Hum...

Why is it, that when someone of 'value' is killed, it's called assassination, but when the homeless man down the street is killed, he's murdered?

Society places unequal value on lives. Sure, they say "All men are created equal", right? Unless you're the homeless man living in the box, or even just a regular person in comparison to the President or something. Some people say that it is the contributions to the community that are the valued part. I'm sorry, what? Yes, CONTRIBUTIONS. As in, "Hey, that politician gave 10 grand to our city last year, we MUST find his assassinator!" vs. "Hey, that homeless guy took that box from my trash can! He was probably killed in a drug dealing argument!"

So, whatever we contribute to society should be what decides whether we were murdered or assassinated? It's not necessarily a "donation given to the city", or something of the sort. It should be more like, "Hey, this guy has a steady job, gives to charity, and helps out with his son's soccer team." Instead, greedy parasite politicians are counted as assassinated, while the good father and husband was just murdered. Where's the justice?

Assassinations get the headlines in the news. Murders are (unfortunately) everyday things. Not much we can really do about it anyways.

We really should put more count on what people do then what position (or how much power) they hold.

/rant

Teenagers don't like to think...

There's a rare kid in a group of many that actually does something productive for his/her life. And I'm talking about doing something productive not for money. That is truly a rare thing to come across these days. Teenagers are the future, right? In only a few years, these kids will be serving the food at Burger King, getting into politics, joining the Peace Corps, starting a business, going to jail. Basically, everyone will end up doing something. But what about now? What are we thinking now?

Huh. We're not. Not a huge revelation, as all adults are pretty aware of this right now. Not that all adults are amazing thinkers; I mean, we're human, we're lazy. It's a fact of life. I think teenagers are the age group that do the less thinking. What do we do instead? Texting, TV, internet surfing, sports, iPods that make it easier to ignore the world, talking on the phone, partying...there's a longer list that could go on, but we know all these things require no [intelligent] thought. How many teens (or kids) out there read for the hell of it? How many sit and ponder about life, the universe, and everything? (Huh, more Hitchhiker's Galaxy references. Maybe you should look it up.) How many of them try to learn a new word each day, or attempt to learn more about what they were taught in school. (more on school eventually, it's a pretty big topic). Obviously, I can't be included in this factor of teens/kids, since I'm here, ranting about my thoughts to whoever is reading this.

Point is, we don't like to think because life is so complicated that if we attempt to break the code, our brains start to ache. Yep. I would know, I've tried. It's just too hard. And with all the distractions for kids and teens today, why would they even bother to try? (I'm just weird that way.)

I really can't think of a solution to this problem with humanity. Getting rid of technology? Nope. Making learning fun? An age-old problem for teachers that is yet to be solved. Global warming? Oh right, nothing to do with that.

Argh, too much thinking. My head hurts. I'm done for today, before my brain implodes.

{CASE IN POINT--SEE ABOVE XD}

More on Disney Channel later...*shudders*

I'm scared...

(Hannah Montana: Taking over the world one theater, tv, and radio at a time)

The Answer to Life is 42?

I was watching "The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls" on the SciFi channel today. Of course they're playing it, as the new Indiana Jones movie, "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", is going to be in theaters soon, but it made me wonder. (I was also watching the rest of the Indiana Jones marathon, of course ;D)

All of the mysteries of the world that there are. The crystal skulls, the creatures of the deep, the supernatural and paranormal things, Doomsday in 2012, global warming (ok, not in the same category, I'm just joking around), Stonehenge, aliens, blah blah blah. There sure are a lot of things we don't know about the universe as a whole. A lot of people are obsessed with finding the secrets of life, the universe, and everything. We all generally wonder the answers to that right.

Huh. Wouldn't it be funny if there was one answer, and it was so simple, and we never realized it? *shrugs* There probably really is a simple answer to EVERYTHING, but we're overlooking it. Who knows. Maybe we'll never find out. Or maybe (if you believe in heaven) when we all die at the end of the universe, God will have a big speech and tell it to us!

Maybe it's 42?

Random Thought of the Day

Here's a thought (and no, I will not begin every post that way): you know how in most junk mail things, magazines, catalogs, etc, there comes a "Business Reply Mail" if you want to reply with a subscription?

See in the top right corner? "NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES". It's already paid for. Stupid. How much money do these businesses spend on this "Business Reply Mail"? And how many people actually reply to these things?! Definitely less than half, that is. All the money goes to waste. It's crazy. We wonder why our economy is going to hell, and it's because we spend businesses money on things like this.

All the money they use on something like this could go to a better cause! It doesn't have to be going to the Army or something, but it should go to something like the homeless shelters, or third-world countries getting water! A couple million of these envelopes (which is about the population of ONE large city) have enough postage worth to make a build a few homeless shelters.

Corporations should do the math. What is 1 MILLION (stamps) x 41 cents is????? 41 million cents. That's $410K.