The dice of God are always loaded.

The dice of God are always loaded is an interesting quote by Emerson. It is a topic with a broad meaning, opinions and interpretations. It may have a spiritual meaning, a mythical meaning or a philosophical sense.

In a spiritual sense, God is a literal figure that you should respect and worship. God controls everything. You should know and accept his divine blessings as you go about your daily lives. There is no rebelling God’s mighty and power. In a mythical sense, God is a figure of speech, a reminder to keep everyone holy and in good terms. It’s the belief that if you get out of place, God the almighty will smite you; therefore everyone obeys the law set forth by God and society functions. The logical way to look at the quote is seeing the quote as a proverb. To interpreted it philosophically you would assumed that the powerless suffers’ because the rich and powerful control everything. Fighting the system is illogical because the outcome is that the weak lose. As an African proverb says; when two elephants fight who suffers? The right answer would be the ground; in this analogy, the ground is the weak and the elephant is God. All its implying philosophically is if you are low on the totem pole, the weak will suffer as the structure cannot be demolish.

To conclude, one can say that this quote by Emerson is a brilliant way to look at multiple meanings through one magnifying glass. It is not one simple quote, because as you look deeper, you can find different meanings.

Let Them Drink Water!

The article implies that taxes on junk food should be applied to help with the trillion dollar health care plan. Considering that we the consumer is going to pay for the health care bill one way or another.

Let them drink water, basically says that we should heavily tax soft drinks and junk food. The author brings in a good point by saying what will happen to the people who cannot pay five dollars for a soft drink? A source responded: let them drink water. All the article is implying is that if you cannot afford a soft drink, water should be your substitute. My second point is that people often don’t realize that anything the government does is always paid for by the people. The people are the government’s income source, if the government increases taxes on certain products, then the majority of the population will not be affected. One can argue that most of the population does not buy junk food. If increasing taxes on those products will help save most consumers some money in the long run, they should pass the law.

In my opinion, society usually works in this way. You must give something get something. Most Americans wanted the healthcare bill to pass, without properly thinking about how we were going to afford it. Often we like to over look the important things and go off on untamable ideas. My outline is that we must learn to adjust in an ever changing society, to cope with new and conventional ideas.

Where does a sense of community come from?

Community is a vague term; it can be a different range of definitions to different people. A community can be an association, a group of people achieving the same goal. For example: in my floor at USF we are a community. At first we didn’t know each other but now we are comfortable with each other because we have a common goal. We are in the same boat, first year in college and we all are helping each other to become successful. Community in itself is a sense of family, where everyone knows each other and it’s comfortable. People must feel comfortable enough to express themselves without being judged. A sense of community comes from the phrase ‘’family first’’. Family doesn’t have to be literally mean people that share the same bloodline. In order to be a community, a warm family atmosphere must exist.


A sense of community comes from friendship and affection. You cannot be a community if you don’t get along with one another. Of course disputes will occur, but because all individual shares the same common goal, a settlement should be reach without violence. A good connection with your community will enhance that sense of friendship. Affection will grow stronger, therefore making your community stronger and stable. The easiest way to keep that sense of community from dissolving is to have the same values. When people believe in the same things, they tend to stick together. When people are aiming for the same things, they try hard not to lose that connection. Helping each other is a big part of the sense community; it’s easy to be helped and also to let people help you.

A Response to Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Well.

Wow! To be honest, I have never thought about that issue. I didn't think that Agriculture could be harmful to our society. This is a major problem that should be brought to light and take care of. It is true that Agriculture is a need for society, but if it’s causing harm to a part of our society, it should be more regulated.

I was surprised to learn that on cow produce waste for as many as 18 people. That statistic alone is cause for attention. It’s a fact that they use animal waste as fertilizer for agriculture, but what they didn’t bring to light is what happens with the excess of waste. 19.5 million Americans falls ill every year due to water base bacteria. When the water source it’s polluted, it’s not a small percentage of our population who’s at risk, but our entire society.

The government should be responsible for passing new regulations and enforce them. Because right now I feel that this issue is not getting the full attention that it deserves. It seems like it’s a growing problem, which can only get worse. Legally the farmers may not be responsible because the regulation they have is vague about their responsibilities toward animals manure, but ethically, it’s wrong to hurt the environment to save a few bucks.

In my opinion, if this issue continues, it’s going to hurt the farmers more in the long run. When things gets bad enough and people finds out that you are the cause for their problems, things will not go well for you. The town’s people have the right to be healthy. If farm products and hormones are deathly to them the government should step in to regulate it. it’s a different story if you sick and you couldn’t have prevented, but if can, you should. It’s important because it will impact the town’s people family long after their generation.

In easy solution, could be to reduce the amount of farming animals. Simple math, less animal, equals less waste which will result in no excess waste to pollute the water supply. It’s a known fact that the United States uses more resources and also waste more resources in the world. Easy solution number two: produce less to be more efficient or produce the same amount and increase our exports on any excess resources to also be more efficient. To conclude, people values what they don’t have to waste. If I know for a fact, if I waste this resource I will not have tomorrow, it motivates you to be efficient…