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April 22, 2004 by psychx
I recently read an article that asked a shocking question. Would I be for a draft or against a draft for the Iraq war. I would prefer not being drafted, but what would every other young American under 26 think? I know that there hasn't been a draft since Vietnam, how could there considering that tragedy. But what if in the year 2005 the U.S. government decides they need to draft to stop this war? Would the masses be against it or rise to the occassion? That same article which led me to ...
April 18, 2004 by psychx
Maybe I am crazy but I am not one to usually get depressed and/or sad. I am not impartial to other emotions considering sometimes I am outraged, content, ecstatic, etc etc, but I rarely am down and or in a state of sorrow. There is one thing that gets me down that I am encouraged to share. As I woke up this morning at the inhumane time of 6:00 am to come into work, I got up and got ready and followed my usual Sunday morning routine operating like machinery and made it to work right when th...
April 4, 2004 by psychx
Vanity can be looked at in a dictionary as; excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit. What is this trait which flows through everyone’s veins? We are all guilty of it at least once in our lifetime we are all capable of feeling more important than another person. It’s in advertising and in movies, books, in every person we see daily. That vision of self over others is instilled since birth like machines being programmed to do tireless work. To define vanity one must ...
June 11, 2004 by psychx
On January 14th of this year a friend of mine recommended I visit a site called Joeuser, a site where you can write blogs.   I was relatively clueless about what blogs where at the time and only paid attention to the address he gave me.   Needless to say my curiosity compelled me to check out the site the very next day.   What I found was not expected and I felt much the same way when one randomly finds an answer to a question they had forgotten.   I was perplexed at t...
July 30, 2004 by psychx
At work today, we decided that we should order out as a group and get some good food.  One of my co-workers suggested we order her favorite food from a local Chinese place not too far from our office building.  She told us that her favorite food was Chinese which she hadn't had in a while.  This sparked some furious debate between my colleagues and myself and people brought up some interesting favorite foods.  One mentioned Thai food as his favorite on the merit that it's spi...