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thinking about running away?

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

ok friday my substitute teacher for science thought she caught me cheating but she really didn’t all i was doing was helping my friend out by checking his answers with mine but my sub thought i was given him answers and so she took my paper and is probably gonna email my teacher saying i was giving my buddy answers and then my actual teacher is probably gonna get me suspended for like 3-5 days cause my school is kinda strict on that stuff but hats not really the point my point is my parents are gonna get flaming pissed and most likely gonna believe me cause for some reason they don’t believe a lot of stuff that comes out of my mouth i don’t know why but they don’t but my dad is gonna get really pissed at me probably and its probably gonna escalate to where he’ll kick me out of the house which he has done before but all i do is go to my friends house for like the rest of the day and come home the next day this has happened like at least 30 times but im thinking if he tells me to get out i think i might leave for good like runaway im 14 years old i have like $220 saved up and i live in california and i have a lot of survival skills i go camping like every weekend down at river during summer and since i lived in san francisco till i was like 11 i have a lot of street wise to but now im living in a small town in northern california and if i leave i might find my way over to a small town about 3 hours out of little rock arkansas where all my cousins and uncles and aunts live basically and my last name is known big time in that part of the state but i don’t know should i really run away or should i just deal with my parents
oh yeah and also right know i have a sprained wrist and if i do runaway i will be running away from a lot my parents have given me a lot and i appreciate that but its just my dads got a temper a real bad one but he doesn’t hit me he just makes his problems disappear

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What’s the point of living?

Posted on April 29, 2012 by admin| 9 Comments

There is really no point in doing anything at all, we’re all gonna die anyway.

There’s no point to go to school
- When we die all our knowledge and skills are wasted, someone else have to relearn them.

There’s no point to work
- When we die, our work is forgotten (in almost all cases)

There’s no point to save money
- Obviously we can’t use them when we are dead (there’s no point to spend them either since we can’t take our things with us when we die)

There’s no point to love
- When we die we are separated anyway, sure one will live on and remember the love she/he shared with that person, but probably she/he will move on with someone else. Even if not, when that person dies, the love is forgotten and gone.

There is no point to have kids
- For the same reason as there’s no point to love. Even if having children ensure the survival of the human species, there’s no point since it’s all meaningless anyway, why would we want our species to live on so badly?

There’s no point to travel
- What’s to point to travel and seeing new places and different cultures if you’re just gonna die in the end anyway?

this goes for everything

- There’s no point to play sports
- There’s no point to read books
- There’s no point to watch TV or play video games,
and so on.

Sure, some people say that even if there’s no point to life or anything they do, they live for their friends and family, to have fun, to help the world get better or whatever but that’s just all crap. Life is not fun, most of the time. You’re born, you are forced to learn stuff, you’re forced to work, then you die. THE END. How many people have lived on this planet? and how many do we know about? What about Sharon Jones that died 100 years ago or John Wilson who lived in the 17th century? just the normal people. We all know about Shakespeare, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson etc, but what about those billions of people no one knows about today, that have lived here, just like we do now? What does their lives matter now? Most of us don’t even know the first name of our grandparents grandparents, and that’s just a few generations back – in our FAMILY.

(I’m not suicidal, I just find everything meaningless right now (which is also meaningless:/)).

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Rank the YA (young adult) franchises!?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

Here’s how it works; add 2 points if you love it; add one point if you like it; deduct 1 point if you don’t; deduct 2 points if you absolutely detest it; and if you haven’t read it, no points.

In case I have missed anything, feel free to add to this list. Any new additions start with a score of 0

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Twilight: -2 current score (-2 your score)
The Hunger Games: 1 (+1)
Harry Potter: 1 (+1)
The Old Kingdom Series (Sabriel etc): 2 (+2)
Discworld: 2 (+2)
The Tomorrow Series: 2 (+2)
The Inheritance Saga: – 1 (-1)
His Dark Materials: 2 (+2)
Mortal Instruments: 0
Vampire Academy: 0
House of Night: 0
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: 1 (+1)
Pretty Little Liars: 0
Percy Jackson: 0
Uglies: 1 (+1)
Alex Rider series: -1 (-1)
The Inkheart Trilogy: 2 (+2)
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Information about each franchise.

