According to Christianity There is No Fate

Alright, the background behind this is I just got out of philosophy class, my professor's an idiot, got me real pissed off, but I started thinking about religion based on our argument of whether or not dog's have souls (that's right, there are college courses in which you debate whether or not dogs have souls. If there's anything more useless, I'd like to hear about it.)

Anywho, here's the argument (taken as assumed that the christian faith is correct, considering that that's an entirely other debate which no one can win until we die):

Regardless of whether you percieve that bible to be literal or figurative, we all admit that there are important lessons taught in the creation story. Before Adam and Eve ate the apples from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve could still think, they just weren't very intelligent. Also, before they ate the apples they lived within God's way, there was no sin (which, since is adherently not supposed to happen, it cannot be part of God's way).

And, once they ate of the tree, they gained what we consider the level of intelligence that seperates us from the animals. Through gaining this ability, they also gained the ability to sin, which is to go out of God's plan.

Thus, through our intelligence we gain the ability to live outside of God's plan, thus eliminating the possibility of fate. Hypothetically, animals (except for snakes) are the example of what it is to live in God's plan.

Also, this leads to the argument that God ecourages individuality and us forming our own way and living without a plan from God. Considering that animals are the example of what it is to live within God's plan, and all of the parts in the bible in which it is taught that, in God's eyes, we are more valuable than animals, God encourages us to live our own way without a specific plan from God.

Do not take this as an argument to avoid living within the teachings of the bible, since the bible is very clear that God also prefers certain actions over others on our behalf. This simply proves that God also encourages individuality over non-thinking following, but through intelligence and individuality live the teaching of the bible is the best way.

War on Drugs = War on America

If there's one thing that has been beaten into our skulls throughout the course of government it's that as long as there's a demand, there will be a supply.

Initially marijuana was outlawed because it would've made a cheaper paper, and yet the paper corporations had already invested a lot into trees (and would've been run out of business by start up hemp paper companies), so to save the corporations our government outlawed marijuana. They drummed up public support by spreading countless lies about the effects of weed (i.e. if you smoke it you will be driven incuribly insane, it will cause a straight A student to drop out of school and participate in gang bangs, etc.), and, to create a resemblance of consistancy they had to ban other drugs like cocaine and heroin.
And because of this nearly every problem in our nation was created or worsened. For one, it created gangs. Gangs were initially started to sell drugs, and that was it. Drugs are relatively cheap (on an open market heroin is cheaper than sugar), and yet they produce ridiculous profit margins on the street (right now an eighth of an ounce of good marijuana goes for $60). Since this market is entirely underground, the government has no ability to regulate it, and thus the battle for market share becomes violent, and the drugs become FAR more dangerous for the user. Then from that we also get drugs funding terrorism (since they need money and have no respect for our laws), we get corruption of our police force (what person making 50 grand a year will turn down millions and millions of dollars?), and other ways we are hurt is the government loses it's ability to educate the masses about drugs due to a complete lack of credibility (because to justify keeping drugs illegal they have to blow out of proportion what weed does, and thus also blow out of proportion what all other drugs do to keep it proportionate), and we end up losing thousands and thousands of jobs because of a market in which we would have comparative advantage over almost anywhere in the world (in Wyoming it actually grows AS a weed), thus killing one of our few major cash crops.
And there's more, this is just the tip of the ice berg. You think of a problem, and at least half the time you can connect the problem to having the War on Drugs as having a major contributing role.
Yet we keep it illegal because too many people are too lazy to actually get educated, and all of the politicians don't want to look like complete asses (Um, we wasted BILLIONS of dollars and fucked up the country in unimaginable ways, sorry!), and so instead we spend time talking about whether we should make inmates share beds instead of realizing that we're imprisoning too many people, and we should address the actual causes of crime instead of treating the symptoms.

Anti-smoking laws

There has never been a time more than now that I have been so glad to live in Iowa. I have been in Chicago, Seattle, and Orcas Island over the last two weeks, and have seen what stupid liberals who can't find an important issue to fuck with can do. They just prove to the world that they are the most inconsiderate little bastards to ever wander God's green earth.
Last night I was in a little bowling alley/bar and then a little diner on Irving Park in Chicago. At the diner there were maybe 3 or 4 people there, all smoking cigarettes, and same with the bowling alley. Sitting there, I couldn't stop thinking "They're banning smoking here. This is ridiculous."
Those fucking liberals never thought about that. They never thought that this would apply to the bars and resteraunts that they would never go to. When they passed this shit they were thinking about Bar Louie and Excallibur, they weren't thinking about Diner/Grill (dead seriously, the Diner's name). But if you pointed that out to them, they wouldn't give a shit.

