NFL Films: Johnny Unitas- The Master of the Quarterback Position

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Derik Schneider
Johnny Unitas

Source:NFL Films– Johnny Unitas: The Master.

Source:The Daily Journal 

“Johnny Unitas(Grandpa’s Dream #19) from The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show’s “Dreamland” album.”

From NFL Films

When you talk about the greatest quarterbacks of all-time as well as greatest players of all- time who ever played, whether they are still playing, or not you have to talk about John Unitas as well or its a meaningless conversation. Because John Unitas changed the way the game was played and introduced things that were never done before. He called his own plays, was the field Coach, everyone on the Colts teams knew who was their most important player and the one guy they couldn’t afford to lose, every team that played the Colts knew who was the one player that they couldn’t let beat them.

Without Johnny Unitas, the Colts are a solid team perhaps a winning team but with Unitas the Colts were a championship contender from the mid 1950s until the early 70s, he was their Larry Bird or Earvin Johnson, Jim Brown whoever you want to put on that list. That one guy who was the Colts MVP every year he was there practically and a guy who could’ve won the NFL MVP almost every year he played, because he was that guy he was that great the difference in the Colts winning the Championship or being a mediocre team.

The only other two guys that I would compare to Unitas after he retired as as far as what they meant to their teams and how great they were would be, Joe Montana and John Elway. You take those two guys away from the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos and you can make a very good case that both franchises are still looking for their first Super Bowl Championship.If you judge players by whether they were great or not and should be in the Hall of Fame or not, I have four standards that players have to pass just to be eligible with me.

Was the player one of the best players at his position during his career?

Was he one of the best players in the league during his career?

Would he be a great player in any era that he played and was he a great player based on the previous standards for a long enough period of time?

Typically great NFL Players play around 10-13 seasons. So for me, most players aren’t great as soon as they walk in the league. They need about three seasons to see whether they can be a great player or not, sometimes longer then that. And a lot of great players aren’t great towards the end of their career, Jim Brown would be an exception to that. So for me if a player is great 6-8 years lets say, as well as meeting the other standards I just laid out then they are a Hall of Famer as far as I’m concern. But John Unitas had all of that plus so much more. You’re not going to find a tougher QB or a better QB in the clutch. Plus the fact that he was the Colts offensive coordinator on the field. He called their plays, he invented the Two Minute Drill and made fourth quarter comebacks popular and exciting.

John Unitas wasn’t a QB but a great player who played QB. “What do I have to do to win the game”. Thats all he cared about, if you took the lead late in the fourth quarter against the Colts in the fifties and sixties with Unitas, you were probably going to lose. Because now you have to face the master and you have to figure out how to defend one player with eleven and most teams couldn’t do that. The New York Giants found that out the hard way in the 1958 NFL Championship. They tried to take away the pass and Unitas calls a trap play up the middle and Alan Ameche runs for 20 plus yards that put the Colts in field goal position. Which would’ve won the game in overtime. But they had Unitas and were thinking Touchdown and thats why the Colts won the most important game in NFL history.

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Real Time With Bill Maher: ‘Penn Jillette Explains His Libertarian Philosophy’

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

 

Penn Jillette Explains His Libertarian Philosophy

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher– Comedian Penn Jillette: on Real Time With Bill Maher, in 2011

“From Real Time With Bill Maher, October 14, 2011.’

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher

Source:Real Life Journal

If you listen to the Republican Party in recent years, like the Tea Party movement, you might think they are the individual freedom, limited government, anti-government political party.

“Let free people live their own lives and be free, we shouldn’t spend more than we take in. And should only spend more than we need to”. Unless you focus on social issues like marijuana, abortion, gay marriage, practice a non-Christian religion or no religion at all, sleep with or pay a prostitute, sell yourself for sex, gamble your own money have an adulterous affair, because you ain’t getting enough at home, check out pornography, etc.”

And if you have a pretty good understanding of American politics you might think, actually they sound more like an authoritarian big government party to me. What happened to the limited government individual freedom of choice party. If you listen to the Democratic Party at least the activists in the party except for the so-called Progressive Caucus and their allies you might think they are the individual freedom, limited government party.

