Dec 29, 2010
Polygamy
And also, when you hear about polygamy, it's usually involving one man and multiple women. Why is this? Why don't women have multiple husbands? Or why doesn't the polygamous relationship involve multiple men and women?
Dec 28, 2010
Monogamy
Not saying that I have anything against monogamy, but I was thinking... Where did the concept from from? Who decided that people in a relationship must commit to only their relationship partner? I see how it could just make sense - animals like lobsters and doves mate for life, people in love might only feel attracted to that one person, it would protect your partner from disease, and if it takes two people to procreate, it seems logical that a relationship should only include two people. But, as I see it, a person may love someone, and be in a relationship with them, but just because they love one person doesn't necessarily mean they don't like other people. So why can't they see people outside their relationship, while only feeling an intimate connection to their partner? I just don't understand where the basic monogamy principle came from. Who decided this? And why?
Dec 27, 2010
You Just Have to Trust Me?
So, when someone says, "You're just going to have to trust me," or something along those lines, think about it... Does that really make sense? If someone HAS to trust another person because they are just forced to, well, they still don't actually trust them. Trust is one of the feelings that you can't force a person to feel. If someone trusts you, it's because they took their time, and decided that they feel comfortable enough towards you. So if you say someone 'just has to trust you' because the situation requires it or whatever, you're really only asking them to suck it up and don't let it show how much they don't trust you, right?
Dec 26, 2010
Ever Wonder?
Why do we celebrate Columbus Day?
How do you throw away your trash can?
What do cemeteries do when they can't expand any more?
Why did it take so long before people stopped calling Native Americans Indians?
If you eat imitation meat because eating animals is wrong, doesn't that still mean you like the taste of animals?
Why do we call pot pies, pot pies? They don't go in a pot.
Why do people open their mouth when applying mascara?
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
Why do we keep cats as pets, when they're clearly such an extremely intelligent species?
Why do we elect US Supreme Court justices for life?
How do you throw away your trash can?
What do cemeteries do when they can't expand any more?
Why did it take so long before people stopped calling Native Americans Indians?
If you eat imitation meat because eating animals is wrong, doesn't that still mean you like the taste of animals?
Why do we call pot pies, pot pies? They don't go in a pot.
Why do people open their mouth when applying mascara?
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
Why do we keep cats as pets, when they're clearly such an extremely intelligent species?
Why do we elect US Supreme Court justices for life?
Dec 25, 2010
Late Night Remixed Shit
So, if you listen to popular radio stations later at night, usually after 10 PM, they tend to have a DJ on the air. The DJ probably plays a bunch of techno and house, or irritating mixed versions of the latest songs. I don't know if it happens to be just me, but this is SO GOD DAMNED ANNOYING! Why would anyone enjoy hearing cropped to hell partials of songs, mashed with other songs, and often having the broken record effect? One; it is a letdown when a song comes on that I like, and I come to find out, only 20 seconds of it are going to actually play. Two; when a song starts playing that I know the lyrics to, it is extremely frustrating when I'm singing along, and suddenly, it skips and repeats the last couple seconds played. And then does this another two or three times, and on several occasions throughout the song. Three; its annoying when a song is fading in from another, and I like this song, but hate the previous one, it'll be a good 15 seconds or so of the track that I hate before I can get to just the preferred one! Why do radio stations think we want to hear some DJ fooling around with the audio effects?! And they never fail to announce their name at least twice during their air time...Is this because they think they deserve credit for their 'work'? I just don't see how hard it would be for anyone at all to produce the mixes usually broadcast. So they really need some recognition? Okay:
Congratulations, we all now know which DJ is responsible for the indistinct, unoriginal mixes we won't ever notice specifically!
Congratulations, we all now know which DJ is responsible for the indistinct, unoriginal mixes we won't ever notice specifically!
Dec 24, 2010
Today my thoughts crossed paths with: things normally overlooked, that when considered, we don't really know much about. Such as:
Have you ever seen mail trucks traveling on the streets or highways? They bring your mail to your mailboxes obviously, but how do they get it there? It would have to be shipped across the country/world somehow. And if going very far, it would probably, logically, go by airplane or ship. But then, once sent to a major point, to then be further distributed more locally, it would make sense to do this on land. Obviously using roadways. Why I never thought about it beats me, but I don't think I can remember seeing a mail truck on the highway, and very very rarely on the streets. Usually it was somewhere near a post office.
Maybe some of you have actually seen this, but I have not, and imagine it must be a peculiar process, to receive new shipments of animals at a pet store. I mean with nonliving merchandise, it would come in a box, one that the manager or whoever would have requested on an order form. But with living animals, how would they order it, for one, and two, how would it come? On the form, after they sell out of their poodles, would they just check the box for poodle? And would it come in a crate on a shipment truck alongside the other items ordered? That just seems weird considering it's a live animal, not a box of shampoo bottles or throw pillow sets. Maybe I'm the one who's out of the loop here, but I just think that is a little strange, ordering products, and ordering specifically live animals, and whether or not they are done the same.
