A New Racism

The world is changing, and along with that change is the ending of old ways and beliefs and the start of new ones. The one thing that never seems to change is racism.  Words in and of themselves cannot hurt anyone because they are just words,  it is the racist asshole using the words that you have to be worried about.

What exactly is the fear of someone with a different skin tone than yours? What is the fear of someone who does not speak the same language?  If you strip the skin of of any person and can only see the muscle and sinew you will notice that there is absolutely no difference from you to them.

Skin-tone, accent, language. That's what makes them different enough for you to want them all dead?  It is the shallowest most ignorant thing any person can do in this world.

I often think of how much better this world would be if every race was equal from the beginning.  No slavery, no prejudice,  how much further along would we be technologically physically, mentally, spiritually, if we all learned from one another.

You can get angry at someone, it is bound to happen, but to blame it on the color of their skin makes no sense at all, some people are stupid, and that is all, and because one person of a different ethnic background is stupid does not mean they all are, there is no perfect race.

If we have to have racism in society then lets direct it at the racists themselves, lets make a new racism where it is unacceptable to hate a type of person based on their ethnic background we will beat down those types of people, we will make it known that society across the whole planet will not tolerate it any longer.  When the whole world condemns you for bombing a school, for going on a killing spree, for attacking someone for no reason other than they believe something different than you, I think this world will soon become a much better place.

Scott Goerz

Digital Downfall

I wonder if stores know that their digital downfall is coming?  It's been slowly creeping along and getting more advanced as it moves forward. 

I used to buy cassettes of music to listen to, then compact disks, I also used to buy VHS movies and had a huge collection, until DVD movies came out, which made my VHS collection obsolete, I had to re-buy the movies I loved most in DVD format and my collection dwindled.

Portable hard drives came out next and you could digitally store your collection on them. Well, around 10 or so movies when the hard drives first came out, but now, with the storage capacities well past the 4 terabyte mark you could put most collections on one portable hard drive and have room to spare.

The technology has moved even past this point, and now we can stream anything we want without the need to download anything. If we want to save our favorites we can use a cloud, an internet based storage area that takes up very little space on your hard drive. 

Video games can now be played like this and be streamed right from the cloud.  You can also digitally download them as well.  The best part about being able to digitally download anything is that there is no need for an extended warranty, or a storage area in your home that takes up a lot of space. In most cases the place where you bought your game, movie, or CD, will keep a record of your purchase and if your machine that plays these things dies or blows up, you can retrieve them for free after you buy a replacement machine.

But what about store owners that have to pay for staff, and their building, power and other utilities?  They can't give out a deal like that because they will lose money and eventually be shut down. 

The internet is always growing and eventually there will be no retail stores out there, or a lot less of them. You can already order your groceries online and have them delivered to your house. You can buy clothes online and get them the same way, it might not be as quick and we might have to wait longer to get an item we really want but that is a sacrifice a lot of us are starting to make.

This will change too and the demand for faster service is always growing, soon you will be able to 3D scan your body for perfectly fitting clothes, and other attire.  With everything we gain from digitally downloading our life we also lose something as well, our privacy for one, anything you want to buy online will require a ton of our personal information, our banking information as well.  It will take only one type of hack to steal anyone's personal body scan and all their personal information.  Think of what a smart criminal could do with that information.

The other thing we will lose is being out in public, with digital downloading their will less reasons for you to leave your house, I can see obesity becoming a worse problem than it is already.  The act of leaving your home and dealing with society less is going to hurt us as well, in ways I cannot fully comprehend in this moment.

The world is changing rapidly and physical stores are slowly disappearing because they can't compete with the online ones.  It might not be the stores that suffer, it might be the people that used to go to them as well, this could be everyone's, Digital Downfall.

Scott Goerz

Shaving...Forever

I used to look forward to the day when I could shave, when I was a boy. I thought it meant that I was finally becoming a man and I could do what I wanted.  I remember seeing the other boys in my school with their sparse facial hair and being jealous that they had achieved their manhood but I had not, until one day I noticed a few whiskers on my cheek.

Be careful what you wish for, is an old saying from who knows where but it still holds true to this day.  I hate shaving with a passion, and I think I have an obsessive compulsive disorder with my face. My face, however, was only the beginning, at around the age of about 20 I had some incredibly thin hair, and it was receding yearly.  At 24 I decided it was time to shave off what little I had left on top or else I would be privy to the dreaded comb over.

Do you think it could end there? Of course not.
At some point in my life it was the in thing to, ahem, "Manscape" Yep, shave all that hair from my groin area.  My first time doing it I used a dull razor and when I had finished I thought I should get myself some maxi pads so that the blood didn't show through my pants.  "You poor ladies" I had a real empathy for women in that moment.

20 years later I've got it down to a fine science, and I could pretty much go from head to toe in about 20 minutes if I wanted to be a dolphin for a day.  But do you think it's over?  Oh Nay Nay.  Recently I have had the pleasure of shaving my ears, you read that correctly, I have to shave my ears now, long hairs grow not only in my ears but on the outside of them too, and they are long and sneaky, I usually don't notice them until after I've been to an important event and been around my peers, it's after that event that my wife will notice a three inch long hair jutting out the back side of my ear waving to people.  Either she sees it or I see it in the bathroom.

I wonder if a day will come where I don't care if I shave or not and I start to look like a bald sasquatch. I will know when that day comes, but until then I'm going to keep on shaving.

Scott Goerz

Time Wasted

We all only have a finite time on this planet, time to grow, to learn, to have relationships, to get married, to have a good job, to have children, to see the other parts of the world, to love, to lose, to laugh and to cry.

Which is why I wonder why we make stupid decisions that waste that precious time.  Some people decide to go to university after they finish high school but then, after ten years they have given up and work at a job that has no relevance to the time they spent learning a different skill. That's ten years of wasted time you could have been enhancing your life that would be beneficial instead of detrimental.

Some of us choose a partner that isn't good for us, and we know it but try to make that relationship work anyway. As time chips away and more and more years pass by, we live miserably with that partner each wasting the others precious time, when instead they could be living with someone they both truly appreciate.  The day comes where you both have given up and separate, years gone never to be reclaimed and lost forever.

Then there are some of us that have never been in a relationship because we have been too picky, the narcissistic nature of yourself can't find another person who is your equal, and they have to be absolutely perfect in every aspect. This type of person might have a strong desire to have a family but wastes their time looking for that person that doesn't exist. Time gone. 

As you near to the end of your time on this planet, you look back to see what you have accomplished, and you realize that maybe you could have done things differently, but instead you have barely made it by and are simply surviving.

Or maybe you have made some really good decisions and you are completely content with how your life has turned out, you have very few regrets, and are very pleased that the time you had in life you have used wisely.

