Things I Can't Stand. Pet Peeves.

There are things in life that we can't stand.  I'm going to go through a list of things I can't stand and tell you why.

- Religion.  I have to say this up front.  While I do believe in a higher power, not everyone believes in the same God you do.  Not everyone has the same belief system you do.  Much of it has to do with the knowledge we posses.  My belief, Religion SHOULD NOT BE TAUGHT, it should be LEARNED.  With that said, Religious folk are often the first to point the finger when someone gets into trouble.  What ever happened to love thy neighbor, love thy enemy.  Pointing the finger and cursing them isn't doing that.  Often times people point the finger because they are just as guilty of something equally bad.  When people learned to walk the walk, I'll follow a religion.

- Women that think they can change a man.  Women often times try to make a man do something he doesn't want to do.  For example, if you tried to make me quit playing video games, I'd get pissed off and probably ditch you for another girl.  There are just some things you just don't do.  If you are in love, you're in love with all of them, not parts of them.  Get used to it.  They aren't the person you fell in love with if you change them.

- Women that get pissed off when a guy looks at another woman.  Yep, that pisses me off too.  Truth be known, women look at other men too.  When you're out with your friends on the beach checking out the guy with the six pack abs, keep that in mind.  People are going to look at other people, and it pisses me off when women get upset about, especially when they do the exact same thing.

- Men that only care about one thing.  Getting in a girls pants.  Yes men aren't excluded from this list.  If all you really care about is getting into a girls pants and not settling down, maybe you should go jump off a cliff.  You are a disgrace to humanity.  You give men a bad name.  Come on guys, be a little realistic here.

- People who don't recycle.  This pisses me off too.  We're running out of Oil and have plenty of renewable resources, yet, we aren't even making an effort to reduce the amount of those renewable resources we need.  Try recycling for a change, it would to the world good.  The Germans are way ahead of you on that one.  If you went to Germany and through away a can that could be recycled, someone would probably get onto you about that.  The Germans are big on recycling.

- Idiotic Thinking.  Yeah, I'm guilty of this, but at least I admit when I'm wrong.  Contrary to popular belief, you're not always right.  Truth be known, we're probably wrong more often than we're right.  If we were right more often than wrong, the world wouldn't be as messed up as it is.  It's time to get off our one track mind way of thinking and start using our brains a little.  This is one reason why I want to travel the world and experience different cultures.  Seeing how others think is a great way to grow and experience life the way it was meant to be.

- Haters.  I can't stand people that have nothing to do than to hate on other people.  It's quite common on Youtube.  I see it all the time, such comments like: "You should go kill yourself," "You should jump off a cliff," "This is so f*d up."  You get the idea.  I've go some news for all those haters.  If you're hating on a video, you're only increasing the comment count.  If you don't like a particular band, then why do you keep watching the videos just so you can comment on them?  If I don't like a band, I simply don't listen to them.  That's the best way to get your message across.  Don't like something?  Stop using the product.  Letters and comments have very little effect, contrary to popular belief.

Well, you know a little bit about what annoys me.  How do people manage to deal with these pet peeves?  I honestly believe that we don't really get over them.  We learn to be more tolerable of them.  If weren't that tolerable, Science wouldn't have come as far as it has.  We wouldn't be where we're at today, but is that a bad thing?

The Stupidity of People - B.C.E. vs B.C.

Here we go again.  It's stupidity at it's finest.  Can you believe that people are still arguing over whether or not we should use B.C.E. which is now commonly excepted, or B.C. which is fading out?

Here's the deal.  Christians are arguing that B.C. should be used instead of B.C.E.  What is their argument though?  I've seen very little evidence even supporting a good reason why we should.  The thing is, Christians think that they are the right religion.  The chosen religion.  When Jesus himself specifically stated that God will choose from the twelve tribes.  Or something like that.  I can't even remember who said it, but it's in there.

What are the twelve tribes?  Many people argue that they are the twelve tribes of Jesus.  The twelve disciples that have set up their own churches.  But, if you remember correctly, Judas betrayed Jesus.  Can we really count someone who betrayed Jesus as having a church?  If I'm not mistaken, the churches were started after Jesus died.  Therefor, we can't count the original twelve disciples as the twelve tribes.  Bit of a contradiction there isn't it?  But, this post isn't about the bible, or Jesus for that matter.  It's more about the closed mindedness of the Christian people.

Why all the fuss over a simple terminology? Personally, if you ask me, Christians don't rule the world, contrary to popular belief.  Christians don't have the right religion.  If they did, then everyone would see eye to eye.

In my personal opinion, I think that we should be using B.C.E. instead of B.C. simply because of the fact that we aren't all Christians.  The thing is, they still basically mean the same thing.  It's a time period before Christ.  B.C.E. merely means, Before the Common Era.

Some people act like the word Era is a bad thing.  All Era means is a fixed point in which a series of years is beckoned.  For example, all through out history, people often use the word to describe a part of history.  The Napoleonic Era is a period in the History of France and Europe. It is generally classified as the fourth stage of the French Revolution. (Taken from Wikipedia.)


So, instead of arguing over whether or not, we should use a this word instead of this word.  Would that energy be better spent being more productive?  Life is too short to not be productive.  We could be spending that energy towards becoming less and less dependent on Oil for example.