Wow ok you people just got all up in arms. Which is ok I wanted some healthy discussion. Should have checked back sooner sorry my bad.
The only problem I have is that some of the people above only had comments like stupid cunts and the like. These are totally counter productive.
My question actually comes from my research paper for my anthropology class. Thank you for those of you that cared to leave constructive views on the matter. The problem I think is that most of you were more focusing on the perfect part. Not so much the whole idea of picking and choosing how the child would look.
Because even if one did take the DNA from a famous person or totally came up with the look them selves, it (meaning either sex) won’t necessarily turn out the way the parents planned. My only purpose was to get people excited as well as draw search results to generate discussion. Although it wasn’t exactly what I thought would come up I did get what I wanted. I do welcome any further discussion though, either here or on my blog.
For all of your personal comfort and relief I do not think it is ok to pick and choose how ones baby would look. Certain diseases I can see engineering out of the baby. Now I am not saying that the ones that are born with disabilities are any less deserving of love and care, or that they don’t deserve to live. Only that I think they could experience life more fully if they did not have certain disabilities. This is just my opinion. I have not had much experience with disabled children or adults for that matter. But if I could I would certainly disable any possibility of genetically transmitted diseases. Things like diabetes, my dad has it, my grandma has it, my sister and I will most likely have it. If I could make sure my kids wouldn’t have it. I would pay how ever much it would cost.
Monday, April 11, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Genetics and stuff
ok here was the intention to my previous post.
I was trying to start a discussion about anything about genetics. such as cloning or the type of thing that i said in my last post.
Mr. Ciavarro made a good point though. wouldnt that be ungodly. well i dont know, would it be ungodly? i am hoping to have a discussion about it.
so anyone with an opinion plz tell me what you think about this subject.
I was trying to start a discussion about anything about genetics. such as cloning or the type of thing that i said in my last post.
Mr. Ciavarro made a good point though. wouldnt that be ungodly. well i dont know, would it be ungodly? i am hoping to have a discussion about it.
so anyone with an opinion plz tell me what you think about this subject.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Choosing the perfect baby
so i was thinking the other day that i really dont want to deal with a kid that is too much like me. so i decided that i wanted to choose what he was going to look like. with genetic splicing. these changes would mearly chage his/her looks. Im not sure if i want a boy or girl yet. but i will be able to choose that when the time comes. ill have to figure out what body features are popular now and what might be popular as he/she grows older.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Second thoughts on the Terri Vegitable Schiavo
I decided Im not going to argue with anyone about this subject any more. Because my main thoughts on this thing is that it shouldnt have been public in the first place.
And with me discussing it, what I think should be done and how it should be handled.
Not only goes against what I think is right but also makes it more public and less easily forgotten.
Arguing about this will not change how anything happens. It has no major life consequence for me or anyone else besides the family involved. Unlike arguing about our societal structure or the presidency or welfare policies. Those things effect everyone in this country and sometimes others else where.
This should not have been brought to the publics eye or involved the government so high as it did. It has gotten to luducris bullshit levels.
I will say no more.
And with me discussing it, what I think should be done and how it should be handled.
Not only goes against what I think is right but also makes it more public and less easily forgotten.
Arguing about this will not change how anything happens. It has no major life consequence for me or anyone else besides the family involved. Unlike arguing about our societal structure or the presidency or welfare policies. Those things effect everyone in this country and sometimes others else where.
This should not have been brought to the publics eye or involved the government so high as it did. It has gotten to luducris bullshit levels.
I will say no more.
Friday, March 25, 2005
Terri Vegitable Schiavo
The first time I heard about it I didnt think anything about it. Now that Im looking around on the net Im hearing more about it, I figured that being a good netcitizen/contributor person I should add a new search result for it.
Ok so shes been a vegitable for 15 years. Hmmmm and the cadaver has/had a husband. However you wanna think about that one. As well as parents that are dick heads and some F'ed up senators that happen to be republicans.
Ok lets look at this in a nice little list.
1. Im sure her husband dosent like the sight of his wife's body mearly existing and breathing. It would be nice if he could give her a special burial.
