Hello World!
It is not unusual for a person to have a favorite search engine he or she uses on a regular basis when life's puzzling mysteries, personal boredom, or homework pops up and a web site is needed. Two of the most popular is of course "Yahoo.com" and "Google.com"
So, I wanted to know which is the better site. Which one stands the test of the subject line? Which one would fold under the pressure of a random or ridiculous prompt. So I made my personal list of my searches for both of these sites:
Gryffindor is.....
yahoo: "the best house"
google: "the giant squid" ...... do I even have to make fun of this?!
Russia has...
yahoo: "the most libraries"
google: "the most beautiful women"
Why does my roommate....
yahoo: "ignore me"
google: "smell"
Why are Men...
yahoo: "afraid of commitment"
google: "so selfish" .... ouch!
Why do...
yahoo: "ladybugs have spots"
google: "dogs eat poop"
I am extremely
yahoo:"bored"
google: "terrified of Chinese people"
Why...
yahoo: "so serious"
google: "can't I own a Canadian?"
A dog goes
yahoo: "a dog goes back to its vomit"
google: "a dog goes into heat"
When monkeys
yahoo: when monkeys in the zoo
google: When monkeys are high, don't look at them in the eye
Can we all agree which is superior? I think we can. Yahoo, you are indeed great for homework but Google holds our hearts and attention when we just wanna have fun!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Modesty: How important is this for CIU?
OK, so I am still a little fired up from an article I read in the Pilgrim's Protest about modesty. Now don't get me wrong, I love it when I see my siblings in Christ dress modesty (no "hanging out" and no leaving little to the imagination) but are girls specifically targeted in these discussions exclusivley?
I haven't read an article talking about "Hey guys, those t-shirts are too tight! We can see those six-packs/kegs" or "Um, you do know that those pants are for girls, right?" Nothing of the sort!
The article in question is titled "Man-up: Will the real men of CIU please Stand up!" Now earlier this school year the Protest published an article criticizing women on campus as being immodest. I have a couple quick quibs on that:
1) I failed to see this Mass Majority of women being indecent on campus but all I have seen is a couple offenders of this
2) Is the CIU bubble that potent? I am not excusing Christian ladies to dress immodestly but in the real world people (especially outsiders to the Christian faith) won't give two flips whether you think their dress is too short and revealing. There is no "Official Earth Dress Code." So Sorry to be blunt, but there isn't!!!
Anyway, we as the CIU campus were promised an article where it would be the guy's turn! We ladies (whom many were pretty upset/concerned at the earlier article) were like "Oh yeah! Now they're gonna get it!"
I remember that me and my two roomies were brainstorming what could possibly be the subject of the next article ("Men, you should help your sisters in Christ! you are equally to blame for modesty issues cause when it occurs you are silent! Speak up to your sisters!" or something along these lines). So when I got the latest Pilgrim's Protest in my hands I was pumped to know what kind of whoopin' the guys would get.
The first line said this:
"Last semester we addressed the women of CIU and the lack of modesty that can be seen on campus" (really? seen on campus? Like one girl every week!)... "we were bombarded with the question what about the guys? So put on your helmet, buckle your seat belt and let's get to it!"
And what do you think the point of the article is for guys?
.....to the guys: "You are being given a vast array of women to choose from and yet many if not the majority of them are single. Why? Why is it that you "men" are not asking these women out?"..... yes audience, this writer is saying the modesty issue with guys is not asking a lady out.
I wanted to scream! Dating advice!?!?! This is what the guys were waiting for!?!?! The article continued to give the top 5 excuses guys give why they won't ask girls out and how a real man would ask a girl out. As a dear friend of mine said in reference to this article: I totally agree with that.
Um, was the author TRYING to get on the girls' good side with this article? If so.... FAIL!!!!
It is less than a week away from Valentine's Day. When the girls who have read this get asked out by a guy I guarantee you that there will be a few asking themselves (is he just trying to be a "man" or does he really want to go out with me?)
More damage than good? I think so! The ONLY redeeming quality about this article was the small paragraph on how guys need to be the leaders God wants them to be. Heck, a 7 year old can ask a girl out and it isn't in the slightest "manning up." Plus, if girls got a whole article on modesty then why was this one "dating" advice for guys?! What about guys being accountable brothers for their sister's in Christ?! Did this article mention that?! No!!!