In the end it is your time and you can use it however you like, but maybe stop for a second and just think how it is being used and how it might be used better.

Scott Goerz 

Parent Instruction Manual

How do you know what the right thing to do is, when it comes to disciplining your children? The simple answer is that you don't, but you have to try something, so you look back at how your parents raised you and what methods they used to enforce order in their house.

Some of us don't agree with what our parents did, maybe they force fed you at a table or made you stay there all night until you finished what was on your plate, maybe they locked you in a room or beat you with a garden hose. If you had bad disciplinary examples growing up but you still turned out alright you are probably not going to use the same tactics and have to come up with your own punishments.

There is no instruction manual on how to raise children, and all children are raised differently. So you try something, and maybe it seems like it works, so that punishment becomes your go to when they are misbehaving, until one day it stops working. 

It doesn't matter what you come up with and you can't get discouraged when a tactic you used to use worked so well at one point but has now failed.  You have to adapt to the situation, your children are going to get smarter therefore you will have to as well.  The point is that you can never give up, and always keep trying.

Life with kids isn't all punishments and discipline, and they have questions that will make your head spin in amazement. Having a young child ask you an adult question puts all these emotional boundaries in place before you can answer the question. How do you answer a question that is completely age appropriate? I'm not going to explain sex to a seven year old, or explain what drugs an alcohol do when you are on them that is so fun that it makes you want to do them again. But I have to tell them something and I struggle with a good answer a lot of the time.

I don't know how to answer these questions but I do my best to give them the most informed factual answer that I can think of without being too descriptive and not to vague that they are still curious enough to try it for themselves.

I'm not a parent, sadly, I am only an uncle, but if being an uncle and having to answer the hard questions is taxing I can only imagine what a full time parent must go through. I must be doing something right, if the nieces and nephews I see on a daily basis trust me enough to ask deeply personal questions.  Now if only there was a parenting manual on how to answer those questions, things would be so much easier.

Scott Goerz

Daylight Savings

It's that time of year again, where we have to turn our clocks back an hour for what? To save an hour? To lose an hour? To mess up our internal clocks? To screw with our scheduling? To make our kids crankier?  Whatever the reason, it has always been a stupid idea in my opinion but it's still something we all have to participate in even if we don't want to.

Why do we have this moronic event twice a year?  The actual scientific reason is because it was designed for us to enjoy more sunlight and save money by not having to turn on our lights in the evening because of the extra light our sun provides. 

There is only one problem, this is all fine and dandy in the summer but here in Canada we have this thing called winter, anyone else heard of this?  It doesn't matter if you turn the clocks back an hour or forward in the winter, you will go to work in the morning in the dark and you will come home in the dark and that will equal no savings period.

The United States started using daylight savings around 1918, and somewhere along the line Canada decided to adopt the idea.  In 1918 there was probably a much better reason to have daylight savings because your light at that time still needed a fuel of some sort, oil lamps and such devices, light bulbs that came around were not efficient and used way more power.

We have  l.e.d. bulbs that save on power, actually most devices we have are electric and fuel efficient. The technologies of the past were incredibly inefficient so maybe they did save on some power in the past.

I think we need to kibosh this plan of action that screws everything up and messes with our bodies.  It's time to move past this event and put it behind us and leave it there forever.  There is no reason to keep it around other than it has been how we operate and the people have a sentimental connection to it.

Scott Goerz

Animal Cruelty Intolerance

What is with the sick sadistic people out there that get enjoyment from torturing animals?  If you can torture an animal and watch it suffer, what's stopping you from torturing a human being? I would imagine it must start with bugs and insects, then move up to small animals such as mice then perhaps cats and dogs.

With all the stories on the news these days it really makes me sick to my stomach to know that these types of people exist and thrive in our world.

A kitten was found glued to a busy highway by its feet, it was cold and wet and cars were driving over top of it before a good Samaritan finally stopped to help it out. While he was doing so, other drivers on the busy highway were honking and swearing at him for holding up traffic.
What is wrong with people? He cleaned the kitten up and kept it as a pet.

A person used duct tape on a dog to keep its mouth shut, the dog wandered around the city slowly dying of starvation because it couldn't eat and barely drink anything. By the time it was found by animal rescue it was barely skin and bones and later died in the animal hospital due to its condition.

A moose walking her babies in a city park, was considered dangerous by officials, they tried to scare it away by shooting it with a bean bag gun, they didn't want to use a tranquilizer because they thought it could harm the animal long term, the moose, after being shot with the bean bag gun, charged the people who used it, the people decided that they should kill it with a rifle because it was charging them and was dangerous.   This animal had babies, and these people aggravated it, so it charged them, and they shot it.

There are good people out there and there are some truly sick individuals in this world. Why do we need these types of people to exist?  If you take pleasure in the pain of others there is something wrong with you, maybe this wouldn't be a problem if these people tried out their experiments on themselves first.

Scott Goerz

Cut Out The Drama

I think we all know someone who always has epic problems going on with their life,  when you talk with this person, they are always depressed, nothing is ever good in their lives, and it seems like their world is a chaotic mess.

Most of us want to help this individual, somewhere in the midst of all the complaining there is a decent person underneath, or they were a good person before their life started to unravel, which is why you are friends with them in the first place.

We want to help them, we offer advice and try to give them ideas to find a solution to their problem, we offer our help in the form of financial or physical, we will be there if they need us.

Some of our friends do seem to get out of their rut after a while with our help but what about the ones that seem to be stuck in that spot permanently and no amount of help that you offer is going to budge them.

Those types of people refuse to help themselves, they don't take your good advice and they spend a free handout foolishly.  These types of people love drama, they create it if there isn't any and they are not healthy individuals to be around, they will try to bring you down with them.

You can't let them.  Yes your heart goes out to them, you feel the need to do something, but it's impossible to help someone who won't help themselves, and you have to recognize that obscure fact. If you believe that good person you used to know still exists somewhere deep in all that turmoil, but they have completely given up, then you have decide for yourself when it's time to let go.  

Don't let anyone else bring you down, our lives are hard enough as it is without having someone else hanging off you.  I had a friend that was down in the dumps and needed money for food, so I gave him some plus a little extra, I found out later that he lost it all in a casino.
He told me he was starving, and spent all his money on rent, so I felt sorry for him.  His excuse to me was that he thought he could win more to keep himself afloat.  Complete BS.

I cut him out of my life, and no longer talk to this person, this was just one of many instances where he screwed me over with his sob story drama, and I felt sorry for him.  My life has been simpler since then, less drama, less stress.

Do your best to help others out but know your limits to your good will. It will benefit you the most when you decide to cut out the drama and help those that actually need it.

