Too late

We have been fighting too long. Had Corruption in out governments for too long. Corruption in out religions before that. Why? I think it’s just built in. The world is over populated and we’ve lost control. Stop talking about how we could all be dancing in the flowers, your life isn’t very long. Give it some meaning by less generalisation and think a little closer to home. Make the most of the society you live in, if you have kids, teach them the values YOU find important. Create positive experiences with your friends and family. Try to avoid your taxes, don’t give up your time for a being who floats in the sky. It’s too late for humans, but not too late for YOU.

Strengh of Mind

It is amazing how strong the mind is, the trouble is that too often that strength is directed in a negative way. That is then percieved as a weakness.

It's all about application. It seems to me that it's all in the way we are brought up. As much as your parents love you, we grow up in a world with too much disapointment and too many barriers, the biggest of which is probably money. So it becomes drilled into us that maybe we can't or were not good enough. Our minds are strong, but strong in holding us back. In a way it is strength, it has just not been nurtured in the correct way. Too few of us get the support we need when we are in our vunerable, impressionable stage of life.

So can we get over it? Without doing a full scientific study it seems that an answer may be difficult to come by, but today when out mountain biking I came across a logic that may explain whether you can over come your fears.

You can't disagree that as children we all had fears, fears of nearly anything. So im putting forward the point that simply because there are people in the world that can run into a burning building, or walk the high wire, or go to war, or have a snake draped over their shoulders, it is possible for anyone to overcome any fear.

The people capable of the things I just mentioned would have been at some point afraid to do those things, but with the right nurturing, education and support, people from all walks of life can fulfil these roles.

Never dispair, I believe anyone can progress to any stage they want to be at.

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Twitter

gonnabeamum   omg! he is beautiful, only 9 hours of labour. 3 hours ago

luckygirl55        at the mall, so funny this guy just fell over!!! 3 hours ago

ipostforu            UPDATE!!  a guy just fell over at the mall according to luckygirl55

tooldtocare         im a grandad! congrats Sandra! xx  3 hours ago

gavinisgod          looking for my new lady at the mall ;) 3 hours ago

gonnabeadad      im a dad!! so happy. and happy i can share it with everyone on twitter. how convienient?! 3 hours ago

toughguy88          Is off to the mall to kill his girlfriend stealing best mate 2 hours ago

gavinisgod          'twitter apology to my best mate'. sorry man i thought you wouldnt find out.... 2 hours ago

gavinisgod           EVERYONE!!  steve is on twitter!!  2 hours ago


ipostforu              UPDATE: gavinisgod says Steve is on twitter. he finally got with the times! 2 hours ago


gonnabeamum     Happy that my husband is happy for us. but why the FUCK ISNT HE AT THE HOSPITAL WITH ME?? 2 hours ago


gonnabeadad       ENGLAND JUST SCORED!!!!  come on you lions!!!! 2 hours ago


gavinisgod            Has anyone seen Polly at the mall? 2 hours ago

ipostforu               UPDATE!! does anyone read my posts? retweet this one so i know! 2 hours ago

luckygirl55           Bored at home, i need some inspiration. come on guys?!! xx 1 hour ago

gonnabeadad          just saw wife's tweet..... 1 hour ago


gavinisgod             i was under the impression Polly was at the mall?! hurting.... :( 1 hour ago

ipostforu                 Really does anyone look at what im tweeting? 1 hour ago

gonnabeamum        i think its interesting that gonnabeadad thinks he still has a wife..... 1 hour ago

luckygirl55             sorry to all those who thought i was at the mall. really im at home and was just tweeting what everyone wants to hear, cause no one really knows if anything ne1 is sayin is actually true. how would they know? thats the great thing about twitter. your life can be whatever you want it to b, and you dont have to back it up with photos or nething. not like facebook, or a blog. what a bunch of losers using them. 1 hour ago

ipostforu                i hate fucking twitter 1 hour ago


''Discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world''

Really? that's their slogan?

I hope it doesn't last.....

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Equality

This is what happened:


Sitting in Whistler, BC at a bar called the Amsterdam pub doing a spot of people watching after a quiet shift at work, with my girlfriend and her friend.


We were talking about someone we know, and first dates with people you have met over the Internet and risk issues with being alone with them or letting them into your home. But that's not exactly what this is about.


The girls stated how its different for them, being female, and that it is far more risky for them to let a guy into their home than it would be for me to let a lady into mine. The reason for this being that they would not be strong enough to help themselves.


At this point you are all probably in agreement with this.


So I brought up an example. I weigh around 130lbs (59kg), which is light for a guy, and I'm around 5'9'', my girlfriend is a touch more than me in weight and around 5'7''. You should take a peak at this article about human potential, in short, in a stress or panic situation the human body is capable of extraordinary strength. I pointed out that if my girlfriend, who is a fit and healthy person, and I were to go out on a date, she lets me into her home and I turned out to be a psycho, she would be quite capable of over powering me. And probably not just me but someone a lot bigger, if she was put in a situation of extreme fear.

This is all still back story, I can't even remember at what point the conversation got to, but my girlfriend had made a fist and was feigning hitting me. Then for whatever reason, she did. I'm not talking about a jokey, ''yeah i could take you'' punch, but a ''i need to break this pane of glass with my fist'' punch.

Now my problem is only partly how hard she hit me, the real problem arises from what is socially accepted between male and females and thus how my girlfriend and her friend reacted and looked upon the situation.