A smaller article in fact by a girl who had no connection in writing this "modesty series" writes:
"When the protest published its two articles on modesty earlier this [school] year, it effectively communicated the following to the women on CIU campus: 'you are dressing like sluts. Men are trapped in addiction to pornography because of you. you should wear nothing that would attract men to you.' In addition to being horribly degrading to women, the message abdicated men of their responsibility and leadership."
This lady also points out that Modesty ISN'T just about dress but poise, manner, language, and how you carry yourself in conversation. A man can be easily caught lusting a girl dressed vulgarly as well as one talking vulgarly. What's next in this modesty issue? Hey girls! Wear a Burka?!?! She also brings up that the bible talks about modesty as being how a girl carries herself more than how to dress. Isn't the idea that "It is a woman's fault that her dressing immodestly is causing men around her to stumble into worlds of sexual sin and fantasy" an "essentially Middle Eastern thought"? CIU, where are we getting our modesty standards from? Why aren't the men equally responsible in the [earlier] article? Why must it be entirely the girls' fault?
This is the Pirate Captain Dot signing off.
I haven't read an article talking about "Hey guys, those t-shirts are too tight! We can see those six-packs/kegs" or "Um, you do know that those pants are for girls, right?" Nothing of the sort!
The article in question is titled "Man-up: Will the real men of CIU please Stand up!" Now earlier this school year the Protest published an article criticizing women on campus as being immodest. I have a couple quick quibs on that:
1) I failed to see this Mass Majority of women being indecent on campus but all I have seen is a couple offenders of this
2) Is the CIU bubble that potent? I am not excusing Christian ladies to dress immodestly but in the real world people (especially outsiders to the Christian faith) won't give two flips whether you think their dress is too short and revealing. There is no "Official Earth Dress Code." So Sorry to be blunt, but there isn't!!!
Anyway, we as the CIU campus were promised an article where it would be the guy's turn! We ladies (whom many were pretty upset/concerned at the earlier article) were like "Oh yeah! Now they're gonna get it!"
I remember that me and my two roomies were brainstorming what could possibly be the subject of the next article ("Men, you should help your sisters in Christ! you are equally to blame for modesty issues cause when it occurs you are silent! Speak up to your sisters!" or something along these lines). So when I got the latest Pilgrim's Protest in my hands I was pumped to know what kind of whoopin' the guys would get.
The first line said this:
"Last semester we addressed the women of CIU and the lack of modesty that can be seen on campus" (really? seen on campus? Like one girl every week!)... "we were bombarded with the question what about the guys? So put on your helmet, buckle your seat belt and let's get to it!"
And what do you think the point of the article is for guys?
.....to the guys: "You are being given a vast array of women to choose from and yet many if not the majority of them are single. Why? Why is it that you "men" are not asking these women out?"..... yes audience, this writer is saying the modesty issue with guys is not asking a lady out.
I wanted to scream! Dating advice!?!?! This is what the guys were waiting for!?!?! The article continued to give the top 5 excuses guys give why they won't ask girls out and how a real man would ask a girl out. As a dear friend of mine said in reference to this article: I totally agree with that.
Um, was the author TRYING to get on the girls' good side with this article? If so.... FAIL!!!!
It is less than a week away from Valentine's Day. When the girls who have read this get asked out by a guy I guarantee you that there will be a few asking themselves (is he just trying to be a "man" or does he really want to go out with me?)
More damage than good? I think so! The ONLY redeeming quality about this article was the small paragraph on how guys need to be the leaders God wants them to be. Heck, a 7 year old can ask a girl out and it isn't in the slightest "manning up." Plus, if girls got a whole article on modesty then why was this one "dating" advice for guys?! What about guys being accountable brothers for their sister's in Christ?! Did this article mention that?! No!!!
A smaller article in fact by a girl who had no connection in writing this "modesty series" writes:
"When the protest published its two articles on modesty earlier this [school] year, it effectively communicated the following to the women on CIU campus: 'you are dressing like sluts. Men are trapped in addiction to pornography because of you. you should wear nothing that would attract men to you.' In addition to being horribly degrading to women, the message abdicated men of their responsibility and leadership."