2. If you believe in an after life. Then there are normally 2 different views about the soul.
2.A. The soul is tied to the mind and can not not the death of the body itself. If that is true then they are mearly keeping a cadaver breathing and spending tax money and wasting air time. Let the lady just die so that people can move on in life.
2.B. The soul is tied to the living and breathing body. If this is true then they have trapped this ladys soul in her body for 15 years mearly so they would feel good about keeping her "alive". Why not let her die and go to heaven?? Wheres the downside to that?? There is no reason to keep her alive. She isnt coming back.
3. If you arent religious then you probably dont believe in an after life at all.
Therefore the only reasons to keep her alive would be because someone loves her, she can be a productive member of society, she might make it, or the one that seems the most prevolent right now, to push a political agenda.
3.A. Love trancends dimentions. Not like shes doing an reciprocating anyways.
3.B. She isnt being productive at all. Actually shes being counter productive. Retarded laws and media time and taxes have been spent when they shouldnt have been.
3.C. Its been 15years. She isnt making it.
3.D. The political agenda is to show that republicans care or something like that. I have no idea. But this is all about her damn parents that dont wanna move on in life and act like poopy diaperd old people that want to whine about something that they have no control over.
She would have died later anyways. No one servives life right? Why would you want to be kept on machines for eternity in a brain dead state feeling nothing. Thinking nothing. Being kept alive mearly to satisfy her brain dead parents.
Ok so shes been a vegitable for 15 years. Hmmmm and the cadaver has/had a husband. However you wanna think about that one. As well as parents that are dick heads and some F'ed up senators that happen to be republicans.
Ok lets look at this in a nice little list.
1. Im sure her husband dosent like the sight of his wife's body mearly existing and breathing. It would be nice if he could give her a special burial.
2. If you believe in an after life. Then there are normally 2 different views about the soul.
2.A. The soul is tied to the mind and can not not the death of the body itself. If that is true then they are mearly keeping a cadaver breathing and spending tax money and wasting air time. Let the lady just die so that people can move on in life.
2.B. The soul is tied to the living and breathing body. If this is true then they have trapped this ladys soul in her body for 15 years mearly so they would feel good about keeping her "alive". Why not let her die and go to heaven?? Wheres the downside to that?? There is no reason to keep her alive. She isnt coming back.
3. If you arent religious then you probably dont believe in an after life at all.
Therefore the only reasons to keep her alive would be because someone loves her, she can be a productive member of society, she might make it, or the one that seems the most prevolent right now, to push a political agenda.
3.A. Love trancends dimentions. Not like shes doing an reciprocating anyways.
3.B. She isnt being productive at all. Actually shes being counter productive. Retarded laws and media time and taxes have been spent when they shouldnt have been.
3.C. Its been 15years. She isnt making it.
3.D. The political agenda is to show that republicans care or something like that. I have no idea. But this is all about her damn parents that dont wanna move on in life and act like poopy diaperd old people that want to whine about something that they have no control over.
She would have died later anyways. No one servives life right? Why would you want to be kept on machines for eternity in a brain dead state feeling nothing. Thinking nothing. Being kept alive mearly to satisfy her brain dead parents.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Halo Made Me Do It Mom!!!!!!! I Swear!!!!
I found this article in my latest issue of GamePro.
Issue #199 April 2005
Page 12 "Teach Your Children"
Although I have a few gaming mags with articles about video game violence, this is the first time I've posted about it. I will type the whole letter in and GamePro's response and then what I think.
Then all of yall are free to comment.
Teach Your Children
I have recently come to a conclusion about violence and video games.
Since before Death Race for the Atari 2600, there has been concern about violence in video games.
Now, the reasons for banning violent video games are admirable, but the cause of violence in society and in children is not video games or any form of media for that matter. It can be argued that much is due it the negligence of some parents who don't take the responsibility for teaching their children right from wrong. When you expect media to teach your children life values rather then taking care yourself to have such discussions with them, there will be problems. Games are not the cause of violence, but if parents would just step in and teach their children that violent behavior is wrong, that concern wouldn't not be an issue. Or better yet, if parents don't want their children to play the games, they shouldn't allow them to. Parents have a responsibility in this situation, and until parents decide to change, nothing else will.
