It's not often that we find governments anywhere trying to mimic the actions of Nazi Germany, but recently a "High Government Official in Europe" had the nerve to compare the Dutch government to the Nazi's.
Did you think that abortion had a weak case? Well, child euthanasia seems to be the next step and it's becoming legal in the Netherlands. Basically what is happening is that they are providing a service to have deformed or retarded babies "compassionately" killed. How can you "compassionately" kill a baby!? But no matter how disgusting I think this is, I can't help but shake my head and admit that it's where our entire society is heading isn't it?
How can you make a decision to give a man the death penalty? How can you decide to kill your unborn (or now completely born) baby? It seems like people are trying to assign value to people as if they are just another investment. Is this person worth keeping around? How will their existence benefit (or harm) me? I'm not sure this kind of black and white analytic perspective is the way to go people...
First of all, I sort of want to know how everyone else feels about this because my head is so full of thoughts that I'd hate to bore you with it all here (we'll do that in the comment thread, haha.) But I would like to propose a thought. I will always say that I stand for life and life to the fullest, but if I start saying that being "alive" is the same as having "life" as a blanket statement, it seems like I would be making the issue just as black and white as the people I accused of assigning "value to a [persons]" life.
Have we ever considered that simply being alive isn't at all the same as having life? I stand for life, but more specifically, the life that Jesus brought when he saved me. If I started saying that physical life on this earth is the only life that mattered, I would feel like I was devaluing everything that the martyrs did. Wasn't the life that Jesus brought so much more than just being alive on this earth? I think we need to realize that being alive, and the life that Jesus brought are two very different things, and I will only stand for one of those if it comes down to choosing.
2006/04/11
2006/04/04
Less wrong, more right
I read this article a while ago and I laughed. It's funny how we can become so sure of something but time and time again, science "proves itself wrong". Well... not really wrong, just not as right. Anyways, it's an interesting read if you care about our current state of global warming.
a Notepad... yeah, one of those
I've decided that I have about a million thoughts a day to be sharing with my wonderful audience in this exciting world of 0's and 1's... but I swear I'm cursed or something! I keep forgetting what I had so masterfully formulated in my noggin to post. So maybe I should get a notepad? hehehe, someone give me a note pad for my... umm... belated 21st and 1/4 birthday? ya, hehe that's it.
Anyways, I have started my new quarter now friends and I was quite excited to turn over a new leaf with my new classes... until... I checked my transcripts from last quarter!!! ewwww....
Ok, it wasn't that bad. It's not like I failed anything but I did get a C+, and that's not very usual Delbert style at all. So I'll have you all know that I'm almost completely proficient in convincing myself of pretty much anything that I really want to. Whether that means I'm in fact the world's leading jelly bean chef (no one has yet to challenge me!) or that grades aren't really as big of a deal as I think they are because, when I get my technologist certification it's all the same. Well, I guess friends have been taking more of an importance on my give-a-damn scale and school has been sinking quickly.
Until this point in the blogging process I wasn't really sure why I was talking about this, but I think I've even outsmarted myself this time! I think that the mighty Delbert who is capable of unknowingly outwitting himself needs other people that aren't influenced by his intellectual prowess to clear up this fallacy (or fact?) Where should school fall on my give-a-damn scale? Because relationships and community have deffinitely been consuming some of my attention lately... that doesn't sound so bad? Fellowship and community are very important to me... hmm.
Anyways, I have started my new quarter now friends and I was quite excited to turn over a new leaf with my new classes... until... I checked my transcripts from last quarter!!! ewwww....Ok, it wasn't that bad. It's not like I failed anything but I did get a C+, and that's not very usual Delbert style at all. So I'll have you all know that I'm almost completely proficient in convincing myself of pretty much anything that I really want to. Whether that means I'm in fact the world's leading jelly bean chef (no one has yet to challenge me!) or that grades aren't really as big of a deal as I think they are because, when I get my technologist certification it's all the same. Well, I guess friends have been taking more of an importance on my give-a-damn scale and school has been sinking quickly.
Until this point in the blogging process I wasn't really sure why I was talking about this, but I think I've even outsmarted myself this time! I think that the mighty Delbert who is capable of unknowingly outwitting himself needs other people that aren't influenced by his intellectual prowess to clear up this fallacy (or fact?) Where should school fall on my give-a-damn scale? Because relationships and community have deffinitely been consuming some of my attention lately... that doesn't sound so bad? Fellowship and community are very important to me... hmm.
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