"Every Rose has it's Thorn"

The meaning of the quote, "Every rose has it's thorn" is simple. 

Essentially, the idea is that there is no such thing as all good or all bad.

There are ups and downs to everything.

Benefits and consequences.

There is never something gained without something lost. 

Another quote with similar meaning would be:

"No pain, No gain." 

Funnily enough, sacrifice is arguably a more rewarding achievement after a certain income level.

After a certain level of income happiness tends to level out at which point sacrifice tends to become the main cause of happiness especially in the form of contribution or charity.

No Sympathy for Myspace

No Sympathy for Myspace

It's dying. It has been for a while. Just put yourself out of your own misery Myspace.

I hate to break it to you but the days where you could boast nine digit population rates is long gone and you're nothing more than a soap box for most nowadays. Facebook has long since been considered the King of social networking and since it's IPO it's been nothing if not embedded in the welfare of the very economy that invested so much to make it. Facebook has become us. We lose Facebook, the economy takes a hit. We stop using Facebook, the economy takes a hit. Embedding Facebook as an IPO was a good long term move on Zuckerberg's part but it's gonna take a while for Social Networking to die as a result and may cause the economy to fall if it does. Odds are it won't.

Social networking happens every day and is many people's "hustle" and, for many, requires the discipline of a steel wrecking ball. That was not a Miley Cyrus reference. Anyways.

Myspace is but a shadow of its former self and has long since been cast in the shadow of Facebook.

I'm really sorry you have to die Myspace, but such is life.

Individuals tend to dig their own holes in Life

Individuals tend to dig their own holes in Life

Time and time again I've seen individuals, including myself, with countless opportunities of prosperous fortunes that sank it all away squandering it on the good times of the present and refusing to simply,"get their shit together".

It's absurd really how some people can simply whirlwind through life not taking the slightest of commitments under their wing. It's disturbing, truly. Nothing matters more to most people than getting what's due them, I suppose, not what they're due others.

In many spots I've been, rough or smooth, I've always seemed to come out unscathed. Not that I cared much for those who didn't though. I always find myself wondering what happens to the people for whom all it comes down to is luck?

I can't help but feel disappointed that in even this day and age we can have life-altering processes based on such a thing as Luck, but such a thing is still present. Not that I care. I've long since forgotten most for whom the bell has tolled.

I hope you all get hives and scratch away.

Drug Addicts

Drug Addicts

Drug Addicts are people I have no sympathy for unless it is an extreme addiction caused by reliance on medication due to a severe, life-threatening injury requiring addiction and said addiction was acquired during your hospitalization. 

For instance, if you receive third-degree burns all over your body i'm not exactly gonna say I don't have sympathy for you since your addiction to Morphine acquired during your six month hospitalization from said burns now turned you into a morphine addict to feel better both physically and emotionally due to the severe depression and delirium you likely experience 24/7 due to extreme bodily, emotional, and cognitive deformities.

Drug Addicts tend to sell drugs in order to fund their addictions so money is not TYPICALLY an issue for them as those that don't have much tend to not get into hard core drugs that are much more expensive than the soft stuff.

As such, I don't expect there to be severe cases of irreversible deformity and destitution unless the person has so many addictions that they simply have let themselves go in all regards which, with harder drugs, is more common and also TYPICALLY occurs in people who have Addictive Personalities.

Armed Gunmen

Armed Gunmen

In the news recently was the Fort Hood Shooting at the Fort Hood Military Base in Killeen, Texas.

This is the second time there has been a massacre at that same exact military base.

The last shooting was five years ago. Many believe this shooting was a 5 year anniversary celebration of the last Fort Hood shooting.

This was an unfortunate reminder to myself that I simply have zero tolerance or sympathy for armed gunmen. Period. I have none. They die dishonorable deaths in my opinion and those whose lives they stole deserve memorials. On the other hand I question the reason that armed gunmen do the things they do. I do agree that in many armed gunmen situations it has later been revealed that the shooter was bullied, chastised, hated, and reviled by his peers.

I don't think that's fair.

I think it's beyond all doubt that if such actions could lead to an armed massacre that perhaps what it is that makes people human beings, a soul, can be easily pushed into a corner and made to feel defenseless and, as all know, when you corner something and aim for its weak spot typically it's a life or death scenario for that thing and if it survives than there's no telling just how badly the consequences could be.

Proportional Retaliation was not an option for people such as the Columbine Shooters, the Virginia Tech Shooter, or the Fort Hood Shooters.

Otherwise, why would they have done what they did?

Serial Killers

Serial Killers

This one should be a no-brainer (no pun intended) and yet I still find people who sympathize with individuals such as Jeffrey Dahmer, the Creek River Killer, the D.C. Sniper, and Marilyn Manson.

Now, i'll be the first person to tell you that if you think these people are deserving of any sympathy, you're wrong. They're like me, but worse. They not only have no sympathy, they have (arguably) zero emotion left.

They're your definition of a "cold-hearted" killer in that their passion has gone from a burning fire to a cold icy hearth. 

Serial Killers seem to have lowered their inhibitions to the point where they're willing to kill other individuals but they're not willing to kill themselves, unlike shooting sprees which tend to result in both killing others and oneself. This idea is a bit ironic when discussing human nature considering that most individuals that take their own lives haven't ever killed someone else. 

Christianity

Christianity

I have no sympathy for Christians. Christians believe that being Christian makes them special. Well, if you were one of the millions of Christians who fought in the Crusades you wouldn't think so.

Christian faiths make up the majority of the planet's religious base and honestly are the most common thing around. I hate it when Mormons come knocking at my door like I'm gonna become some sort of ascended saiyan by talking to them.

