Progressively Traditional

Progressively traditional is a name I coined for someone (such as myself), who holds traditional views about things, but also holds progressive (liberal like) views. In other words, its a more appealing name for "moderate".

I am a firm believer in moderation...the in between. If that were an actual political party, that would be the party for me (but you have two types of independents, left of center, and right of center).

But progressively traditional thinking goes beyond politics, its more of a way of life. For example, the progressively traditional mother/wife believes that a woman can have a job and help support the family (and even make the most) but at the same time, the wife should tend to her household duties such as cooking dinner and taking care of the kids and the household chores.

Some though have a view slightly different such as whomever has the most time or is at home most should take on some of those chores. Different families have different ideas.

But this philosophy is rooted in the fact that many working moms today are not taking care of the household, and the husband isn't either, so you end up with kids who are addicted to video games, internet, fast food, and many other things because no one is regulating it, in fact, parents are encouraging it because it can serve as a babysitter.

Progressively traditional also means that in matters of love, women are often traditional....the man should ask girl out, propose, etc.

But the progressive part in this is that women should pay if SHE initiated a date instead of him...(something she should NOT do until they are girlfriend and boyfriend).

Another belief is no premarital sex. Yet, you can kiss, hold hands, and maybe even do kinky things as long as the pants stay on.

Another view is abortion. Abortion is okay only in matters of rape, incest, and medical reasons (such as the life of the mother). Yet if you consensually have sex, take responsibility.

Progressively traditional is the best way in the end because its not extreme in either end. It makes a balance and is actually a pretty reasonable way of living.

James Bond

I am not a fan of James Bond, I do not have the attention span to watch those movies, although I have seen bits and pieces.

The hottest James Bond in my opinion was Pierce Brosnan.

but the best James Bond will always be Sean Connery...he is the original.

Why religion in school is impossible.

There are some religious freaks out there (you know those who believe in forcing others to do their religion) that believe in bringing God back in to school. Their whole "notion" is school went downhill when it was taken out. School did go downhill, but not due to religion, its due to lack of responsibility of the parents, and the gov't making it harder for teachers to teach and to actually punish immature disturbances you call naughty children. When spanking was taken out and replaced with a 2 hour detention, people realized they could get away with so much more cause the punishment wasn't horrible (at least for the repeat offender).

I am not an atheist, in fact I despise Atheists because they are hypocrites who do the same crap as Christians that they claim they hate Christians doing to them.

But why is it impossible to bring religion back into public school?

1. Different religions. So because chrisitianity is the majority religion, they have the right to trump the religions of others? Ask yourself this, if another religion or atheism ever became the majority, would you, the Christian, subscribe to having your religion trumped by them because you are in the minority? If not, then why do it to others? Your religion is no more wrong or right than anyone elses. You claim yours is right, so do they. So how will you accomodate for other religions? What about the Westboro Baptist Church (the pinnicle of what many Christians in reality have become these days, especially the conservative ones)? Would you be okay with them coming to YOUR schools? Because if you allow Christians to talk with your school, by law, you would have to let any religion come to your school otherwise you would be discriminating.

2. What about different Christian beliefs? There is a reason you will see different types of private Christian schools and Catholic schools. Its because people subscribe to different types of denominations. In a public school setting, your not just facing different religous beliefs as a whole, but different religious beliefs within the same Christian sector. So how do you stay unbiased? There are liberal (aka Democratic) Christians and then you have your hated conservative (Republican) Christians (the ones I find to be the most unchristianly of all), how will you do the religion and prayer just right to fit the standards of all religions?

3. Why should one be FORCED to pray? How is pushing a religion someone going to make them more religious? It actually made me turn away when I was younger...I do not like being forced to adhere to things. So is it really worth pushing more to become agnostic or worse, atheist?

In the end, there are more problems than there are solutions to how to deal with bring religion and prayer back into schools. Remember these schools are no longer segregated by race to the point that you could get away with these kind of things back then.

If you so badly want religion taught to your child, why don't you pay for them to go to private school? Tax dollars should not be wasted on trumping others relgious beliefs in school.

The Great Depression is why....

Often people bad mouth things like welfare, food stamps, any form of gov't aid even financial aid for school. They talk about the thousands that abuse or take advantage of these programs...an amount that surely is in the minority but only made to appear worse than it is by the media.

They feel these kind of Gov't involvings is wrong.

Well blame the Great Depression, it changed everything.

Did you know back in the 1800s, the federal Gov't got involved only very little back then, when a financial crisis occurred, there was no aid of any sort to get them out. There was no expectation from the people to get them out.

But when the Great Depression happened, Gov't had no choice but to get them out, some way or somehow. They could have just kept doing things the old way but they decided to get involved, why? because it would have been cruel not to. Things would have gotten even worse had they not.

But the costly part of this is that it left the lasting effects of people expecting the gov't to fix all problems...it has caused our society to shirk personal responsibilities...the same people that grump about gov't aid are the same people that expect the gov't to solve all these financial solutions.

Should we go back to pre Great Depression ways? Or keep with them? History always repeats itself...the only way to prevent that is to figure out exactly all the things that played a role in the problem.

2 Work philosophies of mine

1. Why do it later when you can get it done now?
2. As long as you get it done on time, what does it matter if you do it later?

Both philosophies work pending on the situation. Sometimes its just easier to hold things off til a little later. But with that comes the fact that you will be thinking about how much you don't want to work on that assignment in the time that you are not working on it.

As much as we dread doing something when we don't want to do it, we must remember that eventually we have to do it, and pushing everything back only means more later.

Case in point: You just ate macaroni, now your bowl is dirty, you can put it in the sink and let it stay dirty and just get to it on another day. Lets say its finally Sunday, you look in the sink and realize you have lots of dishes to clean now because you had let it all pile up. Now if you had washed your dish when you finished then by Sunday you may have very little to none to have to clean.

But when you do decide to procrastinate til later, the problem isn't just thinking about it when your not doing it, but the problem that you may have even more to do later...so its best to be strategic about what stuff you put off til later and what stuff you do not.

The tricky thing about history

History can be tricky. To most history is just remembering dates and taking a class required for the sake of being required. If you asked, most would say history is not important, at least not important enough to need to take a class over it. If you asked most, many would say they don't care for history at all. Most will say its boring and useless.

But there is a problem with history. One that most of us may not notice. Its a conundrum.

The conundrum that if you teach history, it only breeds more hatred because you just planted an idea in their head. Having to learn history may keep certain issues alive. But if you do not teach history you then run the risk of repeating it and that could be much worse than before.

History is a tricky subject not just because you are trying to find answers where there is no one alive to tell you them, on top of the fact that you may just never know what really happened because you were not there.

History is exactly what they say..."his story" in other words, history simply is "he said she said" it all comes down to trying to figure out the facts followed by the opinions of those who were there, the hard part is that one may only have those opinions to go on.

But history is troubling in the fact that one is damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Some people refuse to be pleased

There will be many people in your life that are going to always find a problem with you just for the sake of bitching and giving you a hard time. In most cases you will be outnumbered. The problem is what do you do? There is only one answer to most social situations in life and thats do you and you only, just be you. worry about yourself and focus on yourself.

That is all you can really do in life. The want and/or need to be accepted is enough to keep some people cowering down afraid to be themselves because of the fear of being rejected. But if you accept being alone or accept that you will not be accepted by them or others, then being you is much more easier.