Thinking about joining the Military?
The military... trying times to consider joining... Economically it may make sense... patriotically it may make sense... all that may be. I once joined the military for these reasons in 2002, after 9/11. My experience was... well, I will explain my experience later. For now, here are a list of questions you might want to ask yourself:
1. What if i join the military and it turns out these wars are not justified? How do I know they are truly justified?
2. Joining the military means putting myself in a situation where I will be asked, nay ordered, to kill or be killed myself because the Commander 'n' Chief decided it was necessary. That is, the President. Is this, or perhaps future and past, presidents THAT trustworthy? Have they/he ever lied before?
3. No matter what anyone says, the real reasons for war are usually only known to a select few. Am I comfortable putting myself in that situation not knowing for sure that it really is necessary?
My military experience was this:
I spent 4 years in. The first 6mo. consisted of basic combat training and Advanced Individual Training. The next 2 months I waited for my Security Clearance to pass. The rest of the time I was a part of SIGINT (signal intelligence). I cannot go into details here, but I never saw combat, luckily. But I did take it upon myself to pay attention to politicians for the first time in my life, as this was life and death. Can you guess what I found? LIARS. The reasons for Iraq changed quite often.... I also found that the U.S. Government took credit for over 500,000 children deaths BEFORE 9/11 in the middle east, as a result of sanctions...
I was not smart enough to think about this stuff until it was too late. When I first considered joining, all I received was praise from those around me. My teachers at school, my military family, some of my friends, brothers, you name it. and now that I have been out for years, and talk about this stuff, one of two things happen. Either 1) they tell me everyone knows this stuff but I'm just a jerk because I talk about it or 2) they tell me I hate my country. Well, those are not arguments. Those are statements that are either true or false... now, I will take being a jerk or an unpatriotic jerk over having deaths of innocent people on my mind any day of the week and a hundred times on Sunday. Use logic, think for yourself.
As you can see, I am not spreading a conspiracy theory, I'm not telling you to not join, I'm simply asking you to think about what you are doing. Go look at the suicide statistics of soldiers in the military these days... it is not a game. Life and Death are literally what is at stake... Choose wisely... and I will make this plea, do NOT sign any papers or take any oaths until you are sure... because once you are facing the gun of some foreigner somewhere, none of this will matter... your survival instincts will kick in and you may say to yourself "ya, I was duped into this mess, it's not my fault, but I am going to survive it." Well, if you read this and still join without being certain you are doing the right thing, it will be your fault.
Friday, April 4, 2014
My God
My God
My God is not a mysterious person in the sky... my god is called Logic.
When I disobey my God, and act illogically, there are consequences to my actions. I do not reach my goal(s) and as a result, my life suffers a temporary or permanent set back.
My God can be proven; that is, its essence is with us every day. If it were not, you would have no understanding of the words written here... heck, you probably would not be alive if you were completely without logic.
My God is simple. "If A then B" is a great starting point for following my god.
My God has never killed an innocent person... although people have died as a result of not following my god in some cases... but Logic itself is incapable of killing anyone.
My God does not require me to believe many things which I know are non-sense, such as talking snakes, in order to believe its narrative. The narrative is simple; if you want to live, follow Logic. If you don't, and you decide not to eat when you need food or drink when you need water, you will not make it. In fact, my god demands that I question things that sound unrealistic.
My God does not need big buildings or men and women dressed in goofy outfits to get followers. It gets followers on its own merit.
Unlike any other God, if children were indoctrinated with a belief in my God, there would not be such resistance as there is with the mystical person in the sky, and children would actually benefit... for raising children with a foundation in Logic may actually be useful for them their entire lives, and does not require threatening their soul with eternal damnation.
My God does not require any other God to not exist in order to be proven. It simply says "Ok, show me some proof of that." while other Gods(?) say "Following me is of the utmost importance, and no, I will no prove myself to exist to you, you simply must believe it."
I am not always the best follower of My God, for I am human and prone to err. But that does not invalidate the authenticity of my god... if anything, it reinforces it... for it takes following Logic to prove someone has acted illogically.
My God is the most powerful force known to man. Without him we may not have ever come out of our caves. and yet, unlike other gods, it does not require money... Logic does not demand you to give any percentage of your income to anyone. Rather, it would ask you to question who it is you give your money to and determine if it is what you really want.
You may say you choose not to follow my god, but we both know that to be a lie. You follow logic when it suits you and perhaps use energy rejecting logic when that suits you... no doubt to gain some end that you have in mind... which in and of itself is an act based on logic... it is to say "if i question this or look at it logically, I may not believe it, so I won't." Now, there are reasons which you may do this... I am not here to question the why, but to point out the action. See Cognitive Dissonance.
Thank You for reading about My God.
My God is not a mysterious person in the sky... my god is called Logic.
When I disobey my God, and act illogically, there are consequences to my actions. I do not reach my goal(s) and as a result, my life suffers a temporary or permanent set back.
My God can be proven; that is, its essence is with us every day. If it were not, you would have no understanding of the words written here... heck, you probably would not be alive if you were completely without logic.
My God is simple. "If A then B" is a great starting point for following my god.
My God has never killed an innocent person... although people have died as a result of not following my god in some cases... but Logic itself is incapable of killing anyone.
My God does not require me to believe many things which I know are non-sense, such as talking snakes, in order to believe its narrative. The narrative is simple; if you want to live, follow Logic. If you don't, and you decide not to eat when you need food or drink when you need water, you will not make it. In fact, my god demands that I question things that sound unrealistic.
My God does not need big buildings or men and women dressed in goofy outfits to get followers. It gets followers on its own merit.
Unlike any other God, if children were indoctrinated with a belief in my God, there would not be such resistance as there is with the mystical person in the sky, and children would actually benefit... for raising children with a foundation in Logic may actually be useful for them their entire lives, and does not require threatening their soul with eternal damnation.
My God does not require any other God to not exist in order to be proven. It simply says "Ok, show me some proof of that." while other Gods(?) say "Following me is of the utmost importance, and no, I will no prove myself to exist to you, you simply must believe it."
I am not always the best follower of My God, for I am human and prone to err. But that does not invalidate the authenticity of my god... if anything, it reinforces it... for it takes following Logic to prove someone has acted illogically.
My God is the most powerful force known to man. Without him we may not have ever come out of our caves. and yet, unlike other gods, it does not require money... Logic does not demand you to give any percentage of your income to anyone. Rather, it would ask you to question who it is you give your money to and determine if it is what you really want.
You may say you choose not to follow my god, but we both know that to be a lie. You follow logic when it suits you and perhaps use energy rejecting logic when that suits you... no doubt to gain some end that you have in mind... which in and of itself is an act based on logic... it is to say "if i question this or look at it logically, I may not believe it, so I won't." Now, there are reasons which you may do this... I am not here to question the why, but to point out the action. See Cognitive Dissonance.
Thank You for reading about My God.
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