Why is it the females of species are the ones that have all the hard work to deal with? They have to get pregnant and carry the babies, they have to give birth to the babies, they nurse the babies, they often protect and feed the babies, they're the ones who get a period if not pregnant, and are left with the burden of childbearing. Meanwhile, the males are for the most part only equipped to handle the impregnating. They don't have any baggage to handle after mating/having sex. And they don't have to deal with the pain and stress of menstruating, nursing, labor, pregnancy, or even parenthood. They have the option to walk away from parental responsibilities. Women have to carry around their young until birth, at which time they'd have to take care of them, or else obviously they wouldn't survive. So yeah, a female can walk away. but of course the young would die. In terms of the babies surviving, the men aren't required, while women are. It doesn't seem right or fair. And why would two genders, not balanced and unequal, be created? That just doesn't make sense, especially with so many people faithful to God or another higher power. Are you saying that 'God or equivalent' created two genders, one easier and all around better than the other, and the one we each get is decided at complete random? So some of us just get to have life easier than others? What god would do that if he actually loved his 'children' as much as many people make him seem to?
Why do people commonly recall the phrase "The British are coming," when the American Revolution comes up? Think about it, that really does not make sense. Okay, so we have here, a group of people who left Britain and traveled to a new land where they planned to become independent and start their own nation. This group of people was still in conflict against their home country, who was sending an army to invade the rebels' land. At this point, the rebels were British, and their invading enemies were British. So, to announce an attack by their enemies, why would the British say "The British are coming!"? Hmmmmm... Likely something like "The enemies are coming!" or "They're attacking!" was said...
When someone is legally charged for killing someone who hurt them or their loved one, they often are told that it isn't their decision who lives and who dies, or that they aren't allowed to take the law into their own hands. So, logically, wouldn't that be equally true for the law enforcement? Why is it okay for someone else to decide who lives and who dies? And why is it okay for anyone else to take the law into their hands? What really separates people from the group of people elected to positions that get to make legal decisions? It really is only their elected power. But in the simplest, they really are all just people.
Have you ever seen mail trucks traveling on the streets or highways? They bring your mail to your mailboxes obviously, but how do they get it there? It would have to be shipped across the country/world somehow. And if going very far, it would probably, logically, go by airplane or ship. But then, once sent to a major point, to then be further distributed more locally, it would make sense to do this on land. Obviously using roadways. Why I never thought about it beats me, but I don't think I can remember seeing a mail truck on the highway, and very very rarely on the streets. Usually it was somewhere near a post office.
Maybe some of you have actually seen this, but I have not, and imagine it must be a peculiar process, to receive new shipments of animals at a pet store. I mean with nonliving merchandise, it would come in a box, one that the manager or whoever would have requested on an order form. But with living animals, how would they order it, for one, and two, how would it come? On the form, after they sell out of their poodles, would they just check the box for poodle? And would it come in a crate on a shipment truck alongside the other items ordered? That just seems weird considering it's a live animal, not a box of shampoo bottles or throw pillow sets. Maybe I'm the one who's out of the loop here, but I just think that is a little strange, ordering products, and ordering specifically live animals, and whether or not they are done the same.
Why is it the females of species are the ones that have all the hard work to deal with? They have to get pregnant and carry the babies, they have to give birth to the babies, they nurse the babies, they often protect and feed the babies, they're the ones who get a period if not pregnant, and are left with the burden of childbearing. Meanwhile, the males are for the most part only equipped to handle the impregnating. They don't have any baggage to handle after mating/having sex. And they don't have to deal with the pain and stress of menstruating, nursing, labor, pregnancy, or even parenthood. They have the option to walk away from parental responsibilities. Women have to carry around their young until birth, at which time they'd have to take care of them, or else obviously they wouldn't survive. So yeah, a female can walk away. but of course the young would die. In terms of the babies surviving, the men aren't required, while women are. It doesn't seem right or fair. And why would two genders, not balanced and unequal, be created? That just doesn't make sense, especially with so many people faithful to God or another higher power. Are you saying that 'God or equivalent' created two genders, one easier and all around better than the other, and the one we each get is decided at complete random? So some of us just get to have life easier than others? What god would do that if he actually loved his 'children' as much as many people make him seem to?
Why do people commonly recall the phrase "The British are coming," when the American Revolution comes up? Think about it, that really does not make sense. Okay, so we have here, a group of people who left Britain and traveled to a new land where they planned to become independent and start their own nation. This group of people was still in conflict against their home country, who was sending an army to invade the rebels' land. At this point, the rebels were British, and their invading enemies were British. So, to announce an attack by their enemies, why would the British say "The British are coming!"? Hmmmmm... Likely something like "The enemies are coming!" or "They're attacking!" was said...
When someone is legally charged for killing someone who hurt them or their loved one, they often are told that it isn't their decision who lives and who dies, or that they aren't allowed to take the law into their own hands. So, logically, wouldn't that be equally true for the law enforcement? Why is it okay for someone else to decide who lives and who dies? And why is it okay for anyone else to take the law into their hands? What really separates people from the group of people elected to positions that get to make legal decisions? It really is only their elected power. But in the simplest, they really are all just people.
Dec 23, 2010
What do we Love??? Product Placement!
So how about that recent Vampire Diaries with the very clear in-yo-face advertising for some new Windows laptop. Watch, beginning at 0:03 seconds in, some drawn out, unnecessary and very obvious shots of the laptop. And as he navigates through the video, (THE POINT OF THIS SCENE) for some reason, we have to watch an awful lot of cut scenes showing his fingers on the keyboard operating the video controls! Did that somehow make the point, the transformation video, more serious/dramatic/scary/whatever? I don't think it had anything to do with anything but the laptop's 'super kewl new features!' I love that very VERY obvious scene, please enjoy.
And of course, who the hell could forget this?
Dec 22, 2010
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