The Minister's blog: "some of my thoughts if anyone cares"

ok today i got my first tattoo. it is the japanese kanji for the word ninja. why ninja? well first of all ninja kick ass. since i was a kid i have had a fascination with anything asian. artwork, culture, calligraphy, women(had to throw that in there), martial arts, and the ninja. I wanted to be a ninja growing up. I watched all the cheesy ninja movies....still do. that is the first part of why i chose this for my first tattoo. second was the meaning i saw behind the word. when the characters are combined it means "person of stealth and perseverance." Any one who really knows me also knows that i have been dealing with a lot of things especially as of late. i have been through some tough times and have been close to seeing the everafter more times than i would like to say. but even through all this i am here. I have endured these things and perservered. and it is my intent to continue this tradition. so in my darkest moments i have a reminder that i must try to get through, perservere, and see another day. and in this fact ....at least in my own opinion....i have become the ninja. so is this just a bunch of ink...no. it is a peice of my soul and i wear it on my leg for all to see. in this one symbol lies a peice of my history, part of who i am today, and my hopes for a new day. so am i sure this is the right tattoo....YES and i also beleive it came to me at the perfect time of my life. til next time p.s. there is a pic of it in my pictures

Ok lets start this out right. I am going to touch on two topics that always seem to cause controversy: abortion and religion. let me set the stage....I had a doctors appointment and his office is located across the street from planned parenthood(a place that does abortions if anyone is not familiar with it). And there are the religious fanatic protesters out there with their signs and billboards. This is ofcoarse a daily occurance, i mean these people are out there in shitty weather and i think its always the same 3 or 4 people(do they have lives?) Now as far as abortions that is a debate i choose not to get into. My official stance is one of no stance cause at this point I have no buisness sticking my ugly face into that. I am not a woman hence i am not going to give birth and as of right now i am not fathering any kids. so until either: a)i am able to give birth or b) i impregnate someone I am going to try to stay out of the debate. But.........I am against these protesters who seem to think they should have a say over other peoples decisions. If you are against abortion fine, be against it. but don't pace back and forth in front of the place telling people they are going to hell. That is not going to further your cause. There are better methods. But i am getting sidetracked from my point. Now it may be wrong of me but i always enjoy messing with the bible thumpers and showing how they don't even know some of the fundamental ideas of their own religion. I may be pagan but I was raised catholic and had it crammed down my throat until i graduated high school. Thirteen years of catholic school is enough to drive anyone crazy. now this one day my friends, the protesters are out doing there thing and they have this huge picture of jesus with the letters "wwjd." I think most people know what this means, for those that don't its "what would jesus do" Now I did what they obviously didn't do, stopped and thought about it. Now based on what jesus was supposedly like and the basic ideology of the christian faith. I think jesus' thoughts would go something along the lines of: a)now do you think jesus would stand out there telling people they are wrong and they are sinners and going to hell....no! Now he may stand there and preach about the gift of life and how precious it is and not condemning people for their decisions. b)I think also jesus would encourage us to use God's greatest gift to us. A gift so great that it supposedly angered the angels because it was given to us and not them. The gift of free will. Now would he really try to override his father and tell us what we can't do? No he would try to teach us the "right thing"(according to their beleifs) and encourage us to make our own decision and deal with the consequenses that follow. Now you ask me "wwjd" ....I think he would let us live our lives be it right or wrong and let us learn from our mistakes. Now like everything that will be said here on out this is just my opinion not law. everyone is entitled to their opinion. i know that i will prolly be condemed by people for this blog and maybe lose friends, but I stand by my words now what do you think?

Welcome to my new series of ranting and ramblings. I actually started it yesterday but my dumb ass put it in my articles blog. in this one i am going to share some of my own thinging....i know i know ..you don't care what i think, but I'm not making you read this am I, huh? I have 2 other blogs one with articles about various topics that i find on the net and the other is my poetry. check it out if you like. I encourage coments on all of my blogs I like to know what other people think, if you don't want to share it with everyone you can always private message me too. so are you ready to journey with me?