2nd to last one for UTSA

This is my second to last blog for my freshman english compisition class and i must say it was much harder to keep a blog updated than i orginally concieved it would be.
For this blog i think i will comment on the book i have been reading lately and the debate i have been watching bits and pieces of on you tube. The book i have been reading is "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. The debate i have been watching is a debate over Athiesm vs. Christianity (just youtube that there is 15 ten minute sections).
I want to start off by saying that i am a christian with strong views that will not be changed even by the most radical of circumstances. I do believe in god so my view on the situation is biased as one my suspect. However i do think that christianity is the educated route.
First off the book, Richard Dawkins is no genius. Merely, a moron making claims that focus on extremities and non factual basis. He sets up his own scale for determining the level of how strongly you believe in something. None of his views are widely accepted. He is extremely hypocritical. If asked i can explain more but for the purposes of this blog at the moment it is unneccesry. I can give quotes though. He claims that as athiest do not believe in god or better wordered to do not believe in anything they have nothing to prove yet it must be proved to them that god exist. If this is the case then why argue that no god exists when your only arguement is that no proof for god is existant when such proof is existant. Richard Dawkins is no genius.
Next is the debate i have been watching. The same arguements for athiesm are taken generally speaking only with a couple direct literal translations of the bible used as an arguement. Much of the bible is metephorical and as i human and i christian i am sure that nobody understands it all. However, just because it is dificult to comprehend does not make it false and does not mean it should be taken literally. Not all good things come easy.
I have no problem with athiest. My problem is with uninformed athiest who are hyporcrits.

UTC

I visited the University of Tennessee of Chattanooga from Tuesday to Friday of last week. I was visiting for my freshman orientation (which is rather early) as because I will be attending the university next year. I have decided to major in environmental engineering and will minor in business management. I sincerely enjoyed many aspects of the campus. The location was perfect as far as the part of the country of which it lies. Chattanooga is surrounded in an outdoor Mecca. However, the city of Chattanooga while many would considered the city small from my perspective the city is a little on the large side, but nothing that I can’t deal with. The classes are good. I am truly excited about starting studying to become an engineer. My favorite part about the whole university is the outdoor club. I cannot wait to start school for the outdoor club as the primary reason. The outdoor club is a club that is extremely active in outdoor activities from whitewater kayaking (my favorite) to skydiving to backpacking to rock climbing to camping and others. While all I will want to do while at school is kayak the Ocoee River 24/7. However, I do also extremely love backpacking but it just not in the same league as kayaking. The campus itself is aesthetically pleasing as far as I am concerned. It is an outdoor campus with extremely old buildings and big trees with the backdrop scenery as the Appalachian Mountains. While attending the university I will be employed by the universities outdoor program teaching beginner kayaking classes teaching students to roll a kayak. I will also be employed as a slow pitch softball umpire for the campus’s intramural sports. I am unbelievably excited to start school in the fall. I am so excited that until school starts in the fall everything is going to be as exciting as watching paint dry. I do not know how I will remain entertained until I can get out of Texas and into Tennessee. My excitement may be overkill though. There is an extremely slight possibility that with all my excitement I may be disappointed it what life will actually be like. However, I severely doubt that I am wrong in my presumptions of extreme enjoyment. Outside of maintaining a 3.7 GPA I really want to be running class 5 rivers within a year and a half. I also have an extremely distant goal of participating in the Green River Race my junior year and possibly trying out of the Olympic kayaking team. We’ll see.

i'm gonna tell you anyway

I am going to be missing my freshman composition class this Thursday due to the fact that i will be in Chattanooga, TN for orientation for next year. Before my departure TB told me that the class will be discussing science and when it's necessary and when it's overkill. What a good topic to discuss. There are many ideas and views to this topic. It is very much a grey area where the perfect answer is different for everybody yet it affects everybody.
What I think is a simple yet effective answer but not solution to the problem is when we start asking ourselves if it is overkill then its overkill. The more I think about this answer the more I realize that its simplistic nature is complex in its roots.
My answer to such a controversial question is exactly what many would expect, controversial. I believe that technology has caused more corruption than it has good. It starts a repeating cycle that cannot be stopped without a massive die out of the earth’s population. With all this science and/or technology good causes have come such as medicinal advances and electricity however bad things have come such as computers, television, and the internet. These are things that we all love but have caused massive corruption. If outside the spectrum looking in at the United States viewing how technology has corrupted society there are many things to take notice too. One thing to take notice to is how the United States has the most cars per household out of anywhere in the world. Consequently, the United States has become so accustomed to driving and riding everywhere they go that walking or any form of exercise has become virtually extinct and know the United States is the most obese country in the planet. This is due to the domino effect of technology.
I do not want to let my strong opinion on the subject take control of me and began to let my opinions run wild while loosing track of any factual basis. Early I stated that technology has begun a vicious circle that as far as I am concerned is the beginning of the end. This circle starts at the beginning of the earth and lets just say for visual purposes that one revolution of the circle is one year in time. Well as technology has grown over time the earths population has grown this is obvious yet extremely important to note. Technology has grown in ways known and unknown to everyday citizens but most noticeably technology has grown in medicinal advances, computers, engineering, etc. The earth’s population has gained so much numerical value due to technology such as medicinal advances. The earth’s population has grown so big that in order to sustain the earth’s population we must keep advancing technology which in turn will push population growth which in turn will push technological advances and on and on it goes, round and round. Eventually as already predicted by the discovery channel and national geographic the world will get so advanced that everything will be run by the internet to whole new extreme. Technology will be so advanced that there will be an elevator to the moon, NASA mission to mars, cars that drive themselves, hologram pets that can communicate with humans. The world will become so extremely dependent on this technology that it would only take one internet crash for the whole world to go into trauma. At this point everybody will be so dependent on the internet that the one time the internet crash everybody will panic. This crash will be the beginning the of the end for the earth. The root of all evils.

Thanks Kansas

March madness and its madness finally came to an exciting finish. With the final game between memphis and kansas going into overtime for the championship it is hard to think of a more dramatic way to end the tournament. From the beginning march madness was the stage for many upset losses for higher seeded teams to lower seeded teams. This is not abnormal. My bracket did not suffer much from these upsets because a few of them i picked. Such as sienna defeating villinova. The beginning stages of the tournament and therefore my bracket were all well and good. Yet when west virginia beat duke my chances at a perfect final four prediction were sunk. How does west virginia beat a acc contender. I had seen paulus having a magnificent game to upset ucla and go to the final four. I was wrong because they never got their shot. However the three other teams i predicted correctly for the final four. Kansas, memphis, and university of north carolina were all in the final four with ucla who i had not predicted. The memphis vs. ucla game was not one of any inparticular suprise the freshman battle of ucla's love and memphis's rose was proved to be victorious for memphis as their star player rose lead the team to the ncaa march madness finals. Then comes good old kansas vs. unc. Before i began i must mention kansas is nothing but velcro that doesn't stick, hot glue dried on your hands, bird poop in your hair, tree sap on your nipples, they just suck. Anyways, i predicted on my bracket that these teams would meet in the final four and unc would prove victorious. Well damnit i was wrong. The player of the year hansbrough proved to be useless in this game. The best team in the league showed up as a highschool jv team ready to play a wnba team named kansas. Kansas won my bracket got screwed i dropped from first to third place in one game as i predicted unc to win it all. Then kansas pulled upset number two when they beat memphis in over time when memphis's star play rose proved to be useless. This was a great tournament until the final four when my bracket got screwed over and now i have to go hibernate for 11 months until next years tournament because i shall not be seen for all the shit talking with no walking.