MailGP - Via Internet
GamePro's Response
There's no substitute for conscientious and loving parenting: That includes imparting the proper knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Parents are responsible for that, but with technology and culture evolving to rapidly, they can use all the help they can get. This includes the ESRB ratings, proper support for ratings at the retail level, good information (from places like GamePro)*, and responsible gameplay by their gamer children, too.
*that was a shameless plug on GamePro's part, I did not add that in there. All of the above articles were retyped word for word.
Now my thoughts.
Although I do agree that games are not the CAUSE of violence. I do agree that it can contribute to it, Just like movies can. That is why there is a rating system on the games and movies as well. It is up too the retail stores to uphold the ratings of course. For my speech class I did some research on this topic. There was a study conducted where the researchers had different aged kids try and buy games, such as the "TEEN", "M", and rare "AO" ratings. There were about 75% of the kids that were too young to buy such games that were turned away. I know the major stores that started a program for greater awareness of the ESRB ratings include; WalMart, BestBuy, Gamestop chains, and Hastings. The researchers also did some observatory studies in the above mentioned stores and a few other smaller ones. What they saw was that when a kid wanted to buy a game and was too young and therefore turned away, they soon returned with their parent or guardian. This happened about 60% of the time.
This is why the awareness of the ratings is important.
But now about this argument that the video games cause the violence. That is total crap, it is a complete logical fallacy, there is no direct causal link. That is just like saying that the porn industry causes women to be raped. Sure it might contribute to the mind set of the men that do those things, but I think women were being raped long before any sort of pornographic media was made or largely distributed. As were people and youth killing other humans before any type of violent entertainment media.
This is why I think that these arguments and lawsuits should just be dropped and thrown out of court.
Sure the retailer that might have sold the game to an underaged gainer would have a little bit of responsibility in the matter. But there is no way to say that they sold it to him/her.
But the people that sue companies like RockStar, makers of the GTA series, or Bungie, makers of the Halo games, for the death or injury of their precious innocent baby, well they are just crazy and need to wake up. The history and past life of the kid would also have to be considered as would his up bringing. These things would prove to be very difficult to find out and therefore impractical.
The cases are a big waste of everyone's money.
Especially the game companies, because they need it to make more great games.
Issue #199 April 2005
Page 12 "Teach Your Children"
Although I have a few gaming mags with articles about video game violence, this is the first time I've posted about it. I will type the whole letter in and GamePro's response and then what I think.
Then all of yall are free to comment.
Teach Your Children
I have recently come to a conclusion about violence and video games.
Since before Death Race for the Atari 2600, there has been concern about violence in video games.
Now, the reasons for banning violent video games are admirable, but the cause of violence in society and in children is not video games or any form of media for that matter. It can be argued that much is due it the negligence of some parents who don't take the responsibility for teaching their children right from wrong. When you expect media to teach your children life values rather then taking care yourself to have such discussions with them, there will be problems. Games are not the cause of violence, but if parents would just step in and teach their children that violent behavior is wrong, that concern wouldn't not be an issue. Or better yet, if parents don't want their children to play the games, they shouldn't allow them to. Parents have a responsibility in this situation, and until parents decide to change, nothing else will.
MailGP - Via Internet
GamePro's Response
There's no substitute for conscientious and loving parenting: That includes imparting the proper knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Parents are responsible for that, but with technology and culture evolving to rapidly, they can use all the help they can get. This includes the ESRB ratings, proper support for ratings at the retail level, good information (from places like GamePro)*, and responsible gameplay by their gamer children, too.
*that was a shameless plug on GamePro's part, I did not add that in there. All of the above articles were retyped word for word.
Now my thoughts.
Although I do agree that games are not the CAUSE of violence. I do agree that it can contribute to it, Just like movies can. That is why there is a rating system on the games and movies as well. It is up too the retail stores to uphold the ratings of course. For my speech class I did some research on this topic. There was a study conducted where the researchers had different aged kids try and buy games, such as the "TEEN", "M", and rare "AO" ratings. There were about 75% of the kids that were too young to buy such games that were turned away. I know the major stores that started a program for greater awareness of the ESRB ratings include; WalMart, BestBuy, Gamestop chains, and Hastings. The researchers also did some observatory studies in the above mentioned stores and a few other smaller ones. What they saw was that when a kid wanted to buy a game and was too young and therefore turned away, they soon returned with their parent or guardian. This happened about 60% of the time.
