Brace Yourself, This Is Gonna Sting

I am getting pretty frustrated. Apparently it isn't ok to have an opinion unless your opinion is the same as everyone else's opinion. It isn't ok to be religious, because religion restricts people's ability to think and express themselves. It isn't ok to believe that marriage is suppose to be between a man and a woman, because if you believe that then you are a homophobe. If you are white, then you are automatically going to be racist about everything you say. If you say someone is fat, then you are insensitive and you should take it back because obviously it isn't true. Guess what? This is all bull crap.

Religion doesn't restrict people as much as you would think. It gives people, at least, a grain of moral fiber. Without religion there isn't really a moral compass. There is no definitive way of proving what is right or wrong. Even if religion is all bogus. It, at the very least, gives people boundaries. It tells people that they shouldn't kill people, do drugs, be abusive, and that they should generally be good to their fellow man. I am so sick of all this negativity against religion. What does that say about the person that is against it? That they don't think people should be good to each other, or that they should kill people at random? Obviously, it isn't good to blindly follow a religion and do everything it says just because "that's what you are suppose to do", but at least religion gives you some kind of a direction to live your life. Who knows, maybe it is ok to follow a religion, a good one, blindly. I know a lot of people that do and guess what? They are happy. Who are you to take away their happiness with angry words and actions. We aren't here to be mean to one another. I don't care if religion is bogus or not. I think our goal should be to help each other find happiness. If killing people makes you happy, then you should probably be locked up because you are a psychopath. Am I making myself clear? I have a lot more to say.

I don't think that gay people should be able to be married. There I said it. It isn't because I am christian, or that I have been brainwashed. I just don't think it is right. As far as I am concerned marriage has its roots in religion, and everyone wants religion to be out of the picture. So I don't understand exactly why they are pushing so hard for it. Until now the only reason marriage was even entered into is so that a man and a woman could formally state that they want to create a family. Well, as far as I know, gay couples don't have the correct reproductive organs to create life. So they have no need to enter a union such as marriage. Why can't they just live together? Male and female couples do that all the time now anyway. Why is it such a big deal for a gay couple to have the title of marriage? Is it just so that they can feel equal? Is it because they want to prove a point? Is it because they want to feel like they had an impact on something? Whatever it is I don't understand why it is such a big deal. If you are gay good for you, but I don't see why you feel you have to create such a big war over something that was never meant for you. I honestly don't think that a lot of heterosexual couples should be married. It seems that marriage has just turned into a more formal version of dating. People get bored of it, and then they decide to get divorced. They don't work at it, or try to fix things. They are just lazy about it, and give up. I don't think that people like that should be married in the first place. If anything marriage should have even more strict laws for heterosexual couples who want to get married. They should do away with the quicky vegas chapels, and interview marriage candidates to make sure that they are going to take it seriously. I know I am being blunt about this, and that a lot of people probably don't agree, but this is the real world. You can't have everything that you want. That is just how it is. Just because I want to spend the rest of my life with ice cream doesn't mean I am gonna try to start a revolution to allow my right to marry dessert foods. Marriage is sacred to people. That is why it is being defended so strongly by individuals and religions. It isn't because they hate gays. It is because they feel so strongly about it being the way that it is. Remember they are trying to defend what they believe in. It isn't like marriage was just created 50 years ago to prevent people from being gay. It is the gay community that attacked those that believe that marriage as being between a man and a woman. I think it is almost humorous that they feel discriminated against, when in reality it is completely the other way around. Religions and individuals alike that believe in the traditional sense of marriage are being attacked and discriminated against because of their beliefs. The owner of a large food chain announced publicly that he believed in marriage between a man and a woman, and now there are cities all across america that won't let that chain of restaurants in their city. Just because of what he believes. Tell me now, who is discriminating and attacking whom?