Scott Goerz

Over Indulge For The Good Of Mankind

We sit and try to curb everything that is easy to do, we try to moderate our addictions,  we don't over indulge in simple pleasures, and it seems to me  that we are always holding back and controlling our actions, but what if we could utilize this inherent ability to benefit ourselves?

Imagine if we could harness the power of our laziness somehow, if there was a way to make money while binge watching our favorite tv shows or by simply sleeping.  I'm pretty sure a good portion of the population does this after a hard days work already, if we could use this to our advantage to benefit ourselves and humankind.

As soon as you learn that school sucks and you don't want to go when you are a child that feeling stays with you until adulthood and then until the day you die. Why is that part of our nature? Why is that ingrained in our personalities? If it's part of who we are and part of our primal instinct then why don't we figure out some way to use it instead of suppress it?

This basic instinct we all have that is on the selfish side, the "me first" way of thinking, is ingrained in all of us, if we could utilize that to make the world a better place for everyone, wouldn't that be ideal? Think of how easy it would be as well.  It would take almost no effort and comes as naturally to us as going to the bathroom.

While this sounds like a great idea, keep in mind that if this actually happened we would still all be living in the stone age, because this is exactly what neanderthals did to survive, they ate when they wanted to, they took care of themselves, had sex whenever they wanted, and cared only for themselves, it was only until they started working as a group, helping each other, saving food for the winter, teaching each other new skills and tactics, that humankind started to move forward and advance technologically.

While it would be nice to make money and be productive while doing nothing, you would be a fat blob that hated yourself in the end.  The only way that it would be possible is if we lived in the matrix while our real bodies were used as batteries to power it. 

Scott Goerz

Old Gamer

Kids have it so easy these days when it comes to gaming, they have no idea what it was like being one of the first gamers and what we had to do in order to play the video games of the past.

(This is going to sound familiar)
When I was your age, or when I was young, there was no way to know if a game was good or not other than the commercial they had on T.V.  My parents didn't care for games and I had to save the money I made to buy the ones I wanted.  There was no downloading games either, and since I lived out of the city I had to rely on my parents to drive me in to buy one.

When I got to the city there was no guarantee that my game would be in, it could have been sold out, and my parents were not going to drive me all over the countryside to find it.  If they didn't have the game I wanted, I either bought something else or nothing at all.

Playing the games were a lot different as well, we used to get a book that would tell us how to play the game, what the controls were, and any items you found and the purpose each one had.
When we were in the game there was no fast travel, we had to walk from one end of the map and back again, a process that could sometimes take forever depending on the game you were playing.

We had to deal with what we got as well, there were no updates, or game fixes, no future content downloads so that you could keep playing your favorite game.  If you bought a game that would freeze and crash once in a while you dealt with it, no crying to developers to fix it.
If you bought a terrible game because you were fooled by the commercial, you sucked it up and played it anyway, because there was nothing else. (Wrestlemania for the NES comes to mind).
Terrible wrestlemania Nes game

There was no online multiplayer, if you wanted to play a game with your friends, they either had to come to your house or you had to go to theirs and share a couch for a few hours. There was also no automatic save, so if you had been playing for a few hours and hadn't saved that whole time and the power went out, guess what? You would have to do everything you had done in those hours all over again.

After being screwed over from buying a terrible game once or twice I started to read the magazines, I would buy them whenever we went anywhere, there was usually a review section where they would tell you if the game was good or not.  There was no online or internet that you could check to see if you were buying a dud or a gem. 

Are you an old gamer? what are your thoughts?

Scott Goerz

Bending The Rules

I'm driving in my car and I see a speed limit sign that shows 80 km, so I do 90 km. Police and photo radar don't typically give out tickets if you are ten km over the posted speed limit. They know every vehicle is different and some speedometers are out a little, so they give us some leeway.  If I come to an uncontrolled stop sign and there is no one around I almost never stop, I look to see if anyone is around and if there isn't I usually coast through.

It's odd when I think about it, I get a sort of thrill from it, doing something I know is wrong but doing it anyway, but in a way that doesn't hurt anyone. If there is a ton of traffic and the weather isn't so good I slow down and do my due diligence, I'm not about to hurt anyone or myself.  But if no one is around and I'm by myself I indulge in some rule bending on occasion.

If I see a sign that says "Warning do not pass this point" I am immediately curious as to why, and what lays beyond, if no one is around to see me, I will probably do some exploring.  I know full well that if I were to get caught that I could be charged with a fine or get a stern reprimand or maybe even end up in jail.

I calculate the risk involved, how much trouble could I possibly get into? Is it too dangerous (I'm not about to enter a building that is about to collapse) and if I get caught what are the chances of being arrested, going to court, and spending some time in jail?  If that is even a remote possibility then there is a 99 percent chance I won't risk it.  Unless I can see an alien spaceship past the restricted area sign, I'm not taking that chance.

If I drink too much at a friends house, I take a cab home, that risk is too high in my opinion. The things that could happen that don't even involve the police are too risky, I could fall asleep at the wheel, drive into the ditch, hit a barrier or an animal and possibly kill someone. Not worth it.

What do you do that pushes the boundaries but doesn't hurt anyone, what do you do that bends the rules?

Scott Goerz

Band-Aid The Problem

Society has a lot of issues, not with only the underlying criminal activity, but also with the way we deal with that criminal element.  I don't know about you but how many times have we heard that a criminal was going to be released because they served their time?  Most of the criminals re-offend and end back in jail but it's at the expense of  a law abiding citizen. 

How can we release someone even though they know they are a high risk?  Let's put that person back into society so that they can kill someone again or rape one of your children before they get caught and put back into jail.  That is the stupidest way of thinking I have ever heard.

It seems to me that everything we do as a society is band-aiding the problem after it happens. There are no preventative measures in place, we need to fix the problem so that it doesn't happen at all. 

It's not just people either, it's everything we build. When you get a flat tire, you either patch it or get a new tire, but neither of these remedies fixes the actual problem which is... puncturing your tire to begin with.  We know that there is a good possibility that we could get a flat tire at any moment, yet we wait for it to happen before we address the problem.  NASA has apparently reinvented the tire :NASA Tire. 
This isn't a practical tire for the mass population yet but it's an idea towards one.  

This is just one of millions of examples out there, Having to fix things all the time does create jobs, and makes money, it also costs money, time, and sometimes lives. 

When we learned about climate change, and how it was destroying our planet, the band aids started being built, there were buildings that could scrub the air, and windmills put up to create energy, but now we are starting to actually fix the problem instead of band aiding it. The shift to non pollution vehicles and factories has started, we are slowly trying to remove ourselves from the coal industry.  It may be too little too late but we are trying and maybe in the far off future the planet will return to normal if we can maintain clean energy.

I think everyone needs a proactive approach to our problems, start by addressing the problem and not waiting for something to fail before making sure it doesn't happen in the first place.

