Old stuff, but...

This stuff is from a little while back when I actually first saw this videos some time last year, but I wanted to put it in a real blog post for you guys to actually see lolz

Responses to a Video #1:

Here's the videos I'm responding to:

First, Teen Werewolves. Second: Wolfie Blackheart.

I'll start with the Wolfie Blackheart News story and go from there...If you're like me, and didn't hear about this story in January, here's a briefing:

A 23 year old girl, Sarah R., who goes by the name "Wolfie Blackheart" has a hobby of taxidermy, and supposedly took it to far, as the news stated. She claims her friend gave her the dog, already dead [named Shadow, hit by a car] and said she could do whatever. Wolfie then decapitated it, posting the pictures on MySpace, and boiled it in order to keep the skull for herself. Her neighbor was looking at the pictures and said, "Oh my god...that's Rigsby," which is the name of the dog that went missing about a week before or something. Her neighbor accused her of animal cruelty, thinking she be-headed her dog.

Oh, and did I mention that she thinks she's a werewolf?

Yeah...because of that, another news cast showed up referring to her pack at school: Teen Werewolves.

First off, really who cares what she believes? So what if she believes she's a werewolf? So what if she wears a tail, a collar, and a leash? WHO CARES? The news is just exploiting them in order to get people's attention. I think that's just wrong.

But the videos are up, the news got their story, and people keep responding with "you're so stupid!" or "yeah! Fight for us werewolves!" and I think both sides don't even matter. They may wear tails and believe some pretty out-of-the-norm things, but they're not doing anything really that bad besides violating the school dress code...seriously, they're not as big a deal as people are making them out to be.

Now with that in mind, that what Wolfie/Sarah believes and her personal life is totally irrelevant, do you believe that she was innocent or guilty and why?

Personally, I think she may be in the middle, and that her friend is to blame. I believe that yes, she did probably get Rigsby, but that he was dead and her friend either lied or made an honest mistake about the dog's identity. Then she cut off it's head and kept it's skull, and that her worst charges should be/have been for something related to the dog's body not being her property. Taxidermy is just something she does - stop hating her because she may have made a mistake. I'm not saying love her though, either, because she believes she's a werewolf and that made the story much bigger than it really was.

What do you think? Without being a hater, and also without being a lover of werewolves, do you believe she was innocent or guilty and why? Also, what do you think of the werewolves thing? Again, don't be a hater OR a lover, and just answer simply: Do you believe in them or not and do you agree that the news should just leave these people alone and stop exploiting them for a good story?

Response to a Video #2

Just felt like ranting in response to a video I saw on YouTube. Click here to see the video I'm talking about.

The military is a complicated issue. Some believe war is unjust and completely wrong, others believe war is the only answer in many situations. Personally, I am in the middle. I believe humanity has pushed themselves into a corner when it comes to barbaric acts of violence.

Humans are naturally selfish and greedy. Without this, humanity would not survive. It's a natural aspect of human life. But it's both a blessing and a curse - it keeps a humans alive seeing as we are greedy for food, water, shelter, and the will to fight and survive; we naturally want what keeps us alive. You can see where being a human is such a wonderful thing in InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler when InuYasha is fighting Souunga, he is struck down but he gets back up again and says, "Because I inherited human blood, I'm bad at giving up" [just because I'm quoting an anime doesn't mean my intentions are childish. Anime can be serious and just like real people can have emotional, meaningful moments]. However, a human's selfish and greedy tendencies make them hard to work with nature, since mankind thought [some still do] that nature is a force that can be worked with and controlled just like a weakening beast. The world is disintegrating and humanity is at fault. Not only is humanity destroying the place we live, but also itself.

In this video, Onision is saying that the only answer is peace and that as a nation, as a world, if we all stand up and refuse to kill one another that the world will be a peaceful, wonderful place. Death is not the answer when in a battle, but understanding and simpathy. To a sense, he is correct. If we can talk something over, why risk any life for the solution? But there are times when we cannot just sit and watch. Speech only goes so far, as strong as words may be, and actions speak loudly. Violence is not the answer, but this is a concept that not everybody understands. For is theivery wrong when you have no money to pay for the food you'll die without? It's hard to say...they should have asked or tried to find the money, but they're starving and weak. Violence is the same too. Is it wrong to kill for the purpose of saving a life? A life for a life is a very hard to grasp concept. I believe that here it's the intention that matters. If your intentions are to live and become something great, to help others in need, then steal the food. Survive and thrive. If your intentions are to protect someone or yourself, do all you can and hurt or even kill this other person if it is the only thing you can do. If you are stealing this food to live for yourself, only to get what you want and to become a rich and selfish person then leave the food for someone who really needs it. If you're planning on acting violently for a selfish, unnecessary reason then why even try? If there's another, better option, take it.

When a terrorist attacks, you don't expect us to all sit back and scream at them to stop while they kill us all blindly, do you? No man is all good. The greed sometimes consumes a person, and power, money, or other personal wants get in the way or a person's ability to care about what is right or wrong. When somebody with a knife breaks into your home and is telling you what to do, do you grab the gun in your dresser, the sword hanging on your wall, the vase or bottle on your kitchen table, or any other form defense and fight to protect your home and all that's in it, or do you stand idly by trying to scream words of peace into this lunatic's mind as they ransack your home? Violence isn't the answer, they say, but when it's for a good cause you can be rightfully called a hero. What if you end up killing this person? My religion teaches me that if something is gone, then it's supposed to be gone. It also has a threefold law, "What ye send forth comes back to thee three times three times three". Don't blame yourself, they did something wrong and it came back to them. Karma. It's what the Universe willed. If you're not religious, then you protected your family and your home. As long as you can go on living, it's ok that they died. They were at fault and should have realized this risk before they set foot on your property with negative intentions and turned around.

It's a sad truth, but humans aren't usually willing to sacrifice for a stranger. Even if they are, there's at least much less of an emotional desire to. If you are trying to stop the bleeding in a stranger's stomach and they die of blood loss before you are able to, you are not going to feel as strongly as you would if that person was someone close to you. Keeping this in mind, people are naturally a little more closed minded when it comes to saving lives. When you are in a war, you are fighting for your country, you are fighting to keep your society going, you are fighting for the lives of your people. In this sense, those serving in the military, especially those in Iraq, don't really think much of those on the opposing side. Now as human beings we of course do, but as a country we are thinking of what we believe to be wrong and right. I don't know much about the war, but I do know that what we're fighting for is what we believe is a cause worth fighting for, even if that means literally fighting and risking our lives [I say "our" in reference to those who agree with the reasons, not America's voice as a whole. I'm not putting down the fact that we have freedom of speech].

Don't judge the military as a whole. Yes, it is wrong to kill. It should be avoided for the reasons stated in the video: that person is just as good as you are, whether you personally like or dislike them. They have a family and friends just like you do. But its the intentions you have. Are you going to war to protect your country at the cost of life, or are you going to war because of your bloodlust and your desire to ruin the lives of men fighting for their country as well?