by Jonny | Sep 10, 2012 | Updates
I’m quite impressed how I have managed to increase the traffic on my political site I now have up and running. I’ve been running this blog for a couple years now. However, this new site has only been running since July of this year. (2012)
The site I’m taking about is a little hard to maintain as I’m personally writing all the new articles. Before, the site was using an autoblogging script, which sucked ass. So I disabled it and then started writing my own articles as I’m quite interested in US politics.
I managed to get it un-banned from the search engines, most notably Google and now there are SERP results for particular keywords coming in. I also created the logo, which I’m pretty happy about. 🙂
by Jonny | Jun 3, 2012 | Opinion
As you can see from the x-ray image below, I had a small operation on my leg, and the operation occurred on the 23rd of May, on my right ankle.
The operation took place at Changhua Christian Hospital, the surgery was good and it wasn’t too expensive. However, it was just minor surgery; essentially they pulled out the titanium screw in my leg that I had in there for around 4 years after braking my ankle playing football.
They said that it might lessen the pain when I walk, but I got the idea they were just going on a hunch, or it was actually as if they were following procedure as the screw had to come out anyway. So, I’m not sure if I’m fully cured of anymore pain, but what I do know is that when I walk now I do get pains in my ankle, unsurprisingly it is due to the recent surgery which took place. — I just hope there won’t be any more pain after my surgery wounds heal.
I hope I can run, swim, walk, and fly without any issues.
by Jonny | Feb 12, 2012 | Updates
McDonald’s in Taiwan have recently introduced a new product line called the McIce-cream Nugget. Essentially, an ice cream cone with a piece of chicken plopped in the middle of it. (The chicken can be found in other products such as the “6 piece , 8 piece or 20 piece nugget box set” said a statement from a former McDonald’s employee)
If preferred add tomato sauce or barbecue sauce for extra flavoring.
“Mc Ice Cream Chicken/Nugget” – Goes on sale for $100NT.
Naysayers say that this form of mixing ice cream and chicken could potentially inflict a damaging disease. – Which hasn’t been around since 1840, sparking fears of major disasters within the McDonald’s community.
However our reliable former-McDonald’s employee, who has been around McDonald’s food for 10 years has also said, “Although there are fears of disease, people should not be worried, life is too short anyway’s…” in a non-official statement. It might also be noted that he weighs 250lb’s and was recently featured in the “Fat Weekly” magazine in Taiwan.
** Disclaimer: Your health is your own to look after, however according to test results, this will add another 2 years to your life. (Cannot be confirmed as of… ever)
by Jonny | Nov 7, 2011 | Updates
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
I don’t know why I liked this, but I guess this is how I feel with religion. While supposedly there is a god out there, which I can’t seem to fathom, which god am I supposedly supposed to go after?
There are many religions out there and according to those many religions or Christianity which I know for sure, if you don’t believe in that specific god, then apparently god will not forgive your sins and you will in hell for eternity. So does this mean the majority of the population on Earth will go to hell? Does this mean all those who believe in other religions, those who do not or those who don’t know will burn in hell?
I came very sceptical when this sort of answer is presented when apparently you are supposed to believe god is benevolent, omnipotent and omniscient. Yet if that is true he must have known mankind was going to sin, make up different religions to detract from “his” religion or as Christians like to say their “faith”. When it comes down to it, how can one remove themselves from a religion that they were brought up in it? I was brought up in a Christian family and a private Christian school, yet I became a non-believer because in the end I didn’t believe in it after breaking my leg and having time to detract from the constant bombardment of religion.
However because I was brought up in that setting, I nearly did believe if that makes any sense. At one point I knew nothing else in my life, imagine being brought up in that type of environment and not knowing anything else? Surely you are going to believe in anything, if you are brought up that way and you know nothing else. Religion for me is brainwashing in the circumstances that a person is brought up and is bombarded with religion. If you constantly bombard someone, especially from the young age with an ideology or religious text-book, in the end they will believe it. That is brainwashing.
I guess this is why in the United Kingdom every public school has to teach more than one religion; otherwise you are plainly brainwashing someone from a young age to believe one argument / ideology.
How about people who convert from one religion to another?
I can’t speak for others however I can understand the need for human beings to believe that there needs to be something more than just life on Earth; especially after death. It has been for thousands of years even throughout the Ancient-Egyptians time that there has to be an after life. It is nothing new at least. However people convert from being Muslim to Christianity and vice versa, so who is to say whether one religion is right or not. Or from an outsiders perspective such as mine, how do I pick which is the right one? What if I pick the wrong religion? That means eternity in hell. I would love to believe in an after life and perhaps even a god, I would ask many questions. However if that deity or higher power doesn’t present itself, then how am I to know?
