Originally posted on Aug 14, 2007
I was looking back through my previously written notes the other day and I read though the second note I posted on here and there are some things I would like to clarify for some of my more sensitive friends. My first issue I would like to bring up is the title; “George Bush Doesn’t Like Paris Hilton”. This statement is something I made up randomly because I thought it was funny. Upon looking at this again I now realize that this title is wrong. Bush (by Bush I mean the entire administration, not just the single person, he doesn’t seem to have much say on his own, anyway… continuing with the previously started sentence) most likely adores Paris, Nicole, Lindsey, Brittany, ect… because of this simple fact: The more these girls screw up and get on the news about it, the less they talk about Bush and the way they are messing with everyone’s lives.
Now, if you have gotten this far in the note and you are saying to yourself “Great, all I need to hear is another rant about Bush” you may as well stop reading (I don’t mean that, just hear me out on this one). This isn’t really about Bush, but they are merely the main outspoken group the people seem to listen to.
In case you missed the note I am talking about, it was a rushed piece that tried to find some benefits to one of the, if not the most hot button issue in today’s politics. I wrote this note because I feel this issue needs to be looked at from both sides. This issue is, of course, the dreaded “A-word”. No, not Ass play you sick little monkey, I am talking about abortion.
At this point I suppose I need to tell you how I feel about this issue. Personally I don’t support having abortions, but it is not because of the usual reason of God and the Devil and blah blah blah. Sex is something that is a very personal act that is both dealt and accepted with increasing frequency these days. People need to accept the fact that you can have a child from having sex. That is the purpose for having sex; but by some unfortunate cosmic joke, sex feels great for humans, so we put it into almost every aspect of our culture because it makes us feel so good. The proliferation of sex in our society makes some people throw sex around like it is no big deal and then when you find out a month or two later you are going to be a father/mother you freak. This is understandable. But personally I don’t think I would be able to kill off something that is half me.
Now because I don’t agree with abortions doesn’t mean I think they should be outlawed. I am just a guy, the only person whose life I need to have that much control over is my own. Also, I have never been in the position that I might need to consider anything that drastic. Plus, I am one of those fifty percent of people that were born without a uterus. It sucks that this is such a sensitive issue with so many people. It sucks that a smart qualified man with actual leadership skills can be denied a position he deserves simply because he is pro-choice. I know several people who immediately dismiss a candidate if he turns out to be pro-choice. It seems to me there are more important issues dealing with what people are doing to people who are alive and conscious.
I think I would like to close with this statement. When you were conceived in the back of that wood paneled station wagon, the combination of chromosomes that made you into you could have resulted in about 40 billion different combinations. That means that you are the winner of a fantastic lottery. So maybe you should apply that luck to something else, like traveling, painting, trying to attain world peace, watching a movie, or playing a video game. Don’t use your time here on Earth trying to tell people how to live their lives when you aren’t living yours to the extent you could be.
--Seth
I was looking back through my previously written notes the other day and I read though the second note I posted on here and there are some things I would like to clarify for some of my more sensitive friends. My first issue I would like to bring up is the title; “George Bush Doesn’t Like Paris Hilton”. This statement is something I made up randomly because I thought it was funny. Upon looking at this again I now realize that this title is wrong. Bush (by Bush I mean the entire administration, not just the single person, he doesn’t seem to have much say on his own, anyway… continuing with the previously started sentence) most likely adores Paris, Nicole, Lindsey, Brittany, ect… because of this simple fact: The more these girls screw up and get on the news about it, the less they talk about Bush and the way they are messing with everyone’s lives.
Now, if you have gotten this far in the note and you are saying to yourself “Great, all I need to hear is another rant about Bush” you may as well stop reading (I don’t mean that, just hear me out on this one). This isn’t really about Bush, but they are merely the main outspoken group the people seem to listen to.
In case you missed the note I am talking about, it was a rushed piece that tried to find some benefits to one of the, if not the most hot button issue in today’s politics. I wrote this note because I feel this issue needs to be looked at from both sides. This issue is, of course, the dreaded “A-word”. No, not Ass play you sick little monkey, I am talking about abortion.
At this point I suppose I need to tell you how I feel about this issue. Personally I don’t support having abortions, but it is not because of the usual reason of God and the Devil and blah blah blah. Sex is something that is a very personal act that is both dealt and accepted with increasing frequency these days. People need to accept the fact that you can have a child from having sex. That is the purpose for having sex; but by some unfortunate cosmic joke, sex feels great for humans, so we put it into almost every aspect of our culture because it makes us feel so good. The proliferation of sex in our society makes some people throw sex around like it is no big deal and then when you find out a month or two later you are going to be a father/mother you freak. This is understandable. But personally I don’t think I would be able to kill off something that is half me.
Now because I don’t agree with abortions doesn’t mean I think they should be outlawed. I am just a guy, the only person whose life I need to have that much control over is my own. Also, I have never been in the position that I might need to consider anything that drastic. Plus, I am one of those fifty percent of people that were born without a uterus. It sucks that this is such a sensitive issue with so many people. It sucks that a smart qualified man with actual leadership skills can be denied a position he deserves simply because he is pro-choice. I know several people who immediately dismiss a candidate if he turns out to be pro-choice. It seems to me there are more important issues dealing with what people are doing to people who are alive and conscious.
I think I would like to close with this statement. When you were conceived in the back of that wood paneled station wagon, the combination of chromosomes that made you into you could have resulted in about 40 billion different combinations. That means that you are the winner of a fantastic lottery. So maybe you should apply that luck to something else, like traveling, painting, trying to attain world peace, watching a movie, or playing a video game. Don’t use your time here on Earth trying to tell people how to live their lives when you aren’t living yours to the extent you could be.
--Seth
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