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Name: Jon
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Cypress
Birthday: 8/11/1988
Gender: Male
Interests: Music, guitar and drums, sound, philosophy, reading, World War II history, driving, computer stuff, drawing, painting, photography, making videos, video editing, graphics editing, Reebok, K-Swiss, Saturday Night Live, 1984 by George Orwell, and saltine crackers.
I effin' love the Smashing Pumpkins.
Expertise: Procrastination.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
5/22/2004
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| So don't let the world bring you down.
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.
Remember why you came and while you're alive
experience the warmth before you grow old.
Incubus.
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| Generation X-ers with a purpose?
Really.. you must have thought what our generation has to hope for? I read the latest headlines today on Google News:
170 Iraqi's killed today in the deadliest bombings of this year.
Where is the Iraq war going. Some questions that people ask are
easy to answer: Why did we get involved? Saddam was a bad
guy and he needed to be replaced. Why are we still there?
If we leave Iraq, civil war will insue, America will become more hated,
and likely the state of the Middle East will deteriorate to the point
of no return. Let's talk Revelations. Iran is crawling
towards nuclear weapons, despite strong sanctions. What would
they do with a nuclear weapon? Well we'd like to think they
wouldn't use it, but I tell you the first thing they will do is aim it
at Israel. As I said, Revelations. So America is somewhat
forced to stick this war out, for better or worse. It wont be a
Vietnam if we retreat. It'll be more like another World War.. and
don't think everyone would be quick to pony up with America as they
have in the past. So, as far as world politics go, what are we
Generation X-ers (I like this term) going to do about it?
Blackberry service loss effects millions.
Hah. I always wondered what it would be like if something like
this happened. In the last month, I went without having a cell
phone for a week. It was painful but I managed. Then my
internet went out, I felt disconnected to the extreme. The fact
that millions of Blackberry users felt the same way that I did just a
few weeks ago says to me, the general human populace is incapable of
communication without cell phones, the internet, or other high-tech
information transfer devices. We have become a society that is
built on technology. Screw the Matrix, we are already at that
point, if not past it.
Late-term Abortions outlawed.
Was I relieved or angered when I saw this? To tell you the truth
I'm conflicted and I think that most of our society doesn't know what
to believe either. Like Iraq, another war is unfolding here on
our own home soil, the war between secularism and Christianity.
And although you may think this war has been going on forever (as it
has been), more and more heated debates are occuring regarding the
secularism of the United States. What's worse is I don't think
people even know what they are arguing about anymore. People
argue out of ignorance or personal belief, and in turn are unable to
convince the vast majority that what they believe is correct.
People argue for the sake of argument. Can I ask a question that
is off-topic? (rhetorical, this is my blog). Where is the C.S.
Lewis of our age? Where are the theologists, the
philosophers? They have disappeared. This is because we are
now dominated by a culture which doesn't care to try to
understand. We do as we are told, we believe what we are raised
to believe, and when something comes against that, the other person is
wrong and we're right, so fuck them. And this is the war I speak
of.
"You have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
This is a quote of Cho Seung-Hui, the student that killed 32 of his
fellow classmates at Virginia Tech on Monday, and is considered the
worst college massacre ever to occur in American history. It
seems now as if he was mentally ill and suicidal. It'd be
interesting to psychologically determine why, even though that would be
impossible. I doubt anyone will even want to try to understand
why this student turned killer. It was scary to hear about, or
think about what happened. This could have happened at any
college, anywhere. For what it's worth, my heart goes out to the
Virginia Tech students effected by this tragedy.
But then here comes the politics right after it. "We gotta ban
guns now." "We need to amend the right to bear arms."
Should we ban all firearms? Then tragedies like this wont
happen? And trust me when it comes to firearms, I know tragedy,
personally, so I think I can speak about it. Everytime something
like this happens, we always want to ban guns, but I'll tell you this,
it wasn't the guns that killed those students. It was Cho.
Cho and his mind went on a rampage that day. Banning guns will
not ban the Cho's out there. You will see much more inhumane acts
that occur. Limiting guns will not limit other ways to kill
humans. If I remember correctly, the two gunmen of Columbine used
pipebombs. And then you have Timothy McVeigh, using a truckload
of fertilizer.
Instead of guns, maybe we should focus on the Cho's. Maybe we
should look more at what our society is doing instead of what our
politicians are doing. Maybe we should be nicer to those that
seem conflicted or outcasted. Or maybe we just need to flat out
change. And maybe, just maybe, we can lift the curse off of the
Generation-Xers.. and maybe that's what we should live for.
jon
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| It's understanding that makes it possible for people like me...
...to tolerate people like you.
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| Headache.
Not a usual one. Far from. It's not a typical one where
someone says "I have a headache" and you suddenly realize "I have one
too." This one starts later in the day, around 4pm and it's sunny.
Stiff neck.
You realize this after you realize your headache. You start
pitying yourself by telling your friends that now you have a stiff neck
and it's a damn shame.
Sore throat.
