Body Modification

I found the talk on body modification interesting, its amazing how much we take every day life for granted, like dieting for instance being female and being brought up in prodminantly female house hold dieting seems to be part of the norm. however I do think more and more men in todays soceity are becoming more body conciouse. Even though most of us want to look good in order to feel good there are a few people ive come across who beleive that changing the way they look will give them ultimate happy ness. but if the foundation for a happy mentality is not there in the first place changing our appearence wont change the way we think it may give us the confidence we need to make life changes but underlieing problems that caused our feeling of inadiquacy still remain.

Alcohol/ Drugs

When people talk about drugs they talk about the obvious ones like, cocaine, heroin and cannabis. But for me people should be just as concerned about alcohol abuse, every one likes a drink to unwind or get merry but some people take it to the extreme Ive seem many family members and friends destroy them selves with this kind of abuse. It causes fights and feuds, not to mention self destruction. Why do people do this to them selves.

Religion

Religious Blog!
Why is Religion Bad?
Most of the population follow some religion in some way or another, some people will claim they are Christian or Catholic but never attend a church or even attempt to meet any other religious requirements or demonstrate other religious qualities. So why do they feel the need to claim they belong to a religion??
Have we as a society been conditioned to feel this way???
Then there are the people who are obsessed and driven by the religious belief, but sometimes this drive turns into anger and prejudice. But what I really don’t understand is the fact that religion supposed to be based on loving the neighbour and bringing peace and love to mankind, this is in all religious books across the world, yet religion appears to be the fuel for all our wars ,destruction and poverty in the world!.
Why?
You must watch this video!!! http;//www.youtube.com/watch?v=messwkffj9o

All that we are
Is the result of what we think?
Only then can a man escape being filled with hatred, if his mind
Is constantly repeating....... He misused me, he hit me, he defeated me, he robbed me____?
Hatred can never put an end to hatred: hatred is only conquered by love.
BUDDHA

I recommend you watch - You Tube Zeitgeist [Religion] The Greatest story ever sold 1-3.

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Smoking week 3

My apologies now if this is totally naff as I have never made a blog before and so many of you seem very creative. So I will do my best. I thought I would start with my experience of smoking and my thoughts.


Unfortunately I was one of these people who started smoking at a very early age, but i don't feel it was due to peer pressure as people around me did not smoke nor did my parents as many people suggest this may also be a cause of young smokers. I'm afraid to say it was probable just the need to BE BAD and defiant!. At one point in my life I smoked around 20-30 a day eek! but over the years i have formed very different opinions of smoking, I'm not sure if this is due to various stages of maturity or influences from movement in crowds of people I have across in the journey of life. However I do feel the media play a big part in our perceptions and view on different matters for instance the film clips from the 1950s portrayed smoking to be seductive and glamorous giving us the idea we will be as equally glamorous if we smoke. Over the years this has been changed through the Media suggesting smoking being more common in deprived areas stereo typing people .



Is there any one else who feels the government use the Media as a form of control over us first they encourage us to smoke then when we become dependant and addicted they decide its bad for us and ban it like there more recent smoking in public places ban? Its controlling us in mass numbers like religion but that's another story! Anyway these days I'm more of an on off smoker i can go for months without and then smoke like a chimney for days very strange! but even more bazaar one day i fine the smell of cigarettes repulsive and the next day it can be the most pleasurable moment of the day. Very sad I know. I'm sure all smokers understand this my apologies to all you non smokers out there.