Author: Austin Vegas

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What do you value?

How often do you think about the sum total of your life? How often do you stop to
reflect on exactly what it is that you are living for? What motivates you to do the things you do? I invite you to take a few moments to think about it. It?s worth doing from time to time, to see if you are really spending time on what is most important to you. It is possible to drift from event to event with no life goal in mind, but most of us can name what is most important to us, if we have to. Do you want to be wise? Or do you want to have peace of mind? Do you want great love? How about fame and fortune or pleasure? Providing for your family, perhaps? How about happiness? Self-respect? Creating or appreciating beauty?

Perhaps you’d want to echo the sentiments of 50 Cent (i.e ?Get Rich or Die Tryin?.? That?s a popular life goal, though probably not yours.

Following two lists were devised to help you gain some insight into what you value. Each list names eighteen values. Your task here is to rank them in importance.

It might be helpful for you to rank the most important first, then the least important last. The middle values are usually the most difficult to rank, so working on the two extremes first will be quite helpful.

Take your time with this and give a great deal of thought to what each of these values to you.

ROKEACH’S TERMINAL VALUES

  • A Comfortable Life (a prosperous life) :: ( 10 -> 7 )

  • An Exciting Life (a stimulating, active life) :: (3 -> 2 )

  • A Sense of Accomplishment (lasting contribution) :: ( 5 -> 5 )

  • A World at Peace (free of war and conflict) :: ( 17 -> 16 )

  • A World of Beauty (beauty of nature and the arts) :: ( 6 -> 11 )

  • Equality (brotherhood, equal opportunity for all) :: ( 14 -> 15 )

  • Family Security (taking care of loved ones) :: ( 11 -> 6 )

  • Freedom (independence, free choices) :: ( 4 -> 4 )

  • Happiness (contentedness) :: ( 1 -> 1 )

  • Inner Harmony (freedom from inner conflict) :: ( 13 -> 12 )

  • Mature Love (sexual and spiritual intimacy) :: ( 8 -> 8 )

  • National Security (protection from attack) :: ( 16 -> 17 )

  • Pleasure (an enjoyable, leisurely life) :: ( 7 -> 9 )

  • Salvation (saved, eternal life) :: ( 18 -> 18 )

  • Self-respect (feeling good about oneself) :: ( 9 -> 3 )

  • Social Recognition (respect, admiration) :: ( 15 -> 14 )

  • True Friendship (close companionship) :: ( 2 -> 10 )

  • Wisdom (a mature understanding of life) :: ( 12 -> 13 )

I took this exercise in Psyc class back in junior college almost 10 years ago. I took it again just reciently and my values are noted before and after each value (Then -> Now)… Interseting that National Security was never or is still not close to the top but my Freedoms are still very important to me. Ultimately I want to be happy, have an exciting time on this ride called life, and accomplish something (otherwise what’s the point). Love/Sex, Pleasure and Family are still up there as well.

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Leaders that are NOT smarter than a C Student

Here’s a list of the average IQ for persons in each state vs. the state results for the 2004 presidential election.

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Also here’s the by county results for the election… Looks like we have A LOT of uneducated people in this country. Actually that’s an unfair assesment. I have been hearing that the reasons that rose to the top for selecting this term’s president were the Moral issues more than anything else. A fairer assesment is that we are still, a large majority a country of haters and christian faith…

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“Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years,
one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals.”
– Dr. Paul Cameron, a “scientist” often quoted by religious right groups
speaking at the 1985 Conservative Political Action Conference

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Some of America Speaks – and they want Bush for 4 More yrs..

*Frustrated* I have more comments to make but here’s a brief on what Bush brings by voting him back in:


  • I HOPE this country gets what it asked for.
  • I HOPE Bush appoints Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe V. Wade.
  • I HOPE we outsource our entire economy, run up our deficits and borrow money from China until it owns us. Then go WAR to get our money back.
  • I HOPE we start hanging fags.
  • I HOPE Cheney gets a Death Star.
  • I HOPE every student in every public school gets a good dose of Jesus every day.
  • I HOPE our college tuitions keep going up and I hope I never pay off my debts because all the education I got was worthless without a good job, because there will be none to have.
  • I HOPE the rich get richer and the rest get poorer.
  • I HOPE we destroy the environment.
  • I HOPE the word “Freedom” means religious fundamentalism.
  • I HOPE tyranny reigns.

“The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off.” – George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

“Another example would be the Dred Scott case, which is where judges, years ago, said that the Constitution allowed slavery because of personal property rights. That’s a personal opinion. That’s not what the constitution says. The constitution of the United States says we’re all – you know, it doesn’t say that. It doesn’t speak to the equality of America.” –George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004