FWD Texts

Hello fellow haters of Fwd Text messages =) I just wanted to see how many people are like me and can't stand forwards!! Especially the forwards that have no significant meaning, just something to get people to use texts so that the wireless corp can make money. For ex: "98.4% of people wont fwd this message, but if you love Jesus you will send it to 10 people in your address book, watch who calls you"-- I hate messages that are being fwd about Jesus! I mean really?? I highly doubt that Jesus is sitting in heaven texting people these messages!?! Those messages just get on my nerves and I think that these fwds are just excuses for Wireless companies to guilt trip customers into sending texts (For those who pay for limited texting).

Adrian's Eye-Opener

FEAR NOT THE APPROACH

Hello everyone, my name is Adrian Sims. I have been in this class for sometime with you guys and have noticed that no one has really taken the advantage of meeting new people. Why? If you are shy, by no means do I ever want you to approach me and talk to me!!!! lol jk. Don't worry about the approach if your introducing yourself to others. People generally are outgoing- especially me =) I am the student that appears to be Hispanic, with black hair, and brown eyes. You may have seen me with a deck of cards, leather jacket, and bracelet. I love to meet new people; so just make yourself known to me or I'll just come and meet you for myself.

Interesting Fact about myself: Goal is to become an Actor, Stand up Comedian, as well as Street Magician.
- if you'd like- feel free to rewrite this blog post in your own personality.
- comment with a description of you, your name, and Interesting Fact.
XD Have a wonderful life- live it to the fullest!

Does Love Exist?

A question I personally have asked myself time and time again. Does Love Truly Exist, and can it last forever? In my opinion, love is like snow-- it is beautiful and soft in the beginning, but like snow it eventually melts away over time. Now this is my opinion based solely on my 20 years of living. For those out there who are like me and are always searching, don't give up, don't make rash decisions regarding the physical health of yourself or your previous partner. Live life to the fullest, and look at every relationship as a stepping stone and guidance teacher on how to better your next. If your one of those who like me once thought of committing suicide, don't! Just stop and think to yourself, what about all those people you are leaving behind. How sad would they be to have lost someone so near and dear to their hearts. If you have nobody, find me, I understand what you are going through, to some degree, let me challenge your motives and bring you to life.
Answer to the question, in my opinion:
--Young Love rarely exists, we are all still growing and we can't be entirely sure on exactly what we want. If you have found your match, your lucky as hell and I congratulate the both of you. =)
--I believe that Love is like riding a bicycle, you must keep trying, your sure to get the hang of it.
Adrian's Eye-Opener

I ash my tomorrow, and stand still in today- at the edge of the future- my dreams fade away. 

Food Stamps

Recently my mother applied to get food stamps. She is a hard working parent who supports her three children, works a full time job as a waitress, and can barely make rent tagged along with the rest of her bills. She gathered check stubs from all the members in the family who work in the household, and applied for food stamps. My mom all eager to actually get a break from her financially frustrating bills listens as the representative tells her that she is denied. Why? "Were sorry mam, but it appears that your household makes to much money." How can a single woman make to much money to support 3 kids, herself, pay all of her bills, all while working as a waitress making less than $4.00/ hour? Explanation: They put all of our taxes together as a whole. I did not agree with this, primarily because I believe that the explanation was a loop hole in the system- so that the government wouldn't have to pay nearly as much. I mean think about it from a logical sense. I work a full time job, pay for college, and support myself entirely dispensing all of my earnings toward bills, gas, and any other misc. I put absolutely nothing toward my family's income. The same rules apply to my brother who is a year younger than I. So is it fair that my earnings and his earnings are placed with my mothers earnings contributing at least twenty-four hundred dollars toward a monthly income that we don't share with our mother? I don't agree, the government makes it really hard for those who work really hard out there at minimum wage, but give money to those families who are lazy and don't work at all. 

SHOULD ABORTIONS BE LEGAL?

Abortions have been an incredibly important topic of controversy for for some time now. What is an abortion? What are the Pros and Cons of taking the life of a premature being? Should Abortions be performed legally in the U.S.?



Also called voluntary abortion. Aborting is the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy (www.dictionary.com) . Do we have the right to decide? Or was it against God's will for us to take eachothers life? Is an embryo alive? Does it feel pain? So many questions and so many different opinions to take into consideration.




Pros:


1. A fetus is not a human being. Abortion is terminating a pregnancy, not a baby. Personhood at conception is not a proven biological fact. Personhood begins at birth(http://abortion.procon.org/).


2. According to  PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham (England), fetuses are incapable of feeling pain when an abortion is performed. The biological development necessary to support pain experience does not occur until birth (http://abortion.procon.org/).


3. The anti-abortion position is usually a religious belief and threatens the vital separation of church and state. Religious ideology should not be a foundation for law in the United States (http://abortion.procon.org/).


4. Abortion gives couples the option to choose not to birth babies with severe and life-threatening medical conditions. Fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic form of mental retardation, affects about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females. One in 800 babies have Down Syndrome, and one in 3,500 babies are born with Cystic Fibrosis. It is not right to sentence a child to life with an acute handicap (http://abortion.procon.org/).


Cons:


1. Unborn babies are innocent human beings from the moment of conception. They have a fundamental right to life which must be protected (http://abortion.procon.org/). 

"Don't I Have a Choice""

2. The Sixth Commandment of the Bible's Old Testament (Exodus 20:13) is "Thou shalt not kill." Abortion involves killing a human being and defies a commandment from God (http://abortion.procon.org/). Does this matter in America being a Religiously Free Country?


3. According to Janet L. Hopson, science textbook writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by week 12. Abortion is wrong because it inflicts pain on a living defenseless human being(http://abortion.procon.org/).


4. The original text of the Hippocratic Oath, the oath that doctors traditionally take when swearing to practice medicine ethically, forbids abortions. One section of the oath reads: "I will not give a woman a pessary [a device inserted into the vagina] to cause an abortion." The modern version of the Hippocratic Oath written in 1964 by Luis Lasagna also forbids abortion in its line, "Above all, I must not play at God." (http://abortion.procon.org/).

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Capital Punishment is a term in today's society that most are familiar with; the term meaning the judicial process from ones peers as a(n) ever-lasting punishment for a criminal offense-- Death! People have different opinions on the issue of capital punishment given to a convict. While some think that the death penalty is necessary for those who have committed a terrible crime, there are others who consider it as an immoral act that goes against the values of humanity. The question is how did WE as an overpowering religious nation, who were once Super Christians agree to allowing one another to decide one's fate? Capital Punishment has its pros and cons. 
 Pros:Perhaps us killing one another deters others who share the same ideals from acting out initially or once released. Perhaps Killing each other helps us sleep at night knowing the streets are safe.

Cons:Methods of execution include electrocution, the firing squad or other sorts of shooting, stoning in Islamic countries, the gas chamber, hanging, and lethal injection. Other cons include the fact that we as humans can be wrong; now I'm not taking the side of a convict, but we have executed the innocent before. Did those who sentenced their innocent peers to death ever get anything more than a slap on the wrist and a couple of bad nights of sleep? Capital Punishment in my eyes is wrong- One of the 10 commandments for those who struggle with the pathos of this blog state: "You Shall Not Murder", when we kill each other do we make a mockery of Gods Testament? The World is At War with Itself. Since when are we allowed to beat around the Burning Bush of God's Instruction?

Adrian's-Eye-Opener