We all understand how a zipper works, right? When you pull up the left side merges with the right side, one tooth at a time. When you're done everything is set in place and everyone is happy.
Driving should be the same way. When you come to a section of road that requires merging, act like a zipper. Let the person in front of you in. Don't be a d*** and try to jump ahead and certainly don't cut someone off. Highly educated engineers spent a lot of time and money in school to determine when designing roads and intersections if a merge is necessary to help traffic move smoothly. Please respect these engineers and your fellow drivers and zip it up when your driving along.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Imagine
WARNING: This is going to be a religious post...
I believe in God. I imagine a lot of you readers do too. I believe God helped guide my family through the very difficult past two years. Reflecting back on things I see His hand guiding us in certain directions. I'm not posting today about that, perhaps another time. Today I want to you to imagine how Jesus would view religion in our society now.
Imagine (hey, I said in the title that you would be doing this...) that you are a Mother or a Sibling and you are a member of a certain Christian Sect that believes in God and Jesus. As part of your religion you have very strict rules about how you should behave. Your Daughter/Sister also believes in God (the very same God) but worships at a different church that isn't part of your sect. Now that Daughter/Sister gets sick. She's facing something that could be potentially deadly. Because she doesn't worship under your guidelines you can't talk to her. You can't go to her and comfort her during her time of need. All you are allowed to do is go to her and preach about what she is doing wrong by not following your strict beliefs. Because she doesn't come around to your way of thinking and start attending your Meetings you are now not allowed to associate with her at all.
Do you think Jesus would look at you and say, "good job"? Is this really the type of person God wants you to be?
This is a very real scenario and it breaks my heart that it happened.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Enough!
Today my 12 year old son was threatened by a fellow classmate. Without going into detail, the boy told my son that he would kill him. The way it was presented was no idle threat. As far as I can tell, my son did nothing to provoke this. The other boy even went so far as to acknowledge that fact. This was a first time offense for this other boy. As far as anyone can tell me he's never caused any problems and there has never been any tension between him and anyone else. My son told me "it was totally random, Dad".
I was told by my wife. Apparently the school was smart enough to call her instead of me to share this information. I had to step away from my work desk to collect myself. I went into my bedroom, logged onto Facebook (because that seems to be what I do to collect myself). I subscribe to Yahoo News and the first thing on my wall was the story that broke today about 3 students being shot at a High School in California. Wow, I really didn't need that.
I called the school. Spoke with the Guidance Councellor that handled the situation and was told that the other student had been disciplined. The Guidance Councellor wouldn't tell me the other boy's name or what the discipline was. I don't really understand why I couldn't be told what either of those were. I got the kid's name from my son (like I wasn't going to find out that information). As for the level of discipline, I feel as the parent of a child who was threatened I have the right to know what level of punishment was given to the offending child. If I disagree with the punishment I can then appeal to the School Administrators. I just want to make sure this is taken seriously and that we reduce the chance of anything else happening.
I had been working on a blog entry to address the shootings in Arizona last weekend. I was having a hard time putting into words my thoughts on that one. When this all happened today it prompted me to action. So, what do we do about this as a society to rise above all of this? Do we censor media consumption by our youth? Video Games, TV, Movies, Music, etc...? To a degree, yes and no. Just like "guns don't kill people", this media doesn't make us bad. It's up to parents/adults to understand what our children are consuming and help them understand what it is they are consuming. We have to know what their limits are and hold them to it. It's up to us to set positive examples for them to follow. We have to rise above and show them how to contribute in a good way to society.
Wow.
I was told by my wife. Apparently the school was smart enough to call her instead of me to share this information. I had to step away from my work desk to collect myself. I went into my bedroom, logged onto Facebook (because that seems to be what I do to collect myself). I subscribe to Yahoo News and the first thing on my wall was the story that broke today about 3 students being shot at a High School in California. Wow, I really didn't need that.
I called the school. Spoke with the Guidance Councellor that handled the situation and was told that the other student had been disciplined. The Guidance Councellor wouldn't tell me the other boy's name or what the discipline was. I don't really understand why I couldn't be told what either of those were. I got the kid's name from my son (like I wasn't going to find out that information). As for the level of discipline, I feel as the parent of a child who was threatened I have the right to know what level of punishment was given to the offending child. If I disagree with the punishment I can then appeal to the School Administrators. I just want to make sure this is taken seriously and that we reduce the chance of anything else happening.
I had been working on a blog entry to address the shootings in Arizona last weekend. I was having a hard time putting into words my thoughts on that one. When this all happened today it prompted me to action. So, what do we do about this as a society to rise above all of this? Do we censor media consumption by our youth? Video Games, TV, Movies, Music, etc...? To a degree, yes and no. Just like "guns don't kill people", this media doesn't make us bad. It's up to parents/adults to understand what our children are consuming and help them understand what it is they are consuming. We have to know what their limits are and hold them to it. It's up to us to set positive examples for them to follow. We have to rise above and show them how to contribute in a good way to society.
Wow.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Been awhile
In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't... it's been awhile. Of course I'd like to think I've got a decent excuse. If you know me you know what I'm talking about. But I'm back. I've got a few topics in mind to write about so expect to see a few things from me in the coming weeks and months.
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