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WoW > Crack
First, I obviously don't understand addiction. I guess maybe you can be addicted to anything? I dunno, this whole thing is a bit crazy to me. And second, if you let your 15 year-old child play a computer game until they DIE, you are probably not the greatest parent.World Of Warcraft 'more addictive than crack cocaine' as teenager suffers convulsions after 24-hour-long game
An internet computer game has been condemned as being as addictive as cocaine after a teenager who played it 24 hours non-stop had convulsions.
World of Warcraft has been hugely successful in capturing the imagination of players by drawing them into a virtual universe of battles and quests.
However, it is at the centre of a growing problem of computer game addiction.
Highly addictive: World of Warcraft has been described by experts as the crack cocaine of the gaming world
Many players will sit alone in their rooms for hours at a time, immersed in the lives of their fantasy character creations - or Avatars.
Some 11milion around the globe play World of Warcraft - making it the world's most successful 'MMORPG' - massively multi-player online role-playing game.
However, a report from Sweden's Youth Care Foundation describes it as 'the most dangerous game on the market'.
The report's author Sven Rollenhagen said: 'There is not a single case of game addiction that we have worked with in which World of Warcraft has not played a part.
'It is the crack cocaine of the computer game world. Some will play it till they drop.'
The Swedish National Institute of Public Health has backed the report, adding: 'Computer game addiction is becoming more widespread across the world.'
The warning comes after a Swedish boy of 15 collapsed after playing it for for 24 hours earlier this month.
Hospital doctors diagnosed an epileptic-type seizure brought on by sleep deprivation, lack of food, and too long a stretch of concentrated game playing. He has made a full recovery.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one to two hours per day of 'screen time'.
Psychiatrist Dr Richard Graham of London's Tavistock Centre said: 'Some of my clients will discuss playing games for 14, 16 hours a day at times, without breaks and without attending to their physical needs.
'For those, the consequences are potentially severe.
'Such prolonged gaming can produce a sort of socially withdrawn figure who may be connecting with people in the game, but is largely dropping out of education and other social opportunities.'
Off to play WoW now. ;-)
Why Jesus would love to spank us:
Because he loves us! Well, that's what John Piper douchebag, oh I mean Pastor, of some mega church says. Actually, what he says is that you should spank your own children 'cause that's what jesus would do. For example:
The very word "spank" exists because there is such a thing as a loving way to whop a child on his behind or his chunky thigh.If god did not want us to spank our children, they wouldn't have such deliciously chunky little bottom's. He also says, "Spanking is so clean! It's so quick! It's so relieving!" Which doesn't make sense to me on many levels. (1) what the hell does "clean" have to do with anything?!?! (2) yes, most forms of child abuse are quick - cause they are done out of anger. And (3) who the fuck is relieved?!? That is so messed up. You are relieved because you hit your kid? Or the kid is relieved that your tirade is now over?
He has some biblical shit in there about how god makes us suffer because he loves us and therefore you should make your children suffer, if you love them. SO bottom line (hehe) is that you must hit your children if you love them! In the name of god!
Arkansas Update
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The resolution itself: HJR 1009: AMENDING THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL THE PROHIBITION AGAINST AN ATHEIST HOLDING ANY OFFICE IN THE CIVIL DEPARTMENTS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS OR TESTIFYING AS A WITNESS IN ANY COURT.
Who knew?
"Everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it's not realistic at all."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
What I completely don't understand in this whole "debate" is how conservative "abstinence only" people miss that this isn't about the baby at all (well...theoretically. But that's a whole 'nother discussion): It's about a ruined life - the mother's. There is no question that a child born into Sarah Palin's family will be "alright." To me that's not the issue. Bristol actually explains it pretty perfectly:
"I wish it would happen in like 10 years, so I could have a job and an education and be, like, prepared, and have my own house and stuff. But he brings so much joy. I don't regret it at all. I just wish it would have happened in 10 years rather than right now."Of course not many people "regret" their children. Whether they are children themselves or not. What they will "regret" and mourn, forever, is the death of their potential. If we take away the power for girls to protect themselves from having their future's destroyed, isn't our whole society to follow?
Should Bristol have kids? Sure, why not? Should she have them now? Probably not. Does SHE have the right to decide whether or not to have/keep the baby? Of course she does (for now anyway). Just like she had the choice to use protection in the first place, but for whatever reason (gee I can't imagine...) she was too afraid to go that route. So here sits a girl, not a woman, who is going to do her best to stumble through the rest of her life and stumble through motherhood. Wouldn't everyone have been better off if she had waited 10 years?
Arkansas Update - Bring your guns to church!!!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
So in the always entertaining on-going series about how much I enjoy Arkansas, today's update:
They passed a law allowing guns in church.
The bill, which passed on a 57-42 vote and now heads to the Senate, removes churches and other houses of worship from the list of places where concealed handguns are banned. Currently, the only private entities where concealed weapons are banned are churches and bars.
So now the only place in Arkansas that you can't take your gun is to a bar. 'Cause if you are going to go on a murderous rampage and shoot innocent civilians, you're really gonna think twice if the law says not to bring your gunz.
Skittles & Vodka
At first thought, this is AWESOME. And once you think about it a little more, it becomes even more awesome. No really. Think about it. That's what I thought. Now, I don't see myself actually making this stuff, but I would love it if someone wanted to volunteer. In the name of science!!!!
Conundrum
Thursday, February 5, 2009
I really want to get this shirt:
But I don't want to support this organization. Hmmmm..... Choices.... Like the choice to think this is the funniest damn thing I have seen in a while. And if you read their logic on this it's even greater.
Who is scarier: Cheney or "the terrorists"?
What I don't understand is why this guy is still given a platform to spew this crap. He gave a lovely interview the other day to Politico. And by lovely of course I mean crazy. Here is just a bit:
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.I worry when political figures decide when and how the constitution applies. I also worry about a person who can even think things like this. Of course we can analyze this quote and all the reason's this makes absolutely no sense, but the bottom line is that he is still out there saying things like this, and there are still people who AGREE with this.
Crazy old man is crazy.
Yes ANOTHER reason I don't like Warren
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Evangelical's and the hatefulness they spout is bad enough; when it get's presidential approval it's absurd. A new article discusses the view of Evangelical's (and Saddleback) with regards to spousal abuse.
What is a good enough reason for divorce? Well, according to Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, divorce is only permitted in cases of adultery or abandonment -- as these are the only cases permitted in the Bible -- and never for abuse.So if your husband screws another woman or leaves you for another woman, you are allowed to divorce him. If he beats you into unconsciousness, that's not good enough. You should apparently just try to "work it out." I sincerely wonder what they believe with regard to child abuse. Maybe its ok if he hits a daughter but not a son? Or I guess they believe you can beat your children no matter what.
I guess when you are uneducated, working for minimum wage to support 5 kids 'cause you don't believe in birth control (or wait, isn't it 18 now?), and you're wife doesn't work because "her place" is in the home, the only source of joy in your life would be smacking the shit out of your wife. >sigh<
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