Scott Goerz

The Parent Test

My wife and I have been waiting around 3 years to adopt a child, but before we could apply formally we both had to go through a series of tests.  The tests were highly invasive and dug as deep as they could into our personal lives.

I get why they were screening us, they wanted to know if they placed a child with us that we had all the traits that would make great parents.  They wanted to know if we smoked, how much we drank, how much money we made, if we were married, we had to go through a criminal record check, and submit child abuse checks as well. 

Then they came to our house and made sure we had a safe environment for a child to live in as well ask us a ton of really personal questions, like how often do we have sex and asked us if we had good relations with our immediate family.  They went through our house looking for carbon monoxide detectors and working smoke alarms, they suggested that we put a gate on the stairs and a fence around the dugout that was quite a ways off from the house.

After the home check they wrote up a report, and sent it in to be a part of our file, it wasn't just what we said to the representative that got written up it was her opinion on us as well.  After it was over we still have to go in yearly for an update to our lives, and report any new things that might have happened to us.

It has been a lengthy process and we are still waiting.  In that time I have seen people being caught for torturing their children, chaining them in the basement, neglecting them. I have seen children about three to four years old walking down the street alone, with no parent or sibling watching them. Children being killed in a hot car after being locked inside while their parents went to the casino or the store.

So while my wife and I are waiting impatiently and desperately wanting to be parents, there are people out there that couldn't care less and find children a burden.  I have often thought to myself, if you don't want your kid I will gladly take them off your hands. 

Every once in while someone says to us, you don't know what it's like you don't have children.  We have both been around a lot of children and helped raise our nieces and nephews as well as our friends children. Yes, we are not full time parents, but we are far from clueless and we are both intelligent.   My response to them would be: You don't know what it's like to want children, to be a parent and not be able to.  Some people don't appreciate the gift of life that is sitting right next to them

I think anyone who wants kids, and it doesn't matter if you can easily get pregnant or not, should have to go through the same screening process that my wife and I went through, to make sure parents are going to be GOOD parents, and that the couple in question can afford to have children. That they aren't alcoholics, and have rage issues, or their house is a very unstable environment and that if they have a child, that child is going to have a really good life.

Scott Goerz

No Such Thing As Perfect?

I hear, on occasion, when someone experiences something incredibly unique to them, a statement of perfection.  This view is perfect! She is perfect. Those two are the perfect couple. This is the perfect car. This supper is perfect.  What exactly is perfect and can the whole population of the earth agree on it?

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder, so if you take one persons perspective, I guess from their point of view it would be perfect.  To another person that same thing that the first person thought was perfect the second person might think it's deeply flawed and not anywhere close to perfect. So who is right?  They both are, but then you could say that the object in question is neither perfect nor imperfect. It would only be an opinion.

If every person in the planet were to agree on something as perfection then it would be hard to debate that it wasn't.  I highly doubt that will ever happen in any lifetime or in any future that is yet to come.  I think this because everyone has different thoughts and views on every subject and while some people might agree, others don't.

Having diversity among every individual is key to living, in my opinion, and if we all agreed on the same thing I don't think we would be progressing forward as a species like we have been. If everyone agreed that wearing wooden blocks on our feet for shoes was good enough, we would never have advanced to our running shoes and different types of boots.

While writing this an epiphany came to me, I started out thinking that there was no such thing as perfection, as we all view things differently, but as a people, and growing and constantly moving forward we need that diversity and different ways of thinking to continue on as we have been, and that in itself could be considered perfection, a perfection we can all agree on.

Scott Goerz

Turkey For Dessert

I know a lot of us look forward to a dinner where we get to have the whole meal deal, turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, turnips, carrots, stuffing, that weird jello cake with the vegetables in it, and any type of salad associated with that type of supper. 

Along with that type of dinner is, of course, desserts. Cakes, pies, bars, cookies, ice cream, and a whole list of other things I can't think of right now.  Whenever these desserts get passed around I always reject them and everyone always asks me why.

I find that the supper itself is dessert for me, the turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy, to be specific. I will load my plate up at least three separate times with just those items, some turkey on the side, then mashed potatoes smothered in butter, with everything topped off and covered in gravy.

That meal to me is better than any dessert I have ever had, and if  it was offered after I had my main meal such as a pasta dish, I would probably take that as an after dinner dessert over any sweet dessert out there.

My wife of course loves her desserts and will actually save room and not eat so much dinner so that she can have the dessert afterwards.  I find that most women love their sweets, and will save room in their bellies if they know it's an option after dinner.

I used to love sweets when I was younger and would do the same thing as my wife does now, but something changed in me over the years and I find the suppers over the holidays the main dessert, I can have candy anytime, but the types of festive meals that come around rarely are the real treat in my opinion and the best type of dessert I can think of.

Scott Goerz

Crazy Conspiracy Theories

We all have heard of a conspiracy theory, where the claims are completely absurd, like the flat earth people out there.  There are even more insane theories out there that make the flat earthers seem completely sane.

This first one is my favorite crazy belief that people have.

We are being ruled by aliens that look like lizards.  The guy who started this rumor is named David Icke, he is also involved in the "truther" movement. Believe it or not there are 12 million Americans who follow this nut"s belief in our alien rulers.  The belief is that the government is actually controlled by shape shifting reptile like aliens, and their purpose is to make all humans into their mindless slaves.  (Too Funny).

Another alien conspiracy theory is that we are not being ruled by aliens but we talk to them all the time.  Well, we don't, but the government does. After the Roswell incident, the UFO that the government found, had a device in it where they could contact the aliens, and since then they have been conveying messages back and forth, discussing technology stuff and they are the reason cell phones exist.  (Chuckle)

Here's an interesting one, Chemtrails.  Y'know the lines you can see in the sky after a plane has gone by, or the one's they make while flying overhead while you watch?  Some people believe that this is a secret government plot to secretly spray lethal chemicals over the planet.  For what purpose, I have no idea, but some people believe it was a form of population control.

The last one, I'm sure you might have heard, We didn't land on the moon, the pictures were faked and a really grainy movie production film was made to influence the fact that it actually happened.  The government made the false claim to raise national pride in the country after the cold war.

Scott Goerz

Clothes Closet Dilemma

You should see the clothes in my closet. I have quite a few shirts, shorts, jeans, socks and underwear, but the issue I have is that I have a few niche items that I prefer to wear and everything gets left in there untouched for the rest of the year.  Yet for some reason I can't seem to part with anything.

If one of my shirts gets too old and ratty, I don't throw it away, oh no, I keep it as a "work" shirt, which then goes to that corresponding shelf.  I have a huge pile of "work " shirts I never wear because just like my good clothes I have a preference as to which ones I'll wear when I need to go out and get dirty.

