Hypocrisy Runs Rampant

Hypocrisy is one of the few things I truly hate with extreme passion in this world, along with being interrupted, Embarq (or whatever their name may be now), angst, annoying children, and Nintendo. Just in case you may not know what hypocrisy means, allow Dictionary.com to explain!

Hypocrisy: a pretense of having a cirtuous character, mor or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really posses. - Dictionary.com

Now, there's one particular form of hypocrisy that really brings my blood to a boil: Religious hypocrisy. Believe me, everyone just loooves religious hypocrisy, whether they know they are going or not. In most cases I can imagine they aren't, because they're that dense.

Religious hypocrisy is super-duper easy to go along with. For example, you could be a Christian, go to church every Sunday (and Wednesday too, if you're that into it) and vow to your God that you will obey the Ten Commandments with all your heart, never stray from the path. Then, go ahead and break commandment three (thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain) and shout GOOODAMMIT when you get home and step in a nice, warm, juicy pile of shit your dog decided to leave in front of your bathroom door.

See? Easy! Of course, there's much more than disobeying the Ten Commandments you can do to be hypocritical religiously. You could label yourself as a Christian, then go have sex with everyone at school before marriage. I mean, correct if I'm wrong (I'm not), but I'm pretty damn sure The Holy Bible says you're supposed to wait until you put that ring on your left ring finger before you get to making annoying children, my 5th worst enemy.

Honestly, I see this shit all the damn time. Some people even say that oral sex isn't sex at all, so you can get to blowin' all you please before marriage, and no strikes against you. Are you that damn stupid? Honestly? If you're that damn desperate to find a way around have sex before marriage, and you're a Christian, or Catholic, or whatever the hell else, just drop your religion now and spare me the trouble of listening to you whine about your sex drives that you just cannot control. Don't bother going to church either, because it doesn't work that way. Your pastor cannot cure you of your sins every Sunday morning, and won't just because you can't find a way to keep your dick in your pants.

I do like it when a person, more particularly a girl who is also a Christian, tells me at school (in the morning when I want to stab everyone who talks to me, because I'm still so damn tires) that I need to, "Lighten up, have fun, be free, and just enjoy life because this is the only one you have." Oh, it makes me giggle sooo much on the inside. In fact, that lightens up my day, especially if I manage to slip up and laugh out loud. Then I get to listen to some tell me, for the one-hundred billionth time that my laugh is evil or some shit.

I know a man, lets call him Preacha Man for shits'n'giggles, who once told me, "Only about 1 in 100 Christians actually follow the faith as it should be followed." It was either 1 in 100 or tack another 0 on the end of there. Funny thing is, I'd have to disagree and add yet another 0 onto the end of that number.

One last thing. For anyone who knows that I'm talking about them (except Preacha Man), do not ever preach to me about the religion you yourself cannot even practice. If you do, I will, forcefully if necessary, list off your daily sins in front of everyone around us, explain to you how hypocritical you are and do it by shouting in your ugly face you whore.

Degeneration of Literacy

Literacy: the quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to read and write. - Dictionary.com

Up until the late 1800s, many people could not read or right unless they were wealthy enough for afford an education for their children and/or themselves. It was a luxury, and it would appear as though the same situation is close at hand. Many teenagers, and even adults, have trouble reading and writing. How is that even possible given our education standards today?

When public schools began to pop up all over, here and there, everywhere, children almost couldn't get enough of it. Getting an education is something everyone wanted to get so that they could get a better job than a factory worker who may have a chance of getting their limbs cut off by they big-ass machine.

However, nowadays children and teenagers alike are more reluctant to accept a proper education and actually learn how to spell words that consists of more than four letters, because, hey, when are they going to use this in their lives, right? You couldn't imagine how many times I've heard bullshit like that from going to elementary, junior high, and halfway through high-school. I heard this in geometry class when learning about how tangents. A classmate, let's call him Rumpelstiltskin, asked my geometry teacher, Mr. Pattywhackgiveadogabone, "Uh, Mr. Pattywhackgiveadogabone, when am I ever going to use this in my life?" Mr. Pattywhackgiveadogabone gave Rumpelstiltskin a sort of tired look and said, "Look, I can't guarantee that you'll ever use this in your daily life. Someone like you probably won't. But if you're not going to learn it for the big and bad outside world, then at least learn it so that you can pass my test."