“Let free people live freely and live their own lives”. If you hear their positions on gay marriage, immigration reform, civil rights, anti-war, drug reform, decriminalization of Marijuana.”

All issues I tend to agree with the Left and Right on as a Liberal Democrat. Until you get to the not very Progressive Caucus and their positions on economic policy with all the tax cuts they want to repeal and new taxes they want to pass to double the size of the Federal Government. Take away our freedom of choice in health insurance if not health care all together, as well as all of the high taxes they would impose.

If the not so Progressive Caucus/Progressive Party bringing their version of what progressivism is building a Great Society through government and high taxes people

“don’t worry about living your own lives and making it on your own. We’ll do that for you by taking your money away and giving you back what we feel you deserve” ever got into power and you may say to yourself, again if you follow American politics. “Wait a minute these regressive Progressives aren’t big believers in individual freedom, limited government, freedom of choice either”. At least not on economic policy.

I don’t like big government socialism either. And if you’re a Liberal such as myself or a Libertarian, you take the positions that you get to keep most of the money you earn. Smoke a joint, be in love and marry someone of the same-sex. Defend yourself, watch a porno flick, pay someone to have sex, sell yourself for sex. Without your big Uncle Sammy getting on you about it and grounding you and locking you in a room ( like a jail cell  ) until you learn your lesson.

If you’re a believer in individual freedom and freedom of choice, great we have a big club, but we are always looking for new members. Membership is free and you won’t have to pay taxes on it, ( as long as the Regressive Progressive Caucus is not in power ) and you won’t have Uncle Sammy breathing down your neck because he thinks you might be a terrorist because you support individual freedom, as long as long as Christian-Nationalists  aren’t in power either.

Uncle Sammy has already been banned from our club anyway, we just have one rule though and you have to pass a test first: you have to know what limited government and individual freedom are before you can join the club.

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My Sexy Cowgirls: ‘Sexy Cowgirl Shot Duel’

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Rik Schneider
Sexy Cowgirls

Source:My Sexy Cowgirls– Sexy Cowgirl duel.

Source:The Daily Post

“Sexy cowgirl shot duel. Originally from My Sexy Cowgirls.”

From My Sexy Cowgirls

Two sexy cowgirls, one of them in a complete cowgirl outfit, with a black cowgirl hat, black leather jeans, with a cowgirl belt and leather cowgirl boots. I was rooting for her to win in this fake cowgirl duel. (Thats right no one actually died in this video) Cowgirls are very sexy, as sexy as any other type of woman of any other lifestyle. Because they all work hard, eat full balanced meals and work out.

You have to in order to be able be to work on a ranch because it’s a lot of hard work. I’m not interested in rail thin women who almost hate to eat, trying to become the next supermodel. Thinking they have to starve themselves to get there.

Even a lot of fashion models now have real women’s bodies with tight curves. They are healthy, they eat enough and eat right, as well as work out. The stereotypical tall rail thin valley girl look, that came out in the late 1970’s early 80s, is finally starting to fade. We even see valley girls today that are well-built, with tight curves and look healthy.

Brittney Spears comes to mind, she has a great body because she stays in shape, eats well and eats enough. Jessica Simpson would be another and I hope that trend continues forever.

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NFL Films: The 1972-73 Washington Redskins

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Washington Redskins (1972 - 1973)

Source:Howard Cosell Fan– Washington Redskins Head Coach/General Manager George Allen (1971-77)

Source:The Daily Press

“This is old footage from 1972 that shows George Allen as Washington Redskins head coach and running-back and kickoff return specialist Herb Mul-Key (#28) filling in for an injured running back Larry Brown against the Buffalo Bills in 1972. Mul-Key was a walk-on who would have had a much more notable career if he wasn’t always playing hurt. O.J. Simpson is also shown briefly in this video as well as old-timers Sonny Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer are also shown but the commentator seems to focus on Herb Mul-Key. I am not sure, but I think the last clip shown is Herb Mul-Key running back a 97-yard kickoff return against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1973. The next evening on ABC Monday Night Football 09/24/73 Howard Cosell made one of his verbal gaffs using the term “little monkey.”