Keep in mind, just because I point out that liberals do something, that doesn't mean conservatives don't.

Liberals just can't grasp the idea that people can disagree with them, it's simply lost on them. I've met people who honestly won't respect my religious views. Back when I supported the war (back when it could've gone well), I mentioned I was pro-war to someone, and got the response "Are you sick?" etc. you get the point.
The point is that those people are dickheads. There is a common sense line between holding a different opinion or make a different life choice and being an idiot, and liberals simply can't grasp that. They think "Smoking's bad, and I don't like being around it, so we should ban it", as opposed to thinking "Smoking's bad, and I don't like being around it, so I'll frequent a bar that doesn't allow it, thus making it profitable to voluntarily ban smoking in bars."

I heard a good solution to this problem though, but, of course, the liberals are far too concieted to let this shit go.

In Ireland they banned smoking in bars a while ago. What the bars there did was create outside smoking areas that protect you from the weather (canopies, space heaters, fans, etc.) where you can take your drink and have a cigarette. This I have no problem with. I think it's a reasonable thing to request that we don't smoke around you. It is NOT reasonable to be a dick about it (like in Washington they have aspects to the smoking ban that makes it so you CAN'T stand under the canopies, cause they're all too close to the entrance).

There's a deeper problem though. I realized this while talking to my mom about smoking bans, and eventually we got to the discussion about me tossing my cigarette butts on the ground. I told her that it wouldn't happen so much if we were provided with regular ashtrays to put our cigarette butts in, to which my mom responded "Why should we provide you with ashtrays?" This is where I lost my mind.
"WE? WE? Are you forgetting that I pay taxes too? Are you forgetting that, because of your stupid laws you get far more use out of the public buildings that we can't be in for more than an hour or two at a time, despite the fact that WE pay for at LEAST a quarter of the fucking thing? We are fucking citizens and fucking tax payers too! You're not some benevolent force that allows us to fucking smoke, you're a majority that obviously is so fucking self absorbed that you actually think you're saving the minority from itself, and that's it. You're a bunch of whining children who need governmental recognition that you've made the right life choice, and simply won't leave us alone until we don't inconvinience you in slightest (regardless of how much you fucking inconvinience us!)"
Don't worry, that's how my mom and I speak to each other about politics.
The point is there. They don't consider us equals. They consider the rights of a smoker to be a laughable concept. I remember on the daily show they were mocking a guy for standing up for smokers' rights (the guy was a douchebag, so the sketch was funny, but nevertheless). If you're one of these people, I'd seriously reccomend you check your conscience and stop being such an inconsiderate prick.

liberals, oh how you piss me off!

Right now I am out in Washington state, a place where liberals have gotten all of their little stupid anti-smoker agendas passed, and thus I have constant reminders of how much liberals piss me off.
Last night I went to this little shithole pub that is frequented namely by drug dealers and lowlifes of sorts. It smelled of stale beer and piss, and everyone around me looked depresssed as hell, and I figured this was a perfect example of the pointless nature of anti-smoking legislation. Here we were in a place where the bartender clearly didn't give a shit about much, nor any of the people frequenting it, since clearly if they did give a shit they wouldn't be there, and yet no one was allowed to have a cigarette. Why? Because a bunch of whiney fucking liberals who would never in their lives go into this pub decided that they shouldn't be allowed to.
My mom is a liberal, and so I have a general idea behind why these people do stupid shit like this. Apparently it's based off well intentioned feelings, but added to an extreme amount of egotism. It's these people who think they're better than us and want to save us from ourselves. Fuck off.
If they wanted to be actually productive, as opposed to just being dicks, they'd be frequenting bars that didn't allow smoking, to show business owners that it's profitable to provide bars like that. It would be extremely successful too, because most non-smokers enjoy bars without cigarette smoke, and this way we could have de facto segregation between the smokers and non-smokers, instead of just trying to force us all to be non-smokers.
Plus let's not forget the hypocricy behind all of this telling everyone how to live shit. The people who are behind this shit are the exact same people who will drop a fucking nut with rage if kids sing "here comes Santa Clause" in their public school class, and run through the streets screaming "Religious oppression". I am all fine when it comes to people wanting to be left alone, but you can't claim justifiably to be overly told how to live as you tell other people how to live.

The fact of the matter is the word "liberal" is slowly becoming synonymous with "facist".