Religion and the 2008 Presidential Eelction

For Christians to say that the world will come to an end if Obama wins the election is so stupid. First of all who are these believers to say something like this? If anything, Christianity is coming to an end. If more and more believers in the Christian faith are acting like this, then that might be a great thing to happen.

Where is the love in Christianity today? There are more love from pagans or neo-pagans then anyone. Even atheist are more loving then Christians are lately. There is nothing wrong with any faith out there, but when they start saying that the world will come to an end if this or that happens. No one can predict the future. These individual believers really do not know what the Constitution of the Unites States means. I can describe it in 3 words, "WE THE PEOPLE."

I want Obama to win based on how he is enlightening so many to be a part of our great nation. He cannot do it alone, nor any politician. We are the Government. It is up to each and everyone of us to do the right thing for ourselves and for the whole of this great nation. The United States of America is a melting pot of all faiths, all national origins, and everything else that makes us human beings.

We all vote as individuals, not as a group of people. Christianity today seems to believe we all should think the same, hold back progress and live in the past, force others how to think and believe. In our Constitution of the United States of America, we all are given the right to be individuals. That means we can believe in any manner, live our lives in any way, vote for anyone we want to, progress our lives in our own fashion, and all the rest that makes us unique and speical throughout life.

Who can vote? Anyone that is 18 years or older. It does not state you have to believe in anything before hand, live a certain life, or anything that will take away your freedom to think and believe the way you want to. "Freedom of Religion" is on the 1st Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. When these certain Christians tells all that the world will go to hell of Obama will win, then they want that 1st Amendment removed.

if you want to vote for McCain, the please do so. It is your right to vote for whomever you want to vote for. I have no right to say that you cannot vote for whomever. I will not state that your life will be miserable if you vote for someone different then I would. How your life will turn out is up to what you do with your life, and not what others do. True, how our governments does their jobs can influence the global outcome, but your life is your own. Only you the individual can make the difference.

What makes us who we are is our own experiences. By these experiences can we make decisions to vote for whomever you want to vote for in any election. If the United States will go to hell it will be something far more bigger then the outcome of an election. There is more to life then any one day. Whoever is election on November 4, 2008 it will take all of us to make the difference. Even if our candidate is not elected, we must still work together as a United Sates of America.


Blesed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name: Brandon Bowers

Are bans on political expression in schools warranted?

I am concerned about having educators quiet on this subject. Our government is based on "WE THE PEOPLE." It is not just a few people, but all people in all walks of life. When students are taught to keep quiet, they learn that freedom of opinion, voice, and all that makes this country so great, The United Stattes of America.

As with anything that is being taught in the classroom, it should be taught to enlighten the students. Children are the future of any country. What they can learn today will make then able to handle the life of tomorrow. The more children of today can freely express themselves the more they can improve things tomorrow. To me being quiet is so close to being ignorant.

Teamwork has everything to do with voicing one's opinion. Leadership is a lot more then that. When schools teach that being a humdrum, mindless, command driven individual, why have schools in the first place? Knowledge is power. Keeping quiet and thinking the same does not bring anything for the future. Any expression including a political one brings out new ideas and possitive results that will make a difference in all our lives.


Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name: Brandon Bowers

9NEWS.com | Colorado's Online News Leader | Virtual world poses real threat to kids on the Internet

 

The fear that this article is stating is unneeded fear.  If you read between the lines, it really had not facts to back it up.  It is simply stating the same old thing as the so called experts has been stating since the early 80s on technology and the future of children/teenagers.

What is not being said is that the younger generation needs to be more involved with social media then ever before.  Employers are looking for employees that know their way around the social media including 3-D virtual worlds.  The new trends of business today are already using a virtual world called SecondLife.  The biggest fears are not technology in itself, but the fast changes.

Believe it or not, changes are constantly happening with our technology.  With our global economy issues, it will take these technologies like SecondLife to help all move from the "Industrial Age," in which we all have been use to living, and move to this new and marvelous age, "The Technology Age."  It is normal to be concerned about this transaction of moving from one age to the next.  Especially do to our economy issues, we need to tread into it one step at a time, but there is not reason to fear it like the common plague.

