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our country is going down the shitter. on one hand we have neoconservatives who try to force religion and racism down our throats, and on the other hand we have the liberals who try to force a different type or racism and socialism down our throats. i'm sick of it. thats part of why i made the transition to libertarianism. just stay the fuck away from my personal property. and come on, income tax! talk about injustices. the income tax amendment wasn't even passed by the correct majority of states to become a constitutional amendment. all it does is pay for the government's wars. like iraq. whoever thought that a backasswards country had wmds is an idiot. hell, that country was in the shitter before we even invaded. it was perhaps even better off. like, at least they had electricity. and islam extremists weren't killing 60 people a day. what's up with that anyway?! it seems like every time i turn on the tv i hear about another car bombing that killed 60 people. it's hardly any more or any less than 60. do the terrorists have a quota or something?! is osama sitting there saying "hey guys, we only killed 40 today. go kill some more"?? and whatever happened to osama?! did we just kind of forget about him? oh well. i guess he wasn't really our enemy, now was he georgie?

i went to church on easter sunday. that was an odd experience. i used to go every sunday, so the priest/bishop person knows our family well. she looked like she was going to have a heart attack when she saw me. my mom warned her not to talk to me. damnit. i have like a stigma around me. who gives a damn if im an atheist. shouldn't they just look at my personality instead of my religious beliefs? i can be a nice guy even though i don't believe in a sky daddy who answers all my prayers. prayer. that's so stupid. for example, when sports teams win, they always go on tv and say something to the effect of "god must have answered my prayers when i prayed that we would win." I wish i were that reporter. i would ask, "so basically god shafted the other team." i would probably be fired. haha.

i got my book of mormon in the mail the other day. mormonism makes me laugh. hahahahaha. they believe that jesus came to north america 600 years before he was born, and then decided to make a pit stop here again after he died. wtf?! and also, they believe that the 12th tribe of israel sailed here in 600 BC, fought with steel swords which didn't exist, on elephants that didn't exist. what?! and, hahaha, they believe that the north americans desended from a race of men who could do no good. lol talk about racism. they were the lamanites. the good guys were the nephites. apparantly, they were favoured by god, but he decided to let them be wiped out. i'm glad they had god's help pffff.

I finished reading "What Evolution Is" by Ernst Mayr. great book. loved it. it taught me so much more about evolution than bio did. i recommend it to evolutionists, ID-iots, and creationists alike. in fact, i highly recommend it to creationists. if you are going to try to argue against evolution, creationists, at least know the theory. so many of them don't. *sigh* it makes me want to slam my head on a wall. "Oh! evolution breaks they second law of thermodynamics!" they say. doifhgsuodhfgoisdjfh! the second law of thermodynamics applies to CLOSED SYSTEMS! in case they didn't know, earth is anything but a closed system. for example, the earth gets energy from the sun! DRRRR! and comets and asteroids hit the earth all the time. and there is no such thing as macroevolution, and there is no such thing as microevolution. there is just e v o l u t i o n. there are three intrinsic properties of life. 1) everything dies. 2) if an organism is unsuited for its environment, it dies easier. 3) there is descent with modifications (for example, i look different than my parents). these three things are as intrinsic to life as the statement that the fact that a square has 4 sides is and instrinsic property of a square. these three properties ensure that evolution happens. for example, lets go to a cooled lava bed. there is a population of beetles (the population is the level at which evolution occurs, even though it plays out at the gene level). now, in this population, some beetles are whiter than the other black beetles. in the area, there is a type of bird that eats these beetles. the white beetles are more likely to be eaten than the black beetles, because they are easier to see. because of that, the population will eventually shift to be all black, or dominatly black. that is called gene flow. now lets look at another scenario. take a population of bunnies, and toss them onto alaska. the organisms that have a thicker coat will survive long enough to reproduce, whilst the ones with thinner coats will die. eventually, the bunny population will shift to having thicker coats. now introduce a predator that feeds by sight. now, the bunnies with coats that more closely match the rocks and vegetation of the area will survive. fast forward 1,000 generations. the alaskan bunny population will be so much more different (because of the different factos in it's niche and habitat) that it will no longer be able to reproduce with the original population from which it was taken from. that constitutes a new species.

talking about reproduction, i think i am coming to terms with the idea that i most likely will never get a girlfriend. i don't like that prospect, but i think i might have to deal with it. i walk down the hallways and i see couples. i don't just want A girlfriend, i want THE girlfriend. the person who is right for me. maybe i'll find that person who likes me back in college. but then i'll be so focused with learning about things i actually care about that i won't want to devote time to dating.

talking about learning, i think math that is beyond geometry is completely useless. like, when are you going to need to graph a parabola in the real world? are you going to be sitting there at your desk at your job, and have you boss walk in and say to you "hey, graph xsquared times three x"?! NO! God damnit, i wish they would just let me take a philosophy class. then i would be happy. what is the meaning of life? 42! how can you know the answer if you know not the question? here is a box. in it has the answer. but what is the question? it could have a plastic figurine in it, but i don't care. what is the question? plastic figurine! i think there is a plastic figurine in the box. i dont! i dont care! i'm going to leave the plastic figurine alone. if a tree falls down in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? on a purely scientific level, yes because it would make sound waves as it crashed through the forest. but what if sound is all perception? i hear one thing, but someone else hears another. the what is sound? is sound purely relative? what is that ringing noise i sometimes hear? who is john galt?

maybe some answers are best left un-said. maybe some questions are best left un-asked. maybe God is hiding behind the moon.