Twilight:
Personality deficient girl falls in love with a vampire and a werewolf and has to choose between them. Chester A. Bum explains: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2mZbTCqF2s . For a blow by blow breakdown: http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/

The Hunger Games:
In a future torn straight from the pages of “Generic Dystopia 101″, a girl finds herself forced to compete in an extreme version of “Man vs Wild” in which not only are her survival skills put to the test but she all also has to kill, or avoid being killed, by the other contestants, who are also children.

Harry Potter:
Everyone knows this one, right?

The Old Kingdom Series (Sabriel etc):
The daughter of a necromancer takes up her father’s trade and does battle with zombies and other undead beasties.

http://www.amazon.com/Sabriel-Abhorsen-Trilogy-Garth-Nix/dp/0060273224

Discworld:
From wiki: Discworld is a comedic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A’Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, often using them for satirical parallels with current cultural, political and scientific issues.

Some entries in the series are YA, others are marketed at adults. Strangely the YA titles often tend to be more serious and deal with just as much, if not more, adult material that the “Adult” novels (here’s looking at you “I shall Wear Midnight”… that opening… wow… talk about DARK).

The Tomorrow Series:
The dogs were dead….

Ellie and her friends return from a week long camping trip in the remote bush to find their homes deserted, their animals dead or dying and it only gets worse… Australia has been invaded, everyone they know – their family, their friends – has been taken prisoner and by some fluke they remain free… but at what cost?

http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-When-War-Began/dp/0439829100/ref=pd_sim_b_2

The Inheritance Saga: – 1 (-1)
A long time ago, in a fantasy realm far, far away…
Ideally this series should be read alongside Diana Wynne Jones’s “A Tough guide to Fantasyland” ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142407224/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0886778328&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1VZY4VAMA98FCFAQQH83 ). See how many entries you can find!

His Dark Materials:
A superbly imagined retelling of “Fall” (from the garden of Eden) story. In a world similar to, but not quite like our own a young girl, on whose shoulders rests the fate of all creation, becomes embroiled in an adventure that will span universes.

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Compass-Dark-Materials-Book/dp/0679879242

Mortal Instruments:
From wiki: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it’s hard to explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are invisible to everyone but Clary.
Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary’s mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know…

http://www.amazon.com/City-Bones-Mortal-Instruments-No/dp/1416914285

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Atheists, if there’s no God then what’s the point of morality? What other basis could there be behind it?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by admin| 17 Comments

If there’s no higher authority who gives us the sense of morality, then where does it come from?

Evolution? It doesn’t really have much to do with surviving skills. It doesn’t make sense, doing the right thing and not kill “the contestant” who is going to fight for the food, makes your changes of survival smaller.

Society: sure our parents tell us what’s right and wrong and the society tells us what’s legal/illegal, but they can’t give us the sense of morality, they just tell the basics. We’re somehow obligated to do the right thing anyway. And I’m not talking about actions, I’m just talking about the feeling. Of course there are bad people in this world like murderers etc. but they used to know what’s wrong but they lost it. Or they still have it but they’re behaving against it.

Just imagine a dog that sees another dog drowning. It starts to howl, it wants to help the dog, regardless of the fact that no one has taught it any lessons of morality. It might not actually do it, because it’s scared etc. but it wants to. Like I said, I’m just talking about the feeling.

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Eukanuba food is crap? Doesn’t look like it?

Posted on April 6, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

Can someone point out what is bad?

Turkey, Brewers Rice, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Potato, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Chicken Meal, Fish Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Choline Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract.

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