Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Amazing how some people are so weak. Do the damn thing, stand on your own, branch out on your own. Stop being so scared to try something out of the ordinary.
I am also sick of dumb men who stay with someone who they know is not right for them simply because you are in a comfort zone or they are scared of someone else being around their kids.
Why stay and your are that miserable. It's time for a change.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Sigh
Sigh....Big Sigh.....
This is getting really old and I am getting really annoyed at the whole situation. Deal with it yourself.
WoW that felt good. I needed to get that off of my chest. {Please don't ask}
Anyways
Love....
Love is a powerful word and I think people sometimes use it in the wrong context. Please remember if you tell someone you love them be prepared for the consequences that may follow... Also being IN LOVE is different than just telling someone you love them. Get my point??? Look I am tired and there is a lot of things that I would like to say...Wait scratch that, there are a lot of things that I need to say but refrain from saying them because I don't need to hurt anyone's feelings. So I will keep my mouth shut and keep the peace. Sometimes it's better that way anyways.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Very Interesting....


The Case of Ota Benga
In 1906 the crowds thronged the monkey house exhibit at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park). Here were man's "evolutionary ancestors" - monkeys, chimpanzees, a gorilla named Dinah, an orangutan named Dohung and an African pygmy tribesman named Ota Benga.Ota Benga was brought from the Belgian Congo in 1904 by noted African explorer Samuel Verner along with other pygmies and displayed in an exhibit in the 1904 St. Louis world's Fair. Ota Benga (or "Bi", which means "friend" in his language) was born in 1881, had a height of 4 ft. 11in. and weighted 103 lbs. Although he was referred to as a boy he had been married twice. His first wife had been captured by a hostile tribe and his second wife died by a snake bite.
After the St. Louis exhibit, Ota found himself at the Bronx Zoo which at that time was under the direction of Dr. William T. Hornaday, who was considered a bit eccentric. Hornaday believed animals had nearly human thoughts and personalities, and he could read the thoughts of zoo animals. He "apparently saw no difference between a wild beast and the little Black man" and insisted he was only offering an "intriguing exhibit". (Jerry Bergman, Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol 16, No 1 Dec 1993-Feb 1994 p. 49, quoting Carl Sifakis, "Benga, Ota: The Zoo Man", in American Eccentrics, Facts on File, New York, 1984, p. 253)
The exhibit was immensely popular and controversial; the black community was outraged and some churchmen feared that it would convince people of Darwin's theory of evolution. Under threat of legal action, Hornaday had Ota Benga leave his cage and circulate around the zoo in a white suit, but he returned to the monkey house to sleep.
In time Ota Benga began to hate being the object of curiosity. "There were 40,000 visitors to the part on Sunday. Nearly every man, woman and child of this crowd made for the monkey house to see the start attraction in the park - the wild man from Africa. They chased him about the grounds add day, howling, jeering, and yelling. Some of them poked him in the ribs, others tripped him up, all laughed at him." (Creation Ex Nihilo, quoting Phillip V. Bradford and Harvey Blume, "Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo", St. Martins, 1992, p. 269, from the "New York Times" Sept. 18, 1906) At one point, he got hold of a knife and flourished it around the park, another time he produced a fracas after being denied a soda from the soda fountain. Finally, after fabricating a small bow and arrows and shooting at obnoxious park visitors he had to leave the park for good.
After his park experience, several institutions tried to help him. He was placed in Virginia Theological Seminary and College but quit school to work in a tobacco factory. According to Hornaday (who probably had evolutionary racist views) "he did not possess the power of learning" (Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol 16, No. 1 Dec. 1993-Feb 1994, pp. 48-50).
Growing homesick, hostile, and despondent Ota Benga borrowed a revolver, and shot himself in the heart, ending his life in 1916.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Lately I have been a little short with people, the kids, just everyone....I guess that I am just really getting tired of all of everyone's bull shit. You know it gets tiring after a while, people with their same ol stuff day in and day out. And it seems as if it is all being dumped on me. And while I try to be a team player, I just can't anymore. My home life has some curve balls in it that need to be attended to....and for me that is extremely important....It's time for me to do me and my family at home.
Life is to short for people to not know what they really want out of life...If you truly know what you want, then do it stop waiting because no one is promised tomorrow. And if you want to get something off of your chest, But are afraid of hurting someone's feelings, it's better if you just say it and get it over with. You can't make everyone happy....Also, you can't spend your life dwelling on the past and things that happened before because you surely can't go back to yesterday so leave it as yesterday and focus on today. All you can do is go forward.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Things
There are certain people's blog pages that I visit frequently and others that I don't. One thing that I have noticed lately is that the pages that I do visit once in a while the things that people say or comments that have been made on their pages by other people are very enlightening.
Anyways....
Life has been cool except for the occasional situations that happen with other people. For instance EI* is a social worker and gets a fucked up message from one of her clients on her voicemail on Friday. Now EI* is all pissed over it, which I understand. But now it is Monday and EI* is still bitching over this same message. So I say to EI* "Look get over it because you have no control over what people say to you, but also you can't let it ruin your entire weekend and now the beginning of your week." I can tell by the tone in EI*'s voice that she is like whatever. Oh well you can't please everyone.