I'm trying to come to grips on why I won't throw anything out, if I never or barely wear the other clothes and there is no sentimental attachment to any of it, then why do I keep all this junk?

I think part of the reason is that I know if I start having empty closet space, my wife will over take it with her "junk" clothes that she never wears.  The other reason is that when I go shopping, there is nothing out there that I want to buy, sure I could go to Walmart and get the five t shirt special but I don't want to, I still like to have a bit of style and I don't want to fall into that rut of buying cheap stuff just because it's easier than picking out things individually.

There are not a lot of places that sell mens clothes for 40 plus men out there, not many anyway. When you do find one, the prices are exorbitant and I'm a guy who likes deals but will spend a little more than is necessary if I really like the product.  But if the shirt is too expensive, guess what happens if I buy it? It goes into that part of my closet where I don't wear the clothes because it's now going to be used for special occasions only.

So I'm conflicted, I have to be choosy but not too choosy, I can spend a little money but not too much because I'll be afraid to wear it afterwards, and then I have to find something I like and has a bit of style to it.  What a pain in the ass.  

I think I'll just keep the clothes in my closet and never throw anything away unless it's radiating nuclear energy, but even then, it'll be a great work shirt. 

Scott Goerz

The Problem With Your Problem

Have you ever been out somewhere and the person that you are with doesn't like what you are doing? You could be whistling, shuffling as you walk, walking too slow or fast or not paying attention. Whatever it is doesn't matter but the other person has a problem with it, and now it's your problem.

The problem I have with their problem is that it's their problem not mine and if they have a problem with me then it's up to them to deal with it themselves and not expect me to fix their problem for them. 

If you are playing a song and someone else doesn't like it they will tell you to pick a different song.  Their problem becomes your problem.  If that same person hears a song on the radio, do they call the radio station and tell them to pick a different song? No, they simply change the station or turn the radio off. They deal with their problem themselves.  

My wife has a problem with how I text her sometimes. I could be driving and want to keep it short and sweet so as not to be a distraction, but she does not like short and sweet, she wants more and has a problem with those types of texts from me.  This is not my problem it's hers, and she needs to deal with it herself. I do try occasionally to send more but I'm not a texting type person to begin with. By the same token, I cannot stand how she uses the computer, she just clicks everything without reading like she's in a hurry or something, but in the end she almost always gets to where she wanted to go. I don't say anything because it's my problem, not hers. I instead try not to watch and let her do her thing, if she wants help she will ask.

The problem with having a problem to begin with is that we all do the same things but we all do them differently and we get annoyed at the way others do the same thing a different way.  We get into a routine of the most efficient way we know how to do something ourselves and then get upset when someone does in way we don't know.  So we try to correct them and get them to do it our way.                     

There is an exception to having a problem with the way someone else does things and that's when you are training someone for a job and you have 20 plus years of experience and they have none.  You want that person to know the proper procedures and the way the work is done in that type of work you are doing. 

Other than that, I think it's best we all just let other people do their thing and we do ours, if they need a hand with something, let them come to you, don't force them to do it the way you do it, keep your problem to yourself and there will be less problems.

Scott Goerz

A "Nice" Fight

Sometimes people come off as too nice, and it's frigging creepy.  Have you ever had a fight with someone about the last slice of pizza?

 No, it's okay you have it, no thank you I am full you can have it, but you bought it, you should have the last piece, like I said, I don't want anymore, but it will bother my conscience if I took it, and I can't do that to you, if you are still hungry then take it, maybe you will want it later so I will leave it for you. If you don't take it then I'm going to throw it in the garbage. I will take it but only if your absolutely positive it is fine.

There are manners and there are feelings to take into consideration with all things, but for crying out loud let the insanity stop already!  There should be an unwritten rule that when someone says that it's ok then that gives that person's right to get upset about the matter over and done with.

Where do you want to go for supper is another huge pain in butt, when you are try to be nice and accommodate the other person. You start out trying to so nice but in the end it usually ends up in frustration and anger.  It's usually because both parties are trying to be nice to each other and nobody pick anything. 

Where do you want to eat? How about you pick? I can eat anywhere so it's your choice. It doesn't matter where we eat to me either so you decide. I picked last time so you pick this time.  At about this point both parties are getting annoyed with each other and the whole nice thing is stressing everybody involved out.  If it were me in this situation I would pick the grossest place I could think of and see where it goes from there.  How about Yum Yum Foody Goody Buffet in the trailer park? 

Let's keep our niceness at a certain level, give each other the common courtesy of their opinion but if they concede then, take the reins and lead the horses back into town people!  If you don't you will only find that you will be forever falling with your nice parachute that you have discovered is only a backpack, it's going to be a hard landing.

Online Shopping

I saw a really cool dress shirt online that I thought would look great, it was white with an embroidered dragon on the back with its tail coming over the shoulder.  I ordered a large, and waited so long that I forgot I had even ordered it in the first place.  When it came in, I felt as though it was an early birthday present to myself had come in.

Eagerly, I opened the package, I remembered ordering something and when I saw it, the complete memory formed and I couldn't wait to try it on and that was when the fun ended. The shirt was way too small, like it was made for a midget Ethiopian 12 year old girl, I peeled off the part of the shirt that I managed to stick my arm into, feeling very confused and thinking they must have sent me the wrong size.

I went over the shirt looking for the size tag, (Its not on the collar like Canadian shirts) It was in the middle of the back of the shirt, to my surprise it was a large.  Now I was even more confused and starting to get perturbed. I went to the website I bought it on and found the order, reading very carefully about the sizes.

It read: All sizes are in Asian size, please make sure your size before ordering.  Up until this point I had no idea, that there was a different size of man species out there, and even if there were you would think that the extra small, small, medium, large, extra large, xxl and xxxl should cover all the bases no matter how big or small you are, not to mention there are boys and mens in those sizes.  If I am a large here how the hell would I know what an Asian large is without any measurement scale to compare it to?

So I decided I was going to get a refund. I packaged it all up and took it to the post office, I had to pay the shipping fee which was about twelve dollars, and off it went. When I got home I emailed the retailer explaining that I sent my shirt back, and after scanning my bill from the post office I sent a picture of that as well.  I wrote a not so friendly review, and waited.

I am never going to be refunded, and there is not a soul alive that cares about my 30 dollar shirt and twelve dollar shipping cost that I will never see again. But I did learn something very valuable, and is to make sure you read everything before you buy anything, go through it with a fine tooth comb and make sure you have read through every single strand of information.  That dill hole I bought the shirt from was not a reputable seller, and had bad reviews from everyone who commented. That information was there, I was too lazy to read it.

I still order stuff online and it's not much of a hassle anymore because I have sites that I trust and use regularly now.  I also bought a fabric tape measure and and measured myself in cm and inches, so that if I ever want to buy clothing from overseas, or anywhere, I will not be disappointed again.

