Definitely an alliterate person.

what you said at the end, that i think is the real issue. youve got a documentary crew filming bullying on a bus and yet the officials (whoever that lady was, principal i presume) are in complete denial instead of looking into it further and taking appropriate disciplinary action.



by and large children are products of whoever raises em, whoever their adult influence is. you could take virtually any "bully" look at his parents and find the root cause (most of the time anyway). i know a lot of the boys who bullied me in jr high and high school i later came to find out almost all of them had no father figure. do you really think anti bullying rules or something is gonna stop that? the problem is deeper than that, much deeper. do you think bullying stops after high school? do you think it doesnt take place at work, at college, at a park, at the movies, at anywhere?

i think overall the point im getting at is it really doesnt matter what we do or dont do, we cannot prevent bullying. it will happen, it always has and it always will, and thats not a "swept under the rug" answer to the issue, its the reality. so how can we resolve it? by changing not only our mindset as adults, but positively influencing the mindsets of our children as well.

as a side note, as far as the 24-7 thing is concerned, i was bullied at school and at home almost a full decade before the internet and looooong before myspace and facebook. i had an older sister who was such a tomboy growing up she was practically another older brother. but i mainly got picked on by my older brother who was just a year apart from me. i got shit from him and his friends at school, i got it from him and his friends when we'd play in and around our neighborhood and i got it from him at home. in a way, thats infinitely more invasive and inescapable than e-bullying. i lived with him, and for a number of years i had to share a room with him. so ya, to me, it isnt different at all. and while my testimony may be a special case, its far from being unique and youd be naive to think so.

if teen crime rates are declining and bullying is pretty much a constant, that certainly doesnt suggest bullying is becoming worse or even that its a "huge problem". all that suggests is what ive been saying; bullying isnt anything new, and it will always be with us.

maybe im not articulating myself in a compassionate way. im certainly not advocating turning a blind eye to bullies or bullying. i squash it pretty quick when it happens in class, and whenever appropriate i try to talk to the bully one on one in hopes that i may discern what the issue really is. is he picking on that kid cuz he's just a shitty kid? or is he lashing out over emotional/mental issues he's unprepared to cope with? or is he compensating for severe self esteem issues? those are the things we should be addressing to "prevent" bullying, not creating this bizarre subculture war where its us vs them.
>> ^SDGundamX:

>> ^smooman:
>> ^berticus:
what? no comment yet from someone saying how bullying "toughens you up and prepares you for the real world"? COME ON!

ok i'll start. im all for moderate measures to be taken to monitor and disrupt bullying (man, that almost became full alliteration). that being said, the bullying scandal and the myriad documentaries and specials and exposes on the subject are just redundant. as someone who works in the school system bullying really isnt any different than when i was in school, or when my parents went to school, or their parents, etc. bullying isnt anything new. calling it an epidemic is laughable and just plain absurd.
does my heart go out to individuals who have been bullied? absolutely. i myself was constantly bullied growing up (both at school and at home). now berticus, what you said is true even if you were being facetious. being bullied forced me to quickly develop social skills needed to diffuse confrontations among other things. it sharpened my wit, even as an adult. the point isnt that we need bullies to make men out of our children. the point is bullies arent anything new, and they will always be with us. react accordingly

I downvoted your comment and I just wanted to explain why.
First off, while you may technically be correct in that the amount of bullying has not changed over time, technological advances (i.e. the Internet) allow that bullying to continue 24-7 so that there is no refuge from it, even after you get out of school. In other words, while the rate of bullying may not be changing the severity and impact is--it is more invasive, harder to escape, and therefore is NOT the same as when you were a kid.
But even disregarding that, I think the term "epidemic" is appropriate when you look at the fact that over the past 50 years crime among teens has consistently been decreasing in the U.S. (according to FBI statistics a drop of over 44%) and yet the rate of bullying appears to remain the same. To me, that says there is a huge problem that is not being addressed by either our society or our school system. And taking the attitude that "bullies aren't anything new, and they will always be with us" does not seem to me to be the way to go about solving that problem. Rather, it virtually guarantees that in the next 50 years we will see bullying to continue at the same rate as bullies find ways to circumvent the "moderate measures [...] to monitor and disrupt bullying" that you advocate.
Documentaries like this are critically important because they expose just how deep the problems are--you have school officials claiming the bus is perfectly safe while the documentary filmmakers are capturing multiple acts of violence and bullying on the bus. We need more documentaries like this and much more research into how bullying manifests and how to prevent it because we're clearly doing a piss-poor job of it right now.

>> ^smooman:

>> ^berticus:
what? no comment yet from someone saying how bullying "toughens you up and prepares you for the real world"? COME ON!

ok i'll start. im all for moderate measures to be taken to monitor and disrupt bullying (man, that almost became full alliteration). that being said, the bullying scandal and the myriad documentaries and specials and exposes on the subject are just redundant. as someone who works in the school system bullying really isnt any different than when i was in school, or when my parents went to school, or their parents, etc. bullying isnt anything new. calling it an epidemic is laughable and just plain absurd.
does my heart go out to individuals who have been bullied? absolutely. i myself was constantly bullied growing up (both at school and at home). now berticus, what you said is true even if you were being facetious. being bullied forced me to quickly develop social skills needed to diffuse confrontations among other things. it sharpened my wit, even as an adult. the point isnt that we need bullies to make men out of our children. the point is bullies arent anything new, and they will always be with us. react accordingly


I downvoted your comment and I just wanted to explain why.

