Times they are a' changin'......

Ok........ So how have all of you been? I know I have been less than active on posting things on our Random Thought's page; BUT such is life. So during the course of my day I receive close to 100 emails a day, mostly work related but from time to time I do get the occasional "pass this on" or else your big toe will get infected. Right, I think we all get sucked into those and we do our best to pass them on to our Friends, Family and co-workers. You may be wondering where I am going with this? Well hang in there, like the name of the page, this is my random series of thoughts. So about a month ago I received an Email from a co-worker friend of mine, the subject title read "agree or delete", sounded ok enough so I continued to read the Email; Well it so happens that I did agree for the most part with the Email, in a nutshell is basically explained how our schools have come under attack from certain groups that feel it is unnecessary to post the 10 commandments, declaration of independence or say the pledge of allegiance in our schools, along with this; these groups are also trying to have the word GOD taken from any State or Government owned building. Long story short I feel this is a complete waste of time to try and in a sense delete a portion of our history, I don't care if you don't believe in God or feel it necessary to teach your children about God but DO NOT try and change the past, like it or not this is a HUGE part of our history, 52 of the 55 that signed the Constitution were Christians and like the Christians or not it was a HUGE part of our culture back then. The word God is on the walls of courthouse's, government and state building's, and most of all printed on our money we use each and everyday! Don't you have better things to do than to nit pick at a little thing like this? How about redirecting you energy to something more meaningful like World hunger, local state issues such as the local government and the spending going on and the lack of funding to our schools. Whew, so many of you received this email from me because it is something near and dear to my heart as many of you know, I am trying my best to raise a good Family with good values and good common sense. I feel that my children are so well rounded and have a good start and I certainly hope that things don't get too bad by the time they go out on their own. So if you did receive this email from me and it offended you I am truly sorry, that was not my intention BUT know this that if you Email me back bashing everything I believe in and basically tell me that I am brainwashed you had better damn well be ready to back up your statement, again I believe in each of us having our own beliefs but DO ON TO OTHERS AS THEM ON TO YOU, or something like that. Here is the Email you may be wondering about that got me so fired up. As you read this please be warned there is the use of some harsh word's. Again you can see why I am so fired up. "Mike Paulsen, you're kidding me right? Please tell me you are not turning into a right wing bible thumper that thinks pushing their out of touch religious beliefs on every one else in the world will result in a better world. You have to be shitting me right?!? More people have died in the name of your god than for any other reason in the history of mankind. I recently saw the new Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven. The most interesting part of the film is that it takes place in the dark ages and it is about the Islamic Muslims killing the English Christians in the name of god for the purpose of taking back what is rightfully theirs, Jerusalem. Sound familiar? Yeah, here we are 700 years later and we are still killing each other because my god's dick is bigger than your gods dick. Totally ridiculous. Religion has always been and will always be about sheer numbers. Why do you think the Catholic church, still to this day, has forbidden birth control? Sheer numbers my man. The more unprotected sex you have, the more baby Catholics you pop out who will soon be putting money in the collection bowl on Sunday. I can't believe that my government, the one that takes my tax dollars with every paycheck is spending it's time deliberating and hearing arguments that public schools should have a copy of the 10 commandments in the hallway. Of course they say "so help me god." Our court system was developed and perpetrated by some of the most ridiculous religious zelats man has ever known. The Pilgrims. Nutballs whose religious beliefs were so extreme they were banned from practice throughout Western Europe. It's because of right wing religious nuts like the individual who initially wrote this email that we are in the fucked up situation we are currently in. Thousands of Americans dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for absolutely no justified reason. WMDs, where are they? Links between Iraq and the 9/11 attacks,..Where are they? Revenge fuck to absolve daddy's name, yeah that proof is there. Mike, you really have to snap out of this suburbs, I love god, fuck the left mindset man.There is more to the world than just put god in our schools and courts and everything will be right in the world. It takes involvement, hard work, education, funding, reorganization of government spending, social programs that support all Americans, universal health care for every American. If you want to make the world a better place, do something. Help someone, run for office. Please just don't tell me god will make it better. God and all of his followers have been making it so much worse for the rest of the world for so long, maybe some organized thought would be a better approach. You are making us all dumber by sending out this trash of an email." Please don't send me this religious propaganda anymore. It's is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. Next you are going to tell me marriage is for one man and one woman only right? Then comes the gay people are going to hell. When does the religiously sponsored hate stop? You get to decide that one big boy." I hope all of you can see what an idiot this person was to spew so much hatred, they talk about pushing my right winged religious view? Those of you who truly know who I am and what I am about know that is complete B***S**t..... Kind of a bummer I used to call this person my friend. So have a great day everyone and don't let the negative people in this world drag you down, just smile and say HAVE A NICE DAY.......THEN FLIP THEM THE BIRD!!!! Untill next time.... Peace out VW Ragtop Bug style!!!!!