From Howard Cosell Fan

The 1972 Redskins didn’t win the NFC Eastern Division Championship their first in thirty years or win the NFC Final their first in thirty years because they had overwhelming talent. They had very good talent with wide receivers Charlie Taylor, WR Roy Jefferson, tight end Jerry Smith and tailback Larry Brown. And on defense with people like defensive tackle Diron Talbert, linebacker Chris Hamburger, LB Jack Pardee and others, one of the best defenses in the NFL. I believe the best in the NFC that only gave up 217 points. They didn’t accomplish these things because of great talent. They weren’t the Cowboys Doomsday Defense, or the Vikings Purple People Eaters or the Rams Fearsome Foursome or the Steelers Steel Curtain.

They were a bunch of tough guys who could play who all had character, that all wanted to win and never were champions before. Thats why George Allen the Redskins head coach/general manager brought them to Washington to become champions. George Allen’s whole philosophy was about the team, “how do I get forty men (as was the case back then) to play the best that they can and play together”. (And I know this sounds corny)

But thats how George Allen operated. His favorite drink was milk probably because he didn’t spend much time drinking other things or even thinking about other drinks that he liked, because he was all about his team. “How do I get them to play the best that they can and play together at the same time”. And everything else including his family came after his team as his kids would tell you. In the 1960s the Redskins had a pass first explosive offense that was built around QB Sonny Jurgenson, WR Charlie Taylor, WR Bobby Mitchell and TE Jerry Smith. That didn’t run the ball very well or play a lot of defense, sort of like the Miami Dolphins with Dan Marino in the 1980s.

But George Allen came from the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams where they played tough defense always had one of the best defenses in the NFL. With ball control offenses so thats exactly what he wanted to establish in Washington, but the difference being that he was able to bring those defenders to Washington. Diron Talbert, Jack Pardee, but had a lot more offensive talent to go with his defense, which made the Redskins very explosive on both sides of the ball.

Allen inherited a team that was like 5-9 in 1970 the year Vince Lombardi died and took them to 10-4 and into the NFC Playoffs and 11-3 in 1972 as they won the NFC East, beat the Cowboys in the 1972 NFC Final, became NFC Champions. And went to Super Bowl 7 where they lost to the undefeated Miami Dolphins, but I believed the Redskins had the better team. The 1972 Redskins were a team that represent what a good team looks like, with star players, but other players on the team who are also good. But know their roles and everyone playing together and playing their roles.

George Allen was not perfect, the way he handled Sonny Jurgenson and Billy Kilmer and then later Joe Theisman. All three of them playing at the same time was a tragic mistake, that I believe cost him a championship. Sonny Jurgenson was clearly his best QB and should’ve led his teams until he retired instead of splitting time with Billy Kilmer. Who was at best a journeyman QB and a part-time starter and Joe Theisman should’ve replaced Jurgenson when Sonny retired. But George Allen’s whole philosophy was built around “how to get the most out of my team at the same time to win as many games as possible” and he had a lot of success with that philosophy.

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George Carlin: ‘Rights & Privileges’

Posted on September 4, 2014 by kireschneider

George Carlin_ 'Rights and Privileges'

Source:Vimana Rama– the great comedian George Carlin.

Source:The Daily Times

“RIP George. What a fantastic mind. Not posting this for monetary gain, only to share my love of the funny. Please support the artists:George Carlin.”

From Vimana Rama

Before I go too far into this, I’m an Agnostic and I’m not here to try to convince Atheists to become Agnostic or believers into becoming Agnostic either. Religion is for people who want it or not. Not for people to try to force their beliefs on others and that goes for Agnostics, Atheists or believers. So no, I don’t believe our constitutional rights come from God, even if one exists, again I don’t know if there’s a God, (in case you’re wondering why I’m Agnostic) which is why I don’t believe or disbelieve, but a reason why I don’t believe God gave us our rights, is because God wouldn’t be qualified to give us our rights.

God is not qualified to give us our rights because if he did, they wouldn’t be as great as they are now. They would either be less of them, which of course would be bad, because that would mean there would be more power for government. Not a good thing and of course government would say that, “well we have this power to use on your behalf”. Well my response would be, how come I can’t use the power that you just took away from me, for myself? I would love to hear the answer to that. An example of having too many rights would be the right to take innocent people’s freedom away from them, like the right to kill or hurt people intentionally, or unintentionally.

