tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:28:01 +0000A simple place for my philosophical meanderings, random thoughts, mental diarrhea, and general commentary on the current human condition; culled from the exquisite asthetic feel of a bible-paper-thin page being turned among thousands, the feel of yellowed book pages flipping by, and the smell of a book so old it overcomes you upon its first opening. <a href="http://ramatheson.com">Click here to return to ramatheson.com</a>http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)Blogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-8867138095272173927Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:55:00 +00002008-02-02T16:59:53.602-07:00Click here. Just do it. Now. Go.For the cynics, it has been verified as a legitimate site by snopes.Click Here Subscribe to The Blog of R.A.Matheson by Email Click this to add this blog to your My AOL, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, or other reader!http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2008/02/simple-fast-way-to-make-world-better-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-77736003638248735Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:50:00 +00002010-03-24T13:59:40.705-07:00Today, near the end of the school day, a student from the school I teach English at went to his girlfriend's house and shot her dead. He then turned the gun on himself. I did not know either student personally, but am a bit shocked. Working at a school, I think about gun violence every day. The thing that is going to be the most difficult for me is listening to all of the "causes" people come up http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2008/01/students-at-my-school-shot-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-9219473651772273342Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:40:00 +00002008-01-26T14:23:01.884-07:00I just watched the movie, "This Film is Not Yet Rated." In the film, Private Investigators are hired to investigate the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). It turns out, this is one of the most secretive, corrupt organizations in the country. There ratings are entirely arbitrary, and the member names are kept entirely secret, among other things.One scary fact from the movie is that the http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-film-is-not-yet-rated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-19286303661559503Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:10:00 +00002007-09-08T08:05:50.760-07:00Some shocking statistics show that if you are in the United States Military, then there is a good chance that it hasn't been too long since you thought about suicide. After reading this distressing article, and doing some further research of my own around the web (mainly at this site), I came up with some startling figures.The suicide rate amongst members of the United States Army is the highesthttp://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-is-last-time-you-thought-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-8835698645946827427Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:02:00 +00002011-10-15T17:06:35.176-07:00We need another Dalton Trumbo. Someone who could write in a way that would stir us, a way that would shock us. Someone who would stand up for what they believed in even at the cost of their freedom, even at the cost of having to change their name and flee to Mexico.Who was Dalton Trumbo? In my opinion, he is one of the greatest American Novelists, and a true American that lived in the Twentieth http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/08/dalton-trumbo-where-are-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-4785649360185225342Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:22:00 +00002007-08-24T06:22:21.716-07:00Things have become incredibly busy now that I am in the last semester at my University. I will try to keep the posting to at least once a week, but posting every other day is no longer something I can do. I hope you understand, and continue to read.Thank you.Click Here Subscribe to The Blog of R.A.Matheson by Email&nbsp;Click this to add this blog to your My AOL, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, or http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-post-schedule.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-3444519916237546442Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:43:00 +00002010-03-24T14:03:04.294-07:00I'm sure there will be a ton of hate-mail about this one, and yes, it may be a tiny bit tongue-in-cheek. That's the only sort of disclaimer I'm going to offer.But really, folks, I hate your children. I may be biased, but is my child the only one that doesn't look like a clay-mation doll that used fat instead of clay, and then went horribly wrong? I may be biased, but is my child the only one thathttp://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/08/your-children-disgust-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-3228705969287920800Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:16:00 +00002007-08-14T00:41:43.156-07:00The other day I was driving up the road. I swear that I saw this girl from high school. She was walking along the sidewalk. She still had the big 90s haircut that you could land a plane on, and looked to be about two hundred pounds. No, she wasn't particularly tall. She was five-five I'd guess. She was pretty chunky for a thirty-or-so-year-old woman, and I had to laugh to myself.I mean, this girlhttp://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/you-were-so-hot-in-high-schoolnow-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-6358154915611944217Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:32:00 +00002007-08-11T08:38:27.923-07:00 I just read a harrowing article in the most recent Discover magazine. Now, this is not a magazine that normally writes about anything political, and I guess this really isn’t a political issue, although I am sure some will see it as some form of “liberal media” attack. Anyone that would think that is a horse’s ass blinded by partisanship, and it sickens me at the realization that I am http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-face-of-iraq.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-9222394064372016906Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:09:00 +00002010-03-24T14:03:56.977-07:00Okay, so today I had time to post here. I might actually post some again this week if I get more time.The other day I was at someone's house and a commercial for "Restless Leg Syndrome" came on the television. This person started asking everyone about some other disease, a mental disorder, that people claimed to have that made them depressed or sad and blame their parents for everything they do. http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/bipolar-cop-out-disease.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-5828742864360989592Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:44:00 +00002007-08-04T16:19:55.230-07:00Just to let you all know, I may not be online mostly until this coming Friday, and the every-other-day-posts will resume on Friday or Saturday. In the meantime, catch up on ones you haven't read, and remember to subscribe!Click Here Subscribe to The Blog of R.A.Matheson by Email&nbsp;Click this to add this blog to your My AOL, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, or other reader!http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/08/week-off-from-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-949112219115596185Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:52:00 +00002007-08-01T09:48:52.604-07:00Imagine:It is a nice day and you are at home relaxing. The doorbell rings, and you answer it. A cop is there, and demands you identify yourself. You tell him you don't have to, so you shut the door, as he is getting aggressive with his voice. Suddenly, he tries to kick the door in but can't so he smashes your front window, cuts his hand while trying to unlock your deadbolt, gets in and chases youhttp://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/just-imagine-this-happened-to-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-9156403688115438386Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:54:00 +00002007-07-30T10:16:16.457-07:00What a great word. It's an adjective, a verb, and a noun. You can even make a sentence using almost nothing but this chameleon of a word. "Hey fuck, fucking fuck the fuck off you fucking fucker!" I'm sure you've all heard this or discussed it before, but it was just brought to my attention again after watching the movie "F*CK" which was made around 2003 or so. It's basically an hour and a half http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/word-fuck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-7321438152269358607Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:51:00 +00002007-07-29T08:52:41.918-07:00As I run two blogs, I have decided that from now on I shall alternate each day between them. My other blog, if you weren't aware, is The Atheist Bible Study. Subscribe below, and add me to whatever feed reader you use.Click Here Subscribe to The Blog of R.A.Matheson by Email&nbsp;Click this to add this blog to your My AOL, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, or other reader!http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/update-on-posting-schedule.