weightlifting starts out so simple. You pick basic exercises and then lift. You do 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps and feel sore the next day. In time you move up the poundage scale and you find yourself getting bigger and bigger. Excitement grows rampant and then you form an ego complex without realizing it is there. Well, sometimes you might. Then comes the day when your gains slow down. You can't figure it out. Diet is there and you change your routine. Still, gains come slower. Maybe the calories are too low?
Suddenly as you labor over how to grow more you hear an echo off in the distance. You turn your head to see what it is.You hear people talking about performance enhancing supplements. Your immediate reaction is NO WAY. In time when you continue hitting your head aganist the weight and wonder if that line might be a casual experiment and you lower your guard and read about it and try it. When you see the results coming you have the excitement you had when you first started. Then you slow yourself down and ask an ultimate question, Have I crossed the line?
JW
*just a perception of what could go through the mind of someone who dabbles with performance enhancers.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Gay Pride?
The last weekend of June found some Gay Pride rally's in various cities. New York and St. Petersburg, Fl being 2 of them. Their voice seems to be heard so strongly that employers and others in government seem to be bowing down to them. If not outright, it is subtly.
When you go to a gay pride parade you see men holding men and women holding women. You also see sexual motions performed by some on floats on even those walking. Is society supposed to have any kind of respect for this kind of behaviour? It is sexual deviancy.
Strip club dancers are behind closed doors. There are no windows in these clubs in which to see outside or inside. It is illegal for their behaviour to be seen in public yet gay pride flaunts their deviancy in the public. They preach it to society demanding that society accepts them. They do the very thing they claim preachers do, preach at us demanding we accept them.
They only way Homosexuals can accomplish their madness is to shout from the rooftops so that everyone hears. If they shout long enough society will have enough and cave into their agenda and accept them. In essence it is bowing down to sexual immorality.
Does anyone not see their agenda? Maybe they have you blinded by it and those who are against homosexuality are labeled homophobic? The word doesn't even mean what they imply it means. That is a scare word meant to label those in disagreement and cause them to look 'ignorant'?
JW
When you go to a gay pride parade you see men holding men and women holding women. You also see sexual motions performed by some on floats on even those walking. Is society supposed to have any kind of respect for this kind of behaviour? It is sexual deviancy.
Strip club dancers are behind closed doors. There are no windows in these clubs in which to see outside or inside. It is illegal for their behaviour to be seen in public yet gay pride flaunts their deviancy in the public. They preach it to society demanding that society accepts them. They do the very thing they claim preachers do, preach at us demanding we accept them.
They only way Homosexuals can accomplish their madness is to shout from the rooftops so that everyone hears. If they shout long enough society will have enough and cave into their agenda and accept them. In essence it is bowing down to sexual immorality.
Does anyone not see their agenda? Maybe they have you blinded by it and those who are against homosexuality are labeled homophobic? The word doesn't even mean what they imply it means. That is a scare word meant to label those in disagreement and cause them to look 'ignorant'?
JW
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Health care
I don't know what to think about the Health care situation. Mine has been ok so far but I don't go to the doctor that much. Once a year right now.
I recently went to a nuerosurgeon to get advice on my cerical hernia. I just got a statement in the mail informing me that the insurance didn't pay the doctor at all. I paid $40 out of pocket and the statement says I may be billed for $188. Hmm if this is case, why did they even need my insurance card? Either I will be billed or I won't. Hopefully the latter is the case.
JW
I recently went to a nuerosurgeon to get advice on my cerical hernia. I just got a statement in the mail informing me that the insurance didn't pay the doctor at all. I paid $40 out of pocket and the statement says I may be billed for $188. Hmm if this is case, why did they even need my insurance card? Either I will be billed or I won't. Hopefully the latter is the case.
JW
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Faith and America
The more I live and the more people I come across in person or on the web I see a disturbing trend. The role faith plays in a person's life seems to be at both extremes. On one hand there are those who whose faith in God plays a very important role in their life. Some could be considered disciples of their God. Whether it is CHristianity or Islam or something else. Yet, an increasing number of people are putting away any notion of faith in God for believe in evolution and they fun poke at those who live by faith in their lives.
Science is a major contributor in the erosion of faith in a higher being. Seems that modern society has exchanged faith in God for faith in science and what man can do. I see this as folly personally, since when did man become his ulitmate wisdom for life? I have seen the attitudes of those who throw faith out the window and many of them are very arrogant in attitude and if you spend some time just listening to them on the subject you will find that they have an underlying hatred of God. To me it seems like an insecurity within themselves. They may point out that God is something that cannot be proven therefore He does not exist.