Another reason why God wouldn’t be qualified to give us our rights, because if he’s so great, why are there so many horrible things in the world? Why so many people starving, why do we have bigotry, we do we have so much poverty, why do we have so much ignorance, in the United States and around the world, how the hell does Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann ever become qualified to run for President of the United States. Why do have so many disasters, why do we have so many people living under authoritarian rule, especially East of Europe, but also in the Slavic states and so-forth.

If God was so great, there wouldn’t be so many horrible things going on in the world. We wouldn’t have had to go through slavery in America, we would’ve never of had African slaves or any other slaves, the Jewish Holocaust would’ve never of happened and so-forth. So God didn’t give us our rights, because the people who wrote the U.S. Bill of Rights knew better.

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Hardball With Chris Matthews: Bill Maher On Sarah Palin & Michelle Bachmann

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Derik Schneider

 

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Source:McCain Through X – Chris Matthews & Bill Maher

Source:The Daily Journal

I don’t want to sound like a preacher because I’m completely unqualified to be one, which doesn’t stop many other people from preaching by the way. But it stops me from doing it, so one up for me, but having said that I do like offering my views on everyday life. And when I see hypocrisy I like to jump on it, like an obese person at a free all you can eat buffet.

But Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann represent what happens when we as people put style over substance and give people attention, responsibility and allow them to run for public office because we like them, we think they are cool, ( oh I’m sorry, awesome ) or they have a great sense of humor deliver a lot of great humor intentionally and unintentionally and I can give you a long list of people in both parties. So long that we would have to tear down almost every tree in the country, or at least in the Northwest to have enough paper to finish this list. But since this is about Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann I’ll start there and if I need more paper, I’ll chop down a tree or save myself some time and buy some paper.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachamnn aren’t political stars because of their great depth and intelligence on anything. Because they don’t have any great depth or intelligence about anything. Sarah Palin didn’t even know the role and responsibilities of the office she was running for back in 2008 when John McCain nominated here for Vice President. ( Hint, hint, pretty big clue there ) Kinda like when you have a hot stove and instead of putting your hand on the hot stove to decide if its hot or not, you already know that its hot because you feel the hot air from it.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are popular at least among the Far-Right in the Republican Party and outside of the party ( at least among the Far-Right that doesn’t see women as property ), because they’re likable, funny, attractive. And yes to use a word I try not to overuse, except when I’m impersonating valley people, awesome or at least considered awesome. Sarah Palin is famous because John McCain was scared to death about losing the presidential election in 2008.

Because Senator McCain was the Republican Leader replacing George W. Bush and had to have a running mate that the Republican Party would love and could appeal to the Far-Right and they either knew about Sarah Palin going in about how unqualified she was for any high Federal office. And figured they would try to teach her in the McCain Administration or perhaps nominate someone else for Vice President in 2012. Sort of how George H.W. Bush felt about then Senator Dan Quale in 1988. Or didn’t do their homework about Palin at all and believed she was worth the risk. It was the ultimate riverboat gamble that blew up in their face, but they were probably going to lose anyway. Thats why Sarah Palin is famous in America and makes for great TV because she is very entertaining and attractive. Just not cut out for public office.

Michele Bachman is famous because she’s the first mental patient to ever get elected to Congress, House or Senate and is very provocative, funny ( sometimes intentional a lot of times not ) and very attractive so she shows up well on TV and in public. But knows very little to anything about anything she’s talking about and has a habit of attacking people based on quotes that were given to her. But then when’s she’s asked about where she got her info, she doesn’t know because she didn’t actually the read the info herself. Which is what happened when she got on Rick Perry about health care back in a Republican debate in September when Governor Perry was the frontrunner.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann aren’t famous and popular with their bases because of their intellect or depth on any on the important issues that we face as a country, but because they both make for great “reality TV” and both represent the dumbing down of American politics.

McCain is Through X: Hardball With Chris Matthews- Bill Maher on Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, & Morons

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Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie: The 2000s, Worst Decade Ever

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Ederik Schneider


Source:Real Life Journal

I’m going to try to get through this blog without sounding like a partisan hack which will be difficult. Because if you’re on the Right and ideologically disagree with me, you’re probably going to disagree with this blog. Call it a hunch, but think about these facts for a minute, I know thinking for a whole minute that’s like 60 seconds how do you get through that sober, but think about these things for OK 60 seconds and then take a deep breath.

