HEY YOU, YEAH, YOU.....RECYCLE! See? This guy did and he looks friggin awesome! If not slightly awkward.

Just something simple today: Chase the end of a rainbow at least once in your life. You'll see why when you get there. "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

A source of problems

What is the value? A question that is answered by another: What is valued?

I was thinking earlier about the music industries current conflict with piracy. I, myself, use iTunes to "share" music and I was wondering why I felt zero guilt getting free music. Then I recalled the price of CD's. Sure I could listen to the radio, but in this area the stations play either rap or country or gospel. I like some of the genres, but not all the time nor as a personal preference. So, I use the internet to feed the inner-indie. Sure I could sign up for one of the music dealers (i.e. buy one get twelve free). However, that still requires the money I need for advanced education. Yet another value question. Why is tuition shooting for the moon?

Answered by the word for today: GREED. Prices climb so profits can climb. Why do you think they call them piggy banks? What can be done for this? Sure there could be a law that profits cannot exceed a certain percent or a tax specifically for cutting down on profits. That won't work.

Consider this: The degree of a companies or a countries greed can be measured by its product's affordability. Now, do you want to support something that has more concern for profits than its customers? There is the solution.

Don't supply the greedy, demand reasonabilty!!

Love makes the World go round.

Correction on the last post, the Pope was not, I repeat NOT, quoting from the Bible. My mistake. Here's what happened: A wave of protest erupted among Muslims across the globe after the pope last week implicitly linked Islam to violence and quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman". Thank you Herald Sun. I am neutral. Well, I'm Buddhist, I want everyone to get along and tolerate others.

When you here whining, from yourself or others, just remember Job. The man who the entire cosmos picked on. If you ever get to read Job: A Comedy of Justice, Heinlien, wait until the end and you'll see the true religon that rules us is love. Is that not the sweetest thing you have ever heard?

I bet that if all could agree on that we would solve many of this planet's problems.

Well, I tried to make the blog all fancy smchmacy, but that didn't work. It looked nice, but none of the links worked, nor could anyone comment. Well, I don't think anyone tried.

Anyway in the news: A whole hell of a lot of indifference. After admitting that Biblical text said that Islam was evil, the Pope made a public apology to the Muslim community. Saying that it wasn't his personal opinion and that he was "deeply sorry." Once again proving the old saying from Bambi "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all." Christianity and Islam are almost the same religon. If you take out specific names and dates, its the same teachings and moral values. I highly recommend that you read Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito.

Then there are the people who really care and are working to make the world a better place. Check out these subways. Thanks to coolhunter.