My Science teacher, a Geologist, told us in the beginning of class that religion was based on faith whereas Science is based evidence. Yet, you find Science is based on theories and educated guesses as well, which takes some faith to beleive in.
Religion is based on more than faith. It must have history first. If the history doesn't exist to back up a faith then that faith is nonsense. A person is then only fooling themselves.
Many people who used faith in God at one time seem to be leaning towards just being a good steward towards mankind. Benjamin Franklin is an example of this. In listening to a podcast of part of his life with a work associate he came up with a list of 13 virtues to live by. It seemed to me it was his own version of the 10 commandments but on a human temporal level. While this is ok and shows that Benjamin wanted to better his life he found that he could not keep them all. He found that thing within himself that failed. I see this as God showing him that he is a sinner as all of mankind is. Benjamin refused to go to church after attending particular one for a service because he said the preacher was telling people how to be a good (insert denomination) rather then learning more about God in relation to their lives. Benjamin also offered a prayer but a rather weak one. A generic one that I think strokes the human soul into thinking he did something good.It is one thing to offer up a prayer but quite another to prayer with the undersrtanding of what you are actually doing vs just going through a motion. Hitting the bullseye with understanding and focus vs throwing out words with the foggy hope that something will happen?
Faith in America has been under attack for some and it seems to have caused America to be turned upside down from what it used to be in its beginning with the Pilgrims. I think Science has been a cause and effect for this and people of faith have not used their intelligence and understand the counteract the insurgence. Maybe because they don't know how?
JW
Science is a major contributor in the erosion of faith in a higher being. Seems that modern society has exchanged faith in God for faith in science and what man can do. I see this as folly personally, since when did man become his ulitmate wisdom for life? I have seen the attitudes of those who throw faith out the window and many of them are very arrogant in attitude and if you spend some time just listening to them on the subject you will find that they have an underlying hatred of God. To me it seems like an insecurity within themselves. They may point out that God is something that cannot be proven therefore He does not exist.
My Science teacher, a Geologist, told us in the beginning of class that religion was based on faith whereas Science is based evidence. Yet, you find Science is based on theories and educated guesses as well, which takes some faith to beleive in.
Religion is based on more than faith. It must have history first. If the history doesn't exist to back up a faith then that faith is nonsense. A person is then only fooling themselves.
Many people who used faith in God at one time seem to be leaning towards just being a good steward towards mankind. Benjamin Franklin is an example of this. In listening to a podcast of part of his life with a work associate he came up with a list of 13 virtues to live by. It seemed to me it was his own version of the 10 commandments but on a human temporal level. While this is ok and shows that Benjamin wanted to better his life he found that he could not keep them all. He found that thing within himself that failed. I see this as God showing him that he is a sinner as all of mankind is. Benjamin refused to go to church after attending particular one for a service because he said the preacher was telling people how to be a good (insert denomination) rather then learning more about God in relation to their lives. Benjamin also offered a prayer but a rather weak one. A generic one that I think strokes the human soul into thinking he did something good.It is one thing to offer up a prayer but quite another to prayer with the undersrtanding of what you are actually doing vs just going through a motion. Hitting the bullseye with understanding and focus vs throwing out words with the foggy hope that something will happen?
Faith in America has been under attack for some and it seems to have caused America to be turned upside down from what it used to be in its beginning with the Pilgrims. I think Science has been a cause and effect for this and people of faith have not used their intelligence and understand the counteract the insurgence. Maybe because they don't know how?
JW
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
America, what is happening to you?
I have found myself asking this question lately. America has its first black president and so many people have been hypnotized by him. Is it his race or his speech? Doesn't really matter but he has take America by storm
America is fighting battles in Iraq and Afganhistan and trying to create peace in the middle east. All of this is costing America so much money. While this goes on America is in an economic recession of which the government has decided to throw more money at it to put it out as well as taking over select companies.
We have a fight between members of Congress and the CIA over issues or Torture and who told who what or who didn't tell who anything? It seems to be a result of political surivival.
Is America helping itself in anyway in these situations at all?
Then I see many reports about China. Standoffs in the sea near China with our military ships declaring we have trespassed Chinese waters. I see China making pacts with Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba for oil while America is strapped to a chair because we cannot continue to drill for more oil yet we are dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
Maybe I am missing some facts with these scenerios but to me it seems America is trying to hard to do something that it cannot do while the whole time it is sinking into the sea.
hmmm
JW
America is fighting battles in Iraq and Afganhistan and trying to create peace in the middle east. All of this is costing America so much money. While this goes on America is in an economic recession of which the government has decided to throw more money at it to put it out as well as taking over select companies.
