Thought Sparkk

"People become wedded to their beliefs, because the validity of those beliefs reflects on their competence, commends them as authorities, and rationalizes their mandate to lead.  Challenge a person’s beliefs and you challenge his dignity, stand, and power.  And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile.  No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up because all sane people can see it with their own eyes.  Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that god exists in three persons or that Ali was the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad.  When people organize their lives around these beliefs and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them – or worse, who credibly rebut them – they are in danger of looking like fools.  Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to un...

How will i leave this world?  Do you ever wonder such things as I do?  One day I will wake up and it will be for the final time.  But how will I go?  Will it be violent?  Will I feel pain?  How far away from that moment am I right now?  Was this morning the last time that I will ever see my wife?  Who in my life will I be forced to watch depart before I am relieved of my mortal duties?  Who will I leave behind to mourn in solitude?  I have no desire to return to the infinite void of non-existence that I came from, but it seems I have no choice in the matter.  What placid window into reality was I given?  What is the extent?  Why was this given to me?  Is there any other way that this existence could have gone?  Did I really have the choices that I thought I did?  My death, no matter when it comes, will come too soon.  I am but a flash of light in a seemingly endless sea of time and place.  It seems...

Before you think there is a war on religion whenever something like removing "In God We Trust" from the money, or removing "Under God" from the pledge is brought up, just please think about it a little harder.  There is no war against you holding whatever faith that you want.  The problem is plain and simply government and state endorsement of ONE SINGLE religion.  Believe what you want and do what you want as long as you don't hurt anyone or take anyone's civil rights away, but our government should remain secular regardless.  It should not take any specific religious stance.  If "In Allah we trust" was put on the money or children in schools were pledging allegiance with one nation under Krishna, Christians would go insane trying to get that changed.  It doesn't mean you are starting a war on Islam or trying to destroy Buddhism or Hinduism.  It means you are trying to be fair and not put one religion over another in the eyes of the state.  Or...

You hear it all the time.  "respect my beliefs!"  you've all heard that phrase repeatedly right?  When is it usually said?  Usually anytime that you disagree with someone's beliefs and they don't really want to talk about it anymore. I say fuck that phrase.  No belief demands respect by default.  Nor should it ever be so concrete that it ever demands respect.  I respect that you have the right to believe whatever you want, and that is very important.  However, the beliefs that we hold, individually, should be tested and challenged constantly.  "But I don't know enough about the intricacies to defend it".  Fair point, but then again maybe you shouldn't espouse it as a belief then if that is the case.  If you can't pose a justified reason as to why your belief is true, then you probably shouldn't hold it as a belief.  If you don't know, just say you don't know.  There is no shame in that, and it is far more honest of a posit...

I fucking hate cancer. It's affected my life indirectly, and by that I mean I personally have not yet been diagnosed with any sort of cancer. My friends, my family on the other hand have. So I believe I have some merit in this discussion. I fucking hate cancer awareness. There, I said it. Fuck the Susan G. Komen foundation in particular. Only about 15% of donations are allocated towards research. Fuck you. A whopping 39.1% is attributed to public health education. We are aware of this  disease and it's many horrors, now let's take the money that we give to you by purchasing the can of soup or the fucking lipstick or the five hour energy fuck drink because it's pink and fucking cure cancer already! Oh and by the way, if you have purchased any makeup with the Susan G Komen ribbon; it more than likely contains carcinogens linked to breast cancer. Remember that for trivia night! Cancer is big money. Period. It's job security for hospitals, doctors, and pharmaceut...

Just wanted to give a little bit of an update for this blog since we haven't posted any new content in awhile.  We are still alive!  Life just got a little busy for the writers (houses, weddings, african safaris, space travel...you know how it goes) but we have a lot of good ideas and have started on some fresh content.  We hope to have some new stuff posted in the next few weeks.  So stay tuned!

The FDA recently approved the use of a Narcan (naxolone) intramuscular injector for home use. The same route as a Epinephrine intramuscular injector (EpiPen) used to counteract the very quick and very deadly allergic reaction otherwise know as Anaphylaxis. What is naxolone? What are we talking about here? Naxolone otherwise know as its brand name Narcan is an opioid antagonist. Meaning in a very basic sence that it binds to opioid receptors in your brain and blocks them from receiving any opioids (Heroin, Vicodin, Norco, Oxycontin, and any other opiate based medication or drug). Narcan has ZERO side effects and essentially only one indicator; an overdose of any opioid based substance. An opioid overdose manifests itself as pinpoint pupils, pale or cyanotic skin, diaphoresis, decreased or completely absent respiratory effort eventually leading to death. Now,  I have administered Narcan countless times and have seen first hand the dramatic effects of this lifesaving drug. *see here...