He had the opportunity to present himself when I was studying in a Christian school. In fact when I was very young, I did believe in god… or at least I thought I did. I thought it was silly not to believe in god. But then I learned of others views, I looked at why atheists exist, why agnostic people exist and the existence of the money thousands of religions, faiths which still exist or existed in the past. I changed my views on life from that point on because I learned why these different thoughts existed. To me the most logical is being agnostic or as I like to purely call it “non-believer”. Agonistic people are not really a group like religion, agnostic people do not meet up every Sunday. Agnosticism is purely not believing in god nor disputing whether he exists or not. Some may think I am achiest with the views I’ve posted however I never discount the idea of a higher entity existing. I just feel that religion is just a text book made by man throughout the many hundreds and even thousands of years.
Essentially with Christianity, you either believe or you go to hell. Although there are alternate views on this from when I went to a Christian school, I raised many questions including the main question that I have posed in this article. So which view is the correct one? You see, this is how religion and faith may have been distorted over the years. Who is to say that what is actually in the bible is correct, when you can have so many different views which interdict those other views which are more mainstream? – Especially considering these religious text books are very old, but who created them? People did, man did… and whatever you say, god never created the bible. Who is to say that what people in the bible is even correct, or isn’t something bullcrap some mindless insane nut job decided to write?
That is my issue with religion/faiths. – With this is mind, how can anyone believe any religious text book? As that is the foundation of belief and faith? I mean I agree with the 10 commandments, I agree with morality and I agree there is good stuff in the bible. However just because the bible contains good stuff, doesn’t make the rest of it anymore correct or accurate.
This is my belief. If god is all knowing… then he’ll be able to tell whether a person has good intentions or not. I don’t believe in the bible for it was written by man. Anyone can interpret what has been written by man in countless ways. Even the people who wrote the bible, could have misinterpreted god if he surely gave mankind free-will. Who the fuck is to say they even got a message from god? God damnit! The only time I’ll believe in god or a higher power is when I see him/her/it, then I’ll know for sure and repent my sins if he/she/it wants me to. :S
by Jonny | Oct 16, 2011 | Updates
… so I'm going to go to sleep now.
I need to get adequate sleep otherwise it will effect my memory from what I've read. According to some internet nerd if you don't get enough sleep, your short-term memory will not be good as your brain processes the information you obtained and stores it in the right compartment of your brain. (So perhaps that is my issue? I am not getting enough sleep! :D) – So here is to a new method to solving my mental issues.
I've completed all my homework and in-fact the teacher didn't give us a 50 questions to answer on our sheet, she in-fact gave us 70 questions to answer. Although I had the help of my cousin, it still took a while to complete the sheet and to be honest I still don't fully understand it.
So tomorrow, I'll wake up early. (Probably around 6 a.m. and just study the sheet a bit more and figure out why the answers I put down were/are correct) 😀
Hopefully tomorrow's lesson goes well. I just hate having bad lessons where I think I've done badly, although I have studied hard for those lessons not to look like a dummy. It just sucks when I have spent most of today studying, yet it seems others spend a couple hours and they are better than me at the lesson. (Though I'm not judging others, I'm in fact judging myself)
Damn am I finding this Chinese hard. Tomorrow I will find a language partner as apparently you can sign up for one at the language centre for free, as they are aspiring teachers who want to gain experience in teaching Chinese to others. So I think that would be quite helpful if I did in-fact sign up for a language partner. Then I could ask the questions I need to ask to actually have this stuff figured out in my brain! I may have to re-take the same level class that I am in again, but I guess that isn't too bad. I met an acquaintance (through a friend) and she had been studying Chinese for 5 years and she is only a level above me and I have only been studying for around 4.5 months. That gave me relief as that made me feel as if I'm not the only one struggling! (Although from my perspective, I am the only one really struggling in my own class, although most of my class mates are Asian!) – So my Korean friend has been continuously saying to me that I shouldn't be comparing myself to them, since their languages are more similar to Chinese than in comparison to English. (My first language)
Another person who is my friend (Who is from America) also re-took the same level as mine. In fact he said he thought he needed to re-take level 0 Chinese. – That gave me hope as I had the same feeling as well! He said he used to come into Chinese class every morning sad, which kind of reminds me of me and when the teacher asked him why he was sad, he would state "I suck at Chinese…". – Kind of the same situation as me. 😀 It kind of made me feel that I'm not alone in this. I mean I have read stories online of people not being able to learn the language within 10 years or they stayed at the same level for over 10 years and never really progressed. I just hope that isn't me. I mean I know that isn't me, because with a little more time I can progress onto the next level. I'm just learning really slowly or slower than others, which is really pissing me off.
/end rant 😀