I am so sick of people feeling discriminated against. I feel that all the wrong people are trying to fight for their rights, and all the decent people are sitting back watching all of their rights getting taken away. I, for one, will not stand for this. The world is becoming unstable, because the amount of people with moral values are getting outnumbered by people that are selfish and want only what is good for themselves. How about instead of fighting each other in a war that we will all lose, we fight for a country that protects its citizens by creating jobs, getting out of debt, and funding projects to take our dependance off of oil. We need to stop babying people that feel discriminated against, and start fighting for a better future instead of one that has laws protecting criminals and people who just want rights for their own gain. We are losing our collective freedoms for the freedoms of a few. There is a war against good and evil going on, and I am not so certain that good is going to prevail. I am not saying that you aren't good if you are gay, or if you don't believe in religion. You aren't good if you continually put others down, if you are selfish, and if you are consistently contentious with people that don't share the same views as you do. I believe that people can live happily the way they want to if they can make some compromises. Life isn't perfect for everyone, and that is just how it is. Just learn to let some things go. The more people push to have things changed to their own way, the more others rights will be taken away. Not everyone can have their own way, but there can be a balance where people won't feel that they have no rights at all. That is what we need to fight for. Not all of this legalize gay marriage, do away with religion, and protect "my personal rights" crap.

Obviously, people aren't going to agree with what I said, and I will likely have a bunch of comments of people nay saying. Go for it. I won't change my stand on what I have said. Unlike a lot of people I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but just because you have an opinion you don't have to make everyone else miserable by shoving it in their face all the time. People will say, but hey religious people are trying to shove their beliefs in our face all the time. Yeah, guess who else shoves their beliefs in everyone's face all the time? Look at yourself before you make an accusation, and ask yourself if maybe you are also to blame. The only way anything is going to change for the good is if everyone starts asking themselves if they are the person causing the problem.

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I just had a delicious Durangos salad. Time to blog. Something I was just thinking about is swearing. Although I don't encourage people to swear I do find it quite hilarious when people do. Little background on me. I find most things hilarious. This is why I don't think I would be cut out for a serious executive job. I was in a business meeting yesterday for the company I work for, and the guy in charge of the meeting said "duty". I almost started laughing, because in my mind duty converts to doodie (poo). It took quite a bit of effort to not laugh. What I am saying is that just because I am 24 it doesn't mean that I am going to act like an adult. I possess the ability to act like an adult from time to time, but if someone says "do do" or "duty" or anything even close to a "that's what she said" I can barely control myself. So having said that, back to what I was originally saying. I know that swearing is childish and inappropriate, but I just find it funny. You can't have the same bout of laughter from someone saying "shoot" after doing something stupid as you can when someone yells the swear word equivalent. This is my opinion at least. I mean yeah, there are some people that don't ever condone swearing, and those people are good people and in some cases have a sense of humor. I don't think it is nice to call them prudes, or make fun of them. It is not my place or anyone else's place to judge anyone on how they live their lives. Unless they are a felon in which case the judge will judge them, but that is beside the point. I think swearing is funny in a lot of cases.

There are a lot of circumstances where swearing is annoying, and very inappropro (hip and cool way of saying inappropriate). This is when 13 year olds are swearing because they think they are cool and rebelling. This is neither funny or even close to the right context for swearing. Swearing, when done correctly, will flow effortlessly and either convey an emotional extreme, be hilarious, or even a little of both. For me, when I say stuff like shoot, darn, freak, crap...I am usually thinking it's inappropro equivalent. So really, I don't see the difference between them. Like I said before, you aren't a square or a prude if you don't approve of swearing. You are even likely a better person than I, but I am a really easy going person and don't really get offended very often. I just like to laugh. I believe this is a better way of reacting to situations. If you get offended by things usually it is just awkward for everyone, and I hate feeling uncomfortable. Obviously, there are some things that offend me, but generally speaking it is very difficult to offend me. I believe this makes life easier for me, and allows people to enjoy my company. There are just way to many people who take things seriously, and unfortunately that is their entire life. I don't understand how a person can be so serious about stuff all the time. We are here to be happy, and be good people. Not to get offended by other people. It is your problem if you are offended, not anyone else's. Your choice is to take offense, and I would say that most of the time it isn't worth it.

