The Social Porcupine

Awhile back I saw this video discussing why choices should be limited.  Or more like, why we shouldn't create more choices. While the guy made points that sounded good, they were in fact rooted in man's philosophy and not God's truth. Before I explain, let me rant: You don't fix stupidity by taking away choices.  It's not about choices but what we choose. Idiocy isn't fixed by a forced utopia. First, you don't need to watch that podcast. In fact I don't recommend listening to it as it's not all appropriate. I'll explain everything that it says in the following paragraph:  There is an accepted belief that people perform better if they have more choices. With this belief people create more and more, so that there are now 175 different salad dressings. And has this helped people improve, make better choices? No, it has made them stop and wonder... "Wait, what if I choose the wrong dressing?" And so this goes on to identit...

Life. It's one of those weird things I still haven't figured out, but hope to make totally clear to you by the end of this post. Or maybe just my life. In that case you might not learn anything at all about life in general - except sleep, and maybe death. I mean, parts of it (life) are starting to make sense. Like sleep for example. Why was it when I was little I dreaded sleep? And when I got older I started to love it, but still avoided it? And now, why is it that it seems I live for the time I can sleep? The thing I use to hate and avoid I now strive for. Why is that? My answer is simple. The reason children hate sleep is because they just "woke" up and are very confused. They do not know if this place called Earth is really Heaven or just something very much like it. And since it (life) is so good why sleep? As you get slightly older life is still "heaven" but you have also learned to appreciate resting and sleep - yet avo...