Pledge @ MindSay 
So, it's not that I disrespect my country; trust me, I don't. But, I'm not too into the whole deal of the pledge of allegiance. There are so many things that I would rather pledge allegiance to: God, the world, the earth, other species, life in general, humanity...
It almost seems like pledging to my country is a little silly, because there are things that are so much more important that I am not pledging allegiance to. Why isn't it so? Why don't we?
Even if I was to pledge allegiance to my country, I would want it to mean something. It seems like barfing out those words doesn't mean anything anymore. I mean, who really feels anything while pledging allegiance to the country?
I don't want to make anyone angry, because it's not that I disrespect our country. I don't, trust me! I just wish something as important as a pledge would mean something, instead of an emotionless, machine-like recitation of something we learned in elementary school.
I should write my own pledge to God, the earth, etc.
I would recite them when I felt like it was needed.
(Or, is pledging similar to prayer? No, prayer is talking to God, nevermind, something a little different...)
What do you guys think about this?
Teenagers who take pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to deny having taken the pledge if they later become sexually active. Conversely, those who were sexual active before taking the pledge frequency deny their sexual history, according to new study findings.
These findings imply that virginity pledgers often provide unreliable data, making assessment of abstinence-based sex education programs unreliable. In addition, these teens may also underestimate their risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases.
"Teenagers do not report their past sexual activity accurately, with virginity pledgers giving more inaccurate reports of their past sexual activity," study author Janet Rosenbaum, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Reuters Health.
Consequently, rather than rely on self-reports, "studies of virginity pledges must focus on outcomes where we know we can get good information, such as medical STD tests," she added.
Previous research shows that survey respondents tend to answer questions about sexual activity according to their current beliefs, particularly if their current attitudes conflict with their past behaviors. Survey respondents may also underreport or overreport their health risk behavior.
Rosenbaum evaluated retractions of virginity pledges and reports of sexual histories among a nationally representative sample of seventh- through twelfth-grade students who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
The students were first interviewed in 1995 and followed-up in 1996. The first survey included responses from 79 percent of 20,745 students. The second survey included responses from 88 percent of 14,736 students from the first group.
In the initial survey, about 13 percent of adolescents reported that they had taken a pledge of virginity. Just one year later, however, more than half of this group said they had never taken such a pledge, Rosenbaum reports in the American Journal of Public Health.
In addition, more than 1 in 10 students who reported being sexually active in 1995 said that they were virgins in 1996. Students who reported they were sexually active in second survey were more than three times as likely as their peers to deny they had taken a pledge of virginity.
The adolescents' denials of virginity pledges and sexual histories were associated with changes in their sexual and religious identities, the report indicates.
Past mistakes that you make
Come back to haunt you
I made a mistake
I wish I could take back everything that I did
I wanted to tell you, I really did
But how do I explain this
Promise me you will be there
Until the red light will change
I would wait forever
Promise me you will stay here
Until the darkness will fade, I'd wait for you
A mistake, wish I could take, back everything, that I did
I wanted to tell you, I really did
But how do I explain
I wanted to tell you, what really happened
But how do I explain this
How do I explain everything
Promise me you will be there until the red light will change
I would wait forever
Promise me you will stay here
Until the darkness will fade, I'd wait for you
Wait for you…I’d wait for you…for you..
I’d wait for you
Some of the commercials people come up with too... I want a commercial that doesn't tell me anything about the product, makes some kind of a racial slur, and includes either sex or violence. That's what I want in a commercial. No one cares about the product, sex sells! You're lightbulb may last longer than their's but look at their commercial! It's... it's impressive! It has vikings! VIKINGS! I'm sorry, but I just can't resist the Vikings. Especially when they are wearing armor made of razor blades. Sharp, pointy razor blades.
And Boston pencil sharpeners? I just don't understand. "I'll sharpen your pencils with the power of... POINTY BOSTON!" I'm sorry, but Boston is not exciting or pointy, in fact it's rather dull and filled with goo. Historical goo, but goo none the less. And that doesn't make me want to buy your product. It only makes me want to jab pencils into my eyes and spit angrily. Pencil that, by the way, I sharpened with a DIFFERENT brand of pencil sharpener. Because I just don't like you.
So when you're driving down the highway tommorow, and dodging that hedgehog that fell out of the pick up truck in front of you, read the billboards, and think of me.
~RandomRanter
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