Valen*bleh*tine's Day

So, let's pretend that we don't live in a greed driven society that has brought about some of the worst sides of mankind this world has seen. Let us pretend, for a moment, that people aren't killed on a daily basis in car accidents because they're obsessed with being first to their freeway exit. Let us pretend, also, that we actually care about those unfortunate beings living on the streets, rather than figuring out a multitude of ways to ignore them when they ask for some assistance.

So now we're pretending that these atrocious behaviors of mankind don't exist, are you still following along?

Now, let us celebrate a holiday celebrating a Catholic Saint who was, reportedly, the epitome of compassion and caring. We take his name, drop the "Saint" and market chocolates, roses, and all sorts of overly priced shimmering rocks that aren't worth one thousand times their weight in gold.

Have you ever given serious thought as to why we have holidays in this country? We have a Veteran's day, but the only people who celebrate it are veterans, or people who are emotionally close to veterans and know how important that day is to us. We have a president's day... to remember our... presidents? Meanwhile, the media slanders and mocks the one that's currently in office (technically, it'd be libel, not slander, as it's through a medium of the media, but for argument's sake, I figured more people would understand the term "slander" than "libel").

We celebrate Easter, which is, supposedly, to commemorate the day that the Christian's token celebrity, Jesus Christ, rose from the dead after being crucified. But we have chocolate bunnies and painted eggs?

We don't have off for Ramadan or Hanukkah. No one can honestly tell you what Kwanza is unless they’ve had to tell someone what it was before.
We have Columbus day. Which is awesome. I bet the Caribbean natives love that holiday.
I can’t imagine what this country would do if a fully practicing Shiite would take to the streets for Ashura on the tenth day of Muharram (some Sunnis also participate in Ashura, but the holiday tends to be primarily Shi’a).


Why do we need a “special” day to tell someone how we feel about them through gifts? Is that how monetaricentric (yes, I think I made that word up, but it works here) our society has become, that we’re expected to buy gifts for someone else to show how much we care about them?
Since when has money equaled caring?
Should not every opportunity throughout the entirety of a day be taken to show one’s love and affection? Why must that cost money?

For five years I bought into this monetary conception of “love”. At the end of the five years, all I was left with was a bill, and without a significant other. So the amount of money spent on someone has zero affect on whether or not love is present.

With the current model, greed is the center of a common relationship.


I want LOVE to be the center of my relationship.

Question is: what’s in the center of your relationship this Valentine’s Day?

For Reference

Below, you will find everyone's blog URL. The purpose of me posting this is for those who did not obtain everyone's address for following purposes.

http://witismansgreattreasure.blogspot.com/
http://paydirts.blogspot.com/
http://joeyhev.blogspot.com/
http://brelogicblog.blogspot.com/
http://focusedonmyfuture.blogspot.com/
http://iwinhahahaha.blogspot.com/
http://kaylinzthabest.blogspot.com/
http://jonnilogic.blogspot.com/
http://dustinlogic.blogspot.com/
http://alsmith-ashley.blogspot.com/
http://jason-haner.blogspot.com/
http://logiclog.blogspot.com/
http://mylogicbeatsyourlogic.blogspot.com/
http://slrthompson.blogspot.com/
http://shimmelrobert.blogspot.com/
http://sham5248.blogspot.com/
http://codyistheman1-theshizzle.blogspot.com/
http://tiffany-holmes.blogspot.com/
http://whydidthis.blogspot.com/
http://quadiesha.blogspot.com/
http://yajairasblog.blogspot.com/

All other blogs were unable to be obtained due to their inability to post anything, therefore there was not a link to their posts.

Hope this helps.

/wrist

Okay, so the reason why I haven't written anything yet is certainly not because I don't have anything to write about, it's simply that the last two weeks have been a bit overwhelming for me and I really didn't want to come onto a blog and get all emo /wrist on it.

There are a plethora of topics that I'd love to pose arguments towards. I'm the type of person whom you will never know what my position on a topic is until the end. I love playing devil's advocate and saying the worst possible statements, simply to get a reaction out of people, then digress and pose my real position, which is usually the complete opposite of what I've been arguing for. I feel that this stand allows me the opportunity to view an argument from both sides, possibly seeing even a third side to an argument, and having better clarity in which to make my true argument.

For example: I believe that the earthquakes in Haiti have been the single greatest thing to happen to the shared island nation. There has been nothing greater, save for their independence in 1804 from French rule, to occur in all of the Haitian history.

You see, here most people would be offended, some even shocked. Many are wishing that my mother had used birth control, and some are even imagining killing me in my sleep.

But they'd be easily fooled. Because my argument actually has nothing to do with Haiti at all. I'm completely ambivalent to the situation in Haiti. What my true argument is that I believe that it is ridiculous to imagine all of the money from the rich and "generous contributions" from such famed actors, many of whom are so stuck on the smell of their own farts that they have to form a "guild" and hand out "awards" just because it has become too difficult to pat themselves on the back. All of these "generous contributions":

Microsoft Corp: $1.25 mil
Gisele Bundchen: $1.5 mil
Google : $1 mil
Jefferies Group: $4.5 mil

(Jefferies Group is a New York based banking firm, and who the hell cares who Gisele Bundchen is, she gave more than Bill "holy shit I'm fucking rich" Gates)

All of this is on top of the $100 mil that Pres Obama has given, well... the taxpayers gave, he just signed the check.

Yet, we have children, here in the great United States of America, who are digging through dumpsters for something to eat.

We can't seem to help those who have lost their jobs due to the recent economic collapse and recession, but we can give $100 mil to another country because of poor location?

I get it, lots of injured and dead people. That sucks, and believe it or not, my heart goes out to them and their families, but that doesn't negate the fact that while we're out rushing food to another country, there are those in our own that will die of starvation tonight.

This poses the moral question, is one life more important than another?

The sensible answer is an emphatic no. One cannot put a weight to human life. However, how is it that it's SO important to help the Haitians now that they've had earthquakes? What about the starving Haitians during December? Why does it take a natural disaster for us to pay attention to human suffering? Why are we so blind to human suffering in our own nation?

Furthermore, due to all of the funding and "relief" that's being given to Haiti, their infrastructure and entire economy will turn around. They'll put up some nice hotels and it'll become the new spring break locale.

So one has to question, where are our priorities? How long until Haiti becomes yesterday's news? Did anyone else know that Michel Jackson died!? I just found out, that they finally buried him, because I shot myself in the face after the first two weeks of constant coverage.

Believe it or not, there are a million reasons to spend millions of dollars on the millions who need it right here in America. Also, believe it or not, if you just hate America, there are billions of reasons to spend billions of dollars for billions of people who need it in third world countries around the world.

But that wouldn't be the "cool" thing to do, unless your name is Angelina. We pay billions of dollars to actors and sports players, but we can't help those who truly need the money to survive.

God bless America, and God bless Haiti.




Picture of homeless children living in Chicago.

Laughing club

it's a club that you hit people who are laughing with.