While we do slowly move to this new age, we should have the younger generation get to know and be a large part of what is happening now with social media and 3-D virtual environments.  The ignorant statements that these new 3-D virtual worlds will cause children/teenagers to be divorced from reality is just that....IGNORANT!  In these virtual worlds, teenagers are already working with people of different cultures, ages, genders, etc.  This type of social gathering is very important in the work place as team playing.

The real threat is when we force our younger generation to live in the same age as we did in years past.  Change for the future is not an evil thing.  It is the way of progress.  Look at the medicine and medical cures that has happened due to our technologies.  A lot of people are living years longer then before.  Our understanding of our environment has opened up dramatically.  We have gone far past the simple telephone to the fast growing Internet.

Remember all the fears and gears that was said about the first personal computers?  Now here is something new, Virtual Worlds.  I have read an article that a lady had made millions of real money in SecondLife.  I cannot say if someone could do that again, but the opportunity is there for just about any future progress in life.  Money is not the only gain in life for a better future.

Spite all the news propaganda that has been written, show, or whatever, Virtual Worlds have constantly grown and shown dramatic progress over the years.  What I think the real fears behind social media is that news programs, Hollywood, and the rest of the how the media has been played, is dying with today's technology.  It is a futile gesture on their part state all the propaganda about Virtual Worlds and social media in order to discredit it.

As I have said, social media is still going on just as strong and even stronger day by day.  From the first time Linden Labs created their master piece, "SecondLife," it has boomed far beyond they could have ever known.  It has changed so much that personal computers are having a hard time keeping up with it by video cards and other system requirements.  Even Internet speed is at a challenge with SecondLife.

I have always seen a future operating system that would use virtual reality.  I am beginning to think that one day, Virtual Worlds like SecondLife will replace the OS of today.  It will be a giant undertaking, but I see that it can one day replay how we use our technology on a day-to-day basis.  When each and everyone of us can use our own imagination on designing things, then there is not limit of what can be done with Virtual Realities/Virtual Worlds.

SecondLife is on its six year.  That is simply a drop in the bucket on how things have been going on with technology.  When the younger generations become adults and get jobs within Virtual Worlds, I strongly believe that we will have something far, far, greater then we have now.  The only supervision that parents needs to give there own children in this respect is encouragement of the future of these wonders.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

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The Internet is no 21st-century boob tube | News - Digital Media - CNET News

 

I have stated this many, many times:  Social media/social networking is a lot more then chatting back and forth.  I have also talked about how real online virtual reality is to all of us.  How easy it is to share things online, and it is a lot more then text messages.

People can use all sorts of media formats.  Another words, the video phones has surpassed science fiction.  No wonder there are not as many SCFI shows as there were in the 1960s. Science has made them most if not all of them a reality. Spite our economy, we are still achieving more and more through the technology age. If there ever were a such thing as the "Golden Age," then the times in which we live now has to be it.

We have more control over the media then ever before.  We can watch and thing online anytime we want to.  Just about all news programs have there own podcast videos.  We can also create our own videos and allow family members to see us anywhere on the globe.  How true the title of this article is, "The Internet is no 21st-century Boob Tube."  It has surpassed conventional media and created a whole new world.

With the economy as it is today, how convenient it is for all of us to have at our disposal.  We can see our family in real time, share ideas, and anything we experience in life.  In the conventional world we could not do half of what can be done online. As I have stated with virtual worlds like Second Life, people have come together spite our gender, race, age, or natural origin.  Due to the Internet, we have truly become a united human race.

The most interesting part of it all is that this wonderful technology is growing and growing.  Tomorrow, we could simply and something that surpasses all of what we have now.  The limit in the "Technology Age" is our imagination.  It is not what we have today, but what will we be getting tomorrow.  You guess is as good as mine.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

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Prop. 8 battle rages over whether gay marriage would be taught in schools - Los Angeles Times

 

The question should be asked why are people so against someone that is different then they are.  Our Constitution of the United States of America, and our Declaration of Independence, clearly states that all men or created equal.  This mean simply this:  We all have the given right to live the way we want to without any interference from government, religion, or anyone else.

Still in the United States of America, we do not treat others as equals unless they believe or behave in the way we want them to.  This is wrong and evil.  No where in these two documents states certain criteria has to be met for freedom to be established.  The United States is not the only country that are discriminating against other human beings.

