Congratulations to everybody who got good A level results today! I'm sure there is alot of celebrating going on across the country with the overall pass rate being a staggering 97.5%!! I personally failed 2 AS levels in my first year of college and spent the second year attempting to catch up so it's nice to see that a majority of college students are taking their futures seriously. In hindsight I wish I knuckled down a bit more but I had fun and I still made it into Uni so MEH!
1 in 4 entries got an A grade this year which is a significant progression from last year and there are 60,000 more applicants for university from last year.
Maybe the hold of the recession is making teenagers more keen to stay in education right now!
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Saturday, 8 August 2009
Biggs is free!! (but on verge of death)
I would just like to point out that while all the newspapers are sensationally claiming that Ronnie Biggs has finally been released from prison on compassionate grounds, the actuality is that the guards from his hospital bed have been dismissed as he is going to die any minute!
Sunday, 2 August 2009
Girl dies from undiagnosed diabetes as her father prays...
Just a quick point to add on to yesterdays blog...
I remembered the story of Madeline Neumann, the 11 year old girl who died from easily treatable diabetes because it remained undetected due to her religious father's reluctance to call out for a doctor's help. The girl could not walk, talk or eat towards the end but her father claimed if he had gone to a doctor he would be putting the doctor above God and that wasn't something he was prepared to do... preferring to PRAY for her recovery instead.
It is a difficult subject to approach as I'm sure it is possible that the father actually did believe that God would heal his sick daughter... but does this not suggest that religion can become a little "brainwashy" or become an obsession when people let it take over their lives. This girl had her whole life ahead of her and passed away because her dad thought a man who may or may not exist would heal her. It's really scary.
Yesterday I suggested that people may base their lives on the teachings of the bible as a clean way of living, but by taking the book too literally Mr.Neumann has now been charged with murder.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/us-daughter-pray-death
I remembered the story of Madeline Neumann, the 11 year old girl who died from easily treatable diabetes because it remained undetected due to her religious father's reluctance to call out for a doctor's help. The girl could not walk, talk or eat towards the end but her father claimed if he had gone to a doctor he would be putting the doctor above God and that wasn't something he was prepared to do... preferring to PRAY for her recovery instead.
It is a difficult subject to approach as I'm sure it is possible that the father actually did believe that God would heal his sick daughter... but does this not suggest that religion can become a little "brainwashy" or become an obsession when people let it take over their lives. This girl had her whole life ahead of her and passed away because her dad thought a man who may or may not exist would heal her. It's really scary.
Yesterday I suggested that people may base their lives on the teachings of the bible as a clean way of living, but by taking the book too literally Mr.Neumann has now been charged with murder.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/us-daughter-pray-death
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Religion as explained by Gran!
I spent a day out with my grandmother recently and our topic of conversation swiftly changed to that of religion when I questioned how she perceives 'God'. Now my gran is a devout Christian.... goes to church every Sunday, helps and organises the church bazaars etc. I was interested to know how she could base her lifestyle on a religion that has so many flaws in the story.
First of all I challenged her to the question, if this God blokey made the whole world in seven days... around the same time he impregnated Mary to have the immaculate conception then how did he create the dinosaurs? This was before Jesus I'm sure? I also thought while I was at it I would point out that there are many different Gods from different countries thought to have created the earth... they couldn't all be right?
Then I asked if she actually viewed God as a person or a force because as a non-religious person it has always been unclear to me. There are plenty of illustrations of Jesus on the crucifix but rarely do you see a painting of God. My gran said a bit of both... now there is an answer from somebody who knows exactly what she believes in aye?!
I then made a suggestion that could have gotten me into deep water and pushed down a couple of steps on the favourite grandchild ladder... lol. I said that I thought maybe some people that follow Christianity and go to church every Sunday practising their 'beliefs' don't at all believe in all the unplausible bible stories but base their lives on the church as it is a clean and honest way of living. They do it to give themselves a guide of what is acceptable for them to do.
I was shocked that she admitted that in her case this is partly true. While she did go on about how many of the things in the bible that people used to brand as complete rubbish can now be proved, she also said that some of it probably was made up to give people that couldn't get their head around how we got here an answer. For people to believe that we are here from a force so powerful that we don't understand it... in a way made sense to them.
It seems silly that a thing that may have been partially made up to keep people in line is one of the main causes of war in this world. Could it be that countries are fighting and killing each other over something actually quite false?
