In the world we live in, society labels people as insane or sane and the more insane you are, the farther away you are from reality. But what if the insane are the only ones that really are in reality, and us, the majority, are out of reality.
Food for thought.
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If you have never played World of Warcraft (mostly known as WoW to its players), you have most likely heard about it. And the chances are that you might know someone that plays WoW because this game has over 11 million players, according to Blizzard in 2008, and the numbers keep growing.
Researcher Nick Yee has used online surveys to poll World of Warcraft players about themselves and their characters. In his 2005 poll, he found that 84% of the players were male, 16% female and the average age was 28. His 2005 studies also showed that regardless of gender, players spent 21-22 hours a week playing World of Warcraft.
Right now, you might be thinking to yourself, “What the hell are those people thinking?!” and you might be right, but you just might want to hear their side of the story.
In the real world, you can be an average accountant working all day in a cubicle in a boring gray office. But when you get home, you can enter the world of Azeroth (where WoW takes place) and take on mighty monsters and corrupt humanoids on your Paladin, a warrior with the power of the Light (similar to “God”). Or maybe you chose to be a priest, to stay outside of the physical fight to heal and resurrect your allies. And in World of Warcraft, your not restricted to being a human. You can choose to be a honorable Draenei, large blue people, with hooves from an other planet, or you could be a Blood Elf, a magic addicted race with evil plans. Maybe this is why World of Warcraft is such an addicting game, because it gives you the choice to be whoever you want to be.
Also, World of Warcraft is home to a thriving community of players. Each player can talk in a chat of a local area, or join groups with others to quest and help each other. The player also has the option to join a Guild, which is a permanent group of players which play together and get their own designated chat. Guild members often become close after spending those 21-22 hours a week with each other. It’s also not rare for relationships in-game, to continue outside of WoW. Also, celebrities are even endorsing World of Warcraft. Commericals can be seen with Mr. T, William Shatner, Ozzy Osbourne and other famous icons.
So, now that you know about the game, and it’s cultural impact, lets look into the addiction associated with this game.
If you search YouTube, you can easily find many videos like this one about kids, and adults, addicted to this game, and even sometimes, taking there life over it.
Also, some estimates in the psychological field say that anywhere from 10%-40% of the players of WoW are addicted. This would mean nearly 930,000 to 3,720,000 are addicted to this single game.
These addicts often lose loved ones, become anti-social, and have the inability to walk away from this highly controversial game. You can here stories like this from the website WoW Detox, a website dedicated to getting people over their WoW addiction.
So, is this game that has caused so much controversy just a cultural migration into the digital age, or a seroius problem with addictions.
You decide, leave a comment.
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The feeling, that is right in the center of your heart. It cries out every so often, just to remind you that it’s there. It’s a sense of emptiness, a missing piece of wholeness. You can’t quite find out more about it, other than your absolutely sure it’s there.
Some people say you can get rid of this feeling by finding God, and his son Jesus Christ, but it doesn’t fill the hole, it just puts on a facade, that makes you seem happy and cheery, but there is still one thing missing, one thing you cannot find.
Some people say volunteering will help this feeling, but it’s just a temporary cure for this chronic disease.
Some people say following your dreams will rid this dreadful sense of incompleteness, but it won’t. It will just deepen the hole, when you jump for your dreams, and find yourself falling to the ground, pushed down by the others.
But the only true way to get rid of this feeling, this sense, this disease, is to realize that it is not there. Because it isn’t, this feeling is just a reason to look for more, to desire more, to need more, when truly, you need nothing more.
Chances are, you know somebody that just seems to always be sad, gloomy, or even angry. It may seem to you that they don’t want to be part of something, and they want to be left alone, but your wrong. They don’t want to be sad, gloomy or angry, those are by products of loneliness. They really want to say they are part of a group, kin, or family. They want to go out to the movies with friends, and they want to have “inside jokes”. But they never get the chance, because no one ever gives it to them.
And if you have given a lonely person a chance, understand that they might not know how to react to that chance. It’s like a man, coming out of the cave after years of living in the dark, it takes time to adjust to the brightness, or happiness. So give them more than one chance to join in on your plans, give them many. Eventually, they will learn, and develop into a person who is certainly, not lonely.
And if they don’t adjust to the kind acts, use force. Use the power of touch to bring out the sense of belonging, deep inside their heart. Because a touch is the most powerful cure to a lonely persons life. It shows that you aren’t scared, or faking the emotions. It shows that you care, and realize that they are human. It could be a pat on the back, a handshake, a high five, or even a peck. It doesn’t matter, any touch on a person, goes much deeper than their skin anyway.
And if that doesn’t work, you may want to give up, go home, call it quits, but you can’t, you have dug yourself in too deep. If opportunity and touch don’t work, there is something much deeper at hand. There is sorrow embedded into that person’s body, that is just waiting to be released in the form of discussion. Yes, the lonely do talk, and they will talk if you use the power of touch. When they start to open up, hold their hand, and say it’s ok. Say that you want to hear their sorrows, and the tales of their messed up life. They will tell you, and you will listen.
There are too many lonely people, don’t exclude them, include them. Don’t leave anyone alone, because one day, when you may be lonely, you would want someone to touch your heart.
What makes them think that I am differnent?
What makes them think I need no one to love?
No one to read a book with.
No one talk with for hours on end
No one to waste time with
No one to say, “I love you”
What makes me different?
