I may not agree with what you're saying.....

A couple of reasons I want to defend free speech: 1. Saw an enlightening documentary on the plight of the citizens and press in Burma. read more here: http://loinsbongo.blog.co.uk/2009/04/17/burma-vj-taking-liberties-ian-tomlinson-g20-5963351/

2. My school district decided to interpret a STATE OF TEXAS freedom of speech LAW in a very restrictive way that is illegal.  So now what, I sue? Don't have that much money and clout nor inscensed enough to spend the money I do have on it. But I can confront the school district's board and point out parts of the law they decided to squash.   Will be meeting again this week.  When defining why this was important, I could go way back to childhood in the 60's, or better, women's rights.  Problem I have is that I want 1st amendment expression freedoms, but to a point.  Can someone stand on top of a builiding with loud speaker to speak his mind....well, yes, but please not nude, be between 8 am and 10 pm, etc.  Goes back to "Must have rules inorder to have equal freedoms".


from http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?item=about_firstamd
..."Most people believe in the right to free speech, but debate whether it should cover flag-burning, hard-core rap and heavy-metal lyrics, tobacco advertising, hate speech, pornography, nude dancing, solicitation and various forms of symbolic speech. Many would agree to limiting some forms of free expression, as seen in the First Amendment Center's State of the First Amendment survey reports.


Most people, at some level, recognize the necessity of religious liberty and toleration, but some balk when a religious tenet of a minority religion conflicts with a generally applicable law or with their own religious faith. Many Americans see the need to separate the state from the church to some extent, but decry the banning of school-sponsored prayer from public schools and the removal of the Ten Commandments from public buildings.

Further, courts wrestle daily with First Amendment controversies and constitutional clashes, as evidenced by the free-press vs. fair-trial debate and the dilemma of First Amendment liberty principles vs. the equality values of the 14th Amendment.

Such difficulties are the price of freedom of speech and religion in a tolerant, open society."

Stop Consuming

I dare you...I DARE ME....STOP consuming. Not air, water, basic food, simple shelter, YOU know what I mean. Try 1 day. I did. I like lots of really clean water, hot water, love being able to go to a doctor or dentist for anything easily, really care for air conditioning, heat, t.v., radio, easy transportation, eating out, . I like each of our kids having a room, ....
What if I just stopped. First, had a difficult time just not spending money. already have most all resources paid monthly, and most all draw from our bank account. So at first I limited my goal to just cash out of pocket. Being a Dave Ramsey fan and before just used common sense, we've never have alot we pay for with cash. Mostly food and kid stuff.


I want to jump off the rat race
http://www.simondale.net/house/family.htm


"The time is now to make changes in our lifestyles and consumption. "

Live YOUR life

June 13, 2010
How to Live: Follow Your Heart, Risk Be Damned
Ben Stein Says Happiness Comes to Those Who Pursue Careers That Define Their Passions
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Ben Stein says to those about to embark on a career: Listen to your heart, not others'.  (CBS)
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(CBS)  As the college class of 2010 heads out into the world, take a moment to hear the advice of our contributor Ben Stein:


It is graduation time for you young people. That means time to make some decisions and take some action about your lives. I would like to offer you some deep thoughts at this season.

A few days ago, I asked my shrink, a super-smart guy, how he would generally divide up the people who were happy in life from those who were not.

He answered like a shot.

The unhappy ones, he said, are people who let their parents or their family talk them into doing something for a career that wasn't really them. They are people who wanted to be writers or performers, and decided instead to take the cautious route and go to accountancy school or law school or dental school.

Now, he said, they are well into their middle age and they make a decent living, but they just don't like what they do.

What they do, you might say, is not them. It is not who they are or who they wanted to be. It's too late for most of them to try to change, and they haven't built up a lifetime of experience and contacts in the field they want to be in.

So, he said, "they just come in to my office and complain."

"And what about the happy ones?" I asked him. "What did they do?"

My shrink answered that, again, like a shot.

"They made a decision to live," he said, and those were his exact words.

They decided to do what their hearts told them to do, to do what was in them to do. They took risks and they took chances, and they tried a lot of different things until they got to where they wanted to be.

This very often means working incredibly hard and living on the edge. But it gets you to where you can look back on your life and say it wasn't wasted.

I left the doctor's office with my brain on fire. His advice is spectacular.

Unless you are born rich - or even if you are - you have to earn your keep, that is for sure. But to decide to live - that makes a lot of difference in this difficult world.

That's it. Choose to live a life you want to live, not one that's safe or what someone else thinks you should do.

Decide to live.

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Interpretations of modern day life

My moms "I'm bored" meant Radio, jump rope and games. My bored was 3 black/white channels, dirt bikes, military pools. My children's bored is ... Well you know. "there's nothing to eat/wear" has gone from literally nothing to peanut butter and spam to 2 freezers and a stocked pantry of premade food. Count your blessing and quit being whineybabies.

REVOLT, REVOLUtion, R -love - UTION

Revolution. Stop being your old self. Invest in your future, don't gamble. Choose love, choose to have right thinking with no worry, anxiety. Keep out the thinking that destroys: jealousy petty things, thinking that I can figure it out, boasting, run the show.
I want peace freedom. Love lack of jealousy. Put off your old self, put on new nature of God. Ephesians 4:22-24

Connect.

Connection. Want some more, always have. Need more, but too fast too much for many. And am confused why, when put in a place where strangers great each other like long-time friends, I feel they are invading my space. "Outliers" did study of a small town finding that connections in community was the secret fountain of youth. I want to move there, be loved and accepted no matter if they know the real me.

Other Life Probable

Why I believe there is intelligent life outside our solar system:
Eyewitness accounts from solid sources, like police, EMS types. Next is the probablity of it being true. There is a God that created the universe, created us on this planet and created billions and billions of other planets (reference Carl Segan). From universetoday.com the " Milky Way galaxy seems to contain about 200 billion stars; ...galaxies, on average have between 100 billion and 1 trillion numbers of stars. Now, how many galaxies are there? Astronomers estimate that there are approximately 100 billion to 1 trillion galaxies in the Universe. So if you multiply those two numbers together, you get between 10 to the 22nd power and 10 to the 24th power stars in the Universe. How many stars? There are between 10 sextillion and 1 septillion stars in the Universe." 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, then how many planets? Just because we can only see with our eye 5000-10000 plus the glow of other galaxies doesn't mean they don't exsist. Have faith - believe in what you can't see. When an expert tells me so, or a prophet, I can and do have some doubt, usually mull around to see if UNPROVABLE, then put stock in their opinion. Other life out there? Highly probable. Help listen: support SETI and the Allen Telescope Array (hundreds of parabolic antennas are interconnected, the most powerful and advanced radio telescope yet dedicated to searching for life on other planets.)