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If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the
ball, and at the creatures in the water.
The people would declare
it as sacred because
it was the only one, and they would protect
it so that it would not hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to
pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it, and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness, could
be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few
feet in diameter.
-author unknown
My thoughts and opinions
change from time to time…
I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind.
This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in
time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running
around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed
within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar,
to those I may hold today.
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 7:20 PM
16 And Pregnant
So MTV is premiering a new show called "16 and Pregnant" tonight. I am a bit disturbed by this.
I know they are showing both the good and the bad of this epidemic but I still don't think they should have a show like this on the air.
Its already bad enough that as a society, the majority of our young girls are pregnant or has had one kid or more by the age of 16. Recently, I read in a report that most Hispanic females are pregnant by 15!
I just don't see the real good out of this show. We shouldn't let the television teach our kids. We should turn it off and teach them ourselves!
In my opinion, this show should be taken off the air. Why make money showing the mistakes of some wayward teen?
I have to question the parents of these teens as well. What is your real motive behind exploiting your child on national tv? Money?
They say that money is the root of all evil.....