Humor and it's benefit

Society promotes always doing the right thing. We base, or most of us base our doings on that idea. We try to be polite; we try to be correct; we try not to be offensive. Things that we do but don't know why we do it. Things that we assume to be good. And to me, a humorist is that little voice that asks why to all the little and insignificant things in my life that I do without knowing why. Alain de Botton argues that humorist's job is not merely to entertain but “to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly.” Society allows humorist to say what they want to say because they do it in a way that makes you question his attitude towards it. Due to the way humorist presents himself, it becomes hard for people to take it seriously. Humorist, plays the character between right and wrong; They say things that societies ignores. Which is why humorist is not seen as rude but honest.
I remember the first time I saw Dave Chapelle on youtube. I think he was speaking about the. I laughed and laughed until I was out of breath. It became addictive. I watched until there was no more videos to watch. It wasn't until I ran out of things to watch did I realize why I was so into his shows and why it made me laugh so hard. He spoke about the everyday things that people do without a reason. The things society teaches you to do. Things you often wonder why but you never proceed to find out. He occasionally mocks the way society is. He teaches people about stereotypes by making fun of it. None of which is illegal but all of them are offensive. Offensive because it is true. And not everyone in this world could handle being offended. Therefore I, and I believe many others respect humorists for their - crudely states – balls
It isn't the jokes that make them so interesting though. Everyone thinks about the things humorist says. They think about it and they often question it. People do think about the. But no one has the ''balls” to say it. No one wants to point out the stupid things we do in life. Yes, humorist serves a vital function in society but not necessarily for the issues they point out but rather for their attitude towards such issues. The care free and happy-go-lucky attitude they have about things such as racism and sexism helps people bond together in a unique way. Thus through a show they learn about each other and become more acceptable through laughters.

The Absurdity in Death

As I grow older, I develop more personality and gain more knowledge I have realized that the thought or the idea of death has crossed my mind countless time; I think it has crossed many other people’s as well. What I am speaking of here is not suicidal tendencies. It is whether or not death should be feared. Despite the many things people say to get themselves feel better about the situation of dying, in the end, it always comes down to whether I have accomplished the many things I wished to have accomplished during my lifetime. The fear of dying before achieving all you desire in this lifetime scares most people which is what I believe to be the prime cause of fearing death. I understand where most people are coming from, but if you would just take a look around you’ll understand the one thing we know about death -- the one thing we can never really know. It is that death will come for everyone and there’s no way of predicting when, where and how.

We know very little about death. This fact makes our perspective fairly important on how we view death. Three philosophical approach to death and life could categorize the different perspective: Existentialism, Absurdism and Nihilism. Existentialism is about the finding and creating meaning even though meaning is meaningless. Absurdism is about the paradox between people’s attempt and failure in finding meaning. Nihilism is about understanding that creating meaning is useless. Each of these philosophical beliefs are too complicated for me to go into however, I believe that absurdism best explains life in terms of death.

Absurdism emphasizes on that things simply happens to people, that nothing has any meaning. Anything could happen to anyone at any time. It is as if the death and life has the same meaning. Absurdism is the attempt to find a different meaning for life, a more meaningful one but fails because none of these meaning will make a difference in life. I understand if the idea is hard to grasp which is why I have the perfect example. The Stranger by Albert Camus is a short novel which depicts the life of an absurdist. The novel shows the realization and growth of the absurdist character. The novel is truly a piece of work because it has the essence of a true absurdist. The novel won the Nobel prize 1957 and Albert Camus died in an car accident 3 years later, making Albert Camus the perfect example. His death explains the human inability in finding meaning in life, ergo things happen, and nothing has any meaning. Being the shortest-lived Nobel Prize winner, the irony in that is almost strange and even freaky. So basically, even if you have achieved everything in life, death will still come and get you.

Despite all I have said, it is necessary to fear death to some extent for people to function normally in this world. It is impossible to progress if everyone has a indifference attitude toward death and therefore life. The idea of what I am trying to convey here is hard for many to understand because the absurd is a paradox and so is death. Death is absurd because the many perspective we have about death. To talk about the absurd with absurdity is quite difficult for me to explain thoroughly without writing a whole book about it. But what I really am trying to do here is to expose you all to absurdism through death and hopefully you will all make further connections to life and all other things in it.

HIV people!!

Recently I've been seeing a lot of ads and articles about HIV and other STDs. All of then raising the awareness of how serious this problem really is. In an article I read on yahoo news, it reveals that fewer than 1/2 of the Americans have tested for HIV. The study shows that if people were to find out earlier it's easier for the medicine given to take effect. It also protects your partner from getting it.

There was this advertisement I saw the other day on the TV. It's about a bunch of people in a club and a girl asking a good looking guy if he tested for HIV and the guy jumped away and yelled at her asking her if she's crazy for asking something like that and the guy she was dancing with leaves. However, a less attractive man overheard the conversation and went up to her to tell her he tested for HIV and then they hooked up. So the story ends there...I just thought it was pretty funny. What was even moreeeeee funny was that this commercial was the idea of the head of the health department in taiwan. He planned on going to a club to promote this advertisement. He is currently 65 years old and he was going to go to the club at 7pm....which is quite weird cause the club isn't open at 7pm...hahahahahahhaha

Anyways I just thought that was funny of him. But I thought the commercial was pretty cool. Try to see if you can find it on TV it should be on the news channel. However, just because im joking and laughing about the commercial doesn't mean I don't take this very seriously. I've heard of people who got AIDs from going to the theater and sitting on a chair where a HIV patient planted a needle with her HIV positive blood on it. EVIL!!!! anyways. Just be aware kids. Protection.