My teacher gives a good point. You're not going to use everything you learn in school outside of it, however, why not pay attention so that you can at least graduate without all D's and not be asking customers, "Would you like a brink with your dig mac?"

The actual topic is literacy. While I myself am not a literate god, I do consider myself pretty damn good with the subject. However, most teenagers anymore could care less which version of 'there' they're using. Most can't tell the difference between there, they're and their because they never pay attention in class long enough to learn that an apostrophe actually matters. I also like it when kids complain and say, "Well I don't learn anything in Mr. Fittlesticks class because he doesn't teach well." I don't care if the teacher bores you to death (though I would prefer that), it's your job as a student to pay attention to Mr. Fittlesticks and shut the hell up.

I also have to take into account texting and instant messaging. More than half the texts you'll ever receive, or all of them if you and your friends are complete morons, will look like this:
BarberJoe: hey man wats going on

Lemsworth: nm hey wat u doing 2day after scool

BarberJoe: i mite go se that new movie trnsfermers 2 u can cum if u want

Lemsworth: lol you sed cum

BarberJoe: dud shutup your gay

If you get people texting like this all the time, you're (that's you're, not your, dumbass) bound to get people to fuck up when they actually have to write a paper report on how the local propane shop is going to explode if they keep leaving dem der tanks settin out in da sun.

Top 5 Video Games With Weak Stories

Even though I planned on using this blog to discuss more important things, like cancer and kittens, video games are one of the most important things in my life, aside from The History Channel and being phat. So, 'here goes.

#5: Ninja Gaiden 2

Ninja Gaiden 2 will whip you, beat you, tear you limb from limb, eat you, shit you out and then laugh at you as you come back for more. You've never had your ass kicked so hard in your life, even if your dad was and/or still is a racist drunk redneck who believes that daily beatins be de only way to becomin' a man. The only reason you'll keep coming back is so that you can kick this game's ass, and then show the achievement to all your friends saying you did, then dare them to. Next thing you know, six more suicides have been reported in the newspaper, and you've won.

#4: Dynasty Warriors 3-Present

Dynasty Warriors is about playing a Chinese Warriors in the Three Kingdoms Era and killing hundreds to thousands of Chinese soldiers, officers and general on the battlefield so that your kingdom can win. That, or you can visualize all the Chinese soldiers being various people you care very little for, and that you're tearing them to pieces with your pike as they scream, "Lu Bu! It's Lu Bu!" and pretending you're Lu Bu, the most bad ass Chinese person to ever exist in the real world and video games.

#3: Lost Planet 2

Team up with three other players and fight off hoards of giant, man-eating, disgusting bugs that are sometimes the size of a skyscraper turned sideways. The human colonized planet of E.D.N. III is an unforgiving one, but it's just too damn addicting to stay away. Will you kick ass as Snow Pirates, Desert Raiders, Jungle Pirates, the government of NEVEC, Ex-NEVEC operatives, Mexicans, or Chinese Women Gone Wild? Your choice. Just remember to have someone to strangle when that giant boss decides to insta-kill you, or that rocket launcher fagget blow shit up near you and knock you off an edge while the game says you committed suicide all by yourself.

#2: Rainbow 6 Vegas 2

You could play through the most boring campaign I've ever seen, or you could play Terrorist Hunt, a mode that pits you and three other people against blood thirsty terrorists consisting of every nationality that isn't white. These multi-cultural terrorists often say such colorful phrases such as: "Mother fucker!" "I'll fucking kill you!" "Come out come out where ever you are...!" "SHIT!" "I'm gonna find you!" and more! You often die in one hit even when wearing Kevlar armor, and you will die often. However, it's so satisfying when you kill all 50 terrorists in an area on the hardest difficulty all by yourself, like me, or with a group, like me. Either way, the enemy likes it when you shoot them in the face right after they threaten you for killing 49 of their friends.

#1: Demon's Souls

This is a game unlike I have ever seen. It's the hardest, most unforgiving, epic game I have ever seen. You're all alone against a legion of demons, mutated abominations, dragons, possessed people, the undead, and much more evil than can be described.

This game is beautiful and, ironically, soulless in its treatment of you. Even though it punishes me, even though it treats me like shit, I cannot hate it at all. It's the one game I've never rage-quit before, but only quit after exhaustion of playing it for hours upon hours on end.

