3rd Life Criss

I am at crossroad in life. Call it a third life criss if you will, but I don't consider it a criss at all. In fact, I don't consider it a crossroad. I think that my maturation process is entering a new phase of development. It amazes me how closed minded I was in my youth. Even now I struggle with it. I theorize that objectivity is not possible in the human mind. Everything is subjective because you base everything off personal experience. Perhaps the most pivotal moment in my maturation processes is acknowledging this. The god complex of youth is now officially dead. I am now humbled by the shear amount of knowledge that I don't know. However, I still need get past the learning curve. It requires an explicit effort on my part to change my thought process. I acknowledge that I have level arrogance that sometimes gets in the way. Though a certain amount of arrogance may be justified and even health at times, I finally understand the meaning and value of open mindedness.

I acknowledge the following and hope that my acknowledgement of these creeds will make me a better person. I will be wrong! I will not always know the best answer! There is something that you can learn from every single human being out there! Someone will always be better than you at something!

Don't get me wrong, I have no intention of abandoning my sometime arrogant ways. It is part of my personality and I embrace it, but it needs to evolve and become more selective. It needs to be less impulsive and more "thoughtful" if arrogance and be called thoughtful. I need to realize when it is perhaps justified and when I need to humble myself. I need to acknowledge the subjective of thought and opinions and embrace the fact that my view of the world can change and people from all creeds of life might be source of that change in perspective... except for the fact that I am awesome. No one can will change my opinion of that ;)

I realize that I haven't been keeping my promise of one entry per week. Oh well. My brain doesn't always want to vent. It's been almost three week. I think about writing sometimes and then I don't. What can you do? So what is on Shawn's mind. It is the get less fat time of year again. I like to take 8 week out every year and shed some weight. It is a strategic plan. Getting stronger is much easier when you are gaining weight. I have no problem with this except that at some point I become no longer ok gaining any more weight. Thus I need to reset every once and a while and now is that time. It is kind sad. This means no beer for a while and its summer time. I like beer in the summer time. Actually, I like beer all the time, but especially on warm summer days. TO BAD SHAWN! It totally conflicts with losing weight. Plus, the summer is prime for being sexy and beer guts aren't sexy.

Bin Laden

Let's talk about death baby. Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all the good thing and the bad things that may be. Let's talk about death. That's right, I just made a pun using a song from 1991. So, Bin Laden is dead. What does that mean? Did we extract revenge. Has 9/11 been vindicated. This was all over news. You know what scares me? It isn't terrorism. It is the fact that millions of Americans celebrated in a glorious fashion the violent murder of human being. I realize that Bin Laden is responsible for the deaths of many Americans. Does that justify murder. Maybe, but does it justify being happy about murder? I would hope that it doesn't, but apparently it has. I am a little disturbed by that fact that many people especially the press celebrated his murder. It may have been a necessary evil. I am not attempting to refute that or support it in anyway, but celebrating the violent murder of anyone is disturbing.

I think a lot of American's don't realize how many people we piss off with our international interests. We have troupes in 135 countries. http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance8.html

Some people don't want us in their country. The fact they we are there is the biggest threat to America. It enables terrorist groups to heavily requite using our presence as the motivating form of propaganda. Seriously, why do we have to but our heads into so many international affairs. The answer is that we don't need to. Regardless, we are there, so before you condemn and celebrate the death of any human being, first understand their motivation and their reasons for success. I would argue that if we didn't have a presence in countries that had a large al-Qaeda presence that 9/11 would never have happened.

So...before you celebrate the death of human being at least try to understand their perspective. Even then...it is not cool to celebrate murder.