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hello again... It's been quite awhile sense I've made a journal entry, and honestly I probably should have written by now, 'cause a lot has happened in a short amount of time. I've been doing alot of thinking, on alot of topics, and have kinda been putting off a journal entry for awhile now. But finally I'm in the mood to write.

First off I'd like to say that I now fully believe that morals are dead. I don't even mean dead as in they're in the dumps or anything, just the classification of right and wrong as they once were no longer exist. It's no longer the time when people think along the lines of morals, but more along the lines of people. You don't believe in morals, you now believe in people. You find a person who's actions you support, and those are your 'morals'. The presidential elections have kinda shown this, every campaign add starts out 'I am _____ and I support this message'. Even if it's not a celebraty, or someone in politics, people find a good friend that they look up to, and judge themselves according to that person. I know what you're thinking, insane, unbelieveable, you have no proof, and in a way I don't. If you could statisticly prove and calculate society and persona reactions, well then we'd all be robots.... But I do have a few experiences and views that have lead me to this conclusion. Let's take an all too femiliar, emotional, dramatic situation... Affairs. First off I'm going to start close to home, my parents. Two years ago, before my parents got a divorce they were each seeing another person under the radar. My dad is very active in the scout troop, along with a few other extra ciricular activities, and well, his name is a very controversial topic. He's the kind of person where if he sees something being done wrong, and knows how it should be done, he tries to change it.... which in scouting is a very 'bad' thing, for some reason the leaders in scouting thinks things should always be their way etc etc. But anyways, the point Im getting at is he's turned alot of heads, and when his name gets brought up alot of people leave >.<. But his affair was thrown out into the public, and he was nearly crucified over it, people hated him for it, and they let him know it. My mom was widely liked by people. She was like my dad, outgoing and stuff, but she rarely took center ring. If she saw something wrong she'd mention it, and let whatever happen happen. When her affair was brought out into the public, people reacted much different then they did with my dad, instead of flaming her and stuff, everyone just kinda turned the other cheek. With her it was more along the lines of, if we don't see it, we don't care. Both of them commited the same sinful act, but yet the reactions were different.

A similar incident would be with a few friends of mine. For the sake of not affending anyone the names are going to be changed for this journal. Recently, a couple that I know have been going through some tough times. James was busted by his girlfriend Jessica looking up porn on a 'one night stand' website. The website he was using was for hooking up with local women for one night stands. But he claimed to be using it just for easy porn. All of us, and even Jessica, didn't think that he'd actually go out and have sex with other women, it's just not in his character. But at the mere chance of him seeing another woman Jessica hit the roof, blew up on him and left the apartment, didn't want to see or speak to him for awhile. Everyone else took similar actions, no one flammed him persay, but it was one of those things where everyone was like, you did this to yourself, don't come crying to me. A few weeks later Jessica starts seeing another guy, granted she's still living with, and dating James. This went on for awhile, and once again, everyone just kind of turned their heads the other way, few of them actually hung out with this other guys and stuff, whom is married. So now this woman, whom I might add nearly ripped my nuts off when a rumor was going around that I was cheating on my girlfriend, is cheating on her boyfriend, and doing so shamelessly.

So with this said I think it proves that morals are kind of dead, and people now judge themselves on other people instead of any kind of moral based beliefs. If something like this must exist... then I will make sure to dedicate myself, my mind, body and spirit, to making my 'person' Christ. Or if people must look for a more mortality aim, then the person I believe in, is myself.