If not for polygamy and Mormonism's brutal obscene hatred of other christian sects I wouldn't understand why Mormons do it.

Still don't get the black people thing though.

Celebrities

Celebrities

No Sympathy for Celebrities.

None.

Celebrities have all the fame and money they deserve. They earned it. They worked for it.

Have you ever tried to be famous? It's hard. You can't be famous even if you work your whole life for it sometimes. Plenty of people have spent their entire lives chasing fame and have never achieved it. 

Individuals who have become celebrities have done so through effort and luck. You have to make a large effort in the fame game to even scratch the glass ceiling of fame.

In other words, if you went your whole life never trying to be famous you would never be.

People that are famous based on luck and luck alone are astronomically rare.

Like Lotto winners.

Emo Kids, Raver Kids, and Gangsters

Emo Kids, Raver Kids, and Gangsters

Emo Kids

No. Just no. Emo kids WANT your sympathy. They THRIVE on your sympathy. They're so desperate for it and yet never show any of it. They refuse to show any signs of sympathy with anyone they actually know on a regular basis. Emo kids slash their wrists. I can't sympathize with or support self-harm. They also tend to be pretty low on the intelligence scale. Which, of course, they make up for by making intelligent decisions so long as their favorite band also supports those decisions which isn't actually a viable decision making process but hey.

Raver Kids

Like their emo cousins, raver kids tend to absorb ludicrous amounts of narcotics over a very short period of time oftentimes resulting in the long anticipated and long awaited drug overdose at which point the raver tends to continue affiliating with the same individuals the raver hung out with who dealt them drugs causing the overdose, resulting in a relapse and eventually a second OD. They attend Raves at least monthly but typically weekly or bi-weekly. Have "candy" or an assortment of beads, bracelets, and braid arrangements around the arms and wrists that signify rank, achievement, and stature in the rave community. 

Gangsters

Honestly, who has sympathy for those who have none except for perhaps the people they've killed or their "homies" what with their "ride or die" mentalities based entirely on a culture of "us before all else" no matter what it might be save for a bullet wound. Gangsters hustle, they earn, they're oftentimes "strapped" (possess a firearm) and are dangerous. Do not approach if unnecessary as they will likely either try to mug you, disrespect you, or shoot you because they thought you were from a rival gang.

Street Racers

Street Racers

It's hard to have sympathy for individuals who recklessly endanger the lives of everyone else on the road and are willing to evade police like life doesn't matter, probably more intoxicated on narcotics than even Timothy Leary has ever been. 

Fixated on tuning up their "whips" these individuals will waste tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on cars for specific modifications that aren't even street legal and they can't even enter legitimate races with, claiming that everyone else is pussy.

They typically have their car washed every day, waxed, detailed, modified, and specialize in the absurdest of additions to their vehicles.

Famous Quote,"Another Kill-Switch? Why not?"

Oftentimes to their own amazement even the driver will proudly proclaim how much money they've put into their vehicle in a largely directionless manner, only to later purchase a new vehicle altogether selling their old one and repeating the same cycle.

Lack of Empathy vs. Lack of Sympathy

Lack of Empathy vs. Lack of Sympathy

This is going to come up eventually so i'll address it now.

Let it be known that a lack of sympathy is not a lack of empathy. 

I appreciate individuals and all of the materials that comprise them, just not the materialism that engulfs them.

To put it bluntly, feeling sympathetic for someone who has poured the entirety of their resources into achieving more material resources just seems like a vicious cycle designed to repeat itself until there eventually ceases to be any others working. 

While showing empathy is important in scenarios where it is merited, sympathy is something that is rarer to come across for me and thus I say , "I Have No Sympathy" but of course, it's not that I Have Zero Sympathy, it's just that i'm having fun.

Sympathy is incredibly important and the inability to Sympathize is not strictly characteristic of someone who cannot empathize but it is implicating. 

I'd get that checked out if I were you. 

To the Jews At the Kansas City Jewish Center

To the Jews At the Kansas City Jewish Center

We love you. We like you. We care about you. We really want you to be happy. One thing we know, however, is that mass shootings , even those that are aimed towards religious communities (in the United States at least) are hardly ever motivated by religious persecutors. 

CNN is alluding to the idea that the Kansas City Jewish Center Shooting was a hate crime. 

For all we know, it is just an idea.

In the past, shootings at churches, mosques, temples, and shrines have very rarely been motivated by religious persecutors. 

At least not in the United States.

CNN is proposing an idea that should not be at the forefront of people's minds on this issue as it is an idea that has rarely crossed the mind of past shooters who opened fire in religious areas and buildings. 

Again, if you look every mass shooter in the United States' history, shooters rarely discuss their motivations in even non-religious surroundings as being motivated by religious persecution.

Sure, the Virginia Tech shooter believed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated. Marilyn Manson though he was doing God's work, and many genocides have been carried out in the name of religion.

But, if you label this as what it is, a mass shooting, and you run the numbers against every other mass shooting in the United States' history the odds of it being motivated by religious persecution is actually a minority of the numbers. More often than not, that is, it will not be motivated by religion in any way.

As such the odds that this is was a religiously motivated persecution of Jews is statistically inappropriate. 

A better way to rephrase this would be, "Although statistically unlikely, the odds of the shooting being motivated by religious persecution was recently declared by us as an appropriate possibility. However, seeing as the we've now run the numbers and it is statistically inappropriate to allude to the idea we have rescinded that statement as we recognize a clearly hasty allusion was made and it was intended solely to garner media publicity at the expense of causing mass hysteria throughout the Jewish Community. We apologize for our greed and our crass narcissism."