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My husband found something, on one of the blogging communities that he frequents, called Codex Alimentarius. It's basically an international food regulation code. From the looks of it, it's been in place and been in effect for a number of years. However, the post he found regarded it as if it were infringing on our rights to health safety.  Read More »

My roommate and I somehow got on the topic of the Bible the other day, so I grabbed a copy to show her a few things. After we had run out of steam, I continued skim-reading through it (skim, read a little that looks interesting, skim some more) and found something that caught my attention.  Read More »

There's been more than a few heated debates between Christians and non-Christians, particularly about the religions themselves. One thing I've seen so often, is one side being misinformed about the other, or one side insisting they're right and not listening to what the other has to say.  Read More »

First, let me start out by noting where I’ve come up with all this, since I know someone is going to come to me with “who are you to say this?” My experience comes from reflecting on how my own mother raised me, as well as babysitting a few young children (generally between 4 and 8 years old), and a few psychology classes and information about how the brain functions and develops from childhood that I picked up through things like documentaries and the like. Is what I'm going to say "right"? Well, under current law (in my state, at least), it won't get you arrested for abuse, at least. As far as being right or wrong, in this case, that's up to the reader. This is, however, my views on the matter.  Read More »

While at my tutoring job, I ran across a co-worker who was participating in an online Bible study during his downtime. In curiosity, I took a look at the website he gave me and was actually quite surprised at what I found.  Read More »

"Do you believe in fate, Neo?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life."

First of all, a little homework before you continue on--All You Zombies-- by Robert A. Heinlein. It's a fairly short story, so it shouldn't take long.

Read it? Good. Now, I've decided to post an entry about it because of a number of things: 1) someone else brought up time travel in another post and it got me into a rather heated debate with Lancekates about infinite loops; 2) ironically enough, this story and the topic of time travel was part of this week's lecture for my Science Fiction class; 3) doing my homework on it really got my mind going about infinite loops and why I don't think time travel will be possible until the far distant future.  Read More »

There was another discussion, entitled Cheater, Cheater, that was mainly in regards to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. Within it, a couple others and myself got into a fairly heated debate regarding high school curriculums. So I thought it'd be worthwhile to go into detail about the idea that I proposed and group it all together in what will hopefully be a more neutral area in more neutral tones.  Read More »

First, let me say that when I refer to European culture, or European religions, I'm referring to any of the religions where the Holy Texts describes mankind as the "rulers of the world" or some phrase that puts humans above the rest of the animal kingdom (this seems to generally occur more in the European-based socities and religions). This applies to at least Judaism and Christianity. Regardless of what the exact name of the religion, it's a noticeable trend that cultures with the idea that humans are the rulers of the world and are above nature tend to act more like a virus--spreading, destroying, and spreading some more--while cultures with the philosophy that humans are not above nature, but a part of it, tend to live more in harmony with nature.  Read More »