I felt like I was gonna wrap this up, but I just thought of a story to prove my point about this. My sophomore year in high school was shaping up great. The seniors were large and definitely in charge, such as it is in high schools. The beginning of the year assembly was practiced, and deemed appropro by whomever was in charge of deeming things at the school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good started makin' trouble in ma neighborhood. I got in one little fight...Just kidding. The whole point of the assembly was to make everyone laugh. Unfortunately, there were some students in my class that take things too seriously. In the assembly the seniors were making fun of sophomores, and at one point they had spray bottles of, what they called, sophomore repellant. If a sophomore came too close they would spray the repellant, and the sophomore would be repelled. There was another sketch where some sophomores were walking to Wendy's, since they didn't have cars, and they had a senior on a scooter drive by and circle them while laughing hysterically and pointing at them. I was in tears, because I was laughing so hard. Most of the sophomores were, but there were a couple of them who were in tears because they chose to be offended by the skits. After a few phone calls from some parents who, apparently, had no sense of humor either. We were forced to stop the tradition of making fun of sophomores. A tradition that had been passed down for years. It was all done in fun, and it was clear that there were no hurtful intentions. I mean there were sophomores on stage acting this out for crying out loud. The students in the sophomore sections were laughing just as hard at it as any other section of students.

The moral of this story is to choose to laugh when given the option. Hint: there is always that option. When people get offended they complain. When they complain they guilt the person they are complaining to into changing the rules that regulate what they were complaining about. When those rules change everyone else has to start living by rules that were made because 1 or 2 people were offended by something they shouldn't have been offended by. This is what is happening everywhere. Everyone feels that because they are offended by something they can go complain, and have it their way. Well because of that the constitution has turned into a Burger King menu.

A Letter to Facebook Users

Dear friends who insists on posting hundreds of pictures that are anything but interesting,

Please understand that I don't care that you feel that you are expressing yourself through a photo that someone stole from google images and then photoshopped words on to it. I am getting to the point where I don't even care if it is funny. Sure I like a laugh, but I am beginning to do anything but laugh. The amount of pointless pictures are greatly outweighing the amount of SuMmEr TwEnTy TwElVe albums that are being posted by the attractive women that I am trying to photo stalk. I am not the only person that feels this way. Trust me. So here is the thing. I am going to try and help you regain the trust of the people who are probably going to delete you if you don't stop it with all the photos.

Tip #1: If you come across a picture and it is funny. Ask yourself 2 questions. Did this make me actually laugh out loud, and have I shared over 5 pictures today. If you answered yes to the first question then, and no to the second question feel free to share the photo.

Tip #2: If you are a person that actually has albums of funny memes that you have been adding to, then instead of sharing a photo every second. Save the photos you like onto your computer, and after a day upload all those photos into an album. That way it is one post, and it isn't cluttering up my newsfeed. I really enjoy those kind of albums.

Tip #3: If you are posting pictures that aren't funny, and are "inspirational". STOP IT NOW! No one cares! I hate to be insensitive, but I am being completely honest. If you feel that you must post them, at least do as I have previously stated in the last tip so that I don't have to see them scattered throughout MY news feed.

Tip #4 This isn't exactly a tip, but listen and listen carefully. If you don't at least accomplish these few tips I, along with many others, will get sick of you and delete you as a friend. What are you gonna do with all of your photos when you have no one to share them with except the weird guy who added you a few years ago, and for some reason you accepted it. He isn't gonna delete you. He is too weird, and is probably stalking you.

So there you have it. If you want to be alone social networkingly speaking, then by all means keep posting all of your dumb photos, but I promise if it doesn't stop soon I will treat you as if you were a piece of crap and flush you down the proverbial social networking toilet. I am not sure that I used that correctly, but I still meant what I said even if I didn't say it right!