We have a fight between members of Congress and the CIA over issues or Torture and who told who what or who didn't tell who anything? It seems to be a result of political surivival.
Is America helping itself in anyway in these situations at all?
Then I see many reports about China. Standoffs in the sea near China with our military ships declaring we have trespassed Chinese waters. I see China making pacts with Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba for oil while America is strapped to a chair because we cannot continue to drill for more oil yet we are dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
Maybe I am missing some facts with these scenerios but to me it seems America is trying to hard to do something that it cannot do while the whole time it is sinking into the sea.
hmmm
JW
Friday, May 8, 2009
America's Heritage
Lately I have been thinking about the controversy over whether America was established as a christian country as some would say. I feel like I have had an epiphamy in this and here is what came through.
America was established as a place to be free from religious tyranny and oppression, from the King of England. The Puritans were those who came and established this.
What I am figuring out is that just because the word 'GOD' is in the Declaration of Independence doesn't necessarily make it a christian country. The USA was established for the freedom to worship as people chose to without worry of oppression from the government. The christians were the ones who established this. Whether it was meant only for them or not, they did not set that apart in their writings.
America was set up as a place to worship freely, a shelter for those who are and were persecuted because of their faith. Though, the bias would be for christianity, and I can understand it, it really reaches to other faiths as well.
JW
America was established as a place to be free from religious tyranny and oppression, from the King of England. The Puritans were those who came and established this.
What I am figuring out is that just because the word 'GOD' is in the Declaration of Independence doesn't necessarily make it a christian country. The USA was established for the freedom to worship as people chose to without worry of oppression from the government. The christians were the ones who established this. Whether it was meant only for them or not, they did not set that apart in their writings.
America was set up as a place to worship freely, a shelter for those who are and were persecuted because of their faith. Though, the bias would be for christianity, and I can understand it, it really reaches to other faiths as well.
JW
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Radio talk shows
I usually am an avid listener to talk radio. When I listen I am usually listening to Neal Boortz in the morning, an economics guy in the afternoon and I float between a sports radio guy and 2 other guys about politics in the late afternoon.
I have wondered, many of these radio hosts, seem full of themselves. Rush, who I listened to at one point, has this following across America that is unbelieveable. What he says appears to be true but is it really? It really doesn't matter because Rush is laughing all the way to the bank. He has Joe America following after him but does he help Joe America in the process? Not really. He brags about his wealth, a result of Joe America attention to him. You will never see him do anything in Politics in regards to rally's. He is all about himself.
Hannity, I am amazed at the following of Hannity. I went to a TEA party and as soon as I got there a protesting with a sign talked to the local paper who then took a picture of him. This protester mentioned talking to Hannity about something with college but I heard his name echoed alot there. I have heard Hannity and he reminds me of being in church. You hear the shouts of Glory to God, hallelujah, Praise the Lord, etc etc, It ends up being repetition and not really heartfelt. This is what I see in Hannity. His motto 'YOUR A GREAT AMERICAN" Even said this to the Prime Minister of the UK. Come on now....let's be real folks.
I often wonder, if Conservatives were in control of Government and were doing things realitvely well, would these guys still have something to beef about? I think they would because that is how they make their money.. This makes me wonder if my love to talk radio is waning and I see too much of the trees in the Forest.
JW
I have wondered, many of these radio hosts, seem full of themselves. Rush, who I listened to at one point, has this following across America that is unbelieveable. What he says appears to be true but is it really? It really doesn't matter because Rush is laughing all the way to the bank. He has Joe America following after him but does he help Joe America in the process? Not really. He brags about his wealth, a result of Joe America attention to him. You will never see him do anything in Politics in regards to rally's. He is all about himself.
Hannity, I am amazed at the following of Hannity. I went to a TEA party and as soon as I got there a protesting with a sign talked to the local paper who then took a picture of him. This protester mentioned talking to Hannity about something with college but I heard his name echoed alot there. I have heard Hannity and he reminds me of being in church. You hear the shouts of Glory to God, hallelujah, Praise the Lord, etc etc, It ends up being repetition and not really heartfelt. This is what I see in Hannity. His motto 'YOUR A GREAT AMERICAN" Even said this to the Prime Minister of the UK. Come on now....let's be real folks.
I often wonder, if Conservatives were in control of Government and were doing things realitvely well, would these guys still have something to beef about? I think they would because that is how they make their money.. This makes me wonder if my love to talk radio is waning and I see too much of the trees in the Forest.
JW
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