry Potter. Books and movies about a wizard have NO affect on our relationship with God. It's just fantasy, and there's nothing wrong with fantasy. I wish magic WAS real. This world is boring, it SHOULD have magic, and trolls, and knights, and dragons. Living a little more RPG-like wouldn't be bad at all. Later, at night, a bunch of little kids, like 8-11, are messing around with flashlights just joking and messing around, and one of the camp counselors busts in and makes them stop, saying like, "Guys, y'all need to stop. This may seem fun, but Christ told us to only focus on those things which are good and pure, so you should do that. Now good night." He leaves. The kids just have these looks on their faces like "WTF, man?" I still want to punch that guy in the face. I hope I can meet him one day. Don't be a fundamentalist, please. Fundamentalists are dumber than any Atheist. Listen to secular music, watch secular movies, watch secular shows, play secular games, have secular friends - don't shelter yourself from the world. Choose life, and LIVE.

I think old age is the worst thing in the world. It completely robs you of your body. It takes away your health, body, and ability. The wost thing is, there's absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. But considering all the technology we already have, and the technology being worked on to come, fighting aging will be easier and more effective. Especially based on this story: "A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger tip. It grew back -- "flesh, blood, vessels and nail" -- in four weeks." Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/24/pig-bladder-powder-r.html

Life is a battlefield. Excuse me while I be a dork for a second here. The Metal Gear series of video games literally changed my life, got me thinking, helped me develop my philosophy. You can't deny that life sucks sometimes, stuff happens, - life is a struggle. These games, mainly the main character Solid Snake, are full of wisdom and different views on life. Whether or not you agree with anything or everything, they really get you thinking. Themes of these games include war, society, culture, human nature, battle/struggle in general, politics, and love. My favorite quote of all 5 games would have to be what a soldier, Gray Fox, says right before he dies, giving his life to save to save Snake; "We're not tools of the government, or anyone else." Also, despite how ridiculously grizzly and violent they are, they Saw series of movies presents an interesting idea - your will to live, and how you spend your life. The things the people in those movies have to do to get out of Jigsaw's traps are awful, but it shows that they do want to live. We should not waste our lives, they're too short to waste - live life to the fullest

About that quote above. Fox was specifically talking about soldiers, but it applies to everyone. We are nobody's tool, nobody's doormat. We are people, with God-given rights and abilities. We all have a purpose, a mission, but the System beats us down. Here's where I'll explain what the "System" is. The System is essentially everything bad and uncomfortable about life. Our awkwardness, our illogicality, our unreasonableness, our greed, our selfishness; these our the core problems which result in things like norms. "Norm" - A standard, model, pattern. The patterns are the System.

Norm: With comedy, we aren't allowed to tell it like it is; we have to be politically correct, we have to consider everyone's feelings, we have to be careful not to offend anyone.

Norm: With love, or just generally relating to the opposite sex, we can't be like, "Hi, I want to get to know you. I don't want to compete against other guys/girls in our social circle. I want to actually spend time with you on-on-one and get to know you, without either one of us being worried what the other thinks." WHY IS THAT IMPOSSIBLE? High school, which I'm currently in, is a big part of it. I hate high school, so much drama, limitations, useless junk. Why can't people realize there's far more to life than high school, or even college? It means nothing. There's me and you, that's it. Why can't we actually get to meaningfully know each other?

Norm: In society, there are countless norms and standards. If you don't wear Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, or , or , you aren't socially acceptable. That's complete retardation. And have you noticed that the only people that like people that are obsessed with wearing these things are OTHER shallow morons? They are called douchebags, and tools. Except 'tool' is actually a compliment these people don't deserve, because tools are useful things that benefit mankind. Douchebags benefit nothing but the stores they buy that overpriced, needless junk from.

People need to grow up, wake up, think for themselves, and be their own person.

Last but absolutely not least, I strongly, strongly believe in true love. I used to think that everyone had a soulmate, and if they died a confirmed bachelor/bachelorette, then they missed out. That isn't true. To have a soulmate, you have to want a soulmate. Providence knows you better than you know yourself, and if you truly desire a companion, then He will not let you down. Stop putting yourself in charge of this and leave it to Him. He will provide for you someone better than you could ever possibly pick on your own. Modern "boyfriend/girlfriend" casual-dating relationships are ridiculous, and do nothing but cause confusion, heartache, misery, and bitterness. What does it even mean to call someone a girlfriend/boyfriend? You've taken a friend, tagged them as "girlfriend/boyfriend," and put expectations and obligations on this person. It is nothing more than an awkward test marriage that fails, you 'break up,' and the friendship is now gone, and you are both scarred. Believe me, I want nothing more than my true love, but to leave it up to my own ability would be the worst thing I could do. A friend of mine told me that the Bible doesn't support this kind of relationship with a person. He told me that there is no such thing as "soulmate," and all it is is figuring different, relative levels of compatibility and making the bet choice. I believed him until I talked with my brother about this, and he told me about Song of Solomon. My friend obviously hasn't read this book. And you have to remember, GOD created that relationship - Adam and Eve, hellur? Before corruption, Adam and Eve were companions, made for each other, tailored to each other by God, the perfect standard, the perfect relationship, and this is how things are supposed to be. I'm not condemning bachelors/bachelorettes; of you choose to be alone, that's fine, my point is that God doesn't want us to be alone - we simply aren't built for it.

