What is going on?!?!?

What has happened to our society? This world was once based on morals and honor, what happened to that? At one point in our history a man's word was enough now you can't trust in that without including binding legal papers. I realize that not all people are amoral but it seems that it is becoming a trend, a thought that I find frightening. I believe that people are basically good although they can be influenced to do things are aren't good but it seems that the masses are headed for an amoral and evil place that I don't want to go. Shouldn't the world be a good place. Shouldn't every one want to make themselves better? What happened to the drive to do something good for the world, to have a positive effect on the global community? There was a time when the general populace cared about morality, many things that are taken as normal now where considered something that no upstanding citizen would do. Yes, the average person is generally good but what about our society, shouldn't it be good too?

I got an OpenID

Here's the link to my OpenID profile page. An OpenID is a system that makes is possible for you to have an account with various companies and if one of those companies goes out of buisiness or the service becomes unavaliable your account will not be deleted and you only have to remember one ID and one password. Cool, huh?

So if you want more information just click here and you will be redirected to the offical OpenID information site.

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"Behold, the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted.

"Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last day; yea, neither shall they be harrowed up by the whirlwinds; but when the storm cometh they shall be gathered together in their place, that the storm cannot penetrate to them; yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds whithersoever the enemy listeth to carry them.

"But behold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, and they are his; and he will raise them up at the last day."

-Alma 26:5-7

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The Renaissance

If I could visit any time in history what would it be?

There are so many important events that have occurred in the long history of our world that it is difficult to decide on a single event that I would like to be present at. The difficulty of this choice comes from the fact that only one event can be visited, where it possible I would visit hundreds of times and places to experience history first hand. Despite these possibilities there is one event that I would like to see most dearly and it is the Renaissance, a great period of awakening and art. The Renaissance was a time where the great musical composers and artist where creating their art: Michaelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel and Leonardo da Vinci was exploring the many facets of his genius, and many other talented people where developing their various talents and becoming Renaissance men and women.

People became aware of the individual and began to see its importance. In America we take this for granted, its part of our culture, we respect the individual, but before the Renaissance the individual was not as important as society as a whole, the individual could suffer as long as society as a whole prospered. Not only that it was not allowed for people to have new ideas, the doctrines of the Catholic Church went unchanged for thousands of years. Before the Renaissance people who had new ideas where called heretics, now they are considered enlightened or intelligent. Had it not been for the Renaissance we would not hold this view and the world as we know it would not exist.

The Renaissance was an extremely important era in our history, without it the world would be a sad, sad place filled only with church endorsed art with little creativity, essentially limited to what stained glass art would have evolved into.

Myspace

Myspace has over one million users and more people get one every day, but why? Why is everyone on Myspace? Why do so many people get addicted to this site? Seriously, I don't know. But I would like to take some time to analyze this conundrum and present a few possible reasons.

First of all I think that Myspace became popular because of social pressure. A few people got it and liked it so they invited all their friends to join. Their friends joined because they got invited, and they used it because everyone else did, eventually over a million people joined myspace.

Myspace is also the most user-friendly of the social networking sites on the web. Your profile is very easy to change and what you can do with it is very flexible. Although technically speaking the profile structure isn't the most efficient, practically speaking it is the best because it is so easy to change how your profile looks and people like that. Speaking of practicality I would like to look at a few other social networking sites I've tired.

Facebook - On a scale of one to ten I would give Facebook a one on customiziblity. Basically all you can do is add, remove, and move modules that contain 'apps' for Facebook. Although it does havc some cool apps Facebook isn't as flexible as I would like, not by a long shot.

Tagged - Tagged is designed very similarly to Facebook, but more relaxed. On Tagged you can change your theme and include third-party code in your profile but the code cannot change the theme. Themes are selected from a list built by the company, not by users who know what they want or what someone else wants.

Why do people get addicted to Myspace? Who knows, maybe its the way you can talk with your friends or maybe they just like it. This question will probably never be answered...oh, well.

Dreams

Dream noun; verb /drim/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dreem]: A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.

I once had a dream that I was a soldier, fully armed with automatic weapons and all other necessary tools for war. I had a team with me and we where infiltrating a compound, I didn't know why but I was doing it. Suddenly I was in a battle field and I was fighting another group of soldiers, not in any sort of smart way, however, both groups of soldiers, mine and the other one, where running around each other firing shots and hoping the enemy would die before we did. Eventually I got a good shot in and I began mowing down the leader of he enemy soldiers (this is the interesting part of the dream) but as my bullets bored into him and he fell upon the ground I became him and I saw myself shooting bullets into the body I now inhabited.

I find this dream interesting because it could be interpreted in various ways but I have thought about it and I will share the interpretation I like best.

When I being shooting the enemy leader I am hurting someone (obviously) but as they fall I become that person, meaning, I believe, that when, or if, I hurt someone it will result in the pain I inflicted on that person causing hurt to me.