Monday, October 17, 2011

Crumbling America day 4: Also a change somewhere

On Body Piercings: How mutilating the body will destroy our nation.... Somehow

Piercings to me always looking like these individuals were making themselves out to be human pin cushions. To me, the amount of piercings on a person's body also told of the level of sanity within that said individual. Say for instance that a person were to have four piercings on each ear. I would say that person is possibly a little crazy. The position of a piercing also tells of the level of sanity to me too, if you have a piercing on your eyebrow, I'd get you a therapist, if you have seven piercings on your eye brow, I would check you into a mental hospital because at that point, i would be worried for your sanity. Also nose piercings are something I have always disliked. Something about me throws them off. In cartoons, I always thought a bull would be the only thing to have a nose piercing considering in the cartoons I'd watch that had bulls, they would be hulking beasts of brute strength and comically short tempered in my opinion. When I saw humans with nose piercings for the first time, I literally thought 'What's that person doing trying to be a bull?". Such was my younger, pre-transcendental mind. Then I found out about other piercings on the body and I was simply disgusted by this idea that people could get what appears to me to be a tiny point metal rod shoved through these parts of their bodies that don't need to be....bedazzled like a pair of jeans being handled by a clinically insane girl with a bedazzlement gun thingy whatever they're called...
Now, when it comes to the ear lobes being pierced just once on each side, that's fine to me, I respect earrings because they have always been around civilizations.....or at least that's what Hollywood says....I do not wish to research something as stupid as earrings in the ancient world. Aside from that, earrings to me can be pretty sometimes. As for lip piercings, do not get me started on those. For starters, they always looked to me like that person got the receiving end of an otherwise horrible fishing accident. Also, how could anyone hope to be able to kiss anyone with a pierced lip? As for tongue piercings, It always makes me squeamish to see them. I rather like my own tongue and I rather like tasting the things I like eating, and I also enjoy talking too, however rare that would be. However, my generation and other generations behind my generation seem to like the idea of mutilating their body with tiny metal pointy objects and that to me somehow spells doom for the nation. Imagine if you are employed by a lazy dour-looking person with his eyebrows lined with tiny rings, his ears bedazzled with pierces, a few lip piercings and maybe a nose and a tongue piercing, would you rather work for that man? I'd rather punch him in the face because I could not possibly stand to look at him directly or withstand the intense urges to punch him in the face however painful punching a face full of metal could be. Instead, I would rather be employed by a person whose pants were worn correctly and so on and so forth from personal image. This is unfortunately all I have for this blog update, but this one's a first for me.


A word from the writer:
This update's a first for me, considering the essay, Crumbling America is being changed to the more sophisticated sounding The Destruction of a Once Great Nation. With that said, the segment on body piercings was started last June nearing the end of the school year and was only one sentence in in my philosophy compilation book so the entire segment you've just read was entirely pulled from my mind so of course it was witty and clever this time around because I am usually witty and clever even though in this blog, I've probably never made it out that I was witty, clever and sarcastic. As for my piece on why I am so anti-social, that was an essay written clearly with being published to this blog in mind. You could come up to me at any point in time and even ask me to see the original essay in its hand written form and it will sure enough be all or mostly the same as in the blog. It's something I'd like to call, a DTB, Direct To Blog essay. Perhaps i will write more DTBs in the future? perhaps not, goodness knows what I have in store. I could probably assure you that The Destruction of a Once Great Nation day 5 will certainly be a DTB simply because I do not have any pens with erasable ink that I specifically wanted at the beginning of the school year because I insist on using pens with erasable ink to write in my philosophy compilation book and not pencil because my book is always being taken out and being put into my book bag and the pages are always being turned and somewhere, somehow, anything I have written with pencil lead, smears the pages and obscures the hand written text. Day 5 will also be my take on the rise in crime rate unless I go back and read my book and find that I was terribly out of place and may have skipped a couple sections and include those sections in the coming days.

I hope you liked it,

Yours Truly

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Talking about philosophy

I wanted to let you readers in on other fields of philosophy that I knew about. Here are three others that I know about.

Physicalism

Dualism


Idealism

First of, physicalism is the sole idea that the mind is within the body and that it is physically in your brain, key word there, physical. Most of my ideas about the human mind come from this field of philosophy.

Second is dualism, the idea that the mind is in a completely separate realm from your body. This idea sort of goes in with the transcendentalists' beliefs. A transcendentalist believes that the mind transcends the human body and that it is more spiritual in nature. This isn't what I believe because of science even though I'm a transcendentalist by all other accounts so I can basically say I'm 95% transcendentalist.

Idealism. Idealism is the philosophy field in which it is solely based on ideas, no matter how far-fetched or how close to home they are. My first essay was based on the understandings and principles of idealism as I had called it an idealist essay before since I had not yet proclaimed myself to be a transcendentalist.

There you go readers. A little crash course on three fields of philosophy that I at least have the gist of. Feel free to look more into them on your own time, I encourage it. They're good stuff.

Later friends,

Yours Truly