First of all I challenged her to the question, if this God blokey made the whole world in seven days... around the same time he impregnated Mary to have the immaculate conception then how did he create the dinosaurs? This was before Jesus I'm sure? I also thought while I was at it I would point out that there are many different Gods from different countries thought to have created the earth... they couldn't all be right?
Then I asked if she actually viewed God as a person or a force because as a non-religious person it has always been unclear to me. There are plenty of illustrations of Jesus on the crucifix but rarely do you see a painting of God. My gran said a bit of both... now there is an answer from somebody who knows exactly what she believes in aye?!
I then made a suggestion that could have gotten me into deep water and pushed down a couple of steps on the favourite grandchild ladder... lol. I said that I thought maybe some people that follow Christianity and go to church every Sunday practising their 'beliefs' don't at all believe in all the unplausible bible stories but base their lives on the church as it is a clean and honest way of living. They do it to give themselves a guide of what is acceptable for them to do.
I was shocked that she admitted that in her case this is partly true. While she did go on about how many of the things in the bible that people used to brand as complete rubbish can now be proved, she also said that some of it probably was made up to give people that couldn't get their head around how we got here an answer. For people to believe that we are here from a force so powerful that we don't understand it... in a way made sense to them.
It seems silly that a thing that may have been partially made up to keep people in line is one of the main causes of war in this world. Could it be that countries are fighting and killing each other over something actually quite false?
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Funniest thing I have read this week...
After reading a BBC news article about the Hertfordshire beer festival I couldn't help but laugh! The BEER festival ran out of beer!! It is thought that all the cider was gone by 9pm and the very last drop of beer was poured at closing time last night causing the last day of the festival to be called off. I think it's safe to say that we, Britain as a whole, are total and utter PISSHEADS!
Saturday, 27 June 2009
A Legend Never Dies
The news of Michael Jackson's death, for me, was both shocking but unsurprising. Here was a man who abused his body in every way imaginable; anorexia, a former drug addiction and an unhealthy fondness of recreating his facial features time and time again but somehow still seemed invincible to every person who had followed him through-out his stardom.
The saddening realisation to the public was that, afterall... he was only human.
Michael Jackson's music influenced every modern artist of today in some way and I believe if Michael had not risen to fame as that cheeky faced, afro headed boy in the late 60's, that music today would just not be what it is. He brought music to life and many of his songs are still relevent in the music scene today.
But where did it all go wrong for the self proclaimed "King of Pop" to justify the tabloids to re-brand him as "Wacko Jacko"? I believe that Michael's issues were deep rooted and personal, going back to his childhood where he was forced to perform and beaten by his father but one thing is for certain... a little bit of privacy in Michael's more vunerable years would not have gone a miss. Michael was faced with new stories being published about him day after day which soon encouraged him to go along with it and give the press something to write about, even claiming he slept in an Oxygen tank to stop the ageing process! It is unclear whether this is true but I would not be surprised if Michael had made some stories up when where the character of Jacko stopped and the person Michael Jackson began became unclear to the public and indeed himself.
I believe he was a genuine soul who was just mislead in life and failed to relate to people in the adult world and so living his life as a child to make up for lost time. The name "Michael Jackson" will be a household name for years to come, the rumours and the allegations will be forgotten, but the music and the legend will live on forever.
R.I.P Michael, gone but not forgotten x
The saddening realisation to the public was that, afterall... he was only human.
Michael Jackson's music influenced every modern artist of today in some way and I believe if Michael had not risen to fame as that cheeky faced, afro headed boy in the late 60's, that music today would just not be what it is. He brought music to life and many of his songs are still relevent in the music scene today.
But where did it all go wrong for the self proclaimed "King of Pop" to justify the tabloids to re-brand him as "Wacko Jacko"? I believe that Michael's issues were deep rooted and personal, going back to his childhood where he was forced to perform and beaten by his father but one thing is for certain... a little bit of privacy in Michael's more vunerable years would not have gone a miss. Michael was faced with new stories being published about him day after day which soon encouraged him to go along with it and give the press something to write about, even claiming he slept in an Oxygen tank to stop the ageing process! It is unclear whether this is true but I would not be surprised if Michael had made some stories up when where the character of Jacko stopped and the person Michael Jackson began became unclear to the public and indeed himself.
I believe he was a genuine soul who was just mislead in life and failed to relate to people in the adult world and so living his life as a child to make up for lost time. The name "Michael Jackson" will be a household name for years to come, the rumours and the allegations will be forgotten, but the music and the legend will live on forever.
R.I.P Michael, gone but not forgotten x
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