When we close out the 1990s (and yes you’re correct if your thinking 20th Century) America was at peace, we had a booming economy of something like 5% economic growth and a 4.5% unemployment rate, record low poverty level in the United States of around 13%, we just balanced three straight Federal budgets. The first balanced budget since 1969 and we haven’t balanced one since. Our Federal Government only spent around 18-19% of GDP, instead of 25% like today. (A number I would like to get back to in a future blog)

The stock market hit 10K for the first time in American history I believe in 1998 and as powerful as Monica Lewinski was, she wasn’t able to stop any of that success. We got through a Gulf War, the Balkan Wars, the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 by an Anglo-Saxon Christian man, not by a Middle Eastern terrorist that was stereotyped. The 1995 Federal Government shutdown, deficit reduction, two East African embassy bombings and America remained the Land of the Free, unless you were gay or smoked or sold pot.

Now lets move ahead to a completely new century and decade which sounds like forever right, actually move ahead from December 31, 1999 to January 01, 2000. You can literally get their in a second where we have a presidential candidate whose famous thanks only to his father in George W. Bush and the other presidential candidate who on paper looks like has the qualifications to be President of the United States. But can’t beat the guy who had to cheat off the person who could barely speak english to graduate high school. (Paper doesn’t win elections candidates and incumbents do)

Better known as Bush V. Gore or Gore V. Bush you get the idea and we were treated to new phrases like hanging chads, dimple chads, over-votes, under-votes, not knowing who the next President was going to be a month after the election. A 50-50 Senate in 2001 basically favoring Senate Democrats, a divided Congress with a Democratic Senate and a Republican House from 2001-03. Two unpaid for tax cuts, two Middle Eastern wars where we’ve borrowed all the money to pay for them now 2T$ and counting, a 500B$ Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit again all borrowed money.

Kerry-Bush in 2004 where again a schmuck for a President who locks himself out of his own Oval Office who declares Mission Accomplished and Victory in Iraq, just one problem there. President Bush was 8 1/2 years early, ah damn I forgot about 9/11, the Republican Party losing Congress in 2006. Thanks to the Afghan and Iraqi Wars all this happening in ten years and there’s more. I disagree that the 2000s are the worst decade of all time or either in my lifetime, I believe the 1970s was worst even though I was only alive for four years of it. And actually only remember 1978-79 parts of it because I started nursery school then.

But the 2000s if I wasn’t a political, current affairs and history junky I wouldn’t want to relive or go through another decade like that because we’ve paid a heavy price for it and have had some of our individual liberty taken away from us. With things like the Patriot Act and is a decade that we’ll be paying for at least another decade if not two decades with all the money we’ve run up on the national debt card.

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My Sexy Cowgirls: ‘Sexy Cowgirl Shot Black’

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Rik Schneider

 

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Source:My Sexy Cowgirls– Sexy cowgirl, from My Sexy Cowgirls.

Source:The Daily Post

“Originally from mysexycowgirls.com, I just did the FX
Youtube channel:”

From My Sexy Cowgirls

Cowgirl

Source:The New Democrat– Sexy cowgirl smokin. 

As I mentioned before there’s a website called My Sexy Cowgirls, not sure about the exact web dress. And they produce videos with actress’s I guess playing old Western cowgirls but giving it a modern look with the outfits that cowgirls would wear in this century and they would be just like cowboys with the guns and horses and everything, but be very attractive sexy cowgirls instead as you see in this very short video. And it’s very entertaining for guys who are into Western culture but who also like sexy attractive women as well. Not for guys who want to be like women, but who guys who like women.

And that is what you see in this video two cowgirls in a gun duel and one of them wins, the survivor if you want to call that winning and the other the loser the one who gets shots and goes to the ground. And no in case you were actually wondering this they weren’t using real bullets unless the bullets were made out of water. And if you were wondering about the bullets you can take a big sigh of relief and know that the women in black was perfectly okay from this little experience.