This lady also points out that Modesty ISN'T just about dress but poise, manner, language, and how you carry yourself in conversation. A man can be easily caught lusting a girl dressed vulgarly as well as one talking vulgarly. What's next in this modesty issue? Hey girls! Wear a Burka?!?! She also brings up that the bible talks about modesty as being how a girl carries herself more than how to dress. Isn't the idea that "It is a woman's fault that her dressing immodestly is causing men around her to stumble into worlds of sexual sin and fantasy" an "essentially Middle Eastern thought"? CIU, where are we getting our modesty standards from? Why aren't the men equally responsible in the [earlier] article? Why must it be entirely the girls' fault?
This is the Pirate Captain Dot signing off.
Friday, January 21, 2011
"They're coming to get you Barbra!"
Zombies!
The sheer word conjures images from George Romero's arsenal of B rated movies that turned into overnight sensations. A horde of undead moving slowly, arms raised, jaws opened at an angle as bits of bone and sinews stick out from their teeth. No need to feed, no need to do anything, yet they hunger still. They crave flesh, brains, and the gore of any who still have control over their mind.
Can you tell why I LOVE this genre!?
It was only a few years ago when I first picked up "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks and learned of the real yet unspoken danger of the upcoming zombie doomsday (which as we all know is more of a threat than this 2012 crap).
So you think, "Is this chick for reals? I mean, come one- no such thing could happen like that."
So I think, "Wow, what a numb-skull."
Here is how I think the zombie apocalypse will occur. Medicine. Yeah, Some medical lab whether that be government funded (illegally more likely knowing the integrity of modern day government officials) or terrorist/under the table organizational types. The motive will either be some sort of bio-chemical weapon to "help ensure the safety of our country/people/religion" or to help little Timmy's sickness to go away forever.
There are chemicals out there (found naturally) that can cause a zombie like effect on a human being. Voodoo men in the islands have used a certain fish toxin in an extremely small amount mixed with other indgredients. This made the person they wish to curse momentarily lose control of the higher functioning part of the brain and would wander slack jawed and occasssionally violent. Cases of these violent attacks would have these cursed men biting others as if to devour them.
All in all it is up to yourself whether or not you believe in a possibility that a virus of some kind that has the ability to create hordes of walking dead may in fact exist.
I don't trust our government all that much. I mean, look at the health care system they are attempting to make into a socialistic model. Would you trust a government who has kept and are still keeping secrets from us?
The sheer word conjures images from George Romero's arsenal of B rated movies that turned into overnight sensations. A horde of undead moving slowly, arms raised, jaws opened at an angle as bits of bone and sinews stick out from their teeth. No need to feed, no need to do anything, yet they hunger still. They crave flesh, brains, and the gore of any who still have control over their mind.
Can you tell why I LOVE this genre!?
It was only a few years ago when I first picked up "The Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks and learned of the real yet unspoken danger of the upcoming zombie doomsday (which as we all know is more of a threat than this 2012 crap).
So you think, "Is this chick for reals? I mean, come one- no such thing could happen like that."
So I think, "Wow, what a numb-skull."
Here is how I think the zombie apocalypse will occur. Medicine. Yeah, Some medical lab whether that be government funded (illegally more likely knowing the integrity of modern day government officials) or terrorist/under the table organizational types. The motive will either be some sort of bio-chemical weapon to "help ensure the safety of our country/people/religion" or to help little Timmy's sickness to go away forever.
There are chemicals out there (found naturally) that can cause a zombie like effect on a human being. Voodoo men in the islands have used a certain fish toxin in an extremely small amount mixed with other indgredients. This made the person they wish to curse momentarily lose control of the higher functioning part of the brain and would wander slack jawed and occasssionally violent. Cases of these violent attacks would have these cursed men biting others as if to devour them.
All in all it is up to yourself whether or not you believe in a possibility that a virus of some kind that has the ability to create hordes of walking dead may in fact exist.
I don't trust our government all that much. I mean, look at the health care system they are attempting to make into a socialistic model. Would you trust a government who has kept and are still keeping secrets from us?
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