Is it that they think I am not human?
Is it that they think I don’t need to be loved?
Is it that they think I already have a lover?
They go off, I stay back.
It’s a usual thing, I’m used to it now.
But one day, when they grow old and alone,
and I will be happy and youthful!
And they will wonder,
What makes him different?
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I, like many people, were thrilled by President Obama’s campaign in 2008. I, like many people, volunteered to earn him a victory. I, like many people, now feel that the rush, the rush of thrill and excitement, is gone.
It’s a weird feeling, when you dedicated almost an entire year to get one man, to one place. But it’s not the feeling of regret, it’s more a feeling of “now what?” It feels like now that he won, what do we do?
I mean, Obama twittered, he texted, he make youtube videos, he did everything that was popular on the internet, and now, no more. You don’t get the exciting feeling of getting a text from a possible next President. And it doesn’t even matter to you that it went out to a million other people too, because it was truly your own connection with Obama.
I used to think that now that the election is over, there was nothing left to do, nothing left to accomplish. But I was wrong, there was much to be done.
If your looking for something to do, look no further than Barack Obama’s website, “Organzing For America”. Here, you can once more get out on the streets, or in your neighborhood, and talk to people about the current issues and political happenings such as the stimulus package. Obama still needs your help to inform the public about what he is doing, and that it is the right thing. So if you still believe strongly in volunteering and getting the word out, you gotta check out this site!
But Obama isn’t the only person who needs your help, you local senators and congressmen need your help as well! If you think that a particular senator or congressmen really has good morals and ideas, help them out, go to their local office or look them up online, the chances are, they will be waiting for you. You can also help Obama while staying at home by contacting your congressman or congresswoman and telling them to work with Obama on his ideas and what you believe in. To get your local representatives email or website, try out this website.
Now, if your really lazy, but you still want to help, you can just be sure to talk about it with friends, or show your ideals on the internet. The “Top Conservatives On Twitter” aka “#TCOT” are becoming a large voice. Who says that we liberals and democrats shouldn’t do the same? Show your pride and tweet liberally and disprove false claims that some conservatives might make!
You can use any of these ways to help change not only our country, but the world.
Liberals are usually ok with gay marriage and pro choice, which usually gets them the reputation of being the atheist, ungodly people, according to many Christian conservatives. They say that Jesus said that gay marriage, or even being homosexual, is bad, and that you would go to hell for it. Which is not exactly correct.
The one time that Jesus himself does talk about it, it says something along the lines that a man, should not sleep with a boy. Now, this could be interpreted that homosexuality is bad, but it could also be interpreted that a grown man should not force a little boy to have sexual interaction with him, which was popular back then.
And even then, that is only one time that he talked about homosexuality. What Jesus really talked about was the poor, and how we need to help them, and that is what Obama, and other leading Democrats want to do, and even Republicans agree. They said that Obama wants to take some of their money and give it to the poor, which is correct, but only 5% of Americans taxes are being raised to pay for the lower 95%. It seems that since Jesus talked about helping the poor so much, he would have been a fan of this.
When it comes to abortion, the leading Democrats, including Obama, believe in choice. They are not forcing you to get an abortion, which is something that I have heard some top conservative reporters say, they just want to give people the option in a life death situation of the mother. And in the bible, this is mentioned, but not often. And during this past election, a Catholic priest told his congregation that if they voted for Obama, they were going to Hell. Hmm, that doesn’t sound very godlike.
So, when you really take the time to look, Jesus would want us to help the poor and less fortunate than worry about petty things like gay marriage that doesn’t affect you and your family. Let’s work to help, rather than hurt.
President Barack Obama, has been in office for 103, he still has 1,357 days to go.
Even though it is so early in Obama’s presidency, people have been bashing him from the day he took office. And even before he was actually in office, people claimed that he would bring socialism to America, and they still do, but now they have added that he is a fascist. If that were the case, what was Bush? Is he not the one that supposedly approved torture with his buddy, Cheny? But he was elected, and reelected because the people followed their “fair” reporters over at Fox News.
And when it comes to the economy, they claim that his stimulus bill was a big flop. Well, maybe if they give him more time than less than 100 days, it will start to work. And according to economic officials, there are signs of hope, despite the mess that we still have. And that mess was here, long before Obama. It was made by the same people that tortured and lied, and it takes awhile to clean up such a big mess.
Also, when Republicans here the word tax, they freak out. The major difference between their way of paying things and the Democrats way of paying things, is that the Democrats make sure they actually have the money first, instead of going off and spending it, hoping that their sons and daughters will pay for it.
Lastly, not only do they hate on Obama, our 103 day old president, they bash the media. They listen to their almighty bringers of truth and reason, Rush and Glenn! They love their country and love their people, and insist that the liberal media is bringing socialism and fascism to America. But what liberal media is there? All I here is the big conservatives on radio and Fox News. Do they really insist that CNN is a liberal news station?
CNN provides the people the information, nothing else. They don’t add on anything else, just the straight, true facts. Maybe it’s too hard for Fox News listeners to understand that because they are too used to hearing their reporters bring irrelevant things into the story, and tears from Glenn Beck. A true reporter provides the facts, not tears Glenn Beck!
And lastly, what bugs me most, is when any of the conservative reporters bash the media. They are the media! A quote from Glenn Beck, “The Media is surrounding us, it sounds intimidating!”
