Plastic Surgery

Here's something that I am having a hard time reconciling in my head.  Motherhood and plastic surgery.  Especially if you have a daughter.  What example is it setting to your daughter about being naturally beautiful if you are being surgically altered?How does that work?  Do you tell your daughter that she is beautiful and then change the very person that actually genetically made her beautiful?  It really doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe someone could explain that to me.

Would I love some fat sucked out? Yup! I have also always hated my nose, always wanted one that didn't seem to have a beach ball on the end of it, but guess what...it's mine..It's too soon to tell if my daughter will have a beach ball-y nose, but if she does at least she won't feel abandoned because I have a cute button nose now.  There are other plastic surgeries that I have wanted that I won't mention here because it's too embarrassing to admit that I would even want something like that, but when push comes to shove, I know it's not something I would ever do, I have to set the example for my daughter and I need her to know that beauty is different and not a cookie cutter thing.

Zombies

What is going on in the world lately? I wish that I could un-see the photo of that poor man who go this face eaten off by that lunatic! I didn't believe that the reports were accurate, I didn't think that a man would actually eat another man, but I was wrong. Thank you Google for being ever so helpful in finding things that should not be found. Then we have the Canadian porn star who dismembers his lover and mails pieces of his body to politicians and schools. He als'o reportedly filmed the murder and posted in online. Then there is the guy who killed his roommate and decided to eat his brain and his heart.... who the hell does this sort of thing? Bath salts are the cause of this? I can't say that I have ever seen these things being sold, but that is because I never go into a convenience store. So I can't even tell you what you do with these bath salts... smoke them, snort them, inject them...I don't know.... but it seems to be some nasty stuff.  I forgot to mention the guy who ate his girlfriends lips because he thought that she cheated on him and he didn't want her to kiss anyone else.  Quite frankly, I won't even eat chicken if it still has bones in it, let alone raw human flesh or organs. I don't even think I could do it as a matter of survival, I have a weak stomach.

Boy, these new fangled bath salts are really taking Calgon's old slogan...Calgon... Take me away... to a whole new level...  I will stick with my Mr. Bubble in the bath tub and that'll be all for me...

Atheist in a Christian World

I am an atheist. I want to scream it from the rooftops, but that wouldn't go over too well, would it? The word has such a negative connotation. People think I am evil. They think atheists are devil worshippers. Why are people so afraid of someone who has different beliefs than they do? I understand why people believe in a god. I really do. It's comforting. It is nice to feel like things are out of your control and that there isn't anything that you can do to change it. I wish that I could feel that way sometimes. There are several things that I just don't understand about people who believe in a god. I think the first one would be why do you go to a hospital when you are sick. Why not go to church? When my kids are sick, the first thing I do is take them to the Dr. If I truly believed in a god, I would just pray to him, the all powerful, and he should be able to take care of the illness. I personally believe in science. I believe in medicine. Praying isn't going to make an infection go away, antibiotics do. I believe in evolution. I can't reconcile that one "man" made all of us. It doesn't make sense that when there was the great flood and Noah and his family built the ark and all of that story, then that would mean that we are all from Noah and his family since everything else was annihilated due to the flood, right? But there is a rainbow of colors that people coem in, so we all couldn't be decendants of Noah's now, could we?

An excuse for hate

Why do people use religion as an excuse to hate people? I try to accept everybody the way that they are, and not have any preconceived notions about them. I don't that somewho who is gay is innately evil. I don't think they are going to be cast away to hell and I don't think they need to live a life hidden away and lying about who they are or whatthey are. X religion believes that they are better than Y religion. They believe that their god is better than whatever the other believes in. Why can't people just accept that we all believe different things and we cn all be ok with that. Whatever people need to believe in order to get through the day works for them, it doesn't or shouldn't affect your belief. I do not feel threatened by people who have religious beliefs, and just becasue I am an atheist doesn't mean that I am going to try to convert you into not believing. If I ask questions, it just means I am curious. I like to try to understand why people believe what they believe. I try not to judge them though, and I am honest when I say I try... because sometimes it happens, sometimes I just wonder why, or how or sometimes I am confused or baffled. I think it is more me not understanding and being baffled rather than judging. It may be the same thing, I don't know. It isn't a conscience decision.