Sharing Your Opinion or Brutal Attack?

It is good to be politically informed and I respect people who have strong believes and opinions about issues that affect us all. When it comes to the political spectrum I am pretty moderate and take my stand depending on what the issue is. To be honest, I don't know enough about a lot of topics and am not informed enough to have a strong opinions about them.

One issue that I know where I stand is gay marriage. It's a human rights issue to me and it seems like there is no reason two men or women shouldn't be able to get married.
With that being said I respect people who disagree with me and have the opposite view (on this issue and any other). What I don't like, and what I think hurts the cause, are extremist who attack the other sides view and make it seem, that because they think something different, they are stupid and dumb. 

While I was on facebook today I saw this picture:

While I agree that many of the religious reason people think gay marriage shouldn't be legalized don't always make the most sense everyone is initiated to there own religious believes and I understand the importance of being religious. The way this poster is worded seems awfully disrespectful to me. I am filled with mixed emotion, on one hand I do agree that homosexuality is in NO way sinful, the point of the poster. But on the other hand the flow map is telling people that their religious beliefs are completely invalid in a snarky and disrespectful way. The points could be written in a more respectful way to help make the argument more persuasive. It just kills me to see this because it turns a good thing, supporting gay rights, into a disrespectful attack on others beliefs. This isn't the way to get people to change their mind, especially when, things like religious beliefs are deep rooted and are unlikely to change. Unfortunately  many people who are against homosexuality because of religious reason or because they think it is gross aren't going to just change there mind like that and an attacking sassy statement like this just cause more tension and conflict that help. I wish people, especially those with strong believes, could step back for a second and but themselves in the other sides shoes. Then maybe we could have civil conversations and resolve issues like this more reasonable... 

Hopefully one day we will be able to talk civilly and find a solution to this issues. Until then we will just have to work to be respectful and let majority rule.....

Speaking of posts I never published... Look what I found... This is SUPER OLD... First semester senior year old......

I was going to vlog because it sounded really fun but I don't have the time and energy to figure out how my dad's webcam works, etc. But similar to what my vlog would have been like I will talk about the first thing that comes to my head...

Dog food really is disgusting.

It smells so badddd. Whenever I feed my dog I hold my breath to try and block out as much of the grossness as possible. Unfortunately for me I am neither a swimmer or a singer so I can't hold my breath for very long... I have never been daft enough to try dog food but I bet it is one of those foods that tastes exactly how it smells. Blech. I don't know how my dog eats that stuff! I guess it's just a matter of eating what your served. Thankfully we don't give him wet food, just dry, because wet dog food is one of the grossest thing ever.

We used to dog sit for our old neighbors. The last time we watched him we had to give him half wet food because he was medicated and would only eat his pills if we mixed it in with wet food. I wanted to barf every time I saw or smelled it. And my mom put in into a tuperware in the refrigerator, so it was right next to all the food I ate. Blechhhhhhh it was so icky! I have heard that dogs prefer wet food. Too bad for my dog, I am not about to get him any.

My dog is awesome but I will spoil him in other ways than fancy food.

19 Days.

19 days is all it took and now its official. Homesick. It's an interesting word but for those who have felt the feeling, it describes it perfectly. To feel physical and mentally sick, for the only cure to be back home with friends and family that you know and love. Though for many of us who have gone of to college we realize when we do come home nothing will be exactly the same. I wasn't sure if I was going to feel homesick. I knew I would miss my dog and my friends. I assumed I would miss my family at times but I had no idea if I would feel the overwhelming feeling homesickness the way I did. I have been really luck to live in a dorm with people I get along with a feel like I'm connecting with and can become good friends with. But even so I miss the familiarization of being with the same people I have know for years. The feeling hit me when I was in Rosh Hashana services. The service was similar to what I knew but yet so very completely different and I didn't like it. I wanted my Rabbis and my melodies and my synagogue. Then that evolved into wanting to sleep in my bed, hang out with my friends and be in my house. But change is inevitable and probably easier when you just embrace it instead of fighting it. No matter how far you go, everyone feels homesick sometime in your life. But it passes and it will be interesting to see, maybe over the summer I will become homesick for Madison... Only time will tell! I will keep you posted :)


Also, I really like how I have an idea for a blog post. Start writing it. And then never edit or post it so it just sits as a draft until weeks later I finally finish and post it... :)