This is why the awareness of the ratings is important.
But now about this argument that the video games cause the violence. That is total crap, it is a complete logical fallacy, there is no direct causal link. That is just like saying that the porn industry causes women to be raped. Sure it might contribute to the mind set of the men that do those things, but I think women were being raped long before any sort of pornographic media was made or largely distributed. As were people and youth killing other humans before any type of violent entertainment media.
This is why I think that these arguments and lawsuits should just be dropped and thrown out of court.
Sure the retailer that might have sold the game to an underaged gainer would have a little bit of responsibility in the matter. But there is no way to say that they sold it to him/her.
But the people that sue companies like RockStar, makers of the GTA series, or Bungie, makers of the Halo games, for the death or injury of their precious innocent baby, well they are just crazy and need to wake up. The history and past life of the kid would also have to be considered as would his up bringing. These things would prove to be very difficult to find out and therefore impractical.
The cases are a big waste of everyone's money.
Especially the game companies, because they need it to make more great games.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Insomniac Species??
Im remembering back in my psychology the discussion we had about sleep. No one REALLY knows what sleep does for us. Yes it relaxes us, helps us heal from sickness and wounds. But there are many theory's about what it does. Some even say that it helps us remember stuff.
We all know that sleep helps us get better.
But have you ever thought about why?
I think its cause our brain uses so much energy and resources that the rest of the body only gets minimal amounts. Just enough to function properly and sometimes when needed a little more for short periods of time.
Then when we sleep the brain pretty much shuts down. So we cool off and the body gets more resources to fix itself up. You could think of it like a computer. When you put it in sleep mode, you cant really use it, it just sits there holding the desk down till its needed again. But it also uses less electricity and cools of a lot. Now obviously the computer doesn't heal itself, because if you shut it down cause it was being FUBAR then it will be just as FUBAR as before if not worse. That's just most of the time, but anyways.
I don't know about the whole memory thing, but I do know that stress can make one forget things and sleep slightly relieves stress. But then maybe thats just me. Ive also heard that you age slower when you sleep. But that sounds kinda wild.
One thing I notice is that although I do seriously enjoy sleep. If my body did not require it, I wouldnt do it. I mean if I didnt have to, if it was a choice, I wouldnt. At least not as much. I could get so much more done if I didnt have to sleep. During the day I could work on my car. At night when theres no light. Id get school work done, play my videogames. That would make for a much more productive world. Again Im not talking about our human race as it is doing this. Because that would make for a very grumpy species. I dont know what the statistics are, but I know we spend alot of time sleeping. If we didnt Im willing to bet that we would be a much more advanced race.
We all know that sleep helps us get better.
But have you ever thought about why?
I think its cause our brain uses so much energy and resources that the rest of the body only gets minimal amounts. Just enough to function properly and sometimes when needed a little more for short periods of time.
Then when we sleep the brain pretty much shuts down. So we cool off and the body gets more resources to fix itself up. You could think of it like a computer. When you put it in sleep mode, you cant really use it, it just sits there holding the desk down till its needed again. But it also uses less electricity and cools of a lot. Now obviously the computer doesn't heal itself, because if you shut it down cause it was being FUBAR then it will be just as FUBAR as before if not worse. That's just most of the time, but anyways.
I don't know about the whole memory thing, but I do know that stress can make one forget things and sleep slightly relieves stress. But then maybe thats just me. Ive also heard that you age slower when you sleep. But that sounds kinda wild.
One thing I notice is that although I do seriously enjoy sleep. If my body did not require it, I wouldnt do it. I mean if I didnt have to, if it was a choice, I wouldnt. At least not as much. I could get so much more done if I didnt have to sleep. During the day I could work on my car. At night when theres no light. Id get school work done, play my videogames. That would make for a much more productive world. Again Im not talking about our human race as it is doing this. Because that would make for a very grumpy species. I dont know what the statistics are, but I know we spend alot of time sleeping. If we didnt Im willing to bet that we would be a much more advanced race.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Utopia
This was an interesting rabbit trail that was briefly explored yesterday in my sociology class.
