Low Battery

I can't draw people or stick figures very well, so I will draw whatever object I can relate to most.
Today it is a battery with no energy.

(the other day, it was fire)











(click on the image to see it bigger)

PS: If you're wondering, the computer monitor is on top of a dictionary, on top of an atlas.

Results of proposal ownership pending...

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8:46pm:

Snow and Fire

For some bizarre reason....and I've been feeling this for at least a week now...I feel as though if I were to look out the window right now, there will be snow. Everywhere. Like, crazy snow storm. This makes no sense for 2 reasons:

1. Halifax is a retarded sea-port city that gets almost NO snow in the winter.

2. It is not winter. (I should probably either apologise to any Albertans reading this, or say "LOLZ!!")

For the past week, at least, everytime I wake up I'm all like "It feels like Christmas", and then my mom gets mad like "GGGAAAHHH NOOOOOO I HAVEN'T STARTED SHOPPING YET!!!! AAARGGGHHH!"

What's the deal, brain? Why do you think it is Christmas? It feels like I should be baking Christmas desserts. But that's probably just my natural born woman instinct to be in the kitchen.

Anyways, my academic life is basically a disaster. It is an unending cycle of me not being able to accomplish tasks or get organised. Also, I wanted to punch my professor in the face on Wednesday and make him a trophy for being the biggest tool of the semester. But I decided that since I have 2 classes with him, he is controlling 50% of my grades this semester, plus he has substantial control over my thesis being acceptable or not, so it would probably be in my best interest to not punch him in the face.

Rather, I decided on leaving as quickly as possible. This did not happen. My prof stops his conversation with a student to rush over and block me from leaving class to apologise for being a big retarded tool (this may or may not be paraphrased). Given that my one and only thought was to punch him in the face (my natural human self-defense reaction to my intelligence and ego being threatened), I decided to back away from him, out of punching range. Clearly he does not understand body language, so he moves closer. I moved away again, into a chair. He moves even closer. Now I have no more room to back up, because I am against a chair and table. Trapped. No way out. He tried explaining himself to me. Unfortunately he is incredibly incoherent, and is the worst prof I have ever had for trying to explain himself. I just wanted to leave, so I just kept telling him I understood what he meant.
Finally, before this happened:


















I got away.

Now I'm pretty much over it.

Bus Ads

This morning I was on the bus.

And I looked up at one of the ads, and it read: "Wildfires...Are You Prepared? Reduce your risk by preparing now--Focus on Fire Safety".

I thought to myself, What if that ad was about Judgement Day? It would probably read something like this: "Judgement Day...Are You Prepared? Reduce your risk of eternal damnation--Focus on your salvation".

Or in keeping with the original ad, but a slight tweeking, what are the "wildfires" in today's society and culture? I know those are very general and broad terms, so rather, what are the wildfires in YOUR society and culture, or in your own personal life? The wildfires that are spreading, infecting things, burning down life, the good around you? What do you need to evacuate from?

Here is where I would readily shout, "SCHOOL!", but somehow, I don't think that would go over well.

But really, as Christian/Catholics, Judgement is not something that is to be feared, per se, despite my tongue-in-cheek parody ad. It's what we are waiting for. We are waiting for Christ to return. Afterall, that's why we spread the Gospel. But there is too much focus on fear. I don't think God wants us to love and follow Him because we are terrified of going to hell. Otherwise, we don't really mean it. Then it becomes "Ok, I'll follow your rules, but only because I'm scared of damnation, not because I love you and want to spend eternity with you". I obey my parents because I love them, not because I am scared of punishment.

But are we really prepared for Judgement Day? Do we even take time to think about what it really means? Now I say that it shouldn't all be about fear, and I mean that, but I also don't want to distract from the reality of hell and evil, too. Our God is a very loving and merciful God, but there ARE souls in hell. Does God send them there out of anger? No, I very much doubt that. I don't think God sends people to hell, people send themselves there. It sounds ridiculous, but some people really are so stubborn and thick that even when they die and realise hell and heaven are real, they still choose hell. Why, I don't know. I've never died and experienced these things, so I don't know what exactly goes on. But I do know that there are souls in hell, based on the Church approved Marian apparitions (Lourdes, Fatima, Kibeho, Guadeloupe, etc). Sometimes, in this age of "everything goes" and accepting almost everything, people don't want to think of punishment anymore, or the possibly of sin, doing something wrong and ending up in hell for it. And why should they? It's convenient, isn't it? I can live however I want with no worry of consequences, "As long as I am a good person and live a good life". Here's what is wrong with that statement: What you think is "living a good life and being a good person" may not be how God thinks you should be living your life. It's almost as if people can no longer fathom bad behaviour.

