Damn, man, you crazy!

Well folks, it's been almost two weeks since my last post, but I'm finally back. Here's one that I've given some real thought to-something that will be worth the wait.

Now, according to the general public, an insane man is, to put it loosely, someone who thinks about weird things. An insane fellow would be a guy who says the world's going to end tomorrow, aliens implanted chips in my brain, or The Weekly World News isn't funny-it's true. Now, all three of those things are things that only a complete madman would say, correct? However, at least in the case of the first two, are they not things that a creative man would say? Wouldn't a story where a man had chips implanted in his brain by aliens make a pretty good movie? My real question is; what is the difference between insanity and creativity? Where do you draw the line? In fact, many people that were considered insane in their time were actually quite sane and clear-thinking. Einstein, Nikola Tesla, hell, even Edvard Munch makes sense to some people.

But the problem with people is that most have the same view of everything. Almost everyone tries to think the same way as everybody else does-that way, they don't have people look at them strangely and call them nuts. We all do have strange thoughts once in a while-sometimes they suddenly pop up while we sleep, waking us up at four in the morning, while other times they appear when we're at work. But most people just ignore them-one night you wake up thinking about a solution to some major problem, but you forget it because it sounds crazy. Our mind is much like the sun-it's a huge bubbling mass, and every so often it shoots up a huge column of flames; AKA a thought. Many times this thought means nothing-a three headed cat, for example, and we forget about it for good reason. When an actually good thought pops up, we often forget it, too, because we think that it would make us look like we've lost our mind.

But the "insane" man doesn't just forget about what he thinks of. When that column of fire shoots out of his bubbling brain he holds on to it, pondering the effects of this new thought. Unfortunately, sometimes when someone actually has a severe mental disorder they hold onto the wrong thoughts. But there are those who cannot be proven to be insane who are labeled crazy anyways-not by a doctor but by their peers. And so the person who thought of something to solve world hunger forgets about his, as it turns out, logical and practical idea to avoid being ridiculed. Because of this, because of those who want you to think inside the box, many good thoughts are discarded. Think outside the box when you think about it, folks.

The new religion

Religion, according to Websters (hey, do I sound like the kinda guy who can find a frickin' Oxford?), is the service or worship of god or the supernatural. Religion does not use reason or science to support its arguments of god or the supernatural-and if you deny that there is a god or the supernatural being of any sort, you go to a bad place. Now, frankly, I don't have a problem with religion or religious folk. Your beliefs are not my concern in that area.

But what I do fret over is that more and more people are accepting a very specific religion as being complete, undeniable fact. This religion is called environmentalism. The specific part of it that is growing is global warmingism. If you even think that global warming either doesn't exist or that it's not caused by people, even if you mention it for a moment to a global warmingist, you are immediately labeled as a right-wing fascist son of a bitch. That's right, folks. You are a right-wing fascist son of a bitch if you try to say that global warming might-might-be either natural or nonexistent. Even if you use reason, such as pointing out that the northern ice shelves are increasing in size and that the earth is getting increasingly cold. The response? Either you're part of the Nazi Party and you're an S.O.B, or you'll get the following:
"Well, the global warming is just being covered up by the natural cycle."
They will go on to explain that global warming does exist, but that the earth gets colder for periods of time, covering up the GW.

Now, here's my personal problem with that. Other than the obvious possibility that, hey, maybe global warming is actually just part of the normal cycle, doesn't this sound like something someone worshiping a god (global warming) would say to defend his religion (environmentalism)? It does. It's a pathetic, last-ditch attempt for the environmentalists to defend their feebly-built and rapidly deteriorating argument. The same thing is done by the Christian fundamentalists when you try to tell them that the earth actually is older than 6000 years. They say,
"Nope. All your science is wrong; all of the carbon dating is bullshit."
Yep, that's right, folks. Because of a very long, somewhat entertaining, book, everything you try and say to tell them that they're wrong is deflected by two words. The Bible. Only, in this case, the bible is called "The Inconvenient Truth," and the writer was a fat liberal swine who doesn't know his ass from his elbow. Environmentalism is a religion, one that is defended by ridiculously poor, half-assed arguments and one that is very dangerous to civilization as we know it. Think about it, folks.

The wild, wild internet

Well, I've been gone for some time now, but finally I'm back with a whole new rant. This time on what goes on in the world of the nerd and fatass: the internet

The internet has often been called a new frontier, unexplored and lawless. I agree with this fully: the kind of things you find on the net can easily be something that you have never imagined, or something that you would block from your mind if you ever did imagine it. There is also little law on the web: sure, every so often you hear about some disgusting scumbag getting caught putting kiddie porn on the web and spending the next few years of his life as a prison bride, but it is still virtually impossible to control the people that populate the internet. On this net you have perverts, murderers, psychos with bizarre beliefs, and people that rant on about stuff you don't care about, and there is no way to track them all down. The internet is not traceable, it is easily accessible, and it's growing.

Think about the kind of people that use the internet to their advantage, folks. Some are like me: they just want to state their opinions. Others are good people who want to educate, and some are entrepreneurs who are trying to make a profit. Then you have con artists and nut jobs, who use the internet to get money illegally or for other, far more horrible purposes. But then there's a third class of evil people on the net: people who spread propaganda. Muslims go on Youtube and MySpace to show off recently-beheaded American soldiers, while communists lie about capitalism and the Russians...well basically they go out and do the typical Russian thing by showing off their low-quality military. In one way, these people make me sick, and I do my best to fight them. In another way, however, they show that the world is a free place where anyone can say anything, advertising their beliefs. So the internet is a horrible place in some ways and in another way it is a wondrous place that tells you that no matter what country you're in, as long as you have a computer and a wireless internet, you still have the right of free speech. Think about it, folks.