I have stated this question in my early blog postings: "What is more real, virtual reality, like SecondLife, or our conventional reality?"  In these virtual reality worlds, people of all ages, gender, religion, sex-orientation, etc., have come together, play together, and all the rest without judging who and how they think, believe, live, etc.  I am starting to believe that virtual reality is more real because right off people can be themselves.  That is how things should be outside of virtual reality.  In all realities.

The ones that are against "gay marriages" are the ones that love as the top aspect of their faiths.  What love is being shown?  If businesses need for their employees to work together as a team, then yes this subject should be taught in schools.  Why?  The simplest answer is "tolerance."  One may state, this should be already taught in the homes.  This is true, but is it the parents that are teaching their own children to hate or have nothing to do with someone that is different.  Churches teach the same things.  The media is no better.

Through social media online, teenagers and adults are learning to tolerate others ways of life.  No time in history has there be a time that has taught and applied this simple aspect of life so quickly and perfectly.  While baby boomer generation is running around throwing hate and intolerance, the younger generations are learning and living life with love and happiness.  How long this will last is how these generations raise their own children.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

Prop. 8 battle rages over whether gay marriage would be taught in schools - Los Angeles Times

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Here is a very good example that psychiatry is way out of line.  What right do anyone has to state they one is addicted to anything?  I can remember all the silly fears when personal computers started to come out.  Tons of movies were made just discredit them.  Nothing ever came close to half of what were said about them.

With our technology, we have been doing things far more and far better then ever before.  All the science fiction stories are now the ones that are in competition with today's ever fast growing technologies.  There never has been a time in history that medical science has been so wonderful.  It all started from the first microchip.  Since 1980, everything has been for the better in just about all aspects of life.

Yes, teenagers are using these technologies a great deal.  They should!  It will be them that will make our technologies even better then they are today.  The latest thing online at this time is social media in text form and graphic forms as with virtual worlds.  Social media has connected more people then anytime in history.

Businesses have always struggled with having unity and team work in the job at hand.  Social media of all sorts have been able to do something that no one has ever done before, get everyone to see past the race, gender, and age of all.  In a virtual world, a person is represented by what is called an avatar.  This avatar can be male, female, animal, or whatever.  You can be corresponding with a gold fish.

With other social media communications, by the name that the user has may not give a clue to what country the person comes from, gender, or age.  Just the same we constantly correspond with out seeing their physical appearance.  The question that needs to be asked is "Who are we?"  I am sure that a lot would give out a lot of information without really saying anything to the answer to this question.  The answer is very simple, and it can describe anyone on Earth.  That word is "experience."

Who we really are is the sum total of our experiences.  When we correspond with others online, we can share our experiences without giving any type of personal information.  The fuss that people are making about being addicted to online games or anything else that has to do with technology is very ignorant with the mass changes that are happening right now with our technologies. They might be addictive to how wonderful they are to our day-to-day lives, but that does not mean it is a negative thing.

I wonder sometimes if psychiatry is aiming to destroy change in life.  As with so many organized religion, change has always be a bad thing.  If our technology can get people to work together, save more lives with better medical understandings, Allow consumers to communicate both ways in real time, broaden our minds beyond any one's hopes or dreams, etc., then I say today's technology is a wonderful and beautiful thing.

The issue is not that teenagers are spending too much time online, but they should be spending more time online.  With the high prices of gasoline, the down fall of our economy, and all the rest, the only place any of us can go is online.  The monthly fee of any broadband service is a lot cheaper then having teenagers travel all through town.  Online, anyone can travel across the globe while sitting at the computer.  The Internet is far more then what it was in the early 90s, and it is growing faster and faster.

If children are our future, then it is not damaging for teenager to socialize online.  Gaming is simply and 3-D graphical form of socialization online.  People can do a lot more in communicating online then the old chatrooms.  The Internet has megatons of educational materials.  With the Internet, updates are a lot easier and cheaper then writing another book on the same subject.

Video podcast are the top of the heap lately.   I personally hate to watch the new on television.  I can get better information and more of it online then I could ever on television news programs.  With social media, I can learn things that I may not even know existed otherwise.  I could write forever on the possibilities are what is online today.