What you have to understand is that I'm all about equality. We are equal, yes there are a few genetic variations between men and woman, but the potential is still there. We can be just as smart as each other, strong as each other (except in the utmost, and unnecessary, extreme), just as crafty, just as skilled, everything and anything. Women have had to fight for a long time, and still things are not right. In too many places in the world women are held back and only the men are allowed the opportunity to reach their potential.


This is one area of my views that I cannot back down and say, ''OK, you have a different opinion to me, we'll go our separate ways''. Fairness is already in short supply, and I'm not going to be one to allow it to carry on. It is causing too much suffering in this already screwed up world.



So, because of all this, its OK for a girl to accidentally punch a guy in the head. At the time in my confusion, I managed to make the remark.

"if I had, even accidentally, hit you that hard, then this relationship would be over''


The answer was ''yes''

I love my girlfriend, and understand that she did not hit me with any malice or intent to harm. It was an accident that happened to hurt quite a bit.

Because of our social structure, an act of violence from a female towards a male can be overlooked. Even when the two are nearly equal in every way accept gender.

But certainly not the other way around.



That's not right. For anyone. We are equal and that should apply in everyway, otherwise we are never going to break the mould.

It really worries me when females use their gender as a reason, I don't have the solution but it something we should all be more aware of. Right from the beginning of education we need to make sure children understand there is no difference, and that neither is better or worse because of sex.

Gender is not an excuse for anything.

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for some further reading:

Oxfam - An excellent article from the Oxfam website.

Concern.net

UN Gender Policy

Computer Game Violence

To be perfectly honest, this is not a topic I wanted to approach, mostly because I disagree with most of what is said on the subject, so I decided that was a good reason to write about it. I feel the web, and published works are too one sided with there opinions, scientific data, studies and their justification.

Endless reports and opinions about the effects of violence in computer games on children, and a lot of parents, health professionals and politicians preaching the evil of games and their designers.

Note: I am not going to cite any articles of this nature as you only need search for effects of computer games on your local friendly search engine.

Now for my opinion. I feel there are some key elements that are being overlooked and undervalued. Some articles do touch on a child's development level and gaming, what I would like people to think about is at what point in that development gaming is introduced. For similar reasons (I hope) that governments impose age limits on alcohol and political involvement, a child should be able to understand the medium of gaming, its limitations and its uses.

For me to explain this further, just think about how impressionable people are the younger they get; again I don't feel I need to bring up any articles, this is a widely accepted theory. I totally agree that allowing a child of age 5 to play games with a basis of violence is going to have a huge negative effect of their social balance. But this needs to be taken into a wider context, if that child of 5 was allowed (or forced or wanted) to watch the news; with war, famine, natural disasters and generally all the suffering that we see everyday, that to would have a negative effect, and then add that the child watches 2 or more hours of the news everyday, the effects would be terrible.

Or how about a child that lives in an unstable environment at home and saw hours of violence between family members each day? Do you think that would have a negative effect on their social abilities and physcological health? We know it does. Go out do the research, watch the news because the example I have just described exists.

For me it is clear that it does not matter what form the violence comes in, if a child is introduced to it at the wrong stage it will have huge adverse effects on them. Why keep studying the effects of violent computer games on children?

When you are subjected to the violence in this world, the best example being right where you are, with your computer in front of you, or in your hand, do you feel influenced by the characters and events that you see? And even if you do feel inspired, encouraged or influenced, do you understand what is considered wrong? Of course you do, you make a conscious decision not to act on that.

Here is me making a dangerous assumpting that everybody reading this article is of sound mind and mature psychological development.

So OK, most people understand....

Come on parents, caregivers, siblings, politicians, people with nothing better to do, babysitters, everybody. Games are yet another medium in our very complex media based lives, one that is another output for violence. Lets just treat it right.

I have found some people that may agree with what i have to say:


"focusing on such easy but minor targets as violent video games causes parents, social activists and public-policy makers to ignore the much more powerful and significant causes of youth violence that have already been well established, including a range of social, behavioral, economic, biological and mental-health factors” (page 190).

exceprt from: "Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do'' a book by Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D. and Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D

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Hello, This Is Forever

Good morning, or good afternoon, or good evening, or even good night. Depending on where you are on the Earth and where the Earth is in relation to the sun at this point in time.

It's interesting how I can say 'this' in that sentence, because as you read the word it automatically becomes relevant to the time that you are in, and the 'or's at the beginning are a perfectly normal way to cover all the possibilities about time of day. Yet, 'this' it is only relevant to one of the greetings when I typed it, it is not perfectly normal to greet someone face to face at 5:00pm and say. "Good morning, or good afternoon". So that sentence only works for the future, not if you were peering over my shoulder right now.

And that could be embarrassing, what if i was under dressed?

So its kind of like writing for the future, anybody can read this post at anytime in the future and it will still read like I intended it to. And you should notice that I said 'was' instead of 'am' when talking about the amount of clothing I'm wearing.

But that's just because it sounds more likely that i am fully dressed and you are not looking over my shoulder.

Searching 'writing for the future' on google reveals only the ideas of trying to predict the future. Now of course it is generally accepted that it is technically impossible to accurately predict the future, so I was trying to think about how i could write something really timeless. A collection of words that could never lose their meaning. I think this is the answer.

Now then, searching for this on google yields over 19 billion hits, so i don't think I'm the first one who has clued onto the power of this. I mean, even God only gets 650 million hits. This surpasses 'that' and 'other' put together!

And this will retain its ability to be forever present of course only if time travel isn't invented, at which point you could download this onto your bendy phone hop into your time machine and come show it to me as I type, rendering the 4 variations of Guten Tag useless.



But then i suppose we would both be in 'this' time and i could just say good afternoon to your face, making this whole article obsolete.

W