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Name: Brian
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Metro: Ann Arbor
Gender: Male
Interests: playing guitar, deutsche sprechen, running, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Punk Rock, Ska, Emo, Screamo, Hardcore, Metalcore, Nail Polish, the smell of certain smoke, the smell of spring, running in fluffy snow, doing irrational things, sleeping, eating, sleeping, eating, etc., Pretty much any band that is worth the time to listen to;i.e Five Iron Frenzy, Random Tangents, TBS, Fall out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, Blindside, Something Corperate, Dashboard Confessional, etc. running shoes that are broken in just before being broken, the sweet pain of overtraining, coffee, vintage rocker pants, completely destroyed pants, spandex shirts, really long bright colored socks
Expertise: evilness, pointless information, lazyness, giving terrible advice, doing stupid things, having absolutely no fashion sense
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
12/1/2004
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Greetings to anyone who comes across this post. Odds are that nobody will read this but I feel like writing it none the less.
I was just reading an article on msnbc.com about birth control being offered in public schools. The proposal is that birth control pills could be offered from a medical center in middle schools. This strikes me as a little bit young to be offering this service, but then again I'm not as leftist as I used to be.
This is just the most recent occurrence in the debate of what is the better way to prevent teen pregnancy. The two opposing views are those of abstinence only education and the safe sex practices education. Interestingly, these two ideas seem to be divided along socio-economic boundaries (AP 2007). This however, is not my point. My main point of inquisition is which of the two is better. Personally, I believe in teaching the proper measures to protect oneself is one decided to engage in sexual activity. Granted this is the more socially uncomfortable approach to sexual education. I believe this occurrence of discomfort is cause by the lack of conversation about sex. Additionally, it is this discomfort that causes this approach to be ineffective. Looking at the teen pregnancy rates for Europe makes this point fairly obvious. In Germany (where sex is an acceptable topic to be discussed) the teen pregnancy rate is less than one-fourth the American rate.
The opposing view of abstinence only (as far as I have seen) focuses on the idea of sex being immoral. They believe that children should be taught that sexual activity (presumably outside of marriage) is against the moral ideals they should hold. My main problem with this is the idea that there is some moral boundary that should exclude sex as an acceptable action. There are some moral ideals that I believe should be universal, namely do not do anything that will bring harm to another being. This is simply my personal belief (feel free to not agree, or tell me I'm crazy). However, I believe that it can be agreed upon by all parties that sex is a natural occurrence (disagreeing would be to say that your existence is unnatural). It is a fact that the continued existence of the human population is dependent on the occurrence of sex. Therefore, teaching children that sex is immoral is equivalent to teaching children that the continuation of human society is immoral (this of course ignores the religious idea of marriage after which sex is then amazingly acceptable). | | |
| Life is going well for me. I figure it's about time things start going well. The defining point seems to be the fact that I don't have overwhelming amounts of free time anymore. I am now going to be working 15 hours a week in addition to my 14 hours of class per week and then my untold amounts of reading due each week. Needless to say I will most likely be quite busy for the rest of the semester.
The realization has just really sank in that I am half done with this semester. And at the end of this semester I will be half done with my undergraduate degree. It's kind of strange to realize that within the next few years I will most likely have to move on to some other college town to continue with either my masters or doctoral studies. It will be a fun adventure when the time comes for me to venture down that path. Until then I will just be another poor U of M student trying to keep myself out of trouble.
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| Things have been rather overwhelming in my life, thus my not posting on here for quite some time. Things have changed classes have been nearly failed, but life goes on. I have finally decided on a major. I am going to study linguistics, which is the study of languages. And before any of you ask the question "how many languages do you know now?" let me make a statement.
Linguists study how lanaguages work, they don't learn every language they encounter. I currently know only one language ( I could survive speaking German after a while, but i can do right now is english). With that said, I promise to slap anyone who asks me how many languages i know.
In other news, the year is nearly over. That means quote of the year contest. As of now i have only two entries.
"Have you ever seen a newborn infant? it looks like a par-boiled monkey." - Professor Lawler
"It's too cold to rape." - Meagan Chuey
If you would like to enter a quote and/or vote on the quote of the year drop a comment. You have until 20 December.
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| I have decided to follow in the steps of the great petey pop and do a quote of the year contest. So far the stand out leader (mainly because it's the only quote i can recall at this moment) is my linguistics professor.
"Have you ever seen a newborn infant? It looks kind of like a par-boiled monkey." -- Professor Lawler
If anyone can think of one that i'm missing (i'm sure their are many), drop me a message with the quote and it will be added to the contest. There are still about 2 months to get your awesome quotes submitted. As for me, I must now recover from my recent raping by organic chemistry.
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| I haven't kept anyone up to date with my life in the past few weeks. I am back in A2 for the semester and I'm definately glad i got out of Big Rapids. Sadly for me though, after dating a girl for 9 months and actually loving my significant other for the first time in my life, I am now single. I was completely alright with this up until today. A combination of exhaustion, lack of sleep and the final realization that things really are done between me and Alex has put me into the worst depression I've had. We broke up over a week ago, but today was the first time we spent any time together since then. It's not so much the idea of her not being with me that bothers me. It's the idea that it seems she is going to decide that someone is better for her than me. Granted I will be first to admit that I wasn't always the best of boyfriends, but I tried to do whatever I could to correct everything after my mistakes. I guess it just wasn't enough. Perhaps she is right. Maybe I'm not the best person for her right now, but I'm afraid it will be too late before she realizes her mistake if she made one. If the result of this makes her truly happy, I will be fine. But if she ends up heart broken and depressed I will feel terrible, because I was the one that made the final decision to move away from how things were. She brought up the idea and voiced her concerns. But in the end, I decided to do what I thought was best. I did what appeared to be the moral thing and gave her the space she wanted, now all I can do is wait. Unfortunately, after today it appears to me that things between really are over, they may be no chance to save them.
I know many of you will say that if I really loved her I would do whatever I could to get her back. But the fact that I've noticed is when you truly love someone and trust them to their own destiny, you don't care as much about yourself. Sure you still worry about your own happiness, but it's more of a derived happiness that comes from her happiness. But conversely, if she is depressed then you shall in turn also feel depressed.
My only hope at the moment is that actually sleeping will help this situation.
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