The only ones that are say that children are spending too much time on video games online or other online activities are people that hate change and want the rest of the world to live my their means.  Our technologies are here to stay, and it is growing faster then anything in history.

 

Blessed be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

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Resigned from a job in SecondLife

There are several reasons why I left from working at this place in SecondLife.  One is that I was not getting enough income to do what I wanted to do, which was getting my stories noticed in this virtual world.  I did not sell them for profit for at least help pay for the uploading of the pictures that made the books. 

 

I used a device that allowed me to create books but it had to be in a picture format.  It cost me 10L$ to upload one picture.  That can add up very quickly.  Then I had to pay rent on shops.  That was not cheap either.  All I wanted to do was allow others to enjoy what I have written.

To get even what I was getting, I have to do a lot.  That was keeping me from writing my stories, do blog postings, chat with others on twitter, etc.  I was slowly being a slave to a virtual world.  I am more lively and can do a lot more in this life to allow myself to be caught up in all that if it will only produce a dead end for me.

I had dropped out of SecondLife once before, but I thought about going back for the sake of social networking was so big.  As I was back for the second time I have seen business that had islands of their own, start to look shabby and unattended.  I am sure that the economy in the United States of America is not making it all that easy for anyone make real life money in SL.  Now that I do not see any future in SL, I will end up canceling my account after my shops go out on rent. 

The only thing that might keep me in SL if people start buying my books.  With the recent trends, I say that will not happen, or have enough to allow me to continue to pay rent on the shops I have going.

I am sad that SecondLife has not worked out for me, but I do love writing still.  You will see me write more on my blogs and my stories:  http://www.fanfiction.net/~bbyahoocom.  I am currently working on "Death of the Sith" which is book 3 of my Stargate SG1 and Star Wars Trilogy:  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4137478/1/Death_of_the_Sith

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

How Social Media Is Invading Traditional Media

 

Let's face it.  The Internet is growing faster and faster. We either stay behind in the stone age, or we get on this ride and hold on tight.  Why is everyone making a big fuss over this new trend, "social media," and who is doing it?

The answer to who is making a fuss is simply the ones that fear and do not want change in life.  Usually these people are literal religious groups or the minority of baby boomers that simply do not want or care to understand the technology age.  If one will look back at the beginning of the industrial age, people fussed over how machines were taking over their jobs.

Later on in this new industrial age, jobs popped up.  It created more jobs then it took away.  Now that the industrial age is being replaced by the technology age, people are once again fearing.  Change is a good thing.  In life, one is either going forwards or backwards.  Fear in something that is not well understood causes things to go backwards.

A good example is our fuel consumption.  We have been using oil for a good many years now.  It is time to start using something new, and better.  We have the technology to create and use better fuel then crude oil.  We must change in this regard before we run out of gasoline and other crude oil by products.

We have the technology to do a lot more then replace the fuel we use on a day-to-day basis.  The biggest technical wonder is how we communicate with others.  I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell could ever realize the potential of his telephone invention could have be turned into a world wide service that we call the Internet?  We do more communicating online, then we do on the phone.  Through video cameras we can see the person we are talking to as well as them seeing us.  We also can send text, pictures, and files that would take forever in our conventional mail system.

From the first newspaper, television news programs, and other media systems before the Internet, we had no choice in what we heard or read.  The news was a slanted as it is today.  Now we have more choices and options through "social media."  Information can be sent out a lot quicker.  We can choose we and what we take in on any subject.  If we do not like what we read, see, or hear, we can go to another source ever so quickly.  The competition has grown dramatically.

That is why so many news programs fear the Internet.  They do not want to have their customers leave due to how they present the news.  With today's technology, the term "monopoly" and "proprietary" has no meaning any more.  There is no limit to how things can be shared online, and that ideology is changing at an alarming rate.  There is nothing we cannot do on the Internet.  It growing so fast that science fiction would not be able to keep up.

Spite all the wining and fussing over how it is replacing "traditional media," social media is here to stay.  Like I said, "We either stay behind, or we get on board."  It is that simply.

 

Blessed Be to Isis, and you.

Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

 

How Social Media Is Invading Traditional Media