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This may very well be the most dangerous/useless product on Earth. I love it though. Mainly because if it’s one thing people want more of, it’s bears. Flesh eating, bite your head off, bears.

- Joel David

I was kind of surprised to see that two people left comments on the last entry. That means two people read this! I don’t read it because I can’t read. I can write but not read. It is an odd affliction.

In my life I have seen a lot of people not have anything to do with something for many odd reasons. I know someone who wouldn’t buy a lamp because it was designed by a gay man because I guess when you buy a lamp at Target all the money goes directly to recruiting children to be gay. I know someone who wouldn’t date a black guy because they thought it was against nature. I also have recently become aware of someone who won’t listen to solutions on global warming because of their thoughts on Al Gore. The common thread among the people in every single instance I’ve just noted is that all of these people proclaim to be Christians.

Christ said love thy neighbor. It didn’t say love thy neighbor as long as that person is of the same sexual preference, race, political party or social standing. I tend to over simplify things but that seems to be a pretty simple statement. There’s no asterisk next to anything God said.

When someone chooses to not listen to fact because of who is saying it, that is pretty ignorant. It doesn’t make that person ignorant, it is merely an act of ignorance. It’s kind of the same way people think that President Bush is still right despite an unbelievable amount of evidence to the contrary, about the war in Iraq.

I don’t know Al Gore well enough to say whether or not he’s a good guy. I only know that what he said is pretty convincing. If Rush Limbaugh was saying the same thing I’d listen. The problem is that people CHOOSE to not listen. People choose to be uninformed. People in this country exercise their right to choose in some of the most perverted of ways. “Hey this guy over here says that we’re harming the Earth. Uh, the guy who was vice president for eight years and then elected president. What’s that? You don’t like him? Oh. Well what he has to say is kind of important. You don’t care? Oh. Uh. Ok. Cool.”

The aversion to the messenger is understandable if the messenger was saying what he was saying to further himself politically or trash an opposing party. Neither of these things is true. This is just a guy doing something he thinks is right because we pretty much are destroying the Earth.

I get someone not caring enough about where they live to choose to ignore the warnings. Hell, the president did it with 9-11 so it’s pretty much par for the course I guess.

If you’re going to choose to do something, choose to be informed. People in power love to keep the ignorant as ignorant as possible. Those who deceive us want us to continue spending hours watching You Tube or watching FOX news. Who cares about the Earth or things that our government is doing? To indoctrinate a society, a society must have a desire to be indoctrinated.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler

- Joel David

Someone left a comment on my last entry that basically said that for me to say one’s beliefs are ignorant, is an act of ignorance in and of itself. I didn’t think it was but then again I can’t read so perhaps this person was right.

I was merely saying that people who choose to not believe in scientific fact are choosing ignorance. Some time ago people were adamant that the Earth was flat. The entire Catholic church condemned the idea that the Earth was round, not taking into account that no one had ever reached the edge and looked ever.

I apparently didn’t word myself very well so allow me to do so now. I do not understand why one’s personal beliefs and scientific fact have to be at odds. That’s like saying because I so fervently believe that Santa exists you’ll never change my mind because I have a book that says he does, so you and all your crazy facts are probably just some part of Satan’s plan to make me feel stupid. People want to be at odds with something I suppose. There wouldn’t be good if not for the bad however it seems that legitimate fact has gotten thrown in there with what many consider to be bad.

I feel that those so quick to defend their own beliefs against logic is more of them saving face disguised as disputing fact. People hate to look stupid. Ask a clown. I’m not wanting to pit science against religion or call into question people’s beliefs. I want people to question their own beliefs. I feel that when someone becomes so sure of their own beliefs that their beliefs become a means for them to reject fact, it can become a slippery slope. I mean we’re talking about a group of people with such a reverence for a man who taught peace and love but they seem to be unable to get along with each other. Every church I have ever attended was full of more hypocrites than you could imagine. Backstabbing, infidelity, and racism all under the guise of God’s teachings. “I love God but them fags ain’t gonna marry!” or “I love God so sorry about that cheating on my wife thing. He forgives me though so it’s all good.”

Perhaps those who espouse the teachings of their God should be more careful with throwing His name around like they do. Hypocrisy seems to run rampant among those who claim to love God the most. This applies to people flying planes into buildings, killing abortion doctors or being as hypocritical as to write smarmy quips on billboards and credit them to God.

What’s my point? I dunno. I’m a bit tired. Damn you time change! Let me say I don’t believe that people who are religious are ignorant. Not all of them. Let me also say that when one does refute fact by using their personal beliefs as their main defense against fact, that is ignorance. This is an exercise in ignorance. If I tell you fire is hot but you have a book that says diffferent so you believe that, go ahead and get burned. It makes no difference to me.

I am merely stating my opinion. I believe that God created the world. I also believe God created evolution. These things don’t have to be at odds with each other. It’s not really important either way. Well not important to those who really need help. A newly childless mother doesn’t care how the world started, she just knows that her’s has ended. Let’s focus on what matters and stop arguing over fact.

- Joel David

This last Thursday I had the privilege of seeing Al Gore speak in Norman. If you were watching FOX 25 you could see me clapping like a fool while Gore made his way through the crowd.

Despite knowing full well where I live, in the buckle of the bible belt, I was still surprised at how many people have an aversion to Al Gore. I had people ask why I was leaving work early and when I told them you would have thought I said I was going to watch babies be eaten.

There are many facts that exist in this world and one of them is that we are destroying the Earth. If people could take Al Gore out of the equation and focus on the message they might understand that. The problem is that some people think he doesn’t know what he is talking about because of their political beliefs. These are the same people who believe the world was created in seven days, despite there being proof to the contrary.

Gore mentioned something in his presentation that was not featured on the DVD. He said, “I am a Christian and I believe that God created the Earth. I also believe in the theory of evolution because it is presumptuous for us to assume that we know how God works.” I could not have said that better myself. For those of you who might say “Well the Bible says it took a week and that’s what I believe.” that’s a testament to willful ignorance. If you believe God created everything, and there is proof of evolution, then by that rationale God created evolution. Move on. Get over it and stop being ignorant. For the love of God.

Besides, there are more important things to be concerned with then how the Earth came to be. We should be more concerned with how it looks like it might end. I know that this will be dismissed because I’m a pro-choice, pro-peace, pro-gay rights, pro-not being an idiot, liberal democrat, but I don’t care. Those who continue to be willfully ignorant are those that I feel no empathy for. I’m not talking about those who disagree with me but rather those who think they know everything without having ever explored anything beyond their own world view. To make an educated decision based on the exploration of fact makes for an intelligent decision maker. To let some shill like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh make your decisions for you is an unbelievable display of ignorance. Your opinions are your own, just like everyone else’s, however when your opinions are shaped by anything other than fact, you are choosing to be ignorant and that is a travesty.

Whether Democrat or Republican, we all live on the Earth and it wouldn’t hurt to put our personal views aside and maybe work together to make sure it doesn’t get worse. Then again what do I know? I’m a Democrat.

- Joel David