Mr. Chips

I've taken my Physics, Chem, Vector mechanics, and Calculus finals. All I'm sure I should've spent more time studying for, but it's almost summer and I'm in summer mode. I have one final left...I don't believe I'm going to study for that one either. I'm in engineering, YAY!

"The Last Movie" And I R Mr.Chips!

The Future Is X-Rated The Fine Art Of Falling Apart

Don't feel to bad, the sony earbuds I got for christmas with my mp3 player decided to give me a shock in the ear (no jokes). I could hear crackling and it really really hurt, so I bought headphones.

"You see I used to think that I'd get over everything, but everything just go over me"

The Fine Art Of Falling Apart That's All I have to say.

The DVD!!!! ;) Can you tell I'm excited?

Indeed...

Why was Nazi the first thing that came into my mind when I read that? Two words: Room 101 Personaly, I think the observation that religion if the fount of all evil is closed minded and uneducated (no-offense). Religion, early on, was created to explain the unexplainable, everything from earthquakes to why we are. Eventualy some (or rather lots) of bad people latched on to this occurence and took advantage of it for the purpose of expoiting and controlling people. Not all religion is a tool to avoid thinking or a tool to control people, there are people of every religion who actualy do strictly follow the set of morals that that religion stands for. Look at Bhudism, it's a religion, but it mainly exists to help people, and to help people help other people. As for the problems of today, I think pinning the blame on only religion, or only money etc. is out of the question if true enderstanding is what you want. I don't claim to be inside the head of George Bush, but I think that he does genuinely belive in god blah blah blah, but he is also very motivated by personal gain and so on. Likewise for many problem casuing religious leaders. (On a side note my personal spirituality is there is no god, and that all I know is that music brings me to a place far beyond the realm of the explainable.) No offense taken whatsoever, I'm not religous. Getting rid of religion is impossible - it's human nature if nothing else to want to explain the world we live in with religion. I find that those who oppose religion as strongly as some of you do here are on the same distructive wave-length as some of the most religious fundamentalists - Let's call you anti-religious fundamentalists.

Why was Nazi the first thing that came into my mind when I read that?

I hoped you'd be coming back. Oh dear. Good job for me you don't have to be religious to be pretentious or naive; that's evident in your case. Nevermind Iraq, Chechnya,Israel,North Ireland and sudan - the admittedly religious disputes - take a look at every other territorial dispute or totalitarian government. You'll find that the majority of the authorities in these disputes are religious. Hence, their decisions are largely influenced by their naive ness. The Iraq war has as little to do with religion as the United States have to do with Iraqi sovereignty. IT'S ABOUT SECUREING NATURAL RESOURCES. The insurgents have even less to do with religion. As I said before in an earlier quote:

Who's following like sheep? I believe you're not looking at this deep enough. Many terrorist networks/groups recruit people on the basis of religion and God; in fact, that's there main basis for recruitment for suicide bombings... It in itself is contradictory to what most religions teach: don't kill, be kind to your neighbor, etc... Many groups only use religion as a means to get people to join and commit to a cause, not because they truely believe it themselves. Now as far as President Bush goes, I've never seen him defend or justify something (war) with God. I'm against him as much as everyone else is, but I've never heard of this tactic being used by him, maybe I don't listen to him enough I don't know. SuperCanuck, although I greatly disagree with him, has a good point (or just a knack for pointing out the obvious). Many wars, deaths, and troubles in the world have been helped along because of religion. But that's not to say other things haven't helped it along: bad politics, whacked ideas, crazy people, guns, bombs, etc. To argue to get rid of something like religion is ridiculous. It has done for the better. Turned drug attics the other way, given comfort in times of need, alowed for a sense of community, belonging, and friendship. Religion has, and continues to better the world. Now back to ridiculous part, why get rid of something fundamentally scripted to help, comfort, and guide people? Why not get rid of guns, bombs, militaries. I think these are indeed, much better, realistic questions.

I'm glad you support it. The point although plainly there to see is about perspective and for those capable of thought. (Ha-ha, I loved that line you used ;) ) "Your opinions on the matter are conducive to the same silly pretentiousness and naiveness that causes religion." Pretentiousness and naive ness that causes religion? It seems that there's obviously something more to this, something that, though altogether blind, just goes to show where the single minded hatred for religion stems from. Because, in saying that pretentiousness and naive ness are at most, the causes for religion, are in turn saying that religion itself is for the pretentious and naive. "I suppose it's not surprising that someone who disagrees with this article such as yourself would be spouting baseless, socialist, and popular rhetoric." 'Baseless', although when used by you is plain ignorance to the place and manner in which I speak from, is in someway true. Even though having lived most of my life in places where even people of your seemingly high intelligence would not consider popular, I can assure you it is neither baseless nor socialist (I'm sure you pulled that out of your ass as sounding good measure). "It doesn't matter whether or not it was 'in tune with how you feel'." Well for the most part it doesn't; in fact, if you had made a direct quote, maybe you would've seen exactly what I was saying. "Terrorism is only a percentage of the deaths caused by mass ignorance." As, religion is only a small percentage of the troubles that we see in the world today. Evil is a word. logically, she can use it in an article to express an idea. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with absolute confidence.

You say that it's time to make a clear line between church and state? This idea is retarded (sorry). They're many different cultures in the world than our own, and to think that everyone should play along by the same rules is rediculus. Even so, if you were to follow through with this plan, it would cause more violence than you know. Many governments other than our own (North America, UK, parts of asia) are working because there's some form of church; There's no line between church and state in some areas of the world. The state is the church. The story is heartfelt, but the message is unrealistic, untrue in the most sense, and there's alot of this to be picked apart; but, I guess the message and core of you story is to be taken, but again, the message (for the most) doesn't ring true, is unrealistic, or just out of tune to what most people believe, or feel. Most of the world's problems today result from money, and turning a profit. The war in Iraq is about oil, terrorism right now (whether you choose to believe or not) started out as flux of power, money, and oil (which translates into money and power). Religion is just a mask. We've been told to associate terrorism with arabs, musilms, and the middle east. Most of the focus is on relgion because of the fact that many terrorist believe in god, and are willing to die for god. All in all, relgion is not where it stems from. Anyways, sorry for the interuption. Seems I can't be polite with this one.

I'd already read it before I posted ;)

Wow, I think Matt's gotten quite lazy with the whole music video thing.

WE'RE ALREADY INVOLVED WITH NORAD! What I think he meant to ask was if we should get involved with the missle defense plan. Paul Martin already declared that he doesn't support it. AND HE'S FUCKING RIGHT!

No contest. Avalanche

Yeah, I don't know. Too much effort involved. Excuse my lack of compasion.

If I'm not online, what else I'm a supposed to do? Homework? What's that? ;)

;) OMG that sounds horrible.

Now his site just says "Life is a fine, fine time"

this polls being taken at least 4 times now. MGB always wins ;)

The Fine Art Of Falling Apart and then the next song would be Whispering In The Dark