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Lewis Black: The New Republican Party

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Erik Schneider

 

Source:The Daily Press

If you want to know what demagoguery, paranoia, exaggeration is, or what being obsess is, then just watch the Glen Beck Show or whatever he calls it now. Just don’t ask me to help you spell those things. Because there you have it unless you’re severely learning disabled, blind and death you’ll get an excellent idea of what all of those things are. Glen Beck has a habit of taking minor things and making them look like tragedy’s or crisis’, the exact type of person who shouldn’t be President of the United States.

Glen Beck shouldn’t be an executive in any other type of government because he lacks an even keel, the ability to see things as they are and not freak out about them. Like with the health care reform debate in 2009-10, where Glen Beck accused President Obama of hating Caucasian people because he wanted to tax tanning salons which I’m guessing is something that Mr. Beck doesn’t use very often. Or may not even know where one is.

Which is like saying people who believe the Palestinians deserve their own state must mean that they hate the Jewish people which is nonsense .You need more to go on then just that. I’ve never taken Beck seriously and have chosen not to. I prefer to see him as a libertarian comedian which he is rather than some intelligent political analyst. I just prefer to do that before I label someone ignorant as a sack of bricks. Or has an IQ below freezing, makes both George W. Bush and Sarah Palin look like genius’. You can add Sarah Palin to that list with Rick Perry towards the top as far as new applicants.

I don’t listen to Glen Beck very often except for on YouTube, I’ve made that decision. Because even though I find him to be funny, my level of tolerance for nonsense is very low. I have that same policy for a lot of the Republican Party right now except for their leadership and presidential candidates. Because as a blogger I feel the need to keep up to date with them. I’ve made the decision not to listen to a lot of these people, because the amount of what they don’t know is enough to fill up the Rose Bowl in Pasadena a Stadium with 100K Seats. For all you non-sports fans like my mother.

Or as Ronald Reagan said, but about the Democrats, “they know so much that is not true”. I do listen to what Beck has to say about progressivism and socialism, because he’s funny when he goes off on them. And his facts tend to be pretty good, it’s just when he relates the entire Democratic Party with these politics he loses me like Chris Rock cracking a redneck joke at a KKK rally. Because again it gets back to his demagoguery and hyperbolic rants. When he speaks about things like that, he tends to be as off the mark as an auto mechanic giving a lecture on brain surgery. He tends to speak out of his ass which makes him funny because of how ignorant he is.

A lot of times when I hear Glen Beck speak, I think about George Carlin when he says that we can’t blame our politicians. Because they are us, they come from the same places that we do. Schools churches, neighborhoods etc. He’s as ignorant as a lot of people who send our politicians back to office. Or I think damn our education system really has fallen to have people like Glen Beck speaking about key issues and attracting followers.

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Ryan Minor: George Carlin On Individuality

Posted on September 3, 2014 by kireschneider

George Carlin on IndividualitySource:Ryan Minor– on individuality.

Source:The Daily Times

“I little excerpt from a George Carlin audio book that I wanted to share.
Enjoi!”

From Ryan Minor

I’m not religious and I don’t want to sound religious or speak in the name of God, even to make a great point, because that would be fake. But the universe created individuals not to be clones of each other or to be just like one superior individual, but for people to be individuals, to be themselves.

In a world that’s dominated by pop culture and celebrity culture, people who talk, think, who dress, who eat as themself, rather than what the so-called hot celebrity is currently doing, that person who acts for themself, is going to stand out and look unique and generally get looked down upon as well. Because they’re not eating or drinking the exact same things as the so-called in-crowd are eating or drinking. They use their own words, or they’re the one person in the crowd who doesn’t have the latest smartphone, not aware of who was the latest person to get kicked off the latest so-called reality show, they can get through an entire day without coffee or coffee house coffee, whatever the thing is.

But, if the universe wanted clones, it wouldn’t have created billions of different people, with their own individual brains and personalities. Just because we have billions of people who apparently can’t think, talk, and act for themselves, doesn’t mean we don’t have individuals. It just means we have billions of people who choose not to be themself for fear of standing out in the crowd and being just a little different from the so-called in-crowd. I think that’s essentially what George Carlin is saying here and I completely agree with him.

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