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The Amazing Spiderman 2012 Review

I had a very interesting 4th of July experience last night. It was about 8:15 PM at the Nygaard residence when I realized that I really didn't give a crap about watching fireworks. So after much deliberation I convinced a couple of people that we should go to the movie theater and watch the new Spiderman movie. My arguments were that first, everyone in town would be watching fireworks so there would be no one in the theater. The second was that I hadn't seen it yet. It was a wonderful plan. Almost bullet proof.

We got to the theater about 15 minutes before the movie started, and just like I had predicted the movie theater was practically barren. We entered our theater, and it was just us! In 1o minutes we would have our own theater to watch this movie, or so we thought. What I didn't consider when I devised this plan is that there are a group of people that live in America, but they don't really celebrate our independence. A family of this specific minority group entered the theater, and my dream had then been crushed. There were 3 children in this specific family. It was at this time that I began to fear for the worst. My second thought was trying to figure out why a group of people who's kids could only speak english would spend money to see something they couldn't understand. I thought that was a valid thought. But, their kids must have been quite persistent about it.

The movie then began, and lucky these children were well behaved, so I didn't have to kill them. It wouldn't have been a racist thing had I killed them. It would have been a "I am sick of people ruining movies because of their obnoxious children" thing. Seriously, there is a time for kids to see movies. That time is in the afternoon. If you are taking your child to a night time movie, bring a roll of duct tape and some Ritalin. If you don't have those things on your person at the entrance of the movie theater, and you have kids, you shouldn't be let in. Yes, this is my opinion, but it just so happens that a lot of people agree with this opinion. It is your fault you had children. Now you have to suffer the consequences of your actions. These consequences include not going to movies and wishing you were dead.

Ok, so the movie. Hopefully you are still with me, because this is the important part, and also my opinion. I loved the movie. I am usually really hard on movies, but I really don't have anything bad to say about it. I was thoroughly entertained the whole time, and unlike the other spiderman movies. This movie was more consistent with the comics and cartoons.

A lot of people are wondering why they made this new Spiderman movie. Well, it is because the other ones were pretty cheesy. Let's be honest, they were. The other big reason is that they weren't consistent with the original spiderman. In the cartoons and comics spiderman had cartridges, not web that magically shot out of his wrist. His abilities were spidey sense, super strength, and his ability to scale walls. Also, Mary Jane was not his first love interest. It was Gwen Stacey.

One of the main reasons that I really enjoyed this movie was the character development. They spent just under an hour introducing Peter Parker, and the rest of the characters. It gave the background of his parents, and why he ended up living with his uncle Ben and aunt May. And you really just got to know Peter Parker. You find out that he is into photography, and that he is very smart. They set up the story really well in that aspect.

I really enjoyed the more adult feel of the movie. Although it is a fictitious movie, the characters are very real. It gives real depth to the movie, and really grabs you from the beginning. I felt that it wasn't a perfect representation of high school, but in some aspects it was better than most. There were a few things that I could really relate to there. The villain was also well done. I felt that there was a good reason for him becoming a villain, and that it worked very well with the story.

Also, let's be real here. The biggest issue to address in a movie is the female lead. "Is she hot?" Well the only way that you can do better than Emma Stone is by getting Emma Watson, and I don't know that the character of Gwen Stacey is one that I could see Emma Watson doing. So for hot and capable female lead this movie gets a 10/10 hands down.

Overall this movie exceeded my expectations. I was very pleased with it, and I personally feel that everyone needs to see it. Had the avengers not come out, this movie would be the best film of the summer thus far in my opinion. So yeah. Go watch it. If you are disappointed then you don't deserve the right to see movies, and I will publicly mock you. Seriously it's a great movie. In fact, I want to see it again. That is how much I enjoyed this movie. Oh, I forgot to mention. The 3D was great. So if you have the money to spend I definitely suggest the 3D version. Definitely worth the money. Are you still reading this? Go get a ticket already. What have you got to lose? 10 bucks? 20 bucks? 1000 bucks? It doesn't matter, because you can't put a price tag...I lost my train of thought, but you get what I am saying.

Peace Out!