The discussion started off about how class affects peoples lives. Then it moved to what creates class. The most agreed upon idea was that money creates class. Well before heading off onto our bunny trail we discussed ways that it could be cured. e.g. Utopia.
Its a strange and difficult concept to wraps my mind around. At least for me that is.
At first I was like, yah that would kick butt. Total peace nothing to fight over. But then I was like well, yes there is. Because a utopia would be based on trade most likely. Well some person that was the only one who could do something would be able to dictate how much he would take for something.
The other thing that came to my mind was,...... wait a second, Id be working for free. See for me, working for free is pretty insane. Im sure it is posible, but I wouldnt want to be the person to try and set it up.
The discussion started off about how class affects peoples lives. Then it moved to what creates class. The most agreed upon idea was that money creates class. Well before heading off onto our bunny trail we discussed ways that it could be cured. e.g. Utopia.
Its a strange and difficult concept to wraps my mind around. At least for me that is.
At first I was like, yah that would kick butt. Total peace nothing to fight over. But then I was like well, yes there is. Because a utopia would be based on trade most likely. Well some person that was the only one who could do something would be able to dictate how much he would take for something.
The other thing that came to my mind was,...... wait a second, Id be working for free. See for me, working for free is pretty insane. Im sure it is posible, but I wouldnt want to be the person to try and set it up.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Talking to a different audience
Ok, I tried asking this question on a different blog of which I am a team member. But I failed to get any real answer. Instead I got two guys arguing over who answered whose question. Oiy, online fights, I swear.
Didn't I make a post about that at some point??? Anywhoooo.....
The question is....
Although I do wholly believe that gay marriage is wrong according to my religion. I think that being and active gay is nasty and ya just totally nasty. I don't understand it. But anyways, my question came from a conversation with one of my friends. We were talking about a gay guy that had just finished hitting on us. He took it as a compliment.... I just felt nasty. His philosophy is that everything is ok for someone. Its the standard pop culture school of thought. I think its total BS. I mean not only is it a total insult to the process of thinking, but most of the time you agree with stuff that is just messed up or completely trivial.
Now, for the question.
Besides all the religious fanatics that bring shame to us normal Christians, that believe that anything that has to do with being gay is wrong. Is there anything wrong with it? In anyway, outside of the realm of religion, is there anything wrong with it. Actually I am more wondering about the marriage part because BEING gay isn't really a problem with MOST people. Its the marriage part that freaks people out.
Oh by the way, there wasn't a gay guy hitting on us. I just thought that it would make a funny intro. =D But I was talking to one of my friends about it.
(post text: Mr. Ciavarro, if you wouldn't mind pointing some of your regular blog visitors to this post it would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get much feed back about this.)
Didn't I make a post about that at some point??? Anywhoooo.....
The question is....
Although I do wholly believe that gay marriage is wrong according to my religion. I think that being and active gay is nasty and ya just totally nasty. I don't understand it. But anyways, my question came from a conversation with one of my friends. We were talking about a gay guy that had just finished hitting on us. He took it as a compliment.... I just felt nasty. His philosophy is that everything is ok for someone. Its the standard pop culture school of thought. I think its total BS. I mean not only is it a total insult to the process of thinking, but most of the time you agree with stuff that is just messed up or completely trivial.
Now, for the question.
Besides all the religious fanatics that bring shame to us normal Christians, that believe that anything that has to do with being gay is wrong. Is there anything wrong with it? In anyway, outside of the realm of religion, is there anything wrong with it. Actually I am more wondering about the marriage part because BEING gay isn't really a problem with MOST people. Its the marriage part that freaks people out.
Oh by the way, there wasn't a gay guy hitting on us. I just thought that it would make a funny intro. =D But I was talking to one of my friends about it.
(post text: Mr. Ciavarro, if you wouldn't mind pointing some of your regular blog visitors to this post it would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get much feed back about this.)
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Funny Funny
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.
CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse! You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.
CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse! You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!
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