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Hello #OWS, you're kinda getting on my nerves.

As of today, 3/18/2012, the Occupy movement is six months and a day old.

I saw on Twitter that you guys are trying to revive the movement.

Seriously, stop.

I do agree with a lot of what you guys are fighting for. I don't like cooperate involvement in government. I don't like the fact that over the past 40 years, even though normal workers' pay has gone up $0.10, that CEOs are earning 11 times more money compared to 40 years ago. ADJUSTED TO INFLATION (source.)

I believe that we need our voice heard more in government.

Oh wait, you can fix these problems without protesting things. Maybe like the White House petitions page to have your voice heard. If you really feel like you aren't earning enough to make a living, contact the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) to fight on your behalf.

Also, set things in perspective. I've seen the live streams on Ustream of your protests. From an outside viewer, you guys look pathetic. Repeating/chanting tweets?

"Sean is bleeding from his ear." "SEAN IS BLEEDING FROM HIS EAR!!!!11ONEONEONE1!"
"He has a boot print on his face." "HE HAS A BOOT PRINT ON HIS FACE!!!!11ONEONEONE1!"
"If you have pictures send them to me!" "IF YOU HAVE PICTURES SEND THEM TO ME!!!!ONE1!" Wait, who!?

Things started looking pathetic quite a long time ago. I think it started with the drum circles. What are you, a hippy party?

Then set things in a bigger perspective. You're the 99% of America. If you make more than $34,000 per year, congratulations, you are the top 1% of the world.

What else...

You know you can't win this one. Admit it. The whole movement was supposed to cause enough controversy and create new laws regulating income of executives in about a month. Now it's like the wars in the Middle East: the purpose has not been met, it's dragged on too long, and any news that it makes is generally negative.

Give up your fight. Find another occasion to protest.
Next time, be swift.
Next time, hit hard.
Next time, continue being peaceful.
Next time, expose ALL cooperate dirtiness.
Next time, take into account what others in the world are going through. You are the 1% of the world. Change that, and maybe you won't be the 99% of America.

Lazy Christianity

Again, long time no see.

I hate lazy Christianity, but I am also a lazy Christian. Maybe I shouldn't be writing this–it would be considered hypocrisy, but I'm working on that.

A lot of us Christians pray for various things: things like the end of poverty, the release of those caught up in human trafficking.

I'm not doubthing the power of God; however, we shouldn't just be praying. We should also DO.

We often speak of tithing; less of us actually give a tenth of our money as offering.

I understand and know people who are not in the financial position to give a tenth of their income. However, what we can do is give a tenth of our time.

If you are a lawyer/prosecutor, a Christian, and have a sense for justice (which I hope you do if you're a lawyer or prosecutor and Christian), there is an organization called International Justice Mission which brings criminals to justice in countries where the authority that is supposed to stop injustice is easily bribed or corrupted. That's giving time.

There are organizations like Compassion International or World Vision where if you give financially they will use that money to help someone. That is giving your money.

You can make a difference in your own community too. Go out with your children and minister through actions, not with words. People will wonder what makes you different from all the other humans they have met.

Reducing top-secret gov't agency waste

"Woah!

Another blog post?

Dude, you're rolling out these blog posts like there's not tomorrow!"

There is a tomorrow, but, yes, I'm putting more on my blog about my discoveries than before.

No surprise here, but according to The Washington Post, there is a huge underground world to our/my/the US government.

It is so big that these government agencies are out of sync. Information is not shared between agencies and there is lots of overlap in the intel gathered.

And in overlap there is waste.

As you can read in a previous post, I am very against government waste. I'm not paying taxes other than sales/consumption taxes right now, but I will be in the future. I don't want to see waste.

You can read more about this from the link above, and come back after you're done.

I propose a plan to reduce and eventually eliminate waste coming from these sources.

Step #1: create a central server that all governments (non-US) and agencies can access, containing intel gathered about possible terrorist attacks and allowing the submission of intel relating to possible terrorist attacks.

Step #2: make a website [public beta] posting all general data (being expected date and location, weapon type[s]) of possible terrorist attacks, accessible by anyone with an internet connection. Allow connection with social media to raise public awareness of potential events.

Step #3: develop and deploy algorithms assessing threat of attacks based on intel. Things that should make events rank higher or more "critical"; # of potential casualties/target size/target type, intel that states an attack may happen on or close to a specific date/holiday like Christmas or national holidays like various countries' Independence Days, executer and affiliated organization (is the executer part of a major terrorist organization or even a higher-up in one?) etc.

Step #4: take public website out of beta and use algorithms of step #3 to organize data. Further organize data by HTML5 location detection. i.e. If user is detected to be accessing website from Frankfurt, Germany, relevant information relating to potential terrorist attacks in Germany is put on top of website and furthermore those relating to Frankfurt are prioritized.

Done.
With the first step waste is reduced to improve inter-agency cooperation and synchronization.
The second step raises public awareness.
The third filters threats and organizes them, boosting productivity.
The fourth takes the second step further and optimizes public awareness.

The power is with the people. The government can't stop everything. Empower the people, and prevent attacks.

^ That paragraph just used 3 blacklisted phrases.

And this blog post, and this whole blog maybe, is going to end up in the pile of intel of "beginning terrorists". Oh well.

Why I hate males with multiple wives

Oh man!

A new blog post within an hour of the last?

That's gotta be a world record.

Just want to vent about something I've felt strongly about the past few years.


