Rants - Be Enlightened

A place where I come to let out my rage about Earth or just rant about a topic or issue. I also have a general log at http://glandrid.blogspot.com/.

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Monday, December 20, 2004

Christmas and X-mas

I swear, some people are just complete door knobs!!

Christmas- Besides being December 25th and the day Christians mark as the celebration of the birth of Jesus (Christ's Mass), Christmas is also a Church season, running from December 25th to Epiphany (January 6th). It is this twelve-day period that is sometimes referred to as the Twelve Days of Christmas.

X-Mas- The last week of December centralized on the giving and reciving of gifts from one person to another. Derived from a Greek term where X meant "Christ" and Mas meant "Celebration" over the years the word has become distorted and is now what non-Christian's call the giving season. As of today "X-Mas" tends to mean just the giving and reciving holidays of December and not the birth of Christ. The term "Xmas" is frowned upon as being a shortened "Christmas" and evil for replacing "Christ" with an "X" but in truth, it is a way to make the holiday acessible for all people of all cultures.

I wrote, "7 Days till X-Mas" on the chalk board in my History class and people freaked and were like, "Why are you putting "Xmas" and not "Christmas"? What do you have against Christmas?"

I TRIED to explain the fact that "Xmas" is a term used by non-Catholic's then they were like, "Well this is a Catholic school so change it," and then I pointed out the fact that there's a Jewish student in the class who DOES celebrate Xmas although she isn't Catholic and they were just like, "So?" and I'm like, "So just because people choose to go to this school you can force your religion on all those who come?" and they didn't say much to that.

In conclusion my studies prove that in majority 60% of Catholic's that attend a Catholic school tend to have Xenophobia and are extremly ignorant to other religions. If you are one of these people I suggest you change your ways. Why?

In the world we live in now your either accepting of other cultures or a complete fucktard who everyone hates, personally I like other cultures and am not an asshole to there ideas and don't force my religion down there throats.

Saturday, December 18, 2004

Shallow

People are shallow. I am directing this to who people like and what people want. I'm not saying everyone is shallow, just a lot of people. I suppose I'm a bit shallow, but at least I know and admit it. Anyway, on with the show.

Women. What do they usually want? Tall, dark(as in evil), mysterious, handsome, and ofcourse dreamy. At least, this is what is usually wanted. But the fact is ladies... these men DO NOT EXIST! You will never find these Mr.Perfects. You may stumble upon some really nice guy who's really sweet but lacks mystery or height. In my opinion, you should try to hold on to people like this, chances are another won't come around the bend. So stop living in your fantasy world before you end up stuck with some 210 pound, beer-bellied, jobless, asshole in a trailor with three buck toothed boys.

Men. What do they usually want? Short, blonde, big assed, perfect shape, big breasts and ofcourse suducing. At least thats what is usually wanted. But the fact is gentlemen... these women DO NOT EXIST! You will never find these amazing women... I know you would love too but YOU WON'T!* Don't waste you life looking for one, find a nice girl who cares about you and stick with her. If shes hot, that's just an add on. If you don't you'll end up with some crack ass hoe.

So find someone special to you and don't lose them.

*Unless ofcourse your rich

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Stupid School

My school is a Catholic school. I am well aware of the fact that at a Catholic school you accept, upon joining paticipating in Catholic things like going to Mass and crap but my school has offically reached an all new low. Tomorrow there will be a buy-out. A buy-out is when you buy a ticket to go watch a game of some sort and in return you get to basicly legally skip classes(2 of them). Now when a mass aproches, most students either skip until mass is over, or don't come at all. Tomorrow, they are having a buy-out AND a mass. Why? Most likely so that they can trick more people into coming to mass so they don't look like a crummy school. If that isn't bad enough they also force people into doing confessions even if you are not Catholic. Last year we went down to the Chapel and sat there while people were doing confessions and the teacher said earlier, "You don't have to do confessions if you like, but it's encouraged." Now I thought, well that sounds fair. BUT GUESS WHAT? You don't actually have a choice.

I was sitting there when the teacher came over and said, "It's your turn". I simply said, "No thanks, I'd rather not." You know what he did? He grabbed my shoulder and said, "Come on, everyone is waiting to go, just be a good sport." And with that I was pushed out of my seat and into the next room with a Priest where I had to make up some cock and bull story to satisfy the Bible-thumper. You don't even have the choice to not go to mass either, and you also HAVE to stand for prayers in the morning. I stand out of respect to my country for it's anthem, but I stand because I'm forced to for prayers.

So in conclusion, my school sucks.

Sunday, December 05, 2004

2005

So 2005 is coming. Before it hit's there is something you should know. But first to make things work...

When you say the year "2005" do you say two-thousand-five or do you say twenty-o-five?
If you answered
two-thousand-five continue reading, but if you answered twenty-o-five you can stop here.


For all you people still reading, you need to pay more attention to standards, which you should start doing this moment. To put it in clear words, think about this. How did you say 1976? You probably said it, "Nineteen-seventy-six" right? What about 1342? I'm guessing you said it, "Thirteen-fourty-two" right? So why is it that people in 1999(thats nineteen-ninty-nine) suddenly decided to stop saying it like that? Why did they all start saying two-thousand? WHY? A friend of mine believes it's because people don't like saying twenty-o-o and that people will start going back to the correct way when we hit 2010. Personally I don't think they will because they are ignorant and will keep saying two-thousand ten but for all who's eyes have been opened to the truth follow me on my brave crusade of bringing back the correct way of saying the year. Which is TWENTY-O-FIVE!!! So lets start today! Go forth and spread the truth!