Things are getting serious now. You feel the mucus going down
your throat and you know it's a sickly yellow or green. Your
lymph nodes swell and hurt. You wish you didn't have that test
tomorrow in the event that you might come down with something.
STOP.
Where are you? Are you in close proximity to a drug store? (You
are, this is rhetorical.) If so, doing the following may cure
your physical ailment.
....
I always thought I knew the cure for the common cold. This is
because within an hour or two of me getting those wretched symptoms, I
punished the cold better than a n00b getting knife pwnd in Battlefield
2 (that's one of my worst analogies ever but deal with it.)
So you say, "I am symptomatic." You can whine if it makes you
feel better. Or you can follow my advice. You may ask who
am I to give you advice on how to deal with your cold? In
response I'd say better than your mom. She allows you to stay
home and emerses you in self-pity. I'd say, better than your
doctor, who writes you notes to let you skip school. I'd say.. I
am Jon Newsome BEYOTCH.. and I have come to cure you!
I mentioned drug stores. These handy-dandy places sell the latest
medications, and this is why they are convenient for you.
Never-EVER question why there are three drug stores on one
corner. They are there so YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MAKING A LEFT TURN TO GET TO THEM, THUS PUTTING YOU AT LESS RISK FOR FAILURE. That
last statement might be less true for young teenage girl drivers which
have as much difficulty making right turns into places as they do
crossing 4 lanes of traffic to make a left turn. BUT I DIGRESS.
So pick the most convenient drug store and have this list ready:
1) Sudafed, night time and day time.
2) Advil, the regular shit.
3) A big jug of orange juice, preferably the pulpy kind with lots of vitamin C (anything over 100% DV will do.)
4) Campbell's chicken noodle soup (if available, not entirely necessary.) Make sure it IS NOT the low sodium Campbells.
DO NOT BUY
1) A thermometer - this is the worst mistake ever. If you are feeling feverish, you probably are. Thermometers only help self-pity. Stay away from these nasty devices, they will only make you more sick.
2) Anything else. The list I have provided you is sufficient.
When you return to your workplace or place of residence immediately do the following. Time is of the essence. Make
one glass of orange juice. Take the Sudafed. Take the
Advil. Down the glass of orange juice. Make another glass
of orange juice. Drink that as well. Every hour, drink
another glass of orange juice until you finish the jug or start
bleeding Vitamin C (you wont know until it's too late.)
Congratulations, you just ate the equivalent of 113 oranges. You
just downed 15 vitamins. Be sure to take your regular intervals
of Sudafed (every 4-6 hours, as per instructions on the box.) The
Advil doesn't really do much that the Sudafed already does, but the
different ingredients allow you to take more drugs without
overdosing. Go to sleep one hour earlier than you usually do.
This may be seemingly relative, because you may go to sleep at
3am. Go to sleep at 2 then. Wake up an hour later. If
your job or school does not allow this "extra" time, go to sleep two
hours earlier. It does not matter how many hours you sleep, as
long as it is two hours longer than your normal routine.
You will wake up in the morning. You will know that it worked if
you have no severe symptons. When I say severe, I mean, you feel
better than you did at 4pm the previous day. You may be still
feverish. A 99.6 F fever is nothing. It's hotter outside
than it is in your body. Of course you will not have the
thermometer to verify your temperature. Use my simple rule for
determining if you are feverish.
You are shaking uncontrollably and your teeth are chattering = feverish.
Anything else = not feverish.
Also, there is nothing better than eating a good bowl of wonton soup
from your local Chinese restaurant. If you feel it is necessary,
get a bucket full of wonton. Although not scientifically proven
by any means, the saltiness of the wonton soup will loosen your nasal
pathways and also reduce lymph swelling. And damn if thats not
it, it just tastes good anyway.. who the hell wouldn't want to eat a
bucket of wonton soup. If you do not like wonton soup, eat the
Campbell's chicken noodle or down a salt shaker. Do not actually
down a salt shaker, my methods are not that severe. If your drug
store didn't have any Campbell's, your drug store sucks. If you
simply do not like
chicken noodle, you are destined to remain sick for the rest of your
life.
Time table:
4pm - Headache, soreness of throat, swelling of lymph nodes, "Oh shit I might be getting sick."
5pm - Go to drug store. Make purchases. If you wait over
four hours, you might as well just go home and start watching movies,
because that's all you'll be doing for the next three days.
5:30pm - Arive home. Follow previous instructions. Do what
I say. Unless your allergic. Unless your a
lightweight. If this is the case, you wasted a good five minutes
reading this and another ten trying to understand it.
6:30-bedtime - Drink orange juice, all of it. Consume wonton or
Campbell's. You might have to pee a lot, but if peeing were bad,
we'd all be dead.
If you aren't 100% satisfied, I wouldn't be surprised.
~Jon.
Disclaimer: this only works for me by the way and
has not been tried on anyone else that I know of. Do this rather
good experiment at your own risk, and if it works, be sure you tell me so I
can be sure to publish and make millions. Thanks.
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