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Date: Saturday April 18, 2009
Subject: e-mail Questions!
Listening to: My Life Would Suck Without You
Projects in progress: Still this website
Today's Topic: "Why is it that religious institutions seem to control a lot more than they should even though America requires no affiliation with a religious institution?"

This subject is actually something that crosses my mind a lot as well.
In 1954, due to a religious revival, Congress decided that the pledge should contain the words "under god" between "One nation" and "indivisible" and frankly things like this and "In God We Trust" on our currency has us wondering where our religious freedom went.
Just a fun fact, there are more Atheists in the United States than Jews, Hindus, Buddhists Muslims - combined and doubled.
That is a shitload of nonbelievers.
So if that's the case, and Christianity in general was not mentioned, it would, make them the majority.
The great and yet unfortunate part of our "democracy" (which is actually nearer to a republic, since a democracy is borderline anarchy) is that the majority overrules.
So, the fact that we have "Winter Break" which just so happens to have us out of school in time for Christmas isn't just a mere coincidence.
However, it seems that other religious organizations are stepping up.
In the county where I live, the schoolboard was nearly sued by an unnamed religious group for trying to give the students off Good Friday.
Fight it all you want, humanity, but religion is not going anywhere.
It has been around both destroying lives and mending broken ones since the beginning of time (Mostly destroying since more blood has been shed in religious wars than in every other war combined).
But that is besides the point, no one seems to wonder why we don't have Passover off, or the entire month of Ramadan, or something of the sort. Obviously the reasoning behind this being that The Jewish community and the Islamic community are not majorities.
But you may wonder if there are so many atheists now, why in the world isn't there a balance in the way things work?
I wondered the same thing until I was reminded that there is still a majority who veiws the community of atheists as "godless heathens" and probably wouldn't even allow someone into office without a sunday school record.
Of course I don't mean to say that anyone that is a part of a religious faction is bad or thinks that way or is the cause for the things that are run the way they are -for example Blue Laws which control when a person is or is not allowed to purchase alcohol (Which I am proud to say I personally know a city commissioner who worked to dispose of them). And religion, whether people believe it or not, has actually set many standards by which society lives. It also controls the lack of sex education which needs to be stepped up big-time. Eventually people will realize abstinance-only teachings are not only not working, but wasting time when you could be helping to prevent the spread of HIV, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases which are preventable.

So yes it seems, in many ways, like religious institutions and organizations control more than they should, and that their influence is everywhere.
Of course there is no place to escape from this, but, in case you are one of the people being bothered or changed by "religious freedom" or lack thereof, remember that your vote does count, so when the time comes, don't think that you will be outnumbered. Vote no matter what, because one day, people will look past religion and race and dress and cliques and see humans. The way they are supposed to.


Date: Friday April 17, 2009
Subject: The Start Of It All
Listening to: Momoiro no Hana
Projects in progress: This website!
Today's Topic: Money, Sex and Power.

Summary: I woke up today, early because I had to go in for math tutoring, you should see my homeowrk grades. Not good.
Now, had it been a sturday, instead of a Friday, I wouldn't have woken up for a very long time, and, hell, maybe today would have been a good day.
Well, it was, sort of. I raised a D in chemestry to an A! YEAH! CLEAVAGE!
Pop quiz in math didn't go as well, and I was a brat when I came home, because my brotehr was annoying me.
But it wasn't until I spoke with my friend Sophia on the phone that I thought about today's topic:
Money, Sex and Power

Teenagers.
Why are most of us alwasy trying to grow up so damn fast?
The adult world isn't as glamorous as it is the the movies, or in the lives of the movie stars.
Is it that we want to keep up with our friends in "maturity" or is it that we want to surpass them?
Is it that getting left behind with the childish idea that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy in high school is not an option?
Either way, our opinions on sex and drugs and alcohol (maybe you're like me and keep out of all three, but it's rare is it not?), means nothing in the adult world we so long to reach.
Money matters.
If money wasn't the most important thing in the world one wouldn't need it to do literally everything that they do during the course of the day.
And of course tehre's the econimic recession, people wouldn't be panicking as much if money mattered less.
Yet, the teenage boy goes for the nice car, to help him score.
Leading of course to point two: Sex matters.
For some reason, call it hormones, I call it peer pressure, teenagers feel the need to procreate long before society has set the precedent.
And if the cause for it all was not to be a laughing stock amongst the guys or a baby amongst the girls, we'd all just hump table legs.
Or stuffed animals, it works for dogs.
Of course I'm not just preaching that abstinance-only crap. But for the love of everything, sex education needs to be dealt with. Because we're not going to have any fucking humans left after a few more generations!
And without the greatest population, who will hold the power?
Power Matters.
Those who hold powerful positions even GET sex and money just for being in their position.
But how powerful is powerful enough?
To be honest, there is no such thing, to the ambitious anyhow.
If there is no limit to the money one could earn, is there no limit to power?
God knows there's no limit to sex.
I know, I've been unlucky enough ot catch a particular episode of Maury.
But if an organization, the government in our case, can take your money away, and your power, and -your sex?
Well, we know everything that they can take, everything except your voice (in most cases).
Now, if only we could make voices more important in the world. . .