A Parable on Free-Will

Imagine you are out one night picking up a few staples at the grocery store. Since you decided to shop on a Tuesday night and rather late so there is hardly anyone at this local grocer. You check out your goods and head out to the parking lot. You put the groceries in the passenger side and head over to the other side to get in when suddenly something lunges out of the shadows and wraps his huge gloved arm around your neck and covers your mouth. You notice something sharp on the side of your neck, it's definately a knife.

You struggle with him for a minute but he is so strong. He takes his hand off your mouth but keeps his arm around your delicate neck. You ask "what can I do to keep my life? What do you want from me?"
He replies in a deep, soft voice "love me. Love me with all your heart. Don't just say it but believe it. Believe that I love you. If you don't, I will put my dagger through your neck and you will surely die."

You weigh the options; tell this creep you love him and act like you really believe it and run like hell OR have a dagger shoved into your artery. Hmmm.... Sounds like a no-brainer. He's not really leaving you with much of a choice. It's live or die. That's it. He won't compromise with conjugal visits or just handing over the wallet. Nope.

So you turn your head the best you can and look deep into his dark eyes and say "I love you. From the depths of my soul to the height of my being, I love you."

He releases his grip and says "You may go. Live your life. But if you ever stop loving me I will hunt you down and put a bullet in your heart."

You take this opportunity to run like the wind and call the authorities. He is later caught running naked through a park declaring he is Christ himself. You find out in the local newspaper the next day that he was a mental patient who had escaped the institution down the street earlier that day.

The moral of the story: there is no such thing as free-will. There is either 2 choices (a good and a bad) or lots of strings attached.

Oh brain, where hast thou gone?

What ever happened to the human mind? Through the years our civilization has made strides and progressed through the swamps of ignorance. Why, in the year 2008 do we still have people that judge based on skin color? Why, after all the advances in science do people still have the intelligence of an ape? (Some apes are actually smarter than average Americans!) Why in the world have people stopped thinking? Where did the system go wrong? What generation put their fingers in their ears and said "lalala... I'm not listening to you"?

I am blown away when I hear people say they won't vote for Barack Obama because he's black. Well, first of all he only half black and second of all, why the hell does it matter? I have never been able to comprehend why in the world there has ever been racism. It's pigmentation in the skin... period. That's it! Ok, 100 years ago, fine. They were ignorant back then and really believed the white/ european was the ultimate human. Fine.... whatever. That was 100 freakin' years ago. What excuse do we have now? Blacks aren't and worse or better than whites or Latinos or anybody else on the planet of Earth. If you don't like someone because of their race... get the fuck over it. Grow up. Get a life!

Here's a good example. I work with a gentleman who is well into his 60's and is a pure bred Thai. He speaks english... with an accent. I can understand him. Everyone at work can understand him, but every once in a while I get some grumpy old guy that doesn't want to work with him because he can't understand anything other than redenck. Sigh... I hate to say it but sometimes I can't wait for that generation to die. Now before you get your panties in a wad, I'm not talking all of them. Just the racist ones that keep popping out racist babies.

There's no excuse. There will never be peace in the world when people continue to be nit picky over petty ideaologies. Our country will never progress ahead as long as people think we should do everything in accordance to a book written over 2000 years ago. Grow up America. Be better than the people in the middle east. Get over your hang ups.

And an ending note to all the minorities. Slavery has been abolished for well over a century. This country is not segregated any more. Hasn't been in about 40 plus years. Stop making excuses for not getting of your duff and getting a job and some damn birth control! My family came from Hungary. As far as I know, they did not have any African slaves. In fact an Asian came and took over my country a long ass time ago. I don't use that excuse to not live my life to it's best potential. To the Mexicans... I'm sorry. I've been to your country. I've seen your little children dig through a land fill for any scrap of food or anything to sell for food. I've been to your villas of houses made of sheet metal. You were so generous and accepting. I will always vote for my country to help it's neighbors. I wish it were easier for you to make a better life for you and your family. Let's fight for a change. To all you bastards out there in the government and law enforcement that racial profile... shame on you! How many white men hid behind the cloak of clergy and the doors of churches and molest our innocent. How many white corporate and government officials are caught in sex and money scandals? Stop it! Stop the bullshit! Get over yourself.
The American people need to stand up for what's right for the world... not push their own agenda. How long before people wake up and smell the demise of our own race before they make a change?