Like I said, we all have a purpose. I believe the purpose Providence gave me is all this. To get people to wake up, think for themselves, look at the grand scheme of things, and realize life is far more than what's in the moment, ESPECIALLY when you're in school. Specifically, I truly want people to remember our founding. The Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the wise men who wrote them. It's hard to say whether or not America was ever literally supposed to be a Christian nation, considering our own Founders' dislike of religion. But the point is, America was founded on Christian values, which are undeniable, and that's just PART of Christianity. Why WOULDN'T we be founded on what is good, and right, and true? Christianity is good for us, obviously. God didn't give us arbitrary laws and rules because he felt like it, but because doing the opposite does nothing but hurt us, so why would we not base our nation on the Wisdom of Christianity?

Well. That's about it. This is incredibly long, but I really hope you read it. And you don't HAVE to comment either, thought I would really, truly appreciate it. This is just about everything I think, believe, and wonder about. I really do hope it helps, in any way it can. Thank you for reading, really. ^_^

- WatchHawk

What Happened, America?

America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, the Land of Opportunity; a Free Nation. A nation founded on Christian principles. These principles are the recognition of the value of human life, the principles of right and wrong, and each person’s right to live. “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” the seven words in our Declaration which are a dead-on summary of Our entire foundation. This country was founded by Christian men who understood just what “life”, “liberty” and the “pursuit of happiness” meant.
If you are not a Christian, you probably couldn’t care less about what I have to say here, but please read on, I will explain myself. If you are not a Christian because you chose not to be based on how you have seen Christians act, I, on behalf of Christians everywhere, apologize. Let me be the first to say that I know what you’ve seen and I know what a turn-off that it is. You think Christians are self-righteous, hypocritical, close-minded, narrow-minded, and blocked from seeing the world how it is. Christians say they love everyone, and then turn right around and turn cold shoulders or say sarcastic, rude things to people they don’t like that they say they supposedly love. Christians think that because they are Christians, they are holier and better than the rest of you “lost people.” Christians think that since they’re “on God’s side,” life is just a wonderful place full of Jesus and all “bad things (TV, video games, movies, junk food, sarcasm, tobacco, satire, music that doesn’t say “Praise JAYSUS!” science, pretty much everything fun in life),” are possessed by Satan and must be cleansed, and that it’s that simple, and they want no argument against their perfectly sensible, rational explanation of the world. Please let me tell you that that is not a Christian. Christians don’t act like that. There are people who act like that who sat that they are Christians, but there is a difference between saying you’re a Christian and being a Christian, and that applies to anything, of course, not just to Christianity.
Christianity is not about hating anyone, or being ‘better’ than anyone else, or trying to exorcise the demons out of everything in the world, or passing judgment on people. This entire belief can be summed up in one word: love. Christianity is about fellowship, friendship, and just that: love. We don’t have a list of rules to follow that we get punished for if we disobey. I know what you’re thinking, “Excuse me, what about those 10 Commandments of yours?” The 10 Commandments are the most basic principles of right and wrong that have ever been written. Even if you aren’t a Christian, you follow them every day without acknowledging it. “Thou shall not kill,” well of course, that isn’t complicated. But you ask, “Well why not?” Because, like I said before, Christianity recognizes the value and right to life of every person, and no one person is better than anyone else. You must first swallow your pride to realize that. We are all human beings in a world that is in and of sin. But how do we deal with that? Do we gripe and complain and blame our problems on anyone and anything we can? No. You do something about it. My brother said it best, “If you think life sucks, fix it; don’t make excuses.”