We live in a very dangerous time where everything is acceptable. Even murder is acceptable (abortion), and people trying to protect babies are deemed as closed minded monsters trying to corrupt the world. How does that even make sense? Someone cannot possibly believe that EVERYTHING is acceptable. That is impossible. And yet, I see many people on my own campus who are so scared of stepping on someone's toes, that they "accept" everyone. Newsflash: You can be against something in a non-agressive way". Just because you disapprove of someone's behaviour, does not mean you are not loving them. I have a lot of friends who do things and live certain ways that I don't approve of, that I even think COULD lead to their damnation someday. COULD. I'm not saying it will, but it COULD, because the things they are doing are bad for their soul, and not of God. But I still act lovingly toward them. I don't shout at them or make them feel like bad people. I am, however, honest about how I feel about certain issues, and why I think the way I do. Do I condemn them? Of course not, I'm not God. But I do recognise spiritually unhealthy behaviour.

Anyway. That's an awfully big thought stemming from a simple bus ad on fire safety. Keep safe from the fires of Hell. Be loving and understanding toward your neighbour, but it doesn't mean fundamental conservatism, or fundamental relativism.
Basically, just open your Bible, open your heart, and follow the example of Christ.

Aren't Philosophers Supposed to be Logical?

I read this article today by a professor of philosophy at my university.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/fetus+person/2979302/story.html

I struggled through reading the whole thing. The first attempt, I had to close the window because I was getting upset. I made it through on the second go, and I am even more upset. I am furious, and not just with Mark Mercer, a professor I am embarrassed to say I have taken a course by, but I am furious because he represents more than just himself.

This mentality angers me to the core. He makes absolutely no sense. His logic is absent, and his statements are hyprocritical.

"Abortion, then, involves the killing of a human being. But that abortion involves the deliberate killing of a human being is no reason for abortion to be illegal. Nor should one be morally troubled by it."

Can he write a more ludicrious statement?
He admits that abortion is murdering human beings, and yet he feels this is perfectly fine, because he claims a fetus is not a person; a self-aware person.

First of all, he has NO grounds in saying that. How does he know a fetus is not self-aware? A sleeping person is not self-aware either.
Also, I have seen video footage of an abortion in which the fetus is avoiding the vacuum, trying to get away from it. And yet, Mercer dares to say the fetus "has no interest in living".

I also want to state that once upon a time, only a mere 70 years ago, a man named Adolf Hitler convinced people that Jews were not "persons" either. To go ahead and beat them, kill them, rape them, do whatever you want to them, because they are not persons, and you should in no way feel "morally troubled by it". Yes, it is killing a human being, but they are not persons, so don't worry.

Oh, but here I suppose Dr. Mercer would say this is absurd, obviously that was a horrific event, the Jewish people were self-aware. Well how do you know a fetus is not self-aware!

It is absurd to even argue about this. Abortion is sick, and anyone who supports abortion clearly has never even thought about the issue for what it really is. I mean really think about it, and what it is, or watched a video of one.

Oh and by the way, NO I am not comparing women who have an abortion to Hitler. I am comparing abortionists to Hitler. Any doctor who performs an abortion is guilty of a crime equal to the Holocaust. Any doctor who performs an abortion is a monster and a hypocrite, and doesn't care about life. Women who have an abortion are victims of being lied to in their most vulnerable state. Lied to by a society that tells them it is ok to have their child murdered.

Abortion is the most evil sin there is, and it baffles me that so many people do not understand this.
Don't you realise abortion murders human beings!? How can anyone with a conscience support this? How can people not see how wrong this is?

I am terrified of this society. We are living in very dark times. We live in a society whose conscience has been so dulled, life is no longer a matter worth fighting for. Where the absolute most innocent beings there could possibly be, children, babies, infants, are being murdered everyday. Perfect beings, with no sin, are the ones being killed.

The pro-life movement is not out to hurt women, it is out to save women. Abortion hurts women. The after effects are traumatic. The scars of an abortion never go away.
We are fighting for the innocent, because they can't speak for themselves yet.

My heart aches.

It aches for the babies being aborted.
It aches for the vulnerable women being convinced this is a harmless act.
It aches for the state of our society.

May God have Mercy...