Exist.

You do not exist. At least until you are beneficial to another person, opposing another person, or acknowledged by society or a higher authority. No one exists when they are born.
People never take notice of other passerby. They are both strangers to each other, alien. Nothing is known between them, nothing known from them. They do not exist to each other. The only people that exist are people that are known. Friends, family, famous celebrities, possibly a classmate only whose name is known. We are all ghosts, never truly seen clearly by those who do not believe in us. Abraham Lincoln, he would not be a nationally, or possibly internationally, known figure, would he not have been acknowledged by the American society for his deeds. Your friends, why are you friends with them in the first place? Because they benefit you in some fashion, either to support you, make you feel accepted, maybe even to make you feel better about yourself. They exist because they are useful. Your enemies, rivals, jerks you hate, they exist to you because they oppose you in some fashion, even if they aren't actively aggressive to you know, they probably were in the past. You know them, so in that case they exist.
Most people want to be seen, they want to exist. They try to become accepted into society, most likely to make society acknowledge them as a great person. If that doesn't work, they try to become useful to society, becoming friendly with anyone, to help people out. The easiest way to exist, is to become the opposition. Rejecting everyone, while trying to prove themselves right. Lashing out to make people see them, not as ghosts, but as humans. Is this existence?
~C.

World Peace

All the good little boys and good little girls wish for peace in the world. No conflict, no hatred, a world in which guns are thrown away and everybody has good relations. No war. But, what would it take for such a thing to take place? A change in the population in which everybody has no opinion, where everyone is the same? A surplus of resources and good conditions everywhere? An outside threat to everyone that creates unity? What does it take to create world peace?
A change in which everyone becomes the same doesn't seem like the optimal choice in this utopia, and it certainly doesn't seem very realistic. Differing views stem from differing conditions in the environment and possibly genetic make-up, which creates variation among individuals. A surplus of resources and good conditions might work, but it would require a miracle for something like that to happen, and plus this surplus will contribute to the growing global population, and soon there wouldn't be enough to feed everyone again, so conflict over resources would yet continue. An outside threat to everyone could possibly work, foreign terror can be a powerful unifying force, as individuals usually band together in the face of adversity(ex. the September 11th, 2001 terrorist bombings on the Twin Towers), but it could also work in the opposite direction, panic and confusion could drive different groups of people against each other, creating a divisive force in the population.
These are some theoretical situations in which all peoples of the world form friendly bonds with one another and end all wars (or conflicts) in the world. But what would actually work? Can you think of some things?
~C.

Happy that we're not

You know what. There are so many whiner blogs out there that I'm happy that we talk about random metaphorically-enlightening nonsense rather than complain about the mundanity of our lives.

Aren't you?

In other news:

Haiti!

I doubt humanity will get off of its lazy ass to defend Haiti. I feel that recently, we've degenerated into apathetic slugs who solely work in self-interest. So if you feel like proving me wrong, get your friends to help the rescue effort in Haiti...somehow. I wouldn't know, I'm one of the slugs.

Holy crap, I started whining, what to do now....

*snaps fingers*

HEY!

DO YOU WANNA FEEL SO ENERGETIC?!?

whoever can name where that's from gets a free...I dunno.

hi-five of awesomeness.

I changed the muzak.

May the force be with you. BKH

When I was your age...

I hope that I get to grow up to be one of the greatest old men ever. I would pass down wisdom like nobody's business. Only I would be so senile and crazy that all of my teachings would be incoherent. And I would be talking nonsense in three different languages: English, Chinese, and Spanish, with random gibberish sprinkled here and there. Also, whenever I would have the opportunity, I would always talk with my mouth full. Get some disgusting blobs of food everywhere, with some spit. And I would always creep or annoy people younger than me. Like with little children, I would be all nice and keep talking to them about how the world was when I was their age. And I would threaten them to pay my retirement funds. I would keep yelling at teenagers, to "turn down their music", even when they didn't have it on. I would also yell at them about their physical appearances, clothes, and manner of speaking. And for adults would be younger than me, I would always offer them the most useless and disgusting things, like my pre-chewed food or a random stick I found. I would also give them financial advice that makes no sense what-so-ever. And for old people, we would keep shouting at each other, then laugh and go play cyber bingo. I would also make sure to not get sent to some insane asylum, so I could keep going to the supermarket's return or refund lane to talk to random people. Yup, I would be one of the best crazy, senile old men ever. Hopefully.

Primal Instincts

Humans. Are they truly more sophisticated than the rest? I suppose it's true in some sense, being able to change the environment around us, creating structures, marvels of wonders, with our own hands. But are we really as intelligent and superior as the rest of the animals? Or have we still the instincts of them?
Take for example, the discrimination of women in societies. Sure, in developed worlds such as the United States and India, secularism and womens' education have lessened the sexism in their societies, but it still exists today. But why? Why discriminate women? How have these patriarchal societies come to be? I have a theory, and I'm pretty sure many other scientists (or human geographers) have already figured it out.
It all starts with the habits of animals. Usually, because of certain organs of females, the mother carries the responsibility of feeding the newborns after birth, while the father has to protect the family or go to hunt for food. This is natural, but if the population keeps getting larger, as it inevitably will under certain circumstances, the males will have to hunt for more and more food, thus depleting the available resources and thus cause competition to arise. Between species, different populations, or in the same population, it can vary, but the results could prove to be the same. So, when there is competition, there is naturally warfare; the two populations will attack each other for the resources, like when individuals fight over a mate. Now, warfare needs some sort of organization, otherwise things will really get out of hand, so this creates a need for a government, which will oversee the fighting, the resources, and any other issue in the population. Now, because the females in the population have the burden of caring for the young, the males are usually the ones who fight, so as a result, the males get the glory and recognition while the women are pretty much just seen as the child-bearers of the society. And so, the government gives more rights to the glorified males while oppressing the females, fearing that should they get killed, there would be less of a population to fight even more. Religions come about, which restrict females' role in society even more (such as Christianity and Islam) and this eventually evolves into women discrimination as we know it today. This is my theory, and I have not the tools, knowledge, nor contacts to experiment to see if it is true. This is also one example of humans acting on animal insticts. Also please don't be insulted, if you feel insulted.

Boredom: mark one.

Yeah, I got bored so I changed the music. ._.

Some of you guys prob recognize it, but whatever..

Good luck with finals to everyone, and happy holidays!

EDIT: changed the song again after saying happy holidays and realizing that I didn't put up a christmas/hannukah/holiday related song.

~BKH

Aliens

What if aliens communicated through smell? Like if they had different smell glands that they could switch through, to make different sequences of smells. And they'd have a nose like a dog, only more powerful and sensitive. Then how would we communicate with them? What if we accidentally told them "You guys suck" because of our smells? And then we would be screwed if they had giant doomsday weapons capable of destroying a small planet like earth a million times over. Just what if.

~C.