Censorsh*t

Is it not odd that you can rent a movie, and in that movie watch a man rip out another man's throat, but the nipples in that movie will be censored....?

Or you'll watch television and people are shooting each other, but the nudity is censored... I was thinking about it and I find it odd. Our society seems to have a warped sense of what is obscene.

What is worse? Shooting a man in the face, or being naked? Which of those things do you do more often, shoot men or be naked? I bet the answer is being naked (if it isn't, I worry about you...).
What has the most serious consequences, shooting a man in the face, or sex? I think shooting a man in the face does. Legally, mentally, physically, and all the other words that end with the letters -ally.
Which option is the most natural, pumping some guy's face full of lead, or nipples?!?! I would hope the answer is nipples, because otherwise there is something wrong with me.

Should this not be the other way around? Wouldn't it be better to be ensuring violence is on television later at night and violence in movies earns them a stricter rating, instead of a naked human body?

The whole thing confuses me greatly. I think that a lot of our societies problems stem from this issue. Not the issue of nipples on telly, but the issue of sexual repression. The issue is, in my eyes, that violence is seen to be acceptable, and necessary, while sex and the human body are seen as something to be ashamed of. I think if we could reverse this view, the world would be a much, much, MUCH happier place.

Anywho, fare thee well, I must depart and finish my human awareness essay.

death and taxes

The more I read about tax, the angrier I get. Maybe I should talk to someone about this, I mean, I don't even pay taxes for god's sake, and I somehow find myself in a state of aggravation over it.
Anyway, more about why I am angry (my, this blog is good for venting... it seems to be all I do...). Say I am a lazy bum. I do nothing all day (not far from the truth). I have a menial job, because I dropped out of high school and didn't bother to get a higher education. I pay a minuscule amount of taxes because I earn virtually no money, because I couldn't be assed making something of myself.
Now, a different scenario... I am rather wealthy. I finished high school, even though it would have been more fun to go off and have fun with my friends. I worked and put myself through uni. Again, it would have been easier to not do uni, but I did it. I am now a super-awesome-mega-ultra-über doctor of AWESOME, and I have to pay 40% of my goddamn awesome money as taxes.
Is this fair? I know I have made some generalizations here... I know that some poor people can't help it, and some rich people are only rich because their mummies and daddies made it so, but still.... Why should someone be punished because they have made a lot of money? They most likely work for that money, why shouldn't they be able to enjoy it?

I think that people have issues with the rich. I admit I am sometimes guilty of it too. There are a small number of people who are very rich, and they are easy to blame.
"ohh these big corporations..."
"ohh damn those CEO's, how dare they EARN money!?"

It's not as easy to actually look for the base of our issues, and find out that they are our own damn fault.

Give those poor rich people a break, eh?

I hate you all

Ohkaay, so....

I hate you all. Not you. You are nice. Just all of you bushfire people. Well... not all of you... I'm sure that some of you aren't JERKS....

You had a massive bushfire, I get it. Really. The firefighters came and tried to put it out, and yeah, it might have taken a while in places. You know why? IT WAS A GODDAMN BIG FIRE.
So yeah, why the heck are you all complaining that emergency services didn't do a good enough job??? They were there, weren't they??? They were risking their lives to save your ungrateful arses, and you COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. OH MY GOD, what if they had just left you to die??? A lot of them were volunteers, in fact, my friend went there as a volunteer. He could have chosen not to go and let you all burn, but he, and lots of other people like him, went to try and help you. Why the hell are you complaining about the job they did? If you don't like it, how about next time WE ALL LEAVE YOU TO BURN?!?! Would you like that you whiny-bushfire-people?!?!

I mean seriously, if anything, the emergency services should be complaining about you! You're the ones who didn't clean your gutters, leave when you were supposed to, or follow their directions!!

Jesus H. Christ... I want to kill you all....

09 Budget

I will have more to write about this later, I just have something I need to rant about right away. Something that really, really bugs me, and I'm not sure if it should. I feel like a horrible person for talking and thinking like this but....

Pensions....

Old age pensions....

I mean, I don't want to leave old people out in the street with no food and such... but.... just because you are old... does that justify making young people pay for your stuff? I mean, everyone now is expected to pay super to look after themselves later, and fair enough. Why should everyone else have to look after you just because you didn't plan ahead? How is it fair to everyone else?
So yeah, I don't want to have old people with no money, but I think it is awfully unfair to everyone else.

Also, in this budget they have INCREASED pensions. I wouldn't object so much, except they really can't afford this. They are saying that they can, because of the gradual increase in the old-age pension age, but I don't quite buy it.

Grr thanks a lot Wayne Swan, now I feel like an old-people-basher.

Atheism

If asked my persuasion (spiritually speaking), I tell people I identify as an atheist.

However;

Recently I have been thinking about this. I suppose my atheism depends on your definition of god. If, by god, you refer to the christian god, or allah, or zeus, then I suppose I must identify as an atheist. however, if you definition of god is the universe, or existence, or nature, then I may not identify as atheist, I may identify as agnostic, or a believer (somewhat, this is difficult to explain the specifics of this without a long, verbal rant, and violent hand-gestures).

So after all of this thinking, and some discussion with Dennis (the minister for Dennis) and Ben (who was looking rather devious today, I must note), I have decided that I may have to re-label myself as agnostic. Crazy huh?

Then again... Hrmmm... Not sure about this...

I shall get back to you.