Scott Goerz

A Wee Bit Of Sense

Having a rational thought pattern and a wee bit of sense could really make all the difference in your world when it comes to scams, people ripping you off, and just plain dumb ideas.

Let's say a bank calls you and said they overcharged you and all they need is your confirmation of account number, your name and address and postal code, to refund you the money.  What's wrong with this statement? If you don't know then you probably should stop reading right now and continue on with your very special life.

Here is another great idea if you decide to build a house yourself. A friend mentions that after you have dug out your basement and the concrete is in they suggest you line the whole thing with hay, for insulation purposes, and then put dirt in afterwards.  This sounds like a plausible idea, but in reality it's idiotic because any water that is beside your house will immediately drain to the bottom of your foundation no matter how steep of a slope you have.  Basement floods anyone?  Not only that but now its an excellent home for rodents and other cute little furry animals.

How about that sealer in a can that is supposed to fill holes in your tires after you get a nail?  Just spray it in the place where you put the air and start driving, it will find the hole and seal it for you. I have never done this, my common sense tells me this is a really good way to unbalance your tire and to have it professionally fixed afterwards would probably cost more. What if it doesn't fix the leak? Do I keep spraying until it is fixed?  I don't know enough about it so I'm not going to do it. 

Every once in a while you see a picture with some idiot on a ladder in a tractor bucket trying to cut branches off a tree or to fix a power-line.  I love waiting to see an accident about to happen when in involves a clearly bad thought out plan. The guy on the ladder and the guy on the ground in the tractor both thought it was a good idea?  Okay, enjoy your stay in the hospital if you survive.  Who knows, maybe that was their plan all along and we're the dumb ones for making fun of them.

Everyone out there has got to have a story about someone else's great idea that went horribly wrong, and if any of us would have just stopped to think about what could happen down the road with that idea it would have saved us all a lot of grief.  We just need a wee bit of sense.

Scott Goerz

Men Get A Bad Rap

I was on Facebook the other day and saw a video of a young girl playing a song about how women are not equal to men and men get away with monstrous deeds. Scary time for men It was for an election.

I really have a problem with the song even though I totally agree with her point.  The problem with the song is that it generalizes men as a whole. Saying that every man is a perverted pig and can get away with raping and molesting women is complete fiction. It's like saying that every woman has an alternative motive and are masters at manipulation, that too is complete fiction.

There are evil men and women on both sides of the spectrum, and the normal decent people out there should not be judged because of deeds of others.  All Muslims are not evil, neither are any other culture or race. We don't hear about the great things other peoples and countries do because it doesn't sell newspapers.

 For some reason the people on this planet love hearing about death and destruction, evil crimes and killings as opposed to a new type of hybrid flower that was developed or a synthetic gas for vehicles that has been invented.  No, instead we want to hear about the death tolls that the latest hurricane wracked up and all the destruction it caused. We want to hear about the multi-car pileup on the highway.

I agree with the "Me Too" movement, and putting males in a position of power, who think they can get away with anything, on trial for their inappropriate actions. But what I don't agree with is every woman out there who thinks they can make a quick buck from it. That is not the reason to come forward.  I often wonder if money wasn't involved how many of them would actually say anything? 

A girl grabbed my butt once when I was younger and in an arcade, she did it on purpose and smiled at me as she walked away, at the time I kinda thought it was odd but I liked it as well. If I saw the same woman thirty years later on trial for similar actions, should I come forth and testify against her?  How about if the prosecuting attorney found me and offered me 100,000 dollars to testify?  Both answers should be a resounding NO.  But I can't honestly say I would turn down the cash if it was presented to me.

There are really great and fantastic men and women out there and there are truly despicable ones. It's up to us to know that just because one person does something terrible it doesn't make us all terrible.

Scott Goerz 

Perks Of Getting Old

There are none!  
Actually there are a few that maybe some of us haven't realized because every thing else about getting old sucks.

You have stuff that matters.
If you have reached your mid thirties you should , by now, have a pretty stable job and life in general, you are probably married, have some kids and a place to live and maybe you have a few vehicles, and a pet or two.

You know who your real friends are now. 
When we are younger we think that we have really good friends, but when it comes to crunch time and you really need some friend support and help, it's amazing how all those "Best" friends you thought you had are nowhere to be found.  As you get older you realize who those "True" friends are because they have been with you through thick and thin.

Dating is way easier. 
If you have become single after finding out that your significant other wasn't so significant,  you may find that dating is simpler now because you have a really good idea of what you are looking for and now it's not just about how someone looks, it's about how someone is. Your awkwardness becomes less and you are a lot more confident as an adult than you were as a kid.

You are wiser.
No, I did not say smart,  being smart is different from being wise and I have met some really dumb, "smart people".  You have experienced life and survived so far, you have been through scams, cheaters, liars, slimy sales people, bankers, lawyers, judges, police, and children. (children are sneaky and they will test your humanity.)  Having been through some tough trials and tribulations in life you are now in a position to give out some really good advice in the areas that you know best, and you also know how to deal with all of those things with better precision if they enter into your life again.

I'm sure there are more but I'm so not happy with getting older at the moment so I think I'll stop here for today.

Scott Goerz

The Past Is Not An Excuse For The Present

We all had a childhood and we all had our trials and tribulations, and we all had to survive those ordeals and get past them to move on with life.  It seems to me that some of us can't let go of our past and every time we talk with these people they continuously blame every action and bad experience on their past.

I'm not sure what is going on with these people, I do tend to lean toward the opinion that they want pity and others to feel sorry for them, so they use these excuses as a crutch every time they find themselves in a situation that is less than ideal. 

I worked with a guy who said he couldn't come to work because his dad died. Understandably I told him to take the week off because I thought he needed time to go to a funeral and to grieve. I later found out that his dad died when he was seven and he was twenty two when he told me this story.  I hate the fact that a person would use another person's compassion as a tool to get their way.  If you want a day off then ask for it, don't give me some bullsh*t song and dance story and make me feel sorry for you.

Other times I have met women for the first time and had a conversation, after talking with them and enjoying the conversation they suddenly say out of nowhere, that they were raped when they were a child.  At what point is it appropriate to tell a complete stranger who you have been talking to for about twenty minutes a deep dark secret like that?  The simple answer is you don't, it's a fabrication in my opinion and a way to have the other person feel sorry for you and to be nicer to you. 

People that have had horrific events like that in their life don't openly tell everyone they see about it.  As a listener, how do you react to a comment like that?  The first time this happened to me I felt completely awful for that person, and made sure I was super nice and understanding afterwards, but this is not a one time occurrence, this has happened to me many times when I was a single man and on the dating scene. Quite a few of those times I did find out that it was a complete fabrication and outright lie from their friends or family.  They betrayed my trust and good will with that lie.