First off, while you may technically be correct in that the amount of bullying has not changed over time, technological advances (i.e. the Internet) allow that bullying to continue 24-7 so that there is no refuge from it, even after you get out of school. In other words, while the rate of bullying may not be changing the severity and impact is--it is more invasive, harder to escape, and therefore is NOT the same as when you were a kid.

But even disregarding that, I think the term "epidemic" is appropriate when you look at the fact that over the past 50 years crime among teens has consistently been decreasing in the U.S. (according to FBI statistics a drop of over 44%) and yet the rate of bullying appears to remain the same. To me, that says there is a huge problem that is not being addressed by either our society or our school system. And taking the attitude that "bullies aren't anything new, and they will always be with us" does not seem to me to be the way to go about solving that problem. Rather, it virtually guarantees that in the next 50 years we will see bullying to continue at the same rate as bullies find ways to circumvent the "moderate measures [...] to monitor and disrupt bullying" that you advocate.

Documentaries like this are critically important because they expose just how deep the problems are--you have school officials claiming the bus is perfectly safe while the documentary filmmakers are capturing multiple acts of violence and bullying on the bus. We need more documentaries like this and much more research into how bullying manifests and how to prevent it because we're clearly doing a piss-poor job of it right now.

>> ^berticus:

what? no comment yet from someone saying how bullying "toughens you up and prepares you for the real world"? COME ON!


ok i'll start. im all for moderate measures to be taken to monitor and disrupt bullying (man, that almost became full alliteration). that being said, the bullying scandal and the myriad documentaries and specials and exposes on the subject are just redundant. as someone who works in the school system bullying really isnt any different than when i was in school, or when my parents went to school, or their parents, etc. bullying isnt anything new. calling it an epidemic is laughable and just plain absurd.

does my heart go out to individuals who have been bullied? absolutely. i myself was constantly bullied growing up (both at school and at home). now berticus, what you said is true even if you were being facetious. being bullied forced me to quickly develop social skills needed to diffuse confrontations among other things. it sharpened my wit, even as an adult. the point isnt that we need bullies to make men out of our children. the point is bullies arent anything new, and they will always be with us. react accordingly

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
I like when his balls fell out.

I do not like the descriptive words you used. Downvote.

Ohhh, you thought I meant testicles.

DO not tell me what I thought. Your irrelevant inference is ignorant.
ALLITERATION BITCH !


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^Boise_Lib:
I like when his balls fell out.

I do not like the descriptive words you used. Downvote.

Ohhh, you thought I meant testicles.


DO not tell me what I thought. Your irrelevant inference is ignorant.

ALLITERATION BITCH !

All fixed with alliteration still intact. Pardon my cultural laziness.

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^vpvpvp:
>> ^vpvpvp:
>> ^spoco2:
>> ^vpvpvp:
As a caucasian rapper myself I hate it when other white rappers add the "hiphop" twang to their voices when they don't have it when they speak. ie try to sound more hood by ending their words more gangsterish. google me and check out my music. Vito Polizzi.

You know what I hate about rap? That the VAST majority of it is purely 'I'm so fucking hot. I'm the best. Dance girl, shake something, shake it, wobble it, woah, stop wobbling so much, that'll hurt'.
There's Nothing to it all, it's just posturing crap.
And after watching your video for 'Move, Bounce, Shake', I'm afraid you fall right into that bucket along with all the rest.
Give me a rap that's about something and I might listen to it.


That song is around six years old. A lot of rap sounds like that because that's what radio wants. You must not listen to much rap at all to not know all rap doesn't sound like that. Some of the best story telling songs, interesting plays on words, similes, metaphors, alliteration, and rhyme patterns are found in most good rap. Go to my website and check out A.D.D. for a fun story song, or Bed Bugs, for fun plays on words, or Ciao Bella to hear me rap in Italian and English back and forth. (There's a video for that on youtube as well that I shot in Sicily a couple summers ago) Listen to Hypocrite to hear more of what you think rap should sound like (I'm assuming) then listen to Butterface for a good laugh :-) I don't know if I can post my web site here but it's otivito dot com click on the music tab.

OK, those tracks were pretty good. You've got some nice stuff going on there.


Thanks. That's older stuff as well. Currently working on a new project and shooting new videos. Maybe you can sift my next video and label it, "How more rap should sound" ;-)

>> ^vpvpvp:

>> ^vpvpvp:
>> ^spoco2:
>> ^vpvpvp:
As a caucasian rapper myself I hate it when other white rappers add the "hiphop" twang to their voices when they don't have it when they speak. ie try to sound more hood by ending their words more gangsterish. google me and check out my music. Vito Polizzi.