Sources: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_he_me/us_med_hiv_testing;_ylt=AogKSbbz8DJ1IR4_JDqad1ys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkdjV2aGR1BHBvcwMxNDEEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2Zld2VydGhhbmhhbA--

Finally CHINA!

In the past few weeks one of the main major issues of the world is North Korea. Ever since it's attack on South Korea's Yeonpyeong island, world leaders have been having conferences to decide on what actions should be taken. Major countries such as the US and Japan have been publicly displaying their support for South Korea. US especially have taken major consideration in aiding South Korea. However with China still unsure of what to do, the rest of the world remained fairly calm. It has been revealed that there are nuclear centrifuges and missiles all over North Korea. North Korean officials said these are built for civil war and the US were not able to confirm if the nuclear facilities work or not.

HOWEVER, BREAKING NEWS!!
China has finally formed an opinion on there stand in this situation. TODAY!!!! China's foreign minister has said that he believes North Korea's behavior is like that of a "spoiled child". The Chinese officials believes that North Korea should reunite with South Korea however the US should remember that North Korea is still China's neighbor. Many Chinese officials also believes that the North Korean nuclear power plant is a danger to the rest of the world.

ANYWAYS. crazy North Korean's seriously. if you are north korean and you are reading this please don't kill me. But I honestly think that this is so out of no where. I mean, was it all necessary to attack an island like that. Sure this attention whore thing so that other countries will supply food and other things for them makes a good reason but not a good enough one to bomb their neighbor. The consequences like civil war, world war, nuclear warfare....etc I don't know if its worth it at all..

Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11871641

Breast Implants and Artificial Hips

BOOBS
picture only for attracting your attention so you would read this

BBC news recently reported a story about the danger of breast implants and artificial hips. A specific type of breast implants called the Poly Implant Prosthesis(PIP) was recently banned in the UK because of the implants chance of rupturing in patients body. The implants was used widely in the Plastic surgery world. The gell-filled shells are not up to standard causing it to be easily ruptured in your body. When it ruptures the gell-filled shells harden and becomes a lump in your body. The buffer in the breast implants in absorbed into your body and causes no harm. One patient originally thought the lump may have been cancer and was relieved to find out it was not but was furious that it was the beast implants and no one warned her the consequences of it.

Back in my grandma's time this was one of the breast implants that were available and she received it when she was young. The implants ruptured a few years back when I was in middle school. I didn't learn about this till recently. the implants had turned into something that has a hardness of a rock and was hurting in her body. She got it checked up and got the implants removed. She lived with the pain for months and did not know what it was. After the surgery she was unable to function and by that i mean eat, sleep, go to the bathroom..etc. She survived so chill everyone who thought she died...if you didnt good..cause she's super healthy now

anyhow my point on this was ....i thought about breast implants and how cool they are and how popular they really are in the real world but considering the pain it caused or might cause...I don't think anyone should try it.

The artificial hips...similar story a popular surgery done among people and the risk were not introduced. The story goes that the metal artificial hips made by johnson and johnson breaks in to pieces the lodges into a patients body causing it to rott form the inside.

No my grandma didn't get this surgery.


But think about the risk of plastic surgery just for one second. Considering the beauty it may bring you one day and the pain it may cause you another day and than think about aging regardless of how many botoxs you have received or implants you've made yourself go through THAN think about whether that was all worth that much trouble.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11739475

Paris Hilton AGAIN.

Paris Hilton the hotel heiress was caught with cocaine and weed possession at the end of summer. The story goes that Paris Hilton and her used to be new boyfriend went to Vegas for PARTIES!!! On the way back to hollywood a police vehicle followed Paris Hilton's car because he smelled Marijuana. He pulls there car over and Paris pulls out her wallet and letting a bag of cocaine drop on the floor. The police officer immediately asked her what it was and if it is her's. She said it's not! it's my friend's, who lent her purse to me. (what a buyable story right?!)

Anyhow the story wasn't good enough and after a month of investigation and trials and what not. Paris Hilton is released. RELEASED did I say...sigh. She was fined $2000 and 200 hours of community service plus one year on probation. The judge warned her if she gets into any trouble other than a car accident this year while she's on probation she would be sent into jail.

I mean sure, the fining and the community service hours and probation may seem like its enough...but is it really?! If she was not Paris Hilton I bet she would be in jail right now. It's not like this was her first time going to jail and being on illegal substances anyways. I just thought this was interesting cause people always say money can't buy you freedom. NOT TRUE.


Source
http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/20/paris-hilton-plea-deal-las-vegas-cocaine-arrest/

Justice.

On September 30, 2010 an American couple left their Texas home and decided to go for a short trip to the Falcon lake. From across the lake is the country Mexico. The American couple went on about their trip around the lake and decided to cross the border on their private vehicle to see the historical churches. Just past the border while they were entering Mexico three boats pulled over and were filled with armed man. They began firing and the husband was shot down from his jet ski. The wife tried to return and rescue her husband but the boats pulled over again and started firing. These boats chased her passed the American border. Her husband's body hasn't been found yet. HOWEVER, his severed head was delivered in a suitcase last week.

AND THEN...anonymous source explains that it was because the watercraft were usually a sign of surveillance and that the Los Zetas thought that they were spies. Los Zetas is a group funded by Mexican army special force to fight the illegal drug trade.

Okay...now...
I just think this is a horrible incident...Taking a trip on a lake and got shot down by officers?! And this anonymous source says that the unauthorized attack was done by the senior officers of Los Zetas and this anonymous source also said that they got rid of the body so no evidence could be put to blame on the Los Zetas.
HOW UNFAIR IS THAT....even if its not the los zetas...why did they cut off his head. And if it is the Los zetas than its even more unacceptable. Them being the special force to limit the illegal drug trade and then shooting down innocent civilians. How UNFAIR?!