Sometimes you meet people who seem to actually live in the past, and they always bring up how their parents or relatives were alcoholics, or how they were beaten as a child, or what ever traumatic event happened in their past and it comes up in every conversation and every time you seem them.  Some of you out there have to have drama in every situation and everyone you meet should feel sorry for you. 

 I say it's time to pull up your little kid pants and become an adult now. Stop dwelling on your past experiences and using them as a crutch for your present. Life continuously moves forward and you should be moving with it. Learn from what happened so it doesn't happen again or so you can help someone else who it has happened to. 

Every single person on this planet has had some sort of traumatic event happen to them in their youth, some of course not as bad as others but to them, it was traumatic. Most of us do not let it define who we are now because we learned something from it when it happened and grew from the experience in some way.

Stop being the victim and start being the survivor.

Scott Goerz

To Be Or Not To Be....Remembered

From the time that you are born to the time that you die you have a finite amount of time to achieve something in your life that means something.  Some of us have children, some of us have incredible careers, and some of us muddle through, struggling to make it to the end.  How will any one of us be remembered after we no longer exist on this planet.

I have a feeling that I won't have a legacy to be remembered by.  I can't have children,  I am trying to adopt a child but I am not getting any younger, and the possibility of that happening is starting to drift further and further away.  That scares me a bit. 

My footprint in society is small, it's basically only in my surrounding area, the people I meet and the work I do are barely affected with my presence.  I have helped out others and tried to give selfless advice when my friends and family reach out, I think in some small part it has actually helped make some people's life better. Occasionally,  I have gotten a "thank you so much, if you hadn't opened my eyes to that option we would have been screwed."

My mother was the queen of great advice and clever ideas, and I think I get a lot of that from her, she was a great influence in my life.  She has passed and eventually she will be forgotten as the wheel of time slowly churns forward.

I remember reading somewhere that once you put something on the internet it is there forever, and your chances of removing it are almost impossible, so be very careful what you put online.
A thought occurred to me that if I had a really good idea or thought in my head that this would be the best medium to use to get it out there, permanently. 

Obviously some or most of my thoughts are rubbish, the people who have been reading them can attest to this fact. But maybe one or two things I have mentioned have hit home and possibly made you realize something that you didn't know before and has helped you out since you read it. That's my hope anyway.

My thoughts and ideas won't die with me when my time comes, as it does for us all.  They will continue to exist forever in the form of data on the world wide web, and maybe way in the future someone will stumble upon them and gain some insight, or just have a really good laugh.
In any case, part of me will live on forever, and that gives me a tiny bit of peace.

Scott Goerz

Experience Some Life First

When you are young you don't really appreciate the little things in life, you focus on fun and friendships. When you get to a certain age you start to focus on relationships with the opposite or the same sex.  If it turns into a serious relationship it can carry you well out of school and into the working world.

It is my opinion that jumping into a relationship when you are very young and maintaining it until you are married or have kids, really stops you from simply enjoying life in general.  You probably aren't going to dancing in the evening at a club, or go on a road trip with just the guys or the girls.

It doesn't teach you how to be self sufficient, how to take care of yourself, fix your own vehicle, manage your money as a single person, rely on your own abilities to make your way in the world.  It is nice to have someone to help out all the time but what happens if you and your high school sweetheart are now forty and one of you dies? Or you decide to breakup?  You will be completely lost on how to take care of yourself.  Being out in the open world is a lot harsher alone than when you have your parents constantly trying to protect you from everything.  If you can figure out how it all works on your own you will be much better for it.


Let's say that you do experience life on your own after school, and you go out and see the world, you become self sufficient and know how to take care of yourself. You have a good stable job, your own place and a vehicle.  Now when you meet someone and enter into a relationship, the relationship becomes a want instead of a need. 

Being in a relationship where you need someone else to survive is not healthy and could really harm you if something bad were to ever happen.  Wanting to be with someone else more than anything in the world and still losing that person is extremely painful but you will still be able to take care of yourself if it ever does happen. 

The only problem with this scenario is how do you tell your kid they should wait before they get into a serious relationship and experience the world before they settle down. 

Scott Goerz

Decorative Functionality

When I go out to buy a decoration for my place, I always look for something that has a function or an alternative use.  I hate having something that has no use other than it's simply pleasant to look at or admire.

Women have this decoration stuff down, and they have the unique ability to make even the ugliest spaces look pleasing to the eye. In my world it has to have some other use than sitting on a shelf or hanging on the wall forever.

Statues and figurines are one of those things that are completely useless in my opinion, and I have been to people's houses and seen a whole wall dedicated to my little pony, star trek, dragons, dolphins, and those little trolls with the florescent hair.  What use is that to a person?  I guess pride maybe? Proud that over the years you have collected things that are rare and now collect dust for you.

I have a friend who collects Lego sets, I can kind of understand that because of the time it takes him to figure out how to build it in the first place, but after that it sits on a shelf never to be used again.  If you were a kid you would play with it for a while then probably break it down to make something else. It does have multiple uses.

I bought a bed frame that has drawers and compartments all over the place, it has more than one use, I sleep on it, it holds my bed up, and I can put whatever I want in the drawers and compartments, it has great functionality.  When I buy jackets I want lots of extra pockets so I can organize my change from my keys, my wallet from my cigarettes and lighter, and also from the receipts a gather throughout the day.

If I want to hang a picture in my house, I look for a frame that opens up and I can put my car keys in it, or notes to myself to remember something.  I buy magnets for my fridge so it has extra functionality, benches that have drawers, coffee tables with lift tops and drawers just for all my stuff, and to keep my place tidy.

I love having multiple use, decorative furnishings, everywhere. It seems redundant to have things with only one use, and that's my opinion.

Scott Goerz

Fear Mongering

Why is it that we live in a world based on fear?  There used to be a time when we only locked our doors when we left the house, but now we lock the door when we are inside and not going anywhere.  We park our vehicles in the garage with the door closed and lock the doors of that vehicle. 

Are we so worried that our houses will get broken into while we are home that we have to be locked inside?  There are stories of criminals breaking into peoples houses and either, robbing, killing or raping someone. Where does that happen exactly?  In what neighborhood do you live that you would worry about this happening?

I've been at a red light in my car and seen some sketchy looking dude close by, I look over to make sure my door is locked, but I don't think this is the same thing.  What I am doing is perceived danger assessment,I don't feel safe and I could be in imminent danger, when you lock the doors of your house that is more of a possible danger, meaning it might happen even if you think it's unlikely.

If you ever have to fly to a destination you will know that the airports are completely entrenched in the fear mongering.  You can't have any toothpaste, hand sanitizer, bottles of water, homemade sandwiches, and a whole dictionary of stuff you cannot bring with you on your trip in your carry on bag.  They are so worried that someone is going to hijack a plane that they have gone above and beyond the normal means of safety and they scrutinize almost everything.