You know what I hate about rap? That the VAST majority of it is purely 'I'm so fucking hot. I'm the best. Dance girl, shake something, shake it, wobble it, woah, stop wobbling so much, that'll hurt'.
There's Nothing to it all, it's just posturing crap.
And after watching your video for 'Move, Bounce, Shake', I'm afraid you fall right into that bucket along with all the rest.
Give me a rap that's about something and I might listen to it.


That song is around six years old. A lot of rap sounds like that because that's what radio wants. You must not listen to much rap at all to not know all rap doesn't sound like that. Some of the best story telling songs, interesting plays on words, similes, metaphors, alliteration, and rhyme patterns are found in most good rap. Go to my website and check out A.D.D. for a fun story song, or Bed Bugs, for fun plays on words, or Ciao Bella to hear me rap in Italian and English back and forth. (There's a video for that on youtube as well that I shot in Sicily a couple summers ago) Listen to Hypocrite to hear more of what you think rap should sound like (I'm assuming) then listen to Butterface for a good laugh :-) I don't know if I can post my web site here but it's otivito dot com click on the music tab.


OK, those tracks were pretty good. You've got some nice stuff going on there.

>> ^vpvpvp:

>> ^spoco2:
>> ^vpvpvp:
As a caucasian rapper myself I hate it when other white rappers add the "hiphop" twang to their voices when they don't have it when they speak. ie try to sound more hood by ending their words more gangsterish. google me and check out my music. Vito Polizzi.

You know what I hate about rap? That the VAST majority of it is purely 'I'm so fucking hot. I'm the best. Dance girl, shake something, shake it, wobble it, woah, stop wobbling so much, that'll hurt'.
There's Nothing to it all, it's just posturing crap.
And after watching your video for 'Move, Bounce, Shake', I'm afraid you fall right into that bucket along with all the rest.
Give me a rap that's about something and I might listen to it.



That song is around six years old. A lot of rap sounds like that because that's what radio wants. You must not listen to much rap at all to not know all rap doesn't sound like that. Some of the best story telling songs, interesting plays on words, similes, metaphors, alliteration, and rhyme patterns are found in most good rap. Go to my website and check out A.D.D. for a fun story song, or Bed Bugs, for fun plays on words, or Ciao Bella to hear me rap in Italian and English back and forth. (There's a video for that on youtube as well that I shot in Sicily a couple summers ago) Listen to Hypocrite to hear more of what you think rap should sound like (I'm assuming) then listen to Butterface for a good laugh :-) I don't know if I can post my web site here but it's otivito dot com click on the music tab.

>> ^shinyblurry:

I was agnostic and to me the definition was simply, I didn't know. Not that I couldn't know, that I just didn't have enough information to make a determination. For instance, the size of the Universe vs the fact we've never even left our backyard. So in that way I lacked a belief, because I couldn't believe either way without enough informaiton. I was open to the possibility of a God (with proof) or no God and just death.
Now, atheism has always been the explicit denial that a God exists. Claiming atheism is a lack of belief as a premise is plainly just a device for argument, to shift the burden of proof on the theist. If you lack belief either way, you're an agnostic not an atheist. If lack belief in a God(s) but then on the other side believe there are no Gods, that's just the same as denying that any Gods exist.
Also, it's never useless to quote the Word of God..I've found that most atheists really have no idea what is in the bible, and are often surprised when I show them verses which illuminate something that they misunderstood, or assumed.

The letter A prefixing both atheism and agnosticism is known as a privative A. It's from ancient Greek and either negates the base term or denotes an absence. Hence, an atheist is not theistic or lacks theism. "Does not believe in God" is not synonymous with "Believes there is no God". The only reason both are considered valid definitions is because of centuries of misuse.

Gnostic refers to possession of knowledge and so agnostic refers to not possessing knowledge. When you study the concept of agnosticism in philosophy, it's proposed that we can't have knowledge of much of anything, because we can only rely on our highly flawed senses. Pertaining to God, specifically; God would be too complex for us to hold any absolute knowledge. As an example, you have made repeated references to personal revelation (yay, alliteration!) as the source of your faith, but you can only interpret what you experienced through your limited senses with your limited (ie human) mental capacity. This concept applies to all human knowledge across the board, to some extent, though the term is usually associated with knowledge about or of God.

I do not believe a god exists but I also do not have absolute knowledge so I am an agnostic atheist. You, if you are honest with yourself, are an agnostic theist. I am not convinced by the evidence I have seen whereas you are convinced by the evidence you have seen but neither of us truly knows.

I said it was useless to quote the "Word of God" in this context, meaning it's useless as evidence. As I do not believe the "Word of God" actually came from God, those words will do nothing to convince me of his existence. That's not to say they can't be interesting or informative from, for example, a cultural standpoint, but they are not evidence of God unless you already believe in him. The only thing that gives them any validity or weight is the belief that He said them in the first place.

Cool video, but, I'd downvote for the terrible alliteration if I had the power.

These assinine assholes aggravate me with their arrogance to an ample amount of abhorrence that makes me absolutely alarmed.

Love the alliteration in the title, @lavoll

Arvana is alliterate.

Man I don't know anything about what's going on here, I just love the alliteration in the title...