i am sparticus: A says he's glad to be here

A says he's glad to be here

For this post I was going to rant about why democracy is a flawed system, and why the country needs to have more fascism. I'm not entirely sure of my reasoning (I write a lot more about it here, but basically it boils down to this.

• The people who know the most about running the country, are generally those who are running the country (with the exception of Bush)


• The people who know the least about running the country are generally the people who aren't running the country (with the exception of Bush)


• Why should the people who know the least, have such a say in running the country? What happens if the leaders are right, but we disagree because of our lack of knowledge and experience?

I was also going to write about Martin Luther (Not King Jr, just the first original Martin Luther) who was perhaps one of the greatest people of whatever century he lived in (the 15-16th century apparently). For example...

• He learnt Latin, realised that the Roman Catholic church was teaching heresy , and promptly wrote out why the Roman Catholic church was wrong (they taught that you had to do things to be saved, the Bible teaches the only way you can be saved is by faith in God) and nailed it to a church door.


• The Pope tells Martin Luther that unless he says that he was wrong, the Pope will throw him out of church and into the damnation of hell. Martin Luther says that unless the Pope can prove from the Bible that he's wrong, he'll not change his mind. He also says that the Pope isn't morally perfect, and burns the Popes note telling him to stop saying what he's saying


• The Emperor summons him, tells him to he has to change his mind or he'll be considered an outlaw thus making killing him legal. Martin Luther says "Unless you can prove from the Bible that I have made wrong statements, I cannot and I will not take back anything. My conscience is bound by the Word of God. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.". The Emperor gives him 20 days, after which anyone can kill him freely


• He's locked in a castle for his own protection, while he's there, he decides to translate the new testament (the part of the bible which happens after Jesus is born, the AD part if you like) into German. Some time after he gets out, he translates the rest of the Bible. As you do.

So I was going to write lots about him, as he's pretty impressive. If you really want to know more, read more here.

Finally I was going to write about how Internet Explorer is actually quite rubbish when it comes to making websites and we should all switch to Opera 7. I was then going to go on to say that in response to microsoft deliberately making msn.com act up when viewed in Opera, the good people at Opera released a version of there browser that alters the pages msn messed up into the language of the swedish chef from the muppets. Read more about it here.

Anyway in the end I wrote about all of them. At a stupid hour. I'm so going to bed now