Sunday, October 26, 2008

against the steelers and the refs

at this moment i am watching the giants game and puking in disgust of how porrly officiated of a game it is, and its not even being officiated poorly for both teams, i hate the fucking refs in the nfl, i wish them death!!!!! the end =)

Saturday, October 18, 2008

again not about the giants, but....

ok this time im going to write about the author Frank Sulloway and his book Birth Order and Sibling Competition. In this book Sulloway makes the claims about the fact that birth order has to do with the personality diffrences between siblings of diffrent ages. He contends the fact that siblings who are born first, second, third and so on are affected diffrently simply by whichever birth order they happen to stumble into. What sulloway is claiming is that "40% of total variance in personality is genetic" ( Sulloway 2007 298). so what Sulloway is saying is that my personality is based purely on the luck of my genetic make up and which birth order i happen to fall into. This question can be answered, in my opinion by one simple word, and in my opinion that word is yes. So basically i think that Sulloway has the perfect idea, my personality is based on my familys genetic history and my birth order, i definently believe i am more of a dominant person because i have a younger brother, and thats the way my father was. i beleieve sulloway has the completely right idea, and more people need to be looking at things like this.


Bibliography

Sulloway, Frank
2007 Birth Order and Sibling Competition Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

ok so this isnt about the giants, but....

It is about the author Ovid. Ovid wrote a series of three book entitled the books of love. In these books, Ovid covers three subjects, first for single men, how to get a girl, second for those men with girls, how too keep them, third is for the women and how they should act to keep their men. These books are not the holy grail to relationship advice, it was written a long time ago so it is outdated but, the principals still work, there is only one problem i have with Ovid. In his first book about men trying to "get" women he talks about being freindly to the female who your trying to acquires's suitor. With this statement Ovid is basically telling you to go after married women. This is adultry, now God knows im not the best Catholic around but i like to beleieve and try to follow rules as much as possible. What Ovid is suggesting directly breaks one of the ten commandments, theres only ten, you can live with not breaking any of them. God knows i have broken one, maybe two depending on your definition of one of them, but what Ovid is preaching and supportin g is a direct violation against the commandment regarding adultry. In short, i love the way Ovid writes his works are long, but helpful and intelligible, but, being a fairly good religous man i cannot condone his ideas, his methods may work, but his ideas about married women are not one i would like to follow.