I hate Ziona Chana. The guy with 39 wives.

I hate Mormons with multiple wives.

Why do I say that?


There's a reason polygamy is against the law in many countries.

Also, it's not very Christian of me to say that I hate someone. Just to let you know.

I don't like (that's better) males with multiple wives because the world's population is 51% male, and 49% female.

Even if all women got married to a different male, that leaves 2% of the world's population wifeless.

And some can live with that.

But if you take more than one wife, you're making other people's chances worse.

And you wonder why some people are gay.

Ladies, feel free to take more than one husband though. That way everyone can be married.

Actually, better yet, Chinese people, stop getting rid of your female babies.

I know you want a guy baby to take care of you when you're older, but man, that's just selfish.

We need more females in the world. And country with the largest population, I feel that that's part of your job the give the world less males. So instead of "throwing away" (an expression in Japan of the act of giving away to adoption) or aborting your female baby, give up on having a male as your child. God gave you a female as a firstborn for a reason.

There are more opportunities for women (actually even more than men) in this current world so don't be afraid to have female babies too, world.

It's a new year!

Sorry for the long delays between posts.

I'm a good procrastinator.

Apparently, it's become 2012.

Apparently, the world will end on December 21st of this year.

Which, IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion,) is pretty absurd.

Because there are several problems to having an exact date or time to an apocalypse or, for that matter, pretty much any global event.

Living in more than one country kinda makes you realize that dates can be different at the same time across the globe.

For example, at the current time, it's about 4 PM in Japan on the 2nd of January. In San Francisco, it's 11 PM on the 1st of January. In SF, people are still recovering from their hangovers of the previous night's partying. Here, in Japan, people are gearing up for work tomorrow.

No place in the world will have the same date at the same time.

So, there can be no exact date or time UNLESS a time zone is specified. Though still not believable, if the apocalypse were set to December 21st, 2012, at 12 PM GMT/UTC, the "apocalypse" would become plausible.

Still, since the Bible mentions multiple times (Mark 24:36, Acts 1:7, and more) that 'no one knows the exact date', I won't believe any claims of people knowing the date or time of the end of the earth.

And since this blog post on http://www.patheos.com/ thinks that I have a weak argument, let me ramble on.

Revelation is a pretty interesting book. It's pretty very insane and everything inside makes you think "WTF!?" I encourage you to read it through once.

You think we're in a pretty bad situation economically and/or have lots of natural disasters (Japan just had another M7.0 earthquake the other day. Don't worry, as far as I know, only one person was hurt and that person tripped and dislocated a shoulder.)

According to Revelation, things are going to get a lot harder when the end of the world (as we know it) is near.

I'm not looking forward to the bad things, but what needs to happen has to happen. And until then, I won't be scared by any apocalyptic claims.

Oh, and Harold Camping, you're one of the reasons a lot of people think that Christians are douches. Thanks for all you've done to (further) ruin our reputation.

Where do morals come from?

In my World Views and English classes we're doing things on morality/human dignity.

I like how my school ties together different subjects at the same time, but that's another post.

We, as humans, have a heightened sense of morality. As children we know when something unfair or unethical has been done to us.

Humanists believe that these morals come from past experiences. I forget if it was past experiences in an evolutionary kind of way, like moral values being passed down genetically, or experiences as you are alive. I'm guessing a combination of both?

Post-Modernists believe... well what they want to believe.

Christians believe that after we were created by God, that we instinctively know what good and evil is from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (should I capitalize that? It is a title, right?) after our ancestors ate from it.

Also, it is thought that "morality" genes exist. So, according to Christian theory, that tree would have been  the fastest-acting and first gene-modifying drug :) . According to Modernist theory, that gene is evolving with every human experience. Again, Post-Modernist believe what they want to believe.

But a major thing about morals is upbringing. Would a boy that was brought up in a cannibalistic village think that there is anything wrong with killing another human and eating him/her? No! On the other hand, some of us might feel like puking at just the thought of it.

Still that child may feel like their human dignity has been violated when something dear has been stolen. At our core, we know what is wrong. We just learn to ignore what is wrong through our upbringing. I could give countless examples but that'd be pointless.

I have a project due soon that's supposed to contrast what is wrong with different crimes according to what belief, and I'm having a hard time with Post-Modernism. I mean, everything is different according to the person, right?

That's what is wrong with Post-Modernism. Developed as a response to "there is only one truth" Modernism, most people born after 1970 have PoMo tendencies.

But, even Post-Modernists have to agree that there is something wrong with killing. One Post-anarchist said that it's fine to commit a crime if it makes the offender feel good. But what about the victim? I really doubt that that anarchist would be saying "Hey, it's cool with me if you're enjoying yourself" while being stabbed to death.

I, too, am a Post-Modernist. I identify with that. I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs, and a result find it hard to share my faith despite the Bible telling me that I should be telling people about Jesus.

But I try to follow the moral code given to me by the Bible, and I know that at least 95% of humans on this earth would agree that the 10 Commandments are a good basis for law, except for ya know, that part about coveting what a neighbor has. It'll be impossible to enforce, and how are we supposed to live out the American Dream without a goal like attaining the wealth of, say Bill Gates, and we are in fact coveting Bill Gates' wealth.

What I'm trying to say: we as humans all have morals. It doesn't really matter where it comes from, it matters that we have it. As a result of experiences we may learn to blatantly ignore those morals, but we still have them buried somewhere deep.