One of the best aspects of the game is the music. Almost every game ever made has used synthetic music, music synthesized from orchestras. However, Demon's Souls does not do that. Demon's Souls is a game with the sound of real instruments and real singing in it, as pure as it gets. Also, the music is just amazing. Every track of music for levels and bosses fits perfectly, 100%! Here is my favorite track of music from the game. Perfect.

This is my second favorite game of all time, right behind Final Fantasy VI, and I'm pretty damn sure it always will be.

Ninja Gaiden 2

Dynasty Warriors 6

Oh, and it's Lu Bu

Lost Planet 2

R6V2

Demon's Souls

Why Deny Knowledge?

Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things. (Dictionary.com)

Fact - something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact. (Dictionary.com)

I ended my previous blog because all I did was complain in it and it made me sound like a pretentious git. I intend to use this blog more for arguments about things that actually matter. I hope.

I gave the above definitions just so I'm on the same page with the three whole people who will probably think about reading this. Anyway, I wanted to address an issue I find frustrating and somewhat fascinating at the same time. This issue would be the question of why people deny knowledge, facts and truths.

Why would someone not want to know as much as they can about the world around us? As an atheist I want to know as much as I can about the world around me. It fascinates me. I want to know why things world, why people do the things they do, why do people deny knowledge? Wouldn't even a theist want to know how the process of photosynthesis works, or why my hair is brown and yours is blond? I can understand that most would say, "It is the way God designed us, in his image." That's fine, but is that all you're going to accept? Wouldn't you want to know how God does the things he does?

Let me try to elaborate with a true example of what happened in a Biology class I had a few weeks ago. Let's name my teacher Dr. Jack Daniels, theist #1 Sally Gum Drops, and theist #2 Willy Wonka. Of course I will be playing the part of me.

Now of course I can't remember every single detail, but I'll sure try. I can't quite remember how to the conversation started, but one of the other classmates asked Dr. Jack Daniels how cells develop an immunity to certain bacteria and viruses. Now, mind yourself that Dr. Jack Daniels has to be very touchy on the subject, because it involves evolution, and he knows that he cannot talk about something that would contradict the belief's of his students, god-forbid. Now, Dr. Jack Daniels starts by explaining, "Well cells sort of evolve over time, developing immunities to certain viruses and bacteria after experiencing their effects just like our entire bodies do to diseases, like chicken pocks. Once you get it once, with a large enough exposure, your body creates a defense within your immunity system to keep the chicken pocks from effecting you ever again. Of course, being able to develop defenses resembles the theorized adaptation and evolution of life from the beginning in a sort of primordial soup, if you will-"

Ah, and here's where Willy Wonka comes in. Very rudely he semi-shouts, "Bull crap." I can understand if you don't want to listen to the teacher talk, but why not just not pay attention like you do all the fucking time when he's talking about our chapter lessons and trying to help you pass!? It's rude enough that you so belatedly interrupted him while he was talking, but it's even more rude that the time you take to actually pay attention in class you do not even let him try to educate people who actually give to shits.

Dr. Jack Daniels proceeds by saying, "Well it's fine, not everyone believes the same thing, that's okay. It's just theorized that this event took place millions of years ago."

Now Sally Gum Drops at least lets him finish his sentence. She proceeds to ask, "I don't understand why scientists have to figure everything out. Like, why can't they just believe?" She is of course referring to just believing in God.

I oh so wanted to turn around and say, "Well, because just saying, 'God did it,' isn't quite good enough." But I didn't because I didn't feel like upstarting a giant quarrel in the middle of a class I care too much about.

I can't remember what happened next, but hopefully you get my point by now. While Dr. Jack Daniels tries to deliver the knowledge, Willy Wonka and Sally Gum Drops refuse to sign for it. This I just don't understand. Am I saying don't believe in God? No. Am I saying that believing in God breathes ignorance? No. What I'm saying is that, sometimes, believing in God is the only answer and there just can be no more for you.

Having one answer for everything seems stale though, doesn't it? If you asked me, "Why does my ass stink," or, "Why is the sky blue," or even, "Why the hell are you so damn fat, Logan?" and I just gave you the same answer over and over, your questions would be met with blandness and an ignorance to back it up.

I do appreciate the theists who can look at the process of photosynthesis and explain how it happens, why it happens, and when, and their beliefs still hold firm. Science shouldn't shake your beliefs if they truly exist, so why deny it?