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-5411903621246024766Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:00 +00002007-07-28T15:48:38.368-07:00Do you want to know how to turn your man on like nothing else? Do you want to get him so steamed his rocket fires off like an atom-bomb? Well, if so, don't read Cosmopolitan magazine. Well, if you are completely sexually ignorant (as many women are) then maybe it can do you some good. But really, if you are this lame in bed, I really think you need more help than a woman's magazine whose prime http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/seven-moves-every-sex-goddess-has.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-8663401602322692552Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:24:00 +00002007-07-26T09:25:59.507-07:00The subject of illegal aliens is quite a touchy one, especially here in my home state of Arizona. The only reason for this blog is that I'd like to make a few points about my opinions on the matter.First, there is the old point that everyone's heard before. That is that these people who come here to our country take away jobs from Americans. That tends to be the argument of those on the politicalhttp://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/thank-insert-important-spiritual-figure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-852755171095292673Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:11:00 +00002007-07-25T10:27:34.196-07:00I saw the movie "Hairspray" recently, and it brought something to mind. My girlfriend said at the beginning, "Fat women love this movie." I told her I was just thinking that that must be true.Beyond the movie itself, which was good (and I hate most musicals), the story about the fat girl was silly and personally a bit offensive. In the movie, she sang and argued against her being discriminated http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/youre-fat-and-its-not-genetics-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-4095226773506890250Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:51:00 +00002007-07-24T12:37:40.189-07:00In George Orwell's books, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the author describes a dystopian society. Dystopia is the polar opposite of Utopia, the latter being a society that is perfect with no crime or hunger or problems of any sort. In a Utopia, everyone lives in a perfect, harmonious, just and fair society. A Dystopia is the opposite, where people live in oppression, fear, hunger, and poverty.In this http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/can-they-make-laws-against-what-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-112316524673350308Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:56:00 +00002007-07-22T19:31:57.543-07:00I was saddened, nay, sickened, to read a story on Antiwar.com, which is my homepage. I usually check up each morning on the stories going around. That story, of twenty soldiers from one town in Ohio all dying within two days over in Iraq, is daunting. Something I noticed in the story was that fourteen of the twenty were reservists. These are men and women whom are only supposed to be used as a http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-was-saddened-nay-sickened-to-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-46856123376558706Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:22:00 +00002007-07-20T16:49:40.493-07:00I saw the movie SICKO a couple weeks ago. It was great, and basically just more information that I already knew. It was just driven in more by the movie. I've said since about 2005 that I've wanted to move to Canada (specifically, Vancouver) when I graduated from college in 2007 or a while after establishing my career as a teacher say in 2009 or 2010. Now, it's about time to graduate, but moving http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/america-fuck-yeah.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-6943628709016916231Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:35:00 +00002007-07-20T11:54:22.213-07:00You should go here and buy there DVD. It is fascinating. It deals with our modern mythology, Christ, the Bible, and drug use and drug history. It's very interesting and a fun watch. I've followed these guys since about 2002 and they really have their stuff together.http://gnosticmedia.com/ Click this to add this blog to your My AOL, My Yahoo, Google Homepage, or other reader!http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/was-there-jesus-is-bible-true.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-8559389007672355541Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:00 +00002007-07-19T19:51:23.029-07:00I spent a year at a Glendale Community College, and the caliber of teachers was much higher than it is here at Arizona State University. I have no idea why the teachers were better there. Perhaps it is because these ones have a sort of hubris due to PhDs and having a "I'm a University Professor" attitude?For example, today in class we talked about:- collapsible runways that can save lives in http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-am-so-tired-of-university-classes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-2775371987593473580Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:31:00 +00002007-07-19T10:40:54.194-07:00This blog is one of a friend that I ran into. It's pretty witty and is mostly about travel, politics, and Malaysia. The blog is by someone that I had met online a few years ago, and just got caught up with after not having spoken in a while. If you get time, swing by and check it out. http://areureadingthis.blogspot.com/ http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2007/07/interesting-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-112982229425781854Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:29:00 +00002007-07-19T10:44:02.680-07:00I was reading John Stuart Mill today, and he really made some good points. He spoke about over-population, and how the individual is being lost in society. I have to agree. I am an extensive writer, putting something to words at least once a day, not counting required writing for school, etc. I write for the pure enjoyment of it. Actually, I should probably say I write for the pure necessity of http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2005/10/quality-not-quantity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15060829.post-112812226320950846Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:14:00 +00002011-09-25T13:19:08.940-07:00The Red Sox mean I am lying on my grandmother’s bed, and I am only six. I am breathing in the smell of popcorn, too heavy with butter and salt, and watching the glowing screen on the dresser. She wears her concern well, and occasionally lets loose with a barrage of curses. She has been passionate this way since she was a child, and some would see a Hyde where Jekyll was all they had known. Her http://ramatheson.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-red-sox-mean-to-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (You Haven't Heard of Him)0