I was interested in politics for a long time, and thought about actually going into it when I got out of college, but around the time the ’08 presidential debate got down to John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Hussein Obama, I just got sick of the whole scene. Politics is not what it used to be, and America is not what It used to be. Like I was saying in the beginning, America was founded on Christian principles, and for over a hundred years, we were flourishing and everybody was happy and loving life and the freedoms which were paid for in blood in that blessed Revolutionary War. If George Washington were still president, things would be much better, but that is not physically possible, so I’ll just shush that. But…what happened? Where did things go wrong? And things have gone horribly wrong. Terrorists hijack airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Center as WMDs, killing thousands of innocent people, and we blame it on our own country, on our own president. We fight back and try to prevent anything like that from ever happening again, and we get called terrorists, Mr. Bush gets called a terrorist and an oil-hoarding thief. Once again, his own people are saying that about him, the very people that got attacked, that he is fighting on the behalf of to protect. President Bush established the Patriot Act which gives the government the right to listen in on phone calls going in and out of the country, again, for our protection, and yet again you call him a terrorist. What is wrong with you people? Seriously, WHAT is wrong with you? Do you think that’s normal? Do you not see what’s happening? Why would you even want to think things like that about your own country? What’s worse is we have a socialist, Muslim liberal named Barack Hussein (Hmm) Obama running for the presidential office of this country that you actually support! Why would you support this man!? Hussein wants an official disarmament of the USA, and he is a strong anti-gunner. Do you realize what that means? First of all, he is going to pull us out of Iraq and then basically shut down the military. Plus, he will try to take the American citizen’s right to own a firearm. This means that we will be left defenseless and wide open to any attacks from without as well as within. Great man, isn’t he? He is just sending out invitations for us to be attacked. Why would you want that? This is ridiculous.
I’ll tell you where things began to go wrong: Charles Darwin. Darwin taught us that we evolved from animals, and the scientific community, for some reason, accepted that. So, what now? We’re no better than animals, so that just threw the Bible out the window. What’s the point? This is why people don’t value human life, which screws up everything, including politics.Americans have turned against their own country and its founding principles. Two people of different religious and/or political opinions cannot sit down together and discuss each other’s beliefs without it turning verbally or physically violent and leading nowhere except for contempt and hatred.People need to chill out; why can’t we get along with each other even if we have polar opposite beliefs? I have atheist friends, agnostic friends, liberal friends (one of which voted for Barack Hussein Bin Lad-I mean…Obama), and we get along just great. I can’t stand what America has become, and I plan on doing all I can to help repair it, including writing blogs like this, but does that mean I have to be an angry tightwad? No, I’ve been blessed with the gift of life, and I’m not going to let people ruin that for me. I plan on finding my soulmate loving her with everything in my being, graduating college, starting a business, working with my brother, taking care of my parents, especially my dad, who has worked his butt off his entire life, and living the best life I possibly can doing everything I can. I’m on Earth for around 80 years, and then I go off to Heaven in absolute perfect, wonderful, magnificence for eternity, so I’m not going to ruin my time here by stressing out over it.America, you need to straighten up. Remember your foundation, your Christian Heritage, your freedom you fought and died for, your right to bear arms, yourself.

Freedom is not free.
America, love it or leave it, please.









- WatchHawk

Second Amendment Logic

This is a huge dispute in today's moronic, Liberal world. Guns are not bad things at all. They are for protection, sport, and hunting. Don't be fooled about that.
Anti-gunners say that guns kill people, are 'violent', and are needlessly destructive. This is complete B.S. As the saying goes, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." That's absolutely true. Anti-gunners are illogical morons.
Guns are for the protection of yourself, the ones you love, and everyone else.
Here's the standard story I tell for pro-gun support:


There's a grocery store with the classic "no gun" sign on the entrance. Ya know, the gun with the circle and slash over it. The good samaritan who legally owns a gun sees and says "Oh, ok," and leaves his gun in his car, outside. He then goes in the store and begins shopping.

Now, a 'bad guy,' who DOES NOT CARE WHAT A SIGN IS TELLING HIM TO DO, walks in with a gun anyway, and holds the place up, screaming for money. The 'good guy' says, "Crap, I wish I had my gun." If he was allowed to have his gun, he could immobilize the bad guy and save the day.
Law-breakers do not care what a sign says, you idiots. Everything has to do with the attitude of people, not inanimate objects.
Anti-gunners say guns are bad and should be outlawed. So, if guns were outlawed, would people want to stop killing other people? And would they stop wanting money bad enough they wouldn't try to rob banks with others weapons? NO! You stupid morons! GUNS are NOT the problem, PEOPLE ARE.


If guns were outlawed, people would just use knives, or hammers, chainsaws, axes, swords, tasers, phasers, etc., or build their own guns. Or steal them from the military and/or police.
Advice: buy one. (When you turn 21, of course.)

Anyway, there it is. Guns are good. Very good...


-WatchHawk