It doesn't help that the media has multiple events every single day of our lives that depict some horrible scenario happening at that exact moment.  Criminal escaped from jail, lock your doors. Amber alert, a child has been kidnapped. Pedophile in your area look out for this man. Drive by shooting, 12 people in hospital.  The list goes on and on and it never stops.

There is a flaw in society here, and It needs to be fixed because I don't ever see this getting better, only worse.  The problem is that nobody else sees this as a problem or that our society is broken.  We instead retaliate after something happens, and it doesn't stop the problem or makes it so it doesn't happen again, it only slows it down. Shooting at a school, "Solution"  Give teachers guns and lock the doors during school hours and have security guards.  How does this stop the kid from shooting everyone in the first place?  It doesn't.

Are we going to have our own personal force fields in the future? And personal recording devices that record on a 24-hour cycle before uploading to a cloud?  It doesn't fix the underlying problem which is the cause of all this safety.  

What happens when that security is gone? When your safety doesn't work anymore?  A massive electromagnetic pulse from a solar flare or bomb could wipe out all of our electrical powered security in an instant.  Vehicles stop, lights go out, phones die, cameras turn off.

It will be total anarchy, with the safety turned off your locked door of your house will mean and do nothing if someone wants to get in. Death in the streets, people will turn into base animals where only the strongest survive.  Why? The problem has never been addressed and stopped.

I don't know how to achieve that type of society maybe someone else does.

Be safe out there but don't go overboard and overreact to every situation, that's how fear mongering starts.

Scott Goerz

Crazy Campers

When I was younger I used to love going camping with my family, but as an adult I don't care to do it as much.  Living on an acreage has corrupted me a bit, It's almost like full time camping every day. I have a huge fire pit in the back, lots of trees and forests all around me and I'm far enough from the highway that I barely hear the highway noise. 

I have neighbors but they don't live that close to me and I don't hear them doing anything and they don't hear me, we can't even see each other, which is why I understand the need to go camping if you live in the city.  Having neighbors wall to wall and in such a tight area is my idea of hell.

What I can't seem to fathom is the campers that decide to pack up all their stuff and go camping for the long weekend, or any other weekend for that matter and decide that when they find a lake or campground to go to, they park right next to another camper.  You have basically traded one full time neighbor in the city for a part time one in the country. I thought the whole point of camping was to get away from it all.

Why on earth would you drive hundreds of kilometers to the country and then decide to park in a cluster of other campers?  That seems like insanity.

My buddy decided one year that he was going to go camping full time in the summer and still go to work as well. He found a site along a river on crown land and away from any people, he lived in town and wanted some peace and quiet and some privacy for a while. He set up his secluded site, put up tarps to cover him from the rain, a place for his dog, and all of his camping gear.

He was quite happy with his setup until one day after work he came back to his private camp spot only to find that another camper had decided to park right next to him.  There were miles and miles of spots these people could have camped at but they chose to set up camp right beside his campground.  These people then decided that they needed to complain that his dog was off leash and in their camping area, and that he needed to be leashed.  That was only the beginning, and later it turned into a full circus.

This story goes on for a while but in the end my friend ended up packing up his stuff and going home due to the ignorance of the other campers.  He went by the next day to see if he forgot anything and noticed that the other campers left as well, he was incredibly upset because they gave the impression they were going to stay as long as possible.

My point is if you are going camping to enjoy the great outdoors then do so, but if you can't stand being alone and have to be around people, maybe you should just stay in the city.

Scott Goerz

Woman's Evil Wrath

When two men get really angry at one another, the issue can be instantly resolved with a fist fight, and usually the two men that fight will become friends afterwards.  A mutual respect is found when you engage in hand to hand combat with another person, maybe one guy thought the other was weak and was surprised by the skill of the other man.

Women on the other hand don't usually get into fist fights. Some do engage in fighting but they are mostly a small group of women.  Women like to look nice, and they take time doing their hair and makeup, they also take a lot of pride in what they wear and like to be clean for the most part.  Getting into a fight with another woman means that they would have to risk looking ugly and ruining their clothes with blood stains and possible tears, plus all the hard work they have done to make themselves look beautiful.  

Women take an alternative approach to fist fighting, they will instead try to ruin your reputation with lies and rumors, they will slowly plot and plan their revenge and get your friends to turn on you with some clever defamation. Claiming that they saw you making out with someone else's boyfriend, or that you stole something valuable from her house when you were over, anything to make you look bad to other people.

If a guy gets a woman really upset she could claim that he sexually assaulted her, or abused her in public, maybe she will say that he tried to beat her.  Women can also spread lies and rumors about a guy to his peers as well, to make him look bad in front of his peers.  I read a story about how a woman claimed she was pregnant after she found out her boyfriend cheated on her and told people he kicked her in the gut and she miscarried, the boyfriend went to jail over the ordeal but was later released when they found out the whole story was a lie.

Of course not all women have this type of temper to totally destroy someone else's life, but there are quite a few of them out there and the problem with that is you never know which one she will be.  It's probably best to try to avoid that situation altogether and steer clear of making them extremely angry in the first place. 

Scott Goerz

Healthy Technology

I remember watching Star Trek when I was younger and whenever someone felt ill on the show they would receive an injection from the doctor and be miraculously healed.  I always wondered if we would actually get to that point one day.

Here we are in 2018, still using the same methods of healing that we used to from the 1950s. We still use invasive surgery, where we have to cut someone open to remove or fix whatever is wrong on the inside, then using a needle and thread, we sew them back up leaving a nasty scar that could cause more problems in the future.

Does anyone else out there think that this is kind of an archaic technology?  Cutting up and digging around the inside of a body, accidentally leaving scalpels and instruments behind to be found by x-ray later? 

Sure the medical technology has been getting better, but to me it seems like a very slow crawl forward.  When computers first came out they were barely more than a novelty, it seems that every year computers get about four times better than they were the year before.  Now we can hold them in our hands and they react to everything in our environment.

It seems to me that hospitals are stuck in the past, and do not advance at the same rate as everything else.  If you go into a government building like the court house or passport offices, they usually have new everything, from chairs to computers, windows and lighting.  If you have entered a hospital lately, everywhere you look has a yellow aged tinge to it.  Especially if it's an older hospital.

I'm hoping for nanotechnology pills that have programmed bacteria that finds diseases and eradicates them, or biological robots that can go inside and repair damage on the cellular level, it would be able to unclog arteries and mend tears from the inside, when it's done its job it sits dormant inside of you waiting for the next instructions or exits your body through the colon.

But maybe I watched too much Star Trek and I'm going to have to live with what we have.

Scott Goerz