The world around us

So many of us wonder what we are going to eat for dinner, hoping its not more meatloaf or another casserole. We are all wondering what matters most to us, for some its the dinner theory, for others its clothes, video games, friends, school, even paying the bills and getting your taxes in on time. Of course we worry about those things because it is what matters most to us for some it is wrongly based with material things and with others it is there family, the family that they have grown to love and cherish.But if we were to stop, turn off the T.V's, the ipod's, and the games we shall see there are others in the world that have hardships that they have to live with everyday.The U.S has had it pretty easy, of course we have been blessed with a multitude of things that some have taken for granted, while others have counted them. There is a war in Iraq many, if not all people know about,there is communism in North Korea, and starvation as well as genocide in Darfur, but that is just a small portion of what is going on in the world.
Lets start with the war in Iraq, something most know about. People are being bombed on the streets , not only men, but women and children. Journalists are being taken, held hostage, tourchered and even beheaded. There are peoples sons , daughters, nieces ,nephews and grandchildren, peoples families,out there risking there lives all because someone decided to ram two planes into the twin towers. So many people died that day and so many are dying today. There is controversy over whether or not the U.S. should stay in Iraq,some say it is helping while others say it is just making more problems. I say it is all based upon your personal beliefs about war and all that have died in 9-11 and the deaths that have gone on during the war. But is it really worth the sacrifice?
Then there is North Korea, there leader has subjected them to limited knowledge of the outside world.They are unable to do what they please, even in their own homes.They must ask permission to read certain books, they can't have anything from outside of their country. When tourists come they are told to stay away, they are told nonsense about Americans and they way the rest of the world is.They even have to ask permission to go out of town, even for just a few hours or miles. They are unable to have cars and can't even color their hair a different color or see a western movie. Although their leader has done most, if not all the things he is depriving his people of. People have gone "missing" there and no one bothers to ask, for fear that they will be killed. A country that is completely controlled by there government with no freedom.
And last but not least amongst the issues that I must mention is Darfur.The Sudanese government ans ethnic militia called "Janjaweed" have been in an armed conflict with rebel groups called the SLM and the SLA ( Sudanese Literation Movement/Army) and the Justice Equality Movement (JEM) since early 2003. As part of its operations against the rebels, government forces have developed a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against the civilization population who are members of the same ethnic group as the rebels. The Sudanese government forces and Junjaweed militia burned and destroyed hundreds of villages. They have killed and caused the deaths of 200,000 people and have raped and assaulted hundreds of women and girls. As of January 2007 about two million displaced people live in camps in Darfur, and at least 232,000 have fled to neighboring Chad where they live in refugee camps.Thousands upon millions need food, clothing and shelter because the conflict has damaged the local economy, markets and trade in Darfur.The rebel allegiances have split and shifted since the conflict began in November 2005 when the SLA split into two fracture's.Now as of early 2007 there are more than a dozen split fractures of the SLA and the JEM . The rebel groups are well divided with some supporting the May 2006 Peace agreement and then there is the majority of others who refuse to sign the agreement. Some of them operate under an umbrella cooperation known as the National Redemption Front (NRF). Although they have settled down some and are getting help, it is still extremely bad.
All of this is just a smidgen of what is going on in the world.Yes the U.S. has it bad, but not nearly as bad as the some other countries do. People are being killed in Nicaragua for there shoes! Yes there are crisis' in the U.S as well, I'm not saying there aren't. But it is far better than what others have around the world.We have controlled settings and a government that supports us, not one that is against us.

Intelligence v.s. Perception

Intelligence as many would say would be your typical street smarts or book smarts,but it is far more than that. It is the ability to learn and solve problems .If you have intelligence you have intellect and vice- versa.These two things enable you to reason between situations. While perception is the ability to perceive. Perceiving is knowledge obtained by becoming aware of things and situations through your senses.True perception stems from security, self esteem comes from plain perception, whereas insecurity comes from a lack of identity or bruised perception. It is all in the way you look at things, the way you see yourself and less importantly the way the world sees you. Perception is not everything to an individual, it can either help you by finding your own true self, or it can ruin you (which is what it does to most) by making you do whatever the world around you does.Like liberals. Intelligence will allow you to see things as the truly are, while perception from ones mind may be different to anothers'.Sensation stems from perception. It is a feeling of immense gratitude, it is a sense of being highly pleased. It is what allows you to accept a compliment or a good deed when people perceive what they see and put thoughts into action. All of this call upon attention, which heeds others and allows you and others around you notice their surroundings.Your memory plays apart in all of this by allowing you to remember things that have happened to you and others whether they are significant or not. All of these make associations, or connections within ones mind which kicks in your intelligence and the ability to reason as well as turning on your perception to enable you to have a secure or insecure idea on how you are to base things. And finally your imagination is what allows you to compile all of these things together within your head and make up day dreams or just dreams based upon your range of intelligence and the way you perceive situations.It is what allows someone to make up stories of princesses being rescued by a handsome prince of the world going into utter chaos over a small situation. That is probably what all those pause( ll ) commercials are for. And your attention calls all of it to mind.

As we go about our daily lives doing what we do everyday we do not stop to think of our train of thoughts and the way we look at things as easy as intelligence verses perception. But if we were to really stop and think which is really the superior one. If we were to really stop we would see that intelligence out ways perception by far. It is better to base your thought upon what you know to be true by your own beliefs than to let a whole world govern you. A world that has grown to know and love images only leaving it with scornful regrets. It would be better to be the moral and virtuous person with intelligence living life than to have everything based upon the perceptions of a world that has already fallen through the cracks.